| Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 780 pages
...spurn, " And knock us o' the elbows ; and bid, turn; " As if, when we had spoke, we must be 1 And sliew this but the SAME FACE you have done Your dear delight, THE DEVIL OF EDMONTON.] The same face, that is, the same countenance and encouragement : a critic, not considering the licentious... | |
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 474 pages
...pass. We know not how to affect you. If you'll come To see new plays, pray you afford us room, And shew this but the same face you have done Your dear delight, The Devil of Edmonton.4 } or were Muscovy glass,] " About the river Dwyna, towards the North Sea, there groweth... | |
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 472 pages
...We know not how to affect you. If you' II come To see new plays, pray you afford us room, And shew this but the same face you have done Your dear delight, The Devil of Edmonton.4 1 or were Muscovy glass,] " About the river l)wy n;i, towardt the North SIM, there groweth... | |
| English essays - 1820 - 736 pages
..." Tne Devil is -in As§" : — ' If you'll come To see new plays, pray you afford us room, And shew this but the same face you have done Your dear delight — the Merry Devil of Edmonton !' 1617; the third in 1626; the fourth in 1631 ; and the fifth in 1655. * Tbesceue... | |
| John Ford - 1831 - 424 pages
...lines in Ben Jonson's Prologue to "The Devil is an Ass:" To see new plays, pray you afford us room ; And show this but the same face you have done Your dear delight, THE DEVIL OF EDMONTON." " If you'll come a dog's-skin, into which a clever imp was thrust, and taught to walk on all fours,... | |
| John Ford - 1831 - 644 pages
...Jonson's prologue to " The Devil is an Ass :" "If you'1l come To see new plays, pray you afford us room; And show this but the same face you have done Your dear delight, TB« DEVIL or EDMOKTOJI." •without considerable interest by those who knew no superstitions but the... | |
| Great Britain. Office of the Revels - England - 1842 - 292 pages
...Maty, on Easter Monday Twelfte night the play soe called and on Easter Tuesday the Winter's Tale xx". To the said John Heminges upon a Warrant dated 15...Ma'y the thirde of May the Merry Divell of Edmonton x". To Inigo Jones upon the Councells Warr* dated 27 June 1619 for making two several models the one... | |
| Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1842 - 294 pages
...Maty, on Easter Monday . Twelfte night the play soe called and on Easter Tuesday the Winterrs Tale xxu. To the said John Heminges upon a Warrant dated 15 May 1618 for presenting before his Mati the thirde of May the Merry Divell of Edmonton x". To Inigo Jones upon the Councells Warrt dated... | |
| Peter Cunningham - England - 1842 - 298 pages
...Easter Tuesday the Winter8s Tale xx". To the said John Heminges upon a Warrant dated 15 May 1 61 8 for presenting before his Ma'y the thirde of May the Merry Divell of Edmonton x". To Inigo Jones upon the Councells Warr' dated 27 June 1619 for making two several models the one... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...an Ass,' thus addresses his audience : — If you 1l come To see new plays, pray you afford us room, And show this but the same face you have done Your dear delight, the ' Devil of Edmonton.' Its popularity seems to have lasted much longer ; for it is mentioned by Edmund Gayton, in 1654, in... | |
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