8.03.2006

Harvey, Nashe, Lyly, Greene, Martin, Marston, Guilpin

Been reading a lot of scurrilous prose and poetry this week. How scurrilous, you ask? Here's a brief sample:
Needs he must cast up certain crude humours of English hexameter verses that lay upon his stomach; a nobleman stood in his way as he was vomiting, and from top to toe he all-to-bewrayed him with Tuscanism.
That's Nashe on Gabriel Harvey. And they bemoan lack of civility these days! Ha! Anyway, loads more in that vein. Harvey and Nashe lay it on by the cartload.