The School of Abuse: Containing a Pleasant Invective Against Poets, Pipers, Players, Jesters, Etc

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Shakespeare Society, 1841 - 51 páginas

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Página 25 - ... light in them ; such pillows to their backs, that they take no hurt ; such masking in their ears, I know not what : such giving them pippins to pass the time ; such playing at foote saunt without cards ; such ticking, such toying, such smiling, such winking, and such manning them home when the sports are ended...
Página 21 - ... so bewitching a thing is lively and well-spirited action, that it hath power to new-mold the harts of the spectators, and fashion them to the shape of any noble and notable attempt.
Página 62 - I know, much offended with M. Jaggard (that altogether unknowne to him) presumed to make so bold with his name.
Página 52 - Thirdly, plays have made the ignorant more apprehensive,* taught the unlearned the knowledge of many famous histories, instructed such as cannot read in the discovery* of all our English chronicles; and what man have you now of that weak capacity that cannot discourse of any notable thing recorded even from William the Conqueror, nay, from the landing of Brute, until this day...

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