SECTION 1: POLEMIC: FLYTING, LIBEL AND SATIRE
Chapter 1: Responses to Libel and Satire
Chapter 2: Domestic and Cross-Cultural Flyting
SECTION 2: MARRIAGE, FRIENDSHIP COURTSHIP/COURTIERSHIP
Chapter 3: Answer Poetry and Marriage: 1550-1570
Chapter 4: Late Tudor Amicable Verse Exchanges
Chapter 5: Women's answer-poetry and the female-voiced response
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Sources Text cited:
Whythorne, p.63 (see also p.120)
| Answer | First line: | “Er Vulcan with hiz Fiery bank, konsiumed Bucerz chest” |
| Antecedent | Ascription: | Whythornes answer participates in a communal response by |
| Cambridge students in 1560 to numerous posthumous libels (now | ||
| perished) against Martin Bucer by Catholic students in 1557, | ||
| including Robert Firbank, Richard Shakelock, Thomas Talbot, | ||
| Thomas Redman and others (see Whythorne, p.121 and p.123) | ||
| Source | Text cited: | Whythorne, pp.122-3 |
| 311 | ||
| Answer: | First line: | “Not all for nowht the fatherz old gav nam to evri thing” |
| Antecedent: | Ascription: | Barnam, Thomas |
| First line: | “What ech thing iz in evri kynd, the nam doth well diskry” (a | |
| continuation of B 69) | ||
| Sources: | Text cited: | Whythorne, pp.214-15 |
| 312 | ||
| Answer | Ascription: | Wilson, Thomas |
| First line: | “To come to honour worldly, with aucthoritie much, and greate | |
| richnesse” | ||
| Antecedent | Ascription: | Wilson, Thomas |
| First line: | “Worthinesse, not wilines, godlinese, not goodes, brought the | |
| hereunto” | ||
| Sources | Text cited: | Verse Printed, TP2016 and TP2314 |
| 313 | ||
| Answer | Ascription: | Woodward, Thomas |
| Title: | ‘To M[r] J[ohn] D[onne]’ | |
| First line: | “Thou sendst me prose and rimes, I send for those” | |
| Antecedent | Ascription: | Donne, John |
| Title: | ‘To Mr T. W.’ | |
| First line: | “All haile sweet Poet, more full of more strong fire” | |
| Sources | Text cited: | Donne, I. pp.203-4 and II. pp.166-7 |
| 314 | ||
| Answer | Ascription: | Wotton, Sir Henry* |
| First line: | “’Tis not a coate of gray or shepherd’s life” (answered by D 107) | |
| Antecedent | Ascription: | Donne, John |
| Title: | ‘To Sir Henry Wootton’ | |
| First line: | “Here’s no more newes, then vertue, I may as well” | |
| Sources | Text cited: | Fowler a, pp.74-5; Donne, I. pp.187-8 |
| Manuscript versions: | Bridgewater MS. (Hunt. EL 6893), f. 74; Phillipps MS. (Eng. Poet. | |
| F. 9, pp.10-11); Winchelsea MS. (Rosen. 243/4), pp.112-13 | ||
| 315 | ||
| Answer | Ascription: | Wroth, Lady Mary |
| Title: | ‘Railing Rimes Returned upon the Author by Mistress Mary | |
| Wrothe’ | ||
| First line: | “Hirmophradite in sense in Art a monster” | |
| Antecedent | Ascription: | Denny, Edward, Baron of Waltham |
*
The ordering of these poems is the suggestion of Pebworth and Summers (1984).