Rede me and be nott wrothe, for I saye no thinge but trothe / written by William Roy and Jerome Barlowe, printed by John Schott at Strasburg in 1528
1871, First Edition. London : 5 Queen Square, Bloomsbury. Good copy only in the original stiff-card wrappers, which are heavily dust-dulled externally, and somewhat edgeworn. Backstrip heavily worn, with some loss. Front hinge starting. Edges foxed and some faint scattered foxing throughout. Text block slightly cracked at p.128, otherwise generally tight. An internally well-preserved reading copy. Item #450995
Series; English reprints. Alternative titles; A proper dyaloge betwene a gentillman and a husbandman, eche complaynynge to other their miserable calamite through the ambicion of the clergye. Together with A compendious olde treatyse shewynge howe that we ought to haue the Scripture in Englysshe, written by a Lollard, about 1450 A.D. ; printed by Hans Luft at Marburg, Hesse, in 1530, from the unique copy in the British Museum ; carefully edited by Edward Arber. Physical description; 184 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. Notes; "20 September, 1871." "Rede me and be nott wrothe" is a satire in verse directed against Cardinal Wolsey. "A proper dyaloge betwene a gentillman and a husbandman" is attributed to William Roy. With reproduction of the original illustrated title-pages. Texts in Middle and Modern English. Subjects; Wolsey, Thomas (1475?-1530)--Poetry. Catholic Church--Controversial literature--Poetry. Reformation--England--Early works to 1800. English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700. English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500.
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