Some account of Shirley and his writings. Commendatory verses on Shirley. Love tricks, or, The school of complement. The maid's revenge. The brothers. The witty fair one. The wedding

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Página xxxv - The Royall Master ; As it was Acted in the new Theater in Dublin : And Before the Right Honorable the Lord Deputie of Ireland, in the Castle.
Página xxxvii - Crede quod habes &* habes.} A / Tragi-Comedy./ By Robert Davenport. As it was Acted with great Applause, / by Her Majesties Servants, at / the Phoenix in Drury Lane./ London : / Printed by Ja : Cottrel, for Samuel Speed, at the Signe of the / Printing-Press in St.
Página xxviii - Apollo, where each of them had his plate lay'd by him, covered, and the napkin by it, and when they opened their plates, they found in each of them forty pieces of gould, of their master's coyne, for the first dish, and they had cause to be much pleased with this surprisall.
Página xxxi - Jones having accused him for naming him, behind his back, A foole: he denied it; but, says he, I said, He was ane arrant knave, and I avouch it.
Página 89 - ... holiday ; Throw off cares ; With your heaven-aspiring airs Help us to sing, While valleys with your echoes ring. Nymphs that dwell within these groves Leave your arbours, bring your loves ; Gather posies, Crown your golden hair with roses ; As you pass, Foot like fairies on the grass. Joy crown • our bowers ! Philomel, Leave of Tereus
Página xlvii - ... ways of education, have, from the attentive hearing these pieces, got ground in point of wit and carriage of the most severely employed students, while these recreations were digested into rules, and the very pleasure did edify.
Página 278 - It were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it ; he is so above me ! In his bright radiance and collateral light Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.
Página xlvii - POETRY is the child of nature, which, regulated and made beautiful by art, presenteth the most harmonious of all other compositions ; among which (if we rightly consider) the dramatical is the most absolute, in regard of those transcendent abilities which should wait upon the composer ; who must have more than the instruction of libraries (which of itself is but a cold contemplative knowledge), there being required in him a soul miraculously knowing and conversing with all mankind, enabling him to...
Página 11 - Though once he show'd no sap : my heart's a plant Kept down by colder thoughts and doubtful fears. Your frowns like winter storms make it seem dead, But yet it is not so ; make it but yours, And you shall see it spring, and shoot forth leaves Worthy your eye, and the oppressed sap Ascend to every part to make it green, And pay your love with fruit when harvest comes.
Página 11 - And while it naked lies, not deign'd your bosom To keep it warm, how can it be but cold, In danger to be frozen ? blame not it, You only are in fault it hath no heat. Sel. Well, Sir ; I know you have rhetoric, but I Can without art give you a final answer.

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