10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COSTARDMONGER»
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1
Ben Jonson: Four Comedies
25 [While they whistle together, enter Costardmonger] COSTARDMONGER Buy
any pears, very fine pears, pears fine! Nightingale sets his foot afore him, and he
falls with his basket COKES God's so! A muss, a muss, a muss, a muss!
Ben Johnson, Helen Ostovich, 2014
2
An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
See stand. costal [anat.].Of the rib, L. costa. costard. Apple,fig.head. ? From OF.
coste, L.costa, rib,theapple being described as “ribbed”; cf. OF.poire à cousteau,
app. ribbed pear. Hence costardmonger, appledealer, for extended senseof
which ...
3
The Slang Dictionary: Or, the Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, ...
Costermonger aliter costardmonger, i.e., an apple-seller. In Nares's Glossary (Ed.
H. & W.) they are said to have been frequently Irish. So, Ben Jonson— " Her
father was an Irish costar-monger." — Alchym., iv. 1. " In England, Sir, troth I ever
...
4
An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
(Hybrid; F. and E.) Formerly costerdmonger or costardmonger; the former spelling
is inDrant's Horace, where ittranslates L. pōmārius in Sat. ii.3.227. It means
costardseller. 'Costard, a kind of apple. Costardmonger, aseller of apples, a
fruiterer ...
5
The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama
... the chimney-sweepers will not be drawn in. clerimont No, nor the broom-men:
they stand out stiffly.He cannot endure a costardmonger, he swoons if he hears
one. truewit Methinks a smith should be ominous. clerimont Or any hammerman.
Simon Barker, Hilary Hinds, 2003
6
A History of the Cries of London / Ancient and Modern
“Nightingale,” a ballad singer, a costardmonger, mousetrapman, corn cutter.“
Joan Trash,”a gingerbread woman.“Leatherhead” calls—“What doyou lack?
whatis'tyou buy? what do you lack? rattles, drums, halberts, horses, babies o' the
best?
7
The Selected Plays of Ben Jonson: Volume 1: Sejanus, ...
He cannot endure a costardmonger, he swoons if he hear one. truewit. Methinks,
a smith should be ominous. 175 clerimont. Or any hammerman. A brazier is not
suffered to dwell in the parish, nor an armourer. He would have hanged a ...
Ben Jonson, Johanna Procter, Martin Butler, 1989
8
Melodist, and Mirthful Olio;: An Elegant Collection of the ...
... hope some friend will be found To keep my dog and my donkey from hunger ;
Let them follow my corpse, let them feed on the ground That covers the pour
costardmonger, The poor, feeling, dead, sentimental, sympathetic costardmonger
!
9
Epicene, Or, The Silent Woman
He 150 cannot endure a costardmonger, he swoons if he hear one. Truewit.
Methinks a smith should be ominous. Clerimont. Or any hammerman. A brazier is
not suffered to dwell in the parish, nor an armourer. He would have 155 hanged a
...
Ben Jonson, Richard Dutton, 2003
costardmonger Buy any pears, pears, fine, very fine pears! trash Buy any
gingerbread, gilt gingerbread! nightingale [Sings] Hey, now the Fair's afilling! 30
O, for a tune to startle The birds o' the booths here billing Yearly with old Saint
Bartle!
Ben Jonson, Alexander Leggatt, G.R. Hibbard, 2014
