Such smiling Rogues as this, smooth evy Passion That in ye
Natures of yr Lds rebell; being oil to Fire, Snow
to the cooler moods. & turn their Halcyon - beaks with
every Gale, like Dogs, know noughts but following.
By Kent,
in King Lear (TLN1146-1153),
William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 95
Bastards in ye hasty composition stealth of nre take more composition, & fierce quality, yn doth within a stale dulled bed goe to ye creating of a whole tribe of foppes gott ‘tweene sleepe, & wake
By Edmund,
in King Lear (TLN344-349),
William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 97, p. 81
Have more yn thou shewest, speake lesse yn yu knowest, lend lesse yn yu owest, ride more yn yu goest, learn more yn yu trowest, sett lesse yn yu throwest, & thou shall have more yn 1 tens to a score.
By Fool,
in King Lear (TLN648-657),
William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 97, p. 81
The Cockney wn she putt Eeles in ye pastry alive, rapt um o’th’cockcomb wth a stick, & cryd Downe, wantons, downe Twas her brother, yt in pure kindness to his horse butter’d his hay.
By Fool,
in King Lear (TLN1399-1402),
William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 97, p. 82