Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 by Various
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4. Pasquil's Jests, mixed with Mother Bunch's Merriments. Whereunto is
added a dozen of Gulles. Pretty and pleasant to drive away the tediousnesse of a winter's evening. 4to. 1608. In the _British Bibliographer_, vol i., may be seen an account of the edition of 1609, with extracts from it, and a statement that "an earlier edition is without the Gulls." The present copy (which passed through my hands some years ago), although earlier, has the Gulls. 5. Holie Historie of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's Nativitie, Life, Actes, Miracles, Doctrine, Death, Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension. Gathered into English Meeter, and published to withdraw all vajne wits from all unsaverie and wicked rimes and fables &c. 12mo. London, by R. Field, 1594. Ames and Herbert say this book was written by _Henry_ Holland; but the author's name {414} was Robert Holland. It is not mentioned by Warton. 6. News from the Stars; or, Erra Pater's Ghost, by Meriton Latroon. 12mo. 1673. "Richard Head, a broken bookseller, and the author of the _English Rogue_, writ this. He turned Papist, and in his voyage to Spain was drowned."--_MS. note in a contemporary hand._ Edward F. Rimbault. * * * * * POPE, PETRONIUS, AND HIS TRANSLATORS. |
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