Bird in a Cage - Results found: 47
Act. 2
A physitian y
t hass gonn o' th' ticket w
th 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
w
ch 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 y
e whole body
By Bonamico,
in Bird in a Cage (2.1),
James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82v
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 y
e prince
of Flowrence, y
t owe heaven / more for thy vertues then his owne creation. / I was borne w
th
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
xx
y
r foole is fine, hee's merry, / and of all men doth feare least / at every word
hee jests w
th 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 w
th out
blushing / at maskes, and plaies, is not y
e bayes, thurst out, to let y
e 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 y
e actions; poets shall / w
th this make proud their / Muses, and apparel
it in ravishing numbers, w
ch e> y
e 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
Blest Eugenia, / to whose memory my heart does dedicate / it selfe an altar, in whose very mention
my lips are hallowed, and y
e place, a temple, / whence y
e divine sound came, it is a voice /
w
ch e> should [our] holy church then use, it might / w
th out addition of more exorcisme / disenchant
houses, y
e sweet Eugenia / when I have named I needs must love my breath y
e 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 w
th a horrid circumstance
death shal / make thy soule tremble, and forsaking all / y
e 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