The Diary of Master William Silence: A Study of Shakespeare & of Elizabethan Sport |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 43
Page 27
... regard to matters of venery and horsemanship . Shakespeare would as soon write of rousing a fox as of starting a deer . ' I'll warrant we'll unkennel the fox , ' said Master Ford ( Merry Wives , iii . 3. 174 ) , an operation present to ...
... regard to matters of venery and horsemanship . Shakespeare would as soon write of rousing a fox as of starting a deer . ' I'll warrant we'll unkennel the fox , ' said Master Ford ( Merry Wives , iii . 3. 174 ) , an operation present to ...
Page 31
... regard his kinsman as a possible rival . At the assembly , however , the Justice had somewhat markedly placed his nephew next to Anne , while Silence's knife and trencher had been laid at a distance . Moreover , there was something in ...
... regard his kinsman as a possible rival . At the assembly , however , the Justice had somewhat markedly placed his nephew next to Anne , while Silence's knife and trencher had been laid at a distance . Moreover , there was something in ...
Page 39
... regard to terms of venery . Embar- rassed by the impatience of Roderigo , he compares the too eager lover to an overtopping hound ; If this poor trash of Venice , whom I trash For his quick hunting , stand the putting on , I'll have our ...
... regard to terms of venery . Embar- rassed by the impatience of Roderigo , he compares the too eager lover to an overtopping hound ; If this poor trash of Venice , whom I trash For his quick hunting , stand the putting on , I'll have our ...
Page 71
... regard their fishponds , stews , and moats as part of the general policy of the realm , and very conducive to the due observance of the law , especially as administered by justices of the peace . Beside the moat was a mound , crowned ...
... regard their fishponds , stews , and moats as part of the general policy of the realm , and very conducive to the due observance of the law , especially as administered by justices of the peace . Beside the moat was a mound , crowned ...
Page 81
... regards size and speed , according to the nature of the country in which they were bred and hunted . You may read much in the old books of sport about northern , west country , and southern hounds , and about their several qualities ...
... regards size and speed , according to the nature of the country in which they were bred and hunted . You may read much in the old books of sport about northern , west country , and southern hounds , and about their several qualities ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abraham Slender allusions Anne Squele bear-baiting beast Ben Jonson bird Blundevill Boke Book of Sport Brabbler called chase Clement Perkes Cotswold Cotswold games courser criticism deer diarist doth Dursley edition editors English eyes falcon falconry Falstaff field sports flight Folio gentle gentleman Gervase Markham Gloucestershire goshawk greyhound haggard Hamlet hand hare hart hath hawking language Henry heron hill horse horsemanship hunting huntsman jade Jonson Justice Justice Shallow Justice's King Lady Katherine Lord Love's L. L. Master Petre Master Shallow Merry Wives mind nature never Noble Arte Noble Kinsmen passage Petre's play quarry Quarto ride rider Robert Shallow scene scent Shakespeare Shakespearian Shal Shrew Sir Topaz spur Stratford suggested tells term thee Theseus Thomas Lucy thou Titus Andronicus Troil venery Venus and Adonis Warwickshire wild William Silence Woncot woodcraft words writes Yorkshire Tragedy
Popular passages
Page 265 - For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing, and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood, If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music...
Page 166 - As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery.
Page 19 - Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us, that are squires of the night's body, be called thieves of the day's beauty; let us be — Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon : And let men say, we be men of good government; being governed as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we — steal, P.
Page 60 - I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear With hounds of Sparta : never did I hear Such gallant chiding ; for, besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seem'd all one mutual cry : I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
Page 240 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Page 292 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Page 181 - For there his smell with others being mingled, The hot scent-snuffing hounds are driven to doubt, Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled With much ado the cold fault cleanly out ; Then do they spend their mouths : Echo replies, As if another chase were in the skies.
Page 71 - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 127 - What maids lack from head to heel : • Come, buy of me, come ; come buy, come buy ; Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry: Come, buy, Sac.
Page 258 - Round-hoofd, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide : Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back.