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One day, we sat down in the valley of Guindy, near the Chapelle des Cinq Plaies, by the side of the spring. For hours I read by her side, without raising my eyes from the book, which was a very harmless one M. de Bonald's Recherches Philosophiques.

But kind Mistriss be not so hasty, it is impossible to express all the Pleasures so fully in one breath: you must note, that they are all as it were for the present hid behind the Curtains; neither must you expect to sail alwaies before wind and tide; and beleeve me there are yet other Nuts to be krackt. Whilest the Husband is from home, the Wife plaies the Divel for God's sake.

Quoique au sortir de sa prison d'Egypte tout lui fit une loi de retourner en France, il avoit tant de plaies

By these the Foolwise Notary's for the most part join themselves; making their Wives beleeve that they are sent for into this or t'other Alehouse or Tavern, about an Excise-mans business; or to write a Will, or a Contract of agreement of Merchandize; though it be to no other end or purpose then to have a perfect knowledge who plaies best at Ticktack, Irish, Backgammon, Passage, or All-fours.

At the risk that moralizing may also reveal itself here as that which it has always been namely, resolutely MONTRER SES PLAIES, according to Balzac I would venture to protest against an improper and injurious alteration of rank, which quite unnoticed, and as if with the best conscience, threatens nowadays to establish itself in the relations of science and philosophy.

First of all there were three knives, three forks, three spoons, three tin cups and three tin plaies, which the entire party of twelve used on a most amiable socialistic principle. There were crisp, salty biscuits and olives, for which they speared in the bottle. There was potted turkey, and potted ham, and potted tongue, all tasting precisely alike.

The first edition of this well-known book was published in 1628. Parsons Resolutions is a fictitious book. The "lamentable ballad of the Lady's Fall" has been reprinted by Ritson and Percy. In the MS. follows a line, scored through: "And while my footman plaies sigh out my part." Shirley delights in ridiculing the affectation in which the gallants of his time indulged.

In Harrison's Description of England the event is reported as follows: "Plaies are banished for a time out of London, lest the resort unto them should ingender a plague, or rather disperse it, being already begonne. Would to God these comon plaies were exiled for altogether as seminaries of impiety, and their theatres pulled downe as no better than houses of baudrie.

Burbage thinks they might amend their faults in course of time, and that, at least, advantage could be taken of them in so far as to make them write a part now and then; which certainly they could do. To this Kemp replies: 'Few of the University pen plaies well; they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis, and talk too much of Proserpina and Jupiter.

Greene offers his own wretched end to his colleagues as a warning example; admonishing them to employ their 'rare wits in more profitable courses; to look repentingly on the past; to leave off profane practices, and not 'to spend their wits in making plaies. He especially warns them against actors because these, it seems, had given him up.