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Swaggering ruffians from the disreputable haunts of London, cockney apprentices, brokendown tapsters, discarded serving men; the Bardolphs and Pistols, Mouldys, Warts, and the like more at home in tavern-brawls or in dark lanes than on the battle-field were not the men to be entrusted with the honour of England at a momentous crisis.
Swaggering ruffians from the disreputable haunts of London, cockney apprentices, brokendown tapsters, discarded serving men; the Bardolphs and Pistols, Mouldys, Warts, and the like more at home in tavern-brawls or in dark lanes than on the battle-field were not the men to be entrusted with the honour of England at a momentous crisis.
Swaggering ruffians from the disreputable haunts of London, cockney apprentices, brokendown tapsters, discarded serving men; the Bardolphs and Pistols, Mouldys, Warts, and the like more at home in tavern-brawls or in dark lanes than on the battle-field were not the men to be entrusted with the honour of England at a momentous crisis.
Swaggering ruffians from the disreputable haunts of London, cockney apprentices, brokendown tapsters, discarded serving men; the Bardolphs and Pistols, Mouldys, Warts, and the like more at home in tavern-brawls or in dark lanes than on the battle- field were not the men to be entrusted with the honour of England at a momentous crisis.
If you reply, as regards Bacon, "his genius divined the Costards and Audreys, the Doll Tearsheets and tapsters, and drawers, and Bardolphs, and carters, from a hint or two, a glance," I answer that Will had much better sources for THEM in his own experience of life, and had conventional poetic sources for his courtiers of whom, in the quick, he saw quite as much as Moliere did of his Marquis.
He did not actually fleece them himself, he had too little worldly wisdom for that; but he was the decoy of a coterie of Nyms, Pistols, and Bardolphs, who gathered up the spoil of these and any unwary youth who came to Rockpier in the wake of an invalid, or to 'see life' at a fashionable watering- place.
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