...Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtill flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a foole the rest Of his dull life ... This was a merry and witty England, with all...

...damned fooL' Donald Barthelme, 1968, The Indian Uprising', in Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts 38:8 What things have we seen, / Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been / So nimble, and so full of subtil flame, / As if that every one from whence they came, / Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,...

...Sidney Circle", pp. 126-159. Beaumont hints at the secretive nature of the pursuits of the Mermaiders: "What things have we seen/ Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been/ So nimble, and so full of subtile flame." Chester published a collection of poems by himself and others such as Shakespeare,...

...second source is a verse letter to Ben Jonson, sometimes attributed to Francis Beaumont, that recalls: "What things have we seen, / Done at the Mermaid!...have been / So nimble, and so full of subtle flame." Even though it is true that Jonson can be linked to a series of meetings at various taverns like the...

...Club, and playwright Francis Beaumont speaks of those meetings in his poetic "Letter to Ben Jonson": What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard...so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit inagest, And had resolved to live a fool, the rest...

...Falstaffand his boys, the Mitre and the Mermaid as the poets knew them and handed them down to us: What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard...been So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if diat every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest. . . . CHAPTER VI SOCIAL...

...country, dated between 1609 and 1612, by Francis Beaumont, another of the circle (if only for a time): What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid? heard words that have been so nimble, & so full of subtil flame as if that every one from whom they came had meant to put his whole wit in...

...running south to the river from Cheapside. Francis Beaumont, poet and playwright, remembered this tavern: What things have we seen, Done at the Mermaid! heard...So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that everyone from whence they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a...

...Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtill flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a Jest, And had resolv'd to live a foole the rest Of his dull life; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough...