La controverse de Martin Marprelate, 1588-1590: épisode de l'histoire littéraire du puritanisme sous Élizabeth

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A. Jullien, 1916 - 237 pages

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Page 203 - Plaine Percevall the Peacemaker of England. Sweetly indevoring with his blunt persuasions to botch vp a Reconciliation between Mar-ton and Mar-tother.
Page 223 - I know not why a trueth in rime set out Maie not as wel mar Martine and his mates, As shamelesse lies in prose-books cast about Marpriests, & prelates, and subvert whole states. For where truth builds, and lying oyerthroes, One truth in rime, is worth ten lies in prose.
Page 199 - Martin, and the rest of those impudent Beggers, that can not be content to stay their stomakes with a Benefice, but they will needes breake their fastes with our Bishops. Rimarum sum plenus. Therefore beware (gentle Reader) you catch not the hicket with laughing.
Page 190 - Martin, of what calling so euer he be, can play nothing but the knaues part. . . . 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.' Note in marg.n, ' If it be shewed at Panics, it will cost you foure pence: at the Theater two pence : at Sainct Thomas a Watrings nothing.
Page 56 - MES hien-aimés, ne croyez pas à tout esprit, mais éprouvez les esprits pour savoir s'ils viennent de Dieu ; car plusieurs faux Prophètes sont venus dans le monde.
Page 190 - ... 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.
Page 201 - Martins wit, or should bee lambackd himself with ten yeares prouision) would needs forsooth verye courtly perswade the Earle of Oxforde, that some thing in those Letters, and namely the Mirrour of Tuscanismo, was palpably intended against him : whose noble Lordeship I protest I neuer meante to dishonour with the least...
Page 201 - Cheape-side and preacht : needes hee must cast vp certayne crude humours of English Hexameter Verses that lay vppon his stomacke ; a Noble-man stoode in his way, as he was vomiting, and from top to toe he all to berayd him with Tuscanisme.
Page 177 - Martins Months minde, that is, A certaine report, and true description of the Death, and Funeralls, of olde Martin Marreprelate, the great makebate of England and father of the Factious. Contayning the cause of his death, the manner of his buriall, and the right copies both of his Will, and of such Epitaphs, as by sundrie his dearest friends, and other of his well willers, were framed for him. Martin the Ape, the...
Page 202 - ... cares as little for writing without wit, as Martin doth for writing without honestie ; a notable coach companion for Martin, to drawe Diuinitie from the Colledges of Oxford and Cambridge, to Shoomakers hall in Sainct Martins. But we neither feare Martin, nor 'the...

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