No More Learning

Allusion-bks.
pt. I.
Kind-Hart's Dreame. n. d. (Licensed Dec. 1592. ) Rptd 1842, Rimbault, E. F. ,
Percy Soc. ; 1874, Ingleby, C. M. , New Shakspr. Soc. Allusion-bks. pt. I.
(The tract, though of slight merit, illustrates the style and literary form
which was most fashionable at the moment. It is a dream vision: five
popular celebrities (including Greene: see Harvey-Nashe Controversy)
are introduced; they present complaints which expose existing
abuses and gratify the people's insatiable appetite for tales of decep-
tion. )
Pierce Plainnes seaven yeres Prentiship. 1593. See ante, vol. 111, chap. XVI,
p. 367.
ROBERT GREENE.
Beginning of the reaction from Euphuism.
Greenes Mourning Garment . . . which he presents for a favour to all Young
Gentlemen that wish to weane themselves from wanton desires . . . licensed
2 Nov. 1590, published same year.
Greenes Never too Late. Or a Powder of Experience: sent to all Youthful
Gentlemen. 1590.
Greenes farewell to Folly: sent to Courtiers and Schollers as a president to
warne them from the vaine delights that drawes youth on to repentance.
Licensed 11 June 1587, published 1591.
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Coney-Catching Pamphlets.
(Professionalism betrayed in the fabrication of pretentious titles and the
claim to disinterested motives in publishing. )
A Notable Discovery of Coosnage. Now daily practised by sundry lewd
persons called Connie-catchers and Crosse-biters. 1591. Rptd 1592 and
1859 by Halliwell, J. O. Second part, 1591. Third part entered in
Stationers' register, 7 Feb. 1591/2.
The Defence of Conny-catching. By Cuthbert Cony-catcher. 1592. Rptd
1859 by Adlard, J. E.
A Disputation Betweene a Hee Conny-catcher and a Shee Conny-catcher
whether a Theefe or a Whoore is most hurtfull in Cousonage to the
Common-wealth. . . . 1592. Rptd with additions in 1617 as Theeves falling
out, True Men come by their Goods, and in 1637 with sub-title The Bel-
man wanted a clapper. A Peale of new Villanies rung out. (See Belman
of London under Dekker. )
The Black Bookes Messenger. Laying open the Life and Death of Ned
Browne, one of the most notable Cutpurses, Crosbiters, and Conny-
catchers, that ever lived in England. 1592. (Thomas Middleton followed
Greene's idea with The Blacke Booke, 1604. )
(Cf. the imitations entitled: Questions concerning Conie-hood and the
nature of the Conie, n. d. ; Nihil Munchance, n. d. See, also, Chandler, F. W. ,
The Literature of Roguery, 1907, vol. I, chap. III. For origins of genre,
see vol. III, chap. v. of the present work. )
Social Tracts and Confessions.
Philomela. The Lady Fitzwaters Nightingale. . . . 1592.
A Quip for an Upstart Courtier: or, a quaint dispute between Velvet-breeches
and Cloth-breeches. Wherein is plainely set downe the disorders in all
Estates and Trades. Licensed 20 July 1592. Rptd 1606, etc. ; 1871,
Hindley, C. , Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana, pt. III.
Greens Groatsworth of Wit, bought with a Million of Repentance. . . . Written
before his death, and published at his dying request. Licensed 20 Sept.
1592. Edited by Chettle, H. Earliest extant ed. 1596. Rptd 1600, etc. ;
1813, Brydges, Sir E. (privately printed); 1874, Shakspere Allusion Bks.
pt. 1; 1889, The Bookworm’s Garner, No. vI; 1871, Hindley, C. , Miscellanea
Antiqua Anglicana.
Authorities :
Bernhardi, W. Robert Greenes Leben und Schriften. Leipzig, 1874.
Collins, J. Churton: General Introduction to Plays and Poems. Oxford, 1905.
Grosart, A. B. Greene's Complete Works. Huth Library. 1881-6.
Schelling, Felix E. The Queen's Progress. n. d.
Storojenko, N. : Life of R. Greene. 1878. See vol. 1 of Huth Lib. ed.
THOMAS NASHE.
(For The Unfortunate Traveller and Nashe's Marprelate tracts, see ante,
vol. 11, chaps. XVI and xvII. )
The Anatomie of Absurditie: contayning a breefe confutation of the slender
imputed prayses to feminine perfection, with a short description of the
severall practises of youth, and sundry follies of our licentious times. 1589.
(Licensed 19 Sept. 1588. ) Rptd 1590; 1866, Collier, J. P. , Illustrations
of Old Eng. Lit.
Pierce Penilesse his Supplication to the Divell. Describing the over-spreading
of Vice, and suppression of Vertue. 1592 (licensed 8 Aug. ). Rptd 1592,
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Temp. Eliz. and Jac. I.
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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-
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(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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