| | 182 | Author: | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Romeo and Juliet  | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 188 | Author: | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Troilus and Cressida | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | In Troy, there lies the scene. From isles of Greece
The princes orgulous, their high blood chafed,
Have to the port of Athens sent their ships,
Fraught with the ministers and instruments
Of cruel war: sixty and nine, that wore
Their crownets regal, from the Athenian bay
Put forth toward Phrygia; and their vow is made
To ransack Troy, within whose strong immures
The ravish'd Helen, Menelaus' queen,
With wanton Paris sleeps; and that's the quarrel.
To Tenedos they come;
And the deep-drawing barks do there disgorge
Their warlike fraughtage: now on Dardan plains
The fresh and yet unbruised Greeks do pitch
Their brave pavilions: Priam's six-gated city,
Dardan, and Tymbria, Helias, Chetas, Troien,
And Antenorides, with massy staples
And corresponsive and fulfilling bolts,
Sperr up the sons of Troy.
Now expectation, tickling skittish spirits,
On one and other side, Trojan and Greek,
Sets all on hazard: and hither am I come
A prologue arm'd, but not in confidence
Of author's pen or actor's voice, but suited
In like conditions as our argument,
To tell you, fair beholders, that our play
Leaps o'er the vaunt and firstlings of those broils,
Beginning in the middle, starting thence away
To what may be digested in a play.
Like or find fault; do as your pleasures are:
Now good or bad, 'tis but the chance of war. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 196 | Author: | Nurse, Rebecca | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Rebecca Nurse Collection:
Samuel Parris, Nathaniel Ingersoll & Thomas Putnam Vs. Rebecca Nurse | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The Deposition of Sam: Parris aged about .39. years & Nathanael
Ingersoll aged about fifty & eight yeares & Thomas Putman aged
about fourty yeares all of Salem—
—
testifyeth & saith that Ann
Putman Senr & her daughter Ann, & Mary Walcot & Abigail
Williams were severall times & greviously tortured at the
Examination of Rebekah Nurse wife to Francis Nurse of Salem before the
Honoured Magistrates the. 24.March. 1691/2 & particularly that when
her hands were at liberty some of the afflicted were pinched, & upon
the motion of her head & fingers some of them were tortured; &
farther that some of the afflicted then & there affirmed that they
saw a black Ulan whispering in her ear, & that they saw birds
fluttering about her, | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 200 | Author: | Nurse, Rebecca | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Rebecca Nurse Collection:
Elizabeth Hubbard Vs. Rebecca Nurse | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The Deposistion of Elizabeteh Hubburd agged about 17 years who
testifieth and saith that about the 20 th march 1692 1 saw the
Apperishtion of Rebekah Nurs the wife of frances Nurs senr senr tho she
did not hurt me tell the 24 th march being the day of hir examination
and then she did hurt me most geviously dureing the time of hir
examination for if she did but look upon me she would strick me down or
allmost choak me and also severall times sence the Apperishtion of
Rebekah Nurs has most greviously afflected me by pinching pricking and
almost choaking me urging me to writ in hir book and also on the day of
hir examination I saw the Apperishtion of Rebeckah Nuts goe and hurt the
bodys of Ann putnam senr and Mary Walcott and Abigail williams and Ann
putnamjunr. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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