The plays of William Shakspeare Volume 22

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1802 Excerpt: ...houses, and the stages, seudeth in gearilh apparell, maskes, vautiug, tumbling, daunting of g'gges, galiardes, morisces, hobbi-horses," 8cc. and in Green's Tu Quoque, 1614, the fame expression occurs: "The other hobby-horse I perceive it not forgotten." In TEXNOTAMIA, or The Marriage os the Arts, 1618, is the following st ige-dir. ction: " tnicr a hobby-horse, dancing the morrice," See. Again, in Beaumont and Fletcher's Women Flensed: " Soto. Shall the hi)bb-harse be forgot then, " The hopeful hobby-horse, shall Uc lie founder'd?" Trumpets sound. The dumb Jliow follows. " Enter a king and a queen, very lovingly; the queen embracing him, and lie her. She kneels, and makesJJiow ojprolejlation unto him. He takes her up, and declines his head upon her neck: lays him down upon a bank ofjlowers; jhe, Jeeing him asleep, leaves him. Anon, comes.in ajelloiu, takes off his crown, kijfes it, and pours poison in the kings ears, and exit. The queen returns; finds the king dead, and makes passionate action. The poisoner, with some two or three mutes, comes in again, seeming to lament with her. The dead body is carried away. The poisoner woes the queen with gifts; Jhe stems loath and unwilling awhile, but in the end, accepts his love. Exeunt, Oph. What means this, my lord? Ham. Marry, this is michingmallecho; it means mischief.5 The scene in which this passage.is, will very amply confirm all that Dr. Warburton has said concerning the hoity-horst. Again, in Benjonson's Entertainment for the Queen and Prince at Althorpe: " But see the hobby-horse is forgot, " Fool, it mull be your' lot, " To supply his want with faces " And some other buffoon graces." See figure 5, in tbe plate at the end of the First Par...