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FOR  THE  PUBLICATION  OF 

HISTOEICAL   AND    LITERAEY    REMAINS 

CONNECTED   WITH   THE   PALATINE  COUNTIES  OF 

LANCASTER   AND    CHESTER. 


Coimcil  for  the  year  1879-80. 

PrrstUcnt. 

JAMES  CROSSLEY,  Esq.,  F.S.A. 

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WILLIAM  BEAMOXT,  Esq. 

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JOHN  E.  bailey,  Esq.,  F.S.A. 

The  Very  Rev.  BEXJAMIN  MORGAN  COWIE,  B.D.,  F.S.A.,  Dean  of  Manchester. 
The  Worshipful  RICHARD  COPLEY  CHRISTIE,  M.A.,  Chancellor  of  the  Diocese 

of  Manchester. 
J.  P.  EARWAKER,  Esq.,  M.A.,  F.S.A., 
LIEUT.-COLONEL  FISHWICK,  F.S.A. 
HEXRY  H.  HO  WORTH,  Esq.,  F.S.A. 
WILLIAM  LAXGTON,  Esq. 

The  Rev.  .JOHN  HOWARD  MARSDEN,  B.D.,  F.R.G.S.,  late  Disney  Professor. 
The  Rev.  JAMES  RAINE,  M.A.,  Canon  of  York,  Fellow  of  Durham  University. 
FRANK  RENAUD,  Esq.,  M.D.,  F.S.A. 

(Trcas'tircr. 

ARTHUR  H.  HEYWOOD,  Esq. 

|gon0rar«  *Err*:taru. 

R.   HENRY   WOOD,  Esq.,   F.sTa.,  F.R.G.S., 

Mem.  Corr.  Soc.  Antiq.  de  Normandie. 


RULES  OF  THE  CHETHAM  SOCIETY. 

L     That  the  Society  shall  be  limited  to  three  hundred  and  fifty  members. 

2.  That  the  Society  shall  consist  of  members  being  subscribers  of  one  pound  annually,  such  subscrip- 
tion to  be  paid  in  advance,  on  or  before  the  day  of  general  meeting  in  each  year.  The  first  general  meeting 
to  be  held  on  the  23rd  day  of  ^larch,  1S43,  and  the  general  meeting  in  each  year  afterwards  on  the  1st  day 
of  March,  unless  it  should  fall  on  a  Sunday,  when  some  other  day  is  to  be  named  by  the  Council. 

3.  That  the  affairs  of  the  Society  be  conducted  by  a  Council,  consisting  of  a  permanent  President  and 
Vice-President,  and  twelve  other  members,  including  a  Treasurer  and  Secretary,  all  of  whom  shall  be 
elected,  the  first  two  at  the  general  meeting  next  after  a  vacancy  shall  occur,  and  the  twelve  other 
members  at  the  general  meeting  annually. 

4.  That  the  accounts  of  the  receipts"  and  expenditure  of  the  Society  be  audited  annually,  by  three 
auditors,  to  be  elected  at  the  general  meeting;  and  that  an\-  member  who  shall  be  one  year  in  arrear  of 
his  subscription,  shall  no  longer  be  considered  as  belonging  to  the  Society. 

5.  That  every  member  not  in  arrear  of  his  annual  subscription,  be  entitled  to  a  copy  of  each  of  the 
works  published  \>s  the  Society. 

6.  That  twenty  copies  of  each  work  shall  be  allowed  to  the  editor  of  the  same,  in  addition  to  the 
one  to  which  he  may  be  entitled  as  a  member. 

Applications  and  communications  to  be  addressed  to  the  President,  Stocks  House,  Cheethavif 
Manchester,  or  to  the  Honorary  Secretary,  Penrhos  House,  Rugby. 


PUBLICATIONS  OF  THE  CHETHAM  SOCIETY. 


,„L  First  year  ( 1 843-4). 

I.  Travels  in  Holland,  the  United  Provinces,  England,  Scotland,  and  Ireland,  1634-1635.  By  Sir 
William  Brereton,  Bart.    Edited  by  Edward  Hawkins,  Esq.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A.,  F.L.S.    fip.  viii,  206. 

II.  Tracts  relating  to  IMilitary  Proceedings  in  Lancashire  during  the  Great  Civil  War.  Edited  and 
Illustrated  from  Contemporary  Documents  by  George  Ormerod,  D.C.L.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A.,  F.G.S., 
author  of  "The  History  of  Cheshire."    p)).  xxxii,  372. 

III.  Chester's  Triumph  in  Honor  of  her  Prince,  as  it  was  performed  upon  St.  George's  Day  1610,  in 
the  foresaid  Citie.  Reiiriuted  from  the  original  edition  of  1610,  with  an  Introduction  and  Notes. 
Edited  by  the  Rev.  Thomas  Corser,  M.A.    fi^.  xviii,  36. 

Second  year  (1844-5). 

IV.  The  Life  of  Adam  Martindale,  written  by  himself,  and  now  first  printed  from  the  original  manu- 
script in  the  British  Museum.  Edited  by  the  Rev.  Richard  Parkinson,  B.D.,  Canon  of  Manchester. 
pp.  xvi,  246. 

V.  Lancashire  Memorials  of  the  Rebellion,  1715.  By  Samuel  Hibbert-Ware,  M.D.,  F.R.S.E.,  &c. 
pp.  X,  56,  and  xxviii,  292. 

VI.  Potts's  Discovery  of  Witches  in  the  county  of  Lancaster.  Reprinted  from  the  original  edition  of 
1613  ;   with  an  Introduction  and  Notes  by  James  Crossley,  Esq.    jjp.  Ixxx,  184,  52. 

Third  year  {\^\^-(:>). 

VII.  Iter  Lancastrense,  a  Poem  written  a.d.  1636,  by  the  Rev.  Richard  James.  Edited  by  the  Rev. 
Tho.mas  Corser,  M.A.    f-p.  cxii,  86.    Folding  Pedigree. 

VIII.  Notitia  Cestriensis,  or  Historical  Notices  of  the  Diocese  of  Chester,  by  Bishop  Gastrell.  Cheshire. 
Edited  by  the  Rev.  F.  R.  Raines,  M.A.,  F.S.A.     Vol.  I.     'pP-  xvi,  396.    Plate. 

IX.  The  Norris  Papers.    Edited  by  Thomas  Heywood,  Esq.,  F.S.A.    pp.  xxxiv,  190. 

Fourth  year  ( 1 846-7). 

X.  The  Coucher  Book  or  Chartulary  of  Whalley  Abbey.  Edited  by  W.  A.  Hulton,  Esq.  Vol.  I. 
pp.  xl,  338.    Plate. 

XI.  The  Coucher  Book  or  Chartulary  of  Whalley  Abbey.     Vol.  II.    pp.  339-636. 

XII.  The  IMoore  Rental.    Edited  by  Thomas  Heywood,  Esq.,  F.S.A.    pp.  Ixx,  158. 

FiftJi  year  (1847-8). 

XIII.  The  Diary  and  Correspondence  of  Dr.  John  Worthington.  Edited  by  Jas.  Crossley,  Esq.  Vol.  I. 
pp.  viii,  398. 

XIV .  The  Journal  of  Nicholas  Assheton.    Edited  by  the  Rev.  F.  R.  Raines  M.A.,  F.S.A.   pp.  xxx,  164. 

XV.  The  Holy  Lyfe  and  History  of  Saynt  Werburge,  very  frutefuU  for  all  Chi-isten  People  to  rede. 
Edited  by  Edward  Hawkins,  Esq.   pp.  xxviii,  10,  242. 

Sixth  year  (i  848-9). 

XVI.  The  Coucher  Book  or  Chartulary  of  Whalley  Abbey.     Vol.  III.    pp.  xli-liv,  637-936. 

XVII.  Warrington  in  1465.    Edited  by  William  Beamont,  Esq.    pp.  Ixxviii,  152. 

XVIII.  The  Diary  of  the  Rev.  Henry  Newcome,  from  September  30,  1661,  to  September  29,  1663. 
Edited  by  Thomas  Heywood,  Esq.,  F.S.A.    pp.  xl,  242. 


Publications  of  the  Chetham  Society.  3 

VOL  Seventh  year  (i  849-50). 

XIX.  Notitia  Cestrieusis.    Vol.  II.  Part  I.    Lancashire,  Part  I.    pp.  iv,  160,  xxviii. 

XX.  The  Coucher  Book  or  Chartulary  of  Whalley  Abbey.  Vol.  IV.  (Conclusion J.  pp.  Iv-lxiii, 937- 
1314. 

XXI.  Notitia  Cestriensis.     Vol.  II.  Part  II.     Lancashire,  Part  II.    pp.  Ixxvii,  161-352.    Plate. 

Eighth  year  ( 1 8  5  o- 1 ). 

XXII.  Notitia  Cestriensis.    Vol.  II.  Part  III.    Lancashire,  Part  III.     (Conclusion),    ^p.  353-621. 

XXIII.  A  Golden  Mirrour ;  conteininge  certaiue  pithie  and  figurative  visions  prognosticating  good 
fortune  to  England,  &c.  By  Richard  Robinson  of  Alton.  Reprinted  from  the  only  known  copy  of 
the  original  edition  of  ISSJI  in  the  British  Museum,  with  an  Introduction  and  Notea  by  the  Rev. 
Thomas  Corser,  M.A.,  F.S.A.    pp.  xxii,  10,  96. 

XXIV.  Chetham  Miscellanies.     Vol.  I.     Edited  by  William  Langton,  Esq. :  containing 

Papers  connected  with  the  affairs  of  Milton  and  his  Family.  Edited  by  J.  F.  Marsh,  Esq.  pp.  46. 
Plate. 

Epistolary  Reliques  of  Lancashire  and  Cheshire  Antiquaries,  1653-73.  Communicated  by  George 
Ormerod,  D.C.L.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A.,  and  F.G.S.     pp.\Q. 

Calendars  of  the  Names  of  Families  which  entered  their  several  Pedigrees  in  the  successive 
Heraldric  Visitations  of  the  County  Palatine  of  Lancaster.  Communicated  by  George  Ormerod, 
D.C.L.,  F.R.S.,  F.b.A.,  and  F.G.S.    pp.  26. 

A  Fragment,  illustrative  of  Sir  \Vm.  Dugdale's  Visitation  of  Lancashire.  From  MSS.  in  the 
possession  of  the  Rev.  F.  R.  Raines,  M. A.,  F.S.A.    pp.S. 

Autobiographical  Tracts  of  Dr.  John  Dee,  Warden  of  the  College  of  Manchester.  Edited  by 
James  Crossley,  Esq.    pp.  iv,  84. 

Visitations  temp.  Hen.  VIII.  The  Abbaye  of  Whaioley  (for  insertion  in  Whalley  Coucher  Book). 

Ninth  year  (185 1-2). 

XXV.  Cardinal  Allen's  Defence  of  Sir  William  Stanley's  Surrender  of  Deventer.  Edited  by  Thomas 
Heywood,  Esq.,  F.S.A.    pp.  c,  38. 

XXVI.  The  Autobiography  of  Henry  Newcome,  M.  A.  Edited  by  Rd.  Parkinson,  D.D.,  F.S.A.  Vol.  I. 
pp.  XXV,  184. 

XXVII.  The  Autobiography  of  Henry  Newcome,  M. A.    Vol.11.     (Conclusion),    ^p.  185-390. 

Tenth  year  (1852-3). 

XXVIII.  The  Jacobite  Trials  at  Manchester  in  1694.    Edited  by  William  Beamont,  Esq.   pp.  xc,  132. 

XXIX.  The  Stanley  Papers,  Part  I.  The  Earls  of  Derby  and  the  Verse  Writers  and  Poets  of  the  six- 
teenth and  seventeentli  centuries.     By  Thomas  Heywood,  Esq.,  F.S.A.    pp.  64. 

XXX.  Documents  relating  to  the  Priory  of  Penwortham,  and  other  Possessions  in  Lancashire  of  the 
Abbey  of  Evesham.     Edited   by  W.  A.  Hui/roN,  Esq.    pp.  Ixxviii,  136. 

Eleventh  year  (185  3-4) . 

XXXI.  The  Stanley  Papers,  Part  II.  Tlie  Derby  Household  Books,  comprising  an  account  of  the 
Household  Regulations  and  Expenses  of  Edward  and  Henry,  third  and  fourth  Earls  of  Derby  ; 
together  with  a  Diary,  containing  the  names  of  the  guests  who  visited  the  latter  Earl  at  his  houses 
in  Lancashire  :  by  William  Farrington,  Esq.,  the  Comptroller.  Edited  by  the  Rev.  F.  R.  Raines, 
M. A.,  F.S.A.    ^pp.  xcviii,  247.     Five  Plates. 

XXXII.  The  Private  Journal  and  Literary  Remains  of  John  Byron.  Edited  by  Richard  Parkinson. 
D.D.,  F.S.A.     Vol  I.  Part  1.    pp.  x,  320    Portrait. 

XXXIII.  Lancashire  and  Cheshire  Wills  :and  Inventories  from  the  Ecclesiastical  Court,  Chester- 
The  First  Portion.     Edited  by  the  Re  a.  G.  J.  Piccope,  M.A.    pp.  vi,  196. 


4  P2iblicatio7is  of  the  Chetha7n  Society. 

Twelfth  year  (1854-5). 

XXXIV.  The  Private  Journal  and  Literary  Remains  of  John  Byrom.    Vol.  I.  Part  II.    fp.  321-639. 

XXXV.  The  House  and  Farm  Accounts  of  the  Shuttleworths  of  Gawthorpe  Hall.  Edited  by  JoHW 
Hauland,  Esq.,  F.S.A.     Part  I.     m^.  232.     Frontispiece. 

XXXVI.  The  Diary  and  Correspondence  of  Dr.  John  Worthington.    Vol.  II.  Part  I.    pp.  2-48. 

TJiirteentJi  year  (185 5-6). 

XXXVII.  Chetham  Miscellanies.     Vol.  II.     Edited  by  William  Langton,  Esq.  :  containing 

The  Rights  and  Jurisdiction  of  the  County  Palatine  of  Chester,  the  Earls  Palatine,  the  Chamber- 
lain, and  other  Officers.     Edited  by  Joseph  Brooks  Yates,  F.A.S.,  G.S.,  and  P.S.     pp.  37- 

The  Scottish  Field.  (A  Poem  on  the  Battle  of  Flodden.)  Edited  by  John  Robson,  Esq.    pp.  xv,  2S. 

Examvnatyons  towcheynge  Cokeve  More,  Temp.  Hen.  VIII.  in  a  dispute  between  the  Lords  of  the 
Manors  of  Middleton  and  RadclyfFe.     Communicated  by  the  Rev.  F.  R.  Raines,  M.A.,  F.S.A.    pp.  30. 

A  History  of  the  Ancient  Chapel  of  Denton,  in  ^Manchester  Parish.  By  the  Rev.  John  Booker, 
M.A.,  F.S.A.    pp.  viii,  148.     Three  Plates. 

A  Letter  from  John  Bradshawe  of  Gray's  Inn  to  Sir  Peter  Legh  of  Lyme.  Edited  by  William 
Langton,  Esq.    pp.  8. 

Facsimile  of  a  Deed  of  Eichard  Bussel  to  Church  of  Evesham  (for  insertion  in  vol.  xxxj. 

XXXVIII.  Bibliographical  Notices  of  the  Church  Libraries  of  Turton  and  Gorton  bequeathed  by 
Humphrey  Chetham.     Edited  by  Gilbert  J.  French,  Esq.    pp.  199.    Illustrated  Title. 

XXXIX.  The  Farington  Papers.   Edited  by  Miss  ffarington.  j)P-  ^'^ij  179.  Five  plates  of  Signatures. 

Foitrteenth  year  (1856-7). 

XL.  The  Private  Journal  and  Literary  Remains  of  John  Byrom.    Vol.  II.  Part  I.    pp.  326  and  two 

Indexes. 
XLI.  The  House  and  Farm  Accounts  of  the  Shuttleworths  of  Gawthorpe  Hall.     Part  II.   pp.  233-472. 

Portrait. 

XLII.  A  History  of  the  Ancient  Chapels  of  Didsbury  and  Chorlton,  in  Manchester  Parish,  including 
Sketches  of  the  Townsliips  of  Didsbury,  Withington,  Burnage,  Heaton  Norris,  Reddish,  Levensliulme, 
and  Cliorlton-cum-IIardy:  together  with  Notices  of  the  more  Ancient  Local  Families,  and  Particulars 
relating  to  the  Descent  of  their  Estates.  By  the  Rev.  John  Booker,  M.A.,  F.S.A.  pp.  viii,  337. 
Seven  Illustrations. 


Fifteen  th  year  (1857-8). 


XLIII.  The  House  and  Farm  Accounts  of  the  Shuttleworths  of  Gawthorpe  Hall.    Pax-t  III.     pp.  x, 

473-776. 

XLIV.  The  Private  Journal  and  Literai-y  Remains  of  John  Byrom.  Vol.  II.  Part  II.  pp.  327-654. 
Byrom  Pedigrees,  pp.  41  and  three  folding  sheets;  Index,  pp.  v. 

XLV.  ^Miscellanies :  being  a  selection  from  the  Poems  and  Correspondence  of  the  Rev.  Thos.  "Wilson, 
B.D.,  of  Clitheroe.  With  Memoirs  of  his  Life.  By  the  Rev.  Canon  Raines,  M.A.,  F.S.A.  pp.  xc, 
230.     Two  Plates. 

Sixteenth  year  (185  8-9). 

XLVI.  The  House  and  Farm  Accounts  of  the  Shuttleworths  of  Gawthorpe  Hall.  Part  IV.  (Con- 
clusion),   pp.  777-1171. 

XLVII.  A  History  of  the  Ancient  Chapel  of  Birch,  in  Manchester  Parish,  including  a  Sketch  of  the 
Township  of  Rusholme  :  together  with  Notices  of  the  more  Ancient  Local  Families,  and  Particulars 
relating  to  the  Descent  of  their  Estates.  By  the  Rev.  John  Booker,  M.A.,  F.S.A.  p^j.  viii,  255. 
Four  Plates. 

XLVIII.  A  Catalogue  of  the  Collection  of  Tracts  for  and  against  Popery  (published  in  or  about  the  reign 
of  James  II.)  in  the  Manchester  Library  founded  by  Humphrey  Chetham  ;  in  which  is  incorporated, 
with  large  Additions  and  Bibliographical  Notes,  the  whole  of  Peck's  List  of  the  Tracts  in  that 
Controversy,  with  his  References.     Edited  by  Thomas  Jones,  Esq.  B.A.     Part  I.    pp.  xii,  256. 


Publicatio7is  of  the  ChetJiam  Society.  5 

^oj^_  Seventeenth  year  (1859-60). 

XLIX.  The  Lancashire  Lieutenancy  under  the  Tudors  and  Stuarts.  The  Civil  and  Military  Govern- 
ment of  the  County,  as  illustrated  by  a  series  of  Royal  and  other  Letters;  Orders  of  the  Privy  Council, 
the  Lord  Lieutenant,  and  other  Authorities,  &c.,  &c.  Chiefly  derived  from  the  Shuttleworth  AISS. 
at  Gawthorpe  Hall,  Lancashire.  Edited  by  John  Harland,  Esq.,  F.S.A.  Part  I.  fp.  exx,  96. 
Seven  Plates. 

L.  The  Lancashire  Lieutenancy  under  the  Tudors  and  Stuarts.    Part  II.    (Conclusion),    pp.  97-333. 

LI.  Lancashire  and  Cheshire  Wills  and  Inventories  from  the  Ecclesiastical  Court,  Chester.  The  Second 
Portion,     pjj.  vi,  2S3. 

Eigh  teen  th  year  ( 1 8  6  o- 1 ) . 

LII.  Collectanea  Anglo-Poetica  :  or,  A  Bibliographical  and  Descriptive  Catalogue  of  a  portion  of  a  Col- 
lection of  Early  English  Poetry,  with  occasional  Extracts  and  Remarks  Biographical  and  Critical. 
By  the  Rev.  Thomas  Corser,  M. A.,  F.S.A.,  Rural  Dean;  Rector  of  Stand,  Lancashire;  and  Vicar 
of  Norton,  Northamptonshire.     Parti.     pp.-s\,%)'S. 

LIII.  ilamecestre:  being  Chapters  from  the  early  recorded  History  of  the  Barony,  the  Lordship  or 
Manor,  the  Till  Borough  or  Town,  of  Manchester.  Edited  by  John  Harland,  Esq.,  F.S.A.  Vol.  I. 
pp.  1i)l.    Frontispiece. 

LIV.  Lancashire  and  Cheshire  Wills  and  Inventories  from  the  Ecclesiastical  Court,  Chester.  The  Third 
Portion.     (Conclusion),    pp. v, 212. 

Nineteenth  year  (i  86 1-2). 

LV.  Collectanea  Anglo-Pcetica.     Part  II.     pp.  vi,  209-456. 

LVl.  :SIamecestre.     Vol.11.     ;ip.  209-431. 

LVII.  Chetham  Miscellanies.    Vol.  III.    Edited  by  William  Langtox,  Esq.  :  containing 

On  the  South  Lancashire  Dialect,  with  Biographical  Notices  of  John  Collier,  the  author  of  Tim 
Bohhin.     By  Thos.  Heywood,  Esq.      pp.84 

Rentale  de  Cokersand  :  being  the  Buisar's  Rent  Roll  of  the  Abbey  of  Cokersand,  in  the  County 
Palatine  of  Lancaster,  for  the  year  1501.  Printed  from  the  Original.  Edited  by  the  Rev.  F.  R. 
Raines,  M.A.,  F.S.A.    pp.  xvii"i,  46. 

The  Names  of  all  the  Gentlemen  of  the  best  callintre  w"=in  the  countye  of  Lancastre,  whereof  choyse 
ys  to  be  made  of  a  c'ten  number  to  lend  vnto  her  ^Ma'^"  moneye  vpon  privie  seals  in  Janvarye  15SS. 
From  a  manuscript  in  the  possession  of  the  Rev.  F.  R.  Raixes,  M.A.,  F.S.A.     /)p.  9. 

Some  Instruction  given  by  William  Booth  Esquire  to  his  stewards  .lolin  Carington  and  William 
Rowcrofte,  upon  the  purchase  of  Warrington  by  Sir  George  Booth  Baronet  and  William  Booth  his 
son,  A.D.  MDCXviii.     Communicated  by  William  Beamoxt,  Esq.     pp.  8. 

Letter  from  Sir  John  Seton,  Manchester  y^  25  ^M'ch,  ]  643.  Edited  by  Thomas  Heywood,  Esq., 
F.S.A.     pp.  15. 

The  Names  of  eight  hundred  inhabitants  of  Manchester  who  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  Charles 
II.  in  April,  1679.      Communicated  by  John  Harland,  F.S.A.     pp.  8. 

The  Pole  Booke  of  Manchester,  May  y'  22^  1690.  Edited  by  William  Langton,  Esq.  pp.  43. 
Map  and  folding  Table. 


Twentieth  year  (1862-3). 


LVIII.  Mamecestre.     Vol.  III.     (Conclusion.)     pp.  xl,  433-627. 

LIX.  A  History  of  the  Chantries  within  the  County  Palatine  of  Lancaster  :  being  the  Reports  of  the 

Royal  Commissioners  of  Henry  VIII.,  Edward  VI.,  and  Queen  Mary.     Edited  By  the  Rev.  F.  R. 

Raines,  AI.A.,  F.S.A.    Vol.  I.    pp.  xxxix,  1G8. 
LX.  A  History  of  the  Chantries  within  the  County  Palatine  of  Lancaster,  <kc.    Vol.  II.    (Conclusion). 

pp.  169-323. 

Twenty-first  year  (1863-4). 

General  Index  to  the  Remains  Historical  and  Literary  published  by  the  Chetham  Society,  vols.  I-XXX. 

pp.  viii,  168. 
LXI.     I.  Abbott's  Journal.    II.  An  Account  of  the  Tryalls  &c.  in  Manchester  in  1694.    Edited  by  the 

Rt.  Rev.  Alexander  Goss,  D.D.    pp.  xix,  32  ;  xxi,  42  ;  5. 
LXII.  Discourse  of  tho   Warr  in  Lancashire.    Edited  by  William  Beamont,  Esq.     pp.  xxxiv,  164, 

Two  Plates. 


6  Publications  of  the  Chetham  Society. 

VOL.  Twenty-second  year  (i  864-5). 

LXIII.  A  Volume  of  Court  Leet  Records  of  the  Manor  of  Manchester  in  the  Sixteenth  Century. 
Compiled  and  edited  by  John  Hakland,  F.S.A.    pj).  xix,  20S.    Frontispiece. 

LXIV.  A  Catalogue  of  the  Collection  of  Tracts  for  and  against  Popery.  Part  II.  To  which  are  added 
an  Index  to  the  Tracts  in  both  editions  of  Gibson's  Preservative,  and  a  reprint  of  Dodd's  Certamen, 
Utriusque  Ecclesia3.     Edited  by  Thomas  Jones,  Esq.,  B.A.    pp.  x,  269,  17. 

LXV.  Continuation  of  the  Court  Leet  Records  of  the  Manor  of  Manchester,  a.d.  1586-1602.  By  John 
Harland,  Esq.     pp.  viii,  128. 

Twenty-tJiird  year  (1865-6). 

LXVI.  The  Stanley  Papers.  Part  III.  Private  Devotions  and  ^liscellanies  of  James  seventh  earl  of 
Derby,  K.G.,  with  a  prefatory  Memoir  and  Appendix  of  Documents.  Edited  by  the  Rev.  Canon 
Raines,  M.A.,  F.S.A.    Vol.  I.    pp.  i-ecviii.    Four  Plates. 

LXVII.  The  Stanley  Papers.     Part  III.     A^ol.  2.    pp.  ccix-cccxcv.     Four  Plates. 

LXVIII.  Collectanea  relating  to  Manchester  and  its  Neighbourhood,  at  various  periods.  Compiled, 
arranged  and  edited  by  John  Hauland,  F.S.A.    Vol.  I.    pp.  viii,  258. 

Twenty-fourth  year  (1866-7). 

LXIX.  The  Admission  Register  of  the  Manchester  School,  with  some  Notices  of  the  more  distinguished 
Scholars.  Edited  by  the  Rev.  Jeremiah  Finch  Smith,  M.A.,  Rector  of  Aldridge,  Staffordshire, 
and  Rural  Dean.     Vol.  I.,  from  a.d.  1730  to  a.d.  1775.     pp.  viii,  253. 

LXX.  The  Stanley  Papers.     Part  III.     Vol.3.    (Conclusion.)    jj/j.  112  and  65.    Frontispiece. 

LXXI.  Collectanea  Anglo-Poetica.     Part  III.    pp.  x,  2S2. 

Twe?i  ty-fiftJi  year  (1867-8). 

LXXII.  Collectanea  relating  to  Manchester  and  its  neighbourhood.     Vol.11.    ^'P.  viii.  252. 

LXXIII.  The  Admission  Register  of  the  Manchester  School,  with  some  Notices  of  the  more  dis- 
tinguished Scholars.     Vol.  II.,  from  a.d.  1775  to  April  a.d.  1807.    pp.  v,  302. 

LXXI  V.  Three  Lancashire  Documents  of  the  Fourteenth  and  Fifteenth  Centuries,  namely  :  I.  The 
Great  De  Lacy  Inquisition,  Feb.  16,  1311.  II.  Survey  of  1320-1346.  III.  Custom  Roll  and  Rental 
of  the  manor  of  Ashton-under-Ljne.  1421.     Edited  by  John  Harland,  Esq.,  F.S.A.    pp.  xiii,  140. 

Twenty  sixth  year  (1868-9). 

LXXV.  Lancashire  Funerals  Certificates.  Edited  by  Thomas  William  King,  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  Yoi'k 
Herald.  With  additions  by  the  Rev.  F.  R.  Raines,  M.A.,  F.S.A.,  Vice  President  of  the  Chetham 
Society,     pp.  viii,  102. 

LXXVI.  Observations  and  Instructions  divine  and  morall.  In  Verse.  By  Robert  Heywood  of  liey- 
wood,  Lancashire.     Edited  by  James  Cuossley,  Esq.,  F.S.A.  jsjj.xxiv,  108. 

LXXVII.  Collectanea  Anglo-Poetica.    Part  IV.    pp.  vi,  283-542. 

Twenty-seventh  year  (1869-70). 

LXXVIII.  Tracts  written  in  the  Controversy  respecting  the  Legitimacy  of  Amicia,  daughter  of 
Hugh  Cyveliok,  earl  of  Chester,  a.d.  1673-1679.  By  sir  Peter  Leycester,  hart.,  and  sir  Thomas 
Maiuwaring,  hart.  Reprinted  from  the  Collection  at  Peover.  Edited,  with  an  Introduction,  by 
Wjlliam   Beamont,  Esq.     Parti,    fijo.  xcv,  94.    Portrait  of  sir  Peter  Leycester. 

LXXIX.  Tracts  written  in  the  Controversy  respecting  the  Legitimacy  of  Amicia.  Part  II.  pp.  95-322. 
Portrait  of  sir  Thomas  Maimcaring. 

LXXX.  Tracts  written  in  the  Controversy  respecting  the  Legitimacy  of  Amicia.  Part  III.  {Conclusion.) 
pp.  323-550.     With  frontispiece  of  Stall  at  Peover. 


Ptiblications  of  the  Cketka??i  Society.  '  y 

^.QL.  Tweiity-eiglith  year  (i  870-1). 

LXXXI.  The  Visitation  of  the  County  Palatine  of  Lancaster,  made  in  the  year  1567,  by  "William 
Flower,  Esq.,  Norroy  king  of  arras.  Edited  by  the  Rev.  F.  R.  Raines,  M.A..,  F.S.A.,  Vicar  of 
Milnrow,  and  Hon.  Canon  of  Manchester,    jj^'-  ^^'j  '^'i^- 

LXXXII.  The  Visitation  of  the  County  Palatine  of  Lancaster,  made  in  the  year  1613,  by  Richard  St. 
George,  Esq.,  Norroy  king  of  arms.  Edited  by  the  Rev.  F.  R.  Raines,  M.A.,  F.S.A.,  Vicar  of  Miln- 
row, Hon.  Canon  of  Manchester,  and  Rural  Dean.    pp.  xx,  142. 

LXXXIII.  Chetham  Miscellanies,  Vol.  IV.,   containing: 

Some  Account  of  General  Robert  Venables,  of  Antrobus  and  Wincliam,  Cheshire  ;  with  an  engrav- 
ing from  his  Portrait  at  Wincham,  together  with  the  Autobiographical  Memoranda  or  Diary  of  his 
Widow,  Elizabeth  Venables.  From  the  original  JNIS.  in  the  possession  of  Lee  P.  Townshend,  Esq. 
p^J.  iv,  28.     Pedigree  I.     Portrait  of  General  Robert  Venables. 

A  Forme  of  Confession  grounded  vpon  the  Ancient  Catholique  and  Apostolique  Faith.  Made  and 
composed  by  the  honorable  ladie  The  Lady  Bridget  Egerton.  a.d.  1636.  From  the  original  MS.  in 
the  possession  of  Siu  Philip  de  Malpas  Grey  Egerton,  Bart.,  M.P.  pw.  vi,  23.  Pediqrees  2. 
Plate. 

A  Kalender  conteyning  the  Names  of  all  such  Gent,  and  others  as  upon  her  jMaty's  Pryvye  Scales 
have  paid  there  ^loney  to  the  handes  of  Sir  Hugh  Cholmondley  Knyghte  Collect'  of  Her  Hyghnes 
Loane  with"'  the  Countie  of  Chester,  together  w""  the  ^everall  Somes  and  Dales  of  Receipt,  a.d.  1597. 
From  the  original  MS.  in  the  possession  of  R.  H.  Wood,  Esq.,  F.S.  A.    pp.  iv,  4. 

History  of  Warrington  Friary.  Edited  by  William  Beajiont,  Esq.  pp.  vii,  76.  Index  4. 
Four  Plates,  being  Effigies  and  Anns,  Tomhstone-<,  and  Fragments. 


Twenty-nintJi  year  (187 1-2). 


LXXXIV.  The  Visitation  of  the  County  Palatine  of  Lancaster,  made  in  the  year  1664-5,  by  Sir  Wil- 
liam Dugdale,  Knight,  Norroy  king  of  arms.  Edited  by  the  Rev.  F.  R.  Raines,  M.A.,  F.S.A.,  Vicar 
of  ^lilurow,  Hon.  Canon  of  Manchester,  and  Rural  Dean.     Part  I.     ipp.  xiv,  104. 

LXXXV.  The  Visitation  of  the  County  Palatine  of  Lancaster,  made  in  the  year  1664-5,  by  Sir  Wil- 
liam Dugdale,  Knight.     Part  II.     itp.  105-224. 

LXXXVI.  Annals  of  the  Lords  of  Warrington  for  the  first  five  centuries  after  the  conquest.  With 
historical  notices  of  the  place  and  neighbourhood.  Edited  by  William  Beamont,  Esq.  Part  I, 
pp.  xxvi,  262.      Three  Plates. 


Thirtieth  year  (1872-3). 


LXXXVII.  Annals  of  the  Lords  of  Warrington  for  the  first  five  centuries  after  the  conquest.  Part  II. 
(Conclusion. J    xop.  263-523.     Index  11.     Three  Plates. 

LXXXVIII.  The  Visitation  of  the  County  Palatine  of  Lancaster,  made  in  the  year  1664-5,  by  Sir  Wil- 
liam Dugdale,  Knight.     Part  III.     (Conclusion.)    pp.  225-344.     Index  17. 

LXXXIX.  The  Dr.  Farmer  Chetham  MS.,  being  a  commonplace-book  in  the  Chetham  Library,  temp. 
Elizabeth,  James  I.  and  Charles  I.,  consisting  of  verse  and  prose,  mostly  hitherto  unpublished. 
Edited,  with  Introduction  and  Notes,  by  the  Rev.  Alexander  B.  Grosart.  Part  I.  'pp.  xvi,  120. 
Frontispiece  in  Photo-lithography. 

Thirty-first  year  (1873-4). 

XC.  The  Dr.  Farmer  Chetham  MS.,  being  a  commonplace-book  in  the  Chetham  Library,  temp. 
Elizabeth,  James  I.   and  Charles  I.     Part  II.     (Conclusion.)    pp.  121-225. 

XCI.   Collectanea  Anglo-Poetica.     Part  V.     pp.  xi,  250. 

XCII.  The  History  of  the  parish  of  Kirkham.  in  the  county  of  Lancaster.  By  Henry  Fishwick, 
F.R.H.8.    pp.  vii,  208  ;  Appendix  3  ;  Index  18.     Frontispiece. 


Thirty-second  year  (1874-5). 


XCIII.  The  Admission  Register  of  the  Manchester  School,  with  some  Notices  of  the  more  distinguished 
Scholars,  from  May  A.D.  1807  to  September  A.D.  1837.    Vol.  III.    Parti,    pp.  vi,  176.    Three  Plates . 


8  Publications  of  the  Chetham  Society. 

VOL. 

XCIV.  The  Admission  Register  of  the  iranchester  School,  with  some  Notices  of  the  more  distinguished 
Scholars,  from  May  a.d.  1807  to  September  a.d.  1S37.  Vol.  III.  Part  II.  fy.  177-348.  Index  19. 
Two  Flutes. 

XCV.  Abstracts  of  Inquisitions  post  Mortem,  made  by  Christopher  Towneley  and  Roger  Dodsworth, 
Extracted  from  Manuscripts  at  Towneley.     Edited  by  William  Langtox.    pp.  viii,  160  ;  Index  16. 

Th irty-tJi ird  year  (1875-6). 

XCVI.  Chetham  Miscellanies,  Vol.  V.  Edited  by  the  Rev.  Ca.von  Raines,  ]\I.A.,  F.S.A.,  Vice- 
President  of  the  Society,  containing  : 

A  Description  of  the  State,  Civil  and  Ecclesiastical,  of  the  County  of  Lancaster,  about  the  year  1590, 
by  some  of  tlie  Clergy  of  the  Diocese  of  Chester.     From  the  original  MS.  in  the  Bodleian,    pp.  xv,  48. 

A  Visitation  of  the  Diocese  of  Chester,  by  John,  Archbishop  of  York,  held  in  the  Chapter  House  of 
the  Collegiate  and  Parish  Church  of  Mancliester,  1-590,  with  the  Archbishop's  Correspondence  with 
the  Clergy.     From  the  !MS.  in  the  Bodleian,    pjp.  22.    Plate. 

Letters  on  the  Claims  of  the  College  of  Arms  in  Lancashire,  in  the  tima  of  James  the  First  ;  by 
Leonard  Smethley  and  liandle  Holme,  Deputy  Heralds,    pp.  xx,  3S. 

The  Easter  Rolls  of  Whalley  in  the  years  1552  and  1553.  From  the  originals  at  Stonyhurst. 
pp.  V,  IS. 

XCVII.  Contributions  towards  a  History  of  the  Ancient  Parish  of  Prestbury,  in  Cheshire.  By  Frank 
Rexacd,  ^I.D.    pp.  viii,  238  ;  Index  6.    Fourteen  Plates. 

XCVIII.  The  Visitation  of  Lancashire  and  a  Part  of  Cheshire,  made  in  the  Twenty-fourth  year  of  the 
reigD  of  King  Henry  the  Eighth,  a.d.  1533,  by  special  commission  of  Thomas  Benalt,  Clarencieux. 
Edited  by  William  Langto-v,  Esq.     pp.  xviii,  104. 


Thirty-fourth  year  (1876-7). 

XCIX.  Abstracts  of  Inquisitions  post  ^Mortem,  made  by  Christopher  Towneley  and  Roger  Dodsworth, 
Extracted  from  Manuscripts  at  Towneley.  Vol.  II.  Edited  by  William  Langton.  pp.  vii,  188  ; 
Index  17. 

C.  Collectanea  Anglo-Poetica.     Part  VI.     p^.  xi,  251-471. 

CI.  Collectanea  Anglo-Poetica.     Part  VII.    i^p.  viii,  208. 

Thirty-fifth  year  (1877-8). 

CII.  Collectanea  Anglo-Poetica.     Part  VIII.    jjj;.  viii,  209-430. 

cm.  Chetham  Miscellanies,  Vol.  VI.  Edited  by  the  Rev.  Canon  Raines,  M.A.,  F.S.A.,  Vice- 
President  of  the  Society,  containing  : 

The  Rent  Roll  of  Sir  John  Towneley  of  Towneley,  Knight,  for  Burnley,  Ightenhill,  &c.,  in  the 
County  Palatine  of  Lancaster.     Anno  Domini  1535-6.    pp.  xxxvi,  28. 

The  Autobiograph}-  of  ^Ir.  Langley  of  Prestwich,  seventeenth  century,  and 

A  Close  Catalogue  of  the  Rectors  of  Prestwich,  from  1316  to  1632.    pp.  xxiv,  30  ;  Index  4. 

CIV.  The  History  of  the  Parish  of  Garstang,  in  the  county  of  Lancaster.  Part  I.  Edited  by  Lieut. - 
Col.  Henky  Fishwick,  F.S.A.     pp.  vii,  140.     Tico  Illustrations. 

Thirty-sixth  year  (i  878-9). 

CV.  The  History  of  the  Parish  of  Garstang.  Part  II.  (Conclusion.)  pp.  141-277 ;  Appendix  2  ; 
Index  20  ,•  Pedigrees  5. 

CVI.  Collectanea  Anglo-Poetica.    Part  IX.    2U^-  Jx,  208. 

CVII.  Inventories  of  Goods  in  the  Churches  and  Chapels  in  Lancashire,  taken  in  the  year  a.d.  1552. 
Edited  by  John  Eglington  Bailey,  F.S.A.     Part  1.— Salford  Hundred.    2^P-  "j  ^^^^ 

TJiirty-seventh  year  (1879-80). 

CVIII.    Collectanea  Anglo-Poetica.     Part  X.    pp.  209-342. 


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JAMES  CROSSLEY,  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  President. 
WILLIAM  BEAjyiONT,  Esq.,  Vice-President. 
JOHN  E.  bailey,  Esq.,  F.S.A. 

THE  VERY  REV.  BENJAMIN  MORGAN  COWIE,  B.D.,   F.S.A., 

Dean  of  M.anchester. 
THE  WORSHIPFUL  RICHARD  COPLEY  CHRISTIE,  M.A., 

Chancellor  of  the  Diocese  of  Manchester. 
J.  P.  EARWAKER,  Esq.,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 
LIEUT. -COLONEL  FISHWICK,  F.S.A. 
HENRY  H.  HOWORTH,  Esq.,  F.S.A. 
WILLIAM  LANGTON,  Esq. 
REV.  JOHN  HOWARD  MARSDEN,  B.D.,   F.R.G.S., 

Late  Disney  Professor. 
REV.  JAMES  RAINE,  M.A.,  Canon  of  York. 
FRANK  RENAUD,  Esq.,  M.D..  F.S.A. 
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COLLECTANEA    ANGLO-POETIC  A: 

OB, 

A    BIBLIOGRAPHICAL    AND    DESCRIPTIVE 

CATALOGUE 

OF  A  POETION   OF   A   COILECTION   OF 

EARLY   ENGLISH   POETRY, 

WITH  OCCASIONAL  EXTRACTS  AND  REMARKS 
BIOGRAPHICAL  AND  CRITICAL. 


BY   THE   LATE 

REV.   THOMAS   CORSER,    M.A.,   F.S.A., 

RECTOa  OF  STAND,  LANCASHIRE;  AND  VICAR  OF 
NORTON,  NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. 


PART  X, 


PRINTED   FOR   THE   CHETHAM   SOCIETY. 
M.DCCC.LXXX. 


Pkinted  by  Charles  E.  SnMMS, 
Manchester. 


CONTENTS. 


A.D.         page 

S.  (R.)     The  Phoenix  Nest 4to  1593     209 

S.  Marie  of  iEgipt.     A  Sacred  Poeme    4to]630     216 

S.  Marie  of  ^gipt.     A  Sacred  Poem     MS., 'i.io    n.d.      218 

Saint  Peters  Ten  Teares  4to  1597     219 

Saint  Peters  Ten  Teares  4to   1602     221 

Savile  (John).     King  James  his  entertainment  at  Theobalds 

4to  1603     221 
Scott  (Gregory).     A  briefe  Treatise  agaynst  certayne  errors 

of  tlie  Romish  Cliurch  sm.  8vo,  6.1.   1574     222 

Seager  (Francis).     The  Schools  of  Vertue,  and  Booke  of  good 

Nurture      sm.  8vo,  6.1.    n.d.      227 

Seneca  his  Tenne  Tragedies  translated  into  English     ...4to,  6.I.  loSl     231 
Sheppard  (S.)     Epigrams  Theological,  Phi]oso{)hical,  and  Ro- 

mantick.     Also  the  Socratick  Session  ...sm.  8vo  1651     232 
Shipton  (William).     Dia,  a  Poem ;    to  which  is  added  Love 

made  Lovely sm.  8vo   1659     237 

Skelton.     a  Skeltonicall  salutation 
Or  condigne  gratulation 
And  iust  vexation 
Of  the  Spanish  Nation, 
That  in  a  brauado. 
Spent  many  a  Crusade, 
In  setting  forth  an  Armado 

England  to  inuado 4to, 'EiX    n.d.      240 

Smalle  (Peter).     Mans  May  or  a  Moneths  Minde 4to   1615     242 

Smithson  (Samuel).     The  Figure  of  Nine sm.  8vo    n.d.      245 

Smith  (Jud).     A  misticall  deuise  of  the  spirituall  and  godly 
loue  betwene  Christ  the  spouse,  and  the  Church 

or  Congregation sm.  8vo,  6.1.   J  575     246 

Sorrows  loy.     Or,  a  Lamentation  for  our  late  deceased  Sover- 

aigne  Elizabeth 4to   1603     248 

SooTHBRN  (John).     Pandora 4 to,  6.1.   1584      251 

Southwell  (Robert).     Saint  Peters  Complaint 4to   1595     253 


4  CONTENTS. 

A.D.        page 

Southwell  (Robert).     Saint  Peters  complaynt 4to  1595     259 

Saint  Peters  complaint    4to  1599     260 

Saint  Peters  Complaint   4to    n.d.      260 

S.  Peters  Complaint 8vo  1620     261 

St.  Peters  Complainte 12mo  1620     263 

Moeonioe.     Or,  Certaine  excellent  Poems  and  spirituall 

Hymnes    4to  1595     266 

The  Triumphs  ouer  Death    4to  1596     267 

Stanvhurst  (Richard),     The  First  Foure  Bookes  of  Virgils 

CEneis,  Translated  into  English  Heroicall  Verse. 

8vo  B.I.  1583     269 
Storeb  (Thomas).     The  Life  and  Death  of  Thomas  Wolsey 

Cardinall  4to  1599     276 

Studley  (John).     The  Seventh  Tragedie  of  Seneca,  entituled 

Medea    sm.  8vo,  b.I.   1566     283 

Taylob  (John).      The   Praise,   Antiquity,  and   commodity   of 

Beggery,  Beggers,  and  Begging   4to  1621     285 

Superbice  Flagellum,  or  the  Whip  of  Pride    sm.  Svo  1621     288 

Superbice  Flagellum sm.  8vo  1621     291 

The  Needles  Excellency 4to  1640     292 

Jaoka  Lent 4to   1620     295 

An  Arraado,  or  Nauye,  of  103  Ships  and  other  Vessels 

Svo  1627     298 

The  Liar 4to  1641     299 

Religious  Enemies  4to  1641     300 

A  Plea  for  Prerogative  :  or.  Give  Csesar  his  due  4to   1642     302 

Mad  Fashions,  Od  Fashions,  All  out  of  Fashions 4to   1642     303 

Aqua  Musae :  or,  Cacafogo,  Cacadoemon,  Captain  George 

Wither  wrung  in  the  Withers  4to  1643     305 

Epigrammas :  Written  on  purpose  to  be  read    ...sm.  Svo  1651     307 

TuRBERVlLLE  (George).     The  Eglogs  of  the  Poet.     B.  Man- 

tuan  Carmelitan,  turned  into  English  Verse. 

sm.  Svo  1  567     308 
Vander  Noodt  (John).      A  Theatre  wherein  be  represented 

as  wel  the  miseries  and  calamities  that  follow 

the  Voluptuous  Worldlings,  as  also  the  great 

ioyes  and  pleasures  which  the  faithful]  do  enioy. 

sm.  Svo,  6.1.   1569     312 


CONTENTS.  5 

A.D.        page 

Vaghanb  or  Vaughan  (Robert).     A  Dyalogue  defensyue  for 

women,  agaynst  malycyous  detractour8...4to,  6.1.   1542     319 
Vennard  (Richard).     The  Right  Way  to  Heaven :    And  the 

true  testiraonie  of  a  faithfull  and  loyal  subiect. 

4to  1601     323 
The  Right  way  to  Heaven,  and  a  good  presedent  for  Law- 

3'ers  and  all  other  good  Cliristians    4to   1602     327 

Verstegan  (Richard).     Odes  in  imitation  of  the  Seuen  Peni- 

tentiall  Psalmes    8vo  1601     332 

V^erses  of  Prayse  and  loye,  Written  upon  her  Maiesties  Preser- 

uation.       Whereunto    is    annexed    Tychbornes 

lamentation,  written  in  the  Towre  with  his  owne 

hand,  and  an  awnswere  to  the  same     ...4to,  6.1.   1586     336 
Ward  (John).     An   Encouragement  to  Warre.      Or,  Bellum 

Parliamentale      4to    n.d.      338 

The  Christians  Incouragement  earnestly  to  contend 

For  Christ  his  Gospell  and  for  all 

Our  Christian  liberties  in  thrall 

Which  who  refuseth  let  him  bee 

For  aye  Anathema,  say  wee    4to  1643     342 


COLLECTANEA   ANGLO-POETICA. 

VOL.  V.      PART  11. 


(R.)  —  The  Phoenix  Nest.  Built  vp  with  the  most 
rare  and  refined  workes  of  Noble  men,  woorthy 
Knights,  gallant  Gentlemen,  Masters  of  Arts,  and 
braue  Schollars.  Full  of  varietie,  excellent  inuen- 
tions,  and  singular  delight.  Neuer  before  this 
time  published.  Set  foorth  by  R.  S.  of  the  Inner  Temple  Gentle- 
man. 

Imprinted  at  London  by  lohn  lackson.     1593.     4to. 

Among  the  poetical  miscellanies  which  were  so  numerous  during  the  reign 
of  Elizabeth,  one  of  the  rarest,  and  at  the  same  time  most  valuable  and 
interesting  in  the  nature  of  its  contents,  perhaps  inferior  only  to  England's 
Helicon  in  the  beauty  of  its  lyrical  poems,  is  the  Phoenix  Nest.  And 
although  among  the  seventy-nine  poems  of  which  this  volume  consists, 
many  of  them  are  to  be  met  with  in  other  works  of  their  respective  writers, 
yet  several  of  these  pieces  are  to  be  found  only  in  this  valuable  collection. 
The  principal  contributors  to  this  most  rare  miscellany,  whose  names  are 
known,  Avere  George  Peele  (one),  Thomas  Lodge  (sixteen),  Nicholas 
Breton  (four),  Edward  Vere  Earl  of  Oxford  (one).  Sir  William  Harbert 
(one),  William  Smith  (one),  Thomas  Watson  (three),  and  without  initials, 
Matthew  Roydon  (one),  and  Sir  Walter  Raleigh  (one).  Besides  these  there 
are  also  fifty  pieces  in  prose  and  verse,  which  are  strictly  anonymous,  some 
of  which,  however,  it  would  not  perhaps  be  difficult  to  appropriate  to  their 
rightful  owners.  For  instance,  the  first  poem  in  the  collection  is  by 
Mattliew  Roydon,  as  we  learn  from  Nash's  Epistle  before  Greene's 
Menaphon,  1589,  4to ;  and  the  second  (according  to  Mr.  Heber)  is  by 
Sir  Walter  Raleigh,  but  is  not  included  in  any  edition  of  his  works.  The 
first  poem,  on  p.  69,  printed  in  England's  Helicon  under  the  title  of  "  The 
Shepheards  praise  of  his  sacred  Diana,"  is  also  by  Sir  Walter  Raleigh,  and 

VOL.   V.  PART  II.  £  E 


210  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO- POETICA. 

we  are  induced  to  believe  that  there  are  one  or  two  others  by  the  same 
writer. 

Various  have  been  the  conjectures  respecting  the  editor  of  the  Phcenix 
Nest,  who  is  designated  by  the  initials  R.  S.  By  Coxeter  the  work  was 
attributed  to  Eichard  Stonyhurst,  the  translator  of  a  portion  of  Virgil;  by 
Warton,  with  more  probability,  to  Richard  Stapylton ;  and  by  Waldron,  to 
Robert  Southwell  the  Jesuit.  The  first,  although  reputed  a  good  classical 
scholar,  had  scarcely  sufficient  taste  for  so  refined  and  elegant  a  work.  The 
severity  of  style,  and  the  utter  abstinence  from  amatory  or  satirical  subjects 
in  the  poems  of  Father  Southwell,  whose  eff'usions  were  entirely  of  a 
religious  cast,  forbid  our  ascribing  the  volume  to  this  writer.  Of  the  three 
persons  named,  we  are  more  disposed  to  assign  the  editorship  to  Richard 
Stapylton,  who  occasionally  wrote  verses  himself;  but  these  claims  after  all 
are  only  conjectural,  and  without  any  proper  foundation,  and  the  editor 
must,  we  fear,  still  remain  unknown.  He  was  no  doubt  personally  assisted 
by  many  of  the  contributors  to  the  volume,  and  we  must  gratefully  acknow- 
ledge the  justness  and  elegance  of  his  taste  in  the  selection  of  the  pleasing 
specimens  which  he  has  collected  together  in  this  miscellany.  Less  bright 
and  sparkling  than  the  poems  in  England! s  Helicon,  the  compositions  in  this 
volume  are  infinitely  superior  to  the  former  collections  of  Edwards,  Proctor, 
or  Robinson,  and  contain  some  of  the  most  beautiful  productions  of  Lodge, 
Breton,  and  others.  And  although  it  has  been  reprinted,  a  slight  specimen 
or  two  of  a  work  so  rare  and  so  interesting  may  not  be  unaccaptable  to  the 
readers  of  our  early  English  poetry.  The  first  is  an  extract  from  "An 
Elegie,  or  friends  passion  for  his  Astrophill.  Written  upon  the  death  of  the 
right  Honorable  Sir  Philip  Sidney,  knight,  Lord  gouernor  of  Flushing." 

And  you  compassionate  of  my  wo, 
Gentle  birds,  beasts  and  shadie  trees, 
I  am  assurde  ye  long  to  koo 
What  be  the  sorrowes  me  agreeu's, 

Listen  ye  then  to  that  in  su'th, 

And  heare  a  tale  of  teares  and  ruthe. 

You  knew,  who  knew  not  Astrophill, 
(That  I  should  Hue  to  say  I  knew, 
And  haue  not  in  possession  still) 
Things  knowne  permit  me  to  renew, 

Of  him  you  know  his  merit  such, 

I  cannot  say,  you  heare  too  much. 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  211 

Within  these  woods  of  Arcadie, 
He  cheefe  delight  and  pleasure  tooke, 
And  on  the  mouutaine  Parthenie 
Vpon  the  ehrystall  liquid  brooke 

The  Muses  met  him  eu'ry  day, 

That  taught  him  sing,  to  write,  and  say. 

When  he  descended  dowue  the  mount 
His  personage  seemed  most  diuine, 
A  thoiisand  graces  one  might  count 
Vpon  his  louely  cheerefull  eine. 

To  heare  him  speake  and  sweetely  smile 

You  were  in  Paradise  tlie  while. 

A  sweete  attractiue  kinde  of  grace, 
A  full  assurance  giuen  by  lookes, 
Continuall  comfort  in  a  face, 
The  lineaments  of  Grospell  books, 

I  trowe  that  countenance  cannot  lie, 

Whose  thoughts  are  legible  in  the  eie. 

Was  neuer  eie,  did  see  that  face, 
Was  neuer  eare,  did  heare  that  tong, 
Was  neuer  minde,  did  minde  his  grace 
That  euer  thoiight  the  trauell  long. 

But  eies,  and  eares,  and  eu'ry  thought 

Were  with  his  sweete  perfections  caught. 

O  Grod,  that  siich  a  woorthy  man 
In  whom  so  rare  desarts  did  raigne. 
Desired  thus,  must  leaue  vs  than 
And  we  to  wish  for  him  in  value, 

O  could  the  stars  that  bred  that  wit, 

In  force  no  longer  fixed  sit . 

Then  being  fil'd  with  learned  dew 
The  Muses  willed  him  to  loue, 
That  instrument  can  aptly  shew 
How  finely  our  conceits  will  moue, 

As  Bacchus  opes  dissembled  harts, 

So  loue  sets  out  our  better  parts. 

#  *  *  # 

Our  Astrophill  did  Stella  loue, 
A  Stella,  vaunt  of  Astrophill, 
Albeit  thy  graces  gods  may  moue, 
Where  wilt  thou  finde  an  Astrophill. 


212  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

The  rose  and  lillie  haue  their  prime, 
And  so  hath  beautie  but  a  time. 

Although  thy  beautie  doe  exeeede 
In  common  sight  of  eu'iy  eie, 
Yet  in  his  Poesies  when  we  reade 
It  is  apparant  more  thereby, 

He  that  hath  loue  and  iudgement  too 
Sees  more  than  any  other  doe. 

Then  Astrophill  hath  honor'd  thee. 
For  -when  thy  bodie  is  extinct. 
Thy  graces  shall  eternall  be, 
And  liue  by  rirtue  of  his  inke. 
For  by  his  verses  he  doth  giue 
To  short  liu'de  beautie  aye  to  liue. 

Aboue  all  others  this  is  hee 
Which  erst  approoued  in  his  song. 
That  loue  and  honor  might  agree, 
And  that  pure  loue  will  doe  no  wi-ong, 
Sweete  saints  it  is  no  sinne  nor  blame 
To  loue  a  man  of  vertuous  fame. 

Did  neyer  loue  so  sweetly  breath 
In  any  mortall  brest  before. 
Did  neuer  muse  inspire  beneath 
A  Poets  braine  with  finer  store  : 

He  vrvote  of  loue  with  high  conceit. 
And  beautie  rear'd  aboue  hir  height. 


Midst  lasting  griefes,  to  haue  but  short  repose. 
In  little  ease,  to  feede  on  loath'd  suspect. 
Through  deepe  despite,  assured  loue  to  lose. 
In  shew  to  like,  in  substance  to  neglect. 

To  laugh  an  howre,  to  weep  an  age  of  woe. 
From  true  mishap  to  gather  false  delight. 
To  freeze  in  feare,  in  inward  hart  to  glowe  ; 
To  read  my  losse  within  a  ruthles  sight : 

To  seeke  my  weale,  and  wot  not  where  it  lies. 
In  hidden  fraud,  an  open  wrong  to  fiude. 
Of  ancient  thoughts,  new  fables  to  deuise, 
DelightfuU  smiles,  but  yet  a  scornfull  minde. 
These  are  the  meanes  that  murder  my  releefe, 
And  end  my  doubtfull  hope  with  certaine  greefe. 


T.  L.  Gent. 


COLLECTANEA  AXGLO-POETICA.  213 

Like  to  a  Hermite  poore  in  place  obscure, 
I  meane  to  spend  my  daies  of  endles  doubt, 
To  waile  such  woes  as  time  cannot  recure, 
Where  none  but  Loue  shall  euer  fiude  me  out. 

My  foode  shall  be  of  care  and  sorrow  made, 

My  drink  nought  else  but  teares  falne  from  mine  eies. 

And  for  my  light  in  such  obscm-ed  shade, 

The  flames  shall  seruc,  which  from  my  hart  arise. 

A  gowne  of  graie,  my  bodie  shall  attire, 
My  staffe  of  broken  hope  whereon  I'le  staie, 
Of  late  repentance  linck't  with  long  desire. 
The  couch  is  fram'd  whereon  my  limbes  I'le  lay, 

And  at  my  gate  dispau'e  shall  linger  still, 

To  let  in  death  when  Loue  and  Fortune  will. 

This  was  the  piece  alluded  to  by  Isaac  Walton  in  his  Complete  Angler, 
and  was  set  to  music  by  Nicholas  Laneare,  an  eminent  composer,  and  pub- 
lished in  a  collection  entitled  Select  Musical  Ayres  and  Dialogues,  1653,  folio. 
The  song,  with  the  notes,  are  reprinted  in  Major's  Edit,  of  Walton,  1823,  8vo, 
but  with  some  variations,  and  the  second  verse  in  the  present  work  is  there 
made  the  last.  A  song  somewhat  resembling  this  occurs  in  a  poem  by 
Thomas  Lodge,  entitled  "Scillaes  Metamorphosis,"  &c.,  printed  in  1589,  4to, 
four  years  earlier  than  the  present  publication.  It  is  alluded  to  by  Pepys 
and  by  other  writers ;  and  the  first  words,  "  Like  Hermit  poor,"  were  fre- 
quently used  as  a  sort  of  proverb  or  phrase.  It  was  probably  here  printed 
for  the  first  time. 

Would  I  were  chauug'd  into  that  golden  showre 

That  so  diuinely  streamed  from  the  skies, 

To  fall  in  drops  vpon  the  daintie  floore, 

Where  in  hir  bed,  she  solitarie  lies. 

Then  would  I  hope  such  showres  as  richly  shine 

Would  pearce  more  deepe  than  these  wast  teares  of  mine. 

Or  would  I  were  that  plumed  Swan,  snowe  white, 
Ynder  whose  forme,  was  hidden  heauenly  power. 
Then  in  that  riuer  would  I  most  delitc, 
Whose  wanes  doe  beate,  against  hir  stately  bower, 
And  in  those  banks,  so  tune  my  dying  song, 
That  hir  deafe  ears,  would  think  my  plaint  too  long. 

Else  would  I  were  Narcissus,  that  sweete  boy ; 
And  she  hir  selfe,  the  sacred  fountaine  cleere, 


214  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

Wlio  rauislit  with  the  pride  of  his  owne  ioy, 
Drenched  his  lims,  with  gazing  ouer  neere  : 
So  should  I  bring,  my  soule  to  bappie  rest, 
To  end  my  life,  in  that  I  loued  best. 


The  gentle  season  of  the  yeere 

Hath  made  my  blooming  branch  appeere, 

And  beautified  the  land  with  flowres, 
The  aire  doth  sauor  with  delight, 
The  heauens  doe  smile,  to  see  the  sight, 

And  yet  mine  eies,  augments  their  showres. 

The  meades  are  mantled  all  with  greene, 
The  trembling  leaues,  haue  cloth'd  the  treene, 

The  birds  with  feathers  new  doe  sing. 
But  I,  poore  soule,  when  wrong  doth  wrack, 
Attyre  my  selfe  in  mourning  black. 

Whose  leafe  doth  fall  amid  his  spring. 

And  as  you  see  the  skarlet  Rose 

In  his  sweete  prime,  his  buds  disclose, 

Whose  hewe  is  with  the  Sun  reuiued. 
So  in  the  Aprill  of  mine  age. 
My  liuely  colours  doe  asswage 

Because  my  Sun-shine  is  depriued. 

My  hai't  that  wonted  was  of  yore. 
Light  as  the  winde  abroad  to  sore. 

Amongst  the  buds  when  beautie  springs, 
Now  onely  houers  ouer  you, 
As  doth  the  birde  that's  taken  new. 

And  moiu'ns  when  all  hu-  neighbours  sing. 

When  euery  man  is  bent  to  sport, 
Then  pensiue  I  alone  resort 

Into  some  solitarie  walke ; 
As  doth  the  dolefull  Turtle  doue. 
Who  bailing  lost  hir  faithfull  loue, 

Sits  mourning  on  some  withered  stalke. 

There  to  my  selfe,  I  doe  recount 
How  far  my  woes,  my  ioyes  surmount. 

How  Loue  requiteth  me  with  hate  : 
How  all  my  pleasures  end  in  paine, 
How  hate  doth  say,  my  hope  is  vaine 

How  fortune  frownes  vpon  my  state. 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  215 

And  in  this  moode,  charg'd  witli  despaire, 
With  vapored  sighes,  I  dim  the  aire, 

And  to  the  Gods  make  this  request : 
That  by  the  ending  of  my  life 
I  may  haue  truce  with  this  strange  strife, 

And  bring  my  soiile  to  better  rest. 


Of  all  the  woes  my  peusiue  hart  endureth, 
It  greeues  me  most,  when  I  my  sorrowes  frame 
I  knowe  not  what,  this  wretchednes  proeureth, 
Nor  whereupon  I  am  to  cast  the  blame. 

The  fault  is  not  in  hir,  for  well  I  see, 
I  am  vnworthy  of  hir  grace  in  this, 
Nor  yet  in  loue,  who  hath  vouchsafed  me 
To  knowe  within  this  life  so  rare  a  blisse. 

To  grieue  me  of  my  sight,  then  comes  to  minde, 

As  head  and  author  of  my  haples  woes  : 

But  better  afterward  aduisde  I  finde 

That  onely  from  hir  lookes,  all  sweetnes  floes. 

And  when  iust  cause  of  sorrowing  doth  faile, 

I  waile  in  fine,  because  I  cannot  waile. 

Tlie  reader  may  consult  a  note  on  the  last  line  of  this  song  in  Mr.  Park's 
reprint  in  the  Heliconia,  vol.  ii,  p.  L54:.  And  among  other  heautiful 
pieces  in  this  volume,  we  can  do  no  more  than  refer  him  to  the  fine  poem, 
"  The  Praise  of  Chastitie,"  by  George  Peele ;  the  sprightly  verses  called, 
"  A  Description  of  Loue,"  and  "  A  Description  of  Jealousy." 

This  work  has  been  reprinted  by  Mr.  Park,  with  a  short  introduction,  in 
the  second  vol.  of  Heliconia,  but,  it  is  to  be  regretted,  very  inaccurately,  and 
with  the  omission  of  several  lines.  Mr.  Malone's  copy,  which  had  formerly 
belonged  to  Dr.  Farmer,  and  was  purchased  at  his  Sale,  No.  7245,  for 
11.  19s.,  is  now  in  the  Bodleian  Library  at  Oxford  ;  Mr.  Heber's  copy,  pt.  iv, 
No.  2446,  sold  for  3/.  10s.,  and  is  now  in  the  late  Mr.  Miller's  collection  at 
Brittwell  House.  These  two,  and  the  present  one  from  Mr.  Chalmers's 
Library,  pt.  ii.  No.  916,  where  it  sold  for  40/.,  and  in  Mr.  Bright's  Sale, 
No.  4879,  for  28/.  10s.,  are  the  only  perfect  copies  known.  Sir  Francis 
Freeling  had  an  imperfect  one,  wanting  two  leaves  and  a  portion  of  another, 
which  brought  at  his  Sale,  No.  2074,  4/.  12s.  ^d.;  and  there  is  another,  also 
imperfect,  in  the  Bodleian  Library. 

For  further  notices  of  this  excessively  rare  book,  the  reader  may  consult 


216  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

Cens.  Liter.,  vol.  i,  p.  146;  and  vol.  ii,  p.  120;  Warton's  Hist.  Eng.  Poet., 
vol.  iv,  p.  227;  Beloe's  Anecd.,  vol.  vi,  p.  248;  Fry's  Bibliogr.  Memor., 
p.  76;  Drake's  Li/e  and  Times  of  S/iakespeare,  vol.  i,  p.  718;  Dibdin's 
Libr.  Comp..,  vol.  ii,  p.  291 ;  Bihl.  Heber,  pt.  iv,  p.  293;  Chalmers's  Catal., 
pt.  ii,  p.  60;  and  Park's  Heliconia. 

Bound  in  Calf,  extra. 


S.  Marie  op  ^Egipt.  A  Sacred  Poeme  describing  the  Miraculous 
Life  and  Death  of  the  Glorious  Conuert  S.  Marie  of  ^Egipt 
who  passed  fortie  seauen  yeares  in  the  desarts  leading  a 
peniteutiall  life  to  the  astonishment  of  all  succeeding  ages. 

"  Plerumque  gratior  est  Deo  feruens  post  culpam  vita ;    quam  securitate 

torpeus  iunocentia. 

D.  Qreg. 

No  place,  date,   or  printer's  name,   but  probably  Douay 
circa  1630.     4to,  pp.  66. 

A  manuscript  note,  in  an  old  hand  on  the  title  of  this  copy,  attributes  the 
poem  to  G.  Elliott,  but  whether  on  any  authority  or  not,  we  are  ignorant. 
From  the  form  of  the  type,  it  is  evident  that  this  poem  was  printed  on  the 
Continent;  and  being  in  all  probability  written  by  some  Eoman  Catholic 
priest,  studying  abroad,  in  the  English  College  at  Douay  or  St.  Oraer's,  it  is 
most  likely  to  have  been  printed  at  one  of  those  places,  probably  at  the 
former.  The  title  is  succeeded  by  "  The  Argument  of  the  Poem  from 
approved  authors,"  on  two  pages,  containing  an  account  of  the  life  of  Mary, 
the  ^aiptian,  from  various  Roman  Catholic  writers,  which  is  afterwards 
versified  and  expanded  in  the  poem.  It  is  written  with  considerable  power 
and  force  of  expression,  and  some  of  the  images  and  descriptions  are  highly 
poetical ;  and  independently  of  the  work  being  somewhat  scarce,  it  possesses 
considerable  literary  merit.  We  quote  the  following,  as  a  specimen,  from 
p.  35: 

My  prayer  ended  :  on  the  tufted  grasse 
Earth's  uatif  Carpet,  halfe  a  loafe  I  place, 
And  sitting  downe  on  Jordan's  flowry  bed, 
Prajsiug  the  Almighty's  name,  I  eale  my  bread  : 
My  tliirst  I  quench  in  the  vndamag'd  flood, 
For  what  I  tooke  in  driuke,  my  tears  made  good. 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  217 

Contented  with  this  sober  fare  I  rise, 
And  to  the  orient  skje  conuert  mine  eyes, 
Giuing  all  thanks  to  him,  who  to  all  giues 
And  with  due  foode  his  creatures  relieues  : 
That  cue,  and  most  part  of  that  night,  I  spent 
In  pi'ayer  :  the  rest  to  carefiU  slumbers  lent : 
Early  next  morning,  ere  the  rising  sun 
Had  from  the  east  his  dayly  course  begun, 
Watchful  I  rise,  my  knees  and  heart  I  bowe, 
Weepe,  and  reiterate  my  former  tow. 
And  hauing  to  the  glorious  virgin  prayd 
More  earnestly  than  euer,  for  her  ayd 
In  al  my  actions,  til  my  soule  inlargd 
From  mortal  fetters,  had  its  vowes  dischargd, 
With  constant  piu'pose  neuer  to  forsake 
The  course,  by  her  addresse  I  was  to  take. 
Strait  boating  ouer  the  saint  honourd  flood, 
I  hid  me  in  this  rnfrequented  wood  : 

From  which  time,  euer  flying,  I  haue  fled 

And  this  vsst  desart's  depth  inhabited 

Expecting  him  with  loue  and  fear,  who  saues 

The  humbled  sinner,  which,  his  mercy  craues. 
Here  she  concluded  :  he,  whose  rauisht  ears 
Had  seemd  transported  to  th'  harmonial  speres, 

Whiles  she  spake  sweeter  musicke,  now  displeasd 
Those  accents  of  her  heauenly  Toyce  were  ceasd, 

Hoping  a  while,  that  of  her  self,  she  woidd 

Some  other  passage  of  her  life  haue  told, 

Stood  mute  :  but  silent  shame  with  downe-cast  eies 

Her  aaged  face  in  vu'tue's  colour  dyes, 

At  things  her  self  had  sayd  :  this  he  perceaues  : 

And  thus  with  wordes,  her  of  new  words  deceaues  : 

How  long  (o  sainted  sinner)  is  it  since 

These  woods  their  first  biisse  borrowed  from  thy  sinues, 

Forty  seuen  times,  sayd  she,  the  golden  sim 

Through  the  twelue  sigues  its  compleate  race  hath  run 

For  so  oft  haue  I  markt  these  trees  left  bare. 

And  their  rich  out-sides  nipt  by  th'  colder  ayre. 

As  oft,  (if  this  we  reckon)  haue  I  seen 

The  fragrant  spring  restore  their  uatiue  green 

Since  Sions  holy  citty  I  forsooke. 

And  pennance  in  this  desart  vndertoke. 

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318  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

Some  of  the  expressions  and  epithets  in  this  passage,  we  think,  are  forcible 
and  noteworthy,  as  the  following  : 

But  silent  sliame  with  downe-cast  eies 

Her  aged  face  in  virtue's  colour  dyes. 

Again,  a  favourite  expression  with  the  author : 

Swimming  in  feryour,  and  loues  sweetest  sweets.         p.  53. 

Her  soul  e'en  swimming  in  her  fixed  eye.         p.  17. 

Again,  of  a  lion  : 

His  shaggy  fleece  wanes  with  his  angry  wind 
And  stares,  with  horror  quilted.         p.  61. 

i.e.,  quilled  like  a  porcupine. 

I  have  already  mentioned  that  this  is  a  scarce  poetical  volume,  and  was 
priced  in  the  Bibl.  Ang.  Poet..,  No.  480,  at  10/.  10s.  The  present  is  a  large 
copy  of  it,  but  has  part  of  a  leaf  supplied  by  manuscript.  It  was  formerly 
purchased  from  Longman's  Catalogue  for  9/.  9s. 

Bound  by  Finlay.      In  Brown  Calf. 


St.  Mary  of  jjEgipt.  A  Sacred  Poem  describing  the  Miraculous 
Life  and  Death  of  the  Glorious  Convert  St.  Mary  of  .^gipt. 
Who  past  forty  seaven  yeares  in  the  Desarts  leadeing  a 
Penetential  Life  to  the  Astonishment  of  all  Succeeding  Ages. 

"Plerumque  gratior  est  deo  feryens  post  culpam  yita,  quam  Securitate 
terpens  Inuoceutia." 

D.  Greg. 

MS.,  n.  d.     4to,  pp.  106. 

A  manuscript  copy  of  the  same  poem,  containing  53  leaves,  very  rteatly 
written  in  the  hand  of  the  time,  and  rubricated  throughout.  It  appears 
to  have  been  written  after  the  poem  was  printed,  the  orthography  being 
slightly  modernized,  but  probably  not  long  after,  by  some  English  student  at 
Douay,  and  is,  with  the  exception  just  named,  a  correct  transcript  of  the 
original ;  the  only  addition  being  a  table  of  the  contents,  occupying  two 
leaves  at  the  end,  which  is  not  in  the  printed  copy. 

Bound  by  Hayday 
In  Purple  Morocco,  blank  tooled,  gilt  leaves. 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  219 

Saint  Peters  Ten  Teares. —  Ten  Teares  of  S.  Peters,  supposedly 
written  upon  his  weeping  sorrowes  for  denying  his  Maister 
Christ. 

London  Printed  by  Gabriel  Simson  for  William  Zones,  and 
are  to  be  solde  at  his  shop  neere  Holburne  conduict,  at  the 
signe  of  the  Gunne.     1597.     4to. 

There  were  two  editions  of  these  Teares,  of  which  the  present  is  the 
first.  The  title  is  within  a  woodcut  border,  and  the  work  consists  of  ten 
short  poems,  each  containing  six  stanzas  of  six  lines,  descriptive  of  Peter's 
sorrow  and  repentance  for  denying  his  master ;  and  preceded  by  the  follow- 
ing metrical  "Introduction  to  Saint  Peter's  Teares": 

Imaginarie  Muses  get  you  gone. 

And  you  of  Ideas  idle  company  ; 
That  place  your  Pai-adicc  in  Citheron, 

And  call  upon  the  Nimplies  of  Thessalie. 
Eestraine  youi*  haughtie  metapliorick  lines  ; 
For  reuerent  truth  your  glory  undermines. 

The  Throne  of  Heauen  is  her  holy  hill. 

Whence  flowes  the  Spring  of  sauing  health : 
Insteed  of  birdes,  Archangels  sing  her  will, 

The  Temple  is  her  loue,  and  peace  her  wealth. 
O  sacred  sweete,  and  sweetest  sacred  substance : 
Vnloose  the  Springs  of  Peters  poore  repentance. 

And  thou,  O  holy  Ghost,  and  sacred  Spirit, 

Faire  milke  white  Done,  unto  the  meekest  lambe : 

The  minister  of  heauen,  the  Lord  of  merit, 
The  gladdest  messenger  that  euer  came. 

Infuse  thy  grace  so  sweetely  in  mine  cares, 

That  I  may  ti'uely  write  Saint  Peters  Teares. 

We  quote  one  of  the  poems  as  a  specimen  of  the  author's  style  of  versi- 
fication : 

The  second  Teare. 

Come  night,  the  sable  garment  of  a  sinner, 

Which  every  pure  repentant  heart  puts  on : 
Of  true  contrition  thou  was  first  beginner, 

thy  meekenes  is  apparell  fit  to  mourne 
Thou  art  a  secret  chamber  to  the  wise, 
Where  they  may  sweetly  wet  their  brinish  eyes. 


220  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

Here  is  no  prospect  to  betray  the  soule, 

or  to  seduce  the  mind  of  him  that  prayes : 
Now  value  corruption  needs  not  to  controule, 

or  fling  into  our  sinnes  secure  delayes, 
Downe  knees,  yp  hands,  weepe  eyes,  speake  careful  toung 
'Tis  dangerous  if  yee  deferre  too  long. 

O  glorious  starres,  methinks  you  are  his  eyes, 

That  staiu'd  "with  pittie  to  behold  my  paine : 
All  things  are  his  that  burnish  thus  the  skyes, 

his  matchlesse  selfe  amongst  them  doth  remaine. 
O  then  but  looke  on  Feters  lamentations. 
As  thou  doost  note  the  wickednesse  of  nations. 

If  I  but  sleepe,  I  dreame  of  thy  diuinenesse, 

0  let  me  sleepe,  and  neuer  vsake  againe : 
For  once  awake,  such  is  our  sinfull  blindnesse, 

wee  cannot  see  the  piu-enesse  of  the  same. 
Or  else  dissolue  me,  I  may  euer  dwell 
To  view  that  beautie  which  no  toung  can  tell. 

Or  let  me  els  suppose  I  see  the  same, 

Methinkes  in  soule  I  see  thy  cheerefuU  grace  : 
As  if  thou  saidst,  sad  Feter  now  refraine, 

1  haue  beheld  thy  teare  bedewed  face. 

O  Sauiour,  might  I  haue  such  comfort  still, 
I'le  haue  no  other  fantasies  by  my  wiU. 

Soft  Feter  thou  hast  many  teares  to  shed, 

thou  art  too  bolde  to  challenge  mercie  yet : 
Till  thou  art  sure  thy  sinfull  soule  is  fled, 

Morne,  noone,  and  night,  thine  eyes  must  still  be  wet : 
Then,  when  remorse  hath  drawne  thy  Fountaine  drye. 
Thy  God  hath  heard  thy  pitty  moouing  crye. 

The  author  of  these  poems  is  unknown,  but  there  is  little  doubt  that 
Southwell's  poem  of  ''  Saint  Peter's  Complaint,"  which  had  been  published 
only  two  years  before,  had  furnished  him  with  the  idea,  whose  metre  also  is 
imitated  in  the  construction  of  the  stanza,  but  to  whose  chaste  and  eloquent 
composition,  the  present  poems  are  inferior  in  deep  fervour  and  pathos. 
The  volume  is  rare,  and  is  not  noticed  in  any  bibliographical  work  that  we 
know  of,  excepting  the  Bibl.  Aug.  Poet.^  No,  681,  where  the  present  copy, 
formerly  Mr.  Hill's,  is  priced  at  6/.  6s. 

Bound  in  Brown  Calf. 


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Saint  Peters  Teares.  —  Supposedly  written  vpon  his  weeping 
sorrowes  for  denying  his  Maister  Christ. 

London  Printed  for  William  lones,  and  are  to  be  solde  at 
his  shoppe  neare  Holburne  Conduict  at  the  sigue  of  the 
Gunne.     1602.     4to,  pp.  22. 

Like  the  former  edition,  this  also  has  the  title  within  a  neat  woodcut 
border.  There  is  no  difference  in  the  contents  of  the  two  impressions, 
except  that  the  first  has  each  "  Teare  "  distinctly  entitled,  which  is  not  the 
case  in  the  present  edition.  This  is  equally  rare  with  the  other,  and  is 
priced  in  the  Bibl.  Ang.  Poet.,  No.  682,  at  5l.  5s.  The  present  is  the  same 
copy,  formerly  Mr.  Hill's,  and  was  afterwards  in  Mr.  Skegg's  collection. 
No.  1548. 

Bound  in  Calf,  extra. 


Savile,  (John.)  —  King  James  his  entertainment  at  Theobalds: 
With  his  welcome  to  Londonj  together  with  a  salutatorie 
Poeme.     By  John  Savile. 

Dicito  I6  psean,  et  16  bis  dicito  paeau. 

London  printed  by  Thomas  Snodham^  and  are  to  be  sould 
at  the  house  of  T.  Este.     1603.     -ito,  pp.  22. 

Anth.  Wood  calls  this  John  Savile  "a  great  pretender  to  poetry  in  the 
beginning  of  the  reign  of  James  I.,  and  patronized  in  his  studies  by  his 
kinsman  (a  young  spark)  called  George  Savile,  the  son  of  Sir  George 
Savile,  knight;  which  John  wrote,  amongst  other  things,  Kin^  James  his 
entertainment  at  Theobalds."  He  is  not,  however,  to  be  confounded  with 
Sir  John  Savile,  the  eminent  lawyer,  who  was  one  of  the  Barons  of  the 
Exchequer,  knighted  by  King  James  I.  in  1603,  and  who  died  in  1606. 

This  small  poetical  tract  of  eleven  leaves  by  John  Savile,  "the  pretender 
to  poetry,"  has  a  metrical  dedication  of  twelve  lines  "  To  the  right  worship- 
full  master  George  Savile,  sonne  and  heire  to  Sir  George  Savile,  knight,  his 
most  approued  kinde  patron."  Then  follows  a  prose  account  of  King  James 
his  entertainment  at  Theobalds,  the  scat  of  Sir  Robert  Cecil,  afterwards  Earl 
of  Salisbury,  on  the  3rd  of  May  1603,  where  his  majesty  and  retinue  were 


222  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO- POETICA. 

entertained  for  four  days,  on  the  way  from  Scotland  to  London,  the  festivities 
of  which  exceeded  anything  of  the  kind  hitherto  known.  This  occupies 
four  leaves,  and  the  tract  ends  with  the  "Salutatorie  Poeme  to  the  Majestie 
of  King  James,"  five  leaves  more.  The  author,  as  a  pretender  to  poetry 
himself,  could  not  avoid  noticing  the  poetical  pretensions  of  the  learned  and 
pedantic  monarch,  and  thus  alludes  to  his  published  volume  of  poesy : 

Mongst  all  estates  Poets  haue  cause  to  sing 
King  lames  his  welcome ;  for  hee  doth  exceU 
As  his  Lepantlio  and  his  Furies  tell 
In  Poesie. 

See  Wood's  Atk,  Oxo7i.,  vol.  i,  p.  77-1,  ed.  Bliss ;  Moule's  Biblioth.  Herald, 
p.  58 ;  and  the  Bibl.  Ang.  Poet.,  p.  668.  Consult  also  Nicholls's  Progresses 
of  King  James  /.,  vol.  i,  p.  135,  where  this  tract  is  reprinted  at  length.  It 
is  rare,  and  in  few  collections,  for  excepting  the  present  copy,  which  vi'as 
the  one  from  the  Bibl.  Ang.  Poet.,  and  afterwards  in  IMr.  Heber's  collection, 
pt.  iv.,  No.  2457,  and  one  in  Thorpe's  Catalogue  for  1836,  which  had  been 
Garrick's,  we  know  of  no  other  occurring  for  sale  of  late  years.  There  is 
a  copy  in  the  Bodleian  Library.  Garrick's  copy,  along  with  some  other  rare 
tracts  in  the  same  volume.  No.  1323,  were  sold  to  Thorpe  for  53/.  Os.  6af. 
Fine  copy.  Bound  by  Mackenzie. 
In  Brown  Morocco,  elegant,  gilt  leaves. 


Scot,  (Gregory.) — A  briefe  Treatise  agaynst  certayne  errors  of 
the  Romish  Church.  Very  plainly,  notably,  and  pleasantly- 
confuting  the  same  by  Scriptures  and  auncient  writers.  Com- 
piled by  Gregory  Scot  1570.  Perused  and  lisenced  according 
to  the  Queues  Maiesties  Iniunction.     1574. 

Imprynted  at  London  by  John  Awdeley.     Sm.  8vo,  pp.  62, 

This  little  6laclt  letter  treatise  is  directed  against  certain  errors  and  cor- 
ruptions of  the  Church  of  Rome,  and  we  can  easily  imagine  that  small 
works  in  verse,  like  the  present,  Avritten  in  a  plain  and  simple  style,  and 
adapted  to  the  comprehension  of  all,  must  have  produced  considerable  effect, 
at  the  time  of  the  Reformation,  on  the  minds  of  the  people,  and  have  strongly 
disposed  them  against  the  idolatry  and  superstitions  of  the  Romish  Church. 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  223 

There  is  a  liomeliness  and  earnestness  in  the  verse  which  impresses  us 
forcibly  with  the  sincerity  of  the  writer ;  and  in  all  times  of  pupular  excite- 
ment and  changes  of  public  feeling,  whether  religious  or  political,  the  aid  of 
the  poet  has  invariably  been  invoked.  It  is  this  circumstance  which  has 
induced  our  most  judicious  historians  to  bestow  peculiar  attention  upon  the 
popular  poetry  which  bears  upon  the  religious  changes  of  the  sixteenth 
century,  affording  as  it  does  an  index  to  the  spirit  which  actuated  the  early 
Reformers,  scarcely  to  be  noticed,  or,  at  all  events,  not  so  vividly,  in  the 
calmer  pages  of  prose  writers.  The  work,  which  is  of  great  rarity,  consists 
of  a  poem  divided  into  four  parts,  and  is  written  in  four-line  stanzas.  The 
title  is  succeeded  by  an  address  from  "  The  Printer  to  the  Christian  Reader," 
in  six  eight-line  stanzas,  in  which  he  says  that  it  was  published. 

Chiefly  for  the  sjmple  sorte, 
in  forme  most  plajne, 


In  pleasant  wyse,  and  order  shorte 
And  in  tlieir  mynde  the  same  contayne. 

He  also  says : 

The  Author  to  me  as  unknowiie 
To  thee,  good  Eeader  I  commende. 
*  *  *  #  * 

And  prayse  thou  God  for  this  his  lyght 
Which  in  our  dayes  doth  now  so  shine 
Who  opened  hath  the  myndes  and  syght 
Of  many  learned,  for  profit  thyne. 
To  God  alone  therefore  resigns 
These  prayses  due,  and  not  to  men, 
Yet  in  thy  praiers  haue  iu  mynde 
Their  good  estate,  and  thanke  God  then. 

The  poem  then  commences  as  follows  : 

How  is  the  faythful  City  chaungde 
from  that  it  was  before  ? 

Where  righteousnes  some  time  did  syt, 
now  bloudshed  raygneth  more. 

Rome  once  it  had  renowmed  prayse 
for  Truth  therein  dyd  dwell : 

A  faythfull  Citie  once  it  was, 
and  others  dyd  exceU. 

But  now  ungodlynes  doth  raygne 
where  fayth  dyd  then  abound : 


224  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

Their  wicked  and  most  lothsome  Hues 
throughout  the  world  doth  sound. 

Rome  is  a  cage  of  Birdes  imcleane 

a  sincke  of  filthy  synne  : 
Few  errours  haue  the  Church  infect, 

that  dyd  not  there  begynne. 

From  thence  they  spred  ouer  the  earth 

what  place  could  once  be  found, 
That  free  was  from  infection  ? 

in  Europe  none  was  found. 

After  a  few  more  introductory  stanzas  the  poem  proceeds  to  treat  of  the 
four  great  errors  of  the  Romish  Church,  against  which  it  is  directed,  viz. : 
(1.)  Against  Images  and  Idolatrie ;  (2.)  Against  the  Sacrifice  of  the  Masse, 
and  the  wicked  adoration  ;  (3.)  Against  the  praying  to  Saintes ;  (4.)  Against 
the  justification  of  workes. 

The  following  is  a  curious  passage  from  the  part  against  the  praying  to 
Saints : 

Wber  y*  Church  of  Christ  remaines 

there  God  alone  is  knowne 
His  onely  name  who  cals  upon 
those  people  be  his  owne. 

But  with  your  Eomish  church  it  is 

worse,  then  with  Juda  was, 
Because  the  number  of  your  gods 

doth  all  your  Cities  pas. 

For  no  disease  nor  daunger  is, 

but  there  was  euer,  one 
To  whom  you  did  ascribe  the  power 

of  curing  it  alone. 


Saint  John,  and  so  saint  Benedict 

all  poyson  could  expell 
Sebastian  and  Saint  Roche  for  plage 

all  others  dyd  excell. 

Saint  Blase  for  swelling  of  tlie  necke 

Otilia  for  the  sight, 
Saint  Steueu  also  was  prayde  unto 

to  saue  us  in  the  night. 

Saint  Clement  and  Saint  Christofer 
from  drowning  could  preserue, 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO- POETICA.  225 

For  payne  of  teeth  the  onely  prayse 
Oppoline  did  deserue. 

For  headach  Anastasius, 

Urbane  was  God  of  wyue, 
For  sodaiue  death  S.  Marke  was  sought 

Saint  Antony  for  oiu*  swyne. 

For  ague  was  Saint  Petronell, 

Cornelis  had  the  skill 
Of  falling  sickenes  daungeroiis 

to  saue  us  from  the  ill. 

Saint  Valentine  for  the  kinges  euyll, 

saint  Laurence  for  the  fyre 
All  prisoners  saint  Leonard  prayd 

to  graunt  them  their  desyre. 

The  Hunters  had  Eustachius, 

the  whores  had  Magdalene 
TJnto  Saint  George  in  tyme  of  warro 

what  seeking  hath  there  bene  ? 

These  be  your  gods  and  many  mo 

on  whom  the  people  call, 
These  be  your  stinking  cesternB,  that 

no  water  hold  at  all. 

When  you  thus  ranne  lyke  Infidels, 

to  seeke  helpe  at  the  dead, 
You  thought  no  doubt  in  Israeli 

there  was  no  God  to  dread. 

You  thought  hys  power  was  verye  weake, 

and  yet  do  think  the  same, 
Els  would  you  not  put  confidence 

in  any  other  name. 

But  Papistes  and  the  Heathen  both 

in  this  faith  do  agree. 
If  many  gods  they  haue  to  helpe 

the  safer  shall  they  bee. 

The  following  are  the  concluding  stanzas : 

The  tree  doth  lift  itselfe  aloft 

that  hath  least  fruite  thereon, 
But  where  great  plenty  groweth  most 

it  boweth  down  anon. 

VOL.  V.  PART  II.  G  a 


226  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

So  are  we  proiide,  and  yet  but  poore, 

no  goodnes  we  liaue  here, 
Though  we  lyue  well,  yet  euevmore 

let  us  fall  downe  in  feare. 

And  so  not  in  our  righteousnes 

but  for  his  mercies  sake, 
To  God  in  tyme  of  troubles  great 

our  prayers  we  will  make. 

As  unto  godly  workes  in  Christ 

we  all  he  created, 
So  let  us  warely  walke  therein, 

as  God  hath  ordayned. 

Forsaking  all  our  former  synnes 

renude  in  hart  and  mynde, 
Least  unto  Christ  our  Sauiour 

we  show  our  selues  unkynde. 

Who  by  his  death  dyd  us  redeeme 

not  to  our  selues  to  lyue, 
But  unto  him,  his  lyfe  for  us 

that  did  so  freely  gyue. 

O  God  be  mercyfuU  to  us 

and  blesse  us  plenteously 
The  brightnes  of  thy  countenance 

shew  us  continually. 

That  we  on  earth  thy  waies  mai  leai'n 

and  euer  thinke  thereon. 
And  that  all  nations  here  may  know 

thy  sauing  health  alone. 

Finis.  Grig.  Scot. 

The  Colophon  is  as  follows:  "Imprinted  at  London  by  John  Awdeley, 
dwelling  in  lytle  Britaine  streete  without  Aldersgate  1574."  We  are  unable 
to  state  any  information  respecting  the  author  of  this  little  poetical  treatise. 
He  is  mentioned  by  Ritson  in  his  Bibl.  Poet.,  p.  326.  See  also  Dibdin's 
Typogr.  Antiq.,  vol.  iv,  p.  56.9 ;  and  an  article  on  this  work,  with  some 
quotations,  by  Mr.  Park  in  the  Eestituta,  vol.  iii,  p.  490.  There  was  a  copy 
in  Bindley's  Library,  pt.  iii,  No.  1134,  which  sold  for  5l.  2s.  Qd.;  another,  or 
the  same,  in  Liglis's  do.,  No.  1296,  which  brought  3^.  18s.;  and  a  third  in 
Skegg's  do.,  No.  1576. 

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COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  227 

Seager,  (Francis.) — The  Schoole  of  Vertiie^  and  Booke  of  good 
Nurture^  teaching  Children  and  Youth  their  duties.  Newly- 
perused,  corrected,  and  amended.  Hereunto  is  added  a  briefe 
Declaration  of  the  duties  of  each  degree.  Also  certain  Prayers 
and  Graces  compiled  by  R.  C. 

If  thou  wilt  be  counted  vertuous  and  holy, 
Despise  not  good  counsell  but  rebuke  folly. 

London  Printed  by  M.  Flesher  for  lohn  Wright  at  the 
Kings  Head  in  the  Old  Bayley.     n.  d.     Sm.  8vo.,  illft,  IttU 

Francis  Seager,  who  with  Robert  Crowley  was  joint  author  of  this  little 
treatise,  was  one  of  the  contributors  to  the  Mirror /or  Magistrates,  for  which 
he  wrote  the  legend  of  Richard  III.,  which  first  appeared  in  Baldwyn's 
edition  of  1559.  He  also  published  '•'■  Certayne  Psalmes  (19)  select  out  of 
the  Psalter  of  David,  and  drawen  into  English  Metre,  with  Notes  to  every 
Psalme  in  iiii  Parts  to  synge  by  F.  S.,  London  Printed  by  Wyllyara  Seres, 
1553,  sm.  Svo,  and  dedicated  to  Lorde  Russell."  At  the  end  of  this  is  a 
poem  in  the  measure  of  Sternhold,  entitled  "  A  Description  of  the  Lyfe  of 
Man,  the  Worlde,  and  Vanities  thereof."  The  present  work  appears  to 
have  been  first  published  from  the  press  of  William  Seres  in  1557,  Svo  — 
again  in  1588  —  and  as  appears  from  numerous  entries  in  the  Registers  of 
the  Stationers  Company,  frequently  reprinted  both  before  and  after  the 
last-named  date.  It  is  erroneously  ascribed  by  Ant.  Wood  to  Robert 
Crowley,  who,  however,  had  nothing  to  do  with  the  former  part  containing 
The  Schoole  of  Vertue,  which  was  written  by  Seager,  and  has  his  initials  at 
the  end.  Crowley's  portion  consists  of  "  Certaine  Prayers  and  Graces 
newly  added,  to  be  used  of  Schollers,  both  before  and  after  noone.  Com- 
piled by  R.  C."  The  work  is  printed  in  hlath  letter,  but  this  edition  is  not 
earlier  than  the  reign  of  Charles  I.,  who  is  especially  mentioned  in  the  last 
poem  of  Seager's  portion,  "  The  particular  duties  of  all  degrees."  On  a 
leaf  preceding  the  title,  which  is  also  repeated  at  the  end  of  the  book,  is  a 
woodcut  figure  of  a  nobleman  or  gentleman,  with  furred  cloak,  and  a  mace 
in  his  hand,  standing  by  a  pillar,  with  a  full  woodcut  border  round  it  filling 
the  entire  page.  On  the  reverse  of  this,  and  facing  the  title-page,  is  another 
small  woodcut  frontispiece  emblematic  of  the  School  of  Vertue.  At  the 
back  of  the  title  are  some  lines,  "  The  Preachers  Counsell  to  Parents  and 


228  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

Masters,"  forming  an  anagram,  "  Robert  Crowley,"  and  below  this  another 
of  Seager,  "  The  authors  name  in  verdict."  The  Schoole  of  Vertue  contains 
various  directions,  in  verse,  on  rising  in  the  morning,  at  schoole,  at  the  table, 
at  meat,  in  church,  on  being  sent  on  a  message,  &c.;  with  directions  against 
gaming,  envy,  malice,  swearing,  filthy  talkes,  and  lying ;  and  on  the  fruits  of 
vertue,  learning,  charity,  love,  and  patience,  concluding  with  "  The  particular 
duties  of  all  degrees."  Crowley's  portion  consists,  as  before  said,  of  "  Cer- 
taine  Prayers  and  Graces  newly  added,  to  be  used  of  Schollers,  both  before 
and  after  noone.  Compiled  by  R.  C."  A  short  extract  from  each  part  of 
the  book  will  tend  to  shew  the  nature  of  the  work,  and  also  the  character 
of  the  verse. 

Against  the  horrible  sinne  of  swearing. 
Chap.  11. 

In  vaine  take  not  the  name  of  G-od, 

eware  not  at  all  for  feare  of  his  rod 
The  house  with  plagues  he  tlireatneth  to  visit, 

where  oathes  are  used  they  cannot  escape  it. 
Just  are  his  judgements  and  true  to  his  word, 

and  sharper  it  is  thea  a  two  edged  sword. 
Wherefore  beware  thou  of  his  indignation, 

learne  to  live  well  in  thy  vocation. 
Whereunto  the  Lord  through  grace  doeth  thee  call 

rising  againe  if  thou  chance  to  fall. 
By  prayer  and  repentance,  and  minde  to  amend 

for  Christ  would  have  saved  all  such  as  offend. 
If  they  doe  turne  from  their  wickednesse 

and  purpose  to  live  in  vertue  and  godlinesse. 
What  better  art  thou  for  thy  cursed  swearing 

like  a  blasphemous  beast  the  name  of  God  tearing  1 
Provoking  his  ire,  and  kindling  his  wrath 

to  endlesse  perdition  the  perillous  path  ; 
Seneca  doth  councel  thee  of  swearing  to  refrain 

although  much  profit  by  it  thou  maist  gaine, 
Fericles  whose  words  are  manifest  and  true 

doth  thee  admonish  all  oathes  to  eschew. 
The  Law  likewise  which  God  the  Lord  gave 

swearing  amongst  us  by  no  means  would  have  : 
The  counsel  of  Philosophers  I  have  expressed, 

amongst  whom  swearing  was  utterly  detested 
Much  lease  among  Christians  it  ought  to  be  used 

for  it  comes  of  the  Deuill,  and  must  be  refused- 


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Prayers  for  Scliollers. 
Compiled  by  R.  C. 

Now  that  the  day-star  dotli  appeare 

to  God  deyoutly  let  us  call, 
That  in  the  deeds  of  day -light  cleare 

he  keepe  us  from  misfortunes  all. 

Let  him  temper  our  tattling  tongue 

by  bridleing  it  after  his  will, 
Lest  horror  vile  bi'eak  us  among 

with  words  of  strife  that  sound  full  ill. 

Let  him  coTer  own  sight  alway 

by  feeding  it  as  he  kuowes  best, 
Lest  we  delight  in  value  things  too, 

and  so  draw  them  into  our  breast. 

Let  all  the  secrets  of  our  heart 

be  pure  and  eleane  from  filthiucssc 
Let  slothfuU  sluggishnesse  depart 

from  us  that  study  doe  professe. 

Let  meane  dyet  of  drinke  and  meate 

beate  downe  the  pride  of  filthy  flesh, 
Lest  raging  in  that  filthy  heate 

it  lose  of  youth  the  flowers  fresh. 

These  things  we  crave,  that  when  the  day 

by  course  of  kind  away  shall  passe 
And  night  shall  come,  then  sing  we  may 

in  praise  of  him  to  our  solace. 

We  have,  in  other  places,  given  some  short  paraphrases,  in  verse,  of  the 
Lord's  Prayer;  and  we  now  add  to  these  another  by  Crowley,  with  which 
we  conclude  our  extracts. 

Our  Father  which  in  heaven  art 

and  dost  raigne  over  all ; 
Thy  holy  name  be  sanctified 

among  both  great  and  small. 

Thy  kingdom  come  wherein  we  may 

no  wicked  thing  abide ; 
Nor  ought  that  doth  set  up  it  selfe 

or  is  puft  up  with  pride. 


230  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

Thy  will  be  done  upon  the  earth 

like  as  in  heaven  above 
Where  all  thy  creatures  work  thy  will 

because  they  doe  thee  love. 

Give  us  this  day  our  daily  bread, 
which  need  doth  make  us  crave, 

For  why  ?  our  soules  and  bodies  both 
of  thee  their  food  must  have. 

To  ask  forgivenesse  of  our  sinnes 
dear  Father,  we  arc  bold  ; 

As  we  forgive  wrongs  that  are  done 
against  us  manifold. 

Doe  thou  not  us  to  tryall  bring, 

for  we  are  weak  indeed  ; 
But  when  sin  shall  us  all  assault, 

deliver  us  with  speed. 

For  why  ?  the  kingdome  and  the  power 

and  glory  every  whit, 
Is  thine,  and  shall  be  evermore 

all  soules  say,  So  be  it. 


O  Lord  preserve  oixr  King  and  Queen, 

with  all  his  royall  traine  ; 
But  chiefly  such  as  jealous  be 

the  G-ospell  to  maintaine ; 
Which  grant,  0  God,  till  day  of  doome 

in  Britain  may  remaiue. 

Wood  remarks  of  this  treatise,  that  it  was,  in  his  day,  "commonly  sold 
at  the  stalls  of  ballad  singers."  And  indeed  the  present  copy  has  all  the 
appearance  of  a  common  chap  book,  and  no  doubt  the  work  was,  although 
now  so  rare,  frequently  reprinted.  In  his  notice  of  Seres's  edition  of  1557, 
Dr.  Dibdin  expresses  his  regret  that  a  more  particular  account  of  this  book 
cannot  be  presented  to  the  reader,  which  has  also  escaped  the  researches  of 
Herbert.  See  also  Wood's  Ath.  Oxon.,  vol.  i,  p.  544;  and  Kitson's  Bibl. 
Poet.,  p.  326. 

Collation  :  Sig.  A  1,  woodcut  and  frontispiece;  A  2,  title  page;  Sig.  A  to 
C  8  inclusive,  in  eights. 

The  present  is  an  edition  not  noticed  by  Lowndes,  and  is  bound 
In  Blue  Morocco,  gilt  leaves. 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  231 

Seneca  his  Tenne  Tragedies,  translated  into  Euglysh. 

Mercurii  nutrices,  boras. 

Imprinted  at  London  in  Fleetstreete  neere  unto  Saincte 
Dunstans  church  by  Thomas  Marsh.     1581.     4to,  iilfe.  IttU 

We  have  already  noticed  some  of  these  translations  as  they  first  appeared 
separately,  and  they  are  here  collected  together  in  one  volume  by  Thomas 
Newton,  the  translator  of  one  of  them,  the  Thebais,  and  published  under 
his  editorship.  The  title  is  within  a  compartment  with  the  Stationer's 
Arras  at  the  top,  and  termini  at  the  sides,  and  T.  M.  joined  at  the  bottom. 
The  dedication  by  Newton  is  addressed  "  To  the  Right  Worshipful  Sir 
Thomas  Henneage  Knight,  Treasurer  of  her  Maiesties  Chamber,"  and  is 
dated  "From  Buteley  in  Chesshyre  the  24  of  Aprill  1581."  This  is  suc- 
ceeded by  "The  Names  of  the  Tragedies  of  Seneca  and  by  whom  each  of 
them  was  translated;  Hercules  Furens,  Thyestes,  and  Troas,  by  Jasper 
Heywood;  CEdipus,  by  Alex.  Nevile,  1560;  Hippolytus,  Medea,  Agamem- 
non, and  Hercules  Oetoeus,  by  John  StuJley;  Octavia,  by  T.  Nuce ;  and 
Thebais,  by  Thomas  Newton."  The  latter  here  appeared  in  English  for 
the  first  time,  the  others  having  been  printed  previously.  For  although  no 
separate  editions  of  the  "Hippolytus"  and  the  "Hercules  Oetoeus"  are  at 
present  known,  it  is  not  improbable  that  they  had  been  published  before 
the  date  of  the  present  work,  although  no  copies  have  survived,  as  we  find 
that  Henry  Denham  had  licence  for  printing  the  fourth  Tragedy  of  Seneca, 
i.e.,  the  "  Hippolitus,"  which  was  afterwards  assigned  over  by  him,  with 
some  other  works,  to  Rich.  Jones  and  J.  Charlewood  in  1579.  They  are, 
for  the  most  part,  without  the  dedications  and  addresses  which  were  pre- 
fixed to  the  separate  editions,  having  only  the  Arguments  to  each  Tragedy, 
with  the  exception  of  the  fifth,  the  "  CEdipus,"  by  Alex.  Nevyle,  which  has 
a  dedicatory  Epistle  to  "  Maister  Doctor  Wotton,"  and  a  Preface  to  the 
Reader;  and  the  sixth,  the  "Troas,"  by  Jasper  Hey  wood,  which  has  an 
Address  to  the  Reader.  Doctor  Wotton  was  one  of  the  Queen's  Privy 
Counsel,  and  Godfather  to  Nevyle,  who  was  only  in  his  sixteenth  year 
when  he  translated  this  play  in  1500,  which  was  first  printed  in  1563  by 
Thomas  Colwell,  and  which  Warton  says,  "  notwithstanding  his  youth,  is  by 
far  the  most  spirited  and  elegant  version  in  the  whole  collection,"  whilst 
Mr.  Collier  thinks  him  a  most  unskilful  versifier,  and  inferior  to  all  his 
coadjutors.  But  Warton's  opinion  will  certainly  obtain  the  greater  number 
of  suffrages. 


23.2  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

As  the  first  English  translation  of  the  Tragedies  of  Seneca,  this  work  is  of 
considerable  importance,  and  merits  the  attention  of  every  admirer  of  the 
ancient  classical  drama.  The  whole  of  the  translations  (save  in  the  choruses), 
Nuce's  Octavia  alone  excepted,  are  written  in  the  long  or  Alexandrine 
measure  of  fourteen  feet,  the  Octavia  only  is  partly  in  the  ten  feet  rhyming 
measure,  and  partly  in  lines  of  eight  feet  metre,  the  whole  of  the  tragedies 
being  in  rhyme.  This  latter  play  is  also  printed  in  a  larger  type  than  the 
rest,  all  the  others  being  in  a  small  and  difficult  gothic  letter,  while  the 
arguments  and  choruses  are  in  a  roman  and  italic  letter.  They  are  not  to 
be  considered  as  mere  translations,  several  of  the  plays  being  altered  and 
transformed,  and  in  some  instances,  whole  scenes  and  choruses  being  added, 
shewing  the  talent  and  ability  of  their  writers  in  original  composition,  and 
"  that  they  were  not  always  im])licitly  enslaved  to  the  prescribed  letter  of 
their  models."  Warton  has  given  a  copious  and  interesting  account  of  this 
volume,  and  of  the  respective  merits  of  each  of  the  contributors  in  succes- 
sion. Mr.  Haslewood  also,  in  the  Cens.  Liter.,  and  Mr.  Collier,  in  his  Hist. 
Dram.  Poetry.,  have  each  of  them  written  a  description  of  the  work,  and 
afforded  examples  from  the  different  plays ;  and  as  we  have  already  quoted 
passages  from  several  of  these  in  our  account  of  the  earlier  separate  editions 
of  some  of  the  tragedies,  it  will  be  needless  here  to  multiply  them,  or  to 
extend  this  article  further.  It  will  be  sufficient  to  refer  the  reader,  if  he 
wishes  for  any  further  information  on  the  subject,  to  the  following  works : 
Warton's  Hist.  Eng.  Poet.,  vol.  iv,  p.  205 ;  Ritson's  Bibl.  Poet.,  p.  285  ; 
Cens.  Liter..,  vol.  i,  p.  387;  Bihl.  Ang.  Poet.,  p.  315;  Dibdin's  Typog. 
Antiq.,  vol.  iv,  p.  529;  Jones's  Biogr.  Dram.,  vol.  i,  p.  542;  Collier's 
Hist.  Dram.  Poet.,  vol.  iii,  p.  13 ;  Extracts  from  the  Reg.  Stat.  Comp.,  vol.  i, 
p.  147,  and  vol.  ii,  p.  148 ;  Wood's  Ath.  Oxon.,  vol.  ii,  p.  10  ;  Brit.  Bibliogr.^ 
vol.  ii,  p.  372;  Whalley's  Enquiry  into  the  Learning  of  Shakespeare ;  and 
Langbaine's  Dram.  Poets,  pp.  248,  383,  394,  and  494.  The  volume  is 
scarce,  and  has  usually  brought  a  high  price.  Bindley 's  copy,  pt.  iii.  No. 
2028,  sold  for  5l.  15s.  Qd.;  Nassau's,  pt.  ii.  No.  1003,  4^.  45.;  Bibl.  Ang. 
Poet.,  No.  662,  8/.  8s;  Ehodes's,  No.  178G,  9/.  The  present  is  a  very  fine 
copy,  and  is  bound  by  Charles  Lewis 

In  Russia,  gilt  leaves. 


Sheppard,  (S.)  —  Epigrams  Theological^   Philosophical^  and  Ro- 
mantick.      Six  Books,    Also  the   Socratick   Session,  or  the 


COLLECTANEA  ANaLO-POETICA.  233 

Arraignment  and  Conviction  of  Julius  Scaliger  with  other 
Select  Poems.     By  S.  Sheppard. 

London  Printed  by  G.  D.  for  Thomas  Bucknell  at  the 
Signe  of  the  Golden  Lion  in  Duck  Lane.  1651.  Sm.  8vo, 
pp.  285. 

After  the  very  full  and  elaborate  account  by  Mr.  Park  of  this  poeticall 
volume,  given  in  the  Cens.  Liter.,  vol.  iii,  p.  158,  it  will  be  only  necessary 
to  refer  the  reader  to  that  publication  for  a  descriptive  statement  of  its 
contents.  The  work  is  written  in  a  conceited  and  inflated  style  —  with 
many  classical  allusions  —  and  is  valuable  chiefly  on  account  of  its  fre- 
quent references  to  contemporary  poets  and  writers,  and  to  the  celebrated 
men  of  his  day.  The  following  specimens  of  his  style  are  not  unAvorthy  of 
quotation  : 

Book  3.   Epig.  13. 
Oil  a  Lady  Singing. 

What  Heavenly  sounds  inchaut  my  eares, 
Passing  the  Musick  of  the  Splieares  ? 
Me  thinks  I  heare  a  Mellodie 
Better  then  Arions  harmonie, 
The  quavering  of  a  well  tun'd  voyce 
Making  a  most  Celestiall  noise. 
Angel-like  Quires  that  sing  in  Heaven, 
The  Muses  Nine,  the  Plannets  Seven 
Stand  still,  and  listning  do  admire 
These  songs,  equall  t'  Appollos  Lyre. 

Epig.  15. 
Epitaph  on  Prince  Senry. 

Here  lies  Prince  Henry,  I  dare  say  no  more, 
Lest  after  times  this  sepucher  adore. 

See  also  Epig.  17,  Lib.  "A  Dialogue  maintained  by  five,  viz.,  the  Poet, 
Clio,  Povertie,  Ignorance,  Mammon,"  commencing  thus : 

Clio. 

Hither  direct  thy  steps,  descend  this  Cave, 
Castalia  call'd  here,  thou  a  place  shalt  have 
To  heare  our  Harmonie,  here  Homer  sate, 
When  he  his  high  immortall  lUiads  wrote ; 

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234  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

Here  Orphetis  penn'd  his  Hymns,  here  Maro  sung 
CEneas  Travells  with  a  golden  tongue : 
Here  Pindar,  and  Anacreon  did  devise 
Their  Odes,  which  since  none  e're  could  equalize  : 
Here  Flaccus,  Naso,  Spencer,  hath  heen  seen, 
I  help'd  the  last  to  frame  his  Faerie  Queen  : 
Here  make  thy  selfe  Immortall,  taste  this  spring, 
Which  will  informe  thee  like  some  God  to  sing 
And  though  (perhaps)  thou  taste  of  some  affliction, 
It  shall  be  sweetned  by  our  Benediction.     &c.,  &c. 

Epig.  19,  Lib.  4,  is  also  deserving  of  notice ;  it  contains 

The  Poets  Invitation  to  Ben  Jonson's  Ghost  to  appeare  again. 

Reverend  shade,  Thy  Lawi*ell  wreath 

Since  last  I  made  Doth  lie  beneath 

Survey  of  thee  Great  Phoebus  feet, 

Meethinks  I  find  He  askes  of  thee 

A  fresher  mind  Which  way  to  be 

To  Poesie.  A  God  more  great. 

Most  honoured  Ben,  Thou  Ben  shalt  be 

Appeare  agen,  A  Saint  to  me 

That  so  I  may  Each  Verse  I  make, 

Embrace  thy  Ghost  Pie  censure  it, 

Although  it  cost  By  thy  great  Wit, 

My  life's  decay.  If  it  partake. 

Sacred  Spirit  The  least  of  thine 

Whose  boundlesse  merit  I  will  Divine 

I  adore,  It  shall  subsist 

Upon  thy  Herse  Alas  if  not, 

I'le  drop  a  Verse  The  same  I'le  blot 

And  no  more.  'T  wil  not  be  mist. 

Sheppard,  although  he  appears  to  have  been  a  member  of  the  sacred  pro- 
fession, must  be  considered,  even  for  those  days,  as  extremely  licentious  and 
coarse ;  so  much  so,  indeed,  as  to  have  occasioned  the  remarks  of  his  friends, 
who  "  taxed  his  studies  as  incompatible  with  his  profession,"  which  called 
forth  an  answer  from  Sheppard  in  another  publication,  called  Discoveries : 
or  an  Exfloratian  and  Explication  of  some  (Enigmatical  Verities,  12rao, 
1652.  He  was  also  a  great  plagiarist;  in  proof  of  which  the  reader  may 
compare  the  42nd  Epig.,  Lib.  3,  "  To  Sir  Alexander  Wroth,  of  the  most 
noble  Order  of  the  Garter,  Knight,  a  Resolution  to  his  Demand,"  &c.,  with 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  235 

a  passage  from  '•'■  The  Battailes  of  Crescey  and  Poictiers,"  by  Charles  Aleyn, 
12mo,  1633,  beginning, 

As  Sarum's  beauteous  Couutess  in  a  dance 
Her  loosen'd  garter  unawares  let  fall,  &c. 

The  whole  idea  being  taken,  word  for  word,  from  the  latter  work.  Lib.  5? 
Epig.  28,  "  Epitaph  on  that  excellently  Learned  young  man  Mr.  Anthony 
Dyer,"  is  also  probably  taken  from  some  other  author,  the  opening  lines 
strongly  resembling  some  I  have  read  elsewhere.  Lib.  6,  Epig.  17,  "  In 
Memory  of  our  Famous  Shakespeare,"  is  one  of  the  most  favourable  speci- 
mens of  Sheppard's  abilities.  This  has  been  already  quoted  by  Mr.  Ellis  in 
his  Specimens  of  the  Early  English  Poets,  vol.  iii,  p.  322,  and  is  also  given 
among  the  commendatory  verses  prefixed  to  the  works  of  our  immortal 
dramatist. 

At  the  close  of  the  epigrams  is  "  The  Socratick  Session,"  with  a  new  title- 
page,  and  a  dedication  in  prose  to  his  friend  James  Yate  Esquire.  The 
volume  concludes  with  "  A  Mausolean  Monument,  erected  by  a  SorrowfuU 
Sonne  over  his  Deceased  Parents :  With  Three  Pastorals,"  and  the  fragment 
of  a  fourth,  "two  of  them  alluding  to  some  Late  Proceedings  between 
Parties,"  with  another  new  title-page,  and  dedication  to  Christopher  Clapham 
of  Beamsley  Esquire.  \i\  the  third  of  these  pastorals,  the  author  alludes  in 
a  pleasing  manner  to  Spenser,  Sir  Philip  Sidney,  Drayton,  Sir  John  Haring- 
ton,  Daniel,  Ben  Jonson,  Shakespeare,  Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Sir  John 
Suckling,  and  other  writers  of  that  day. 

In  the  Muses  Cabinet,  by  William  Winstanley,  12mo,  1655,  another  vain 
and  conceited  writer,  is  the  following  complimentary  tribute : 

To  Mr.  Sheppard  on  his  most  excellent  Epigrams. 

Sheppard  tliou  bast  These  in  their  time 

Martial  o're  past,  For  wits  the  prime 

Ansonius  conquered  ;  Of  poets  counted  were 

Thou  Harrington  But  if  to  thee 

Hast  overcome  Compar'd  they  be 

And  Owen  stricken  dead.  We  see  they  nothing  are. 

Then  sit  thee  down 
Whilst  we  do  crown 

Thy  head  with  wreaths  of  bays, 
The  Muses  nine 
Do  all  combine 

To  warble  forth  thy  praise. 


236  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

Sheppard  lived  in  the  troublous  times  of  Charles  I.,  and  was  celebrated 
for  his  loyalty.  He  was  the  son  of  a  Dr.  Harman  Sheppard,  a  physician, 
who  died  July  12,  1639,  at  the  advanced  age  of  90  years,  and  of  Petronella, 
his  wife,  who  died  September  10,  1650,  upon  whom  he  wrote  funeral  elegies. 
He  is  said  by  Oldys,  in  his  manuscript  notes  on  Langbaine,  to  have  been 
imprisoned  in  Whittington  Goal  for  writing  a  paper  called  "  Mercurius 
Elencticus,"  to  which  circumstance  of  his  life  two  of  the  epigrams  appear 
evidently  to  allude.  Lib.  5,  Epig.  25,  "A  Frolick  to  Capt.  Baines,  the  Poet 
being  Prisoner  (for  his  Loyalty)  in  Whittington  Gaole."  And  Lib.  0,  Epig, 
16,  "  iVIy  Imprisonment  in  Whittington  for  writing  Mercurius  Elencticus." 
Sheppard  wrote  The  Times  displayed  in  Six  Sestyads,  4to,  1646,  with  a 
folding  plate,  which  is  quoted  by  Malone  in  his  Shakespeare,  vol.  x,  p.  187, 
and  of  which  there  is  a  copy  in  the  British  Museum ;  The  Year  of  Jubilee, 
or  England's  Releasement,  4to,  Lond,  1646;  and  The  Loves  of  Amandus 
and  Sophronia,  1650.  He  was  also  a  dramatic  writer,  and  published  in 
two  parts  The  Committee-man  curried,  a  Comedy  presented  to  the  view  of  all 
men.  A  Pie  discovering  the  Corruption  of  Committee-men,  and  Excise-men; 
the  unjust  Sufferings  of  the  Royal  Party,  &c.,  &c.,  4to,  Lond.,  1647,  in 
which  Langbaine  accuses  him  of  great  plagiarism  from  Sir  John  Suckling 
and  Sir  Robert  Stapleton's  translation  of  the  first  and  third  satires  of  Juvenal^ 
and  not  without  good  foundation,  for  the  greatest  part  of  his  play  is  taken 
in  the  most  barefaced  manner  from  those  works.  He  is  supposed  also  to 
have  written  The  Jovial  Creie;  or  The  Devill  turn  d  Ranter ;  being  a  Cha- 
racter oj  the  roaring  Ranters  of  these  Times,  represented  in  a  Comedie,  &c., 
4to,  Lond.,  1651,  and  published  anonymously. 

Samuel  Sheppard  also  wrote  a  long  Poem  entitled  The  Fairie  King 
fashioning  Love  and  Honor  in  an  Heroicall  Heliconian  Dresse,  the  manu- 
script of  which  is  in  Rawlinson's  collection  in  the  Bodleian  Library,  Oxford. 
This  work  was  written  in  imitation  of  Spenser's  Faerie  Queene,  and  the 
notice  he  gives  of  that  poet  is  probably  a  better  stanza  than  any  to  be  found 
in  his  printed  works. 

Spencer  the  next,  whom  I  doe  thinke't  no  shame 

To  imitate,  if  now  his  worke  affords 
So  vast  a  glory !  O  how  faii-e  a  fame, 

Had  hee  not  doated  ou  exploded  words, 
Had  waited  on  him !     Let  his  honour'd  name 

Find  veneration  'bove  the  Earth's  great  Lords  ! 
Great  Prince  of  Poets,  thou  canst  never  die, 

Lodg'd  in  thy  rare  immortall  history. 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  237 

See  Langbaine's  Dram.  Poets.,  p,  471  ;  Jones's  Biogr.  Dram..,  vol.  i,  p. 
654;  Ellis's  Specimens.,  vol.  iii,  p.  322;  and  the  Bibl.  Ang.  Poet.,  No.  705, 
where  a  copy  is  marked  at  12/.  12s,  A  copy  sold  at  Lloyd's  sale,  No.  1131, 
for  Ql.  The  present  one  has  the  scarce  engraved  frontispiece,  containing  a 
portrait  of  the  author  sitting  in  an  arm  chair,  presenting  his  hook  to  Mercury 
in  exchange  for  a  crown  of  bays. 

Bound  in  Russia. 


Shipton,  (William.) — Dia,  a  Poem;    To  which  is  added  Love 
made  Lovely.     By  WiUiam  Shipton.     Published  by  a  Friend. 

Hsec  dedit  ut  Pereant. 

London,  Printed  for  Charles  Tyus^  at  the  Sigue  of  the 
Three  Bibles  on  the  middle  of  London-Bridge.  1659.  Sm. 
8vo. 

This  rare  poetical  volume  is  fully  described  by  Mr.  Park  in  the  Cens. 
Liter..,  vol.  iii,  p.  215,  from  the  present  copy,  which  formerly  belonged  to 
him,  and  also  in  the  Bibl.  Ang.  Poet.,  No.  730,  where  it  is  said,  "  This  is  a 
production  so  rare,  that  besides  the  present  copy  (which  was  Dr.  Farmer's) 
there  is  probably  not  more  than  another  known."  Besides  the  poems  them- 
selves, which  are  full  of  the  most  extravagant  hyperbole  and  ridiculous  con- 
ceit and  obscurity,  and  a  prose  piece  in  the  middle  of  the  volume  extending 
to  sixty-five  pages,  called  "  Cupid  made  to  see,  and  Love  made  Lovely," 
the  introductory  portion  extends  to  thirty  pages,  comprising  a  dedication 
"  To  the  Truly  Noble  Edward  Trotter  Esquire,"  an  address  to  the  Reader 
signed  by  himself,  and  commendatory  verses  by  Jo.  Cooke  Gent.  Aulae  Clar., 
and  Richard  Shipton.  The  dedication  begins  in  the  following  affected 
style :  "  Honoured  Sir,  I  must  confesse,  a  better  Artist  should  have 
scanned  the  Jacobs-Ladder  of  your  favours, —  a  more  famous  Archimedes 
have  taught  his  star-gazeing  eyes  to  feed  on  the  Sunshine  of  your  Cour- 
tesies, for  the  meer  folly  of  Presumption,  degraded  the  Cream  of  the 
Creation  from  Commencing  Nobles  in  that  Ccelestiall  Athens;  And  the 
high  Element  of  perfection,  where  your  Highnesse  sits  Enshrined,  Deity  is 
a  Pitch  above  the  sorage  of  my  scarce-Penfeathered  Muse,  to  fly  without 
the  strong  ambition  of  Eagles  Wings,  whose  Quick-sighted  eye,  no  Comet- 
Eay  can  force  to  obliquity.  Yet  I  fear  not,  Gemms  never  were  Sullied  for 
want  of  Cabinets,  and  Rosy-flowers  find  ahvaies  some  engrafture.     Ccesar 


238 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLOPOETICA. 


by  cliance  came  an  Executor  to  Vifyills  Poems,  and  if  you  can  deny  a  cour- 
teous entertainment,  a  Grave-buriall  may  be  had  by  any  Saxon.  Mcecenas 
Patronized  one  from  death,  in  the  Living  Monument  of  his  breast,  who 
himself  said,  '  Non  tumulum  qusero,  sepelit  Natura  relictos.'"  We  cite  a 
few  stanzas  from  one  of  the  poems,  not  for  their  poetic  ^vorth,  but  on  ac- 
count of  the  scarcity  of  the  volume.     The  poem  is  entitled 

Parnassus,  or  Sis  Lady  Dia^s  praise. 


Let  Amorists  dote  on 

CliimcBra's  feigned  worth, 

"Who  sips  up  Helicon  ? 

A  Lady's  name  sets  forth  : 
With  a  more  noble  shrine 
Then  Deities  that  shine, 
In  crimson  Eobes  divine. 

Who  sees  her  beauty-rays, 

For's  Ink,  must  Nectar  quaffe ; 

To  reach  the  sublime  layes, 

A  Mathematick-stafFe. 
The  longest  Pole  of  night 
Will  serve  but  to  indite ; 
Above  the  common  fliglit. 

That  we  adore  'tis  vain 
Those  muses  much  admir'd : 
Who  wants  a  high-pitcht  strain  ; 
Even  at  her  face's  inspir'd. 
There  cou  chant  always  lies 
Up-rais'd  Hyperbolies : 
Beyond  a  vulgar  prize. 

Sols  pinions,  if  extract 

Made  by  a  cherubs  skill ; 

As  glorious  as  exact 

As  is  an  Angell's  quill. 
But  fits  enough  to  tell 
Each  wondrous  miracle, 
In  superhumane  spell. 


Bright  Legends  of  the  Gods 

Those  dignities  t'unfold ; 

At  least  would  be  at  odds 

In  registers  of  gold  : 
I  love  a  heavenly  Lute 
To  sing,  men  are  a  mute 
That  is  beyond  dispute. 

Those  Hierarchy  of  maids 

Breathe  to  the  star-fed  skies 

From  their  Pierian  vades 

But  fond  Tautologies. 
And  'tis  a  common  face 
That  wants  a  beauty-grace, 
As  poor  men  Herauld's  blaze. 

A  face  so  rich,  so  rare 

In  Spicy-fragi'ant  scents : 

Here's  Alabaster-air 

There's  th'  perfum'd  Orients. 
The  rosy  phoenix  nest 
In  Sabian  odours  drest 
Or  flowrings  of  the  east.     " 

The  Indies  guilded  were 

At  her  divine  approach, 

When  she's  (brave  flowers  appear) 

In  Summer's  verdant  Coach  : 
Eude  Satyres  learn  to  trace 
Sweet  welcoms  in  each  place 
At  her  bay-browed  face. 


And  Autumes  dying  crest 
Dismantled  of  all  fame, 
Her  rich-weaved  robes  invest, 
At  th'  eccho  of  her  name. 
All  has  an  appetite, 
To  relish  the  delight 
Of  her  desired  sight. 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  239 

We  quote  a  few  more  lines  from  "  May's  Cabinet,"  containing  an  oft-re- 
peated simile,  not  unpoetically  expressed  : 

Thus  th'  early  Lark,  best  Herauld  of  the  day, 

Summons  up  PJiehus  with  her  lovely  lay, 

When  by  her  AngeU-voyce  she  slugs  on  high, 

Her  purer  Mattius,  to  the  purer  skie. 

Tho'  wee  poor  sacrilegious  men  can't  prize 

The  Anthem,  'tis  her  moi-ning  Sacrifice. 

WhUe  wee  in  lethargy  of  sleep  are  drown'd, 

She  from  her  Rose-quilt  bed  with  Lillies  crowu'd, 

In  Florals  gorgeous  fields,  betimes  on  wings 

Her  Orizons  in  braye  Corrantoes  sings. 
As  doth  my  Dia  iu  a  Cherubs  note 
Her  high-rais'd  ditties  to  the  Heavens  quote. 

Besides  the  poems  in  praise  of  liis  Mistress  Dia,  after  the  prose  portion  of 
the  volume  occur  elegies  "  On  the  death  of  his  friend  Thomas  Sliipton 
drowned  " ;  "  On  the  death  of  the  most  Heroick  Lord  Sheffield  ";  "  On  his 
honored  Friend  Mr.  Robert  Wilson,  a  Famed  Musitian  ";  "  On  Gun-Powder 
Treason  " ;  "  On  the  death  of  the  truly  Noble  " ;  and  other  pieces,  together 
with  a  few  letters,  not  deserving  of  notice. 

Mr.  Park,  in  a  manuscript  note  in  this  volume,  says,  "  Shipton's  Dia  is  a 
production  I  have  not  traced  in  any  poetical  collection."  And  Mr.  Heber 
remarks,  "  See  a  copy  of  this  book  (probably  Coxeter's)  in  Osborne's  Cat. 
for  1748,  p.  321,  No.  12,008.  Possibly  the  present  copy,"  This  volume 
is  the  one  which  belonged  to  Dr.  Farmer,  at  whose  sale  in  1798,  No.  6594, 
it  was  purchased  by  Mr.  Park.  It  was  afterwards  in  the  collection  de- 
scribed in  the  Bibl.  Aug.  Poet.^  No.  730,  from  whence  it  was  purchased  in 
1815  for  10/.,  by  Mr.  Heber,  and  at  his  sale  in  1834,  pt.  iv.  No.  2368,  it 
was  again  sold  for  21.  2s.,  and  shortly  afterwards  came  into  the  hands  of  its 
present  owner.  The  only  other  supposed  copy  known  was  sold  at  Mr. 
Hibhert's  sale  in  1829,  No.  7404,  for  21.  2s.  Since  then  another  copy  has 
occurred  for  sale,  which  Avas  in  the  Strawberry  Hill  collection,  No.  129  of 
the  third  day's  sale. 

Bound  in  Calf,  neat. 


240  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

Skelton. 

A  Skeltonicall  Salutation, 
Or  condigne  gratulation, 
And  iust  vexation 
Of  the  Spanish  Nation, 
That  in  a  brauado. 
Spent  many  a  Crusado, 
In  setting  forth  an  Arm  ado 
England  to  inuado. 
Imprinted  at  London  for  Toby  Cooke.     4to,  i)lfe.  Utt. 

The  above  is  the  quaint  title  to  this  curious  satire  or  pasquinade,  written 
in  commemoration  of  the  signal  defeat  of  the  invincible  (as  it  was  termed) 
Spanish  Armada,  the  author  of  which  is  unknown.  That  it  was  not  Skelton 
is  certain,  that  poet  having  died  in  1529  ;  nor,  though  written  in  imitation 
of  his  style,  does  it  bear  much  resemblance  to  it  beyond  the  form  of  metre. 
It  is  in  Ijlacit  letter,  and  consists  of  eight  leaves,  without  any  dedication, 
address,  or  other  title  than  what  is  given  above.  The  "Skeltonicall  Saluta- 
tion" ends  on  the  reverse  of  A  4,  when  a  fresh  poem  is  commenced,  entitled 
"  A  Question  annexed,  touching  our  sea-fish,  nourished  with  Spanish  bloud." 
This  is  finished  on  sig.  B  2,  and  the  remainder  is  occupied  with  a  Latin 
Macaronic  poem,  addressed  "  Ad  Regem  Hispanum." 

Cum  tua  non  fuerint  heroica  facta  Philippe, 
Kisu  digua  cano  carmiue  ridicule. 

The  following  are  the  concluding  lines  of  the  first  poem  : 

Wherefore  to  be  short  And  ere  it  be  long, 

I  thee  exhort,  Make  thee  sing  a  song 

For  thine  owne  comfort,  Of  0  si  sciuissem, 

If  witte  thou  haue  Me  coniinuissem, 

Thincke  him  a  knaue  Ef  non  fecissem. 

That  doth  aduise  But  now  Pope  blisse  him, 

Such  an  enterprise  :  And  Mydas  kisse  him, 

For  in  this  cause  Aud  so  I  dismisse  him 

Our  Faith  and  Lawes,  To  his  good  Phisition 

We  will  sell  om*  hues,  Master  Inquisition, 

Our  landes,  and  wiues,  By  whose  disposition 

Too  deerc  for  thee,  He  taketh  the  diet, 

When  soeuer  it  be,  That  will  him  disquiet 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 


241 


And  turue  up-side  downe 

(Which  would  make  a  man  frowns) 

Both  kingdome  and  crowne, 

And  fame  and  renowne, 

And  so,  sirs,  valete. 

Et  volis  eauete, 

A.  medicis  ignaris. 

Chirurgis  auaris 

Meretnce  Romana 

Insulsa  et  insana, 

Et  factione  Guisiayia. 

Except  you  be  so  expert 

The  Latin  poem  commences  thus : 

Qui  Eegis  Hispanos 
Superbos,  et  vanos, 
Crudeles,  et  insanos, 
Multum  aberrasti 
Ciim  tuos  animasti, 
Et  bellum  inchoasti 
Contra  Anglos  animosos. 
Fortes,  et  bellicosos, 
Nobiles,  et  generosos, 
Qui  te  excitavit 
Procul  dubio  deliravit, 
Et  te  fasciuavit. 
Nam  omnes  sperabant 
Qui  te  amabant 
Idcoque  iuvabant, 
Multum  te  valere 
Viribns  et  cere, 
Hisque  respondere 
Animum  generosum. 
Caput  tuum  annosum, 
Et  pectus  animosum. 
Sed  nunc  cementes, 
Et  conspicientes, 


That  you  can  conuert 

At  your  own  pleasure 

Whicli  were  a  great  treasure, 

The  Lutheran  seas, 

Which  doe  you  displease. 

To  be  of  your  faction 

And  ioyne  in  yom*  action, 

Or  some  way  can  finde 

To  master  the  winde 

That  it  be  to  your  minde. 

And  then  regnate 

Et  prcE  gaudio  cacate 

Per  omnia  monasteria  monaehorum. 


Licet  dolentes, 
Omnes  tuas  capios 
Eedactas  ad  inopias, 
Migrasse  ad  Ytopias, 
Stiipent,  et  mirantiu", 
Piurimum  vexantur, 
Et  pene  exanimantur. 
At  AiigU  et  Germani, 
Qui  sunt  Antihispaui, 
Et  omnes  mente  sani, 
De  tuS  ruina 
Qua  poena  divina, 
Turbaris  ad  ima, 
Valde  Isetantur, 
Et  exhilarantur, 
Sibique  gratulantur, 
Quod  stidtitia  detecta, 
VI  tua  rejecta, 
Et  re  infecta 
Ignominiam  nactus, 
Es  in  fugam  actus 
Et  funditus  fractus. 


This  work  is  mentioned  by  Mr.  Park,  with  an  extract  from  it,  in  the 
Cens.  Liter. ^  vol.  ii,  p.  18.  See  also  Dibd.  Libr.  Comp.,  vol.  ii,  p.  280. 
Mr.  Dyce,  in  the  third  appendix  to  his  edition  of  Skelton's  Works,  vol.  i, 
p.  cxxvi,  containing  extracts  from  pieces  which  are  written  in  the  metre 

VOL.  V.  PART  II.  I  I 


243  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO- POETICA. 

called  Skeltonical^  has  likewise  given  some  quotations  from  this  poem.  In 
Farmer's  Catalogue,  No.  7205,  it  is  mentioned  as  being  printed  at  Oxford, 
by  Barnes,  1589,  4to,  and  sold  for  \l.  10s.;  Bindley,  pt.  iv.  No.  596,  U.  4«.; 
Inglis,  No.  1357,  3/.  135.  6(/.;  Freeling,  No.  2069,  21 

The  present  copy  belonged  to  John  Broadley,  Esq.,  of  Kirkella,  at  whose 
sale  it  was  purchased  by  Mr.  Heber,  from  whose  collection  it  was  obtained. 
Bound  by  Lewis.     Green  Morocco,  gilt  leaves. 


Smalle,  (Peter.) — Mans  May  or  a  Moueths  Minde :  Wherein 
the  Hbertie  of  mans  minde  is  compared  to  the  Moneth  of  May. 
By  Peter  Smalle  Batchelour  in  the  Lawes. 

Cerne  quod  insidise  sacris  a  vatibus  absunt 
Et  facit  ad  mores  ars  quoq:  nostra  bonos. 

London  Printed  by  George  Purslowe,  for  Samuel  Rand,  and 
are  to  be  sold  at  his  Shop  neere  Holborne  bridge.  1615. 
4to,  pp.  26. 

Of  this  extremely  rare  poem  we  know  of  no  other  copy  than  the  present, 
formerly  in  the  Roxburghe  and  Jolley  collections,  in  which  last,  pt.  iv, 
No.  868,  it  sold  for  14/.  145.,  and  one  hi  the  rich  collection  of  early  English 
poetry  in  the  Bodleian  library.  It  is  dedicated  by  the  author,  in  verse,  "  To 
the  Right  Worshipfull  his  most  louing  good  friend  Sir  Henry  Blomar  of 
Hatherup  in  the  County  of  Glocester,  Knight,"  two  six-line  stanzas,  then  a 
single  stanza 

Ad  Eundem. 

To  you  in  whom  the  Graces  haiie  their  dwelling 

In  whom  the  Muses  make  their  mansion  ; 

That  are  for  Learning,  and  for  Ai't  excelling, 

For  sweet  conceit,  and  sharpe  inuention, 
To  jou  I  send  this  infant  Muse  of  mine 
To  whom  true  iudgement  doth  her  seate  resign. 

And  lastly,  addresses  "  To  all  Gentlemen  Students  and  Schollars,"  and  "  To 
the  Reader  the  Authors  Resolution,"  both  in  verse.  In  these  he  speaks  of 
his  "  infant  muse,"  and  of  this  being  his  "  first  fruits,"  so  that  we  may  con- 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  243 

elude  tliey  were  -written  during  his  early  youth.  Whether  he  abandoned 
these  ]i"-hter  pursuits  for  the  more  grave  and  severe  study  of  the  law,  or 
whether  he  wrote  any  other  poems,  we  are  unable  to  say,  but  we  are  not 
aware  of  any  other  work  of  his  being  now  extant. 

The  poem  is  written  in  the  form  of  a  satire,  and  treats  of  the  vices  and 
hypocrisy  of  men  —  of  the  value  of  time  and  of  its  waste  —  the  abuse  of 
our  liberty  and  other  subjects,  and  is  not  without  merit.  The  lines  are 
clear  and  forcible,  and  would  almost  seem  to  shew  the  pen  of  a  practised 
writer.  The  following  description  of  the  joyous  month  of  May  is  rather 
poetical,  and  will  bear  quotation  : 

May  may  be  fitly  tearm'd  (in  my  opinion) 

The  Mistris  of  the  Moneths,  and  Natures  Minion  : 

May  Natures  beauty,  beautifying  Nature, 

May  Natures  ioy,  delighting  euery  creature  ; 

All  Natures  Impes,  she  trimmes  -with  colours  gay, 

And  glories  her  rich  beauty  to  display, 

Decking  the  bosome  of  the  Earth  with  flowers, 

Nose-gayes  for  Ladies  and  their  Paramours. 

In  May  the  little  buddes  do  sproiit,  and  spring, 

lu  May  the  little  Birds  do  chirpe  and  sing  : 

In  May  the  earth  is  clad  in  gaudy  greene 

To  entertaiue  and  welcome  Sommers  Queene. 

The  Winde  doth  whistle  Musicke  to  the  leaues, 

They  dance  for  ioy,  thus  eu'ry  thing  receiues 

Pleasure  by  Mayes  approach,  and  true  content, 

And  doth  reioyce  with  generall  consent, 

And  striue  (in  emulation)  who  shall  be 

Most  I'ichly  clad  in  Natures  liuery, 

To  entertaine  the  Paragon  of  Time, 

Each  thing  is  in  his  chiefest  pomp  and  prime. 

But  amongst  all  that  multitude  and  choyce, 

Ceres,  and  old  Syluanus  most  reioyce 

Sliee  in  a  kirtle,  he  a  coat  of  greene, 

He  like  a  Eon-ester,  she  like  a  Queene 

And  faire  Queene  Flora,  th'ornament  of  bowers, 

Clad  in  a  gowne  embroidered  all  with  flowers, 

Is  not  the  last  that  with  a  ioyfuU  cheere, 

Doth  entertaine  this  Minion  of  the  yeere 

Some  May  iu  time,  some  May,  before  May  come, 

Some  neuer  May,  some  make  their  May  in  lune ; 

Take  May  while  May  is ;  for  it  hath  his  date, 

When  May  is  gone  thou  climb'st  the  Tree  too  late 


244  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

Nay  whilst  May  lasts,  we  do  bestow  it  ill, 
According  not  to  wisdome,  but  our  will ; 
(Our  wicked  will)  which  makes  the  world  to  be 
So  full  of  sinne,  and  all  iniquitie. 

The  remainder  of  the  poem  is  chiefly  taken  up  with  the  reflections  on  the  use 
and  abuse  of  time,  and  the  work  concludes  on  Sig.  D  1  with  the  following  re- 
marks on  our  proneness  in  imitating  the  habits  and  fasliions  of  other  nations  : 

How  idlely  do  they  spend  their  time,  mans  treasure, 

In  spending  it  on  vanity  and  pleasure. 

On  gay  apparell,  following  euery  fashion 

And  imitating  (Ape-like)  euery  nation  ? 

Some-times  the  French,  some-times  the  Spanish  hatte, 

Some-times  the  crowne  is  sharp,  some -times  tis  flat, 

Some-times  a  deepe  starcht  ruffe  doth  stiffly  stand 

Some-times  a  little  narrow  falling  band. 

Some-times  their  doublets  doe  but  case  the  skinne, 

Some-times  they  thrust  a  pound  of  bombaste  in. 

Some-times  their  hose  are  streight,  some-times  th'are  wide, 

O  the  Miudes  folly,  and  the  bodies  pride ! 

Pride  will  be  fine,  or  she  her  goodes  will  pawne 

Her  painted  Chariot  is  with  Peacocks  drawne, 

Pride  lookes  aloft,  still  staring  on  the  starres, 

Yet  some-times  into  want  (at  vnawares). 

She  falles,  and  then  what  other  doth  betide 

But  Pouerty  ?  the  iust  reward  of  Pride. 

Mans  soule  hath  reason,  and  his  sence  hath  will, 

The  one  doth  counsaile  good,  the  otlier  ill : 

Reason  doth  shew  us  vertues,  gifts  and  graces. 

Will  shew  vs  pleasures,  which  the  flesh  imbraces. 

Proud  sinfuU  flesh,  the  prison  of  the  soule. 

That  dares  his  heauenly  Goddesse  to  coutrole  : 

Whose  will  a  weede  in  fairest  garden  growne, 

Choakes  all  the  sweetest  flowers  by  nature  sowne, 

Nay  sowne  by  God,  till  in  the  spring  of  May, 

The  great'st  Creator  both  of  Night  and  Day, 

First  Gard'ner  planted  Man,  the  first  line  clay, 

To  make  in  ISden  an  eternall  May  : 

But  there  it  dyed :  and  there  my  muse  shall  rest. 
And  am  I  not  'mong  Satyres  chiefly  blest, 
That  end  so  well  in  passing  ouer  vice, 
That  I  shall  make  an  end  in  Paradice  ? 
Concerning  the  writer  of  this  poem,  we  are  unable  to  supply  our  readers 
with  any  information,  his  name  not  occurring  in  any  sources  that  are  accessi- 
ble to  us.     There  is  generally  the  greatest  difliculty  in  recovering  even  the 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  245 

slightest  particulars  respecting  the  obscure  writers  of  this  period,  and  it  is 
by  the  merest  accident  that  any  information  can  be  obtained,  unless  their 
names  happen  to  be  recorded  by  such  writers  as  Ant.  Wood.  The  work 
does  not  appear  to  be  in  any  of  our  public  libraries. 

In  Green  Morocco,  irilt  leaves. 


SiiiTHsox,  (Samuel.)  —  The  Figure  of  Niue.  Containing  these 
Nine  Observations,  Wits,  Fits,  and  Fancies,  Jests,  Jibes,  and 
Quiblets,  with  Mirth,  Pastime,  and  Pleasure. 

The  Figxxre  of  Nine  to  you  I  here  present 
Hoping  thereby  to  give  you  all  content. 

London,  Printed  for  J.  Deacon,  and  C.  Dennison,  at  their 
Shops  at  the  Angel  in  Guiltspur-street,  and  at  the  Stationers 
Arms  within  Aldsate.     n.  d.     Sm.  8vo. 


^a" 


These  "  Figures "  seem  to  have  issued  from  the  press  in  great  numbers 
during  the  first  half  of  the  seventeenth  century,  some  of  them  being  written 
by  Martin  Parker  and  other  ballad-mongers  of  the  time,  all  very  much 
resembling  each  other,  and  partaking  of  the  character  of  the  common  chap 
book.  They  were  for  the  most  part  published  anonymously,  though  some 
of  them,  the  Figures  of  Five  and  Seven  for  instance,  have  Parker's  initials, 
and  in  the  present  case  we  have  the  full  name  of  the  anther.  The  Figure 
of  Nine  consists  of  eight  leaves,  the  title  being  succeeded  by  "The  Epistle 
to  the  Reader,"  sixteen  lines  in  verse,  signed  Samuel  Smithson.  The  chief 
portion  of  the  book  is  in  prose,  concluding  with  a  song  entitled  "  Good 
counsel  in  bad  times.  The  tune  is  Old  Simon  the  King,"  which  is  called 
a  "  Sonnet,"  but  is  in  seven  octave  verses  with  a  chorus  or  repetition.  The 
whole  is  of  a  coarse  and  indelicate  nature,  and  will  scarcely  admit  of 
quotation.  A  curious  collection  of  these  rare  tracts  from  the  Figure  of  Three 
to  the  Figure  of  Seven,  that  of  Four  containing  three  parts,  was  sold  in 
Mr.  Heber's  Library,  pt.  iv.  No.  721,  for  4/.  Is.  They  appear  to  have  been 
frequently  reprinted.  The  present  is  one  of  the  rarest  of  the  series,  and 
we  are  not  aware  of  any  other  copy  than  this.  Even  the  name  of  the 
author  is  quite  unknown  to  all  previous  bibliographers. 

Bound  by  Bedford, 
In  Dark  Green  Morocco,  gilt  leaves. 


246  COLLECTANEA  ANrxLO-POETICA. 

Smith,  (Jud.) —  A  raisticall  deuise  of  the  spiritual  and  godly  loue 
betwene  Christ  the  spouse,  and  the  Church  or  Congregation. 
Firste  made  by  the  wise  Prince  Salomon,  and  now  newly  set 
forth  in  verse  by  Jud  Smith.  Wherunto  is  annexed  certeine 
other  briefe  stories.  And  also  a  Treatise  of  Prodigalitie  most 
fit  and  necessarie  for  to  be  re&,d  and  marked  of  all  estates. 

Imprinted  at  London  by  Henry  Kirckham,  and  are  to  be 
soldo  at  his  Shoppe,  at  the  little  northe  doore  of  Paules,  at 
the  signe  of  the  Black  Boie.    1575.    Sm.  8vo,  pp.  32,  Uft.  Iftt. 

The  present  very  early  metrical  version  of  Solomon's  Song  is  unnoticed 
by  Ames,  Herbert  or  Dibdin,  and  is  of  such  rarity,  that  we  believe  no  other 
copy  than  the  present  is  known.  The  title  is  followed  by  a  short  prose 
address  of  two  pages  to  the  Christian  Reader  by  John  Wharton,  a  puritanical 
schoolmaster  and  writer  of  poetry,  who  was  the  author  of  "  Whartons 
Dreame :  contevninge  an  Inuective  against  certaine  abhominable  Cater- 
pillars,  as  vsurers,  extorcioners,  leas-mongers  and  such  others,  confounding 
their  diuellysh  sectes  by  the  authoritie  of  holy  Scripture,"  1578,  4to,  filarft 
letter.  A  ballad  entitled  "Whartons  Follie,"  licensed  July  26,  1576,  and 
"Wartons  Novell,"  licensed  to  Henry  Kirckham,  April  21,  1577,  were 
probably  the  production  of  the  same  writer.     The  address  thus  commences  : 

In  perusing  this  little  volume  intituled,  A  misticall  deuise,  being  requested  of  my 
frend  therunto,  I  did  fynde  such  a  pleasantnes  theriu,  that  my  hart  I'eioyced  and 
gaue  du  signes  wliat  pleasure  and  delight  my  miude  of  it  eonceiued.  For  surely 
(gentle  Reder)  if  thou  couit  to  heare  anye  olde  babies,  as  I  may  terme  them,  or 
stale  tales  of  Chauser,  or  to  learne  howe  Acteon  came  by  his  horned  head  ?  If  thy 
mynde  be  fixed  to  any  such  metamorphocall  toyes,  this  booke  is  not  apt  nor  fit  for 
thy  purpose.  But  if  thou  art  contrarywise  bent,  to  heare,  or  to  read  holsome 
documentes,  as  it  becometh  all  Christians,  tlien  take  this  same :  For  thou  shalt  fynde 
it  sweeter,  (as  the  Prophet  sayetli)  then  the  honye  or  the  honye  combe.  For  Salomon 
had  great  delite  in  the  makinge  of  these,  to  recreat  and  I'euyue  his  spirits,  and  called 
them  by  this  name  Canticum  Canticorum,  whyche  is  to  saye  :  the  song  of  songes. 

The  "misticall  deuise"  occupies  ten  pages,  and  contains  a  metrical 
version  of  the  fifth  and  sixth  chapters  only  of  Solomon's  Song,  written  in  a 
feeble  and  prosaic  manner.  To  this  succeeds,  in  verse  also,  "  A  coppie  of 
the  Epistle  tliat  Jeremye  sent  unto  the  Jewes,  which  were  led  away 
Prisoners  by  the  King  of  Babiion,  wherein  he  certifyeth  them  of  the  thinges 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  247 

which  were  coramaunded  him  of  God."  This  also  extends  to  ten  pages, 
and  is  thus  closed,  "The  ende  of  the  Prophesie  of  Baruch.  Finis.  Jud 
Smyth.  Babes  beware  of  Images."  Then  follow  "  The  commaundements 
of  God  our  Creator  geuen  by  Moyses.  Exod.  xx."  A  paraphrase  on  the 
ten  commandements  in  four-line  verses  —  one  leaf — and  another  with  texts 
from  scripture,  bearing  upon  the  observance  of  the  law.  The  two  con- 
cluding leaves  contain  a  sort  of  parody  on  the  preceding,  "  The  commaunde- 
ments of  Sathan,  put  in  practise  dayly  by  the  Pope  " —  and  a  leaf  of  texts 
from  scripture  —  with  a  repetition  of  the  colophon  as  given  above.  A 
very  short  extract  from  this  volume,  whose  chief  recommendation  is  its 
extreme  rarity,  will  be  sufficient  to  satisfy  our  readers. 

The  voice  of  the  Sinagog  speaking  to  the  churche. 
Whither  is  thy  loue,  thou  sweete 

departed,  do  declare : 
For  we  to  seeke-him  out  with  thee, 

do  nothing  meane  to  spare. 

The  voice  of  the  Church. 
My  loue  is  to  liis  garden  gone 

as  he  hath  thought  it  meete  : 
For  to  refreshe  himselfe  among 

the  smelling  beddes  so  sweete 
And  there  he  gathereth  goodly  flours 

although  he  syllye  is  : 
He  is  myne,  and  his  am  I 

which  fedeth  with  the  Lillies. 

Christe  to  the  cliurche. 
Thou  art  pleasant,  O  my  loue 

yea  louely  art  thou  sure  : 
As  faire  as  is  Hierusalem 

whose  bewtie  doth  endure. 
Thou  art  as  glorious,  O  my  loue 

as  I  would  wisbe  to  haue. 
And  as  an  armie  is  of  men 

with  all  their  Banners  braue. 
Tourne  away  tliyne  eyes  from  me 

to  make  my  body  shrowde 
For  when  as  I  do  looke  on  them 

they  make  me  to  be  prowde. 

Warton  had  evidently  not  seen  this  little  work,  as  he  makes  no  allusion 
to   it  in  his  enumeration  of  the   various  English  versions  of  the  Song  of 


248  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

Solomon  written  in  the  sixteenth  century,  in  the  fourth  volume  of  his  Hist. 
Eng.  Poet.,  p.  141,  Svo  edition.  Mr.  Park  seems  to  have  been  the  first 
person  who  noticed  this  poem  from  the  present  copy,  which  formerly 
belonged  to  him.  See  Cens.  Liter.,  vol.  i,  p.  370.  See  also  Select  Poetry 
cJaefly  Devotional  of  the  Reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  published  by  the  Parker 
Society  in  1845,  vol.  ii,  p.  516,  for  some  extracts  from  it  furnished  by  the 
present  editor.  Ritson's  Bibliogr.  Poet.,  p.  383,  and  Bibl.  Ang.  Poet,  p.  950, 
where  this  copy  was  estimated  at  20^.  It  sold  at  Midgley's  sale,  No,  644, 
for  51.  15s.  Qd.,  and  in  Jolley's  do.,  pt.  iii,  for  17^. 

Half  bound  in  Green  Morocco. 


SoRROWES  loY.  Or,  A  Lamentation  for  our  late  deceased 
Soveraigne  Elizabeth,  with  a  triumph  for  the  prosperous 
succession  of  our  gratious  King,  James,  &c. 

Printed    by   lohn   Legat,   Printer   to   the    Vniversitie   of 
Cambridge.     1603.     4to. 

In  these  poetical  contributions  from  the  University  of  Cambridge  on  the 
death  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  and  the  accession  of  James,  the  names  of  Giles 
and  Phineas  Fletcher,  Theophilus  Field,  Bishop  of  Hereford,  Thomas  Cecil, 
Earl  of  Exeter,  and  others  of  eminence  occur,  who  afterwards  distinguished 
themselves  by  their  poetical  or  literary  talents.  The  following  are  the 
names  or  initials  subscribed  to  each  of  the  poems  in  this  collection. 
1.  Six  Sonnets  signed  I.  G.  2.  "  Englands  farewell,"  Ri.  Parker,  Caigon. 
3.  Tho.  Goodrick.  S.  I.  Coll.  (two  sets.)  4.  Anonymous.  5.  Tho.  Byng 
(three  sets.)  6.  Thomas  Bradburie.  7.  "Upon  the  day  of  our  Queens 
death  and  our  King's  proclamation."  R.  B.  Pemb,  8.  I.  G.  T.  C.  Cant. 
9.  "Two  Epitaphs  upon  our  late  Soveraigne."  EfFudit  Theophilus  Field. 
Aul.  Pembroch.  Cantab.  10.  Henrie  Campion.  Colleg  :  Emanuel.  11.  "A 
stay-griefe  for  English  men,  with  a  motion  to  the  Pope,  and  English 
Papists."  And,  "A  motive  in  Hexameters."  L.  G.  12.  Th.  Milles. 
Cler.  13.  G.  F.  Aul.  Trin.  14.  "Singultiantes  lusus."  I.  Bowie.  T.  C. 
15.  Thomas  Cecill :  Coll.  Johan  :  16.  "A  Canto  upon  the  death  of 
Eliza."  G.  Fletcher  Trinit :  17.  "A  deprecation  of  our  usuall  lapse  in 
speech  bred  by  the  long  fruition  of  our  blessed  late  Soveraigne."     T.  G. 


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Regalis.  18.  Edvv.  Kellet,  Regalis.  19.  Pliin.  Fletcher,  Regalis.  20. 
"Nullo  godimento  senza  dolore  non  dimeno  dopo  godiraento."  E.  L.  Aul. 
Clar.  devotiss.  21.  Tho.  Walkington.  S.  I.  Coll.  22.  "An  Epitaph  upon 
the  death  of  our  late  gratious  and  dread  Soueraigne  Elizabeth  Queene  of 
Englande,  &c."      I.  lones,  iun.  Soc.  Pemb. 

We  quote  from  these  a  short  poem  "  To  the  King  his  Maiestie  "  by  Tho : 
Byng,  which  contains  a  reference  to  that  Monarch's  Poem  of  Lepanto 
printed  in  his  Poetical  Exercises  in  1591,  4to. 

Is  any  penne  so  rich  in  poetrie, 

As  to  poiirtray  thy  matchlesse  maiestie  ? 

Can  mortall  wight  conceit  thy  worthines, 

Which  fills  the  worlds  capacious  hollo  wnes, 

Lo  then  the  man  which  the  Lepanto  writ ; 

Or  he,  or  els  on  earth  is  no  man  fit. 

Request  him  then,  that  he  would  thee  commcud 

Els  uev'r  thy  worth  may  worthily  be  penu'd. 

And  yet,  for  all  his  royall  eloquence, 

Scarce  may  he  figure  forth  thy  excellence. 

In  the  following  extract  from  "  A  Canto  upon  the  death  of  Eliza  "  by 
Giles  Fletcher,  which  possesses  much  of  his  rich  and  luxuriant  style,  and  is 
one  of  the  most  favourable  specimens  in  the  volume,  the  reader  will 
recognize  an  allusion  to  tiie  early  and  well-known  fable  of  the  nightingale 
and  the  thorn  so  frequently  introduced  by  our  poetical  writers,  and  the 
origin  of  which  can  hardly  be  traced. 

Tell  me  sad  Philomele,  that  yonder  sit'sfc 

Piping  thy  songs  vnto  the  dauncing  twig, 

And  to  the  waters  fall  thy  musicke  fit'st 

So  let  the  friendly  prickle  neucr  digge 

Thy  watchfuU  breast  with  wound  or  small  or  bigge 

Wliereon  thou  lean'st,  so  let  the  hissing  snake 

Sliding  with  shrinking  silence  neuer  take 
Th'  vnwarie  foote,  whilst  thou  perhaps  hang'st  halfe  awake. 

So  let  the  loathed  lapwing  when  her  nest 
Is  stol'ne  away,  not  as  slice  vses,  flie, 
Couseuing  tlie  searcher  of  his  promis'd  feast : 
But  widdow'd  of  all  hope  still  Itis  crie, 
And  nought  but  Itis  His,  till  shee  die. 

Say  sweetest  querister  of  the  airie  quire 

Doth  not  thy  Tereu,  Tereti,  then  expire, 
When  winter  robs  thy  house  of  all  her  greene  attire  ? 
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250  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

Tell  me  ye  yeluet  headed  violets 

That  fringe  the  crooked  bauke  with  gawdie  blewe 

So  let  with  comely  grace  yovir  prettie  frets 

Be  spread,  so  let  a  thousand  Zephyrs  sue 

To  kisse  your  willing  heads  that  seeme  t'eschew 

Their  wanton  touch  with  maiden  modesticj 

So  let  the  sUuer  dewe  but  lightly  lie 
Like  little  watrie  worlds  within  your  azure  skie. 

So  when  your  blazing  leaues  are  broadly  spread 
Let  wandring  uymphes  gather  you  in  theu-  lapps, 
And  send  you  where  Eliza  lieth  dead, 
To  strew  the  sheete  that  her  pale  bodie  wraps. 
Aie  mCj  in  this  I  enuie  your  good  haps : 

Who  would  not  die,  there  to  be  buried  ? 

Say  if  the  suuue  denie  his  beames  to  shedde 
Vpon  your  liuing  stalkes,  grow  you  not  withered  ? 

*  *  *  #  # 

The  sunne  in  mourning  cloudes  inuelopcd 
Flew  fast  into  the  westearue  world  to  tell 
Newes  of  her  death,     Heauen  itselfe  sorrowed 
With  teares  that  to  the  earthes  danke  bosome  fell : 
But  when  the  next  Aurora  gau  to  deale 

Ilandfuls  of  roses  fore  the  teame  of  day 

A  shepheard  droue  his  flocke,  by  chance  that  way 
And  made  the  nymph  to  dance  that  mourned  yesterday. 

G.  Fletcher  Triuit. 

At  the  end  of  the  volume  on  a  separate  leaf  are  the  ensuing  metrical 
lines  in  the  autograph  of  the  composer  Ro :   Woodes,  apparently  written 

at  the  time  : 

per  me  Ro.  Woodes  : 
vt  vidi  vt  perij.     Sic  me  malus  abstulit  error. 

Since  none  but  Egles  gaze  uppon  the  Sunn 
Without  offence  or  hurt  vnto  their  eye 
I  wish  my  selfe  an  egle  might  becom 
Or  being  not,  might  not  aspire  so  high. 


Ill  quondam  Mariam  sic  oliin. 
'Twas  some  impairing  to  thy  fame 
That  men  gaue  thee  so  short  a  name  : 
Mary,  thy  name  might  wel  have  beeue 
If  set  the  rose  and  gold  betweene. 
For  fined  gold  thy  worth  doth  shew^ 


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And  blushing  rose  thy  bewteous  hue. 

But  Mary  soundeth  bitternesse, 

Nor  doth  the  rose  alone  expresse 

Thy  -worth  :  N'o,  nor  the  finest  gold, 

Though  in  mens  thoughts  so  much  extol'd, 

Nor  Marygold  though  lovely  faire 

Nor  rosemary  of  virtue  rare  : 

Not  one  of  these,  nor  two  can  doe  it, 

Thy  name  must  haue  them  al  come  to  it : 

Thus  had  they  cal'd  thee  as  they  should 

Thy  name  had  beene  Eosemary  gold. 

To  the  present  fine  copy  of  this  very  scarce  volume  there  is  also  added 
the  engraved  representation  of  the  monumental  effigy  of  Queen  Elizabeth 
in  Westminster  Abbey.  Mr.  Bindley's  copy,  pt.  iii,  No.  1986,  sold  for  4/.  5s., 
one  in  the  Bibl.  Aug.  Poet.,  No.  684,  is  priced  at  15/.  155.;  Midgley's  do., 
No.  727,  sold  for  U.  \s.;  Heber's  do.,  pt.  iv..  No.  2618,  for  21.  18s.; 
Rice's  do.,  No.  771,  \l.  2s.;  Skegg's  do.,  No.  609,  for  51.  This  was  the 
one  from  the  Bidl.  Ang.  Poet,  and  Midgley's  collection,  and  is  the  same  as 
the  present  copy. 

The  last  poem,  by  I.  lones  iun.,  was  reprinted  by  Mr.  Nichols  in  the 
Progresses  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  vol.  iii,  p.  651,  and  the  rest  of  the  work, 
with  the  exception  of  this  poem,  in  the  Progresses  of  King  James  the 
First,  vol.  i,  p.  1. 

Fine  copy.     In  Red  Morocco,  gilt  leaves. 


SooTHERN,  (John.)  —  Pandora.  The  Musyque  of  the  beautie 
of  his  Mistresse  Diana.  Composed  by  John  Soothern 
Gentleman,  and  dedicated  to  the  ryght  honorable  Edward 
Deuer,  Earle  of  Oxenforde,  &c. 

Imprinted  at  London  for  Thomas  Hackette,  and  are  to  be 
solde  at  his  shoppe  in  Lumbert  streete,  under  the  Popes 
head.     1584.     4to,  i)l&.  lett 

Of  this  exceedingly  rare  and  singular  collection  of  poems,  only  one  perfect 
copy  is  known  to  exist,  which  formerly  belonged  to  Mr.  Heber  (see  Bibl, 
Ueber..,  pt.  iv,  2609),  and  is  now  in  the  very  choice  and  valuable  library 


252  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

of  Mr.  Christie  Miller  at  Britwell,  Bucks.  And  the  only  other  imperfect 
copy  known  besides  the  present  is  the  one  in  the  Cape!  collection  in  Trinity 
College  Library  at  Cambridge,  which,  like  the  one  before  us,  wants  the 
title-page.  An  account  of  this  most  conceited,  pedantic  and  wretched 
production,  was  published  in  the  European  Mag.  for  June,  1788,  p.  389, 
probably  by  Mr.  Beloe,  to  which  some  additions  were  made  in  November 
of  the  same  year,  p.  384,  by  Sir  William  Musgrave  and  the  editor,  Mr. 
Steevens,  to  whom  this  copy  formerly  belonged,  has  not  only  inserted  in  it 
these  accounts  from  the  Magas.,  but  has  been  at  great  trouble  in  collecting 
some  further  information  respecting  the  Avork  and  its  author,  and  we  cannot 
perhaps  do  better  in  our  notice  of  this  volnme  than  to  transcribe  from  it  his 
MS.  annotation  : 

"  The  title-page  to  the  following  poems  is  wanting,  but  from  their  author's 
levity,  pertness,  unbounded  vanity,  perpetual  introduction  of  French  words 
and  phrases,  unadopted  by  contemporary  writers  of  this  country,  from  his 
French  mode  of  spelling  and  sounding  English,  his  proper  names  with 
French  terminations,  and  especially  from  his  calling  Ronsard  '•our  old 
Ronsard  of  France,'  his  ability  to  compose  stanzas  and  quodrains  in  the 
French  language,  the  epithet  rude.,  which  he  bestows  on  us  as  a  people, 
and  his  insolent  observations  at  the  end  of  one  of  his  Odes,  non  careo  pairia, 
me  caret  ilia  magis,  I  cannot  help  supposing  this  Soothern  to  have  been 
a  native  of  France,  perhaps  a  refugee,  admitted  as  a  secretary,  a  tutor,  or 
for  some  other  purpose,  into  the  family  of  the  Earl  of  Oxford.  Being  thus 
domesticated,  he  might  easily  obtain  confidential  transcripts  of  the  Epitaphs 
written  by  the  wife  of  his  Patron  and  Queen  Elizabeth.  That  particular 
one  composed  by  a  British  Monarch,  on  a  Princess  of  his  own  nation,  would 
naturally  have  struck  his  vanity  as  a  performance  worth  being  preserved. 
I  much  suspect  that  Soothern  was  no  other  than  some  French  name 
translated  into  a  corresponding  English  one,  and  spelt  erroneously  Le  Sud, 
or  Sudaine,  might  have  been  his  genuine  distinction. 

"The  extreme  rareness  of  this  collection  (for  only  the  following  copy  of 
it  is  known)  induces  me  to  think  it  had  been  suppressed  immediately  on  its 
first  appearance,  either  because  it  exhibited  verses  which  the  Countess 
never  meant  for  the  public  :  or  through  fear  that  her  Majesty  might  have 
been  displeased  at  the  circulation  of  her  poetry.  She  is  known  indeed  to 
have  been  once  off'ended  on  a  similar  account.  Had  the  age  the  Earl  of 
Oxford  lived  in,  been  an  age  of  delicacy,  "we  could  also  have  figured 
to  ourselves  his  disgust  at  the  gross   and   inartificial  flattery  of  Soothern. 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  253 

His  Lordship  might  therefore  have  forbidden  any  wider  display  of  it  iii 
print.  In  consequence  of  such  proliibition,  the  book  of  course  would  have 
been  stifled  before  many  copies  of  it  escaped  into  the  world.  Tlie  Nobleman 
who  had  been  complimented  in  elegant  Latinity  by  Watson,  our  best 
sonnetter,  could  not  have  delighted  much  in  the  pie-bald,  pseudo  English 
prose  of  this  wretched  Rhymester  who  calls  himself  Soothern." 

Red  Morocco  extra,  gilt  edges. 


Southwell,   (Robert.)  —  Saint   Peters  Complaint.     With  other 
Poemes. 

London.  Imprinted  by  John  Wolfe.     1595,     4tOj  pp.  76. 

"  Never,"  says  our  old  English  critic  Edmund  Bolton,  "  must  be  forgotten 
St.  Peters  Complaint,  and  those  other  serious  poems  said  to  be  Father 
Southwell's."  Never  indeed  can  anyone  rise  from  the  perusal  of  his  sad 
and  mournful  strains  without  being  irresistibly  subdued  by  the  melancholy 
tinge  which  pervades  all  his  poetry,  foreboding  as  it  were  the  painful 
circumstances  and  tragical  events  of  his  life.  Southwell  lived  at  an 
unfortunate  period,  when  the  controversies  on  the  subjects  of  religion  and 
politics  ran  exceedingly  high,  and  the  followers  of  the  old  faith,  as  it  was 
called,  were  exposed  to  many  hardships  and  privations.  And  although  the 
stability  of  the  throne,  and  even  its  very  existence,  threatened  as  it  was 
by  the  secret  plots  and  conspiracies  of  its  enemies,  might  at  times  compel 
the  government  to  resort  to  measures  of  hardness  and  severity  —  yet  the 
lot  of  Southwell  seems  to  have  been  peculiarly  cruel  and  severe.  Born 
a  gentleman  —  endued  with  a  powerful  and  cultivated  mind  —  of  a  grave 
and  serious  turn  as  became  his  profession,  and  possessed  of  much  religious 
fervour  (although  unfortunately  directed  in  the  wrong  bias),  his  lot  in 
his  own  country  was  most  unfortunate.  Living  in  a  state  of  seclusion 
and  secresy,  almost  of  banishment,  in  his  native  land,  for  nearly  eight  years  : 
treated  ^^■hen  conmiittcd  to  the  tower  in  the  most  cruel  and  barbarous 
manner ;  kept  a  prisoner  there  for  nearly  three  years,  and,  during  that 
period,  put  to  the  rack  no  less  than  ten  times,  it  was  no  wonder  that, 
tortured  in  the  body,  and  heart-broken  in  mind,  he  wrote  to  Cecil  that 
he  might  be  brought  upon  his  trial  to  answer  for  himself,  and  thus  to  have 
his  miseries  ended.     Even  in  his  death  the  same  cruel  fate  pursued  him  : 


254  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-rOETICA. 

owing  to  the  unskilfulness  of  the  executioner,  his  sufferings  were  unusually 
prolonged.  From  the  tone  of  fervent  piety,  and  genuine  religious  feelings, 
the  excellent  sentiments,  and  deep  moral  pathos  which  everywhere  pervade 
his  writings,  so  totally  in  contrast  with  many  —  indeed  most  of  the 
unprincipled  and  licentious  writers  of  that  period,  we  cannot  help  lamenting 
his  sad  and  tragical  end,  and  helieving  him  to  have  heen  deserving  of  a 
hetter  fate. 

The  melancholy  life  of  Southwell  adds  a  great  interest  to  his  works,  and 
we  never  could  read  any  of  his  pure  and  eloquent  poems  without  feeling 
a  deep  concern  for  his  cruel  and  unfortunate  destiny.  There  is  a  charm 
and  pathos  in  his  effusions  which  interest  the  mind  in  favour  of  the  writer, 
and  transport  the  reader  from  the  cares  and  vanities  of  the  present  world 
to  the  purer  and  more  lasting  joys  of  another  and  a  better  scene. 

The  neglect  which  his  writings  have  received  since  his  death  is  quite 
unaccountable,  until  the  public  attention  was  first  revived  towards  them 
by  Mr.  Waldron  some  sixty  years  ago,  who  reprinted  some  portions  of  his 
poems,  and  since  then  successively  by  Park,  Headley,  Ellis,  Haslewood, 
Sir  Egerton  Brydges,  and  others,  who  have  done  much  to  rescue  this 
excellent  writer  from  the  undeserved  oblivion  into  which  he  had  fallen. 

The  principal  poem  of  St.  Peter's  Complaint,  although  probably  written 
some  years  earlier,  was  not  published  till  after  his  death  in  1595.  The 
present  is  the  first  edition  of  this  poem,  which  was  several  times  reprinted. 
The  title  is  within  a  neat  woodcut  border,  with  the  printer's  device  in  the 
centre  of  the  page,  and  the  work  commences  with  a  prose  epistle  inscribed 
"  The  Authour  to  his  louinge  Cosen,"  in  which  he  says,  that  he  "  has  heere 
laid  a  few  course  threads  together,  to  inuite  some  skilfuller  wits  to  goe  for- 
ward in  the  same,  or  to  begin  some  finer  peece,  wherein  it  may  be  seene 
how  well  verse  and  vertue  sute  together."  This  is  followed  by  two  poetical 
addresses,  the  first  consisting  of  three,  the  second  of  four  six-line  stanzas 
from  " The  Author  to  the  Reader."  The  poem  of  St.  Peters  Complaint  is 
in  stanzas  of  six  lines  each,  the  favourite  measure  of  the  author,  and  extends 
to  the  thirty-fourth  page.  The  remainder  of  the  volume  is  filled  Avith 
several  short  poems,  the  titles  of  which  have  been  correctly  enumerated  by 
Mr.  Haslewood  in  the  second  vol.  of  Cens.  Liter..,  pp.  70-1,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  one  on  p.  51,  which  is  omitted  by  him,  entitled  "  Losse  in  delaies," 
but  which  is  quoted  by  Mr.  Markland,  omitting  only  the  fifth  and  sixth 
stanzas,  at  the  commencement  of  the  same  article  in  the  Cens.  Liter, 
Although  portions  of  the  poems  of  this  writer  arc  now  accessible  to  readers 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  2-55 

in  modern  form,  I  am  induced  to  quote  a  few  stanzas  from  St.  Peter's 
Complaint  as  specimens  of  Southwell's  style  and  religious  fervour,  the 
subject  of  the  passage  being  from  St.  Luke  xxii,  61,  on  the  look  which  our 
Saviour  gave  to  Peter  on  his  denial  of  him. 

O  sacred  eyes,  the  springs  of  liuing  light, 

The  earthly  heauens,  where  Angels  ioy  to  dwell : 

How  could  you  deigne  to  view  my  deathfull  plight 

Or  let  your  heauenly  beanies  looke  on  my  heU  ? 

But  those  vnspotted  eies  encountred  mine, 

As  spotlesse  Sunne  doth  on  the  dounghill  shine. 

Sweet  volumes  stoarde  with  learning  fit  for  Saints, 
Where  blisfuU  quires  imparadize  their  minds, 
Wherein  eternall  studie  neuer  faints, 
Still  finding  all,  yet  seeking  all  it  finds, 
How  endlesse  is  your  laberiuth  of  blisse, 
Where  to  be  lost  the  sweetest  finding  is  ? 

Ah  wretch  how  oft  haue  I  sweet  lessons  read 
In  those  deare  eyes  the  registers  of  truth  ? 
How  oft  haue  I  my  hungrie  wishes  fed 
And  in  their  happie  ioyes  redress'd  my  ruth  ? 
Ah  that  they  now  are  Heralds  of  disdaine  : 
That  erst  were  euer  pittiers  of  my  paine. 

YovL  flames  diuine  that  sparkle  out  your  heats 
And  kindle  pleasing  fh'es  in  niortall  heai-ts  : 
You  nectared  Aumbryes  of  soule  feeding  meates 
You  gracefull  quiuers  of  loues  deerest  darts  : 
You  did  vouchsafe  to  warme,  to  wound,  to  feast 
My  cold,  my  stony,  my  now  famishde  brest. 

The  matchles  eies  match'd  onely  each  by  other, 
Were  pleasde  on  my  ill  matched  eyes  to  glaunce : 
The  eye  of  liquid  pearle,  the  purest  mother, 
Broch'de-teares  in  mine  to  weepe  for  my  mischance  : 
The  cabinets  of  grace  vnlockt  their  treasure. 
And  did  to  my  misdeede  their  mercies  measure. 

These  biasing  comets,  lightning  flames  of  lone, 

Made  me  their  warming  influence  to  know : 

My  frozen  hart  their  sacred  force  did  proue, 

Which  at  their  lookes  did  yeeld  like  melting  snow, 

They  did  not  ioyes  in  former  plentie  carue, 

Yet  sweet  are  crumbs  where  pined  thoughts  do  staruc. 


256  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

O  Pooles  of  Sesebon,  the  batlies  of  grace, 
Where  happie  spirits  diue  in  sweet  desu-es  : 
Where  Saints  reioyce  to  glasse  their  glorious  face, 
Whose  bankes  make  Eccho  to  the  Angels  quires  : 
An  Eccho  sweeter  in  the  sole  rebound, 
Then  Angels  musicke  in  the  fullest  sound. 

O  eies,  whose  glaunces  are  a  silent  speech, 

In  ciphred  words  high  misteries  disclosing  : 

Which  with  a  looke  all  sciences  can  teach. 

Whose  textes  to  faithful!  harts  need  little  glosing : 

Witnesse  unworthy  I  who  in  a  looke, 

Learnd  more  by  rote,  then  all  the  scribes  by  booke. 

0  Bethelem  cisternes,  Dauids  most  desire 

From  which  my  sinnes  like  fierce  Philistines  keepe. 
To  fetch  your  drops  what  cliampions  should  I  hire. 
That  I  therein  my  withered  heart  may  steepe. 

1  would  not  shed  them  like  that  holy  king, 
His  were  but  tipes,  these  are  the  figured  thing. 

O  turtle  twins  all  bath'd  in  virgins  milke, 

Vpon  the  margin  of  full  flowing  bankes  : 

Whose  gracefull  plume  surmounts  the  finest  silke. 

Whose  sight  enamoreth  heauens  most  happie  rankes 

Could  I  forsweare  this  heauenly  paire  of  doues. 

That  cag'd  in  care  for  me  were  groning  loues. 

Twice  Moses  wand  did  strike  the  stubborne  rocke 
Ere  stony  veynes  would  yeeld  their  christall  blood : 
Thy  eyes,  one  looke  seru'd  as  an  onely  knocke. 
To  make  my  hart  gush  out  a  weeping  flood. 
Wherein  my  sinnes  as  fishes  spawne  their  frye. 
To  shew  their  inward  shames,  and  then  to  dye, 
****** 
Like  solest  Swan  that  swimmes  in  silent  deepe, 
And  neuer  sings  but  obsequies  of  death. 
Sigh  out  thy  plaints,  and  sole  in  secret  weepe. 
In  suing  pardon,  spend  thy  periur'de  bi'eath. 
Attire  thy  soule  in  sori'owes  mourning  weed  : 
And  at  thine  eies  let  guiltie  conscience  bleed. 

Still  in  the  limbeck  of  thy  dolefull  breast, 
These  bitter  fruits  that  from  thy  sinnes  do  grow  : 
For  fuel,  selfe  accusing  thoughts  be  best, 
Vse  feare,  as  fire  the  coales  let  pennance  blow : 
And  seeke  none  other  quintessence  but  teares. 
That  eyes  may  shed  what  entred  at  tliine  eares 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLOPOETICA. 


257 


Come  sorrowing  teares,  the  offspriug  of  my  griefe, 
Scant  not  your  parent  of  a  ueedefuU  aide : 
In  you  1  rest,  the  hope  of  wish'de  reUef, 
By  you  my  sinnefull  debts  must  be  defraide. 
Your  power  preuailes,  jowr  sacrifice  is  gratefull, 
By  loue  obtayniug  life  to  men  most  hatefull. 

0  beames  of  mercy  beat  on  sorrowes  cloude, 
Powre  suppling  showres  vpon  my  parched  ground  : 
Bring  forth  the  fruite  to  yoiir  due  seruice  vowde, 
Let  good  desires  with  like  deserts  be  crownde. 
Water  young  blooming  yertues  tender  flower, 
Sinne  did  all  grace  of  riper  growth  deuour, 

Weepe  Balme  and  mirrhe  you  sweet  Arabian  trees 
With  purest  gummes  perfume  aud  pearle  your  eyne : 
Shed  on  your  hony  di-ops,  you  busie  bees, 

1  barraiue  plaint  mvist  weep  rnpleasant  bryne, 
Hornets  I  hiue,  salt  drops  their  labour  plies, 
Suckt  out  of  sinne,  and  shed  by  showring  eies. 

We  now  quote  a  portion  of  one  of  the  smaller  poems,  called  "  Content 
and  rich,"  which  well  expresses  the  simplicity  and  humility  of  the  author's 
mind,  and  his  total  freedom  from  all  love  of  worldly  things. 

Content  and  rich. 
I  dwell  in  gi-aces  courte  My  wishes  are  but  few, 

Em'ichde  with  vertues  rights  :  All  easie  to  fulfill : 

Faith,  guides  my  wit :  loue,  leades  my  will :     I  make  the  limites  of  my  power 

Hope,  all  my  miud  delights.  The  bondes  rnto  my  will. 


In  lowly  vales  I  mounte 

To  pleasures  highest  pitch  : 

My  seely  shrowde  true  honour  brings. 
My  poor  estate  is  rich. 

My  conscience  is  my  crowne 

Contented  thoughts,  my  rest : 

My  hart  is  happie  in  it  selfe : 
My  blisse  is  in  my  brest. 

Enough,  I  reckon  welth  : 
A  meane,  the  surest  lot, 

That  lies  too  high,  for  base  contempt : 
Too  low,  for  enuies  shot. 


I  have  no  hopes  but  one. 

Which  is  of  heauenly  raigne  : 

Effects  attaiude,  or  not  desir'd, 
All  lower  hopes  refraiue. 

I  feele  no  care  of  coyne 

Weldoing  is  my  welth : 
My  minde  to  me  an  empire  is  : 

While  grace  affordeth  health. 

I  clippe  high  clyming  thoughts 
The  wiuges  of  swelling  pride  : 

Their  fall  is  worst  that  from  the  height 
Of  greatest  honor  slide. 


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I  enuie  not  their  happe, 

Whome  fauour  doth  aduance : 
I  take  no  pleasure  in  their  paine, 

That  haue  lesse  happio  chance. 

To  rise  by  others  fall, 

I  deeme  a  loosing  gaine  : 

All  states  with  others  mines  built, 
To  ruine  runne  amaine. 


No  chaiinge  of  fortunes  calmes. 
Can  cast  my  comforts  downe : 

When  fortune  smiles,  I  smile  to  thinke, 
How  quickly  shee  will  frowue. 

And  when  in  froward  moode 
She  proues  an  angrie  foe : 

Smale  gaine  I  found  to  let  her  come, 
Lesse  losse  to  let  her  goe. 


The  following  stanzas,  entitled  "  Losse  in  delaies,"  are  written  in  a  more 

lively  strain,  and  will  conclude  our  extracts  from  this  volume  of  Southwell's 

Muse : 

Losse  in  delaies. 

Shun  delaies,  they  breede  remorse : 
Take  thy  time,  while  time  doth  serue  thee. 
Creeping  Snailes  haue  weakest  force  ; 
Plie  their  fault  least  thou  repent  thee  : 
Good  is  best  when  soonest  wrought, 
Lingring  labours  come  to  nought. 

Hoise  up  saile,  while  gale  doth  last ; 
Tide  and  wind  stay  no  mans  pleasure : 
Seeke  not  time,  when  time  is  past, 
Sober  speede  is  wised  omes  leasure : 
After  wits  are  dearely  bought, 
Let  thy  forewit  guide  thy  thought. 

Time  weares  all  his  lockes  before, 
Take  thou  hold  upon  his  forehead. 
When  he  flies  he  turnes  no  more, 
And  behinde  his  scalpe  is  naked, 
Workes  adiourn'd  have  many  stayes, 
Long  demurres  breede  new  delaies. 

^I*  ^  ^ff  ^r 

Droppes  doe  pearse  the  stubborn  flint, 
Not  by  force  but  often  falling  : 
Custome  kills  with  feeble  dint. 
More  by  use  then  strength  preuailing. 
Single  sandes  haue  little  waight, 
Many  make  a  drowning  fraight. 

Tender  twigges  are  bent  with  ease. 
Aged  trees  doe  breake  with  bending : 
Young  desires  make  little  prease, 
Grougth  doth  make  them  past  amending. 
Happie  man  that  soone  doth  knocke, 
JBable  babes  against  the  rocke. 


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For  an  elaborate  account  of  this  amiable  and  unfortunate  poet,  one  of  the 
numerous  victims  sacrificed  to  the  bigotted  feeling  and  cruel  necessity  of  the 
age,  vvhen  religion  was  made  the  outward  pretext  for  the  commission  of 
every  species  of  atrocious  crime,  see  the  Gent.  Mag.  for  Nov.  1798,  vol. 
Ixviii,  p.  933,  where  his  different  works  are  enumerated  by  Mr.  Park.  See 
also  an  excellent  account  of  the  author  and  his  works  in  the  Retrosp.  Rev.., 
vol.  iv,  p.  267 ;  a  long  article  by  Mr.  Haslewood  in  the  Cens.  Liter..,  vol.  ii, 
p.  64;  Wood's  Ath.  Oxon.,  vol.  ii,  fol.  261,  note  (where  see  Dr.  Bliss's  note 
concerning  the  mistake  Wood  had  made  in  attributing  these  poems  to  John 
Davies);  Dodd's  Caih.  Church  Hist.;  Challoner's  Memoirs  of  Missionary 
Priests,  vol.  i,  p.  324;  Warton's  Hist.  Eng.  Poet.,  vol.  iv,  pp.  99,  143; 
Campbell's  Specim..,  vol.  ii,  p.  162 ;  Sir  E.  Brydges'  Archaica,  vol.  i,  pt.  iii; 
Ellis's  Specim.  Early  Eng.  Poet..,  vol.  ii,  p.  199;  Dibdin's  Lihr.  Comp.., 
vol.  ii,  p.  304;  Headley's  Beauties  Eng.  Poet.;  Hallam's  Introd.  Lit.  Hist.., 
vol.  ii,  p.  311;  the  reprint  of  St.  Peters  Complaint.,  by  Jos.  Walter,  in 
which  is  a  sketch  of  the  author's  life ;  and  the  Bihl.  Ang.  Poet.,  p.  672,  &c. 
This  last  work,  which  is  rich  in  editions  of  Southwell's  poems,  had  not,  how- 
ever, the  present,  but  the  following  one  printed  in  the  same  year,  which  is 
there  by  mistake  called  the  first  edition,  although  in  reality  it  is  the  second. 
All  the  early  editions  are  now  become  exceedingly  scarce,  and  Mr.  Ellis 
says,  "  It  is  remarkable,  that  the  few  copies  which  are  now  known  to  exist, 
are  the  remnant  of  at  least  twenty-four  different  editions,  of  which  eleven 
were  printed  between  1593  and  1600."  There  is  a  copy  of  this  edition  in 
the  library  of  Jesus  College,  Oxford,  and  in  that  of  Trinity  College, 
Cambridge. 

The  present  is  a  very  fine  copy  of  this  scarce  poem. 

Bound  in  Venetian  Morocco,  gilt  leaves. 


Southwell,  (Robert.) — Saint  Peters  complaynt.      With  other 
Poems, 

At  London  Printed  by  J.  R.  for  G.  C.     1595.     4to,  pp.  72, 

The  present  is  the  second  edition  of  these  poems,  called  erroneously,  in 
the  Bibl.  Ang.  Poet.,  p.  672,  the  first,  and  is  printed  by  James  Roberts  for 
Gabriel  Cawood.    The  title  is  within  a  woodcut  border  with  kneeling  figures 


260  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

at  the  top,  on  each  side  of  the  sacred  monogram  and  the  implements  of 
torture ;  in  the  centre  of  the  page  is  the  printer's  device  of  a  hand  with 
twisted  serpents,  and  the  dove  overshadowing  the  Bihle ;  and  the  mottos 
"Lone  and  Lyve"  in  the  centre,  and  "  Nosce  te  ipsum,"  and  "Ne  quid 
nimis"  on  scrolls  at  the  sides.  The  contents  of  the  volume  are  precisely 
the  same  as  the  preceding,  hut  it  is  a  different  edition,  and  printed  some- 
what closer  —  the  former  one  occupying  seventy-six  pages,  the  latter  only 
seventy-two. 

This  was  Narcissus  Luttrell's  copy,  and  afterwards  in  the  collection  of 
Baron  BoIIand. 

Bound  in  Olive  Green  Morocco,  gilt  leaves. 


Southwell,  (Robert.)  —  Saiat  Peters  complaint.      With  other 
Poems. 
At  London  Printed  by  J.  R.  for  G.  C.     1599.     4to,  pp.  72. 

This  edition  (probably  the  fifth  printed  in  England)  corresponds  in  all 
respects,  both  in  the  ornaments  of  its  title  page,  and  in  its  general  contents, 
with  the  impression  of  1595,  by  the  same  printer  described  above ;  but  it  is 
evidently  a  different  edition,  called  for,  no  doubt,  by  the  great  popularity  to 
which  the  works  of  this  praiseworthy  and  pious  writer  had  then  attained,  a 
popularity  which  was  increased,  perhaps,  also  by  the  melancholy  circum- 
stances of  his  unfortunate  fate,  by  which  he  had  gained  the  crown  of 
martyrdom.  An  imperfect  copy  of  this  edition  is  priced  in  the  Bibl.  Ang. 
Poet,,  p.  674,  at  Ql.  6s.     The  present  is  a  beautiful  copy. 

Bound  by  C.  Smith. 
In  Dark  Green  Morocco,  gilt  leaves. 


Southwell,  (Robert.) — Saint  Peters  Complaint.      With  other 
Poems. 

Edinburgh  Printed  by  Robert  Walde-grave  Printer  to  th» 
Kings  Majestic,     n.  d.    4to. 

Cum  Privilegio  Regie. 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  261 

The  contents  of  this  Edinburgh  edition  of  Father  Southwell's  poems  are 
exactly  the  same  as  those  printed  in  1595  and  1599,  with  the  exception  of 
the  omission  of  the  prose  epistle  from  "  the  Author  to  his  louing  Cosin,"  and 
the  addition  at  the  end  of  St.  Peter's  Complaitit,  and  before  the  minor  poems, 
of  the  following  sonnet,  entitled, 

A  sinfull  soule  to  Christ. 
I  luri,  I  lowre,  iu  dungeon  deepe  of  mynd, 
lu  inonrning  moode,  I  run  a  resiles  race, 
With  wounding  pangs,  my  Soule  is  sorelie  pyn'd, 
My  griefe  it  growes,  and  death  drawes  on  a  pace  : 
What  life  can  last  except  there  come  releace  ? 
Feare  threats,  despaire ;  my  sinne  infernall  wage, 
I  faint,  I  fall :  most  wofuU  is  my  case, 
Who  can  me  lielpe,  who  may  this  storme  assuage  ? 

O  Lord  of  life,  our  peace,  our  only  pleage 
O  blesfuU  light,  who  life  of  death  hast  wrought 
Of  heaunlie  loue  the  brightsome  beame,  and  bage. 
Who  by  thy  death  from  death  and  hell  us  boiight, 
Eeuiue  my  Soule,  my  sinnes,  my  sores  redresse, 
That  liue  I  may  with  thee  in  lasting  blesse.     J.  J. 

This  is  subscribed  J.  J.,  but  whom  these  initials  indicate  we  have  no 
knowledge.  The  date  of  1595  is  inserted  in  the  MS.  on  the  title,  and  Mr. 
Caldecot  erroneously  imagined  this  edition  to  be  the  first,  but  it  was  prob- 
ably not  printed  earlier  than  1600.  Mr.  Heber  also  was  in  error  in  suppos- 
ing that  it  contained  fewer  minor  poems  than  in  those  which  preceded  it,  the 
number  being,  as  we  have  remarked,  exactly  the  same,  with  the  exception 
of  the  additionnl  sonnet  on  p.  30.  Mr.  Chalmers,  to  whom  this  copy  for- 
merly belonged,  says,  "  this  Edinburgh  edition  is  excessively  rare."  It  sold 
in  Steevens's  sale,  No.  1007,  for  1^.  lis.  Qd.;  in  Heber's  do.,  pt.  iv,  No.  2612, 
for  3^.  4s.;  in  Chalmers's  do.,  pt.  ii,  No.  1106,  for  Ql.  Gs.;  and  in  Midgley's 
do.,  for  8^.  10s,  A  copy  of  this  edition  is  marked  in  the  Bibl.  Ang.  Poet.^ 
No.  675,  at  21/.  It  is  coarsely  printed,  and  the  first  and  last  leaves  of  the 
present  copy  are  much  soiled. 

Bound  by  Roger  Payne, 
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Magdalens  Funerall  Teares.     "With  sundry  other  selected  and 


262  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

deuout  Poems.     By  the  H.  Father  Robert  Southwell,  Priest 
of  the  Society  of  Jesus. 

Is  any  among  jou  sad  ?    Let  him  pray ;    Is  he  of  a  cheerfuU  hart  ?    Let 
him  sing.     lac.  5. 

Permissu  Superiorum.     M.DC.XX.     8vo. 

A  rare  edition  printed  abroad,  probably  at  Doway.  It  has  the  epistle 
addressed  "  To  his  worthy  good  Cosin  Maister  W.  S.,"  and  the  two  addresses 
from  "  The  Authonr  to  the  Eeader."  At  the  end  of  Saint  Peters  Complaint 
are  four  short  poems,  "  Saint  Peters  Peccaui,"  "  Eeturne  home,"  "  Comfort," 
and  "  Wish."  Then  a  fresh  title,  "  aS*.  Mary  Magdalens  Funerall  Teares. 
Written  by  R.  S.,  Priest  of  the  Society  of  Jesus.  Luctum  Vnigeniti  fac  tibi 
planctum  amarum,  Jerem.  6,  vers.  26."  This  prose  work  is  preceded  by 
a  dedication  "To  the  Right  Worthy  and  Vertuous  Gentlewoman  Mrs.  D.  A.," 
and  an  address  "  To  the  Reader,"  in  which  the  author  says,  '•'•  JMany  suting 
their  labours  to  the  popular  veyne,  and  guided  by  the  gale  of  vulgar  breath, 
haue  diuulged  diners  patheticall  discourses,  in  v/hich  if  they  had  shewed  as 
much  care  to  profit,  as  they  haue  done  desire  to  pleasure,  their  workes  would 
much  more  haue  honoured  their  names,  and  auailed  the  Readers.  But  it  is 
a  iust  complaint  amongst  the  better  sort  of  persons,  that  the  finest  witts  loose 
themselues  in  the  vainest  follies,  spilling  much  Art  in  some  idle  phansie,  and 
leaning  their  workes  as  witnesses  how  long  they  haue  been  in  trauaile  to  be 
in  fine  deliuered  of  a  fable.  And  sure  it  is  a  thing  greatly  to  be  lamented, 
that  men  of  so  high  conceit,  should  so  much  abase  their  abilities,  that  when 
they  haue  racked  them  to  the  uttermost  endeauour,  all  the  prayse  that  they 
reape  of  their  imployment,  consisteth  in  this,  that  they  haue  wisely  told  a 
foolish  tale,  and  carryed  a  long  lye  ver}'  smoothly  to  the  end.  Yet  this 
inconuenience  might  find  some  excuse,  if  the  drift  of  their  discourse  leuelled 
at  any  vertuous  marke.  For  in  fables  are  often  figured  moral  truths,  and 
that  couertly  vttered  to  a  common  good,  which  without  a  maske  would  not 
find  so  free  a  passage.  But  when  the  substance  of  the  worke  hath  neither 
truth  nor  probability,  nor  the  purport  thereof  tendeth  to  any  honest  end,  the 
writer  is  rather  to  be  pittied  then  praysed,  and  his  bookes  fitter  for  the  fire 
then  for  the  presse."  He  then  states,  that  "  sith  the  copies  thereof  flow  so 
fast,  and  so  false  abroad  that  it  was  in  danger  to  come  corrupted  to  the 
print ;  it  seemed  a  lesse  euill  to  let  it  flye  to  common  view  in  the  natiue 
plume,  and  with  the  owne  winges  then  disguised  in  a  coat  of  a  bastard 
feather,  or  cast  oflf  from  the  fist  of  such  a  correctour,  as  might  happyly  haue 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  263 

perished  the  sound,  and  stiicke  in  some  sicke  and  sorry  feathers  of  his  owne 
phansies."  "  Let  the  worke,'"  says  he,  "  defend  it  selfe,  and  euery  one  passe 
his  Censure  as  he  seeth  cause.  Many  Carpes  are  expected  when  curious 
eyes  come  a  fishing.  But  the  care  is  already  taken,  and  Patience  waiteth 
at  the  Table,  ready  to  take  away,  when  that  Dish  is  serued  in,  and  make 
roome  for  others,  to  set  on  the  desired  Fruit.  R.  S."  At  the  end  of  the 
Funerall  Temes  are  eight  more  short  poems,  "S.  Mary  Magdalens  Blush," 
"No  loy  to  line,"  "S.  Mary  Magdalens  Traunce,"  "Farewell,"  "At  home 
in  Heauen,"  "  Christs  Natiuity,"  "  Christs  Childhood,"  and  a  new  poem 
called  "  The  Christians  Manna,"  consisting  of  fourteen  six-line  stanzas,  which 
is  not  found  in  any  other  edition  of  Southwell's  poems. 
From  this  latter  we  extract  the  three  concluding  stanzas. 

One  soule  in  man  is  all  in  euery  part, 

One  face  at  ouce  in  many  glasses  shines, 

One  fearefuU  noyse  doth  make  a  thousand  start : 

One  eye  at  once  of  countlesse  thinges  defines, 
If  proofe  of  one  in  many,  uatiu'e  frame 
Why  may  not  God  much  more  performe  the  same  ? 

God  present  is  at  once  in  euery  place : 
Yet  God  in  euery  place  is  alwayes  one. 
So  may  there  be  by  gifts  of  ghostly  grace, 
One  man  in  many  roomes,  yet  filling  none. 

Sith  Angells  may  effecte  of  bodyes  show : 

God  Angells  gifts  on  bodyes  may  bestow. 

What  God  as  authour  made,  he  alter  may, 

Tfo  change  so  hard,  as  making  all  of  nought. 

If  Adam  framed  were  of  slimy  clay 

Bread  may  to  Christs  most  sacred  flesh  be  wrought. 

He  still  doth  this,  that  made  with  mighty  hand 

Of  water  wine,  a  snake  of  Moyses  wand. 

This  edition  is  now  exceedingly  scarce,  and  was  priced  in  the  Bibl,  Ang. 
Poet,  No.  679,  at  Ql.  6s.,  but  is  not  so  comprehensive  as  the  following  one 
of  the  same  date. 

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London  Printed  for  W.  Barrett.     1620.     12mo. 


264-  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

This  edition,  although  containing  a  larger  number  of  Southwell's  prose 
and  poetical  pieces  than  had  yet  appeared  together,  is  still  not  a  complete 
collection  of  the  whole  of  his  works,  as  it  does  not  inclnde  his  "  Supplication 
to  Queen  Elizabeth,"  1593,  his  "  Epistle  of  Comfort  to  those  Catholicks  who 
lie  under  Restraint,"  1605,  Syo,  nor  his  "Epistle  to  his  Father."  The  title 
is  in  the  centre  of  a  neatly  engraved  frontispiece,  containing  at  the  sides  full 
length  figures  of  St.  Peter  and  Mary  Magdalen  with  textual  references, 
Luke  22,  62,  and  John  20,  11  ;  and  in  compartments  at  the  top,  separated 
by  the  cock  on  a  pillar  crowing,  Judas  covenanting  with  the  Chief  Priests, 
Matt.  26,  14,  and  our  Saviour  before  Pilate,  Mat.  27,  2;  and  in  the  lower 
compartments,  Mary  anointing  Christ's  feet,  Luke  7,  38,  and  Christ's  agony 
in  the  garden,  Luke  22,  42.  The  volume  contains  separate  and  distinct 
title  pages  to  each  of  the  five  divisions  or  parts.  (1 .)  St.  Peters  Complaint; 
(2.)  Moeonioe;  (3.)  Marie  Magdalens  Funerall  Teares;  (4.)  The  Triumphs 
over  Death ;  (5.)  Short  Rules  of  Good  Life.  These  had  all  been  printed 
separately  at  earlier  periods,  with  the  exception  of  the  last,  which  first 
appeared  in  this  edition.  The  volume  is  dedicated  by  the  Publisher  Barrett 
"  To  the  Right  Honorable  Richard,  Eaile  of  Dorcet,"  &c.,  in  which  he  states, 
as  "  the  onely  reason  of  this  present  boldnesse  in  thus  presuming  to  recom- 
mend it  to  your  Honorable  hands,  being,  that  as  the  author  thereof  had  long 
since  dedicated  some  peeces  of  the  whole  to  sundrie  particular  branches  of 
that  noble  stocke  and  familie  (whereof  your  Lordship  is,  and  long  may  you 
be  a  strong  and  flourishing  arme !)  so  now  my  selfe  hauing  first  collected 
these  dismembred  parcels  into  one  body,  and  published  them  in  an  entire 
edition,  I  held  it  a  kind  of  sacriledge  to  defraud  your  noble  name  of  the 
right  which  you  may  so  iustly  challenge  thereunto,  which  by  the  Sunshine 
of  your  fauour  shall  be  as  it  were  reanimated ;  and  He  encouraged  to 
further  endeuours,  who  in  the  meane  time  is,  at  your  Lordships  seruice, 
W.  Barret." 

Mr.  Haslewood,  in  his  account  of  this  edition  of  1620  in  Cens.  Liter., 
vol.  ii,  p.  Q^,,  has  correctly  enumerated  the  various  contents  of  each  part, 
with  the  exception  of  having  accidentally  omitted  one  poem  at  the  end  of 
St.  Peters  Complaint,  viz.,  "  Losse  in  delayes";  and  also  one  in  pt.  ii, 
Moeo7iioe,  "  Christs  returne  out  of  Egypt,"  which  follows  "  The  Flight  into 
Egypt."  It  will  therefore  be  unnecessary  to  give  a  repetition  of  the  contents 
of  each  part  here,  but  we  may  state  with  reference  to  this  edition,  that  the 
lines  are  divided  into  two,  so  as  to  make  each  stanza  consist  of  twelve  lines 
instead  of  six,  and  that  the  number  of  the  poems  at  the  end  of  St.  Peters 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  265 

Complaint,  which  in  the  first  edition  of  1595  are  twenty,  are  here  increased 
to  twenty-seven.  Those  in  Moeonite  remain  the  same  numher  in  each,  but 
there  are  considerable  variations  in  some  of  the  poems  in  the  two  editions, 
especially  in  the  "Holy  Hymne,"  the  number  of  lines  in  which,  in  the 
original  edition  of  1595,  is  seventy-two,  while  in  the  present  one  they  are 
only  fifty  -seven ;  and  the  prose  address  of  "  The  Printer  to  the  Gentlemen 
Readers,"  is  also  here  omitted.  In  "The  Triumphs  over  Death,"  the 
dedicatory  epistle  to  the  members  of  the  Sackville  family  is  signed  S.  W. 
These  letters  have  been  supposed  by  Mr.  Waldron  to  indicate  the  author's 
name  South-Well.  Whether  this  be  so  or  not,  they  are  very  incorrectly 
used  here,  as  these  lines  were  undoubtedly  written  by  John  Trussell,  and 
are  subscribed  with  his  name  in  the  first  edition,  where  they  are  followed 
by  an  acrostic  on  Southwell's  name,  and  some  stanzas  "  To  the  Reader," 
both  also  by  Trussell,  which  are  omitted  in  the  present  edition.  With  the 
exception  of  these  variations,  this  and  the  former  prose  tract  correspond  in 
other  respects  with  the  previous  impressions.  The  "  Short  Rules  of  Good 
Life,"  although  they  had  been  printed  abroad  at  St.  Omer's  and  at  Doway 
before  this  period,  first  appeared  in  England  in  this  edition.  They  are 
dedicated,  in  prose,  "  To  my  deare  affected  friend  M.  D.  S.  Gentleman,"  by 
"  Yours  in  firme  affection  R.  S."  Then  six  four-line  verses  "  To  the 
Christian  Reader,"  four  stanzas  entitled  "A  Preparatiue  to  Prayer,"  one 
stanza  "  The  effects  of  Prayer," 

The  Sunne  by  prayer,  did  ceasse  his  course  and  staid : 

The  hiuigrie  Lions  fawnd  upon  their  pray  : 

A  walled  passage  through  the  sea  is  made 

From  furious  fire  is  banisht  heate  away  : 

It  shut  the  heauens  three  yeares  from  giuing  raine 

It  opened  heauens,  and  clouds  powrd  downe  againe. 

and  three  more  stanzas  "Ensamples  of  our  Sauiour,"  signed  R.  S.  The  "Short 
Rules"  are  in  prose,  divided  under  different  heads  or  foundations;  and  the 
rules  that  follow  these  foundations — the  various  affections  we  ought  to  have 
towards  God,  our  duty  towards  him,  our  neighbour,  and  our  self,  our  care 
of  servants,  children,  &c.  These  are  chiefly  of  a  religious  kind,  and  the 
volume  concludes  with  prayers  addressed  to  the  three  Persons  of  the  Trinity. 
See  Cens.  Liter.,  vol.  ii,  p.  69 ;  Collier's  Bridgew.  CataL,  p.  290 ;  and 
Bibl.  Ang.  Poet.,  p.  676,  where  a  copy  is  priced  Ql.  6s;  Strettall's  CataL, 
p.  398,  3/.  3s. 

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266  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

Southwell,  (Robert.)  —  Moeonioe.  Or,  Certaine  excellent  Poems 
and  spirituall  Hymnes  :  Omitted  in  the  last  Impression  of 
Peters  Complaint;  being  needefuU  thereunto  to  be  annexed, 
as  being  both  Diuine  and  Wittie.     All  composed  by  R.  S. 

London  printed  by  Valentine  Sims,  for  John  Busbie.    1595. 
4to. 

This  is  the  first  edition  of  these  poems  of  Father  Southwell.  It  com- 
mences with  a  prose  address  from  "  The  Printer  to  tlie  Gentlemen  Readers," 
one  leaf,  in  which  he  apologizes  to  the  reader  for  the  omission  of  the  poem 
on  Christ's  Nativity,  which  should  have  followed  that  of  Maries  Visitation, 
but  having  been  before  printed  in  the  end  of  Sf.  Peters  Complaint  he  had 
here  purposely  omitted.  The  titles  of  the  different  poems  are  correctly 
given  by  Mr.  Haslewood,  from  another  edition,  in  the  second  volume  of  Cens. 
Liter.,  p.  72,  with  the  exception  of  one,  "  Christs  returne  out  of  Egypt," 
p.  101,  which  is  there  omitted.  The  poems  in  this  volume  may  be  considered 
as  supplementary  to  those  in  St.  Peter's  Complaint,  and  amongst  them  are 
two  of  Southwell's  most  beautiful  compositions,  "  Vpon  the  Image  of  Death" 
and  "  A  vale  of  teares,"  but  as  these  have  already  been  quoted  by  Mr.  Ellis 
in  his  Specim.  Early  Eng.  Poet.,  vol.  ii,  p.  201,  and  the  first  one  also  by 
Sir  Egerton  Brydges  in  Archaica,  and  by  Dr.  Bliss  in  the  Ath.  Oxon.,  it  will 
be  needless  to  repeat  them  here.  We  shall  therefore  content  ourselves  with 
giving  the  short  poem  with  which  the  volume  concludes. 

SeeJce  flowers  of  heaiien. 

Soare  vp  my  soule  vnto  thy  rest,  cast  off  this  loathsome  lode : 

Long  is  the  date  of  thy  exile,  too  long  the  strickt  abode. 

Graze  not  on  worldly  withered  weede,  it  fitteth  not  thy  taste, 

The  flowers  of  euerlasting  spring  do  grow  for  thy  repaste. 

Their  leaues  are  stain'd  in  beauties  die,  and  blazed  with  their  beames 

Their  stalks  enamel'd  with  delight,  and  limb'de  with  glorious  gleames. 

Life  giuiug  iuice  of  lining  loue  their  sngred  vaines  doth  fill. 

And  watred  with  eternal  showers,  they  neetared  drops  distiU. 

These  flowers  do  spring  from  fertile  soile,  though  from  vnmanurde  field 

Most  glittering  gold  in  lieu  of  globe,  these  fragrant  flowers  do  yeeld : 

Whose  sonei-aigne  scent  surpassing  sense,  so  rauisheth  the  minde 

That  worldly  weedes  needes  must  he  loath,  that  can  these  flowers  find. 

This  work  was  reprinted  in   1596,  1620,  1634,  and  probably  more  fre- 
quently, but  without  the  introductory  address  from  the  printer.     Tlie  later 


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editions,  from  the  one  in  1620,  contain  also  some  important  variations  in  the 
readings,  particularly  in  the  Holy  Hymn  on  the  sixteenth  page ;  and  the 
poems  in  these  editions  are  divided  into  stanzas,  which  is  not  the  case  in  the 
present.  These  variations  and  different  readings  in  the  text  are  carefully 
marked  in  the  present  copy.  The  poem  upon  the  Image  of  Death  is  inserted 
in  Simon  Wastell't;  Microhihlion^  or  the  Bibles  Epitome,  1620,  12mo,  hut  is 
so  far  superior  to  anything  composed  hy  that  writer  in  his  acknowledged 
works,  that  he  can  have  no  claim  to  its  authorship,  and  there  is  no  doubt  it 
was  written  by  Southwell,  whose  usual  style  it  much  more  resembles. 

See  Ce7is.  Liter.,  vol,  ii,  p.  71 ;  Ellis's  Specim.,  vol.  ii,  p.  201  ;  and  the 
Bibl.  Ang.  Poet.,  &c.  The  latter  work  erroneously  calls  this  poem  Moenonioe 
twice  over,  which  has  been  copied  in  Dibdin's  Libr.  Comp.,  vol.  ii,  p.  304. 
Bindley 's  copy,  pt.  iv,  No.  601,  sold  for  \l.  lis.  Qd. ;  Strattell's  do..  No. 
1638,  for  1/.  13s.;  Lloyd's  do.,  No.  1270,  for  2/.  12s.  Gd. 

There  is  a  copy  in  the  Library  of  Trinity  College,  Cambridge, 

Fine  copy. 
Bound  in  Olive  Green  Morocco,  gilt  leaves. 


Southwell,  (Robert.) — The  Triumphs  ouer  Death :    or  a  Con- 

solatorie  Epistle  for  afflicted  minds,  in  the  affects  of  dying 

friends.     First  written  for  the  consolation  of  one  :    but  nowe 

published  for  the  generall  good  of  all,  by  R.  S.  the  author  of 

'S.  Peters  Complaint,  and  IMoeonioe  his  other  Hymnes. 

London  Printed  by  Valentine  Simmes,  for  lohn  Busbie,  and 
are  to  be  solde  at  Nicholas  Lings  shop  at  the  West  end  of 
Paules  Church.     1596.     4to,  pp.  38. 

The  first  edition  of  this  tract,  which  is  in  prose,  was  published  by  the 
same  printer  in  1595,  and  was  succeeded  in  the  following  year  by  the  pre- 
sent, the  contents  being,  in  all  respects,  similar  in  both.  It  was  composed 
by  Southwell  on  the  death  of  the  Lady  Margaret  Sackville  (daughter  of 
Thos.  Howard,  Duke  of  Norfolk,  and  Margaret,  his  second  wife,  daughter 
of  Thos.,  Lord  Audley  of  Wolden)  and  wife  of  the  Honble.  Robert  Sack- 
ville, son  and  heir  of  Thos.,  Lord  Buckhurst,  whom  he  succeeded  as  Earl 
of  Dorset  in  1608.  It  has  a  metrical  dedication  to  the  children  of  the 
above,  "the  Worshipfull   M.  Richard  Sackuile,  Edward  Sackuile,  Cicilie 


268  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

Sackuile,  and  Anne  Sackuile,  the  hopefull  issues  of  the  honourable  Gentle- 
man, Maister  Robert  Sackuile  Esquire,"  written  by  John  Trussell,  which  is 
given  at  length  by  Mr.  Haslewood  in  his  account  of  Southwell's  Works  in 
the  Cens.  Liter.,  vol.  ii,  p.  74 ;  and  an  acrostic  on  Robert  Southwell,  and 
some  lines  "  To  the  Reader,"  also  by  John  Trussell,  followed  by  a  prose 
address  from  "  The  Authour  to  the  Reader."  There  is  a  tone  of  pious  sad- 
ness, and  of  chaste  and  fervid  eloquence,  which  runs  throughout  these 
Triumphs,  deeply  interesting  to  the  reader;  and  the  pure  and  beautiful 
manner  in  which  the  character  of  the  deceased  is  drawn  is  a  good  exempli- 
fication of  the  powers  which  the  author  wielded  both  in  verse  and  prose, 
and  of  the  piety  and  excellence  of  his  sentiments.  This  work  has  been  re- 
printed in  the  first  volume  of  Arckaica,  which  renders  it  unnecessary  to  give 
any  extract  from  it  here.  At  the  end  are  some  Latin  and  English  verses, 
the  latter  of  which,  for  the  sake  of  its  historical  notices,  we  transcribe  at 
length. 

Of  Soivards  stemme  a  glorious  branch  is  dead, 
Sweet  lights  eclipsed  were  at  her  decease : 

In  Buckehnrsf  line  she  gracious  issue  spread, 

She  heu'u  with  two,  with  four  did  earth  increase : 

Fame,  honor,  grace,  gaue  ayre  vnto  her  breath, 
Rest,  glory,  ioyes  were  sequeles  of  her  death. 

Death  aym'de  too  high,  he  hit  too  choise  a  wight, 
Renowned  for  birth,  for  life,  for  liuely  partes 

He  kill'd  her  cares,  he  brought  his  woorths  to  light, 
He  rob'd  our  eies,  but  hath  inricht  our  harts, 

Lot  let  out  of  her  Arke  a  Noyes  [Noah's]  Doue, 
But  many  heai'ts  were  Arkes  vnto  her  loue. 

Grace,  Nature,  Fortune,  did  in  hir  conspire 

To  shew  a  proofe  of  their  vnited  skill : 
Sly  Fortune  euer  false  did  soone  retire, 

But  double  Grace  supjilied  false  Fortunes  ill: 
And  though  she  raught  not  vp  to  Fortunes  pitch. 

In  Grace  and  Vertae  few  were  found  so  rich. 

Heauen  of  this  heauenly  Pearle  is  now  possest, 
In  whose  lustre  was  the  blaze  of  honours  light : 

Whose  substance  pure,  of  every  good  the  best. 
Whose  price  the  crowne  of  highest  right 

Whose  praise  to  be  her  selfe,  whose  greatest  blis, 
To  Hue,  to  loue  to  be  where  now  she  is. 

Besides  the  two  editions  of  this  tract  already  mentioned,  it  was  reprinted 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  269 

along  with  his  other  works  in  Barret's,  and  some  of  the  other  small  impres- 
sions. There  is  a  copy  of  the  present  edition  in  the  Grenville  collection  in 
the  British  Museum. 

Bound  in  Calf,  blank  tooled. 


Stanyhurst,  (Richard.)  —  The  First  Foure  Bookes  of  Virgils 
QLneis,  Translated  into  English  Heroicall  Verse,  by  Richard 
Stanyhurst :  With  other  Poeticall  deuises  thereto  annexed. 

[Woodcut.] 

At  London,  Imprinted  by  Henrie  Bynneman  dwelling  in 
Thames  streate  neare  vuto  Baynardes  Castell.  Anno  Domini 
1583.     8vo,  hU,  Ictt. 

After  the  publication  of  the  (Eneis  of  Virgil,  translated  by  the  combined 
efforts  of  Pliaer  and  Twyne,  appeared  the  very  extraordinary  version  of  the 
first  four  books,  by  Richard  Stanyliurst,  in  heroic  verse,  i.e.,  into  English 
Hexameters,  a  metre  of  which  Gabriel  Harvey  had  laid  claim  to  be  the 
inventor,  and  which  had  also  been  used  by  Spenser,  Sidney,  Fraunce,  him- 
self, and  others.  In  his  Foure  Letters  and  Certaine  Sonets,  1592,  4to, 
filaclt  letter,  Harvey  observes,  •■'  If  I  neuer  deserue  any  better  remembrance, 
let  me  be  epitaphed  the  inventour  of  the  English  hexameter,  whome  learned 
M.  Staniliurst  imitated  in  his  Virgill,  and  excellent  Sir  P.  Sidney  disdained 
not  to  follow  in  his  Arcadia  and  elsewhere."  The  version  of  Stanyhurst  is 
one  of  the  most  singular  examples  of  this  metrical  character;  and  did  we 
not  know  from  other  sources  that  he  was  in  reality  a  learned  and  accom- 
plished man,  and  was  highly  esteemed  for  his  literary  talents  by  his  con- 
temporaries, we  might  be  disposed  to  imagine  that  he  had  intended  to  turn 
his  author  into  burlesque,  and  to  exhibit  his  own  foolish  pedantry  and 
conceit. 

At  the  time  this  version  was  published,  Stanyhurst,  then  a  married  man, 
was  residing  at  Leyden  in  Holland,  having  left  England  on  account  of  his 
religion ;  and  it  would  appear  from  a  manuscript  note  by  Mr.  Heber  in  the 
present  copy,  that  a  previous  edition  had  been  printed  at  Leyden  the  year 
before,  of  which,  however,  no  copy  is  known,  and  that  it  was  from  this 
earlier  publication  that  Bynneman  had  reprinted  the  present  edition.  It  is 
dedicated  in  a  lengthy  epistle  to  his  "  very  louing  Brother  the  Lorde  Baron 


270  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

of  Dunsanye,"  in  which  he  gives  a  comparison  between  Phaer's  translation 
and  his  own ;  and  while  he  admits  that  the  former  "  hath  translated  Virgil 
into  Englishe  rythme  with  such  surpassing  excellencie,  as  a  very  few  (in  his 
conceit)  for  pickte  and  loftie  words  can  bourd  him,  none  ouergoe  him,"  yet 
he  is  satisfied  with  the  superiority  of  his  own  version,  as  being  closer  to  the 
sense  and  meaning  of  his  author.  And  alluding  to  his  own  labours,  he 
observes,  "  The  three  firste  bookes  I  translated  by  starts,  as  my  leasure  and 
pleasure  would  serue  me.  In  the  fourth  booke  I  did  taske  myselfe,  and 
pursued  the  matter  somewhat  hotely.  M.  Phaer  tooke  to  the  making  of 
that  booke  fifteene  dayes  :  I  hudled  vp  mine  in  ten.  Wherein  I  couet  no 
praise,  but  rather  doe  crane  pardon.  For  like  as  forelittering  bitches  whelp 
blinde  puppies,  so  I  may  be  perhaps  intwighted  of  more  haste  than  good 
speede,  as  Sir  Thomas  Moore  in  like  case  gybeth  at  one  that  made  vaunt  of 
certaine  pild  verses  clouted  vp  extrumpere 

Hos  quid  te  scripsisse  moues  extempore  versus  ? 
Nam  liber  hoc  loquitur,  te  reticente,  tuus. 

This  epistle  is  dated  "from  Leiden  in  Holland,  the  laste  of  lune  1582." 
Then  follows  a  prose  address  of  five  pages  "To  the  learned  Eeader,"  in 
W'hich  he  enters  into  some  critical  disquisitions  on  the  quantities  of  syllables, 
and  gives  certain  rules  respecting  English  prosody,  which  it  is  unnecessary 
to  notice  here. 

In  order  to  give  the  reader  some  idea  of  the  excessive  absurdity  of  this 
translation  by  Stanyhurst,  we  submit  the  following  extracts  : 

The  first  is  the  story  of  Laocoon  and  the  serpents  in  the  second  book,  1.  201 . 

As  priest  Laocoon  by  lot  to  Neptun  apoincted 

A  bul  for  sacrificeful  sizde  did  slaughter  at  altars 

Then,  loe  ye,  from  Tenedos  through  standing  deepe  floud  apeased 

(I  shiuer  in  telling)  two  serpents  monsterus  ouglie 

Plasht  the  water  sulcking  to  the  shoare  most  hastily  swinging : 

Whose  breasts  upsteaming  and  manes  blood  sp'feckled  inhaunced 

High  the  sea  sui'mounted,  thee  rest  in  smooth  flud  is  hidden, 

Theii"  tails  with  croompled  knot  twisting  swashlj  they  wrigled. 

Thee  water  is  roused,  they  doe  fi-iske  with  flouce  to  y^  shoare  ward, 

Thee  land  with  staring  eyes  bluddy  and  firie  beholding 

Their  fangs  in  lapping  they  stroak  with  brandished  hoat  tongs. 

Al  we  fle  from  sacrifice  with  sight  so  grisled  afrighted 

They  charg  Laocoon :  but  first  they  raught  to  the  sucklings 

His  two  yong  children  with  cii'cle  poisoned  hooking. 

Them  they  doe  chew,  renting  theu*  members  tender  asunder. 

In  value  Laocoon  the  assault  like  a  stickler  apeasing 


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Is  too  sone  embayed  with  wrapping  girdle  ycoompast, 
His  midil  embraciug  with  wig  wag  circuled  hooping, 
His  neck  eke  chaining  with  tails,  him  in  quantitie  topping, 
Hee  with  his  hands  labored  their  knots  to  squise,  but  abheaples 
Hee  striues  :  his  temples  with  black  swart  poyson  anoincted. 
He  freams,  and  skrawling  to  the  skie  brayes  terribil  hoiseth 
M\ich  like  as  a  fat  bul  beloeth,  that  settled  on  altar 
Half  kild  escapeth  the  missing  boutcherus  hatchet. 

The  ensuing  lines,  descriptive  of  the  Harpies,  are  taken  from  the  third 

book,  1.  219,  commencing: 

Hue  ubi  delati  portus  intravimus,  &c. 

When  'tward  theese  Islands  our  ships  wee  setled  in  hauen 

jS'eere,  we  view'd  grasing  heards  of  bigge  franckye  fat  oxen 

And  goats  eke  cropping  carelesse,  not  garded  of  heardmen. 

Wee  rusht  with  weapons,  parte  of  the  bootye  we  lotted 

First  to  loue.     On  banck  syds  ourselues  with  food  we  reposed 

But  loa  with  a  suddeyn  flashing  the  gulligut  Harpeys 

From  mountayns  flitter,  with  gaggling  whirlerye  flapping 

Theii-  wings  :  foorth  the  viand  fro  tabils  al  greedily  snatching 

With  fulsoom  saxiour,  with  stinckiug  poysoned  ordure 

Thee  gi-ound  they  smeared,  theartoo  skriches  harshye  reioyning 

Then  we  set  al  tabils,  and  fyrde  our  mystical  altars 

Under  a  rock  arched,  with  trees  thick  coouered  ouer. 

At  the  second  sitting  from  parcels  sundiy  repayred 

This  coouie  rauenouse,  and  swift  with  a  desperat  onset, 

They  gripte  in  taUants  the  meat  and  foorth  spourged  a  sticking 

Foule  carrayne  sauoure :  then  I  wild  thee  coompanye  present 

Too  take  their  weapons,  and  fight  with  mischeuus  howlets. 

My  wil  at  a  becking  is  doon,  they  doe  run  to  their  armoure 

In  gi'asse  their  flachets,  and  tergats  wardye  pitching. 

But  when  at  a  thyrd  flight  theese  fowls  to  the  coompanye  neered, 

With  shril  brasse  trumpet  Misemis  sowned  alarum 

Oure  men  marcht  forward,  and  fierce  gaue  a  martial  uncoth 

Charge,  theese  strange  vulturs  with  a  skirmish  bluddye  to  maister. 

But  strokes  their  feathers  pears'd  not,  nor  carcases  harm'd; 

And  too  skye  they  soared,  thee  victals  clammye  behind  them 

They  do  leaue  haulf  mangled  with  sent  unsau'rye  bepoudred. 

The  last  extract  we  shall  give  is  the  account  of  Polyphemus  related  by 
Achcemenides  when  found  by  (Eneas  on  his  voyage,  from  the  same  book, 
1.  613,  the  well  known  lines 

Monstrum  horrendum,  informe,  ingens,  cui  lumen  ademptum 

Trunca  mauum  pinus  regit,  et  vestigia  firmat. 


272  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

being  thus  rendered, 

A  foule  fog  monster,  great  swacl,  depriued  of  eye  sight 
His  fists  and  stalcking  are  propt  with  trunck  of  a  pvne  tree. 


Borne  I  vras  in  the  Ithacau  countrey,  mate  of  haples  Vlisses 

Named  Achcemenides,  my  syre  also  cal'd  Adamasti's 

A  good  honest  poore  man  (would  we  in  that  penurye  lasted) 

Sent  me  to  your  Troy  wars,  at  last  my  coompanie  skared 

From  this  country e  cruel,  did  posting  leaue  me  behinde  tliem, 

In  Cyclops  kennel,  thee  laystow  dirtye,  the  foule  den. 

In  this  grisly  palaice,  in  forme  and  quantitie  mightye 

Palpable  and  groaping  darkenesse  with  murth&r  abouudeth. 

Hee  doth  in  al  mischiefe  surpasse,  hee  mounts  to  the  sky  top 

(Al  the  heu'nly  feloship  from  the  earth  such  a  monstre  abandon) 

Hard  he  is  too  be  viewed,  too  see  hym  no  person  abideth. 

Thee  bloud  w'  the  entrayles  of  men  by  him  slaughtred,  he  gnaweth. 

And  of  my  feloes  I  saw  that  a  couple  he  gi-apled 

On  ground  lowe  grooueling,  and  them  with  villenye  crusslied, 

At  flint  hard  dasshing,  thee  goare  bloud  spowteth  of  ecche  side, 

And  swims  in  the  thj'ashold.     I  saw  flesh  bluddie  to  slauer 

Wlien  y'  cob  had  mauuged  the  gobets  foule  garbaged  haulfe  quick 

Yet  got  he  not  shot  free,  this  butcherye  quighted  Vlisses : 

In  which  doughtye  peril  the  Ithacan  moste  wisely  bethought  him. 

For  the  unsauorie  rakhel  with  coUops  blud  red  yfrancked. 

With,  chuffe  chaife  wine  sops  like  a  gourd  bowrrachoe  replennisht 

His  nodil  in  crossewise  wresting  downe  droups  to  y*^  groundward 

In  belohe  galp  vomiting  with  dead  sleape  snortye  the  collops, 

Eaw  with  wine  soused,  we  doe  pray  to  supernal  asemblye. 

Bound  with  al  embaying  thee  muife  maffe  loUer,  eke  hastleye 

With  toole  sharp  poiucted  we  boarde  and  perced  his  one  light, 

That  stood  in  his  lowring  front  gloommish  malleted  onlye. 

Like  Grreekish  tergat  glistring,  or  Phahus  his  hornebeams, 

Thus  the  death  of  feloes  on  a  lout  wee  gladly  reuenged. 

At  the  end  of  the  translation  from  Virgil  are  "  Psalmes,  Conceites,  and 
Epitaphs,"  which  form  the  ''  other  Poeticall  deuises  "  mentioned  in  the  title- 
page;  and  first  "Hereafter  ensue  certaine  Psalmes  of  Dauid  translated  into 
English,  according  to  the  observation  of  the  Latine  verses."  These  are  the 
first,  second,  third,  and  fourth  psalms,  and  a  prayer  to  the  Trinity,  and  have 
each  a  short  introduction  explanatory  of  the  metre  in  which  they  are  com- 
posed, viz.,  iambical,  heroical,  asclepiad,  and  sapphic  verse.  Next,  "■  Here 
after  ensue  certayne  Poetical  Conceites,"  consisting  of  "  A  deuise  made  by 
Virgil,  or  rather  by  some  other  upon  a  River  so  hard  frozen,  that  waynes 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  273 

dyd  passe  ouer  it,"  in  Latin  hexameter  and  pentameter  verses.  (2.)  The 
same  Englished.  (3.)  Another  version  of  the  same.  (4.)  The  description 
of  Liparen,  expressed  by  Virgil  in  the  eight  hooke  of  his  CEneis,  &c.  Done 
into  English  by  the  translatour  for  his  last  farewel  too  the  sayd  Virgil."  It 
was  this  passage  which  furnished  Nash  with  the  subject  of  his  ridicule  of 
Stanyhurst's  "hexameter  fury"  in  his  celebrated  preface  to  Greene's 
Arcadia.  The  remaining  ten  short  pieces  in  this  division  are  chiefly 
original  compositions  of  the  author,  and  are  nearly  all  written  in  his 
favourite  hexametrical  verse.  Lastly,  "  Here  ensue  certaine  Epitaphes 
framed  as  wel  in  Latin  as  English."  These  are  (1.)  "An  Epitaph  deuised 
vpon  the  death  of  the  right  honourable  lames,  Earle  of  Ormond  and 
Ossorie,  who  deceased  at  Elie  house  in  Holborne  about  the  yeare  1546,  the 
xviii.  of  October,  and  lieth  buried  in  S.  Thomas  Acres  Church,  extracted 
out  of  the  third  booke  of  the  Eistorie  of  Ireland."  Eight  Latin  lines 
followed  by  a  long  character  in  English  prose.  (2.)  "  Upon  the  death  of 
the  Lord  of  the  Out  Isles  of  Scotland."  In  Latin.  (3.)  "Upon  the  death 
of  his  father  lames  Stanyhurst  Esquyer,  who  deceased  at  Dublyn,  Anno 
1573,  xxvii.  of  December,  selatis  li.''  In  Latin  verse.  (4.)  "Upon  the 
death  of  his  father-in-law  Syr  Christofer  Barnewal  Knight."  In  Latin  verse, 
with  a  character  in  Latin  prose.  (5.)  "  Upon  the  death  of  his  wife  Genet, 
daughter  to  Syr  Christofer  Barnewal  Knight,  who  deceased  at  Knight-hU- 
bridge,  of  Chield-byrth,  Anno  1579,  August  xxvi,  setatis  xix,  and  lieth 
enterred  at  Chelsye."  In  Latin  verse.  (6.)  "  Upon  the  death  of  the  right 
honourable  and  his  most  deare  coosen,  the  Lorde  Baron  of  Louth,  who  was 
trayterously  murthered  by  Mackmaughaun  an  Irish  Lording,  about  the  yeare 
1577."  In  English  Hexameters.  (7.)  "Upon  the  death  of  the  right 
honourable  the  Lord  Girald  Fitz  Gerald,  L.  Baron  of  Offalye,  who  deceased 
at  S.  Albans  in  the  yeare  1580,  the  last  of  lune,  the  xxi.  yeare  of  his  age." 
In  English  Hexameter  verse,  with  a  character  in  English  prose.  (8.)  "A 
penitent  Sonnet  by  the  Lord  Girald  a  little  before  his  death."  In  English 
verse.  (9.)  "  An  Epitaph  entituied  Commune  Defunctorum,  such  as  our 
vnlearned  Rithmours  accustomably  make  vpon  the  death  of  euerie  Tom 
Tyler,  as  if  it  were  a  last  for  euery  one  his  foote,  in  which  the  quantities  of 
Billables  are  not  to  be  heeded."  In  English  hexameters.  (10.)  "An 
Epitaph  written  by  Sir  Thomas  More  vpon  the  death  of  Henry  Abyngdon, 
one  of  the  gentlemen  of  the  chappel,"  &c.  In  Latin  middle  rhyming  verse, 
with  a  translation  of  the  same  in  English.  These  are  quoted  by  Mr.  Park 
in  his  account  of  this  work  in  Cens.  Liter.,  vol.  i,  p.  425,  and  therefore  it  is 

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274  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

needless  to  repeat  tliera  here.  The  volume  concludes  with  a  short  address 
on  the  last  page  from  "  The  Printer  to  the  Reader,"  in  which  he  comments 
upon  the  new  orthography  used  in  the  book,  and  apologizes  for  the 
singularity  of  the  spelling  in  placing  the  two  oo  and  ee  for  one,  which  seem 
to  have  puzzled  him  no  little,  as  they  will  certainly  do  our  modern  readers, 
and  for  the  use  of  which  he  refers  to  the  author's  epistle  at  the  beginning, 
and  concludes  by  commending  to  the  courtesy  of  the  reader  his  "  travaile  in 
so  straunge  and  unaccustomed  a  work." 

Mr.  Collier,  in  his  notice  of  this  work,  has  quoted  a  remarkable  passage 
relating  to  Stanyhurst,  who  was  then  living,  from  Barnaby  Rich's  Iris/i 
Hubbub,  or  ike  English  Hue  and  Ciy,  Lond.,  1G18,  4to,  in  Avhich  that 
writer  speaks  of  Stanyhurst  as  "a  famous  man  amongst  them  for  his 
excellent  learning  —  for  he  was  a  chronicler,  then  a  poet,  and  after  that  he 
professed  alchymie,  and  now  hee  is  become  a  massing  prieste." 

Stanyhurst  was  a  native  of  Dublin  (of  which  city  his  father  was  recorder) 
and  he  was  born  in  1547.  He  received  his  education,  first  under  Peter 
White,  Dean  of  Waterford,  and  afterwards  at  University  College  in  Oxford, 
where  he  took  the  degree  of  B.A.  Leaving  college,  he  visited  London  and 
became  a  student  at  Furnival's  Inn,  and  afterwards  at  Lincoln's  Inn,  and 
spent  some  time  in  the  study  of  the  common  law.  He  married  Genet  or 
Janetta,  daughter  of  Sir  Christopher  Barnewall,  Knt.,  who  died  in  child- 
birth at  Knightsbridge,  near  London,  Aug.  26,  1579,  at  the  early  age  of 
nineteen,  and  was  buried  at  Chelsea.  It  is  supposed  that  Peter  Plunket, 
Lord  Dunsany,  married  another  sister,  and  that  thence  he  is  styled  by 
Stanyhurst  his  loving  brother.  Margaret  Stanyhurst,  the  sister  of  our 
author,  was  mother  to  Archbishop  Usher ;  becoming  a  Roman  Catholic  he 
went  abroad,  and  was  esteemed  for  his  learning  and  talents  in  France  and 
the  Low  Countries,  and  was  made  chaplain  to  the  Archduke  of  Austria. 
He  continued  to  reside  abroad,  and  was  engaged  in  controversy  on  religious 
subjects  with  Archbishop  Usher,  whose  mother  was  Stanyhurst's  sister. 
He  published  several  other  works,  especially  one  on  the  History  of  Ireland, 
besides  this  translation,  and  died  at  Brussels  in  1618,  in  his  seventy-second 
year.  Stanyhurst  is  praised  by  Camden  for  his  learning,  who  styles  him 
"  Eruditissimus  ille  nobilis  Rich.  Stanihurstus,"  but  was  ridiculed  for  his 
pedantry  and  conceit  by  Bishop  Hall  in  his  Satires,  and  by  Puttenham, 
Nash,  and  other  writers  of  that  period.  Nash's  remarks  on  his  "  foule 
lumbring,  boystrous,  wallowing  measure  in  his  translation  of  Virgil"  which 
he  characterizes  by  the  term  "  Thrasonical  huife  snufFe  "  are  well  known  to 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  275 

most  readers.  A  more  modern  writer  has  remarked,  that  "  as  Chaucer  has 
been  called  the  well  of  English  undefiled,  so  might  Stanyhurst  be  denomi- 
nated the  common  sewer  of  the  language,"  and  that  his  version  "  could 
excite  nothing  but  wonder,  ridicule,  and  disgust." 

From  the  very  minute  collation  of  the  foreign  and  first  edition  of  this 
work,  Avhich  JMr,  Heber  has  given  in  a  manuscript  note  in  this  copy,  it  is 
quite  evident  that  he  must  have  seen  the  volume,  although  no  copy  of  it  is 
known,  at  present,  to  be  in  existence.  In  the  entry  of  the  licence  granted 
to  Bynneman  for  printing  the  work,  in  the  Registers  of  the  Stationers 
Company,  it  is  stated  that  it  is  "  by  a  copie  printed  at  Leiden  in  Holland 
{i.e.,  reprinted  by  Bynneman  from  such  a  copy),  which  is  another  proof  that 
the  one  made  use  of  by  Bynneman  had  already  been  printed  at  Leyden. 
The  printer's  name  was  John  Pates,  who  apologizes  to  the  reader  at  the  end 
for  "the  faultes  from  the  nooveltye  of  imprinting  in  English  in  theese  partes, 
and  thee  absence  of  thee  authour  from  perusing  soom  proofes."  At  the  end 
was  a  list  of  errata,  and  the  following  colophon :  "  Imprinted  at  Leiden  in 
Holland,  by  John  Pates,  Anno  M.D.LXXXIL"  It  was  printed  in  4to, 
chiefly  in  italic  letter. 

The  reader  may  see  an  ample  and  detailed  account  of  this  extremely  rare 
book,  written  by  Mr.  Park,  in  Cens.  Liter..,  vol.  i,  p.  400 ;  and  in  Warton's 
Hist.  Eng.  Poet.,  vol.  iv,  p.  224 ;  and  may  further  consult  Ritson's  Bibl. 
Poet.,  p.  3o0;  Haslewood's  Anc.  Grit.  Essays,  vol.  ii,  p.  197;  Hall's  Yir- 
gidemiarum,  B.  1,  sat.  6  ;  Puttenham's  Art  of  Eng.  Poesie,  p.  229;  Beloe's 
Anecd.,  vol.  vi,  p.  39  ;  Dyce's  Edit.  Greene's  Works,  vol.  i,  p.  xxxv;  Wood's 
Ath.  Oxon.,  vol.  ii,  p.  252 ;  and  Collier's  Extr.  Reg.  Stat.  Gomp.,  vol.  ii,  p. 
176.  A  reprint  of  this  early  edition,  limited  to  fifty  copies,  was  made  at 
Edinburgh  in  1836. 

Stanyhurst's  volume  is  of  the  greatest  rarity,  and  brought  at  Dr.  Farmer's 
Sale,  No.  6804,  2l.  17s.;  Steevens's  do..  No.  348,  3/.  10s.;  Home  Tooke's 
do..  No.  759,  15/.;  Rice's  do.  No.  967,  6/.  The  present  copy  was  purchased 
by  Mr  Heber  at  the  Duke  of  Norfolk's  Sale  for  9/.  10s.,  and  with  the  bind- 
ing by  C.  Lewis,  cost  him  altogether  11/.  7s.  6(/.  At  Mr.  Heber's  Sale, 
pt.  iv,  No.  2743,  it  brought  8/.  8*.  Imperfect  copies  were  sold  in  Mr. 
Bright's  do..  No.  5387,  and  at  Mr.  Utterson's  do..  No.  1723.  There  are 
copies  in  the  Bodleian  Library,  in  the  British  Museum,  and  in  the  Grenville 
collection  in  the  same  repository. 

Beautiful  copy.     Bound  by  Charles  Lewis. 

In  Green  Morocco,  with  joints,  tooled  inside,  in  imitation  of 

Roger  Payne,  gilt  leaves. 


276  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

Storer,  (Thomas.)  —  The  Life  and  Death  of  Thomas  Wolsey 
Cardinall.  Diuided  into  three  parts  :  His  Aspiring,  Triumph, 
and  Death.  By  Thomas  Storer  Student  of  Christ-Church  in 
Oxford. 

At  London  Printed  by  Thomas  Dawson.     1599.     4to. 

It  can  hardly  be  thought  surprising  that  the  extraordinary  fortunes  and 
eventful  life  of  Cardinal  Wolsev  should  have  formed  the  subject  of  a 
poetical  legend,  after  the  numerous  examples  already  set  forth  of  the  rise 
and  fall  of  great  personages  in  the  Mirror  for  Magistrates,  and  other  works 
of  a  similar  description.  And  the  present  appears  to  have  been  formed 
somewhat  on  a  similar  model,  and  to  have  been  intended  to  record  the  facts 
of  his  life  in  a  simple  and  faithful  manner  Avithout  much  embellishment. 
But  while  it  was  much  esteemed  by  some  of  our  earlier  writers  on  such 
subjects,  and  considered  in  those  days  as  a  work  of  great  rarity,  it  is  singular 
that  it  should  never  have  been  reprinted,  till  it  obtained  that  distinction  by 
Mr.  Park  in  the  Heliconia  in  1815.  It  is  true,  as  a  writer  in  the  Retrosp. 
Review  has  remarked,  that  "  to  write  a  life  in  verse,  is  merely  to  say  that  in 
rhyme,  which  had  much  better  be  said  in  prose."  But  although  we  do  not 
gather  much  of  novelty  in  this  poetical  life  of  the  great  Cardinal,  yet  what- 
ever is  communicated,  bears  the  stamp  of  truth,  and  may  be  relied  upon  for 
its  fidelity,  most  of  the  facts  being  derived  from  Cavendish's  Life  of  Wolsey, 
which  we  know  was  written,  especially  the  latter  portion  of  it,  from  his  own 
personal  observation.  The  poem  is  written  in  an  easy  and  flowing  style  of 
versification,  and  contains  some  passages  of  tolerable  merit — the  personifica- 
tion of  Theology  in  the  first  part  for  instance,  and  the  description  of  his 
prosperous  and  triumphant  state  in  the  second,  when  he  is  made  to  compare 
himself  with  "Jerusalem,  the  pride  of  Palestine"  —  which  exhibit  some 
power  of  imagination  and  poetical  taste,  and  are  not  without  interest  to  the 
reader.  The  work  is  preceded  by  a  dedicatory  sonnet  "  To  the  Worshipfull 
M.  John  Howson,  Chaplaine  to  her  Maiestie,"  who  was  afterwards  succes- 
sively Bishop  of  Oxford  and  Durham,  and  died  in  1631.  This  is  followed 
by  some  verses  in  Latin  by  an  anonymous  writer,  with  the  motto,  "  Ut  nos 
unda"  inscribed  "Ad  Thomam  Storerrum  de  suo  Tho:  Wolsoeo  Hendeca- 
syllabi,"  and  by  others  also  in  Latin,  entitled  "Prosopopoeia  Wolseii,"  by 
Edward  Micholborne,  who  is  mentioned  by  Wood  as  the  most  noted  Latin 
poet  of  his  day  in  the  university,  and  copies  of  whose  encomiastic  verses  are 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  277 

to  be  found  prefixed  to  the  various  publications  of  his  contemporaries.  Next 
occur  two  more  copies  of  Latin  verses,  "  De  Wolseido  et  Momo,"  and 
"  Thomoe  Wolsoei  et  Reginaldi  Poli  Cardinal.  Angl.  comparatio,"  signed 
"  Carolus  Fitzgeofridus  Latiforensis "  and  two  sonnets  in  English  by  the 
same  writer,  who  was  the  author  of  a  poem  on  the  death  of  Sir  Francis 
Drake  in  1593,  16mo,  written  when  he  was  very  young;  and  of  a  small 
work  called  "  Affaiiice,  or  Three  Books  of  Epigrams,"  published  at  Oxford 
in  1601,  in  which  are  inserted  some  complimentary  Latin  lines  to  Storer  on 
publishing  this  work.  And,  as  Fitzgeffrey  was  a  writer  of  some  reputation 
amongst  his  contemporaries,  we  quote  the  last  of  his  two  sonnets : 

While  Fortune  yet  did  Wolseys  state  uphold 
Liuing  he  fram'de  himselfe  a  costly  toombe  : 
To  girt  with  marble  crowiie,  the  louging  mould 
Prowde  of  the  treasure  that  it  should  enwhombe, 

Tet  ueuer  did  that  monument  inuest 
The  naked  temples  of  his  bare-head  graue  : 
And  death  -whicli  him  of  life  first  dispossest 
"Was  dispossest  of  what  it  selfe  should  haue. 

But  wherefore  did  the  lieau'ns  his  ghost  this  wrong 

Thus  of  his  duest  honour  to  depriue  him  ? 

They  knew  his  graue  should  not  obscure  him  long, 

There  should  a  Muse,  they  had  in  Store  reixiue  him. 
Toombes  are  for  dead  men  : — not  for  Wolsey  then 
Whom  thou  hast  made  immortalle  with  thy  pen. 

The  introductory  matter  is  concluded  with  two  laudatory  stanzas  in 
English  by  Thomas  Michelborne,  a  supposed  brother  or  relation  of  the 
former;  and  a  poem  of  fifteen  octave  stanzas  "To  the  Author,"  by  John 
Sprint,  student  of  Christ  Church,  who  was  afterwards  vicar  of  Thornbury  in 
Gloucestershire,  and  a  celebrated  preacher  in  London.  In  these  lines  he 
thus  gracefully  alludes  to  the  unfinished  state  of  his  own  College  in  Oxford : 

0  see  how  widdow-like  (poore  soule)  she  standes 
That  college  he  began  with  curioiis  frame, 

So  left,  (though  not  without  demaine  and  landes) 

Aa  bush  or  ensigne  of  her  builders  shame : 

Which  though  he  rear'de,  with  his  ambitious  handes, 

1  dare  not  call  him  Founder  of  the  same  : 

How  can  he  be  of  Christcliurck  Founder  deem'de, 
That  of  CJmsfs  cTiurch  no  member  is  esteem'de  ? 


278  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

And  yet  as  tliougli  to  rccompence  the  fall 
And  want  of  walles,  tliat  never  were  erect, 
See  how  the  greatest  Architect  of  al 
Rebuildes  the  same,  and  in  a  deare  respect, 
Hath  plac't  a  reuerent  steward,  that  doth  call, 
The  paiufull  builders,  and  their  worke  direct : 

By  whom  true  labors  have  their  due  regard, 

And  well-deseruing  letters  findes  reward. 

And  so  the  mines  that  our  house  before 

So  deeply  blemisht  with  defect  of  stones, 

Now  farre  more  glorious,  farre  triumphant  more, 

Is  made  by  sweete  supply  of  learned  ones. 

That  daily  takes  increase,  by  daily  store 

And  carefuU  noursing  of  her  toward  sounes 

So  flourish  still,  and  etill  encrease  thy  fame, 
And  make  thy  selfe  by  deede,  thy  selfe  by  name. 

The  poem  is  written  in  seven-line  stanzas,  and  is  divided  into  three  parts, 
the  first  giving  an  account  of  the  rise  of  Wolsey,  the  second  of  his  greatness, 
and  the  third  of  his  fall,  "  Wolseius  aspirans  triumphans,  et  Moriens";  the 
Avhole  is  written  in  the  first  person,  as  if  spoken  by  Wolsey  himself,  and 
commences  as  follows : 

Betweene  two  Muses  in  the  deepe  of  night, 

There  sate  a  reuerend  Father  full  of  woe. 

They  gaz'd  on  him,  and  from  that  dismall  sight, 

A  kind  remorse  was  wQliug  them  to  go, 

But  cruell  Fortune  would  not  have  it  so  : 

Fortune  that  erst  his  pride  had  ouertlirowne. 
Would  haue  her  power  by  his  misfortune  knowne. 

Where  fruitfull  Thames  salutes  the  learned  shoare, 
Was  this  graue  Prelate  and  the  Muses  placed  ; 
And  by  those  waues  he  builded  had  before 
A  royall  house  with  learned  Muses  graced. 
But  by  his  death  vnperfect  and  defaced  : 

O  blessed  walls,  and  broken  towers  (quoth  he) 

That  neuer  rose  to  fall  againe  with  me. 

To  thee,  first  sister  of  the  learned  nine, 
Historians  goddesse,  Patronesse  of  Fame, 
Entombing  worthies  in  a  liuiug  slu-ine 
Celestial  Clio,  Clio  pearelesse  dame, 
My  stories  truth,  and  triumph  I  will  frame 

My  stories  simple  truth,  if  ought  remaine 

Enrich  my  legend  with  thy  sacred  veine. 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  279 

The  sad  discourse  of  my  untimely  fall 

(O  tragique  Muse)  shall  pierce  tliy  sullen  eares 

Melpomene,  though  nothing  can  apall 

Thy  heart  obdurate  in  contempt  of  feares, 

My,  my  laments  shall  make  thee  write  in  teares, 

If  'moug  thy  scrolles  of  antique  maiestie, 

Thou  deigne  to  place  a  Prelates  tragedie. 

Perchance  the  tenor  of  thy  mourning  verse 
May  lead  some  pilgrim  to  my  toomblesse  graue ; 
Where  neither  marble  monument  nor  hearse 
The  passengers  attentive  view  may  craue, 
Which  honors  now  the  meanest  persons  haue : 

But  well  is  me,  where  e're  my  ashes  lie. 

If  one  teare  drop  from  some  religious  eie. 

Yet  when  by  meaues  of  Princes  gracious  doome 

I  rul'de  the  Cluu'ch,  where  aged  Wainjlet  lay, 

Zealous  I  was  unto  my  Founders  toombe  ; 

My  thankful!  loue  did  faithfull  tribute  pay 

To  him  now  dead,  whose  liuing  was  my  stay  : 
His  ancient  reliques  were  as  deere  to  me, 
As  Princes  lookes,  or  parents  loue  might  bo. 

Thrice  sweete  remembrance  of  that  holy  man 
Keuerend  erector  of  those  stately  tow'res, 
That  worthy  College  where  my  youth  beganne 
In  humane  Artes  to  spend  the  watchfull  houres  ; 
That  fruitfull  noursery,  where  heau'nly  abow'res 

To  me  poore  country-plant  such  grace  did  yeelde, 

As  soone  I  prooued  the  fairest  of  the  field. 

The  reflections  of  Wolsey  on  first  emerging  into  life,  with  liis  ambitious 
dreams  of  future  eminence  and  wealth,  are  thus  not  inelegantly  described  : 

This  silver  tongue  (me  thought)  was  neuer  made 
With  rhetoricke  skill  to  teach  each  common  swaine 
These  deepe  conceits  were  neuer  taught  to  wade 
In  shallow  brookcs,  nor  this  aspiring  vaine 
Fit  to  conuerse  among  the  shepheards  traine : 

I  could  not  girt  mo  like  a  worthlesse  groome. 
In  courser  garment  wouen  of  country  loomo. 

Just  cause  I  saw  my  titles  to  aduauce 
Vertue  my  gentry,  Priesthood  my  discent. 
Saints  my  allies,  the  Crosse  my  cognisance, 
Angells  my  guard,  that  watclit  about  my  tent, 
Wisedome  that  usher'd  me  where  ere  I  went : 


280  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

These  are  our  honors,  though  the  world  withstand 
Our  lands  and  wealth  are  in  another  land. 

Yet  as  through  Tagus  faire  transparent  streames, 
The  wand'ring  Merchant  sees  the  sandy  gold, 
Or  like  as  Cynthia's  halfe  obscured  beanies 
In  silent  night  the  Pilot  doth  behold 
Through  misty  clowdes  and  vapors  manifold : 

So  through  a  mirror  of  my  hop'te-for  gaine 

I  saw  the  treasure  which  I  should  obtaine. 

And  again  when  fresh  honours  and  dignities  await  him  after  his  introduction 
at  court : 

Transplanted  thus  into  a  fertile  spring 
And  watr'ed  from  aboue  with  heau'nly  dew 
Enlight'ned  with  the  presence  of  my  King, 
My  branches  waxed  large,  and  faire  of  hew, 
And  all  about  fresh  buddes  of  honor  grew  : 

Garlands  of  Lordships,  blossomes  of  degree, 
White  roddes  of  office,  keyes  of  knightly  fee. 

Looke  how  the  Ood  of  Wisdome  marbled  stands. 
Bestowing  Laurel  wreathes  of  dignitie 
In  Delplios  He,  at  whose  unpartial  hands 
Hang  antique  scrolles  of  gentle  Serauldrie, 
And  at  his  feate  ensignes  and  trophies  lie : 

Such  was  my  state  whom  every  man  did  follow, 

As  living  statue  of  the  gi'eat  Apollo. 

The  personification  of  Theology  or  Religion,  to  which  we  have  already 
alluded,  shall  form  the  subject  of  our  next  quotation. 

In  chariot  framed  of  celestiall  mould. 

And  simple  purenesse  of  the  purest  skie, 

A  more  than  heau'nly  Nymph  I  did  beholde. 

Who  glaunciug  on  me  with  her  gracious  eie, 

So  gaue  me  leaue  her  beautie  to  espie  : 

For  sure  no  sence  such  sight  can  comprehend, 
Except  her  beames  their  faire  reflection  lend. 

Her  beauty  with  Eternitie  began, 

And  onely  vnto  God  was  euer  scene, 

When  Eden  was  possest  with  sinful!  man, 

She  came  to  him,  and  gladly  would  have  beene 

The  long  succeeding  worlds  eternall  Queene : 
But  they  refused  her  (0  hainous  deed!) 
And  from  that  garden  bauisht  was  their  seede. 


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Since  when  at  sundry  times  and  sundry  waies, 
Atbeisme  and  blinded  ignorance  conspire 
How  to  obscure  those  holy  burning  raies, 
And  quench  that  zeale  of  heart-inflaming  fire, 
As  makes  our  soules  to  heau'nly  things  aspire : 

But  al  in  vaine,  for  mauger  all  their  might, 

Shea  neuer  lost  one  sparkle  of  her  light. 

Pearles  may  be  foild,  and  gold  be  turn'd  to  drosse. 
The  sun  obscur'd,  the-  mooue  be  turned  to  bloud, 
The  world  may  sorrow  for  Astrceas  losse, 
The  heau'ns  be  darkned  like  a  dusky  wood, 
Waste  desarts  lie  where  watery  fountaines  stood  : 

But  faire  Theologie  (for  so  she  hight) 

Shall  neuer  loose  one  spai-kle  of  her  light. 

One  more  passage  from  the  third  part,  "  Wolseius  moriens,"  containing 
his  reflections  on  arriving  at  Lord  Shrewsbury's  seat  at  Sheffield  Park,  worn 
out  and  ill,  and  being  waited  on  by  his  attendants,  instead  of  as  formerly,  by 
his  own,  shall  conclude  our  extracts  from  this  interesting  poem. 

By  short  and  heauy  iourueys  I  was  brought 

To  Sheffield,  parke  ; — there  taking  sweete  repose, 

Where  true  Nobilitio  intirely  sought 

T'enuoble  griefe,  and  entertaine  my  woes  : 

O  how  doth  heau'n  the  course  of  cares  dispose, 
By  enterchange  of  honor  and  of  pleasure, 
To  augment  our  miseries  exceeding  measure  ! 

Hit  traines  attendance  shew'd  my  glories  past, 
(Bitter  remembrance!)  and  my  present  shame, 
(Vnhappy  pi-esence!)  and  the  times  of  waste, 
Accusing  all  when  I  deseru'd  the  blame, 
Accursing  change !  that  keepes  mee  not  the  same : 

Let  him  that  sees  his  priuate  miserie, 

Auoid  the  prospect  of  prosperitie. 

It  breeds  pale  euuy,  and  sad  Discontent, 

Procures  offence  before  a  proffered  "OTong  : 

Torments  it  selfe,  till  all  conceits  are  spent 

And  thoughts  deliuered  by  malitious  tongue  : 

Then  rapt  with  violent  fury,  growes  so  strong, 
That  it  euuenomes  all  our  humane  parts, 
Blind  iudgiug  eies,  and  sense- confounding  harts. 

Farre  better  had  I  met  vpon  the  way 
Legions  of  Lazars,  ghost  of  men  Tuiust, 
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Afflicted  spirits,  tormented  night  and  day 
With  Prides  remembrauce,  and  incestuous  hist, 
Appearing  in  their  ornaments  of  dust : 

Such  passengers  might  well  baue  met  with  me, 

Of  like  profession,  and  of  like  degree. 

Ages  to  come  will  thankfully  admire 
That  princes  worth,  which  pittied  prelates  want : 
Those  benefits  are  noble  and  entii-e  ; 
But  in  few  grounds  iiicreaseth  such  a  plant, 
Since  their  old  vertuous  rootes  are  growne  so  scant. 
Professions  doubt  breedes  good  house-keepers  care, 
That  though  they  would,  yet  few  there  are  that  dare. 

At  the  end  of  the  poem,  on  the  last  page,  a  short  list  of  Errata  is  thus 
apologetically  introduced:  "Reader:  the  Decorum  is  kept  euen  in  these 
Errata :  there  is  no  reason  that  a  Booke  should  be  without  faultes,  when 
the  person  of  whom  the  booke  intreateth  had  so  man}'  in  his  life.  But  the 
Author  could  haue  wisht  that  ^Yolset/  had  corrected  his  errors  while  he 
lived,  on  that  condition,  that  hiraselfe  had  committed  none  in  the  description 
of  his  life.  If  the  reader  find  any  more  then  are  here  set  downe,  let  him 
remember  that  it  is  a  matter  ineuitable,  vnlesse  Nature  had  either  placed 
our  eyes  behind  vs,  or  the  wallet  of  faults  before  vs." 

The  author  of  this  poem  was  the  son  of  John  Storer,  a  citizen  of  London, 
and  was  elected  student  of  Christ  Church,  Oxford,  in  1587,  where  he  took 
his  degree  of  M.A.  in  1j94,  "at  which  time,"  says  Ant.  Wood,  "he  was 
had  in  great  renown  for  his  most  excellent  vein  in  poesy,  not  only  expressed 
in  verses  printed  in  several  books,  made  occasionally  by  members  of  the 
university,  but  for  that  writ  in  English  verse  entitled,  The  Life  and  Death  of 
Tho.  Wolsey^  Cardinal"  Some  extracts  from  this  poem  are  contained  in 
England's  Partiassus  (not  England's  Helicon  according  to  Wood,  and 
repeated  by  Mr.  Park),  and  a  copy  of  commendatory  verses  before 
Vaughan's  Golden  Grove^  1600,  8vo.  Storer  died  in  London  in  November 
1604,  and  was  buried  in  the  church  of  St.  Michael's,  Bassishaw,  in  the  city. 
It  has  been  conjectured  by  Malone  that  this  poem  might  possibly  have 
suggested  to  the  mind  of  Shakespeare  the  subject  of  his  play  oi  Henry  VIII. 
In  the  Mirrour  for  Magistrates,  4to,  there  is  a  legend  by  Thos.  Churchyard 
on  the  history  of  Wolsey,  his  rise,  pomp,  and  fall.  Consult  also  further 
Bibl.  Ang.  Poet.,  p.  605  ;  Betrosp.  Rev.,  vol.  v,  p.  375;  Heliconia,  vol.  ii ; 
Drake's  Life  and  Times  of  Shakespeare,  vol.  i,  p.  70'3 ;  and  Wood's  Ath. 
Oxon.,  vol.  i,  c.  750. 


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Storer's  Life  and  Death  of  Cardinal  Wolsei/  has  been  twice  reprinted  of 
late  years  —  in  1815,  4to,  by  JMr.  Park  in  the  second  volume  o^  Heliconia, 
and  also  more  recently,  in  8vo,  from  the  press  of  Mr.  Talboys  in  Oxford. 
And  whether  we  consider  the  interest  of  the  subject  —  the  historical  faith- 
fulness and  truth  with  which  it  is  written,  or  the  great  rarity  of  the  volume, 
it  must  certainly  be  allowed  to  be  justly  worthy  of  a  revival.  The  prices 
w'hich  this  work  has  usually  brought  at  public  sales  have  generally  ranged 
high  —  Midgley's  Sale,  No.  735,  11/.  lis.  Qd.;  Hibbert's,  No.  7733  (same 
copy),  6/.  25.  Gd.;  Heber's,  pt.  iv.  No.  2642,  9/.  9s.;  Jolley's,  pt.  iv,  No.  1032, 
8/.;  Sir  Mark  M.  Sykes's,  pt.  iii,  No.  523,  12/.  15s.;  Sir  Peter  Thompson's, 
19/.  19s.;  and  Bibl.  Ang.  Poet.,  No.  665,  21/. 

Collation  :  Sig.  A  to  K  3,  in  fours. 

Bound  by  Charles  Lewis. 
In  Green  Morocco,  with  broad  border  of  gold,  gilt  leaves. 


Studley,  (John.)  —  The  Seventh  Tragedie  of  Seneca,  entituled 
Medea:  Translated  out  of  Latin  into  English,  by  John 
Studley,  Student  in  Trinitie  Colledge  in  Cambridge. 

Imprinted  at  London  in  Fleete-streate,  beneath  the 
Conduit,  at  the  Signe  of  Sainct  John  Euangelist,  by  Thomas 
Colwell. 

Anno  Domini  M.D.LXVI.     (1566.)     Sm.  8vo,  lilfe.  \tXt. 

Warton  had  never  seen  this  separate  edition  of  the  Medea,  and  fancied, 
that  along  with  the  Hyppolitus  and  Hercides  Oeteus  by  the  same  translator, 
it  was  first  printed  in  Marsh's  collected  edition  in  1581,  in  4to.  The 
present  impression  is  dedicated  by  Studley  "  To  the  ryght  honorable 
Frauncis  Lord  Russell,  Earle  of  Bedford,  one  of  the  Queenes  Maiesties 
priuie  Counsell,  Knight  of  the  most  honorable  order  of  the  Garter,  Lord 
Gouernour  of  Barwicke,  and  Warden  of  the  East  Marches."  This  is 
followed  by  "  The  Preface  to  the  Reader,"  in  which  he  speaks  of  this  as 
his  "  second  attempte,"  the  eighth  tragedy,  the  Agamemnon,  printed  in  the 
same  year,  having  been  his  first,  and  mentions  that  he  had  altered  the  first 
chorus,  "  because  in  it  he  sawe  nothyng  but  an  heape  of  prophane  storyes, 
and  names  of  prophane  Idoles."  After  the  preface  are  some  lines  by 
"W.  F.  in  the  Translatours  behalfe,"  "The  Argument  to  the  Tragedie  by 


284  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

the  Translatour,"  three  seven-line  stanzas,  and  "  The  names  of  the  Speaker's 
of  this  Tragedie." 

Of  the  translator  himself,  who  contrlbnted  the  largest  share  in  first 
rendering  the  tragedies  of  Seneca  into  our  native  tongue,  having  translated 
four  out  of  the  ten,  not  much  is  known,  beyond  what  he  informs  us  liimself, 
that  he  received  his  education  as  a  scholar  at  Westminster  school,  and  was 
afterwards  of  Trinity  College,  Cambridge ;  that  he  is  mentioned  by  Ant. 
Wood,  as  "a  noted  poet  in  Queen  Elizabeth's  time  "  ;  and  that  according  to 
the  somewhat  doubtful  authority  of  Chetwood  in  his  British  Theatre,  he 
afterwards  went  into  Flanders,  where  he  held  a  command  under  Prince 
Maurice,  and  was  killed  at  the  siege  of  Breda  in  1587.  From  the  various 
complimentary  testimonies  offered  to  him  by  his  contemporaries,  prefixed  to 
the  first  edition  of  his  translation  of  the  Agamemnon,  and  from  other  scattered 
sources,  he  appears  to  have  been  held  in  much  esteem  by  them ;  and  his 
translations  from  Seneca,  considered  as  some  of  the  earliest  attempts  that 
were  made  in  our  lansua^e,  are  not  without  a  certain  degree  of  merit.  In 
addition  to  the  plays  of  Seneca,  Studley  translated  John  Bale's  '•'•Pageant  of 
Popes,  contanyninge  the  lyues  of  all  the  Bishops  of  Rome,  from  the  begin- 
ning of  them,  to  the  yeare  of  Grace  1555,"  &c.,  London,  1574,  4to,  and 
wrote  two  copies  of  Latin  verses  on  the  death  of  Nicholas  Carr,  Greek 
Professor  at  Cambridge,  which  were  appended  to  Carr's  Latin  translation  of 
the  Orations  of  Demosthenes,  printed  by  H.  Denham,  1571,  4to. 

A  short  quotation  from  tlie  first  chorus  altered  by  the  translator  will  be 
sufficient  to  shew  that  Studley  performed  his  task  with  some  ability.  The 
speech  thus  eloquently  described  was  that  of  false  Jason : 

Yet  was  his  speache,  so  pleasant  and  so  mjlde, 

Hys  tongue  so  fylde,  bys  promises  so  fayre, 

Sweete  was  the  fowlers  songe  that  hathe  beguylde 

The  selye  byrde,  brought  to  the  lymed  snare. 

Fayth  in  hys  face,  trust  shyned  in  hys  eyes, 

The  blusshyng  brow  playue  menynges  semcd  to  showe, 

In  double  harte  black  treason  hydden  lyes 

Dissembling  thoughtes  that  weaue  the  webbe  of  woe. 

The  honed  lyppes,  the  tongue  in  suger  depte 

Doe  sweete  the  poyson  rancke  within  the  brest, 

In  subtle  shew  of  paynted  sheath  is  kept, 

The  rustye  knyfe  of  treason  demed  least 

Lyfe  seemes  the  bayte  to  syght  that  lyeth  brym. 

Death  is  the  hooke  that  underlyes  the  same, 


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The  candell  blase  delyghtes  with  burnyng  trym 
The  rije,  tjll  she  be  burned  iu  the  flame 
Who  iu  such  shewes  least  demed  any  illea. 
The  hungry  fysshe  feares  not  the  bayte  to  brooke, 
Tyll  up  the  lyne  doe  pluck  hym  by  the  gjUes, 
And  fast  in  throte  hee  feeles  the  deadly  hooke. 

The  editor  of  the  Biogr.  Dram,  is  certainly  wrong  in  stating  that  there 
was  any  edition  of  this  play  in   1563,  the  present  being  the  earliest  that 
was  printed,  as  we  ma_y  learn  from  the  preface,  and  from  the  Registers  of 
the  Stat.  Company.      See  Collier's  Extracts  from  do.,  vol.  i,  p.  140;    and 
Hist.  Eng.  Dram.  Poetry.,  vol.  iii,  p.  14 ;  Warton's  Bist.  Eng.  Poet.,  vol.  iv, 
p.  206  ;  Wood's  Ath.  Oxon..,  vol.  ii,  p.  10;   Langbaine's  Dram.  Poets..,  j).  494; 
and  Jones's  Biogr.  Dram  ,  vol.  i,  p.  Q'M.     At  the  end  of  the  volume,  on  the 
last  page,  is  a  woodcut  of  St.  John  the  Evangelist,  the  device  of  Robert 
Wyer,  whom  Colwell  succeeded.      This  rare  play  sold  in  Rhodes's  Sale, 
No.  2412,  for  11.  10s.;  Heber's  do.,  pt.  iv,  No.  2332,  51  7s.  6d. 
Fine  copy.     Bound  by  Charles  Lewis. 
In  Russia,  gilt  leaves. 


Taylor,    (John.)  —  The    Praise,   Antiquity,    and    commodity    of 
Beggary,   Beggers,  and  Begging.      By  lohn  Taylor. 

At  London  Printed  by  E.  A.  for  Henry  Gosson,  and  are 
to  be  sold  by  Edward  Wright  ueere  Christs  Church  Gate. 
1621.     4to,  pp.  28. 

A  curious  woodcut  frontispiece  adorns  the  title  page  of  this  rare  tract, 
having  on  the  left  "Beggers  Bush"  with  two  of  the  fraternity  seated  on  the 
ground  under  it;  in  the  centre  "A  Maundering  Begger"  with  a  label  from 
his  mouth  "  Beggers  all  "  ;  and  on  the  ri^ht  the  figure  of  "  A  gallant  Begger." 
It  is  dedicated  in  the  following  highly  humorous  and  characteristic  manner 
to  Archie,  the  Court  Jester  of  James  I.  "  To  the  bright  Eve-dazeling 
Mirrour  of  Mirth,  Adelantado  of  Alacrity,  the  Pump  of  Pastime,  Spout  of 
Sport,  and  Regent  of  ridiculous  Confabulations,  Archibald  Armstrong,  alias 
the  Court  Archy."  In  this  dedication,  which  is  wholly  omitted  in  the  folio 
edition  of  his  collected  works,  the  author  thus  refers  to  some  of  his  former 
pieces :  "  I  did  once  dedicate  a  Booke  to  your  patronage  of  the  supposed 
drowning  of  M.  Thomas  Coriat,  and  I  did  also  dedicate  three  small  Treatises 


286  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

to  a  Leash  of  Knights ;  and  because  you  all  foure  make  a  well  match'd 
Murniuall  of  Patrons  (for  you  all  alike  very  illiberally  put  your  hands  in 
your  pockets,  and  to  make  your  monies  euen,  gave  me  nothing:)  it  makes 
me  the  bolder  at  this  time  to  come  upon  you  againe,  not  doubting  but  your 
bounty  will  requite  my  loue  and  paines  with  as  much  more."  This  tract  is 
in  verse,  and  is  entirely  filled  with  the  praises  of  mendicity,  the  freedom  and 
happiness  of  which  state  is  thus  not  unpleasingly  described  : 

Thus  all  degrees  and  states,  what  e're  they  are, 

With  baggers  happinesse  cannot  compare  : 

Heav'n  is  the  roofe  that  canopies  his  head 

The  cloudes  his  curtaines,  and  the  earth  his  bed, 

The  Sunne  his  fire,  the  starre's  his  candle  light, 

The  Moonehis  Lampe  that  guides  him  in  the  night. 

When  scorching  Sol  makes  other  mortals  sweat, 

Each  tree  doth  shade  a  begger  from  his  heat : 

When  nipping  Winter  makes  the  Cow  to  quake, 

A  begger  will  a  Barue  for  harbour  take, 

When  Trees  and  Steeples  are  or'e-tura'd  with  winde, 

A  begger  will  a  hedge  for  shelter  finde  : 

And  though  his  inconueniences  are  store. 

Yet  still  he  hath  a  salue  for  eu'ry  sore, 

lie  for  new  fashions,  owes  the  Tayler  nothing, 

Kor  to  the  Draper  is  in  debt  for  cloathing  : 

A  begger  doth  not  begger  nor  deceaue 

Othei's,  by  breaking  like  a  bankrupt  Kuaue, 

He's  free  from  shoulder-clapping  Sergeant's  clawes, 

He's  out  of  feare  of  Enuies  canker'd  iawes : 

He  lives  in  such  a  safe  and  happy  state, 

That  he  is  neither  hated,  nor  doth  hate. 

In  representing  a  state  of  beggery  as  the  usual  attendant  upon  the  genius 
and  the  poet,  Taylor  makes  mention  of  the  beautiful  and  well-known  song 
of  Marlow,  "  ]\Iy  mind  to  me  a  kingdom  is,"  and  the  short  quotation 
immediately  after  from  that  poet,  with  his  name  introduced  in  the  margin, 
is  a  concurrence  deserving  of  the  reader's  notice. 

And  though  a  Poet  haue  th'  accomplish'd  partes 
Of  Learning,  and  the  Axiomes  of  all  Artes  : 
What  though  he  study  all  his  braincs  to  dust, 
To  make  his  Fame  immortall,  and  not  rust, 
Eeuoluing  day  by  day,  and  night  by  night, 
And  waste  himselfe  in  giuing  others  light, 


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Yet  this  is,  all  the  Guerdon  he  shall  haue 
That  begg'ry  ■will  attend  him  to  his  Graue. 
He  (in  bis  owne  conceit)  may  haue  this  blisse 
And  sing,  My  minde  to  me  a  kingdome  is. 
But  'tis  a  Kingdome  wanting  forme  or  matter, 
Or  substance,  like  the  Moonshine  in  the  water. 
*  Chris.  Mario.      For  as  a  learned*  Poet  wrote  before 

Grosse  Golde  ruunes  headlong  from  them,  to  the  Bore, 
For  which  this  vnauoyded  Vow  I'le  make, 
To  loue  a  Begger  for  a  Poet's  sake. 

The  following  picture  of  the  freedom  and  delights  of  the  country,  and  the 
sweet  charms  of  nature  open  alike  to  all  Gods  creatures  —  the  begger 
equally  with  the  rich,  is  well  painted,  and  is  superior  to  the  general  run  of 
Taylor's  poetry. 

His  musicke  waytes  on  him  in  euery  bush, 

The  Mauis,  Bulfiucb,  Blackbird,  and  the  Thrush  : 

The  mounting  Larke  sings  in  the  lofty  Sky, 

And  Robin  Eedbreast  makes  him  melody. 

The  Nightingale  chants  most  melodiously. 

The  chirping  Sparrow,  and  the  chattering  Pye. 

My  neighbour  Cuckow,  alwayes  in  one  tune. 

Sings  like  a  Townsman  still  in  May  and  lune. 

These  feather'd  Fidlers  sing,  and  leape,  and  play, 

The  begger  takes  dehght,  and  God  doth  pay. 

Moreover  (to  accomplish  his  Content) 

There  nothing  wants  to  please  his  sight  or  scent. 

The  Earth  embrodered  with  the  various  hew 

Of  Greene,  Red,  Yellow,  Purple,  Watchet,  Blew  : 

Carnation,  Crimson,  Damaske  spotless  "White, 

And  every  colour  that  may  please  the  sight. 

The  odoriferous  Mint,  the  Eglantine, 

The  Woodbine,  Primrose,  and  the  Cowslip  fine. 

The  Honisuckle,  and  the  Daffadill, 

The  fragrant  Time,  delights  the  Begger  still. 

He  may  plucke  Violets  in  any  place 

And  Rue,  but  very  seldome  hearbe  of  Grace : 

Hearts-ease  he  hath,  and  Loue,  and  Idle  both, 

It  in  his  bones  hath  a  continuall  growth. 

His  Driuke  he  neuer  doth  goe  farre  to  looke, 

Each  Spring's  his  Host,  his  Hostesse  is  each  Brooke: 

Where  he  may  quaffe  and  too't  againe  by  fits. 

And  neuer  stand  in  feare  to  hurt  his  wits. 


288  COLLECTANEA  ANGLOPOETICA. 

Mr.  Heber  was  of  opinion  that  "this  is  one  of  the  rarest  of  Taylor's 
tracts."  It  is  incluiled  in  the  folio  edition  of  his  works,  but  without  the 
dedication.     From  Sir  Francis  Freeling's  collection. 

Half  bound  Brown  Calf. 


TayloRj  (John.)  —  Superbiae  Flagellura,  or,  The  Whip  of  Pride. 
By  John  Taylor. 

London  Printed  by  G.  Eld.     1621.     Sm.  8vo. 

Prefixed  to  this  poetical  tract  is  a  very  neatly  engraved  frontispiece,  on 
copper,  of  a  naked  boy  representing  simplicity,  with  a  whip  or  scourge  in 
his  right  hand,  and  holding  in  his  left  a  peacock,  an  emblem  of  pride. 
Opposite  to  this  are  ten  lines  of  verse,  containing  "  the  meaning  of  the 
frontispiece."  The  dedication  is  inscribed  "To  the  Right  Worshipfull, 
Worthy,  and  Learned  Gentleman,  S"'  Thomas  Richardson  Knight,  Serjeant - 
at-Law,  and  Speaker  in  the  High  Court  of  Parliament,"  &c.,  and  has  a 
double  anagram  on  his  name,  with  six  lines  underneath.  This  is  succeeded 
by  a  prose  epistle  to  the  reader  addressed  "  To  no  matter  who,  no  great 
matter  where,  yet  to  be  read  there  is  matter  why,  although  not  much  matter 
when."  In  this  epistle  he  thus  alludes  to  himself,  and  his  former  writings, 
and  declares  his  future  intentions.  "  Wherefore  I  having  a  talent  of  know- 
ledge lent  me,  by  which  I  know  that  I  must  render  an  account  one  day,  how 
I  haue  imployed  it,  and  having  written  neere  forty  seuerall  pamphlets  in 
former  times,  I  purpose  henceforward  (God  wilHng)  to  redeeme  the  time  I 
haue  so  mispent,  imploying  my  Pen  in  such  exercises  (which  though  they 
be  not  free  from  a  rellish  of  mirth,  yet  tliey  shall  be  cleare  from  profanation, 
scurrility,  or  obsceannesse.  I  do  know  Pride  is  at  such  a  height,  that  my 
Mole-hill  Muse  can  neuer  by  mincing  at  her  foote,  shake  her  head,  for 
where  Diuinity  preuailes  not,  Poetry  in  medling  doth  but  shew  the  Sun's 
brightnesse  with  a  Candle.  Yet  forasmuch  as  I  know  that  Pride  cast 
Angels  out  of  Heauen,  made  diuels  in  hell,  threw  man  out  of  Paradise,  was 
a  maine  causer  of  the  drowning  of  the  first  World,  is  a  deuowrer  of  this 
world,  and  shall  euer  be  accursed  in  the  world  to  come,  by  this  knowledge, 
I  haue  with  a  mix'd  inuectiue  mildnesse,  shewed  in  this  Booke  the  vanities 
of  all  sorts  of  Pride,  not  that  I  hope  for  amendment,  but  to  shew  my  honest 
intendment." 

A  short  poetical  address  follows,  entitled  "  A  few  Lines  to  small  purpose, 


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against  the  Scandalous  Aspersions,  that  are  either  maliciously,  or  ignorantly 
cast  vpon  the  poets  and  poems  of  these  times  ";  in  which,  speaking  of  those, 
who,  by  their  knowledge  of  languages,  stole  from  others  by  translating  their 
works,  and  thus  "made  others  verse  their  own,"  he  sa3's 

For  mine  ov^ne  part,  my  Conscience  ■ndtuesse  is, 
I  ne're  was  guilty  of  such  theft  as  this, 
Unto  such  robbery  I  could  neuer  reach 
Because  I  understand  no  forreigne  speach. 
To  prooue  that  I  am  from  such  filching  free, 
Latin  and  French  are  heathen-G-reeke  to  me, 
The  Grecian,  and  the  Hebrew  Characters, 
I  know  as  well,  as  I  can  reach  the  Stan-es. 
The  sweete  Italian,  and  the  Chip  Chop  Dutch, 
I  know  the  man  i'th  Moone  can  speake  as  much. 
Should  I  from  English  Authors  but  purloyne. 
It  would  be  soone  found  counterfeited  coyne. 
Then  since  I  cannot  steale,  but  some  will  spy, 
I'le  truely  use  mine  owne,  let  others  lye. 
Yet  to  excuse  the  writers,  that  now  write, 
Because  they  bring  no  better  things  to  light : 
'Tis  because  bounty  from  the  world  is  fled, 
True  liberality  is  almost  dead. 
Reward  is  lodg'd  in  darke  obliuion  deepe, 
Bewitcht  (I  thiuke)  ijito  an  endlesse  sleepe, 
That  though  a  man  in  study  take  great  paines, 
And  empt  his  veines,  and  puluerize  his  braines, 
To  write  a  Poem  well,  which  being  writ 
With  aU  his  ludgement,  Reason,  Art,  and  Wit, 
And  at  his  owne  charge,  print  and  pay  for  all, 
And  giue  away  most  free,  and  liberal! 
Two,  three,  or  foure,  or  flue  hundred  bookes, 
For  his  reward  he  shall  haue  nods  and  lookes ; 
That  all  the  profit  a  man's  paines  hath  gat, 
Will  not  suffice  one  meale  to  feed  a  Cat. 
Yet  noble  Westminster,  thou  still  art  free, 
And  for  thy  bounty  I  am  bound  to  thee : 
For  hadst  not  thou,  and  thy  Inhabitants 
From  time  to  time  relieu'd  aud  help'd  my  wants, 
I  had  long  since  bid  Poetry  adieu, 
And  therefore  still  my  thankes  shall  be  to  you. 
Next  to  the  Court,  in  generall  I  am  bound 
To  you,  for  many  friendships  I  haue  found. 
There  (when  my  purse  hath  often  wanted  baite) 
To  fill  or  feed  it,  I  haue  had  receite. 
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If  any  man 
f  e  t  c  h  his 
story  higher 
let  him  take 
my  booke 
for  nought. 


It  is  from  his  own  writings  that  the  principal  circumstances  of  Taylor's  life 
and  his  acquirements  may  be  known ;  and  we  think  that,  on  a  careful  and 
enlarged  examination  of  these,  much  may  still  be  acquired  which  has  not 
hitherto  been  noticed,  and  some  further  interesting  particulars  of  his  life  be 
found,  especially  from  those  tracts  which  give  an  account  of  his  own  travels 
in  various  parts  of  the  kingdom,  and  relate  many  of  his  personal  adventures 
and  anecdotes. 

The  present  work  is  descriptive  of  the  different  sorts  of  pride  which  pre- 
vail in  the  world  —  pride  of  birth,  dress,  riches,  human  knowledge,  learning, 
beauty,  strength,  &c.  —  and  contains  much  of  Taylor's  good  common  sense, 
expressed  in  strong  but  homely  language.  The  opening  is  remarkable,  and 
worth  quoting : 

When  all  things  were  as  wrap'd  in  sable  night, 

And  Ebon  darkness  mufBed  up  the  light : 

"When  neither  Sun,  nor  Moone,  nor  Starres  had  shin'd, 

And  when  no  fire,  no  Water,  Earth,  or  Winde, 

No  Hai'vest,  Autumne,  Winter,  when  no  Spring, 

No  Bird,  Beast,  Fish,  nor  any  creeping  thing, 

When  there  was  neither  Time,  nor  place,  nor  space, 

And  silence  did  the  Chaos  round  embrace  : 

Then  did  the  Archworkmaster  of  this  All, 

Create  this  Massy  Vuiversall  Ball. 

And  with,  his  mighty  word  brought  all  to  passe, 

Saying  but  Let  there  Be,  and  done  it  was. 

Let  there  he  Day,  Night,  Water,  Earth,  Searbs,  Trees, 

Let  there  he  Sun,  Moone,  Stars,  Fish,  Foiole  that  flees, 

Beasts  of  the  Field,  he  said  but,  Let  there  he. 

And  all  things  were  created  as  we  see. 

Thus  evei'y  sensible  and  senselesse  thing 

The  High-Creators  Word  to  passe  did  bring  : 

And  as  in  viewing  all  his  workes  he  stood. 

He  saw  that  all  things  were  exceeding  good. 

Thus  having  furnisht  Seas,  and  Earth,  and  Skies, 

Abundantly  with  all  varieties, 

Like  a  magnificent  and  sumptuous  Feast, 

For  th'  entertainment  of  some  welcome  Gruest, 

When  Beasts  and  Birds,  and  every  living  Creature, 

And  the  Earth's  fruits  did  multiply  by  Nature  ; 

Then  did  th'  Eternall  Trinity  betake 

It  selfe  to  Councell,  and  said.  Let  us  make, 

Not  Let  there  he,  as  vnto  all  things  else, 

But  Let  vs  Make  Man,  that  the  rest  excels,  &c. 


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We  give  another  short  extract  in  which  Taylor  deplores  the  great  increase 
of  pride  and  expense,  and  the  consequent  decay  of  the  old  country  hospitality. 
But  since  the  Leprosie  of  Pride  hath  spread 
The  world  all  over,  from  the  foot  to  head : 
Good  bounteous  house  keeping  is  quite  destroy'd, 
And  large  revenewes  other  waies  imploy'd. 
Meanes  that  would  foure  men  meate  and  meanes  allow, 
Are  turn'd  to  garters,  and  to  roses  now, 
That  which  kept  twenty  in  the  dayes  of  old, 
By  Sathan  is  turn'd  sattin,  silke,  and  gold, 
And  one  man  now  in  garments  he  doth  weare, 
A  thousand  akers,  on  his  backe  doth  beare, 
Whose  auncestours  in  former  times  did  giue 
Meanes  for  a  hundred  people  weU  to  live. 
Now  all  is  shrunke,  (in  this  vain  glorious  age) 
T'  atthe  a  coach,  a  footeman,  and  a  page, 
To  dice,  drinke,  drabs,  tobaco,  haukes,  and  hounds 
These  are  th'  expence  of  many  thousand  pounds, 
Whilst  many  thousands  starve,  and  dayly  perish, 
For  want  of  that  which  these  things  vs'd  to  cherish. 

The  following  lines  refer  to  two  curious  pamphlets  which  had  appeared 
anonymously  the  year  before  (1620),  and  were  much  noticed  at  the  time, 
but  are  now  become  exceedingly  scarce. 

*  Two  invective     ^he  Dcuill  laugh'd  lately  at  the  stinking  stir 

pamphlets  ^^q  had  about  *Bic  Mxdier  and  Soec  Vir, 

against  the 

monstrous  and    The  Masculine  apparel'd  Feminine, 

gutfel^rmin    ^he  Woman-Man  Man-Woman,  chuse  you  whether, 
and  women.        The  Female-Male,  Male-Female,  both,  yet  neither. 

The  remainder  of  the  passage,  which  is  too  coarse  for  quotation,  alludes 
to  a  celebrated  character  called  Mull'd  Sack,  who  was  hanged  in  Smithfield, 
and  was  the  subject  of  another  pamphlet  printed  in  the  same  year  as  the 
others. 

The  present  tract,  with  the  engraved  frontispiece  and  explanation,  is 
exceedingly  scarce.     It  sold  in  Bright's  Sale,  No.  5528,  for  21.  195. 

Fine  copy.     Bound  by  C.  Smith. 
In  Calf  extra,  gilt  leaves. 


Taylor,  (John.) — SuperbijB  Flagellum,  or,  The  Whip  of  Pride. 
By  John  Taylor. 

London,  Printed  by  G.  Eld.     1621.     Sm.  8vo. 


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Another  copy  of  the  same  tract,  but  without  the  engraved  frontispiece 
and  verse  of  explanation.  It  varies  also  from  the  former  in  being  dedicated 
"To  the  Right  Honorable  and  truely  Noble  Lord  William  Seymour,  Baron 
Beauchampe,  and  Earle  of  Hartford,"  thus  shewing  that  like  some  others  of 
his  contemporaries,  Taylor  was  in  the  habit  of  printing  different  dedications 
to  the  same  volume,  with  a  view  of  obtaining  pecuniary  reward  from  various 
patrons.  We  have  previously  alluded  to  this  curious  early  literary  practice, 
which  has  also  been  noticed  by  other  writers. 

In  Red  Morocco,  gilt  leaves. 


Taylor,  (John.)  —  The  Needles  Excellency.  A  New  Booke 
wherin  are  diuers  Admirable  Workes  wrought  with  the 
Needle.  Newly  inuented  and  cut  in  Copper  for  the  pleasure 
and  profit  of  the  Industrious. 

London  Printed  for  Henry  Boler,  and  are  to  be  sold  at  the 
Signe  of  the  Marigold  in  Paules  Church  yard.  The  12th 
Edition  inlarged  w^^  diuers  newe  workes  in  needle-workes, 
purles,  and  others,  never  before  printed.     1640.     4to. 

The  above  title  is  at  the  top  of  an  engraved  frontispiece  on  copper, 
representing  a  garden,  in  the  front  of  which  are  three  female  figures  — 
Industrie  in  the  centre,  seated  at  the  foot  of  a  tree,  at  work  with  her 
needle,  with  Wisdome  and  Follie  on  either  side.  The  letter-press  consists 
of  seven  pages  only,  entirely  in  verse  in  double  columns.  After  the  poem 
entitled  "  The  Praise  of  the  Needle,"  there  "  follow  certaine  Sonnets  in  the 
Honorable  memory  of  Queenes  and  great  Ladies,  who  have  bin  famous  for 
their  rare  Inventions  and  practise  with  the  Needle."  Some  lines  addressed 
"  To  all  degrees  of  both  sexes  that  love  or  live  by  the  laudable  imployment 
of  the  Needle,"  signed  John  Taylor,  conclude  the  literary  portion.  After 
this  are  thirty  plates,  engraved  on  copper,  of  patterns  of  needle-work  of 
various  kinds.  Some  of  the  plates  contain  four  or  five  patterns  on  each, 
and  are  much  like  those  adopted  by  the  ladies  of  the  present  day  in  their 
crochet  and  other  needle-work.  Although  this  is  the  twelfth  edition,  the 
work  is  exceedingly  rare,  and  was  considered  such  even  so  far  back  as 
eighty  years  ago,  when  it  is  mentioned  as  "  a  very  scarce  book "  by  the 
Kentish  antiquary,  John  Thorpe,  editor  of  the  Custumale  Boffense,  in  a  letter 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  293 

to  Dr.  Ducarel.  When  the  first  edition  was  printed  we  have  no  means  of 
ascertaining,  nor  have  we  ever  seen  another  copy  of  the  work  than  the  pre- 
sent, but  it  seems  more  than  probable  that  its  scarceness  may  have  arisen 
from  its  great  popularity  among  the  fair  sex  as  a  pattern  book  for  their 
work,  which  may  thus  have  caused  its  continual  destruction.  On  this 
account  it  may  be  somewhat  amusing  to  our  readers,  and  especially  the 
stitching  part  of  them,  to  hear  the  remarks  of  the  writer  in  "  Prayse  of  the 
Needle." 

A  Needle  (thougli  it  be  but  small  and  slender) 

Yet  it  is  both,  a  maker  aud  a  mender  : 

A  grave  Reformer  of  old  Rents  decay'd 

Stops  holes  and  seames,  and  desperate  cuts  display'd. 

And  thus  without  the  Needle  we  may  see, 

We  should  without  our  Bibs  and  Biggins  bee 

No  Shirts  or  Smockes,  our  nakednesse  to  hide, 

No  garments  gay,  to  make  vis  magnificTe  : 

No  shadowes,  Shapparoones,  Caules,  Bands,  Ruffs,  CidTs, 

No  Kirchiefes,  Quoyfes,  Chin-clouts,  or  Marry-Muffes, 

No  Cros-cloaths,  Aprons,  Handkerchiefes,  or  Falls, 

No  Table-cloathes  for  Parloxirs  or  for  Halls. 

No  Sheetes,  no  Towels,  Napkins,  Pillow-beares, 

Nor  any  Garment  man  or  woman  weares. 

Thus  is  a  Needle  provi'd  an  Instrument 

Of  profit,  pleasui'e,  and  of  ornament. 

Which  mighty  Queenes  haue  grac'd  in  hand  to  take 

And  high  borne  Ladies,  such  esteeme  did  make 

That  as  then"  Daughters,  Daughters  up  did  grow, 

The  Needles  Art,  they  to  their  children  show. 

The  following  enumeration  of  the  various  countries  from  whence  the 
patterns  have  been  brought,  and  the  different  kinds  of  stitch  employed  by 
the  ladies  in  their  needle-work,  is  also  curious,  and  many  of  the  terms  will 
be  recognized  by  our  readers  as  being  still  in  common  use.  Indeed  the  old 
proverb,  "  there  is  nothing  new  under  the  sun,"  like  many  other  popular 
sayings,  has  a  greater  degree  of  truth  than  many  would  be  willing  to  allow. 
The  infrequenc}',  however,  of  absolute  invention,  especially  in  matters  of 
costume,  and  indeed  of  art  generally,  renders  it  more  truthful  in  respect  to 
those  subjects  than  to  many  others;  and  they  who  pursue  the  history  of 
dress  and  clothing  for  any  lengthened  period  must  inevitably  be  struck  with 
the  numerous  imitations  of  older  customs  constantly  revived  as  new.  The 
chatelain  was  worn  centuries  ago  by  our  ancestors,  and  the  work  now  under 


294  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

consideration,  will  prove  incontestably  that  the  modern  rage  for  what  is 
termed  crochet  work  existed  to  an  equal  extent  under  forms  very  slightly 
varied  from  those  at  present  used,  more  than  two  centuries  ago. 

All  sortes  of  workes,  almost  that  can  be  nam'd, 

Here  are  directions  how  they  may  be  fram'd  : 

And  for  this  kingdomes  good  are  hither  come 

From  the  remotest  parts  of  Christendome, 

Collected  with  much  paines  and  industry, 

From  scorching  Spaine,  and  freezing  Muscovie, 

From  fertile  France,  and  pleasant  Italy, 

From  Poland,  Sioeden,  Denmarke,  Germany, 

And  some  of  these  rare  Patternes  have  beene  fet 

Beyond  the  bounds  of  faithlesse  Mahomet : 

From  spacious  China,  and  those  Kingdomes  East, 

And  from  great  Mexico,  the  Indies  West, 

Thus  are  these  workes,  Jarre  fetcJit,  and  dearely  iought  * 

And  consequently  good  for  Ladies  thought. 

Nor  doe  I  derogate  (in  any  case) 

Or  doe  esteeme  of  other  teachings  base 

For  Tent-toorke,  Raisd-worke,  Laid-ivorke,  Frost-toorke,  Net-worke, 

Most  curious  Furies,  or  rare  Italian  Cutworke, 

Fine  Feme-stitch,  Finny-stitcli,  New-stitch,  and  Chain-stitch, 

Brave  Bred-stitch,  Fisher-stitch,  Irish-stitch,  and  Queen-stitch, 

The  Spanish-stitch,  Rosemary-stitch,  and  Mowse-stitch, 

The  smarting  Whip-stitch,  Back-stitch,  and  the  Crosse-stitch, 

All  these  are  good,  and  these  we  must  allow, 

And  these  are  every  where  in  practise  now : 

And  in  this  Booke,  there  are  of  these  some  store 

With  many  others,  never  scene  before. 

As  the  ••'  certaine  Sonnets  "  have  already  been  cited  in  an  article  on  this 
work  in  the  Cens.  Liter.,  vol.  iii,  p.  5,  it  will  be  sufficient  here  to  quote  two 
of  the  most  interesting,  both  of  them  addressed  to  personages  of  the  greatest 
celebrity  and  renown. 

4. 

Flizaheth  Queene  of  Fngland,  and  Daughter 
to  King  Henry  the  eight. 

When  this  great  Queene,  whose  memory  shall  not 
By  any  termc  of  time  be  over-cast ; 
For  when  the  world,  and  all  therein  shall  rot 
Tet  shall  her  glorious  fame  for  ever  last. 
When  she  a  maid,  had  many  troubles  past 


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From  layle  to  layle,  by  Maries  angry  spleene : 
And  WoodstocJce,  and  the  Totoer  in  prison  fast 
And  after  all  was  Englands  Peerelesse  Queene. 
Yet  howsoeuer  sorrow  came  or  went, 
She  made  the  Needle  her  companion  still, 
And  in  that  exercise  her  time  she  spent, 
As  many  living  yet  doe  know  lier  skill. 
Thus  shee  was  still,  a  Captive,  or  else  crown'd, 
A  Needle-woman  Royall,  and  renown'd. 

5. 

The  Rigid  honourable,  Yertuous,  and  learned 
Lady  Mary,  late  Coimtesse  of  Femhrooke. 

A  Patterne,  and  a  Patronesse  she  was, 

Of  vertuous  industry  and  studious  learning : 

And  shee  her  earthly  Pilgrimage  did  passe, 

In  Acts  which  were  high,  honour  most  concerning  ; 

Brave  Wilton  house  in  Wiltshire  well  can  show 

Her  admirable  workes  in  Ai-ras  fram'd  : 

Where  men  and  beasts,  seeme  like,  trees  seeme  to  grow, 

And  Art  (surpass'd  by  Nature)  seemes  asham'd, 

Thus  this  renowned  Honourable  Dame, 

Her  happy  time  most  happily  did  spend ; 

Whose  worth  recorded  in  the  mouth,  of  fame, 

(Vntill  the  world  shall  end)  shall  neuer  end, 

She  wrought  so  well  in  Needle-worke,  that  shee 

Nor  yet  her  workes,  shall  ere  forgotten  be. 

See  Cens.  Liter.,  vol.  iii,  p.  5 ;  and  Restituta,  vol.  iv,  p.  223.  There  are 
copies  of  this  work  in  the  British  Museum,  and  in  Douce's  collection  in  the 
Bodleian  Library,  both  of  the  edition  of  1640.  A  copy  in  Skegg's  Sale, 
No.  1771,  brought  Ql.  Is.  6d.  The  present  one  is  inlaid,  und  appears  to  be 
deficient  in  either  one  or  two  of  the  plates. 

Bound  in  Red  Morocco,  gilt  leaves. 


Taylor,  (John.)  —  Jack  a  Lent:  His  Beginning  and  Entertain- 
ment :  with  the  mad  pranks  of  his  Gentleman-Usher  Shroue- 
Tuesday  that  goes  before  him,  and  his  Foot-man  Hunger 
attending. 


296  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

With  new  additions,  dedicated  both  to  the  Butchers  fare- 
well and  the  Fishmongers  Entrance :  written  to  choake 
Melancholy,  and  to  feed  Mirth.       By  John  Tailor. 

London  printed  for  I.  T.  and  are  to  be  sold  at  Christ 
Church  Gate.      1620.     4to. 

Another  of  the  multitudinous  pieces  of  this  most  proUfic  author,  and  per- 
haps one  of  the  most  humorous.  It  has  a  singular  woodcut  on  the  title-page 
containing  three  figures  —  Jack  a  Lent  in  the  middle,  booted  and  spurred, 
riding  on  a  nondescript  sort  of  fish  with  four  legs,  preceded  by  Shrove 
Tuesday,  in  the  shape  of  a  jolly  fat  person,  with  a  frying  pan  on  his  shoulder, 
and  followed  by  Hunger,  a  tall  lank  figure,  carrying  some  sprats  on  a  pole  in 
one  hand,  and  a  sword  in  the  other.  The  dedication  is  "To  the  Fishmongers 
and  Butchers,"  and  is  written  in  an  amusing  style.  The  tract,  which  is  in 
ilacR  letter,  is,  for  the  most  part,  in  prose,  but  is  introduced  by  the  following 
humorous  lines : 

Jack  a  Lent. 

Of  lacke  an  Apes  I  list  not  to  endite 

Nor  of  lack  Daw  my  Gooses  quill  shall  write  : 

Of  lack  of  Newhery  I  will  not  repeat, 

Nor  lack  of  both  sides,  nor  of  Skip-Iacke  neate. 

To  praise  the  Turn-spit  lacke  my  Muse  is  mum, 

Nor  of  the  entertainment  of  lacke  Drum 

I'le  not  rehearse  :  nor  of  lacke  Dogge,  lacke  Date, 

lacke  foole  or  lacke  a  Dandy  I  relate  : 

Nor  of  Blacke  lacks  at  gentle  Buttry  bars, 

Whose  liquor  oftentimes  breeds  houshold  wars  : 

Nor  lacke  of  Doner  that  Grand  lury  lacke, 

Nor  lack  Satcce  (the  worst  knaue  amongst  the  pack.) 

But  of  the  lacke  of  lacks,  Great  lacke  a  Lent, 

To  write  his  worthy  acts  is  my  intent ; 

How  hee's  attended  with  a  messe  of  lacks. 

Whose  fame  my  artlesse  weake  inueution  cracks, 

lack  Serring  and  lack  Sjjraf,  lack  Straw,  lack  Cade, 

These  are  the  lacks  with  which  my  pen  must  trade. 

The  description  of  Shrove  Tuesday  is  highly  amusing  and  characteristic. 
"Always  before  Lent  there  comes  waddling  a  fat  grosse  bursten-gutted 
groome,  called  Shrove  Tuesday,  one  whose  manners  sliewe  that  hee  is  better 
fed  than  taught :    and  indeed  hee  is  the  onely  monster  for  feeding  amongst 


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all  the  dayes  of  the  yeere,  for  hee  deuoures  more  flesh  in  fourteene  houres, 
then  this  whole  kingdome  doth  (or  at  the  least  should  do)  in  six  weekes 
after :  such  hoyling  and  broyling,  such  roasting  and  toasting,  such  stewing 
and  brewing,  such,  baking,  frying,  mincing,  cutting,  carving,  deuouring,  and 
gorbellyed  gurmondizing,  that  a  man  would  thinke  people  did  in  two 
moneths  provision  at  once  into  their  paunches,  or  that  they  did  ballast  their 
bellies  with  meate  for  a  voyage  to  Constantinople  or  the  West  Indies." 

In  the  course  of  the  narrative,  the  author  thus  alludes  to  the  great  dish  of 
the  day,  and  to  the  old  custom  of  ringing  the  pan-cake  bell:  "All  this 
hurly  burly  is  for  no  other  purpose,  but  to  stop  the  mouth  of  this  Land- 
whale  Shrove  Tuesday.  At  whose  entrance  m  the  morning,  all  the  whole 
kingdome  is  in  quiet,  but  by  that  time  the  clocke  strikes  eleven,  which  (by 
the  helpe  of  a  knavish  Sexton)  is  commonly  before  nine,  then  there  is  a 
Bell  rung,  call'd  The  Pancake  Bell,  the  sound  whereof  makes  thousands  of 
people  distracted,  and  forgetfull  eyther  of  manners  or  humanitie :  Then 
there  is  a  thing  call'd  wheaten  flowre,  which  the  sulphory  Necromanticke 
Cookes  doe  mingle  with  water,  Egges,  Spice,  and  other  tragical!,  magical], 
inchantments,  and  then  they  put  it  by  little  and  little,  into  a  Frying  pan  of 
boyling  Suet,  where  it  makes  a  confused  dismall  hissing  (like  the  Learnean 
Snakes  in  the  Eeeds  of  Acheron  Stix,  or  Phlegeton)  untill  at  the  last  by  the 
skill  of  the  Cookes,  it  is  transform'd  into  the  forme  of  a  Flap  lack,  which  in 
our  translation  is  call'd  a  Pancake,  which  ominous  incantation  the  ignorant 
people  doe  deuoure  very  greedily  (having  for  the  most  part  well  dined  be- 
fore) but  they  haue  no  sooner  swallowed  that  sweet  candyed  baite,  but 
straight  their  wits  forsake  them,  and  they  runne  starke  mad,  assembling  in 
routs  and  throngs  numberlesse  of  ungouerned  numbers,  with  unciuill  ciuill 
commotions." 

The  whole  pamphlet  is  full  of  Taylor's  richest  humour,  though  of  rather 
a  coarse  kind,  and  is  much  more  racy  and  entertaining  than  many  of  his 
later  productions.  It  is  thus  alluded  to  by  Henry  Hutton  in  his  Follies 
Anatomie,  or  Satyr icall  Epigrams,  1610,  in  his  account  of  a  tipling  poetaster. 

He  has  a  subject  he  did  late  invent 

Will  shame  the  riming  sculler  JacJc  a  Lent. 

Sold  in  the  Biblioth.  Heber.,  pt.  iv,  No.  2803,  for  \l.  12s.;  Sir  Francis 
Freeling's  Sale,  No.  2213,  1/.  os. 

Half  bound  in  Morocco,  neat. 

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Taylor,  (John.)  —  An  Armado,  or  Nauye,  of  103  Ships  and  other 
Vessels;  who  haue  the  Art  to  sayle  by  Land,  as  well  as  by 
Sea.  Morrally  Rigd,  Mand,  Munitiond,  Appoynted,  Set  forth, 
and  Victualed,  with  32  sortes  of  Ling :  with  other  Prouisions 
of  Fish  and  Flesh.     By  John  Taylor. 

The  names  of  the  Ships  are  in  the  next  page. 

Anno  Millmo,  quillimo,  trillimo. 

London  Printed  by  E.  A.  for  H.  Gosson.     1627.     8vo. 

A  separate  leaf  opposite  the  title  contains  a  double  woodcut  frontispiece, 
having  on  the  one  side  an  heraldic  shield  with  a  ship  in  the  lower  part 
with  a  cross  on  the  sails,  and  a  lion  over  it,  and  on  the  other  side  a 
ship  under  sail.  The  Navy  here  intended  in  this  little  tract  by  its 
humorous  author,  consists  of  a  series  of  words  ending  with  the  syllable 
"  ship,"  a  list  of  which  is  given  on  the  back  of  the  title-page,  viz  :  Lord- 
ship, Scholler-ship,  Lady-ship,  Goodfellow-ship,  Apprentice-ship,  Court- 
ship, Friend-ship,  Fellow-ship,  Footman-ship,  Horseman-ship,  Surety-ship, 
Wor-ship,  and  Woodman-ship.  "  Besides,  there  were  7  other  needles  ships 
which  were  in  the  nature  of  Voluntaries,  or  hangers  on  vpon  the  Navy,  as 
namely.  The  Mary  Carry-Knaue,  The  Knaues-encrease,  The  Superfluous, 
The  Careles,  The  Idle,  The  Coxcombe,  The  Braggard.  And  what  man 
soeuer  he  be,  that  hath,  or  doth  not  sayle  in  some  one  Ship  of  this  my 
Fleete,  Let  him  come  to  me,  and  I  will  ship  him,  and  alow  him  double 
wages." 

The  tract  is  dedicated  "  To  the  right  Worshipfull  and  truly  Generous  Sir 
John  Fearne  Knight."  After  which  is  "The  Description  how  the  whole  Nauy 
is  victualled  with  thirty  two  sortes  of  Ling,  besides  other  necessaries,"  con- 
sisting of  so  many  words  ending  with  that  syllable,  as  Change-ling,  Dar-ling, 
Shaue-ling,  Fond-ling,  Tip-ling,  &c.,  and  "  Why  these  Ships  are  called 
Ships,"  together  with  commendatory  verses  by  John  Smith  and  F.  Mason. 
The  tract  is  wholly  in  prose,  with  the  exception  of  a  portion  of  the  des- 
cription of  a  pageant  or  funeral  procession  of  a  horse  named  "Flea-bitten 
Otho"  belonging  to  the  Emperor  Nero,  in  blank  verse.  Of  the  kind  of 
humour  displayed  in  this  tract,  the  following  is  a  brief  specimen  : 

The  other  Ships  and  vessels  that  were  in  the  same  Regiment  with  the  Goodfellow- 
ship,  were  these. 

1.  The  Drunken  Sisse,  a  great  SJiip,  it  is  thought  she  was  built  at  Middleborough  ; 


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but  howsoeuer  shee  hath  made  many  voyages  into  England :  she  is  so  beloued,  that 
ehee  needs  not  presse  any  man  to  serue  in  her :  for  all  sorts  of  people  doe  daily  come 
aboard  of  her,  and  freely  and  voluntarily  offer  her  their  best  service,  so  that  it  is  a 
wonder  to  see  how  brauely  she  is  man'd :  and  (many  times)  women  doe  take  their 
turnes  at  helme,  and  steere  their  courses  as  well  as  men.  She  is  a  Ship  contrary 
to  all  other  Ships,  for  she  rowles,  reeles,  and  tumbles,  most  of  all  when  shee  is  in  a 
calme  harbour ;  and  the  more  ladu:g  she  takes  in,  the  more  unstedy  she  is ;  for  if 
the  sea  be  as  calme  as  a  milke-pan,  yet  is  shee  euer  tossing,  which  makes  her  Mariners 
sea-sicke,  and  subject  to  much  casting.  Her  Ordinance  are  Gallons,  Pottles,  Quarts, 
Pints,  and  the  misers  Gallon ;  with  three  hoop'd  pots,  Kaunes,  Goddards :  in  the 
which  Artillery,  almost  euery  one  hath  the  skill  to  charge  and  discharge,  maintaining 
the  figbt  as  long  as  they  can  either  stand  or  understand.  The  Master  of  her  is  an 
Amsterdam' d  man,  his  name  is  Cornelius  van  Broahen-gulch,  the  Master  Gunner  was 
one  Denis  Whirljwoles,  a  man  of  Beeps,  with  G-ulpJi  the  Purser,  Swallow  the  Bot- 
swaine,  and  Swill  the  Steward. 

2.  The  second  Ship  in  the  Regiment  with  the  Goodfellow-Ship,  was  the  Sow  oj 
Flushing,  she  was  a  vessell  vnseemely  to  the  eye,  but  yet  serviceable. 

3.  The  Carowse,  a  Ship  of  hot  service,  and  as  the  Spider  suekes  the  sweetnesse 
of  the  fairest  ilowers,  converting  their  juice  into  x^oyson,  so  the  Saylors  in  this  Ship 
haue  taken  a  vse  to  drinke  other  mens  healths,  to  the  amphfying  of  their  owue 
diseases. 

4.  The  Quaffe,  a  quicke  smart  Ship,  much  of  the  bulke  and  carriage  of  the 
Carowse,  <tc.,  &c. 

See  Collier's  Bridgewater  Caial,  p.  307.  The  present  fine  copy  belonged 
to  Sir  Mark  M.  Sjkes,  and  sold  at  his  Sale,  pt.  iii,  No.  624,  for  2/.  2s. 

Bound  by  Mackenzie. 
Olive  Morocco,  gilt  leaves. 


Taylor,  (John.)  —  The  Liar.  Or,  A  contradiction  to  those  who 
in  the  titles  to  their  Bookes  affirmed  them  to  be  true,  when 
they  were  false  :  although  mine  are  all  true,  yet  I  terme  them 
Ives. 

Veritas  veritatis. 

Printed  in  the  yeere,  1641.     4to,  pp.  8. 

On  the  title  is  a  woodcut  of  "  The  Liar  rackt,"'  which  is  thus  described  in 
the  tract:  "There  was  a  great  high  thing  raised  to  the  height  of  twelve  or 
fourteene  yards,  made  of  iron,  whereon  he  (the  Liar)  was  seated,  with  two 
great  weights  on  his  toes,  and  the  like  on  his  hands,  where  he  sate  in  great 


300  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

paine,  if  he  should  chance  to  ease  himselfe  upwards,  there  were  sharpe 
nailes  over  his  head  ^vhich  would  prick  him  ;  thus  he  sate,  and  thus  he 
suffered,  till  they  had  sufficiently  made  a  laughing  stock  of  him  :  well  when 
hee  had  suffered  enough  they  let  him  downe."  Taylor's  name  does  not 
appear  on  this  tract,  which  is  in  prose,  and  consists  of  four  leaves  only,  hut 
there  is  no  douht  it  was  one  of  the  very  numerous  productions  of  his  pen. 
It  is  satirical,  and  evidently  alludes  to  some  particular  writer  of  that  period. 
We  quote  one  or  two  of  the  items,  referring  to  Archhishop  Laud,  the  Queen, 
Suckling,  Davenant,  &c. 

Item,  he  related  unto  them  that  the  Bishop  of  Canterbury  was  little  better  than 
a  Papist,  and  that  he  was  committed  for  that  occasion  to  the  Tower,  and  that  he  was 
not  like  to  be  freed  from  thence  till  he  came  with  his  heeles  forward. 

Item,  he  reported  that  Q.  M.  was  to  leave  the  fragrant  soile  of  England,  and  go 
into  Italy. 

Item,  he  related  that  SucJcUn,  Davenant,  and  Pearcy  were  accused  as  traytors, 
and  fearing  to  be  hanged,  fled  for  it  beyond  the  Seas,  because  they  would  not  be  chid. 

Item,  he  told  them  that  Wrens  nest  was  defiled,  and  that  the  Jesuits  and  Friers 
had  almost  wept  their  eyes  out  for  his  fall. 

Item,  all  the  Brownists  and  Anabaptists,  and  the  like,  of  what  age  soever,  that 
shall  come  to  be  baptized,  may  have  a  twenty  shilling  piece  laid  on  his  forehead, 
as  soone  as  the  Minister  shall  have  signed  him  with  the  signe  of  the  Crosse. 

This  tract  is  not  included  in  the  list  of  Taylor's  works,  amounting  to 
eighty-four,  given  by  Mr.  Park  in  tlie  Cens.  Liter.,  vol.  iii,  p.  12,  nor  is  it 
mentioned  by  Lowndes.  It  is  of  the  greatest  rarity,  and  we  do  not  find  it 
in  the  collection  of  this  writer's  productions  sold  in  the  Bibl.  Heberiana,  nor 
in  any  other  sale  catalogue. 

Beautiful  copy.     Bound  by  Mackenzie, 
Red  JMorocco  elegant,  gilt  leaves. 


Taylor,  (John.)  —  Religious  Enemies.  With  a  Brief  and  Ingeni- 
ous Relation,  as  by  Anabaptists,  Brownists,  Papists,  Familists, 
Atheists,  and  Foolists,  saweily  presuming  to  tosse  Religion  in 
a  Blanquet.     By  John  Taylor. 

Printed  at  London  for  Thomas  Bates  in  the  Old-bailey. 
16il.     4to,  pp.  8. 

On  the  title-page  is  a  woodcut  with  four  figures.  The  Anabaptist,  The 
Brovvnist,  The  Familist,  and  The  Papist,  holding  a  blanket,  one  at  each 


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corner,  and  tossing  the  Bible  upon  it.  This  brief  tract  of  four  leaves  only, 
like  the  last,  is  in  prose,  and  is  intended  to  describe  "  the  diverse  and 
erroneous  opinions  of  the  enemies  of  religion  against  the  truths  of  the 
Gospel,"  which  it  states,  "  was  received  into  this  Kingdome,  when  Lucius 
was  King  heere,  and  Elentherius  was  then  Bishop  of  Rome,  who  was  the 
thirteenth  Bishop  of  that  See,  Anno.  179,  so  that  the  Institution  and  Prac- 
tise of  our  Church  and  religion  hath  continued  amongst  us  neere  1500. 
yeares,  except  when  it  was  eclipsed  by  popery,  even  from  the  neere  time  of 
the  death  of  some  of  the  Apostles  or  their  next  successours."  Taylor,  who 
was  as  remarkable  for  his  strong  attachment  to  the  church,  as  he  was  for 
his  loyalty,  was  violently  opposed  to  the  Puritanical  party ;  and  some  of  his 
remarks  upon  the  state  of  the  religious  divisions  in  his  time,  are  not,  per- 
haps, altogether  inapplicable  in  some  degree  to  those  which  prevail  at  the 
present  day.  "  Amongst  mutable  and  contentious  spirits,  Religion  is  made 
a  Hotchpotch,  and  as  it  were  tost  in  a  Blanquet,  and  too  many  places  of 
England  too  much  Amder damnified  by  severall  opinions.  Religion  is  now 
become  the  common  discourse  and  Table-talke  in  every  Taverne  and  Ale- 
house, where  a  man  shall  hardly  find  five  together  in  one  minde,  and  yet 
every  one  presumes  he  is  in  the  right.  The  Booke  of  Common  Prayer 
which  was  established  by  Act  of  Parliament  by  that  good  and  godly  King 
Edward  the  sixth,  and  after  re-established  by  another  Parliament,  by  that 
unparalel'd  and  peerlesse  princesse  Queen  Elizabeth^  and  continued  since  in 
the  happy  Raignes  of  two  gracious  Kings  in  the  Church  of  England  for  the 
service  of  God  these  ninetie  yeeres ;  yet  one  would  have  it  to  be  cast  out 
now,  holding  it  a  false  worship ;  another  is  angry  at  the  vestments  and 
habits  of  the  Ministery ;  one  will  not  kneele,  another  will  not  stand,  one 
will  sit  downe,  one  will  not  bowe,  another  will  not  be  uncovered,  one  holds 
all  good  manners  to  be  popery,  another  that  all  decencie  is  superstitious, 
another  that  railes  are  Romish  (which  is  false,  for  the  papists  have  no  railes 
in  their  Churches,  nor  any  thing  so  convenient):  One  foolishly  assumes  and 
presumes  to  save  himselfe,  and  some  of  his  Neighbours  too,  by  his  good 
workes ;  another  will  be  saved  by  a  bare  and  lazie  Faith  that  will  doe  no 
worke  at  all,  and  thus  religion  is  puft  and  blowne  to  and  fro  with  every 
wind  of  doctrine,  and  as  it  were  tost  in  a  Blanquet ;  but  of  this  more  largely 
hereafter  in  another  part,  which  will  suddenly  be  printed,  till  when  and  ever, 
it  shall  be  my  hearty  prayers,  that  as  there  is  but  one  Shepheard,  that  God 
in  his  gracious  goodnesse  and  mercie  would  make  us  all  one  sheep-fold." 
Fine  copy.  Bound  by  Mackenzie. 
Crimson  Morocco  elegant,  gilt  leaves. 


302  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

Taylor,  (John.)  —  A  Plea  for  Prerogative:  or,  Give  Caesar  his 
due.  Beiug  the  Wheele  of  Fortune  turn'd  round :  or,  The 
World  turned  topsie-turvie.  Wherein  is  described  the  true 
Subjects  loyalty  to  maintain  his  Majesties  Prerogative  and 
priviledges  of  Parliament.  By  Thorny  Aylo :  alias  John 
Taylor. 

Malice,  Disloyalty,  War,  and  Sects  aspire, 
Eeligion,  Peace,  Obedience  are  'ith  mire. 
Religion,  Peace,  Obedience,  Love,  no  doubt, 
Though  they  be  loe,  the  Wheele  will  turne  about. 

London^  Printed  for  T.  Bankes.     1642.     4to. 

We  have  already  noticed  one  tract  by  Taylor  on  the  subject  of  Fortunes 
Wheele,  and  we  have  here  another,  directed,  as  many  of  his  short  pieces 
were  about  this  period,  against  the  numerous  religious  sects,  which  were 
then  becoming  rampant,  and  divided  England. 

The  mungrill  Papist,  the  Arminian, 

The  consubstantiall  misled  Lutheran 

The  Anabaptists,  Brownists,  Arians, 

Scismaticall  Disciplinarians, 

These,  and  more  Sects  of  Separatists  besides. 

On  the  title  is  a  woodcut  representation  of  Fortune's  Wheele,  in  which 
malice,  war,  sects,  and  disloyalty,  are  shewn  to  be  uppermost,  and  peace, 
religion,  obedience,  and  love,  "are  turu'd  downwards  in  the  spokes  below." 
The  author  shews  that  ingratitude  for  God's  great  blessings,  and  especially 
for  our  deliverance  from  the  Powder  Plot 

Hath  dismembred  wretched  England's  state  ; 
Pride,  avarice,  lust,  hath  broke  our  happy  peace, 
And  daily  do  our  sins,  and  shames  increase. 
He's  a  wise  man  (that  without  danger)  can 
Serve  God  his  King,  and  be  an  honest  man ; 
For  (in  these  dayes)  to  speak  truth,  and  do  right. 
Is  paid  with  scandall,  danger,  and  despight. 

But  the  writer  looks  for  better  times,  and  is  still  buoyed  up  with  hope 
"That  Fortunes  Wheele  will  shortly  turne  about,"  and  that  peace,  love, 
religion,  and  obedience,  will  once  more  be  in  the  ascendant,  and  exalted 
high  in  the  upper  spokes  of  the  Wheel. 

Bound  in  Calf,  neat. 


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Tailor,  (John.) — Mad  Fashions,  Od  Fashions,  All  out  of 
Fashions,  or  The  Emblems  of  these  Distracted  times.  By 
John  Taylor. 

London.     Printed  by  lohn  tJammond  for  Thomas  Banks. 
1642.     4to,  pp.  8. 

A  curious  and  grotesque  woodcut  adorns  the  title  of  this  poetical  tract,  in 
which  every  thing  appears  reversed,  and  contrary  to  the  common  order  of 
things.  In  the  centre  is  the  figure  of  a  man  with  breeches,  boots,  and  spurs 
on  his  arms,  and  gloves  on  his  feet;  and  scattered  in  other  parts,  a  horse 
driving  a  cart,  a  barrow  wheeling  a  man,  a  mouse  hunting  a  cat,  a  hare  run- 
nins  after  a  jjrevhound,  fishes  flying  in  the  air,  and  a  church  and  a  candle- 
stick  turned  up  side  down,  all  emblematical  of  the  convulsed  and  distracted 
state  of  the  times  in  church  and  state.  These  objects  in  the  woodcut  are 
thus  described  in  the  commencement  of  the  tract : 

The  Picture  that  is  printed  in  the  front 

Is  like  this  Kingdome,  if  you  look  vpou't : 

For  if  you  well  doe  note  it  as  it  is, 

It  is  a  Trausform'd  Metamorphosis. 

Tliis  Monsti'ous  Picture  plainely  doth  declare 

'This  laad  (quite  out  of  order)  out  of  square. 

His  Breeches  on  his  shoidders  doe  appeare, 

His  doublet  on  his  lower  parts  doth  weare. 

His  Boots  and  Spurs  upon  his  Armes  and  Hands, 

His  Gloves  upon  his  feet  (whereon  he  stands) 

The  Church  o'return'd  (a  lamentable  show) 

The  Candlestick  above,  the  light  below, 

The  Cony  hunts  the  Dogge,  the  Rat  the  Cat, 

The  Horse  doth  whip  the  Cart  (I  pray  marke  that) 

The  Wheelbarrow  doth  drive  the  man  (oh  base!) 

And  Eeles  and  Gudgeons  flie  a  mighty  pace. 

And  sure  this  is  a  Monster  of  strange  fashion, 

That  doth  surpasse  all  Ovid's  Transformation. 

And  this  is  England's  case  this  very  day. 

All  things  are  turn'd  the  cleane  contrary  way. 

The  tract  relates  to  the  disturbed  state  of  the  times,  tlie  divisions  in 
religious  matters,  and  the  struggles  of  the  Puritans ;  and  concludes  witli  the 
following  declaration  against  the  errors  and  superstitions  of  Rome  : 

Th'  Almighties  Name  be  ever  prays'd  and  blest, 

That  Romish  Superstition  is  supprest, 


304  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

Wee  have  no  Abbyes,  Abbots,  Friars,  or  Monts, 

Nor  have  vre  Nuns,  or  Stewes  allow'd  for  Punks, 

Wee  have  no  Masses,  or  uo  Mass-Priests  heere. 

But  some  are  hang'd,  and  some  ai'e  fled  for  feare. 

All  those  that  are  so  bold  to  stay  behind, 

I  wish  they  may  like  entertainment  finde  : 

Beades,  Babies,  Eelliques,  Tapers,  Lamps,  or  Lights, 

We  have  no  superstitious  Romish  Rites, 

Wee  seek  our  Pardons  from  om"  Heavenly  Hope 

And  not  by  works,  or  favour  from  the  Pope ; 

To  Saints  we  make  no  prayer  or  Intercession, 

And  unto  God  alone  wee  make  Confession  ; 

Wee  hold  no  Reall  Presence  in  the  Bread, 

And  wee  doe  know  King  Charles  our  supreme  head 

(Beneath  God,  who  hath  plac'd  him  in  his  Throne) 

For  other  Supreme,  wee  acknowledge  none. 

No  Purgatoiy,  Image,  Wood  or  Stone 

No  Stock,  or  carved  Block,  wee  trust  upon. 

Nor  is  our  Church  discretion  heere  so  little, 

As  to  Baptize  with  Cream,  with  Salt  and  Spittle. 

Wee  have  as  many  Sacraments,  as  Heaven 

Ordain'd  ;  which  ai"e  but  two,  and  Rome  hath  seven. 

Wee  doe  not  Christen  Bells,  and  give  them  Names 

Of  Simon,  Peter,  Andrew,  John,  and  James  ; 

Wee  use  no  Pilgrimage,  or  Holy- Water, 

Nor  in  an  unknown  tongue  our  Prayers  scatter ; 

All  these,  and  many  more,  in  Rome  are  us'd 

Which  are  by  us  rejected  and  refus'd. 

And  yet  too  many  faults,  alas !  remaines, 

Which  are  the  Churches,  and  the  Kingdomes  staines. 

The  Church  Triumphant  is  not  cleere  from  spots, 

The  poore  Church  Millitant  hath  still  some  blots, 

Here's  all  imperfect,  something's  still  amisse. 

And  nothing  blest,  but  in  Eternall  Blisse. 

Meane  time,  till  wee  amend,  and  leave  our  crimes. 

The  Picture  is  the  Emblem  of  the  times. 

A  copy  of  this  short  piece  is  priced  in  the  Bibl.  Aug.  Poet..,  No,  739,  at 
2/.  12s.  %d.;  and  sold  in  Sir  F.  Freeling's  Sale,  No.  2224,  for  \l.  13s. 
Fine  copy.     Bound  by  Mackenzie. 
Crimson  Morocco,  gilt  leaves. 


Taylor,     (John.)  —  Aqua-Musse :     or,    Cacafogo,    Cacadcemon, 
Captain  George  Wither  wrung  in  the  Withers.      Being  a 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO- POETIC  A.  805 

short  lashing  Satyre,  wherein  the  Juggling  Rebell  is  Com- 
pendiously finely  Firked  and  Jerked,  for  his  late  railing 
Pamphlet  against  the  King  and  State,  called  Campo-Musae. 

Deus  dabit  his  quoq  :  Funem. 

By  John  Taylor. 

Printed   in   the   fourth   Yeare    of   the    Grand    Rebellion. 
(1643.)     4to,  pp.  16. 

Wither  had  published  his  Campo-Musce  in  1643,  in  which  he  had  tried 
hard  to  defend  his  tergiversation,  and  to  justify  himself  in  taking  up  arms 
on  the  side  of  the  ParHament.  Taylor,  who  says  that  he  had  loved  and 
respected  Wither  these  thirty-five  years,  because  he  thought  him  simply 
honest,  and  who  was  himself  remarkable  for  his  feelings  of  loyalty,  indignant 
at  these  political  changes  in  his  friend,  attacked  him  in  this  abusive  pamphlet, 
written  in  answer  to  the  Campo-Muscs,  in  which  he  is  extremely  severe  and 
cutting  in  his  remarks  on  the  conduct  of  Wither,  and  even  goes  so  far  as  to 
accuse  him  of  direct  fraud  and  dishonesty,  viz.,  that  he  had  cheated  Dr. 
Howson,  bishop  of  Durham,  whose  steward  he  was,  of  five-hundred  pounds, 
by  making  two  months  of  July  in  one  year  in  his  accounts : 

But  whitlier  Wiiher,  doth  my  fancy  flee  ? 

I  ought  not  write  in  serious  phrase  to  thee, 

Thou  precious  most  pernicious  Prelate  hater 

To  DicrJiams  Reverend  Bishop  thou  was  Cater 

Or  Steward,  where  to  make  thy  Compts  seem  cleare, 

Thou  mad'st  two  Monthes  of  July  in  one  yeare. 

And  in  the  total  Eeck'ning  it  was  found 

Thou  cheat'st  the  Bishop  of  iive  hundred  pound. 

But  thou  did'st  hold  it  for  no  sinne  at  all, 

To  rob  the  Person  that's  Episcopall. 

Taylor  accuses  him  also  of  being  the  author  of  the  commendatory  verses 
of  himself,  wliicli  he  had  got  placed  under  the  engraved  portrait  of  him- 
self in  some  of  his  works. 

Thy  Picture  to  thy  Bookes  was  Printed,  put 
With  curious  Workmanship  engrav'd  and  cut : 
And  Verses  uuder  it,  were  wisely  pen'd 
Which  fooles  suppos'd  were  written  by  some  friend, 
Which  God  kuowes,  thou,  I,  and  a  Thousand  know. 
Those  lines  (thy  selfe  praise)  from  thy  selfe  did  flow. 
Thou  doted'st  so  upon  thine  owne  EiSgies, 
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306  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

It  look'd  so  smugge,  Eeligious,  Irreligious, 

So  Amiable,  Lovely,  Sweet  aucl  Fine 

A  Pbianomie  Poetique  and  Divine : 

Till  (like  Narcissjis)  gazing  in  that  Brook, 

Pride  drown'd  thee,  in  thy  selfe  admiring  Book. 

He  alludes  ironically  to  his  bravery  at  the  taking  of  Farnham  Castle,  of 
which  he  was  afterwards  made  Commander,  where  '•  a  Dogge,  two  Cats, 
and  an  old  Woman,"  were  his  chief  opponents,  and  reminds  him 

'Tis  known  that  once  within  these  thirty  yeares. 
Thou  wast  in  Jayle  for  seandalling  some  Peeres, 
And  'tis  not  lawfuU  for  a  Satyres  Pen 
To  wrong  the  Honours  of  particular  Men, 
"Which  you  did,  not  for  any  hate  you  bore 
To  Vice  or  Villauy,  but  that  therefore 
You  would  be  famous,  and  to  Prizon  committed. 
Whereby  you  seem'd  most  wonderfully  Witted. 

The  tract,  which  is  in  verse,  and  styled  by  its  author  "  a  Satyre,"  is  chiefly 
remarkable  for  its  severity  and  gross  abuse  of  Wither,  and  is  noticeable  also 
for  the  frequent  repetition  by  the  writer,  of  the  same  rhyming  termination, 
there  being  no  less  than  eighteen  to  the  word  "  Ambuscadoes,"  and  thirty 
to  that  of  "  Beautifide."  It  is  preceded  by  a  short  address  in  prose  "  To  the 
Dishonourable,  Disworshipfull,  Disloyal],  and  detestable  the  Eebells,  of 
what  Nation,  Sex,  Sect,  Degree,  Quality,  Ranke,  Age,  Function,  or  Con- 
dition whatsoever,"  in  which  there  are  some  witty  allusions  to  Nash's  Pierce 
Penilesse  his  Supplication  to  the  Divell,  4to,  1592.  Reference  is  also  made 
by  Taylor  in  the  opening  oi  Aqua-Musce  to  the  '■'^Abuses  Strij)t  and  Whipt" 
—  Motto  —  Britaines  Remembrancer,  &c.,  of  Wither,  as  well  as  to  his 
Campo-MuscB.  And  he  thus  severely  notices  the  great  change  in  Wither's 
political  sentiments,  with  which  we  conclude  our  quotations  from  this  tract. 

Can  he  that  so  much  honesty  profest 

(As  if  all  honesty  had  been  in  's  brest) 

Can  he  be  metamorphos'd  to  a  Knave, 

And  write  and  fight  his  Soveraigne  to  out-brave  ? 

Can  his  Lines  lye  (that  sweet  Peace  did  desire) 

Yet  stirs  up  Warres,  to  set  the  Eealme  on  fire, 

All  this  is  possible,  all  this  is  done 

This  is  George  Wyther,  hia  owne  Mothers  Son. 

Now  he's  great  George  a  Horse-back,  (mounted  high) 

Dares  to  affront,  and  raile  'gainst  Majesty, 

This  is  the  George  thus  alter'd,  thus  alter'd 


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Whose  Sat  jres  Goose-quill  is  transfonn'd  t'  a  sword 

For  whose  sake,  I  protest  it  with  my  Pen, 

I  never  will  trust  Wall-ey'd  Jade  agen. 

Brave  George,  no  George  of  Cappodocia, 

But  famous  George  of  Braggodocia, 

Bide  on  fierce  George,  untill  thy  higli  desert 

By  Transmutation,  make  thy  Horse  a  Cart. 

See  the  Brit.  Bibliogr.,  vol.  i,  p.  202,  note ;  and  Collier's  Bridgw.  Caial., 
p.  811. 

Bound  in  Olive  Morocco,  gilt  leaves. 


Taylor,  (John.) — Epigrammas :  Written  on  purpose  to  be  read : 
With  a  Proviso,  that  they  may  be  understood  by  the  Reader : 
being  Ninety  in  number  :  Besides  two  new  made  Satyres  that 
attend  them.  By  John  Taylor,  at  the  Signe  of  the  Poets 
Head,  in  Phcenix  Alley,  neare  the  middle  of  Long  Aker,  in 
Covent  Garden. 

London,  Printed  in  the  Yeare  1651.     Sm.  8vo. 

One  of  the  latest  and  also  rarest  of  the  works  of  John  Taylor,  containing, 
without  any  prefix,  ninety  short  epigrams,  chiefly  of  four  lines  each.  At 
the  end  of  these  are  two  Satires,  the  first  entitled  "  Hypocrisie  discouered," 
the  other,  a  "  Satyre  against  swearing,  equivocation,  mentall  reseruation,  and 
detestable  dissimulation."     The  following  are  three  of  the  epigrams : 

12.     Sang  pride. 
Why  in  gay  Garments  do  fond  fooles  take  pride  P 
Cloaths  are  sins  penance,  made  to  hide  our  shame. 
Had  man  foi'born  to  sin,  no  man  had  dy'd, 
And  cloaths  (like  fig-leaues)  cannot  hide  nor  blame. 

20.     Beware  Sypocrisie. 

He  that  doth  say  his  Prayers,  and  goes  to  bed, 
Forgives  his  foes,  forgets  reuenge,  and  spite. 
And  straight  waves  hammers  mischiefe  in  his  head  ; 
The  Divell  is  his  bedfellow  that  night. 


308  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-FOETICA. 

34.     Fast  and  loose. 
Fast  bind,  fast  fiad  :  mj  Bible  was  well  bound  ; 
A  Thiefe  came  fast,  and  loose  my  Bible  found  ; 
Was't  bound  and  loose  at  once?  how  can  that  be  ? 
'Twas  loose  foi-  him,  although  'twas  bound  for  me. 

We  do  not  find  this  poetical  tract  of  Taylor's  noticed  in  any  bibliographical 
work,  and  believe  it  to  be  very  rare. 

Fine  copy.     Bound  by  Charles  Lewis. 
Crimson  Morocco,  gilt  leaves. 


Tdrberville,  (George.) — The  Eglogs  of  the  Poet.  B.  Mantuan 
Carmelitan,  turned  iuto  English  Verse,  and  set  forth  with 
the  Argument  to  euery  Egloge  by  George  Turbervile  Gent. 
Imprinted  at  London  in  Paternoster  Rowe,  at  the  signe  of 
the  Marmayde  by  Henrie  Bynneman.  Anno  1567.  Sm.  8vo, 
bm.  \tXt 

There  appears  to  have  been  a  great  fondness  in  many  of  the  modern 
Latin  poets  for  imitating  the  Bucolics  of  Virgil ;  and  the  same  inclination 
afterwards  spread,  at  a  later  period,  to  the  French  and  Italian  poets. 
Among  the  first  of  these  none  were  more  popular  than  the  Eclogues  of 
John  Baptist  Mantuan,  which  appeared  about  the  year  1400,  aud  were  so 
much  admired,  as  to  be  publicly  taught  in  the  schools,  and  to  be  ranked 
almost  in  the  light  of  a  classic ;  a  preference  which  continued  for  a  very 
long  period,  these  Eclogues  being  referred  to  by  Drayton,  Shakespeare  and 
many  of  their  contemporaries.  They  were  first  printed  in  this  country  by 
Wynkyn  de  Worde  in  1519,  4to.,  who  had  only  just  before  also  given  from 
the  same  press  the  Bucolics  of  Virgil  in  1512,  4to.  Alexander  Barclay  had 
taken  them  for  the  model  of  his  own  Eclogues  in  1514,  and  they  are  here 
for  the  first  time  translated  into  English  by  George  Turbervile  the  poet, 
who  also  published  a  version  of  the  Heroicall  Epistles  of  Ovid  in  the  same 
year,  which  was  more  than  once  reprinted.  The  title  is  ornamented  with 
Bynneman's  elegant  device  of  the  Mermaid,  with  his  motto  "  Omnia  tempus 
babent,"  which  is  also  reprinted  in  the  colophon  at  the  end.  The  dedication 
is  addressed  to  his  uncle,  "  Maister  Hugh  Bamfild  Esquier,"  and  is  signed 
"Your  Nephewe  and  daylie  Orator  George  Turbervile,"  after  which  is  a 


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Preface  "  To  the  Eeader,"  in  the  course  of  which  he  thus  translates  into 
English  the  oft-repeated  commencement  of  Horace's  Art  of  Poetry,  "  Hu- 
mane capiti  cervicem  pictor  equinam,"  &c. : 

To  set  a  Manlie  lieade  vpou  a  Horses  necke, 

And  all  the  lims  -with  diuers  plumes  of  diuers  hue  to  decke 

Or  paiut  a  womans  face  aloft  to  opeu  showe, 

And  make  tlie  Picture  ende  in  fish,  with  scaly  skinne  helowe 

I  thinke  (my  friendes)  would  cause  you  laugh  and  smile  to  see 

How  yt  these  yl  compacted  things  and  members  would  agree. 

Each  Eclogue  is  preceded  by  "The  Argument,"  in  verse;  but  although 
called  Eclogues,  they  contain  but  few  descriptions  of  rural  life,  but  are 
rather  of  a  moral  and  didactic  kind.     We  transcribe  a  few  lines  descriptive 
of  a  baf-pipe-  blower,  as  a  short  specimen  of  Turbervile's  translation  : 
Then  with  a  slaughtered  Oxe  two  days 

we  kept  a  solemne  feast, 
And  underneath  a  spreading  tree 

the  tables  were  addrest. 
^nophilus  was  there  on  whom 

full  fraught  with  Bacchus  wares 
And  making  sporte,  with  willing  eyes 

the  whole  assembly  stares. 
With  pipe  was  Tonius  eke  at  hand, 

who  after  nieate  to  showe 
His  skill,  the  paynted  bag-pipe  caught 

and  gan  theron  to  blowe. 
His  alie  cheekes  with  blasting  breath 

full  wide  he  made  to  stroute, 
When  he  began  to  puffe  the  pipe 

he  stared  all  aboute. 
And  lifted  up  his  little  browes 

and  from  his  lungs  full  oft 
He  drew  his  winde  to  fill  his  bagge 

that  being  stuffed  toft, 
And  broosed  with  his  elbowe  downe 

did  yelde  his  sound  aloft. 
With  finger  frisking  here  and  there, 

as  he  was  piping  aye : 
He  call'd  the  youth  from  table,  and 

inuited  them  to  play, 
And  lioppe  aboiit  the  open  streetes 

and  daunce  away  the  day. 
The  fourth  Eclogue  is  entirely  taken  up  with  a  narrative  containing  a 
severe  attack  upon  the  softer  sex,  and  the  alluring  arts  they  adopt  to  entice 


310  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

and  deceive  men ;  and  after  an  enumeration  of  most  of  the  classic  females 
of  old,  and  the  names  of  those,  who  notwithstanding  their  power  "  To 
woman's  yoake  did  yeelde,"  the  translator  thus  proceeds  : 
Lesse  liurtes  the  fiery  flashing  flake 

lesse  raggie  Rockes  aooy, 
And  lesse  the  Gleaue  that  Adam  did 

expell  from  lieauenly  ioy  : 
Less  spoiles  the  spiteful!  steely  speare 

and  dreadfull  darte  of  Death, 
That  quite  cuts  off  the  line  of  life 

and  reaves  the  vitall  breath, 
Than  woman  doth  our  daylie  foe  : 

who  neuer  well  content 
With  beauties  beames  that  Natm'e  gaue 

doth  aye  with  care  invent 
A  thousand  meanes  to  make  it  more 

and  fairer  to  the  eyes. 
A  golden  glistring  Fillet  to 

liir  forhead  she  applies 
With  purple  hue  hir  paalie  cheekea 

she  paiutes  and  daylie  dies. 
By  Artes  hir  lockes  she  settes  in  place 

and  deckes  and  dils  liir  pate  : 
By  Arte  she  tempers  all  hir  lookes 

by  Arte  she  guides  hir  gate. 
She  runs  before  with  scudding  skips 

the  louing  man  to  lure 
And  bring  to  place  for  foUie  fitte : 

although  she  looke  demure 
And  giue  the  nay,  with  all  hir  heart 

she  would  on  him  bestow 
His  suite,  she  striues,  but  gladly  would 

be  conquer'de  of  the  foe. 
A  Woman  to  the  North  east  winde 

may  well  compared  bee, 
That  gathers  up  the  cloud,  and  straight 

dotli  force  the  same  to  flee. 
Abroade  by  guilefuU  pufie  againe 

and  bitter  w  indie  blast : 
So  she  allures,  and  then  she  lowres 

upon  hir  Loue  at  last. 

The  Sixth  Eclogue  commences  with  a  pleasing  description  of  Winter, 
with  a  few  lines  from  which  we  shall  close  our  quotations,  which,  on  account 


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of  the  great  rarity  of  tlie  volume,  have  been  somewhat  longer  than  perhaps 
the  merits  of  the  translation  would  warrant. 

Comix.  Fulica. 

Comix.     The  wrathfull  Winter  snowes 

fell  Boreas  blasts  do  blowe, 
The  ysicles  from  houses  haug  : 

The  man  that  earst  did  sowe 
And  till'de  his  stonie  soile, 

hath  let  a  fielde  his  plowe, 
And  takes  his  ease :  the  wearie  ground 

it  selfe  doth  slumber  nowe. 
The  Shepphierd  hauing  shutte 

his  dores,  and  caught  his  cloake 
Keepes  house  :  Necera  eke  doth  sitte 

at  home  in  smothering  smoake 
At  Chimnie  nooke,  and  plies 

hir  pottage  Pot  apace  : 
Earst  Sommer  for  his  scalding  heate 

(when  Sommer  was  in  place) 
That  was  so  much  myslikte, 

is  now  commended  sore  : 
And  Winter  hated  is  of  us 

for  whom  we  wisht  before. 
Fulica.    All  present  pleasure  we 

but  little  worth  esteeme, 
Surpassyng  that  which  is  to  come 

(the  hoped  good)  we  deenie  : 
Euen  so  the  farther  off  the  light 

the  more  the  light  doth  seeme. 
Comix.     Eche  Time  and  erj  Age 

his  pleasure  brynges  with  it. 

At  the  end  is  a  separate  leaf,  containing  the  colophon,  with  Bynneman's 
device  as  before,  with  the  date  1567,  and  another  leaf  with  a  list  of  the 
"  Faultes  escaped  in  Printing." 

VVarton,  who  was  ignorant  of  any  earlier  edition  of  Turbervile's  transla- 
tion than  that  in  1594,  has  alluded  to  the  high  estimation  in  which  Man- 
tuan  was  held  at  the  time,  from  the  speech  of  Holofernes  in  Shakespeare's 
Loves  Labour  Lost,  act  iv,  sc.  3,*  in  which  he  quotes  a  line  from  one  of  his 


*  Steevens,  in  a  note  to  this  passage  in  Loves  Labour  Lost,  mentions  a  ti'anslation 
of  Mantuan  made  before  the  time  of  Shakespeare,  with  the  Latin  printed  on  the 
opposite  page ;  but  no  work  of  the  kind  has  been  met  with  by  the  present  writer. 


312  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

Eclogues.  And  they  are  thus  alluded  to  by  Barclay,  who  took  Mantuan  for 
his  model  in  his  Eclogues,  which  appear  to  have  been  composed  about  1514, 
but  were  not  printed  till  much  later : 

And  in  like  maner,  nowo  lately  in  our  dayes 
Hath  other  poetes  attempted  the  same  wayes 
As  the  most  famous  Baptist  Mantuan 
The  best  of  that  sort  since  poets  first  began,  &c. 

Although  Bynneman  had  licence,  in  1566,  "for  prynting  of  a  booke  inti- 
tuled the  Rest  of  the  Egglogues  of  Mantuan,"  there  is  no  reason  for  believ- 
ing that  any  portion  of  them  were  printed  separately,  or  came  out  earlier 
than  the  present  complete  edition  in  1567.  It  is  unnoticed  by  Ames  or 
Herbert.  Another  edition  was  printed  by  Bynneman  in  1572,  Wi.  Ictt., 
of  which  there  was  a  copy  in  the  Bibl.  Ifeber.,  pt.  iv,  1486,  and  again  by 
the  same  in  1577.  Another  edition  was  printed  by  John  Danter  in  1594, 
8vo,  and  again  in  1597.  See  Warton's  Hist.  Eng.  Poet,  vol.  iii,  pp.  81,  88, 
and  vol.  iv,  p.  247;  Cens.  Liter.,  vol.  i,  p.  317;  and  Fry's  Bibliogr.  Mem.., 
p.  54.  The  copy  in  the  King's  Library,  now  in  the  British  Museum,  which 
is  the  only  other  one  known,  wants  the  colophon,  but  the  preliminary  leaves 
and  text  agree  with  this  copy.  The  present  is  a  beautiful  volume,  clean  as 
when  first  printed,  and  is  bound  by  Bedford,  out  of  the  vellum  wrapper, 

In  Morone  Morocco,  gilt  leaves. 


Vander  Noodt,  (John.)  —  A  Theatre  wherein  be  represented  as 
wel  the  miseries  and  calamities  that  follow  the  voluptuous 
Worldlings,  as  also  the  greate  ioyes  and  pleasures  which  the 
faithfuU  do  enioy.  An  Argument  both  profitable  and  delect- 
able, to  all  that  sincerely  loue  the  word  of  God.  Deuised  by 
S.  lolm  vander  Noodt.  Scene  and  allowed  according  to  the 
order  appointed. 

Imprinted  at  Loudon  by  Henry  Bynneman.   Anno  Domini 
1569.     Sm.  8vo,  lilft.  Ictt 

Cum  Priyilegio. 

This  very  curious  and  rare  volume  well  merits  attention,  not  merely  from 
its  scarcity,   which  is  extreme,   but  from  its  prose  contents,  its  singular 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  313 

woodcuts,  and  from  its  comtaining,  not  only  some  very  early  specimens  of 
English  blank  verse,  but  also  some  of  the  earliest  poems  of  Spenser.     The 
title  is  within  a  woodcut  border,  on  the  reverse  of  which  are  the  arms  of 
Queen  Elizabeth  neatly  engraved  within  a  garter,  on  which  is  inscribed  the 
usual  motto,  and  surmounted  by  the  crown.     The  work  commences  with 
commendatory  verses  in  Latin,  inscribed  "  In  commendationem  operis  ab 
Nobiliss  :    et  virtutis  Studiosissinio  Domino,  loanne  vander  Noodt  Patricio 
Antverpiensi  oediti,  Carmen.     M.  Eabilae  Poete  Brabant " ;  and  eight  other 
lines  in  the  same  language  entitled  "  Doctor  Gerardus  Goossenius  Medicus, 
Physicus  and  Poeta  Brabant,  moder.  in  Zoilum  Octastichon."     These  are 
followed  by  a  long  well-written  and  highly  complimentary  dedication  by  the 
author  to  Queen  Elizabeth,  Avhich  he  thus  introduces,  "  After  my  departure 
out  of  Brabante  (myne  owne  naturall  Countrey)  into  your  Maiesties  Realme 
of  Englande  (moste  gracious  Lady)  as  well  for  that  I  would  not  beholde  the 
abhominations  of  the  Romyshe  Antechrist,  as  to  escape  the  handes  of  the 
bloud  thirsty :    In  the  meane  space  for  the  avoyding  of  idlenesse  (the  very 
mother  and  nourice  of  all  vices)  I  haue  among  other  my  trauayles  bene 
occupied  aboute  thys  little  Treatyse,  wherin  is  sette  forth  the  vilenesse  and 
basenesse  of  worldely  things  whiche  commonly  withdrowe  vs  from  heauenly 
and  spirituall  matters.      To  the  ende  that  vnderstanding  the  vanitie  and 
basenesse  of  the  same,  and  therewithal!  consideryng  the  miserable  calamities 
that  ensue  therupon,  we  might  be  moued  the  rather  to  forsake  them,  and 
gyue  oure  selues  to  the  knowledge  of  heauenly  and  eternall  things,  whence 
all  true  happinesse  and  felicitie  doth  precede.       And  for  as  much  as  the 
matter  of  itselfe  is  very  good  (deseruyng  in  dede  to  be  handeled  by  men  of 
farre  better  skil  than  I)  I  could  not  deuise  how  any  thing  whatsoeuer,  of 
lykenesse  and  couenience  mighte  more  properly  bee  resembled  one  to  the 
other,  than  this  boke  for  the  aptnesse,  and  conueniencie  of  the  argument  might 
be  dedicated  to  your  Maiestie,  a  most  blessed  and  happie  prince.     Happy  I 
say,  not  so  much  for  that  your  grace  is  lineally  descended  by  the  most  high, 
puissant,  mightie  and  victorious  prince  Henry  the  eight  of  famous  memorie, 
from  so  many  myghtie  and  puissant  princes  of  this  Realme,  your  Maiesties 
raoste  noble  progenitours :   which  have  long  agone  most  valiantly  and  victo- 
riously coquered  al  France,  and  by  dint  of  sword  daunted  their  enemies,  so 
that  youre  highnesse  beareth  in  Arraes  as  right  inheritour  thereunto,  the  roy- 
all  scepter  and  Croune  imperiall,  most  triuphantly,  and  the  titles  oi  Englande, 
Fraunce,  and  Irelande  ioyntely  in  your  Maiesties  stile.     Neither  for  that 
your  highnesse  as  a  rare  Phoenix  of  your  time,  are  smgular  and  peerelesse 

VOL.  V.    PART  II.  S  S 


314  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO- POETIC  A. 

in  honoure  and  renoune ;  in  princely  maiestie,  wisedome,  skil,  beautie, 
faiiour,  mildnesse,  curtesie,  and  gentlenesse :  to  be  short,  excellent  in  all 
kind  of  vertue.  Nor  in  respecte  of  youre  learning,  knowledge,  counsell, 
iudgement,  and  eloquence,  as  well  in  the  Greeke,  Latine,  Italian,  French, 
Dutch,  as  in  your  owne  natural  English,  and  other  languages,  wheriu  your 
grace  may  be  resembled  not  only  to  Tullie,  and  Demosthenes,  but  to  Mer- 
curie,  the  God  of  eloquence,  as  is  apparant  by  youre  Maiesties  moste  apte 
and  wise  aunswers  giuen  in  your  own  person  to  al  Embassadours,  and  to 
euery  of  them  in  their  owne  natiirall  language  with  a  singular  dexteritie 
and  princely  maiestie,  and  with  maruellous  swetenesse  of  tong.  Nor  bi- 
cause  your  grace  is  expert  in  song,  and  in  the  arte  of  Musike,  skilful  in  al 
kindes  of  musical  instrumets,  and  according  to  the  exact  proportions  of 
geometrie  exquisite  in  the  measures  of  the  daunce :  and  besides  al  these, 
embraced  of  Apollo,  and  his  nine  sisters,  by  whome  your  grace  is  so 
instructed  in  the  diuine  Arte  of  Poetrie,  that  you  may  woorthily  be  called 
the  seconde  Sappho.  Neither  for  your  great  skil  and  iudgemet  in  painting 
and  imagerie,  botlie  for  the  cunnyng  of  the  workmanshyp  and  the  deuise 
and  storie.  In  summe,  perfect  in  all  good  exercises  of  the  wit,  namely  the 
artes  and  liberall  sciences.  Finally,  not  alonly  for  that  nature  of  her  boutie 
and  goodnesse  hath  shewed  suche  grace  and  speciall  fauour  toward  you  by 
enduing  youre  grace  moste  plentyfully  with  infinite  graces  and  vertues  more 
abundantly  than  any  other  Prince  or  Princesso  in  the  worlde,  so  that  it 
might  seme  me  for  a  sufficient  argument  to  fill  large  volumes,  only  to  stands 
in  commendation  of  your  maiestie,  not  annexing  therto  any  deuise  of  myne 
owne,  of  fained  Emblemes  or  Poetical  fables,  and  that  without  vsing  flatterie 
or  glosing,  as  they  do  most  comonly,  that  ambitiously  seeking  after  prefer- 
mentes  and  honoure,  disguise  rather  than  describe  noble  and  honorable 
personages  whome  they  sette  oute  many  times  beyonde  al  truth,  yea  some- 
time aboue  measure,"  &c.,  &c.  He  then  speaks  of  Queen  Elizabeth  as 
having  been  chosen  of  God  "  to  be  his  champion  to  defend  his  beloued 
church."  "  And  in  this  respect  (like  as  all  faithfull  and  true  Christia  princes 
throughout  all  Europe  do  esteeme  and  repute  you)  do  I  also,  and  that  of 
good  right  call  your  grace  a  moste  happie  and  blessed  Prince.  Consider,  I 
beseeche  you,  how  God  hath  blessed  your  Maiestie  in  thys  worlde  more 
than  he  hath  done  any  of  your  progenitours.  For  neuer  was  it  scene  in  any 
age  or  time  heretofore,  that  this  your  realme  of  England  hath  flourished  as 
it  dothe  at  this  present  vnder  your  Maiesties  moste  happie  gouernement. 
Firste  in  all  kinde  of  liberall  artes  and  sciences.     Secondarily  in  the  abun- 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  315 

dance  of  treasure,  as  well  golde  and  siluer  as  all  sortes  of  riche  and  precious 
iewels  and  ornamen^es.  Thirdely,  in  the  free  passage  and  trafike  of  all 
kinde  of  marchandise  :  Besides  this,  in  good  and  politike  lawes  and  ordi- 
nances, namely  in  the  due  execution  of  iustice,  according  to  law  and  equitie. 
The  worde  of  God  is  purely  preached  here  in  six  or  seuen  languages.  The 
Sacraments  of  Baptisme  and  the  holy  Supper,  sincerely  ministred  according 
to  Christs  institution.  Christian  discipline  in  due  force  in  many  places. 
Finally  euery  countrey  and  nation,  that  will  Hue  here  according  to  his  holy 
worde,  is  receiued,  and  findeth  good  entertainement.  0  how  happy  and 
blessed  is  that  King  or  kingdome,  where  these  things  are  in  force."  And 
after  speaking  of  those  Princes,  who  "rejecting  Christ,  receiue  that  anti- 
christ, the  Sonne  of  the  Diuell,"  acted  contrariwise,  and  of  those  who  had 
been  compelled  by  persecution  to  leaue  their  own  country,  and  to  "  depart 
into  Germany  into  the  territorie  and  dominion  of  Fredericke  prince  Elector 
and  coiitie  Palatine,  the  floure  of  all  Christian  Princes  in  these  dayes  in  the 
feruent  zeale  and  true  feare  of  God,  a  man  worthy  to  be  compared  with 
Dauid  or  losias";  and  of  the  safe  harbour  which  England  afforded,  "  where 
we  Hue,  (God  be  thanked)  under  your  Maiesties  protection,  and  safegarde 
in  greate  libertie  to  serue  God  in  eyther  language,  the  French  or  the  Dutche, 
without  al  feare  of  tyrantes,  or  daunger  of  the  gapyng  throates  of  greedie 
rauening  wolues,"  he  coucludes  with  a  prayer  to  God  for  her  Majesty,  her 
Council,  and  her  Officers,  and  with  presenting  to  her  this  small  Treatise  of 
his,  as  the  best  Jewel  that  he  had  in  store,  beseeching  her  to  accept  the 
same,  and  "  praying  to  Almightie  God  to  graunt  vnto  her  Maiestie  a  moste 
happie  reign  in  this  world :  and  after  this  life  to  reigne  with  him  for  euer, 
for  his  only  son  our  Lorde  lesus  Christes  sake."  The  epistle  is  dated  "  at 
London  your  Maiesties  Citie  and  seate  royal.  The  25.  of  May  1569.  Your 
Maiesties  most  humble  seruant  lean  vander  Noodt." 

The  most  singular  part  of  the  volume  now  commences,  consisting  of  a 
series  of  epigrams  and  sonnets,  opposite  to  each  of  which  is  a  woodcut  en- 
graving, emblematic  of  the  subjects  contained  in  them,  and  very  spiritedly 
executed.  The  epigrams,  which  are  six  in  number,  are  translations  of 
Petrarch's  Sonnets  by  Edmund  Spenser,  and  were  published  again  in  the 
folio  edition  of  that  author's  poems  printed  in  1591.  They  are  among  the 
earliest  productions  of  Spenser's  muse,  and  from  the  circumstance  of  his 
having  been  born  in  1550,  and  their  being  published  in  this  work  in  1569, 
the  year  in  which  he  entered  the  university  of  Cambridge,  must  have  been 
written  when  he  was  not  more  than  sixteen  years  of  age.  These  are  con- 
cluded by  the  following  lines  : 


316  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

My  Song  thus  now  in  thy  conclusion 
Say  boldly  that  these  same  six  visions 
Do  yelde  unto  thy  lorde  a  sweete  request 
Ere  it  be  long  within  the  earth  to  rest. 

The  sonnets  are  fifteen  in  number,  and  are  translations  from  the  Visions 
of  Bellay,  a  French  writer,  whom  Spenser  has  honoured  by  giving  to  some 
of  them  an  English  dress.  As  these  are  some  of  the  earliest  specimens  of 
blank  verse  in  our  language,  we  quote  two  of  them  as  examples,  which  will 
be  found,  for  the  period  at  which  they  were  written,  to  be  sufficiently  smooth 
and  harmonious.     The  following  is  a  description  of  the  Phoenix: 

I  saw  the  birde  that  dares  beholde  the  Sunne, 

With  feeble  flight  venture  to  mount  to  heauen, 

By  more  and  more  she  gan  to  trust  hir  wings, 

Still  folowing  th'example  of  hir  damme  : 

I  saw  hir  rise,  and  with  a  larger  flight 

Surmount  the  toppes  euen  of  the  hiest  hUles, 

And  pierce  the  cloudes  and  with  hu'  wings  to  reache 

The  place  where  is  the  temple  of  the  Gods. 

There  was  she  lost,  and  sodenly  I  saw 

Where  tombling  through  the  aire  in  lompe  of  fire 

All  flaming  downe  she  fell  upon  the  plaine. 

I  saw  hir  bodie  turned  all  to  dust 

And  saw  the  foule  that  shunnes  the  cheerefull  light 

Out  of  hir  ashes  as  a  worme  arise. 

I  quote  also  the  last  but  one; 

Then  might  I  see  upon  a  white  horse  set 
The  faitlifuU  man  with  flaming  countenance 
His  head  did  shine  with  crounes  set  therupon. 
The  worde  of  God  made  him  a  noble  name, 
His  precious  robe  I  saw  embrued  with  bloud. 
Then  saw  I  from  the  heauen  on  horses  white 
A  puissant  armie  come  the  selfe  same  way. 
Then  cried  a  shining  Angell,  as  me  thought, 
That  birdes  from  aire  descending  downe  on  earth 
Should  warre  upon  the  kings,  and  eate  their  flesh. 
Then  did  I  see  the  beast,  and  Kings  also 
loinyng  their  foi'ce  to  slea  the  faithfull  man. 
But  this  fierce  hateful!  beast  and  all  hir  traine 
Is  pitilesse  throwne  downe  in  pit  of  fire. 

The  prose  part  of  the  volume,  which  is  printed  in  bladfe  letter,  then  begins, 
and  is  entitled  "  A  hriefe  Declaration  of  the  Authour  vpon  his  visions,  take 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  317 

out  of  the  holy  scriptures,  and  dyuers  Orators,  Poetes,  Philosophers,  and 
true  histories.  Translated  out  of  French  into  Englishe  by  Theodore  Roest." 
This  occupies  the  remainder  of  the  work,  the  running  title  to  which  is  "A 
Theatre  to  worldlings.'  This  part  consists  of  107  leaves,  and  at  the  end  is 
the  colophon,  "  Imprinted  at  London  by  Henrie  Bynneman  dwelling  in 
Knight-riders  streat,  at  the  signe  of  the  Marmaid.  Anno  1569.  Cum  Pri- 
vilegio  ad  imprimendum  solum."  On  the  last  page  is  his  device,  a  neat 
woodcut  of  a  mermaid  with  looking  glass  and  comb,  within  an  oval  border, 
containing  a  motto,  "  Omnia  tempus  habent."  At  the  top  are  the  Stationers' 
Arms,  supported  by  two  angels,  one  holding  a  book,  with  an  anchor  in  the 
other  hand,  the  other  with  a  flaming  lieart  and  a  pair  of  scales.  At  the 
bottom  on  each  side  are  two  Satyrs,  and  in  the  centre  the  printer's  mark. 

The  prose  part  of  the  volume  is  an  account  of  the  author's  visions,  or 
rather  his  interpretation  of  certain  passages  in  the  Apocalypse  of  St.  John, 
as  appHed  to  the  errors  and  corruptions  of  the  Romish  Church,  against  which 
he  is  exceedingly  bitter,  and  to  the  fall  of  Antichrist.  The  following  is 
Vander  Noodt's  own  account  of  the  early  part  of  the  volume,  containing  the 
epigrams  and  sonnets,  with  their  woodcut  embellishments,  as  given  by  him 
on  folio  13  of  the  Theatre  for  Worldlings.  "  To  sctte  the  vanitie  and  in- 
constancie  of  worldly  and  transitorie  thyngs  the  liuelier  before  your  eyes,  I 
haue  broughte  in  here  twentie  sightes  or  vysions,  and  caused  them  to  be 
grauen,  to  the  ende  al  men  may  see  that  with  their  eyes,  whiche  I  go  aboute 
to  expresse  by  writing,  to  the  delight  and  pleasure  of  the  eye  and  eares, 
according  unto  the  saying  of  Horace, 

Omue  tulit  punctum,  qui  miscuit  utile  dulci. 
That  is  to  say, 
He  that  teacheth  pleasantly  and  well, 
Doth  in  eche  poynt  all  others  excell. 

Of  which  oure  visions  the  learned  Poete  M.  Francisce  Petrarche  Gentleman 
oi  Florence^  did  inuent  and  write  in  Tuscan  the  six  firste,  after  suche  tyme 
as  bee  had  loued  honestly  the  space  of  xxi.  yeares  a  faire  gracious,  and  a 
noble  Damosell,  named  Laurette,  or  (as  it  plesed  him  best)  Laura,  borne 
of  Avinion,  who  afterward  hapned  to  die,  he  being  in  Italt/,  for  whose  death 
to  shewe  his  great  grief)  he  mourned  ten  yeares  togyther,  and  amongst  many 
of  his  songs,  and  sorrowfull  lamentations,  deuised  and  made  a  Ballade  or 
song,  containvng  the  sayd  visions,  which  bicause  they  serue  wel  to  our  pur- 
pose, I  haue  out  of  the  Brabants  speache,  turned  them  into  the  Englishe 
tongue."     He  then  describes  the  first  three  visions,  as  given  in  the  Epigrams, 


318  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

and  afterwards  goes  on  as  follows  :  "  The  other  three  Visions  followyng  are 
in  manner  all  one,  notyfiing  hereby  that  there  is  nothing  else  in  thys  worlde 
but  myseries,  sorrowes,  afflictions,  and  calamities :  And  all  that  man  doth 
stay  hym  selfe  upon  in  thys  worlde,  is  nothing  but  vayne  fansie,  wynde,  and 
smoake.  And  thus  as  lie  hadde  passed  ouer  many  a  yeare  in  greate  and 
unfayned  loue  towardes  hir  (duryng  hir  life  time)  what  with  fiatterie  and 
what  in  comraendyng  of  hir  beautie,  caused  him  upon  a  sodaine  chaunge 
after  hir  departure  (as  it  is  sayde)  so  long  a  time  to  mourne  and  to  lamente, 
but  considering  with  him  self,  that  there  was  no  comfort,  hope,  or  saluation 
in  worldely  loue  to  be  looked  for,  turned  him  selfe  to  Godwarde,  lamenting 
and  sorrowing  the  rest  of  bys  lyfe,  and  repented  hym  of  his  former  life  so 
ydlely  and  undecently  spent. 

"  The  other  ten  visions  next  ensuing,  are  described  of  one  loachim  du 
Ballay^  Gentleman  of  France ;  the  whiche  also,  bicause  they  serue  to  our 
purpose,  I  haue  translated  them  out  of  Dutch  into  English." 

It  seems  probable  that  Vander  Noodt's  knowledge  of  the  English  language 
was  not  very  profound,  and  that  he  was  indebted  chiefly  to  others  for  trans- 
lating the  contents  of  this  volume.  We  see  that  the  prose  part  of  his  work 
was  translated  out  of  French  into  English  by  Theodore  Roest;  and  although 
Vander  Noodt  professes  that  he  himself  turned  the  Visions  of  Petrarch  out 
of  the  Brabant  language  into  English  in  the  Epigrams,  and  translated  the 
Visions  of  Du  Bellay  "out  of  Dutch  into  English,"  in  the  Sonnets,  it  is 
more  than  probable  that,  as  Mr,  Collier  remarks,  "  Spenser  translated  them 
for  him,  and  Vander  Noodt  took  the  credit  of  it."  It  is  curious  that  the 
translations  from  Petrarch  were  made  by  Spenser  from  the  French  and  not 
from  the  original  Italian,  And  although  in  blank  verse  here,  they  were 
afterwards  altered  by  him  into  rhyme,  preserving  the  same  language  as 
much  as  he  could,  when  they  were  republished  in  the  volume  of  his  smaller 
poems  in  1591,  4to,  and  he  there  speaks  of  them  in  the  title  as  having  been 
'•'■  formerly  translated."  It  should  be  observed  also  that  four  of  the  Visions 
of  Bellay,  which  are  in  Spenser's  volume  of  1591,  the  6th,  8th,  13th,  and 
14th  are  not  in  the  Theatre  for  Worldlings,  but  four  others  are  introduced 
in  their  place,  with  the  following  remarks  from  Vander  Noodt,  on  the  re- 
verse of  fol.  13.  "And  to  the  ende  we  myght  speake  more  at  large  of  the 
thing,  I  haue  taken  foure  visions  out  of  the  reuelation  of  S,  John,  where  as 
the  holy  ghost  by  S.  John  setteth  him  out  in  his  colours."  Spenser's  friend, 
Gabriel  Harvey,  in  one  of  his  letters  to  him,  speaks  of  these  Visions  as  his 
Dreams. 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETIC  A.  319 

Little  seems  to  be  known  of  the  author  except  that  he  was  a  native  of 
Brabant,  and  had  taken  refuge  in  this  country  on  account  of  his  religious 
opinions,  "  to  escape  the  handes  of  the  bloud  thirsty." 

A  French  edition  of  Vander  Noodt's  Theatre  had  been  published  in  the 
preceding  year,  1568,  at  London,  with  the  imprint  of  John  Day,  but  more 
probably  printed  at  Antwerp,  with  plates  very  spiritedly  etched  by  Collaert. 
This  edition  is  even  of  greater  rarity  than  the  present  one  in  English,  and  is 
seldom  met  with.  A  copy  sold  in  Mr.  Bright's  sale.  No.  5760,  for  18/. 
Copies  of  the  English  edition  have  brought  in  Bindley's  sale,  pt.  iii,  No. 
1787,  22/.  Is.;  Hibbert's  do..  No.  8135,  Ql.  6s.;  Bibl  Heber.,  pt.  iv.  No. 
2721,  8/.;  Bright's  do..  No.  5761,  5/.;  Bibl.  Ang.  Poet,  No.  779,  25/.; 
resold  in  Midgley's,  No.  671,    15/.  45.  Qd. 

See  Collier's  Poet.  Decamp.,  vol.  i,  p.  94;  and  Bridgew.  Catal,  p.  291 ; 
Todd's  Spenser.,  vol,  i,  p.  v,  and  vol.  vii,  pp.  507,  525  ;  and  Bibl.  Ang.  Poet , 
No.  779. 

Bound  in  Calf,  neat. 


Vaghane  or  Vaughan,  (Robert.)  —  A  Dyalogue  defensyue  for 
women,  agaynst  malycyous  detractoures. 

[Colophon.]    Imprynted  by  me  Robert  Wyer,  for  Ry chard 
Banckes.     Anno  dfii.  1542.     4to,  h\U.  UtU 

Cum  priuilegio  regali,  ad  imprimandu  solu  per  septem  annum. 

We  have  already  observed  in  our  remarks  on  two  of  Edward  Gosynhyll's 
poeticall  productions,  that  a  long  literary  warfare  was  carried  on  in  the  six- 
teenth century,  caused  on  the  one  side  by  satirical  attacks  against,  and  on 
the  other  by  works  written  in  defence  of,  the  female  character.  The  sub- 
ject is  one  naturally  suggestive  of  situations  in  which  much  real  humour 
may  be  introduced  by  able  writers,  and,  considering  the  period  at  which  this 
series  of  tracts  u-as  produced,  it  may  be  doubted  whether  they  are  equalled 
by  any  other  satirical  or  humorous  works  of  so  early  a  date.  Amongst  other 
pieces  called  forth  by  this  controversy,  is  the  present  extremely  rare  work 
by  Robert  Vaghane  or  Vaughan.  It  is  a  poem  written  in  alliterative  verse, 
and  is  supposed  to  be  an  answer  to  the  attack  made  upon  the  female  sex  in 
T/te  Scole  house  of  women,  the  first  edition  of  which  was  printed  the  year 
before,  by  Thomas  Petyt,  1541,  4to.     The  title,  in  bladft  letter,  is  over  a 


320  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO  POETICA. 

woodcut  of  Robert  Wyer's  device  of  St.  John,  without  the  eagle,  on  the  re- 
verse of  which  commences  "  The  Prologue,"  thus  addressed,  "  To  the  ryght 
veorshypfuU  and  his  syngular  good  maystres  Arthur  Hardberde,  Robert 
Vaghane  sendeth  moste  harty  greetynge."  It  consists  of  eight  stanzas  of 
eight  lines  each,  in  the  first  of  which,  as  given  below,  he  would  seem  to 
refer  to  some  former  things  that  he  had  written,  but  which,  if  ever  printed, 
are  entirely  unknown  at  the  present  day,  or  have  perished,  together  with 
numerous  works  of  a  similar  character  : 

To  you  maystres  Arthur,  my  saruyce  premysed 

As  reason  of  ryght,  requyreth  to  recompeuce 

Your  gentle  berte,  wbiche  hath  not  dispysed 

Afore  this  tyme,  to  take  with  benevolence 

My  wrytyuges  unworthye,  full  of  vayne  sentence 

Wbiche  kyndnes  consydered,  good  cause  doth  constrayue 

And  dewty  me  dryueth,  to  do  my  dylygeuco 

With  some  small  gyfte,  for  to  requyte  agayne. 

In  the  next  stanzas  he  thus  accounts  for  the  publication  of  the  present 
poem : 

Your  bownteous  benygnytie,  imboldeth  my  rudenes 
This  treatyse  folowynge,  unto  you  to  dedycate 
Whiche  to  myne  handes,  occurryde  doubtles 
As  I  on  my  Journey,  was  rydynge  but  late 
By  a  frende  of  myne,  with  whom  I  was  assocyate 
As  by  chaunce  I  alyghted,  at  a  certayne  place 
Whyche  wylled  one  then,  that  I  wolde  algate 
Go  forth  and  talke  with  hym,  a  lytel)  space 

Then  secretly,  he  dyd  unto  me  com'yt 
Agaynst  detraction,  this  dyalogue  defensyue 
For  the  woman  sakes. 

#  w  #  #  • 

I  toke  the  volume,  and  rede  therin  a  pase 
And  well  perceyued  at  the  fyrste  syght 
It  was  fayned  in  fauour,  of  one  in  your  case 
Howebeit  I  wolde  not  aske  hym,  what  she  hyght 
But  unto  hym,  I  sayde  anone  full  ryght 
What  is  your  mynde,  that  I  herin  do  shall 
For  fayne  I  wolde,  yf  it  lay  in  my  myght 
Your  mynde  accomplysshe,  what  soeuer  befall. 

I  wolde,  sayde  he,  yf  it  your  pleasure  were 
That  you  wolde  vouchsaue,  at  my  hande  to  take 
This  lytell  smale  volume,  your  name  for  to  here 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLaPOETICA.  821 

Wliose  fantasye  with  faynynge,  is  set  for  to  make 
Lest  slaunder  perchaunce,  his  sbarpe  sowno  out  shake 
To  moue  me  malyce,  whiche  onely  meane  rest 
Your  name  may  cause,  suche  noyses  to  asslake 
Therfore  present  it,  where  as  you  thynke  best. 

From  these  lines  in  the  Prologue,  the  editor  of  the  fourth  part  of  the  cata- 
logue of  the  Bibl.  Heber.  has  been  led  to  suppose  that  tlie  poem  was  not 
written  by  Vaughan,  but  that  "  a  friend  put  it  into  his  hand,  and  requested 
him  to  get  it  printed,  and  to  bear  the  brunt  of  criticism."  It  is  most  pro- 
bable, however,  that  this  was  only  a  modest  plan  of  the  writer  to  conceal 
his  own  responsibility,  and  that  it  was  really  composed  by  Vaughan  himself. 
At  the  end  of  the  Prologue  are  four  stanzas  of  six  lines  each,  "Robert 
Vaghane  to  the  reader,"  after  which  the  poem  opens  with  the  folllowing  not 
inelegant  description  of  a  scene  in  winter : 

The  Aucthour  speaJcelh. 
In  tlic  moneth  of  Decebre,  whe  Phebus  y«  bright 
Witli  his  mocyon  had  entered  in  to  y*^  fyrst  degre 
Of  Capricorne,  whan  longe  is  the  nyght, 
And  the  day  tyme,  moste  in  breuytie, 
Thau  snowes  lyeth  depe,  upon  the  hylles  bye, 
Waters  congyled,  into  yse  harde  and  thycke, 
Trees,  Plantes,  and  Ilerbes,  seme  than  to  dye, 
Fewe  thynges  growynge,  appere  to  be  quycke. 
The  wether  moste  bytter,  with  wyndes  shai-pe  and  colde 
Causeth  great  company,  togyther  to  resorte 
Unto  the  fyre  syde,  where  ale  good  and  olde 
Merely  they  drynke,  theyr  hertes  to  comforte. 
Early  in  a  mornynge,  in  this  moneth  of  Decembre 
From  slepe  I  arose,  and  to  my  studye  wont 
Before  all  thynges  than,  I  dyd  remembre 
That  tyme  of  euery  man,  shuld  frutefuUy  be  spent. 
At  the  fyrste  by  chaunce,  I  red  an  oracyon 
Moste  pleasauntly  set  forth,  with  flowers  rethorycall 
Descrybynge  the  monstruous  vyce  of  detraction 
The  dowghter  of  euuye,  the  furye  infernall 
Whose  pestylent  poyson,  as  cankar  doth  crepe 
Amonge  all  people,  in  Cytie,  Tower,  and  Towne, 
Bryngynge  Innoccntes,  in  to  paynes  depe 
And  from  theyr  good  names,  it  doth  them  cast  downe : 
By  readyng  this  Aucthour,  1  was  pensyfe  in  my  hartc 
As  one  that  had  proued,  his  wordes  to  be  trcwe 
VOL.  V,   PART  II,  T  1 


322  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

Sorowes  constrayned  me,  to  lay  this  boke  aparte 

The  remembraunce  therof,  my  paynes  dyd  renewe 

Aiione  I  espyed  in  the  Oryent 

That  dame  Auroi'a,  to  me  dyd  apeare 

And  the  Sone  with  his  beames,  as  golde  resplendent 

To  our  Orizeut,  began  to  drawe  neare 

With  spede  than  my  study e,  and  bokes,  I  dyd  forsake 

Intendynge  all  thoughtes,  from  my  mynde  to  expell 

And  towarde  a  Forcet,  the  way  dyd  I  take 

Not  far  from  the  partyes,  where  I  dyd  dwell 

In  this  Forest  fayre,  as  I  walked  a  whyle 

Beholdynge  hye  trees,  with  armes  longe  and  wyde 

Sodaynly  within  the  space  of  a  myle 

An  Arbour  moste  pleasaunt,  there  I  espyde 

To  that  place  of  pleasure,  for  my  recreacyon 

With  spede  I  approached,  it  made  my  herte  fyght 

Anone  I  was  taken,  with  great  admyracyon 

Of  all  the  fayre  pleasures,  when  I  had  a  syght 

This  place  was  enuyroned,  with  Hedgyes  thro 

Of  Hauthorne  thycke,  thre  dyches  depe  cast 

Thre  waters  there  were,  whiche  I  dyd  se 

In  to  the  Arbour  by  them,  as  I  past 

Okes  that  were  olde,  in  the  fyrst  hedge  were  growynge 

And  Elmes  in  the  seconde,  that  large  were  and  longe 

In  the  thyrde  Hedge,  with  bowes  downe  bowynge 

Many  trees  togyther,  were  thruste  in  a  thronge 

The  Ashe  and  the  Aspe,  with  his  leaues  that  do  quake 

The  Boxe  and  the  Beyche,  togyther  dyd  stande, 

The  Corke  causyng  slyppers,  to  cracke  and  to  crake. 

With  the  Ewe  tre,  a  defence  to  this  lande : 

The  Plane  and  the  Poplar,  there  I  dyd  se 

The  Salowe,  the  Pyne,  and  the  Maple  rownde 

The  Holy  with  his  pryckes,  and  the  Walnut  tre 

With  the  Fyr  and  the  Hasyll,  hangynge  to  the  grownde 

In  the  myddes  a  Cypresse  tre,  I  dyd  espye 

Borderyd  with  Olyues,  in  cyrcle  rownde 

And  under  the  Cypresse,  downe  dyd  I  lye 

Where  benches  on  eche  syde  were  made  aboue  the  grounde. 

These  trees  to  beholde,  in  my  mynde  I  dyd  muse 

Of  all  kyndes  there  growynge,  and  in  order  set 

All  pleasures  worldly,  I  wolde  refuse 

To  haue  suche  an  Arbour,  yf  I  myght  it  get 

Suche  fragrauut  sauours,  suche  odours  swete 

I  neuer  felt  in  the  moneth  of  May 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  323 

Agaynst  all  dolour,  a  medycyne  moste  swete 
Is  to  this  Arbour,  to  take  the  redy  way. 
As  in  this  place  pleasaunt,  my  selfe  I  dyd  comforte 
With  sauours  souerayne,  and  colours  good  for  syght 
A  Fawcou  and  a  Pye,  to  the  same  dyd  resorte, 
And  ouer  my  heade,  in  the  Cypresse  they  dyd  fyght. 
Great  stryfe  was  betwene  them,  with  argumentacyou 
Theyr  oppynyons  contrary  semed  unto  me, 
The  Pye  prated  fast,  with  moche  contencyon 
And  sayde  that  her  sentence,  nedes  trewe  must  be. 

The  Poem  is  carried  on  in  the  form  of  a  dialogue  between  a  Falcon  and  a 
Pye,  in  which  the  former  defends  the  sex  against  the  malice  and  unjust 
accusations  of  the  prating  Pye.  The  examples  on  either  side  are  chiefly 
brought  from  the  Scriptures,  and  from  the  classical  and  heathen  writers. 
At  the  end  of  the  Dialogue  between  the  Falcon  and  the  Pye,  are  some  short 
poems  by  Vaughan,  "  To  the  Fawcon  —  To  the  Pye  —  Lenvoy  —  To  the 
Treatyse";  and  the  book  concludes,  '' Thus  endeth  the  Fawcon  and  the 
Pye  Anno  dni.  1542.  Imprynted  by  me  Robert  Wyer  for  Rycharde 
Banckes.  Cum  priuilegio  regali,  ad  imprimendii  solii.  per  septem  annum," 
with  the  device  of  St.  John,  with  the  eagle,  as  given  in  Dibdin's  Typogr. 
Aniiq.,  vol.  iii,  p.  173,  and  at  the  sides,  "  Robert  Wyer.  The  prynter." 
The  volume  is  very  neatly  printed,  with  marginal  references,  in  a  sort  of 
foreign  secretary  gothic  type,  in  which  Wyer  also  executed  some  other 
pieces. 

Consult  Warton's  Hist.  Eng.  Poet.,  vol.  iii,  p.  392,  and  Dibdin's  Typogr. 
Antiq.,  vol.  iii,  p.  18T,  for  notices  of  this  very  rare  poem,  which  sold  at 
Heber's  sale,  pt.  iv,  No.  2835,  for  11/.;  Inglis's  do.,  No.  1498,  20/.  9s.  6d.; 
Bright's  do.,  No.  5758,  25/. 

Fine  copy.     Bound  by  C.  Murton. 
In  Brown  Morocco,  gilt  leaves. 


Vennard,  (Richard.) — The  Eight  Way  to  Heaven  :  And  the  true 
testimonie  of  a  faithful!  and  loyali  subiect.  Compiled  by 
Richard  Vennard  of  Lincolnes  Inne. 

Math.  6.     First  seeke  the  kingdom  of  Heauen,  and  all  things  shal  be  giuen. 

At  London  Printed  by  Thomas  Este.     1601.     4to,  pp.  72, 


824  COLLECTANEA  ANQLO-POETICA. 

The  title  to  this  curious  production  is  printed  in  the  centre  of  a  woodcut 
border  elaborately  ornamented  with  figures  of  Fame  and  Victory  at  the 
top,  the  arms  of  Queen  Elizabeth  being  between  them ;  below  are  the  arms 
of  the  Stationer's  Company,  with  the  initials  R.  V.  underneath,  and  the 
royal  supporters  at  each  corner.  The  title  of  the  present  copy  is  painted 
and  illuminated,  and  on  the  back,  at  the  top  and  bottom  of  the  page,  and 
also  at  the  top  of  the  next,  are  some  further  Avoodcut  decorations,  containing, 
above  the  sacred  monogram  in  the  centre,  and  below,  a  figure  of  death 
seated  on  a  throne.  Each  page  is  also  printed  with  a  neat  woodcut  border, 
and  numerous  ornamental  capitals,  the  whole,  in  this  copy,  being  coloured. 
On  the  reverse  of  the  title  are  some  acrostic  verses,  entitled  '"Salvator 
Mundi,"  opposite  to  which  is  a  prose  dedication  "  To  the  high  and  mightie 
Princis  Elizabeth,  by  the  grace  of  God  Queene  of  England,  France,  and 
Ireland,"  &c.,  signed  '•  Richard  Vennard."  Then  follows  a  poem  in  praise 
of  the  works  of  God,  inscribed  "  Laudetur  Dominus  in  oeternum,"  consisting 
of  twenty-eight  six-line  stanzas.  And  afterwards  commences  the  first 
of  the  two  subjects  mentioned  in  the  title,  "  The  Right  Way  to  Heaven," 
which  is  in  prose,  and  is  divided  into  twelve  short  chapters,  at  the  end  of 
which  is  "  A  most  godly  and  comfortable  Praier,  in  time  of  Aduersitie." 
After  this  there  should  be  a  poem  called  "  The  Lamentation  of  the  lost 
Sheep,"  seven  seven-line  stanzas,  with  a  woodcut,  at  the  end,  of  our  Saviour 
crowned  with  thorns,  with  the  lost  sheep  on  his  shoulders,  two  leaves, 
which,  in  the  present  copy,  are  wanting.  The  second  portion  of  the  prose 
part  of  the  work  follows,  entitled  "  An  Exhortacion  to  continew  all  Subiects 
in  their  dew  obedience,  together  with  the  reward  of  a  faithful  subiect  to  his 
Prince."  This  "Exhortacion"  is  addressed  (1.)  "To  the  Reuerend  Lo. 
Bishops  and  the  Clergie."  (2.)  "  To  the  true  Nobilitie  of  this  Realme." 
(3.)  "  To  the  Civile  Maiestrates,  the  Lord  Maior  and  the  Shrifes  of  London, 
and  other  inferiour  officers."  And  (4.)  "  To  the  true  and  faithfull  priuate 
subiect."  Li  this  latter  portion  occurs  the  following  eulogy  on  the  Lord 
Treasurer  Burghley,  the  Earl  of  Nottingham,  and  Sir  John  Popham,  Lord 
Chief  Justice,  three  distinguished  characters  of  Elizabeth's  reign,  which  we 
quote  as  a  specimen  of  the  author's  prose  composition,  and  also  the  more 
willingly  because,  that  in  the  second  edition,  printed  in  the  succeeding  year, 
this  passage  is  altogether  omitted. 

"I  know  my  most  louing  countrymen,  that  you  well  perceiue  the  Princely  care  of 
hir  Maiestie  towards  you  hir  louing  subiects,  and  the  honourable  disposition  and  noble 
mdustrie  of  hir  vigilent  counsell.     Of  which  Honourable  society,  although  now  vn- 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETIC  A.  325 

timely  decessed,  I  cannot  but  call  to  minde  that  Right  Honorable  and  most  worthely 
to  bee  remembred;  the  late  Lord  Burgley,  and  Lord  high  Treasurer  of  England. 
Whose  fame  may  not  be  sealed  vp  with  the  leaden  hand  of  Ohliidon,  who  whilest  he 
lined  shewed  himselfe  one  of  the  most  faithfull,  carefull,  and  wise  councillours  that 
euer  lined  in  any  kingdome  of  Christeudome. 

"  He  was  the  Beacon  that  discoured  forrein  mallice,  and  home-bred  mischiefe,  the 
neuer  fayling  watch-tower  of  the  common-wealth,  the  hart  of  lustice,  bearing  yp  the 
ballance  of  weightie  causes  with  an  euen  hand,  and  cutting  downe  with  the  sharp 
sword  of  preuencion  the  children  of  rebellion  at  home,  and  the  enuious  intencion  of 
the  Enemie  abroad.  For  causes  in  common  triall,  T  call  heauen  to  witnes,  I  speake 
but  what  I  know,  as  he  was  Judicial,  wary,  and  circiispect,  so  was  he  vpright,  discreet, 
and  pittifull,  not  leaning  to  any  side  either  for  fauour  or  gift,  but  with  an  impartiall 
eye  iudging  all  things  according  to  the  equitie  of  the  cause.  Would  many  braches 
like  to  that  tree  from  whence  it  sprang  might  from  that  stocke  spread  their  Tcrtue,  iu 
this  hir  Maiesties  garden  of  happie  gouernment. 

"  In  which  ranke  of  true  nobilitie,  diligent  watchmen,  and  graue  Councellers,  I 
may  not  omit  that  Eight  Honorable  and  milde  condicioned  Lord,  the  JEarle  of  Not- 
tingham,  whose  true  loyaltie  to  hir  Maiestie,  neuer  spotted  with  the  least  mistrust, 
may  keep  euen  wing  with  the  rest  of  that  Honorable  societie,  whose  true  shew  of  a 
vertuous  and  noble  minde,  is  daily  made  apparant  by  his  eiceeding  bountie  towards 
the  poore  and  needie.     The  fruit  whereof  is  Eternall  saluacion. 

"  And  that  Reuerent  and  carefull  Gentleman  Sir  John  Popham  Knight,  Lord  chiefe 
lustice  of  England,  being  another  of  the  body  of  the  Counsell,  whose  Honorable  for- 
wardnesse,  with  great  discreation  hath  ben  often  proued  in  your  Maiesties  serious 
affaires  (as  in  calming  the  Realme  with  quiet,  that  hath  been  hertofore  tempestuously 
troubled  with  blody  murtherers  and  felonious  robbers :  but  now,  God  be  thanked,  by 
his  diligent  and  wise  gouernment  well  i-eformed,  whose  exceeding  loue  to  his  Prince 
and  country,  hath  ben  often  made  apparant  by  his  laborious  indeauours." 

The  prose  portion  of  the  volume  concludes  with  a  description  of  "  What  a 
faithfull  subiect  is."  Tlien  occurs  an  acrostic  on  "  Elizabetha  Regina,"  and 
a  poem  in  praise  of  the  same  royal  personage  entitled  "  The  Miracle  of 
Nature,"  consisting  of  thirty-four  six-line  stanzas,  which  apparently  was 
intended  to  conclude  the  volume,  as  the  signatures  end  here.  Next,  how- 
ever, in  addition  follows,  "  A  prayer  for  the  prosperous  successe  of  hir 
Maiesties  forces  in  Ireland,"  signed  R.  V.,  on  the  reverse  of  which  is  an 
ornamented  page  with  figures  at  the  sides,  and  in  the  centre  a  woodcut  of 
St.  George  and  the  Dragon  with  the  motto,  "  Conculcabis  Leonem  et 
draconem.  Psal.  90,"  and  inscribed  "St.  George  for  England."  Opposite  to 
this  are  eiijht  six-line  stanzas  in  allusion  to  this  cut,  the  last  four  of  which 
commemorate  the  visit  of  the  celebrated  Charles  Blount,  Lord  Mountjoy,  in 
Ireland,  where  he  had  been  appointed  Lord  Deputy  by  Elizabeth,  and  his 


326  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

entire  success  against  the  Eebels  in  IGOO  under  the  famous  O'Neile,  Ear]  of 
Tyrone,  the  great  chieftain  of  the  rebelHon,  for  which  he  was  afterwards 
rewarded  by  James  I.  with  the  Lord  Lieutenancy  of  Ireland,  and  created 
Earl  of  Devonshire.  We  give  these  four  stanzas  at  length,  particularly  as 
the  last  three  of  them  are  omitted  in  the  second  edition. 

Saint  Georges  knight,  goe  Noble  Mouutioy  on, 

bearing  thy  Sauioiirs  badge  within  thy  breast : 

Quell  that  Hells  shape  of  diuellisli  proud  Terone, 
and  couer  with  the  dust  his  stubborne  Crest : 

That  our  deere  Princesse  and  hir  land  be  safe, 

such  power  to  him.  Oh  Jesus  Christ  youchsafe. 

And,  as  thou  hast  thy  glorious  Mercy  showen 

in  beating  downe  his  foes  beefore  his  face : 
So,  let  them  still  bee  wholly  ouerthrowen, 

that  seeke  thy  holy  glorious  words  disgrace : 
And  giue  true  subiects  vertues  true  renowne, 

while  proude  rebellion  headlong  tumbels  downe. 

Oh,  let  him  Mount  unto  thy  Mercies  loy, 

in  Name  aud  Nature  make  his  Honour  one : 

And  in  thy  fury  all  his  foes  destroy, 
that  are  assistantes  to  Rebellion  : 

And  let  thy  Sunne  so  on  his  army  shine 

that  he  and  we,  may  praise  that  name  of  thine. 

Make  his  young  yeeres,  unto  the  world  a  wonder, 

his  valiant  Courage,  vertues  honors  loue  : 
His  fearelesse  hand,  to  teare  those  harts  a  sunder, 

that  dare  the  Issue  of  rebellion  proue  : 
And  make  liis  Triumph,  such  an  EugUsh  story 

that  Englands  loy  may  sing  thine  endlesse  Glory. 

A  blank  page,  and  "  A  faithfull  subiects  praier,"  four  stanzas,  conclude  the 
volume,  except  that  the  present  copy  contains  an  illumination  of  the 
Apotheosis  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  who  is  represented  as  being  crowned  by 
two  angels,  with  a  number  of  the  heavenly  cherubim  above.  Judging  from 
the  style  of  the  illuminations,  this  has  probably  been  a  presentation  copy, 
and  it  would  appear  that  copies  of  this  work,  having  been  printed  by  the 
author  for  private  circulation,  vary  very  considerably.  Mr.  Collier,  in  his 
Catalogue  of  the  Library  at  Bridgewater  House,  p.  321,  has  noticed  a  reprint 
of  the  latter  portion  of  this  volume,  "  The  true  Testimonie  of  a  faithfull 
Subiect,"  &c.,  which  had  been  altered  by  the  death  of  Elizabeth,  and  prefaced 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  327 

by  a  new  dedication  to  James  I.,  which,  from  its  containing  a  Thanksgiving 
for  the  deliverance  of  the  kingdom  from  the  Gunpowder  Plot,  he  supposes 
to  have  been  printed  soon  after  1605.  Being  Avithout  date,  or  printer's  or 
bookseller's  name,  it  was  probably  privately  printed  by  the  author  for  pre- 
sents only ;  and  as  no  other  copy  is  known,  it  must  be  esteemed  a  great 
curiosity. 

The  present  copy  was  formerly  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  Park,  who  pur- 
chased it  from  Mr.  Payne  while  his  catalogue  was  printing  in  1801.  In 
Samuel  H.  Ireland's  Confesxions  is  the  follovving  passage :  "  Having  one 
day  purchased  a  thin  quarto  tract  of  the  time  of  Elizabeth,  illuminated  and 
bound  in  vellum,  &c.,  I  determined  on  trying  an  experiment  with  it,  and  for 
the  purpose  wrote  a  letter,  in  imitation  of  the  hand  of  that  period,  as  from 
the  author  of  the  book,  making  it  the  presentation  copy  from  himself  to  the 
Queen.  I  wrote  this  Epistle  with  common  ink,  weakened  with  water,  but 
found  its  appearance  too  modern  :  notwithstanding  I  determined  on  shewing 
it  to  my  father,  who  thought  it  genuine.  This  and  the  Book  I  exchanged 
with  him  for  some'  other  tract.  It  was  the  first  thing  of  the  kind  I  ever 
attempted ;  but  after  I  had  wrote  a  great  quantity  of  the  Shakespeare  MSS. 
I  thought  my  first  attempt  so  badly  executed,  that  I  again  got  it  from  my 
father,  and  destroyed  it,  fearing  a  discovery." 

Mr.  Park  seemed  to  think  that  this  tract  was  the  present  copy  of  Vennard; 
and  judging  from  the  above  description  of  Ireland,  and  from  the  circumstance 
of  the  book  having  lost  its  fly-leaf,  we  think  it  very  probable. 

From  Mr,  Park's  hands,  it  passed  into  the  collection  described  in  the  Bibl. 
Ang.  Poet.,  No.  774,  and  is  there  marked  at  11.  7s.  It  was  afterwards  in 
Mr.  Midgley's  possession,  and  at  his  sale  by  Saunders  in  1818,  No.  756,  was 
bought  by  Mr.  Heber  for  2^.  2s.,  from  whose  library,  pt.  iv,  No.  2838,  it  was 
obtained  by  its  present  owner. 

It  has  Ireland's  usual  Green  Morocco  back,  over  a  Russia  half-binding. 


Vennard,  (Richard). — The  Right  way  to  Heauen,  and  a  good 
presedent  for  Lawyers  and  all  other  good  Christians.  With 
an  Exhortaciou  to  continue  all  Subiects  in  their  due 
obedience :  together  with  the  reward  of  a  faithful  subiect  to 
his  Prince.  Compiled  by  Richard  Vennard  of  Lincolnes 
Inne,  Gent. 


328  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

Math,  10.  First  seeke  the  kingdome  of  Heauen,  and  all  things  shal  be 
giucn. 

Acts  14.  22.  Through  much  tribulacion  must  wee  enter  into  the  kingdome 
of  Heauen. 

At  London :  Printed  by  Thomas  Este,  and  are  to  be  sould 
vnder  Lincohies  Gate.     1602.     4to,  pp.  56. 

Another  edition  of  this  work,  which  varies  very  considerably  from  the 
preceding.      Instead  of  the  woodcut  decorations  on  the  title-page,  it  has 
merely  a  woodcut  border,  but  the  body  of  the  work  has  the  same  border 
and  ornamented  capitals  as  in  the  previous  edition.     On  the  reverse  of  the 
title  is  the  cut  of  St.  George  and  the  Dragon,  which  occured  near  the  end  of 
the  former  volume,  inscribed  as  before,  "Saint  George  for  England";    and 
beneath,  "  And  Christ  for  our  Queene."     Opposite  to  this  are  the  stanzas  in 
allusion  to  the  cut,  but  reduced  to  five  in  this  edition,  three  of  those  which 
relate  to  Charles,  Lord  Mountjoy,  being  omitted.     Underneath,  however, 
are  eight  lines  not  in  the  other,  "  The  Queenes  Maiesties  godlie  counsell 
giuen  to  Charles,  Lord  Mountioy,  at  his  departure  into  Ireland,  wherewithal! 
shee  deliuered  him  a  Bible,  richly  imbrothered,"  signed  R.  V.     A  Table  of 
"the  contents  of  the  Booke"  concludes  the  prefatory  matter.     "The  high 
way  to  Heauen "  then  follows,  an  exact  reprint  of  the  former  edition  —  in 
fact,  the  same  —  from  whence  it  would  appear  that  the  work  not  selling, 
Vennard  had  added  at  each  end  some  additional  poems  suggested  by  passing 
events.     At  the  end  of  this  is  "  The  Lamentation  of  the  lost  Sheep" — seven 
stanzas   with  the  woodcut  of  our  Saviour  bearing  the  lost  sheep  on  his 
shoulders.     After  this  is  "  The  reward  of  a  faithfull  subiect,"  as  before,  with 
the  exception  of  the  omission  of  the  characters  given  in  the  first  edition. 
At  the  close  of  the  prose  part  of  the  volume,  which,  as  we  have  shewn, 
contains  some  omissions  and  variations,  are  some  pieces  of  poetry  not  in  the 
former  edition.     The  first  is  entitled  "  The  discription  of  Loyaltie,"  consisting 
of  six  six-line  stanzas,  which  appear  very  superior  to  some  of  the  other 
poems  by  Vennard,  and  are  so  full  of  beautiful  and  poetical  images,  that  we 
quote  them  at  length  : 

Aboue  the  Clowdes  wher  spangled  tropes  of  Stars 

adorne  the  precious  bosome  of  the  Skye : 
Where  heauenly  peace  abandons  breaking  lars, 

and  all  the  Consort  that  is  tuu'd  on  high 
Send  forth  their  delicate  melodious  sound, 

that  make  those  christall  vaults  with  ioy  abound. 


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Within  the  bright  Imperiall  Orbe  of  rest, 

where  soules  of  Saints  on  golden  Alters  set : 
And  in  the  Lambs  sweet  breath  are  onely  blest, 

where  thousand  graces  millions  more  beget : 
Is  Loyaltie  inthrou'd  in  blessed  Chaire, 

most  gorgeous  in  attire,  most  heuenly  faire. 

About  Mr  Head,  the  swift  wing'd  Cherubines, 

houer  their  siluer  pinions  in  liir  eyes  : 
And  the  sweet  Spheares  with  glorioiis  Seraphins 

upon  hir  shining  brow  with  blisse  arise : 
No  stormie  Clowdes  can  vaile  hir  beauteous  face, 

because  there  burnes  the  holy  lamp  of  grace. 

Truth  ritchly  clothed  in  milke  white  ornament 

stands  at  the  right  hand  of  this  happy  Saint : 
From  whom  the  words  of  righteousnesse  are  sent, 

whose  cheerefuU  hopes  by  Enuie  cannot  faint, 
But  as  the  Daughter  to  the  Highest  Power, 

she  sits  defended  in  a  strong  built  tower. 

Upon  hir  left  hand  Hope  hir  anker  wayes, 
on  whom  hir  deare  successe  doth  still  attend  ; 

Nor  doth  shee  feede  hir  seruants  with  delayes,  ^ 

but  they  that  on  hir  sacred  state  depend : 

With  bounteous  hand  she  giues  such  rich  reward, 
as  Tading  fame  hath  neither  scene  nor  hard. 

And  as  great  Michaell  with  the  Dragon  fought 

about  the  chosen  Moses  sacred  bones  : 
So  shee  contends  with  Traytors  that  have  sought 

to  touch  the  harts  of  God's  annointed  ones : 
And  like  th'  archangell  giues  them  all  the  foile, 

that  lift  their  hands  a  Princes  life  to  spoile. 

After  these  lines  occur  "  The  Authors  true  commendation  of  the  vertuous 
and  honorahle  Ladies  Anne,  Countesse  of  Warwick,  and  Margaret,  Countesse 
of  Cumberland,  two  of  the  noble  affected  daughters  of  the  late  Right 
Honorable  Francis,  called  the  good  Earle  of  Bedford," —  six  stanzas.  Then 
one  more  leaf  containing  an  acrostic  addressed  to  "Edward  Coke"  (the 
celebrated  lawyer),  with  two  quatrains  underneath  ;  and  another  acrostic  on 
"  Elizabetha  Regina,"  but  different  from  that  in  the  former  edition,  with  a 
Latin  couplet  under, 

Gloria,  Pax,  Opes,  flouscunt  te  Dominante 
Vivas  O  Superis,  ter  quoquc  chara  Viris. 
concludes  the  volume. 

VOL.  V.    PART   II.  UU 


330  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

Little  is  known  of  Vennard  beyond  his  being,  as  he  himself  says,  of 
Lincolns  Inn,  and,  therefore,  in  the  profession  of  the  law.  There  is  reason, 
however,  to  suppose,  that  he  was  the  author  of  a  play  or  theatrical  entertain- 
ment called  England's  Joy^  played  at  the  Swan  Theatre  the  6  November 
1602,  a  printed  broadside  of  which,  in  the  possession  of  the  Society  of 
Antiquaries,  has  preserved  the  plot.  "  It  Avas,"  says  Mr.  Collier,  to  whose 
able  researches  we  are  indebted  for  this  information,  "  an  allegorical  ex- 
hibition of  some  of  the  principal  events  of  the  reign  of  Elizabeth,  who  was 
personated  under  the  character  of  '  Englands  Joy';  and  the  broadside  would 
seem  to  have  been  intended  to  make  the  matter  more  intelligible  to  the 
audience  as  the  dumb-shew  (accompanied  perhaps  by  a  dialogue,  or  viva 
voce  explanations)  proceeded."  Vennard  is  mentioned  as  the  author  of  it 
in  the  following  lines,  in  a  scarce  little  tract  called  King  James  his  entertain- 
ment at  Theobalds,  &c.,  by  John  Savile,  1603,  4to. 

I  cannot  deeme  it  now  (a)  gulling  toye 

Which  Vennard  (inspir'd)  intituled  England^a  loye. 

I  rathei'  gesse  hee  did  our  good  diuine 

Not  daring  to  disclos't  before  full  time, 

Be  bold,  goe  on,  nowe's  thy  proesaging  plaine, 

King  lames  is  Englands  ioy,  long  bop'd  for  gaine, 

That  it  is  hee,  who  cannot  easely  proue  ? 

Sith  it  is  onely  hee,  wee  onely  loue, 

Tis  hee  that  'Englands  ioy  did  first  awake 

After  sad  sorrowing  for  Elizaes  sake, 

Then  reck  no  clownish  frumps,  regard  them  naught, 

Banish  such  Fooleries  from  thy  purer  thought, 

Wee  know  the  fruit,  sprung  from  foreknowing  pen, 

King  lames  is  Englands  ioy,  say  all  Amen. 

Taylor,  the  Water  Poet,  also  alludes  to  this  play  by  Vennard  in  his  Cast 
over  the  Water  to  William  Fennor  in  1614  : 

Thou  brag'st  what  fame  thou  got'st  upon  the  stage  : 
Indeed  thou  set'st  the  people  in  a  rage 
In  playing  Englands  Ioy,  that  euery  man 
Did  iudge  it  worse  then  that  was  done  at  Swan. 


And  again 


Upon  S.  Georges  day  last,  Sir,  you  gaue 
To  eight  Knights  of  the  Garter  (Hke  a  Knaue) 
Eight  Manuscripts  (or  Bookes)  all  fairely  writ 
Informing  them  they  were  your  Mother  wit, 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  331 

And  you  compild  them ;  then  were  jou  regarded 
And  for  anothers  wit  was  well  rewarded. 
All  this  is  true,  and  this  I  dare  maiutaine 
The  matter  came  from  out  a  learned  braine  : 
And  poore  old  Vennor,  tliat  plaine  dealing  man. 
Who  acted  Englands  loy  first  at  the  Swan, 
Paid  eight  crownes  for  the  writing  of  these  things, 
Besides  the  couers  and  the  silken  strings  : 
Which  money  backe  he  neuer  yet  receiu'd, 
So  the  deceiuer  is  by  thee  deceiu'd. 

From  these  lines  it  would  appear  that  Vennard  was  living  in  1614,  prob- 
ably in  poverty,  when  Taylor  wrote  this  pamphlet;  that  he  had  tahen  some 
part  on  the  stage  in  his  own  play  oi  England's  Joy  when  acted  at  the  Swan 
Theatre;  and  that  Fennor  had  appropriated  to  himself  some  production  of 
Vennard's,  for  the  proper  transcribing  of  which,  to  present  to  noblemen  and 
others,  he  had  paid  eight  crowns,  which  was  never  repaid  by  Fennor.  Care 
should  be  taken  not  to  confound  this  William  Fennor,  or  Vennor  as  he  is 
sometimes  called,  with  Richo.rd  Vennard,  which  seems  to  have  been  done 
by  Mr.  Collier  in  his  Hist.  Dram.  Poet.,  vol.  iii,  p.  321,  in  attributing  this 
piece  of  Englands  Joy  to  William  Fennor,  though  he  afterwards  corrects 
himself  at  p.  406;  and  by  Mr.  Gilford  in  his  Edit,  of  Ben  Jonsons  Works. 
Of  this  melo-dramatic  pageant  of  England's  Joy,  which  was  so  popular  in 
1603,  and  which  represented  in  dumb  shew  the  principal  political  events  in 
the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  concluding  with  her  apotheosis  in  great  state, 
in  which,  "  being  crowned  with  the  Sun,  Moon,  and  Stars,  she  is  taken  up 
into  Heaven,"  the  plot,  originally  printed,  as  we  have  mentioned,  on  a  broad- 
side, has  been  reprinted  in  the  Harl.  Miscell.,  vol.  x,  p.  198.  It  is  alluded 
to  by  Ben  Jonson  in  his  Masque  of  Love  Restored,  1610-11,  in  the  following 
passage : 

Rolin  Goodfelloio.     'Slight  a  fine  trick !  a  piece  of  Englands  Joy  this. 
And  again,  by  the  same,  in  his  Masque  oi  Augurs,  1622,  thus: 

Enter  the  Lady  xoith  her  two  maids. 
Sing.     And  were  thi-ee  of  those  Gentlewomen  that  should  have  acted  in  that 

famous  matter  of  EnglaiuU  Joy  in  six  hundred  and  three. 
Lady.     What  talk  you  of  Englands  Joy,  Gentlemen  ?     You  have  another 
matter  in  hand,  I  wiss,  Englands  Sport  and  Dehght  if  you  can 
•  manage  it. 

And  in  Sir  John  Suckling's  Comedy  of  The  Goblins.,  1646,  this  passage 
occurs : 


332  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

First  Thief.     Let  me  see  the  Author  of  the  Bold  Beauchamps  and  Englands 

Joy. 
JPoet.     The  last  was  a  well  writ  piece  I  assui'e  you ;  a  Breton  I  take  it,  and 

Shakespeare's  every  way. 

It  may  be  remarked  that  Englands  Joy  was  at  one  time  supposed  to  have 
been  written  by  Nicholas  Breton.  It  has  been  reprinted  in  the  last  edition 
of  the  Harl.  Miscell.  See  also  Ritson's  Bibliogr.,  p.  380;  Collier's  Hist. 
Dram.  Poet.,  vol.  iii,  pp.  321,  405  ;  Nicholls's  Progr.  Queen  Elizabeth.,  vol.  iii, 
pp.  532-43,  in  which  a  correct  description  is  given  of  Vennard's  Right  Way 
to  Heaven.,  1601,  and  all  the  latter  or  poetical  part  of  the  first  edition  is 
reprinted  at  full  length.  Consult  also  Dodsley's  Collect.  Old  Plays,  vol.  x, 
p.  72,  and  vol.  xii,  p.  425,  edit.  1780  ;  Nicholls's  Progr.  James  /.,  vol.  ii, 
p.  398,  and  vol.  iii,  p.  739. 

Half  bound,  Brown  Morocco. 


Verstegan,  (Richard). —  Odes  in  imitation  of  the  Seauen  Peni- 
tential Psalmes,  with  sundry  other  Poemes  and  ditties  tending 
to  deuotion  and  pietie. 

Imprinted  Anno  Domini  M.D.CI.     8vo. 

Richard  Verstegan,  the  author  of  these  poems,  although  residing  chiefly 
abroad,  was  a  native  of  this  country,  but  descended  from  foreign  parents,  his 
grandfather  having  been  driven  from  Guelderland,  his  native  home,  by  wars 
and  other  troubles,  into  England,  about  the  reign  of  Henry  VII.,  and  settled 
in  London,  where  he  married,  and  shortly  after  died,  leaving  an  only  son. 
This  son,  who  was  a  cooper  by  trade,  was  the  father  of  our  present  author, 
who  was  born  in  London,  and  received  his  education  at  Oxford,  but  left  that 
university  without  taking  a  degree,  on  account  of  his  change  of  religion  from 
the  Protestant  to  the  Roman  Catholic  faith.  He  is  better  known  as  the 
learned  author  of  The  Restitution  of  decayed  Intelligence  in  Antiquities.,  &c.^ 
1605,  4to,  a  work  still  deservedly  held  in  much  esteem,  and  of  several 
other  publications  chiefly  printed  in  Antwerp,  to  which  city  he  had  retired, 
and  there,  according  to  Wood,  "  exercised  the  trade  of  a  printer."  He  was 
in  close  connection  with  the  Jesuits,  writing  much  in  their  favour,  and  was 
well  skilled  in  drawing  and  painting,  which  enabled  him  to  illustrate  his 
numerous  publications  by  the  productions  of  his  own  pencil.  He  continued 
to  reside  at  Antwerp  during  the  first  quarter  of  the  seventeenth  century,  and 
died  there,  but  the  exact  date  of  his  death  is  not  known. 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  333 

The  present  appears  to  be  his  only  poetical  Mork,  and  like  the  others,  was 
printed  abroad,  without  doubt  at  Antwerp,  and  probably  at  his  own  press. 
The  title,  which  has  the  Jesuits'  mark  engraved  on  it,  is  without  any  place 
or  printer's  name,  and  is  followed  by  a  prose  dedication  "  To  the  vertuous 
Ladies  and  Gentlewomen  Readers  of  these  Ditties,"  concluding  thus : 

The  vaine  conceits  of  loues  delight 

I  leaue  to  Ouids  arte, 

Of  warres  and  bloody  broyles  to  wryte 

Is  fit  for  Yirgils  parte. 

Of  tragedies  in  doleful  tales 
Let  Sophocles  entreat : 
And  how  vnstable  fortune  failes 
Al  Poets  do  repeat. 

But  vnto  our  eternal  king 
My  verse  and  voyce  I  frame 
And  of  his  saintes  I  meane  to  sing 
In  them  to  praise  his  name. 

Yours  in  his  best  endeuoiirs.     R.  V. 

The  prose  compositions  of  Yerstegan  are  much  superior  to  his  poetry,  and 
the  fervour  of  his  religious  zeal  more  deserving  of  commendation  than  his 
verse,  so  that  we  shall  scarcely  be  tempted  to  quote  any  of  his  "  Odes  in 
imitation  of  the  Seauen  Penitential  Psalines."  To  these  succeed  "  Extracts 
of  the  Sibyllaes  Prophesies  of  Christe."  "  The  Fifteen  Mysteries  of  the 
Rosarie  of  our  Blessed  Lady.  Whereof  the  first  fyue  are  ioyful.  The 
second  sorowful.  And  the  third  glorious."  "Ave  Maria."  "  Epithetes  of 
our  Blessed  Lady."  And  "  Our  Blessed  Ladies  Lullaby."  We  find  in 
reference  to  this  latter  title  in  "  Deuices  of  sundry  Gentlemen,"  at  the  end 
of  Gascoigne's  Poems,  1572,  4to,  is  Gaseoignes  Lullabie  ;  and  in  his  Posies, 
1575,  4to,  on  p.  viii  of  the  "Flowers,"  is  The  Lullabie  ofaLouer;  and  in 
Lodge's  Poems,  1610,  4to,  is  Beauties  Lullabie.  In  Forrest's  Poems  [ffarl. 
MSS.,  1703],  some  of  which  are  dated  in  1581,  the  title  to  one  of  thera 

begins : 

All  this  night  longe :  euer  amonge 
A  voyce,  eare  yt  were  daye 
I  harde  that  ronge  :  and  thus  it  songe 
Lullaby  bye :  lullay 

which  forms  the  burthen  of  each  stanza.  And  Ritson,  in  his  Ancient  Songs^ 
p.  198,  has  printed  The  Mothers  Lullaby  from  a  MS.  of  the  time  of 
James  L  in  Bibl.  Sloan,  1708.  See  also  Byrd's  Psalmes,  &c.,  1588,  4to, 
No.  xxxii.     Perhaps  the  most  curious  poem  in  the  volume  is  one  containing 


334  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO- POETIC  A. 

an  enumeration  of  Roman  Catholic  female  saints  and  martyrs,  termed  "  The 
Triumphe  of  feminyne  Saintes,"  of  which  the  following  are  the  opening 
stanzas : 

The  trump  of  fame  soundes  foorth  the  factes 

Of  wel-deseruing  wights : 

And  tinges  with  honor  do  reward 

The  scruice  of  their  knights. 

Of  such  therefore  I  ceas  to  sing 

My  song  of  such  to  frame : 

Whose  need  restes  in  no  princes  power 

Nor  praise  in  earthly  fame. 

And  of  the  sexe  of  woman  kynde 
Though  not  of  those  of  yore : 
With  scared  brests  against  their  foes 
That  warlyke  armour  wore. 
But  such  as  armed  were  with  faith 
Against  soul-killing  euil : 
And  did  in  combat  ouercome 
The  flesh,  the  world,  and  deuil. 

And  for  thy  loue  O  lesu  Christe, 
And  glorie  of  thy  name  : 
That  found  no  woes  to  bee  endur'd 
But  did  endure  the  same. 
Their  faith  did  bring  them  to  endure 
Endurance  bhss  did  bring : 
In  blis  they  now  do  sing  to  thee, 
Now  here  of  them  I  sing. 

Vnheard  it  was  in  earth  before, 
Vnsoimded  foorth  by  fame  : 
Ynknowne  that  ere  in  silly  sexe 
Such  resolution  came. 
Til  wU  and  vertue  did  conioyne 
In  choise  of  chiefest  good  : 
And  grace  gaue  ayd,  and  faith  gain'd  force, 
And  nothing  it  withstood. 

.As  Tecla  first  example  giues 
Whome  fyre  could  not  annoy  : 
And  beares  and  lions  left  vnhurt, 
Each  other  to  destroy  : 
Fierce  rigour  woorking  rigours  ruth 
No  hurt  the  hurtlesse  fynde : 
Yet  shee  a  martres  is  esteem'd 
That  martred  was  in  mynde. 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  335 

Euphemia  throwne  to  sauage  beastes 
By  men  of  beastly  mood  : 
Found  beastes  deuoyd  of  sauagenesse, 
And  men  more  thirsting  blood. 
And  all  the  torments  that  shee  had, 
To  her  not  seemed  payne  : 
But  when  a  swoord  transpearst  her  corps, 
True  glory  was  her  gayue. 

The  noble  Anasfasia, 
Poore  Christians  did  relieue  : 
■Whose  heath'nish  husband  her  therefore 
Yukyndely  did  agi'ieue. 
But  when  the  swoord  and  cruel  death 
Did  her  from  thralle  release  : 
The  heau'ns  her  freedome  did  restore, 
With  endlesse  ioy  and  peace. 

The  poera  thus  continues  through  seventy-five  stanzas,  forming  a  sort  of 
bead  roll  of  all  the  real  and  imaginary  martyrs  with  which  the  ancient  faith 
abounded.  The  design  of  another  poem,  called  "  St.  Peter's  Comfort,"  may 
have  been  taken  from  Southwell's  poem  of  "  St.  Peter's  Complaint,"  which 
was  first  published  about  six  years  before,  in  1595,  and  was  then  liiglily 
popular,  and  which,  from  congeniality  of  feeling  in  religious  subjects,  was 
no  doubt  familiar  to  Verstegan.  The  general  idea  of  the  sonnets  called 
"  Visions  of  the  worlds  instabillitie  "  was  probably  taken  from  Petrarch  and 
Bellay,  and  had  been  given  to  the  world  many  years  before  by  Vander  Noodt 
in  his  Theatre  for  voluptuous  Worldlings,  1569,  8vo,  and  in  Spenser's  Com- 
plaints, 1591,  4to.  There  is  a  short  notice  of  the  present  work  by  Mr. 
Park  in  the  Cens.  Liter.,  vol.  ii,  p.  165;  and  the  reader  may  also  consult 
further  the  Biojr.  Brita^in. ;  Wood's  Atk  Oxon.,  vol.  ii,  p.  392,  who  calls 
the  author  Verstegan  or  Rowlands;  Oldvs's  Brit.  Libr.,  p.  299;  and  the 
Bibl.  Aug.  Poet.,  No.  776.  It  is  a  volume  of  great  rarity,  and  with  the 
exception  of  one  formerly  in  the  collection  of  Mr.  Lloyd,  which  he  had  ob- 
tained from  the  select  library  of  Mr.  Southgate,  and  which  was  sold  to  Mr. 
Heber,  No.  1187,  for  20/.  lOs.,*  and  on  the  dispersion  of  that  gentleman's 
librar_y,  pt.  iv.  No  2735,  was  purchased  by  Mr.  Miller  for  6/.  I65.  6c/.,  one 
in  the  Bodleian  library  at  Oxford,  and  the  present  one  lately  discovered,  no 


*  This  was  bought  by  Mr.  Lloyd,  against  Mr.  Heber,  in  1795,  for  lis.  &d.,  at 
Southgate's  Sale. 


336  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

other  perfect  copy  is  known.  The  one  in  the  Bibl.  Ang.  Poet.^  No.  776, 
priced  12/.  12s.,  which  had  formerly  helonged  to  Dr.  Farmer  and  Mr.  Park, 
and  subsequently  to  Mr.  Bright,  No.  5S09,  was  imperfect,  having  the  title 
and  two  other  leaves  supplied  by  manuscript. 

Verstegan  is  said,  by  Oldys,  to  liave  been  a  secular  priest;  and  amongst 
his  other  works  is  supposed  to  have  written  the  English  verses  to  the 
Amoris  Divini  Emblemata  of  Otho  Voenius. 

Beautiful  copy.     Bound  by  Hayday. 
In  Blue  Morocco,  gilt  leaves. 


Verses  of  Prayse  and  Iote,  Written  upon  her  Maiesties  preser- 
uation.  Whereunto  is  annexed  Tychbornes  lamentation, 
written  in  the  Towre  with  his  owne  hand,  and  an  aunswere  to 
the  same. 

London  Printed  by  John  Wolfe.    1586.    4to,  pp.  8,  lilfe.lctt. 

The  present  is  another  small  poetical  lilacfe  letter  tract,  printed  soon  after 
the  conspiracy  of  Anthony  Babington  and  others,  against  the  life  of  Queen 
Elizabeth.  It  consists  of  four  leaves  only,  and  is  of  the  utmost  rarity.  The 
title  is  Avithin  an  elaborate  woodcut  border,  having  on  each  side  a  female 
figure  terminating  in  a  style ;  in  the  centre,  at  the  top,  the  Queen's  arms ; 
and  at  the  bottom,  a  Phoenix  rising  out  of  the  flames,  e.g.,  the  Stationer's 
arms.  In  the  centre  of  the  page  the  usual  device  of  the  printer,  a  fleur-de- 
lys.  The  contents  of  the  tract  are,  on  Sig.  A  ii,  "  Verses  of  Praise  and  loy, 
Written  upon  her  Maiestie,  after  the  apprehension  and  execution  of  Babing- 
ton, Tychborne,  Salisburie,  and  the  rest,"  20  lines;  "Tychbornes  Elegie, 
written  with  his  owne  hand  in  the  Tower  before  his  execution,"  three  six- 
line  verses ;  "  Hendecasyllabon  T.  K.  in  Cygneam  Cantionem  Chidiochi 
Tychborne,"  three  similar  verses ;  "  In  nefariam  Babingtoni  coeterorumque 
coniurationem,  Hexasticon  " ;  "  The  same  in  Englishe  " ;  "  Ad  Serenissiraam 
Reginam  Elizabetham,  Apostrophe  "  ;  "  The  same  in  Englishe."  We  sub- 
join Tychborne's  Elegie,  and  the  answer  to  it. 

My  prime  of  youth  is  but  a  frost  of  cares, 

my  feast  of  ioy  is  but  a  dish  of  paine  : 
My  crop  of  corne  is  but  a  field  of  tares, 

and  al  my  good  is  but  vaine  hope  of  gaine. 
The  day  is  past,  and  yet  I  saw  no  sunne, 
And  now  I  liue,  and  now  my  hfe  is  done. 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  337 

My  tale  was  heard,  and  yet  it  was  not  told, 

my  fruite  is  falne,  and  yet  my  leaues  are  greene : 

My  youth  is  spent,  and  yet  I  am  not  old, 

I  saw  the  world,  and  yet  I  was  not  seene. 

My  thred  is  cut,  and  yet  it  is  not  spunne, 

And  now  I  line,  and  now  my  life  is  done. 

I  sought  my  death,  and  found  it  in  my  wombe, 

I  lookt  for  life,  and  saw  it  was  a  shade  : 
I  trod  the  earth,  and  knew  it  was  my  tombe, 

and  now  I  die,  and  now  I  was  but  made. 
My  glasse  is  full,  and  now  my  glasse  is  runne, 
And  now  I  Hue,  and  now  my  life  is  done. 


Thy  prime  of  youth  is  frozen  with  thy  faults, 

thy  feast  of  ioy  is  finisht  with  thy  fall : 
Thy  crop  of  come  is  tares  auailing  naughts, 

thy  good  God  knowes,  thy  hope,  thy  hap  and  all. 
Short  were  thy  daies,  and  shadowed  was  thy  sun 
T'  obscure  thy  light  unluckelie  begun. 

Time  trieth.  trueth,  and  trueth  hath  treason  tript, 
thy  faith  bare  fruit  as  thou  hadst  faitliles  beene  : 

Thy  ill  spent  youth,  thine  after  yeares  hath  nipt, 

and  God  that  saw  thee  hath  preseru'de  our  Queene. 

Her  thred  still  holds,  thine  perisht  though  unspun, 

And  she  shall  line  when  traitors  liues  are  done. 

Thou  soughtst  thy  death,  and  found  it  in  desert, 
thou  look'dst  for  life,  yet  lewdlie  forc'd  it  fade  : 

Thou  trod'st  the  earth,  and  now  on  earth  thou  art, 
as  men  may  wish  thou  neuer  hadst  been  made. 

Thy  glorie  and  thy  glasse  are  timeles  runne. 

And  this,  O  Tychhorne,  hath  thy  treason  done. 

The  initials,  T.  K.,  may  be  those  of  Thomas  Knell,  who  wrote  an  epitaph 
or  rather  short  discourse  upon  the  life  and  death  of  Bishop  Bonner  1569, 
and  some  other  things  against  the  Roman  Catholics  about  that  time.  Tycli- 
borne's  Elegie  has  been  printed  in  Reliquice  Wotioniance,  1672,  p.  395,  where, 
however,  the  second  stanza  runs  thus : 

The  spring  is  past,  and  yet  it  hath  not  sprung  ; 

The  fruit  is  dead,  and  yet  the  leaues  are  gi*een, 
My  youth  is  gone,  and  yet  I  am  but  young : 

I  saw  the  world,  and  yet  I  was  not  seen. 
My  thread  is  cut,  and  yet  it  is  not  spun 
And  now  I  liue  and  now  my  life  is  done. 
VOL.  V.  PART  IT.  XX 


338  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

It  is  also  given  in  Holinshed's  Castrations,  p.  1570,  where  it  is  prefaced 
by  the  following  observations :  "  The  conspirators  who  had  woven  the 
web  of  their  owne  wo,  being  now  forlorne,  as  hated  of  heaven,  and  irke- 
some  to  the  earth,  seeing  no  hope  of  life,  but  deserved  death  imminent  and 
hanging  ouer  their  heads,  occupied  their  wits  in  dolorous  devises,  bemoning 
their  miseries,  of  the  like  stampe  to  this  here  annexed,  savouring  more  of 
prophane  poetrie  than  Christianitie,  of  fansie  than  religion. 
My  prime  of  youth  is  but  a  frost  of  cares,"  &c. 

Ritson  does  not  appear  to  have  known  this  work,  nor  is  it  noticed  by 
Lowndes. 

Half  bound.  Green  Morocco. 


Ward,  (John). —  An  Encouragement  to  Warre.  Or,  Bellum  Par- 
liamentale.  Shewing  the  unlawfulnesse  of  the  late  Bellum 
Episcopale.  As  also  the  Justnesse  of  this  present  Expedition 
for  the  defence  of  the  Kingdom.  With  the  Illegall,  Rebellious, 
Trayterous,  Barbarous,  and  Bloody  proceedings  and  Intentions 
of  the  Cavaliers.  Lately  published  at  the  request  of  a  Friend, 
by  John  Ward  Trooper  under  the  Earl  of  Bedford. 
No  place,  date,  or  printer's  name.     4to,  pp.  20. 

On  the  title  of  this  scarce  poetical  tract,  which  was  printed  in  1642,  and 
of  which  this  is  the  first  edition,  is  an  engraved  frontispiece  in  copper, 
emblematic  of  the  contest  then  raging  between  the  parliament  and  the 
church,  representing  on  the  left  the  parliament  assembled;  above,  a  hand 
and  arm  issuing  from  a  cloud  holding  the  Bible,  inscribed,  "Arise  o  North, 
come  o  South  blow."  Cant.  4.  v.  16,  from  whence  the  wind  blows  upon  a 
figure  of  the  globe  beneath.  On  the  right  are  the  bishops  sheltering  them- 
selves under  the  falling  church,  inscribed,  "  They  are  as  the  sluble  before  the 
winde,  and  as  the  chafFe  which  y^  storme  carrieth  away."  Job  21.  18. 
Beneath  are  three  figures  with  petitions,  and  these  two  Latin  verses : 

Nitimur  in  Yetitum  sed  quo  rapit  impetus  aurce 
ToUimur  baud  velleut  uiti  fugimusq:  retrorsum. 

On  the  reverse  of  the  title  is  a  short  dedication  in  prose  "  To  his  worthy 
and  much  esteemed  good  Friends,  Mr.  John  Millington,  Mr.  Peter  Goodwin, 
and  Mr.  Samuel  Clark,"  in  which  he  begs  them  "  to  shew  his  Infant  Muse 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  839 

that  favour,  as  to  read  over  these  few  of  her  childish  expressions  (she  being 
yet  in  the  lowest  form)  and  to  speak  mildly  of  them ;  that  so  she  may  with, 
the  more  celerit}',  march  to  the  head  of  this  Ages  Hellicon  :  Which  when 
she  shall  once  attain,  she  shall  never  care  for  the  hardest  sensure,  that  any 
of  Zoylus  Faction  can  passe  upon  her."  The  author  was  a  violent  Round- 
head, and  is  extremely  severe  against  the  unfortunate  cavaliers  of  Charles  I., 
as  the  following  lines  will  shew : 

Now  you  whose  forward  spirits  Countreymen 

Aifect  the  justuesse  of  our  cause,  yet  wlieu 

You  heare  that  odious  uame  of  Cavalier 

Opposing  you  ;  that  mazes  you  with  feare  ; 

That  traytrous,  bloudy,  branded  name,  casts  downe 

Your  drooping  spirits  equall  to  the  ground ; 

So  that  for  feare  of  such  an  impious  crew, 

Y'  bad  rather  (slave  Uke)  part  from  all  your  dues 

And  priviledge,  then  seeko  bow  to  obtaine  ' 

Your  Freedomes,  Lawes,  and  Liberties  againe. 

Y'  bad  rather  loose  all  that  you  doe  possesse 

Then  take  up  lawfull  Armes  to  seeke  redresse. 

How  plainly  doe  such  Cowards  shew  to  be 
Given  up  to  base  pusiUanimitie : 
Scorne  then  to  be  afraid  of  such  a  name 
Which  unto  them  is  but  a  brand  of  shame 
And  not  of  honour  :  Can  a  wortblesse  name 
Crowne  them  with  glory,  or  our  deeds  with  shame  ? 
Thinke  you,  shall  arrogated  Titles  make 
You  such  a  just  and  pious  cause  forsake  ? 
Can  painted  shewes,  true  substances  exceed  ? 
Can  livelesse  Statues  doe  a  manly  deed  ? 
Or  does  the  Sphit  of  Valour  rest  on  them 
Because  base  swearing,  domineering  men  ? 

Y'  are  all  deceiv'd !  the  valiant  man  is,  that 
Hath  fewest  sinnes  to  be  affrighted  at ; 
True  Souldiers  will  ne're  use  violence. 
Nor  fight  but  to  secure  their  conscience ; 
They  are  no  prophane  swearers,  nor  wiU  cm-se 
Or  ban,  when  things  are  bad,  to  make  them  worse : 
Nor  will  they  cry,  God  damue  them,  or  them  sinke 
Nor  over-charge  themselves  with  too  much  drinke. 

It  appears  from  the  following  passage  that  the  author  was  a  native  of 
Tewkesbury  in  Gloucestershire. 


340  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

But  specially,  O  Glouster-sMre,  improve 
My  counsell ;  'tis  a  pledge  of  native  love 
Go  muster  up  your  Volunteers,  whose  number 
May  strike  your  damned  Foe  with  dread  and  wonder. 
*  Teuksbury.  And  thou  my  native  *Town  especially, 

Whom  I  respect,  that  hast  been  backwardly 
In  this  defensive  service  stirre  thee  now, 
Make  it  appeare  that  thou  hast  pay'd  thy  vow. 
Where  are  the  scores  of  Horse,  thou  hast  set  forth, 
To  answer  thy  eiternall  shewes  and  worth  ? 
Where  are  thy  voluntary  youths,  that  dare 
Defend  their  Country  in  this  civill  warre  ? 

Some  two  or  three  are  gone  indeed,  but  they 
Were  faine  (couragiously)  to  steale  away 
Unknowne,  lest  if  they  should  themselves  disclose 
Thy  male-affected  would  account  them  foes. 
And  them  discourage ;  yea,  since  our  adew 
They  have  malign'd  us  with  reports  untrue. 
But  I  forgive  them,  and  doe  thee  advise, 
As  for  thy  private  good  thou  would' st  be  wise 
(If  publike  good  thou  sleightst)  that  thou'dst  but  make 
Inferiour  Townes  thy  president,  and  take 
Them  for  a  patterne  :  here,  as  little  Townes 
As  are  the  least  that  coast  upon  thy  bounds 
Have  set  forth  fiftie  Horse  :  Young  men  and  mayds 
Of  all  sorts,  as  th'are  able,  lend  their  aydes 
Some  six  pence,  twelve  pence  some,  as  they  are  willing 
And  stor'de,  some  five,  some  ten,  some  twenty  shilling  ; 
Or  more,  or  lesse,  as  God  hath  blessed  them 
With  meanes,  and  hearts,  to  part  from  it  agen. 
Up  therefore  quickly,  be  not  like  the  drone 
That  eats  up  others  sweetnesse,  but  gets  none. 
If  nothing  but  dead  trading  might  perswade 
To  this,  that  might  in  common  sense  be  made 
A  motive  to  stirre  up  the  drowsiest  heart 
From  somewhat  towards  this  great  designe  to  part : 
For  be  assur'de  that  till  the  Kingdome  be 
Eeduc'de  to  perfect  peace  and  unitie, 
And  freed  from  civill  warre ;  your  trading  shall 
Continually  decay,  nor  mend  at  all. 

And  this,  methinks,  should  stir  up  every  place 
To  doe  the  like,  because  it  is  the  case 
Of  all  the  Kingdome ;  For  my  part,  had  I 
A  thousand  lives,  and  for  each  life,  lying  by 


COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA.  341 

A  thousand  pound  (which  are  above  my  spheare) 
I'de  liazzard  all  to  free  the  State  from  feare. 

One  more  quotation,  and  we  end : 

As  for  tlie  carriage  of  the  Caraliers, 
Their  tyranny  and  wickednesse  appears 
So  gi'osse,  and  palpable,  that  it  will  be 
But  needlesse  labour,  and  time  lost  for  me 
Their  rude  and  barbarous  actions  to  repeat ; 
Their  robberies  and  murthers  are  so  great 
In  Yorlcsliire,  Lestersliire,  at  Coventry  : 
Northamptonshire,  Bath,  Portsmouth,  Banbury, 
And  superstitious  Oxford,  that  was  glad 
At  their  first  entrance  ;  but  are  since  grown  sad 
To  see  their  rude  behaviour,  and  wliat  preys 
They  make  of  all  things  that  faU  in  theii'  wayes. 

Now  little  book,  flie  on  the  wings  of  fame 
As  far  beyond  the  place  from  whence  I  came 
As  it  is  thither :    that  botli  North  and  South, 
And  all  the  winds  may  have  thee  in  their  mouth, 
And  take  thy  counsell :  that  from  Cornwall  and 
From  th'  utmost  limits  of  Northumherland, 
And  Durham  :  yea  from  Do yer  in  the  East, 
To  th'  utmost  bounds  of  Chester  in  the  West, 
Thou  mayest  have  audience :  that  our  Heroes  may 
Muster  their  forces  'gainst  that  fatall  day. 
Grave  Essex  the  chief  Leader  of  us  all, 
And  Bedford  oiu'  Lieutenant  Generall, 
Not  all  the  Romane  States  can  make  us  fear, 
Nor  the  great  Turke  liimselfe  if  he  were  here. 
Our  Cause  is  just,  therefore  though  thousands  die. 
We  are  confident  to  get  the  victory. 

The  present  copy  of  this  work  is  the  one  mentioned  in  the  Bibl  Ang. 
Poet.^  No.  880,  and  marked  at  3l.  35.,  whence  it  was  purchased,  in  1815, 
by  Mr.  Heber,  and  has  since  been  bound  by  Charles  Lewis.  It  was  pro- 
cured at  the  sale  of  the  library  of  the  latter  gentleman  in   1834,  pt.  iv, 

No.  2857. 

Bound  by  Charles  Lewis  the  elder. 
In  Dark  Green  Morocco  extra,  gilt  leaves. 


342  COLLECTANEA  ANGLO-POETICA. 

WarDj    (John.)  —  The    Christians    Incouragement   earnestly   to 
contend 

For  Christ  bis  gospell  and  for  all 
Our  Christian  liberties  in  thrall 
Which  who  refuseth  let  him  bee 
For  aye  Anathema,  say  wee. 

Written  by  J.  Ward  Gent. 

fReade      ")  (Judge    ") 

1  Consider  j  \  Censure  j 

To  which  is  added  Irelands  Greivances. 

London  Printed  for  lo.  Hancock.     1643.     4to^  pp.  20. 

This  edition  is  not  mentioned  in  the  Bibl.  Ang.  Poet.,  nor,  excepting  a 
slight  notice  of  it  by  Lowndes,  do  we  find  it  alluded  to  by  any  bibliographer. 
The  above  title  is  given  on  a  curtain  in  the  centre  of  a  neat  frontispiece 
engraved  on  copper,  at  the  sides  of  which  are  six  small  oval  portraits 
beautifully  executed  —  the  Bishop,  Judge,  and  Cavalier  on  one  side,  with 
the  motto  over  them 

When  this  corrupted  Crew  quite  fall 
Truth  with  peace  then  flourish  shall, 

and  an  inscription,  "  These  praye  for,  Pleade  for,  Figlit  for  Desolation," 
On  the  other  side,  those  of  Mr.  Burton,  Mr.  Prynne,  and  Capt.  Bast^ick, 
with  the  motto, 

Us  Imitate  whose  suffering 
Shall  speedily  their  ruin  bring, 

and  the  inscription,  "  These  Praye  for,  Pleade  for,  Fight  for  Reformation." 
This  frontispiece  is  extremely  scarce,  and  copies  with  it  seldom  occur.  The 
letterpress  is  exactly  similar  to  the  former,  indeed  it  is  the  same  edition, 
with  merely  the  substitution  of  a  new  title.  It  does  not  appear  that  the 
latter  portion,  relating  to  "  Irelands  Greivances,"  was  ever  added  by  the 
author.  A  copy  of  the  work,  with  tbis  latter  title,  was  sold  at  Mr.  Townley'a 
Sale,  pt.  ii,  No.  1592,  for  2/.  Ms.;  and  at  Sir  Mark  M.  Sykes's  do.,  pt.  iii, 
No.  963,  for  Zl.  3s.  The  present  copy  cost  Mr.  Heber  4^.  15s.,  and  is 
Bound  by  Charles  Lewis,  uniform  with  the  former. 
In  Dark  Green  Morocco,  gilt  leaves. 


C|)e  Ci)irtp  jSi;ctt)  iReport 

OF    THE 

COUNCIL  OF  THE  CHETHAM  SOCIETY, 

Bead  at  the  Annual  Meeting^  held  by  permission  of  the  Feoffees,  in  the 

Audit  Room  of  Chethams  Hospital,  on  Tuesday,  the  18th  day 

of  March  1879,  by  adjournment  f/vm  the  ist. 


THE  first  of  the  Publications  for  the  year  1878-9,  and  the  105th  in  the 
series  of  the  works  of  the  Chetham  Society,  is  the  History  of  the 
Parish  of  Garstang,  in  the  county  of  Lancaster,  by  Lieut.-Col.  Fishwick, 
F.S.A.,  Part  2,  Part  1  having  been  issued  as  the  third  volume  for  the 
year  1877-8,  instead  of  the  Inventories  of  Church  Goods,  taken  in  1552, 
edited  by  J.  E.  Bailey,  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  Part  1,  which  was  postponed  to  the 
following  year. 

The  History  of  Garstang  follows,  in  natural  sequence,  that  of  Kirkham, 
and  may  be  styled  another  chapter  in  the  History  of  Amounderness.  It  is 
compiled  on  the  same  plan  as  that  valuable  work,  and  the  editor  has  left  no 
available  source  of  information  unconsulted  or  unreferred  to  which  could 
tend  to  render  the  history  more  complete.  The  result  has  been,  to  throw 
much  additional  light  on  a  parochial  district  of  Lancashire  which  stood 
greatly  in  want  of  an  historian,  Dr.  T.  D.  Whitaker's  account  of  it  in  his 
History  of  Richmondshire  being  very  scanty,  and  Baines's,  in  his  Lancashire, 
being  full  of  errors  and  imperfections,  which  greater  care  and  a  wider  range 
of  investigation  might  have  prevented.  There  are  many  circumstances 
which  contribute  to  render  the  annals  of  Garstang  interesting.  Amongst 
others,  it  will  be  remembered,  that  in  the  enumeration  of  its  vicars,  occurs 
the  name  of  Isaac  Ambrose,  revered  alike  by  conformist  and  nonconformist, 
and  of  whom  and  whose  family  Col.  Fishwick  has  given  full  particulars, 
and  that  in  the  same  list,  somewhat  later,  is  seen  that  of  "  silver  tongued  " 
Wroe,  afterwards  warden  of  Manchester,  one  of  the  popular  preachers  of 
his  day,  and  whose  epitaph  may  still  be  read  in  the  Cathedral. 


The  second  work  for  1878-9,  and  the  lOGth  in  the  Chetham  series,  is 
Collectanea  Anglo- Poetica,  or  a  Bibliographical  and  Descriptive  Catalogue  of 
a  portion  of  a  Collection  of  early  English  Poetry^  by  the  late  Rev.  Thomas 
CoRSER,  M.A.,  F.S.A.,  prepared  for  publication  by  the  President  of  the 
Chetham  Society.     Part  9.     This  part  continues  the  Alphabetical  series  of 
the  works  selected  for  notice  from  M  to  the  end  of  R,  and  amongst  other 
authors,  whose  productions  are  described,  includes  the  names  of  Manley, 
Marston,  Munday,  Murford,  Nash,  Nelson,  Niccols,  Nuce,  Overbury,  Parker 
(Archbishop),  Parker  (Martin),  Parrot,  Partridge,  Peacham,  Petowe,  Phili- 
pott,  Pierce  Plowman,  Quarles  (John),  Raleigh  (Geo.),  Rhodes,  Ripley,  and 
Rowlands  (Saml.)      There  is  great  variety  in  the  poetical  extracts  given  in 
this  volume  from  the  different  writers,  and  it  will  be  found,  on  examination, 
to  contain  much  attractive  matter,  Biographical  and  Critical,  as  well  as  a 
large  amount  of  accurate  and  useful  Bibliographical  information.     The  tenth 
part,  which  will  be  proceeded  with  as  speedily  as  possible,  will  conclude 
this  very  elaborate  work,  so  honourable  to  the  taste,  judgment,  and  untiring 
perseverance  of  its  author,  and  which  the  approaching  sale  of  the  magnifi- 
cent collection  of  the  late  Henry  Huth,  Esq.,  who  derived  many  of  the 
treasures  in  his  library  from  the  dispersion  of  Mr.  Corser's,  renders,  at  the 
present  time,  peculiarly  important  and  valuable. 

The  third  Publication  for  the  year  1878-9,  and  the  107th  in  the  Society's 
series,  will  be  Part  1  of  the  Inventories  of  Church  Goods  in  the  Parishes  of 
Lancashire,  taken  by  a  Royal  Commission  in  15.52,  edited  by  J.  E.  Bailey, 
Esq.,  F.S.A.,  the  contents  of  which  were  noticed  in  the  Report  of  the 
Council  for  the  last  year. 

It  is  expected  that  the  three  volumes  will  be  issued  together,  to  the 
members,  very  speedily. 

It  is  with  deep  regret  that  the  Council  have  to  record  the  loss  of  Canon 
Raines,  whose  death  took  place  at  Scarboro'  on  the  17ch  of  October  last, 
after  an  illness  of  short  duration. 

From  the  commencement  of  the  Chetham  Society  he  took  the  warmest 
interest  in  its  success  and  continuance,  and  on  the  death  of  Canon  Parkinson, 
twenty  years  ago,  he  succeeded  him  in  the  office  of  Vice-President.  It  is 
one  of  the  fortunate  results  of  the  Society's  establishment  that  it  brought 
such  a  labourer  into  the  antiquarian  field,  as  an  editor  and  as  an  author,  as 
Canon  Raines,  for  though  he  must  always  have  been  an  indefatigable 
collector  on  the  great  scale  of  the  Dugdale's  and  Dodsworth's,  as  his  precious 
MS.  volumes  now  deposited  in  the  Chetham  library  sufficiently  show,  yet 


but  for  the  channel  afforded  to  him  by  the  Society's  press,  we  should  never, 
in  all  probability,  have  known  how  thoroughly  he  had  the  mastery  of  the 
vast  material  he  had  collected,  and  in  what  an  attractive  and  well-arranged 
shape  his  vigorous  judgment  and  accurate  taste  could  embody  the  informa- 
tion he  had  derived  from  such  various  sources.  The  volumes  contributed 
by  him  to  the  Society's  series,  and  which  any  society  might  be  proud  to 
claim,  are  sixteen  in  number,  the  first  being  No.  8,  the  first  volume  of 
Notitia  Cestriensis,  and  the  last  No.  103,  the  Miscellaneous  volume,  which 
he  only  saw  in  its  completed  shape  when  stretched  on  that  bed  from  which 
he  was  never  destined  to  rise.  Besides  these  contributions,  he  enriched  some 
of  the  previous  Miscellaneous  volumes  with  articles  of  interest,  and  had  a  very 
large  share  in  the  annotations  which  add  so  much  to  the  enjoyment  of  the 
readers  of  Adam  Martindale^  Byrom's  Remains,  and  the  Grammar  School 
Register.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that,  of  such  a  man  as  Canon  Raines,  an 
adequate  memorial  in  the  shape  of  a  full  biography,  may,  in  due  time,  be 
supplied.  On  his  merits  as  a  Christian  pastor  it  is  not  within  the  province 
of  this  report  to  enter,  nor  is  it  necessary,  for  the  touching  scene  presented 
at  his  funeral  at  Milnrow  was  worth  volumes  of  studied  panegyric.  As  an 
antiquary  of  the  true  stamp,  bounteous  and  liberal  in  communication,  over- 
flowing with  kindness  and  courtesy,  with  a  memory  which  was  a  wonderful 
storehouse  of  historical  facts  and  information,  regarding  places,  times  and 
families,  always  ready  at  call,  either  in  conversation  in  which  he  excelled,  or 
in  composition  which  could  give  new  grace  and  attraction  to  an  unpromising 
subject,  he  must  ever  hold  a  very  distinguished  place,  while  by  those  who 
were  honoured  with  his  friendship,  the  loss  of  such  a  bright  example  of 
excellence,  combined  with  knowledge  so  extensive  and  associated  with  all 
those  characteristic  amenities  which  make  social  intercourse  delightful,  must 
be  felt,  and  sadly  felt,  as  an  irreparable  bereavement. 

The  works  in  the  following  list,  and  which,  with  the  exception  of  Nos.  1 
and  6,  are  continuations,  may  be  expected  to  appear  at  no  distant  period  in 
the  Chetham  series. 

1.  Correspondence  of  Natlian  Walworth  and  Peter  Seddon  of  Outicood, 
and  other  Documents  and  Papers  in  relation  to  the  building  of  Ringley 
Chapel.     Edited  by  John  S.  Fletcher,  Esq. 

2.  The  Visitation  of  Lancashire  and  a  part  of  Cheshire,  made  in  the 
Twenty  fourth  year  of  the  reign  of  King  Henry  VIII,  a.d.  1533.  Edited 
by  William  Langton,  Esq.     Second  and  concluding  Part. 

3.  Collectanea  Anglo -Poetica.      Tenth  and  concluding  part.      Edited 


from  the  AISS.  of  the  late  Rev.  T.  Corser,  M.A.,  F.S.A.,  by  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  Chatham  Society. 

4.  Wortliington  s  Diary,  vol.  2,  part  2,  which  concludes  the  work. 
Edited   by  the  President  of  the  Chetham  Society. 

5.  hiventories  of  Church  Goods  in  the  Parishes  of  Lancashire  taken  in 
1552.    Edited  by  J.  E.  Bailby,  Esq.,  F.S.A.     Second  and  concluding  Part. 

6  Tico  Cojnpoti  of  Henry  de  Lacy,  Earl  of  Lincoln,  of  the  date  of  30th 
January,  1297,  respecting  his  lands  in  Lancashire  and  Cheshire.  Edited 
by  William  Langton,  Esq. 

7.  Continuation  of  General  Index  from  the  31st  Volume  of  the  series  to 
the  present  time. 


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LIST    OF     MEMBERS 


For  the  Year  1879  —  1880. 


The  Members  to  whose  names  an  asterisk  is  prefixed  have  compounded  for  their  Subscriptions. 


*  \  CKERS,  B.  St.  John,  Prinknash  Park,  Painswick 
-l\.     Ainsworth,  Ralph  F-,  M.D.,  F.L.S.,  Manchester 
Allen,  Joseph,  Tombland,  Norwich 
•Amherst,  W.  A.  Tyssen,   F.S.A.,  Didlington  Hall, 

Brandon 
*Armitage,  Samuel,  Pendleton,  Manchester 
Armytage,  Geo.  J.,  F.S.A.,  Clifton,  Brighouse 
Ashworth,  Henry,  The  Oaks,  near  Bolton 
Ashworth,  John  W.,  Ibbotsholme,  Windermere 
Ashworth,  William,  Accrington 
Aspinall,  R.  J.,  Standen  Hall,  Clitheroe 
Assheton,  Ralph,  M  P.,  Downham  Hall,  Clitheroe 
Atkinson,  William,  Claremont,  Southport 

BAGSHAW,  John,  Manchester 
Bailey,  John  E.,  F.S.A.,  Stretford. 
Bain,  James,  1,  Haymarket,  London 
Baker,  Thomas,  Skerton  House,  Old  Trafford 
♦Barbour,  Robert,  Bolesworth  Castle,  near  Chester 
♦Barlow,  Mrs.,  Kersall  Field,  Kersall 
Barton,  Richard,  Caldy  Manor,  Birkenhead 
Beamont,  William,  Orford  Hall,  Warrington,    Vice- 

President 
Beever,  James  F.,  Bryn  Celyn,  Beaumaris 
Bennett,  Captain  H.  A.,  Nelson  House,  Manchester 
Beswicke,  Mrs.,  Pyke  House,  Littleborough 
Birkett,  Alfred,  Wigan 

Birley,  Hugh,  M.P.,  Moorland,  near  Manchester 
Birley,  Rev.  J.  Shepherd,  M.A.,  Moss  Lee,  Bolton- 

le-Moors 
♦Birley,  Thomas  H.,  Hart  Hill,  Pendleton 
Blackburne,  Colonel  Ireland,  Hale,  near  Warrington 
Bolderson,  John,  Strangeways,  Manchester 
Booker,  Rev.  John,  M.A.,  F.S.A.,  Sutton,  Surrey 
Booth.  William,  Holly  Bank,  Cornbrook,  Manchester 
Bostock,  R.  C,  Little  Langtons,  Chislehurst 


Bourne,  Colonel,  M.P.,  Heathfield,  Liverpool 

Bower,  Miss,  Lissness  Heath,  Kent 

Boyden,  George,  Preston 

Bradley,  W.  H.,  Alderley  Edge 

Braybrooke,  Stephen  H  .  Crumpsall 

•Bridgemau,    Hon.  and  Rev.    George  T.  O.,   MA., 

Hon.  Canon  of  Chester,  Wigan 
Bridger,  Charles,  South  Kensington 
Bridson.  J.  Ridgway,  Belle  Isle,  Windermere 
Brierlcy,  Rev.  E.,  Whitworth  Vicarage,  Rochdale 
Brierley,  Rev.  J.,  JI  A.,  Mosley  Moss  Hall,  Congleton 
Broadfield,  E.  J.,  Prestwich 

*Brooke,  Thomas,  Armitage  Bridge,  near  Huddersfield 
•Brooks,  W.  Cunliffe,  M.P.,  M.A.,'  F.S.A.,  Barlow  Hall 

Manchester 
Brown,  Mrs.,  Winckley  Square,  Preston 
Brown,  A.  Buchanan,  Guernsey 
Brown,  H.  T.,  Roodeye,  Chester 
Browne,  William  Henry,  St.  Martin's,  Chester 
Bryan,  C.  T.,  Manchester. 

Buckley,  Rev.  W.  E.,  Middleton  Cheney,  Banbury 
Buckley,  G.  H.  Linfitts,  Saddleworth 

CHICHESTER,  The  Lord  Bishop  of 
Chorlton,  Thomas,  Brazennose  Street,  Manchester 

Christie,  The  Worshipful  Richard  Copley,  MA.,  Chan- 
cellor of  the  Diocese  of  Manchester. 

♦Churchill,  W.  S.,  24,  Birch  Lane,  Longsight,  Man- 
chester 

♦Clare,  John  Leigh,  Hoylake 

Clare,  Charles  L.,  Higher  Broughton 

Clarke,  Archibald  William,  Manchester 

Cockayne,  G.  E.,  M  A.,  F.S.A ,  Lancaster  Herald,  Col- 
lege of  Arms,  London 

Colley,  T.   Davies-,  M.D.,  Chester 

Cooke,  Thomas,  Rusholme  Hall,  near  Manchester 


LIST    OF    MEMBERS. 


•  Cottam,  Samuel,  F.R.A.S.,   Wightwick  House,  Man- 

chester 
Coulthart,  John  Ross,  Ashton-under-Lyne 
Cowie,  The  Yery  Rev.  B.  M.,  B  D.,  F.S.A.,  Dean  of 

Manchester 
♦Crawford  and  Balcarres,  The  Earl  of,  Haigh  Hall,  near 

Wigan 
Creeke,  Major  A.  B.,  Monkholme,  Burnley 
Crombleholme,  R.  A.,  Boston,  Lincolnshire 
Crompton,  Samuel,  M.D.,  Manchester 
Cross,  Colonel  W.  Assheton,  Red  Scar,  Preston 
Crosse,  Thomas  Bright,  Shaw  Hill,  near  Chorley 
Crossley,  George  F.,  Beech  Tree  Bank,  Prestwich 
Crossley,  James,  F.S.A.,  Manchester,  President 
Croston,  James,  F.S  A.,  Upton  Hall,  Prestbury 
Cunningham,  William  Alexander,  Wiston  Lodge  by 

Biggar,  N.B. 

DARBISHIRE,  G.  Stanley,  Riversfield,  Eccles 
Darbishire,  Mrs.  S.  D.,  Pendyffryn,  near  Conway 
Davies,  D.  Reynolds,  Agden  Hall,  Lymm 
Delaraere,  The  Lord,  Yale  Royal,  near  Northwich 

*  Derby,  The  Earl  of,  Knowsley,  Prescot 
Devonshire,  The  Duke  of,  Holker  Hall,  Grange,  Lanca- 
shire 

Dillon,  Lin,  Manchester 
Dixon,  George,  Astle  Hall,  Chelford 
Dobson,  William,  Preston 

Drake,  Sir  W^illiam,  F.S.A.,  Oatlands  Lodge,  Weybridge 
Duckett,  Sir  George,  Bart.,  F.S.A.,   Oxford  and  Cam- 
bridge Club,  London 

EARWAKER,  J.  P.,  M.A.,  F.S.A.,  Withington 
Eccles,  Richard,  Wigan 

Eckersley,  N.,  Standish  Hall,  W'igan 

Egerton,  Sir  Philip  de  Malpas  Grey-,  Bart.,  M.P.,F.R.S., 
F.S.A.,  Oulton  Park,  Tarporley 

Egerton,  The  Lord,  Tatton  Park,  Knutsford 

Ellesmere,  The  Earl  of,  Worsley  Hall 

Ellis,  T.  R.,  Wigan 

Ellison,  Cuthbert  E.,  Prince  of  Wales  Terrace,  Ken- 
sington 

•P^ENTON.     James,    M.A.,    F.S.A.,    Norton    Hall, 

J^      Mickleton,  Chipping  Campden,  Gloucestershire 
ffarington,  Miss,  Worden  Hall,  near  Preston 
ffarington,  R.  A.,  Mariebonne,  Wigan 
Fielden,  Joshua,  M.P.,  F.S.A  ,  Nutfield  Priory,  Redhill, 

Surrey 
*Fielden,  Samuel,  Centre  Yale,  Todmorden 
Fishwick,  Lieut-Colonel,  F.S. A.,  Rochdale 
Fleming,  "William,  M.D.,  Rowton  Grange,  Chester 
Fletcher,  John  S.,  Treherne  House,  Hampstead 

GARNETT,  William,  Quernmore  Park,  Lancaster 
Gartside,  Henry,  Wharmton  Tower,  Saddleworth 
Garstang,  T.  W.  H.,  Dobcross 
Goodman,  Devenport,  Chapel-en-le-Frith 
Greaves,  Hilton,  Derker  House,  Oldham 
♦Greenall,  Sir  Gilbert,  Bart.,  M.P.,  Walton  Hall,  near 
Warrington 


HADFIELD,  George,  M.P.,  Manchester 
Hailstone,Edward,F.S.A.,WaltonHall,  Wakefield 

Hall,  John,  The  Grange,  Hale 

Hampson,  Francis,  Rusholme 

Hargreaves,  John,  Ravenswood,  Rock  Ferry 

Harris,  George,  F.S. A.,  Iselipps   Manor,  Northott, 
Southall 

Harrison,  William,  Rock  Mount,  St.  John's,  Isle  of  Man 

Harter,  James  Collier,  Leamington 

Hatton,  James,  Richmond  House,  near  Manchester 

Haworth,  W^illiam,  jun.,  Burnley 

Healey,  Henry,  Smallbridge,  Rochdale 

Heginbotham,  Henry,  Millgate  House,  Stockport 

*Henry,  W.  C,  M.D.,  F  E.S.,  Haffield,  near  Ledbury 

Herford,  Rev.  Brooke,  Manchester 

Heron,  Rev.  George,  M.A,,  Moor  Hall,  Cheshire 

Hewitson,  A.,  Preston 

Heywood,  Arthur  Henry,  Manchester,  Treasurer 

Heywood,  Rev.  Henry  E.,  M.A  ,  Swinton,  Manchester 

Heywood,  James,  F.R.S.,  F.G.S.,  26,  Palace  Gardens, 
Kensington,  London 

Heywood,  Sir  Thos.  Percival,  Bart.,  Doveleys,  Ash- 
bourne 

Hickson,  Thomas,  Melton  Mowbray 

Higson,  James,  Ardwick  Green  North,  Manchester 

Higson,  John,  Birch  Cottage,  Lees,  near  Oldham 

Hilton,  William  Hughes,  Booth  Street,  Manchester 

Hirst,  John,  Ladcastle,  Dobcross 

Holden,  Colonel  Henry,  Balgone,  North  Berwick,  N.B. 

Hoi  den,  Thomas,  Springfield,  Bolton-le-Moors 

Holdsworth,  Charles  J  ,  Wilmslow 

Hornby,  Rev.  E.  T.  J.,  Hon.  Canon  of  Manchester 

Howarth,  J.  W.,  Prestwich 

Howorth,  Henry  H.,  F  S.A.,  Derby  House,  Eccles 

*Hughes,  Thomas,  F.S. A.,  Grove  Terrace,  Chester 

*Hulton,  Rev.  C.  G.,M.A.,  Emberton,  Newport  Pagnel 

Hulton,  W.  A,,  Hurst  Grana;e,  Preston 

Hume,  Rev.  A.,  LL.D.,  D  C'^L.,  F.S.A.,  Liverpool 

Hutchinson,  Robert  Hopwood,  Tenter  House,  Rochdale 

JACSON,  Charles  R.,  Barton  Hall,  Preston 
Johnson,  J abez,  Kenyon  Hall,  near  Manchester 
Johnson,  J.  H.,  Albert  Road,  Southport 
Jones,  Jos.,  Abberley  Hall,  Stourport 
Jones,  Wm.  Roscoe,  Athenaeum,  Liverpool 
Jordan,  Joseph  J.,  Seedley  Mount,  Pendleton 

KAY,  Samuel,  Oakley  House,  Weaste,  Manchester 
Kay,  R.  H.,  W^est  Bank,  Pendleton 
Kelly,  David,  Stretford,  near  Manchester 
Kemp,  Mrs.  Emily  L.,  Beech  wood,  Rochdale 
Kennedy,  Jno.  Lawson,  Ardwick  Hall,  Manchester 
Kershaw,  James,  Manchester 
Kershaw,  John,  Cross  Gate,  Audenshaw 

LANGTON,  William,  Docklands,  Ingatestone,  Essex 
Law,  W^m.,Honorsfelt  House,  Littleborough 
Leech,  Bosdin  T.,  Manchester 
Lees.  William,  St.  Ann's  Street,  Manchester 
Legh,  G.  Cornwall,  F.G.S.,  High  Legh,  Knutsford 
Leigh,  Henry,  Moorfield,  Swinton 


LIST    OF    MEMBERS. 


Leigh,  Miss,  The  Limes,  Birkdale,  Southport 
Library,  Bacup  Co-operative  Stores 

Berlin  Royal 

Birmingham  Central  Free 

Blackburn  Free  Public 

Bolton  Public 

Boston,  U.S.,  Athenaeum. 

Boston,  U.S.,  Public 

British  Museum 

Bury  Co-operative  Society 

Cambridge,  Christ's  College 

Cambridge  University 

Dublin  University 

Edinburgh  Advocates' 

Glasgow  Mitchell 

Gottingen  University 

Hartford,  U.S.,  Watkinson 

Leeds 

.  Liverpool  Athenceimi 

Liverpool  Free  Public 

Liverpool  Lj'ceum 

■ Liverpool,  St.  Edward's  College 

London  Athenaeum  Club 

London  Grampion  Club 

London  Pioyal  Historical  Society 

London  Honbl.  Society,  Middle  Temple 

London,  Inner  Temple 

London  Kensington  Museum 

London,  St.  James's  Square 

London  Reform  Club 

London  Society  of  Antiquaries 

London  Zion  College 

Manchester  Chetham 

Manchester  Conservative  Club 

Manchester  Free 

^Manchester  Independent  College 

Manchester  Owens  College 

Manchester  Portico 

Manchester  Royal  Exchange 

Manchester  Union  Club 

Oxford,  Brasenose  College 

•     Oxford  University 

Preston,  Shepherd's 

Rochdale 

Rochdale  Co-operative  Stores 

Rochdale  Free 

Southport  Free 

Washington  U.S.  Congress 

Windsor  Royal 

York  Subscription,  York 

Lingard-Monk,  R.  B.  :M.,  Fulshaw  Hall,  Wilmslow 
Litler,  H.  W.,  Wallerscote,  Leamington 

Lloyd,  Thomas  W.,  Cowesby  Hall,  Northallerton 

•Loring,  Mrs.  Clive,  Bournemouth 

Lowe,  James,  Chorltoncum-Hardy 

Lowndes,  Edward  C,  Castle  Combe,  Chippenham 

*Loyd,  Edward,  Lillesden,  Hawkhurst,  Kent 

•Loyd,  Lewis,  Monks  Orchard,  West  Wickham,  Kent 


M 


C  CLURE,  W.  Lees,  4,  Minshull  Street,  Manchester 
MacKenzie,  John  W.,  Royal  Circus,  Edinburgh 


Maclure,  Rev.  Canon  E.  C,  Vicarage,  Rochdale 
♦Manchester,  The  Lord  Bishop  of 
Mann,  William,  Manchester 
Mare,  E.  R.  Le,  Manchester 
Marriott,  John,  Liverpool 
Marsden,  G.  E.,  ilanchester 

Marsden,  Rev.  Canon,   B.D,,  F.R.G.S.,    Gt.    Oakley- 
Harwich 
» Marsh,  John  Fitchett,  Hardwick  House,  Chepstow 
Mason,  Hugh,  Groby  Lodge,  Ashton-under-Lyne 
Massie,  Rev.  E.,  M.A.,  Grange-over-Sands,  Fleetwood 
Master,  Rev.  George  S.,  West  Dean  Rectory,  Salisbury 
Mayer,  Joseph,  F.S.A.,  Pennant  House,  Bebbington 
Metcalfe,  Walter  C,  F.S.A,  Epping,  Essex 
Milne,  H.  Travis,  Crompton  Hall,  Royton 
Milner,  George,  Sloston  House,  Moston,  near  M  anchester 
Mosley,  Sir  Tonman,  Bart.,  Rolleston  Hall,  Staffordshire 
♦Moss,  Rev.  John  James,  Otterspool,  Liverpool 
Murray,  James,  Manchester 

"VTAYLOR,  Miss,  Dunham  Massey 

-L^      'Nield,  Colonel  Jonathan,  Rochdale 

New  all,  Henry,  Hare  Hill,  Littleborough. 

Newall,  H.  G.  F.,  Hare  Hill,  Littleborough 

Nicholson,  James,  F.S  A.,  Thelwall  Hall,  Warrington 

Xodal,  J.  H.,  The  Grange,  Heaton  Moor 

ORMEROD,  Henry  Mere,  Manchester 
O'ReiUy,  John,"  Manchester 
Owen,  John,  Kennedy  Grove,  Mile  End,  Stockport 

•T:)ARKER,  Robert  Townley,  Cuerden  Hall,  near 
JL        Preston 

Parkinson,  Major  General,  West  Well  House,  Streatham, 
Common,  Surrey 

Pedder,  Richard,  Preston 

Peel,  George,  Brookfield,  Cheadle 

Peel,  Jonathan.  Knowlmere  Manor,  near  Clitheroe 

Pemberton,  Richard  L.,  The  Barnes,  Sunderland 

Perkes.  Rowland  J.,  M.A.,  Southport 

Philippi,  Frederick  Theod.,  Belfieid  Hall,  near  Roch- 
dale 

Picton,  J.  A.,  F.S. A.,  Sandy  Knowe,  Wavertree 

Pierpoint,  Robert,  St.  Austin's,  Warrington 

Prescott,  J.  B.,  Manchester 

Price,  Rev.  Henry  H  ,  M.A.,  Alva  House,  Clifton  Down, 
Bristol 


Q 


UARITCH,  Bernard,  Piccadilly,  London 


RADFORD,  Richard,  Cooper  Street,  Manchester 
Radford,  Thomas,  M.D.,  Higher  Broughton 

Raine,  Rev.  James,  M..4.,  Canon  of  York 

Raines,  J.  R.,  Burton,  Pidsea 

Raines,  Rev.  R.  E.  H.,  M.A.,  6,  Park  Crescent  Terrace, 
Brighton 

Ramsbotham,  James,  Crowboro'  Warren,  Tunbridge 
Wells 

Redhead,  R.  Milne,  F.L.S ,  F.R.G.S.,   Seedley,  Man- 
chester 


LIST    OF    MEMBERS. 


Renaud,  Frank,  M.D.,  F.S.A.,  18,  Barton  Arcade,  Man- 
chester 

Keynolds,  Rev.  George  W.,  M.A.,  Cheetham  Hill 

Ehodoeanakis,   H.   H.   The   Prince,   C.K.G ,   PhD., 
F.S.A.A,  F.G.H.S. 

Eickards,  Charles  H.,  Manchester 

Eidgway,  T.  S.,  Wildersmoor  House,  Lymm 

Eigby,  Samuel,  Bruch  Hall,  "Warrington 

Eigg,  Wilson,  Manchester 

Eoberts,  Alfred  Wra...  Thornton,  Hereford 

•Roberts,  Chas.  H.   Crompton,   16,   Belgrave  Square, 
London 

Eobinson,  Arthur  J.,  Clitheroe  Castle,  Clitheroe 

Roper,  William,  Lancaster 

Rose,  Josiah,  Leigh,  Lancashire 

Eostron,  Simpson,  King's  Bench  Walk,  Temple,  London 

Eowe,  Charles,  Fishergate  Hill,  Preston 

Eoyds,  E.  A.  N.,  Brownhill,  Eochdale 

Royle,  Alan,  Park  Terrace,  Hesketh  Park,  Southport 

Rylands,  J.  Paul,  F.S  A.,  Highfields,  Thelwall 

Rylands,  T.  G.,  F.S.A,,  Highfields,  Thelwall 

Rylands,  W.  H.,  Highfields,  Thelwall 

Eymer  Thomas,  Cheetham  Hill 

SALISBURY,  E.  G.  P.,  Glan  Aber,  Chester 
Sandbach,  John  E.,  Withington 
♦Scholes,  Thomas  Scddon,  Dale  Street,  Leamington 
Sharp,  John,  The  Hermitage,  Lancaster 
Shaw,  G.  Oldham 

Shaw,  James  B.,  Apsley  Terrace,  Cornbrook 
Shuttleworth,  Sir  Ughtred  Kay-,  Bart.,  M.D.,  Gawthorpe 

Hall,  Burnley 
Shuttleworth,  E.  B.,  Toronto,  Canada 
Simms,  Charles  E.,  Manchester 
Simpson,  John  Hope,  Bank  of  Liverpool,  Liverpool 
Simpson,  Rev.  Samuel,  M.A.,  Kingston  House,  Chester 
Simpson,  "W.  "W.,  Hilton  Lane,  Prestwich 
Skaife,  John,  Union  Street,  Blackburn 
Skelmersdale,  The  Lord,  Lathom  House,  near  Ormskirk 
Smith,  G.  Fereday,  Grovehurst,  Tunbridge  Wells 
Smith,  J.  Gibb,  Oxford  Road,  Manchester 
Smith,  J.  R.,  Solio  Square,  London 
Smith,  Rev.  J.  Finch,  M.A.,  F.S. A.,  Aldridge  Rectory, 

near  Walsall 
Smith,  R.  M.jCrumpsall  Green,  Crumpsall,  Manchester 
Sotheran,  H.,  Strand,  London 
Sotheran,  H.  and  Co.,  Strand,  London 
Sowler,  Mrs.,  Sawrey  Knolls,  Windermere 
Sowler,  Thomas,  Manchester 
SpafFord,  George,  Brown  Street,  Manchester 
Spencer  Robert,  Livesey,  Blackburn 
Standish,  W.  S.  C,  Duxbury  Hall,  Chorley 
•Stanley  of  Alderley,  The  Lord,  Aldcrley 
Stanning,  Rev.  Joseph  H  ,  Leigh,  Lancashire 
Starkie,  .Major  Le  Gendre,  Huntroyd 
Sudlow,  John,  JNIanchester 
Swindells,  G.  H.,  Oak  Villa,  Heaton  Moor,  Stockport 


rj^ABLEY,  The  Lord  de,  Tabley  House,  Knutsford 
-L      Tatton,  Thos.  W.,  Wythenshawe  Hall,  Cheshire 
Taylor,  James,  Whiteley  Hall,  Wigan 
Taylor,  Rev.W.  H.,  M.A., Warmington  Rectory,  Banbury 
Taylor,  Henry,  Barton  House,  Patricroft 
Thicknesse,  Ven.  F.  H.,  Archdeacon  of  Northampton 
•Thompson,  Joseph,  Woodlands,  Fulshaw 
Thornton,  Major  C.  E.,  Tavistock  Road,  London 
Thorp,  Henry,  Whalley  Range,  Manchester 
Tonge,  Rev.  Richard,  M.A.,Hon.  Canon  of  Manchester, 

Aucklands,  Fallowfield 
Toulmin.  George,  Fishergate,  Preston 
Townend,  John,  Shadsworth  Hall,  Blackburn 
TrafFord,  Sir  Humphrey  de,  Bart.,  Trafford  Park,  Man- 
chester 
Turner,  John  Woodville,  Lytham 
Twycross,  Mrs.  Brighton 

TTAUGHAN,  John  Lingard,  Stockport 

WALKER,  Rev.  J.  Russell,  M.A.,  The   Chantry, 
Chichester 

Wagner,  Henry,  F.S. A.,  13,  Half  Moon  Street,  Picca- 
dilly, London 

Walmsley,  Charles,  Barsham  House,  Malvern 

Wanklyn,    William   Trevor,    Balmoral   Place,    Higher 
Broughton 

Warburton,  John,  Fallowfield 

Warburton,  R.E.  Egerton-,  Arley  Hall,  nearNorthwich 

*Ward.  Jos.  Pilkington,  Whalley  Range,  Manchester 

Ware,  Titus  Hibbert,  Bowdon 

•Westminster,  The  Duke  of,  Eaton  Hall,  Chester 

Wheeler,  M.  Alfred  B.,  Manchester 

Whitaker,  Rev.  Robert  Nowell,  M.A.,  Vicar  of  Whalley 

Whitaker,  W.  W.,  Cornbrook,  Hulme 

Whitehead,  James,  M.D.,  Manchester 

Whitehead,  John,  Rochdale 

Whitelegge,  Rev.  W.  W.,  M  A.,  Hon.  Canon  of  Man- 
chester, Farnsfield  Vicarage,  Southwell,  Notts 

Whittaker,  Rev.  Robt.,  M.A.,  Leesfield,  Oldham 

Whitworth,  Robert,  Courtown  House,  Manchester 

Wilkinson,  T.  R.,  The  Polygon,  Ardwick 

Wilkinson,  William,  Middlewood,  Clitheroe 

Wilson,  PL  C,  Langley  House,  Prestwich 

^Wilton,  The  Earl  of,  Heaton  House,  near  Manchester 

•Winmarleigh,  The  Lord,  Winmarleigh,  Lancashire 

Wiper,  William,  Higher  Broughton 

Wood,  Richard  Henry,  F.S. A.,  Penrhos  House,  Rugby, 
Hon.  Secretary 

Wood,  Richard,  Heywood 

Woods,  Sir  Albert  W.,  F  S.A  ,  Garter  King  of  Arms, 
College  of  Arms,  London 

Worsley,  .James  E.,  F.S.A.,  Winwick  Cottage,  Winwick, 
Warrington 


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