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" What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. "
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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 pages
...have we seen, Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtil llame, As if that every one from whence they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool, the rest Of his dull life. 'letter to lien Jonson' 14 Here are sands, ignoble...
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Masqued Mysteries Unmasked: Early Modern Music Theater and Its Pythagorean ...

Kristin Rygg - 2000 - 310 pages
...Sidney Circle", pp. 126-159. Beaumont hints at the secretive nature of the pursuits of the Mermaiders: "What things have we seen/ Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been/ So nimble, and so full of subtile flame." Chester published a collection of poems by himself and others such as Shakespeare,...
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Words on Words: Quotations about Language and Languages

David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 pages
...damned fooL' Donald Barthelme, 1968, The Indian Uprising', in Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts 38:8 What things have we seen, / Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been / So nimble, and so full of subtil flame, / As if that every one from whence they came, / Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,...
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Shakespeare and the Poets' War

James Bednarz - 2001 - 358 pages
...second source is a verse letter to Ben Jonson, sometimes attributed to Francis Beaumont, that recalls: "What things have we seen, / Done at the Mermaid!...have been / So nimble, and so full of subtle flame." Even though it is true that Jonson can be linked to a series of meetings at various taverns like the...
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The Shakespeare Game, Or, The Mystery of the Great Phoenix

Ilʹi︠a︡ Gililov - 2003 - 502 pages
...Club, and playwright Francis Beaumont speaks of those meetings in his poetic "Letter to Ben Jonson": What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard...from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit inagest, And had resolved to live a fool, the rest Of his dull life; then when there had been thrown...
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The England of Elizabeth

Alfred Leslie Rowse - 2003 - 636 pages
...Falstaffand his boys, the Mitre and the Mermaid as the poets knew them and handed them down to us: What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard...been So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if diat every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest. . . . CHAPTER VI SOCIAL...
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Epicene, Or, The Silent Woman

Ben Jonson - 2003 - 358 pages
...country, dated between 1609 and 1612, by Francis Beaumont, another of the circle (if only for a time): What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid? heard words that have been so nimble, & so full of subtil flame as if that every one from whom they came had meant to put his whole wit in...
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The English Wits: Literature and Sociability in Early Modern England

Michelle O'Callaghan - 2007
...things have we seen Done at the Mermaid?. Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtill flame, As if that every one from whence they came...his whole wit in a Jest, And had resolv'd to live a foole the rest Of his dull life; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justifie the Town...
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Shakespeare

Russell A. Fraser - 1988
...running south to the river from Cheapside. Francis Beaumont, poet and playwright, remembered this tavern: What things have we seen, Done at the Mermaid! heard...So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that everyone from whence they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a...
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