...gone: You are all welcome, Gentlemen; come, Muficians, play. [Mujick^pl^f, and they Dance. A Hall, Hall; give room, and foot it, Girls: More Light ye Knaves, and turn the Tablts up ; And quench the Fire, the Room is grown too hot. Ah, Sirrah, this unbok'd for fport comes...

...fold into a small compass. Thus Capulet, wanting room for the dancers in his hall, calls out 86« - A hall! a hall! give room, and foot it, girls, More light, ye kuaves ; and turn the tables up." Act i. sc. 5. When dinner or supper was served up, these tables were...

...had seen the young men throw down the caudle cup, and waive by the wassail bowl as they cried — " A hall, a hall, give room, and foot it girls. More light, ye knaves ; and turn the tables up." In imagination I had listened to the lively lilt of the minstrels, as each man under sixty...

...had seen the young men throw down the caudle cup, and waive by the wassail bowl as they cried — " A hall, a hall, give room, and foot it girls. More light, ye knaves ; and turn the tables up." In imagination I had listened to the lively lilt of the minstrels, as each man under sixty...

...Marston in the first extract from The Seourge of Villanie are in Borneo and Juliet ; where Capulet cries, A hall ! a hall ! give room and foot it girls. More light, ye knaves. The " worthy poet " was Sir John Davies, the gifted author of Orchestra, or a Poeme on Dauncing, 1596....

...eleventh Satire of Tlte Scourge of Villanic is a parody on two lines in Romeo and Juliet. Capxlet. A hall ! a hall '. give room and foot it girls. More light ye knaves. " Kemp's jigge" was one of those diversions, of combined singing and dancing, which were invented and...

...Marston in the first extract from The Scourge of Villanie are in Romeo and Juliet ; where Capulet cries, A hall ! a hall ! give room and foot it girls. More light, ye knaves. The " worthy poet " was Sir John Davies, the gifted author of Orchestra, or a Poeme on Dauncing, 1596....

...into custom here us they are in Italy, To th' sparing o' napkins." The English edition of the Janua Linguarum of Comenius, represents the fashion of dining...the massive saltcellar, placed in the centre of the table. Thus, in Ben Jonson, it is said of a man who treats his inferiors with scorn, " He never drinks...

...the expressions and parodies the speech of Capulet when calling upon his company for a dance — " A hall ! a hall ! give room and foot it girls, More light ye Knaves," &c. Mr. Massey ought to have remembered that " A hall ! a hall ! " was one of the most common phrases...

...and Juliet, when, as Capulet enters the hall with his guests, he exclaims — "Come, musicians, play. A hall ! a hall ! give room, and foot it, girls. More light, you knaves ; and turn the tables up." A remarkably cleverly constructed table of the reign of Elizabeth...