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Among his poetical works are A Floorish upon Fancie, Pasquil's Mad-cappe , The Soul's Heavenly Exercise, and The Passionate Shepherd. In prose he wrote Wit's Trenchmour, The Wil of Wit , A Mad World, my Masters, Adventures of Two Excellent Princes, Grimello's Fortunes , Strange News out of Divers Countries , etc.
Indeed, Shakespeare himself cannot be absolved from the imputation of making mere caricatures of his merry Andrews, unless we suppose, what is very probable, that his compositions have been much interpolated with the extemporaneous jokes of the players. To this folly, allusions are made in a clever satire, entitled, "Pasquils Mad-cappe, throwne at the Corruptions of these Times," 1626, quarto.
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