Shakespeare's Books by H. R. D. Anders

SHAKESPEARE'S BOOKS

A DISSERTATION ON SHAKESPEARE'S READING AND
THE IMMEDIATE SOURCES OF HIS WORKS

BY
H. R. D. ANDERS
B.A. (UNIV. OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE), PH.D. (BERLIN UNIV.)

BERLIN
PUBLISHER & PRINTER
GEORG REIMER
1904.

TO

THE UNIVERSITY OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

my alma mater.

CONTENTS.

PREFACE XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII.

A SYNOPSIS 1 2.

INTRODUCTION 3 4 5.

CHAPTER 1.
SHAKESPEARE AND THE CLASSICS.

School-Books and Latin Authors 6.

Introductory 6.

Shakespeare's School-Books 8.

The Horn-Book 12.

The ABC Book 12.

Lily's Latin Grammar 13.

�sop's Fables 17.

Mantuanus 20.

C�sar 20.

Cicero 21.

Ovid 21.

Virgil 31.

Horace? 32.

Plautus 32.

Seneca 34.

Livy 36.

Pliny 36.

Lucan 37.

Juvenal? 38.

A Note 38.

Concluding Remarks 39.

Greek Literature 40.

Plutarch 40.

Homer 42.

Josephus 42.

Heliodorus 43.

Marianus 44.

Appendix 45.

1. A Reprint of pages 1-3 of Lily's Grammar 45.

2. A Note on the Sententiae Pueriles 47.

3. A Note on the ABC with the Catechism 48.

CHAPTER 2.
MODERN CONTINENTAL LITERATURE.

French Authors 50.

Montaigne 51.

Rabelais 55.

Ronsard 58.

Italian Literature 59.

Boccaccio 60.

Bandello 65.

Giraldi Cinthio 66.

Ser Giovanni Fiorentino 67.

Straparola 67.

Gl'Ingannati and the Source of Twelfth Night, etc. 67.

The Italian Drama generally 71.

Ariosto 72.

Petrarca 72.

Spanish Literature 72.

Jorge de Montemayor 72.

Appendix.--Three Chimerical Sources 74.

1. Diego Hurtado de Mendoza 74.

2. Another Mare's Nest 75.

3. Antonio de Eslava 75.

CHAPTER 3.
THE ENGLISH NON-DRAMATIC POLITE LITERATURE.

Pre-Elizabethan Authors 77.

Geoffrey Chaucer 77.

John Gower 80.

William Caxton 81.

Elizabethan Authors 82.

Arthur Brooke 82.

Samuel Daniel 85.

Edmund Spenser 90.

Marlowe's Hero and Leander 90.

Thomas Watson 102.

The Sonnetists 102.

Sir Philip Sidney 102.

John Lyly's Euphues 103.

Thomas Lodge 107.

Robert Greene 107.

Sir Francis Bacon, a note on 108.

John Camden? 108.

Samuel Harsnett 109.

Further D�monologica 112.

Books on Good Manners and on Duelling 116.

Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers 117.

Compendiums of English History 117.

CHAPTER 4.
THE ENGLISH DRAMA.

Dramatic Authors 119.

Christopher Marlowe 120.

Thomas Kyd 127.

John Lyly 131.

George Peele 135.

Robert Greene 136.

George Whetstone 136.

George Gascoigne 137.

Thomas Preston 137.

Ben Jonson 137.

Samuel Rowley 138.

Fletcher and Beaumont 138.

Sir William Alexander 139.

Anonymous Plays. 140.

The True Chronicle Historie of King Leir 140.

The Troublesome Raigne of King Iohn 141.

The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth 142.

The True Tragedie of Richard the Third 142.

The Taming of a Shrew 143.

A Pre-Timon 143.

A Pre-Merchant 144.

A Pre-Gentlemen 145.

Further Old Plays, etc. 145.

Some Suggested Sources 151.

The 'Pseudo-Shakespearean' Plays 151.

Mysteries and Moralities 152.

Masks 153.

CHAPTER 5.
POPULAR LITERATURE.

Introductory 155.

Heroes of Romance 157.

The Arthurian Legends 158.

Guy of Warwick 160.

Sir Bevis of Hamptoun 160.

Sir Eglamour 161.

The Squire of Low Degree 161.

Sir Topas 162.

Charlemagne Romances 162.

Folk-Ballads 163.

Robin Hood 163.

A Note on Adam Bell 164.

[reg. Musselburgh Field cf. p. 187, and Add. et Corr., p. 270]

Narrative Art-Ballads 165.

A Song of a Beggar and a King (King Cophetua and the Beggar-Maid) 165.

The Constancy of Susanna 166.

Jephthah, Judge of Israel 167.

Remarks on the Ballads of Titus Andronicus, King Leir, and the Jew of Venice 167.

A Note on Percy's Friar of Orders Grey 168.

Songs and Tunes 168.

(in alphabetical order)

the Aged Lover renounceth Love (I loathe that I did love) 168.

Bell my Wife (Take thy Old Cloak about thee) 169.

Calen O Custure Me 169.

Canst thou not hit it 170.

the Careful Lover complaineth (A! Robyn Joly Robyn) 170.

Come o'er the Bourne, Bessy 170.

the Crowe sits upon the Wall, Please one and please all 171.

Farewell, Dear Love (Corydon's Farewell to Phillis) 171.

Fire, Fire 172.

Fortune my Foe 172.

the God[s] of Love 173.

Green Sleeves 174.

Have I caught my Heavenly Jewel? 174.

Heart's Ease 175.

Heigh ho! for a Husband 175.

the Hunt is up 175.

I cannot come Every Day to woo 176.

Light o' Love 176.

Mad Tom 177.

Monsieur Mingo 177.

My Mind to me a Kingdom is 177.

My Robin is to the Greenwood gone (Bonny Sweet Robin) 178.

O Death, rock me asleep 178.

O Mistress Mine 178.

O Sweet Oliver 179.

the Passionate Shepherd to his Love (Come live with me) 179.

Peg-a Ramsey 179.

a Pleasant New Ballad (Complaine, my Lute) 180.

Sick, Sick 180.

a Song to the Lute (where Griping Griefs) 180.

There was an Old Fellow at Waltham Cross 180.

Where is the Life that late I led? 181.

Whoop, do me No Harm 181.

Willow, Willow 181.

Rounds 182.

Jack Boy! Ho! Boy! 182.

Thou Knave 182.

Three Merry Men 183.

Popular Rhymes 183.

Peer out, peer out 183.

Pillycock, Pillycock 183.

When Adam delved 184.

Your Marriage comes, etc. 184.

A Spell 185.

Further Notes and Comments on:--

Come away, Come away, Death 185.

Dolphin My Boy 186.

How should I your True Love know? 186.

Jog on, Jog on 187.

the Man shall have his Mare again 187.

O[n] the Twelfth Day of December 187.

Sleepest or wakest Thou? 187.

Take, O, take those Lips away 187.

To-morrow is St. Valentine's Day 188.

Was this Fair Face 188.

We will be married o' Sunday 188.

Burdens 189.

A Note on Strange Fishes and Monstrosities 190.

Popular Tales and Light Literature 191.

A Hundred Merry Tales 191.

The Jests of Scogan 191.

Robin Goodfellow 191.

Gillian of Brainford's Testament 192.

The Book of Riddles 192.

Child Rowland 193.

An Old Tale (It is not so, nor it was not so) 194.

Legends concerning Abel 194.

The Owl, a Baker's Daughter 194.

Schneewittchen 195.

Beast Fables 195.

A Note on "the humour of forty fancies" 195.

CHAPTER 6.
THE BIBLE AND THE PRAYER BOOK.

Elizabethan Bibles 196.

The Apocrypha 201.

French Bible 203.

The Book of Common Prayer 204.

The Psalms 211.

Metrical Psalms 217.

Graces 219.

Appendix 221.

Shakespeare's Books
A Dissertation on Shakespeare's Reading
and the Immediate Sources of his Works
by
Henry R. D. Anders
Berlin
Georg Reimer
1904

First Internet Edition 1997

Rutgers University Libraries
PR2952.A5

Omnipædia Polyglotta
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PREFACE	XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII.
A SYNOPSIS	1 2.
INTRODUCTION	3 4 5.

School-Books and Latin Authors	6.
Introductory	6.
Shakespeare's School-Books	8.
The Horn-Book	12.
The ABC Book	12.
Lily's Latin Grammar	13.
�sop's Fables	17.
Mantuanus	20.
C�sar	20.
Cicero	21.
Ovid	21.
Virgil	31.
Horace?	32.
Plautus	32.
Seneca	34.
Livy	36.
Pliny	36.
Lucan	37.
Juvenal?	38.
A Note	38.
Concluding Remarks	39.
Greek Literature	40.
Plutarch	40.
Homer	42.
Josephus	42.
Heliodorus	43.
Marianus	44.
Appendix	45.
1. A Reprint of pages 1-3 of Lily's Grammar	45.
2. A Note on the Sententiae Pueriles	47.
3. A Note on the ABC with the Catechism	48.

French Authors	50.
Montaigne	51.
Rabelais	55.
Ronsard	58.
Italian Literature	59.
Boccaccio	60.
Bandello	65.
Giraldi Cinthio	66.
Ser Giovanni Fiorentino	67.
Straparola	67.
Gl'Ingannati and the Source of Twelfth Night, etc.	67.
The Italian Drama generally	71.
Ariosto	72.
Petrarca	72.
Spanish Literature	72.
Jorge de Montemayor	72.
Appendix.--Three Chimerical Sources	74.
1. Diego Hurtado de Mendoza	74.
2. Another Mare's Nest	75.
3. Antonio de Eslava	75.

Pre-Elizabethan Authors	77.
Geoffrey Chaucer	77.
John Gower	80.
William Caxton	81.
Elizabethan Authors	82.
Arthur Brooke	82.
Samuel Daniel	85.
Edmund Spenser	90.
Marlowe's Hero and Leander	90.
Thomas Watson	102.
The Sonnetists	102.
Sir Philip Sidney	102.
John Lyly's Euphues	103.
Thomas Lodge	107.
Robert Greene	107.
Sir Francis Bacon, a note on	108.
John Camden?	108.
Samuel Harsnett	109.
Further D�monologica	112.
Books on Good Manners and on Duelling	116.
Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers	117.
Compendiums of English History	117.

Dramatic Authors	119.
Christopher Marlowe	120.
Thomas Kyd	127.
John Lyly	131.
George Peele	135.
Robert Greene	136.
George Whetstone	136.
George Gascoigne	137.
Thomas Preston	137.
Ben Jonson	137.
Samuel Rowley	138.
Fletcher and Beaumont	138.
Sir William Alexander	139.
Anonymous Plays.	140.
The True Chronicle Historie of King Leir	140.
The Troublesome Raigne of King Iohn	141.
The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth	142.
The True Tragedie of Richard the Third	142.
The Taming of a Shrew	143.
A Pre-Timon	143.
A Pre-Merchant	144.
A Pre-Gentlemen	145.
Further Old Plays, etc.	145.
Some Suggested Sources	151.
The 'Pseudo-Shakespearean' Plays	151.

Mysteries and Moralities	152.
Masks	153.

Introductory	155.
Heroes of Romance	157.
The Arthurian Legends	158.
Guy of Warwick	160.
Sir Bevis of Hamptoun	160.
Sir Eglamour	161.
The Squire of Low Degree	161.
Sir Topas	162.
Charlemagne Romances	162.
Folk-Ballads	163.
Robin Hood	163.
A Note on Adam Bell	164.
[reg. Musselburgh Field cf. p. 187, and Add. et Corr., p. 270]
Narrative Art-Ballads	165.
A Song of a Beggar and a King (King Cophetua and the Beggar-Maid)	165.
The Constancy of Susanna	166.
Jephthah, Judge of Israel	167.
Remarks on the Ballads of Titus Andronicus, King Leir, and the Jew of Venice	167.
A Note on Percy's Friar of Orders Grey	168.
Songs and Tunes	168.
(in alphabetical order)
the Aged Lover renounceth Love (I loathe that I did love)	168.
Bell my Wife (Take thy Old Cloak about thee)	169.
Calen O Custure Me	169.
Canst thou not hit it	170.
the Careful Lover complaineth (A! Robyn Joly Robyn)	170.
Come o'er the Bourne, Bessy	170.
the Crowe sits upon the Wall, Please one and please all	171.
Farewell, Dear Love (Corydon's Farewell to Phillis)	171.
Fire, Fire	172.
Fortune my Foe	172.
the God[s] of Love	173.
Green Sleeves	174.
Have I caught my Heavenly Jewel?	174.
Heart's Ease	175.
Heigh ho! for a Husband	175.
the Hunt is up	175.
I cannot come Every Day to woo	176.
Light o' Love	176.
Mad Tom	177.
Monsieur Mingo	177.
My Mind to me a Kingdom is	177.
My Robin is to the Greenwood gone (Bonny Sweet Robin)	178.
O Death, rock me asleep	178.
O Mistress Mine	178.
O Sweet Oliver	179.
the Passionate Shepherd to his Love (Come live with me)	179.
Peg-a Ramsey	179.
a Pleasant New Ballad (Complaine, my Lute)	180.
Sick, Sick	180.
a Song to the Lute (where Griping Griefs)	180.
There was an Old Fellow at Waltham Cross	180.
Where is the Life that late I led?	181.
Whoop, do me No Harm	181.
Willow, Willow	181.
Rounds	182.
Jack Boy! Ho! Boy!	182.
Thou Knave	182.
Three Merry Men	183.
Popular Rhymes	183.
Peer out, peer out	183.
Pillycock, Pillycock	183.
When Adam delved	184.
Your Marriage comes, etc.	184.
A Spell	185.
Further Notes and Comments on:--
Come away, Come away, Death	185.
Dolphin My Boy	186.
How should I your True Love know?	186.
Jog on, Jog on	187.
the Man shall have his Mare again	187.
O[n] the Twelfth Day of December	187.
Sleepest or wakest Thou?	187.
Take, O, take those Lips away	187.
To-morrow is St. Valentine's Day	188.
Was this Fair Face	188.
We will be married o' Sunday	188.
Burdens	189.
A Note on Strange Fishes and Monstrosities	190.
Popular Tales and Light Literature	191.
A Hundred Merry Tales	191.
The Jests of Scogan	191.
Robin Goodfellow	191.
Gillian of Brainford's Testament	192.
The Book of Riddles	192.
Child Rowland	193.
An Old Tale (It is not so, nor it was not so)	194.
Legends concerning Abel	194.
The Owl, a Baker's Daughter	194.
Schneewittchen	195.
Beast Fables	195.
A Note on "the humour of forty fancies"	195.

Elizabethan Bibles	196.
The Apocrypha	201.
French Bible	203.
The Book of Common Prayer	204.
The Psalms	211.
Metrical Psalms	217.
Graces	219.
Appendix	221.