Introduction to the
Proverbs
of John Heywood.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05
London.
imprinted by W.
Rastell.
1533, and states
that there is a copy at St John's college, Oxford. Lowndes here confuses
two plays; it is the 1533 edition of the Play of the wether (see infra)
which is preserved in the St John's library, but the entry has given
currency to the mistaken view that there is also an edition of the Play of
love belonging to the same date. )
A Play of Love. [Another edition, of which the unique copy in the Bodleian
has lost the title-page. ] Printed by John Waley.
## p. 405 (#429) ############################################
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V
405
Facsimile of Waley's edition in Tudor Facsimile Texts, 1909. Rptd
in Brandl's Quellen; The Dramatic Writings of John Heywood, ed.
Farmer (ut supra).
(a) The play of the wether. A new and a very mery enterlude of all maner
wethers made by John Heywood. . . . Printed by w. Rastell. 1533. (The
only known perfect copy is in the Pepys collection at Magdalene college,
Cambridge. One in St John's college, Oxford, wants the last leaf. )
(6) The play of the wether. A newe and very mery enterlude of all maner
wethers made by John Heywood. (A unique copy, wanting the last leaf,
is in the Cambridge University library. )
(c) The playe of the weather. A newe and a very merye enterlude of all
maner wethers made by Jhon Heywoode. . . . Imprinted at London by
Jhon Awdeley, dwelling in litle Britayne streete beyonde Aldersgate.
n. d. (Unique copy in British Museum. )
(d) The Play of the Wether. A New and a very mery enterlude of all maner
wethers made by John Heywood. . . . Imprinted at London in Paules
Churchyarde, at the Sygne of the Sunne, by Anthonie Kytson. (Unique
copy in Bodleian. )
(Pollard, A. W. , in Gayley's R. E. C. , pp. 16-17, has shown, from a
collation of the texts of (a), (b) and (d) that the unidentified edition in
the University library, Cambridge, was printed from Rastell's, and
Kitson's from this. (c), apparently, is later than (6) and earlier than (d),
but is not in a strict line of descent between them and has special
characteristics of its own).
Facsimile of Awdeley's edition in Tudor Facsimile Texts, 1908, and of
Rastell's edition in Tudor Facsimile Texts, 1909. Rptd in Brandl's
Quellen; ed. Pollard, A. W. , in Gayley's R. E. C. ; The Dramatic
Writings of John Heywood, ed. Farmer (ut supra).
Wytty and Wytless. Harleian MSS, 367.
Facsimile in Tudor Facsimile Texts, 1909. (The Preface includes a
letter from Herbert, J. A. , on the question whether the MS is in Heywood's
autograph. ) Printed in abridged form under the name A Dialogue
on Wit and Folly by Fairholt, F. W. , in Percy Soc. Publ. , 1846;
and in The Dramatic Writings of John Heywood, ed. Farmer (ut
supra).
(A Dialogue conteining the number in effect of all the proverbes in the English
tongue, set forth by J. H. ]. . . Imprinted at London in Fletestrete, in the
house of Thomas Berthelet. (The unique copy of this edition in the
British Museum lacks everything before sig. C, and cannot be dated with
certainty. In the catalogue it is assigned to 1549. )
A Dialogue, côteyninge the number in effecte of all the Proverbes in the Englishe
tunge, copact in a matter concerninge twoo maner of mariages. . . . Newly
oversene and somewhat augmented by the sayde John Heywood. . . . 1561.
An hundred Epigrammes, Invented and made by John Heywood. Anno
Christi. M. D. L. . . . Imprinted at London in Fletestrete in the Hous of
Thomas Berthelet. . . . 1550.
Two hundred Epigrammes, upon the hundred proverbes, with a thyrde
hundred newely added and made by John Heywood. Anno Christi.
M. D. L. V.
A fourth hundred of Epygrams, Newly invented and made by John
Heywood. . . , Imprinted in the house late Thomas Berthelettes. 1560.
John Heywoodes woorkes. A dialogue conteynyng the number of the
effectual proverbes in the Englishe tongue, compact in a matter oon-
.
## p. 406 (#430) ############################################
406
Bibliography
cernynge two maner of maryages. With one hundred of Epigrammes;
and three hundred of Epigrammes upon three hundred proverbs: and a
fifth hundred of Epigrams. Whereunto are now newly added a syxt
hundred of Epigrams by the sayde John Heywood. . . . 1562 (Col. ). Im-
printed at London in Fleetestrete by Thomas Powell.
This volume combined the Proverbes and Epigrammes, and later
editions of it appeared in 1566, 1576, 1587 and 1598. The Proverbs are
rptd by Spenser Society, in Spenser Soc. Publ. , Manchester, 1867; there
are also editions by Sharman,“ J. , 1874; and by Farmer, J. S. , 1906
(mod. s. ); The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies in Early English
Dramatists, ed. Farmer, J. S. , 1906 (mod. s. ).
Biography and Criticism.
Bang, W. Acta-Lovaniensia: John Heywood und sein Kreis. Engl.
Stud. vol. XXXVIII, pp. 234-250. Contains important new facts about
Heywood's life, and prints their sources, which are chiefly E. P.
Droeshout's MS Histoire de la Compagnie de Jésus à Anvers, and
legal documents in the archives of Antwerp.
Brandl's Quellen. Introduction, pp. xlvii-lv.
Calendar of Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII. Edd. Brewer,
J. S. and Gairdner, J. 1862 ff.
Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the reigns of Edward VI,
Mary and Elizabeth. Vol. 1, 1547-80; ed. Lemon, R. ; and vol. VII,
Addenda, 1566–79, ed. Everett Green, M. A. , 1856 ff.
Fairholt, F. W. Some Account of John Heywood and his Interludes. 1846.
Prefixed to the Percy Society's edition of Wit and Folly; contains long
selections from Heywood's other interludes.
Farmer, J. S. Introductions to editions and facsimile rpts, mentioned above.
Greg, W. W. An unknown edition of Heywood's Play of Love. Herrig's
Archiv, vol. cvi, pp. 141-3, 1899.
Holthausen, F. Zu Heywood's Wetterspiel. Herrig's Archiv, vol. cxvi, 1906.
Pitseus, J. Relationum Historicarum de Rebus Anglicis Tomus Primus.
Paris, 1619.
Pollard, A. W. Critical Essay prefixed to his edition of Wether and Johan
Johan in Gayley's R. E. C. 1903.
Reed, A. W. John Heywood and his Friends. The Library. 1917.
Sharman, J.
Introduction to the Proverbs of John Heywood. 1874.
Swoboda, W. John Heywood als Dramatiker. Wiener Beiträge, 1888.
Ward, A. W. John Heywood. Dict. of Nat. Biogr. vol. xxvi, and Eng.
Dram. Lit. vol. 1, pp. 238-248, 1899.
Young, K. The Influence of French Farce upon the Plays of Heywood.
Modern Philology, vol. 11, 1904-5. A criticism of Swoboda's monograph.
Contains abstracts of, or quotations from, Pernet qui va au vin; D'un
pardonneur, d'un triacleur, et d'une tavernière; Dyalogue du fol et du
sage; Erasmus's Encomium Moriae, and discusses their relation to Hey-
wood's interludes.
THOMAS INGELEND.
A pretie and Mery new Enterlude: called the Disobedient Child. Compiled
by Thomas Ingelend late Student in Cambridge.
Facsimile in Tudor Facsimile Texts. Rptd by Halliwell, J. O. , in
Percy Soc. Publ. , 1848; in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. 1 (mod. s. ); in The
Dramatic Writings of Richard Wever and Thomas Ingelend, ed.
Farmer, J. S. , 1905 (mod. s. ).
## p. 407 (#431) ############################################
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407
Source and Criticism.
Holthausen, F. Studien zum ältereren Englischen Drama. Engl. Stud.
vol. xxxi, 1901. Contains a comparison of The Disobedient Child with
the Dialogue of Textor on which it is based.
Textor, J. Ravisius. Juvenis, Pater, Uxor. In Dialogi. 1530.
Stymmelius, C. Studentes. Some episodes in The Disobedient Child, not
derived from Textor, may be based on this play. See BrandP's Quellen,
vol. LXXIII, contrasted with Malone Society Collections, vol. 1, part 11, p. 106.
JOHN PHILLIP.
The Commodye of pacient and meeke Grissill, Whearin is declared, the good
example, of her pacience towardes her Husband: and lykewise, the due
obedience of Children, toward their Parentes. Newly. Compiled by John
Phillip. Eight persons maye easely play this Commody. 1. Polliticke
Perswasion the Vice. The Epiloge. For one. 2. Preface. Marquis.
For another. 3. Fidence. Indigence. The second Paidge or Serving
man, The Sonne of Grissill. For another. 4. Reason. Dilligence. Countis
Mayd. Pacience, and the Daughters of Grissill. For another. 5. Sobrietie.
Countis of Pango. Comon people. Constancy. 6. Rumor. Jannickle.
7. Jannickells Wife. The first of the Pages. The Nursse. 8. Grissill.
The Midwife. Imprinted at London, in Fleetestreat beneath the Conduit,
at the signe of Saint John Evangelist by Thomas Colwell. (n. d. but prob-
ably licensed 1565-6 and 1568-9. ]
Rptd in Malone Society Reprints, 1909.
WILLIAM STEVENSON (? ).
Gammer Gurtons Nedle. (See bibliography to vol. vi, chap. XII. )
NICHOLAS UDALL.
Ezechias. (See bibliography to vol. vi, chap. XII. )
Floures for Latine spekynge selected and gathered out of Terence, and the
same translated in to Englysshe, together with the exposition and settynge
forthe as welle of suche latyne wordes, as were thought nedefull to be an-
noted, as also of dyvers grammatical rules, very profytable & necessarye
for the expedite Knowlege in the latyne tongue: compiled by Nicholas
Udall. T. Berthelet. M. D. XXXIII.
The preface is dated 28 Feb. 1534/5. Later editions in 1538, 1544 and
1560; with additions by Higgins, John, from three other comedies of
Terence in 1575 and 1581.
Verges and Dities Made at the Coronation of Queen Anne. Royal MS, 18 A,
LXIV. Hereafter ensuethe a copie of divers and sundry verses, as well in
Latin as in Englishe, devised and made partely by John Leland and
partely by Nicholas Uvedale, whereof sum were sette up, and sum other
were spoken and pronounced unto the Moste High and Excellent Queene,
the Lady Anne . . . in many goodely and costely pageantes, exhibited and
shewed by the Mayre and Citizens of the famous Citie of London . . . on
Whitson yeve, in the 25th yere of the reigne of our . . . Soveran Lorde.
Rptd in Nichols, J. , Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, vol. 1, 1788 (not
I
included in the edition of 1828); in Ballads from Manuscripts, ed.
Furnivall, F. J. (Ballad Society), 1870; the English verses are printed
in An English Garner, vol. 11, ed. Arber, A. , 1879 (mod. s. ).
Ralph Roister Doister. The unique copy in the Eton college library has no
title-page or colophon. The play was entered in the Stationers' register
to Thomas Hacket in 1566/7.
## p. 408 (#432) ############################################
408
Bibliography
9
Rptd in limited edition, ed. Briggs, T. , 1818; by Marshall, F. , 1821; by
White, T. , in Old English Drama, vol. I, 1830 (mod. s. ); in Shakesp.
Soc. Publ. , ed. Cooper, W. D. , 1847; in English Reprints, ed. Arber, E. ,
1869; in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. III (mod. s. ); in Manly's Specimens,
vol. II; in Temple Dramatists, ed. Williams, W. H. and Robins, P. A. ,
1901 (mod. s. ); in Gayley's R. E. C. , ed. Flügel, E. , 1903; in The Dramatic
Writings of Nicholas Udall (Early English Dramatists), 1906 (mod. s. );
and in Museum Dramatists, 1907 (mod. s. ), ed. Farmer, J. S.
Biography and Criticism.
Arber, E. A brief note of the Life, Works, and Times of Nicholas Udall, M. A. ,
Teacher, Dramatist, Translator, Preacher, prefixed, with Introduction
and Bibliography, to his reprint of Ralph Roister Doister. 1869.
Bang, W. Udall-Studien (darin u. a. seine Floures for Latine Spekynge,
die Übersetzung von Erasmi Rot.
that there is a copy at St John's college, Oxford. Lowndes here confuses
two plays; it is the 1533 edition of the Play of the wether (see infra)
which is preserved in the St John's library, but the entry has given
currency to the mistaken view that there is also an edition of the Play of
love belonging to the same date. )
A Play of Love. [Another edition, of which the unique copy in the Bodleian
has lost the title-page. ] Printed by John Waley.
## p. 405 (#429) ############################################
Chapter V
V
405
Facsimile of Waley's edition in Tudor Facsimile Texts, 1909. Rptd
in Brandl's Quellen; The Dramatic Writings of John Heywood, ed.
Farmer (ut supra).
(a) The play of the wether. A new and a very mery enterlude of all maner
wethers made by John Heywood. . . . Printed by w. Rastell. 1533. (The
only known perfect copy is in the Pepys collection at Magdalene college,
Cambridge. One in St John's college, Oxford, wants the last leaf. )
(6) The play of the wether. A newe and very mery enterlude of all maner
wethers made by John Heywood. (A unique copy, wanting the last leaf,
is in the Cambridge University library. )
(c) The playe of the weather. A newe and a very merye enterlude of all
maner wethers made by Jhon Heywoode. . . . Imprinted at London by
Jhon Awdeley, dwelling in litle Britayne streete beyonde Aldersgate.
n. d. (Unique copy in British Museum. )
(d) The Play of the Wether. A New and a very mery enterlude of all maner
wethers made by John Heywood. . . . Imprinted at London in Paules
Churchyarde, at the Sygne of the Sunne, by Anthonie Kytson. (Unique
copy in Bodleian. )
(Pollard, A. W. , in Gayley's R. E. C. , pp. 16-17, has shown, from a
collation of the texts of (a), (b) and (d) that the unidentified edition in
the University library, Cambridge, was printed from Rastell's, and
Kitson's from this. (c), apparently, is later than (6) and earlier than (d),
but is not in a strict line of descent between them and has special
characteristics of its own).
Facsimile of Awdeley's edition in Tudor Facsimile Texts, 1908, and of
Rastell's edition in Tudor Facsimile Texts, 1909. Rptd in Brandl's
Quellen; ed. Pollard, A. W. , in Gayley's R. E. C. ; The Dramatic
Writings of John Heywood, ed. Farmer (ut supra).
Wytty and Wytless. Harleian MSS, 367.
Facsimile in Tudor Facsimile Texts, 1909. (The Preface includes a
letter from Herbert, J. A. , on the question whether the MS is in Heywood's
autograph. ) Printed in abridged form under the name A Dialogue
on Wit and Folly by Fairholt, F. W. , in Percy Soc. Publ. , 1846;
and in The Dramatic Writings of John Heywood, ed. Farmer (ut
supra).
(A Dialogue conteining the number in effect of all the proverbes in the English
tongue, set forth by J. H. ]. . . Imprinted at London in Fletestrete, in the
house of Thomas Berthelet. (The unique copy of this edition in the
British Museum lacks everything before sig. C, and cannot be dated with
certainty. In the catalogue it is assigned to 1549. )
A Dialogue, côteyninge the number in effecte of all the Proverbes in the Englishe
tunge, copact in a matter concerninge twoo maner of mariages. . . . Newly
oversene and somewhat augmented by the sayde John Heywood. . . . 1561.
An hundred Epigrammes, Invented and made by John Heywood. Anno
Christi. M. D. L. . . . Imprinted at London in Fletestrete in the Hous of
Thomas Berthelet. . . . 1550.
Two hundred Epigrammes, upon the hundred proverbes, with a thyrde
hundred newely added and made by John Heywood. Anno Christi.
M. D. L. V.
A fourth hundred of Epygrams, Newly invented and made by John
Heywood. . . , Imprinted in the house late Thomas Berthelettes. 1560.
John Heywoodes woorkes. A dialogue conteynyng the number of the
effectual proverbes in the Englishe tongue, compact in a matter oon-
.
## p. 406 (#430) ############################################
406
Bibliography
cernynge two maner of maryages. With one hundred of Epigrammes;
and three hundred of Epigrammes upon three hundred proverbs: and a
fifth hundred of Epigrams. Whereunto are now newly added a syxt
hundred of Epigrams by the sayde John Heywood. . . . 1562 (Col. ). Im-
printed at London in Fleetestrete by Thomas Powell.
This volume combined the Proverbes and Epigrammes, and later
editions of it appeared in 1566, 1576, 1587 and 1598. The Proverbs are
rptd by Spenser Society, in Spenser Soc. Publ. , Manchester, 1867; there
are also editions by Sharman,“ J. , 1874; and by Farmer, J. S. , 1906
(mod. s. ); The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies in Early English
Dramatists, ed. Farmer, J. S. , 1906 (mod. s. ).
Biography and Criticism.
Bang, W. Acta-Lovaniensia: John Heywood und sein Kreis. Engl.
Stud. vol. XXXVIII, pp. 234-250. Contains important new facts about
Heywood's life, and prints their sources, which are chiefly E. P.
Droeshout's MS Histoire de la Compagnie de Jésus à Anvers, and
legal documents in the archives of Antwerp.
Brandl's Quellen. Introduction, pp. xlvii-lv.
Calendar of Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII. Edd. Brewer,
J. S. and Gairdner, J. 1862 ff.
Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the reigns of Edward VI,
Mary and Elizabeth. Vol. 1, 1547-80; ed. Lemon, R. ; and vol. VII,
Addenda, 1566–79, ed. Everett Green, M. A. , 1856 ff.
Fairholt, F. W. Some Account of John Heywood and his Interludes. 1846.
Prefixed to the Percy Society's edition of Wit and Folly; contains long
selections from Heywood's other interludes.
Farmer, J. S. Introductions to editions and facsimile rpts, mentioned above.
Greg, W. W. An unknown edition of Heywood's Play of Love. Herrig's
Archiv, vol. cvi, pp. 141-3, 1899.
Holthausen, F. Zu Heywood's Wetterspiel. Herrig's Archiv, vol. cxvi, 1906.
Pitseus, J. Relationum Historicarum de Rebus Anglicis Tomus Primus.
Paris, 1619.
Pollard, A. W. Critical Essay prefixed to his edition of Wether and Johan
Johan in Gayley's R. E. C. 1903.
Reed, A. W. John Heywood and his Friends. The Library. 1917.
Sharman, J.
Introduction to the Proverbs of John Heywood. 1874.
Swoboda, W. John Heywood als Dramatiker. Wiener Beiträge, 1888.
Ward, A. W. John Heywood. Dict. of Nat. Biogr. vol. xxvi, and Eng.
Dram. Lit. vol. 1, pp. 238-248, 1899.
Young, K. The Influence of French Farce upon the Plays of Heywood.
Modern Philology, vol. 11, 1904-5. A criticism of Swoboda's monograph.
Contains abstracts of, or quotations from, Pernet qui va au vin; D'un
pardonneur, d'un triacleur, et d'une tavernière; Dyalogue du fol et du
sage; Erasmus's Encomium Moriae, and discusses their relation to Hey-
wood's interludes.
THOMAS INGELEND.
A pretie and Mery new Enterlude: called the Disobedient Child. Compiled
by Thomas Ingelend late Student in Cambridge.
Facsimile in Tudor Facsimile Texts. Rptd by Halliwell, J. O. , in
Percy Soc. Publ. , 1848; in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. 1 (mod. s. ); in The
Dramatic Writings of Richard Wever and Thomas Ingelend, ed.
Farmer, J. S. , 1905 (mod. s. ).
## p. 407 (#431) ############################################
Chapter V
407
Source and Criticism.
Holthausen, F. Studien zum ältereren Englischen Drama. Engl. Stud.
vol. xxxi, 1901. Contains a comparison of The Disobedient Child with
the Dialogue of Textor on which it is based.
Textor, J. Ravisius. Juvenis, Pater, Uxor. In Dialogi. 1530.
Stymmelius, C. Studentes. Some episodes in The Disobedient Child, not
derived from Textor, may be based on this play. See BrandP's Quellen,
vol. LXXIII, contrasted with Malone Society Collections, vol. 1, part 11, p. 106.
JOHN PHILLIP.
The Commodye of pacient and meeke Grissill, Whearin is declared, the good
example, of her pacience towardes her Husband: and lykewise, the due
obedience of Children, toward their Parentes. Newly. Compiled by John
Phillip. Eight persons maye easely play this Commody. 1. Polliticke
Perswasion the Vice. The Epiloge. For one. 2. Preface. Marquis.
For another. 3. Fidence. Indigence. The second Paidge or Serving
man, The Sonne of Grissill. For another. 4. Reason. Dilligence. Countis
Mayd. Pacience, and the Daughters of Grissill. For another. 5. Sobrietie.
Countis of Pango. Comon people. Constancy. 6. Rumor. Jannickle.
7. Jannickells Wife. The first of the Pages. The Nursse. 8. Grissill.
The Midwife. Imprinted at London, in Fleetestreat beneath the Conduit,
at the signe of Saint John Evangelist by Thomas Colwell. (n. d. but prob-
ably licensed 1565-6 and 1568-9. ]
Rptd in Malone Society Reprints, 1909.
WILLIAM STEVENSON (? ).
Gammer Gurtons Nedle. (See bibliography to vol. vi, chap. XII. )
NICHOLAS UDALL.
Ezechias. (See bibliography to vol. vi, chap. XII. )
Floures for Latine spekynge selected and gathered out of Terence, and the
same translated in to Englysshe, together with the exposition and settynge
forthe as welle of suche latyne wordes, as were thought nedefull to be an-
noted, as also of dyvers grammatical rules, very profytable & necessarye
for the expedite Knowlege in the latyne tongue: compiled by Nicholas
Udall. T. Berthelet. M. D. XXXIII.
The preface is dated 28 Feb. 1534/5. Later editions in 1538, 1544 and
1560; with additions by Higgins, John, from three other comedies of
Terence in 1575 and 1581.
Verges and Dities Made at the Coronation of Queen Anne. Royal MS, 18 A,
LXIV. Hereafter ensuethe a copie of divers and sundry verses, as well in
Latin as in Englishe, devised and made partely by John Leland and
partely by Nicholas Uvedale, whereof sum were sette up, and sum other
were spoken and pronounced unto the Moste High and Excellent Queene,
the Lady Anne . . . in many goodely and costely pageantes, exhibited and
shewed by the Mayre and Citizens of the famous Citie of London . . . on
Whitson yeve, in the 25th yere of the reigne of our . . . Soveran Lorde.
Rptd in Nichols, J. , Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, vol. 1, 1788 (not
I
included in the edition of 1828); in Ballads from Manuscripts, ed.
Furnivall, F. J. (Ballad Society), 1870; the English verses are printed
in An English Garner, vol. 11, ed. Arber, A. , 1879 (mod. s. ).
Ralph Roister Doister. The unique copy in the Eton college library has no
title-page or colophon. The play was entered in the Stationers' register
to Thomas Hacket in 1566/7.
## p. 408 (#432) ############################################
408
Bibliography
9
Rptd in limited edition, ed. Briggs, T. , 1818; by Marshall, F. , 1821; by
White, T. , in Old English Drama, vol. I, 1830 (mod. s. ); in Shakesp.
Soc. Publ. , ed. Cooper, W. D. , 1847; in English Reprints, ed. Arber, E. ,
1869; in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. III (mod. s. ); in Manly's Specimens,
vol. II; in Temple Dramatists, ed. Williams, W. H. and Robins, P. A. ,
1901 (mod. s. ); in Gayley's R. E. C. , ed. Flügel, E. , 1903; in The Dramatic
Writings of Nicholas Udall (Early English Dramatists), 1906 (mod. s. );
and in Museum Dramatists, 1907 (mod. s. ), ed. Farmer, J. S.
Biography and Criticism.
Arber, E. A brief note of the Life, Works, and Times of Nicholas Udall, M. A. ,
Teacher, Dramatist, Translator, Preacher, prefixed, with Introduction
and Bibliography, to his reprint of Ralph Roister Doister. 1869.
Bang, W. Udall-Studien (darin u. a. seine Floures for Latine Spekynge,
die Übersetzung von Erasmi Rot.
