The Non-dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker: In Five Volumes, Volume 1private circulation only, 1603 - English literature |
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againſt alwayes anſwers becauſe befides beſt beſtow caft cauſe Citty death defire doth euen euery faith fhe falne farre fauour feditious fée felfe feruants ferue fhall fhee fhew fhould fide filly filuer fince firſt fome forrow foule fpeake freſh friends ftand fuch fure gaue giue giuen goffip graue grones hath haue hauing heart heauen hée himſelfe houfe houſe humor huſband Ierufalem kéepe laft leaſt leaue likewife liue Lobs pound Lord loue luftie maiſter moft moſt mother muft muſt neuer fo ouer perceiue Plague pleaſe pleaſure poore pray preſently purpoſe quoth fhe reaſon receiued reft Romaines ſay ſee ſhall ſhe ſhee ſhort ſome ſpeake ſtill ſtood ſuch thée thefe themfelues theſe things thinke thofe THOMAS DEKKER thoſe thou thouſand thrée Tytus vnder vnto vp and downe vpon vſe whofe whoſe wife faith withall wiues woman worfe worſe
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Page 75 - Citizen at noon-day; but all was more calm than a still water, all husht, as if the Spheres had been playing in Consort: In conclusion, heaven lookt like a Pallace, and the great hall of the earth, like a Paradise. But O the short-liv'd Felicity of man! O world, of what slight and thin stuff is thy happiness! —in short, Queen Elizabeth died, and it is no use asking Dekker what the old woman who swept his room for him said, or what Cheapside looked like that night if one happened to be caught in...
Page 67 - Reader, though he haue no more Gentilitie in him than Adam had (that was but a gardner...
Page 94 - Hyacinthes, fatall Cipresse and Ewe, thickly mingled with heapes of dead mens bones : the bare ribbes of a father that begat him, lying there: here the...
Page 87 - Oh it were able to fill a hundred paire of writing tables with notes, but to fee the parts plaid in the compafle of one houre on the ftage of this new-found world...
Page 134 - But the tinker, knowing that worms needed no apparel saving only sheets, stripped him stark naked, but first dived nimbly into his pockets to see what linings they had, assuring himself that a Londoner would not wander so far without silver. His hopes were of the right stamp, for from one of his pockets he drew a...
Page 83 - Natiuitie & death being memorable by this wonder: the first and last yeares of her Raigne by this, that a Lee was Lorde Maior when she came to the Crowne, and a Lee Lorde Maior when she departed from it. Three places are made famous by her for three things, Greenewich for her birth, Richmount for her death, White-Hall for her Funerall...
Page 92 - A stiffe and freezing horror sucks vp the riuers of my blood: my haire stands an ende with the panting of my braines : mine eye balls are ready to start out, being beaten with the billowes of my teares : out of my weeping pen does the inck mournefully and more bitterly than gall drop on the...
Page 100 - Allarum is ftrucke vp, the Toxin ringes out for life, and no voyce heard but Tue, Tue, Kill, Kill ; the little Belles / onely (like...
Page 82 - Such was the fashion of this Land, when the great LandLady thereof left it: Shee came in with the fall of the leafe, and went away in the Spring: her life (which was dedicated to Virginitie), both beginning and closing up a miraculous Mayden circle: for she was borne upon a Lady Eve...
Page 63 - The Wonderfull yeare, 1603. Wherein is shewed the picture of London, lying sicke of the Plague. At the ende of all (like a mery Epilogue to a dull Play) certaine Tales are cut out in sundry fashions, of purpose to shorten the Hues of long winters nights, that lye watching in the darke for us.