He feigned fits and 'cast out of
his mouth rags, thred, straw, crooked pins' when in the presence of a certain
woman, who was promptly arrested as a witch.
his mouth rags, thred, straw, crooked pins' when in the presence of a certain
woman, who was promptly arrested as a witch.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04
1596.
Ulysses upon Ajax. 1596. (Davies, J. , of Hereford speaks of Ulysses upon
Ajax as being the work of a different hand (Wits Bedlam, 1617) but the
similarity of style is unmistakable. )
An Anatomie of the Metamorpho-sed Ajax. By T. C. . . . Rpt of all three
tracts, 1814, from press of Whittingham, C. , Chiswick. Vide Collier, J. P. ,
Poetical Decameron, 1820. (Ajax is meiosis for a jakes' and the series
of pamphlets, probably all published in the same year, exemplify the
nearest approach in English literature to the humour of Rabelais.
Marston in The Scourge of Villanie, Bk. III, Sat. 11, speaks of
loathsome brothel rime,
that stinks like Ajax froth, or muck-pit slime. )
The Knight of the Sea. 1600.
Anton, R. Meriomachia. 1613. Rptd 1909, Becker, G. , in Archiv für das
Studium der neueren Sprachen etc. , Vol. cxxII.
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of drinking. )
Pasquils Palmodia, and His progresse to the Taverne. Rptd 1620; 1634;
1866, Collier, J. P. , Illus. of Old Engl. Lit. , vol. 1.
Taylor, J. Dogge of Warre, or, the Travels of Drunkard (mostly verse).
1630.
Drinke and welcome: or, the Famous Historie of . . . Drinks. · 1637.
Rptd 1871, no. 17 of Ashbee's Occasional Fac-simile Reprints.
PROGNOSTICATIONS, SERIOUS AND BURLESQUE.
(Cf. Pantagrueline Pronostication, 1533, and the Fool's prophecy in Lear
(act 111, sc. 2). ) See Smith. C. F. John Dee (1527-1608). 1909.
Nashe, T. A wonderfull, strange and miraculous Astrologicall Prognostica-
tion for this yeer of our Lord God, 1591 . . . by Adam Fouleweather,
stndent in Assetronomy. Rptd 1892, Saintsbury, G. , Eliz. and Jac.
Pamphlets. (Parody of soothsayers' pamphlets. (Ante, vol. Ini, chap. v,
p. 110. ) No entry in Stationers' register. )
Breton, N. Pasquil's Passe and Passeth Not, set downe in three pees, his
Passe, Precession, and Prognostication. 1600.
Waldegrave, R. (publisher). The whole prophecie of Scotland, England and
some part of France and Denmark, prophesied bee mervellous Merling,
Beid, Bertlington, Thomas Rymour, Waldbave, Eltraine, Banester, and
Sibbilla, all according to one. Containing many strange and mervelous
things. 1603. See also Laing, D. , A Collection of Ancient Scottish
Prophecies, 1833; and The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Ercel-
doune, intro. by Murray, J. A. H. , E. E. T. S. 1875, no. 61.
A Piece of Friar Bacon's Brazen-heads Prophecie. By William Terilo.
1604. Rptd 1844, Halliwell, J. O. , Percy Soc. (The pamphlet is a satire
contrasting the distrust and artificiality of the 17th cent. with the
simplicity and industry of the former generation. )
Newes from Rome of two mightie armies . . . also certaine prophecies of a
Jew called Cabel Shilock. . . . Translated out of Italian by W. W. 1606.
(See N. & Q. 24 July 1909. )
The Raven's Almanacke; foretelling of a Plague, Famine and Civill Warre,
that shall happen this present year 1609. 1609. (A parody, ascribed to
Dekker. )
Cobbes Prophecies, his signes and tokens, his Madrigalls, Questions, and
Answeres, with his spirituall lesson. 1614. Rptd 1890 (private).
The Owles Almanacke; prognosticating many strange accidents that shall
happen. 1618. . . by Jocundary Merrie-braines. 1618.
Wither, G. Fragmenta Prophetica. 1669. Rptd 1872, Spenser Soc.
WITCH-CONTROVERSY.
The public agitation over supernatural questions continued to form a
background to popular thought, as is seen in the tracts of Nashe and Dekker,
broadsides, news-sheets and in the dramatists. For origins of this phase of
superstition in the social disorders of the late 15th and 16th cents. , and for the
beginning of daemonology in Jacob Sprenger's Malleus Maleficarum, see
ante, vol. 111, chap. v, pp. 111 ff. For bibl. see ibid. p. 495 and N. & Q. Ser. x,
vol. xi, no. 286, pp. 491 ff. , also Lecky, W. E. H. , Rationalism in Europe, 4th ed.
1870, vol. I, chap. 1. Subsequent to R. Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft, the
following works may be noted:
Gifford, G. , Discourse of the Subtill Practices of Devilles, 1587. Hol-
land, H. , A Treatise against Witchcraft, 1590. Nashe, T. , The Terrors
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535
of the Night, 1594. King James, Daemonologie, 1597 (Edinburgh), 1603
(London). Chamber, J. ,Treatise against Judicial Astrologie, 1601. Heydon,
Sir C. , A Defence of Judicial Astrologie in answer to Mr J. Chamber,
1603. Gifford, G. , Dialogue of Witches and Witchcraft, 1603 (rptd 1842,
Wright, T. , Percy Soc. ). Perkins, P. , Discoverie of the Damned Art
of Witchcraft, 1610. Cotta, J. , The Triall of Witchcraft, 1616. Roberts,
Alexander, Treatise of Witchcraft, 1616. Cooper, Rev. Thomas, The
Mystery of Witchcraft, 1617. Goodcole, H. , The wonderful Discovery of
Elizabeth Sawyer . . . her conviction . . . together with the Devil's Access
to her. . . . 1621. (Source of The Witch of Edmonton. ) Vicars, T. , The
Madnesse of Astrologers, 1624. Bernard, R. , Guide to Jurymen, 1627.
The whole dispute was enhanced by controversies over particular cases of
witchcraft, such as the paper war waged between John Darrell and George
More on the one side, and by Samuel Harsnet, John Deacon and John Walker
on the other, over the possession and dispossession of William Somers, and
over 'the strange and grevous vexation by the Devil' of seven persons in
Lancashire. The whole country was thown into excitement over the Lanca-
shire trials of 1612 (the case is reported in a pamphlet by Thomas Potts, 1612)
and great interest was aroused by cases of imposture, of which the most
celebrated was that of the 'Boy of Bilson.
He feigned fits and 'cast out of
his mouth rags, thred, straw, crooked pins' when in the presence of a certain
woman, who was promptly arrested as a witch. These episodes led to the
production of such works as: Witches apprehended, examined and executed,
for notable villapies. . . . With a strange and true triall how to know whether a
woman be a Witch or not, 1613; A Treatise of Witchcraft . . . with a true
narration of the witchcrafts which Mary Smith . . . did practise . . . and lastly
of her death and execution, 1616; The Wonderful Discoverie of the Witch-
crafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower, . . . 1618.
For fuller examination of the subject and its continuation through the
17th cent. see later vols. of present work.
6
а
BROADSIDES, STREET BALLADS, NEWS-SHEETS AND POLITICAL PAMPHLETS.
News-agents and Political Journalists.
Elderton, W. The trne fourme and shape of a monsterous chyld. . . . 1565.
A new Yorkshyre song. 1584 etc.
Tarlton, Richard. A very lamentable and wofull Discours of the fierce
Fluds, whiche lately flowed in Bedford shire . . . and in many other
places . . . the 5 of October 1570. A newe booke in English Verse, entitled,
Tarltons Toyes. 1576. Tarltons devise uppon the unlooked for great
snowe. 1578. Tarltons Farewell. 1588. A Sorrowful newe Sonnette
Intituled Tarltons Recantation. 1589. Tarltons Repentance, or his
Farewell to his Frendes in his Sicknes a little before his Deathe. 1589.
A pleasant Dyttye, Dialogue wise betweene Tarltons Ghost and Robyn
Good Fellowe. 1590.
Rich, Barnabe. Besides novels and romances (see ante, vol. 111, chap. xvi)
and numerous tracts on Ireland, he produced: A right exelent and
pleasant Dialogue betwene Mercury and an nglish Sonldier, contayning
his supplication to Mars, 1574 (1st part exposes the ill-treatment of
English soldiers and enters a plea for archery); Greenes Newes both
from Heaven and Hell, 1593, rptd 1624 as A New Irish Prognostica-
tion (purports to be printed from Greene's papers but is really a treatise
on Ireland. It may have been Rich who also published a booklet of
sonnets with title Greenes Funeralls by R. B. . . . A Martiall Conference
pleasantly discoursed between two Souldiers only practised in Finsbury
Fields. . . . 1598).
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· A Watch-word to Englande, to beware of Traytors and tretcherous
Practises, which have beene the Overthrowe of many famous Kingdomes
and Commonweales. 1584. (Arising from the Campion affair but of a more
general character. ) View of Sundry Examples. n. d. Bptd, Collier,
J. P. , Shakspr. Soc. , 1851. (Relates murders, strange incidents and prodi-
gies occurring 1570-80. )
[See, also, Pollard, A. F. , Tudor Tracts, 1532-1588. 1903. ]
Collections of Songs and Broadsides.
(See ante, vol. III, chap. v, bibl. p. 491, and chap. viri, bibl. pp. 511-512. The
greater number of extant broadsides are subsequent to the Civil War, but the
following collections contain specimens of our period. )
Antidote Against Melancholy. 1661. Bptd 1876, Ebsworth, J. W.
Ashton, J. A Century of Ballads. 1887. Humour, Wit and Satire of the
Seventeenth Century. 1883.
Bagford Ballads. 1876. Ebsworth, J. W. Ballad Soc.
Bullen, A. H. Carols and Poems from the fifteenth century to the present
time. 1886.
Collier, J. P. A Collection of Old Ballads anterior to the reign of Charles I.
1840. Percy Soc. A Book of Roxburghe Ballads. 1868. Broadside,
black-letter Ballads printed in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
1868. Twenty-five old Ballads and Songs. 1869. (Coll. of MSS, temp.
Eliz. and Jac. Probably copies of broadsides. ) Illustrations of Early
English Popular Literature. 1863. (Contains songs, ballads and murder
pamphlets, together with political tracts. )
Deloney, T. Strange Histories. n. d. Garland of Good Will. Earliest
known ed. , a fragment dated 1604.
Denteromelia, or the second part of Musick’s Melodie. 1609. (Sequel to
Pammelia. )
Dixon, J. H. Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England. 1846.
Evans, Robson. Old Ballads. 1810.
Farmer, J. S. Merry Songs and Ballads prior to the year 1800. 1897.
Furnivall, F. J. Love-poems and humourous Ones. 1874. Ballad Soc.
Goldsmid, E. Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry. 1884.
Huth, H. Ancient Ballads and Broadsides published in England in the
Sixteenth Century. 1867. Philobiblon Soc.
Ingledew, C. J. D. The Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire. 1860.
Johnson, Richard. Besides a number of romantic and narrative ballads of
which The Nine Worthies of London, 1592, is best known, he produced :
The Crowne Garland of Golden Roses, 1612, etc. , rptd 1845, Chappell, W. ,
Percy Soc. ; The Golden Garland of Princely Pleasures and Delicate
Delights, 3rd ed. , 1620.
Lemon, R. Catalogue of a Collection of Printed Broadsides in the Possession
of the Society of Antiquaries of London. 1866. (Title-pages, reproduction
of wood-cut illustrations, descriptions of contents. )
Munday, A. Banquet of Dainty Conceits. 1581. (Songs and ditties for
popular tunes. )
Pammelia. Musicks Miscellanie. 1606.
Percy, Bp. Reliques of Ancient Poetry. 1765. Ed. Wheatley, H. B. , 1876.
Percy Folio Manuscript, Hales, J. W. and Furnivall, F. J. ; Ballads and
Romances, 1867-8; Loose and humorous Songs, 1867, E. E.
Ulysses upon Ajax. 1596. (Davies, J. , of Hereford speaks of Ulysses upon
Ajax as being the work of a different hand (Wits Bedlam, 1617) but the
similarity of style is unmistakable. )
An Anatomie of the Metamorpho-sed Ajax. By T. C. . . . Rpt of all three
tracts, 1814, from press of Whittingham, C. , Chiswick. Vide Collier, J. P. ,
Poetical Decameron, 1820. (Ajax is meiosis for a jakes' and the series
of pamphlets, probably all published in the same year, exemplify the
nearest approach in English literature to the humour of Rabelais.
Marston in The Scourge of Villanie, Bk. III, Sat. 11, speaks of
loathsome brothel rime,
that stinks like Ajax froth, or muck-pit slime. )
The Knight of the Sea. 1600.
Anton, R. Meriomachia. 1613. Rptd 1909, Becker, G. , in Archiv für das
Studium der neueren Sprachen etc. , Vol. cxxII.
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534
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Brathwaite, Richard. A Solemne Joviall Disputation. 1617. (On the laws
of drinking. )
Pasquils Palmodia, and His progresse to the Taverne. Rptd 1620; 1634;
1866, Collier, J. P. , Illus. of Old Engl. Lit. , vol. 1.
Taylor, J. Dogge of Warre, or, the Travels of Drunkard (mostly verse).
1630.
Drinke and welcome: or, the Famous Historie of . . . Drinks. · 1637.
Rptd 1871, no. 17 of Ashbee's Occasional Fac-simile Reprints.
PROGNOSTICATIONS, SERIOUS AND BURLESQUE.
(Cf. Pantagrueline Pronostication, 1533, and the Fool's prophecy in Lear
(act 111, sc. 2). ) See Smith. C. F. John Dee (1527-1608). 1909.
Nashe, T. A wonderfull, strange and miraculous Astrologicall Prognostica-
tion for this yeer of our Lord God, 1591 . . . by Adam Fouleweather,
stndent in Assetronomy. Rptd 1892, Saintsbury, G. , Eliz. and Jac.
Pamphlets. (Parody of soothsayers' pamphlets. (Ante, vol. Ini, chap. v,
p. 110. ) No entry in Stationers' register. )
Breton, N. Pasquil's Passe and Passeth Not, set downe in three pees, his
Passe, Precession, and Prognostication. 1600.
Waldegrave, R. (publisher). The whole prophecie of Scotland, England and
some part of France and Denmark, prophesied bee mervellous Merling,
Beid, Bertlington, Thomas Rymour, Waldbave, Eltraine, Banester, and
Sibbilla, all according to one. Containing many strange and mervelous
things. 1603. See also Laing, D. , A Collection of Ancient Scottish
Prophecies, 1833; and The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Ercel-
doune, intro. by Murray, J. A. H. , E. E. T. S. 1875, no. 61.
A Piece of Friar Bacon's Brazen-heads Prophecie. By William Terilo.
1604. Rptd 1844, Halliwell, J. O. , Percy Soc. (The pamphlet is a satire
contrasting the distrust and artificiality of the 17th cent. with the
simplicity and industry of the former generation. )
Newes from Rome of two mightie armies . . . also certaine prophecies of a
Jew called Cabel Shilock. . . . Translated out of Italian by W. W. 1606.
(See N. & Q. 24 July 1909. )
The Raven's Almanacke; foretelling of a Plague, Famine and Civill Warre,
that shall happen this present year 1609. 1609. (A parody, ascribed to
Dekker. )
Cobbes Prophecies, his signes and tokens, his Madrigalls, Questions, and
Answeres, with his spirituall lesson. 1614. Rptd 1890 (private).
The Owles Almanacke; prognosticating many strange accidents that shall
happen. 1618. . . by Jocundary Merrie-braines. 1618.
Wither, G. Fragmenta Prophetica. 1669. Rptd 1872, Spenser Soc.
WITCH-CONTROVERSY.
The public agitation over supernatural questions continued to form a
background to popular thought, as is seen in the tracts of Nashe and Dekker,
broadsides, news-sheets and in the dramatists. For origins of this phase of
superstition in the social disorders of the late 15th and 16th cents. , and for the
beginning of daemonology in Jacob Sprenger's Malleus Maleficarum, see
ante, vol. 111, chap. v, pp. 111 ff. For bibl. see ibid. p. 495 and N. & Q. Ser. x,
vol. xi, no. 286, pp. 491 ff. , also Lecky, W. E. H. , Rationalism in Europe, 4th ed.
1870, vol. I, chap. 1. Subsequent to R. Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft, the
following works may be noted:
Gifford, G. , Discourse of the Subtill Practices of Devilles, 1587. Hol-
land, H. , A Treatise against Witchcraft, 1590. Nashe, T. , The Terrors
## p. 535 (#557) ############################################
Chapter XVI
535
of the Night, 1594. King James, Daemonologie, 1597 (Edinburgh), 1603
(London). Chamber, J. ,Treatise against Judicial Astrologie, 1601. Heydon,
Sir C. , A Defence of Judicial Astrologie in answer to Mr J. Chamber,
1603. Gifford, G. , Dialogue of Witches and Witchcraft, 1603 (rptd 1842,
Wright, T. , Percy Soc. ). Perkins, P. , Discoverie of the Damned Art
of Witchcraft, 1610. Cotta, J. , The Triall of Witchcraft, 1616. Roberts,
Alexander, Treatise of Witchcraft, 1616. Cooper, Rev. Thomas, The
Mystery of Witchcraft, 1617. Goodcole, H. , The wonderful Discovery of
Elizabeth Sawyer . . . her conviction . . . together with the Devil's Access
to her. . . . 1621. (Source of The Witch of Edmonton. ) Vicars, T. , The
Madnesse of Astrologers, 1624. Bernard, R. , Guide to Jurymen, 1627.
The whole dispute was enhanced by controversies over particular cases of
witchcraft, such as the paper war waged between John Darrell and George
More on the one side, and by Samuel Harsnet, John Deacon and John Walker
on the other, over the possession and dispossession of William Somers, and
over 'the strange and grevous vexation by the Devil' of seven persons in
Lancashire. The whole country was thown into excitement over the Lanca-
shire trials of 1612 (the case is reported in a pamphlet by Thomas Potts, 1612)
and great interest was aroused by cases of imposture, of which the most
celebrated was that of the 'Boy of Bilson.
He feigned fits and 'cast out of
his mouth rags, thred, straw, crooked pins' when in the presence of a certain
woman, who was promptly arrested as a witch. These episodes led to the
production of such works as: Witches apprehended, examined and executed,
for notable villapies. . . . With a strange and true triall how to know whether a
woman be a Witch or not, 1613; A Treatise of Witchcraft . . . with a true
narration of the witchcrafts which Mary Smith . . . did practise . . . and lastly
of her death and execution, 1616; The Wonderful Discoverie of the Witch-
crafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower, . . . 1618.
For fuller examination of the subject and its continuation through the
17th cent. see later vols. of present work.
6
а
BROADSIDES, STREET BALLADS, NEWS-SHEETS AND POLITICAL PAMPHLETS.
News-agents and Political Journalists.
Elderton, W. The trne fourme and shape of a monsterous chyld. . . . 1565.
A new Yorkshyre song. 1584 etc.
Tarlton, Richard. A very lamentable and wofull Discours of the fierce
Fluds, whiche lately flowed in Bedford shire . . . and in many other
places . . . the 5 of October 1570. A newe booke in English Verse, entitled,
Tarltons Toyes. 1576. Tarltons devise uppon the unlooked for great
snowe. 1578. Tarltons Farewell. 1588. A Sorrowful newe Sonnette
Intituled Tarltons Recantation. 1589. Tarltons Repentance, or his
Farewell to his Frendes in his Sicknes a little before his Deathe. 1589.
A pleasant Dyttye, Dialogue wise betweene Tarltons Ghost and Robyn
Good Fellowe. 1590.
Rich, Barnabe. Besides novels and romances (see ante, vol. 111, chap. xvi)
and numerous tracts on Ireland, he produced: A right exelent and
pleasant Dialogue betwene Mercury and an nglish Sonldier, contayning
his supplication to Mars, 1574 (1st part exposes the ill-treatment of
English soldiers and enters a plea for archery); Greenes Newes both
from Heaven and Hell, 1593, rptd 1624 as A New Irish Prognostica-
tion (purports to be printed from Greene's papers but is really a treatise
on Ireland. It may have been Rich who also published a booklet of
sonnets with title Greenes Funeralls by R. B. . . . A Martiall Conference
pleasantly discoursed between two Souldiers only practised in Finsbury
Fields. . . . 1598).
## p. 536 (#558) ############################################
536
Bibliography
Munday, A. (For fuller bibliography, see D. of N. B. )
· A Watch-word to Englande, to beware of Traytors and tretcherous
Practises, which have beene the Overthrowe of many famous Kingdomes
and Commonweales. 1584. (Arising from the Campion affair but of a more
general character. ) View of Sundry Examples. n. d. Bptd, Collier,
J. P. , Shakspr. Soc. , 1851. (Relates murders, strange incidents and prodi-
gies occurring 1570-80. )
[See, also, Pollard, A. F. , Tudor Tracts, 1532-1588. 1903. ]
Collections of Songs and Broadsides.
(See ante, vol. III, chap. v, bibl. p. 491, and chap. viri, bibl. pp. 511-512. The
greater number of extant broadsides are subsequent to the Civil War, but the
following collections contain specimens of our period. )
Antidote Against Melancholy. 1661. Bptd 1876, Ebsworth, J. W.
Ashton, J. A Century of Ballads. 1887. Humour, Wit and Satire of the
Seventeenth Century. 1883.
Bagford Ballads. 1876. Ebsworth, J. W. Ballad Soc.
Bullen, A. H. Carols and Poems from the fifteenth century to the present
time. 1886.
Collier, J. P. A Collection of Old Ballads anterior to the reign of Charles I.
1840. Percy Soc. A Book of Roxburghe Ballads. 1868. Broadside,
black-letter Ballads printed in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
1868. Twenty-five old Ballads and Songs. 1869. (Coll. of MSS, temp.
Eliz. and Jac. Probably copies of broadsides. ) Illustrations of Early
English Popular Literature. 1863. (Contains songs, ballads and murder
pamphlets, together with political tracts. )
Deloney, T. Strange Histories. n. d. Garland of Good Will. Earliest
known ed. , a fragment dated 1604.
Denteromelia, or the second part of Musick’s Melodie. 1609. (Sequel to
Pammelia. )
Dixon, J. H. Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England. 1846.
Evans, Robson. Old Ballads. 1810.
Farmer, J. S. Merry Songs and Ballads prior to the year 1800. 1897.
Furnivall, F. J. Love-poems and humourous Ones. 1874. Ballad Soc.
Goldsmid, E. Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry. 1884.
Huth, H. Ancient Ballads and Broadsides published in England in the
Sixteenth Century. 1867. Philobiblon Soc.
Ingledew, C. J. D. The Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire. 1860.
Johnson, Richard. Besides a number of romantic and narrative ballads of
which The Nine Worthies of London, 1592, is best known, he produced :
The Crowne Garland of Golden Roses, 1612, etc. , rptd 1845, Chappell, W. ,
Percy Soc. ; The Golden Garland of Princely Pleasures and Delicate
Delights, 3rd ed. , 1620.
Lemon, R. Catalogue of a Collection of Printed Broadsides in the Possession
of the Society of Antiquaries of London. 1866. (Title-pages, reproduction
of wood-cut illustrations, descriptions of contents. )
Munday, A. Banquet of Dainty Conceits. 1581. (Songs and ditties for
popular tunes. )
Pammelia. Musicks Miscellanie. 1606.
Percy, Bp. Reliques of Ancient Poetry. 1765. Ed. Wheatley, H. B. , 1876.
Percy Folio Manuscript, Hales, J. W. and Furnivall, F. J. ; Ballads and
Romances, 1867-8; Loose and humorous Songs, 1867, E. E.
