The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 3J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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Page 139
... Kempe , " Before the stage was purg'd from barbarism , " And brought to the perfection it now shines with . " Then fools and jesters spent their wit , because " The poets were wise enough to save their own " For profitabler uses . " 2 ...
... Kempe , " Before the stage was purg'd from barbarism , " And brought to the perfection it now shines with . " Then fools and jesters spent their wit , because " The poets were wise enough to save their own " For profitabler uses . " 2 ...
Page 144
... Kempe's Jigg of the Kitchen - stuffe - woman , and Philips his Jigg of the Slyppers , were entered on the Stationers ' books in 1595 ; but I know not whether they were printed . There is , I believe , no jig now extant in print . 8 ...
... Kempe's Jigg of the Kitchen - stuffe - woman , and Philips his Jigg of the Slyppers , were entered on the Stationers ' books in 1595 ; but I know not whether they were printed . There is , I believe , no jig now extant in print . 8 ...
Page 242
... Kempe , and Armine ; for he appears , like the former of these players , to have published a ludicrous metrical piece , which was entered on the Stationers ' books in 1595. Philips's production was entitled The Jigg of the Slippers ...
... Kempe , and Armine ; for he appears , like the former of these players , to have published a ludicrous metrical piece , which was entered on the Stationers ' books in 1595. Philips's production was entitled The Jigg of the Slippers ...
Page 243
... Kempe's comick talents appear to have been highly estimated ; for an old pamphlet called An Almond for a Parrot ... Kempe , Jestmonger , and vice - gerent generall to the Ghost of Dicke Tarleton . " From a passage in one of Decker's ...
... Kempe's comick talents appear to have been highly estimated ; for an old pamphlet called An Almond for a Parrot ... Kempe , Jestmonger , and vice - gerent generall to the Ghost of Dicke Tarleton . " From a passage in one of Decker's ...
Page 244
... KEMPE AND HIS MORICE , WITH HIS EPITAPH . " Welcome from Norwich , Kempe : all joy to see " Thy safe return moriscoed lustily . " But out alas ! how soone's thy morice done , " When pipe and tabor , all thy friends be gone ; And leave ...
... KEMPE AND HIS MORICE , WITH HIS EPITAPH . " Welcome from Norwich , Kempe : all joy to see " Thy safe return moriscoed lustily . " But out alas ! how soone's thy morice done , " When pipe and tabor , all thy friends be gone ; And leave ...
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Page 110 - Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air.
Page 69 - Garters, the guards with their embroidered coats, and the like— sufficient in truth within a while to make greatness very familiar if not ridiculous. Now, King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle...
Page 165 - M. William Shak-speare : HIS True Chronicle Historic of the life and death of King LEAR and his three Daughters. With the unfortunate life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of Gloster, and his sullen and assumed humor of TOM of Bedlam : As it was played before the Kings Maiestie at Whitehall vpon S.
Page 217 - I loved the man and do honour his memory on this side idolatry as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions : wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped: Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius.
Page 224 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Page 246 - IN the name of God, Amen. I William Shakspeare, of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick, gent., in perfect health and memory (God be praised), do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following : that is to say — First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting ; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Page 74 - When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room...
Page 69 - King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain chambers being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoke, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly and ran round like a train, consuming within less than an hour the whole house to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood...
Page 213 - Warwick; his father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours that, when he was a boy, he exercised his father's trade; but when he killed a calf, he would do it in a high style and make a speech.
Page 216 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.