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Encyclopedia Britannica



RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617)

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 292 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RHY-RON
RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617) , English author and soldier, was a distant relative of Lord
Chancellor
  Rich. He fought in the, Low Countries, rising to the rank of captain, and afterwards served in Ireland. He shared in the colonization of Ulster, and spent the latter part of his life near Dublin. In the intervals of his campaigns he produced many pamphlets on political questions- and romances. In 16o6 he was in receipt of a pension of half a crown a day, and in 1616 he was presented with a
gift
  of loo as being the oldest captain in the service. He died on the loth ' of November 1617. His best-known
work
  is Riche his Farewell to Militarie Profession conteining verie pleasaunt discourses fit for a peaceable tyme (2581). Of the eight stories contained in it, five, he says, " are forged only for delight, neither credible to be believed, nor hurtful to be perused." The three others are translations from the Italian. He claims as his own invention the story of Apolonius and Silla, the second in the collection, from which Shakespeare took the
plot
  of Twelfth Night. It is, however, founded on the tale of - Nicuola and Lattantio as told by Matteo Bandello. The eighth, Phylotus and Emilia, a complicated story arising from the likeness and disguise of a brother and
sister
 , - is identical in
plot
  with the
anonymous
  play, Philotus, printed in Edinburgh in 1603. Both play and story were edited for the Bannatyne Club in 1835. In the conclusion to his collection Rich tells a story of a devil named Balthaser, who possesses a king of Scots, prudently changed after the accession of James I. to the ".Grand Turk." The Strange and Wonderful Adventures of Don
Simonides
  (1581), with its sequel (1584), is written in imitation of Lyly. Among his other romances should be mentioned The Adventures of Brusanus, prince of Hungaria (1592). His authenticated works number twenty-four, and include works on Ireland, the troubles of which were, according to him, due to the religion of the people and to the lack of consistency and firmness on the part of the English government. Such are: Allarme to England (1578) ; A New Description of Ireland (Oro) ; The Irish Hubbub, or the English Hue and Crie (1617), in which he also inveighs against the use of tobacco.
See " Introduction " to the Shakespeare Society's reprint of Riche his Farewell (1846) ; P. Cunningham's " Introduction " to Rich's Honesty of this Age (reprinted for the
Percy
  Society, 1844); and the life by S. Lee in the Dictionary of National
Biography
 .


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