1605 - Breton, Nicholas - Poste with Mad Packet of Letters (pt 2) (3)
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
Allusion | |
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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]
Lists
- Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-11.
- Outside scope of Sussex, Lucy, compil. 'References to Robin Hood up to 1600', in: Knight, Stephen. Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw (Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1994), pp. 262-88.
Sources
Also see
- Allusions to festivals
- 1600 - Breton, Nicholas - Pasquil's Mistress (1)
- 1600 - Breton, Nicholas - Pasquil's Mistress (2)
- 1600 - Breton, Nicholas - Pasquil's Pass
- 1605 - Breton, Nicholas - Poste with Mad Packet of Letters (pt 2) (1)
- 1605 - Breton, Nicholas - Poste with Mad Packet of Letters (pt 2) (2)
- 1605 - Breton, Nicholas - Poste with Mad Packet of Letters (pt 2) (4).
Notes