Law Sports at Gray's Inn (1594): Including Shakespeare's Connection with the Inn's of Court, the Origin of the Capias Utlegatum Re Coke and Bacon, Francis Bacon's Connection with Warwickshire, Together with a Reprint of the Gesta Grayorum |
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... appears with elegance and learning . Thomas Campion wrote the Hymns in Praise of Neptune for the Gesta Grayorum . The first Hymn was printed by Francis Davison in his Poetical Rhap- sody in 1602-1608 - Query : Was the following Epigram ...
... appears with elegance and learning . Thomas Campion wrote the Hymns in Praise of Neptune for the Gesta Grayorum . The first Hymn was printed by Francis Davison in his Poetical Rhap- sody in 1602-1608 - Query : Was the following Epigram ...
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... appear , What wonder if the silly swains , for fear , Their bravery , and Princely pall have loath'd ? The Lion's - skin , that grac'd our vanity , Falls down in presence of her Majesty . This last Hymn of Campion's seems to echo the ...
... appear , What wonder if the silly swains , for fear , Their bravery , and Princely pall have loath'd ? The Lion's - skin , that grac'd our vanity , Falls down in presence of her Majesty . This last Hymn of Campion's seems to echo the ...
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... appear from her answer to the Courtiers , who danced a measure immediately after the mask was ended , saying , ' What ! shall we have bread and cheese after a banquet ? ' " Her Majesty willed the Lord Chamberlain that the gentlemen ...
... appear from her answer to the Courtiers , who danced a measure immediately after the mask was ended , saying , ' What ! shall we have bread and cheese after a banquet ? ' " Her Majesty willed the Lord Chamberlain that the gentlemen ...
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... appears incidental , non - essential , or " as it were a careless trifle . " The poet's own words better illustrate this difference where in the Comedy of Errors , V. I. , the Duke says : One of these men is genius to the other ; 1xiv.
... appears incidental , non - essential , or " as it were a careless trifle . " The poet's own words better illustrate this difference where in the Comedy of Errors , V. I. , the Duke says : One of these men is genius to the other ; 1xiv.
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... appears that a " Robert Grene " was , in 1576 , one of the Queen's chaplains , and that he was presented by her Majesty to the rectory of Walk- ington , in the diocese of York . If this document relates to the poet , his birth must be ...
... appears that a " Robert Grene " was , in 1576 , one of the Queen's chaplains , and that he was presented by her Majesty to the rectory of Walk- ington , in the diocese of York . If this document relates to the poet , his birth must be ...
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Page 117 - Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a seacoal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife.
Page xxxiv - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and, amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlcote, near Stratford.
Page 64 - Warwickshire for some time and shelter himself in London. It is at this time, and upon this accident, that he is said to have made his first acquaintance in the playhouse. He was received into the company then in being, at first in a very mean rank...
Page 108 - Like to the senators of the antique Rome, With the plebeians swarming at their heels, Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in : As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in good time he may, from Ireland coming, Bringing rebellion broached on his sword, How many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him ! much more, and much more cause, Did they this Harry.
Page 125 - There's another: why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks? why does he suffer this rude knave now to knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of his action of battery?
Page xvii - Men have their time, and die many times in desire of some things which they principally take to heart — the bestowing of a child, the finishing of a work, or the like. If a man have a true friend, he may rest almost secure that the care of those things will continue after him. So that a man hath, as it were, two lives in his desires.
Page 120 - Art, that could scarcely latinize their necke-verse if they should have neede ; yet English Seneca read by candle light yeeldes manie good sentences, as Bloud is a begger, and so foorth ; and, if you intreate him faire in a frostie morning, he will affoord you whole Hamlets, I should say handfulls of tragical speaches.
Page xxxiv - For this he was prosecuted by that gentleman, as he thought, somewhat too severely ; and in order to revenge that ill usage, he made a ballad upon him. And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter, that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree, that he was obliged to leave his business and family in Warwickshire, for some time, and shelter himself in London.
Page 1 - At our feast, wee had a play called Twelve Night, or What you Will. Much like the Comedy of Errors, or Menechmi in Plautus ; but most like and neere to that in Italian called Inganni.
Page 19 - Pr'ythee, lead me in : There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny; 'tis the king's: my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own.