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" And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play... "
A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose - Page 400
1872 - 534 pages
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 654 pages
...abominably. 1 Play. I hope, we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more...question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it." Go, make you ready. [Exeunt...
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A Descriptive Account of the Second Royal Gala Festival at Stratford-upon ...

1830 - 192 pages
...the following professional rebuke ? — "And let those who play your clowns (ie low comedians).speaA no more than is set down for them; for there be of...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : — that's mllianous, and shews...
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Tatler & Guardian

1831 - 704 pages
...should be relbrmct! altogether. And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down lor your knowledge. But what is peculiar to your lordship above all the illustrious personages nf the play be then to be considered; that's villanous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool...
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The National Orator;: Consisting of Selections, Adapted for Rhetorical ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 pages
...nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I had thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them...a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. * Termagant was said to be the god of the Saracens ; and out-doing him was applied to the most extravagant...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 6

Walter Scott - 1834 - 430 pages
...from that of Spain, and is the license which Hamlet condemns in his instructions to the. players : " And let those that play your clowns speak no more...of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the meantime, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered ; — that's villanous ; and...
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Essays on Chivalry, Romance, and the Drama

Walter Scott - 1834 - 424 pages
...from that of Spain, and is the license which Hamlet condemns in his instructions to the players : " And let those that play your clowns speak no more...of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the meantime, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered ; — that's villanous ; and...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6

Walter Scott - 1834 - 412 pages
...from that of Spain, and is the license which Hamlet condemns in his instructions to the players : " And let those that play your clowns speak no more...of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the meantime, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered ; — that's villanous ; and...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 7

1836 - 676 pages
...resorts to it. It is a part of that same spirit against which Hamlet warns the players, when he says: 'And let those that play your clowns, speak no more...question of the play be then to be considered : that's vile, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.' It is of this ambition that we would...
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Select plays from Shakspeare; adapted for the use of schools and young ...

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 624 pages
...abominably. 1 Play. I hope, we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more...question of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous ; and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Go, make you ready. — [Exeunt...
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King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...abominably. 1 Play. I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those that play your clowns, speak no more...though, in the mean time, some necessary question 4 of the play be then to be considered. That's 1 Termazaunt is the name given in old romances to the...
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