A Select Collection of Old Plays: AntiquaryJ. Nichols, 1780 |
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Andrew Antiquary Artemia Aurelio Barnet becauſe Befides beggars Bravo Clack confefs coufin Credulous defire doft Dotterel Duke Earthworm eftate Emilia Enter Eugeny Euphues Exeunt Exit fafe faid fervant fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome foul fpeak ftill ftrange fuch fure fweet Gafparo gentleman hath Have-at-all hear Hearfay Hearty Hilliard himſelf honeft houſe Lady Covet Lady Whimfey laft Leonardo Lionel loft Lorenzo Lucretia madam mafter Meanwell Meriel merry miſtreſs Mocinigo moft moſt muft muſt myſelf Nafurat ne'er Oldrents Oliver on't Orfabrin Patrico Pellegrin Peridor Petro Petrucio Philatel pleaſe pleaſure Potluck pr'ythee pray prefent Prifcilla Rachel Randal Reginella Sabrina Samorat Scentwell ſhall ſhe Sir Argent Sir Thomas Slicer ſpeak Springlove Stramador Talboy Tamoren tell thee thefe Theodore there's theſe thing thofe thoſe thou Torcular twas twill unto Vincent Whaw yourſelf
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Página 26 - See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek ! Jul.
Página 220 - ... have, however, an air of truth. Soon after his arrival in England, from Malaga, he was carried to Theobald's...
Página 315 - Put out with zeal, th' other with ignorance, And yet they think they're eagles. Whatsoever were the faults of the Pilgrim Fathers (and they were many), silliness was certainly not among them. But such was the Court fashion. Any insult, however shallow, ribald, and doggrel, (and all these terms are just of the mock-Puritan ballad which...
Página 220 - ... celebrated Thomas Coryate, who is supposed to have travelled more miles on foot than any person of that age, or in any period since. He was undoubtedly not in his perfect senses ; but was a man of considerable learning, and appears to have related faithfully what he saw ; for he became ridiculous chiefly by dwelling with too much attention on the trifling accidents which happened to him during his journey. In the year 1608, he set out from England, and went on foot as far as Venice, and back...
Página 250 - RIP VAN WINKLE. A POSTHUMOUS WRITING OF DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER. By Woden, God of Saxons, From whence comes Wensday, that is Wodensday, Truth is a thing that ever I will keep Unto thylke day in which I creep into My sepulchre CARTWRIOHT.
Página 78 - Grey amber is the amber our author here speaks of, and melts like butter. It was formerly a main ingredient in every concert for a banquet ; viz. to fume the meat with, and that whether boil'd, roasted, or baked ; laid often on the top of a baked pudding ; which last I have eat of at an old courtier's table.
Página 118 - Antiquity, etc., of Purveyance to the King, 1663 : — " Boots are not so frequently worn as they were in the latter end of King James's reign, when the Spanish ambassador, the Conde of Gondomar, could pleasantly relate, when he went home into Spain, that all the citizens of London were booted, and ready, as he thought, to go out of town...
Página 9 - ... out your haunts, and walk there two or three hours together, to get but a sight of you. Pet. Oh infinite ! I am transported with the thought on't ! It draws near noon, and I appointed certain gallants to meet me at the five-crown ordinary: after, we are to wait upon the like beauties you talk'd of, to the public theatre. I feel of late a strong and witty genius growing upon me, and I begin, I know not how, to be in love with this foolish sin of poetry.
Página 45 - Well, go thy ways, old Nick Machiavel, there will never be the peer of thee for wholesome policy and good counsel. Thou took'st pains to chalk men out the dark paths and hidden plots of murther and deceit, and no man has the grace to follow thee ; the age is unthankful, thy principles are quite forsaken and worn out of memory.
Página 11 - May he never Have better friend, that knows no better how To value them. Well, I was ever jealous Of his baseness, and now my fears are ended. Pox o' these travels ! they do but corrupt A good nature, and his was bad enough before.