A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3Reeves and Turner, 1874 - English drama |
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ACTUS ALYFACE anon AVARICE BAILY better bridle canst chad cham chill chould Christian Custance Cock Collier cometh CRUELTY dame Chat Dame Custance devil DICCON DOCTOR RAT dost doth DOUGH entereth faith fool Gammer Gurton GAMMER GURTON'S NEEDLE Gawin Goodluck gear God's Gog's GOSPEL Hance hand hath hear heart hither HODGE honour knave lady Lord lout Marry maship mass Master Doctor Master Lust MERRY mind Mistress Custance MUMBL Mumblecrust nee'le needle never Nichol Newfangle PERV Perverse Doctrine Philip Fleming pleasure pray thee Ralph Roister Doister saith Sapience SCÆNA SCRIVENER sing Sith soul speak sure Suresby swear TALK tarry tell thine thing thou art thou hast thou shalt Tibet Tom Collier Tosspot Treasure Trilla trow TRUEPENNY trust Tush unto virtue virtuous Wherefore whoreson wise woman word
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Page 169 - I stuff my skin so full within Of jolly good ale and old. Back and side go bare, go bare; Both foot and hand go cold; But, belly, God send thee good ale enough.. Whether it be new or old!
Page 170 - And Tib, my wife, that as her life Loveth well good ale to seek, Full oft drinks she till ye may see The tears run down her cheek: Then doth she trowl to me the bowl Even as a maltworm should, And saith, ' Sweetheart, I took my part Of this jolly good ale and old.
Page 135 - M. Mery. Yes, at first, and made strange, But when I said your anger to favour should change, And therewith had commended you accordingly, They were all in love with your maship by and by, And cried you mercy that they had done you wrong. R. Roister. For why, no man, woman, nor child can hate me long. 140 ' M. Mery. We fear (quod they) he will be avenged one day, , Then for a penny give all our lives we may.
Page 84 - He thinketh each woman to be brought in dotage With the only sight of his goodly personage : Yet none that will have him : we do him lout and flock, And make him among us our common sporting stock, And so would I now (ko she), save only because, Better nay (ko I), I lust not meddle with daws.
Page 92 - To be abhorred of every honest man. To be taken for a woman inclined to vice. Nothing at all to virtue giving her due price. Wherefore, concerning marriage, ye are thought Such a fine paragon, as ne'er honest man bought.
Page 171 - Now let them drink till they nod and wink, Even as good fellows should do ; They shall not miss to have the bliss Good ale doth bring men to ; And all poor souls that have...
Page 35 - What creature is in health, either young or old, But some mirth with modesty will be glad to use? As we in this Interlude shall now unfold, Wherein all scurrility we utterly refuse, Avoiding such mirth wherein is abuse...
Page 121 - Except perchance to be amazed with the smoke. I warrant your head therewith, except for the mist, As safe as if it were fast locked up in a chest.
Page 139 - A widow worth a thousand pound, I mun be married a Sunday. Custance is as sweet as honey, Custance is as sweet as honey, I her lamb and she my coney, I mun be married a Sunday.
Page 91 - Yes. M. Mery. But I would not tell all ; for faith, if I had, With you, dame Custance, ere this hour it had been bad, And not without cause : for this goodly personage Meant no less than to join with you in marriage.