 | 1893 - 642 lapas
...or that another is so poor a spirited creature that makes a character say contemptuously of another, "Here comes one that will carry coals, ergo will hold my dog"; in 'Antonio and Melida' (1602), a character is made by Marston to exclaim, " He has had wrong, but... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 712 lapas
...prove this : — " Now my ancient being a man of an un-coal-carrying spirit" Chapman's May-day, 1610. "Here comes one that will carry coals, ergo, will hold my dog." Every Man out of his Humour. " He has had wrong, and if I were he, I would beare no coales." Antonio... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 574 lapas
...quarrel : above all things, you must carry no coak." And in Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humour : " Here comes one that will carry coals ; ergo will hold my dog." See King Henry V., Act iii. sc. 2, note 7. fore I will push Montague's men from the wall, and thrust... | |
 | ROBERT NARES, A.M., F.R.S., F.A.S., - 1859 - 494 lapas
...Horn. $• Jul, i, 1. He means to insinuate that they were base, cowardly rascals. Puntarvolo says, See ! here comes one that will carry coals, ergo, will hold my dog. Б. Jons. Ev. Ы, out of Ü., v, 1. This is said upon the approach of a servant with a basket, probably... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 404 lapas
...not bear injuries. The expression was proverbial. Thus Ben Jonson, in Every Man out of his Humour, ' Here comes one that will carry coals ; ergo, will hold my dog.' 2 Poor John. This was a name for the fish called hake, the Oadus merluccius, which, salted and dried,... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1870 - 1004 lapas
...— ie, submit to be "put upon " (" Romeo and Juliet," i. 1). So in "Every Man out of his Humour," " Here comes one that will carry coals, ergo, will hold my dog." The allusion is to the dirty, laborious occupation of coal-carriers. Gifford, in his edition of Ben... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1871 - 530 lapas
...being a man of an un-coal-carrying spirit," etc. Again, in Ben Jonson's Every Man out of his Humour : " Here comes one that will carry coals; ergo, will hold my dog." [Chain.] In Hen. V: III, ii, 49 : "At Calais they stole a fire-shovel ; I knew by that piece of service... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1875 - 594 lapas
...presence. Punt. I know it, and I, like a dull beast, forgot to bring one of my cormorants to attend me.* Fast. Why, you were best leave him at the porter's...one that will carry coals, ergo, will hold my dog. •* forgot to bring one of my cormorants to attend me,~] ie one of my servants. Menials appear to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1875 - 668 lapas
...the black-ynard ; and hence the" origin of that term. Thus in Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humour: "Here comes one that will carry coals ; ergo will hold my dog." See vol. ii. page 206, note 9. 2 So the undated quarto ; all the other old copies have civil instead... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 614 lapas
...the black-guard; and hence the origin of that term. So in Ben Jonson's Every Man in His Humour : " Here comes one that will carry coals ; ergo will hold my dog." And in Cotgrave's Dictionary : " Hee is very chollericke, furious, or couragious ; he will carrie no... | |
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Slight, how will you do then ? Punt. I must leave him with one that is ignorant of his quality, if I will have him to be safe. And see! here comes one that will carry coals, ergo, will hold my dog. 
