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A History of the County of Middlesex
… or Parks.' 468 Anne of Denmark shared this taste, and Ben Jonson called her 'the Huntress Queen.' 469 On 20 September …
Old and New London
… at their looms, as mentioned by Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. "I would I were a weaver," says Falstaff; "I could sing all manner of songs." And Cutbeard, in Ben Jonson's Silent Woman, remarks, "He got his cold with sitting …
Old and New London
… particular mention here, as the intimate friend of Ben Jonson, who thus speaks of his translation of Homer: "Whose … and was more than once imprisoned, along with Ben Jonson, for the freedom of his pen. Chapman and Fletcher, indeed, were Jonson's most intimate friends. He told Drummond of …
Old and New London
… constantly imported into the comedies of the time by Ben Jonson and other authors. From the allusions to them which … larger and more imposing edifices built at one time. Ben Jonson was born in Hartshorn Lane, near Northumberland House, … of loose characters, among whom, in the words of Ben Jonson, "the quarrelling lesson was read, and the seconds …
Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
… in Grey's Chorographia, and said to have been made by Ben Jonson, the poet, concerning this steeple : "My altitude …
Old and New London
… Falstaff hire red-nosed Bardolph in St. Paul's, and Ben Jonson lays the third act of his Every Man in his Humour in …
Old and New London
… "meat dressed at Pie Corner by greasy scullions;" and Ben Jonson writes in the Alchemist (1612) "I shall put you in …
A collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe
… what Janning says to Lombard, and how hee is reseaved by Jonson, that I have now to say: farewell. The 15 th of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… or the road beside a stream north of the church (later Ben Jonson Road) leading towards Rogueswell common. 74 By 1577 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the very wealthy Thomas Sutton (d. 1611), original of Ben Jonson's Volpone, and Dudley's daughter Anne. 37 Anne's …