1605 - Breton, Nicholas - Poste with Mad Packet of Letters (pt 2) (3)

From International Robin Hood Bibliography
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Date 1605
Author Breton, Nicholas
Title A Poste with a Mad Packet of Letters (part 2)
Mentions Maid Marion [Maid Marian]; morris dance; fool

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-02. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.

Allusion

28. A Letter to a proud Mistresse.
HOw beauty will make a Foole proud, I would your plaister worke did not witnesse: but had you wit to helpe wickednesse, you would put a Parrat out of countenance: your countenance is made after your conceit, as full of merrie tricks as a Monkey: and for your foot-pace, I thinke you haue sore héeles, you walke so nicely, as vpon egge-shels: your haire is none of your owne, and for your stéeple tire, it is like the gaud of a Maid-Marion, so that had you a foole by the hand, you might walke where you would in a Moris-dance: Oh fine come to it, how it fiddles like a Hackny that would tire at halfe a mile.[1]

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