,
in History of Caricature and Grotesque, chap.
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.
.
de Caresme Prenant, etc.
(ed.
by Martin, L.
A.
), Paris,
1829-34.
(3) Disquisitions of the 16th Cent.
Riessinger, Félix. Secuntur Tractaculi sive opusculi de lande mulierum, de
fraude earundem neo non regmatizandi arte. Naples, 1471-9 (? ).
Barclay, Ship of Fools (1509), has a chapter of the yre immoderate, the
wrath and great lewdness of wymen. Jodocus Badius added to his
Latin version of the Narrenschiff a supplement Stultiferae naviculae
seu scaphae fatuarum mulierum, the women being divided into five barges
as their folly finds expression by the sight, hearing, smell, taste or touch.
Cf. also Paulus Olearius, De Fide Concubinarum in Sacerdotes, 1500;
Henricus Bebelius, Triumphus Veneris, 1515; Nevizan, Sylva Nuptialis,
1521; Jehan Bouchet, Les triumphes de la noble et amoureuse dame et l'art
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maye lerne to kepe house together with love, 1543.
(4) English Popular Satires on Women.
(Those previous to 16th cent. are noticed in vol. II. )
Complaynt of them that be to soone maryed. W. de Worde, 1535. See
Percy Soc. III, 1840.
Complaynt of them that ben to late maryed. W. de Worde, n. d. Re-ed.
by Collier, J. P. , Illus. of Early English Popular Literature, 1st
series, 1862-3.
Payne and Sorowe of Evyll Maryage, The. W. de Worde, n. d. Percy
Soc. III.
1840.
Spectacle of lovers, The, a lytell contravers dyalogue bytwene love and
councell, with many goodly argumentes of good women and bad . . . by
Wyllyam Walter. W. de Worde, n. d.
(5) Popular Controversies and Essays on Women.
Schole-howse of Women, The. Wyer, R. , n. d. Rptd by King, J. , 1560,
and Alde, J. , 1572. (Vide Herbert's Ames, fol. 375; Dibdin, III, 181. )
Re-ed. by Hazlitt, W. C. , Early Eng. Pop. Poetry, vol. iv, p. 97.
(Tract borrows freely from A C. Mery Talys, LXII and LxIv. )
Prayse of all Women, The, called Mulierun Paean by Gosynhyll, E. 1541.
Defence of Good Women, The, by Elyot, Sir T. Berthelet, 1545.
A lytle and bryefe treatyse called the defence of Women and especially
of Englyshe women, made agaynste the Schole-howse of Women, by
More, E. Kyng, J. , 1557. A reprint or supplement. Tysdayle, J. ,
1562-3. Re-ed. by Utterson, Select Pieces Early Pop. Poetry, 1817.
The hundreth poyntes of good husserye (huswifrye ? ). Daye, 1557-8. (Pro-
bably An hundreth poyntes of evell haswrifrye, Allde, J. , 1565-6, is a
parody of it. )
The defence agaynst them that commonly defame women. Allde, J. 1560.
(A 'ballett. )
A Defence for Mylke Maydes. Gryffyth, W. , 1563-4.
The prayse and dysprayse of women. Entered by Serlle, R. , 1563-4, but
printed by How with name of author, C. Pyrrye, on title-page. n. d.
A balett intituled the frutes of love and falsehood of Women. Allde, J. ,
1567-8. The deceate of Women. Allde, J. , 1568-9. (Perhaps a reprint. )
A new balet, entituled howe to Wyve well, by Lewys Evans. Printed by
Rogers, O. , n. d. (Soc. of Antiq. )
This form of the controversy continued till the 18th cent. , e. g. Love given
over, or, a Satyr against the Pride, Lust and Inconstancy, etc. , of Women,
with Sylvia's Revenge, or, a Satyr against Man, in answer to the Satyr
against Woman. 1710.
Cf. In Prays of Woman and Ballate aganis Evill Women, in Dunbar's
Poems.
(6) English Satirical Portraiture of Women.
[Cf. Skelton's Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng and Dunbar's Tua Mariit
Wemen and the Wedo. ]
Boke of Mayd Emlyn, The. John Skot, n. d. Re-ed. by Rimbault, E. F.
,
in Anc. Poet. Tracts, Percy Soc. xxvII, 1842, and by Hazlitt, W. C. ,
Early English Pop. Poetry, vol. iv, p. 81.
[For other allusions to the wife of five successive husbands, vide
Wife of Bath's Prologue and A C. Mery Talys, viii and ix. ]
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487
1
8
Twelve mery gestys of one called Edyth, the lyeing wydow whyche still
lyveth. Rastell, J. , 1525. Rptd Jhones, R. , 1573. Re-ed. Hazlitt, W. C. .
Shakespeare Jest-books, 1864, vol. III.
[The same picture of feminine drinking bouts and horse play is found
in the jest-book Life of Long Meg of Westminster, of which the earliest
surviving copy of 1635 is probably a reprint of a previous edition
of the age of Elizabeth. Re-ed. by Triphook, B. , Miscellanea Antiqua
Anglicana, 1816, and Hindley, C. , in the Old Book Collector's Miscellany,
1872, vol. 11. ]
Pronde Wyves Paternoster, The Imprinted, Kynge, J. , 1560. Rptd by
Charlwood, J. , 1581-2. Re-ed. , Select Pieces of Early Popular Poetry,
1817; Hazlitt, W. C. , Early English Popular Poetry, vol. iv, 147. Re-
viewed in J. P. Collier's Bibliographical and Critical Account of Early
English Literature, 1865.
Compare La Patenostre à l'Userier and La Credo à l'Userier, in which
the ecclesiastical Latin is intermingled with reflections on moneymaking;
Patenostre d'Amours, in which a lover utters his regrets at the diff-
culty of seeing his lady (Méon: Fabliaux et Contes, 1808, vol. iv, p. 441);
Credo au Ribaut, in which a debauchee regrets his dissolute life.
A Commyssion unto all those whose wyves be thayre masters. Lacy, Alex.
1564-5.
Merry Jeste of a Shrewde and Curste Wyfe lapped in Morrelles skin.
Imprinted by Jackson, H. , n. d. (1560-70 ? ). Rptd in Shakespeare Soc. ,
1844; Utterson, Select Pieces of Early English Popular Poetry, 1817;
Hazlitt, W. C. , Early English Popular Poetry, vol. iv, p. 179.
Taming of a Shrew, The. Ballad in a Sloane Ms. Rptd in Ritson's
Ancient Songs and Ballads, 1829, vol. II, p. 242. (Two incidents are
borrowed from Skoggan's Jests. )
Compare Du Vilain et de sa femme; Du prudhomme qui renvoya sa femme
(both in Le Grand's Anciens Fabliaux); De la Male Dame, alias de la Dame
qui fut escoilliée (Méon: Fabliaux et Contes, vol. iv, p. 365).
For the fight for the breeches' vide Fablian de sire Hains et de Dame
Anieuse, by Hugues d'Estourmi in 13th cent. (described by Wright, T.
,
in History of Caricature and Grotesque, chap. VII).
For development of satire on women among the Theophrastians, vide
The Man in the Moone (1609); Sir Thomas Overbury (1614); Stephens, J.
(1615); Nicholas Breton (1616); Cures for the Itch (1626); Wye Saltonstall
(1631). The development of the literature of characters, especially after
Healey's translation of Theophrastus (1616), will be more fully treated in a
later volume of the present work.
\JEST-BOOKS.
A C. Mery Talys. Ptd by Rastell, J. , n. d. (c. 1526). Rptd by Waley, J. ,
1558; by Sampson Awdley (? ); by Charlwood, J. , 1582. Re-ed. from an
ed. of 1526 by Oesterley, Dr H. , 1866; Singer, S. W, Chiswick Press,
1814; Hazlitt, W. C. , Shakespeare Jest-books, 1st series, 1864.
Mery Tales, Wittie questions and quicke answeres. Ptd by Berthelet, T. ,
n. d. (c. 1535). Rptd, with 26 now tales (including those adapted from
Erasmus's Epistles), by Wykes, H. , 1567; by Bynneman, 1576-7. Re-ed.
by Singer, S. W. , Chiswick Press, 1814, and Hazlitt, W. C. , Shakespeare
Jest-books, 1st series, 1864. [Works of Erasmus influence of which is
traceable in this miscellany are: Adagia, 1500; Colloquia, 1519. )
Merie Tales newly Imprinted and made by Master Skelton, Poet Laureat.
Ptd by Colwell, T. , n. d. Rptd in 1566–7 (? ). Re-ed. in Dyce's Skelton,
1843, and in W. C. Hazlitt's Shakespeare Jest-books, 2nd series, 1864.
## p. 488 (#510) ############################################
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W. C. , Jest-books, 2nd series, 1864.
Howleglass. Ptd by Copland, W. and twice rptd, all n. d. Re-ed. by
Delapierre, 0. , Aventures de Tiel Ulenspiegel, Brussels, 1840. Re-ed.
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surviving ed. ), 1626; by Allde, Eliz. , 1629; by Jane Bell, 1659. Reprint
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Morley's Early Prose Romances (Carisbrooke Lib. IV), 1889.
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Tales and Legends, 1892, pp. 134 ff.
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but probably a reprint, as Summers was jester to Henry VIII and subject
of a comedy by Nashe, T. (Summers Last Will and Testament) in 1600.
(For origin and development of 'ana,' which are principally an off-shoot of
classicism and have little or no connection with these story books, vide Wolf,
or Wolfius, J. C. , Preface to Casauboniana, 1710. ]
Sack-Full of News, The. Registered, 1557. Rptd 1582, 1587, 1673. Re-ed.
by Halliwell, J. O. , 1861; Hazlitt, W. C. , Jest-books, 2nd series, 1864.
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Doctoar (supposed, without other evidence, to be Andrew Boorde).
Colwell, T. , n. d. Rptd by Alsop, R. and Fawcet, T. , 1630. Re-ed. by Halli-
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of the picaresque novel. )
Doran, J. Hist. of Court Fools. 1858.
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(Both indirectly illustrate the jest-books by emphasising the popularity
of fools' jests and tricks. )
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Studies in Jocular literature. 1890.
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Century. Cambridge, 1886. Pt II, chap. v. (Traces the reappearance of
the legends of Markolf, Parson of Kalenberg, Eulenspiegel and Friar
Rush. )
Wright, T. Hist. of Caricature and Grotesque. 1865. Chap. XIV. (Treats
of personal element in jest-books. )
Books of Riddles.
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Allde, Ed. , 1600. Reprints 1617, 1629, 1631, 1660, 1672. The ed. of 1629
is re-ed. in J. 0. Halliwell's Literature of the xvith and xviith centuries
illustrated, 1851, 1866 and, separately, in 1866.
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Delectable Demaundes and pleasant Questions, with their several answers in
Matters of Love. 1566. (Trans. from Alain Chartier. )
Demaūdes Joyous, The. Printed by W. de Worde, 1511. Rptd in J. Timb's
Literary World, 1839, and sometimes attached to Hartshorne's Anc.
Metrical Tales, 1829.
Mery demandes and answere (sic) thereunto, The. Rogers, O. , 1564-5. Pro-
bably the same as the Budget of Demands mentioned in Captain Cox's
library (1575). See Collier, J. P. , Extracts from Stationers' Registers
(1848), vol.
1829-34.
(3) Disquisitions of the 16th Cent.
Riessinger, Félix. Secuntur Tractaculi sive opusculi de lande mulierum, de
fraude earundem neo non regmatizandi arte. Naples, 1471-9 (? ).
Barclay, Ship of Fools (1509), has a chapter of the yre immoderate, the
wrath and great lewdness of wymen. Jodocus Badius added to his
Latin version of the Narrenschiff a supplement Stultiferae naviculae
seu scaphae fatuarum mulierum, the women being divided into five barges
as their folly finds expression by the sight, hearing, smell, taste or touch.
Cf. also Paulus Olearius, De Fide Concubinarum in Sacerdotes, 1500;
Henricus Bebelius, Triumphus Veneris, 1515; Nevizan, Sylva Nuptialis,
1521; Jehan Bouchet, Les triumphes de la noble et amoureuse dame et l'art
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Coverdale, Christen State of Matrymonye, wherein housbandes and wyfes
maye lerne to kepe house together with love, 1543.
(4) English Popular Satires on Women.
(Those previous to 16th cent. are noticed in vol. II. )
Complaynt of them that be to soone maryed. W. de Worde, 1535. See
Percy Soc. III, 1840.
Complaynt of them that ben to late maryed. W. de Worde, n. d. Re-ed.
by Collier, J. P. , Illus. of Early English Popular Literature, 1st
series, 1862-3.
Payne and Sorowe of Evyll Maryage, The. W. de Worde, n. d. Percy
Soc. III.
1840.
Spectacle of lovers, The, a lytell contravers dyalogue bytwene love and
councell, with many goodly argumentes of good women and bad . . . by
Wyllyam Walter. W. de Worde, n. d.
(5) Popular Controversies and Essays on Women.
Schole-howse of Women, The. Wyer, R. , n. d. Rptd by King, J. , 1560,
and Alde, J. , 1572. (Vide Herbert's Ames, fol. 375; Dibdin, III, 181. )
Re-ed. by Hazlitt, W. C. , Early Eng. Pop. Poetry, vol. iv, p. 97.
(Tract borrows freely from A C. Mery Talys, LXII and LxIv. )
Prayse of all Women, The, called Mulierun Paean by Gosynhyll, E. 1541.
Defence of Good Women, The, by Elyot, Sir T. Berthelet, 1545.
A lytle and bryefe treatyse called the defence of Women and especially
of Englyshe women, made agaynste the Schole-howse of Women, by
More, E. Kyng, J. , 1557. A reprint or supplement. Tysdayle, J. ,
1562-3. Re-ed. by Utterson, Select Pieces Early Pop. Poetry, 1817.
The hundreth poyntes of good husserye (huswifrye ? ). Daye, 1557-8. (Pro-
bably An hundreth poyntes of evell haswrifrye, Allde, J. , 1565-6, is a
parody of it. )
The defence agaynst them that commonly defame women. Allde, J. 1560.
(A 'ballett. )
A Defence for Mylke Maydes. Gryffyth, W. , 1563-4.
The prayse and dysprayse of women. Entered by Serlle, R. , 1563-4, but
printed by How with name of author, C. Pyrrye, on title-page. n. d.
A balett intituled the frutes of love and falsehood of Women. Allde, J. ,
1567-8. The deceate of Women. Allde, J. , 1568-9. (Perhaps a reprint. )
A new balet, entituled howe to Wyve well, by Lewys Evans. Printed by
Rogers, O. , n. d. (Soc. of Antiq. )
This form of the controversy continued till the 18th cent. , e. g. Love given
over, or, a Satyr against the Pride, Lust and Inconstancy, etc. , of Women,
with Sylvia's Revenge, or, a Satyr against Man, in answer to the Satyr
against Woman. 1710.
Cf. In Prays of Woman and Ballate aganis Evill Women, in Dunbar's
Poems.
(6) English Satirical Portraiture of Women.
[Cf. Skelton's Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng and Dunbar's Tua Mariit
Wemen and the Wedo. ]
Boke of Mayd Emlyn, The. John Skot, n. d. Re-ed. by Rimbault, E. F.
,
in Anc. Poet. Tracts, Percy Soc. xxvII, 1842, and by Hazlitt, W. C. ,
Early English Pop. Poetry, vol. iv, p. 81.
[For other allusions to the wife of five successive husbands, vide
Wife of Bath's Prologue and A C. Mery Talys, viii and ix. ]
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487
1
8
Twelve mery gestys of one called Edyth, the lyeing wydow whyche still
lyveth. Rastell, J. , 1525. Rptd Jhones, R. , 1573. Re-ed. Hazlitt, W. C. .
Shakespeare Jest-books, 1864, vol. III.
[The same picture of feminine drinking bouts and horse play is found
in the jest-book Life of Long Meg of Westminster, of which the earliest
surviving copy of 1635 is probably a reprint of a previous edition
of the age of Elizabeth. Re-ed. by Triphook, B. , Miscellanea Antiqua
Anglicana, 1816, and Hindley, C. , in the Old Book Collector's Miscellany,
1872, vol. 11. ]
Pronde Wyves Paternoster, The Imprinted, Kynge, J. , 1560. Rptd by
Charlwood, J. , 1581-2. Re-ed. , Select Pieces of Early Popular Poetry,
1817; Hazlitt, W. C. , Early English Popular Poetry, vol. iv, 147. Re-
viewed in J. P. Collier's Bibliographical and Critical Account of Early
English Literature, 1865.
Compare La Patenostre à l'Userier and La Credo à l'Userier, in which
the ecclesiastical Latin is intermingled with reflections on moneymaking;
Patenostre d'Amours, in which a lover utters his regrets at the diff-
culty of seeing his lady (Méon: Fabliaux et Contes, 1808, vol. iv, p. 441);
Credo au Ribaut, in which a debauchee regrets his dissolute life.
A Commyssion unto all those whose wyves be thayre masters. Lacy, Alex.
1564-5.
Merry Jeste of a Shrewde and Curste Wyfe lapped in Morrelles skin.
Imprinted by Jackson, H. , n. d. (1560-70 ? ). Rptd in Shakespeare Soc. ,
1844; Utterson, Select Pieces of Early English Popular Poetry, 1817;
Hazlitt, W. C. , Early English Popular Poetry, vol. iv, p. 179.
Taming of a Shrew, The. Ballad in a Sloane Ms. Rptd in Ritson's
Ancient Songs and Ballads, 1829, vol. II, p. 242. (Two incidents are
borrowed from Skoggan's Jests. )
Compare Du Vilain et de sa femme; Du prudhomme qui renvoya sa femme
(both in Le Grand's Anciens Fabliaux); De la Male Dame, alias de la Dame
qui fut escoilliée (Méon: Fabliaux et Contes, vol. iv, p. 365).
For the fight for the breeches' vide Fablian de sire Hains et de Dame
Anieuse, by Hugues d'Estourmi in 13th cent. (described by Wright, T.
,
in History of Caricature and Grotesque, chap. VII).
For development of satire on women among the Theophrastians, vide
The Man in the Moone (1609); Sir Thomas Overbury (1614); Stephens, J.
(1615); Nicholas Breton (1616); Cures for the Itch (1626); Wye Saltonstall
(1631). The development of the literature of characters, especially after
Healey's translation of Theophrastus (1616), will be more fully treated in a
later volume of the present work.
\JEST-BOOKS.
A C. Mery Talys. Ptd by Rastell, J. , n. d. (c. 1526). Rptd by Waley, J. ,
1558; by Sampson Awdley (? ); by Charlwood, J. , 1582. Re-ed. from an
ed. of 1526 by Oesterley, Dr H. , 1866; Singer, S. W, Chiswick Press,
1814; Hazlitt, W. C. , Shakespeare Jest-books, 1st series, 1864.
Mery Tales, Wittie questions and quicke answeres. Ptd by Berthelet, T. ,
n. d. (c. 1535). Rptd, with 26 now tales (including those adapted from
Erasmus's Epistles), by Wykes, H. , 1567; by Bynneman, 1576-7. Re-ed.
by Singer, S. W. , Chiswick Press, 1814, and Hazlitt, W. C. , Shakespeare
Jest-books, 1st series, 1864. [Works of Erasmus influence of which is
traceable in this miscellany are: Adagia, 1500; Colloquia, 1519. )
Merie Tales newly Imprinted and made by Master Skelton, Poet Laureat.
Ptd by Colwell, T. , n. d. Rptd in 1566–7 (? ). Re-ed. in Dyce's Skelton,
1843, and in W. C. Hazlitt's Shakespeare Jest-books, 2nd series, 1864.
## p. 488 (#510) ############################################
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Geystes of Skoggan. Ptd by Colwell, T. , 1565-6 (probably a reprint of an
earlier edition). Rptd by Williams, F. , 1626. A chapman's edition
appeared c. 1680; another reprint by Caulfield, 1796. Re-ed. by Hazlitt,
W. C. , Jest-books, 2nd series, 1864.
Howleglass. Ptd by Copland, W. and twice rptd, all n. d. Re-ed. by
Delapierre, 0. , Aventures de Tiel Ulenspiegel, Brussels, 1840. Re-ed.
by Mackenzie, K. , Marvellous adventures and rare conceits of Tyll
Owlglass, 1860, and by Ouvry, F. , Howleglass, 1867.
Vide Het leven van den jongen Ulenspiegel, Amst. , 1819, and Brie,
F. W. , Eulenspiegel in England, 1903.
Parson of Kalenborowe, The Story of the. Antwerp: Doesborch, J. , s. d.
(Fragment in Douce Coll. Bodl. )
Freer Rushe. Registered to Allde, J. , 1568-9. Rptd by Allde, Ed. ,1620 (earliest
surviving ed. ), 1626; by Allde, Eliz. , 1629; by Jane Bell, 1659. Reprint
of 1620 ed. , 1810. Re-ed. in Thoms's Early Prose Romances, 1828, and
Morley's Early Prose Romances (Carisbrooke Lib. IV), 1889.
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Tales and Legends, 1892, pp. 134 ff.
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but probably a reprint, as Summers was jester to Henry VIII and subject
of a comedy by Nashe, T. (Summers Last Will and Testament) in 1600.
(For origin and development of 'ana,' which are principally an off-shoot of
classicism and have little or no connection with these story books, vide Wolf,
or Wolfius, J. C. , Preface to Casauboniana, 1710. ]
Sack-Full of News, The. Registered, 1557. Rptd 1582, 1587, 1673. Re-ed.
by Halliwell, J. O. , 1861; Hazlitt, W. C. , Jest-books, 2nd series, 1864.
Merie Tales of the Mad Men of Gotam, gathered together by A. B. of Phisike
Doctoar (supposed, without other evidence, to be Andrew Boorde).
Colwell, T. , n. d. Rptd by Alsop, R. and Fawcet, T. , 1630. Re-ed. by Halli-
well, J. O. , 1840, and by Hazlitt, W. C. , Jest-books, 2nd series, 1864.
Authorities :
Chandler, F. W. The Literature of Roguery (in Types of English Liters-
ture). 1907. Vol. 1. Chap. II. (Subject discussed from the point of view
of the picaresque novel. )
Doran, J. Hist. of Court Fools. 1858.
Douce, F. Illustr. of Shakspr. (Di on Clowns and Fools). 1807.
(Both indirectly illustrate the jest-books by emphasising the popularity
of fools' jests and tricks. )
Hazlitt, W. C. Preface to Jests New and old. 1887.
Studies in Jocular literature. 1890.
(Both treat of the evolution of the jest. )
Herford, C. H. Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Sixteenth
Century. Cambridge, 1886. Pt II, chap. v. (Traces the reappearance of
the legends of Markolf, Parson of Kalenberg, Eulenspiegel and Friar
Rush. )
Wright, T. Hist. of Caricature and Grotesque. 1865. Chap. XIV. (Treats
of personal element in jest-books. )
Books of Riddles.
Booke of Merry Riddles. Earliest 'known ed. (almost certainly a reprint) by
Allde, Ed. , 1600. Reprints 1617, 1629, 1631, 1660, 1672. The ed. of 1629
is re-ed. in J. 0. Halliwell's Literature of the xvith and xviith centuries
illustrated, 1851, 1866 and, separately, in 1866.
## p. 489 (#511) ############################################
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Delectable Demaundes and pleasant Questions, with their several answers in
Matters of Love. 1566. (Trans. from Alain Chartier. )
Demaūdes Joyous, The. Printed by W. de Worde, 1511. Rptd in J. Timb's
Literary World, 1839, and sometimes attached to Hartshorne's Anc.
Metrical Tales, 1829.
Mery demandes and answere (sic) thereunto, The. Rogers, O. , 1564-5. Pro-
bably the same as the Budget of Demands mentioned in Captain Cox's
library (1575). See Collier, J. P. , Extracts from Stationers' Registers
(1848), vol.
