1638
enlarged
as
The Discovery of a London Monster.
The Discovery of a London Monster.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04
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. )
Authorities :
Grosart, A. B. , in Non-Dramatic Works of T. Dekker. Huth Lib. , 1881.
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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529
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.
34
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530
Bibliography
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.
Rptd 1864, Collier, J. P. , Illus. of Early Engl. Pop. Lit. , vol. 11.
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. ,
Biog. History of Great Britain, 5th ed. , vol. 111; Caulfield, J. , Portraits
and Memoirs, 1813, vol. 1.
Anon. Frogges of Egypt, or the Catterpillars of the Commonwealth Truly
Dissected and Laid open. 1641.
A Whip for the Marshal's Court by Robert Robins. 1647.
See Chandler, F. W. , The Literature of Roguery, 1907, chap. III. The
writer of the present chapter is indebted to this book in many ways.
9
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. (Dedicated To my loving
Friend Master Michael Drayton. )
Anon. Work for Chimney-sweepers: or A warning for Tabacconists. De-
scribing the pernicious use of Tobacco. . . . As much to say, Better be
chokt with English hemp, then poisoned with Indian Tobacco. Written
by Philaretes. 1602.
Anon. A Defence of Tobacco: with a friendly answer to the late printed
Booke called Worke for Chimney-sweepers. 1602.
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1
LB
King James. A Counter Blaste to Tobacco. 1604; 1616. Ed. Arber, E. ,
1895 (good introduction). (For King James's other works, see D. of N. B.
and Rait, R. S. , Lusus Regius, 1902. ]
G[ardiner), E[dmund): The Triall of Tabacco. Wherein his worth is most
worthily expressed. 1610. (A medical defence. )
Anon. Perfuming of Tobacco, and the great Abuse committed in it. 1611.
Barclay, William. Nepenthes; or, the vertues of Tobacco. Edinburgh, 1614.
Bptd 1841, Miscellany of the Spalding Club, vol. 1.
Sylvester, Joshua. Tobacco battered; and the Pipes shattered (about their
eares that idlely Idolize so base and barbarous a Weed; or at least-wise
over-love so loathsome Vanitie:) by a Volley of holy Shot thundered from
Mount Helicon. 1614 (verse).
T. , C. An Advice how to plant Tobacco in England. 1615.
Deacon, John. Tobacco tortured, or the filthie fume of tobacco refined. 1616.
Rich, Barnabe. The Irish Hubbub, or the English Hue and Crie. 1617.
(Denounces tobacco-smoking in a general attack on society. )
Brathwaite, Richard. The Smoaking Age, or the Man in the Mist. Dedi-
cated to those three renowned and inparalleld heroes, Captain Whiffe,
Captain Pipe and Captain Snuffe; to whom the Author wisheth as much
content as this smoaking age can afford them. At the signe of Teare-
nose. 1617. Rptd 1703. Vide Corser's Collectanea, pt. 11, p. 361.
Bennett, E. A treatise . . . touching the inconveniences, that the importation
of tobacco out of Spaine, hath brought into this land. (About 1620. )
Thorius, R. Hymnus tabaci. 1626.
Authorities :
Bragge, W. Bibliotheca nicotiana. Birmingham, 1880.
Cleland, H. W. On the History and Properties, Chemical and Medical, of
Tobacco. Glasgow, 1840.
Fairholt, F. W. Tobacco: its history and Associations. 1859.
Tiedeman, F. Geschichte des Tabaks. 1854.
person
1
rkle
pointed
JEST-BOOKS AND MISCELLANEOUS TRACTS ON LONDON.
Barclay, Sir R. Discourse of the Felicitie of Man: or his Summum Bonum
1598. (Amusing histories and anecdotes. )
Tarlton, Richard. Tarlton's Jigge of a horse loade of Fooles. (Composed
before 1588. ) 1884, Halliwell, J. O. , Tarlton's Jests, Shakspr. Soc.
(Verse. Idea of the Ship of Fools converted into journey in cart
down Fleet Street for a puppet show. Types suggested by contemporary
London society. See Herford, C. H. , Literary Relations, chap. vi,
pp. 372 ff. )
Anon.
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. )
Authorities :
Grosart, A. B. , in Non-Dramatic Works of T. Dekker. Huth Lib. , 1881.
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.
## p. 529 (#551) ############################################
Chapter XVI
529
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.
34
## p. 530 (#552) ############################################
530
Bibliography
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.
Rptd 1864, Collier, J. P. , Illus. of Early Engl. Pop. Lit. , vol. 11.
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. ,
Biog. History of Great Britain, 5th ed. , vol. 111; Caulfield, J. , Portraits
and Memoirs, 1813, vol. 1.
Anon. Frogges of Egypt, or the Catterpillars of the Commonwealth Truly
Dissected and Laid open. 1641.
A Whip for the Marshal's Court by Robert Robins. 1647.
See Chandler, F. W. , The Literature of Roguery, 1907, chap. III. The
writer of the present chapter is indebted to this book in many ways.
9
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. (Dedicated To my loving
Friend Master Michael Drayton. )
Anon. Work for Chimney-sweepers: or A warning for Tabacconists. De-
scribing the pernicious use of Tobacco. . . . As much to say, Better be
chokt with English hemp, then poisoned with Indian Tobacco. Written
by Philaretes. 1602.
Anon. A Defence of Tobacco: with a friendly answer to the late printed
Booke called Worke for Chimney-sweepers. 1602.
## p. 531 (#553) ############################################
1
Chapter XVI
531
24
1
LB
King James. A Counter Blaste to Tobacco. 1604; 1616. Ed. Arber, E. ,
1895 (good introduction). (For King James's other works, see D. of N. B.
and Rait, R. S. , Lusus Regius, 1902. ]
G[ardiner), E[dmund): The Triall of Tabacco. Wherein his worth is most
worthily expressed. 1610. (A medical defence. )
Anon. Perfuming of Tobacco, and the great Abuse committed in it. 1611.
Barclay, William. Nepenthes; or, the vertues of Tobacco. Edinburgh, 1614.
Bptd 1841, Miscellany of the Spalding Club, vol. 1.
Sylvester, Joshua. Tobacco battered; and the Pipes shattered (about their
eares that idlely Idolize so base and barbarous a Weed; or at least-wise
over-love so loathsome Vanitie:) by a Volley of holy Shot thundered from
Mount Helicon. 1614 (verse).
T. , C. An Advice how to plant Tobacco in England. 1615.
Deacon, John. Tobacco tortured, or the filthie fume of tobacco refined. 1616.
Rich, Barnabe. The Irish Hubbub, or the English Hue and Crie. 1617.
(Denounces tobacco-smoking in a general attack on society. )
Brathwaite, Richard. The Smoaking Age, or the Man in the Mist. Dedi-
cated to those three renowned and inparalleld heroes, Captain Whiffe,
Captain Pipe and Captain Snuffe; to whom the Author wisheth as much
content as this smoaking age can afford them. At the signe of Teare-
nose. 1617. Rptd 1703. Vide Corser's Collectanea, pt. 11, p. 361.
Bennett, E. A treatise . . . touching the inconveniences, that the importation
of tobacco out of Spaine, hath brought into this land. (About 1620. )
Thorius, R. Hymnus tabaci. 1626.
Authorities :
Bragge, W. Bibliotheca nicotiana. Birmingham, 1880.
Cleland, H. W. On the History and Properties, Chemical and Medical, of
Tobacco. Glasgow, 1840.
Fairholt, F. W. Tobacco: its history and Associations. 1859.
Tiedeman, F. Geschichte des Tabaks. 1854.
person
1
rkle
pointed
JEST-BOOKS AND MISCELLANEOUS TRACTS ON LONDON.
Barclay, Sir R. Discourse of the Felicitie of Man: or his Summum Bonum
1598. (Amusing histories and anecdotes. )
Tarlton, Richard. Tarlton's Jigge of a horse loade of Fooles. (Composed
before 1588. ) 1884, Halliwell, J. O. , Tarlton's Jests, Shakspr. Soc.
(Verse. Idea of the Ship of Fools converted into journey in cart
down Fleet Street for a puppet show. Types suggested by contemporary
London society. See Herford, C. H. , Literary Relations, chap. vi,
pp. 372 ff. )
Anon.
