Essays on the Stage eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 78 pages of information about Essays on the Stage.

Essays on the Stage eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 78 pages of information about Essays on the Stage.

  He tells ye more plain in troth than wittily
    original reads
    He tells ye more plain in trot. ..an wittily

  they make the Poem look like a Bitch overstock’d with Puppies, and
  suck the sense almost to Skin and Bone.  For a Child to suck the
  Mother till the Blood follows, I think is not unreasonable, but
  for a Litter of Epithetes to suck the sense of a Poem to the Skin
  and Bone, is such Fustian stuff that
    original reads
    they make the Poem look like a Bitch overstock’d with Pup...s, and
    suck ... sense almost to Skin and Bone.  For a C.ild to suck t.. 
    Mother t... ...  Blood follows, I think is not unrea...able, but
    fo. . ..tter of Ep....... .o suck the sense of a Poem to the Skin
    and Bone, is such Fustian ..... that

  I am even with him with a Dose of Jollop
    capital J uncertain

  And then buz home again to his own dormitory in Shooe-lane
    original reads Sho.e-lane

p. 27
  [Footnote:  Collier,]
    page reference missing in original

p.  A2v (Maxims ...)
  might possibly be thought
    original reads possibly ]

[Supplementary Note

Neither of the verse passages quoted on pg. 15 is by Chaucer.  The first is from The Plowman’s Tale, written about 1380 and traditionally attributed to Chaucer: 

  Of freres I have tolde before,
    In a makynge of a Crede. 
  And yet I coulde tell worse and more,
    But men wolde weryen it to rede.

The second was printed in Tottel’s Miscellany ("Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other”, 1557): 

  Flee fro the prese & dwell with sothfastnes
  Suffise to thee thy good though it be small,
  For horde hath hate and climyng ticklenesse
  Praise hath enuy, and weall is blinde in all
  Fauour no more, then thee behoue shall. 
  Rede well thy self that others well canst rede,
  And trouth shall the deliuer it is no drede. ]

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