 | Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 702 pages
...Reed's Shakspeare, vol. xv. p. 226. || " I did determine not to have dedicated my play to any body, because forty shillings I care not for; and above, few or none will bestow on these matters."— Dedication to A Woman's a Weathercock, a comedy by N. Field, 1612. f Reed's Shakspeare, vol. iii. p.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 708 pages
...Reed's Shakspeare, vol. xv. p. 226. || " I did determine not to have dedicated my play to any body, because forty shillings I care not for ; and above, few or none will bestow on these matters."— Dedication to A Woman's a Weathercock, a comedy by N. Field, 16)2. •[ Reed's Shakspeare, vol. iii.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 574 pages
...to be stuft in it," &c. 1 " I did determine not to have dedicated my play to any body, because./brfy shillings I care not for ; and above, few or none will bestow on these matters." Dedication to A Woman's a Weathercock, a comedy, by N. Field, 1612. See also the preface to Randolph's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 454 pages
...presented to lord Timon. JOHNSON. " I did determine not to have dedicated my play to any body, becauseforty shillings I care not for, and above, few or none will bestow on these matters." Preface to A Woman is a Weathercock, by N. Field, 1612. STEEVENS. s — presentment,] The patrons of... | |
 | John Payne Collier - English drama - 1831 - 534 pages
...before his Woman is a Weathercock, 1612, Mo any Woman that hath been no Weathercock," Field remarks:—' I did determine not to have dedicated ' my play to...anybody, because forty shillings I care not ' for.' At this date the usual price of a play seems to have been 12/., compared with which sum 21. merely... | |
 | John Payne Collier - Drama, English (Collections) - 1833 - 1086 pages
...ANY WOMAN THAT HATH BEEN NO WEATHERCOCK. I DID determine not to have dedicated my play to any body, because forty shillings I care not for ;* and above,...especially falling from so fameless a pen as mine is yet. And now I look up, and find to whom my dedication is, I fear I am as good as my determination : notwithstanding... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1838 - 744 pages
...so he gains § " I ilid determine not to have dedicated my play to any body, because furl) shilling I care not for ; and above, few or none will bestow on these matters."—Dedication to " A Woman's a Weathercock." a •omedy by N. Field, 1612. \ " Master RQ,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 360 pages
...any woman that hath been no weathercock," lets us into a secret of the authorship of that period : "I did determine not to have dedicated my play to...because forty shillings I care not for, and above, fewe or none will bestowe on these matters." As Collier remarks, the usual price of a play at this... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English drama - 1875 - 598 pages
...Jests, 1660, had it from Taylor, and told it of hie hero. TO ANY WOMAN THAT HATH BEEN NO WEATHERCOCK. I DID determine not to have dedicated my play to anybody,...especially falling from so fameless a pen as mine is yet. And now I look up, and find to whom my dedication is, I fear I am as good as my determination : notwithstanding,... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English drama - 1875 - 594 pages
...Jests, 1660, had it from Taylor, and told it of his hero. TO ANY WOMAN THAT HATH BEEN NO WEATHERCOCK. I DID determine not to have dedicated my play to anybody,...especially falling from so fameless a pen as mine is yet. And now I look up, and find to whom my dedication is, I fear I am as good as my determination: notwithstanding,... | |
| |
I did determine not to have dedicated my play to anybody, because forty shillings I care not for, and above few or none will bestow on these matters, especially falling from so fameless a pen as mine is yet." It will be observed, then, that the price... 
