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dinner, and had Hamlet acted aboard me; which I permit to keep my people from idleness and unlawful games or sleep.
X. Pericles, 1609–1629.
(A) Allusion in anonymous poem called Pimlyco, or Run Red-Cap, 1609.
Amazed I stood, to see a crowdOf civil throats stretched out so loud,As at a new play all the roomsDid swarm with gentles mized with grooms;So that I truly thought all theseCame to see Shore[1] or Pericles.
(B) From Prologue to Robert Taylor’s play, The Hog hath Lost his Pearl, 1614.
And if it prove so happy as to please,We'll say ’tis fortunate, like Pericles.
(C) Ben Jonson, Ode to Himself, written after the failure of his play, The New Inn, in 1629.
No doubt some mouldy tale,Like Pericles, and staleAs the shrieve’s crusts, and nasty as his fish-Scraps, out of every dishThrown forth and raked into the common tub,May keep up the Play-club.There sweepings do as wellAs the best-ordered meal:For who the relish of these guests will fitNeeds sets them but the almsbasket of wit.
- ↑ Alluding probably to Thomas Heywood’s popular play of Edward IV, in two parts, which dealt largely with the sentimental tale of Jane Shore, that king’s mistress.