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Vol. I, no.7

(16 fram.) 1886, Jian 24

By exchange.

TOM NASH

HIS GHOST.

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TO THE THREE SCURVY FELLOWS OF THE UPSTART FAMILY OF THE SNUFFLERS, RUFFLERS AND SHUFFLERS;

THE THRICE TREBLE-TROUBLESOME

SCUFFLERS IN THE CHURCH AND STATE,

THE ONLY LAY ECCLESI-ASS," I CALL

GENERALISSIMOES:

BEING LIKE JOB'S THREE COMFORTERS, OR THE CHURCH'S
THREE ANTI-DISCIPLES, THE CLERGY'S THREE PERSE-
CUTORS, THE STATE'S THREE HORSE-LEECHES,
THE DEVIL'S THREE CHAPLAINS;

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A little Revised since the 30th year of the late Queen Elizabeth's Reign, when "Martin Mar-Prelate" was as mad as any of his Tub-men are now.

Edited by CHARLES HINDLEY.

LONDON:

REEVES AND TURNER,

196, STRAND,

(Opposite St. Clement Danes Church).

ADVERTISEMENT.

TOM NASH HIS GHOST.

Or this brochure we present our readers with a word-for-word and "READABLE REPRINT" transcribed from a copy in the British Museum. It is bound up with a volume of Nash's pieces, including Dr. Gabriel Harvey's "The Trimming of Thomas Nash," &c.

Of "The Ghost" or its author we have not as yet found any particulars, although we have consulted Watt, Collier, Ritson, Hazlitt, and the Indexes to Notes and Queries. But we fear the unearthing of the writer is rather a difficult task, as there was such a cloud of controversialists in those days that nobody appears to have taken the trouble of handing the names of half of them down to posterity. Should any particulars be found on the subject, we propose to give them in our next Part, and so printed that they can be placed in the proper position by the Binder on the completion of a volume of "THE OLD BOOK COLLECTOR'S MISCELLANY."

The ascribing the authorship of " Pap with a Hatchet" to Tom Nash, at so distant a period from the present, was in itself sufficiently tempting to lead us to reproduce "The Ghost," and more particularly as we have marked and annotated that "Martin Mar-Prelate" Tract for publication in our Miscellany.

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