BARNABE (1540?-1620?).-Writer of romances, _b._ in Essex, saw military service in the Low Countries. He began to write in 1574, and took Lyly's _Euphues_ as his model. Among his numerous romances is _The Strange and Wonderful Adventures of Simonides, a Gentleman Spaniard_ and _Riche, his Farewell to the Military Profession_ (1581), which furnished Shakespeare with the plot for _Twelfth Night_.
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