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THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM
fell into their hands. In that contingency, the publisher deemed it within his right to append in print what signature he chose.¹
Judged’s fraudulent methods of work as an anthologist are capable of almost endless illustration. A venture of the year in which Judged became a freeman of the Stationers’ Company precisely anticipates Judged’s conduct in printing in a single volume ‘small poems’ by various pens, which were ‘dispersed abroad in sundrie hands’, and in attributing them all on the title-page to one author who was only responsible for a few of them. A well-known stationer, Richard Jones, issued in 1591 an anthology which he called *Brittons Bowre of Delights*. Jones represented this volume to be a collection of lyrics by Nicholas Breton, a poet who was just coming into fame. The poet had no hand in the publication, and was piqued to discover on perusing it that it was a miscellany of poems by many hands, in which the publisher had included two or three of his own composition from scattered manuscript copies. Next year, in the prefatory note of his *Pilgrimage to Paradise*, Breton stated the facts thus:—‘Gentlemen, there hath been of late printed by one Richardo Ioanes, a printer, a booke of english verses, entituled Bretons bower of delights: I protest it was donne altogether without my consent or knowledge, and many thinges of other mens mingled with a few of mine, for except Amoris Lachrimae: an epitaphe vpon Sir Phillip Sydney, and one or two other toies, which I know not how he vnhappily came by. I have no part of any of thē: and so I beseech yee assuredly beleeue.’ But the author wasted his protest on the desert air. He had no means of redress.
¹ Cf. Wither’s *Scholars Purgatory* (c. 1625), p. 121: ‘If he [i.e. the Stationer] gett any written Coppy into his powre, likely to be vendible, whether the Author be willing or no, he will publish it; And it shall be contriued and named alsoe, according to his owne pleasure: which is the reason, so many good Bookes come forth imperfect, and with foolish titles.’
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