We were sitting around the fire, just as we are siting now, Tommy Collier on my right, and Harry Sibley on my left, when the bottles on the table began to clink and the windows to rattle, and poor Harry, who was leaning back in his chair, crashed over backwards to the floor.

Students soon began to appear, the first on the roll being in all probability James Glazebrook, a collier in Fletcher's parish.

The colliers of Wigan have been suffering a good deal lately, among the rest of the community, from shortness of labour.

My Lord of Salisbury, give these honest colliers For taking Ely each a hundred marks.

No, it is the devil playeth the collier with thee.

[Altered by Mr Collier to girls; but gulls is the reading of 1607.

The character of the ass is quoted by Collier from an old book, The Noblenesse of the Asse, 1595, in the Third Conversation: Thou wouldst (perhaps) he should become thy foe, And to that end doost beat him many times; He cares not for himselfe, much lesse thy blowe.

'Sfoot, you chittiface, that looks worse than a collier through a wooden window, an ape afraid of a whip, or a knave's head, shook seven years in the weather upon London Bridgedo you catechise me? WEN.

So secret were the orders kept that they did not know the nature of the business on which they were going until they boarded the tier of colliers at the New Quay, and other gangs the ships in the Catwater and the Pool, and the gin-shops.

This collation of "Hamlet" has not only extinguished Mr. Collier as a man of veracity, but it has given the coup de grace to any pretence of deference due to these marginal readings on any score.