Bartholomew FairH. Holt, 1904 - 238 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 35
Page 14
... thee ? ftirring yet ? LIT. Stirring ! Yes , and ftudying an old Elder , come from Banbury , a Suitor that puts in heere at meale - tyde , 25 to praise the painefull brethren , or pray that the fweet fingers may be reftor'd ; Sayes a ...
... thee ? ftirring yet ? LIT. Stirring ! Yes , and ftudying an old Elder , come from Banbury , a Suitor that puts in heere at meale - tyde , 25 to praise the painefull brethren , or pray that the fweet fingers may be reftor'd ; Sayes a ...
Page 15
... thou wert gone abroad , by all description . I pray thee what ayleft thou , thou canst not fleepe ? haft thou Thornes i'thy eye - lids , or Thistles i'thy bed . WIN - W . I cannot tell It feemes you had neither i ' 15 your feet ; that ...
... thou wert gone abroad , by all description . I pray thee what ayleft thou , thou canst not fleepe ? haft thou Thornes i'thy eye - lids , or Thistles i'thy bed . WIN - W . I cannot tell It feemes you had neither i ' 15 your feet ; that ...
Page 16
... Pray thee forbeare , for my respect somewhat . QVAR . Hoy - day ! how refpectiue you are become o'the I feare this family will turne you reformed too , 35 fudden ! 2 I drunke ] I am drunk 1692 , 1716 , W , G : Cun . suggests I drink ...
... Pray thee forbeare , for my respect somewhat . QVAR . Hoy - day ! how refpectiue you are become o'the I feare this family will turne you reformed too , 35 fudden ! 2 I drunke ] I am drunk 1692 , 1716 , W , G : Cun . suggests I drink ...
Page 17
Ben Jonson Carroll Storrs Alden. pray you come about againe . Because she is ... thou wouldst leaue thy exercise of widdow - hunting once ! this drawing 5 ... thee , and after , come to inherit according to thy inches . A sweet course ...
Ben Jonson Carroll Storrs Alden. pray you come about againe . Because she is ... thou wouldst leaue thy exercise of widdow - hunting once ! this drawing 5 ... thee , and after , come to inherit according to thy inches . A sweet course ...
Page 27
... pray thee long , prefently , 30 and be ficke o'the fudden , good Win . I'll goe in and tell her , cut thy lace i'the meane time , and play the Hypocrite , fweet Win . WIN . No , I'll not make me vnready for it . I can be Hypocrite ...
... pray thee long , prefently , 30 and be ficke o'the fudden , good Win . I'll goe in and tell her , cut thy lace i'the meane time , and play the Hypocrite , fweet Win . WIN . No , I'll not make me vnready for it . I can be Hypocrite ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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
Popular passages
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...