The prosody of the
fourteenth
century.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03
, King's College, Cambridge;
Professor of Ecclesiastical History, King's College, London.
Simon Fish. Erasmus and Cambridge. Aspects of the reformation.
The Book of Common Prayer. Evolution of the prayer-book.
Thomas Cranmer. His influence. The Homilies. Hugh Latimer.
His sermons. William Tindale. The Bible in English. Miles
Coverdale. The Great Bible. The Scots New Testament.
Hymns. Sternhold and Hopkins. Results of the reformation
period
25
CHAPTER III
THE DISSOLUTION OF THE RELIGIOUS HOUSES
By the Rev. R. H. BENSON, M. A. , Trinity College.
Destruction of books and of opportunities for study. Decrease of
scholarship. New methods of thought, New channels of inter-
course. Antiquarian study
48
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viii
Contents
CHAPTER IV
BARCLAY AND SKELTON
EARLY GERMAN INFLUENCES ON ENGLISH LITERATURE
PAGE
By ARTHUR KOELBING, Ph. D. , Freiburg im Breisgau.
Alexander Barclay. Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff. Barclay's
additions to Brant. The influence of The Ship of Fools.
Barclay's Eclogues. John Skelton. Phyllyp Sparowe. The
Bouge of Courte. Colyn Clout. Speke, Parrot. Why come
ye nat to courte? Magnyfycence. Characteristics of Skelton.
German influence on English literature. English protestant
dialogues. Grobianus
56
CHAPTER V
THE' PROGRESS OF SOCIAL LITERATURE IN TUDOR TIMES
By HAROLD V. ROUTH, M. A. , Peterhouse, Professor
of Latin in Trinity College, Toronto.
Cocke Lorell's bote. Mock testaments. Fraternities, orders and
dances of death. The boke of Mayd Emlyn. Widow Edith.
Satires and disquisitions on women. The Schole-house of women.
The Proude Wyves Paternoster. Jest-books. The Geystes of
Skoggan. Howleglass. Riddles and broadsides. Transition of
society. The Complaynt of Roderyck Mors. Robert Crowley.
The Hye Way to the Spyttel Hous. Awdeley's Fraternitye of
vacabones. Harman's Caveat. Cosmopolitanism. Andrew Boorde.
William Bullein. A Dialogue against the Fever Pestilence.
Superstition in the sixteenth century. Scot's Discoverie of Witch-
craft.
83
CHAPTER VI
SIR DAVID LYNDSAY
AND THE LATER SCOTTISH 'MAKARIS'
By T. F. HENDERSON.
The Dreme. The Testament and Complaynt of our Soverane
Lordis Papyngo. Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis.
Minor poets. Sir Richard Maitland. Alexander Scott. Alexander
Montgomerie
115
.
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Contents
ix
CHAPTER VII
PAGE
BEFORMATION AND RENASCENCE IN SCOTLAND
By P. HUME BROWN, M. A. , LL. D. , Scottish Historiographer Royal;
Professor of Ancient (Scottish) History and Palaeography in
the University of Edinburgh.
The reformation in Scotland. Patrick Hamilton. Alexander Alane.
Plays. The Gude and Godlie Ballatis. John Knox. Historie
of the reformatioun in Scotland. Robert Lindesay of Pitscottie.
The Diary of Mr James Melville. Historians. Political ballads.
John Major. The Complaynt of Scotland. Ninian Winzet.
John Leslie. Hector Boece. George Buchanan
138
.
CHAPTER VIII
THE NEW ENGLISH POETRY
By HAROLD H. CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose
College, Oxford.
Tottel's Miscellany. Sir Thomas Wyatt. Wyatt's sonnets. Wyatt's
treatment of love. Wyatt's epigrams, satires and devotional pieces.
Henry Howard, earl of Surrey. "Poulter's measure. Surrey's
translations from Vergil and blank verse. Nicholas Grimald.
Thomas lord Vaux. 'Uncertain' authors in Tottel's Miscellany.
Thomas Churchyard. Thomas Tusser. Barnabe Googe. George
Turbervile. Thomas Howell. Humfrey Gifford. Miscellanies.
The Paradyse of Daynty Devises. A Gorgious Gallery of
Gallant Inventions. A Handefull of pleasant delites
166
CHAPTER IX
A MIRROR FOR MAGISTRATES
By John W. CUNLIFFE, M. A. , D. Lit. (London), Professor of English
in the University of Wisconsin, U. S. A.
The original design. Contents of the parts. Its popularity and
influence. Sackville
192
.
CHAPTER X
GEORGE GASCOIGNE
By John W. CUNLIFFE.
His life. The Posies. His later works. His achievements
201
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х
Contents
CHAPTER XI
THE POETRY OF SPENSER
PAGE
By W. J. COURTHOPE, C. B. , D. Litt. , LL. D. , New College, Oxford.
Spenser's family. Gabriel Harvey. Platonism in Spenser's love
poems. Spenser and Ficino. Spenser and Harvey. The Shepheards
Calender. Spenser's literary obligations to Mantuan, Vergil and
Marot. Vocabulary of The Shepheards Calender. The Faerie
Queene. Its design. Orlando Furioso. Allegory in The Faerie
Queene. The knight in the social organism. Spenser as a word-
painter and as a metrical musician. His Complaints. Colin
Clouts Come Home Again. The later Hymnes. Summary view
of Spenser's genius
211
CHAPTER XII
THE ELIZABETHAN SONNET
By SIDNEY LEE, D. Litt. Oxford.
The model of construction. French influences Marot. Ronsard.
Du Bellay. Spenser and his French masters. The influence of
Petrarch. Thomas Watson. Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and
Stella. Spenser's Amoretti. The sonneteering conceit of im-
mortality. Constable's Diana. Daniel. Lodge. Drayton. Richard
Barnfield. Barnabe Barnes. Giles Fletcher. Sir William Alexander.
Drummond of Hawthornden. Elizabethan critics of the sonnet.
The sonnet of compliment
247
CHAPTER XIII
PROSODY FROM CHAUCER TO SPENSER
By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M. A. , Merton College, Oxford, Professor
of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of
Edinburgh.
The prosody of the fourteenth century. Piers Plowman. The staple
of English poetry. Chaucer and his successors. 'Doggerel. ' The
influence of music. Wyatt and Surrey. Sackville. The drama.
The Shepheards Calender. Spenser's mission
273
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Contents
xi
CHAPTER XIV
PAGE
ELIZABETHAN CRITICISM
By GEORGE SAINTSBURY.
Caxton's prefaces. Ascham. The Spenser and Harvey letters.
Stanyhurst. Gascoigne's Notes of Instruction. Sir Philip Sidney's
Apologie for Poetrie. William Webbe's Discourse of English
Poetrie. The Arte of English Poesie. Sir John Harington.
The Harvey Nashe controversy. Campion. Daniel. Summary . 289
CHAPTER XV
CHRONICLERS AND ANTIQUARIES
By CHARLES WHIBLEY, Jesus College.
Edward Hall. Raphael Holinshed. Harrison's Description of
England. John Stow. John Speed. William Camden. John
Leland. Sir Thomas Smith. John Foxe. The history of King
Richard the thirde. George Cavendish. Sir John Hayward
313
CHAPTER XVI
ELIZABETHAN PROSE FICTION
By J. W. A. ATKINS, M. A. , Fellow of St John's College, Professor
of English Language and Literature, University College of
Wales, Aberystwyth.
Earlier native types. The influence of translators. John Lyly. Euphues.
Euphuism. Lyly's influence. Robert Greene. Sir Philip Sidney.
Arcadia. Its style and influence. Greene's romances. Thomas
Lodge. Rosalynde. Emanuel Ford. Nicholas Breton. Anthony
Munday. Greene's autobiographical and realistic work. Thomas
Nashe. The Unfortunate Traveller. Its literary qualities.
Characteristics of Nashe's prose. Thomas Deloney. Thomas of
Reading. Jack of Newbury. The Gentle Craft. Deloney's
literary characteristics. General summary
339
CHAPTER XVII
THE MABPRELATE CONTROVERSY
By J. DOVER WILSON, M. A. , Gonville and Caius College, Lector
in English in the University of Helsingfors, Finland.
The origin of the controversy. Penry's Aequity and Udall's Diotrephes.
The story of the press. The style and character of the tracts. The
Epistle and The Epitome. The Minerall Conclusions. Hay any
worke for Cooper ? Martin Junior. Martin Senior. The
Protestation. The authorship of the tracts. The theological
reply to Martin. The dramatic and literary replies. The
pamphlots of the Harveys. The Harvey Nashe Greene con-
troversy. Martin's literary influence .
374
.
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xii
Contents
CHAPTER XVIII
PAGE
OF THE LAWS OF ECCLESIASTICAL POLITY
By the Rev. F. J. FOAKES-JACKSON, D. D. , Fellow and
Assistant Tutor of Jesus College.
The Elizabethan settlement. Calvin. The Admonition to Parliament.
The puritan position. Richard Hooker. The preface to the Polity.
Varieties of law. Hooker's literary power. His place in the re-
formation. The position of his book in literature .
399
CHAPTER XIX
ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES, SCHOOLS AND SCHOLARSHIP
IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
By W. H. WOODWARD, Christ Church, Oxford, sometime Professor
of Education in the University of Liverpool.
Universities under Edward VI and Mary. The accession of Elizabeth.
Civil law at the universities. English learning in the sixteenth
century. Edinburgh University, Trinity College, Dublin, and
Gresham College. English schools under Elizabeth. The school
curriculum. John Cheke. Thomas Wilson. The Arte of Rhetorique.
Roger Ascham. Richard Mulcaster. Il Cortegiano of Castiglione 418
CHAPTER XX
THE LANGUAGE FROM CHAUCER TO SHAKESPEARE
By J. W. H. ATKINS.
Fifteenth century changes in vocabulary. Elizabethan English.
Growing importance of the vernacular. Conservatism and reform.
Classical influence. Influence of Romance languages. Literary
influence on the vocabulary. Results of loss of inflections.
Influences on Elizabethan idiom. Elizabethan pronunciation.
Elizabethan English as a literary medium. Its musical resources.
Elizabethan and modern English
439
466
.
Bibliographies.
Table of principal dates
Index.
557
562
## p. xiii (#19) ############################################
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
VOLUME III. RENASCENCE AND REFORMATION
Second Impression, 1918, Corrections and Additions
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. 14, 11. 3—5 omit Such. . . Europe, and
p. 42, ll. 16-18 for Latimer had. . . urged it. read Latimer joined his fellow com-
missioners (1530) in deprecating the publication of an English version; a letter to the
king (December 1530) urging it has been wrongly ascribed to him.
p. 45, 11. 21–22 for soon. . . appeared read after 1629, when we have the first example
p. 130, 1. 2 after cardinal Beaton, the following words have been added and printed,
probably,
p. 137, 1. 7 after James VI, who, the following phrase has been inserted in 1585,
published Essayes of a Prentise, and, in 1591, Poeticall Exercises
p. 171, 11. 27–28 omit the close. . . St Gelays, or
p. 208, 11. 6—28 for In the dedication. . . short of proof. read
In the dedication of The Droomme of Doomesday, Gascoigne wrote (2 May 1576) that
he was 'in weake plight for health as your good L. well knoweth,' and he was unable,
through illness, to correct the proofs. He was again ill for some months before his
death on 7 October 1577. . But, between these two illnesses he evidently recovered
sufficiently to be sent on a mission from the privy council to the English merchant
adventurers in Antwerp. He wrote to the lord treasurer from Paris on his way on
15 September 1576 and again on 7 October, and in November he received twenty
pounds for bringinge of Letters in for her Majesties affaires frome Andwarpe to
Hampton Court. In the same montb, his printer issued anonymously, although
seene and allowed,' The Spoyle of Antwerp Faithfully reported by a true Englishman,
who was present at the same. Recent events in Belgium lend the pamphlet a special
interest, but, apart from these painful associations, it is a craftsmanlike piece of
reporting, giving Gascoigne an additional claim to our attention as the first English
war correspondent. His authorship of the pamphlet, which was for a long time held
doubtful, was recently established beyond question by a comparison of the signatures
of the letters preserved in the Record office with that of George Gascoigne in the
manuscript of Hemetes the heremyte; they are undoubtedly identical1.
See the facsimiles published in Mod. Lang. Rev. vol. vi, p. 90 (January 1911).
p. 319, 1. 20 omit two Jesuits before Richard Stanyburst
p. 376, 1, 17 omit the line following black-letter [extremely like that used by him
later for the Marprelate tracts]
p. 378, 1. 21 for held the living of read was a preacher at
1. 28 after house omit 'outside Temple Bar'
1. 30 insert pica before type
1. 31 after confiscated omit and destroyed
a
## p.
Professor of Ecclesiastical History, King's College, London.
Simon Fish. Erasmus and Cambridge. Aspects of the reformation.
The Book of Common Prayer. Evolution of the prayer-book.
Thomas Cranmer. His influence. The Homilies. Hugh Latimer.
His sermons. William Tindale. The Bible in English. Miles
Coverdale. The Great Bible. The Scots New Testament.
Hymns. Sternhold and Hopkins. Results of the reformation
period
25
CHAPTER III
THE DISSOLUTION OF THE RELIGIOUS HOUSES
By the Rev. R. H. BENSON, M. A. , Trinity College.
Destruction of books and of opportunities for study. Decrease of
scholarship. New methods of thought, New channels of inter-
course. Antiquarian study
48
## p. viii (#14) ############################################
viii
Contents
CHAPTER IV
BARCLAY AND SKELTON
EARLY GERMAN INFLUENCES ON ENGLISH LITERATURE
PAGE
By ARTHUR KOELBING, Ph. D. , Freiburg im Breisgau.
Alexander Barclay. Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff. Barclay's
additions to Brant. The influence of The Ship of Fools.
Barclay's Eclogues. John Skelton. Phyllyp Sparowe. The
Bouge of Courte. Colyn Clout. Speke, Parrot. Why come
ye nat to courte? Magnyfycence. Characteristics of Skelton.
German influence on English literature. English protestant
dialogues. Grobianus
56
CHAPTER V
THE' PROGRESS OF SOCIAL LITERATURE IN TUDOR TIMES
By HAROLD V. ROUTH, M. A. , Peterhouse, Professor
of Latin in Trinity College, Toronto.
Cocke Lorell's bote. Mock testaments. Fraternities, orders and
dances of death. The boke of Mayd Emlyn. Widow Edith.
Satires and disquisitions on women. The Schole-house of women.
The Proude Wyves Paternoster. Jest-books. The Geystes of
Skoggan. Howleglass. Riddles and broadsides. Transition of
society. The Complaynt of Roderyck Mors. Robert Crowley.
The Hye Way to the Spyttel Hous. Awdeley's Fraternitye of
vacabones. Harman's Caveat. Cosmopolitanism. Andrew Boorde.
William Bullein. A Dialogue against the Fever Pestilence.
Superstition in the sixteenth century. Scot's Discoverie of Witch-
craft.
83
CHAPTER VI
SIR DAVID LYNDSAY
AND THE LATER SCOTTISH 'MAKARIS'
By T. F. HENDERSON.
The Dreme. The Testament and Complaynt of our Soverane
Lordis Papyngo. Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis.
Minor poets. Sir Richard Maitland. Alexander Scott. Alexander
Montgomerie
115
.
## p. ix (#15) ##############################################
Contents
ix
CHAPTER VII
PAGE
BEFORMATION AND RENASCENCE IN SCOTLAND
By P. HUME BROWN, M. A. , LL. D. , Scottish Historiographer Royal;
Professor of Ancient (Scottish) History and Palaeography in
the University of Edinburgh.
The reformation in Scotland. Patrick Hamilton. Alexander Alane.
Plays. The Gude and Godlie Ballatis. John Knox. Historie
of the reformatioun in Scotland. Robert Lindesay of Pitscottie.
The Diary of Mr James Melville. Historians. Political ballads.
John Major. The Complaynt of Scotland. Ninian Winzet.
John Leslie. Hector Boece. George Buchanan
138
.
CHAPTER VIII
THE NEW ENGLISH POETRY
By HAROLD H. CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose
College, Oxford.
Tottel's Miscellany. Sir Thomas Wyatt. Wyatt's sonnets. Wyatt's
treatment of love. Wyatt's epigrams, satires and devotional pieces.
Henry Howard, earl of Surrey. "Poulter's measure. Surrey's
translations from Vergil and blank verse. Nicholas Grimald.
Thomas lord Vaux. 'Uncertain' authors in Tottel's Miscellany.
Thomas Churchyard. Thomas Tusser. Barnabe Googe. George
Turbervile. Thomas Howell. Humfrey Gifford. Miscellanies.
The Paradyse of Daynty Devises. A Gorgious Gallery of
Gallant Inventions. A Handefull of pleasant delites
166
CHAPTER IX
A MIRROR FOR MAGISTRATES
By John W. CUNLIFFE, M. A. , D. Lit. (London), Professor of English
in the University of Wisconsin, U. S. A.
The original design. Contents of the parts. Its popularity and
influence. Sackville
192
.
CHAPTER X
GEORGE GASCOIGNE
By John W. CUNLIFFE.
His life. The Posies. His later works. His achievements
201
## p. x (#16) ###############################################
х
Contents
CHAPTER XI
THE POETRY OF SPENSER
PAGE
By W. J. COURTHOPE, C. B. , D. Litt. , LL. D. , New College, Oxford.
Spenser's family. Gabriel Harvey. Platonism in Spenser's love
poems. Spenser and Ficino. Spenser and Harvey. The Shepheards
Calender. Spenser's literary obligations to Mantuan, Vergil and
Marot. Vocabulary of The Shepheards Calender. The Faerie
Queene. Its design. Orlando Furioso. Allegory in The Faerie
Queene. The knight in the social organism. Spenser as a word-
painter and as a metrical musician. His Complaints. Colin
Clouts Come Home Again. The later Hymnes. Summary view
of Spenser's genius
211
CHAPTER XII
THE ELIZABETHAN SONNET
By SIDNEY LEE, D. Litt. Oxford.
The model of construction. French influences Marot. Ronsard.
Du Bellay. Spenser and his French masters. The influence of
Petrarch. Thomas Watson. Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and
Stella. Spenser's Amoretti. The sonneteering conceit of im-
mortality. Constable's Diana. Daniel. Lodge. Drayton. Richard
Barnfield. Barnabe Barnes. Giles Fletcher. Sir William Alexander.
Drummond of Hawthornden. Elizabethan critics of the sonnet.
The sonnet of compliment
247
CHAPTER XIII
PROSODY FROM CHAUCER TO SPENSER
By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M. A. , Merton College, Oxford, Professor
of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of
Edinburgh.
The prosody of the fourteenth century. Piers Plowman. The staple
of English poetry. Chaucer and his successors. 'Doggerel. ' The
influence of music. Wyatt and Surrey. Sackville. The drama.
The Shepheards Calender. Spenser's mission
273
## p. xi (#17) ##############################################
Contents
xi
CHAPTER XIV
PAGE
ELIZABETHAN CRITICISM
By GEORGE SAINTSBURY.
Caxton's prefaces. Ascham. The Spenser and Harvey letters.
Stanyhurst. Gascoigne's Notes of Instruction. Sir Philip Sidney's
Apologie for Poetrie. William Webbe's Discourse of English
Poetrie. The Arte of English Poesie. Sir John Harington.
The Harvey Nashe controversy. Campion. Daniel. Summary . 289
CHAPTER XV
CHRONICLERS AND ANTIQUARIES
By CHARLES WHIBLEY, Jesus College.
Edward Hall. Raphael Holinshed. Harrison's Description of
England. John Stow. John Speed. William Camden. John
Leland. Sir Thomas Smith. John Foxe. The history of King
Richard the thirde. George Cavendish. Sir John Hayward
313
CHAPTER XVI
ELIZABETHAN PROSE FICTION
By J. W. A. ATKINS, M. A. , Fellow of St John's College, Professor
of English Language and Literature, University College of
Wales, Aberystwyth.
Earlier native types. The influence of translators. John Lyly. Euphues.
Euphuism. Lyly's influence. Robert Greene. Sir Philip Sidney.
Arcadia. Its style and influence. Greene's romances. Thomas
Lodge. Rosalynde. Emanuel Ford. Nicholas Breton. Anthony
Munday. Greene's autobiographical and realistic work. Thomas
Nashe. The Unfortunate Traveller. Its literary qualities.
Characteristics of Nashe's prose. Thomas Deloney. Thomas of
Reading. Jack of Newbury. The Gentle Craft. Deloney's
literary characteristics. General summary
339
CHAPTER XVII
THE MABPRELATE CONTROVERSY
By J. DOVER WILSON, M. A. , Gonville and Caius College, Lector
in English in the University of Helsingfors, Finland.
The origin of the controversy. Penry's Aequity and Udall's Diotrephes.
The story of the press. The style and character of the tracts. The
Epistle and The Epitome. The Minerall Conclusions. Hay any
worke for Cooper ? Martin Junior. Martin Senior. The
Protestation. The authorship of the tracts. The theological
reply to Martin. The dramatic and literary replies. The
pamphlots of the Harveys. The Harvey Nashe Greene con-
troversy. Martin's literary influence .
374
.
## p. xii (#18) #############################################
xii
Contents
CHAPTER XVIII
PAGE
OF THE LAWS OF ECCLESIASTICAL POLITY
By the Rev. F. J. FOAKES-JACKSON, D. D. , Fellow and
Assistant Tutor of Jesus College.
The Elizabethan settlement. Calvin. The Admonition to Parliament.
The puritan position. Richard Hooker. The preface to the Polity.
Varieties of law. Hooker's literary power. His place in the re-
formation. The position of his book in literature .
399
CHAPTER XIX
ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES, SCHOOLS AND SCHOLARSHIP
IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
By W. H. WOODWARD, Christ Church, Oxford, sometime Professor
of Education in the University of Liverpool.
Universities under Edward VI and Mary. The accession of Elizabeth.
Civil law at the universities. English learning in the sixteenth
century. Edinburgh University, Trinity College, Dublin, and
Gresham College. English schools under Elizabeth. The school
curriculum. John Cheke. Thomas Wilson. The Arte of Rhetorique.
Roger Ascham. Richard Mulcaster. Il Cortegiano of Castiglione 418
CHAPTER XX
THE LANGUAGE FROM CHAUCER TO SHAKESPEARE
By J. W. H. ATKINS.
Fifteenth century changes in vocabulary. Elizabethan English.
Growing importance of the vernacular. Conservatism and reform.
Classical influence. Influence of Romance languages. Literary
influence on the vocabulary. Results of loss of inflections.
Influences on Elizabethan idiom. Elizabethan pronunciation.
Elizabethan English as a literary medium. Its musical resources.
Elizabethan and modern English
439
466
.
Bibliographies.
Table of principal dates
Index.
557
562
## p. xiii (#19) ############################################
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
VOLUME III. RENASCENCE AND REFORMATION
Second Impression, 1918, Corrections and Additions
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. 14, 11. 3—5 omit Such. . . Europe, and
p. 42, ll. 16-18 for Latimer had. . . urged it. read Latimer joined his fellow com-
missioners (1530) in deprecating the publication of an English version; a letter to the
king (December 1530) urging it has been wrongly ascribed to him.
p. 45, 11. 21–22 for soon. . . appeared read after 1629, when we have the first example
p. 130, 1. 2 after cardinal Beaton, the following words have been added and printed,
probably,
p. 137, 1. 7 after James VI, who, the following phrase has been inserted in 1585,
published Essayes of a Prentise, and, in 1591, Poeticall Exercises
p. 171, 11. 27–28 omit the close. . . St Gelays, or
p. 208, 11. 6—28 for In the dedication. . . short of proof. read
In the dedication of The Droomme of Doomesday, Gascoigne wrote (2 May 1576) that
he was 'in weake plight for health as your good L. well knoweth,' and he was unable,
through illness, to correct the proofs. He was again ill for some months before his
death on 7 October 1577. . But, between these two illnesses he evidently recovered
sufficiently to be sent on a mission from the privy council to the English merchant
adventurers in Antwerp. He wrote to the lord treasurer from Paris on his way on
15 September 1576 and again on 7 October, and in November he received twenty
pounds for bringinge of Letters in for her Majesties affaires frome Andwarpe to
Hampton Court. In the same montb, his printer issued anonymously, although
seene and allowed,' The Spoyle of Antwerp Faithfully reported by a true Englishman,
who was present at the same. Recent events in Belgium lend the pamphlet a special
interest, but, apart from these painful associations, it is a craftsmanlike piece of
reporting, giving Gascoigne an additional claim to our attention as the first English
war correspondent. His authorship of the pamphlet, which was for a long time held
doubtful, was recently established beyond question by a comparison of the signatures
of the letters preserved in the Record office with that of George Gascoigne in the
manuscript of Hemetes the heremyte; they are undoubtedly identical1.
See the facsimiles published in Mod. Lang. Rev. vol. vi, p. 90 (January 1911).
p. 319, 1. 20 omit two Jesuits before Richard Stanyburst
p. 376, 1, 17 omit the line following black-letter [extremely like that used by him
later for the Marprelate tracts]
p. 378, 1. 21 for held the living of read was a preacher at
1. 28 after house omit 'outside Temple Bar'
1. 30 insert pica before type
1. 31 after confiscated omit and destroyed
a
## p.
