...writes 'Stella' of his dinner there. Beaumont thus reveals to Ben Jonson their convivial talk : — ' What things have we seen Done at the "Mermaid" ! heard...words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle fire, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved...

...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 whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,...

...tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters : what things have we seen Done at the Mermaid 1 heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest...

...the plorious eompany, I will here set down Franeis Jteaumont's deseription of their Wit-eomhats : " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom thoy eame Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his...

...boy ; No matter by what means.* Every Man in lus Humour. Act ii. Sc. 3. FRANCIS BEAUMONT. 1585-1616. 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 whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,...

...verses we have before quoted, and which are now trite. " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid I heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they cnme Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest...

...well-known description inclines one to believe that under no roof in England has better talk been heard : What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ? heard...so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest...

...know his famous and witty record of the renowned meetings at the Mermaid, in his poetical epistle to Ben Jonson : — " What things have we seen Done at...if that every one from whom they came Had meant to pot his whole wit in a jest, And bad resohr'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then, when...

...the "wit-combats" in which they had both of them so often borne a part in the Mermaid Tavern:— " What things have we seen Done at the 'Mermaid.' Heard...so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest...

...here, for many years, he regularly repaired with Shakspeare, Beaumont, Fletcher, Selden, Cotton, Carew, Martin, Donne, and many others whose names, even at...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...