E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Gascoigne, George
(b. 1530; d. 1577). Works first published in 1589, as “The Pleasuntest Works of George Gascoigne, Esquire; newlye compyled into One Volume; that is to say, his ‘Flowers, Herbes, Weedes’; ‘The Fruites of Warre’; ‘The Comedy called Supposes’; ‘The Tragedy of Iocasta;’ ‘The Steele Glasse’; ‘The Complaynt of Philomene’; ‘The Story of Ferdinando Jeronimi;’ and ‘The Pleasures at Kenilworth Castle.’” See Warton’s “History of English Poetry,” Morley’s “English Writers,” vols. viii. and xi., and the “Dictionary of National Biography.”
