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Page 197 - The White Devil, or, the Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Brachiano, with the Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona, the famous Venetian Curtizan.
Page 76 - Brave prick-song! who is't now we hear? None but the Lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gates she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings. Hark, hark, with what a pretty throat Poor Robin Redbreast tunes his note! Hark how the jolly cuckoos sing, 'Cuckoo,
Page 263 - At our feast wee had a play called ' Twelve Night ; Or, What you Will,' much like the Commedy of Errores, or Menechmi in Plautus, but most like and neere to that in Italian called Inganni.
Page 280 - ... whatever. Justice has not been done him by the world. He has in general passed for a mere narrator of lascivious tales, or idle jests. This character probably originated in his obnoxious attacks on the monks, and has been kept up by the grossness of mankind, who revenged their own want of refinement on Boccaccio, and only saw in his writings what suited the coarseness of their own tastes.
Page 136 - The laudable use of forks, Brought into custom here, as they are in Italy, To the sparing of napkins: that, that should have made Your bellows go at the forge, as his at the furnace.
Page 114 - The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historicalpastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historicalpastoral, scene individable, or poem unlimited : Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light.
Page 76 - Jug, jug, jug, jug, tereu ! she cries, And still her woes at midnight rise. Brave prick-song ! Who is't now we hear ? None but the lark so shrill and clear ; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings.
Page 206 - France, ev'n in these days, Compared with ours are rather jigs than plays. Like of the Spanish may be said, and Dutch ; None versed in language, but confess them such. They do not build their projects on that ground; Nor have their phrases half the weight and sound, Our...
Page 230 - Father, & worthy Freind Mr. John Florio: The ayde of his Muses. Ben : Jonson seales this testemony of Freindship, & Love.
Page 20 - I love Rome, but London better; I favor Italy, but England more: I honor the Latin, but I worship the English.