Waves of Wo
Colin Burrow: George Gascoigne, 5 July 2001
A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres
by George Gascoigne, edited by G.W. Pigman.
Oxford, 781 pp., £100, October 2000,0 19 811779 5 Show More
by George Gascoigne, edited by G.W. Pigman.
Oxford, 781 pp., £100, October 2000,
“... chamber, passion grows to the point where she takes to her bed with a nose-bleed (which was, as Pigman’s excellent notes show, a symptom of passion). F.J. then intermingles prayers for her health, quack-doctoring, and whispers of flattery in an attempt to cure her. F.J. and Elinor eventually couple on the floor of a gallery, after he has stolen through ... ”