This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 Excerpt: ... 1641 He tells us, it was written by Gilbert ilkington, thought to have been some time parson of the same parish, and author of another piece, intitled Passio Domini Jesu Christi. Bedwell, who was eminently skilled in the oriental and other languages, appears to have been but little conversant with the ancient writers ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 Excerpt: ... 1641 He tells us, it was written by Gilbert ilkington, thought to have been some time parson of the same parish, and author of another piece, intitled Passio Domini Jesu Christi. Bedwell, who was eminently skilled in the oriental and other languages, appears to have been but little conversant with the ancient writers in his own; and he so little entered into the spirit of the poem he was publishing, that he contends for its being a serious narrative of? a real event, and thinks it must have been written before the time of Edward III, because Turnaments were prohibited in that reign. "I do verily believe," says he, "that this Turnament was acted before this proclamation of King Edward. For how durst any to attempt to do that, although in sport, which was so straightly forbidden, both by the civill and ecclesiasticall power'! For although they fought not with lances, yet, as our author sayth, ' It was no childrens game, And what would have become of him, thinke you, which should have slayne another in this manner of jeasting? Would he not, trow you, have been hang'd for it in earnest'! yea, and have bene buried like a dogge I" It is, however, well known that Turnaments were in use down to the reign of Elizabeth. In the first editions of this work, Bedwell's copy was reprinted here, with some few conjectural emendation; but as Bedwell seemed to have reduced the orthograph'y at least, if not the phraseology, to the standard o his own time, it was with great pleasure that the Editor was informed of an ancient MS. copy preserved in the Museum Harl. MSS. 5396. which appeared to have been transcribed in the reign of King Hen. VI. about 1466. This obliging information the Editor owed to the friendship of Th...
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