Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 20Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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Page vii
... witty sayings , Chalmers tells us , are preserved " among the Cotton MSS . in the British Museum " ; and Oldys says , " his pleasant wit saved him from the gallows in the reign of Ed- ward VI . See Sir John Harrington's Metamor- phosis ...
... witty sayings , Chalmers tells us , are preserved " among the Cotton MSS . in the British Museum " ; and Oldys says , " his pleasant wit saved him from the gallows in the reign of Ed- ward VI . See Sir John Harrington's Metamor- phosis ...
Page lxxvii
... Witty ( i . e . wise ) , and Wit- less made , as it seemes , to be recited before K. Henry VIII . " Mr. Collier , in his Annals of the Stage , having termed it " Wit and Folly , " I have adopted the latter title as the better one . The ...
... Witty ( i . e . wise ) , and Wit- less made , as it seemes , to be recited before K. Henry VIII . " Mr. Collier , in his Annals of the Stage , having termed it " Wit and Folly , " I have adopted the latter title as the better one . The ...
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... witty person , affecting simplicity for the sake of affording amuse- ment . " Heywood appears to have not been friendly to Somer , as , in p . 22 , 1. 8 , he says he is " of sotts not the best ; " and his account of the life led by him ...
... witty person , affecting simplicity for the sake of affording amuse- ment . " Heywood appears to have not been friendly to Somer , as , in p . 22 , 1. 8 , he says he is " of sotts not the best ; " and his account of the life led by him ...
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