"The master of blank verse, Marlowe was the first to turn the Faustian myth into a morality play; it remains an apogee of Elizabethan drama." The play in Chorus and XIV acts, with Introduction. http://www.bartleby.com/19/2/
First produced in 1609, "'The Silent Woman' is a gigantic farce of the most ingenious construction. The whole comedy hinges on a huge joke, played by a heartless nephew on his misanthropic uncle, who is induced to take to himself a wife, young, fair, and warranted silent, but who, in the end, turns out neither silent nor a woman at all." Here, after a huge introduction, is The Project Gutenberg Etext of "Epicoene: Or, The Silent Woman" by Ben Jonson http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40…
Jeannine, I thought John Pepys was *escaping* his increasinjgly irrational wife, Pall, the tedium of the country, etc., and enjoying reconnecting with the old gang in the trades in London?
First acted in 1616, there is no edition of it available on the web, but there are two songs from it:
TO VENUS
by: John Fletcher
OH, fair sweet goddess, queen of love, Soft and gentle as thy doves, Humble-eyed, and ever ruing Those poor hearts, their loves pursuing! Oh, thou mother of delights, Crowner of all happy nights, Star of dear content and pleasure, Of mutual loves and endless treasure! Accept this sacrifice we bring, Thou continual youth and spring; Grant this lady her desires, And every hour we'll crown thy fires.
'To Venus' was originally published in The Mad Lover (1647). ----------------
ORPHEUS I AM, COME FROM THE DEEPS BELOW
by: John Fletcher
ORPHEUS I am, come from the deeps below, To thee, fond man, the plagues of love to show. To the fair fields where loves eternal dwell There's none that come, but first they pass through hell: Hark, and beware! unless thou hast loved, ever Beloved again, thou shalt see those joys never.
Hark how they groan that died despairing! Oh, take heed, then! Hark how they howl for over-daring! All these were men.
They that be fools, and die for fame, They lose their name; And they that bleed, Hark how they speed!
Now in cold frosts, now scorching fires They sit, and curse their lost desires; Nor shall these souls be free from pains and fears, Till women waft them over in their tears.
matthew newton, there was some indication Mennes claimed front-entry room that had been shared, forcing Penn and Pepys both to exit at the rear and circle round to the front and to the office -- but even IF this were so, for a youth like Sam I'd think 2-3 minutes max. door to door.
In 2005, £20 0s 0d from 1663 is worth: £2,032.86 using the retail price index (using an interactive conversion site posted by David Gurliacci on the 4 Jan 1660 entry: http://eh.net/hmit/ppowerbp/ )
"I had not time to look [John Graunt's collection of woodcuts] over as I ought"
The OED says "ought", originally the. past tense of "owe," > "indebted" > "obliged" later > "what is generally expected or suitable, fit," while still retaining the sense of came of obligation in re a moral duty.
Interesting that something like Sam'l's POV was adopted 85 years later by David Hume in *An Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals.* (1748), Section I. "Of the General Principles” would argue in effect that, as the EB has it, "Moral decisions are grounded in moral sentiment. Qualities are valued either for their utility or for their agreeableness, in each case either to their owners or to others." (Thomas Edmund Jessop, Maurice Cranston. "Hume, David" Encyclopædia Britannica) http://search.eb.com/eb/article?e… [Accessed April 16, 2002]. (c) 2002 Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. For Hume's original treatuse see http://oll.libertyfund.org:81/Tex…
A sample from Actus primus. Scena prima. : Val[entine]. Y'are short and pithy.
Lance. They say y'are a fine Gentleman, and of excellent judgement, they report you have a wit; keep your self out o'th' Rain, and take your Cloak with you, which by interpretation is your State, Sir, or I shall think your fame belied you, you have money, and may have means.
The STRIPED FLAG of the EAST INDIA COMPANY, and its CONNEXION with the AMERICAN "STARS and STRIPES" By Sir Charles Fawcett
In the seventeenth century the flag had, as stated by Perrin (loc. cit. p. 130), generally from nine to thirteen alternate red and white stripes, the odd numbers being red; and it was to this that its nick-name of "John Company's gridiron" is due. The top stripes were, however, broken by a canton at the upper corner next the staff, containing the red cross of St George on a white field (see Perrin's Plate IX, No. 6).... That they were only red and white is shown by a document of 1668. In that year Bombay was transferred by King Charles II to the East India Company, and in September commissioners were sent down from Surat to take over the island. A new flag was required for the Fort and they asked that some white, red and blue cloth should be sent for making it, if the King's colours (the Union Jack) were to be kept there; "if not, white and red will be sufficient"(2). That there were stripes on the flag is indicated by Peter Mundy's drawing of it in a sketch of Swally Marine in 1656(3) and by Dr Fryer's reference to it in 1673 as "the East-India striped Ancient"(4). There is also evidence that it had a cross on it, because in 1616 this was objected to by the Japanese as an emblem of Christianity, which had been banned in 1614. In 1671, when the Company was sending the Return to Japan in an effort to restart trade with that country, it decided not to alter its usual flag; but in 1673, when the ship entered the port of Nagasaki, she departed from this instruction on local advice and instead flew a striped white and red flag without a cross; when subsequently she put out one with a cross, the Japanese officials demanded an explanation(5). But all this is inconclusive as to its exact appearance... a ship would sometimes wear, in addition to the Company's usual flag, the red ensign with a canton having a red St George's cross on a white field (6), which was then commonly worn by merchantmen and their use of which was expressly authorized by a proclamation issued by Charles II on 18 September 1674 (Perrin, loc. cit. pp. 68-9, 130).
In November 1676 Samuel Pepys drew the attention of the Company to the fact that its flag continued to be flown by its ships in contravention of this proclamation, which prescribed for "merchants' ships" the use of only two flags, viz. the red ensign just mentioned and "the Flag and Jack white with a red cross (commonly called Saint George's Cross) passing right through the same"(7). On 6 December of that year the Court of Committees, as the Company's directors were then called, asked the Shipping Committee to confer -with the commanders of the three ships that were then about to sail for the Coromandel Coast and the Bay of Bengal 'touching the colours enjoined by Royal proclamation to be worn by all merchant ships mentioned, and how far it may be useful or inconvenient to the Company's affairs to have any alteration made in the ensign hitherto worn by their ships, and report". Evidently as a result of this the Court of Committees on 19 December instructed each of the commanders to note that between St Helena and England in his homeward voyage, as also when going out, he was in obedience to the King's proclamation "to wear only the usual English flag and ensign, and no other, viz, a white flag with a red cross, and a red ensign with a white cross in the upper corner"(8). The description of the red ensign's canton as "a white cross" was an obvious error which was corrected by substituting the words 'a red cross in a white field" in subsequent similar instructions to commanders.(9) These continued up to September 1688, after which the order in question does not appear in them.(10) ....
L&M say (Companion) the Horn in the Diary period is on the n. side of Fleet St., just outside St Dunstan's, which may be found on the upper-middle part of this segment of the 1746 map. http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
"[Mr. Creed] and I talking of the ill management of our office, which God knows is very ill for the King's advantage. I would I could make it better."
Did he share with Creed this sentiment? It echoes one he shared with his Diary 6 April: "vexed at my heart to see a thing of that importance done so slightly and with that neglect for which God pardon us, and I would I could mend it. " http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
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First Reading
About Dr Faustus (Christopher Marlowe)
TerryF • Link
The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
"The master of blank verse, Marlowe was the first to turn the Faustian myth into a morality play; it remains an apogee of Elizabethan drama." The play in Chorus and XIV acts, with Introduction. http://www.bartleby.com/19/2/
About Epicoene, or The Silent Woman (Ben Jonson)
TerryF • Link
First produced in 1609, "'The Silent Woman' is a gigantic farce of the most ingenious construction. The whole comedy hinges on a huge joke, played by a heartless nephew on his misanthropic uncle, who is induced to take
to himself a wife, young, fair, and warranted silent, but who, in
the end, turns out neither silent nor a woman at all." Here, after a huge introduction, is The Project Gutenberg Etext of "Epicoene: Or, The Silent Woman" by Ben Jonson http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40…
[Link updated. P.G. 2013-06-03]
About Wednesday 22 April 1663
TerryF • Link
Jeannine, I thought John Pepys was *escaping* his increasinjgly irrational wife, Pall, the tedium of the country, etc., and enjoying reconnecting with the old gang in the trades in London?
About The Mad Lover (John Fletcher)
TerryF • Link
First acted in 1616, there is no edition of it available on the web, but there are two songs from it:
TO VENUS
by: John Fletcher
OH, fair sweet goddess, queen of love,
Soft and gentle as thy doves,
Humble-eyed, and ever ruing
Those poor hearts, their loves pursuing!
Oh, thou mother of delights,
Crowner of all happy nights,
Star of dear content and pleasure,
Of mutual loves and endless treasure!
Accept this sacrifice we bring,
Thou continual youth and spring;
Grant this lady her desires,
And every hour we'll crown thy fires.
'To Venus' was originally published in The Mad Lover (1647).
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ORPHEUS I AM, COME FROM THE DEEPS BELOW
by: John Fletcher
ORPHEUS I am, come from the deeps below,
To thee, fond man, the plagues of love to show.
To the fair fields where loves eternal dwell
There's none that come, but first they pass through hell:
Hark, and beware! unless thou hast loved, ever
Beloved again, thou shalt see those joys never.
Hark how they groan that died despairing!
Oh, take heed, then!
Hark how they howl for over-daring!
All these were men.
They that be fools, and die for fame,
They lose their name;
And they that bleed,
Hark how they speed!
Now in cold frosts, now scorching fires
They sit, and curse their lost desires;
Nor shall these souls be free from pains and fears,
Till women waft them over in their tears.
'Orpheus I am, Come from the Deeps Below' was originally published in The Mad Lover (1647).
http://www.poetry-archive.com/f/f…
About Tuesday 21 April 1663
TerryF • Link
matthew newton, there was some indication Mennes claimed front-entry room that had been shared, forcing Penn and Pepys both to exit at the rear and circle round to the front and to the office -- but even IF this were so, for a youth like Sam I'd think 2-3 minutes max. door to door.
About Tuesday 21 April 1663
TerryF • Link
"my English 'Mare Clausum,' which, with the new orthodox title"
This a reference to Friday 17 April 1663
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
an occurrence of "Mare Clausum" that doesn't show up at http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
About Monday 20 April 1663
TerryF • Link
Generous indeed, as Jeannine says.
In 2005, £20 0s 0d from 1663 is worth:
£2,032.86 using the retail price index
(using an interactive conversion site posted by David Gurliacci on the 4 Jan 1660 entry: http://eh.net/hmit/ppowerbp/ )
About Monday 20 April 1663
TerryF • Link
"I had not time to look [John Graunt's collection of woodcuts] over as I ought"
The OED says "ought", originally the. past tense of "owe," > "indebted" > "obliged" later > "what is generally expected or suitable, fit," while still retaining the sense of came of obligation in re a moral duty.
Interesting that something like Sam'l's POV was adopted 85 years later by David Hume in *An Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals.* (1748), Section I. "Of the General Principles” would argue in effect that, as the EB has it, "Moral decisions are grounded in moral sentiment. Qualities are valued either for their utility or for their agreeableness, in each case either to their owners or to others." (Thomas Edmund Jessop, Maurice Cranston. "Hume, David" Encyclopædia Britannica) http://search.eb.com/eb/article?e… [Accessed April 16, 2002]. (c) 2002 Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. For Hume's original treatuse see http://oll.libertyfund.org:81/Tex…
About Monday 20 April 1663
TerryF • Link
"quartered upon some other fields"
Lives in a tent in Cornwall? (sorry, I didn't resist, Lent being over, &c.)
About Sunday 19 April 1663
TerryF • Link
Dirk, might that be one for the BCP in the Encyclopedia?
http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
About Sunday 19 April 1663
TerryF • Link
Doesn't “coloured” still simply mean "red" when it has to do with a (facial) reaction to certain situations?
About Sunday 19 April 1663
TerryF • Link
JudithS, are there any other Scots Sam has found 'boring'?
Surely not Dr. Creighton, the famous 'Scotchman,' whose sermons he reviews in some detail.
About Sunday 19 April 1663
TerryF • Link
Terry F, above, appears to be reading the Revised Table of Lessons of 1922
Michael Robinson, evidently I was, un(half)wittingly; thanks for setting the record straight.
About Sunday 19 April 1663
TerryF • Link
Easter's 1662 Book of Common Prayer scripture lessons
Morning
Exodus 12:1-14 (yawn)/ Rev. 1:4-18
Evening (afternoon)
Isaiah 51:1-16 or Exodus 14 / John 20:1-23 or Romans 6:1-13 (zzzzz)
For links to the texts http://www.eskimo.com/~lhowell/bc…
About Wit without Money (John Fletcher)
TerryF • Link
Wit Without Money by Francis Beaumont
A comedy available online from Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13…
A sample from Actus primus. Scena prima.
:
Val[entine]. Y'are short and pithy.
Lance. They say y'are a fine Gentleman, and of excellent judgement, they report you have a wit; keep your self out o'th' Rain, and take your Cloak with you, which by interpretation is your State, Sir, or I shall think your fame belied you, you have money, and may have means.
About Saturday 18 April 1663
TerryF • Link
Group therapy/Cohesion-building/Groupthink
Non stop, yakka, yakka …..”….Hereupon all dinner, and walking in the garden the afternoon, he and I talking of the ill management of our office…”
About East India Company (English)
TerryF • Link
The STRIPED FLAG of the EAST INDIA COMPANY, and its CONNEXION with the AMERICAN "STARS and STRIPES"
By Sir Charles Fawcett
In the seventeenth century the flag had, as stated by Perrin (loc. cit. p. 130), generally from nine to thirteen alternate red and white stripes, the odd numbers being red; and it was to this that its nick-name of "John Company's gridiron" is due. The top stripes were, however, broken by a canton at the upper corner next the staff, containing the red cross of St George on a white field (see Perrin's Plate IX, No. 6).... That they were only red and white is shown by a document of 1668. In that year Bombay was transferred by King Charles II to the East India Company, and in September commissioners were sent down from Surat to take over the island. A new flag was required for the Fort and they asked that some white, red and blue cloth should be sent for making it, if the King's colours (the Union Jack) were to be kept there; "if not, white and red will be sufficient"(2). That there were stripes on the flag is indicated by Peter Mundy's drawing of it in a sketch of Swally Marine in 1656(3) and by Dr Fryer's reference to it in 1673 as "the East-India striped Ancient"(4). There is also evidence that it had a cross on it, because in 1616 this was objected to by the Japanese as an emblem of Christianity, which had been banned in 1614. In 1671, when the Company was sending the Return to Japan in an effort to restart trade with that country, it decided not to alter its usual flag; but in 1673, when the ship entered the port of Nagasaki, she departed from this instruction on local advice and instead flew a striped white and red flag without a cross; when subsequently she put out one with a cross, the Japanese officials demanded an explanation(5). But all this is inconclusive as to its exact appearance... a ship would sometimes wear, in addition to the Company's usual flag, the red ensign with a canton having a red St George's cross on a white field (6), which was then commonly worn by merchantmen and their use of which was expressly authorized by a proclamation issued by Charles II on 18 September 1674 (Perrin, loc. cit. pp. 68-9, 130).
In November 1676 Samuel Pepys drew the attention of the Company to the fact that its flag continued to be flown by its ships in contravention of this proclamation, which prescribed for "merchants' ships" the use of only two flags, viz. the red ensign just mentioned and "the Flag and Jack white with a red cross (commonly called Saint George's Cross) passing right through the same"(7). On 6 December of that year the Court of Committees, as the Company's directors were then called, asked the Shipping Committee to confer -with the commanders of the three ships that were then about to sail for the Coromandel Coast and the Bay of Bengal 'touching the colours enjoined by Royal proclamation to be worn by all merchant ships mentioned, and how far it may be useful or inconvenient to the Company's affairs to have any alteration made in the ensign hitherto worn by their ships, and report". Evidently as a result of this the Court of Committees on 19 December instructed each of the commanders to note that between St Helena and England in his homeward voyage, as also when going out, he was in obedience to the King's proclamation "to wear only the usual English flag and ensign, and no other, viz, a white flag with a red cross, and a red ensign with a white cross in the upper corner"(8). The description of the red ensign's canton as "a white cross" was an obvious error which was corrected by substituting the words 'a red cross in a white field" in subsequent similar instructions to commanders.(9) These continued up to September 1688, after which the order in question does not appear in them.(10)
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http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flag…
About Horn (Fleet St)
TerryF • Link
L&M say (Companion) the Horn in the Diary period is on the n. side of Fleet St., just outside St Dunstan's, which may be found on the upper-middle part of this segment of the 1746 map. http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
About Saturday 18 April 1663
TerryF • Link
"[Mr. Creed] and I talking of the ill management of our office, which God knows is very ill for the King's advantage. I would I could make it better."
Did he share with Creed this sentiment? It echoes one he shared with his Diary 6 April: "vexed at my heart to see a thing of that importance done so slightly and with that neglect for which God pardon us, and I would I could mend it. " http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Friday 17 April 1663
TerryF • Link
Sunrise was about 5.
http://www.exptech.com/sunrise.htm
Thanks to Araucaria http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…