 The Gamesters and Lawyers are jugglers alike, If they meddle your all is in danger: Like Gypsies, if once they can finger a souse, Your pockets they pick, and they pilfer your house, And give your estate to a stranger.  The British drama - Pagina 54door British drama - 1804Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Robert Metcalf Smith, Howard Garrett Rhoads - 1928 - 616 pagina’s
...The gamesters and lawyers are jugglers alike, If they meddle, your all is in danger: Like gypsies, if once they can finger a souse, Your pockets they...pilfer your house, And give your estate to a stranger. [She takes up his pistol. TAWDRY takes up the other] These are the tools of men of honor. Cards and... | |
 | Robert Metcalf Smith, Howard Garrett Rhoads - 1928 - 618 pagina’s
...stranger. [She takes up his pistol. TAWDRY takes up the other] These are the tools of men of honor. Cards and dice are only fit for cowardly cheats, who prey upon their friends. TAWDRY. This, sir, is fitter for your hand. Besides your loss of money, 'tis a loss to the ladies.... | |
 | William Empson - 1950 - 312 pagina’s
...of the second act, of Macheath by the prostitutes. The climax is one of the double ironies. JENNY. These are the tools of a man of honour. Cards and dice are only fit for cowardly cheats, who prey on their friends. (She takes up the pistol ; Tawdry takes up the other.) (First laugh; the great are... | |
 | Edgar V. Roberts - 1969 - 280 pagina’s
...The gamesters and lawyers are jugglers alike; 115 If they meddle your all is in danger. Like gypsies, if once they can finger a souse, Your pockets they pick, and they pilfer yo'ir house, And give your estate to a stranger. A man of courage should never put anything to the... | |
 | John Gay, John Caird, Ilona Sekacz - 1999 - 116 pagina’s
...LADIES. THE GAMESTERS AND LAWYERS ARE JUGGLERS ALIKE IF THEY MEDDLE, YOUR ALL IS IN DANGER LIKE GYPSIES, IF ONCE THEY CAN FINGER A SOUSE YOUR POCKETS THEY...PILFER YOUR HOUSE AND GIVE YOUR ESTATE TO A STRANGER JENNY DIVER. A man of courage should never put anything to the risk but his life. (She draws Macheath's... | |
 | John Gay, John Christopher Pepusch - 1920 - 92 pagina’s
...The Gamesters and Lawyers are Jugglers alike, If they meddle, your all is in Danger. Like Gypsies, if once they can finger a Souse, Your Pockets they...A Man of Courage should never put any thing to the Risque but his Life. These are the Tools of a Man of Honour. Cards and Dice are only fit for cowardly... | |
 | Brainerd Duffield - 1974 - 148 pagina’s
...JENNY. The Gamesters and Lawyers are jugglers alike, If they meddle your all is in danger: Like Gypsies, if once they can finger a souse, Your pockets they...A man of courage should never put any thing to the risque, but his life. These are the tools of a man of honour. Cards and Dice are only fit for cowardly... | |
 | Philip George Hill - 1983 - 330 pagina’s
...finger a Souse, Your Pockets they pick, and they pilfer your House, And give your Estate to a Stranger. These are the Tools of a Man of Honour. Cards and...cowardly Cheats, who prey upon their Friends. [She takes u\> his Pistol. TAWDRY takes up the other.] SUKY TAWDRY. This, Sir, is fitter for your Hand. Besides... | |
 | 416 pagina’s
...of a common strumpet? — " These," she says, pointing to the pistols of the highwayman, Macheath, " are the tools of a man of honour ; cards and dice...for cowardly cheats, who prey upon their friends." Can language more humiliating to the feelings of a gentleman than the follow* ing be applied, in condemnation... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1863 - 888 pagina’s
...heroine in the Beggar's Opera, pointing to the highwayman's pistols, " are the tools of a man of honor ; cards and dice are only fit for cowardly cheats who prey upon their friends." A Lacedemonian embassador, being sent to Corinth, commissioned to conclude a treaty of friendship and... | |
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