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Er the Armenian in the Republic (trans. Jowett, B. , 1871, 3rd ed. revised,
1892); Plutarch: vision of Timarchus in Ilepl toll Ewrpátous Sacpovlov in
Moralia (trans. Holland, P. , 1603); Vergil: Georgios IV and Aeneid vı;
Lucian: the Katát love and the Mévu TTOS (trans. Necromantia . . . inter-
locutors, Menippus and Philonidas; ptd by Rastell, J. , n. d. ) in Dialogues
of the Dead; Dante: Inferno, Paradiso, Purgatorio; Staunton, W. :
St Patrick's Purgatory, 1409; Damerval: Sensuit le grãt dyablerie qui
traicte coment Sathan fait demõstrance a Lucifer de tous les maulx que
les mõdains font selon leurs estatz vacations et mestiers . . . ; Dunbar,
William: The Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis, 1503-8; Lyndsay, Sir
David, Ane Satyre of the Three Estaits, 1540; Rabelais: Pantagruel,
Bk. II, chap. 30 (imitated in Le Nouveau Panurge, Gaillard, Michel);
Ford, J. : 'Tis Pity she's a Whore, act III, sc. 6; Tarlton's Newes out
of Purgatorie, c. 1589; Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift, 1593 (represents
Robin Goodfellowe as just returning from Hell whence he brought an
oration on jealousy). Cf. also title Greenes Newes both from Heaven and
Hell, 1593, by Barnabe Rich, and Dekker His Dreame (below). See
Wright, T. : St Patrick's Purgatory, an essay on the legends of Purga-
tory, Hell and Paradise, current during the Middle Ages, 1844; Becker, E. :
Visions of Heaven and Hell, 1898, Johns Hopkins Univ. Diss. )
The Double P. P. , a Papist in Armes, Bearing Ten severall Sheilds, en-
countered by the Protestant. . . . 1606. (Verse attack on the Roman
Catholics ascribed to Dekker by Collier, J. P. (Bibl. Cat. I, 197). )
Jests to make you merie. Written by T. D. and George Wilkins. 1607.
(Jest-book: ascribed to Dekker. )
The Dead Terne or Westminster's Complaint for long Vacations and short
Termes. Written in manner of a Dialogue betweene the two Cityes
London and Westminster. 1608. (A compilation of history, anecdotes,
comment, satire, conceits, descriptions, exposures and complaints all
dealing with London; mostly anticipating the themes which he treated
more fully in subsequent works. )
The Belman of London: Bringing to Light the most notorious Villanies that
are now practised in the Kingdome. 1608. 2nd and 3rd eds. (with
additions) in same year. Re-edited 1612 as O per se 0, or a newe Cryer
of Lanthorne and Candle Light.
Lanthorne and Candle Light: or, the Bell-Mans Second Nights Walke. In
which he brings to light a Brood of more strange Villanies than ever
were till this yeare discovered. 1608. Rptd 1609 (twice); 1612 as 0 per
se 0, or a new cryer of Lanthorne and Candlelight Being an addition or
Lengthening of the Bell-mans Second Night-walke.
(Both rogue-pamphlets frequently rptd under such titles as English
Villanies six severall Times prest to death, but still reviving again, are
now the seventh time discovered. . . . 1632; English Villanies seven severall
Times prest to Death by the Printers. . . are now the eighth time, etc. . . .
1637. )
The Ravens Almanacke, Foretelling of a Plague, Famine and Civill Warre.
1609. (Parody on prognostications. )
Foure Birdes of Noahs Arke; the Dove, the Eagle, the Pelican and the
Phoenix. 1609. Rptd 1857, Halliwell, J. O. (A devotional work. )
Worke. for Armorours, or the Peace is broken. Open Warres likely to
happen this yeare 1609. 1609. (Allegorical description of the rising of
poverty against wealth. )
The Gulls Horne-booke or Fashions to please all sorts of Guls. 1609. Rptd
1812, Nott, Dr, Bristol; 1892, Saintsbury, G. , Eliz. and Jac. Pamphlets;


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anus vide Goedeke, K. , Grundriss zur Gesch. der deuts. Dichtung, 2
Aufl. , 1886, Bd 11, Buch iv, $ 158, and Herford, C. H. , Literary Relations,
1886, chap. VIII. A Nuremberg poet at the end of the 15th cent.
parodied German poems on courtesy and manners into instructions for
negligence. Seb. Brant in Narrenschiff (ante, vol. III, chap. IV) invented
St Grobianus as a suitable figure-head for the ill-mannered character.
Dedekind, F. , produced, 1549, Grobianus, De morum simplicitate (Latin
poem), ed. 1903, by Bömer, A. , in Lateinische Litteraturdenkmäler des
xv und xvi Jahrhts. , English trans. 1605, The Schoole of Slovenrie or,
Cato turnd wrong side outward, by R. F.
A strange Horse Race, at the End of which comes in the Catch-pols Masque.
And after that the Bankrouts Banquet: which done, the Divell falling
sicke, makes his last Will and Testament this present yeare, 1613. 1613.
Dekker His Dreame: in which beeing rapt with a Poeticall Enthusiasme, the
great volumes of Heaven and Hell to him were opened, in which he read
many wonderfull Things. 1620. Rptd 1860, Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. , see
The Bookworm, vol. II, p. 349, 1888.
Rod for Run-awayes. 1625. (Satire on those who desert London in plague-
time. )
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Swinburne, A. C. Nineteenth Century. Jan. 1887.
SAMUEL ROWLANDS [for full bibliography, see D. of N. B. ).
The Betraying of Christ, Judas in Despaire with other poems on the Passion.
1598.
Tis mery when Knaves mete. 1600, and later years under differing titles.
(Contains humorous tales of knavery and burlesque adventure, reminis
cent of fabliaux and jest-books, narrated in bright easy verse. )
The Letting of Humours Blood in the Head-vaine; with a new Morisco
daunced by seaven Satyres upon the bottome of Diogenes Tubbe. 1600.
(Suppressed. ) Rptd, Edinburgh, 1815.
Humors Ordinarie, where a Man may be verie merrie, and exceeding well
used for his Sixepence. n. d.
Greenes Ghost haunting Cony-catchers, With the Merry Conceits of Doctor
Pinchbacke a notable Makeshift. 1602. Rptd 1626. (Marks another
step in the fusion of the rogue pamphlet into the picaresque novel; the
anecdotes illustrating triumphs of ingenuity and mother wit rather than
a felonious professionalism. For another example of trading on Greene's
name, see Barnabe Rich, Greenes Newes, 1593.
'Tis Merrie when Gossips meete. 1602 ff. (For previous literature of this
type see ante, vol. 111, chap. v, bibl. pp. 485-7. )
Looke to it: for Ile stabbe ye. 1604.
Hell's broke loose. 1605. (Epic on John of Leyden. )
A terrible Battell betweene the two consumers of the whole world; Time and
Death. n. d. (1606 according to Gosse, see below, Collected Works. )
Rptd 1841, Utterson, E. V. , Beldornie Tower Press.
Diogenes Lanthorne. 1607. (Copied from Lodge: Catharos Diogenes in his
Singularity, 1591. Consists of misanthropic monologue of Diogenes in
streets of Athens and ends with jest-book fables in verse. )
Democritus or Doctor Merryman his Medicines against melancholy Humours
by S. R. 1607. Rptd 1609, etc.
Famous History of Guy, Earl of Warwick. 1608.


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Humors Looking-glasse. 1608. (Epigrams on London characters and
incidents similar to Humours Blood. )
Whole crew of Kind Gossips. 1609. (Six wives discuss their husbands in
the usual Elizabethan spirit. The husbands afterwards pass equally
severe strictures on them. )
The Knave of Clubbs. 1609. (See above, Tis mery when Knaves e. )
Martin Mark-all, Beadle of Bridewell; his Defence and Answere to the
Belman of London.
Discovering the long concealed Originall and
Regiment of Rogues, when they first began to take head, and how they
have succeeded one the other successively unto the sixe and twentieth
yeare of King Henry the eight, gathered out of the Chronicle of
Crackeropes, and (as they term it) the Legend of Lossels. 1610. (The
last part, the Runnagates Race tells of the foundation of the order of
vagabonds by Jack Mendall (J. Cade) and of their cooperation in the
risings of the North (cf. Jusserand, J. , La Vie Nomade, trans. Smith,
L. T. , 8th ed. , n. d. ). The tract ends with an unbistorical sketch of the
subsequent vagabond leaders who were now becoming proverbial, and in
some sort shared in the popular imagination the place occupied by the older
and not less questionable heroes such as Robin Hood, Sir Bevis, etc. The
list includes Hugh Roberts, Jenkin Cowdiddle, Spysing, Puffing Dicke,
Laurence Crosbiter, and Cock Lorell (ante, vol. 111, chap. v, bibl. p. 482). )
The Knave of Harts. Haile Fellow, well met. 1612. Verse portraits of
types of knaves and anecdotes of knavery. )
More Knaves yet. The Knaves of Spades and Diamonds, with new Additions.
1613. (Verse anecdotes, etc. , mostly dealing with rogues. ) Rptd 1843,
Rimbault, E. F. , Percy Soc. ; 1841, Utterson, E. V. , Beldornie Tower Press.
A Fooles Bolt is soone shott. 1614. (Jests and Tales in verse mostly
recording the blunders of fools. )
The Melancholie Knight, by S. R. 1615.
The Bride, by S. R. 1617. Ed. Porter, A. C. Boston, 1905.
The Night Raven. 1620. Rptd 1634; 1841, Utterson, E. V. , Beldornie Tower
Press. (Purports to represent scenes after dark, but presents the usual
sketches of knavery. )
A Paire of Spy-knaves. n. d. (1620 ? ).
Good Newes and bad Newes. 1622. Rptd 1841, Utterson, E. V. , Beldornie
Tower Press. (Another verse jest-book. )
Heavens Glory, seeke it. Earths Vanitie, flye it. Hells Horror, fere it. 1628.
(The vol. contains The Common Cals, Cryes and Sounds of the Bell-man;
or, divers Verses to put us in Minde of our Mortalitie. )
See Gosse, E. , Complete Works of S. Rowlands, Hunterian Club, 1880.
(Contains an admirable appreciation of Rowlands's work. )
ROGUE PAMPHLETS AND PRISON TRACTS.
(See footnote to p. 99, chap. V, vol. 111, and cf. Ben Jonson's masque The
Gipsies Metamorphosed, 1621. )
S. , E. The Discoverie of the Knights of the Poste: or the Knights of the
post, or common baylers newly Descried. Wherein is shewed and
plainely laide open many lewde actions and subtill devises, which are
daily practised by them: to the great abuse of most honorable Councelers,
learned Judges and other grave Majestrates: And also to the defrauding
and utter undoing of a greate no. of her Majesties good and loyall
subjects. 1597. (E. S. , supposed by G. C. Moore Smith to be Edward
Sharpham, vide N. & Q. 11 July 1908. )
Hutton, Luke. Luke Hutton's Lamentation. 1597(? ) (Hazlitt).
E. L. IV.
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Hutton, Luke. The Blacke Dogge of Newgate. c. 1600. 1638 enlarged as
The Discovery of a London Monster.
The Life and Death of Gamaliel Ratsey, a famous thief of England. 1605.
Rptd 1866, Collier, J. P. , Illus. of Old Engl. Lit. , vol. III.
Johnson, R. Looke on me, London. I am an honest Englishman, ripping
up the Bowels of Mischiefe, lurking in thy sub-urbs and Precincts. 1613.
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Anon. The severall notorious and lewd cousonages of John West and Alice
West, . . . who were convicted in the Old Baily. . . . 1613. (Narrates im-
postures and confidence tricks. The gold finding and necromancy are
strikingly similar to the deceits exposed by Erasmus, Colloquia
Familiaria Alcumistica and Exorcismus sive Spectrum, and Scot, R. , Dis-
coverie of Witchcraft. The soothsaying and clairvoyance illustrate the
tales told by Doctor Burcot and William Cuckoe in Chettle's Kind-Hart's
Dreame, and the pranks played by Dr Pinchbacke in Rowlands's Greenes
Ghost. )
Fenpor, William. Comptors Common-Wealth. 1617. Rptd 1619; 1629.
Mynshul, Geffray. Essayes and Characters of a Prison and Prisoners.
1618. (Cf. Ashton, J. , The Fleet, its rivers, prison and marriages, 1883. )
Anon. A briefe collection of the exactions, extortions, oppressions. . . towards
the lives, bodies and goods of prisoners, done by Alexander Harris. . . .
1620-1 (broadsheet). Rptd 1879, Camden Soc.
Clavell, John. Recantation of an ill led Life: a discoverie of the High-way
Law. 1628. See Collet, S. , Reliques of Literature, 1823; Granger, J. ,
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and Memoirs, 1813, vol. 1.
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TOBACCO PAMPHLETS.
(The whole output of literature on tobacco is eminently characteristic of
the age in its elaborate titles, far-fetched conceits and bitter invective. The
spirit of criticism is so strong that even the partisans of the weed satirise the
habits of the smoker. )
Frampton, John. Joyfull newes оute of the newe founde worlde. . . .
Englished by 1577. According to Arber, E. , the earliest detailed account
of the herb. See also Athenæum, 27 June, 1 Aug. 1857.
Buttes, Henry. Dyets Dry Dinner. That is, varietie of Fare: provided,
prepared and ordered, at Dyets own prescription: Prandium, without
Wine, but Accipitrimum, without all drinke except Tobacco (which also
is but Dry Drinke): . 1599. (Recommends tobacco as a sedative,
narcotic, purge, but adds A Satyricall Epigram, upon the wanton, and
excessive use of Tobacco. )
Anon. The Metamorphosis of Tobacco. 1602.