Shakespeare's LondonH. Holt, 1905 - 357 páginas |
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Página 306 - This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks ; only one man had his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit put it out with bottle ale.
Página 306 - King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain chambers being shot off at his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff, wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoke, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming within less than an hour the whole house to the very ground.
Página 306 - True, representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry the Eighth, which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage; the Knights of the Order with their Georges and Garters, the guards with their embroidered coats, and the like— sufficient in truth within a while to make greatness very familiar if not ridiculous.
Página 337 - ... that looketh to the making of the beds will be sure to remove it from the place where the owner hath set it, as if it were to set it more...
Página 332 - Balurdo. I am not as well known by my wit, as an alehouse by a red lattice * ? I am not worthy to love and be beloved of Flavia.
Página 167 - January, the queen's majesty, attended with her nobility, came from her house at the Strand, called Somerset House, and entered the city by Temple Bar, through Fleet Street, Cheap, and so by the north side of the bourse, through Threadneedle Street, to Sir Thomas Gresham's in Bishopsgate Street, where she dined.
Página 328 - Pelion upon Ossa, glory upon glory. As first, all the eyes in the galleries will leave walking after the players, and...
Página 231 - All good people, pray heartily unto God for these poor sinners, who are now going to their death, for whom this great bell doth toll. "You that are condemned to die, repent with lamentable tears ; ask mercy of the Lord, for the salvation of your own souls, through the merits, death, and passion of Jesus Christ, who now sits at the right hand of God, to make intercession for as many of you as penitently return unto Him. " Lord have mercy upon you ; Christ have mercy upon you.
Página 27 - ... the phantastical folly of our nation, even from the courtier to the carter, is such, that no form of apparel liketh us longer than the first garment is in the wearing...
Página 197 - ... from whence came our English proverb of " Tuntony pig," or t'Antony, an abridgement of the Anthony pig. " I remember," says Stow, " that the officers charged with the oversight of the markets in this city did divers times take from the market people, pigs starved, or otherwise unwholesome for man's sustenance ; these they did slit in the ear. One of the proctors for St.