 I have heard, sir, That your baboons were spies, and that they were A kind of subtle nation near to China. Sir P. Ay, ay, your Mamaluchi.  Works - Page 201by Ben Jonson - 1875Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 690 pages
...easily read the cypher. Per. I have heard, He could not read, sir. PoL So 'twas given out, (In polity) by those that did employ him ; But he could read,...sound a noddle — Per. I have heard, sir, That your Babiouns were spies ; and that they were A kind of subtle nation, near to China. Pol. Ay, ay, your... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1811 - 790 pages
...Convey an answer in a tooth-pick. Per. Strange ! How could this be, sir î Pot. Why, the meat was cut So like his character, and so laid, as he Must easily read the cypher. Per. I have heard, He could not read, sir. Pol. So 'twas given out (In politic) by those that... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 698 pages
...Convey an answer in a tooth-pick. Per. Strange ! How could this be, sir ? Pol. Why the meat was cut So like his character, and so laid, as he Must easily read the cypher. Per. I have heard, He could not read, sir. PoL So 'twas given out, (In polity) by those that... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 696 pages
...Convey an answer in a tooth-pick. Per. Strange ! How could this be, sir ? Po!. Why ihe meat was cut *ч> s very cypher. it r. I have heard, He could not read, sir. PoL So 'twas given out, ' In polity) by those that... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 518 pages
...Convey an answer in a tooth-pick. Per. Strange! How could this be, sir? Sir P. Why, the meat was cut So like his character, and so laid, as he Must easily read the cipher, * He has received meekly intelltgence, Out of the Low Countries, in cabbages ; ] This is not an expression... | |
 | Opie Staite - 1844 - 114 pages
...what you are about.'" Ben Jonson refers to a cognate cozenage in his Volpone;— " The meat was cut So like his character, and so laid, as he Must easily read the cypher." The path of the mesmerist, unhappily for the cause of science, has been beset by unprincipled... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 550 pages
...serves to point out that propriety and decorum, which so strongly mark the character of Jonson. WHAL. So like his character, and so laid, as he Must easily...cipher. Per. I have heard, He could not read, sir. OO twitS glvdFl OUt, In policy, by those that did employ him : But he could read, and had your languages,... | |
 | Oswald Crawfurd - 1883 - 326 pages
...answer in a tooth-pick. Peregrine. Strange ! How could this be, sir? Sir Politich. Why, the meat was cut So like his character, and so laid, as he Must easily read the cipher. Peregrine. I have heard, He could not read, sir. Sir Politich. So 'twas given out, In policy, by those... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1890 - 344 pages
...Convey an answer in a toothpick. Per. Strange ! How could this be, sir ? Sir P. Why, the meat was cut So like his character, and so laid, as he Must easily...him : But he could read, and had your languages, And to 't, as sound a noddle Per. I have heard, sir, That your baboons were spies, and that they were A... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1894 - 440 pages
...Sir P. Why, the meat was cut So like his character, and so laid as he Must easily read the cypher. Per. I have heard, He could not read, sir. Sir P....him : But he could read, and had your languages* And to 't, as sound a noddle That your baboons were spies, and that they were A kind of subtle nation near... | |
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