 | William Tegg - 1879 - 290 pages
...dry thatch of the theatre. Sir Henry Wotton concludes his description of the conflagration as follows :—"This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabrick,...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broyled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit, put it out with a bottle of ale." This.,... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 678 pages
...stuff, wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where, being thought at first but idle smoak, and their eyes more attentive to the show,...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broyled him, if he had not, by the benefit of a provident wit, put it out with a bottle of ale." From... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1880 - 622 pages
...than an hour the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric ; wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks." title " All is True" ; but the other two authorities describe it as " the play of Henry the Eighth.'1''... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1880 - 320 pages
...than an hour the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric ; wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks." title " All is True" ; but the other two authorities describe it as " the play of Henry the Eighth.'"... | |
 | Charlotte G. Boger - Southwark (London, England) - 1881 - 256 pages
...than an hour, the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw,...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broyled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit, put it out with a bottle of ale." From... | |
 | Mrs. Edmund Boger - Southwark (London, England) - 1881 - 260 pages
...than an hour, the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw,...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broyled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit, put it out with a bottle of ale." From... | |
 | N. Robinson - 1881 - 24 pages
...description of the conflagration as follows: "This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabrick, whereiutyet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have bryled him, if he had not, by tho thought of a provident wit, put it out with a bottle of ale." We... | |
 | 1881 - 794 pages
...: " This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabrick, whereintyet nothing did perish but wood und straw, and a few forsaken cloaks ; only one man had...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have bryled him, if he had not, by the thought of a provident wit, put it out with a bottle of ale." We... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 326 pages
...than an hour the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric; wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks." title " All is True "; but the other two authorities describe it as "the play of Henry the Eighth."... | |
 | Edward Walford, George W. Redway - Archaeology - 1885 - 338 pages
...inwardly and ran round like a train, consuming in less than an hour the whole House to the very ground ; nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks, and one man had his breeches set on fire." Another letter : " But it was a great marvel and grace of... | |
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... was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoak, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming within less than an hour the whole house to the very ground.... 
