 | William Shakespeare - 1911 - 566 էջ
...Scribes, Officers, Guards, and other Attendants. THE FAMOUS HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF KING HENRY THE EIGHTH PROLOGUE I come no more to make you laugh : things...and woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, 4 We now present. Those that can pity, here May, if they think it well, let fall a tear ; The subject... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1912 - 214 էջ
...Scribes, Officers, Guards, and other Attendants. SCENE: London; Westminster; KimboUon.] Life of THE PROLOGUE I COME no more to make you laugh : things...to flow, We now present. Those that can pity, here 5 May, if they think it well, let fall a tear ; The subject will deserve it. Such as give Their money... | |
 | 1914 - 556 էջ
...Henry VIII. The prologue announces a subject which is of the very essence of Aristotle's definition : I come no more to make you laugh ; things now That...woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow We here present. Vet the play has room for the typically Shakespearian scene of the crowd and the testy... | |
 | 1914 - 230 էջ
...The answer that I propose to give cannot be jocose. In the words of one of Shakespeare's prologues, "I come no more to make you laugh; things now, That...brow, Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe," must be my theme. In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1916 - 1174 էջ
...Three Gentlemen. Garter King-at-Arms. SCENE. — Chiefly in London and Westminster ; once, at KimbdUon. PROLOGUE. I come no more to make you laugh : things...pity, here May, if they think it well, let fall a tear ; DOCTOR BUTTS, Physician to the King. Surveyor to the Duke of Buckingham. BRANDON, and a Sergeant-atArms.... | |
 | Frank James Mathew - 1922 - 460 էջ
...his last Pageant to be his first mature Tragedy. Perhaps he could have said as Fletcher did in the Prologue, I come no more to make you laugh : things...noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. 198 THE TRAGEDIES OHAKESPEARE lived in passionate times, and they grew J^darker as he came to maturity.... | |
 | 1925 - 702 էջ
...function is more that of preface and after-word than that of interpretation. The Prologue starts thus: I come no more to make you laugh: things now, That...noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. Having defined several categories of plays and having classified his own, the poet concludes, after... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1925 - 184 էջ
...to her; Scribes, Officers, Guards, etc. The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth THE PROLOGUE I come no more to make you laugh: things...and woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, 4 We now present. Those that can pity here May, if they think it well, let fall a tear; The subj ect... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1925 - 184 էջ
...to her; Scribes, Officers, Guards, etc. The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth THE PROLOGUE I come no more to make you laugh : things...and woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, 4 We now present. Those that can pity here May, if they think it well, let fall a tear; The subject... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1925 - 184 էջ
...serious brow, Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, 4 We now present. Those that can pity here May, if they...as give Their money out of hope they may believe, 8 May here find truth too. Those that come to see Only a show or two, and so agree The play may pass,... | |
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I COME no more to make you laugh : things now, That bear a weighty and a serious brow, Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe, Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. 
