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Patient Grissil
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Patient Grissil, a comedy by
Dekker in collaboration with
Chettle and Haughton, printed 1603.
The marquess of Salucia, smitten with the beauty of Grissil, the virtuous daughter of a poor basket-maker, makes her his bride. Wishing to try her patience, he subjects her to a series of humiliations and cruelties. The play contains the well-known songs ‘Art thou poore yet hast thou golden slumbers, | O sweet content’ and ‘Golden slumbers kisse your eyes’.
The same subject is treated in Chaucer's ‘Clerk's Tale’ (see
Canterbury Tales, 9). It was taken originally from the
Decameron (Day 10, Tale 10).
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Basket makers wary of threat to ash on eve of sale
Newspaper article from: Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME; 12/4/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...sweet grass baskets. Work baskets such as creels, pack and potato baskets will be for sale alongside fancy baskets ranging in shape from strawberries...Maine helps coordinate the basket sale and demonstration day...increasing the numbers of basket makers and encouraging ...
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Creating a heritage Passamaquoddy elder honored for career as basket maker
Newspaper article from: Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME; 7/13/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...announced that the basket maker from Pleasant Point near Perry...split it, wove it into patch baskets to nestle into birch-bark...later, Europeans used the baskets, too. Later still, Victorian...educational pursuits, the baskets fell into quiet practice among...and one of two Maine Indian ...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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It's a rush job; Mirror WORKS BASKET MAKER WOVE HERSELF A BUSINESS OUT OF A PASSION.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 8/31/2006; 700+ words
; ...tools? I made that first basket using secateurs, a screwdriver and Vaseline. Now I use a basket maker's bodkin instead of the...s the same gear. ARE all baskets handmade? Yes - they can...I am also a member of the Makers Guild in Wales, which represents...day an acquaintance saw a ...
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Renowned Washoe basket maker's `miniatures' on display at Lake Tahoe
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 7/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...greatest American Indian basket maker by far," Quintana...museum, I can tell her baskets. They represent perfection...columns. "Those two baskets really stand out to...well-executed. Other basket makers have too much design...for the eyes." The baskets are typical of Dat...
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 "Portland Press Herald (Maine)")
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MAINE BASKET MAKER EARNS PRESTIGIOUS NEA FELLOWSHIP
Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine); 6/7/2002; ; 615 words
; ...Keezer, who began making baskets at age 8, sold baskets as a source of income for...Basketmakers Alliance and her baskets have been exhibited around...has also taken on apprentice basket makers and taught basket-making...Hoffman, a Penobscot basket maker and executive ...
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 "Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)")
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Basket-makers weave skills all through five generations; J JOHNSON & SON: What started off as a sideline for coracle fishermen is now a strong family enterprise.(Business)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 6/19/2002; 700+ words
; ...Wales. The main basket-maker in the business is Ken Griffiths...42. He has been making baskets ever since he left school...picked it up as I went along. Basket-making is the sort of thing...and taken them home to make baskets which they then sold to obtain...strengthen the injured limb was ...
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 "Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)")
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Chehalis basket maker redefines retirement
Newspaper article from: Indian Country Today (Lakota Times); 2/22/1999; 700+ words
; ...22-1999 Chehalis basket maker redefines retirement...from how to price basket purses to reminiscences...women to price their baskets at $45. "It would...her grandmother weave baskets and was familiar with...wove, she recalled the basket designs she had seen...
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Ohio Basket Maker to Lay Off 800 Workers.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 7/18/2001; 700+ words
; ...279 on a fancy handmade basket are cutting back as the economy...result, the nation's largest basket maker, the Longaberger Co., said...said yesterday. About 50 basket makers and support staff at the firm...addition to its signature maple baskets, joins an ever-expanding...
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Made in Sarasota: master basket maker Elizabeth Geisler brings an ancient craft to glorious life.
Magazine article from: Sarasota Magazine; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Association of Michigan Basket Makers, has collected numerous...the first pine needle basket she ever made with affection...staggering array of baskets, from miniature ones...941) 365-2058. Her baskets are on sale at Art Uptown...about $18 for a garlic basket to about $1,800 for...
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Master basket maker shares stories, lore of bygone craft
Newspaper article from: Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME; 8/18/2005; ; 554 words
; ...Master Penobscot basket maker Barbara Francis deftly bent...finds she has questions about basket making, but there's no...pass on the traditions of basket making. "It feels good...passing on the histories of the baskets. You're also passing on...to watch one of the great basket ...
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Basket Makers
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Basket Makers name given to the members...cultural continuity from the Basket Makers to the Pueblos, they...basketmaking; by covering the baskets with clay and baking them...absorbed many of them. Some Basket Makers may have moved and may have...their culture into the ...
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basket-makers
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
basket-makers A group of Native Americans in Colorado and neighbouring areas who developed...cultures in the last centuries BC. They adopted farming from MEXICO . The baskets they used instead of pottery have been preserved in the dry climatic...
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Land of Little Rain, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...x201D; The Pocket Hunter , Shoshone Land , and The Basket Maker are quiet portraits of representative citizens in this region...herself to rearing her son and to weaving beautiful willow baskets “for the satisfaction of desire.” The...
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Leeuwenhoek, Antoni Van (1632–1723)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...1632 – 1723) LEEUWENHOEK, ANTONI VAN (1632 – 1723), Dutch microscopist. Born the son of a basket maker on 24 October 1632 in Delft, Leeuwenhoek had little formal education. He moved when he was sixteen to Amsterdam...
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Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...b . Delft, 26 August 1723), natural sciences, microscopy. Leeuwenhoek was the son of Philips Thoniszoon, a basket-maker, and Margriet Jacobsdochter van den Berch. He took his surname ( “ Lion ’ s Corner ”...
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