William Shakespeare
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 200
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...274. spirits of light Grey (i, 150): An allusion to 2 Corinthians, xi, 14: 'And no marvel, for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.' 276. vsurping haire Shakespeare again refers to false hair thus: --' those crisped snaky golden locks... often known To be the dowrie of a second head.'--Mer. of Ven. III, ii, 92; 'Before the golden tresses of the dead... were shorn away, To live a second life on second head.'--Sonn. 68; 'thatch your poor thin roofs With burdens of the dead.'--Timon, IV, iii, 144. In Stubbes's Anatomic of Abuses, 1583, we find the following account of the fashion: 'they are not simply content with their owne haire, but buy other heyre, dying it of what colour they list themselues. And if there be any poore women (as now and then, we see God doeth blesse them with beautie, as well as the riche i that hath faire haire, these nice dames will not rest, till thei haue bought it. Or if any children haue faire haire thei will intice them into a secrete place, and for a penie or two, thei will cut of their haire: as I heard that one did in the citie of Munidnol Londinum of late, who metyng a little child with verie faire haire, inuegled her into a house, promised her a penie, and so cutte off her haire... if any haue heyre which is not faire inough, than will they dye it into dyuerse colors almost chaunginge the substance into accidentes by their dyuelish & more than thrise cursed deuyses.'--p. 68, Reprint New Sh. Soc.--ed. 277. aspect For the accent, see Abbott, 490. 280. natiue bloud, etc. Theobald (Nichols, Illust. ii, 323): His sentiment is--for painting is now counted native blood.--Halliwell: Biron is rather speaking suppositiously of what really has, or is supposed to have, taken place. Her...