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1 |
As You Like It
[III, 4] |
Celia |
1620 |
'Was' is not 'is'; besides, the oath of a lover is no
stronger than the word of a tapster; they are both the confirmer
of false reckonings. He attends here in the forest on the Duke,
your father.
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2 |
Henry IV, Part II
[I, 2] |
Falstaff |
486 |
Not so, my lord. Your ill angel is light; but hope
that looks upon me will take me without weighing. And yet in
respects, I grant, I cannot go—I cannot tell. Virtue is of
little regard in these costermongers' times that true valour
turn'd berod; pregnancy is made a tapster, and his quick wit
wasted in giving reckonings; all the other gifts appertinent
man, as the malice of this age shapes them, are not worth a
gooseberry. You that are old consider not the capacities of
that are young; you do measure the heat of our livers with
bitterness of your galls; and we that are in the vaward of
youth, must confess, are wags too.
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3 |
Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 2] |
Don Adriano de Armado |
344 |
I am ill at reckoning; it fitteth the spirit of a tapster.
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4 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 2] |
Pompey |
195 |
Come; fear you not: good counsellors lack no
clients: though you change your place, you need not
change your trade; I'll be your tapster still.
Courage! there will be pity taken on you: you that
have worn your eyes almost out in the service, you
will be considered.
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5 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 2] |
Mistress Overdone |
201 |
What's to do here, Thomas tapster? let's withdraw.
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6 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 1] |
Elbow |
517 |
He, sir! a tapster, sir; parcel-bawd; one that
serves a bad woman; whose house, sir, was, as they
say, plucked down in the suburbs; and now she
professes a hot-house, which, I think, is a very ill house too.
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7 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 1] |
Pompey |
642 |
Tapster; a poor widow's tapster.
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8 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 1] |
Escalus |
655 |
Well, no more of it, Master Froth: farewell.
[Exit FROTH]
Come you hither to me, Master tapster. What's your
name, Master tapster?
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9 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 1] |
Escalus |
662 |
Troth, and your bum is the greatest thing about you;
so that in the beastliest sense you are Pompey the
Great. Pompey, you are partly a bawd, Pompey,
howsoever you colour it in being a tapster, are you
not? come, tell me true: it shall be the better for you.
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10 |
Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 3] |
Falstaff |
320 |
Bardolph, follow him. A tapster is a good trade:
an old cloak makes a new jerkin; a withered
serving-man a fresh tapster. Go; adieu.
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