"Brasse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hath their comen resorte to by and purvey many thinges that be gode and profytable, as ornaments of holy church chalets, bokes, vestmentes [etc.] . . . also for howsold, as vytell for the tyme of Lent, and other Stuff, as Lynen Cloth, wolen Cloth, brasse, pewter, beddyng, osmonde, Iren, Flax and Wax and many other necessary thinges."[1] The chief fairs for the sale of books were those of St. Giles at Oxford, at Stourbridge, Cambridge, and St. Bartholomew's ...
— Old English Libraries, The Making, Collection, and Use of Books • Ernest A. Savage
... Henry's mouth by Shakespeare, that he would "strike his father's crown into the hazard." The old playwright on whose foundation Shakespeare built merely says, "Tel him that in stead of balles of leather we wil tosse him balles of brasse and yron." Drayton must consequently have borrowed the term from Shakespeare, which is a pretty conclusive proof of his having read "Henry V." as well as witnessed its performance. Regarding Shakespeare's justification ...
— The Battaile of Agincourt • Michael Drayton
... at length thy pious fellowes giue The world thy Workes: thy Workes, by which, out-liue Thy Tombe, thy name must: when that stone is rent, And Time dissolues thy Stratford Moniment, Here we aliue shall view thee still. This Booke, When Brasse and Marble fade, shall make thee looke Fresh to all Ages: when Posteritie Shall loath what's new, thinke all is prodegie That is not Shake-speares eu'ry Line, each Verse Here shall reuiue, redeeme thee from thy Herse. Nor Fire, nor cankring Age, as ...
— The Facts About Shakespeare • William Allan Nielson |
