 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1916 - 228 pàgines
...Folly ' has lines addressed ' To our English Terence, Mr. Will Shakespeare,' in which he declares, " Hadst thou not played some kingly parts in sport, Thou hadst been a companion for a king." Aubrey is more specific: he tells us Shakespeare " was a handsome well-shaped man." His earliest biographer,... | |
 | Charlotte Carmichael Stopes - 1916 - 376 pàgines
...justly admire," "That made the dainty playes," "His song was worthy merit," " Our ever-living poet." " Hadst thou not played some kingly parts in sport, Thou hadst been a companion for a king." "With good parts, and all good," "Yet generous ye are in mind and mood." " Shakespeare, that nimble... | |
 | Charlotte Carmichael Stopes - 1916 - 376 pàgines
...admire," "That made the dainty playes," "His song was worthy merit," " Our ever-living poet." " Haclst thou not played some kingly parts in sport, Thou hadst been a companion for a king." "With good parts, and all good," "Yet generous ye are in mind arid mood." " Shakespeare, that nimble... | |
 | Alexander Cargill - 1916 - 230 pàgines
...(1610?), by John Davies of Hereford. < Epigram 159. To our English Terence Mr. Will. Shake-speare e Some say good Will (which I, in sport, do sing) Had'st thou not plaid some Kingly parts in sport, Thou hadst bin a companion for a King ; And, beene a King among the... | |
 | John Rylands Library - 1918 - 620 pàgines
...courage, good shape, good panes, and all good " ; elsewhere he mentions Shakespeare personally : " Some say (good Will) which I, in sport, do sing, Had'st thou not plaid some kingly parts in sport, Thou hadst bin a companion for a King, And beene a king among the... | |
 | Edward Walter Smithson - 1922 - 242 pàgines
...Satyricall Epigramms and others." I fancy there is a good deal of the " Satyricall " in the following : Some say (good Will) which I, in sport, do sing, Hadst thou not plaid some Kingly parts in sport, Thou hadst bin a companion for a King ; And, beene a King among the... | |
 | Joseph Quincy Adams - 1923 - 720 pàgines
...blood, Yet generous ye are in mind and mood. In the same apologetic vein Davies addresses a poem — To our English Terence, Mr. Will. Shake-speare. Some...in sport, Thou hads't been a companion for a king. 1 In Humor's Heaven on Earth, ed. by Grosart, p. 37. A marginal note to the word "some " reads " WSRB"... | |
 | Harold C. Goddard - 2009 - 410 pàgines
...one day among Elizabethan allusions to Shakespeare, I ran on these lines of John Davies of Hereford: To our English Terence, Mr. Will Shake-speare Some...(good Will) which I, in sport, do sing Had'st thou not plaid some kingly parts in sport, Thou hadst been a companion for a king: And beene a king among the... | |
 | Muriel Clara Bradbrook - 1979 - 204 pàgines
...'civil' in demeanour; he was called 'friendly' Shakespeare. Years later, John Davis of Hereford wrote 'To our English Terence, Mr Will. Shakespeare' : Some say, good Will, which I in sport do sing, Had thou not played some kingly parts in sport, Thou hadst been a companion for a king, And lived a... | |
 | Samuel Schoenbaum - 1987 - 420 pàgines
...Davies of Hereford in his Scourge of Folly, if cryptic, has at least the merit of being contemporary: Some say (good Will)— which I, in sport, do sing—...Hadst thou not played some kingly parts in sport, 200 Thou hadst been a companion for a king. And been a king among the meaner sort.25 In what sense... | |
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Some Say good Will (which I, in sport, do sing) Had'st thou not plaid some Kingly parts in sport, Thou hadst bin a companion for a King; And, beene a King among the meaner sort. 
