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Professor Thomas Middleton
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
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A collection of Thomas Middleton’s single authored plays: Blurt, Master Constable The Phoenix A Trick to Catch the Old One The Puritan Your Five Gallants The Second Maiden’s Tragedy No…
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Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) - our other Shakespeare - is the only other Renaissance playwright who created acknowledged masterpieces of both comedy and tragedy; he also wrote the greatest box-office hit…
Algernon Charles Swinburne,Professor Thomas Middleton
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HELVETIUS Think? You come too late If you seek there for me. I know’t and see’t. I’ll sooner give my blessing to a drunkard, Whom the ridiculous power of wine…
HECATE Titty and Tiffin, Suckin and Pidgen, Liard and Robin, White spirits, black spirits, grey spirits, red spirits, Devil-toad, devil-ram, devil-cat, and devil-dam!
Knavesbee I Had Last Night One Of The Strangest Dreams;methought I Was Thy Confessor, Thou Mine, And We Reveal’d Between Us Privately How Often We Had Wrong’d Each Other’s Bed…
FRANCISCUS Luna is now big-bellied, and there’s room For both of us to ride with Hecate; I’ll drag thee up into her silver sphere, And there we’ll kick the dog…
GERARDINE The coast is clear, and Argus’ wakeful eyes Securely sleep: time turns to us his front. Come sweet Maria, of th’ auspicious hours Let’s take advantage.
MOLL Not marry? Forswear marriage? Why, all women know ‘tis as honourable a thing as to lie with a man, and I, to spite my sister’s vow the more, have…
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VINDICI And therefore I’ll put on that knave for once, And be a right man then, a man a’ th’ time, For to be honest is not to be i’…
Title: Annals of Hyde and district. Containing historical reminiscences of Denton, Haughton, Dukinfield, Mottram, Longdendale, Bredbury, Marple, and the neighbouring townships. [Illustrated.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is…
Title: The Mayor of Quinborough; a comedy [in five acts and in verse].Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is…
Title: Any Thing for a Quiet Life. A comedy [in five acts, and in prose].Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom…
Annals of Hyde and District is a historical book written by Thomas Middleton and originally published in 1899. The book provides a comprehensive account of the history of Hyde, a…
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Maid Sleep, Sweet Babe: Sorrow Makes Thy Mother Sleep. It Bodes Small Good When [heaven] Falls So Deep. Hush, Pretty Boy, Thy Hopes Might Have Been Better; ‘tis Lost At…
WEATHERWISE Marry, sir, I’ll give it out abroad that I have lain with the widow myself, as ‘tis the fashion of many a gallant to disgrace his new mistress when…
In Five Volumes. Now First Collected, With Some Account Of The Author And Notes.
Captain Ager The Son Of A Whore? There Is Not Such Another Murdering-piece In All The Stock Of Calumny; It Kills At One Report Two Reputations, A Mother’s And A…
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Of all deeds yet, this strikes the deepest wound Into my apprehension. Reverend and honourable matrimony, Mother of lawful sweets, unshamed mornings, Dangerless pleasures, thou that mak'st the bed Both…
My Adversary Evermore Twits Me With My Nephew, Forsooth, My Nephew; Why May Not A Virtuous Uncle Have A Dissolute Nephew? What Though He Be A Brotheller, A Wastethrift, A…
GENTLEMAN SAXON They’re besieg’d, Aurelius Ambrose and his brother Uther, With numbers infinite in Britain forces, Beset their castle, and they cannot ‘scape Without your speedy succour.
HIPOLITO If any be dispos’d to trust your oath, Let him: I’ll not be he. I know you feign All that you speak, ay, for a mingled harlot Is true…
PASSIONATE LORD [To La Nove] I do confess it freely, precious lady, And love’s suit is so: the longer it hangs, The worse it is; better cut off, sweet madam…
ANTIGONA To what end, sir? The bell of this sharp edict tolls for me As it rings out for you. I’ll be as ready, With one hour’s stay, to go…
GOLDSTONE For instance; Put case yourself, after some robbery done, Were pursu’d hardly, why, there were your shelter, You know your sanctuary; nay, say you were taken, His letter to…
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