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Oxford University Press, 1916

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Sida 142 - How am I then a villain To counsel Cassio to this parallel course, Directly to his good? Divinity of hell! When devils will the blackest sins put on, They do suggest at first with heavenly shows...
Sida 106 - Witch. WHEN shall we three meet again, In thunder, lightning, or in rain ? 2 Witch.
Sida 52 - That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp. Thy age, like ours, O soul of Sir John Cheek, Hated not learning worse than toad or asp, When thou taught'st Cambridge and King Edward Greek.
Sida 159 - Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be : Why then should we desire to be deceived?
Sida 265 - So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies; he that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Sida 107 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake ; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog...
Sida 369 - ... although we think we govern our words, and prescribe it well, loquendum ut vulgus, sentiendum ut sapientes ; yet certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment.
Sida 107 - Fair is foul, and foul is fair : Hover through the fog and filthy air.
Sida 52 - But what my power might else exact, — like one Who having unto truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie...
Sida 48 - Latin thesaurus inventus, which is where any money or coin, gold, silver, plate, or bullion, is found hidden in the earth, or other private place, the owner thereof being unknown ; in which case the treasure belongs to the king : but if he that hid it be known, or afterwards found out, the owner and not the king is entitled to it°.

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