...og standa i innganginnm (Induction, eiginl. innleiösla til áheyrenda) pessi sveigingaryröi : — 'If there be never a servant-monster in the fair, who can help it, he says, or a nest of antiques? he is loth to make nature afraid in his plays, like those that beget tales,...

...Tempest : " If there be never a servant monster in the Fair who can help it ? nor a nest of antics ? He is loth to make nature afraid in his plays like...beget Tales, Tempests, and such like drolleries." This was written in 1614, and at that date he would of course allude to the latest productions of Shakespeare,...

...Tempest: " If there be never a servant monster in the Fair who can help it ? nor a nest of antics ? He is loth to make nature afraid in his plays like...beget Tales, Tempests, and such like drolleries." This was written in 1614, and at that date he would of course allude to the latest productions of Shakespeare,...

...Tempest : " If there be never a servant monster in the Fair who can help it ? nor a nest of antics ? He is loth to make nature afraid in his plays like...beget Tales, Tempests, and such like drolleries." This was written in 1614, and at that date he would of course allude to the latest productions of Shakespeare,...

...Humour." Again, in the "Induction" to his "Bartholomew Fair," he has this fling at " The Tempest : " " If there be never a servant-monster in the fair, who...like those that beget tales, tempests, and such like drolleries."1 But that Jonson never himself believed, or expressed himself as believing, that William...

...Tale, 1614. From Induction to Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair. If there be never a servant-monster i' the Fair, who can help it, he says; nor a nest of antics? He is loath to make Nature afraid in his plays, like those that 1 Tattered like Coltpixie (a...

...In the induction to Bartholomew Fair, the Stage Keeper, in speaking of the author, is made to say: 'He is loth to make Nature afraid in his plays, like...that beget Tales, Tempests, and such like Drolleries, to mix his head with other men's heels; let the concupiscence of jigs and dances reign as strong as...

...allnrant; and as fresh an hypocrite as ever was broached rampant. It there be never a servant-monster i' the Fair, who can help it- he says; nor a nest of antics? He is loth ii 5 to make nature afraid in his plays, like those that beget Tales, Tempests,...

...and run away from her, we find his meaning clear enough. When he says of himself that he is "loath to make nature afraid in his plays, like those that...beget tales, tempests, and such like drolleries," the reversal of the phrase is more puzzling, although the implied comparison with Shakespeare is equally...

...allutant; and as fresh an hypocrite as ever was broached rampant. If there be never a servant-monster i' the Fair, who can help it? he says; nor a nest of antics? He is loth to make nature afraid in his plays, like those that beget Tales, Tempests, and such...