There he laid aside the habit of a cavalier, and transforming himself into the natural appearance of a horse-courser, he sold the horse to a physician, telling him at the time he bought it, that it would be greatly the better for being suffered to run at grass a fortnight or so. ❋ Arthur L. Hayward (N/A)
Faustus has his leg again, and the horse-courser, I take it, a bottle of hay for his labour. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Go hang, you moon-calf, false faucet, you roaring horse-courser, you ranger of ❋ George Augustus Sala (1861)
Hereat the horse-courser was afraid, and gave the flight, thinking no other with himself but that he had pulled his leg from his body. ❋ Henry Morley (1858)
But the horse-courser marvelled with himself that Faustus bade him ride over no water. ❋ Henry Morley (1858)
The horse-courser knew well where he lay that had sold him his horse; whereupon he went angerly to his inn, where he found Dr. Faustus fast asleep and snorting on a bed. ❋ Henry Morley (1858)
But the horse-courser could no longer forbear him, but took him by the leg and began to pull him off the bed; but he pulled him so that he pulled his leg from his body, insomuch that the horse-courser fell backwards in the place. ❋ Henry Morley (1858)
After this manner he deceived a horse-courser at a fair, called ❋ Henry Morley (1858)
He would sometimes go about the markets in a frolic, with small wares, as a petty chapman; sometimes he affected to be a horse-courser; at other times he drove his own chariot, in a slave's habit. ❋ Oliver Goldsmith (1752)
What trade has more hard words and peculiar ways attending it, than that of a jockey, or horse-courser, as we call them! ❋ Daniel Defoe (1696)
Do not you remember a horse-courser you sold a horse to? ❋ Christopher Marlowe (1578)
There was once in Perugia, as I have heard tell aforetime, a young man, a horse-courser, by name Andreuccio di Pietro, [95] who, hearing that horses were good cheap at Naples, put five hundred gold florins in his purse and betook himself thither with other merchants, having never before been away from home. ❋ Giovanni Boccaccio (1344)
For shame, get off that Smithfield horse-courser s equip - age; appear once more like Courtine the gay, the witty, and unbounded, with joy in thy face, and love in thy blood, money in thy pockets, and good clothes on thy back, and then I'll try to give thee a recipe that may purge away those foul humours matrimony has bred in thee, and fit thee to relish the sins of thy youth again. ❋ Unknown (1812)
The characters in this volume are "A fantasticke taylor; a player; a shooe-maker; a rope-maker; a smith; a tobacconist; a cunning woman; a cobler; a tooth-drawer; a tinker; a fidler; a cunning horse-courser; ❋ John Earle (N/A)
