Early Prose and Poetical Tracts: Illustrative of the Drama and Literature of the Reign of Queen ElizabethShakespeare Society, and to be had of W. Skeffington, 1853 - English literature |
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Page 6 - When icicles hang by the wall And Dick the shepherd blows his nail And Tom bears logs into the hall And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
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Page 19 - I haue vsed a like methode, not of tying my selfe to mine owne countrey, but by insisting in the experience of our time ; and, if I euer write any thing in Latine, (as I hope one day I shall) not a man of any desert heere amongst vs, but I will haue vp.
Page 199 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Page 15 - First, for the subject of them (for the most part) it is borrowed out of our English Chronicles, wherein our forefathers...
Page 52 - All arts to them are vanity ; and if you tell them what a glorious thing it is to have Henry the Fifth represented on the stage, leading the French King prisoner and forcing both him and the Dolphin to swear fealty.
Page xvii - Mary thys, the king may well banish, but he cannot put a gentleman to death in any cause whatsosoeuer, which makes them stand vppon it so proudly as they doe. For fashion sake some will put their children to schoole, but they set them not to it till they are fourteene yeare old ; so that you shall see a great boy with a beard learne his ABC, and sit weeping vnder the rod when he is thirty yeeres olde.
Page 188 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot, the terror of the French, to think that after he had lain two hundred years in his tomb, he should triumph again on the stage and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten thousand spectators at least (at several times), who, in the tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding...
Page 14 - Besonian. Is it the lofty treading of a galliard, or fine grace in telling of a loue tale amongst ladies, can make a man reuerenst of the multitude ? No ; they care not for the false...