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He could be soberly drunk at the expense of others, with college ale, and at those seasons was always most devout. He wore the same gown five years without draggling or tearing. He never once looked into a playbook or a poem. He read Virgil and Ramus in the same cadence, but with a very different taste. He never understood a jest, or had the least conception of wit.
A few of the country gentry had some pretension to learning, but the majority cared little except for hawks and hounds, gaming and drinking; and if they read it was some old chronicle, or story of knightly adventure, "Amadis de Gaul," or a stray playbook, or something like the "History of Long Meg of Westminster," or perhaps a sheet of news.
A few of the country gentry had some pretension to learning, but the majority cared little except for hawks and hounds, gaming and drinking; and if they read it was some old chronicle, or story of knightly adventure, "Amadis de Gaul," or a stray playbook, or something like the "History of Long Meg of Westminster," or perhaps a sheet of news.
A few of the country gentry had some pretension to learning, but the majority cared little except for hawks and hounds, gaming and drinking; and if they read it was some old chronicle, or story of knightly adventure, "Amadis de Gaul," or a stray playbook, or something like the "History of Long Meg of Westminster," or perhaps a sheet of news.
Each had a playbook beside his plate, and they were apparently studying their parts for the morning performance. 'Good morning! Fine day for the deposition, said Gyp, acting as spokesman for the rest. 'Have a bone? 'I have no appetite, replied Yellow-cap. 'Why are you all dressed in white? 'So that we may be the blacker inside, said Ruba, looking up from his book.
But as with the printed piece our own public, infatuated as it may be with the theatre, refuses all commerce though indeed this can't but be, without cynicism, very much through the infirmity the piece, IF printed, would reveal so the same horror seems to attach to any typographic hint of the proscribed playbook or any insidious plea for it.
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