A Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama, 1559-1642, Volume 1Reeves and Turner, 1891 - English drama |
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Page 130 - Passage (from the Tower) through his Honourable Citie (and Chamber) of London, being the 15 of March, 1603.
Page 89 - I write, and so go on with the worke I have in hand, which God knowes had long since...
Page 63 - I caused certain players to be forbid from acting ' The History of the Duke of Biron ; ' when, however, they saw that the whole court had left town, they persisted in acting it ; nay, they brought upon the stage the Queen of France and Mile, de Verneuil.
Page 128 - Demetrius his play-dresser, who, to make the Muses believe that there was a dearth of poesy, cut an innocent Moor in the middle, to serve him in twice ; and when he had done, made Paul's work of it...
Page 347 - Selden, and others: at the midst of the feast his old Mother dranke to him, and shew him a paper which she had (if the sentence had taken execution) to have mixed in the prisson among his drinke, which was full of lustie strong poison, and that she was no churle, she told, she minded first to have drunk of it herself.
Page 344 - Fields there, and with a certain sword of iron and steel called a Rapiour, of the price of three shillings, which he then and there had and held drawn in his right hand, feloniously and wilfully beat and struck the same Gabriel, giving then and there to the same Gabriel Spencer with the aforesaid sword a mortal wound of the depth of six inches and of the breadth of one inch, in and upon the right side of the same Gabriel, of which mortal blow the same Gabriel Spencer at Shordiche aforesaid, in the...
Page 342 - In his service in the Low Countries he had in the face of both the camps killed an enemy and taken opima spolia from him. And since his coming to England being appealed to the fields he had killed his adversary, which had hurt him in the arm and whose sword was ten inches longer than his, for the which he was imprisoned and almost at the gallows.
Page 78 - You understand our unfortunate extremity, and I do not think you so void of Christianity but that you would throw so much money into the Thames as we request now of you, rather than endanger so many innocent lives. You know there is x/.
Page 92 - Said he had written a Discourse of Poesie both against Campion and Daniel, especially this last, wher he proves couplets to be the bravest sort of verses, especially when they are broken, like Hexameters...
Page 34 - ... twenty years preceding. In the first scene of the first act is a dialogue between Peter Onion and Antonio Balladino, in which the latter censures those that introduce "nothing but humours" into their plays: — " True, sir," (adds Antonio) "they would have me make such plays; but, as I tell them, an they'll give me twenty pounds a play, I'll not raise my vein.