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Adams, who had caught his breath, let it escape in a long sigh of relief. "Like Symonds's," he murmured. "Not a bit like Symonds's," his friend corrected snappishly. "He's talkin' o' dead uns ghosts that is, if I take your meanin', sir?" Mr. Coyne nodded. "That's it. Ghosts." "Get out with you!" said Mr. Adams, incredulous.
Why, it's what he'd arsk for! So there we carried him, and I sent for the undertaker same time as the doctor, and ordered it of oak; and next morning, down I tramped to Dock and chose out a grave, brick-lined, having heard him say often, 'Plymouth folk for wasting, but Dock folk for lasting. I won't say but what, between whiles, we've been pretty lively at Symonds's; and I won't say Hallo!
Works, edited by Bullen; chief plays in Temple Dramatists, Mermaid Series of English Dramatists, Morley's Universal Library, etc.; Lowell's Old English Dramatists; Symonds's introduction, in Mermaid Series; Dowden's Essay, in Transcripts and Studies. Shakespeare. Good texts are numerous. Furness's Variorum edition is at present most useful for advanced work.
"Neither one nor the other," said I; "but I have picked up a few friends." As he drew westward I noticed that he sensibly retarded his pace: but he had forsworn visiting Symonds's until, as he put it, we knew the worst; and I marched him relentlessly up to the door of doom with its immaculate brass knocker. And when, facing it, he shut his eyes, I put out a hand and knocked for him.
An account of the history of this period may be found in either Gardiner, Green, Lingard, Walker, or Cheney. Vols. For the social side, consult Traill's Social England, Vols. II. and III., also Cheney's Industrial and Social History of England, Field's Introduction to the Study of the Renaissance, Einstein's The Italian Renaissance in England, Symonds's A Short History of the Renaissance.
The boats shoved off from the ship's side and pulled for the nearest whaler. As they approached she opened a hot fire, on which Mr Symonds ordered them to keep apart and to steer for her stern. One of the masters in charge of the pinnace did not hear the order. Ralph saw that she was struck several times. Mr Symonds's boat also suffered.
At Symonds's they gave no utterance to this reflection, but each knew it to be in the other's mind at Symonds's just now there would be a boiled leg of mutton with turnips, and the rum would be hot, with a slice of lemon. "We shall get accustomed," said Mr. Jope with a forced air of cheerfulness. Mr. Adams glanced over his shoulder at the statuary and answered "yes" in a loud unfaltering voice.
So I went back to Symonds's who was that pleased to see me again you'd have thought I'd been half round the world and I ordered up three-pennorth of rum, and pens and ink to the same amount: and this is what I wrote, and I hope you'll get it by heart before you're in a hurry again to accuse Ben Jope of dishonourable conduct 'Respected Madam, I wrote, 'this is to enquire if you'll marry me.
Sidney's Arcadia, edited by Somers; Defense of Poesy, edited by Cook, in Athenæum Press Series; Arber's Reprints, etc.; Selections from Sidney's prose and poetry in the Elizabethan Library; Symonds's Life of Sidney, in English Men of Letters; Bourne's Life of Sidney, in Heroes of the Nations; Lamb's Essay on Sidney's Sonnets, in Essays of Elia.
'A boiled leg o' mutton first, says I, persuasive; 'and turnips, and got him to Symonds's boarding-house for the very purpose, Symonds being noted. And Symonds I'll do him that justice says the same. Symonds says "
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