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BRATHWAIT, RICHARD (1588—1673)

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BRATHWAIT, See also:RICHARD (1588—1673) , See also:English poet, son of See also:Thomas Brathwait, was See also:born in 1588 at his See also:father's See also:manor of Burneshead, near See also:Kendal, See also:Westmorland. He entered See also:Oriel See also:College, See also:Oxford, in 1604, and remained there for some years, pursuing the study of See also:poetry and See also:Roman See also:history. He removed to See also:Cambridge to study See also:law and afterwards to See also:London to the Inns of See also:Court. Thomas Brathwait died in 161o, and the son went down to live on the See also:estate he inherited from his father. In 1617 he married Frances See also:Lawson of Nesham., near See also:Darlington. On the See also:death of his See also:elder See also:brother, See also:Sir Thomas Brathwait, in 1618, Richard became the See also:head of the See also:family, and an important personage in the See also:county, being See also:deputy-See also:lieutenant and See also:justice of the See also:peace. In 1633 his wife died, and in 1639 he married again. His only son by this second See also:marriage, Sir See also:Strafford Brathwait, was killed in a See also:sea-fight against the Algerian pirates. Richard Brathwait's most famous See also:work is Barnabae See also:Itinerarium or Barnabees Journall [1638], by " Corymbaeus," written in English and Latin See also:rhyme. The See also:title-See also:page says it is written for the " travellers' solace " and is to be chanted to the old tune of Barnabe." The See also:story of " drunken Barnabee's" four journeys to the See also:north of See also:England contains much amusing topographical See also:information, and its gaiety is unflagging. Barnabee rarely visits a See also:town or See also:village without some See also:notice of an excellent See also:inn or a charming hostess, but he hardly deserves the epithet " drunken." At See also:Banbury he saw the Puritan who has become proverbial, " See also:Hanging of his See also:cat on See also:Monday For killing of a See also:Mouse on See also:Sunday." Brathwait's identity with " Corymbaeus " was first established by See also:Joseph Haslewood. In his later years he removed to Catterick, where he died on the 4th of May 1673.

Among his other See also:

works are: The See also:Golden Fleece (1611), with a second title-page announcing " sonnets and madrigals," and a See also:treatise on the See also:Art of Poesy, which is not preserved; The Poets See also:Willow; or the Passionate Shepheard (1614); The Prodigals Teares (1614); The Schollers Medley, or an intermixt Discourse upon Historicall and Poeticall relations (1614), known in later See also:editions as a Survey of History (1638, &c.); a collection of epigrams and satires entitled A Strappado for the Divell (1615), with which was published in-congruously Loves See also:Labyrinth (edited, 1878, by J. W. Ebsworth); Natures Embassie; or, the wildemans See also:measures; danced naked by twelve satyres (1621), See also:thirty satires finding See also:antique See also:parallels for See also:modern vices; with these are See also:bound up The Shepheards Tales (1621), a collection of pastorals, one See also:section of which was re-printed by Sir See also:Egerton See also:Brydges in 1815; two See also:treatises on See also:manners, The English See also:Gentleman (163o) and The English See also:Gentle-woman (1631); Anniversaries upon his Panarete (1634), a poem in memory of his wife; Essaies upon the Five Senses (162o); The Psalmes of See also:David . . . and other See also:holy Prophets, paraphras'd in English (1638); A Comment upon Two Tales of . . . Jeffray See also:Chaucer (1665; edited for the Chaucer See also:Soc. by C. See also:Spurgeon, 19o1). Thomas See also:Hearne, on whose testimony (MS. collections for the See also:year 1713, vol. 47, p. 127) the authorship of the Itinerarium chiefly rests, not inappropriately called him " the scribler of those times," and the See also:list just given of his works, published under various pseudonyms, is by no means See also:complete. A full bibliography is given in Joseph Haslewood's edition of Barnabee's Journall (ed. W.

C. See also:

Hazlitt, 1876). See also J. Corser, Collectanea (Chetham Soc., 186o, &c.).

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