{"id":"01KG6S6V735B4G56E0KDQ2R5XF","cid":"bafkreicq5okwi4hf567hqiowfia3yhlwsqpbf64bc6irt7wpsutyfznkyy","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":7108,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:48.288Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 8","source_file":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","start_line":7097,"text":"Judged’s fraudulent methods of work as an anthologist are capable of almost endless illustration. A venture of the year in which Judged became a freeman of the Stationers’ Company precisely anticipates Judged’s conduct in printing in a single volume ‘small poems’ by various pens, which were ‘dispersed abroad in sundrie hands’, and in attributing them all on the title-page to one author who was only responsible for a few of them. A well-known stationer, Richard Jones, issued in 1591 an anthology which he called *Brittons Bowre of Delights*. Jones represented this volume to be a collection of lyrics by Nicholas Breton, a poet who was just coming into fame. The poet had no hand in the publication, and was piqued to discover on perusing it that it was a miscellany of poems by many hands, in which the publisher had included two or three of his own composition from scattered manuscript copies. Next year, in the prefatory note of his *Pilgrimage to Paradise*, Breton stated the facts thus:—‘Gentlemen, there hath been of late printed by one Richardo Ioanes, a printer, a booke of english verses, entituled Bretons bower of delights: I protest it was donne altogether without my consent or knowledge, and many thinges of other mens mingled with a few of mine, for except Amoris Lachrimae: an epitaphe vpon Sir Phillip Sydney, and one or two other toies, which I know not how he vnhappily came by. I have no part of any of thē: and so I beseech yee assuredly beleeue.’ But the author wasted his protest on the desert air. He had no means of redress.\n\n¹ Cf. Wither’s *Scholars Purgatory* (c. 1625), p. 121: ‘If he [i.e. the Stationer] gett any written Coppy into his powre, likely to be vendible, whether the Author be willing or no, he will publish it; And it shall be contriued and named alsoe, according to his owne pleasure: which is the reason, so many good Bookes come forth imperfect, and with foolish titles.’\n\n<!-- [Page 306](arke:01KG6QFYER26DGJ12EM7X443DP) -->\nTHE PASSIONATE PILGRIM 17\nSidney's Sonnets, 1591.\n\nThe publisher Jones was indifferent to the complaint, and in 1594 he exposed the poet Breton to the like indignity for a second time. Very early in that year Jones published, with the licence of his Company, a new miscellany which he called ‘The Arbor of Amorous Deuices . . . by N. B. Gent.’ In a preliminary epistle *To the Gentlemen Readers*, he boldly called attention to the fact that ‘this pleasant Arbor for Gentlemen’ was ‘many mens workes, excellent Poets, and most, not the meanest in estate and degree’. Jones’ new miscellany consisted of thirty short poems. Breton was only responsible for six or seven of them, yet the title-page ascribed all of them to him.¹\n\nTwo volumes of the utmost literary interest, which were also issued in 1591, illustrate how readily poetic manuscripts fell, without the knowledge of the author or his friends, into a publisher’s clutches. Firstly, in that year, Thomas Newman, a stationer of small account, discovering that Sidney’s sonnets were ‘spread abroad in written copies’, put them into print on his own initiative, together with an appendix of ‘sundry other rare Sonnets’, which he ascribed to divers anonymous ‘noblemen and gentry’. Samuel Daniel, the poet, soon discovered to his dismay that Newman, without giving him any hint of his intention, had made free in the\n","title":"Chunk 8"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG6S4FQ9B05TDSVW2G3VD6WR","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG6S6V710C26DMH540TPWPVA","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG6S6VRV85GQMKCWGKZCXHGV","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:51.427Z","ts":"2026-01-30T06:24:56.824Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}