By William Shakespeare
The Cambridge Shakespeare used to be released in 9 volumes among 1863 and 1866. Its cautious editorial ideas, beautiful web page layout and chic typography have withstood the try of time. this article used to be in response to a radical collation of the 4 Folios and of the entire 4to variants of the separate performs, the bottom textual content being the 1623 Folio. The severe gear seems on the foot of the web page, yet for passages the place the 4to differs considerably the full 4to textual content appears to be like in small style after the acquired textual content. Notes on the finish of every play clarify variations, emendations, and passages of bizarre trouble or curiosity. Grammar and metre have been usually left unchanged via the editors, yet punctuation used to be normalised and nineteenth-century orthography was once followed rather than the variable Elizabethan spelling. In a daring movement for a Victorian variation, the editors restored a variety of 'profane' expressions the place metre or experience demanded it.
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O Lymoges! O Austria! thou dost shame That bloody spoil: thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! 115 Thou little valiant, great in villany! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side ! Thou Fortune's champion that dost never fight But when her humorous ladyship is by To teach thee safety ! thou art perjured too, 120 A n d soothest up greatness. W h a t a fool art thou, A ramping fool, t o brag and stamp a n d swear Upon m y party ! T h o u cold-blooded slave, H a s t thou not spoke like thunder on m y side, Been sworn m y soldier, bidding m e depend 125 Upon thy stars, thy fortune and thy strength, And dost thou now fall over to my foes ?
Lew. She is sad and passionate at your highness' tent. K. Phil. And, by my faith, this league that we have made 545 Will give her sadness very little cure. Brother of England, how may we content This widow lady? In her right we came; Which we, God knows, have turn'd another way, T o our own vantage. K. John. We will heal up all; 550 For we'll create young Arthur Duke of Bretagne And Earl of Richmond; and this rich fair town We make him lord of. Call the Lady Constance; Some speedy messenger bid her repair 555 To our solemnity: I trust we shall, If not fill up the measure of her will, Yet in some measure satisfy her so That we shall stop her exclamation.
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