No More Learning

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at Paules Crosse the 9. of Februarie, being the first Sunday in the
Parleament, Anno 1588. by Richard Bancroft D. of Divinitie, and
Chaplaine to the right Honorable Sir Christopher Hatton Knight L.
Chancelor of England. . . . Imprinted at London, by E. B. for Gregorie
Seton . . . Aldersgate. 1588. [Entered Stationers' Hall, 3 March 1589.
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tracts.
6
[The concluding phases of the Greene, Harvey and Nashe controversy
(see ante, pp. 395 ff. ) may be read, by those who care to follow the various
stages of a scurrilous and somewhat wearisome personal squabble, in the
Huth library edition of the works of Greene (ed. Grosart), the Huth library
edition of the works of Harvey (ed. Grosart) and the excellent edition of the
works of Nashe now in course of publication (ed. McKerrow).
The extant copies of Greene's Quip for an upstart Courtier (licensed 20
July 1592) do not contain the offensive passage which annoyed Gabriel Harvey
(see Nashe's Strange Newes, referred to below).
In Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Divell (entered in the
Stationers' register 8 August 1592), Nashe virulently attacked the Harveys,
and (in some of the issues of the same pamphlet during 1592) spoke some-
what scurvily of Green's Groats-worth of Wit as 'a scald trivial lying
pamphlet:
Greene died 3 September 1592, and Gabriel Harvey published in the same
year Foure Letters, and certaine Sonnets: Especially touching Robert
Greene, and other parties, by him abused: But incidentally of divers ex-
cellent persons, and some matters of note. To all courteous mindes that will
voutchsafe the reading. (Epistle Dedicatorie dated 16 September, licensed
4 December. ) The adjective applied on the title-page to the readers, and at
the head of the Dedication, would seem to have been forgotten dur the
writing of the Letters, the author of Pierce Pennylesse being stigmatised
as 'the Divels Oratour by profession and his Dammes Poet by practise,'
while the mildest terms applied to Greene are 'A rakehell: A makeshift:
A scribling foole'; and John Harvey's Welcome to Robert Greene (a sonnet
put in the mouth of Gabriel's physician brother who had died in July 1592)
begins with the lines :
Come, fellow Greene, come to thy gaping grave:
Bid Vanity and Foolery farewell:
Thou over-long hast plaid the madbrain'd knave:
And over-loud hast rung the bawdy bell.
Vermine to vermine must repaire at last . . .
These hungry wormes thinke longe for their repast.
Henry Chettle, the editor of Greene's Groats-worth of Wit, in his Kind-
Hart's Dreame (licensed December 1592) introduces the spirit of Greene, who
asks Nashe to remember his wrongs. Nashe, in his preface to Greene's Mena-
phon (1589), headed ‘To the Gentlemen Students of Both Universities,' had
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spoken appreciatively of Gabriel Harvey as a Latin poet; and, as we have seen,
he had not scrupled to speak contemptuously of one of Greene's pamphlets.
But he was more than willing to take sides in a controversy, and, on 12 January
1592/3, a pamphlet was entered in the Stationers' register entitled The Apo-
logie of Pierce Pennylesse or strange newes of the intercepting certen letters,
and a convoy of verses as they were goinge to victuall the Lowe Cuntries.
The first six words of the entry are omitted from the title-page of the extant
editions. “Gabriel, and not onely Gabriel, but Gabrielissime Gabriel, no
Angell but Angelos, id est, Nuntius' is called upon to 'Behold, here stands
he that will make it good, on thy foure Letters bodie, that thou art a filthy
vaine foole' and the author proceeds to make good his boast, so far as words
can accomplish his will. Harvey's reply was Pierces Supererogation or A
New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to certaine larger Discourses,
intituled Nashes S. Fame (1593), and so the miserable game went on. For
a time, Nashe wearied, or he found other work for his pen. He appears in
pleasanter guise in the preface to his Christs Teares over Jerusalem Wher.
unto is annexed, a comparative admonition to London, (entered 8 September
1593), in which he avows his laudable desire “to be at peace with all men,
and make submissive amends where I have most displeased.
Not basely
feare-blasted or constraintively over-ruled, but purely pacifycatorie suppliant,
for reconciliation and pardon doe I sue to the principallest of them, gainst
whom I profest utter enmity. Even of Maister Doctor Harvey, I hartily
desire the like. ' True to his quarrelsome and selfish nature, Gabriel Harvey
rejected the proffered olive-branch, stating, in A New Letter of Notable
Contents (dated 16 September 1593), bis unwillingness to be coosened with
the legerdemaine of a jugling convert. . . what say you, to a Spring of rankest
Villany in February: and a Harvest of ripest Divinity in May? ' His offered
hand being refused, Nashe set to work to compose a fresh preface to
Christs Teares (1594) 'wheras I thought to make my foe a bridge of golde,
or faire words, to flie by, he hath used it as a high way to invade me. . . . Hence-
forth, with the forenamed Machiavel, for an unrefutable principle I will hold
it, that he is utterly undone which seekes by new good turnes to roote out
old grudges. . . . Was never whore of Babylon so betrapt with abhominations
as his stile (like the dog-house in the fields) is pestred with stinking filth'
and so on and so on. Not content with this, Nashe published in 1596 ‘Have
with you to Saffron-Walden, or, Gabriell Harveys Hunt is up. Containing
a full answere to the eldest sonne of the Halter-maker. Or, Nashe his
Confutation of the sinfull Doctor. The Mott or Posie, instead of Omne tulit
punctum: Pacis fiducia nunquam. As much to say, as I sayd I would speake
with him. Here, at last, the reader gains some reward for turning over
reams of sheer vituperation. The Epistle Dedicatorie to the 'speciall super-
visor of all excrementall superſluities for Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge,
in other words, to the college barber, is a delightful piece of fooling. The rest
of the pamphlet is an admirable example of Nashe's force as a satirist, and
is, perhaps, the best of contemporary lampoons.
Harvey's reply, The Trimming of Thomas Nashe, Gentleman, by the
high-tituled patron Don Richardo de Medico campo, Barber Chirurgion to
Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge, was published in the following year and
ended the controversy, for, before the close of the century, 'all Nashe's bookes
and Dr Harvey's bookes' were ordered, by those in authority, to 'be taken,
whersoever they may be, and that none of the same bookes be ever printed
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