Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 9Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... play withall , Imploid for precious time's abuse , And turned to every cheater's use , That in the ale - house , day and night , Cause drunken knaves to brawle and fight : Make swearing knaves let damn'd othes flye : And idle knaves ...
... play withall , Imploid for precious time's abuse , And turned to every cheater's use , That in the ale - house , day and night , Cause drunken knaves to brawle and fight : Make swearing knaves let damn'd othes flye : And idle knaves ...
Page 72
... play , And presently they put the candle out ; Then waking him , in swaggering thus did say , - Pray judge this cast that we contend about . A cast ( quoth he ) why , sure you have no light , Or , in God's judgement , I have lost my ...
... play , And presently they put the candle out ; Then waking him , in swaggering thus did say , - Pray judge this cast that we contend about . A cast ( quoth he ) why , sure you have no light , Or , in God's judgement , I have lost my ...
Page 108
... play , With one he meetes as stranger on the way , And be fetch'd in for all that's in his purse , Except some franticke madman , foole , or worse ? I pitty not such asses , I have knowne To borrow mony when th'ave lost their owne , To ...
... play , With one he meetes as stranger on the way , And be fetch'd in for all that's in his purse , Except some franticke madman , foole , or worse ? I pitty not such asses , I have knowne To borrow mony when th'ave lost their owne , To ...
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ALEXANDER DYCE Bankes BAY HORSE booth bull-baiting coaches Congreve cunning devill divell dost doth downe drinke Duchess of Marlborough F.S.A. THOMAS fashion feare fellow foole Frost Fair frozen gentleman George Berkeley grace gull haberdasher hand Harts hast hath heare heart heere hell honest horse husband I'le Iohn kind landlord live London London Bridge Lord Maister Hob Mandilions Marocco merry mony ne're neighbours never Percy Society PETER CUNNINGHAM poem poet poore pray printed purse Queene quoth Maister Hobson River Thames roasted Rowlands sayd sayes scurvy servant shew shillings shore sweare taverne tearme thaw thee theeves there's thing thinke Thomson tobacco tract trade tricks twas unto villaine ware weare wench whome whore wife WILLIAM WILLIAM CHAPPELL William Congreve WILLIAM SANDYS wine withall wonder