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Edited by GEORGE SAINTSBURY
A collection, in separate volumes, partly of extracts from long books, partly of short pieces, by the same writer, on the same subject, or of the same class.
Vol. I.—Tales of Mystery.
II.—Political Verse.
III.—Defoe's Minor Novels.
IV.—Political Pamphlets.
V.—Seventeenth Century Lyrics.
VI.—Elizabethan And Jacobean Pamphlets.
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Introduction | vii | |
I. | Thomas Lodge. | |
Reply to Gosson | 1 | |
II. | John Lyly (?) | |
Pap with a Hatchet | 43 | |
III. | Nicholas Breton. | |
A Pretty and Witty Discourse | 84 | |
IV. | Robert Greene. | |
Groat's Worth of Wit | 115 | |
V. | Gabriel Harvey. | |
Precursor to Pierce's Supererogation | 164 | |
VI. | Thomas Nash. | |
Prognostication | 185 | |
VII. | Thomas Dekker. | |
The Gull's Hornbook | 209 | |
Notes | 277 |
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