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HAKE, EDWARD (fl. 1579)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 827 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HAKE, See also:EDWARD (fl. 1579) , See also:English satirist, was educated under See also:John See also:Hopkins, the See also:part-author of the metrical version of the See also:Psalms. He resided in See also:Gray's See also:Inn and See also:Barnard's Inn, See also:London. In the address " To the See also:Gentle Reader " prefixed to his Newes out of Powles See also:Churchyard . . . Otherwise entitled Syr Nummus (2nd ed., 1579) he mentions the " first three yeeres which I spent in the Innes of Channcery, being now about a dosen of yeeres passed." In 1585 and 1586 he was See also:mayor of New See also:Windsor, and in 1588 he represented the See also:borough in See also:parliament. His last See also:work was published in 1604. He was protected by the See also:earl of See also:Leicester, whose policy it was to support the Puritan party, and who no doubt found a valuable ally in so vigorous a satirist of See also:error in clerical places as was Hake. Newes out of Paules Churchyarde, A Trappe for Syr Monye, first appeared in 1567, but no copy of this impression is known, and it was re-issued in 1579 with the See also:title quoted above. The See also:book takes the See also:form of a See also:dialogue between Bertulph and See also:Paul, who meet in the aisles of the See also:cathedral, and is divided into eight " See also:satyrs," dealing with the corruption of the higher See also:clergy and of See also:judges, the greed of attorneys, the tricks of physicians and apothecaries, the sumptuary See also:laws, extravagant living, See also:Sunday See also:sports, the abuse of St Paul's cathedral as a See also:meeting-See also:place for business and conversation, See also:usury, &c. It is written in rhymed fourteen-syllable See also:metre, which is often more comic than the author intended. It contains, amid much prefatory See also:matter, a See also:note to the " carping and scornefull Sicophant," in which he attacks his enemies with small See also:courtesy and much See also:alliteration.

One is described as a " carping careless cankerd churle." He also wrote a See also:

translation from See also:Thomas a. Kempis, The See also:Imitation, or Following of See also:Christ (1567, 1568) ; A Touchstone for this See also:Time See also:Present (1574), a scurrilous attack on the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:Church, followed by a See also:treatise on See also:education; A See also:Commemoration of the . Raigne of . See also:Elizabeth (1575), enlarged in 1578 to A Joyfull See also:Con- tinuance of the Commemoration, ; and of See also:Gold's See also:Kingdom, and this Unhel ping See also:Age (1604), a collection of pieces in See also:prose and See also:verse, in which the author inveighs against the See also:power of gold. A bibliography of these and of Hake's other See also:works was compiled by Mr See also:Charles Edmonds for his edition in 1872 of the Newes (Isham Reprints, No. 2, 1872).

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