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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Elizabethan and Jacobean Pamphlets - -Author: Various - -Editor: George Saintsbury - -Release Date: February 9, 2014 [EBook #44855] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN PAMPHLETS *** - - - - -Produced by Jonathan Ingram and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 44855 ***</div> <p class="ph4"><i>Demy 16mo, 3s. 6d. each. Bound in paper boards, with parchment back.</i></p> @@ -383,7 +343,7 @@ to modern writers than their fellows. Indeed, Greene's not wholly enviable fame is as much due to the quarrels of these two as to his own works. Gabriel Harvey, the elder but very much the less able of the two, was a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, a friend -of Sidney and of Spenser (whose <i>Faërie Queene</i> he unmercifully +of Sidney and of Spenser (whose <i>Faërie Queene</i> he unmercifully snubbed, preferring the curious fancy of classical metres which was long patronised by the 'Areopagus' or Sidneian clique), and a man of real scholarship. But his exemplification of the worst faults @@ -524,7 +484,7 @@ Musick, and Stage Plays.</span></p> and wise men can consider by the Penn the aucthoritie of the writer, thoughe they know him not. The Rubie is discerned by his pale rednes, and who hath not h[e]ard that the Lyon is knowne by hys clawes. Though -<i>Æsopes</i> craftie crowe be never so deftlye decked, yet is his double +<i>Æsopes</i> craftie crowe be never so deftlye decked, yet is his double dealing e[a]sely desiphered: and though men never so perfectly pollish there wrytings with others sentences, yet the simple truth wil discover the shadow of ther follies: and bestowing every fether in the bodye @@ -572,13 +532,13 @@ in London some part of your honestie. You say that Poets are subtil, if so, you have learned that poynt of them, you can well glose on a trifleling text: but you have dronke perhaps of <i>Lethe</i>, your gram[m]er learning is out of your head, you forget your Accidence, you reme[m]ber -not that under the person of <i>Æneas</i> in Virgil, the practice of a +not that under the person of <i>Æneas</i> in Virgil, the practice of a dilligent captaine is discribed, under ye shadow of byrds, beastes, and trees, the follies of the world were disiphered, you know not that the creation is signified in the Image of <i>Prometheus</i>, the fall of pryde in the person of <i>Narcissus</i>, these are toyes because they savour of wisedom which you want. Marke what <i>Campanus</i> sayth, <i>Mira -fabularum vanitas sed quæ si introspiciantur videri possunt non vanæ</i>. +fabularum vanitas sed quæ si introspiciantur videri possunt non vanæ</i>. The vanitie of tales is wonderful, yet if we advisedly looke into them they wil seme and prove wise. How wonderful are the pithie poems of <i>Cato</i>! the curious comidies of <i>Plautus</i>! how bravely discovereth @@ -586,7 +546,7 @@ they wil seme and prove wise. How wonderful are the pithie poems of he <i>Dauus</i>! how pleasauntly paynteth he out <i>Gnatho</i>! whom if we should seeke in our dayes, I suppose he would not be farr from your parson. But I see you woulde seeme to be that which you are not, and as the -proverb sayth <i>Nodum in Cirpo quærere</i>. Poets you say use coullors to +proverb sayth <i>Nodum in Cirpo quærere</i>. Poets you say use coullors to cover their incoviences, and wittie sentences to burnish theyr bawdery, and you divinite to cover your knaverye.</p> @@ -678,7 +638,7 @@ thee) in Pamphelets more prayse worthy; thou haste not saved a Senator, therefore not worthye a Lawrell wre[a]th, thou hast not (in disproving poetry) reproved an abuse, and therfore not worthy commendation.</p> -<p><i>Seneca</i> sayth that <i>Magna vitæ pars elabitur male agentibus, maxima +<p><i>Seneca</i> sayth that <i>Magna vitæ pars elabitur male agentibus, maxima nihill agentibus, tota aliud agentibus</i>, the most of our life (sayd he) is spent e[i]ther in doing evill, or nothing, or that wee should not, and I would wish you weare exempted from this sensure. Geve eare but @@ -690,7 +650,7 @@ lest I leave another untouched.</p> despised Poetes, harke (I pray you) what he worketh for them in his oratio[n] <i>pro Archia poeta</i>. But before you heare him, least you fayle in the incounter, I would wysh you to follow the advise of the -dasterdlye Ichneumon of <i>Ægipt</i>, who when shee beholdeth the Aspis her +dasterdlye Ichneumon of <i>Ægipt</i>, who when shee beholdeth the Aspis her enemye to drawe nighe, calleth her fellowes together, bisme[a]ring herselfe with claye, against the byting and stroke of the serpent, arme yourselfe, cal your witts together: want not your wepons, lest your @@ -704,7 +664,7 @@ to shew yourselfe.</p> <p>You thought poetrye should want a patron (I think) when you fyrste published this invective, but yet you fynd al to[o] many eve[n] <i>preter expectationē</i>, yea though it can speake for it self, yet -her patron <i>Tullie</i> now shall tell her tale, <i>Hæc studia</i>, (sayth +her patron <i>Tullie</i> now shall tell her tale, <i>Hæc studia</i>, (sayth he) <i>adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis perfugium ac Solatium prebent, delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregri[n]antur rusticantur</i>. Then will you @@ -785,7 +745,7 @@ poets were sayde to call for the Muses helpe ther mening was no other as <i>Iodocus Badius</i> reporteth, but to call for heavenly inspiration from above to direct theyr ende[a]vors. Nether were it good for you to sette light by the name of a poet since ye oftspring from whence -he cometh is so heavenly. <i>Sibilla</i> in hir answers to <i>Æneas</i> against +he cometh is so heavenly. <i>Sibilla</i> in hir answers to <i>Æneas</i> against hir will as the poet telleth us was possessed with<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> thys fury, ye wey consideratly but of the writing of poets, and you shal se[e] than whe[n] ther matter is most heavenly, their stile is most loftye, a @@ -817,7 +777,7 @@ first pronounced by no smal birde even <i>Aristotle</i> himself. <i>Poetae</i> (sayth he) <i>multa mentiuntur</i> and to further his opinion seuer <i>Cato</i> putteth in his cencure.</p> -<p><i>Admiranda canunt sed non credenda poetæ.</i> These were sore blemishes +<p><i>Admiranda canunt sed non credenda poetæ.</i> These were sore blemishes if objected rightly and heare you may say the streme runnes a wronge, but if it be so by you[r] leve I wyll bring him shortly in his right chanel. My answere shall not be my owne, but a learned father shall @@ -845,7 +805,7 @@ thus:</p> <span class="i0"><i>Silvestres homines sacer interpresque deorum</i><br /></span> <span class="i0"><i>Sedibus, et victu fœdo deterruit orpheus.</i><br /></span> <span class="i0"><i>Dictus ob hoc lenire Tigres rabidosque leones.</i><br /></span> -<span class="i0"><i>Dictus et Amphion Thebanæ condit[or] urbis</i><br /></span> +<span class="i0"><i>Dictus et Amphion Thebanæ condit[or] urbis</i><br /></span> <span class="i0"><i>Saxa movere sono, testudinis et prece blanda</i><br /></span> <span class="i0"><i>Ducere quo vellet. Fuit hoc sapientia quondam</i>,<br /></span> <span class="i0"><i>Publica privatis secernere sacra prophanis</i>,<br /></span> @@ -887,7 +847,7 @@ lastly the very fo[o]tpaths to knowledg and understa[n]ding. Ye if we sho[u]ld beleve Herome he will make <i>Platos</i> exiles honest me[n] and his pestiferous poets good preachers: for he accounteth <i>Orpheus Museus and Linus, Christians</i>, therefore <i>Virgil</i> (in his 6 boke -of <i>Æneiados</i> wher he lernedly describeth ye journey of <i>Æneas</i> to +of <i>Æneiados</i> wher he lernedly describeth ye journey of <i>Æneas</i> to <i>Elisum</i>) asserteneth<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> us, yt among them yt were ther for the zeale they beare toward there country, ther wer found <i>Quinque pii vates et Phœbo digna loquti</i> but I must answer al objectio[n]s, I must fil @@ -1033,7 +993,7 @@ blest us wyth a monsterus chickin, both wythoute hedde, and also tayle, lyke the Father, full of imperfection and lesse zeale. Well marke yet a lyttle more, beare with me though I be bytter, my love is never the lesse for that I have learned of <i>Tullye</i>, that <i>Nulla remedia tam -faciunt dolorem quam quæ sunt salutaria</i>, the sharper medycine the +faciunt dolorem quam quæ sunt salutaria</i>, the sharper medycine the better it cures, the more you see your follye, the sooner may you amend it. Are not the straines in Musike to tickle and delyght the eare? are not our warlike instruments to move men to valor? you confesse @@ -1096,7 +1056,7 @@ wil soner forget to dye the[n] to sing. <i>Pithagoras</i> liks it so wel yt he wil place it in <i>Greace</i>, and <i>Aristoxenus</i> will saye yt the soule is musik. <i>Plato</i> (in his booke <i>de legibus</i>) will affirme that it can not be handled without all sciences, the <i>Lacedemonians and Cretensis</i> -wer sturred to warre by Anapæstus foote, and <i>Timotheus</i> with the same +wer sturred to warre by Anapæstus foote, and <i>Timotheus</i> with the same incensed kinge <i>Alexander</i> to batel, ye yf <i>Boetyus</i> fitten not, on <i>Tauromitanus</i> (by this <i>Phrigian</i> sound) hastened to burn a house wher a stru[m]pet was hidden.</p> @@ -1106,9 +1066,9 @@ worketh wonders as you may perceve most manifestly by the history of <i>Agamemnon</i><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> who going to ye Trojan war, left at home a musitian yt playde the <i>Dorian</i> tune, who wt the foote <i>Spondeus</i> preserved his wife <i>Clitemnestra</i> in chastity and honesty, wherfore she co[u]ld not -be deflowred by <i>Ægistus</i>, before he had wickedly slain the musitian. +be deflowred by <i>Ægistus</i>, before he had wickedly slain the musitian. So yt as the magnetes draweth Iorne, and the Theamides (w<sup>c</sup> groweth -in <i>Ægipt</i>) driveth it away: so musik calleth to it selfe al honest +in <i>Ægipt</i>) driveth it away: so musik calleth to it selfe al honest plesures, and dispelleth fro[m] it all vaine misdemanors. Yt matter is so ple[n]tiful that I cannot find wher to end, as for beginnings they be infinite, but these shall suffice. I like not to[o] long @@ -1212,7 +1172,7 @@ name, discover the follies of many theyr folish fellow-citesens: and those monsters were then, as our parasites are now adayes: suche as with pleasure reprehended abuse. As for commedies because they bear a more plesanter vain, I wil leave the other to speake of them. <i>Tully</i><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span> -defines them thus. <i>Comedia</i> (sayth he) is <i>Imitatio vitæ, speculum +defines them thus. <i>Comedia</i> (sayth he) is <i>Imitatio vitæ, speculum consuetudinis, et imago veritatis</i>, and it is sayde to be termed of <i>Comai</i> (emongste the Greekes) whiche signifieth <i>Pagos</i>, and <i>Ode, Cantus</i>: for that they were exercised in the fielde. They had they @@ -1233,7 +1193,7 @@ restrayned the unbridled cominaltie, whereupon <i>Horace</i> wisely sayeth,</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><i>Oderunt peccare boni, virtutis amore,</i><br /></span> -<span class="i0"><i>Oderunt peccare mali, formidine penæ.</i><br /></span> +<span class="i0"><i>Oderunt peccare mali, formidine penæ.</i><br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">The good did hate al sinne for vertues love,<br /></span> <span class="i0">The bad for feare of shame did sin remove.<br /></span> @@ -1329,7 +1289,7 @@ approve your wit, but for the pigg of your own sow (as you terme it) assuredly I must discommend your verdit. Tell me Gosson was all your owne you wrote there: did you borow nothing of your neyghbours? but of what booke patched you out <i>Ciceros</i> oration? Whence fet you <i>Catulins</i> -invective? Thys is one thing, <i>alienam olet lucernâ non tuam</i>. So that +invective? Thys is one thing, <i>alienam olet lucernâ non tuam</i>. So that your helper may wisely reply upon you with <i>Virgil</i>,</p> <p class="center"> @@ -1348,7 +1308,7 @@ advise they should learne thys of <i>Juvenal</i>:</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i2"><i>Vivendum est recte</i><br /></span> <span class="i0"><i>Cum propter plurima, tum his</i><br /></span> -<span class="i2"><i>Præcipue causis: ut linguas mancipiorum</i><br /></span> +<span class="i2"><i>Præcipue causis: ut linguas mancipiorum</i><br /></span> <span class="i0"><i>Contēnas. Nā lingua mali pars pessima servi.</i><br /></span> </div></div> @@ -1406,7 +1366,7 @@ of treason? <i>Cato</i> can correct him<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" i the land profereth passage, or to be fole hardy in over mutch hazard. <i>Aristotle</i> accompteth counsell holye, and <i>Socrates</i> can terme it the key of certentye. What shall we count of war but wrath, of battel but -hastines, and if I did rule (with <i>Augustus Cæsar</i>) I woulde refuse +hastines, and if I did rule (with <i>Augustus Cæsar</i>) I woulde refuse these counselers. What made ye oracle I praye you accompt of <i>Calchas</i> so much? was it not for his wisedome? who doth not like of the governer that had rather meete with <i>Unum Nestorem</i> than <i>decem Aiaces</i>? You @@ -1422,7 +1382,7 @@ is and he will say:</p> <span class="i0"><i>Pax optima rerum quas homini novisse</i><br /></span> <span class="i12"><i>datum est, pax una triumphis</i><br /></span> <span class="i0"><i>Innumeris potior, pax custodire salutem.</i><br /></span> -<span class="i12"><i>Et cives æquare potens.</i><br /></span> +<span class="i12"><i>Et cives æquare potens.</i><br /></span> </div></div> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> @@ -1682,7 +1642,7 @@ manie bobbes, and a whole fardle of fallacies. He begins,</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><i>Linquo coax ranis, cros coruis, vanaque vanis.</i><br /></span> -<span class="i0"><i>Ad Logicam pergo, quæ Mart'ins non timet ergo.</i><br /></span> +<span class="i0"><i>Ad Logicam pergo, quæ Mart'ins non timet ergo.</i><br /></span> </div></div> <p>And saies, he will ergo Martin into an ague. I haue read but one of his @@ -1768,7 +1728,7 @@ hundred merrie tales, and the petigree of Martin, fetchte from the burning of Sodome, his<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span> armes shal be set on his hearse, for we are prouiding his funerall, and for the winter nights the tales shall be told <i>secundum vsum Sarum</i>: the Deane of Salisburie can tell twentie. -If this will not make Martin mad, malicious and melancholie (ô braue +If this will not make Martin mad, malicious and melancholie (ô braue letter followed with a full crie) then will we be desperate, and hire one that shall so translate you out of French into English, that you will blush and lie by it. And one will we coniure vp, that writing @@ -1984,7 +1944,7 @@ apron. Nay, he would be glad to scape with hanging, weele first haue him lashte<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span> through the Realme with cordes, that when hee comes to the gallowes he may be bleeding new.</p> -<p>The babie comes in with <i>Nunka</i>, <i>Næme</i>, and <i>Dad</i> (Pappe with an +<p>The babie comes in with <i>Nunka</i>, <i>Næme</i>, and <i>Dad</i> (Pappe with an hatchet for such a puppie), giue the infant a bibbe, he all to beslauers his mother tongue, if he driuell so at the mouth and nose, weele haue him wipte with a hempen wispe. <i>Hui?</i> How often hast thou @@ -2206,9 +2166,9 @@ Commons against the chiefe of the Clergie, to make a generall reuolt from the gouernment so wel established, so wisely maintained, and so long prospering.</p> -<p>Because they say, <i>Aue Cæsar</i>, therefore they meane nothing against -Cæsar. There may bee hidden vnder their long gownes short daggers, and -so in blearing Cæsars eyes, conspire Cæsars death. God saue the Queene; +<p>Because they say, <i>Aue Cæsar</i>, therefore they meane nothing against +Cæsar. There may bee hidden vnder their long gownes short daggers, and +so in blearing Cæsars eyes, conspire Cæsars death. God saue the Queene; why it is the Que which they take from the mouthes of all traytors, who though they bee throughly conuinced, both by proofe and their owne confessions, yet at the last gaspe they crie, God saue the Queene. GOD<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span> @@ -2469,8 +2429,8 @@ allegory, in the morality, and in the style.</i>)</p> <p><span class="smcap">THE WIL OF WIT, WIT'S WILL, or WIL'S WIT</span>, chuse you whether. Containing five discourses, the effects whereof follow. <span class="smcap">Reade and -Judge.</span> Compiled by <span class="smcap">Nicholas Breton</span>, gentleman. <i>Non hà, -che non sà.</i> Vires sit Vulnere Veritas. London: Printed by <span class="smcap">Thomas +Judge.</span> Compiled by <span class="smcap">Nicholas Breton</span>, gentleman. <i>Non hà , +che non sà .</i> Vires sit Vulnere Veritas. London: Printed by <span class="smcap">Thomas Creede</span>, 1599.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span></p> @@ -2673,7 +2633,7 @@ him, but hope is uncertaine;</p> <br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>Will.</i> That greeves me most.</span><br /> <br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>Wit.</i> And not to be recoverèd?</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>Wit.</i> And not to be recoverèd?</span><br /> <br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>Will.</i> Oh, my heart is almost dead.</span><br /> <br /> @@ -2699,7 +2659,7 @@ him, but hope is uncertaine;</p> <span style="margin-left: 4em;">A plaine discourse, in homely prose,</span><br /> <span style="margin-left: 4em;">Wherein I will at large disclose:</span><br /> <span style="margin-left: 4em;">How I have lived, with whom, and where:</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 4em;">How I was tossèd, here and there:</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">How I was tossèd, here and there:</span><br /> <span style="margin-left: 4em;">How I did chaunce to travaile hither,</span><br /> <span style="margin-left: 4em;">And so we will be merrie togither.</span><br /> <br /> @@ -2921,7 +2881,7 @@ French, and some English. In Latine I remember these: <i>Quid tam difficile quod non solertia vincit?</i> By that was written, <i>Labore vertus</i>: and by that, <i>Vertute fama</i>: and over that, <i>Fama immortalis</i>: and that was written in many places<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[Pg 102]</a></span> about the house. In Italian was -written, <i>Gioventù vecchezza</i>: by that, <i>Vecchezza Morte, et Morte +written, <i>Gioventù vecchezza</i>: by that, <i>Vecchezza Morte, et Morte Tempo, et Tempo Fama</i>: but over all, <i>Sopra tutti, triumpha Iddio</i>. In French, <i>Le fol Fortune, il prudent Fame. Fame est divine, diuinitie est pretieuse, Dieu est nostre guarde.</i> In English was written. @@ -3378,7 +3338,7 @@ author's death.</i>)</p> <i>Written before his death, and published at his<br /> dying request.</i><br /><br /> - <i>Fælicem fuisse infaustum.</i><br /><br /> + <i>Fælicem fuisse infaustum.</i><br /><br /> <i>Virescit vulnere veritas.</i><br /><br /> @@ -4212,7 +4172,7 @@ men good.</p> </div></div> <p><i>O horrenda fames</i>, how terrible are thy assaultes? but <i>Vermis -conscientiæ</i>, more wounding are thy stings. Ah Gentlemen, that liue to +conscientiæ</i>, more wounding are thy stings. Ah Gentlemen, that liue to reade my broken and confused lines, looke not I should (as I was woont) delight you with vain fantasies, but gather my follies altogether, and as you would deale with so many parricides, cast them into the fire: @@ -4387,7 +4347,7 @@ Robert Greene.</i><br /> </p> <p>Now to all men I bid farewell in this sort, with this conceited Fable -of the olde Comedian <i>Æsope</i>.</p> +of the olde Comedian <i>Æsope</i>.</p> <p>An Ant and a Grashopper walking together on a greene, the one carelessely skipping, the other carefully prying what winters prouision @@ -4463,7 +4423,7 @@ infirmitie, beseeching them that shal burie my bodie, to publish this last farewell, written with my wretched hand.</p> <p class="center"> -Fælicem fuisse infaustum. +Fælicem fuisse infaustum. </p> <hr class="tb" /> @@ -4500,7 +4460,7 @@ Sauiour, to whome I commend this, and commit my soule.</p> <p class="center"> <i>Thy repentant husband for his disloyaltie.</i></p> <p class="author"><i>Robert Greene.</i></p> -<p class="center"><i>Fælicem fuisse infaustum.</i> +<p class="center"><i>Fælicem fuisse infaustum.</i> </p> @@ -4817,7 +4777,7 @@ frendes, Gabriell Haruey. /</p> <span class="i0">And shall I venture such a blustrous fray?<br /></span> <span class="i0">Hazard not, panting quill, thy aspen selfe:<br /></span> <span class="i0">Hel'e murther thy conceit, and braine thy braine.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Spare me, ô super domineering Elfe,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Spare me, ô super domineering Elfe,<br /></span> <span class="i0">And most, <i>railipotent</i> for euer raine,<br /></span> <span class="i4"><i>Si Tibi vis ipsi parcere, parce Mihi.</i><br /></span> </div></div> @@ -4927,7 +4887,7 @@ to the highest treasury of heauenly Muses; I right hartely take my leaue with a Sonnet of that Muse, that honoreth the Vrany of du Bartas, and yourselfe: of du Bartas elsewhere; here of him,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">[Pg 181]</a></span> whose excellent Pages of the French King, the Scottish King, the braue Monsieur de la -Nöe, the aforesayd Lord du Bartas, Sir Philip Sidney, and sundry other +Nöe, the aforesayd Lord du Bartas, Sir Philip Sidney, and sundry other worthy personages, deserue immortall commendation. I thanke him very hartely that imparted vnto me those fewe sheetes: and if all be like them, truly all is passing notable, and right singular.</p> @@ -4955,7 +4915,7 @@ them, truly all is passing notable, and right singular.</p> <p>From my lodging in Holborne: this of June. 1593. Your most affectionate,</p> <p class="author"> -<i>Barnabé Barnes.</i> +<i>Barnabé Barnes.</i> </p> <p>Hauing perused my former Sonet, if it may please you, Sir, to do @@ -5648,7 +5608,7 @@ original</i>.)</p> <h2><a name="To_all_Guls_in_generall_wealth_and_Liberty" id="To_all_Guls_in_generall_wealth_and_Liberty"><i>To all Guls in generall, wealth and Liberty.</i></a></h2> -<p><span class="smcap">Whom</span> can I choose (my most worthie <i>Mecæn-asses</i>) to be +<p><span class="smcap">Whom</span> can I choose (my most worthie <i>Mecæn-asses</i>) to be Patrons to this labour of mine fitter thē yourselues? Your hands are euer open, your purses neuer shut. So that you stand not in the <i>Common</i> Rancke of <i>Dry-fisted Patrons</i>, (who giue nothing) for you @@ -5683,7 +5643,7 @@ T. D. <p><i><span class="smcap">Gentle</span> Reader, I could willingly be content that thou shouldest neither be at cost to buy this booke, nor at the labour to reade it. It is not my ambition to bee a man in Print, thus euery -Tearm</i>; Ad prælum, tanquàm ad prælium; <i>Wee should come to the Presse +Tearm</i>; Ad prælum, tanquà m ad prælium; <i>Wee should come to the Presse as we come to the Field (seldome). This Tree of</i> Guls <i>was planted long since, but not taking roote, could neuer beare till now. It hath a relish of</i> Grobianisme, <i>and tastes very strongly of it in the @@ -5738,7 +5698,7 @@ lame <i>Heteroclites</i> more, that cozen the world with a guilt spur and a ruffled boote; will be all glad to fit themselues in <i>Will Sommer</i> his wardrob, and be driuen (like a Flemish Hoy in foule weather) to slip into our Schoole, and take out a lesson. Tush, <i>Cœlum petimus -stultitiâ</i>, all that are chosen Constables for their wit go not to +stultitiâ</i>, all that are chosen Constables for their wit go not to heauen.</p> <p>A fig therefore for the new-found Colledge of <i>Criticks</i>. You @@ -5925,7 +5885,7 @@ large billes: <i>Adam</i> cared not an apple-paring for all their lousy hems. There was then neither the <i>Spanish</i> slop, nor the Skippers galligaskin: the <i>Switzers</i> blistred Cod-piece, nor the <i>Danish</i> sleeue sagging / down like a Welch wallet, the <i>Italians</i> close strosser, nor -the French standing coller: your trebble-quadruple <i>Dædalian</i> ruffes, +the French standing coller: your trebble-quadruple <i>Dædalian</i> ruffes, nor your stiffenecked <i>rebatoes</i> (that haue more arches for pride to row vnder, then can stand vnder fiue London Bridges) durst not then set themselues out in print: for the patent for starch could by no meanes @@ -5989,7 +5949,7 @@ it: the <i>Receipt</i> hath beene subscribed vnto, by all those that haue had to doe with <i>Simples</i>, with this moth-eaten <i>Motto, Probatum est</i>: your <i>Diacatholicon aureum</i>, that with gun-powder brings threaten[ing]s to blow vp all diseases that come in his way, and smels worse then -<i>Assafætida</i> in respect of this. You therefore whose bodyes, either +<i>Assafætida</i> in respect of this. You therefore whose bodyes, either ouerflowing with the corrupt humours of this ages phantasticknesse, or else being burnt vp with the inflāmation of vpstart fashions, would faine be purgd: and to shew that you truly loath this polluted and @@ -6016,7 +5976,7 @@ of going naked.</p></blockquote> <p>You haue heard all this while nothing but the <i>Prologue</i>, and seene no -more but a dumbe shew: Our <i>vetus Comædia</i> steps out now. The fittest +more but a dumbe shew: Our <i>vetus Comædia</i> steps out now. The fittest stage vpon which you (that study to be an Actor there) are first to present your selfe is (in my approued judgement) the softest and largest Downe-bed: from whence (if you will but take sound councell @@ -6450,7 +6410,7 @@ a <i>Gull</i>, and not worth the putting off to, that cannot obserue the time of his hatband, nor know what fashioned block is most kin to his head: for, in my opinion, ye braine that cannot choose his Felt well (being the head ornament) must needes powre folly into all the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_245" id="Page_245">[Pg 245]</a></span> rest of -the members, and be an absolute confirmed Foole in <i>Summâ Totali</i>.</p> +the members, and be an absolute confirmed Foole in <i>Summâ Totali</i>.</p> <p>All the diseased horses in a tedious siege cannot shew so many fashions, as are to be seene for nothing, euery day, in Duke <i>Humfryes @@ -6526,7 +6486,7 @@ Ordinary.</p> <p>First, hauing diligently enquired out an Ordinary of the largest reckoning, whither most of your Courtly Gallants do resort, let it be your vse to repaire thither some halfe houre after eleuen; -for then you shàll find most of your fashionmongers planted in the +for then you shà ll find most of your fashionmongers planted in the roome waiting for meate. Ride thither vpon your galloway-nag, or your Spanish Jennet, a swift ambling pace, in your hose, and doublet (gilt rapier and poniard bestowd in their places), and your French Lackey @@ -7177,7 +7137,7 @@ was taken for natural history. It can hardly be necessary to take note of each of these; still less of the abundant classical allusions which any one acquainted with the classics will understand at once, and which could only be explained to others by loading these notes with lumps of -Lemprière. Nor will any one find much difficulty in the language if +Lemprière. Nor will any one find much difficulty in the language if he remembers that 'then' and 'than,' 'there' and 'their,' 'wayed' and 'weighed,' were written, or at least printed, in those days according to the liberal standard of the taste and fancy of the speller. In case @@ -7256,7 +7216,7 @@ should no doubt be 'which,' 'wh.' being the abbreviation for both.</p> <p>P. <a href="#Page_17">17</a>.</p> -<p>Tyrtæus may perhaps be hid to some under his disguise of <i>Tirtheus</i>, +<p>Tyrtæus may perhaps be hid to some under his disguise of <i>Tirtheus</i>, which on p. 20 becomes <i>Tirthetus</i>.</p> @@ -7393,7 +7353,7 @@ from green faggots.</p> <p>P. <a href="#Page_65">65</a>.</p> -<p><i>Næme</i>, also 'eme' or 'eame' = 'uncle.'</p> +<p><i>Næme</i>, also 'eme' or 'eame' = 'uncle.'</p> <p>P. <a href="#Page_66">66</a>.</p> @@ -7729,381 +7689,6 @@ table.</p> <p class="center">The many inconsistencies in this book, are as in the original.</p> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's Elizabethan and Jacobean Pamphlets, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN PAMPHLETS *** - -***** This file should be named 44855-h.htm or 44855-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/4/8/5/44855/ - -Produced by Jonathan Ingram and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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