STC 23788, title page
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Creator: John Taylor
Title: The praise of hemp-seed. With the voyage of Mr. Roger Bird and the writer hereof, in a boat of brown-paper, from London to Quinborough in Kent. As also, a farewell to the matchlesse deceased Mr. Thomas Coriat. Concluding with the commendations of the famous riuer of Thames. By Iohn Taylor. The contents of the booke are in the next leafe before the preamble. The profits arising by hemp-seed are cloathing, food, fishing, shipping, pleasure, profit, iustice, whipping.
Date: Printed at London : [By Edward Allde] for H. Gosson, and are to be sold [by E. Wright?] at Christ-Church gate, 1620.
Repository: Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, USA
Call number and opening: STC 23788, title page and sigs. E3v-E4r
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STC 23788, signatures E3 verso and E4 recto
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Creator: John Taylor
Title: The praise of hemp-seed. With the voyage of Mr. Roger Bird and the writer hereof, in a boat of brown-paper, from London to Quinborough in Kent. As also, a farewell to the matchlesse deceased Mr. Thomas Coriat. Concluding with the commendations of the famous riuer of Thames. By Iohn Taylor. The contents of the booke are in the next leafe before the preamble. The profits arising by hemp-seed are cloathing, food, fishing, shipping, pleasure, profit, iustice, whipping.
Date: Printed at London : [By Edward Allde] for H. Gosson, and are to be sold [by E. Wright?] at Christ-Church gate, 1620.
Repository: Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, USA
Call number and opening: STC 23788, title page and sigs. E3v-E4r
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Creator: John Taylor
Title: The praise of hemp-seed. With the voyage of Mr. Roger Bird and the writer hereof, in a boat of brown-paper, from London to Quinborough in Kent. As also, a farewell to the matchlesse deceased Mr. Thomas Coriat. Concluding with the commendations of the famous riuer of Thames. By Iohn Taylor. The contents of the booke are in the next leafe before the preamble. The profits arising by hemp-seed are cloathing, food, fishing, shipping, pleasure, profit, iustice, whipping.
Date: Printed at London : [By Edward Allde] for H. Gosson, and are to be sold [by E. Wright?] at Christ-Church gate, 1620.
Repository: Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, USA
Call number and opening: STC 23788, title page and sigs. E3v-E4r
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Folger Shakespeare Library staff, "The Praise of Hemp-seed: John Taylor references Shakespeare by name," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/756.
Folger Shakespeare Library, STC 23788. See Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/756.
John Tyler’s The Praise of Hemp-Seed was first published in 1620 by Edward Allde for H. Gosson. The poem includes an early remembrance of Shakespeare four years after his death, praising paper for keeping his art alive (image 2):
In paper, many a Poet now suruiues
Of else their lines had perish’d with their liues,
Old Chaucer, Gower, and Sir Thomas More,
Sir Philip Sidney, who the Lawrell wore,
Spencer, and Shakespeare did in Art excell,
Sir Edward Dywer, Greene, Nash, Daniell.
Siluester, Beumont, Sir Iohn Harrington,
Forgetfulnesse their workes would ouerrun,
But that in paper they immortally
Do liue in spight of death, and cannot die.
Written by Folger Shakespeare Library staff
Sources
E. K. Chambers, William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1930): 2:226-27.
F.J. Furnivall, C.M. Ingleby, and L. Toulmin Smith, comps., The Shakspere Allusion-Book: A Collection of Allusions to Shakspere from 1591 to 1700. Edited by John Munro. (London: Oxford University Press, 1932): 1: 278.
David Kathman, “Shakespeare's Eulogies.” <http://shakespeareauthorship.com/eulogies.html>.
Last updated January 25, 2020
