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HISTOEICAL AND LITERAEY REMAINS
CONNECTED WITH THE PALATINE COUNTIES OF
LANCASTER AND CHESTER.
Coimcil for the year 1879-80.
PrrstUcnt.
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WILLIAM BEAMOXT, Esq.
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The Very Rev. BEXJAMIN MORGAN COWIE, B.D., F.S.A., Dean of Manchester. The Worshipful RICHARD COPLEY CHRISTIE, M.A., Chancellor of the Diocese
of Manchester. J. P. EARWAKER, Esq., M.A., F.S.A., LIEUT.-COLONEL FISHWICK, F.S.A. HEXRY H. HO WORTH, Esq., F.S.A. WILLIAM LAXGTON, Esq.
The Rev. .JOHN HOWARD MARSDEN, B.D., F.R.G.S., late Disney Professor. The Rev. JAMES RAINE, M.A., Canon of York, Fellow of Durham University. FRANK RENAUD, Esq., M.D., F.S.A.
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RULES OF THE CHETHAM SOCIETY.
L That the Society shall be limited to three hundred and fifty members.
2. That the Society shall consist of members being subscribers of one pound annually, such subscrip- tion to be paid in advance, on or before the day of general meeting in each year. The first general meeting to be held on the 23rd day of ^larch, 1S43, and the general meeting in each year afterwards on the 1st day of March, unless it should fall on a Sunday, when some other day is to be named by the Council.
3. That the affairs of the Society be conducted by a Council, consisting of a permanent President and Vice-President, and twelve other members, including a Treasurer and Secretary, all of whom shall be elected, the first two at the general meeting next after a vacancy shall occur, and the twelve other members at the general meeting annually.
4. That the accounts of the receipts" and expenditure of the Society be audited annually, by three auditors, to be elected at the general meeting; and that an\- member who shall be one year in arrear of his subscription, shall no longer be considered as belonging to the Society.
5. That every member not in arrear of his annual subscription, be entitled to a copy of each of the works published \>s the Society.
6. That twenty copies of each work shall be allowed to the editor of the same, in addition to the one to which he may be entitled as a member.
Applications and communications to be addressed to the President, Stocks House, Cheethavif Manchester, or to the Honorary Secretary, Penrhos House, Rugby.
PUBLICATIONS OF THE CHETHAM SOCIETY.
,„L First year ( 1 843-4).
I. Travels in Holland, the United Provinces, England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1634-1635. By Sir William Brereton, Bart. Edited by Edward Hawkins, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A., F.L.S. fip. viii, 206.
II. Tracts relating to IMilitary Proceedings in Lancashire during the Great Civil War. Edited and Illustrated from Contemporary Documents by George Ormerod, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A., F.G.S., author of "The History of Cheshire." p)). xxxii, 372.
III. Chester's Triumph in Honor of her Prince, as it was performed upon St. George's Day 1610, in the foresaid Citie. Reiiriuted from the original edition of 1610, with an Introduction and Notes. Edited by the Rev. Thomas Corser, M.A. fi^. xviii, 36.
Second year (1844-5).
IV. The Life of Adam Martindale, written by himself, and now first printed from the original manu- script in the British Museum. Edited by the Rev. Richard Parkinson, B.D., Canon of Manchester. pp. xvi, 246.
V. Lancashire Memorials of the Rebellion, 1715. By Samuel Hibbert-Ware, M.D., F.R.S.E., &c. pp. X, 56, and xxviii, 292.
VI. Potts's Discovery of Witches in the county of Lancaster. Reprinted from the original edition of 1613 ; with an Introduction and Notes by James Crossley, Esq. jjp. Ixxx, 184, 52.
Third year {\^\^-(:>).
VII. Iter Lancastrense, a Poem written a.d. 1636, by the Rev. Richard James. Edited by the Rev. Tho.mas Corser, M.A. f-p. cxii, 86. Folding Pedigree.
VIII. Notitia Cestriensis, or Historical Notices of the Diocese of Chester, by Bishop Gastrell. Cheshire. Edited by the Rev. F. R. Raines, M.A., F.S.A. Vol. I. 'pP- xvi, 396. Plate.
IX. The Norris Papers. Edited by Thomas Heywood, Esq., F.S.A. pp. xxxiv, 190.
Fourth year ( 1 846-7).
X. The Coucher Book or Chartulary of Whalley Abbey. Edited by W. A. Hulton, Esq. Vol. I. pp. xl, 338. Plate.
XI. The Coucher Book or Chartulary of Whalley Abbey. Vol. II. pp. 339-636.
XII. The IMoore Rental. Edited by Thomas Heywood, Esq., F.S.A. pp. Ixx, 158.
FiftJi year (1847-8).
XIII. The Diary and Correspondence of Dr. John Worthington. Edited by Jas. Crossley, Esq. Vol. I. pp. viii, 398.
XIV . The Journal of Nicholas Assheton. Edited by the Rev. F. R. Raines M.A., F.S.A. pp. xxx, 164.
XV. The Holy Lyfe and History of Saynt Werburge, very frutefuU for all Chi-isten People to rede. Edited by Edward Hawkins, Esq. pp. xxviii, 10, 242.
Sixth year (i 848-9).
XVI. The Coucher Book or Chartulary of Whalley Abbey. Vol. III. pp. xli-liv, 637-936.
XVII. Warrington in 1465. Edited by William Beamont, Esq. pp. Ixxviii, 152.
XVIII. The Diary of the Rev. Henry Newcome, from September 30, 1661, to September 29, 1663. Edited by Thomas Heywood, Esq., F.S.A. pp. xl, 242.
Publications of the Chetham Society. 3
VOL Seventh year (i 849-50).
XIX. Notitia Cestrieusis. Vol. II. Part I. Lancashire, Part I. pp. iv, 160, xxviii.
XX. The Coucher Book or Chartulary of Whalley Abbey. Vol. IV. (Conclusion J. pp. Iv-lxiii, 937- 1314.
XXI. Notitia Cestriensis. Vol. II. Part II. Lancashire, Part II. pp. Ixxvii, 161-352. Plate.
Eighth year ( 1 8 5 o- 1 ).
XXII. Notitia Cestriensis. Vol. II. Part III. Lancashire, Part III. (Conclusion), ^p. 353-621.
XXIII. A Golden Mirrour ; conteininge certaiue pithie and figurative visions prognosticating good fortune to England, &c. By Richard Robinson of Alton. Reprinted from the only known copy of the original edition of ISSJI in the British Museum, with an Introduction and Notea by the Rev. Thomas Corser, M.A., F.S.A. pp. xxii, 10, 96.
XXIV. Chetham Miscellanies. Vol. I. Edited by William Langton, Esq. : containing
Papers connected with the affairs of Milton and his Family. Edited by J. F. Marsh, Esq. pp. 46. Plate.
Epistolary Reliques of Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquaries, 1653-73. Communicated by George Ormerod, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A., and F.G.S. pp.\Q.
Calendars of the Names of Families which entered their several Pedigrees in the successive Heraldric Visitations of the County Palatine of Lancaster. Communicated by George Ormerod, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.b.A., and F.G.S. pp. 26.
A Fragment, illustrative of Sir \Vm. Dugdale's Visitation of Lancashire. From MSS. in the possession of the Rev. F. R. Raines, M. A., F.S.A. pp.S.
Autobiographical Tracts of Dr. John Dee, Warden of the College of Manchester. Edited by James Crossley, Esq. pp. iv, 84.
Visitations temp. Hen. VIII. The Abbaye of Whaioley (for insertion in Whalley Coucher Book).
Ninth year (185 1-2).
XXV. Cardinal Allen's Defence of Sir William Stanley's Surrender of Deventer. Edited by Thomas Heywood, Esq., F.S.A. pp. c, 38.
XXVI. The Autobiography of Henry Newcome, M. A. Edited by Rd. Parkinson, D.D., F.S.A. Vol. I. pp. XXV, 184.
XXVII. The Autobiography of Henry Newcome, M. A. Vol.11. (Conclusion), ^p. 185-390.
Tenth year (1852-3).
XXVIII. The Jacobite Trials at Manchester in 1694. Edited by William Beamont, Esq. pp. xc, 132.
XXIX. The Stanley Papers, Part I. The Earls of Derby and the Verse Writers and Poets of the six- teenth and seventeentli centuries. By Thomas Heywood, Esq., F.S.A. pp. 64.
XXX. Documents relating to the Priory of Penwortham, and other Possessions in Lancashire of the Abbey of Evesham. Edited by W. A. Hui/roN, Esq. pp. Ixxviii, 136.
Eleventh year (185 3-4) .
XXXI. The Stanley Papers, Part II. Tlie Derby Household Books, comprising an account of the Household Regulations and Expenses of Edward and Henry, third and fourth Earls of Derby ; together with a Diary, containing the names of the guests who visited the latter Earl at his houses in Lancashire : by William Farrington, Esq., the Comptroller. Edited by the Rev. F. R. Raines, M. A., F.S.A. ^pp. xcviii, 247. Five Plates.
XXXII. The Private Journal and Literary Remains of John Byron. Edited by Richard Parkinson. D.D., F.S.A. Vol I. Part 1. pp. x, 320 Portrait.
XXXIII. Lancashire and Cheshire Wills :and Inventories from the Ecclesiastical Court, Chester- The First Portion. Edited by the Re a. G. J. Piccope, M.A. pp. vi, 196.
4 P2iblicatio7is of the Chetha7n Society.
Twelfth year (1854-5).
XXXIV. The Private Journal and Literary Remains of John Byrom. Vol. I. Part II. fp. 321-639.
XXXV. The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall. Edited by JoHW Hauland, Esq., F.S.A. Part I. m^. 232. Frontispiece.
XXXVI. The Diary and Correspondence of Dr. John Worthington. Vol. II. Part I. pp. 2-48.
TJiirteentJi year (185 5-6).
XXXVII. Chetham Miscellanies. Vol. II. Edited by William Langton, Esq. : containing
The Rights and Jurisdiction of the County Palatine of Chester, the Earls Palatine, the Chamber- lain, and other Officers. Edited by Joseph Brooks Yates, F.A.S., G.S., and P.S. pp. 37-
The Scottish Field. (A Poem on the Battle of Flodden.) Edited by John Robson, Esq. pp. xv, 2S.
Examvnatyons towcheynge Cokeve More, Temp. Hen. VIII. in a dispute between the Lords of the Manors of Middleton and RadclyfFe. Communicated by the Rev. F. R. Raines, M.A., F.S.A. pp. 30.
A History of the Ancient Chapel of Denton, in ^Manchester Parish. By the Rev. John Booker, M.A., F.S.A. pp. viii, 148. Three Plates.
A Letter from John Bradshawe of Gray's Inn to Sir Peter Legh of Lyme. Edited by William Langton, Esq. pp. 8.
Facsimile of a Deed of Eichard Bussel to Church of Evesham (for insertion in vol. xxxj.
XXXVIII. Bibliographical Notices of the Church Libraries of Turton and Gorton bequeathed by Humphrey Chetham. Edited by Gilbert J. French, Esq. pp. 199. Illustrated Title.
XXXIX. The Farington Papers. Edited by Miss ffarington. j)P- ^'^ij 179. Five plates of Signatures.
Foitrteenth year (1856-7).
XL. The Private Journal and Literary Remains of John Byrom. Vol. II. Part I. pp. 326 and two
Indexes. XLI. The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall. Part II. pp. 233-472.
Portrait.
XLII. A History of the Ancient Chapels of Didsbury and Chorlton, in Manchester Parish, including Sketches of the Townsliips of Didsbury, Withington, Burnage, Heaton Norris, Reddish, Levensliulme, and Cliorlton-cum-IIardy: together with Notices of the more Ancient Local Families, and Particulars relating to the Descent of their Estates. By the Rev. John Booker, M.A., F.S.A. pp. viii, 337. Seven Illustrations.
Fifteen th year (1857-8).
XLIII. The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall. Pax-t III. pp. x,
473-776.
XLIV. The Private Journal and Literai-y Remains of John Byrom. Vol. II. Part II. pp. 327-654. Byrom Pedigrees, pp. 41 and three folding sheets; Index, pp. v.
XLV. ^Miscellanies : being a selection from the Poems and Correspondence of the Rev. Thos. "Wilson, B.D., of Clitheroe. With Memoirs of his Life. By the Rev. Canon Raines, M.A., F.S.A. pp. xc, 230. Two Plates.
Sixteenth year (185 8-9).
XLVI. The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall. Part IV. (Con- clusion), pp. 777-1171.
XLVII. A History of the Ancient Chapel of Birch, in Manchester Parish, including a Sketch of the Township of Rusholme : together with Notices of the more Ancient Local Families, and Particulars relating to the Descent of their Estates. By the Rev. John Booker, M.A., F.S.A. p^j. viii, 255. Four Plates.
XLVIII. A Catalogue of the Collection of Tracts for and against Popery (published in or about the reign of James II.) in the Manchester Library founded by Humphrey Chetham ; in which is incorporated, with large Additions and Bibliographical Notes, the whole of Peck's List of the Tracts in that Controversy, with his References. Edited by Thomas Jones, Esq. B.A. Part I. pp. xii, 256.
Publicatio7is of the ChetJiam Society. 5
^oj^_ Seventeenth year (1859-60).
XLIX. The Lancashire Lieutenancy under the Tudors and Stuarts. The Civil and Military Govern- ment of the County, as illustrated by a series of Royal and other Letters; Orders of the Privy Council, the Lord Lieutenant, and other Authorities, &c., &c. Chiefly derived from the Shuttleworth AISS. at Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire. Edited by John Harland, Esq., F.S.A. Part I. fp. exx, 96. Seven Plates.
L. The Lancashire Lieutenancy under the Tudors and Stuarts. Part II. (Conclusion), pp. 97-333.
LI. Lancashire and Cheshire Wills and Inventories from the Ecclesiastical Court, Chester. The Second Portion, pjj. vi, 2S3.
Eigh teen th year ( 1 8 6 o- 1 ) .
LII. Collectanea Anglo-Poetica : or, A Bibliographical and Descriptive Catalogue of a portion of a Col- lection of Early English Poetry, with occasional Extracts and Remarks Biographical and Critical. By the Rev. Thomas Corser, M. A., F.S.A., Rural Dean; Rector of Stand, Lancashire; and Vicar of Norton, Northamptonshire. Parti. pp.-s\,%)'S.
LIII. ilamecestre: being Chapters from the early recorded History of the Barony, the Lordship or Manor, the Till Borough or Town, of Manchester. Edited by John Harland, Esq., F.S.A. Vol. I. pp. 1i)l. Frontispiece.
LIV. Lancashire and Cheshire Wills and Inventories from the Ecclesiastical Court, Chester. The Third Portion. (Conclusion), pp. v, 212.
Nineteenth year (i 86 1-2).
LV. Collectanea Anglo-Pcetica. Part II. pp. vi, 209-456.
LVl. :SIamecestre. Vol.11. ;ip. 209-431.
LVII. Chetham Miscellanies. Vol. III. Edited by William Langtox, Esq. : containing
On the South Lancashire Dialect, with Biographical Notices of John Collier, the author of Tim Bohhin. By Thos. Heywood, Esq. pp.84
Rentale de Cokersand : being the Buisar's Rent Roll of the Abbey of Cokersand, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, for the year 1501. Printed from the Original. Edited by the Rev. F. R. Raines, M.A., F.S.A. pp. xvii"i, 46.
The Names of all the Gentlemen of the best callintre w"=in the countye of Lancastre, whereof choyse ys to be made of a c'ten number to lend vnto her ^Ma'^" moneye vpon privie seals in Janvarye 15SS. From a manuscript in the possession of the Rev. F. R. Raixes, M.A., F.S.A. /)p. 9.
Some Instruction given by William Booth Esquire to his stewards .lolin Carington and William Rowcrofte, upon the purchase of Warrington by Sir George Booth Baronet and William Booth his son, A.D. MDCXviii. Communicated by William Beamoxt, Esq. pp. 8.
Letter from Sir John Seton, Manchester y^ 25 ^M'ch, ] 643. Edited by Thomas Heywood, Esq., F.S.A. pp. 15.
The Names of eight hundred inhabitants of Manchester who took the oath of allegiance to Charles II. in April, 1679. Communicated by John Harland, F.S.A. pp. 8.
The Pole Booke of Manchester, May y' 22^ 1690. Edited by William Langton, Esq. pp. 43. Map and folding Table.
Twentieth year (1862-3).
LVIII. Mamecestre. Vol. III. (Conclusion.) pp. xl, 433-627.
LIX. A History of the Chantries within the County Palatine of Lancaster : being the Reports of the
Royal Commissioners of Henry VIII., Edward VI., and Queen Mary. Edited By the Rev. F. R.
Raines, AI.A., F.S.A. Vol. I. pp. xxxix, 1G8. LX. A History of the Chantries within the County Palatine of Lancaster, <kc. Vol. II. (Conclusion).
pp. 169-323.
Twenty-first year (1863-4).
General Index to the Remains Historical and Literary published by the Chetham Society, vols. I-XXX.
pp. viii, 168. LXI. I. Abbott's Journal. II. An Account of the Tryalls &c. in Manchester in 1694. Edited by the
Rt. Rev. Alexander Goss, D.D. pp. xix, 32 ; xxi, 42 ; 5. LXII. Discourse of tho Warr in Lancashire. Edited by William Beamont, Esq. pp. xxxiv, 164,
Two Plates.
6 Publications of the Chetham Society.
VOL. Twenty-second year (i 864-5).
LXIII. A Volume of Court Leet Records of the Manor of Manchester in the Sixteenth Century. Compiled and edited by John Hakland, F.S.A. pj). xix, 20S. Frontispiece.
LXIV. A Catalogue of the Collection of Tracts for and against Popery. Part II. To which are added an Index to the Tracts in both editions of Gibson's Preservative, and a reprint of Dodd's Certamen, Utriusque Ecclesia3. Edited by Thomas Jones, Esq., B.A. pp. x, 269, 17.
LXV. Continuation of the Court Leet Records of the Manor of Manchester, a.d. 1586-1602. By John Harland, Esq. pp. viii, 128.
Twenty-tJiird year (1865-6).
LXVI. The Stanley Papers. Part III. Private Devotions and ^liscellanies of James seventh earl of Derby, K.G., with a prefatory Memoir and Appendix of Documents. Edited by the Rev. Canon Raines, M.A., F.S.A. Vol. I. pp. i-ecviii. Four Plates.
LXVII. The Stanley Papers. Part III. A^ol. 2. pp. ccix-cccxcv. Four Plates.
LXVIII. Collectanea relating to Manchester and its Neighbourhood, at various periods. Compiled, arranged and edited by John Hauland, F.S.A. Vol. I. pp. viii, 258.
Twenty-fourth year (1866-7).
LXIX. The Admission Register of the Manchester School, with some Notices of the more distinguished Scholars. Edited by the Rev. Jeremiah Finch Smith, M.A., Rector of Aldridge, Staffordshire, and Rural Dean. Vol. I., from a.d. 1730 to a.d. 1775. pp. viii, 253.
LXX. The Stanley Papers. Part III. Vol.3. (Conclusion.) jj/j. 112 and 65. Frontispiece.
LXXI. Collectanea Anglo-Poetica. Part III. pp. x, 2S2.
Twe?i ty-fiftJi year (1867-8).
LXXII. Collectanea relating to Manchester and its neighbourhood. Vol.11. ^'P. viii. 252.
LXXIII. The Admission Register of the Manchester School, with some Notices of the more dis- tinguished Scholars. Vol. II., from a.d. 1775 to April a.d. 1807. pp. v, 302.
LXXI V. Three Lancashire Documents of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, namely : I. The Great De Lacy Inquisition, Feb. 16, 1311. II. Survey of 1320-1346. III. Custom Roll and Rental of the manor of Ashton-under-Ljne. 1421. Edited by John Harland, Esq., F.S.A. pp. xiii, 140.
Twenty sixth year (1868-9).
LXXV. Lancashire Funerals Certificates. Edited by Thomas William King, Esq., F.S.A., Yoi'k Herald. With additions by the Rev. F. R. Raines, M.A., F.S.A., Vice President of the Chetham Society, pp. viii, 102.
LXXVI. Observations and Instructions divine and morall. In Verse. By Robert Heywood of liey- wood, Lancashire. Edited by James Cuossley, Esq., F.S.A. jsjj.xxiv, 108.
LXXVII. Collectanea Anglo-Poetica. Part IV. pp. vi, 283-542.
Twenty-seventh year (1869-70).
LXXVIII. Tracts written in the Controversy respecting the Legitimacy of Amicia, daughter of Hugh Cyveliok, earl of Chester, a.d. 1673-1679. By sir Peter Leycester, hart., and sir Thomas Maiuwaring, hart. Reprinted from the Collection at Peover. Edited, with an Introduction, by Wjlliam Beamont, Esq. Parti, fijo. xcv, 94. Portrait of sir Peter Leycester.
LXXIX. Tracts written in the Controversy respecting the Legitimacy of Amicia. Part II. pp. 95-322. Portrait of sir Thomas Maimcaring.
LXXX. Tracts written in the Controversy respecting the Legitimacy of Amicia. Part III. {Conclusion.) pp. 323-550. With frontispiece of Stall at Peover.
Ptiblications of the Cketka??i Society. ' y
^.QL. Tweiity-eiglith year (i 870-1).
LXXXI. The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1567, by "William Flower, Esq., Norroy king of arras. Edited by the Rev. F. R. Raines, M.A.., F.S.A., Vicar of Milnrow, and Hon. Canon of Manchester, jj^'- ^^'j '^'i^-
LXXXII. The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1613, by Richard St. George, Esq., Norroy king of arms. Edited by the Rev. F. R. Raines, M.A., F.S.A., Vicar of Miln- row, Hon. Canon of Manchester, and Rural Dean. pp. xx, 142.
LXXXIII. Chetham Miscellanies, Vol. IV., containing:
Some Account of General Robert Venables, of Antrobus and Wincliam, Cheshire ; with an engrav- ing from his Portrait at Wincham, together with the Autobiographical Memoranda or Diary of his Widow, Elizabeth Venables. From the original JNIS. in the possession of Lee P. Townshend, Esq. p^J. iv, 28. Pedigree I. Portrait of General Robert Venables.
A Forme of Confession grounded vpon the Ancient Catholique and Apostolique Faith. Made and composed by the honorable ladie The Lady Bridget Egerton. a.d. 1636. From the original MS. in the possession of Siu Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, Bart., M.P. pw. vi, 23. Pediqrees 2. Plate.
A Kalender conteyning the Names of all such Gent, and others as upon her jMaty's Pryvye Scales have paid there ^loney to the handes of Sir Hugh Cholmondley Knyghte Collect' of Her Hyghnes Loane with"' the Countie of Chester, together w"" the ^everall Somes and Dales of Receipt, a.d. 1597. From the original MS. in the possession of R. H. Wood, Esq., F.S. A. pp. iv, 4.
History of Warrington Friary. Edited by William Beajiont, Esq. pp. vii, 76. Index 4. Four Plates, being Effigies and Anns, Tomhstone-<, and Fragments.
Twenty-nintJi year (187 1-2).
LXXXIV. The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1664-5, by Sir Wil- liam Dugdale, Knight, Norroy king of arms. Edited by the Rev. F. R. Raines, M.A., F.S.A., Vicar of ^lilurow, Hon. Canon of Manchester, and Rural Dean. Part I. ipp. xiv, 104.
LXXXV. The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1664-5, by Sir Wil- liam Dugdale, Knight. Part II. itp. 105-224.
LXXXVI. Annals of the Lords of Warrington for the first five centuries after the conquest. With historical notices of the place and neighbourhood. Edited by William Beamont, Esq. Part I, pp. xxvi, 262. Three Plates.
Thirtieth year (1872-3).
LXXXVII. Annals of the Lords of Warrington for the first five centuries after the conquest. Part II. (Conclusion. J xop. 263-523. Index 11. Three Plates.
LXXXVIII. The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1664-5, by Sir Wil- liam Dugdale, Knight. Part III. (Conclusion.) pp. 225-344. Index 17.
LXXXIX. The Dr. Farmer Chetham MS., being a commonplace-book in the Chetham Library, temp. Elizabeth, James I. and Charles I., consisting of verse and prose, mostly hitherto unpublished. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. Part I. 'pp. xvi, 120. Frontispiece in Photo-lithography.
Thirty-first year (1873-4).
XC. The Dr. Farmer Chetham MS., being a commonplace-book in the Chetham Library, temp. Elizabeth, James I. and Charles I. Part II. (Conclusion.) pp. 121-225.
XCI. Collectanea Anglo-Poetica. Part V. pp. xi, 250.
XCII. The History of the parish of Kirkham. in the county of Lancaster. By Henry Fishwick, F.R.H.8. pp. vii, 208 ; Appendix 3 ; Index 18. Frontispiece.
Thirty-second year (1874-5).
XCIII. The Admission Register of the Manchester School, with some Notices of the more distinguished Scholars, from May A.D. 1807 to September A.D. 1837. Vol. III. Parti, pp. vi, 176. Three Plates .
8 Publications of the Chetham Society.
VOL.
XCIV. The Admission Register of the iranchester School, with some Notices of the more distinguished Scholars, from May a.d. 1807 to September a.d. 1S37. Vol. III. Part II. fy. 177-348. Index 19. Two Flutes.
XCV. Abstracts of Inquisitions post Mortem, made by Christopher Towneley and Roger Dodsworth, Extracted from Manuscripts at Towneley. Edited by William Langtox. pp. viii, 160 ; Index 16.
Th irty-tJi ird year (1875-6).
XCVI. Chetham Miscellanies, Vol. V. Edited by the Rev. Ca.von Raines, ]\I.A., F.S.A., Vice- President of the Society, containing :
A Description of the State, Civil and Ecclesiastical, of the County of Lancaster, about the year 1590, by some of tlie Clergy of the Diocese of Chester. From the original MS. in the Bodleian, pp. xv, 48.
A Visitation of the Diocese of Chester, by John, Archbishop of York, held in the Chapter House of the Collegiate and Parish Church of Mancliester, 1-590, with the Archbishop's Correspondence with the Clergy. From the !MS. in the Bodleian, pjp. 22. Plate.
Letters on the Claims of the College of Arms in Lancashire, in the tima of James the First ; by Leonard Smethley and liandle Holme, Deputy Heralds, pp. xx, 3S.
The Easter Rolls of Whalley in the years 1552 and 1553. From the originals at Stonyhurst. pp. V, IS.
XCVII. Contributions towards a History of the Ancient Parish of Prestbury, in Cheshire. By Frank Rexacd, ^I.D. pp. viii, 238 ; Index 6. Fourteen Plates.
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COLLECTANEA ANGLO-POETIC A:
OB,
A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE
CATALOGUE
OF A POETION OF A COILECTION OF
EARLY ENGLISH POETRY,
WITH OCCASIONAL EXTRACTS AND REMARKS BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL.
BY THE LATE
REV. THOMAS CORSER, M.A., F.S.A.,
RECTOa OF STAND, LANCASHIRE; AND VICAR OF NORTON, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.
PART X,
PRINTED FOR THE CHETHAM SOCIETY. M.DCCC.LXXX.
Pkinted by Charles E. SnMMS, Manchester.
CONTENTS.
A.D. page
S. (R.) The Phoenix Nest 4to 1593 209
S. Marie of iEgipt. A Sacred Poeme 4to]630 216
S. Marie of ^gipt. A Sacred Poem MS., 'i.io n.d. 218
Saint Peters Ten Teares 4to 1597 219
Saint Peters Ten Teares 4to 1602 221
Savile (John). King James his entertainment at Theobalds
4to 1603 221 Scott (Gregory). A briefe Treatise agaynst certayne errors
of tlie Romish Cliurch sm. 8vo, 6.1. 1574 222
Seager (Francis). The Schools of Vertue, and Booke of good
Nurture sm. 8vo, 6.1. n.d. 227
Seneca his Tenne Tragedies translated into English ...4to, 6.I. loSl 231 Sheppard (S.) Epigrams Theological, Phi]oso{)hical, and Ro-
mantick. Also the Socratick Session ...sm. 8vo 1651 232 Shipton (William). Dia, a Poem ; to which is added Love
made Lovely sm. 8vo 1659 237
Skelton. a Skeltonicall salutation Or condigne gratulation And iust vexation Of the Spanish Nation, That in a brauado. Spent many a Crusade, In setting forth an Armado
England to inuado 4to, 'EiX n.d. 240
Smalle (Peter). Mans May or a Moneths Minde 4to 1615 242
Smithson (Samuel). The Figure of Nine sm. 8vo n.d. 245
Smith (Jud). A misticall deuise of the spirituall and godly loue betwene Christ the spouse, and the Church
or Congregation sm. 8vo, 6.1. J 575 246
Sorrows loy. Or, a Lamentation for our late deceased Sover-
aigne Elizabeth 4to 1603 248
SooTHBRN (John). Pandora 4 to, 6.1. 1584 251
Southwell (Robert). Saint Peters Complaint 4to 1595 253
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A.D. page
Southwell (Robert). Saint Peters complaynt 4to 1595 259
Saint Peters complaint 4to 1599 260
Saint Peters Complaint 4to n.d. 260
S. Peters Complaint 8vo 1620 261
St. Peters Complainte 12mo 1620 263
Moeonioe. Or, Certaine excellent Poems and spirituall
Hymnes 4to 1595 266
The Triumphs ouer Death 4to 1596 267
Stanvhurst (Richard), The First Foure Bookes of Virgils
CEneis, Translated into English Heroicall Verse.
8vo B.I. 1583 269 Storeb (Thomas). The Life and Death of Thomas Wolsey
Cardinall 4to 1599 276
Studley (John). The Seventh Tragedie of Seneca, entituled
Medea sm. 8vo, b.I. 1566 283
Taylob (John). The Praise, Antiquity, and commodity of
Beggery, Beggers, and Begging 4to 1621 285
Superbice Flagellum, or the Whip of Pride sm. Svo 1621 288
Superbice Flagellum sm. 8vo 1621 291
The Needles Excellency 4to 1640 292
Jaoka Lent 4to 1620 295
An Arraado, or Nauye, of 103 Ships and other Vessels
Svo 1627 298
The Liar 4to 1641 299
Religious Enemies 4to 1641 300
A Plea for Prerogative : or. Give Csesar his due 4to 1642 302
Mad Fashions, Od Fashions, All out of Fashions 4to 1642 303
Aqua Musae : or, Cacafogo, Cacadoemon, Captain George
Wither wrung in the Withers 4to 1643 305
Epigrammas : Written on purpose to be read ...sm. Svo 1651 307
TuRBERVlLLE (George). The Eglogs of the Poet. B. Man-
tuan Carmelitan, turned into English Verse.
sm. Svo 1 567 308 Vander Noodt (John). A Theatre wherein be represented
as wel the miseries and calamities that follow
the Voluptuous Worldlings, as also the great
ioyes and pleasures which the faithful] do enioy.
sm. Svo, 6.1. 1569 312
CONTENTS. 5
A.D. page
Vaghanb or Vaughan (Robert). A Dyalogue defensyue for
women, agaynst malycyous detractour8...4to, 6.1. 1542 319 Vennard (Richard). The Right Way to Heaven : And the
true testiraonie of a faithfull and loyal subiect.
4to 1601 323 The Right way to Heaven, and a good presedent for Law-
3'ers and all other good Cliristians 4to 1602 327
Verstegan (Richard). Odes in imitation of the Seuen Peni-
tentiall Psalmes 8vo 1601 332
V^erses of Prayse and loye, Written upon her Maiesties Preser-
uation. Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes
lamentation, written in the Towre with his owne
hand, and an awnswere to the same ...4to, 6.1. 1586 336 Ward (John). An Encouragement to Warre. Or, Bellum
Parliamentale 4to n.d. 338
The Christians Incouragement earnestly to contend
For Christ his Gospell and for all
Our Christian liberties in thrall
Which who refuseth let him bee
For aye Anathema, say wee 4to 1643 342
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VOL. V. PART 11.
(R.) — The Phoenix Nest. Built vp with the most rare and refined workes of Noble men, woorthy Knights, gallant Gentlemen, Masters of Arts, and braue Schollars. Full of varietie, excellent inuen- tions, and singular delight. Neuer before this time published. Set foorth by R. S. of the Inner Temple Gentle- man.
Imprinted at London by lohn lackson. 1593. 4to.
Among the poetical miscellanies which were so numerous during the reign of Elizabeth, one of the rarest, and at the same time most valuable and interesting in the nature of its contents, perhaps inferior only to England's Helicon in the beauty of its lyrical poems, is the Phoenix Nest. And although among the seventy-nine poems of which this volume consists, many of them are to be met with in other works of their respective writers, yet several of these pieces are to be found only in this valuable collection. The principal contributors to this most rare miscellany, whose names are known, Avere George Peele (one), Thomas Lodge (sixteen), Nicholas Breton (four), Edward Vere Earl of Oxford (one). Sir William Harbert (one), William Smith (one), Thomas Watson (three), and without initials, Matthew Roydon (one), and Sir Walter Raleigh (one). Besides these there are also fifty pieces in prose and verse, which are strictly anonymous, some of which, however, it would not perhaps be difficult to appropriate to their rightful owners. For instance, the first poem in the collection is by Mattliew Roydon, as we learn from Nash's Epistle before Greene's Menaphon, 1589, 4to ; and the second (according to Mr. Heber) is by Sir Walter Raleigh, but is not included in any edition of his works. The first poem, on p. 69, printed in England's Helicon under the title of " The Shepheards praise of his sacred Diana," is also by Sir Walter Raleigh, and
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we are induced to believe that there are one or two others by the same writer.
Various have been the conjectures respecting the editor of the Phcenix Nest, who is designated by the initials R. S. By Coxeter the work was attributed to Eichard Stonyhurst, the translator of a portion of Virgil; by Warton, with more probability, to Richard Stapylton ; and by Waldron, to Robert Southwell the Jesuit. The first, although reputed a good classical scholar, had scarcely sufficient taste for so refined and elegant a work. The severity of style, and the utter abstinence from amatory or satirical subjects in the poems of Father Southwell, whose eff'usions were entirely of a religious cast, forbid our ascribing the volume to this writer. Of the three persons named, we are more disposed to assign the editorship to Richard Stapylton, who occasionally wrote verses himself; but these claims after all are only conjectural, and without any proper foundation, and the editor must, we fear, still remain unknown. He was no doubt personally assisted by many of the contributors to the volume, and we must gratefully acknow- ledge the justness and elegance of his taste in the selection of the pleasing specimens which he has collected together in this miscellany. Less bright and sparkling than the poems in England! s Helicon, the compositions in this volume are infinitely superior to the former collections of Edwards, Proctor, or Robinson, and contain some of the most beautiful productions of Lodge, Breton, and others. And although it has been reprinted, a slight specimen or two of a work so rare and so interesting may not be unaccaptable to the readers of our early English poetry. The first is an extract from "An Elegie, or friends passion for his Astrophill. Written upon the death of the right Honorable Sir Philip Sidney, knight, Lord gouernor of Flushing."
And you compassionate of my wo, Gentle birds, beasts and shadie trees, I am assurde ye long to koo What be the sorrowes me agreeu's,
Listen ye then to that in su'th,
And heare a tale of teares and ruthe.
You knew, who knew not Astrophill, (That I should Hue to say I knew, And haue not in possession still) Things knowne permit me to renew,
Of him you know his merit such,
I cannot say, you heare too much.
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Within these woods of Arcadie, He cheefe delight and pleasure tooke, And on the mouutaine Parthenie Vpon the ehrystall liquid brooke
The Muses met him eu'ry day,
That taught him sing, to write, and say.
When he descended dowue the mount His personage seemed most diuine, A thoiisand graces one might count Vpon his louely cheerefull eine.
To heare him speake and sweetely smile
You were in Paradise tlie while.
A sweete attractiue kinde of grace, A full assurance giuen by lookes, Continuall comfort in a face, The lineaments of Grospell books,
I trowe that countenance cannot lie,
Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.
Was neuer eie, did see that face, Was neuer eare, did heare that tong, Was neuer minde, did minde his grace That euer thoiight the trauell long.
But eies, and eares, and eu'ry thought
Were with his sweete perfections caught.
O Grod, that siich a woorthy man In whom so rare desarts did raigne. Desired thus, must leaue vs than And we to wish for him in value,
O could the stars that bred that wit,
In force no longer fixed sit .
Then being fil'd with learned dew The Muses willed him to loue, That instrument can aptly shew How finely our conceits will moue,
As Bacchus opes dissembled harts,
So loue sets out our better parts.
# * * #
Our Astrophill did Stella loue, A Stella, vaunt of Astrophill, Albeit thy graces gods may moue, Where wilt thou finde an Astrophill.
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The rose and lillie haue their prime, And so hath beautie but a time.
Although thy beautie doe exeeede In common sight of eu'iy eie, Yet in his Poesies when we reade It is apparant more thereby,
He that hath loue and iudgement too Sees more than any other doe.
Then Astrophill hath honor'd thee. For -when thy bodie is extinct. Thy graces shall eternall be, And liue by rirtue of his inke. For by his verses he doth giue To short liu'de beautie aye to liue.
Aboue all others this is hee Which erst approoued in his song. That loue and honor might agree, And that pure loue will doe no wi-ong, Sweete saints it is no sinne nor blame To loue a man of vertuous fame.
Did neyer loue so sweetly breath In any mortall brest before. Did neuer muse inspire beneath A Poets braine with finer store :
He vrvote of loue with high conceit. And beautie rear'd aboue hir height.
Midst lasting griefes, to haue but short repose. In little ease, to feede on loath'd suspect. Through deepe despite, assured loue to lose. In shew to like, in substance to neglect.
To laugh an howre, to weep an age of woe. From true mishap to gather false delight. To freeze in feare, in inward hart to glowe ; To read my losse within a ruthles sight :
To seeke my weale, and wot not where it lies. In hidden fraud, an open wrong to fiude. Of ancient thoughts, new fables to deuise, DelightfuU smiles, but yet a scornfull minde. These are the meanes that murder my releefe, And end my doubtfull hope with certaine greefe.
T. L. Gent.
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Like to a Hermite poore in place obscure, I meane to spend my daies of endles doubt, To waile such woes as time cannot recure, Where none but Loue shall euer fiude me out.
My foode shall be of care and sorrow made,
My drink nought else but teares falne from mine eies.
And for my light in such obscm-ed shade,
The flames shall seruc, which from my hart arise.
A gowne of graie, my bodie shall attire, My staffe of broken hope whereon I'le staie, Of late repentance linck't with long desire. The couch is fram'd whereon my limbes I'le lay,
And at my gate dispau'e shall linger still,
To let in death when Loue and Fortune will.
This was the piece alluded to by Isaac Walton in his Complete Angler, and was set to music by Nicholas Laneare, an eminent composer, and pub- lished in a collection entitled Select Musical Ayres and Dialogues, 1653, folio. The song, with the notes, are reprinted in Major's Edit, of Walton, 1823, 8vo, but with some variations, and the second verse in the present work is there made the last. A song somewhat resembling this occurs in a poem by Thomas Lodge, entitled "Scillaes Metamorphosis," &c., printed in 1589, 4to, four years earlier than the present publication. It is alluded to by Pepys and by other writers ; and the first words, " Like Hermit poor," were fre- quently used as a sort of proverb or phrase. It was probably here printed for the first time.
Would I were chauug'd into that golden showre
That so diuinely streamed from the skies,
To fall in drops vpon the daintie floore,
Where in hir bed, she solitarie lies.
Then would I hope such showres as richly shine
Would pearce more deepe than these wast teares of mine.
Or would I were that plumed Swan, snowe white, Ynder whose forme, was hidden heauenly power. Then in that riuer would I most delitc, Whose wanes doe beate, against hir stately bower, And in those banks, so tune my dying song, That hir deafe ears, would think my plaint too long.
Else would I were Narcissus, that sweete boy ; And she hir selfe, the sacred fountaine cleere,
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Wlio rauislit with the pride of his owne ioy, Drenched his lims, with gazing ouer neere : So should I bring, my soule to bappie rest, To end my life, in that I loued best.
The gentle season of the yeere
Hath made my blooming branch appeere,
And beautified the land with flowres, The aire doth sauor with delight, The heauens doe smile, to see the sight,
And yet mine eies, augments their showres.
The meades are mantled all with greene, The trembling leaues, haue cloth'd the treene,
The birds with feathers new doe sing. But I, poore soule, when wrong doth wrack, Attyre my selfe in mourning black.
Whose leafe doth fall amid his spring.
And as you see the skarlet Rose
In his sweete prime, his buds disclose,
Whose hewe is with the Sun reuiued. So in the Aprill of mine age. My liuely colours doe asswage
Because my Sun-shine is depriued.
My hai't that wonted was of yore. Light as the winde abroad to sore.
Amongst the buds when beautie springs, Now onely houers ouer you, As doth the birde that's taken new.
And moiu'ns when all hu- neighbours sing.
When euery man is bent to sport, Then pensiue I alone resort
Into some solitarie walke ; As doth the dolefull Turtle doue. Who bailing lost hir faithfull loue,
Sits mourning on some withered stalke.
There to my selfe, I doe recount How far my woes, my ioyes surmount.
How Loue requiteth me with hate : How all my pleasures end in paine, How hate doth say, my hope is vaine
How fortune frownes vpon my state.
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And in this moode, charg'd witli despaire, With vapored sighes, I dim the aire,
And to the Gods make this request : That by the ending of my life I may haue truce with this strange strife,
And bring my soiile to better rest.
Of all the woes my peusiue hart endureth, It greeues me most, when I my sorrowes frame I knowe not what, this wretchednes proeureth, Nor whereupon I am to cast the blame.
The fault is not in hir, for well I see, I am vnworthy of hir grace in this, Nor yet in loue, who hath vouchsafed me To knowe within this life so rare a blisse.
To grieue me of my sight, then comes to minde,
As head and author of my haples woes :
But better afterward aduisde I finde
That onely from hir lookes, all sweetnes floes.
And when iust cause of sorrowing doth faile,
I waile in fine, because I cannot waile.
Tlie reader may consult a note on the last line of this song in Mr. Park's reprint in the Heliconia, vol. ii, p. L54:. And among other heautiful pieces in this volume, we can do no more than refer him to the fine poem, " The Praise of Chastitie," by George Peele ; the sprightly verses called, " A Description of Loue," and " A Description of Jealousy."
This work has been reprinted by Mr. Park, with a short introduction, in the second vol. of Heliconia, but, it is to be regretted, very inaccurately, and with the omission of several lines. Mr. Malone's copy, which had formerly belonged to Dr. Farmer, and was purchased at his Sale, No. 7245, for 11. 19s., is now in the Bodleian Library at Oxford ; Mr. Heber's copy, pt. iv, No. 2446, sold for 3/. 10s., and is now in the late Mr. Miller's collection at Brittwell House. These two, and the present one from Mr. Chalmers's Library, pt. ii. No. 916, where it sold for 40/., and in Mr. Bright's Sale, No. 4879, for 28/. 10s., are the only perfect copies known. Sir Francis Freeling had an imperfect one, wanting two leaves and a portion of another, which brought at his Sale, No. 2074, 4/. 12s. ^d.; and there is another, also imperfect, in the Bodleian Library.
For further notices of this excessively rare book, the reader may consult
216 COLLECTANEA ANGLO-POETICA.
Cens. Liter., vol. i, p. 146; and vol. ii, p. 120; Warton's Hist. Eng. Poet., vol. iv, p. 227; Beloe's Anecd., vol. vi, p. 248; Fry's Bibliogr. Memor., p. 76; Drake's Li/e and Times of S/iakespeare, vol. i, p. 718; Dibdin's Libr. Comp.., vol. ii, p. 291 ; Bihl. Heber, pt. iv, p. 293; Chalmers's Catal., pt. ii, p. 60; and Park's Heliconia.
Bound in Calf, extra.
S. Marie op ^Egipt. A Sacred Poeme describing the Miraculous Life and Death of the Glorious Conuert S. Marie of ^Egipt who passed fortie seauen yeares in the desarts leading a peniteutiall life to the astonishment of all succeeding ages.
" Plerumque gratior est Deo feruens post culpam vita ; quam securitate
torpeus iunocentia.
D. Qreg.
No place, date, or printer's name, but probably Douay circa 1630. 4to, pp. 66.
A manuscript note, in an old hand on the title of this copy, attributes the poem to G. Elliott, but whether on any authority or not, we are ignorant. From the form of the type, it is evident that this poem was printed on the Continent; and being in all probability written by some Eoman Catholic priest, studying abroad, in the English College at Douay or St. Oraer's, it is most likely to have been printed at one of those places, probably at the former. The title is succeeded by " The Argument of the Poem from approved authors," on two pages, containing an account of the life of Mary, the ^aiptian, from various Roman Catholic writers, which is afterwards versified and expanded in the poem. It is written with considerable power and force of expression, and some of the images and descriptions are highly poetical ; and independently of the work being somewhat scarce, it possesses considerable literary merit. We quote the following, as a specimen, from p. 35:
My prayer ended : on the tufted grasse Earth's uatif Carpet, halfe a loafe I place, And sitting downe on Jordan's flowry bed, Prajsiug the Almighty's name, I eale my bread : My tliirst I quench in the vndamag'd flood, For what I tooke in driuke, my tears made good.
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Contented with this sober fare I rise, And to the orient skje conuert mine eyes, Giuing all thanks to him, who to all giues And with due foode his creatures relieues : That cue, and most part of that night, I spent In pi'ayer : the rest to carefiU slumbers lent : Early next morning, ere the rising sun Had from the east his dayly course begun, Watchful I rise, my knees and heart I bowe, Weepe, and reiterate my former tow. And hauing to the glorious virgin prayd More earnestly than euer, for her ayd In al my actions, til my soule inlargd From mortal fetters, had its vowes dischargd, With constant piu'pose neuer to forsake The course, by her addresse I was to take. Strait boating ouer the saint honourd flood, I hid me in this rnfrequented wood :
From which time, euer flying, I haue fled
And this vsst desart's depth inhabited
Expecting him with loue and fear, who saues
The humbled sinner, which, his mercy craues. Here she concluded : he, whose rauisht ears Had seemd transported to th' harmonial speres,
Whiles she spake sweeter musicke, now displeasd Those accents of her heauenly Toyce were ceasd,
Hoping a while, that of her self, she woidd
Some other passage of her life haue told,
Stood mute : but silent shame with downe-cast eies
Her aaged face in vu'tue's colour dyes,
At things her self had sayd : this he perceaues :
And thus with wordes, her of new words deceaues :
How long (o sainted sinner) is it since
These woods their first biisse borrowed from thy sinues,
Forty seuen times, sayd she, the golden sim
Through the twelue sigues its compleate race hath run
For so oft haue I markt these trees left bare.
And their rich out-sides nipt by th' colder ayre.
As oft, (if this we reckon) haue I seen
The fragrant spring restore their uatiue green
Since Sions holy citty I forsooke.
And pennance in this desart vndertoke.
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Some of the expressions and epithets in this passage, we think, are forcible and noteworthy, as the following :
But silent sliame with downe-cast eies
Her aged face in virtue's colour dyes.
Again, a favourite expression with the author :
Swimming in feryour, and loues sweetest sweets. p. 53.
Her soul e'en swimming in her fixed eye. p. 17.
Again, of a lion :
His shaggy fleece wanes with his angry wind And stares, with horror quilted. p. 61.
i.e., quilled like a porcupine.
I have already mentioned that this is a scarce poetical volume, and was priced in the Bibl. Ang. Poet.., No. 480, at 10/. 10s. The present is a large copy of it, but has part of a leaf supplied by manuscript. It was formerly purchased from Longman's Catalogue for 9/. 9s.
Bound by Finlay. In Brown Calf.
St. Mary of jjEgipt. A Sacred Poem describing the Miraculous Life and Death of the Glorious Convert St. Mary of .^gipt. Who past forty seaven yeares in the Desarts leadeing a Penetential Life to the Astonishment of all Succeeding Ages.
"Plerumque gratior est deo feryens post culpam yita, quam Securitate terpens Inuoceutia."
D. Greg.
MS., n. d. 4to, pp. 106.
A manuscript copy of the same poem, containing 53 leaves, very rteatly written in the hand of the time, and rubricated throughout. It appears to have been written after the poem was printed, the orthography being slightly modernized, but probably not long after, by some English student at Douay, and is, with the exception just named, a correct transcript of the original ; the only addition being a table of the contents, occupying two leaves at the end, which is not in the printed copy.
Bound by Hayday In Purple Morocco, blank tooled, gilt leaves.
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Saint Peters Ten Teares. — Ten Teares of S. Peters, supposedly written upon his weeping sorrowes for denying his Maister Christ.
London Printed by Gabriel Simson for William Zones, and are to be solde at his shop neere Holburne conduict, at the signe of the Gunne. 1597. 4to.
There were two editions of these Teares, of which the present is the first. The title is within a woodcut border, and the work consists of ten short poems, each containing six stanzas of six lines, descriptive of Peter's sorrow and repentance for denying his master ; and preceded by the follow- ing metrical "Introduction to Saint Peter's Teares":
Imaginarie Muses get you gone.
And you of Ideas idle company ; That place your Pai-adicc in Citheron,
And call upon the Nimplies of Thessalie. Eestraine youi* haughtie metapliorick lines ; For reuerent truth your glory undermines.
The Throne of Heauen is her holy hill.
Whence flowes the Spring of sauing health : Insteed of birdes, Archangels sing her will,
The Temple is her loue, and peace her wealth. O sacred sweete, and sweetest sacred substance : Vnloose the Springs of Peters poore repentance.
And thou, O holy Ghost, and sacred Spirit,
Faire milke white Done, unto the meekest lambe :
The minister of heauen, the Lord of merit, The gladdest messenger that euer came.
Infuse thy grace so sweetely in mine cares,
That I may ti'uely write Saint Peters Teares.
We quote one of the poems as a specimen of the author's style of versi- fication :
The second Teare.
Come night, the sable garment of a sinner,
Which every pure repentant heart puts on : Of true contrition thou was first beginner,
thy meekenes is apparell fit to mourne Thou art a secret chamber to the wise, Where they may sweetly wet their brinish eyes.
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Here is no prospect to betray the soule,
or to seduce the mind of him that prayes : Now value corruption needs not to controule,
or fling into our sinnes secure delayes, Downe knees, yp hands, weepe eyes, speake careful toung 'Tis dangerous if yee deferre too long.
O glorious starres, methinks you are his eyes,
That staiu'd "with pittie to behold my paine : All things are his that burnish thus the skyes,
his matchlesse selfe amongst them doth remaine. O then but looke on Feters lamentations. As thou doost note the wickednesse of nations.
If I but sleepe, I dreame of thy diuinenesse,
0 let me sleepe, and neuer vsake againe : For once awake, such is our sinfull blindnesse,
wee cannot see the piu-enesse of the same. Or else dissolue me, I may euer dwell To view that beautie which no toung can tell.
Or let me els suppose I see the same,
Methinkes in soule I see thy cheerefuU grace : As if thou saidst, sad Feter now refraine,
1 haue beheld thy teare bedewed face.
O Sauiour, might I haue such comfort still, I'le haue no other fantasies by my wiU.
Soft Feter thou hast many teares to shed,
thou art too bolde to challenge mercie yet : Till thou art sure thy sinfull soule is fled,
Morne, noone, and night, thine eyes must still be wet : Then, when remorse hath drawne thy Fountaine drye. Thy God hath heard thy pitty moouing crye.
The author of these poems is unknown, but there is little doubt that Southwell's poem of '' Saint Peter's Complaint," which had been published only two years before, had furnished him with the idea, whose metre also is imitated in the construction of the stanza, but to whose chaste and eloquent composition, the present poems are inferior in deep fervour and pathos. The volume is rare, and is not noticed in any bibliographical work that we know of, excepting the Bibl. Aug. Poet.^ No, 681, where the present copy, formerly Mr. Hill's, is priced at 6/. 6s.
Bound in Brown Calf.
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Saint Peters Teares. — Supposedly written vpon his weeping sorrowes for denying his Maister Christ.
London Printed for William lones, and are to be solde at his shoppe neare Holburne Conduict at the sigue of the Gunne. 1602. 4to, pp. 22.
Like the former edition, this also has the title within a neat woodcut border. There is no difference in the contents of the two impressions, except that the first has each " Teare " distinctly entitled, which is not the case in the present edition. This is equally rare with the other, and is priced in the Bibl. Ang. Poet., No. 682, at 5l. 5s. The present is the same copy, formerly Mr. Hill's, and was afterwards in Mr. Skegg's collection. No. 1548.
Bound in Calf, extra.
Savile, (John.) — King James his entertainment at Theobalds: With his welcome to Londonj together with a salutatorie Poeme. By John Savile.
Dicito I6 psean, et 16 bis dicito paeau.
London printed by Thomas Snodham^ and are to be sould at the house of T. Este. 1603. -ito, pp. 22.
Anth. Wood calls this John Savile "a great pretender to poetry in the beginning of the reign of James I., and patronized in his studies by his kinsman (a young spark) called George Savile, the son of Sir George Savile, knight; which John wrote, amongst other things, Kin^ James his entertainment at Theobalds." He is not, however, to be confounded with Sir John Savile, the eminent lawyer, who was one of the Barons of the Exchequer, knighted by King James I. in 1603, and who died in 1606.
This small poetical tract of eleven leaves by John Savile, "the pretender to poetry," has a metrical dedication of twelve lines " To the right worship- full master George Savile, sonne and heire to Sir George Savile, knight, his most approued kinde patron." Then follows a prose account of King James his entertainment at Theobalds, the scat of Sir Robert Cecil, afterwards Earl of Salisbury, on the 3rd of May 1603, where his majesty and retinue were
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entertained for four days, on the way from Scotland to London, the festivities of which exceeded anything of the kind hitherto known. This occupies four leaves, and the tract ends with the "Salutatorie Poeme to the Majestie of King James," five leaves more. The author, as a pretender to poetry himself, could not avoid noticing the poetical pretensions of the learned and pedantic monarch, and thus alludes to his published volume of poesy :
Mongst all estates Poets haue cause to sing King lames his welcome ; for hee doth exceU As his Lepantlio and his Furies tell In Poesie.
See Wood's Atk, Oxo7i., vol. i, p. 77-1, ed. Bliss ; Moule's Biblioth. Herald, p. 58 ; and the Bibl. Ang. Poet., p. 668. Consult also Nicholls's Progresses of King James /., vol. i, p. 135, where this tract is reprinted at length. It is rare, and in few collections, for excepting the present copy, which vi'as the one from the Bibl. Ang. Poet., and afterwards in IMr. Heber's collection, pt. iv., No. 2457, and one in Thorpe's Catalogue for 1836, which had been Garrick's, we know of no other occurring for sale of late years. There is a copy in the Bodleian Library. Garrick's copy, along with some other rare tracts in the same volume. No. 1323, were sold to Thorpe for 53/. Os. 6af. Fine copy. Bound by Mackenzie. In Brown Morocco, elegant, gilt leaves.
Scot, (Gregory.) — A briefe Treatise agaynst certayne errors of the Romish Church. Very plainly, notably, and pleasantly- confuting the same by Scriptures and auncient writers. Com- piled by Gregory Scot 1570. Perused and lisenced according to the Queues Maiesties Iniunction. 1574.
Imprynted at London by John Awdeley. Sm. 8vo, pp. 62,
This little 6laclt letter treatise is directed against certain errors and cor- ruptions of the Church of Rome, and we can easily imagine that small works in verse, like the present, Avritten in a plain and simple style, and adapted to the comprehension of all, must have produced considerable effect, at the time of the Reformation, on the minds of the people, and have strongly disposed them against the idolatry and superstitions of the Romish Church.
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There is a liomeliness and earnestness in the verse which impresses us forcibly with the sincerity of the writer ; and in all times of pupular excite- ment and changes of public feeling, whether religious or political, the aid of the poet has invariably been invoked. It is this circumstance which has induced our most judicious historians to bestow peculiar attention upon the popular poetry which bears upon the religious changes of the sixteenth century, affording as it does an index to the spirit which actuated the early Reformers, scarcely to be noticed, or, at all events, not so vividly, in the calmer pages of prose writers. The work, which is of great rarity, consists of a poem divided into four parts, and is written in four-line stanzas. The title is succeeded by an address from " The Printer to the Christian Reader," in six eight-line stanzas, in which he says that it was published.
Chiefly for the sjmple sorte, in forme most plajne,
In pleasant wyse, and order shorte And in tlieir mynde the same contayne.
He also says :
The Author to me as unknowiie To thee, good Eeader I commende. * * * # *
And prayse thou God for this his lyght Which in our dayes doth now so shine Who opened hath the myndes and syght Of many learned, for profit thyne. To God alone therefore resigns These prayses due, and not to men, Yet in thy praiers haue iu mynde Their good estate, and thanke God then.
The poem then commences as follows :
How is the faythful City chaungde from that it was before ?
Where righteousnes some time did syt, now bloudshed raygneth more.
Rome once it had renowmed prayse for Truth therein dyd dwell :
A faythfull Citie once it was, and others dyd exceU.
But now ungodlynes doth raygne where fayth dyd then abound :
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Their wicked and most lothsome Hues throughout the world doth sound.
Rome is a cage of Birdes imcleane
a sincke of filthy synne : Few errours haue the Church infect,
that dyd not there begynne.
From thence they spred ouer the earth
what place could once be found, That free was from infection ?
in Europe none was found.
After a few more introductory stanzas the poem proceeds to treat of the four great errors of the Romish Church, against which it is directed, viz. : (1.) Against Images and Idolatrie ; (2.) Against the Sacrifice of the Masse, and the wicked adoration ; (3.) Against the praying to Saintes ; (4.) Against the justification of workes.
The following is a curious passage from the part against the praying to Saints :
Wber y* Church of Christ remaines
there God alone is knowne His onely name who cals upon those people be his owne.
But with your Eomish church it is
worse, then with Juda was, Because the number of your gods
doth all your Cities pas.
For no disease nor daunger is,
but there was euer, one To whom you did ascribe the power
of curing it alone.
Saint John, and so saint Benedict
all poyson could expell Sebastian and Saint Roche for plage
all others dyd excell.
Saint Blase for swelling of tlie necke
Otilia for the sight, Saint Steueu also was prayde unto
to saue us in the night.
Saint Clement and Saint Christofer from drowning could preserue,
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For payne of teeth the onely prayse Oppoline did deserue.
For headach Anastasius,
Urbane was God of wyue, For sodaiue death S. Marke was sought
Saint Antony for oiu* swyne.
For ague was Saint Petronell,
Cornelis had the skill Of falling sickenes daungeroiis
to saue us from the ill.
Saint Valentine for the kinges euyll,
saint Laurence for the fyre All prisoners saint Leonard prayd
to graunt them their desyre.
The Hunters had Eustachius,
the whores had Magdalene TJnto Saint George in tyme of warro
what seeking hath there bene ?
These be your gods and many mo
on whom the people call, These be your stinking cesternB, that
no water hold at all.
When you thus ranne lyke Infidels,
to seeke helpe at the dead, You thought no doubt in Israeli
there was no God to dread.
You thought hys power was verye weake,
and yet do think the same, Els would you not put confidence
in any other name.
But Papistes and the Heathen both
in this faith do agree. If many gods they haue to helpe
the safer shall they bee.
The following are the concluding stanzas :
The tree doth lift itselfe aloft
that hath least fruite thereon, But where great plenty groweth most
it boweth down anon.
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So are we proiide, and yet but poore,
no goodnes we liaue here, Though we lyue well, yet euevmore
let us fall downe in feare.
And so not in our righteousnes
but for his mercies sake, To God in tyme of troubles great
our prayers we will make.
As unto godly workes in Christ
we all he created, So let us warely walke therein,
as God hath ordayned.
Forsaking all our former synnes
renude in hart and mynde, Least unto Christ our Sauiour
we show our selues unkynde.
Who by his death dyd us redeeme
not to our selues to lyue, But unto him, his lyfe for us
that did so freely gyue.
O God be mercyfuU to us
and blesse us plenteously The brightnes of thy countenance
shew us continually.
That we on earth thy waies mai leai'n
and euer thinke thereon. And that all nations here may know
thy sauing health alone.
Finis. Grig. Scot.
The Colophon is as follows: "Imprinted at London by John Awdeley, dwelling in lytle Britaine streete without Aldersgate 1574." We are unable to state any information respecting the author of this little poetical treatise. He is mentioned by Ritson in his Bibl. Poet., p. 326. See also Dibdin's Typogr. Antiq., vol. iv, p. 56.9 ; and an article on this work, with some quotations, by Mr. Park in the Eestituta, vol. iii, p. 490. There was a copy in Bindley's Library, pt. iii, No. 1134, which sold for 5l. 2s. Qd.; another, or the same, in Liglis's do., No. 1296, which brought 3^. 18s.; and a third in Skegg's do., No. 1576.
In Dark Green Morocco, gilt leaves.
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Seager, (Francis.) — The Schoole of Vertiie^ and Booke of good Nurture^ teaching Children and Youth their duties. Newly- perused, corrected, and amended. Hereunto is added a briefe Declaration of the duties of each degree. Also certain Prayers and Graces compiled by R. C.
If thou wilt be counted vertuous and holy, Despise not good counsell but rebuke folly.
London Printed by M. Flesher for lohn Wright at the Kings Head in the Old Bayley. n. d. Sm. 8vo., illft, IttU
Francis Seager, who with Robert Crowley was joint author of this little treatise, was one of the contributors to the Mirror /or Magistrates, for which he wrote the legend of Richard III., which first appeared in Baldwyn's edition of 1559. He also published '•'■ Certayne Psalmes (19) select out of the Psalter of David, and drawen into English Metre, with Notes to every Psalme in iiii Parts to synge by F. S., London Printed by Wyllyara Seres, 1553, sm. Svo, and dedicated to Lorde Russell." At the end of this is a poem in the measure of Sternhold, entitled " A Description of the Lyfe of Man, the Worlde, and Vanities thereof." The present work appears to have been first published from the press of William Seres in 1557, Svo — again in 1588 — and as appears from numerous entries in the Registers of the Stationers Company, frequently reprinted both before and after the last-named date. It is erroneously ascribed by Ant. Wood to Robert Crowley, who, however, had nothing to do with the former part containing The Schoole of Vertue, which was written by Seager, and has his initials at the end. Crowley's portion consists of " Certaine Prayers and Graces newly added, to be used of Schollers, both before and after noone. Com- piled by R. C." The work is printed in hlath letter, but this edition is not earlier than the reign of Charles I., who is especially mentioned in the last poem of Seager's portion, " The particular duties of all degrees." On a leaf preceding the title, which is also repeated at the end of the book, is a woodcut figure of a nobleman or gentleman, with furred cloak, and a mace in his hand, standing by a pillar, with a full woodcut border round it filling the entire page. On the reverse of this, and facing the title-page, is another small woodcut frontispiece emblematic of the School of Vertue. At the back of the title are some lines, " The Preachers Counsell to Parents and
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Masters," forming an anagram, " Robert Crowley," and below this another of Seager, " The authors name in verdict." The Schoole of Vertue contains various directions, in verse, on rising in the morning, at schoole, at the table, at meat, in church, on being sent on a message, &c.; with directions against gaming, envy, malice, swearing, filthy talkes, and lying ; and on the fruits of vertue, learning, charity, love, and patience, concluding with " The particular duties of all degrees." Crowley's portion consists, as before said, of " Cer- taine Prayers and Graces newly added, to be used of Schollers, both before and after noone. Compiled by R. C." A short extract from each part of the book will tend to shew the nature of the work, and also the character of the verse.
Against the horrible sinne of swearing. Chap. 11.
In vaine take not the name of G-od,
eware not at all for feare of his rod The house with plagues he tlireatneth to visit,
where oathes are used they cannot escape it. Just are his judgements and true to his word,
and sharper it is thea a two edged sword. Wherefore beware thou of his indignation,
learne to live well in thy vocation. Whereunto the Lord through grace doeth thee call
rising againe if thou chance to fall. By prayer and repentance, and minde to amend
for Christ would have saved all such as offend. If they doe turne from their wickednesse
and purpose to live in vertue and godlinesse. What better art thou for thy cursed swearing
like a blasphemous beast the name of God tearing 1 Provoking his ire, and kindling his wrath
to endlesse perdition the perillous path ; Seneca doth councel thee of swearing to refrain
although much profit by it thou maist gaine, Fericles whose words are manifest and true
doth thee admonish all oathes to eschew. The Law likewise which God the Lord gave
swearing amongst us by no means would have : The counsel of Philosophers I have expressed,
amongst whom swearing was utterly detested Much lease among Christians it ought to be used
for it comes of the Deuill, and must be refused-
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Prayers for Scliollers. Compiled by R. C.
Now that the day-star dotli appeare
to God deyoutly let us call, That in the deeds of day -light cleare
he keepe us from misfortunes all.
Let him temper our tattling tongue
by bridleing it after his will, Lest horror vile bi'eak us among
with words of strife that sound full ill.
Let him coTer own sight alway
by feeding it as he kuowes best, Lest we delight in value things too,
and so draw them into our breast.
Let all the secrets of our heart
be pure and eleane from filthiucssc Let slothfuU sluggishnesse depart
from us that study doe professe.
Let meane dyet of drinke and meate
beate downe the pride of filthy flesh, Lest raging in that filthy heate
it lose of youth the flowers fresh.
These things we crave, that when the day
by course of kind away shall passe And night shall come, then sing we may
in praise of him to our solace.
We have, in other places, given some short paraphrases, in verse, of the Lord's Prayer; and we now add to these another by Crowley, with which we conclude our extracts.
Our Father which in heaven art
and dost raigne over all ; Thy holy name be sanctified
among both great and small.
Thy kingdom come wherein we may
no wicked thing abide ; Nor ought that doth set up it selfe
or is puft up with pride.
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Thy will be done upon the earth
like as in heaven above Where all thy creatures work thy will
because they doe thee love.
Give us this day our daily bread, which need doth make us crave,
For why ? our soules and bodies both of thee their food must have.
To ask forgivenesse of our sinnes dear Father, we arc bold ;
As we forgive wrongs that are done against us manifold.
Doe thou not us to tryall bring,
for we are weak indeed ; But when sin shall us all assault,
deliver us with speed.
For why ? the kingdome and the power
and glory every whit, Is thine, and shall be evermore
all soules say, So be it.
O Lord preserve oixr King and Queen,
with all his royall traine ; But chiefly such as jealous be
the G-ospell to maintaine ; Which grant, 0 God, till day of doome
in Britain may remaiue.
Wood remarks of this treatise, that it was, in his day, "commonly sold at the stalls of ballad singers." And indeed the present copy has all the appearance of a common chap book, and no doubt the work was, although now so rare, frequently reprinted. In his notice of Seres's edition of 1557, Dr. Dibdin expresses his regret that a more particular account of this book cannot be presented to the reader, which has also escaped the researches of Herbert. See also Wood's Ath. Oxon., vol. i, p. 544; and Kitson's Bibl. Poet., p. 326.
Collation : Sig. A 1, woodcut and frontispiece; A 2, title page; Sig. A to C 8 inclusive, in eights.
The present is an edition not noticed by Lowndes, and is bound In Blue Morocco, gilt leaves.
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Seneca his Tenne Tragedies, translated into Euglysh.
Mercurii nutrices, boras.
Imprinted at London in Fleetstreete neere unto Saincte Dunstans church by Thomas Marsh. 1581. 4to, iilfe. IttU
We have already noticed some of these translations as they first appeared separately, and they are here collected together in one volume by Thomas Newton, the translator of one of them, the Thebais, and published under his editorship. The title is within a compartment with the Stationer's Arras at the top, and termini at the sides, and T. M. joined at the bottom. The dedication by Newton is addressed " To the Right Worshipful Sir Thomas Henneage Knight, Treasurer of her Maiesties Chamber," and is dated "From Buteley in Chesshyre the 24 of Aprill 1581." This is suc- ceeded by "The Names of the Tragedies of Seneca and by whom each of them was translated; Hercules Furens, Thyestes, and Troas, by Jasper Heywood; CEdipus, by Alex. Nevile, 1560; Hippolytus, Medea, Agamem- non, and Hercules Oetoeus, by John StuJley; Octavia, by T. Nuce ; and Thebais, by Thomas Newton." The latter here appeared in English for the first time, the others having been printed previously. For although no separate editions of the "Hippolytus" and the "Hercules Oetoeus" are at present known, it is not improbable that they had been published before the date of the present work, although no copies have survived, as we find that Henry Denham had licence for printing the fourth Tragedy of Seneca, i.e., the " Hippolitus," which was afterwards assigned over by him, with some other works, to Rich. Jones and J. Charlewood in 1579. They are, for the most part, without the dedications and addresses which were pre- fixed to the separate editions, having only the Arguments to each Tragedy, with the exception of the fifth, the " CEdipus," by Alex. Nevyle, which has a dedicatory Epistle to " Maister Doctor Wotton," and a Preface to the Reader; and the sixth, the "Troas," by Jasper Hey wood, which has an Address to the Reader. Doctor Wotton was one of the Queen's Privy Counsel, and Godfather to Nevyle, who was only in his sixteenth year when he translated this play in 1500, which was first printed in 1563 by Thomas Colwell, and which Warton says, " notwithstanding his youth, is by far the most spirited and elegant version in the whole collection," whilst Mr. Collier thinks him a most unskilful versifier, and inferior to all his coadjutors. But Warton's opinion will certainly obtain the greater number of suffrages.
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As the first English translation of the Tragedies of Seneca, this work is of considerable importance, and merits the attention of every admirer of the ancient classical drama. The whole of the translations (save in the choruses), Nuce's Octavia alone excepted, are written in the long or Alexandrine measure of fourteen feet, the Octavia only is partly in the ten feet rhyming measure, and partly in lines of eight feet metre, the whole of the tragedies being in rhyme. This latter play is also printed in a larger type than the rest, all the others being in a small and difficult gothic letter, while the arguments and choruses are in a roman and italic letter. They are not to be considered as mere translations, several of the plays being altered and transformed, and in some instances, whole scenes and choruses being added, shewing the talent and ability of their writers in original composition, and " that they were not always im])licitly enslaved to the prescribed letter of their models." Warton has given a copious and interesting account of this volume, and of the respective merits of each of the contributors in succes- sion. Mr. Haslewood also, in the Cens. Liter., and Mr. Collier, in his Hist. Dram. Poetry., have each of them written a description of the work, and afforded examples from the different plays ; and as we have already quoted passages from several of these in our account of the earlier separate editions of some of the tragedies, it will be needless here to multiply them, or to extend this article further. It will be sufficient to refer the reader, if he wishes for any further information on the subject, to the following works : Warton's Hist. Eng. Poet., vol. iv, p. 205 ; Ritson's Bibl. Poet., p. 285 ; Cens. Liter.., vol. i, p. 387; Bihl. Ang. Poet., p. 315; Dibdin's Typog. Antiq., vol. iv, p. 529; Jones's Biogr. Dram., vol. i, p. 542; Collier's Hist. Dram. Poet., vol. iii, p. 13 ; Extracts from the Reg. Stat. Comp., vol. i, p. 147, and vol. ii, p. 148 ; Wood's Ath. Oxon., vol. ii, p. 10 ; Brit. Bibliogr.^ vol. ii, p. 372; Whalley's Enquiry into the Learning of Shakespeare ; and Langbaine's Dram. Poets, pp. 248, 383, 394, and 494. The volume is scarce, and has usually brought a high price. Bindley 's copy, pt. iii. No. 2028, sold for 5l. 15s. Qd.; Nassau's, pt. ii. No. 1003, 4^. 45.; Bibl. Ang. Poet., No. 662, 8/. 8s; Ehodes's, No. 178G, 9/. The present is a very fine copy, and is bound by Charles Lewis
In Russia, gilt leaves.
Sheppard, (S.) — Epigrams Theological^ Philosophical^ and Ro- mantick. Six Books, Also the Socratick Session, or the
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Arraignment and Conviction of Julius Scaliger with other Select Poems. By S. Sheppard.
London Printed by G. D. for Thomas Bucknell at the Signe of the Golden Lion in Duck Lane. 1651. Sm. 8vo, pp. 285.
After the very full and elaborate account by Mr. Park of this poeticall volume, given in the Cens. Liter., vol. iii, p. 158, it will be only necessary to refer the reader to that publication for a descriptive statement of its contents. The work is written in a conceited and inflated style — with many classical allusions — and is valuable chiefly on account of its fre- quent references to contemporary poets and writers, and to the celebrated men of his day. The following specimens of his style are not unAvorthy of quotation :
Book 3. Epig. 13. Oil a Lady Singing.
What Heavenly sounds inchaut my eares, Passing the Musick of the Splieares ? Me thinks I heare a Mellodie Better then Arions harmonie, The quavering of a well tun'd voyce Making a most Celestiall noise. Angel-like Quires that sing in Heaven, The Muses Nine, the Plannets Seven Stand still, and listning do admire These songs, equall t' Appollos Lyre.
Epig. 15. Epitaph on Prince Senry.
Here lies Prince Henry, I dare say no more, Lest after times this sepucher adore.
See also Epig. 17, Lib. "A Dialogue maintained by five, viz., the Poet, Clio, Povertie, Ignorance, Mammon," commencing thus :
Clio.
Hither direct thy steps, descend this Cave, Castalia call'd here, thou a place shalt have To heare our Harmonie, here Homer sate, When he his high immortall lUiads wrote ;
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Here Orphetis penn'd his Hymns, here Maro sung CEneas Travells with a golden tongue : Here Pindar, and Anacreon did devise Their Odes, which since none e're could equalize : Here Flaccus, Naso, Spencer, hath heen seen, I help'd the last to frame his Faerie Queen : Here make thy selfe Immortall, taste this spring, Which will informe thee like some God to sing And though (perhaps) thou taste of some affliction, It shall be sweetned by our Benediction. &c., &c.
Epig. 19, Lib. 4, is also deserving of notice ; it contains
The Poets Invitation to Ben Jonson's Ghost to appeare again.
Reverend shade, Thy Lawi*ell wreath
Since last I made Doth lie beneath
Survey of thee Great Phoebus feet,
Meethinks I find He askes of thee
A fresher mind Which way to be
To Poesie. A God more great.
Most honoured Ben, Thou Ben shalt be
Appeare agen, A Saint to me
That so I may Each Verse I make,
Embrace thy Ghost Pie censure it,
Although it cost By thy great Wit,
My life's decay. If it partake.
Sacred Spirit The least of thine
Whose boundlesse merit I will Divine
I adore, It shall subsist
Upon thy Herse Alas if not,
I'le drop a Verse The same I'le blot
And no more. 'T wil not be mist.
Sheppard, although he appears to have been a member of the sacred pro- fession, must be considered, even for those days, as extremely licentious and coarse ; so much so, indeed, as to have occasioned the remarks of his friends, who " taxed his studies as incompatible with his profession," which called forth an answer from Sheppard in another publication, called Discoveries : or an Exfloratian and Explication of some (Enigmatical Verities, 12rao, 1652. He was also a great plagiarist; in proof of which the reader may compare the 42nd Epig., Lib. 3, " To Sir Alexander Wroth, of the most noble Order of the Garter, Knight, a Resolution to his Demand," &c., with
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a passage from '•'■ The Battailes of Crescey and Poictiers," by Charles Aleyn, 12mo, 1633, beginning,
As Sarum's beauteous Couutess in a dance Her loosen'd garter unawares let fall, &c.
The whole idea being taken, word for word, from the latter work. Lib. 5? Epig. 28, " Epitaph on that excellently Learned young man Mr. Anthony Dyer," is also probably taken from some other author, the opening lines strongly resembling some I have read elsewhere. Lib. 6, Epig. 17, " In Memory of our Famous Shakespeare," is one of the most favourable speci- mens of Sheppard's abilities. This has been already quoted by Mr. Ellis in his Specimens of the Early English Poets, vol. iii, p. 322, and is also given among the commendatory verses prefixed to the works of our immortal dramatist.
At the close of the epigrams is " The Socratick Session," with a new title- page, and a dedication in prose to his friend James Yate Esquire. The volume concludes with " A Mausolean Monument, erected by a SorrowfuU Sonne over his Deceased Parents : With Three Pastorals," and the fragment of a fourth, "two of them alluding to some Late Proceedings between Parties," with another new title-page, and dedication to Christopher Clapham of Beamsley Esquire. \i\ the third of these pastorals, the author alludes in a pleasing manner to Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, Drayton, Sir John Haring- ton, Daniel, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, Sir John Suckling, and other writers of that day.
In the Muses Cabinet, by William Winstanley, 12mo, 1655, another vain and conceited writer, is the following complimentary tribute :
To Mr. Sheppard on his most excellent Epigrams.
Sheppard tliou bast These in their time
Martial o're past, For wits the prime
Ansonius conquered ; Of poets counted were
Thou Harrington But if to thee
Hast overcome Compar'd they be
And Owen stricken dead. We see they nothing are.
Then sit thee down Whilst we do crown
Thy head with wreaths of bays, The Muses nine Do all combine
To warble forth thy praise.
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Sheppard lived in the troublous times of Charles I., and was celebrated for his loyalty. He was the son of a Dr. Harman Sheppard, a physician, who died July 12, 1639, at the advanced age of 90 years, and of Petronella, his wife, who died September 10, 1650, upon whom he wrote funeral elegies. He is said by Oldys, in his manuscript notes on Langbaine, to have been imprisoned in Whittington Goal for writing a paper called " Mercurius Elencticus," to which circumstance of his life two of the epigrams appear evidently to allude. Lib. 5, Epig. 25, "A Frolick to Capt. Baines, the Poet being Prisoner (for his Loyalty) in Whittington Gaole." And Lib. 0, Epig, 16, " iVIy Imprisonment in Whittington for writing Mercurius Elencticus." Sheppard wrote The Times displayed in Six Sestyads, 4to, 1646, with a folding plate, which is quoted by Malone in his Shakespeare, vol. x, p. 187, and of which there is a copy in the British Museum ; The Year of Jubilee, or England's Releasement, 4to, Lond, 1646; and The Loves of Amandus and Sophronia, 1650. He was also a dramatic writer, and published in two parts The Committee-man curried, a Comedy presented to the view of all men. A Pie discovering the Corruption of Committee-men, and Excise-men; the unjust Sufferings of the Royal Party, &c., &c., 4to, Lond., 1647, in which Langbaine accuses him of great plagiarism from Sir John Suckling and Sir Robert Stapleton's translation of the first and third satires of Juvenal^ and not without good foundation, for the greatest part of his play is taken in the most barefaced manner from those works. He is supposed also to have written The Jovial Creie; or The Devill turn d Ranter ; being a Cha- racter oj the roaring Ranters of these Times, represented in a Comedie, &c., 4to, Lond., 1651, and published anonymously.
Samuel Sheppard also wrote a long Poem entitled The Fairie King fashioning Love and Honor in an Heroicall Heliconian Dresse, the manu- script of which is in Rawlinson's collection in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. This work was written in imitation of Spenser's Faerie Queene, and the notice he gives of that poet is probably a better stanza than any to be found in his printed works.
Spencer the next, whom I doe thinke't no shame
To imitate, if now his worke affords So vast a glory ! O how faii-e a fame,
Had hee not doated ou exploded words, Had waited on him ! Let his honour'd name
Find veneration 'bove the Earth's great Lords ! Great Prince of Poets, thou canst never die,
Lodg'd in thy rare immortall history.
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See Langbaine's Dram. Poets., p, 471 ; Jones's Biogr. Dram.., vol. i, p. 654; Ellis's Specimens., vol. iii, p. 322; and the Bibl. Ang. Poet., No. 705, where a copy is marked at 12/. 12s, A copy sold at Lloyd's sale, No. 1131, for Ql. The present one has the scarce engraved frontispiece, containing a portrait of the author sitting in an arm chair, presenting his hook to Mercury in exchange for a crown of bays.
Bound in Russia.
Shipton, (William.) — Dia, a Poem; To which is added Love made Lovely. By WiUiam Shipton. Published by a Friend.
Hsec dedit ut Pereant.
London, Printed for Charles Tyus^ at the Sigue of the Three Bibles on the middle of London-Bridge. 1659. Sm. 8vo.
This rare poetical volume is fully described by Mr. Park in the Cens. Liter.., vol. iii, p. 215, from the present copy, which formerly belonged to him, and also in the Bibl. Ang. Poet., No. 730, where it is said, " This is a production so rare, that besides the present copy (which was Dr. Farmer's) there is probably not more than another known." Besides the poems them- selves, which are full of the most extravagant hyperbole and ridiculous con- ceit and obscurity, and a prose piece in the middle of the volume extending to sixty-five pages, called " Cupid made to see, and Love made Lovely," the introductory portion extends to thirty pages, comprising a dedication " To the Truly Noble Edward Trotter Esquire," an address to the Reader signed by himself, and commendatory verses by Jo. Cooke Gent. Aulae Clar., and Richard Shipton. The dedication begins in the following affected style : " Honoured Sir, I must confesse, a better Artist should have scanned the Jacobs-Ladder of your favours, — a more famous Archimedes have taught his star-gazeing eyes to feed on the Sunshine of your Cour- tesies, for the meer folly of Presumption, degraded the Cream of the Creation from Commencing Nobles in that Ccelestiall Athens; And the high Element of perfection, where your Highnesse sits Enshrined, Deity is a Pitch above the sorage of my scarce-Penfeathered Muse, to fly without the strong ambition of Eagles Wings, whose Quick-sighted eye, no Comet- Eay can force to obliquity. Yet I fear not, Gemms never were Sullied for want of Cabinets, and Rosy-flowers find ahvaies some engrafture. Ccesar
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by cliance came an Executor to Vifyills Poems, and if you can deny a cour- teous entertainment, a Grave-buriall may be had by any Saxon. Mcecenas Patronized one from death, in the Living Monument of his breast, who himself said, ' Non tumulum qusero, sepelit Natura relictos.'" We cite a few stanzas from one of the poems, not for their poetic ^vorth, but on ac- count of the scarcity of the volume. The poem is entitled
Parnassus, or Sis Lady Dia^s praise.
Let Amorists dote on
CliimcBra's feigned worth,
"Who sips up Helicon ?
A Lady's name sets forth : With a more noble shrine Then Deities that shine, In crimson Eobes divine.
Who sees her beauty-rays,
For's Ink, must Nectar quaffe ;
To reach the sublime layes,
A Mathematick-stafFe. The longest Pole of night Will serve but to indite ; Above the common fliglit.
That we adore 'tis vain Those muses much admir'd : Who wants a high-pitcht strain ; Even at her face's inspir'd. There cou chant always lies Up-rais'd Hyperbolies : Beyond a vulgar prize.
Sols pinions, if extract
Made by a cherubs skill ;
As glorious as exact
As is an Angell's quill. But fits enough to tell Each wondrous miracle, In superhumane spell.
Bright Legends of the Gods
Those dignities t'unfold ;
At least would be at odds
In registers of gold : I love a heavenly Lute To sing, men are a mute That is beyond dispute.
Those Hierarchy of maids
Breathe to the star-fed skies
From their Pierian vades
But fond Tautologies. And 'tis a common face That wants a beauty-grace, As poor men Herauld's blaze.
A face so rich, so rare
In Spicy-fragi'ant scents :
Here's Alabaster-air
There's th' perfum'd Orients. The rosy phoenix nest In Sabian odours drest Or flowrings of the east. "
The Indies guilded were
At her divine approach,
When she's (brave flowers appear)
In Summer's verdant Coach : Eude Satyres learn to trace Sweet welcoms in each place At her bay-browed face.
And Autumes dying crest Dismantled of all fame, Her rich-weaved robes invest, At th' eccho of her name. All has an appetite, To relish the delight Of her desired sight.
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We quote a few more lines from " May's Cabinet," containing an oft-re- peated simile, not unpoetically expressed :
Thus th' early Lark, best Herauld of the day,
Summons up PJiehus with her lovely lay,
When by her AngeU-voyce she slugs on high,
Her purer Mattius, to the purer skie.
Tho' wee poor sacrilegious men can't prize
The Anthem, 'tis her moi-ning Sacrifice.
WhUe wee in lethargy of sleep are drown'd,
She from her Rose-quilt bed with Lillies crowu'd,
In Florals gorgeous fields, betimes on wings
Her Orizons in braye Corrantoes sings. As doth my Dia iu a Cherubs note Her high-rais'd ditties to the Heavens quote.
Besides the poems in praise of liis Mistress Dia, after the prose portion of the volume occur elegies " On the death of his friend Thomas Sliipton drowned " ; " On the death of the most Heroick Lord Sheffield "; " On his honored Friend Mr. Robert Wilson, a Famed Musitian "; " On Gun-Powder Treason " ; " On the death of the truly Noble " ; and other pieces, together with a few letters, not deserving of notice.
Mr. Park, in a manuscript note in this volume, says, " Shipton's Dia is a production I have not traced in any poetical collection." And Mr. Heber remarks, " See a copy of this book (probably Coxeter's) in Osborne's Cat. for 1748, p. 321, No. 12,008. Possibly the present copy," This volume is the one which belonged to Dr. Farmer, at whose sale in 1798, No. 6594, it was purchased by Mr. Park. It was afterwards in the collection de- scribed in the Bibl. Aug. Poet.^ No. 730, from whence it was purchased in 1815 for 10/., by Mr. Heber, and at his sale in 1834, pt. iv. No. 2368, it was again sold for 21. 2s., and shortly afterwards came into the hands of its present owner. The only other supposed copy known was sold at Mr. Hibhert's sale in 1829, No. 7404, for 21. 2s. Since then another copy has occurred for sale, which Avas in the Strawberry Hill collection, No. 129 of the third day's sale.
Bound in Calf, neat.
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Skelton.
A Skeltonicall Salutation, Or condigne gratulation, And iust vexation Of the Spanish Nation, That in a brauado. Spent many a Crusado, In setting forth an Arm ado England to inuado. Imprinted at London for Toby Cooke. 4to, i)lfe. Utt.
The above is the quaint title to this curious satire or pasquinade, written in commemoration of the signal defeat of the invincible (as it was termed) Spanish Armada, the author of which is unknown. That it was not Skelton is certain, that poet having died in 1529 ; nor, though written in imitation of his style, does it bear much resemblance to it beyond the form of metre. It is in Ijlacit letter, and consists of eight leaves, without any dedication, address, or other title than what is given above. The "Skeltonicall Saluta- tion" ends on the reverse of A 4, when a fresh poem is commenced, entitled " A Question annexed, touching our sea-fish, nourished with Spanish bloud." This is finished on sig. B 2, and the remainder is occupied with a Latin Macaronic poem, addressed " Ad Regem Hispanum."
Cum tua non fuerint heroica facta Philippe, Kisu digua cano carmiue ridicule.
The following are the concluding lines of the first poem :
Wherefore to be short And ere it be long,
I thee exhort, Make thee sing a song
For thine owne comfort, Of 0 si sciuissem,
If witte thou haue Me coniinuissem,
Thincke him a knaue Ef non fecissem.
That doth aduise But now Pope blisse him,
Such an enterprise : And Mydas kisse him,
For in this cause Aud so I dismisse him
Our Faith and Lawes, To his good Phisition
We will sell om* hues, Master Inquisition,
Our landes, and wiues, By whose disposition
Too deerc for thee, He taketh the diet,
When soeuer it be, That will him disquiet
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And turue up-side downe
(Which would make a man frowns)
Both kingdome and crowne,
And fame and renowne,
And so, sirs, valete.
Et volis eauete,
A. medicis ignaris.
Chirurgis auaris
Meretnce Romana
Insulsa et insana,
Et factione Guisiayia.
Except you be so expert
The Latin poem commences thus :
Qui Eegis Hispanos Superbos, et vanos, Crudeles, et insanos, Multum aberrasti Ciim tuos animasti, Et bellum inchoasti Contra Anglos animosos. Fortes, et bellicosos, Nobiles, et generosos, Qui te excitavit Procul dubio deliravit, Et te fasciuavit. Nam omnes sperabant Qui te amabant Idcoque iuvabant, Multum te valere Viribns et cere, Hisque respondere Animum generosum. Caput tuum annosum, Et pectus animosum. Sed nunc cementes, Et conspicientes,
That you can conuert
At your own pleasure
Whicli were a great treasure,
The Lutheran seas,
Which doe you displease.
To be of your faction
And ioyne in yom* action,
Or some way can finde
To master the winde
That it be to your minde.
And then regnate
Et prcE gaudio cacate
Per omnia monasteria monaehorum.
Licet dolentes, Omnes tuas capios Eedactas ad inopias, Migrasse ad Ytopias, Stiipent, et mirantiu", Piurimum vexantur, Et pene exanimantur. At AiigU et Germani, Qui sunt Antihispaui, Et omnes mente sani, De tuS ruina Qua poena divina, Turbaris ad ima, Valde Isetantur, Et exhilarantur, Sibique gratulantur, Quod stidtitia detecta, VI tua rejecta, Et re infecta Ignominiam nactus, Es in fugam actus Et funditus fractus.
This work is mentioned by Mr. Park, with an extract from it, in the Cens. Liter. ^ vol. ii, p. 18. See also Dibd. Libr. Comp., vol. ii, p. 280. Mr. Dyce, in the third appendix to his edition of Skelton's Works, vol. i, p. cxxvi, containing extracts from pieces which are written in the metre
VOL. V. PART II. I I
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called Skeltonical^ has likewise given some quotations from this poem. In Farmer's Catalogue, No. 7205, it is mentioned as being printed at Oxford, by Barnes, 1589, 4to, and sold for \l. 10s.; Bindley, pt. iv. No. 596, U. 4«.; Inglis, No. 1357, 3/. 135. 6(/.; Freeling, No. 2069, 21
The present copy belonged to John Broadley, Esq., of Kirkella, at whose sale it was purchased by Mr. Heber, from whose collection it was obtained. Bound by Lewis. Green Morocco, gilt leaves.
Smalle, (Peter.) — Mans May or a Moueths Minde : Wherein the Hbertie of mans minde is compared to the Moneth of May. By Peter Smalle Batchelour in the Lawes.
Cerne quod insidise sacris a vatibus absunt Et facit ad mores ars quoq: nostra bonos.
London Printed by George Purslowe, for Samuel Rand, and are to be sold at his Shop neere Holborne bridge. 1615. 4to, pp. 26.
Of this extremely rare poem we know of no other copy than the present, formerly in the Roxburghe and Jolley collections, in which last, pt. iv, No. 868, it sold for 14/. 145., and one hi the rich collection of early English poetry in the Bodleian library. It is dedicated by the author, in verse, " To the Right Worshipfull his most louing good friend Sir Henry Blomar of Hatherup in the County of Glocester, Knight," two six-line stanzas, then a single stanza
Ad Eundem.
To you in whom the Graces haiie their dwelling
In whom the Muses make their mansion ;
That are for Learning, and for Ai't excelling,
For sweet conceit, and sharpe inuention, To jou I send this infant Muse of mine To whom true iudgement doth her seate resign.
And lastly, addresses " To all Gentlemen Students and Schollars," and " To the Reader the Authors Resolution," both in verse. In these he speaks of his " infant muse," and of this being his " first fruits," so that we may con-
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elude tliey were -written during his early youth. Whether he abandoned these ]i"-hter pursuits for the more grave and severe study of the law, or whether he wrote any other poems, we are unable to say, but we are not aware of any other work of his being now extant.
The poem is written in the form of a satire, and treats of the vices and hypocrisy of men — of the value of time and of its waste — the abuse of our liberty and other subjects, and is not without merit. The lines are clear and forcible, and would almost seem to shew the pen of a practised writer. The following description of the joyous month of May is rather poetical, and will bear quotation :
May may be fitly tearm'd (in my opinion)
The Mistris of the Moneths, and Natures Minion :
May Natures beauty, beautifying Nature,
May Natures ioy, delighting euery creature ;
All Natures Impes, she trimmes -with colours gay,
And glories her rich beauty to display,
Decking the bosome of the Earth with flowers,
Nose-gayes for Ladies and their Paramours.
In May the little buddes do sproiit, and spring,
lu May the little Birds do chirpe and sing :
In May the earth is clad in gaudy greene
To entertaiue and welcome Sommers Queene.
The Winde doth whistle Musicke to the leaues,
They dance for ioy, thus eu'ry thing receiues
Pleasure by Mayes approach, and true content,
And doth reioyce with generall consent,
And striue (in emulation) who shall be
Most I'ichly clad in Natures liuery,
To entertaine the Paragon of Time,
Each thing is in his chiefest pomp and prime.
But amongst all that multitude and choyce,
Ceres, and old Syluanus most reioyce
Sliee in a kirtle, he a coat of greene,
He like a Eon-ester, she like a Queene
And faire Queene Flora, th'ornament of bowers,
Clad in a gowne embroidered all with flowers,
Is not the last that with a ioyfuU cheere,
Doth entertaine this Minion of the yeere
Some May iu time, some May, before May come,
Some neuer May, some make their May in lune ;
Take May while May is ; for it hath his date,
When May is gone thou climb'st the Tree too late
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Nay whilst May lasts, we do bestow it ill, According not to wisdome, but our will ; (Our wicked will) which makes the world to be So full of sinne, and all iniquitie.
The remainder of the poem is chiefly taken up with the reflections on the use and abuse of time, and the work concludes on Sig. D 1 with the following re- marks on our proneness in imitating the habits and fasliions of other nations :
How idlely do they spend their time, mans treasure,
In spending it on vanity and pleasure.
On gay apparell, following euery fashion
And imitating (Ape-like) euery nation ?
Some-times the French, some-times the Spanish hatte,
Some-times the crowne is sharp, some -times tis flat,
Some-times a deepe starcht ruffe doth stiffly stand
Some-times a little narrow falling band.
Some-times their doublets doe but case the skinne,
Some-times they thrust a pound of bombaste in.
Some-times their hose are streight, some-times th'are wide,
O the Miudes folly, and the bodies pride !
Pride will be fine, or she her goodes will pawne
Her painted Chariot is with Peacocks drawne,
Pride lookes aloft, still staring on the starres,
Yet some-times into want (at vnawares).
She falles, and then what other doth betide
But Pouerty ? the iust reward of Pride.
Mans soule hath reason, and his sence hath will,
The one doth counsaile good, the otlier ill :
Reason doth shew us vertues, gifts and graces.
Will shew vs pleasures, which the flesh imbraces.
Proud sinfuU flesh, the prison of the soule.
That dares his heauenly Goddesse to coutrole :
Whose will a weede in fairest garden growne,
Choakes all the sweetest flowers by nature sowne,
Nay sowne by God, till in the spring of May,
The great'st Creator both of Night and Day,
First Gard'ner planted Man, the first line clay,
To make in ISden an eternall May :
But there it dyed : and there my muse shall rest. And am I not 'mong Satyres chiefly blest, That end so well in passing ouer vice, That I shall make an end in Paradice ? Concerning the writer of this poem, we are unable to supply our readers with any information, his name not occurring in any sources that are accessi- ble to us. There is generally the greatest difliculty in recovering even the
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slightest particulars respecting the obscure writers of this period, and it is by the merest accident that any information can be obtained, unless their names happen to be recorded by such writers as Ant. Wood. The work does not appear to be in any of our public libraries.
In Green Morocco, irilt leaves.
SiiiTHsox, (Samuel.) — The Figure of Niue. Containing these Nine Observations, Wits, Fits, and Fancies, Jests, Jibes, and Quiblets, with Mirth, Pastime, and Pleasure.
The Figxxre of Nine to you I here present Hoping thereby to give you all content.
London, Printed for J. Deacon, and C. Dennison, at their Shops at the Angel in Guiltspur-street, and at the Stationers Arms within Aldsate. n. d. Sm. 8vo.
^a"
These " Figures " seem to have issued from the press in great numbers during the first half of the seventeenth century, some of them being written by Martin Parker and other ballad-mongers of the time, all very much resembling each other, and partaking of the character of the common chap book. They were for the most part published anonymously, though some of them, the Figures of Five and Seven for instance, have Parker's initials, and in the present case we have the full name of the anther. The Figure of Nine consists of eight leaves, the title being succeeded by "The Epistle to the Reader," sixteen lines in verse, signed Samuel Smithson. The chief portion of the book is in prose, concluding with a song entitled " Good counsel in bad times. The tune is Old Simon the King," which is called a " Sonnet," but is in seven octave verses with a chorus or repetition. The whole is of a coarse and indelicate nature, and will scarcely admit of quotation. A curious collection of these rare tracts from the Figure of Three to the Figure of Seven, that of Four containing three parts, was sold in Mr. Heber's Library, pt. iv. No. 721, for 4/. Is. They appear to have been frequently reprinted. The present is one of the rarest of the series, and we are not aware of any other copy than this. Even the name of the author is quite unknown to all previous bibliographers.
Bound by Bedford, In Dark Green Morocco, gilt leaves.
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Smith, (Jud.) — A raisticall deuise of the spiritual and godly loue betwene Christ the spouse, and the Church or Congregation. Firste made by the wise Prince Salomon, and now newly set forth in verse by Jud Smith. Wherunto is annexed certeine other briefe stories. And also a Treatise of Prodigalitie most fit and necessarie for to be re&,d and marked of all estates.
Imprinted at London by Henry Kirckham, and are to be soldo at his Shoppe, at the little northe doore of Paules, at the signe of the Black Boie. 1575. Sm. 8vo, pp. 32, Uft. Iftt.
The present very early metrical version of Solomon's Song is unnoticed by Ames, Herbert or Dibdin, and is of such rarity, that we believe no other copy than the present is known. The title is followed by a short prose address of two pages to the Christian Reader by John Wharton, a puritanical schoolmaster and writer of poetry, who was the author of " Whartons Dreame : contevninge an Inuective against certaine abhominable Cater- pillars, as vsurers, extorcioners, leas-mongers and such others, confounding their diuellysh sectes by the authoritie of holy Scripture," 1578, 4to, filarft letter. A ballad entitled "Whartons Follie," licensed July 26, 1576, and "Wartons Novell," licensed to Henry Kirckham, April 21, 1577, were probably the production of the same writer. The address thus commences :
In perusing this little volume intituled, A misticall deuise, being requested of my frend therunto, I did fynde such a pleasantnes theriu, that my hart I'eioyced and gaue du signes wliat pleasure and delight my miude of it eonceiued. For surely (gentle Reder) if thou couit to heare anye olde babies, as I may terme them, or stale tales of Chauser, or to learne howe Acteon came by his horned head ? If thy mynde be fixed to any such metamorphocall toyes, this booke is not apt nor fit for thy purpose. But if thou art contrarywise bent, to heare, or to read holsome documentes, as it becometh all Christians, tlien take this same : For thou shalt fynde it sweeter, (as the Prophet sayetli) then the honye or the honye combe. For Salomon had great delite in the makinge of these, to recreat and I'euyue his spirits, and called them by this name Canticum Canticorum, whyche is to saye : the song of songes.
The "misticall deuise" occupies ten pages, and contains a metrical version of the fifth and sixth chapters only of Solomon's Song, written in a feeble and prosaic manner. To this succeeds, in verse also, " A coppie of the Epistle tliat Jeremye sent unto the Jewes, which were led away Prisoners by the King of Babiion, wherein he certifyeth them of the thinges
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which were coramaunded him of God." This also extends to ten pages, and is thus closed, "The ende of the Prophesie of Baruch. Finis. Jud Smyth. Babes beware of Images." Then follow " The commaundements of God our Creator geuen by Moyses. Exod. xx." A paraphrase on the ten commandements in four-line verses — one leaf — and another with texts from scripture, bearing upon the observance of the law. The two con- cluding leaves contain a sort of parody on the preceding, " The commaunde- ments of Sathan, put in practise dayly by the Pope " — and a leaf of texts from scripture — with a repetition of the colophon as given above. A very short extract from this volume, whose chief recommendation is its extreme rarity, will be sufficient to satisfy our readers.
The voice of the Sinagog speaking to the churche. Whither is thy loue, thou sweete
departed, do declare : For we to seeke-him out with thee,
do nothing meane to spare.
The voice of the Church. My loue is to liis garden gone
as he hath thought it meete : For to refreshe himselfe among
the smelling beddes so sweete And there he gathereth goodly flours
although he syllye is : He is myne, and his am I
which fedeth with the Lillies.
Christe to the cliurche. Thou art pleasant, O my loue
yea louely art thou sure : As faire as is Hierusalem
whose bewtie doth endure. Thou art as glorious, O my loue
as I would wisbe to haue. And as an armie is of men
with all their Banners braue. Tourne away tliyne eyes from me
to make my body shrowde For when as I do looke on them
they make me to be prowde.
Warton had evidently not seen this little work, as he makes no allusion to it in his enumeration of the various English versions of the Song of
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Solomon written in the sixteenth century, in the fourth volume of his Hist. Eng. Poet., p. 141, Svo edition. Mr. Park seems to have been the first person who noticed this poem from the present copy, which formerly belonged to him. See Cens. Liter., vol. i, p. 370. See also Select Poetry cJaefly Devotional of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, published by the Parker Society in 1845, vol. ii, p. 516, for some extracts from it furnished by the present editor. Ritson's Bibliogr. Poet., p. 383, and Bibl. Ang. Poet, p. 950, where this copy was estimated at 20^. It sold at Midgley's sale, No, 644, for 51. 15s. Qd., and in Jolley's do., pt. iii, for 17^.
Half bound in Green Morocco.
SoRROWES loY. Or, A Lamentation for our late deceased Soveraigne Elizabeth, with a triumph for the prosperous succession of our gratious King, James, &c.
Printed by lohn Legat, Printer to the Vniversitie of Cambridge. 1603. 4to.
In these poetical contributions from the University of Cambridge on the death of Queen Elizabeth, and the accession of James, the names of Giles and Phineas Fletcher, Theophilus Field, Bishop of Hereford, Thomas Cecil, Earl of Exeter, and others of eminence occur, who afterwards distinguished themselves by their poetical or literary talents. The following are the names or initials subscribed to each of the poems in this collection. 1. Six Sonnets signed I. G. 2. " Englands farewell," Ri. Parker, Caigon. 3. Tho. Goodrick. S. I. Coll. (two sets.) 4. Anonymous. 5. Tho. Byng (three sets.) 6. Thomas Bradburie. 7. "Upon the day of our Queens death and our King's proclamation." R. B. Pemb, 8. I. G. T. C. Cant. 9. "Two Epitaphs upon our late Soveraigne." EfFudit Theophilus Field. Aul. Pembroch. Cantab. 10. Henrie Campion. Colleg : Emanuel. 11. "A stay-griefe for English men, with a motion to the Pope, and English Papists." And, "A motive in Hexameters." L. G. 12. Th. Milles. Cler. 13. G. F. Aul. Trin. 14. "Singultiantes lusus." I. Bowie. T. C. 15. Thomas Cecill : Coll. Johan : 16. "A Canto upon the death of Eliza." G. Fletcher Trinit : 17. "A deprecation of our usuall lapse in speech bred by the long fruition of our blessed late Soveraigne." T. G.
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Regalis. 18. Edvv. Kellet, Regalis. 19. Pliin. Fletcher, Regalis. 20. "Nullo godimento senza dolore non dimeno dopo godiraento." E. L. Aul. Clar. devotiss. 21. Tho. Walkington. S. I. Coll. 22. "An Epitaph upon the death of our late gratious and dread Soueraigne Elizabeth Queene of Englande, &c." I. lones, iun. Soc. Pemb.
We quote from these a short poem " To the King his Maiestie " by Tho : Byng, which contains a reference to that Monarch's Poem of Lepanto printed in his Poetical Exercises in 1591, 4to.
Is any penne so rich in poetrie,
As to poiirtray thy matchlesse maiestie ?
Can mortall wight conceit thy worthines,
Which fills the worlds capacious hollo wnes,
Lo then the man which the Lepanto writ ;
Or he, or els on earth is no man fit.
Request him then, that he would thee commcud
Els uev'r thy worth may worthily be penu'd.
And yet, for all his royall eloquence,
Scarce may he figure forth thy excellence.
In the following extract from " A Canto upon the death of Eliza " by Giles Fletcher, which possesses much of his rich and luxuriant style, and is one of the most favourable specimens in the volume, the reader will recognize an allusion to tiie early and well-known fable of the nightingale and the thorn so frequently introduced by our poetical writers, and the origin of which can hardly be traced.
Tell me sad Philomele, that yonder sit'sfc
Piping thy songs vnto the dauncing twig,
And to the waters fall thy musicke fit'st
So let the friendly prickle neucr digge
Thy watchfuU breast with wound or small or bigge
Wliereon thou lean'st, so let the hissing snake
Sliding with shrinking silence neuer take Th' vnwarie foote, whilst thou perhaps hang'st halfe awake.
So let the loathed lapwing when her nest Is stol'ne away, not as slice vses, flie, Couseuing tlie searcher of his promis'd feast : But widdow'd of all hope still Itis crie, And nought but Itis His, till shee die.
Say sweetest querister of the airie quire
Doth not thy Tereu, Tereti, then expire, When winter robs thy house of all her greene attire ? VOL. V. PART II. K K
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Tell me ye yeluet headed violets
That fringe the crooked bauke with gawdie blewe
So let with comely grace yovir prettie frets
Be spread, so let a thousand Zephyrs sue
To kisse your willing heads that seeme t'eschew
Their wanton touch with maiden modesticj
So let the sUuer dewe but lightly lie Like little watrie worlds within your azure skie.
So when your blazing leaues are broadly spread Let wandring uymphes gather you in theu- lapps, And send you where Eliza lieth dead, To strew the sheete that her pale bodie wraps. Aie mCj in this I enuie your good haps :
Who would not die, there to be buried ?
Say if the suuue denie his beames to shedde Vpon your liuing stalkes, grow you not withered ?
* * * # #
The sunne in mourning cloudes inuelopcd Flew fast into the westearue world to tell Newes of her death, Heauen itselfe sorrowed With teares that to the earthes danke bosome fell : But when the next Aurora gau to deale
Ilandfuls of roses fore the teame of day
A shepheard droue his flocke, by chance that way And made the nymph to dance that mourned yesterday.
G. Fletcher Triuit.
At the end of the volume on a separate leaf are the ensuing metrical lines in the autograph of the composer Ro : Woodes, apparently written
at the time :
per me Ro. Woodes : vt vidi vt perij. Sic me malus abstulit error.
Since none but Egles gaze uppon the Sunn Without offence or hurt vnto their eye I wish my selfe an egle might becom Or being not, might not aspire so high.
Ill quondam Mariam sic oliin. 'Twas some impairing to thy fame That men gaue thee so short a name : Mary, thy name might wel have beeue If set the rose and gold betweene. For fined gold thy worth doth shew^
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And blushing rose thy bewteous hue.
But Mary soundeth bitternesse,
Nor doth the rose alone expresse
Thy -worth : N'o, nor the finest gold,
Though in mens thoughts so much extol'd,
Nor Marygold though lovely faire
Nor rosemary of virtue rare :
Not one of these, nor two can doe it,
Thy name must haue them al come to it :
Thus had they cal'd thee as they should
Thy name had beene Eosemary gold.
To the present fine copy of this very scarce volume there is also added the engraved representation of the monumental effigy of Queen Elizabeth in Westminster Abbey. Mr. Bindley's copy, pt. iii, No. 1986, sold for 4/. 5s., one in the Bibl. Aug. Poet., No. 684, is priced at 15/. 155.; Midgley's do., No. 727, sold for U. \s.; Heber's do., pt. iv.. No. 2618, for 21. 18s.; Rice's do., No. 771, \l. 2s.; Skegg's do., No. 609, for 51. This was the one from the Bidl. Ang. Poet, and Midgley's collection, and is the same as the present copy.
The last poem, by I. lones iun., was reprinted by Mr. Nichols in the Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, vol. iii, p. 651, and the rest of the work, with the exception of this poem, in the Progresses of King James the First, vol. i, p. 1.
Fine copy. In Red Morocco, gilt leaves.
SooTHERN, (John.) — Pandora. The Musyque of the beautie of his Mistresse Diana. Composed by John Soothern Gentleman, and dedicated to the ryght honorable Edward Deuer, Earle of Oxenforde, &c.
Imprinted at London for Thomas Hackette, and are to be solde at his shoppe in Lumbert streete, under the Popes head. 1584. 4to, i)l&. lett
Of this exceedingly rare and singular collection of poems, only one perfect copy is known to exist, which formerly belonged to Mr. Heber (see Bibl, Ueber.., pt. iv, 2609), and is now in the very choice and valuable library
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of Mr. Christie Miller at Britwell, Bucks. And the only other imperfect copy known besides the present is the one in the Cape! collection in Trinity College Library at Cambridge, which, like the one before us, wants the title-page. An account of this most conceited, pedantic and wretched production, was published in the European Mag. for June, 1788, p. 389, probably by Mr. Beloe, to which some additions were made in November of the same year, p. 384, by Sir William Musgrave and the editor, Mr. Steevens, to whom this copy formerly belonged, has not only inserted in it these accounts from the Magas., but has been at great trouble in collecting some further information respecting the Avork and its author, and we cannot perhaps do better in our notice of this volnme than to transcribe from it his MS. annotation :
" The title-page to the following poems is wanting, but from their author's levity, pertness, unbounded vanity, perpetual introduction of French words and phrases, unadopted by contemporary writers of this country, from his French mode of spelling and sounding English, his proper names with French terminations, and especially from his calling Ronsard '•our old Ronsard of France,' his ability to compose stanzas and quodrains in the French language, the epithet rude., which he bestows on us as a people, and his insolent observations at the end of one of his Odes, non careo pairia, me caret ilia magis, I cannot help supposing this Soothern to have been a native of France, perhaps a refugee, admitted as a secretary, a tutor, or for some other purpose, into the family of the Earl of Oxford. Being thus domesticated, he might easily obtain confidential transcripts of the Epitaphs written by the wife of his Patron and Queen Elizabeth. That particular one composed by a British Monarch, on a Princess of his own nation, would naturally have struck his vanity as a performance worth being preserved. I much suspect that Soothern was no other than some French name translated into a corresponding English one, and spelt erroneously Le Sud, or Sudaine, might have been his genuine distinction.
"The extreme rareness of this collection (for only the following copy of it is known) induces me to think it had been suppressed immediately on its first appearance, either because it exhibited verses which the Countess never meant for the public : or through fear that her Majesty might have been displeased at the circulation of her poetry. She is known indeed to have been once off'ended on a similar account. Had the age the Earl of Oxford lived in, been an age of delicacy, "we could also have figured to ourselves his disgust at the gross and inartificial flattery of Soothern.
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His Lordship might therefore have forbidden any wider display of it iii print. In consequence of such proliibition, the book of course would have been stifled before many copies of it escaped into the world. Tlie Nobleman who had been complimented in elegant Latinity by Watson, our best sonnetter, could not have delighted much in the pie-bald, pseudo English prose of this wretched Rhymester who calls himself Soothern."
Red Morocco extra, gilt edges.
Southwell, (Robert.) — Saint Peters Complaint. With other Poemes.
London. Imprinted by John Wolfe. 1595, 4tOj pp. 76.
" Never," says our old English critic Edmund Bolton, " must be forgotten St. Peters Complaint, and those other serious poems said to be Father Southwell's." Never indeed can anyone rise from the perusal of his sad and mournful strains without being irresistibly subdued by the melancholy tinge which pervades all his poetry, foreboding as it were the painful circumstances and tragical events of his life. Southwell lived at an unfortunate period, when the controversies on the subjects of religion and politics ran exceedingly high, and the followers of the old faith, as it was called, were exposed to many hardships and privations. And although the stability of the throne, and even its very existence, threatened as it was by the secret plots and conspiracies of its enemies, might at times compel the government to resort to measures of hardness and severity — yet the lot of Southwell seems to have been peculiarly cruel and severe. Born a gentleman — endued with a powerful and cultivated mind — of a grave and serious turn as became his profession, and possessed of much religious fervour (although unfortunately directed in the wrong bias), his lot in his own country was most unfortunate. Living in a state of seclusion and secresy, almost of banishment, in his native land, for nearly eight years : treated ^^■hen conmiittcd to the tower in the most cruel and barbarous manner ; kept a prisoner there for nearly three years, and, during that period, put to the rack no less than ten times, it was no wonder that, tortured in the body, and heart-broken in mind, he wrote to Cecil that he might be brought upon his trial to answer for himself, and thus to have his miseries ended. Even in his death the same cruel fate pursued him :
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owing to the unskilfulness of the executioner, his sufferings were unusually prolonged. From the tone of fervent piety, and genuine religious feelings, the excellent sentiments, and deep moral pathos which everywhere pervade his writings, so totally in contrast with many — indeed most of the unprincipled and licentious writers of that period, we cannot help lamenting his sad and tragical end, and helieving him to have heen deserving of a hetter fate.
The melancholy life of Southwell adds a great interest to his works, and we never could read any of his pure and eloquent poems without feeling a deep concern for his cruel and unfortunate destiny. There is a charm and pathos in his effusions which interest the mind in favour of the writer, and transport the reader from the cares and vanities of the present world to the purer and more lasting joys of another and a better scene.
The neglect which his writings have received since his death is quite unaccountable, until the public attention was first revived towards them by Mr. Waldron some sixty years ago, who reprinted some portions of his poems, and since then successively by Park, Headley, Ellis, Haslewood, Sir Egerton Brydges, and others, who have done much to rescue this excellent writer from the undeserved oblivion into which he had fallen.
The principal poem of St. Peter's Complaint, although probably written some years earlier, was not published till after his death in 1595. The present is the first edition of this poem, which was several times reprinted. The title is within a neat woodcut border, with the printer's device in the centre of the page, and the work commences with a prose epistle inscribed " The Authour to his louinge Cosen," in which he says, that he " has heere laid a few course threads together, to inuite some skilfuller wits to goe for- ward in the same, or to begin some finer peece, wherein it may be seene how well verse and vertue sute together." This is followed by two poetical addresses, the first consisting of three, the second of four six-line stanzas from " The Author to the Reader." The poem of St. Peters Complaint is in stanzas of six lines each, the favourite measure of the author, and extends to the thirty-fourth page. The remainder of the volume is filled Avith several short poems, the titles of which have been correctly enumerated by Mr. Haslewood in the second vol. of Cens. Liter.., pp. 70-1, with the excep- tion of one on p. 51, which is omitted by him, entitled " Losse in delaies," but which is quoted by Mr. Markland, omitting only the fifth and sixth stanzas, at the commencement of the same article in the Cens. Liter, Although portions of the poems of this writer arc now accessible to readers
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in modern form, I am induced to quote a few stanzas from St. Peter's Complaint as specimens of Southwell's style and religious fervour, the subject of the passage being from St. Luke xxii, 61, on the look which our Saviour gave to Peter on his denial of him.
O sacred eyes, the springs of liuing light,
The earthly heauens, where Angels ioy to dwell :
How could you deigne to view my deathfull plight
Or let your heauenly beanies looke on my heU ?
But those vnspotted eies encountred mine,
As spotlesse Sunne doth on the dounghill shine.
Sweet volumes stoarde with learning fit for Saints, Where blisfuU quires imparadize their minds, Wherein eternall studie neuer faints, Still finding all, yet seeking all it finds, How endlesse is your laberiuth of blisse, Where to be lost the sweetest finding is ?
Ah wretch how oft haue I sweet lessons read In those deare eyes the registers of truth ? How oft haue I my hungrie wishes fed And in their happie ioyes redress'd my ruth ? Ah that they now are Heralds of disdaine : That erst were euer pittiers of my paine.
YovL flames diuine that sparkle out your heats And kindle pleasing fh'es in niortall heai-ts : You nectared Aumbryes of soule feeding meates You gracefull quiuers of loues deerest darts : You did vouchsafe to warme, to wound, to feast My cold, my stony, my now famishde brest.
The matchles eies match'd onely each by other, Were pleasde on my ill matched eyes to glaunce : The eye of liquid pearle, the purest mother, Broch'de-teares in mine to weepe for my mischance : The cabinets of grace vnlockt their treasure. And did to my misdeede their mercies measure.
These biasing comets, lightning flames of lone,
Made me their warming influence to know :
My frozen hart their sacred force did proue,
Which at their lookes did yeeld like melting snow,
They did not ioyes in former plentie carue,
Yet sweet are crumbs where pined thoughts do staruc.
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O Pooles of Sesebon, the batlies of grace, Where happie spirits diue in sweet desu-es : Where Saints reioyce to glasse their glorious face, Whose bankes make Eccho to the Angels quires : An Eccho sweeter in the sole rebound, Then Angels musicke in the fullest sound.
O eies, whose glaunces are a silent speech,
In ciphred words high misteries disclosing :
Which with a looke all sciences can teach.
Whose textes to faithful! harts need little glosing :
Witnesse unworthy I who in a looke,
Learnd more by rote, then all the scribes by booke.
0 Bethelem cisternes, Dauids most desire
From which my sinnes like fierce Philistines keepe. To fetch your drops what cliampions should I hire. That I therein my withered heart may steepe.
1 would not shed them like that holy king, His were but tipes, these are the figured thing.
O turtle twins all bath'd in virgins milke,
Vpon the margin of full flowing bankes :
Whose gracefull plume surmounts the finest silke.
Whose sight enamoreth heauens most happie rankes
Could I forsweare this heauenly paire of doues.
That cag'd in care for me were groning loues.
Twice Moses wand did strike the stubborne rocke Ere stony veynes would yeeld their christall blood : Thy eyes, one looke seru'd as an onely knocke. To make my hart gush out a weeping flood. Wherein my sinnes as fishes spawne their frye. To shew their inward shames, and then to dye, ****** Like solest Swan that swimmes in silent deepe, And neuer sings but obsequies of death. Sigh out thy plaints, and sole in secret weepe. In suing pardon, spend thy periur'de bi'eath. Attire thy soule in sori'owes mourning weed : And at thine eies let guiltie conscience bleed.
Still in the limbeck of thy dolefull breast, These bitter fruits that from thy sinnes do grow : For fuel, selfe accusing thoughts be best, Vse feare, as fire the coales let pennance blow : And seeke none other quintessence but teares. That eyes may shed what entred at tliine eares
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Come sorrowing teares, the offspriug of my griefe, Scant not your parent of a ueedefuU aide : In you 1 rest, the hope of wish'de reUef, By you my sinnefull debts must be defraide. Your power preuailes, jowr sacrifice is gratefull, By loue obtayniug life to men most hatefull.
0 beames of mercy beat on sorrowes cloude, Powre suppling showres vpon my parched ground : Bring forth the fruite to yoiir due seruice vowde, Let good desires with like deserts be crownde. Water young blooming yertues tender flower, Sinne did all grace of riper growth deuour,
Weepe Balme and mirrhe you sweet Arabian trees With purest gummes perfume aud pearle your eyne : Shed on your hony di-ops, you busie bees,
1 barraiue plaint mvist weep rnpleasant bryne, Hornets I hiue, salt drops their labour plies, Suckt out of sinne, and shed by showring eies.
We now quote a portion of one of the smaller poems, called " Content and rich," which well expresses the simplicity and humility of the author's mind, and his total freedom from all love of worldly things.
Content and rich. I dwell in gi-aces courte My wishes are but few,
Em'ichde with vertues rights : All easie to fulfill :
Faith, guides my wit : loue, leades my will : I make the limites of my power
Hope, all my miud delights. The bondes rnto my will.
In lowly vales I mounte
To pleasures highest pitch :
My seely shrowde true honour brings. My poor estate is rich.
My conscience is my crowne
Contented thoughts, my rest :
My hart is happie in it selfe : My blisse is in my brest.
Enough, I reckon welth : A meane, the surest lot,
That lies too high, for base contempt : Too low, for enuies shot.
I have no hopes but one.
Which is of heauenly raigne :
Effects attaiude, or not desir'd, All lower hopes refraiue.
I feele no care of coyne
Weldoing is my welth : My minde to me an empire is :
While grace affordeth health.
I clippe high clyming thoughts The wiuges of swelling pride :
Their fall is worst that from the height Of greatest honor slide.
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I enuie not their happe,
Whome fauour doth aduance : I take no pleasure in their paine,
That haue lesse happio chance.
To rise by others fall,
I deeme a loosing gaine :
All states with others mines built, To ruine runne amaine.
No chaiinge of fortunes calmes. Can cast my comforts downe :
When fortune smiles, I smile to thinke, How quickly shee will frowue.
And when in froward moode She proues an angrie foe :
Smale gaine I found to let her come, Lesse losse to let her goe.
The following stanzas, entitled " Losse in delaies," are written in a more
lively strain, and will conclude our extracts from this volume of Southwell's
Muse :
Losse in delaies.
Shun delaies, they breede remorse : Take thy time, while time doth serue thee. Creeping Snailes haue weakest force ; Plie their fault least thou repent thee : Good is best when soonest wrought, Lingring labours come to nought.
Hoise up saile, while gale doth last ; Tide and wind stay no mans pleasure : Seeke not time, when time is past, Sober speede is wised omes leasure : After wits are dearely bought, Let thy forewit guide thy thought.
Time weares all his lockes before, Take thou hold upon his forehead. When he flies he turnes no more, And behinde his scalpe is naked, Workes adiourn'd have many stayes, Long demurres breede new delaies.
^I* ^ ^ff ^r
Droppes doe pearse the stubborn flint, Not by force but often falling : Custome kills with feeble dint. More by use then strength preuailing. Single sandes haue little waight, Many make a drowning fraight.
Tender twigges are bent with ease. Aged trees doe breake with bending : Young desires make little prease, Grougth doth make them past amending. Happie man that soone doth knocke, JBable babes against the rocke.
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For an elaborate account of this amiable and unfortunate poet, one of the numerous victims sacrificed to the bigotted feeling and cruel necessity of the age, vvhen religion was made the outward pretext for the commission of every species of atrocious crime, see the Gent. Mag. for Nov. 1798, vol. Ixviii, p. 933, where his different works are enumerated by Mr. Park. See also an excellent account of the author and his works in the Retrosp. Rev.., vol. iv, p. 267 ; a long article by Mr. Haslewood in the Cens. Liter.., vol. ii, p. 64; Wood's Ath. Oxon., vol. ii, fol. 261, note (where see Dr. Bliss's note concerning the mistake Wood had made in attributing these poems to John Davies); Dodd's Caih. Church Hist.; Challoner's Memoirs of Missionary Priests, vol. i, p. 324; Warton's Hist. Eng. Poet., vol. iv, pp. 99, 143; Campbell's Specim.., vol. ii, p. 162 ; Sir E. Brydges' Archaica, vol. i, pt. iii; Ellis's Specim. Early Eng. Poet.., vol. ii, p. 199; Dibdin's Lihr. Comp.., vol. ii, p. 304; Headley's Beauties Eng. Poet.; Hallam's Introd. Lit. Hist.., vol. ii, p. 311; the reprint of St. Peters Complaint., by Jos. Walter, in which is a sketch of the author's life ; and the Bihl. Ang. Poet., p. 672, &c. This last work, which is rich in editions of Southwell's poems, had not, how- ever, the present, but the following one printed in the same year, which is there by mistake called the first edition, although in reality it is the second. All the early editions are now become exceedingly scarce, and Mr. Ellis says, " It is remarkable, that the few copies which are now known to exist, are the remnant of at least twenty-four different editions, of which eleven were printed between 1593 and 1600." There is a copy of this edition in the library of Jesus College, Oxford, and in that of Trinity College, Cambridge.
The present is a very fine copy of this scarce poem.
Bound in Venetian Morocco, gilt leaves.
Southwell, (Robert.) — Saint Peters complaynt. With other Poems,
At London Printed by J. R. for G. C. 1595. 4to, pp. 72,
The present is the second edition of these poems, called erroneously, in the Bibl. Ang. Poet., p. 672, the first, and is printed by James Roberts for Gabriel Cawood. The title is within a woodcut border with kneeling figures
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at the top, on each side of the sacred monogram and the implements of torture ; in the centre of the page is the printer's device of a hand with twisted serpents, and the dove overshadowing the Bihle ; and the mottos "Lone and Lyve" in the centre, and " Nosce te ipsum," and "Ne quid nimis" on scrolls at the sides. The contents of the volume are precisely the same as the preceding, hut it is a different edition, and printed some- what closer — the former one occupying seventy-six pages, the latter only seventy-two.
This was Narcissus Luttrell's copy, and afterwards in the collection of Baron BoIIand.
Bound in Olive Green Morocco, gilt leaves.
Southwell, (Robert.) — Saiat Peters complaint. With other Poems. At London Printed by J. R. for G. C. 1599. 4to, pp. 72.
This edition (probably the fifth printed in England) corresponds in all respects, both in the ornaments of its title page, and in its general contents, with the impression of 1595, by the same printer described above ; but it is evidently a different edition, called for, no doubt, by the great popularity to which the works of this praiseworthy and pious writer had then attained, a popularity which was increased, perhaps, also by the melancholy circum- stances of his unfortunate fate, by which he had gained the crown of martyrdom. An imperfect copy of this edition is priced in the Bibl. Ang. Poet,, p. 674, at Ql. 6s. The present is a beautiful copy.
Bound by C. Smith. In Dark Green Morocco, gilt leaves.
Southwell, (Robert.) — Saint Peters Complaint. With other Poems.
Edinburgh Printed by Robert Walde-grave Printer to th» Kings Majestic, n. d. 4to.
Cum Privilegio Regie.
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The contents of this Edinburgh edition of Father Southwell's poems are exactly the same as those printed in 1595 and 1599, with the exception of the omission of the prose epistle from " the Author to his louing Cosin," and the addition at the end of St. Peter's Complaitit, and before the minor poems, of the following sonnet, entitled,
A sinfull soule to Christ. I luri, I lowre, iu dungeon deepe of mynd, lu inonrning moode, I run a resiles race, With wounding pangs, my Soule is sorelie pyn'd, My griefe it growes, and death drawes on a pace : What life can last except there come releace ? Feare threats, despaire ; my sinne infernall wage, I faint, I fall : most wofuU is my case, Who can me lielpe, who may this storme assuage ?
O Lord of life, our peace, our only pleage O blesfuU light, who life of death hast wrought Of heaunlie loue the brightsome beame, and bage. Who by thy death from death and hell us boiight, Eeuiue my Soule, my sinnes, my sores redresse, That liue I may with thee in lasting blesse. J. J.
This is subscribed J. J., but whom these initials indicate we have no knowledge. The date of 1595 is inserted in the MS. on the title, and Mr. Caldecot erroneously imagined this edition to be the first, but it was prob- ably not printed earlier than 1600. Mr. Heber also was in error in suppos- ing that it contained fewer minor poems than in those which preceded it, the number being, as we have remarked, exactly the same, with the exception of the additionnl sonnet on p. 30. Mr. Chalmers, to whom this copy for- merly belonged, says, " this Edinburgh edition is excessively rare." It sold in Steevens's sale, No. 1007, for 1^. lis. Qd.; in Heber's do., pt. iv, No. 2612, for 3^. 4s.; in Chalmers's do., pt. ii, No. 1106, for Ql. Gs.; and in Midgley's do., for 8^. 10s, A copy of this edition is marked in the Bibl. Ang. Poet.^ No. 675, at 21/. It is coarsely printed, and the first and last leaves of the present copy are much soiled.
Bound by Roger Payne, In Russia, gilt leaves.
Southwell, (Robert.) — S. Peters Complaint. And Saint Mary Magdalens Funerall Teares. "With sundry other selected and
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deuout Poems. By the H. Father Robert Southwell, Priest of the Society of Jesus.
Is any among jou sad ? Let him pray ; Is he of a cheerfuU hart ? Let him sing. lac. 5.
Permissu Superiorum. M.DC.XX. 8vo.
A rare edition printed abroad, probably at Doway. It has the epistle addressed " To his worthy good Cosin Maister W. S.," and the two addresses from " The Authonr to the Eeader." At the end of Saint Peters Complaint are four short poems, " Saint Peters Peccaui," " Eeturne home," " Comfort," and " Wish." Then a fresh title, " aS*. Mary Magdalens Funerall Teares. Written by R. S., Priest of the Society of Jesus. Luctum Vnigeniti fac tibi planctum amarum, Jerem. 6, vers. 26." This prose work is preceded by a dedication "To the Right Worthy and Vertuous Gentlewoman Mrs. D. A.," and an address " To the Reader," in which the author says, '•'• JMany suting their labours to the popular veyne, and guided by the gale of vulgar breath, haue diuulged diners patheticall discourses, in v/hich if they had shewed as much care to profit, as they haue done desire to pleasure, their workes would much more haue honoured their names, and auailed the Readers. But it is a iust complaint amongst the better sort of persons, that the finest witts loose themselues in the vainest follies, spilling much Art in some idle phansie, and leaning their workes as witnesses how long they haue been in trauaile to be in fine deliuered of a fable. And sure it is a thing greatly to be lamented, that men of so high conceit, should so much abase their abilities, that when they haue racked them to the uttermost endeauour, all the prayse that they reape of their imployment, consisteth in this, that they haue wisely told a foolish tale, and carryed a long lye ver}' smoothly to the end. Yet this inconuenience might find some excuse, if the drift of their discourse leuelled at any vertuous marke. For in fables are often figured moral truths, and that couertly vttered to a common good, which without a maske would not find so free a passage. But when the substance of the worke hath neither truth nor probability, nor the purport thereof tendeth to any honest end, the writer is rather to be pittied then praysed, and his bookes fitter for the fire then for the presse." He then states, that " sith the copies thereof flow so fast, and so false abroad that it was in danger to come corrupted to the print ; it seemed a lesse euill to let it flye to common view in the natiue plume, and with the owne winges then disguised in a coat of a bastard feather, or cast oflf from the fist of such a correctour, as might happyly haue
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perished the sound, and stiicke in some sicke and sorry feathers of his owne phansies." " Let the worke,'" says he, " defend it selfe, and euery one passe his Censure as he seeth cause. Many Carpes are expected when curious eyes come a fishing. But the care is already taken, and Patience waiteth at the Table, ready to take away, when that Dish is serued in, and make roome for others, to set on the desired Fruit. R. S." At the end of the Funerall Temes are eight more short poems, "S. Mary Magdalens Blush," "No loy to line," "S. Mary Magdalens Traunce," "Farewell," "At home in Heauen," " Christs Natiuity," " Christs Childhood," and a new poem called " The Christians Manna," consisting of fourteen six-line stanzas, which is not found in any other edition of Southwell's poems. From this latter we extract the three concluding stanzas.
One soule in man is all in euery part,
One face at ouce in many glasses shines,
One fearefuU noyse doth make a thousand start :
One eye at once of countlesse thinges defines, If proofe of one in many, uatiu'e frame Why may not God much more performe the same ?
God present is at once in euery place : Yet God in euery place is alwayes one. So may there be by gifts of ghostly grace, One man in many roomes, yet filling none.
Sith Angells may effecte of bodyes show :
God Angells gifts on bodyes may bestow.
What God as authour made, he alter may,
Tfo change so hard, as making all of nought.
If Adam framed were of slimy clay
Bread may to Christs most sacred flesh be wrought.
He still doth this, that made with mighty hand
Of water wine, a snake of Moyses wand.
This edition is now exceedingly scarce, and was priced in the Bibl, Ang. Poet, No. 679, at Ql. 6s., but is not so comprehensive as the following one of the same date.
Bound in Blue Morocco, elegant, gilt leaves.
Southwell, (Robert.) — St. Peters Complainte. Mary Magdal. teares. W*^ other workes of the author R. S. London Printed for W. Barrett. 1620. 12mo.
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This edition, although containing a larger number of Southwell's prose and poetical pieces than had yet appeared together, is still not a complete collection of the whole of his works, as it does not inclnde his " Supplication to Queen Elizabeth," 1593, his " Epistle of Comfort to those Catholicks who lie under Restraint," 1605, Syo, nor his "Epistle to his Father." The title is in the centre of a neatly engraved frontispiece, containing at the sides full length figures of St. Peter and Mary Magdalen with textual references, Luke 22, 62, and John 20, 11 ; and in compartments at the top, separated by the cock on a pillar crowing, Judas covenanting with the Chief Priests, Matt. 26, 14, and our Saviour before Pilate, Mat. 27, 2; and in the lower compartments, Mary anointing Christ's feet, Luke 7, 38, and Christ's agony in the garden, Luke 22, 42. The volume contains separate and distinct title pages to each of the five divisions or parts. (1 .) St. Peters Complaint; (2.) Moeonioe; (3.) Marie Magdalens Funerall Teares; (4.) The Triumphs over Death ; (5.) Short Rules of Good Life. These had all been printed separately at earlier periods, with the exception of the last, which first appeared in this edition. The volume is dedicated by the Publisher Barrett " To the Right Honorable Richard, Eaile of Dorcet," &c., in which he states, as " the onely reason of this present boldnesse in thus presuming to recom- mend it to your Honorable hands, being, that as the author thereof had long since dedicated some peeces of the whole to sundrie particular branches of that noble stocke and familie (whereof your Lordship is, and long may you be a strong and flourishing arme !) so now my selfe hauing first collected these dismembred parcels into one body, and published them in an entire edition, I held it a kind of sacriledge to defraud your noble name of the right which you may so iustly challenge thereunto, which by the Sunshine of your fauour shall be as it were reanimated ; and He encouraged to further endeuours, who in the meane time is, at your Lordships seruice, W. Barret."
Mr. Haslewood, in his account of this edition of 1620 in Cens. Liter., vol. ii, p. Q^,, has correctly enumerated the various contents of each part, with the exception of having accidentally omitted one poem at the end of St. Peters Complaint, viz., " Losse in delayes"; and also one in pt. ii, Moeo7iioe, " Christs returne out of Egypt," which follows " The Flight into Egypt." It will therefore be unnecessary to give a repetition of the contents of each part here, but we may state with reference to this edition, that the lines are divided into two, so as to make each stanza consist of twelve lines instead of six, and that the number of the poems at the end of St. Peters
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Complaint, which in the first edition of 1595 are twenty, are here increased to twenty-seven. Those in Moeonite remain the same numher in each, but there are considerable variations in some of the poems in the two editions, especially in the "Holy Hymne," the number of lines in which, in the original edition of 1595, is seventy-two, while in the present one they are only fifty -seven ; and the prose address of " The Printer to the Gentlemen Readers," is also here omitted. In "The Triumphs over Death," the dedicatory epistle to the members of the Sackville family is signed S. W. These letters have been supposed by Mr. Waldron to indicate the author's name South-Well. Whether this be so or not, they are very incorrectly used here, as these lines were undoubtedly written by John Trussell, and are subscribed with his name in the first edition, where they are followed by an acrostic on Southwell's name, and some stanzas " To the Reader," both also by Trussell, which are omitted in the present edition. With the exception of these variations, this and the former prose tract correspond in other respects with the previous impressions. The " Short Rules of Good Life," although they had been printed abroad at St. Omer's and at Doway before this period, first appeared in England in this edition. They are dedicated, in prose, " To my deare affected friend M. D. S. Gentleman," by " Yours in firme affection R. S." Then six four-line verses " To the Christian Reader," four stanzas entitled "A Preparatiue to Prayer," one stanza " The effects of Prayer,"
The Sunne by prayer, did ceasse his course and staid :
The hiuigrie Lions fawnd upon their pray :
A walled passage through the sea is made
From furious fire is banisht heate away :
It shut the heauens three yeares from giuing raine
It opened heauens, and clouds powrd downe againe.
and three more stanzas "Ensamples of our Sauiour," signed R. S. The "Short Rules" are in prose, divided under different heads or foundations; and the rules that follow these foundations — the various affections we ought to have towards God, our duty towards him, our neighbour, and our self, our care of servants, children, &c. These are chiefly of a religious kind, and the volume concludes with prayers addressed to the three Persons of the Trinity. See Cens. Liter., vol. ii, p. 69 ; Collier's Bridgew. CataL, p. 290 ; and Bibl. Ang. Poet., p. 676, where a copy is priced Ql. 6s; Strettall's CataL, p. 398, 3/. 3s.
In beautifully ornamented old French binding, gilt leaves, gauffered edges.
VOL, V. PART II. M M
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Southwell, (Robert.) — Moeonioe. Or, Certaine excellent Poems and spirituall Hymnes : Omitted in the last Impression of Peters Complaint; being needefuU thereunto to be annexed, as being both Diuine and Wittie. All composed by R. S.
London printed by Valentine Sims, for John Busbie. 1595. 4to.
This is the first edition of these poems of Father Southwell. It com- mences with a prose address from " The Printer to tlie Gentlemen Readers," one leaf, in which he apologizes to the reader for the omission of the poem on Christ's Nativity, which should have followed that of Maries Visitation, but having been before printed in the end of Sf. Peters Complaint he had here purposely omitted. The titles of the different poems are correctly given by Mr. Haslewood, from another edition, in the second volume of Cens. Liter., p. 72, with the exception of one, " Christs returne out of Egypt," p. 101, which is there omitted. The poems in this volume may be considered as supplementary to those in St. Peter's Complaint, and amongst them are two of Southwell's most beautiful compositions, " Vpon the Image of Death" and " A vale of teares," but as these have already been quoted by Mr. Ellis in his Specim. Early Eng. Poet., vol. ii, p. 201, and the first one also by Sir Egerton Brydges in Archaica, and by Dr. Bliss in the Ath. Oxon., it will be needless to repeat them here. We shall therefore content ourselves with giving the short poem with which the volume concludes.
SeeJce flowers of heaiien.
Soare vp my soule vnto thy rest, cast off this loathsome lode :
Long is the date of thy exile, too long the strickt abode.
Graze not on worldly withered weede, it fitteth not thy taste,
The flowers of euerlasting spring do grow for thy repaste.
Their leaues are stain'd in beauties die, and blazed with their beames
Their stalks enamel'd with delight, and limb'de with glorious gleames.
Life giuiug iuice of lining loue their sngred vaines doth fill.
And watred with eternal showers, they neetared drops distiU.
These flowers do spring from fertile soile, though from vnmanurde field
Most glittering gold in lieu of globe, these fragrant flowers do yeeld :
Whose sonei-aigne scent surpassing sense, so rauisheth the minde
That worldly weedes needes must he loath, that can these flowers find.
This work was reprinted in 1596, 1620, 1634, and probably more fre- quently, but without the introductory address from the printer. Tlie later
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editions, from the one in 1620, contain also some important variations in the readings, particularly in the Holy Hymn on the sixteenth page ; and the poems in these editions are divided into stanzas, which is not the case in the present. These variations and different readings in the text are carefully marked in the present copy. The poem upon the Image of Death is inserted in Simon Wastell't; Microhihlion^ or the Bibles Epitome, 1620, 12mo, hut is so far superior to anything composed hy that writer in his acknowledged works, that he can have no claim to its authorship, and there is no doubt it was written by Southwell, whose usual style it much more resembles.
See Ce7is. Liter., vol, ii, p. 71 ; Ellis's Specim., vol. ii, p. 201 ; and the Bibl. Ang. Poet., &c. The latter work erroneously calls this poem Moenonioe twice over, which has been copied in Dibdin's Libr. Comp., vol. ii, p. 304. Bindley 's copy, pt. iv, No. 601, sold for \l. lis. Qd. ; Strattell's do.. No. 1638, for 1/. 13s.; Lloyd's do., No. 1270, for 2/. 12s. Gd.
There is a copy in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge,
Fine copy. Bound in Olive Green Morocco, gilt leaves.
Southwell, (Robert.) — The Triumphs ouer Death : or a Con-
solatorie Epistle for afflicted minds, in the affects of dying
friends. First written for the consolation of one : but nowe
published for the generall good of all, by R. S. the author of
'S. Peters Complaint, and IMoeonioe his other Hymnes.
London Printed by Valentine Simmes, for lohn Busbie, and are to be solde at Nicholas Lings shop at the West end of Paules Church. 1596. 4to, pp. 38.
The first edition of this tract, which is in prose, was published by the same printer in 1595, and was succeeded in the following year by the pre- sent, the contents being, in all respects, similar in both. It was composed by Southwell on the death of the Lady Margaret Sackville (daughter of Thos. Howard, Duke of Norfolk, and Margaret, his second wife, daughter of Thos., Lord Audley of Wolden) and wife of the Honble. Robert Sack- ville, son and heir of Thos., Lord Buckhurst, whom he succeeded as Earl of Dorset in 1608. It has a metrical dedication to the children of the above, "the Worshipfull M. Richard Sackuile, Edward Sackuile, Cicilie
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Sackuile, and Anne Sackuile, the hopefull issues of the honourable Gentle- man, Maister Robert Sackuile Esquire," written by John Trussell, which is given at length by Mr. Haslewood in his account of Southwell's Works in the Cens. Liter., vol. ii, p. 74 ; and an acrostic on Robert Southwell, and some lines " To the Reader," also by John Trussell, followed by a prose address from " The Authour to the Reader." There is a tone of pious sad- ness, and of chaste and fervid eloquence, which runs throughout these Triumphs, deeply interesting to the reader; and the pure and beautiful manner in which the character of the deceased is drawn is a good exempli- fication of the powers which the author wielded both in verse and prose, and of the piety and excellence of his sentiments. This work has been re- printed in the first volume of Arckaica, which renders it unnecessary to give any extract from it here. At the end are some Latin and English verses, the latter of which, for the sake of its historical notices, we transcribe at length.
Of Soivards stemme a glorious branch is dead, Sweet lights eclipsed were at her decease :
In Buckehnrsf line she gracious issue spread,
She heu'u with two, with four did earth increase :
Fame, honor, grace, gaue ayre vnto her breath, Rest, glory, ioyes were sequeles of her death.
Death aym'de too high, he hit too choise a wight, Renowned for birth, for life, for liuely partes
He kill'd her cares, he brought his woorths to light, He rob'd our eies, but hath inricht our harts,
Lot let out of her Arke a Noyes [Noah's] Doue, But many heai'ts were Arkes vnto her loue.
Grace, Nature, Fortune, did in hir conspire
To shew a proofe of their vnited skill : Sly Fortune euer false did soone retire,
But double Grace supjilied false Fortunes ill: And though she raught not vp to Fortunes pitch.
In Grace and Vertae few were found so rich.
Heauen of this heauenly Pearle is now possest, In whose lustre was the blaze of honours light :
Whose substance pure, of every good the best. Whose price the crowne of highest right
Whose praise to be her selfe, whose greatest blis, To Hue, to loue to be where now she is.
Besides the two editions of this tract already mentioned, it was reprinted
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along with his other works in Barret's, and some of the other small impres- sions. There is a copy of the present edition in the Grenville collection in the British Museum.
Bound in Calf, blank tooled.
Stanyhurst, (Richard.) — The First Foure Bookes of Virgils QLneis, Translated into English Heroicall Verse, by Richard Stanyhurst : With other Poeticall deuises thereto annexed.
[Woodcut.]
At London, Imprinted by Henrie Bynneman dwelling in Thames streate neare vuto Baynardes Castell. Anno Domini 1583. 8vo, hU, Ictt.
After the publication of the (Eneis of Virgil, translated by the combined efforts of Pliaer and Twyne, appeared the very extraordinary version of the first four books, by Richard Stanyliurst, in heroic verse, i.e., into English Hexameters, a metre of which Gabriel Harvey had laid claim to be the inventor, and which had also been used by Spenser, Sidney, Fraunce, him- self, and others. In his Foure Letters and Certaine Sonets, 1592, 4to, filaclt letter, Harvey observes, •■' If I neuer deserue any better remembrance, let me be epitaphed the inventour of the English hexameter, whome learned M. Staniliurst imitated in his Virgill, and excellent Sir P. Sidney disdained not to follow in his Arcadia and elsewhere." The version of Stanyhurst is one of the most singular examples of this metrical character; and did we not know from other sources that he was in reality a learned and accom- plished man, and was highly esteemed for his literary talents by his con- temporaries, we might be disposed to imagine that he had intended to turn his author into burlesque, and to exhibit his own foolish pedantry and conceit.
At the time this version was published, Stanyhurst, then a married man, was residing at Leyden in Holland, having left England on account of his religion ; and it would appear from a manuscript note by Mr. Heber in the present copy, that a previous edition had been printed at Leyden the year before, of which, however, no copy is known, and that it was from this earlier publication that Bynneman had reprinted the present edition. It is dedicated in a lengthy epistle to his " very louing Brother the Lorde Baron
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of Dunsanye," in which he gives a comparison between Phaer's translation and his own ; and while he admits that the former " hath translated Virgil into Englishe rythme with such surpassing excellencie, as a very few (in his conceit) for pickte and loftie words can bourd him, none ouergoe him," yet he is satisfied with the superiority of his own version, as being closer to the sense and meaning of his author. And alluding to his own labours, he observes, " The three firste bookes I translated by starts, as my leasure and pleasure would serue me. In the fourth booke I did taske myselfe, and pursued the matter somewhat hotely. M. Phaer tooke to the making of that booke fifteene dayes : I hudled vp mine in ten. Wherein I couet no praise, but rather doe crane pardon. For like as forelittering bitches whelp blinde puppies, so I may be perhaps intwighted of more haste than good speede, as Sir Thomas Moore in like case gybeth at one that made vaunt of certaine pild verses clouted vp extrumpere
Hos quid te scripsisse moues extempore versus ? Nam liber hoc loquitur, te reticente, tuus.
This epistle is dated "from Leiden in Holland, the laste of lune 1582." Then follows a prose address of five pages "To the learned Eeader," in W'hich he enters into some critical disquisitions on the quantities of syllables, and gives certain rules respecting English prosody, which it is unnecessary to notice here.
In order to give the reader some idea of the excessive absurdity of this translation by Stanyhurst, we submit the following extracts :
The first is the story of Laocoon and the serpents in the second book, 1. 201 .
As priest Laocoon by lot to Neptun apoincted
A bul for sacrificeful sizde did slaughter at altars
Then, loe ye, from Tenedos through standing deepe floud apeased
(I shiuer in telling) two serpents monsterus ouglie
Plasht the water sulcking to the shoare most hastily swinging :
Whose breasts upsteaming and manes blood sp'feckled inhaunced
High the sea sui'mounted, thee rest in smooth flud is hidden,
Theii" tails with croompled knot twisting swashlj they wrigled.
Thee water is roused, they doe fi-iske with flouce to y^ shoare ward,
Thee land with staring eyes bluddy and firie beholding
Their fangs in lapping they stroak with brandished hoat tongs.
Al we fle from sacrifice with sight so grisled afrighted
They charg Laocoon : but first they raught to the sucklings
His two yong children with cii'cle poisoned hooking.
Them they doe chew, renting theu* members tender asunder.
In value Laocoon the assault like a stickler apeasing
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Is too sone embayed with wrapping girdle ycoompast, His midil embraciug with wig wag circuled hooping, His neck eke chaining with tails, him in quantitie topping, Hee with his hands labored their knots to squise, but abheaples Hee striues : his temples with black swart poyson anoincted. He freams, and skrawling to the skie brayes terribil hoiseth M\ich like as a fat bul beloeth, that settled on altar Half kild escapeth the missing boutcherus hatchet.
The ensuing lines, descriptive of the Harpies, are taken from the third
book, 1. 219, commencing:
Hue ubi delati portus intravimus, &c.
When 'tward theese Islands our ships wee setled in hauen
jS'eere, we view'd grasing heards of bigge franckye fat oxen
And goats eke cropping carelesse, not garded of heardmen.
Wee rusht with weapons, parte of the bootye we lotted
First to loue. On banck syds ourselues with food we reposed
But loa with a suddeyn flashing the gulligut Harpeys
From mountayns flitter, with gaggling whirlerye flapping
Theii- wings : foorth the viand fro tabils al greedily snatching
With fulsoom saxiour, with stinckiug poysoned ordure
Thee gi-ound they smeared, theartoo skriches harshye reioyning
Then we set al tabils, and fyrde our mystical altars
Under a rock arched, with trees thick coouered ouer.
At the second sitting from parcels sundiy repayred
This coouie rauenouse, and swift with a desperat onset,
They gripte in taUants the meat and foorth spourged a sticking
Foule carrayne sauoure : then I wild thee coompanye present
Too take their weapons, and fight with mischeuus howlets.
My wil at a becking is doon, they doe run to their armoure
In gi'asse their flachets, and tergats wardye pitching.
But when at a thyrd flight theese fowls to the coompanye neered,
With shril brasse trumpet Misemis sowned alarum
Oure men marcht forward, and fierce gaue a martial uncoth
Charge, theese strange vulturs with a skirmish bluddye to maister.
But strokes their feathers pears'd not, nor carcases harm'd;
And too skye they soared, thee victals clammye behind them
They do leaue haulf mangled with sent unsau'rye bepoudred.
The last extract we shall give is the account of Polyphemus related by Achcemenides when found by (Eneas on his voyage, from the same book, 1. 613, the well known lines
Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum
Trunca mauum pinus regit, et vestigia firmat.
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being thus rendered,
A foule fog monster, great swacl, depriued of eye sight His fists and stalcking are propt with trunck of a pvne tree.
Borne I vras in the Ithacau countrey, mate of haples Vlisses
Named Achcemenides, my syre also cal'd Adamasti's
A good honest poore man (would we in that penurye lasted)
Sent me to your Troy wars, at last my coompanie skared
From this country e cruel, did posting leaue me behinde tliem,
In Cyclops kennel, thee laystow dirtye, the foule den.
In this grisly palaice, in forme and quantitie mightye
Palpable and groaping darkenesse with murth&r abouudeth.
Hee doth in al mischiefe surpasse, hee mounts to the sky top
(Al the heu'nly feloship from the earth such a monstre abandon)
Hard he is too be viewed, too see hym no person abideth.
Thee bloud w' the entrayles of men by him slaughtred, he gnaweth.
And of my feloes I saw that a couple he gi-apled
On ground lowe grooueling, and them with villenye crusslied,
At flint hard dasshing, thee goare bloud spowteth of ecche side,
And swims in the thj'ashold. I saw flesh bluddie to slauer
Wlien y' cob had mauuged the gobets foule garbaged haulfe quick
Yet got he not shot free, this butcherye quighted Vlisses :
In which doughtye peril the Ithacan moste wisely bethought him.
For the unsauorie rakhel with coUops blud red yfrancked.
With, chuffe chaife wine sops like a gourd bowrrachoe replennisht
His nodil in crossewise wresting downe droups to y*^ groundward
In belohe galp vomiting with dead sleape snortye the collops,
Eaw with wine soused, we doe pray to supernal asemblye.
Bound with al embaying thee muife maffe loUer, eke hastleye
With toole sharp poiucted we boarde and perced his one light,
That stood in his lowring front gloommish malleted onlye.
Like Grreekish tergat glistring, or Phahus his hornebeams,
Thus the death of feloes on a lout wee gladly reuenged.
At the end of the translation from Virgil are " Psalmes, Conceites, and Epitaphs," which form the '' other Poeticall deuises " mentioned in the title- page; and first "Hereafter ensue certaine Psalmes of Dauid translated into English, according to the observation of the Latine verses." These are the first, second, third, and fourth psalms, and a prayer to the Trinity, and have each a short introduction explanatory of the metre in which they are com- posed, viz., iambical, heroical, asclepiad, and sapphic verse. Next, "■ Here after ensue certayne Poetical Conceites," consisting of " A deuise made by Virgil, or rather by some other upon a River so hard frozen, that waynes
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dyd passe ouer it," in Latin hexameter and pentameter verses. (2.) The same Englished. (3.) Another version of the same. (4.) The description of Liparen, expressed by Virgil in the eight hooke of his CEneis, &c. Done into English by the translatour for his last farewel too the sayd Virgil." It was this passage which furnished Nash with the subject of his ridicule of Stanyhurst's "hexameter fury" in his celebrated preface to Greene's Arcadia. The remaining ten short pieces in this division are chiefly original compositions of the author, and are nearly all written in his favourite hexametrical verse. Lastly, " Here ensue certaine Epitaphes framed as wel in Latin as English." These are (1.) "An Epitaph deuised vpon the death of the right honourable lames, Earle of Ormond and Ossorie, who deceased at Elie house in Holborne about the yeare 1546, the xviii. of October, and lieth buried in S. Thomas Acres Church, extracted out of the third booke of the Eistorie of Ireland." Eight Latin lines followed by a long character in English prose. (2.) " Upon the death of the Lord of the Out Isles of Scotland." In Latin. (3.) "Upon the death of his father lames Stanyhurst Esquyer, who deceased at Dublyn, Anno 1573, xxvii. of December, selatis li.'' In Latin verse. (4.) "Upon the death of his father-in-law Syr Christofer Barnewal Knight." In Latin verse, with a character in Latin prose. (5.) " Upon the death of his wife Genet, daughter to Syr Christofer Barnewal Knight, who deceased at Knight-hU- bridge, of Chield-byrth, Anno 1579, August xxvi, setatis xix, and lieth enterred at Chelsye." In Latin verse. (6.) " Upon the death of the right honourable and his most deare coosen, the Lorde Baron of Louth, who was trayterously murthered by Mackmaughaun an Irish Lording, about the yeare 1577." In English Hexameters. (7.) "Upon the death of the right honourable the Lord Girald Fitz Gerald, L. Baron of Offalye, who deceased at S. Albans in the yeare 1580, the last of lune, the xxi. yeare of his age." In English Hexameter verse, with a character in English prose. (8.) "A penitent Sonnet by the Lord Girald a little before his death." In English verse. (9.) " An Epitaph entituied Commune Defunctorum, such as our vnlearned Rithmours accustomably make vpon the death of euerie Tom Tyler, as if it were a last for euery one his foote, in which the quantities of Billables are not to be heeded." In English hexameters. (10.) "An Epitaph written by Sir Thomas More vpon the death of Henry Abyngdon, one of the gentlemen of the chappel," &c. In Latin middle rhyming verse, with a translation of the same in English. These are quoted by Mr. Park in his account of this work in Cens. Liter., vol. i, p. 425, and therefore it is
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needless to repeat tliera here. The volume concludes with a short address on the last page from " The Printer to the Reader," in which he comments upon the new orthography used in the book, and apologizes for the singularity of the spelling in placing the two oo and ee for one, which seem to have puzzled him no little, as they will certainly do our modern readers, and for the use of which he refers to the author's epistle at the beginning, and concludes by commending to the courtesy of the reader his " travaile in so straunge and unaccustomed a work."
Mr. Collier, in his notice of this work, has quoted a remarkable passage relating to Stanyhurst, who was then living, from Barnaby Rich's Iris/i Hubbub, or ike English Hue and Ciy, Lond., 1G18, 4to, in Avhich that writer speaks of Stanyhurst as "a famous man amongst them for his excellent learning — for he was a chronicler, then a poet, and after that he professed alchymie, and now hee is become a massing prieste."
Stanyhurst was a native of Dublin (of which city his father was recorder) and he was born in 1547. He received his education, first under Peter White, Dean of Waterford, and afterwards at University College in Oxford, where he took the degree of B.A. Leaving college, he visited London and became a student at Furnival's Inn, and afterwards at Lincoln's Inn, and spent some time in the study of the common law. He married Genet or Janetta, daughter of Sir Christopher Barnewall, Knt., who died in child- birth at Knightsbridge, near London, Aug. 26, 1579, at the early age of nineteen, and was buried at Chelsea. It is supposed that Peter Plunket, Lord Dunsany, married another sister, and that thence he is styled by Stanyhurst his loving brother. Margaret Stanyhurst, the sister of our author, was mother to Archbishop Usher ; becoming a Roman Catholic he went abroad, and was esteemed for his learning and talents in France and the Low Countries, and was made chaplain to the Archduke of Austria. He continued to reside abroad, and was engaged in controversy on religious subjects with Archbishop Usher, whose mother was Stanyhurst's sister. He published several other works, especially one on the History of Ireland, besides this translation, and died at Brussels in 1618, in his seventy-second year. Stanyhurst is praised by Camden for his learning, who styles him " Eruditissimus ille nobilis Rich. Stanihurstus," but was ridiculed for his pedantry and conceit by Bishop Hall in his Satires, and by Puttenham, Nash, and other writers of that period. Nash's remarks on his " foule lumbring, boystrous, wallowing measure in his translation of Virgil" which he characterizes by the term " Thrasonical huife snufFe " are well known to
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most readers. A more modern writer has remarked, that " as Chaucer has been called the well of English undefiled, so might Stanyhurst be denomi- nated the common sewer of the language," and that his version " could excite nothing but wonder, ridicule, and disgust."
From the very minute collation of the foreign and first edition of this work, Avhich JMr, Heber has given in a manuscript note in this copy, it is quite evident that he must have seen the volume, although no copy of it is known, at present, to be in existence. In the entry of the licence granted to Bynneman for printing the work, in the Registers of the Stationers Company, it is stated that it is " by a copie printed at Leiden in Holland {i.e., reprinted by Bynneman from such a copy), which is another proof that the one made use of by Bynneman had already been printed at Leyden. The printer's name was John Pates, who apologizes to the reader at the end for "the faultes from the nooveltye of imprinting in English in theese partes, and thee absence of thee authour from perusing soom proofes." At the end was a list of errata, and the following colophon : " Imprinted at Leiden in Holland, by John Pates, Anno M.D.LXXXIL" It was printed in 4to, chiefly in italic letter.
The reader may see an ample and detailed account of this extremely rare book, written by Mr. Park, in Cens. Liter.., vol. i, p. 400 ; and in Warton's Hist. Eng. Poet., vol. iv, p. 224 ; and may further consult Ritson's Bibl. Poet., p. 3o0; Haslewood's Anc. Grit. Essays, vol. ii, p. 197; Hall's Yir- gidemiarum, B. 1, sat. 6 ; Puttenham's Art of Eng. Poesie, p. 229; Beloe's Anecd., vol. vi, p. 39 ; Dyce's Edit. Greene's Works, vol. i, p. xxxv; Wood's Ath. Oxon., vol. ii, p. 252 ; and Collier's Extr. Reg. Stat. Gomp., vol. ii, p. 176. A reprint of this early edition, limited to fifty copies, was made at Edinburgh in 1836.
Stanyhurst's volume is of the greatest rarity, and brought at Dr. Farmer's Sale, No. 6804, 2l. 17s.; Steevens's do.. No. 348, 3/. 10s.; Home Tooke's do.. No. 759, 15/.; Rice's do. No. 967, 6/. The present copy was purchased by Mr Heber at the Duke of Norfolk's Sale for 9/. 10s., and with the bind- ing by C. Lewis, cost him altogether 11/. 7s. 6(/. At Mr. Heber's Sale, pt. iv, No. 2743, it brought 8/. 8*. Imperfect copies were sold in Mr. Bright's do.. No. 5387, and at Mr. Utterson's do.. No. 1723. There are copies in the Bodleian Library, in the British Museum, and in the Grenville collection in the same repository.
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Storer, (Thomas.) — The Life and Death of Thomas Wolsey Cardinall. Diuided into three parts : His Aspiring, Triumph, and Death. By Thomas Storer Student of Christ-Church in Oxford.
At London Printed by Thomas Dawson. 1599. 4to.
It can hardly be thought surprising that the extraordinary fortunes and eventful life of Cardinal Wolsev should have formed the subject of a poetical legend, after the numerous examples already set forth of the rise and fall of great personages in the Mirror for Magistrates, and other works of a similar description. And the present appears to have been formed somewhat on a similar model, and to have been intended to record the facts of his life in a simple and faithful manner Avithout much embellishment. But while it was much esteemed by some of our earlier writers on such subjects, and considered in those days as a work of great rarity, it is singular that it should never have been reprinted, till it obtained that distinction by Mr. Park in the Heliconia in 1815. It is true, as a writer in the Retrosp. Review has remarked, that " to write a life in verse, is merely to say that in rhyme, which had much better be said in prose." But although we do not gather much of novelty in this poetical life of the great Cardinal, yet what- ever is communicated, bears the stamp of truth, and may be relied upon for its fidelity, most of the facts being derived from Cavendish's Life of Wolsey, which we know was written, especially the latter portion of it, from his own personal observation. The poem is written in an easy and flowing style of versification, and contains some passages of tolerable merit — the personifica- tion of Theology in the first part for instance, and the description of his prosperous and triumphant state in the second, when he is made to compare himself with "Jerusalem, the pride of Palestine" — which exhibit some power of imagination and poetical taste, and are not without interest to the reader. The work is preceded by a dedicatory sonnet " To the Worshipfull M. John Howson, Chaplaine to her Maiestie," who was afterwards succes- sively Bishop of Oxford and Durham, and died in 1631. This is followed by some verses in Latin by an anonymous writer, with the motto, " Ut nos unda" inscribed "Ad Thomam Storerrum de suo Tho: Wolsoeo Hendeca- syllabi," and by others also in Latin, entitled "Prosopopoeia Wolseii," by Edward Micholborne, who is mentioned by Wood as the most noted Latin poet of his day in the university, and copies of whose encomiastic verses are
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to be found prefixed to the various publications of his contemporaries. Next occur two more copies of Latin verses, " De Wolseido et Momo," and " Thomoe Wolsoei et Reginaldi Poli Cardinal. Angl. comparatio," signed " Carolus Fitzgeofridus Latiforensis " and two sonnets in English by the same writer, who was the author of a poem on the death of Sir Francis Drake in 1593, 16mo, written when he was very young; and of a small work called " Affaiiice, or Three Books of Epigrams," published at Oxford in 1601, in which are inserted some complimentary Latin lines to Storer on publishing this work. And, as Fitzgeffrey was a writer of some reputation amongst his contemporaries, we quote the last of his two sonnets :
While Fortune yet did Wolseys state uphold Liuing he fram'de himselfe a costly toombe : To girt with marble crowiie, the louging mould Prowde of the treasure that it should enwhombe,
Tet ueuer did that monument inuest The naked temples of his bare-head graue : And death -whicli him of life first dispossest "Was dispossest of what it selfe should haue.
But wherefore did the lieau'ns his ghost this wrong
Thus of his duest honour to depriue him ?
They knew his graue should not obscure him long,
There should a Muse, they had in Store reixiue him. Toombes are for dead men : — not for Wolsey then Whom thou hast made immortalle with thy pen.
The introductory matter is concluded with two laudatory stanzas in English by Thomas Michelborne, a supposed brother or relation of the former; and a poem of fifteen octave stanzas "To the Author," by John Sprint, student of Christ Church, who was afterwards vicar of Thornbury in Gloucestershire, and a celebrated preacher in London. In these lines he thus gracefully alludes to the unfinished state of his own College in Oxford :
0 see how widdow-like (poore soule) she standes That college he began with curioiis frame,
So left, (though not without demaine and landes)
Aa bush or ensigne of her builders shame :
Which though he rear'de, with his ambitious handes,
1 dare not call him Founder of the same :
How can he be of Christcliurck Founder deem'de, That of CJmsfs cTiurch no member is esteem'de ?
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And yet as tliougli to rccompence the fall And want of walles, tliat never were erect, See how the greatest Architect of al Rebuildes the same, and in a deare respect, Hath plac't a reuerent steward, that doth call, The paiufull builders, and their worke direct :
By whom true labors have their due regard,
And well-deseruing letters findes reward.
And so the mines that our house before
So deeply blemisht with defect of stones,
Now farre more glorious, farre triumphant more,
Is made by sweete supply of learned ones.
That daily takes increase, by daily store
And carefuU noursing of her toward sounes
So flourish still, and etill encrease thy fame, And make thy selfe by deede, thy selfe by name.
The poem is written in seven-line stanzas, and is divided into three parts, the first giving an account of the rise of Wolsey, the second of his greatness, and the third of his fall, " Wolseius aspirans triumphans, et Moriens"; the Avhole is written in the first person, as if spoken by Wolsey himself, and commences as follows :
Betweene two Muses in the deepe of night,
There sate a reuerend Father full of woe.
They gaz'd on him, and from that dismall sight,
A kind remorse was wQliug them to go,
But cruell Fortune would not have it so :
Fortune that erst his pride had ouertlirowne. Would haue her power by his misfortune knowne.
Where fruitfull Thames salutes the learned shoare, Was this graue Prelate and the Muses placed ; And by those waues he builded had before A royall house with learned Muses graced. But by his death vnperfect and defaced :
O blessed walls, and broken towers (quoth he)
That neuer rose to fall againe with me.
To thee, first sister of the learned nine, Historians goddesse, Patronesse of Fame, Entombing worthies in a liuiug slu-ine Celestial Clio, Clio pearelesse dame, My stories truth, and triumph I will frame
My stories simple truth, if ought remaine
Enrich my legend with thy sacred veine.
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The sad discourse of my untimely fall
(O tragique Muse) shall pierce tliy sullen eares
Melpomene, though nothing can apall
Thy heart obdurate in contempt of feares,
My, my laments shall make thee write in teares,
If 'moug thy scrolles of antique maiestie,
Thou deigne to place a Prelates tragedie.
Perchance the tenor of thy mourning verse May lead some pilgrim to my toomblesse graue ; Where neither marble monument nor hearse The passengers attentive view may craue, Which honors now the meanest persons haue :
But well is me, where e're my ashes lie.
If one teare drop from some religious eie.
Yet when by meaues of Princes gracious doome
I rul'de the Cluu'ch, where aged Wainjlet lay,
Zealous I was unto my Founders toombe ;
My thankful! loue did faithfull tribute pay
To him now dead, whose liuing was my stay : His ancient reliques were as deere to me, As Princes lookes, or parents loue might bo.
Thrice sweete remembrance of that holy man Keuerend erector of those stately tow'res, That worthy College where my youth beganne In humane Artes to spend the watchfull houres ; That fruitfull noursery, where heau'nly abow'res
To me poore country-plant such grace did yeelde,
As soone I prooued the fairest of the field.
The reflections of Wolsey on first emerging into life, with liis ambitious dreams of future eminence and wealth, are thus not inelegantly described :
This silver tongue (me thought) was neuer made With rhetoricke skill to teach each common swaine These deepe conceits were neuer taught to wade In shallow brookcs, nor this aspiring vaine Fit to conuerse among the shepheards traine :
I could not girt mo like a worthlesse groome. In courser garment wouen of country loomo.
Just cause I saw my titles to aduauce Vertue my gentry, Priesthood my discent. Saints my allies, the Crosse my cognisance, Angells my guard, that watclit about my tent, Wisedome that usher'd me where ere I went :
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These are our honors, though the world withstand Our lands and wealth are in another land.
Yet as through Tagus faire transparent streames, The wand'ring Merchant sees the sandy gold, Or like as Cynthia's halfe obscured beanies In silent night the Pilot doth behold Through misty clowdes and vapors manifold :
So through a mirror of my hop'te-for gaine
I saw the treasure which I should obtaine.
And again when fresh honours and dignities await him after his introduction at court :
Transplanted thus into a fertile spring And watr'ed from aboue with heau'nly dew Enlight'ned with the presence of my King, My branches waxed large, and faire of hew, And all about fresh buddes of honor grew :
Garlands of Lordships, blossomes of degree, White roddes of office, keyes of knightly fee.
Looke how the Ood of Wisdome marbled stands. Bestowing Laurel wreathes of dignitie In Delplios He, at whose unpartial hands Hang antique scrolles of gentle Serauldrie, And at his feate ensignes and trophies lie :
Such was my state whom every man did follow,
As living statue of the gi'eat Apollo.
The personification of Theology or Religion, to which we have already alluded, shall form the subject of our next quotation.
In chariot framed of celestiall mould.
And simple purenesse of the purest skie,
A more than heau'nly Nymph I did beholde.
Who glaunciug on me with her gracious eie,
So gaue me leaue her beautie to espie :
For sure no sence such sight can comprehend, Except her beames their faire reflection lend.
Her beauty with Eternitie began,
And onely vnto God was euer scene,
When Eden was possest with sinful! man,
She came to him, and gladly would have beene
The long succeeding worlds eternall Queene : But they refused her (0 hainous deed!) And from that garden bauisht was their seede.
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Since when at sundry times and sundry waies, Atbeisme and blinded ignorance conspire How to obscure those holy burning raies, And quench that zeale of heart-inflaming fire, As makes our soules to heau'nly things aspire :
But al in vaine, for mauger all their might,
Shea neuer lost one sparkle of her light.
Pearles may be foild, and gold be turn'd to drosse. The sun obscur'd, the- mooue be turned to bloud, The world may sorrow for Astrceas losse, The heau'ns be darkned like a dusky wood, Waste desarts lie where watery fountaines stood :
But faire Theologie (for so she hight)
Shall neuer loose one spai-kle of her light.
One more passage from the third part, " Wolseius moriens," containing his reflections on arriving at Lord Shrewsbury's seat at Sheffield Park, worn out and ill, and being waited on by his attendants, instead of as formerly, by his own, shall conclude our extracts from this interesting poem.
By short and heauy iourueys I was brought
To Sheffield, parke ; — there taking sweete repose,
Where true Nobilitio intirely sought
T'enuoble griefe, and entertaine my woes :
O how doth heau'n the course of cares dispose, By enterchange of honor and of pleasure, To augment our miseries exceeding measure !
Hit traines attendance shew'd my glories past, (Bitter remembrance!) and my present shame, (Vnhappy pi-esence!) and the times of waste, Accusing all when I deseru'd the blame, Accursing change ! that keepes mee not the same :
Let him that sees his priuate miserie,
Auoid the prospect of prosperitie.
It breeds pale euuy, and sad Discontent,
Procures offence before a proffered "OTong :
Torments it selfe, till all conceits are spent
And thoughts deliuered by malitious tongue :
Then rapt with violent fury, growes so strong, That it euuenomes all our humane parts, Blind iudgiug eies, and sense- confounding harts.
Farre better had I met vpon the way Legions of Lazars, ghost of men Tuiust, VOL. V. PART II. O O
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Afflicted spirits, tormented night and day With Prides remembrauce, and incestuous hist, Appearing in their ornaments of dust :
Such passengers might well baue met with me,
Of like profession, and of like degree.
Ages to come will thankfully admire That princes worth, which pittied prelates want : Those benefits are noble and entii-e ; But in few grounds iiicreaseth such a plant, Since their old vertuous rootes are growne so scant. Professions doubt breedes good house-keepers care, That though they would, yet few there are that dare.
At the end of the poem, on the last page, a short list of Errata is thus apologetically introduced: "Reader: the Decorum is kept euen in these Errata : there is no reason that a Booke should be without faultes, when the person of whom the booke intreateth had so man}' in his life. But the Author could haue wisht that ^Yolset/ had corrected his errors while he lived, on that condition, that hiraselfe had committed none in the description of his life. If the reader find any more then are here set downe, let him remember that it is a matter ineuitable, vnlesse Nature had either placed our eyes behind vs, or the wallet of faults before vs."
The author of this poem was the son of John Storer, a citizen of London, and was elected student of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1587, where he took his degree of M.A. in 1j94, "at which time," says Ant. Wood, "he was had in great renown for his most excellent vein in poesy, not only expressed in verses printed in several books, made occasionally by members of the university, but for that writ in English verse entitled, The Life and Death of Tho. Wolsey^ Cardinal" Some extracts from this poem are contained in England's Partiassus (not England's Helicon according to Wood, and repeated by Mr. Park), and a copy of commendatory verses before Vaughan's Golden Grove^ 1600, 8vo. Storer died in London in November 1604, and was buried in the church of St. Michael's, Bassishaw, in the city. It has been conjectured by Malone that this poem might possibly have suggested to the mind of Shakespeare the subject of his play oi Henry VIII. In the Mirrour for Magistrates, 4to, there is a legend by Thos. Churchyard on the history of Wolsey, his rise, pomp, and fall. Consult also further Bibl. Ang. Poet., p. 605 ; Betrosp. Rev., vol. v, p. 375; Heliconia, vol. ii ; Drake's Life and Times of Shakespeare, vol. i, p. 70'3 ; and Wood's Ath. Oxon., vol. i, c. 750.
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Storer's Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsei/ has been twice reprinted of late years — in 1815, 4to, by JMr. Park in the second volume o^ Heliconia, and also more recently, in 8vo, from the press of Mr. Talboys in Oxford. And whether we consider the interest of the subject — the historical faith- fulness and truth with which it is written, or the great rarity of the volume, it must certainly be allowed to be justly worthy of a revival. The prices w'hich this work has usually brought at public sales have generally ranged high — Midgley's Sale, No. 735, 11/. lis. Qd.; Hibbert's, No. 7733 (same copy), 6/. 25. Gd.; Heber's, pt. iv. No. 2642, 9/. 9s.; Jolley's, pt. iv, No. 1032, 8/.; Sir Mark M. Sykes's, pt. iii, No. 523, 12/. 15s.; Sir Peter Thompson's, 19/. 19s.; and Bibl. Ang. Poet., No. 665, 21/.
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Studley, (John.) — The Seventh Tragedie of Seneca, entituled Medea: Translated out of Latin into English, by John Studley, Student in Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge.
Imprinted at London in Fleete-streate, beneath the Conduit, at the Signe of Sainct John Euangelist, by Thomas Colwell.
Anno Domini M.D.LXVI. (1566.) Sm. 8vo, lilfe. \tXt.
Warton had never seen this separate edition of the Medea, and fancied, that along with the Hyppolitus and Hercides Oeteus by the same translator, it was first printed in Marsh's collected edition in 1581, in 4to. The present impression is dedicated by Studley " To the ryght honorable Frauncis Lord Russell, Earle of Bedford, one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie Counsell, Knight of the most honorable order of the Garter, Lord Gouernour of Barwicke, and Warden of the East Marches." This is followed by " The Preface to the Reader," in which he speaks of this as his " second attempte," the eighth tragedy, the Agamemnon, printed in the same year, having been his first, and mentions that he had altered the first chorus, " because in it he sawe nothyng but an heape of prophane storyes, and names of prophane Idoles." After the preface are some lines by "W. F. in the Translatours behalfe," "The Argument to the Tragedie by
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the Translatour," three seven-line stanzas, and " The names of the Speaker's of this Tragedie."
Of the translator himself, who contrlbnted the largest share in first rendering the tragedies of Seneca into our native tongue, having translated four out of the ten, not much is known, beyond what he informs us liimself, that he received his education as a scholar at Westminster school, and was afterwards of Trinity College, Cambridge ; that he is mentioned by Ant. Wood, as "a noted poet in Queen Elizabeth's time " ; and that according to the somewhat doubtful authority of Chetwood in his British Theatre, he afterwards went into Flanders, where he held a command under Prince Maurice, and was killed at the siege of Breda in 1587. From the various complimentary testimonies offered to him by his contemporaries, prefixed to the first edition of his translation of the Agamemnon, and from other scattered sources, he appears to have been held in much esteem by them ; and his translations from Seneca, considered as some of the earliest attempts that were made in our lansua^e, are not without a certain degree of merit. In addition to the plays of Seneca, Studley translated John Bale's '•'•Pageant of Popes, contanyninge the lyues of all the Bishops of Rome, from the begin- ning of them, to the yeare of Grace 1555," &c., London, 1574, 4to, and wrote two copies of Latin verses on the death of Nicholas Carr, Greek Professor at Cambridge, which were appended to Carr's Latin translation of the Orations of Demosthenes, printed by H. Denham, 1571, 4to.
A short quotation from tlie first chorus altered by the translator will be sufficient to shew that Studley performed his task with some ability. The speech thus eloquently described was that of false Jason :
Yet was his speache, so pleasant and so mjlde,
Hys tongue so fylde, bys promises so fayre,
Sweete was the fowlers songe that hathe beguylde
The selye byrde, brought to the lymed snare.
Fayth in hys face, trust shyned in hys eyes,
The blusshyng brow playue menynges semcd to showe,
In double harte black treason hydden lyes
Dissembling thoughtes that weaue the webbe of woe.
The honed lyppes, the tongue in suger depte
Doe sweete the poyson rancke within the brest,
In subtle shew of paynted sheath is kept,
The rustye knyfe of treason demed least
Lyfe seemes the bayte to syght that lyeth brym.
Death is the hooke that underlyes the same,
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The candell blase delyghtes with burnyng trym The rije, tjll she be burned iu the flame Who iu such shewes least demed any illea. The hungry fysshe feares not the bayte to brooke, Tyll up the lyne doe pluck hym by the gjUes, And fast in throte hee feeles the deadly hooke.
The editor of the Biogr. Dram, is certainly wrong in stating that there was any edition of this play in 1563, the present being the earliest that was printed, as we ma_y learn from the preface, and from the Registers of the Stat. Company. See Collier's Extracts from do., vol. i, p. 140; and Hist. Eng. Dram. Poetry., vol. iii, p. 14 ; Warton's Bist. Eng. Poet., vol. iv, p. 206 ; Wood's Ath. Oxon.., vol. ii, p. 10; Langbaine's Dram. Poets.., j). 494; and Jones's Biogr. Dram , vol. i, p. Q'M. At the end of the volume, on the last page, is a woodcut of St. John the Evangelist, the device of Robert Wyer, whom Colwell succeeded. This rare play sold in Rhodes's Sale, No. 2412, for 11. 10s.; Heber's do., pt. iv, No. 2332, 51 7s. 6d. Fine copy. Bound by Charles Lewis. In Russia, gilt leaves.
Taylor, (John.) — The Praise, Antiquity, and commodity of Beggary, Beggers, and Begging. By lohn Taylor.
At London Printed by E. A. for Henry Gosson, and are to be sold by Edward Wright ueere Christs Church Gate. 1621. 4to, pp. 28.
A curious woodcut frontispiece adorns the title page of this rare tract, having on the left "Beggers Bush" with two of the fraternity seated on the ground under it; in the centre "A Maundering Begger" with a label from his mouth " Beggers all " ; and on the ri^ht the figure of " A gallant Begger." It is dedicated in the following highly humorous and characteristic manner to Archie, the Court Jester of James I. " To the bright Eve-dazeling Mirrour of Mirth, Adelantado of Alacrity, the Pump of Pastime, Spout of Sport, and Regent of ridiculous Confabulations, Archibald Armstrong, alias the Court Archy." In this dedication, which is wholly omitted in the folio edition of his collected works, the author thus refers to some of his former pieces : " I did once dedicate a Booke to your patronage of the supposed drowning of M. Thomas Coriat, and I did also dedicate three small Treatises
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to a Leash of Knights ; and because you all foure make a well match'd Murniuall of Patrons (for you all alike very illiberally put your hands in your pockets, and to make your monies euen, gave me nothing:) it makes me the bolder at this time to come upon you againe, not doubting but your bounty will requite my loue and paines with as much more." This tract is in verse, and is entirely filled with the praises of mendicity, the freedom and happiness of which state is thus not unpleasingly described :
Thus all degrees and states, what e're they are,
With baggers happinesse cannot compare :
Heav'n is the roofe that canopies his head
The cloudes his curtaines, and the earth his bed,
The Sunne his fire, the starre's his candle light,
The Moonehis Lampe that guides him in the night.
When scorching Sol makes other mortals sweat,
Each tree doth shade a begger from his heat :
When nipping Winter makes the Cow to quake,
A begger will a Barue for harbour take,
When Trees and Steeples are or'e-tura'd with winde,
A begger will a hedge for shelter finde :
And though his inconueniences are store.
Yet still he hath a salue for eu'ry sore,
lie for new fashions, owes the Tayler nothing,
Kor to the Draper is in debt for cloathing :
A begger doth not begger nor deceaue
Othei's, by breaking like a bankrupt Kuaue,
He's free from shoulder-clapping Sergeant's clawes,
He's out of feare of Enuies canker'd iawes :
He lives in such a safe and happy state,
That he is neither hated, nor doth hate.
In representing a state of beggery as the usual attendant upon the genius and the poet, Taylor makes mention of the beautiful and well-known song of Marlow, " ]\Iy mind to me a kingdom is," and the short quotation immediately after from that poet, with his name introduced in the margin, is a concurrence deserving of the reader's notice.
And though a Poet haue th' accomplish'd partes Of Learning, and the Axiomes of all Artes : What though he study all his braincs to dust, To make his Fame immortall, and not rust, Eeuoluing day by day, and night by night, And waste himselfe in giuing others light,
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Yet this is, all the Guerdon he shall haue That begg'ry ■will attend him to his Graue. He (in bis owne conceit) may haue this blisse And sing, My minde to me a kingdome is. But 'tis a Kingdome wanting forme or matter, Or substance, like the Moonshine in the water. * Chris. Mario. For as a learned* Poet wrote before
Grosse Golde ruunes headlong from them, to the Bore, For which this vnauoyded Vow I'le make, To loue a Begger for a Poet's sake.
The following picture of the freedom and delights of the country, and the sweet charms of nature open alike to all Gods creatures — the begger equally with the rich, is well painted, and is superior to the general run of Taylor's poetry.
His musicke waytes on him in euery bush,
The Mauis, Bulfiucb, Blackbird, and the Thrush :
The mounting Larke sings in the lofty Sky,
And Robin Eedbreast makes him melody.
The Nightingale chants most melodiously.
The chirping Sparrow, and the chattering Pye.
My neighbour Cuckow, alwayes in one tune.
Sings like a Townsman still in May and lune.
These feather'd Fidlers sing, and leape, and play,
The begger takes dehght, and God doth pay.
Moreover (to accomplish his Content)
There nothing wants to please his sight or scent.
The Earth embrodered with the various hew
Of Greene, Red, Yellow, Purple, Watchet, Blew :
Carnation, Crimson, Damaske spotless "White,
And every colour that may please the sight.
The odoriferous Mint, the Eglantine,
The Woodbine, Primrose, and the Cowslip fine.
The Honisuckle, and the Daffadill,
The fragrant Time, delights the Begger still.
He may plucke Violets in any place
And Rue, but very seldome hearbe of Grace :
Hearts-ease he hath, and Loue, and Idle both,
It in his bones hath a continuall growth.
His Driuke he neuer doth goe farre to looke,
Each Spring's his Host, his Hostesse is each Brooke:
Where he may quaffe and too't againe by fits.
And neuer stand in feare to hurt his wits.
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Mr. Heber was of opinion that "this is one of the rarest of Taylor's tracts." It is incluiled in the folio edition of his works, but without the dedication. From Sir Francis Freeling's collection.
Half bound Brown Calf.
TayloRj (John.) — Superbiae Flagellura, or, The Whip of Pride. By John Taylor.
London Printed by G. Eld. 1621. Sm. 8vo.
Prefixed to this poetical tract is a very neatly engraved frontispiece, on copper, of a naked boy representing simplicity, with a whip or scourge in his right hand, and holding in his left a peacock, an emblem of pride. Opposite to this are ten lines of verse, containing " the meaning of the frontispiece." The dedication is inscribed "To the Right Worshipfull, Worthy, and Learned Gentleman, S"' Thomas Richardson Knight, Serjeant - at-Law, and Speaker in the High Court of Parliament," &c., and has a double anagram on his name, with six lines underneath. This is succeeded by a prose epistle to the reader addressed " To no matter who, no great matter where, yet to be read there is matter why, although not much matter when." In this epistle he thus alludes to himself, and his former writings, and declares his future intentions. " Wherefore I having a talent of know- ledge lent me, by which I know that I must render an account one day, how I haue imployed it, and having written neere forty seuerall pamphlets in former times, I purpose henceforward (God wilHng) to redeeme the time I haue so mispent, imploying my Pen in such exercises (which though they be not free from a rellish of mirth, yet tliey shall be cleare from profanation, scurrility, or obsceannesse. I do know Pride is at such a height, that my Mole-hill Muse can neuer by mincing at her foote, shake her head, for where Diuinity preuailes not, Poetry in medling doth but shew the Sun's brightnesse with a Candle. Yet forasmuch as I know that Pride cast Angels out of Heauen, made diuels in hell, threw man out of Paradise, was a maine causer of the drowning of the first World, is a deuowrer of this world, and shall euer be accursed in the world to come, by this knowledge, I haue with a mix'd inuectiue mildnesse, shewed in this Booke the vanities of all sorts of Pride, not that I hope for amendment, but to shew my honest intendment."
A short poetical address follows, entitled " A few Lines to small purpose,
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against the Scandalous Aspersions, that are either maliciously, or ignorantly cast vpon the poets and poems of these times "; in which, speaking of those, who, by their knowledge of languages, stole from others by translating their works, and thus "made others verse their own," he sa3's
For mine ov^ne part, my Conscience ■ndtuesse is, I ne're was guilty of such theft as this, Unto such robbery I could neuer reach Because I understand no forreigne speach. To prooue that I am from such filching free, Latin and French are heathen-G-reeke to me, The Grecian, and the Hebrew Characters, I know as well, as I can reach the Stan-es. The sweete Italian, and the Chip Chop Dutch, I know the man i'th Moone can speake as much. Should I from English Authors but purloyne. It would be soone found counterfeited coyne. Then since I cannot steale, but some will spy, I'le truely use mine owne, let others lye. Yet to excuse the writers, that now write, Because they bring no better things to light : 'Tis because bounty from the world is fled, True liberality is almost dead. Reward is lodg'd in darke obliuion deepe, Bewitcht (I thiuke) ijito an endlesse sleepe, That though a man in study take great paines, And empt his veines, and puluerize his braines, To write a Poem well, which being writ With aU his ludgement, Reason, Art, and Wit, And at his owne charge, print and pay for all, And giue away most free, and liberal! Two, three, or foure, or flue hundred bookes, For his reward he shall haue nods and lookes ; That all the profit a man's paines hath gat, Will not suffice one meale to feed a Cat. Yet noble Westminster, thou still art free, And for thy bounty I am bound to thee : For hadst not thou, and thy Inhabitants From time to time relieu'd aud help'd my wants, I had long since bid Poetry adieu, And therefore still my thankes shall be to you. Next to the Court, in generall I am bound To you, for many friendships I haue found. There (when my purse hath often wanted baite) To fill or feed it, I haue had receite. VOL. V. PAUT II. P P
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If any man f e t c h his story higher let him take my booke for nought.
It is from his own writings that the principal circumstances of Taylor's life and his acquirements may be known ; and we think that, on a careful and enlarged examination of these, much may still be acquired which has not hitherto been noticed, and some further interesting particulars of his life be found, especially from those tracts which give an account of his own travels in various parts of the kingdom, and relate many of his personal adventures and anecdotes.
The present work is descriptive of the different sorts of pride which pre- vail in the world — pride of birth, dress, riches, human knowledge, learning, beauty, strength, &c. — and contains much of Taylor's good common sense, expressed in strong but homely language. The opening is remarkable, and worth quoting :
When all things were as wrap'd in sable night,
And Ebon darkness mufBed up the light :
"When neither Sun, nor Moone, nor Starres had shin'd,
And when no fire, no Water, Earth, or Winde,
No Hai'vest, Autumne, Winter, when no Spring,
No Bird, Beast, Fish, nor any creeping thing,
When there was neither Time, nor place, nor space,
And silence did the Chaos round embrace :
Then did the Archworkmaster of this All,
Create this Massy Vuiversall Ball.
And with, his mighty word brought all to passe,
Saying but Let there Be, and done it was.
Let there he Day, Night, Water, Earth, Searbs, Trees,
Let there he Sun, Moone, Stars, Fish, Foiole that flees,
Beasts of the Field, he said but, Let there he.
And all things were created as we see.
Thus evei'y sensible and senselesse thing
The High-Creators Word to passe did bring :
And as in viewing all his workes he stood.
He saw that all things were exceeding good.
Thus having furnisht Seas, and Earth, and Skies,
Abundantly with all varieties,
Like a magnificent and sumptuous Feast,
For th' entertainment of some welcome Gruest,
When Beasts and Birds, and every living Creature,
And the Earth's fruits did multiply by Nature ;
Then did th' Eternall Trinity betake
It selfe to Councell, and said. Let us make,
Not Let there he, as vnto all things else,
But Let vs Make Man, that the rest excels, &c.
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We give another short extract in which Taylor deplores the great increase of pride and expense, and the consequent decay of the old country hospitality. But since the Leprosie of Pride hath spread The world all over, from the foot to head : Good bounteous house keeping is quite destroy'd, And large revenewes other waies imploy'd. Meanes that would foure men meate and meanes allow, Are turn'd to garters, and to roses now, That which kept twenty in the dayes of old, By Sathan is turn'd sattin, silke, and gold, And one man now in garments he doth weare, A thousand akers, on his backe doth beare, Whose auncestours in former times did giue Meanes for a hundred people weU to live. Now all is shrunke, (in this vain glorious age) T' atthe a coach, a footeman, and a page, To dice, drinke, drabs, tobaco, haukes, and hounds These are th' expence of many thousand pounds, Whilst many thousands starve, and dayly perish, For want of that which these things vs'd to cherish.
The following lines refer to two curious pamphlets which had appeared anonymously the year before (1620), and were much noticed at the time, but are now become exceedingly scarce.
* Two invective ^he Dcuill laugh'd lately at the stinking stir
pamphlets ^^q had about *Bic Mxdier and Soec Vir,
against the
monstrous and The Masculine apparel'd Feminine,
gutfel^rmin ^he Woman-Man Man-Woman, chuse you whether, and women. The Female-Male, Male-Female, both, yet neither.
The remainder of the passage, which is too coarse for quotation, alludes to a celebrated character called Mull'd Sack, who was hanged in Smithfield, and was the subject of another pamphlet printed in the same year as the others.
The present tract, with the engraved frontispiece and explanation, is exceedingly scarce. It sold in Bright's Sale, No. 5528, for 21. 195.
Fine copy. Bound by C. Smith. In Calf extra, gilt leaves.
Taylor, (John.) — SuperbijB Flagellum, or, The Whip of Pride. By John Taylor.
London, Printed by G. Eld. 1621. Sm. 8vo.
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Another copy of the same tract, but without the engraved frontispiece and verse of explanation. It varies also from the former in being dedicated "To the Right Honorable and truely Noble Lord William Seymour, Baron Beauchampe, and Earle of Hartford," thus shewing that like some others of his contemporaries, Taylor was in the habit of printing different dedications to the same volume, with a view of obtaining pecuniary reward from various patrons. We have previously alluded to this curious early literary practice, which has also been noticed by other writers.
In Red Morocco, gilt leaves.
Taylor, (John.) — The Needles Excellency. A New Booke wherin are diuers Admirable Workes wrought with the Needle. Newly inuented and cut in Copper for the pleasure and profit of the Industrious.
London Printed for Henry Boler, and are to be sold at the Signe of the Marigold in Paules Church yard. The 12th Edition inlarged w^^ diuers newe workes in needle-workes, purles, and others, never before printed. 1640. 4to.
The above title is at the top of an engraved frontispiece on copper, representing a garden, in the front of which are three female figures — Industrie in the centre, seated at the foot of a tree, at work with her needle, with Wisdome and Follie on either side. The letter-press consists of seven pages only, entirely in verse in double columns. After the poem entitled " The Praise of the Needle," there " follow certaine Sonnets in the Honorable memory of Queenes and great Ladies, who have bin famous for their rare Inventions and practise with the Needle." Some lines addressed " To all degrees of both sexes that love or live by the laudable imployment of the Needle," signed John Taylor, conclude the literary portion. After this are thirty plates, engraved on copper, of patterns of needle-work of various kinds. Some of the plates contain four or five patterns on each, and are much like those adopted by the ladies of the present day in their crochet and other needle-work. Although this is the twelfth edition, the work is exceedingly rare, and was considered such even so far back as eighty years ago, when it is mentioned as " a very scarce book " by the Kentish antiquary, John Thorpe, editor of the Custumale Boffense, in a letter
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to Dr. Ducarel. When the first edition was printed we have no means of ascertaining, nor have we ever seen another copy of the work than the pre- sent, but it seems more than probable that its scarceness may have arisen from its great popularity among the fair sex as a pattern book for their work, which may thus have caused its continual destruction. On this account it may be somewhat amusing to our readers, and especially the stitching part of them, to hear the remarks of the writer in " Prayse of the Needle."
A Needle (thougli it be but small and slender)
Yet it is both, a maker aud a mender :
A grave Reformer of old Rents decay'd
Stops holes and seames, and desperate cuts display'd.
And thus without the Needle we may see,
We should without our Bibs and Biggins bee
No Shirts or Smockes, our nakednesse to hide,
No garments gay, to make vis magnificTe :
No shadowes, Shapparoones, Caules, Bands, Ruffs, CidTs,
No Kirchiefes, Quoyfes, Chin-clouts, or Marry-Muffes,
No Cros-cloaths, Aprons, Handkerchiefes, or Falls,
No Table-cloathes for Parloxirs or for Halls.
No Sheetes, no Towels, Napkins, Pillow-beares,
Nor any Garment man or woman weares.
Thus is a Needle provi'd an Instrument
Of profit, pleasui'e, and of ornament.
Which mighty Queenes haue grac'd in hand to take
And high borne Ladies, such esteeme did make
That as then" Daughters, Daughters up did grow,
The Needles Art, they to their children show.
The following enumeration of the various countries from whence the patterns have been brought, and the different kinds of stitch employed by the ladies in their needle-work, is also curious, and many of the terms will be recognized by our readers as being still in common use. Indeed the old proverb, " there is nothing new under the sun," like many other popular sayings, has a greater degree of truth than many would be willing to allow. The infrequenc}', however, of absolute invention, especially in matters of costume, and indeed of art generally, renders it more truthful in respect to those subjects than to many others; and they who pursue the history of dress and clothing for any lengthened period must inevitably be struck with the numerous imitations of older customs constantly revived as new. The chatelain was worn centuries ago by our ancestors, and the work now under
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consideration, will prove incontestably that the modern rage for what is termed crochet work existed to an equal extent under forms very slightly varied from those at present used, more than two centuries ago.
All sortes of workes, almost that can be nam'd,
Here are directions how they may be fram'd :
And for this kingdomes good are hither come
From the remotest parts of Christendome,
Collected with much paines and industry,
From scorching Spaine, and freezing Muscovie,
From fertile France, and pleasant Italy,
From Poland, Sioeden, Denmarke, Germany,
And some of these rare Patternes have beene fet
Beyond the bounds of faithlesse Mahomet :
From spacious China, and those Kingdomes East,
And from great Mexico, the Indies West,
Thus are these workes, Jarre fetcJit, and dearely iought *
And consequently good for Ladies thought.
Nor doe I derogate (in any case)
Or doe esteeme of other teachings base
For Tent-toorke, Raisd-worke, Laid-ivorke, Frost-toorke, Net-worke,
Most curious Furies, or rare Italian Cutworke,
Fine Feme-stitch, Finny-stitcli, New-stitch, and Chain-stitch,
Brave Bred-stitch, Fisher-stitch, Irish-stitch, and Queen-stitch,
The Spanish-stitch, Rosemary-stitch, and Mowse-stitch,
The smarting Whip-stitch, Back-stitch, and the Crosse-stitch,
All these are good, and these we must allow,
And these are every where in practise now :
And in this Booke, there are of these some store
With many others, never scene before.
As the ••' certaine Sonnets " have already been cited in an article on this work in the Cens. Liter., vol. iii, p. 5, it will be sufficient here to quote two of the most interesting, both of them addressed to personages of the greatest celebrity and renown.
4.
Flizaheth Queene of Fngland, and Daughter to King Henry the eight.
When this great Queene, whose memory shall not By any termc of time be over-cast ; For when the world, and all therein shall rot Tet shall her glorious fame for ever last. When she a maid, had many troubles past
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From layle to layle, by Maries angry spleene : And WoodstocJce, and the Totoer in prison fast And after all was Englands Peerelesse Queene. Yet howsoeuer sorrow came or went, She made the Needle her companion still, And in that exercise her time she spent, As many living yet doe know lier skill. Thus shee was still, a Captive, or else crown'd, A Needle-woman Royall, and renown'd.
5.
The Rigid honourable, Yertuous, and learned Lady Mary, late Coimtesse of Femhrooke.
A Patterne, and a Patronesse she was,
Of vertuous industry and studious learning :
And shee her earthly Pilgrimage did passe,
In Acts which were high, honour most concerning ;
Brave Wilton house in Wiltshire well can show
Her admirable workes in Ai-ras fram'd :
Where men and beasts, seeme like, trees seeme to grow,
And Art (surpass'd by Nature) seemes asham'd,
Thus this renowned Honourable Dame,
Her happy time most happily did spend ;
Whose worth recorded in the mouth, of fame,
(Vntill the world shall end) shall neuer end,
She wrought so well in Needle-worke, that shee
Nor yet her workes, shall ere forgotten be.
See Cens. Liter., vol. iii, p. 5 ; and Restituta, vol. iv, p. 223. There are copies of this work in the British Museum, and in Douce's collection in the Bodleian Library, both of the edition of 1640. A copy in Skegg's Sale, No. 1771, brought Ql. Is. 6d. The present one is inlaid, und appears to be deficient in either one or two of the plates.
Bound in Red Morocco, gilt leaves.
Taylor, (John.) — Jack a Lent: His Beginning and Entertain- ment : with the mad pranks of his Gentleman-Usher Shroue- Tuesday that goes before him, and his Foot-man Hunger attending.
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With new additions, dedicated both to the Butchers fare- well and the Fishmongers Entrance : written to choake Melancholy, and to feed Mirth. By John Tailor.
London printed for I. T. and are to be sold at Christ Church Gate. 1620. 4to.
Another of the multitudinous pieces of this most proUfic author, and per- haps one of the most humorous. It has a singular woodcut on the title-page containing three figures — Jack a Lent in the middle, booted and spurred, riding on a nondescript sort of fish with four legs, preceded by Shrove Tuesday, in the shape of a jolly fat person, with a frying pan on his shoulder, and followed by Hunger, a tall lank figure, carrying some sprats on a pole in one hand, and a sword in the other. The dedication is "To the Fishmongers and Butchers," and is written in an amusing style. The tract, which is in ilacR letter, is, for the most part, in prose, but is introduced by the following humorous lines :
Jack a Lent.
Of lacke an Apes I list not to endite
Nor of lack Daw my Gooses quill shall write :
Of lack of Newhery I will not repeat,
Nor lack of both sides, nor of Skip-Iacke neate.
To praise the Turn-spit lacke my Muse is mum,
Nor of the entertainment of lacke Drum
I'le not rehearse : nor of lacke Dogge, lacke Date,
lacke foole or lacke a Dandy I relate :
Nor of Blacke lacks at gentle Buttry bars,
Whose liquor oftentimes breeds houshold wars :
Nor lacke of Doner that Grand lury lacke,
Nor lack Satcce (the worst knaue amongst the pack.)
But of the lacke of lacks, Great lacke a Lent,
To write his worthy acts is my intent ;
How hee's attended with a messe of lacks.
Whose fame my artlesse weake inueution cracks,
lack Serring and lack Sjjraf, lack Straw, lack Cade,
These are the lacks with which my pen must trade.
The description of Shrove Tuesday is highly amusing and characteristic. "Always before Lent there comes waddling a fat grosse bursten-gutted groome, called Shrove Tuesday, one whose manners sliewe that hee is better fed than taught : and indeed hee is the onely monster for feeding amongst
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all the dayes of the yeere, for hee deuoures more flesh in fourteene houres, then this whole kingdome doth (or at the least should do) in six weekes after : such hoyling and broyling, such roasting and toasting, such stewing and brewing, such, baking, frying, mincing, cutting, carving, deuouring, and gorbellyed gurmondizing, that a man would thinke people did in two moneths provision at once into their paunches, or that they did ballast their bellies with meate for a voyage to Constantinople or the West Indies."
In the course of the narrative, the author thus alludes to the great dish of the day, and to the old custom of ringing the pan-cake bell: "All this hurly burly is for no other purpose, but to stop the mouth of this Land- whale Shrove Tuesday. At whose entrance m the morning, all the whole kingdome is in quiet, but by that time the clocke strikes eleven, which (by the helpe of a knavish Sexton) is commonly before nine, then there is a Bell rung, call'd The Pancake Bell, the sound whereof makes thousands of people distracted, and forgetfull eyther of manners or humanitie : Then there is a thing call'd wheaten flowre, which the sulphory Necromanticke Cookes doe mingle with water, Egges, Spice, and other tragical!, magical], inchantments, and then they put it by little and little, into a Frying pan of boyling Suet, where it makes a confused dismall hissing (like the Learnean Snakes in the Eeeds of Acheron Stix, or Phlegeton) untill at the last by the skill of the Cookes, it is transform'd into the forme of a Flap lack, which in our translation is call'd a Pancake, which ominous incantation the ignorant people doe deuoure very greedily (having for the most part well dined be- fore) but they haue no sooner swallowed that sweet candyed baite, but straight their wits forsake them, and they runne starke mad, assembling in routs and throngs numberlesse of ungouerned numbers, with unciuill ciuill commotions."
The whole pamphlet is full of Taylor's richest humour, though of rather a coarse kind, and is much more racy and entertaining than many of his later productions. It is thus alluded to by Henry Hutton in his Follies Anatomie, or Satyr icall Epigrams, 1610, in his account of a tipling poetaster.
He has a subject he did late invent
Will shame the riming sculler JacJc a Lent.
Sold in the Biblioth. Heber., pt. iv, No. 2803, for \l. 12s.; Sir Francis Freeling's Sale, No. 2213, 1/. os.
Half bound in Morocco, neat.
VOL. V. PART II. Q Q
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Taylor, (John.) — An Armado, or Nauye, of 103 Ships and other Vessels; who haue the Art to sayle by Land, as well as by Sea. Morrally Rigd, Mand, Munitiond, Appoynted, Set forth, and Victualed, with 32 sortes of Ling : with other Prouisions of Fish and Flesh. By John Taylor.
The names of the Ships are in the next page.
Anno Millmo, quillimo, trillimo.
London Printed by E. A. for H. Gosson. 1627. 8vo.
A separate leaf opposite the title contains a double woodcut frontispiece, having on the one side an heraldic shield with a ship in the lower part with a cross on the sails, and a lion over it, and on the other side a ship under sail. The Navy here intended in this little tract by its humorous author, consists of a series of words ending with the syllable " ship," a list of which is given on the back of the title-page, viz : Lord- ship, Scholler-ship, Lady-ship, Goodfellow-ship, Apprentice-ship, Court- ship, Friend-ship, Fellow-ship, Footman-ship, Horseman-ship, Surety-ship, Wor-ship, and Woodman-ship. " Besides, there were 7 other needles ships which were in the nature of Voluntaries, or hangers on vpon the Navy, as namely. The Mary Carry-Knaue, The Knaues-encrease, The Superfluous, The Careles, The Idle, The Coxcombe, The Braggard. And what man soeuer he be, that hath, or doth not sayle in some one Ship of this my Fleete, Let him come to me, and I will ship him, and alow him double wages."
The tract is dedicated " To the right Worshipfull and truly Generous Sir John Fearne Knight." After which is "The Description how the whole Nauy is victualled with thirty two sortes of Ling, besides other necessaries," con- sisting of so many words ending with that syllable, as Change-ling, Dar-ling, Shaue-ling, Fond-ling, Tip-ling, &c., and " Why these Ships are called Ships," together with commendatory verses by John Smith and F. Mason. The tract is wholly in prose, with the exception of a portion of the des- cription of a pageant or funeral procession of a horse named "Flea-bitten Otho" belonging to the Emperor Nero, in blank verse. Of the kind of humour displayed in this tract, the following is a brief specimen :
The other Ships and vessels that were in the same Regiment with the Goodfellow- ship, were these.
1. The Drunken Sisse, a great SJiip, it is thought she was built at Middleborough ;
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but howsoeuer shee hath made many voyages into England : she is so beloued, that ehee needs not presse any man to serue in her : for all sorts of people doe daily come aboard of her, and freely and voluntarily offer her their best service, so that it is a wonder to see how brauely she is man'd : and (many times) women doe take their turnes at helme, and steere their courses as well as men. She is a Ship contrary to all other Ships, for she rowles, reeles, and tumbles, most of all when shee is in a calme harbour ; and the more ladu:g she takes in, the more unstedy she is ; for if the sea be as calme as a milke-pan, yet is shee euer tossing, which makes her Mariners sea-sicke, and subject to much casting. Her Ordinance are Gallons, Pottles, Quarts, Pints, and the misers Gallon ; with three hoop'd pots, Kaunes, Goddards : in the which Artillery, almost euery one hath the skill to charge and discharge, maintaining the figbt as long as they can either stand or understand. The Master of her is an Amsterdam' d man, his name is Cornelius van Broahen-gulch, the Master Gunner was one Denis Whirljwoles, a man of Beeps, with G-ulpJi the Purser, Swallow the Bot- swaine, and Swill the Steward.
2. The second Ship in the Regiment with the Goodfellow-Ship, was the Sow oj Flushing, she was a vessell vnseemely to the eye, but yet serviceable.
3. The Carowse, a Ship of hot service, and as the Spider suekes the sweetnesse of the fairest ilowers, converting their juice into x^oyson, so the Saylors in this Ship haue taken a vse to drinke other mens healths, to the amphfying of their owue diseases.
4. The Quaffe, a quicke smart Ship, much of the bulke and carriage of the Carowse, <tc., &c.
See Collier's Bridgewater Caial, p. 307. The present fine copy belonged to Sir Mark M. Sjkes, and sold at his Sale, pt. iii, No. 624, for 2/. 2s.
Bound by Mackenzie. Olive Morocco, gilt leaves.
Taylor, (John.) — The Liar. Or, A contradiction to those who in the titles to their Bookes affirmed them to be true, when they were false : although mine are all true, yet I terme them Ives.
Veritas veritatis.
Printed in the yeere, 1641. 4to, pp. 8.
On the title is a woodcut of " The Liar rackt,"' which is thus described in the tract: "There was a great high thing raised to the height of twelve or fourteene yards, made of iron, whereon he (the Liar) was seated, with two great weights on his toes, and the like on his hands, where he sate in great
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paine, if he should chance to ease himselfe upwards, there were sharpe nailes over his head ^vhich would prick him ; thus he sate, and thus he suffered, till they had sufficiently made a laughing stock of him : well when hee had suffered enough they let him downe." Taylor's name does not appear on this tract, which is in prose, and consists of four leaves only, hut there is no douht it was one of the very numerous productions of his pen. It is satirical, and evidently alludes to some particular writer of that period. We quote one or two of the items, referring to Archhishop Laud, the Queen, Suckling, Davenant, &c.
Item, he related unto them that the Bishop of Canterbury was little better than a Papist, and that he was committed for that occasion to the Tower, and that he was not like to be freed from thence till he came with his heeles forward.
Item, he reported that Q. M. was to leave the fragrant soile of England, and go into Italy.
Item, he related that SucJcUn, Davenant, and Pearcy were accused as traytors, and fearing to be hanged, fled for it beyond the Seas, because they would not be chid.
Item, he told them that Wrens nest was defiled, and that the Jesuits and Friers had almost wept their eyes out for his fall.
Item, all the Brownists and Anabaptists, and the like, of what age soever, that shall come to be baptized, may have a twenty shilling piece laid on his forehead, as soone as the Minister shall have signed him with the signe of the Crosse.
This tract is not included in the list of Taylor's works, amounting to eighty-four, given by Mr. Park in tlie Cens. Liter., vol. iii, p. 12, nor is it mentioned by Lowndes. It is of the greatest rarity, and we do not find it in the collection of this writer's productions sold in the Bibl. Heberiana, nor in any other sale catalogue.
Beautiful copy. Bound by Mackenzie, Red JMorocco elegant, gilt leaves.
Taylor, (John.) — Religious Enemies. With a Brief and Ingeni- ous Relation, as by Anabaptists, Brownists, Papists, Familists, Atheists, and Foolists, saweily presuming to tosse Religion in a Blanquet. By John Taylor.
Printed at London for Thomas Bates in the Old-bailey. 16il. 4to, pp. 8.
On the title-page is a woodcut with four figures. The Anabaptist, The Brovvnist, The Familist, and The Papist, holding a blanket, one at each
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corner, and tossing the Bible upon it. This brief tract of four leaves only, like the last, is in prose, and is intended to describe " the diverse and erroneous opinions of the enemies of religion against the truths of the Gospel," which it states, " was received into this Kingdome, when Lucius was King heere, and Elentherius was then Bishop of Rome, who was the thirteenth Bishop of that See, Anno. 179, so that the Institution and Prac- tise of our Church and religion hath continued amongst us neere 1500. yeares, except when it was eclipsed by popery, even from the neere time of the death of some of the Apostles or their next successours." Taylor, who was as remarkable for his strong attachment to the church, as he was for his loyalty, was violently opposed to the Puritanical party ; and some of his remarks upon the state of the religious divisions in his time, are not, per- haps, altogether inapplicable in some degree to those which prevail at the present day. " Amongst mutable and contentious spirits, Religion is made a Hotchpotch, and as it were tost in a Blanquet, and too many places of England too much Amder damnified by severall opinions. Religion is now become the common discourse and Table-talke in every Taverne and Ale- house, where a man shall hardly find five together in one minde, and yet every one presumes he is in the right. The Booke of Common Prayer which was established by Act of Parliament by that good and godly King Edward the sixth, and after re-established by another Parliament, by that unparalel'd and peerlesse princesse Queen Elizabeth^ and continued since in the happy Raignes of two gracious Kings in the Church of England for the service of God these ninetie yeeres ; yet one would have it to be cast out now, holding it a false worship ; another is angry at the vestments and habits of the Ministery ; one will not kneele, another will not stand, one will sit downe, one will not bowe, another will not be uncovered, one holds all good manners to be popery, another that all decencie is superstitious, another that railes are Romish (which is false, for the papists have no railes in their Churches, nor any thing so convenient): One foolishly assumes and presumes to save himselfe, and some of his Neighbours too, by his good workes ; another will be saved by a bare and lazie Faith that will doe no worke at all, and thus religion is puft and blowne to and fro with every wind of doctrine, and as it were tost in a Blanquet ; but of this more largely hereafter in another part, which will suddenly be printed, till when and ever, it shall be my hearty prayers, that as there is but one Shepheard, that God in his gracious goodnesse and mercie would make us all one sheep-fold." Fine copy. Bound by Mackenzie. Crimson Morocco elegant, gilt leaves.
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Taylor, (John.) — A Plea for Prerogative: or, Give Caesar his due. Beiug the Wheele of Fortune turn'd round : or, The World turned topsie-turvie. Wherein is described the true Subjects loyalty to maintain his Majesties Prerogative and priviledges of Parliament. By Thorny Aylo : alias John Taylor.
Malice, Disloyalty, War, and Sects aspire, Eeligion, Peace, Obedience are 'ith mire. Religion, Peace, Obedience, Love, no doubt, Though they be loe, the Wheele will turne about.
London^ Printed for T. Bankes. 1642. 4to.
We have already noticed one tract by Taylor on the subject of Fortunes Wheele, and we have here another, directed, as many of his short pieces were about this period, against the numerous religious sects, which were then becoming rampant, and divided England.
The mungrill Papist, the Arminian,
The consubstantiall misled Lutheran
The Anabaptists, Brownists, Arians,
Scismaticall Disciplinarians,
These, and more Sects of Separatists besides.
On the title is a woodcut representation of Fortune's Wheele, in which malice, war, sects, and disloyalty, are shewn to be uppermost, and peace, religion, obedience, and love, "are turu'd downwards in the spokes below." The author shews that ingratitude for God's great blessings, and especially for our deliverance from the Powder Plot
Hath dismembred wretched England's state ; Pride, avarice, lust, hath broke our happy peace, And daily do our sins, and shames increase. He's a wise man (that without danger) can Serve God his King, and be an honest man ; For (in these dayes) to speak truth, and do right. Is paid with scandall, danger, and despight.
But the writer looks for better times, and is still buoyed up with hope "That Fortunes Wheele will shortly turne about," and that peace, love, religion, and obedience, will once more be in the ascendant, and exalted high in the upper spokes of the Wheel.
Bound in Calf, neat.
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Tailor, (John.) — Mad Fashions, Od Fashions, All out of Fashions, or The Emblems of these Distracted times. By John Taylor.
London. Printed by lohn tJammond for Thomas Banks. 1642. 4to, pp. 8.
A curious and grotesque woodcut adorns the title of this poetical tract, in which every thing appears reversed, and contrary to the common order of things. In the centre is the figure of a man with breeches, boots, and spurs on his arms, and gloves on his feet; and scattered in other parts, a horse driving a cart, a barrow wheeling a man, a mouse hunting a cat, a hare run- nins after a jjrevhound, fishes flying in the air, and a church and a candle- stick turned up side down, all emblematical of the convulsed and distracted state of the times in church and state. These objects in the woodcut are thus described in the commencement of the tract :
The Picture that is printed in the front
Is like this Kingdome, if you look vpou't :
For if you well doe note it as it is,
It is a Trausform'd Metamorphosis.
Tliis Monsti'ous Picture plainely doth declare
'This laad (quite out of order) out of square.
His Breeches on his shoidders doe appeare,
His doublet on his lower parts doth weare.
His Boots and Spurs upon his Armes and Hands,
His Gloves upon his feet (whereon he stands)
The Church o'return'd (a lamentable show)
The Candlestick above, the light below,
The Cony hunts the Dogge, the Rat the Cat,
The Horse doth whip the Cart (I pray marke that)
The Wheelbarrow doth drive the man (oh base!)
And Eeles and Gudgeons flie a mighty pace.
And sure this is a Monster of strange fashion,
That doth surpasse all Ovid's Transformation.
And this is England's case this very day.
All things are turn'd the cleane contrary way.
The tract relates to the disturbed state of the times, tlie divisions in religious matters, and the struggles of the Puritans ; and concludes witli the following declaration against the errors and superstitions of Rome :
Th' Almighties Name be ever prays'd and blest,
That Romish Superstition is supprest,
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Wee have no Abbyes, Abbots, Friars, or Monts,
Nor have vre Nuns, or Stewes allow'd for Punks,
Wee have no Masses, or uo Mass-Priests heere.
But some are hang'd, and some ai'e fled for feare.
All those that are so bold to stay behind,
I wish they may like entertainment finde :
Beades, Babies, Eelliques, Tapers, Lamps, or Lights,
We have no superstitious Romish Rites,
Wee seek our Pardons from om" Heavenly Hope
And not by works, or favour from the Pope ;
To Saints we make no prayer or Intercession,
And unto God alone wee make Confession ;
Wee hold no Reall Presence in the Bread,
And wee doe know King Charles our supreme head
(Beneath God, who hath plac'd him in his Throne)
For other Supreme, wee acknowledge none.
No Purgatoiy, Image, Wood or Stone
No Stock, or carved Block, wee trust upon.
Nor is our Church discretion heere so little,
As to Baptize with Cream, with Salt and Spittle.
Wee have as many Sacraments, as Heaven
Ordain'd ; which ai"e but two, and Rome hath seven.
Wee doe not Christen Bells, and give them Names
Of Simon, Peter, Andrew, John, and James ;
Wee use no Pilgrimage, or Holy- Water,
Nor in an unknown tongue our Prayers scatter ;
All these, and many more, in Rome are us'd
Which are by us rejected and refus'd.
And yet too many faults, alas ! remaines,
Which are the Churches, and the Kingdomes staines.
The Church Triumphant is not cleere from spots,
The poore Church Millitant hath still some blots,
Here's all imperfect, something's still amisse.
And nothing blest, but in Eternall Blisse.
Meane time, till wee amend, and leave our crimes.
The Picture is the Emblem of the times.
A copy of this short piece is priced in the Bibl. Aug. Poet.., No, 739, at 2/. 12s. %d.; and sold in Sir F. Freeling's Sale, No. 2224, for \l. 13s. Fine copy. Bound by Mackenzie. Crimson Morocco, gilt leaves.
Taylor, (John.) — Aqua-Musse : or, Cacafogo, Cacadcemon, Captain George Wither wrung in the Withers. Being a
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short lashing Satyre, wherein the Juggling Rebell is Com- pendiously finely Firked and Jerked, for his late railing Pamphlet against the King and State, called Campo-Musae.
Deus dabit his quoq : Funem.
By John Taylor.
Printed in the fourth Yeare of the Grand Rebellion. (1643.) 4to, pp. 16.
Wither had published his Campo-Musce in 1643, in which he had tried hard to defend his tergiversation, and to justify himself in taking up arms on the side of the ParHament. Taylor, who says that he had loved and respected Wither these thirty-five years, because he thought him simply honest, and who was himself remarkable for his feelings of loyalty, indignant at these political changes in his friend, attacked him in this abusive pamphlet, written in answer to the Campo-Muscs, in which he is extremely severe and cutting in his remarks on the conduct of Wither, and even goes so far as to accuse him of direct fraud and dishonesty, viz., that he had cheated Dr. Howson, bishop of Durham, whose steward he was, of five-hundred pounds, by making two months of July in one year in his accounts :
But whitlier Wiiher, doth my fancy flee ?
I ought not write in serious phrase to thee,
Thou precious most pernicious Prelate hater
To DicrJiams Reverend Bishop thou was Cater
Or Steward, where to make thy Compts seem cleare,
Thou mad'st two Monthes of July in one yeare.
And in the total Eeck'ning it was found
Thou cheat'st the Bishop of iive hundred pound.
But thou did'st hold it for no sinne at all,
To rob the Person that's Episcopall.
Taylor accuses him also of being the author of the commendatory verses of himself, wliicli he had got placed under the engraved portrait of him- self in some of his works.
Thy Picture to thy Bookes was Printed, put With curious Workmanship engrav'd and cut : And Verses uuder it, were wisely pen'd Which fooles suppos'd were written by some friend, Which God kuowes, thou, I, and a Thousand know. Those lines (thy selfe praise) from thy selfe did flow. Thou doted'st so upon thine owne EiSgies, VOL. V. PART II. R R
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It look'd so smugge, Eeligious, Irreligious,
So Amiable, Lovely, Sweet aucl Fine
A Pbianomie Poetique and Divine :
Till (like Narcissjis) gazing in that Brook,
Pride drown'd thee, in thy selfe admiring Book.
He alludes ironically to his bravery at the taking of Farnham Castle, of which he was afterwards made Commander, where '• a Dogge, two Cats, and an old Woman," were his chief opponents, and reminds him
'Tis known that once within these thirty yeares. Thou wast in Jayle for seandalling some Peeres, And 'tis not lawfuU for a Satyres Pen To wrong the Honours of particular Men, "Which you did, not for any hate you bore To Vice or Villauy, but that therefore You would be famous, and to Prizon committed. Whereby you seem'd most wonderfully Witted.
The tract, which is in verse, and styled by its author " a Satyre," is chiefly remarkable for its severity and gross abuse of Wither, and is noticeable also for the frequent repetition by the writer, of the same rhyming termination, there being no less than eighteen to the word " Ambuscadoes," and thirty to that of " Beautifide." It is preceded by a short address in prose " To the Dishonourable, Disworshipfull, Disloyal], and detestable the Eebells, of what Nation, Sex, Sect, Degree, Quality, Ranke, Age, Function, or Con- dition whatsoever," in which there are some witty allusions to Nash's Pierce Penilesse his Supplication to the Divell, 4to, 1592. Reference is also made by Taylor in the opening oi Aqua-Musce to the '■'^Abuses Strij)t and Whipt" — Motto — Britaines Remembrancer, &c., of Wither, as well as to his Campo-MuscB. And he thus severely notices the great change in Wither's political sentiments, with which we conclude our quotations from this tract.
Can he that so much honesty profest
(As if all honesty had been in 's brest)
Can he be metamorphos'd to a Knave,
And write and fight his Soveraigne to out-brave ?
Can his Lines lye (that sweet Peace did desire)
Yet stirs up Warres, to set the Eealme on fire,
All this is possible, all this is done
This is George Wyther, hia owne Mothers Son.
Now he's great George a Horse-back, (mounted high)
Dares to affront, and raile 'gainst Majesty,
This is the George thus alter'd, thus alter'd
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Whose Sat jres Goose-quill is transfonn'd t' a sword
For whose sake, I protest it with my Pen,
I never will trust Wall-ey'd Jade agen.
Brave George, no George of Cappodocia,
But famous George of Braggodocia,
Bide on fierce George, untill thy higli desert
By Transmutation, make thy Horse a Cart.
See the Brit. Bibliogr., vol. i, p. 202, note ; and Collier's Bridgw. Caial., p. 811.
Bound in Olive Morocco, gilt leaves.
Taylor, (John.) — Epigrammas : Written on purpose to be read : With a Proviso, that they may be understood by the Reader : being Ninety in number : Besides two new made Satyres that attend them. By John Taylor, at the Signe of the Poets Head, in Phcenix Alley, neare the middle of Long Aker, in Covent Garden.
London, Printed in the Yeare 1651. Sm. 8vo.
One of the latest and also rarest of the works of John Taylor, containing, without any prefix, ninety short epigrams, chiefly of four lines each. At the end of these are two Satires, the first entitled " Hypocrisie discouered," the other, a " Satyre against swearing, equivocation, mentall reseruation, and detestable dissimulation." The following are three of the epigrams :
12. Sang pride. Why in gay Garments do fond fooles take pride P Cloaths are sins penance, made to hide our shame. Had man foi'born to sin, no man had dy'd, And cloaths (like fig-leaues) cannot hide nor blame.
20. Beware Sypocrisie.
He that doth say his Prayers, and goes to bed, Forgives his foes, forgets reuenge, and spite. And straight waves hammers mischiefe in his head ; The Divell is his bedfellow that night.
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34. Fast and loose. Fast bind, fast fiad : mj Bible was well bound ; A Thiefe came fast, and loose my Bible found ; Was't bound and loose at once? how can that be ? 'Twas loose foi- him, although 'twas bound for me.
We do not find this poetical tract of Taylor's noticed in any bibliographical work, and believe it to be very rare.
Fine copy. Bound by Charles Lewis. Crimson Morocco, gilt leaves.
Tdrberville, (George.) — The Eglogs of the Poet. B. Mantuan Carmelitan, turned iuto English Verse, and set forth with the Argument to euery Egloge by George Turbervile Gent. Imprinted at London in Paternoster Rowe, at the signe of the Marmayde by Henrie Bynneman. Anno 1567. Sm. 8vo, bm. \tXt
There appears to have been a great fondness in many of the modern Latin poets for imitating the Bucolics of Virgil ; and the same inclination afterwards spread, at a later period, to the French and Italian poets. Among the first of these none were more popular than the Eclogues of John Baptist Mantuan, which appeared about the year 1400, aud were so much admired, as to be publicly taught in the schools, and to be ranked almost in the light of a classic ; a preference which continued for a very long period, these Eclogues being referred to by Drayton, Shakespeare and many of their contemporaries. They were first printed in this country by Wynkyn de Worde in 1519, 4to., who had only just before also given from the same press the Bucolics of Virgil in 1512, 4to. Alexander Barclay had taken them for the model of his own Eclogues in 1514, and they are here for the first time translated into English by George Turbervile the poet, who also published a version of the Heroicall Epistles of Ovid in the same year, which was more than once reprinted. The title is ornamented with Bynneman's elegant device of the Mermaid, with his motto " Omnia tempus babent," which is also reprinted in the colophon at the end. The dedication is addressed to his uncle, " Maister Hugh Bamfild Esquier," and is signed "Your Nephewe and daylie Orator George Turbervile," after which is a
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Preface " To the Eeader," in the course of which he thus translates into English the oft-repeated commencement of Horace's Art of Poetry, " Hu- mane capiti cervicem pictor equinam," &c. :
To set a Manlie lieade vpou a Horses necke,
And all the lims -with diuers plumes of diuers hue to decke
Or paiut a womans face aloft to opeu showe,
And make tlie Picture ende in fish, with scaly skinne helowe
I thinke (my friendes) would cause you laugh and smile to see
How yt these yl compacted things and members would agree.
Each Eclogue is preceded by "The Argument," in verse; but although called Eclogues, they contain but few descriptions of rural life, but are rather of a moral and didactic kind. We transcribe a few lines descriptive of a baf-pipe- blower, as a short specimen of Turbervile's translation : Then with a slaughtered Oxe two days
we kept a solemne feast, And underneath a spreading tree
the tables were addrest. ^nophilus was there on whom
full fraught with Bacchus wares And making sporte, with willing eyes
the whole assembly stares. With pipe was Tonius eke at hand,
who after nieate to showe His skill, the paynted bag-pipe caught
and gan theron to blowe. His alie cheekes with blasting breath
full wide he made to stroute, When he began to puffe the pipe
he stared all aboute. And lifted up his little browes
and from his lungs full oft He drew his winde to fill his bagge
that being stuffed toft, And broosed with his elbowe downe
did yelde his sound aloft. With finger frisking here and there,
as he was piping aye : He call'd the youth from table, and
inuited them to play, And lioppe aboiit the open streetes
and daunce away the day. The fourth Eclogue is entirely taken up with a narrative containing a severe attack upon the softer sex, and the alluring arts they adopt to entice
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and deceive men ; and after an enumeration of most of the classic females of old, and the names of those, who notwithstanding their power " To woman's yoake did yeelde," the translator thus proceeds : Lesse liurtes the fiery flashing flake
lesse raggie Rockes aooy, And lesse the Gleaue that Adam did
expell from lieauenly ioy : Less spoiles the spiteful! steely speare
and dreadfull darte of Death, That quite cuts off the line of life
and reaves the vitall breath, Than woman doth our daylie foe :
who neuer well content With beauties beames that Natm'e gaue
doth aye with care invent A thousand meanes to make it more
and fairer to the eyes. A golden glistring Fillet to
liir forhead she applies With purple hue hir paalie cheekea
she paiutes and daylie dies. By Artes hir lockes she settes in place
and deckes and dils liir pate : By Arte she tempers all hir lookes
by Arte she guides hir gate. She runs before with scudding skips
the louing man to lure And bring to place for foUie fitte :
although she looke demure And giue the nay, with all hir heart
she would on him bestow His suite, she striues, but gladly would
be conquer'de of the foe. A Woman to the North east winde
may well compared bee, That gathers up the cloud, and straight
dotli force the same to flee. Abroade by guilefuU pufie againe
and bitter w indie blast : So she allures, and then she lowres
upon hir Loue at last.
The Sixth Eclogue commences with a pleasing description of Winter, with a few lines from which we shall close our quotations, which, on account
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of the great rarity of tlie volume, have been somewhat longer than perhaps the merits of the translation would warrant.
Comix. Fulica.
Comix. The wrathfull Winter snowes
fell Boreas blasts do blowe, The ysicles from houses haug :
The man that earst did sowe And till'de his stonie soile,
hath let a fielde his plowe, And takes his ease : the wearie ground
it selfe doth slumber nowe. The Shepphierd hauing shutte
his dores, and caught his cloake Keepes house : Necera eke doth sitte
at home in smothering smoake At Chimnie nooke, and plies
hir pottage Pot apace : Earst Sommer for his scalding heate
(when Sommer was in place) That was so much myslikte,
is now commended sore : And Winter hated is of us
for whom we wisht before. Fulica. All present pleasure we
but little worth esteeme, Surpassyng that which is to come
(the hoped good) we deenie : Euen so the farther off the light
the more the light doth seeme. Comix. Eche Time and erj Age
his pleasure brynges with it.
At the end is a separate leaf, containing the colophon, with Bynneman's device as before, with the date 1567, and another leaf with a list of the " Faultes escaped in Printing."
VVarton, who was ignorant of any earlier edition of Turbervile's transla- tion than that in 1594, has alluded to the high estimation in which Man- tuan was held at the time, from the speech of Holofernes in Shakespeare's Loves Labour Lost, act iv, sc. 3,* in which he quotes a line from one of his
* Steevens, in a note to this passage in Loves Labour Lost, mentions a ti'anslation of Mantuan made before the time of Shakespeare, with the Latin printed on the opposite page ; but no work of the kind has been met with by the present writer.
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Eclogues. And they are thus alluded to by Barclay, who took Mantuan for his model in his Eclogues, which appear to have been composed about 1514, but were not printed till much later :
And in like maner, nowo lately in our dayes Hath other poetes attempted the same wayes As the most famous Baptist Mantuan The best of that sort since poets first began, &c.
Although Bynneman had licence, in 1566, "for prynting of a booke inti- tuled the Rest of the Egglogues of Mantuan," there is no reason for believ- ing that any portion of them were printed separately, or came out earlier than the present complete edition in 1567. It is unnoticed by Ames or Herbert. Another edition was printed by Bynneman in 1572, Wi. Ictt., of which there was a copy in the Bibl. Ifeber., pt. iv, 1486, and again by the same in 1577. Another edition was printed by John Danter in 1594, 8vo, and again in 1597. See Warton's Hist. Eng. Poet, vol. iii, pp. 81, 88, and vol. iv, p. 247; Cens. Liter., vol. i, p. 317; and Fry's Bibliogr. Mem.., p. 54. The copy in the King's Library, now in the British Museum, which is the only other one known, wants the colophon, but the preliminary leaves and text agree with this copy. The present is a beautiful volume, clean as when first printed, and is bound by Bedford, out of the vellum wrapper,
In Morone Morocco, gilt leaves.
Vander Noodt, (John.) — A Theatre wherein be represented as wel the miseries and calamities that follow the voluptuous Worldlings, as also the greate ioyes and pleasures which the faithfuU do enioy. An Argument both profitable and delect- able, to all that sincerely loue the word of God. Deuised by S. lolm vander Noodt. Scene and allowed according to the order appointed.
Imprinted at Loudon by Henry Bynneman. Anno Domini 1569. Sm. 8vo, lilft. Ictt
Cum Priyilegio.
This very curious and rare volume well merits attention, not merely from its scarcity, which is extreme, but from its prose contents, its singular
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woodcuts, and from its comtaining, not only some very early specimens of English blank verse, but also some of the earliest poems of Spenser. The title is within a woodcut border, on the reverse of which are the arms of Queen Elizabeth neatly engraved within a garter, on which is inscribed the usual motto, and surmounted by the crown. The work commences with commendatory verses in Latin, inscribed " In commendationem operis ab Nobiliss : et virtutis Studiosissinio Domino, loanne vander Noodt Patricio Antverpiensi oediti, Carmen. M. Eabilae Poete Brabant " ; and eight other lines in the same language entitled " Doctor Gerardus Goossenius Medicus, Physicus and Poeta Brabant, moder. in Zoilum Octastichon." These are followed by a long well-written and highly complimentary dedication by the author to Queen Elizabeth, Avhich he thus introduces, " After my departure out of Brabante (myne owne naturall Countrey) into your Maiesties Realme of Englande (moste gracious Lady) as well for that I would not beholde the abhominations of the Romyshe Antechrist, as to escape the handes of the bloud thirsty : In the meane space for the avoyding of idlenesse (the very mother and nourice of all vices) I haue among other my trauayles bene occupied aboute thys little Treatyse, wherin is sette forth the vilenesse and basenesse of worldely things whiche commonly withdrowe vs from heauenly and spirituall matters. To the ende that vnderstanding the vanitie and basenesse of the same, and therewithal! consideryng the miserable calamities that ensue therupon, we might be moued the rather to forsake them, and gyue oure selues to the knowledge of heauenly and eternall things, whence all true happinesse and felicitie doth precede. And for as much as the matter of itselfe is very good (deseruyng in dede to be handeled by men of farre better skil than I) I could not deuise how any thing whatsoeuer, of lykenesse and couenience mighte more properly bee resembled one to the other, than this boke for the aptnesse, and conueniencie of the argument might be dedicated to your Maiestie, a most blessed and happie prince. Happy I say, not so much for that your grace is lineally descended by the most high, puissant, mightie and victorious prince Henry the eight of famous memorie, from so many myghtie and puissant princes of this Realme, your Maiesties raoste noble progenitours : which have long agone most valiantly and victo- riously coquered al France, and by dint of sword daunted their enemies, so that youre highnesse beareth in Arraes as right inheritour thereunto, the roy- all scepter and Croune imperiall, most triuphantly, and the titles oi Englande, Fraunce, and Irelande ioyntely in your Maiesties stile. Neither for that your highnesse as a rare Phoenix of your time, are smgular and peerelesse
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in honoure and renoune ; in princely maiestie, wisedome, skil, beautie, faiiour, mildnesse, curtesie, and gentlenesse : to be short, excellent in all kind of vertue. Nor in respecte of youre learning, knowledge, counsell, iudgement, and eloquence, as well in the Greeke, Latine, Italian, French, Dutch, as in your owne natural English, and other languages, wheriu your grace may be resembled not only to Tullie, and Demosthenes, but to Mer- curie, the God of eloquence, as is apparant by youre Maiesties moste apte and wise aunswers giuen in your own person to al Embassadours, and to euery of them in their owne natiirall language with a singular dexteritie and princely maiestie, and with maruellous swetenesse of tong. Nor bi- cause your grace is expert in song, and in the arte of Musike, skilful in al kindes of musical instrumets, and according to the exact proportions of geometrie exquisite in the measures of the daunce : and besides al these, embraced of Apollo, and his nine sisters, by whome your grace is so instructed in the diuine Arte of Poetrie, that you may woorthily be called the seconde Sappho. Neither for your great skil and iudgemet in painting and imagerie, botlie for the cunnyng of the workmanshyp and the deuise and storie. In summe, perfect in all good exercises of the wit, namely the artes and liberall sciences. Finally, not alonly for that nature of her boutie and goodnesse hath shewed suche grace and speciall fauour toward you by enduing youre grace moste plentyfully with infinite graces and vertues more abundantly than any other Prince or Princesso in the worlde, so that it might seme me for a sufficient argument to fill large volumes, only to stands in commendation of your maiestie, not annexing therto any deuise of myne owne, of fained Emblemes or Poetical fables, and that without vsing flatterie or glosing, as they do most comonly, that ambitiously seeking after prefer- mentes and honoure, disguise rather than describe noble and honorable personages whome they sette oute many times beyonde al truth, yea some- time aboue measure," &c., &c. He then speaks of Queen Elizabeth as having been chosen of God " to be his champion to defend his beloued church." " And in this respect (like as all faithfull and true Christia princes throughout all Europe do esteeme and repute you) do I also, and that of good right call your grace a moste happie and blessed Prince. Consider, I beseeche you, how God hath blessed your Maiestie in thys worlde more than he hath done any of your progenitours. For neuer was it scene in any age or time heretofore, that this your realme of England hath flourished as it dothe at this present vnder your Maiesties moste happie gouernement. Firste in all kinde of liberall artes and sciences. Secondarily in the abun-
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dance of treasure, as well golde and siluer as all sortes of riche and precious iewels and ornamen^es. Thirdely, in the free passage and trafike of all kinde of marchandise : Besides this, in good and politike lawes and ordi- nances, namely in the due execution of iustice, according to law and equitie. The worde of God is purely preached here in six or seuen languages. The Sacraments of Baptisme and the holy Supper, sincerely ministred according to Christs institution. Christian discipline in due force in many places. Finally euery countrey and nation, that will Hue here according to his holy worde, is receiued, and findeth good entertainement. 0 how happy and blessed is that King or kingdome, where these things are in force." And after speaking of those Princes, who "rejecting Christ, receiue that anti- christ, the Sonne of the Diuell," acted contrariwise, and of those who had been compelled by persecution to leaue their own country, and to " depart into Germany into the territorie and dominion of Fredericke prince Elector and coiitie Palatine, the floure of all Christian Princes in these dayes in the feruent zeale and true feare of God, a man worthy to be compared with Dauid or losias"; and of the safe harbour which England afforded, " where we Hue, (God be thanked) under your Maiesties protection, and safegarde in greate libertie to serue God in eyther language, the French or the Dutche, without al feare of tyrantes, or daunger of the gapyng throates of greedie rauening wolues," he coucludes with a prayer to God for her Majesty, her Council, and her Officers, and with presenting to her this small Treatise of his, as the best Jewel that he had in store, beseeching her to accept the same, and " praying to Almightie God to graunt vnto her Maiestie a moste happie reign in this world : and after this life to reigne with him for euer, for his only son our Lorde lesus Christes sake." The epistle is dated " at London your Maiesties Citie and seate royal. The 25. of May 1569. Your Maiesties most humble seruant lean vander Noodt."
The most singular part of the volume now commences, consisting of a series of epigrams and sonnets, opposite to each of which is a woodcut en- graving, emblematic of the subjects contained in them, and very spiritedly executed. The epigrams, which are six in number, are translations of Petrarch's Sonnets by Edmund Spenser, and were published again in the folio edition of that author's poems printed in 1591. They are among the earliest productions of Spenser's muse, and from the circumstance of his having been born in 1550, and their being published in this work in 1569, the year in which he entered the university of Cambridge, must have been written when he was not more than sixteen years of age. These are con- cluded by the following lines :
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My Song thus now in thy conclusion Say boldly that these same six visions Do yelde unto thy lorde a sweete request Ere it be long within the earth to rest.
The sonnets are fifteen in number, and are translations from the Visions of Bellay, a French writer, whom Spenser has honoured by giving to some of them an English dress. As these are some of the earliest specimens of blank verse in our language, we quote two of them as examples, which will be found, for the period at which they were written, to be sufficiently smooth and harmonious. The following is a description of the Phoenix:
I saw the birde that dares beholde the Sunne,
With feeble flight venture to mount to heauen,
By more and more she gan to trust hir wings,
Still folowing th'example of hir damme :
I saw hir rise, and with a larger flight
Surmount the toppes euen of the hiest hUles,
And pierce the cloudes and with hu' wings to reache
The place where is the temple of the Gods.
There was she lost, and sodenly I saw
Where tombling through the aire in lompe of fire
All flaming downe she fell upon the plaine.
I saw hir bodie turned all to dust
And saw the foule that shunnes the cheerefull light
Out of hir ashes as a worme arise.
I quote also the last but one;
Then might I see upon a white horse set The faitlifuU man with flaming countenance His head did shine with crounes set therupon. The worde of God made him a noble name, His precious robe I saw embrued with bloud. Then saw I from the heauen on horses white A puissant armie come the selfe same way. Then cried a shining Angell, as me thought, That birdes from aire descending downe on earth Should warre upon the kings, and eate their flesh. Then did I see the beast, and Kings also loinyng their foi'ce to slea the faithfull man. But this fierce hateful! beast and all hir traine Is pitilesse throwne downe in pit of fire.
The prose part of the volume, which is printed in bladfe letter, then begins, and is entitled " A hriefe Declaration of the Authour vpon his visions, take
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out of the holy scriptures, and dyuers Orators, Poetes, Philosophers, and true histories. Translated out of French into Englishe by Theodore Roest." This occupies the remainder of the work, the running title to which is "A Theatre to worldlings.' This part consists of 107 leaves, and at the end is the colophon, " Imprinted at London by Henrie Bynneman dwelling in Knight-riders streat, at the signe of the Marmaid. Anno 1569. Cum Pri- vilegio ad imprimendum solum." On the last page is his device, a neat woodcut of a mermaid with looking glass and comb, within an oval border, containing a motto, " Omnia tempus habent." At the top are the Stationers' Arms, supported by two angels, one holding a book, with an anchor in the other hand, the other with a flaming lieart and a pair of scales. At the bottom on each side are two Satyrs, and in the centre the printer's mark.
The prose part of the volume is an account of the author's visions, or rather his interpretation of certain passages in the Apocalypse of St. John, as appHed to the errors and corruptions of the Romish Church, against which he is exceedingly bitter, and to the fall of Antichrist. The following is Vander Noodt's own account of the early part of the volume, containing the epigrams and sonnets, with their woodcut embellishments, as given by him on folio 13 of the Theatre for Worldlings. " To sctte the vanitie and in- constancie of worldly and transitorie thyngs the liuelier before your eyes, I haue broughte in here twentie sightes or vysions, and caused them to be grauen, to the ende al men may see that with their eyes, whiche I go aboute to expresse by writing, to the delight and pleasure of the eye and eares, according unto the saying of Horace,
Omue tulit punctum, qui miscuit utile dulci. That is to say, He that teacheth pleasantly and well, Doth in eche poynt all others excell.
Of which oure visions the learned Poete M. Francisce Petrarche Gentleman oi Florence^ did inuent and write in Tuscan the six firste, after suche tyme as bee had loued honestly the space of xxi. yeares a faire gracious, and a noble Damosell, named Laurette, or (as it plesed him best) Laura, borne of Avinion, who afterward hapned to die, he being in Italt/, for whose death to shewe his great grief) he mourned ten yeares togyther, and amongst many of his songs, and sorrowfull lamentations, deuised and made a Ballade or song, containvng the sayd visions, which bicause they serue wel to our pur- pose, I haue out of the Brabants speache, turned them into the Englishe tongue." He then describes the first three visions, as given in the Epigrams,
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and afterwards goes on as follows : " The other three Visions followyng are in manner all one, notyfiing hereby that there is nothing else in thys worlde but myseries, sorrowes, afflictions, and calamities : And all that man doth stay hym selfe upon in thys worlde, is nothing but vayne fansie, wynde, and smoake. And thus as lie hadde passed ouer many a yeare in greate and unfayned loue towardes hir (duryng hir life time) what with fiatterie and what in comraendyng of hir beautie, caused him upon a sodaine chaunge after hir departure (as it is sayde) so long a time to mourne and to lamente, but considering with him self, that there was no comfort, hope, or saluation in worldely loue to be looked for, turned him selfe to Godwarde, lamenting and sorrowing the rest of bys lyfe, and repented hym of his former life so ydlely and undecently spent.
" The other ten visions next ensuing, are described of one loachim du Ballay^ Gentleman of France ; the whiche also, bicause they serue to our purpose, I haue translated them out of Dutch into English."
It seems probable that Vander Noodt's knowledge of the English language was not very profound, and that he was indebted chiefly to others for trans- lating the contents of this volume. We see that the prose part of his work was translated out of French into English by Theodore Roest; and although Vander Noodt professes that he himself turned the Visions of Petrarch out of the Brabant language into English in the Epigrams, and translated the Visions of Du Bellay "out of Dutch into English," in the Sonnets, it is more than probable that, as Mr, Collier remarks, " Spenser translated them for him, and Vander Noodt took the credit of it." It is curious that the translations from Petrarch were made by Spenser from the French and not from the original Italian, And although in blank verse here, they were afterwards altered by him into rhyme, preserving the same language as much as he could, when they were republished in the volume of his smaller poems in 1591, 4to, and he there speaks of them in the title as having been '•'■ formerly translated." It should be observed also that four of the Visions of Bellay, which are in Spenser's volume of 1591, the 6th, 8th, 13th, and 14th are not in the Theatre for Worldlings, but four others are introduced in their place, with the following remarks from Vander Noodt, on the re- verse of fol. 13. "And to the ende we myght speake more at large of the thing, I haue taken foure visions out of the reuelation of S, John, where as the holy ghost by S. John setteth him out in his colours." Spenser's friend, Gabriel Harvey, in one of his letters to him, speaks of these Visions as his Dreams.
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Little seems to be known of the author except that he was a native of Brabant, and had taken refuge in this country on account of his religious opinions, " to escape the handes of the bloud thirsty."
A French edition of Vander Noodt's Theatre had been published in the preceding year, 1568, at London, with the imprint of John Day, but more probably printed at Antwerp, with plates very spiritedly etched by Collaert. This edition is even of greater rarity than the present one in English, and is seldom met with. A copy sold in Mr. Bright's sale. No. 5760, for 18/. Copies of the English edition have brought in Bindley's sale, pt. iii, No. 1787, 22/. Is.; Hibbert's do.. No. 8135, Ql. 6s.; Bibl Heber., pt. iv. No. 2721, 8/.; Bright's do.. No. 5761, 5/.; Bibl. Ang. Poet, No. 779, 25/.; resold in Midgley's, No. 671, 15/. 45. Qd.
See Collier's Poet. Decamp., vol. i, p. 94; and Bridgew. Catal, p. 291 ; Todd's Spenser., vol, i, p. v, and vol. vii, pp. 507, 525 ; and Bibl. Ang. Poet , No. 779.
Bound in Calf, neat.
Vaghane or Vaughan, (Robert.) — A Dyalogue defensyue for women, agaynst malycyous detractoures.
[Colophon.] Imprynted by me Robert Wyer, for Ry chard Banckes. Anno dfii. 1542. 4to, h\U. UtU
Cum priuilegio regali, ad imprimandu solu per septem annum.
We have already observed in our remarks on two of Edward Gosynhyll's poeticall productions, that a long literary warfare was carried on in the six- teenth century, caused on the one side by satirical attacks against, and on the other by works written in defence of, the female character. The sub- ject is one naturally suggestive of situations in which much real humour may be introduced by able writers, and, considering the period at which this series of tracts u-as produced, it may be doubted whether they are equalled by any other satirical or humorous works of so early a date. Amongst other pieces called forth by this controversy, is the present extremely rare work by Robert Vaghane or Vaughan. It is a poem written in alliterative verse, and is supposed to be an answer to the attack made upon the female sex in T/te Scole house of women, the first edition of which was printed the year before, by Thomas Petyt, 1541, 4to. The title, in bladft letter, is over a
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woodcut of Robert Wyer's device of St. John, without the eagle, on the re- verse of which commences " The Prologue," thus addressed, " To the ryght veorshypfuU and his syngular good maystres Arthur Hardberde, Robert Vaghane sendeth moste harty greetynge." It consists of eight stanzas of eight lines each, in the first of which, as given below, he would seem to refer to some former things that he had written, but which, if ever printed, are entirely unknown at the present day, or have perished, together with numerous works of a similar character :
To you maystres Arthur, my saruyce premysed
As reason of ryght, requyreth to recompeuce
Your gentle berte, wbiche hath not dispysed
Afore this tyme, to take with benevolence
My wrytyuges unworthye, full of vayne sentence
Wbiche kyndnes consydered, good cause doth constrayue
And dewty me dryueth, to do my dylygeuco
With some small gyfte, for to requyte agayne.
In the next stanzas he thus accounts for the publication of the present poem :
Your bownteous benygnytie, imboldeth my rudenes This treatyse folowynge, unto you to dedycate Whiche to myne handes, occurryde doubtles As I on my Journey, was rydynge but late By a frende of myne, with whom I was assocyate As by chaunce I alyghted, at a certayne place Whyche wylled one then, that I wolde algate Go forth and talke with hym, a lytel) space
Then secretly, he dyd unto me com'yt Agaynst detraction, this dyalogue defensyue For the woman sakes.
# w # # •
I toke the volume, and rede therin a pase And well perceyued at the fyrste syght It was fayned in fauour, of one in your case Howebeit I wolde not aske hym, what she hyght But unto hym, I sayde anone full ryght What is your mynde, that I herin do shall For fayne I wolde, yf it lay in my myght Your mynde accomplysshe, what soeuer befall.
I wolde, sayde he, yf it your pleasure were That you wolde vouchsaue, at my hande to take This lytell smale volume, your name for to here
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Wliose fantasye with faynynge, is set for to make Lest slaunder perchaunce, his sbarpe sowno out shake To moue me malyce, whiche onely meane rest Your name may cause, suche noyses to asslake Therfore present it, where as you thynke best.
From these lines in the Prologue, the editor of the fourth part of the cata- logue of the Bibl. Heber. has been led to suppose that tlie poem was not written by Vaughan, but that " a friend put it into his hand, and requested him to get it printed, and to bear the brunt of criticism." It is most pro- bable, however, that this was only a modest plan of the writer to conceal his own responsibility, and that it was really composed by Vaughan himself. At the end of the Prologue are four stanzas of six lines each, "Robert Vaghane to the reader," after which the poem opens with the folllowing not inelegant description of a scene in winter :
The Aucthour speaJcelh. In tlic moneth of Decebre, whe Phebus y« bright Witli his mocyon had entered in to y*^ fyrst degre Of Capricorne, whan longe is the nyght, And the day tyme, moste in breuytie, Thau snowes lyeth depe, upon the hylles bye, Waters congyled, into yse harde and thycke, Trees, Plantes, and Ilerbes, seme than to dye, Fewe thynges growynge, appere to be quycke. The wether moste bytter, with wyndes shai-pe and colde Causeth great company, togyther to resorte Unto the fyre syde, where ale good and olde Merely they drynke, theyr hertes to comforte. Early in a mornynge, in this moneth of Decembre From slepe I arose, and to my studye wont Before all thynges than, I dyd remembre That tyme of euery man, shuld frutefuUy be spent. At the fyrste by chaunce, I red an oracyon Moste pleasauntly set forth, with flowers rethorycall Descrybynge the monstruous vyce of detraction The dowghter of euuye, the furye infernall Whose pestylent poyson, as cankar doth crepe Amonge all people, in Cytie, Tower, and Towne, Bryngynge Innoccntes, in to paynes depe And from theyr good names, it doth them cast downe : By readyng this Aucthour, 1 was pensyfe in my hartc As one that had proued, his wordes to be trcwe VOL. V, PART II, T 1
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Sorowes constrayned me, to lay this boke aparte
The remembraunce therof, my paynes dyd renewe
Aiione I espyed in the Oryent
That dame Auroi'a, to me dyd apeare
And the Sone with his beames, as golde resplendent
To our Orizeut, began to drawe neare
With spede than my study e, and bokes, I dyd forsake
Intendynge all thoughtes, from my mynde to expell
And towarde a Forcet, the way dyd I take
Not far from the partyes, where I dyd dwell
In this Forest fayre, as I walked a whyle
Beholdynge hye trees, with armes longe and wyde
Sodaynly within the space of a myle
An Arbour moste pleasaunt, there I espyde
To that place of pleasure, for my recreacyon
With spede I approached, it made my herte fyght
Anone I was taken, with great admyracyon
Of all the fayre pleasures, when I had a syght
This place was enuyroned, with Hedgyes thro
Of Hauthorne thycke, thre dyches depe cast
Thre waters there were, whiche I dyd se
In to the Arbour by them, as I past
Okes that were olde, in the fyrst hedge were growynge
And Elmes in the seconde, that large were and longe
In the thyrde Hedge, with bowes downe bowynge
Many trees togyther, were thruste in a thronge
The Ashe and the Aspe, with his leaues that do quake
The Boxe and the Beyche, togyther dyd stande,
The Corke causyng slyppers, to cracke and to crake.
With the Ewe tre, a defence to this lande :
The Plane and the Poplar, there I dyd se
The Salowe, the Pyne, and the Maple rownde
The Holy with his pryckes, and the Walnut tre
With the Fyr and the Hasyll, hangynge to the grownde
In the myddes a Cypresse tre, I dyd espye
Borderyd with Olyues, in cyrcle rownde
And under the Cypresse, downe dyd I lye
Where benches on eche syde were made aboue the grounde.
These trees to beholde, in my mynde I dyd muse
Of all kyndes there growynge, and in order set
All pleasures worldly, I wolde refuse
To haue suche an Arbour, yf I myght it get
Suche fragrauut sauours, suche odours swete
I neuer felt in the moneth of May
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Agaynst all dolour, a medycyne moste swete Is to this Arbour, to take the redy way. As in this place pleasaunt, my selfe I dyd comforte With sauours souerayne, and colours good for syght A Fawcou and a Pye, to the same dyd resorte, And ouer my heade, in the Cypresse they dyd fyght. Great stryfe was betwene them, with argumentacyou Theyr oppynyons contrary semed unto me, The Pye prated fast, with moche contencyon And sayde that her sentence, nedes trewe must be.
The Poem is carried on in the form of a dialogue between a Falcon and a Pye, in which the former defends the sex against the malice and unjust accusations of the prating Pye. The examples on either side are chiefly brought from the Scriptures, and from the classical and heathen writers. At the end of the Dialogue between the Falcon and the Pye, are some short poems by Vaughan, " To the Fawcon — To the Pye — Lenvoy — To the Treatyse"; and the book concludes, '' Thus endeth the Fawcon and the Pye Anno dni. 1542. Imprynted by me Robert Wyer for Rycharde Banckes. Cum priuilegio regali, ad imprimendii solii. per septem annum," with the device of St. John, with the eagle, as given in Dibdin's Typogr. Aniiq., vol. iii, p. 173, and at the sides, " Robert Wyer. The prynter." The volume is very neatly printed, with marginal references, in a sort of foreign secretary gothic type, in which Wyer also executed some other pieces.
Consult Warton's Hist. Eng. Poet., vol. iii, p. 392, and Dibdin's Typogr. Antiq., vol. iii, p. 18T, for notices of this very rare poem, which sold at Heber's sale, pt. iv, No. 2835, for 11/.; Inglis's do., No. 1498, 20/. 9s. 6d.; Bright's do., No. 5758, 25/.
Fine copy. Bound by C. Murton. In Brown Morocco, gilt leaves.
Vennard, (Richard.) — The Eight Way to Heaven : And the true testimonie of a faithful! and loyali subiect. Compiled by Richard Vennard of Lincolnes Inne.
Math. 6. First seeke the kingdom of Heauen, and all things shal be giuen.
At London Printed by Thomas Este. 1601. 4to, pp. 72,
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The title to this curious production is printed in the centre of a woodcut border elaborately ornamented with figures of Fame and Victory at the top, the arms of Queen Elizabeth being between them ; below are the arms of the Stationer's Company, with the initials R. V. underneath, and the royal supporters at each corner. The title of the present copy is painted and illuminated, and on the back, at the top and bottom of the page, and also at the top of the next, are some further Avoodcut decorations, containing, above the sacred monogram in the centre, and below, a figure of death seated on a throne. Each page is also printed with a neat woodcut border, and numerous ornamental capitals, the whole, in this copy, being coloured. On the reverse of the title are some acrostic verses, entitled '"Salvator Mundi," opposite to which is a prose dedication " To the high and mightie Princis Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queene of England, France, and Ireland," &c., signed '• Richard Vennard." Then follows a poem in praise of the works of God, inscribed " Laudetur Dominus in oeternum," consisting of twenty-eight six-line stanzas. And afterwards commences the first of the two subjects mentioned in the title, " The Right Way to Heaven," which is in prose, and is divided into twelve short chapters, at the end of which is " A most godly and comfortable Praier, in time of Aduersitie." After this there should be a poem called " The Lamentation of the lost Sheep," seven seven-line stanzas, with a woodcut, at the end, of our Saviour crowned with thorns, with the lost sheep on his shoulders, two leaves, which, in the present copy, are wanting. The second portion of the prose part of the work follows, entitled " An Exhortacion to continew all Subiects in their dew obedience, together with the reward of a faithful subiect to his Prince." This "Exhortacion" is addressed (1.) "To the Reuerend Lo. Bishops and the Clergie." (2.) " To the true Nobilitie of this Realme." (3.) " To the Civile Maiestrates, the Lord Maior and the Shrifes of London, and other inferiour officers." And (4.) " To the true and faithfull priuate subiect." Li this latter portion occurs the following eulogy on the Lord Treasurer Burghley, the Earl of Nottingham, and Sir John Popham, Lord Chief Justice, three distinguished characters of Elizabeth's reign, which we quote as a specimen of the author's prose composition, and also the more willingly because, that in the second edition, printed in the succeeding year, this passage is altogether omitted.
"I know my most louing countrymen, that you well perceiue the Princely care of hir Maiestie towards you hir louing subiects, and the honourable disposition and noble mdustrie of hir vigilent counsell. Of which Honourable society, although now vn-
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timely decessed, I cannot but call to minde that Right Honorable and most worthely to bee remembred; the late Lord Burgley, and Lord high Treasurer of England. Whose fame may not be sealed vp with the leaden hand of Ohliidon, who whilest he lined shewed himselfe one of the most faithfull, carefull, and wise councillours that euer lined in any kingdome of Christeudome.
" He was the Beacon that discoured forrein mallice, and home-bred mischiefe, the neuer fayling watch-tower of the common-wealth, the hart of lustice, bearing yp the ballance of weightie causes with an euen hand, and cutting downe with the sharp sword of preuencion the children of rebellion at home, and the enuious intencion of the Enemie abroad. For causes in common triall, T call heauen to witnes, I speake but what I know, as he was Judicial, wary, and circiispect, so was he vpright, discreet, and pittifull, not leaning to any side either for fauour or gift, but with an impartiall eye iudging all things according to the equitie of the cause. Would many braches like to that tree from whence it sprang might from that stocke spread their Tcrtue, iu this hir Maiesties garden of happie gouernment.
" In which ranke of true nobilitie, diligent watchmen, and graue Councellers, I may not omit that Eight Honorable and milde condicioned Lord, the JEarle of Not- tingham, whose true loyaltie to hir Maiestie, neuer spotted with the least mistrust, may keep euen wing with the rest of that Honorable societie, whose true shew of a vertuous and noble minde, is daily made apparant by his eiceeding bountie towards the poore and needie. The fruit whereof is Eternall saluacion.
" And that Reuerent and carefull Gentleman Sir John Popham Knight, Lord chiefe lustice of England, being another of the body of the Counsell, whose Honorable for- wardnesse, with great discreation hath ben often proued in your Maiesties serious affaires (as in calming the Realme with quiet, that hath been hertofore tempestuously troubled with blody murtherers and felonious robbers : but now, God be thanked, by his diligent and wise gouernment well i-eformed, whose exceeding loue to his Prince and country, hath ben often made apparant by his laborious indeauours."
The prose portion of the volume concludes with a description of " What a faithfull subiect is." Tlien occurs an acrostic on " Elizabetha Regina," and a poem in praise of the same royal personage entitled " The Miracle of Nature," consisting of thirty-four six-line stanzas, which apparently was intended to conclude the volume, as the signatures end here. Next, how- ever, in addition follows, " A prayer for the prosperous successe of hir Maiesties forces in Ireland," signed R. V., on the reverse of which is an ornamented page with figures at the sides, and in the centre a woodcut of St. George and the Dragon with the motto, " Conculcabis Leonem et draconem. Psal. 90," and inscribed "St. George for England." Opposite to this are eiijht six-line stanzas in allusion to this cut, the last four of which commemorate the visit of the celebrated Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy, in Ireland, where he had been appointed Lord Deputy by Elizabeth, and his
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entire success against the Eebels in IGOO under the famous O'Neile, Ear] of Tyrone, the great chieftain of the rebelHon, for which he was afterwards rewarded by James I. with the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland, and created Earl of Devonshire. We give these four stanzas at length, particularly as the last three of them are omitted in the second edition.
Saint Georges knight, goe Noble Mouutioy on,
bearing thy Sauioiirs badge within thy breast :
Quell that Hells shape of diuellisli proud Terone, and couer with the dust his stubborne Crest :
That our deere Princesse and hir land be safe,
such power to him. Oh Jesus Christ youchsafe.
And, as thou hast thy glorious Mercy showen
in beating downe his foes beefore his face : So, let them still bee wholly ouerthrowen,
that seeke thy holy glorious words disgrace : And giue true subiects vertues true renowne,
while proude rebellion headlong tumbels downe.
Oh, let him Mount unto thy Mercies loy,
in Name aud Nature make his Honour one :
And in thy fury all his foes destroy, that are assistantes to Rebellion :
And let thy Sunne so on his army shine
that he and we, may praise that name of thine.
Make his young yeeres, unto the world a wonder,
his valiant Courage, vertues honors loue : His fearelesse hand, to teare those harts a sunder,
that dare the Issue of rebellion proue : And make liis Triumph, such an EugUsh story
that Englands loy may sing thine endlesse Glory.
A blank page, and " A faithfull subiects praier," four stanzas, conclude the volume, except that the present copy contains an illumination of the Apotheosis of Queen Elizabeth, who is represented as being crowned by two angels, with a number of the heavenly cherubim above. Judging from the style of the illuminations, this has probably been a presentation copy, and it would appear that copies of this work, having been printed by the author for private circulation, vary very considerably. Mr. Collier, in his Catalogue of the Library at Bridgewater House, p. 321, has noticed a reprint of the latter portion of this volume, " The true Testimonie of a faithfull Subiect," &c., which had been altered by the death of Elizabeth, and prefaced
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by a new dedication to James I., which, from its containing a Thanksgiving for the deliverance of the kingdom from the Gunpowder Plot, he supposes to have been printed soon after 1605. Being Avithout date, or printer's or bookseller's name, it was probably privately printed by the author for pre- sents only ; and as no other copy is known, it must be esteemed a great curiosity.
The present copy was formerly in the possession of Mr. Park, who pur- chased it from Mr. Payne while his catalogue was printing in 1801. In Samuel H. Ireland's Confesxions is the follovving passage : " Having one day purchased a thin quarto tract of the time of Elizabeth, illuminated and bound in vellum, &c., I determined on trying an experiment with it, and for the purpose wrote a letter, in imitation of the hand of that period, as from the author of the book, making it the presentation copy from himself to the Queen. I wrote this Epistle with common ink, weakened with water, but found its appearance too modern : notwithstanding I determined on shewing it to my father, who thought it genuine. This and the Book I exchanged with him for some' other tract. It was the first thing of the kind I ever attempted ; but after I had wrote a great quantity of the Shakespeare MSS. I thought my first attempt so badly executed, that I again got it from my father, and destroyed it, fearing a discovery."
Mr. Park seemed to think that this tract was the present copy of Vennard; and judging from the above description of Ireland, and from the circumstance of the book having lost its fly-leaf, we think it very probable.
From Mr, Park's hands, it passed into the collection described in the Bibl. Ang. Poet., No. 774, and is there marked at 11. 7s. It was afterwards in Mr. Midgley's possession, and at his sale by Saunders in 1818, No. 756, was bought by Mr. Heber for 2^. 2s., from whose library, pt. iv, No. 2838, it was obtained by its present owner.
It has Ireland's usual Green Morocco back, over a Russia half-binding.
Vennard, (Richard). — The Right way to Heauen, and a good presedent for Lawyers and all other good Christians. With an Exhortaciou to continue all Subiects in their due obedience : together with the reward of a faithful subiect to his Prince. Compiled by Richard Vennard of Lincolnes Inne, Gent.
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Math, 10. First seeke the kingdome of Heauen, and all things shal be giucn.
Acts 14. 22. Through much tribulacion must wee enter into the kingdome of Heauen.
At London : Printed by Thomas Este, and are to be sould vnder Lincohies Gate. 1602. 4to, pp. 56.
Another edition of this work, which varies very considerably from the preceding. Instead of the woodcut decorations on the title-page, it has merely a woodcut border, but the body of the work has the same border and ornamented capitals as in the previous edition. On the reverse of the title is the cut of St. George and the Dragon, which occured near the end of the former volume, inscribed as before, "Saint George for England"; and beneath, " And Christ for our Queene." Opposite to this are the stanzas in allusion to the cut, but reduced to five in this edition, three of those which relate to Charles, Lord Mountjoy, being omitted. Underneath, however, are eight lines not in the other, " The Queenes Maiesties godlie counsell giuen to Charles, Lord Mountioy, at his departure into Ireland, wherewithal! shee deliuered him a Bible, richly imbrothered," signed R. V. A Table of "the contents of the Booke" concludes the prefatory matter. "The high way to Heauen " then follows, an exact reprint of the former edition — in fact, the same — from whence it would appear that the work not selling, Vennard had added at each end some additional poems suggested by passing events. At the end of this is " The Lamentation of the lost Sheep" — seven stanzas with the woodcut of our Saviour bearing the lost sheep on his shoulders. After this is " The reward of a faithfull subiect," as before, with the exception of the omission of the characters given in the first edition. At the close of the prose part of the volume, which, as we have shewn, contains some omissions and variations, are some pieces of poetry not in the former edition. The first is entitled " The discription of Loyaltie," consisting of six six-line stanzas, which appear very superior to some of the other poems by Vennard, and are so full of beautiful and poetical images, that we quote them at length :
Aboue the Clowdes wher spangled tropes of Stars
adorne the precious bosome of the Skye : Where heauenly peace abandons breaking lars,
and all the Consort that is tuu'd on high Send forth their delicate melodious sound,
that make those christall vaults with ioy abound.
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Within the bright Imperiall Orbe of rest,
where soules of Saints on golden Alters set : And in the Lambs sweet breath are onely blest,
where thousand graces millions more beget : Is Loyaltie inthrou'd in blessed Chaire,
most gorgeous in attire, most heuenly faire.
About Mr Head, the swift wing'd Cherubines,
houer their siluer pinions in liir eyes : And the sweet Spheares with glorioiis Seraphins
upon hir shining brow with blisse arise : No stormie Clowdes can vaile hir beauteous face,
because there burnes the holy lamp of grace.
Truth ritchly clothed in milke white ornament
stands at the right hand of this happy Saint : From whom the words of righteousnesse are sent,
whose cheerefuU hopes by Enuie cannot faint, But as the Daughter to the Highest Power,
she sits defended in a strong built tower.
Upon hir left hand Hope hir anker wayes, on whom hir deare successe doth still attend ;
Nor doth shee feede hir seruants with delayes, ^
but they that on hir sacred state depend :
With bounteous hand she giues such rich reward, as Tading fame hath neither scene nor hard.
And as great Michaell with the Dragon fought
about the chosen Moses sacred bones : So shee contends with Traytors that have sought
to touch the harts of God's annointed ones : And like th' archangell giues them all the foile,
that lift their hands a Princes life to spoile.
After these lines occur " The Authors true commendation of the vertuous and honorahle Ladies Anne, Countesse of Warwick, and Margaret, Countesse of Cumberland, two of the noble affected daughters of the late Right Honorable Francis, called the good Earle of Bedford," — six stanzas. Then one more leaf containing an acrostic addressed to "Edward Coke" (the celebrated lawyer), with two quatrains underneath ; and another acrostic on " Elizabetha Regina," but different from that in the former edition, with a Latin couplet under,
Gloria, Pax, Opes, flouscunt te Dominante Vivas O Superis, ter quoquc chara Viris. concludes the volume.
VOL. V. PART II. UU
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Little is known of Vennard beyond his being, as he himself says, of Lincolns Inn, and, therefore, in the profession of the law. There is reason, however, to suppose, that he was the author of a play or theatrical entertain- ment called England's Joy^ played at the Swan Theatre the 6 November 1602, a printed broadside of which, in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries, has preserved the plot. " It Avas," says Mr. Collier, to whose able researches we are indebted for this information, " an allegorical ex- hibition of some of the principal events of the reign of Elizabeth, who was personated under the character of ' Englands Joy'; and the broadside would seem to have been intended to make the matter more intelligible to the audience as the dumb-shew (accompanied perhaps by a dialogue, or viva voce explanations) proceeded." Vennard is mentioned as the author of it in the following lines, in a scarce little tract called King James his entertain- ment at Theobalds, &c., by John Savile, 1603, 4to.
I cannot deeme it now (a) gulling toye
Which Vennard (inspir'd) intituled England^a loye.
I rathei' gesse hee did our good diuine
Not daring to disclos't before full time,
Be bold, goe on, nowe's thy proesaging plaine,
King lames is Englands ioy, long bop'd for gaine,
That it is hee, who cannot easely proue ?
Sith it is onely hee, wee onely loue,
Tis hee that 'Englands ioy did first awake
After sad sorrowing for Elizaes sake,
Then reck no clownish frumps, regard them naught,
Banish such Fooleries from thy purer thought,
Wee know the fruit, sprung from foreknowing pen,
King lames is Englands ioy, say all Amen.
Taylor, the Water Poet, also alludes to this play by Vennard in his Cast over the Water to William Fennor in 1614 :
Thou brag'st what fame thou got'st upon the stage : Indeed thou set'st the people in a rage In playing Englands Ioy, that euery man Did iudge it worse then that was done at Swan.
And again
Upon S. Georges day last, Sir, you gaue To eight Knights of the Garter (Hke a Knaue) Eight Manuscripts (or Bookes) all fairely writ Informing them they were your Mother wit,
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And you compild them ; then were jou regarded And for anothers wit was well rewarded. All this is true, and this I dare maiutaine The matter came from out a learned braine : And poore old Vennor, tliat plaine dealing man. Who acted Englands loy first at the Swan, Paid eight crownes for the writing of these things, Besides the couers and the silken strings : Which money backe he neuer yet receiu'd, So the deceiuer is by thee deceiu'd.
From these lines it would appear that Vennard was living in 1614, prob- ably in poverty, when Taylor wrote this pamphlet; that he had tahen some part on the stage in his own play oi England's Joy when acted at the Swan Theatre; and that Fennor had appropriated to himself some production of Vennard's, for the proper transcribing of which, to present to noblemen and others, he had paid eight crowns, which was never repaid by Fennor. Care should be taken not to confound this William Fennor, or Vennor as he is sometimes called, with Richo.rd Vennard, which seems to have been done by Mr. Collier in his Hist. Dram. Poet., vol. iii, p. 321, in attributing this piece of Englands Joy to William Fennor, though he afterwards corrects himself at p. 406; and by Mr. Gilford in his Edit, of Ben Jonsons Works. Of this melo-dramatic pageant of England's Joy, which was so popular in 1603, and which represented in dumb shew the principal political events in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, concluding with her apotheosis in great state, in which, " being crowned with the Sun, Moon, and Stars, she is taken up into Heaven," the plot, originally printed, as we have mentioned, on a broad- side, has been reprinted in the Harl. Miscell., vol. x, p. 198. It is alluded to by Ben Jonson in his Masque of Love Restored, 1610-11, in the following passage :
Rolin Goodfelloio. 'Slight a fine trick ! a piece of Englands Joy this. And again, by the same, in his Masque oi Augurs, 1622, thus:
Enter the Lady xoith her two maids. Sing. And were thi-ee of those Gentlewomen that should have acted in that
famous matter of EnglaiuU Joy in six hundred and three. Lady. What talk you of Englands Joy, Gentlemen ? You have another matter in hand, I wiss, Englands Sport and Dehght if you can • manage it.
And in Sir John Suckling's Comedy of The Goblins., 1646, this passage occurs :
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First Thief. Let me see the Author of the Bold Beauchamps and Englands
Joy. JPoet. The last was a well writ piece I assui'e you ; a Breton I take it, and
Shakespeare's every way.
It may be remarked that Englands Joy was at one time supposed to have been written by Nicholas Breton. It has been reprinted in the last edition of the Harl. Miscell. See also Ritson's Bibliogr., p. 380; Collier's Hist. Dram. Poet., vol. iii, pp. 321, 405 ; Nicholls's Progr. Queen Elizabeth., vol. iii, pp. 532-43, in which a correct description is given of Vennard's Right Way to Heaven., 1601, and all the latter or poetical part of the first edition is reprinted at full length. Consult also Dodsley's Collect. Old Plays, vol. x, p. 72, and vol. xii, p. 425, edit. 1780 ; Nicholls's Progr. James /., vol. ii, p. 398, and vol. iii, p. 739.
Half bound, Brown Morocco.
Verstegan, (Richard). — Odes in imitation of the Seauen Peni- tential Psalmes, with sundry other Poemes and ditties tending to deuotion and pietie.
Imprinted Anno Domini M.D.CI. 8vo.
Richard Verstegan, the author of these poems, although residing chiefly abroad, was a native of this country, but descended from foreign parents, his grandfather having been driven from Guelderland, his native home, by wars and other troubles, into England, about the reign of Henry VII., and settled in London, where he married, and shortly after died, leaving an only son. This son, who was a cooper by trade, was the father of our present author, who was born in London, and received his education at Oxford, but left that university without taking a degree, on account of his change of religion from the Protestant to the Roman Catholic faith. He is better known as the learned author of The Restitution of decayed Intelligence in Antiquities., &c.^ 1605, 4to, a work still deservedly held in much esteem, and of several other publications chiefly printed in Antwerp, to which city he had retired, and there, according to Wood, " exercised the trade of a printer." He was in close connection with the Jesuits, writing much in their favour, and was well skilled in drawing and painting, which enabled him to illustrate his numerous publications by the productions of his own pencil. He continued to reside at Antwerp during the first quarter of the seventeenth century, and died there, but the exact date of his death is not known.
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The present appears to be his only poetical Mork, and like the others, was printed abroad, without doubt at Antwerp, and probably at his own press. The title, which has the Jesuits' mark engraved on it, is without any place or printer's name, and is followed by a prose dedication " To the vertuous Ladies and Gentlewomen Readers of these Ditties," concluding thus :
The vaine conceits of loues delight
I leaue to Ouids arte,
Of warres and bloody broyles to wryte
Is fit for Yirgils parte.
Of tragedies in doleful tales Let Sophocles entreat : And how vnstable fortune failes Al Poets do repeat.
But vnto our eternal king My verse and voyce I frame And of his saintes I meane to sing In them to praise his name.
Yours in his best endeuoiirs. R. V.
The prose compositions of Yerstegan are much superior to his poetry, and the fervour of his religious zeal more deserving of commendation than his verse, so that we shall scarcely be tempted to quote any of his " Odes in imitation of the Seauen Penitential Psalines." To these succeed " Extracts of the Sibyllaes Prophesies of Christe." " The Fifteen Mysteries of the Rosarie of our Blessed Lady. Whereof the first fyue are ioyful. The second sorowful. And the third glorious." "Ave Maria." " Epithetes of our Blessed Lady." And " Our Blessed Ladies Lullaby." We find in reference to this latter title in " Deuices of sundry Gentlemen," at the end of Gascoigne's Poems, 1572, 4to, is Gaseoignes Lullabie ; and in his Posies, 1575, 4to, on p. viii of the "Flowers," is The Lullabie ofaLouer; and in Lodge's Poems, 1610, 4to, is Beauties Lullabie. In Forrest's Poems [ffarl. MSS., 1703], some of which are dated in 1581, the title to one of thera
begins :
All this night longe : euer amonge A voyce, eare yt were daye I harde that ronge : and thus it songe Lullaby bye : lullay
which forms the burthen of each stanza. And Ritson, in his Ancient Songs^ p. 198, has printed The Mothers Lullaby from a MS. of the time of James L in Bibl. Sloan, 1708. See also Byrd's Psalmes, &c., 1588, 4to, No. xxxii. Perhaps the most curious poem in the volume is one containing
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an enumeration of Roman Catholic female saints and martyrs, termed " The Triumphe of feminyne Saintes," of which the following are the opening stanzas :
The trump of fame soundes foorth the factes
Of wel-deseruing wights :
And tinges with honor do reward
The scruice of their knights.
Of such therefore I ceas to sing
My song of such to frame :
Whose need restes in no princes power
Nor praise in earthly fame.
And of the sexe of woman kynde Though not of those of yore : With scared brests against their foes That warlyke armour wore. But such as armed were with faith Against soul-killing euil : And did in combat ouercome The flesh, the world, and deuil.
And for thy loue O lesu Christe, And glorie of thy name : That found no woes to bee endur'd But did endure the same. Their faith did bring them to endure Endurance bhss did bring : In blis they now do sing to thee, Now here of them I sing.
Vnheard it was in earth before, Vnsoimded foorth by fame : Ynknowne that ere in silly sexe Such resolution came. Til wU and vertue did conioyne In choise of chiefest good : And grace gaue ayd, and faith gain'd force, And nothing it withstood.
.As Tecla first example giues Whome fyre could not annoy : And beares and lions left vnhurt, Each other to destroy : Fierce rigour woorking rigours ruth No hurt the hurtlesse fynde : Yet shee a martres is esteem'd That martred was in mynde.
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Euphemia throwne to sauage beastes By men of beastly mood : Found beastes deuoyd of sauagenesse, And men more thirsting blood. And all the torments that shee had, To her not seemed payne : But when a swoord transpearst her corps, True glory was her gayue.
The noble Anasfasia, Poore Christians did relieue : ■Whose heath'nish husband her therefore Yukyndely did agi'ieue. But when the swoord and cruel death Did her from thralle release : The heau'ns her freedome did restore, With endlesse ioy and peace.
The poera thus continues through seventy-five stanzas, forming a sort of bead roll of all the real and imaginary martyrs with which the ancient faith abounded. The design of another poem, called " St. Peter's Comfort," may have been taken from Southwell's poem of " St. Peter's Complaint," which was first published about six years before, in 1595, and was then liiglily popular, and which, from congeniality of feeling in religious subjects, was no doubt familiar to Verstegan. The general idea of the sonnets called " Visions of the worlds instabillitie " was probably taken from Petrarch and Bellay, and had been given to the world many years before by Vander Noodt in his Theatre for voluptuous Worldlings, 1569, 8vo, and in Spenser's Com- plaints, 1591, 4to. There is a short notice of the present work by Mr. Park in the Cens. Liter., vol. ii, p. 165; and the reader may also consult further the Biojr. Brita^in. ; Wood's Atk Oxon., vol. ii, p. 392, who calls the author Verstegan or Rowlands; Oldvs's Brit. Libr., p. 299; and the Bibl. Aug. Poet., No. 776. It is a volume of great rarity, and with the exception of one formerly in the collection of Mr. Lloyd, which he had ob- tained from the select library of Mr. Southgate, and which was sold to Mr. Heber, No. 1187, for 20/. lOs.,* and on the dispersion of that gentleman's librar_y, pt. iv. No 2735, was purchased by Mr. Miller for 6/. I65. 6c/., one in the Bodleian library at Oxford, and the present one lately discovered, no
* This was bought by Mr. Lloyd, against Mr. Heber, in 1795, for lis. &d., at Southgate's Sale.
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other perfect copy is known. The one in the Bibl. Ang. Poet.^ No. 776, priced 12/. 12s., which had formerly helonged to Dr. Farmer and Mr. Park, and subsequently to Mr. Bright, No. 5S09, was imperfect, having the title and two other leaves supplied by manuscript.
Verstegan is said, by Oldys, to liave been a secular priest; and amongst his other works is supposed to have written the English verses to the Amoris Divini Emblemata of Otho Voenius.
Beautiful copy. Bound by Hayday. In Blue Morocco, gilt leaves.
Verses of Prayse and Iote, Written upon her Maiesties preser- uation. Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes lamentation, written in the Towre with his owne hand, and an aunswere to the same.
London Printed by John Wolfe. 1586. 4to, pp. 8, lilfe.lctt.
The present is another small poetical lilacfe letter tract, printed soon after the conspiracy of Anthony Babington and others, against the life of Queen Elizabeth. It consists of four leaves only, and is of the utmost rarity. The title is Avithin an elaborate woodcut border, having on each side a female figure terminating in a style ; in the centre, at the top, the Queen's arms ; and at the bottom, a Phoenix rising out of the flames, e.g., the Stationer's arms. In the centre of the page the usual device of the printer, a fleur-de- lys. The contents of the tract are, on Sig. A ii, " Verses of Praise and loy, Written upon her Maiestie, after the apprehension and execution of Babing- ton, Tychborne, Salisburie, and the rest," 20 lines; "Tychbornes Elegie, written with his owne hand in the Tower before his execution," three six- line verses ; " Hendecasyllabon T. K. in Cygneam Cantionem Chidiochi Tychborne," three similar verses ; " In nefariam Babingtoni coeterorumque coniurationem, Hexasticon " ; " The same in Englishe " ; " Ad Serenissiraam Reginam Elizabetham, Apostrophe " ; " The same in Englishe." We sub- join Tychborne's Elegie, and the answer to it.
My prime of youth is but a frost of cares,
my feast of ioy is but a dish of paine : My crop of corne is but a field of tares,
and al my good is but vaine hope of gaine. The day is past, and yet I saw no sunne, And now I liue, and now my hfe is done.
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My tale was heard, and yet it was not told,
my fruite is falne, and yet my leaues are greene :
My youth is spent, and yet I am not old,
I saw the world, and yet I was not seene.
My thred is cut, and yet it is not spunne,
And now I line, and now my life is done.
I sought my death, and found it in my wombe,
I lookt for life, and saw it was a shade : I trod the earth, and knew it was my tombe,
and now I die, and now I was but made. My glasse is full, and now my glasse is runne, And now I Hue, and now my life is done.
Thy prime of youth is frozen with thy faults,
thy feast of ioy is finisht with thy fall : Thy crop of come is tares auailing naughts,
thy good God knowes, thy hope, thy hap and all. Short were thy daies, and shadowed was thy sun T' obscure thy light unluckelie begun.
Time trieth. trueth, and trueth hath treason tript, thy faith bare fruit as thou hadst faitliles beene :
Thy ill spent youth, thine after yeares hath nipt,
and God that saw thee hath preseru'de our Queene.
Her thred still holds, thine perisht though unspun,
And she shall line when traitors liues are done.
Thou soughtst thy death, and found it in desert, thou look'dst for life, yet lewdlie forc'd it fade :
Thou trod'st the earth, and now on earth thou art, as men may wish thou neuer hadst been made.
Thy glorie and thy glasse are timeles runne.
And this, O Tychhorne, hath thy treason done.
The initials, T. K., may be those of Thomas Knell, who wrote an epitaph or rather short discourse upon the life and death of Bishop Bonner 1569, and some other things against the Roman Catholics about that time. Tycli- borne's Elegie has been printed in Reliquice Wotioniance, 1672, p. 395, where, however, the second stanza runs thus :
The spring is past, and yet it hath not sprung ;
The fruit is dead, and yet the leaues are gi*een, My youth is gone, and yet I am but young :
I saw the world, and yet I was not seen. My thread is cut, and yet it is not spun And now I liue and now my life is done. VOL. V. PART IT. XX
338 COLLECTANEA ANGLO-POETICA.
It is also given in Holinshed's Castrations, p. 1570, where it is prefaced by the following observations : " The conspirators who had woven the web of their owne wo, being now forlorne, as hated of heaven, and irke- some to the earth, seeing no hope of life, but deserved death imminent and hanging ouer their heads, occupied their wits in dolorous devises, bemoning their miseries, of the like stampe to this here annexed, savouring more of prophane poetrie than Christianitie, of fansie than religion. My prime of youth is but a frost of cares," &c.
Ritson does not appear to have known this work, nor is it noticed by Lowndes.
Half bound. Green Morocco.
Ward, (John). — An Encouragement to Warre. Or, Bellum Par- liamentale. Shewing the unlawfulnesse of the late Bellum Episcopale. As also the Justnesse of this present Expedition for the defence of the Kingdom. With the Illegall, Rebellious, Trayterous, Barbarous, and Bloody proceedings and Intentions of the Cavaliers. Lately published at the request of a Friend, by John Ward Trooper under the Earl of Bedford. No place, date, or printer's name. 4to, pp. 20.
On the title of this scarce poetical tract, which was printed in 1642, and of which this is the first edition, is an engraved frontispiece in copper, emblematic of the contest then raging between the parliament and the church, representing on the left the parliament assembled; above, a hand and arm issuing from a cloud holding the Bible, inscribed, "Arise o North, come o South blow." Cant. 4. v. 16, from whence the wind blows upon a figure of the globe beneath. On the right are the bishops sheltering them- selves under the falling church, inscribed, " They are as the sluble before the winde, and as the chafFe which y^ storme carrieth away." Job 21. 18. Beneath are three figures with petitions, and these two Latin verses :
Nitimur in Yetitum sed quo rapit impetus aurce ToUimur baud velleut uiti fugimusq: retrorsum.
On the reverse of the title is a short dedication in prose " To his worthy and much esteemed good Friends, Mr. John Millington, Mr. Peter Goodwin, and Mr. Samuel Clark," in which he begs them " to shew his Infant Muse
COLLECTANEA ANGLO-POETICA. 839
that favour, as to read over these few of her childish expressions (she being yet in the lowest form) and to speak mildly of them ; that so she may with, the more celerit}', march to the head of this Ages Hellicon : Which when she shall once attain, she shall never care for the hardest sensure, that any of Zoylus Faction can passe upon her." The author was a violent Round- head, and is extremely severe against the unfortunate cavaliers of Charles I., as the following lines will shew :
Now you whose forward spirits Countreymen
Aifect the justuesse of our cause, yet wlieu
You heare that odious uame of Cavalier
Opposing you ; that mazes you with feare ;
That traytrous, bloudy, branded name, casts downe
Your drooping spirits equall to the ground ;
So that for feare of such an impious crew,
Y' bad rather (slave Uke) part from all your dues
And priviledge, then seeko bow to obtaine '
Your Freedomes, Lawes, and Liberties againe.
Y' bad rather loose all that you doe possesse
Then take up lawfull Armes to seeke redresse.
How plainly doe such Cowards shew to be Given up to base pusiUanimitie : Scorne then to be afraid of such a name Which unto them is but a brand of shame And not of honour : Can a wortblesse name Crowne them with glory, or our deeds with shame ? Thinke you, shall arrogated Titles make You such a just and pious cause forsake ? Can painted shewes, true substances exceed ? Can livelesse Statues doe a manly deed ? Or does the Sphit of Valour rest on them Because base swearing, domineering men ?
Y' are all deceiv'd ! the valiant man is, that Hath fewest sinnes to be affrighted at ; True Souldiers will ne're use violence. Nor fight but to secure their conscience ; They are no prophane swearers, nor wiU cm-se Or ban, when things are bad, to make them worse : Nor will they cry, God damue them, or them sinke Nor over-charge themselves with too much drinke.
It appears from the following passage that the author was a native of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire.
340 COLLECTANEA ANGLO-POETICA.
But specially, O Glouster-sMre, improve My counsell ; 'tis a pledge of native love Go muster up your Volunteers, whose number May strike your damned Foe with dread and wonder. * Teuksbury. And thou my native *Town especially,
Whom I respect, that hast been backwardly In this defensive service stirre thee now, Make it appeare that thou hast pay'd thy vow. Where are the scores of Horse, thou hast set forth, To answer thy eiternall shewes and worth ? Where are thy voluntary youths, that dare Defend their Country in this civill warre ?
Some two or three are gone indeed, but they Were faine (couragiously) to steale away Unknowne, lest if they should themselves disclose Thy male-affected would account them foes. And them discourage ; yea, since our adew They have malign'd us with reports untrue. But I forgive them, and doe thee advise, As for thy private good thou would' st be wise (If publike good thou sleightst) that thou'dst but make Inferiour Townes thy president, and take Them for a patterne : here, as little Townes As are the least that coast upon thy bounds Have set forth fiftie Horse : Young men and mayds Of all sorts, as th'are able, lend their aydes Some six pence, twelve pence some, as they are willing And stor'de, some five, some ten, some twenty shilling ; Or more, or lesse, as God hath blessed them With meanes, and hearts, to part from it agen. Up therefore quickly, be not like the drone That eats up others sweetnesse, but gets none. If nothing but dead trading might perswade To this, that might in common sense be made A motive to stirre up the drowsiest heart From somewhat towards this great designe to part : For be assur'de that till the Kingdome be Eeduc'de to perfect peace and unitie, And freed from civill warre ; your trading shall Continually decay, nor mend at all.
And this, methinks, should stir up every place To doe the like, because it is the case Of all the Kingdome ; For my part, had I A thousand lives, and for each life, lying by
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A thousand pound (which are above my spheare) I'de liazzard all to free the State from feare.
One more quotation, and we end :
As for tlie carriage of the Caraliers, Their tyranny and wickednesse appears So gi'osse, and palpable, that it will be But needlesse labour, and time lost for me Their rude and barbarous actions to repeat ; Their robberies and murthers are so great In Yorlcsliire, Lestersliire, at Coventry : Northamptonshire, Bath, Portsmouth, Banbury, And superstitious Oxford, that was glad At their first entrance ; but are since grown sad To see their rude behaviour, and wliat preys They make of all things that faU in theii' wayes.
Now little book, flie on the wings of fame As far beyond the place from whence I came As it is thither : that botli North and South, And all the winds may have thee in their mouth, And take thy counsell : that from Cornwall and From th' utmost limits of Northumherland, And Durham : yea from Do yer in the East, To th' utmost bounds of Chester in the West, Thou mayest have audience : that our Heroes may Muster their forces 'gainst that fatall day. Grave Essex the chief Leader of us all, And Bedford oiu' Lieutenant Generall, Not all the Romane States can make us fear, Nor the great Turke liimselfe if he were here. Our Cause is just, therefore though thousands die. We are confident to get the victory.
The present copy of this work is the one mentioned in the Bibl Ang. Poet.^ No. 880, and marked at 3l. 35., whence it was purchased, in 1815, by Mr. Heber, and has since been bound by Charles Lewis. It was pro- cured at the sale of the library of the latter gentleman in 1834, pt. iv,
No. 2857.
Bound by Charles Lewis the elder. In Dark Green Morocco extra, gilt leaves.
342 COLLECTANEA ANGLO-POETICA.
WarDj (John.) — The Christians Incouragement earnestly to contend
For Christ bis gospell and for all Our Christian liberties in thrall Which who refuseth let him bee For aye Anathema, say wee.
Written by J. Ward Gent.
fReade ") (Judge ")
1 Consider j \ Censure j
To which is added Irelands Greivances.
London Printed for lo. Hancock. 1643. 4to^ pp. 20.
This edition is not mentioned in the Bibl. Ang. Poet., nor, excepting a slight notice of it by Lowndes, do we find it alluded to by any bibliographer. The above title is given on a curtain in the centre of a neat frontispiece engraved on copper, at the sides of which are six small oval portraits beautifully executed — the Bishop, Judge, and Cavalier on one side, with the motto over them
When this corrupted Crew quite fall Truth with peace then flourish shall,
and an inscription, " These praye for, Pleade for, Figlit for Desolation," On the other side, those of Mr. Burton, Mr. Prynne, and Capt. Bast^ick, with the motto,
Us Imitate whose suffering Shall speedily their ruin bring,
and the inscription, " These Praye for, Pleade for, Fight for Reformation." This frontispiece is extremely scarce, and copies with it seldom occur. The letterpress is exactly similar to the former, indeed it is the same edition, with merely the substitution of a new title. It does not appear that the latter portion, relating to " Irelands Greivances," was ever added by the author. A copy of the work, with tbis latter title, was sold at Mr. Townley'a Sale, pt. ii, No. 1592, for 2/. Ms.; and at Sir Mark M. Sykes's do., pt. iii, No. 963, for Zl. 3s. The present copy cost Mr. Heber 4^. 15s., and is Bound by Charles Lewis, uniform with the former. In Dark Green Morocco, gilt leaves.
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THE first of the Publications for the year 1878-9, and the 105th in the series of the works of the Chetham Society, is the History of the Parish of Garstang, in the county of Lancaster, by Lieut.-Col. Fishwick, F.S.A., Part 2, Part 1 having been issued as the third volume for the year 1877-8, instead of the Inventories of Church Goods, taken in 1552, edited by J. E. Bailey, Esq., F.S.A., Part 1, which was postponed to the following year.
The History of Garstang follows, in natural sequence, that of Kirkham, and may be styled another chapter in the History of Amounderness. It is compiled on the same plan as that valuable work, and the editor has left no available source of information unconsulted or unreferred to which could tend to render the history more complete. The result has been, to throw much additional light on a parochial district of Lancashire which stood greatly in want of an historian, Dr. T. D. Whitaker's account of it in his History of Richmondshire being very scanty, and Baines's, in his Lancashire, being full of errors and imperfections, which greater care and a wider range of investigation might have prevented. There are many circumstances which contribute to render the annals of Garstang interesting. Amongst others, it will be remembered, that in the enumeration of its vicars, occurs the name of Isaac Ambrose, revered alike by conformist and nonconformist, and of whom and whose family Col. Fishwick has given full particulars, and that in the same list, somewhat later, is seen that of " silver tongued " Wroe, afterwards warden of Manchester, one of the popular preachers of his day, and whose epitaph may still be read in the Cathedral.
The second work for 1878-9, and the lOGth in the Chetham series, is Collectanea Anglo- Poetica, or a Bibliographical and Descriptive Catalogue of a portion of a Collection of early English Poetry^ by the late Rev. Thomas CoRSER, M.A., F.S.A., prepared for publication by the President of the Chetham Society. Part 9. This part continues the Alphabetical series of the works selected for notice from M to the end of R, and amongst other authors, whose productions are described, includes the names of Manley, Marston, Munday, Murford, Nash, Nelson, Niccols, Nuce, Overbury, Parker (Archbishop), Parker (Martin), Parrot, Partridge, Peacham, Petowe, Phili- pott, Pierce Plowman, Quarles (John), Raleigh (Geo.), Rhodes, Ripley, and Rowlands (Saml.) There is great variety in the poetical extracts given in this volume from the different writers, and it will be found, on examination, to contain much attractive matter, Biographical and Critical, as well as a large amount of accurate and useful Bibliographical information. The tenth part, which will be proceeded with as speedily as possible, will conclude this very elaborate work, so honourable to the taste, judgment, and untiring perseverance of its author, and which the approaching sale of the magnifi- cent collection of the late Henry Huth, Esq., who derived many of the treasures in his library from the dispersion of Mr. Corser's, renders, at the present time, peculiarly important and valuable.
The third Publication for the year 1878-9, and the 107th in the Society's series, will be Part 1 of the Inventories of Church Goods in the Parishes of Lancashire, taken by a Royal Commission in 15.52, edited by J. E. Bailey, Esq., F.S.A., the contents of which were noticed in the Report of the Council for the last year.
It is expected that the three volumes will be issued together, to the members, very speedily.
It is with deep regret that the Council have to record the loss of Canon Raines, whose death took place at Scarboro' on the 17ch of October last, after an illness of short duration.
From the commencement of the Chetham Society he took the warmest interest in its success and continuance, and on the death of Canon Parkinson, twenty years ago, he succeeded him in the office of Vice-President. It is one of the fortunate results of the Society's establishment that it brought such a labourer into the antiquarian field, as an editor and as an author, as Canon Raines, for though he must always have been an indefatigable collector on the great scale of the Dugdale's and Dodsworth's, as his precious MS. volumes now deposited in the Chetham library sufficiently show, yet
but for the channel afforded to him by the Society's press, we should never, in all probability, have known how thoroughly he had the mastery of the vast material he had collected, and in what an attractive and well-arranged shape his vigorous judgment and accurate taste could embody the informa- tion he had derived from such various sources. The volumes contributed by him to the Society's series, and which any society might be proud to claim, are sixteen in number, the first being No. 8, the first volume of Notitia Cestriensis, and the last No. 103, the Miscellaneous volume, which he only saw in its completed shape when stretched on that bed from which he was never destined to rise. Besides these contributions, he enriched some of the previous Miscellaneous volumes with articles of interest, and had a very large share in the annotations which add so much to the enjoyment of the readers of Adam Martindale^ Byrom's Remains, and the Grammar School Register. It is to be hoped that, of such a man as Canon Raines, an adequate memorial in the shape of a full biography, may, in due time, be supplied. On his merits as a Christian pastor it is not within the province of this report to enter, nor is it necessary, for the touching scene presented at his funeral at Milnrow was worth volumes of studied panegyric. As an antiquary of the true stamp, bounteous and liberal in communication, over- flowing with kindness and courtesy, with a memory which was a wonderful storehouse of historical facts and information, regarding places, times and families, always ready at call, either in conversation in which he excelled, or in composition which could give new grace and attraction to an unpromising subject, he must ever hold a very distinguished place, while by those who were honoured with his friendship, the loss of such a bright example of excellence, combined with knowledge so extensive and associated with all those characteristic amenities which make social intercourse delightful, must be felt, and sadly felt, as an irreparable bereavement.
The works in the following list, and which, with the exception of Nos. 1 and 6, are continuations, may be expected to appear at no distant period in the Chetham series.
1. Correspondence of Natlian Walworth and Peter Seddon of Outicood, and other Documents and Papers in relation to the building of Ringley Chapel. Edited by John S. Fletcher, Esq.
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6 Tico Cojnpoti of Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, of the date of 30th January, 1297, respecting his lands in Lancashire and Cheshire. Edited by William Langton, Esq.
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EARWAKER, J. P., M.A., F.S.A., Withington Eccles, Richard, Wigan
Eckersley, N., Standish Hall, W'igan
Egerton, Sir Philip de Malpas Grey-, Bart., M.P.,F.R.S., F.S.A., Oulton Park, Tarporley
Egerton, The Lord, Tatton Park, Knutsford
Ellesmere, The Earl of, Worsley Hall
Ellis, T. R., Wigan
Ellison, Cuthbert E., Prince of Wales Terrace, Ken- sington
•P^ENTON. James, M.A., F.S.A., Norton Hall,
J^ Mickleton, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire ffarington, Miss, Worden Hall, near Preston ffarington, R. A., Mariebonne, Wigan Fielden, Joshua, M.P., F.S.A , Nutfield Priory, Redhill,
Surrey *Fielden, Samuel, Centre Yale, Todmorden Fishwick, Lieut-Colonel, F.S. A., Rochdale Fleming, "William, M.D., Rowton Grange, Chester Fletcher, John S., Treherne House, Hampstead
GARNETT, William, Quernmore Park, Lancaster Gartside, Henry, Wharmton Tower, Saddleworth Garstang, T. W. H., Dobcross Goodman, Devenport, Chapel-en-le-Frith Greaves, Hilton, Derker House, Oldham ♦Greenall, Sir Gilbert, Bart., M.P., Walton Hall, near Warrington
HADFIELD, George, M.P., Manchester Hailstone,Edward,F.S.A.,WaltonHall, Wakefield
Hall, John, The Grange, Hale
Hampson, Francis, Rusholme
Hargreaves, John, Ravenswood, Rock Ferry
Harris, George, F.S. A., Iselipps Manor, Northott, Southall
Harrison, William, Rock Mount, St. John's, Isle of Man
Harter, James Collier, Leamington
Hatton, James, Richmond House, near Manchester
Haworth, W^illiam, jun., Burnley
Healey, Henry, Smallbridge, Rochdale
Heginbotham, Henry, Millgate House, Stockport
*Henry, W. C, M.D., F E.S., Haffield, near Ledbury
Herford, Rev. Brooke, Manchester
Heron, Rev. George, M.A,, Moor Hall, Cheshire
Hewitson, A., Preston
Heywood, Arthur Henry, Manchester, Treasurer
Heywood, Rev. Henry E., M.A , Swinton, Manchester
Heywood, James, F.R.S., F.G.S., 26, Palace Gardens, Kensington, London
Heywood, Sir Thos. Percival, Bart., Doveleys, Ash- bourne
Hickson, Thomas, Melton Mowbray
Higson, James, Ardwick Green North, Manchester
Higson, John, Birch Cottage, Lees, near Oldham
Hilton, William Hughes, Booth Street, Manchester
Hirst, John, Ladcastle, Dobcross
Holden, Colonel Henry, Balgone, North Berwick, N.B.
Hoi den, Thomas, Springfield, Bolton-le-Moors
Holdsworth, Charles J , Wilmslow
Hornby, Rev. E. T. J., Hon. Canon of Manchester
Howarth, J. W., Prestwich
Howorth, Henry H., F S.A., Derby House, Eccles
*Hughes, Thomas, F.S. A., Grove Terrace, Chester
*Hulton, Rev. C. G.,M.A., Emberton, Newport Pagnel
Hulton, W. A,, Hurst Grana;e, Preston
Hume, Rev. A., LL.D., D C'^L., F.S.A., Liverpool
Hutchinson, Robert Hopwood, Tenter House, Rochdale
JACSON, Charles R., Barton Hall, Preston Johnson, J abez, Kenyon Hall, near Manchester Johnson, J. H., Albert Road, Southport Jones, Jos., Abberley Hall, Stourport Jones, Wm. Roscoe, Athenaeum, Liverpool Jordan, Joseph J., Seedley Mount, Pendleton
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LANGTON, William, Docklands, Ingatestone, Essex Law, W^m.,Honorsfelt House, Littleborough Leech, Bosdin T., Manchester Lees. William, St. Ann's Street, Manchester Legh, G. Cornwall, F.G.S., High Legh, Knutsford Leigh, Henry, Moorfield, Swinton
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•Loring, Mrs. Clive, Bournemouth
Lowe, James, Chorltoncum-Hardy
Lowndes, Edward C, Castle Combe, Chippenham
*Loyd, Edward, Lillesden, Hawkhurst, Kent
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C CLURE, W. Lees, 4, Minshull Street, Manchester MacKenzie, John W., Royal Circus, Edinburgh
Maclure, Rev. Canon E. C, Vicarage, Rochdale ♦Manchester, The Lord Bishop of Mann, William, Manchester Mare, E. R. Le, Manchester Marriott, John, Liverpool Marsden, G. E., ilanchester
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New all, Henry, Hare Hill, Littleborough.
Newall, H. G. F., Hare Hill, Littleborough
Nicholson, James, F.S A., Thelwall Hall, Warrington
Xodal, J. H., The Grange, Heaton Moor
ORMEROD, Henry Mere, Manchester O'ReiUy, John," Manchester Owen, John, Kennedy Grove, Mile End, Stockport
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Pemberton, Richard L., The Barnes, Sunderland
Perkes. Rowland J., M.A., Southport
Philippi, Frederick Theod., Belfieid Hall, near Roch- dale
Picton, J. A., F.S. A., Sandy Knowe, Wavertree
Pierpoint, Robert, St. Austin's, Warrington
Prescott, J. B., Manchester
Price, Rev. Henry H , M.A., Alva House, Clifton Down, Bristol
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UARITCH, Bernard, Piccadilly, London
RADFORD, Richard, Cooper Street, Manchester Radford, Thomas, M.D., Higher Broughton
Raine, Rev. James, M..4., Canon of York
Raines, J. R., Burton, Pidsea
Raines, Rev. R. E. H., M.A., 6, Park Crescent Terrace, Brighton
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Keynolds, Rev. George W., M.A., Cheetham Hill
Ehodoeanakis, H. H. The Prince, C.K.G , PhD., F.S.A.A, F.G.H.S.
Eickards, Charles H., Manchester
Eidgway, T. S., Wildersmoor House, Lymm
Eigby, Samuel, Bruch Hall, "Warrington
Eigg, Wilson, Manchester
Eoberts, Alfred Wra... Thornton, Hereford
•Roberts, Chas. H. Crompton, 16, Belgrave Square, London
Eobinson, Arthur J., Clitheroe Castle, Clitheroe
Roper, William, Lancaster
Rose, Josiah, Leigh, Lancashire
Eostron, Simpson, King's Bench Walk, Temple, London
Eowe, Charles, Fishergate Hill, Preston
Eoyds, E. A. N., Brownhill, Eochdale
Royle, Alan, Park Terrace, Hesketh Park, Southport
Rylands, J. Paul, F.S A., Highfields, Thelwall
Rylands, T. G., F.S.A,, Highfields, Thelwall
Rylands, W. H., Highfields, Thelwall
Eymer Thomas, Cheetham Hill
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near Walsall Smith, R. M.jCrumpsall Green, Crumpsall, Manchester Sotheran, H., Strand, London Sotheran, H. and Co., Strand, London Sowler, Mrs., Sawrey Knolls, Windermere Sowler, Thomas, Manchester SpafFord, George, Brown Street, Manchester Spencer Robert, Livesey, Blackburn Standish, W. S. C, Duxbury Hall, Chorley •Stanley of Alderley, The Lord, Aldcrley Stanning, Rev. Joseph H , Leigh, Lancashire Starkie, .Major Le Gendre, Huntroyd Sudlow, John, JNIanchester Swindells, G. H., Oak Villa, Heaton Moor, Stockport
rj^ABLEY, The Lord de, Tabley House, Knutsford -L Tatton, Thos. W., Wythenshawe Hall, Cheshire Taylor, James, Whiteley Hall, Wigan Taylor, Rev.W. H., M.A., Warmington Rectory, Banbury Taylor, Henry, Barton House, Patricroft Thicknesse, Ven. F. H., Archdeacon of Northampton •Thompson, Joseph, Woodlands, Fulshaw Thornton, Major C. E., Tavistock Road, London Thorp, Henry, Whalley Range, Manchester Tonge, Rev. Richard, M.A.,Hon. Canon of Manchester,
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WALKER, Rev. J. Russell, M.A., The Chantry, Chichester
Wagner, Henry, F.S. A., 13, Half Moon Street, Picca- dilly, London
Walmsley, Charles, Barsham House, Malvern
Wanklyn, William Trevor, Balmoral Place, Higher Broughton
Warburton, John, Fallowfield
Warburton, R.E. Egerton-, Arley Hall, nearNorthwich
*Ward. Jos. Pilkington, Whalley Range, Manchester
Ware, Titus Hibbert, Bowdon
•Westminster, The Duke of, Eaton Hall, Chester
Wheeler, M. Alfred B., Manchester
Whitaker, Rev. Robert Nowell, M.A., Vicar of Whalley
Whitaker, W. W., Cornbrook, Hulme
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Whitehead, John, Rochdale
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Whittaker, Rev. Robt., M.A., Leesfield, Oldham
Whitworth, Robert, Courtown House, Manchester
Wilkinson, T. R., The Polygon, Ardwick
Wilkinson, William, Middlewood, Clitheroe
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Wiper, William, Higher Broughton
Wood, Richard Henry, F.S. A., Penrhos House, Rugby, Hon. Secretary
Wood, Richard, Heywood
Woods, Sir Albert W., F S.A , Garter King of Arms, College of Arms, London
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