Mark Twain - 1601

"'BOCCACCIO HATH A STORY"

The author does not pay any great compliment to Raleigh's memory here. There is no such tale in all Boccaccio. The nearest related incident forms the subject matter of Dineo's novel (the fourth) of the First day of the Decameron.

Content:

• INTRODUCTION
• WHO WROTE 1601?
• TWITTING THE REV. JOSEPH TWICHELL
• "SAVE ME ONE."
• DEPARTMENT OF STATE
• HUMOR AT WEST POINT
• FROM THE DEPTHS
• FIGS FOR FIG LEAVES!
• PROFESSOR SCENTS PORNOGRAPHY
• DROLL STORY
• THE FIRST PRINTING
• YESTERNIGHT
• FOOTNOTES
• THE CHARACTERS
• THE ELIZABETHAN WRITERS
• GOOD OLD ENGLISH CUSTOM
• AEOLIAN CREPITATIONS
• "YE BOKE OF YE SIEUR MICHAEL DE MONTAINE"
• "THEN SPAKE YE DAMNED WINDMILL, SIR WALTER"
• YE VIRGIN QUEENE
• "'BOCCACCIO HATH A STORY"
• OLD SR. NICHOLAS THROGMORTON
• "TO SAVE HIS DOTER'S MAIDENHEDDE"
• PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY