The Unfortunate Traveller: Or, The Life of Jack Wilton

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C. Whittingham, 1892 - English fiction - 216 pages
 

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Page xxxix - Croydon's pleasure. Short days, sharp days, long nights come on apace, Ah! who shall hide us from the winter's face? Cold doth increase, the sickness will not cease, And here we lie, God knows, with little ease.
Page 107 - God made. If out of so base a thing as inke, there may bee extracted a spirite, hee writ with nought but the spirite of inke, and his stile was the spiritualitie of artes, and nothing else, whereas all others of his age were but the lay temporaltie of inkehorne tearmes.
Page xxiii - A Quip for an Upstart Courtier, or a quaint Dispute between Velvetbreeches and Cloth-breeches.
Page 78 - A bursten belly inkhorne orator called Vanderhulke, they pickt out to present him with an oration, one that had a sulpherous big swolne large face, like a Saracen, eyes lyke two kentish oysters, a mouth that opened as wide...
Page 164 - He that is a traveller must have the backe of an asse to beare all, a tung like the taile of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hogge to eate what is set before him, the eare of a merchant to heare all and say nothing: and if this be not the highest step of thraldome, there is no libertie or freedome.
Page 168 - ... a little weerish leane face vnder a broad French hat, kept a terrible coyle with the dust in the streete in their long cloakes of gray paper, and spoke English strangely. Nought else haue they profited by their trauell saue learnt to distinguish of the true Burdeaux grape, and knowe a cup of neate Gascoygne wine from wine of Orleance; yea, and peraduenture this also, to esteeme of the poxe as a pimple, to weare a veluet patch on their face, and walke melancholy with their armes folded?
Page 44 - Holland cheeses; my longe stock that sate close to my docke, and smoothered not a scab or a leacherous hairie sinew on the calfe of the legge; my rapier pendant like a round sticke fastned in the tacklings for skippers the better to climbe by...
Page 138 - Theater with-out: within there was a heaven and earth comprehended both under one roofe, the heaven was a cleere overhanging vault of christall, wherein the Sunne and Moone, and each visible Starre had his true similitude, shine, scituation, and motion...
Page 40 - 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' have disfraughted all my knaverie.
Page 213 - These fearefull ceremonies brought to an end, I bad him ope his mouth and gape wide. He did so (as what wil not...

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