 | Charles Creighton - Autobiography in literature - 1904 - 472 pages
...Terence, Mr. Will. Shakespeare," by John Davies (of Hereford), No. 159 of his Scourge of Folly, 1610 : Some say, good Will, which I in sport do sing, Hadst...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 honesty... | |
 | Cecil Eldred Hughes - English literature - 1904 - 368 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 a reigning wit : And honesty... | |
 | Karl Mantzius - Theater - 1904 - 302 pages
...performed " some kingly parts." x 1 " Some say, good Will, which I in sport do sing, Hadst thou not play"d some kingly parts in sport, Thou hadst been a companion for a king." The Scourge of Folly, by John Davies of Hereford ; quoted by Malone : Historical Account, p. 237. brother... | |
 | Morton Luce - 1907 - 498 pages
...SHAKESVEARE. Some say, good Will, which I in sport do sing, Hadst thou not played some kingly parts in spent, 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 honesty... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1907 - 238 pages
...Davies in his Scourge of Folly, 1607, addressing "Our English Terence, Mr. Will Shakespeare " :— "Thou hadst been a companion for a King And been a King among the meaner sort." My wife, not meanly proud of two such boys, Made daily motions for our home return : Unwilling I agreed... | |
 | Sir Granville George Greenwood - 1909 - 172 pages
...him that according to some, if he, "Will" to wit, had "not played some kingly parts in sport," he had been "a companion for a King" and been "a King among the meaner sort." The first "King" is thrown into italics, which is rather curious. Old writers sometimes put all their... | |
 | William Leavitt Stoddard - 1910 - 110 pages
...Folly" John Davies of Hereford wrote these verses, "To our English Terence, Mr. Will. Shake-speare " : Some say, good Will, (which I, in sport, do sing)...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 honesty... | |
 | H. Crouch Batchelor - 1912 - 156 pages
...Will," says that, "according to some, if he had not played some kingly parts in sport, he might have been a companion for a king" and "been a king among the meaner sort." were of ultra refinement and " caviare to the Romans " (see Smith's " Biographical Dictionary). From... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1912 - 386 pages
...Will." He remarks that, " as some say," if Will " had not played some Kingly parts in sport," he had been " a companion for a King," and " been a King among the meaner sort." Nobody, now, can see the allusion and the joke. Shakespeare's company, in 1604, acted a play on the... | |
 | Henry Pemberton, Mrs. Susan Lovering Pemberton - Shakespearian authorship - 1914 - 302 pages
...Will) which I, in sport, do sing, Had'st thou not plaid some Kingly parts in sport, Thou had'st bin a companion for a King; And been a King among the meaner sort, etc. This is the same Davies who, in another so-called epigram, laughed at actor Shakspere in his golden... | |
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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. 
