Transcriber's note: In this text a superscript character is indicated with ^ The macron is indicated with [=a] [=e] The many inconsistencies in this book are as in the original. Greek is rendered phoentically. * * * * * _Demy 16mo, 3s. 6d. each. Bound in paper boards, with parchment back._ THE POCKET LIBRARY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE 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. LONDON: PERCIVAL & CO. ELIZABETHAN & JACOBEAN PAMPHLETS EDITED BY GEORGE SAINTSBURY LONDON PERCIVAL AND CO. 1892 CONTENTS PAGE 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 INTRODUCTION