 | Ben Jonson - Robin Hood (Legendary character) - 1783 - 280 pages
...ignorance : for let him try it when he will, and come himfelf upon the Stage, with all the fcurrility of the Wife of Bath, with all the ribaldry of Poggius, or Boccace, yet I date affirm, he fhall never give that contentment to Beholders, as honeft Tar Iton did, though he faid... | |
 | Francis Godolphin Waldron, Sylvester Harding - Great Britain - 1795 - 298 pages
...Redivivum, speaking of Prj/nne, says, " let him try it when he will, and conte upon the Stage himself, with " all the scurrility of the Wife of Bath, with all the ribaldry of Poggius, " or floccace, yet I dare affirm, he shall never give that contentment to " Beholders, as honest Tarlton... | |
 | 1824 - 706 pages
...Sir Richard Baker, speaking of Prynne, the puritanical opposer of all theatrical amusements, says * " Let him try it when he will, and come himself upon...as honest Tarlton did, though he said never a word ;" imd the same writer, in another work, t bears ample testimony to his merits, and concludes his commendation... | |
 | 1839 - 776 pages
...signes." " Let him $ (the wretched fanatic, Prynne) try when he will, and come upon the stage himself with all the scurrility of the Wife of Bath, with...honest Tarlton did, though he said never a word." His very look was the first act of a comedy. " Tarlton when big head was onely scene, The tire-house... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1839 - 766 pages
...(the wretched fanatic, Prynne) tir when he will, and come upon the stage himself with all the scur>f the Wife of Bath, with all the ribaldry of Poggius or Boccace, dare affirm he shall never give that contentment to beholders as hooest Tarlton did, though he said... | |
 | Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1844 - 192 pages
...graced the alehouse;3 game-cocks were named after him;4 and, a century after his death, his effigy 1 Let him try it when he will, and come himself upon...word. — Baker's Theatrum Redivivum, 1662, p. 34. 2 It would answer no useful purpose to give many more instances, as they afford no new facts. The following... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - English wit and humor - 1844 - 198 pages
...graced the alehouse; 3 game-cocks were named after him; 4 and, a century after his death, his effigy 1 Let him try it when he will, and come himself upon...beholders as honest Tarlton did, though he said never a word.—Baker's Theatrum Redivivum, 1662, p. 34. 2 It would answer no useful purpose to give many more... | |
 | 1853 - 476 pages
...graced the alehouse; 3 game-cocks were named after him; 4 and, a century after his death, his effigy 1 Let him try it when he will, and come himself upon...beholders as honest Tarlton did, though he said never a word.—Baker's Theatrum Redivivum, 1662, p. 34. 2 It would answer no useful purpose to give many more... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - Chapbooks - 1864 - 416 pages
...to smile ; which, uttered by him, would force a sad soul to laughter."— Fuller's Worthies, 1662. " Let him try it when he will, and come himself upon...never a word."— Baker's Theatrum Redivivum, 1662. "At supper she (Q. Eli2.) would divert herself with her friends and attendance : and if they made no... | |
 | Sir Richard Baker - Bible - 1882 - 504 pages
...pleasing Play, without it. Whereas besides his prejudice, he may be made to confess his ignorance ; for let him try it when he will, and come himself upon...Boccace, yet I dare affirm he shall never give that content to Beholders as honest Tarlton did, though he said never a word. And what scurrility was ever... | |
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Let him try it when he will, and come himself upon the Stage, with all the scurrility of the Wife of Bath, with all the ribaldry of Poggius, or Boccace, yet I dare affirm he shall never give that contentment to beholders as honest Tarlton did, though... 
