...Vénitien, Vertomannus, Aloysius Cadamustus, ete.? ces journaux exacts des Portugais, des Hollandais, de every day. pamphlets, currantoes, stories. whole catalogues...schisms, heresies, controversies in philosophy. religion, ete. Now coine tidings of weddings. inaskings. muinmeries, entairtainments, jubilees, einbassies. tilts,...

...lawsuits, pleas, laws, proclamations, complaints, grievances,—are daily brought to our ears: newbooks every day, pamphlets, currantoes, stories, whole catalogues...schisms, heresies, controversies in philosophy, religion, etc. Now come tidings of weddings, maskings, mummeries, entertainments, jubilies, embassies, tilts...

...the result of any lack of books or writers. Says Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy : I have . . . new books every day, pamphlets, currantoes, stories,...opinions, schisms, heresies, controversies in philosophy and religion. Now come tidings of weddings, maskings, entertainments, jubilees, embassies, sports,...

...shipwrecks, piracies, seafights and such like, which these tempestuous times afford, . . . there come also new books every day, pamphlets, currantoes, stories,...volumes of all sorts ; new paradoxes, opinions, schisms, 1 English Reprints, John Lyly : Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit ; Euphues and his England, edited by Edward...

...common-rooms were then, as now, the centres of amiable gossip, and in Burton's own words, ' a vast confusion of vows, wishes, actions, edicts, petitions, lawsuits,...complaints, grievances, are daily brought to our ears.' Nor did he neglect any source of information. Grave scholar as he was, he loved the popular literature...

...passage in the introduction, in which he describes his own life as an observer and contémplalo!1 : " Now come tidings of weddings, maskings, mummeries,...embassies, tilts and tournaments, trophies, triumphs, revela, sports, plays ; then again, as in a newshifted scene, treasons, cheating tricks, robberies,...

...shipwrecks, piracies, and sea-fights, peace, leagues, stratagems and fresh alarums. A vast confusion of vows, wishes, actions, edicts, petitions, lawsuits,...our ears. New books every day, pamphlets, currantoes . . . are perhaps familiar with the sense of moral hopelessness engendered by the chaotic disorder...

...Law-suits, Pleas, Lawes, Proclamations, Complaints, Grievances, are daily brought to our Eares. New bookes every day, Pamphlets, Currantoes, Stories, whole Catalogues...of Volumes of all sorts, new Paradoxes, Opinions, Schismes, 5 Heresies, Controversies in Philosophy, Religion, &c. Now come tidings of weddings, Maskings,...

...shipwrecks, piracies, and sea-fights, peaces, leagues, stratagems, and fresh alarums. A vast confusion of vows, wishes, actions, edicts, petitions, lawsuits,...schisms, heresies, controversies in philosophy, religion, &c.M So Robert Burton, writing as late as 1636. In Bohemia during these same years, Johann Amos Komensky...

...shipwrecks, piracies, and sea-fights, peace, leagues, stratagems, and fresh alarms. A vast confusion of vows, wishes, actions, edicts, petitions, lawsuits,...are daily brought to our ears. New books every day, pampblets, cureamoes. stories, whole catalogues of volumes of all sorts, new paeadoxes, opinions, schisms,...