singing-man

“Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a seacoal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife.”

Act II. Scene I. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth

“Wheeson week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a _singing-man of Windsor_.”

Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries

“We must transcribe her story: 'Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Whitsun-week, when the Prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor; thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me, and make me my lady thy wife.”

Obiter Dicta

“I would have gone to him, after the first petrifying instant of surprise, but the singing-man stopped me.”

Everyman's Land

“Then I will buy a handsome house, together with slaves and horses and trappings of gold, and eat and drink, nor will I leave a singing-man or woman in the city but I will have them to sing to me.”

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I

“He replied, "No I am not a thief, but a singing-man, a stranger who, hearing your voices, came to sing to you.”

Arabian nights. English

“His father, who was of the same name, and who died about three months before the birth of his son, had been writing-master to a classical school, singing-man in Bristol cathedral, and master of the free-school in Pyle-street in that city; and is related to have been inclined to a belief in magic, and deeply versed in Cornelius Agrippa.”

Lives of the English Poets

“Wood says that after the Restoration he became gentleman or singing-man of Christ Church, Oxford.”

The Lucasta Poems

“Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of”

The Second Part of King Henry IV