The Knight of Our Burning PestleH. Holt, 1908 - 309 pages |
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Page xi
... evidence of internal allusions , and the statements of Burre , the publisher . To find the earliest probable limits for the date , one must turn to the lines of the play itself . R. Boyle1 , and , following him , A. H. Thorndike ...
... evidence of internal allusions , and the statements of Burre , the publisher . To find the earliest probable limits for the date , one must turn to the lines of the play itself . R. Boyle1 , and , following him , A. H. Thorndike ...
Page xii
... evidence pro- duced by Boyle and Thorndike would really indicate 1609 , at least , as the earliest possible date . An ad- ded indication to the same effect is that several of Old Merrythought's songs are founded on Ravens- croft's ...
... evidence pro- duced by Boyle and Thorndike would really indicate 1609 , at least , as the earliest possible date . An ad- ded indication to the same effect is that several of Old Merrythought's songs are founded on Ravens- croft's ...
Page xiii
... evidence on the date of the play is pointed out by Fleay , and I am inclined to accept is as nearly conclusive . It rests in the Citizen's words : ' read the play of the Foure Prentices of London ' ( 4. 66 ) . That this play of ...
... evidence on the date of the play is pointed out by Fleay , and I am inclined to accept is as nearly conclusive . It rests in the Citizen's words : ' read the play of the Foure Prentices of London ' ( 4. 66 ) . That this play of ...
Page xiv
... evidence points explicitly to 1610 or 1611 as the date . In his dedicatory epistle to Robert Keysar , Burre , the publisher of the First Quarto , 1613 , 1 Cf. Fleay , History of the Stage , pp . 186 , 203 . Cf. Greenstreet , The ...
... evidence points explicitly to 1610 or 1611 as the date . In his dedicatory epistle to Robert Keysar , Burre , the publisher of the First Quarto , 1613 , 1 Cf. Fleay , History of the Stage , pp . 186 , 203 . Cf. Greenstreet , The ...
Page xv
... evidence at all , may perhaps indi- cate that the copy had been battered about suf- ficiently long to show that its origin was in 1610 . It is still more closely drawn toward 1610 by the internal features , already named , which bear ...
... evidence at all , may perhaps indi- cate that the copy had been battered about suf- ficiently long to show that its origin was in 1610 . It is still more closely drawn toward 1610 by the internal features , already named , which bear ...
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Page 123 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon ; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowne'd honour by the locks...
Page 152 - Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a : A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.
Page 156 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Page 109 - Afric of the other, and so many other under-kingdoms that the player, when he cometh in, must ever begin with telling where he is ; or else the tale will not be conceived. Now ye shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear...
Page 114 - Centuries ; being a Series of Extracts, Local, Social, and Political, from the Archives of the City of London, AD 1276-1419.
Page 186 - A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward? Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face? Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat, As deep as to the lungs?
Page xix - Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage; two of theirs being acted through the year for one of Shakespeare's or Jonson's...
Page 235 - It was anciently the custom for all ranks of people to go out a maying on the first of May. It is on record that King Henry VIII. and Queen Katharine partook of this diversion" (STEEVENS): "Stowe says, that, 'in the month of May, namely, on May-day in the morning, every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet meadows and green woods ; there to rejoice their spirits with the beauty and savour of sweet flowers, and with the noise [ie music] of birds, praising God in their kind.
Page 165 - A pick-axe, and a spade, a spade, For and a shrouding sheet : O, a pit of clay for to be made For such a guest is meet.