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INTRODUCTION "> HOMAS NASliK, son of a Suffolk minister, was born at Lowestoft in 1567, and matriculated at St. John's College, Cauibridge, on October 13, 1582, being first a sizar and later a scholar of that house. He claimed 1 that it was well known he might have been a fellow of St. John's at will, but however this may be, the larger life beckoned him, and he left Cambridge for London. There he made some figure hi literary circles, wrote prefaces to Greene's Menafhon and Sidney's Aairophd and Stella, completed Marlowe's Dido and produced a couple of plays of his own, took a hand on the bishops' side in the Martin Marprelate controversy, engaged in a notable pamphlet war with Gabriel Harvey, and wrote a few satirical prose pieces, some lyrics, a realistic novel, and his Lenten Stuffe in praise of Yarmouth and the Red Herring. This last was printed in 1599, and in 1601 there appeared in Charles 1/itzgcffrcy's Affanice a Latin epigram on Xashc's death. Where he died, or when,

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Putnam's, Capricorn Books, 1960 small (4 1/2 x 7 1/4), with tissue dj. Facsimile. Rare. ... Read more