Thomas Nashe's works, including satire, stories, poetry, and excerpts from other texts by this protean author from the late sixteenth century. Among the many selections in this text, The Unfortunate Traveler is among the best. ( )

Read this a long time ago, on my nook. It is a story of Jack Wilton and it is called a picaresque style novel. Its like an adventure story. A bit too long in my opinion. ( )

A bit taimer than usual, but still fun ( )

How can you not love a book with sentences like these?

"What stratagemicall actes and monuments do you thinke an ingenious infant of my age might enact? you will saie, it were sufficient if he slurre a die, pawne his master to the vtmost pennie, & minister the oath on the pantoffle arteficially."

"There was a Lord in the campe, let him be a Lord of misrule, if you wil, for he kept a plaine alehouse without welt or gard of anie Iuibush, and solde syder and cheese by pint and by pound to all that came (at that verie name of syder, I can but sigh, there is so much of it in renish wine now a dayes)."

"Very deuout asses they were, for all they were so dunstically set forth, & such as thought they knew as much of Gods minde as richer men, why inspiration was their ordinarie familiar, and buzde in theyr eares like a Bee in a boxe euerie houre what newes from heauen, hell, and the lands of whipperginnie, displease them who durst, hee shoulde have his mittimus to damnation ex tempore, they woulde vaunt there was not a pease difference twixt them and the Apostles, ..."

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