Machiavelli and the Elizabethan Drama: Von Edward Meyer

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Strana 61 - And so I was, which plainly signified That I should snarl, and bite, and play the dog. Then, since the heavens have shap'd my body so, Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it. I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this word 'love,' which greybeards call divine, Be resident in men like one another, And not in me!
Strana 59 - Why, I can smile, and murder while I smile; And cry, content, to that which grieves my heart ; And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.
Strana 40 - I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Strana 82 - For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well, then, it now appears you need my help. Go to, then ; you come to me, and you say, Shylock, we would have moneys...
Strana 47 - I learn'd in Florence how to kiss my hand, Heave up my shoulders when they call me dog, And duck as low as any bare-foot friar...
Strana 42 - As for myself, I walk abroad o' nights, And kill sick people groaning under walls : Sometimes I go about and poison wells...
Strana 39 - Albeit the world think Machiavel is dead, Yet was his soul but flown beyond the Alps ; And, now the Guise* is dead, is come from France, To view this land, and frolic with his friends. To some perhaps my name is odious ; But such as love me, guard me from their tongues, And let them know that I am Machiavel, And weigh not men, and therefore not men's words.
Strana 45 - But Barabas will be more circumspect. Begin betimes; Occasion's bald behind: Slip not thine opportunity, for fear too late Thou seek'st for much, but canst not compass it.
Strana 79 - As namely, to the Ghost of Macheuill^ of Tully, of Quid, of Roscius, of Pace the Duke of Norfolks lester; and lastly, to the Ghost of Robert Greene^ telling him, what a coyle there is with pamphleting on him after his death.
Strana 45 - And since by wrong thou got'st authority, Maintain it bravely by firm policy, At least unprofitably lose it not. For he that liveth in authority, And neither gets him friends nor fills his bags, Lives like the ass that...

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