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... a prominent place amongst the dramatists are not very considerable . His productions in this way are neither numerous nor important . They can scarcely be called plays , in the higher sense of JOHN HEYWOOD . 19 JOHN HEYWOOD.
... a prominent place amongst the dramatists are not very considerable . His productions in this way are neither numerous nor important . They can scarcely be called plays , in the higher sense of JOHN HEYWOOD . 19 JOHN HEYWOOD.
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Robert Bell. scarcely be called plays , in the higher sense of the term , and are more accurately described by the designation usually applied to them of Interludes , having few characters and scarcely any plot , and consisting entirely ...
Robert Bell. scarcely be called plays , in the higher sense of the term , and are more accurately described by the designation usually applied to them of Interludes , having few characters and scarcely any plot , and consisting entirely ...
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... called The Spider and the Fly , appeared in 1556 , and his epigrams , by which he is best known to modern readers , in 1576 . The Play of Love , from which the following song is extracted , affords a fair sample of his dramatic system ...
... called The Spider and the Fly , appeared in 1556 , and his epigrams , by which he is best known to modern readers , in 1576 . The Play of Love , from which the following song is extracted , affords a fair sample of his dramatic system ...
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... called Sir Gyles Goosecappe , presented by the children of the chapel , and printed in 1606. The canto winds up the piece , and the allusion to the willow bears upon a boasting Captain who is left without a bride in the end . Willow ...
... called Sir Gyles Goosecappe , presented by the children of the chapel , and printed in 1606. The canto winds up the piece , and the allusion to the willow bears upon a boasting Captain who is left without a bride in the end . Willow ...
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... called A Book of Roxburghe Ballads , edited by Mr. Collier , there is a modernized version of this song , taken from a broadside printed soon after 1600. It contains some additional stanzas , which I have inserted in brackets to ...
... called A Book of Roxburghe Ballads , edited by Mr. Collier , there is a modernized version of this song , taken from a broadside printed soon after 1600. It contains some additional stanzas , which I have inserted in brackets to ...
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ballad beauty Ben Jonson birds blessed boys bright charm chaste Collier comedy Cuckoo Cupid dance death dost doth DRAMATISTS drink Dyce Edition eyes fair fairy fear fire Fletcher flowers fool friends Gammer Gurton's Needle garland give golden grace green Hark hast hath head heart heaven Hecate Here's Heywood honour Hymen JASPER MAYNE king kiss lady laugh live love's lovers lusty maid married a Sunday merrily merry Middleton ne'er never NICHOLAS UDALL night nonny Notes and Memoir Patient Grissell pity play poem Poetical Poets pretty printed Queen Roister Satyr Shakespeare shepherds shew shine sigh sing sleep song sorrow soul spring sung sweet tears tell thee thine thing Thomas Heywood THOMAS MIDDLETON Thou art Trilla unto verse wanton weep Whilst William Cartwright WILLIAM HABINGTON WILLIAM ROWLEY willow wind wine Witch writer youth
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Page 105 - FEAR no more the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages; Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. Fear no more the frown o...
Page 94 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding: Sweet lovers love the spring.
Page 121 - DRINK to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Page 89 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it! My part of death, no one so true Did share it.
Page 87 - Sigh, no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever ; One foot in sea, and one on shore ; To one thing constant never : Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny ; Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny.
Page 89 - When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain; A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day.
Page 81 - 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: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!
Page 98 - Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell : Hark! now I hear them, — ding-dong, bell.
Page 91 - Although thy breath be rude. Heigh, ho ! sing, heigh, ho ! unto the green holly : Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly Then, heigh, ho, the holly ! This life is most jolly.
Page 80 - When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men ; for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo...