Bartholomew FairH. Holt, 1904 - 238 pages |
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Page 36
... selfe ! this must all downe for enormity , all , euery whit on't . [ One knocks . VRS . Looke , who's there , Sirrah ? fiue fhillings a Pigge is my price , at least ; if it be a fow - pig , six pence more : if 15 she be a great bellied ...
... selfe ! this must all downe for enormity , all , euery whit on't . [ One knocks . VRS . Looke , who's there , Sirrah ? fiue fhillings a Pigge is my price , at least ; if it be a fow - pig , six pence more : if 15 she be a great bellied ...
Page 38
... selfe , if I had not play'd an after game o'difcretion . [ Vrfla comes in againe dropping . KNO . Alas poore Vrs , this's an ill season for thee . VRS . Hang your felfe , Hacney - man . KNO . How ? how ? Vrs , vapours ! motion breede ...
... selfe , if I had not play'd an after game o'difcretion . [ Vrfla comes in againe dropping . KNO . Alas poore Vrs , this's an ill season for thee . VRS . Hang your felfe , Hacney - man . KNO . How ? how ? Vrs , vapours ! motion breede ...
Page 60
... selfe : 10 your best way , were e'en get vp , and ride for more surety . Buy a tokens worth of great pinnes , to faften your felfe to my shoulder . LEA . What doe you lacke , Gentlemen ? fine purses , pouches , pincases , pipes ? What ...
... selfe : 10 your best way , were e'en get vp , and ride for more surety . Buy a tokens worth of great pinnes , to faften your felfe to my shoulder . LEA . What doe you lacke , Gentlemen ? fine purses , pouches , pincases , pipes ? What ...
Page 85
... selfe , first , alone ; tell your worshipfull brother your minde : and but bring me three lines of his hand , or his Clerkes , with Adam Ouerdoo , vnderneath ; here I'le ftay you , Ile 25 obey you , and I'le guide you presently . COK ...
... selfe , first , alone ; tell your worshipfull brother your minde : and but bring me three lines of his hand , or his Clerkes , with Adam Ouerdoo , vnderneath ; here I'le ftay you , Ile 25 obey you , and I'le guide you presently . COK ...
Page 105
... selfe . PVR . Mad doe they call him ! the world is mad in error , but hee is mad in truth : I loue him o'the fudden , 20 ( the cunning man fayd all true ) and shall loue him more , How well it becomes a man to be mad in and more . truth ...
... selfe . PVR . Mad doe they call him ! the world is mad in error , but hee is mad in truth : I loue him o'the fudden , 20 ( the cunning man fayd all true ) and shall loue him more , How well it becomes a man to be mad in and more . truth ...
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allusion ballad Banbury Bartholomew Fair Ben Jonson beſt braue Cokes cutpurse do's Edgworth English euery felfe fellow fhall fome foole French hood ftill fuch Gentlemen Gifford giue Grace hath haue heere Hero and Leander Honest Whore i'faith I'le i'the Fayre i'your Iohn is't Iuftice Jonson Lady Leander Leatherhead leaue Littlewit London looke Lord loue Mafter Miftreffe Miftris muſt neuer Numps o'the on't ouer Ouerdoo Overdo Pigge play pleaſe pray thee preſently prophane puppets Puritans purſe Quarlous QVAR Rogue satire ſay SCENE ſee Shakespeare ſhall ſhould Sifter Smithfield ſpeake ſuch tabacco there's theſe thinke thou vapours veluet vpon Vrla warrant Whit wife WIN-W Winwife ΙΟ Іон Сок
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Page 181 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 213 - The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment : for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Page xxix - And it is an excellent play ; the more I see it, the more I love the wit of it; only the business of abusing the Puritans begins to grow stale, and of no use, they being the people that, at last, will be found the wisest.
Page 142 - Maygame, or Pageant jestingly or prophanely speake or use the holy Name of God or of Christ Jesus, or of the Holy Ghoste or of the Trinitie...
Page 150 - ... and sometime painted with variable colours, with two or three hundred men, women and children following it with great devotion. And thus being reared up with...
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