The Schoole of Abuse. August ?1579: And a Short Apologie of The Schoole of Abuse. November ?1579 |
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Page 12 - Newe Bookes I heare of none, but only of one, that writing a certaine Booke, called The Schoole of Abuse, and dedicating it to Maister Sidney, was for hys labor scorned: if at leaste it be in the goodnesse of that nature to scorne.
Page 80 - The sides and back of the stage with the exception of that part occupied by the baleony, were hung with arras tapestry, and sometimes pictures, and the internal roof with blue drapery, except on the performance of tragedy, when the sides, back, and roof of the stage were covered with black. The stage was commonly strewed with rushes, though on particular occasions it was matted over. The performance commenced at three o'clock, in the public theatres, the signal for beginning being the third sounding...
Page 26 - ... ended the brabbles at Lacedemon, neither piped Rogero nor Turkelony ; but reckoning up the commodities of friendship and fruits of debate, putting them in minde of Licurgus lawes, taught them to tread a better measure. When Homers musicke drove the pestilence from the Grecians campe, ther was no such vertue in his penne, nor in his pipe, but, if I might be umpier, in the sweete harmonie of divers natures, and wonderful Concorde of sundry medicines. For Apolloes cunning extendeth it self aswel...
Page 27 - Plutarch is of opinion that the instruments of 3 strings, which were used before their time, passed all that have folowed since. It was an old law, and long kept, that no man should according to his own humor adde or diminish in matters concerning that art, but walk in the pathes of their predecessors. But when newfangled Phrynis becam a fidler, being somewhat curious in carping, and serching for moats with a paire of bleard eies, thought to amend his maisters, and marred al. Timotheus, a bird of...
Page 34 - Oh what a woonderfull chaunge is this ? Our wreastling at armes is turned to wallowyng in Ladies laps, our courage, to cowardice, our running to ryot, our Bowes into Bolles, and our Dartes to Dishes.
Page 35 - In our assemblies at playes in London, you shall see suche heauing, and shoouing, suche ytching and shouldring, too sitte by women ; Suche care for their garments, that they bee- not trode on : Such eyes to their lappes, that no chippes light in them : Such pillowes to...
Page 26 - Musicke by sounde and eare. If you will bee good scholars, and profite well in the Arte of Musicke, shutte your Fidels in their cases, and looke...
Page 41 - Ulisses, and wringing-wett scambled with life to the shore, stand from mee Nausicaa with all thy traine, till I wipe the blot from my forhead, and with sweete springs wash away the salt froth that cleaves to my soule.
Page 30 - Thou, Romulus, alone knowest how thy souldiers to reward: Graunt me the like, my selfe will be attendant on thy gard. It should seeme that the abuse of such places was so great, that for any chaste liver to haunt them was a black swan, and a white crow. Dion so streightly forbiddeth the ancient families of Rome, and gentlewomen that tender their name and honor, to come to Theaters, and rebuks them so sharply when he takes them napping, that if they be but once seene there, hee judgeth it sufficient...
Page 35 - Saunt without Cardes : Such ticking, such toying, such smiling, such winking, and such manning them home, when the sportes are ended, that it is a right Comedie, to marke their behauiour, to watche their conceites, as the Catte for the Mouse, and as good as a...