PERCIVAL VIVIAN,
sometime
Scholar of St John's College,
Oxford
His life.
Oxford
His life.
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THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
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ENGLISH LITERATURE
VOLUME IV
PROSE AND POETRY
SIR THOMAS NORTH TO MICHAEL DRAYTON
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
C. F. CLAY, MANAGER
London: FETTER LANE, E. C. 4
Paris : THE GALIGNANI LIBRARY
Bombay, Calcutta and Madras: MACMILLAN AND CO. , LTD.
Toronto: J. M. DENT AND SONS, Ltd.
Tokyo: THE MARUZEN-KABUSHIKI-KAISHA
Copyrighted in the United States of America by
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
2, 4 AND 6 WEST 45TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY
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THE
CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF
ENGLISH LITERATURE
EDITED BY
A. W. WARD, LITT. D. , F. B. A. , Master of Peterhouse
AND
A. R. WALLER, M. A. , Peterhouse
VOLUME IV
PROSE AND POETRY
SIR THOMAS NORTH TO MICHAEL DRAYTON
*ET
&
POC
AMA
MATER
CANTA
BRIGLA
ONIH
CAMBRIDGE:
at the University Press
1919
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First edition, 1909
New impression, 1919
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1. 4
NOTE
VOLUMES V and VI of The Cambridge History of English
Literature will deal with the history of dramatic writing
in England to the closing of the theatres under the puritan rule,
that is to say, to about the middle of the seventeenth century.
We hope to have these two volumes ready by Easter 1910.
Volume VII, Cavalier and Puritan, will be concerned with
non-dramatic literature, mainly of the period between 1625 and
1660. Its contents are in an advanced stage of preparation, and
we hope to be able to publish this volume before the end of 1910.
It was originally intended to continue, in the present volume,
the account of scholars and scholarship in England from the point
reached in volume III; it has been decided, however, to postpone
this continuation until volume VIL.
A. W. W.
A. R. W.
CAMBRIDGE,
29 September 1909
JAN 4
a3
10203
way
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
TRANSLATORS
PAGE
By CHARLES WHIBLEY, Jesus College
The craft of translation. Translations of the Classics. Painter.
Fenton, Machiavelli's Prince. The Diall of Princes. Sir Thomas
North's Plutarch. Philemon Holland. Florio's Montaigne.
Stanyhurst's Vergil. Phaer's Vergil. Golding's Ovid. Chap-
man’s Homer. Sylvester, Fairfax, Harington. The charge of
plagiarism.
1
CHAPTER II
THE AUTHORISED VERSION AND ITS INFLUENCE
By ALBERT S. Cook, Professor of the English Language and
Literature in Yale University
The Authorised Version the first English classic. Character of the
Bible, its constitution and qualities. The nature of the Hebrew
language, poetry and prose. Jerome, of the Latin Vulgate. Old
English versions. The Wyclifite versions. Tindale and the
Authorised Version. Coverdale's version. The position of the
Bible in English Literature. The English of the Bible. The
Influence of the Authorised Version upon English literature. 26
CHAPTER III
SIR WALTER RALEGH
By LOUISE CREIGHTON
Cynthia and other poems. Prose writings. The story of The
Revenge. Guiana. The History of the World. Political
writings
51
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viii
Contents
CHAPTER IV
THE LITERATURE OF THE SEA
FROM THE ORIGINS TO HAKLUYT
By Commander CHARLES N. ROBINSON, R. N. , and JOHN LEYLAND
PAGE
Early writers. John Cabot. The impulse from abroad. Richard
Eden. Sir Hugh Willoughby. Sebastian Cabot. Sir John
Hawkins. Sir Humphrey Gilbert. Martin Frobisher. Richard
Willes. John Davys. Sir Richard Hawkins, The spirit of
travel in English literature. Richard Hakluyt
66
CHAPTER V
SEAFARING AND TRAVEL
THE GROWTH OF PROFESSIONAL TEXT BOOKS AND
GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE
By Commander CHARLES N. ROBINSON, R. N. , and JOHN LEYLAND
Richard Knolles's compilations. George Sandys. Coryats Crudities.
Samuel Purchas. Captain John Smith. The spirit of imperialism.
Lancaster's expedition. Willis Adams in Japan. Australia
and Madagascar. Sir William Monson. Books for the use of
seamen. Smith's Accidence. Thomas James and Luke Fox,
Theory and practice
86
CHAPTER VI
THE SONG-BOOKS AND MISCELLANIES
By HAROLD H. CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose
College, Oxford
Music and poetry. William Byrd. Musical composers. Lyric poetry
in the drama. The Phoenix Nest. Nicholas Breton. Thomas
Lodge. England's Helicon. 'Ignoto. Anthony Munday. John
Wotton. Richard Barnfield. Pastoral poems. A Poetical Rap-
sody. Francis Davison. 'A. W: Sir Edward Dyer
109
CHAPTER VII
ROBERT SOUTH WELL. SAMUEL DANIEL
By HAROLD H. CHILD
Robert Southwell. John Davies of Hereford. Abraham Fraunce.
Samuel Daniel. Delia. The Complaynt of Rosamond. Muso-
philus. Warner's Albion's England. Daniel's Civil Wars. His
diction
127
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Contents
ix
CHAPTER VIII
THOMAS CAMPION
By S. PERCIVAL VIVIAN, sometime Scholar of St John's College,
Oxford
His life. His works. His prosody
PAGE
141
CHAPTER IX
THE SUCCESSORS OF SPENSER
By HUGH DE SÉLINCOURT, University College, Oxford
Drummond of Hawthornden. George Wither. William Browne.
Folke Greville. Sir John Davies. Sir Henry Wotton. Giles
Fletober. Phineas Fletcher.
149
.
CHAPTER X
MICHAEL DRAYTON
By HAROLD H. CHILD
Drayton's boyhood. The Harmonie of the Church. Idea. The
identity of ‘Idea. Legends. Ideas Mirrour. Endimion and
Phoebe. Mortimeriados. Englands Heroicall Epistles. His
satires and odes. Poly-Olbion. Nimphidia. The Muses Eli-
zium, His divine' poems. His achievement
3
168
CHAPTER XI
JOHN DONNE
By HERBERT J. C. GRIERSON, M. A. , Chalmers Professor of English
Literature in the University of Aberdeen
Donne's relation to Petrarch. His life. The history of his poems.
PERCIVAL VIVIAN, sometime Scholar of St John's College,
Oxford
His life. His works. His prosody
PAGE
141
CHAPTER IX
THE SUCCESSORS OF SPENSER
By HUGH DE SÉLINCOURT, University College, Oxford
Drummond of Hawthornden. George Wither. William Browne.
Folke Greville. Sir John Davies. Sir Henry Wotton. Giles
Fletober. Phineas Fletcher.
149
.
CHAPTER X
MICHAEL DRAYTON
By HAROLD H. CHILD
Drayton's boyhood. The Harmonie of the Church. Idea. The
identity of ‘Idea. Legends. Ideas Mirrour. Endimion and
Phoebe. Mortimeriados. Englands Heroicall Epistles. His
satires and odes. Poly-Olbion. Nimphidia. The Muses Eli-
zium, His divine' poems. His achievement
3
168
CHAPTER XI
JOHN DONNE
By HERBERT J. C. GRIERSON, M. A. , Chalmers Professor of English
Literature in the University of Aberdeen
Donne's relation to Petrarch. His life. The history of his poems.
His satires. Songs and Sonets. Elegies. His love poetry.
His wit! The Progresse of the Soule. Letters and Funerall
Elegies. Religious verses. Paradoxes, Problems and other prose
writings. Sermons. Letters. His position and influence
196
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Contents
CHAPTER XII
PAGE
THE ENGLISH PULPIT FROM FISHER TO DONNE
By the Rev. F. E HUTCHINSON, M. A. , Trinity College, Oxford;
Chaplain of King's College, Cambridge
Revival of preaching in the sixteenth century. The printing of
sermons in the vernacular. Fisher's sense of style. Colet and
Longland. Latimer's directness, story-telling and denunciation of
social wrongs. The second generation of reformation preachers:
Lever, Bradford and Gilpin. Literary preaching: Jewel, Sandys,
Hooker. The silver-tongued preacher. ' Roman Catholic devo-
tional literature. Puritan exaltation of the sermon. Andrewes
and Donne compared
224
CHAPTER XIII
ROBERT BURTON, JOHN BARCLAY AND JOHN OWEN
By EDWARD BENSLY, M. A. , Trinity College; Professor
of Latin, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
Robert Burton. The Anatomy of Melancholy. His reading and
methods of quotation. Influence of The Anatomy. John Barclay.
Euphormionis Satyricon. Argenis. Medieval and modern Latin
verse. John Owen's epigrams. His influence.
242
.
CHAPTER XIV
THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH PHILOSOPHY
By W. R. SORLEY, Litt. D. , LL. D. , F. B. A. , Fellow of King's College,
and Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy
The language of philosophy. English contributions to medieval
philosophy. Johannes Scotus Erigena. The attitude to scholas-
ticism of Dans Scotus and of Ockham. Roger Bacon and the
method of science. Philosophy in English universities. Revival of
Aristotelianism in the sixteenth century. Everard Digby. William
Temple and the Ramists. William Gilbert and experimental
science. Francis Bacon. The Great Instauration. The interpre-
tation of nature and the new method. The value of the method.
Herbert of Cherbury
268
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Contents
xi
CHAPTER XV
EARLY WRITINGS ON POLITICS AND ECONOMICS
PAGE
By the Ven. Archdeacon CUNNINGHAM, D. D. , F. B. A. ,
Fellow of Trinity College
National life as reflected in literature. Elements in the rise of
nationalities - patriotic sentiment, democratic self-government,
national resources as the means of gratifying national ambitions.
Patriotio pride in a well-ordered monarchy as reflected in English
literature; suspicion of the pursuit of private interests, as inimical
to public welfare. Ecclesiastical character of the demand for
individual independence in Scotland, and for democratic institu-
tions. English constitutionalism. Medieval works on estates
management. Descriptions of the realm. Prescriptions for im-
proving its resources. Writings on the administration of particular
offices, and on companies for commerce and for colonisation.
Treatises on usury. T'he problem of pauperism. The mercantile
system
295
0
CHAPTER XVI
LONDON AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF
POPULAR LITERATURE
CHARACTER WRITING SATIRE THE ESSAY
By HAROLD V. ROUTH, M. A. , Peterhouse; Professor
of Latin in Trinity College, Toronto
London in the times of Elizabeth and James. Lodge on usury.
Nashe's Anatomie of Absurditie. Robert Greene's social pam-
phlets. The seven deadly sins. Nashe. Rise of formal satire.
Joseph Hall. Virgidemiarum. Marston's satires. “Humours. ?
Epigrams. The character sketch. Theophrastus. Hall's Charac-
ters. The Man in the Moone. Sir Thomas Overbury. John
Stephens. John Earle. Origins of the essay. Sir William Corn-
wallis. Robert Johnson. Bacon's Essays. Ben Jonson's Timber.
Tobacco-pamphlets. Discoverie of the Knights of the Poste.
Thomas Dekker. Grobianism. Samuel Rowlands. Burlesques.
Jest-books. Wagering journeys. Pimlyco. Broadsides and
street ballads
316
.
CHAPTER XVII
WRITERS ON COUNTRY PURSUITS AND PASTIMES
GERVASE MARKHAM
By H. G. ALDIS, M. A. , Peterhouse; Secretary of the
University Library
Gervase Markham. His predecessors. Leonard Mascall. Barnabe
Googe. Sir Hugh Plate Topsell. Herbals
.
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CHAPTER XVIII
PAGE
THE BOOK-TRADE, 1557–1625
By H. G. ALDIS
The incorporation of the Stationers' company. Star chamber decrees.
The Stationers' register. Censors. Trade discipline. Printing
monopolies. Apprentices. The beginnings of a business. Com-
pilers, 'readers' and translators. Ballad writers, Patrons.
Copyright. John Taylor, the Thames waterman. Pirates. The
Shakespeare stationers. Edward Blount. George Wither's evi-
dence. Richard Grafton. William Copland. John Day. William
Ponsonby. Christopher and Robert Barker. St Paul's churchyard.
London Bridge. English printing. Illustrations. Foreign presses.
Book fairs. Early catalogues. Bookbindings. Prices. Provincial
stationers. Cambridge university press. Oxford university Press.
The Scottish press. Chepman and Myllar. Gourlaw's inventory.
Printing in Ireland .
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THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF
ENGLISH LITERATURE
VOLUME IV
PROSE AND POETRY
SIR THOMAS NORTH TO MICHAEL DRAYTON
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
C. F. CLAY, MANAGER
London: FETTER LANE, E. C. 4
Paris : THE GALIGNANI LIBRARY
Bombay, Calcutta and Madras: MACMILLAN AND CO. , LTD.
Toronto: J. M. DENT AND SONS, Ltd.
Tokyo: THE MARUZEN-KABUSHIKI-KAISHA
Copyrighted in the United States of America by
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
2, 4 AND 6 WEST 45TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY
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THE
CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF
ENGLISH LITERATURE
EDITED BY
A. W. WARD, LITT. D. , F. B. A. , Master of Peterhouse
AND
A. R. WALLER, M. A. , Peterhouse
VOLUME IV
PROSE AND POETRY
SIR THOMAS NORTH TO MICHAEL DRAYTON
*ET
&
POC
AMA
MATER
CANTA
BRIGLA
ONIH
CAMBRIDGE:
at the University Press
1919
## p. iv (#10) ##############################################
First edition, 1909
New impression, 1919
## p. v (#11) ###############################################
Å8209
C14
1. 4
NOTE
VOLUMES V and VI of The Cambridge History of English
Literature will deal with the history of dramatic writing
in England to the closing of the theatres under the puritan rule,
that is to say, to about the middle of the seventeenth century.
We hope to have these two volumes ready by Easter 1910.
Volume VII, Cavalier and Puritan, will be concerned with
non-dramatic literature, mainly of the period between 1625 and
1660. Its contents are in an advanced stage of preparation, and
we hope to be able to publish this volume before the end of 1910.
It was originally intended to continue, in the present volume,
the account of scholars and scholarship in England from the point
reached in volume III; it has been decided, however, to postpone
this continuation until volume VIL.
A. W. W.
A. R. W.
CAMBRIDGE,
29 September 1909
JAN 4
a3
10203
way
## p. vi (#12) ##############################################
## p. vii (#13) #############################################
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
TRANSLATORS
PAGE
By CHARLES WHIBLEY, Jesus College
The craft of translation. Translations of the Classics. Painter.
Fenton, Machiavelli's Prince. The Diall of Princes. Sir Thomas
North's Plutarch. Philemon Holland. Florio's Montaigne.
Stanyhurst's Vergil. Phaer's Vergil. Golding's Ovid. Chap-
man’s Homer. Sylvester, Fairfax, Harington. The charge of
plagiarism.
1
CHAPTER II
THE AUTHORISED VERSION AND ITS INFLUENCE
By ALBERT S. Cook, Professor of the English Language and
Literature in Yale University
The Authorised Version the first English classic. Character of the
Bible, its constitution and qualities. The nature of the Hebrew
language, poetry and prose. Jerome, of the Latin Vulgate. Old
English versions. The Wyclifite versions. Tindale and the
Authorised Version. Coverdale's version. The position of the
Bible in English Literature. The English of the Bible. The
Influence of the Authorised Version upon English literature. 26
CHAPTER III
SIR WALTER RALEGH
By LOUISE CREIGHTON
Cynthia and other poems. Prose writings. The story of The
Revenge. Guiana. The History of the World. Political
writings
51
## p. viii (#14) ############################################
viii
Contents
CHAPTER IV
THE LITERATURE OF THE SEA
FROM THE ORIGINS TO HAKLUYT
By Commander CHARLES N. ROBINSON, R. N. , and JOHN LEYLAND
PAGE
Early writers. John Cabot. The impulse from abroad. Richard
Eden. Sir Hugh Willoughby. Sebastian Cabot. Sir John
Hawkins. Sir Humphrey Gilbert. Martin Frobisher. Richard
Willes. John Davys. Sir Richard Hawkins, The spirit of
travel in English literature. Richard Hakluyt
66
CHAPTER V
SEAFARING AND TRAVEL
THE GROWTH OF PROFESSIONAL TEXT BOOKS AND
GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE
By Commander CHARLES N. ROBINSON, R. N. , and JOHN LEYLAND
Richard Knolles's compilations. George Sandys. Coryats Crudities.
Samuel Purchas. Captain John Smith. The spirit of imperialism.
Lancaster's expedition. Willis Adams in Japan. Australia
and Madagascar. Sir William Monson. Books for the use of
seamen. Smith's Accidence. Thomas James and Luke Fox,
Theory and practice
86
CHAPTER VI
THE SONG-BOOKS AND MISCELLANIES
By HAROLD H. CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose
College, Oxford
Music and poetry. William Byrd. Musical composers. Lyric poetry
in the drama. The Phoenix Nest. Nicholas Breton. Thomas
Lodge. England's Helicon. 'Ignoto. Anthony Munday. John
Wotton. Richard Barnfield. Pastoral poems. A Poetical Rap-
sody. Francis Davison. 'A. W: Sir Edward Dyer
109
CHAPTER VII
ROBERT SOUTH WELL. SAMUEL DANIEL
By HAROLD H. CHILD
Robert Southwell. John Davies of Hereford. Abraham Fraunce.
Samuel Daniel. Delia. The Complaynt of Rosamond. Muso-
philus. Warner's Albion's England. Daniel's Civil Wars. His
diction
127
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Contents
ix
CHAPTER VIII
THOMAS CAMPION
By S. PERCIVAL VIVIAN, sometime Scholar of St John's College,
Oxford
His life. His works. His prosody
PAGE
141
CHAPTER IX
THE SUCCESSORS OF SPENSER
By HUGH DE SÉLINCOURT, University College, Oxford
Drummond of Hawthornden. George Wither. William Browne.
Folke Greville. Sir John Davies. Sir Henry Wotton. Giles
Fletober. Phineas Fletcher.
149
.
CHAPTER X
MICHAEL DRAYTON
By HAROLD H. CHILD
Drayton's boyhood. The Harmonie of the Church. Idea. The
identity of ‘Idea. Legends. Ideas Mirrour. Endimion and
Phoebe. Mortimeriados. Englands Heroicall Epistles. His
satires and odes. Poly-Olbion. Nimphidia. The Muses Eli-
zium, His divine' poems. His achievement
3
168
CHAPTER XI
JOHN DONNE
By HERBERT J. C. GRIERSON, M. A. , Chalmers Professor of English
Literature in the University of Aberdeen
Donne's relation to Petrarch. His life. The history of his poems.
PERCIVAL VIVIAN, sometime Scholar of St John's College,
Oxford
His life. His works. His prosody
PAGE
141
CHAPTER IX
THE SUCCESSORS OF SPENSER
By HUGH DE SÉLINCOURT, University College, Oxford
Drummond of Hawthornden. George Wither. William Browne.
Folke Greville. Sir John Davies. Sir Henry Wotton. Giles
Fletober. Phineas Fletcher.
149
.
CHAPTER X
MICHAEL DRAYTON
By HAROLD H. CHILD
Drayton's boyhood. The Harmonie of the Church. Idea. The
identity of ‘Idea. Legends. Ideas Mirrour. Endimion and
Phoebe. Mortimeriados. Englands Heroicall Epistles. His
satires and odes. Poly-Olbion. Nimphidia. The Muses Eli-
zium, His divine' poems. His achievement
3
168
CHAPTER XI
JOHN DONNE
By HERBERT J. C. GRIERSON, M. A. , Chalmers Professor of English
Literature in the University of Aberdeen
Donne's relation to Petrarch. His life. The history of his poems.
His satires. Songs and Sonets. Elegies. His love poetry.
His wit! The Progresse of the Soule. Letters and Funerall
Elegies. Religious verses. Paradoxes, Problems and other prose
writings. Sermons. Letters. His position and influence
196
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X
Contents
CHAPTER XII
PAGE
THE ENGLISH PULPIT FROM FISHER TO DONNE
By the Rev. F. E HUTCHINSON, M. A. , Trinity College, Oxford;
Chaplain of King's College, Cambridge
Revival of preaching in the sixteenth century. The printing of
sermons in the vernacular. Fisher's sense of style. Colet and
Longland. Latimer's directness, story-telling and denunciation of
social wrongs. The second generation of reformation preachers:
Lever, Bradford and Gilpin. Literary preaching: Jewel, Sandys,
Hooker. The silver-tongued preacher. ' Roman Catholic devo-
tional literature. Puritan exaltation of the sermon. Andrewes
and Donne compared
224
CHAPTER XIII
ROBERT BURTON, JOHN BARCLAY AND JOHN OWEN
By EDWARD BENSLY, M. A. , Trinity College; Professor
of Latin, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
Robert Burton. The Anatomy of Melancholy. His reading and
methods of quotation. Influence of The Anatomy. John Barclay.
Euphormionis Satyricon. Argenis. Medieval and modern Latin
verse. John Owen's epigrams. His influence.
242
.
CHAPTER XIV
THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH PHILOSOPHY
By W. R. SORLEY, Litt. D. , LL. D. , F. B. A. , Fellow of King's College,
and Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy
The language of philosophy. English contributions to medieval
philosophy. Johannes Scotus Erigena. The attitude to scholas-
ticism of Dans Scotus and of Ockham. Roger Bacon and the
method of science. Philosophy in English universities. Revival of
Aristotelianism in the sixteenth century. Everard Digby. William
Temple and the Ramists. William Gilbert and experimental
science. Francis Bacon. The Great Instauration. The interpre-
tation of nature and the new method. The value of the method.
Herbert of Cherbury
268
.
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Contents
xi
CHAPTER XV
EARLY WRITINGS ON POLITICS AND ECONOMICS
PAGE
By the Ven. Archdeacon CUNNINGHAM, D. D. , F. B. A. ,
Fellow of Trinity College
National life as reflected in literature. Elements in the rise of
nationalities - patriotic sentiment, democratic self-government,
national resources as the means of gratifying national ambitions.
Patriotio pride in a well-ordered monarchy as reflected in English
literature; suspicion of the pursuit of private interests, as inimical
to public welfare. Ecclesiastical character of the demand for
individual independence in Scotland, and for democratic institu-
tions. English constitutionalism. Medieval works on estates
management. Descriptions of the realm. Prescriptions for im-
proving its resources. Writings on the administration of particular
offices, and on companies for commerce and for colonisation.
Treatises on usury. T'he problem of pauperism. The mercantile
system
295
0
CHAPTER XVI
LONDON AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF
POPULAR LITERATURE
CHARACTER WRITING SATIRE THE ESSAY
By HAROLD V. ROUTH, M. A. , Peterhouse; Professor
of Latin in Trinity College, Toronto
London in the times of Elizabeth and James. Lodge on usury.
Nashe's Anatomie of Absurditie. Robert Greene's social pam-
phlets. The seven deadly sins. Nashe. Rise of formal satire.
Joseph Hall. Virgidemiarum. Marston's satires. “Humours. ?
Epigrams. The character sketch. Theophrastus. Hall's Charac-
ters. The Man in the Moone. Sir Thomas Overbury. John
Stephens. John Earle. Origins of the essay. Sir William Corn-
wallis. Robert Johnson. Bacon's Essays. Ben Jonson's Timber.
Tobacco-pamphlets. Discoverie of the Knights of the Poste.
Thomas Dekker. Grobianism. Samuel Rowlands. Burlesques.
Jest-books. Wagering journeys. Pimlyco. Broadsides and
street ballads
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CHAPTER XVII
WRITERS ON COUNTRY PURSUITS AND PASTIMES
GERVASE MARKHAM
By H. G. ALDIS, M. A. , Peterhouse; Secretary of the
University Library
Gervase Markham. His predecessors. Leonard Mascall. Barnabe
Googe. Sir Hugh Plate Topsell. Herbals
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CHAPTER XVIII
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THE BOOK-TRADE, 1557–1625
By H. G. ALDIS
The incorporation of the Stationers' company. Star chamber decrees.
The Stationers' register. Censors. Trade discipline. Printing
monopolies. Apprentices. The beginnings of a business. Com-
pilers, 'readers' and translators. Ballad writers, Patrons.
Copyright. John Taylor, the Thames waterman. Pirates. The
Shakespeare stationers. Edward Blount. George Wither's evi-
dence. Richard Grafton. William Copland. John Day. William
Ponsonby. Christopher and Robert Barker. St Paul's churchyard.
London Bridge. English printing. Illustrations. Foreign presses.
Book fairs. Early catalogues. Bookbindings. Prices. Provincial
stationers. Cambridge university press. Oxford university Press.
The Scottish press. Chepman and Myllar. Gourlaw's inventory.
Printing in Ireland .
