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ROWLANDS, SAMUEL (c. 1573–1630)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 787 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROWLANDS, See also:SAMUEL (c. 1573–1630) , See also:English author of See also:pamphlets in See also:prose and See also:verse, which reflect the follies and humours of the See also:lower See also:middle-class See also:life of his See also:time, seems to have had no See also:ROWLANDSON 787 contemporary See also:literary reputation; but his See also:work throws consider-able See also:light on the social See also:London of his See also:day. Among his See also:works, which include some poems on sacred subjects, are: The Betraying of See also:Christ (1598); The Letting of Humours See also:Blood in the See also:Head-vaine (epigrams and satires) and A Mery Meetinge, or 'tis Mery when Knaves mete (1600)—the two latter being publicly burnt by See also:order, but republished later under other names—(Humors Ordinarie and The See also:Knave of Clubbes); Greenes See also:Ghost haunting Conie-Catchers (1602), which he pre-tended to have edited from See also:Greene's papers, but which is largely borrowed from his printed works; Tis Merrie when Gossips meete (1602), a See also:dialogue between a Widow, a Wife, a Maid and a Vintner; Looke to it; for Ile stabbe ye (1604), in which See also:Death describes the tyrants, careless divines and other evil-doers whom he will destroy;' Hells See also:broke loose (16o5), an See also:account of See also:John of See also:Leyden, and in the same See also:year a See also:Theatre of Divine Recreation (not extant), poems founded on the Old Testament; A Terrible Battell betwene . . Time and Death (1606); See also:Democritus, or See also:Doctor Merry-See also:man his Medicines against See also:Melancholy humors, reprinted, with alterations, as Doctor Merrie-man, and See also:Diogenes Lanthorne (1607), in which " See also:Athens " is London; The Famous See also:History of See also:Guy, See also:Earl of See also:Warwick (1607), a See also:long See also:romance in Rowlands's favourite six-lined See also:stanza, and one of his hastiest, least successful efforts; Humors Looking Glasse (1608); and See also:Martin See also:Mark-all, See also:Beadle of See also:Bride-well (161o), a history of roguery containing much See also:information about notable highwaymen and the completest vocabulary of thieves' See also:slang up to that time. Of his later works may be mentioned See also:Sir See also:Thomas See also:Overbury; or the Poysoned Knights Complaint, and The Melancholic See also:Knight (1615), which suggests a See also:hearing of See also:Beaumont and See also:Fletcher's Knight of the Burning Pestle. The last of his humorous studies, See also:Good Newes and See also:Bad Newes, appeared in 1622, and in 1628 he published a pious See also:volume of prose and verse, entitled Heavens See also:Glory, Seeke it: Earts vanitie, Flye it: Hells Horror, Fere it. After this nothing is known of him. Mr See also:Gosse, in his introduction to Rowlands's See also:complete works, edited (1872–80) for the Hunterian See also:Club in See also:Glasgow by Mr S. J. H. Herrtage, sums him up as a " See also:kind of small non-See also:political See also:Defoe, a pamphleteer in verse whose talents were never put into exercise except when their possessor was pressed for means, and a poet of considerable See also:talent without one spark or glimmer of See also:genius." Mr Gosse's See also:notice is reprinted in his Seventeenth See also:Century Studies (1883). A recently discovered poem by Rowlands, The Bride (1617), was reprinted at See also:Boston, U.S.A., in 1905 by Mr A.

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