RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617)

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RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617) , English author and soldier, was a distant relative of Lord

Chancellor

CHANCELLOR (M. Eng. and Anglo-Fr. canceler, chanceler, Fr. chancelier, Lat. cancellarius)

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

GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut.
stem
- STEM (O. Eng. staefn, stemn, cf. Du. stain, Ger. Stamm, &c., probably related to " staff ")
gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

of loo as being the oldest captain in the service. He died on the loth ' of November 1617. His best-known

work

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

PLOT
PLOT, ROBERT (164o-1696)

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

SISTER

, - is identical in

plot

PLOT
PLOT, ROBERT (164o-1696)

with the

anonymous

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

SIMONIDES (or SEMONIDES) OF AMORGOS

(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

BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

.

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