Pigling Bland drew forward a coppy stool, and sat on the edge of it, shyly warming his hands.
Pigling Bland sat on the very edge of the coppy stool.
I might take you to the bridge; if you have no objection," said Pigling much confused and sitting on the edge of his coppy stool.
came into my handes, in his [Whetstone's] fyrst
coppy, whose leasure was so lyttle (being then readie to depart his country) that he had no time to worke it a new, nor to geue apt instructions, to prynte so difficult a worke, beyng full of variety, both matter, speache, and verse.
According to the copie printed at Paris by James Mettayer, ordinarie printer to the King, 1600 (London: Imprinted for Iohn Flasket, 1600), and The true
coppy of a certaine letter written from Sluce the 12.
The title page specifies that the version offered readers is "The perfect and exact
Coppy, with diuerse / things Printed that the length of the Play would / not beare in the Presentment." If we put preface and title page together, we can infer that in Webster's view, plays are likely to be shorter and poems longer and more elaborate, designed to be read by succeeding generations.
After the reading and delivering unto us a
Coppy of this Relation, (20) then proceeded he on in his discourse.
4 The property acquired by the queen was 'one messuage and one yarde lande called the Pole with thappurtenances lyeing and beinge in longney aforesaid and one Acre of meadowe lying in maddam and one Acre and one Rodd of lande lying in the Southefeild and the third parte of one pasture called Agasmeade als Brethermeade lying and being in Longhey aforesaid late in the tenure and occupacion of one Elizabeth Spicer widdowe deceased parcell of the Copiehold and Customary landes of the said mannor of Longhey and demised and demisable by
Coppy of Courte Rolle of the said mannor'.
In the top left-hand corner of the recto side of the paper, at a right-angle to the main body of the text, is written '
Coppy of L Scudamores letter'.
F1 London, Royal College of Music, MS 1119, ff.1r-v, late 17th century and headed 'A
Coppy of the old Measures in the Inner Temple' (illus.1).