Each had a Playbook beside his plate, and they were apparently studying their parts for the morning performance.
"Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children"
Julian Hawthorne
A few of the country gentry had some pretension to learning, but the majority cared little except for hawks and hounds, gaming and drinking; and if they read it was some old chronicle, or story of knightly adventure, "Amadis de Gaul," or a stray Playbook, or something like the "History of Long Meg of Westminster," or perhaps a sheet of news.
"The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner"
Charles Dudley Warner