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HAKE, EDWARD (fl. 1579) , English satirist, was educated under John Hopkins , the part-author of the metrical version of the Psalms. He resided in Gray's Inn and Barnard's Inn, London. In the address " To the Gentle Reader " prefixed to his Newes out of Powles Churchyard . . . Otherwise entitled Syr Nummus (2nd ed., 1579) he mentions the " first three yeeres which I spent in the Innes of Channcery, being now about a dosen of yeeres passed." In 1585 and 1586 he was mayor of New Windsor, and in 1588 he represented the borough in parliament . His last work was published in 1604. He was protected by the earl of Leicester, whose policy it was to support the Puritan party, and who no doubt found a valuable ally in so vigorous a satirist of error in clerical places as was Hake. Newes out of Paules Churchyarde, A Trappe for Syr Monye, first appeared in 1567, but no copy of this impression is known, and it was re-issued in 1579 with the title quoted above. The book takes the form of a dialogue between Bertulph and Paul, who meet in the aisles of the cathedral, and is divided into eight " satyrs," dealing with the corruption of the higher clergy and of judges, the greed of attorneys, the tricks of physicians and apothecaries, the sumptuary laws , extravagant living, Sunday sports, the abuse of St Paul's cathedral as a meeting-place for business and conversation, usury , &c. It is written in rhymed fourteen-syllable metre, which is often more comic than the author intended. It contains, amid much prefatory matter, a note to the " carping and scornefull Sicophant," in which he attacks his enemies with small courtesy and much alliteration. One is described as a " carping careless cankerd churle."
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a. Kempis, The Imitation, or Following of Christ (1567, 1568) ; A Touchstone for this Time Present (1574), a scurrilous attack on the Roman Catholic Church,
followed by a treatise on education; A Commemoration of the .
Raigne of . Elizabeth (1575), enlarged in 1578 to A Joyfull Con-
tinuance of the Commemoration, ; and of Gold's Kingdom, and this Unhel ping Age (1604), a collection of pieces in prose and verse, in which the author inveighs against the power of gold. A bibliography of these and of Hake's other works was compiled by Mr Charles Edmonds for his edition in 1872 of the Newes (Isham Reprints, No. 2, 1872).
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