 | William Shakespeare - 1788
...from 1598 to 1601} on cveiy stage by slanderers; as for the players, he says, " It is true, I taxf d them, And yet but some, and those so sparingly, As all the rest might have sat stiil unqucstion'd :— What they have done against me I am not mov'd with. If it gave them meat, Or... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1811
...much, "' But'sangry for the captain, still : issiich'." Now for the players, it is true, I tax'd 'em, And yet but some; and those so sparingly, As all the rest might have sat still uuquestion'd, Had they but had the wit or conscience To think well of themselves. But, impotent, they... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816
...that not trusts me, having vow'd thus much, But's angry for the captain, still : is such.1 Now for tht players, it is true, I tax'd them, And yet but some;...so sparingly, As all the rest might have sat still unquestion 'd, Had they but had the wit or conscience To think well of themselves. But, impotent, they... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1816
...The remainder of this act is merely personal ; indeed the author makes no scruple of avowing it : <' Now, for the players, it is true, I tax'd them, " And yet but some," &c. It is to no purpose that he endeavours to save himself by saying that he " used no names;" for... | |
 | 1837
...to palliate what he had said against the lawyers and soldiers, he adverts to the performers : — " Now for the players : — it is true I tax'd them...and those so sparingly, As all the rest might have sit still unquestion'd, Had they but had the wit or conscience To think well of themselves. But, impotent,... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1875
...The remainder of this act is merely personal ; indeed the author makes no scruple of avowing it : " Now, for the players, it is true, I tax'd them, And yet but some," &c. It is to no purpose that he endeavours to save himself by saying that he " used no names ;" for... | |
 | Josiah Harmar Penniman - 1897 - 168 pages
...replies to the charge that he had attacked the players : — Now for the players, it is true, I taxed them, And yet but some ; and those so sparingly, As all the rest might have sat still unquestioned, Had they but had the wit or conscience To think well of themselves. But, impotent, they... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1898 - 476 pages
...Poetaster), in which he somewhat truculently qualified his hostility to the players: Now for the players 'tis true I tax'd them And yet but some, and those so sparingly As all the rest might have sat still unquestioned, In his detailed references to the conflict in shake- ' Hamlet ' Shakespeare protested... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1898 - 476 pages
...in which he somewhat truculently qualified his hostility to the players : Now for the players 'tis true I tax'd them And yet but some, and those so sparingly . As all the rest might have sat still unquestioned, In his detailed references to the conflict in shake- ' Hamlet ' Shakespeare protested... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1898 - 476 pages
...which he somewhat truculently qualified his hostility to the players : Now for the players 'tis true [ tax'd them And yet but some, and those so sparingly As all the rest might have sat still unquestioned, In his detailed references to the conflict in shake- ' Hamlet ' Shakespeare protested... | |
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Now for the players, it is true, I tax'd them, And yet but some; and those so sparingly, As all the rest might have sat still unquestioned, Had they but had the wit or conscience To think well of themselves. 
