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Last , for the ladies , 'tis Apollo ' s will They should have power to save , but not to kill ; For love and he long since have thought it fit , Wit live by beauty , beauty reign by wit . "
Be't known that Phcebus ( being daily griev'd T $ see good plays condemn'd and bad receiv'd ) Ordains your judgment upon every cause Henceforth be limited by wholesome laws . He first thinks fit no sonnittier advance His censure farther than the song or dance ; Your wit-burlesque may one step higher climb ,
And in his sphere may judge all doggrel rhime : All proves , and moves , and loves , and honours too , All that appears high sense , and scarce is low . As for the coffee-wits- 'he says not much , Their proper bus ' ness is to d—n the Dutch . For the great dons of wit—— ¦¦' ¦ . Phoebus gives them full privilege alone To d—n all others , and cry up their own .
At the beginning of the eighteenth century , we learn from Maitland that there were five hundred and fifty-one coffee-houses . These , as the booksellers shops , were the emporium of the literati of the day ; and as great activity was manifested there , as now in Paternosterrow , which superseded about the year 1750 Little Britain , then the
rendezvous of the trade . The following are advertisements of books sold in this street , printed in the Commonwealth Mercury for November 25 , 1658 : —
' THE Pom traiture of his Royal Highness Oliver , late Lord Protector , & c , in his Life and Heath , with a short view of his Government , and the manner of his Funeral Solemnity , on Tuesday , Novemb . 23 . " A Brief Chronology of the most remarkahle Passages and Transactions , which occurred since his late Renowned Highness , Oliver , Lord Protector , was Invested with the Government of the Commonwealth , with the Manner of his Death , and the Description of his lying in State at Somerset House , set forth with a Brass cut , and printed in a large sheet of one side .
" Both sold by Ed . Thomas , at the Adam and Eve , in Little Britain , and at other Booksellers' shops . " The Adam and Uve was a tavern , as the Half Moon , where " the Roaring Lads of Little Britain" nsed to meet , and , for aught we know to ° the contrary , meet still , to hear among other songs , some similar to Gammer Grurton ' s " Confession of Faith / ' which we
transcribe from " The Sketch-Book : "u cannot eate but lytle meate , My stomacke is not good , But sure I thinke that I can drinke , With him that wears a hood .
Though I go bare , take ye no care , I nothing am a colde , I stuff my skyn so full within , Of joly good ale and olde . Chorus . —Backe and syde go bare , go bare , Booth foote and hand go colde , But belly , God send thee good ale ynoughc , Whether it be new or olde .
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Last , for the ladies , 'tis Apollo ' s will They should have power to save , but not to kill ; For love and he long since have thought it fit , Wit live by beauty , beauty reign by wit . "
Be't known that Phcebus ( being daily griev'd T $ see good plays condemn'd and bad receiv'd ) Ordains your judgment upon every cause Henceforth be limited by wholesome laws . He first thinks fit no sonnittier advance His censure farther than the song or dance ; Your wit-burlesque may one step higher climb ,
And in his sphere may judge all doggrel rhime : All proves , and moves , and loves , and honours too , All that appears high sense , and scarce is low . As for the coffee-wits- 'he says not much , Their proper bus ' ness is to d—n the Dutch . For the great dons of wit—— ¦¦' ¦ . Phoebus gives them full privilege alone To d—n all others , and cry up their own .
At the beginning of the eighteenth century , we learn from Maitland that there were five hundred and fifty-one coffee-houses . These , as the booksellers shops , were the emporium of the literati of the day ; and as great activity was manifested there , as now in Paternosterrow , which superseded about the year 1750 Little Britain , then the
rendezvous of the trade . The following are advertisements of books sold in this street , printed in the Commonwealth Mercury for November 25 , 1658 : —
' THE Pom traiture of his Royal Highness Oliver , late Lord Protector , & c , in his Life and Heath , with a short view of his Government , and the manner of his Funeral Solemnity , on Tuesday , Novemb . 23 . " A Brief Chronology of the most remarkahle Passages and Transactions , which occurred since his late Renowned Highness , Oliver , Lord Protector , was Invested with the Government of the Commonwealth , with the Manner of his Death , and the Description of his lying in State at Somerset House , set forth with a Brass cut , and printed in a large sheet of one side .
" Both sold by Ed . Thomas , at the Adam and Eve , in Little Britain , and at other Booksellers' shops . " The Adam and Uve was a tavern , as the Half Moon , where " the Roaring Lads of Little Britain" nsed to meet , and , for aught we know to ° the contrary , meet still , to hear among other songs , some similar to Gammer Grurton ' s " Confession of Faith / ' which we
transcribe from " The Sketch-Book : "u cannot eate but lytle meate , My stomacke is not good , But sure I thinke that I can drinke , With him that wears a hood .
Though I go bare , take ye no care , I nothing am a colde , I stuff my skyn so full within , Of joly good ale and olde . Chorus . —Backe and syde go bare , go bare , Booth foote and hand go colde , But belly , God send thee good ale ynoughc , Whether it be new or olde .