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Bird in a Cage - Results found: 47

Act: 1.
There are more schollers then can live by one another, it is pitty wee should have more plenty of learned beggars.
By Fulvio, in Bird in a Cage (1.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82r
 
yr amorous locke has a haire out of order
By Orpiano, in Bird in a Cage (1.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82r
 
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he, words.
lets change aire a little.
By Fulvio, in Bird in a Cage (1.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82r
 
This fellow puts himselfe on ye racke, wth putting on's apparell, and manfully indures his tailor,
when hee skrewes and wrests his body into ye fashion of his doublet.
By Fulvio, in Bird in a Cage (1.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82r
 
Maintaine thy father's soule: thou hast noe blood to mixe wth any beeneeth prince.
By Duke, in Bird in a Cage (1.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82r
 
moneys, ye soule of all things sublunary:
By Rolliardo, in Bird in a Cage (1.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82r
 
mony it opens lockes, drawes curtaines, buyes witt,
sells honesty, keepes court, fights quarrells, pulls downe churches and builds almeshouses.
By Rolliardo, in Bird in a Cage (1.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82r
 
A womans love is as easy a thing as to eate a dinner wth out saying grace, getting of
of children or goeing to bed drunke
By Rolliardo, in Bird in a Cage (1.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82v
 
Act. 2
A physitian yt hass gonn o' th' ticket wth some midwife, or old woman / for his whole
stocke of physicke: one whose onely skill / is to sow teeth i'th' gumms of some state madam
wch e> shee coughs out agen, when soe much phlegme / as would not strangle a poore flea,
provokes her, / ꝑclames himselfe a rectifier of nature, / - getteth more by keeping /
mouths in their quarterly reparations, / then knowing know men by all their art and paines
i'th' cure of ye whole body
By Bonamico, in Bird in a Cage (2.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82v
 
You may want to check. Only related part of line I found was "walking treasury" -SH A good treasurer is ye Ks walking treasury
By Bonamico, in Bird in a Cage (2.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82v
 
Ile tell thee wh how yt you shall get mony sticke yr skin wth feathers, and draw ye rabble of ye
citty for pence a peece to see a monstrous bird brought of Peru
By Rolliardo, in Bird in a Cage (2.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82v
 
Heele take a bribe ile warrant you:
By Rolliardo, in Bird in a Cage (2.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82v
 
A.
B.
Sr, you are ye man I have ambition to honour.
By Rolliardo, in Bird in a Cage (2.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82v
 
'Tis in yr power to oblige my soule. Wee are private. I am jealous of ye winde, lest it
convey [our] noise to farre.
By Rolliardo, in Bird in a Cage (2.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82v
 
Does not this jewell sparkle most divinely, signior; a rowes of these stuck in a
ladies forehead, / would make a Persian stagger in his faith / and give more ado=ration
to this light / then to ye sunne beame
By Rolliardo, in Bird in a Cage (2.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82v
 
he, laying my armes acrosse.
I doe not pull my hat in my eyes, crucifie my armes
By Rolliardo, in Bird in a Cage (2.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82v
 
When you see mee next, avoide mee, as you woud doe yr poore kindred when they
come to court. get you home, say yr praiers, and wonder yt you came of [without]
beating; for 'tis one of his miracles.
By Rolliardo, in Bird in a Cage (2.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82v
 
Would you see justice employ her scales to weigh light gold, yt comes in for fees and corruption;
and flourish wth her sword like a fencer, to make more roome for causes in the roome
By Bonamico, in Bird in a Cage (2.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82v
 
Ile beare my scorne as high as is their malice
This is ye peece made up of all pformance / ye man of any thing wth out exception
By Duke, in Bird in a Cage (2.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82v
 
Act. 3.
A.
B.
he, a ring.
what's this.
By Guard 2, in Bird in a Cage (3.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82v
 
A.
B.
pray you, Sr, bee silent
By Fulvio, in Bird in a Cage (3.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82v
 
What pestilent diseases have you got, yt you were soe much muske and civet about you
By Rolliardo, in Bird in a Cage (3.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82v
 
hee, who got his mony ill and left it his heire.
Happy is yt child whose father goes to ye devil: Fairly certain the following is a label, if you want to check for it. Couldn't find it in play -SH
By Rolliardo, in Bird in a Cage (3.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82v
 
To have an inscription on his tombe worse than ye ballad of ye devil and ye baker, and
might be sung to as wild a tune too.
By Rolliardo, in Bird in a Cage (3.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82v
 
All his creditors like soe many crowes have litt upon him, and theile leave him but a thin corby
By Grutti, in Bird in a Cage (3.4), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82v
 
His brains are curdled this hot weather.
By Bonamico, in Bird in a Cage (3.3), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82v
 
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I came to make you tender of my service.
By Bonamico, in Bird in a Cage (3.4), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82v
 
You have sowed yr charity in a fruitfull ground, wch e> shall returne it ten-fold.
By Bonamico, in Bird in a Cage (3.4), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82v
 
Act: 4.
Hee was borne wth a song in's head, and talkes everlasting ballad; ye duke has privilidgd his
mirth, made him foole-free.
By Perenotto, in Bird in a Cage (4.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 83r
 
Where it is not lawfull for a wiseman to speake truth, 'twere pitty fooles should loose their priveledge
By Perenotto, in Bird in a Cage (4.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 83r
 
You talke as glib as hee yt farmes the monuements of Westminster.
By Bonamico, in Bird in a Cage (4.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 83r
 
You will not quarrel about ye parts, like yr spruce actor, yt will not play out of ye best clothes
By Donella, in Bird in a Cage (4.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 83r
 
'twere a cruel art / ye first invention to restraine ye wing. / To keepe ye inhabitants of ye close aire captive / yt were created to skye freedome.
By Eugenia, in Bird in a Cage (4.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 83r
 
Stay and let mee circles in mine armes / all happiness at once, I have not soule / enough
to apprehend my joy, it spreads / too mighty for mee: know excellent Eugenia I am ye prince
of Flowrence, yt owe heaven / more for thy vertues then his owne creation. / I was borne wth
guilt enough to cancell, / my first purity, but soe chast a love / as thine, will soe refine
my second beeing / when holy marriage frames us in one peece, Angells will envie mee.
By Rolliardo, in Bird in a Cage (4.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 83r
 
Act. 5.
Bee wise hereafter, and make a foole ye friend, 'tis many an honest man's part at court.
Flatterers make an oracle.
By Morello, in Bird in a Cage (5.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 83r
 
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'tis polici in state, to maintaine a foole at court, to teach great
men discretion.
By Morello, in Bird in a Cage (5.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 83r
 
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yr foole is fine, hee's merry, / and of all men doth feare least / at every word
hee jests wth 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 hee is free of, and fooles it wth out
blushing / at maskes, and plaies, is not ye bayes, thurst out, to let ye plush in
By Morello, in Bird in a Cage (5.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 83r
 
a deed shall drowne all story, and posterity sh admire it more then a sybills leafe, and loose
it selfe in wonder of ye actions; poets shall / wth this make proud their / Muses, and apparel
it in ravishing numbers, wch e> ye soft haird virgins shall chant in full quire at Hymens feasts. ***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
 
yr gay things / yt eccho to yr passions, and see through / yr eyes all [that]s pre=sented.
By Rolliardo, in Bird in a Cage (5.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 83r
 
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thou hast ꝑphaind a name will strike thee dead.
By Duke, in Bird in a Cage (5.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 83r
 
Blest Eugenia, / to whose memory my heart does dedicate / it selfe an altar, in whose very mention
my lips are hallowed, and ye place, a temple, / whence ye divine sound came, it is a voice /
wch e> should [our] holy church then use, it might / wth out addition of more exorcisme / disenchant
houses, ye sweet Eugenia / when I have named I needs must love my breath ye 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 binne gently invited forth / now wth a horrid circumstance
death shal / make thy soule tremble, and forsaking all / ye noble parts it shall retire into /
some angle of thy body, and bee afraid / to informe thy eyes, lest they let in a horror / they
would not looke on.
By Duke, in Bird in a Cage (5.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 83r
 

he, not beeleeve it.
in such a cause I would checke an oracle.
By Duke, in Bird in a Cage (5.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 83r
 
I would die my selfe rather then see / one drop of blood forcd from his crimson fountaine.
By Eugenia, in Bird in a Cage (5.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 83r
 
A thousand wheeles doe moove preposterous in my braine.
By Duke, in Bird in a Cage (5.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 83r
 
Follow him and wth yt nimbleness thou wouldst / leape from thy chamber when ye roofes onafire
By Duke, in Bird in a Cage (5.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 83r
 
may time / when 'tis decreed, ye world shall have an end / by revolution of ye yeare make this / ye
day yt shall conclude all memories.
By Duke, in Bird in a Cage (5.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 83r