Tarlton's News out of purgatory (1590) : a modern-spelling edition ...

the pamphleteers is the use of his name in seemingly familiar
terms by Harvey and Nashe in their quarrels. Most of their
references arise from Harvey's accusing Nashe of copying
Tarlton, a charge which Nashe denies with vigour. Apart from
the charge of plagiarism, Harvey applies Tarlton 1 s name to
Greene and Nashe by way of an insult, coining a new word in
doing so:
and,
. . who in London hath not heard of his
dissolute, and licentious living ... his
vairieglorious and Thrasonicall bravinge :
his piperly Extemporizing, and Tarletonizing
. . I report me to the f avourablest opinion
of those that know his Prefaces, Rimes, and
the very Timpanye of his Tarltonizing wit,
his Supplication to the Divell.
Harvey also links Tarlton 1 s name with Greene 's, '.. if the
worst of them importe not more publike, or private use, then
his gayest-flower, that may thanke Greene , and Tarlton for his
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Garland 1 . Nashe preserves this association,
This I will proudly boast (yet am I nothing
a kindred to the three brothers) that the
vaine which I have (be it a median vaine ,
or a madde man) is of my owne begetting,
and cals no man father in England but my
selfe, neyther Euphues, nor Tarlton, nor
Greene.
Not Tarlton nor Greene but have beene
contented to let my simple iudgement
overrule them in some matters of wit.
Greene himself, however, has left no acknowledgement of an
association with Tarlton.
John Taylor, the Water Poet, includes Tarlton ! s name in
a list of ! such Authors Alphabetically recited as are simply
mintioned in this Worke 1 , but does not make further use of the