1565 - Gascoine, George - Durum Æneum

Allusion to Adam Bell
Date	1565
Author	Gascoine, George
Title	[Untitled poem on the theme] Durum Æneum & Miserabile Ævum
Mentions	Clim of the CLough

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George Gascoigne (from Gascoigne, George; Cunliffe, John W., ed. The Complete Works of George Gascoigne (Cambridge, 1907-10)).

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-07-23. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-05-17.

Allusion

The woman wantonnesse, shee commes with ticing traine,
Pride in hir pocket plaies bo peepe, and bawdry in hir braine.
Hir handmaides be deceipte, daunger, and dalliaunce,
Riot and Revell follow hir, they be of hir alliaunce:
Next these commes in Sim Swashe, to see what sturre they keepe.
Clim of the Clough then takes his heeles, tis time for him to creepe: [p. 70:]
To packe the pageaunt up, commes Sorrow with a song,
He say[s] these jestes can get no grotes, & al this geare goth wrong^[1]

IRHB comments

This was first published in FLowers (1575) but written ten years earlier.^[2]

Editions

Gascoigne, George; Cunliffe, John W., ed. The Complete Works of George Gascoigne (Cambridge, 1907-10), vol. I, pp. 62-73.

Notes

Also see

Allusions to Adam Bell.

Adam Bell

[1] Gascoigne, George; Cunliffe, John W., ed. The Complete Works of George Gascoigne (Cambridge, 1907-10), vol. I, pp. 69-70.

[2] See Austen, Gillian. George Gascoigne (Studies in Renaissance Literature, vol. 24) (Cambridge, 2008), p. 1.

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