Gabriel Harvey

This contemporary woodcut from Nashe's Have with You to Saffron-Walden depicts Gabriel Harvey "ready to let fly upon Ajax", a play on the name of the Greek warrior Ajax and the word 'jakes' (toilet).

Gabriel Harvey (c. 1552/3 – 1631) was an English writer. Harvey was a notable scholar, whose reputation suffered from his quarrel with Thomas Nashe. Henry Morley, writing in the Fortnightly Review (March 1869), has argued that Harvey's Latin works demonstrate that he was distinguished by qualities very different from the pedantry and conceit usually associated with his name.


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