The Wedding - Results found: 55
(spoaken of a friend to a friend)
as wee are made one body, soe lets bee one
soule, and will and will both the same thing
the blood you carry / doth warm my veins, yet could nature be / forgetful, and remove it
self, the love / I owe your merit, doth oblige me to
relation of a truth
By Marwood,
in The Wedding (1.4),
James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 81r
Was ever woman good, and Gratiana vicious? lost to honour? at the instant / when I expected
all my harvest ripe. / the golden summer tempting me to reap / the well-grown ears, comes
an impetuous storm / destroys an ages hope in a short minute. / and lets me live the copy of
man's frailty
By Beauford,
in The Wedding (1.4),
James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 81r
let me study, I'll count
them all before you, never did / penitent in confession strip the soul / more naked; I'll unclasp my book of conscience; / you shall read o'er
my heart, and if you find / in that great volume but one single thought / that conscerned
you, and did not end with some / good prayer for you; oh be just and kill me.
By Gratiana,
in The Wedding (2.3),
James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 81r
In this posture does she not present / a
water-nymph placed in the midst of some /
fair garden, like a fountain to dispense / her crystal streams upon the flowers?
which e> cannot / but so refreshed, look up, and seem to smile / upon the eyes that feed'em.
By Landby,
in The Wedding (3.1),
James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 81r
'Tis prov'd, put them to anyaction, and see if they do not smoke it;
they are men of mettle, and the greatest melters in the world; one hot service
makes them roast, and they have enough in them to baste a hundred. you may take
a lean man, marry your self to famine, and beg for a
great belly.
By Lodam,
in The Wedding (3.2),
James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 81r
There is a period in nature,
is it not / better to die; and not be sick, worn in / our
bodies, which e> in imitation of ghosts, grow lean, as if they would at last / be
immaterial too; [our] blood turn jelly, / and freeze in their cold channel.
By Beauford,
in The Wedding (4.4),
James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 81r
She's gone for ever; / and can the earth still dwell a quiet neighbour / to the rough sea,
and not itself be thawed into a river? let it melt to waves / from henceforth, that beside the
inhabitants, / the very genius of the world may drown, / and not accuse me for her.
By Beauford,
in The Wedding (4.4),
James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82r
I would kiss her cold face into life again; /
renew her breath with mine, on her pale lip; / I do not think but if some artery /
of mine were opened, and the crimson flood / conveyed into her
veins, it would agree; / and with
a gentle gliding, steal itself / into her heart,
enliven her dead faculties, and with a flattery
tice her soul again / to dwell in her fair tenement.
By Beauford,
in The Wedding (4.4),
James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82r
When I am dead, / I will so talk of thee among the blest, that they shall be in love with thee
and descend / in holy shapes, to woe thee to come thither / and be of their society; do not
veil they beauty / with such a shower, keep this soft rain / to water some more lost and
barren garden. / lest you destroy the spring which e> nature made / to be a wonder in thy cheek.
By Beauford,
in The Wedding (5.2),
James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82r