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" If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked ! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know, is damn'd : if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. "
Familiar Proverbial and Select Sayings from Shakspere - Page 31
by William Shakespeare, John B. Marsh - 1863 - 162 pages
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The Historical Shakspearian Reader: Comprising the "histories", Or ...

William Shakespeare - 1875 - 516 pages
...old, (the more the pity,) his white hairs do witness it ; but that he is vile, that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault, heaven help the wicked!...merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know, is condemned : if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No, my good lord...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: Life, Glossary, &c : Reprinted ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1875 - 1154 pages
...pleasure, but in passion ; not in words only, but in woes also : deny. If sack and sugar be a fault, God de than your bawd, — he doth often ask forgiveness. Prov. You, sirrah, provide your block and — and yet there is a virtuous man, whom I have ; if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1875 - 438 pages
...he is (saving your reverence) a whoremaster, that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked ! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know, is damn'd : if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No, my good lord ;...
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System of Shakespeare's Dramas, Volumes 1-2

Denton Jaques Snider - 1877 - 1288 pages
...beastliness" the most pungent epithets. Falstaff feels the sting of the reproaches and defends himself : " If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know of is damned." He also well knows his strong hold upon the Prince through his powers of entertainment:...
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Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: And Characters of ...

William Hazlitt - 1878 - 560 pages
...he is (saving your reverence; a whore-master, that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked ! if to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old hoot that I know is damned : if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved....
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The Complete Dramatic and Poetical Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1879 - 494 pages
...he is, saving your reverence, a whoremaster, that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked ! if to be old and merry be a sin,...many an old host that I know is damned : if to be fat bje to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No, my good lord; banish Peto, banish Bardolph,...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Henry IV, pt. 1-2

William Shakespeare - 1880 - 308 pages
...— saving your reverence — a whoremaster, that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked ! if to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damn'd : if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No, my good lord :...
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The Shakespeare Phrase Book

John Bartlett - 1881 - 1046 pages
...while ! i Henry IV. ii. 4. That he is old, the more the pity, his white hairs do witness it ii. 4. If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned ii. 4. You that are old consider not the capacities of us that are young 2 Henry 7K. i. 2. Are written...
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The Shakespeare Phrase Book

John Bartlett - 1881 - 1054 pages
...is short Richard II. ii. i. Shall we be merry? — As merry as crickets, my lad i Henry iy. ii. 4. your envious courses, men of malice Henry I'll I. \'\. 2. Still in thy right ii. 4. Against ill chances men are ever merry ; But heaviness foreruns the good event 2 Henry IV. iv....
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Works: With Glossarial Notes and a Sketch of His Life, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1882 - 496 pages
...he is (saving your reverence) a whoremaster, thdt I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked ! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that know, is damned : if to be fat be to he hated, then Pharaoh'^ lean kine are to be loved. No, my good...
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