1601

82 Pages·04.328 MB·English

by  Mark Twain

''1601"
.•.
A
fireside conversation with Ye Queene Eliza
beth, Shaxpur, Sr. Walter Ralegh, Ben Jonson, Lord
Bacon, Francis Beaumonte, the Duchess of Bilgewater,
Lady Helen, and maides of honor, from the diary of
Ye Queene's cup-bearer, the Mark Twain of that day.
MARK TWAIN'S
[Date, 1601.]
Conversation
As it was by the Social Fireside
in the Time of the Tudors
*
embellished
With an Illuminating Introduction,
Facetious Footnotes and a Bibliography
by FRANKLIN J. MEINE
*
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my sincere appreciation for their generous assistance.
J.
FRANKLIN MEINE
"To the unconsciously indelicate all things are delicate."
"For it is not the word that is the sin, it is the spirit
back of the word."
MARK TWAIN
CONTENTS
Introduction 9
The First Printing, verbatim reprint 3 I
The West Point Edition in Facsimile 41
Footnotes to Frivolity 55
Bibliography 67

Introduction