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The Book of Sir Thomas More (Classic Reprint)
The Book of Sir Thomas More (Classic Reprint) | Walter Wilson Greg
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Excerpt from The Book of Sir Thomas More Besides the two editions mentioned there exists a photographic facsimile of the manuscript prepared by Mr. R. B. Fleming and issued in a series of Tudor Facsimile d104s. It is the full size of the original and leaves nothing to be desired in the way of technical execution, but of course the covering of tracing paper and the staining of the margins render many passages hopeless for the photographer. What purpose of general utility it was thought that a facsimile of which a large part is absolutely illegible could serve, I do not know, but to me it has proved invaluable, indeed without its help I should have hardly found the present work possible. It is also incidentally of value in preserving intact one or two passages which have since been damaged in the manuscript. It remains to say something as to the present edition. The rules which govern the editing of the Malone Society's texts of course forbade any attempt to patch up a compromise between the original and revised versions of the play. On the other hand there were obvious drawbacks to printing the manu script exactly as it stood. After some hesitation therefore I determined to print first the whole of the original text so far as it has been preserved, and then to gather together at the end all the various attempts at revision in so far as they were made on separate leaves and did not merely consist of tri?ing additions or directions written in the margins of the original sheets. These insertions I have printed in the order in which they at present stand in the manuscript, and have numbered them I - VI. The hand in which any particular passage is written I have indicated in the headline and more minutely in the notes. Any addition or alteration (of a whole word or more) made in a hand different from that of the text of that passage, is distinguished by the substitution of small capitals for lower case type; specific information concerning the hand being added in the notes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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LiterRohde
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“Grant them removed...
Imagine that you see the wretched strangers,
Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage,
Plodding to the ports and coasts for transportation,
And that you sit as kings in your desires,
Authority quite silent by your brawl,
And you in ruff of your opinions clothed;
What had you got?”

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#QuotsyJune18 | 24: #Competition

📷: Made with Typorama

LiterRohde “I‘ll tell you: you had taught
How insolence and strong hand should prevail,
How order should be quelled; and by this pattern
Not one of you should live an aged man,
For other ruffians, as their fancies wrought,
With self same hand, self reasons, and self right,
Would shark on you, and men like ravenous fishes
Would feed on one another….”
(edited) 7y
LiterRohde “Say now the king
Should so much come too short of your great trespass
As but to banish you, whither would you go?”
7y
LiterRohde “What country, by the nature of your error,
Should give you harbour? go you to France or Flanders,
To any German province, to Spain or Portugal,
Nay, any where that not adheres to England,
Why, you must needs be strangers:”
7y
LiterRohde “would you be pleased
To find a nation of such barbarous temper,
That, breaking out in hideous violence,
Would not afford you an abode on earth,”
7y
LiterRohde “Whet their detested knives against your throats,
Spurn you like dogs, and like as if that God
Owed not nor made not you, nor that the claimants
Were not all appropriate to your comforts,
But chartered unto them, what would you think
To be thus used? this is the strangers case;
And this your mountainish inhumanity.”
7y
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ScorpioBookDreams
Sir Thomas More | William Shakespeare
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My favourite #authorcollaboration at the moment features Shakespeare, Henry Chettle, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Heywood and Anthony Munday. The speech Shakespeare contributed appeals to the humanity of those who would deny entry to refugees and immigrants. #augustofpages #bookphotochallenge

katedensen Well now I feel dumb for choosing what I did. Haha. ❤️ 8y
ScorpioBookDreams @katedfisher it was going to be Good Omens but tried to find something different and remembered watching Ian Mckellan recite this during the summer! 8y
katedensen Ian McKellan is my forever favorite. I took Physics over the summer before my junior year of high school so I could take an acting seminar during the year. We spent the entire second trimester on Shakespeare. Much of it involved watching VHS tapes of the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 70s talking about and demonstrating Shakespearean acting. My favorites were the ones with Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart 😍 8y
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