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Plays of Shakespeare Selected and Prepared for Use in Schools
Plays of Shakespeare Selected and Prepared for Use in Schools Author:Henry Norman Hudson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1877 Original Publisher: Ginn Subjects: Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Drama / Shakespeare Literary Criticism / Drama Literary Criticism / Shakespeare Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos o... more »r missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: See Brutus at his house: three parts of him Is ours already;19 and the man entire, Upon the next encounter, yields him ours. Casca, O, he sits high in all the people's hearts I And that which would appear offence in us, His countenance, like richest alchymy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness. Cass. Him, and his worth, and our great need of him, You have right well conceited.20 Let us go, For it is after midnight; and, ere day, We wiL awake him, and be sure of him. [75rc/nt ACT IT. Scene L Home. Bkutus's Orchard.1 Enter Brutus. Bru. What, Lucius, ho! -- I cannot, by the progress of the stars, Give guess how near to day. -- Lucius, I say! -- I would it were my fault to sleep so soundly. -- When, Lucius, when!3 Awake, I say! what, Lucius! Enter Lucius. Imc. Call'd you, my lord ? Bru. Get me a taper in my study, Lucius: When it is lighted, come and call me here. Imc. I will, my lord. Bru. It must be by his death: and, for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general.4 He would be crown'd: How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder;' And that craves wary walking. Crown him ; -- that; -- " The discord of partt and is was not nngrammatical in the Poet's time Conceit is always used by Shakespeare in a good sense. Here it meant conceived. 1 Orchard and garden were synonymous. In Romeo and Juliet, Capnlet' garden...« less