rakehelly

Webbe quotes: '"In regard whereof " (he meaneth of the learned framing the new poet's works which writ The Shepherds' Calendar) "I scorn and spew out the rakehelly rout of our ragged rhymers (for so themselves use to hunt the letter)"' (86).

In the process she sees through not only the 'liberated' male exploiters ('these rakehelly men with their magnetism and their false warmth; their very existence was an affront to any woman', p.