The Unfortunate Traveller: Or the Life of Jacke Wilton (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Lazaro, son of a washerwoman, apprentice to a blind beggar, servant in turn to many masters and starved by them all, spends the earlier part of his life in a miserable conflict with hunger, and the latter in a replete and greasy satisfaction. He reaches the summit of his ambition as a petty government official, growing fat on the corrupt profits of an inspectorship of wine, and we leave him at the close a marl complaisant in the house of an Archpriest in Toledo, wedded to one of his master's servant girls, and enjoying to the full his favour, his dinners, and his cast shoes.

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Suffolk minister, was born at Lowestoft in 1567, and matriculated at St. John s College, Cambridge, on October 13,1582, being first a sizar and later a scholar of that house. He claimed 1that it was well known he might have been a fellow of St. John sat will, but however this may be, the larger life beckoned him, and he left Cambridge for London. There he made some figure in literary circles, wrote prefaces to Greene s Menaphon and Sidney s Astrophel 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 Stuffs in praise of Yarmouth and the Red Herring. This last was printed in 1599, and in 1601 there appeared in Charles Fitzgeffrey s Affanice a Latin epigram on Nashe sdeath. Where he died, or when, or how, we do not know. His own age thought of Nashe chiefly as a satirist; his quarrel with Harvey made him famous, and the general character of his vork was not pacific. Dekker imagined him in the other world still haunted with the sharpe and Satyr icall spirit that followd him heere vpon earth, and 1I n Have with you to Saffron-W alden, 1596.
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