William Basse

William Basse (c.1583-1653?) mawaki ne na Ingila. Mabi ne na Edmund Spenser, yanzu ana tunawa da shi musamman don waƙoƙi game da Shakespeare. An kuma san shi da "Waƙar Angler", wanda aka rubuta wa Izaak Walton, wanda ya haɗa shi a cikin The Compleat Angler .

 Tarihin iyali 
Ba a san asalin iyalin William Basse da wurin haihuwarsa ba. Masanin tarihi Anthony à Wood ya bayyana shi a cikin 1638 a matsayin "na Oxfordshire" id="mwHA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Moreton, Thame, Oxfordshire">Moreton, Ruwa da Thame, a Oxfordshire, wani lokaci mai riƙewa da Ubangiji Wenman na Thame Park". R. Warwick Bond ya ba da shawarar cewa Basse na iya zuwa Thame daga Northamptonshire a matsayin shafi ga Agnes Fermor, matar farko ta Richard Wenman, 1st Viscount Wenman, kuma 'yar Sir George Fermor na Easton Neston, Northamptonshire.. Daga nassoshin da aka yi a cikin waƙoƙin Basse ga Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire, an ƙaddara cewa mawaki ya kasance a wani lokaci kuma yana haɗe da gidansa a Rycote, Oxfordshire . . Basse ya sadaukar da Polyhymnia ga Bridget, Countess na Lindsey, matar Montagu Bertie ta biyu, Earl na biyu na Lindsey.

 Ayyuka 
Tsawon lokaci na shekaru hamsin da daya tsakanin samar da waƙoƙin farko da na ƙarshe da ke ɗauke da sa hannun Basse ya jagoranci John Payne Collier ya yi la'akari da cewa akwai mawaƙa biyu na wannan sunan, kuma ya danganta ga dattijo William Basse ayyukan da aka buga a 1602, kuma ga ƙaramin William Basse duk waɗanda aka buga daga baya. Shaidar ciki da waƙoƙin suka bayar ta kasa, duk da haka, don tallafawa wannan ƙarshe. "Urania", waka ta ƙarshe ta tarin, mai ɗauke da kwanan wata 1653, yana da duk halayen ma'auni na "Sword and Buckler" na 1602; kuma ayoyin Bathurst sun tabbatar da cewa Basse ya bi aikin waka ta hanyar tsararraki da yawa.

Kodayake Basse ya jawo goyon baya na farko daga dangin Wenman (ko Waynman) na Thame, Oxfordshire, da na Twyford, Buckinghamshire, wanda ya keɓe aikinsa na farko Three Pastoral Elegies of Anander, Anetor, da Muridella (wanda aka buga 1602),  Jane Lady Tasburgh, wacce ta kasance matar Thomas Wenman (ta mutu 1577) kuma mahaifiyar Richard ce, sannan matar James Cressy, ta daɗe tana aure (a matsayin matarsa ta biyu) ga Thomas (ya mutu 1602 Seccetton, yarinyar Tche, yarinya ta Tquershire, yarinya). Thomas da Jane Tasburgh, wadanda suka sayi gidan Wenman na Twyford, ba su da 'ya'yan Tasburgh, kuma a cikin 1597 sun ba da Hawridge ga dan uwan su Sir John Tasburgh,  wanda ya gina Flixton Hall a cikin 1615.  Matar Sir John ita ce Lettice Cressy, 'yar'uwar' yar'yan Wenman na Jane. Jane kanta ta rayu har zuwa kimanin shekara ta 1621.

Basse ya kuma rubuta waka mai ladabi ga Michael Baret's Hipponomie, ko Vineyard of Horsemanship (1618), kuma an gano shi da 'W. B.' wanda ya ba da gudummawa ga ayoyi ga Phillip Massinger's Bondman (1624), kodayake an kuma yi iƙirarin William Browne a matsayin marubucin su.

A cikin Izaak Walton's Compleat Angler halin Piscator, wanda ke wakiltar Walton, ya ce, "Zan yi maka alkawarin zan raira waƙa da Mista William Basse ya yi kwanan nan bisa ga bukatar da na yi, wanda ya zaɓi waƙoƙin 'Hunter in his Career' da 'Tom of Bedlam', da sauransu da yawa; kuma wannan da zan raira shi ne don yabon Angling. "Angler's Song", wanda ya fara "Kamar yadda a cikin soyayya ya haifa a waje", sannan ya biyo baya. Abokin Piscator Coridon ya ce "duk muna kallon mutumin kirki wanda ya yi wannan waƙa" kuma ya ba da shawarar ga mawaki. Daga cikin sauran waƙoƙi biyu da Walton ya ambata, kwafin "Maister Basse, aikinsa, ko sabon farauta. Ga sabon sautin Kotun", yana cikin tarin Pepys a Cambridge; an sake buga shi a cikin 'Wit and Drollery' (1682), shafi na 64, da kuma Old Ballads (1725), ii. 196. An ba da sautin a cikin Skene MS . An adana shi a cikin Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, da kuma ballad a cikin tarin Bagford a cikin Gidan Tarihi na Burtaniya, mai taken "Hubert's Ghost", an rubuta shi "da sautin Basse's Career". Ballad na biyu na Basse, "Tom of Bedlam", Sir Harris Nicolas ne ya gano shi a cikin littafinsa na Walton's Angler, tare da waƙar wannan sunan a cikin Percy's Reliques, ii. 357; amma wasu ballads da yawa suna ɗauke da wannan taken, kuma wannan ganewa saboda haka yana da shakku. A cikin 1636 Basse ya ba da gudummawa ga waka ga 'Annalia Dubrensia'. Stanley W. Wells, Shakespeare: for all time (2003), p. 95. 

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