I'd give if a sure way I knew How to thaw and resolve my stout flesh into dew ! How happy were I if no sin were self-slaughter, For I'd then throw myself and my cares in the water ! Derry down, down, down, derry down. How weary, how profitless, stale,... Hamlet Travestie: In Three Acts - Pagina 3door John Poole - 1811 - 64 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| John Poole - 1810 - 122 pagina’s
...all get drunk together. [Flourish of trumpets and drums — Exeunt all but Hamlet. SONG.— HAMI.ET. (Tune — Derry down.) A ducat I'd give if a sure way I knew, How to tbaw and resolve my stout flesh into dew ! How happy were I if no sin were self-slaughter! For I'd... | |
| John Poole - 1811 - 136 pagina’s
...together. [ Flourish of trumpets and drums — Exeunt all but Hamlet. SONG.— HAMLET. (Tune—" Deny Down.") A ducat I'd give if a sure way I knew How...were self-slaughter, For I'd then throw myself and iny cares in the water ! Derry down, down, dawn, derry down. How weary, how profitless, stale, and... | |
| Enos Bronson - 1811 - 456 pagina’s
...this too, too solid ßesh" &c. which is thus untragedized: SONG— HAMLET. [Tune — Derry-dovin.] " A ducat I'd give if a sure way I knew, How to thaw...flesh into dew ! How happy were I, if no sin were self slaughter ! For I'd then throw myself and my caree in the water. Derry down, dotan, down derry... | |
| 1812 - 470 pagina’s
...this too, too solid flesh," &c. which is thus untragedized: SONG— HAMLET. [Tune — Dcrry-do-wn.~\ " A ducat I'd give if a sure way I knew, How to thaw...flesh into dew ! How happy were I, if no sin were self slaughter ! For I'd then throw myself and my cares in the water. J}erry down, down, down deny... | |
| Charles Beckington - 1847 - 52 pagina’s
...time seems very long, So I'll beguile it with a little song. TUNE— " Derry Down.'' A half-farthiug I'd give, if a sure way I knew How to thaw and resolve my stout flesh into dew, But I fear 'twere as easy to eat bricks and mortar, As to cry myself out, and become all eye-water.... | |
| William Davenport Adams - 1891 - 260 pagina’s
...King. Well said, my lad ! Cheer up, no more foul weather : We'll meet anon, and all get drunk together. A ducat I'd give if a sure way I knew How to thaw...stout flesh into dew ! How happy were I if no sin was self-slaughter ! For I'd then throw myself and my cares in the water. Derry down, down, down, derry... | |
| Paul A. Cantor - 2004 - 122 pagina’s
...lines of Hamlet's first soliloquy appear in John Poole's Hamlet Travestie (1810). sung to the tune of 'Derry Down': A ducat I'd give if a sure way I knew...my stout flesh into dew! How happy were I if no sin was self-slaughter! For I'd then throw myself and my cares in the water. (I. 10-11) In an American... | |
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