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Page xxxviii - Tut, give me the penny, give me the penny, I care not for the gentlemen, I ; let me have a good ground, no matter for the pen, the plot shall carry it.
Page 31 - Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found...
Page xxxv - Of a Jew, who would for his Debt have a Pound of the Flesh of a Christian.
Page ix - Romanus ; so the best for comedy amongst us bee Edward Earle of Oxforde, Doctor Gager of Oxforde, Maister Rowley, once a rare scholler of learned Pembrooke Hall in Cambridge, Maister Edwardes, one of her Maiesties Chappell, eloquent and wittie John Lilly, Lodge, Gascoyne, Greene, Shakespeare, Thomas Nash, Thomas Heywood, Anthony Mundye, our best plotter, Chapman, Porter, Wilson, Hathway, and Henry Chettle.
Page xlii - To the memory Of that ancient Servant to the City, with his Pen, in divers imployments, especially the Survay of London, Master Anthony Munday, Citizen and Draper of London.
Page li - Part of which are of matters happened in our Age. Written in French by Alexander Siluayn, and Englished by LP London. Printed by Adam Islip, 1596.
Page xxxvii - Our Author is introduced into it as Antonio Balladino, a name given to him in derision, from the number of ballads and slight temporary productions that had come from his pen in the course of the twenty years preceding. In the first scene of the first act is a dialogue between Peter Onion and Antonio Balladino, in which the latter censures those that introduce "nothing but humours...
Page l - The Defence of Contraries. Paradoxes against common opinion, debated in forme of declamations in place of publike censure: only to exercise yong wittes in difficult matters.
Page 19 - Signes and tokens of Gods anger towards us. What straunge and monstrous Children have of late beene borne. And all memorable murthers since the murther of Maister Saunders by George Browne, to this present and bloody murther of Abell Bourne, Hosyer, who dwelled in Newgate Market. 1580. Also a short discourse of the late Earthquake, the sixt of Aprill. Gathered by AM Honos alit Artes. Imprinted at London for William Wright, and are to be sold at the long shop, adjoyning unto S. Mildreds Church in...

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