Mark Twain - 1601

"THEN SPAKE YE DAMNED WINDMILL, SIR WALTER"

Raleigh is thoroughly in character here; this observation is quite in keeping with the general veracity of his account of his travels in Guiana, one of the most mendacious accounts of adventure ever told. Naturally, the scholarly researches of Westermarck have failed to discover this people; perhaps Lady Helen might best be protected among the Jibaros of Ecuador, where the men marry when approaching forty.

Ben Jonson in his Conversations observed "That Sr. W. Raughlye esteemed more of fame than of conscience."

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