Some Seventeenth Century Allusions to Shakespeare And His Works Not Hitherto Co
Some Seventeenth Century Allusions to Shakespeare And His Works Not Hitherto Co
George Thorn Drury
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Oh ! may I feed on Grass, Roots, Berries, Acorns ; drink the gi'een puddle of the standing Poole ; The Royalist . . . London. [4to]. Lt3S2. P. 16. 28 THOMAS DURFEY, 16S2. If no one were to write Dramaticks, unless they could equall the Immortal Johnson and Shakespear ; or Heroicks, unless they stood Competitors with the Incomparable Cowley or Drydcn ; I fear the Town would lose the diversion both of Plays and Poems. Butler's (ihost : or, Huilibi'aa, the Fourth Part, . . . * 1682. [8vo]. The Pre...face. A 3 verso. Like thee (the owl) to Corners dark we range, And to thy shape are often chang'd. Instead of Knights, renown'd for Slaughter, As thou wert once to Baker's Daughter. Ibid. P. 22. For as a Christian Merchant drew, And seal'd a Bond once to a Jew, A Pound of Flesh should th' Forfeit pay, If he did fail, and break his Day : AVhich happening, and th' IiiHdel To weigh the Flesh had fetch t a Scale, The Merchant cries, your Bond is good For Flesh, but not one drop of Blood ; If thou spills't that, thou murder'st me.
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