Would I ever have my picture drawn, the painter should steal it, when wn I were devoutly kneelḡ at my praiers:
There then a heavenly Beauty in the face: the soul
moves in the Superficies—
By Leonora,
in The Devil's Law Case (1.1.134-135),
John Webster
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 69
Out of ye epistle
A great part of ye grace of this ( I confesse ) lay in ye action; yet can noe action ever bee
gracious, where ye decency of language, and ingenious structure of ye scene, arrive
not to make up a part harmony.
By Epistle,
in The Devil's Law Case (ToTheReader),
John Webster
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 74r
With what a compeld face a woman sits / While shee is drawing! I have noted divers / either
to faine smiles, or sucke in ye lips / to have a little mouth; ruffle ye cheekes / to have ye
dimple seene ,and soe disorder ye face wth affectat on, at ye nex sitting / it has not been ye same
By Leonora,
in The Devil's Law Case (1.1.148-154),
John Webster
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 74v
in deed if ever I would have my face drawne to ye life, I would have a painter steale
it, at such a time, I were devoutly kneeling at my praiers, there is then a heaven
ly beautie in't, ye soule mooves in ye superficies.
By Leonora,
in The Devil's Law Case (1.1.160-164),
John Webster
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 74v
+
Too much light / makes you moone-eyed, are you in love wth title? / I will have a herauld,
whose continuall practise / is all in pedigree, come awooing to you, oran antiquary in
old buskins.
By Romelio,
in The Devil's Law Case (1.2.42-45),
John Webster
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 74v
You yt dwel neere these graves and vaults / wch oft doe hide physitians faults / note what
a smal roome does suffice / to expresse mens good. their vanities / would fill more
volume in smal hand / than all ye evidence of Church-land/
By Romelio,
in The Devil's Law Case (2.3.98-103),
John Webster
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 75r
xx
Oh looke ye last
acte bee ye best i'th play, / and then rest gentle bones, yet pray / yt when by ye
precye you are viewed, / a supersede as bee not sued, to remove you to a place
more ayrie /
By Romelio,
in The Devil's Law Case (2.3.112-116),
John Webster
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 75r
Act. 3.
To poison a man by pulling but a loose hair from's beard, or give a drench
hee should linger of it nine yeares, and nere complaine, but in ye spring and fall,
and for ye cause imputed to ye desease natural.
By Romelio,
in The Devil's Law Case (3.2.8-11),
John Webster
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 75r
+
ye court is or should bee a bright Christal mirrour to ye world, to dresse it selfe; but
I must tel you, could ye excellency of ye place have wrought salvation, ye devil had nere falne from heaven
By Romelio,
in The Devil's Law Case (3.3.11-15),
John Webster
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 75r
+
a pettifogging subsumner, who is good for nought, / unless 't be to fill ye office full of
fleas, / or a winter itch wears yt spatious inkehorne / all ye vacation unless onely
to cure tetters, / and his penknife to weed cornes from from the splay toes / of the right
worshipfull of ye office.
By Ariosto,
in The Devil's Law Case (4.1.49-54),
John Webster
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 75v
Shees a lady who hath outdone example
When I trespasse in ought but duty and
respects of service may hopes of joy for
sake me,
By Camillo,
in The White Devil (4.2.79-83),
John Webster
in Folger MS V.a.87, f. 34v
There are not Jewes enough; for why else do so many Xns
turn Userers? Nor priests enough; else why should one
have 6. Benefices? Nor Gentlemen enough; why else one shew so many Mushroms of Gentility, yt spring up suddenly evy day frō a Dunghill?
By Flamineo,
in The White Devil (3.3.41-45),
John Webster
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 18, f.5
comfortable words or good councell, giuen by one in prosperity toanothrin adversity, lyke hony
relisheth well in yegiuers mouth that is whole, but in yeothersytis wounded or sore,yepasse as if ye sting of ye bee
wer in them.
By Flamineo,
in The White Devil (3.2.p.65),
John Webster
in Bodleian Library MS English poetry d. 3, f. 42v
good reasonyt
noblemen bee priuiledd from ye rack
for a little thing wold pull them apeeces
Alcestides objecting
to to ,ythee had onely in three days composed three
verses, wheras him self had written three hundred
Thou tel'st truth quoth hee but heer yt difference,
thyne shall onely bee redd for three days wheras mine
shall continue three ages.
By To the Reader,
in The White Devil (To the Reader, p.7),
John Webster
in Bodleian Library MS English poetry d. 3, f. 42v