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" Hence, bashful cunning; And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid : to be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no. "
The works of Shakespear [ed. by H. Blair], in which the beauties observed by ... - Page 37
by William Shakespeare - 1771
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The Indicatior: a Miscellany for the Fields and the Fireside, Volumes 1-2

Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 540 pages
...Miranda, who wept when she saw Ferdinand work so hard, and begged him to let her help ; telling him, • I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll...be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no. Such are the discoveries which the poets make for us : worlds, to...
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The Indicatior: a Miscellany for the Fields and the Fireside, Volumes 1-2

Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 520 pages
...Miranda, who wept when she saw Ferdinand work so hard^ and begged him to let her help ; telling him, I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll...be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no. Such are the discoveries which the poets make for us : worlds, to...
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The ship of glass; or, The mysterious island. [Followed by] Atcherley

Hargrave Jennings - 1846 - 932 pages
...father's precepts Therein forget. Hence, bookful cunning ! And prompt me plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll...to be your fellow You may deny me, but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no. Dost thou love me ? I know thou wilt say — ay ; And I will take...
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Second love, and other tales, from the note-book of a traveller [J.P. Simpson].

John Palgrave Simpson - 1846 - 938 pages
...House, Shoe Lane. > SECOND LOVE. (CONTINUED.) ii SECOND LOVE. EPILOGUE. THE CHATEAU. Hence bashful cunning ! And prompt me plain and holy innocence. 1 am your wife, if you will marry me. SHAKSPEARE. Ah me ! How weak a thing The heart of woman is ! — IDEM. ON a sultry day of the latter...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 32

Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 280 pages
...itself, The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning, And prompt me, plain and holy innocence! I am your wife, if you will marry me; If not, I'll die your maid. (in, i, 79-84) Language has become, in this scene, no longer divisive or manipulative, but a source...
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Romantic Critical Essays

David Bromwich - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 320 pages
...Ferdinand work so hard, and begged him to let her help; telling him, I am your wife, if you will many me; If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow You may deny me; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no.* Such are the discoveries which the poets make for us; - worlds, to...
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A commentary on Catullus...

Robinson Ellis - 1889 - 598 pages
...Nauck"Ayov 8f /i', Zi ^fV, f"« irp6iriro\ov dfXfisE"/ aXo^ov flre SpaiS'. Shakespere Tempest iii. i 1 am your wife if you will marry me: If not I'll die...your maid: to be your fellow You may deny me; but I 'II be your servant Whether you will or no. iocundo labore, a toil that was a delight. 162. permuleens...
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The Tempest: Modern English Version Side-by-side with Full Original Text

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1988 - 228 pages
...itself, The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning! And prompt me plain and holy innocence! I am your wife if you will marry me; If not, I'll die your maid: to be your fellow 85 You may deny me; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no. Ferdinand My mistress, dearest;...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 43

Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 296 pages
...antitype to 'the shrews of the 188os'; her tears at her own 'unworthiness' and her words to Ferdinand, 'I am your wife, if you will marry me; / If not, I'll die your maid', are to an audience 'a discovery at the end of a century in which the followers of the Dovre poet had...
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Broken Nuptials in Shakespeare's Plays

Carol Thomas Neely - Drama - 1985 - 300 pages
...unworthiness, that dare not offer / What I desire to give, and much less take / What I shall die to want. ... I am your wife if you will marry me; / If not, I'll die your maid" (III.i. 77-84). Although Perdita withholds herself from the sexual license of the Bohemian countryside...
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