Book 9 was The Unfortunate Traveller by Thomas Nashe. Nashe was born in 1567 and received his B.A. from St John's College, Cambridge in 1586. He was strongly anti-Puritan.
On Kindle I found The Unfortunate Traveller in a collection of Nashe's works. It's very different from Rosalynd, being a tale of the adventures of Jack Wilton, an amoral young man in Henry VIII's army who makes his living by lying and cheating and is proud of his wit. Here's his graphic description of a battlefield:
"here unwieldy Switzers wallowing in their gore like an oxe in his dung; there the sprightly French sprawling and turning on the stained grass like a roach new taken out of the stream".
I wonder whether he's making fun of euphuism when he uses these "pastoral" similes?
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