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Page xvi
... Hero and Leander , the play which our friends in Bartholomew Fair attended , the plot first of all deserves attention . It begins with the amours of Hero and Leander , with whom is introduced a representa- tive of the rough and ...
... Hero and Leander , the play which our friends in Bartholomew Fair attended , the plot first of all deserves attention . It begins with the amours of Hero and Leander , with whom is introduced a representa- tive of the rough and ...
Page xvii
... Hero and Leander are not more strangely wrought together than is the curious medley of scenes suggested in the bill of a puppet - show produced a century later by a motion - master of celebrity : ' At Crawley's Booth , over against the ...
... Hero and Leander are not more strangely wrought together than is the curious medley of scenes suggested in the bill of a puppet - show produced a century later by a motion - master of celebrity : ' At Crawley's Booth , over against the ...
Page xviii
... Hero and Leander , besides pleasing an audience which had such a fondness for puppet - plays , portrays a most char- acteristic feature of the Fair . It presents significant experi- ences of the party of fools and the party of ...
... Hero and Leander , besides pleasing an audience which had such a fondness for puppet - plays , portrays a most char- acteristic feature of the Fair . It presents significant experi- ences of the party of fools and the party of ...
Page 111
... Hero , and Leander , otherwise called The Touchstone of true Loue , with as true a tryall of friendship , betweene Damon , and Pithias , two faithfull friends o'the Bankfide ? pretty i'faith , what's the mean- 20 ing on't ? is't an ...
... Hero , and Leander , otherwise called The Touchstone of true Loue , with as true a tryall of friendship , betweene Damon , and Pithias , two faithfull friends o'the Bankfide ? pretty i'faith , what's the mean- 20 ing on't ? is't an ...
Page 114
... Hero ; this with the beard , Damon ; and this 10 pretty Pythias : this is the ghoft of King Dionyfius in the habit of a scriuener : as you shall fee anone , at large . COK . Well they are a ciuill company , I like ' hem for that ; they ...
... Hero ; this with the beard , Damon ; and this 10 pretty Pythias : this is the ghoft of King Dionyfius in the habit of a scriuener : as you shall fee anone , at large . COK . Well they are a ciuill company , I like ' hem for that ; they ...
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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...
Page 153 - Fair he gives you the pictures of Numps and Cokes, and in this those of Daw, Lafoole, Morose, and the Collegiate Ladies; all which you hear described before you see them. So that before they come upon the stage, you have a longing expectation of them, which prepares you to receive them favourably; and when they are there, even from their first appearance you are so far acquainted with them, that nothing of their humour is lost to you.
Page 234 - XXII. King Alfred's Old English Version of St. Augustine's Soliloquies, turned into Modern English. HENRY LEE HARGROVE, Ph.D. $0.75.
Page 69 - Faith, through a common calamity, he bought me, sir; and now he will marry me to his wife's brother, this wise gentleman that you see; or else I must pay value o
Page xvii - Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act ; Where they shall see the time's deformity Anatomized in every nerve and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
Page xiii - Booth, over against the Crown Tavern in Smithfield, during the time of Bartholomew Fair, will be presented a little opera, called the Old Creation of the World...