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BARNABE See also:RICH (c. 1540-1617) , See also:English author and soldier, was a distant relative of See also:Lord See also:Chancellor See also:Rich . He fought in the, See also:Low Countries, rising to the See also:rank of See also:captain, and afterwards served in See also:Ireland . He shared in the colonization of See also:Ulster, and spent the latter See also:part of his See also:life near See also:Dublin . In the intervals of his See also:campaigns he produced many See also:pamphlets on See also:political questions- and romances . In 16o6 he was in See also:receipt of a See also:pension of See also:half a See also:crown a See also:day, and in 1616 he was presented with a See also:gift of £See also:loo as being the See also:oldest captain in the service . He died on the loth ' of See also:November 1617 . His best-known See also:work is Riche his Farewell to Militarie Profession conteining verie pleasaunt discourses See also:fit for a peaceable tyme (2581) . Of the eight stories contained in it, five, he says, " are forged only for delight, neither credible to be believed, nor hurtful to be perused." The three others are See also:translations from the See also:Italian . He claims as his own invention the See also:story of Apolonius and Silla, the second in the collection, from which See also:Shakespeare took the See also:plot of Twelfth See also:Night . It is, however, founded on the See also:tale of - Nicuola and Lattantio as told by Matteo See also:Bandello . The eighth, Phylotus and See also:Emilia, a complicated story arising from the likeness and disguise of a See also:brother and See also:sister, - is identical in plot with the See also:anonymous See also:play, Philotus, printed in See also:Edinburgh in 1603 . Both play and story were edited for the See also:Bannatyne See also:Club in 1835 .
In the conclusion to his collection Rich tells a story of a See also:devil named Balthaser, who possesses a See also: |
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