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BARNABE RICH (c. 1540-1617)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 292 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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:king of Scots, prudently changed after the See also:accession of See also:James I. to the ".See also:Grand Turk." The See also:Strange and Wonderful Adventures of See also:Don See also:Simonides (1581), with its sequel (1584), is written in See also:imitation of See also:Lyly . Among his other romances should be mentioned The Adventures of Brusanus, See also:prince of Hungaria (1592) . His authenticated See also:works number twenty-four, and include works on Ireland, the troubles of which were, according to him, due to the See also:religion of the See also:people and to the lack of consistency and firmness on the part of the English See also:government . Such are: Allarme to See also:England (1578) ; A New Description of Ireland (Oro) ; The Irish Hubbub, or the English See also:Hue and Crie (1617), in which he also inveighs against the use of See also:tobacco . See " Introduction " to the Shakespeare Society's reprint of Riche his Farewell (1846) ; P . See also:Cunningham's " Introduction " to Rich's Honesty of this See also:Age (reprinted for the See also:Percy Society, 1844); and the life by S . See also:Lee in the See also:Dictionary of See also:National See also:Biography .

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