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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... known to collectors . An exact copy has also been made of the title page , as well as the page containing the " Capias Utlegatum " -which Attorney General Coke would have clapped upon Bacon's back . This I discovered in Sir William ...
... known to collectors . An exact copy has also been made of the title page , as well as the page containing the " Capias Utlegatum " -which Attorney General Coke would have clapped upon Bacon's back . This I discovered in Sir William ...
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... known that Bacon composed the speeches for the six Councillors in the Gesta Grayorum . Spedding , commenting on the Gesta Grayorum and these speeches , says : " Thus ended one of the most elegant Christ- mas entertainments , probably ...
... known that Bacon composed the speeches for the six Councillors in the Gesta Grayorum . Spedding , commenting on the Gesta Grayorum and these speeches , says : " Thus ended one of the most elegant Christ- mas entertainments , probably ...
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... known Francis Davison , and Thomas Campion had collaborated in the Masque of Proteus , had not Davison in his Poetical Rhapsody , 1602-1608 , revealed the fact . It is by these mosaics or piecing bits together that the student must ...
... known Francis Davison , and Thomas Campion had collaborated in the Masque of Proteus , had not Davison in his Poetical Rhapsody , 1602-1608 , revealed the fact . It is by these mosaics or piecing bits together that the student must ...
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... known , Makes even iron hearts loath thence to part ? Or who of Proteus ' sundry transformations , May better send you the new feigned story Than I , whose love unfeigned felt no mutations , Since to be yours I first received the glory ...
... known , Makes even iron hearts loath thence to part ? Or who of Proteus ' sundry transformations , May better send you the new feigned story Than I , whose love unfeigned felt no mutations , Since to be yours I first received the glory ...
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... " To the most Honorable Mathew Smyth , Esq . , Comptroller of The Honorable Society of The Inner Temple . " Where or when Canning found it is not known . To the student of Elizabethan literature the Gesta Grayorum is xi.
... " To the most Honorable Mathew Smyth , Esq . , Comptroller of The Honorable Society of The Inner Temple . " Where or when Canning found it is not known . To the student of Elizabethan literature the Gesta Grayorum is xi.
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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.