The book The Works of Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost was written by author William Shakespeare, Henry Chichester Hart Here you can read free online of The Works of Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Works of Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost a good or bad book?
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187. whitely'] Ff 3i 4 ; whitley Qq, 181. woman that is like a German clock] There can be no doubt the later Folios correct "cloak" rightly here, since this simile was at once adopted by Shakespeare's successors. It is made use of by Ben Jonson, The Silent WomaHy IV. ii. ; Webster, Westward Ho, I. i.; Middleton, A Mad World my Masters, i. i. ; Beaumont and Fletcher ("Dutch watches"), Wit Without Money, iii. ; and Cartwright, Ordinary. Dekker has a variant in Newes from Hell, 1606 (Grosart, ii. ...io6): "their wits (like wheeles in Brunswick clocks) being all wound up so &ir as they could stretch, were all going, but not one going truly." The simile covers the whole article : health, wits and apparellin&r. See Introduction for an earlier mention of a " faire Ger- maine clocke " in Horsey, 1580. 187. whitely] pale, sallow. Fumess gives a passage cited by Arrowsmith (Shakespeare^ s Commentators, etc., p. 4) from Heywood's Troja Britannica, cant. 5, St. 74 : " That hath a whitely face and a long nose.
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