Gents Mag 1821 part 1 p.24
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Gentleman's Magazine 1821 part 1 p.24
another suit, for the good service it had done him, made of it this epitaph, "Here lie in peace, thou patient overcommer, Of two cold Winters, and one scorching Summer." p.10. No.37. A Spanish Traveller. - A Spaniard travelling from Dover towards London, being benighted, was forc'd to knock at a poore Alehouse for lodging; the Hostesse demanding his name, he told her it was Don Pedro Gonzales Gaietan, de Guevezra: to whom the good woman answered, 'Alas, Sir, my small house neither affords roome nor meat for so many," p.25. No.106. "A Gormandgizer.- A Gormandgizing fellow protesting to a friend of his, that hee loved him as well as he loved his soule: I thanke you, Sir (said he) with all my heart; but I had rather you loved me as well as you love your body." p.89.The second part of this Work was printed by M. Flesher, for Richard Royston, in Ivy-lane, 1633, p.156; and is accompanied by the following poetical apology: "My eldest brother, having had the grace, Of three Impressions (late) in two yeares space, Now ready for the fourth, imboldens me To Presse unto the world hoping as free A welcome as he had, since to your view, I come in colours fresh, in habit new. Borne without teeth we both were, that's to excite To mirth and sport, neither to snarle or bite. And in the second course you shall not faile, Jeare for his Jest, taunt ready for his Tale." No.143. "One being demanded why great men were not so liberall to Poets in these our dayes, as in former times, and they have been made answer: that their consciences tell them how unworthy they are of praises given them by Poets." p.119. No.186. "Hard of Beliefe.- I have heard of a great Magistrate, that being often deceived by false rumours of Queen Elizabeth's death, protested that hee would never believe shee was dead, untill he saw it under her owne hand." p.146.This story has since found its way into more recent collections. Such are the leading features in Anecdotal History, prior to the Rebellion, when Wit was proscribed in common with Art and Science. ... ... .. |
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