..."here for many years Ben Jonson repaired with Shakespeare, Beaumont, Fletcher, Seiden, Cotton, Carew, petual triumph, an everlasting bonfire-light. Thou...thousand marks in links and torches, Һ г> -¡и < t" Of what passed at these many assemblies Beaumont thus speak«, addressing Bon Jonson...

...saw you ; for wit is like a rest Held up at tennis, which men do the best, With the best gamesters : whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest...

...saw you ; for wit is like a rest Held up at tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters: what things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of eubtile flame, Ae if that ever)' one from whence they came Hod meant to put his whole wit in a jest,...

...for many years, he regularly repaired with Shakespeare, Beaumont, Fletcher, Selden, Cotton, Carew, Martin, Donne, and many others, whose names, even...call up a mingled feeling of reverence and respect." Beaumont, in a charming poetical epistle addressed to Ben Jonson, describes the " wit-combats" in which...

...here, for many years, he regularly repaired with Ben Jonson, Beaumont, Fletcher, Selden, Cotton, Carew, Martin, Donne, and many others, whose names, even...call up a mingled feeling of reverence and respect. Here, in tho full flow and confidence of friendship, the lively and interesting 'wit combats' took...

...I saw you; for wit is like a rest Held up at Tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the 'Mermaid!' heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if that every one, from whom they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,...

...had ever found in beating of the watch. CHAPTER XXXIV. What things have we seen Done at THE MEHMAID : heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they camo Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest ! BEAUMONT. But that which most doth take...

...silence, at BO many brilliant imaginations, and watch the striking out of their fiery sparks of wit — " So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put hi* whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest 01 his dull life." " I was all ear...

...years he regularly repaired with Shakspeare, Beaumont, Fletcher, Selden, Cotton, Carew, Martin, Dounc, and many others, whose names, even at this distant...call up a mingled feeling of reverence and respect." Jonson has been accused of excess in wine ; and certainly temperance was not the virtue of his age....

...here for many years Ben Jonson repaired with Shakespeare, Beaumont, Fleteher, Selden, Cotton, Carew, Martin, Donne, and many others, whose names, even...seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been Bo nimble, and so full of subtle name, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his...