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Page xiv
... Quarlous of making a wealthy match , in pursuit of whi they are friendly rivals for the hand of Dame Purecraft well as that of Grace Wellborn . A second interest is in t 1 visit to the Fair of Cokes and his party xiv Introduction.
... Quarlous of making a wealthy match , in pursuit of whi they are friendly rivals for the hand of Dame Purecraft well as that of Grace Wellborn . A second interest is in t 1 visit to the Fair of Cokes and his party xiv Introduction.
Page xv
... Quarlous and Winwife for making wealthy matches , Busy undertakes an argument with the puppets only to be miser- ably defeated , and Overdo , after a magnificent exordium , in which he calls upon all London to witness the discoveries ...
... Quarlous and Winwife for making wealthy matches , Busy undertakes an argument with the puppets only to be miser- ably defeated , and Overdo , after a magnificent exordium , in which he calls upon all London to witness the discoveries ...
Page xxiv
... Quarlous wittily remarks : ' He will ever be in the state of innocence though and childhood ; derides all antiquity , defies any other learning than inspiration ; and what discretion soever , years should afford him , it is all ...
... Quarlous wittily remarks : ' He will ever be in the state of innocence though and childhood ; derides all antiquity , defies any other learning than inspiration ; and what discretion soever , years should afford him , it is all ...
Page xxvi
... Quarlous of Busy's practice of robbing heirs of property left in his trust , and of her own still more effective device of extorting alms for various specious charities which really ended in herself . Similarly , but more sternly , some ...
... Quarlous of Busy's practice of robbing heirs of property left in his trust , and of her own still more effective device of extorting alms for various specious charities which really ended in herself . Similarly , but more sternly , some ...
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... Quarlous ) comes here fome times ? WIN - W . Why ? he makes no loue to her , do's he ? 25 LIT. Not a tokenworth that euer I faw , I affure you , 30 But- WIN - W . What ? LIT. He is the more Mad - cap o'the two . You doe not apprehend ...
... Quarlous ) comes here fome times ? WIN - W . Why ? he makes no loue to her , do's he ? 25 LIT. Not a tokenworth that euer I faw , I affure you , 30 But- WIN - W . What ? LIT. He is the more Mad - cap o'the two . You doe not apprehend ...
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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...
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...