Introduction to Marlowe's Dr
Faustús
and Greene's Friar
Bacon and Friar Bungay.
Bacon and Friar Bungay.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03
.
.
by John Halle Chirurgien, who hath therunto necessarily
annexed . . . An Historiall expostulation also against the beastly abusers,
both of Chyrurgerie and Phisicke in our tyme. Marshe, T. , 1565. Rpt
of Expostulation, by Pettigrew, T. J. , for Percy Soc. XLI, 1844.
In
1651, there was added to a new ed. of Recorde's Urinall of Physick an
ingenious Treatise, concerning Physitians, Apothecaries and Chyrurgians,
set forth by a Doctor of Queen Elizabeth's dayes.
## p. 494 (#516) ############################################
494
Bibliography
Vide Ames's Typogr. Antiq. , pp. 550, 584, 805, 806, 854; Brydges's Brit.
Bibl. , 11, 349-352; Granger's Biog. Hist. of Engl. , 5th ed. 1, 308; Bitson's Bibl.
Poetica, p. 232; Tanner's Bibl. Brit. , p. 372.
Recorde, Robert, the physician (A. 1540-57). Titles of his dialogues: The
Grounde of Artes, 1542 (Arithmetic). The Urinall of Physick, 1548.
Pathway of Knowledge (Geometry). Gate of Knowledge (Mensura-
tion). Castel of Knowledge, 1556 (Astronomy and Mathematics).
Treasure of Knowledge (Astronomy). Whetstone of Witte (Algebra
and Arithmetic, invents the sign = and explains how to extract a square
root).
Skeyne, Gilbert (1522 ? -99). Ane Breve Descriptioun of the Pest. Edin-
burgh, 1568. Ed. Skene, W. F. Bannatyne Club. Edinburgh, 1860.
The earliest medical treatise published in Scotland.
Vicary, Thomas. A profitable treatise of the Anatomie of Man's Body.
Earliest extant ed. by Bamforde, H. 1577. (The work is really a transcript
of a 14th cent. MS based on Lanfranc and Mondeville, 8. de. ) Re-ed. by
Furnivall, F. J. for E. E. T. S. 1888.
BROADSIDE MONSTROSITIES.
Besides those mentioned in text, the following may be noted:
The description of a monstrous pig, the which was farrowed at Hamsted
besyde London the xvith day of October, this present yeare of our Lord
God molxii.
The true discription of two monsterous children, lawfully begotten. . .
borne in the parish of Swanburne in Buckynghamshyre, the iiij of Aprill,
Anno Domini 1566; the two children having both their belies fast joyned
together, and imbracyng one another with their armes. . . .
The Disclosyng of a late counterfayted Possession by the Devyll in twoo
Maydens within the Cittie of London. Whereunto is annexed part of a
homilie of Chrisostome, and also strange stories and practises, as well in
England as in other countries. Watkins, R. , 1574.
Beware the Cat. 1551(? ), 1561 (? ). Bptd by Irelonde, 1568-9, and by Allde,
Ed. , 1584. Re-ed. by Halliwell, J. O. , 1864. A clever rhapsody in
which ‘Maister Streamer' converses with Baldwin, Ferrers and others
at the house of John Day the printer, on the supernatural powers of
cats, their means of intercommunication and the possibility of men
being bewitched in this form. Being desirous to understand the feline
language, Streamer swallows & revolting compound (following an
elaborate recipe of Albertus Magnus) which gives the utmost acuteness
to his sense of hearing. After ludicrous misadventures, he spends the
night listening to the gossip of cats, and then recounts what he has heard.
Collier describes the tract as an allegorical satire, under the personifica-
tion of Cats. But the whole book, with its grotesque adventures and
practical jokes, is reminiscent of the spirit of the jest-books. One
episode suggests Reynard the Fox and another-the story of the
weeping cat alleged to be a girl bewitched for rejecting her lover-is
found in the Indian collection Vrihat-Katha and Gesta Romanorum
(XXVIII). Streamer was a court jester.
Vide the broadside A short answere to the Boke called Beware the cat,
which denies that the book was written by Streamer, attributing its authorship
to Wylliam Baldewine 'God graunt him wel to spede'
Every thing almost: in that boke is as tru,
As that at Midsomer: in L. it doth snu.
(Catalogue of a Collection of Prtd Broadsides in possession of the Soc. of
Antiquaries of L. , by Lemon, R. , 1866. ) William Baldwin contributed to
s
## p. 495 (#517) ############################################
Chapter V
495
A Mirror for Magistrates, and was author, amongst other works, of The
Funerals of Ed. VI. (See Collier, Registers of the Stationers' Cpy, I, 200, and
,
Biblio. Cat. of E. E. Lit. 1, 43. )
Ludwig Lavaterus. Of Ghostes and Spirits walking by nyght and of strange
noyses, crackes and sundry forewarnynges, whiche commonly happen
before the death of men, great slaughters and alterations of Kyngdomes.
Translated by R. H. 1572.
Scot, Reginald.
A perfite platforme of a Hoppe-Garden by Reynolde Scot. Denham, H. ,
1574. Rptd, 1576, 1578.
The Discoverie of Witchcraft, wherein the lewde dealing of witches and
witchmongers is notablie detected, the knaverie of conjurors, the impietie
of inchantors, the follie of soothsaiers, the impudent falshood of cousenors,
the infidelitie of atheists, the pestilent practises of Pythonists, the
curiositie of figure casters, the vanitie of dreamers, the beggerlie art of
alcumystrie, the abhomination of idolatrie, the horrible art of poisoning,
the vertue and power of naturall magike, and all the conveiances of
legierdemain and juggling are deciphered . . . . Herreunto is added a
treatise upon the nature and substance of spirits and divels. Brome, W. ,
1584. Rptd, 1651, 1665. Re-ed. , 1886.
Vide Wood's Ath. Oxon. (ed. Bliss, P. ), 1, 679-680; Oldys's, British
Librarian, 213-228.
ILLUSTRATIONS OF WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC.
Ashmole, E. Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum. (Contains: Ordinall of
Alchimy, by Norton, T. ; Compound of Alchymie, by Ripley, G. ; Pater
Sapientiae; Hermes Bird; Worke of J. Dastin ; Pearce the Black Monk
upon the Elixir; R. Carpenter's Worke; Hunting of the Greene Lyon;
T. Charnock's Breviary of Philosophy; Bloomfield's Blossoms, etc. )
Baedi. Die Hexenprocesse in Deutschland. 1874.
Baudrillart, H. J. L. Jean Bodin et son temps. 1853.
Haas, C. Die Hexenprocesse. 1865.
Hall, F. T. Pedigree of the Devil. 1883.
Halliwell, J. 0. Poetry of Witchcraft. 1853. (Plays on the Lancashire
witches, by Heywood and Shadwell. )
Henderson, W. Folk Lore of the Northern Counties. F. L. S. 1879. Chap. v,
Charms and Spells; vi, Witchcraft; xi, Dreams.
Herford, C. H. Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Sixteenth
Century. Cambridge, 1886. Pt 11, chap. iv.
Hulme, F. E. Natural History Lore and Legend. 1895. (A rehabilitation
of medieval naturalists. )
Jacob, J. L. (Paul Lacroix). Curiosités théologiques; Curiosités infernales ;
Curiosités des sciences occultes.
Notestein, W. , is working at an account of witchcraft in England from 1558
to 1718.
Retrospective Review (1820-6), v, 86-139.
Scott, W. Demonology and Witchcraft. 1883.
Soldan, W. G. Gesch. der Hexenprocesse. 1880.
Ward, A. W.
Introduction to Marlowe's Dr Faustús and Greene's Friar
Bacon and Friar Bungay. 4th ed. Oxford, 1901.
Wright, T. Narratives of Sorcery and Magio. 1851.
USEFUL MISCELLANIES.
Ashbee, E. W. Tracts of 16th and 17th centuries (mostly 17th).
Beloe. W. Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books. 1808-12, 1814
9
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Brydges, Sir 8. E. Archaica. 1815.
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Halliwell, J. 0. Contributions to Early English Literature. 1849.
Literature of 16th and 17th centuries illustrated by Tracts. 1851.
Nugae Poeticae. 1844. (Illustrates manners and arts of 15th cent. )
Harleian Miscellany (Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, etc. ).
Haslewood, J. Frondes Caducae. 1816.
Flyleaves. 1822 ff.
Hazlitt, W. C. Fugitive Tracts. 1875.
Hindley, C. Old Book Collector's Miscellany. 1871.
Huth, H. Fugitive Tracts (coll. of verses illustrating politics and society,
1493–1700). 1875.
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(1) Contemporary.
Camden Soc. No. 23, Original letters of eminent literary men of the 16th to
the 18th centurie. No. 37, A Relation or rather a True Account of
the Isle of England. (Trans. from the Italian by Sneyd, C. A. 1847. )
See also the Egerton, Plumpton, Rutland and Trevelyan papers, published
by the same Society.
Erasmus. Apophthegmes (trans. by Udall, N. , 1542, literally rptd, 1877).
Epistles (Nichols, F. M. , 1901). Familiar Colloquies (Bailey, N. , 1733.
Rptd, 1900). Praise of Folly (Copner, J. , 1878). Selections from Erasmus
by Allen, P. S. (school text-book, 1908); by Edwards, G. M. , 2 vols,
Cambridge, 1906, 1908.
Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum. Ist appearance, 1516. Re-ed. by E[duard]
B[öcking), Leipzig, 1864; Brecht, W. , Die Verfasser der Epistolae obson-
rorum virorum (Quellen und Forschungen), Strassburg, 1904. Trans. by
V. Develay, Lettres des hommes obscurs, Paris, 1870. Trans. Stokes,
F. G. , with reprint of text, in the press.
Laneham, Robert. A Letter whearin. . . the entertainment untoo the Queens
Majesty at Killingwoorth (Kenilworth) Castle in this Somerz Progress
1575 is signified. (Contains the account of Captain Cox's now famous
library. ) Re-ed. by Furnivall, F. J. , with exhaustive intro. for Shakespeare
Library, 1908.
Latimer, H. An ed. of his sermons appeared by Daye, J. , 1562. (Latimer's
sermons are a striking illustration of the influence of story-telling
among the people. See vol. IV of the present work and ante,
bibliographies to chapters 1 and 11.
Starkey, T. A Dialogue between Cardinal Pole and Thomas Lupset. n. d.
Re-ed. by Cowper, J. M. , with useful intro. [England in the reign of
King Henry the Eighth), E. E. T. S. Ex. Ser. XI, 1871.
## p. 497 (#519) ############################################
Chapter V
497
(2) Modern.
Beloe, W. Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce books. 1814, 1808-12.
Black, W. G. Folk-Medicine. A chapter in the history of culture. F. L. S.
1883.
Brand, J. Popular Antiquities. Revised by Hazlitt, W. O. 1870.
Burckhart, J. Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien. Ed. by Geiger, L.
Leipzig, 1896, 1908. Trans. by Middlemore, 8. G. C. 1890. IIe Abschnitt,
Die Entwicklung des Individuums. VIe Abschnitt, Sitte und Religion.
Busch, W. England unter den Tudors. I. K. Henry VII. Stuttgart,
1892 ff.
Cooke, J. Vagrants, Beggars and Trampe. Quarterly Review, Oct. 1908.
Courtney, W. P. The Secrets of our National Literature. 1908.
Creighton, M. The Age of Elizabeth. 1876.
Disraeli, I. Amenities of Literature.
annexed . . . An Historiall expostulation also against the beastly abusers,
both of Chyrurgerie and Phisicke in our tyme. Marshe, T. , 1565. Rpt
of Expostulation, by Pettigrew, T. J. , for Percy Soc. XLI, 1844.
In
1651, there was added to a new ed. of Recorde's Urinall of Physick an
ingenious Treatise, concerning Physitians, Apothecaries and Chyrurgians,
set forth by a Doctor of Queen Elizabeth's dayes.
## p. 494 (#516) ############################################
494
Bibliography
Vide Ames's Typogr. Antiq. , pp. 550, 584, 805, 806, 854; Brydges's Brit.
Bibl. , 11, 349-352; Granger's Biog. Hist. of Engl. , 5th ed. 1, 308; Bitson's Bibl.
Poetica, p. 232; Tanner's Bibl. Brit. , p. 372.
Recorde, Robert, the physician (A. 1540-57). Titles of his dialogues: The
Grounde of Artes, 1542 (Arithmetic). The Urinall of Physick, 1548.
Pathway of Knowledge (Geometry). Gate of Knowledge (Mensura-
tion). Castel of Knowledge, 1556 (Astronomy and Mathematics).
Treasure of Knowledge (Astronomy). Whetstone of Witte (Algebra
and Arithmetic, invents the sign = and explains how to extract a square
root).
Skeyne, Gilbert (1522 ? -99). Ane Breve Descriptioun of the Pest. Edin-
burgh, 1568. Ed. Skene, W. F. Bannatyne Club. Edinburgh, 1860.
The earliest medical treatise published in Scotland.
Vicary, Thomas. A profitable treatise of the Anatomie of Man's Body.
Earliest extant ed. by Bamforde, H. 1577. (The work is really a transcript
of a 14th cent. MS based on Lanfranc and Mondeville, 8. de. ) Re-ed. by
Furnivall, F. J. for E. E. T. S. 1888.
BROADSIDE MONSTROSITIES.
Besides those mentioned in text, the following may be noted:
The description of a monstrous pig, the which was farrowed at Hamsted
besyde London the xvith day of October, this present yeare of our Lord
God molxii.
The true discription of two monsterous children, lawfully begotten. . .
borne in the parish of Swanburne in Buckynghamshyre, the iiij of Aprill,
Anno Domini 1566; the two children having both their belies fast joyned
together, and imbracyng one another with their armes. . . .
The Disclosyng of a late counterfayted Possession by the Devyll in twoo
Maydens within the Cittie of London. Whereunto is annexed part of a
homilie of Chrisostome, and also strange stories and practises, as well in
England as in other countries. Watkins, R. , 1574.
Beware the Cat. 1551(? ), 1561 (? ). Bptd by Irelonde, 1568-9, and by Allde,
Ed. , 1584. Re-ed. by Halliwell, J. O. , 1864. A clever rhapsody in
which ‘Maister Streamer' converses with Baldwin, Ferrers and others
at the house of John Day the printer, on the supernatural powers of
cats, their means of intercommunication and the possibility of men
being bewitched in this form. Being desirous to understand the feline
language, Streamer swallows & revolting compound (following an
elaborate recipe of Albertus Magnus) which gives the utmost acuteness
to his sense of hearing. After ludicrous misadventures, he spends the
night listening to the gossip of cats, and then recounts what he has heard.
Collier describes the tract as an allegorical satire, under the personifica-
tion of Cats. But the whole book, with its grotesque adventures and
practical jokes, is reminiscent of the spirit of the jest-books. One
episode suggests Reynard the Fox and another-the story of the
weeping cat alleged to be a girl bewitched for rejecting her lover-is
found in the Indian collection Vrihat-Katha and Gesta Romanorum
(XXVIII). Streamer was a court jester.
Vide the broadside A short answere to the Boke called Beware the cat,
which denies that the book was written by Streamer, attributing its authorship
to Wylliam Baldewine 'God graunt him wel to spede'
Every thing almost: in that boke is as tru,
As that at Midsomer: in L. it doth snu.
(Catalogue of a Collection of Prtd Broadsides in possession of the Soc. of
Antiquaries of L. , by Lemon, R. , 1866. ) William Baldwin contributed to
s
## p. 495 (#517) ############################################
Chapter V
495
A Mirror for Magistrates, and was author, amongst other works, of The
Funerals of Ed. VI. (See Collier, Registers of the Stationers' Cpy, I, 200, and
,
Biblio. Cat. of E. E. Lit. 1, 43. )
Ludwig Lavaterus. Of Ghostes and Spirits walking by nyght and of strange
noyses, crackes and sundry forewarnynges, whiche commonly happen
before the death of men, great slaughters and alterations of Kyngdomes.
Translated by R. H. 1572.
Scot, Reginald.
A perfite platforme of a Hoppe-Garden by Reynolde Scot. Denham, H. ,
1574. Rptd, 1576, 1578.
The Discoverie of Witchcraft, wherein the lewde dealing of witches and
witchmongers is notablie detected, the knaverie of conjurors, the impietie
of inchantors, the follie of soothsaiers, the impudent falshood of cousenors,
the infidelitie of atheists, the pestilent practises of Pythonists, the
curiositie of figure casters, the vanitie of dreamers, the beggerlie art of
alcumystrie, the abhomination of idolatrie, the horrible art of poisoning,
the vertue and power of naturall magike, and all the conveiances of
legierdemain and juggling are deciphered . . . . Herreunto is added a
treatise upon the nature and substance of spirits and divels. Brome, W. ,
1584. Rptd, 1651, 1665. Re-ed. , 1886.
Vide Wood's Ath. Oxon. (ed. Bliss, P. ), 1, 679-680; Oldys's, British
Librarian, 213-228.
ILLUSTRATIONS OF WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC.
Ashmole, E. Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum. (Contains: Ordinall of
Alchimy, by Norton, T. ; Compound of Alchymie, by Ripley, G. ; Pater
Sapientiae; Hermes Bird; Worke of J. Dastin ; Pearce the Black Monk
upon the Elixir; R. Carpenter's Worke; Hunting of the Greene Lyon;
T. Charnock's Breviary of Philosophy; Bloomfield's Blossoms, etc. )
Baedi. Die Hexenprocesse in Deutschland. 1874.
Baudrillart, H. J. L. Jean Bodin et son temps. 1853.
Haas, C. Die Hexenprocesse. 1865.
Hall, F. T. Pedigree of the Devil. 1883.
Halliwell, J. 0. Poetry of Witchcraft. 1853. (Plays on the Lancashire
witches, by Heywood and Shadwell. )
Henderson, W. Folk Lore of the Northern Counties. F. L. S. 1879. Chap. v,
Charms and Spells; vi, Witchcraft; xi, Dreams.
Herford, C. H. Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Sixteenth
Century. Cambridge, 1886. Pt 11, chap. iv.
Hulme, F. E. Natural History Lore and Legend. 1895. (A rehabilitation
of medieval naturalists. )
Jacob, J. L. (Paul Lacroix). Curiosités théologiques; Curiosités infernales ;
Curiosités des sciences occultes.
Notestein, W. , is working at an account of witchcraft in England from 1558
to 1718.
Retrospective Review (1820-6), v, 86-139.
Scott, W. Demonology and Witchcraft. 1883.
Soldan, W. G. Gesch. der Hexenprocesse. 1880.
Ward, A. W.
Introduction to Marlowe's Dr Faustús and Greene's Friar
Bacon and Friar Bungay. 4th ed. Oxford, 1901.
Wright, T. Narratives of Sorcery and Magio. 1851.
USEFUL MISCELLANIES.
Ashbee, E. W. Tracts of 16th and 17th centuries (mostly 17th).
Beloe. W. Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books. 1808-12, 1814
9
## p. 496 (#518) ############################################
496
Bibliography
Brydges, Sir 8. E. Archaica. 1815.
Collier, J. P. Illus. of Early English Popular Literature. 1863-6.
Illus. of Old English Literature. 1866.
Bibliographical and Critical Account of the rarest books. 1865.
Halliwell, J. 0. Contributions to Early English Literature. 1849.
Literature of 16th and 17th centuries illustrated by Tracts. 1851.
Nugae Poeticae. 1844. (Illustrates manners and arts of 15th cent. )
Harleian Miscellany (Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, etc. ).
Haslewood, J. Frondes Caducae. 1816.
Flyleaves. 1822 ff.
Hazlitt, W. C. Fugitive Tracts. 1875.
Hindley, C. Old Book Collector's Miscellany. 1871.
Huth, H. Fugitive Tracts (coll. of verses illustrating politics and society,
1493–1700). 1875.
Isham Reprints. 1895.
Lang, A. Social England Illustrated. 1903.
Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana. 1816.
Pollard, A. F. Tudor Tracts (1532-88). 1902. (Historical, rather than
literary. )
Utterson, R. Select Pieces of Early Popular Poetry. 1817.
Wright, T. Anecdota Literaria. 1844.
Wright, T. and Halliwell, J. 0. Reliquiae Antiquae. 1841.
SIDE-LIGHTS ON TUDOR SOCIBTY.
(1) Contemporary.
Camden Soc. No. 23, Original letters of eminent literary men of the 16th to
the 18th centurie. No. 37, A Relation or rather a True Account of
the Isle of England. (Trans. from the Italian by Sneyd, C. A. 1847. )
See also the Egerton, Plumpton, Rutland and Trevelyan papers, published
by the same Society.
Erasmus. Apophthegmes (trans. by Udall, N. , 1542, literally rptd, 1877).
Epistles (Nichols, F. M. , 1901). Familiar Colloquies (Bailey, N. , 1733.
Rptd, 1900). Praise of Folly (Copner, J. , 1878). Selections from Erasmus
by Allen, P. S. (school text-book, 1908); by Edwards, G. M. , 2 vols,
Cambridge, 1906, 1908.
Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum. Ist appearance, 1516. Re-ed. by E[duard]
B[öcking), Leipzig, 1864; Brecht, W. , Die Verfasser der Epistolae obson-
rorum virorum (Quellen und Forschungen), Strassburg, 1904. Trans. by
V. Develay, Lettres des hommes obscurs, Paris, 1870. Trans. Stokes,
F. G. , with reprint of text, in the press.
Laneham, Robert. A Letter whearin. . . the entertainment untoo the Queens
Majesty at Killingwoorth (Kenilworth) Castle in this Somerz Progress
1575 is signified. (Contains the account of Captain Cox's now famous
library. ) Re-ed. by Furnivall, F. J. , with exhaustive intro. for Shakespeare
Library, 1908.
Latimer, H. An ed. of his sermons appeared by Daye, J. , 1562. (Latimer's
sermons are a striking illustration of the influence of story-telling
among the people. See vol. IV of the present work and ante,
bibliographies to chapters 1 and 11.
Starkey, T. A Dialogue between Cardinal Pole and Thomas Lupset. n. d.
Re-ed. by Cowper, J. M. , with useful intro. [England in the reign of
King Henry the Eighth), E. E. T. S. Ex. Ser. XI, 1871.
## p. 497 (#519) ############################################
Chapter V
497
(2) Modern.
Beloe, W. Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce books. 1814, 1808-12.
Black, W. G. Folk-Medicine. A chapter in the history of culture. F. L. S.
1883.
Brand, J. Popular Antiquities. Revised by Hazlitt, W. O. 1870.
Burckhart, J. Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien. Ed. by Geiger, L.
Leipzig, 1896, 1908. Trans. by Middlemore, 8. G. C. 1890. IIe Abschnitt,
Die Entwicklung des Individuums. VIe Abschnitt, Sitte und Religion.
Busch, W. England unter den Tudors. I. K. Henry VII. Stuttgart,
1892 ff.
Cooke, J. Vagrants, Beggars and Trampe. Quarterly Review, Oct. 1908.
Courtney, W. P. The Secrets of our National Literature. 1908.
Creighton, M. The Age of Elizabeth. 1876.
Disraeli, I. Amenities of Literature.
