1723 3rd Edtn Leather DRUNKEN BARNABYS FOUR JOURNEYS TO THE NORTH OF ENGLAND By Richard Braithwaite Illus. Anon Good Classic Literature

1723 3rd Edition , Leather
DRUNKEN BARNABYS FOUR JOURNEYS TO THE NORTH OF ENGLAND
Together with Bessy Bell
By Richard Braithwaite
Richard Brathwait or Brathwaite (1588 – 4 May 1673) was an English poet.
He was the author of many works of very unequal merit, of which the best known is Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys, which records his pilgrimages through England in rhymed Latin (said by Southey to be the best of modern times), and doggerel English verse.

Illustrated By: Anon


Format: Hardcover,
Language: English
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Published By: S. Illidge, under Serle's Gate Lincolns-Inn New Square., London

duodecimo or twelvemo (12mo 5 × 7+3⁄8 127 × 187),Pages 175

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In Latin and English Metre.
Wittily and merrily (tho'an Hundred years ago) compos'd; found among some old musty Books that had lain a long time by in a Corner, and now at last made publick.
Together with Bessy Bell.
Hic est quem quaris, ille quem requiris, Toto notus in Orbe Britannus. Mart, Barnabas Ebrius,
The Third Edition, illustrated with several new copper cuts.
London
Printed  for
Richard Braithwaite

"Richard Brathwaite's most famous work is Barnabae Itinerarium or Barnabees Journall [1638], by "Corymbaeus," written in English and Latin rhyme. The title-page says it is written for the "travellers' solace" and is to be chanted to the old tune of "Barnabe." The story of "drunken Barnabee's" four journeys to the north of England contains much amusing topographical information, and its gaiety is unflagging. Barnabee rarely visits a town or village without some notice of an excellent inn or a charming hostess, but he hardly deserves the epithet "drunken." At Banbury he saw the Puritan who has become proverbial, "Hanging of his cat on Monday For killing of a Mouse on Sunday." - Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911, Vol. 4, p. 436.



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