1575 - Gascoigne, George - Fruits of War

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-07-23. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.

George Gascoigne presenting his work Hermetes the Heremyte to Queen Elizabeth (from Lee, Sidney, ed.; Onions, Charles Talbut, ed.; Raleigh, Walter, ed. Shakespeare's England: an Account of the Life and Manners of his Age (Oxford, 1932), plate facing p. 188.

Allusion

Yea Robyn Hoode, our foes came downe apace,
And first they chargde another Forte likewise,
Alphen I meane, which was a stronger place,
And yet to weake to keepe in warlike wise:
Five other bandes of English *Fanteries, footemen.
Were therein set for to defend the same,
And them they chargde for to beginne the game.

Source notes

Marginal note to "Fanteries": "footmen".

Lists

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-11.
• Sussex, Lucy, compil. 'References to Robin Hood up to 1600', in: Knight, Stephen. Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw (Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1994), pp. 262-88; see p. 281, dated 1579, source title cited as The Posies.

Editions

• Gascoigne, George; Cunliffe, John W., ed. The Complete Works of George Gascoigne (Cambridge, 1907-10), vol. I, pp. 139-84; see p. 171.

Notes

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