An Almond for a Parrot: Being a reply to Martin Mar-Prelate.
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An Almond for a Parrot: Being a reply to Martin Mar-Prelate.
Marprelate controversy
“I have been pinched in flesh, and well _ribroasted_ under my former
masters; but I’m in now for skin and all.”—_L’Estrange._
P. 35, l. 26. _anie more bones._] _i. e._ without scruple.
“Perjury will easily donne with him that hath made _no bones_ of
murther.”—_Bp. Hall, Cases of Conscience._
P. 39, l. 6. _Pen. &c._] Nash is evidently mistaken in attributing all
the Mar-Prelate Tracts to him. The description which follows powerfully
reminds us of Nash’s characteristic portrait of Gabriel Harvey.
P. 44, l. 2. _Capcase._] A small travelling case, according to Nares, 72.
P. 50, l. 8. _sheepe byter._] A petty thief.
“There are political _sheepbiters_ as well as pastoral, betrayers of
publick trusts as of private.”—_L’Estrange._
“May it please Gentle Pierce in the divine fury of his ravished spirit,
to be graciously good unto his poor friends, who would be somewhat loth
to be silly sheep for the wolf, or other _sheepbiter_.”—_G. Harvey’s
Pierce’s Supererogation._
P. 51, l. 26. _patch._] _i. e._ a fool.
P. 51, l. 21. _Maw._] An old game at cards; the pun is not a bad one.
P. 52, l. 26. _Beware Anthony Munday._] A well known writer and
translator of various works. I have not met with the passage alluded to.
THE END.
LONDON: HUGH WILLIAMS, PRINTER, ASHBY-STREET.
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