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They are as indispensable as the Ballad Singer; and in their picturesque attire as ornamental as the Signs of old London. They were the standing morals, emblems, mementos, dial-mottos, the spital sermons, the books for children, the salutary checks and pauses to the high and rushing tide of greasy citizenry Look Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there.
Much ado had we to get here the young babe in her arms, and I well- nigh distraught with pain. We crept into this same hut, and I had a weary sickness throughout the winter living, I know not how, by the bounty of the Spital, and by the works of her fingers, which Winny would take out to sell on feast-days in the city.
He cannot wield a hammer, but he has a cunning hand for gilding, and coloured devices, and is as good as Garter-king-at-arms himself for all bearings of knights and nobles." "As we heard last night," said Stephen. "Moreover in the spital he learnt to write and cast accompts like a very scrivener, and the master trusts him more than any, except maybe Kit Smallbones, the head smith."
"He will sleep throughout the night, and the morn should find him stronger, more clear in mind.... I am going now to the spital no, no; I need no rest, and I have leave to come and go." The two descended together to the door of the great hall, whence Ferne went his solitary way, and Arden stood to watch him out of sight.
"No knight at our Spital! A stranger, father. So tall, so tall! His mantle hardly reaches his knee his robe leaves his ankles bare. O father, they are coming. Let me go to meet dear good Father Robert! But what Oh, is the fit coming? Father Robert will stop it!"
But under the tree stood not the blind beggar, but the beggar's boy. "Blind Hal bids you meet him at the Spital, at your good pleasure," said the boy; and like the mountebank he was, tumbled three times head over heels. John de Mohun looked round and about, and saw no alternative but to obey.
Over and above what they got from the Spital, the Church-collection and the Town-chest, Citizens were liberal; daily sent them food, or daily had them by fours and fives to their own houses to meat." Glimpse SECOND: not dated; perhaps some ten days later; and a Prussian Commissary with this party:
It is a curious conglomeration, and the result is very pitiful and disastrous. Bernardine and the prison scenes are retained. Measure for Measure was again profanely altered by Gildon in 1700, mutilated and helped out by 'entertainments of music'. p. 197 Snicker Snee. See note Vol. p. 198 Spittal Sermon. Mary Spital, founded 1197.
On Monday of Easter week it was the custom for the Christ's Hospital boys to walk in procession to the Royal Exchange, and on Tuesday to the Mansion House; on each occasion returning with the Lord Mayor to hear a special sermon a spital sermon, as it was called and an anthem. The sermon is now preached only on Easter Tuesday. Overseers of St.
"Along with the nobles that fell at that tyde, His eldest son Henrye, who fought by his syde, Was felde by a blow he receivde in the fight; A blow that for ever deprivde him of sight." Old Beggar. The chapel at the Spital was open to all who chose to attend.
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