The woman-captain. The Lancashire witches. The squire of Alsatia. Bury-Fair

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Fortune Press, 1927
 

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Page 439 - Lero, lero, lilliburlero," that made an impression on the [King's] army, that cannot be imagined by those that saw it not. The whole army, and at last the people, both in city and country, were singing it perpetually. And perhaps never had so slight a thing so great an effect.
Page 389 - Fill'd with such pictures as Tiberius took From Elephantis, and dull Aretine But coldly imitated. Then, my glasses Cut in more subtle angles, to disperse And multiply the figures, as I walk Naked between my succubae. My mists I'll have of perfume, vapour'd 'bout the room, To lose ourselves in...
Page 414 - And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
Page 389 - Court, and young Newport and others, as very rogues as any in the town, who were ready to take hold of every woman that come by them. And so to supper in an arbour : but, Lord ! their mad talk did make my heart ake ! And here I first understood by their talk...
Page 97 - I cannot conceive what relation the sacrifice of the black lamb, and the ceremonies of their worship to the devil t, have to the business of mirth and humour. " The gentleman who writ this play, and has drawn some characters in it very justly, appears to have been misled in his witchcraft by an unwary following the inimitable Shakspeare. The incantations in Macbeth...
Page 407 - ... beds of flowers, which being under the trees, the trees were to them a pavilion, and they to the trees a mosaical floor, so that it seemed that Art therein would needs be delightful, by counterfeiting his enemy Error and making order in confusion.
Page 407 - And in one of the thickets was a fine fountain made thus: a naked Venus of white marble, wherein the graver had used such cunning, that the natural blue veins of the marble were framed in fit places to set forth the beautiful veins of her body.
Page 398 - Et pereuntibus addita ludibria, ut ferarum tergis contecti, laniatu canum interirent, aut crucibus affixi, aut flammandi, atque ubi defecisset dies, in usum nocturni luminis urerentur.
Page 255 - He like her ! What's matter whether he like her or no? Is it not enough for him, that I do? Is a son, a boy, a jackanapes, to have a will of his own ? That were to have him be the father, and me the son But indeed they are both very handsome.
Page 338 - Squire lives in boots all the winter, never talks or thinks of anything but sports, as he calls 'em : and if an ill day comes, saunters about his house, lolls upon couches ; sighs and groans, as if he were a prisoner in the fleet ; and the best thing he can find to do is to smoke, and drink, and play at back-gammon, with the parson.

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