[76] Works of Christopher Marlowe. Dyce, 1865.
[77] These two sentences are reprinted as one by Petheram, but it is obvious that the want of a full stop after “book” is a printer’s error. No changes in the punctuation can reduce Dean Bridges to order. It would be necessary to treat him as Cobbett did Castlereagh.
[78] Last Fight of the Revenge in Arber’s English Reprints. I have suppressed the full stop after “assaults and entries,” which is plainly a printer’s error. Raleigh would have been as inarticulate as Dr Bridges if he thought that a new sentence could begin at “and that himself.” When the full stop is replaced by a comma, what we have is a grammatical though overladen and redundant sentence.
[79] Arber’s English Reprints. John Lyly, M.A., Euphues. 1868.
[80] We still await a good edition of the Arcadia. The old are numerous. Dr Sommer’s reprint (London, 1891) is useful.
[81] The first of these sentences hardly gives the full absurdity of the Spanish. “La razon de la sinrazon que á mi razon se hace de tal manera mi razon enflaquece, que con razon me quejo de la vuestra fermosura”—i.e., “The cause of the wrong, which is done to my right, so weakens my reason, that with reason I complain of your beauty.” The Spaniard punned on the different meanings of the word razon. Accurate translation does not diminish the likeness to Sidney, who must have known the original.
[82] Greene and Breton have been reprinted by Dr Grosart. Lodge’s Euphues’ Golden Legacy is in the Shakespeare’s Library, vol. ii.
[83] Complete works of Thomas Nash, in six vols. Dr Grosart in “The Huth Library,” 1883-1884. Guzman de Alfarache was translated into English by Mabbe, the translator of the Celestina, in 1623, and was imitated in The English Rogue, but the inspiration for Colonel Jack and Moll Flanders did not come from either.
[84] The Puritan position is very clearly stated in John Udall’s Demonstration of Discipline. Arber’s “English Scholar’s Library.”
[85] Maskell’s History of the Martin Marprelate Controversy, 1845, and Mr Arber’s “Introduction,” give accounts of the conflict from very different points of view. Mr Arber has reprinted Udall’s Diotrephes and Demonstration of Discipline in his “English Scholar’s Library.” The chief among the succeeding tracts were reprinted in 1845-1846 by Petheram under the title of Puritan Discipline Tracts.