No More Learning

1640-1. Among modern editors and commentators are: Castelain, M.
Discoveries, a critical edition, with an introduction and notes on the
true purport and genesis of the book, 1906 (contends that Timber was
extra title added by publisher: suggests that Discoveries was a note-book
begun after the burning of B. J. 's library, 1623, and that some, at least,
of the notes were destined to be put into verse; Castelain was the first
thoroughly to investigate the extent of B. J. 's indebtedness to other
writers); Ben Jonson. L'homme et l'oeuvre. 1572-1637, 1907 (in chap. III
constructs character and habit of thought of the writer out of Dis-
coveries); Gifford, W. , Works of Ben Jonson, 1816, re-ed. Cunningham,
F. , 1875; Schelling, F. E. , Timber; or Discoveries made upon Men
and Matter, Boston, 1892 (intro. contains careful analysis of Jonson's
style); Spingarn, J. E. , The sources of Jonson's Discoveries, 1905
(traces some thoughts to Heinsius, de Tragoediae constitutione, 1611,
and Jacobus Pontanus, Poeticarum Institutionum Libri 111, 1594);
Swinburne, A. C. , A study of Ben Jonson, 1889; Whalley, P. , Jonson's
Works, 1756 (first pointed out the fact, admitted in sub-title of
Discoveries, that the book was not original). )
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(Cf. Littleboy, A. L. , Relations between French and English Literature in
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, 1895; Maiberger, M. , Studien über
d. Einfluss Frankreichs auf d. Elizabethan Literatur, 1903; Upham, A. H. ,
French Influence in English Literature, 1908. )
TREATISES AND DISSERTATIONS AKIN TO THE Essay.
(The development of the Baconian essay was retarded by the age's love of
more formal literature, especially of dialogues, which covers almost exactly
the same ground as the Jacobean essayists, with the added attractions of
style, and influenced Addison and his circle no less than Cornwallis, R. Johnson,
Bacon, Felltham, etc. )
The Booke of Honor and Armess Wherein is discoursed the causes of Quarrell,
and the nature of Injuries, with their repulses. Also the Meanes of
satisfaction and pacification. 1590.
Brathwaite, Richard. The English Gentleman. 1630, 1641, 1652. The English
Gentlewoman. 1631,1641. Art asleepe Husband ? 1640. (Prose. Bolster
lectures on moral themes and a novelette. )
The Schollers Medley. Rptd 1638 as A Survey of History, or a Nursery
for Gentry, and in 1651.
Breton, Nicholas. [See D. of N. B. for fuller bibliography. ]
Wits Trenchmour, in a Conference betwixt a Scholler and an Angler.
1597. (A trenchmour (i. e. riotous dance) of repartees, similes and
reflections beginning as a dialogue on angling and developing into
tales and discourses delivered by a scholar. )
The Wil of wit, Wits Wil, or Wils Wit, chuse you whether. 1599.
Rptd 1606; 1860, Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O.
The Figure of Foure. Registered 1597 and 1607. Only The Second
Part of ed. 1636 (rptd 1654) exists. (Proverbial utterances, each describing
four things united under some common similarity. )
Wonders Worth the Hearing which being read or heard in a Winters
evening by a good fire, or a Summers morning . . . may serve both to
pnrge melancholy from the minde, and grosse humours from the body.
1602.
A Poste with a Packet of Mad Letters. 1603, 1609, 1637. (Letters
mostly addressed to typical figures. It should be remembered that
letter-writing had already become an art under the influence of Cicero,
Seneca and Guevara. Angell Day's English Secretary (1586), had been
followed by many other manuals of letter-writing. J. Hall had published
Six Decads of Epistles (1607-10), and the letters of J. L. Guez de Balzac
had been translated by W. T[yrwhit] and R. B. (Sir R. Baker ? ). )
Strange Newes out of divers countries. 1622. (Facetious satire against
society under the guise of news. ) Cf. Overbury's Newes. .
The Court and Country, or, a Briefe Discourse betweene the Courtier
and Country-man. 1618.
Fantasticks: serving for a perpetual Prognostication. 1626.
Bryskett, Ludowick. Discourse of Civil Life. 1606. (Composed 1584-9;
dialogue on moral philosophy in which Spenser takes part. )
Munday, Anthony. The Mirrour of Mutabilitie: or principal Part of the
Mirrour of Magistrates. 1579.
The Paine of Pleasure, profitable to be perused of the Wise, and
necessary to be by the Wanton. 1580.
The Defence of Contraries. Translated out of French. 1593.
Peacham, Henry (the elder). The Garden of Eloquence, conteyning the
Figures of Grammar and Rhetorick, from whence may bee gathered all
manner of Flowers, Coulors . . . Formes and Fashions of speech. 1577.
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Peacham, Henry (the younger). (See, also, under English Essays. ) The
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Art of Drawing with the Pen, and limming in water colours . . . with the
true manner of painting upon glasse, the order of making your furnace. . . .
1606. Rptd 1612 as Graphice, etc. The Compleat Gentleman, fashioning
him absolute in the most necessary and commendable qualities concerning
Minde or Bodie. . . . 1622. Rptd 1634; 1661; 1906, intro. by Gordon, G. S.
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education. Criticises flogging in schools, strongly recommends travel
and insists on the study of heraldry. ) The Worth of a Peny: or a caution
to keep money. With the causes of the scarcity and misery of the want
hereof in these hard and mercilesse times. 1647 (misprint for 1641 ? ),
etc. Rptd 1903, in Arber's English Garner.
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des Cours, 1617, trans. Reynolds, J. , 1642; Faret, N. , Des Vertus néces-
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Irish Hubbub, or the English Hue and Crie. 1617. (General denunciation
of society. )
Wits Common-Wealth. (Generic title for Politeuphuia, Wits Common-
Wealth, by John Bodenham, 1597 (18 eds. before Restoration). Palladis
Tamia. Wits Treasury, . . . by Meres, F. , 1598. Wit's Theatre of the
Little World, 1599. Palladis Palatium, 1604. These four books contain
quotations and maxims from various writers. See Ingleby, C. M. , Shaks.
Allusion-Bks. Part 1, 1874; New Shakspr. Soc. , and cf. Theatrum Virtutis
I
et Honoris; oder Tugend Büchlein aus etlichen . . . Griechischen und
Lateinischen Scribenten ins Teutsch gebracht, durch W. Pirckheymern,
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Canaans Calamitie, Jerusalems Misery, or the dolefull destruction of faire
Jerusalem by Tytus. (Verse. Ascribed to Dekker by Grosart, A. B.
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The wonderfull Yeare 1603, wherein is showed the Picture of London, lying
sicke of the Plague. 1603.
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Mariage (see ante, vol. III, chap. v, bibl. p. 485). Important as evidence
of the interest still taken in satires on women and married life (see ibid.
pp. 88-91, bibl. pp. 485-7). Cf. Tom Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift, 1593,
a satire on jealousy, The passionate Morrice, 1593, a review of the art of
wifing as exemplified by eight typical couples dancing a morris-dance.
See also The praise of Vertuous Ladies in Breton's The Wil of Wit, and
Rowlands's pamphlets. Cf. vol. 111, chap. v, pp. 88-91, bibl. pp. 485–7. )
The seven deadly Sinnes of London: drawne in seven severall Coaches through
the seven severall Gates of the Citie, bringing the Plague with them.
1606. Rptd, Arber, E. , 1879, The English Scholar's Lib. , no. 7.
Newes from Hell; brought by the Divel's Carriers. 1606. Rptd 1607,
enlarged and entitled A Knights Conjuring done in Earnest discovered
in Jest; 1842, Rimbault, E. F. , Percy Soc. (For earlier conceptions of
visions of Hell, Heaven and Purgatory, see Homer: Odyssey, xi (trans.
Chapman, G. ); Aristophanes: Frogs; Plato: picture of the infernal
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Er the Armenian in the Republic (trans. Jowett, B. , 1871, 3rd ed. revised,
1892); Plutarch: vision of Timarchus in Ilepl toll Ewrpátous Sacpovlov in
Moralia (trans. Holland, P. , 1603); Vergil: Georgios IV and Aeneid vı;
Lucian: the Katát love and the Mévu TTOS (trans. Necromantia . . . inter-
locutors, Menippus and Philonidas; ptd by Rastell, J. , n. d. ) in Dialogues
of the Dead; Dante: Inferno, Paradiso, Purgatorio; Staunton, W. :
St Patrick's Purgatory, 1409; Damerval: Sensuit le grãt dyablerie qui
traicte coment Sathan fait demõstrance a Lucifer de tous les maulx que
les mõdains font selon leurs estatz vacations et mestiers . . . ; Dunbar,
William: The Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis, 1503-8; Lyndsay, Sir
David, Ane Satyre of the Three Estaits, 1540; Rabelais: Pantagruel,
Bk. II, chap. 30 (imitated in Le Nouveau Panurge, Gaillard, Michel);
Ford, J. : 'Tis Pity she's a Whore, act III, sc. 6; Tarlton's Newes out
of Purgatorie, c. 1589; Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift, 1593 (represents
Robin Goodfellowe as just returning from Hell whence he brought an
oration on jealousy). Cf. also title Greenes Newes both from Heaven and
Hell, 1593, by Barnabe Rich, and Dekker His Dreame (below). See
Wright, T. : St Patrick's Purgatory, an essay on the legends of Purga-
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Visions of Heaven and Hell, 1898, Johns Hopkins Univ. Diss. )
The Double P. P. , a Papist in Armes, Bearing Ten severall Sheilds, en-
countered by the Protestant. . . . 1606. (Verse attack on the Roman
Catholics ascribed to Dekker by Collier, J. P. (Bibl. Cat. I, 197). )
Jests to make you merie. Written by T. D. and George Wilkins. 1607.
(Jest-book: ascribed to Dekker. )
The Dead Terne or Westminster's Complaint for long Vacations and short
Termes. Written in manner of a Dialogue betweene the two Cityes
London and Westminster. 1608. (A compilation of history, anecdotes,
comment, satire, conceits, descriptions, exposures and complaints all
dealing with London; mostly anticipating the themes which he treated
more fully in subsequent works. )
The Belman of London: Bringing to Light the most notorious Villanies that
are now practised in the Kingdome. 1608. 2nd and 3rd eds. (with
additions) in same year. Re-edited 1612 as O per se 0, or a newe Cryer
of Lanthorne and Candle Light.
Lanthorne and Candle Light: or, the Bell-Mans Second Nights Walke. In
which he brings to light a Brood of more strange Villanies than ever
were till this yeare discovered. 1608. Rptd 1609 (twice); 1612 as 0 per
se 0, or a new cryer of Lanthorne and Candlelight Being an addition or
Lengthening of the Bell-mans Second Night-walke.
(Both rogue-pamphlets frequently rptd under such titles as English
Villanies six severall Times prest to death, but still reviving again, are
now the seventh time discovered. . . . 1632; English Villanies seven severall
Times prest to Death by the Printers. . . are now the eighth time, etc. . . .
1637. )
The Ravens Almanacke, Foretelling of a Plague, Famine and Civill Warre.
1609. (Parody on prognostications. )
Foure Birdes of Noahs Arke; the Dove, the Eagle, the Pelican and the
Phoenix. 1609. Rptd 1857, Halliwell, J. O. (A devotional work. )
Worke. for Armorours, or the Peace is broken. Open Warres likely to
happen this yeare 1609. 1609. (Allegorical description of the rising of
poverty against wealth. )
The Gulls Horne-booke or Fashions to please all sorts of Guls. 1609. Rptd
1812, Nott, Dr, Bristol; 1892, Saintsbury, G. , Eliz. and Jac. Pamphlets;


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Aufl. , 1886, Bd 11, Buch iv, $ 158, and Herford, C. H. , Literary Relations,
1886, chap. VIII. A Nuremberg poet at the end of the 15th cent.
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poem), ed. 1903, by Bömer, A. , in Lateinische Litteraturdenkmäler des
xv und xvi Jahrhts. , English trans. 1605, The Schoole of Slovenrie or,
Cato turnd wrong side outward, by R. F.
A strange Horse Race, at the End of which comes in the Catch-pols Masque.
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sicke, makes his last Will and Testament this present yeare, 1613. 1613.
Dekker His Dreame: in which beeing rapt with a Poeticall Enthusiasme, the
great volumes of Heaven and Hell to him were opened, in which he read
many wonderfull Things. 1620. Rptd 1860, Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. , see
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1598.
Tis mery when Knaves mete. 1600, and later years under differing titles.
(Contains humorous tales of knavery and burlesque adventure, reminis
cent of fabliaux and jest-books, narrated in bright easy verse. )
The Letting of Humours Blood in the Head-vaine; with a new Morisco
daunced by seaven Satyres upon the bottome of Diogenes Tubbe. 1600.
(Suppressed. ) Rptd, Edinburgh, 1815.
Humors Ordinarie, where a Man may be verie merrie, and exceeding well
used for his Sixepence. n. d.
Greenes Ghost haunting Cony-catchers, With the Merry Conceits of Doctor
Pinchbacke a notable Makeshift. 1602. Rptd 1626. (Marks another
step in the fusion of the rogue pamphlet into the picaresque novel; the
anecdotes illustrating triumphs of ingenuity and mother wit rather than
a felonious professionalism. For another example of trading on Greene's
name, see Barnabe Rich, Greenes Newes, 1593.
'Tis Merrie when Gossips meete. 1602 ff. (For previous literature of this
type see ante, vol. 111, chap.