A 'goodly sample': exemplarity, female complaint and early modern women’s poetry

Rosalind Smith

A 'goodly sample': exemplarity, female complaint and early modern women’s poetry

Rosalind Smith

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Abstract

In 1596, Thomas Lodge wrote of the garrulous brothel-keeper Cousenage inWits Miserie: Shee will reckon you vp the storie of Mistris Sanders, and weepe at it, and turne you to the Ballad ouer her chimney, and bid you looke there, there is a goodly sample: I wenches (saies she, turning hirselfe to hir maidens of yt second scise) looke to it, trust not these dissimulation men, there are few good of the[m], yt there are not.¹ The story of ‘Mistris Sanders’ concerns the true-life murder of the London merchant George Saunders in 1573 by George Browne. Browne was the...

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Early Modern Women and the Poem
Editors	Susan Wiseman
Place of Publication	Manchester, New York
Publisher	Manchester University Press
Pages	181-200
Volume	1
Edition	1
ISBN (Print)	978-1-5261-1092-3
Publication status	Published - 2013

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