... come, tell us your reason : what sayest thou to this ? Poins. Come, your reason, Jack, your reason. Fal. What, upon compulsion ? 'Zounds, an I were at the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason... The North American Review - Page 3791897Full view - About this book
| Titus Maccius Plautus - 1889 - 366 pages
...or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on compulsion I if reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion—I. Prince. I'll be no longer guilty of this sin; this sanguine coward, this btd-prcsscr,... | |
| Robert Yelverton Tyrrell - 1890 - 534 pages
...or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on compulsion ! If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion — I ! Prinee. I'll be no longer guilty of this sin ; this sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1891 - 568 pages
...villainy. Pericles, iv.4> With Phoebus' amorous pinches black. Ant. &* Cleo. i. 5. Blackberries. If reason ale, iv. 3. But out, affection ! All bond and privilege of nature, break ! Cor. i Hen. tv. ii. 4.— —That same dogfox, Ulysses, is not proved worth a blackberry. Troi. &•" Cress,... | |
| Joel Chandler Harris - 1892 - 410 pages
...uncovers and rescues from oblivion Shakespeare's pun on raisins, where Falstaff tells the Prince, " If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason on compulsion, I." After all, this is a tremendous apology to make for the humble speech of Uncle Remus,... | |
| Joel Chandler Harris - 1892 - 410 pages
...uncovers and rescues from oblivion Shakespeare's pun on raisins, where Falstaff tells the Prince, " If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason on compulsion, I." After all, this is a tremendous apology to make for the humble speech of Uncle Remus,... | |
| William Ernest Henley, Charles Whibley - 1894 - 452 pages
...or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. PRINCE. I '11 be no longer guilty of this sin ; this sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1894 - 586 pages
...or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon Compulsion, I. *Kind of punishment, Prince. I'll be no longer guilty of this sin ; this sanguine coward, this bed-presser,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1897 - 192 pages
...or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. Prince. I '11 be no longer guilty of this sin ; this sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker,... | |
| 1896 - 1224 pages
...the worst that may befall. 1. Julius Csesar. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 96. Give you a reason on compulsion ! I. m. Henry IV. Pt. I. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 2G3. Good reasons must, of force, give place to better. n.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1897 - 278 pages
...all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion ! Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. 229 Prince. I 'll be no longer guilty of this sin ; this sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this... | |
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