The Twenty-ninth of May: Rare Doings at the Restoration, Volume 2Knight and Lacey, 1825 |
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added amongst bless Breda brewer Butler cavaliers Chorus-Which Chorus-With a ran-tan Christopher Love clean contrary court cried D'Urfey Davenant dear deny devil is dead drink Duke of Buckingham Duke of Gloucester Duke of Ormond Duke of York exclaimed father favour feasting gentle gentlemen glass Gloucester grace hand head heart heaven Henry Killegrew holy honest honour huzza I'faith Ingoldsby Izaak Walton John Rivet king's lady Lely limner looking Lord loyal majesty majesty's Master Penderil Master Shirley Master Walton merry Mistress Shirley Naseby never night noble Nokes old brazier old Naseby painter pipe poet poor pray prince purse bearer regicide replied the king rogue Round-head royal brothers Rump saints Sare seated Sir Anthony Sire smile sober sogers song sovereign sure tavern thank thee thee majesty thing Tom D'Urfey turning Vandyke verily whilst whispered wine worthy
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Page 28 - Though surly Nereus frown, my thoughts are calm ; Then strike, Affliction, for thy wounds are balm. That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me : Whilst a good conscience is my bail, And innocence my liberty : Locks, bars, and solitude, together met, Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret.
Page 56 - Now here remains the strangest thing, How this brewer about his liquor did bring, To be an emperor or a king, Which nobody can deny.
Page 30 - Even then her charming melody doth prove, That all her bars are trees, her cage a grove. I am that bird, whom they combine Thus to deprive of liberty ; But though they do my corps...
Page 28 - And for to keep my ancles warm, I have some iron shackles there : These walls are but my garrison ; this cell, Which men call jail, doth prove my citadel.
Page 30 - And to make smooth so rough a path, I can learn patience from him : Now not to suffer shews no loyal heart, When kings want ease subjects must bear a part. What though I cannot see my king Neither in person or in...
Page 30 - I cannot see my king, Neither in person or in coin ; Yet contemplation is a thing That renders what I have not mine : My king from me what adamant can part, Whom I do wear engraven on my heart...
Page 341 - Goffe had eight hundred pounds for services he had performed, and, within few days after the receipt of it, changed his religion, and became one of the fathers of the oratory : so that, when the king returned in all that distress to Paris, he never received five hundred pistoles from the proceed of both...
Page 338 - ... half of the expense of her table, where both their majesties eat, with the duke of York and the princess Henrietta, (which two were at the queen's charge till the king came thither, but from that time the duke of York was upon the king's account,) and the very first night's supper which the king eat with the queen...
Page 339 - Jermyn kept an excellent table for those who courted him, and had a coach of his own, and all other accommodations incident to the most full fortune ; and if the king had the most urgent occasion for the use but of twenty pistoles, as sometimes he had, he could not find credit to borrow it; which he often had experiment of.