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Wet, famine, ague, fever, storm, wreck, wrath, We have so play'd the coward; but by God's grace, We'll follow Philip's leading, and set up The Holy Office here garner the wheat, And burn the tares with unquenchable fire!" The conclusion, in the acting edition, printed in the Biography, appears to be an improvement on that in the text as originally published.
False love, and hast thou play'd me this In summer among the flowers? I will repay thee back again In winter among the showers. Unless again, again, my love, Unless you turn again; As you with other maidens rove, I'll smile on other men.
Then he writ under it, upon a marble stone these verses following: This the head of him, whose name only In former times did pilgrims terrify. His Castle's down; and Diffidence, his wife, Brave Master Great-heart has bereft of life. Despondency, his daughter Much-afraid, Great-heart for them also the man has play'd; Who hereof doubts, if he'll but cast his eye Up hither, may his scruples satisfy.
Booth play'd the part of Lothario, I could hardly lug him up to the importance of triumphing over such a finish'd piece of perfection, that seemed to be too much dignified to lose her virtue." Yet what can give a better picture of old stage life than these quaint and often eloquent records of the past?
"I remember when he was an apprentice," relates Chetwood, "we play'd in several private plays; when we were preparing to act 'Sophonisba, or Hannibal's Overthrow, after I had wrote out my part of Massiva I carried him the book of the play to study the part of King Masinissa.
"Whose humor, as gay as the fire-fly's light, Play'd round every subject, and shone, as it play'd; Whose wit, in the combat as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade; "Whose eloquence brightened whatever it tried, Whether reason or fancy, the gay or the grave, Was as rapid, as deep, and as brilliant a tide, As ever bore Freedom aloft on its wave!"
This last accident so far recalled him to his better self, that he retired to his bed, slept sound, and awoke a new man in the morning. Nay, I'll hold touch the game shall be play'd out; It ne'er shall stop for me, this merry wager: That which I say when gamesome, I'll avouch In my most sober mood, ne'er trust me else.
A True Account of a Strange and Wonderful Relation of one John Tonken, of Pensans in Cornwall, said to be Bewitched by some Women: two of which on Suspition are committed to Prison, London, 1686. In the Bodleian. This narrative is confirmed by Inderwick's records. News from Panier Alley; or a True Relation of Some Pranks the Devil hath lately play'd with a Plaster Pot there, London, 1687.
Suddenly, like the teasing refrain of a haunting melody, there came back to his mind the verse he had read that morning: "As she fled fast thro' sun and shade, The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid: She look'd so lovely as she sway'd The rein with dainty finger-tips.
Sae rantingly, sae wantingly, Sae dantingly gaed he, He play'd a spring and danced a round Beneath the gallows tree! Their first appearance in Europe took place in the beginning of the fifteenth century. The account given by these singular people was, that it was appointed to them, as a penance, to travel for a certain number of years.
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