 Clowns are not for the court ; we'll keep court ourselves ; for what do courtiers do, but we do the like ? you eat good cheer, and we eat good bread and cheese ; you drink wine, and we strong beer ; at night you are as hungry slaves as you were at noon...  Patient Grissil: A Comedy - Page 79by Henry Chettle, Thomas Dekker, William Haughton - 1841 - 96 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1841 - 130 pages
...Good Furio, vanish : we have no appetite, tell your master. Clowns are not for the court ; we'll keep court ourselves ; for what do courtiers do, but we...upon my knees I'll creep to court, so I may see him pleas'd. Then courage, father. Jan. Well said, patience ! Thy virtues arm mine age with confidence.... | |
 | Henry Chettle, William Haughton, Thomas Dekker - Griselda (Legendary character) - 1841 - 120 pages
...bed, you can but sleep—why, and so do we; in the morning you rise about eleven of the clock—why, there we are your betters, for we are going before...upon my knees I'll creep to court, so I may see him pleas'd. Then courage, father. Jan. Well said, patience ! Thy virtues arm mine age with confidence.... | |
 | Mary Leland Hunt - Literary Criticism - 1911 - 238 pages
...clock, why there we are your betters, for we are going before you ; you wear silks, and we sheep skins ; innocence carries it away in the world to come ; and therefore vanish, good Furio, torment us not, my sweet Furio."*2 There is a universal appeal in his account of the pains of getting up early : "... | |
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