Bartholomew FairH. Holt, 1904 - 238 pages |
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... hath writ it iuft to his Meridian , and the Scale of the grounded Iudgements here , his Play- fellowes in wit . Gentlemen ; not for want of a Prologue , 5 but by way of a new one , I am fent out to you here , with a Scriuener , and ...
... hath writ it iuft to his Meridian , and the Scale of the grounded Iudgements here , his Play- fellowes in wit . Gentlemen ; not for want of a Prologue , 5 but by way of a new one , I am fent out to you here , with a Scriuener , and ...
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... hath ftood ftill , these fiue and twentie , or thirtie yeeres . Though it be an Ignorance , it is a vertuous and stay'd ignorance ; 30 and next to truth , a confirm'd errour does well ; such a one the Author knowes where to finde him ...
... hath ftood ftill , these fiue and twentie , or thirtie yeeres . Though it be an Ignorance , it is a vertuous and stay'd ignorance ; 30 and next to truth , a confirm'd errour does well ; such a one the Author knowes where to finde him ...
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... hath obferu'd a speciall Decorum , the place being as durty as Smithfield , and as stinking euery whit . 20 Howfoeuer , hee prayes you to beleeue , his Ware is still the fame , else you will make him iuftly suspect that hee that is fo ...
... hath obferu'd a speciall Decorum , the place being as durty as Smithfield , and as stinking euery whit . 20 Howfoeuer , hee prayes you to beleeue , his Ware is still the fame , else you will make him iuftly suspect that hee that is fo ...
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... hath a face of offence , with the [ 15 ] weake , a great face , a foule face , but that face may haue a vaile put ouer it , and be shaddowed , as it were , it may be eaten , and in the Fayre , I take it , in a Booth , the tents of 15 ...
... hath a face of offence , with the [ 15 ] weake , a great face , a foule face , but that face may haue a vaile put ouer it , and be shaddowed , as it were , it may be eaten , and in the Fayre , I take it , in a Booth , the tents of 15 ...
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... hath the wise Magistrate done in all ages . There is a doing of right out of wrong , if the way be found . Neuer fhall I enough commend a worthy worshipfull man , fometime a capitall member of this City , for his high wisdome , in this ...
... hath the wise Magistrate done in all ages . There is a doing of right out of wrong , if the way be found . Neuer fhall I enough commend a worthy worshipfull man , fometime a capitall member of this City , for his high wisdome , in this ...
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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...