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Do you take the court for Paris-garden? ye rude slaves, leave your gaping.
Act V. Scene IV. The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth 1914
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You'll leave your noise anon, ye rascals: do you take the court for Paris-garden? ye rude slaves, leave your gaping.
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth 1612
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What a ftir would. the lions in the Tower make, aqd the Btars in Paris-garden, if th«y were let loofe/Paffion'lets mens Li - on-like lufts lobfe.
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You’ll leave your noise anon, ye rascals: do you take the court for Paris-garden? ye rude slaves, leave your gaping.
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Jonson, in his description of a wherry being rowed up Fleet Ditch, wrote, "The meate - boate of Beares colledge, Paris-garden,/Stunke not so ill; nor, when shee kist, Kate Arden," and cheerfully attributes to her the destruction of the Globe playhouse in 1613: "'twas the Nun, Kate
Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner Jessica A. Browner 1994
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