Specimens of the Pre-Shaksperean Drama: With an Introduction, Notes, Notes, and a Glossary ...

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Page 152 - O sisters too, how may we do For to preserve this day This pore yongling, for whom we do singe, By by lully lullay? Herod the king in his raging Chargid he hath this day His men of might in his owne sight All yonge children to slay. That wo is me, pore child, for thee, And ever morne and say For thi parting nether say nor singe By by lully lullay.
Page i - The best in this kind are but shadows ; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
Page 41 - VII, 316-337, and secondarily the edition (also by Miss Smith) in " A Commonplace Book of the Fifteenth Century . . . Printed from the Original MS. at Brome Hall, Suffolk, by Lady Caroline Kerrison. Edited with notes by Lucy Toulmin Smith. London and Norwich, 1886.
Page 23 - Sir, for lak nor for Gill/ will I turne my face, Till I haue on this hill / spon a space On my rok. Well were he, myght get me ! Now will I downe set me ; Yit reede I no man let me, ffor drede of a knok.
Page xx - Quo uiso, deponant turribula que gestauerunt 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 pependit in ligno]. Superponantque linteum altari. Finita antiphona, Prior congaudens pro triumpho Regis nostri, quod, deuicta morte, surrexit, incipiat hymnum : Te, Deum, laudamus. Quo incepto, una pulsantur omnia signa...

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