Nor out of wantonness should we speak ill, for our divertisement or sport.
Is it not the sport and divertisement of many, to cast dirt in the faces of all they meet with; to bespatter any man with foul imputations?
It is a mistake to assume that an intellectual divertisement must be popular with an intellectual people.
You sigh like a furnace and write sonnets to your mistress' eyebrow--you cut fantastic capers before high Heaven for the divertisement of those who don't yet know how it is themselves.
Yet it was received at court; and was more than once the divertisement of his Majesty, by his own command; but I have more modesty than to ascribe that to my merit, which was his particular act of grace.
That the play had but indifferent success in the action, the poet himself has informed us, with the qualifying addition, that it more than once was the divertisement of Charles II.
You must think that any divertisement there was welcome, so that I went up, and found it in truth a very pleasant spectacle.
For put case it should be some pretender to a good office, or a fat bishopric (though the fathers and councils are against pretenders in this case) I fancy to myself all the pleasure and divertisement that may be.
The divertisement ended with a dance of Bacchus and Bacchantes.
As a proof of this confidence, a history is given of certain proceedings in the ninth year of their marriage, in which it will be seen that the Bacchus of the divertisement is not kept entirely in the background.
