 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1884 - 854 pages
...him in Davies' Scourge of Folly (Ш1)— 'Some say, good Will, which I in sport do" sing, Hadst thoü not played some kingly parts in sport, Thou hadst been a companion fora king, And heen a king among the meaner sort ' — we may infer that he played the part of a king... | |
 | Caroline Wells Healey Dall - Dramatists, English - 1885 - 232 pages
...addresses him thus in his " Scourge ofFollie,"1610: — " To our English Terence, Mr. Will Shakspere : " Some say, good Will, which I in sport do sing, Hadst...for a king And been a king among the meaner sort. Some others raile ; but raile as they think fit Thou hast no railing but a raigning wit ; And honesty... | |
 | Caroline Wells Healey Dall - Dramatists, English - 1885 - 216 pages
...Davies in 1610, in the " Scourge of Follie:" — " Some say, good Will, which I in sport do sing, Hadat thou not played some kingly parts in sport, Thou hadst...for a king And been a king among the meaner sort. " The first publisher who attempted to publish the Sonnets, however, only succeeded in getting hold... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1887 - 596 pages
...to his failing of the appointment : " Hadst thou not play'd some kingly parts in sport, Thou haclst been a companion for a king, And been a king among the meaner son." In another poem entitled Humour's Heaven on Earth, 1609, Davies alludes to certain " stage-players,"... | |
 | Robert Waters - 1888 - 362 pages
...him personally, has, in his " Scourge of Folly," published in 1611, this excellent epigram on him : Some say, good Will, which I in sport do sing, Hadst...for a king, And been a king among the meaner sort. He seems to have been especially fond of a genial, witty, and open-hearted companion. He was doubtless... | |
 | Gerald Massey - 1888 - 512 pages
...1C11)— "Some say (Rood Will) which I, in sport, do sing, Hadst thou not played some kingly |s,rts in sport, Thou hadst been a companion for a king ; And, been a king among the meaner sort. Some others rail; but, rail as they think fit, Thou hast no railing, but, a reigning wit: And houesty... | |
 | Charlotte Carmichael Stopes - 1889 - 296 pages
...Hereford mentions Shakspere in the most complimentary manner, as a man fit to be a companion to a king. " Some say (good Will), which I, in sport do sing, Hadst...sport, Thou hadst been a companion for a king — And beene a king among the meaner sorte. Some others rail, but rail as they think fitt, Thou hast no rayling... | |
 | Thomas William White - 1892 - 326 pages
...Hereford, 1611, 'Scourge of Folly ' (C. of P. p. 94). To our English Terence, Mr. Will Shakespeare. Some say, good Will, which I in sport do sing, Hadst...for a king, And been a king among the meaner sort. Thomas Freeman, 1614 (C. of P. p. 106). Shakspeare, that nimble Mercury, thy brain Lulls many hundred... | |
 | Lady Strachey (Jane Maria) - English poetry - 1894 - 376 pages
...Terence, Mr. Will. Shakespeare. SOME say, good Will, which I, in sport, do sing, Had'st thou not play'd some kingly parts in sport, Thou had'st been a companion...for a king ; And been a king among the meaner sort. Some others rail; but, rail as they think fit, Thou hast no railing, but an honest wit: And honesty... | |
 | Alfred van der Velde - Theater - 1894 - 48 pages
...satirischen Schrift: „Some say, good Will, which I in sport do sing, Hadst thou not play'd some kingly part in sport, Thou hadst been a companion for a king, And been a king among the meaner sort." *°) Er soll — nach Karl Elze's Angabe im Shakespeare-Jahrbuch XIV, 12 — auch in Deutschland gereist... | |
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: — " Some say, good Will, which I, in sport, do sing, Had'st thou not played some kingly parts in sport, Thou hadst been a companion for a king, And been a King among the meaner sort. 
