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ABRAHAM FRAUNCE (c. 1558-1633)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 43 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABRAHAM See also:FRAUNCE (c. 1558-1633)  , See also:English poet, a native of See also:Shropshire, was See also:born between 1558 and 156o . His name was registered as a See also:pupil of See also:Shrewsbury School in See also:January 1571/2, and he joined St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, in 1576, becoming a See also:fellow in 158o/81 . His Latin See also:comedy of See also:Victoria, dedicated to See also:Sidney, was probably written at Cambridge, where he remained until he had taken his M.A. degree in 1583 . He was called to the See also:bar at See also:Gray's See also:Inn in 1588, and then apparently practised as a See also:barrister in the See also:court of the Welsh See also:marches . After the See also:death of his See also:patron See also:Sir See also:Philip Sidney, See also:Fraunce was protected by Sidney's See also:sister See also:Mary, countess of See also:Pembroke . His last See also:work was published in 1592, and we have no further knowledge of him until 1633, when he is said to have written an See also:Epithalamium in See also:honour of the See also:marriage of See also:Lady Magdalen See also:Egerton, 7th daughter of the See also:earl of See also:Bridgwater, whose service he may possibly have entered . His See also:works are: The See also:Lamentations of Amintas for the death ,f Phyllis (1587), a version in English hexameters of his friend's, See also:Thomas See also:Watson's, Latin Amyntas; The Lawiers Logike, exemplifying the praecepts of Logike by the practise of the See also:common Lame (1588); Arcadian Rhetorike (1588); Abrahami Fransi Insignium, Armorum . . . explicatio (1588); The Countess of Pembroke's Yvychurch (1591/2), containing a See also:translation of See also:Tasso's Aminta, a reprint of his earlier version of Watson, " The Lamentation of See also:Corydon for the love of See also:Alexis " (See also:Virgil, See also:eclogue ii.), a See also:short translation from See also:Heliodorus, and, in the third See also:part (1592) " Aminta's See also:Dale," a collection of " conceited " tales supposed to be related by the See also:nymphs of Ivychurch; The Countess of Pembroke's Emanuell (1591); The Third Part of the Countess of Pembroke's Ivychurch, entituled Aminta's Dale (1J02) . His Arcadian Rhetorike owes much to earlier See also:critical See also:treatises, but has a See also:special See also:interest from its references to See also:Spenser, and Fraunce quotes from the Faerie Queene a See also:year before the publication of the first books . In " See also:Colin Clout's come See also:home again," Spenser speaks of Fraunce as Corydon, on See also:account of his See also:translations of Virgil's second eclogue . His poems are written in classical metres, and he was regarded by his contemporaries as the best exponent of See also:Gabriel See also:Harvey's theory . Even Thomas See also:Nashe had a See also:good word for " sweete See also:Master See also:France." The Countess of Pembroke's Emanuell, hexameters on the nativity and See also:passion of See also:Christ, with versions of some See also:psalms, were reprinted by Dr A .

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Grosart in the third See also:volume of his Miscellanies of the See also:Fuller Worthies Library (1872) . See also:Joseph See also:Hunter in his See also:Chorus Vatum stated that five of Fraunce's songs were included in Sidney's Asire phel and Stella, but it is probable that these should be attributed not to Fraunce, but to Thomas See also:Campion . See a See also:life prefixed to the transcription of a MS . Latin comedy by Fraunce, Victoria, by See also:Professor G . C . See also:Moore See also:Smith, published in See also:Bang's Materialien zur Kunde See also:des alteren englischen Dramas, vol. xiv., 1906 .

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