 | James H. Forse - 1993 - 314 pages
...and sober attention of the audiences, and the fact that the only casualties from the Globe fire were "a few forsaken cloaks; only one man had his breeches set on fire, that, a provident wit put it out with bottle ale," testifies that even under threatening conditions, playgoers... | |
 | R. B. Parker, Sheldon P. Zitner - 1996 - 340 pages
...Henry Wotton's account of the destruction by fire of the Globe in 1613 omits Wotton's statement that "nothing did perish but wood and straw and a few forsaken...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit put it out with bottle ale." This strategic... | |
 | J. R. Mulryne, Margaret Shewring, Andrew Gurr - 1997 - 208 pages
...than an hour the whole house to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw,...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit put it out with bottle ale. John Chamberlain... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 pages
...than an hour the whole house to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit put it out with bottle ale. If Wotton was... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2008 - 246 pages
...than an hour the whole house to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw,...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit put it out with bottle ale.1 Doubtless... | |
 | Ian Wilson - 1999 - 564 pages
...owed their lives that day to the fact that well-seasoned oak burns very slowly, for in Wotton's words: nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit put it out with bottle ale.45 In a manner... | |
 | Glynne Wickham, Herbert Berry, William Ingram - 2000 - 768 pages
...than an hour the whole house to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw...had his breeches set on fire that would perhaps have broiled him if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit put it out with bottle ale. (c) Letter,... | |
 | Park Honan - 1998 - 522 pages
...than an hour the whole house to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw,...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit put it out with bottle ale.31 Bluett adds... | |
 | Anthony B. Dawson, Paul Yachnin - 2001 - 240 pages
...than an hour the whole house to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of that vertuous fabrique; wherein yet nothing did perish, but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks. ' Whether Wotton was an eyewitness or whether he was merely reporting the incident second hand is not... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2003 - 494 pages
...ground. Miraculously, the diplomat Sir Henry Wotton wrote in a letter to his nephew Sir Edmund Bacon, 'nothing did perish but wood and straw and a few forsaken...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit put it out with bottle ale.' Another account... | |
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This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabrick; wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks; only one man had his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not, by the benefit of a provident... 
