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RANDOLPH, THOMAS (1605-1635)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 888 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RANDOLPH, See also:THOMAS (1605-1635) , See also:English poet and dramatist, was See also:born near See also:Daventry in See also:Northamptonshire, and was baptized on the 15th of See also:June 16o5. He was educated at See also:Westminster and at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge. He took his B.A. degree in 1628, proceeded M.A. in 1632 and became a See also:major See also:fellow of his college in the same See also:year. He soon gave promise as a writer of See also:comedy. See also:Ben See also:Jonson, not an easily satisfied critic, adopted him as one of his " sons." He addressed three poems to Jonson, one on the occasion of his formal " See also:adoption," another on the failure of The New See also:Inn, and the third an See also:eclogue, describing his own studies at Cambridge. He lived with his See also:father at Little See also:Houghton in Northamptonshire for some See also:time, and afterwards with See also:William See also:Stafford of Blatherwick, at whose See also:house he died before completing his thirtieth year. He was buried . in Blatherwick See also:church on the 17th of See also:March 1634-35, and his See also:epitaph was written by See also:Peter Hausted, the author of The See also:Rival See also:Friends. Randolph's reputation as a wit is attested by the verses addressed to him by his contemporaries and by the stories attached to his name. His earliest printed See also:work is See also:Aristippus, Or, The Joviall Philosopher. Presented in a private skew, To which is added, The Conceited Pedlar (163o). It is a See also:gay interlude burlesquing a lecture in See also:philosophy, the whole piece being an See also:argument to support the claims of See also:sack against small See also:beer. The Conceited Pedlar is an amusing See also:monologue delivered by the pedlar, who defines himself as an " individuum vagum, or the primum See also:mobile of tradesmen, a walking-burse or movable See also:exchange, a Socratical See also:citizen of the vast universe, or a peripatetical journeyman, that, like another See also:Atlas, carries his heavenly See also:shop on's shoulders." He then proceeds to display his wares with a See also:running satirical comment.

The Jealous Lovers was presented by the students of Trinity College, Cambridge, before the See also:

king and See also:queen in 1632. The Muse's Looking-See also:Glass is hardly a See also:drama. Roscius presents the extremes of virtue and See also:vice in pairs, and last of all the " See also:golden mediocrity " who announces herself as the See also:mother of all the virtues. Amyntas, or The Impossible See also:Dowry, a See also:pastoral printed in 1638, with a number of See also:miscellaneous Latin and English poems, completes the See also:list of Randolph's authenticated work. Hey for Honesty, down with Knavery, a comedy, is doubtfully assigned to him. His See also:works were edited by W. C. See also:Hazlitt in 1875.

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