Praeludium
| dc.contributor | Warren, Murray Magdalen College, University of Oxford |
| dc.contributor.author | Randolph, Thomas, 1605-1635 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-21T15:55:34Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T15:55:34Z |
| dc.date.created | 1630 |
| dc.identifier | ota:0116 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/0116 |
| dc.description.abstract | Mode of access: Online. OTA website |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 6.48 KB) |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Legacy Collection |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Plays -- England -- 17th century |
| dc.title | Praeludium |
| dc.type | Text |
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| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 6645 |
| files.count | 1 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1600-1699 |
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<A RANDOLPH> <T PRAELUDIUM> <S GENT> Ho! Histrio! I thought a presse had swallowed you all, tis so long since I saw a Comedie: haue you not for want of exercise forgot your quality? Can you stroddle as wide, and talke as loud as you were wont to doe? <S HIST.> Wee will Sir stretch legs and mouth to doe your seruice; though in this dead vacation the one hath beene onely employed in the others errands; the feet had little else to doe but to walke away the stomacke. <S GENT> Well I am glad the gagg is out of your mouth; wee haue had a great dearth of witt all ouer the tauernes and ordinaryes, for want of new wordes, and had you been longer suppresst, wee must either haue new studyed Eupheus, or returned to Greene's Arcadia, or haue cald in fidlers and said nothing - drinking in silence would haue come up againe. <S HIST> It has beene a wretched time with us I'me sure all ouer the towne, such an alteration cleane through 'um. A fellow that has been big enough to play Hercules, is fal . . .
