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The Choise of Valentines
Nash\'s "CHOISE OF VALENTINES" has apparently come down to us only in manuscript form. It is
extremely doubtful (Oldys notwithstanding[a]), whether the poem was ever before accorded the dignity of
print. Nor would it now be deemed worthy of such were the only considerations those of literary merit or
intrinsic value: truth to tell there is little of either to recommend it. But, as it has been repeatedly said, and
well insisted on, the world cannot afford to lose any "document" whatsoever which bears, or may bear, in the
slightest degree, on the story of its own growth and development, and out of which its true life has to be
written. Especially is even the meanest Elizabethan of importance and value in relation to the
re-construction--still far from complete--of the life and times of the immortal bard of Avon. In the most
unlikely quarters a quarry may yet be found from which the social historian may obtain a valuable sidelight on
manners and customs, the philologist a new lection or gloss, or the antiquary a solution to some, as yet,
unsolved problem.
Nash\'s "CHOISE OF VALENTINES" has apparently come down to us only in manuscript form. It is
extremely doubtful (Oldys notwithstanding[a]), whether the poem was ever before accorded the dignity of
print. Nor would it now be deemed worthy of such were the only considerations those of literary merit or
intrinsic value: truth to tell there is little of either to recommend it. But, as it has been repeatedly said, and
well insisted on, the world cannot afford to lose any "document" whatsoever which bears, or may bear, in the
slightest degree, on the story of its own growth and development, and out of which its true life has to be
written. Especially is even the meanest Elizabethan of importance and value in relation to the
re-construction--still far from complete--of the life and times of the immortal bard of Avon. In the most
unlikely quarters a quarry may yet be found from which the social historian may obtain a valuable sidelight on
manners and customs, the philologist a new lection or gloss, or the antiquary a solution to some, as yet,
unsolved problem.
