The Fawn - Results found: 31
Nature's hand shook when she was
in making, for the red that should have
spread her cheeks, nature let fall upon her nose, the white of her
skin slipped into her eyes, and the gray of her eyes leapt before his time
inot her hair, and the
yellowness of her hair fell without providence into her teeth.
By Hercules,
in The Fawn (3.79-85),
John Marston
in Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poetry 117, f. 164v (rev)
Drunkness
, O it is a most fluent and swelling virtue, sure the most just of all virtues, is justic itself, for if it
chance to oppress and take too much, it presently restores it again
It makes the king and the peasant equal, for if they
are both drunk alike
they are both beasts alike
By Hercules,
in The Fawn (5.163-168),
John Marston
in Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poetry 117, f. 164v (rev)
Shee has three hairs on her scalp.
and four teeth in her
head a brow wrinkled and puckered like parchment half burnt:
She has had eyes. No woman's jawbones are more apparent. her sometimes envious lips
now shrink in and give her nose and her chin
leave to kiss
each other very moistly. As for: her reverend mouth
it seldom opens
but the very breath that flies out of it infects
the fowls
of the air, and makes them drop down dead her breasts hang like cobwebs:
By Hercules,
in The Fawn (4.1.490-498),
John Marston
in Folger MS V.a.87, f.9r
upon your apparent rep
entence that all
modest spectators may witnes I have: for a short
time only thus feignedly hated you that you
might hereafter truly love me I reaccept you
By Hercules,
in The Fawn (5.1.301-304),
John Marston
in Folger MS V.a.87, f.9r