Roister Doister: Written, Probably Also Represented, Before 1553

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A. Constable and Company, 1902 - 88 pages
 

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Page 11 - There is more weighty bullion sense in this book than I ever found in the same number of pages in any uninspired writer.
Page 25 - An admonition to the people of England: Wherein are answered, not onely the slaunderous vntruethes, reprochfully vttered by MARTIN the Libeller, but also many other Crimes by some of his broode, objected generally against all Bishops, and the chiefe of the Cleargie, purposely to deface and discredite the present state of the Church, [fan.
Page 7 - KEMP'S [SHAKESPEARE'S fellow Actor] Nine Days' Wonder ; performed in a Morris Dance from London to Norwich. April, 1600. 5. A series of Texts on the indignities offered to the Established Clergy, and especially the Private Chaplains, in the Restoration Age, by the Royalist laity ; including Dr. J. EACHARD'S witty 'Grounds of the Contempt of the Clergy and Religion.
Page 17 - SURREY, and other. With 39 additional Poems from the second edition by the same printer, RICHARD TOTTEL, of 31 July, 1557. This celebrated Collection is the First of our Poetical Miscellanies, and also the first appearance in print of any considerable number of English Sonnets. TOTTEL in his Address to the Reader, says : — "That to haue wel written in verse, yea and in small parcelles, deserueth great praise, the workes of diuers Latines, Italians, and other, doe proue sufficiently.
Page 6 - XIV. of Bourbon= France]. In four parts. 1712. This famous Political Satire on the War of the Spanish Succession was designed to prepare the English public for the Peace of Utrecht, signed on II April, 1713.
Page 24 - Byshops are at convenient leysure to view the same. In the meane time, let them be content with this learned Epistle. Printed oversea, in Europe, within two furlongs of a Bounsing Priest, at the cost and charges of M. MARPRELATE, gentleman.
Page 1 - Cloth, $s. net. English Political, Naval, and Military History, etc. etc. 1. The Expedition to Scotland in May 1543. 2. R. PEEKE'S fight at Xerez with a quarter-staff against Three Spaniards at once, armed with poniards and daggers : when he killed one and put the other two to flight. 1625. 3. The capture of Cris in Galatia by Captain QUAILE and 35 men. 1626. 4. Ranks in the British Army, about 1630. 5. The Return of CHARLES n.
Page 29 - Day," and invites him to come and visit her family from the Thursday evening till the Monday, etc., etc. Every Letter has been exhaustively annotated ; and a Chronological Table, with most copious Indices, conclude the Work.
Page 27 - QUENTAL the printer had in hand a secret edition of three thousand copies of the English New Testament. In great alarm, he informed HERMAN RINCK...

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