The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher (Volume 13-14); In Fourteen Volumes with an Introduction and Explanatory Notes. Francis Beaumont
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Author: Francis Beaumont
Number of Pages: 266 pages
Published Date: 02 Jan 2012
Publisher: General Books
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781234956233
File size: 49 Mb
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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1812. Excerpt: ... 1 ADDENDA, &c. Vol. I. p. lxi.] The following passages in one of Shadwell's comedies convey some information respecting Fletcher's private life, which, there is every reason to suppose, was derived from traditional anecdote, or, perhaps, from the communication of some antiquated wit, who survived the Restoration long enough to have served as the prototype of Oldwit, the character, who, in the following speeches, boasts acquaintance with the principal poets of King Charles I.'s reign: " I myself, simple as I stand here, was a wit in the last age: I was created Ben Jonson's son, in the Apollo. I knew Fletcher, my friend Fletcher, and his maid Joan: Well, I shall never forget him; I have supped with him at his house on the Bankside: He loved a fat loin of pork of all things in the world; and Joan, his maid, had her beer-glass of sack; and we all kissed her, i'faith, and were as merry as passed. " Wildish. This was enough to make any man a wit. " Oldwit. Puh! This was nothing. I was a critic at Blackfriars; but at Cambridge, none so great as I, with Jack Cleaveland: but Tom Randal and I were hand and glove: Tom was a brave fellow; the most natural poet 1"--Bury Fair, Lond. 1689* 4to, p. 6. And again in the second act: " Lady Fantast. If ever you had wit, it is obliterated, antiquated, and buried in the grave of oblivion. " Oldwit. No wit 1 Ounds, now you provoke me. Shall I, who was Jack Fletcher's friend, Ben Jonson's son, and afterward an intimate crony of Jack Cleaveland and Tom Randal, have kept com VOL. XIV. 2 F pany with wits, and been accounted a wit these fifty years, live t- be deposed by you ? " Lady Fantast. Ha, ha, ha ! " Oldvrit. Ha, ha, ha ? I that was a judge at Black friars, writ before Fletcher's works and Cartwright's, taught even Taylor and the best of the...
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