The Plays of William Shakspeare; Comedy of Errors. Macbeth. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV., Part I Volume 4 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1811 edition. Excerpt: ...kill'd to-night On your suggestion. K. John. Gentle kinsman, go, And thrust thyself into their companies: I have a way to win their loves again; Bring them before me. Bast. I will seek them out K. John. Nay, but make haste; the better foot before. O, let me.have no subject enemies. When adverse foreigners affright my towns With dreadful pomp of stout invasion --Be Mercury, set feathers to thy heels; And fly, like thought, from them to me again. Bast. The spirit of the time shall teach me speed. Exit. K. John. Spoke like a spriteful noble gentleman.--Go after him; for he, perhaps, shall need Some messenger betwixt me and the peers; And be thou he. Mess. With all my heart, my liege. wi, .-.-.-. "7 ' J Pv.. Exit. K. John. My mother dead Deliver himjo safety, That is, Give him info safe custody, 4 jive moons were seen to-night: &c. This incident is mett-r Re-enter Hubert. Hub. My lord, they say, five moons were seen to-night:4 Four fixed; and the fifth did whirl about The other fpur, in wond'rous motion. K. John. Five moons? Hub. Old men, and beldams, in the streets Do prophesy upon it dangerously: Young Arthur's death is common in their mouths: And when they talk of him, they shake their heads, And whisper one another in the ear; And he, that speaks, doth gripe the hearer's wrist; Whilst he, that hears, makes fearful action, With wrinkled brows, with nods, with rolling eyes. j saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news; Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet, )5 tioned by few of our historians. 1 have met with it no where but in Matthew of Westminster and Polydore Virgil, with a...