George Sewell [1723–5], The works of Shakespear in six [seven] volumes. Collated and Corrected by the former Editions, By Mr. Pope ([Vol. 7] Printed by J. Darby, for A. Bettesworth [and] F. Fayram [etc.], London) [word count] [S11101].
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SCENE V.
Enter Celia with a writing.
Ros.
Peace, here comes my sister reading, stand aside.
Cel.
Why should this a desart be?
For it is unpeopled. No;
Tongues I'll hang on every tree,
That shall civil sayings show.
Some, how brief the life of man
Runs his erring pilgrimage,
That the stretching of a span
Buckles in his sum of age;
Some of violated vows,
'Twixt the souls of friend and friend;
But upon the fairest boughs,
Or at every sentence end,
Will I Rosalinda write;
Teaching all that read to know
This quintessence of every sprite,
Heaven would in little show.
Therefore heaven nature charg'd,
That one body should be fill'd
With all graces wide enlarg'd;
Nature presently distill'd
Helen's cheeks, but not her heart,
Cleopatra's majesty;
Atalanta's better part;
Sad Lucretia's modesty.
Thus Rosalind of many parts,
By heav'nly synod was devis'd,
Of many faces, eyes and hearts,
To have the touches dearest priz'd.
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Heav'n would that she these gifts should have,
And I to live and die her slave.
Ros.
O most gentle Jupiter! what tedious homily of love
have you wearied your parishioners withal, and never cry'd, have
patience, good people?
Cel.
How now, back friends! shepherd go off a little: go
with him, sirrah.
Clo.
Come shepherd, let us make an honourable retreat, tho'
not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage.
[Ex. Cor. and Clown.
George Sewell [1723–5], The works of Shakespear in six [seven] volumes. Collated and Corrected by the former Editions, By Mr. Pope ([Vol. 7] Printed by J. Darby, for A. Bettesworth [and] F. Fayram [etc.], London) [word count] [S11101].
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