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Survey of London
… and variety The Faithful Shepherdess is (not excepting Ben Jonson's Sad Shepherd) the sweetest of English pastoral …
Survey of London
… entertained by the performance of a masque written by Ben Jonson called The Penates, a private entertainment by Sir …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… work. [D; Bedford Office, London] Bretherton, William, Ben Jonson St, Liverpool, chairmaker (1810). [D] Bretland, …
A History of the County of Oxford
A History of the County of Oxford
… The phrase 'a Banbury man' occurs in 1614 in Ben Jonson's play Bartholomew Fair, where it refers specifically … phrase 'the loud pure wives of Banbury' in a masque by Ben Jonson in 1621 and a possible reference to a woman preacher …
Old and New London
… Vandyke the painter, who died close by; Inigo Jones, Ben Jonson's rival in the Court masques of James and Charles; Sir …
Survey of London
… 101). In a poem published in 1642 Kynaston makes use of Jonson's taunting nick-name for 'Marquis-would-be Jones'. 26 …
Old and New London
… "Sydney's sister, Pembroke's mother" (immortalised by Ben Jonson's epitaph); and at her table Shakespeare may have … got'st thou this coat, I marle?" says Well-bred in Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humour; to which Brainworm answers, …
Old and New London
… built in its room. Randolph, the dramatist, a pupil of Ben Jonson's, ridicules, in The Muses' Looking-Glass, that … his, the Puritan feather-sellers of Blackfriars, whom Ben Jonson also taunts; Randolph's pretty Puritan, Mrs. … are sincere professors, Should gain by infidels." Ben Jonson, that smiter of all such hypocrites, wrote Volpone at …
Old and New London
… Lord Russell. Lucy, Countess of Bedford, to whom Ben Jonson addresses several of his best epigrams, sister and … whom this lady specially bestowed her munificence were Ben Jonson, Drayton, Daniel, and Donne; and they have all paid … of a garden that he ever saw." She died in 1627. Ben Jonson thus addresses her: "Lucy, you brightness of our …
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