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Title: Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Subjects: Literature Allusions Fiction.
Publisher: New York,: E. Hess
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
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Bireno has Alinda murdered to prevent the
deception being known, and accuses the
princess of inchastity—a crime in Lom-
bardy punished by death. As the princess
is led to execution, Paladore challenges the
duke, and kills him. The villainy is fully

Harvey Birch, the Peddler-Spy

HARVEY BIRCH, the peddler, brings his pack of goods to the
house and displays its contents.

"In person the peddler was a man above the middle height. Spare,
but full of bone and muscle. On entering the room, he relieved himself of his
burden, which, as it stood on the floor, reached nearly to his shoulders, and
saluted the family with modest civility. . . . Sarah gave but little time for
the usual salutations, before she commenced her survey of the contents of the
sack, and, for several minutes, the two were engaged in bringing to light
the various articles it contained. The tables, chairs, and floor were soon
covered with silks, crapes, gloves, muslins, and all the stock of an itinerant
peddler."

Cooper's "Spy."
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HARVEY BIRCH, THE PEDDLER-SPY.

BIRENO 135 BISHOP MIDDLEHAM

revealed, and the princess is married to the
man of her choice, who had twice saved
her life.—Robert Jephson, The Law of
Lombardy (1779).

Birmingham Poet (The), John Freeth,
the wit, poet, and publican, who wrote his
own songs, set them to music, and sang
them (1730-1808).

Biron, a merry mad-cap young lord, in
attendance on Ferdinand king of Navarre.
Biron promises to spend three years with
the king in study, during which time no
woman is to approach his court; but no
sooner has he signed the compact, than he
falls in love with Rosaline. Rosaline de-
fers his suit for twelve months and a day,
saying, "If you my favor mean to get,
for twelve months seek the weary beds
of people sick."

A merrier man,
Within the limit of becoming mirth,
I never spent an hours talk withal.
His eye begets occasion for his wit :
For every object that the one doth catch,
The other turns to a mirth-moving jest;
Which his fair tongue (conceits expositor)
Delivers in such apt and gracious words,
that aged ears play truant at his tales,
And younger hearings are quite ravished.
Shakespeare, Love Labor's Last, act ii. sc. 1
(1594)

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