 ... whose play it is ; and by that quest of inquiry the law warrants you to avoid much mistaking. If you know not the author, you may rail against him, and peradventure so behave yourself, that you may enforce the author to know you.  The Staple of News - Page 131by Ben Jonson - 1905 - 276 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...against him ; and, peradventure, so behave yourselfe, that you may enforce the author to know you. " By sitting on the stage, if you be a knight, you may happily get you a mistresse : if a meere Fleet-Street R iij gentleman, gentleman, a wife : but assure yourselfe by continuall... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...planted valiantly (because impudently) beating downe the mewes and hisses of the opposed rascality. " By sitting on the stage, if you be a knight, you may happily get you a mistresse: if a mere Fleet-street gentleman, a wife: but assure yourselfe by continuall residence,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...raile against him; and peradventure so behave yourselfe, that you may enforce the author to know you. " By sitting on the stage, if you be a knight, you may happily get you amistresse: if a mere Fleet-street gentleman, a wife: but assure yourselfe by continuall residence,... | |
 | Thomas Dekker - Crime - 1812 - 228 pages
...in use, and that it was managed in a manner somewhat similar to what it is at the present time. 138 By sitting on the stage, if you be a knight, you may...happily get you a mistress ; if a mere Fleet-street f continual re- (Ml ''*-t•*•t ' gentleman, a wife : but assure yourself, by continual re1-*' sidence,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1814 - 752 pages
...gentleman, as his fine cloaths and perruke are perfectly revealed. — Second, By lilting in the pit, if you be a knight, you may happily get you a mistress ; which, if you would, 1 advise you never to be absent when Epsome Wells u plaid: for, GENT. MAG. July,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 676 pages
...against him ; and peradventure so behave yourselfe, that you may enforce the author to know you. " By sitting on the stage, if you be a knight, you may happily get you a mistresse : if a mere Fleet-street gentleman, a wife : but assure yourselfe by continuall residence,... | |
 | Charles Hindley - English literature - 1872 - 638 pages
...rail against him ; and perad venture so behave yourself, that you may enforce the author to know you. By sitting on the stage, if you be a knight, you may...mistress ; if a mere Fleetstreet gentleman, a wife : but assure yourself, by continual residence, you are the first and principal man in election to begin... | |
 | Thomas Bedford - 1872 - 798 pages
...rail against him ; and perad venture so behave yourself, that you may enforce the author to know you. By sitting on the stage, if you be a knight, you may...mistress ; if a mere Fleetstreet gentleman, a wife : but assure yourself, by continual residence, you are the first and principal man in election to begin... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - London (England) - 1891 - 646 pages
...citizens they are in debt; if first to us they are in law."—Spedding, Baconiana, vol. vii. p. 175. By sitting on the stage, if you be a knight you may happily get you a mistress; if a mere Fleet Street gentleman, a wife.—Gull's Hornbook (1609), p. 33. Sir Dauphine. He has got on his whole... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English essays - 1892 - 316 pages
...raile against him : and peraduenture so behaue your selfe, that you may enforce the Author to know you. By sitting on the stage, if you be a Knight, you may happily get you a Mistresse : if a mere Fleetstreet Gentleman, a wife : but assure yourselfe, by continuall residence,... | |
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