Specimens of the Pre-Shaksperean Drama: With an Introd., Notes, and a Glossary, Volume 1Ginn, 1897 - English drama |
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Page i - The best in this kind are but shadows ; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
Page 41 - A COMMONPLACE BOOK OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. Containing a Religious Play and Poetry, Legal Forms, and Local Accounts. Printed from the Original MS. at Brome Hall, Suffolk. By Lady Caroline Kerrison. Edited, with Notes, by Lucy Toulmin Smith.
Page 480 - ... her chyldren three, Twoo naught and one godlye. Early sharpe that wyll be thorne, Soone yll that wyll be naught: To be naught better unborne ; Better unfed than naughtily taught.
Page xx - Quo uiso, deponant turribula quse gestauerant in eodem sepulchro, sumantque linteum et extendant contra clerum, ac, ueluti ostendentes quod surrexerit Dominus et iam non sit illo inuolutus, hanc canant antiphonam '. Surrexit Dominus de sepulchro, [Qui pro nobis pependil in ligno].