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Some of these "Playes" are preserved in print, but others are quite unknown and perished for ever when used as "pye-bottoms."
The Enemies of Books William Blades 1857
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For Playes are good or bad, as they are vs'd, And best inuentions often are abus'd.
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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But besides these grosse absurdities, howe all their Playes bee neither right Tragedies, nor right Comedies, mingling Kinges and Clownes, not because the matter so carrieth it, but
Defence of Poesie 1992
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Playes made from hallie [32] tales I holde unmeete;
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Gosson demurred to Lodge in 1580 with his _Playes Confuted in
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Invention, as most of the Sons of _Phoebus_ of his time; contributing to the Stage five Playes, _viz.
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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He that Playes a Ball, while the other runs, or takes up a Ball before it lies still, loseth an End. XIV.
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And "My lorde useth and accustomyth yerly to gyf hym which is ordynede to be Master of the Revells yerly in my lordis hous in Cristmas for the overseyinge and orderinge of his lordschips Playes, Interludes, and Dresinge that is plaid befor his lordship in his hous in the XII dayes of Christenmas, and they to have in rewarde for that caus yerly, xxs."
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson
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Musical Drama's, when the usual Playes were not suffered to be Acted, whereof he was the first Reviver and Improver by painted Scenes after his Majesties Restoration; erecting a new Company of Actors, under the
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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He is loth to make nature afraid in his Playes, like those that beget Tales, Tempests, and such like
The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909
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