See also:

• NASHE (or NASH), THOMAS (1567-1601)

NASHE (or See also:

• NASH, RICHARD (1674-1762)

NASH), See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

THOMAS (1567-1601)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English poet, playwright and pamphleteer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• LOWESTOFT

Lowestoft in 1567 . His See also:

• FATHER

father belonged to an old See also:

• HEREFORDSHIRE

Herefordshire See also:

• FAMILY

family, and is vaguely described as a " See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister," See also:

• NASHE (or NASH), THOMAS (1567-1601)

Nashe spent nearly seven years, 1582 to 1589, at St See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John's See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge, taking his B.A. degree in 1585-1586 . On Ieaving the university he tried, like See also:

• GREENE, GEORGE WASHINGTON (1811-1883)
• GREENE, MAURICE (1695-1755)
• GREENE, NATHANAEL (1742-1786)
• GREENE, ROBERT (c. 1560-1592)

Greene and See also:

• MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER (1564-1593)
• MARLOWE, JULIA [SARAH FRANCES FROST] (1870– )

Marlowe, to make his living in See also:

• LONDON

London byliterature . It is probable that his first effort was The Anatomic of Absurditie (1589) which was perhaps written at Cambridge, although he refers to it as a forthcoming publication in his See also:

• PREFACE (Med. Lat. prefatia, for classical praefatio, praefari, to speak beforehand)

preface to Greene's Menaphon (1589) . In this preface, addressed to the gentlemen students of both See also:

• UNIVERSITIES

universities, he makes boisterous ridicule of the bombast of See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas See also:

• KYD, THOMAS (1558-1594)

Kyd and the English hexameters of See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

Richard Stanihurst, but does not forget the praise of many See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good books . Nashe was really a journalist born out of due See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time; he boasts of See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing " as fast as his See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand could trot "; he had a brilliant and picturesque See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style which, he was careful to explain, was entirely See also:

• ORIGINAL

original; and in addition to his keen sense of the ridiculous he had an abundance of See also:

• MISCELLANEOUS

miscellaneous learning . As there was no See also:

• MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market for his gifts he fared no better than the other university wits who were trying to live by letters . But he found an opening for his ready wit and keen See also:

• SARCASM

sarcasm in the See also:

• MARTIN (Martinus)
• MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
• MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
• MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
• MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
• MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
• MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
• MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
• MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
• MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
• MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)

Martin Marprelate controversy . His See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share in this See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war of See also:

• PAMPHLETS

pamphlets cannot now be accurately determined, but he has, with more or less See also:

• PROBABILITY (Lat. probabilis, probable or credible)

probability, been credited with the following: A Countercufjegiven to Martin Junior (r58g), Martins Months See also:

• MENDE

Mende (1589), The Return of the renowned Cavaliero Pasquill and his See also:

• MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

Meeting with Marforius (1589), The First Parte of Pasquils Apologie (1590), and An See also:

• ALMOND (from the O. Fr. almande or alemande, late Lat. amandola, derived through a form amingdola from the Gr. l uybian, an almond; the al- for a- is probably due to a confusion with the Arabic article al, the word having first dropped the a- as in the It

Almond for a Parrat (159o) . He edited an unauthorized edition of See also:

• SIDNEY
• SIDNEY (or SYDNEY), ALGERNON (1622-1683)
• SIDNEY, SIR HENRY (1529-1586)
• SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP (1554-1586)

Sidney's poems with an enthusiastic preface in 1591, and A Wonderfull Astrologicall Prognostication, in ridicule of the See also:

• ALMANAC

almanac-makers, by " See also:

• ADAM
• ADAM (or ADAN) DE LE HALE (died c. 1288)
• ADAM, ALEXANDER (1741–1809)
• ADAM, JULIETTE (1836– )
• ADAM, LAMBERT SIGISBERT (1700-1759)
• ADAM, MELCHIOR (d. 1622)
• ADAM, PAUL (1862– )
• ADAM, ROBERT (1728—1792)
• ADAM, SIR FREDERICK (1781-1853)
• ADAM, WILLIAM (1751-1839)

Adam Fouleweather," which appeared in the same See also:

• YEAR

year, has been attributed to him . See also:

• PIERCE, FRANKLIN (1804—1869)

Pierce Penilesse, His Supplication to the Divell, published in 1592, shows us his See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power as a humorous critic of See also:

• NATIONAL

national See also:

• MANNERS, CHARLES (1857– )

manners, and tells incidentally how hard he found it to live by the See also:

• PEN (Lat. penna, a feather, pen)

pen . It seems to Pierce a monstrous thing that brainless drudges See also:

• WAX

wax See also:

• FAT (O.E. fdett; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vet, Ger. Fett, &c., and may be ultimately related to Greek Irian, and =apos, and Sanskrit pivan)

fat while " the seven liberal sciences and a good See also:

• LEG
• LEG (a word of Scandinavian origin, from the Old Norwegian leggr, cf. Swed. lagg, Dan. laeg; the O. Eng. word was sceanca, shank)

leg will scarce get a See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar See also:

• BREAD

bread and See also:

• CHEESE (Lat. caseus)

cheese." In this pamphlet, too, Nashe began his attacks upon the Harveys by assailing Richard, who had written contemptuously of his preface to Greene's Menaphon .

Greene died in See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1592, and Richard's See also:

• BROTHER

brother, See also:

• GABRIEL (Heb. SKns, man of God)

Gabriel See also:

• HARVEY
• HARVEY, GABRIEL (c. 1545-1630)
• HARVEY, SIR GEORGE (1806-1876)
• HARVEY, WILLIAM (1578—1657)

Harvey, at once attacked his memory in his Foure Letters, at the same time adversely criticizing Pierce Penilesse . Nashe replied, both for Greene and for himself, in See also:

• STRANGE, SIR ROBERT (1721-1792)

Strange Newes of the intercepting certaine Letters, better known, from the See also:

• RUNNING

running See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title, as Foure Letters Confuted (1592), in which all the Harveys are violently attacked . The autumn of 1592 Nashe seems to have spent at or near See also:

• CROYDON

Croydon, where he wrote his satirical masque of Summers Last Will and Testament at a safe distance from London and the See also:

• PLAGUE (in Gr. Xotµos; in Lat. pestis, pestilentia)

plague . He afterwards lived for some months in the Isle of See also:

• WIGHT, ISLE OF

Wight under the patronage of See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George See also:

• CAREY, HENRY (d. 1743)
• CAREY, HENRY CHARLES (1793-1879)
• CAREY, WILLIAM (1761-1834)

Carey, the See also:

• GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

governor . In 1593 he wrote Christs Teares over See also:

• JERUSALEM (Heb. ^S0-r, Yerushalaim, pronounced as a dual)
• JERUSALEM, SYNOD OF (1672)

Jerusalem, in the first edition of which he made friendly overtures to Gabriel Harvey . These were, however, in a second edition, published in the following year, replaced by a new attack, and two years later appeared the most violent of his tracts against Harvey, Have with you to See also:

• SAFFRON (Arab. za'faran)

Saffron-See also:

• WALDEN, ROGER (d. 1406)

walden, or, Gabriell Harveys See also:

• HUNT, ALFRED WILLIAM (183o-1896)
• HUNT, HENRY (1i73-1835)
• HUNT, HENRY JACKSON (1819-1889)
• HUNT, JAMES HENRY LEIGH (1784-1859)
• HUNT, ROBERT (1807-1887)
• HUNT, THOMAS STERRY (1826-1892)
• HUNT, WILLIAM HENRY (1790—1864)
• HUNT, WILLIAM HOLMAN (1827-1910)
• HUNT, WILLIAM MORRIS (1824-1879)

Hunt is up (1596) . In 1599 the controversy was suppressed by the See also:

• ARCHBISHOP (Lat. archiepiscopus, from Gr. apxceatorcoros)

archbishop of See also:

• CANTERBURY
• CANTERBURY, CHARLES

Canterbury . After Marlowe's See also:

• DEATH

death Nashe prepared his friend's unfinished tragedy of See also:

• DIDO, or ELISSA

Dido (1596) for the See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage . In the next year he was in trouble for a See also:

• PLAY

play, now lost, called The Isle of See also:

• DOGS, ISLE OF

Dogs, for only See also:

• PART

part of which, however, he seems to have been responsible . The " seditious and slanderous See also:

• MATTER

matter " contained in this play induced the authorities to See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close for a time the See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre at which it had been performed, and the dramatist was put in the See also:

• FLEET

Fleet See also:

• PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison . Besides his pamphlets and his play-writing, Nashe turned his energies to novel-writing . He may be regarded as the See also:

• PIONEER

pioneer in the English novel of See also:

• ADVENTURE (from Lat. res adventura, a thing about to happen)

adventure .

He published in 1594 The Unfortunate Traveller, Or the See also:

• LIFE

Life of See also:

• JACK

Jack See also:

• WILTON

Wilton, the See also:

• HISTORY

history of an ingenious See also:

• PAGE
• PAGE, THOMAS NELSON (1853- )
• PAGE, WILLIAM (1811-1885)

page who was See also:

• PRESENT

present at the See also:

• SIEGE (0. Fr. sege, siege, mod. siege, seat, ultimately from sedere, to sit, cf. Class. Lat. obsidium, a siege)

siege of Terouenne, and afterwards travelled in See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy with the See also:

• EARL

earl of See also:

• SURREY
• SURREY, EARLDOM OF
• SURREY, HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF (1518?-1547)

Surrey . It tells the See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story of the earl and See also:

• FAIR

Fair Geraldine, describes a See also:

• TOURNAMENT, or TOURNEY (Fr. tournement, tournoi, Med. Lat. torneamentum, from tourner, to turn)

tournament held by Surrey at See also:

• FLORENCE
• FLORENCE (Ital. Firenze, Lat. Florentia)

Florence, and relates the adventures of Wilton and his See also:

• MISTRESS

mistress See also:

• DIAMANTE, FRA
• DIAMANTE, JUAN BAUTISTA (164o ?-1684 ?)

Diamante at See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome after the earl's return to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England . ,The detailed, realistic manner in which Nashe relates his improbable fiction resembles that of See also:

• DEFOE, DANIEL (c. 1.659—1731)

Defoe . His last See also:

• WORK

work is entitled Lenten Stuffe (1599) and is nominally " in praise of the red See also:

• HERRING (Clupea harengus, Haring in German, le hareng in French, sill in Swedish)

herring," but really a description of See also:

• YARMOUTH
• YARMOUTH (GREAT YARMOUTH)

Yarmouth, to which See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place he had retired after his imprisonment, written in the best style of a " See also:

• SPECIAL

special correspondent." Nashe's death is referred to in Thomas See also:

• DEKKER (or DECKER), THOMAS (c. 1570-1641)
• DEKKER, EDWARD DOUWES (182o-1887)
• DEKKER, JEREMIAS DE (1610-1666)

Dekker's See also:

• KNIGHT, CHARLES (1791-1873)
• KNIGHT, DANIEL RIDGWAY (1845– )
• KNIGHT, JOHN BUXTON (1843–1908)

Knight's See also:

• CONJURING

Conjuring (1607), a See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of sequel to Pierce Penilesse . He is there represented as joining his boon companions in the Elysian See also:

• FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS (1817-1881)

fields " still haunted with the See also:

• SHARP, GRANVILLE (1735-1813)
• SHARP, JAMES (1618-1679)
• SHARP, JOHN (1645-1714)
• SHARP, RICHARD (1759-1835)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1749-1824)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1856-1905)

sharp and satirical spirit that followed him here upon See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth." Had his patrons under-stood their See also:

• DUTY (from " due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, dil, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. " debt ")

duty, he would not, he said, have shortened his days by keeping See also:

• COMPANY

company with pickled See also:

• HERRINGS, BATTLE OF THE

herrings . It may therefore be reasonably supposed that he died from eating See also:

• BAD, BCD

bad and in-sufficient See also:

• FOOD
• FOOD (like the verb " to feed," from a Teutonic root, whence O. Eng. foda; cf. " fodder "; connected with Gr. lrareicOae, to feed)

food . The date of his death is fixed by an See also:

• ELEGY

elegy on him printed in Fitzgeffrey's Afaniae (1601) . The See also:

• WORKS

works of Thomas Nashe were edited by Dr A . B . See also:

• GROSART, ALEXANDER BALLOCH (1827-1899)

Grosart in 1883-1885, and more recently by Ronald B . McKerrow (1904) . An See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of his work as a novelist may be found in the English Novel in the Time of See also:

• SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616)

Shakespeare, by J .

J . See also:

• JUSSERAND, JEAN ADRIEN ANTOINE JULES (1855- )

Jusserand (Eng. trans., 189o) . The Unfortunate Traveller was edited with an introduction by See also:

• EDMUND
• EDMUND, or EADMUND (c. 980-1016)
• EDMUND, SAINT [EDMUND RICE] (d. 1240)

Edmund See also:

• GOSSE, EDMUND (1849– )
• GOSSE, PHILIP HENRY (1810–r888)

Gosse in 1892 . See also " See also:

• NASH, RICHARD (1674-1762)

Nash's Unfortunate Traveller and See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

Head's English See also:

• ROGUE

Rogue, See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die beiden Hauptvertreter See also:

• DES

des englischen Schelmenromans," by W . Kollmann in Anglia (See also:

• HALLE (known as HALLE-AN-DER-SAALE, t0 distinguish it from the small town of Halle in Westphalia)
• HALLE, SIR CHARLES (originally KARL HALLE) (1819-1895)

Halle, vol. xxu., 1899, pp . 81-140) .