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" Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night ; for good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont, and being taken with the cramp, was drowned, and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was — Hero of Sestos.... "
The Works of Shakespear: As you like it. The taming of the shrew. All's well ... - Page 63
by William Shakespeare - 1768
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Comedies. Two gentlemen of Verona

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 760 pages
...cramp, was drowned, and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was — Hero of Sestos. But these ; And, lo =% for love. Orl. I would not have my right Rosalind of this mind, for, I protest, her frown might kill...
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 726 pages
...cramp, was drowned, and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was — Hero of Sestos. But these we. Ant. I pray you, good Bassanio, let me know it; And if it stand, as you yourse for love. Orí. I would not have my right Rosalind of this mind, for, I protest, her frown might kill...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; All's ...

William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1847 - 536 pages
...cramp, was drowned, and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was — Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies ; men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. Orl. I would not have my right Rosalind of this mind ; for, I protest, her frown might kill...
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Studies of Shakespeare in the Plays of King John, Cymbeline, Macbeth, As You ...

George Fletcher (essayist.) - 1847 - 418 pages
...cramp, was drowned ; and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was — Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies : men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. But come ; now I will be your Rosalind in a more coming-on disposition ; and ask me what...
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The Dramatic Works and Poems, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 578 pages
...and the foolish chroniclers' of that age found it was— Hero of Sestos. But these are all liée ; men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love Or/. I would not have my right Rosalind of this mind ; for, I protest, her frown might kill...
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As You Like it

William Shakespeare - 2000 - 164 pages
...cramp, was 97 drowned; and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was "Hero of Sestos." But these are all lies. Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, 100 but not for love. 101 ORLANDO I would not have my right Rosalind of this mind, for I protest her...
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Shakespeare and Masculinity

Bruce R. Smith - 2000 - 194 pages
...old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person, videlicet, in a love-cause Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. (4.1.81-3, 86-101) The word-play here on 'person' (as theatrical role, as legal agent, as...
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Shakespeare: la invención de lo humano

Harold Bloom - 2001 - 750 pages
...cramp, was drowned, and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love. [^.¡.65-103] HAROLD BLOOM casan. Las doncellas son mayo cuando son doncellas, pero el cielo...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 pages
...ultimate destiny. The disguised Rosalind in As You Like It, iv, 1, laughs at the lovelorn Orlando: "Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love." The disguised Viola turns the figure in Twelfth Night, ii, 4, picturing her own forced restraint...
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The Death of Comedy

Erich Segal - 2009 - 612 pages
...connotations of "dying." In As You Like It, Shakespeare's Rosalind debunked this poetic hyperbole: Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.57 Yet here in Shakespeare's last "happy comedy" we have something closer to a real death....
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