1 Gabriel Harvey’s Marginalia, ed. G. C. Moore Smith (Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1913), 143.

² Virginia F. Stern, Gabriel Harvey: His Life, Marginalia and Library (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979), 16 n.15, 42 n.32.

³ Harvey, Marginalia, 139.

⁴ Harvey, Marginalia, 233.

⁵ Harvey, Marginalia, 137.

⁶ Letter-Book of Gabriel Harvey, A.D. 1573–1580, ed. Edward John Long Scott, Camden Society, NS 33 (1884), p. v; quotations from it incorporate corrections printed in G. C. Moore Smith, ‘Gabriel Harvey’s Letter-Book’, Notes and Queries, 11.3 (1911): 261–3, and those taken from the manuscript, British Library MS Sloane 93. Cf. Harvey, Marginalia, 51.

⁷ Cf. Caroline Ruutz-Rees, ‘Some Notes of Gabriel Harvey’s in Hoby’s Translation of Castiglione’s Courtier (1561)’, Publications of the Modern Language Association, 25 (1910): 608–39, cited by James Nielson, ‘Reading Between the Lines: Manuscript Personality and Gabriel Harvey’s Drafts’, Studies in English Literature, 33 (1993): 43–82 (76).

⁸ The Works of Thomas Nashe, ed. R. B. McKerrow, rev. F. P. Wilson, 5 vols. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1958), 3.60.

⁹ Harvey, Marginalia, 54.

¹⁰ Stern, Gabriel Harvey, 125 n.143, 199, 204, 208, 211, 214, 216, 223, 229, 236, 239.

¹¹ Stern, Gabriel Harvey, 249, 252; H. S. Wilson, ‘The Cambridge Comedy Pedantius and Gabriel Harvey’s Ciceronianus’, Studies in Philology, 45 (1948): 578–91 (581).

¹² William H. Sherman, John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995), 15.

¹³ Stern, Gabriel Harvey, 211, 214, 232. Some of Stern’s transcriptions have been silently corrected.

¹⁴ Cf. Sherman, John Dee, 70–3.

¹⁵ The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, ed. J. C. Smith and E. De Selincourt (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1912), 641.

¹⁶ Harvey, Marginalia, 146, 136.

¹⁷ Pierces supererogation (1593), sig. K2^r; Harvey, Marginalia, 141.

¹⁸ Lisa Jardine and Anthony Grafton, ‘ “Studied for Action”: How Gabriel Harvey Read his Livy’, Past and Present, 129 (1990): 30–78 (64).

¹⁹ British Library Add MS 36674, fol. 23^r; Harvey, Marginalia, 214. In one of his printed works, Harvey’s younger brother John talks about old English prophecies found ‘in the secret paper-bookes of certaine English Antiquaries’ (John Harvey, A discoursive probleme concerning prophesies [1588], sig. H4^v).

²⁰ Harvey, Marginalia, 127–8; this antedates OED vade mecum, its earliest citation being from 1629. See OED <http://www.oed.com> accessed 18 March 2013.

²¹ Eleanor Relle, ‘Some New Marginalia and Poems of Gabriel Harvey’, Review of English Studies, NS 23 (1972): 401–16 (415).

²² Stern, Gabriel Harvey, 38; Patrick Collinson, ‘Andrew Perne and his Times’, in Patrick Collinson et al., eds., Andrew Perne: Quatercentenary Studies. Cambridge Bibliographical Society Monograph 11 (1991), 1–34 (21–5).

²³ Stern, Gabriel Harvey, 208; this antedates OED pocketing n.¹, its earliest citation being from 1638, OED <http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/238680?rskey=xzj5gQ&result=1&isAdvanced=false#eid> accessed 18 March 2013. For another ‘familiar Spirit’ belonging to Mr Goring, see Ruutz-Rees, ‘Some Notes of Gabriel Harvey’s’, 630.

²⁴ He valued the Commonplace Book (British Library, Add MS 32494) at a hundred pounds. In one marginalium (Peter Whitehorne, Certeine wayes [1573], sig. F3^v) he refers to ‘my booke of Mechanical Experiments’.

²⁵ Josephine W. Bennett, ‘Spenser and Gabriel Harvey’s Letter-Book’, Modern Philology, 29 (1931): 163–86; Nielson, ‘Reading Between the Lines’, 74.

²⁶ Harvey, Marginalia, 74; for ‘idle howers’, see this volume, p. 619.

²⁷ Harvey, Marginalia, 89.

²⁸ Jardine and Grafton, ‘ “Studied for Action”’, 77.

²⁹ Harvey, Marginalia, 144 (‘Abijce pennam, et Linguam acue’), 144–5, 148 (‘non sedete, et scribite’), 153.

³⁰ Stern, Gabriel Harvey, 188.

³¹ Harvey, Marginalia, 125, 143 (‘Nihil uanius vsitato scribendi Cacöethe’).

³² Stern, Gabriel Harvey, 187.

³³ Pierces supererogation, sigs. A3^r, G1^v; Foure letters, and certaine sonnets (1592), sigs. A4^v (cf. sig. G2^r), D1^r, C2^v.

³⁴ Stern, Gabriel Harvey, 182 n.96.

³⁵ Jardine and Grafton, ‘ “Studied for Action”’, 43.

³⁶ Spenser, Poetical Works, 632.

³⁷ David McKitterick, review of Stern, Gabriel Harvey, Library, 6.3 (1981): 348–53.

³⁸ Nielson, ‘Reading Between the Lines’, 68.

³⁹ Warren B. Austin, ‘Gabriel Harvey’s “Lost” Ode on Ramus’, Modern Language Notes, 61 (1946): 242–7.

⁴⁰ H. S. Wilson, ‘Gabriel Harvey’s Orations on Rhetoric’, English Literary History, 12 (1945): 167–82 (168).

⁴¹ Harvey, Marginalia, 26.

⁴² Stern, Gabriel Harvey, 49.

⁴³ Harvey, Letter-Book, 2, 3, 7, 12 (a ‘charcher’ is a kercher, as in handkerchief), 13.

⁴⁴ Harvey, Letter-Book, 14; Spenser, Poetical Works, 613; cf. Kendrick W. Prewitt, ‘Gabriel Harvey and the Practice of Method’, Studies in English Literature, 39 (1999): 19–39 (26), and Gerard Passannante, ‘The Art of Reading Earthquakes: On Harvey’s Wit, Ramus’s Method, and the Renaissance of Lucretius’, Renaissance Quarterly, 61 (2008): 792–832 (793), who connect the detail with Castiglione.

⁴⁵ Margaret Schlauch, Antecedents of the English Novel, 1400–1600: From Chaucer to Deloney (Warsaw: PWN and London, Oxford University Press, 1963), 226.

⁴⁶ Harvey, Marginalia, 165.

⁴⁷ His collected poems are to be presented as ‘his private exercises of pleasure at idle howers’, just as ‘The Schollers Looue’ is ‘A few idles howers of A young Master of Art’ (Harvey, Letter-Book, 143, 102), and later (post-1598) he can refer to his poems ‘& discourses, as at idle howers, or at flowing fitts he hath compiled’ (Harvey, Marginalia, 233).

⁴⁸ Harvey, Letter-Book, 143–58; British Library, Sloane MS 93, fos. 71^r–84^r.

⁴⁹ The posy should perhaps read ‘Don Damy’ (French for ‘The gift of a friend’); this motto is recorded on other contemporary rings, see Joan Evans, English Posies and Posy Rings (London: Oxford University Press, 1931), 33, and Robert Day, ‘Posey Rings’, Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, 4.6 (1883): 61–4, no. 93.

⁵⁰ OED comprimit v. 3b, meaning to settle or allay, its first citation, OED <http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/37913?rskey=dxPxZP&result=2&isAdvanced=false#eid> accessed 18 March 2013.

⁵¹ Nielson, ‘Reading Between the Lines’, 61; Muriel C. Bradbrook, ‘No Room at the Top: Spenser’s Pursuit of Fame’, in J. R. Brown, ed., Elizabethan Poetry, Stratford-Upon-Avon Studies, 2 (1960), 91–109 (109 n. 7); Katherine Wilson, ‘Revenge of the Angel Gabriel: Harvey’s “A Nobleman’s Suit to a Country Maid”’, in Mike Pincombe, ed., The Anatomy of Tudor Literature: Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998), 79–89 (84); Schlauch, Antecedents of the English Novel, 224.

⁵² The absence of the second letter may possibly be explained by the loss of one or two leaves after fol. 76.

⁵³ Cf. Stern, Gabriel Harvey, 38 n.16 with Nielson, ‘Reading Between the Lines’, Wilson, ‘Revenge of the Angel Gabriel’, and Jason Scott-Warren, ‘Harvey, Gabriel’, ODNB <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12517> accessed 1 April 2011.

⁵⁴ The same phrase occurs in a letter to Sir Thomas Smith, Harvey, Letter-Book, 178.

⁵⁵ Wilson, ‘Revenge of the Angel Gabriel’, 87.

⁵⁶ Wilson, ‘Revenge of the Angel Gabriel’, 85.

⁵⁷ Warren B. Austin, ‘William Withie’s Notebook: Lampoons on John Lyly and Gabriel Harvey’, Review of English Studies, 23 (1947): 297–309.

⁵⁸ ‘Magna in parva mutat Eutrapelus: parva in magna. Arcana metamorphosis Eutrapeli. Aliorum seria, in iocos convertenda: tui ipsius Ioci in seria’, Stern, Gabriel Harvey, 160–1, 177; Passannante, ‘The Art of Reading Earthquakes’, 810.

⁵⁹ Harvey uses the same expression at the end of one of his letters to Spenser, Poetical Works, 632.

⁶⁰ Harvey, Marginalia, 16.

⁶¹ Harvey, Marginalia, 6; Walter G. Colman, review of Stern, Gabriel Harvey, English Studies, 64 (1983): 169–74 (170) shows that Stern’s belief that she was the same person as Mary is wrong.

⁶² See Moore Smith, ‘Gabriel Harvey’s Letter-Book’, 261; John Hungerford Pollen, SJ, and William MacMahon, SJ, eds., The Ven. Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, 1557–1595, English Martyrs, 2, Catholic Record Society 21 (1919); J. G. Elzinga, ‘Philip Howard, [St Philip Howard], Thirteenth Earl of Arundel’, ODNB <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13929?docPos=1> accessed 18 March 2013.

⁶³ The Lives of Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, and of Anne Dacres, his Wife, ed. H. G. Fitzalan-Howard (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1857), 12–17, 178–81.

⁶⁴ Hungerford and Pollen, Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, 18.

⁶⁵ Harvey, Marginalia, 137, 48.

⁶⁶ Nashe, Works, 3.129, 2.213: McKerrow (Works of Thomas Nashe, 4.258) was sceptical that the latter referred to the sister.

⁶⁷ Stern, Gabriel Harvey, 72; cf. D. C. Andersson, Lord Henry Howard (1540–1614): An Elizabethan Life, Studies in Renaissance Literature 27 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2009), 102.

⁶⁸ Harvey, Marginalia, 16.

⁶⁹ Harvey, Marginalia, 9–10; Stern, Gabriel Harvey, 13.

⁷⁰ The Essays of Virginia Woolf, ed. Andrew McNeillie and Stuart N. Clarke, 6 vols. (London: Hogarth Press, 1986–2011), 5.338, 339.

⁷¹ Woolf, Essays, 5.335.