Comments on: A Pack Of Knaves https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/17/a-pack-of-knaves/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 23 Apr 2020 17:15:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Michael Edward Hardie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/17/a-pack-of-knaves/#comment-1336693 Thu, 23 Apr 2020 17:15:41 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180731#comment-1336693 next door to st annes school was all saints church with All Saints school.
Both were demolished In the 1950s

]]> By: Amanda https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/17/a-pack-of-knaves/#comment-1336401 Sun, 19 Apr 2020 08:11:16 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180731#comment-1336401 Adam Dant : ?

]]> By: Robin https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/17/a-pack-of-knaves/#comment-1336288 Fri, 17 Apr 2020 18:14:38 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180731#comment-1336288 I see echoes here of certain politicians…
Naming no names, mind you.

]]> By: Adam Dant https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/17/a-pack-of-knaves/#comment-1336278 Fri, 17 Apr 2020 16:17:35 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180731#comment-1336278 Ha ha! Yes what an awful ‘Felf Ifolation’ that would be !

]]> By: Amanda https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/17/a-pack-of-knaves/#comment-1336277 Fri, 17 Apr 2020 14:32:23 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180731#comment-1336277 Ye olde Lockedowne

My Lord Loften,
My Lady Wilson

My heart was enchanted
by your accomplished prose

Our Author inspires such
splendid reverie

Safekeeping our souls
from these unimaginable woes

Fare thee well,

Doña Amanda of Connell

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/17/a-pack-of-knaves/#comment-1336272 Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:44:20 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180731#comment-1336272 PS What is the Overdoo up to with that massive syringe??

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/17/a-pack-of-knaves/#comment-1336270 Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:42:47 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180731#comment-1336270 I echo the words of Mr Loften
That on many a day and often
The Gentle Author doth our sprits raise
To help us through these strangest days
Our thanks are due for the sweet surprises
Of which his column oft comprises…

]]> By: Chris Webb https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/17/a-pack-of-knaves/#comment-1336269 Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:38:30 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180731#comment-1336269 This is probably the closest we will ever come to knowing what ordinary people looked like in the 17th century. I wonder whether they are portraits of actual people or just represent general types from everyday observation. The humour and satire is mostly lost on us but no doubt contemporaries would understand them immediately.

I find it amusing that in the second one he ran out of space for the text and had to squeeze it in. I wonder whether pronunciation has changed so that back then “is” and “amiss” did actually rhyme.

]]> By: paul loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/17/a-pack-of-knaves/#comment-1336266 Fri, 17 Apr 2020 11:36:57 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180731#comment-1336266 Ne’er before hast I lived as locked down and bound in home
With companie that so well to me is known
As words that pass between our lips
Away the day does with a sadness slip .
Yet no knave within our walls do I know
D’spight that we sit among such sad troubles found
No wrath or spite, my ears have found
Tis with this consolation my heart abounds
Yet more.This author so gentle, I praise
I sweare it doth our very spirits raise

]]> By: Bailey Jones https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/17/a-pack-of-knaves/#comment-1336260 Fri, 17 Apr 2020 10:00:18 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180731#comment-1336260 Oh dear. I can see me in there.

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