Sunday, February the 12th, 2012
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In Strange Newes of the intercepting certaine Letters and a Convoy of Verses, as they were going Privilie to victuall the Low Countries, his 1593 pamphlet attacking Gabriel Harvey, Thomas Nashe devised the following nicknames for the target of his matchless invective:
Gaffer Iobbernoule
Gamaliel Hobgoblin
Gilgilis Hobberdehoy
Gregory Habberdine
Gabriel Hangtelow
Timothy Tiptoes
Braggadochio Glorioso
Infractissime Pistlepragmos