A Qvip For An Vpstart Courtier
Subtitle: or, A quaint dispute between Veluet-breeches and Cloth-breeches. Wherein is plainely set downe the disorders in all Estates and Trades
Publisher: Imprinted by Iohn Wolfe
Published: 1870
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
Subjects: Social life and customs
Other titles: Debate between Pride and Lowliness.
Notes: Cover-title: Miscellaneous tracts. Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I. (no. 3)

Introduction signed: J. P. C. [i. e. John Payne Collier]

Based in part upon "The debate between Pride and Lowliness", a poem supposed to have been written by Francis Thynne about 1580. "In its original form the tract contained a satirical notice of Gabriel Harvey and his brothers; but none of the extant copies has the libellous passage." Harvey replied in "Fovre letters, and certaine sonnets, London, 1592" (no. 5 of Collier's reprints) which however was not published until after Greene's death. Thomas Nash took up the controversy answering in defence of Greene in "Strange newes, of the intercepting certaine letters ... London, 1592 (no. 2 of Collier's reprints) cf. Collier, J. P., Bibl. and crit. account of the rarest books in the Eng. lang., 1866; Dict. nat. biog.