A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volum 11

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Side 251 - And with intestine broils the world destroy, And quite confound nature's sweet harmony. Well therefore by the gods decreed it is We human creatures should enjoy that bliss. One is no number; maids are nothing then Without the sweet society of men. Wilt thou live single still? One shalt thou be, Though never singling Hymen couple thee. Wild savages, that drink of running springs, Think water far excels all earthly things, But they that daily taste neat wine despise it.
Side 407 - The visitants are all men without exceptions, but the principal inhabitants and possessors are stale knights and captains out of service; men of long rapiers and breeches, which after all turn merchants here and traffic for news. Some make it a preface to their dinner, and travel for a stomach; but thriftier men make it their ordinary, and board here very cheap. Of all such places it is least haunted with hobgoblins, for if a ghost would walk more, he could not.
Side 179 - I were worthy to censure) there was not an actor of his nature in his time, of better ability in performance of what he undertook, more applauded by the audience, of greater grace at the court, or of more general love in the city : and so, with this brief character of his memory I commit him to his rest.
Side 144 - You argue like an atheist ; man is never The prince of creatures, as you call him now, But in his reason ; fail that, he is worse Than horse or dog, or beast of wilderness...
Side 111 - For either, hath produo'd thee to the world Without a sex : some say thou art a woman ; Others, a man ; and many, thou art both Woman and man ; but I think rather, neither ; Or man and horse, as th' old Centaurs were feign'd
Side 431 - Passage is a game at dice, which some perhaps may comprehend by the following description: " It is played at but by two, and it is performed with three dice. The caster throws continually till he hath thrown doublets under ten, and then he is out and loseth; or doublets above ten, and then he passeth, and wins.— Comp Gam.
Side 425 - On Sunday last at night, and no longer, some sixteen Apprentices (of what sort you shall guess by the rest of the Story) having secretly learnt a new Play without Book...
Side 23 - Indeed, my lord, with much cost and labour we have got him knighted ; • and being knighted under favour, my lord, let me tell ye he'll prove a sore knight, as e'er run at ring. He is the one and only Ninny of our house.
Side 510 - Carew was a younger brother of a good family, and of excellent parts, and had spent many years of his youth in France and Italy; and, returning from travel, followed the Court; which the modesty of that time disposed men to do some time before they pretended to be of it; and he was very much esteemed by the most eminent persons in the Court, and well looked upon by the King...
Side 176 - I will speak of him (and that without flattery) is this : there was not an actor of his nature in his time of better ability in performance of what he undertook, more applauded by the audience, of greater grace at the court, or of more general love in the city.

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