No More Learning

Nashes Lenten Stuffe, Containing, The Description and first Procreation and
Increase of the towne of Great Yarmouth in Noffolke: With a new Play
never played before, of the praise of the Red Herring. 1599 (licensed
11 Jan. 1598-9). Rptd 1745; 1809-10, Harl. Misc. ; 1871, Hindley, C. ,
Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana.
The choise of Valentines. (In MS; see McKerrow, R. B. , Works, vol. III,
A piece of pornography not devoid of literary art. )
Complete Works
Grosart, A. B. Huth Library. 1883, 1885.
McKerrow, R. B. : Text 1904-5, Notes 1908. (4 vols. 5th vol. with memoir in
preparation)
(Cf. Cunningham, P. , New Facts in the Life of Nashe, Shakspr. Soc.
Papers, III, 178, and Upham, A. H. , French Influence in English Literature,
1908. )
REPRESENTATIONS OF THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS.
For representations previous to Nashe, see Rogers, F. , The Seven Deadly
Sins in Literature, 1907, and Schofield, W. H. , Eng. Lit. from the Norman
Conquest, p. 416, 1906. See also Dekker, T. , The Seven Deadly Sins; Lodge,
T. , Wits Miserie and the Worlds Madnesse: discovering the Devils incarnat
of this Age, 1596; More, Sir T. , Treatise on the Four Last Things; Nashe, T. ,
Pierce Penilesse; Rowlands, S. , The Seaven deadly Sins all Horst and
riding to Hell (satire appended to The Knave of Spades); Tom Tel-Troths
Message and his Pens Complaint, 1600, rptd 1876, Furnivall, F. J. , New
Shakspr. Soc. A modified form of this classification is also used by Anton, R. ,
Rankins, W. , Rowlands, S. , Times Whistle.
BURLESQUE ENCOMIA.
Origins:
Batpaxouvopaxla, then supposed to be by Homer, Eng. trans. , Crowne of all
Homers Works. Batrachomyomachia, or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise,
George Chapman; Catullus's poem on his yacht and two on Lesbia's sparrow;
Vergil's Culex, trans. Spenser, E. , published 1591; Lucian, Mulas éyku ULOV
(Muscae encomium), trans, in Works by Fowler, H. W. and F. G. , 1905.
German:
The collection in the Nymwegen Pallas, 1666. See Herford, C. H. ,
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English:
The Noblenesse of the Asse . . . by A. B. , 1595; Cornwallis, Sir W. , Essayes
of certaine Paradoxes, 1616 (2nd impression ‘inlarged,' 2 pts. , 1617), contains
mock-encomia on Richard III, etc. ; Nashe, T. , Lenten Stuffe; Pimlyco or
Runne Red Cap; Randall, Thomas (i. e. Randolph), The High and mightie
commendation of the Vertues of a Pot of Good Ale, full of Wit, 1642 (pub-
lished with The Battle fought betweene the Norfolk Cock and the Wisbich
Cock), rptd 1661; Pills to Purge Melancholly as The Ex-Ale-tation of Ale
(Ebsworth, J. W. , in his ed. of the Pills assigns the song to Rowlands),
1783, Ritson, J. , English Song, vol. 11; Skelton, J. , Prayse of Phylyp Sparrow
(ante, vol. III, chap. IV); The Treatyse Answerynge the boke of Berdes (ibid.
chap. v, bibl. p. 493); Taylor, J. , The Praise of Antiquity and the Commodity
of Beggery, 1621 (verse and prose), The Praise and Vertue of a Jayle and
Jaylers, 1623 (verse), The Praise of Cleane Linnen, 1624, The Needles Ex-
cellency, 1640.
Grobianism, as Herford has pointed out (Literary Relations), should also
be regarded as a development, in which satire soon blended with burlesque.
FLYTINGS.
Origins:
See ante, vol. III, chap. v, bibl. p. 490; Beowulf; Brotanek, R. , Alex.
Montgomerie, 1896; Christie, R. C. , Étienne Dolet, 2nd ed. , 1899; Nisard,
M. E. C. , Les Gladiatenrs de la République des Lettres aux XV, XVI,
XVII. Siècles, 1860; Schipper, T. , William Dunbar, 1884; Sandys, J. E. ,
Harvard Lectures on the Revival of Learning, 1905 (chap. VI).
Gabriel Harvey.
For sketch of Harvey-Nashe Controversy, see ante, vol. III, chap. XVII,
bibl. pp. 545-6.
Brydges, Sir E. Restituta. Vol. 1. 1814-6.
Collier, J. P. Rpts of both Nashe's and Harvey's pamphlets. 1870.
Disraeli, I. Quarrels of Authors. 1814 ff.
Grosart, A. B. Introduction to works of Harvey. Huth Lib. 1884-5.
Morley, H. Hobbinol. Fortnightly Review, vol. v, pp. 274-283. (Attempt
to rehabilitate Harvey's character. )
Smith, G. C. Moore. Introduction to Pedantius. Louvain, 1905.
Gabriel Harvey's Marginalia. Stratford-upon-Avon, 1913.
Subsequent Controversies.
Vide Greene's attacks on Marlowe: Gosson, Lodge and the stage-contro-
versy (vol. v of present work); Ben Jonson's war with the Poetasters
(Penniman, J. H. , The War of the Theatres, Boston, 1897; Small, R. A. , The
Stage-quarrel, Breslau, 1899), also with Inigo Jones, Nath. Butter and
Alex. Gill.
Marston, J. Scourge of Villanie. 1598. Answered by W. I. (William
Ingram or John Weever? ) in The Whipping of the Satyre, 1601, which
provoked The Whipper of the Satyre, his Pennance in a White Sheet,
1601 (by Marston ? ).
Rowlands, 8. Tis mery when knaves mete. 1600. Rptd 1609, expurgated
as Knave of Clubs. Rowlands severely criticised Belman of London, 1608
in Martin Mark-all, . . . his Defence and Answere to the Belman of
London, 1610.
Davies, J. Scourge of Folly. 1611. Amongst other personal attacks,
represents himself submitting Nefarius (no doubt easily recognisable at
the time) to the indignities of a school flogging (Epig. 212).
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