 | Early English newspapers - 1816 - 886 pages
...exhibition. Alleyn concluded -an advertisement with telling the publick, " for their better content, [they] shall have pleasant sport with the horse and ape, and whipping of the blind bear." Something similar, probably, occasioned the burlesque account in Poor Rubin's Intelligence of July... | |
 | David Hughson - London (England) - 1817 - 810 pages
...exhibition. Alleyn concluded an advertisement with telling the public, " for their better content, (they) shall have pleasant sport with the horse and ape, and whipping of the blind bear." On the west side of the Borough-Market is Deadman's-Place, containing an Hospital or College, founded... | |
 | John Payne Collier - English drama - 1831 - 534 pages
...to ploie 5 dogges at a single ' beare for 5 pounds : and also to wearie a bull dead at the stake : and ' for their better content shall have pleasant...horse and ' ape, and whipping of the blind bear.' The ' pleasant sport with the horse and ape ' was, doubtless, the same amusement which gave such delight... | |
 | John Payne Collier - English drama - 1831 - 526 pages
...to plaie 5 dogges at a single ' beare for 5 pounds : and also to wearie a bull dead at the stake : and ' for their better content shall have pleasant sport with the horse aud ' ape, and whipping of the blind bear.' The ' pleasant sport with the horse and ape ' was, doubtless,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1833 - 720 pages
...to plaie 5 dogges at the single lic-iu'c for 5 pounds, and also to wearie a bull dead at the stake, and for their better content shall have pleasant sport...the horse and ape, and whipping of the blind bear. Vivat Rex." Honest William has told us that all good and wise monarchs patronize this sport, and come... | |
 | William Rogers - Clergy - 1888 - 250 pages
...doggis at the single beare, for 5 pounds ; and also to wearie a bull dead at the stake ; and for your better content, shall have pleasant sport with the horse and ape, and whipping of the blind bear." The garden was a source of great revenue, but it must have been for pleasure rather than for profit... | |
 | William Rowley - English poetry - 1840 - 72 pages
...correction of which must be left to the reader's ingenuity. P. 30. — " Fight dog, fight beare, the uncharitable whipping of the blind, the old ape riding...lines, set to music : — " The Ape, the Monkey, and Baboon did meet, And breaking of their fast in Friday Street ; Two of them sware together solemnly... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley, John Britton, Edward William Brayley - Surrey (England) - 1844 - 288 pages
...pounds ; and also to wearie [worry] a bull dead at the stake ; and for their better content, shal1 have pleasant sport with the horse and ape, and whipping of the blind bear. — Vivat Rex." 88 Collier's MEMOIRS of Alleyn, &c. p. 75, 6 ; where the petition is copied. the year... | |
 | George Richard Jesse - Dogs - 1866 - 486 pages
...the single beare, for 5 pounds ; and also to wearie a bull dead at the stake ; and for their batter content, shall have pleasant sport with the horse and ape, and whipping of the blind bear. " VIVAT REX." After the death of Sir John Darrington, the office of "chief master, ruler, and overseer... | |
 | 1868 - 874 pages
...plaie 5 dog^is at the single beare, for 5 pounds ; and also to weary [worry] a bull dead at the stake ; and for their better content, shall have pleasant sport with the horse and asse, aud whipping of the blind bear. — Vivat Hex." are set forth in a small thick memorandum book,... | |
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Essex, who hath challenged all comers whatsoever, to plaie 5 dogges at the single beare, for 5 pounds ; and also to wearie a bull dead at the stake ; and for their better content, shall have pleasant sport with the horse and ape, and whipping of the blind... 
