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Read Ebook: Hyld og Humle: Fortællinger by Breum Sophie
Font size: Background color: Text color: Add to tbrJar First Page Next PageEbook has 550 lines and 43001 words, and 11 pagesPAGE HISTORIA HISTRIONICA: AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH STAGE xix LETTERS PATENT FOR ERECTING A NEW THEATRE liii TITLE AND DEDICATION TO THE LIFE OF MR. COLLEY CIBBER lxiii HE THAT TRITES OF HIMSELF NOT EASILY TIR'D, ETC. 28 A SHORT VIEW OF THE STAGE, FROM THE YEAR 1660 TO THE REVOLUTION, ETC. 86 THE THEATRICAL CHARACTERS OF THE PRINCIPAL ACTORS IN THE YEAR 1690, CONTINU'D, ETC. 119 THE STATE OF THE STAGE CONTINUED, ETC. 227 THE PATENTEE OF DRURY-LANE WISER THAN HIS ACTORS, ETC. 262 A SMALL APOLOGY FOR WRITING ON, ETC. 299 LIST OF MEZZOTINT PORTRAITS. NEWLY ENGRAVED BY R. B. PARKES. VOLUME THE FIRST. NEWLY ETCHED FROM CONTEMPORARY DRAWINGS BY ADOLPHE LALAUZE. VOLUME THE FIRST. HISTORIA HISTRIONICA: Historical Account OF THE ENGLISH STAGE, SHEWING The ancient Use, Improvement, and Perfection, of Dramatick Representations, in this Nation. IN A THE PREFACE. A DIALOGUE OF PLAYS and PLAYERS. LOVEWIT, TRUMAN. LOVEW. Honest Old Cavalier! well met, 'faith I'm glad to see thee. TRUM. Have a care what you call me. Old, is a Word of Disgrace among the Ladies; to be Honest is to be Poor, and Foolish, and Cavalier is a Word as much out of Fashion as any of 'em. LOVEW. That I have seen, and can well remember. I wish they had Printed in the last Age the Actors Names over against the Parts they Acted, as they have done since the Restauration. And thus one might have guest at the Action of the Men, by the Parts which we now Read in the Old Plays. LOVEW. Were there so many Companies? LOVEW. Which I admire at; That the Town much less than at present, could then maintain Five Companies, and yet now Two can hardly subsist. LOVEW. What kind of Playhouses had they before the Wars? LOVEW. I have seen that. TRUM. Yes, and his Opposer's. LOVEW. And what think you? LOVEW. How does that appear? A little before the Resurrection: The last Scene or Pageant, which represents the Day of Judgment, begins thus: I shall pray to the Prince that is endlese To socour you with solas of his high grace; He will here my petition this is doubtlesse, For I wrought all my life that his will wace. Therefore, Lady, when you be in any dredfull case, Call on me boldly, thereof I pray you, And trust in me feythfully, I will do that may pay you. Noble Prince Edward, my Cousin and my Knight, And very Prince of our Line com yn dissent, I Saint Edward have pursued for your faders imperial Right, Whereof he was excluded by full furious intent. Unto this your Chamber as prince full excellent Ye be right welcome. Thanked be Crist of his sonde, For that that was ours is now in your faders honde. I am begynyng and ende, that made ech creature My sylfe, and for my sylfe, but man esspecially Both male and female, made aftyr myne aun fygure, Whom I joyned togydyr in Matrimony And that in Paradyse, declaring opynly That men shall weddyng in my Chyrch solempnize, Fygurid and signifyed by the erthly Paradyze. In thys my Chyrch I am allway recydent As my chyeff tabernacle, and most chosyn place, Among these goldyn candylstikkis, which represent My Catholyk Chyrch, shynyng affor my face, With lyght of feyth, wisdom, doctryne, and grace, And mervelously eke enflamyd toward me Wyth the extyngwible fyre of Charyte. Wherefore, my welbelovid dowgthyr Katharyn, Syth I have made yow to myne awn semblance In my Chyrch to be maried, and your noble Childryn To regn in this land as in their enherytance, Se that ye have me in speciall remembrance: Love me and my Chyrch yowr spiritual modyr, For ye dispysing that oon, dyspyse that othyr. Look that ye walk in my precepts, and obey them well: And here I give you the same blyssyng that I Gave my well beloved chylder of Israell; Blyssyd be the fruyt of your bely; Yower substance and frutys I shall encrease and multyply; Yower rebellious Enimyes I shall put in yowr hand, Encreasing in honour both yow and yowr land. LOVEW. This would be censured now a days as profane to the highest degree. LOVEW. These things however are far from that which we understand by the name of a Play. Deus hic; the holy Trynyte Preserue all that now here be. Dere bretherne, yf ye will consyder The Cause why I am com hyder, Ye wolde be glad to knowe my entent; For I com not hyther for mony nor for rent, I com not hyther for meat nor for meale, But I com hyther for your Soules heale, &c. After a long Preamble, he addresses himself to Preach, when the Pardoner enters with these Words, God and St. Leonarde send ye all his grace As many as ben assembled in this place, &c. And makes a long Speech, shewing his Bulls and his Reliques, in order to sell his Pardons for the raising some Money towards the rebuilding, Of the holy Chappell of sweet saynt Leonarde, Which late by fyre was destroyed and marde. Both these speaking together, with continual interruption, at last they fall together by the Ears. Here the Curate enters Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page |
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