...comfort, man ? How is't with aged Gaunt ? [a pause.] [Gaunt.] O how that name befits my composition ! Old Gaunt, indeed, and gaunt in being old; Gaunt am I for the grave, gaunt as a grave. [Richard.] Dying, and play so nicely with your name ? [Gaunt.] No ; misery makes sport to mock itself:...

...of Gnunt, in his old ago and great sorrow, with one foot in the grave, pun also on his own name : " Old Gaunt, indeed, and gaunt in being old, Gaunt am I for the grave, gaunt as the grave." The other instance is historic — that of a king, with a broken spirit, on his dying bed....

...of Gaunt, in his old age and great sorrow, with one foot in the grave, pun also on his own name : " Old Gaunt, indeed, and gaunt in being old, Gaunt am I for the grave, gaunt as tho grave." The other instance is historic — that of a king, with a broken spirit, on his dying bed....

...nephew asks him, " How is it with aged Gaunt ?" he answers, " Oh, how that name befits my composition, Old Gaunt indeed, and gaunt in being old — Gaunt am I for the grave, gaunt as the grave"— with much more in the same fashion ; while it is into the mouth of the slight and frivolous...

...asks him, " How is it with aged Gaunt ? " he answers, — " Oh, how that name befits my composition, Old Gaunt indeed, and gaunt in being old — Gaunt am I for the grave, gaunt as the grave " with much more in the same fashion ; while it is into the mouth of the slight and frivolous...

...asks him, " How is it with aged Gaunt ? " he answers,— " Oh, how that name befits my composition, Old Gaunt indeed, and gaunt in being old— Gaunt am I for the grave, gaunt as the grave " with much more in the same fashion ; while it is into the mouth of the slight and frivolous...

...asks him, " How is it with aged Gaunt ? " he answers, — " Oh, how that name betits my composition, Old Gaunt indeed, and gaunt in being old— Gaunt am I for the grave, gaunt as the grave " with much more in the same fashion ; while it is into the mouth of the slight and frivolous...

...names are frequent ; the most memorable (not to dwell on the instances of Leonatus, Cymbeline, \ . 5, ad fin., Banquo in Macbeth, I. 4, ad fin., and...Jacob:" it was in the agony of self-reproach that Ajax " Bellarmin had assumed the name of Matthew Tortus in his, reply to the "Apology for the Oath of Allegiance,"...

...Banquo in Macbeth, I. 4, ad fin., and Brutus in Hamlet, ill. 2) is no doubt in Richard II., Act n., Sc. 1, Old Gaunt indeed, and gaunt in being old. Gaunt...Jacob:" it was in the agony of self-reproach that Ajax * Bellarmin had assumed the name of Matthew Tortus in his reply to the " Apology for the Oath of Allegiance,"...

...K. Rich. What comfort, man? How is't with aged Gaunt? Gaunt. O, how that name befits my composition! Old Gaunt, indeed ; and gaunt in being old : Gaunt am I for the grave, gaunt as a grave, Whose hollow vault inherits naught but bones. K. Rich. Can sick men play so nicely with their names?...