The Old Book Collector's Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Readable Reprints of Literary Rarities, Illustrative of the History, Literature, Manners, and Biography of the English Nation During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, 第 1 卷Charles Hindley Reeves and Turner, 1871 |
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amongst apparel barber betwixt breeches Brentford called castle chete cloak Cloth-Breeches clothes court Crank damsel divers doth Doxies drink ears Epistle eyes fair fell fellow Gabriel Harvey gentleman George Peele goeth golden groat gyant hand hanging hath head Hero and Leander honest honour horse hostess hostler Isle of Dogs John JOHN PAYNE COLLIER jury knave Lady Mirrafonte legs live London look Marigolde master meat merry Morts mouth Nash's never night pass pence Philamante play poor Prince Radapanthus prison Prynce purse Queen quoth Cloth-Breeches quoth George Red-Herring Richard Lichfield rogue saith Scarborough Scarborough castle Scarborow shillings squires thee thine Thomas Harman Thomas Nash thou art thou hast tongue took town unto upright upstart velvet Velvet-Breeches walk wife withal words worship wyll wyth Yarmouth
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第 50 頁 - The Belman of London. Bringing to light the most notorious villanies that are now practised in the Kingdome.
第 vii 頁 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
第 1 頁 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks, The cuckoo then on every tree Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo...
第 73 頁 - Fabian or Palmerin of England, which is Cadwallader herring; and, as their meetings were but seldom, and not so oft as welcome, so but seldom should they meet in the heel of the week at the best men's tables upon Fridays and Saturdays, the holy time of Lent exempted, and then they might be at meat and meal for seven weeks together. The...
第 94 頁 - Sebastian, King of Portugal, slain twenty years since with Stukeley at the battle of Alcazar, is raised from the dead, like Lazarus, and alive to be seen at Venice. Let them look to themselves as they will, for I am theirs to gull them better than ever I have done; and this I am sure, I have...
第 vii 頁 - I sat up late and rose early, contended with the cold, and conversed with scarcity; for all my labours turned to loss, my vulgar Muse was despised and neglected, my pains not regarded or slightly rewarded, and I myself, in prime of my best wit, laid open to poverty.1 Whereupon, in a malcontent humour, I accused my fortune, railed on my patrons, bit my pen, rent my papers, and raged in all points like a madman.
第 75 頁 - ... beldam, as she was, that was altered thereinto. Loving Hero, however altered, had a smack of love still, and therefore to the coast of Lovingland (to Yarmouth...
第 xix 頁 - our true English Aretine, " another, "Sweet satyric Nash," a third describes his Muse as ' ' armed with a gag-tooth (a tusk), and his pen possessed with Hercules's furies." He is well characterised in " The Return from Parnassus." " His style was witty, tho' he had some gall ; Something he might have mended, so may all ; Yet this I say, that for a mother's wit, Few men have ever seen the like of it.
第 106 頁 - A must needs ; for beggary is valiant. [Aside. Cade. I am able to endure much. 1 Tom Nashe speaks of having weighed one of Gabriel Harvey's books against a cade of herrings, and ludicrously says, " That the rebel Jack Cade was the first that devised to put red herrings in cades, and from him they have their name.