The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry: Particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I. |
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Page xlv
... masters : what meant Singer then And Pope the clowne to speak so boorish , when They counterfaite the clownes vpon the stage , " & c . THE POETICAL DECAMERON . THE FIRST CONVERSATION . B VOL NOTES AND CORRECTIONS . xlv.
... masters : what meant Singer then And Pope the clowne to speak so boorish , when They counterfaite the clownes vpon the stage , " & c . THE POETICAL DECAMERON . THE FIRST CONVERSATION . B VOL NOTES AND CORRECTIONS . xlv.
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... vpon the Coast of Spayne . " Observe what a glorious wood - cut of the ship Bonaventure is upon the title page . MORTON . Magnificent ! ELLIOT . Of a piece with the poem , I hope . BOURNE . That is quite as magnificent : witness the ...
... vpon the Coast of Spayne . " Observe what a glorious wood - cut of the ship Bonaventure is upon the title page . MORTON . Magnificent ! ELLIOT . Of a piece with the poem , I hope . BOURNE . That is quite as magnificent : witness the ...
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... vpon . " Peele then discloses his scheme , and the gentle- man exclaims , " By my troth an excellent device , " on which one bailiff observes to the other " An ex- cellent device he says : he likes it wonderfully , and his fellow ...
... vpon . " Peele then discloses his scheme , and the gentle- man exclaims , " By my troth an excellent device , " on which one bailiff observes to the other " An ex- cellent device he says : he likes it wonderfully , and his fellow ...
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... vpon the foe ; A musket - shot his stately horse then slewe ; He horst againe , the fight did soone renewe : But fortune that at his renowne did spight , A billet sent that in his thigh did light . " The wound was deepe and shiuered to ...
... vpon the foe ; A musket - shot his stately horse then slewe ; He horst againe , the fight did soone renewe : But fortune that at his renowne did spight , A billet sent that in his thigh did light . " The wound was deepe and shiuered to ...
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... vpon them to descrybe that sole , That I go aboute with symple wordes to tell ; So muche great in glory ths Lady dyd excell , That all the element about her dyd shyne , Not as a mortall but lyke a thyng deuyne . " ELLIOT . He might well ...
... vpon them to descrybe that sole , That I go aboute with symple wordes to tell ; So muche great in glory ths Lady dyd excell , That all the element about her dyd shyne , Not as a mortall but lyke a thyng deuyne . " ELLIOT . He might well ...
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