...to my brains, They had begun the play, — I sat me down, Devis'da new commission ; wrote it fair. 1 once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd muoh How to forget that learning ; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service. Wilt thou know...

...ridicule which, in "Hamlet," (Act V. sc. ii) he throws upon such as affected to write illegibly : " I once did hold it , as our statists do , A baseness to write fair." In truth , many of his dramatic contemporaries wrote excellently ; Ben Jonson's penmanship was beautiful....

...my brains , They had begun the play, — I sat me down , Devis'da new commission ; wrote it fair. l once did hold it, as our statists do , A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, Sir, now It did me yeoman's service. Wilt thou know...

...ridicule which, in " Hamlet," (act v. sc. 2) he throws upon such as affected to write illegibly : " T once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair." In truth, many of his dramatic contemporaries wrote excellently : Ben Jonson's penmanship was beautiful...

...ridicule which, in " Hamlet," (act v. sc. 2) he throws upon such as affected to write illegibly : " I onee did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair." In truth, many of his dramatic contemporaries wrote excellently : Ben Jonson's penmanship was beautiful...

...to my brains, They had begun the play, — 1 sat me down, Devis'da new commission ; wrote it fair. l'd the evil : A most miraculous work in this good king, Which often, labour'd much How to forget that learning ; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service. Wilt thou know...

...my brains, They had begun the play ; — I sat me down ; Devis'da new commission ; wrote it fair : I once did hold it, as our statists do *, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning ; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service ' : Wilt thou...

...from the ridicule which, in HAMLET, he throws upon such as affected to write illegibly : — '• 1 s Followers. He strikes his staff on London-stone. Cade. Now is In truth, many of his dramatic contemporaries wrote excellently : Ben Jonson's penmanship was beautiful...

...well as long as he lived. " J'ay apprins des l'enfance a les frotter de ma serviette et le matin, et a l'entrée et issue de la table." — L. 3, c. 13,...passage Fletcher is quoted (Woman Hater) to the same purport, and Montaigne, showing that this folly prevailed also in France. — BOSWELL'S Sh. vol. 7,...

...the commission.—Read it at more leisure. I sat me down ; Devis'da new commission ; wrote it fair. I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning ; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service. Wilt thou know...