This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1812 edition. Excerpt: ... 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 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1812 edition. Excerpt: ... 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, 1 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!"--Bury Fair, Load. 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, Bert Jonson's son, and afterward an intimate crony of Jack Cleaveland and Tom Randal, have kept coinVOl. XIV. 2 F pany with wits, and been accounted a wit these fifty years, live to be deposed by you? "Laiiv Fantait. Ha, ha, ha! "Oldwit. Ha, ha, ha f I that was a judge at Blackfriars, writ before Fletcher's works and Cartwright's, taught even...
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