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FRAUNCE, ABRAHAM (c. 1558-1633) , English poet, a native of Shropshire, was born between 1558 and 156o. His name was registered as a pupil of Shrewsbury School in January 1571/2, and he joined St John's College, Cambridge , in 1576, becoming a fellow in 158o/81. His Latin comedy of Victoria, dedicated to Sidney, was probably written at Cambridge , where he remained until he had taken his M.A. degree in 1583. He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1588, and then apparently practised as a barrister in the court of the Welsh marches. After the death of his patron Sir Philip Sidney, Fraunce was protected by Sidney's sister Mary, countess of Pembroke. His last work
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His works are: The Lamentations of Amintas for the death ,f Phyllis (1587), a version in English hexameters of his friend's, Thomas Watson's, Latin Amyntas; The Lawiers Logike, exemplifying the praecepts of Logike by the practise of the common Lame (1588); Arcadian Rhetorike (1588); Abrahami Fransi Insignium, Armorum . . . explicatio (1588); The Countess of Pembroke's Yvychurch (1591/2), containing a translation of Tasso's Aminta, a reprint of his earlier version of Watson, " The Lamentation of Corydon for the love of Alexis " (Virgil, eclogue ii.), a short translation from Heliodorus, and, in the third part (1592) " Aminta's Dale," a collection of " conceited " tales supposed to be related by the nymphs of Ivychurch; The Countess of Pembroke's Emanuell (1591); The Third Part of the Countess of Pembroke's Ivychurch, entituled Aminta's Dale (1J02). His Arcadian Rhetorike owes much to earlier critical treatises, but has a special
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The Countess of Pembroke's Emanuell, hexameters on the nativity and passion of Christ, with versions of some psalms, were reprinted by Dr A. B. Grosart in the third volume of his Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies Library (1872). Joseph Hunter in his Chorus Vatum stated that five of Fraunce's songs were included in Sidney's Asire phel and Stella, but it is probable that these should be attributed not to Fraunce, but to Thomas Campion. See a life prefixed to the transcription of a MS. Latin comedy by Fraunce, Victoria, by Professor G. C. Moore Smith
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