...track of before, and doubted whether one could keep one's balance in such confusion. A vast confusion of vows, wishes, actions, edicts, petitions, lawsuits,...schisms, heresies, controversies in philosophy, religion, etc. Now come tidings of weddings, maskings, mummeries, entertainments, jubilees, embassies, tilts...

...shipwrecks, piracies, and sea-fights, peace, leagues, stratagems, and fresh alarums. A vast confusion of vows, wishes, actions, edicts, petitions, lawsuits,...paradoxes, opinions, schisms, heresies, controversies in philosopby, religion, etc. ...2 Barraged yet still afloat upon this irresistible tsunami of confused...

...33 31 En C. John Sommerville, The News Revolution in England. ..,op. cit, p. 28: "A vast confusión of vows, wishes, actions, edicts, petitions, lawsuits,...opinions, schisms, heresies, controversies in philosophy, religión, etc.". 32 Ibid., pp. 31-32. 33 Citado por Folke Dahl, A Bibliogmphy ofenglish comntos...,op....

...which Pantagruel found in the library of St. Victor, or in the complaint by Democritus junior — "more books every day, pamphlets, currantoes, stories, whole catalogues of volumes of all sorts." On this mass of material the brazenentrailed polymaths and pronoun-splitting grammarians battened and...

...which Pantagruel found in the library of St. Victor, or in the complaint by Democritus junior — "more books every day, pamphlets, currantoes, stories, whole catalogues of volumes of all sorts." On this mass of material the brazenentrailed polymaths and pronoun-splitting grammarians battened and...

...keeping: but hardly one in fortie' (Bodley 1926, 121-2). Burton was happy to acquire what he called 'new books every day, pamphlets, currantoes, stories, whole catalogues of volumes of all sorts'.49 In this library Beaumont, Dekker, Greene, Thomas Heywood, Middleton, and Shirley were represented,...