, <*'.. <-. k "T^ " ' A \* -~HHT V% FRAGMENTS OF LITERATURE, No. I. of literature. No. I. (To be continued occasionally.) " A Collection of Ancient and Moderne Prophesies concerning these present Times, with Modest Observations thereon. The Nativitiesof Thomas Earle nfS'rdf- ford, and William iMud late Archbishop of Canterbury, his Majesties great Fa- voui ites ; Astrological I Judgements upon their Scheawes ; and the Speech intended by the Earle of Strafl'ord to hare beene spoken at his Death. By WILLIAM LILLY, Student in Astrologie. In fiyro verti- mur omnts." 4to. London, 16'45. The most curious part of this Tract is the Dedication " To his Royall Mnjesty, Charles, King of England. " Sir, Some delude you, others harden your heart, promising unto you (like vaine fellowesj a conquest and victory over your Parliament at Westminster: the spirit of lying doth guide their shal- low braines ; its otherwayes determined, it will not be so. Had Pharaoh barken- ed to Moses, he had not beene drowned in the Red Sea; or Zedekiah beleeved Jeremiah, all had beene well with him: These examples out of Sacred Writ are true, but the repetition hereof may no- thing move you, or those misguided Councellors too prevalent with you. " Attend, Sir, to some humane and naturall admonitions' prescribed to the Dr. Chariet, the Master of Universily College, Oxford, Ocl. 20, 1712 : " Curie, the Bookseller, has bought of Dr. Brown's executors some Papers of Sir Thomas Brown, one of which is some Account of this Cathedral!, which he is printing under the Title of the Antiqui- ties of Norwich. If 1 had perfectly liked the thing, I should not have been back- ward to have given a Cut, but it was hurried by him into the Press without advising with any body here, or with Mr. Le Xeve, who has great collect ic>ns that way. However, out of regard to Mr. Hare, the Herald, the Dean has suffered them to reprint his Catalogue of Bishop*, Deans, and Picbendaries, and 1 thii.k to send a List of the Chancellors and Archdeacons." BALLARD'S MS Letters in the Bod- leian Library, vol. IV. p. 58 " A Heartie Prayer in a needefull Time nf Trouble. The Sermon, preached at Theobalds, before his Majestic, and tue Lords of' the Prime Councell, an lioure before the Death nf our late $nueraigne Kin* James. On Sunday, March 27. By 1). PRICE, Dc-ane of Hereford." 4u>. Loud. 1625. The following is a curious specimen of this singular Discourse : Page 31. " Cast your watry eyes upon the fatality of this bloody Monetli ; and, not to looke upon the antieat Triumph greatest Princes that eVer were, by such f Fu ri * Solemnities in March, re- as intirely wished their happinc-sse. member how m this Moneth wee were " Come not at Babylon, say the Au- gures and Wise Men to Alexander. " Beware, saith Spurina to Caesar, of deprived of blessed QUEEN ELIZABETH, the Paragon of mortall Princes, the We- man after God's own heart, the glory of the Ides of March. Selfnesse, obstinacy, ! f ' e fhth^i, the envy of the Infidel --j ,.,., . . ' \> orui ; who came so neere unto t he blessed and security, undid these Princes. " I am no Prophet, yet am conversant in that art, which invites me earnestly to implore your speedy access.e to your true Parliament at Westminster. "Were 1 in private with yon, I rnust advise it: at this distance, I publikely wish it. Far hoe et rives. " That God, by whose providence I write what I doe, put it into your heart timely to consider your present and fu- ture condition, jf you reject the faithlul well-wishes of i>ir, your meanest, but most faithfull subject, WILLIAM LILLY." " Posthumous Works of the learned Sir Tfwmas Browne, Kt. M. D. late of Nor- wich : printed from his Original Ma- nuscripts," 6j-c. 8vo. Lond. 1712. VIKGIV MARY, that shee was borne the J'~igil of her birth, and dyed upon the Vigil of her Annunciation." '.' firvthaifimia sive J^usvs Palatini in Nuptiax cflsusijni Principis Domini Friderici Coinit'.s Palatini ad Khenum, is c', et serenis^i/ntE Elisabetlice Jacobi po- tentissimi ItrUanniff Kegis filia prinio- genita." 4to. Oxon. 10'13. Anjong ti;e authors wliose names arc here subscrihtd to their respective Versen, we find "Guliel. Laud" (at thiil time President of St. John's Col- lege) ; "Jo. Prideaux" (Rector of ExetfrColle)} " Ho. Burton" (who wrote the Anatomy of Melancholy); " Accep. Frewen" (Abp. of York,) and " J. HAMPUEN, Armiger e Coll. Of this work, Doctor (afterwards Magd." This last _as the |reatH;mip- Bishop) Tauner wrote as follows to den. The following are his Verses: "Ubi -.7077 FRAGMENTS OF LITERATURE, No. I. u Ubi pares decore, Probitate, castitate Pares, pares ten. His Annis, sibique soils Pares honore ; queis sunt Praenominum vel ipsa Elements, literaeque Ipsae pares, amore Pari torura jugalem Parant, quis baud putabit Hoc Par jugum futurum ? Et est, diuque perste't ; Ut surgat inde proles, Cui nulla terra, nulla Gens sitParem datura." SONG. From The Comedie of Olde Fortu- natus:' 4to. Lond. 1600. " Vertue smiles : crie hollyday, Dimples on her cheekes doc dwell, Vertue frownes, crie well a day, Her love is Heaven, her hate is Hell. Since heav'n and hell obey her power, Tremble when her eyes doe lowre. Since heav'n and bell her power obey, Where sbee smiles, crie hollyday. Hollyday with joy we crie, And bend, and bend, and merrily, Sing hymnes to vertues deitie : Sing bymnes to vertues deitie. HOMER. The Names of the different places which laid claim to the Birth of Ho- mer, were neatly brought together in a single line by Sannazarius, " Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon, Salamin, Chios, Argos, Athena?, Cedite,jam Ccelumpatria Mceonida est." *' L'JEthica d'Aristotile ridotta in Com- pendia da Ser Brunetto Latini." 4to. Lion. 1568. At the end of this Work, which forms a thin volume, above the ordi- nary octavo size, we have the follow- ing singular "Imprimatur :" " Privilegii Sententia. ** Viso, consensu, et certificatione D. Ben. Buathier, Official!* et supremi Vi- carii D. Archiepiscopi Lugdunensis, qua asserit nihil ubsonum a FIDE CATHOLIC A ROMANA contineri in his Tractatibus, per- misimus in lucem emitti ETHICAM ARIS- TOTELiS a Brunetto Latini Italica lingua donatam, vna cum aliis opusculis quae hoc Volumine coatinentur^ Datum Lug- duni, die xxiii Mensis Septemb. Anno CU.D.LXVIU." ENGLISH BIBLES. Of the years 1638 and 1653. " I remember, one in the University (ve for his question, Jrtit Compendium, Artis Dispendium the contracting of Arts i> the corrupting of them. Sure I am, the truth hereof appearetb too plain- ly in the Pearl-Bible printed at London 1653, in the Volume of Twenty-foure ; for therein, all the Dedications'and Ti- tles of David's P,almes are wholly left out, being part of the original Text in Hebrew, and intimating the cause and the occasion of the writing and com- posing those Psalmes, whereby the mat- ter may be better illustrated. " The design may be good to reduce the Bible to so small a Volume, partly to make it the mor* portable in men's pockets, partly to bring down the price of them, that the poor people may the better compass them. But know that vilif in the Latine tor.gue, in the first sense signified) what is cheap, in the se- cond sense what is bu.ie. The small price of the Bible hath caused the small priz- ing of the Bible, especially since so many damnable and pernicious mistakes have escaped therein. "I cannot omit another Edition in a large 12mo. making the Book of Truth to begin with a loud lye, pretending this title ' Imprinted at LONDON by ROBERT BARKER, &c. Anno 1638.' Whereas indeed they were imported from Holland 1656 ; and that, contrary to our Statutes. What can be expected from so lying a frontispiece, but sutable falsehoods, wherewith it abounded) '." FULLER'S Mixt Contemplations in Better Times. 12mo. Lond. 1660. Part H. p. 14. " New Ayres and Dialogues composed for I'aices and trials, of two, three, and four Parts : together with JLessons for Viols or Violins, by JOHN BANISTER, one of the Gentlemen of his Majesties Pri- vate Musick, and THOMAS Low, one of the Vicars Choral of Saint Pauls, Lon- don." Lond. 1678, 8vo. From this neglected little volume, dedicated to Roger L'Estrange, esq. the following Songs have been selected. I. " When I a Lover pale do see, Ready to faint and sickish be ; With hollow Eyes, and Cheeks so thin, As all his face is Nose and Chin : When such a Ghost I see in pain, Because he is not lov'd again, And pule, and faint, and sigh, and cry, Oh there's your loving fool say I ! II. " Tis Love with Love should be repaid. And equally on both sides laid : Love is a Load a Horse would kill, If it do hang on one side still ; Literary Fragments. But if he needs will be so fond, As Rules of Reason go beyond, And Love where he's not lov'd again, Faith let him take it for his pain." The following is the Answer to the Song which begins " Gather jour Rose-buds while you may." " Rose-buds that's gath'red in the Spring, Can't be preserv'd from dying: And though yo'enjoy the wisht-for thing, The pleasure will be flying. The Lamp of Heav'n that mount eth high, And to his noon arriving, Must not stay there continually, But downward will be driving. III. The last is best, for though that Time With Age and Sickness seize us, Yet on our crutches do we climb Unto a height shall ease us. IV. Then though I may, yet will I not, Possess me oft, but tarry ; He lives the best that has forgot, What means your word, Go marry 7" II. E. FRAGMENTS or LITER ATUKF, No. II. of Uitcraturc. No. II. (To be continued occasionally. ) HEVEKIUS. John Hevelius sent, at various times, his Works to the University of Cambridge ; but, before his " Se- lenugraphia, xive Lnnce Descriplio" printed iu folio, 1647, at Gedani, finely bound in red Morocco and gilt, is this, in his own hand : "Utcum promptissimaofficiortim nos- trorum qualiumcunque oblatione Opus- culuin nostrum Selenographicum illus- trissimae Bibliothecse Cantabrigiensi muneris loco offerrem, quiseimum duxi, obnixe rogans, ut in bonara auto- ris recordationetn, pagellis istis, inter reliqua, ibidem extantia ingeniorum humanoruin monumenta locum aliquem trihuere non dedignentur clarissimi Curatores. Id quod ut pergratum acci- det, sic dabitur opera, ut cum Deo et die, si licet, alia quoque ratione tarn praeclarae Literarum Officiate nostri inseratur re- cordatio. Gedani. Anno 1650, 20 Aug." THE LIE. In a Volume of " Poems written by the Right Honorable WILLIAM Karl of PEMBROKE, whereof many of K'hich are answered by way of Reparlce, by Sir BENJAMIN RUD- DIER, An/." 8vo. Loud. 1660. the productions of the two are marked P. and K. Among those with the former initial is the Sonnet which t called " The Lie,'' and which usually goes under the name of Sir Walter Kaleigh. " The Foot out of the Snare; u-ith a Detection of sundry latt J'ractices and Impostures of the Priests and Jesuites in England." By JOHN GEE, M.J. ofExon Coliedgein O.iford. 4to. Loud. 1624. This is the fourth Edition. The author was one of the few who escaped from the fa:al Vespers at Blackfriars in 1623. " The Booke of Falccr e or Hawking . * * * heretofore jntbluhsd by GEORGE TuRBERViLK,Ge/i/c de RICARDI successions felicissima, adeundem." 4to. Cantabr. 1653. The Dedication of this Work, which consists chiefly of copies of Latin verses, is to RICHARD as Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland; and is signed by " Jos. Hill" and "JohanLuke" as the Proctors of the University. At the end are a few copies of English verses. The fol- lowing, signed " Sam. Falter, Fellow of St. John's Coll." closes the collec- tion: " But pardon, Richard, that we wrong thy name In paying thus much to thy Father's fame. We do confess our loss, yet grant our gain : [rain. Thus we have sunshine mixed with our We'le joy in thee, and yet lament our lossj , [C;w.t. England now justly bears the Harp and Our fears were great, thy Father dy'ng, but we [thce, See ail our fears turn'd hopes and joys in Our waters turn'd to wine, our grief is done, [run." We'le wipe our eyes, and let our conduits DALL." 4to. Land. 1642. From the former of these Pieces the following Stanzas have been se- " NOT drunken nor sober, but neigh- bour to both, I met with a friend in Alesberry Vale ; He saw by my face, that 1 was in the case To speak no great harui of a Pot of good Ale. And as we did meet, and friendly did He put me in mind of the name of the Dale. That for Alesberries sake, some paines I would take, [Ale. And not burie the praise of a Pot of good The more to procure me, then did he ad- jure me, [stale) (If the Ale I drank last were nappy and To doe it its right, and stir up my spright, And fall to commend a Pot of good Ale. Quoth I, To commend it I dare not begin, Lest therein my cunning might happen to faile, For many there be that count it a sin But once to look towards a Pot of gooJ Ale. Yet I care not a pin, for I see no such sin, Nor any else that my courage may qnaile : For this I do find, being taken in kind, Much vortue there is in a Pot of good Ale. The Poet divine, that cannot reach wine, Because that his money doth oftentimes faile, [strainc, Will hit on the veine, and reach the high If he be but inspir'd with a Pot of good Ale. All Writers of Ballads, for such whose mishap [Uoe saile, From Newgate up Holbourne trt Tybtirno Shall have sudden expression of all their confession, [good Ale. If the Muse be but dew'd with a Pot of The Woer that feareth his suit to begin, And blushes, and simpers, and oftfn looks pale, [were in tvs breech, Though he miss in his speech, ami 's h<;art If he liquor his tongue with a Put of good Ale. I doc further alledge, it is fortitude's edge ; For a veryCowai d that shrinks like a snaile. Will Praise of good Ale, Will sweare and will swagger, and out goes his dagger, If he be but well arm'J with a Pot of good Ale. The Beggar, whose portion is alwayes bis prayer, Not having a tatter to hang at his taile, Is as rich in his rags, as a Churle with his bags, [Ale. If he be but enrich'd with a Pot of good It puts his povertieoutof his mind, Forgetting his browne bread, his wallet, his maile, [lowse, He walks in the house like a six-footed If he be but well drench'd with a Pot of good Ale. Ale, ah alendo, thou liquor of life, 1 wish th.it my mouth were as big a a whale; [tittle, But (lien 't were too little to reach thy least That belongs to the praise of a Pot of good Ale." H. E. FRAGMENTS OF LITERATURE, ,No. III. #ragment of literature. No. III. WORKS ORNAMENTED BY, OR FROM THE DESIGNS OF, HANS HOLBEIN. 1. " Hadrianus T. T. S. Chrysngani S. R. E. Presb. Card. Batonien. De Ser- mone jMtino, &f modis Latine loquendi. Ejusdem J^enatio ad Ascanium Card. Item Iter Julii n. Pont. Ro." 4to. Bas. ap. Frob. 1518. H. H. appears in one of the Com- partments with which the Title is adorned. 2. " Antiharbarorum D. Erasmi Ro- terodami Liber Unus, que' iuuenis quidem adhuc lusit : coeterum diu desideratum, de- mum repertum non iuuenis recognovit, Of velat postliminie studiosis restituit. Ex quo reliquorum, qui diis propiciis prope- diem accedent, lector conjecturam facias licebit. Basileee, apud Jo. Frobexium, An. M. D. xx." 4to, The Title of this Work is under an Arch (with an ornamented border on the sides), above the shoulders of which are the words HANS . HOLE. Another Edition of the same Book appeared at Cologne in the same year, in quarto, with an ornamented Title, but not by Holbein. 3. " Des. Erasmi Roterodami de Du- plici Copia Verborum ac Rerum Co'men- tarij Duo. Erasmi de ratiene Studii." " Erasmi de laudibus literarice Societatis." 4to. Bas. 1521. In the upper part of the frontis- piece of this Work are the words HANS . HOLD. 4. " Propugnaculum summi Sacerdo- tij Euangflici ac Septenarii Sacramento- rum, editum per uirum eruditum, sa- crarumque literarum professorem Edoar- du 1 Pouelum aduersus Martinum Lit- therum fratrem famosum et IVtclefistam insignem." " /re cedib. Pynsonianis. An. uerbi incarnati M. D. XXiil. Tertio no. Decemb." 4to. H. H. is on the border round the Title. 5. " Diblicce Histories, arttfimosissime Aeplctee. Biblische Historien fiflirlich furgebilder. PB. 4to. Francwf. 1537. [There may possibly be a doubt trhether this Work was really orna meuted from Holbein's Design*.] 6. " Historiarum Vtteris Testamenti Icones ad uiuum expresses ; vnh cum brfui, sed quoad fieri potuit, dilucida ea- rundem if Latina If Gnllica Expositione" 4to. Lugd. 1539. At the back of the Title is an Ad- dress from Franciscus Frellonius to the Reader, followed by a poetical Address in Latin Verse, announcing Holbein as the Artist who designed them, by Nicolaus Borbonius. At the end of these are two Greek lines by Borbonius, and, " Latine idem pene ad uerbum. Cernere vis, hospes, simulacra simillima vivis ? Hoc opus HOLDING nobile cerne manus." Another edition of this Work wa printed 4to. Lugd. 1547. And again in English (" The Images of the Old Testament, lately expressed, set forthe in Ynglishe and Frenche, with a playn and brief exposition, :") printed at Lyons by Johan Frellon the jere of our Lord 1549." 4to. 7. MilPIAL EFKniVIION. Stulli- tia Laus. Des. Erasmi Rot. Declamatio. Cum commentariis Ger, Listrii, if figu- ris Jo. Holbenii. E codice Academic Bar siliensis." 8vo. Bas. 1676. A French Edition of the Moriae En- comium, with fresh Engravings on wood from Holbein's Designs, has appeared within the last thirty years. " Monumenta Vetu&tatis Kempiana, ex vetustis Scriptoribus illustrata, eos- que vicissim illustrantia ; in duos Partet divisa : Quorum Altera Mumias, Simu- lacra, Siatuas, Signa, flares, Inscrip- tiones, Pasa, Lucernas, Amuleta, Lm~ pidts, Gemma.t, Annulos, fibulas, cum allis Veterum Reliquiis; Altera Nummos, materiel modoque diversos, continet." 8vo, Loud, 172O. The greatest part of this Collection of Mr. Kemp had been made by Mr. John Goilhard, who had been gover- nor to George first Lord Carteret, created so Oct. 19, 1681,- and who sold them to his Lordship for an an- nuity of 200/. After the death of that Lord, which happened Sept. 22, FRAGMENTS OF LITERATURE, No. III. 1695, Mr. Kemp bought a consider- able pan of the Collection during the minority of John Lord Carteret, af- terwards Earl of Granville. This remark was made by Heneage Earl of Winchelsea, who saw many of the things iu the possession of M. Goil- hard at Angers in France in the year 1676, and after wards, much increased, at Paris, in 1683. Mr. Kemp's Collection was sold by Auction at the Phoenix Tavern iu Pall Mall, on the 23d, 24th, 25th, and 27th of March, 1721, in 293 Ar- ticles; and the amount of the Sale was 109cr annum, ready money went for their purchase. CRIES OF LOXDON. In the Comedy of " The three La- dies of London," 4to, Load. 1584. " Enter Conscience, with broomes at her back, singing us followeth : New broomes, green broomes, will you buy any, [take a peny. Come maydens, come quickly, let me My FRAGMENTS OF LITERATURE, No. III. My broomes are not steeped, SONG. But very well bound : From the Comedy of "TheNorthern My broomes be not crooked, Lase," by RICHARD BROME, 1630. But smooth cut and rounds u Peace, wayward Barue ; O cease thy I wish it would please you, mone . To buy of my broome : Thy farre m ore wayward Daddy 's gone : Then would it well ease me, p^ A never W ill recalled be If market were done. g y cryes O f e j t her thee, or me : For should wee cry Have you any olde bootes, Unlill wee c , Or any olde shoone : Wee cou , d nut gcant hig cruelty> Powch-nnges or busk.ns, Bal , ^ &Q To cope for new broome. If so you have, maydens, Hee needs might in himselfe foresee I pray you bring hether : What thou successively might'st be ; That you and 1 frendly, A " d c ld h e then (though me foregoe) May bargen together. His infant leaue . e hee did know, How like the dad New broomes, green broomes, will you Would bee the lad, buy any : In time, to make fond mnydens glad ? Come maydens, come quickly, let me Ballow, Ballow," &c. take a peny." Can this have been the origin of Lady Bothwell's Lament ? Printed by NICHOLI, SON, and BSNTLKY, Red Lion'Passa-e, Fleet Street, Londom. FRAGMENTS OF LITERATURE, No. IV. fragments of Hiterature. No. IV. ANTIENT MUSICAL CATCH. Among a variety of miscellaneous Articles m Harl. MS. 978. at fol. 9 b. is an antient Musical Catch, apparent- ly as early as the thirteenth Century. Wanley deemed it the earliest he had seen. The English words accompany- ing are these : " Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu; Groweth sed, And bloweth med, And springth the Wde nu. Sing Cuocu. " jEwe bleteth after lomb, Lhoutb. after Calve cu; Bulluc stertetb, Buck*- uerteth Murie sing cuccu. Cuccu cuccu. " Well singes thu cuccu Ne snik thu nauer uu, Sing cuccu nu ; Sing cuccn, Sing cuccu ; Sing cuccu nu." " Hanc ROTAM (ays the direction) cantare po-sunt quatuor socij ; a pauci- oribus autein quani a tribus, vel saltern duobus, lion debet dici, pretereos qui di- cunt pedem. Canitur autem si<;; tacen- t.ibus ceteris units inchuat cum liiis qui tenvnt pedem ; et cum venerit ad prim uu notam post crucem, inchoat alius ; et sic de ceteri-. Singuli vero repausent ad pansaciones scriptas, & non alibi, spacio unius longae notae." " THE PROFECY OF SKELTON. 1529." [From MS. Lansd. 800.] " Some Men thynke that ye Shall haue penaltie, for your Inyquytie, Note well what to saye yf yt please the not onely yt is good for astrallogy ffor tholomy tolde me the Son' somtyme to be In a Signe called ariotte assendain ad dextram When Scorpio is descendyng affatuall fall of one that Syttys now on trone and rewles all thynge alone Your tethe whet on this bone Amonge you euy'chone And lett colen clowte alone." " A Irieff Discours off the Troubles legonne at Franckford in Germany, A.D. 1554. abowte the Booke of Com- mon Prayer if Ceremonies; and continued by the Engfist.e men theyre, to th' ende of (J. Maiie's A'eiijne," $c. 1574. This Book, says Wanley, in a MS Note, hath been m.mv times cited by several writers, but without naming the compiler, as lar as I can remem- ber. It is a plnin vindication t>f the Puritanical part of the- Congregation ; and mi;;ht have been done by Mr. John Hales, who was I hen the princi- pal Lay Member there, and very active in I he whole affair, who was a scholar, (an eminent Lawyer and Judge,) and author of other printed Tracts ; and who lived long alter the year 1574{> The German Letter wherewith this Book is printed, and the Date, shew that it is Puritanical, and would not bear the printing openly or above- board. BOOK OF SPORTS. The following Notice, printed on a half sheet, appears to have been fixed up indili'erent parts of the Metropolis at the time the Book of Sports was called in. " Die Generis, 5 Maij, 1643. " It is this day ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament, that the Booke concerning the enjoyning and tollerating of Sports upon the Lord's Day be forth- with burned by the hand of the common Hangman in Cbeape-side, and other usuall places : and to this purpose, the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex respec- tively are hereby required to be assist- ant to the effectual! execution of this order, and see the said Books burnt ac- cordingly. And all persons who have any of the said Books in their hands, are hereby required forthwith to deliver them to one of the Sheriffes of London, to be burnt according to this Order. John Browne, Cler. Parl. Henry Elsynge, Cler. P. D. Com, " The Sheriffes of London and Middle- sex have assigned Wednesday next the 10th of this infant May, at twelve of the clock, for the putting in execution of the foresaid Ordinance ; and therefore doe require all persons that have any of the BUOKCS thnrein mentioned, to bring them in by that time, that they may be burned accordingly. John Langham, Thomas Andre wes. London, Printed for Thomas Underbill in Great Wood strete. May 9, 1643." OXFORD RIDDLE. From a single sheet . mted at Ox- ford, by Leonard Litchiield. 1643. " There FRAGMENTS OF LITERATURE, No. IV. " There dwells a people on the Earth, That reckons true Allegiance Treason, That makes sad Warre a holy Mirth, Calls Madnesse Zeale, and Nonsence Reason ; That fiiules no Freedome but in Slavery, That makes Lys Truth, Religion Kna- very, That rob and cheat wi h Yea and Nay: Riddle me, Riddle me, who are they? They hate the flesh, yet kiss their Dames, That make Kings great by curbing Crownes, That quench t he fire, by kindling: flames, That settle Peace by plund'ringTo.uies, That govern with implicite Votes, That stablish Tnth, by cutting throats, That kisse their Master, and betray: Riddle me, Riddle roe, who are they ? That make Heaven speake by their Com- mission, [power, That stop God's Pence and boast his That teach bold Blasphemy and Sedi- tion, And pray high Treason by the houre, That dam all Saints but such as they are, That wish all Common, except Prayer, That idolize Pirn, Brooks, and Say: Riddle me, riddle me, who are they ? That to enrich the Commonwealth, Transport large Gold to forraigne parts, That hous't in Amsterdam by stealth; Yet lord it here within our gates; That are staid men, yet only stay For a light night to runne away; That borrow to lend, and rob to pay: Riddle me, riddle me, who are they ? ' The Declaration nf his Highnes Wil- liam Henry, by tke Grace nf God Prince of Orange, &'<. of the Utascns inducing him to appear in Ernies in the Kingdome *f England, for preserving of the Protts- tant Relifi ion, and Jor restoring the iMves and Liberties y' England, Scotland, i,nd Ireland. Hereunto are added the fitters fthe aforesaid hit illustrious Highnesse to the Sea and J^and forces of England, together with the Prayer for tte present Expedition. Printed at the Hague by Arnold Leers by speciall order of his Highnesse, 1688.'" 4. At the bottom of the Title, in small Italics, below the Date, is " JVitk priviledge of the great and mighty the Slates of Holland and frestfrieslund." In the front of the Title the Arms of the Prince of Orange, imp;\ling those of Great Britain, with the Lion and Unicorn for supporters, and the Motto JE MAINTIENDRAY. The following is the Prayer: " A Praier for the present Expedition. " Almighty God, the Lord of Hosts, and the aid and refuge of all that trust in thee, Wee humbly pray thee to blesse and prosper ibis undertaking, for the glory of thy Name, and for the good of thy People : Let not our sins provoke tht^e to deny thy blessing to thy servant the Prince : compasse him with thy favour as with a Shield: direct him in all his Councels, and be thou ever present with him and assisting to him in all his ac- tions : that so he may imploy all the power, that thou puts in his hands, to the honour of thy great Name, to the establishing and advancing of thy true Religion, and to the procuring of the Peace and Happines of these Nations: Blesse both the Army and Fleet under his Command, with successe and victory. And grant, O gracious GOO, that all of us, may be turning to thee with our whole hearts ; repenting us truly of all our past sins, and solemnly vowing to thee, as wee now doe, that wee will in al time coming, amend our lives, and endeavour to carry ourselves as becomes Reformed Christians. And that wee will show cur Zeal for our holy Religion by living in nil things suteably to it. Hear us, Holy Father, and set thy Angels to encamp round about us, for wee put our whole trust in thy protection and defence, which wee humbly pray thee to grant us, for the sake if Jesus Christ our only Saviour and Redeemer. Amen." Nichols, Son, and Bentley, Printers, Red Lion Pasiage, Fleet Street, London. tfragmentg of Eiteratnrc. No. V. " Paul's Church-urn J. Libri Theolo- gici, Politici, Histo'nci, Nundinis Pauli- nis (una cum Templo) prostant fannies. Jiucta seriem jllphabeti Democratici. Done into English fw the Assembly of Divines." 4to. This was one of the Political Squibs of the year 1659 : and may be called in to the aid of any future Editor of Butler's Hudibras. In Classis I. we have the following titles of works: " 1. Gusman's Cases of Conscience, revised and augmented by Hugh Peters." The English Guzman was the noto- rious robber James Hind, whose life is still preserved among the penny histories for our Children. " 5. Ecclesiasticus. A plain demon- stration that Col. Pride (alias Bride) was Founder of S. Bride's Cburcb, and not found in the Porch, because the Porch was built before the Church, that is, not behind it." " 10. Tot quot. The Unlawfulnesse of holding Two Benefices, and the Law- fulnesse of holding Four. By the Assem- bly of Divines." " 1 5. Tibi licet. That a Woman may have two Husbands at once, if her second Husband be faithfull to the State. By mistris Jane Puckering." " 16. The Children's Dictionary, and exact Collection of all New Words (born since November 3, 1640,) in Speeches, Prayers, or Sermons, as well those that signifie something as notking." " 17. Gladius Justitiae. That the Power of the Sword belongs to him that can get hold of the Hilt." Classis II. contains twenty new Acts of Parliament : among them the fol- lowing : " 27. An Act for canonizing those for Saints that die in the State's service ; who, since there are but two Worlds, ought at least to be honoured in one." Classis III. Historians and Philoso- phers; among whom we have : "55. The Wandering Jew : byDr.Du Moulin, junior, Medico-Theologo-Histo- rico-Bello, Gallicus Gallo-Belgicus." Classis IV, " Casuists resolving ten* der Consciences in forty Quaeres." From these the following are selected as further specimens : "63. Whether England be Sampson (a Master Goodwin tells us) because it is strong; or because it is imprisoned, shaven close, and hath lost its two eyes ? " 64. Whether the Spanish Ambassa- dor Don Alonso de Cardenas be better paid from Madrid or Westminster? "65. Whether the two Hothams shall rise (as they were buried) in boots and spurs ?" " 77- Whether Representative$ nave more lives than one ?" "84. Whether it be as lawfull to build a Church and call it S. Paul's,, as to build Ships and call them the Fairfax, the President, the Speaker?" " 86. Whether that place may be read, My House is called the House of Prayer, but ye have made it a Guard of Inde- pendants ?" "91. Whether the Stationer that gave 400/. for the Directory was cursed with Bell and Candle as well as Book ?" " 100. Whether he that scribbled this Catalogue of Books was not robbed of all his own ?" Sic desinit Centuria prima. The second Century of this Cata- logue contains a List of Titles of a similar description : the more whim- sical of which are, "101. The Silver Shekel. A Treatise proving the Excise is jure divino: by John Goodwin." " 108. Oppiana'Axittmxi proving the sea is not govern'd like Islands, because the Great Fish eat the lesse, but here the lesse devoure the greater." "157. Xpvvoelpotos. The Art for turn- ing three Wayes in two Years : by Colo- nell George Monk." FORM OF PHAYEB, 1552. At the end of "The Boke of Com- mon Praier and Administration of the Sacramentes and other Rites and Ce- remonies in the Churche of Englande," fol. R.Graf ion, 1552, is the following: This Booke is truly and diligently imprinted. f Tlie Prices thereof. The Imprynter to sell this Booke in queres for two shillynges and sixe pence, and not aboue ; bound in Parcbement, or Forell, for thre shillinges and fbure pence, and not aboue; and bounde in Lether, in paper bordes, or claspes, for foure shillynges and not aboue. And at the nexte Impression, the Imprynter leauyng out the fourme of raakyng and eonsecratyng of Archebishoppes, Bis- shoppes, Priestes, and Deacons, shal sel the said Booke in queres, for two sbillynges, and not aboue. And bound in Forel, for two shillynges and eight pence, and not aboue, and bound in Lether, in paste bordes, or claspes, for thre shillynges and foure pence, and Hot aboue." SIR RICHARD CAVI. From a single Sheet of the time of Charles the First : "The Judgement of the Court of Warre upon the Charge laid against Sir Richard Cave, for the delivery up of Hereford. "Oxford, 26 Junij, 1643. Whereas Sir Richard Cave hath ben accused to his Majesty for the betraying of the Towne of Hereford, when Sir WilliamWaHer came before that Towne; and that accusation was transmitted to the Councell of Warre : whereupon Wit- nesses were examined upon Oath, and the Court of Warre at severall dayes heard the Depositions and the whole Cause at large; upon the full hearing whereof, the Court was fully satisfied that Sir Richard Cave was absolutely free from any imputation of any Crime to be objected against him in any thing touching the delivery up of that Towne, or sending away the Horses under hi* command from the Towne at the time when Sir William Waller was before it, and that what be did therein was both by sufficient and full warrant, and by the advice and cot sent of the Commis- sioners of Array for that County who were then present. And this Court hath, thought it just and honourable in them to declare thus much under their hands, that as farre as in them lyeth they might repare the Reputation of Sir Richard Cave, who hath very unjustly suffered by this Accusation. Rupert, Forth, Grandison, Hen. Percy, Tho. Wentworth, Hen. Wentwarth, Job. Byron, Joh. Beiasyse, Will. Pennyman, L. Kirke, Will. Ashbournham, Henry Vaughan, Ro. Heath, present by the request of the Prince his Highnesse and the Lord GeneralL Directed by the Councell of Warre to be printed and published, and especially to be sent to Hereford. Printed at Oxford by Leonard Lich- fteld, Printer to the University, 1643." Printed by Nichols, Son, and Bentley, Red Lion Passage, Fleet-street, London. fragment? of Uittraturf. No. VI. " A compendious or brief e Examination f certayne ordinary Complaints oj' divers of our Gjtintrymen in these our dayes, which although (hey are in some part unjust and frivolous, yet are they all by way of Dialogues throughly debated and discussed. By If. S. Gentleman," 4to. I/ind. 1581. The Dialogue in this Work is be- tween a Knight, a Merchant-man, a Doctor, a Husbandm >n, and a Crafts- man : from the observation* of all whom many curious traits of antient manners may he gleaned. The fol- lowing, selected from fol. 5, is " The Gentleman's Comjtlaint how he can- not keep like countenance as he was wont to do." Knight. " Syr, as I knowe it is true that yee complaine not without cause, so it is as true that I and my sorte (I meane all Gentlemen) have as great, yea and farre greater, cause to com- playne than any of you have, (for as I said) now that the pryces of thinjes are rysen, of al hamlrs, you may better lyve after your degree then we, for you may and doe rayse the pryce of your wares, as the price of vittayles, and other your necessaries doe ryse, and so cannot we so much, for though it bee yue that of such Landes as come to our handes either by purchase, or by determination, and ending of such termes of years, or other Estates, that I or mine aunces- tors had graunted them in time past, I doe eyther receive a better fine then of old time was used, or enhaunse the rent thereof, being forced thereto for the charge of my householde that is so en- creased over that it was ; yet in all my lyfe time, I looke not that the thyrd parte of my lande shal come to my dispo- sition, that I may enhaunse the rente of the same, but it shalbe in men's holding either by leases or by copy graunted before my time, and still continuing, and yet lyke to continue in the same state for the most parte duringe my lyfe, and percase my Sonnes : so as we cannot raise all our wares as you may yours, and as me thinketh it were reason we did, and by reason that we cannot, so many of us (as yee know) that have de- parted out of the countrey of late, have ben dryven to geve over our housholdes, and to keep either a Chamber in London, or to wayt on the Court uncalled, with a Man and a Lackey after him : where bee was wonte to keepe halfe a score of cleane men in his house, and xx or xxiiii other persons besides every day in the weeke. And such of us as do abyde in the countrey still, cannot with two hun- dreth a ye re kepe that house that wee might have done with cc. inarkes but xvi. yeares past. And therefore we are forced either to minishe the thirde part of our housholde, or to raise the third parte of our revenues; and for that we cannot so doe of our own landes that is alreadye in the hamles of other men, many of us are enforced evther to keepe pieces of our Landes when they fall in our owne possession, or to purchase some Fearme of other mens landes, and to store it with Sheepe or some other Cattell, to helpe to make up the decay of our revenewes, and to maintayne our old estate withall, and yet is litde inougb." Fol. 11. b. " I have scene a Cap for xiiii. pence as good as 1 can now get for ii shillynges six pence : of cloth yee have heard how the pryce is risen." Now a payre of shooes coste twelve pence, yet in my time J have bought a better for sixe pence. Nowe I can get never a horse shooed under ten pence or twelve peace, where J have also scene the com- mon pryce was syxe pence." In folio 26 the author tells us : " Once a Bookseller made mee when I asked him why we had not white and browne paper made within the Realm as well as they bad made beyonde Sea , then bee aunswered mee that there was paper made a while within the realm : at the last the man perceived that made it that he could not aforde bis paper as good cheape as it came from beyond the sea, and so he was forced to lay downe making of paper ; and no blame in the man, for men will geve never the more for his paper because it was made here. But I would eytber have the paper stayed from coming in, or so burdened with custome, that bv that time it came hether, our men myghte aforde thryr paper better cheape then straungers myght do theirs, the customes consi- dered." FRAGMENTS OF LITERATURE. " Catalogs Vnxversalis Librorvm in Btbliotheca Bodleiana omnium Librorum, JLingitarum, iif Scientiarum genere refer- tissimd, sic coinpositus, ut non solum pub- Hois per Europam Universam Bibliothe- dsy sed etiam private Musteis, aliisque ad CatalogTtm Librorum conficiendum usui esse possit. Accessit Appendix LUiro- rum, qui vel ex munificentid aliorum, vel ex censibus Bibliotheca-, recens allati sunt; auctore THOMA JAMES, 5. 7%. Doc- tore, ac nuper Proto-Biblwthecario Ox- mifnsi." 4to. Oxon. 1620. This is the second Edition of the Bodleian Catalogue. The first ap- peared in 1605. The third came out ID folio in 1674 ; and the last Edition, in two Volumes folio, made its ap- pearance in 1738. All printed at Ox- ford. The singularity which marks the Catalogue of which the title is above quoted, is contained in Dr. James's Prooemium. " Cum in hoc Catalogo, adeeque in ipsa Bibliotheca, Libri babeantur pro- fecti ab damnatae memorise Auctoribus, partim hxreticis, partim schismaticis, aliisque ejusdem generis: sciant neque fas, neque licitum esse unicuique eosdem lectitare, nedum legere : sedpaitcissiniis tantum melwris notce studiosis, quibus hanc vemam indulget Academia, licentld Picecancellarij, Regiique Profesnoris mur- nuum subscription? priu$ nfjfotta." [Prmtd by NlchuU, Son, and Bent ley, Red Lion Pasaage, Fleet Street, London.] FRAGMENTS OF LITERATURE, No. VII. jFt3gtnem0 of literature. No. VII. " The trve Effigies of our most illus- trious Soveraigne Lord, King Charles, Qiteene Mary, with the rest of the Royall Progenie. Also a Compendium or Ab- stract of their most famous Genealogies and Pedegrees, expressed in Prose and Verse. With the Times and Places of their Births. 4. Lond. 1641. This Tract, consisting of eighteen pages only, is of extreme rare occur- rence. The portraits of Charles I. and his Queen, Charles Prince'of Wales, and Mary Princesse of Orange, are by Hollar in his best manner. James Duke of York, when eight years of age, in Ihe Tenis Court, Lady Anna, (who died the 8th of December 1640), and the double representation, 1. of " Charles Prince of Great Britaine, borne, baptiz'd, and buried, May y c 13, 1629." 2. of Henry Duke of Glo- cester, are by other hands. The poetical part of this Pamphlet has but little merit. Of Charles Prince of Wales, after- wards Charles the Second, it is said : " This noble and hopefull Prince was borne on the 29 day of May, 1630, be- tweene the howres of 10 and 11, it be- ing Saturday. And in the Almanack it is called Foelix. His birth was at S. James House rieare Charing Crose. His godfathers were Lewis the 13, the French King (now raigning), and the other was the Prince Pallatine. The Godmother was the Queene Mother of France : their Deputies there was, James Duke of Lenox (for the French King), and James Marquesse of Hamilton (for the Palsgrave), and for the Queene Mother, the Dutches of Richmond and Lenox was Deputie." HENRY HOLLAND. Among what are called the King's Pamphlets in the British Museum, is a Petition to the Public for relief, circulated by Henry the son of Dr. Philemon Holland ia 1647, he being then in his old age. It containssome curious particulars of his Life. He speaks of himself as a Citizen of London, for a long time an inha- bitant of St. Mary-lc-Bow. He says his wife and he, in 1625, were the medium for many worthy and chari- table persons in distributing money to the sick and necessitated in the me- morable Mortality of the Plague. Under four or five Lord Keepers he wa a Commiwioner of Bankrupt! : and he was a hater of Popery and Superstition : his opposition to i'rela- tical Innovation, he owns, occasioned him to be called before the Star- Chamber Court, and he was in conse- quence imprisoned aud impoverished. When he was 60 years of age, in 1643, " he adventured his life, and went out one, aud was the eldest man," of the Earl of Denbigh's Life-guard. With this history upon a printed pa- per he craved charitable contributions. " Cromwell's Conspiracy. A Tragy- Comedy, relating to our latter Times. Beginning at the Death of King Charles the first, and ending- with the happy Restauration of King Charles the Second. Written by a Person of Quality." 4. Lond. 1C60. At p. 11, is the following SONG. How happy 's the Pris'ner that conquers his fate [complaines, With silence, and ne're on bad Fortune But carelessly plaies with his keys on the grate, [and his chaines; And makes a sweet concert with them He drowns Care with Sack, while hU thoughts are oppre.st, And makes his heart float like a cork in his breast. Then since w'are all slaves who Islanders be, [elos'd with the Sea, And the World's a large Prison en- We will drink up the Ocean, and set ourselves free, For Man is the World's Epitome. Let Tyrants weare Purple deep dy'd in the bloud [to sway : Of them they have slain, their Sceptres If our Conscience be clear, and our Title be good [richer than they : To the raggs that hang on us, w'are We'll drink down at night what we beg or can borrow, [next morrow. And sleep without plotting for more the Then since w'are all slaves, &c. Come, Drawer, and fill us 'a peck of Canary, [good night. One brimmer shall bid all our senses When old Aristotle was frolick and merry, By the juyce of the grape he turn'd Stagy rite ; Copernicus once in a drunken fit found By the course of his brains that the woild turn'd round. Then since w'are all slaves, &c. 'Tis Sack makes our faces like Comets to shine, mask; And gives beauty beyond a Complexion Diogenes fell so in love with bis Wine, That when 'twas all out he still liv'd in the Cask, FRAGMENTS o* LITERATURE, No. VII. And he so lov'd the scent of the wains- cotted room, That dying he desir'd a Tub for his Tombe. Then since w'are all slaves, &c. " Irenodia Cantabiigicnsis .- obpacife- rum serenissimi Regis Cnroli e Scotia reditum Mense Nuvembri 1641." 4. Ex Off. Rog. Daniell, Almas Acad. Typogr. 1641. Among these a Greek Copy hy Du- port. A L;itin Copy, s ; gned " A. Cowley, Trin. Coll. Sociuj." A Latin Copy by Dupurt. Another signed Gu. Sancroft, Coll. Emraan. A. Mag. Another Greek Copy by Duport. An English " Ode upon the return of his Majestic" signed " A Cowley Trin. Coll." DEVICES. Blount, in his Translation of" The Art of making Devises" from the French of Henry Estienne, Lord of Fossez, 4. Lond. 1646, gives the fol- lowing as part of a preliminary Ad- dres* " to the Nobiiitie and Gentry of England." " We read that Hen. the 3. fas liking well of remuneration) commanded to be written (by way of Devise) in his Cham- ber at Woodstock, Qui non dat quod amat, non accipit ille quod optat. " Edw. the 3. bore for his Devise the rayes of the Sunne streaming from a cloud without any motto. Edmoiid of Langley, Duke of York, bore a Faulcon in a Fetter- lock, implying that he was locked up from all hope and possibility of the Kingdome. Hen. the 5. carryed a burning Cresset, sometimes a Beacon, and for Motto (but not appropriate there- unto) UNE SANS PLUS, one arid no more. Edw. the 4. bore the Sun, after the Battell of Mortiiners-Crosse, w i>ere three Sunnes were scene immediately cunjoyn- ing in one. Hen. the 7. in respect of the union of the two Houses ot York and Lancaster, by his marriage, used tli.; White Rose united with the Red, some- times placed in the Sunne. But in the reigne of Hen. the 8. Devises grew more familiar, and somewhat nu>re perfect, by adding Mottoes unto them, in imita- tion of the Italians and French (amongst whom there is hardly a private Gentle- man, but hath his particular Devise.) For Hen. the 8. at the interview be- tweene him and King Francis the first, whereat Charles the fitt was also present, used for his Devise an English Archer in a greene Coat drawing his Arrow to the head, with this Motto, cu ADHJJREO, PRIEST ; when as at that time those mighty Princes banding one against an- other, wrought him for their owne par- ticular. " To the honour of Queene Jane (who dyed willingly to save her child King Edward) a Phenix was represented in his funerall fire with this Motto, NASCA- TVR UT ALTER. Queen Mary bore winged Time, drawing Truth out of a pit, with VER1TAS TEMPORIS FIL1A. Queen Elizabeth upon severall occasions used many heroicall Devises, sometimes a Sive without a Motto, (as Camden re- lates) and at other times these words without figure, VIDEO, TACEO, and SEMPER EADEM. King James used a Thistle and a Rose united, and a Crown over them, with this Motto, HENRICVS ROSAS, REGNA JACOBVS. Pr. Henry (be- sides that Devise which is appropriate to the Princes of Wales) made use of this Motto, without figure, FAS EST ALIORVM QVJERERE REGNA. And his Ma- je^tie that now is, that other of cflRisro AVSPICE REGNO. Our Prince beares (as all the Princes of Wales have done since the black Prince) for his Devise (which we commonly though corruptly call the Princes Amies) a Coronet beautified with three Ostrich feathers, and for Motto ICH DIES, i. e. I serve, in the Saxon tongue, alluding to that of the Apostle. 'The heire, while he is achilde, differeth nothing from a servant.' " The late E;irle of Essex, when he was cast downe with sorrow, and yet to be employed in Armes, bore a sable shield without any figure, but inscribed, PAR NVLLA FIGVRA DOLORI. Sir Philip Sidney (10 trouble you with no more) denoting that he persisted al waves one, depainted out the Caspian sea, surround- ed with its shuares, which neither eb- beth nor floweth, aud for Motto, SINE REFLEXV. " Some may object, that in regard Tiltiugs, Tournaments, a:id Masques, (where Devises were much in request) are for the present laid aside, therefore Devises are of lesse use." ' ' The Manner of the discovering the Hint? at Southwell, on Tuesday the 5. of April, 1646', v. ho is now in the Par- lujmenta Quarters it-fore Newarke." [In a Tract relating to other mat- ters. 4. Lond. 1646.] " On Tuesday the fifth of April 1646. Generall Leven, having notice of the King's being at Southwell in Notting- hamshire, with the French Agent in the Scots Quarters, acquainted the English Commissioners therewith, by two Com- missioners sent for that purpose ; as also FRAGMENTS OF LITERATURE, No. VII. also that he had way-laid the town in teverall places, that so his Majestic might not go away : the Commissioners of both Kingdomes sent up to London to acquaint the Parliament of England therewith, and to know their pleasures therein ; this, it is hoped, will be the sudden peace of these Kingdomes, which God grant." " M. T. Ciceronis Orationes. Volume*, tertium." 11 Ne quis alius aut Venetiis, aut us- quam locorum has impune Orationes im- primat, & LeonisX. Pontificis Maximi, & Senatus Veneti decreto cautum est." At the end, " Venetiis in aedibus Aldi, et Andrese Soceri, Mense Augusto. M.D.XIX. " Joan. Gram. Philoponi Comentaria in priora Analytica Aristotelis. Ma- gentini Comentaria in eadem. Libellus de Syllogismis." " Privilegio Senatus Veneti cautum est, ne quis hosce libros per decenuium impune, aut imprimat, aut alibi im- pressos in hac civitate vel aliis Veneto imperio subditis vendat. MDXXXVI." fol. At the end is, " Venetiis in aedibus Bartholomaei Z\- netti Casterzagensis, sere vero & dili- gentia Joannis Francisci Trincaueli. Anno a partu Virginis MDXXXVI. Mense Aprili." " Eutychi Augustini Nyphi Philothei Svessani Metaphysicarum Disputationum Dilucidarium." fol. Neap. 1511. At the end, " Aduerte bibliopola q* lege illustris- siuii Domini Viceregis ex speciali Pri- uilegio cautum est ac diffinitum, ne cuiq"' liceat codicem hunc imprimere nee imprimi facere nee alibi impressum vendere in hac urbe uel in aliquibus ter- ris uel locis Regni hujus sub pena ut in Priuilegio continetur. " \ Impressum Neapoli per Sigismun- dum Mayr Alemanum Anno Domini Millesimo quingentesimo undecimo Die uero prirao Septembris." " Pindari Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia. Cum Schol" Gw.. 4. Rom. 1515. At the lower part of the Title is, ^f " Impress! Romz per Zachariam Calergi Cretensem, permissu S. D. N. Leonis Pont. Max. ea etiam conditione, ut nequis alius per quinquennium hos imprimere, aut venundare Libros possit, utque qui secus fecerit, is ab universa Dei Ecclesia toto orbe terrarum expere excommuiv.eatusque censeatur." " Aristotelis Opera omnia, cum Theo- phrasti Hist. Plant. Ex emendatione lo. Bapt. Camotii." GR. 6 voL 8. Venet. Aldifil. 15511553. At the end of each Volume if, with the different Dates. " Venetiis, apud Aldi Filios. Expen- sis vero Nobilis viri Domini Federici de Turrisanis eorum avunculi, 1552." " Aristophanis Cereris Sacra Cele- brantes. Ejusdem Lysistrate." GR. 8vo. Junta. 1515. At the end, " Bernardus Junta Lectori S. " Habes candide Lector nusquam hac- tenus impressas bin as Aristophanis Co- mojdias. Sacrificantes feminas, Atti- camque Lysistraten, quas ex codice adeo vetusto excerpsimus ut altera interdum dictionis pars ibi desideratur. Si quid igitur in illis quod tibi molestum sit in- venies quia *nxgoi>.>.zx.1ut cudere volui- mus, id evenisse scias. Vale. " His summa maims imposita est, quinto KL Februarii MD.XV. Leonis Pa- pae nostri anno tertio." FALSE DATES. Among Books with false Dates may be placed the " Vocabularius de propriis nominibug bominum illustrium, urbium, provinci- arum, montium, &c. Impressus per industrium virumJohannem prus. civem Argent inensem. Anno M.CCCCII. xviij. Kal. Februarii." 4to. SONG From " A Diurnall of Danger* : by T. J." 4. Lond. [1642.] " The World is all but madnesse; Then why are we confined To live by Law, and lie in straw Witb hunger almost pined? The State is in distraction ; Can any Man deny it ? But here's the curse attends it worse, There's none can make it quiet. The Trojan Siege was tedious, Fth* dayes of old King Priam, The Sword did stand in the mad-man's hand, Who was as mad as I am. To armes I hear the drum beat, Let me my Captaine's pay have : Why should they goe and leave me so ? I have as much cause as they have. Alas there's none obeyes me, 'Tis Power prevails on all things : The World is badand dangerous mad, Whilst we lye here for small things," V fragment.*; o -K-itccaturt. No. VIII. JOH* STRYPE. IN one of the letters of Dr. Samuel Knight, Canon of Ely, dated Blunts- ham, near St. Ives, March 24, 1133, is the following passage relating to >trype, the Antiquary : " I made a visit to old father Strype, when in town last : he is turned of ninety, yet very brisk and well, only a tlecay of -isln ;in