‘To Coosen the Expectation’: George Gascoigne’s Moral ‘Poses’ in Supposes
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Abstract
Supposes, based on Ludovico Ariosto’s Suppositi, found its way into print twice during George Gascoigne’s lifetime: first, in A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573); then, in The Posies of George Gascoigne, a 1575 revised version of Flowres. In Posies’s prefatory letters, Gascoigne presents the collection as the ‘undoubted proof’ of his reformation, advertising the ‘morall discourses and reformed inventions’ it harbours. Recent criticism questions these claims, arguing for the marginality and inconsistency of Gascoigne's revisions, yet gives little consideration in this respect to the actual works featured in the miscellany, including Supposes – a play rich in sexual innuendos, left unamended in Posies. This article addresses this gap by reconsidering Supposes as functional to Gascoigne’s deceptive fiction of reformation as set forth in Posies’s paratexts.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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