Record Number: 5890

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[MARGINALIA]:'The discouerie of his mistress, a false diamant. His sicknes, & Jealosie did not help the matter, but did marre all. Woomen loue men: & care not for pore harts, that cannot bestead them. Especially at the returne of his ritual, her Secretarie; it imported him to empooue himself more, then before; & not to languish like a milkstop, or to play the pore snake vpon himself. Ladie Elinor woold haue liked the man and woold haue maintained his possession by force of armes, & with braue encounters beat his enimie owt of the field.'

Century:

1500-1599

Date:

unknown

Country:

England (?)

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Gabriel Harvey

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1545

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England (?)

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

George Gascoigne

Title:

The Posies

Genre:

Poetry, Miscellany / Anthology

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

5890

Source:

Print

Author:

Gabriel Harvey

Editor:

G C Moore Smith

Title:

Gabriel Harvey: Marginalia

Place of Publication:

Stratford-upon-Avon

Date of Publication:

1913

Vol:

n/a

Page:

167

Additional Comments:

Summary gloss to Gascoigne's The Posies, 'F. I.''s frustrated love affair. After 1575.

Citation:

Gabriel Harvey, G C Moore Smith (ed.), Gabriel Harvey: Marginalia (Stratford-upon-Avon, 1913), p. 167, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=5890, accessed: 01 April 2023

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Additional Comments:

This is a marginal note cited by John Kerrigan in his essay 'The editor as reader' in Raven, Small and Tadmor (eds), The Practice and Representation of Reading in England (Cambridge, 1996). Kerrigan says this is typical of Harvey's style of annotation as 'aide memoire' in order to derive lessons from texts; in this case, Kerrigan says, his reading leads him to deduce 'somewhere down the line... that firm and courageous dealing with Spain is the only way to success.'