Bartholomew Fair - Results found: 81
an old reverende smocke. an old woman. and hee y
t maryes such a one doth bind himselfe to a dead carcasse thou must come unto them as thou to must unto a tombe w
th a torch or three handfull of linke steaming hot, and soe thou maist hap to make them feele thee marry an old thing?
By Quarlous,
in Bartholomew Fair (1.3.50-63),
Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 70v
I should rather desire of fate canst thou endure to heare 15 sermons
a weeke for her, and such course and lowde ones, as some of them must
bee. i would een desire
of fate y
t i might dwell in a drumme, and take my sustenance w
th an old broken to= bacco -pipe and a straw. dost thou ever thinke to bring thine eares or stomacke, to y
e patience
of a drie grace, as long as y
e table-cloth, and droand out til all y
e meate on y
e board has
forgot, it was y
t day in y
e kitchin. or to brooke y
e noise made in question of predes=tinacō n, by y
e good labourers and painefull eaters, assembled together, put to them by y
e matron your spouse; who moderates w
th a cup of wine ever and anon, and a sentence
out of Knox beetweene? or y
e ppetual spitting before and after a sober drawne
exhortacōn of 6 houres, whose better part was y
e hum-ha-hum: or to heare praiers
groand out over thy iron chaffs, as if they were charmes to breake’em. and all
this to suffer for the hope of 2 apostle- spoones, and a cup to eat a candle in.
By Quarlous,
in Bartholomew Fair (1.3.65-78),
Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 70v
hee will name you all y
e signes over, as hee goes, aloud, and where hee spies a parrot,
or monky, there hee is pitchd, w
th all y
e little long coates about him male and fe= male; noe getting him away! I thought hee would ha’ runn mad o’the blacke
boy in bucklers-bury, y
t takes y
e scuryscurvy, roguy tobacco there.
By Wasp,
in Bartholomew Fair (1.4.86-90),
Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 70v
verily it may bee eaten, very excee= ding well eaten, but in y
e faire and as a bartholmew pig, it cannot be eaten, for y
e
very calling it a bartholmew - pigg, and to eat it soe, is a spice of idolatry, and you
make y
e faire, noe better then one of y
e high place.
By Busy,
in Bartholomew Fair (1.6.42-45),
Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 71v
however now I thinke of it, thou it hath a face of offence
a great face, a foule face, yet y
t face may have a vaile put over it, and be shad-
dowed as it were, it may bee eaten and in y
e fayre I take it, in a booth y
e tents
of y
e wicked: y
e place is not much not very much wee may bee religious in midst
of y
e ꝑphane, soe it bee eaten
swith a reformed mouth, with sobriety, and humbleness
By Busy,
in Bartholomew Fair (1.6.56-60),
Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 71v