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...e -- Female wrestlers and boxers -- An extraordinary dance -- A band of bamboo players -- The female dancers punished for a false step 469- 480 CHAPTE... ...ling of Capt. Cook -- A fight in the water -- Death of Cook - - Repulse of the mariners -- Forcing a surrender of portions of Cook's body -- Slaughter... ...lted by a goat........................................ 450 Procession of flute-players............................................. 451 Feast of the R... ...had been built, and that a sight of one of these monstrous fish frightened his mariners into a condition of panic. ASTOUNDING ADVENTURES OF HANNO. Han... ...ho slumber in its bosom. The earliest sea tales are of shipwreck; the earliest mariners made the ocean their winding sheet. Every storm claims its vic... ...STORIES ABOUT SPECTRAL CREWS. Occasionally the spectres come in companies. The Maine fishermen have a story of the Hascall, a fishing vessel which bro... ...al for the collection of a crowd, and when a circle of auditors was formed the players began, their selections consisting of improvised songs with occ...

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...nanimitie) having beene grievously offended by the Limosins, though he by maine force tooke and entered their Citie, could by no meanes be appeased, ... ...ether with his troup, and that fire the Castle was given to the Mine, the maine props of the Castle failing, it was utterly overthrowne and carried ... ...h as hee ever saw him retire and give ground before him, and to avoid the maine battell. To whom Indathirsez (for so was his name) answered, that 'T... ... of injustice that refuse good and honest Comedians, or (as we call them) Players, to enter our good townes, and grudge the common people such publi... ...was my man; who besides his owne report, hath many times shewed me divers Mariners and Merchants, whom hee had knowne in that voyage. So am I please... ...uperioritie he had amongst his countriemen (for he was a Captaine and our Mariners called him King), he told me it was to march foremost in any char... ... in drinking. Enterludes and commedies, rejoyce and make us merry, but to players they are tedious and tastelesse. Which to prove, we see it is a de... ...nner of silke, of scarlet, or any goldsmiths worke, except only Enterlude- players, Harlots, and Curtizans. With such an invention did Zeleucus whilom... ...atorie, respective mutually; like the two starres of the North, which our Mariners call the Guardes, directive of our course; like your owne eyes, t...

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... bred his restless paine, Like as the wounded whale to shore flies from the maine.” 6 Extracts The Fairie Queen. “Immense as whales, the motion of who... ...as heard in the entry; the door was flung open, and in rolled a wild set of mariners enough. Enveloped in their shaggy watch coats, and with their head... ...s from foreign parts. Even in Broadway and Chestnut streets, Mediterranean mariners will sometimes jostle the affrighted ladies. Regent street is not ... ...in vain essays his wretched smile. Strong intuitions of the man assure the mariners he can be no innocent. In their gamesome but still serious way, on... ...more than ye, ye great gods, ever were. I laugh and hoot at ye, ye cricket players, ye pugilists, ye deaf Burkes and blinded Bendigoes! I will not say... ...would accommo date a couple of whist tables, and comfortably seat all the players. Possibly, too, Jonah might have ensconced himself in a hollow toot...

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...red his restless paine, Like as the wounded whale to shore flies thro’ the maine.” —The Faerie Queen. “Immense as whales, the motion of whose vast bod... ...s heard in the entry; the door was flung open, and in rolled a wild set of mariners enough. Enveloped in their shaggy watch coats, and with their head... ...s from foreign parts. Even in Broadway and Chestnut streets, Mediterranean mariners will sometimes jostle the affrighted ladies. Regent Street is not ... ...in vain essays his wretched smile. Strong intuitions of the man assure the mariners he can be no innocent. In their gamesome but still serious way, on... ...more than ye, ye great gods, ever were. I laugh and hoot at ye, ye cricket-players, ye pugilists, ye deaf Burkes and blinded Bendigoes! I will not say... ...ad below. But the hours of darkness passed in peace; the men who still re- mained at their duty toiling hard at the pumps, whose clinking and clanking... ...of infecting the Pequod’s company. For, though himself and boat’s crew re- mained untainted, and though his ship was half a rifle-shot off, and an inc... ...h would accommodate a couple of whist-tables, and comfortably seat all the players. Possibly, too, Jonah might have ensconced himself in a hollow toot...

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...m a list of the ship’s company. All answered but the deserters and the two mariners at the bottom of the sea. It was now supposed that the Round Robin... ...all over the South Seas; keeping a rude 128 Omoo hut of entertainment for mariners, and supplying them with mm and dice. Upon the missionary islands,... ...alabooza Beretanee. As we were wholly without resources, so long as we re- mained on the island no better place than Captain Bob’s could be selected f... ...nlike as possible. One was a tall, robust Yankee, hern in the backwoods of Maine, sallow, and with a long face;—the other was a short little Cock- ney... ...cushion when the next king went to be crowned. But it was not as strolling players, nor as footmen out of employ, that the doctor and myself looked fo...

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... fat lady, and another time was actually pursued into a troop of strolling players, attiring themselves in a barn, whence she came with cheeks freshly... ...h for my Lady than he could be. Very little faith in his cousin Urania re- mained to him in the abstract, yet even now he could not be sure that she w... ...e countenances showed him to be a welcome arrival. “Is it a reception day, Maine?” he asked of a kind of major- domo whom he met on the top of the bro... ...ch damped Betty’s satisfaction in the first assurance. What did she see as Maine opened the door? It was a very spacious bedroom, the bed in an alcove... ...g where it could not proceed so fast, Green had to inquire of neighbouring mariners where the Red Cloud was lying. “The Red Cloud, Karen, weighs ancho...

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...followed the cavalcade to the castle, after pointing out the suspended birds to each other, dispersed with comments upon what they saw: and, when they... ...inner, and his generals to govern the republic; Richard abdicated the protectorate on the 22nd of April, 1659, more than a year ago, sire. “From that ... ...st eager players are Lambert and Monk. Well, sire, I, in my turn, wish to take part in this game, where the stakes are thrown upon my royal mantle. Si... ...into the wood, and walking on the beach in the setting sun, without even attracting the attention of the fishermen, who, on their return in the evenin... ... the swans, which, disturbed in their ancient posses- sions by the approach of the bark, looked from a distance at this splendid and noisy pageant. We... ... most violent, his only passion, that which Saint Simon mentions with astonishment, was that famous fit of anger which he exhibited fifty years later,... ...ged a friend, a protector of mine, who had obtained the appointment for me, to solicit one for Louise; the appointment arrived. Louise left in order t...

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...y of my living at Madam de Vercellis’s. Though my situation apparently re- mained the same, I did not leave her house as I had entered it: I carried w... ...y life from any criminal action, from the terrible impression that has re- mained from the only one I ever committed; and I think my aversion for lyin... ... road, I found myself in the evening at Moudon, where I spent all that re- mained of my little stock except ten creuzers, which served to purchase my ... ...ted on the game, and, interested for the success of my wager, followed the players and their balls over rough and stony roads, procuring by this means... ... acquainted with M. de Legal, M. Husson, Philidor, and all the great chess players of the day, without making the least improvement in the game. Howev... ..., and there took the depositions successively, inter- rogating each of the mariners, and directing my questions in such a manner as to produce answers... ...ll; I could never get my piece performed, and, tired of paying my court to players, I gave myself no more trouble 325 Rousseau about them. At length ...

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.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 iv THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS THE PLAYERS ASK FOR A BLESSING ON THE PSALTERIES AND ON THEMSELVES . . . . . . ... ...o not love too long, Or you will grow out of fashion Like an old song. THE PLAYERS ASK FOR A BLESSING ON THE PSALTERIES AND ON THEMSELVES Three Voices... ...t while he cursed. He had counted, where long years ago Queen Maeve’s nine Maines had been nursed, A pair of lapwings, one old sheep, And not a house ... ...girl — The rich man and his affairs, The fat flocks and the fields’ fatness, Mariners, rough harvesters; Overcome Gods upon Parnassus; 288 THE COLLECTE... ...om mountain to mountain ride the fierce horsemen. III Come gather round me, players all: Come praise Nineteen Sixteen, Those from the pit and gallery O... ...He replied, ‘I am from those rivers and I bid you call The children of the Maines out of sleep, And set them digging under Bual’s hill. We shadows, wh... ...bodies came out of the air Suddenly, and ran at them and harried them. The Maines’ children dropped their spades, and stood With quaking joints and te...

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...to every ship that sails, sail you! Bear forth to them folded my love, (dear mariners, for you I fold it here in every leaf;) Speed on my book! spread... ...n, sail on, bear o’er the boundless blue from me to every sea, This song for mariners and all their ships. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 11 T O F OREIG... ...braving the winter, the snow and ice welcome to me, Yet a true son either of Maine or of the Granite State, or the Narragansett Bay State, or the Empi... ...ith the rest and tacking, At home on the hills of Vermont or in the woods of Maine, or the Texan ranch, Comrade of Californians, comrade of free North... ...ographer, this the chemist, this made a grammar of the old cartouches, These mariners put the ship through dangerous unknown seas. This is the geologi... ... long pennants of smoke. Behold, in Oregon, far in the north and west, Or in Maine, far in the north and east, thy cheerful axemen, Leaves of Grass –... ..., maternity of all the rest, And with it every instrument in multitudes, The players playing, all the world’s musicians, The solemn hymns and masses r...

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...e, because the book was not printed till much later. But Rabelais lived in Maine. In Anjou, which often figures among the localities he names, he must... ...e, and other their neighbours, all stiff drinkers, brave fellows, and good players at the kyles. The good man Grangousier took great pleasure in their... ...unghole with a drawbridge for the more easy caguing: or the fashion of the mariners, for the greater solace and comfort of his kidneys: or that of the... ...ith the ball was over or under the line. The waters are the heats that the players take till they sweat again. The cords of the rackets are made of th... ... exercise, only 190 Gargantua & Pantagruel now and then he would see some mariners and lightermen a-wrestling on the quay or strand by the river-side... ...topsail, and letting go the bowline with the brazen bullets, wherewith the mariners did by way of protestation bake in pastemeat great store of pulse ... ...r confessor, without default. And therein am I willing to be judged by the players. He had no sooner spoke these words than the works of Virgil were b... ...e page with no less than quick destruction, lost their impetuosity and re- mained suspended and hovering round the stone; nor did any of them, notwith... ...ed), I saw close by Hearsay, good store of men of the country of Perce and Maine, notable students, and young enough. I asked what sort of study they ...

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...onishment. 1 Another clergyman in New England, Mr. Joseph Moody, of York, Maine, who died about eighty years since, made himself remarkable by the sa... ... In their train were min- strels, not unknown in London streets; wandering players, whose theatres had been the halls of noblemen; mummers, rope-dance... ...State; the paragraph in the Parker’s Falls Gazette would be reprinted from Maine to Florida, and per- haps form an item in the London newspapers; and ... ...utiful to be ad- equately wrought up in prose. Sullivan, in his History of Maine, written since the Revolution, remarks, that even then the existence ... ...dream of graves and monuments,” murmured the stranger youth. “I wonder how mariners feel when the ship is sinking, and they, unknown and undistin- gui...

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... deal was coming round again, and still Death’s card had not come out. The players held their respiration, and only breathed by gasps. The Prince rece... ... took his leave. He passed through the smoking-room, where the bulk of the players were still consuming cham- pagne, some of which he had himself orde... ...hould not now become the hero and spokesman of his native place of Bangor, Maine; he should not, as he had fondly anticipated, move on from office to ... ... the other din- ers seemed to rest on his with suspicion, and his mind re- mained upstairs with the Saratoga trunk. When the waiter came to offer him ... ... surf rolling in close along the links, the place told of nothing but dead mariners and sea disaster. A ship beating to windward on the horizon, and a...

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..., that “all the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.” The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it. ... ...ontain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by ship wrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of... ... periods in the progress of mankind. The States have leisure to laugh from Maine to T exas at some newspaper joke, and New England shakes at the doubl... ... the recoil. They are not subject to great exposure, like the lumberers of Maine, in any weather, but inhale the healthfullest breezes, being slightly... ...ed beyond its skirts, while the acorn which was gathered in the forests of Maine is still undigested in their crops. We obtained one of these handsome...