The
merry Prankes of Robin Goodfellow in Percy's Reliques.
merry Prankes of Robin Goodfellow in Percy's Reliques.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04
(Composed
before 1588. ) 1884, Halliwell, J. O. , Tarlton's Jests, Shakspr. Soc.
(Verse. Idea of the Ship of Fools converted into journey in cart
down Fleet Street for a puppet show. Types suggested by contemporary
London society. See Herford, C. H. , Literary Relations, chap. vi,
pp. 372 ff. )
Anon. Tarlton's Newes out of Purgatorie. n. d. (Ptd before The Cobler of
Canterburie, 1590. )
The Cobler of Canterburie. 1590. Rptd 1862, Ouvry, F. (privately ptd).
(Coll. of prose stories, mostly about cuckolds. )
Anon. Tarlton's Jests, drawn into three parts. 1. His Court-witty Jests.
2. His sound city jests. 3. His Countrey Pretty Jests. 1611 (earliest
ext. ed. , but 1st series mentioned by Nashe 1592 and 2nd series licensed
1609). Rptd 1864, Hazlitt, W. C. , Shakespr. Jest-books, vol. 11 (illustrates
the universal fame of Tarlton by quotations from contemporary authors);
1876 (? ), Ashbee, E. W. , Fac-simile reproduction (privately printed);
1884, Halliwell, J. O. , with notes and life, Shakspr. Soc.
Anon. Maroccus extaticus. Or Bankes bay horse in a trance. A discourse
ich oben
aristo
te
set downe in a merry dialogue between Bankes and bis beast; Anato-
mising some abuses and tricks of this age. 1595. (Dialogue between the
priza
34--2
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532
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animal and its master is a satire on the abuses of London life. The
horse's description of the hypocrisy of the puritan and of the landlord
particularly noteworthy, and foreshadow the character writers. )
Jack of Dover, his quest of Inquirie, or His Privy Search for the Veriest
Foole in England. 1604. 1842, Percy Soc. ; 1864, Hazlitt, W. C. , ibid. vol. 11.
Pasquils Jests, mixed with Mother Bunches Merriments. 1604, etc. ; Rptd
1864, Hazlitt, ibid.
Newes from Graves End. 1604. (Assigned by Collier, J. P. , to Dekker. )
Jests to make you merie . . . written by T. D. (Dekker? ) and George Wilkins.
1607.
Johnson, Richard. The Pleasant Walkes of Moore-fields. 1607. Rptd 1864,
Collier, J. P. , Illus. of Early Engl. Pop. Lit. , vol. 11. Pleasant Conceites
of Old Hobson. 1607. Rptd 1843, Percy Soc. ; 1864, Hazlitt, op. cit.
Anon. Merrie Conceited Jests of George Peele. 1607, etc. 1864, Hazlitt, ibid.
Munday, Anthony. Song of Robin Hood in Metropolis. (Verses on the
Guildhall Gate (see Stow's Survey, bk. III). )
The Great Frost. Cold doings in London, except it be at the Lottery. With
news out of the Country. 1608. Rptd 1903, Social Engl. Illus. , An Engl.
Garner. (An excellent piece of journalism describing the amusements
and accidents connected with the freezing of the Thames, etc. )
Armin, Robert. A nest of Ninnies. 1608. Rptd 1842, Collier, J. P. , Fools
and Jesters, Shakspr. Soc. (Records a number of jests perpetrated by
court fools. See Herford, op. cit. chap. vi, p. 375, for relation of Nest to
Ship literature of the 16th cent. , and Fool literature of the 17th. )
Pimlyco, or, Runne Red-Cap. Tis a mad world at Hogsdon. 1609. Rptd
1891, Bullen, A. H. , Antient Drolleries (no. 2).
Rowley, W. A search for money, or the lamentable complaint for the Losse
of the wandring Knight, Mounsieur l'Argent. 1609. 1840, Percy Soc.
Anon. Westward for Smelts, or, the Waterman's fare of mad merry
Western wenches whose tongues, albeit like Bell-clappers they never
leave ringing, yet their tales are sweet, and will much content you.
Written by Kinde Kit of Kingstone. 1620. Rptd 1848, Halliwell, J. O.
Taylor, John. (See D. of N. B. for full list. ]
Cold Tearme . . . or the Metamorphosis of the River of Thames. 1621.
(Ballad ascribed to Taylor, J. )
The World runnes on Wheeles, or oddes betwixt carts and coaches.
1623. (Review of the new modes of locomotion in the city which were
starving the waterman's profession. Cf. A pleasant Dispute between
Coach and Sedan. 1636. )
The Fearefull Sommer. 1625. Rptd 1869, Spenser Soc. (Descrip-
tion of the plague. )
Wit and mirth. Chargeably collected Out of Taverns, Ordinaries, Innes,
Bowling-Greenes and allyes, ale-houses, Tobacco-shops, Highwayes and
Water-passages. Made up and fashioned into Clinches, Bulls, Quirkes,
Yerkes, Quips and Jerkes. Apothegmatically bundled up and garbled at
the request of old John Garretts Ghost. 1629. Appeared in collected
ed. of Taylor, . . . 1630. Rptd 1864, Hazlitt, op. cit. vol. III.
John Taylor the Water-Poet's Travels through London to visit all
the Taverns. 1636. Rptd 1870-7, Spenser Soc.
Anon. Robin Good-Fellow; his mad pranks and merry jests. Earliest ext.
ed. 1628. Some version probably existed in the 16th cent. , see intro. to rpt
1841, Collier, J. P. , Percy Soc. ; 1845, Halliwell, J. O. , Illustrations of the
Fairy Mythology of a Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakspr. Soc. ; 1875,
Hazlitt, W. C. , Fairy Mythology of Shakespeare. Early in the 17th cent.
a number of incidents drawn from the book were versified and sold as a
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chap-book with the title The merry pranks of Robin Good-Fellow; cf.
The
merry Prankes of Robin Goodfellow in Percy's Reliques. (Begins as a
jest-book copied from Eulenspiegel (ante, vol. III, chap. V, p. 94 and bibl.
p. 488) and develops into the jests and tricks played by a fairy. The
Second Part of Robin Good-Fellow, commonly called Hob-Goblin: with
his mad Prankes and merry Jests, published the same year, contains a pro-
portion of songs and catches inserted among the tricks. The legend of
Robin Good-Fellow, according to Wright, T. (Foreign Quarterly Review,
no. 35), dates from the 13th cent. at least. It is frequently alluded to in
Eliz. literature (e. g. Tarlton's Newes out of Purgatorie, Munday's The
Two Italian Gentlemen, Guilpin's Skialetheia, Midsummer Night's
Dream, etc. ). )
P[eacham), H. The Art of Living in London. 1642. Rptd Harl. Misc.
vol. ix.
3.
P. IN
بن علی
cas
JR
. .
II.
For_supplementary list of Jest-books, see Hazlitt, W. C. Handbook to
Early Engl. Lit. , 1867, p. 300.
BURLESQUE AND WAGERING VOYAGES.
The most dangerous and memorable adventure of Richard Ferris, . . . who
departed from Tower Wharf, on Midsummer Day last past . . , who
undertook, in a small wherry boat, to row, by sea, to the city of Bristow. . . .
1590. Rptd 1903, Social England Illustrated, An English Garner.
Kemp's nine days' wonder. Performed in a dance from London to Norwich.
1600. Rptd 1840, Dyce, A. , Camden Soc. ; 1903, Social England
Illustrated. Alluded to by Marston, The Scourge of Villanie, 1599;
Jonson, B. , Every Man out of his Humour (acted 1599); Rowley, W. ,
A Search for Money, 1609; Brathwaite, R. , Remains after Death, 1618.
Kemp figures in The Returne from Parnassus, 1606, and The Travailes of
The three English Brothers, 1607 (? ).
Taylor, John. The Pennyles Pilgrimage, or the Money-lesse perambulation
from London to Edenborough (prose and verse). 1618.
A Very Merry Wherry-Ferry-Voyage; or Yorke for my Money (verse).
1622. Rptd, Hindley, C. , Misc. Antiq. Angl. See Halliwell-Phillipps,
J. O. , Lit. of the 16th and 17th cents. illustrated, 1851.
Brathwaite, R. Barnabae Itinerarium. Barnabees Journall, under the
Names of Mirtilus & Faustulus shadowed. 1638. Rptd 1820, by Hasle-
wood, J. , with elaborate bibl. ; 1876, W. C. Hazlitt's rpt of Haslewood.
MISCELLANEOUS BURLESQUES AND GOLIARDIC EXTRAVAGANCES.
Harington, Sir John. A New Discourse of a stale subject called the Meta-
morphosis of Ajax. 1596.
Ulysses upon Ajax. 1596. (Davies, J. , of Hereford speaks of Ulysses upon
Ajax as being the work of a different hand (Wits Bedlam, 1617) but the
similarity of style is unmistakable. )
An Anatomie of the Metamorpho-sed Ajax. By T. C. . . . Rpt of all three
tracts, 1814, from press of Whittingham, C. , Chiswick. Vide Collier, J. P. ,
Poetical Decameron, 1820. (Ajax is meiosis for a jakes' and the series
of pamphlets, probably all published in the same year, exemplify the
nearest approach in English literature to the humour of Rabelais.
Marston in The Scourge of Villanie, Bk. III, Sat. 11, speaks of
loathsome brothel rime,
that stinks like Ajax froth, or muck-pit slime. )
The Knight of the Sea. 1600.
Anton, R. Meriomachia. 1613. Rptd 1909, Becker, G. , in Archiv für das
Studium der neueren Sprachen etc. , Vol. cxxII.
watches
RE
8
JES
band's
HN
NEE
lo
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534
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of drinking. )
Pasquils Palmodia, and His progresse to the Taverne. Rptd 1620; 1634;
1866, Collier, J. P. , Illus. of Old Engl. Lit. , vol. 1.
Taylor, J. Dogge of Warre, or, the Travels of Drunkard (mostly verse).
1630.
Drinke and welcome: or, the Famous Historie of . . . Drinks. · 1637.
Rptd 1871, no. 17 of Ashbee's Occasional Fac-simile Reprints.
PROGNOSTICATIONS, SERIOUS AND BURLESQUE.
(Cf. Pantagrueline Pronostication, 1533, and the Fool's prophecy in Lear
(act 111, sc. 2). ) See Smith. C. F. John Dee (1527-1608). 1909.
Nashe, T. A wonderfull, strange and miraculous Astrologicall Prognostica-
tion for this yeer of our Lord God, 1591 . . . by Adam Fouleweather,
stndent in Assetronomy. Rptd 1892, Saintsbury, G. , Eliz. and Jac.
Pamphlets. (Parody of soothsayers' pamphlets. (Ante, vol. Ini, chap. v,
p. 110. ) No entry in Stationers' register. )
Breton, N. Pasquil's Passe and Passeth Not, set downe in three pees, his
Passe, Precession, and Prognostication. 1600.
Waldegrave, R. (publisher). The whole prophecie of Scotland, England and
some part of France and Denmark, prophesied bee mervellous Merling,
Beid, Bertlington, Thomas Rymour, Waldbave, Eltraine, Banester, and
Sibbilla, all according to one. Containing many strange and mervelous
things. 1603. See also Laing, D. , A Collection of Ancient Scottish
Prophecies, 1833; and The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Ercel-
doune, intro. by Murray, J. A. H. , E. E. T. S. 1875, no. 61.
A Piece of Friar Bacon's Brazen-heads Prophecie. By William Terilo.
1604. Rptd 1844, Halliwell, J. O. , Percy Soc. (The pamphlet is a satire
contrasting the distrust and artificiality of the 17th cent. with the
simplicity and industry of the former generation. )
Newes from Rome of two mightie armies . . . also certaine prophecies of a
Jew called Cabel Shilock. . . . Translated out of Italian by W. W. 1606.
(See N. & Q. 24 July 1909.
before 1588. ) 1884, Halliwell, J. O. , Tarlton's Jests, Shakspr. Soc.
(Verse. Idea of the Ship of Fools converted into journey in cart
down Fleet Street for a puppet show. Types suggested by contemporary
London society. See Herford, C. H. , Literary Relations, chap. vi,
pp. 372 ff. )
Anon. Tarlton's Newes out of Purgatorie. n. d. (Ptd before The Cobler of
Canterburie, 1590. )
The Cobler of Canterburie. 1590. Rptd 1862, Ouvry, F. (privately ptd).
(Coll. of prose stories, mostly about cuckolds. )
Anon. Tarlton's Jests, drawn into three parts. 1. His Court-witty Jests.
2. His sound city jests. 3. His Countrey Pretty Jests. 1611 (earliest
ext. ed. , but 1st series mentioned by Nashe 1592 and 2nd series licensed
1609). Rptd 1864, Hazlitt, W. C. , Shakespr. Jest-books, vol. 11 (illustrates
the universal fame of Tarlton by quotations from contemporary authors);
1876 (? ), Ashbee, E. W. , Fac-simile reproduction (privately printed);
1884, Halliwell, J. O. , with notes and life, Shakspr. Soc.
Anon. Maroccus extaticus. Or Bankes bay horse in a trance. A discourse
ich oben
aristo
te
set downe in a merry dialogue between Bankes and bis beast; Anato-
mising some abuses and tricks of this age. 1595. (Dialogue between the
priza
34--2
## p. 532 (#554) ############################################
532
Bibliography
animal and its master is a satire on the abuses of London life. The
horse's description of the hypocrisy of the puritan and of the landlord
particularly noteworthy, and foreshadow the character writers. )
Jack of Dover, his quest of Inquirie, or His Privy Search for the Veriest
Foole in England. 1604. 1842, Percy Soc. ; 1864, Hazlitt, W. C. , ibid. vol. 11.
Pasquils Jests, mixed with Mother Bunches Merriments. 1604, etc. ; Rptd
1864, Hazlitt, ibid.
Newes from Graves End. 1604. (Assigned by Collier, J. P. , to Dekker. )
Jests to make you merie . . . written by T. D. (Dekker? ) and George Wilkins.
1607.
Johnson, Richard. The Pleasant Walkes of Moore-fields. 1607. Rptd 1864,
Collier, J. P. , Illus. of Early Engl. Pop. Lit. , vol. 11. Pleasant Conceites
of Old Hobson. 1607. Rptd 1843, Percy Soc. ; 1864, Hazlitt, op. cit.
Anon. Merrie Conceited Jests of George Peele. 1607, etc. 1864, Hazlitt, ibid.
Munday, Anthony. Song of Robin Hood in Metropolis. (Verses on the
Guildhall Gate (see Stow's Survey, bk. III). )
The Great Frost. Cold doings in London, except it be at the Lottery. With
news out of the Country. 1608. Rptd 1903, Social Engl. Illus. , An Engl.
Garner. (An excellent piece of journalism describing the amusements
and accidents connected with the freezing of the Thames, etc. )
Armin, Robert. A nest of Ninnies. 1608. Rptd 1842, Collier, J. P. , Fools
and Jesters, Shakspr. Soc. (Records a number of jests perpetrated by
court fools. See Herford, op. cit. chap. vi, p. 375, for relation of Nest to
Ship literature of the 16th cent. , and Fool literature of the 17th. )
Pimlyco, or, Runne Red-Cap. Tis a mad world at Hogsdon. 1609. Rptd
1891, Bullen, A. H. , Antient Drolleries (no. 2).
Rowley, W. A search for money, or the lamentable complaint for the Losse
of the wandring Knight, Mounsieur l'Argent. 1609. 1840, Percy Soc.
Anon. Westward for Smelts, or, the Waterman's fare of mad merry
Western wenches whose tongues, albeit like Bell-clappers they never
leave ringing, yet their tales are sweet, and will much content you.
Written by Kinde Kit of Kingstone. 1620. Rptd 1848, Halliwell, J. O.
Taylor, John. (See D. of N. B. for full list. ]
Cold Tearme . . . or the Metamorphosis of the River of Thames. 1621.
(Ballad ascribed to Taylor, J. )
The World runnes on Wheeles, or oddes betwixt carts and coaches.
1623. (Review of the new modes of locomotion in the city which were
starving the waterman's profession. Cf. A pleasant Dispute between
Coach and Sedan. 1636. )
The Fearefull Sommer. 1625. Rptd 1869, Spenser Soc. (Descrip-
tion of the plague. )
Wit and mirth. Chargeably collected Out of Taverns, Ordinaries, Innes,
Bowling-Greenes and allyes, ale-houses, Tobacco-shops, Highwayes and
Water-passages. Made up and fashioned into Clinches, Bulls, Quirkes,
Yerkes, Quips and Jerkes. Apothegmatically bundled up and garbled at
the request of old John Garretts Ghost. 1629. Appeared in collected
ed. of Taylor, . . . 1630. Rptd 1864, Hazlitt, op. cit. vol. III.
John Taylor the Water-Poet's Travels through London to visit all
the Taverns. 1636. Rptd 1870-7, Spenser Soc.
Anon. Robin Good-Fellow; his mad pranks and merry jests. Earliest ext.
ed. 1628. Some version probably existed in the 16th cent. , see intro. to rpt
1841, Collier, J. P. , Percy Soc. ; 1845, Halliwell, J. O. , Illustrations of the
Fairy Mythology of a Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakspr. Soc. ; 1875,
Hazlitt, W. C. , Fairy Mythology of Shakespeare. Early in the 17th cent.
a number of incidents drawn from the book were versified and sold as a
## p. 533 (#555) ############################################
11
Chapter XVI
533
te:
chap-book with the title The merry pranks of Robin Good-Fellow; cf.
The
merry Prankes of Robin Goodfellow in Percy's Reliques. (Begins as a
jest-book copied from Eulenspiegel (ante, vol. III, chap. V, p. 94 and bibl.
p. 488) and develops into the jests and tricks played by a fairy. The
Second Part of Robin Good-Fellow, commonly called Hob-Goblin: with
his mad Prankes and merry Jests, published the same year, contains a pro-
portion of songs and catches inserted among the tricks. The legend of
Robin Good-Fellow, according to Wright, T. (Foreign Quarterly Review,
no. 35), dates from the 13th cent. at least. It is frequently alluded to in
Eliz. literature (e. g. Tarlton's Newes out of Purgatorie, Munday's The
Two Italian Gentlemen, Guilpin's Skialetheia, Midsummer Night's
Dream, etc. ). )
P[eacham), H. The Art of Living in London. 1642. Rptd Harl. Misc.
vol. ix.
3.
P. IN
بن علی
cas
JR
. .
II.
For_supplementary list of Jest-books, see Hazlitt, W. C. Handbook to
Early Engl. Lit. , 1867, p. 300.
BURLESQUE AND WAGERING VOYAGES.
The most dangerous and memorable adventure of Richard Ferris, . . . who
departed from Tower Wharf, on Midsummer Day last past . . , who
undertook, in a small wherry boat, to row, by sea, to the city of Bristow. . . .
1590. Rptd 1903, Social England Illustrated, An English Garner.
Kemp's nine days' wonder. Performed in a dance from London to Norwich.
1600. Rptd 1840, Dyce, A. , Camden Soc. ; 1903, Social England
Illustrated. Alluded to by Marston, The Scourge of Villanie, 1599;
Jonson, B. , Every Man out of his Humour (acted 1599); Rowley, W. ,
A Search for Money, 1609; Brathwaite, R. , Remains after Death, 1618.
Kemp figures in The Returne from Parnassus, 1606, and The Travailes of
The three English Brothers, 1607 (? ).
Taylor, John. The Pennyles Pilgrimage, or the Money-lesse perambulation
from London to Edenborough (prose and verse). 1618.
A Very Merry Wherry-Ferry-Voyage; or Yorke for my Money (verse).
1622. Rptd, Hindley, C. , Misc. Antiq. Angl. See Halliwell-Phillipps,
J. O. , Lit. of the 16th and 17th cents. illustrated, 1851.
Brathwaite, R. Barnabae Itinerarium. Barnabees Journall, under the
Names of Mirtilus & Faustulus shadowed. 1638. Rptd 1820, by Hasle-
wood, J. , with elaborate bibl. ; 1876, W. C. Hazlitt's rpt of Haslewood.
MISCELLANEOUS BURLESQUES AND GOLIARDIC EXTRAVAGANCES.
Harington, Sir John. A New Discourse of a stale subject called the Meta-
morphosis of Ajax. 1596.
Ulysses upon Ajax. 1596. (Davies, J. , of Hereford speaks of Ulysses upon
Ajax as being the work of a different hand (Wits Bedlam, 1617) but the
similarity of style is unmistakable. )
An Anatomie of the Metamorpho-sed Ajax. By T. C. . . . Rpt of all three
tracts, 1814, from press of Whittingham, C. , Chiswick. Vide Collier, J. P. ,
Poetical Decameron, 1820. (Ajax is meiosis for a jakes' and the series
of pamphlets, probably all published in the same year, exemplify the
nearest approach in English literature to the humour of Rabelais.
Marston in The Scourge of Villanie, Bk. III, Sat. 11, speaks of
loathsome brothel rime,
that stinks like Ajax froth, or muck-pit slime. )
The Knight of the Sea. 1600.
Anton, R. Meriomachia. 1613. Rptd 1909, Becker, G. , in Archiv für das
Studium der neueren Sprachen etc. , Vol. cxxII.
watches
RE
8
JES
band's
HN
NEE
lo
## p. 534 (#556) ############################################
534
Bibliography
Brathwaite, Richard. A Solemne Joviall Disputation. 1617. (On the laws
of drinking. )
Pasquils Palmodia, and His progresse to the Taverne. Rptd 1620; 1634;
1866, Collier, J. P. , Illus. of Old Engl. Lit. , vol. 1.
Taylor, J. Dogge of Warre, or, the Travels of Drunkard (mostly verse).
1630.
Drinke and welcome: or, the Famous Historie of . . . Drinks. · 1637.
Rptd 1871, no. 17 of Ashbee's Occasional Fac-simile Reprints.
PROGNOSTICATIONS, SERIOUS AND BURLESQUE.
(Cf. Pantagrueline Pronostication, 1533, and the Fool's prophecy in Lear
(act 111, sc. 2). ) See Smith. C. F. John Dee (1527-1608). 1909.
Nashe, T. A wonderfull, strange and miraculous Astrologicall Prognostica-
tion for this yeer of our Lord God, 1591 . . . by Adam Fouleweather,
stndent in Assetronomy. Rptd 1892, Saintsbury, G. , Eliz. and Jac.
Pamphlets. (Parody of soothsayers' pamphlets. (Ante, vol. Ini, chap. v,
p. 110. ) No entry in Stationers' register. )
Breton, N. Pasquil's Passe and Passeth Not, set downe in three pees, his
Passe, Precession, and Prognostication. 1600.
Waldegrave, R. (publisher). The whole prophecie of Scotland, England and
some part of France and Denmark, prophesied bee mervellous Merling,
Beid, Bertlington, Thomas Rymour, Waldbave, Eltraine, Banester, and
Sibbilla, all according to one. Containing many strange and mervelous
things. 1603. See also Laing, D. , A Collection of Ancient Scottish
Prophecies, 1833; and The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Ercel-
doune, intro. by Murray, J. A. H. , E. E. T. S. 1875, no. 61.
A Piece of Friar Bacon's Brazen-heads Prophecie. By William Terilo.
1604. Rptd 1844, Halliwell, J. O. , Percy Soc. (The pamphlet is a satire
contrasting the distrust and artificiality of the 17th cent. with the
simplicity and industry of the former generation. )
Newes from Rome of two mightie armies . . . also certaine prophecies of a
Jew called Cabel Shilock. . . . Translated out of Italian by W. W. 1606.
(See N. & Q. 24 July 1909.
