Authority Cited: Old Comedy
Author name and dates: John Day (1574-1640?)
BKG Bio-tweet: Expelled from Cambridge; London theater administrator; plays authored include "Parliament of Bees;" SJ quotes under "rabato"
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"Broke broad jests upon her narrow heel
Pok’d her rabatos, and survey’d her steel. Old Comedy."
In the 1608 edition of Law Tricks (Early English Books Online: document image 11):
And broke broad iests vpon her narrow heele,
Poak't her Rebatoes, and suruaid her steele,
Author name and dates: John Day (1574-1640?)
BKG Bio-tweet: Expelled from Cambridge; London theater administrator; plays authored include "Parliament of Bees;" SJ quotes under "rabato"
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary)
- Old Comedy (no work cited) Bibliographic information: Law-trickes or, Who vvould haue thought it, As it hath bene diuers times acted by the Children of the Reuels. Written by Iohn Day, 1608 London : Printed by E. Allde for Richard More, and are to be solde at his shop in S. Dunstanes Church-yard in Fleete-streete; rabato [BKG Note: Watkins in Johnson and Early English Poetry before 1660 (pp. 101-102), mentions a Steeven's Shakespeare edition note that cites Law Tricks for this quotation.]
"Broke broad jests upon her narrow heel
Pok’d her rabatos, and survey’d her steel. Old Comedy."
In the 1608 edition of Law Tricks (Early English Books Online: document image 11):
And broke broad iests vpon her narrow heele,
Poak't her Rebatoes, and suruaid her steele,