Bird in a Cage - Results found: 47
Act. 2
he went on the ticket with some midwife, or old woman / for his whole
stock of physic:
here a fellow only has skill to make a handsome periwig, or to sow teeth in the gums of some state madam
which e> she coughs out again, when so much phlegm / as would not strangle a poor flea,
provokes her, / proclaims himself a rectifier of nature, /
and is believ'd, so getteth more by keeping /
mouths in their quarterly reparations, / then knowing know men by all their art and pains
in the cure of the whole body
By Bonamico,
in Bird in a Cage (2.1),
James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82v
Stay and let me circles in mine arms / all happiness at once, I have not soul / enough
to apprehend my joy, it spreads / too mighty for me: know excellent Eugenia I am the prince
of
Florence, that owe heaven / more for thy virtues than his own creation. / I was born with
guilt enough to cancel, / my first purity, but so chaste a love / as thine, will so refine
my second being / when holy marriage frames us in one piece, Angels will envy me.
By Rolliardo,
in Bird in a Cage (4.2),
James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 83r
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your fool is fine, he's merry, / and of all men doth fear least / at every word
he jests with my lord, and tickles my lady in earnest. / Here, the latter lines of this extract are actually earlier in the song in the book. Do we still record it like this? -SH all places he is free of, and fools it with out
blushing / at masks, and plays, is not the bays, thurst out, to let the plush in
By Morello,
in Bird in a Cage (5.1),
James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 83r
I come not to petition for a mercy, but to cry up my merit, for a deed shall drown all story, and posterity shall admire it more than a
Sybil's leaf, and lose
itself in wonder of the actions; poets shall / with this make proud their / Muses, and apparrel
it in ravishing numbers, which e> the
soft-hair'd virgins
, forgetting all their legends, and love tales, of Venus, Cupid, and the 'scapes of Jove, make their only song, and in full quire chaunt it at Hymen's feast. ***Can we go over this extract? The last line gets a bit weird in the book's spelling, as well as the word arrangement between the orig and the canonical. -SH
By Rolliardo,
in Bird in a Cage (5.1),
James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 83r
It cannot be; for if you mean your daughter, 'tis that is my preserver, Blest Eugenia, / to whose memory my heart does dedicate / itself an altar, in whose very mention
my lips are hallowed, and the place, a temple, / whence the divine sound came, it is a voice /
which e> should [our] holy church
men then use, it might / with out addition of more exorcism / disenchant
houses,
tie up nightly spirits which fright the solitary groves. Eugenia / when I have named I needs must love my breath the better after.
By Rolliardo,
in Bird in a Cage (5.1),
James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 83r
where before / thy life should have been gently invited forth / now with a horrid circumstance
death shall / make thy soul tremble, and forsaking all / the noble parts it shall retire into /
some angle of thy body, and be afraid / to inform thy eyes, lest they let in a horror / they
would not look on.
By Duke,
in Bird in a Cage (5.1),
James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 83r