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LYLY ET LA MARPRELATE

a. Lyly chef des anti-martinistes.

Blessed Euphues, thou onely happy, that hast a traine of such good countenances, in thy floorishing greene-motley liuery : miserable I, the vnhappiest on earth, that am left desolate. Ah but that might be endured : euery man is not borne, to be the leader of a bande.

G. Harvey, Pierce’s Supererogation, Works, II, 226.)

b. Lyly et les pièces contre Marprelate.

And all you, that tender the preseruation of your good names, were best to please Pap-hatchet, and see Euphues betimes, for feare lesse he be mooued, or some One of his Apes hired to make a Playe of you. (Harvey, Advertisement for Papp-hatchett, Works, IT, 215.)

Better, anger an hundred other, then two such [Lyly et Nash]; that haue the Stage at commaundement, and can furnish-out Vices, and Diuels at their pleasure. (/bid., 215.)

c. Lyly décrit des comédies contre Marprelate.

Would those Comedies might be allowed to be plaid that are pend, and then I am sure he would be decyphered, and so perhaps discouraged.

He shall not bee brought as whilom he was and yet verie well, with à cocks combe, an apes face, a wolfs bellie, cats clawes, &c. but in à cap’de cloake, and all the best apparell he ware the highest day in the yeare, thats neither on Christmas daie, Good fridaie, Easter daie, Ascension, nor Trinitie sundaie, (for that were popish) but on some rainie weeke daie, when the brothers and sisters had appointed a match for particular praiers, a thing as bad at the least as Auricular confession.

Would it not bee a fine Tragedie, when Mardocheus shall play a Bishoppe in a Play, and Martin Hamman, and that

he that seekes to pull downe those that are set in authoritie aboue him, should be hoysted vpon a tree aboue all other.

(Pappe with an Hatchet, Lyly, Works, III, 408.)

d. Lyly est l'auteur de Pap-Hatchet.

Euphues, it is good to bee merry : and Lilly, it is good to bee wise : and Papp-hatchet, it is better to loose a new iest, then an old frend. (Harvey, Aduertisement for Papp-hatchett, Works, II, 125.)

Faith, quoth himselfe, thou wilt be caught by thy style : Indeede what more easie, then to finde the man by his humour, the Midas by his eares, the Calfe by his tongue, the goose by his quill, the Play-maker by his style, the hatchet by the Pap ?. Euphues Similes, double Vs phrases, are too-well knowen, to go vnknowen... The finest wittes preferre the loosest period in M. Ascham, or Sir Philip Sidney, before the tricksiest page in Euphues, or Pap-hatchet. (/bid., 215-218.) CF Der

e. Pourquoi Lyly prit part à la Marprelate.

It were not greatly amisse, euen for the pertest, and gayest companions, (notwithstanding whatsoeuer courtly holly-water, or plausible hopes of preferment) to deigne their old familiars the continuance of their former courtesies. (/bid., 125.)

f. Lyly se proposait d'écrire «à À Hundred Merrie Tales ».

So he [Pap-hatchet] may soone make-vp the autenticall Legendary of his Hundred Merrie Tales : as true peraduenture, as Lucians true narrations. (Zbid., 215.)

Pap-hatchet talketh of publishing a hundred merry Tales of certaine poore Martinists.

(Harvey, Pierces Supererogation, Works, II, 312.)

Now you put me in minde of the matter, there is a booke comming out of a hundred merrie tales, and the petigree of Martin, fetchte from the burning of Sodome, his armes shal be set on his hearse, for we are prouiding his funerall, and

for the winter nights the tales shall be told secundum vsum Sarum. (Lyly, Pappe with an Hatchet, Works, III, 400.) In the hundred merrie tales, the places, the times, the witnesses and all, shall be put downe to the proofe. (Zbid., 401.) Looke howe manie tales are in this booke, so manie must you abate of an hundred in the next booke, reckon this for one. (/bid., 405.)

g. Lyly doit écrire un commentaire sur

« The Liues of the Saints ».

Pasquil is comming out with the liues of the Saints. Beware my Comment, tis odds the margent shall bee as full as the text. I haue manie sequences of Saints; if naming be the aduantage, & ripping vp of liues make sport, haue with thee knuckle deepe, it shall neuer bee said that I dare not venter mine eares, where Martin hazards his necke (7bid., 413.)

Marf. Vou said in the ende of your Countercufie, that you would sende vs à Comentarie vpon Martin Junior, 1 forgot till now to aske you what is become of that ?

Pasq. I fell that night into a traunce, wherein mee thought TI saw a verie golden wit performe that matter, with so keene a tooth, and such a pleasant grace, that I gaue ouer to him, and farthered The liues of the Saints as much as my leysure would giue me leaue. (The Returne of Pasquill (Oct. 1589). Nash, Works, I, 99-100.)

h. Succès de Pap-Hatchet.

His {Martin’s] crazed cause goes on crutches, that was earst so brauely encountered by Pasquin and Marphoreus, and not many moneths since most wittily scofte at by the extemporall endeuour of the pleasant author of Pap with a hatchet. (An Almond for a Parrat, B 3. Nash, Works, III, 347.)

Tell mee why was hee [Marprelate] not then confuted by Reuerend Cooper, or made to hold his peace, till Master Lillie and some others with their pens drew vpon him ?

(Nash, Haue with you to Saffron-Walden, Works, III, 138.)

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