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    The Choise of Valentines Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo
    The Choise of Valentines Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo
    The Choise of Valentines Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo
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    The Choise of Valentines Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo

    By Thomas Nash and John Stephen Farmer

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Choise of Valentines Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo - Thomas Nash

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      Title: The Choise of Valentines

      Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo

      Author: Thomas Nash

      Editor: John Farmer

      Release Date: February 16, 2006 [EBook #17779]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CHOISE OF VALENTINES ***

      Produced by Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

      [Transcriber's Note: Line notes have been moved to the end of each poem from their places on the individual pages to aid in the flow of the poems.]

      OR THE MERIE BALLAD OF

      NASH HIS DILDO

      [BY THOMAS NASH]

      [From MSS. Copies in the

      Inner Temple (Petyt MS. 538, Vol. 43,

      f. viii., 295 b, circa 1680) and Bodleian

      (Rawl. MS. Poet 216, leaves 96-106,

      circa 1610-20) Libraries]

      Edited by

      JOHN S. FARMER

      LONDON

      [PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY]

      MDCCCXCIX

      INTRODUCTION.

      Nash's CHOISE OF VALENTINES has apparently come down to us only in manuscript form. It is extremely doubtful (Oldys notwithstandinga), whether the poem was ever before accorded the dignity of print. Nor would it now be deemed worthy of such were the only considerations those of literary merit or intrinsic value: truth to tell there is little of either to recommend it. But, as it has been repeatedly said, and well insisted on, the world cannot afford to lose any document whatsoever which bears, or may bear, in the slightest degree, on the story of its own growth and development, and out of which its true life has to be written. Especially is even the meanest Elizabethan of importance and value in relation to the re-construction—still far from complete—of the life and times of the immortal bard of Avon. In the most unlikely quarters a quarry may yet be found from which the social historian may obtain a valuable sidelight on manners and customs, the philologist a new lection or gloss, or the antiquary a solution to some, as yet, unsolved problem.

      The Choise of Valentines claims attention, and is of value principally on two grounds, either of which, it is held, should amply justify the more permanent preservation[page viii] now accorded this otherwise insignificant production. In the first place, it appears to have been dedicated to the Earl of Southampton, the generous patron of letters, and friend of Shakspeare; and second, it is probably the only example extant of the kind of hackwork to which Nash was frequently reduced by the keenest pangs of poverty.b He confesses he was often obliged to pen unedifying toys for gentlemen. When Harvey denounced him for emulating Aretino's licentiousness he admitted that poverty had occasionally forced him to prostitute his pen in hope of gain by penning amorous Villanellos and Quipasses for new-fangled galiards and newer Fantisticos. In fact, he seems rarely to have known what it was to be otherwise than the subject of distress and

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