fourteeners,' rimed in couplets, was very
successful
;
p.
p.
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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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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
.
364
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Contents
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 .
378
CHAPTER XIX
THE FOUNDATION OF LIBRARIES
By J. BASS MULLINGER, M. A. , Formerly Librarian
of St John's College
A retrospect. Monastio libraries. Cathedral libraries. Cambridge
college libraries. Oxford college libraries. Thomas Bodley.
Cambridge university library. The Chetham library, Manchester.
Sion college, London. Trinity college, Dublin. Drummond's
books, Edinburgh.
415
435
Bibliographies.
Table of Principal Dates
Index of Names
551
.
555
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THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
VOLUME IV. PROSE AND POETRY. SIR THOMAS NORTH
TO MICHAEL DRAYTON
Second Impression, 1918, Corrections and Additions
9
.
9
The errata mentioned in volumes of the History published later than the first
edition of this volume have been corrected in the present impression. In addition,
some misprints noticed later have been corrected, and a few alterations made. A list
of the more important of these follows:
p. 130, II. 18-29 for In the poem. . . song-books. read In a poem called Foure-fould
Meditation, of the foure last things, published eleven years after his death and attributed
on the title-page to ‘R. S. The author of S. Peters complaint,' the meditation on
the joys of heaven is not unworthy of Southwell; but, though Southwell may have
revised the poem, the author of it was more probably his friend and fellow-prisoner,
Philip Howard, earl of Arundel, a grandson of the poet Henry Howard, earl of Surrey? .
1 The Month, vol. Lxxxvi, Jan. -April 1896, pp. 32 et seq.
p. 136, ll. 11-13 for Warner's poem. . . very successful; read Warner's poem, which
is written in the old .
fourteeners,' rimed in couplets, was very successful ;
p. 137, 11. 4-9 for execution ;. . . borrowed whole: read execution. It stands to Daniel's
best poetry in much the same relation as The Excursion stands to Wordsworth's best.
Daniel's example, indeed, may have supported Wordsworth through the labour of
writing The Excursion, into which he wovel, with perfect propriety, a stanza from
Daniel's poem, To the Lady Margaret, countesse of Cumberland, ending with the well
known lines :
1 The Excursion, IV,
324–331.
p. 171, 11. 3–11 for Were this. . . in 1610. and footnotes read The statement, long
corrent, that the book was confiscated in the year of its publication has been proved
erroneous'. Drayton reissued the work in 1610 under the title, Heavenly Harmonie
of Spirituall Songes.
1 By R. B. McKerrow in The Library, 3rd Series, October 1910, pp. 348–350.
p. 186, 11. 20, 21 omit , perhaps in being the first to bring out,
p. 209, 1. 22 for Sir John Harington, read J. H. , i. e. (as another M8 proves), John
Hoskins.
p. 216, 1. 30 omit , apparently by an accident,
footnote, for poem,. . . collections. read poem. Further evidence, however,
points to the conclusion that the two are distinct poems, the second, which replies to
the first, being not by Donne, but, possibly, by the countess of Bedford.
p. 217, 11. 13-14 for as. . . dead,' read if in a vein of extravagance jarring to our taste,
1. 25 for apparently. . . early read the first to 1608-9, the second to the
11. 31-32 for 1627. . . respectively. read 1623-4 and either the same date or
1631.
p. 218, 1. 34 for 1652 read 1633
1, 41 for English. . . Latin read Latin. . . English
>
## p. xiv (#20) #############################################
xiv
2
p. 219 1. 32 for 1669 read 1660/1
p. 304, 11. 16–24 for Buchanan's. . . earls; read An attempt to counteract Buchanan's
influence was made in The True Lawe of Free Monarchies, which was attributed to
king James. The defenders of Scottish monarchy were forced to take very high ground
in order to meet their assailants, and it was under these circumstances that the Stewart
doctrine of the divine right of kings was formulated. Similar principles had, indeed,
been widely disseminated in England by the Homily published in 1547, as well as by
that in 1570;
p. 379, 11. 38-39 for Proclamations. . . Edward VI, read Quite naturally, popish books
were banned under Edward VI,
p. 381, 1. 41 for printed read added
p. 394, 1. 13 for the two read and one
add to footnote , and A. W. Pollard, Shakespeare Folios and Quartos, 1909.
p. 398, 1, 1 for 1604 read 1603.
p. 407, 11. 34–38 for , but the actual. . . Venus and Adonis. read ; an oft quoted state-
ment that the actual selling price was one pound appears to be based on the insufficient
evidence of a manuscript note in a copy not now traceable. For a copy of Shakespeare's
Sonnets, Alleyn the actor paid fivepence in June 1609.
p. 412, last line dele 2 See bibl. and the corresponding reference in text.
p. 435, in respect of the Bibliographies generally, consult The Modern Language
Review, General Index to volumes 1-x, Cambridge, 1915.
p. 444, 1. 11 under Estienne add [But as to the authorship, see Mark Pattison's essay
The Stephenses. ]
p. 449, add to the bibliography of chapter 1:
Satire Ménippée. A pleasant Satyre or Poesie, wherein is discovered the Catholicon of
Spain, etc. 1595.
p. 450, add to the bibliography of chapter II:
Prothero, R. E. The Psalms in Human Life. 1903.
Wordsworth, C. Shakespeare's Knowledge and Use of the Bible. 1864, etc.
p. 452, add to the bibliography of chapter III :
Buchan, John. Sir Walter Raleigh. Oxford, 1897.
Hume, Martin A. S. Sir Walter Raleigh. 1897.
Rodd, Sir Rennell, Sir Walter Raleigh. 1904.
p. 467, 1. 35 to the bibliography of chapter VI add and edited by him, Oxford, 1913.
p. 473, add to the bibliography of chapter VI:
Stopes, C. C. William Hunnis and the Revels of the Chapel Royal. Bang's Materialien,
1910.
p. 474, add to the bibliography of chapter VII :
[See, also, Mod. Lang. Rev. vols. vn and xi, 1912 and 1916. )
p. 481, add to the bibliography of chapter IX under William Drummond of Haw-
thornden :
Ed. Kastner, L. E. Manchester, 1913.
pp. 488-90, add to the bibliography of chapter XI:
[See Bibliography by Keynes, G. , Cambridge and London, 1914. ]
Poems. Ed. Grierson, H. J. C. 2 vols. Oxford, 1912.
Conversations of Ben Jonson with William Drummond of Hawthornden. Shakspr. Soc.
1842.
Smith, G. C. M. Donniana. Mod. Lang. Rev. vol. viii, 1913.
p. 492, add to the bibliography of chapter XII:
Spearing, E. M. , Mod. Lang. Rev. vols. vii and vini, 1912, 1913.
p. 507, add to the bibliography of chapter XIV under Bacon:
Steeves, G. W. Francis Bacon. A Sketch of his Life, Works and Literary Friends.
[Bibliographical. ] 1910.
pp. 514-36, add to the bibliography of chapter XVI:
Smith, G. C. Moore. Gabriel Harvey's Marginalia. Stratford-upon-Avon, 1913.
The Bride, by S. R[owlands]. 1617. Ed. Porter, A. C. Boston, 1905,
## p. xv (#21) ##############################################
XV
Smith, C. F. John Dee (1527-1608). 1909.
Dixon, J. H. Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England. 1846.
Ingledew, C.
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
.
## p. xi (#17) ##############################################
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
.
364
## p. xii (#18) #############################################
xii
Contents
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 .
378
CHAPTER XIX
THE FOUNDATION OF LIBRARIES
By J. BASS MULLINGER, M. A. , Formerly Librarian
of St John's College
A retrospect. Monastio libraries. Cathedral libraries. Cambridge
college libraries. Oxford college libraries. Thomas Bodley.
Cambridge university library. The Chetham library, Manchester.
Sion college, London. Trinity college, Dublin. Drummond's
books, Edinburgh.
415
435
Bibliographies.
Table of Principal Dates
Index of Names
551
.
555
## p. xiii (#19) ############################################
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
VOLUME IV. PROSE AND POETRY. SIR THOMAS NORTH
TO MICHAEL DRAYTON
Second Impression, 1918, Corrections and Additions
9
.
9
The errata mentioned in volumes of the History published later than the first
edition of this volume have been corrected in the present impression. In addition,
some misprints noticed later have been corrected, and a few alterations made. A list
of the more important of these follows:
p. 130, II. 18-29 for In the poem. . . song-books. read In a poem called Foure-fould
Meditation, of the foure last things, published eleven years after his death and attributed
on the title-page to ‘R. S. The author of S. Peters complaint,' the meditation on
the joys of heaven is not unworthy of Southwell; but, though Southwell may have
revised the poem, the author of it was more probably his friend and fellow-prisoner,
Philip Howard, earl of Arundel, a grandson of the poet Henry Howard, earl of Surrey? .
1 The Month, vol. Lxxxvi, Jan. -April 1896, pp. 32 et seq.
p. 136, ll. 11-13 for Warner's poem. . . very successful; read Warner's poem, which
is written in the old .
fourteeners,' rimed in couplets, was very successful ;
p. 137, 11. 4-9 for execution ;. . . borrowed whole: read execution. It stands to Daniel's
best poetry in much the same relation as The Excursion stands to Wordsworth's best.
Daniel's example, indeed, may have supported Wordsworth through the labour of
writing The Excursion, into which he wovel, with perfect propriety, a stanza from
Daniel's poem, To the Lady Margaret, countesse of Cumberland, ending with the well
known lines :
1 The Excursion, IV,
324–331.
p. 171, 11. 3–11 for Were this. . . in 1610. and footnotes read The statement, long
corrent, that the book was confiscated in the year of its publication has been proved
erroneous'. Drayton reissued the work in 1610 under the title, Heavenly Harmonie
of Spirituall Songes.
1 By R. B. McKerrow in The Library, 3rd Series, October 1910, pp. 348–350.
p. 186, 11. 20, 21 omit , perhaps in being the first to bring out,
p. 209, 1. 22 for Sir John Harington, read J. H. , i. e. (as another M8 proves), John
Hoskins.
p. 216, 1. 30 omit , apparently by an accident,
footnote, for poem,. . . collections. read poem. Further evidence, however,
points to the conclusion that the two are distinct poems, the second, which replies to
the first, being not by Donne, but, possibly, by the countess of Bedford.
p. 217, 11. 13-14 for as. . . dead,' read if in a vein of extravagance jarring to our taste,
1. 25 for apparently. . . early read the first to 1608-9, the second to the
11. 31-32 for 1627. . . respectively. read 1623-4 and either the same date or
1631.
p. 218, 1. 34 for 1652 read 1633
1, 41 for English. . . Latin read Latin. . . English
>
## p. xiv (#20) #############################################
xiv
2
p. 219 1. 32 for 1669 read 1660/1
p. 304, 11. 16–24 for Buchanan's. . . earls; read An attempt to counteract Buchanan's
influence was made in The True Lawe of Free Monarchies, which was attributed to
king James. The defenders of Scottish monarchy were forced to take very high ground
in order to meet their assailants, and it was under these circumstances that the Stewart
doctrine of the divine right of kings was formulated. Similar principles had, indeed,
been widely disseminated in England by the Homily published in 1547, as well as by
that in 1570;
p. 379, 11. 38-39 for Proclamations. . . Edward VI, read Quite naturally, popish books
were banned under Edward VI,
p. 381, 1. 41 for printed read added
p. 394, 1. 13 for the two read and one
add to footnote , and A. W. Pollard, Shakespeare Folios and Quartos, 1909.
p. 398, 1, 1 for 1604 read 1603.
p. 407, 11. 34–38 for , but the actual. . . Venus and Adonis. read ; an oft quoted state-
ment that the actual selling price was one pound appears to be based on the insufficient
evidence of a manuscript note in a copy not now traceable. For a copy of Shakespeare's
Sonnets, Alleyn the actor paid fivepence in June 1609.
p. 412, last line dele 2 See bibl. and the corresponding reference in text.
p. 435, in respect of the Bibliographies generally, consult The Modern Language
Review, General Index to volumes 1-x, Cambridge, 1915.
p. 444, 1. 11 under Estienne add [But as to the authorship, see Mark Pattison's essay
The Stephenses. ]
p. 449, add to the bibliography of chapter 1:
Satire Ménippée. A pleasant Satyre or Poesie, wherein is discovered the Catholicon of
Spain, etc. 1595.
p. 450, add to the bibliography of chapter II:
Prothero, R. E. The Psalms in Human Life. 1903.
Wordsworth, C. Shakespeare's Knowledge and Use of the Bible. 1864, etc.
p. 452, add to the bibliography of chapter III :
Buchan, John. Sir Walter Raleigh. Oxford, 1897.
Hume, Martin A. S. Sir Walter Raleigh. 1897.
Rodd, Sir Rennell, Sir Walter Raleigh. 1904.
p. 467, 1. 35 to the bibliography of chapter VI add and edited by him, Oxford, 1913.
p. 473, add to the bibliography of chapter VI:
Stopes, C. C. William Hunnis and the Revels of the Chapel Royal. Bang's Materialien,
1910.
p. 474, add to the bibliography of chapter VII :
[See, also, Mod. Lang. Rev. vols. vn and xi, 1912 and 1916. )
p. 481, add to the bibliography of chapter IX under William Drummond of Haw-
thornden :
Ed. Kastner, L. E. Manchester, 1913.
pp. 488-90, add to the bibliography of chapter XI:
[See Bibliography by Keynes, G. , Cambridge and London, 1914. ]
Poems. Ed. Grierson, H. J. C. 2 vols. Oxford, 1912.
Conversations of Ben Jonson with William Drummond of Hawthornden. Shakspr. Soc.
1842.
Smith, G. C. M. Donniana. Mod. Lang. Rev. vol. viii, 1913.
p. 492, add to the bibliography of chapter XII:
Spearing, E. M. , Mod. Lang. Rev. vols. vii and vini, 1912, 1913.
p. 507, add to the bibliography of chapter XIV under Bacon:
Steeves, G. W. Francis Bacon. A Sketch of his Life, Works and Literary Friends.
[Bibliographical. ] 1910.
pp. 514-36, add to the bibliography of chapter XVI:
Smith, G. C. Moore. Gabriel Harvey's Marginalia. Stratford-upon-Avon, 1913.
The Bride, by S. R[owlands]. 1617. Ed. Porter, A. C. Boston, 1905,
## p. xv (#21) ##############################################
XV
Smith, C. F. John Dee (1527-1608). 1909.
Dixon, J. H. Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England. 1846.
Ingledew, C.
