Nash's Lenten Stuff: Containing, the Description and First Procreation and Increase of the Towne of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk: with a New Play, Never Played Before, of The Praise of the Red Herring ...Reeves and Turner, 1871 - 113 páginas |
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Abydos amongst Anno Bede beef Ben Jonson better betwixt blood broiling cade called Cambridge cast Castle church cobs cock court cropshin crown ducats ears Edward the Confessor enemies England English fetch fishermen five friar Gabriel Harvey golden hands hath haven head heart Hellespont Hero and Leander holy honour horse Hurrey Isle of Dogs Jupiter king of fishes Kirtley Road lady land leather London look Lord Lowestoff Marlowe meat men's miles mouth muse Mutton Nash's Lenten Stuff navy never night Norfolk Norwich Ovid Pierce Penniless pilch play plentiful poet Polydore Virgil Pope Pope's praise princes Queen Red-Herring reign sail Saint saith salt scarce Shakespeare shew ships stood Suffolk sweet sword tail thee thence thither THOMAS NASH thousand pounds took town unto whereof whole William the Conqueror wind words Yarmouth
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Página vii - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Página 73 - Fabian or Palmerin of England, which is Cadwallader herring; and, as their meetings were but seldom, and not so oft as welcome, so but seldom should they meet in the heel of the week at the best men's tables upon Fridays and Saturdays, the holy time of Lent exempted, and then they might be at meat and meal for seven weeks together. The...
Página 75 - ... beldam, as she was, that was altered thereinto. Loving Hero, however altered, had a smack of love still, and therefore to the coast of Lovingland (to Yarmouth...
Página 69 - Cytherea's nuns have no power to resist him; and some such quality is ascribed to the lion. Were he never so naked when he came to her, because he should not scare her she found a means to cover him in her bed, and — for he might not take cold after his swimming — she lay close by him, to keep him warm.
Página ix - Lenten Stuffe, containing the Description and First Procreation and Increase of the Towne of Great Yarmouth in Norffolke : with a new Play never played before, of the Praise of the Red Herring.
Página iii - THE DESCRIPTION AND FIRST PROCREATION AND INCREASE OF THE • TOWN OF GREAT YARMOUTH, . IN NORFOLK: WITH A NEW PLAY NEVER PLAYED BEFORE, . OF THE ' . , PRAISE OF THE RED HERRING.
Página xiv - ... him a cast riding jerkin, and an old Spanish hat into the bargain, and God's peace be with him. The chamber is not rid of the smell of his feet, but the greasy shoemaker with his squirrel's skin, and a whole stall of ware upon his arm, enters, and wrencheth his legs for an hour together, and after shews his tally. By S. Loy that draws deep...
Página 57 - ... any thing happy ; and even amongst mean artificers it thrusts in its foot, one of them envying another, if he have a knack above' another, or his gains be greater; and, if in his art they cannot disgrace him, they will find a starting-hole in his life, that shall confound him : For example: There is a * mathematical smith, or artificer, in Yarmouth, that hath made a lock and key that weighs but three farthings; and a chest, with a pair of knit gloves in the till thereof, whose poise is no more...
Página xiii - White silk knotted in the fingers of a pair of white gloves, and so contrived without suspicion, that, playing at Primero at cards, one may without clogging his memory, keep reckoning of all sixes, sevens, and aces, which he hath discarded.
Página 69 - Hellespont contended which should howl louder; the waves dashed up to the clouds, and the clouds, on the other side, spit and drivelled upon them as fast. Hero wept as trickling as the heavens, to think that heaven should so divorce them. Leander stormed worse than the storms, that by them he should be so restrained from his Cynthia. At Sestos was his soul, and he could not abide to tarry in Abydos. Rain, snow, hail, or blow it how...