Pierces Supererogation Or a New Praise of the Old Ass
Pierces Supererogation Or a New Praise of the Old Ass
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I were best to end before I begin, and to leave the author of Asses, where I found the Ass of authors. When I am better furnished with competent provision, (what provision sufficient for so mighty a province?) I may haply essay to fulfil the proverb by washing the Ass's head, and setting the crown of highest praise upon the crown of young Apuleius, the heir-apparent of the old Ass, the most glorious old Ass.
I have written in all sorts of humours privately, I am persuaded, more than any young m...an of my age in England. They be the words of his own honourable mouth : and the golden Ass, in the super- abundance of his rich humours, promiseth many other golden mountains, but hath never a scrat of silver. Had Aristophanes' Plutus been outwardly as liberal, as Greene's Mercury was inwardly prodigal, he must needs have been the only oriental star of this Ian-, guage ; and all other writers, old or new, in prose or verse, in one humour or other, but sorry occidental stars. Only external defects, 173 quoth himself, are cast in his dish : for internal graces, and excel- lentest perfections of an accomplished mind, who but he ?
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
I were best to end before I begin, and to leave the author of Asses, where I found the Ass of authors. When I am better furnished with competent provision, (what provision sufficient for so mighty a province?) I may haply essay to fulfil the proverb by washing the Ass's head, and setting the crown of highest praise upon the crown of young Apuleius, the heir-apparent of the old Ass, the most glorious old Ass.
I have written in all sorts of humours privately, I am persuaded, more than any young m...an of my age in England. They be the words of his own honourable mouth : and the golden Ass, in the super- abundance of his rich humours, promiseth many other golden mountains, but hath never a scrat of silver. Had Aristophanes' Plutus been outwardly as liberal, as Greene's Mercury was inwardly prodigal, he must needs have been the only oriental star of this Ian-, guage ; and all other writers, old or new, in prose or verse, in one humour or other, but sorry occidental stars. Only external defects, 173 quoth himself, are cast in his dish : for internal graces, and excel- lentest perfections of an accomplished mind, who but he ?
What to read after Pierces Supererogation Or a New Praise of the Old Ass?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Gabriel Harvey to read onlineMoreLess
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