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largely concentrated on the sensuous effect of combining
different voices rather than on the sentiments of the text or
indeed on emotional expression at all.”
The oral polyphony of the prose of Nashe offends against lineal
and literary decorum.
* This sensuous relish for the complex interplay of
qualities persists in the sixteenth century even in language
intended for the printed page. And James Sutherland in On
English Prose (p. 49) mistakes this polyphony in Nashe for a
failure to be a sensible man of letters: “The trouble with Nashe
is partly that he is a good deal less interested in making things
easy for the reader than in enjoying his own superiority over
him; or, if that seems too harsh a judgment, in exploiting the
linguistic resources of the language for his own amusement.”