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... Dekker's Old Fortunatus , which was entered by William Aspley in the Register of the Stationers ' Company on February 20 , 1600 , and published in the same year ; and in Thomas Heywood's Four Prentices of London , printed in 1615 , but ...
... Dekker's Old Fortunatus , which was entered by William Aspley in the Register of the Stationers ' Company on February 20 , 1600 , and published in the same year ; and in Thomas Heywood's Four Prentices of London , printed in 1615 , but ...
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... Dekker , The Roaring Girl ) . Falstaff's soliloquies , and in particular that in which he eulogises sack , are rich mines of wit which were shamelessly plundered by at least two generations of dramatists . The praise of wine became a ...
... Dekker , The Roaring Girl ) . Falstaff's soliloquies , and in particular that in which he eulogises sack , are rich mines of wit which were shamelessly plundered by at least two generations of dramatists . The praise of wine became a ...
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... Dekker , Entertainment to King James , 15 March , 1603 , presents Fame as : " A woman in a watchet roabe , thickly set with open eyes and tongues , a payre of large golden winges at her backe , a trumpet in her hand . all these ensigns ...
... Dekker , Entertainment to King James , 15 March , 1603 , presents Fame as : " A woman in a watchet roabe , thickly set with open eyes and tongues , a payre of large golden winges at her backe , a trumpet in her hand . all these ensigns ...
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... Dekker , The Guls Horn - booke : " The people is said to bee a beast of many heads ' ; Revenge for Honour , 1. i : " this same many- headed beast , the people . " Blunt , dull - witted , as in Two Gentlemen of Verona , II . vi . 41 . 19 ...
... Dekker , The Guls Horn - booke : " The people is said to bee a beast of many heads ' ; Revenge for Honour , 1. i : " this same many- headed beast , the people . " Blunt , dull - witted , as in Two Gentlemen of Verona , II . vi . 41 . 19 ...
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... Dekker , The Roaring Girl , I. i.:- " As many faces there , fill'd with blithe looks , Shew like the promising titles of new books Writ merrily . " 62. strond ] strand , as in 1 Henry IV . I. i . 4 , and in Cæsar's Revenge , v . v ...
... Dekker , The Roaring Girl , I. i.:- " As many faces there , fill'd with blithe looks , Shew like the promising titles of new books Writ merrily . " 62. strond ] strand , as in 1 Henry IV . I. i . 4 , and in Cæsar's Revenge , v . v ...
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Page 20 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter, more than I invent or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Page 164 - It ascends me into the brain ; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it ; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes ; which, delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Page 110 - Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs...
Page 219 - King. I know thee not, old man : fall to thy prayers ; How ill white hairs become a fool and...
Page 168 - And noble offices thou mayst effect Of mediation, after I am dead, Between his greatness and thy other brethren : Therefore omit him not ; blunt not his love, Nor lose the good advantage of his grace By seeming cold or careless of his will ; For he is gracious, if he be observed : 30 He hath a tear for pity and a hand Open as day for melting charity...