Spring
by Thomas Nashe
Playwright and artist. His first published work was a preface to Greene's Menaphon (1589) which attacked the follies of contemporary literature. He then became embroiled in the Martin Marprelate controversy and wrote a series of savagely anti-Puritan works.
Christs' Teares over Jerusalem (1593), a religious meditation was written for Lady Elizabeth Carey and was followed by The Terrors of Night a treatise on dreams.
His other works include the satirical Summer's Last Will and Testament (1592) and the gentler The Unfortunate Traveller (1594). His satirical comedy The Isle of Dogs (1597), now lost, angered the authorities and led to a period of imprisonment.
Spring
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Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king; The palm and may make country houses gay, The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet, |