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A.D. BASTARD (Thomas). Chrestoleros ....,srn. 8vo 1598 209
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B.[AXTEB] (N.[athaniel]). Sir Philip Sydneys Ourania.
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Poetical Fragments sm. 8vo 1699 225
BEAUMONT (Francis). Poems 4to 1640 227
Poems . 8vo 1653 229
BEAUMONT (Sir John, Bart). Bos worth-field. sm. 8vo 1629 231
Bosworth-Field 8vo 1710 237
BECON (Thomas). A newe Dialoge betwene thangel of God
and the Shepherds of y felde folio f),L 1563 238
BEDWELL (Wilhelm). The Tvrnament of Tottenham .... 4to 1631 243
BEEDOME (Thomas). Poems Divine, and Humane sm. 8vo 1641 246
BENLOWES (Edward). Theophila, or Loves Sacrifice folio 1652 250
The Summary of Divine Wisdome 4to 1657 257
BEBNEBS (Juliana). The booke of hauking, huntyng and
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Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica: or, A descriptive Catalogue of a rare and rich Collection of Early English Poetry.
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BIESTON (Roger). The bayte and snare of Fortune... folio t.l. n. d. 269
BILLINGSLY (Nicholas). Brachy-Martyrologia 8vo 1657 272
KOSMOBPE&IA, or the Infancy of the World.
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A Treasury of Divine Raptures consisting of Serious ob-
servations, Pious Ejaculations, Select Epigrams.
8vo 1667 280
BILLYNG (William). The Five Wounds of Christ... 4to fc.L MDCCCXIV 283 BIRKHEAD (Henry). Verses by the University of Oxford.. .4to 1684 285 BLOUNT (Sir Thomas Pope). De Re Poetica: or, Remarks
upon Poetry 4to MDCXCIV 288
Boccus and Sydracke. The history of kyng Boccus, and
Sydracke 4to fc.J. n. d. 289
BODENHAM (John). Bel-vedere or the Garden of the Mvses.
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Bel-vedere or the Garden of the Muses sm. 8vo 1600 303
The Garden of the Muses sm. 8vo 1610 304
Englands Helicon. Or the Muses Harmony 8vo 1614 304
B. (H.) BOLD (Henry). Wit a Sporting in a pleasant Grove of
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. ... Poems Lyrique Macaronique Heroique &c sm. 8vo 1664 312
Latine Songs, with their English: and Poems. ..8vo MDCLXXXV 315
BOSWORTH (William). The Chast and Lost Lovers lively sha- dowed in the persons of Arcadius and Sepha .8vo 1651 318
BOYS (John). ^Eneas his Descent into Hell 4to 1661 323
BRADFORD (John). The complaynt of Veritie, made by John
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BRADSHAW (Thomas). The Shepherds Starre 4to 1591 328
BRADSTREET (Anne). The Tenth Muse lately sprung up in
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Several Poerns compiled with great variety of Wit and
Learning, full of Delight sm. Svo 1678 333
BRATHWAITE (Richard). The Golden Fleece sm. Svo 1611 336
The Schollers Medley, or, An Intermixt Discourse vpon
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A Survey of History : Or, a Nursery for Gentry 4to 1638 343
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BBATHWAITE (Richard). History Surveyed in a brief Epitomy :
Or, A Nursery for Gentry 4to 1651 344
A Strappado for the Diuell sm. 8vo 1615 344
A Strappado for the Divell sm. 8vo 1615 354
A Solemne loviall Disputation sm. 8vo. cio 10 cxvn 355
The Smoaking Age cio ID cxvii 357
The Smoaking Age 8vo 1703 361
A New Spring shadowed in sundrie Pithie Poems*
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Natures Embassie 8vo 1621 368
Times Curtaine Drawne 8vo 1621 368
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Anniversaries upon his Panarete sm. 8vo 1634 389
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Barnabse Itinerarium, or Barnabee's Journal..
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Lignum Vitee sm. 8vo MDCLVIII 430
The Honest Ghost, or a Voice from the Vault... sm. 8vo 1658 433
Panthalia; or the Royal Romance 8vo 1659 442
. A Comment upon the Two Tales of our Ancient,
Renowned, and Ever Living Poet Sr Jeffray
Chaucer, Knight 8vo 1665 447
Tragi-Comoedia, cui in titulum inscribitur Regicidium.
8vo 1665 450
Tragi-Comoedia, cui in titulum inscribitur Regicidium.
8vo 1665 452
The History of Moderation ; or, The Life, Death, and
Resurrection of Moderation sm. 8vo 1669 452
The Trimmer : or, The Life and Death of Moderation.
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Some Rules and Orders for the Government of the House
ofanEarle . ...4to 1821 455
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PART II.
BASTARD, (THOMAS.) — Chrestoleros. Seven bookes of Epigrames written by T. B.
Hunc nouere modum nostri seruare libelli
Parcere personis : dicere de vitiis.
Sm. 8vo. Imprinted at London by Richard Bradocke for J. B. and are to be sold at her shop in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Bible. 1598. pp. 190.
It was towards the close of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, or at the beginning of that of James I., that the epigram in its familiar and satirical style became so great a favourite with our English writers, though it had been previously in use by Hey wood and others in the reign of Henry VIII. But a multitude of writers now arose, who, adopting this low and familiar style, are many of them little more than mere doggrel versifiers ; and were it not for the occasional notices, biographical or critical, which they contain of other contemporary writers, and of the manners and customs of the time which we may glean from them, they might well be allowed to remain in the obscurity which now attends them. Of this class were John Heath, Henry Parrot, Thomas Bancroft and others. And these effusions of Bastard, though not without some celebrity in his day, are perhaps more valuable for their notices of other contemporary literary and eminent characters of his time than for their poetical or epigrammatic merits. It must, however, be borne in mind that the wit and humour of much of the poetry of the period depend upon allusions which are now lost, but which were doubtless relished by the public before whom they were produced. The same remark PART u. E E
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might even be applied to Shakespeare ; many of his allusions being now ap- parently irrecoverable. Bastard's epigrams are dedicated, in prose, u To the Eight Honourable Sir Charles Blount Knight Lord Mountjoy, and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter;" the dedication concluding with an epigram to the same, signed "Your Honour's most affectionate Seruant Thomas Bastard." There are several other epigrams addressed to the same noble personage, by whom it appears that he was much patronised.
Bastard, according to Wood, was a native of Blandford in Dorsetshire, educated at Winchester, and afterwards at New College, Oxford, of which he was made actual Fellow in 1588, and B.A. in 1590; but having in- dulged his taste for satire by writing a severe attack upon some of the leading characters in Oxford, " who were guilty of amorous exploits," he lost his fellowship and was expelled from the University. He afterwards took orders, but does not appear to have obtained any immediate prefer- ment; and being in poverty, he published his epigrams with a view of obtaining some pecuniary relief by the sale of the work, but without much success. On the accession of James I. to the English throne, lie wrote a complimentary Latin poem to that monarch, which was printed in 1605. This probably brought him into notice, for he was soon after appointed chaplain to the Earl of Suffolk, by whose favour he was made vicar of Beer Regis and rector of Aimer in Dorsetshire; but losing his faculties, or, as Wood says, " being crazed" and falling into a state of poverty and want, he was committed to prison at Dorchester for debt, and dying there, was buried on the 19th of April, 1618, in the churchyard of the parish of All Hallows in that place. He was thrice married, as we learn from an epi- gram of his own, and was considered to be an excellent classical scholar, and " a quaint preacher." Alluding to the objections that might be made to this kind of epigrammatic writing in one of his sacred profession, he says in the dedication, " If anie obiect to my calling this kinde of writing, in other things I woulde be glad to approve my studie to your good Lord- shippe. These are the accomptes of my Idlenes. Yet herein I may seeme to haue done somthing worthy the price of labour, that I haue taught Epigrams to speake chastlie, besides I haue acquainted them with more grauitie of sence, and barring them of their olde libertie, not onelie forbid- den them to be personall, but turned all their bitternesse rather into sharp- nesse." And Sir John Harington makes an allusion to the same subject in an epigram addressed to Bastard in his collection :
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Then let not envy stop thy rein of rhyme, Nor let thy function make thee shamed of it ; A poet is one step unto a prophet :
And such a step as 'tis no shame to climb. You must in pulpit treat of matters serious,
As best beseems the person and the place :
There preach of Faith, Eepentance, Hope and Grace, Of Sacraments, and such high things mysterious,
That unto honest sports will grant no space ; For these our minds refresh, when those weary us, &c. * * # *
Wherefore if any think such verse unreasonable, Their stoic minds are foes to good society,
And men of reason may think them unreasonable. It is an act of virtue and of piety
To warn us of our sins in any sort,
In prose, in verse, in earnest, or in sport.
There is little doubt that Bastard was well acquainted with the Greek anthology, and he acknowledges his obligations to Martial in his seventeenth epigram. With some classical taste and scholarship, he also possessed a certain amount of wit and humour, but seems never to have forgotten his sacred profession in the exercise of these faculties. He was much esteemed by his contemporaries, and had many friends among the poets and literary characters of his time. Phillips, in his Theatrum Poetarum, p. 270, says of him, that " he was endowed with many rare accomplishments, and was excellently skilled in Greek, Latin and poetry, and was much courted by ingenious men. He was a most excellent epigrammatist, and was always ready to versify on any subject, as his compositions proved."
The subjoined epigram on this poet, entitled A Bastard Poetist, is taken from a MS. Miscellany temp. James I., and although of not the slightest poetical merit, is curious as exhibiting the feeling against him for having, as it was considered, disgraced his clerical character by becoming an epi-
Oh ! shame to you, the holie spouse of Christ, The new-found clericall epigrammatist, Who so debas'st powere given by God Shall taste the bitternesse of Satan's rod, And by his ink-home so we the seedes Of punishment for wicked deedes.
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Bastard makes frequent allusions to his poverty and misfortunes, as con- trasted with his former more prosperous and happy state ; and such painful reflections no doubt gave occasion to the following epigram among others of a similar kind :
. 2.
When I was sweetly sotted with delight Each trifling cause could moue me to indite A little praise would stirre me in such wise, My thirst all Helycon could scarse suffice. My pen was like a bowe which still is bent, My head was like a barrell wanting vent, Then had you toucht me, you had felt the smart, What fury might, requiring helpe of art, And then I thought my iudgements ayme so cleere That I would hitt you right, or misse you neere, But nowe left naked of prosperitie, And subiect unto bitter iniurie : So poore of sense, so bare of wit I am, Not neede herselfe can driue an Epigram, Yet neede is mistresse of all exercise And she all thriuing arts did first deuise. But should I thriue or prosper in that state, Where she is my commandresse whome I hate ?
For of a key-colde witt what would ye haue ?
He which is once a wretch, is thrise a slaue.
The following, near the end of the book, appears also to allude to some calamity that had happened to him ; most probably his expulsion from the University :
Lib. 7. Epigr. 37.
Such was my griefe upun my fatall fall, That all the world me thought was darke withall, And yet I was deceiued as I knowe, For when I proou'de I found it nothing so. I shew'de the Sunn my lamentable sore, The Sunne did see and shined as before. Then to the Moone did I reueale my plight, She did deminish nothing of her light. Then to the stars I went and lett them see, No not a starre would shine the lesse for me. Go wretched man, thou seest thou art forlorne, Thou seest the heaues laugh while thou dost mourn,
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There is little doubt that these epigrams were published to assist in relieving his present wants, but apparently with not much hope of success, if we may judge from the subjoined epigram :
Lib. 1. Epigr. 21. De Typographo. The Printer when I askt a little summe Huckt with me for my booke, and came not nere. Ne could my reason or perswasdon Moue him a whit ; though al things now were deere,
Hath my conceipt no helpe to set it forth ?
Are all things deere, and is wit nothing worth ?
He alludes to this subject again in
Lib. 6. JEpigr. 28 ad Lectorem. Reader thou think'st that Epigrams be rife, Because by hundreds they are flocking here. I reade an hundred pamphlets : for my life Could I finde matter for two verses there ? Two hundred ballets yeelded me no more, Besides barraine reading and conference. Besides whole legends of the rustic store Of stories and whole volumes voyde of sense. And yet the Printer thinkes that he shall leese, Which buyes my Epigrams at pence a peece.
There are epigrams in this collection addressed to the following English poets : Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Henry Wotton, John Davies, John Heywood, Richard Eedes, Samuel Daniel, &c. We quote those on Sir Philip Sidney and Daniel :
Lib. 1. Epigr. 11 de PUlippo Sidneo. When nature wrought upon her mould so well, That nature wondred her owne worke to see, When art so labourde nature to excell, And both had spent their excellence in thee. Willing they gaue the into fortunes hande Fearing they could not ende what they beganne.
Lib. 6. Epigr. 16 ad Samuelem Danielem. Daniell, beside the subiect of thy verse, With thy rich vaine and stile adorned so, Besides that sweetnes with which I confesse Thou in thy proper kinde dost ouerflowe.
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Me thinkes tkou steal'st my Epigrams away, And this small glory for which, now I waite. For reading thee me thinks thus would I say This hitfcs my vaine, this had beene my conceipt.
Bui when I come my selfe to doe the like,
Then pardon me3 for I am farre to seeke.
There are others also addressed to Queen Elizabeth, Lord Mountjoy his patron, Walter Devereux Earl of Essex, Archbishop Whitgift, the two Universities, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Francis Walsingham, Dr. John Rey- nolds, Lord Keeper Egerton, Thomas Strangeways, Esq., &c. &c. There is a curious epigram, lib. iii. epig. 17> "On Bankes horse;" and the following on another celebrated character of the day, Tarlton the jester :
Lib. 6. Epigr. 39 De RicTiardo Tharltono. Who taught me pleasant follies, can you tell ?
I was not taught and yet I did excell. 'Tis hard to learn without a president, 'Tis harder still to make folly excellent.
I sawe, yet had no light to guide mine eyes,
I was extol'd for that which all despise.
As examples more particularly of the author's satirical wit and humour, the reader may be pleased with the two epigrams annexed :
Lib. 5. Epigr. 4. In Getam. Goeta from wooll and weauing first beganne, Swelling and swelling to a gentleman. When he was gentleman and bravely dight He left not swelling till he was a knight. At last (forgetting what he was at furst), He swole to be a Lord : — and then he burst.
Lib. 5. Epig. 21. In Gillovem. You which haue sorrows hidden bottom sounded,
And felt the ground of teares and bitter moane, You may conceiue how Gilloes heart is wounded,
And iudge of his deepe feeling by your owne : His toothlesse wife, when she was left for dead, When graue and all was made, recouered.
Besides the present work, Bastard was a contributor to several other pub- lications, viz., a poem in Coriate's Odcomlrian Banquet^ 1611; a Latin poem in Ph. Sydncei Peplus, by Alex. Nevill, 1587; a copy of Latin verses "In
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laudem Annse Comitissse Oxoniensis Carmen," among the Lansdown MSS., No. 104; and is supposed to be the author of the complimentary verses prefixed to Gascoigne's Whole Woorkes, 4 to, 1575, signed T. B. He like- wise wrote, as we have mentioned, a Latin poem of congratulation on the accession of King James I., 4to, 1605, and two volumes of Sermons, 4to 1615.
Bastard was frequently noticed by his contemporaries ; amongst others, by John Heath, who has an epigram upon him in his Two Centuries of Epigrams, Lond. 1610. There is another in the second book of Witty Epigrams, by Sir John Harington, addressed " To Master Bastard, a minister, that made a pleasant Book of English Epigrams," from which we have already quoted, and which is given at length in the Restituta, vol. ii, p. 26, and another in the same collection, No. 84, " To Master Bastard, taxing him of Flattery." John Da vies of Hereford, addressed an epigram to him of eight and thirty lines in his Scourge of Folly, 1611. See Restituta, vol. ii. p. 19. S. Sheppard also in his Poems, 8vo, 1651, took occasion to com- pliment him, that " amongst us here in England none in our native tongue (some pidlers excepted), save Bastard and Harington, have divulged ought worthy notice. The first of these deserved the laurell, but the last, both crowning and anoynting." He is likewise alluded to in a very rare work called The Whipping of the Satire, 8vo, 1601, the author of which is not known. These epigrams are mentioned with commendation in William Goddard's Mastif Whelp, 4 to, n.d., in the eighty-first satire, and in H. Parrot's Springes for Woodcocks, lib. i. epig. 118, and Mere's Palladis Tamia, p. 629. See Warton's Hist. Eng. Poet. vol. iv. p. 398; Ritson's Bibliog. Poet. p. 126; Wood's At/ten. Oxon. vol. ii. p. 227; Gens. Liter. vol. ii. p. 123; Collier's Poet. Decam. vol. i. p. 199, and vol. ii. pp. 108, 120, 254, and his Bridgew. Cat. p. 24; and Rose's New Gen. Biog. Diet. vol. iii. p. 336.
Copies of this exceedingly rare work sold in Perry's sale, pt. i. No. 529, for 10/. 105. ; Bindley's, pt, i. No. 450, for 15/. 4s. 6d.; and in the White Knights, pt. i. No. 312, for 17/. 17s.
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Hunc nouere modum nostri seruare libelli
Parcere personis ; dicere de vitiis.
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A reprint of Bastard's work from the private press of the late Edw. V. Utterson Esq. at Beldornie in the Isle of Wight, limited to sixteen copies only. It is elegantly printed, and contains an editorial notice at the end.
The present copy was the one selected by Mr. Utterson himself. Bound by Charles Lewis in Green Morocco, with crimson leather joints and linings, gilt leaves.
B.[AXTER], N.[ATHANIEL]. Sir Philip Sydneys Ourania. That is, Endimions Song and Tragedie, containing all Philosophic. Written by N. B. 4to London, Printed by Ed. Allde. for Edward White, and are to be solde at the little North doore of Saint Paules Church, at the signe of the Gun. 1606.
Mr. Hunter has very satisfactorily shown, in his New Illustrations of Shakespeare^ vol. i. p. 355, that Sir Philip Sydney 's Ourania must no longer be ascribed on the strength of the initials N. B. (as some other works have been with no better foundation) to the prolific pen of Nicholas Breton, but was in reality written by the Rev. Nathaniel Baxter, a clergy- man, Incumbent of Troy, the author of some works on divinity, who had been the tutor of Sir Philip Sidney, and whose poetical name was Endy- mion. The tract contains some interesting particulars of the author's own personal history, and his name is so evidently alluded to in the introductory portion, that it is somewhat singular it was not noticed earlier by some of our bibliographical writers. The poem is dedicated in a double sonnet "To his ever-honored Lady and Mistris Arcadian Cynthia, Maria Pern- brokiana," in which, under the names of Astrophil and Cynthia, Sir Philip
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Sidney and his sister the Countess of Pembroke are figured ; and speaking of some detractor of his, he says :
Baxtero Mastix may disparage mee That I dare make thee subiect of my pen :
and again :
But if perchaunce great Astrophill thou see And Fates with-holde thee from Endymion : He humbly sues that hee released be Of arrogancy, and prsesumption, That he without his knights iniunction Should dedicate vnto thy princely Shrine, The treasurie, and hidden function Of Jehouahs Hexameron diuine.
After this is a metrical epistle " To the Right Honourable and vertuous Ladies the La. Katherine Countesse of Huntington: the Ladie Mary Countesse of Pembrooke : the Ladies Susan Countesse of Mongomria : and the Lady Barbara Viscountes Lisle, wife to the noble Knight Sir Robert Sidney Viscount Lisle." In this he alludes to John Lylly's tract of Pappe with a Hatchet and Dray ton's poem of The Owle, then recently printed ; and speaks of himself as if advanced in years, and living in retirement in the country :
The greatest Clearks of yore to trie their wit,
Made foolishnesse the subiect of their Pen,
And for their pleasures others thought it fit
To proue that Baldnesse best becommeth men. And euerie Stationer hath now to sale, Pappe with a Hatchet, and Madge Howlets tale.
And now comes creeping old Endymion, Leaning Mysteries Theologicall, Scarce worth the rotten earth he treadeth on, And tells strange Tales Philosophicall,
Anatomizing th* uniuersall round,
And whatsoeuer may therein be found.
He pipeth on his homely Countrey Reed, Made of an olde Aristotelian Quill, He kens no Crochets of contentious breed. &c. &c. &c.
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Then follow some acrostic lines addressed "To the Right Noble and Honorable Lady Susan Vera Mongomriana" on the motto "Vera nihil verius Susanna nihil castius," and four Sonnets "To the Honourable La. Kalandra, the noble D. Hastings,' "To the vertuous Ladie M. Agape Wrotha," " To the right vertuous young La. K. Musophila Mansella," and " To the Right Worshipfull and vertuous Lady the Lady Anne Daniell wife to the Right Worshipfull Sir William Daniell Knight, one of his Majesties Justices of the Common -Pleas," each signed N. B. The Ourania, which is a philosophical poem treating of the universe, "and what- soever may therein be found," is written in heroic rhyming couplets, and is preceded by a poem in seven -line stanzas, which contains some highly pleasing lines, and as it includes also some allusion to the author, may here in part be properly quoted :
It greeues my heart to se the gentle Swayne That kept his tender Lambes on Ida Mount : And brought them downe againe into the plaine, To take their pleasure by the siluered Fount, Folding them all, and taking iust account, Least one of them by carelesse ouersight Should wandring perish in the darke-some night.
It greeues my heart (I say) to heare his moane. Fast by the walles of Troy where once he dwelt : With wringing hands and many a greeuous groane, He did expresse the miseries he felt. A heart of flint I thinke would surely melt, To see a gentle Shepheard thus cast downe, By Enuies practise and great Cynthyas frowne. *******
In Troy Towne scituate in Cambria,
There dwelt this Shepheard of a gentle race :
Neer fronting vpon great Mongomria,
Where Princely Arthur kept his courtly place,
Guiding great Albion with his golden Mace,
Where Knights and Ladies clad in princely weeds,
Shew'd testimonie of their worthy deedes.
There did this gentle Shepheard feed his flocke : There tuned hee his well contryued Eeede : Sitting on top of highest Ida rocke, Suffring his tender Lambes meane while to feede, Whiles he, clad in his homely Countrey weede,
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Sang Madrigals and Stanzies of great worth, And descanted to bring his Musicke forth.
Well could he sing diuine and sacred layes, With blessed notes as Poets did record, In siluered lines painting high Jouahs praise, And eke the death of Christians dying Lord. Such Musicke did he oft his flocke afford, As made them leaue their foode to listen well, As if they were inchaunted with the spell.
Satyrs and Syluans at the harmonie
Sometime came darting from the darkesome Grroue,
Approouing oft the chaunting melodie,
And with their harsh and rurall voyces stroue,
To sound the praises of celestiall Loue ;
But when their Pipes and voyces disagreed,
They held their peace and cast away their reed.
Sometimes he made the Eocks for to rebound With Ecclio of his Notes ; sometime the dales, And woods, and springs, to yeeld a burbling sound, As beaten with reflexe of Madrigales : Sibillas Oracles, and prophets tales : Which shew the way to immortalitie, In perfect Hymnes of true diuinitie.
The author then enters on a long and beautiful description of Cynthia and her attendant ladies (already mentioned in the dedications), and thus addresses that celebrated person :
Renowned Cynthia glorie of thy Sexe,
For learning had in admiration :
The shine of whose illustrious reflexe
May dazle wits of high inuention :
Diuine Mistresse of Elocution,
Pardon poore Shepheards rude, and worthlesse Byrnes,
Not such as were the Layes of olderne Tymes.
Rare is thy skill, in mightie Poesie :
Whom Poets Laureat crowne, with lasting Bayes,
In Songs of neuer dying Memorie,
Such as great Homer sung in former dayes :
When he with Hymnes, did chaste Cassandra praise.
O let me Hue, I pray thee, on this Hill,
And tune in Country sort my crazed Quill.
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She engages to become his patroness, and encourages him to undertake some higher strain, "and sacred Notes, mongst learned men to chaunt." This he obediently consents to do, and "encouraged by Musophila, the Lady Bride, and Bride of happy choyce," he enters on the subject of his OttflMtfa,
A Subject fit for Sydneys eloquence,
High CJiaucers vaine, and Spencers influence.
The poem embraces every subject connected with the present world from its first creation, the planets and elements, the seasons, earthquakes, thunder, rain, flowers, herbs, trees, beasts, insects, birds, fishes, minerals and precious metals, man, the soul immortal, and lastly the creation of woman. In his account of the silkworm, he confirms the truth of Thomas Moifat or Muffet being the author of the poem of The Silkewormes and their Flies : by T. M. a* Countrie Farmer, and an Apprentice in Physicke. 4to 1599. Also dedicated to the Countess of Pembroke :
All princely Ladies celebrate her fame,
Shining in glorie of the Silke-wormes frame.
This might abate the glorie of humane pride,
Since a poore Silke-worme hath it magnified.
Why boastest thou thy shining Satten Sute ?
Is't not a part of the Caterpillars mute ?
Doct. Muffefs Her forme, her life, her foode, her worke, her end, snke-worSl. By Doctor Muffet is eloquently pen'd,
And in his description of The Owl^ he again notices Drayton's poem :
Michael Drai- Learned Drayton hath told Madge-howlets tale, In couert verse of sweetest Madrigale.
The song birds of our woods and groves, which delight us so much in the spring, are thus pleasingly mentioned :
Furthermore in blessed Tellus coate,
Are framed Birds, of sweet and pleasing Noate.
Long liuing Ouzle, little chaunting Thrush,
Singing on tops of trees, and highest bush ;
Delighting passengers with Melodic,
Varying their tunes eo curiously,
That Shepheards wonder how so diuers Noates
Should couched be within such little throates.
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But 'tis an admirable speculation, To heare the delectable variation, Of sweetest Noates, with stops vnmutable, With loftie streynes, Musicke inestimable, Of little Philomela, sacred Nightingall, Phcebes Phoenix, Organist-imperiall. Let no Musitian with her voice compare, No voice so sweete, so exquisite and rare.
The following is a curious notice of Tarlton, the celebrated comic per- former :
But tell me, is not this a golden age When Eascalls ride in Gtolden Equipage With Princely Lords and men of highest blood, As Tarlton clad in Ccesars goulden Hood ?
At the end of the poem are several other seven-line stanzas (thirty-nine), which open thus :
With that, Endymion cast his eyes aside, And saw a gentle Knight come pricking on, Swift was his pace, and knightlie did he ride, Bending his race towards Endymion. A stately Knight he was to looke vpon, Complete his armes in rich caparison, His horse like Pegasus, and he Belerophon.
This was the noble Astrophil, the shade of the gentle Sir Philip Sidney, then dead :
He rein'd his Steed, and lightly downe discended,
And with a Courtly disposition
Lift vp his Beuer, whereby euery one
Knew him to be the mightie Astrophill,
Whose prayse is paynted with an Angels quill.
Prince of all Poets in Acadia, Magnanimous of euerlasting Fame,
)of chiefe regard with famous Cynthia, Appollo parted with him halfe his name, And gave him skill darke ignorance to tame, Appollo twined with his learned hand The Lawrell Crowne, which on his head doth stand.
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But when my Cynthia knew 'twas Astrophill,
She ranne to claspe him in her daintie armes,
But out, alas ! it passed mortall skill :
Inchaunted was the Knight with sacred Charmes.
His bodie dead of yore, the more our harmes. SeadeathVof n ® noble Drayton well didst thou rehearse s. P. s. Our damages in dryrie Sable verse.
The shepherd Endymion inquires if he were Astrophil :
Shepheard (quoth he) I am, and am not hee, I am not perfect AstropTiill, but part, The shade which now appeareth vnto thee Is substance spirituall fram'd by Arte : What mortall was, is slaine by deadly Dart Of Thanatos, corrupt, consum'd to dust : Such is the end of all this worldly lust.
But what art thou that sitst among the bayes ? Ynfold to me for I must needes be gone. I was reader (quoth he) in former daies Vnto great Astrophill, but now am one, Stripped, and naked, destitute, alone. Naught but my Greekish pipe and staffe have I To keepe my Lambs and me in miserie.
Art thou (quoth he) my Tutor Tergasier ? He answered, yea : such was my happie chaunce. I grieue (quoth Astrophill) at thy disaster : But fates denie me learning to aduaunce. Yet Cynthia shall afford thee maintenance. My dearest Sister, keepe my Tutor well, For in his element he doth excel 1.
In this latter stanza we have another proof, as Mr. Hunter has remarked, of the name of the author of this poem, and " are at no loss to understand the propriety of the name Tergaster, which Sir Philip Sidney appears sportively to have given to his tutor, that is Back-ster or Baxter. The volume concludes with two sets of six-line stanzas, the first addressed "To the right Worshipfull Sir John Smith of Olde-Hunger Knight, a worthie fauourer of learning;" and the other "To my Worshipful friend John Stone Esquire, Counsellor at the Law, and Secondarie of the Counter in Woodstreet London."
This volume, so interesting in itself and remarkable also as adding
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another name to the long list of our Elizabethan Poets, is rare, and except- ing the very important notice of Mr. Hunter as to its author, has not, that we are aware of, been previously described. EibL Heber. pt. iv. No. 180, 11. 13s. ; Sir Mark M. Sykes, pt. i. No. 550, 21. 2s. ; Bright, No. 390. 21. 5s. ; Inglis, No. 300, 2l. 6s. ; Bindley, pt. iii. No. 2027, 81. ; Perry, pt. i. No. 602*, SI. 6s.; Midgley, No. 91, 3l. 13s. 6d. ; Bibl Ang. Poet. No. 39, 11. Auother edition, printed for Jane Bell, was published in 1655. See Bibl. Ang. Poet. pt. 40. Its contents are the same with the present impression.
Collation : Sig. A to N 4, in fours, pp. 104. Bound by Charles Lewis, in Brown Morocco, gilt leaves.
BAXTER, (RICHARD). — Poetical Fragments : Heart Imployment with God and It-self. The Concordant Discord of a Broken healed Heart. Sorrowing-rejoycing, fearing-hoping, dyiug- liuing. Written partly for himself, and partly for near Friends in Sickness, and other deep Affliction. By Richard Baxter.
Ephes. 5, 19. Speaking to yourselves in Psalmes and Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, singing and making Melody in your hearts to the Lord.
2 Corinth. 5, 4. For we that are in this Tabernacle do GROAN, being burdened.
Lseta fere laetus cecini : Cano tristia tristis.
Published for the use of the Afflicted. Sm. 8vo. London, Printed by T. Snowden for B. Simmons at the 3 Golden Cocks at the West end of St. Pauls. 1681. pp. 152.
Many of our most eminent divines, like Baxter, recreated themselves in the society of the muses in the early period of their lives, and like him also afterwards abandoned their company for more severe and laborious pursuits. We believe the present volume to be the only poetical work published by Baxter, and although not issued from the press till he had arrived at his sixty-sixth year, yet it was composed much earlier. In "The Epistle to the Reader," which follows the title-page, Baxter apologises for having been
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addicted to the passion of poetry, and acquits bis friends from all the guilt of the publication of these Fragments. " But as they were mostly written in various Passions, so Passion hath now thrust them out into the world." The first poem was intended as a historical commemoration of all the noble passages in his life, and had it been completed would have filled a volume larger than the present, but was left unfinished. Having lost his wife, the companion of the last nineteen years of his life, whose sorrows and sufferings had given birth to some of the poems, grief for her removal and the revived sense of the past, seem to have prevailed with him for their publication. In this address he praises Cowley, Woodford's Para- phrase of the Psalms, Mrs. Katharine Philips, George Wither, Quarles, Sylvester, Davies's Nosce te ipsum, but especially George Herbert and George Sandys. He says :
I know that Cowley and others far exceed Herbert in Witt and accurate compo- sure. But Herbert speaks to God like one that really believeth a God, and whose business in this World is most with God. Heart-work and Heauen-work make up his Books. And Du Bartas is seriously divine. And Geo: Sandys'
Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci.
His Scripture Poems are an elegant and excellent Paraphrase, but especially his Job, whom he hath restored to its original Glory. O that he had turned the Psalms into Metre fitted to the several Tunes ! It did me good when Mrs. Wyat invited me to see Boxley-Abby in Kent : to see upon the old Stone Wall in the Garden, a Summer- house with this Inscription in great Golden Letters, that in that place Mr. G. Sandys, after Ms Travels over the World, retired himself for his Poetry and Con- templations.
The following quotation is taken from the second part of the first poem entitled " Love breathing Thanks and Praise :"
O that my time had all been better spent, And that my early thoughts had all been bent In preparation for the Life to come ! That now I might have gone as to my home ! And taken up my dwelling with the blest ! And past to everlasting Joy and Rest ! O that the pleasures of my sports and toyes, Had all been turn'd to man-like holy Joyes ! And those Delights which Vanities engrost, And spent on fleshly Lusts, were worse than lost, Had all been sweet B-ejoycings in the Lord ! And in his holy Service and his word !
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O that I could my wasted Time call back,
Which now my Soul for greater works doth lack j
What would I give now for those precious daies,
Which once run out in pleasures and delaies ?
O had I liv'd a strict and holy Life,
Though under hatred and malicious strife !
Though Men's and Devil's fury I had born,
And been the world's reproach, contempt and scorn !
Then welcome Death would but have quencht my thirst,
And bid the envious world now do their worst.
Their malice would but to my Joyes accrew,
And well-spent Time be sweet to my review.
This poem, or fragment of a poem, which is divided into three parts, concludes with a brief notice from the author respecting its unfinished state :
Csetera desunt, prsesunt, adsunt.
I purposed to have recited the most notable mercies of my Life, in continuing this Hymn of Thanksgiving to my gracious God ; but the quality of the Subject, and the age's Impatience stopt me here, and I could go no further, and my painful and spiritless Age is now unfit for Poetry : And the matter is so large, as would have made the Volume big.
Baxter seems to have taken Herbert for his model ; but though he has less conceit he has nothing equal to the finer specimens of his master. Granger says of Baxter that he was celebrated " for preaching more sermons, engaging in more controversies, and writing more books, than any other nonconformist of his age." See a long article on these Fragments by Mr. Park in Restituta, vol. iii. p. 185. See also Grangers Biogr. Hist. vol. v. p. 81, and Bibl. Ang. Poet. No. 66, where the present copy is priced 31. 3s. In the original Brown Calf binding.
BAXTER, (RICHARD.) — Poetical Fragments : Heart-Imployment with God and It Self. The Concordant Discord of a Broken- healed Heart &c. &c. [As before.] The Third Edition. Sm. 8vo. London : Printed for Tho. Parkhurst, at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside, near Mercers Chappel. 1699. pp. 170.
This third edition corresponds in its contents up to p. 100 exactly with
PART II. GG
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the preceding, except in not having a table of " The Contents." But at the
end of the 100th page there is a Supplement to the Poetical Fragments,
with a fresh title :
Additions to the Poetical Fragments of Hi. Baxter. Written for himself, and communicated to such as are more for serious verse than smooth. The Contents. I. Grace, p. 105. II. Wisdom, 118. III. Madness, 122. IV. Hypocrisie, 128. V. Man, 138. VI. The Exit, 148. VII. The Valediction, 153. London Printed for Tho. Parkhurst, at the Bible and Three Crowns, at the lower end of Cheapside near Mercers Chappel. 1700. We insert a few stanzas from this part, selected from the Exit, p. 148,
as an example of Baxter's serious verse, with which our extracts shall
conclude :
VI. The Exit.
My Soul go boldly forth Thy God, thy Head's above :
Forsake this sinful Earth, There is the World of Love ;
What hath it been to thee Mansions there purchas'd are
But Pain and Sorrow : By Christ's own Merit,
And thinkest thou it will be For these he doth prepare
Better to Morrow ? Thee by his Spirit.
Leave not this Darksom Womb Look up towards Heav'n, and see
Nor yet a Gilded Tomb, How vast those Eegions be,
Though on it written be Where Blessed Spirits dwell,
Mortal Mens Story : How Pure and Lightful !
Look up by Faith, and see But Earth is near to Hell,
Sure Joyful Glory. How Dark and Frightful.
Why art thou for delay ? Here Life doth strive with Death
Thou cam'st not here to stay ; To lengthen Mortals Breath ;
What tak'st thou for thy part Till one short Eace be run,
But Heav'nly pleasure : Which would be ended,
Where then should be thy Heart When it is but begun
But where's thy Treasure ? If not defended.
Here Life is but a Spark, Scarce shining in the Dark, Life is the Element there,
Which Souls reside in ; Much like as Air is here
Which we abide in.
We have never seen a copy of the second edition, and are ignorant of the
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date of its publication. Lowndes does not notice either of the later impres- sions. The work was reprinted in 1821. 12mo.
Bound in Calf extra, gilt leaves.
BEAUMONT, (FRANCIS.) — Poems: by Francis Beaumont, Gent. Viz. The Hermaphrodite. The Remedie of Love. Elegies. Sonnets, with other Poems. 1640. 4to. London, Printed by Richard Hodgkinson for W. W. and Laurence Blaikelock, and are to be sold at the signe of the Sugar Loafc next Temple Bar in Fleet-sfereet. 1640.
Although collected and printed by Laurence Blaikelocke the publisher as the works of Francis Beaumont, who had now been dead above twenty- four years, having died in 1616, it is somewhat doubtful how many of these poems belong to this writer, when all those that have been claimed by others have been assigned to their proper owners. Even the first poem in the collection, The Hermaphrodite, is claimed by John Cleveland as a joint performance between himself and Randolph, as the reader may see in Beaumont and Fletcher's works, in ten vols. 1750, p. 8. It appears also from the Bridgew. Catal. p, 27, according to the evidence of Henry Lawes the composer, by whom they were set to music, that two of the other poems, u A Charme," commencing " Sleepe, old man, let silence charme thee," and " Love's Freedome," beginning " Why should man be only ty'd," were written by Henry Harrington. Others were written by Bishop King, Randolph, £c. It includes also Bishop Earle's Elegy upon Beaumont ; and the last piece, " A Sonnet," commencing
Like a King without a Finger,
Or a Bell without a Ringer,
Like a Horse was never ridden,
Or a Feast, and no Gruest bidden, &c.
is not generally attributed to Beaumont. So that although printed in Beau- mont's name it is little more than a farrago of poems collected together by the publisher, who dedicates the volume in verse " To the worshipfull Robert Ducie of Aston in the county of Stafford Esq., sonne to Sir Robert Ducie Knight and Baronet deceased," and says of it :
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Were these but worthlesse Poems or light Rimes Writ by some common scribler of the times, Without your leave I durst not then ingage You, to ennoble 'm by your patronage ; But these though Orphans, and left fatherlesse, Their rich indowments show they doe possesse A Father's blessing : whom the fates thought fit To make the Master of a mine of wit : Whose ravishing conceits doe towre so high As if his quill had dropt from Mercury, &c.
After these are lines " To the true Patronesse of all Poetrie, Calliope," signed F. B. ; and verses in praise of the author by W. B., J. B. and J. F. and ten lines, " The Author to the Header."
The first poem, from Ovid's Metamorphoses, lib. iv. v. 347, "Salmaces and Hermaphroditus ; Or, The Hermaphrodite," which was the only one in the volume that appeared in Beaumont's life-time, was first printed in 1602. 4to, and is written with considerable elegance and poetical fancy, but in too warm and licentious a spirit, which, had he lived longer, might have been corrected. We give one short specimen from these poems, entitled
True Beauty.
May I finde a woman faire, May I finde a woman wise,
And her minde as cleare as ayre, And her falsehood not disguise,
If her beauty goe alone, Hath she wit, as she hath will,
'Tis to me as if 'twere none. Double arm'd she is to ill.
May I finde a woman rich, May I finde a woman kinde,
And not of too high a pitch : And not wavering like the winde :
If that pride should cause disdaine, How should I call that Love mine,
Tell me, Lover, where's thy gaine ? When 'tis his, and his, and thine ?
May I finde a woman true, There is Beauties fairest hue : There is Beauty, Love, and Wit, Happy he can compasse it.
Beaumont was the third son of Francis Beaumont, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas, and brother of Sir John Beaumont, and was born at Grace-Dieu in Leicestershire in 1586. He entered at Broadgate Hall in Oxford at the early age of twelve years ; and after studying there for a time, went from thence to the Inner Temple, where he devoted himself chiefly to dramatic pursuits and to poetry, his first play, in con- junction with Fletcher, having been acted in his twenty-first year. He
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married Ursula, daughter and co-heiress of Henry Isley of Sundridge in Kent, by whom he had two daughters, one of whom was living at a great age in Leicestershire, as a pensioner of the Ormond family, in 1700. She is said to have possessed several manuscript poems of her father, which were lost on her voyage from Ireland. He died in 1616, in his thirtieth year, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. See Wood's Ath. Oxon. vol. ii. p. 437 ; Biogr. Brit. vol. i. p. 623 ; Collier's Bridgew. Cat. p. 26 ; Campbell's Lives of the Poets., p. 181; and Jones's Biogr. Dram. vol. i. p. 26. These poems are reprinted in Chalmers's collection, and in Weber's edition of the works of Beaumont and Fletcher.
Fine copy. Bound by Charles Lewis, in Olive Calf extra, gilt leaves.
BEAUMONT, (FRANCIS.) — Poems: by Francis Beaumont, Gent. Viz. The Hermaphrodite. The Remedy of Love. Elegies. Sonnets, with other Poems. 8vo. London, Printed for William Hope, at the signe of the blew Anchor on the North- side of the Old Exchange. 1653.
In the present reprint of the poems of Beaumont, besides those which were contained in the former volume, there are many additions made, not only of poems composed by Beaumont himself, but by other contemporary writers. The metrical dedication by Blaikelocke before addressed to Robert Ducie, is here presented " To the Right Worshipfull the worthily honoured Robert Parkhurst Esq." The other complimentary lines are the same, but after those entitled " The Author to the Reader," are lines " To Mr. Francis Beaumont (then living)" by Ben Jonson and others, " Vpon M. Fletchers Incomparable Plaies" by Rob. Herrick ; " To the Memory of the imcompa- rable Paire of Authors, Beaumont and Fletcher ;" and " On the happy Collection of their Works" by I. Berkenhead. The lines on Beaumont's death, and Bishop Earle's Elegy are omitted from the place they occupied before, and put in another part of the volume. After the verses,
Like a Ring without a Finger Or a Bell without a Ringer," &c.,
the remainder, embracing the larger half of the book, is filled with entirely new matter. This consists of various short poems : " A Description of
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Love;"1 "A Funerall Elegie on the Death of the Lady Penelope Clifton ;" " The examination of his Mistris Perfections ;" " The Hermaphrodite made after M. Beaumonts Death by Thomas Randolph M.A. Sometime Fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge ;" " Upon the Hermaphrodite, written since by Mr. J. Cleveland ;" " To the Mutable Faire ;" " Of Loving at first sight ;" " The Antiplatonick ;" two "Songs;" " An Elegy," also found in Randolph's poems, p. 68 ; " Upon Mr. Charles Beaumont, who died of a Consump- tion ;" and some other pieces. Then occurs " A Maske of the Gentlemen of Graies Inne, and the Inner Temple, by Mr. Francis Beaumont." This was composed by Beaumont alone, and was presented before the king and queen at Whitehall on the occasion of the nuptials of the Princess Eliza- beth and Frederick Prince Palatine of the Rhine. It is reprinted in Nichols's Progresses of King James I. vol. ii. p. 591.
The Masque is succeeded by a large collection of " Prologues, Epilogues, and Songs to severall Plaies, by Mr. Francis Beaumont and Fletcher," occupying fifty-two pages. At the end of these are some additional poems : " The Honest Man's Fortune ;" " Mr. Francis Beaumonts Letter to Ben Jonson, written before he and Mr. Fletcher came to London, with two of the precedent Comedies then not finished, which deferred their merry meetings at the Mermaid." Then the lines on Beaumont's Death and Bishop Earle's Elegy, other Epitaphs on Shakespeare, Ben Jonson (two), Edmund Spencer, Michael Drayton, and " On the Tombes in Westminster." There is then introduced the well-known piece by Meriton, " The Ex-Ale- tation of Ale ;" some poems on the Praise of Sack and the Triumph of Tobacco; and the volume concludes with some lines on "The praises of a Country Life."
This edition, like the former, was published by Blaikelocke, whose name appears on the imprint in some of the copies, but why it was not publicly stated in the title that it contained poems by other hands than Beaumont's, we are at a loss to conceive. So carelessly and inattentively did the editor perform his work that, besides admitting pieces not be- longing to Beaumont, after the poem "A Description of Love" he has printed six lines only of the commencement of a poem called " The Shep- herdesse," (published at length in the poems of his elder brother Sir
This is also inserted among the poems of his brother Sir John Beaumont,
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John Beaumont, p. 101,) and which are unintelligible here. Neither this nor the former edition were in the Bibl. Ang. Poet.
Baron Bolland's copy. In the original binding.
BEAUMONT, (SiR JOHN, Bart.) — Bosworth-field : with a Taste of the Variety of other Poems, left by Sir John Beaumont, Baronet, deceased : Set forth by his Sonne, Sir John Beavmont, Baro- net; and dedicated to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie. Sm. 8vo. London, Printed by Felix Kyngston for Henry Seile, and are to be sold at the Tygers Head in Saint Pauls Churchyard. 1629.
Sir John Beaumont Bart., whose poems are here posthumously published by his son, was born at the family seat of Grace-Dieu in 1582, and was the elder brother of the dramatist. He was admitted at the same time with his two brothers as a gentleman commoner at Broadgate Hall in Oxford in 1596, and after remainining there for three years, like his brother Francis, he entered one of the Inns of Court, but soon quitted the study of the law, and retired to his native place, where he married a lady of the name of Fortescue, and in 1626 was created a baronet by Charles I. In the early part of his life he cultivated an acquaintance with the Muses, not unsuc- cessfully, and employed his leisure time in translations from several of the Latin poets. He also wrote The Crown of Thorns, a poem in eight books, of which no copy is known to exist. Besides his larger one of Bosworth- field, his other poems are either on religious subjects or of a moral kind. He died in 1628, and was buried in the church at Grace-Dieu, leaving three sons, — John, who was killed at the siege of Gloucester in 1644, and died without issue, to whom we are indebted for this edition of his father's poems ; Francis, who afterwards became a Jesuit, and of whom there is an engraved portrait in Nichols's History of Leicestershire, vol. hi. p. 659; and Thomas, who succeeded to the title and estate.
After a prose dedication of " these Orphan Verses" to King Charles I. by his son Sir John Beaumont, are two elegies in verse to the memory of the father by Thomas Nevill and Sir Thomas Hawkins the translator of Horace, in the latter of which allusion is made to Beaumont's earlier poem of The Crown of Thorns :
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Like to the Bee, thou didd'st those Flow'rs select,
That most the tastefull palate might affect
With pious relishes of things Divine,
And discomposed sence with peace combine.
Which (in thy Crowne of Thames') we may discerne,
Fram'd as a Modell for the best to learne.
Then another copy of verses by the same, "A Congratulation to the Muses, for the immortalizing of his deare Father, by the sacred Vertue of Poetry," hy his son John Beaumont; and "Upon the following Poems of my deare Father," by his son Francis Beaumont (not the dramatist, as the editor of the Eibl. Aug. Poet, supposed, but the nephew of that writer). These two addresses evidently prove that a poetical taste was inherent in the family, and the first in particular shows that John Beaumont was no despicable poet himself. Then follow other tributary verses by George Fortescue, Ben Jonson, Mi. Drayton, Ph[ilip] Kin[g] (in Latin), and Ja. Cl. The first of these by Fortescue mentions his near relationship to Sir John Beaumont, and he was no doubt his brother-in-law. In the lines by Drayton he makes an allusion to the cause of the death of Beaumont, which it is not easy to comprehend :
Thy care for that which was not worth thy breath Brought on too soone thy much lamented death.
The principal poem is a descriptive account of the Battle of Bosworth- field. The poem is written in rhyming heroic couplets of ten syllables each, and is not without merit. The versification is smooth and harmonious, the similes just and apposite, and the whole is much above mediocrity. It commences thus :
The Winters storme of Ciuill warre I sing, Whose end is crown'd with our eternall spring, Where Roses ioyn'd, their colours mixe in one, And armies fight no more for Englands Throne. Thou gracious Lord, direct my feeble Pen, Who (from the actions of ambitious men,) Hast by thy goodnesse drawne our ioyfull good, And made sweet flowres and oliues grow from blood, While we delighted with this faire release, May clime Parnassus, in the dayes of peace.
After this exordium the poem opens with a description of the hideous dreams which affrighted the mind of the king on the night before the fatal
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battle, and drove him from his restless bed. He is comforted by his friends Lovell, Catesby, and Eatcliffe, and his mind appeased :
Thus being chear'd, he calls aloud for armes,
And bids that all should rise, who Morpheus charmes.
Bring me (saith he) the harnesse that I wore
At Teuxbury, which from that day no more
Hath felt the battries of a ciuill strife,
Nor stoode betweene destruction and my life.
Vpon his brest-plate he beholds a dint,
Which in that field young Edwards sword did print :
This stirres remembrance of his heinous guilt,
When he that Princes blood so foulely spilt.
Now fully arm'd, he takes his helmet bright,
Which like a twinkling starre, with trembling light
Sends radiant lustre through the darksome aire ;
This maske will make his wrinkled visage faire.
But when his head is couer'd with the steele,
He telles his seruants, that his temples feele
Deepe-piercing stings, which breed vnusuall paines,
And of the heauy burden much complaines.
Some marke his words, as tokens fram'd t' expresse
The sharpe conclusion of a sad successe :
Then going forth, and finding in his way
A souldier of the Watch, who sleeping lay ;
Enrag'd to see the wretch neglect his part,
He strikes a sword into his trembling heart,
The hand of death, and iron dulnesse takes
Those leaden eyes which nat'rall ease forsakes :
The King this morning sacrifice commends,
And for example, thus the fact defends ;
I leaue him as I found him, fit to keepe
The silent doores of euerlasting sleepe.
This is contrasted with the quiet sleep of Richmond; whose soul is clear from guilt, and " full of holy thoughts and pious vowes." The poem then describes the arrangement of the army of the king, the speeches of Richard and Richmond to their forces before the battle, the intended beheading of young Stanley Lord Strange by Richard, and its postponement at the inter- cession of Ferrers; the single combat of the Duke of Norfolk and the Earl of Oxford, which is pictured with much spirit ; the meeting between Talbot and the Earl of Surrey, and surrender of his sword by the latter;
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the fight between Brackenbury and Hungerford. and the death of Bracken- bury ; the beautiful episode of Byron and the dying Clifton ; the death of Brandon, the standard bearer ; the defection of Lord Stanley to the side of Henry; and finally the death of Kichard, the concluding lines describing which have been much praised, and may be added here :
Thus trampled down, and hew'd with many swords
He softly utter'd these his dying words,
" Now strength no longer Fortune can withstand,
I perish in the Center of my Land."
His hand he then with wreathes of grasse infolds,
And bites the earth, which he so strictly holds,
As if he would haue borne it with him hence,
So loth he was to lose his rights pretence.
The following episode will bear quotation, and will not, we hope, be found displeasing to our readers :
If in the midst of such a bloody fight,
The name of friendship be not thought too light,
Recount my Muse, how Byrons faithfull loue
To dying Clifton did it selfe approue :
For Clifton fighting brauely in the troope
Receiues a wound, and now begins to droope :
Which Byron seeing, though in armes his foe,
In heart his friend, and hoping that the blow
Had not been mortall, guards him with his shield
From second hurts, and cries, " Deare Clifton, yeeld :
Thou hither cam'st; led by sinister fate,
Against my first advice, yet now, though late,
Take this my counsell." Clifton thus replied :
" It is too late, for I must now provide
To seeke another life : Hue thou, sweet friend,
And when thy side obtaines a happy end,
Ypon the fortunes of my children looke,
Remember what a solemne oath wee tooke,
That he whose part should proue the best in fight,
Would with the Conqu'rour trie his vtmost might,
To saue the others lands from rau'nous pawes,
Which seaze on fragments of a lucklesse cause.
My fathers fall our house had almost drown'd,
But I by chance aboord in shipwraeke found.
May neuer more such danger threaten mine :
Deale, thou for them, as I would doe for thine."
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This said, bis senses faile, and pow'rs decay, While Byron calles : " Stay, worthy Clifton, stay, And heare my faithfull promise, once again, Which if I breake, may all my deeds be vaine." But now he knowes, that vitall breath is fled, And needlesse words are vtter'd to the dead : Into the midst of Richards strength he flies, Presenting glorious acts to Henries eyes, And for his seruice he expects no more, Then Cliftons sonne from forfeits to restore.
We conclude our extracts from Bosworth-field with a few similes :
So when the Winter to the Spring bequeathes The rule of time, and milde Fauonius breathes, A quire of Swans to that sweete Musicke sings, The Ayre resounds the motion of their wings, When ouer plaines they flie in order'd rankes, To sport themselues vpon Caisters bankes.
So painefull Bees with forward gladnesse striue To ioyne themselues in throngs before the hiue, And with obedience till that houre attend, When their commander shall his watchword send : Then to the winds their tender sailes they yield, Depresse the flowres, depopulate the field.
As when the Cranes direct their flight on high, To cut their way, they in a Trigon flie, Which pointed figure may with ease diuide Opposing blasts, through which they safely glide.
• As when a Steare to burning Altars led, Expecting fatall blowes to cleaue his head, Is by the Priest for some religious cause Sent backe to liue, and now in quiet drawes The open ayre, and takes his wonted food, And neuer thinkes how neere to death he stood.
Our limits prevent us from giving any extracts from the translations, which are taken from Virgil's Fourth Eclogue ; Horace's Sixth Satire, book ii. containing the City and Country Mouse, capitally done; Twenty-ninth Ode, book iii. and Second Epode ; Persius's Second Satire; Ausonius's Sixteenth Idyll ; Claudian's Epigram of the Old Man of Verona ; the Tenth Satire of Juvenal; and a Funeral Hymn out of Prudentius. These are executed with much spirit and closeness to the original, and contain many
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couplets, which for their ease and terseness are worthy of even Pope himself. The miscellaneous poems also, many of them, possess considerable merit, and are not undeserving of re-publication. One addressed to King James I. "concerning the true form of English Poetry," has been much commended, but we prefer quoting the lines on the death of " his deare
Sonne Geruase Beaumont," who died young :
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Can I, who haue for others oft compil'd
The Songs of Death, forget my sweetest child,
Which like a flow'r crusht, with a blast is dead,
And ere full time hangs downe his smiling head,
Expecting with cleare hope to Hue anew,
Among the Angels fed with heau'nly dew ?
We haue this signe of loy, that many dayes,
While on the earth his struggling spirit stayes,
The name of lesus in his mouth containes,
His onely food, his sleepe, his ease from paines.
O may that sound be rooted in my mind,
Of which in him such strong effect I find.
Deare Lord, receiue my Sonne, whose winning loue
To me was like a friendship, farre aboue
The course of nature, or his tender age,
Whose lookes could all my bitter griefes asswage :
Let his pure sou'le ordain'd seu'n yeares to be
In that fraile body, which was part of me,
Bemaine my pledge in heau'n, as sent to shew,
How to this Port at eu'ry step I goe.
In some lines " Vpon the death of the most noble Lord Henry Earle of Southampton, 1624," the friend of Shakespeare, Beaumont thus refers to his patronage of his earlier poem of The Crown of Thorns :
He is a Father to my crowne of thornes : Now since his death, how can I euer looke Without some tears vpon that Orphan booke ?
And then concludes his poem as follows :
Ye sacred Muses, if ye will admit My name into the roll, which ye have writ Of all your seruants, to my thoughts display Some rich conceipt, some vnfrequented way, Which may hereafter to the world commend A picture fit for this my noble Friend :
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For this is nothing, all these Rimes I scorne ; Let Pens be broken, and the paper torne ; And with his last breath let my nmsick cease, Ynlesse my lowly Poem could increase In true description of immortall things, And rays'd aboue the earth with nimble wings, Fly like an Eagle from his Fun'rall pire, Admir'd by all, as all did him admire.
It is singular that all the existing copies of this book are deficient of one leaf, pp. 181-182, which has evidently been cut out. What was the subject of the missing poem thus withdrawn it would be a vain attempt to conjecture. See further Kippis's Biogr. Brit. vol. ii. p. 87, edition 1780; Wood's Ath. Oxon. vol. ii. p. 434 ; Drake's Shakespeare and his Times, vol. i. p. 201; Nichols's Hist. Leicest. vol. iii. pt. ii. p. 659; Headley's Anc. Eng. Poets, vol. i. p. 29; Bibl. Ang. Poet, p. 25; and Chalmers's Collect. Eng. Poets, vol. vi. pp. 1-48, where Sir John Beaumont's poems have been reprinted.
Collation: Title, A 2; Sig. A, 8; (a), 4; B to 0 8, in eights. Bound by Winstanley. In Brown Calf extra, gilt leaves.
BEAUMONT, (SiR JOHN, Bart.) — Bosworth-Field : A Poem. Writ- ten in the Year 1629, and Dedicated to King Charles I. By Sir John Beaumont Baronet. With several Verses in Praise of the Author, and Elegies on his Death, by the greatest Wits then living, 8vo. London : Printed and Sold by H. Hills in Black-fryars, near the Water-side, 1710.
This is a verbatim reprint of Sir John Beaumont's Bosworth-field only, with the introductory poems which were in the first edition, but does not contain any of the translations, or other miscellaneous pieces. The Elegies on his death, mentioned in the title-page, are merely the two by Thomas Nevill and Thomas Hawkins. The whole consist of forty pages only, the last being a list of other poems, &c., printed by H. Hills in Blackfriars. The present volume contains also, bound up with the above, a collection of twenty-two other poems, all printed by Hills, of a uniform size, during the years 1709 and 1710.
From Mr. Heber's collection. Bound in Brown Calf, neat.
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BECON, (THOMAS.) — A newe Dialoge betwene thangel of God and the Shepherds of ye felde concerning the Natiuite and byrth of Jesus Christ our Lord and sauior ; no lesse Godly than swete and pleasant to reade ; lately compyled by Thomas Becon.
Luke ii. Beholde I bryng you tydynges of greate Joy that shall come to all the pepole. For unto you is borne thys day in the City of Dauid, a Sauyour which is Christ the Lord.
i. Timothe i. This is a true sayinge, and by all meanes worthy to be received of us, that Christ Jesus came into the world to saue synners.
Folio, folft, lett* [Colophon.] Imprinted at London by John Day, dwelling ouer agaynst Aldersgate beneath Saint Martins.
Cum gratiee et priuilegio Regiee Majestatis. The xxv. day of November 1563.
The two poems, of which an account is here given, occur at the end of the second part of the collected works of Thomas Becon, an eminent theologian at the time of the Reformation. The first poem, which con- sists of eight leaves, printed in Jjift. Tttt., commences on fol. cclxxxiiii., sig, BBbb.vi. The title is in a compartment with the royal arms and motto Dieu et mon droit at the top ; on the sides, a figure standing on a pedestal, supported at the back by other figures; at the bottom, Day"s elegant rebus of one person waking another asleep on the ground, and pointing to the rising sun, with these words on the sides, " Arise, for it is Day." The poem is written in short eight-line verses, headed "The Dialoge. Thangell speketh ;" from near the opening of which we transcribe the following verses :
This chylde alone He is the kynge He is the peace
Sent from Gods throne To whose byddynge Whiche shall release
All kynde of mone Euery t binge All our disease
Shall put awaye. Obeyeth humbly. And greuous paine.
Who so embrace He is the Lorde He is the stay,
His louing face By whose concorde He is the waye
Shall wante no grace All thinges restorde By whom we may
Nor yet decaye. Shall be plainly. G-lorye obtayne.
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He is the truthe Whiche doth all ruthe Suche as ensueth Clene put awaye. He is the lyfe By whom all stryfe Is no more ryfe But sore decaye.
He is the Gyde On euery syde Which at eche tyde Doth his people saue. He is the health Of whom all wealth Withouten stealth Men ought to craue.
He is the lyght That is so bryght In all mennes syght To shewe the waye. He is the Kocke If that we knocke He will unlocke And healpe us aye.
He is the louer, The sauiour, The mediatour Of the faithfull. If that we call, Thoughe we be thrall, He will us all Unto him pull.
Pleasures many, Treasures plenty, Shall men truly Of him receiue. Who so that will Come him untyll ShaU haue his fyll Without deceyue.
These ioyfull newes Whiche Satan ruyse Without excuse God commaunded, That I, thangeU Shulde shewe and tell To them that well Are disposed.
The obstinate Eeceiue this rate Earely or late Will by no wise.
The symple therefore Nowe euermore To teach this lore Will I deuise.
In this way the dialogue is carried on through the poem, the portion assigned to the Shepherds being printed in a smaller type. Then follows the second poem :
An Inuectiue agaynst whoredome and al other abhominacions of un- cleanesse. A worke most necessary for thys present time. Com- piled by Thomas Becon.
Deut. xxiii.
There shall be no whore of ye doughters of Israeli, nor whorekeper of the sonnes of Israeli.
Heb. xiii. Wedlocke is honorable among all personnes, and the bed undefiled ; as for
whoremongers and adulterers Gi-od shall iuge and plage them. Folio, fclfc, lett. Imprinted at London by John Day, &c. This latter poem occupies nine leaves, and begins on fol. cclxxxxi. The title is in the same compartment as the other, on the reverse of which are these lines :
The Boke speaketh. Although I do here diuers reprehende Worthy in dede of reprehencion. Yet to rebuke such do I not intende, As be of honeste conuersacion.
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The wicked to rebuke my mynde it is For full wickedly tlieyr lifes do they lede But such as from pure lyfe go not amisse Do not I touch in worde nor yet in dede.
The good in theyr goodnes styll to remain
Is my desyre euen from the very hart :
The ungodly also woulde I full fayne
That they shoulde from theyr wickednes departe.
If any shall perceyue by readyng mee,
Them selfes gilty in thinges that they do rede,
To flee from that vice of impuritie
Let them endeuour them selues with all spede.
Unto cleannes of lyfe is mine intent,
To allure all men, if possible it bee
That all men maye kepe G-ods commaundement,
And come to gloryous felicitie.
The poem is composed in oeto-syllabic four-line verse, extending to three hundred and thirty-three in all, each having a similar burthen at the end. The reader will be able to judge of the style and metre of this curious poem from the three opening verses :
Down with the whoredom of Englande Which hath this realme so loge made bonde Down with hyr whelpes that are so fonde Let them al go downe a downe a.
Down with the court of Dame Yenus And hyr pastimes voluptouse Down with hyr trayne so mischeuouse Let them al go downe a downe a.
Downe with cupide that wanton chylde Which of longe time hath us begilde Down with al them that are so wild Let them al go downe a downe a.
The poem is continued in this singular manner throughout, thirty-two verses being thus addressed to wives, thirty to husbands, thirty-one to the maids, twenty-five to young men, and other smaller numbers to prentices, servants, serving men, widowers and widows, priests, scribes, &c. Various instances are introduced from Scripture, Joseph, Susanna, &c., and then examples are brought forward from classical authors; and the subjoined
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verses in allusion to these, may claim the readers attention for a passing moment :
Was not Guide for euer banished Because a worke he compiled Which of matters of loue entreated And by this meanes came downe a.
Dyd not Plato al wryters exile Which on such sort dyd direct theyr style That wanton matters they dyd compile And made them to come downe a.
Verses of loue that in youth he dyd make Whe he cam to age ye same he did forsake Because women of the no yl should take And by this meanes come down a.
In his comon weale he could not abyde Any suche persons as at any tyde Unto unthriftines dyd young persons gyde And by this meanes make them to &c.
He commaunded also streyghtly That children from theyr infancy Should have noursers honest and godly That by no meanes they might come &c.
The Lasedemonians wyse and prudent Commaunded al with one consent That archilochus bokes verament Shoulde in theyr citie come down a.
They very straightly commanded That from theyr citie his bokes unfeyned Should be caryed out and none of the red Because theyr children shoulde not &c.
Though his bokes were lerned and eloquent Yet wold not they haue theyr children bet To rede the, lest they shuld haue an entet To folowe leudnes, and so come downe a.
They preferred godly maners Before eloquent workes euers Chiefly if they would make the readers Unto leudnes to come down a.
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Learning they dyd esteame greatly Yet godly lyfe dyd they set more by So that who so euer taught contrary They made him come down a downe a.
Thomas Becon, the author of these two scarce poems, one of our most popular Keformers, is believed to be a native of Norfolk, and born about 1511 or 1512. He received his education at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he is reported to have taken his degree of B.A. as early as 1530, and whilst there was a constant hearer of Latimer, " to whom," he says "next to God, I am especially bound to give most hearty thanks for the knowledge, if any I have, of God, and of his most blessed word." Becon was ordained in 1538, and his first preferment was a small vicarage near Romney, in Kent, but after suffering some trouble and imprisonment on ac- count of his publications, and making a public submission, he was compelled to retire into the country, and conceal himself in Derbyshire and other midland counties. On the accession of Edward VI. in 1547, he was made chaplain to the Protector Somerset, and presented to tbe Rectory of, St. Stephens, Walbrook, of which he was deprived on the accession of Queen Mary in 1553, and was imprisoned in the Tower during her reign, along with Bradford and Veron, but escaped abroad to Marpurg, and afterwards went to Strasburg. He laboured hard, and wrote numerous tracts in favour of the Reformation, but seems never to have attained to that elevation in the Church to which his great learning and merits, and his long-suffering in her cause, appear justly to have entitled him. On his return to this country, on the death of Queen Mary, he was restored to his London preferment, presented to the Rectory of Buckland in Hertfordshire, in 1560, and in 1563 to St. Dionis Backchurch, in London; and had also a Prebendal Stall at Canterbury, where he died in 1570, being then about sixty years of age. Many of his works were collected and published by John Day the printer in 1563, and are among those frequently found in a mutilated state in our Churches and Church Libraries. Most of these have been reprinted at the Cambridge University Press in 1843-4, in 3 vols., royal 8vo, by the Parker Society, under the editorial care of the Rev. John Ayre, M.A., of Caius College, Minister of St. John's Chapel, Harapstead, with a good biographical notice of Becon. But although the editor has re- printed versions of the 103rd Psalm in English metre, as a Thanksgiving to God, by Becon, on his deliverance out of prison 1554, and of the 112th Psalm, he has entirely omitted the present poems.
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See Lupton's History of the Modern Protestant Divines, 12mo, London, 1637 ; Strype's Annals, folio, London 1725 ; and Ritson's Bibl. Poet. p. 128.
There is a fine copy of the collected works of Becon, which are now be- come exceedingly scarce, in folio, 2 vols., in the Chetham Library, in Man- chester.
Half bound in blue moroco, gilt leaves.
BEDWELL, (WILHELM.) — The Tvrnament of Tottenham. Or, The wooing, winning, and wedding, of Tibbe, the reev's daughter there. Written long since in verse, by Mr. Gilbert Pilking- ton, at that time as some have thought Parson of the Parish. Taken out of an ancient Manuscript, and published for the delight of others, by Wilhelm Bedwell, now Pastour there. 4to. Printed at London by John Norton. 1631.
Warton has devoted some space in his forty-third section to the descrip- tion of this curious alliterative poem, which he assigns to the reign of Henry VIII. Others have referred it to the time of Henry VI. But Mr. Wright, by whom the poem has been reprinted from another manuscript in the Public Library at Cambridge, is convinced from internal evidence that it was written as early as the reign of Edward II. It was first published, as we here see, in 1631, from an ancient manuscript, but modernized in the language, along with the History of Tottenham, by vVilhelm Bedwell, rector of that parish, and one of the translators of the Bible, who says that it was written long since in verse by Gilbert Pilkington, supposed to have been rector of the same parish, and author of a tract called Passio Domini nostri. The dedication is addressed by Bedwell "To the Eight Honourable, Right Worshipfull, and Wel- beloued, the inhabitants of Tottenham High-crosse in Middlesex," and is dated "From Tottenham this 25 of March 1631." In the epistle " To the Courteous Reader," which follows, Bedwell, after stating that lie had altered and modernized the language from the ancient manuscript out of which he transcribed, says : " Amongst sundry other treatises in this copy there is a story of Robin Hood and Little John, which seemeth to be done by the same Author." He adds : " It is now seauen or eight yeares since I came first to the sight of the copy, and that by the
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meanes of the worthy, and my much honoured good friend M. Ge. Withers : Of whom also, now at length, I haue obtained the TSC of the same. And because the verse was then by him, a man of so exquisite Judgement in this kinde of learning, much commended : As also for that the thing itselfe doth concerne none more than my selfe, and others the inhabitants of Tottenham, I thought it worth the while, especially at idle times, to tran • scribe it, and for the honour of the place, to make it publicke." He con- cludes by saying : " The Author, hath not any where through the whole booke, as farre as I remember, subscribed his name to any treatise, more then to one, where I finde it thus, Explicit Passio Domini nostri, lesu Christi^ qucd dominus Gilbertus Py'kyngton : Now because the character or phrase is in all the same, I haue no reason but to thinke they be all workes of the same Author." After ten lines by Thomas May, addressed " To my learned and reuerend friend Mr. Wilhelm Bedwell one of the translators of the Bible," the poem commences, and occupies seven pages. Of this the reader will be able to form some idea from the following short extract :
I make a vow, quoth G-regge, Tibbe thou shall see Which of all the baehelery graunted is the gree : I shall skomfit them all, for the love of thee, In what place that I come, they shall have doubt of mee : For I am arm'd at the full : In my armes I beare wele A dough-trough and a pele A saddle without a pannele With a fleece of wooll.
Now go downe, quoth Dudman, and beare me bet about : I make a vow, they shall abye that I finde out, Haue I twice or thrice ridden through the rought In what place that 1 come, of me they shall ha doubt, Mine armes bene so clere I beare a riddle and a rake Powder' d with the brenning drake, And three cantles of a cake, In ilk a cornere.
I make a vow, quoth Tirry, and sweare by my Crede Saw thou never young boy, for thee his body bede : For when they fight fastest, and most are in drede, I shall take Tib by the hand, and away her lede.
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Then bin mine armes best :
I beare a pilch of ermin
Powder'd with a cats skinue
The cheefe is of pechmine That stond'th on the crest.
I make a vow, quoth Dudman, and sweare by the stra, While I am most merry, thou gett'st her not awa : For she is well shapen, as light as a rae, There is no capull in this mile before her will ga. Shee will me not beguile : I dare soothly say Shee will be a monday Fro Hissilton to Hacknay Nought other halfe mile.
I make a vow, quoth Perkin, thou carpst of cold rost I will wirke wislier without any boast Five of the best capulls, that are in this host I will hem lead away by another cost. And then laugh Tibbe. We loo boyes here is he, That will fight and not flee, For I am in my iollity. loo foorth Tibbe.
The former editions of the Turnament of Tottenham, with the ex- ception of that by Ritson in his Ancient Songs and Ballads, were all printed from the text given by Bishop Percy in the later impressions of his Reliques. In the first edition of that work, he made use of the printed copy in the History of Tottenham, by Bed well, 1631. But in the later editions of the Reliques, that text was rejected, and another adopted con- tained in a MS. pointed out by Tyrwhitt, in the Harl. Collection, No. 5396, which he corrected by Bed well's copy. Mr. Wright was fortunate enough to execute his reprint from an older and much better MS. in the Public Library of the University of Cambridge (Ff. 5, 48) which appeared on examination to be the identical MS. formerly in the possession of Wither, containing the " Passio Domini nostri," with the explicit at the end, and the tale of Robin Hood and Little John, which Bedwell had mentioned. Mr. Wright has given the chief various readings of the Harl. M.S. from Percy in the notes at the end of his little volume, and has also printed another short burlesque poem, evidently intended as a sequel to the former, which
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gives a longer account of the feast, and of the dance afterwards, held on the occasion of the nuptials of Perkyn and Tibbe. The poem was evidently intended to ridicule the popular and passionate love of chivalry, and as a humorous burlesque on the ancient and fashionable sports of the tournaments and tilting matches. " The whole," says Warton, " is a mock-parody on the challenge, the various events of the encounter, the exhibition of the prize, the devices and escocheons, the display of arms, the triumphant procession of the conqueror, the oath before the combat, and the splendid feast which followed, with every other ceremony and circumstance which constituted the regular tournament."
The remainder of the volume is taken up with " A Briefe Description of the towne of Tottenham High-Crosse in Middlesex : together with an historicall Narration of such memorable things, as are there to be seen and obserued. Collected, digested, and written by Wilhelm Bedwell at this present Pastour of the Parish. London, Printed by lohn Norton, 1631." This part is dedicated " To the Eight Honourable Hugh, Lord Colerane, Barren of Colerane, &c.," and is divided into two books, each containing eight short chapters. It contains some curious proverbs on the place, on which Fuller has made some remarks on his Worthies of England ', 1662, fol. p. 178. It was reprinted along with Butcher's Survey and Antiquity of Stamford in 1717, 8vo. See also Warton's Hist. Eng. Poet., vol. iii. p. 338; Percy's Reliques of Anc. Eng. Poet.., vol. ii. p. 13; Ritson's Ancient Songs and Ballads; Hartshorne's Metrical Tales; the preface to Mr. Wright's reprint, 1836, and Bibl. Ang. Poet. No. 526. Bill Heber. pt. viii. No. 1857, \l 2s.; White Knights, No. 3362, 41. 6s.; Bibl Ang. Poet. No. 526, 21. Ws.
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BEEDOME, (THOMAS.) — Poems Divine, and Humane. By Thomas Beedome. Sm. 8vo. London, Printed by E. P. for lohn Sweeting, and are to be sold at his Shop, at the signe of the Angel in Popes-Head-Alley, near Cornehill. 1641.
The author of these poems died when very young, and the volume here published was a posthumous one. And if we may judge from the numer-
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ous complimentary verses prefixed to the work, according to the fashion of those times, it would appear that Beedome was held in much esteem and regard by his many friends and contemporaries. The volume is ushered in by a short prose address " To the Keader," by Hen. Glapthorne, which is succeeded by commendatory verses by Ed. May; Hen. Glapthorne (in English and Latin); W. C. ; Em. D. (two copies); H. S. ; H. P. ; R. W.; J. S. ; Tho. Nabbes; and his brother Fran. Beedome. The principal poem has a separate title page, as follows :
The lealous Lover ; or, the Constant Maid. Written by T. B.
Sat est pro laude Voluptas. London : printed by E. P. for lohn Sweeting, &c., as above.
This poem, which is preceded by a short metrical address from " The Author to the Reader," is written in six-line stanzas, and contains some good lines, mixed with much that is crude and conceited, and which, pro- bably, had the youthful author lived longer, would have received his more matured corrections. A few stanzas may be quoted from this poem for the satisfaction of the reader. They relate to the heroine Pandora after her banishment to the woods by her "jealous lover," Philorus :
Heere unfrequented, save with savage beasts, She spends the tedious minutes of her age : Her eyes upon the severall sights slie feasts, While sorrow triumphs in her equipage :
The greedy earth cast off her covering grasse,
To looke upon her as she by did passe.
The savage Tyger when it came her neare,
Stoop' d to the splendor of her conquering eyes :
The tusked Bore that broke Adonis speare
Croucht downe to her3 whose mercy bid it rise : Who then in duty gently to her came, And hence it is that some have since beene tame.
The winged birds from heaven came downe in quires Each one by turne did sing his rounde-lay, Whose aiery notes still up againe aspires, Which being ended each bird flyes away
To get new songs : thus by their various layes,
Each steales a little sorrow from the dayes.
The now-growne gentle Satyres did invite
The wood Nymphes to compose a measur'd dance,
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Each thing affords some matter of delight, As glad her downe-cast lookes they might advance. The little Ermin can afford its skin, From the cold aire to wrap her hands therein.
The trees did gladly spread their open armes,
To shade her roses from the blowing wind,
And lapt their leaves so close, no scorching harmes
Could burne her lillies when Apollo shin'd. The pittying Sezor when it heard her grone Lest she should faint, bites out his Cordiall stone.
At the end of the poem in the present copy is the following octave stanza, written in a hand of that period, entitled
Loues Choyce.
Loue, whose sole object's Yertue, I doe loue ; Loose love, whose only Period's Delight, Is like a Basilisk unto my sight. That, though below, hath fixt his thoughts aboue This, though aboue, a bruitish shape will take, And leaue a Juno, for his Juno's sake. So spheare your Loue, y1 your chast choice may seeke More Beauty in ye Minde, then in ye Cheeke.
The remainder of the volume is divided into short miscellaneous poems, epitaphs, and epigrams, most of which are disfigured by conceit and extra- vagance, but evincing promise of better things. Take, for instance, the following spirited little poem as a specimen :
Loves Apostacy. To hisfrieud Mr. E. D. Tut, let her goe, can I endure all this, Yet dye, to doate upon a Maidens kisse ? Is there such magicke in her lookes, that can Into a foole, transfigurate a man ? Didst thou not love her ? true : and she disdaine To meet thy vertue ? let her meete her shame. Were she as faire as she her selfe would be, Adorn'd with all the cost of bravery : Could she melt hearts of flint, and from her eye Give her beholders power to live or die. I'de rather begge shee would pronounce my death, Then be her scorne, though that preserved my breath. Eise heart ! and be not fool'd : S'foote what a shame Were it for thee to re-incense one flame
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From the declining sparke ? dost thou not know As shee's a woman, her whole sexe doth owe To thine all honour ? her false heart and pride Dare not oppose thy faith : then tnrne high tyde, And let her, since her scorne doth so disease thee By her repentance strive againe to please thee.
Among the epigrams are some addressed " To his deare friend William Harrington;" "To the excellent Poet Mr. George Withers;" "To Sir Henry Wootten Knight" (two); "To the Heroicall Captaine Thomas James" (two) ; and " To the memory of his honoured friend Master John Donne, an Eversary." We select the one to George Wither, chiefly on account of its allusions to some of his works :
I never saw thee : hat should grossely lie
To say I know thee not, for silly I,
Or one that is more stupid, well may guesse
At what thou art by what thou dost expresse.
Oh ! that blest day, when first my willing hand
Op't the remembrance of this Sin-sicke land :
Trust mee, I griev'd to thinke that now my age
Had sixteene summers acted on this stage:
Yet was a stranger to so rare a soule
As thine : whose heaven-bred boldnesse durst controle
Without respect of persons, every sinne,
That to thy knowledge had committed bin.
Then next thy Satyres, and thy Motto, I
Made hast to purchase, where I might espie,
How some too base for earth, not worth a name,
Sought by their mire and dirt to clay thy fame.
And credit mee, I hardly could forbeare
Upon these pittied lines to drop a teare.
But that I know vertue oppos'd by fate,
Lookes greatest (like the Sunne) in lowest state :
When other wits, who have in some base rime
Imploy'd of late, that they might conquer time ;
Shall like those paper toyes, in which they trust,
Be eate by wormes, or molded into dust,
And want a name : thou by thy virtues grac't,
Shall live till earth by fire shall be embrac't.
Thy unknown well-wisher Th. Beed.
Henry Bold in his Wit a Sporting, 8vo. 1657, noticed hereafter, has made free use of Beedome's Yolume, and has stolen from it many of the
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shorter pieces, forming the whole of the first portion of that work, includ- ing the address of the Author to the Eeader. Beedome has commendatory verses before Farley's Lights M "or -all Emblems , Svo. 1638.
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BENLOWES, (EDWARD.) — Theophila, or Loves Sacrifice. A Divine Poem. Written by E. B. Esq. Several Parts thereof set to fit Aires by Mr. J. Jenkins.
Longum Iter per Prcecepta^ breve et efficax per Exempla. Si Prceceptis non accendimur, saltern Exemplis incitemur, atq' in Appe- titu Rectitudinis nil sibi Mens nostra difficile sestimet, quod perfecte peragi ab Aliis videt. — Greg. Mag. 1. 9, c. 43.
Id peragas Vita, quod velles Morte peractum. Folio. London, Printed by R. N. Sold by Henry Seile in Fleet- street, and Humphrey Moseley at the Princes Arms in S. Pauls Church-yard. 1652.
Benlowes' Divine Theophila, as it was termed, is more remarkable for its curious plates by Hollar, Barlow and other engravers, than for its literary excellences, although not without a certain degree of merit. These plates vary very much in different copies, both in their number and condition. They are for the most part more in the form of etchings freely touched than of regularly engraved plates, and are remarkable for their spirited style of execution. The portrait of the author, sometimes found prefixed, is of the greatest rarity.
The title is followed by Latin lines, entitled " Mens Authoris," and the same in English, and some verses addressed to the ladies, opposite to which is the well-known engraving of the " Lady in a Winter Dress" by Hollar. These are succeeded by a long " Preface" in prose, a list of " The severall Cantos," and a table of errata. Then " Pneumato-Sarco-Machia ; or Theophila's Spiritual Warfare," in prose and verse; and some six-line
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stanzas entitled "To my Fancie upon Theophila," the capital letters com- mencing each stanza being formed of woodcut human figures, twisted into various attitudes. The work is preceded by numerous commendatory verses by Jer. Collier, M.A. ; Walter Montague, son of the Earl of Man- chester; Th. Pestill; T. Benlowes, A.M.; W. Dennie, Baronet; Will. D'avenant, Tower May 13, 1652; Arth. Wilson; T. Philipot; Jo. Gau- dentius, S.T.D. (Latin) ; P. de Cardonel (ditto) ; P. F. (Payne Fisher) ditto ; and others anonymous.
The poem is divided into thirteen Cantos, most of them preceded by large plates by Hollar and others, with verses underneath, and by a short argu- ment in Latin and English. The first Canto is called " The Prelibation to the Sacrifice," and has an engraving with a full-length figure seated at a table writing, supposed to be a portrait of the author, and sometimes transferred as a frontispiece to the volume, where the portrait of Benlowes is wanting. At p. 17, after "The Summary of the Poem," is "The Author's Prayer," which has been much commended. The ninth Canto, termed "The Recapitulation," is in distichs, and has a Latin translation on the opposite pages ; and at the end of this occur Latin versions of the first and third Cantos, the former alone being rendered by Alexander Ross. On p. 175 are some six-line stanzas "Upon the Vanitie of the World," by Owen Feltham, and some Latin lines, " Mundo immundo." At the close of the eleventh Canto, p. 206, is an engraving by Hollar on the letter-press of a lady, " The Spring." At p. 209 of the two hemispheres on the letter- press, and at pp. 210 and 212 two small engravings on the same of a Cavalier, in the last seated at a table drinking. Cantos xii, and xiii. on "The Sweetnesse of Retirement," and "The Pleasures of Retirement," are in the same tristich verse as the former, the latter Canto having before it an engraving by Peter Lombart of a female in the attitude of prayer, with six Latin and English verses by Jer. Collier; and on p. 245 a woodcut portrait of Queen Elizabeth praying, with this inscription at the sides :
Having reformed Eeligion : established Peace : reduced Coin to the just Value : delivered Scotland from the French : revenged domestical Rebellion : saved France from headlong Ruine by Civil Warre : supported Belgia : overthrown the Spanish invincible Navie : expelled the Spaniards out of Ireland : received the Irish into Mercie : enriched England by her most prudent Government 45 Years : Elizabeth a vertuous and triumphant Queen : in the 70th year of her Age, in most happy and peaceable manner departed this Life : leaving here her mortal parts until by the last Trump she shall rise immortal.
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A Latin translation of Canto vii. by Jerem. Collier is then added ; and the volume closes with a " Peroratio Eucharistica," and two leaves contain- ing two very curious engravings, one by Tho. Cecill, Anno Dni 1632, and the other with a monogram MR. on the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Benlowes's Theophila^ written in a sort of triplet verse, excepting Canto nine, contains many just and apposite thoughts and images, but is over- loaded with conceits and far-strained metaphors ; and the effect of what would often be fine passages is neutralized by low and familiar expressions, and disfigured by his ever-prevailing mystic divinity. Any one, however, who is an admirer of the writings of Du Bartas, of Dr. Henry More as a poet, and Dr. Joseph Beaumont, cannot do otherwise than entertain a favourable opinion of Benlowes. Our readers will naturally expect to be indulged with a few passages selected from the Theophila, to enable them to judge of the style and talents of Benlowes, the first of which is taken from the twelfth Canto, called " The Segregation :"
XVI.
Vain World, Thy Friends are Theeves of Time ; Twice they
Are robb'd ; for Times Self steals away, Leaving a dull December for a sportive May.
XVII.
Fools Chat is built on Sand ; But blest who hives
Discourse, that on Heav'ns Sweetnesse lives, Such, as to raise the Fire to high-born Virtue strives.
XVIII.
For Birds of Paradise the proper Fare
Is purest Vapour of the Aire ; Souls nourisht from the Influ'nce of Gods Spirit are.
XIX.
Dew fattens Earth, the Earth yeelds Plants, and then
The Plants feed Beasts, the Beasts feed Men ; Man on Sis Word should feed, who gave him origen.
The next passage from the same canto contains some noble sentiments, and approaches near to excellence, with fewer disfigurements than usual;
XXXV.
The low-built Fortune harbours Peace, wheras
Ambitious high-rooft Babels passe Through Storms ,• Content with Thankfulnesse each Blessing has.
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XXXVI.
So fragrant Vi'lets, blushing Strawberies
Close shrouded lurk from lofty Eyes, The Emblem of sweet Blisse, which low and hidden lies.
XXXVII.
No masked Fraud, no Tempest of black Woes,
No flaunting Pride, no Eage of Foes, Bends hitherward, but soon is laid, or over-blows.
XXXVIII.
We rule our conquer'd Selves ; what need we more ?
To gadding Sense we shut the Door : Eich in our Mind alone. Who wants himself \ is Poor.
XXXIX.
Slaunder is stinglesse, Enrne toothless here ;
The Russet is well lin'd we wear ; Let Citts make Chains the Ensignes of their Pomp appear.
XL.
Faith linkt with Truth, and Love with Quiet too,
Ore pleasant Lawns securely goe j The golden Age, like Jordans Stream, does here reflow.
XLI.
For Fields of Combate, Fields of Corn are here,
For 2Voopiw<7-Eanks, -Free-ranks appear ; War steels the heart, but here we melt Heart, Eye, and Ear.
We close our extracts with one more passage from the same, which contains some pleasing rural pictures, and is deserving of attention as a favourable example of Benlowes's verse :
XLIX.
From Taurus when Sols Inflence descends, And Earth with verdant Eobe befriends, And richer Showres, then fell on Danaes Lap, dispends ;
L.
When early Phosphor lights from Eastern Bed
The gray-ey'd Morn, with Blushes red ; When Opal-Colours prank the Orient Tulips Head :
LI.
Then walk we forth, where twinkling Spangles shew,
Entinseling like Stars the Dew, Where Buds, like Pearls, and where we Leaves, like Em'ralds yiew :
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LIL Birds by Grovets in feather'd Garments sing
New Ditties to the non-ag'd Spring ; O, how those tracelesse Minstrels chear up every Thing.
LIII.
To hear quaint Nightingales, the Lutes o'th' Wood,
And Turtle Doves, by their Mates woo'd, And smelling Violet sweets, how do These chear the Blood !
LIV.
While teeming Earth flow'rd Satten wears, embost
With Trees, with Bushes shagg'd, with most Clear Kiv'lets edg'd, by rocking Windes each gently tost ;
LV.
The branching Slandarts of the chirping Grove ; With rustling Boughs, and Streams that move In murm'ring Rage, seem Natures Consort, tun'd by Love.
Granger is of opinion, and perhaps rightly, that " his Latin verses are generally better than his English." Warburton sarcastically remarks, that Benlowes was famous for his own bad poetry, and for patronizing bad poets. But the most severe critiscism upon him is by Butler in his character of " A small Poet," in his^ Remains in Verse and Prose, with Notes by E. Thyer^ 2 vols. 8vo. 1759, vol. ii. p. 119. The whole passage is so remarkable, so full of caustic wit, and has been so completely misunderstood by his editor, who, in Warburton's opinion, " is always in the wrong, when there was a possibility of his mistaking," and who, never having heard of Benlowes, imagined the person here referred to was Sir John Denham, that we feel justified in quoting the entire passage :
There was one that lined a hat-case with a paper of Benlowes' poetry ; Prynne bought it by chance, and put a new demi-castor into it. The first time he wore it, he felt only a singing in his head, which within two days turned to a vertigo. He was let blood in the ear by one of the state physicians, and recovered : but before he went abroad he writ a poem of Rocks and Seas in a style so proper and natural, that it was hard to determine which was ruggeder. There is no feat of activity, nor gambol of wit, that ever was performed by man, from him that vaults on Pegasus, to him that tumbles through the hoop of an anagram, but Benlowes has got the mastery of it, whether it be high-rope wit, or low-rope wit. He has all sorts of echoes, rebuses, chronograms, &c., besides carwitches, cleriches, and quibbles. As for altars and pyramids in poetry, he has outdone all men that way; for he has made a gridiron and & frying-pan in verse, that, besides the likeness in shape, the very tone and sound
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of the word did perfectly represent the noise that is made by these utensils, such as the old poet called Sartago loquendi. When he was a captain, he made all the furni- ture of his horse, from the bit to the crupper, in the beaten poetry, every verse being fitted to the proportion of the thing, with a moral allusion of the sense to the thing : as the bridle of moderation, the saddle of content, and the crupper of constancy : so that the same thing was to the epigram and emblem, even as a mule is both horse and ass.
There was a tobacco man, that wrapt Spanish tobacco in a paper of verses, which Benlowes had written against the Pope, which, by a natural antipathy that his wit has to anything that is catholic, spoiled the tobacco ; for it presently turned mundungus. This author will take an English word, and, like the Frenchman, that swallowed water and spit out wine, with little heaving and straining, would turn it immediately into Latin : as plundered ille domos — mille HocopoJcianay, and a thousand such.
Benlowes, who was styled by his friends Benevolus by way of anagram on his name for his generosity, was the son and heir of Andrew Benlowes, Esq., of Brent Hall, in Essex, and born about 1603. In 1620 he was admitted a Fellow Commoner of St. John's College, Cambridge, to which he afterwards proved a considerable benefactor. On leaving the University, he appears to have travelled a good deal abroad in various countries, and on his return was much admired for his gentlemanly accomplishments and other qualities. But being improvident in the management of his worldly concerns, he contrived to run through his patrimonial estate at Brent Hall, and having imprudently become surety for others, he was imprisoned at Oxford; but being soon after released, he spent the remainder of his life, eight years, in that city. Benlowes, who was never married, died at Oxford in great poverty on the 18th December, 1676, aged seventy- three years, and was buried in the north aisle o| St. Mary's Church, the expenses of his funeral being defrayed by the contributions of several scholars, who had known his former condition. There is a portrait of him in the gallery of the Bodleian at Oxford, and another in the Master's Lodge at St. John's College, Cambridge.
Besides his Theophila, Benlowes was the author of several other tracts in verse and prose which are enumerated by Ant. Wood, and also of various commendatory verses prefixed to the writings of others of his friends, several of whom, including Phineas Fletcher in his Purple Island^ dedicated their works to him. Benlowes was originally brought up a Eoman Catholic, but in after life became a zealous Protestant. He was considered in his younger days a great patron of poets, especially of Sir Will. Davenant, Quarles, Payne Fisher, Phineas Fletcher, Alexander Ross, £c., who had
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either dedicated their works to him, or wrote epigrams or poems on him. Wood relates that a whole canto of his Theophila was turned into elegant Latin verse in one day by the youthful John Hall of Durham, through his ardent admiration of that work. It is not however included we believe in any of Hall's published works.
The present copy of the Theophila contains a fine impression of the rare portrait of Benlowes so frequently found wanting, surrounded by a wreath of laurel and other ornaments, with his arms in one corner at the bottom, and the crest in the other, beautifully etched by Barlow. It should be noted that the bend in the coat of arms is here quite plain, without the cinque foil between two martlets. This portrait has been well copied by Kichardson and is found in the illustrated edition of Granger's Biogr. Hist. It contains also twenty-one of the plates enumerated in Lowndes's descrip- tion of the volume, viz., sixteen of the larger engravings, and the five on the letterpress. It has not the plates numbered 14, 15, and 20 in Lowndes, nor does it contain any of the additional illustrations that were in the copy formerly in the possession of Mr. Inglis, but these latter do not appear to have properly belonged to the volume. It has the verses engraved at the bottom of p. 123, which are considered very rare in that state, and may be accounted altogether a fine copy. It appears to have belonged to Benlowes himself, and has his arms and crest stamped in gold on the sides.
For additional information respecting this curious and rare volume the reader may consult Wood's Fasti Oxon. vol. ii. p. 358 ; Granger's Biogr. Hist. vol. iv. p. 38 ; Kippis's Biogr. Brit. vol. ii. p. 167; Restituta, vol. i p. 365, and vol. iii. p. 41 ; Chalmers's Biogr. Diet. vol. ii. p. 432 ; and Bill Ang. Poet. p. 20.
Inglis's copy, No. 198, sold for 41. 185.; Rice's, No. 830, 41. ; Bill. Hebr. pt. iv. No. 395, 51. 10s., and pt. viii. No. 508, 6/. 12s.; Skegg's, No. 127, 6/. 2s. Qd.-t Hibbert's, pt. i. No. 830, 11. 7s.; Bibl. Ang. Poet, No. 19, 8/. 8s.; Hanrot's, pt. ii. No. 868, 10/. (Inglis's copy); Bindley's, pt. i. No. 189, 12/. 5s. ; Nassau's, pt. i. No. 437, 26/. 5s.
There is a perfect presentation copy with the portrait and all the twenty- four plates in the curious collection of Willm. Sharp, Esq. of Broughton, near Manchester.
Collation: The Title; Sig. A, two leaves; IF, two leaves; IF IF, two leaves ; IF 1F IF, two leaves ; B, six leaves ; C, six leaves, but after C 1 should come (c) two leaves, and (d) one leaf; D to V inclusive, six leaves
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each ; X Y Z, two leaves each ; A a to N n, two leaves each. The paging, 1 to 268, commences with Canto I. on sheet D.
The Bindley copy, in the original Calf binding.
BENLOWES (EDWARD.) — The Summary of Divine Wisdome, by
Edward Benlowes Esq.
Love not the World, neither the things that are in the World ; if any man love the World, the love of the FATHER is not in him : For all that is in the World, the Lust of the Eyes, the Lust of the Flesh, and the Pride of Life, is not of the FATHER but is of the World : and the World passeth away, and the Lust thereof ; But He that doeth the Will of God abideth for ever. — 1 John ii. 15, 16, 17.
4to, London, Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be
sold at the Princes Arms in St, Paul's Church-yard. 1657.
pp. 20.
This is a small poetical tract by the author of Theophila, consisting of ten leaves only, in English and Latin verse on opposite pages, the whole founded on the text of St. John given on the titlepage. The poem is divided into five sections, and is written in the same tristich verse as the Theophila. It is characterised also by the same forced conceit and antithesis, and the same constant attempt at the sublime, but too often failing and sinking into the bathos of bombast. A single example taken at random will serve to illus- trate the truth of these remarks, and to shew the nature of the poem :
Ev'n that at which Prides tow'ring Project flies,
If gain' d obliquely, sinks, and dyes: Earths Potentates ! great Aims, Plots, Fears, makes Tragedies.
Achitophel and Absolon prove this,
(Who of their Plots, not Plagues did misse) To MatcUavels : That III worst to the Plotter is.
Pompey and Caesar so ambitious grow,
A Battel must be fought to show Which of those Cocks o'th' Game o're Home at last should crow.
The World, as Great — Cham, TurTc> Mogul up-cryes,
Tuscans Great DuJce, (all, no great prize), Great Alexander : The Nine Worthy — Ironies.
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Ev'n Scepters reel like reeds : Who had no Bound
Is bounded in six foot of ground ; Here lies the Great — Thou ly'st, here but his dust is found.
Who lately swell' d to be his Lordships slave,
May trample now upon his grave That levells all. Best Lectures dust-seeld Pulpits have.
Where's now the Assyrian Lion ? Persian Bear ?
Greek Leopard ? Homes spread-Eagle where ? Where now fam'd Troy, that did in old Time domineer ?
Troy's gone, yet Simois stayes. See Fates strange Play !
That which was fist, is fled away ; And what was ever sliding, that doth onely stay !
Therefore, why gap'st thou thus for Shadowes ? who
Neglected lets the Substance go, Led by false hope, he makes sad end in endlesse Woe !
The work, which breathes an excellent and moral spirit throughout, scarce, and seldom met with at sales.
In Calf extra.
BERNERS, (JULIANA.) — The booke of hanking, huntyng and fysshyng, with all the properties and medecynes that are necessary to be kept. [Over a large woodcut of a group preparing for hawking.] Here begynneth the booke of Hunting, where unto is added the measures of blowyng. [Over a woodcut of a man blowing a horn, attended by dogs.] Here beginneth a tretyse of Fysshynge with an Angle. [Over a wood engraving of a man angling.] 4to folft. Itftt [Colo- phon at the end of each part.] Imprinted at London in the Ventre upon the three Crane wharfe by Wyllyam Copland, n. d.
The sports of the field have ever been held in great estimation and delight by our countrymen, and were also thought not incompatible with the more domestic duties or amusements of the fairer sex, who frequently varied their home pursuits of embroidery and confectionary by the more hardy and exciting diversions of hawking and the chase; and it is not a
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little remarkable that one of our first printed treatises on these subjects should have been compiled and published by a noble lady, and that lady holding the religious office of Prioress of a nunnery. About the year 1481, the first two of these treatises, together with one on armoury or heraldry, were written and translated by Juliana Barnes or Berners, sister of Richard Lord Berners temp. Henry IV. and Lady Prioress of the nunnery of Sope- well in Hertfordshire, not far from the great monastery of St. Albans in that county, in whose precincts they were first printed in the year 1486 folio, and from thence the work was usually called The Book of St. Albans. Juliana Berners, its authoress, the daughter of Sir James Berners Knt. of Roding Berners in co. Essex, is supposed to have been born near the close of the fourteenth century, and according to Bale was eminently endowed with superior qualities both of mind and body, delighting herself greatly in the diversions of the field, and indulging also in literary pursuits, for Warton is of opinion that the work was translated from the French and Latin. She appears to have been living in the year 1460, in the reign of Henry VI., but the exact time of her decease is not known.
The first edition of this popular work is of most extraordinary rarity, the only known perfect copy being, as was supposed, the one in Lord Spenser's magnificent collection, purchased at Mason's sale in 1799 for 731. 10s., which has been fully described, with copious extracts, by Dr. Dibdin in his Bill. Spenser, vol. iv. p. 373. But another fine and perfect copy exists in the library of the Earl of Pembroke at Wilton House. There are also imperfect copies in the Bodleian at Oxford, and University Library at Cambridge ; in the Marquis of Bute's ditto ; and one nearly perfect in the library of John D. Phelps, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn. An imperfect copy sold at West's sale in 1773 for 13/.; at Allen's ditto, in 1799, for 21/. ; at the Roxburgh ditto, No. 1732, for 147/. to the Marquis of Blandford; resold at the White Knights ditto, pt. i. No. 394, for 84/. We are not aware of any other copies of this edition. Indeed its extreme rarity even in old times may be learnt from Gervase Markham's dedication to The Gentleman's Academie, or the Booke of St. Allan's, 4to 1595, in which he observes that " bicause of the antiquitie of the same, and the things therein contained, he had reuiued and brought again to light the same which was almost alto- gether forgotten, and either few or none of the perfect copies thereof remaining, except in their hands, who wel knowing the excellency of the worke, and the rarenesse of the Booke, smothered the same from the world, thereby to inrich themselues in priuate with the knowledge of these
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delights." From this account by Markham it appears the work was almost as rare in those early days as it is at present.
The second edition was printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1496 folio, with the addition of the treatise of Fishing with an Angle. It varies from the first also in having two woodcuts upon the first leaf, the ballad of "Euer gramercy myn owne purse," some few slight typographical differ- ences, and the arms of England on the last leaf in place of those of St. Alban's Abbey. This edition has been splendidly reprinted by Mr. Hasle- wood in 1810 folio, with an elaborate and very interesting bibliographical introduction, in which he has described the various impressions of this curious work, together with biographical notices of its sporting authoress ; a work of much labour and research, and of great taste in the execution. See also Dibdin's Typog. Antiq. vol. ii. p. 55. A perfect copy of this edition on vellum, with the arms emblazoned, is in the Grenville collection, now in the British Museum, and another on vellum, belonging to the Earl of Pembroke, in the Wilton Library. A third, with four leaves in MS., sold at Mr. Haworth's, No. 966, for 391. 18s. Copies on paper are in the Douce collection at Oxford, in the Pepysian Library at Cambridge, and in the British Museum. One sold at Mr. Dent's sale, pt. ii. No. 139, for 13/. 10s., and at the White Knights ditto, pt. i. No. 395, for 50/. 18s.
The present or third edition was printed by William Copland without date, and varies considerably from the two former impressions. Mr. Hasle- wood calls this edition the earliest one of the Book of Sir Tristram, or Old Tristram's Book, from the circumstance of Sir Tristram de Leonnois, one of the knights of the Round Table, being supposed to be the first inventor of the terms of venery and the chace ; and to have first framed the diversions of hawking and hunting into a science, and therefore the book was usually referred to by English writers under this title of the Book of Sir Tristram. The title of this edition is over a large woodcut of a group of figures, representing the Master of the Game (at that time Edmund Langley, created Duke of York in 1385) receiving the report of the Forester with his attendants in character, bearing the hunting spear, bow and arrows, &c. ; one of them with a brace of hounds coupled, and a hawk in flight above with its lure. This cut had appeared before in Wynkyn de Worde's edition, and is here repeated with the addition of a second bird. A fac simile of it is given by Mr. Haslewood in his reprint of the St. Alban's Book, p. 79. The treatise on hawking ends on Sig. E iiii, with this colophon, " Imprynted at London in the Vyentre uppon the thre
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Craned wharfe by Wyllyam Copland," There is then a fresh title : " Here begynneth the booke of Hunting whereunto is added the measures of blowing," over a woodcut of a man with a hunting spear blowing a horn, of which the following is a fac simile : —
This part is in verse in rhyming couplets without regard to the measure, which gives occasion to the work being introduced into this Catalogue. After a short prose introduction of nine lines, it commences thus, on the back of the title :
Beastes of Venery are iiii Tcindes. Where soeuer ye fare by fritli or by fell Mi dere child take hede how Trista doth you tell How many maner beastes of Veneri there were Lysten to your dame, and she shall you lere
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Foure maner of beastes of Venery there are
The fyrst of them is the hart, the second is the Hare
The Bore is one of tho, the wolfe and not one moe.
Instead however of entertaining our readers with long quotations on the subject of hunting, we shall quote a very few lines more as an example of the work, and then prefer giving a short extract how " To haue a faythfull freend," from near the close of this part, as a specimen of Dame Juliana's poetry :
Note heere the age of an Hart.
And for to speake of the Hart, if ye will it lere
Ye shal him a calfe call at the fyrste yere
The second yere a broket so shall ye hym call
The thirde yere a spayd, lerne thus all
The forth yere a stagge call him by any way
The fyft yere a great stagge your dame byd you say.
The syxt yere cal him an Harte
Doo so my childe while ye in quarte.
To Jiaue a faythfull freend. A faythfull freend wolde I fayne fynde To fynde him there he myght be founde But now is the worlde wext so unkynde That frendshyp is fall to the grounde Now a freend haue I founde That I wyll neyter ban ne curse But of all freendes in feeld or towne Euer gramercy myne owne purse.
My purse it is my pretty wyfe This songe I dare both syng and say It parteth men of muche stryfe When euery man for hymselfe shall pay As I ryde in ryche aray For golde and syluer men wyll me floryshe By this matter I dare well saye Euer gramercy myne own purse.
As I ryd with golde so red And haue to doo with landes lawe Men for my money will make me spede And for my gooddes they will me knowe. More and lesse to me will drawe Bothe the better and the worse By this matter I saye in sawe Euer gramercy myne owne purse.
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It befel me upon a tyme As it hath doone by many a one. mo My horse, my nete, my sheep, my swyne, And al my gooddes were gon me fro I went to my frendes and told them so And home againe they bad me trusse I sayd agayne whan I was woe Euer gramercy myne owne purse.
Therefore I rede you, syrs all To assay your frendes or ye have need For and ye come downe and haue a fall Full fewe of them for you wyl grede Therefore assay them euery chone Both the better and the worse Our lorde that shope both sonne and moone Sende us spendyng in our purse. — Amen. Thus endeth the booke of huntyng.
" The measures of blowynge of a home" which succeed, commence on Sig. L iii, and occupy three pages, at the end of which is the same colophon as before.
The third part, " Here beginneth a tretyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle" has also a large wood cut representing the angler drawing a fish out of the water which has been frequently copied. It is given (reversed) in Dibdin's Typog. Antiq. vol. ii. p. 61 ; in Mr. Haslewood's Book of St. Albans, in Hawkins's reprint of Walton's Complete Angler, 1815, p. 20; in Sir Harris Nicolas's ditto ; and in other works. This part which is in prose, contains other wcodcuts of implements used in fishing, and is usually supposed not to have been written by Juliana Berners At the close of the treatise, after some precepts against idleness, greediness, and covet- ousness, which remind us of the mild and pious spirit of Isaac Walton, and commending the anglers to the blessing of God in these words — " And all those that doth after this rule shal haue thei blessyng of God and Saynt Peter, which he them graut that with his precious bloud us bought. Amen," the volume concludes with a repetition of a similar colophon.
This work was formerly highly popular, and may possibly have been reprinted more than once by William Copland. An edition is noticed in the Bibl. Ang. Poet. No. 27, with the colophon, "Imprynted at Lon- don in Flete streate at the sygne of the Rose Garlande by William Coplande" n. d. The names of other booksellers are also coupled with
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that of Copland in some of the impressions, whence it is not unreasonably supposed, that, as was not unusual with the early printers, they had a share with him in the work, each having a certain number of copies, and that the names of Vale and Toy and Tottell were added in the respective colophons to their own copies ; such being a common practice at that time with books printed in partnership. Herbert has noticed several of these impressions by this printer. The following editions are mentioned by Mr. Haslewood as having been printed after these by Copland, and before the appearance of Markham's volume described in the next article. 4to. 6Ht. Ictt, London by Henry Tab, n. d. with wood cuts, pp. 92, in the Bodleian Library at Oxford ; 4to. 6lfe, Ittt* London, by John Waley, n. d. with cuts. ; 8vo. fclfe. lett. London, by Wyllyam Powell, 1550, with cuts; 4to. &I&, fett. London, Printed by E. Allde, 1586. See Dibdin's Bibliogr. Decam. vol. i. p. 247 ; and the treatise on Angling under the title of A Book of fishing with Hooke and Line, and of all other instruments thereunto belong- ing^ $c. ; made by L. M." (Leonard Mascall,) 4to. London, Printed by lohn Wolfe, &c., 1590, of which there were several impressions.
It only remains to add that Copland's edition, with its several varieties is exceedingly rare, and sells very high. A copy was purchased by Mr. Ellis at Mason's sale for III. 16s.; Inglis's ditto, No. 144, 12£ ; Dent's ditto, pt. ii. No. 1076, 10J. 10s.; Sotheby's, in 1823, 38/. 17s.; Bibl. Ang. Poet. No. 27, 35/. See Dibdin's Typog. Antiq. vol. iii. p. 169 ; Drake's Shakespeare and his Times, vol. i. pp. 71 and 290 ; Warton's Hist. Eng. Poet. vol. iii. p. 7 ; Ellis's Specim. Early Eng. Poets, vol. i. p. 363, and Haslewood's Booke of St. Albans, p. 79. The signatures run through the three parts according to the following
Collation : — Title A 1 ; Sig A to M inclusive, in fours. In Brown Morocco, blank tooled, gilt edges.
BERNERS, (JULIANA.) — The Gentlemans Academie. Or, The Booke of S. Albans. Containing three most exact and excellent Bookes : the first of Hawking, the second of all the proper termes of Hunting, and the last of Armorie : all compiled by luliana Barnes, in the yere from the incarnation of Christ 1486. And now reduced into a better method by G. M. 4to. London Printed for Humfrey Lownes, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules church-yard. 1595.
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The subjects embraced in this work were of deep and peculiar interest in the days of Shakespeare, and there is little doubt that he was well acquainted with the Prioress of Sope well's Booke of St. Albans, if not in the earlier and rarer editions, at least in this more modernized one of Gervase Markham. Independently of the love of field sports, then so enthusiasti- cally followed, no gentleman's education was considered to be complete without a knowledge of the science of armorie or heraldry. This work is therefore doubly interesting to us in the present day, not only as one com- prehended in the library of Shakespeare, and well studied by our great dramatic bard, but as conveying to us an intimate knowledge of the diver- sions of our ancestors, and of the manners and customs of their times. The very titles of the later editions of the work, The Gentlemans Academic, The Jewell for Gentrie, and The Gentlemans Recreation, show how " necessarie and behouefull" these studies then were " to the accomplish- ment of the Gentlemen of this flourishing He."
The initials in the title page are generally believed to be those of Gervase Markham, a voluminous writer upon subjects of horsemanship, fishing, agriculture, and country pursuits, whose works long continued in circula- tion. He dedicates the volume " To the Gentlemen of England : and all the good fellowship of Huntsmen and Falconers ;" and then commences the first treatise on hawking, with " The maner to speake of Hawkes from an egge till they be able to be taken." The language is altered and modernized throughout, and all the receipts and medicines belonging to diseases in hawks are thrown together by themselves at the end. This first treatise ends on folio 24, on the reverse of Sig. G iiii. Then occurs a new title, " A Treatise of Hunting. London Printed by Valentine Sims for Humfrey Lownes, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauies church-yard 1595." This part, which was before in verse, is now reduced into prose, and commences after the head title with "Beasts of Venery. There be onely foure beasts of Venery : the Hart, the Hare, the wilde Eoe, and the Wolfe : and these and none other by the antient laws of Sir Tristram you may onely call Beasts of Venery." At the end is added a list of " Certaine proper termes belonging to all chace ;" and this part concludes on folio 38, Sig. L ii. Then a new title : The Booke of Armorie, with the same imprint as before. This portion is preceded by a short " Preface on the genealogie of coate-armors and how a perfit Gentleman shall bee knowne from an imperfit clowne ;" and then " Incipit Liber Armorum.'
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At the end of the treatise on coat armour is inserted a short account, which is not in the former editions, of " The title of Barons growne in England by discent to the daughters and heires thereof," occupying seven pages, and is succeeded by " the Blazing of Arms," with which the volume concludes on folio 95.
It will be seen from this, that as the last edition did not contain the treatise on Coat-armour, so this is deficient in the one on Fishing with an Angle. It contains also numerous other alterations, and has not that authority and value which attaches to the earlier editions. The work was again reprinted by Adam Islip, 1596, 4to. fclft. Ittt, ; and by Edw. Allda in the same year, 4to. 61ft. lett. ; and by John Helme, in 1614, 4to., under the title of " A Jewel for Gentrie" &c. These last editions contain " a briefe Treatise of Fowling," which is chiefly taken from Batman upon Bartholemew his booke De proprietatibus rerum" folio, fclfc, lett. 1582. The treatise on Armorie is translated from Nicholas Upton's book De studio militari Libri quatuor, folio, Lond. 1654. See the fourth book, De insig- nibu9 anglorum nobilium, and likewise Haslewood's Book of St. Albans, p. 91 ; Drake's Shakespeare and his Times, vol. i. p. 70 and p. 291; Brit. Bibliogr. vol. ii. p. 73 and p. 353 ; Gens. Liter, vol. v. p. 7, and Dallaway's Heraldry, p. 153. Sold at the Roxburghe sale, 1733, for 9/. 19s. 6d.
Collation : Title A ii ; Sig. A to Y iiii inclusive, in fours ; W and Z omitted ; then A a to D d iii ; Sig. H, which should occur at the end of the first treatise is omitted, and also in the paging, probably four blank leaves ; Sig. L iii and iiii at the end of the second part are also blank leaves. Bound by Mackenzie, in dark Green Morocco, gilt leaves.
BERNERS, (JULIANA.) — The Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle. Attributed to Dame Juliana Berners, reprinted from the Book of St. Albans. Cr. 8vo. London Printed with the types of John Baskerville for William Pickering. 1827.
Although the authorship of this little treatise on fishing cannot now be ascertained, it is pretty generally believed that it was not written by Juliana Berners, but more probably by some well-disposed monk or other religious person, and is the earliest known treatise upon the subject printed in any language. It was not in the original edition of the BooJce of
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St. Albans in 1488, but was first introduced in that by Wynkyn de Worde in 1496, who explains his motive for inserting it to be that by putting it into a large volume relating to the diversions that were used by gentlemen, instead of a small pamphlet by itself, idle persons who cared little for this sport of fishing might not be led to destroy it. It is a treatise of great curiosity and interest, and is supposed to have suggested to Isaac Walton the idea of his charming and highly popular work. It differs from the two others on hunting and hawking in being accompanied with some remarks at the beginning and the close, as we have already observed, of a truly pious and cheerful spirit, which remind us strongly of Walton's inter- esting volume.
The late Mr. Haworth was possessed of a copy of the original edition of this treatise, separately by Wynkyn de Worde, supposed to be unique, which at his death sold for 19/. 19s. The present little volume was printed for the late Mr. Pickering with Baskerville's types, and is embellished with fac-simile woodcuts of the originals, a limited number only having been taken off. Mr. Haslewood had a portion of the only manuscript upon this subject known to be extant. The present copy has the frontispiece of a man fishing, the titlepage and initial letters nicely emblazoned. Bound by C. Lewis. In Green Morocco, gilt leaves.
BERNERS, (JULIANA.) — The Book containing the Treatises of Hawking; Hunting; Coat Armour; Fishing; and Biasing of Arms. As printed at Westminster by Wynkyn de Worde; the Year of the Incarnation of oar Lord ncccclxxxxvi. Folio. ISIfe* Utt London Reprinted by Harding and Wright, St. John's Square, for White and Cochrane, Fleet-street, and R. Triphook, St. Jamess. MDCCCX.
Of this beautiful and exact fac-simile reprint of Wynkyn de Worde's edition of the above curious and rare work by the late Mr. Haslewood, and of his Literary Researches into the History of the Book of Saint Albans, only one hundred and fifty copies were printed in small folio, with the arms emblazoned, and the woodcut embellishments neatly and faithfully exe- cuted. It is preceded by a very elaborate biographical and bibliographical dissertation full of curious information, by the editor, who has shown great
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ardour and research on the subject, and has left no sources unexplored that could throw light on the work, or on the learned dame who was its reputed authoress. Mr. Haslewood has thus produced a volume which is not more remarkable for the beauty and correctness of its typographical execution than for the diligence, research and knowledge displayed by its laborious and painstaking editor.
The volume commences with a biographical notice of Dame Juliana Berners, including a pedigree of her family, followed by bibliographical notices of the different treatises, of the appellative title of the work, and of the several known editions; and concludes with the fac-simile reprint of the book, and glossarial indexes.
The volume was published at 121. 12s., and from the limited number of copies printed, the book will always sell high.
Bound in Russia, gilt leaves.
BIBLIOTHECA ANGLO-POETICA : — or, A descriptive Catalogue of a rare and rich Collection of Early English Poetry; in the possession of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. Illustrated by occasional Extracts and Remarks, critical and biographical, LARGE PAPER. Royal 8vo. London : Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars, for the Proprietors of the Collection. 1815.
This very useful and extensive catalogue, the result of considerable time and labour, was compiled by Mr. Acton Frederick Griffith, at that period in the employ of the house of Longman and Company, to whom the inter- esting and valuable collection of early English poetry described in its pages then belonged. When it is considered that the collection extended to 1,166 volumes, the estimated value of which then amounted to 7,55 91. 15s., averaging at the rate of nearly 61. 10s. per volume, the great rarity and intrinsic value of this extensive series of our early poetry will be duly appreciated. And although the entire collection was soon afterwards dis- persed, and became scattered abroad and absorbed in the libraries of Heber, Freeling, Midgley, Broadley, Perry, and other eminent collectors of that period (a very large portion of it being now in the collection here described) yet the utility and value of the Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica cannot be denied, and no library of our poetical literature ought to be without it. As one of
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the earliest works of its kind, and forming no unimportant addition to our publications on the study of bibliography, in which the poetical treasures of our country were attempted to be described with accuracy and minuteness (although not always with complete correctness), and other interesting biographical and critical information afforded respecting our early poetical writers, it will ever retain its proper value. And although the extracts from the volumes enumerated are very few, and the descriptions are too much confined to the dedicatory and introductory portions of the works, still it is highly useful, and may be consulted with advantage. The editor was cut off early in life, or would perhaps have still further improved it. A limited number of copies only were printed, which are now becoming scarce.
The present copy is on large paper (limited to fifty copies), and has the frontispiece coloured, with a duplicate impression, and proof impressions also of the woodcuts. It is further illustrated with above four hundred and fifty portraits, many of them proofs on India paper, and original engravings by Marshall, V.der Gucht, Van Houe, and others, with additional title
Pages- Bound by Bedford, in three volumes. In Dark Green Morocco, gilt leaves.
BIESTON, (ROGER). — The bayte and snare of Fortune. Wherin may be seen that money is not the only cause of mischefe and unfortunat endes : but a necessary mean to mayutayne a vertuous quiet lyfe. Treated in a Dialoge betwene man and money. Folio. 331ft:. lett : Imprinted at London by John Wayland, at the signe of the Sunne ouer against the Con- duite in Flete-strete. n. d. Cum priuilegio per Septennium.
The title is within a woodcut architectural compartment, with a boy supporting the architrave on each side, and others half seen outside standing on the base; the queen's arms at the top, and a tablet at the bottom, on which is represented the rising sun, and one boy waking another asleep on the ground, with the motto, " Arise, for it is day." This was a rebus, along with the motto frequently used by Day the printer.
On the back of the title is " The Prologe," in prose, showing that avarice is the root and beginning of all evil, which thus concludes :
And now to shew more playnly that men be enclyned to gather money, and conse-
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quently be subiecte to the same, I have put here in wry-ting a question made betwene Man and Money, by maner of a Disputacion, which vary in theyr wordes the one agaynst the other : For money woulde shewe his great power, and man speaketh agaynst hym. But after great disputacion the man abydeth vanquished because of his couetous mynde, confessing that it is a great felicity to haue money in possession.
The poem, which is in the form of a dialogue, is written in the octave stanza, and opens thus :
Money 'beginnet'h.
0 all mankynde desyrous of honour,
That woulde of worldly welth haue iouyssaunce, Cum hyther to me that am of wurthy valour :
1 am the prince perelesse in puissaunce,
My name is Money, that haue in gouernaunce All wurthy fay tes to lose or els to bynde ; Eche man requyreth to haue myne acquayntaunce For good Fortune by my frendship they fynde.
No lorde there is, lady, nor chorle of kynde, What for my power and wyse circumspeccion That they ne beare to me a louyng mynde ; And gladly woulde lyue under my proteccion : What man of hymselfe by myght or wise inspeccion, Without my mean can wurke a wurthy deede ? None doubtles, for I set all in good direccion : Who laeketh money is not lyke to spede.
Man aunswerefk.
Wyth boastyng wurdes thyselfe how doest thou laude, Presumpcion in thee appereth to be great : Thou art false money ; full of deceit and fraude. In vauntyng wurdes is set thy full conceyte, Of cursednes thou arte the chyefe receyt : I am the man that shall it prooue anon, Agaynst thy pryde so shall I lay a bayte, And cast thee forth a bone to pyke upon.
In all the lawes and bookes many one I fynde how thou art roote of all mischief, Through thee full many a wyght hath misgone : For unto man thou arte so deare and lyef, That he becummeth a robber, and a thyef, For thee forsakyng God and all goodnes, And hanged is at last for thee with great repryef : This wage he winneth by thy wurthynes.
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Money.
Man I perceyue thou speakest without thy booke, But I shall answer to thy foolyshnes ; Thy wit is nought, it standeth all a croke, Thy toung is racle, thy wit is rechles Thus to reporte of me such wickednesse That neuer knowinglye against thee dyd ne speke Wyth me to dispute thy mynde is great (I gesse) Speke what thou wylt, nnd answere shall I make.
There is a quiet vein of humorous satire running through the poem, which forms indeed its chief merit; and the dialogue is well supported throughout. On the last page is an acrostic on the author's name " Rogerus Bieston :"
The Author.
Regarde well all my Lordes that shal this treatise reade
Of man and his money, this is the disputacion :
Great reason make they bothe, who to the same taketh hede
Euer hym boasteth money as high in reputacion
Recordyng up his valour : but man makes denegacion.
Unto all men my reason I saye as I haue thought,
Solas is moste in season when syluer is unsought.
By peny to preferment many a man is brought, In borough, towne, and citie, all men of eche estate Enforce them selfe to please him, the poore is set at nought, ^
Succour he seketh, but syluer and he be at debate. Therfore to make conclusion I saye now at my gate : Of great good dedes by Money full many be done doubtles, Neuertheles yet is it cause of many a wickednes. Explicit nomen authoris.
The volume concludes with this " Good Counsayle :"
Get thy goods truly, Spende them precisely
Set thy goods duly, Lende thou them wisely.
True getting, Cyse spendyng,
Due settyng, Wyse lendyng,
Haue he lyttle or muche, Kepeth a man full rutche Untyll his endyng. Finis.
A copy of this very scarce poem produced in Sir Mark M. Sykes's sale, pt. i. No. 617, 31. 105.; Bibl. Heber. pt. iv. No. 396, badly wormed, I/.; Baron Bolland's ditto.
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It is sometimes found at the end of Wayland's edition of Bochas's Fall of Princes, by John Lidgate. Fol. n. d. See Dibdin's Typogr. Antiq. vol. iii. p. 531.
Collation : Title A 1 ; Sig. A six leaves ; B four ditto ; ten leaves. Baron Bolland's copy. Bound in Calf extra.
BILLINGSLY, (NICHOLAS.) — Brachy-Martyrologia : or, A Breviary of all the greatest Persecutions which have befallen the Saints and People of God from the Creation to our present Times : Paraphrased by Nicholas Billingsly, of Mert: Coll: Oxon.
PSAL. 44, 22.
For thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughters.
Nil crus sentit in nervo, cum animus est in co3lo. — Tertul.
Naz. contra Ar. p. 113.
Euye, on fjiaprvpes' vfjierepos KCU OVTOS 6 a6\os fytets yeja/crj/care TOV iroXov iro\e(jiov eu oida.
8vo, London, Printed by J. Cottrel for Thos. Johnson, at the Key in. Paul's Church-yard. 1657.
This poetical bead roll or chronological index of those who have suffered persecution for the faith of Christ, is dedicated " To the Right Worshipful Jeremy Martin Doctor of Physick in Bristol, to whom the Author wishes all Internal, External, and Eternal Happiness." It is dated the eleventh day of March 1655, the author being then, as is supposed, only in his four- teenth year. On this account he hopes that the faults in the work may be " laid on the defects of his youth, as being not over-burthened with Cicero- nian eloquence." In the address "To the Reader" which follows, he observes that " if the tyrannic of his affairs are so imperious, or the weak- ness of his purse so injurious, as to impede his perusal of the History of the Church, either in the voluminous works of the laborious Mr. Fox, or in the conciser Collections of that Reverend Divine and Famous Martyrologist (then living) Mr. Clark, (out-of whose Garden he had gathered this Posie of flowers) he may accept of this Breviary, which would not cost much in the buying, and but a little time in the reading." After the address are commendatory verses by T. C. de Ospringe Cleric, dated August 11, 1656, and some lines " Deo. Opt. Max." The book is divided into two parts, the
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first giving an account of the persecutions of the church abroad to the year 1650, and the second of those of the English church to the end of Queen Mary's reign. There is a separate title to the latter portion : " A Martyr- ologie containing a Collection of all the Persecutions which have befallen the Church of England since the first Plantation of the Gospel, to the end of Queen Marie's Reigne. By the same Author. Printed by J. Cottrel 1657." This part is dedicated "To the Right Honourable Wroth Rogers Esquire, High Sheriff and Governour of the City and County of Hereford : And to the Reverend Mr. William Voyle, William Law, Samuel Smith, George Primrose, Ministers of Christs Gospel in Hereford ;" and has also an address " To the ingenious Reader."
Poetical registers like the present of the early martyrs and sufferers for the cause of religion were by no means uncommon, and another of them will be noticed hereafter under the name of Thomas Brice. Little can be said, however, in favour of the present dull and prosaic writer beyond the praise of great industry and perseverance in the collection of his materials. A short extract or two will therefore suffice to show the nature of the work. The first is taken from the fifth persecution under the heathen emperors, which began Anno Christi 205 :
When Peace-maintaining Pertinax was dead,
Severe Severus reigned in his stead j
By envious rumors, and through false suggestion
The Christians lives were dayly brought in question.
The King commands : his willing Subjects strive
To bring't about, that none be left alive
In Sun-burnt Affrick, Cappadocia,
In Carthage and in Alexandria.
So that the number slain was numberless :
Amongst whom Plutarch, and Leonides,
Origetfs father, with whom Origen
His son had dy'd, had not his mother bin
An hinderance, in that she did convey
The night before, his shirt and cloaths away ;
Hereat, he not for fear of Martyrdome,
But shaming to be seen, remain'd at home.
Tertullian, Irenceus, Andoclus,
Urbanus, Satyrus> Secundulus,
Perpetua, Felicitas, and Khais,
Did by untimely deaths conclude their dayes.
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Caspodius, a Divine, drag'd up and down
The streets ; at last was into Tyber thrown.
Cecilia Idolatry contemn' d,
And therefore by the Judge must be condemn'd ;
The Sergeants minding how she did behave her,
How fair she was ; sollicite her, to favour
Her self, and not to cast her self away :
She was but young, and many a merry day
Might live to see : but she discreetly sent
Such gracious words, as caus'd them to relent,
And unto that religion yield their hearts
'Gainst which they threw their persecuting darts,
Which, when perceiv'd, leav gain'd, she runs her home
And for TTrbanus sends : TJrbanus come,
He grounds them in the faith so highly priz'd ;
Four hundred do believe and are baptiz'd.
This holy Martyr afterwards was shut
Twice twelve hours in a Bath ; at last they cut
Her head off from her shoulders : thus she ended
Her dayes, and up into the clouds ascended.
The following is from the tenth persecution, which began Anno Christi 308:
One Menas, an Egyptian born and bred Leaving his temporal subsistence, led A solitary life, in desert places ; Where he might wholly exercise his graces, In fasting, prayer, meditation, fit And dil'gent reading of the sacred Writ. At last return' d to Cotis, when the croud Were at their pastimes, he proclaim'd aloud Himself to be a Christian : then surpris'd His faith in God more boldly he agniz'd. Torments ensu'd ; no torments could revoke His minde, but thus he confidently spoke : In my minde, nothing comparable is To the enjoyment of eternal bliss : Nay, all the world, if put into one scale Is lighter than one soul : Who can prevail To disunite us from the love of Christ ? Can tribulation ? anguish ? he's the high'st ; To him will I look up ; he bids me fear not Those that can kill me bodily, but are not
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Able to hurt the soul : but fear him who
Hath pow'r to slay the soul and body too,
And fling them into hell. Having receiv'd
The final sentence, up to heaven he heav'd
His eyes, hands, heart, and said : O Lord, my maker,
Thanks be to thee, in that I am partaker
Of Christ his precious blood : thou hast not let
My foes devour me, but hast beset
My heav'n-fix'd soul with such true constancy
That in the faith I liv'd, for that I die.
The lift up axe, upon his neck falls down.
And so he lost his head, but found a Crown.
According to Ant. Wood, Billingsly was supposed to be the son of a minister at or near Bristol. He received his education, first at Eton, and afterwards at Merton College, Oxford ; and having had a long illness, was allowed to have some of his terms dispensed with on taking his degree of B.A., which he did on March 25, 1658. He was then only in his seven- teenth year, and must have been remarkable for great industry and labour in his early years, since the dedication to his book is dated in March 1655, when he could not have exceeded the age of fourteen. Of his after life we have no record, but he may possibly have taken orders, or may have been removed from life at an early age. He had a brother, John Billingsly, who is mentioned by Wood as having been brought up at St. John's College, Cambridge, and taken his degree of B.A. there; but afterwards seeking preferment under the parliament party in 1648, came to Oxford, and was admitted M.A. there on the 28th April 1649, and obtained a fellowship at Corpus Christi College. This is the same person who afterwards, on taking Presbyterian orders, became Vicar of Chesterfield in Derbyshire, and was involved in some disputes with the Quakers there, and published one or two tracts against them. After the Restoration he was deprived of his preferment in the church, and preached where he could as a Noncon- formist till his death. Nicholas Billingsly, the author of this work, although well spoken of by several of his literary contemporaries, is yet alluded to by one of them, Samuel Austin, in his Naps upon Parnassus, 8vo 1658, in the following disparaging tone :
Stand off thou Poetaster from the press,
Who pygmi'st martyrs with thy dwarf-like verse, wrote a Martyr.
*J & J J ology i.i verse,
Whose white long bearded flame of zeal inspires anno 1657.
To wrack their ashes, more than did their fires.
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See Wood's Fasti Oxon. vol. ii. p. 213; Restitttta, vol. iv. p. 454; and Bibl. Any. Poet. No. 52, where a copy is priced at 3l. 3s. ; Nassau's ditto, pt. i. No. 250, sold for the same sum ; Perry, pt. i. No. 536, 21. ; Bindley, pt. i. No. 449, 21. Us.; and Midgley, No. 24, 21. 18s.
Collation : Title A 2; Sig. A to P 4, in eights, the last leaf having only the name of the work on it.
Beautiful copy (Bindley 's). Bound hy Winstanley. In Brown Morocco, gilt leaves.
BILLINGSLY, (NICHOLAS). — KO2MOBPE &IA, or the Infancy of the World : With an Appendix of God's resting, Eden Garden, Mans Happiness before, Misery after, his Pall. Whereunto is added, The Praise of Nothing; Divine Ejacu- lations ; The four Ages of the world ; The Birth of Christ ; Also a Century of Historical Applications ; With a Taste of Poetical Fictions. Written some years since by N. B. then of Eaton School ; And now published at the request of his Friends. London, Printed for Robert Crofts, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Crown in Chancery Lane, under Sergeants Inn. 1658. Sm. 8vo. pp. 212.
Another small poetical work by the same writer. It is dedicated " To the Eight Honorable Francis Rous Esq., Provost of Eaton Coll. and one of the Council to his Highness the Lord Protector ;" dated from Canterbury December 29, 1656. After which is an address "To the Candid Reader," and panegyrical verses by W. Jacob, Edw. Browne, R. Cr., Tho. Wotton, John Stodder, John Billingsly (his brother), Jo. Swan, Fr. Taylor, Tho. Carter, Jo. Wind, Coll. Wadh., D. R., Coll. Mert. and Jo. Cox, Coll. Mert. From the dedication we learn that Billingsly had been placed at Eton as a king's scholar six years before, but had failed to obtain his election from thence to King's College, Cambridge, which he seems to have regretted very much. And in the address " To the Candid Reader" he informs him that " the kind entertainment of his first pilgrim that adventured abroad into the world" (his Brachy-Martyrologia) had emboldened and encouraged him to send forth the present work also. But he particularly cautions his readers that they are not to {( expect any strong lines, high tow'ring fancies,
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and soaring inventions, which were, when he penned it, inconsistent with his boyish years."
The principal poem, which is entitled " The Worlds Infancy," is preceded by some lines headed
Deo Ter Opt. Max. Oil ! from thy radiant throne above. Look down on me, great God of Love ; With sacred light my Soul infuse, And wing for flight mine unfledg'd Muse, That she may, like the morning lark Mount up and sing. Lord ! I'm a spark : But of thy bellows please to blow Me up — oh, then I needs must glow.
My God to me a being gave, To use those little gifts I have. Oh, may I then to after days Make known my All-Creators praise ! &c.
The Worlds Infancy is divided into ten sections, each having an argu- ment in verse prefixed. It is a sort of versified history of the creation and fall of man, the institution of the Sabbath, and other sacred subjects. The second portion is inscribed in verse by the author, " To his reverend and much honoured Freind Mr. Francis Tailour," and is dated from Wickham- brooks June 5, 1657. Taylor was blind, and was the author of a volume of religious poems, very much resembling those by Billingsly, entitled Grapes from Canaan : or the Believers present taste of future Glory, 1658, 8vo ; to which Billingsly contributed copies of verses in Latin and English. At the end of the Worlds Infancy follow the miscellaneous poems enume- rated in the title. One of the principal of these is " The Praise of Nothing," in which Drayton's Owle, 4to 1604, and Moffat's Silk Worms and their Flies, 4to 1599, are thus noticed;
The prince of Poets wrot of Frogs and Mice ; Virgil of Gnats ; and Heinsius of Lice : Witty Erasmus Folly's praise did write, And Dray ton did upon Madge- Owle endite. On Hazle-nuts smooth Ovid versifies : And some do treat of Maggots and of flies. One hath such stateliues t' a bald-pate given, That there is scarce an haire 'twixt it and heav'n.
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This lauds brave Bag-Puddings : whilst he composes
The admirable honour of Eed-noses ;
And such poore petty things, and shall no story
Be penn'd in honour of great Nothings glory ?
Shsl shee, from whence all things a being have
Lye dead, and buried, in oblivious grave ?
My Muse shall praise her, though she cant compile
Fine Silken words, nor inornated stile,
Blazon great Nothing, for shee seemes to be
A theam more fit for Homer then for me.
I mar'l to her, men did not Temples frame,
Like that at Ephesus to Dianas name.
Had I a world of eloquence I know
'Twere scarce enough all nothings worth to shew.
Other poems succeed "The Praise of Nothing," including one entitled 44 Monumentum Exequiale; on the death of the reverend and eminently learned Mr. Tho. Horn, late Schoolmaster of Eaton Colledge." To these are added several copies of Latin verses, some of them having reference to Eton, and were probably school exercises, as for instance : " De Arietis ante Electionem Etonensem (pro more) venatione ;" " An Acrostick Elegy upon the death of the late Reverend and Famous Divine, Joseph Symonds, Vice Provost of Eaton Colledge;" another, " In obituin Dom. Tho. Weaver M.A. Etonensis Coll. Socii Acrostico-Epicedium," in which the initial letters are repeated thrice in each line. A short poem '•' On Ambition," sixty lines, and some lines relating to Francis Rons, anagrams in Latin, Greek, and English terminate this portion of the volume.
A new titlepage then occurs, "A Centurie of Historical Applications, with a Taste of Poetical Fictions : being the fruits of some spare Hours by N. B. E. C. A.," witb the imprint as before Tins part is dedicated " To his Honored Uncle Mr. Jobn Wooton, one of the Commissioners for the County of Hereford," dated 12th August 1657, and is succeeded by a short address to the reader. These "Historical Applications" end on p. 161, and are divided into one hundred sections or divisions, varying from two lines to eighteen. As an example of these applications we subjoin the ninety-ninth :
Ignatius Leiola, the first Jesuite
As ever I did read of, did delight
In giggling laughter, and why did he so ?
His teeth (it may be yellow) for to shew :
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A Jesuite I would not wish to be, Unless mine actions with my name agree , Laughter is Cousen-Germane unto folly, Better is the extream of Melancholly : To too much Mirth it is not safe to leane ; Nor too much Grief: There is a golden mean. O grant, dear Lord, I may be alwayes glad In thee my God, or make me alwaies sad : If I must needs be proud, permit not me To pride in any thing, great God, but thee ; Unfold my lips, for to agonize my sin ; Let me be foul without, so, fair within.
The "Poetical Fictions" extend from p. 163 to the end p. 184. They are twenty in number, on Jupiter, Apollo, Bacchus, Mercury, and other Heathen Gods and Goddesses, ending with the Fates. We select a portion of the last on the Fates :
Th' intreats of Virtue, nor the threats of Vice,
Melts them to mercy ; neither prayer nor price
Wring out Compassion, no fire can thaw
Their frozen hearts, nor can affliction draw
Their thoughts to pitty, they regard no mones,
3S"or thunder of ingemenated groanes.
Noe stormy sighs, nor silent pleading tears
Can force the rocky portals of their ears ;
They'r cloath'd in white, haveing their temples crown'd
An Adamantine distaffe held, which round
The spacious orb encircled, their extent
And solid stableness thereby was meant.
By these three Fates is understood, by some,
Time past, time present, and the time to come.
This work has been noticed in the Brit. Bibliogr. vol. ii. p. 643; by Mr. Park in Restituta, vol. iv. p. 458 ; and Bill Ang. Poet. No. 53. It sold in Perry's sale, pt. i. No. 537, for 11. Ss. ; Midgley's ditto, No. 25, 2l. 16*.; Dr. Bliss's ditto, pt. i. No. 361, 21. 6s. ; Bibl. Ang. Poet. No. 53, 31. 3s.
Collation : Sig. A to N 8, in eights, except A which contains ten leaves. The book is very irregularly paged throughout, but contains 106 leaves in all, including the title, or pp. 212.
Mr. Park's copy. Bound in Calf.
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BILLINGSLY, (NICHOLAS.) — A Treasury of Divine Raptures con- sisting of Serious observations, Pious Ejaculations, Select Epigrams. Alphabetically rank'd and fiTd by a Private Chaplain to the Illustrious and Renowned Lady Urania The Divine and Heavenly Muse. The First Part. London, Printed by T. J. for Thomas Parkhurst at the Golden Bible upon London Bridge. 1667, 8vo.
This little poetical work was apparently intended by Billingsly as the first portion of an extensive alphabetical series of short poems or verses on a variety of subjects, which was never completed, no more than the present volume having been published that we are aware of. It is dedicated " To the Truly Honorable and Religious, the Lady Mary Vaughan, vertuous Consort to the Right Worshipful Sir Henry Vaughan," &c., at the end of which are these lines by Billingsly, dated November 5, 1666 :
Madam, these sacred Poems which ensue,
Intended were to follow that which I Once tendred to your honorable view,
Excuse me that I cannot gratifie Your full desires ; the Stationer thought best
To print these first, next (if these take) the rest ; Madam, till then accept of what is prest.
After these follow two addresses in rhyme, being acrostics upon the names of Sir Edward Harley Knight and Sir Trevir Williames Knight; an " Invocation," two stanzas, and poetical addresses " To his much honoured Friend John Birch Esq." and "To the Right Worshipful the Company of Haberdashers."
The Treasury of Divine Raptures begins on p. i. sig. B 1., the heading " Divine Raptures" being continued throughout. These raptures consist of a series of short poems on a great variety of subjects, ranged under the first three letters of the alphabet, letter A containing 104 pieces, B 161, and C 290. Some of these consist only of two lines; the longest appears to be that on Covetousness which extends to 184 lines. The subjects are ex- ceedingly miscellaneous, as may be seen from the mention of only a few in each letter, e.g. A : Abba, Abettor, Ability, Abjuration, Abecedary, Abridg- ment, Absence, Absolution, &c. B : Babel, Baby, Back-biting, Back-sliding, Bag of Money, Ball, Ballance, Balm, &c. C : Cabinet, Cable, Cage, Caitiffe,
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Cake, Calamity, Calendar, Calends, Calls, &c. The verses of Billingsly are not at all attractive, so that a single specimen from such a medley may suffice. The subject is —
149. On Burthens. Come unto me, I hear my Savior say To ev'ry sin-press'd soul, O come away All ye that grone under sins massie weight, And I will ease you, and refresh you streight : My yoke is easie, and may well be worn, My burden's not too heavy to be borne : Yield, yield my soul, his are no Tyrant Laws, His spir't will help thee ; If the Loadstone draws The Ir'n, the Iron easily may move,
So thou out of a principle of love
Obey thy Savior, serve him with delight ; Love makes sin heavy, and Christs burden light.
God never burdens us, but that he may »
Tin-burthen us of sin, there's in the way Of duty, joy, and Heaven at the end, O think of the reward, that doth attend Your service, and bless God you are not under The curses of the Law, the Law rores thunder.
At the foot of the last page occur the following lines :
The Post-script to the Reader.
1. Thus (Reader) have I finish'd as thou seest,
The first three Letters of the Criss-cross Eow, More Grapes I have, which shall not now be prest,
How well thou wilt like these, I do not know, If this Tast please, thou mayst command my store, The Vineyard of my Muse can yield thee more.
2. I pray thee let my absence from the Press
Obtain that of thee, which thy presence shall Obtain of me, (a favour I confess)
T' amend the Errors Typographical, So shall the Printer, and the Author too Be bound to serve thee in what we can do. FINIS.
See Bibl. Ang. Poet. No. 54, where a copy is priced at 31. 10s. ; Jolly's sale, pt. ii. No. 321,* 15s.; Bright's ditto, No. 510, ll. 7s.; Nassau's, pt.i.
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No. 251, ll. 13s.; Midgley's ditto, No. 23, 21. 3s. There is a copy in the British Museum,1 which had belonged to Pearson, and in which Mr. Park observes, " I have seen no other."
Collation : Sig. A to Q 4 ; pp. 240. In Calf extra.
1 In the British Museum (MS. Sloane, No. 1161) there is another unprinted po- etical work by the same author in 8vo, written in a plain hand of the close of the 16th century, upon 69 leaves (pp. 138,) entitled : " AvBpcoTroTroua : Theological Eenections on God's Admirable Master -piece : or Profitable instructions from the Creation of Man
relating to his ! Vlslble j nature his £ body ] . As also the Originall excellency of ( invisible ) <- soule >
both. God's Image shining most cleerly in the whole man, in the state of integrity before his woful fall." Written by the much lamented Nicholas Billingsly, Lecturer at Blackney in Gloucestershire ; Quotations from Ps. viii. 4 ; Cic. 1 Offic. ; and Ovid. Met. lib. i.*
This had once belonged to Baxter, who has written on the next leaf, " The poetrie of this booke I leave to the judgment and relish of the Eeader. The Philosophicall and Theologicall matter, so farre as I had leisure to peruse it, is such as is agreeable to the authors that are commonly esteemed. — Eichard Baxter." On the next leaf are six stanzas, of which we give the first, headed " The Proposition of this worke."
1.
" Of all Gods works, which visible appeare
Man was the noblest, best, and most divine j O what heart can conceive, what tongue declare
The Glory which in the first man did shine. The Sacred Spirit onely can set down Man's primitive, unparagon'd renown."
The "Theological Eeflections" &c. commence on fol. 4 with part i. " Mans visible nature."
Chap. 1. Sect. 1. " The world's great Architect, when he had made
All other Creaturs by his word of Pow'r, Made mankind last by whom they should be sway'd,
And placed him in an entrancing bow'r. Man male and femal did the Lord create His Image in the world to propagate.'*
This first part extends to sixteen sections of various lengths occupying seventy pages.
* It appears from this work that Billingsly was in holy orders, and Lecturer at Blackney in Gloucester- shire at the Chapel of All Saints, which he resigned at the Revolution, a point in his history unknown to Wood and his other biographers.
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(WILLIAM.) — The Five Wounds of Christ. A Poem. From an Ancient Parchment Roll. By William Billyng. 4to. ISlfc* lett : Manchester : Printed by R,. and W. Dean.
MDCCCXIV.
"The following theological poem, with fac-similes, is printed from a finely written and illuminated parchment roll, in perfect preservation, about two yards and three quarters in length : it is without date, but by com- paring it with other poetry, it appears to have been written early in the fifteenth century : the illuminations and ornaments with which it is deco- rated, correspond with those of missals written about the reign of Henry V.; the style may therefore fix its date between the years 1400 and 1430. The author gives his name and mark at the bottom of the roll — William
A few of the headings are " G-od's consultation about making man ; Uses of the fabrick of man ; The efficient cause of man ; The matter of mans body ; The parts of mans body; Lessons from mans bones; Instructions from the reins of man; Do. from the head of man ; Do. from the eyes of man ;" &c. &c.
The second part commences on fol. 39 with a similar title, and relates to the invisible nature of man, or his soul. This also contains numerous sections, of which the following are some of the subjects discussed : " The spiritual nature of the soul ; The immortality of the soul : The ends of mans creation ; The state of man before the fall ; The whole man made after Gods Image ; Paradise mans habitation ; Marriage instituted for perfect man a useful good" &c. This second part ends on fol. 65. Then occurs " An Appendix. Of the fall of man." 14 stanzas. After which follows a short poem " On the same," which closes the MS. It consists of 26 couplets, and commences thus, references to the texts of Scripture quoted being given in the margin :
"Adam, that spring of man, at one clap rents Both tables and all the commandments.
1. He chose him then another god, when he Followd the Divel, and from God did flee.
2. He idolized his belly, when he did Make it his god, by eating fruit forbid.
3. He took God's sacred name in vain (forgot Alas his fear) when he believed him not.
4. He did not keep the Kest, and blest estate God set him in, but did prevaricate.
5. He disobeyed his Father's just comand, Therefore his dayes were not long in the land."
&c. &c.
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Billyng, probably a monk." Such is the account of this curious poem (which was formerly in the possession of Mr. William Yates of Manchester), given, by William Bateman, Esq., of Barley, near Matlock, the gentleman at whose expense the impression of this ancient poem was printed as pre- sents to his friends, being limited to forty copies only for private distribu- tion. It is printed on thin tinted paper, with ornamented borders, the plates being given in outline on the reverse of each page. The present copy has also a duplicate set of the plates beautifully coloured, with the glory in each plate done in gold.
The poem is written in fifteen seven-line stanzas, and the five wounds of Christ are made emblematic of the five wells of 1. Mercy; 2. Pitie; 3. Everlasting life ; 4. Grace ; and 5. Comfort. At the end of this poem are two other short pieces, with two embellishments — a cross with a wreath round the top, and a figure of death with a mattock in his hand and a spade at his feet. Instead of quoting from the principal poem, we prefer giving a short extract from the verses illustrative of the last plate :
Erth owte of erth is wondyrly wroght For erth hath geten of erth a nobul thyng of noght Erthe uppon erthe hath set alle hys thoght How erthe uppon erthe may be hygh broght.
Erthe uppon erthe yet wolde be a kynge But how erth shall to erth thynketh he nothyng But when erth byddeth erth his dute horn bryng Then shall erth fro erth have a petrus partyng.
Erth wynnyth uppon erth both castellys and towris Then sayth. erth unto erth this is alle owres But whan erth uppon erth hath byllyd all his bowrys Then shalle erth for erth suffer sharpe showres
Erth byldyth uppon erth as molde uppo molde
And erth goth uppo erth glyttryng alle gold
Lyke as erth unto erth never goe sholde
Ann justly tha shalle erth go to erth rather yn he wolde.
A copy of this work sold at Midgley's sale, No. 316, for 3l. 5s.
Elegantly bound in Blue Morocco, with broad tooled gold border; a cross in the centre, inlaid in red, surrounded by a glory, with leather joints, gilt leaves.
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BIRKHEAD, (HENRY.) — Verses by the University of Oxford. On the Death of the Most Noble, and Right Valiant Sir Bevill Grenvill, alias Gran vi 11, Kt. Who was Slain by the Eebells at the Battle on Lansdowu Hill near Bathe, July the 5, 1643.
Aut spoliis ego jam raptis laudabor opimis,
Aut Letho insigni. — Virg. ^Eneid.
4to. Printed at Oxford in the year of our Lord, 1643, and now Reprinted at London, 1684.
The valour, loyalty, and worth of the illustrious Sir Bevil Grenville; his gallant and heroic conduct in behalf of his king during the civil war, and his glorious death at the Battle of Lansdown, near Bath, whilst fighting against the parliament forces under Sir William Waller July 5, 1643, are circumstances too well known in our history to be enlarged upon here. The present verses are an epicedium of the muses of Oxford, composed to celebrate his memory, whose character has been so well drawn in prose by Lord Clarendon. The work is dedicated to his son, " The Right Honourable John Earl of Bathe, Viscount of Lansdown, Baron Granvill of Granvill, Bideford, and Kilkhampton, Lord Lieutenant and High-Steward of the Dutchy of Cornwal, Lord- Warden of the Stannaries, Governour of Ply- mouth, Groom of the Stole to his Majesty, First Gentleman of his Majesties Bed-Cham ber, and one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Pri vy -Council 1 :" by Henry Birkhead of the Inner Temple, the only sur- vivor, with one exception, of all the contributors to the volume, which had been originally printed at Oxford in 1643, and was now reprinted and dedicated to the son. In the long and interesting " Epistle Dedicatory," prefixed by Birkhead, he gives an account of the ancestors of Sir Bevil, and especially of Sir Richard Greenville, the celebrated admiral ; and is not unmindful of the deeds of Lord Bath, the ennobled son of Sir Bevil, whose acts of bravery are thus recorded :
As the name and fortune of your Ancestors are descended to your Lordship, so is their Yirtue too, which appeared so early in you, that before you were Seaventeen years old, you enter'd into your Fathers Command ; and after you had serv'd the King upon several Engagements in the Army, and particularly in Cornwall, at the Defeat of the Earl of Essex, you brought those Valiant Companies, in the Head of which your Father was slain at Lansdown, to fight for his Majesty at the Second Battel of Newbery, where you were like to have undergone your Fathers fate, as well as imitated his Yirtue, for being engaged in the Thickest of the Enemies, and having
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receiv'd severall wounds, and one most dangerous One in the Head, with the blow of a Halberd, which beat you to the Ground, you lay for some time without Sense or Motion, 'till a Body of the Kings Horse charging the Enemy afresh, beat them off the ground upon which you fought, where you were found amongst the Dead, cover'd with Dust and Blood ; and being known, were carried into that place of the Field, where the King and Prince of Wales (his now present Majesty) were, who sent you to Dennington Castle to be treated for your Wounds. It could not nay Lord, but be matter of great Contentment to you, to have his Majesty himself a witness of the Blood you had lost for him, and a Spectator of that Loyalty and Courage, which are the Hereditary Qualities of your Family.
No sooner were the Armies drawn off from the Field of Newlery, but you were presently besieged in Dennington, where for some time you lay in extream Danger of your life, not only by those desperate Wounds you had got in the late Battel, but in the hazzard you were in, of receiving new ones from the Enemy, the Bullets flying conti- nually through the Boom where you lay under Cure, 'till you were releived by the Victorious Forces of his Majesty at the Third Battel of Newbery : Nor have you only serv'd the King with your Sword in the Field, but been another way a chief Instrument of the greatest good that ever came to England, I mean the Restauration of his Majesty, and of the Laws and Liberty of your Oppressed Country. This, my Lord, was brought to pass by your prudent and successful Negotiation with my Lord General Monk, you having a particular Commission from the King to treat with him ; with whom when you had consorted all things for his Majesties Eeturn, and that without imposing the least Condition upon him, you posted away to Bruxells to give him an account of it : In which Journey as well as in the rest of your Conduct in this Affair, you exposed yourself to no ordinary Danger, and most certainly serv'd the King your Master more effectually, then if you had won more then one Battel for him.
The contributors to the volume are Thomas Masters, Robert Grove, Jasper Mayne, William Cartwright, William Barker, Dudley Diggs, John Birkinhead, Robert Master, William Creed, Peter Mew, Henry Love, Henry Birkhead, and Martin Llewellin. These contributions are not remarkable for any poetical excellence or beauty ; we shall therefore content ourselves with quoting a few lines only from the opening of that by Jasper Mayne :
Could I report, Great GRANVILL, or repeat Thy famous Actions in thine own stout heat, Could I write as Thou fought'st, the World might see Perhaps some Picture of thy Deeds, and Thee, And thus iuspir'd from thy bold flame, my Verse At once would come for rapture, and reherse.
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But as those ravish't Prophets, who of old Sick of their God, and much too frail to hold Their strong Inspirer, first felt trance, then spoke, And utter'd answers, which from Labours broke : So meeting things too high to be exprest, I find my self whilest I describe, opprest. Thou dost at once possess, and hinder ; still Eisest, and multipliest between my Quill. Still bring'st new various matter to my Dress, Which still begins, and still shews Endlesness. So Homer strove with his Achilles^ who Should bravelier write, or who should bravelier do. So what at first he meant an Ode, and Song, Swell'd to a work, and Story ten years long, And what at first was destin'd to one Shade, Spread in the Writing, and prov'd Iliade.
At the end of the poetical portion, which occupies only eighteen pages, are some letters and other documents collected by Birkhead the editor, and annexed to the volume. These include 1. A Letter from Charles I. to Sir Bevil Grenvill after the Victory obtained by the Royalists at Stratton ; 2. Another from the same to the County of Cornwall after the death of Sir Bevil Grenvill, dated from the Camp at Sudeley Castle, September 10, 1643 ; 3. The gracious Patent of K. Charles I. to the County of Cornwall for their Loyalty ; 4. A particular account of King Charles II's Grace and Favour to the Loyal Towns and Burroughs within the Dutchy of Cornwall by the Mediation of John Earl of Bathe on the renewal of their Charters Decem- ber 2, 1684 ; 5. A List of the several Surrenders of the Towns and Bur- roughs within the Dutchy of Cornwall presented by the Earl of Bathe ; 6. A Relation of the. Famous Sea-Fight August 31, 1591, between the Revenge commanded by Sir Richard Greenvill, Vice Admiral, and the Armada of the King of Spain, written by Sir Walter Raleigh Knight ; and 7. His Majesties Royall Warrant to the Earl of Bathe, then Sir John Grenvill, at Brussels, immediately before his Restauration : granting him the place and office of Groom of the Stole and First Gentleman of the Bed Chamber, together with the Title and Dignity of an Earl, and an Estate of Inheritance to the Value of at least 3000/. per annum.
Of Henry Birkhead himself, who was a pupil of the celebrated Farnaby, and afterwards a student at Trinity College Oxford, where he was seduced to the Catholic religion by the arts of Kemp the Jesuit, but subsequently
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regained to the English Church, and by the influence of Archbishop Laud elected a Fellow of All Souls' College, " an excellent Latin Poet, a good Grecian, and well vers'd in all human Learning," an account will be found in Wood's Athence, vol. iv. pp. 573-4.
This is the second edition, the first having been printed at Oxford in 1643.
Collation : The Title ; Sig. A to G 4, in fours. The present copy is on large paper, and is bound by Charles Lewis. In Calf extra, gilt leaves.
BLOUNT, (SiR THOMAS POPE.) — De Re Poetica: or, Remarks upon Poetry. With Characters and Censures of the most considerable Poets, whether Ancient or Modern. Extracted out of the Best and Choicest Criticks. By Sir Thomas Pope Blount. London. Printed by Ric. Everingham, for R. Bently at the Post-house in Russel-street in Covent-Garden. MDCXCIV. 4to, pp. 392.
Sir Thomas Pope Blount, eldest son of Sir Henry Blount, and grandson of a former person of both his own names, of Tittenhanger in Herefordshire, was born in 1649. After receiving a careful education under his father suited to his expectant means, he entered into public life as member of parlia- ment for St. Albans in 1678, and was afterwards member for the county of Hertford in three successive parliaments. He filled also the office of Com- missioner of Public Accounts during the latter years of his life. He was created a Baronet by Charles II. in 1679 in the lifetime of his father, was an ardent lover of liberty, and took an active part in all affairs of public interest. Beside the present work he wrote another in Latin entitled, Censura celebrium Authorum, London 1690, folio; reprinted at Geneva in 1694, 4to, and 1710, which like his De Re Poetica was only a compila- tion, but considered a valuable and accurate book, and well worthy of a place in any library. He also wrote Natural History, containing Observa- tions extracted out of the best modern Writers, 1693, 12mo; and Essays on several Subjects 8vo, which the rather partial estimate of one of his biogra- phers has exalted to an equal rank with those of Montaigne, and of which a third edition appeared in 1697. After acquiring great honour and
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respect in his public and domestic life, he died at Tittenhanger June 30th 1697, in the 48th year of his age, and was buried in the family vault at Ridge in Hertfordshire, leaving by a daughter of Sir Henry Caesar of Benington Place, Hertfordshire, Knt., a numerous family behind him of five sons and nine daughters.
The volume under notice is not, any more than the Censura, an original work, but only a compilation or collection of the opinions of others, given in the words of the writers themselves, in which, as the compiler says, "he had nothing to answer for but the choice and distribution of the matter." It is in fact a collection of the sentiments and judgments of others, both poets and prose authors, concerning poetry and poetical writers. It is dedicated " To the Right Honourable John Earl of Mulgrave, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter," himself a writer and ardent lover of poetry. The first part contains " Remarks upon the Antiquity and the various kinds of Poesy, whether Tragedy or Comedy, Epic, Heroic, Satyric, Pastoral, Elegiac, Epigrammatic, or otherwise," &c. ; and the second part is filled with characters and censures or critiques upon various Greek, Latin, Italian and English poets, sixty-seven in all, compiled from various sources, and arranged in alphabetical order. Being collected from the best writers on the subject up to that period, it may still be consulted with profit and advantage, and is an useful work. It has never been reprinted.
Reed's copy, No. 6690, with some manuscript additions by Oldys, sold for 31. Us.; Bibl. Any. Poet. No. 73, ll. 5s.
In the original Calf Binding.
Boccus AND SYDRACKE. — The history of kyng Boccus, and Sydracke how he confoundyd his lerned men, and in ye syght of them dronke stronge venym in the name of the Trinite & dyd hym no hurt. Also his diuynyte y* he lerned of the boke of Noe. Also his profycyes that he had by reuelacyo of the aungell. Also his answeris to the questions of wysdome, both morall and natural wyth moche worldly wysdome con- tayned in noumber CCClxv. translatyd by Hugo of Caumpe- den, out of Frenche into Englysshe. [Colophon] Thus endeth the hystory and questyos of kynge Boccus and Sydracke.
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Prynted at London by Thomas Godfray. At the coste and charge of dan Robert Saltwode moke of saynt Austens at Canterbury, n.d. Cum priuilegio regali. 4to foifc* Ictt* pp. 340.
Hugh de Campeden, who translated this work from the French romance of Sydrac, lived in the reign of Henry VI., and prohably completed his task many years before the appearance of this printed edition. It was com- mitted to the press " at the coste and charge of dan Eobert Saltwode monke of saynt Austens at Canterbury," and is now a work of very considerable rarity. Underneath the title is the following curious woodcut of Sydrack and Kynge Boccus discoursing together ; and on the reverse is a short prose
address from " John Twyne to the redar," unnoticed by Dibdin in conse-
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quence of the imperfection of his copy, in which he says that " this boke may well be called a boke of philosofye, that is to say, a stody of wysdome," and "cousayles every ma to rede this boke, or that cannot rede to geue dylygent eere to the reder, for they shal fynde there great frute bothe to the soule and body." After, this follows a table of contents beginning on the same page, and occupying six additional pages.
" Fyrst the hystory of Boccus and Sydracke, how by the power of god he dystroyed his ydols, and by the counsayle of the aungel shewed hym the umbre of the trinite, wherby he conuerted hym and all his host. Than gaue he hym enstructions, and answeryd to dyuers questions that he demaundyd of hym." Then " The questyons," amounting in all to 362 in number. The poem commences on Sig. B 1, and is continued to Sig. S 4 in the second alphabet. It opens thus :
Men may fynde in olde bokys
Who so therin lokys,
Actes worthy of memory
Full of knowlege and mystery :
Wherof I shall shew a lytell ieste
That be fell ons in the Best.
Ther was a kynge that Boccus hyght,
And was a man of moche myght,
His lande lay by the great e ynde
Bectorye hyght it as we fynde.
After the tyme of Noe euen
Eyght hundred yere fourty and seuen
The kynge Boccus hym be thought
That he wolde haue a cytye wrought
His enmyes ther with to fere :
^f And agayn them to mayntayne his
were
Chefly for a kynge that was his foo, That moche of ynde longed unto His name was Garaab the kynge. Boccus tho purueyed all thynge And shortly a towre began he, There he wolde make a cytye j And was ryght in the incomynge Of Garabys lande the kynge. The masons with grete laboure Began to worke on the towre, And all that they wrought on the daye
On nyght was it doone awaye. On morowe whan Boccus it herde, He was wrouthe that it so fared, And it all newe quykly begonne At nyght whan they shulde leue sone Of werke, and they wente to rest On the morowe all was downe kest. Well vii. monethes thus they wrought And all myght a vayle nought. If Boccus was wrothe wonderly, He called his gentylls that was hym by, Cownsell me, lordynges, quod he, How I may best make this cytye ? Syr, they sayd, sende you anone For your phylosophers euerychone, And ye astronomers that in your
countre is,
For of them can you no cownsell mys. Kyuge Boccus for them sent, His messyngers to gather them went : And whan they apperyd togyther there Foure score and ix. maysters there were. The kynge receyuyd them with the best, And thre dayes he dyd let them reste : The fourth daye he dyd them caull, And they before hym were come all. If Lordynges, he said, I shall tell you
now
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For what cause I haue sent for you :
I am the most kynge I wysse
That vnder the sonne rysynge is :
All the kyuges of this countrye
At my comaundment truly be,
Excepte Garaab the kynge
That in Ynde is raynynge ;
He contraryes my commaundment,
And not comys to my parlyament :
And hym wolde I fayne compell,
But howe in his lade to enter I cannot
tell;
But men haue cownselyd me For to make there a cytye, Masons and stone I thyther brought, And seuen monthes thereon they
wrought
Ryght in the entre of his lande For to meke hym to his hande, And all that they on daye wrought At nyght turned all to nought : And yf Garaab hath perauenture herde Of our worke how ifc farede, He wyll saye, I haue no myght A tower in his land for to dyght. Therfore your wyttes here on laye, Prayeng you that ye me saye How I maye after my wyll This tower and the cytye fulfyll. For I had leuer auenged to be Of Garaab that despysy th me, Than ye name of all the world to bere : And by my God I you swere, That I shall soone for your dede Quyte rychely your mede. Tf Syr, quod they, we you promyse That tower suerly for to furnyshe ; So that ye shall avengyd be, And haue your mynde of the cytye : And you us respyte geue Fourty dayes by your leue Tyll we our arte haue ouer sene, How your tower shall be made agayne,
And we shall do our myght To make it stonde daye and nyght. A place he causyd made redy to be With vernaunt flowers and many a tree, And with freyshe water of the ryuer He commaundyd on all goodly maner That they were serued rychely That daye as his owne body. Astronomers ther were many one in fee, That were the eldest men of that
countrye ; And they wrought dylygently in theyr
arte
Euery one by hymselfe on his parte. And whan the fourty dayes were gone They came before the kynge anone. He askyd them how they had wrought ? Syr, quod they, take you no thought ; Be you glade and mery also, For you shall all your mynd come to : Within a xiiij. hyghtes ye shall se Therfore let your masons redy be, Suche a tyme as we shall you saye Stones uppon the tower to laye ; And loke that they be than redy, And we all wyll be there by. Full greatly thanked them the kynge, And moche ioye had he of theyr sayenge f Than came the daye that they had set, The masons were all redy fet And the maysters wente with all To se them that worke shall : With greate ioye they begunne, And wrought as longe as they had sonne; Whan that the nyght came at the laste, They wente home to make repaste ; And they lefte upon the worke all nyght Great plenty truly of candell lyght. They went all home at nyght tyme, And came ageyne the nexte daye be
pryme.
The kyuge was the nexte daye wod Whan he sawe his worke not stode :
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All the tresure that he had vp layed, In ydylnesse it is consumyd, he sayed. And he anon cauled before hym the
clerkes,
And sayed, are thes your good werkes That you haue caused me for to do ? By the god that I beleue on and loue
also,
Quyte I shall all your dede, And for your werkes ye shall haue mede : Bynde them fote and hande, Thes wordis were spred a brode in his
lade,
And so they were in pryson cast, Therin kepte without fauor fast. TT Fer of this towre the voyce rane, And unto Graraab at length it came : Whan he it herde great ioye he had, And in his herte he was full glade. A letter he made to kyng Boccus, And sent it by hym that spake thus : I, Garaab, of Ynde kyuge, To the Boccus sendes gretynge ; We haue understondyng well Of thy worke and thy wyll euery dele, Of the Cytye thou woldest dyght, But thou hast theyrto no myght, « Neyther by arte nor by engyn For to brynge it to a fyne. But wylt thou sende me to my fere Thy doughter that to the is so dere And I shall gyue the leue thereto To make that thou desyrest so. This came to Boccus the kynge All in skorne and in mockynge. Boccus thought his herte shulde blede Whan he herde the letters rede, And was so wode with that answere, That by and by he slewe the messy ngere, Than dyd he in his lande crye Yf there ware eny lowe or hye, That cowde hym cownsell of that
thynge,
How he myght brynge it to endyuge, That cytye with the tower : He shulde with great honoure Gyue hym his doughter unto wyfe, With halfe his tresure in his lyfe. Well two dayes after this crye The kynge sat full drerely : For he wyste not what to do. Than came an olde man hym to, And sayd, Syr, I shall not craue Your doughter nor your tresure to
haue,
But yf you wylLdo me good, I shall wytsafe to amende your mode, And shew who shall on hym take Your tower and cytye for to make. If The kynge anon swore by his god That he loued and trusted in euer more, He shulde so quyt his seruyse, That it shulde lyke hym and all his. Syr, he sayed, this is beste to do : Sende the kyuge Tractabar unto And praye hym for your seruyse, That he you lende in eny wyse The boke of Astronomye, That Noe had with hym in balye. By an Aungell was made that boke, And JSToe to one of his sonnes it toke, And so hath it gone, I tell you, That Tractabar hath it now : Praye hym also you to lende And with that boke hastely to sende His astronomer Sydrac, Whiche shall undo all the hole pac ; All your wyll shall sone he do, Yf Sydrac come you ones to. Anon the kynge dyd letters make, And to a messynger he dede them take, And unto Tractabar them sent Withe a full ryche and good present, Desyryng hym very curtesly His boke and Sydrac to sende shortly. If Whan Tractabar that messyngere
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Had receyued with louynge chere, Unto our lorde and frende
Sayeng, you are ryght welcome to me, The kynge Boccus unto we sende ;
G-rete ioye I haue that I nou se Whom kynge G-araab greteth well,
My lorde and my frende Boccus, And certyfyeth that we haue euery dele
To sende me louyng letters thus ; Accordyng your mynde, we sende you to
A boke to lende hym he prayes me, Our boke and our clarke also,
That in olde tyme had Noe, And thanke ye moche of your sendynge,
That boke can fulfyll his wyll A glade man was Boccus tho
Of a thynge that lyes beryed in a hyll. Whan Sydrac before hym cam truly :
That who so myght come them to, He toke hym by the hande ryght gladly,
He myght all his wyll do. And tolde hym euery dele of his case,
My father wente up to that hyll, And how to hym it befallen was.
But he myght neuer come ther tyll : *§ Syr, quod Sydrac, that lande I wysse
But Boccus is of moche myght, Euery dele be weched is :
And he wyll with them fyght, There shall neuer man apede
That upon that hyll wonne, Upon that lande to do no dede,
He shall haue his wyll sone : That therof shall come eny prosperyte,
He sent hym his boke and Sydrac, Excepte theyr wychecrafte undoune be,
And a letter that thus spake : And I shall it redely unbynde.
Boccus, it will be perceived from this quotation, was a heathen, and a worshipper of idols : Sydrac was a Christian and an astronomer, and after a trial of strength by prayer and faith, between two of the wise men of Boccus on the one side and the Christian Sydrac on the other, by which the idols of King Boccus are consumed by fire from heaven, and which reminds us strongly of the contest between the prophets of Baal and Elijah in the sacred Scripture, from whence it is evidently taken, Boccus becomes convinced by the reasoning of Sydrac, who by the counsel of an angel shows him " the umbre of the Trynyte," whereby he is converted with all his host, and is instructed by Sydrac in the true Christian faith, and in many other things of importance. These are contained in the answers which Sydrac gives to the 362 questions propounded to him by the king, and which occupy the remainder of the volume, with the exception of the last two leaves. Some of these replies are exceedingly curious, as serving to show the extent and description of knowledge which then prevailed on many subjects of moral and scientific interest. The result of the whole is that Sydrac builds the tower for the king
In the name of the Trynyte
One god and persons thre,
and that Garaab also is brought over to the true faith, and destroys all his false idols.
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From the preceding long quotation the reader will perceive that Campe- den or Campden's translation of this romance does not boast of any elegance or poetical spirit in the language, nor of any grace or harmony in the metre. Neither does it resemble one of the old romances of chivalry, but may rather be considered, as Mr. Warton says, "a compendium of Arabian philosophy." It is valuable, however, as containing many curious words and phrases belonging to the period in which it was written, and as being composed during a reign in which we have so few original writers of English poetry, the wars of the Roses having been greatly prejudicial to that period of our literature.
The following may be taken as a short specimen of one of the questions, and its reply :
The Ixviii. question. ^ What beast is it that ye fynde
That longest leueth in his kynde.
An Erne leueth longest as I trowe His hyde he newyth euery yere,
Of all the beastes that I knowe : And becomyth yonge and favre ;
The erne euery daye wyl flye Be he not stayned with beast or man
In to the ayre up so bye, A thowsand yere wel lyue he can ;
Hygher than any man maye se, And whan a thowsand yere is gon,
And freshe and newe becometh he. Home his hede growyth on :
And in longe lyfe he contynueth, And shortly after begynneth he
That so oft hym selfe renueth. A fayr dragon for to be :
The adder also hath longe lyfe, But al they fare not so,
And under ertli he dwellyth ryfe, Some dye or they come therto ;
And under stonys and in brynkes And some are stayned here and there,
The kelyth of the erth drynkys. Or els al to fell they were.
The Ixxiii. questyon is —
Leue ony men in the world mo Out of the erthe than we on go ;
and in describing the inhabitants of different isles, the author represents them much as they are pictured in the volumes of Mandeville and others :
Syr, yles are many in the see And of hyth but handfulls thre,
A thousand and foure hudred and two And of berdes hangyng to theyr kne ;
ther be, Theyr here downe to theyr helys is,
Some are inhabyted men withall, Of flesshe they fede both of goose and And some are not, nor never shall. gryce :
There are some that men in dwell Theyr beastes are small euerychone,
Of our lykenes euery dell, A speche they haue by them alone.
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TF Another yle is by the see But they are moche lesse,
And therin are smal meyne, And they are euer in fyght and were.
A spanne longe are they and no more Agayne a great maner of fowle is there
And all of fysshe lyue they there In colde wynter tho fowles great
In the water are they be lyght Take they, and hold them for theyr
And up on londe they are on nyght mete.
•fl" Yet there other yles be ^f Another is there yet nere hand
With men al so great as we There is a maner foule dweland
With one eye in the front no more Thoughe they were in fyre brought
And us with two they drede ful sore Brenne ne shuld theyr fethers nought.
They ete flesshe, and with the fellys *[[ Another folke is there fayre and
Clothe they them, and with nothynge sounde
ellys That haue vysage lyke a hounde.
Tf Yet there is another also ; ^[ Yet is there folke in a countre
The folke that longeth therto And feble and lene they be,
Are tayled ryght as shepe eche one, On sonne and on the mone they byleue,
And then lyue by fysshe alone. And sacryfyce to them they geue. IT Yet is there one of oure shapnesse, &c. &c.
At the end is the following epilogue :
Pray we now with al our myght That this boke hath throughe sought
Unto god of heuen lyght And unto Englysshe ryme brought
That he geue us grace so to do Lyue in ioye without synne
That we heuen may come unto And that he godis loue here wynne
That we shal al to I wene So that he at his lyues ende
And that Hughe of caumpedene Unto the blesse of heuen wende.
FINIS.
The volume closes with the colophon we have previously given, and on the last page is a woodcut of the arms of St. Augustine's Monastery at Canterbury. Warton had seen only one MS. of this romance, viz. that in the Laud collection G. 57, fol. membr. in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, which is a very fine one. Ritson mentions another in the Sloane collection in the British Museum, No. 2232, which was completed in the month of May 1502, 4to, and says that manuscript copies of this translation are not uncommon. In the last-mentioned MS. the authorship is attributed, but probably without foundation, to Eobert Wakefield, a distinguished scholar and linguist of his time, who died in 1537 ; but he was perhaps only the transcriber, it having been a common custom formerly for the copyist to sign his name at the end of a MS. after he had completed it. An imper- fect copy of it is in the Harleian collection, and in MS. Egerton, No. 751, is a French version, entitled "Le livre del Roy Boccus, le quel il fist
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escrire, des Sciences de Sidrac, et Ji mist le nom le livre de Sidrac, le livre de totes Sciences." Of the printed edition by Godfray there is a perfect copy in the Grenville collection, in the Britisli Museum ; and another, also perfect, was sold in Mr. Heher's library for 24/. 105. and is now in the collection of the late William H. Miller, Esq. This very fine copy, in the original binding, was successively in the collections of Rawlinson, Major Pearson, and the Duke of Roxburghe, at whose sale, No. 3272, it was bought by the Marquis of Blandfojd for SO/., and at the sale of the White Knight's library in 1819, pt. i. No. 550, was purchased by Mr. Heber for 351. 145. There is a copy in the library of Lincoln Cathedral, another in the Malone collection in the Bodleian Library, a third in that of Mr. Douce in the same library, and a fourth in the Public Library at Cambridge. An imperfect one, wanting the title and first pages, is in the library of St. John's College, Oxford, which had once belonged to the celebrated Dr. Simon Forman. Another similar one, wanting the title, sold in Steevens' sale, No. 774, for 21. 195. An imperfect one also which had belonged to White Kennett, wanting several leaves, but having the first and last, and otherwise in fine state, was sold in Bright's sale, No. 1111, for 31. 85., and is now in the possession of the editor.
The present copy, which was obtained at the sale of Baron Bolland's library in 1840, No. 406, is unfortunately imperfect, wanting the title and the whole of sheet Q of the poem, and part of the top corners of sheet R. These have been beautifully supplied by manuscript in fac-simile by Harris, and the volume is in nice state.
Collation : Title A 1 ; Sig. A six leaves ; B to Z in fours, I four leaves ; then a second Gothic alphabet $[ to ^, in fours. 170 leaves. Bound by C. Lewis. In Blue Morocco, gilt leaves.
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BODBNHAM, (JOHN.) — Bel-vedere or the Garden of the Mvses. Quern referent [Musse] vivet dum robora tellus, Dum coelum stellas, dum vehet amnis aquas.
Imprinted at London by F. K. for Hugh Astley, dwelling at Saint Magnus corner. 1600 sm. 8vo. pp. 274.
Among the numerous poetical miscellanies which began to appear about this period, and form a remarkable feature in the literary annals of the time, must be included the present rare work, compiled by John Bodenham, the editor also of Politeuphuia Wits Commonwealth, 1598, 8vo; Wits Theater of the little World, 1599, 8 vo; and of England's Helicon, 1600, 4to, noticed hereafter. Although Bodenham was thus a contributor to the preservation and diffusion of these flowers of our early poetry, and was so useful in his generation, little or nothing seems to be known of him beyond the evidence of his industry in the compilation of these works. Beneath the motto on the title is an oval emblematical woodcut, representing the sun (Apollo) shining on a laurel between the bi-forked summits of Parnassus, with a pink on one side and a heartsease on the other; around which, in a border, is
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the inscription : " Parnasso et Appolline digna." This cut, as well as the work itself, was thus ridiculed in the old anonymous play of The Return from Parnassus, 1606, 4to :
Judicio.
Considering the furies of the times, I could better endure to see those young can- quaffing hucksters shoot off their pellets, so they would keep them from these English Flores poetarum ; but now the world is come to that pass, that there starts up every day an old goose that sits hatching up those eggs which have been filch' d from the nest of crows, and kestrels ; Here is a book, Ingenioso ; why, to condemn it, to clear the usual tiburn of all misliving papers, were too fair a death for so foul an offender.
What's the name of it, I pray thee, Judicio ?
Judicio. Look, its here, Sel-videre.
Ingenioso.
What a belweather in Pauls churchyard, so called because it keeps a bleating, or because it hath a tinkling bell of so many poets about the neck of it ? What is the rest of the title ?
Judicio. The garden of the muses.
Ingenioso.
What have we here, the poet garish, gayly bedeck'd like fore-horses of the parish ? What follows ?
Judicio.
Quern referent muses vivet dum robora tellus, Dum ccelum stellas, dum vehet amnis aquas. Who blurs fair paper with foul bastard rhymes Shall live full many an age in latter times ; Who makes a ballad for an ale house door, Shall live in future times for evermore : Then (Bodenham) the muse shall live so long, As drafty ballads to thy praise are sung.
Ingenioso.
But what's his device ? Parnassus with the sun and the laurel ? I wonder this owl dares look on the sun ; and I marvel, this goose flies not the laurel : his device might have been better — a fool going in to the market-place to be seen, with this motto, Scribimus indocti : or a poor beggar gleaning of ears in the end of harvest, with this word sua cuique gloria.
Judicio.
Turn over the leaf, Ingenioso, and thou shalt see the pains of this worthy gentleman. Sentences, gathered out of all kind of poets, referred to certain methodical heads, profitable for the use of these times, to rhyme upon any occasion at a little warn- ing, &c.
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After the title is an interesting prose address " To the Reader," omitted in the second edition, in which the editor gives a curious account of the intent and construction of the volume, as will appear from the following extract :
Concerning the nature and qualitie of these excellent flowers, thou seest that they are most learned, graue, and witty sentences ; each line being a seuerall sentence, and
none exceeding two lines at the vttermost Now that euery one may be
fully satisfied concerning this Grarden, that no man doth assume to himselfe the praise thereof, or can arrogate to his owne deserving those things which have been derived from so many rare and ingenious spirits ; I have set downe both how, whence, and where these flowres had their first springing, till thus they were drawne togither into the Muses Garden, that euery ground may challenge his owne, each plant his particular, and no one be iniuried in the iustice of his merit.
First, out of many excellent speeches spoken to her Maiestie, at Tiltings, Triumphes, Maskes, Shewes, and deuises perfourmed in prograce : as also out of diuers choise Ditties sung to her; and some especially, proceeding from her owne most sacred selfe : Here are great store of them digested into their meete places, according as the method of the worke plainly deliuereth. Likewise out of priuat Poems, Sonnets, Ditties, and other wittie conceits, giuen to her Honorable Ladies, and vertuous Maids of Honour ; according as they could be obtained by sight, or fauour of copying, a number of most wittie and singular Sentences.
Secondly, looke what workes of Poetrie haue been put to the worlds eye, by that learned and right royall King and Poet IAMES King of Scotland, no one Sentence of worth had escaped, but are likewise here reduced into their right roome and place.
Next, out of sundry things extant, and many in priuat, done by these right Honourable persons following :
Thomas, Earle of Surrey. Mary, Countesse of Pembrooke.
The Lord Marquesse of Winchester. Sir Philip Sidney.
From Poems and workes of these noble personages, extant : Edward, Earle of Oxenford. Sir Edward Dyer.
Ferdinando, Earle of Derby. Fulke Greuile, Esquier.
Sir Walter Raleigh. Sir lohn Harrington.
From diuers essayes of their Poetrie ; some extant among other Honourable per- sonages writings ; some from priuate labours and translations :
Edmund Spencer. Thomas Churchyard Esquier.
Henry Constable, Esquier. Thomas Nash.
Samuell Daniell. Thomas Kidde.
Thomas Lodge, Doctor of Physicke. George Peele.
Thomas Watson. Eobert Greene.
Michaell Drayton. losuah Syluester.
lohn Dauies. Nicholas Breton.
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Thomas Hudson. Geruase Markham.
Henrie Locke Esquier. Thomas Storer.
lohn Marston. Eobert "Wilmot.
Christopher Marlow. Christopher Middleton.
Beniamin lohnson. Eichard Barnefield.
William Shakspeare.
These being Moderne and extant Poets that haue liv'd togither; from many of their extant workes, and some kept in priuat.
Thomas Norton, Esquier. Erauncis Kindlemarsh Esquier.
George Gascoigne Esquier. Thomas Atchlow.
George Whetstones.
These being deceased, haue left diuers extant labours, and many more held back from publishing, which for the most part haue been perused, and their due right here giuen them in the Muses Garden.
Besides, what excellent Sentences have been in any presented Tragedie, Historic, Pastorall, or Comedie, they haue been likewise gathered, and are here inserted in their proper places.
At the close of this address, on the reverse, is a woodcut of the arms and crest of Bodenham. Azure, a fess between three chess-rooks, or. Crest, out of a ducal coronet, or, a wing, sable. Motto : Macte bonis animi. The same cut being also made use of before England's Helicon, 1600, 4to. Then follow commendatory verses by A. M. (probably Anthony Munday), A. B., W. Eankins Gent, (author of the Mirror of Monsters ?) and E. Hath way ; and two Sonnets to the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, the former signed "Sua cuique gloria," and the latter "Stat sine morte decus." Mr. Malone in his Inquiry, p. 99, lias suggested that this E. Hath way may probably have been the kinsman of Ann Hatbaway, the wife of our immortal bard. Hath way is mentioned by Meres as among the chief dramatic writers of his time in Palladia Tamia, or Wits Treasury, 1598, fol. 282.
One of the sonnets in praise of the book, written by A. B., is so elegantly expressed that although elsewhere quoted, it will bear a repetition :
Of this Garden of the Muses. Thou which delight' st to view this goodly plot, Here take such flowres as best shal serue thy vse, Where thou maist find in euery curious knot Of speciall vertue, and most precious iuyce, Set by Apollo in their seuerall places, And nourished with his celestiall Beames, •
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And watered by the Muses and the Graces
With the fresh dew of those Castalian streames.
What sente or colour can'st thou but deuise
That is not here, that may delight the sense ?
Or what Art or Industry comprize,
That in aboundance is not gather'd hence ?
No Garden yet was euer halfe so sweet,
As where Apollo and the Muses meet. A. B.
The extracts from the various poets enumerated extend to two hundred and thirty-three pages, arranged under different heads — God, Heaven, Conscience, Religion, Truth, Vertue, Faith, Hope, Love, Hate, &c. ; and at the end is a short concluding address by the compiler, and " An Alpha- beticall Table of the severall things handled in this Booke;" in the former of which he observes that "in this first Impression are omitted the sentences of Chaucer, Gower, Litigate, and other auncient Poets, because it was not knowne how their forme would agree with these of ten syllables onely, and that sometimes they exceed the compasse herein obserued, hauing none but lineall and couplet sentences, aboue and beyond which course, the Gentleman who was the cause of this collection (taking therein no meane pairies him-selfe, besides his friends labour) could not be perswaded, but determinately aimed at this observation."
In comparing this poetical miscellany with others of a similar kind, the two great defects which are especially observable in the Garden of the Muses are the limitation of the extracts to a single couplet, and the want of identification of the passages, no authors names being given. This is a serious drawback to the enjoyment of the book, which on this account is inferior to the work of Allot, before noticed ; and should Belvedere ever be reprinted it would be desirable to annex the author's name to each extract.
For further notices of the work see Warton's Hist. Eng. Poet. vol. iv. p. 103; Herbert's Ames, vol. iii. p. 1382; Cens. Liter, vol. i. p. 195; Collier's Poet. Decam. vol. i. p. 228 ; Drake's Shakespeare and his Times, vol. i. p. 725; Ritson's Bibl Poet. p. 134; and Bibl. Ang. Poet. p. 55. It is also adverted to in Oldys' preface to Heywood's British Muse, and in Dr. Anderson's general preface to his English Poets. The work is exceed- ingly rare, and sold at Perry's sale, pt. i. No. 533, for 61. 6s.; and pt. iv. No. 315 (one leaf wanting) 51. ; Jolley's ditto, pt. ii. No. 352, 6l. 2s. 6d. ; Steevens', No. 1127, with MS. index, III. 15s.; Bindley's, pt. i. No. 455, 131. 2s. 6d.; Bibl Ang. Poet. No. 55 (one leaf MS.) 251
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Collation: Title A 2; Sig. A ten leaves; B to R 8, in eights; pp. 276, including blank leaf A 1.
From the collections of Major Pearson, Mr. Park, Sir Mark M. Sykes Bart., and Mr. Jolley. With numerous memoranda in MS. and references to the authors of the extracts by Mr. Park. It has also prefixed a reprint of that portion of The Return from Parnassus which relates to the present work.
Half bound in Russia.
BODENHAM, (JOHN.) — Bel-vedere or the Garden of the Muses.
Quern referent [Musse] vivet dum robora tellus, Dum cffilum Stellas, dum vehet amnis aquas.
Imprinted at London by F. K. for Hugh Astley, dwelling at Saint Magnus corner. 1600. Sm. 8vo, pp. 274.
Another copy of the rare first edition from the collections of Bindley, Perry, and Heber. It contains many MS. references to the poets from whose works the extracts are taken. The following is the sonnet addressed
To the Vniuersitie of Oxenford. Thou eye of Honour, Nurserie of Fame,
Still teeming-Mother of immortall seed ;
Eeceive these blessed orphanes of thy breed,
As from thy happie issue first they came. Those flowing wits that bathed in thy foorde ;
And suck't the honie dew from thy pure pap :
Eeturne their tribute back into thy lap,
In rich-wrought lines, that yeelde no idle woord. O let thy Sonues from time to time supplie * This Garden of the Muses, where doth want
Such Flowers as are not, or come short, or scant
Of that perfection may be had thereby : So shall thy name live, their fame ne're dye, Though under ground whole worlds of time they lie.
,, Stat sine morte decus.
In this sonnet, believed to be written by Bodenham himself, the idea in the last two lines appears to be taken from a passage from some poet quoted on p. 18 :
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Our vices nor our vertues neuer die,
Though under ground a thousand yeares we lie.
In the second edition these lines are thus altered for the worse :
So shall thy name live still, their fame ne'er die, Though under ground whole world of times it lie.
There is a copy of this edition in the Douce Collection in the Bodleian Library.
In the original calf binding.
J (JOHN.) — The Garden of the Muses. Quern referent Musae vivet dum robora tellus, Dum coelum Stellas, dum vehet amnis aquas.
Printed at London by E. A. for lohn Tap, and are to be sold at his shop at Saint Magnus corner. 1610. Sm. 8vo, pp. 260.
With the exception of the omission of the word " Belvedere" on the title, and of the interesting prose address " To the Reader" by the editor, this second edition corresponds in its contents with that of the preceding one of 1600. It is quite as rare if not rarer than the first impression. The paging is very incorrect after 190, but the volume contains altogether 130 leaves, or pp. 260, and not 250 as stated by Lowndes.
Nassau's sale, pt. i. No. 278, 21. 15s.; Sir Mark M. Sykes', pt. i. No. 240, 21. 18s.; Sotheby's in 1821, Ql. 6s.; Midgley's, No. 29, 81. 13s.; Bibl. Any. Poet., No. 56, 211.
Collation : Title A 1 ; Sig. A, four leaves ; B to R, 6, in eights. Bound in Russia, gilt leaves.
BODENHAM, (JOHN.) — Englands Helicon. Or the Muses Har- mony.
The Courts of Kings heare no such straines
As daily lull the Rusticke Swaines.
London : Printed for Richard More, and are to be sould at his Shop in S. Dunstanes Church-yard. 1614. 8vo. pp. 254.
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The extraordinary fertility of the reign of Queen Elizabeth in the pro- duction of writers of poetry, of whom the names of more than two hundred and fifty might be enumerated, gave birth to the publication of a series of poetical miscellanies, which first appeared in that age, and contain many beautiful and interesting poems, which are scattered in the works of their various authors. Among these miscellanies, especially with reference to our pastoral compositions, few are more interesting than the present. Unlike the metaphysical poems of the next reign, — the conceits of Donne or of Cowley, and the pedantic jargon of others, — the earlier collection breathes only of nature, the scenes and pleasures of a country life, or of the simple songs of her shepherds and peasants, in such strains as captivate the heart and its affections. And we have in several of these strains some of the most beautiful and graceful poetry of our language. The pieces of Lodge, Breton, Mario w and Raleigh, not to mention others, abound with excellences, and contain gems of the finest water. It is generally under- stood that we are indebted to Bodenham for this important miscellany, than which a more happy or choice selection of the poetry of that period could hardly have been culled.
So much has already been written on the subject of this most valuable miscellany in the introduction to the reprint of the work by Sir Egerton Brydges and Mr. Haslewood in the third volume of the Brit. Bibliogr., and in other works of a similar character, that it will be needless to enlarge in the present place upon its excellence or its rarity. It is generally considered the most important of the various collections of our early pastoral poetry, and has been the means of preserving to us some of the most beautiful of the lyrical songs of that period. It is somewhat singular, considering that two impressions of it were printed, that a miscellany like this should have become a work of such great rarity, and its merits considered, that it should have remained unreprinted for nearly two hundred years. The lovers of our early poetry are therefore greatly indebted to the late Sir Egerton Brydges for his valuable and elegant reprint, with a biographical and critical introduction, of this collection in the Brit. Bibliogr.^ of which one hundred and twenty copies were taken off separately in 4to. By these means the public taste has been gratified, and the work rendered more accessible to general readers.
It contains contributions from nearly all the principal poets of that period, which was so fertile in poetical writers, the leading tone of its compositions PART ii. R R
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partaking of the pastoral character. " The principal feature of Englands Helicon" says Dr. Drake, "is its pastoral beauty, and in this department how few have surpassed or even equalled the exquisite strains of Lodge or Marlow !" Indeed, as it has been remarked, it will be sufficient to establish the value of England's Helicon if it be only for having preserved Marlow's beautiful song of "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love," and Raleigh's not less beautiful answer to it. " It cannot be idle or useless," says Sir Egerton Brydges in his introduction, " to study this early collection of pastoral compositions Here is the fountain of that diction, which has since been employed and expanded in the description of rural scenery. Here are the openings of those reflections on the imagery of nature, in which subsequent poets have so much dealt. They shew us to what occa- sional excellence, both in turn of thought, and polish of language, the literature of Queen Elizabeth had arrived ; and how little the artificial and incumbered prose of mere scholars of that time exhibits a just specimen of either the sentiment or phrase of the court or people ! In the best of these productions, even the accentuation and rhythm scarce differs from that of our days. Lodge and Breton in particular, who are characterised by their simplicity, are striking proofs of this !"
Of this valuable collection two editions were published. The first in 1600, called " Englands Helicon.
Casta placent superis pura cum veste yenite Et manibus puris sumite fontis aquam.
At London, Printed by J. R, for lohn Flasket, and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard, at the signe of the Beare." 4to.
Prefixed to this edition is a sonnet " To his loving kinde friend Maister John Bodenham," signed A. B., which proves Bodenham to be the collector of this miscellany; then a prose address "To his very loving Friends, M. Nicholas Wanton and M. George Faucet," signed A. B. ; and another " To the Reader, if indifferent," signed L. N. ; after which follow the poems, without any table of contents. This first edition consists of 192 pages, and contains 150 poems. A copy of this edition sold at Major Pearson's sale for 51. 105., and at Steevens' ditto, No. 1127, with MS. notes and additions, for III. 1 5s.
The present impression commences with a dedicatory sonnet by the printer, Richard More, " To the truly Vertuous and Honourable Lady, the
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Lady Elizabeth Carie," which is followed by " The Table of all the Songs and Pastorals with the Authors' names, contained in this Booke," five pages. This edition contains nine more poems than the preceding, and numbers 254 pages.
Notwithstanding that Mr. Ellis and others have quoted largely from this interesting collection, and the reprint by Sir Egerton Brydges has made it better known, we cannot resist the temptation of laying before the reader one or two of its shorter pieces taken at random, the first of which, by Edmund Bolton, the author of Hypercritica^ must make us regret that his published poetical remains are not more extensive.
A Palinode.
As withereth the Primrose by the riuer, As fadeth Summers-Sunne from gliding fountaines ; As vanisheth the light blowne bubble euer, As melteth Snow vpon the mossie Mountaines : So melts, so vanisheth, so fades, so withers The Eose, the shine, the bubble, and the snow Of praise, pompe, glory, ioy (which short life gathers) Faire praise, vaine pompe, sweet glory, brittle ioy. The withered Primrose, by the mourning riuer, The faded Summers-sunne from weeping fountaines ; The light-blowne bubble, vanished for euer, The molten snow vpon the naked mountaines :
Are Emblems that the treasures we vp-lay,
Soone wither, vanish, fade, and melt away.
For as the snow, whose lawne did ouer-spread
Th' ambitious hils, which Giant-like did threat
To pierce the heauen with their aspiring head,
Naked and bare doth leaue their craggie seat.
When as the bubble, which did emptie flie
The dalliance of the vndiscerned winde,
On whose calme rowling waues it did relie,
Hath shipwrack made, where it did dalliance finde:
And when the Sun-shine which dissolu'd the snow,
Colour'd the bubble with a pleasant varie,
And made the rathe and timely Primrose grow,
Swarth clouds with«drawne (which longer time do tarie) . Oh, what is praise, pompe, glory, ioy, but so As shine by fountaines, bubbles, flowers, or snow ?
E. B.
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The solitarie Shepheards Song. O shadie Vale, O faire enriched Meades, O sacred woods, sweet fields, and rising mountaines, O painted flowers, greene hearbs where Flora treads, Eefresht by wanton winds and watry fountaines :
O all you winged Queristers of wood
that pearcht aloft, your former paines report : And straite againe recount with pleasant moode,
your present ioyes in sweet and seemely sort :
O all you creatures whosoeuer thriue
on mother Earth, in Seas, by Ayre, by Fire : More blest are you then I heere vnder Sunne,
loue dies in me, when as hee doth reuiue In you, I perish vnder beauties ire,
where after stormes, winds, frosts, your life is wun.
Thomas Lodge. Rosalinds Madrigal. Loue in my bosome like a Bee, Else I with Roses euery day
doth sucke his sweet : will whip ye hence :
Now with his wings, he playes with me, And binde ye when ye long to play,
now with his feete. for your offence.
Within mine eyes he makes his nest, He shut mine eyes to keepe ye in,
His bed amidst my tender brest, He make you fast it for your sinne,
My kisses are his daily feast, He count your power not woorth a pin.
And yet he robs me of my rest, Alas, what hereby shall I winne
Ah ! wanton will ye ? If he gaine-say me ?
And if I sleepe, then pierceth he, What if I beate the wanton Boy
with prettie slight : with many a rod ?
And makes his pillow of my knee, He will repay me with annoy
the Hue-long night. because a God.
Strike I my Lute, he tunes the string, Then sit thou safely on my knee, He musicke playes if I but sing, And let thy bower my bosome be :
He lends me euery louely thing, Lurke in mine eyes, I like of thee.
Yet cruell he my heart doth sting, O Cupid, so thou pitty me,
Whilst wanton, still ye. Spare not, but play thee.
Thomas Lodge. An Inuective against Loue.* All is not golde that shineth bright in show, Not euery flowre so good, as faire, to sight, The deepest streames, aboue doe calmest flow, And strongest poisons oft the taste delight.
* This is one of the additional poems which were not in the first edition.
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The pleasant baite doth hide the harmfull hooke, And false deceit can lend a friendly looke.
Loue is the gold, whose outward hew doth passe Whose first beginnings goodly promise make Of pleasures faire, and fresh as Sommers grasse, Which neither Sunne can parch, nor winde can shake :
But when the mould should in the fire be tride,
The gold is gone, the drosse doth still abide.
Beautie the flowre, so fresh, so faire, so gay, So sweet to smell, so soft to touch and tast : As seemes it should endure, by right, for aye, And neuer be with any storme defast,
But when the baleful Southerne wind doth blow,
Gone is the glory which it erst did shew.
Loue is the streame, whose waues so calmely flow
As might intice mens minds to wade therein :
Loue is the poison mixt with sugar so
As might by outward sweetnesse liking win, But as the deepe ore'flowing stops thy breath, So poyson once receiu'd brings certaine death.
Loue is the baite, whose taste the fish deceiues, And makes them swallow downe the choking hooke : Loue is the face whose fairenesse iudgement reaues, And makes thee trust a false and fained looke.
But as the hooke, the foolish fish doth kill,
So flatt'ring lookes, the louer's life doth spill.
Of both editions of this choice and interesting selection of the pastoral poetry of the period, the reader will find an ample notice in the Gens. Liter. vol. i. pp. 148 and 160, together with a complete list of the various titles of the poems contained in the collection, and a short specimen from each edition. See also Drake's Shakespeare and his Times, vol. i. p. 720, for an interesting account of the numerous poetical miscellanies of that age, and of this collection in particular; Beloe's Anecd. vol. i. p. 249; Dibdin's Libr. Comp. vol. ii. p. 292, &c. Mr. Hallam, in his Introd. to the Literal, of Europe^ vol. ii. p. 310, has highly praised it as the most important of all the poetical miscellanies ; and speaking of the pieces of Marlow, Raleigh, Lodge and Breton, characterises these early lyrics as being " full of beauty, grace, and simplicity, and as among the best in our language." Percy, Ellis, and Campbell have each taken specimens from this collection, the second of
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them largely; but have still omitted some pieces well deserving of quo- tation.
Very few of our collectors of early English poetry have possessed copies of this rare and interesting work. We look for it in vain in the sale cata- logues of their libraries; and the following, after a long and laborious search, are the only copies we are able to trace : — Mr. Brand's, No. 2176, which had a few leaves made up with MS., sold for 2l. 7s. ; Farmer's, No. 6265, for 11. 105.; the Koxburghe copy, No. 3172, with the title mended, was bought by the Kev. J. M. Rice for 241. 13s. 6d. ; and at the latter's sale, No. 693, brought only 10/. The copy of this edition, which had belonged to Dr. Farmer, was sold in Mr. Heber's collection, pt. iv. No. 701, for 8/. 2s. 6d., and is now probably in that of the late W. H. Miller, Esq. This was the one from which the reprint by Sir Egerton Brydges and Mr. Haslewood was made. It was not in the Bibl. Ang. Poet., nor is this edition in the Malone or Douce collections in Oxford, nor in the Gren- ville collection in the British Museum.
Collation: Title A 1 ; Sig. A four leaves; B to R 3, in eights; pp. 254. Bound by Charles Lewis. In Brown Morocco, gilt leaves.
B. (H.) BOLD, (HENRY.) — Wit a Sporting in a pleasant Grove of New Fancies. By H. B. London Printed for W. Burden, and are to be sold at his shop in Cannons-street, near London- stone, and by S. L. at the sign of the Bookbinders in Shoo- lane. 1657. Sm. 8vo.
Sir Francis Freeling, to whom this little work formerly belonged, remarks in it : "I consider this as one of the rarest books I possess. Great value is attached both to the portrait and to the book itself. The latter, without the portrait, was sold at Bindley 's sale, No. 2191, for 67. 13s." Remarkable, however, as the volume may be for its rarity, it is still more remarkable as presenting in the portrait prefixed and in the contents a most curious instance of literary imposition. The portrait, to which so much value is attached, is in reality from the original plate representing Christian Ravis or Ravius, a native of Berlin, who was celebrated for his knowledge of the Oriental languages, and coming to this country was much patronised and encouraged by Archbishop Usher. This portrait was originally pre-
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fixed to his Discourse of the Oriental Tongues : together with, a general Grammar for the Hebrew, Samaritan, Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic Tongues. London, 1649. 8vo. It is in an oval, and represents him in a cassock with flowing hair, set. 32, with ships in the distance, and the inscription, " Cliristianus Ravius Berlinas." In the present volume, where it stands for Henry Bold, the inscription has been obliterated, and the plate, which is worn, has been evidently retouched. We have the same portrait again in a third and much more worn state prefixed to a volume entitled Divine Poems and Meditations. In two parts. Written by William Williams of the County of Cornwall, Gent. &c. London 1677, 8vo; but not belonging to the book. It has a fresh inscription under- neath : " Vera Effigies Guliel: Williams al' Willisum. Nat. Comitat: Gloc: lanu' 27, 1626, Philosophus set. 32 ;" and is intended in this third state to represent a certain William Williams, a native of Gloucestershire, an astro- loger of inferior note, an entirely different person from the author of the Divine Poems, who was a native of Cornwall, and is prefixed to his Occult Physick, 1660, 12mo. In all the three cases the portrait is the same, and taken from the same plate. We come now to the book itself, which is remarkable for the same barefaced appropriation of the property of others, the whole of nearly the first fifty pages being taken verbatim from Poems Divine and Humane, by Thomas Beedome, London 1641, although not in the exact order in which they occur in that volume ; and some other poems, including the most meritorious, are filched from Herrick's Hesperides. It is probable that most of the rest of the contents are taken from some other collections of poems, although we have not been able to identify them in all cases ; and we much doubt whether Bold can claim any actual share in the volume unless it may be one or two of the epigrams, and the Dreams at the end of the book. These instances of literary plagiarism were not uncom- mon at that period, and we have examples of it, besides this of Bold, furnished by Jordan and others, which render it hazardous to quote any extracts from their books, which might perhaps be only taken unacknow- ledged from some other work by a different author. On this account we refrain from offering any quotation from the present volume by Bold, not- withstanding its rarity. The remarks we have elsewhere made on the similar " literary conveyances" of Jordan render it unnecessary to allude to the subject further in this place beyond observing that in all probability many more instances of the kind will be developed by a more extensive examination of our obscure early poetry. The rights of authorship in those
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early days were very obscurely defined, and when we find even the hallowed name of Shakespeare attached to spurious plays merely for the purposes of sale, it is no wonder that deceptions of an inferior kind were practised with impunity.
Henry Bold, who is intended to appear as the author of these poems, is said by Wood to be descended from the ancient family of the Bolds of Bold Hall in Lancashire, now represented by Sir Henry Bold Hoghton Bart. He was born in Hampshire, and was the fourth son of William Bold of New- stead in that county, a captain in the army. Having received his education at Winchester School, he went from thence to Oxford, and was elected a probationer Fellow of New College in 1645, but was ejected by the parlia- mentary visitors in 1648, and settling in London became a member of the Examiner's Office in the Court of Chancery. He died in Chancery Lane October 23, 1683, aged 56, and was buried in the church at West Twyford, near Acton, in co. Middlesex. There was another person of the same name, who was of Christ Church Oxford, and chaplain to Henry Earl of Arlington, through whose means he was afterwards Fellow of Eton College, and Chanter of the Cathedral at Exeter. He died abroad in France in 1677> and must not be confounded with the former.
The laudatory verses contributed to his two other volumes of poems show that he was held in estimation by his literary contemporaries, and he is also praised by Wood for his skill in translating the most difficult English into Latin verse. See Wood's Ath. Oxon. vol. iv. p. 115; and Dibdin's Liter. Reminiscences, pt. ii. p. 934. A copy without the portrait sold in Perry's sale, pt. i. No. 569, for ll. 19s. ; Bibl. Heber. pt. iv. No. 105 (no portrait), 21. 15s.; Bindley's, pt. iii. No. 2191 (no portrait), 6l. 18s. ; Bibl. Ang. Poet. No. 63, with portrait, 5l. 5s.; Freeling's ditto, No. 116, with portrait, III.
Collation : Title A 2 ; Sig. A four leaves ; B to H 8, in eights ; pp. 1 1 8. Bound by T. Finlay. In Blue Morocco, gilt leaves.
BOLD, (HENRY.) — Poems Lyrique Macaronique Heroique &c. By Henry Bold olim e N. C. Oxon.
Hor. 2, 1. 2. Ep. 11. Singula de nobis anni predantur euntes, Eripuere Jocos, Venerem, Convivia, Ludum; Tendunt extorquere Poemata : Quid faciam vis ?
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London : Printed for HenryBrome, at the Gun in Ivy -lane. 1664. Sm. 8vo.
Another volume of poems by the same author, who was better known among his contemporaries than he has been since by his writings. It is dedicated " To the Honourable Colonel Henry Wallop of Farley- wallop in the County of Southampton ;" then two lines addressed " To the Inge- nious — If thou wilt read so ; if not so ; it is so, so, and so Farewell. Thine upon liking H. B. ;" and commendatory verses by Henry Sanderson, Esq. ; William Bold, Esq. ; Norton Bold, C. C. C. Oxon. S. (his two brothers) ; J. Moyle, of the Inner Temple, Esq.; Alexander Brome; and V. Oldis. The latter was Dr. Valentine Oldis, a physician, son of a person of the same name, himself a poet, and a great encourager of poetry, who published a poem on the Restoration of King Charles. Folio 1660. He also wrote some other things, and died in 1685. One of the poems in the present volume is addressed by Bold " To my friend V. 0." &c. The songs in the first half of the volume, which are extremely free and licentious, are num- bered to the 124th page, extending to 71. The rest of the book consists of miscellaneous pieces, some of them of a longer kind ; among the titles to which we may enumerate The Adventure, August 26, 1645; Marston, Ale House, April 13, 1648 ; A Journey from Oxford, 1656 ; On Oxford Visitors setting up their Commissions on the Colledge Gates, 1648; "On the Death of Oliver Cromwell, September 3, 1658 ; To Mr. J. Gamble on his Setting and Publishing the Lyrick Poems of T. S. Esq. (i.e. Thomas Stanley); On the hopeful R. Baron of Grayes Inn Esq., 1647; An Epitaph written on the Tomb of Mary, Wife of Tho. Ingram, of Temple Newsham, in the County of York, Esq., dying in the Birth of two Children October 2, 1656:
Reader, With reverence approach this Tomb, Here lies a Pattern for the Times to come, The glorious envy of her Sex, where all Graces and virtues were habitual. A Wife as one would wish ! be this her Pride ! She ne're displeas'd her husband till she dy'd, To shew her Womb uncurst a double-birth Gave fruit at once to heaven, and to earth, But heaven was their centre, deeming meet The swathing linnen for their Winding-sheet, The Mother, loth to stay behind, but knew PAET IT. S S
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Her infants parted, and departed too. Triumphs, and Halelujahs ! heaven's possest By Mary, with a Babe at either Breast !
They were too good for this World — Here they lye,
Children and Heirs to all Eternity.
An Epitaph in Latin and English on Sir Arthur Ingram, Knight ; To R. B. (Baron) Esq., having read his Mirza; Elegy at the Funerals of W. Moyle, Esq., May 28, 1666 ; To his Sacred Majesty Charles the II. at his happy Return, and others to the same royal person ; Rites on the Famous and Renowned Sir Charles Lucas and Sir Charles Lisle, murther'd at Col- chester August 28, 1648, Their Funeral Solemniz'd June 7, 1661; On Hampton Court; On Bold Hall in Lancashire, the Antient Seat of our Family, now too like to become Extinct :
That Hall from Sold, did take its Name, And Bold, his Name again, from Hall, Hath told us long, from whence we came, But Lord knows, whither 'tis, we shall.
To Sir W. L. of the Parliament at Oxon. Kal. Jan. ; On the Death of Mary Princess Dowager of Aurange, &c. The author concludes by quoting,
Ohe ! Jam satis est ! Ohe, libelle ! Mar :
4 Dirus exclamat Charon
Quo pergis andax ? Sen.
And yet adds: " Expect the second part." Whether the volume of his Latin Songs with their English, and Poems, published in 1685, was intended as this second part, or whether it was never completed, the editor is unable to say. But Ant. Wood is wrong in attributing to this author the "Scarro- nides, or Virgil Travestie," which was written by Charles Cotton, and is not in this volume. See the BibL Ang. Poet. No. 62, where a copy is priced at 61. 6s. ; Bindley, pt. i. No. 647, 51. 10s.; Perry, No. 532, 31. 4s. ; Bibl Heber. pt. iv. No. 106, I/. 5s.
Collation : Title A 2; Sig. A to Q 6, in eights; pp. 250. In the original binding.
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BOLD, (HENRY.) — Latine Songs, witli their English : and Poems. By Henry Bold, formerly of N. Coll. in Oxon, afterwards of the Examiner's Office in Chancery. Collected and perfected by Captain William Bold.
Hor. 2. 1. 2. Ep. 11. Singula de nobis anni predantur euntes, Eripuere Jocos, Venerem, Convivia, Ludum ; Tendunt extorquere Poeraata : Quid faciam vis ? London, Printed by John Eglesfield, Bookseller, at the Mari- gold near Salisbury Court in Fleet-street. MDCLXXXV. 8vo.
Bold died as we have seen in 1683, and this was a posthumous collection of his Latin poems and songs made by his brother, who in an " Address to the Reader" observes :
That the Author composed many of these things to gratify the Commands of his Superiours, or the Request of his Friends or Acquaintance, as Chevy- Chace for the E. R. the Bishop of London ; and some for other Honorable Persons, and some for his own humor, or his familiar Friends, and these he distributed according as they were related in the first fair corrected Copy, and left nothing in his own custody but indigested, foul, torn, scattering Papers, and those in such disorder, that after they came to my hands, (though kept together with all the care that could be im- prov'd) yet of some Songs it may be, one Canton came to my hand as this day, and peradventure (five months after) I might be so fortunate as to get the rest, or most part of it together, and some utterly disjointed till reduced as they now are (I hope) not very lamely by my weak Genius. Another obstacle was my unacquainted and stranger Interest with many who were of his Intimacy, so that I could not retrieve many whole Copies that I have only heard of, but never got the possession of them. Therefore it is desired of- all Gentlemen who have any of the Authors Latine Songs or Verses which are not found in this Impression, that they will be pleased to bring or send Copies of them to Mr. John Eglesfield, Bookseller, at the sign of the Mart- gold, in Fleet- Street, London, whereby to incourage another Edition, and it shall be received as a great Favour and Civility by the Publisher, and a worthy gratitude to the memory of the Deceased Author. Some again, were very hardly recovered out of the hands of an illiterate Welch Cook wench, who had designed to sacrifice them to the hoary Hen on the Spit, in which service two of these (the one beginning Absit Metus phantasticus, and another beginning ScMsmaticis ex omnibus) lost all their English Tongue.
After this address are two copies of complimentary verses by G. H. hosp. Gray, and M. B. Oxon.
The Latin songs, thirty-five in number, extend to p. 127, having the.
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English on one side and the Latin on the other. The remainder of the volume is entirely in English, with the exception of the last two songs men- tioned in the Address to the Reader, which had "lost all their English Tongue." Many of the pieces are tainted with the same grossness which disfigured those in the preceding work, and which would have ren- dered their sacrifice to the hoary hen on the spit of the Welch cook wench no loss. As specimens of Bold's dexterity and skill as a Latin versifier, we quote a few verses from the opening of Chevy Chace :*
Lucus Chevinus, jussu JEpiscopi Londinensis.
I. V.
Vivat rex noster nobilis, Qui ore terras delegat,
Omnis in tuto sit, Se Ludum perdere,
Venatus, olim flebilis, At Percceus non haesitat
Chemno Luco fit. Ad sylvas tendere,
II. VI.
Cane, feras ut abigat, Quingenis ter teliferis, Percceus abiit, Virtutis bellicse
Vel embruo elugeat, Qui norunt, rebus arduis, Quod hodie accidit. Sagittas mittere.
III. VII.
Conies ille Northumlrice, Curritur a Venatico
Votum vovit Deo Damas propellare.
Lusus, in sylvis Scotice Die LunsD diluculo
Habere triduo. Ad rem accingunt se.
IV. VIII.
E primis cervis Chevise Centumq: Cervi sunt csesi,
Csesos abripere, Ante meridiem,
Duglasium hse notitise Tune redeunt, Cibis impleti
Adibant propere. Ad Tenationem.
The death of Sir Hugh Montgomery is thus rendered :
XL. XLI.
Miles decernens Scoticus Hugo de Montegomeri
Duglasium emori, Hasta cum splendida,
In Percceum mortem ejus Movit decursu celeri
Devovit ulcisci. Ferox per Agmina.
* Also translated by Anketeil, a Presbyterian clergyman in the north of Ireland. The more ancient ballad of Chevy Chace was admirably translated by Dr. Maginn. See his collected works, yol. i. (New York, 1855) p. 191.
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XLII. XLV.
Prseteriens sagitarios Arcum intensum dexters\,
Anglos impavide, Factam insigniter,
PerccBJos Yentriculos Tres pedes longa spicul&
Foravit cuspide. Implevit fortiter.
XLIII. XLVI.
Tanta cum violentia Hugonem Gomerj versus
Fodit Corpuscula, Sic telum statuit,
Plus tres pedes per ilia " Vel anserinus calamus
Transivit hastula. In corde maduit.
XLIV. XLVII.
Sic ceciderunt Comites, Ad vesperam ab Aurora,
Quam invictissimi ; Duravit prcelium
Quum sagitario subdit res Octava scilicit hora
Percceum occidi, Yix est prseteritum.
The well-known song by Sir John Suckling,
Why so pale and wan, fond Lover ? Prithee, why so pale ?
is thus not inelegantly translated :
I. II.
Cur palleas Amasie ? Cur stupeas mi suavio, Cur quseso palleas ? Cur quseso taceas ?
Si non rubente facie, Si prsestes nil eloquio Squallente valeas ? Silentio valeas ?
Cur quseso palleas ? Cur quseso taceas ?
III.
Hinc, hinc! (ah pudet) nil aget,
Hoc non movebit, Suapte si non redamet,
Nil prevalebit,
Dsemon habebit.
Take also the following version of The merry Christ Church Bells.
JEdis Christi Campanulse, Prima et prima a prim& ;
Bis, tres, in mimero, Hora quart& efc decima,
Magnificee, Ait adsis, adsis, precibus,
Dulcisonse, Ambulante Vergifero,
Pulsantq ; hilare hilare ! Tintinnuit hora tintinnabulum,
Ut redeat domum.
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At combibo, Ac nemo sat,
Manet intro, Sibi putat,
Dum Thomas det sonum, Nisi Thomas edit Bom.
Bindley s copy, pt. i. No. 648, sold for ll. 9s.; Bibl. Ang. Poet. No. 64, II. Us. 6d.
Collation : Title A 3 ; Sig. A to N 8, in eights ; Sig. M is omitted by mistake ; pp. 188. The paging is extremely irregular after p. 130. In the original Speckled Calf binding.
BOSWORTH, (WILLIAM.) — The Chast and Lost Lovers lively sha- dowed in the persons of Arcadius and Sepha, and illustrated with the severall stories of Hsemon and Antigone, Eramio and Amissa, Phaon and Sappho, Delithason and Verista: Being a description of severall Lovers smiling with delight, and with hopes fresh as their youth, and fair as their beauties in the beginning of their affections, and covered with Blood and Horror in the conclusion. To this is added the Con- testation betwixt Bacchus and Diana, and certain Sonnets of the Author to Aurora. Digested into three Poems, by Will. Bosworth, Gent.
me quoque
Impime volare, et sereno
Calliope dedit ire coelo.
London. Printed by F. L. for Laurence Blaiklock, and are to be sold at his shop at Temple-Bar. 1651. 8vo.
This posthumous volume of poems is dedicated " To the true Lover of all good Learning, the Honourable lohn Finch Esq.," by R. C., who says :
I have made bold to tender unto you these poems, the work of a young gentleman of 19 years of age, who had he lived, might have been as well the Wonder as the De- light of the Arts, and been advanced by them amongst the highest in the Temple of
Fame These are onely his first flights, his first fruits, the early flowers of his
youth ; flowers they are, but so sweetly violent, that as their Beauties do arrest our eyes, so (I hope) their perfume will continue through many Ages to testifie the Influ- ence of your protection.
An address " To the Reader" signed with the same initials, amidst much
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lavish praise of the work, contains the following interesting remarks :
The high, the fluent, and the pathetic discourses of his lovers, and the transforma- tion of them after their death into precious stones, into Birds, into Flowers, or into Monuments of Marble, you shall fiude hath allusion to Ovids Metamorphosis, which in Ovids own iudgement was the best piece that ever he composed, and for which with most confidence he doth seem to challenge to himself the deserved honour of a perpetuall Fame. The strength of his fancy, and the shadowing of it in words he taketh from Mr.. Marlow in his Hero and Leander, whose mighty lines Mr. Benjamin lohnson (a man sensible enough of his own abilities) was often heard to say, that they were examples fitter for admiration than to parallel, you shall find our Author every where in this
imitation You shall finde also how studious he is to follow him in those many
quick and short sentences at the close of his fancy, with which he every where doth adorn his writings. The weaving of one story into another, and the significant flou- rish that doth attend it, is the peculiar grace of Sir Philip Sidney, whom our Author doth so happily imitate, as if he were one of the same Intelligences that moved in that incomparable Compasse. His making the end of one verse to be the frequent begin- ning of the other (besides the Art of the Trope) was the labour and delight of Mr. Edmund Spe[n]cer, whom Sir Walt. Raleigh and Sir Kenelm Digby were used to call the English Virgill, and indeed Virgill himself did often use it, and in my opinion with a greater grace, making the last word only of his verse to be the beginning of the verse following, as,
Sequitur pulcherrimus Astur
Astur equo fidens et versicoloribus armis.
After the address are commendatory verses by L. B., F. L., E. G., S. P. and L. C., and three stanzas, " The Booke to the Reader." " The Historic of Arcadius and Sepha" is in two books, and is preceded by a prefatory poem oil the same subject iu twenty-five six-line stanzas. The other stories of Hsemon and Antigone, Phaon and Sappho, &c., are introduced into the larger poem as episodes. At the end of the first book, on a separate leaf, are inserted these pleasing apologetic lines by the author :
So far my Childish Muse the wanton plai'd To crop those sweets the flowry meadows bore, Pleasing herself in valleys as she straid Unable yet those lofty hills to soar ; But now her wings by stronger winds aspire In deeper songs to tune her warbling lyre.
For what before her infant brain declar'd Was but a key to tune her quav'ring strings, Alwaies to have her Instruments prepared To sing more sweet when she of Sepha sings,
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Who from above even for her virtues sake, Will shrill my sound, and better Musick make.
Now let me tell how EPIMENIDES,
With weeping voice and penetrating eyes,
Eeviv'd the Ladies, who themselves did please
By purling streams to wail his miseries,
Who, while the meads with his complainings rang,
Wiping his eyes, these sad Encomiums sang.
Some of Bosworth's lines display a degree of sweetness, ease, and classi- cal taste which affords great promise of the excellence that he might have attained, had he been spared to arrive at poetical maturity. Take for instance these lines descriptive of his love for the fair Sepha :
15.
Some Poets feign there is a Heav'n on Earth, Earth hath its joyes to make a happy time, Admired odors giving a new birth, And sweetning joyes, with Mem-Flora's thyme ; 'Tis not a feigned, but Heav'n rightly fam'd, For I enjoy'd the Heav'n the Poets nam'd.
16.
Jove was propitious when I first begun To court fair Sepha, Eccho's nimble charm : Eose-cheek't Adonis, fairer than the Sun Had not a sweeter choice, nor kinder harm ; Kough-footed Satyres, Satyres, Nymphs, and Fauns Scatter'd her praise throughout Diana's lawns.
17.
If I but walk't in Tempe, or the Groves,
To meditate my melancholly layes,
I was saluted with the murm'ring loves
Of shady Pines, repining at her praise j
Griev'd at her praise, when they her name did hear,
They sigh for want of her sweet presence there.
18.
Or if (weary of sighs) I left the bowers, To recreate me in the whispring air, I was saluted with distilling showers That brought me tidings of my sweetest fair. Coming from Heav'n they told me news of this, love had prepar'd already for her bliss.
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19.
If to the mountains I a voyage took, Mountains with Eoses, and with Pinks adorn'd, There lay Adonis by his silver hook, Courted by Venus, Venus by him scorn'd. Venus with tears presents young Cupid's letter, He hates her vows, and loves fair Sepha better.
20.
If to the Garden Flora me invited, Where all the dainty flowers are said to lye, Those dainty flowers that so much once delighted, Are now abasht, and in their beauty dye. Lillies and Eoses startle at her name, One pale for fear, the other red for shame.
21.
If to the Woods perswaded by my Muse, Even there were Ecchoes of fair Sepha! s glory ; The warbling Chanters made a fine excuse For her delay ; and chanted forth the story Of her best praise ; by which I understood They striv'd with tunes to tell her to the wood.
22.
If I but chanc'd to walk unto the springs, There sate the Muses warbling forth her story ; Wanton Thalia with sweet raptures sings, Folding her name in Heav'ns immortall glory. With Hymnes, and Layes, they prattle forth delight, And count her name the pen with which they write.
The following song of Arcadius, sung to his lute and addressed to his
fair Sepha, is not without merit, and is a good specimen of Bosworth's verse :
See'st not, my love, with what a grace Then let us walk, my dearest love,
The Spring resembles thy sweet face ? And on this carpet strictly prove
Here let us sit, and in these bowers Each others vow ; from thy request
Eeceive the odors of the flowers, No other love invades my brest.
For Flora by thy beauty woo'd For how can I contemn that fire
conspires thy good. which Gods admire.
See how she sends her fragrant sweet, To crop that Eose why dost thou seek,
And doth his homage to thy feet, When there's a purer in thy cheek ?
Bending so low her stooping head Like Corall held in thy fair hands,
To kiss the ground where thou dost tread, Or blood and milk that mingled stands :
And all her flowers proudly meet, To whom the Powers all grace have given,
to kiss thy feet. a type of Heaven.
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Yon Lillie stooping t'wards this place, See how these silly flowers twine
Is a pale shadow for thy face, With sweet imbracings, and combine,
Vnder which veil doth seem to rush Striving with curious looms to set
Modest Endymion? ruddy blush ; Their pale and red into a net,
A blush indeed, more pure and fair To shew how pure desire doth rest
than Lillies are. for ever blest.
i Glance on those flowers thy radiant eyes, Why wilt thou then unconstant be 1
Through which cleer beams they'l sym- T' infringe the lawes of amity ?
pathize And so much dis-respect my heart ;
Reflective love, to make them far To derogate from what thou art ?
More glorious than th' Hesperian star, When in harmonious love there is For every swain amazed lies, Elisian bliss,
and gazing dies.
After the Historie of Arcadius and Sepha there occurs a long poem of forty-seven stanzas of ten lines each, entitled " Hinc Lachrimse, or the Author to Aurora," signed Peliander, containing some graceful lines from which we should have been glad to have given some extracts had our limits allowed us; then an elegy "To the immortall memory" of some fair lady whose name is not given ; and some lines " To his dear Friend Mr. John Emely upon his Tra veils * conclude the volume.
Bosworth is not noticed by either Ellis or Campbell, although superior to some of the writers introduced by them into their collections. He was descended from an ancient and honourable family named Boxworth or Bosworth, seated at Boxworth, near Harrington in Cambridgeshire. In his poem " Hinc Lachrimse, or the Author to Aurora," written when he " scarce had twice ten winters told," and addressed to the object of his unsuccessful affection, under the poetical name of Azile, who appears to have been a lady of high birth and some wealth, he says, alluding to his own descent :
Is it thy birth that makes thee thus disdaine me ? O scorn me not, I come of Noble Line For by the Norman Duke our browes were crown'd With Laurell branches, and our names renown' d.
He was born in 1607, and died not later than 1651, but probahly earlier. Granger is in error in fixing his death between that year and 1653, as he was already dead when this volume was published in 1651. Two persons of this name, Edward Bosworth gent, and Thomas Bosworth gent., were created LL.D. at Oxford February 21, 1642; but whether related to the poet or not we do not know. Phillips, in his Theatrum Poetarum, ii not
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very complimentary to Bosworth in his notice of this poem, " which," says he, " from the very brink of oblivion (nor had the loss been very great) hath accidentally met with the good fortune to be here remembered."
Prefixed to the volume is a portrait of the author setatis 30, 1637, en- graved by G. Glover, which has been since re-engraved, and concerning which copy see Haslewood's edition of Drunken Barnabee's Journal, 8vo London 1820, p. 33; and the Gent. Mag. vol. Ixxxi. pt. ii. p. 125. This portrait is wanting in the present copy. Bibl. Ang. Poet. No. 65, 31. 13s. Qd.
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BOYS, (JOHN.) — J^neas his Descent into Hell : As it is inimitably described by the Prince of Poets in the sixth of his ^Eneis. Made English by John Boys of Hode-Conrt, Esq. : Together with an ample and learned Comment upon the same, wherein all passages Critical!, Mythological, Philosophical, and Histo- rical, are fully and clearly explained. To which are added some certain Pieces relating to the Publick, written by the Author.
Invia virtuti nulla est via. — Ovid. Met. London, Printed by R. Hodgkinsonne. 1661, 4to pp. 248.
John Boys, the author of this translation, descended from an ancient family, was the son of Thomas Boys of Hode-Court in the parish of Blean in co. Kent Esq., by Sarah, daughter of Dr. Richard Rogers, Dean of Can- terbury. He married Mary or Margaret, second daughter of Dr. Martin Fotherby, Bishop of Salisbury. The volume is dedicated "To the Right Honourable Sir Edward Hide, Knight, Lord High Chancellor of England, &c." After this is " The Preface to the Reader," in which he alludes to Sir Thomas Wroth's Destruction of Troy, from Virgil's second book, published in 1620, 4to, and to the joint translation of the fourth book by Waller and Sidney Godolphin, 1658. 8vo. Then follow commendatory verses by Charles Fotherby (his cousin) and Thomas Philipot, and a list of errata. A short passage, descriptive of the wandering shade of Dido, from the lines beginning
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Inter quas Phoenissa recens a vulnere Dido Errabat sylva in magna, &c. 1. 450,
will suffice to show the nature and merits of the translation :
Amongst whom Dido (her wounds bleeding yet)
Wandred in a vast Grove, whom when Troy's great
Heroe approaching, through thick darknesse knew,
(In her first quarter, so the Moon doth shew,
Yeil'd in obscuring clouds) hee teares did shed
And thus, to her (through deep resentment) said
" Unhappy Dido ! it was therefore true,
That thou wert dead j — that thine owne hands thee slue :
Alas ! I was the cause, by Stars I sweare,
By th' powers above, by those who govern here,
Queen, I did thee unwillingly forsake :
But those divine Commands (by which I take
On me this journey, through unfathom'd Hell,
These shades, and squalid places) did compell
Mee to that act : — nor could I e're beleeve
That for my losse thou couldst so deeply grieve.
Ah ! stay : — thyself withdraw not from my sight : Whom shun'st thou? stay : — wee never more shall meet." Thus hee with teares, and sweetning words allay'd
The Queenes just grief: — whilst shee the same bewray'd
In scornfull frowns, and lookes from him averse ;
As unconcern'd, at what he did rehearse
As hardest flint, or Parian rock : — last shee
Away did fling, and in a rage did flee
Unto a shadie Grove, where shee repairs
To her old Lord, who answers to her cares
Her deare Sicficeus : — nor did her sad fate
Lesse pitty in ^Enceas breast create,
By trickling teares exprest.
The translation occupies only 33 pages, the remainder of the volume being occupied with some learned annotations and dissertations upon various passages occurring in the book. In the last page of these he makes an allusion to the death of the Duke of Gloucester as having taken place since the sheets were sent to press. This was Prince Henry, younger brother of Charles II., a young prince of good qualities and great hopes who died Sep- tember 13, 1660, of small pox, when only twenty years of age. At the end of the volume are " Certain Pieces relating to the Publick, penned by the Author;" " The Declaration of the Nobility, Gentry, &c., of the County
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of Kent January 24, 1659 ;" "The Vindication of the Kentish Declaration," &c. ; " A Letter of Thanks to his Excellency the L. General Monk, pre- sented hy Sir John Boys and himself at White-Hall ;" " A Speech penned hy the Author, and intended to have heen pronounced to King Charles II. on his landing at Dover 25. May 1660 on his Restoration;" an Epigram in Latin and English to the same ; and a poetical " Satyr" " To his worthily esteemed Friend and learned Antiquary Mr. William Somner upon his Treasury of the Saxon Tongue, intituled Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino- Anglicum."
Such are the contents of this volume, now become scarce. Bill. Any. Poet., No. 896, 31. 3s. Presentation copy to John Lord Bishop of Durham. In the original Calf Binding.
BRADFORD, (JOHN.) — The complaynt of Veritie, made by John Bradford. An exhortacion of Mathewe Rogers, unto his children. The complaynt of Raufe Allerton and others, being prisoners in Lolers tower, and wrytten with bloud, how god was their comforte. A songe of Caine and Abell. The saieng of maister Houper, that he wrote the night before he suffered, uppon a wall with a cole, in the newe In, at Gloceter, and his saiyng at his deathe. Anno Domini 1559. No place or printers name. Sm. 8vo fclft, lett pp. 32.
To a Lancashire person the work now to be noticed will ever possess a deep and lively interest. It is a short poem by the celebrated martyr and reformer John Bradford, a native of the parish of Manchester,* educated at the Free Grammar School there, founded by Bishop Oldham only a few years before, and afterwards at Catherine Hall and Pembroke College, Cambridge; the friend of Bucer, Cranmer, Latimer, Ridley and Saunders; whose talents and eloquence, sweetness of disposition and deep spirituality and devotedness to the cause of his great Master and Redeemer, were evinced by his laborious and self-denying life, and by the crown of martyr-
* The Latin Bible which he used, with his autograph on the titlepage, now enriches the Chetham Library, having been presented to it by James Collier Harter, Esq.
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dom gained at the stake in Smithfield on July 1, 1555, in the forty-sixth year of his age. Bradford's character for deep and fervent piety appears to great advantage in his letters to his numerous correspondents, given in the Rev. Aubrey Townshend's complete edition of the writings of Bradford, in two volumes, published by the Parker Society. These epistles, together with his other works, amply deserve a serious and careful perusal by all who would wish to learn anything of the character or disposition of Bradford.
The poem of The Complaynt of Veritie is the only metrical production of its author, with the exception of a few lines " On Affliction," given in the Parker Society's volume. It is without any place or printer's name, but may probably have been printed by William Copland, who published some other works of Bradford's about the same time. The present copy of this poem is believed to be unique. It was published in the second year of Elizabeth's reign, only four years after the martyr's death. It is written in short four-line verses, and is more remarkable for its plain truth and straightforward common sense than for any poetical merit, of which it is utterly devoid. It has been reprinted entire in the second volume p. 363 of the Parker Society's edition of the writings of Bradford from the present copy. Our readers must therefore content themselves here with only a few verses from it : —
Now whither shall I for remedy The gentlemen whiche once me had
seeke that I may it fynde ? in praise and eke in price :
Thou Lord, direct my steppes ready Now say for them I am too sad,
to some that will me frende. and would haue them be wise.
The clergy say I am heresy, The Marchaunt man saith he must lyue,
with me they'fyght apace : and cannot with me gaine :
For fashed* blindes them so wilfully, But all to riches his mind doth giue,
they haue no better grace. with much daunger and paine.
Learned men, which did me defend, Wemen say, they must nedes obey
doe now their iudgement turne : thir husbandes when they lyst :
For liuynges sake they do intend Therfore in them I may not say,
lyke wandering starres to runne. to haue anye greate trust.
The lawiers say they could not thriue, The common sort unlearned be,
since Scripture came in place : to them I may not leane :
Their vauntage is whe men do striue, They knowe not by deuinitie
and not by truth and peace. my cause for to maintaine.
* Fashion.
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Thus haue all persons som pretence Yet in this may I glory plaine,
from me quite to decline ; that though with fewe I stand :
And am put to my owne defence I am of power and strength certaine
to keepe my selfe from ruyne. more then all my foes baud.
For Grod so hath indued my tongue, with wysdome and with grace : That I can shew their doings wrong, which dare stand face to face.
" The instruction of a Father to his Children, which he wrote a few days before his burnynge," by Mathewe Rogers, is in the same metre as The Complaynt of Veritie. It occupies four leaves, and thus concludes :
Farewell my children from the world And if you doe abide in God,
where ye must yet remayne : as you haue now begonne ;
The Lord of hostes be your defence, Your course I warrant shal be shorte,
tyl we doe meete againe. you haue not longe to ronne.
Farewell my true and louyng wyfe, God grant you so to ende your daies
my Children and my frendes : as he shall thinke it best :
I hope in God to haue you all, That I may haue you in the heauens
when all thinges haue their endes. where I doe hope to rest.
*[[ Finis quod Mathewe Kogers.
Then follow " A lamentable complaynt of the afflicted, unto God our onely healper;" and "A briefe rehersal of parte of the aucthours trouble, entituled, God is my comforte," both by Raufe Allerton, in four-line verses, and " The songe of the poore prisoners in Lolers tower," without any signa- ture. This is " the songe of Caine and Abell" mentioned in the title. " The wordes of Maister Houper at his death" in prose, and " The wordes that Maister John Houper wrote on the wall with a cole, in the newe Inne in Gloceter, the night before he suffered," in verse, conclude the volume. The latter prayer and metrical lines have been reprinted in the Parker Society's edition of Hooper's works, vol. ii. p. 30.
This little work is not noticed by either Ritson or Lowndes. See Her- bert's Typogr. Antiq. vol. iii. p. 1600, and Bright's Catal No. 649. There is an imperfect copy in the Bodleian Library.
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It has a portrait of Bradford inserted from Boissard.
Bound up at the end in the same volume are Bradford's two Sermons on Repentance and the Lord's Supper, of which at least three impressions had been previously printed, viz. in 1553, 1574, and 1581. The present
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edition, which is in 6lfe. lett, is " Imprinted at London by Simon Stafford dwelling on Adling hill 1599." It has Samson's Preface to the Reader and Bradford's Epistle prefixed, and the signatures run from A to I 7, in eights. See Herbert's Typogr. Antiq. vol. i. p. 358, and vol. ii. p. 1301. Bound in Russia, gilt leaves.
BRADSHAW, (THOMAS.) — The Shepherds Starre, now of late scene, and at this hower to be observed merueilous orient in the East; which bringeth glad tydings to all that may behold her brightnes, hauing the foure elements with the foure Capitall vertues in her, which makes her Elemental! and a vanquishor of all earthly humors. Described by a Gentleman late of the Eight worthie and honorable the Lord Burgh, his companie and retinue in the Briell in North-holland.
Tu si hie esses aliter senties. — Terent.
E/c TTOVOV KAeos.
Amor fa molto : Argento fa touto.
London, Printed by Robert Robinson for William lones, and are to be sould at his shop neere [imprint cut off]. 1591. 4to, pp. 60.
No other copy of this work is known excepting the present, which for- merly belonged to Mr. Hill, who sold it to Messrs. Longmans, in whose Bill. Ang. Poet. No. 34, it was marked at 30/. It was purchased from them by Mr. Midgley, and again sold in his collection of Old English Poetry in 1818, No. 90, for IQl. 10s., to Mr. Hibbert, and at the dispersion of his library in 1820, No. 1411, came into the possession of Mr. Bright, from whose collection, No. 653, it was obtained by its present owner. It is dedicated " To the Right Honorables and puissant Barons, Robert Deuorex Earle of Essex, Knight of the most noble order of the Garter, great Master of the Horse for her Highnes; and unto Thomas Lord Burgh, Baron of Gayns-burgh, Lord Gouernour of the towne of Bryell, and the Fortes of Newmanton and Cleyborow in North-Holland for her Maiestie." The dedication is followed by a prose address to the author from his brother Alexander Bradshaw, the publisher of the book during his brother's absence abroad in Holland, which is dated " From the Court at Greenwich.
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vpon Saint Georges Day 1591 Aprill 23." To this succeed verses by " J. M. Esquier, his farewell to England and to the Author ;" " The Authors farewell to England and to his most intier friend J. M. Esquyer ;" " T. G. (Thomas Groos) Esquier, his replye to the farewell of the Author/' all in verse; and a prose epistle "To the curteous Reader" by the author, dated "in hast on Saint Georges day Aprill 23. T. B." The work is written alternately in prose and v^rse in the form of a dialogue between three shepherds, Amaryllis, Corydon and Tityrus. It commences with "A Paraphrase upon the third of the Canticles (or Eclogues) of Theocritus, Dialogue-wise," and includes also in verse "A Dialogue betwixt Hercules and the two Ladies, Voluptuous and Vertuous," from the Memorabilia of Xenophon. The following may be taken as a specimen of the poetical part of the volume :
Corydon and Tityrus contention.
Cor. lu a time of merrie sporte, Like as fishes 'saye to flee
Amaryllis did resorte, When dame Venus star they see.
With her gratious louing lookes, Cor. O sweete Amaryllis face
To the Chryptall running brookes : G-iues my muse a sower disgrace :
Where I Corydon did dwel, Drownds in Lethe all my arte,
Corydon the shepheardes spell : Setteth at her heele my smarte :
For to shepheardes doth belong Tityrus my fellowe swaine
All the pride of wanton song. Seekes her heauenly lookes to gaine.
There to Amaryllis viewe Tity. 'Tis our tender Lambes haue part,
Shepheard sent his homage due : Of the ioyes of her sweete hart :
Such a seruice as of right, They as she, and she as they,
Came too short of such a wight. Innocentes faire lookes bewray.
For I sent my thoughtes unfit, Cor. Amaryllis whiles we striue
To admire at such a wit : Keepes our tender flockes aliue :
And I sent my daseling eyes, For our flockes well kept dooprooue,
To behold the Empire skies. That she cares not for our loue.
Tity. Shepheard, leaue thy foude conceite, Tity. Haplesse wee, and happie shee:
For her beautie prooues a beyte : Of all that dwell in Italie. To beguyle the craftiest eies, That in court doe skale the skies.
Besides the above and the dialogue from Xenophon there are two other metrical pieces, " Corydons Hymne to the praise of Amaryllis," and a Roundelay at the end in Alcaic verse. The former commences thus:
Would mine eies were cristall fountaines Of my griefes like to these mouutaines Where you might the shadow view : Swelling for the losse of you.
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Cares which curelesse are, alas, Twinkling eies still representing
Helpelesse, haplesse for they grow, Starres, which pearce me to the gall,
Cares like tares the number passe, Cause they lend no longer lightning,
All the seede that loue doth sowe. And your Nectar lips alluring ;
Who but could remember all Humane sence to tast of heauen.
The prose portion of the volume is written in a conceited and dogmatic style, and has numerous classical allusions.
Collation : Sig. IT, four leaves; A, two leaves; B to G 4, in fours. pp. 60.
Bound in Maroon coloured Morocco, gilt leaves.
BIIADSTREET, (ANNE.) — The Tenth Muse lately sprung up in America. Or Severall Poems, compiled with great variety of Wit and Learning, full of delight. Wherein especially is contained a compleat discourse and description of the Four Elements, Constitutions, Ages of Man, Seasons of the Year. Together with an Exact Epitomie of the Four Monarchies, viz. The Assyrian, Persian, Grecian, Roman. Also a Dia- logue between Old England and New, concerning the late troubles. With divers other pleasant and serious Poems. By a Gentlewoman in those parts. Printed at London for Stephen Bowtell at the signe of the Bible in Popes Head- Alley. 1650. Sm. 8vo.
This early specimen of New England poetry opens with an address to the reader by the publisher, in which he says that " the worst effect of his reading will be unbelief, which will make him question whether it be a womans Work, and asks, Is it possible ? If any doe, take this as an answer from him that dares avow it : It is the Work of a Woman honoured and esteemed where she lives, for her gracious demeanour, her eminent parts, her pious conversation, her courteous disposition, her exact diligence in her place, and discreet managing of her family occasions ; and more then so, these Poems are the fruit but of some few houres, curtailed from her sleep, and other refreshments." The publisher then states that the pub- lication of these poems was without the knowledge of the author, and that " contrary to her expectation, he had presumed to bring to publick view what she resolved should never in such a manner see the sun." They are
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ushered in with commendatory verses by N. Ward ; to his deare sister by I. W.— C. B.— R. Q. — N. H. — C. B. — H. S., and two anagrams on her name ; and by an epistle dedicatory in verse by the author, " To her most Honoured Father Thomas Dudley Esq." The poems are preceded by a prologue of eight six-line verses, and are arranged according to the order in the title page. The poetry, if such it may be termed, is of a very inferior kind, and will not require any notice beyond the selection of the passages which follow, and which may be taken as tolerable examples of the fair writer's attempt at versification. The first extract is from " The Four Ages of Man :" —
Great Mutations, some joyful, and some sad,
In this short Pilgrimage I oft have had ;
Sometimes the Heavens with plenty smil'd on me,
Sometimes again, rain'd all adversity ;
Sometimes in honour, sometimes in disgrace,
Sometime an abject, then again in place,
Such private changes oft mine eyes have seen,
In various times of state I've also been.
I've seen a Kingdom flourish like a tree,
When it was rul'd by that Celestial she ;
And like a Cedar, others so surmount,
That but for shrubs they did themselves account ;
Then saw I France and Holland sav'd, Gales won,
And PJtilijp, and Albertus, half undone ;
I saw all peace at home, terror to foes.
But ah ! I saw at last those eyes to close :
And then, methought, the world at noon grew dark,
Then it had lost that radiant Sun-like spark,
In midst of greifs, I saw some hopes revive,
(For 'twas our hopes then kept our hearts alive)
I saw hopes dasht, our forwardnesse was shent,
And silenc'd we, by Act of Parliament.
I've seen from Rome an execrable thing,
A plot to blow up Nobles, and their King ;
I've seen designes at Ree, and Cades crost,
And poor Palatinate for ever lost :
I've seen a Prince, to live on others lands,
A Koyall one, by almes from Subjects hands ;
I've seen base men, advanc'd to great degree,
And worthy ones, put to extremity ;
But not their Princes love, nor state so high,
Could once reverse their shamefull destiny.
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I've seen one stab'd, another loose his head : And others fly their Country, though their dread. I've seen, and so have yee, for 'tis but late, The desolation, of a goodly State, Plotted and acted, so that none can tell,
Who gave the counsel, but the Prince of hell.
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At the end of the Four Monarchies occur " A Dialogue between Old England, and New, concerning their present troubles. Anno 1642." "An Elegie upon that Honourable and renowned Knight, Sir Philip Sidney, who was untimely slaine at the Seige of Zutphon, Anno 1586. By A. B. in the yeare 1638." Others "In Honour of Du Bartas, 1641;" and "of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth, of most happy memory ;" "David's Lamentation for Saul and Jonathan, 2 Sam. 1. 19;" and some lines "Of tbe vanity of all worldly creatures," close the volume. We present our readers with a few lines from the opening of the Elegy on Sir Philip Sidney :
When England did injoy her Halsion dayes,
Her noble Sidney wore the Crown of Bayes ;
No lesse an Honour to our British Land,
Then she that sway'd the Scepter with her hand :
Mars and Minerva did in one agree,
Of Armes and Arts, thou should'st a patterne be.
Calliope with Terpsichor did sing,
Of Poesie, and of Musick thou wert King ;
Thy Khethorick it struck Polimnia dead,
Thine Eloquence made Mercitry wax red j
Thy Logick from Euterpe won the Crown,
More worth was thine, then Clio could set down.
Thalia and Melpomene say th' truth,
(Witnesse Arcadia, penn'd in his youth)
Are not his Tragick Comedies so acted,
As if your nine-fold wit had been compacted :
To shew the world, they never saw before,
That this one Volume should exhaust your store.
Bibl. Ang. Poet. No. 67, I/. 5s. ; Perry, pt. i. No. 539, ll. 6s. ; Jolley, pt. ii. No. 392, 11s.; Skegg, No. 179, 12s.; Bindley, pt. i. No. 1544, U 15s.; Townley, pt. i. No. 679, 31. 15s.
Collation: Title A 2; Sig. A to 0 85 in eights; pp. 222. Bound in Calf, red edges.
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BRABSTREET, (ANNE.) — Several Poems compiled with great variety of Wit and Learning, full of Delight ; Wherein espe- cially is contained a compleat Discourse, and Description of the Four Elements, Constitutions, Ages of Man, Seasons of the Year. Together with an exact Epitome of the three first Monarchyes, viz. The Assyrian, Persian, Grecian. And beginning of the Komane Commonwealth to the end of their last King : With diverse other pleasant and Serious Poems. By a Gentlewoman in New-England. The second Edition, Corrected by the Author, and enlarged by an Addition of several other Poems found amongst her papers after her Death. Boston, Printed by John Foster. 1678. Sm. 8vo.
There are several alterations and additions in this second edition of Mrs. Bradstreet's poems, which is printed in rather larger type than the former. The commendatory verses by E. Q. are omitted, but after the anagrams upon her name are nine seven-line stanzas upon the author by J. Rogers, not in the other. At the end of the verses on the Roman Monarchy are the following lines not in the first edition, entitled :
An Apology.
To finish what's begun, was my intent, My thoughts and my endeavours thereto bent ; Essays I many made, but still gave out The more I mus'd, the more I was in doubt : The subject large, my mind and body weak, With many more discouragements did speak. All thoughts of further progress laid aside, Though oft perswaded, I as oft deny'd ; At length resolv'd, when many years had past, To prosecute my story to the last : And for the same, I hours not few did spend, And weary lines (though lanke) I many pen'd : But 'fore I could accomplish my desire, My papers fell a prey to th' raging fire. And thus my pains (with better things) I lost, Which none had cause to wail, nor I to boast. 3S"o more I'le do, sith I have suffer' d wrack, Although my Monarchies their legs do lack : Nor matter is't this last, the world now sees, Hath many Ages been upon his knees.
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After the poem of " Davids Lamentation for Saul and Jonathan," the ensuing pieces are added, which were not in the previous edition : " To the Memory of my dear and ever honoured Father Thomas Dudley Esq. who deceased July 31. 1653, and of his age 77." This Thomas Dudley was Captain General and Governor of New England. " An Epitaph on my dear and ever honoured Mother Mrs. Dorothy Dudley, who deceased Decemb. 27. 1643, and of her age 61;" "Contemplations," a long and pleasing poem in thirty-three seven-line stanzas ; " The Flesh and the Spirit ;" " The Author to her Book ;" " Several other Poems made by the Author upon diverse Occasions, were found among her Papers after her Death, which she never meant should come to publick view, amongst which, these following (at the desire of some friends that knew her well) are here inserted;" "Upon a Fit of Sickness. Anno 1632. JEtatis sua 19." "Upon some distemper of body;" "Before the birth of one of her Children ;" four metrical " Letters to her Husband ;" " To her Father with some verses ;" " In reference to her Children 23. June 1659 ;" " In memory of her grand -child Elizabeth Bradstreet August 1665 ;" ditto " of her grand- child Anne Bradstreet June 2(K 1669;" ditto " On her grand-child Simon Bradstreet 16. Novemb. 1669;" ditto "of her daughter in Law Mrs. Mercy Bradstreet, who deceased Sept. 6. 1669 in the 28. year of her age." The volume concludes with " A Funeral Elogy upon that Pattern and Patron of Virtue, the truely pious, peerless, and matchless Gentlewoman Mrs. Anne Bradstreet, right Panaretes, Mirror of her Age, Glory of her Sex, whose Heaven-born-Soul leaving its earthly Shrine, chose its native home, and was taken to its Rest, upon 16 Sept. 3672," subscribed John Norton. " Finis et non.
Omnia Romanse sileant Miracula Gentis."
From this second edition we make one more selection of verses from the poem entitled " Contemplations." If really written by Mrs. Bradstreet, they afford some proof that she was not destitute of poetical power.
Then on a stately Oak I cast mine eye, Whose ruffling top the Clouds seem'd to aspire ; How long since thou wast in thine Infancy ? Thy strength, and stature, more thy years admire, Hath hundred winters past since thou was born ? Or thousand since thou brakest thy shell of horn, If so, all these as nought, Eternity doth scorn.
Then higher on the glistering Sun I gaz'd, Whose beams were shaded by the leavie Tree,
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The more I look'd, the more I grew amaz'd,
And softly said, what glory's like to thee ?
Soul of this world, this Universes Eye,
No wonder, some made thee a Deity :
Had I not better known, (alas !) the same had I.
Thou as a Bridegroom from thy Chamber rushes,
And as a strong man, joyes to run a race,
The morn doth usher thee, with smiles and blushes,
The Earth reflects her glances in thy face.
Birds, Insects, Animals, with Vegative,
Thy heart from death and dulness doth revive :
And in the darksome womb of fruitful nature dive.
• ;****• Under the cooling shadow of a stately Elm Close sate I by a goodly Eivers side, Where gliding streams the Eocks did overwhelm ; A lonely place, with pleasures dignifi'd. I once that lov'd the shady woods so well, Now thought the rivers did the trees excel, And if the sun would ever shine, there would I dwell.
While on the stealing stream I fixt mine eye, , Which to the long'd for Ocean held its course,
I markt, nor crooks, nor rubs, that there did lye Could hinder ought, but still augment its force : O happy Flood, quoth I, that holds thy race Till thou arrive at thy beloued place, Nor is it rocks or shoals that can obstruct thy pace.
Nor is't enough, that thou alone may'st slide, But hundred brooks in thy cleer waves do meet ; So hand in hand along with thee they glide To Thetis house, where all imbrace and greet : Thou Emblem true, of what I count the best, O could I lead my Bivolets to rest, So may we press to that vast mansion, ever blest.
Anne Bradstreet, the author of these poems, the daughter of Thomas Dudley Esq. and Dorothy his wife, was the wife of Simon Bradstreet Esq., Captain General and Governor of New England, and died September 16th, 1672.*
* Was that most singular person Captain Dudley Bradstreet, whose very curious autobiography (now an exceedingly rare book) entitled "The Life and uncommon
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A third edition of this work, enlarged with poems found since her death, was published in 1758, 8vo. Lowndes does not notice either of these later editions.
Collation : Title a 2 ; Sig. a, eight leaves, the first blank ; then Sig. A to Q.8, in eights; pp. 272.
Bound up in the same volume with these poems is a copy of Colonel Joseph Rigby's Drunkard's Prospective, or Burning-Glasse, London, 1656, noticed hereafter.
Chalmers' copy. In Calf extra.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — The Golden Fleece. Whereto bee annexed two Elegies, Entitled Narcissus Change. And ^Esons Dotage. By Richard Brathwayte Gentleman. London, Printed by W. S. for Christopher Pursett dwelling in Holborne, neere Staple Inne. 1611. Sm. 8vo.
The writings of Brathwaite, both in prose and verse, are so various and voluminous, amounting in the present Collection to more than forty volumes (few of our early writers, with the exception of Taylor and Wither, having exceeded him in the number of their pieces), that it will be impossible within the compass of our proposed limits to do more than to make a
Adventures of Captain Dudley Bradstreefc, being the most genuine and extraordinary perhaps ever published," appeared in Dublin 1755, 8vo, 356 pages, a descendant of the " Tenth Muse ?" If so he certainly did not imitate her in " her pious con- versation and discreet managing of her family occasions." Indeed his revelations would almost induce a belief that the book was a romance and the Captain himself a myth, but for a note in Bindon Blood's copy by an ancestor : " I bought this book from the author, Mr. Dudley Bradstreet, at an assizes held at Enuis, which begun the 27th August 1756. William Blood." The Captain also published " Bradstreet's Lives, being a genuine History of several Gentlemen and Ladies, all living within these ten years past remarkable for their virtues or their vices." Dublin, 1757, 8vo, 407 pages. In his own life he says : " I was born in Ireland, in the county of Tip- perary, in the year 1711. My father had the Command of a Troop of Horse, and was also in the Commission of the Peace : his possessions at that time are now let at 3,OOOZ. a year, but being bound to the Crown in large sums, together with an expensive life, in the course of some years reduced his Fortune very low." Dudley Bradstreet was probably a grandson or great grandson of Anne Bradstreet.
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selection from them, chiefly of those which, either from their merit or their rarity, are of the greatest interest. The present volume, which he styles "his first birth," was written in early youth, when he was scarce twenty- three, and is dedicated " To the Right Worshipfull M. Robert Bindlosse Esquire, his approued kind Vnkle." He says :
I had at the first resolved to dedicate these fruits of my labours vnto him, from whom I receiued the growth and quiet encrease of my studies : But it pleassd God to alter my purpose, by preuenting him by death, who was the nourisher of my slender endeauours, and the protectour of mine orphane labours, which had no sooner hapned then in a distast of my studies, wanting him, whose relish sweetened my vnseasoned poemes, I was fully resolued to haue wrapped this tract up in obliuion, and to haue depriued it of publike view. But the troubled course of our estates, and the fauourable regard you had of our attonement, which is now so happily confirmed, enforced me to consecrate this pamphlet as one of Sassas fragments, to your best affectioned selfe : to shewe a willinguesse in me to gratifie that sollicitous and carefull regard you euer had, since the time of our desolation, euen his death, whose life was & mirrour in his time, and whose well concording death ensued, as a reward of eter- nitie for his well spent daies : for his fruits shall follow him.
The dedication is followed by seven six-line stanzas, headed " Pieridum Invocatio, quarum ope ^Egon in triviis, ^Edon in nemoribus cecinit. Quarum auspiciis rivos saltern apertos degustare licuit, tenuisq; stipulse libertate frui."
The poem of The Golden Fleece is in six-line stanzas, preceded by " The Argument," and is taken from the Metamorphosis of Ovid, " the Treatise being morall — the vse spirituall" — showing
What felicity they shall obtaine that with resolution and longanimitie sustaine the perillous gusts of afflictions, with a respect had to vertue, without which regard no happy or successful euent can attend any intendment : This tract though compen- dious, may afford no small fruit to your concerning vnderstanding, shadowing vnder this title of Golden Fleece, the reward of a sincere and prouident pilgrim, who with lason endureth patiently the surging Sea of persecution, the raging tempests of affliction, not to be allured with the inchanting voice of the Syrens melodie, abstaining from Cyrces cup, sayling by the perillous rockes of Scylla and Charybdis, and now at last arriuing at the port of a prosperous repose, crieth out, Uc sedes fata quietas ostendunt.
The murder of Abel by Cain is given as an example of the evil effects of discord and hatred, and may serve as an illustration of Brathwaite's style and versification in this poem :
Caine is offended with his louing brother, And what's the cause, perchance his sacrifice
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Is better farre respected then the other
Which he doth offer : — wherefore thence he flies,
And doth provide, by his accursed breath, To be the agent of his brothers death.
Yet Abels bloud, like to the morning dew,
Ascendeth vp vnto Gods heauenly throne, Shewing how Caine, his hands did erst embrew
In brothers bloud, his bloud to heauen doth grone Wherefore the Lord, who takes reuenge of sinne,
Damn'd Caines despaire, which he did welter in,
* * * * * * * Go thou thy way, for thou canst ne're obtaine
This G-olden Fleece, interred in despaire, Go wag thine head, with thy distracted braine
Thou of perdition art the lineall heire. The G-olden Fleece is kept for such as liue,
To please their God, and not their God to grieue.
After the principal poem are the two Elegies of " Narcissus Change," and " Olsons affecting youth" in the same measure. A new title page then occurs thus :
Sonnets or Madrigals. With the Art of Poesie annexed thereunto by the same Author.
Horatius in Lib. de arte Poetica. ISTon satis est pulchra esse Poemata, dulcia sunto, Et quocunque volunt animam auditoris agunto.
Ovid.
Nee modus aut requies, nisi mors reperitur amantis, Verus amor nullum novit habere modum.
Idem.
Hei mihi, quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis. Printed at London for Christopher Purset. 1611.
This part is inscribed " To the worshipfull his approued brother Thomas Brathwaite Esquire," in which he says :
I have composed some few Sonets, and dedicated them vnto your selfe, the frag- ments of Parnassus mount, though of the meanest : — yet some fruite may bee gathered out of Ennius dunghill : — they be amorous, penned in a foolish passion, they are more fit for Venus shrine, then Vranias shape : — for I would not derogate from the praise of beautie, least I should haue Stesychorus fortune, who for dis- praising Hellen of Greece lost his sight. Let these harsh poems now and then take place amongst more serious studies.
Some verses follow " Vpon the dedication of the last Epistle," and two
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other stanzas, " The Authour to his disconsolate Brother," so called perhaps from the sorrow occasioned by the death of his father. From these sonnets or madrigals, seven in number, we select a small portion of the first :
No sooner doe I gaze upon that face
But rauisht with the beautie of thy cheeke, Would thinke it were a Paradise to place
Those vernant comforts, which each day i'th' weeke Are now renew'd by singing Alcmons happe,
Vnder the Sunshine of thy vestall lappe.
Whole weeks seeme minutes when I am with thee, And yeares as howers doe vanish from my sight,
There is no pleasant note, no melodie, That makes a lustre equall to that light,
Thy sparkling eies reflect more faire by farre, Then radiant Phoebus in his luory carre.
Those burnisht lockes, like Damons flocks appeare
Before the Temple of refined loue, And as the heards which shephearde vse to sheare
Or like the smooth plumes of the turtle Doue. Neer'st to a Doue thou art, and I will call
Thine heart, a Turtles heart that hath no gall.
That albone skinne more pure, more polished, Then the faire tombe, wherein Prince Ninus lay,
Whose structure (faire) was neere demolished, Deare, thou my mansion art, my life, my stay.
Therefore like Ziscoes skinne, I will prepare To sound Alarum in Antenors chaire.
If those same nimble fingers, which thou hast,
That tune the warbling Lute so pretily, Be but engript about thy tender waste,
O what a beautie shewes there presently ! Wilt thou beleeve me ? there's no creature borne,
Whose beauteous outside, better gifts adorne.
I am no Merchant that will sell my breath,
Good wine needs not a bush to set it forth, Yet I will praise thee euer, till pale death
Cut off the Poet of thy flowry youth, I will enshrine thee in an hearse of time,
Which being made shall glad this heart of mine.
On the last leaf, Sig. G 8, appears the catchword " The," and there is
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little doubt that the Art of Poesie mentioned in the title was printed, but all the copies we have ever seen are without it. Those also seen by Mr. Park and Mr. Hazlewood were deficient in this respect. See an article in Restituta, vol. ri. p. 303, by the former; Haslewood's edition of Bar- nabee's Journal, vol. i. p. 175 ; and Sir Eg. Brydges' Archaica, vol. ii. Pref. p. 10. This work is not in the Malone, Douce, or Grenville collections; and the only copies we have met with in sale catalogues are Bibl. Aug. Poet. No. 45, 21. 2s.; and Bibl. Heler. pt. iv. No. 104, 21. 2s. There is one in the British Museum.
Collation : Title A 2 ; Sig. A to G 8, in eights.
The present copy came from the collection of Mr. Haslewood, and has an engraved portrait of Brathwaite by Swaine inserted.
In Dark Green Morocco, gilt leaves.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — The Schollers Medley, or, An Inter- mixt Discourse vpon Historicall and Poeticall Relations. A Subiect of it selfe well meriting the approbation of the ludi- cious, who best know how to confirme their knowledge, by this briefe Survey, or generall Table of mixed Discourses. And no lesse profitable to such as desire to better their imma- turity of knowledge by Morall Readings. Distinguished into severall heads for the direction of the Reader, to all such Historicall Mixtures, as be comprehended in this Treatise. The like whereof for variety of Discourse, mixed with profite and modest delight, hath not heretofore been published. By Richard Brathwayte Oxon.
Hor. Quod verum atq: decens euro et rogo et omnis in hoc sum. London, Printed by N. O. for George Norton, and are to bee sold at his Shop neere Temple-barre. 1614. 4to.
The running title of the present work, which is in prose, and which in this first state is become very rare, is " A Survey of Histories." The second edition, under the above title, was not published till 1638, and will be noticed hereafter. The dedication is inscribed in a flattering manner " To the Right Honovrable, the Lord of Sovthampton (Learnings best Fauorite,)" and is followed by a short address " To the vnderstanding Reader." The
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author divides his general subject into three branches: 1. The scope of Histories ; 2. Their several uses and fruits j and 3. The profit redounding to private families by Histories. The divisions of histories are also made into Divine, Discursive, Morall, Physick, or Mixt. In the course of his observations on each of these, many shrewd and pithy remarks are made by the author on subjects connected with our own literature at that period, which render the work highly interesting; and it appears from his numerous references to this tract in some of his other productions to have been a favourite volume of the author. In the ensuing remarks he evidently points at such travellers as Coryat, Sir John Mandeville, and others, who had brought ridicule on the subject :
Here, by way of digression, let me touch the ridiculous labours, and vnfruitfull trauailes of such who passe the Alpes, trace vncoth places, Desarts, Promontaries j for what end Heauen knowes, saue onely to wrest out a phantasticke behauiour of superfluous wit, or to comment on others trauailes by way of derision : These are such as vpon their returne, publish what they haue seene ; some more then they haue scene, which I tearme Commenting Trauailers : others lesse then they haue seene (or at least the most impertinent) which I tearme Phantasticke Trauailers. Such as lye on their trauell, either doe it for admiration, or hauing run vpon the-aduerse shelues of a deplored fortune, are inforced to inuent strange things for the reliefs of their
deiected estate They talke not of the acts of Princes, nor the sites of
Regions, the temperature of such Clymates, or any materiall discourse, but to shew an exquisite straine of wit, purchased by a little fruitlesse trauell : they insert friuolous occurrents, borrowed, or (it may be) inuented by their own phantasticke braines. These misse the marke a good Traueller should aime at : they should obserue Lawes in forraigne places, like a good Lycurgus to transpose so glorious a freight to their owne Countrey. They should not (like our Fashion-inuenters, our Italionated Albionacts) so much obserue what is worne on the body, as what habit best beseemes the nature and condition of their minde.
And in speaking of the desire the Romans had of imitating the virtues of their predecessors, he remarks :
Solon and we haue few that goe mad for their countrey ; but Tarpeia's we haue too many, that are mad with desire to betray their Countrey : Few Law-inacters, many Law-infringers : making wholesome lawes, like Tarandulus web, wickets for great ones to come through, but snarles for little ones to hold.
He again alludes to these fanciful sort of travellers in a later part of the work thus :
We shall see men (for the most part) rather addicted to fabulous Trauels, the suruey of strange and neuer-heard of Hands, prodigious sights, Monsters, Chymeras,
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and meere imaginary fancies, then to such narrations as might minister instruction and benefite to euery particular Eeader. Some we see delighted with the strange and incredible miracles of Mandeville : others with the victorious combats of our Beuis of South-hampton ; others, more conuersant with the tragicke Histories of our time (prodigies in part meerely inuented.) And last of all (which in my iudgement is worst of all) others with the phantasticke writings of some supposed Knights, (Don Quixotte transformed into a Knight with the Golden Pestle) with many other fruit- lesse inuentions, moulded onely for delight without profite.
So also again respecting these feigned histories or romances, he says :
But in these feigned Histories I wholly exclude all ribaldry : nor can I admit, that those vnprofitable stories of Primalion, Palmerin de Oliva, The Knight of the Sunne, Gerilion, with many other fictiue Discourses should be entertained by youth : many of these Relations haue strangely transported diuers well-promising wits into strange amazements j especially such as conceiue more delight in them, then more serious studies. Some we haue heard, that in reading the strange aduentures of Orlando FuriosO) and conueying the very impression of his amorous passion to themselues, would presently imitate his distraction, run starke naked, make loue-songs in com- mendation of their Angelica, put themselues to intolerable torment ; to gaine the affection of their supposed mistresses. Others, in imitation of some valiant Knights, haue frequented Desarts, and inhabited Prouinces, ecchoing in euery place their owne vanities, endorsing their names in barkes of trees, wholly turned Sauage, and vntrac- table, to personate that knight more liuely.
Brathwaite, in the further course of his work, has allusions to Dekker's Strange Horse Race, 4to, 1613; Histrio-mastix, 4to, 1610; Blondeville's Treatise of Horsemanship, 4to, 1580; Gervase Markham's Husbandman, 4to, 1613; Watreman's Far dell of Fashions, 1555; the tragedy of The Battell of Alcazor, 4to, 1594; and other works. He has also some curious observations on the stage, and on the unities, on which he remarks :
They are like some Comsedies we reade now a daies ; The first Act whereof is in Asia; the next in Affrica, the third in Europa, the fourth in America: and if Ptolomeus, or Marcus Paulus had found out a fifth part of the world, no question but it had beene represented on their vniuersall Stage : Such as these ought to haue some distinct language, Utopian, or some other grunting tongue engrossed to them- selues : For they should profit more, by being lesse vnderstood. Much they speake of vallour, and many imaginary Heroes are pitching their Pauillions : But I will take my leaue of them with my French Prouerbe : Beaucoup de Iruit e peu defruict: Much bruite, but little fruiter Battels more fierce (by report) then Alcahors: That was but Kings, their's Giants : and one of those Giants as able to vanquish all those Kings, as for Milo to carry his Bull on his shoulders.
Brathwaite might well feel proud of this work, for there is much sound sense and practical truth in his remarks, and it also shows very extensive
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reading. See Chalmers' Apology, p. 1 53, concerning Lord Southampton, to whom the work is dedicated, and Wood's Ath. Oxon. vol. iii. p. 990. There is a copy of this tract in the British Museum, and also in -the Bodleian Library at Oxford.
Collation : Sig. A to Q 3, in fours. In Red Cloth binding.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — A Survey of History : Or, a Nursery for Geutry. Contrived and Comprized in an Intermixt Dis- course upon Historicall and Poeticall Relations. A Subject of it selfe well meriting &c. &c. [as before.] By Richard Braithwait Esquire, Oxon.
Hor. Quod verum atque decens euro et rogo et omnis in hoc sum. Imprinted at London by I. Okes for lasper Emery at the Eagle and Child in Pauls Church yard next Watlin Street. 1638. 4to.
Prefixed to this much enlarged second edition of the Schollers Medley is an engraved titlepage by William Marshall, representing at the top a hand issuing out of the clouds writing, with compartments at the sides inscribed Herodotus, Thucidides, T. Livius, and C. Tacitus; and in an oval in the centre a portrait of the author A° setatis 48. The Earl of Southampton, to whom the work was first dedicated, was now dead; the present edition contains, therefore, besides the original dedication to that noble person, a second epistle dedicatory " To the Right Honourable Elizabeth, Dowager, Countesse of Southampton." In a marginal note to this epistle Brathwaite informs us, " A Funeral! Elegy to his precious memory was long since extant; being annexed to my Britains Bath, Anno 1625." Of this publi- cation nothing now appears to be known. In the address " To the Under- standing Reader," with reference to the present impression, he adds the remark : " How studiously, copiously and usefully this last Edition hath beene enlarged, may appeare by Digits or Signatures in the Margent every where expressed." These digits are the index f£lr pointing out the enlarge- ments of the text, which are very considerable throughout the volume ; and in the margin also he says : " This last Impression to afford the Nobly and Historically affected all generous content comes forth now otherwise
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attired the it was at first published : being revised, corrected, and copiously enlarged." There is a very full table or compendiary of the contents of the book, extending to eleven pages, and at the end a list of the errata.
A copy in the Townley sale, pt. i. No. 398, had the date of 1651, and others, according to Ant. Wood, of 1652; but these were probably only fresh titles to the present edition. See Restituta, vol. iii. p. 339 ; and Haslewood's edition of Barnabees Journal, p. 337 ; Lloyd's sale, No. 439, 165. 6d.; Nassau's, pt. i. No. 598, ll. Is.; Hibbert's, No. 1412, ll. 7s.
Collation: Sig. IF four leaves; A and B four leaves; b two leaves; C to H h h 4, in fours ; pp. 444.
In Brown Calf extra.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — History Surveyed in a brief Epitomy : Or, A Nursery for Gentry. Comprised in an Intermixt Dis- course upon Historicall and Poeticall Relations. Wherein is much variety of Discourse and modest delight. By Richard Braithwaite Esquire. Oxon.
Hor. Quod verum atque decens euro et rogo et omnis in hoc sum. London, Printed for J. E. and are to be sold by Nathanael Webb and William Grantham, at the Grey-hound in Pauls Church-yard. 1651. 4to.
Although the present volume appears as if it was a new edition, with a different imprint and date, it is merely the impression of 1638 with a new titlepage to help off the sale of the copies left on hand. The contents of the volume are exactly similar to the former in every respect, with the exception of the title. It has the engraved frontispiece by Marshall pre- fixed, with the date of 1638. A copy sold at the Townley sale, pt. i. No. 398, for 21. 5».; Stace's Catal 31. 13s. Qd.
Collation as before. The Townley copy. Bound in Russia, gilt leaves.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — A Strappado for the Diuell. Epi- grams and Satyres alluding to the time, with diuers measures of no lesse Delight. By Mvaoavtcos, to his friend Nemo me impune lacessit.
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At London printed by I. B. for Richard Eedmer, and are to be sold at the West dore of Pauls at the Starre. 1615. Sm. 8vo. ; pp. 362.
This is a highly interesting and amusing work, from the prolific pen of Brathwaite ; but it is unfortunately disfigured by several gross vulgarities, which detract considerably from the pleasure that would otherwise be derived from the perusal of this writer's works, and for which he is justly deserving of censure. This is the more to be regretted as there is much that is estimable in this volume, which, like several other works of this author, is adorned with beautiful imagery, set forth in highly pleasing lan- guage. " Brathwaite (says Mr. Fry, in his Bibliogr. Memor. p. 387) will amply repay the labour of a perusal ; — interesting notices of ancient cus- toms and manners recommend him to the notice of the antiquary, and his poetical merits will not be estimated as slight, or undeserving, by the active and ardent student in general literature." And Mr. Collier remarks: "There is, perhaps, no work in English which illustrates more fully and amusingly the manners, occupations, and opinions of the time when it was written, than the present volume by Eichard Brathwaite."
The work commences with the Author's Anagram, " Vertu hath bar Credit," and others upon the names of Sir Thomas Gainsford and Mr. Thomas Posthumus Digges, the latter of whom is addressed in this flattering style : u To his much honoured and endeered Mecsenas (the expressiu'st Character of a generous Spirit) Judicious approuer of best-meriting Poesie, Guerdoner of Arts, cherisher of Wittes, and serious Protectotir of all free- borne Studies, Mr. Thomas Posthumus Diggs, the Author humbly dedicates himselfe, his Time-suting Epigrams with the use of his diuinely importing Anagram." These are followed by a prose address " To the gentle Header," apologising for defects of the press occasioned by the author's absence, and a poetical one addressed "To his Booke." Then comes "The Epistle Dedicatorie," (and one leaf "Vpon the Errata"):
To all Usurers, Breakers and Promoters, Sergeants, Catch-poles, and Eegraters, Ushers, Panders, Suburbes Traders, Cockneies that haue manie fathers. Ladies, Monkies, Parachitoes, Marmosites, and Catomitoes, Falls, high- tires and rebatoes, False-haires, periwigges, monchatoes : PART II. Y Y
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Grave Gregorians, and She-painters, Send I greeting at adventures, And to all such as be euill, My strappado* for the diuell.
There is much humour in this and in some other dedications to his poems, of which the following, from the first poem in the present work, may serve as a specimen : " To the true discouerer of secrets Moun- sieur Bacchus, sole Soueraigne of the luy-bush, Master-gunner of the pottle-pot ordinance, prime founder of Red lattices, cbeerer of the hunger- starv'd Muses, and their thred bare followers, singuler Artist in pewter language, and an observant linguist for anon anon Sir. His dere Canary- Bird wisheth red-eyes, dropsie legges, and all other accoutrements befitting." We give a few of the commencing lines of the poem :
Bottle-nos'd Bacchus with thy bladder face, To thee my Muse comes reeling for a place : And craues thy Patronage ; — nor do I feare But my poore fragments shall be made of there For good reuersions by thy scrambling crew, That belch, and reade, and at each enterview Of a sharpe temperd line, commend the vaine, Digest it, and then rift it up againe. But know thou cup shot god, what is exprest Within these Pages doe deserue the best Of thy light-headed Shamroes, nor's my tutch For such as loue to take a cup too-much. No, no, my lines (though I did seeme to stand And begge a poore protection at thy hand) Shall Hue in spite of Time, for Time shall see The curtaine of her vices drawne by me : And though portraide by a lesse art-full fist, Yet he that limm'd them is a Satyrist, For th' lines he writes (if ought he write at all) Are drawne by inke that's mixed most with gall. Yea, he was borne, euen from his infancie, To tell the world her shame, and bitterly
* The "Strappado" was a cruel military punishment, in which, a rope being fastened under the sufferer's arms, he was drawn up by a pulley to the top of a high beam, and then suddenly let down with a jerk, by which his arms were broken, or his joints dis- located.— See Douce's Ulustr. SJialcesp. vol. i. p. 427 ; E. Holme's Academy of Arms and Blazon, book iii. ch. vii. p. 310.
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To taxe those crimes which harbour now and then Within the bosomes of the greatest men. ' Yea, nought I doe but I againe will doe it, " Nor ought will write, but I will answer to it."
Among other poems in this portion of the work is " A Satire Upon the Generall Sicolists [Sciolists] or Poettasters of Brittannie," which is quoted at length in the Restituta, vol. iii. p. 145, in which is introduced the fol- lowing panegyric upon George Wither, who it is well known was greatly admired and imitated by Brathwaite, and upon William Brown, whose Shepherd's Pipe, written in conjunction with Wither, was published in 1614:
Yet ranke I not (as some men doe suppose)
These worthlesse swaines amongst the laies of those
Time-honour 'd Shepheards (for they still shall be
As well they merit) honoured of mee,
Who beare a part, like honest faithfull swaines,
On witty Withers never-withring plaines,
For these (though seeming Shepheards) have deserv'd
To haue their names in lasting Marble carv'd :
Yea this I know I may be bold to say,
Thames ne'er had swans that song more sweet than they.
It's true I may auow 't, that nere was song
Chanted in any age by swains so young,
With more delight then was perform'd by them,
Pretily shadow'd in a borrowed name.
And long may Englands Thespian springs be known,
By lonely Wither and ly lonny Browne,
Whilest solid Seldon, and their Cuddy too,
Sing what our (Swaines of old) could neuer doe.
At p. 54 is an epigram called " His Catch :"
Singing my catch, if you be not my friend, For all my catch, I shall be catcht ith' end.
This is inscribed to " The Eight Worshipfull Eich. Mutton, Sergeant at Lawe," and was occasioned by " the restraint of the Author, who in the justnes of his cause (like Zenophons Sparrow) fled for refuge" to this person, who appears to have been his godfather and patron, if not more nearly connected:
. Who should I flie to (Sir) but unto you That are a Sergeant, and has power to place Your God-sonne free from any Sergeants Mace?
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And in Astr was Teares, an Elegie upon the death of Sir Richard Hutton Knight, 1641, 8vo, he calls his son Sir Richard Hutton Knt. "my most endeared Cosin," and again alludes to the father :
Let us then joyne our Funerall odes in one His dearest God-sonne with his Eldest Sonne.
And again :
Ar't gone just judge ? yet ere thou go'st from hence Keceive thy God-sonnes teares in recompence Of many Blessings thou bestow'd of him.
This circumstance also clearly identifies Brathwaite as the author of this latter work upon the death of Judge Hutton. Some of the remaining poems in this first part are of an amatory description. Among others is one " composed in honour of his Mistris, allusively shadowing her name in the title (probably Frances), which he enstiles " His Frankes Anatomic." It appears, however, from the next poem, ''Upon his Mistris Nuptiall, enstiled, His Frankes Farewell," that she afterwards played him false. In the next " Epigramme called the Wooer" is the following pleasing descrip- tion of rural scenery :
It chanc't upon a time (and then was th' time)
When the thigh-fr aught ed Bee gathered her thyme,
Stored her platted Cell, her fragrant bower,
Crop't from each branch, each blossom, and each flower,
When th' pretty Lam-kin scarce a fortnight old,
Skipped and frolicked 'fore the neighbouring fold,
When th' cheerefull Eobin, Larke, and Lenaret
Tun'de up their voices, and together met,
When th' fearefull Hare to cheere her quaint delight,
Did make her selfe her owne Hermaphrodite,
When th' lovely Turtle did her eies awake,
And with swift flight follow'd her faithfull mate,
When euery Beast prepar'd her wonted den,
For her owne young, and shade to couer them,
When Flora with her mantle tucked up,
Gath'red the dewie flowers, and them did put
In their embordred skirts which were ranck set
With Prime-rose, Cow-slip, and the violet,
The dill, the dasie, sweet breath'd Eglantine
The Crowfoote, pansie, and the Columbine,
The pinke, the plantaine, milfoile, euery one,
With Marigold that opens with the Sunne ;
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Euen then it was, (ill may I say it was,) When young Admetus wooed a countrey lasse, A countrie lasse whom he did woe indeede, To be his Bride, but yet he could not speede.
After a few more epigrams, and a curious "Eclogue" in the northern dialect " between Billie and Jockie called the Mushrome," and " A Pane- gyrick Embleame, intituled, Saint George for England," &c., we come to a singular and humorous poem " Upon a Poet's Palfrey, lying in Lauander, for the discharge of his Prouender — An Epigram " — containing numerous allusions to various works and persons of that age, and commencing with a quotation from Shakespeare's play of Richard the Third :
If I had liv'd but in King Richards dayes. Who in his heat of passion, midst the force Of his Assailants troubled many waies Crying A. horse, a King dome for a horse.
0 then my horse which now at Liuery stayes
" Had been set free, where now he's forc't to stand " And like to fall into the Ostlers hand."
Besides this, there are allusions to Don Quixote, Shelton's translation of the first part of which had appeared only three years before ;
If I had liv'd but in Don Quixotes time
His Eozinant had been of little worth
For mine was bred within a coulder clime, &c.
To Marlow's tragedy of Tamburlaine the Great, 1590 :
If I had liv'd when Fame-spred Tamberlaine Displaid his purple signalls in the East Sallow ye pamphred Tadesy had been in vaine For mine's not pamphred, nor was ere at feast But once, which once's nere like to be againe, How methinks would hee haue scour'd the wheeles, Hauing braue Tamberlaine whipping at's heeles.
To Banks and his celebrated horse :
If I had liv'd but in our Banks his time
1 doe not doubt, so wittie is my lade, So full of Imitation.
To Vennard's or Fennor's " England's Joy," acted at the Swan in 1603 :
If you remember, as was that same toy
Of Sanies his horse, or Fenners Englands ioy
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To Sir John Mandeville, and the Pageants acted at Bartholemew Fair :
What none ? no Mandeuill ? is London growne
To surfet of new accidents ? — why hoe,
Saint Bartlemews, where all the Pagents showne And all those acts from Adam unto Noe Us'd to be represent ? canst send me none, Of any sort ? or thou'ld not any spare But keepe them for the Pagents of thy Faire.
To Mother Eed-cap, — to " Whipping the Cat at Abington," and other curious circumstances. — This is followed by " Hymen's Satyre," " A Marriage Song," &c. ; another "Upon the commodious though compendious labour of Mr. Arthur Standish, in the inuention of planting of Wood — a wood-man's Emblealme ;" a poem addressed " To the truely worthy the Alderman of Kendall and his brethren ;" and another " To all true-bred Northerne Sparks of the generous society of the Cottoneers who hold their High-roade by the Pinder of Wakefield, the Shoo- maker of Brandford, and the White Coate of Kendall ; Light Gaines, heauie Purses, good Tradings, with cleere Con- science." In this he alludes to the tricks played by the manufacturers, resembling some of those practised in the present day ; and, describing the introduction of the cotton trade into the north, makes mention of Working- ton and the Curwens, Cartmell, Staveley (corruptly Staulay), Sturbidge fair, Wakefield, Bradford, Kendal, and the "ruin'd castle of Lord Par." The following is Brathwaite's description of Wakefield and her famous Pindar :
The first whereof that I intend to shew
Is merry Wakefield and her Pindar too ;
Which Fame hath blaz'd with all that did belong
Unto that Toivne in many gladsome song :
The Pindars valour and how firme he stood
In th' Townes defence 'gainst th' Eebel Robin-hood,
How stoutly he behav'd himselfe, and would
In spite of Robin bring his horse to th' fold,
His many May-games which were to be scene
Yeerely presented upon WaTcejield-greene,
Where louely lugge and lustie Tib would go
To see Torn-liuely turne upon the toe ;
Sob, Lob, and Crowde the fidler would be there,
And many more I will not speake of here :
G-ood god how glad hath been this hart of mine
To see that Town, which hath in former time
So flourished and so gloried in her name,
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Famous by th' Pindar who first rais'd the same ? Yea I haue paced ore that greene and ore, And th' more I saw't, I tooke delight the more, " For where we take contentment in a place, " A whole daies walke, seemes as a cinque pace : Yet as there is no solace upon earth. Which is attended euermore with mirth : But when we are transported most with gladnesse Then suddenly our ioyes reduc'd to sadnesse j So far'd with me to see the Pindar gone, And of those iolly laddes that were, not one Left to suruiue : — I griev'd more then He say.
The author is lavish also in the praises of Kendal and her excellent pastor :
But of all the blessings that were reckoned yet
In my opinion there is none so great
As that especiall one which they receiue,
By th' graue and reuerend Pastor which they haue ;
Whose life and doctrine are so ioint together
(As both sincere, there's no defect in either,)
For in him both Urim and Thummim be
O that we had more Pastors such as he
For then in Sion should Gods flocke encrease
" Hauing such Shepheards would not flea but fleece ;
Thus what wants Kendal that she can desire
Tyre's her Pastor, and her selfe is Tyre,
He to mistrust her people, she to bring
Wealth to her Towne by forraine trafficking."
There is a punning allusion here to the vicar of Kendall, who at the time that Brathwaite wrote was Ralph Tyre or Tyrer, an excellent pastor, who was vicar of Kendal from 1591 to his death in 1627. Brathwaite himself was connected with the neighbourhood of Kendal, being descended from the family of this name of Burneshead or Barnside in the barony of Kendal, and spent mucli of the earlier part of his life on this family estate ; and there is a monument still in Kendal Church to the memory of Sir Thomas Braithwaite Knt. of Burneshead, who died in 1683, and might possibly be a younger brother. Our author, according to Ant. Wood, at a later period of his life removed to Appleton in the parish of Catterick, near Richmond in Yorkshire, where he appears from a monument to his memory in the church of Catterick to have died May 4th, 1673, at the advanced age of 85,
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leaving an only son, Sir Strafford Brathwaite Knt., who was slain when fighting against the Moors in Africa, and was buried at Tangier.
Kendal was formerly celebrated as a great place for making cloths and dying them with bright colours. Thus we read in Drayton's Polyolbion :
where Kendal town doth stand,
For making of our cloth scarce match'd in all the land.
The Kendal green so celebrated by Shakespeare, was the livery of the famous outlaw Kobin Hood and his companions when living in Sherwood Forest, when, according to the old play —
» all the woods
Are full of outlaws, that, in Kendal green
Follow the out-law' d earl of Huntington.
But while it was formerly noted for its green, it appears from this poem that the men of Kendal were especially remarkably for their White coates :
Descending thither where most bound I am, To Kendall-iohite-coates, where your trade began. ******
As for this name of White-coate us'd to fore It came from th' millc-wMte furniture they wore And in good-sooth they were but home-spun fellows Yet would these white-coats make their foes dy yellows, Which might by latter times be instanced, Euen in those border-seruices they did.
At the end of this long and curious poem allusions are made to some old and celebrated tunes : " Wilson's delight ;" " Arthur a Bradly " and " Mai Dixon's round." " Arthur a Bradly " is still a song well known, but the other two, we fear, are not now in existence. A few lines " To the Wor- shipful! Kecorder of Kendall " follow, and then two more poems " To the Landlord wheresoeuer," and "To the Tennant howsoeuer," conclude this portion of the volume.
After p. 254 there is a fresh paging, but with continuous signatures ; and a second part of the work commences with a new title, thus :
Loves Labyrinth : or the true-Louers knot : ~ including the disastrous fals of two star-crost Louers Pyramus and Thysbe. — A Subiect heretofore handled, but now with much more proprietie of passion, and varietie of inuention, continued : — By Richard Brathwayte. Res est soliciti plena timoris amor. [Imprint and date as before.]
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This part commences with a Latin dedication to Sir Richard Musgrave Bart, of Harcley, with an anagram on his name, which is followed by some lines "Upon the Dedicatorie" in which the author states his reason for dedi- cating this poem to his patron who was then deceased. Next comes a funeral elegy " Upon the premature death of the most Generous and Ingenious, the right Worshipfull Sir Richard Musgrave, Knight Barronett of Hartley : who died in Italy, being preuented of his religious purpose, intending to visit the holy Sepulchre of our Sauiour in Jerusalem, an Epicedium : The Author dedicates these Obi-teres, unto his vertuous and modest Lady, the much honoured Francis Musgrave, daughter to the truly honourable Philip Lord Wharton." This is succeeded by various anagrams upon Sir Richard Mus- grave's name, and some short epitaphs upon the same. Next ensue some stanzas addressed " To all unhappy Loners," on the subject of the poem ; and two short copies of verses entitled " The Author upon his infant Poeme," and " Upon the Presse." The poem of Pyramus and Thysbe then commences, preceded by " The Argument," also in verse, thus :
Childrens loue and Parents hate, Thislees obsequies they see
Pure affection cros'd by fate ; Grauen in an Oliue tree,
True their loue, so true to either, Their bones to ashes they doe burne
That they chus'd to die together. And place them in one sacred urne,
Curteous woodnimphs, Tigres fierce, That as their loue was all in all
Wash with teares their doleful hearse ; So they might haue one Buriall.
Myrtle branches, roses sweete, To this shrine, this statue faire,
Satyres strow about their feete. Louers wont for to repayre,
Woodnimphs with their Syrens voice Who to confirme their sincere loue
Call their parents by their noise, Offered them a Turtle Doue.
Who with pace (slow pace God wot) But when their reliques scattered were,
Made hast they could, yet hasted Maids nere after offered there
not, Their wonted incense, but forsooke
Till they saw their children lie The altar which was wont to smoke
Arme in arme full louingly. With mirrhe and thime, which they did Oft they sought, but all in vaine burne
To bring life to them againe. With solemne rites about their urne.
Trickling teares came dropping downe, Yet lest their fame should so decay,
Groues with teares were ouerflowne, Their tombe is to be seene this day,
Water mixt with crimson blood Which first erected was to be
Made a deluge where they stood. Conseruer of their memory.
The story of Pyramus and Thisbe, which Brathwaite described in the title, as "a Subiect heeretofore handled," had been twice published before his time, viz. " The Boke of Perymus and Thesbe, Lond. for T. Hacket,
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1562, 4to, fcHt. Ittt. ; and Dunstan Gale's Pyramus and Thisbe, Lond. 1 597, 4to ; and again in 1 6 1 7." It is also found annexed to Greene's Historic ofArbasto, King of Denmarke, 4to, 1617; in the title to which it is called " a lovely Poem of Pyramus and Thisbe." At the end of this is a poem inscribed, " The Auswere of Hipolitus unto Phaedra," in octave stanzas, to which is prefixed an argument in prose. The volume is closed with five additional unpaged leaves, the first two of which contain " An Embleame including the Authors name ;" lines addressed " To the equall Reader," and four lines " To the Captious Reader," with directions on the bottom of the first page to "place this and the leafe following after the end of the first Booke." The three other leaves contain Latin notes and authorities relating to passages in the poem of Pyramus and Thisbe, addressed " To the under- standing Reader."
Such are the contents of this curious and interesting volume ; for a further account of which the reader may consult Fry's Bibliogr. Memor. p. 385, art. 101, 102 ; the Bibl. Ang. Poet. No. 47 ; Archaica. vol. ii. pref. p. xiii. ; and Collier's p.p. Bridgew. Cat., p. 32. Long extracts have been given from it in the Restituta, vol. iii. pp. 145 and 203, embracing the whole of the satire upon the Poetasters of Brittannie, and the epistle or epigram to Phantasto Moriano. See also Ellis's Specim. vol. iii. p. 103; Wood's Athen. Ox. vol. ii. p. 516 ; Dibdin's Libr. Comp. vol. ii. p. 197, and Bibliomania, p. 394.
The White Knights copy, No. 597, sold for 3l. 195.; the Roxburghe ditto, No. 3372, 21. 12s. 6d. ; Inglis's ditto, No. 216, 21. 12s. Qd. ; Gilchrist's ditto, No. 76, 41.; Strettell's ditto, No. 126, 21. 17s., bought by Mr. Skegg, and at his sale in 1842, No. 182, sold for ll. ; Nassau's ditto, pt. i. No. 312, 51. 10s.; Bibl. Ang. Poet. No. 47, with portrait of Brathwaite from the frontispiece to his "Complete Gentleman, 1630," inserted 8/. 8s. The same copy sold in Midgley's sale, No. 31, for 61. to Baron Bolland, and was again disposed of at his sale in 1840, No. 274.
Collation: Title A 2; Sig. A to Z 6, in eights; Q 6 is a blank leaf. Two additional leaves, Sig. IT, are to be placed at the end of the first book. Bound by C. Lewis. In Green Morocco, gilt leaves.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — A Strappado for the Divell. Epi- grammes and Satyres alluding to the time, with diuers measures of 110 lesse Delight. By MUTOVVKOS to his friend
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Nemo me impune lacessit.
At London printed by I. B. for Richard Redmer, anci are to be sold at the West dore of Pauls at the Starre. 1615. Sm. 8vo. ; pp. 362.
Another copy of this rare volume from the Freeling collection. Like some other works from the same library, it is not in first-rate condition, the titlepage and some of the early leaves having been neatly mended.
Collation the same as before. Bound by Black. In Bed Morocco, gilt leaves.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — A Solemne loviall Disputation, Theo- reticke and Practicke; briefely shadowing the Law of Drinking; Together with the Solemnities and Contro- versies occurring: Fully and freely discussed according to Civill Law. Which, by the permission, priviledge, and authority, of that most noble and famous order in the Vni- versity of Goddesse Potina; Dionisius Bacchus being then President, chiefe Gossiper, and most excellent Governour, Blasius Multibibus, alias Drinkmuch. a singular proficient and most qualified Graduate in both the liberall Sciences of Wine and Beare ; In the Colledge of Hilarity, hath publikely expounded to his most approved and improved Fellow-Pot- shots; Touching the houres before xioone and after, usuall and lawfull. We are to observe whether this may be or how much of this is admitted to be in the society of men. 1. 38. ff. De rebus crea. Faithfully rendred according to the origi- nall Latine Copie. OENOZVTHOPOLIS. At the Sigiie of Red-eyes, cio 10 cxvn. Sm. 8vo.
Preceding the printed title as above is a well executed and curious en- graved frontispiece in two parts, by Will. Marshall ; the upper one, signify- ing the Wine Drinkers., represents Mount Helicon with the streams Aganippe and Hippocrene flowing from it, while beneath are some well dressed persons seated drinking, Apollo filling their cups, with the motto " Nectar ut ingenium ;" at the side is the sign of the Dolphin. The lower
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compartment represents the Beer Drinkers carousing and dancing, a piper playing to^them — above is a cistern inscribed " Puddle-Wharf." A leaf of explanation of this frontispiece, and also of the one before the " Smoaking Age," should accompany the work, but are wanting in this and most other copies. The contents of them are however given at length in Haslewood's account of this volume in his bibliographical introduction to Barnabee's Itinerary, by whom this volume was first, and no doubt, correctly ascribed to Brathwaite. The work commences with a short metrical dedication " To his Moeonian Hebe, Will. Meere, his oriely Pierian Pilote, at the Ship in the Old Bayly," signed " Palladius Phcebaus ;" which is followed by a prose address " To honest Ralph of Brainford," dated " From, It cuts a Feather, in Sheere-Lane ;" by " A president of binding any one Apprentise to the known Trade of the Ivy -Bush or Red-Lettice, taken out of the ancient Register- booke of Potina.;" by some lines "To all People," signed "Oenopota Vandunk, German," and by "A Carouse-Canto" as under:
The Welshman loves Case-holMe, The French a Curtain-sermon, But I must slash in Balderdash, For I'm a true bred German.
Cap a pe, let us welter, and bouse helter-skelter, Tom Tinker his Tankard, the Fleming his Flagon,
The Irish Chough his Usquebaugh,
The Dutch-Fro his Slapdragon.
" The Law of Drinking," which extends to eighty pages, is reduced into sixty various collections or positions, thus numbered in the margin. These are laid down with considerable humour, and in a most genial spirit. Being, however, in prose, and some of them not over delicate, it is unne- cessary to quote any of them here ; more especially as the work, as is indeed admitted at the commencement, is evidently only a free translation from a Latin original. At the end are some " Corollaries" as additions, a long humorous piece in prose entitled " Cornelius Vandunk his Character," and another in verse, " Cornelius Vandunk his Satyre." On the last page are two other short pieces, " Vandunks Foure Humours, in qualitie and quantitie/' and " Vpon this Impression in the Vacation," of which we give the first :
I am mightie melancholy,
And a quart of SacTce will cure me,
I am chollericTce as any j
Quart of Claret will secure me j
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I am phlegmaticlce as may be,
Peter see me must inure me ; I am sanguine for a Ladie,
And coole Rhenish shall conjure me."
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — The Smoaking Age, or, the man in the mist : — with the life and death of Tobacco. Dedicated to those three renowned and imparalleFd Heroes, Captaine Whiffe, Captaine Pipe, and Captaine Snuffe. To whom the Author wishes as much content, as this Smoaking Age can afford them. Divided into three Sections; 1. The Birth of Tobacco. 2. Pluto's blessing to Tobacco. 3. Times com- plaint against Tobacco.
Satis milii pauci lectores, satis est unus, satis est nullus.
Upon Tobacco.
This some affirme, yet yeeld I not to that, 'Twill make a fat man leane, a leane man fat, But this I'm sure, (hows'ere it be they meane), That many whiffes will make a fat man leane.
OENOZyiHOPOLIS.
At the Signe of Teare-Nose. cio TO cxvu.
Like the former, this portion of the work is also preceded by a brilliantly engraved frontispiece by W. Marshall, divided into compartments. The top one represents some negroes running and diving for pearl on an island called Necotiana. On the left is a tobacco shop, with a negro standing on the counter smoking rolls of tobacco and drinking from a large flagon; at the back, some shelves with glasses and other things upon them ; and at the top, a garland suspended stuck full of tobacco pipes. On the right, behind a drawn curtain, the three heroes, Whiffe, Pipe, and Snuffe are discovered seated at a board over some hogsheads smoking ; the first with the motto on a scroll over his head Qui color albus erat, and issuing from the mouth of his pipe the words Itum est in viscera terra? ; the second with a long pipe, with the motto above Quantum mutatus ab illo, and from his pipe Fistula duke canit; the third, Capt. Snuffe, has the smoke issuing from his nostrils, with the motto Anglus in jEthiopem, and from the mouth of his pipe Mea messis
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in herba est. At the back of the printed title are the author's remarks " Upon the Erratas," with a list of these, followed by some lines, termed a sonnet, inscribed " To my learned, judicious, and most experienced friend T. C. Doctor of Physicke/' and others " To my worthy npproved and judi- cious friend Alexander Kiggby Esquire ;" both of them subscribed " Eucap- nus Nepenthiacus Neapolitanus." An advertisement from " The Stationer to the Reader," and a long " Preface " explaining how the tract came to be written, and inscribed "To whomsoever, whensoever, or wheresoever" — in which notice is taken of " divers bookes treating of the use and commerce of tobacco, as the poem of that English Musceus entitled Tobacco battered" * and other works — conclude the introduction portion.
"The Smoaking Age" is a continuous narrative in the form of a mytho- logical tale on the origin of divine tobacco, as it was then termed, arid was intended by its author rather to repress the extravagant use of the Nicotian weed, which then so outrageously prevailed, than entirely to condemn the same. In the course of his work among the "especial advertisements given by Pluto to Tobacco," he alludes to the custom of placing a blacka- moor as a sign before the tobacconist's shop. " The first caution I propound is, that in everie place where thou commest, thou take the best Booth in the Faire. Plant thy selfe in the eye of the Citie ; set mee the picture of some sallow-faced Blackamoore or a Virginia-man, for that will rather draw custome upon the Frontespice of thy doore : a Zeuxes or Apelles would doe well hi these cases to enforce passengers by the picture to draw neere the substance." He further remarks :
There bee three persons I would have thee use with all observances, the Scholler, the Lawyer, and the Poet. I distinguish them, for seldome makes Poet Lawyer, seldome becomes Lawyer Scholler, seldome exquisite Scholler either -Poet or Lawyer. For the Poet (he observes) I cannot tell what to say to it, lie is so oft out of his wits, as he verily imagines himselfe the man in the moone. There's quick-silver in his braine ; and if he were not now and then encountred by Sergeants, and kept under locke and key, hee would verily turne Bedlame. Yet because phrensie must bee purged, and thou (my Wag-halter) hast vertue and operation to love such, becken to the thred-bare contemned urchin, give him a pipe on my score, hee'll pay it at the next new play he makes, if the Doore-keepers will bee true to him ; and if not, hee'll make thee up some scurvie end of a Ballad, deserves a pipe of smoake. But before thou humour him, I would have thee finde him, and I protest to thee I cannot direct thee to him : Many have this name, but "as farre different from the perfect straiue of
* This was by Joshua Sylvester.
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a Poet, as the glistering of the Glo-worme from the light and splendour of the Sunne. Some come from the camp to the stage, from the pike to the pen ; and few Souldiers will prove good Poets. For the nature of these men (I my selfe have had an itching inclination to this poeticall phrensie) had rather fight with Bacchus than Mars ; and had rather cope with a barrell than oppose themselves to a quarrell. Others, from an Indenture to a Theatre ; the Scribe turnes Pharisee ; and Asinus ad Lyram express- eth his owne shame by his Scriveners fragments. Others, from mowting to comicke writing : a brave honour to descend to Poet from Lawyer. But amongst these (my brave Spurio) thou shalt finde many generous wits possest with this phrensie, call them to thee, smoake their wits, it may bee they are mustie, and desire soaking. These poore Gnats deserve thine acquaintance, even the lowest favorite in Parnassus armourie, Qui nescit vetsus tamen audet fingere.
He again thus forcibly alludes to the sign of the blackamoor :
As when Annibal, seeing his brothers head thrown into his Tents, cryed out, "Now doe I behold the misery of Carthage!" so when I behold that tawny-faced ^Ethiopian stand out pictured with a pipe in his hand to entice the poore passenger, may I justly cry out, Now doe I behold the misery of the world ; the corrupter of cities ; the depraver of youth ; the dotage of age ; the dissolution of all.
The tale concludes with warnings of destruction for their " smoaky im- postures" against the three captains, the corrupters of the age; after which are some verses styled " Nepenthiaci Neenia, or Musaeus Elegie," and some observations upon tobacco, its diversity of names, its effects, and the mode of cultivating it from a little tract, entitled Tobacco, published by especiall direction of the Author upon his death-bed, dedicated to Humphrey King. The author's opinion of his own labours against the immoderate use of the Indian weed may be gathered from a distich in a marginal note at the end :
Thus have I prov'd Tobacco good or UJL j Good, if rare taken — Bad, if taken still.
The paging of the volume here ceases, but some verses are added, called " Time's Sonnet "• ; and the book closes with a poem in seventeen seven- line stanzas, "Chaucer's incensed Ghost," from which we select a small portion :
From the frequented Path where Mortals tread, Old-aged CHAVCER having long retir'd, Now to revisit Earth at last desir'd, Hath from the dead rais'd his impalled head, Of purpose to converse with humane seed,
And taxe them too for bringing him o'th' stage
In writing that he knew not in his age.
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'Las, is it fit the stories of that Book Couch' d and compil'd in such a various forme, Which Art and Nature joyntly did adorne, On whose quaint Tales succeeding ages look, Should now lie stifled in the steems of smoak,
As if no Poets Genius could be ripe
Without the influence of Pot and Pipe ?
No, no, yee English Moors, my Muse was fed
With purer substance than your Indian weede :
My breathing Nosethrils were from Yapors free'de.
With Nectar and Ambrosia nourished,
While Hospitality so flourished
In great mens Kitchins ; where I now suppose Lesse Smoake comes from their Chimneys than their nose. * # * * * *
Pure are the Crystall streames of Hippocrene Choice the dimensions which her Bards expresse; Cleare is their heart as th' art which they professe ; How should they relish then ought that's uncleane, Or waste their oyle about a Smoaky dreame ?
Farre bee't Minerva should consume her Taper
In giving life or lustre to a Yapor.
The TALES* I told, if morally appli'de
How light so'ere, or wanton to the show,
Yet they in very deed were nothing so ;
For were the marke they aym'd at but descri'de,
Even in these dayes they would be verifi'de j And like Sybillas Oracles esteem'd, Worth worlds of wealth, how light soe're they seena'd.
Witnesse my Miller^ and my Carpenter,
The amorous stories of my Wife of Bath,
Which such variety of humours hath,
My Priour, Manciple, and Almoner,
My subtile Sumner, and the Messenger ; All which, though moulded in another age, Have rais'd new Subjects both for Presse and Stage.
Neither Wood in his account of Brathwaite, nor Dr. Bliss in his conti- nuation of that article (although extending considerably the list of his works) have noticed this rare volume. It sold in Bright's sale, No. 670, for 31. 6s.; Townley's, pt. i. No. 475, 31. 16s.; Gordonstoun, No. 1423, 41. 10s.; Bindley's, pt. ii. No. 1345, 6/. 6s.; Hibbert's, No. 1082 (the same
* Whose pleasing Comments are shortly to be pub- lished.
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copy), Si.; Nassau's, pt. i. No. 1881, 91. It is not among Brathwaite's works in the British Museum.
Collation: Sig. A four leaves; B to O 4, in eights; pp. 208. Fine copy. Bound by Mackenzie. In Brown Morocco elegant, gilt leaves.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — The Smoaking Age : or, The Life and Death of Tobacco. In Three Parts. 1. The Birth of Tobacco. 2. Pluto's Blessing to Tobacco. 3. Time's Complaint Tobacco. To which is added Chaucers Incensed Ghost. By R. B. London, Printed and sold by John Nutt near Stationers Hall. 1703. 8vo.
In this tract The Smoaking Age is altered and compressed from Braith- waite's work as published in 1617, 8vo; and it contains the poem on Chaucer's Ghost at the end. It is unnoticed by either Watt or Lowndes. Half bound in Green Morocco.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — A New Spring shadowed in sundrie Pithie Poems. Musophilus.
Quid nascis, si teipsum noscas ?
London Printed by G. Eld, for Thomas Baylie, and are to be sold at his Shop, in the middle-row in Holborne, neere Staple-Inne. 1619. 4to.
A singular woodcut on the title represents the new spring or well inclosed with palisades around it, and various persons of both sexes filling their pitchers, and drinking from it. Although Brathwaite's name does not appear to this work, as was frequently the case in his publications, there is strong reason to conclude that it forms one of his numerous productions. It commences with a short metrical dedication : " To my worthy and iudicious Friend Sir Francis Ducket Knight," subscribed " Musophilus ;" a Latin dis- tich "In militem Scientem/' and lines "Vpon the New Spring." The volume consists of a collection of short poems of a very varied kind, and without any apparent connexion with each other, of which the titles are as follows: "Philo to Philemon," with the motto "Non Vltra;" "Mans securitie, the Divells opportunitie," and the " Morall ;" " A Divine Embleme. Nosce et tace;" "An Elegie which the Author entituleth Bound yet free ; Speaking of the benefit of imprisonment ;" " The Statue of Agathocles ;"
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" Of Sleepe ;" " Vpon the foure Constitutions ;" " Of Hospitality ;" " The Shrift;" " Quidam erat;" "The Signe in Cancer: an Epigram;" "A Prize;" " Himens Eglogue betvveene Adraetus and Menalchas;" " Thank- fulnes." From these we select a short passage from the elegie
Sound yet free. If life indeed were such a lubile,
that euery houre, day, year, did promise TS Contmuate health, and wealth, and liberty,
then had we better reason to excuse The loue we haue to our mortality :
but since we see we cannot will nor choose,
But must be reft of these, why should we grieue To leaue as man what men are forc'd to leaue ? Nor skills it much where we be reft of these,
whether in Thrall or Freedome, but of th' two I'de rather lose my fortune where I cease to make resort to any, and must know No more of th' World or the Worlds prease ; but am retired from the publike show Of this fraile Theatre ; and am confin'd In Flesh to tast true liberty of Minde. A Minde as free as is the "Body thrall,
transcendant in her being, taking th' Wings Of th' Morning to ascend, and make that all
of hers immortall, sphearing it with Kings ; Whose glory is so firme it cannot fall : where euery Saint in their reposure sings Th' triumphant Pcean of eternity, To Him whose sight giues perfect Liberty. Then whether my restraint enforce or no,
I'le be myself, but more hi my restraint ; Because through it I see the end of woe,
tasting in griefe the Essence of content ; That when from this same dowlle-ivard I goe, this same entangled Prison; th' continent Of heauenly Freedome may receiue my Soule, Which Flesh imprison might, but not controule.
We add the four concluding lines on
Thankfulnes.
The early Larlce, from Earth to Heauen doth raise Her well-tun'd Note to chaunt her Makers praise,
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Why should not Men (indew'd with Reason) show Themselues more thankfully sith more thanks they owe ?
This is one of the scarcer volumes of the productions of Brathwaite. See Ellis's Specimens, vol. iii. p. 144, who has given some extracts from it, especially one humorous piece, " Hymens Eglogue," which we should have been glad to transcribe had it not been there given. See also Mr. Hasle- wood's Introd. to Barnabee's Journal, vol. i. p. 239, who has quoted the elegie "Bound yet free" entire; Bibl. Heber. pt. iv. No. 162*, ll. 9s.; Jolley's, pt. ii. No. 398, Si. 12s.; Utterson's, No. 430, 41. 6s.
Collation : Sig. A to E 4, in fours, the last leaf blank. The present copy is from the libraries of Mr. Jolley and Mr. Utterson.
Bound by Hayday. In Purple Morocco, gilt leaves.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — Natvres Embassie: or, The Wilde- mans Measvres : Danced naked by twelve Satyres, with sun- dry others continued in the next Section.
Wilde men may dance wise measures : Come then ho, Though I be wilde my measures are not so. Printed for Kichard Whitaker. 1621. 8vo.
The title is in the centre of a woodcut, representing a woody scene, with Pan seated at the top playing on his pipe " the Wilde-mans measures," and the twelve satyres dancing in a circle below. The work is dedicated " To the accomplished Mirror of true worth, Sir T. H. the elder, knight (pro- bably Sir Thomas Hawkins) professed fauorer and furtherer of all free-borne studies." In this address the author observes :
When the natures of men are cleere peruerted then it is high time for the Satyrist to pen som-thiug which may diuert them from their impietie, and direct them in
the course and progresse of Vertue I haue penned this short Discourse,
interwoven with history as well as poesie, for two things summarily, and especially for the first thereof. The first is the iniquitie of this present time wherein we Hue : so that Nature had either time now to send an Ambassage or neuer : since
Mulier formosa superne desinit in piscem •
Such is the course of degenerate Nature, that in a conceipt of her selfe she thinks she can mend her selfe by being adorned with unnaturalized ornaments, which Nature neuer apparelled her with. The second reason is the motion of a priuate friend of
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mine, whose pleasure may command my whole meanes, yea my selfe to the uttermost of my abilitie.
Then follows " The distinct subject of euery Satyre, contained in either Section : with an exact suruey or display of all such Poems, as are couched or compiled within this Booke." These are divided into two sections, the first containing twelve and the second eighteen. The names and subjects of each are enumerated at length in the Archaica, p. xvii. of the preface, including also Mythologia; two short moderne Satyres; Pastorall tales, or Eglogues ; Omphale, or the inconstant shepheardesse ; and the Odes. The satires, which are each preceded by an " Angument" in prose, are written in six-line stanzas, and are directed against the prevailing vices of society, the examples in each being taken chiefly from classical history. The paging of this portion is extremely irregular. At the end of the satires is " A Conclusive Admonition to the Header" in verse, and three Funeral Elegies on the stories of Hero and Leander, Pyramus and Thisbe, and Dido and ^Eneas. Then a new titlepage to
The Second Section of Divine and Morall Satyres : With an Adiunct vpon the precedent; whereby the Argument with the first cause of pub- lishing these Satyres, be euidently related. Disce et doce. London, Printed for Richard Whitaker. 1621.
This part is dedicated in three six-line stanzas, " To the worthie Cherisher and Nourisher of all generous studies Sir W, E. Knight," and signed " Richard Brathwayte Musophilus." Underneath are these four lines "Vpon the Dedicatorie," from which it has been supposed that the patron died while the work was being printed :
Though Tie (and happie he) bereft by fate, To whom I meant this worke to dedicate, This shall find shelter in his liuing name, He's chang'd indeed, but I am still the same.
These satires appear to have been composed in early life when first from college, with all the lore of the classics fresh on the author's mind. We select one of the shortest " Of Partialitie" for quotation ;
The Sixt Satyre.
Pyiheas a Lawyer of no small respect, G-arded, regarded, dips his tongue in gold And culls his phrase, the better to effect What He and his penurious Client would ; Upon his backe for all his anticke showes, More clothes He weares then how to pay He knowes.
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And what's the reason ? he hath Law at will,
Making a good face of an euill matter,
And euery day his thirstie purse can fill ;
With gold ? thou liest ; with nought but wind and water ;
He tell thee why, Platoes new Commonweale
Makes Pytheas leaue off pleading, and go steale.
What Pytheas, steale ? is't possible that He That had a Pomander still at his nose, That was perfum'd with balls so fragrantly, Should now another trade of liuing choose ? He must and will, nor dare He show his face Halfe casement- wide, that opeu'd many a case.
The other day but walking on the streete,
I saw his reluct gerkin layd to pawne,
His graue Gregorian, for his head more meete,
Then Brokers shop, and his best pleading gowne ;
Nay which was more, marke Pytheas conscience
There lay to pawne his Clients euidence.
But its no maruell, Pride must haue a fall,
Who was on Cockhorse borne through Fortunes streame
Is now cashier' d from th' Areopagites Hall,
And on each bulke becomes a common theame :
O blest vacation, may thou neuer cease,
But still haue power to silence such as these I
Well, farewell Law, if Lawyers can be poore, For I esteem' d them onely blest in this, That Danaes lap with gold-distilling shower, Had made them lineall heires to earthly blisse : But since these conscript fathers we adore Feele want of wealth, we'le worship them no more.
The xvni. Satyre (printed by mistake xim.) is styled " Naso luridicus. A short Satyre of a corrupt Lawyer." At the end of these are " Two short moderne Satyres;" the first " In Ambulantem Hypocritam" is called " Pseu- dophilia;" the second "Poligonia;" and this part concludes on p. 172 with " An Admonition to the Reader vpon the precedent Satyres." A third title then follows :
The Shepheards Tales.
Too true poore shepheards do this Prouerbe find, No sooner out of sight then out of mind.
London, Printed for Richard Whitaker. 1621.
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" His Pastoralls are here continved with, three other Tales ; hauing rela- tion to a former part, as yet obscured : and deuided into certaine Pastorall Eglogues, shadowing much delight vnder a rurall subiect." There is much ease and sprightliness in the ensuing lines, which form " The second Argument :
Corydon coy Celia woos, That steepe mouutaines, rocks, and
And his loue by tokens showes. plaines,
Tokens are those lures, that find Seeme entranced with his straines ;
Best accesse to woman kind. But alas, while he does keepe,
Long he woes ere he can win, Helplesse shepheard, haplesse sheepe,
Yet at last she fancieth him : Celia for to seeke her mate
And so firme, as you shall heare, From her "keeper makes escape,
Each to other troth-plight were ; And vnto the mountaine goes,
But alas, where loue is most, Where her selfe, her selfe doth lose j
There it oft-times most is crost. While one of Lauerna'es crew
For these two are closely pent, Seizeth on her as his dew,
Each from other by restraint : Where by force, by awe, by feare,
He, vnto the plaine must go, She was long detained there,
Loue-sicke, heart-sicke, full of wo, And in the end affianc'd so,
Where he sings such chearefull layes, As she ends her life in wo.
In his chast choise Celias praise,
" The Shepheards Tales" consist of four Eglogues or Pastoral Tales, the fourth being termed " The shepheards holy-day, reduced in apt measures to Hobbinalls Galliard, or lohn to the May-pole," in which mention is made of the names of several old tunes or ditties now for the most part forgotten ; " Peggie Eamsie, Spaniletto, The Vanetto, lolm come kisse me, Wilsons fancie, and Tutch me lightly." On p. 215 is another new title :
Omphale, or The Inconstant Shepheardesse.
Perijssem, nisi perijssem.
London, Printed for Richard Whitaker. 1621.
This is dedicated on the back of the title " To her in whose chast breast choisest vertues, as in their Abstract, are seated : The accomplishd Lady P. W. wife to the Nobly-descended S. T. W. Knight; and daughter to the much honoured S. R. C." Omphale is writtten in heroic verse, and extends to twenty-two pages, including at the end " A Poem describing the leuitie of a woman : reserving all generous respect to the vertuously affected of that Sexe :"
First I feare not to offend Yet whom thus farre I commend,
A very thing of nothing, She's lighter then her clothing :
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Nay from the foote vnto the crowne, Her very Fan will weigh her downe : And marke how all things with her
Sexe agree, For all her vertues are as light as she.
1.
She chats and chants but ayre, A windie vertue for the eare, 'Tis lighter far re then care, And yet her songs do burthens beare.
2.
She softly leanes on strings
She strikes the trembling lute and
quauers ;
These are no weightie things, Her strokes are light, so are her
fauours. Those are her vertues fitting to her
kind No sooner showne, but they turn'd
all to wind.
Then to you, O Sexe of fathers, On whose browes sit all the
wethers,
I send my Passion weau'd in rimes, To weigh downe these light emptie
She dances, that's but mouing, No heauie vertue here she changes, And as her heart in louing, So her feete inconstant ranges.
The fifth and last title is on p. 237 :
His Odes : or, Philomels Teares.
Odes in straines of sorrow tell
Fate and fall of euery/owfe,
Mounting Merlin, Philomel,
Lagging Lapiving, Swallow, Owle ;
Whence you may obserue how state
Kais'd by pride, is raz'd by hate. London, Printed for Richard Whitaker. 1621.
These are dedicated in verse " To the Generovs, Ingeniovs, and Ivdiciovs Philalethist, Thomas Ogle Esquire." The first is entitled " The Trauellovr, dilating vpon the sundrie changes of humane affaires, most fluctuant when appeering most constant." This is written in short eight-line stanzas, with much pleasing sentiment and happy expression, and but for its length would well bear transcription here. The second is " The Nightingale," from which we quote the first stanza, containing an allusion to the well-known fable of the nightingale singing with the thorn at her breast :
lug, lug ; faire falls the Nightingall
Whose tender breast Chants out her merrie Madrigall
With hawthorne prest : Te'u, Te'u, thus sings she euen by euen. And represents the melodie in heauen : T'is, T'is,
I am not as I wish.
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The odes are seven in number, after which are some lines to his friend Augustine Vincent, the Windsor Herald; "Brittans Blisse, A Pean of thanksgiving for our long enjoyed peace under a gracious Soueraigne;" " Vpon the worthie and sincere Proficients and Professants of the common Law ; an Encomiastick poem ;" and five Latin Epigrams. Four lines of verses and a list of errata conclude the volume.
The last portion of the book, containing the odes, was reprinted at the Lee Priory Private Press in 1815, in small 8vo, by Sir Egerton Brydges, with a short preface, in which he remarks that this short specimen of the author's genius had been selected for revival on account of its rarity ; " and if the editor's taste be correct, it will prove him not to have been without merit, either for fancy, sentiment, or expression." The impression was limited to eighty copies. Consult also the Archaica, vol. ii. preface, p. x. and p. xvii. ; Hasle wood's Introd. p. 259 ; and Bibl. Ang. Poet. No. 43, in which a copy is priced at 81. 8s., and another with the first part of the Shepheard's Tales at Wl. 10s.; Bibl. Heber. pt. viii. No. 293, 31. 4s.; Perry, pt. i. No. 542, 31. 12s.; Midgley, No. 32, 51. 155.; Lloyd, No. 197, 61.
Collation : Sig. A four leaves ; B to S 4, in eights ; pp. 272.
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BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — Natures Embassie: or, The Wilde- mans Measvres : Danced naked by twelve Satyres, with sun- dry others continved in the next Section.
Wilde men may dance wise measures : Come then ho, Though I be wilde, my measures are not so. Printed for Richard Whitaker. 1621. 8vo.
Another very beautiful copy of this rare work. Bound by Charles Lewis. In Red Morocco, gilt leaves.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — Times Curtaine Drawne, or, The Anatomic of Vanitie. With other Choice Poems, entituled; Health from Helicon. By Richard Brathwayte Oxonian. Hie ego qui quondam.
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London Printed by lohn Dawson for lohn Bellamie, and are to be sould at the South entrance of the Royall Exchange. 1621. 8vo.
Brathwaite was a great admirer of George Wither, whose Abuses Stript and Whipt had been published a few years before, and whom he seems to have imitated in this work. In the first poem, styled " A Griefe," in allu- sion to Wither's imprisonment for writing the Abuses^ he remarks —
Tutch not Abuses, but with modest lipp,
For some I know were whipt that thought to whip :
and in a note in the margin on this passage adds : " One whom I admire, being no lesse happie for his natiue inuention, then exquisite for his proper and elegant dimension." The satires in the present volume were evidently written in imitation of that work, and the arrangement and general style is much the same. Times Curtaine Drawne opens with a dedicatory epistle " To the Famous Seminary of all accomplish'd Knowledge, his deare foster Mother the Vniversitie of Oxford." This is succeeded by a poem called " A Griefe : Personated in the Avthor ; and Dedicated to Time, of whom he borrowes the Subiect of his Passion ;" and some lines entitled " The Proaeme." " Times Anatomic" is " displayed in six distinct Subjects. 1. Riches. 2. Povertie. 3. lustice. 4. Iniustice. 5. Fate. 6. Death." These satires are indited with much boldness and energy, and prove Brath- waite to have been a writer of considerable power and spirit. In the opening of his first poem, " A Griefe," he has made rather free with a sonnet of Daniel's, which begins —
Care charmer Sleep, sonne of the sable night, Relieve my languish, and restore the light With darke forgetting of my care, returne.
Sonnet 51, ed. 1623, 4to.
The reader may compare this with the commencement of Brathwaite's poem :
Care charming sleepe, thou sonne of sable night, That cheares our drowping spirits with delight, Making us forget care, as if kept under By some sweete spell, or some Lethean slumber. Away and leaue me, &c.
It is singular that this whole sonnet was printed as Drummond's in the edition of his poems, London 1656, 8vo. As an example of Brathwaite's
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powers as a satirist we transcribe the beginning of the second satire on " Povertie," which contains an allusion to the usual complaint of its being ever a companion of poets :
Of Povertie.
Now vnto thee that art contemn'd of all, Derided, spurned, forced from the wall Vnto the kennell, do I frame my speech, That I thy selfe some patience might teach ; And moue withall such as doe heare thee cry But stop their eares, to some more charitie. Take comfort then, for thou shall see on earth Most of thy coate to be of greatest worth, Though not in state, for who ere saw but merit Was rather borne to begge than to inherit ; Yet in the gifts of Nature we shall finde A ragged Coate oft haue a Royall minde. For to descend to each distinct degree By due experience we the same shall see ; If to Parnassus where the Muses are, There shall we frnde their Dyet very bare, Their houses ruin'd, and their well-springs dry, Admir'd for nought so much as Pouertie. Here shall we see poore 2E,schylus maintaine His Nighterne studies with his daily paine ; Pulling vp Buckets (but 'twas neuer knowne) That filling others, he could fill his owne. Here many more discerne we may of these, As LamacTius, and poore Antisthenes, Both which the sweetes of Poesie did sipp, Yet were rewarded with a stafle and scripp : For I nere knew, nor (much I feare) shall know it, Any die rich, that liu'd to die a Poet.
In the same way he thus speaks of the inequalities in the church, and the poverty of the working clergy, while the non-residents and others were eating the fruits for which they laboured not :
And sure me thinkes, an instance may be giuen Euen in these sacred ministers of Heauen ; Such I doe meane who honour much the Lord In reverent dispensing of his Word, Breaking the Bread of life with due respect, Yet are rewarded with a meere neglect :
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Reaping for their deserts no other grace
Then some poore stipend, or a Curates place.
This is their hyre, while others lesse deseruing
In conuersation, graue respect and learning,
Eate of the fat, Non residence must serue
Feeding themselues, while their poore flockes doe sterue :
Such were those Abby -lubbers, who could sleepe
And fleece their flocks, but seldome feed their sheep.
These like to Drones (for so they seeme to me)
Liue on the Labours of th' Industrious Bee :
For while the Bee (to make her honey-combe)
Homes here and there — these, drone-like, stay at home,
And eate the fruit (so be these Lubbars fed)
For which the Bee so truely laboured.
On the completion of these six subjects a second short dedication in verse occurs, " To him whom true merit hath ennobled ; the Right Honorable lohn Earle of Bridgewater, Viscount Brackley, the accomplishment of his selected wishes ;" and " The Author continues his former Discourse, Ana- tomizing Man more fully in these foure Subiects. 1. Preparation. 2. Security. 9. Court-ship. 4. Hospitalitie." Then follow several other short poems, including "A short Embleme descanting on the Worlds pleasure, entituled by the Author Placentia;" "A Conclusive Epigram, entituled The Great-mans Alphabet;" "To the High and Illustrious Monarch, Christian, King of Denmarke, a Panegyricke or Gratulatorie Embleme," &c. ; "An Embleme vpon the Royall Masque presented on the King of Denmarkcs last being here, Personated regally, shadowed really, and alluded rarely;" "An Encomiastick Poem To the ludicious and generall approued, Humfrey Davenport Esquire ; Practitioner in the Com- mon Lawes ;" " A Prayer to the High Court of Heauen, for the high Court of Parliament now assembled," &c. &c.
On Sig. I i another part commences, with a new titlepage : Panedone ; or Health from Helicon ; Containing Emblemes, Epigrams, Elegies, with other continuate Poems, full of all generous delight. By Richard Brathwayte Esquire.
Licet toto nunc Helicone frui. — Mart. Doe not looke on me with a carelesse eye, First read and iudge, then buy or else go by.
London Printed by lohn Dawson for lohn Bellamie, and are to be sould at the South entrance of the Royall-Exchange. 1621.
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A table follows of " The Number arid Order of tbese Epigrams, as they are to follow in this tract, entituled Panedone. Divided into two parts." The first part containing eight pieces, and the second thirteen. They are dedicated in verse " To his trvely worthie and mvch respected Friend Sir Thomas Gainsford Knight." The second piece, " Cares Cure, or a figg for Care," is founded on Wither's motto, " Nee habeo, nee careo, nee euro ;" and much of the poem is built on the ground-plot of that work. It is written in short metre, somewhat similar to that used in the Itinerary ; but as it has been quoted in extenso by Mr. Haslewood in his account of this work, we merely select the concluding stanzas :
No, there's nought on earth I feare Wretched Moles who pore on earth
That may force from me one teare — And conceiue no taste of mirth,
Losse of Honour, Fredome, Health, But in hoording heape on heape ;
Or that Mortall Idoll, Wealth. What's the fruit in end they reape
With these, Babes may grieued be, Saue returning to that slime
But they haue no power ore me ; Which they tugg'd for all their time ?
Lesse my substance, lesse my share Sure I am, reduced to clay
In my feare and in my care. Poorest are as rich as they.
Feare he must that doth possesse Care I would, but not for this,
Least his substance should grow lesse, 'Cause it lessens care of bliss ; Which oft driues him to extreames Yet not so as not to care
Both in broken sleepes and dreames : What we spend or what we spare, But so little doe I care For this carelesse course we call
For these Fethers in the ayre, Meerely vaine and prodigall,
As I laugh while others grieue, But that Golden meane to keepe
' Louing these which they must leaue. As no Care may breake our sleepe.
Thus to loue and thus to Hue,
Thus to take and thus to giue,
Thus to laugh and thus to sing,
Thus to mount on pleasure's wing,
Thus to sport and thus to speede,
Thus to flourish, nourish, feede,
Thus to spend and thus to spare
Is to bid a figg for Care.
" Cares Cure" is succeeded by two pieces entitled " Bound yet free," and " Free yet bound ;" and some pastoral dialogues and other short epigrams, including one called "The Parrotts Spring." In 1613 Henry Parrot pub- lished two books of epigrams under the title of Laquei Ridiculosi, or Springes for Woodcockes" which here seems ridiculed by Brathwaite with his usual quaintness :
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The Parrotts Spring.
Psittacus vt vocem rapuit Prometheus ignem. Stolne waters be the siveefst, may th' Parrot say, Whose borrowed note and coate his truth bewray : But its prodigious for Fowls to sing Of Wood-cocks caught within a Parrotts spring.
The second part opens with " Ebrius Experiens; or, The Drunkards humour;" or, as it is termed in the margin :
Tassoes Apollogie transcribed,
Wherein a Drunkards humour is to life described.
This relates some amusing scenes in a convivial meeting between Brath- waite and a pot companion, very humorously told. Then occur " The Old-mans Hearse; or, The Yong-mans lubile," and a Dialogue between Menippus and Mercator upon " The Eye," which has at the end the initials
I. H., but for whom these are intended is not known. A few other short pieces conclude the volume, with the exception of a prose address at the , end termed " An Appanage," four lines " Vpon Censure," and a list of " Erratas."
See Collier's Poet. Decam. vol. ii. p. 54 ; Bibl Ang. Poet. No. 49 ; and Hasle wood's Introd. p. 271.
In the notice of this volume in the Bibl. Ang. Poet, it is stated that " no other copy of this work is known, except the one purchased by Mr. Malone at the sale of Major Pearson's Collection." Although this is not quite cor- rect, it is certain that the book is one of the rarest of Brathwaite's series of publications. Mr. Heber's copy, pt. iv. No. 209, one leaf torn, sold for
II. 155.; Midgley's ditto, No. 33, 61.; Bibl. Ang. Poet. No. 49, 121. Malone's copy is now in the Bodleian Library. There is one also in the British Museum. The present copy formerly belonged to Mr. Park, and is the one from the Midgley and Longman collections.
Collation : Sig. A to 0 8, in eights. The second portion, " Panedone ; or Health from Helicon," commences on Sig. I i. Half bound in Russia.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — Novissima Tuba. Libellus, in sex Dialogos, apprime Christianos, digestus.
Surgite mortui, et venite ad judicium. Londiui, Excudebat Felix Kyngston. 1632. 12mo.
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Mr. Haslewood, in observing on the fact of his having given a copious catalogue of Brathwaite's various works in his valuable reprint of Barnabees Journal in 1820, and his having attributed to their legitimate author some works which appeared anonymously, further remarks that " time and oppor- tunity will prooably enlarge the list," The present little volume is one of these enlargements, for of its existence as one of the productions of Brath- waite Mr. Haslewood appears to have been unaware, as he has not included it in his list of the writings of that person ; neither is it noticed as such in the bibliographical works of either Lowndes or Watt. It was again printed in 1658, at the end of Brathwaite's Latin volume Lignum Vitce, which will be described hereafter ; but it is not mentioned by Mr. Haslewood in his account of that work. It is evident, however, from the number of pages stated by him as the contents of the volume, pp. 579, that the copy which he had seen was imperfect, and ended with the Latin hymn " De felicitate perennis glorise," of which he has quoted a few stanzas. Whereas the volume really contains 714 pages, and his copy was entirely deficient in the third part, entitled " Astrsea," and in part 4, " Novissima Tuba." This latter work has a dedication, " Integerrimo Viro, Familise Claritate, Famae Suavitate, Voti Sanctitate, Vitse Sinceritate, vere conspicuo : G. V. Armi- gero, Meceenati Sacrarum Literarum amplissimo ; Musophilus, hoc opuscu- lum in perpetuam observantiae suse Memoriam, humillime sacravit." The person here intended was no doubt George Vernon, Judge of the Com- mon Pleas and a friend of Brathwaite, who died December 16, ]639, and upon whom he wrote an epitaph, inserted in Astrceas Teares, 8vo, 1641.
The work is divided into six dialogues, and is entirely in Latin prose. It is written in rather elegant Latinity, and the arguments throughout are conducted with much skill, and are well reasoned. The following is the opening of the first dialogue between Death, the Flesh, and the Soul :
Mors. Aperite ostium.
Caro. Quis tarn audaci et imperioso more pulsat ?
Mors. Qui non accedet, donee intravit.
Caro. Per rimulam portse introspiciam an nostro dignus sis hospitio : siu minus,
diu pulses priusquam intres. Mors. Age ! quid sentis ? num me recipies ? Caro. O monstrum horrendum, ingens, cui lumen ademptum ! nequaquam ingre-
dieris ; abi in rem malam : Si ad mortem usque pulsares minime intrares. Mors. Ingrediar certe, Caro. Yel invita hera me& ? Mors. Yel invita hera, delicatula ancilla, tota familia.
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Caro. Q,uo nostros lares repetis ? Quisnam te invitavit ? In hac domicula nostra comptiores habemus comites, lautiores famulos, Isetiores socios, splen- didiores hospites. Aulicus certe es, tarn fricata fronte te geris.
Mors. Aula seque ac caula pattern in me vendicant et ego in eis.
Caro. Die amabo, quinam es ?
Mors. Et soror et frater tuus.
Caro. Apage! Hermaphroditus es.
Mors. Utriusque revera sexus capax sum.
Caro. Capacem te nimis vereor. Me tamen mea fallit opinio, si maris aut foeminse designes speciem ; dicerem te verius Spectrum.
Mors. Spectrum vere, Speculum tamen conditionis tuse.
Caro. Quinam parentes erant tui ?
Mors. Ipsi, qui tui.
Caro. Parenti sane oculos istse manus diutius eruissentj si prolem tibi similem uuquam protulissent.
Mors. Protulerunt tamen ; mors enim a morsu ; malum a mali gustu.
Caro. TJnde igitur provenisti ?
Mors. Ab eo peccato, quod tu peperisti.
Caro. Tune cognati sumus.
Mors. Unius gentis, generis, germinis.
Although not a poetical volume, and therefore not directly within the scope of the present work, we cannot refrain from selecting for quotation one more passage from the opening of the sixth dialogue between the Soul and the City of God, as a favourable example of the author s sentiments and Latinity :
Anim. Civitas sancta Dei, eharissima Spousa Christi ; Qua? sunt ista quse video ? Quse Cantica, quse organa quse audio ? LQuse cantilenas, qua? melodia? quas ipsa profero ? Quse mella, qua? Manna, gustus delectabilia, sapio ? Quse gaudia sentio ? Quse prsemia possideo ? Quam gloriosa dicta sunt de te Civitas Dei ? Et merito dicta sunt de te ; Sicut enim Isetantium omnium habitatio est in te. Hie, ubi difficilius est dicere quid non est, quam quid est : licet omnium lin- guarum transeat facundiam, dicere quid est.
Cimt. Nunc expertum habes, beata Anima, meliorem esse diem unam in domo Domini super millia.
Anim. Vere invenio ; unum diem, diem sempiternum, cui non cedit hestemus, quern non urget crastinus. Ubi non est aliquid quod non veniendo nondum sit, et veniendo jam non sit. Tanta est jucunditas lucis seternse, ut si etiam non liceret amplius in ea manere quam unius diei hora, propfcer hoc solum innumerabiles anni transactse vitse, pleni delitiis, et etiam cum afflueutia bono- rum temporalium recte meritoque contemnerentur. Mille enim anni ante oculos tuos, tanquam dies hesternus qui prseteriit.
Cimt. Interea, de eo labili anno, quid existimas ? Superiores dies anni illius jam
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transierunt, nee tenentur : futuri autem nondum venerunt. De eo fugaci Tempore quid cogitas ? quicquid de illo prseteritum est, jam non est : quicquid de illo futurum est, nondum est. De ilia Die quid sentis ? Horse matutinse transierunt, horse futuree nondum venerunt. De ista JLora quid tenes ? Mo- menta quaedam jam transierunt ; quse futura sunt nondum venerunt. In hac terra desiderabili nullius temporis languorem, nullum perferes laborem, nullum senties dolorem, summum accipies honorem, mutuum concipies amorem. Tide- bis cognoscendo, amabis diligendo, laudabis possidendo. Yidebis Deum ad voluntatem, habebis ad voluptatem, frueris ad jucunditatem. In seternitate vigebis, in veritate clarebis, in claritate fulgebis, in bonitate gaudebis : sic habebis permanendi seternitatem, cognoscendi facilitatem, requiescendi fselici- tatem. Qusenam enim est hujus Sanctse Civitatis fselicitas cujus Angeli Gives sunt, Deus Pater templum, Films ejus splendor, Spiritus Sanctus charitas ? Anim. O beata Civitas ! O sanctorum fselix societas !
At the end of the book are quotations from Ephes. v. 14, — Bern. — and Aug. in Psal. xxxvi.; and a short apology for the errata, in Brathvvaite's usual manner.
Along with the present copy is bound up the first edition of Lord Bacon's tract, De Sapientia Veterum Liber, ad Indytam Academiam Cantabrigi- ensem. Lond. Excud. Robertus Parkerus 1609. 12mo.
We need hardly add that this edition of Novusima Tuba is of extreme rarity, and that it is not included in the list of Brathwaite's works at pre- sent in the British Museum, which possesses only the one at the end of Lignum Vitce, 1658.
Collation : Title A 2 ; Sig. A to E 5, in twelves. From the Bibl. Heber. Half-bound in Brown Calf.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD,) — The last Trumpet; or, A Six-Fold Christian Dialogue : Viz.
1. Betweene Death, the Flesh, and the Soule.
2. Betweene the Divell, the Flesh, and the World.
3. Betweene Man and his Conscience.
4. Betweene Conscience, Sinne, and Man.
5. Betweene God and the Soule.
6. Betweene the Soule and the City of God. Translated from the elegant Latin Prose of Richard Brath- wait Esquire, into English Verse, by lohn Vicars,
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Arise yee dead, and come to judgement.
Hor. de Arte Poetica. Decies repetita placebit.
London, Printed by Thomas Harper, for Robert Bostocke, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the Kings Head. 1635. Sm. 8vo.
Like the preceding little work, this translation, or paraphrase of it into verse by the Puritan enthusiast John Vicars, was also unknown to either Lowndes or Watt. It is of great rarity, and we know not where to look for another copy. It is dedicated in verse " To the Right Worshipfull, his ever most highly honoured good friend, Sir Walter Pie, Attourney Generall of the Court of Wards, and to his truely vertuous and religious Consort, the Lady Hester Pie ;" and is followed by another in verse also " To the Wor- shipfull, his very worthy and most ingenious and ingenuous learned and religious Author Richard Brathwait Esquire," which we present entire to our readers :
Most worthy Sir,
When first by happy chance I cast my sight
Vpon the sparkling lustre, beauty bright,
Of your rich Jewell, lockt-up and enclos'd
In a neat Cabinet — I, strait suppos'd
It was great pitty, such a pretty jemme
Should be shut up from publike view of them
Who could not with the Latine key unlocke
Your Casket, and partake of your rich stocke.
I therefore haue (most worthy Sir) made bold
To ope the Locke, lay ope your jemme of gold,
To every gracious eye and godly minde
That in such lewels can pure pleasure finde ,
And thus with my weake breath your Trump to sound
In a knowne tone, whose eccho might rebound
And on the hearers hearts reverberate
To minde their present and their future state ;
And (hence) I must ingenuously confesse
I primely should and would the same addresse
Vnto your worthy-selfes sole acceptation
Were I not bound by most strict obligation
To those my honour'd friends forementioned
By cords of many favours thereto led.
But next to them, accept, I humbly pray,
PART II. C 3
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This borrowed-light from your suns lustrous ray :
These bubling streames, weake straines that have their motion
From your full fount, as tribute to your ocean.
In confidence of which great courtesie
Thereof perswaded, by your piety,
Praying your Worship may be aye possest
Of all true holy, happy joyes : I rest
Your good Worships in his best poore services to be commanded,
lohn Yicars.
A leaf containing "Authoris opinio de Interprete suo" — four lines of complimentary Latin verse — and the Imprimatur, conclude the introductory portion. Each of the dialogues is preceded by a short " Argument," or preface in verse. The first dialogue between Death and the Flesh opens thus spiritedly :
Death. Ho, who's within ? Ope the doore, instantly. Flesh. Who's that which knockes so bold and boysterously ? De. 'Tis He, that till he enters, will not part. Fl. Stay, I'le peepe out ; and see (first) who thou art,
And whether thou deserv'st heere to remaine ;
If not, knocke long enough, and all in vaine. De. Well now, what think'st thou ? wilt thou open now ? Fl. O fearfull monster ! ugly beetle-brow,
Blinde of both eyes, without or lippes or chin,
Hence, with a mischief e, I'le not let thee in.
Knocke on, yea knocke thy selfe to death, thou may'st,
But I'le not ope the doore, whiles there thou stay'st. De. Open, for I will enter : — mark th' event. Fl. What ? and without my Mistresses consent ? De. I, without leave of Mistresse, or nice Mayd :
Yea, though by all within I be gaine-sayd. Fl. Is't possible ? Whence cam'st thou hither, pray ?
Who sent for thee ? Thou might' st have kept away.
For we have heere, within, farre fayrer mates,
Fine fellowes, merrier guests, within our gates :
Sure, th' art some Courtier, by thy sirly face. De. Indeed, both Court and Cart in Me have place,
And I in them doe challenge equall right. Fl. I prethee say, who art thou ? what strange wight ? De. I, surely, am thy Sister and thy Brother. Fl. Hence, Beast, th' art some Hermaphrodite or other. De. Therein (indeed) thy words are probable ;
For of loth sexes I am capable.
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FL Capable ? true, too much too, I beleeve :
But, if my thoughts do me not much deceive,
Thou neither lookest like male or female,
But art, more truely, some Grhost lanck and pale. De. I am a Ghost, yet am thy Looking- Glasse,
Where thou may'st see thy state like with' ring grasse. FL Who were thy Parents ? De. They that thee begot. FL That's strange : but surely, thus much I doubt not,
Thy Parents would have pluckt out both their eyes
Ere from their loynes an Imp, like thee, should rise. De. Yet they me bred. For biting- Death did spring
From their bold biting the forbidden thing. Fl. Whence cam'st thou then ? De. From thine owne wilfull sin. Fl. Alas, alas. Then we must needs be kin. De. True. We are loth of one stock, land and line. Fl. Yet small resemblance 'twixt thy state and mine. De. True, I confesse it, yet I tell thee plaine,
Nor thou, nor any that alive remaine,
Can me, when I am present, passe, excell,
With fitter frame of joynts though ere so well.
With more just mixture of the Elements,
With fairer structure of corps lineaments,
Or stronger state of body : — but I say,
I, being present, am more choyce than they.
The commencement of the sixth dialogue " betweene the Soule and the City of God," whence our concluding extract is taken, and which has already been given in the original prose, is not unpleasing, and is one of the most favourable specimens, in our judgment, to be found in the volume :
All-haile most holy City of the Lord ; What glorious sights are these, thou dost afford ! Most blessed Spouse of Christ, beloved Bride ; What amiable joyes in thee abide ! What sacred songs, what musicke doe I heare ! What heavenly Hymnes, with most melodious cheere Doe chant about mine eares in every street ! What pleasant fruit-trees ! O what Manna sweet Doe I (here) see and savour, touch and taste ! In midst of what sweet pleasures am I plac'd ? What precious prizes are there heere afforded ? O what most glorious matters are recorded
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Of tliee blest City of our God of love, And that most justly : for all true I prove ! For in thee is (indeed) a habitation Of onely such as joy with exultation. Even here, where 'tis more difficult to say What is not here, than what is, to display ; Yea, though mine eloquence did all's excell, Yet could I not its glory truely tell.
(7. Now then (most welcome soule) from this blest sense Thou feel'st and find'st by good experience That one day in God's house is better biding Than elsewhere are a thousand dayes residing.
8. I finde it so (indeed) and one day here Doth an eternall day to me appeare ; To which no yesterday gives any place, Nor any morrow makes to end its race j Where nothing is that was not (first) here flowing, Or which (already) is not here full growing. So sweet and pleasant is this lasting light, So full of rare and ravishing delight, That if the soule could it enjoy no more, Than but one houre and so must give it ore, Even for this-onely sweet, the pleasures rife And flowing temp'rall-joyes of all Mans life, Though ere so many yeares spent jollily, Ought all to be contemn' d most worthily ; For, in tTiy sight (0 God} a thousand yeeres As yesterday, instantly past, appears.
C. But say (sweet soule) what dost thou (now) esteem Of that most slippery age ? What dost thou deeme And judge of those thy former dayes now past ? Those fleeting-yeeres, quite spent, and could not last, And which shall nere returne ? What think'st thou ? say, Of that fast fleeting time now fled away ? All that is past thereof is (now) no more, And all to come thereof none can restore. What of that day, whose morning-houres are fled ? Whose afternoons are not recovered. What of that houre, whose minutes from thee sliding ? For their remainder there was no abiding. Are not all these as if they ne're had been ? Compar'd with this blest state thou now art in. For in this most desirable Land,
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No troubling-toyle is to be tooke in hand ;
No pining pinching paine is to be borne,
No griefe whereby the Heart is hurt or torne.
But heer's the highest honour to be had :
Heer's mutuall-loue to make the Heart most glad.
Heere, thou by knowing perfectly shall see ;
Here, by delighting, thou shalt loving be.
Heere, by possessing, thou shalt ever praise ;
Heere, to thy God, be chanting heavenly-Layes.
Whom, thou shalt see to satisfie thy pleasure ;
Whom, thou shalt have to fill thy will, full-measure.
Whom, thou shalt to thy joy enjoy for ever ;
Whom, thou to love and laud shalt aye persever.
Where thou shalt flourish in eternity,
Where thou shalt glister in pure verity ;
Where thou shalt shine in perfect purity,
Where thou shalt joy in sweet security;
Where thou shalt finde endlesse stability,
Of perfect -knowledge rare facility ;
Of sweet-repose and rest a happy sense,
Of all that may content, the Quintessence.
O how can I describe sufficiently
This Holy- Cities faire felicity ?
Whose Citizens are blessed Angels bright,
Whose Temple is the Father of all Light;
Whose splendour is the Sonne of Righteousnesse,
Whose glorious-love the Spirit doth expresse.
The dialogues end on p. 102, and on the opposite page are three prose quotations from Ephes. v. 14, — Bernard, — and Aug. upon Psal. xxxvi., which conclude this interesting volume.
The Last Trumpet is not included in the bibliographical list of the works of Brathwaite given by Mr. Haslewood in his edition of Drunken Barna- bee's Journal, and seems to have been quite unknown to that writer. Dr. Bliss, also, who took great interest in the writings of Brathwaite, does not appear to have been aware of its existence.
Collation : Title A 1 ; Sig. A four leaves ; B to G, eight leaves each ; H four leaves; pp. 112.
The present is the Heber copy, pt. 8, No. 294. In Green Morocco, gilt leaves.
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BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — The English Gentleman : Containing sundry excellent Rules, or exquisite Observations, tending to Direction of every Gentleman, of selecter ranke and Qualitie ; How to demeane or accommodate himselfe in the manage of publike or private affaires. The second Edition : revised, corrected and enlarged. By Richard Brathwait Esq. Seneca in Here, furen.
Qui genus jactat suum
Aliena laudat.
London, Printed by Felix Kynston, and are to be sold by Robert Bostocke at his shop at the signe of the Kings head in Pauls Church-yard. 1633. 4to ; pp. 480.
The first edition of this well-known work was published in 1630, from the press of John Haviland. It was universally read, and no gentleman's library was supposed to be complete without it. But although abounding in good matter, and composed with much spirit and strength of rhetoric, we think it inferior to Peacham's work on the same subject, which is written in a more pleasant and popular style, and agreeably varied by lively and amusing anecdote and illustration. Brathwaite is frequently prolix, and sometimes even tedious. Peacham, on the contrary, never taxes the patience of a reader, and is always clear and sparkling. Dibdin, however, appears to incline to the former, and in the closing part of his judgment we are quite disposed to agree with him. In his Bibliomania, p. 394, he ob- serves : " There is a terseness arid vigor in Brathwait's style, which is perhaps superior to that of his contempory, Peacham ; who seems to excel in a calm, easy, and graceful manner of composition. Both these eminent writers are distinguished for their scholastic and gentlemanly attainments ; but in ' the divine art of poesy,' Peacham has no chance of being considered even as a respectable competitor with his contemporary."
The volume, being so well known, and also in prose, it will be sufficient without introducing any quotations to state that it has the same frontispiece engraved by Ro. Vaughan, which was in the first edition, divided into four compartments on each side ; in the centre a figure of an English Gentleman, supposed to be a portrait of Brathwaite, with the motto " Spes in ccelis" at the top, and " Pes in terris" below, and the arms of Brathwaite at the bottom. The work is dedicated " To the nobly accomplished the right Honourable
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Thomas Viscount Wentworth ; Lord Deputy of Ireland, Lord President of Yorke; and one of his Majesties most honourable privy Councell ;" besides which are an address " To the knowing Reader ;" " Upon the Volume and Title;" "The Subjects whereof this Booke principally treateth ;" and a copious " Table or Directory." At the end are two unpaged leaves, con- taining the character of "A Gentleman." The contents are the same as those of the first edition.
See Dibdin's Bibliomania, p. 394; Libr. Comp. vol. ii. p. 197; and Hasle wood's Introd. p. 285. A copy of this edition sold in the Townley sale, pt. i. No. 397, for 2l. 5s.
Collation: Sig. IF eight leaves; A two leaves; B to P eight leaves; Q four ditto ; R to Z eight ditto ; Aa to Hh 2, in eights ; pp. 480. In the original Calf binding.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — The English Gentlewoman, drawn out to the full Body : Expressing, What Habilliments doe best attire her, What Ornaments doe best adorne her, What Com- plements doe best accomplish her. By Richard Brathwait Esq.
Modestia non forma.
London, Printed by B. Alsop and T. Fawcet, for Michaell Sparke, dwelling in Greene Arbor. 1631. 4to.
For the same reason that we have given only a general summary of the contents of the preceding volume, we shall very shortly describe the present work, of which this is the only separate edition. It has an engraved fron- tispiece by Will. Marshall, intended as a counterpart to the one by Vaughan before The English Gentleman, with a folding broadside explanatory of its subjects. The dedication is inscribed " To her, whose true love to Vertue hath highly Ennobled Herselfe, Renowned her Sexe, Honoured her House : The Right Honourable the Lady Arbella Wentworth ;" an address " To the Gentlewoman Reader," an •' Abstract or Summarie of the principall points contained in the Booke," and u A Compendious Table" extending to thirteen leaves compose the introductory portion. At the end of the work is the character of " A Gentlewoman," four leaves unpaged ; the " Embleme" in verse, one leaf; an " Appendix vpon a former supposed Impression of
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this Title," five leaves" and " Vpon the Errata," one leaf. All these latter leaves are unpaged, but the signatures are continued throughout.
See Haslewood's Introd. p. 289; and Lowndes's Bibliogr. Man. p. 244. Nassau's sale, pt. i. No. 596, 21. 8s.
Collation : Title IT 2 ; Sig. 1f four leaves ; ITU" four ditto ; * four ditto ; ** four ditto; t four ditto; ft four ditto; B to Z in fours; Aa to li 2, in fours; pp. 292.
In the original Calf binding.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — The English Gentleman; and the English Gentlewoman : Both in one volume couched, and in one Modell portrayed : to the living glory of their Sexe, the lasting story of their worth. Being presented to present times for ornaments; commended to posterity for Presidents. With a Ladies Love-Lecture and a Supplement lately annexed, and entituled The Turtles Triumph. The third Edition revised, corrected, and enlarged. By Richard Brath- wait Esq.
Turture sic Turtur jungit amanda suo. London, Printed by John Dawson. 1641. Folio.
An elaborately engraved frontispiece by W. Marshall, containing full- length figures of the Gentleman and Gentlewoman, and eight other compart- ments on each side emblematic of the various subjects treated of in both works, precedes the above printed title. The figures and subjects in this frontispiece are totally different from those in the former editions, and many of the Latin mottoes are omitted. But the contents of the broadside sheet of explanation remains the same as in previous editions. Each portion of the work has a separate and distinct title, and the dedication is inscribed "To the nobly accomplished, the Right Honourable Philip Earl of Pem- broke and Montgomery &c. Lord Chamberlaine of his Majesties Houshold, Knight of the most Honourable Order of the Garter : and one of his Majesties most Hon. privy Councell." To this succeeds an address " To the knowing Reader;" "Vpon the Volume and Title;" and "The Subjects whereof this Booke principally treateth and insisteth." At the end of the first part is the character of " A Gentleman," and the Table or Directory.
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The English Gentlewoman (with a separate title) is dedicated " To her, whose true love to Vertue hath highly Ennobled herselfe, Renowned her sexe, Honoured her house ; The Right Honourable Anne Countesse of Pembroke, the only Daughter to a memorable Father, George Lord Clif- ford, Earle of Cumberland." This is followed by an address "To the Gentlewoman Reader/* The character of " A Gentlewoman," " An Appen- dix upon a former supposed Impression of the Title," an " Embleme" in verse, "A Compendious Table," and a leaf "Upon the Errata," with a quatrain under it, conclude this portion of the book. Then another separate title thus :
A Ladies Love-Lecture : Composed, and from the choicest Flowers of Divinitie and Humanitie, Culled and Compiled : As it hath beene by sundry Personages of eminent qualiti.e, upon sight of some Copies dispersed, modestly importuned : To the memory of that Sexes honour; for whose sweet sakes he originally addressed this Labour. By Ri: Brathwait Esquire.
Bts /col rpis T« /cccAa, /col TroAAa/cts TO xp?7<n/*a.
London, Printed by lohn Dawson. 1641.
This portion is dedicated "To that absolvte Owner and Honovr of dis- creet Fancy Mris Elizabeth Westby," and has a short address from " The Stationer to the Reader." The Love- Lecture occupies eighteen leaves with the title, and concludes with the following poem, in praise of vertue, which is here termed
A Sonnet.
LADIES, yee that would be faire, I a Cerusse can prepare Will make clearer than the ayre, 'Tis such choice and precious ware. Hold your purse, it costs you nought 'Tis in no shop to be bought, Worth an empire, seldome sought, Being from Elysium brought. Have you rivals in your face Want yee love-spots for a grace, Want yee borders, edging, lace, Favour, feature, posture, pace ? Would yee ever be in fashion, Vye inventions with our Nation, In your treaties move compassion, Suite your persons to occasion ?
PART II.
Would yee make affection flye From your love-attractive eye, To in trance the standers by Wishing there to.live and dye ? Would yee fixe in Fancies Spheare, Or enjoy your onely Deare, And no sly Corrivall feare, Apt to undermine you there. Would yee feed on such choice food As enliveneth the blood, Purging ill, infusing good, A true Conserve for Womanhood ? Would yee Courtly measures tread On the flowry-checker'd mead, Would yee no Love-powders need Would yee in your seed succeed ? D3
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Would yee love and feele no heat Here is ONE will fancy move,
That may wrong chaste Delia's Seat, And such a Tyre-woman prove
Would yee in rich language treat In the discipline of love,
Without envie become great ? As ne're was such a Turtle-dove.
Here is ONE will make you fit Poore shee is, yet is shee pure,
Both for Lineament and Wit, VERTVE her name, her only lure
As yee cannot chuse but hit A constant care, a carefull cure ,
The Marke that may accomplish it. To make her loyall Lovers sure.
This 'tis will cheere your amorous braines like Nectar, And crowne you happy Schollers in Loves- Lecture.
The fourth and last title runs thus :
The Turtles Trivmph ; presented in a Supplement : Highly conducing to an usefull Application, and gracefull Reconciliation of the two former Subjects. Continued by Ri. Brathwait, Esquire. London, Printed by lohn Dawson.
This part has a Latin inscription to Sir Jobn Banks, Attorney General. It commences with fresh pagination, but the signatures are continued, the running title being " A Supplement." The subjects discussed in it are Conjugal, Parental, Domestic, and Neighbourly Offices. It is interspersed with poetry, and at the sides are numerous marginal notes and quotations. It extends to fifty-two pages. At the end is " A Tablet reflecting upon this Supplement," and the book closes with " A Conclusive Poem contract- ing all these Subjects in one," written in five seven-line stanzas, with the last of which, referring to the part just noticed, we end our remarks upon this interesting volume :
Lastly, I've cloz'd all in a SUPPLEMENT,
Where modest tearmes describe the art of love,
Which to the rest gives such Embellishment,
'Tis styl'd the TEIVMPH of the TVETLE-DOVE,
Whose reall-loyall Emblemes if yee prove, I shall not chuse but like where ere I looke, And for your sakes make bold to kisse the Booke.
On account of the additions made to it, this is by far the most preferable edition of these works of Brathwaite. See Dibdin's Libr. Comp. vol. ii. p. 197; and Haslewood's Introd. p. 389. Lowndes is in error in stating that the characters given in the former editions are omitted in this. They will be found in their proper places. Bindley's sale pt. i. No. 395, I/. 6s. ; Hibbert's, No. 1448, 21. Is.; Jolley's, pt. ii. No. 406, 21. 10s. ; and Midgley's, No. 116, 51.
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Collation : The first four leaves, including the two titles, are without any signature; then Sig. a, two leaves; B to Z 4, in fours; Aa to Zz 4, in fours; Aaa to Nnn 2, in fours; but Hhh has only two leaves; then Aaa repeated to Ggg 2, in fours; pp. 518.
Fine copy. In Brown Calf, gilt leaves.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — Whimzies : or, a New Cast of Cha- racters.
Nova, non nota delectant.
London Printed by F. K. and are to be sold by Ambrose Eitherdon at the signe of the Bulls-head in Pauls Church- yard. 1631. 12mo.
Neither Mr. Park in his account of this scarce little volume in the Resti- tuta, nor Dr. Bliss in his edition of Earle's Microcosmography, assign any authorship to it; and it was first attributed to Brathwaite by Mr. Hasle- wood upon what must be deemed such satisfactory evidence that it is now generally placed among the list of his publications. It is inscribed in a highly complimentary dedication "To his much honored Friend Sir Alexander Radcliffe" by Brathwaite, under the assumed signature of c< Clitus Alexandrinus," and contains some excellent and judicious remarks on this popular branch of our literature. The dedication is succeeded by a short address "To the equall Reader," and "An Alphabeticall Table of the Characters." These are twenty-four in number, and are enumerated by Mr. Park in the Restituta. They are written with much force and clever- ness, evincing great shrewdness and observation of character, mixed with occasional satire, and are highly amusing. But we can only quote the following short passage, as our limits compel us to be very sparing in our prose extracts :
2. A Ballad-monger
Is the ignominious nick-name of a penurious poet, of whom he partakes in nothing but in povertie. His straine (in my opinion) would sort best with a funerall Elegie, for he writes most pittifully. Hee has a singular gift of imagination, for hee can descant on a man's execution long before his confession. Nor comes his Invention farre short of his Imagination ; for want of truer relations, for a neede he can finde you out a Sussex Dragon, some Sea or Inland monster, drawne out by some Shoe lane man in a Gorgon-like feature, to enforce more horror in the beholder. Hee has an excellent facultie in this ; hee has one tune in store that will indifferently serve for
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any ditty. Hee is your onely man in request for Christmas Carols. His workes are lasting-pasted monuments upon the insides of Country Ale-houses, where they may sojourne without expence of a farthing, which makes their thirstie Author crie out in this manner, if he have so much Latin :
Quo licuit chartis, non licet ire mihi.
At the end of p. 212 is a second title, within a border as before :
A Cater-Character, tlirowne out of a Boxe. By an Experienc'd Gamester.
Ovo prognatus ab uno.
1. An Apparator. 2. A Painter. 3. A Pedlar. 4. A Piper. Lon- don, Imprinted by F. K. and are to be sold by R. B. 1631. This part, containing four additional characters, is also " Dedicated and devoted by Clitus-Alexandrinus to his no lesse Honovred then Endeared Sir Alexander Radcliffe, Knight of the Bath." These characters are quite equal to the others in humour and smartness, and abound in satire. At the end of the Character of the Piper are these lines :
Clitus retire ; Waste no more oyle on these, No care can cure a desperate disease : Should'st write as much of ev'ry base profession, Europe would be too strait for that Impression.
Meane time, these Swaines may on the Plaines goe breath them For thou hast left a Curious Piper with them.
Brathwaite was frequently in the habit of joining the most heterogeneous subjects together in his volumes, and here we have brought in at the close the ensuing lines headed " Clitus his Genethlia vpon the Birth-day of his Sonne IOHN;" and in the margin "Natus est xix: Feb. Anno Dom. 1630:"
God blesse thee IOHN Thou maist be G-amester
and make thee such an one or what trade thou'lt choose,
That I may joy For much I shall not leave
in calling thee my Son. my Boy to loose ;
Thou art my Ninth, Be honest, and thou canst not
and by it I divine want a friend,
That thou shalt live Neither before thine end,
to love the Muses nine, nor in thine end.
And live by loving them : Three things THEEE VOYOHEES
for it were fit for thee undertake,
A younger Brother The WOELD, FLESH, DITEL,
had an Elder wit. thou must quite forsake;
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And so I hope thou wilt :
to th' WOELD I show thee, But thy poor fortune's such,
she will not know thee. And for the FLESH,
ev'n Nature must permit That it be given to thee
e're thou to it. Now for the DIVEL,
he has so much to doe With roring boyes
hee'l sleight such Babes as thou ; Yet be not too secure,
but put him to't, For hee'le play at small game,
e're hee sit out. Th' encrease of thy Revenues
is but small, Looke to thy Braines, poore IOHN
for that is all.
A better Legacie
I have not for thee Vnlesse thou dye,
and I sing Dirges o're thee : By which I should collect,
thou wer't but LENT me As thou wast neare that tune
by Nature sent mee : Being onely showne on Earth,
but to abstaine From sinne on Earth,
and turne to earth againe : And so shouldst thou rise high,
by vading hence With a sweete smile,
in state of innocence. This is my cloze ;
short be thou or long liver, Live well, my Boy,
that thou maist live for ever.
A leaf of notes " Vpon the Errata's" in Brathwaite's usual style closes the volume.
This little work is of some rarity, and has been noticed in the Restituta, vol. iv. p. 279 ; Dr. Bliss's edition of Earle's Microcosmography p, p. 282 ; and in Haslewood's Introd. to Barnabees Journal^ p. 291.
Reed's sale, No. 3362, 19s.; Dr. Bliss's ditto, pt. ii. No. 2174, 11. 6s.; Utterson's ditto, No. 119, 4/. 19s.
Collation : Title A 2 ; Sig. A to M 7, in twelves ; Sig. A two leaves extra, containing the table of the characters. The volume contains 141 leaves, not 117 according to Park and Haslewood, viz., 106 paged leaves in the first portion, 17 ditto in the second, and 18 unpaged leaves; or pp. 282. Bernard Hyde's copy with his autograph.
In Olive Green Morocco extra, gilt leaves.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — Anniversaries upon his Panarete.
Par nulla figura dolori.
London, Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, and are to be sold by Robert Bostock, at the Kings Head in Pauls Church-yard. 1634. Sm, 8vo.
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The subject of this mournful and tender effusion of Brathwaite's muse was Frances, daughter of James Lawson of Nesham in the parish of Hur- worth, not far from Darlington. The marriage licence, which is still in existence, is dated the 2nd May 1617, and the ceremony took place at Hurworth Church. She was descended from an ancient and respectable family residing at Nesham, and their union was blessed with an issue of nine children. She died on the 7th March 1633, sincerely regretted by her husband, who appears to have entertained for her an ardent and affectionate regard, to which her many virtues and accomplishments seem to have justly entitled her. Brathwaite long preserved her memory in his heart, and in acknowledgment of her worth he continued to publish for some years tributary verses on the " Anniversaries of his Panarete," in which he dwelt on her numerous merits, and on his own grief and affliction for her loss.
The present is the first of these tributes of affection, and has on the reverse of the title a page in black divided into two parts, between which is the line
Looke not upon me, because I am blacke. — Cant. i. vi.
and on the next leaf an inscription " To the indeered memory of his ever loved, never too much lamented Panarete, Mris Frances Brathwait. — A distilling Viall of Funerall teares obsequiously offered."
Melpomene.
Muse, thou hast oft to others griefes beene knowne, Now shew a reall passion in thine owne.
Niole.
I'le not invoke, as others use, The influence of any Muse ; The Muses nine shall be no other, Than Orphans nine to mone their Mother.
The poem then opens thus mournfully :
"Wepe ! no ; I will not : y* would ease mine heart ;
The burden of my griefes shal beare a part
In sadder Straines ; Still-running Rivers are
Ever the deepest : Not a tea re shall share
In my discomfort : They that can allay
Their griefes with teares, are Mourners for a day.
Nor will I cast my Sorrowes on my backe, Nor cloath them, as our Painters use, in blacke ; Such clothing's meere dissembling : many weare A sable habit, and distill a teare, Who can dispense with griefe : which I detest ;
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Though Pictures be by Shadowes best exprest To Native Symmetric : we cannot so Paint our essential! Portraiture of woe .
O Niole I that Story writ of thee Shall borrow life and lineament from mee. I'm stupid growne, and by continuate mone A livelesse-senselesse metamorphos'd stone. Where shall I then retire, dejected man ? But like the Desart-haunting Pellican, To some darke Lawne, close Cell, or remote place, Where I may take full view of Sorrowes face : And make my selfe the Embleme ? Where delight In melancholy walkes, and Birds of night Shall feed my pensive passion, and in time Make my retired bosome Sorrowes Shrine.
After comparing himself with the " throbbing Turtle" and " the chaste- choice Bird Porphyrio," and descanting on the merits and excellences of his wife, he goes on to describe her family and descent :
But leaving these, Deare Mvse, relater be Of her descent and honour'd Familie ; Ennobled by her spotlesse vertuous name, To prove those Ancestors from which she came.
Neere Darlington was my Deare Darling borne, Of noble house, which yet beares Honor's forme, jPeese-seated Sockbowne^ where by long descent Cogniers were Lords, their Countries ornament ; Which by that antient Monument appeares, Eear'd in the Chancell there for many yeares j Where th' Ancestor such an Exploit perform'd, As hee by Fame and Victory adorn' d, Made his Successours glorious, which I wish (And crowne my wishes Heav'n) may live in his : Meane time I this relation will omit, Because elsewhere* I have recorded it. * In his Remains
But what's a Family but style or name, Ynlesse preserved by a vertuous Fame $ And this she had, which did perfume her life (Like a most precious odor) Maid and Wife. Pure were her thoughts, her actions without staine, Grace was her Guide, and Godlinesse her Gaine. She breathes not that liv'd freer from suspect, Nor courted vanity with more neglect ;
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Pride was her scorne, Humilitie her Prize,
And Heav'n the object where she fixt her eyes.
Yea, there was nought on Earth she more did lore,
Than Fame by reall goodnesse to improve :
So as, ev'n those which knew her by report,
Admir'd that which they heard, and fam'd her for't :
Teares trickling stream'd fro Neighbors eyes ; exprest
Those silent sorrowes treasur'd in their brest :
While with joyut voice, made hoarse through griefe, they cride,
"None ever liv'd more lov'd, or moaned, dide."
The poem next proceeds to describe her habit, personal appearance, providence in domestic affairs, preparation for death in having
her Shrouding-Sheet still laid before her, As a Memoriall, which, during breath, Might represent to her the face of Death :
her needlework, and garments like Dorcas made by her hand for the poor, and her love for her husband. Brathwaite also mentions the numerous Posies
which at retired houres
Her richer Fancy used to devise
Her Bracelets, rings, and other rarities
as " Emblemes of Love," and alludes to two in particular, with their mottos, which he received from her in one day. The poem altogether is highly interesting as a tribute of ardent affection to the memory of his wife, and contains many pleasing passages, which our limits will not allow us to transcribe. It concludes with an account of her death from " lineall con- sumption," which had previously carried off her " mother, daughter, sonne, before it seaz'd on her;" and with "her dying words, recommending her children to their father's care."
The volume closes with four epitaphs ; the first two on herself, the margin stating "Obiit Martii vii. Anno Dom. 1633;" the third "Upon her onely Sister ;" the fourth " Upon her dearest Fannie ;" and two lines, " Panaretes Tameion." We transcribe the two last :
4. Epitaph.
I lost a Mother for a Grave And by it I two Mothers have Earth, and mine owne deare Mother too, In whose bare brest I slumber now : " My corps sleep (Mother Earth) in thee, " While Angels sing my Lullabee."
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Panaretis
Teisis me genuit, Sponsatam Westria cepit, Corpus Candalivm, pectus Olympvs habet.
Each page is ornamented with a woodcut border at the top and bottom, and at the end of the funeral ode is a neat small woodcut representing in the centre a man with the motto " ab hoc" from his loins, standing under a canopy, the cords of which are supported by two angels, one pointing down to the emblems of mortality under his feet, with the words "per hoc" the other pointing upwards to a crown of glory, with the motto " ad hoc."
See Haslewood's Introd. p. 309. There is no copy of this book, which is exceedingly scarce, in the British Museum ; nor was it in the collections of Heber, Sykes, M. Blandford, Hibbert, Perry, Skegg, Jolley, &c. ; or in the EM. Any. Poet. Bright's sale, No. 675, 2l. 2s. There is a copy in the Bodleian Library.
Collation : Sig. A B and C, in eights ; pp. 48. In Blue Morocco extra, gilt leaves.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — Anniversaries upon his Panarete; continued : With her Contemplations, penned in the languish- ing time of her Sicknesse. The. second Yeeres Annivers.
Et novus iste novo dolor sestuat ortus ab anno. London, Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, and are to be sold by Robert Bostock, at the Kings head in Pauls Church-yard. 1635. Sm. 8vo.
"The second Yeeres Anniversary" commences at once after the title, without any prefix, and occupies eleven leaves. It opens thus :
Last yeare I wrote of my deare PANARET, To pay my dearest Deare her duest debt ; But who is Hee knew her, and knoweth not How many things I in my Threnes forgot, Which should have been exprest ? but such as wee Who -share in griefes, fall short in memorie. This to supply with teare-distilling eye, Still to one Taske I must my selfe apply ; For wee an Annwersall meane to reare In honour of her vertues ev'ry yeare : PART II. 3 E
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Where though our Pencyle cannot well set forth The riches of her goodnesse and true worth, It shall appeare wee have desire to doe it, By th' ceremonious zeal wee beere unto it.
The contents of this part form a continuation of the former poem, and chiefly relate to the education of her Children, Government of her Family, Mildness to her Servants, Love to her Neighbors, and Hospitality to Strangers. As an example of the domestic habits of the day, and of the varied employments of a model wife at that period, Brathwaite relates :
Oft have I seene her from her Dayry come
Attended by her Maids, and hasting home
To entertaine some Guests of quality,
Shee would assume a State so modestly
Sans affectation, as she struck the eye
With admiration of the stander by :
That Hee who saw her from the Dayry passe
Would scarce beleeve her for the same Shee was.
So well shee could upon the selfe-same day
Both Civile Courtier and the House-wife play.
The following passage gives a curious picture of the manners of the time, and of the mode in which the fashionable ladies of that day were accus- tomed to while away their passing hours in the metropolis. It is deserving of quotation from its early notice of the way in which information of the time and nature of the performance of plays was communicated to the public. Northbrooke, in his Treatise against Dicing and Plays, published at an earlier period, alluding to the same custom, says : u They use to set up their bills upon posts some certain days before, to admonish people to make resort to their theatres." It also alludes to the great use of coaches at this time in conveying parties to and from the theatre, which were only brought into common use late in the reign of James I., but were afterwards carried to such excess that the inhabitants of Black-friars petitioned the Privy Council against the nuisance of them :
Draw hither then, ye Formalists of th' age, Who make your life a Progresse to a Stage, Your Chambers, Tyring-houses, where to pray Were such a tedious taske, as you delay To take acquaintance of it ; or decline Your thoughts from heav'n, because you have no time For such reserved vowes : no more you have, Nor can you dainty-Ducks a moment save.
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For all your pretious Morning-houres are given
For you to paint and decke you till eleven ;
And then an houre or two must be the least
To jeere your foolish Lover, or to feast,
Or court your amorous cringing Favorite
With a bare-bathed breast to feed delight,
And purchase more Spectators : but time's lost
Till a Play-bill be sever'd from the Post
T' informe you what's to play j then comes your Coach,
Where numerous light-ones, like your selfe approach.
But where's Devotion all this while ? asleepe,
And for herselfe sole-Centinell may keepe.
But now you'r seated, and the Musick sound For th' Actors entry ; pleasures doe abound In ev'ry Boxe : sometimes your eye's on th' Stage, Streight on a lighter object, your loose Page, Or some phantastike G-allant, or your Groome, But when this Embleme of your life is done, This piece of witty art, what doe you then ? To your sinne- shrouding Coaches streight againe You make repaire, where you relaters bee Of what your Eare did heare, or Eye could see. Then to a luscious Supper, after this To a reere banket, or to some quaint dish To move a sensuall slumber, and delight But never sate your boundlesse appetite. Thus you in painted joyes mis-spend your dayes More to your Suiters than your Makers praise.
At the end of the Anniversaries, on Sig B 5, is a second title before the Contemplations :
The distinct Titles of these Contemplations.
1. The Soules Sole-Love.
2. The Wounded Heart.
3. The New Dresse.
With Loves Legacie, or, Panaretes Blessing to her Children.
This part is in prose, and is written in a quaint, pithy and sententious manner, often conveying much sound and valuable advice.
The prose portion of the volume, including the Contemplations and Loves Legacie, was reprinted at the end of the second edition of Brath- waite's Essaies upon the Five Senses, 8vo, 1635, noticed hereafter; and is included in the reprint of that work in Sir Egerton Brydges' Archaica, but unfortunately taken from an imperfect copy.
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Haslewood has included the present work in his account of the pub- lications of Brathwaite, No. 22, but had never been able to see the book, nor does Lowndes refer to any existing copy. It is not in the British Museum, nor in the Bodleian Library at Oxford ; and although it is pos- sible that others may exist, we never saw or heard of any other than the present copy.
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BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — Raglands Niobe : or, Elizas Elegie. Addressed to the unexpiring memory of the most noble Lady Elizabeth Herbert, wife of the truly honourable Edward Somerset Lord Herbert &c. By Ri: Brathwait Esq.
- Surrepta, refulsit in orbe
Clarior
Imprinted by F. K. for Robert Bostocke, at the Kings head in Saint Paul's Churchyard. 1635. Small 8vo; pp. 28.
No other copy of this little -work is known. It formerly belonged to Herbert, having his autograph and date, "W. Herbert 1778;" and sub- sequently to Haslewood. The lady who is here commemorated was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Dormer, Knt., and sister to Robert Earl of Caernarvon. She married Edward Lord Herbert, eldest son and heir of Henry fifth Earl and first Marquis of Worcester, who dying in December 1646, was succeeded by this son Edward Somerset Lord Herbert, who then became second Marquis of Worcester, and is well known as the author of A Century of Inventions, first printed in 1663, 12mo. He died April 3, 1667, and was buried at Raglan. Lady Elizabeth Herbert, his wife, whose elegy Brathwaite has here written, was cut off in the prime of life on the 30th of May or 1st of June 1635, and was also buried in the parish church of Raglan, leaving, along with two daughters, an only son Henry, who in 1682 became the first Duke of Beaufort. Her mother, the wife of Sir William Dormer, Knt., eldest son of Robert first Lord Dormer, was Alice, daughter of Sir Richard Molineux of Sefton in co. Lane. Knight and Baronet, ancestor to the present Earl of Sefton. She died on July 2, 1 650.
After the title is a metrical dedication of four lines " To the Honorable Edward Somerset Lord Herbert, my most noble and accomplish'd Lord : Treasures of Comforts, after these Tributes of teares ;" subscribed Niobseus.
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And on the reverse another quatrain on the name of Elizabeth Herbert, and its anagram " Heere a blest birth." We transcribe the opening of the poem, which thus alludes to what was at that time considered the most fashionable part of the metropolis, where the chief nobility dwelt :
S til- silent Night unveile thy sable eies And eye ye losse of this unequall'd prize Our Family bemones : resolve to teares And sympathize with ev'ry one that beares A share in these sad rites. When Starres doe fall Thou mak'st that Astrolabe thy Funerall : Streight thou unmasks thy face, contracts thy blood, And shrowds thy virgin beauty in a cloud. ###*##
Tell me thou State-surrounded STEAND, canst finde
Through all thy Prospects a selector minde
Cloath'd in a choicer dresse ! Pray, looke about,
Thou canst not chuse but see some face peepe out
T' attract the forc'd Spectator ; but that skin
Is it so sleeke as 't has no staines within?.
Is it a native tincture ? does it wooe
The gazer without art ? or if it doe,
Is it accomplish'd with some better part
To pollish nature with diviner art ?
Has it adorning graces to make good
The splendor of her beauty or her blood ?
Can it converse with fashion^ and appeare
Discreet in her election what to weare ?
Can it send out her eies, and not be tane,
Or to take others make it not her aime ?
Can it discourse without affected state,
Or hearken lAghtnesse with a blushing hate?
Canst finde me this rare Phoenix ? I much doubt, Thou loosest time in seeking of her out. Two Phoenixes at once were never seene, It is enough, that such an One hath beene
But thou hadst One in that Elysian grove ! A precious sprigge of vertue, beauty, love ; Yea, such a seat, as no diviner grace But in her Saintly bosome had a place. One richly stored with all the gifts of nature, Of gracefull presence and attractive feature ; And what was richer farre than all the rest, An heav'nly fancy in an holy brest.
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For shew me One within this Orbe of ours, That was so young in yeares and old in houres. So sweetly humble and compassionate, So well compos'd i' th' posture of her state ; So loyall in her love, so firme to those Who in her Honour did their hopes repose.
Brathwaite thus again alludes to the personal charms and virtues of Lady Elizabeth Herbert, and to her illustrious lineage on both sides .
Draw nearer, wondring Mortals, and see heere,
A glorious Light reft from our Hemispheere !
One, upon whose cleare brow no cloud e're sat,
Nor ere ey'd object that she aimed at
But what she might affect : nor personate
An unbeseeming introduced state :
Nor gloze in painted goodnesse : nor expresse
More than her Soule did inwardly professe :
Nor feed her fancy with conceipts of time,
But clos'd her life's Act with a Scene divine.
And this same taking beauty now is gone,
Beft from our sight ! which while we thinke upon,
'Tis not sufficient to bemoane her death,
But to observe how sweetly vertues breath
In her expired Corpse ; and that her Fate,
Blest Fate ! has left what wee're to imitate
Nor doe I muse why thou should' st vertuous be, Being deriv'd from such a Familie, Whose actions streame in goodnesse ; they who gave First life to thee, no lesse Memorialls have In Times deserving Annals : DOEMEES name Beteins i' th' accent a sufficient fame To second our assertion : and to show Thy Mothers house was corresponding too In lineall acts of goodnesse, and what might Give to a noble line a living light, I'le onely name Him, whome ne're age could tax, The all-approved-loved MVLLINAX. Deare to his owne, to strangers debonaire, Deare to the Muses, who Joves darlings are, Firme where hee doth professe, entire to such Who know, but make no boast of knowing much : And to summe all in one, such a right Lord Hee scornes nought more then sleigh ting of his word.
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Brathwaite seems to have been under some strong obligation in some way to Lord Herbert, to whom he says :
Alas ! you know
I owe as much to you as I doe owe To the whole world (without private aime To me or mine) save to my soveraigne.
There was apparently some doubt whether Lady Herbert died on the last day of May or the 1st of June, which is thus referred to in the poem :
In whose translation there appeared heere
A civill Combat 'twixt two Months i' th' yeere,
So as, none could definitively say
Shee di'de the first of June or last of May.
Both wrastled like two Champions for the wall,
Which might give convoy to her Nuptiall.
At the close of the elegy, on a separate leaf, is the " Epitaph," on the margin of which is "Obiit lun. 1, Anno Dom. 1635;" and underneath these two lines :
Gentis Honor, Virtutis Amor, Spectabilis Uxor,
Condita sunt Tumulo, non moritura, Tuo.
On the reverse are the ensuing lines, from which it would appear that one of the " Anniversaries upon his Panarete," or yearly tribute of verses to the memory of his wife, was annexed to this work, but is not found in this copy :
Let 't not distaste my Lord, that I have heere
Annex'd th' Elegiack raptures of my Deare :
'Tis said that Polo the Tragedian
When hee on Stage to force some passion came,
Had his Sonnes ashes in an Urne enshrin'd
To worke more deepe impressions in his mind.
The Embleme's good : this Fun'rall pile of ours
Strucke passion in each line address'd to yours.
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BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — Essaies vpon the Five Senses Revived by a new Supplement; with a pithy one upon Detraction.
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Continued with sundry Christian Resolves, and divine Con- templations, full of passion and devotion ; purposely composed for the zealously disposed. By Ric: Brathwayt Esquire. The second Edition, revised and enlarged by the Author.
Mallem me esse quam vivere mortuum.
London, Printed by Anne Griffin, and are to bee sold by Henry Shepherd in Chancery Lane, at the signe of the Bible. 1635. 12mo.
The first edition of these moral Essays had appeared, as we have already seen, in 1620. The present impression contains all that is there given with the exception of the dedication to Sir Henry Yelverton, and the character of "A Shrow," which are here omitted. The volume is ornamented with an elegantly engraved frontispiece by William Marshall, emblematical of the subject of the work, the five senses, with the title at the top on a curtain or sheet. It is dedicated " To the Right Honovrable Thomas Lord Coventry, Baron of Ailsborough, and Lord Keeper of the great Scale of England, &c.," followed by a Table or Summary of the Contents, and a short "Advertisement to the devout Reader, upon the use of the five Senses." After the Essays on these, on p. 83 is a new title :
A Continvation of these Essayes, enlarged by the Authour in these Subjects. 1. The Sense of Sinne. 2. The Sense of Sorrow. 3. The Sense of humane vanity. 4. The Sense of others misery. 5. The Sense or apprehension of future glory. Imprinted at London. 1635.
This part has a Latin dedication to Sir William Savile Bart., which may be worth quoting: "Amplissimo et amicissimo Viro, Gulielmo Savile, Baronetto : Charitate stirpis, suavitate mentis, sacris connubiis, amplissimis prssdiis, coelitum prsemiis, auspicatissimo ; R. B. Pieridum humillimus, ista theoremata, charitum charismata, candidioris ingenii, lautiora tragemata : In amoris testem, honoris tesseram, candid e, condite, cordate, D. D. D."
The Essay on Detraction, which with "Resolves," and "The Authors opinion of Marriage" are printed from the first edition, is also preceded by a dedication in Latin to I. B. de L. and his eldest son H. B. This dedication is omitted in the reprint of the work in the Archaica. At the end of " Resolves" are the following lines headed " The heavenly Exercise of the five Senses, couched in a divine Poem," and four lines " Upon his Resolves :"
Let eye, earet toucht taste, smelly let every Sence Employ itselfe to praise his providence,
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Who gave an eye to see ; but why was't given ?
To guide our feet on earth, our soules to heaven.
An eare to heare ; but what ? no jest o' th' time,
Vaine or prophane, but melody divine.
A touch to feele ; but what ? griefes of our brother,
And t' have a fellow-feeling one of other.
A taste to relish ; what ? man's soveraigne blisse,
Come taste and see the Lord, how sweet hee is !
A smell to breath ; and what ? flowers that afford
All choyce content, the odours of his Word.
If our* Jive Senses thus employed bee,
Wee may our Saviour smell, taste, touch, heare, see.
At p. 231 is a third title, thus,
The distinct Titles of these Contemplations. 1. The Soules Sole-Love. 2. The Wounded Heart. 3. The New Dresse. With Loves Legacy,
or, Panaretes Blessing to her Children.
1. The Buriall of the Old Man. 2. Philaretvs his Instructions to his
Sonne. 3. Of Loose Love : with Loves choice.
Brathwaite was in the frequent habit of reprinting portions of his .former works, and we have already noticed the first part of these Contemplations in his Anniversaries upon his Panarete, continued. The last three are here given for the first time. The volume closes with eight metrical lines, " Loves Choice," quoted below, and a page u Vpon the Errata :"
Love's Choice.
Love, whose sole object's vertue, I doe love ; Loose love, whose onely period is delight, Is like a Basiliske unto my sight. That, though below, hath fixt his thoughts above ; This, though above, a brutish shape will take, And leave a luno for his Ind's sake. So spheare your Love, that your chaste choice may seeke More beauty in a minde than in a cheeke.
These moral Essays were reprinted in 1815 in 4to. from the present edition by Sir Egerton Brydges, in the Archaica, vol. ii., but unfortunately from an incomplete copy, wanting eight pages. In the preface prefixed to that reprint, the editor, after making some additions to the meagre list of
* Alluding to that sacred-secret mysterie of his Jive wounds, curing and crowning our five Sences.
PART II. 3 F
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Bratliwaite's publications given by Ant. Wood, has also introduced some critical remarks upon his claims to revived notice as a miscellaneous writer, and concludes by observing of the present work :
His Essays, here reprinted, are ingenious, and sometimes almost eloquent, though too often full of quaintness and conceit, the great fault of his age. They appear also to have another fault : they seem to be written in a factitious temperament of mind and feeling, which too many writers, and too many readers, very erroneously suppose to be the warmth of genius. It requires no artificial enthusiasm to relish the touches which a pure and unprompted fancy executes. There is a reflector in the bosom of mankind always ready to receive and give them back. But in prose Brathwaite shews himself a more than ordinary master of a copious and polished phraseology; and abounds as well in sentiment as in the stores of knowledge collected by various and extensive reading.
See the Archaica, vol. ii., and Haslewood's Introd. vol. i. p. 168, and p. 322, where the omissions in the former reprint are supplied. Nassau's sale, pt. i. No. 313, I/. 135.
Collation : Title A 2 ; Sig. A nine leaves ; B to 0 2, in twelves ; pp. 334. In Blue Morocco extra, with gauffered gilt leaves.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — The Arcadian Priucesse; or, The Triumph of Justice : Prescribing excellent rules of Physicke, for a sicke Justice. Digested into fowre Bookes, and Faith- fully rendred to the originall Italian Copy, By Hi. Brathwait Esq.
Vulnera clausa potius cruciant. — Greg.
London, Printed by Th. Harper for Robert Bostocke, and are to bee sold at his shop in Pauls Church yard, at the sigue of the Kings head. 1635. Sm: 8vo.
Prefixed is an elegant engraved title by Will. Marshall of The Arcadian Princesse : or, The Triumph of lustice, seated on a canopied throne, hold- ing a lance in her left hand and a pair of scales in the other, in which Justice is represented weighing the rich and poor, the poor man labelled "forma Pauperis," weighing down the rich one, labelled "Ira Potentis." On the sides are two hands pointing to labels inscribed " Hinc Proelium," " Hinc Proemium." Other sentences appear on different labels, and on a leaf opposite are these lines :
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Vpon the Frontispice. Hee that in words explaines a Frontispice Betrayes the secret trust of his Device : Who cannot guesse, where Motts and Emblemes be The drift, may still bee ignorant for me.
At the back of the printed title is the certificate of the licenser, " Guliel- mus Haywood," dated " Junii 7, 1634." The volume is dedicated "To the excellent Modell of true Nobility, the Right Honourable Henry Somerset, Earle of Worcester, Baron Herbert, Lord of Chepstow, Ragland, and Gower ;" after which is a short address " To the Deserving Reader," and some testimonies in. favour of Mariano Silesio, the author of the original work. These are succeeded by " A Summary of the Contents" of the four books, " with an Explanation of every distinct Subiect, and personall Name contained in this Allegoricall discourse." Each book contains a certain number of Poesies and of Prose Chapters. The story is entirely allegorical, and is not particularly interesting. Dibdin calls this a work too dislocated and heterogeneous to command a complete perusal ; but has quoted several portions of the verse, on which he bestows much praise, and thinks that Brathwaite shines with more lustre as a poet from some passages in this work than in any to which his name is attached.
From one of the Poesies in the third book we borrow these lines on Pytheas, whose story speaks for itself:
How blinde is he, who labours to be knowne To all men's imperfections but his owne ? How can he have an Eare to any cause That is engag't to popular applause ? This, Pyiheas found, who grew in time so strong Through selfe-couceit in Eloquence of tongue, As he suppos'd, each place that he came in, There was no other talke but praising him. To wals and portels would he lay his eare, Through creeks, and cranies too, that he might hear His much desir'd applause, which having done And heard his praise, he held his prize halfe won. Many disswad't him from this madding course, But all in vaine, his humour still grew worse ; Deafe was his Eare to counsell, all his art Was to gaine praise, no matter for desert. Eipe were his yeares and mellow, yet age-grown, With arrogancy was he bladder-blowne :
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So as, when neither reason could perswade, Nor he by wholesome counsell would be swaide, But so admir'd his selfe-conceited worth, As he had beene some Deity on Earth : He, as I've heard some of his Nation tell, Into a fearefnllfrensy, after fell. Whence I conclude, 'tis better farre to want Wife, and to know't, than to be arrogant.
There is some vigour and spirit in another of the characters on humility, which we subjoin :
How happy is his fate Promotion is the glasse
Who humbled, becomes wise, Declares what mortals bee,
Contented with his state, But how they hence should passe
He seeks no more to rise ? Informes humility.
His fall hath made him feele Then rightly may I call
Those maladies he had, Uperephanos state
And sensible to heale More happy by his fall
Those humours which were bad : Than he appear' d of late ; Else would they ne're correct Made apter to reforme
Those humours they affect. What others held in scorne.
More haplesse none than he, It rests then I admire
Who swims in worldly blisse, His temper, and commend
And holds adversity His service to your Quire
Estrang'd from him and his ; That's stiied Vertues friend.
The way to weale is then And take this of my word,
In plenty and in scant His more deserving parts
By curbing Selfe-esteeme Will such content afford
T' acknowledge our owne want : They'l winne the knowing'st hearts. . But Cedars brooke the worst And thinke him worthy too
To heare they'r Shrubs at first. Of th' Honour you bestow.
The Poesies interspersed are in different metres, and amount to twenty- seven in all, the one at the commencement of the fourth book extending to twenty-three pages. At the end is appended " The Life of Mariano Silesio the, approved Author of this Worke," and Brathwaite's usual comment " Vpon the Errata's," together with a list of these. Mr. Haslewood sup- posed that from some cause or other this work was hurried very hastily through the press, but there is no appearance of this in the work itself, nor are the errata more than usual, although Brathwaite confesses at the end that it was divided upon several presses. See his Introd. to Barndbee's Journal, p. 330 ; Dibdin's Bibliomania, p. 395 ; and Collier's Bridgew. Catal p. 35. .
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Bound by Mackenzie. In Red Morocco, elegant, gilt leaves.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — The Lives of all the Roman Empe- rors, being exactly collected from Julius Caesar, unto the now reigning Ferdinand the second. With their Births, Govern- ments, remarkable Actions and Deaths.
London Printed by N. and J. Okes, and are to be sold by George Hutton at the signe of the Sun within Turning- stile in Holborne. 1636. Sm. 8vo.
An engraved title by Will. Marshall prefixed, represents Julius Caesar standing on the globe in the midst, with a sword in his right hand and a crown suspended by a cord in the other, and the motto " Victrici firmata manu pendentia filo." Over his head another motto :
Maxima perpetui statuit moderamina Sceptri Caesar ut seternum conderet Imperium.
Around him are small medallions of the eleven other Caesars, Roman Emperors ; and below a small medallion of the author, similar to that pre- fixed to Brathwaite's Paraphrase of the Psalms, 1638. In the title at the bottom the book is called " The exact Collection of all the Roman Empe- rors from lulius Caesar to ye now reigning Ferdinand the 2d &c. By R. B. G." i.e. Richard Brathwaite, Gentleman.
The volume is dedicated "To the Worshipfull, my most honoured Patrone Will: Stonour Esquire," in which he excuses his presumption in
presenting unto him the first fruits of a tree so long growing up
" Nobiles nobilia dicunt and so the noble Caesars now seek unto your noble selfe for a protection, and to be patronized, as being all brought unto the straights of this epitomicke volume : and in entertaining them being in number one hundred fifty six, I hope you will not exclude their Con- ductour, but reflect also upon him with a favourable though a different respect, who was ever most studious to honour and serve you as Yours most obsequious R. B." A short address " To the Reader" follows, and " A
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Table of the names of the Romane Emperours." Each of the 156 lives is headed by a small woodcut portrait, and the date when he began to reign. Collation : Sig. A to Bb 8, in eights ; pp. 400 in all. This is one of the scarcer pieces by Brathwaite. The present copy, which was Mr. Hasle- wood's, has an additional small head of Brathwaite inserted. In Dark Green Morocco.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — A Spirituall Spicerie. Containing Sundry Sweete Tractates of Devotion and Piety. By Ri. Brathwaite Esq.
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My Welbeloued is as a bundle of myrrhe unto me : he shall lye betweene my brests.
His cheekes are as a bed of Spices.
London, Printed by J. H. for George Hutton at his shop within Turning stile in Holborne. 1638. 12mo.
Besides the above printed title, the same is also given at the bottom of an engraved frontispiece, representing a garden. In the upper part is a female watering a flower bed, with the following sentence inscribed on a label issuing from her mouth : " Awake O North winde, and come thou South, blow upon my garden, that the Spices thereof may flow out." Cant. 4. Below are two other figures — a male presenting a flower to a female, from the former of whom proceeds the following : " I am come into my garden, my Sister, my Spouse, I have gathered my mirrhe wth my Spice, I said I will goe up to the Palme tree, I will take hold of the boughes thereof." The dedication runs thus: "To the truly ennobled Thomas, Lord Fauconberge, Baron of Yarom : Together with his pious Progeny, those succeeding Branches of a prospering Family : R. B. Zealously Dedi- cates this Spirituall Spicerie." Then nine lines of verse " Vpon the trans- lation of his Divine Dialogue," succeeded by " A Title-Table ; or Short Summarie of all such Tractates, Meditations, Prayers, Contemplations, and Motives of Piety as are comprised within this Spirituall Spicerie." The first piece of Spicerie is "A Divine Dialogue, or a Comfortable Conference betwixt our Saviour and a Sinner," with the life of Jacobus Gruytrodius the author of it prefixed. The other pieces are from St. Augustine, St. Ber-
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nard, Thomas Aquinas, St. Dionysius and other authors. At the end of the Spiritual Spicery is "A clozing Sonnet upon these Miscellaneous Meditations :"
Morall mixtures or Divine, Aptly cull'd and couch'd in order, Are like colours in a shrine, Or choice flow'rs set in a border, Or like dishes at a Feast, Each attended with his sallet To delight the curious Guest And give relish to his palat.
Store of colours, they are meet When wee should ones picture take One choice flow'r bee't neere so sweet, Would no pleasing posie make, One Dish be it ne'ere so precious To the Scent or to the Tast, Though at first it seeme delicious It will cloy the Sense at last.
Here are Colours permanent, Objects which will cheere the eye, Here are Mowers redolent, Which will bloome and never dye : Here are Dishes of delight, (Such delights can never cloy) To renew the appetites And to new — revive your joy.
Muse not then, if here you see In this various Worke of mine Such a mixt variety, Sorting with this hum'rous time : Though the Sunne shine in our Sphere, Cloud or Night invelop it, But the Sunne shines ever here Darting forth pure rayes of wit.
Now the fruit I wish to gaine, Is your profit for my paine.
After this is " A reply to a rigid Precision, objecting, that flowers from Komish authors extracted became lesse wholesome and divinely redolent ;" which closes the first part of the work. There is then, at p. 228, a new title :
A Christian Diall; By which hee is directed, how to dispose of his houres while he is living, how to addresse himselfe for the houre of his dying, and how to close his dayes with a comfortable ending. Faithfully reridred according to the Originall.
This is dedicated as follows : " To the Generous, Ingenious, and Judi- cious Sir Walter Vavasor, Knight and Baronet ; together with his vertuously accomplished Lady : E. B. consecrates this Christian Diall.
To your Grand-father have I welcom bin, "Receive this Gage in memory of him ; Whilst no Sun-Diall may more truly give The houre o'th' day, than this the way to live.
To this part is prefixed " The Life of Johannes Justus Lanspergius, a Carthusian, the Author of these Meditations, entitled A Christian Diall." In this portion is also included " An Elegie of St. Dionysius, a Carthusian,"
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in verse ; " An Epistle of Ludovicus Blosius •" " Certaine choyce or select sayings of D. Henricus Snso ;" and other pieces. At p. 323 is the following dedication : "To his most deare and affectionate Sisters, their faithfull Bro- ther dedicates this Passionate Pilgrim ; as a living Memoriall of his unfained love never dying :
My teares, my joyes ; my widdow-weed, my Bride ; My prize, heav'ns praise ; my love, Christ crucifi'de."
And on the next page the title :
The Passionate Pilgrim ; Breathing a Contemplative Mans Exercise : Offering a Penitent Soules Sacrifice.
This is taken from St. Augustine. " Death's Memoriall," which follows, from Peter Damian, and " Death's Distinction" from St. Bernard.
At p. 345 is a head title :
Holy Memorials ; or Heavenly Mementos. Memor fui Domini, et delectatus sum.
These are ten in number, and are the most interesting portions of the volume, inasmuch as Brathwaite is believed to have here related the leading events of his own life, and in these memorials to have drawn his own character for the instruction and warning of others. A short extract or two from this part may therefore find acceptance with our readers. The first is from
Memoriall 1 V. Of Us Youth.
The easiest of my vanities were light amorous Poems. I held those, employments for my best houres. O what a prize, what a bootie, held I a favour snatcht from a light piece of beautie! My fortunes were not great, which enjoyned mee to a sparer expence. But if my small credit could supply what my fortunes wanted ; I stickt not much on the meanest commodities to make up that want. My melancholly ever proceeded from want of money. "While Boring was in request, I held it a complete fashion. For Civility, I held it for such a rag of unbeseeming Q-entrie, as I scorned to take acquaintance of it. I had long before this aspired to a pipe of rich smoake with a Tinder-box, and these gave light to my lighter discourses. I held my pockets sufficiently stored, if they could but bring mee off for mine Ordinarie, and after dinner purchase mee a stoole on the stage. I had cares enough besides hoording ; so as I held it fit to disburden my selfe of that, and resigne it over to the worldling. A long winter night seemed but a Midsummer nights dreame, being merrily past in a Catch of foure parts, a deep health to a light Mistresse, and a knot of brave blades to make up the Consort. I could jeere him to his face, whom I needed most, Ten at hundred, I meane ; and he would not stick to pay mee in mine owne coyne. I might beg a courtesie at his hands, but to starve for't never prevaile; for herein I found this instrument of usurie and the Devill to be of one Societie ; and that they craved
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nothing of any one, save onely Securitie. A weake blast of light fame, was a great part of that portion I aimed at. And herein was my madnesse. I held nothing so likely to make mee knowne to the world, or admired in it, as to be debauch't, and to purchase a Parasites praise by my riot. It is not in mee ; no, it is far from mee and my memorie, to recall to mind what miriads of houres that time mispended. Scarcely one poore minute can I bethinke mee on, wherein I did ought, or exprest my selfe in ought, that might redound to his honour, whom now in mine age I have only sought. How truly might I say in those daies, in those many evill daies, I had been secure, if Society had not made me impure ? And yet must I be enforced to retract this too, if I desire freely to lye open my selfe, and speake what is true. For of all those Consorts, whose company I used, I found no Consort worse than my selfe.
Memoriall VIII. His Labours.
Free-bred were my Studies : so as, Lap-wing like, with shell on head, I begun to write, before my yeares could well make mee aa Author. But hence my teares ! The Subjects I made choyce of, were of Love : to close with my fancie, which was verie light. I was proud in bearing the title of a Writer ; which, I must confesse, toge- ther with the instancie of such as either truly applauded mee, or deluded mee, made mee ambitious after the name of an Author. And what were those light Poems I then penned ; but such as are now pensive Odes to my dolorous soule, grieving to peruse what my youth so dearely loved ? O how familiar was I with Parnassus, Helicon, Hippocrene, and all the Muses ! Meane time I seldome or never thought of that heavenly Olympus, which crowns all vertuous Labours with true happinesse. It was the saying of an holy Father ; " Those studies which I once loved now condemne mee ; those which I sometimes praised now disparage mee." Far more cause have I to say, how those Labours which I once fancied, now afflict mee ; those which some- times delighted mee, now perplex mee. I am many times in company, where I heare some of my youthfull verses repeated ; and though I. doe neither owne them, nor praise them : yet must I in another place answer for them, if hee, on whom I depend, shall not in these teares which I shed, drowne the memory of them. For alas ! how many chaste eares have I offended, how many light eares have I corrupted with those unhappie workes which I have published ! What wanton measures have I writ for the nonc't, to move a light Curtezan to hugge my conceit ; and next her Venus and Adonis, or some other immodest toy, to lodge mee in her bosome ! Light stuffe, to be entertained in so flourishing a state ! O how the remembrance of these doe grieve me ! When that Talent, which might have beene employed to Gods glory, became a Forge of lightnesse and vanity ! O how much better had it beene for mee to bury it than to use it to his dishonour, who gave me it !
At the end is a leaf containing the Errata, and another with the following couplet closes the volume :
Both Hand and Heart are joyntly given ; My Hand subscribes, my Heart's for Heaven.
PART II. 3 G
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The book consists of 470 pages, besides the dedication and table, and the two leaves at the end, or 494 in all. We have been thus particular in describing this little volume, because it is a scarce work of Braithwaite's — and because both in Lowndes and in the Restituta, vol. ii. p. 286, where it is noticed by Mr. Park, it is imperfectly described ; and no mention is made of the curious engraved titlepage, which is no doubt by Marshall, the engraver of the titles of most of his other works.
The " IX Memorial!, His Life," is given entire by Mr. Park in the Resti- tuta. This is one of the most valuable and interesting portions, containing an account of his university career, in which he appears to have acquitted himself with credit ; his love of poetry and moral philosophy and essays ; his total disrelish of the study of the law, to which he was compelled by parental authority ; and his final settlement in the country on the family estate assigned to his use soon after the death of his father; where he married, and while pursuing the usual occupations of a country gentleman and acting as a magistrate, he wrote and published many of his works in prose and poetry. Whilst studying in the Inns of Court, Brathwaite relates that he was " moved sometimes to fit his buskind Muse for the stage, with other occasionall Presentments or Poems ; which, being free-borne and not mercenarie, received gracefull acceptance of all such as understood his ranke and qualitie. For so happily had he crept into opinion, as nothing was either presented by him to the Stage, or committed by him to the Presse, which past not with good approvement in the estimate of the world." Whatever pieces Brathwaite may have produced of a dramatic kind in his earlier days, nothing is now known of them, and they appear to be alto- gether lost. Probably they were only written for some masque or other slight temporary occasion.
The reader will look in vain for a copy of this little work in many of the catalogues of our most eminent collectors of early English literature, and it is still wanting among Brathwaite's works in the British Museum ; nor is it among the Malone or Douce collections in the Bodleian Library. It is how- ever to be found in that curious and most interesting collection, the Byrom Library at Kersal Cell.
Collation : Title If 2 ; Sig. IT twelve leaves, one blank, A to V 9, in twelves. In Blue Morocco elegant, gilt leaves, embossed.
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BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — The Psalmes of David the King and Prophet, and of other holy Prophets, paraphrased in English : Conferred with the Hebrew Veritie, set forth by B. Arias Montanus, together with the Latine, Greek Septuagint, and Chaldee Paraphrase. By U. B.
London, Printed by Robert Young, for Francis Constable, and are to be sold at his shop under S. Martins Church neere Ludgate. 1638. 12mo.
Notwithstanding the remarks of Mr. Holland in The Psalmists of Britain against ascribing this work to Brathwaite, and in favour of the claim of a certain R. Burnaby, because the former gave forth three several works in the same year, and employed in each different printers and publishers, we are fully disposed to agree with Mr. Haslewood in attributing this version of the Psalms to Richard Brathwaite. The circumstance there mentioned by Mr. Holland of an inscription to Bishop Andrews at the end of a copy of the book in the Lambeth Library, which speaks of his having begun the work under the auspices of his tutor Bishop Andrews, strongly confirms this claim, it being believed that during his sojourn at Cambridge, Brathwaite's tutor there was Dr. Lancelot Andrews, afterwards Bishop of Winchester. Mr. Haslewood has also stated some further reasons in favour of Brath- waite's claim to its authorship, which serve to strengthen this belief; and it is usually placed among his works.
It has an engraved frontispiece by Will. Marshall, containing the title in an oval in the centre, with an inscription in Greek from Psal. 1. 14; small oval half figures of David, Moses, and Asaph at the top ; various musical instruments on each side ; at the bottom outside similar figures of Heman and ^Ethan ; and below the title a small oval portrait intended for the author, laconically subscribed Quanquam 6. He is represented as advanced in life, with a high forehead and beard, and a plaited ruff. The only prefix is a leaf with a list of "The Authors observed in this Paraphrase," and "The Titles of the Psalmes, as they are in the Originall." They are divided into five books, and there is added at the end from Apollinarius a long Psalm, "The Combat of David with Goliah," called the 151st Psalm.
As this version of the Psalms is scarce, and not much known, we subjoin an extract or two, which may be compared by our readers with versions from the same Psalms by other authors :
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Psalm XVIII. v. 7-14.
Then shook the trembling earth for feare,
the hills foundations mov'd : And at his presence troubled were,
because his wroth reprov'd. A storme of smoake before him came,
which from his nostrils fum'd ; And fire out of his mouth did flame,
that, where it came, consum'd. He bow'd the Heav'ns, and made his Throne
with earth his foot-stoole meet : Beneath the dreadfull light that shone
lay darknesse at his feet. A Cherub-chariot did him beare,
whose plumes he made his saile ;
The winds his winged-coursers were,
and darknesse was his vaile. Darke his pavillion, darke the skie,
darke waters, duskie clouds, Compose an aerie canopie,
wherein himselfe he shrowds. The brightnesse of his presence tooke
the melting clouds in chace 5 With haile and coales hot-burning strooke,
they fled before his face. The Lord from Heav'n in thunder spoke ;
his voice that is most hie, With stormes of haile made earth to smoake,
and coales of fire to flie.
Psalm XXIII.
My Shepheard is the Lord, whose care
provides mee fold and food : Whose gooduesse plenteous, and to spare,
supplies my want of good. In pastures green he makes mee lye,
and softly lodge my side : He leads mee forth, where pleasantly
the streams of stillnesse glide. He doth returne my soule againe,
and for his owne Names sake, Conduct mee through the beaten plaine,
that Justice treads to make.
Walk't I the shady vale of death,
none evill could I feare : Thy rod, thy stafle, relieve my breath,
for thou art with mee there. My table spread dost thou appoint
in presence of my foes : My head with oile thou dost anoint,
my chalice over-flowes. With goodnesse sure shall mercie give
an eye to all my waies ; And in the Lords house shall I live,
beyond the length of daies.
Psalm Downe sate we by the rivers side
that waters Babels wall : To raise whose streames, a springing tide
of teares our eyes let fall. Eemembring Sion in our vowes,
our uselesse Harps we hung Upon amidst the willow boughes,
as slightly tun'd as strung. For they that led us captives there,
requir'd of us a song ;
CXXXVII.
A Sion- song (said) let us heare
these moanes, some mirth among. O no ! nor harp we have, nor hand,
nor voice to straine, nor string : Our Sion-song, in Shinar-land,
song of the Lord to sing. If, O Jerusalem, I set
no more by thee than so j Let my right hand her skill forget
my voice her song forgoe.
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My tongue fast to my palate cling, Thou Daughter, Babel, laidst us waste,
and never tune employ, thy selfe shalt wasted be :
If ought I doe but Salem sing, O happy ! that as done thou hast
the Soveraigne of my joy. to us, shall doe to thee.
Be mindfull, Lord, of Edens sons, O happy ! that thy little ones
who said on Salems day, from mothers breasts shall rash,
Eaze, Eaze, to her foundations, And (pitilesse) against the stones
with earth her levell lay. their braines in pieces dash.
At the end of the Psalms are these lines by the author :
Praise to the God of Heaven
Be given by mee a Worme,
That Davids numbers in this forme, To mee a Worme hath given. R. B.
A leaf containing quotations from Arias Montanus and Dr. John Rainold, Oxon., in praise of the Psalms, and the inscription to Bishop Andrews by the author mentioned before, and another leaf of Errata conclude the volume. See Holland's Psalmists of Britain^ vol. i. p. 291 ; Dr. Cotton's List of Editions of the Psalms, p. 66; and Haslewood's Introd. vol. i. p. 357; Dr. Bliss's sale, pt. ii. No. 1511, 3l. 5s. There is a copy in the Library at Lambeth, and at Sion College.
Collation : Title A 2 ; Sig A to N 12 (last leaf blank), in twelves. In Blue Morocco elegant, gilt leaves, embossed.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — Ar't asleep Husband? A Boulster Lecture ; Stored with, all variety of witty jeasts, merry tales, and other pleasant passages; Extracted from the choicest flowers of Philosophy, Poesy, antient and moderne History. Illustrated with Examples of incomparable constancy, in the excellent History of Philocles and Doriclea. By Philogenes Panedonius.
O nox longa ! — Hor.
London, Printed by R. Bishop, for R. B. or his Assignees. 1640. 8vo.
Another of the anonymous works first appropriated to Brathwaite by Mr. Haslewood, in which there cannot be a doubt that he was right, as
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independently of the internal evidence, reference is made in the work at p. 201 to one of Brathwaite's acknowledged pieces, and some short copies of verses are introduced into the present volume which first appeared in the Strappado for the Divell. It is embellished with an engraved frontispiece by Will. Marshall, headed " A Boulster Lecture," representing a husband and wife in bed, the wife wakening her husband, with a label from her mouth inscribed " Dum loquor ista taces" and the husband with another, " Surdo canis" and these lines underneath :
This wife a wondrous racket meanes to keepe,
While th' Husband seemes to sleepe but does not sleepe :
But she might full as well her Lecture smother,
For ent'ring one Eare, it goes out at t'other.
Many copies also contain another print exhibiting an altar, on which is a perforated vessel of fire blown up by Cupid with a pair of bellows, with two flaming hearts at the top. At the bottom are two lovers kneeling before the altar, with labels issuing, from him " Cupid retire, what wouldst desire ?" and from her " Our flaming hearts are both a fire." This plate is usually found at p. 246, and forms also an embellishment of the next work, The Two Lancashire Lovers, at p. 246.
The work commences with " The Epistle Dedicatory" —
To all modest Dames
From Twede unto Thames, Who prize their good names above Nectar ;
With a PapJiian kisse
Doe I tender them this To silence a Canopy Lectwre.
To you, this Booke may well addressed bee Since none from Bolster Lectures is more free : Be you then patronesse without offence, And with a smile returne me recompence.
Then a short address, half verse, half prose, " To his Dainty Doxes," and a list of "The Subjects whereof it treats." These are divided into nine sections as follows: — "1. The Excellency of Women in their Creation. 2. Their imitable vertues, illustrated with examples. 3. Their moderation of Passion. 4. Their Continency in assaults. 5. Their modesty in Count'nance, Habits, and expression of their Affection. 6. The violence of some Women used upon such as were Corrivals in their Choice, inlarged with memorable Examples. 7. Their modest defence, to allay those pas-
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sionate extreames discovered in the former Subjects. 8. Their witty Aphorismes, Apothegmes, and Answers. 9. Their eminent Labours : And how they were Assistants in the exquisitest Workes that have beene formerly composed, either for History or Poesy. Every one of which Subjects you shall finde interveined with choice variety of pleasing Tales, and delightfull Stories, to comply with the Fancy of the most curious and censorious Reader." Next ensues "A Table, or Apt Disposure, both in Number and Order, of all such material Points, Tales, and Stories, as are here related, or familiarly couched in this Boulster Lecture." This is very copious, and extends to forty pages. The work is in prose, interspersed with a few short pieces in verse, and evinces the classical taste and exten- sive reading of Brathwaite. It is, however, like the Strappado for the Divell and some other of his works, disfigured by much indelicacy and grossness of expression. We introduce one of the short poems from the Section on Speech, which is styled " The Tale of a Joviall good fellow, who arm'd himselfe with barley broath against his Wifes shrewd tongue. His fearefull vision in his midnights wandring.
A man there was, who liv'd a merry life,
Till in the end he tooke to him a Wife -3
One that no image was (for shee could speake)
And now and then her husbands costrell breake :
So fierce she was and furious, as in summe
She was an arrant Devill of her tongue.
This drove the poor man to a discontent,
And oft and many times did he repent,
That e're hee chang'd his former quiet state,
But 'las, repentance then did come too late.
No cure he findes to cure this maladie,
But makes a vertue of necessitie ;
The common cure for care to every man,
A potte of nappy Ale ; where he began
To fortifie his braine 'gainst all should come,
'Mongst which the clamour of his wives loud tongue.
This habit graffed in him grew so strong,
That when he was from Ale, an houre seem'd long
So well hee lik'd th' profession : on a time
Having staid long at pot, (for rule nor line
Limits no drunkard) even from Morne to Night,
He hasted home a pace, by the Moone-light :
Where as he went, what phantasies were bred,
I doe not know, in his distempered head,
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But a strange Ghost appear'd, and forc'd him stay,
With which perplext, hee thus began to say :
" Good Spirit, if thou be, I need no charme,
" For well I know, thou wilt not doe mee harme ;
" And if the Devill ; sure, mee thou shouldst not hurt,
" I wed't thy Sister, and am plagued for't."
The Spirit well approving what he said,
Dissolv'd to ayre, and quickly vanished. — (p. 92.)
At the end of the Boulster Lecture are some verses, " Menippvs his Madrigal], to his Coy-cluck Clarabel ;" and a poem called " Loves Festivall, at Lvsts Fvnerall." The volume concludes with " A Postscript, Writte by an Auditor, upon hearing this Lecture," and a list of Errata. The former is a curious and humorous piece, chiefly in rhyming verse, although printed as prose. It is given entire in Haslewood's Introd. p. 379. Gilchrist's sale, No. 73, 2/. 2s. ; Skegg's, No. 189, 2L 10s. ; Nassau's, pt. i. No. 314, 31. 6s. ; Colonel Stanley's, No. 675, 4/. 16s.; Gardner's, No. 102, 51.; Dr. Bliss's, pt. i. No. 428, 61. 15s.
Collation : Sig. a b and c in eights, containing the title, subject and table. Then B to X 8, in eights (last leaf blank) ; Y four leaves ; Z two ditto. The last six leaves unpaged ; pp. 378 in all.
The present very fine copy (formerly Mr. Haslewood's) has a portrait of Brathwaite, with his arms inserted, and has The Two Lancashire Lovers bound up with it.
In Dark Green Morocco, gilt leaves.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — The Two Lancashire Lovers; or, The Excellent History of Philocles and Doriclea. Expressing the faithfull constancy and mutual! fidelity of two loyall Lovers. Stored with no lesse variety of discourse to delight the Generous, then of serious advice to instruct the Amorous. By Musseus Palatinus.
Pereo, si taceo.
London, Printed by Edward Griffin. For R. 3$, or his Assig- nes. 1640. 8vo.
It would appear from the title to the preceding volume that the Excellent History of Philocles and Doriclea was intended to be annexed to that work
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as an example of faithful constancy, and is so bound up with it in the present copy ; but it has separate paging and signatures, and is more fre- quently found as a volume by itself. It has an engraved title before the printed one, containing at the top the first portion of the printed title, and below, within two drawn curtains, are two hands supporting a double heart, from which proceeds a label inscribed " This holy vow, Makes one of two." At the bottom on a small tablet is the imprint. A short dedication " To his truly generovs and ludiciovs Friend Alexander Rigby Esq. Clarke of the Crown for the County Palatine of Lancaster, signed Alexandrophilus ;" and " The Argument," or table of contents, precede the tale, the scene of which is laid " neare to that ancient Towne of famous and time-honoured Gaunt; for her antiquity of Site no lesse memorably recorded, then for those eminent actions of her princely progenitors renowned :" i.e. Lancaster. The story is thought by some to have been founded on fact, according to the observation of the author himself upon it on the last page, "whose ground-colour is truth, and consequently deserves to be entertained with more trust;" but this appears rather doubtful. It is interspersed with a few short pieces of poetry, of which the lines below form one, headed
Restrained PMlocles to Doriclea. Grieve not, my Deare, that I am here restiein'd, Mine heart lives there, though I be here confin'd ; Cloath that is dy'd in graine can nere be stain'd, Nor can occurrents shake a constant minde. Let me in thee but such a freedome nude j
And then let Fates, Friends, Fortunes, all repine,
I shall Doriclea^ s be, Doriclea mine.
At p. 161 is another, which is repeated in his comment on Chaucer, termed
Love's Description.
Love, what's thy name ? aphrensie; whence thy birth ? From Heaven ; how conies it then thou lives on Earth ? I live not there ; yet e'ch usurps thy name : 'Tis true indeed, »but hence redounds their shame ! I live not there, my Nature's pure and just, But lust lives there, and love's a foe to lust.
At p. 246 is the plate of the two lovers kneeling before the altar, men- tioned before, which may equally suit any love story of a similar kind. There are a few pleasing passages in the story, which after relating various
FART II. $ H
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trials and difficulties undergone by the heroine and her tutor, ends in the marriage of Philocles and Doriclea. On p. 18 is an attempt at what has been supposed to be intended as a specimen of the Lancashire dialect, but with not the slightest pretension to any affinity with the genuine language of Tim Bobbin. At the end of the volume on the last page is the usual notice of the Errata, with these lines underneath :
Non tot hyberno defluunt folia Quot numero referunt errores folia.
See Collier's Bridgew. Gated, p. 36 ; and Haslewood's Introd. p. 385 ; Nassau's sale, pt. i. No. 316, ll. 5s.
Collation : Title A 2 ; Sig. A to S 8 (last leaf blank), in eights ; pp. 268, exclusive of the introductory portion, or 284 in all.
Fine copy. Bound up with the preceding. In Dark Green Morocco, gilt leaves.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — The Two Lancashire Lovers : or, The Excellent History of Philocles and Doriclea. Expressing &c.
Pereo si taceo.
London, Printed by Edward Griffin. For R. B. or his Assignees. 1640. 8vo.
Another copy of this tale, which differs in the imprint from the above in the engraved title, " London Printed by E. G. for R. Best and are to be sould at his shop neare Graies Inn gate in Houlburne," thus showing that the R. B. is intended for R. Best the publisher, and not for R. Brathwaite the author.
The present beautiful copy came from the Mainwaring Library at Peover Hall, Cheshire, and is
In the original Brown Calf binding, red sprinkled edges.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — The Penitent Pilgrim.
Psal. 66, 16.
Come and hearken all ye that feare God, and I will tell you what he hath done to my soule.
London, Printed by lohn Dawson, and are to be sold by lohn Williams at the signe of the Crane in Pauls Church- yard. 1641. ISrno; pp. 468.
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To Mr. Haslewood must be assigned the merit of first appropriating The Penitent Pilgrim to the pen of Brathwaite, its legitimate author; and he has included it in his list of that writer's works. It appears clear from the style and manner of the composition, and from some peculiarities in the language, that it was the undoubted production of that voluminous writer. It is embellished with an engraved frontispiece by Marshall, representing the Penitent Pilgrim barefooted, with his bottle and staff, and scallop shell in his hat, and an inscription underneath : " Few and evill have the dayes of my life been. Gen. cap. 47, v. 9." It is dedicated " To that Immacu- late Lambe Christ Jesus ; the sole Saviour and Receiver of every penitent Sinner ;" and is preceded by " The Pilgrims Prayer." The Table of Con- tents, or, as it is termed, " The Summe, or Graduall Symptome of the Penitent Pilgrim," is divided into seventy-five Chapters, the final one con- taining " The poore penitent Pilgrims last Will and Testament." In these Chapters are related his various encounters with the world, and his combats with the flesh and the devil, his transgressions of the commandments, and his other sins and temptations; and at the end of each chapter is the Pilgrim's confession of Penitence.
The work is entirely in prose with the exception of a short poem of six stanzas at the end after "His Obsequies," on "His Grave-stone," which we give :
He whom here this Stone do's cover, Whilest hee lived was no other Then a Pilgrim and your Brother, But too long the Worlds Lover. Would yee know that course of his ? In an Abstract, it was this.
Long in Idumcea living, Rich in favour, fortune, fame, Strong in power to shield the same, Never losing, ever thriving ; He esteem'd himselfe sole-blest In those treasures he possest.
Mines and Magazins of gaine, Various objects of delight Sported with his appetite, Till those Guests hee'd entertaine Made him to consider well Earth was but the Sinners Cell,
Pride first rais'd him to a Cedar, Avarice made him hug his treasure, Envy pin'd him beyond measure, Wrath became his passion leader, Riot cramm'd him, Lust belull'd him, Sloath by seazing on him, dull'd him.
Thus environ'd, reft of rest,
Solace, Soule, Society,
Till Faith, Hope, and Charity
Ee-possest him of a Guest,
Which those Guests he pamper'd so
Had before estranged him to.
Seas thus calm'd, and stormes appeas'd, To discover his content, He makes his Will and Testament, Which if (Christians) yee be pleas'd To partake her, come with full eyes To solemnize his Obsequies.
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The last leaf contains a list of " Errata," headed with this quaint couplet :
No place but is of Errors rife, In labours, lectures, leafes, lines, life.
See Hasle wood's Introd. to Barnabees Journal^ p, 394. A copy of this work sold in Bright's sale, No. 679, for 6l. 8s. 6d.
Collation: Title A 2; Sig. A to T 11, in twelves. Bound by Hayday. In Brown Calf, red edges.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — Astraea's Teares. An Elegie upon the death of that Reverend, Learned and Honest Judge, Sir Richard Hutton Knight ; Lately one of his Majesties Justices in his Highnesse Court of Common Plees at Westminster. [Woodcut of a Skeleton.] London, Printed by T. H. for Philip Nevil, and are to be sold at his Shop in Ivie Lane, at the signe of the Gun. 1641. Small 8vo; pp. 110.
•One of Brathwaite's rarest productions, and valuable when complete, as is the present copy, with the scarce frontispiece supposed to be by Marshall, containing an excellent full-length portrait of the Judge in his robes, in a recumbent attitude, as represented on his monument, a view of which is given. In the centre, through an arch, is seen an arm issuing from the clouds, encircled by a scroll, on which are the words " Farewell, Honest Judge." Over this, on the pediment, in inscribed in capital letters, " Vale Pauperis optime Praeses ;" while below, in the centre, is another inscription of a similar kind, " Vale Debilis alme Satelles." Above are the arms of the Judge, and leaning on each side of the architrave are figures of Justice and Mercy. The work commences with two short poetical dedications "To my worthily-accomplished and most endeared Cosin, Sir Richard Hutton Knight," and " To my truly-esteemed and highly-respected Cosin, Thomas Hutton Esquire ; a Member of the Honourable Society of Grais-Inne." These were the two sons of the judge, who died February 26, 1638. At the end of the first part of the volume, containing the Elegy upon the death of Sir Richard Hutton, are three Epitaphs: 1. "Upon the death of another Reverend, learned, and judicious Patriot of our Nation ; One no lesse nobly descended, then richly endowed : and one, whom in the dispensation of Justice, neither price, prayer, nor power could surprize ; Passion transport, nor Affection ingage." This was George Vernon, who died December 16,
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1639. 2. "To the unperished memory of the Honourable Richard Mollineux, Viscount Mollineux of Mariburg : — a Funerall Teare." 3. "To the pious memory of that judicious Patriot of his Countrey, Sir Christopher Dalston Knight. A Friends Farewell."
The second portion of the volume embraces quite a different subject, and commences with a fresh titlcpage, as follows :
Panaretes Triumph : or, Hymens Heavenly Hymne.
Pseana cantat Hymen; taceat lachrymabile Carmen.
8vo. London. Imprint and date as before.
Brathwaite seems to have made a practice, after the death of his wife, of celebrating in verse each year's anniversary of his espousal with the Heli- conian Muse under the name of Panarete. And as in 1635 he had pub- his "Second Yeeres anniversarie" by the title of Anniversaries upon his Panarete Continued, so the present, according to a marginal note at the commencement, was " The Sixt yeares Anniversarie :"
The sixt Bemove that funer all-pile ; now six whole yeares annivers. Have beene the Nursing-mothers of my teares.
These rivell'd furrowes of mine aged cheeke
Have writ griefes characters exceeding deepe.
But what's perpetuall cannot mix with earth,
Joyes must partake with teares, and teares with mirth.
The following lines possess considerable merit, and are worth extracting from this poem :
So have I seene the Sunne his beauty shroud And suddenly breake from a sable cloud With an imperiall splendor, but that beame Became the true forerunner of a streame.
So have I seene Plants in a forward Spring With bloomes and blossomes lively flourishing ; Yet long before th' imbroder'd Spring were done Those Plants were seer'd, and all their blossoms gone.
So have I seene a glorious Starre appeare, As if sole Empresse of that Hemispheare, Darting her twinkling lights, and marching round Contract her Orbe, and fall upon the ground.
So have I seene a manly spirit fight With death so long as Oyle afforded light, Nay smile upon his visitants, and say, " I hope e're long, my friends, to have the day j" Yet see vaine hopes ! before next enter-breath He proves these were but lightnings 'fore his death.
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The following admirable description of the fallacious and short-lived grief of a widow on the death of her husband, will probably remind the reader of the story of the Ephesian matron of old :
There be some widdowes too, who stand in need
Of our Conserves of teares to suit their weed,
That seeming weed of Sorrow : these belye
Their sable habits with a teare-forc'd eye :
And like those brave ^Egyptian modest Dames
Whose chaste-bequeathed breasts such love inflames,
As when their breathlesse husbands buried be
They strive which may have precedencie
To be interred with them : So doe these
With unamated courage strongly prease
Towards their Husbands graves : where they appeare
All Niolees ; clasping the fatall Beare
With an affected zeale ; and to ingrave
More sceanes of sorrow leape into his Grave
As if they'd be enshrin'd (though nought lesse ment)
In the cold bosome of that Monument.
Yet has not one poor worme undone a stitch
Of his fresh-funerall Shroud ; no, nor that pitch
Which seer'd his Coffin flaw'd ; no, nor one flower
Which beautifide his Hearse decay'd in power ;
No, nor that late provision which should
Refresh hisformall Mourners, scarcely cold,
Till her decreasing griefes suggest unto her
Another hopefull, youthfull, active wooer
To raise her a new progeny ; which done
She holds joyes past compar'd with joyes to come
Fall short in estimate : She wonders much
How any womans passion should be such
As to imbrace an Husband that is dead,
When th' world's so well supplide, it can bestead
Her choice of such a choice selected one,
'Twere madnesse to lament for him that's gone.
At the end of this poem are two leaves, the first containing a few lines " Upon this Poem," in which, in allusion to his espousal to the Muse, the subject of " Panaretes Triumph," to whom he addressed his " heavenly Hymn," the author says of her —
Whose presence yeelds such solace to my life, I would not change with Overberie's wife.
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The last leaf contains a few more lines entitled " Astrsea's Shrine." This volume is known to be the production of Brathwaite from the circumstance to which we have already alluded in our account of this author's Strappado for the Divell" of his being the God-son, and probably relation of Judge Hutton. In the dedication of the present work to the Judge's eldest son, Sir Richard Hutton Knight, he calls him " my most endeared Cosin," and thus alludes to the father :
Let us then joy ne our Funerall Odes in one, His dearest G-od-sonne with his Eldest Sonne.
And he again alludes to this in the second line of the " Elegie" upon Judge Hutton, Sig. D 6 :
Ar't gone just Judge ? yet e're thou go'st from hence
Receive thy God-sonnes teares in recompence
Of many Blessings thou bestow' d of him, &c.
So at p. 54 of his Strappado for the Divell is an Epigram inscribed to " the Right Worshipfull Rich. Hutlon Sergeant at Lawe," in which the following lines occur :
Who should I flie to (Sir ?) but unto you That are a Sergeant, and has power to place Your G-od-sonne free from any Sergeants Mace ?
which clearly identifies Brathwaite as the author of this little work, inde- pendently of the similarity of style and expression with his other acknow- ledged productions. The volume is ornamented throughout with neat woodcut borders at the top and bottom of the page, and occasionally with emblems of mortality. Sir Egerton Brydges has omitted this work in the list which he has given of Brathwaite's publications in the second volume of Archaica, probably from being ignorant of its real author. It is an extremely rare book, and we have looked in vain through most of the principal sale catalogues for a copy; the only ones we can find being Nassau's, pt. i. No. 317, which had not the frontispiece but another portrait inserted, and sold for I/. 19s. ; Heber's, pt. iv. No. 210, also without the portrait, which sold for the same sum ; and a perfect copy in Woodhouse's collection, which sold in 1803 for 4/. 14s. Qd. The present is a remarkably clean and beautiful copy, with a brilliant impression of the frontispiece from the collection of Sir Francis Freeling Bart., and had cost its late proprietor 71. 7s.
Collation : Title A 2; Sig. A four leaves; B to H 4, in eights; pp. 110. Bound in Crimson Morocco, with joints — gilt leaves.
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BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — An Epistle directed to all Justices of Peace in England and Wales. And presented to the High. Court of Parliament by K. B. London, Printed for M. S. 1642. 4to.
On the titlepage of this pamphlet is a neat woodcut portrait of King Charles I., with his crown and sceptre. The Epistle is addressed " To the Watchfull Eyes in this our state, the worthy Justices, Imprisoners of Malefactors, and Preservers of peace ; that peace is wished which passeth all understanding, with the zeale of God, in due execution of Justice against the enemies of Christ, and our countrey." It is a violent invective against the Priests and Jesuits, and other followers of the Church of Eome, conse- quent upon the Popish Plot in the reign of James I. ; in which it is attempted to be proved that " conformity to the Oath of allegiance and other outward formall satisfactions of the State, concurring with a resolution to continue in Poperie, is farre more pernicious to the State, then open and profest Recusancie." In the course of his argument the author's zeal for his suhject leads him to advance a statement which was often repeated at that period, but for which there was no real ground of truth. " To let passe," says he, "infinite more of very speciall, and materiall ponderations to this purpose ; consider, I pray you, but this one point, with feeling apprehensions, which is able to inflame the heart of an ingenuous Heathen with extraordinary indignation. I am perswaded, there was not a Papist in this land, whatsoever may be pretended, or protested to the contrary, but did heartily rejoyce at the taking away of that thrice, nay thousand times noble and blessed Prince, of sweetest memory, for which the heart of every true Subject did shead most worthily even teares of blood." A report was spread abroad at the time that Prince Henry was poisoned, but there is no doubt that he died of a malignant putrid fever.
We have classed this tract among the works of Brathwaite, but with some degree of hesitation, both from the difference of style as compared with his other writings, and from the violence of the sentiments inculcated ; although Mr. Rodd, the late eminent bookseller, a diligent and critical reader and admirer of the works of Brathwaite, was of opinion that it was written by him; and so also was Mr. Hasle\vood, although he has not included it in his list of Brathwaite's publications.
Collation: Sig. A to B 4, in fours; pp. 16. Mr. Haslewood's copy. Half-bound in Calf.
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BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — Barnabse Itinerarium, Mirtili et Faustuli nominibus insignitum : Viatoris Solatio nuperrime editum, aptissimis numeris redactum, veterique Tono Bar- nabse publice decantatum. Authore Corymbseo.
Efficit egregios nobilis alia viros.
Barnabees Journal, Under the Names of Mirtilus and Faustulus shadowed: for the Travellers Solace lately pub- lished, to most apt numbers reduced, and to the old Tune of Barnabe commonly chanted. By Corymbaeus. The oyle of Malt and juyce of spritely nectar Have made my Muse more valiant than Hector. No place, printer's name or date. (Circa 1638.) Sm. 8vo.
After having gone through six editions, and various conjectures having been made respecting the mysterious author of Barnabees Journal, which by some was attributed to a Barnaby Harrington, and by others to William Bosworth, it was finally reserved to Mr. Haslewood to find the key which should unlock this mystery, and to be the successful discoverer of the author of this humorous and celebrated work. By a careful consideration of some of Brathwaite's peculiarities, more especially relating to the Errata at the end of his known and avowed publications, the similarity to which in the present volume showing a coincidence not likely to have happened from chance, Mi% Haslewood was first led to the discovery, which was afterwards sufficiently confirmed by other convincing evidence. So that it is now satisfactorily proved beyond all doubt that to Richard Brath- waite must be assigned the authorship of this popular and entertaining work.
The present is the first edition, and was supposed by Mr. Haslewood, from the style of the ornaments used, to have been printed by John Haviland, who was also the printer of another work by Brathwaite of the same period, and to have been published about 1648 or 1650. Mr. Yeowell has since shown from the registers of the Stationers' Company that it was entered there by Haviland on the 7th June, 1638. (See Notes and Queries, second series, vol. x. p. 423.) It has an engraved frontispiece by Marshall, exhibiting Barnabee enjoying himself in the porch of an inn, with a lighted match in his right hand and a long pipe in his left, from which issues a label marked " Sic omnia fumus." Before him is a table, on the left side
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of which is a parcel tied across with a string inscribed " Omnia mea mecum porto;" a roll of tobacco in the centre, labelled " Siccum et humidum/' and on the right an empty can inscribed " Datur vacuum ergo falleris." In the background appears his horse saddled and grazing, and a view of the distant country. This frontispiece was considerably altered in the next and succeeding editions.
The work commences with some lines " Loyall Pheander to his Royall Alexander ;" and others, " Upon this Worke," " To the Traveller," " To the Translator," u The Index of this Work," and a closing distich, each occupying a separate page. The first part begins on Sig. B 1, and at the end of this are four lines "Upon Bacchus Bush and Barnabees Nose, an Epigram, or Nose-twitching Dilemme •" and a " Corollarie." Each part has a separate title. At the end of the second part are some lines " Upon the Errata's," and a Sapphic verse, " Jam Venus Vinis," &c. The fourth part ends on Sig. Dd 3, after which are some leaves occupied with another distich ; lines " Upon the Errata's" (three pages) ; " To Philoxenus ;" the song of " Bessie Bell ;" and the volume closes with two more pages on the Errata.
The Latin text of Brathwaite's poem is considered very superior to the English version, which being only a translation, is without the spirit and force of the original. The terseness, vigour and excellence of the author's Latin verse — his sprightly humour and keenness of satire — his acquaint- ance with the history and local customs of the places he visited — his vivacity, wit and gaiety, — and his varied and classical reading, all prove him to be a writer of no mean or common stamp. " As the author of Barnabees Journal" justly observes his latest editor, " it will scarcely be denied that he possesses a native and unsophisticated wit and humour, a perspicuity of expression, a dance of imagery, and a facility of metre which rank him with those whose talents are calculated to rise above the casual attractions derived from the manners of a single generation, and to command the notice and praise of every age."
The number of editions through which the work has gone since its first appearance sufficiently testifies the popular nature and attractions of the Itinerary ; so that from a work so well known as this, it will be unne- cessary to offer any lengthened extracts beyond a simple passage from both versions as specimens of the author's poetical style and ease of versifi- cation :
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Barnabce Itinerarium.
Pars quarta.
Armentarius jam sum factus, E-ure manens incoactus, Suavis odor lucri tenet, Parum euro unde venit, Campo, choro, tecto, thoro, Caula, cella, sylva, foro.
Equestria Fora. Yeni Malton, artem laudo, Vendens Equum sine cauda, Morbidum, mancum, claudum, csecum, Forte si maneret mecum, Probo, vendo, pretium datur, Quid si statim moriatur ?
Ad forensem Rippon tendo, Equi si sint cari, vendo, Si minore pretio dempti, Equi a me erunt empti ; "Utalacriorfiatille, " Ilia mordicant anguillse."
Septentrionalia Fora. Veni Pomfrait, uberem veuam, Yirgis laserpitiis plenam ; Yeni Topclijfe cum sodali, Non ad Yinum sed Yenale ; Yeni ThyrsJce, ubi Boves Sunt venales pinguiores.
Yeni Allerton Isetam, latam, Mercatori perquam gratam, In utiliorem actum, Eligo locum pecori aptum ; Yeni Darlington, servans leges In custodiendo greges.
Inde Middlam cursum flecto Spe lucrandi tramite recto, Nullum renuens laborem, Q.usestus sapiens odorem ; " Nulla via modo vera, " Est ad bonos mores sera."
Barnalees Journal.
Fourth part.
I am now become a Drover, Countrey-liver, Countrey-lover, Smell of gaine my sense benummeth, Little care I whence it commeth, Bee't from Campe, chore, cottage, carpet, Field, fold, cellar, forrest, market.
Horse Faires.
To Malton come I, praising th' saile Sir, Of a horse without a taile Sir, Be he maim'd, lam'd, blind, diseased, If I sell him, I'm well pleased ; Should this Javell dye next morrow, I partake not in his sorrow.
Then to Eippon I appeare there, To sell horse if they be deare there, If good cheape, I use to buy them, And ith' Countrey profit by them ; " Where to quicken them, I'le tell ye, " I put quick Eeles in their bellie.
Northern Faires.
Thence to Pomfrait, freshly flowred, And with rods of Licorice stored ; Thence to Topcliffe with my fellow, Not to bouze Wine but to sell-lo ; Thence to TkyrsJce where Bullocks grazed, Are for sale ith' market placed.
Thence to Allerton, cheerefuU, fruitfull, To the Seller very gratefull, There to chuse a place I'm chariest, Where my beasts may shew the fairest ; Thence to Darlington, never swerving, From our Drove-lawes, worth observing.
Thence to Middlam am I aiming, In a direct course of gaining, I refuse no kind of labour, Where I smell some gainfull savour ; " No way, be it ne're the homeliest, " Is rejected being honest."
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This edition varies considerably from the later impressions, which have been much altered and modernized. The reader may consult further Dibdin's Libr. Comp. vol. ii. p. 197 and p. 289 ; and Liter. Reminisc. vol. i. p. 424 ; Lowndes's Eibliogr. Man. vol. i. p. 246 ; and Haslewood's edition, 1820, vol. i. p. 36, &c. ; and vol. ii. Copies of this rare edition have sold at Dent's sale, pt. i. No. 248, for 31. 18s.; Utterson's, No. 119, 4/. 10s.; Heber's, pt. iv. No. 211, 61. 6s.; Nassau's, pt. i. No. 305, 11. ; Gardner's, No. 96, 71.; Hibbert's, No. 1080, 71. 12s. 6d.; and White Knights, No. 229, 8/. 10s. Dibdin mentions that a perfect copy has been sold for 16/.
Collation : Sig. A to Ee 8, in eights. Bound by Roger Payne. In Russia, elaborately tooled, gilt leaves.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — Drunken Barnaby' s Four Journeys to the North of England. In Latin and English Metre. Wittily and merrily (tho* an Hundred Years ago) composed : found among some old musty Books that had lain a long time by in a Corner, and now at last made publick. Together with Bessy Bell.
Hie est quern quaeris, ille quern requiris, Toto notus in Orbe Britannus. — Mart.
Barnabas Ebrius.
The Third Edition; illustrated with several New Copper Cuts. London Printed for S. Illidge, under Serle's Gate Lincolns-Inn New-Square. 1723. 8vo.
The reader will perceive that the present edition has an entire change of title, which probably was thought by the publisher a more popular one than the former. It was first adopted in the second edition. It contains also a new " Preface to the Reader" in English and Latin, in which the work is ascribed to a Barnaby Harrington, a graduate of Queen's College, Oxford, and the same man, of whom the song says —
Hey Barnaby ! take 't for a warning, Be no more drunk, nor dry in a morning.
This impression has not the lines " Upon this work," p. 7 ; those " Upon the Errata's" at the end of the first edition are here transferred to the beginning ; and the prose address to the Reader, and the Errata at the end
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of the former one, are both omitted, an index being added in their place. It has a general title, but not those before each of the four parts, the mottoes to which are placed at the end of the fourth Journey, before the song of Bessy Bell. The text is considerably altered and modernized.
The frontispiece to this edition is reversed from right to left. At the top is a broad label, with the words " Barnabse Itinerarium ;" on that issuing from the pipe, " Sic transit" &c. ; on that from the roll of tobacco, " Fumus et umbra sumus ;" and on the parcel, in the four divisions, " Ede Elbe Sta Lude." The new copper cuts are engraved by J. Clark, and are prefixed to each part, viz. : Part I. The Puritan hanging the cat from the end of a broom stuck into a post. II.* Barnaby carried in state by the two porters from the Cock at Budworth. III. Barnaby sleeping on the hay-cock, carried down the stream from Wansforth-briggs. IV. Examining the horse without a tail. V. Barnaby taking leave of the hostess at the Bell at the inn door, inscribed " Bessy Bell." This is altered from the only plate given in the second edition. The present impression is rendered more interesting by the insertion of the cuts, and is more commonly met with than any of the others. There are copies printed on fine paper.
Bibl Ang. Poet. No. 59, ll. 5s.; Koscoe, No. 1376, 21. 2s. In the original Brown Calf binding.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — Barnabse Itinerarium, or Barnabee's Journal; By Richard Brathwait, A.M. With a Life of the Author, a Bibliographical Introduction to the Itinerary, and a Catalogue of his Works. Edited from the First Edition, By Joseph Haslewood. In two volumes.
" E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires."
London, 1820. R. and A. Taylor, Printers, Shoe Lane. Sm. square 8vo.
A well executed and well edited reprint of the first edition by Mr. Hasle- wood, in which he declared the result of his discovery of the author. It contains not only an exact fac-simile in the second volume of the first edition of the work, but also a life of the author extending to forty-five pages ; an introduction giving an account of the various previous impres- sions, and of the mode of his discovery of the author, and the grounds upon
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which that discovery was founded ; some copious notes on the title of the book, and on the Itinerary ; a collation of the text of the first edition of the same with later editions ; a very valuable and copious bibliographical catalogue of the various works of Brathwaite, in which more than twenty works of his, before considered anonymous, were restored to their rightful author; and the number of which has since been increased in the present work. It has also indexes to both volumes, and a list of subscribers to the whole of the impression, which was limited to 125 copies, and is embel- lished with two portraits of Brathwaite, one with his arms facing the title, from the Nursery for Gentry, set. 48, and a smaller one at a more advanced age from the engraved title to his version of the Psalms ; a plate of his mo- nument in Catterick church, with three different autographs, and of the horn at Queen's College, Oxford. There is also a fac-simile of the original engraved frontispiece by Marshall in the second volume. From the limited number which was printed of these volumes, they are now become scarce, and sell high ; and from the interesting nature of their contents, will always possess an intrinsic value independently of this quality.
See Dibdin's Libr. Comp. vol. ii. p. 197 and 289; and Notes and Queries, second series, vol. x. p. 421.
Bright's sale, No. 683, I/. 17s.; Brocket's ditto, No. 83, 21. 2s.; Dr. Bliss's ditto, No. 431, 31. 10s.
Half bound in Green Morocco.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — Lignum Vitae, Libellus in quatuor partes distinctus : et ad utilitatem cujusque animse in altiorem vitse perfectionem suspirantis nuperrime Editus. Autbore Richardo Brathwait Armigero ; Memoratissimse matris, Flo- rentissimse Academise Oxoniensis, Humillimo Alumno.
Apoc. 2, 17.
Vincenti dabo edere de Ligno Vitee quod est in paradise Dei mei. Londini, Excudebat Job: Grismond, MDCLVIII. Sm. 8vo. ; pp. 714.
Before the above printed title is an engraved frontispiece, R. Vaughan sculpt., in the upper part of which is a representation of a pilgrim bearing a cross, engraved Dum Spiro, suspiro, ascending the path of life, which is
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inscribed Si moreris, morieris : — on the one side is Arbor vitce, and on the other Arbor scientice, inscribed Morieris si non moreris ; and at the top a hand appearing out of the clouds, holding a crown, labelled Patiens modo patieris. After the title are ten dedicatory lines of verse Ipse Deus^ Meccenas Meus, and a long Index Enucleatorius or Proaemium of the contents of the first and second parts of the book, extending to twenty- eight pages. The first part, headed " Authoris Flammea et Flagrantia Suspiria, in amissi temporis memoriam, Sero sed Serio amissa," is divided into chapters or sections, ending with a dialogue between an old and a young man, Dialogus. Senex et Juvenis. The second part has a new title, thus :
Lignum Vitse. Libellus ad utilitatem cuj usque animse in altiorem vitse perfectionem suspirantis, nuperrime Editus. Authore Richardo Brath-
wait Armig.
Aug.
Ligno crucis ferimur, crucemque ferendo coronaumr. Londini Excudebat Joh: Grrismond. MDCLVII.
This portion commences with a short address to the benevolent reader, dated April 1628; another to the censorious; arid an index of the contents of the various chapters. It treats of the work of creation and redemption, and those of the spirit ; of faith, hope, and charity ; of the works of the flesh, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life; of Christ, the cross of Christ, the Christian crown, &c. Then a bastard title, "Fasciculus Myrrhse," and another index or table of contents. This contains, among other things, the Violet of Humility, the Lily of Chastity, and the Rose of Charity. Another half title, " Porta Paradisi," and index of contents, the subjects discussed being temperance in prosperity, patience iii adversity, and moderation in both conditions. A third half title, " Lachrymee Sponsse," and index of chapters. At the end of this second part is a long rhyming Latin Hymn of forty stanzas, reminding us much of the style of Barnabees Journal, from which on this account we are tempted to offer a few extracts :
Hymnusfidelis Animce de felicitate perennis glories.
O perenni? vitse merces, Motus hostis, metus mortis
Iseta messis animce, nullus in perpetuum,
Palma paeis, porta lucis, Sponsa Isetans, msesta vetans,
lauta veris area, opera fert assiduam,
Vita pollens, curam pelleus, Res opimse, spes divinse,
Florae comis aurea ! dissipant invidiam.
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Alma vitis, aura mitis,
Satur est deliciis, Hortus viret, nardo spirat,
Spicis et ambrosiis, Fronde prata rident grata,
optimis auspiciis. * * # #
Caste, caute, lecte, lautfc, sese virgo prseparat,
Longe prius venit dies quo conclave visitat,
Ne rugosa sit explosa quando portam penetrat.
Post singultus splendet vultus,
luce Solis clarior, Vis unita, mens munita
fortior sit et charior, Amor, honor, sapor, odor,
omni melle suavior.
Nil infesti in ccelesti
commoratur patria Luce micant, laude sonant
sacri laris atria, Pace mira sine ira
gaudent penetralia.
Prim6 quserit, carpit, gefit humilitatis molam,
Secund6 florem perdecorum,
castitatis Lilium, Tertid Moseum et ainbroseum charitatis flosculum.
Mente una re communi
potiuntur ordine. Deum cernunt, mundum spernunt,
quo sublapsi carcere, Libertate sunt ditati, Medemptoris sanguine.
**** ****
Sic finita brevi vita, vitse Me dieeula, Instruatur, induatur
glorise amicula, Haec mens mea in me Dese, laudans te per secula. Amen.
The third part, entitled "Astraea," is without any separate title, but commences with the argument, and is printed in the form of dialogues, according to the followin.2; table :
AstrcBa. ' 1. Avaritia,
2. Superbia.
3. Ira.
4. Petulantia.
5. Amicitia. Inimicitia.
6. Ignorantia.
7. Inertia.
The fourth and last part is a reprint, with some additions, of the Novis- sima Tuba, already noticed by us, and has the following title :
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Novissima Tuba. Opella Editione Ultima multo castigatior, locupletior et politior. Manipulus Theoricus, in Sex Dialogos apprime Christianos digestus.
1. Colloq. Mortis, Carnis et Animse,
2. Collcq. Mundi, Carnis et Diaboli.
3. Colloq. Hominis et Conscientise.
4. Colloq. Conscientise et Peccati.
5. Colloq. Dei et Animse.
6. Colloq. Animse et Civitatis Dei. Surgite mortui, et venite ad judicium.
Londini, Excudebat Job: Grismond. MDCLVIII,
This edition varies in some degree from the first one, and is slightly enlarged. Having already given some extracts from this very rare piece, which has not been noticed as we believe by any previous bibliographer, it will be needless here to add to their number. At the end of the tract is a quotation from Aug. in Psal. 36, one leaf, and another on the Errata closes the volume. Neither of the last two parts are noticed at all by Mr. Hasle- wood, although the title " Libellus in quatuor partes distinctus" might have convinced him that a portion of the work was wanting ; but it is evident, as we have already observed, that his copy of the book was imperfect, and that he had never seen the last piece either in this or the former edition. This large and extended work, of above 700 pages, is highly creditable to the learning and talents of Brathwaite, whether considered with respect to scholarship or to his sentiments as a pious and Christian moralist; and is another evidence of the great versatility of his genius.
Gardner's copy, No. 100, sold for ll. 105.; Bindley's ditto, pt. i. No. 865, 21.
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BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — The Honest Ghost, or a Voice from the Vault.
In noxam sectatur et umbra.
London, Printed by Eic. Hodgkinsonne. 1658. Sm. 8vo; pp. 338.
Prefixed to this poetical volume is a finely engraved frontispiece by Kobert Vaughan, representing a prison with two barred windows, from the PAET n. 3 K
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lower of which a prisoner is looking out, and his hand pointing to a pri- soner's box, and these words inscribed beneath : " Adesdum mitte manum in Marsupium;" and above: "O ferrea setas." At the upper window is another prisoner looking out with contempt on the world, and exclaiming " Dum video, rideo." Below, within an arch, are figures of a gaoler and a tattered and dejected prisoner, exclaiming " Exilium virtus patitur. Dum moror hie, morior. Quid tu si pereo ?" This is inscribed below, " Parthe- nius Osiander Auth:" At p. 113 is another well engraved print by the same artist, entitled " An Age for Apes," representing a house at the top of the plate with a beautiful garden in front, in which are several apes in different characters and costumes, from the centre one of whom issues a label, inscribed " Prodige nil mseres Domus es licet ultimus hseres." Below, in the front of the print, is Democritus on the one side laughing, with the motto " Insanire gregem ridens volo ;" and on the other Heraclitus weep- ing, and exclaiming " In Flumina, Lumina verto." Opposite to the first of these plates is a leaf of prose, containing an explanation of the subjects of both, and inscribed " The Face of the Frontispiece unvailed : The Titles of either Subject, whereof these Poems treat, with their proper Imprezza's accurately illustrated and succinctly couched." The latter plate is also described, and the figures characterized at p. 291.
The Honest Ghost is preceded by three short poetical epistles, addressed " To my Stationer Health, Wealth, and Liberty ;" " To the ingenuous State- Censor ;" and " To all, or none."
Before, however, proceeding to describe the remainder of the contents of this volume, it will first be necessary to ascertain the author's name, which does not appear in the title, and to state the reasons for assigning the com- position of it to Brathwaite, which will best be done in the words of Mr. Park, to whom the present copy belonged, and whose generally accurate and critical poetical knowledge will not be disputed : " From the initials R. B. at p. 310, and from the peculiar style of the composition, there is much reason to presume that this work was written by Richard Brathwaite. But independent of the initials being R. B. and the style of the composition being similar to his other productions, there are many circumstances from which we may conclude that Richard Brathwaite is the author. Lord Wentworth was the patron of Brathwaite, and the latter part of the work, entitled ' Parthenia's Passions,' is dedicated to him as ' his thrice-honoured Meceenas.' The dedicator was a northern man ; so also was Brathwaite, At p. 270 occur two lines marked with inverted commas —
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" Much have I eeene, yet seldome seene I have Ambition go gray headed to the grave j"
which are also to be found in Brathwaite's English Gentleman, p. 36. But what perhaps will furnish the best ground for our conclusion is this Ana- gram of Polymorphus Simianus found at p. 288 :
Virtue hath but bare credit j
which, with a very little variation, is Eicharde Brathwaite." Such is Mr. Park's account for assigning this work to Brathwaite, an opinion in which also the late Mr. Malone concurred.
The title to the volume, The Honest Ghost, or a Voice from the Vault, applies only to a very small portion of the book, being merely the first poem, which is a powerful satire upon the vices and corruptions of the court and other professions and grades of life, written by Brathwaite when imprisoned in the Fleet (probably for debt) in the early part of his life. For in the introductory address to his stationer he says :
For if the World a Prison be, then we Who lodge i'th' Fleet, are but as worldlings be : The onely diff'rence, as I take 't, is this, Their Prison something larger than ours is.
It appears also from the second preliminary address " To the ingenuous State- Censor," that this satire, though not published till during the inter- regnum, was written in early life, before the Civil war commenced :
My younger yeares compos'd these rurall Byrnes To taxe the errors of corrupter times : When we a State-Monarchicall possest, Which Government our Politicks held best.
And again :
Twenty-four Harvests now are spent and gone Since this receiv'd its first Conception ; So as you may suspect there's something in 'fc That kept this Work so many yeers from print.
It is stated in a note, p. 249, to have been written in 1632; and the reason for its being " kept so many years from print" was most probably the unsettled and unfavourable state of the times. The following are the opening lines of this satire :
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Thrice to the sin-sick world my Muse hath come,
And has been thought too bitter unto Some,
Who, for to shew how much they're discontent,
Have meant to keep mee tongue-ty'd by restraint.
But can this doe it ? No, I'm same I was,
And though my earthen vessel cannot pass
Nor pierce those walls of stone where I'm restrain'd
And for twelve mon'ths with patience remain' d,
I have a Ghost, as now it shall appeare
Sojourns abroad, while I am caged here.
For what can these spruce Silk worms do at me ?
Shut me from ay re of high priz'd liber tie :
And in this vast and irksome residence
Remove mee from the object of each Sense $
For first my Eye no object views of State,
But such as to and fro pass by my grate :
And for my Eare, no object doth assail her,
But noyse of Keys, and clamor of a Jayler :
And for my Smel, because nought likes me well,
I catch & Cold, whereby I may not smell :
And for my Taste, my palat doth decline
From relishing ought pleasant at this time :
And for my Touch, I feel nought but distress,
And more I smile, the more it doth oppress :
Yet for all this, I doe enjoy as much
In th' faculties of Eye, Eare, Smell, Taste, Touch,
As he who glories most : and you shall heare
How I enjoy them too, if you'll forbeare.
We give one more quotation from this poem, expressive of the author's love and zeal for his country's good :
Much do Ifeele, for even my heart doth ake, Not for my self, but for my Country sake, Wherein ther's nought doth me so neerly touch As to see great-men wrong the State so much. For ther's no place, we heare not some of these Tax'd and reprov'd for their Monopolies, Which they will leg that they their turns may serve, No matter though the common-people starve. O age, me thinks thou art distracted growne To squeeze a whole State for advancing one! And what's that one ? a profuse Eioter, Who spends upon a painted Sepulcher
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What ere he gains by begging : thus the poor
Are forced to maintain a great mans whoor.
They want, Tie surfeits ; they may pine and die,
Hee hears, but takes small pity on their crie.
They crave one crum of comfort, he denies them,
And when he meets them, stops his nose and flies them,
He all enjoys whatso'ere may like him well,
And on his, foot-cloth rides in state to Hell.
0 yee high peering Mounts incline your ear Unto the counsel of a Prisoner !
For do not think, although I be in thrall, That I will humor any of you all;
1 have not learn'd io flatter hitherto, And I do scorn to take the trade up now. But what's my counsell? Labour to deserve Well of your Prince whom you are bound to serve, Hate to inhance your State, or fill your purses With wofull widows tears, and poor mens curses ; That gaine must needs be ill, be't more or lesse, That's suck'd and strained from the fatherlesse. Scorne to enrich yourselves by others hate,
Or rayse your selves by razing of the State.- And for as much I heare that Some of you, Which I protest doth much my grief renue, Support your Followers in an unjust cause, Against the course and tenure of the Laws ; So as they care not what they undertake Because they shall be favour1 d for your sake : Surcease for shame to countenance a wrong Either by Letter or perswasive tongue : For there is nought on earth, right sure I am, Detracteth more from any Noble-man, Then with the brand of ii jury to etain him For love of any one that doth retain him. For this such deep impression leaves behind it As on your graves succeeding times shall find it, Where it will live long after you be dead, And sprinkle hatefull poyson on your seed. And you the reverend Judges of the land, Stand in defence of right whoso' ere withstand Your just proceedings, let no favor draw you, Nor fear of any great-one over-aw you. Doe you not think it were a shame to heare Such men as you, who on your shoulders beare
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The burden of the State, and should take care To guard the Prince and those his Subjects are, E'er to decline from doing what is right, For love, or lucre, enmity, or might.
At the end of this poem is a short " Postscript" in prose ; after which is " The Copy of a Letter sent from a Burgess of the Lower House, to the brittle Society, or broken Company of Bankrupt-Merchants 1625," which is dated May 19, 1624, and is also in prose; together with a short letter, entitled "A Prisoners Picture, posture and pressure; all receiving forme, feature, life and lineature from this contracted Letter," signed " Altanus Ponticus." These are succeeded by " Two Poems penned by the Author before his restraint, Entituled Loves Lottery and The Cuckow. Whereunto are annexed, The Trapanner, The Tarpolin, Messalina. An Elegie on Phil. Porters death. With his Farewell to Poetry. Or Motto upon Misery. Shewing how the Muses are Patronesses of Poverty." These conclude the first part of the volume.
The second part now commences, entitled " An Age for Apes," which is preceded by the frontispiece already described, and a poem called "His Vision," which explains the subject of this portion of the work, and of which the following are the opening lines :
Close by a Rill, whose Springs sweet murm'ring kept, I took a book to read, and reading slept : And whilst I slept, presented were such shapes Of wanton Morikies, Marmosites, and Apes ; As more I gaz'd, I mused still the more To note their shapes and habits which they wore. For One took on him state, and at a feast Sat as he had beene some great Lord at least : Those that with all obeysance did salute him, Were Parasites and Sycophants about him ; »
Who with Earth-scraping congies deuty show To this State- Marmosite Magnifico.
Various apes then appear before him in his vision, and at the end " the Master of these Apes," erected on a marble stone, is supposed to summon them one by one to give an account of their tricks which they have played,
be they weake, be they wittie,
In shadie Lawne, flourie Plaine, Country, Court, Universitie, Cittie.
They accordingly appear, and relate their tricks in short poems, and are
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entitled : The Ape of Honour. The Ape of Pleasure. The Ape of Vaine- glory. The Ape of Fancy. The Ape of Fashion. The Ape of Observa- tion. The Court Ape. The City Ape. The Country Ape. The Church Ape. The Judiciall Ape. The Politicall Ape. The Chymicall Ape, and The Criticall Ape. At p. 151, in "The Ape of Fancy," is introduced a story taken from one of Richard Brome's plays, published in 1653, called " The Mad Couple well matched," beginning
Upon a day withouten companie
I went to cheape a rich commoditie, &c.
And at p. 243, in " The Criticall Ape," in speaking of the wonders of which our own country boasted, allusion is made among others to one of Nixon's Cheshire Prophecies :
While forraine- Country wonders are made known,
You much forget this Country of your owne.
For in this Hand where your selfe was borne,
Did you nere visit Glasteribury-Thorne ?
Saint Thomas Beckets path, his Shrine, his Cell ?
The Civit-senting Mosse of Win'fred's Well ?
The Stones of Salsbury-plain, which none can number ?
The Stones of Whitby- strand, that Snalcie wonder ?
Bruertons Logg which on a Mote doth lyey
And sinking bodes. The Ancestor must dye ;
Or of Saint Quintins (as I've heard it told)
Whose ancient Seat is Harpham on the ivould,
Where at such times as chief e of th' house shall dy,
A Drum to th' hearing of the neighbours by,
For three daies space together sounds alarum
(A gentle easie summons to prepare him.)
Which dying march (as I have understood)
Issues from th' covert of a shadie wood,
But whence or how produc'd, that know not I,
(A Sacred-Secret Seal'd from mortall eye.)
But it implies (this Charity will grant)
He dies a Champion i'th' Church militant.
Or of those Cornish-Choughs I'm sure you heare,
Which built at Claughton once in Lancashire,
Who, as I've heard it there reported oft,
When a late Ancestor sirnamed Croft
Deceas'd, fled streight from thence (but God knows whither)
Where they had built for many yeeres together.
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Which ominous or no, I cannot tell,
Nor what it boded can I gather well,
But people thereabout affirme it wants
Her ancient privileclg'd inhabitants,
Who left their Country-coast, their native nest,
And took plantation where they liked best.
At the end of the poems descriptive of the various apes are lines addressed " To the State-Critick," and " The Apes Censure ;" which conclude thus :
Affrighted with the Censure of each ape, Fearing my selfe were one I did awake ; But finding it a dreame I thought it fit, Only for pastime-sake to publish it. Similis mihi Simia nulla est.
And then follow others, " Upon the Censure of his Vision," underneath which is written, " Ista Poemata, non sine lapidula Genii facetiae primum Conscripta fuere ; an: Dom: 1625."
" The Life of Polymorphus Simianus author of this Poem" next ensues at p. 277, written in prose interspersed with poetry, in which is introduced the anagram of the author's name mentioned before. It is more than probable that in this feigned life are some allusions to real circumstances in Brath- waite's life ; and he also remarks that this poem of " An Age for Apes," now published, was written by him in the thirty-fifth year of his age. This is followed by a leaf, also in prose, containing " The Draught or Portraict of every Ape with their distinct properties, characters, and differences, ex- pressed in §everall peeces." The volume concludes with several short poems entitled " Parthenias Passions," which are dedicated " To the right Honor- able Thomas Viscount Wentworth, (afterwards created Earl of Strafford,) Baron of Woodhouse, Oversley, and Newmarch, Lord President of the Councell established in the North, and one of his Majesties most honourable Privie Councell : His thrice-honoured Meceenas." The titles of these poems are : " The Western- Knights Pasquill." " Upon his Hon. Election of Deputation for Ireland." "Upon his Hon. returne from Ireland." "For the Right Honourable Charles Howard, Commander in chiefe over Cum- berland, Westmerland, and Northumberland, upon the Decimation." " After his Assesse at Penrith, addressed to his Honour January 31, 1655;" signed " Your most devotionall decimated Servant R. B." " Upon his additionall Assesse; continued in addresse to his Honour February 2, 1655." "A parcell of partiall-quilt Justice." " For Colonell Robert Waters, upon his
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Yorkshire Summons;" December 28, 1655. "For Mr. Ralph Rimer, a discreet State Commissioner." "For Captain Aitoe and L. Bolland;" signed "Peregrine Strangewais." "To Captaine Sadler, a rare Scarlet dyer." " Upon the Commissioners sitting at the Wildman in York." " The Quaker." "In Answer to this Paper of Verses, intitled The Quaker; whereof he was reported to be the Author." "A Button-Bung, or A Westminster Snap." " Upon the Northern Feast, observed at Salters-Hall, the sixth of October 1657. Addressed to his worthy Countrymen, The Northern Society." The whole of this latter part of the volume, " Parthe- nia's Passions," was written only a short time before the book was published, whereas the former part was written in his youth, when he was only about thirty- five years of age. One leaf is added of annotations and apology for errors in Brathwaite's usual style, affording a proof, if others were wanting, of his claim to the authorship of this volume. See also the lines to Captain Sadler, p. 319, which exhibit a specimen of Brathwaite's Latin and English poetry, strongly reminding us of that in Drunken Barnabys Journal, and another proof confirming the claim of Brathwaite to that Itinerary :
Noble Sir, I am here, neare unto your proper sphere :
Visit Him who holds you deare. Dearest Friend, who all thy time Hast been blest in each designe ; And hast Colour for thine ends, To improve and right thy Friends : Mayst thou live in Honours Eye, Till thy Scarlet lose her dye. " Love's a Colour dyde in graine, Whose reflexe admits no staine." "\ Neq: dives, nee egenus,
Neq: satur, neq: plenus ;
Nee agrestis, nee ameenus,
Nee sylvestris, nee serenus :
Palmis nee mulcendus poenis,
At in omni sorte lenis.
This volume sold at Midgley's sale in 1818, No. 34, to Mr. Dent for 8£, at whose sale in 1827, pt. i. No. 249, it was bought by Payne for 41. 4s. ; Mr. Townley's copy was bought by Mr. North in 1814, pt. i. No. 441, for 71. 105., at whose sale in 1819, pt. ii. No. 49, it was sold to Lepard for 51. The same copy, in Mr. Strettell's sale in 1820, No. 125, was sold for 21. 15s. to Mr. Skegg, at whose sale in 1842, No. 191, it brought 3L 18s. ;
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The present copy, which is perfect, and has both the frontispieces, suc- cessively belonged to Mr. Byng and Mr. Park.
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BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — Panthalia : or the Royal Romance. A Discourse stored with infinite variety in relation to State- Government and Passages of matchless affection gracefully interveined, and presented on a Theatre of Tragical and Comical State in a successive continuation to these Times. Faithfully and ingenuously rendred.
Qui se scire dicit quod nescit, temerarius est : Qui se negat scire quod scit, ingratus est. — Aug. London, Printed by J. G. and are to be sold by Anthony Williamson at the Queens-Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard. 1659. 8vo.
In ascribing this Royal Romance to the fertile and varying pen of Brath- waite, we by no means intend our readers to imply that we have any positive evidence to offer on the subject of its authorship; yet it bears a much stronger resemblance to Brathwaite's style than The History of Moderation, noticed hereafter : and we may remark as corroborative points in favour of his being the writer, the Italianized name which he gives to the supposed author, viz. Castalion Pomerano; the interspersion of verse and prose ; the rhyming Latin lines at p. 239 ; the glowing panegyric on Lord StrafFord, whose family were the patrons of Brathwaite; and the manner, loyalist as he was, in which he speaks of Charles's ingratitude to him. The evident partiality to this great statesman, as indicating the sup- posed authorship, points not only to Brathwaite, but likewise to James Ho well, a great writer of similar romances, who was employed by Lord Strafford (see the StrafFord correspondence), and a warm partisan of his ; but, to say nothing of other arguments which militate against that suppo- sition, it is more than probable that, if it had been Howell's, it would have
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been advertised as such with his other works, according to his regular prac- tice.
The work is one of considerable interest and amusement, the scenes in which are drawn from the history of England, here termed Candy, enlivened with some of those traditional anecdotes which regular historians do not always relate. After " The Opinion of a native Candiot, touching this Royal Romance," subscribed Florencio Tribaccio, "An Advertisement to the judi- cious Reader," commendatory lines to the author by Amadin Barclay, and others " To the living memory of Castalion Pomerano author of Panthalia or the Royal Romance " by Dion: Morellio, the book opens with an account of Queen Elizabeth, called Bellingeria, her intimacy with the Earl of Essex under the name of Clarentio, and xthe story of the ring — the Countess of Nottingham, by whom it should have been conveyed to the queen before his execution, being figured by the title of Athalia, a lady of honour. It relates also the conduct of Elizabeth to Mary Queen of Scots, here called Mariana, and her execution at Fotheringay, and describes the death of Elizabeth, with a warm eulogium on her virtues with the single exception of this stain upon her character. It then gives an account of her successor Basilius (James I.) and his Queen, and his two sons Cyrenius (Prince Henry) and Rosicles (Prince Charles), and the untimely decease of the former, " touching the manner of whose death," says the author, " it is the safest way to suspend our judgment, being so variously descanted, and not as yet positively resolved. Let us onely conclude, great was his Fame, and premature his Fate, being one on whom all Candy treasured their hope." He next instances James's " infinite affection to Favourites, which lessened his esteem in the opinion of his people, especially of those who sate near the Sternage of the State, which his endowments otherwise deserved ;" and alludes to the case of Carr earl of Somerset (Tremoses) and his profligate countess (Polygama) and the murder of his faithful secretary Enthimio (Sir Thomas Overbury). After recounting the death of James and the marriage of King Charles with Henrietta Maria of France, the history passes on to the Civil Wars, the description of Cromwell and the other Parliamentary commanders, and the sojourn of Charles at Oxford, here called "Bovado within the confines of Mo3onia, a place for all conveniences singularly seated ; as likewise the most eminent Seminary for all human learning that the Universe could afford. Which flourishing Academy, though it had been a long time begirt with a strait and impetuous Siege, yet so constantly it adhered to those principles of allegeance wherein it had been ever educated,
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as it came off bravely, and acquitted her walls of the Enemy with much resolution and gallantry."
A large portion of the book is here taken up with a kind of episode entitled " The Pleasant Passages of Panthalia, the Pretty Pedler," with her lover Acolasto, occupying nearly eighty pages, and having no connexion with the main history, in which occur the lines quoted below, and here introduced as a specimen of the poetry :
Ixion was deluded by a Cloud
So laureat Daphne from Apollo slipt,
So Danae, so Semele sought to shroud
Their Virgin beauties. If our fancies dipt Deep into such Chymeras, let's remove Such aery phantasies, and leave to love.
You love me well, and so I wish you should,
Although I cannot answer your desire,
For she you love is of another mould
Then to effect what your affects require. Where if your erring fancy run a-shelf Blame not Panthalia's beauty but your self.
I am not same I seem ; for if I were,
I should not Acolasto thus pursue j
Fix then your fancy in a proper sphear
Since I partake no more of man then you. For this disguised Habit was put on To shield mine honour, which I stand upon. Leave then this Love5 which having once given o're, That maiden lives not who shall love you more.
After this digression, the history is again resumed with an account of " The Life amd Death of Sophronio," i.e. Lord Strafford, whose trial and execution are well described, and upon whom a warm panegyric is pro- nounced, from which the following extract is taken as a further specimen of the work : Then
Making himself ready, and putting off his doublet, he went towards the Block j where with a stout and undaunted courage laying his hand upon the edge of the Hatchet : This said he, is a Cure for all diseases ; a receipt against all maladies.
This done, by direction of the Executioner : a man of high name, though of vile condition ; He cheerfully layd down his Head upon the Block, which was divided from his Body at one stroak.
It was afterwards by permission, artfully seered to his neck, and conveyed to the Vault where all his Ancestors lay; not far distant from his Mannor-house of
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Sylviana; where he was with no less honour solemnly interred, then generally bemoaned.
Truth is, his Funerall Farewell seconded with his patient and composed demeane at the time of his death, begot that resentment in those who had formerly been his mortall Enemies ; as his last adue breathed forth with so graceful a passion, enforced teares in their eyes, who never before that time lodged remorse in their hearts. Yea those, who were the principal Agents and assiduatest Instruments of procuring his Head to be cut off; could with all their hearts have wish'd it on again, when they had duely considered, how the wisdom of that Head, which the Hand of Faction had taken off, might have composed and repaired many Fractures, which the Liberty or rather Anarchy of a distracted State had produc'd. But it was too late to recal what Fate and Plebian Fury had snatcht away. Sundry papers were pasted and posted up in the eminentest parts of TJiamipolis especially near the Merchants Trapeza^ con- taining such inscriptions as these and the like.
Yaga vulgi vota vani,
Clari clades Coriolani.
For in many places he retein'd the name of Coriolanus ; with whom he was parallel'd for his brave atchievements, clemency, and actions of honour.
Sseva plebsei flamma furoris,
Lseva patricii pestis honoris.
Peoples heat and Consuls hate
Crusht a brave Patritians State.
The prudent Senat did not hold it fit that this Act should be exemplified, but upon Sophronio for example sake only executed : And that no Proceedings after that time should be admitted as legal against any other being prosecuted by Plea in the like manner.
And that their Saintly Clemency might to Posterity be commended, it was ordained, that no Action whereof Sophronio stood accused or impeached, should after his dead be recorded as Capital, but that the memory thereof should be to all intents and purposes utterly abolished : and that no Person whatsoever should be rendred Criminal or accessory to Treason, being attached upon the same grounds. But though this Law became revers'd, it restor'd not his life; whose ransom might ballance with the Estimate of an Empire.
The remainder of the volume is occupied with the impeachment and death of Charles I. ; the flight and concealment of Charles II. (Charicles) after the fatal battle of Worcester (" a strong and well fortified City called Hens-Court, anciently Saly Castro'); the distractions and troubles of the Commonwealth under Cromwell, who is well pourtrayed under the title of Climenes, and whose secret fears for his own personal safety are thus strongly depicted :
Notwithstanding all this, though Intelligence abroad, and Assistance at home,
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might seem to secure him against the policy of all private designes, or power of public attempts ; yet what security, where there lodgeth a secret enemy ? There was a Foe within him, though he had no visible hand to assail him. For all the happiness he could promise himself in this assumed freedom of his infant Soveraignty, consisted in the enjoyment of a confined Liberty : His very Pallace became his Prison, and himself a Jaylor to himself. Eare were his visits into the City, for he knew well how the Citizens did generally hate him, and that his own ears could not chuse but be witness of their odious censure. And for his Summer Progresses, they were accompanied with such fears and jealousies, as every Bush represented to his fevourish thoughts a Bugbear. Thus were his Eecreations made his Afflictions ; this bulk of honour a burden to himself; though sometimes amongst his Infantry he would pretend to mirth, purposely to delude the conceit of a Court-visitant. As for his princely Port, (if penury might be held princely) the face of his Court presented so mean a garb, as it relished no more of State, then his imposthum'd heart of Grace.
The volume concludes with the dissolving of the Long Parliament by Cromwell, his own death, and the joyful Restoration 'of Charles II. On the last leaf is the following short note in allusion to the retirement from the affairs of state of Richard Cromwell, shadowed under the name of Darchirus, and a list of Errata at the end :
An additional Observation extracted from the historical sequel of this Eoyal Eomance.
From a narrower and nearer scrutiny into this Author (a singular Surveyor and Observer of the Eevolutious of those fatal times) we find how one Darchirus succeeded Climenes : a Person of pleasure, naturally addicted to Hunting, Hawking, and other generous Eecreations : So as being either wearied with the unsuteable burden of State-aflairs, or the apparent disgust of some neer-allying Competitors, or out of a conscientious resentment of the unjust usurpation of his Father, and inju- rious deprivation of Rosicles, he begun to cast his eye upon the true Line, surrendring his Crown, and betaking himself to the innocent freedom of a Country life.
Whether this work was written by Brathwaite or not (and we strongly incline to the former opinion) we feel sure our readers will thank us for calling tlieir attention to this well written, curious, and interesting romance, which is not often met with, and has escaped the notice of previous bibliographers.
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BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — A Comment upon the Two Tales of our Ancient, Renowned, and Ever Living Poet Sr Jeffray Chaucer, Knight. Who, for his Rich Fancy, Pregnant Inven- tion, and Present Composure, deserved the Countenance of a Prince, and his Laureat Honour. The Miller's Tale and the Wife of Bath. Addressed and Published by Special Authority. London, Printed by W. Godbid, and are to be Sold by Robert Crofts at the Crown in Chancery-lane neer Serjeants- Inn. 1665. 8vo; pp. 204.
The only prefix to this work by Brathwaite is a single leaf containing the following dedication : " To the highly honoured and nobly accomplished Sr John Wintour, Secretary of State to her Sacred Majesty, the Queen Mother: A Loyal Subject to his Sovereign, a Faithful Servant to his Countrey, a Resolute Sufferer for both ; R. B. his most Devotional Servi- teure presents these Illustrations, primarily intended, and purposely pub- lished for Entertainment of retired Hours." On the reverse of which is an advertisement: "This Comment was an Assay, whereto the Author was importun'd by Persons of Quality, to compleat with Brief, Pithy, and Proper Illustrations, Suitable to such Subjects."
The work consists of a pleasant running commentary, occasionally however not of the most decent kind, on Chaucer's two poems, the quotations from which are given in black letter, and serve as pegs for the author on which to hang his remarks and observations, and to exhibit his stores of classical and legendary lore. As a specimen of the style and manner of the author's illustration of Chaucer, we quote the comment on the feature and attire of the Parish Clerk, Absolon :
foatf fytut at tfyt tfyivtl) a garttff) Clje fo!)trf) tfjat toatf rfqprtf
In this description he glanceth at the pride of the Clergy ; shewing how vanity began to strut within the Wals of a Monastery. For if a poor Parish- Clerk must be so curiously dressed, as to have his hair curled, and so womanishly disheveled, his eyes so effeminately pilled, his shooes artificially carved, and in all points so completely accoutred ; what may we think of those, whose Eevenues were greater, places higher, and whose persons, in the eye of the world, more popular ? ........
Such witty evasions have some of these, as I never see any of them, but they put me in mind of the pregnant and present Answer of that Sprusado to a Judge in this
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Kingdom, a rigid Censor of mens habits ; who seeing a neat Finical Divine come before him in a Cloak lined through with Plush, thus encountred him : Sir, You never read that Paul ever went in a Plush Cloak. But I read, my Lord, said he, that Paul left his Cloak at Troas, and whether that Cloak was lined through with Plush or no, it is more than either you or I know.
For to point at some of these both in Diet and Habit ; instead of Locusts and Wild Honey, they must (good men) content themselves with Lolsters, Crammed Capons, and Coney ; and for Raiments of Camels hair, Damask CassocJcs down to their heels ; and for Leathern Girdles about their Loyns, Formal Fashes, or Apos- tolical, Canonical Roses, to enamour their Loves ; with Downie Cushions for their knees, in their rare, short, and sweet Orisons to their Lord.
In the Comment upon the Miller's Tale, the following "old Sylvane Charm" is given as being similar to " the Night-charm used in those daies, when they shut their doors at night, and opened them in the morning :"
Fawns and Fairies keep away, While we in these Coverts stay ; Goblins, Elves, of Oberon's Train, Never in these Plains remain, Till I and my Nymph awake, And do hence our Journey take, May the Night-mare never ride us, Nor a fright by night betide us : So shall Heav'ns praise sound as clear, As the shrill voyc'd Chantecleer.
In various parts of the work a number of short quotations in verse, and old saws and proverbs are introduced; and at p. 85 is a story in verse repeated from the Strappado for the Divel, p. 120 ; and again on p. 123 are some lines, "A Description of Love," taken from The Two Lancashire Lovers, already quoted by us, thus confirming tbe evidence of Brathwaite being the author of this commentary.
In the Comment upon the Wife of Bathes Tale on the text —
3En tfjc nftf tfafetf nf Htutfl &rt0ur,
(<©f toljtcJ) tf)£ SSrsfcmsS gytfun jjreat J)0nour),
jn reference to the Round Table of King Arthur, he remarks that —
To express his true love to Chivalry, and memorize such who were not Associates, but Assistants in his Victory ; He constituted the Order of the Round Table, in which Order, he only retained such of his Nobility, as were most renowned for Vertue and Chivalry. This Eound Table he kept in divers places, especially at Carlion, Winchester, and Camalet, in Somersetshire. In memory of which Founda-
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tion, by the Testimony of Leyland, there is yet to be seen in Denbighshire, in the Parish of Llansavan, in the side of a Stony Hill, a place artificially compos' d, wherein be four and twenty Seats for men to sit in, some less and some bigger, according to their several Statures ; cut out of the main Rock by man's hand where young people coming to seek their Cattel, use to sit, play, and repose : They commonly call it Arthur's Bound Table.
He further observes :
In this King's daies (if they will take the word of a good Old Wife of Bath) &T! foarf tfjte rontr fulfill** of fairs (JTfje <£lfe queue, fottf) Ijer jolg armjjang, &t.
King Oberon, Queen Mab, Prince Cricket, and his Paramour Pig- Widgeon^ with all their fair Company, used to repair hither, and dance a Cinque-pace upon the Meads (if they had so much Art among them). Yea, by usual resorting and consorting together, they became so familiar with our Milk-maids on the Downs, as they would not only sport with them, but woo them and win them j whence the poet :
Pug wooed Jug, a wily Cub,
To drink with him a Sillibub,
Which drunk, they so familiar grew,
As Jug became one of the Crew.
But this (saith our Wife of Bath) was many hundred Years ago. King Oberon's Race is quite extinct and gone, or else confin'd to some other remote Island, where they reside.
At the end of the book is " An Appendix" by the author, in which he says that having finished his comments upon these two tales, he was im- portuned to go on with the rest in the same successful manner. But he pleads his age as a sufficient apology, and says : " The Remainder of his Hours henceforth was to number his Daies : But if jEson's Herb should revive him, and store him with a new Plumage, he was persuaded that his Youthful Genius could not bestow his Endeavour on any Author with more
Pleasure nor Complacency to Fancy, than the Illustrations of Chaucer
Which Answer still'd this Censor, and justified the Author ; leaving New- holme to attest his Deserts ; his Works to perpetuate his Honour."
The imprint varies in some copies thus : " Printed by W. Godbid, and are to be sold by Robert Clavell at the Stags-Head in Ivy-lane." The work is rare, and seldom occurs for sale. See Haslewood's Introd. p. 432. Collation : Sig. A two leaves ; B to 0 4, in eights. Fine copy. Bound in Calf extra
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BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — Tragi-Comoedia; cui in titulum in- scribitur Kegicidium, perspicacissimis Judiciis acuratius perspecta, pensata, comprobata; Authore Bic: Brathwait, Armigero, utriusque Academise Alumno. Londini, Typis J. G. et prostat venalis in officina Theodori Sadleri, in Strandensi platea cedibus Somersetensis contigua. 1665. 8vo ; pp. 192.
Brathwaite was eminent for his loyalty and attachment to the throne, and during his long and active life had witnessed great and eventful changes in the government of the country. The present little work, therefore, was written con amore on a subject in which he felt deeply interested. It is the trial of the regicides thrown into a dramatic form, in which some of the leading characters engaged in that tragical act are brought forward under feigned names, and placed upon their trial. There are some humorous scenes interspersed, and a Chorus or two added, with a Prologue and Epilogue. The work is dedicated to William Wentworth Earl of Strafford, son of the celebrated Lord Strafford, and is preceded by a list of the "Dramatis Personse;" " ANAKE*AAAIO2I5 Actorum Tyrannidis," or the different passions of the criminals enumerated "velato sed vivido more;" eight commendatory lines by F. B. ; and the prologue. We give a portion of one of the chorusses as an exemplification of Brathwaite's Latin verse :
Chorus Britannicus.
O quam grata dies illuxit Miseris ! Cuncta tranquilla reguntur maim,
Aulicis splendida, speciosa Civibus ! Cuncta regali renovantur statu
Agricolis Iseta, terram colentibus ! Et tutiore collocanda situ,
Non sum qucsJueram^SLntsLt Britannia; Astrcea tenet sedem Justitise,
In sua Princeps dominatur Curia ; Actores csnsens Gentis nequitise,
In Comicas Scenas versa est Tragoedia, Sub ortu Solis solae delicise,
Nox dies eminet ; Nubes effugiunt, Pax alma floret, Isetantur pascua
Heroes pulsi fiuibus redeunt Fulta graminibus ; spatiuntur pecora
Pace fruentes porfcas aperiunt, Leniore gradu repetendo flumina.
QUSD prius patulse fuerunt hostibus Depulsa Nube crevit Scientia,
Tinctse Cruore, rapinis, cladibus, Regis, et Eegni Dux Sapientia
Hospitium prsebent gratum Pauperibus. Belli Civilis languet Dementia.
Spectate Incolse quam claro lumine Ingenuse Prolis fit Academia
Eefulsit Insula protecta Numine, Fsecunda Parens, artibus inclyta,
Quam pulchro Regio serenatur sethere ! Prima virtutum spargendo semina.
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Alluit oras Fons Aristotelis, Ascenduut Scalas nunc Proditores,
Instruit mentes vena Platonis, Acquirunt Fidi Eegis honores.
Prsemium Pacis Palma laboris. Mutata est Scena ; faciemque novam
Beat a Omnia ! Grata sunt omnia ! Induunt Gentes. O quam cito gradum Heroi dum marmore scripta sunt No- Lubricum Fata posuere suum !
mina, Quis tarn sublimes cogitaret viros
Vexillo Principis integre subdita, In imum presses, Laqueisque dates,
De novo anno innovantur mores ; Tam variis ventis agitatur Rates ?
At the end is a second part entitled " Bedlamum Novum. Scena Bri- tannia ;" the speakers being Homan and Morisco.
The volume closes with a characteristic leaf " In Errata," in Brathwaite's usual style. Mr. Haslewood has included the Regicidium among his cata- logue of Brathwaite''s works, but dismisses it without a single remark. We may here mention that another work of a similar kind, Cornelianum Dolium, Comoedia Lepidissima : Auctore T. R. Lond. 1638, 12mo, which from the above initials has been usually attributed to Thomas Randolph, has been lately ascribed to the pen of Brathwaite by the learned President of the Chetham Society, who in an able letter in Notes and Queries, vol. xii. second series, p. 341, has stated certain strong reasons why it should not be given to Randolph ; and has pointed out several peculiarities which seem rather to indicate Brathwaite as the author, viz., the frontispiece by Marshall, the printer, Harper, the dedication to Sir Alexander Radcliffe the great friend of Brathwaite, the rhyming Latin verses, and the errata, independently of the great similarity of style. All these correspond with the marks of authorship which Haslewood first pointed out, and on which he relied in various instances; and appear to show that T. R. is only one of the many mystifications which Brathwaite adopted, being probably the initials of some Latin alias; and in the opinion of the writer of the article in Notes and Queries, " are quite sufficient of themselves to establish Brath- waite's authorship of the play/' Whether this be the case must be left to the critical judgment of those who are conversant in Brathwaite's writings to decide, or to some contemporary evidence which may yet turn up to settle the precise meaning of the initials referred to ; and the point is certainly well deserving the attention of those who take an interest in ascertaining the extent of our obligations to Brathwaite as an author.
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to the end of the book, the real number, including the four unpaged leaves at the commencement, being 192.
Bound by Mackenzie. In Crimson Morocco, gilt leaves.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.)— Tragi-Comoedia, cui in titulum in- scribitur Regicidium, &c. Authore Ri. Brathwait, Armigero, utriusque Academise Alumno. Londini, Typis J. G. et prostat venalis in officina Theodori Sadleri, &c. 1665. 8vo ; pp. 192.
Another copy of the same work, which formerly belonged to Mr. Hasle- wood, who has enriched it with a portrait of Brathwaite.
Bound in Dark Green Morocco, gilt leaves.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — The History of Moderation; or, The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Moderation : Together with her Nativity, Country, Pedigree, Kinred, Character, Friends, and also her Enemies.
Tarn prodesse velit, quam delectare. Nee prodesse sibi, sed pluribus. Immoderata ruunt, sed moderata struunt.
Let your moderation be known to all men, the Lord is at hand. — Phil. 4, 5.
Written by Hesychius Pamphilus ; And now faithfully translated out of the Original. London, Printed for Tho. Parkhurst, at the Golden Bible on London Bridge, next the Gate. 1669. Sm. 8vo.
This little work has been of late generally attributed to the pen of Brath- waite, and was described as such in the sale catalogues of Dr. Bliss, Jolley, and others. We have accordingly included it among his other numerous works, yet we do so with considerable hesitation, and are far from feeling any certainty on this point. Its affinity with the other known works of Brathwaite principally consists in the coinage of the proper names, and the quotations and couplets of verse introduced ; but these can scarcely be con-
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sidered of themselves alone sufficient to decide the question. The initials N. S. are attached to the dedication and the address to the reader. It is dedicated " To his Honoured Friends T. E., J. B., and H. S. Esquires ;" after which is " The Epistle to the Header," explaining the nature and cha- racter of the work. This will be best understood by the reader from the following extract, giving an account of the death arid resurrection of Mo- deration :
The news [of the death of Moderation] no sooner came to the Brothers hearing, but it struck them to the very heart, that they both of them departed the self-same day, not willing to out-live their Sister Moderation. Never was the like heard of by all relation, that two Brothers and Sister should all three dye in one day (but they had loved most entirely as they all had but one Soul) and they were all three buried together in the same Grave ; the same Grave it was, wherein "Eusebius and Philo- demuSy the two Husbands, and Settlement the Son, and Peace and Plenty the Daughters of Moderation, had been laid before.
Now was both Court, City, and Country full of Lamentations for the death of three such eminent Persons ; neither were the two Brethren more lamented, then was sweet and all- contenting, all- pleasing Moderation ; only J£a?£remi£yrejoycedextreamly at the death of Moderation; and Disobedience rejoyced as much at the death of Philodilce and Philotheos.
PhilodiJce was most lamented at Court by the Grandees, sage Statesmen and Patriots, for his grave advice and equal administration of Justice, whereby the general Peace of Felidana was preserved.
Philotheos was most lamented by the Clergy, and such as were learned, and able to judge of his elaborate Tracts, his Solid and Learned Sermons, and his great Prudence in Ecclesiastical Affairs, whereby the Cause of Eeligion, and the Peace and Honour of the Church, had been maintained and preserved. But as their names were above the understanding, so was their worth above the cognizance of the Vulgar.
But as for Moderation, all knew what she was well enough, all Felidana had heard and talked much of her all the Island over ; as good a Subject as could live under a Prince, a true Daughter of the Church, and a Mother in Israel ; and bewailed she was both in Court, City; and Country, by Man, Woman, and Child, young and old, simple and gentle, because all understood she had no interest but the public good, and desired favour and protection only for such as should be judged worthy to live in any well-governed State in the World : And the more lamented she was, because she dyed without Issue, and left none of her name behind ; yet being sick, and knowing she was now near her end, she made her Will, and sent for a Kinstooman of hers, named Repentance (a Kinswoman once removed) younger sister to Consideration, dead before, and her she made her adopted Child, and sole Heir and Executrix ; who so sadly took her death, that she was not only Close Mourner at the Funeral, but went in mourning to her dying day, and could never get Moderation (dear Modera- tion} out of her mind.
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Never was the Lady Dorcas more lamented, and her recovery more desired then was this Ladies : And very remarkable it is, though it be against the Religion pro- fessed in Feliciana, to put up any Prayers for their best Friends when dead, yet did all pray for Moderation when she was dead and gone, and the most Religious, the most heartily of all others, and so do to this day ; yet not for the resting of her Soul, but for her return or Resurrection, of which they have a stedfast belief and full expecta- tion, grounded on an old Prophecy, whereof I shall tell you more anon. And seldom did any come near her Tomb, but they bedewed it with their Tears, over which, as I remember, was engraven in a Latine Character
Sen placide obdormit Veneranda
Matrona Moderatio novam
expectans Resuscitationem
ante novissimam
Resurrectionem.
And under it was this Epitaph, written in that Country Language, Here lyes Intombed Matron Moderation, True Friend of the Church, Joy of the Nation j Her worth to few was known Until that she was gone : No Issue great or small, This the saddest of all. All ye friends that look on, Pray for Moderation.
Long may she not stay, let the next Generation See out of these Stones rise a New Moderation.
And to see what good Prayers can do ! Not long after, when you would have thought she had been quite consumed, Moderation did revive, and her Spirit did return, yet not into the former Corps (that had been too great a Miracle for this latter Age to believe) but as Hoses' Spirit was once transfused into seventy others, so did her Spirit return, and was transfused, and did enter into many more, and made a happy change in them : They were now so many new Creatures, which made the Author, and many others, sing in the words of tbat famous Verser, Jam nova Progenies Ccelo dilabitur alto. There dropped down from Heaven high, Of Mankind a new Progeny.
Yea, and which was the wonder of all, and you will hardly believe it, even Extremity her self was changed, and endued with another spirit.
At the end is "Moderations Receipt (taught her by her Aunt Expe- rience) ; Soveraign to cure any Distempers in the Church, especially inward in the Bowels; as also of excellent vertue against a Rupture :
Blest Soul ! she taught how to secure The Church. 'Twill do if put in ure.
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A Pound of Piety she singles, As much of Charity then mingles : Zeal bruis'd with Knowledge next she takes, (Two Piigils a rare Compound makes) Then tops of Prudence, and the Pith Of Elder Faith, Stale Truth, therewith A good handful of Humility, Some mild Forbearance, Unity In Matters Mayn; Opinions New, Leaves, Eoots, and Stalks away she threw ; And to make sure it shall digest, Loyalty sweetens all the rest."
A list of " The Outlandish Names in this Discourse Englished" concludes this curious book, which is unnoticed by Lowndes.
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BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — The Trimmer: or, The Life and Death of Moderation. Wherein is contained an account of Her Country, Parentage, Birth, Kindred, Education, Mar- riage, Children, Death, and Resurrection. Likewise, The Lives and Deaths of her Principal Friends, and Perversest Enemies. Presented to Publick View by one of her Sons. London : Printed for Dorman Newman, at the Kings- Arms in the Poultrey. 1684. Sm. 8vo.
This is the same work, and the same edition as the preceding, with merely a new title substituted in place of the former one to some copies which were not sold.
A copy sold in Jolley's sale, pt. v. No. 449, with Regicidium, for \l. 45. In the original Calf binding.
BRATHWAITE, (RICHARD.) — Some Rules and Orders for the Government of the House of an Earle, set downe by Richard Brathwaite. London : Printed for R. Triphook, Old Bond Street, by Benjamin Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street. 1821. 4to. pp. 50.
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This tract was printed by the late Mr. Kobert Triphook, from a manuscript which was purchased at the sale of a portion of the Library of the late Mr. Kuding, in April, 1821. It is interesting as being one of the very few tracts which have been transmitted to us concerning the domestic arrange- ments and " management of the houses of persons of high rank, which in the succeeding reign underwent an almost total change," and has some occasional historical remarks. It is divided into sections, and embellished with a portrait of Brathwaite on the title. It forms No. 8 of the Miscellanea Antigua Anglicana.
In Boards.
In concluding our series of articles on the works of Kichard Brathwaite, we are aware that they cannot be considered as a complete enumeration of his writings ; and although in some cases we have added to the bibliogra- phical account works of his not previously described, and have also noticed some others not usually attributed to him, yet we are persuaded that this number may be materially increased, and other publications of his may still be added to this already extensive list. Few writers indeed have been more industrious, or employed more of their leisure hours in authorship than Brathwaite has done; in some years, as in 1635, sending forth as many as five or six volumes on various subjects in a single year; and although many of his works have now lost their interest, and would not justify the experiment of reprinting, there are others which either wholly or in part might be thought worthy of being reproduced. No one can take up any of his writings without entertaining upon the whole respect for his natural ability, his strong common sense, his knowledge of life and manners, his quaint and racy wit and humour, his command over Latin composition ; and, in his more serious writings, his pious and religious tone of feeling. Without attempting to vindicate the intemperance and excess of his youth (though they were the common vices of his age), it may at least be said that his later years, as far at least as we have yet any means of knowing, were spent in the fulfilment of the various duties and respon- sibilities of a loyal, pious, and Christian gentleman.
Cfje i^ebenteentf) Eepoit
OF THE
COUNCIL OF THE CHETHAM SOCIETY,
Read at the Annual Meeting of the Society r, held on the 1st of March^ 1860.
THE Council consider that they may congratulate the members on the Society having now issued its half century of volumes, the three which have been delivered for the last year constituting Nos. XLIX., L. and LI. in the series of its productions.
Vols. XLIX and L. consist of the Lancashire Lieutenancy under the Tudors and Stuarts, illustrated by royal and other letters and documents, and edited by Mr. HARLAND. It will be at once admitted by every one who examines these volumes, which are worthy of their indefatigable Editor, that they have filled up a desideratum which has hitherto been con- stantly felt by parties engaged in Historical research ; the County Govern- ment in England in peace and war never before having been so fully and faithfully presented from authentic Documents and for so extended a period of time as in the present elaborate and truly interesting publication of Mr. HARLAND. To the future Historian of the two Counties Palatine these volumes will be most valuable, as they afford a storehouse of information with respect to the Military, Civil, and Ecclesiastical proceedings of our ancestors, and their social state in this part of the kingdom, such as is not elsewhere to be found; and those who wish to compare the preparations for national defence in the times of the Tudors and Stuarts, the description of rams, and the mode of training soldiers at that period, with the warlike
musters and equipments of our own day adopted for the like purpose, can- not be referred to a work embodying more curious details of all kinds. The Society are bound to record their obligations to Sir JAMES P. KAY- SHUTTLEWORTH, Bart, for having liberally placed at their disposal, from the muniment chest of Gawthorpe, the chief materials for this publication ; and to Mr. JOSEPH MAYER, of Liverpool, for allowing the use of the seven plates of arms and armour from which the illustrations have been engraved.
Vol. LI. comprises the Second Portion of Lancashire and Cheshire Wills and Inventories, edited by the Rev, G. J. PICCOPE. The First Portion contained fifty-four Wills and Inventories, ranging from 1525 to 1560. The present is composed of one hundred and five Wills and Inventories, extending from 1480 to the end of the 16th century, and will be found even superior in variety and interest to its predecessor. The Council in noticing the First Portion in their Fifteenth Report, have already expressed their opinion so fully of the value of this publication, and it is so generally under- stood and acknowledged, that they do not deem it necessary to make any further remark upon the present volume, which will be followed by a con- cluding one now in the press, to which that indispensable adjunct, an ample Index to the whole three portions, will be appended by the very careful and laborious Editor.
The Publications contemplated or in progress are : —
1. Lancashire and Cheshire Wills. The concluding portion. Edited by the Rev. G. J. PICCOPE.
2. Catalogue of Tracts for and against Popery in the Chetham Library. Second and concluding part. Edited by T. JONES, Esq., Librarian of the Chetham Library.
3. A Selection from Dr. John Byroms imprinted Remains in Prose and Verse.
4. A new Edition of the Poems Collected and Published after his Decease, corrected and revised, with Notes, and a Prefatory Sketch of his Life.
5. Mamecestre ; or Chapters from the early recorded History of the Barony ; the Manor or Lordship ; the Vill, Borough, or Town of Man- chester. Edited by JOHN HARLAND, Esq.
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6. Worthington's Diary and Correspondence. The concluding part of the second volume. Edited by JAMES CROSSLEY, Esq.
7. Collectanea Anglo-Poetica, or Bibliographical Notices of some of the rarer Poetical Volumes in the Library of a Lancashire Resident.
8. Miscellanies of the Cketham Society, Vol. 3. Edited by WILLIAM LANGTON, Esq.
9. Documents relating to Edward third Earl of Derby, and the Pilgrimage of Grace. By R. C. CHRISTIE, M.A.
10. Nathan Walworth's Correspondence with Peter Seddon of Out- wood, near Manchester, from 1628 to 1654. Edited by ROBERT SCARR SOWLER, Esq.
11. Hollinworth 's Mancuniensis. A new Edition. Edited by CANON RAINES.
12. Heraldic Visitations of Lancashire. Edited by T. DORNING HIBBERT, Esq.
13. History of the Ancient Chapel of Stretford in the Parish of Manchester. For which materials have been collected by the late Rev. JOSEPH CLARKE, Rector of Stretford.
14. The Bursar's Rental of Cokersand Abbey, being a minute Account of the Rents received from their various Possessions. Anno 1501.
15. A Volume of Extracts, Depositions, Letters, Sfc., from the Con- sistory Court of Chester, leginning with the Foundation of the See.
16. Extracts from Roger Dodsworth's Collections in the Bodleian Library at Oxford relating to Lancashire.
17. Annales Cestrienses.
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COUNCIL OF THE CHETHAM SOCIETY,
Read at the Annual Meeting of the Society ', held at the Palatine Hotel on the 1st of March, 1861.
THE Fifty-Second Volume of the Series, which forms the first publication for the last year, and has been issued and is now in the hands of^ the mem- bers, consists of Collectanea Anglo-Poetica ; or, a Bibliographical and Descriptive Catalogue of a Portion of a Collection of Early English Poetry, with occasional extracts and remarks biographical and critical, by^the Rev. THOMAS CORSER, M.A., F.S.A., &c. Part I. Descriptive catalogues of interesting and valuable private collections in particular departments of literature have been very uncommon in this country, and almost the only ex- ample which can be referred to, and which has been taken in a great measure as a precedent by Mr. CORSER, is Mr. COLLIER'S Catalogue of a select part of the Bridgewater Library. It was therefore considered that a detailed descrip- tion, restricted to early English Poetry, of the library which Mr. CORSER has formed during nearly a forty years' residence in Lancashire, and the value of which is well known, would not be an unacceptable contribution to the Chetham Series. In accordance with this view, and as a specimen of the work, the present part, which will be followed by a second now in progress, is submitted to the members. The numher of volumes described in letter A is forty-one, and in B as far as Basse, the concluding article, twenty-nine, being seventy in all ; this portion containing two hundred and eight pages. To all lovers of our early poetical literature this publication will sufficiently recommend itself by the care and accuracy of its descrip- tions, the copiousness of its references, the interest of its biographical and bibliographical illustrations, and the varied and characteristic extracts by
which the styles of so many authors, with the peculiarities of language and manners, are discriminated and displayed. The Council cannot conclude the mention of the Collectanea Anglo-Poetica without observing that the blocks for the curious fac-simile woodcuts, which add an attractive feature to the volume, were liberally furnished by the Reverend Editor at his own expense.
Vol. LIIL, being the second work for the last year, which has also been issued to the members, is comprized in Mamecestre ; being Chapters from the early recorded History of the Barony ; the Lordship or Manor ; the Vill^ Borough or Town of Manchester." Edited by JOHN HARLAND, F.S.A. Vol. I. From Mr. HARLAND'S long investigations into and thorough acquaintance with the history of Manchester, the members will confidently expect a work of great local interest and value ; and they will not be disappointed. Touch- ing only briefly on the Roman period, which John Whitaker's brilliant but somewhat delusive genius has appropriated, and leaving to Dr. Hibbert-Ware the strictly ecclesiastical part of the narrative, to which his industrious researches were directed, Mr. HARLAND has collected whatever he could find to elucidate the baronial and manorial annals of Manchester, in the shape of public evidences, inquisitions, and charters. Of these he has given, so far as they relate to his subject, exact copies, with translations from the original Latin, and has illustrated the materials so brought together with untiring diligence, and in the most ample and satisfactory manner. The present volume of the Work, which another will complete, carries the his- tory to the end of the thirteenth century. As a frontispiece to it the Editor has prefixed a photograph of the charter granted by Thomas Grelle or Greslet to the burgesses of Manchester in May 1301, and a more striking or accept- able frontispiece to such a work it would indeed be difficult to have found.
The third volume for the last year, and which will appear very shortly, constituting No. LIV. in the Chetham Series, is Lancashire and Cheshire Wills and Inventories. Edited by the Rev. G. J. PICCOPE. Third and concluding portion. In this part will be contained several curious and inter- esting inventories, and amongst the names of testators will be found those of the Scarisbricks, Mainwarings, Worsleys, Breretons, Marburys, Halliwells, Talbots, Newalls, Hattons, Cholmondeleys, Starkies, Masseys, Booths, Langtons and Entwisles. Amongst the Manchester testators are the Hunts, Glovers, Bryddocks and Prestwiches. The series of Wills in this valuable work has been, with a few occasional exceptions, confined to those of the sixteenth century. There still remains a rich harvest in those of the suc- ceeding one for a diligent and persevering collector, and which it is to be
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hoped will at some period be rendered available. In the meantime the Council are satisfied that the members generally will join in their feeling of regret that for the present this volume will bring to a close, so far as the Chetham Series is concerned, the products of a mine fraught with informa- tion of such varied, authentic and universally applicable character as that to be derived from the Lancashire and Cheshire Wills and Inventories. In order to make Mr. PICCOPE'S work as complete as possible, a copious Index to the three volumes will be subjoined to the one now about to appear.
The Publications contemplated or in progress are : —
1. Collectanea Anglo-Poetica, by the Rev. THOMAS COBSER. Second Portion.
2. Miscellanies of the Chetham Society, Vol. 3. Edited by WILLIAM LANGTON, Esq.
3. Mamecestre ; or Chapters from the early recorded History of the Barony ; the Manor or Lordship ; the ViU, Borough, or Town of Man- chester. Vol. 2. Edited by JOHN HARLAND, Esq.
4. Catalogue of Tracts for and against Popery in the Chetham Library. Second and concluding part. Edited by T. JONES, Esq., Librarian of the Chetham Library.
5. Worthington's Diary and Correspondence. The concluding part of the second volume. Edited by JAMES CROSSLEY, Esq.
6. A Selection from Dr. John Byroms unprinted Remains in Prose and Verse.
7. A new Edition of the Poems Collected and Published after his Decease, corrected and revised, with Notes^ and Prefatory Sketch of his Life.
8. Heraldic Visitations of Lancashire.
9. HollinwortKs Mancuniensis. A new Edition. Edited by CANON RAINES.
10. A General Index to the first thirty volumes of the publications of the Chetham Society.
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LIST OF MEMBERS
FOR THE YEAR 1860 — 1861.
The Members, to whose names an asterisk is prefixed, have compounded for their Subscriptions.
*Ackers, James, Prinknash Park, near Gloucester
Agnew, Thomas, Manchester
Ainsworth, KaJph F., M.D., Manchester
Ainsworth, W. H., Arundel Terrace, Kemp Town,
Brighton Allen, Rev. John Taylor, M.A., Stradbroke Vicarage,
Suffolk
All Souls' College, Oxford Andrews, Thomas, Bolton Ashton, John, Warrington Ashworth, Henry, The Oaks, near Bolton Aspland, Alfred, Dukinfield Aspland, Rev. R. B., Well Street, Hackney Athenaeum, Liverpool
*Atherton, Miss, Kersall Cell, near Manchester Atherton, James, Swinton House, near Manchester Atkin, William, Little Hulton, near Bolton Atkinson, William, Ashton Heyes, near Chester Atthill, Rev. William, Brandeston Hall, Attlebridge,
near Norwich
Avison, Thomas, Liverpool Ayre, Thomas, Trafford Moss, Manchester
Baker, Rev. F. T., Bolton
Baker, Thomas, Manchester
*Balcarres, The Earl of, Haigh Hall, near Wigan
*Bannerman, John, Wootton Lodge, near Ashbourne
*Barbour, Robert, Manchester
*Barker, John, Broughton Lodge, Newton in Cartmel
* Barlow, Mrs., Greenhill, Oldham
Barratt, James, Jun., Lymm Hall, near Warrington
Barrow, Miss, Green Bank, Pendleton
Bartlemore, Miss, Castleton Hall, Rochdale
Barton, R. W., Springwood, near Manchester
Barton, Samuel, Higher Broughton
Barton, Thomas, Hulme, Manchester
Beamont, William, Warrington
Beardoe, James, Manchester
Beever, James F., Manchester
Bell, John Gray, Manchester
Beswicke, Mrs., Pyke House, Littleborough
Bird, William, Liverpool
Birdsworth, William CanyLytham, Preston
Birley, Hugh, Didsbury, near Manchester
Birley, Rev. J. S., Halliwell Hall, Bolton
Birley, Richard, Manchester
+Birley, Thomas H., Highfield, Heaton Mersey
Blackburne, John Ireland, Hale, near Warrington
Bolton Public Library, Bolton-le-Moors
Booker, Rev. John, M.A., F.S.A., Groombridge, Tun- bridge Wells
Booth, Benjamin W., Swinton, near Manchester
Booth, John, Greenbank, Monton
Booth, William, St. George's Terrace, Hulme, Man- chester
•Botfield, Beriah, Norton Hall, Northamptonshire
Bourne, Cornelius, Stalmine Hall, Poulton, near Preston
Bower, George, London
Bowers, The Very Rev, G. H., Dean of Manchester
Brackenbury, Ralph, Brunswick Terrace, Brighton
Bradbury, Charles, Crescent, Salford
Bradshaigh, W. R. H., Coolree House, near Wexford
Brazenose College, Oxford
Brierley, Rev. James, Mosley Moss Hall, Congleton
Brooke, Edward, Marsden House, Stockport
Brooke, Thos., Northgate Mount, Honley, Huddersfield
Brooks, Samuel, Manchester
Brown, Robert, Preston
Buckley, Edmund, Ardwick, near Manchester
Buckley, Nathaniel, F.L.S., Rochdale
Buckley, Rev. Thomas, M.A., Old Trafford, near Man- chester
Bunting, Thomas Percival, Manchester
Butterworth, John, Manchester
Canterbury, The Archbishop of
Cassels, Rev. Andrew, Batley Vicarage, near Dewsbury *Chadwick, Elias, M.A., Pudlestone Court, Hereford- shire
Chaffers, Rev. Thomas, Brazenose College, Oxford Chester, The Bishop of Chichester, The Bishop of Chippindall, John, Lancaster Christie, R. C., M.A., Owen's College, Manchester 'Churchill, William, Stalybridge * Clare, John Leigh, Liverpool Clarke, Mrs., Stretford Clarke, Archibald William, Manchester
LIST OF MEMBERS.
Clayton, Japheth, Hermitage, near Holmes Chapel Clegg, Thomas, Manchester Clifton, Rev. R. C., M.A., Canon of Manchester Consterdine, Joseph, Manchester Cooke, Thomas, Pendlebury, near Manchester Corser, George, "Whitchurch, Shropshire Corser, Rev. Thomas, M.A., F.S.A., Stand, near Man- chester
*Cottam, S., Manchester Coulthart, John Ross, Ashton-under-Lyne Cross, William Assheton, Red Scar, Preston Crosse, Thomas Bright, Shaw Hill, near Chorley Crossley, George F., Manchester Crossley, James, F.S.A., Manchester, President Crossley, John, M.A , Scaitcliffe House, Todmorden Cunningham, W. A., Manchester Currer, Miss Richardson, Eshton Hall, near Gargrave
Daniel, George, St. John Street, Manchester
Darbishire, Samuel D., Pendyffryn, near Conway
Darcey, Rev. John, Swettenham Rectory, Holmes Chapel
Darwell, George, Oxford Terrace, Southport
Darwell, Thomas, Manchester
Dawes, Matthew, F.S.A., F.G.S.,Westbrook,nearBolton
Dean, Rev. Thomas, Vicarage, Warton, near Lancaster
Dearden, Miss, 29, Inverness Road, Bayswater
Dearden, James, F.S.A., Upton House, Poole, Dorset
Dearden, Thomas Ferrand, Rochdale
*Derby, The Earl of, Knowsley, Prescot
Delamere, The Lord, Vale Royal, near Northwich
Devonshire, The Duke of
Dilke, C. W., London
Durnford, Rev. Richard, M.A,, Rectory, Middleton
Earle, Frederic William, Edenhurst, near Huyton
Eccles, Richard, Wigan
Eckersley, Thomas, Wigan
Edwards, Edward, 39, Upper Charlotte Street, Fitzroy
Square, London Egerton, Sir Philip de Malpas Grey, Bart., M.P., Oulton
Park, Tarporley
Egerton, Lord, Tatton Park, Knutsford *Ellesmere, Earl of, Worsley Hall Ethelston, Rev. Hart, M.A., Cheetham Hill
*Faulkner, George, Manchester
Feilden, Joseph, Witton, near Blackburn
*Fenton, James, M.A., The Promenade, Southport
Fernley, John, Manchester
*Ffarington, Mrs., Worden Hall, near Preston
*Fielden, Samuel, Centre Vale, Todmorden
Fielding, Rev. Henry, M.A.., Salmonby Rectory, near
Horncastle
Fleming, William, M.D., Rowton Grange, near Chester Fletcher, Samuel, Broomfield, near Manchester Forster, John, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London *Fort, Richard, Read Hall, Padiham 'French, Gilbert J., Bolton Frere, W. E., Rottingdean, Sussex
Garnett, William James, Quernmore Park, Lancaster
Germon, Rev. Nicholas, M.A., High Master, Free Gram- mar School, Manchester Gibb, William, Manchester » Gladstone, Robert, Oak Hill, near Manchester Gould, John, Manchester *Greenall, G., Walton Hall, near Warrington
Hadfield, George, M.P., Manchester
Hailstone, Edward, F.S.A., Horton Hall, Bradford, Yorkshire
Hall, Henry, Solicitor, Ashton-under-Lyne
Hammersley, J. A , Manchester
Hammill, Miss, Fawley Lodge, Lansdowne Road, Chel- tenham
Hardman, Henry, Bury, Lancashire
Hardy, William, Duchy Office, London
Hargreaves, George J., Manchester
Harland, John, F.S.A., Manchester
Harrison, William, Rock Mount, St. John's, Isle of Man.
•Harrison, William, Galligreaves House, near Black- burn
"Harter, James Collier, Broughton Hall, near Man- chester
•Harter, William, Hope Hall, near Manchester
Hatton, James, Richmond House, near Manchester
Hawkins, Edward, F.R.S., F.S.A., F.L.S., British Mu- seum, London
Heelis, Stephen, Manchester
Henderson, Rev. John, Parsonage, Colne
*Henry, W. C., M.D., F.R.S., Haffield, near Ledbury
Heron, Rev. George, M.A., Carrington, Cheshire
Heywood, Arthur Henry, Manchester, Treasurer
* Hey wood, Sir Benjamin, Bart., Claremont, near Man Chester
Heywood, James, B.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., Ardwick
Heywood, Thomas, F.S.A., Hope^End, Ledbury, Here- fordshire
Heywood, Thomas, Pendleton, near Manchester
Hibbert, Thomas Doming, Temple, London
Hickson, Charles, Manchester
Hoare, Henry James, The Lodge, Morden, Surrey
Hoare, P. R., Kelsey Park, Beckenham, Kent
*Hoghton, Henry
Hoi den, Thomas, Summerfield, Bolton
Hornby, Rev. George
Hornby, Rev. William, St. Michael's, Garstang
Howard, E. C., Brinnington Hall, Stockport
Hughes, Thomas, Chester
Hull., William Winstanley, Tickwood, near Wellington, Shropshire
*Hulton, Rev. C. G., M.A., Emberton, Newport Pagnel, Bucks
Hulton, H. T., Manchester
Hulton, W. A*, Hurst Grange, Preston
Hume, Rev. A., LL.D., Liverpool
Hunter, Rev. Joseph, F.S.A., London
Jacson, Charles R., Barton Lodge, Preston Jervis, Thomas B., Swinton Park, Manchester Johnson, W. R., The Cliffe, Wybunbury, Nantwich
LIST OF MEMBERS.
Jones, Jos., Severnstoke, Worcester Jones, Wm. Roscoe, Athenaeum, Liverpool Jordan, Joseph, Manchester
Kay, Samuel, Manchester
Kemp, George Fawke, Eochdale
Kennedy, Mrs., Ardwick House, near Manchester
Kershaw, James, M.P., Manchester
Langton, William, Manchester, Hon. Secretary
Leeds Library
Lees, Rev. William Frant, Tunbridge Wells
Legh, G. Cornwall, M.P., F.G.S., HighLegh, Knutsford
Legh, Rev. Peter, M.A., Newton, near Warrington
'Leigh, Egerton, Jun,, The West Hall, High Leigh,
Knutsford
Leigh, Henry, Patricroft
Leigh, Miss, The Limes, Hale, near Warrington Lingard, John R., Stockport Lingard, Rev. R. R., Tay Bank, Dundee Lowndes, Edward C., Preston *Loyd, Edward, Combe, Croydon *Loyd, Edward, Jun., Manchester Lycett, W. E., Manchester Lyon, Edmund, M.D., Manchester Lyon, George, Manchester Lyon, F. H., Appleton Hall, Warrington
McClure, William, Eccles
MacKenzie, John Whitefoord, Edinburgh
'Manchester, The Bishop of
Mann, Robert, Manchester I
Mare, E. R. Le, Manchester
Markland, J. H., F.R.S., F.S.A., Bath
*Marriott, John, Liverpool
Marsden, Rev. J. H., Canon of Manchester
Marsden, G. E., Manchester
* Marsh, John Fitchett, Warrington
Marshall, William, Penwortham Hall, Preston
Marshall, Frederick Earnshaw, Ditto
Marshall, John, Ditto
Mason, Hugh, Groby Lodge, Ashton-under-Lyne
Mason, Thomas, Copt Hewick, near Ripon
Massie, Rev. E., M.A., Gawsworth Rectory, near Con-
gleton
Master, The Ven. Archdeacon, M.A., Croston Mayer, Joseph, F.S.A., Lord-street, Liverpool Mellor, Thomas, Manchester Mewburn, Francis, Darlington Miller, James, Manchester and Liverpool District Bank,
Manchester
Monk, John, The Temple, London Moreland, Jas., Manchester
»Mosley, Sir Oswald, Bart., Rolleston Hall, Staffordshire *Moss, Rev. John James, Otterspool, Liverpool Moult, William, Parkside, Prescot Murray, James, Manchester
Naylor, Benjamin Dennison, Altrincham Neild, Jonathan, Jun., Rochdale Neild, William, Mayfield, Manchester
Newall, Henry, Hare Hill, Littleborough, Newall, W. S., Ackworth House, Pontefract *Newbery, Henry, Manchester Nicholson, James, Thelwall Hall, Warrington
Ormerod, George, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A., F.G.S., Sed-
bury Park, Gloucestershire Ormerod, Henry Mere, Manchester
* Parker, Robert Townley, Cuerden Hall, near Preston Parkinson, Mrs., St. Bees
Parkinson, Lieut. Colonel, Eppleton Hall, Fence
Houses, Durham
*Patten, J. Wilson, M.P., Bank Hall, Warrington Peacock, John, Hough Green, Chester Pedder, Richard, Preston Peel, George, Brookfield, Cheadle Peel, Jonathan, Knowlmere Manor, near Clitheroe Peel, Joseph, Singleton Brook, near Manchester Peet, Thomas, Union Bank, Manchester Pegge, John, Newton Heath, near Manchester Perris, John, Lyceum, Liverpool Peto, Sir Samuel M., Bart, Somer Leyton Park, near
Lowestoft Philippi, Frederick Theod., Belfield Hall, near Rochdale
* Philips, Mark, The Park, Manchester Piccope, Rev G. J., M.A., Brindle, Chorley Picton, J. A., Clayton Square, Liverpool Pierpoint, Benjamin, Warrington Pilkington, George, Manchester
Porrett, Robert, F.R.S., F.S.A., &c., 49, Bernard Street,
Russell Square, London
Prescott, J. C., Summerville, near Manchester Public Library, Boston, U. S. Public Library, Melbourne
Radford, Richard, Manchester
Radford, Thomas, M.D., Higher Broughton, near Man- chester
Raffles, Rev. Thomas, D.D., LL.D., Liverpool
Raine, Rev. J., Jun., M.A., York
Raines, Rev. F. R., M.A., F.S.A., Milnrow Parsonage, Rochdale
Ramsbotham, James, Crowboro' Warren, Tunbridge Wells
Reiss, Mrs., Broom House, near Manchester
Renaud, Dr., Manchester
Rickards, Charles H., Manchester
Robinson, Dison, Clitheroe Castle, Clitheroe
Robson, John, M.D., Warrington
Rondeau, J. B., Kent Place, Ordsall Lane, Salford
Roscoe, James, Knutsford
Royds, Albert Hudson, Rochdale
Royle, Alan, Ardwick
Rushton, James, Rawtenstall
Salisbury, Enoch Gibbon, Stanley Place, Chester
Samuels, John, Manchester
Satterfield, Joshua, Alderley Edge
*Scholes, Thomas Seddon, 16, Dale Street, Leamington
Sharp, John, Lancaster
LIST OF MEMBERS.
Sharp, Thomas B., Manchester
Sharp, William, Linden Hall, Lancaster
Sharp, William, 102, Piccadilly, London
Shaw, George, St. Chad's Upper Mills, Saddleworth
Shepherd's Library, Preston
Shuttleworth, Sir J. P, Kay, Bart., M.D., Gawthorpe
Hall, Burnley
Simms, Charles S., Manchester Simpson, John Hope, Bank of Liverpool Simpson, Rev. Samuel, M.A., St. Thomas's Parsonage,
Douglas, Isle of Man Sion College, The Master of, London Skaife, John, Blackburn
Skelmersdale, The Lord, Lathom House, near Ormskirk Smith, Rev. J. Finch, Aldridge Rectory, near "Walsall Smith, J. B.., Soho Square, London Smith, Feredey, Manchester Sowler, R. S., Manchester Sowler, John, Manchester Spafford, George, Manchester Standish, W. S. C., Duxbury Hall, Chorley *Stanley, The Lord, Knowsley
* Stanley of Alderley, The Lord
Stanley, Walmsley, Bootle Village, Liverpool *Starkie, Legendre Nicholas, Huntroyde, Padiham Sudlow, John, Manchester
Tabley, The Lord de, Tabley House, Cheshire
Tate, Wm. James, Manchester
Tatton, Thos., W. Withenshaw Hall, Cheshire
* Taylor, James, Todmorden Hall Taylor, John, Moreton Hall, Whalley Taylor, Thomas Frederick, Wigan Teale, Josh., Salford
Thicknesse, Rev. T. H., Deane Vicarage, Bolton Thomson, Joseph, Manchester Thorley, George, Manchester
Threlfall, Richard, Jun., Preston
*Tootal, Edward, The Weaste, Pendleton
Towneley, Chas., Towneley Park, near Burnley
Townend, Thomas, Belmont, Faversham, Kent
Turnbull, W. B., D.D., London
Turner, Thomas, Manchester
Tweedale, A. A., Clegg Hall, near Rochdale
Vaughan, John, Stockport
Vitre, Edward Denis de, M.D., Lancaster
Wanklyn, James H., Manchester Wanklyn, William, Trevor, Manchester Warburton, R. E. E., Arley Hall, near Northwich Ward, Edmund, Holly House, Prescot Ware, Titus Hibbert, Hale Barns, Altrincham Westhead, Joshua P. B., Lea Castle, Kidderminster
* Westminster, The Marquis of Whalley, J. E., Manchester
Wheeler, Benjamin, Exchange Arcade, Manchester Whitaker, Rev. Robert Nowell, M.A., Vicar of Whalley Whitehead, James, M.D., Manchester Whitelegg, Rev. William, M.A., Hulme, near Manchester Wilkinson, Eason Matthew, M.D., Manchester Wilkinson, T. T., Hargreaves Street, Burnley Wilson, Rev. John, M.A., Meysey Hampton Rectory, Cricklade, Gloucestershire
* Wilton, The Earl of, Heaton House Wood, William R., Singleton, Manchester Woodhouse, John, Bolton Worthington, Edward, Manchester Worthington, Robert, Manchester
Wray, Rev. Cecil Daniel, M.A., Canon of Manchester Wright, Rev. Henry, M.A., Mottram St. Andrew's, near Macclesfield
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