The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists. THOMAS DEKKER
Reading edition
EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, By Ernest Rhys.
“I lie and dream of your full Mermaid wine.”—Beaumont.
UNEXPURGATED EDITION.
LONDON: VIZETELLY & CO., 42, CATHERINE ST., STRAND. 1887.
“What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.”
Master Francis Beaumont to Ben Jonson.
“Souls of Poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?”
Keats.
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