Report of a rehearsal of an Hunterian Oration, at the Royal College of Surgeons, read to a committee of undertakers / by William Woeful, of Fleet-Market, with the curate of Black Fryars at his elbow.
- Woeful, William, pseud.
- Date:
- 1822
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of a rehearsal of an Hunterian Oration, at the Royal College of Surgeons, read to a committee of undertakers / by William Woeful, of Fleet-Market, with the curate of Black Fryars at his elbow. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Black Fryars, tells me, for he is now at my elbow, that the Hoste, in Chaucer’s Canter- bury Tales, takes the lead; pays all ex- penses— with other men’s money; an old- fashioned mode of generosity, revived. So that Dr. Phusis, the Hoste, takes the chair. Adds the Curate: “ Phusis and Chaucer’s Hoste are as much alike as two eye's in the face of beauty.” “Or,” says Woeful, “as two of my mutes at the door of a funeral.” “ Be silent,” replied the Curate, “ and I will show you what Chaucer’s Hoste says for himself in his Prologue. You have seen Ph usis in Lincoln’s Inn Fields ; you know what business had he there; and now you shall see Chaucer’s Hoste in Southwark: [From Chaucer.] “ In Southwerk, at this gentil hostelrie, That highte the Taberd, faste by the Belle.” IIOSTE’S PROLOGUE. “ And, If you liketh me, by on assent Now for to stonden at my jugement, And for to worchen as I find you say To morwe —when you riden on the way. Now by my fader’s [uncle John's] soule that is ded. But ye be mery, smiteth of my hed: Hold up your hondes, without more speche.” B 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2898660x_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
