The Vnfortvnate Traveller: Or, The Life of Jacke WiltonHoughton Mifflin, 1920 - 132 pages |
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Page 97 - a glorious hipocrite. It is nowe a priuie note amongst the better sort of men, when they would set a singular marke or brand on a notorious villaine, to say, he hath beene in Italy. With the Dane and the Dutchman I will not encounter, for they are simple honest men, that with Danaus Daughters doe nothing but fill
Page xiv - Hee made no account of winning crédite by his workes, as thou dost, that dost no good workes, but thinkes to bee famosed by a strong faith of thy owne worthines : his only care was to haue a spel in his purse to coniure vp a good cuppe of wine with at all times.
Page vi - Euphues I readd when I was a little ape in Cambridge, and then I thought it was Ipse Ule : it may be excellent good still, for ought I know, for I lookt not on it this ten yeare : but to imitate it I abhorre.
Page 4 - fatali to my enemies. A new brain, a new wit, a new stile, a new soule will I get mee, to canonize your name to posteritie, if in this my first attempt I be not taxed of presumption. Of your gracious fauor I despaire not, for I am not altogether Fames out-cast.
Page 96 - of epicurising, the art of whoring, the art of poysoning, the art of Sodomitrie. The onely probable good thing they haue to keepe vs from vtterly condemning it, is, that it maketh a man an excellent Courtier, a curious carpet knight : which is, by interpretation, a fine close leacher, a glorious hipocrite. It is nowe a priuie note amongst
Page 22 - something he was adiudged too. The sparrow for his lechery liueth but a yeare, he for his trechery was turnd on the toe, Plura dolor prohibet. Here let me triumph a while, and ruminate a line or two on the excellence of my wit, but I will not breath neither till I haue disfraughted all my knauerie.
Page 115 - here shine they in their glory. Chast Heraclide, thy bloud is laid vp in heauens treasury, not one drop of it was lost, but lent out to vsurie : water powred forth sinkes downe quietly into the earth, but bloud spilt on the ground sprinkles vp to the firmament. Murder is wide-mouthd, and will not let God
Page 42 - seeing most common-wealths corrupted by ill custome, & that principalities were nothing but great piracies, which gotten by violence and murther, were maintained by priuate vndermining and bloudshed, that in the cheefest flourishing kingdomes there was no equall or well deuided weale one with an other, but a manifest conspiracie of rich men against
Page 119 - blistered with following thee fro place to place. I haue riuen my throat with ouerstraining it to curse thee. I haue ground my teeth to pouder with grating & grinding them together for anger when any hath namde thee. My tongue with vaine threates is bolne, and waxen too big for
Page 39 - Destinie neuer defames hir selfe but when shee lets an excellent .Poet die, if there bee anie sparke of Adams Paradized perfection yet emberd vp in the breastes of mortali men, certainelie God hath bestowed that his perfectest image on Poets. None come so neere to God in wit, none more contemne the world, vatis