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Page 340 - Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
Page 344 - Why, heres our fellow Shakespeare puts them all downe, I, and Ben Jonson too.
Page 343 - ... so slow an inventor, that he were better betake himself to his old trade of bricklaying...
Page 345 - And treades vs downe in groueling misery. England affordes those glorious vagabonds, That carried earst their fardels on their backes, Coursers to ride on through the gazing streetes Sooping it in their glaring Satten sutes, And Pages to attend their maisterships : With mouthing words that better wits haue framed, They purchase lands, and now Esquiers are made.
Page 330 - Clare-Hall was the place wherein it was acted, and the mayor, with his brethren, and their wives, were invited to behold it, or rather themselves abused therein. A convenient place was assigned to the townsfolk, (riveted in with scholars on all sides) where they might see and be seen. Here they did behold themselves in their own best clothes (which the scholars had borrowed...
Page 345 - But be merry, my lads, you have happened upon the most excellent vocation in the world for money; they come North and South to bring it to our playhouse ; and for honours, who of more report than Dick Burbage and Will Kempe ? He is not counted a gentleman, that knows not Dick Burbage and Will Kempe.
Page 355 - And the king's servants said unto the king, Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint.
Page 341 - Let this duncified worlde esteeme ot Spencer and Chaucer, F1e worshipp sweet Mr. Shakspeare, and to honoure him will lay his Venus and Adonis under my pillowe...
Page 331 - Here they did behold themselves in their own best clothes (which the scholars had borrowed) so lively personated, their habits, gestures, language, lieger.jests, and expressions, that it was hard to decide, which was the true townsman, whether he that sat by, or he who acted on the stage. Sit still they could not for chafing, go out they could not for crowding, but impatiently patient were fain to attend till dismissed at the end of the comedy.