Loues Labour's Lost : LOUES LABOUR'S LOST Actus primus. Enter Ferdinand King of Nauarre, Berowne, Longauill, and Dumane. Ferdinand. Let Fame, that all hunt after in their liues, Liue registred vpon our brazen Tombes, And then grace vs in the disgrace of death: when spight of cormorant deuouring Time, Th' endeuour...
The Tragedie Of Hamlet : THE TRAGEDIE OF HAMLET Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. Enter Barnardo and Francisco two Centinels. Barnardo. Who's there? Fran. Nay answer me: Stand speake to it Horatio Barn. Lookes it not like the King? Marke it Horatio Hora. Most like: It harrowes me with fear speake: I Charge thee, speake. Exit...
The Third Part Of Henry The Sixt : THE THIRD PART OF HENRY THE SIXT with the death of the Duke of Yorke Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. Alarum. Enter Plantagenet, Edward, Richard, Norfolke, Mountague, Warwicke, and Souldiers. Warwicke. I Wonder how the King escap'd our hands? Pl. While we pursu'd the Horsmen of y North, He slyly stole...
The Tragedie Of Anthonie, And Cleopatra : THE TRAGEDIE OF ANTHONIE, AND CLEOPATRA Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. Enter Demetrius and Philo. Philo. Nay, but this dotage of our Generals Ore-flowes the measure: those his goodly eyes That o're the Files and Musters of the Warre, Haue glow'd like plated Mars: Now bend, now turne The Office...
The Tragedie Of Richard The Third : THE TRAGEDIE OF RICHARD THE THIRD with the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. Enter Richard Duke of Gloster, solus. Now is the Winter of our Discontent, Made glorious Summer by this Son of Yorke: And all the clouds that lowr'd vpon our house...
A Midsommer Nights Dreame : A MIDSOMMER NIGHTS DREAME Actus primus. Enter Theseus, Hippolita, with others. Theseus. Now faire Hippolita, our nuptiall houre Drawes on apace: foure happy daies bring in Another Moon: but oh, me thinkes, how slow This old Moon wanes; She lingers my desires Like to a Step-dame, or a Dowager, Long...
The Life Of Timon Of Athens : THE LIFE OF TIMON OF ATHENS Enter Poet, Painter, Ieweller, Merchant, and Mercer, at seuerall doores. Poet. Good day Sir Pain. I am glad y'are well Poet. I haue not seene you long, how goes the World? Pain. It weares sir, as it growes Poet. I that's well knowne: But what particular Rarity? Wh...
Measvre, For Measure : MEASVRE, FOR MEASURE Actus primus, Scena prima. Enter Duke, Escalus, Lords. Duke. Escalus Esc. My Lord Duk. Of Gouernment, the properties to vnfold, Would seeme in me t' affect speech call hither, I say, bid come before vs Angelo: What figure of vs thinke you, he will beare. For you must know, we...
The First Part Of Henry The Sixt : THE FIRST PART OF HENRY THE SIXT Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. Dead March. Enter the Funerall of King Henry the Fift, attended on by the Duke of Bedford, Regent of France; the Duke of Gloster, Protector; the Duke of Exeter Warwicke, the Bishop of Winchester, and the Duke of Somerset. Bedford. Hung be...
All's Well, That Ends Well : ALL'S WELL, THAT ENDS WELL Actus primus. Scoena Prima. Enter yong Bertram Count of Rossillion, his Mother, and Helena, Lord Lafew, all in blacke. Mother. In deliuering my sonne from me, I burie a second husband Ros. And I in going Madam, weep ore my fathers death anew; but I must attend his...
The Second Part Of Henry The Fourth : THE SECOND PART OF HENRY THE FOURTH Containing his Death: and the Coronation of King Henry the Fift Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. INDVCTION. Enter Rumour. Open your Eares: For which of you will stop The vent of Hearing, when loud Rumor speakes? I, from the Orient, to the drooping West (Making...
The Tragedie Of Titus Andronicus : THE TRAGEDIE OF TITUS ANDRONICUS Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. Flourish. Enter the Tribunes and Senators aloft And then enter Saturninus and his Followers at one doore, and Bassianus and his Followers at the other, with Drum And Romanes, fight for Freedome in your Choice. Enter Marcus Andronicus...
The Second Part Of Henry The Sixt : THE SECOND PART OF HENRY THE SIXT with the death of the Good Duke Hvmfrey Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. Flourish of Trumpets: Then Hoboyes. Enter King, Duke Humfrey, Salisbury, Warwicke, and Beauford on the one side. The Queene, Suffolke, Yorke, Somerset, and Buckingham, on the other. Suffolke. As by...
The Tragedie Of Julius Caesar : THE TRAGEDIE OF JULIUS CAESAR Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. Enter Flauius, Murellus, and certaine Commoners ouer the Stage. Flauius. Hence: home you idle Creatures, get you home: Is this a Holiday? What, know you not (Being Mechanicall) you ought not walke Vpon a labouring day, without the signe...
The Tragedie Of Macbeth : THE TRAGEDIE OF MACBETH Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. Thunder and Lightning. Enter three Witches. 1. When shall we three meet againe? In Thunder, Lightning, or in Raine? 2. When the Hurley-burley's done, When the Battaile's lost, and wonne 3. That will be ere the set of Sunne 1. Where the place? 2...
The Winters Tale : THE WINTERS TALE Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. Enter Camillo and Archidamus. Arch. If you shall chance (Camillo) to visit Bohemia, on the like occasion whereon my seruices are now on-foot, you shall see (as I haue said) great difference betwixt our Bohemia, and your Sicilia Cam. I thinke, this...
Introduction : INTRODUCTION This Figure, that thou here feest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut: Wherein the Grauer had a strife with Naure, to out-doo the life: O, could he but haue dravvne his vvit As vvell in frasse, as he hath hit Hisface; the Print vvould then surpasse All, that vvas euer in frasse. But...
As You Like It : AS YOU LIKE IT Actus primus. Scoena Prima. Enter Orlando and Adam. Orlando. As I remember Adam, it was vpon this fashion bequeathed me by will, but poore a thousand Crownes, and as thou saist, charged my brother on his blessing to breed mee well: and there begins my sadnesse: My brother Iaques he...
The Two Gentlemen Of Verona : THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA Actus primus, Scena prima. Valentine: Protheus, and Speed. Valentine. Cease to perswade, my louing Protheus; Home-keeping youth, haue euer homely wits, Wer't not affection chaines thy tender dayes To the sweet glaunces of thy honour'd Loue, I rather would entreat thy...
The Life And Death Of King John : THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING JOHN Actus Primus, Scaena Prima. Enter King Iohn, Queene Elinor, Pembroke, Essex, and Salisbury, with the Chattylion of France. King Iohn. Now say Chatillion, what would France with vs? Chat. Thus (after greeting) speakes the King of France, In my behauiour to the Maiesty...
Much Adoe About Nothing : MUCH ADOE ABOUT NOTHING Actus primus, Scena prima. Enter Leonato Gouernour of Messina, Innogen his wife, Hero his daughter, and Beatrice his Neece, with a messenger. Leonato. I learne in this Letter, that Don Peter of Arragon, comes this night to Messina Mess. He is very neere by this: he was not...
The Tragedie Of Romeo And Juliet : THE TRAGEDIE OF ROMEO AND JULIET Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. Enter Sampson and Gregory, with Swords and Bucklers, of the House of Capulet. Sampson. Gregory: A my word wee'l not carry coales Greg. No, for then we should be Colliars Samp. I mean, if we be in choller, wee'l draw Greg. I, While you...
The Tempest : THE TEMPEST Actus primus, Scena prima. A tempestuous noise of Thunder and Lightning heard: Enter a Ship-master, and a Boteswaine. Master. Bote-swaine. Botes. Heere Master: What cheere? Mast. Good: Speake to th' Mariners: fall too't, yarely, or we run our selues a ground, bestirre, bestirre. Enter...
The Tragedie Of Cymbeline : THE TRAGEDIE OF CYMBELINE Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. Enter two Gentlemen. 1.Gent. You do not meet a man but Frownes. Our bloods no more obey the Heauens Then our Courtiers: Still seeme, as do's the Kings 2 Gent. But what's the matter? 1. His daughter, and the heire of's kingdome (whom He purpos'd...
The Tragedie Of Othello, The Moore Of Venice : THE TRAGEDIE OF OTHELLO, THE MOORE OF VENICE Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. Enter Rodorigo, and Iago. Rodorigo. Neuer tell me, I take it much vnkindly That thou (Iago) who hast had my purse, As if y strings were thine, should'st know of this Ia. But you'l not heare me. If euer I did dream Of such...
The First Part Of Henry The Fourth : THE FIRST PART OF HENRY THE FOURTH with the Life and Death of Henry Sirnamed Hot-Spvrre Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. Enter the King, Lord Iohn of Lancaster, Earle of Westmerland, with others. King. So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Finde we a time for frighted Peace to pant, And breath...
The Tragedie Of Coriolanus : THE TRAGEDIE OF CORIOLANUS Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. Enter a Company of Mutinous Citizens, with Staues, Clubs, and other weapons. 1. Citizen. Before we proceed any further, heare me speake All. Speake, speake 1.Cit. You are all resolu'd rather to dy then to famish? All. Resolu'd, resolu'd 1.Cit...
The Tragedie Of King Lear : THE TRAGEDIE OF KING LEAR Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. Enter Kent, Gloucester, and Edmond. Kent. I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany, then Cornwall Glou. It did alwayes seeme so to vs: But now in the diuision of the Kingdome, it appeares not which of the Dukes hee valewes most...
The Comedie Of Errors : THE COMEDIE OF ERRORS Actus primus, Scena prima. Enter the Duke of Ephesus, with the Merchant of Siracusa, Iaylor, and other attendants. Marchant. Proceed Solinus to procure my fall, And by the doome of death end woes and all Duke. Merchant of Siracusa, plead no more. I am not partiall to infringe...
The Merry Wiues Of Windsor : THE MERRY WIUES OF WINDSOR Actus primus, Scena prima. Enter Iustice Shallow, Slender, Sir Hugh Euans, Master Page, Falstoffe, Bardolph, Nym, Pistoll, Anne Page, Mistresse Ford, Mistresse Page, Simple. Shallow. Sir Hugh, perswade me not: I will make a StarChamber matter of it, if hee were twenty Sir...
The Life And Death Of King Richard The Second : THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING RICHARD THE SECOND Actus Primus, Scaena Prima. Enter King Richard, Iohn of Gaunt, with other Nobles and Attendants. King Richard. Old Iohn of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster, Hast thou according to thy oath and band Brought hither Henry Herford thy bold son: Heere to make...
The Merchant Of Venice : THE MERCHANT OF VENICE Actus primus. Enter Anthonio, Salarino, and Salanio. Anthonio. In sooth I know not why I am so sad, It wearies me: you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuffe 'tis made of, wher it is borne, I am to learne: and such a Want-wit sadnesse...
The Taming Of The Shrew : THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Actus primus. Scaena Prima. Enter Begger and Hostes, Christophero Sly. Begger. Ile pheeze you infaith Host. A paire of stockes you rogue Beg. Y'are a baggage, the Slies are no Rogues. Looke in the Chronicles, we came in with Richard Conqueror: therefore Paucas pallabris, let...
Twelfe Night, Or What You Will : TWELFE NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL Actus Primus, Scaena Prima. Enter Orsino Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords. Duke. If Musicke be the food of Loue, play on, Giue me excesse of it: that surfetting, The appetite may sicken, and so dye. That straine agen, it had a dying fall: O, it came ore my eare...
The Famous History Of The Life Of King Henry : THE FAMOUS HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF KING HENRY THE EIGHT THE PROLOGVE. I Come no more to make you laugh, Things now, That beare a Weighty, and a Serious Brow, Sad, high, and working, full of State and Woe: Such Noble Scoenes, as draw the Eye to flow We now present. Those that can Pitty, heere May (if...