(Both indirectly
illustrate
the jest-books by emphasising the popularity
of fools' jests and tricks.
of fools' jests and tricks.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03
.
Shakespeare Jest-books, 1864, vol. III.
[The same picture of feminine drinking bouts and horse play is found
in the jest-book Life of Long Meg of Westminster, of which the earliest
surviving copy of 1635 is probably a reprint of a previous edition
of the age of Elizabeth. Re-ed. by Triphook, B. , Miscellanea Antiqua
Anglicana, 1816, and Hindley, C. , in the Old Book Collector's Miscellany,
1872, vol. 11. ]
Pronde Wyves Paternoster, The Imprinted, Kynge, J. , 1560. Rptd by
Charlwood, J. , 1581-2. Re-ed. , Select Pieces of Early Popular Poetry,
1817; Hazlitt, W. C. , Early English Popular Poetry, vol. iv, 147. Re-
viewed in J. P. Collier's Bibliographical and Critical Account of Early
English Literature, 1865.
Compare La Patenostre à l'Userier and La Credo à l'Userier, in which
the ecclesiastical Latin is intermingled with reflections on moneymaking;
Patenostre d'Amours, in which a lover utters his regrets at the diff-
culty of seeing his lady (Méon: Fabliaux et Contes, 1808, vol. iv, p. 441);
Credo au Ribaut, in which a debauchee regrets his dissolute life.
A Commyssion unto all those whose wyves be thayre masters. Lacy, Alex.
1564-5.
Merry Jeste of a Shrewde and Curste Wyfe lapped in Morrelles skin.
Imprinted by Jackson, H. , n. d. (1560-70 ? ). Rptd in Shakespeare Soc. ,
1844; Utterson, Select Pieces of Early English Popular Poetry, 1817;
Hazlitt, W. C. , Early English Popular Poetry, vol. iv, p. 179.
Taming of a Shrew, The. Ballad in a Sloane Ms. Rptd in Ritson's
Ancient Songs and Ballads, 1829, vol. II, p. 242. (Two incidents are
borrowed from Skoggan's Jests. )
Compare Du Vilain et de sa femme; Du prudhomme qui renvoya sa femme
(both in Le Grand's Anciens Fabliaux); De la Male Dame, alias de la Dame
qui fut escoilliée (Méon: Fabliaux et Contes, vol. iv, p. 365).
For the fight for the breeches' vide Fablian de sire Hains et de Dame
Anieuse, by Hugues d'Estourmi in 13th cent. (described by Wright, T. ,
in History of Caricature and Grotesque, chap. VII).
For development of satire on women among the Theophrastians, vide
The Man in the Moone (1609); Sir Thomas Overbury (1614); Stephens, J.
(1615); Nicholas Breton (1616); Cures for the Itch (1626); Wye Saltonstall
(1631). The development of the literature of characters, especially after
Healey's translation of Theophrastus (1616), will be more fully treated in a
later volume of the present work.
\JEST-BOOKS.
A C. Mery Talys. Ptd by Rastell, J. , n. d. (c. 1526). Rptd by Waley, J. ,
1558; by Sampson Awdley (? ); by Charlwood, J. , 1582. Re-ed. from an
ed. of 1526 by Oesterley, Dr H. , 1866; Singer, S. W, Chiswick Press,
1814; Hazlitt, W. C. , Shakespeare Jest-books, 1st series, 1864.
Mery Tales, Wittie questions and quicke answeres. Ptd by Berthelet, T. ,
n. d. (c. 1535). Rptd, with 26 now tales (including those adapted from
Erasmus's Epistles), by Wykes, H. , 1567; by Bynneman, 1576-7. Re-ed.
by Singer, S. W. , Chiswick Press, 1814, and Hazlitt, W. C. , Shakespeare
Jest-books, 1st series, 1864. [Works of Erasmus influence of which is
traceable in this miscellany are: Adagia, 1500; Colloquia, 1519. )
Merie Tales newly Imprinted and made by Master Skelton, Poet Laureat.
Ptd by Colwell, T. , n. d. Rptd in 1566–7 (? ). Re-ed. in Dyce's Skelton,
1843, and in W. C. Hazlitt's Shakespeare Jest-books, 2nd series, 1864.
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Geystes of Skoggan. Ptd by Colwell, T. , 1565-6 (probably a reprint of an
earlier edition). Rptd by Williams, F. , 1626. A chapman's edition
appeared c. 1680; another reprint by Caulfield, 1796. Re-ed. by Hazlitt,
W. C. , Jest-books, 2nd series, 1864.
Howleglass. Ptd by Copland, W. and twice rptd, all n. d. Re-ed. by
Delapierre, 0. , Aventures de Tiel Ulenspiegel, Brussels, 1840. Re-ed.
by Mackenzie, K. , Marvellous adventures and rare conceits of Tyll
Owlglass, 1860, and by Ouvry, F. , Howleglass, 1867.
Vide Het leven van den jongen Ulenspiegel, Amst. , 1819, and Brie,
F. W. , Eulenspiegel in England, 1903.
Parson of Kalenborowe, The Story of the. Antwerp: Doesborch, J. , s. d.
(Fragment in Douce Coll. Bodl. )
Freer Rushe. Registered to Allde, J. , 1568-9. Rptd by Allde, Ed. ,1620 (earliest
surviving ed. ), 1626; by Allde, Eliz. , 1629; by Jane Bell, 1659. Reprint
of 1620 ed. , 1810. Re-ed. in Thoms's Early Prose Romances, 1828, and
Morley's Early Prose Romances (Carisbrooke Lib. IV), 1889.
Vide Beloe's Anecdotes, 1814, vol. 1, pp. 253 ff. ; Hazlitt, W. C. , National
Tales and Legends, 1892, pp. 134 ff.
History of the Life and Death of Will Summers. Earliest known ed. in 1676,
but probably a reprint, as Summers was jester to Henry VIII and subject
of a comedy by Nashe, T. (Summers Last Will and Testament) in 1600.
(For origin and development of 'ana,' which are principally an off-shoot of
classicism and have little or no connection with these story books, vide Wolf,
or Wolfius, J. C. , Preface to Casauboniana, 1710. ]
Sack-Full of News, The. Registered, 1557. Rptd 1582, 1587, 1673. Re-ed.
by Halliwell, J. O. , 1861; Hazlitt, W. C. , Jest-books, 2nd series, 1864.
Merie Tales of the Mad Men of Gotam, gathered together by A. B. of Phisike
Doctoar (supposed, without other evidence, to be Andrew Boorde).
Colwell, T. , n. d. Rptd by Alsop, R. and Fawcet, T. , 1630. Re-ed. by Halli-
well, J. O. , 1840, and by Hazlitt, W. C. , Jest-books, 2nd series, 1864.
Authorities :
Chandler, F. W. The Literature of Roguery (in Types of English Liters-
ture). 1907. Vol. 1. Chap. II. (Subject discussed from the point of view
of the picaresque novel. )
Doran, J. Hist. of Court Fools. 1858.
Douce, F. Illustr. of Shakspr. (Di on Clowns and Fools). 1807.
(Both indirectly illustrate the jest-books by emphasising the popularity
of fools' jests and tricks. )
Hazlitt, W. C. Preface to Jests New and old. 1887.
Studies in Jocular literature. 1890.
(Both treat of the evolution of the jest. )
Herford, C. H. Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Sixteenth
Century. Cambridge, 1886. Pt II, chap. v. (Traces the reappearance of
the legends of Markolf, Parson of Kalenberg, Eulenspiegel and Friar
Rush. )
Wright, T. Hist. of Caricature and Grotesque. 1865. Chap. XIV. (Treats
of personal element in jest-books. )
Books of Riddles.
Booke of Merry Riddles. Earliest 'known ed. (almost certainly a reprint) by
Allde, Ed. , 1600. Reprints 1617, 1629, 1631, 1660, 1672. The ed. of 1629
is re-ed. in J. 0. Halliwell's Literature of the xvith and xviith centuries
illustrated, 1851, 1866 and, separately, in 1866.
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Delectable Demaundes and pleasant Questions, with their several answers in
Matters of Love. 1566. (Trans. from Alain Chartier. )
Demaūdes Joyous, The. Printed by W. de Worde, 1511. Rptd in J. Timb's
Literary World, 1839, and sometimes attached to Hartshorne's Anc.
Metrical Tales, 1829.
Mery demandes and answere (sic) thereunto, The. Rogers, O. , 1564-5. Pro-
bably the same as the Budget of Demands mentioned in Captain Cox's
library (1575). See Collier, J. P. , Extracts from Stationers' Registers
(1848), vol. I, p. 94.
Riddles of Heraclitus and Democritus. Hatfield, A. , for Norton, J. , 1598.
[The Demaūdes Joyous and the Booke of Riddles are classed with
the Ship of Fooles or the C. Mery Talys, and other excellent writers both
witty and pleasaunt' in the 2nd ed. of The English Courtier and the Countrey-
Gentleman, 1586. ]
For the large number of jest-books and story-books of the 17th century to
be considered in vol. iv, vide Hazlitt, W. C. , Shakespeare Jest-books, 3rd series,
1864; Hazlitt, W. C. Handbook to Early English Literature, 1867, p. 300.
SOURCES OF JEST-BOOKS.
(1) Fabliaux.
Aussy, P. J. B. Le Grand d. Fabliaux et Contes du xirº et xiir Siècles. 3rd
ed. 1829. (Selected and translated into English by Way, G. L. , 1815. )
Barbazan, E. Fabliaux et Contes. 1808.
Deslongchamps, L. Essai sur les Fables Indiennes, et sur leur introduction
en Europe. 1838.
Jubinal, A. Nouveau recueil de Contes. . . des XIII, XIV°, xvSiècles. 1839.
Montaiglon, de, et Rothschild, J. de. Poésies françoises des xv et xviº
Siècles. 1855-78.
Paris, Gaston. La Poésie du Moyen Age. 2° série. 1906.
Raynouard, M. Choix des poésies originales des Troubadours. 1816-21.
Robert, A. -C. -M. Fables inédites des XII°, XIII, XIV° siècles (with parallel
references for history and development of the tales). 1825.
Wright, T. Introduction to the seven sages. Percy Soc. LXIV. 1846.
(2) Exempla.
Jacques de Vitry (ordained priest, 1210), Exempla ; Etienne de Besançon
(b. c. 1250), Alphabetun narrationum; Fabularum anecdotorumque collectio
ad usum alphabeticum digesta; Robert Holcot (d. 1349), Liber de morali-
zationibus; Gesta Romanorum (end of 13th or beginning of 14th cent. )
Subsequent to invention of printing: Speculum Exemplorum; Johan
Gritsch, Sermones; Paratus de tempore et de sanctis (middle of 15th cent. );
Herolt's Promptuarium (16th cent. ).
Vide Lecoy de la Marche, L'Esprit de nos aieux, 1889; Wright, T. , Coll.
of Latin Stories for Percy Soc. , No. xxvIII, 1842; Madden, Sir F. , Introduc-
tion and notes to Old English Versions of Gesta Romanorum, 1838; Oesterley,
H. , Gesta Romanorum, 1872; Crane, T. F. , The Exempla of Jacques de
Vitry, Folk-Lore Soc. , 1890, especially the introduction
(3) Latin and Italian Facetiae and Stories.
Poggii Facetiae, 1470; Mensa Philosophica, 1480 (the 4th part contains
jests, anecdotes, repartees, etc. , some of which reappear in later jest-books,
designed to represent the type of conversation most appropriate for students
in hours of relaxation at table), The Schoolemaster or Teacher of Table
Phylosophie, 1576(7), is practically a translation; Dyalogus Salomonis et
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Marcolfi (sine alla nota: end of 15th century ? ); Bebelius, H. , Libri facetiaR.
iucüdissimi; atque fabule admodum ridēdae, 1502; the collections of Piovano
Arlotto, 1520; Lucinius, 1529; T. Gastius Brisacensis, 1543 and 1548;
Guicciardini, 1565; Brusonius, 1560; Poncino dalla Torre, 1581; L. Dominichi,
1548; 0. Melandrus, 1597; Nicodemus Frischlinus, 1600; Facetiae Facetiarum,
hoc est joco-seriorum fasciculus, 1615 (treats such subjects as virginity and
drunkenness). Vide also Facezie e motti dei secoli xve e xvi (edited by
P. G. ), 1874; Facetiae Latinae, Sammlung humoristischer Aufsätze aus
der lateinischen Literatur des 16 und 17 Jahrhunderts, 1881. [Akin to the
development of facetiae are the collections of novels by Sachetti, Boccaccio,
Bandello, Anthio, Firenzuola, Malespini, Antoine de la Sale, Giovanni
(Il Pecoroné, 1554), La Reine de Navarre, Painter, etc. ]
Vide Burckhart, J. Die Cultur der Renaissance. irer Absch. cap. iv: Der
moderne Spott und Witz. Basel, 1860.
(4) Popular German Jest-books.
Der Pfarrer von Kalenberg. A verse composition on this subject found with
Philipp Franckfürter's name. Though Philipp composed at the end of
the 14th cent. , the poem probably belongs to the end of the 15th cent. ,
and is first mentioned by Brant, Murner and Bebel. A Strassburg ed.
before 1519 exists.
Johannes Pauli, Schimpf und Ernst, 1522 (drawn partly from Gesta
Romanorum and partly from the preaching of Geiler von Kaisersberg);
Wickram, G. , Rollwagenbüchlein, 1555; Frey, T. , Gartengesellschaft, 1556;
Montanus, M. , Wegkürzer, 1557; Lindener, M. , Katzipori, 1558; Lindener,
M. , Rastbüchlein, 1558; Schumann, V. , Nachtbüchlein; Kirchoff, H. W. ,
Wendunmuth, 1565.
Till Eulenspiegel. Stories attached to the name of a Kneitlingen peasant
existed in the 15th cent. First appearance in book form, in verse and
then in prose, probably took place in Low German and was translated into
High German, c. 1500. Original compiler and translator are both un-
Johānes Grieninger printed Ein kurtzweilig lesen von Dyl
Eulenspiegel, and rptd it 1519. Other editions followed throughout the
century, and the book was frequently printed in other countries.
Reprints: Narrenbuch, herausgegeben durch Friedrich Heinrich von der
Hagen, 1811; Hub, J. , Die komische und humoristische Literatur der
deutschen Prosaisten des xviten Jahrhunderts, 1856; Schwänke des
xvi Jahrhunderts edited by Goedeke, K. , in Deutsche Dichter des Sech-
zehnten Jahrhunderts, 1879; Die Gesch. des Pfarrer vom Kalenberg,
edited by Dollmayer in Neudrücke deutscher Litteraturwerke xvi und
XVII Jhdts, 1906; Thomas Murners Ulenspiegel, Herausgegeben von
Laffenberg, J. M. , 1854; Grundriss zur Gesch. der deutschen Dichtung
aus den Quellen, by Goedeke, K. , 1834, vol. 1, pp. 343-47.
known.
BROADSIDES AND STREET BALLADS.
The full bibliography will be given in vol. iv. Several types of broadside are
noticed in this chapter under other headings (e. g. Dances of Death,
Satires on Women, tracts on Society, Broadside Monstrosities, contro
versies on Witchcraft). It might also be noticed that literary contro-
versies and 'flytings' were already a feature of the popular press;
e. g. The flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy; The flyting between Thomas
Smith and William Gray, 1540 (Fugitive Tracts, ed. Hazlitt, W. O. , 1875).
The controversy following A Balade on Thomas Cromwell, July 1540
(vide Lemon, R. , Catalogue of Broadsides in possession of the Soc. of
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491
Antiq. 1866); Flyting betwixt Montgomerie and Polwart (see works of
Alex. Montgomerie, ed.
Shakespeare Jest-books, 1864, vol. III.
[The same picture of feminine drinking bouts and horse play is found
in the jest-book Life of Long Meg of Westminster, of which the earliest
surviving copy of 1635 is probably a reprint of a previous edition
of the age of Elizabeth. Re-ed. by Triphook, B. , Miscellanea Antiqua
Anglicana, 1816, and Hindley, C. , in the Old Book Collector's Miscellany,
1872, vol. 11. ]
Pronde Wyves Paternoster, The Imprinted, Kynge, J. , 1560. Rptd by
Charlwood, J. , 1581-2. Re-ed. , Select Pieces of Early Popular Poetry,
1817; Hazlitt, W. C. , Early English Popular Poetry, vol. iv, 147. Re-
viewed in J. P. Collier's Bibliographical and Critical Account of Early
English Literature, 1865.
Compare La Patenostre à l'Userier and La Credo à l'Userier, in which
the ecclesiastical Latin is intermingled with reflections on moneymaking;
Patenostre d'Amours, in which a lover utters his regrets at the diff-
culty of seeing his lady (Méon: Fabliaux et Contes, 1808, vol. iv, p. 441);
Credo au Ribaut, in which a debauchee regrets his dissolute life.
A Commyssion unto all those whose wyves be thayre masters. Lacy, Alex.
1564-5.
Merry Jeste of a Shrewde and Curste Wyfe lapped in Morrelles skin.
Imprinted by Jackson, H. , n. d. (1560-70 ? ). Rptd in Shakespeare Soc. ,
1844; Utterson, Select Pieces of Early English Popular Poetry, 1817;
Hazlitt, W. C. , Early English Popular Poetry, vol. iv, p. 179.
Taming of a Shrew, The. Ballad in a Sloane Ms. Rptd in Ritson's
Ancient Songs and Ballads, 1829, vol. II, p. 242. (Two incidents are
borrowed from Skoggan's Jests. )
Compare Du Vilain et de sa femme; Du prudhomme qui renvoya sa femme
(both in Le Grand's Anciens Fabliaux); De la Male Dame, alias de la Dame
qui fut escoilliée (Méon: Fabliaux et Contes, vol. iv, p. 365).
For the fight for the breeches' vide Fablian de sire Hains et de Dame
Anieuse, by Hugues d'Estourmi in 13th cent. (described by Wright, T. ,
in History of Caricature and Grotesque, chap. VII).
For development of satire on women among the Theophrastians, vide
The Man in the Moone (1609); Sir Thomas Overbury (1614); Stephens, J.
(1615); Nicholas Breton (1616); Cures for the Itch (1626); Wye Saltonstall
(1631). The development of the literature of characters, especially after
Healey's translation of Theophrastus (1616), will be more fully treated in a
later volume of the present work.
\JEST-BOOKS.
A C. Mery Talys. Ptd by Rastell, J. , n. d. (c. 1526). Rptd by Waley, J. ,
1558; by Sampson Awdley (? ); by Charlwood, J. , 1582. Re-ed. from an
ed. of 1526 by Oesterley, Dr H. , 1866; Singer, S. W, Chiswick Press,
1814; Hazlitt, W. C. , Shakespeare Jest-books, 1st series, 1864.
Mery Tales, Wittie questions and quicke answeres. Ptd by Berthelet, T. ,
n. d. (c. 1535). Rptd, with 26 now tales (including those adapted from
Erasmus's Epistles), by Wykes, H. , 1567; by Bynneman, 1576-7. Re-ed.
by Singer, S. W. , Chiswick Press, 1814, and Hazlitt, W. C. , Shakespeare
Jest-books, 1st series, 1864. [Works of Erasmus influence of which is
traceable in this miscellany are: Adagia, 1500; Colloquia, 1519. )
Merie Tales newly Imprinted and made by Master Skelton, Poet Laureat.
Ptd by Colwell, T. , n. d. Rptd in 1566–7 (? ). Re-ed. in Dyce's Skelton,
1843, and in W. C. Hazlitt's Shakespeare Jest-books, 2nd series, 1864.
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488
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Geystes of Skoggan. Ptd by Colwell, T. , 1565-6 (probably a reprint of an
earlier edition). Rptd by Williams, F. , 1626. A chapman's edition
appeared c. 1680; another reprint by Caulfield, 1796. Re-ed. by Hazlitt,
W. C. , Jest-books, 2nd series, 1864.
Howleglass. Ptd by Copland, W. and twice rptd, all n. d. Re-ed. by
Delapierre, 0. , Aventures de Tiel Ulenspiegel, Brussels, 1840. Re-ed.
by Mackenzie, K. , Marvellous adventures and rare conceits of Tyll
Owlglass, 1860, and by Ouvry, F. , Howleglass, 1867.
Vide Het leven van den jongen Ulenspiegel, Amst. , 1819, and Brie,
F. W. , Eulenspiegel in England, 1903.
Parson of Kalenborowe, The Story of the. Antwerp: Doesborch, J. , s. d.
(Fragment in Douce Coll. Bodl. )
Freer Rushe. Registered to Allde, J. , 1568-9. Rptd by Allde, Ed. ,1620 (earliest
surviving ed. ), 1626; by Allde, Eliz. , 1629; by Jane Bell, 1659. Reprint
of 1620 ed. , 1810. Re-ed. in Thoms's Early Prose Romances, 1828, and
Morley's Early Prose Romances (Carisbrooke Lib. IV), 1889.
Vide Beloe's Anecdotes, 1814, vol. 1, pp. 253 ff. ; Hazlitt, W. C. , National
Tales and Legends, 1892, pp. 134 ff.
History of the Life and Death of Will Summers. Earliest known ed. in 1676,
but probably a reprint, as Summers was jester to Henry VIII and subject
of a comedy by Nashe, T. (Summers Last Will and Testament) in 1600.
(For origin and development of 'ana,' which are principally an off-shoot of
classicism and have little or no connection with these story books, vide Wolf,
or Wolfius, J. C. , Preface to Casauboniana, 1710. ]
Sack-Full of News, The. Registered, 1557. Rptd 1582, 1587, 1673. Re-ed.
by Halliwell, J. O. , 1861; Hazlitt, W. C. , Jest-books, 2nd series, 1864.
Merie Tales of the Mad Men of Gotam, gathered together by A. B. of Phisike
Doctoar (supposed, without other evidence, to be Andrew Boorde).
Colwell, T. , n. d. Rptd by Alsop, R. and Fawcet, T. , 1630. Re-ed. by Halli-
well, J. O. , 1840, and by Hazlitt, W. C. , Jest-books, 2nd series, 1864.
Authorities :
Chandler, F. W. The Literature of Roguery (in Types of English Liters-
ture). 1907. Vol. 1. Chap. II. (Subject discussed from the point of view
of the picaresque novel. )
Doran, J. Hist. of Court Fools. 1858.
Douce, F. Illustr. of Shakspr. (Di on Clowns and Fools). 1807.
(Both indirectly illustrate the jest-books by emphasising the popularity
of fools' jests and tricks. )
Hazlitt, W. C. Preface to Jests New and old. 1887.
Studies in Jocular literature. 1890.
(Both treat of the evolution of the jest. )
Herford, C. H. Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Sixteenth
Century. Cambridge, 1886. Pt II, chap. v. (Traces the reappearance of
the legends of Markolf, Parson of Kalenberg, Eulenspiegel and Friar
Rush. )
Wright, T. Hist. of Caricature and Grotesque. 1865. Chap. XIV. (Treats
of personal element in jest-books. )
Books of Riddles.
Booke of Merry Riddles. Earliest 'known ed. (almost certainly a reprint) by
Allde, Ed. , 1600. Reprints 1617, 1629, 1631, 1660, 1672. The ed. of 1629
is re-ed. in J. 0. Halliwell's Literature of the xvith and xviith centuries
illustrated, 1851, 1866 and, separately, in 1866.
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489
Delectable Demaundes and pleasant Questions, with their several answers in
Matters of Love. 1566. (Trans. from Alain Chartier. )
Demaūdes Joyous, The. Printed by W. de Worde, 1511. Rptd in J. Timb's
Literary World, 1839, and sometimes attached to Hartshorne's Anc.
Metrical Tales, 1829.
Mery demandes and answere (sic) thereunto, The. Rogers, O. , 1564-5. Pro-
bably the same as the Budget of Demands mentioned in Captain Cox's
library (1575). See Collier, J. P. , Extracts from Stationers' Registers
(1848), vol. I, p. 94.
Riddles of Heraclitus and Democritus. Hatfield, A. , for Norton, J. , 1598.
[The Demaūdes Joyous and the Booke of Riddles are classed with
the Ship of Fooles or the C. Mery Talys, and other excellent writers both
witty and pleasaunt' in the 2nd ed. of The English Courtier and the Countrey-
Gentleman, 1586. ]
For the large number of jest-books and story-books of the 17th century to
be considered in vol. iv, vide Hazlitt, W. C. , Shakespeare Jest-books, 3rd series,
1864; Hazlitt, W. C. Handbook to Early English Literature, 1867, p. 300.
SOURCES OF JEST-BOOKS.
(1) Fabliaux.
Aussy, P. J. B. Le Grand d. Fabliaux et Contes du xirº et xiir Siècles. 3rd
ed. 1829. (Selected and translated into English by Way, G. L. , 1815. )
Barbazan, E. Fabliaux et Contes. 1808.
Deslongchamps, L. Essai sur les Fables Indiennes, et sur leur introduction
en Europe. 1838.
Jubinal, A. Nouveau recueil de Contes. . . des XIII, XIV°, xvSiècles. 1839.
Montaiglon, de, et Rothschild, J. de. Poésies françoises des xv et xviº
Siècles. 1855-78.
Paris, Gaston. La Poésie du Moyen Age. 2° série. 1906.
Raynouard, M. Choix des poésies originales des Troubadours. 1816-21.
Robert, A. -C. -M. Fables inédites des XII°, XIII, XIV° siècles (with parallel
references for history and development of the tales). 1825.
Wright, T. Introduction to the seven sages. Percy Soc. LXIV. 1846.
(2) Exempla.
Jacques de Vitry (ordained priest, 1210), Exempla ; Etienne de Besançon
(b. c. 1250), Alphabetun narrationum; Fabularum anecdotorumque collectio
ad usum alphabeticum digesta; Robert Holcot (d. 1349), Liber de morali-
zationibus; Gesta Romanorum (end of 13th or beginning of 14th cent. )
Subsequent to invention of printing: Speculum Exemplorum; Johan
Gritsch, Sermones; Paratus de tempore et de sanctis (middle of 15th cent. );
Herolt's Promptuarium (16th cent. ).
Vide Lecoy de la Marche, L'Esprit de nos aieux, 1889; Wright, T. , Coll.
of Latin Stories for Percy Soc. , No. xxvIII, 1842; Madden, Sir F. , Introduc-
tion and notes to Old English Versions of Gesta Romanorum, 1838; Oesterley,
H. , Gesta Romanorum, 1872; Crane, T. F. , The Exempla of Jacques de
Vitry, Folk-Lore Soc. , 1890, especially the introduction
(3) Latin and Italian Facetiae and Stories.
Poggii Facetiae, 1470; Mensa Philosophica, 1480 (the 4th part contains
jests, anecdotes, repartees, etc. , some of which reappear in later jest-books,
designed to represent the type of conversation most appropriate for students
in hours of relaxation at table), The Schoolemaster or Teacher of Table
Phylosophie, 1576(7), is practically a translation; Dyalogus Salomonis et
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hoc est joco-seriorum fasciculus, 1615 (treats such subjects as virginity and
drunkenness). Vide also Facezie e motti dei secoli xve e xvi (edited by
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der lateinischen Literatur des 16 und 17 Jahrhunderts, 1881. [Akin to the
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(4) Popular German Jest-books.
Der Pfarrer von Kalenberg. A verse composition on this subject found with
Philipp Franckfürter's name. Though Philipp composed at the end of
the 14th cent. , the poem probably belongs to the end of the 15th cent. ,
and is first mentioned by Brant, Murner and Bebel. A Strassburg ed.
before 1519 exists.
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Wendunmuth, 1565.
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existed in the 15th cent. First appearance in book form, in verse and
then in prose, probably took place in Low German and was translated into
High German, c. 1500. Original compiler and translator are both un-
Johānes Grieninger printed Ein kurtzweilig lesen von Dyl
Eulenspiegel, and rptd it 1519. Other editions followed throughout the
century, and the book was frequently printed in other countries.
Reprints: Narrenbuch, herausgegeben durch Friedrich Heinrich von der
Hagen, 1811; Hub, J. , Die komische und humoristische Literatur der
deutschen Prosaisten des xviten Jahrhunderts, 1856; Schwänke des
xvi Jahrhunderts edited by Goedeke, K. , in Deutsche Dichter des Sech-
zehnten Jahrhunderts, 1879; Die Gesch. des Pfarrer vom Kalenberg,
edited by Dollmayer in Neudrücke deutscher Litteraturwerke xvi und
XVII Jhdts, 1906; Thomas Murners Ulenspiegel, Herausgegeben von
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known.
BROADSIDES AND STREET BALLADS.
The full bibliography will be given in vol. iv. Several types of broadside are
noticed in this chapter under other headings (e. g. Dances of Death,
Satires on Women, tracts on Society, Broadside Monstrosities, contro
versies on Witchcraft). It might also be noticed that literary contro-
versies and 'flytings' were already a feature of the popular press;
e. g. The flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy; The flyting between Thomas
Smith and William Gray, 1540 (Fugitive Tracts, ed. Hazlitt, W. O. , 1875).
The controversy following A Balade on Thomas Cromwell, July 1540
(vide Lemon, R. , Catalogue of Broadsides in possession of the Soc. of
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Antiq. 1866); Flyting betwixt Montgomerie and Polwart (see works of
Alex. Montgomerie, ed.
