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 BARNABEES JOURNAL. 
 
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 Vol. I.
 

 
 Bamahce Itinerctrium^ 
 
 OR 
 
 BARNABEE'S JOURNAL; 
 
 By RICHARD BRATHWAIT, A.M. 
 
 WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, 
 
 A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION TO 
 THE ITINERARY, 
 
 AND A CATALOGUE OF HIS WORKS. 
 EDITED FROM THE FIRST EDITION, 
 
 By JOSEPH HASLEWOOD. 
 
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 OF OUR AUTHOR 
 
 RICHARD BRATHWAIT*: 
 
 Born- about 1588; Flourished 1611—1665 
 Died Mar. 4, 1673. 
 
 HE ancestors of Brathwait 
 were possessed of a good free- 
 ■j ^^^ hold domain in the county of 
 C^tt^I^T^^ Westmorland, and appear to 
 have resided thereon through several genera- 
 tions. Whether the estate passed by an oft 
 condemned entail, whereby families usually 
 
 * The family name imderwent many of the capricious 
 variations that distinguish the orthography of that pe- 
 
 b
 
 inherit respect witliout attaining eminence, is 
 not important: the first member of the family 
 of Brathwait whose mental endowments gave 
 distinction to the name, was our autlior. 
 
 i-iod ; it being sometimes spelt Braithwaite, Braytlnvait, 
 Braynthwayt, Brautlnvait, Braytliwayte, and Brathwait. 
 iSome literary friends have obliged the Editor by commu- 
 nicating four different autographs of our author. That 
 engraved xmder the portrait is from the letter given at 
 length in the note p. xxxiii, dated February 1629. The 
 three copied beneatli the monument arc from legal in- 
 struments,— the first dated in January 1663; the two 
 last, of successive dyys in IMarch 1 C72,— and are upon one 
 sheet of paper. Some doubt may be entertained of both 
 signatures being written at the same time, althougli pro- 
 bably that was the fact. They clearly show the decrepi- 
 tude of age as well in the tremulous hand-writing as in- 
 certitude of spelling, not unusual at the writer's advance 
 in years ; who was tlien, we presume, at least 84. The 
 solitary chance, therefore, of the name being once wrote 
 Brathwaitr, need not endanger anotlier little deluge of 
 ink,— to imitate some praiseworthy commentators, by 
 laboured discussion; as at present itsufficeth that many 
 concurring aiitliorilies coufinn tlie a(loj)tion of what our 
 autlior lias iJirice written, viz. JJrathvaaU,
 
 *v 
 
 rS'^-firfi M Juxta siiae funt 
 
 RICARDI BHATH^VAIT 
 de Bximfhead in. Comitatu. 
 "Wefhttorelandiae -ArinaQeri . et 
 IMAKL'E ejus Conjugis Eeliquia; 
 Ille quarto die Mail Anno 1673. 
 denatus eft Haec undecimo Aprilis 1681. 
 S-upremvtm diem obiit.HoTum Filius 
 TTnicus STRATTOKD BEATmVAIT Eques 
 Attratus adversas Mauros Chnftiaiii 
 Nominis hoftes infieftifeimDs fortiter 
 dimicans occubuit . Cnjus Cineres 
 Tingi in Mcotritania. Tangi-tena. 
 lium antu-x 
 Kequiefcant in. Pace 

 
 i
 
 XI 
 
 Richard Brathwait, the grandfather, lived at 
 and was owner of Ambleside in the barony of 
 Kendal, in Westmorland. He married Anne, 
 daughter of William Sandys, of East Thwaites, 
 Lancashire, and had issue one son, Robert* B., 
 who possessed Burnesheadf in the same coun- 
 ty, and married Alice daughter of John Wil- 
 liamson of Milbech, Cumberland. They had 
 issue — 1, Anne, married John Bradley of Brad- 
 ley, Lancashire ; 2, Thomas ; 3, Elizabeth, 
 married George Benson of Hugell, Westmor- 
 land ; 4, Isabel!, married Thomas Briggs of 
 Caumire, Westmorland; and 5, Gawen, mar- 
 ried Isabell daughter of Richard Forster, Esq. 
 
 Thomas, the eldest son, father of the author, 
 having purchased of John Warcop, after a fa- 
 mily possession of above three centuries, the 
 manor of Warcop near Appleby, resided there 
 
 * Wood calls liim Thomas, 
 
 f Sometimes spelt Barnside, or Burnside. 
 
 b2
 
 Xll 
 
 until, probably, the death of his own father, 
 when he became possessed of Burneshead. To 
 him a grant was made, by way of increase to 
 the ancient family arms*, and he was after- 
 wards knighted. He married Dorothy daugh- 
 ter of Robert Bindloss of Haulston, Westmor- 
 land, and had issue — 1, Agnes, married Sir 
 Thomas Laniplew of Do »vnby, Cambridgeshire : 
 2, Thomas (who was knighted), married Eliza- 
 betli daughter of Sir John Dalston of Dalston, 
 Cumberland; 3, Alice, married Thomas Barton 
 of Whenby, Yorkshire ; 4, IIichard Brath- 
 wait; 5, Dorothy, married Francis Salkeld 
 of Whitehall, Esq. ; 6, Mary, married John 
 Brisco of Crofton, Esq.; 7, Anne, married to 
 Alan Askoughc of Richmond in Yorkshire, 
 
 * Gules, on a diovcron argoiU throe cross cro.>Icts 
 fitchcc sable; a crest or cogni/anco thus: Upon tlic 
 hclmc on a torse wljitc and black, a grey lioiuul coucliant 
 argent, his collar and 1} iic gules, mantled gules, double 
 argent.
 
 Xlll 
 
 Gent.* Richard Brathwait is supposed to have 
 been born about 1588 at Burneshead, which is 
 in the parish of Kendall ; and he alludes to 
 the latter as his * native place' in some lines 
 addressed " to the truely worthy the Alder- 
 man of Kendall and his brethren." After la- 
 menting therein the prevalence of drunkenness, 
 he says : 
 
 *' How happle should I in my wishes be, 
 If I this vice out of request could see,. 
 
 * The DescrijHion of a good WifCf 1619, was inscribed 
 by the author 
 
 " To his 5 equally affectionate Sisters, all vertuous 
 content. 
 
 To you- that are the chief est of my care, 
 
 Tyes of my loue and figures of my life, 
 
 Send I this character, where ech may share 
 
 Her equal portion in my rare-good Wife, 
 
 And be the same, which I 'me resolu'd you are : 
 
 So shall your Husbands say (I doubt it not) 
 
 The Sisters lines prou'd what their Brother wrot. 
 
 " Yours iointly as his owne. 
 
 *' MVSOPHILVS."
 
 Within that native place tvhcrc I ivas bomc, 
 
 It lies in you decre Tov.nes-mcn to rcforme*.*' 
 
 In some moral reflections publislied by Bratli- 
 wait, and founded upon the events of his own 
 life, he dwells rather unsparingly upon the idle 
 and thoughtless hours of early youth. Books 
 he describes as first loved only for their covers; 
 and, like most infantine readers, he always pre- 
 
 * In another poem, addressing the Cottonneers of 
 Kendall, he confirms that country being his place of re- 
 sidence and nativity, by the following lines : 
 
 And in my observations seemc to show, 
 That due respect I to my country owe. 
 
 » * * » » 
 Tliat did this taske and labour undertake, 
 For your profession and your countries sake. 
 Whose ayre I breath'd, O I were worthy death. 
 Not to love tlicm, wlio suckt \\\\\\ mc one breath : 
 How many families supported be, 
 Within the compasse of one Barronry. 
 
 Let me exhort you, in resjject I am 
 Unto you all l)oth friend and countriinan. 
 
 See Strappado for Ihe Devil, 1C15, p. 173—210,
 
 XV 
 
 ferred the gaiety of the flower^ and indented 
 letters to the matter. This carelessness he 
 began to shake off when he had served only 
 two apprenticeships (as he says) in the world, 
 and at that period had advanced higher in sta- 
 ture than discretion. After leaving school he 
 was sent to the University, and, according to 
 Wood, '' became a commoner of Oriel College 
 A.D. 1604<, aged 16, and was matriculated as 
 a gentleman's son and a native of the county 
 of Northumberland." There he rapidly ad- 
 vanced in his studies ; and when time called, 
 examination approved him for a graduate. 
 Having afterwards received for a task Terrce 
 Fillus, his exercise exhibited such signs of pro- 
 ficiency that he received considerable encou- 
 ragement to pursue his studies, as also a fi'QQ 
 tender of ample preferment. In this course he 
 remained contented for several years, deriving 
 from the bounteous bosom of Alma Mater and 
 the freedom of those studies, no less private
 
 comfort than in the voice of others encourage- 
 ment, until he resolved to set his rest there if 
 it accorded with his parents' liking. In this 
 determination he was soon crossed, being pa- 
 rentally enjoined to turn the course of aca- 
 demic exercises, wherein he had tasted such 
 infinite content, to a profession little suited 
 with his disposition. He who had, according 
 to Wood, " avoided as much as he could the 
 rough paths of logic and philosophy, and traced 
 those smooth ones of poetry and Roman his- 
 tory, in which at length he <lid excel," found 
 the flowers of jjocsy and history could not be 
 easily transplanted and thrive amidst the thorny 
 places and plashes of the Law. Most unwill- 
 ingly he took leave of the University*, and 
 was compelled to address his studies to know- 
 
 • "lie removed to Cambridge, as it seems, vhcre 
 also ho spent some time for the sake of dead and living 
 nntlutrs." — y//A. O.rnnirjisis. It was probably while at 
 Cambridge that his tutor vas Lancelot Andicws, after-
 
 xvu 
 
 ledge as different from his former element as 
 if moulded to some new dialect ; for though 
 versed in most tongues, he was in this, he de- 
 clares, a mere noviciate. Here he remained 
 long, and lightly profited ; studying more for 
 acquaintance than knowledge, and still, like 
 others, running deeply in arrears with time and 
 gulling the eyes of opinion with the semblance 
 of a law-gown. 
 
 •wards bishop of Winchester. In His farewell to Poetry^ 
 Brathwait delineates the University life in the follow- 
 ing lines : 
 
 " Much better was my state, and far more free, 
 ^\^len I remain'd i' th' Vniversitie ; 
 Where as I had nought, so I car'd for nought, 
 But for th' pitch of knowledg, which I sought : 
 Having both cheerfull sleep, and healthfull ayre, 
 And stomach too, hows'ere my commons were. 
 What choice delights were then afforded us 
 ' TiTreading Plutarcli, Li vie, Tacitus, 
 Or the Stagyrians rare philosophie, 
 Whereto the Inds may not compared be 
 With all their precious oare ; for I did finde 
 Kg mine on earth could so enrich the minde."
 
 XVlll 
 
 This burst into life, relieved from the shack- 
 ling lessons of a tutor, and probably far distant 
 from the penetrating eye of a parent, seems to 
 have confirmed his taste for literary composi- 
 tion. However, the eliect may best appear in 
 his own words : — 
 
 " Amidst these disrelishing studies," he says, 
 ^^ whereto I was rather enforced than enclined : 
 I bestowed much precious time (better spent 
 than in 'J'avernes and Brothclls) in reviving 
 in mee the long-languishing spirit of Poctrie, 
 with other morall assayes; which so highly de- 
 lighted mee, as they kept mee from affecting 
 that loose kind of libertie, which through ful- 
 iiesse of meanes, and licentiousnessc of the 
 age, I saw so much followed and eagerly pur- 
 sued by many. This moved mee sometimes 
 to fit my buskin'd Muse for the Stage* ; with 
 
 * At this period, when liis miiul fevered for fame, rest- 
 lessly toiling to maintain the envial)le di^tinetion <ifiven 
 liini by the finger ol' notoriety as " one of the wits," the
 
 XIX 
 
 other occasionall Presentments or Poems ; 
 which bemg freeborne, and not mercenarie, 
 received graceful! acceptance of all such as 
 understood my ranke and qualitie. For so 
 happily had I crept into Opinion (but weake 
 is that happinesse that is grounded on Opi- 
 nion) by closing so well with the temper and 
 humour of the time, as nothing was either pre- 
 sented by mee (at the instancie of the noblest 
 and most generous wits and spirits of that 
 time) to the Stage; or committed by me to 
 the presse; which past not with good approve- 
 ment in the estimate of the world. Neither did 
 I use these private solaces of my pen, other- 
 wise than as a play onely to the imagination : 
 rather to allay and season more serious studies, 
 
 aid of his " buskin'd muse" no doubt assisted his pur- 
 pose : but whatever he then produced for the stage re- 
 mains unknown, if not entirely lost. Those pieces by 
 which his name is recorded among the diamatic writers, 
 are founded upon political events that happened after the 
 work above quoted was in print.
 
 XX 
 
 than account them any fixt imploymcnt. Nor 
 did I oncly bestow my time on these ; for I 
 addressed my selte to subjects of stronger di- 
 gestion; being such as required more maturi- 
 tie of judgement, though lesse pregnancie of 
 invention : rehshing more of the lampe than 
 those hgliter measures which I had formerly 
 penned ; wlierein I grew as strong in the opi- 
 nion and reputation of others as before. Tliis 
 I must confesse, begot in mee a glowing heat 
 and conceit of my selfe : but this I held an 
 easie errour, and the more dispensable, because 
 arising from the iiifirmitic of nature. Howso- 
 ever, I can very well remember (and what other 
 followers can bee to such a remembrancer but 
 penitent teares and incessant feares) that I 
 lield it in those daycs an incomparable grace 
 to be styled one of the^Vits. \\ here, if at any 
 time invited to a publique feast, or some other 
 meeting of the Pluses, wee hated nothing more 
 than losing time; reserving ever some select
 
 XXI 
 
 houres of that solemnity, to make proofe of 
 our conceits in a present provision of epigrams, 
 anagrams, with other expressive (and many 
 times offensive) fancies. 
 
 " Bat Wits so ill employed were like weapons 
 put into mad mens hands. They hurt much, 
 benefitted little : distasting more than they 
 pleased ; for they liked onely such mens pa- 
 ]ats, as were male-contents, and critically af- 
 fected. By this time I had got an eye in the 
 world ; and a finger in the street. There goes 
 an Author ! One of the wits* f 
 
 From the Inns of Court he appears to have 
 adventured awhile among the merchants, and 
 finally to have left court and city to turn ho- 
 nest countryman, his parents having settled 
 a competent estate upon him. This determi- 
 nation was made soon after the decease of 
 
 * ISpiritval S2)iceriey 1638.
 
 xxii 
 
 his father*; an event wliich probably led to 
 an arrangement whereby possession was given, 
 at no very distant period, of the landed pro- 
 perty limited and assigned for his use. In the 
 Will of the father, as appears in the extracts 
 below f, his early unsteady volatile habits are 
 
 * See his epitaph, p. C33. 
 
 •}• " In tlie name of God, Amen, the cightenth of 
 Fel)ruary in tlic ycarc of o' Lord God one tliousand six 
 hundred and six : I, Thomas Braithwaite, of Burnes- 
 head in the County of Westmcrhmd, Esquier" * * * 
 
 " And also my Will and mynd is tliat my sonnc 
 Richard Braitlnvait shall contynue in the Univ'^sitie of 
 Oxford, and there to applie and followe learning for and 
 during such tynie as my Wife, w '" the advise of the 
 more p' of the supviso"" of this my last Will and Testa- 
 ment, tlicn living, shall thinke meet: And aftei-vsards 
 goc and reniaync at the Innes of Court, and tlierc to ap- 
 plie and foUoue the studie of the lawes of this llealmc, 
 so long as he shall well behave himselfe, and diligentlie 
 followe and api)lie the said studie : as my trust is that 
 he will do. And my mynd is that my wife shall bcstowe 
 upon him, yearly, during her life, a competent and rea- 
 sonable porc'on, at her discretion, for and towards his 
 mayntcnance and fyniling, so long as he wilbc obedient
 
 XXUl 
 
 partially glanced at, while admonishing him as 
 a favourite and perhaps too much indulged son. 
 The testator's injunction for the completing 
 his education at the University, and afterwards 
 to apply and perfect his studies at the Inns of 
 Court, shows the fond hope and confidence en- 
 
 unto her, and ruled and advised by her, and be of good 
 demeano"^ and behaviour : the same to be levied in such 
 manner and forme as I have lymitted and appointed by 
 the said Indenture, hereinbefore menc'oned, made be- 
 twene me of thone p'tie, and the said Richard Hutton, 
 Rob"^ Bindlose, Thomas Lamphigh, Thomas Burton, and 
 Rob^ Crosfeild, of the other p'tie. And whereas by the 
 same Indenture I have lymitted and appointed unto him 
 certaine lands, tenem'^ and hereditam'^ as by the same 
 Indenture more at large appeareth, my will intent and 
 meaning is, that the said lands, tenem-= and hereditam'% 
 so to him lymitted and assigned, shalbe and stand for his 
 full advancmf and p'ferm", and in full recompence and 
 satisfac'on of the iilliall or child's porc'on, w'ch should 
 or ought by and after my death, to belong or app'teyne 
 to him of my goods or chattells* Also I ^\ill and be- 
 queath unto my three daughters Agnes Lamplughe, 
 Alice Burton, and Mary Briscoe, twenty pounds apeece. 
 And I do will And straightlie charge niy two sonnes,
 
 XXIV 
 
 tertained of his future proficiency as a scholar 
 and ability as a lawyer. But, as it commonly 
 happens, neither paternal forethought, or the 
 staid admonitions of those cloathed with testa- 
 mentary authority, could stay natural inclina- 
 
 Tliomas and Ilicliard, that they be kindc, loving, obe- 
 dient and dutifull to there Mother, and be advised and 
 counselled by her. And I do likewise charge all my 
 daughters that they shaVne kynd, loving and comfortable 
 to her.** * * * 
 
 " And I do give and bequeath to Dorothie my wel- 
 belovcd wife all my goods and chattells whatsoev'", here- 
 inbefore not bequeathed, my debts, fun^alls and legacies 
 disclmrged. And I do make her my sole Executrix. 
 And I do noiate and appoint Supervisors of this my last 
 "Will and Testam', my welbeloved ncpliew Richard Hut- 
 ton, Sergiant at lawe ; my welbeloved brother in lawe 
 liob' Uindlose, Esquier ; my wclboved sonnes in lawe 
 Thomas Lamplugli, Thomas Burton, and John IJriscoc, 
 Esi^juicrs; and my nephew Thomas IJraithwait, Gentle- 
 man : desireing them, as my trust is in them, that they 
 wilbc aiding and helping to my wife and children, and 
 to sec this my last Will and Testament to be pTormcd 
 eo farr as in them lieth." • ♦ • 
 
 Troved at York 'JSih May, 1610.
 
 tion, nor prevent the ambition of our author 
 penning 
 
 " A stanza when he should engross." 
 However, certain it is the death of the father 
 created some family differences, that were only 
 staid in progress by the prudent intervention 
 of friends. He particularly alludes to this 
 subject in a dedication to his uncle in 1611, 
 where he refers to " the troubled course of 
 our estates and the favourable regard you had 
 of our attonement, which is now (he adds) so 
 happily confirmed*." In addressing his elder 
 brother he also alludes to the same subject: — 
 " Our ciuill warres be now ended, vnion in 
 the sweete harmony of minde and coniunction 
 hath prevented the current of ensuing fac- 
 tion f," &c. 
 
 He first married, in 1617, Frances daughter 
 
 * Golden Fleece, 1611. See p. 176. 
 t Ibid. Seep. 178. 
 C
 
 XXVI 
 
 of James Lawson of Nesliam* near Darling- 
 ton, in the bishoprick of Durham, at which 
 place she was born, being the descendant of a 
 very ancient family-f. These circumstances 
 
 ^ Nearc Darlington was my deare darling borne, 
 Of noble house, which yet bearcs honor's forme. 
 uinnivcrsarics upon /lis Pancirete, 1634. 
 
 f Brathwait occasionally introduced in his stories and 
 poems, incidents tliat happened in his own family and 
 life; and many allusions therein imply that the parents, 
 or one of them, for some cause unexplained, objected to 
 or occasioned a defeiring of his union with Frances 
 Lawson. In the following letter, written to obtain the 
 license, there seems a laboured ambiguity in endeavour- 
 ing to assume the especial character of a friend, at the 
 same time using tlie signature of tlic father, or that of a 
 near relative or kinsman of the lady, as intending to im- 
 pose on the notary. However, if fictitious in substance, 
 and an ingenious love-fraud by Brathwait to effect a 
 clandestine marriage, tiie purpose succeeded ; for it was 
 C(msidered authentic by Mr. Ilegge the Notary Public, 
 JDurham, to whom it was addressed, and the required li- 
 cense immediately granted. 
 
 ♦♦ Mr. Hcgge. After my right hartie comnicndac'ons 
 rennembred gr. [greeting] I earncstlie rcrjuire by a spc-
 
 XXVll 
 
 explain the passages in the Journal, when, on 
 the first visit to Nesham, Barnabee says — 
 
 Herce vultu speciosam : 
 And upon the second, ad Nesham cum uxore: 
 
 Et amamur & amamus. 
 
 ciall frinde of myne the rather by reason of my acquaint- 
 ance w-'^ you, to be a meanes for tlie [procuring] 
 
 and obteyninge a license for the marriage of a coople 
 
 w^'^in [the spiritual] courte at Durham. The 
 
 p'tyes names to be married ar Richard Brathwayte and 
 Fraunces Lavvson whoe I darre assure you of my creditt 
 and as I am verilye p'swaded in confidence, are eache of 
 them free from anye other p'contracte, but betwene them- 
 selves ; and that (as I am crediblye enformed) the same 
 concluded and agreed upon by consent of bothe ther pa- 
 rents : The fees therfor dewe you shall receyue by this 
 bearer ; if the same licence must of necessitye express 
 the minister his name in p'ticular who should marrye 
 them (as some saye it ought) w'^'- for my p'te I knowe 
 not, thoughe I have noe directions eyther from the p'tyes 
 themselves, or my s'd frynde to nominate anye, then you 
 may speciallye name Mr. Thomas Thompson p'son of 
 Hurworthe for that purpose : otherwise I pray you lett 
 the license be as generall as may be, and the same I pray 
 you make readye agaynst to morrow that this bearer shall 
 C2
 
 The license was dated the 2d May, 1617, 
 and granted at the request of Ralph Lambe, 
 servant of James Lawsoii of Nesham, Esq. ; 
 and the marriage ceremony took place at Hur- 
 worth, in which parish Nesham is situated, and 
 is a village about three miles from Darlington*. 
 Living at Burneshead many years, Brath- 
 wait " became (says Wood) Captain of a Foot- 
 call for the same. Tims rcquiringc your good friiul- 
 shippe and furtlierance hearln 
 
 " I comit you to God and will rest ever 
 " Your ucrye lovingc freinde 
 " Nesham tlils 2 of " James Lavvson." 
 
 Maij 1617." 
 
 * The issue of tliis union was nine children, viz. 
 Thomas, Robert, James, Kidiard, Philip, Dorothy, 
 Alice, Agnes, and John. 
 
 Thomas the eldest son, who then resided at Amble- 
 side, gave by deed, dated 26 Nov. 1G74, a collection of 
 medals to tlie University «f Oxford ; which probably 
 was formed by his father. See Camden's Jirhannia by 
 Gibson, col. ;)K7. 
 
 John, the youngest child, was bora tlic 10th February,
 
 XXiX 
 
 company in the Trained-Bands*, a Deputy- 
 
 1G30 : his father hailed the event in some verses appended 
 to the Whbnzies in the following year as 
 
 Clitvs his Genethlia vpon the Birth-day of his Sonne John. 
 
 Vagiendo vallem intramus, 
 
 Suspirando relinquimus. 
 With shreeJces we live, and with a sigh we die, 
 Thus live we, die we, grieje is ever die. 
 
 God bless thee John and make thee such an one, 
 That I may ioy in calling thee my Son. 
 Thou art my ninth, and by it 1 divine 
 That thou shalt live to love the Muses nine. 
 And live by loving them : for it were fit 
 A younger brother had an elder wit-^^;c. 
 
 * Probably he held a military appointment about the 
 close of the reign of Charles I., as his loyal exertions in 
 favour of that unfortunate monarch are evinced in many 
 instances ; and there is a traditionary belief that he com- 
 manded a troop of horse during the Civil Wars. It may 
 also be conjectured that Thomas B., his eldest son, ac- 
 companied the royal exile Charles II. to Breda in 1650. 
 The following official paper is given from an original 
 manuscript jyejies me : — 
 
 *' Charles R. Our will and pleasure is that you pay
 
 XXX 
 
 Lieutenant in the county of Westmorland, a 
 Justice of Peace*, and a noted Wit and Poet. 
 
 and deliver the suinme of one hundred gulders to Cap- 
 taine Braithwaite and the suinme of fifty gulders to Cap- 
 taine Allen for then- charges in our scruice Avhich we 
 haue directed them to doe. And for so doing this shal 
 be your Warrant. Giuen at Breda the 28^ of May 1650. 
 
 " By his Ma'^ command, 
 " To our trusty and welbeloued " Rob. Long." 
 
 Seruant, S' Edward Walker 
 
 Kn' our Recciu'^ Generall." 
 
 [Indorsed] " Breda 29'' of May 1650. Rcceaucd then 
 
 of S"^ Ed\^ ard Walker Kn' his :Ma''" Receauo"^ Generall 
 
 tJic full sum of one Hundred Guilders according to his 
 
 Ma' ''' Warrant \vithiu written. I say icccaved by me 
 
 100 Guild". " Tuo. Brathwait." 
 
 " Breda 29 May 1650. Receaucd, ivc. 50 Guild". 
 
 " AViI.MAM AlXANK." 
 
 • This appointment lie obtained very soon after his 
 settling in the country. " It pleased the prince," he 
 says, " to ])ut nice in commission for administration of 
 Justice : a vertue and a clioyce one too, yet such an one, 
 as by the abuse of man, not of time, may be compared 
 to tlie Celedony stone, which rulaincth her vertue no 
 longer thon it is rubbed with gold. For my carriage
 
 He wrote and published several books in En- 
 glish, consisting of prose and poetry, highly 
 commended in the age wherein published, but 
 since slighted and despised as frivolous mat- 
 ters, and only to be taken into the hands of 
 novices." 
 
 Brathwait is little obliged to honest xinthony 
 a Wood for this character. Indeed, though 
 the Biographer is apt to deal largely in this 
 sort of criticism on popular writers, it is not 
 such as conveys very precise ideas. He has 
 said something of the same kind of Robert 
 Greene and many others. What is its fair im- 
 port? That om- author was a favourite in his 
 day with a higher class of readers than in the 
 
 therein, I appeals to such as knew mee : many imperfec- 
 tions and failings (heaven knowes) accompanyed mee, 
 which by an humble acknowledgement of mine owne 
 wants and an earnest desire of supply by God's grace, 
 became so rectiiied in mee; as what before seemed crook- 
 ed, was by that golden rule of his divine will in mee 
 streightnod. "— JTa^y Memorials, &c.
 
 XXXll 
 
 succeeding age ! And what is this but to have 
 incurred the evils inseparable from tlie popu- 
 larity of fashion? It is of the essence of fashion 
 to descend in the subjects of its dominion; and 
 to transfer its yoke to the vulgar, at the period 
 when it is thrown off by those of rank and con- 
 sideration. 
 
 To take advantage of temporary topics, and 
 a temporary phraseology, to excite notice, is 
 certainly a strong presumption of a minor ge- 
 nius. It is that "deciduous sort of laurel" 
 ascribed by Wood to Brathwait ; but it is the 
 business of an impartial critic to examine whe- 
 ther in this instance (as in many others) it has 
 been justly ascribed by this indiscriminate bio- 
 grapher. As the author of Barnahec's Journal, 
 it will scarcely be denied that he possessed a 
 native and unsophisticated wit and humour, a 
 perspicuity of expression, a dance of imagery, 
 and a facility of metre, which rank him with 
 those, whobc talents arc calculated to rise above
 
 XXXIU 
 
 the casual attractions derived from the man- 
 ners of a single generation, and to command 
 the notice and praise of every age*. 
 
 * Of his stile of correspondence I have only obtained 
 a single specimen, and that a letter upon a pecuniary ar- 
 rangement : however, it is not of less interest or import- 
 ance than the epistolary scraps now too commonly made 
 public as written by men of talent and genius that have 
 passed the bourn of mortality. The envelope is lost : it 
 ifi supposed to be addressed to Sir Timothy Hutton, son 
 of the archbishop, who was always in difficulties : he 
 married a daughter of Sir George Bowes ;— and the Sir 
 Talbot, named is probably Sii- Talbot B. brother to liis 
 M ife ; and the brother, Thomas B. of Streatham, Esq. 
 
 *' S''. Such small successe did or last meeting produce, 
 as I am wholly disheartned to renew them. Besides, I 
 doe much feare, that in accepting of new propositions, 
 or admitting of any new bargaine, it might fare w^^ me, 
 as it doth vv"^^ unexperienced younglins, who after one 
 arrow lost, or graz'd, shoot another after. Truth is, if 
 these propositions (w'^'' in generall tearmes you expresse 
 in your letter) did probably induce me that they intended 
 any conclusion, I should be the more inclinable unto 
 tiiem ; but how farre these have come short formerly of 
 so faire and successive a cloze I appeale unto your know- 
 ing seife. Notwithstanding all this, so strong and im-
 
 xxxiv 
 
 Brath wait's wife died March 7th, 16S3, and 
 he piously and sincerely mourned the event. 
 In veneration of her memory, and as a public 
 acknowledgement of her worth and virtues, he 
 published for several years verses as the Amii- 
 versaries upon his Panarete ; and when reprint- 
 ing the Essays on the Five Senses, 1635, he took 
 the advantage of delivering a moral admoni- 
 tion to their infant ofFs^pring, by introducing 
 
 prcssivc a coiiceito have I ever rccyved of your candor 
 and integrity, as I porswadd mysclfe that nothing you 
 propound eythcr in this particular or in ought else that 
 may tend to honest and conipctible mediations, but they 
 receive opinion from you of assured succcsse, at least so 
 probably grounded as they promise no lesse. — If you will 
 be pleased to draw to some head such projiositions as you 
 intend, and returne them so punctually and definitely a« 
 t'ythcr to conclude so or not, I shall out of that respect 
 and observance w'' I tender you, not only retunic an- 
 swer to your demandes, but if it sliall be requisite, or 
 that sucli propositions as you shall make accommoflatc 
 themselves to any jjrobable end, I shall insert st)me in- 
 difl'erent place to treate more fully, touching the pre- 
 mizes. "Which course, as J conceive is so much the rather
 
 XXXV 
 
 therein " Love's Legacy, or Panarete's bless- 
 ing to her children," which is framed as if de- 
 livered in her very last moments, forbearing 
 to speak of marriage because their childhood 
 could not yet conceive it. 
 
 After remaining a widower six years he mar- 
 ried again, taking for his second wife Mary, 
 daughter of Roger Crofts of Kirtlington in 
 
 to be embraced, in that it prepares the parties what they 
 may obiect, how to resolve, and in each particular to ad- 
 dresse what they propose to some effectuall conclusion. 
 If some occasions of maine consequence doe not divert 
 my resolves, I pui-pose ( God wilKng) to be at York As- 
 sizes, against w'^'* tyme I suppose upon conference w^'^ 
 S"^ Talbot and his brother, you may pitch upon some 
 conclusive resolves : howsoever upon returne of your 
 particular propositions, W^'" I shall expect w'^ all conve- 
 nient expedition, I shall addiesse my answer unto your- 
 selfe. So W-" our best respects unto yourselfe and se- 
 cond selfe, 
 
 « I rest 
 
 " Your assured loving fiiend, 
 
 " Burneshcad this 23 " Ri. Brath'STait." 
 
 Febioiarij 1629."
 
 XXXVl 
 
 Yorkshire, Gentleman; who was well jointured, 
 being seised in her own right of the valuable 
 manor of Catterick. lie describes her as a 
 widow and a native of Scotland *. Their issue 
 was the gallant Strafford Brathwait, who was 
 
 * In Panarele's Triuniph, 1641, he says: 
 But checrfull is my Panthea, and desires 
 To feed her fancy with diviner fires. 
 It cannot her sweet disposition please 
 To twit her last Choice wiUi abilitios 
 Of her first ITusband : Such discourse, sayes slic, 
 Tasts more of Hghtncsse then of modestic. 
 
 Again— 
 The church gives licr a lesson ; and her scornc 
 Is to he taiiglit in any other fonnc. 
 For though, where those grand Covenanters be 
 She took the place of her Nativitie, 
 The odious projects she does so despise 
 As with her needle slice 'd pick out their eyes 
 For want of stronger Armour, to cxprcsse 
 That loyall h)ve which she did still profcsse 
 To Prince and Countrey: this twas made mc bring 
 That Scottish posie to her nuptiall ring: 
 *' Thus Twede and 'J'yne our loyall loves combine, 
 " ^^'hich 'JVcdish faclions ucvcr shall untwine,"
 
 afterwards knighted, and killed in the ship 
 Maiy, under the command of Sir Roger Strick- 
 land, during an engagement with the Tyger 
 Algerine man of war, which was taken. 
 
 Some time after his second marriage he 
 quitted Burneshead *, probably to occupy the 
 
 * The fevered state of the times might in part occasion 
 his quitting tlie family residence at Burneshead. Brath- 
 wait was " a subject sworn to loyalty," and not likely 
 under any sway at that lawless period to escape the com- 
 mon wrack of power. Lavish hospitality in support of 
 the royal cause on the one hand, and contiibutious im- 
 periously demanded and violently enforced in the name 
 of either the Parliament or the Usurper upon the other, 
 would serve equally to impoverish his hereditary pro- 
 perty, and make a removal to the newly-acquired estate 
 at Appleton a matter of convenience to prevent shading 
 fainily honours. He declares himself to have been " a 
 resolute suflerer for both" sovereign and country, and 
 depicts the very impaired state of his fortune at the Re- 
 storation, in a poem addi'essed " To his Majesty upon his 
 happy arrivall in our late discomposed Albion," (1660) ; 
 •which he describes as ^\Titten " by him, who ever held 
 bis intimacy of Loyalty a sufficient reward for all his
 
 XXXVllI 
 
 Manor house at Catterick*. How long he 
 continued there is not certain. He died at 
 East Appleton, a small township of and adjoin- 
 
 suflerings ; and his house most happy in the hospitality 
 of your [the King's] servants." 
 *' My ruin'd fortunes I shall ncre bemone 
 Though I have felt as much as any one 
 Of tlie Delinquent's whip : I 'm still the man 
 I was, before the Civill warrs began ; 
 Those capitall grand-bugbears had no power 
 T' affright your servant, though they might devour 
 That small rcmuinder which he then possest, 
 Wherein they grew half-sliarers at the least." 
 
 • His possession of tlic Manor is confirmed by several 
 documents, and it is probable that with the fiunily of 
 Crofts he had been, long before his second marriage, in 
 close or neighbourly intimacy. — Tlie llev. Micliall Syd- 
 dall, Vicar of Catterick, appointed by liis will Henry 
 Darcy, Esq., Richard Brathwait, Esq., William Thorn- 
 ton, Esq., and Edward Crofts, Gent., Trustees for the 
 conducting of a Free iSciiool instituted at Catterick. In 
 Jan. H)G'.', — 1, the surviving Trustees were only Ilichard 
 Brathwait and Edward Crofts, who by Power of Attor- 
 ney appointed Koger Crofts of Cniy's Iim, Gentleman, 
 to treat, dctenuine, and agree with Mrs. JMurgaict Syd-
 
 XXXIX 
 
 ing to Catterick, and where his father-in-law 
 then resided. That event happened on the 
 fourth day of May, 1673 ; and he was buried 
 
 dall, all differences and disputes bet^vixt them : which 
 appear to have arisen on claims made for her son William. 
 This difference was early compromised, but that did not 
 long ensure a quiet execution of the Trusts to the Trustees. 
 It is in such cases of common interest adviseable, to pre- 
 vent endless litigation, that the original powers and regu- 
 lations of every charity should be defined, and kept, to- 
 gether with an account of the funds, successive appoint- 
 ments, and yearly payments, properly accessible, either 
 as a provincial register or else in some public depository 
 for county archives. Such a measure would preserve the 
 funds of the charities from the peculation of individuals 
 appointed as officers therein, and undue partiality of act- 
 ing Trustees. Another evil might also be prevented, now 
 rapidly increasing; that of inquisitive strangers, or re- 
 lators as they are legally defined, who, under the shallow 
 pretence of correcting abuses, ai-e rapidly undermining 
 our national religion. Who were the individuals Brath- 
 wait had to contend ^vith is uncertain : we only know 
 that the Puritans of that day were as pertinacious med- 
 dlers as the Dissenters are now; and therefore, probably, 
 his rights and powers were sought to be wrested from him 
 by neighbours, of that description. In Maich 1672—3
 
 xl 
 on the seventh of tlie same month in the parish 
 church of Catterick, where a neat mural mo- 
 nument was erected to his memory on the 
 north side of tlie chancel. 
 
 He left behind him, says Wood, " the charac- 
 ter of a well-bred gentleman and good neigh- 
 bour;" and there might be added, a consist- 
 
 tlic surviving Trustees elected Sir Christopher Wandes- 
 ford, Bart., and iNIa. Norton, Esq., in the room of Wil- 
 liam Thornton and Ilenry Darcy, deceased, as persons 
 qualified according to the will of the Donor, and as 
 "succeeding them in tlieir estates in the said parish;" 
 and they at the same time approved, under hand and 
 seal, " Ralph Cottingham, Master of Arts, to be Master 
 of the Free Schoole." It seems doiibtfid if the elec- 
 tion was admitted ; and the right of appointment was 
 warmly resisted. IMr. Norton in a letter to Mr. Crofts, 
 dated 1'2 April, 1G7;5, remarks: " INIr. Brathwite being 
 chiefe Lord of the Man' of Catterick I suf-pectc will not 
 ■waiie such a flower for its charyty and peyety in the 
 adorning and wraping vp of the garland of the rest of 
 his royalties there, and p'myt the same to be disposed of 
 l)y other of his Nighbt)urs without his App bation, con- 
 trary to tlie doner's iiUeution, to whicli a just regard 
 ouuht to bu had."
 
 xli 
 
 ent christian* and upright man. A descrip- 
 tion of his person has descended orally, as also 
 of his dress, by which the trim fashion of his 
 green years added comeliness to his grey hairs. 
 Tradition reports him to have been in person 
 below the common stature; well proportioned, 
 
 * The ways of his youth, those transient wanderings, 
 proved afterwards the offspring of many bitter reflec- 
 tions. The undue waste of the Sabbath he laments thus 
 in the Penitent Pilgrim: — " Thou needest no Arguments 
 to perswade thee that the Sabbath is moral! j being so far 
 from making it Evangelicall, as thou didst make it thy 
 day to satisfie thy lusts. At best thou thoughtst thyself 
 well imployed that day, if thou bestow'd it upon sight of 
 a Wake, a Morrice dance, or the sociable frequent of an 
 Alehouse. Yet had it beene better for thee to have digg^df 
 then have danced; to have plow'd, then so to have tin~ 
 halloivd this holy day the Sabbath. How carefull wouldst 
 thou be of observing a profane meeting ; where God was 
 never remenil^red but in Oaths ! Such merry Meetings 
 might not be forgotten : the end whereof was to forget 
 God and his Judgments : and if it were possible, to put 
 farre from them the evill day. But as the fumes of drinke 
 begot forgetfulncsse in the evening : so the sense of sinne 
 begot bitternesse in the morning." — P. 81. 
 
 d
 
 xlii 
 and one of the handsomest men of his day ; 
 remarkable for ready wit and humour ; chari- 
 table to the poor in the extreme, so much so 
 as to have involved himself in difficulties by it. 
 He commonly wore a light grey coat, red 
 waistcoat, and leather breeches. His hat was a 
 high-crowned one, and beyond what was com- 
 mon in those days, when such hats were worn*. 
 
 * An opinion lias been entertained tliat the whole- 
 length figure introduced in the engraved title to the En- 
 glish Gentleman represents the author. The first edition 
 in 1630 exhibits the rich dress of a courtier of that pe- 
 riod : which in the third edition, 1641, is altered; and the 
 boots, spurs, sword, belt, and cloak, show the heavy ser- 
 viceable habiliments worn in those formidable times by 
 the warlike cavalier. He also wears in the first a very 
 broad-brimmed liat, and in the latter a remarkable high- 
 crowned hat; which may support the presumption, though 
 it does not prove it was a portrait of Jirathwait. The fol- 
 lowing passage, from a very uncommon tract, will show 
 the value of tliat article of dress when full trimmed: — 
 <* I saw," says the author, " a complete Gentleman of 
 Ictc, whose Ik'uer-liat cost xxxvii..v. a featlier w.s. the 
 hatband Wyli. and his ten double KulTe iiij.//. : tlius the 
 head and ncckc oncly were furnished, atul tliat but of
 
 xliii 
 His equals in life bestowed on him the name 
 
 one suite, for ix.H. xvii.5. Now taking the proportion of 
 the brauery for the rest of the body ; the cloak lined with 
 veluet, daubed ouer with gold lace two fingers broad, 
 the sattin doublet and hose in like sort decked, the silke 
 stockings, with costly gartei's hanging downe to the small 
 of the legge, the Spanish shooes with glittering roses, the 
 girdell and Steletto; I leaue it to those tliat herein know 
 more than I, and can speake of greater brauery than this, 
 to cast \"p the totall summe : wherein also (as an appur- 
 tenant) they may remember his Mistris suited at his 
 charge, and cast vp both summes in one. But on the 
 contrary, I observed but 60 years since, generally a man 
 full as good or better in ability than this complete, lusty 
 looking lad, whose hat and band cost but \.s. and his 
 ruffe but xii.d. at the most. So you see the difference of 
 these summes; tlie one ix.^j. xvii.5. the other vi. 5. Then, 
 after this proportion, the whole attire of the one cost 
 aboue SO times as much as the attire of the other : for- 
 get not also that the one lasteth three times as long as 
 
 the other ; subiect to change as fashions change 
 
 Of late the broad brimmd hat came suddainely in fa- 
 shion, and put all other out of countenance and request; 
 and happy were they that could get them soonest, and 
 be first seene in that fashion ; so that a computation be- 
 ing made, there is at the least 300000.//. or much more, 
 in England onely bestowed in broad brimmd hats, ^yithiJl 
 
 d2
 
 xliv 
 
 of Dapper DicJc *, by which he was universally 
 known. In disposition he was as admirable as 
 in person ; and always taking, from the gaiety 
 of his heart, a conspicuous part in the neigh- 
 bourhood in promoting the festivities of Christ- 
 mas, those good times gone by long beheld hira 
 the darling of that side of the country. 
 
 By a nuncupative will Brathwait left the 
 whole of his personal property to his youngest 
 son " Sir Strafford Brathwait Knight de Cat- 
 terick," which was valued as exceeding seven 
 hundred pounds. His real estates probably 
 passed by marriage settlement. 
 
 one yearc and an halfe. As for others, either Beuer or 
 Felts, they were on the suddaine of no reckoning at all : 
 in so much, that my selfe (still continuing one fashion) 
 I bought a Bcuer hat for v.s. which the yeare before 
 could not be had vnder SO.s." — The present State of En- 
 gland, crprcsscd in this Paradox, Our Fathers were very 
 rich with little, and Jfee poore with much. Written bi/ Wal- 
 ter Cary. London, &c. 1627. 4to. 
 
 • In Mr. Wilson's copy (see p. 48) it is said, " he 
 wa> usually called Dagger Dick."
 
 xlv 
 
 Two portraits of our author were published 
 in 1638. By the one prefixed to the Nurserif 
 for Gentry, subscribed JEtatis 48, with the 
 motto Meliori nascimur cevo, and given as a 
 frontispiece to the present volume, he appears 
 then to have enjoyed the bloom of life and full 
 vigour of constitution. The other is given in 
 the engraved title to the Psalms, where he has 
 a more aged appearance ; probably adopted as 
 the sedate christian moralist, — a character he 
 seemed desirous uniformly to sustain in all his 
 serious and religious pieces. In the original it 
 forms a medallion or oval of the same size as 
 here given, and is rather laconically subscribed 
 Qiianqiiam o.
 
 INTRODUCTION.
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 OF THE FIRST EDITION. 
 
 H E second volume of the pre- 
 sent edition is a reprint verbatim 
 et literatim and of correspond- 
 ing size with the original edi- 
 tion. A title-page as forming Vol. II. and the 
 small paginary numbers in the centre of the 
 page to assist in reference, are the only devia- 
 tions from the immediate character of a fac- 
 simile. 
 
 VOL. 1. B
 
 OF THE SECOND EDITION. 
 
 Drunhcn Barnahys Four Journeys to the 
 Noiih of England. In Latin and English 
 Verse, Wittily and Merrily [tho' near one hun- 
 dred years ago ) compos d ; found among some 
 old musty books, that had a long time lain by in 
 a Corner; and novo at last made publick. To 
 'which is added y Bessy Bell. 
 
 I lie est qucm quacris, ille quem requiris, 
 Toto notus in orbc Britannus. HoR. 
 
 ]'arnabas E))nus. 
 
 London : for S, Illidge, under Searle's Gate 
 Lincolns-Inn Ncxv- Square: and sold by S. Bat' 
 lard in Liille-Brilain, J. Graves in St. James S' 
 Street, and J. IValthoe over-against the Royal 
 Exchange. 1716. Small Octavo, 83 leaves. 
 
 Such was the title fabricated for this en- 
 tertaining Itinerary on its lirst re-appearance.
 
 3 
 
 Whether it was the happy thought of the edi- 
 tor, or suggested by a not less interested per- 
 son, the pubhsher, who might conjecture a title 
 more popular was required than that of a mere 
 * Journal,' (however in the fore-front it was 
 said * Viatoris solatia — for the traveller's so- 
 lace') it is now immaterial to inquire; but it 
 may be observed that in the social tours of our 
 Author, although he never travels any great 
 distance without halting and making some en- 
 try in his Journal to record a good sign or a 
 pleasing hostess, there are fewer records of ab- 
 solute inebriety than might be expected from 
 his convivial manners and general bibacity. 
 There are gradations in all vicious pursuits; and 
 our Author labours to preserve the character 
 of his hero in unison with the common idiom 
 of the period when he wrote, by never repre- 
 senting him otherwise than * maudlin drunk/ 
 It might happen, and probably was so, that the 
 term < Drunken Barnaby' being the burthen
 
 4 
 
 of an old ballad, was sufficiently popular to 
 cause this alteration of title, which is only 
 worth noticing, to prove that an ill name lasts 
 for ever, and to remark that our hero Barnabee 
 is so universally known as a Drunkard, and so 
 very little known as a Journalist, that a reader 
 may expect on beholding the original title he 
 is going to be introduced to a stranger instead 
 of a very old acquaintance. 
 
 The merit of this edition may be easily ap- 
 preciated by considering the omissions, varia- 
 tions, and additions. And from examining these 
 points it seems impossible to doubt as fact, that 
 the editor did not possess a perfect copy of the 
 first edition, to which circumstance may be at- 
 tributed similar omissions in some of the later 
 editions. But to tlie analysis : 
 
 Omissions. The titles before each of the four 
 parts*. The lines (see vol. ii.) at p. 5 and 7*. 
 
 * llic titles and lines at p. 7 and the other asterisks 
 also oniittcd in later editions.
 
 s 
 
 Ad Translatorem and To the Translator p. 10 
 and 11. The lines p. 422-3 *. Ad Philoxenum 
 and To Philoxenus p. 430-1. Prose address 
 to Reader p. 446* and Errata p. 448*. 
 
 Variations. The frontispiece reversed 
 from right to left ; on the label from the pipe 
 * sic transit^ &c. ; on that from the roll of to- 
 bacco upon the table 'Jiimus et imibj-a siumis:* 
 the parcel bound across with a string has in 
 the four divisions ' Ede-Bibe-Sta-Lude ;' the 
 empty pot is left without inscription, and the 
 label at the top of the plate has only ^Barnabas 
 Itinerariiim,' 
 
 The text was modernized throughout, and 
 in many instances altered though not always 
 improved f. 
 
 Additions. As an embellishment there was 
 introduced a print of our hero taking leave of 
 
 t The same liberty was taken wath the next three edi- 
 tions. The respective collations are preserved in another 
 part of the present voliune.
 
 his host at the Inn door, at the sign of the 
 Bell *, by having a stirrup glass ; the hostess is 
 just seen behind the Landlord; and the hostler 
 attends the act of mounting on the off side of 
 the horse. The Index was added, and the fol- 
 lowing introductory matter, also repeated in 
 the subsequent editions. 
 
 " THE niEFACE TO THE READER. 
 
 *' It will not, I hope, be thought unneces- 
 sary, if I lay before the reader my reason for 
 republishing this facetious little book, after a 
 delitescency of near a hundred years. Being 
 desir'd by a gentlewoman to look over a par- 
 cel of old books, among 'cm I chanc'd upon 
 Drunken ]3arnaby, which reading gave me sa- 
 tisfaction for my trouble ; whereupon I took a 
 resolution to juiblish it, that others niight there- 
 with be pleas'd as well as myself. What I can 
 
 * Probably at St<)iu>; sec vol. ii. p. 127.
 
 gather of the author is chiefly from himself 
 for he says, coming to a place call'd Harring- 
 ton, he was well pleas'd with the omen, and 
 spent some money there for name sake, so that 
 I conclude his name was Barnaby Harrington, 
 He further says, that after a tedious journey of 
 about six miles a day, and sometimes three or 
 four, (very vveary, and heavy laden,) he at last 
 arriv'd at x-^pulby in Westmorland, where he 
 was born ; and where, if I mistake not, there 
 are some remains of the family still living. That 
 he was a graduate in Queen's College, Oxon, 
 is plain, but I have not had an opportunity of 
 knowing what degrees he took. 'Tis the man 
 no doubt, of whom the song says, 
 
 Hey, Bai-naby ! take't for a warning, &c. 
 
 He says, he afterwards (after four journeys 
 backward and forward) married in the coun- 
 try, turn'd farmer ; and frequented the horse- 
 fairs all round the country, buying horses when
 
 8 
 
 cheap, and (like a true jockey) selling 'em 
 when dear, upon which he is very pleasant. I 
 thought fit to say thus much, and more I have 
 not ; only wibh the Reader pleas'd as I was." 
 
 «' EDITOR LECTORI. 
 " QuuM primum reperi hbellum hunc lepi- 
 dissimum, legendo gaudcbam, quod &: tu facies 
 cum legeris nullus dubito. Editum inveni abs- 
 que ajra, absque nomine, vel Authoris, vel Bi- 
 bliopoloE), vel Typographi, aut ullo alio indicio 
 possessorem ullum indicante ; ergo statui mei 
 juris esse, inque lucem emisi. De Authore 
 quod certum est subjiciam : Ab amico meo 
 doctissimo nunc prassule intellexi Authorem 
 Barnabam Harrington fuisse, ante multos an- 
 nos (forte nonaginta aut centum) vel Socium, 
 vel Artium Magistrum, aut saltern Membrum, 
 Collegii Reginensis apud Oxonienses, quod in- 
 nuit etiam Author sa^pius. Natus erat, ut ait 
 ipse, Aballaba; Westmarorum inter Septcu-
 
 9 
 
 triones ex antiqua stirpe, prole ibi adhuc ma- 
 nente. Hie est fainosissimus ille de quo decan- 
 tatiim illud & tritum apud valgus cantillatur, 
 
 Hey, Barnahy ! take '* for a warnings 
 Be no more drunk nor dry in a morning. 
 
 De libro nulla est necessitas addendi quid- 
 quam ; facile perleges, & perlecto judicabis. 
 De Versu, de Metro, de Erroribus neque est 
 quod addam ; ipse enim Autor satis ludicre 
 in Errata libro praefixa seipsum vindicavit, 
 quum ait, 
 
 Quid si sedem muto sede ? 
 Quid si carmen claudo pede ? 
 Quid si noctem sensi diem ? 
 Quid si veprem esse viam? 
 Sat est, verbum declina^^, 
 » TitubOj titubas, titubavi.' 
 
 " Vale & ride affatira. Lector."
 
 10 
 
 OF THE THIRD EDITION. 
 
 Dnink-cn Baryiahi/s Four Journeys^ &c. The 
 Third Edition illustrated tvith several 7iexv cop- 
 per cuts. London printed Jor S. Illidge, under 
 Serle's GafCf Lincolns-Inn New Square, 17^3. 
 Small 8vo. 102 leaves. 
 
 Again altered by placing a title before the 
 first part, and the mottoes of all the titles at 
 the end of the fourth journey, before the ballad 
 of Bessy Bell. It was printed from the text of 
 the Second Edition. 
 
 The 'new copper cuts' announced in the 
 title consist of four prints, ' J. Clark sculp.' 
 from su])jccts illustrative of each Journey; viz. 
 
 I. The Puritan gibbeting the cat, vol. ii. p. 23. 
 
 II. Barnaby carried in state from the Cock at 
 Budworth, p. 119. III. The voyage on the hay- 
 cock from Wansforth briggs, p. 239. IV. Exa-
 
 11 
 
 mining the horse without a tail, or, as the print 
 represents, with a tail that comes off, p. 375. 
 
 The frontispiece as given in the second edi- 
 tion, with the plate of the departure from the 
 sign of the Bell, inscribed • Bessy Bell,' ingeni- 
 ously altered by expunging the figures of host 
 and hostess, to substitute that of a female only, 
 thereby exhibiting the subject of the ballad 
 without re-engraving the whole plate.
 
 12 
 
 OF THE FOURTH EDITION. 
 
 DrunJcen Barnahys Fotir Journeys^ &c, — 
 The Jburth edition^ illustrated with several neat 
 copper plates, London, printed by W. Stuart y 
 No.67, Paternoster-Rotv. mdcclxxvi*. Small 
 Octavo, 102 leaves. 
 
 This was printed page for page from the 
 third edition ; the five prints re-engraved, with 
 the subjects reversed, and the frontispiece given 
 without any of the inscriptions. 
 
 At the end of this edition only there is ap- 
 pended ^Lucus Chevinus — Chevy Chase,' sepa- 
 rately paged and alternately Latin and English, 
 extending to sixteen leaves. This translation 
 is modern and anonymous. 
 
 * Before a few cojjies a new Title was afterwards sub- 
 stituted, dated MuccLXxviii.
 
 IS 
 
 OF THE FIFTH EDITION. 
 
 Drunken Barnabys Four Journeys to the 
 North of England, London : printed for 
 J, Harding, No. 36, St. James s Street. 1805. 
 Large and small Octavo, 98 leaves. 
 
 Embellished with seven new vignettes and 
 tail pieces. The text that of the last preceding 
 edition, with some further occasional variations 
 where the English text was supposed imperfect, 
 or too obscure to be generally comprehended. 
 
 The principal merit of this edition consists 
 in the prefixing of the following valuable Ad- 
 vertisement, which collects much conjectural 
 and other amusing matter relative to the sup- 
 posed author and his Journal. 
 
 *^ ADVERTISEMENT. 
 " A NEW edition of Drunken Barnaby's 
 Journal, in Latin and English rhime, having
 
 14 
 
 been long a desideratum in the literary world, 
 the Publisher thought it would be deserving 
 well of such as had a taste for wit and learning, 
 to extend the acquaintance of a festive bard, 
 who has delighted all to whom he has been 
 known. 
 
 *' A Frenchman has written a volume, con- 
 cerning authors who had published works under 
 fictitious names. The facetious author of ' Tra- 
 vels to the North, four times backward and for- 
 ward,' might perhaps be enrolled in the number; 
 for tlierc is reason to believe Barnaby Harring- 
 ton to be a denomination void and vain, 
 
 " Various motives, good and bad, induce au- 
 thors to conceal themselves from the public. 
 Out of a capricious haughtiness, Swift rarely 
 avowed any of his productions : and Voltaire, 
 from regard to his personal repose, disavowed 
 many of his, with an earnestness not very con- 
 sistent with the principles of truth. But the 
 motives to concealment, whatever they may be,
 
 15 
 
 have force only for a time; the pride and fasci- 
 nation of authorship usually prevail in the end 
 with every attractive writer to lay claim to the 
 laurels of literature. This however is not in- 
 variably the case ; whether from fortuitous cir- 
 cumstances, or peculiarity of disposition, there 
 are several celebrated productions of which the 
 authors remain inscrutable to curiosity. The 
 famous Barnaby Harrington's Travels is per- 
 haps to be one instance of the kind. 
 
 " On the perusal of a performance possess- 
 ing so much merit, as well as eccentricity, a 
 strong desire is excited to know what the au- 
 thor was, when he lived, and when he wrote. 
 Some notices are contained in his own pages ; 
 they give us to understand, that his name was 
 Harrington; that he was born at Appleby; that 
 he married at Darlington; and at last settled 
 in the North, as a dealer in horses and cattle. 
 But who can say whether these particulars are 
 real or imaginary? Upon a reference to many
 
 16 
 sources of information, no proof of them can 
 be found. 
 
 " Barnaby's Travels are sometimes quoted 
 in books ; in Gent's History of York ; in Bou- 
 cher's Biograpkia Cumherlandi(S -, in Hutchin- 
 son's History of Durham, &c. &c. and they 
 have obtained so much regard, that several 
 copies are extant with manuscript comments. 
 Hitherto, however, no biographical account 
 of him has been given ; the real has not been 
 distinguished from the assumed character of 
 the writer. The editor of tlie second edition 
 of the work calls him a graduate of Queen's 
 College, Oxford; an assertion not corroborated 
 by the author ; nor is his name to be found in 
 the lists of Oxford or Cambridge graduates. 
 A manuscript memorandum states him to have 
 been a Schoolmaster in Yorkshire; but with- 
 out assigning any authority. Barnaby gives no 
 intimation himself of his vocation or business, 
 until, in his last journey, lie becomes horse-
 
 17 
 
 dealer. It would be difficult to decide how far 
 his Journal is a faithful relation: it seems alike 
 improbable, that he should have feigned the 
 whole, or that a man of such powers of intellect 
 as he displays, should be engaged in the man- 
 ner he represents himself, in perpetual inebria- 
 tion with low associates. These courses militate 
 against the tenor of an address to the reader, 
 prefixed* to the first edition ; and which being 
 afterwards omitted, we shall here introduce. 
 
 ** « Good reader, if this impression have er- 
 rors in it, excuse it; the copy was obscure, nei- 
 ther was the author, by reason of his distance 
 and employments of higher consequence, made 
 acquainted with the publishing of it. 
 
 His Pataviniis erravit jyrcHs, 
 Authorem suis lacerando telis. 
 Philander.' 
 
 ** Fiction may be supposed to have some 
 share in Barnaby's descriptions; probably a 
 
 * [affixed. Ed.]
 
 18 
 
 large share. Having invested himself with a 
 poetical character, it may be presumed that he 
 both fabricated and adapted incidents to suit 
 it, like other dealers in poetry. A song, such as 
 the perusal of his Travels might suggest, was 
 composed, and is cited by one of his editors; 
 but as only a single couplet of it has been given, 
 we shall gratify the curious with two more. 
 
 ' Barnaby, Barnaby, thou'st been (kinking, 
 I can tell by thy nose and thy eyes \vinking. 
 Drunk at Richmond, drunk at Dover, 
 Drunk at Newcastle, and drunk all over. 
 Hey, Barnaby ! take't for a warning. 
 Be no more drunk nor dry in a morning*.* 
 
 " This song was considered as a curiosity 
 by the late Mr. llitson, having been recovered 
 from the recollection of his mother, a north- 
 country woman. Barnaby was a great favourite 
 
 * From the very obliging communication of ITiomas 
 Park, Esq. •whose stores of varied and extensive infor- 
 mation are rendered the more valuable, because accom- 
 panied by a dispobllion most liberally communicative*
 
 19 
 
 with Mr, R. ; and he regarded him rather as a 
 real than a fictitious character. 
 
 *' The period of Barnaby's living and writing, 
 though not ascertained with preciseness, is not 
 so much obscured from view as his person. 
 Several circumstances concur to manifest, that 
 it was in the early part of the seventeenth cen- 
 tury. 
 
 " The original edition of the Travels has no 
 date; is of very diminutive size; and has the ap- 
 pearance of being printed about the middle of 
 that centur}^ It has a frontispiece engraved by 
 W. Marshall,who flourished from 1635 to 1650. 
 
 " In 1716 was printed the next editioujwhich, 
 instead of an address to the reader, that ac- 
 companied the former, substituted the Latin 
 address, Editor Lectori, with an English Ad- 
 vertisement, and also an Index*. The period 
 
 [* A slight transposition has been made in this pass- 
 age of the Advertisement, for the purpose of stating the 
 edition correctly Editor.] 
 
 c2
 
 20 
 
 of republication seems to have been too remote 
 for the editor to gain much knowledge of the 
 author. Accordingly, he gives no information 
 respecting Barnaby, in addition to what his 
 own pages supply, except that of calling him 
 * a Graduate of Oxford;' which, upon examina- 
 tion, has proved to be an unfounded report. 
 
 " A third edition in 1723, with some trifling 
 alteration; and a fourth was printed in ITT-i, 
 with no variation from the preceding. 
 
 " With respect to time, there is internal evi- 
 dence ; Barnaby mentions Middleton, as en- 
 riched by the New River. 
 
 ^ nines lencm dantes somimy 
 
 Qui dilarunt Middlelomim. [Vol. II. p. 202.] 
 
 *' This allusion could be strictly applicable 
 only in the early stage of the project for con- 
 veying the stream from Amwell to London, 
 undertaken by Sir Hugh Middleton in 1613, 
 wlien riches were doubtless expected from it; 
 inil not aftcrv.ards, when it had exhausted his
 
 21 
 
 wealth, unless ironically. The allusion at any 
 rate shows, that the undertaking was recent. 
 
 <' On passing through Wansforth Briggs, 
 Barnaby mentions an inscription, common in 
 the early part of the seventeenth century, on 
 account of the plague which then frequently 
 infested different parts of England, 
 
 Sed scribentem digitum Dei 
 Spectcms ' Miserere meii 
 Atriis, angulis confestiniy 
 Evitandi curd pestem, 
 - Fugi. [lb. p. 240.] 
 
 " He observes that Pomfret had been a place 
 very sinister to English princes*, 
 
 Veni Ponvfret, ubi niiram 
 
 Arcem, Anglis regibus diram. [lb. p. 278.] 
 
 and is so filled with the idea, as to continue the 
 observation in a note, with a sort of prediction 
 of the fate of S : : : : : 
 
 Regibus Anglonnn dedit arx tua dira ruinam, 
 
 Hoc titido fatum cerne S::::: tuiim. [Ibid.] 
 
 * Richard II. and two of Edward the Fifth's uncles 
 were murdered in Pomfret (Pontefract) Castle.
 
 22 
 
 " If this S : : : : : is rendered Stuart, for which 
 it seems to be meant, it will fix the date of 
 Barnaby's travelling or writing to the period of 
 the civil wars. 
 
 " Barnaby mentions a piper (lb. p. 291) 
 who recovered his vital functions after being 
 hanged at York ; calling himself a witness to 
 the truth of this extraordinary incident, which 
 happened in the year 1634'. The story is thus 
 told in Gent's History of York, 1730, p. 223. 
 
 " ' This year (IGo^) one John Bartendale 
 was executed at York gallows for felony. When 
 he had hung three quarters of an hour, he was 
 cut down and buried near the place of execu- 
 tion. A little after, a gentleman, of the an- 
 cient family of the Vavasours, of Hesselwood, 
 riding by, thought he saw the earth move; upon 
 which, ordering his man to alight, and alight- 
 ing himself, both of them cliaritably assisted 
 to throw by the mould, and to liclp the buried 
 convict from his grave ; who, being conveyed
 
 23 
 
 again to York Castle, was, by the same gentle- 
 man's intercession, reprieved till the next as- 
 sizes, and then pardoned by the Judge, who 
 seemed amazed at so signal a providence. And 
 this puts me in mind, that the said Bartendale 
 was a piper, taken notice of by Barnaby, in his 
 book of travels into the northern parts. 
 
 " ' I have been told the poor fellow turned 
 hostler, and lived very honestly afterwards. 
 Having been demanded, what he could tell in 
 relation to hanging, as having experienced it, 
 he replied. That when he was turned off flashes 
 of fire seemed to dart from his eyes, from which 
 he fell into a state of darkness and insensibi- 
 lity, &c.' 
 
 " Barnaby tells us of his giving alms to a 
 beggar at Harrington. 
 
 Harringtoni dedi nummum. [lb. p. 222.] 
 
 " A Harrington was a town-piece, trades- 
 man's token, or other small coin current in the 
 early part of the seventeenth century. It is
 
 24 
 
 frequently mentioned by Ben Jonson, as in The 
 Devil is an Ass, — ' I will not bate a Harring- 
 ton o' the sum*.' 
 
 " This, after much labour of investigation, 
 which it would wear the appearance of affec- 
 tation to detail, is all we have discovered con- 
 cerning the singular performance which has for 
 its adumbrated author, Barnaby Harrington ; 
 and for a great part of this we are under obli- 
 gations to literary persons, whose readiness of 
 communication claims our best acknowledg- 
 ments, while their eminence forbids us to name 
 them oil an occasion which nu'ght be deemed 
 
 [ * The late IMr. Ritson had a manuscript note to the 
 above cfrcct. 
 
 This passapjc seems to have no furtlicr meaning than 
 tliat Earnaby liaving arrived at Harrington with a Har- 
 rington town-piece in his possession, he gave it to a beg- 
 gar, tliough he had need of it himself, from the love he 
 bore to tlie name, or for the sake of the quibble. P. 
 
 It is as if a man writing a humourous journey should 
 say, " Arriving at I'ilbury-fort, I gave a beggar a Tilbury 
 (sixpence) for tlie name's sake." A. cd. 1818.]
 
 25 
 
 too trivial. Further notices of the author may 
 possibly exist in books out of the common track 
 of reading ; and we solicit the favour of infor- 
 mation, addressed to the publisher, from those 
 ■vvho may be able to communicate any towards 
 bringing him to light. 
 
 " Barnaby Harrington, whoever he was, is 
 entitled to the kindness of the world, for the 
 entertainment he affords. His humour, his 
 gaiety, and his learning, give him no mean rank 
 amongst authors. 
 
 <« It has been observed, that poetry is not a 
 little indebted to geography and topography ; 
 which, besides numerous incidental descrip- 
 tions, have furnished materials for many entire 
 poems. Ausonius has employed his muse to 
 celebrate the considerable towns of his coun- 
 try. Rutilius has left an elegant itinerary in 
 verse of which we regret the mutilation. Dray- 
 ton has voluminously versified the whole topo- 
 graphy of the British island. Regnard has
 
 26 
 
 narrated in alternations of prose and rhime, a 
 Journey to Provence ; a very pleasing effusion 
 of spriteliness. Gay has exercised his humour- 
 ous and poetical vein in the detail of a Journey 
 to Exeter: and Prior has displayed his face- 
 tious talent in the recital of his Excursion to 
 Down. Barnaby Harrington, in the relation 
 of his Travels, is inferior to none in vivacity, 
 in wit, or in erudition. Many ingenious and 
 learned allusions are interspersed. If he lived 
 as a drunkard, he thought at least as a scholar. 
 He shows himself acquainted with the history, 
 antiquities, and customs of every place he vi- 
 sits ; and exhibits so much acuteness of remark 
 and keenness of satire, that he is evidently, sub 
 persona, a drunkard merely in masquerade. 
 
 <' It would be a great injustice to Barnaby 
 to form any estimate of his merits from the 
 English version, which is upon the whole un- 
 worthy of the Latin text, though it has some 
 passages that give pleasure. From the disparity
 
 27 
 
 of the Latin and English, we are inclined to 
 believe that Barnaby had no share in the com- 
 position of the latter ; which, yet, we dare not 
 venture to assert ; recollecting that the English 
 verse of May is justly condemned to oblivion 
 for its meanness, ruggedness, and obscurity, 
 while he shines a poet of supreme excellence in 
 Latin. It is observable, that the English ver- 
 sion of the original edition of Barnaby differs in 
 various places from the subsequent editions. 
 
 ** The first edition of this work contained a 
 frontispiece only ; a plate was added in the se- 
 cond edition, and in the third edition of 1723, 
 four plates were introduced ; but as none of 
 these are materially connected with the work, 
 nor possess any particular merit, either of de- 
 sign or execution, they have been superseded 
 by seven new vignettes. 
 
 *' April, 1805."
 
 28 
 
 OF THE SIXTH EDITION". 
 
 Same title, 1805. 
 
 In this edition by tlie interference of a lite- 
 rary character, who supplied a partial collation, 
 there was for the first time an attempt made 
 towards restoring the genuine text, and an- 
 nounced by the following note at the end of 
 the preceding Advertisement. 
 
 *' The rapid sale of a considerable impres- 
 sion of this Journal in the short period of a few 
 weeks, afibrds the editor an opportunity of pre- 
 senting a new edition, improved by collation 
 with the earlier copies. 
 
 *' September, 1805."
 
 OF THE IRISH EDITION. 
 
 DntnJcen Barnahys four Journeys to the 
 North of England. In Latin and English 
 Verse. Wittily and Merrily [though above one 
 hundred years ago) composed ; found among 
 some old musty hooks, that had a long time lain 
 by in a Corner ; and now at last made public. 
 To ivhich is added, Bessy Bell, ivith a compleat 
 Index. 
 
 Hie est quern quasris, ille quem reqiiiris, 
 Toto notus in orbe Britannus, HoR. 
 
 Barnabas Ebrius. 
 
 Dublin : Printed for William Williamson, 
 Wholesale Stationer and Bookseller, at MaccC' 
 nass-Head, in Bride-Street, mdcclxii. Oc- 
 tavo : 72 leaves. 
 
 This edition is recently discovered. By the 
 date it should reckon as the fourth, and was
 
 so 
 
 a reprint from the second, with no other va- 
 riations than in the Title of ^near to ^ ahove 
 one hundred years ago, and adding ' with a 
 compleat Index.* The embellishments were 
 omitted.
 
 31 
 
 ^ The foregoing pages show the popular 
 demand for the ' Itinerary,' and also the extent 
 of information that had been obtained, as well 
 from research as conjecture, towards a disco- 
 very of the author, when the present editor, at 
 the request of the publisher, undertook the in- 
 spection of 
 
 THE SEVENTH EDITION. 
 
 BarnahcB Itinerarium, or Barnabees Journal, 
 The Seventh Edition, To which are jprejixed An 
 Account of the Author^ notv Jirst discovered ; 
 A Bibliographical History of the former Edi- 
 tions of the TVorh ; and Illustrative Notes, 
 London, &c. 1818. 
 
 The text of the first edition was carefully 
 restored as the only authority, and the original 
 arrangement also preserved. The Index was 
 retained and enlarged ; and the preliminary
 
 32 
 
 matter given from the later editions : with the 
 respective collations of the text. The Editor 
 observes : 
 
 Some information may be expected as to any 
 effect which the request, forming part of the 
 Advertisement to the fifth edition*, has had ; 
 and what communications have been made, 
 either as a clue to trace the author, or on the 
 subject of his journal. Eleven years have now 
 elapsed, since that request was made public 
 with all the advantage that might be expected 
 to arise from a very rapid dispersion of two 
 large impressions of the work ; yet no informa- 
 tion has been the consequence. Upon such an 
 enquiry there is seldom a parsimonious with- 
 liolding of intelligence ; nor can there be any 
 reason, in the present instance, for impeaching 
 the liberal system so uniformly promoted by 
 those, who duly appreciate enquiries on literary 
 subjects when involved by time in obscurity. 
 
 * Sec ]). 23.
 
 S3 
 
 It may rather be inferred, that neither from re- 
 search nor accident has any thing new been 
 discovered. 
 
 Perhaps the circumstance of this want of in- 
 formation, occasior'ed that bold but shallow at- 
 tempt made in 1811, lor the purpose of creating 
 a temporary belief that in the posthumous vo- 
 lume of poems of William Bosworth, Gentle- 
 man*, the author was discovered, to remain 
 
 * The volume is not verj^ common. It is entitled The 
 Chast and Lost Lovers lively shadoived in the persons of 
 Arcadius and Sepha, and illustrated with the severaU stories 
 of Hccmon and Antigo)ie, Eramio and Amissa, Phaon and 
 Sappho, Delithason and Verista : Being a description of 
 severall Lovers smirnig ivith delight, and tvith hopes fresh as 
 their youth, and fair as their beauties in the beginning of 
 their affections, aiid covered ivith Blood and Hon^or in the 
 conclusion. To this is added the Contestation betwixt Bac- 
 chus andDiana, andcertain Sonnetsofthe Author to Avrora. 
 Digested into three Poems, by Will. Bosworth, Gent. 
 Me quoque 
 
 Impune volare, &: sereno 
 
 Calliope dedit ire ccelo. 
 London, printed by F, L. for Laurence BlaiklocJc, and
 
 S4t 
 
 hitherto unexposed. However, as this an- 
 nouncement was early known to be fabricated 
 for a sinister purpose, a public confutation 
 
 are to be sold at his shop at Temple-bar, 1651. pp. 127, 
 without introduction. Oct. 
 
 Dedicated " to the true lover of all good learning the 
 Honourable John Finch, Esq;" to whom it is repre- 
 sented that the Poems are " the work of a young Gentle- 
 man of 19 years of age, who had he lived, might have 
 been as well the wonder as the delight of the Arts, and 
 been advanced by them amongst the highest in the 
 
 Temple of Fame These are only his first flights, his 
 
 first fruits, the early flowers of his youth ; flowers they 
 arc, but so sweetly violent, that as their Beauties doe 
 arrest our eyes, so (I hope) their perfume will continue 
 through many ages to testifie the influence of your pro- 
 tection, and tlie most graccfull * resentments of him who 
 is, Sir, Your most humble and devoted Servant, R. C." 
 
 A preface or address " to the reader" characterises the 
 work witli excess of praise. " You sliall find in this sy- 
 stem the idea of Poetry at large, and in one garland all 
 the flowers on the Hill of Parnassus, or on the banks of 
 Helicon Thestrengthof his fancy, and the shadow- 
 ing of it in words he takcth from Mr. Marlow in his 
 Hero and Lcandcr, whose mighty lines Mr. Benjamin
 
 S5 
 
 might, by the discussion, best have served to 
 promote the object desired, that of creating a 
 demand for the re-engraved portrait of Bos- 
 worth *. 
 
 Johnson (a man sensible enough of liis own abilities) 
 was often heard to say, that they were examples fitter 
 for admiration than for parallel, you shall find our Au- 
 thor every where in this imitation The weaving of 
 
 one story into another and the significant flourish that 
 doth attend it is the peculiar grace of Sir Philip Sidney, 
 whom our author doth so happily imitate, as if he were 
 one of the same inteligences that moved in that incom- 
 parable compasse. His making the end of one verse to 
 be the frequent beginning of the other (besides the Art 
 of the Trope) was the labour and delight of I\Ir. Edmund 
 Spe[n]cer, whom Sir Walt. Raleigh and S. Kenelm 
 Digby were used to call the English Virgill, and in- 
 deed Virgin himself did often use it, and in my opinion 
 with a greater grace, making the last word only of his 
 verse to be the beginning of the verse following." 
 
 * See a letter in the Morning Chronicle, Aug. 27, 
 1811, subscribed ' Francis Allison, No. 134, St. Mar- 
 tin's-lane Charing-cross,' and a similar one in the Gentle- 
 man s Mag. for August, (vol. IxxxL p. 2. p. 125.) sub- 
 scribed < Francis Allison' as of < Chiswell Street.' 
 
 d2
 
 36 
 
 Enough, if not too much, has already grown 
 out of conjecture; and nothing now remains to 
 be added but some comments on the preceding 
 pages, together with a few notes illustrative of 
 tlie poem. 
 
 October 10tl\ 1817. 
 
 Thus far was transmitted to the printer, 
 when an obscure passage in the Itinerary, oc- 
 casioning a reference to a long neglected but 
 once popular work, produced the satisfactory 
 discovery of the identity of the author of that 
 work with the writer of Barnabee's Journal. 
 
 As there are some conjectural points that 
 have obtained from time almost the credence 
 of truth, and arc still interesting, it will not be 
 immaterial, before we announce the real author, 
 to consider upon what ground those points 
 were first brought forward as authorities. 
 
 The current appellation of Darnabij Ilai'
 
 ringion never had any probable foundation. 
 The name of Barnaby taken from the original 
 title page, and the burthen of an old festive 
 ballad, is, with all the gravity of fact, unduly 
 combined with, and made to precede, the word 
 Harrington, a name of still baser coinage. 
 Both' these are the wilful misconception of the 
 editor of the second edition. Can the stanza 
 upon the town of Harrington, which is the sole 
 authority for that designation, by any enlarged 
 meaning be construed to imply more from the 
 equivoque, than that our rambling humourist 
 simply gave the beggar at Harrington a Har* 
 rington or town token ? The real author says, 
 on another occasion, " coine for stampe sake 
 we allowe," alluding, undoubtedly, to such 
 local tokens being in common circulation *. 
 
 * See also note p. 24, and Works of Ben Jonson, 
 1816, vol. V. p. 44, where the intelligent editor has given 
 an account of the patent under which this coinage issued, 
 and a fac-simile of one of the tokens.
 
 38 
 
 As such, this reputed name, certainly adopted 
 from the need of a better, may be dropt just 
 as it was taken up, without either care or con- 
 sequence. 
 
 That the birth place of the author was 
 Appleby is doubtful, though the distance there- 
 from was not so great as to make its assigna- 
 tion exceed the limits of the liccntia poctica. 
 The marriage, final settlement, and some other 
 incidents appear true events in the author's life, 
 except his being educated at Queen's College, 
 which must have been conjectured in conse- 
 quence of the record of the horn of that college 
 speaking " pure Athenian." 
 
 Were an outline to be sketched which might 
 be presented as an unforced likeness of the 
 author, would it not depict one born in West- 
 morland ; with relatives residing in the county, 
 having an University education ; a well read 
 scholar ; loving horses ; journeying occasion- 
 ally ; a strict loyalist ; perhaps, for courtesy,
 
 89 
 
 a spendthrift ; certainly a married man ; one 
 who flourished under the reigns of James I. 
 and Charles I., and also a moral writer and sa- 
 tirical poet of eminence? — Such a portrait may 
 be easily drawn from the life, character, and 
 writings of Richard Brathwait. 
 
 That writer flourished above fifty years; and 
 however difficult it may often be to trace an 
 anonymous work to its parent source, yet a vo- 
 luminous author, of only partial celebrity, can 
 seldom so thoroughly disguise his style as not 
 to be discovered. With him, ^s with an artist, 
 repeated labour creates the mannerist ; and the 
 common use of a set phrase forms, like the 
 mistresses of Rubens, the gray horse of Wou- 
 vermans, the boors tippling of Teniers, or the 
 animals of Snyders, direct evidence for appro- 
 priation. One of the strong peculiarities of 
 Brathwait, of this description, is found in the 
 first edition of the Itinerary. There four pages 
 have for a running title " Upon the Errata's ;"
 
 40 
 now what author of that period, except Brath- 
 wait, deviates from the custom of collecting all 
 as * Errata,' and indulges, like him, in a serious 
 or humourous apology for the mistakes of the 
 press under this fixed title? But BmlJamit's 
 apologies contain further proof, as for ex- 
 ample, — 
 
 " Upon the Errata. Gentlemen (humanum 
 est errare) to confirme which, &c. — know iu- 
 dicious disposed Gentlemen, that the intricacie 
 of the copie, and the absence of the author from 
 many important proofs were occasion of these 
 errors,* " ^c. 
 
 " Upon the Errata's. — The Authors ah sence^ 
 tvith the intricacie of this copie, caused these 
 Escapes here committed, to be so many. But 
 no wonder, if subjects of this nature become 
 subject to Error, when they treat of so giddie 
 an humour, as Liquor and Vapour. Correct 
 
 * Strappado for the DhlcUi 1C15.
 
 41 
 
 them, as you shall meet them, with a censo- 
 rious candour *." 
 
 Again : " The intricacy of the copy tvith the 
 absence of the Author, may exact this curtsy 
 from the ingenuous reader f." 
 
 Are not these the express apology made for 
 Barnahee's Journal, that " the copy teas ob- 
 scure ; neither tvas the author by reason of his 
 distance and iinploymeiits of higher consequence 
 made acquainted with the publishing of it J." 
 This coincidence was not likely to happen from 
 chance, and allowing it might, we proceed : 
 
 In another work by Brathtvait we have the 
 following : 
 
 " Upon the Errata. Howsoever, S^x. — 
 Truth is, Gentlemen, when you encounter with 
 any Errors (as they are individuates to all la- 
 bours) you are to impute the error to the ab- 
 
 * The Sinoaking Age, 1617. 
 j- Art asleepe Husband, 1640. 
 \ See vol. ii. p. 446.
 
 42 
 
 sence of the Author^ tvhose affaires in the court' 
 trey tooke him from cares of the city ; or to 
 explaine himselfe more fully, that he may come 
 off fairely, and possesse him of your opinion 
 more freely, he was called away from Laurence 
 Jury *, by the impannel of a Northcrne Jury, 
 and pressed to attendance by an Old Bayliffe 
 of the countrey, when his occasion lay for the 
 presse in the Old Bayly neere the city. In a 
 word had not a Nisi jjrius interposed, these 
 errors by a quest of inquiry had becne pre- 
 vented f." 
 
 This is given with all the playful humour of 
 our Barnahce, who, it may be remarked, ends 
 the second journey at the Griffin in the Old 
 Baily, but on taking up winter quarters re- 
 moves to the Three Cranes. See vol. ii. p. 173. 
 
 * This pun refers to the then distinct parish of St. 
 Lawrence Jcm i y, in tlie ward of Cheap, since united to 
 the parisli of St. INFary Mag(hilen. 
 
 f English Gentleman, 1630.
 
 43 
 
 " Upon the Errata" occurs also in Brath- 
 limit's English Gentletvoman, 1631: in Whim- 
 zies ; or a iietv Cast of Characters ^ 1631 : The 
 Arcadian Princess, 1635 : and again in his 
 Essays upon the Five Senses, 1635. 
 
 Another instance of peculiarity is in the 
 word Tmolus, see vol. ii. p. 423, also used by 
 Brathivait, 
 
 " Tmolus was one of such noble spirit 
 
 Adorn'd with beautie and perfection too." 
 
 The poets Jnilow, 1614. 
 
 *' Many laies would Tmolus ofttimes make 
 
 In diuine measures for Amyclas sake." Ibid* 
 
 " Above the choicest odors that are sent 
 From spicie Tmolus' flowrie continent." 
 
 Xature's Embassij, 1621, p. 184. 
 
 At Budvvorth we find Barnabee 
 " By two ;?0M^^erer5 supported. " vol. ii. p. 119. 
 
 And Brathivait in the Strappado for the 
 Devil, signature ^, has 
 
 *' Blow my Plump-fac't Poulterer of Saffron-hill."
 
 u 
 
 In the English motto of the Title page is 
 
 " Tlie oyle of malt and juycc," Sec. 
 So in the Arcadiaii Princess : 
 
 " With oyle of grace," &c. p. 48. 
 In the Ttco Lancashh-e Lovers, 
 
 " There wants oyle to feed it," p. 27. 
 The proverb, vol. ii. p. -lOl, of Barnaheey 
 
 " Once a yeare laughs wise Apollo," 
 
 may be found in Brathwait's English Gentle' 
 man, p. 174, as 
 
 " Once in tlic year Apollo laughes." 
 
 It would be more than scepticism *, after 
 
 * Many other similarities might be collected from his 
 acknowledged works with little labour. The following 
 passages are sufficient to select in the present instance. 
 
 " I made my cause knowne in the High Court of Re- 
 quests." J'jssajys tipon the Five Senses, 1635. 
 
 *' I presented my suit to that High Court of Re- 
 quests." Spiritual Spiceiij, 10:58. 
 
 " Covetous Widdowcs.who with an Onion in thcnookc
 
 45 
 
 these notices, though few in number, to beh'eve 
 the fourth journey not written by the author 
 of the following description (in part) of a 
 Married Man, 
 
 of their napkin, can make a sowre face and pretend a Sea 
 of sorrow; when the thought of a next husband has seaz'd 
 on their hearts. ' ' Art asleepe Husband, 1 640. 
 
 " She wTapt an Onion in the one nook of her Hand- 
 kerclier, or pump'd for tears ; or drew her face into a 
 purse, purposely to feign a kind of sorrowing, when her 
 heart was full of joy, in hope to enjoy her Jenkin." 
 Comments on the Wife of Bath, 1665, 
 
 " Free bred were my studies, so as Lapwing-like with 
 shell on head, I begun to wi-ite," &c. Heavenly Memen- 
 to'' s, 1638. 
 
 *' These young Lapwings, who leave their nest before 
 they can find wing." Survey of History, 1638. 
 
 " Camillus, whereof we are now to discourse, a right 
 Lapwing, who had left his nest before he had shaken the 
 shell from his head." Two Lancashire Lovers, 1640. 
 
 •* I shall ad\'ise our young jMasters, who, Lap\N-ing- 
 like, be newly crept out of the thin shell of their Guar- 
 dianship, to carry their eyes about them." Captive Cap- 
 tain, 1665.
 
 46 
 *' He that is married, is a man of another 
 world, he hath bid all good fellowship adue, 
 and now plays the mouldwarpe ; his study is 
 the cure of horses, sheep, and cattell. He hath 
 learned by this to man his wife to church and 
 market, keeping an equal distance upon pain 
 of his wive's displeasure ; he carries nothing 
 with better grace or more willingness, than his 
 wive's miffet, fisting-dog *, or fan. He is tide 
 to his wive's presence, as one summoned to 
 make his appearance. Hee goes with his knees 
 like any baker, and may prove a good stalking 
 horse for his restie pace," «S:c. English Gentlc' 
 ma7i, p. 471. 
 
 Numerous passages might be adduced as 
 confirming the present appropriation of author- 
 
 * A Gentleman Usher " carries his ladie's miffet, 
 most gracefully, which she loves so tenderly, as she is 
 ever putting liini in mind of his charge : Prey thee, Puny, 
 <loc not squeeze my puppy." jirt asleqK Husband? a 
 JBoulstcr Leclurc, IGIO, p. 161.
 
 47 
 ship, and several will be found in the Notes, as 
 well as incidental facts preserved in the Sketch 
 of the Life of the Author, 
 
 However, still stronger documents can be 
 NOW adduced *. The following testimony of 
 that accurate enquirer Tom Hearne was trans- 
 mitted from Oxford by my zealous friend the 
 intelligent editor of the forth-coming Hearn- 
 
 lANiE. 
 
 " The Book [says the Antiquarian] called 
 Barnabas's Rambles, printed in Latin and En- 
 glish in 12mo, was written by Richard Brath- 
 waite, who writ and translated a vast number 
 of things besides, he being the Scribler of the 
 times. Anthony a Wood does not mention 
 this amongst his works. But Mr. Bagford tells 
 me that Mr. Chr. Bateman (an eminent Book- 
 seller in Pater Noster Row) who was w^ell ac- 
 
 * The above authorities were obtained since the ap- 
 pearance of the last edition. And it may be proper to 
 renoark the text is otherwise enlarged.
 
 48 
 quainted with some of tlie family, hath several 
 times told him that Brathwait was the author 
 of it. This book is since printed*" 
 
 To conclude: We have obtained the following 
 confirmation from the pen of one who knew the 
 authorpersonally. In a copy of the second edi- 
 tion that belonged to Edward Wilson Esq. f of 
 Dallam Tower in the county of Westmorland, 
 was written the following note : — " The Author 
 I knew, was an old Poet Rich. Brathwaite, 
 Father to Sir Thomas of Burnside-IIall, near 
 Kendall in Westmorland." 
 
 * Hcarne's MS. Collections for the year 171:3, vol. xlvii. 
 p. 127. Tlie words in italics appear written after the 
 other part of tlie note, and without question refer to the 
 second edition, printed in 171G. 
 
 f The above Edward A\'ilson was probably i=ion of 
 Edw. W. by " Jane daup;hter of Gawen Brathwait of 
 Ambleside, Esq." Sec Jfiston/ of Westmorland, Sec. 
 by Nicolson and Burn, vol. i. p. 227.
 
 NOTES 
 
 ON THE 
 
 ITINERARY.
 
 
 NOTES ON THE ITINERARY. 
 
 "OEFORE we proceed to supply any illustra- 
 tive or explanatory notes upon the text of 
 Barnabee's Journal, it may not be unaccepta- 
 ble to give a contemporary character of our 
 hero, and, as it is material to the history of 
 the vi'ork, to make some observations as to 
 the probable origin of the Title, and also of 
 the time at which the whole was written and 
 printed. 
 
 The first part of this enquiry will be confined 
 to the popular character of 
 
 Tippling Barnaby. 
 
 Drunkenness is a passion that in evary age 
 e2
 
 52 
 
 has been too commonly tolerated, although 
 part of its seductive characteristics are uni- 
 form : that of unnerving the strongest, idioti- 
 sing the wisest, and rousing brutal ferocity in 
 the ignorant. But this mental destroyer, of re- 
 sistless sway, had, and probably continues to 
 have, its peculiar or gradatory followers. 
 
 In the early days of our Author the pipe 
 and the pot -were fashionable pursuits; the 
 novelty of the first served to increase the influ- 
 ence of the latter, and a * brown dozen' of 
 votaries to drinking has been delineated by 
 a contemporary writer, as each possessing a 
 particular bias and fixed character. Barnaby 
 was one of these, and intended to exhibit a 
 jovial tippler although only a ' maudlin-drunk- 
 ard.' Such a one as the precise water-drinker 
 must fancy is never actually sober, and yet at 
 the close of a hard bout, the reason not 
 being totally eclipsed, is never supposed ac- 
 tually drunk. Thus fi'om an extremely rare
 
 53 
 
 tract* is obtained an outline of our bibaclous 
 Itinerant. 
 
 " Of Drunhen BarnaLee, With whom to 
 make a short dispatch, and to trusse up his hu- 
 mor in a paper halter, because we have dwelt 
 
 * A Broum Dozen of Drunkards fall-ass DrinkhardsJ 
 U'hipt, and shipt to the lie of Gulls : For their abusing cf 
 Mr. Malt the bearded soji, and Barley-broth, the brainlesse 
 daughter of Sir lohn Barley-corn. 
 
 All joco-seriously 
 descanted to our 
 
 stan^erin" Times. 
 
 By one that hath drunk at S. Patnck's Well. [Wood- 
 cut.] London : Printed by Bobert Austin at Adlin-hill, 
 1648, 4to, 12 leaves. A page of verses is prefixed as 
 ' the author's friend to every sober and solid reader.' 
 
 The names of the brown dozen, or, as now proverbi- 
 alized, baker's dozen (thirteen), are 
 
 1. Dninken Wimble-tree, ali-ass Beeler. — Rolls like a 
 wheel barrow, and " an emblem of our peniiz'd times, 
 as good as any in Catz, Quarles, Whitney, or Withers." 
 
 2. Drink-hard Helluoh. — " No flincher, he will stand 
 to it more then any tinker." 
 
 3. Of Drunken Bamabee,
 
 54 
 
 too long upon Helluoh, this Barnabee, ali-ass 
 Maudlin-drunk, besides the description that 
 
 4. One drunken Tom Trouble-towne, or 'rroublcsonir. 
 —A wonderful linguist, "a blustring blatrant blade he 
 
 is, who cannot be content to be drunk in silence." 
 
 5. Drunken Aiionethes. — The master of the Revels 
 called ]M. Controller, " is wonderfull punctual, for dis- 
 cipline is ol)serv'd more strictly in his taphouses then 
 in some temples." 
 
 6. Drunken Diek the Gull- GaUanl. — This be a true 
 Trojan and a mad merry grig though no Greek : " con- 
 sorts himselfe usually witli Coridonsand Coblcrs, Rake- 
 hells and Raveners, Oastlers and Tapsters, Raggamuf- 
 fins and Tatergallians, Tipplers and Tinkers, he feeds 
 these spaniels w hicii fawne upon him with good lappings 
 from tlie tap." 
 
 7. Drunken Laurence, ali-ass Lust'/-gids.^ " When 
 he puts oft" liis considering cap and puts on his barly cap 
 as he begins to be a friend to Bacchus and Ceres, he 
 shewes himselfe no foe to Venus. — This late Lusty Lau- 
 rence that Lancashire lad. who had 17 1uistards in one 
 year, if we believe his ballad, after his ale-mash and hot 
 provender, is a stallion that neighs after every female 
 filly." 
 
 8. Drunken Don Qui vol, ali-ass WiUjfpoU. — Of a sud- 
 den l)y the fumes of Racchus a mushrump poet, never
 
 55 
 
 his proper new Ballad makes of him, as dninJce 
 all night and dry in the morning, his catch be- 
 ing ' Still one tooth is dry,' like one old Cham- 
 
 so good a poetaster as when a pot-taster. " His pen 
 pricks sharper then a porcupine's, his ink is as strong as 
 his di-ink, it peirceth into a man's brains in jerking lani- 
 bicks and pricking Satyres sharper than the bristles of a 
 hedge-hogg, it were able to make another Hipponax ga 
 hang himseife." 
 
 9. Drunken Spcrmologus. — A word-minter, a Coria- 
 tized Odcomb. 
 
 10. Drunken Pfiilauius. — Drunk with selfe-conceit as 
 well as wine. " No sooner a note above Ela in his maul- 
 tilied mentall musick, but then especially he conceits all 
 his geese to be sAvans, his capons cocks, liis goats sheep, 
 his rats rabbits, and his glow-worms blazing-stars." 
 
 11. Drunken Sip-Sobriiis.-- " A strange hermaphro- 
 dite that in one hours changeth from drunk to sober." 
 
 12. Drunken CI ericus, or Simplicius.— " The Coun- 
 trey Vicar, who to his meat must have liquor." 
 
 13. Drunken Tom TcU-troath. — What is to be known 
 tell him, " he would vent it sooner in his cups, then if 
 I told it in a barber's shop, a mill, a market, aschoole- 
 house amongst boyes, a bakehouse amongst wenches, or 
 at a gooseup's feast."
 
 S6 
 
 berlaine, called old Twitcher in Yorkshire, who 
 though he had washed many hundred pounds 
 downe his throat, protested he was yet dry for 
 all that : but passing by that humour, which 
 hath some coincidence with Helluohs, this our 
 maultified maudlin is but halfe drunk and h^lfe 
 sober, like a newter in religion, halfe a protest- 
 ant, halfe a papist, halfe light, halfe darke- 
 nesse, like a twi-light ; or as a luke warme La- 
 odicean professor half hot, half cold, or indeed 
 his true Ilierogliphick is an Archizcd, Tarlto- 
 nized Buffon, half a fool, half a knave; like a 
 mule half an horse, halfe an asse : or a Cyno- 
 cephalist, halfe a dog, half an ape : or a Mare- 
 maid, half fish, half flesh : [Mulicr formom 
 superiic dcsincns in inscem) but chiefly reflect- 
 ing on Virgil's worse verse, as a ventriloquist 
 termed his scmivirumq; bovcm, scmibovcmq; vi- 
 rion ^ half a man in his sober part, halfe an 
 oxc, a very beast in his acted drunken pos- 
 tures : jubt (or unjust) as King Philip was on
 
 57 
 his tribunall ; half asleep, half awake. Not 
 as a Hon, the emblem of a politician, waking 
 when he feignes to sleep, as thatWitt-all, or all- 
 wit the Roman did to Macaenas : (with his 
 soli Meccenati dormio) but like a semidormant, 
 and semivigilant, betwixt hawke and buzzard, 
 cup and can, a semi-drunkard, and semi-sobe- 
 ratus, quoth old Horsley, like a meer mongrill; 
 halfe a gray-hound, halfe a mastife. Yet as 
 in divinity we say, that God will have all in 
 man or nought, the whole man or no man ; 
 without any more will to admit a corrivail then 
 Caesar to shift stakes with Pompey, or Alex- 
 ander with Darius, or the true mother once to 
 divide the child with the flilse mother : Detest- 
 ing an Agrippa that is but half persuaded to 
 be a Christian and no further : like a cake half 
 bak'd : or flesh half boil'd or half broil'd, oc- 
 casioning so much our Irish fluxes. So in mo- 
 rality, though I approve what Paul allowed 
 Timothy, and Solomon's mother the sad- heart-
 
 58 
 
 ed, a little wine, as a little raine to refresh the 
 earth, not to bog it with too much ; or so many 
 cups from the grape (according to the old di- 
 stinction) as tend to necessit}^ and to hilarity, 
 yea to acuit} , to whetten the wits of a heavy 
 Dutchman, and to heat a cold Beotian braine ; 
 yet I dislike a man to be half drunk, maudlin 
 drunk, and but partly sober, as I distast a man 
 that is but partly honest, and not downright: 
 as Cato in Rome, and Phocion in Athens. 
 And a woman that is suspected to be too great 
 a dancer with the llomane Sempronia ; or too 
 great a comrade with young gallants, like Au- 
 gustus his Livia, and Julia, to be held abso- 
 lutely honest. But to trouble the by-standers 
 no more with this half staking gamester, I 
 touch upon another who hath oft troubled 
 me."
 
 59 
 
 OF THE TITLE. 
 
 Under this head the enquiry branches into 
 two questions : 
 
 1st. Whether the name of BarnaheemayhQ 
 beheved to have originated with any particular 
 person. 
 
 2dly. Whether it was appositely adopted 
 from the local popularity of an old catch or 
 ballad. 
 
 IMinute as the account given in the life of the 
 many relatives of Brathwait may appear, let it 
 be recollected that the same is confined to the 
 jxiternal branches only ; which were sufficient- 
 ly numerous, and enough dispersed to furnish 
 such a succession of visits, within the pale of 
 his own family, as to make Brathwait imbibe 
 the unsettled spirit of a rambler, and to give 
 birth to that coinage of adventure displayed in 
 the Itinerary.
 
 60 
 
 That a fuller notice of the maternal branch 
 of the family should be reserved to this place, 
 has arisen from the novelty it offers to our 
 consideration in exhibiting the name of Bar- 
 nahce among the near relatives of Brathwait. 
 His father, as already stated, married Doroth}'" 
 daughter of Robert Byndloss, of Ilaylston, 
 whose wif(5 was Agnes daughter of ... . Har- 
 rison. Their issue was 1. Anne mar. William 
 Fleming. 2. The above named Dorothy. 3. Sir 
 Robert B. knight, married first, Mary Elstoff 
 of Thornhill, Yorkshire ; second, Alice Dock- 
 wray of Dockwray-hall, Kendall ; 4, Christo- 
 pher, married Millicent Dalton of Lancaster ; 
 5, Anne, married Walter Jobson ; 6, Thomas ; 
 7, Walter; 8, Barnahij. 
 
 Of the history of this maternal uncle 
 christened Bariiahij^ no particulars are known. 
 The pedigree states the last three sons as all 
 dying without issue, but does not supply any 
 dates for those events. Therefore whether the
 
 61 
 
 youngest son, Barnahy, died in infancy or lived 
 to a maturer age, remains at present uncertain. 
 In either case, from the alhance to Brathwait, 
 the fact of his existence could not be silently 
 omitted. He might live to figure away as the 
 roving, jolly bachelor; the first promoter of 
 convivial meetings, and boon companion at all 
 opportunities ; restlessly in search of novelty, 
 always rambling independently through the 
 country, a welcome favourite of women, and 
 if not the glowing prototype of the hero of the 
 Itinerarium, still such an outline of the original 
 * malt-worm' as needed only the touch of the 
 poet to supply life, colouring, and immortality. 
 If such a bibacious reveller did exist, and ob- 
 tained no more than provincial notoriety, does 
 it seem too much to expect, notwithstanding 
 the lapse of time, some traditional information 
 of his history ? some proverb founded on his 
 eccentricity ? or some facetious monumental 
 record, in imitation of his great fore-runner,
 
 62 
 
 tippling Elderton, to proclaim in his grave that 
 he ivas dry * ? 
 
 By the title page it was intended to prevent 
 any personal application of the character of 
 Barnahce, in declaring that the Journal was 
 *' to most apt numbers reduced, and to the old 
 tune of Barnabe commonly chaunted ;" which 
 
 * Brathwait's kno\vlc(l<z;c of this character, who " for 
 ballads never had peer," was not discovered when the 
 last edition was printed. The original Epitaph on El- 
 derton is given in the " Remains after Death," 1618, 
 with a translation and comment, thus : 
 
 ** That of one Elderton (an inscription too bitter) yet 
 to disauthorize that sin, (which, like that powerfuU oint- 
 ment whereof Apuleius relates, amongst the Tlicssalo- 
 nians, transforming and metamorphosing men into 
 bruite beasts) to wit drunkcnnessc, whereof he was taxed, 
 nothing can be too vehement or violent : 
 
 ITic situs est si/icns alque chrius Eldcrlonus ; 
 Quid dico hie situs est ? hie polius situs est. 
 
 Camb. in Ucmains. 
 
 TTccrc drunken Elderton In earth lies thrust, 
 Lies thrust (say 1) or rather hccrc lies thii'st. 
 
 I
 
 63 
 
 leads to the last part of the enquhy, under the 
 present head, where we again need information. 
 The " old tune of Barnahc'' or, as else- 
 where named, " old catch of Whoop Barna' 
 hy^' has escaped all research, however ardently 
 and extensively pursued within the last sixty 
 years, for the purpose of reviving our ancient 
 music and ballads. 
 
 Again in 'Natures Embassie, 1621, at p. 130, is the 
 following marginal note to the ninth Satp- " of Epicu- 
 risme." 
 
 *' Resembling one Elderton, on v/hom this inscription 
 was writ : 
 
 " Here lieth drunken Elderton, in earth now thi'ust ; 
 What said I thrust? nay, rather here lies thirst." 
 
 In Rem. of a greater IVoi^ke, 
 This Epitaph was imitated by another hand in the 
 following lines On a Drunkard : 
 
 <' — — the drunkard *, while he liv'd would say, 
 The more I drinke the more me thinks I may : 
 But see how death hath prov'd his saying just. 
 For he hath drunke himselfe as dry as dust." 
 
 See Wit's Recreations, 1640. 
 * Later editions read * Bibax the drunkai'd. '
 
 64^ 
 The popularity of the words, or tune, or 
 both, first appears by the character of " Bar- 
 nabe, a hir'd coachman," being introduced by 
 Ben Jonson once in a scene of the comedy of 
 The ncxv Inn, or the light Heart. The slight 
 connexion of this character with the develope- 
 ment of the story of the drama, renders the 
 name of Barnahce too trifling for any other 
 purposes of Jonson than in part to personify 
 a favourite old catch, and thereby to secure 
 applause from the ' groundlings' and gallery. 
 BarnahCi the hired coachman, having driven 
 to Barnet, is '' as drie as dust," and inquires of 
 Jordan, the landlord, an old acquaintance, 
 
 " How (Iocs old Staggers the smith, and Tree tlic 
 sadlcr ? 
 
 Keep they their penny-club, still ? 
 Jor. And i\i old catch too. 
 
 Of Whoop Barnafn/. 
 JBar. Doc they sing at me ? 
 
 Jor. They are reeling at it, in the parlour, now.
 
 6S 
 
 Bar. I'le to 'hem : Gi' mee a drinke first. 
 
 Jor. WTiere's thy hat ? 
 
 Bar. I lost it by the way : Gi' me another. 
 
 Jug. A hat? 
 
 Bar. A drinke*." 
 
 Jonson again mentions this catch in a 
 Masque that was performed several times at 
 Court, called The Gypsies , where a pilfering 
 Gypsy is described to have taken from Chris- 
 tian " her Practice of Piety with a bow'd 
 groat, and the ballad of Whoop Barnabee, which 
 grieves her worst of all f ." 
 
 Edmund Prestwich, in a poem printed 1651, 
 *' On a Talkative and Stammering Fellow," 
 with some humour tells him : 
 " Wert thou but musically giv'n, by thee 
 How rarely Bamaby would chaunted be. 
 When as the Drunkard might take all along, 
 His reeling measures from thy stagg'ring tongue ?" 
 
 * The Neio Inne, 1631, oct. 
 
 f The Masque of the Gypsies, printed by J. Okes, 
 1640. 
 
 F
 
 66 
 Another celebrated writer of that period, 
 Charles Col ton, in Virgil Travestie, 1664, in- 
 troduces the name to imply significantly the 
 act of reeling. 
 
 " Bounce cries the port-hole ; out they fly, 
 And make the world dance Barnaby*." 
 
 With these notices may be given a Song, 
 pointed out by a literary acquaintance, which, 
 whatever its merit may be, is incidentally en- 
 titled to insertion. 
 
 [SON G.] 
 
 To the tune of Pip my Cock. 
 " Alas ! poor silly Barnaby, how men do thee molest ; 
 In city, town, and countrey, they never let thee rest : 
 For let a man be merry, at even or at morne, 
 They will say that he is Bamabyy and laugh him for to 
 scorn ; 
 
 * Dancing was one of the accomplishments in which 
 Bratliwait, as ajipears by liis works, excelled ; and pro- 
 bably described himself for tlic hero that did 
 
 '• *' winne the legge tlirce yeeres together." 
 
 ShcphccmVs Talcs, 1621, part 1, p. 18.
 
 67 
 
 And call him drunken Barnaby, when Barnaby is gone : 
 But can they not 'tend their di-inking, and let Barnaby 
 alone ? 
 
 You city dames so dainty, that are so neat and fine, 
 That every day drinks plenty of spice and claret wine, 
 But you must have it burnt with sugar passing sweet. 
 They will not suffer Barnal)y to walke along the street. 
 But call him drunken Barnaby, v-hen Barnaby is gone : 
 Cannot you 'tend your gosseping, and let Barnaby 
 alone ? 
 
 You clerks and lawyers costly, that are so fine and 
 
 nice. 
 When you do meet so costly, with a cup of ale and 
 
 spice. 
 You will take your chamber, before you do begin. 
 Although you steale him privatly, you count it is no sin, 
 Though Barnaby stands open, in sight of every one, 
 What, cannot you 'tend your drinking, and let Barnaby 
 
 alone ? 
 
 Bat I have seen some hostis, that have taken a pott, 
 When her head runns giddy, she'l call for a double 
 
 shott, 
 Altliough she gets her living by such kind of gests. 
 Shall mock, scofFe, and deride me, as deeply as th^ 
 
 rest, 
 
 TT 9
 
 68 
 
 But call me drunken Barnaby when all my money is 
 gon, 
 
 But cannot they look to their mault man, and let Bar- 
 naby alone* ?" 
 
 A gentleman now living recollects hearing, 
 early in life, an elderly person singing part of 
 the original ballad, and varying the last line of 
 the fragment, inserted before at p. 18, thus : 
 
 *' The drunk over night are dry the next morning." 
 From the same friendly communication was 
 obtained the following notice of a very modern 
 reference to the musick of this catch. In 
 Henry Fielding's Author s Farce, with a puppet 
 shcxv called the Pleasures of the Totvu, act iii. is 
 the following song to the tune of " Hei/ Bar- 
 nahi/ take it for xvarmng,' sung by Punch and 
 an Orator, which is repeated here to supply 
 the measure of the old ballad. 
 
 • Wit and Drollcrr/y Joviall poems : corrected and much 
 amewLcd, with additions. By Sir J. M. Ja. S. Sir jr. D. 
 J. D. and the most njined WUsnfihe h^'c— 16G1. 12mo.
 
 69 
 
 ** P. No tricks shall save your bacon, 
 Orator, orator, you are mistaken ; 
 Punch will not be thus confuted, 
 Bring forth your reasons, or you are nonsuited : 
 
 Heigh ho. 
 
 No tricks shall save your bacon, 
 Orator, orator, you are mistaken. 
 O. Instead of reasons advancing. 
 
 Let the dispute be concluded by dancing. 
 
 Ti to." 
 
 As this piece was acted at the Haymarket 
 in 1729, and revived with alterations at Drury 
 Lane some years afterwards, it makes it the 
 more remarkable that no certain information 
 can be given of the original. 
 
 No particular date can be assigned to the 
 composition of the Itinerary. It seems a piece 
 of mingled fact and fiction, the accumulation 
 of a space of nearly thirty years; and we must 
 not hastily admit all the author desires to have 
 believed in the lines <' Upon this WorJc" vol. ii. 
 p. 7. The four journies were never the off-
 
 70 
 
 spring of only a " three days task ;" nor yet 
 wholly written in " the first spring of his mi- 
 nority" when no " razor then had touched his 
 chin," as, by his own confession, at the conclu- 
 sion of the last tour the hours of youth were 
 fled. Many of the adventures originated in a 
 heated and unripe imagination, while others, 
 founded on local and provincial occurrences, or 
 domestic events of the author's life, are strictly 
 correct ; and, to a few incidents, dates can be 
 assigned. These dates create a doubt whether 
 this prefatory poem applies to more than the 
 first and second parts. The first journey com- 
 menced at Banbury, probably while he was a 
 student at Oxford, and ended at Staveley. 
 His second excursion was to London ; where 
 having arrived, the poem appears as if intended 
 to end by the stanza " Upon the Errata s.'' 
 Nor is it improbable that was the fact; and the 
 printing of it suspended from the cold recep- 
 tion of the Strappado for the Divcl in 1G15,
 
 71 
 
 the fate of which Brathwait thus records : 
 " A pleasant poeme by the author long since 
 published, and by some no lesse censoriously 
 than causelessly taxed *." 
 
 Among the poems printed with the Strap- 
 pado is one inscribed " to the worshipful Re- 
 corder of Kendall," wherein it is said " my 
 Journey's at an end," and if these words may 
 not be applied to one of the first two parts of 
 the Itinerary, they have scarcely any meaning. 
 The following Epigram, in the same collection, 
 seems derived from his desire to perpetuate his 
 progresses. 
 
 " In Poetam Hippodramum ; or Post-riding 
 Poet. 
 
 " It tooke a poet once i' th' head to poast, 
 For what I know not, but I'me sure it cost 
 His nurse far more (as I have heard some say) 
 Then ere his muse was able to repay." 
 
 In the last two journies, Barnabee, without 
 
 * Essays upon the Five Senses, 1635, p. 175.
 
 72 
 abating in humour, displays in himself a rather 
 more staid character. His amours terminate 
 in disappointments ; and his muse narrates 
 scenes less disgraceful than tippling brawls and 
 sottish revels. At Darlington he marries : and 
 then our Itinerant begins to traffic as a drover 
 or dealer in cattle, solemnly proclaiming the 
 necessity of living chaste, from the eyes of the 
 country being upon him. At a still later pe- 
 riod his rambling terminates with settling at 
 Staveley, where the narrative of his journies 
 underwent a revision. In performing this task 
 events chronicled long before needed an ad- 
 dition, by way of notes, to fashion them to 
 more recent occurrences. Thus the stanza on 
 Kendal, which ends the third journey, vol. ii. 
 p. 336, and Barnabee's note thereon, are of 
 very different dates ; as the one must have pre- 
 ceded and the other as certainly followed the 
 eleventh year of Charles I. (1636)*. The 
 
 * Sec note p. ISa 
 
 J 
 i
 
 73 
 
 plague described in the visit to Wansforth 
 Brigs did not happen until the year 16^2 *. It 
 is therefore conclusive those lines were added 
 during or later than the civil wars. There is 
 also distinct proof of another note hitched up- 
 on a stanza to record a subsequent event; it is 
 that upon Pomfret Castle f , for, if we consider 
 the unswerving loyalty of Brathwait, it cannot 
 be doubted that the allusion therein is to 
 Stuart, and consequently added after the 
 death of that unfortunate monarch. 
 
 This circumstance fixes the time of printing 
 the Itinerary to the Interregnum, when it was 
 not very easy to obtain a license to publish a 
 work that tended to unveil, or ridicule, how- 
 ever slightly, the usurping powers ; and to pub- 
 lish without license might hazard immediate 
 suppression, as well as render it unsafe for the 
 printer to affix his name. However, that name 
 has not entirely, we believe, escaped research. 
 
 * Note p. 118. f vol. a. p. 278-9.
 
 All the capitals and rule ornaments used in the 
 first edition, (and several are of rather pecu- 
 liar character) are found in a little work by 
 Brathwait, nearly contemporary, printed for 
 J. H. We therefore consider it probable that 
 the printer was Jo/ui Havilaml, and the time 
 of publication about 1650. 
 
 Notes referring to vol. ii. 
 
 P. 5. 
 
 Loyall Pheander, Sec. — These lines are si- 
 milar to the following at the end of the post- 
 script to Ai''t nsleepe Husband? IG^O. 
 
 " That Great Commander i)cerlesse for a fellow, 
 Layd Homers Works under his royall pillow ; 
 I'm but a poore Commander, yet in stead 
 Of those, I'le lay this Boulster for my head." 
 
 P. 7, 1. 7. 
 
 I'd ne're scene any curtainc nor partition. 
 A more explanatory comment on tliis line
 
 75 
 it is not likely will be found than in the follow- 
 ing passage from Brathwait's address in the 
 Strappado to Mounsicur Bacchus. 
 
 " rie expresse 
 
 What motiues there be of licentiousnesse 
 Within thy brothel closvires, and with all 
 Complaine of thy partitions, how the fall 
 Of many a simple virgine (though shea's loath 
 To do't, poore wench) corns from a painted cloath, 
 A curtaine, or some hanging of like sort, 
 Which done, God wot, they'ue cause to curse thee 
 for't." 
 
 P. 10—11. 
 
 Ad Translatorem. — To the Translator. 
 Whatever opinion may be entertained of the 
 insufficiency of the English compared with the 
 Latin text, there cannot be any reason for 
 questioning that they were both the produc- 
 tion of Brathwait. Upon translating the Ai^' 
 cadian Princess from the Italian of Mariano 
 Silesio, he observes : " If this new dresse doe 
 not become him, all that I can say in mine
 
 76 
 
 owne defence is this, and no other : < there is 
 great difference betwixt Taylor and Transla- 
 tor.' Sure I am, that the home is the same, if 
 not the lustre ; the sticffe the same, though not 
 the colour." Which may be equally applied 
 to the Itinerary ; and that he translated when 
 sober what obtained birth from his more con- 
 vivial hours, according to his own quotation : 
 
 *' When I'm drunkc as any llattin, 
 Then I rap out nought but Lattin." 
 
 Imic of Drinking, 1617. 
 
 We shall contentedly drop the question by 
 exhibiting specimens of our author's English 
 poetry in the same manner as he recites his 
 travels. 
 
 To Dorifu/n, sncccssiue Nuptials. 
 
 *' Purest Niniph that Ilybla bred, 
 Witli Ambrosia noiirisliod, 
 Beautic's gloric, nature's mirror, 
 Hcaucn's blest Trophic, worlde's terror, 
 
 J
 
 77 
 
 Nature made thee and thy feature 
 
 As it seemes to put downe nature. 
 
 Most admir'd, Avhen most deiected, 
 Humble most, when most erected." 
 
 The Poet's JFUlote, 1614. 
 
 " An Epigramme called The Cambrian 
 Alchymist, 
 " The planet-stroken Albumazor 
 Shaues the Muses like a razor ; 
 Fayry like we therefore slmn them. 
 Cause there is no haire vpon them. 
 Muses loose their ornament, 
 Cambria has their excrement. 
 In a clowde ? it's rather showne. 
 Like the man that's in the moone. 
 Where our lies Ardelio, 
 Descants of Tom Trinkillo ; 
 Form'd like one that's all in mist. 
 Like a second Alchymist. 
 Strange tlie project was, I wis. 
 Of this metamorphosis ; 
 Nought was, if I understood, 
 Good, but that it was deem'd good 
 By the great ; O worthy feate. 
 To be worthlesse deemed great. ' ' 
 
 Strappado for the JDevU, 1615. p. 114.
 
 78 
 
 *' Care who loves then, let him Hue 
 Single ; whereas such need lesse 
 As themselves to mam'age giue, 
 For these want what they possesse ; 
 Care whereof breedes now and then 
 Broken sleeps in many men." 
 
 Vpon the Single Life, published with Description 
 of a Good mfe, 1619. 
 
 *' Nor the crazie citizen 
 
 But is furr'd up to the chin : 
 Oister-callet, slie Upholster, 
 Hooking Huxster, mcrrie ]Malster, 
 Cutting Ilaxter, courting Roister, 
 Cunning Sharke, nor sharking Foister." 
 
 Nature^ s Embassic, 1621. p. 254. 
 
 " Haplesse-hopclcsse is that clime, 
 Wliich is of this humour sicke, 
 And in sleep consumes her time, 
 Ruine to states politicke : 
 States are ever most secure, 
 When tlicy hold themselves least sure." 
 
 Arcadian Princess, 1635. p. 126. 
 
 P. 22—23. 
 Banhury. Barnabce was the determined foe
 
 79 
 
 of the Puritans, between whom and the poets 
 a few skirmishes had taken place in the time of 
 queen Elizabeth ; but the brunt of the battle 
 was sustained during the two following reigns, 
 until the Puritans were totally discomfited at 
 the Restoration. Some one, not inaptly, has 
 said, << the poets were pert and the Puritans 
 petulant." The first in their satires exposed 
 the others as hypocrites, who in return, in the 
 pestilent heat of their doctrines, attempted to 
 brand their opponents as Atheists. Jonson 
 condescended, by his character of " Zeal-o- 
 the-land-busy *," to enlist as a distinguished 
 leader, followed by our author f, with Ran- 
 
 * See comedy of Bartholomeiv Fair, first acted 31 Oct. 
 1614. 
 
 f Brathwait, on another occasion, says of the Puri- 
 tan : 
 
 " A walking Hj-pocrite there was, whose pace, 
 Trunk hose, small ruffe, deminutiue in forme, 
 Shew'd to each man He was the child of grace."
 
 80 
 
 dolph, Cokain, Cartwright, and others of minor 
 import, each having a cut at this big body of 
 deformity, until it was finally dissected by the 
 unrivalled Butler. 
 
 The story of hanging the cat, true or in- 
 vented, was first related by Brathwait, in a 
 short poem in the Strappado, p. 109, addressed 
 
 To the P reels ia7i, 
 
 " For the Precisian tliat dares hardly looke, 
 (Because th' art pure forsooth) on any booke 
 Saue honiihes, and such as tend to th' good 
 Of tliee and of thy zealous brother-hood : 
 Know mi/ limc-notiiig lines ajine not at thee. 
 For thou art too too curious for mee. 
 I will not taxe that man that's wont to slay 
 
 " His cat for killing misc on th' Sabbotla day : 
 No ; know my resolution it is thus, 
 I'dc rather be thy foe than be thy pus : 
 And more should I gaine by 't : for I see 
 The daily fruits of thy fraternity :" &c. 
 
 This was j)ublished in 1615, and probably 
 alludes to a current story, as the inverted coni- 
 mas before the eighth line seem to imply the
 
 81 
 
 subject borrowed : though no such distinction 
 appears when repeated by John Taylor, the 
 water-poet, in describing a Brownist : 
 
 " The spirit still directs him how to pray, 
 Nor will he dresse his meat the Sabbath day, 
 Which doth a mighty mysterle vnfold. 
 His zeale is hot, although his meat be cold, 
 Suppose his cat on Sunday kill a rat, 
 She on the Munday must be hang'd for that*." 
 
 Again it occurs in a poem '• Upon Lute- 
 strinos Cat-eaten." 
 
 CD 
 
 *' Pusse, I will curse thee, maist thou dwell 
 With some dry Hermit in a eel, 
 AMiere Rat ne're peep'd, where Mouse ne're fed. 
 And flies go supperlesse to bed : 
 Or with some close-par'd Brother, where 
 Thoul't fast each Sabbath in the yeare. 
 Or else, profane, be hang'd on Monday, 
 For butchering a Mouse on Sunday f." 
 
 This conventicle rap was also introduced 
 
 * The j^rai^e of Hemp-seed. Taylor's Works, fol. 
 1630. 
 
 f Musanim DcUcue : or the Jfuses Recredtion. By 
 Sir J. M. U7id Ja. S. 1655, 2d ed. 1656, 12mo. 
 G
 
 82 
 
 upon the stage by William Sampson, in the 
 play of The Votv Breaker'^. In the third act 
 we have : " Enter Joshua, his cat in a string, 
 Miles, Ball." The scene is too long to be re- 
 peated here. Joshua is made to exclaim against 
 *' the heathen babies, the may-poles of time, 
 and pageants of vanity ; but I will convince 
 them of error, and scoure their pollutions 
 away with the waters of my exhortations." Of 
 the cat he observes : " She did kill a mouse, 
 I but when ? on the forbidden day, and there- 
 fore she must die on Munday :" and afterwards 
 passes sentence thus : " I adjudge thee to be 
 hanged this Munday for killing a mouse yes- 
 terday, being the high day." 
 
 No apology can be required for preserving 
 licre the following ballad, which is now little 
 
 * The ViW-Jircakcr, or, The Fairc Maide of Clifl07l, 
 In Notthtfihcimshirc, os it hath bcenc divers times acted by 
 severcdt Covipnniis with i^real apiilausc, J3y WUliaM 
 SainpsoiU'^lQ'iG. 4lo. 
 
 I
 
 S3 
 
 known. The old printed copy has been cor- 
 rected by another in manuscript, but neither of 
 them enables us to fix the year when originally 
 written, however certain it was contemporary 
 with our author. 
 
 SONG. 
 
 " A presbyterian Cat sat watching of her prey. 
 And in the house 
 She caught a mouse 
 Upon the Sabbath day. 
 
 The Minister offended at such a deed profane. 
 Threw by his book, 
 The Cat he took, 
 And bound her in a chain. 
 
 ' Thou danin'd confounded creature, and blood sucker 
 (says he), 
 
 'Tis enough to throw 
 To hell, below. 
 My holy house and me. 
 
 Thou well may'st be assured thou blood for blood shall 
 pay 
 
 That in thy strife 
 Took mouse's life 
 Upon the Sabbath day, 
 g2
 
 84< 
 
 G then he took his Bible book, and earnestly he pray'd 
 That the great sin, 
 Tlie Cat was in. 
 Might not on him be laid. 
 
 And straight to execution was poor Grimalkin dra^vrn, 
 Where on a tree 
 There hang'd was she, 
 While Pres. John sung a psalm. 
 
 Since tlie act of Puritan and ihey that bear such sway, 
 You ne'er must kill 
 A louse nor mouse 
 Upon the Sabbath day *." 
 
 This passage of our author was happily ap- 
 
 * Printed from an excellent collection of poj)ular ly- 
 rical pieces, called The Av'mri/, or Maga-dnc of British 
 Melody, oblong, no date (about 1740), corrected by a 
 copy in manuscrii)t from the collection of a literary 
 gentleman. — IMr. Franks of Stockton, nephew to the 
 late IVIr. Kitson, obligingly communicated the transcript 
 of an old copy, from 21ic Jiavcn : a choice Colhrlion of 
 Jtoiiriuf^ Songs, calculated for the sole use and benefit of 
 such Gentlemen as have little Judgment and no Voice. 
 8vo. MS. Tlic Aviary is nearly the same as the latter, 
 cxcejU wanting the title of " The Sabbath Breaker, 
 or Murder reveug'd." Another variation of the above
 
 85 
 plied, in the course of a debate in the House 
 of Commons, by the late Mr. Courtenay, 
 against two of the ^Members whose zeal ap- 
 peared rather overstrained. It was in March 
 1795, on a Bill for the better observance of 
 Sunday being introduced into Parhament by 
 Sir William Dolben and Sir Richard Hill. In 
 debate it was warmly as well as wittily at- 
 tacked by Mr. Courtenay, who, among other 
 things, said, he would read to the House six 
 
 song, with two additional verses that fonn an impotent 
 conclusion, is collected among the Jacobite Eelics by 
 James Hogg, 1819, p. 37. It is there described as a 
 "popular country song," and entitled the Cameronian Cat, 
 though evidently an English composition. By the ar- 
 rangement the editor to whom we are indebted for this 
 interesting collection, appears to have believed it a Jaco- 
 bite production of the time of James II.; but it was un- 
 doubtedly levelled against the unbending Oliverians 
 ■who never intended a king should enjoy his own again. 
 Mr. Hogg describes it as " always sung by the wags in 
 mockery of the great pretended strictness of the Cove- 
 nanters."
 
 86 
 
 lines, whimsically prophetical of this very Bill, 
 extracted from a curious little book called 
 ** Roivland's Itincrarijy 
 
 *' In Oxford, much against my will, 
 I met two knights, Uolben and Hill; 
 The first he was a most profane one. 
 The next a rigid puritane one, 
 Who hang'd his wicked cat on INIonday, 
 Because she catch'd a mouse on Sunday." 
 
 Sir William Dolben, in reply, treated the 
 quotation as a mere fiction, and compared his 
 antagonist to Lauder the calumniator of Mil- 
 ton. IMr. Courtenay, in explanation, said, the 
 Honourable Baronet had given him more credit 
 than he deserved in ascribing tlie lines to him ; 
 they were taken from a book called " Drunken 
 JBarnnhij\s Travels *." 
 
 That our author should particularly satirize 
 the town of IJanbury for its puritanisui, might 
 
 * See Debates, 2Gth March, 1795, intlie rarlinmeri' 
 larxj Jlcgistcr, vol. xli. p. 151.
 
 87 
 arise from the greater number of the inhabi- 
 tants bemg of that persuasion. " There is a 
 credible story, (says Bishop Gibson) that 
 while Philemon Holland was carrying on his 
 English edition of the Britannia, Mr. Camden 
 came accidentally to the press, when this sheet 
 was working off; and looking on, he found, 
 that to his own observation of Banbury being 
 famous for cheese, the translator had added 
 cakes and ale. But Mr. Camden thinking it 
 too light in expression, chang'd the word ale 
 into zeal ; and so it pass'd, to the great indig- 
 nation of the Puritans, who abounded in this 
 town *." 
 
 Brathwait was well acquainted with Camden s 
 Britannia, as appears by a note on the Itine- 
 rary f, and no stranger to this anecdote at the 
 time of writing his epistle to the Cottoneers, 
 
 * Camden's Britannia, ed. 1753, c. 300. 
 t Vol. ii. p. 415.
 
 where it is indirectly made the subject of his 
 muse. Sec note on Bradford, p. 9i. 
 
 Another equally facetious traveller, Bishop 
 Corbet, in the Ilcr Borcale, also remarked the 
 number and variety of sectaries with which 
 Banbury abounded : 
 
 *' Tlie Puritan, tlic Ana1)nptlst, T5rownist, 
 Like a grand sallct : Tinkers, what a townc is't *." 
 
 And in " a Poem [by Cleveland] in defence 
 of the decent ornaments of Christ Church 
 Oxon, occasioned by a Banbury brother, who 
 called them idolatries," it is asked 
 
 «< Shall wc say 
 
 Banl)ury is ttirned Rome, l)ecausc we may 
 
 See the Holy Lamb and Christopher? nay, more, 
 
 The altar stone set at the tavern dooref?" 
 
 * Poems of Richard Corbet^ late liislwp of Oxford and 
 of Konuic/i. [By Oclavius^ Gilchrist , F,S.A. 1807.] 
 p. 202. 
 
 f rarwissus JJlccpsy 8vo. 1G50', p. 3.
 
 Addendum to p. 89. 
 
 Queen s College Horn. — Since the note p. 89 was print- 
 ed, by the further assistance of my valuable friend the 
 Rev. Dr. Bliss a representation is given of this curious 
 drinking Horn. 
 
 The substance of the Horn itself is semitransparent^ 
 like tortoisoshell. It was presented to the College by the 
 foundress, Philippa queen of Henry III.; and, according 
 to tradition, served to con\'ey a valuable manor in Dor- 
 setshire. It is still used very frequently on gaudies and. 
 festivals, and contains two quarts Winchester measure. 
 
 It is richly ornamented with gold. The eagle on the 
 top of the lid is hollow ; while the other end, or tip, ter~ 
 minates with the head of a leopard, or some other he- 
 raldic animal, curved round (towards the animal's right) 
 to the l)ody of the Horn, and appears in the act of snarl-, 
 ing. On the circular border surroimding the elevated 
 centre of the cover, on which the bird stands, the legend 
 toaffcpl occurs thrice; also repeated as often on the rim 
 of gold nearest the lip ; and again upon the rim to which 
 the two fore-feet are attached; but not on that supported 
 by the hind-leg. A semicircle of gold connects the extre- 
 mities of the talons of each foot to each other; but the hind- 
 claw of each of the three legs stands unconnected. 
 The Horn, from the crest of the bircl to the soles of the two F. I., 
 claws, is in height -----.--,.18 
 Of that height the eagle measures - - - - -07 
 From the crest to the extreme curve of the animal's head is 2 4|. 
 From the point of the beak to the animal's mouth, in a 
 
 straight line _...18 
 
 The circumference of the mouth - - - - -13 
 
 The longest diameter of the oval mouth - . - . . 5^ 
 The shortest diameter of the oval mouth - - - - 4^ 
 
 The height of the two fore-claws 3^ 
 
 The height of the hind-claw 1^ 
 
 The circumference of the first legendic band - - - - 1 Of 
 The circumference of the second legendic band - - - 9 
 
 The breadth of the first band 2| 
 
 The breadth of the second band 2J 
 
 The breadth of the third band If 
 
 The length of the gold ornament at the extremity termi- 
 nating in the snarling head .--.-.07
 
 88* 
 
 ■\Vc have been the more particular in this description, 
 IVom the uncommon beauty and size of the original, 
 ^vhich is probably matchless. 
 
 Of the ancient custom of giving estates in fee and also 
 granting honourable offices by the gift, and the retainment 
 by possession, of a drinking horn, the late Dr. Pegge col- 
 lected several instances in his Observations on the Horn, 
 as a Charter*. The present Horn is larger but other- 
 wise most similar to the Borstal Horn, of any described 
 by the learned antiquary ; and that was " supposed to 
 have belonged to the Bison or Butfalo." It is remark- 
 able, from the inscription appearing to direct that the 
 gift of the donor slioidd be annually commemorated by 
 a wassail pledge in the Christmas revels. How the Horn 
 was to pass is imcertain. We have heard of loHg narrow 
 drinking cups, now in use for a single draught, deno- 
 minated "a Ixing Conscience" and "a Short Consci- 
 ence," — the one liolding three jiints, and the other a 
 quart; and therefore doubt if this Horn, although for 
 magnitude it might have been borne by tlie Sanga or 
 Galla Oxf, was not anciently used for a like cftbrt of 
 conviviality, and thereby spoke "pure Athenian." Tlie 
 Wassail l>owl went IVom lip to lij) williout replenishing: 
 J)Ut the Horn w as probably a jiledge filled for every guest, 
 andexi)ccted tol)e emptied without breathing or spilling; 
 according to the tippling law for a long or short consci- 
 ence, and in some places for drinking a yard of ale. Of 
 the Wassail our author says — 
 "Kvery day we dranke our Shcepherds health 
 In wassell cii])s ; not caring for our beards. 
 How well or ill they fir'd, a figg lor wealth, 
 
 Wee made our chopps wagg, and our grisled beards |." 
 
 ' ytrrhfi'olo/^ia, vol. iii. f See Voj/agc to ylh^ssinia, 
 
 by Henry Salt, I-:m|. IHM. 'llo. p. 25'). 
 
 \ Hobb)nors(!iaU)gue in Tunes CurlcineJJrawnc, 10'21.
 
 89 
 
 P. 24—5. 
 
 Queens College Jiorn. — This ancient drink- 
 ing horn, one of the lions of the College to 
 which it belongs, is supposed to be the finest 
 in existence, and long celebrated for its anti- 
 quity, beauty, and richness, having just claim 
 for a more elaborate description than the bre- 
 vity of a note v/ill allow. 
 
 P. 30— I. 
 
 Brachley, The Mayor the chief magistrate, 
 *' tho' now, says Gibson, only titular." Cam- 
 den's Britannia. 
 
 P. 32. 
 
 Donee cretaf regit Jidem : a poetical fiction. 
 Our author states in the Address to Mo?i» 
 Bacchus, 
 
 — — " I could say, and truly say, far more, 
 I neuer ran ten shillings on thy skore.
 
 90 
 
 Which may seem strange, that I which am so grown 
 Into acquaintance, and to thee well knowne, 
 Should in thy booke haue such a diffidence, 
 As not be cbalkt for want of ready ponce*/* 
 
 P. 36—7. 
 Gottam. — There seems intencled a humour- 
 ous transposition of the proverbial wisdom of 
 the men to the women of Gottam. The female 
 gull dancing in moonshine was probably found- 
 ed on an accident which happened in the pre- 
 sence of Brathwait, who relates it as a moot 
 2)o'nit, whether to ascribe the same to Fate or 
 the Taylor. 
 
 *' Upon a time it chanced that I came 
 To (Jottam, a small townc nere Nottingham, 
 About which time they kept a solemne wake, 
 Where every liuely lad touke in his makcf, 
 Kach lasse lier lad, so as you need not feare 
 But ere they parted they made dancing deare ; 
 Amongst the rest a frolicke youth there was, 
 WIjo tooke to him a lustie bouncing lusse; 
 
 * Strappado for l/ic Divcl, IGIJ. f i. e. maVe.
 
 91 
 
 Up went the crowd, the viole, and the fiddle, 
 
 Wliile he right smoothly takes her by the middle, 
 
 Beginning with a kisse, for so they do it. 
 
 Which done right mannerly they went unto it. 
 
 Lightly he caper'd, youth is free from care, 
 
 And she as nimble, bates him not a haire ; 
 
 But long they had not danc'd, till this yong maid. 
 
 In a frest stammell petticote array'd, 
 
 With vellure sleues, and bodies tied with points, 
 
 Began to feel a loosenesse in her joynts; 
 
 So as about the may-pole while she tripps, 
 
 Downe fell under-bodie from her liipps, 
 
 And show'd the naked truth, for all espide it. 
 
 Till one lent her his cloake that she might hide it. 
 
 Now pray you say whom ought we most to blame. 
 
 Fate, or the Taylor rather for the same, 
 
 Or neither, both, but th' fashion sure I weene. 
 
 But for her points she had not naked been : 
 
 So as it may a caveat be to such 
 
 Who use to stand upon their points too much *. 
 
 * Lines of Fate in Time's Ccrtaine JDraivne, &c. 
 1621.-— In the same year was published The ShephearcVs 
 Tales, and in the third Eglogve, Linus the Shepheard 
 describes his wife, Lesbia, to 
 " Observe the fashion, do I what I could. 
 Bearing a port far higher in a word, 
 Than my abilitie could well afford ;
 
 1 
 
 92 
 
 P. 38. 
 
 Mortimer iad OS, — This name is borrowed from 
 an early title page of Drayton's : * Mortimc- 
 
 That she I say into this fashion got, 
 
 (As what was th' fasliion she affected not) 
 
 Of tying on with points her looser waste j 
 
 Now I obseriiing how her points Averc plast, 
 
 The eiien before she to a wake slioiikl go, 
 
 I all her points did secretly vndo, 
 
 Yet therwithall sucli easie knots did make, 
 
 That they might hold till she got to the wake. 
 
 "WTiich she not minding; 
 
 Cor. On, good Linus, on. 
 
 Lin. She lives her to the Avake (my Coridon) 
 
 Where she no sooner came, then she's tanc in, 
 
 And nimbly falls vnto her reuelling. 
 
 But see the luck on't, while she scuds and skips, 
 
 Her vnderbody falls from off her hips, 
 
 Whei'eat some laught, while oUiers tookc some ruth. 
 
 That she vncas'd, should shew the naked truth." 
 
 Breaking (he points was a common joke against the 
 prevailing fashion. A similar incident is related in 
 A'nnpc's Xiiic Daifcs IFondrr, IGOO, as happening wheu 
 he arrived at the Cross at Norwich,
 
 93 
 
 rlados, the lamentable ciuell warres of Edward 
 the second, and the Barons.' 1596. 
 
 P. 56—7. 
 
 AbeyforcL — A little town, " famous for its 
 art of pin-making; the pins made here being 
 in particular request among the ladies." — 
 Camden. 
 
 P, 60— 1. 
 
 WaJcefield. — Every description of the valiant 
 Pindar is worth preserving : the following lines 
 are from the Poem To the Cottoneers ^, 
 
 that I intend to show, 
 
 Is merry "Wakefield and her Pindar too ; 
 
 Which fame hath blaz'd, with all that did belong 
 
 Unto that towne in many gladsome song : 
 
 The Pindars valour, and how firme he stood 
 
 In th' towne's defence 'gainst th' rebel Robin-hood, 
 
 How stoutly he behav'd himself e, and would. 
 
 In spite of Robin, bring his horse to th' fold : 
 
 * Strappado for the DevU 3 1615.
 
 94 
 
 His many May games whicli were to be seene, 
 Yeerely presented upon Wakefield greene, 
 Where louely Jugge and lustie Tibb would go, 
 To see Tom liuely turne vpon the toe; 
 Hob, Lob, and Crowde the fidler would be there. 
 And many more I will not speake of here : 
 Good God ! how glad hath been this hart of mine 
 To see that tov.ne, whicii hath in former time 
 So flourish'd, and so gloried in her name. 
 Famous by th' Pindar who first rais'd the same ? 
 Yea, I haue paced ore that greene and ore, 
 And th' more I saw 't, I tooke delight the more j 
 For where we take contentment in a place, 
 A whole dales walke seems as a cinque pace : 
 Yet as there is no solace vpon earth, 
 Which is attended cuennore with mirth : 
 But when we are transported most w ith gladnesse 
 Then suddenly our joyc's reduc'd to sadnesse. 
 So far'd witli me to see the Pindar gone. 
 And of those iolly laddes that were, not one 
 Left to suruiue : I grieu'd more then I'll say ; 
 But now for Bradford — " (&.r next note.) 
 
 P. &\^^5. 
 Bradford. — The same story is related, more 
 at large, iu the Epistle to The Cottoncers, just 
 referred to.
 
 95 
 
 for Bradford I must hast 
 
 away. 
 
 Bradford if I should rightly set it forth, 
 
 Stile it I might Banberri/ of the North, 
 
 And well this title with the towne agrees, 
 
 Famous for twanging ale, zeale *, cakes, and cheese : 
 
 But why should I set zcale behinde their ale ? 
 
 Because zeale is for some, but ale for all; 
 
 Zealous indeed some are (for I do heare 
 
 Of many zealous sempring sister there) 
 
 ■\\lio loue their brother, from their heart iffaith. 
 
 For it is charity, as Scripture saith : 
 
 But I am charm' d, God pardon what's amisse. 
 
 For what will th' wicked say that heare of tliis, 
 
 How by some euil brethren 't hath been sed, 
 
 Til' brother was found in's zealous sister's bed." 
 
 P. 66—7. 
 
 " Yet hon-socios and good fellows." 
 
 " A bonus socjus in good company f." 
 
 P. 68—9. 
 GigglesmcJc. — The scenery of this place is 
 accurately delineated by our author. The 
 
 * See p. 87. f Poem To the Cottoneers,
 
 96 
 
 < fresh spring' tJiat continually ebbs and flows 
 is described by Drayton in his Foli/olbiojiy 
 Song 28th, first published in 1612, and is still 
 earlier noticed in the following lines, from a 
 manuscript poem by another popular writer of 
 that period : 
 
 '' At Giggleswick, there many springes doc rise 
 Tliat ebbe and flowe in strange and Mondrous wise : 
 When 'tis at highest 'tis nyne ynches dcepc, 
 At ebbe it dotli but one ynche water kecpe : 
 It ebbes and flowes cch quarter of an howre*." 
 
 P. 71. 
 Clapliam. — Index hand : This peculiarity of 
 the press often occurs in Brathwait's prose 
 works, to note a new sentence, proverb, &c. 
 Here it appears uselessly or inadvertently in- 
 troduced by the printer. 
 
 * The Xcu'C Mctiimorphims, or a Fcnslr of Fancic, ov 
 Poelicall Lcffoidcs. irriUcn by J [ohn] i1/[arston] Gait. 
 IGOO. 4to. MS.
 
 97 
 
 P. 82—3. 
 
 Slavelei/. — The etymology of this name is 
 given in the Epistle to the CottoneerSf describ- 
 ing as the tutelar patroness of their trade, Car- 
 mentis, who established the Phrygian works, 
 and coming from Rome to this Isle with Aqui- 
 la, the fleet divided, and she arrived in the 
 haven of Workington. After giving name to 
 <' Cartmell or Carment-hill,"' she continued her 
 journey, and 
 
 on Stauelaies Cliffes, they say, 
 
 She laid her stafFe, whence comes the name Staffelay ; 
 CoiTuptly Staulay, where she staid a space, 
 J\it seeing it a most notorious place, 
 ^xHd that th' trades-men were so giuen to th' pot. 
 That they would drinke far more then ere they got; 
 Sheturn'd from thence, yet left some maids behinde, 
 lliat might acquaint them in this wool-worke kinde, 
 While she did plant, as ancient records be, 
 Neerer to Kendall in th' Barronrie*." 
 
 * Strctppadi) for the Divel. 
 H
 
 98 
 
 P. 8-i— 5. 
 
 Epigram. — Something similar had before 
 come from the same mint. In The SmoaJdns; 
 Age 1617, occurs " Bacchus Ivie-bush," and 
 " bottle-nosed Bacchus," and Brathwait also 
 inscribed a Poem : 
 
 " To the true discouerer of secrets Moun- 
 sieur Bacchus, sole Soueraigne of the Ivy- 
 bush, master-gunner of the pottle-pot ordi- 
 nance, Sec. &c." It begins 
 
 *' Bottle-nos'd l>acclius with tliy bladder face, 
 To thee my muse comes reeling for a place *." 
 
 Again — 
 
 *' Bacchus cares not for outward signes a rush, 
 Good wine needs ni)t the hanging of a bush f." 
 
 The same proverb is given in a madrigal : 
 
 " I am no merchant tliat will sell my breath, 
 Good ^vine needs not a bush to set it forth ^.'* 
 
 * Strappado fir the Dircl. f Ibid.
 
 99 
 
 P. 92--9. 
 
 Stafiza 2 to 5. — It is conjectured the allu- 
 sion here is to Tom Coriate. P. 
 
 P. 100—1. 
 
 Isle of Rhe,— This place was fruitlessly at- 
 tacked by the Duke of Buckingham in 1627> 
 some of whose official communications thereon 
 are printed with Miscellaneous State Papers, 
 ] 778, 4to. vol. ii. p. 23. For '' An Elegie upon 
 the Death of Sir John Burrowes, slaine at the 
 Isle of Ree," see Parnassus Biceps, 1656. 
 
 This is the only public event in the first two 
 journies that militates against the conjecture 
 of their being written about 1615 (p. 71}, 
 but it might have been introduced afterwards. 
 At a later period Tom D'Urfey wrote The 
 H 2
 
 11D0 
 
 Travels of Drunkard, the famous Curr for his 
 faithful attachment, when 
 
 " Away went he and crost the sea, 
 Witli's master, to the Isle of Rhea, 
 A good way beyond Callice*/* 
 
 P. 102-3. 
 JoJdi a Gaunt. — By this allusion to John a 
 Gaunt the town was undoubtedly Lancaster. 
 It has a similar description and is made the 
 principal scene of action in the History of the 
 Two Lancashire Lovers f IGiO, which begins : 
 " Neare to that ancient towne of famous and 
 time-honoured Gaunt, for her antiquity of 
 site no lesse memorable recorded then for 
 those eminent actions of her princely progeni- 
 tors, renowned." Barnabee proceeds to Ash- 
 ton, which is << near to that ancient town," and 
 where the " militeni and heroinam" were no 
 
 * puts to Furgc Mdancholi/, vol. vi.
 
 101 
 
 doubt the Androgeus and Euryclea, father and 
 mother of Doriclea, in that history. 
 
 P. 108—9. 
 
 Preston. — At the time Taylor, the water- 
 poet, made his Penniless Pilgrimage^ he re- 
 cords Master Banister as the Mayor of 
 Preston. 
 
 " Unto my lodging often did repaire 
 
 Kinde Master Thomas Banister, the mayor, 
 Who is of worship, and of good respect, 
 And in his charge discreet and circumspect ; 
 For I protest to God I neuer saw 
 A to;vne more \\-isely gouern'd by th' law*." 
 
 P. 114— 15. 
 Rose. — In the encomiastic note upon Rose, 
 the author seems to have borne in memory the 
 following epitaph upon Rosamund, which he 
 probably met with in his first journey at Wood- 
 stock ; or in Camden's Britannia. 
 
 * Tcajlors WorkSi 1633, p. 126.
 
 102 
 
 " Hicjacet hi tianba Rosa miindi, non Rosa munda, 
 Non rcdolct, scd olet, qucc redolcrc solet." 
 
 " Rose of the world, not Rose the fresh pure flow'r, 
 Within tliis tomb hath taken up her bow'r ; 
 She scenteth now and nothing sweet doth smell, 
 Wliich earst was wont to savour passing well *." 
 
 Cent-foot, — Thus again by our author : 
 
 " Let st. foote be, such follies lust aflbord, 
 For fairest play is euer aboue boordf." 
 
 *' Or to play at foot-st. with him J." 
 
 P. 132—3. 
 
 Alluding to a skimmington. *' This bur- 
 lesque ceremony was the invention of a woman, 
 who thereby vindicated the character of a 
 neighbour of hers, who had stoutly beaten her 
 liusband for being so saucy as to accuse liis 
 wife of being unfaithful to his bed §." 
 
 * Camden, vol. i. col. L'99. 
 
 f Morall to I he Ciucll JJiuell, Slrapjutdo, 8n: 
 
 I Frniikr\<! Anatomic, ibid. 
 
 § Popular Anlr/uitirs, IS 13, vol. ii. p. 110, note.
 
 103 
 
 P. 140—1. 
 
 Co'ventry.— Our author records the fame of 
 ' Coventry blew,' yet rather singularly omits the 
 opportunity of applying the popular allusion to 
 the Puritans. Cleveland, ' in a new Litany,' 
 says 
 
 " From a holy sister Coventry-blew, 
 
 Libera nos, Dombic.^* 
 
 P. 150—1. 
 
 Stratford. — Frank Green was, probably, the 
 female to whom P)rathwait was " quondam 
 friend," and subject of a poem entitled " An 
 Embleme which the author composed in ho- 
 nour of his Mistris, to whom he rests euer de- 
 noted : Allusiuely shadowing her name in the 
 title of the Embleme, which hee enstiles His 
 Frankes Anatomic." Her person is described 
 with all the minuteness and freedom of the 
 school of Donne and other contemporary poets. 
 It is followed by another address *' Upon his
 
 1(H 
 
 Mistris Nuptialls, entitled His Frankes Fare- 
 well*." 
 
 It may also be conjectured, * for the name's 
 sake,' she was joined afterwards with his wife 
 in a complimentary effusion, as 
 
 An Hymne Thnlassicall or Nuptiall ; implying 
 two tvorths included in one name, paradoxfdli/ 
 intimating the true happie state of contented 
 Love. 
 
 " What I have, tliat I crane, 
 Frank I lost, yet Frank I haue; 
 Happie am I \n possessing 
 Of her that giues Love a blessing: 
 Blessed lone 'boue earthly rankc. 
 Stated in my style of Franke; 
 Happie style that thinkes no shame 
 In respect of nature, name. 
 Forme, allection, and in all 
 To be Franke, as we lier call. — 
 Tims two Franks in beauty one, 
 Yeelds enough to dote upon; 
 
 * Strappado for the Dircf, 1015, p. 78 — SC.
 
 105 
 
 Equall both in favour, feature, 
 Honour, order, name, and nature ; 
 Both inclining to one stature, 
 Equall'd by no earthly creature.—- 
 Yet if need's one th' best doe craue, 
 In my thoughts it's she I haue: 
 She whose vertues doe excell, 
 As they seeme imparalell ; 
 Modest, yet not too precise, 
 Wise, yet not conceited ^\ise.— 
 With this poem and a pearle. 
 Sent to Franke my faithful girle; 
 I conclude with friendly vow, 
 To my Frank her neighbour too*." 
 
 P. 154—5. 
 
 Orlando Fiirioso, see book xxiii. Brathwait, 
 in a poem called " How Fancie is a Phrensie," 
 
 says : 
 
 *' Tell them the bookes I reade be such as treate 
 Of Anuidis de Gaul, and Pebnerin, 
 Furious Orlando, and Gerilion ; 
 
 Times Curtainc Braivne, &c. oct. 1621.
 
 106 
 
 Where I obserue each fashion and each fcatc 
 Of amorous humours, which, in my conceipt, 
 Seeme to to rare : that tliey that were so strong 
 Should be so mad, and I l)e tame so long*." 
 
 P. 157. 
 Skinkos. — Of Cornelius Vandunk it is said, 
 *' there is no monument hee so highly admires, 
 as that great vessell of Heidelbcrgc, which he 
 holds a competent draught (and no more than 
 competent) for any Slcinker in Europe f." The 
 Skinker was therefore considered a great 
 drinker as well as a Tapster ;{:. In the Address 
 to Bacchus the author is to devise larger pots, 
 and the others are to become forfeited : 
 
 *' Which goods confiscate for their great abuse, 
 Nay, afterward redound unto the use 
 Of all such noble s/dn/ccrs (by confession) 
 As were deceiv'd by men of tliis profession §." 
 
 * Strappado for the Divdy p. 10:3. 
 
 t The Laws if nrinfchi'u 1G17. 
 
 \ Soc Shakrspcarc, t'd. IHO;^ vol. ii. p. 'J7I, 
 
 § Strappado for the Diref.
 
 107 
 
 P. 160—1, note. 
 
 Saint Alban. — Our author appears to have 
 extended the sense as to this Calendar Saint, 
 whom, according to Camden, Fortunatus Pres- 
 byter mentions thus : 
 
 *' Albaniim egregiiim fcvcunda Britannia profert. 
 And fruitful Britain holy Alban shews." 
 
 P. 165. 
 
 Hio-lirrate. — We have it by tradition that our 
 author, upon Highgate Hill, should say : 
 
 " Fare thee well, London, thou 'rt good for nought else 
 But whoredom, and Durdara *, and ringing of belles." 
 
 P. 168—9. 
 Islington, — The prevalence of the sign of 
 
 * An uproar or tumult, see Jamieson's Dictionary, 
 So the old Scotch Ballad, 
 
 *' Sic hurdum durdam, and sic din, 
 Sic fiddling and sic dancing, &c,"
 
 108 
 
 the Lion at ale-houses, is accounted for in 
 Brathwait's character of < A Painter :' 
 
 "My Lord Maiors day (says our author) 
 ivS his Jubile, if any such inferior artist be ad- 
 mitted to so serious a solemnity : If not, Caun- 
 trey presentments are his preferment ; or else 
 hee bestowes his pencile on an aged peece of 
 decayed canvas in a sooty ale-house, where 
 Mother Redcap must be set out in her colours. 
 Here hee and his barmy Hostesse draw both 
 together, but not in like nature; she in ale, 
 liee in oyle. But her commoditie goes better 
 downe, which he meanes to have his full share 
 of, when his worke is done. If she aspire to 
 the conceit of a sinne, and desire to have her 
 hirch'jmlc puU'd downe, hee will supply herwith 
 one ; which hee performes so poorely, as none 
 that sees it but would take it for a sii^ne hee 
 was drunkc when he made it. A long consul- 
 tation is had, before they can agree what signe 
 nmst be rear'd. A Mccrc-maidcj sayes shee,
 
 109 
 
 -for that will sing catches to the youths of the 
 parish. A Lyon, sayes he, for that's the onely 
 signe that he can make. And this he formes 
 so artlesly, as it requires his expression : This 
 is « Lio7i. \\liich old Ellenor Rumming, his 
 Tap-dame, denies, saying. It should have been 
 a Meere-maid *." 
 
 P. 172—3. 
 
 Three Cranes. — The sign of the Three Cranes 
 was in the Vintry. This house remained long 
 in repute, as, by the sign, it appears to be men- 
 tioned in a satirical Character of a Coffee House 
 with the Symptoms of a Totvn JVit, 1673, fol. 
 where the * .Stygian-Puddle Seller' is said to 
 provide " back- recruiting Chocolet for the con- 
 sumptive Gallant, Herefordshire Red-streak 
 made of rotten Apples at the three CraneSf true 
 Brunswick-mum brew'd at S. Katherine's,and 
 
 * Whimzies, 1631.
 
 ]10 
 
 Ale in peny mugs, not so big as a taylor's 
 thimble." 
 
 P. 177. 
 Bacco. — Young, who is mentioned here as a 
 vendor of tobacco, was probably the most noted 
 Abel Drugger of that period, and thereby well 
 known to our author, who very early in life 
 "aspired to a pipe of rich smoake with a tinder- 
 box *," and seems to have lent his aid in a post- 
 humous fashion to the Tobacconists, " In a 
 little Tract entitled Tobacco : published by es- 
 peciall direction of the author upon his death- 
 bed, dedicated to Humphrey King, one well 
 experienced in the use, benefit, and practice of 
 that herbc, and printed for Will. Barlow (with 
 Tobacco armes) then keeping shop in Gra- 
 cious Street f." 
 
 * //<)/'/ Mcinnriab, &c. 10'38. 
 
 f Sec the ol)servalit>iis collected as from this tract ic- 
 )rinted in The Stiioakinu, A"c. 1G17.
 
 Ill 
 
 lacco. — Refers to any popular house where 
 wine was sold. 
 
 P. 202—3. 
 
 Ware, — The allusion to Sir Hugh Middleton 
 being enriched by the project of the New River, 
 is fixed upon by the editor of the fifth edition 
 as internal evidence of the time when the jour- 
 nal was written being 1613. It is more pro- 
 bable the lines under consideration were written 
 at a later period by thirty years, when the un- 
 dertaking began to repay the projectors : and 
 to show how little there is in the former edi- 
 tor's hypothesis, the following stanzas are given 
 from an Elegy upon Prince Henry *, wherein 
 Brathwait pointedly refers to the ' cost' of the 
 concern. 
 
 " Why should men thinke th' inuention halfe so rare, 
 Or worth record, to bring a strearae from Ware, 
 
 * Printed in The Poet's iriUoiv, 1614.
 
 112 
 
 Of pure spring water? for without lesse charge 
 
 I could liaiie drcind a riuer full as large 
 
 "Without ere pumping for't •. and with a sluse 
 
 As artificial! : which could no way chuse 
 
 (Such is the force af an obsequious pitty) 
 But conucy water to most parts o' th' city. 
 
 And this without a Jacobs staffo, or ought 
 
 Saue the dimensions of an aierie thought ; 
 
 Which measures each proportion, onely griefe 
 
 Excepted, which the measure of reliefe 
 
 Could neuer compasse : yet there would be fault 
 
 In my conueiance, for my spring is salt, 
 
 And mixt with briny vapors which distill 
 
 Like pond or marish waters from a hill • 
 
 ]3ut theirs more sweet, so could I mine allay, 
 If I had been at so nnich cost as thcy.''^ 
 
 Again in 1617 he comments upon the cost 
 of the undertaking by saying, " thou makest 
 us never thinke of our poverty, drawne in sluces 
 from Ware, and in pipes to London *." 
 
 P. 210—11. 
 lloj/stoH. — At this town James I. had a re- 
 
 * T/ic ii/noa/dn^ Jgc, 1617, p. 151.
 
 113 
 
 sklence for the purpose of enjoying the sport 
 of hunting, and probably Brathwait was among 
 those who participated with royalty in that 
 amusement. In the ballad of Corydon, or the 
 IVestern Huntsman, Brathwait says : 
 
 " Blaze not the fame-spred chace cf Maratlion, 
 Of hillie Oeta, heathie Calidon, 
 For th' chearcfull coasts of peaceful! Albyon, 
 May show- New-market, Eoiston, Maribon; 
 
 And boast as much vpon their game, 
 
 As any one could doe of them, 
 
 And amongst their doggs not one 
 
 Could match matchless Corydon*." 
 
 P. 224—5. 
 
 Stonegate-liole — There is great similitude 
 between the ludicrous adventure of the attor- 
 ney's clerk and part of the ancient tale of Dan 
 Hew, monk of Leicester, inserted in the British 
 Bibliographer, vol. ii. p. 593. The same story 
 
 * Times Curtaine Draxon, 1621. 
 
 I
 
 114 
 
 was published by Brathvvalt, in an anonymous 
 work, in 1640, which we shall repeat here, as 
 it wears all the imposing appearance of being 
 founded on truth. 
 
 " To inlay this our lecture with mixt stories, 
 I shall adde one only tale of a spritely male, 
 who, for love of a female, lost his maile, and 
 afterwards runne post naked down Sautry- 
 laine. 
 
 *' There was an atturney's clarke, who com- 
 ming along with his master by Stanegate-hole 
 (or the Purser's prize), and hovering a little 
 behind his master, purposely to ease himselfe, 
 tyed his gelding to a stake in the hedge, and 
 went over into the thicket adjoyning : where 
 he no sooner cnter'd than he perceived a dainty 
 young wench, of an amiable presence, cheere- 
 full countenance, and a wooing eye, beckning 
 unto him, as if she affected nothing more than 
 dalliance : The clarke, whose heatc of youth 
 prompted him on, though his master's speed
 
 115 
 
 call'd him back, friendly and freely accoasted 
 her, preferring his owne sport before his mas- 
 ter's speed. But while they were clozing up 
 their youth-full bargaine, two lustie tahers leapt 
 out of a brake and surprised him, calling him 
 to a sharpe account for the dishonour hee had 
 offered their sister : Hee, who had no time ad- 
 mitted him to put in his plea, besought them 
 that hee might bee dismist : which motion they 
 inclined to, but by no means till he had payd 
 Ms fees. To bee short, they stript him naked 
 to his skinne, seazed on his port-mantua : and 
 tying his hands behind him, mounted him, 
 mother-naked as hee was, into his sadle. His 
 gelding missing his master's horse, fell a gal- 
 loping and neying after him. The master with 
 another fellow-traveller, hearing such a noyse 
 and clattering behind them, though a good di- 
 stance from them, looking back, might see one 
 in white with great speed pursuing them : 
 They imagining it to be one in white armour, 
 i2
 
 116 
 
 put spurrs to their horses : where all along 
 Sauiry-laine this eager chace continued ; the 
 man harmelessly following, they fearefully fl}'- 
 ing: till they got to Stilten, where they thought 
 themselves happy in such an harbour : where 
 they reposed, till that armed-man appeared a 
 naked-man ; whom we will leave to the correc- 
 tion of his master : to vrhom he made a free 
 discovery of his misfortune, and consequently 
 deserved more favour *." 
 
 P. 232—3. 
 
 Ncvofounded College. — The Collegium pit rum 
 which our traveller went a little out of the way 
 to visit, was the recent establishment by Ni- 
 cholas Ferrar, at Little Gidding in Hunting- 
 donshire. This foundation was laid about the 
 year 1G25 by this learned and pious man, who^ 
 
 * Ar't nslcrpc, Husband ? A Boidstcr Lecture, oct. 
 J 640, p. CA.
 
 117 
 
 having been Deputy Governour of the Virginia! 
 Company, after the violent dissolution of that 
 body, retired from public life, purchased the 
 manor of Little Gidding, entered into holy 
 orders, and there founded what was called a 
 Protestant nunnery, composed of his mother, 
 brothers, sisters, and their children ; in all, 
 about forty persons. The establishment was 
 the subject of much difference of opinion, and 
 much odium was attached to archbishop Laud, 
 who had ordained the founder, for his encou- 
 ragement of an endowment so nearly allied to 
 popery. It is pleasant, however, to find our 
 traveller paying, in his graceless ramble, a just 
 tribute to the uprightness of the motives and 
 conduct of the rigid devotees. The last de- 
 scendant of this once eminent and singular fa- 
 mily of Ferrar, a very worthy man, is now clerk 
 of the parish of St. Michael Stamford. G. 
 
 See The Arminian Nvnnery : or a Briejh 
 Description and Relation of the late erected Mo-
 
 118 
 
 nasticall Place^ called the Anninian Nimnery at 
 Little Gidding in Hvntington- Shire. Humbly 
 7-ecommended to the tvise consideration of this 
 present Parliament. The Foundation is by a 
 Company of Farrars at Gidding, [wood Cut] 
 Prijitedfor Thomas Vnderhill, mdcxli, 4to. 
 six leaves: -and No. ix. and x. of Hearne's 
 Appendix to the Preface to Peter Langlofi's 
 Chronicle, 1725: ahoihc Gentleman s Magazine 
 for 1772, vol. xlii. p. 322 and 361 : and Eccle- 
 siastical Biography, by CJFordsivorth, LL.D. 
 1810, vol. V. p. 73. 
 
 r. 238—9. 
 
 Wansforth- Brigs* — The melancholy circum- 
 stances under which Barnabee visited Wans- 
 forth-Brigs enable us to fix 1612 as the year 
 in which part of his third Itinerary was written. 
 The plague then ravaged the village, and the 
 usual Miserere mihi ! on the portals, which de- 
 noted the infected dwelling, serves to restore
 
 119 
 
 our apparently thoughtless wanderer to his 
 sober senses. Another customary mark of that 
 dreadful mortality pervading the house was a 
 bloody cross on the door posts, as we learn from 
 the water -poet, where the inherent horror of 
 the subject has rapt the sculler into strains of 
 real poetry. 
 
 •■* In some whole street, perhaps, a shop or twalne 
 Stands open for small taldngs and less gayne. 
 And ever)- closed window, door, and stall. 
 Makes each day seem a solemn festival. 
 Dead corses carried and received still, 
 While fiftie bodies scarce one grave doth 511. 
 While Lord have niercie on us ! on the door, 
 Altho the words be good, do grieve men sore. 
 And o'er the door posts fixed a cross of red. 
 Betokening that there Death some blood hath 
 shed *." 
 
 A very excellent inn, the property of His 
 Grace the Duke of Bedford, still perpetuates 
 
 * The fearful Summer, p. 59. fo. ed. ICSO.
 
 120 
 the perilous adventure of Barnabee in the Sign 
 of the Haycock, on which he is represented 
 as passing under " Wansforth-brigs " interlo- 
 cuting the inhabitants as to the origin of his 
 voyage. G. 
 
 P. 2-i8--9. 
 
 Stamford. — Leland says *'that a greate voice 
 rennith that sumtyme readingcs of Liberalle 
 Sciences were at Staunforde*." 
 
 Thus Camden : — " University of Stam- 
 ford. — In Edward the Third's reign [not to 
 mention what the fragment of an old manu- 
 script history says, concerning an University 
 here, long before our Saviour,] an University 
 for the study and profession of liberal arts and 
 sciences, was begun here ; which the inhabi- 
 tants look upon as their greatest glory. For 
 when the hot contests at Oxford broke out bc- 
 
 * Itinerary, 1 7 1 1 , vol. vi. foU 29.
 
 121 
 
 tween the students of the North and the 
 South, a great number of them withdrew and 
 settled here. However, a little while after they 
 return'd to Oxford, and put an end to the new 
 University which they had so lately begun ; 
 and from thenceforward it was provided, by an 
 oath to that purpose, that no Oxford man 
 should profess at Stamford. [Here are still 
 the remains of two Colleges *, one call'd Black- 
 hally and the other Brazen-nose ; on the gate 
 whereof is a great brazen nose and a ring 
 tln-ough it, like that of the same name at Ox- 
 ford. And it is evident that this did not take 
 its pattern from Oxford, but Oxford from it ; 
 inasmuch as that at Oxford was not built be- 
 fore the reign of Henry the Seventh, and this 
 is at least as old as Edward the Third, and pro- 
 bably olderf ."] 
 
 * These Colleges of Brazen-nose were pulled clown 
 1688. See Britannia, by Gough, 1806, vol ii. p, 352. 
 f Britannia, by Gibson, 1753, col. 535.
 
 122 
 
 The following old provincial rhyme confirms 
 the truth and propriety of Barnabee's observa- 
 tion on the ' swarming beggars at Stamford.' 
 
 " Peterliorough for prije, Stairjhrd for poor. 
 Deeping for a rogue, and Bourn for a whore." 
 
 P. 250-1. 
 
 Foramen Sarce. — This was a popular ale- 
 house, still flourishing, called -^the Hole i' the 
 wall ;" and the Bona Roha, as Justice Shallow 
 has it, who entertained our traveller was Sarah 
 Edwards, whose decease is recorded in the 
 parish register in 16 IG. This '' drunkard's 
 cave," not less in esteem than when visited by 
 honest Barnabee, is at this hour owned and 
 occupied by a right worthy landlord and sports- 
 man yclcped Anthony Baker, and is probably 
 the oldest Jiospit'mm in the place, for " The 
 Maidenhead," where the water-poet rested on 
 liis " pcnilesse pilgrimage," has been long sup- 
 pressed, (jr.
 
 123 
 
 P. 254—5. 
 Witham. — If we had not the utmost confi- 
 dence in our Traveller's accuracy, we might 
 j)erhaps suspect him on this occasion of having 
 reversed an old proverb, which says that 
 
 " Ankham eel and V^hhava pike. 
 In all England is none sike." 
 
 Barnabee is, however, correct, for those mi- 
 nute recorders of momentous events, the an- 
 cient chroniclers, recount an eel of enormous 
 dimensions being stranded near the outlet of 
 that river at Boston: -and indeed a similar 
 prodigy was taken at no great distance in re- 
 cent days. To have hooked one of such por- 
 tentous size, as put the fisher's safety in jeopar- 
 dy, so high up the river, was reserved for the 
 singular good fortune of honest Barnabee, 
 since the Witham has its origin in the village 
 where our traveller rested, and may be stepped
 
 124. 
 
 across any where between its source and the 
 village of Colterworth, ( where Sir Isaac New- 
 ton was born) two miles lower. But there is 
 tlie poet's license ; so we trust, notwithstand- 
 ing, that Barnabee's veracity will ' moult no 
 feather' from this untoward circumstance. G. 
 The largest fresh-water eel I ever saw was 
 caught in the river Witham, opposite Bardney. 
 The boy who drew it to the bank with his line 
 was terrified at its bulk, and cried out " a 
 snake, a snake !" but the prize was secured by 
 his companions, and carried home in juvenile 
 triumph. P. 
 
 P. 256-^7. 
 Grantham This town has long been cele- 
 brated for whetstones, a small cake shaped like 
 a wl'Ctstone, and for a handsome church, 
 * whose spire rises to a great height,* says Cam- 
 den, ' and is famous for the many stories told 
 about it.' Barnabee has added an imperfect
 
 125 
 
 one to the number : it were to be wished that 
 he had been more explicit. The height of the 
 spire was 273 feet. A few years before Bar- 
 nabee undertook his third peregrination, the 
 church and spire of Grantham were in such a 
 ruinous state that a petition was presented to 
 the Lord Keeper stating that the parish church 
 of the said ancient borough, ' being very spa- 
 cious and the steeple thereof famous for its 
 eminent height, were at that present likely to 
 fall into ruin,' expressing at the same time an 
 utter inability to repair it. In this state it 
 seems to have remained till 1661, when it was 
 blown down and rebuilt. The engravings of 
 Hollar, and the history of Dugdale, represent 
 St. Paul's at the time Barnabee travelled as 
 wanting only a spire to compleat the building ; 
 and it is likely that the gossip ran among 
 those who shared drunken Barnabee's com- 
 potations, that this elegant spire of Grant- 
 ham was about to be transplanted thence
 
 126 
 to perfect the splendid cathedral of St. 
 Paul's. G. 
 
 To this communication of a literary friend 
 we are enabled to add Brathwait's relation of 
 the same story in another work. It is intro- 
 duced in the Arcadian Princess, with the name 
 of Granta.m transposed into MARGANT,and 
 may therefore be unhesitatingly applied to that 
 place. An index hand is placed in the margin 
 better to secure notice. (}Clr *' They may wel 
 seem to be ranked and endenized amongst that 
 credulous plebeian society of Margant, who 
 were made to beleeve, upon the ruines of a 
 sumptuous and magnificent abbey-spire, that 
 the State intended their spire (though many 
 miles distant) should supply it: to divert which 
 intendment, in all humble and petitionary 
 manner, with joynt consent according to their 
 weak conceit, they beseeched the State (with 
 ample gratuities to some interceding favorites, 
 for their better successe) to commiserate their
 
 127 
 case, and spare their spire. To which the 
 State, pretending them all favour, after much 
 laughter, pleasantly condescended *." 
 
 P. 2Si^—5. 
 Retford. — Versifying the old adage that a 
 fish should swim thrice; in water, in butter, 
 and in wine. 
 
 P. 272—3. 
 
 Robin Hood's Well.— Ewelyn in his Tour 
 through Yorkshire, in August 1654:, says : 
 *' We all alighted in the highway to drink at a 
 christal spring which they call Robin Hood's 
 Well ; neere it is a stone chaire, and an iron 
 ladle, to drink out of, chain'd to the seate." 
 Memoi7's of John Evelyn, 1818, vol. i. p. 278. 
 
 P. 284—5. 
 Tac?c«5^er.—" Really, (says Camden) con- 
 
 * The Arcadian Princess, 1635, p. 203.
 
 128 
 
 sidering the many currents that fall into [the 
 Wherf] this so sliallow and easie stream under 
 the bridge is very strange, and might well give 
 occasion to what a certain' gentleman, who 
 passed it in the summer-time, said of it : 
 
 " A'i/ Tailcaster hahct Musis vel carmine digrnan, 
 Pvdetcr magnifice struclum sinejlzntmiepontem. 
 
 Itinerary of T. Edcs. (marginal Note) 
 
 " Nothing at Tadcastcr deserves a name, 
 
 But the fair bridge that's built ■vvitliout a stream *." 
 
 P. 302—3. 
 
 Alerion. — '' The throngest beast-fair on St. 
 Bartholomew's day that I ever saw." — Camden. 
 
 P. 306—7. 
 Ncsham. — At this town there was a Bene- 
 dictine Nunnery, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, 
 and of which no vestige remains. Here Mar- 
 
 * Camden's Britannia.
 
 129 
 
 garet, sister of Henry VIII., slept in her pro- 
 gress to Scotland. The last prioress was Jo- 
 hanna Lawson, who remained an annuitant in 
 1553. It was granted 32 Hen. VIII. to James 
 Lawson, whoappears to have been great-grand- 
 father of Frances L. who married R. Brath- 
 wait. Nesham is in the parish of Hurworth, 
 a beautiful village three miles from Darlington, 
 on the banks of the Tees, and noted as the 
 place where Emerson the celebrated mathema- 
 tician resided. In right of his wife, Brathwait 
 possessed the manor of Nesham, which After- 
 wards passed out of the family, and was sold by 
 the late Sir Charles Turner to a Mr. Wright- 
 son, and has, we believe, been offered again re- 
 cently for sale. 
 
 P. 310— II. 
 Riclmund.—^' Built by Alan the first ear], 
 and honoured by him with this name which 
 ♦signifies a rich mount." — Camden, 
 K
 
 130 
 
 P. 318-^19. 
 Middlam.^ '' Robert Fitz-Ralph had all 
 Wentseddle bestovv'd on him by Conanus earl 
 of Bretagne and Richmond, and built a very 
 strong castle at Middlehara." — Camden, 
 
 P. 336— 7. 
 KendalL — A Charter of Incorporation was 
 granted to this town in the eighteenth year of 
 the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and another 
 charter with additional privilegesintheeleventh 
 year of Charles I. The Itinerary being written 
 when only the original charter existed, our 
 author declares there was " nothing but a 
 mayor wanted," which civic appointment was 
 granted by the new charter. Probably the 
 to>vns-pcople were applying for an extension 
 of their privileges when the text was written, 
 and after the obtainment of their request in 
 163G, it became necessary to add a record of
 
 131 
 
 it, by a note, which shows that additions v/ere 
 made long after the Itinerary was first written. 
 
 P. 338. 
 
 Si vitulum, &c. from the third Eclogue of 
 Virgil, but applied in a widely different sense, 
 is on that account very neat. A. 
 
 P. 34^5. 
 
 Malt-worm. — The following selection of pas- 
 sages, casually made, supply a further trait of 
 the mannerism of our author, where he intro- 
 duces a favourite metaphor of the worm ; and 
 the passages might probably be increased to 
 every work he produced, with trifling labour. 
 
 O then thou earth-bred worme, why should- 
 est thou vant ? — Strappado Jar the Devil, 1615. 
 
 Lick-wimbles, malt-wormes, vine-fretters, 
 &c. — Lai[)s of JDrinhing, 1617. 
 
 The gem soiled by a canker- worme,— As the 
 K 2
 
 132 
 
 glistering of the glow-worme from the light 
 and splendour of the sunne. — The barraine 
 braine-wormes of this time. — The SmoaJcing 
 Age, 1617. 
 
 Cheering the wormes that on his body feed. 
 — Death is wormes' caterer. — Description of 
 Deathy 1618. 
 
 Now, wormeling, let me speak. — Discourse 
 on moderate tjoeepingi 1618. 
 
 Thou sillie worme, compact of slimie mud 
 
 Art thou a crauling worme, a feeble creature? 
 — Natvres Embassie, 1621. 
 
 Thou wouldst wonder how this dunghil- 
 worm. — Shephcard's Tales, 1621. 
 
 And the sonne of man worme's meat. — 
 Which these earth-worm es of ours can never 
 do. — The very tetter or ring-worme that eats 
 into womens good name. -'E7igUsh Gcntlemany 
 1630. 
 
 A wittie, waggish, braine-wormc. — This 
 malt-wormc encounters with a portion of
 
 133 
 
 Frontlneacke. — This worme will turne againe. 
 . — These glo-wormes they are soiles to the 
 purest paper. — Till this yealous earth- worme 
 is forgot. — Most politickly compound upon in- 
 different tearmes with his malt-worms, — Whim- 
 zies, 1631. 
 
 Taking of a red-worme from his gall. — The 
 folly of a poore-wormlin. — Arcadian PrmcesSf 
 1635. 
 
 When corruption shall bee my mother and 
 wormes my brethren and sisters. — Spiritual 
 Spicerie, 1638. 
 
 The poore worme of herselfe neither greatly 
 harmefull nor profitable. — By scurrilous or fac- 
 tious braine-wormes hatched. — Survey of His- 
 tory, 1638. 
 
 Engage my fancy to an earth-worm. — Tivo 
 Lancashire Lovers, 1640. 
 
 A little worme may lye under a great stone. 
 — Boulster Lecture, 1640. 
 
 Lodgesforwormes.— Poor passionate worme.
 
 134< 
 
 — Where the wornie is ever gnawing — An 
 earth-worme striptof his estate. — Penitent Pil- 
 grim, 1611. 
 
 The worm will turn again. — Comment upon 
 Chancery 1665. 
 
 Oppression is such a ring-worm as it spreads 
 all over the face of his estate. — Captive Cap- 
 tain, 1665. 
 
 P. 346—7. 
 
 Closing scene. — The vale here introduced 
 enumerates above an hundred different places ; 
 and as several names are not before mentioned, 
 it may be concluded they were places where 
 our tourist only took a ' whet.' Indeed if 
 there is excepted the long chalking at Daintry ; 
 the amour at IMnnsfield ; the niglit and day 
 work at Kendall; a seven days tarrying at 
 Preston; and being no starter, when once 
 hou.sed at the Three Cranes, our said 13arnabee
 
 135 
 cannot be deemed a loiterer. He is modelled 
 for novelty and new quarters j following the 
 author's adopted adage — 
 
 Unius noct'is peramicus Jiospes, 
 ProdcimcB gratus minus est amicisy 
 Tert'ue vulius patietur hostis 
 
 Dira minantis. 
 
 Guests of one night stay may be kindly welcome, 
 Guests of a next night are not held so toothsome, 
 Guests of a third night are reputed noisome 
 To the receiver *. 
 
 P. 374.-5. 
 
 Malt on. — Tn the Strappado for the Diuell 
 is a long humoursome poem * Vpon a Poets 
 Palfrey, lying in Lauander, for the discharge 
 of his Prouender,' which accords in part with 
 the description here given : 
 
 Sw-vey of History, 1638, p. 321.
 
 136 
 
 Here stands a beast that eats and has no teetli, 
 
 Wiske out and winches, and yet has no tayle. 
 Looks like death's-head, and yet he is not death, 
 Neighs like an asse, and crawleth like a snayle, 
 All bones above, no belly vnderneath, 
 Legg'd like a caminell, with a sea-horse foote. 
 So bigg's his head he cannot be got out.' " 
 
 P. 376—7. 
 
 Rippon, — Brathwait had early experience of 
 some of the tricks used by jockeys. The fol- 
 lowing lines from his character as the shep- 
 herd Technis confirm this presumption , when 
 he 
 
 " —^ did eat, did drinke, and merry make, 
 For no delight saue these did Technis take. 
 For I may say to you if so I had, 
 My lucke to horsc-Jlcsh had not bcene so bad, 
 As by some yeercs experience I hauc found :"— — 
 
 P. 386—7. 
 Jpplcbi/. — The ' ancient scat' refers to the
 
 137 
 castle built there, " for its central as well as 
 strong and beautiful situation in the barony *." 
 
 P. 388—9. 
 
 Hauxide, — This place as well as a few 
 others are only named to say ' Farewell,' as 
 though Barnabee made no long tarrying there- 
 in. For these partial omissions it is difficult to 
 assign a reason, unless it may be conjectured 
 that it is not attributable to dearth of incident, 
 but that Brathwait knew himself to be too in- 
 timately known in the neighbourhood of par- 
 ticular towns to remain, if they were described, 
 long undiscovered as author of the poem. To 
 notice one instance that must have been an in- 
 tentional omission. He seems peculiarly anxi- 
 ous to avoid mentioning Catterick in his Itine- 
 rary ; although Barnabee goes to Richmond 
 
 * History of Craven, p. 350.
 
 138 
 
 and Middlam, and it was hardly probable, if 
 even possible, in those days, for him to have 
 gone from one to the other and avoid Catte- 
 rick Bridge, and an inn there of great anti- 
 quity ; always celebrated and even now one of 
 the first in the North. Indeed the above con- 
 jecture seems tenable from the circumstance 
 that Hauxide is omitted ; and there a kinsman 
 of our author resided, who obtained much 
 popular influence and probably had property 
 and a fiimily established in that town. This 
 appears by some lines " Vpon the late decease 
 of his much lamented friend and kinsman Allen 
 Nicholson, a zealous and industrious member 
 both in Church and Commonweale." 
 
 Hauxide laments thy death, Grasmi/re not so, 
 Wishinjf thou hadst bccne dead ten yccrcs agoc, 
 For then her market had not so bcene done, 
 Ijiit had suruhi'd thy age in time to come : 
 And well may Hauxide grieuc at tliy departure, 
 Since shcc receiu'd from thee her ancient charter, iScc* 
 
 * Remains after death, 1618.
 
 139 
 
 P. 390—1. 
 
 Garestang. — Noted for an extraordinary 
 breed of cattle. In May 1772, a gentleman 
 refused 30 guineas for a three year old cow, 
 sold a calf of a month's age for ten guineas, 
 and bulls for an hundred. He killed an ox 
 weighing twenty-one stone per quarter, exclu- 
 sive of hide, offal, &c. so that well might ho7iest 
 Barnahee at the beginning of the 17th century 
 celebrate the cattle of that place, notwith- 
 standing the misfortune he met with in one of 
 its great fairs. See p. 50. A. 
 
 P. 394<— 5. 
 
 Lonesdale. — The copy of the Itinerary al- 
 ready alluded to as possessed by Mr. Wilson, 
 (seep. 48.) contained the following sarcastic 
 lines in manuscript :
 
 140 
 
 Villa egena, populus elatics, 
 Tcmplum damnosum ruiq; lautus, 
 Obelistus jam novatus. 
 
 A poor town, and a proud people, 
 An old church, and a new steeple. 
 
 P. 404—5. 
 Richmund. — " To Nesham with my tvoman.'* 
 Brathwait, for an unlaboured rhyme, appHes 
 what now appears a homely expression to his 
 wife, whom he seeks on all occasions to extol 
 as the model of her sex. In " Free, yet Bound; 
 an Epigram upon Marriage,'' he says : 
 
 '* — Thanks to licauen, I haue got such an one, 
 Who thougli shee be no profest monitor, 
 Shall, as slice merits, be my counsellour; 
 
 For shee is firme abouc comparison. 
 
 And loues all Muslqiic saue Divishm : 
 
 Nor yet assun^.cs shee to herselfc that power, 
 
 As her instructions were so absolute, 
 
 As first with reason slice should not dispute *." 
 
 I'lmcs Curtaine Dravme, 1621.
 
 141 
 
 P. 414—15. 
 
 Kendall,^ Leland, in his Itinerary, remarks 
 of Kendall, or Kirkby Kendall, " in the town 
 is but one chirch ;" and therefore the pastor, 
 whose example was so little attended to, is 
 probably the same person who had many years 
 before obtained the like notice from the author 
 in addressing the inhabitants of Kendall. 
 
 " But of all blessings that were reckoned yet. 
 In my opinion there is none so great, 
 As that especiall one which they receiue, 
 By th' graue and reuerend Pastor which they haue, 
 Whose life and doctrine are so ioint together, 
 (As both sincere, there's no defect in either,) 
 For in him both Urim and Thummim be ; 
 O that we had more pastors such as he : 
 For then in Sion should God's flocke encrease, 
 
 " Hauing such shepheards would not flea but fleece ; 
 Thus what wants Kendal that she can desire, 
 Tyrers her Pastor, and her selfe is Tyre ; 
 He to instruct her people, she to bring 
 Wealth to her towne by forraine trafficking." 
 
 Address to tke Ccttoneers, 1615.
 
 142 
 
 P. 416—17. 
 
 John Dorij For the ballad of John Dory- 
 see Ritson's Ancient Songs, 1790, p. 163. This 
 lyrical piece continued popular near a century. 
 It was first inserted in the Dcnteromclia : or 
 the second part of Musicks melodic, or mclodius 
 miisicke," 1609. To the farce called The 
 Empress of Morocco, 1674, 4to. (which was 
 an humourous burlesque upon the Opera 
 with similar title by E. Settle) there is at- 
 tached an " Epilogue being a new fancy after 
 the old, and most surprisising way of Macbeth, 
 perform'd with new and costly machines, whicli 
 were invented and managed by the most in- 
 genious operator Mr. Henry Wright, P.G.Q." 
 which was introduced to the audience by " the 
 most renowned and melodious song of John 
 Dory, being heard as it were in the air sung 
 in parts by Spirits, to raise the expectation
 
 143 
 
 and charm the audience with thoughts sub- 
 lime, and worthy of that heroick scene which 
 follows." 
 
 In Playford's Second book of the Pleasant 
 Musical Companion, 1687, this ballad is suc- 
 ceeded by the well-known satire upon Sir 
 John Suckling as " a second part of John 
 Dory made to the same tune, upon Sir John 
 
 S expedition into Scotland, 1639." The 
 
 same collection contains a song on the power 
 of women, to the tune of the Blacksmith, be- 
 ginning 
 
 " Will you give me leave and I'll tell you a story. 
 Of what has been done by your fathers before ye. 
 It shall do you more good than ten of John Dory, 
 Which nobody can deny." 
 
 Barnabee's censure of those who had rather 
 hear " pipe than sermon." and next bidding 
 to " dance lively with John Dory," is similar 
 to Brathwait's address to the Cottoneers, 
 where, after morally recommending the ad-
 
 144 
 
 vantages of charity, he proceeds in the follow- 
 ing singular manner : 
 
 " So time shall crowne you with an happy end, 
 
 And consummate the wishes of a friend ; 
 
 So each (through peace of conscience) rapt with pleasure, 
 
 Shall ioifully begin to dance his measure. 
 
 One footing actiuely Wilsoji's delight, 
 
 Descanting on this note, I haue done jvhat^s right, 
 
 Another ioying to be nam'd 'mongst them 
 
 Were made men-fishers of poore fisher-men. 
 
 The third as blith as any tongue can tell, 
 
 Because he's found a faithfull Samuel. 
 
 The fourth is chanting of his notes as gladly, 
 
 Keeping the tune for th' honour of Arthur a Bradley*, 
 
 The fiftli so pranke, ho scarce can stand on ground, 
 
 Asking who'll sing with him Mai Dixo7is round?" 
 
 P, 424—5. 
 A new English version of this apology for 
 errata appeared in poems by Lawrence Whyte, 
 Dub. 1742, 12mo. P. 
 
 * Tins ballad is printed in the Appendix to Ritson's 
 Robin J food, 1795.
 
 U5 
 
 It was the fashion of that age for authors to 
 implore favour of the reader for the supposed 
 discrepancies of the press. One contempo- 
 rary instance may be cited from a volume of 
 considerable rarity entitled : Marsh his micUe 
 Monument. Raised on Shepherds TalkingSf In 
 Moderate WalMiigs, In Divine Expressions, In 
 Humane Transgressions, Anno DomAS^S, 4to. 
 A copy that belonged to the author has the 
 following lines in manuscript : 
 
 The printer was too blame, for hee hath made 
 My verse speak nonsence, in a many places : 
 
 But gentle reader let mee now perswade 
 
 Thee for to help to mend thejT halting paces : 
 
 And whatsoere I put to printing next, 
 
 lie watch him so hee shall not mar the text. 
 
 John Marsh,
 
 COLLATION 
 
 OF 
 
 THE TEXT OF THE ITINERARY. 
 
 L 2
 
 C OLL ATION 
 
 OF THE TEXT OF THE FIRST EDITION 
 
 OF 
 
 Ci^e gtmerarp 
 
 WITH LATER EDITIONS. 
 SECOND EDITION, 1716. 
 
 P. 16, 17. 
 Barnabse Harringtoni & nunc & dudum decantati 
 Itinerariura Boream quater retroversus. 
 
 The famous Bamaby Harrington's Travels to the 
 North, four times backward and forward. 
 
 P. 17. , 1. I. 
 
 O little Faustus, stretch. 
 
 1. 4. 
 
 Let rich wine advance thy colour, 
 
 1.6. 
 ——thou' It be wiser.
 
 150 
 
 P. 19. I. 1. 
 
 Little Faust us. 
 
 P. 21. 1. 3. 
 
 In the bakehouse. 
 
 P. 23. 1. 2. 
 
 Taking farewell of the Southward. 
 
 P. 25. 1. 1—2. 
 
 To Oxford came I, whose companion 
 Is Mtncrva, Well Platonian. 
 
 1. 3. 
 From whose. 
 
 1. G. 
 Tlie Horn at Queen's speaks pure Athenian. 
 
 P. 29. 1. 3—4, 
 
 No more of that, it is above mc, 
 
 I found a tender housewife that did love me. 
 
 1. 6. 
 Tlian thousand Rosamonds a dying. 
 
 P. 35. 1. 2—3. 
 
 Where strong ale my brains did pester ; 
 First night be sure. 
 
 P. 36. 1. 5— G. 
 
 wanton mad one, 
 Who her hog was set astride on. 
 
 P. 41. 1. 3. 
 
 ■ a nak'd compact. 
 
 1. r>. 
 Town and her I left both, doubtful.
 
 151 
 
 P. 45. 1. 3. 
 
 Where induc'd by Host's example. 
 
 1. 6. 
 With his red nose tipt most bravely. 
 
 P. 47. 1. 6. 
 
 That the pulpit. 
 
 P. 51. 1. 1. 
 
 I came. 
 
 P. 53. 1. 4—5. 
 
 Till on bridge I broke my forehead, 
 Whence ashara'd, while forehead smarted, 
 
 P. 55. 1. 5. 
 
 That on earth. 
 
 P. 57. 1. 4—6. 
 
 Yet of liquor very greedy. 
 Had they never 
 Belly'd make their. 
 
 P. 59. 1. 2—6. 
 
 To be punk unto a Captain, 
 
 I embrae'd, as I had got it, 
 
 But door creak'd, and Captain smoak'd it : 
 
 Took me by th' ears, and so drew me 
 
 Till head-long, &c. 
 
 P. 61. 1. 5. 
 
 This was the cause lest you should miss it. 
 
 P. 6S. 1. 3—6. 
 
 But could find not such a creature. 
 
 Yet on a sign— — 
 
 Where strength of ale had so much stir'd me. 
 
 That I grew stouter far than Jordie,
 
 152 
 
 P. 65. 1. 1—6. 
 
 Thence to Bradford, where I cnter'd. 
 In Family where Love oft center'd : 
 They love, are lov'd, and make no shew. 
 Yet still grow, and do encrease too : 
 Furnish'd with their spritely weapons, 
 She-flesh feelb priests are no capons. 
 
 P. 69. 1. 3—4. 
 
 as a traveller goes, 
 and flows, 
 
 P. 73. 1. I— •2. 
 
 Tlience to Inglcton, where I liv'd 
 Till I brake a Blacksmith's head. 
 
 1. 5. 
 Wlicnce astonish'd. 
 
 Note f, 1. 2. 
 Church under hill, the hill by waters bet. 
 
 P. 81. 1. ^1— fi. 
 
 I drank ale both thick and clammy. 
 
 " Shroud tliy head, l)oy, stretch thy hand too, 
 
 Hand has done what head can't stand to." 
 
 P. 85. 1. 5. 
 
 The long-snouted dilemma. 
 
 1. G. 
 Bush doth need. 
 
 P. 91. I. 1—'-'. 
 
 Young Fauste, hai)i)ily returned, 
 Tell me, prithee, where'st sojourned.
 
 153 
 
 P. 91. 1. 4. 
 
 What seats, sights. 
 
 P. 93. 1. 2. 
 
 garments too. 
 
 P. 97. 1. 2. 
 
 Richer am not, nor yet poorer. 
 
 1. 6. 
 Neither healthier. 
 
 P. 101. 1. 1. 
 
 feels its maeander. 
 
 P. 103. 1. 4. 
 ^beggars crowned. 
 
 P. 105. 1. 6. 
 
 When I walk'd my legs deny'd it. 
 
 P. 107. 1. 3—4. 
 
 the street 
 
 to meet. 
 
 P. 109. 1. 5. 
 
 were there. 
 
 P. 119- 1. 1. 
 
 Thence to th' Cock. 
 
 1. 6. 
 By two porters well supported. 
 
 P. 123. 1. 4. 
 
 till's brains were tainted. 
 
 P. 129. 1. 6. 
 
 Than meat changed to strong liquor.
 
 154^ 
 
 P. 135. Note k, 1. 1. 
 
 trees, grass, and artichokes. 
 
 P. 137. 1. 2—6. 
 
 did I amble 
 Down nasty cellar, wife inviting. 
 All while cursed bear was biting : 
 But the butcher having made 
 The fire his bed, no more I staid. 
 
 P. 139. 1. 1—2. 
 
 Thence to Meredin— — 
 Where grown foot-sore. 
 
 P. 143. 1. -1—5. 
 
 Tliicf nor bung-hole I ne'er fear'd ; 
 Though cunnudgeons have. 
 
 P. 149. 1. 1. 
 
 on Tuesday. 
 
 P. 171. 1. 2—3. 
 
 Aldenn'n-bury 
 
 First arriv'd. 
 
 P. 175. 1. 2. 
 
 Oft the Cardinal's Hat do fly to, 
 Where a Harts-IIorns. 
 
 P. 180. Note * omitted. 
 
 P. 189. 1. 5. 
 that I shcw'd. 
 
 P. 199. Noteq: On the 
 
 P. 211. 1. G. 
 
 llestless wretch.
 
 155 
 
 P. 229. ^ 1. 6. 
 
 t o his lodging* 
 
 P. 247. 1. 1. 
 
 Hollowing aloud. 
 
 P. 267. 1. 5. 
 
 ——scrip caus'd me to fear him, 
 
 P. 283. 1. 3. 
 
 One said, the match. 
 
 P. 285. 1. 2. 
 
 A fair bridge, no flood appearecL 
 
 1. 6. 
 b e thought one of them, 
 
 P. 289. 1. 6. 
 
 That his Betty. 
 
 P. 305. 1. 3. 
 and jant ones. 
 
 P. 323. 1. 5. 
 
 I came, call'd, cull'd. 
 
 P. 
 
 345. 1. 5. 
 
 p. 
 
 361. Note s, h 7. 
 
 
 money hurry thither. 
 
 p. 
 
 363. ^ 1. 2. 
 
 p. 
 
 375. 1. 5. 
 Should this kephal die. 
 
 
 1.6. 
 
 
 in tlie sorrow.
 
 156 
 
 P. 377. 1. 2—3. 
 
 To sell horses if they're dear there ; 
 If they're cheap. 
 
 P. 385. 1. 2. 
 
 Worth the staying. 
 
 P. 397. 1. 2. 
 
 they threw me. 
 
 P. 405. 1. I. 
 
 — — \\'hen spi-ings come on. 
 
 1.4. 
 Where we love. 
 
 (Live, in the first ed. seems undoubtedly a press error.) 
 
 P. 408. 1. 4. 
 
 Nescit hospes. 
 
 P. 409. 1. 6. 
 
 Goose and hen. 
 
 P. 427. 1. 1. 
 
 What tho' Breves too be made Longo'a. 
 
 P. 439. 1. 5. 
 
 my count'nance merry. 
 
 P. 443. 1. 1. 
 
 who stars do excel. 
 
 P. 445. 1. 5. 
 
 Tims I love thee.
 
 157 
 
 THIRD EDITION, 1723. 
 
 P. 
 
 11. 1. 5. 
 
 p. 
 
 37. 1. 3. 
 Here a she bull. 
 
 p. 
 
 49. 1. 6. 
 So among them. 
 
 p. 
 
 51. 1. 6. 
 
 
 purse was empty. 
 
 p. 
 
 61. 1. 3. 
 Who indeed is. 
 
 P. 90. 1. 6. 
 
 parvum boni. 
 
 P. 133. 1. 5. 
 
 ——for his default-a. 
 
 P. 139. 1. 1. 
 
 Thence to Meredin did steer I. 
 
 P. 141. 1. 6. 
 
 Black or blue.
 
 158 
 
 P. 147. 1. 1. 
 
 ——where I tarry'd. 
 
 1.4. 
 w orld turns round-a. 
 
 P. 159. 1. 3. 
 
 ■ crowned with wreath of joy. 
 
 P. 173. 1. 2. 
 
 ——I am taken.' 
 
 1. 3. 
 "V^liere at Harts-horn's. 
 
 P. 198. Note q, 1. 3. 
 
 Regio quo. 
 
 P. 217. 1. 2. 
 
 As I had drank nothing at all, Sir. 
 
 P. 251. 1. 1. 
 
 were great and many. 
 
 Note z, L 1. 
 —must be call'd. 
 
 P. 253. 1. 6. 
 
 drink the pot up. 
 
 P. 255. 1. 4. 
 
 took an angle. 
 
 P. 271. 1. 5. 
 Venus rageth. 
 
 P. 309. 1. I. 
 
 ——where I boused.
 
 159 
 
 P. 329. ^ 1. 6. 
 
 "VVIth both smoke. 
 
 P. 412. 1. 6. 
 
 Tibiae tamen concionem. 
 
 P. 417. 1. 3. 
 
 Nought maketh them. 
 
 FOURTH EDITION, 1776. 
 
 P. 22. 1. 6. 
 
 Quod Sabbatho. 
 
 P. 42. 1, 3. 
 
 Pater oppidanus. 
 
 P. 84. 1. 3. 
 
 — — frondi virent. 
 
 P. 99. 1. 4. 
 
 Than old ale. 
 
 [misprint continued in 5th ed.] 
 
 P. 179. 1. 11. 
 
 — lear« my errors.
 
 160 
 
 FIFTH EDITION, 1805. 
 
 P. 10. 1. 3. 
 
 At liic translator. 
 
 P. 67. 1. 2. 
 
 living fountains. 
 
 P. 71. 1. 2—3. 
 
 was a common crycr 
 To a breakfast of an herring. 
 
 P. 73. St. 2. 
 
 Some time at Ingleton I led, 
 
 Until I broke the Blacksmith's head ; 
 
 At which enrag'd, with showers of stones 
 
 The women strove to break my bones ; 
 
 So fearing an unlucky tluimp, 
 
 I stole a march, and turn'd my rump. 
 
 P. 84. 1. 4. 
 
 Bamaba; nasum. 
 
 P. 93. 1. 1. 
 
 ——same am I now. 
 
 P. 129. 1. 2. 
 
 Mine hostess.
 
 161 
 
 P. 131. i.e. 
 
 -—wet till the morrow. 
 P. 163. 1. G, 
 
 Made me, a me. 
 P. 171, 1. 2. 
 
 Aldermanbury. 
 P. 210. 1. 1, 
 
 ubi seges. 
 P. 275. Note f, 1. 2. 
 
 sleeps but sloth. 
 P- 297. 1. 6. 
 
 as I did behove me. 
 P. 327. 1. 2. 
 
 But handsomeness. 
 P. 349. 1. 4—5. 
 
 -and Chester, 
 -and Mansfield. 
 
 P. 351. 1. 5. 
 
 and Budworth. 
 P. ^33, 1. 3. 
 
 — — in cellar dwell. 
 
 M
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE 
 
 OF THE WORKS OF 
 
 RICHARD BRATHWAIT. 
 
 M 2
 
 A 
 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE 
 
 OF THE WORKS OF 
 
 RICHARD BRATHWAIT. 
 
 ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 Orathwatt early announced himself '• am- 
 bitious after the name of an author." and in 
 commencing his literary career, sought to se- 
 cure that distinction by some ill-digested effu- 
 sions, more willing to obtain present notice, 
 than trust to the uncertain, if more lasting, 
 meed of posterity. 
 
 The early subjects of his muse were satiri- 
 cal and moral. As a Satirist he attacked with 
 some poignancy the fashionable attire, man- 
 ners, and idle pursuits of that period. To cen-
 
 166 
 
 sure the prevailing and less consequential foibles 
 of society becomes an easy and amusing spe- 
 culation. Fashion almost at all times invites to 
 ridicule, and a small portion of caustic humour 
 will render such exposures acceptable to the 
 circle of ephemeral readers, and ensure a 
 transient popularity to the author, however un- 
 worthy the waste of the etfervesccnce of ge- 
 nius. 
 
 With the moral poet he united the character 
 of a pious versifier. Many of his longer poems 
 have scriptural passages introduced, which 
 rather humble than exalt his poetical cha- 
 racter. 
 
 The aira in which he commenced was also 
 unfavourable. The reign of true genius had just 
 expired, and an arbitrary pedant extended his 
 prerogative to the literary world. All the 
 powerful visions of romance and fiction were 
 suddenly disenchanted; nature and her conge- 
 nial attributes fell into disuse, and the vigour
 
 167 
 of intellect received a check from the cramp 
 regimen of abstruse learning. It was then that a 
 mountebank altar was raised to fame, whereon 
 witchcraft mounted for a time, while tobacco 
 fumed around a glowing incense. To the un- 
 congenial influence of that tasteless age may- 
 be ascribed the circumstance that many of our 
 author's poems, at first well received, have 
 shared in the common fate of those rhymes, 
 which seek the favour of popular caprice, and 
 then fall into disesteem and obscurity. 
 
 Brathwait was a very voluminous prose 
 writer, and, with the exceptions of Prynne and 
 Wither, few have exceeded him in number of 
 compositions. He wrote largely on historical, 
 but more so on ethical subjects, and often with 
 a strain of fervent piety ; enforcing the neces- 
 sity of practical religious duties so strongly, as 
 to make some of his early humourous produc- 
 tions appear to have been given to the world 
 in the very wantonness of authorship.
 
 168 
 
 Although the topics of his pen were uni- 
 versal, only a few subjects have attracted at- 
 tention and remained of easy reference. Of 
 these the English Gentleman and English 
 Gentlewoman, and the Survey of Histories re- 
 tain a place in most well chosen collections of 
 books. All his poetical works have become 
 rare; and those more partially known, such as 
 the Strappado for the Diucll ; Natvre's Em- 
 hassie, or the JVilde-mans measures ; Golden 
 Fleece, &c. have been rendered conspicuous 
 by their quaint or taking titles, a species of 
 bibliopolistic study, in which he was an adept, 
 and which enabled him sometimes to hit upon a 
 happy conceit that, perhaps, ensured a rapid 
 sale. 
 
 In 1815 an endeavour was made to revive 
 his memory by a well warranted reprint of the 
 Essays iipjon the Five Senses, by the Editor of 
 the Archaica. To that reprint was prefixed a 
 preface, which not only contained some criti-
 
 169 
 cal opinions on the merit of Brathwait, but 
 augmented the very imperfect list that A. 
 Wood had given of his writings. However, 
 that active editor will allow me, with a frank- 
 ness of friendship long felt for him, to discharge 
 a duty always due to the public, in making 
 these remai'ks on his labours on that occasion, 
 which my professed love of scrupulous accu- 
 racy would induce me to make on those of a 
 stranger. My friend has on this occasion 
 suffered the ardour of his mind to carry him 
 on, without sufficient examination of different 
 copies, and thereby reprinted the Essays oti 
 the Five Senses from an incomplete copy, al- 
 though it probably once belonged to the au- 
 thor himself. His edition* wants four pages of 
 the table and the Instructions ofPhilaretustohis 
 Son, forming two more at the end ; and also 
 the addition of a leaf, containing on one side 
 
 * Part VI. o^ the Archaica.
 
 170 
 
 eight verses as Loves choice, and on the re- 
 verse, an apologetic remark Ljjo?! the Errata. 
 How this mischance occurred is conjectured 
 on a future page ; and probably my friend will 
 be glad to adopt his author Brathwait's ex- 
 cuse on this occasion, and say, 
 
 " Curteous reader, it shall suit well with thy 
 ingenuous candor, modestly to correct with a 
 clear censure all such either literal or mate- 
 rial errors as may obviously occurre in the 
 perusal of these subjects ; knowing how many 
 authors innocentest labours liave been press'd 
 to death by errors." 
 
 Well aware of my friend's variety of occupa- 
 tion, both while resident at home, or rambling 
 as a tourist, it may be some excuse to say, 
 that at that moment, in addition to the parlia- 
 mentary business which conunonly engaged his 
 mind, his time, strength, and zeal were nearly 
 exhausted by the accidental pressure of a more 
 than ordinary portion of literary labour.
 
 171 
 Though he has now become a settled traveller, 
 yet his pen will not be idle, and I therefore 
 presume to urge him to set a little higher value 
 on these minutice than he seems to believe it 
 necessary to do, lest some future Ritson should 
 cpme upon him with an unsparing scalping 
 knife, and treat him as that hypercritic once 
 treated his favourite Warton. In the title 
 page, moreover, the reprint is said to be from 
 the edition of 1625, though in the preface the 
 true date of 1620 is given. 
 
 I am further induced to remark, while upon 
 the subject of reprints, that the same Editor 
 has given a small selection of Brathwait's 
 Odes from his private press. To him there- 
 fore the praise is due of having made the first 
 attempt to revive the memory of our Author, 
 though nothing exceeded his surprise or pleas- 
 ed him more than the discovery that Brath- 
 wait was the author of Barnabee's Journal, of 
 which he hailed the communication with the
 
 172 
 
 most frank acknowlegenients, not In the least 
 abated by the detection of In's error, or by my 
 venturing to reprove his carelessness. We have 
 all our different pursuits, our varied duties, and 
 little ambitions; and by mutual good will and 
 candid cooperation may correct each other 
 without anger or peevishness, and abet without 
 rudeness or incivility. It would as ill become 
 me to eulogise my friend, in his regretted ab- 
 sence, as to dwell on his defects : his nume- 
 rous publications are before the world, and 
 candid readers will judge of his diversified ta- 
 lents and multifarious attainments, without re- 
 ference to the mistake of a date ; or dwelling 
 on the casual use of an imperfect original. 
 
 It is, I apprehend, on his general criticisms 
 that my friend relies for any valuable accession 
 which his re})rints may furnish to English lite- 
 rature. Of our author, he has cited several 
 passages from his poems to prove, that " he was 
 not altogether delicicnt in poetical genius." He
 
 173 
 
 remarks in him, even from those specimens, 
 some strong characteristics which well agree 
 with the author of Barnabees Journal, <' their 
 tendency to colloquial and vulgar allusion of 
 expression :" though he there mentions it for 
 the purpose of blame, because it is intermixed 
 with what is " grave, and with passages of ele- 
 ganceandbeauty." But he sums up his character 
 in these words : " It is rather as a miscellane- 
 ous writer, than for his poetical merit, that we 
 must place the claims of Brathwait to re- 
 vived notice. His Essays are ingenious, and 
 sometimes almost eloquent, though too often 
 full of quaintness and conceit, the great fault 
 of his age. They appear to me also to have an 
 other faults they seem to be written in a facti- 
 tious temperament of mind and feeling, which 
 too many writers, and too many readers, very 
 erroneously suppose to be the warmth of ge- 
 nius. It requires no artificial enthusiasm to 
 relish the touches which a pure and unprompt-
 
 174. 
 
 ed fancy executes. There is a reflector in the 
 bosom of mankind ahvays ready to receive and 
 give them back. 
 
 ''But in prose Brathwait shews himself a 
 more than ordinary master of a copious and 
 pohshed pln-aseology ; and abounds as well in 
 sentiment, as in the stores of knowledge col- 
 lected by various and extensive reading." 
 
 It only here remains to observe that some 
 novelty, if not merit, arises out of the follow- 
 ing catalogue of Brathwait's works, from its 
 copiousness, and from restoring to their legiti- 
 mate author several works hitherto considered 
 as anonymous. Time and opportunity will 
 probably enlarge the list, but without, it is 
 humbly conceived, entirely superseding its 
 value.
 
 175 
 
 1. The Golden Fleece, Whereto hee cmnexed 
 hvo Elogies, Entitled Narcissvs Change. And 
 JEsons Dotage, By Richard Brathvvayte, 
 Gentleman. London Printed hy W. S, for 
 Christopher Pursett, dwelling in Holborne, 
 neere Staple Line, 1611. Oct. Sig. G 8. 
 
 [Dedication wishes] To the right Worship- 
 fvll M. Robert Bindlosse, Esquire, his appro- 
 ued kind Vnkle : The continuance of Gods 
 temporall blessings in this Hfe, with the Crowne 
 of immortalitie in the world to come. 
 
 [Continuing.] Right Worshipfull, 1 haue 
 penned heere a short Treatise, entituled the 
 Golden Fleece, which I no sooner had reuiew 
 edand corrected, making it fit for thepresse. 
 as not doubting but it should passe the presse 
 of detraction, which dehghteth more in carp- 
 ing, then discreete censuring of others labours :
 
 176 
 
 but I bethought me of some Patron, not so 
 much for the prescruin^ of this my first issue 
 from abortment, as from the detraction of raa- 
 leuolent carpers, who vse to finde fault with 
 Nature herselfe that she set not the Oxes 
 homes vpon his backe rather then vpon his 
 head, being the stronger and more puissant 
 part. At the first I resolued to dedicate these 
 fruits of my labours vnto him, from whom I 
 receiued the grouth, and quiet encrease of my 
 studies : But it pleased God to alter my pur- 
 pose, by preuenting him by death, who was the 
 nourisher of my slender endeuors, and the pro- 
 tectour of mine orphane labours, which had no 
 sooner hapned, then in a distast of my studies, 
 wanting him whose relish sweetened my vn- 
 scasoned poemes, I was fully resolued to haue 
 wrapped this tract vp in obliuion, and to haue 
 depriucd it of publike view. But the troubled 
 course of our estates and the fauourable re- 
 gard you had of our attonement, which ia now
 
 177 
 
 so happily confirmed, enforced me to conse- 
 crate this pamphlet as one of Bassas frag- 
 ments, to your best affectioned selfe : to shew 
 a willingnesse in me to gratifie that sollicitous 
 and careful! regard you euer had, since the 
 time of our desolation, euen his death, whose 
 life was a mirrour in his time, and whose well 
 concording death ensued, as a reward of eter- 
 nitie for his well spent dales : for his fruits 
 shall follow." The argument of the poem is 
 next given, and he concludes wishing his uncle 
 " may be inuested with the crowne of immor- 
 talitie in the world to come. Your affectioned 
 Nephew, Richard Brathwaite." 
 
 The principal poem of The Golden Fleece, 
 or treatise, (as described by the author) for 
 " vse spirituall, morally deriued from Jason," 
 &c. including the Pieridvm Invocation Szc, ex- 
 tends to forty pages, in six-line stanzas, and 
 annexed the two Elegies, of similar measure. 
 At sig. E 3. the following new title page : 
 
 N
 
 178 
 
 2. Sonnets or Madrigals. With the Art of 
 Poesie annexed thereunto hy the same Author, 
 
 Horatius in Lib. de arte Poetica. 
 
 Non satis est jndchra esse Pocmata, dulcia siinto, 
 Et quocunque volunt animtim auditoris agunto. 
 
 Ouid. 
 Kec modus ant requks, nisi mors reperitur amantisy 
 Verus amor nidlum noidt habere modum. 
 
 Idem. 
 Hci miJn, quod mdlis arnor est medicabdis herbis. 
 
 Printed at London, for Christopher Purfet^ 
 1611. 
 
 Dedicated " to the worshipfvll his approu- 
 ed brother Thomas Brathwaite, Esquire, the 
 prosperity of times successe in this Hfe, with 
 the reward of eternitie in the world to come. 
 
 [Continuing.] Janus hath now shut vp his 
 Temple, our ciuil warres be now ended, vnion 
 in the sweete harmony of minde and conjunc- 
 tion, hath preuentcd the current of ensuing 
 faction, we may now sit downc vnder our
 
 179 
 
 Beech tree : and make a vertuous vse of an 
 experienced necessitie. Trauellers hauing 
 passed many perils, inexplicable dangers, vse 
 to be delighted with the recounting of their 
 forepast miseries, sea-beat mariners hauing 
 sustained the tempestuous gustes of the surg- 
 ing sea, and at last arriued at their hauen, 
 which so long time with importunacie they 
 desired, seeme not a little delighted with the 
 description of their manifolde daungers. Wee 
 have purchased by a mutuall experience of our 
 owne power, a mutual peace: and reposing 
 vnder the comfortable shade of minds attone- 
 ment, may make discourse of our forepast 
 griefes. 
 
 " Themystocles exiled his natiue countrie, 
 and kindly entertained by the king of Persia, 
 vsed to say to his traine: jjeriisse, nisi periissem, 
 O sirs, I had bene vndone, if I had not been vn- 
 done ; so we, for in our losse consists our wel- 
 fare, hauing tried the rough chasticement of 
 n2
 
 180 
 
 discord, and exiled as it were, the borders o^ 
 peace and araitie, and now enioying the con- 
 tent of mindes vnion, may say, we had neuer 
 beene thus happy, if we had not bene vnhap- 
 pie, for the fruition of happinesse hath the best 
 taste in his palate, who hath once tasted the 
 bitter relish of vnhappinesse. 
 
 " We may now make a good consort, since 
 the iarring strings of discord be reduced to so 
 pleasant harmony, that the verie straines of 
 our well concOrding strings may delight our 
 friendes with a soule concciuing melodic, but 
 distract the minds of such as in the billowes of 
 our vnnaturall troubles, conceiued no small fe- 
 licitie. But these were like Tyrta^us that en- 
 uious Poet, who hearing how the workes of 
 others grew acceptable and dclightfull, hanged 
 himsclfein dcspaire of their good fortunes." — 
 At the end of the dedication are the following 
 lines
 
 181 
 
 Vpon the dedication of the last Epistle. 
 
 After this proeme, proeme, I may call it, 
 Came pensiue tidings to my Muses cell, 
 
 At which my Muse, in boundlesse wars empalled 
 Resolude to bid lasciuious rithms farewell. 
 
 Yet they in spite of me and of my Muse 
 Burst out against ray will (as others vse. ) 
 
 Tlien pardon me that could not vse mine o^ATie, 
 In singing layes, when odes should best befit. 
 
 This was my first birth, which being riper growne, 
 Shall yeeld the blossomes of maturer wit. 
 
 Meane time receiue this poeme which I shew 
 Portraid in sable colours vnto you. 
 
 It is probable that while his " first birth " 
 was printing, the " pensive tidings" announced 
 the death of his father ; and two stanzas follow 
 addressed by " the Authour to his disconsolate 
 Brother." From the Sonnets or Madrigals, 
 seven in number, we select
 
 182 
 THE FOVRTH 
 
 SONET. 
 
 Doest thou so fondly loue, and art not lou'de, 
 In louing those, ^vho little care for thee ? 
 
 If that thy fancic haue such fruites approu'do, 
 I scorne to match -with such imparity. 
 
 For wel I know a Prince may loue for lust, 
 Those eyes of thine, and then returne to dust. 
 
 If Rosamond had euer bene an hower, 
 Nere bene interred in her bed of earth. 
 
 If she had euer kept such vital! power, 
 
 As to smell sweet with her mellifluous breath, 
 
 She had bene well excusde to chuse that state, 
 Which should be neere ecclipsde by mortall date 
 
 For she poore wench did flourish for a while, 
 Cropt in the primrose of her wantonnesse, 
 
 And she that did the noblest thoughts beguile, 
 Is now conuerted into rottennessc. 
 
 Thus doc we fuule tlie trutli of euery thing, 
 Sinne is a sinnc euen in the noblest king.
 
 18S 
 
 For there is nought that can be esteemed so, 
 Depraude, deformde, as to apologize, 
 
 A sinne actde by a Prince, but hence this woe, 
 Appeares in poets which doe temporize. 
 
 I will not sooth a Monarch for his crowne, 
 
 But I must tell him, sinne will throw him downe. 
 
 Plutarch saith well, that he that bridle can 
 His fond affections, is halfe vertuous. 
 
 But he that's wholy firme's an honest man, 
 His minde remaines certaine not impious, 
 
 Nor tost with tempests of each bi-eathing winde 
 But as a mirrour of a constant minde. 
 
 Hard things are pleasant, and those things appeare, 
 To be the best, which be the hardliest won, 
 
 Then if repressing of fond lust thou feare. 
 To be too hard, yet being once begun, 
 
 A better relish it will yeeld to thee, 
 Tlien treasure had in great vai'ietie. 
 
 One that should passe the Alpes, and hauing done, 
 Reposing him vpon some harbour low, 
 
 Considers with what perill he begun, 
 
 And numbring them discursiuely in row. 
 
 Cannot but ioyfully be glad of this. 
 
 That he hath ended what his heart did wish.
 
 184 
 
 How oft would he lie groucling on the ground, 
 And in a descant of his sweete repose, 
 
 With ioyfull mirth and pleasure would abound 
 To haue transfreted such a Sea of woes. 
 
 And by recounting how he earst did creepe 
 Above those cliftes, he would fall fast asleepe. 
 
 So thou obtaining this so hard a taske. 
 Must needs l)e ioyfull in the victory. 
 
 To haue pure liquor in a purer caske, 
 "Wliich might redound to minds felicitie. 
 
 And that same caske, that vessell tliou doest beare, 
 Should have a crowne of glory, doc not fcarc. 
 
 Love not too high estates, for theyle despise 
 Thy poore estate brought downe to beggcry, 
 
 A)Tne at the lower ranke (if thou be wise) 
 For theyle acknowledge thy supremacie. 
 
 Yet in uiy miude there's nought can equall that. 
 To condescend vnto an equall state. 
 
 Neither can boast of birth or parentage, 
 Neither can brag of tlu'ir too high estate, 
 
 But passf their daies of wofull pilgrimage, 
 With like to like, tlie begger with his mate, 
 
 Irus though he l)e poore, yet ridi in this, 
 Irus a begger, may a begger kisse.
 
 185 
 
 3. Art of Poesie, &c. 
 
 On the last page of sheet G the catch word 
 < The ' appears, and there can be little doubt 
 the Art of Poesy was printed, but two copies, 
 that have been referred to, are deficient as to 
 this Essay.
 
 186 
 
 II. 
 
 4. The Poets JVilloiv : or, The Passionate 
 Shepheard : With sundry delightjidl, and no 
 lesse Passionate Sonnets : describing the pas- 
 sions of a discontented and j^erjjlexed Loiter. 
 Diuers compositions of verses concording as "well 
 uoith the LyricJce, as the AnacreonticJce measures; 
 neiier before published : Being reduced into an 
 exact and distinct order of Met ricall extractions. 
 Artem qui tractant Musicam, hccc legantj <*jr 
 Poesem anient. 
 
 Author ; Impresse. 
 Nee mori iimeo, nee opto. 
 
 Imprinted at London by John Bcalc,for 
 Samuel Rand, and arc to be sold at his shop at 
 Holbornc bridge, ii]\'^. Small oct. 18 leaves. 
 
 '* To the right worthie (Jcntleman Master 
 William Ascham repienitshed with the bovnties 
 of Art and Nature :" a dedication in six seven-
 
 187 
 line stanzas is addressed <' to protect our 
 [author's] infant poems." Ic is probable that 
 Ascham was a contemporary collegian from 
 the invitation. 
 
 Call but to mind the seedplot of your youth, 
 StagjTas well-spring, Britons Hesperie, 
 'VVTiich at one time receau'd both you and me. 
 
 This address concludes, '* Your vertues ad- 
 miror humblie denoted, Richard Brathwayte." 
 
 Then as an Elegy '* Vpon the illustrate 
 Prince Henrie, the Authors long meditated 
 teares : Draigned from a fresh renewing spring 
 euer distilhng : Some whereof the passionate 
 Elegiacke offers to His neuer dying monu- 
 ment." 
 
 " The Argvment of this treatise " is given in 
 prose, followed by the pastorall of The Poet's 
 Willotv in forty-four eleven-line stanzas. The 
 Shepherds Tmolus, Thyrsus, Pelorus, Tymal- 
 lus (the last two deceased), and Beriilus the
 
 188 
 
 hero ; probably intended by our author for his 
 brothers and himself. 
 
 Amatory poems to Eliza and Dorinda form 
 the remainder of the collection*; from which 
 may be selected, for novelty of measure, a 
 short extract from 
 
 Thepensiiie thoughts of GastiUo, in Sapphi/chs. 
 
 Rouze up thy spirit, (creature most inhumane) 
 Fix thy contentment on EHzacs beauty, 
 To which the wood gods tied are in duety, 
 
 Shame fall a coward. 
 
 How many Heroes liaue adored lier Image, 
 Passing a torrent of approaching danger ? 
 More then Alcides for a Deyanyra 
 
 Ere made aduenture. 
 
 * Anthony a Wood refers to the Annotations. They 
 oocur partly in the body of the work ; and arc, 1. upon 
 the last canto of the PocZ'.s- jrUhu', at p. 56, extending 
 to p. 67; 2. upon the last Elegy, at p. 81, extending 
 to the end.
 
 189 
 
 Let Hymenaeus who was euer present, 
 At thy solemnizd orisons be graced, 
 Witli an eternall monument of glory, 
 
 Leaue to be shamefast. 
 
 Shame may confound the shame to after ages, 
 To let a cheerfuU virgin lie beside thee, 
 And yet do nothing ; worst of ills betide thee : 
 Learne to be wanton. 
 
 Ill " a Threnode occasioned vpon the Au- 
 thor's discontent, in that he loue's yet cannot 
 be respected ;" he declares nature subject to 
 the universal passion, as 
 
 The plants, the birds, the beasts, the fishes small, 
 Are made to loue : see how the iuy twines 
 Vpon the mines of a skaled wall, 
 Or twist's about the wasts of fruitfull vines : 
 
 Embracing them with branches spreading broad, 
 Supporting them when grapes their scions load. 
 
 The louing turtle loues her faithfull make, 
 Whom if she misse, she pines away and dies, 
 Abiuring mirth and pleasure for his sake, 
 Filling the crispling aire with dolefull cries : 
 
 The stock, the starling, and the sweet tun'd thrush, 
 Wil seek their makes through euery brake and bush.
 
 190 
 
 Tlie libbai-d, tigrc, pantlier, beasts most wild, 
 Can be subdu'd by loue's sweet haiTnony, 
 Transform'd from sauage beasts to creatures mild, 
 Oppress'd (as seems) with loue's extremity. 
 
 Tlie cliuy mountaines, and the vales below, 
 
 By ecchoes shrill, their loue's pursuits doe show. 
 
 The skalie fislies in their watry clime, 
 Tast of the fruit of loue, each in their kind, 
 Obseruing season, nature, course and time, 
 Such relish pleasures in loues passions find. 
 Tliat languishing they fall away and die, 
 WHicn they'r depriu'd of loue's society.
 
 191 
 
 III. 
 
 5. The Prodigals Teares : orhisfare-tjoellto 
 Vanity. A Tratise of Soueraigne Cordials to 
 the disconsolate Soide, surcharged tvith the heavy 
 burthen of his sinnes : Ministring matter of re- 
 morse to the Impenitent, by the expression of 
 Gods Judgements. By Richard Brathtoait. 
 Avgvst. Quid et eras et eras ; cur non hodie ? 
 London, printed by N. O.for T. Gubbins, and 
 are to be sold at his Shop, neere Holborne Con' 
 duif, 1614. Small 8 vo. pp. 138. title, (led. and 
 last leaf, To the reader 6 more. 
 
 Ded. to the right worshipful! Richard Hvt- 
 ton. Sergeant at lawe. 
 
 <' Treatises (right worshipful) of this kinde 
 wee haue too few : of lascivious consequence 
 too many; and neuer was presse more op- 
 pressed with impertinences. This subiect I 
 composed for mine owne priuate benefite, in- 
 tending to engrosse it to my selfe. But so
 
 192 
 many were the bonds of duety and affection, 
 in which I was tyed, and shall be euer, to you 
 and yours, as I could no way better expresse 
 that intimate zeale I beare you, then in com- 
 mending these penitentiall Teares to your 
 worthy acceptance. Teares they are, and 
 drained from the Limbecke of a contrite soule, 
 which heartily groanes in spirit, laments her 
 sinnes, and with all feruencie desires to beare 
 the yoke of Christ : yea what affliction soeuer 
 is laid vpon hir, concluding with the Trage- 
 dian ; Fcras nan cidpcs quod vilare non potes : 
 And this patience not enforced neither, but 
 proceeding from the inward deuotion of the 
 Soule, willing rather to faint vnder the Crosse, 
 then not to beare the Crosse,"— «&c. &c. — 
 " Your worships in all duety to be command- 
 ed. Rich. Brat." 
 
 An excellent little work, written in anima- 
 ted language, and evidently from the heart.
 
 193 
 
 IV. 
 
 6. The Schollers Medley, or an intermixt 
 Discovrse vpon Historicall and Poeticall rela- 
 tions, A Subiect qfitselfe ivell meriting theap' 
 probation of the ludicious, tvho best knotv hotv 
 to conjirme their knowledge, hy this briefe Siir- 
 uey, or generall Table of mixed Discourses, 
 And no lesse profitable to such as desire to better 
 their immaturity of knowledge hy Morall Read- 
 ings, Distinguished into seuerall heads for the 
 directio7i of the Reader, to all such Historicall 
 Mixtures, as be comprehended in this Treatise, 
 The nice whereof for variety of Discourse, mix- 
 ed with profite, and modest delight, hath not 
 heretofore beene published. By Richard Brath- 
 wayte Oxon, 
 
 Hor. Quod verum atq* decus euro (^- i-ogo 
 <^- ovinis in hoc Sum. 
 
 London, printed by N, O.for George Norton, 
 o
 
 194^ 
 
 and are to bee sold at his Shop neere Temple- 
 larrej 1614. 4to, 63 leaves. 
 
 By inscribing the Dedication " to the Right 
 Honovrable, the Lord of Sovthampton (Learn- 
 ings best Fauorite *) Rich : Brathwayte wish- 
 eth [to that nobleman] perpetuall encrease of 
 best meriting Honours." 
 
 This edition is now become very rare, but 
 the work is universally known by its running 
 title of * A survey of History,' The second edi- 
 tion was in 1638, as will be described in a fu- 
 ture page. 
 
 * Learning's Select Favourite, 2nd ed.
 
 195 
 
 V. 
 
 7. A Strappado for the Diiiell. Epigrams 
 and Sati/res alluding to the time, tvith diners 
 measures of no lesse Delight. By MiG-oa-v/.o^f 
 to his friend ^iXoxcarsg. Nemo me impunela* 
 cessit. At London jjrinted hy I. B.Jbr Richard 
 Redmer and are to he sold at the West dore of 
 Pauls at the Starre, 1615. 12mo. 182 leaves. 
 
 The Strappado for the Divel is formed of a 
 miscellaneous collection of a large number of 
 casual pieces of humour, epigrams and satires, 
 such as the fever of youth too commonly pro- 
 duces, and the continued popularity of the 
 volume appears from a writer under the signa- 
 ture of ' Joan : Patridophilus,' in some lines 
 addressed to Humphry Mill, as " his worthy 
 friend the Author of the Night's search :" 
 wherein he says 
 
 If Decker deckt with discipline and wit, 
 Gain'd praises by the Bell-man that he writ; 
 o 2
 
 196 
 
 Or laud on Brathwait waiting did abound, 
 When a Strappado for the devUl he found, 
 Then may this Mill of Mills, by right of merit 
 Equall (if not superior) fame inherit*, &c. 
 
 Anagrams, and addresses to the reader and 
 book fill six leaves of introduction, of which a 
 single article will be a sufficient specimen. 
 
 " The Epistle Dedicatorie. To all Vsurers> 
 Broakers, and Promoters, Sergeants, Catch' 
 poles, and Regraters, Vshers, Panders, Sub- 
 urbes Traders, Cockncies that hauemanie fa- 
 thers. Ladies, Monkies, Parachitoes, Marmo- 
 sites, and Catamitocs, Falls, high tires and re- 
 batoes, false-haires, periwigges, monchatoes : 
 graue Gregorians, and Shoe painters. Send 
 I greeting at aduentures, and to all such as be. 
 euill, my strappado for the Diuell." 
 
 At sig. B the pagination commences and 
 
 * Prefixed to a Night's Search by Humphry Mill. 
 164G. Vol. I.
 
 197 
 runs to p. 234; : then two leaves having sig- 
 nature and direction " ^ Place this and the 
 leafe following after the end of the First 
 Booke." Here we are informed in some lines 
 *' to the equall Reader," 
 
 — — if these ierks, so lightly laid on, smart, 
 Thoull finde rare whipping cheere i' th' Second part) 
 Where Furies run diuision on my song : 
 Patience awhile, and thou shalt haue 't ere long. 
 
 The second part so announced, never ap- 
 peared, unless, as seems probable, the " Furies 
 run division" in " the Wilde-man's measures" 
 which certainly appeared " erelong." But the 
 two works have no link of continuation, and the 
 Wilde-man's measures hold no common fea- 
 tures, except as being satires, with the Strap- 
 pado. That might arise from the latter being 
 ill received and partly condemned from the 
 circumstance of the Title, which we gather 
 from the Essay on Detraction. Our author 
 says : " Wonder I cannot chuse (for else should
 
 198 
 
 Iwonderat my owne stupidit}^) how any should 
 harbour the least conceit of an intended Z)e- 
 tradion by mee, or by my Labours, unlesse my 
 title 0^ Devill imply so much, which may seem 
 to have affinitie with that which the Greeks 
 terme ^<a?oXry, Detraction." In 1625, ten years 
 after the appearance of the Strappado, this ex- 
 tract has the following marginal note : " A 
 pleasant poeme by the Author, long since pub- 
 lished ; and by some no lesse censoriously than 
 causelesly taxed." 
 
 Some of the poems in the Strappado are of 
 considerable length although entitled Epi- 
 grams, which is thus explained 
 
 r,r> To the Captions Reader, 
 
 11^^ answer 's this to hiin that saies I wrong 
 Our Art to make my Epigrams so long ; 
 I dare not bite, therefore to change my nature, 
 I call 't an Epigram which is a Satire. 
 
 We come now to the second part of the vo- 
 lume entitled :
 
 199 
 
 8. Loves Lahyrhiih : or The true-Louers 
 hnot : inclvding the disastrous Jals of ttvo star' 
 crost Loners Pi/ramvs Sf Thysbe. A Subiect 
 heeretqfore handled^hut now tvith much morepro" 
 prietie of passion, and varietie of inuention con- 
 tinned : By Richard Brathivayte. Res est soliciti 
 plena timoris amor. At London printed by I, B, 
 for Richard Redmer and are to be sold at the 
 West dore of Pauls at the Starre, 1615. 
 
 The dedication to perpetuate the memory, is 
 accompanied with elegies and anagrams in ho- 
 nour of the author's deceased patron ^' the 
 most generous and ingenious, the right Wor- 
 shipfull, Sir Richard Mvsgrave, Knight Bar- 
 ronett of Hartley ; who died in Italy being 
 preuented of his religious purpose, intending 
 to visit the holy Sepulchre of our Saviour in 
 Jerusalem." These are in part addressed to 
 his " vertuous and modest Lady " Frances 
 daughter to Philip Lord Wharton. Then some
 
 200 
 
 lines " to all vnhappy Louers " and the follow- 
 ing by 
 
 The Author vpon his infant Pocmc, 
 
 If ought's amisse, imputed let it be 
 
 To th' time wherein this Poeme it was writ, 
 
 Which was (I must confesse) my infancy 
 
 Of Age, Art, ludgement, Knowlege, and of Wit : 
 Nor doe I thinke it would tliis time befit 
 
 To meddle with my youth's minority. 
 
 Vnpolisht and vnhew'd, I therefore send it 
 Freely to th' world, tliat she may friendly mend it. 
 
 Love's Labyrinth is a long poem in easy he- 
 roic numbers and, whatever maybe the imper- 
 fections, not discreditable as the production of 
 early youth. Being founded on the tragical 
 love tale of Py ramus and Thisbe makes it ap- 
 pear singularly placed as at the end of the 
 Strappado for the Devil, as it neither in story, 
 character, or style, can be said to have any 
 connection therewith. It certainly forms a new 
 work and has a distinct pagination, but the 
 signature continues through the volume. In
 
 201 
 other instances our author ventured to extend 
 his pages after the same medley fashion, as if 
 to display his versatility of talent and consider- 
 ing his lucubrations secure in interest without 
 continuity of subject. 
 
 At the end of the poem five pages of notes 
 <' to the vnderstanding Reader *." 
 
 * In this part of the volume the pagination ends at 
 104 ; the signature at Z z. The notes are not paged.
 
 202 
 
 VI. 
 
 9. A Solemne loviall Disputation^ Tkeo- 
 reticke and Pradicke ; hriefely SJiadoiving the 
 Law of DrinJcing ; togethe?-, with the Solemni- 
 ties and Controversies occurring : Fully and 
 freely discussed accoi'ding to the Civill Law, 
 Which, hy the jjcnnission, priviledgc and au- 
 thority, of that most noble and famous order in 
 the Vniversity of Goddesse Potina ; Dionisius 
 Bacchus being then President, chief e Gossipper, 
 and most excellent Governour, Blasius Multibi- 
 bus, alias Drinhnuch. A singular jvqficient 
 and most qualifid Graduate in both the liberall 
 Sciences of Wine and Beare ; in the Colledge 
 of Hilarity, hath publikely expounded to his 
 most approved and improved Fellow-Pot-shots ; 
 Touching the houres before noone and after, usu- 
 all and law full. Wc are to observe whether this 
 may he or how much of this is admitted to be in 
 the society of men, L 3S»Jf\ Dc rebus crea.
 
 *203 
 Faitlifidly rendred according to the originall 
 Latine Copie. OENOZYTHOPOLIS. at the 
 Signe oj" Red eyes, cioiocxvii.* 12mo. 
 
 * Prefixed is a spirited and minute engraved title, in 
 two compartments, exhibiting "Wine drinkers and Beer 
 drinkers, by Marshall, inscribed ' The Lawes of Drink- 
 ing.' The same plate, ^vath, I believe, some immaterial 
 variation in the architectural outline, or furniture, also 
 embellishes as a vignette the title of a thin quarto volume 
 intended for " An Antidote against Melancholy : made 
 lip in pills, compounded of Witty Ballads, Jovial Songs and 
 Merry Catches." [plate.] 
 
 These witty poems though sometime may seem to halt 
 
 on crutches, 
 Yet they'll all men*ily please you for your charge, which 
 
 not much is. 
 
 Printed by Mer-Melancholicus, to be sold in London and 
 Westminster, 1661. 
 
 It must be admitted the assumed name of Mer-Me- 
 lancholicus and the rumbling distich have something of 
 the manner of Brathwait ; but to the contents of the 
 Tolume, consisting of popular lyrical pieces, some of 
 known authors, he could have no higher claim than that 
 of being the selector. 
 
 A leaf prefixed to the ' Laws of Drinking ' is often
 
 204 
 
 The Laws of Drinking extend to eighty 
 pages without the introductory articles. Like 
 the Itinerary it was published without an au- 
 
 wanting in the copies of that work and therefore given 
 here, it being our author's explanation of " The Device 
 of this Frontispice to the booke translated and entitled 
 Jus Potandi, or the Law of Drinking. Which Sculp- 
 ture was addressed to his deserving Friend and Exquisite 
 artist, Mr. Marshall. 
 
 Divers persons are shadowed in this Frontispiece ca- 
 rousing one unto another; using sundry kindes of ac- 
 tions, and in several 1 habits. Sundry sorts of vessells 
 before thein, as Tankards, Pintpots, Pottles, &c. 
 
 WTiere these Tankards are set which signify Bcare- 
 drinkers, persons are presented in Shipmens habits and 
 capps ; In their actions carousing, gesticulating, reeling 
 and hugging their Bona-roba's or Shee-Bouzccs which 
 are set by them ; witli a Piper, he jjlaying, they dancing. 
 Alluding to the Elius, who used to present their slaves 
 drunken and shewing all their beastlinesse; purposely 
 to deten-e their Children from the like filthincsse. Above 
 the Tankards, blackjacks, and other Materialls apt to 
 drinke in, is presented a Conduit or Ccsterne, inscribed 
 with tliis word Puddlnvharfc. 
 
 Where the Pintcpotts, Pottles, &c. are placed, which
 
 205 
 
 thor's narae and is now first given to Brathwait. 
 Upon the authority of the title it is to be be- 
 lieved the work was ' faithfully rendered ac- 
 cording to the original latin copy,' but we are 
 
 signifie JFine drinkers, are persons shadowed in more 
 Civill or gentile habits : Dionisian Colleagues; Gowned 
 consorts : and above them a pure Christalline fount or 
 Spring ; in the margin or border whereof this word in- 
 scribed, Aristippus. Next adjoyning stands the signe of 
 the Dolphin with a bush and upon the signe this im- 
 preze, Temulentis l^tor ik undis. 
 
 ' Poets impaled with Laurell Coronets *;'— and above 
 them severall springs or rivolets, discovered by these 
 names; Hippocrene, Aganippa: Environed with a sharpe 
 hill or mount, expressed by the name of Helllcon. Each 
 of these Enthesiastick Spirits liberally drinking one to 
 another : Apollo filling their cups ; with this impreze 
 above the Health-cuppe: Nectaries ingenium. 
 
 All which persons be so to life portrayed, by this ac- 
 curate artist, that albeit, the Page seeme penurious for 
 a Device so copious, yet may they be, without any far- 
 ther illustration bestowed, both by their habits and ac- 
 tions clearely distinguished." 
 
 * The words in ' commas ' form the imprese.
 
 20G 
 not in this instance supplied with the < origi- 
 nal ' on the alternate pages, or supplied with 
 any clue of reference as to where it exists. 
 The volume commences with a few dedicatory 
 lines addressed " to his Moeonian Hebe, Will. 
 Meere, his onely pierian pilote, at the Ship * 
 in the Old Bayly," succeeded by the following 
 prose addrt «« 
 
 " To honest Ralph of Brainford, 
 Ralph, I am not ignorant, how thou art 
 wholly ignorant of Latin ; wherefore, to satisfie 
 thy request, and requite thy many with-draw- 
 ing-apron curtesies ; I have heere returned 
 thee, The Lnwes of Drinking, (as to one suf- 
 ficiently enabled and qualified that way from 
 thy youth up) in thy owne mother tongue. For 
 thy father, he profest himselfe a ScholJer, hav- 
 ing been long time a Colledge Taylor, whcre- 
 
 * In the Itinerary he sailed in flaggons to the Gri- 
 pliin in the Old Bailey, vol. ii. p. 171.
 
 207 
 by he purchas'd many stoln shreads of Latin, 
 both of pupill and Tutor. Rendred it is in 
 downright pot English, printed in pot paper, 
 and directed to thee my honest Ralph Pot. 
 Now if having read it, thou at any time dis- 
 taste it, all the better to relish it, burne Suger 
 with it, that it may dye a sweet death. Returne 
 by this Bearer, the rates of your Barbary 
 Sugar, Nutmegs, Mace, Cloves, with other 
 your Materials at Brainford. For if they hold 
 at too high a price, I meane to furnish my 
 port-mantua heere at London, before I visit 
 thee. Commend me to Kit Brewster, and 
 Kate Boulster, with all the rest of our kind 
 Gossips and Comaters, thou knowest wheere, 
 
 From, Itcvts A Feather; in Sheere-Lane. 
 
 A president of binding any one Apprentise to 
 the knotvn trade of the Ivy -bushy or Red-Lettice, 
 taken out of the ancient Register of Potina, 
 
 Be it knowne unto all men by these presents,
 
 208 
 
 That I Ralph Rednose of Running-Spiggot 
 in the Countie of Turne-Tap, Bowzer; am 
 tide and fast bound unto Francis Fiery-face, in 
 all up carouses ; in twenty pots sterling, that 
 is to say, not by the common can or jug now 
 used; but by the ancient full top and good 
 measure, according to the laudable custome of 
 the Red Lettice of Nip-scalpc-: to the which 
 said paymt well and truely to be made, I bind 
 me, my heires. Ale-squires, pot-companions. 
 Lick-wimbles, INIaltwormes, Vine-fretters, and 
 other faithfull Drunkards firmcly by these pre- 
 sents : Dated the thirteenth of Scant-sober^ and 
 sealed with O I am sicke, and delivered with a 
 Bowie and a Broome ! in the presence of the 
 Ostler, the Tapster, and the Chamberlaine." 
 
 Then some lines * to all people ' signed 
 * Oenopota Vandunk, German,' and the fol- 
 lowing as
 
 209 
 
 A Carouse Ccmto. 
 Tiie Welsh-man loves Case-bobbie, 
 The French a Curtain-sennon, 
 
 But I must slash in Balderdash, 
 
 For I'm a true bred German. 
 
 Cap-a-pe, let us welter, and bouze helter-skelter, 
 Tom Tinker his Tankard, the Fleming his Flagon, 
 
 The Irish Chough his Ust|uebough, 
 
 The Dutch Fro his Slapdragon. 
 
 Then follow the rules " of the Law of 
 Drinking," defined in sixty different positions, 
 " Corollarries " as additions, with '* Cornelius 
 Vandunk his character," and, in verse, **' Cor- 
 nelius Vandunk his Satyre." On the last page 
 the two following pieces, the last of which 
 exhibits a curious fact as to the pubhshers of 
 that period. 
 
 Vandvnksjbure Humours, in qualitie and quan- 
 iitie. 
 
 I am mightie melancholy, 
 
 And a quart of Sacke will cure me, 
 
 I am chollericke as any. 
 
 Quart of Claret wUl 'occiu'e nie j 
 V
 
 210 
 
 I am phlcgmaticJce as may be, 
 Peter see me must inure me ; 
 ^^j , I am sanguine for a Ladie, 
 
 And coole Rhenish shall conjure me. 
 
 Vpon this Impression in the Vacation, 
 
 In the Vacation Stationers arc loth 
 To publish bookes, but rather in the Tcrme, 
 Whereas the Law of Drinking serves for both, 
 For by this workc Bon-socio's may discerne 
 Those proper postures that belong thereto, 
 Till they like posts can neither speake nor goe. 
 
 FlKIS.
 
 211 
 
 VIT. 
 
 10. The Smoaking Age, or the man in the 
 mist : with the life and death of Tobacco. Dedi- 
 cated to those three renoivned and imparallel'd 
 Heroes, Captaine Whiffe, Captaine Pipe and 
 Captaine Sniiffe. To tohom the Author tvisheth 
 as much content, as this Smoaking Age can 
 afford them. Divided into three Sections. 
 
 1. The Birth, of Tobacco. 
 
 2. Pluto's blessing to Tobacco. 
 
 3. Times complaint against Tobacco. 
 Satis mihi pauci lectores, satis est unus, satis est Nullus. 
 
 Upon Tobacco. 
 This sonie affirme, yet yeeld I not to that, 
 ' Tmll make a fat rtian leane, a leane man fat. 
 But this Fm sure (hows ere it be they meanej 
 That many whifFes will make a fat man leane. 
 
 OENOZYTHOPOLIS. 
 At the Signe of Teare-Nose. cioiocxvii.* 
 
 * Prefixed is another engraved title from the same
 
 212 
 
 ""^t the back of the Title " Upon the Erra- 
 ta,* followed by a Sonnet inscribed " to my 
 learned, judicious, and most experienced friend, 
 T. C. Doctor of Physicke : All successe to his 
 
 masterly burine of INIarsliall, entitled " the Smoaking 
 age or the Life and Death of Tobacco." It is given in 
 compartments with crowded materials which are defined 
 by the author in 
 
 ** Tlie Drauglit of this Frontispicc, addressed for the 
 Booke entitled The Smoaking Age or the Life and 
 death of Tobacco. 
 
 A Tobacco shop to life presented. 
 
 A Black-more upon the Stall with rolls ojC Tobacco, 
 Drinking his Petoune, according to the nature and 
 guise of that Country : viz. A great portion of Tobacco 
 formed to the manner of a Tobacco pipe, and smoaking 
 it cojitiimally till it be consmned. 
 
 In the verge, are Negroes shadowed, fisliing and 
 diving for Pearle: Confined to an Island, expressed by 
 this word, Xccot'unui. Before tlie Portcll or Entrance 
 of the Shop, a roundell globe or garland stickt full of 
 Tobacco-pipes, with glasses, vialls and other proper 
 l^tensiles, represcMiting a Tobacco-shop to life. 
 
 "Within the shop, Partcloscs or Partitions. 
 
 Tlu-ee men discovered by a Curtaine, and presented 
 to the balfc-body : The first, distinguished by the name
 
 213 
 
 conscionable endevours," and subscribed "Eu- 
 
 capnus Nepenthiacus, NeapolitanujS," /as are 
 
 also dedicatory lines addressed :^jfi,,^5^^gg£ 
 
 '< To my worthy approved and judicloi^ 
 
 Friend, Alexander Riggby, Esquire, all gene- 
 
 rous content. 
 
 Assumpsits are Law-ties in Courts abovef^ff^moit 
 So be Assumpsits in respect of Love ; ' « 
 
 of Captaine WhifFe, with this impreze above his head ; 
 Qui color albus erat : This person is described with an 
 amazed or surprised count'nance, meagre and gastly ; 
 whiffing Tobacco downe with these words issuing out of 
 tlie fumell of the pipe : Icum est invisera terra. The 
 second distinguished by the name of Captaine Pipe, with 
 a long Tobacco-pipe at his mouth, with desperate Mou- 
 chato's; this impre2:e above his head : Quaittummtetatus 
 ab Ulo ? with these words steeming out of his Pipe ; 
 Fistula dulce canit. Tlie Third distinguished by the 
 name of Captaine SnufFe, is described by smoake issuing 
 from his Nose abundantly; edging his two Consorts 
 scornefully and bravingly ; this impreze above his head, 
 Anglus in JEthiopem ; with these words flaming out of 
 his pipe : Mea messis in herba est. 
 
 No other posture appropriate to these, but only leav-
 
 214 
 
 .>.; .This hatli iuduc'd me, Sir, to itinder you^<- '•ijjsii 
 , , j ,Neare to my day, a tender of my due. , •!" 
 
 For in Gants aged-tonne last time we met, 
 I promis'd yon, and promises arc debt, ' ' ^^***^t:i 
 
 . I '. To publish some choice subject in your name:, of ! . 
 .And in this Toy have I perform'd the same ; 
 Which, give 't no pleasing relish to your minde, 
 It shall by fire be purged and refin'd, ' ' 
 
 "Whereby the airie substance of my booke, j u.t ' 
 May be resolv'd to nothing else but smoaJkLe.| ^■,^ > 
 
 A short incidental advertisement is* given, 
 
 i, ff The Stationer to iJic Reader. 
 
 This Manuscript falling into my hand, for 
 the deserving estceme of the Autlior whose 
 name it bore, I communicated it to the serious 
 perusall of suudric judicious Censors, who 
 higldy approved the curious conceit and inveui. 
 tion of the Author: who composed it (as hee 
 
 ing [leaning], as persons taken witli Migrim, upon one 
 anothers slionlders. All which arc so to life described 
 and artfully shadowed, as they sliall not need to be 
 farthter^tiplaned." .*Xi:»a»X'^
 
 215 
 hath since higenuously acknowledged) in his 
 infaneie of judgement which made him alto- 
 gether averse from pubhshing it. Howsoever 
 the subject seeme light, you shall finde it like 
 a delrghtfuU soile, so plenteously interveined. 
 with pregnant passages, pleasant allusions, libe- 
 rall and unforc'd relations, as I make little 
 doubt, but it will afford a pleasing relish to any 
 ones palate, who through Criticisme of censure 
 is not prejudicate. Read, reape, and returne." 
 A long preface is quaintly inscribed " to 
 whomsoever, whensoever, or wheresoever," 
 wherein it is remarked of the young English 
 Gallants their '' first salutation to their ac- 
 quaintance is, Will you take a pipe of To- 
 bacco ;" and honoured by the "hopeful Gen- 
 try, whose desire was rather to be matriculated 
 in the exquisite taking of a pipe than in the 
 tossing of a pike ; in a quiffe and a quaffe, tlran 
 shaking of. a staffe." There is also noted the 
 existance " of divers bookes treatia g of the use
 
 216 
 and commerce of Tobacco, as the poem of that 
 ^^nglish Musceus, entitled Tobacco battered' 
 Likewise, another pleasant poeticall paradox 
 in the praise of the P. wherein is learnedly 
 proved, and by impregnable reasons evinced^, 
 that Tobacco is the onely soveraigne expe^if 
 mentall cure not onely for the Neapolitan itch, 
 but generally for all maladies incident to mans 
 bodie *." The extravagant prevalence of this 
 
 ' • ..: -T.fl ?.u^\ 
 
 * In " Dyets Dry Dinner consisting of eight seuer^l 
 courses Sue. By Henry Buttes Maister of Axt^^ J^^^ 
 I'ellowe of C. C. C. in C." 1599, 8vo. is ' X','j| 
 
 A Satj/ricall Epigram upon tlic ivaiUon and excc$siue v^ 
 of Tobacco. ''^'^ »<> 
 
 It chauncM mc gazing at tlie Tlicater, •'-' 
 
 To sj)ie a Lock-Tahacco-Clicvalier, .i. 
 
 Clou'ding tJjc loathing ayr with tbggie fume ^' 
 
 Of Dock- Tabacco, friendly foe to rumc. 
 I wisht the Roman lawes sencrity : Alex. scu. Edict. 
 IVho smoke scllcUh with smoke be liotu- to Hi/
 
 217 
 custom seems to have provoked our author to 
 attempt to give, by the SmoaJcing age^ or the 
 life and death of Tobacco, (a kind of narrative 
 f ale, mingling mythology with comnion hTe,) 
 some check or restriction to its youthful prose- 
 lytes without totally condemning the use of it. 
 ^ ia:Li3£i. 
 
 Being well nigh smouldred with this smokie Stuf 
 
 I gan this wize bespeak my gallant Sir: * QibOli 
 
 Certes, me thinketh ( Sir) it ill beseems, 
 
 Thus here to vapour out these reeking steams: 
 
 Like or to Maroes steeds whose nosthrils flam'd ; 
 
 Or Plinies Nosemen (mouthless men) surnam'd. 
 
 Whose breathing nose supply' d mouths absency. 
 
 He me regreets with this prophane reply : 
 
 Nay; I resemble (Sir) Jehouah dread, 
 
 From out whose nosthrils a smoake issued : 
 
 Or the mid-ayrs congealed region, 
 
 Whose stomach with crude humors frozenon 
 
 Sucks vp Tabacco-like tlie vpmost ayr, ,n^ '.'oauasio ;T 
 
 Enkindled by Fires neighbour caudle fayrd p. ^Iqg oT 
 
 And hence it spits out watry reums amaine, _;aibv/ol3 
 
 As phleamy snow, and haile, and sheerer rainftsoG! 1(> 
 
 Anon it smoakes beneath, it flames anon.>i_ ^dt id&iff ^ 
 
 Sooth then, quoth I, it's safest we be gp^? n^oj?'? .T*
 
 218 
 
 His own opinion of his labour is given at the 
 end in a marginal note : 
 
 ** Thus have I prov'd Tobacco good or ill, 
 Good, if rare taken ; bad, if taken stiU." 
 
 Some verses follow as " Times Sonnet," 
 and the volume ends with the following 
 poem. 
 
 Chavcers incensed Ghost, 
 
 From the frequented path where Mortals tread, 
 
 Old-aged Chavceu having long retir'd. 
 
 Now to revisit Earth at last desir'd, 
 Hath from the dead rais'd his impalled head, 
 Of purpose to converse witli hinnane seed, 
 
 And taxe them too, for bringing him o' th Stage 
 
 In writing that lie knew not in his age 
 
 'Las; is it fit the stories of that book, 
 
 Couch'd and compil'd in such a various forme j 
 Which art and nature joy ntly did adorne, ^ . ,f'- 
 
 — ' — " ■■ -1' ■ 
 
 Lest there arise some Ignis Fatuus ' dow lO 
 
 From out this smoaking Hume, and cliokcn us. ;, i-**!! 
 On English foole: wanton Italianly ;• 
 Go Frenchly : Ducbly drink ; breath Indianly.
 
 219 
 
 On whose quaint Tales succeeding ages look, \^q ^^^ 
 
 Should now lie stifled in the steems of smoak, , ^ ^ 
 As if no poet's genius could be ripe "''^''^ 
 
 Without the influence of Pot and Pipe ? 
 
 No, no, yee English Moors, my Muse was fed t> 
 With purer substance than your Indian weede ; 
 My breathing Nosethrils were from Vapors freede, 
 
 With Nectar and Ambrosia nourished, 
 
 While hospitality so flourished 
 
 In great mens Kitchins; where I now suppose 
 Lesse smoake comes from their chimneyes than their 
 
 But I heare some prepar'd to question mee, 
 Tlie reason why I am so freely bent 
 In such sad straines to publish my complaint, 
 
 Or what strict Mamothrept that man should bee^ 
 
 Who has done Chaucer such an injurie ; 
 
 Whose tongue, though weake, yet is his heart as strong, 
 To call them to account that did him wrong. 
 
 I'le tell it yee, and must expect redresse ; 
 
 Wold any of you hold it not a blot 
 
 To father such a brat hee never got ? 
 Or would he not ingenuously confesse, 
 Hee'd rather wish hiraselfe quite issue lesse ? 
 
 Conceive this well ; for if it be a crime, 
 
 As sure it is, such is the case of mine.
 
 220 
 
 Downe by a secret Vault as I descended, ' ' "^II 
 
 T, . . , , , ,. , L* l.Iuoa woH 
 
 I'eat in with darknesse save some little ray, ^ ,-. 
 
 Which by a private cranie made his way;' ' ' , 
 By helpe whereof I saw what me oiFendedi 
 Yet found no meanes to have the fault amended : -» 
 
 Fixt to a post, (such was poore Chaucers lot) 
 
 ;[. found my name to that I never wrot. 
 
 And what might be tlic Subject? no relation 
 Sad, solid, serious, morall, or divine, 
 "Which sorted with the humours of my time, 
 But a late Negro's introduced fashion, 
 Wlio brought his drugs here to corrupt our Nation : 
 ' Gainst which, because its used in excesse, 
 My Muse must mount, tliat she may it suppresse. 
 
 Now some may well object, as many will. 
 This taske addes rather glory to my name, 
 Than any way scemes to impaire the same ; 
 But I say no ; Chaucer woidd thinke it ill 
 To plant Tobacco on Parnassus hill : 
 Sacred the Synod of the Muses bee, 
 Nor can such weeds spring from Apollo's tree. 
 
 Be.->ides, wliat danger miglit Prescription bring! 
 For had the use of it been knownc to me, 
 It might have pleaded well antiquitie ;
 
 221 
 
 But th' Poets of my time knew no such tJ"*"g> t-gnwofl 
 How could they then of such a subject sing ? ' ^q 
 
 No ; th' ^e we liv'd was form'd of milder stuiie,, ,. 
 
 Then to take ought, like Malecontents, in snuffe, . q 
 
 Pure are the crystall streames of Hippocrene ; 
 
 Choice the dimensions which her Bards expresse ; 
 
 Cleare is tlieir heart as th' Art which they professe : 
 How should they relish then ought that's uncleane. 
 Or waste their oyle about a smoaky dreame? 
 
 Farre bee't Minerva should consume her Taper 
 
 In giving life or lustre to a Vapor. 
 
 The Tkftis* I told, if morally applide, 
 How ligiit soe're, or wanton to the show, 
 Yet they in very deed were nothing so ; 
 For were the marke they aym'd at but descride, 
 Even in these dayes they would be verifide ; 
 And like Sybillas Oracles esteem'd, 
 Worth worlds of wealth, how light soe're they 
 seem'd. 
 
 Witness my Miller, and my Carpenter, 
 The amorous stories of my JFife of Bath, 
 Which such variety of humours hath ; 
 
 * Whose pleasing Comments are shortly to bee pub- 
 lished, [not published until 1C65. Ed.]
 
 222 
 
 My Priour, Manciple, and Almoner, 
 
 My subtile Sumner, and the Messenger ; 
 All which though moulded in another age, 
 Have rais'd new subjects both for Presse and Stage. 
 
 Yet note these times disrelishing my tongue, 
 Whose Idioms-distaste by nicer men 
 Hath made me mince it like a Citizen ! 
 Which Chaucer holds a manifest wrong, 
 To force him leave what he had used so long : 
 Yea, he dislikes this polishing of art, 
 "NMiich may refine the Core, but spoiles the heart. 
 
 But yet in serious sadnesse I impute 
 This to no fate or destiny of mine, 
 But to tlie barraine Brain-wormcs of this time ; 
 Whose Muse lesse pregnant, present or acute, 
 Affording nought that with the age can sute, 
 Like to the truant Bee, or lazie Drone, 
 Robbe other Bee-hives of tlieir hony-combe. 
 
 And which is worse ; this worke they make their owne, 
 Which they have jjruned, purged, and refin'd, 
 And aptly form'd it to the Author's mind ; 
 When I'm assured, if tlie truth were knowne. 
 They rcape the crop which was by others sownc : 
 Yea, thesce usuqjers to that jKisse are brought, 
 They'l foyst in tliat wee ncitlier said nor tliought.
 
 223 
 
 This, this it was incens'd old Chaucer's Ghost, « », 
 And caus'd him vent his passion in this sort^^^i.^^ .jr. 
 And for a while to leave th' Elysian Court, 
 
 Where honest Authors are esteemed most : 
 Excluded are, enjoyn'd by Fate to won 
 Vpon the scorching banks of Phlegeton. 
 
 Yee then, whose measures merit well the name 
 And Title yee retaine, Poets, I raeane, 
 Bedew'd with influence from Hippocrenc, 
 As yee professants seeme, so be the same. 
 And with your own pennes eternize your fame : 
 Shun these Pipe-Pageants ; for there seldom come 
 Tobacco- Factors to Elysium. 
 
 The Smoaking Age continues the pagina- 
 tion of the preceding article to p. 194, then 
 the poems of Times Sonnet and Chaucer's in- 
 censed Ghost follow, ending signature 4*. 
 
 * The late Mr. Bindley possessed a remarkable fine 
 and perfect copy of these pieces (now in the possession 
 of George Hibbert, Esq. ) and in a manuscript note he 
 pronounced ' it one of tlae scarcest books in England : 
 having never met with y° Title in any catalogue. The 
 plates by Marshall (he adds) are exceedingly well done
 
 224. 
 
 for that time (viz. 1617) and are, I am apt to believe, 
 y° earliest production of that Engraver. I. B.' 
 
 Upon this it may be observed that the volume very 
 rarely contains the engravings and descriptions, and is 
 seldom entered correctly in the catalogues, w^hich pro- 
 bably misled my late valued friend, wliose universal 
 knowlege and accuracy on such points may remain un* 
 questionable, altliough the possessors of the Laws of 
 Drinking and Smoaking must not indulge in believing 
 it ' one of tlie scarcest books in England.'
 
 225 
 
 ' '■ VIII. 
 
 Ai ^Happi/ Husband or Directions for Oi&t 
 
 Maide to choose her Mate. As also a Wives^ 
 
 -- - J 
 
 behaviovr towards her Husband after Marriage,'^'' 
 By Pairicke Hannay^ Gent. 
 
 To tvhich is adioyned the Good Wife; to--^ 
 gether mth an Exquisite discourse cf Epitaphs, 
 including the choysest thereof Ancient or Mo- 
 derne. By R. B. Gent. 
 
 Exemjila iunctce tibi sint in amove Columbce, "| 
 Masculus ^ totumfcemina coniugium. J ^^P^"* 
 
 Printed at London for Richard Red?ner, and 
 are to be sold at his shop at the West end of Saint 
 Pauls Church*. 1619. 12mo. 
 
 * The part By Hannay concludes with first leaf of 
 sig. C. then the new title, which, as well as the next two 
 leaves, are \nthout signature, completing sheet C. but 
 the fourth leaf lias sig. B, and the alphabet conti- 
 nues regular through the volume. The Happy Husband 
 
 a
 
 226 
 
 After the poem by Patrick Hannay a new 
 title page : 
 
 11. The Description of a good Wife: or^ a 
 
 rare one amongst Women, At London printed 
 
 for Richard Redmer, and are to he sold at his 
 
 shop at the West end of Saint Paids Church, 
 
 1619. 
 
 The Argument is given in verse and follow- 
 ed by * a good Wife,' which Mr. Park praises 
 for ^ perspicuity of design ' and * harmony of 
 metre ' in an article containing a specimen of 
 the Poem given in Cens. Lit. vol. v. p. 369. 
 
 The author having laid himself on the grass 
 in a retired spot is visited by a grave old man, 
 of reverend aspect, years that imported some- 
 thing good and in sable habit. This proves to 
 be his father, who, after a flood of tears, com- 
 mences his address with : 
 
 was reprinted in 1622. Sec Ccnsura Lileraria, vol. v, 
 p. 371.
 
 227 
 
 Good rest my sonne, yet (Sonne) retire from rest 
 And heare thy Father, pray thee then awake, 
 For though I 'me dead, yet is my loue exprest 
 Euen in my death ; then for thy Father's sake, 
 Lay vp these last instructions in thy brest, 
 Which with obseruance if thou keepe, they may 
 Cheere thee both here, and in the latter day. 
 
 Thou knowest my Sonne, though thou wert last in, birth. 
 Thou wert not least in my affection too, 
 Witnesse my care of thee, while I on earth 
 Soiorned : 
 
 Having now found his Son in the Isle Foolo' 
 nia, he succinctly instructs him against hollow 
 hearted men, fools in folio, and similar cha- 
 racters, and at length tells him how to chuse 
 a Wife. Here Brathwait indulges in his fa- 
 vourite topic to lash the puritans. 
 
 Chuse thee no coy pi-ecisian, she is too smooth 
 To proue sincere, in simpringst looks we finde 
 Oft most deceit, for these (as th' water doth) 
 Seeme calmest where they're deepest ; let thy minde 
 Be so prepar'd, as thou wHt euer loath 
 
 Such formalists, She-doctors, who have sought 
 
 To teach far more then euer they were taught. 
 
 q2
 
 228 
 
 The Father havhig described at sorae length 
 the rules by which the son is to be guided in 
 his choice proceeds in the same smooth ner- 
 vous strain to " shew what by a husband 
 should be done." At length the shade vanishes, 
 there appears a virgin, and the interview we 
 may conclude gives something of the reality 
 of the then recent termination of the author's 
 courtship. 
 
 This Virgins name Simpliciana hight, 
 Daughter unto Zdocto the precise, 
 ^Vho had me once before discarded quite, 
 Because my weaker fortunes did not rise 
 To the hight of her expectance, yet that night 
 (So ferucnt is affection) did that Maide 
 Trace me along to make lier Loue displaide. 
 
 Shame curb'd her tongue, yet fancy bad her speak, 
 While T supi)li'd her silence with my speach, 
 And thus liLT passion for her selfe did break, 
 WhCe shee stood by and seconded tlie breach. 
 With a teare-trickling eye and blushing checke: 
 Where thus I woo'd mysclfe, yet in her name, 
 Shewing her louc, yet shadowing the same.
 
 In this address he makes the lady declare 
 unfeigned love has no respect for time, that 
 she is bound to her Mother while the object of 
 her affection is neither riches or substance, but 
 the man ; and though opposed by Father and 
 Mother, not either should divide her from her 
 * orbicular,' knowing 
 
 though that my Mother chide 
 My Father fret and both stood chafing o're me 
 I did but that themselves haue done before me. 
 
 This address succeeds and the author ob- 
 tained ' The good Wife, or a rare one amongst 
 women,' for the reader is invited to the Nup- 
 tials : 
 
 But if (through some dogg'd humour) you'le not come, 
 The Bridegroom saies, ' A Gods-name stay at home.' 
 
 Poems as the * author's choice ;' to his ' af- 
 fectionate Sisters ;' upon the ' married life ;' 
 and * single life ;' conclude this portion of the 
 work. Then a new title :
 
 230 
 
 12. Remains after death : Including by tvay 
 of introduction diuers memorable obseruances oc- 
 casioned vpon discourse of Epitaphs and Epy- 
 cedes ; their distinction and dejinition seconded 
 by approued Authors. A?mexed there be diuers 
 select Epitaphs and Hearce-attending Epods 
 loorthie our obseruation : The one describing 
 tvhaf they ivere ivhich noiv are not : The other 
 comparing such as noiv are tvith those that tvere, 
 Dignum laude virmn musa vctat mori. By 
 Richard Brathvvayie Gent, Imprinted at Lon- 
 don by John Bcalc. 1618. begins at sig. C 2 
 ends sig. L 3. 
 
 << To tlic reader. It may be obiected ( reader) 
 that small is the concuiTcnce, lessc the cohe- 
 rence in the titles of these two subiects, plea- 
 santly concluding that it were pittie Death 
 should so soone seaze on a good-wife by 
 the course of nature, as shec is she is had 
 heere in pursuit by Deaths remainder. But
 
 231 
 
 this obiection may be answered by a twofold 
 
 solution: First, the Printers importunacie, 
 
 whose desire was in regard of the breuitie of 
 
 the former part, to haue it by the annexion of 
 
 some other proper subiect enlarged ; to whose 
 
 reasonable demand I equally condescended. 
 
 Secondly, the subjects propriety, which, how- 
 
 soeuer by the iudgment of the Critik censu- 
 
 rer traduced (the pitch of whose knowledge 
 
 aimes rather at taxing then teaching) con- 
 
 curres as well with the precedent Title, as Man 
 
 with mortalitie, Time with mutabilitie, Life 
 
 with death. And as the more vertuous the 
 
 neerer ofttimes their dissolution, which no 
 
 doubt proceedes from Gods mercy that they 
 
 might haue of him a fuller contemplation : so 
 
 we commonly see the best Wiues limited to the 
 
 shortest times, approued by that Maxime : 
 
 For this each dales experience seemes to show 
 111 -wiues liue longer farre then good ones doe» 
 
 Let this suflSce : if not, let the subiect it
 
 232 
 
 selfe write his censure, whose singularitie 
 makes of each thing an error. 
 
 Mvsophilvs. 
 
 Then follow " Observations vpon Epitaphs : 
 their Antiquitie and vse ; with aathoritie from 
 approued Authors of their deriuations ; with 
 diuers other memorable occurrences," in which 
 the author's intimate knowlcge with ancient 
 history is particularly displayed. 
 
 " A Description of Death " follows in oc- 
 tave stanzas. Then " Epitaphs vpon sudden 
 and premature deaths : occasioned vpon some 
 occurrents lately and vnhappily arising," which 
 are of a mingled description, some being ori- 
 ginal and others selected. 
 
 Vpon an Actor now of late deceased : and 
 vpon his Action Tu quoq; and first vpon his 
 Traucll. 
 
 Ilec \vliom this mouldered clod of eartli doth hide, 
 Kew conic from Sea, made but one face and didc.
 
 233 
 
 V^wn his Creditors. 
 
 His debtors now, no fault with him can finde', 
 Sith he has paid to nature, all's behinde. 
 
 Vnto hisjellow Actors, 
 
 "^\Tiat can you craue of your poore fellow more? 
 He does but what Ta qiioqiie did before : 
 Then give him dying, Actions second wreath, 
 That second'd him in Action and in death. 
 
 In ohitum * Thomce Brathwaite optimce spei, 
 indolis generosissimcey vitcB probatissimce, Jldei 
 integerrimcB, omni ex parte parati peritiq; R.B. 
 
 Memories eiics studiosissimus luguhria ista 
 Poemata grati animl pignora diu meditata 8f 
 iam sero sed serib in p)Micam lucem prolata 
 {Dialogi more) composuit, 
 
 Philaretiis et Euthymius. 
 
 Philaret. Quo redis ? 
 Euthym. hi gremium matris : 
 
 * De Ambleside,
 
 2S4. 
 
 Philaret. Quos quceris ? 
 
 Euthym. Amicos. 
 
 Philaret. His moriendo cares : 
 
 Euthym. His moriendo fruor, 
 
 Philaret. Tunc tibi mors lucrum : 
 
 Euthym. Mihi lux, xna, vita, letmmen, 
 
 Philaret. Tunc non amissus ; 
 
 Euthym. Missus at ante meos. 
 
 In Anagramma quod sibi ipsi composuit 8f 
 
 Annulo inscripsit, 
 
 Bratlixmite ) 
 Vita vt herba. J" 
 
 Vita vt Herba iuum est Anagramjna, tuaff ; sub vma 
 Hoc videam, breuis est vita, scd herba Icuist 
 
 Annulus hoc lenuit, nning'j Annulus arclus vt annus, 
 Quo fvelut qfflalu) falafulura refers. 
 
 yi Jicnerall Ode, 
 
 O thou licaiicn-asj)iring Spirit, 
 llesling on thy Sauioui ;> merit ! 
 
 Live in peace, 
 
 For cncrcase
 
 235 
 
 Blest this Hand in thy being : 
 Mindes vnited still agreeing. 
 
 Peace possest thee, 
 
 Peace hath blest thee. 
 
 Halcyon dayes be where thou dwellest, 
 As in Glorie thou exccllest. 
 
 Death by dying. 
 
 Life enioying. 
 
 Richer fraight was nere obtained, 
 Then thy pilgrim-steps haue gained. 
 
 Blessed pleasure, 
 
 Happy treasure. 
 
 Thus many distinct ioyes in one exprest. 
 
 Say to thy Soule: ' Come Soule and take thy rest.^ 
 
 At the end of the Epitaphs is a poem of 
 thirty- three seven-line stanzas called '< The 
 prodigals Glasse." A short and rather inter- 
 esting extract follows : 
 
 Those vaine and brain-sick humors of our age. 
 Should be both whipt and stript : but who dare call 
 A Gallants humor idle ? publique stage 
 INIay chance to breake a iest, and that is allj 
 For if in presse some tarter pamphlet fall
 
 236 
 
 Of Whipt and Stript abuses, cre't begin 
 To shew it selfe, it must be called in *. 
 
 What Theatre was ere erect'd in Rome, 
 
 "With more ambitious state, or eminence, 
 
 Then the whole Theaters we haue of some, 
 
 Where there's noujrht planted saue sins residence : 
 
 The Flagge of pride blazing th' excellence 
 
 Of Albyon's vanitie? pittie to heare 
 
 "Where th' light is most, most darknesse should be there. 
 
 Then '^ A compendious Discourse annexed 
 by the Author, touching Moderate Weeping, 
 behouefuU for euerie tenderly affected Reader, 
 who many times offends in the extremetie of 
 this Passion ; vsing such Immoderation, as if 
 death were no passage but a parting ; this hfe 
 no Pilgrimage, but a dwelling, and our bodies 
 of no fraile substance, but euerlasting." 
 
 * This couplet may solve the doubt as to the poem 
 of Abuses Stript und Wliipl by Geo. "W^ithcr being pub- 
 lished in IGU, as it is probable the first edition was 
 " called in." See British liiUiogrop/tcr, vol. i, p. 180, 
 uotc.
 
 237 
 In this long discourse, in prose, of ' the 
 Mourner's Meane ' extending to 17 pages, we 
 meet with " the Author's resolution : 
 
 " Receiue therefore this Resolution v/hich 
 I for some yeeres haue to my selfe proposed, 
 and by the Almighties helpe may continue 
 it. < I haue no friend too deare for my 
 dearest friend, nor will I grieue at my friends 
 departure, being (as my hope assures mee) 
 gone to his Sauiour ; at least if natural affec- 
 tion force me [to] weepe, after a while shall 
 my faith renew my ioy: for sorrow may 
 last for a night, but ioy commeth in the morn- 
 ing." 
 
 A few more Epitaphs are collected at the 
 end of the volume. The first is well known 
 to the readers of Shakespeare, and is 
 
 An Epitaph vpon one lohn Combe of Strat- 
 ford vpon Avon, a notable Vsurer, fastened
 
 238 
 
 vpon a Tombe that he had caused to be 
 built in his Hfe time — 
 
 Ten in the hundred must lie in his graue, 
 
 But a hundred to ten whether God will him haue ? 
 
 Who then must be interr'd in this Tombe ? 
 
 Oh (quoth the Diuell) my John a Combe, 
 
 The Mourners Meane ends with sig. L 2, 
 then one leaf, with lines ' Vpon his Epitaphs,' 
 and a prose address : " To the Reader. Vnder- 
 stand (couricous Reader) the sundry escapes 
 committed in this Treatise, were occasioned 
 vpon a late-receiued hurt by the Authour, 
 which detained him from comming to the 
 presse : but the next Impression (doubt it not) 
 shall giue thee more full and ample satisfac- 
 tion :" Sec. 
 
 In some copies of this work may be found 
 variations in the text, at least one that I have 
 seen appeared in part to have the printer's un- 
 corrected proofs.
 
 239 
 
 IX. 
 
 IS* A netv Spring shadowed in sundry Pithie 
 Poems. Mvsophilvs. Quid nescisy si teipsum 
 noscas ? London, Printed hy G, Eld, for 
 Thomas Baylie, and are to he sold at his Shop, 
 in the middle- rotv in Holborne, neere Staple- 
 Inne, 1619. 4^0. containing E in fours, last 
 leaf blank. 
 
 A curious wood-cut on the title represent- 
 ing a Well inclosed within spikes, and various 
 persons, male and female, filling their pitchers 
 from it. 
 
 Ded. " To my worthy and iudicious Friend, 
 Sir Francis Ducket Knight ; his best wishes. 
 
 So many kinde respects haue I had showne 
 From you and yours, that if you were mine owne 
 As you are mine ; for what can be more neere, 
 Then Loue and Blood contracted in one Sphtere ? 
 I could not prize Loue at a higher rate, 
 Nor to my selfe more kindnesse vendicate :
 
 240 
 
 In lieu whereof, (but 'lasse th' requitall's small) 
 I tender you this Spring, and this is all : 
 Wherein, if ought tune fitly with the Time, 
 I'ue stil'd it Yours, it shall no more be mine. 
 
 Yours in all respectiue loue, 
 
 MVSOPHILVS. 
 
 Vjjoii the iietv Spring, 
 A new Spring's found which cureth most diseases ; 
 It cleeres the Eye-sight, and the Bladder eases, 
 It coolcs tlic Stomackc, and it cheeres the Heart, 
 And giues free passage to tli' digestiue part, 
 It recombines the Sinnewcs too, some say, 
 And makes tlie Cripple throw his Crutch away. 
 So as there's none that iustly can complaine them, 
 Since both a Knight * and 's Spring doe cntcrtaino 
 them. 
 
 Hee, out of Loue and Bounty mixt together, 
 It by it's Virtue healing sudi come thither. 
 O that the Header could like Vertue finde 
 In my New Spring, to cine the griefes of minde. 
 But much 1 feare me, if it had like Force, 
 Tlie Bodies case would make my Spring tast worse. 
 
 * Sir Edward Bellingham, a knight of extended 
 bounty and curtcsie.
 
 2M 
 
 An Elegie which the Author entituleth 
 BOUND YET FREE. 
 
 Speaking of the benefit of imprisonment. 
 
 Thou, whom we call Hfes death, Captiuity 
 
 Yet canst contemplate in the darkest Cell 
 Of things aboue the reach of Vanitie 
 
 Dost in my judgement Liberty excell ; 
 In that thou teachest man to mortifie 
 His indisposed passions ; and canst well 
 Direct him how to mannage his estate, 
 Confin'd to th' narrow prospect of thy Grate. 
 
 Hee sees the passage of this Globe of earth, 
 
 And makes right vse of what his sight partakes 
 Some he obserues expresse a kinde of mirth. 
 
 Of which he this due application makes ; 
 If they did know the misery of Birth 
 
 With Death's approach, they would not hazard stakes 
 Of Soules eternall glorj-, for a day 
 Of present ioy, which one houre takes away. 
 R
 
 242 
 
 Others he heaves bemoning of the losse 
 
 Of some deare friend; or 't may be not so well 
 Decrease of fortune, or some other crosse, 
 
 "NMaich to forgoe they deeme a second hell, 
 ( So firmely fixed be their mindes on ckosse) 
 
 As nought smels well but what of gaine doth smell. 
 Tliese he condemnes, and proues it euery way, 
 The captiu'st %\Tetch 's in better state then they. 
 
 Otliers he notes obseruing of the time, 
 
 Mecre Fashion-mongers, shadowes of the great ; 
 And these attendance giue where th' Sunne dotli shine 
 
 And like to Isis Asse admire the Scat 
 More then the Person, 'cause the robes be fine 
 That hang about it : and hec doth intreat 
 
 Their absence ; for, " These cannot well (saith lice) 
 " By liuing, leaue name to posteritie." 
 
 Others as base and farre more dangerous 
 
 Notes he, as Politician INIachauels 
 Who count that gaine which is commodious 
 Adliering to themselues, and to none els: 
 For these make ancient houses ruinous. 
 And Charitie from out the Realmc expels, 
 
 Reducing th' Orphans teare and Widdowes curse 
 To th' damn'd EUxic of their wcll-cramin'd purse.
 
 213 
 
 Others he notes, and they would noted be ; 
 
 For painting, purfling, smoothing, certesing, 
 Shew they would be obseru'd for vanitie, 
 
 Staruing their Soules by bodies cherishing. 
 And these hee laughes at for their foolery ; 
 For while they put the Case to garnishing, 
 That Shell of frailty, they're indifferent 
 ■\\liat shall become of th' Soule the instrument* 
 
 Others there be wliich seeme least what they are,. 
 
 Pretending truth in falshood, and doe gull 
 The World with shadow, yet doth he compare 
 
 The passage of euents, and finds at full 
 Their end's attended with an endlesse care, 
 
 Andth' pregnant wit which seemes so smooth proues- 
 dull. 
 When thousand Testates shall produced be. 
 For to disclose their close hypocrisie. 
 
 Others he sees and taxeth, for they hold 
 
 Proportion with the World, being made 
 After a better Image, yet they'r sold 
 
 To all collusion, making in their trade 
 This vilde Position : Who'll be rich when old 
 
 Must cheat being young : — but see how they'r displaid. 
 So oft haue they deceiu'd as now they must, 
 Perforce deceiue themselues by raeas distrust. 
 r2
 
 2U 
 
 Others as Prollers of the time he sees. 
 
 But scorncs to take acquaintance ; for their fate 
 Presageth worst of ills, whose best increase 
 
 Proceeds from good mens falls ; yet mark their state 
 As indirectly got, so little peace 
 
 Accrewes in state to any, for the hate 
 
 Of God and man attends them ; and how then 
 Should there be peace wher's war with God and 
 Men? 
 
 More hee beholds, and hee obserues them too, 
 And numbers their demensions as they passe 
 The compasse of his Prospect too and fro, 
 
 For this same Grate lie makes his Looking-glasse, 
 In which he sees more tlien the world can show, 
 Conferring what is present with what was ; 
 
 Extracting this from times expcrienc't Schoolc, 
 The Captiue's freer then the World's foole. 
 
 For by the first we sliew but what we are, 
 
 And Moralize ourselues in being pent 
 Close from the World's eye, which we compare 
 
 Vnto a Prison, since th' cnfrandiiscmcnt 
 We haue's in Ilcauen: then howsocre we fare, 
 
 Though l)ound, if free in minde, th' imprisonment 
 We suHer, cannot so our spirits dopresso, 
 That th' frecdomc of our minds should seem ought 
 lessc :
 
 245 
 
 Ought lesse ; nay more ! for we approue as true 
 
 V/hat the deuine Morall taught. That one may haue 
 A fuller and more perfect interuiew 
 
 Of the Starres beauty in a hollow Caue 
 Then on the Superficies ; for the shew 
 
 Of pompe distracts our passions, and doth slaue 
 Our reason to our sense ; whence we may know, 
 The dangers of high states are scene below. 
 
 Below ; and what more low then to be shut 
 
 From open ayre, strang'd from the sight of Men, 
 Clos'd in obliuion, linked hand and foot 
 
 Least their escape gaine liberty ? what then 
 Shall this enthrall my soule ? it cannot doo't. 
 It does aspire aboue the thoughts of them 
 
 Who shed their Childish teares when they are sent 
 By higher powers to take them to restraint. 
 
 The truth of things (saith sage Democritus) 
 
 Lies hid in certaine Caues, that is, the Cell 
 Of Thraldome which restraines and limits vs. 
 
 Which makes vs happy if we vse it well 
 For we're sequestred from th' pernicious 
 Objects of earth, and may in priuate tell 
 
 What we in publike were, where we doe finde. 
 The freest man may haue the slauish'st minde
 
 246 
 
 For my experience tells me th' Act of Sin, 
 
 Proceeds from sinnes occasion ; which restrain'd, 
 To meditate Soules ficedome we begin, 
 
 And flie from eartli when th' Body is enchain'd 
 Making our thoughts contemplators of Him, 
 Whom if we get we haue sufficient gain'd : 
 So as the Grate of our Captiuity, 
 Is th' Gate that opens to soules liberty. 
 
 Whence 'tis we see so many tast the a}TC 
 
 Of freedome, with neglect of what they arc ; 
 Making their will their Law ; but when tliey share 
 
 Their portion in affliction, then their care 
 Is in the honour of that inward fairc, 
 
 And they lament the state wherein they were : 
 For INIan in state forgets liimselfc and his. 
 Till his affliction tells him what he is. 
 
 If life indeed were such a Jubilc, 
 
 That enery houre, day, ycare, did promise vs 
 Continuate health, and wealth, and liberty. 
 
 Then had we better reason to excuse 
 The loue we haue to our mortality : 
 
 But since wee sec we cannot will nor choose, 
 
 But must be reft of these, why should we gricue, 
 To leaue as men what men arc forced to Icauc ?
 
 24^7 
 
 Nor skills it much were we bereft of these, 
 
 Whether in Thrall or Freeclome, but of th' t'\vo 
 I'de rather lose my fortune where I cease. 
 To make resort to any, and must know 
 No more of th' World or the Worlds prease; 
 But am retired from the publike show 
 Of this fraile Theatre ; and am confin'd 
 In Flesh to tast true liberty of Minde. 
 
 A Minde as free as is the Body thrall, 
 
 Transcendent in her being, taking th' wings 
 Of th' Morning to ascend, and make that all 
 
 Of her's immortall, sphearing it ^\'ith Kings j 
 Whose glory is so firme it cannot fall : 
 
 Where euery Saint in their reposure sings 
 Th' triumphant Fscan of eternity, 
 To Him whose sight giues perfect Liberty. 
 
 Then whether my restraint enforce or no. 
 
 He be myselfe, but more in my restraint ; 
 Because through it I see the end of woe. 
 
 Tasting in griefe the Essence of content : 
 
 That when from this same double-ward I goe, 
 
 This same entangled Prison ; th' continent 
 
 Of heauenly Freedome may receiue my Soule, 
 Which Flesh imprison might, but not controul.
 
 248 
 
 Rest then (Retired Muse) and be thy ownc 
 
 Tliough all thy owne forsake thee, that when Friends, 
 Fortune and Freedome are but small or none 
 
 Thy hopes may ayme at more transcendent ends ; 
 So by the body in strait durance throwne 
 Thy vnconfined Soule may make amends, 
 
 For that which she had in her Freedome lost, 
 In that most blest wherein she seem'd most crost. 
 
 Besides these spirited and harmonious lines 
 the collection has several small Poems, some 
 serious, some jocose ; on the whole a curious 
 and entertaining tract. It had not escaped the 
 notice of Mr. Ellis, who has given some speci- 
 mens among the Uncertain Authors. See Spa- 
 cimenSf &c. ed. 1803, vol. iii. p. 144.
 
 249 
 
 X. 
 
 14. Essaies vpon the Five Senses, tmth ajpithie 
 one vpon Detraction, Continued with sundry 
 Christian Resoluesjidl of passion anddeuotion, 
 purposely composed for the zealously-disposed. 
 By Rich. Brathwayt Esquire. 
 
 Mallem me esse quam viuere mortuum, 
 
 London, Printed by E. G.for Richard Whit' 
 taker and are to he sold at his shop at the Kings 
 head in Paules Church-yard, 1620. 12mo. 76 
 leaves. 
 
 Dedicated. — *^ To the right Eminent Fa- 
 vovrer and furtherrer of all noble and free- 
 borne studies, S"^ Henry Yeluerton Atturney 
 Generale, accomplished happinesse." And 
 concluding that the five senses ** were ex- 
 cellent types, and not vnbeseeming the purest 
 and piercingst eye ; now it rests, and I draw 
 in my sailes, least my gate be too great for
 
 250 
 
 my worke, onely thus much 1 ma)^ confidently 
 say, 
 
 If my presumption err, my thoughts replie, 
 It is my loue that errs, it is not I. 
 
 May I eiier so direct my subiect as to ren- 
 der you content^ whose deseruing parts make 
 me honour you, more then that title of honour 
 which is conferred on you, vowing to rest 
 
 Yours 
 in duest obseruance, 
 
 Rich. Brathwaite. 
 At the end of this volume is the character 
 of " a Shrow," which is omitted in the Second 
 edition. It begins 
 
 " A Shrow is a continuall dropping, whose 
 actiuitie consists principally in the volubilitic 
 of an indefatigable tongue ; her father was a 
 common Barretter, and her mothers sole note 
 (being the voice of her vocation) eccoed,
 
 251 
 
 Nev/ Wainflete Oysters : In her sleepe, when 
 shee is barr'd from scolding, shee falls to a 
 terrible vaine of snoring, and fomes at mouth 
 as if she were possessed, or shrudely rid by 
 the Night-mare : Shee is most out of her ele- 
 ment, when most at quiet, and concludes 
 ioyntly with the Arithmetician, that Vnities 
 are to be excluded from numbers. Her pro- 
 genie is but smal, yet all hopefull to be inter- 
 ested in some clamarous offices ; for her eldest 
 itcheth after Bellman, her next after Cryer, 
 and her daughters scorn to degenerate, vow- 
 ing to bring the aunciently-erected Cuckstoole 
 into request : She frets like gum'd Grogram^ 
 but for weare she is Sempiteriium. Shee goes 
 weekly a catterwauling, where shee spoiles 
 their spice-cup'd gossiping with her tart- 
 tongued calletting : She is a Bee in a box for 
 she is euer buzzing : Her eyes, though they be 
 no matches, for she squints hatefully, are more 
 firing than any matches : She is a hot shot, for
 
 252 
 
 she goes euer charg'd : She hath an excellent 
 gift for meraorie, and can run division vpon re- 
 lation of iniuries," &c. Sec. 
 
 The following lines on the last leaf are ad- 
 dressed 
 
 ** To my loving friends^ my Coimtry- 
 Cottoneers. 
 
 Droupe not, thougli dead, you may reiiiuo againe 
 By th' chccrefuU beams of such a Soueraigne ; 
 Who can discerne A\hat painfull men deserue, 
 And would be loath your families should starve, 
 Or want the stctffe of bread, but by command 
 "Will see your case redressed out a hand ; 
 Meanetime read my Resolucs, where you shall finde 
 In state- distresse, some solace to your minde : 
 Which found, build on this ground, and be as I, 
 Who am rcsolu'd hows'ere 1 liuc, or die. 
 
 Yours, or not his owne, R. B. 
 The Errata has this apology, 
 
 " For the Booke I'le say, if there be errors in't, 
 
 The world had not known them, but for th' Prinl."
 
 XI. 
 
 15. The Shepheards Tales. 
 
 Too true poore Shejyheards do this Prouerhejind, 
 No sooner out of sight then out of mind. 
 
 London t Printed for Richard Whitaker, 1621. 
 oct. 25 leaves. 
 
 A continuation of these Tales or Eclogues 
 was printed with the next article, as *' having 
 relation to a former part, as yet obscured ;" 
 and therefore not then published. A single 
 copy, — for this piece is uncommonly rare, — 
 must serve for authority for the above title, 
 which is also prefixed to the continuation. 
 
 The dedication, in verse, is addressed '« to 
 my worthy and affectionate kinsman, Richard 
 Hvtton, Esquire, Sonne and Heire to the 
 much honoured and sincere dispenser of judge- 
 ment, Sir Richard Hvtton, Sergeant at Law, 
 and one of the Judges of the Common Pleas:
 
 254 
 
 the fruition of his selectedst wishes." The 
 author calls him " Deere Cuz :" — 
 
 *' Who by your father's vertues and your owne 
 Are truly lou'd, whereseuer you arc knowne : 
 In State secure, rich in a faitlifull make, 
 And rich in all that may secure your state. 
 Receiue this poem, Sir, for as I liuc. 
 Had I ought better, I would better giuc. 
 
 Rich. Brathwait." 
 
 The tales are called " the first part," arc 
 three in number, and the Interlocutors named 
 Technis, Dymnus, Dorycles, Corydon, Sap- 
 phus, and Linus. By the first tale, related by 
 Technis, that character may be applied to the 
 author, declaring he was not bred on the 
 flowery plain ; 
 
 " For if I would, I could strange stories tell 
 Of Platoe's and of Aristotle's well, 
 From whence I drain'd such drops of diuinc wit, 
 As all our swaines could hardly diuc to it :— — 
 A preutiship did I in Athens liue 
 Not without hope but I might after giuc 
 
 i
 
 255 
 
 Content and comfort where I should remaine, 
 
 And little thought I then to be a swaine : 
 
 For I may say to you I then did seeme 
 
 One of no small or popular esteeme, 
 
 But of consort with such, whose height of place 
 
 Aduanced me, because I had their grace : 
 
 Hauing thus long continued, as I said, 
 
 And by my long continuance Graduate made, 
 
 I tooke more true delight in being there. 
 
 Than euer since in Court or Country ayre. 
 
 — — — in famous Athens did abide. 
 
 But 'lasse whilst I secure from thought of care. 
 
 With choicest consorts did delight me there 
 
 Free from the tongue of rumor or of strife, 
 
 I was to take me to another life. 
 
 Lin. To what, good Tec/mis ? 
 
 Tech. To haue Harpies clawes ; 
 
 To take my fee and then neglect the cause. 
 
 Sajyp. A Lawier, Technis ! 
 
 Tech. So my father said, 
 
 "VVTio as he had commanded, I obey'd. 
 For ne're had Father showne vnto his Sonne 
 More tender loue to me than he had done : 
 To waine my minde, and to wthdraw my sight 
 From all such studies gaue me once delight : 
 And to inure me better to discerne 
 Such rudiments as I desir'd to learne,
 
 256 
 
 I went to John a Sti/les and John an Okes, 
 
 And many other Law-baptized folkes, 
 
 Whereby I set the practise of the Law 
 
 At as light count as turning of a straw, 
 
 For straight I found how John a Styles did state it, 
 
 But I was ouer Style ere I came at it ; 
 
 For hauing thought (so easie was the way) 
 
 That one might be a La\\7er the first day ; 
 
 I after found the further that I went, 
 
 The further was I from my element. 
 
 . llauing thus long applide 
 
 The streame of Law, my aged father didc, 
 
 Whose vcrtues to relate I shall not neede. 
 
 For you all knew him : 
 
 Done. So we did indeed : 
 
 A patron of all Justice, doe him right. 
 
 Sap. Nor was there Art wherein he liad no sight, 
 
 Di/m. Yet was he humlile ; 
 
 Lin. And in that more blest. 
 
 Corid. lie liucs, though seeming dead ; 
 
 Tech. So let him rest. 
 
 Hauing lost liim whose life supported me. 
 You may imagine Shepheards, what might be 
 My hard succeeding fate : downe must I goe 
 To know if this report were true or no. 
 Which I did finde too true, for he was dead, 
 And had cnioyn'd me duai-diajis in his stead 
 To sway my vntrain'd youth.
 
 257 
 
 JDym. And what %vere they ? 
 
 Tech. Such men as I had reason to obey : 
 For their aduice was euer for my good, 
 If my greene yeeres so much had vnderstood : 
 But I puft vp with thought of my demaines, 
 Gaue way to Folly, and did slacke my raines 
 Of long restraint : 
 
 Dory. 'Las Technis, then I see. 
 
 What in the end was like to fall on thee. 
 
 Tech. O Dorycles if thou hadst knowne ray state, 
 Thou wouldst haue pitied it ! 
 
 Cotid. Nay, rather hate 
 
 Thy youthfull riot. 
 
 Tech. Thou speakes well vnto 't, 
 For the Blacke Oxe had nere trod on my foot : 
 I had ray forraer studies in despight, 
 And in the vainest consorts tooke delight. 
 Which rauch incens'd such as affection bare 
 To my esteeme : but little did I care 
 For the instruction of ray graue protectors 
 Who neuer left me, but like ^dse directors 
 Consulted how to rectifie ray state 
 
 llie guardians propose matrimony; and the 
 
 disappointment arising from his attention to 
 
 <' the Parson's wife, a lusty trolops," which 
 
 occasions a discarding by the heroine, Ama- 
 
 s
 
 ^5S 
 
 rlllida, is the narrative of the remainder of the 
 Eclogue. 
 
 On the last page a few lines as " a pastorall 
 Palinod," to prepare the reader for three other 
 tales to *' giue new life to sorrow."
 
 259 
 
 XIT. 
 
 16. Natvres Emhassie : or, the Wildc-mans 
 Measures : Danced naked by twelue Sati/res, 
 xvith sundry others continned in the next Section, 
 
 Wilde men now dance wise measures ; Come then ho. 
 Though I be ivilde, my measures are not so. 
 
 Printed for Richard. Whitaker. 1621. 
 
 The Epistle Dedicatory wishes, by the ad- 
 dress " to the accomphshed mirror of trve 
 worth, Sr. T. H. the elder, knight, professed 
 fauorer and furtherer of all free-borne studies: 
 continuance of all happinesse." The author 
 describes himself to " haue penned this short 
 Discourse, interwoven with history as well as 
 poesie, for two things summarily, and especial- 
 ly for the first thereof. The first is the iniqui- 
 tie of the present time. — The second reason is 
 the motion of a priuate friend. — Thus tendring 
 you the fruites of my reading compiled, and 
 ' s2
 
 260 
 
 in manner digested not out of selfe-conceit, but 
 aime to publique good intended, I rest from 
 my studie. May 24?. Yours to dispose Rich- 
 ard Brathwayt." 
 
 The Satyrs are divided into two sections, 
 the first containing twelve and the other eigh- 
 teen, making thirty in the whole, levelled a- 
 gainst the common vices of society, with illus- 
 trative examples from ancient historj^ In the 
 first Satyr on Degeneration as personated in 
 Nature, the following stanza must clearly al- 
 lude to his contemporary, Geo. Withers : 
 
 But I will answer thee for all tliy boautie : 
 
 If thou wilt be an ape in gay attire, 
 
 Tliou doest not execute that forme of dutic, 
 
 "Which Nature at thy liand secmes to require : 
 
 Which not redrest, for all thy goodly port., 
 
 Thou must be strij)!, and whipt, and chastis'd for't. 
 
 In the eleventh Satyr, the '' children of elec- 
 tion" are exhibited under ^' Hypocrisy ;" and 
 that which then applied to Puritans might no\r
 
 261 
 as fitly serve for certain sectarists. At the end 
 of the first section is " A Conclvsive Admoni- 
 tion to the Reader :" who is informed 
 
 These two months trauell like the ahnond rod. 
 May bring forth more when opportuaitie 
 Giuetli fit time : 
 
 And as both parts are now always found toge- 
 ther, it remains uncertain as to there being, 
 and when, an earlier edition of the first part. 
 
 After the admonition, " here followeth some 
 Epy cedes, orFunerall Elegies, concerning sun- 
 dry exquisite Mirrours of true loue." These 
 consist of three Elegies on the stories of Hero 
 and Leander, Pyramus and Thisbe, and Dido 
 and ^neas. Then a new title for 
 
 17. The Second Section of Divine and Mo. 
 rail Satyres : With an Adivnct vpon the prece- 
 dent ; tuhereby the Argument tvith thejirst cause 
 of publishing these Satyres, be euidently re- 
 lated.
 
 262 
 
 Disce ct doce. 
 
 London^ prinicd Jbr Richard Whitaker. 1621. 
 
 A Dedication, in three stanzaS; is addressed 
 " to the worthie Cherisher and Novrisher of 
 all generous Studies, S. W. C. Knight, R. B. 
 his affectionate Country-man wisheth the in- 
 crease of all honour, health, and happinesse." 
 and subscribed, " Yours in all faithfull obser- 
 uance, Richard Brathwayte, Musophylus." — 
 The patron probably died while the work was 
 printing, by the following lines, which immedi- 
 ately follow 
 
 Vjmn the Dedicatoric : 
 
 Tlioiigh he (and happic he) bereft by fate, 
 To whom I meant this worke to dedicate, 
 This sliall find sliehcr in liis liuinp; name, 
 He's chang'd indeed, but I am still the same. 
 
 At the end of the second section are " two 
 short modcrnc Satyrcs," the first ' Pscudophi- 
 lia,' is a pointed philip})ic on the hypocritical
 
 263 
 puritan. The last is called ' Poligonia,' an- 
 other admonition to the reader, subscribed, 
 " thine if thine owne, Musophilus." Then 
 follows a new title for 
 
 18. The Shepheards Tales. 
 
 Too true poore Shepheards do this Pronerbe Jind, 
 K^o sooner out of sight then out of mind. 
 
 London, jjrinted for Richard JVhitaker, 1621. 
 
 " His Pastoralls are here continved with 
 three other Tales ; having relation to a former 
 part, as yet obscured : and deuided into cer- 
 taine Pastorall Eglogues, shadowing much de- 
 light vnder a rurall subiect :" as the head title 
 expresses. From the third Eglogve is taken 
 the following Song, as characteristic of that 
 period, and preserving the names of several 
 tunes or ditties now obsolete. The marginal 
 note is singular : " Forth of a curious Spinet 
 graced with the best rarities of Art and Na-
 
 264 
 ture, Mopsus a shepheard, and Marina a shep- 
 heardesse, singing a Nuptiall Hymne in the 
 way to the Bridall." 
 
 The Shepheards Holy-day^ reduced in apt 
 measures to Hobhinalls Galliardy or John to 
 the May pole. 
 
 Mopso. Come Marina, let's away, 
 
 For both Bride and Bridcgroome stay, 
 Fie for shame, are swaines so long, 
 Pinning of their hcad-geare on ? 
 Pray thee see, None hut we, 
 !RIongst the swaines arc left vnreadie, 
 
 Fie, make hast. Bride is past, 
 Follow me and I \\ ill leade thee. 
 Mar. On my lonely Mopsus, on, 
 I am readie, all is done, 
 From my head vnto the foote, 
 I am fitted each way to't ; 
 Buskins gay, Gowne of gray. 
 Best that all our flocks do render, 
 
 Hat of stroc, IMattcd through, 
 Cherrie lip and middle slender. 
 Mop. And I tliink you Mill not find 
 Mopsus any whit behind,
 
 265 
 
 For he loues as well to go, 
 As most part of shepheards do. 
 Cap of brownc, Bottle-crowne, 
 With the leg I vron at dancing, 
 
 And a pumpe Fit to iumpe. 
 When we shepheards fall a prancing. 
 And I know there is a sort 
 Will be well provided for't 
 For I heare, there will be there, 
 LiueHest swaines Mithin the shere : 
 letting Gill, lumping Will, 
 Ore the floor will haue their measure : 
 
 Kit and Kate, There vv-ill waite 
 Tib and Tom will take theu* pleasure. 
 Mar. But I feare ; 
 Mop. What doest thou feare ? 
 
 Mar. Crowd the fidler is not there : 
 And my mind delighted is, 
 Witli no stroake so much as his. 
 Mop. If not he. There will be 
 
 Drone the piper that will trounce it. 
 Mar. But if Crowd, Sti'ucke aloud. 
 
 Lord, methinks how I could bounce it. 
 Mop, Bounce it Mall, I hope thou \^•ill, 
 For I know that thou hast skill. 
 And I am sure thou there shalt find, 
 Measures sto;e to please thy mind ;
 
 ^66 
 
 Roundelaycs, Irish-hayes, 
 Cogs and rongs and Peggie Ramsie, 
 
 Spaniletto, The Venetto, 
 John come kisse me, Wilsons fancic. 
 Ma'\ But of all there's none so sprightly 
 To my eare, as Tutch me lightly ; 
 For its this we shepheards loue, 
 Seing that which most doth mouc ; 
 There, there, there, To a haire, 
 O Tim Crowd, me thinks I hcare thee, 
 Young nor old, Nerc could liold, 
 But must leake if they come nere thee. 
 Mop. Blush Marina, fie for sliame. 
 
 Blemish not a shepheards name : 
 Jl/ar. INIopsus why, is't such a matter. 
 
 Maids to shew their yeelding nature ? 
 O what then, Be ye men, 
 Tliat will bcare your selues so froward, 
 
 When you find. Us inclin'd. 
 To your be<l and boord so toward ? 
 Mop. True indeed, the faidt is ours, 
 
 Tliougli we tcarme it oft-times yours: 
 Mar. What would shepheards haue vs do, 
 But to yecld when they do wo ? 
 And we yeeld Tiiem tlie field, 
 And cudow them with our riches. 
 Mop. Yet we know. Oft-times too, 
 
 You'lc notstickc to weare the brcchcs.
 
 267 
 
 Mar. Fooles they'le deeme them, that do heare them 
 Say their wines are wont to weare them : 
 For I know there's none has wit, 
 Can endure or suffer it : 
 But if they, Haue no stay, 
 Nor discretion (as tis common) 
 
 Then they may Giue the sway, 
 As is fitting to the woman. 
 Moj), All too long (deare loue) I weene, 
 Haue we stood vpon this theame : 
 Let each lasse, as once it was, 
 Loue her swaine, and swaine his lasse : 
 So shall we, Honor'd be. 
 In our mating, in our meeting, 
 
 "Wliile we stand Hand in hand, 
 Honest swainling, with his sweeting. 
 
 The next piece has also a new title : 
 19. Omphale, or, the Inconstant Shepkeard- 
 esse. 
 
 Perijssem, nisi perijssem. 
 
 London, Printed Jbr Richard JVhitaker. 1621. 
 Back of this title is the following dedication; 
 " To her in whose chaste breast choisest ver- 
 tues, as in their abstract are seated : the ac- 
 complishd Lady P. W. wife to the nobly-de-
 
 268 
 
 scended S. T. W. Knight : and daughter to 
 the much honoured S. R. C. all correspondence 
 to her worthiest wishes." 
 
 The tale of Omphale, in heroic measure, oc- 
 cupies near eighteen pages ; and at the end is 
 
 A Poem describing the leuitie of a xuoman : 
 
 reseruing all generous respect to the vertuously 
 
 affected of that sexe. 
 
 First I foare not to offend, 
 A very tiling of nothing, 
 Yet whom thus farre I commend, 
 She's lighter then her clothing : 
 Nay from the foote vnto the crownc, 
 Her very fan will weigh her downe : 
 And marke how all things with her sexe agree, 
 For all her vertues are as light as she. 
 
 She chats and chants but ayre, 
 
 A windie vertue for the care, 
 'Tis lighter farre then care. 
 
 And yet her songs do burthens bearc. 
 
 She dances, that's but mouing, 
 
 No hcauic vertue here she changes, 
 
 And as her licart in louing, 
 So her fcete inconstant ranges.
 
 269 
 
 She softly leanes on strings, 
 
 She strikes the trembling lute and quauers . 
 These are no weightie things, 
 
 Her strokes are light, so are her fauours. 
 
 Tliose are her vertues fitting to her kind, 
 
 No sooner showne, but they turn'd all to wind. 
 
 Then to you, O sexe of fethers. 
 On whose browes sit all the wethers, 
 I send my passion weau'd in rimes. 
 To weigh downe tliese light emptie times. 
 
 The last division of this volume has for title 
 20. His Odes : or Philomels Teares, 
 
 Odes in straines of sorrow tell 
 Fate and fall of euery foivle. 
 Mounting Merlin, Philomel, 
 Lagging Lajniing, Sivalloiv, Owle ; 
 Whence you may obserue how state 
 Mais' d by pride, is razd by hate. 
 
 London, Printed for Richard WhitaJcer. 1621. 
 
 The Odes were selected by Sir Egerton 
 Brydges in 1815, as a specimen of the genius 
 of our author, and as proving " him not to have 
 been without merit, either for fancy, sentiment,
 
 '270 
 
 or expression." The reprint was in small oc- 
 tavo, and formed one of the limited series of 
 works, so tastefully embellished, that issued 
 from the private press at Lee Priory.
 
 271 
 
 XIII. 
 
 21. Times Cvrtaine Dravvne, or The Ana- 
 tomie of Vanitie, With other choice Poems, 
 Entituled ; Health from Helicon. By Richard 
 Brathvvayte Oxonian, 
 
 Ille ego qui quondam. 
 
 London, 'printed hy John DaH)Son for John 
 Bellamie, and are to be sould at the south e«- 
 tranceofthe Roy all-Exchange, 1621, oct. 100 
 leaves. 
 
 Dedication, in rhyme, wishing " To the fa- 
 movs Seminary of all accomplish'd Knowledge, 
 his deare foster-mother, the Vniversitie of Ox- 
 ford ; the happie supplie of iudicious witts, 
 with the encrease of all succeeding Honovr." 
 Then follows the principal poem : '* Times 
 Anatomic, displayed in six distinct subiects : 
 Riches; Pouertie; lustice; Iniustice, Fate, 
 Death."
 
 272 
 
 Another dedication in rhyme '' to him whom 
 trve merit hath ennobled ; the right Honorable 
 John Earle of Bridgeuater, Vicovnt Brackley, 
 the accomplishment of his selectedst wishes :'' 
 and '' the Avthor continvcs his former Dis- 
 covrse, anatomizing man more fully in these 
 foure subiects : Preparation; Secm-itie; Court- 
 ship ; Hospitalitie." 
 
 Several poems follow ; one a gratulatory em- 
 blem " to the high and illvstriovs Monarch 
 Christian King of Denmarke;" and " an Em- 
 bleme vpon the Royall Masqve presented in 
 the King of Denmarkes last being here, per- 
 sonated regally, shadowed really, and alluded 
 rarely." 
 
 At signature I is another title page : 
 
 22. ^^ Pancdone : or Health from Helicon: 
 containing Emhlemes, Epigrams, Elegies, ivith 
 other contiuuatc Poems, full of all generous 
 delight; by UicJiard Braihvvajjte, Esqnire, 
 Licet toto nunc Ileliconc frui. INI art.
 
 273 
 
 Due not looke on me with a carelesse eye. 
 First read and iudge, then buy, or else goe by. 
 
 London, printed hy John Datvson for John 
 Bellamie^ and are to he soidd at the south en- 
 trance of the Roy all Exchange. 1621." 
 
 By the table of " the number and order of 
 these Epigrams," or rather poems, they are 
 divided into two parts, containing eight and 
 thirteen pieces, and dedicated in rhime : '' to 
 my trvely worthie and mvch respected frieod, 
 Sr. Thomas Gainsford, Knight." 
 
 For the sake of the versification coming 
 near in measure to that adopted in the Itine- 
 rary, we select, from the first part, 
 
 Cares Cure, or a figg for Care, 
 
 Happie is that State of his, 
 
 Takes the World as it is, 
 
 Loose hee honour, friendship, wealth, 
 
 Loose hee libertie or health,
 
 274 
 
 Loose hee all that Earth can giue, 
 Hauing nought whereon to liue ; 
 So prepar'd a mind's in him, 
 Hee's resolu'd to sinke or swim. 
 
 Some will pule if tliey but heare, 
 How next Summer will be deare, 
 As th' Engrosser who doth hcape 
 Graine, laments when it is cheape, 
 Gallants who haue run their race 
 In all not, feare the Mace ; 
 Punkes whose trunkes of lucre smell, 
 Feare the Bridewell more then Hell. 
 
 But when I remember these, 
 Hcrmon, and HermocrateSy 
 Phcdon Mencdemiis, then 
 I conclude they were no men : 
 For Where's Reason in that Elfe, 
 Who for pclfe will Iiang hiraselfe ; 
 Valuing more this filmic rinde. 
 Then the glory of his Miude ! 
 
 Shouldo I ought deiectcd bee 
 
 ' Cause blind Fortune frowns on nic, 
 
 Or put fmgcr in Uic eye 
 
 "When 1 see my Damon die,
 
 275 
 
 Or repine such should inherit 
 More of honour then of merit, 
 Or put on a sourer face, 
 To see vertue in disgrace ! 
 
 Should I to see Justice dead 
 Like a bull-rush hang my head, 
 Or lament to see the time 
 Guided by a crooked line, 
 Or bewaile my houre of Birth, 
 That Content's exil'd from earth, 
 Or vie teares with graines of sand 
 'Cause Oppression soakes our Land 1 
 
 Should I weepe when I doe trie 
 Fickle Friends inconstancie, 
 Quite discarding mine and mee 
 When they should the firmest be. 
 Or thinke much when barraine brains 
 Are possest of rich Demains, 
 When in Reason it were fit 
 They had wealth vnto their wit ! 
 
 Should I grieue to see a knaue 
 More respect and credit haue. 
 Then a sincere honest man 
 Who nor sooth nor humour can, 
 t2
 
 276 
 
 Or distast men of desert 
 Should haue least in Fortunes part, 
 \Vlien men high but worthlesse great 
 Many times vsurpe their seate ! 
 
 Should I sorrow to behold 
 Nought so much admir'd as gold. 
 Or looke foule that such a Swad 
 Should gaine her I -would haue had, 
 Or bemone (but all in vaine) 
 What I cannot get againe, 
 Or looke wan that others store 
 Through iniustice makes me poore ! 
 
 Should I spend the morne in teares 
 'Cause I sec my neighbors cares 
 Stand so slopc^vise from his head. 
 As if they were homes indeede : 
 Or to see his wife at once 
 Branch his brow, and breake his skonce, 
 Or to heare her in her splene 
 Callet like a butter-queane ! 
 
 Should I sigh because I sec i^ 
 
 Lawes like si)idt'r-wcbbs to be, 'fl 
 
 Lesser flics arc quickly tanc 
 While the great breake out againe, 
 
 I
 
 277 
 
 Or so many schismes and sects 
 Which foule heresie detects. 
 To suppresse the fire of zeale 
 Both in Church and Common weale ! 
 
 Should I weepe to see some write 
 To adde fuell to deUght> 
 But no taske to vndertake 
 Any time for conscience sake ; 
 Or to mourne to see the Doue 
 Ever censur'd for her loue, 
 While the Puttock flies away 
 Priuiledg'd what ere he say ! 
 
 Should I grieue when I 'me in place 
 
 That my foe should be in grace, 
 
 Or in silent woe lament 
 
 At my friends his discontent, 
 
 Or repine that men of worth 
 
 Should want meanes to set them forth, 
 
 Or disdaine my wench should be 
 
 Kinde to any one but me ! 
 
 Should I blind my eyes wdth teares 
 Or oppresse my heart witli feares. 
 When nor teares nor feares auaile 
 Such whose choicest comforts faile.
 
 278 
 
 By conuerting that sweet ayre 
 Of delight vnto despaire, 
 For I know no enter breath 
 Limits these, saue onely Death ! 
 
 Should I sigh for that I see 
 World goes not well w ith me, 
 Or inveigh 'gainst envious Fate 
 Still to lo'WTe on my Estate, 
 Or reproue such as cxpresse 
 Nothing saue vnthankfulness, 
 Or expose my selfe to griefe 
 'Cause my woes are past reliefe I 
 
 Should I grieuc because I giue 
 No contentment where I Hue, 
 Though my best cndcuours proue 
 That my actions merit louc, 
 Or repine at others ayme 
 Gaining more then I can gaiue, 
 When their vaine mis-guided course 
 Showes their humour to be worse ! 
 
 Should I pine away and die 
 Or my Childish tcarcs ilescrie 
 'Cause my neighbors are vntoward, 
 Wilfuil wife, and scruants fro ward, 
 
 I
 
 279 
 
 Or exclaime *gainst destenie 
 Who so crossely matched mee, 
 Or desire no more to line 
 Since I liue the more to grieue ! 
 
 Should I mourne, repine, or rnone 
 To be left distrest, alone, 
 Or wish death appro ching nie 
 With a bleered blubb'red eye, 
 'Cause my meanes I scarce can find 
 Of proportion with my minde. 
 Or breath sadly 'cause my breath 
 Drawes each minute neerer death ! 
 
 No there's nought on Eanh I feare 
 That may force from me one teare, 
 Losse of honour, fredome, health, 
 Or that raortall idoll, wealth, 
 With these babes may grieued be 
 But they haue no power ore me, 
 Lesse my substance lesse my share 
 In my feare and in my care. 
 
 Feare he must that doth possesse, 
 Least his substance should grow lesse, 
 Which oft driues him to extreames 
 Both in broken sleepes and dreames.
 
 280 
 
 But so little doe I care 
 For these Fethers in the ayre. 
 As I laugh -while others gricue 
 Louing these which they must leaue. 
 
 Wretched moles who pore on earth 
 And concciiie no taste ot' mirth, 
 But in hoording heape on hcapc 
 What's the fruit in end they reape, 
 Saue returning to that slime 
 Wliich they tugg'd for all their time ? 
 Sure I am, reduc'd to clay, 
 Poorest arc as rich as tliey. 
 
 Care I would, but not for th>6 
 ' Cause it lessens care of blisse ; 
 Yet not so as not to care, 
 What we spend, or what ^^•e spare, 
 For this carelcsse course we call 
 Meerely vaine and i)rodigall ; 
 But that golden meane to keepe 
 As no care may brcuke our sicepe. 
 
 Thus to loue >vnd thus tc Hue, 
 Tlius to take and thus to glue ; 
 TluiK to laugh and thus to sing. 
 Thus to mount on pleasures wing ;
 
 281 
 
 Thus to sport and thus to speede, 
 iTiiis to flourish, nourish, feede ; 
 Thus to spend and thus to spare 
 Is to bid, A Jigg for Care ! 
 
 The Second Part commences with " Ehrivs 
 Experiens; orthe Drunkards humour:" being, 
 according to the marginal note, 
 
 Tassoes apollogie transcribed, 
 
 Wherein a Drunkards humour is to life described. 
 
 The adventures of Barnabee when he " took 
 the host for the hostess," or more humourously 
 at St. Alban's craved acquaintance with " the 
 hand which guides to London," had a parallel 
 in a tippling bout between Brathwait and a 
 friend : 
 
 Biing Malmsey, quoth my friend, Ws good for tW hack, 
 And I, to please my palate^ call'd for Sack : 
 So long we Sack't it till our Forts were wonne, 
 Round run the world, and we both fell downe : 
 Where whilest we lay (for now the jeast began) 
 My friend nere shew'd his louing heart till than.
 
 282 
 
 Close 'bout ray necke he hung and claspt me fa*, 
 
 Vowing his Saint all other Saints surpast, 
 
 And I was shee : thou art of that grace ; 
 
 Thus he began, then rifts he in my face : 
 
 As none, 6 none,— then could he not afford 
 
 To gaino a kingdomc, halfe another word. 
 
 £ut canat thou louc ? to satisfie his choice, 
 
 I told him Yes, faining a woman's voice : 
 
 For I had so much sense left in my braine 
 
 As I resolu'd to trie his cupping vaine ; 
 
 Then vp he counts (tho' wine of wit had reft him) 
 
 How many fannes his Father now had left him : 
 
 All which (quoth he) must to our hcires succeede. &c. 
 
 A Dialogue between Menippus andMercator 
 upon <' The Eye" has for initials I. H. which 
 are not explained. A short prose address at 
 the end of the volume is entitled " An Appa- 
 nage," and on the last leaf are the following 
 
 lines 
 
 Vpon Cenaurc. 
 Well, iD, or neither, but indifferent, 
 How ere your censure be I am content ; 
 For hee's a fanning foole, the world's minion, 
 That only writcb to gaiue himselfe opinion.
 
 283 
 
 XIV. 
 
 23. Britains Bath, Anno 1625. 
 
 The only information hitherto obtained re- 
 specting this publication is a marginal note 
 attached to a dedication of the Survey ofHis' 
 tory^ 1638, where, in reference to the Earl of 
 Southampton, it is said : *' A Funerall Elegy 
 to his precious memory was long since extant ; 
 being annexed to my Britains Bath. Anno 
 1625."
 
 284? 
 
 XV. 
 
 24-. The Hunts-mans Raunge. (unkkowk.) 
 
 A Treatise thus entituled may be here men- 
 tioned. It is referred to in the margin of the 
 EngHsh Gentleman, 1630, p. 198, as a com- 
 ment on the following passage : " What more 
 admirable than the pleasure of the Hare, if 
 wee observe the uses which may bee made 
 of it as I have elsewhere* more amplie dis- 
 coursed ? " It was probably printed about this 
 period. 
 
 * " In a Treatise entituled j The JJunts-jnans 
 Haunge, ' '—Margin.
 
 285 
 
 XVI. 
 
 25. The English Gentleman; Containing 
 Sundry excellent Rules or exquisite Observations, 
 tending to Direction oj" every Gentleman ^ of se- 
 lecter ranhe and qualitie ; Hovo to demeane or 
 accomodate himsclfe in the manage of publike or 
 private affaires. By Richard Brathvoait Esq. 
 Seneca in Here, furen. 
 
 — — Qui genus jactat suum 
 Aliena laudat. 
 
 London, Printed by John Haviland, and are 
 to he sold by Robert BostocJc at his shop at the 
 signe of the Kings head in Pauls Church-yard. 
 1630. 4to. pp. 487, without introduction. 
 
 A short analysis of the contents of this vo- 
 lume, for the purpose of detecting imperfect 
 copies, may not be unacceptable. In conjunc- 
 tion with the Compleat Gentlewoman, which 
 forms a second part, no work of that age can
 
 have been more uniformly read, or higher ap- 
 pretiated. 
 
 On opening the volume it exhibits a glow- 
 ing specimen of the burine of Ro.Vaughan, in 
 ten compartments for the Frontispiece, with a 
 folding broad- side prefixed as an explanatory 
 draught of same. The printer's title as above 
 is followed by nine leaves of Dedication, co- 
 pious tables, and other matter. After p. 4:56 
 is a sheet without pagination, under signature 
 Nnn*. The first two leaves have " The Cha- 
 racter of a Gentleman," another has an "Em- 
 blemef" recto and reverse "Upon the Er- 
 
 * That being a duplicate signature is the common 
 guide for placing the sheet, which otherwise arranges 
 better at the end of the volume. 
 
 f Emblcmc. 
 Witli a Climaclcrick yecrc this worke began, 
 Which is exprest when Sevns and Nines doc meet, 
 Held fatall to this short-spun thrccd of man ; 
 And with same number ends tlic final sheet 
 Of tlicsc Observances, whereof 1 treat :
 
 287 
 rata," and fourth leaf blank. Then follows a 
 new title : 
 
 26. Three choice characters of Marriage; fitly 
 sorting ioith the proprietie and varieiie of the 
 
 Threescore and three is held the dangerous yeare, 
 And just so many sheets shall you find here ; 
 But not a leafe to give a life to feare. 
 
 It rarely happens that an senigraatical trifle like this 
 is worthy of a moment's reflection to unravel. Here the 
 riddle-my-ree is to discover a year where the unison of 
 the numbers divide by 9 and 7. That exists with all the 
 puny quibbling of a three-fold solution in 1627, if thus 
 dissected :— 9 and 7 are 16, and 3 times 9 is 27. Again, 
 1 and 6 is 7, while 2 and 7 make 9 : or by adding all the 
 figures of the year together it produces 16 or 9 and 7. 
 This lilliputian labour shows that the author was rather 
 more than three years compleating the work, as in the 
 fourth (1631) it was published. 
 
 Again. The Printer's alphabet, or signatures, has no 
 more than twenty-three letters, as J and W are never 
 used. In the English Gentleman the signatures end 
 in the third alphabet at Qqq, making sixty-two sheets; 
 and the duplicate N n n, above described, completes the 
 " threescore and three."
 
 288 
 
 former Subject: Having especiall relation to one 
 peculiar Branch, shadotved in the Sixt Obserott' 
 tion, Seneca. Non socios regna ferre nee tedae 
 sciunt. 
 
 These characters complete the volume with 
 p. 487.
 
 289 
 
 XVII. 
 
 27. The English Gentlexwman, draivne out 
 to the full Body : Expressing^ 
 
 What HabiU'mients doe best attire her. 
 What Ornaments doe best adome her. 
 What Com2)le?nents doe best accomplish her. 
 
 By Richard Brathtvait Esq, 
 
 Modestia non forma. 
 
 London^ printed by B. Alsop and T, Favvcet, 
 for Michaell SparJce, divelling in Greene Arbor, 
 1631. 4to, pp. 221, without introduction, &c. 
 &c. 
 
 The Frontispiece in compartments, intend- 
 ed as a companion to the one before the En- 
 glish Gentleman, is engraved by Will. Mar- 
 shall, has a folding broadside prefixed expla- 
 natory of the subjects. After the printer's title 
 twenty-two leaves of dedications, and a table. 
 After p. 221 is the character of <^ A Gentle- 
 woman," four leaves, not paged, the " Em- 
 u
 
 290 
 
 bleme * " and '' Vpon the Errata " two more. 
 Some copies havean " Appendixvpon a former 
 supposed Impression of this title," consisting 
 of five leaves with signature in continuation, 
 but not paged. 
 
 * Emblemc. 
 
 Some hold these Obsemations to be long, 
 Some more iuclicious, hold them to be short, 
 Thus are tlicy censur'd be they right or wrong ; 
 What should we then make Censure but a sport, 
 Smcc good or bad, we're nc're the better for 't? 
 Which to attemper, I should thinke it best, 
 Vcrtue were Censor in each Authors breast.
 
 291 
 
 XVIII. 
 
 28. Whimzies : Or, A new Cast of Characters, 
 
 Nova, non nota delectant. 
 
 London, Printed by F, K. and are to be sold 
 by Ambrose Rithirdon, at the signe of the BulVs' 
 head, in PauVs Church-yard. 1631. 12mo, 117 
 leaves. 
 
 This little amusing volume has already ob- 
 tained particular notice from two different bib- 
 liographers *, well known for their extensive 
 research, and the accuracy of the articles they 
 make public ; who have described the same as 
 anonymous : but the name of the author, the 
 common clue of ascertaining Brathwait's 
 pieces, had it been then known, might have 
 supplied. On the last leaf occurs the following 
 apology 
 
 * See Mkrocosmography, &c, 1811, p. 282. Restituta, 
 vol. iv. p. 279. 
 
 u2
 
 292 
 
 *' Vjwn the Errata s. 
 
 As there bee Cliaracters of Errors, so be 
 Errors incident to Characters. These be they 
 literali or materiall, it is in thee, Reader, to 
 make them veniall." 
 
 In this instance our author assumes the sig- 
 nature of Clitiis AlcxandrinuSy wliich is sub- 
 scribed to the Dedication, inscribed " to his 
 mvch lionoredfriend, Sir Alexander Radchffe." 
 An address " to the equal! Reader," follows 
 with " An Alphabetical! Table of the Charac- 
 ters," which are twenty-four in number in al- 
 phabetical order, and a Summary at the end 
 indexed as " Sec. or The Egregious'st Pimpe 
 of all this debauch't order, with a bricfe but 
 free censure of tlieir nature, nurture, and 
 number," whicli may serve tlie purpose of an 
 analysis. &c. 
 
 1. AlmnnacJc.maJicr . Is the most notorious 
 Knave picl^t out of all these: As 1. if under
 
 293 
 
 colour of Astrology, he practise the Art of 
 Necromancy. 
 
 2. Ballad-monger. If Nick Ballader con- 
 tract with Bully Purser, to get him a base 
 booty from a Ninny new com'd forth of 
 Countrey. 
 
 3. Corranto coiner. If he abuse forraine 
 States, and gull the reader to cram his belly. 
 
 4. Decoy. If he sharke where hee hath en- 
 gag'd his heart, and prove disloyall to his fra- 
 ternity. 
 
 5. Exchange -man. If hee vent base ware 
 with oaths and improve his Exchange by per- 
 jury 
 
 6. Forrester. If he raunge without his pale, 
 and make the country foster-mother to his 
 progeny. 
 
 7. Gamester. If he professe himselfe ho- 
 nest, and publish himselfe cheate upon disco- 
 very. 
 
 8. Hospitall man. If our Hospitall-man
 
 294^ 
 pretend but zeale, and prize piety as the Miser 
 hospitalitie. 
 
 9. Jayler. If our Jayler tyrannize over his 
 Tenant, and triumph in his miserie. 
 
 10. Keeper, If the Keeper neglect his soule, 
 and prepare not for her dehverie. 
 
 11. Lanndercr. If she wash her skinne, 
 but staine her soule, and so soilc her inward 
 beauty. 
 
 12. Meial-mcnu If he set too high a stamp 
 upon his metall, and blanch his alleagcance 
 with colour of Alchymie. 
 
 13. Neuter. If our Laodicean halt betwixt 
 two and sliglit his conscience for worldly 
 policy. 
 
 14. Ostler, If to save his provender, he set 
 an artificial edge on a strangers Palfrey. 
 
 15. Postmaster. If hee furnis his Poster 
 with a foundrcd Hackney. 
 
 16. Quest-man. If what hee collects in the 
 Ward he convert to himselfe and his Meniey.
 
 295 
 
 17. Ruffian. If hee out-brave his best 
 friends, and slave himself to any villany. 
 
 18. Sailer. If he row without feare to gain 
 him a fare, and hazard a passengers safety. 
 
 19. Traveller. If hee travaile to novellize 
 himselfe, and not to benefit his Country. 
 
 20. Vnder-sheriffe. If to enrich his retch- 
 lesse progeny, he care not much to begger the 
 whole County. 
 
 21. Wine-soaker. If hee drinke till he rore, 
 and roring uncivilly wrong himselfe and his 
 company. 
 
 22. Xantippean. If [s]hee scold till shee 
 scare her husband,make him debauch himselfe, 
 and abandon his family. 
 
 23. Yealous Neighbour. If hee proclaime 
 himselfe a Monster causelesly, and brand his 
 posterity with the odious marke of bastardy. 
 
 24?. Zealous Brother. If his hollowheart dis- 
 play him for a counterfeit, and his painted zeale 
 taxe him of hypocricy.
 
 296 
 If so, or so, know, that such an one is an 
 AperseAfoY knavery; whose Comick beginning- 
 shall cloze his dying Act with a tragicke Ca- 
 tastrophe. So good night to all the foure and 
 twenty. Finis. 
 
 We shall select one character that is of much 
 notoriety and yet little known. 
 
 A Ballad-monger is the ignominious nick- 
 name of a penurious poet, of whom he partakes 
 in nothing but in povertie. His straine ( in my 
 opinion) would sort best with afunerall Elegie, 
 for hee writes most pitifully. Hee has a sin- 
 gular gift of imagination, for hee can descant 
 on a man's execution long before his confes- 
 sion. Nor comes his Invention farre short of his 
 Imagination ; for want of truer relations, for a 
 neede he can finde you out a Sussex Dragon, 
 some Sea or Inland monster, drawne out by 
 some Shoe-lane man in a Gorgon-like feature, 
 to enforce more liorror in the beholder. Hee
 
 297 
 has an excellent facultiein this. Heehas one 
 tune in store that will indifferently serve for 
 any ditty. Hee is your onely man in request 
 for Christmas Carols *. His workes are last- 
 ing-pasted monuments upon the insides of 
 Country Alehouses, where they may sojourne 
 without expence of a farthing : which makes 
 their thirstie Author crie out in this manner, 
 if he have so much Latin : 
 
 Quo licuit chartis, no licet ire milii. 
 He stands much upon Stanzas, which halt 
 
 * In the character of a Housekeqier he says : " Sup- 
 pose Christmas now approaching, the ever-green Ivie 
 trimming and adorning the portalls and partcloses of so 
 frequented a building; the usuall Carolls, to observe 
 antiquitie, cheerefuUy sounding ; and that which is the 
 complement of his inferiour comforts, his neighbours 
 whom he tenders as members of his owne ftimily, joyne 
 with him in this Consort of inirth and melody." 
 
 He describes a Fipcr as " an ill wind that begins to 
 blow upon Clu'istmasse eve, and so continues very lowd 
 and blustring all the twelve dayes."
 
 298 
 
 and hobble as lamely as that one legg'd Cantor 
 that sings them : It would doe a man's heart 
 good to see how twinne-like hee and his song- 
 man couple. Wits of equal size though more 
 holding vailes befall the voyce. Now you shall 
 see them (if both their stockes aspire to that 
 strength) droppe into some blinde alehouse, 
 where these two naked Virginians will call for 
 a great potte, a toast, and a pipe. Where you 
 may imagine the first and last to be only called 
 for out of an humour ; but the midst out of 
 meere necessitie, to allay hunger. Yet to see 
 how they will hug, hooke, and shrugge over 
 these materials in a Chimney corner (O Poly- 
 hymnia) it would make the Muses wonder ! 
 But now they are parted : and Stentor has fitted 
 his Batillus with a subject: whereon he vowes 
 to bestow better Lines than ever stucke in the 
 Garland of good mil. By this time with botches 
 and old ends, this Ballad 15ard has expressed 
 the Quintesbcnce of his (ienius, extracted from
 
 299 
 the muddie spirit of Bottle- Ale and froth. But 
 all is one for that ; his Trinhio must have it, 
 if he will come to his price, yet before hee 
 have it, it must suffer the Presse. By this, 
 Nick Ballad has got him a Quarterne of this 
 new Impression ; with which hee mounts Hol- 
 borne as merry as a Carter ; and takes his stand 
 against some eminent Bay-window ; where he 
 vents his stuffe. He needs not dance atten- 
 dance ; for in a trice you shall see him guarded 
 with a Janizairie of Costermongers, and Coun- 
 trey Gooselings ; while his Nipps, Ints, Bungs 
 and Prinado's of whom he holds in ffee, oft 
 times prevent the Lawyer, by diving too deepe 
 into his Clients pocket; while hee gives too 
 deepe attention to this wonderfull Ballad. But 
 stale Ballad-newes, like stale fish, when it be- 
 ginnes to smell of the Panyer, are not for 
 queasie stomacks. You must therefore imagine, 
 that by this time they are cashier'd the Citie, 
 and must now ride poast for the Countrey :
 
 soo 
 
 where they are no lesse admir'd than a Gyant 
 in a pageant: till at last they grow so common 
 there too, as every poore Milk-maid can chant 
 and chirpe it under Cow ; which she useth as 
 an harmlesse charme to make her let downe 
 her milke. Now therefore you must suppose 
 our facetious Ballad-monger as one nectar in- 
 fused with some poetical Liquor, re-ascending 
 the horse-hoof'd mount, and with a cuppe of 
 sixe (for his token-pledge will bee taken for no 
 more) hee presumes to represent unto the 
 world a new conccite, intitled ; A jrroper 7ieiv 
 Ballad, to the tune of Bragadeary round. 
 Which his Chantcleere sings with varietie of 
 ayres (having as you may suppose, an instru- 
 me~tall Polyphon in the cranie of his nose.) 
 Now he counterfeits a naturall Base, then a 
 perpetuall Treble, and ends with a Counter- 
 tenure. You shall heare him feigne an artfull 
 straine througii the Nose, purposely to insinu- 
 ate into the attention of the purer brother-
 
 301 
 hood : But all in vaine, they blush at the abo- 
 mination of this knave, and demurely passing 
 by him, and call him the lost childe. Now, for 
 his Author, you must not take him for one of 
 those pregnant criticke Suburbane wits, who 
 make worke for the fidlers of the Citie. For 
 those are more knaves, than fooles, but these 
 quite contrary. In those you shall finde salt, 
 sense, and verse: but in these none of all three. 
 What then is to bee expected from so sterile a 
 Pernassian, where impudence is his best con- 
 ductor, Ignorance his best Instructor, and In- 
 digence his best Proctor ? Shall we then close 
 with him thus? Hee is constant in nothing but 
 his Clothes. He never casts his slough but 
 against Bartholomew^ Faire * where hee may 
 
 * Of a Zealous Brother we are told : " No season 
 through all the yeere accounts hee more subject to ab- 
 homination than Bartholomew-faire : Their Drums, 
 Hobbihorses, Rattles, Babies, Jew-trumps, nay Pigs 
 and all are wholly Judaicall. The verj^ Booths are Ero- 
 thells of iniquity, and distinguished by the stamp of the
 
 302 
 
 casually endanger the purchase of a cast suite : 
 Else, trust me, hee is no shifter. In a word, 
 get his poorc corpes a sheete to shrovvd them 
 in at his dying they get more than his Muse 
 could ever make him worthwhile hee was living. 
 At the end of the ' &c.' is a new title as 
 
 29. yi Cater Character throtvne out of a 
 Boxe By an Expericncd Gamester. 
 
 ' Ovo prognatus ab iino. 
 
 1. An Apparator. 3. A Pedler. 
 
 2. A Painter. 4. A Piper. 
 
 London, Imprinted hi/ F. K. and are to be 
 soldhyR.B. 1631. 24 leaves. 
 
 " Dedicated and Devoted by Clitvs Alexan- 
 
 Bcast. Yet under favour, hee will authorize his Sister 
 to tate of that unclcane and irruminatinj? beast, a pig, 
 provided that this i)ig bee fat, and tliat biinselfc or some 
 other zealous IJrotlier acconipanie lier ; and all this is 
 held for authentick and canonicall."
 
 303 
 
 drinvs, to his no lesse honovred then Endeared 
 S>" Alexander RadclifFe, Knight of the Bath." 
 
 We shall confine our specimen to an extract 
 from the character of another Itinerant. 
 
 A Pedler is a man of Ware. A wandring 
 starre ; one whose chiefest commerce is with 
 Country Wenches. The materials of their 
 tracking are of his part, Pinnes, Ribbons, and 
 Laces; of theirs, Cony-skins, Lambe-skinnes, 
 and Feathers ; for Marrow-bones their honest 
 simplicity never knew the operation of them. 
 What doe yeelacke, is his ordinary Intergatory ; 
 yet you may lacke many things, ere he can 
 supply you. Pepper doe ye want, and he will 
 pepper it for you : He will sell you clots for 
 Cloves, course crummes for Currans, Orpine 
 for Saffron, and compound your pepper with 
 his Earth-pouder, to gull you. It were a 
 strange disease that his fardell cannot cure ; 
 blessedbee his Genius! Hee has a receitto cure
 
 304 
 
 any one from breaking but himselfe : and this 
 is the least hoc doubts, for his Pypouder Court 
 is his oncly terror. He is no scholer, yet 
 turning Rope- maker, bee dravves strong hnes ; 
 which draincs more from Cordenor than Phi- 
 losopher. It is a prety thing to observe how 
 hee carries his Trinkilos about him : which 
 makes the Countrey Choughs esteeme him a 
 man of prize. A Countrey Rush-bearing, or 
 morrice Paste rail, is his icstiMill*: if ever 
 
 * The Forrester "at Wakes and May-games keepes 
 a brave quarter : for our wenches of the greene hold him 
 a marvellous proper man. For the rest of our Hobbi- 
 nols, they retaine such an ojjinion of his valor, they dare 
 scarcely say their soules are their ownc." 
 
 To these festivals also resorts the RvJJian : " His 
 sovcraignty is showne highest at May-games, Wakes, 
 Summerings, and Rush l)earings : wliere it is twentie to 
 one l>ut hec becomes bcneficiall before he part, to the 
 Lord of the Mannour, by meanes of a bloody nose or a 
 broken pate. Ilee will now and then for want of a 
 better subject to jjractiseon, s(iuabble witli the Minstrell, 
 and most heroically break his Drone, l)ccause the Drone
 
 305 
 
 hee aspire to plum-porridge, that is the day. 
 Here the Guga-girles gingle it with his neat 
 nifles : while hee sculkes under a Booth, and 
 showes his wit never till then, in admiring their 
 follies. He has an obscene veine of Ballatry, 
 which makes the Wenches of the Greene 
 laugh ; and this purchaseth him, upon better 
 acquaintance, a posset or a Sillabub. Hee is 
 ever removing his tents : and might be com- 
 plain'd of for non-residence, if his informer 
 could gaine ought by't. The Tinker of Turvie 
 cannot put him downe at long-staffe : which 
 
 cannot rore out his tunc. The wenches poore soulcs 
 shake in their skinnes, fearing a mischiefe : and intreat 
 their sweetliearts to give him fair language. All is out 
 a square while hee is there. But these are but his rurall 
 pageants." 
 
 Another guise the Zealous Brother : " He keeps a 
 terrible quarter in his sinnefull Synodalls and denoun- 
 ceth an heauvie woe upon all Wakes, Summerings, and 
 Rush-bearings : preferring that act whereby Pipers were 
 made rogues by Act of Parliament, before any in all the 
 Acts and Monuments."
 
 306 
 
 bee could finde in his heart to employ for high- 
 way receits, if his white liver would give him 
 leave. Would you have a true survey of his 
 family, and number them by the pole ? you 
 shall finde them subsist of three heads : Him- 
 selfe, his Truck, and her Misset: Where the 
 last weares, commonly, the sleakest skinne. 
 Hee might bee a good man by the Philoso- 
 phers reason : for every place is his countrey : 
 and generally least trusted in his owne. His 
 Atlanticke shoulders are his supporters : if 
 they faile, his revenues fall. His judgement 
 consists principally in the choice of his ware, 
 and place of their vent. Saint Martins rings, 
 and counterfeit bracelets are commodities of 
 infinite consequence : these will passe for cur- 
 rent at a May-pole, and purchase a favor from 
 their May- Marian. One would take him for 
 some appendice of a Souldier, by his lether, 
 but you shall find as much valour in his ham- 
 per. There is nothing so much disheartens
 
 307 
 him as the report of a Presse : this makes him 
 stirre his sturapes : but if that will not serve, 
 he turnes Counterfeit Cripple, and as one cut 
 off by the stumps, he cants his maimes most 
 methodically: and this practice hee most con- 
 stantly retaines till the coast be cleare." 
 
 At the end of the volume are some verses 
 * upon the Birth-day of his sonne John,' already 
 referred to in the Memoirs. 
 
 x2
 
 308 
 
 XIX. 
 
 30. The English Gentleman. The second 
 
 Edition : revised^ corrected and enlarged. 
 
 London, Printed by Felix Kyngston, and are to 
 be sold by Robert BostocJce at his shop at the signe 
 of the Kings head in Pauls Church yard, 1633. 
 4to. 240 leaves. 
 
 Nearly a paginary reprint of the first edition, 
 with the text ' revised and corrected,' but not 
 * enlarged ;' as the copy before me, after p. 456, 
 has only two unpaged leaves for the character, 
 before described, of * a Gentleman.'
 
 309 
 
 XX. 
 
 31. Anniversaries upon his Panarete, 
 • Par nulla figura doloii. 
 
 London, Imprinted hy Felix Kyngston, and are 
 to be sold hi) Robert Bostock, at the Kings Head 
 in Pauls Church-yard, 1634?. 8vo, containing 
 24? leaves not numbered — sign. A, B, C. 
 
 At the back of the title-page two black 
 spaces, between which 
 Looke not upon me, because I am hlacke. Cant. 1. 6. 
 
 Sign. A 2. To the indeered memory of His 
 ever loved, never too much lamented Panarete, 
 M'" Frances Brathvoait, 
 
 A distilling Viall of Funerall teares obsequi^ 
 ously offered. 
 
 Rev. Melpomene. 
 
 IMvse, thou hast oft to others griefes beene knovrne. 
 Now shew a reall passion in tliine owne.
 
 310 
 Rev. of A 2. Niobe. 
 
 I'le not invoke, as others use, 
 
 The influence of any IMiise ; 
 
 The Ifuscs nine shall be no other, 
 
 Than Orphans nine to mone their Mother. 
 
 A 3. Anniversaries upon his Panarete, 
 
 Wepe ! no ; I will not : y' Avoukl case mine l\part ; 
 
 The burden of my gricfes shal bcare a part 
 
 In sadder Straines : Still-running Rivers are 
 
 Ever the deepest : Not a tcare shall share 
 
 In my discomfort : They that can allay 
 
 Their griefes with tearcs, are mourners for a day* 
 
 Nor will I cast my sorrowes on my backc, 
 Nor cloath them, as our Painters vsc, in blackc ; 
 Such clothing's meere dissembling : many wcare 
 A sable habit, and distill a teare, 
 Who can dispense with griefe : which I detest ; 
 Though Pictures be by Shadoxi.'es best exprest 
 To native Symmetric ; Ave cannot so 
 Paint our essentiall Portraiture of Woe. 
 
 The poet goes on to compare himself with 
 
 Niobe, the PeHcan, the Turtle, and 
 
 The chaste choice bird Porpliyrio, left alone 
 (Reft of his mate) converts his mirth to mone; 
 I'^imine's his food, darke silence Iiis repose, 
 Lost Love the loomc, his Life tlic wcbbe of woes.
 
 311 
 
 Retir'd hee liues, not seene converse with any, 
 His comforts few, his discontentments many ; 
 Dew-trickling teares, like christall rills distill, 
 Wliich fonne a funeral habit to his will ; 
 To live he loaths, for while he lives he tries 
 Nought good in life, till it expires and dies. 
 If Birds oth' aire such heavie aires send forth, 
 Deepe-drain'd must mine be, or they'r little Avorth. 
 
 Had his lost consort resembled the gene- 
 rality of women, 
 
 Had she beene, like too many of our nation, 
 Expos'd to riot, or engag'd to fashion, — <|-c. ^-c. 
 
 Had shee beene such, by all mine hopes, I vow, 
 
 I should haue mourn'd in clothes, as others doe, 
 
 And with a sable habit cloth'd my skin. 
 
 But worne a cheerefull nuptiall robe within ; 
 
 And ioy'd like those, who, when the storme is done, 
 
 Refresh themselves in seeing of the sunne. 
 
 Yea, ere th' rosemary sprigs and fragrant flowers 
 
 Stucke on those ashy corpse, which once were ours. 
 
 Should lose their beauty or their odor sweet. 
 
 Or moth or worme should pierce her shrouding sheet, 
 
 I'd dride my teares, dozing her orbits thus, 
 
 " Adieu ! th' art fitter farre for Earth than us." 
 
 None such was mine ! her vertues were too pure 
 
 To feed fond fancy with a forraine lure.
 
 312 
 
 Fixt was her eye on Heav'n, while ev'ry sense 
 
 In doinpf good strove foi- preeminence. 
 
 In distiiict houres shce would divide the day, 
 
 To walke, write, worke, to meditate and pray : 
 
 Her first fruits were for Heav'n ; her second cares 
 
 Pitcht their resolves on temporal] affaires : 
 
 For mine held Time of higher estimate 
 
 Than to expose it at so vile a rate 
 
 As to bestow't on trifles : — — ^— 
 
 ***** 
 ]3ut leaving these. Dear Mvse relater be 
 Of her descent and honour'd Families 
 Ennobled by her spotlosse vertuous name, 
 To ])r()ve those ancestors from which she came. 
 
 Necre DarUnglon was my Dcare Dar/iiiff borne 
 Of noble house, wliich yet beares Honors forme, 
 Tt'f.s'c-seatcd Soc/cbounie, where by long descent 
 Cognicrs were Lords, their countries ornament; 
 Wliicli l)y that antient monument appeares, 
 ]{car'd in the chancell there for many yeares; 
 Wliere th' ancestor such an exploit pcrform'd, 
 As bee by fame and victory adorn'd, 
 iVTade his succcssours glorioiis, which I wish 
 (And crowne my wishes Heav'n !) may live in his: 
 Meane time I this relation will omit, 
 JJecausc elsewhere* 1 have recorded it. 
 
 ♦ In his Remainet ajler Death.
 
 313 
 
 But what's a Family but style or name, 
 Vnlesse preserved by a vertuous Fmne ? 
 And this she had, which did perfume her life, 
 (Like a most precious odor) maid and wife. 
 Pure were her thoughts, her actions without staine, 
 Grace was her guide, and godlinesse her gaine. 
 She breathes not that liv'd freer from suspect, 
 Nor courted vanity wiih more neglect ; 
 Pride was her scorne, Humilitie her prize, 
 And Heav'n the object where she fixt her eyes. 
 Yea, there was nought on Earth she more did love 
 Than Fame by real goodnesse to improve : 
 So as, ev'n those which knew her by report, 
 Admir'd that which they heard, and fam'd her for 't : 
 Teares trickling stream' d fro neighbors eyes ; exprest 
 Those silent sorrowes treasur'd in their brest : 
 While with joynt voice, made hoarse through griefe, they 
 
 cride, 
 " None ever liv'd more lov'd, or moaned, dide." 
 
 This compound of all virtue was modest in 
 her attire, neat, and apparelled according to 
 her station in life ; 
 
 Her maxime us'd to be 
 
 " She weares best clothes, that weares to her degree.'*
 
 314 
 
 For to describe her Person, which shall be, 
 As was her sclfc, compos'd of modestie, 
 Her beauty was her owne, a native red 
 Got by a modest blush, her tincture, fed 
 'Byjeare and fancy; no complexion bought 
 Fjom shop e're toucht her shape, nor euer wrought 
 On her affection ; rather high than low 
 Appear'd her stature, that the age might know 
 Nature did owe her nothing, taking care 
 To make her proper, as her forme was faire. 
 
 Let it suffice, nought could in woman be, 
 If good, were not in her cspous'd to me. 
 Chast was my choice, so choice, as ne'rc was bred 
 A sweeter consort both for boord and bed. 
 
 Besides, where e're I walke, I gather thence 
 Apparent tokens oi her providence : 
 Although I seeke her whom I cannot find, 
 I find inventions of her pregnant mind 
 Exprest in ev'ry arbour : quick conceite 
 Stoer'd by discretion to support a state; 
 Without too much restraint or libertic, 
 Not domineering in a familie, 
 Nor too remissc ; nor hivisli, nor too spare ; 
 Careful!, yet wise to moderate her care ; ^ 
 
 Rich in a frugall l)Ounty, while content 
 Smil'd on her brow, whctlicr she spar'd or spent.
 
 315 
 
 So as, In all domestical! afFaires 
 
 So sweetly mixt were her well-temper'd cares, 
 
 As if she had beene from her childhood bred 
 
 And th' Oeconomicks solely studied. 
 
 Nor did her cautious providence extend 
 
 Wholly to thoughts of frailty, which take end 
 
 From time and mutability ; O, no ! 
 
 She thought of th' place, whereto all mortals go. 
 
 Brathwait then relates that his lost wife had 
 her shroud constantly before her, to remind 
 her of the preparation for death. He then ce- 
 lebrates her needle-work ; not only the nu- 
 merous garments wrought by her hand for the 
 poor, but numerous patterns of rich needle- 
 workes, which ancient use 
 
 Approves to store and beautifie an house. 
 
 It were easy to make a much longer tran- 
 script from the conclusion of the tract, for it is 
 really very well written and does great honour 
 to the character of the wife and the affection 
 of the husband : but having selected the parts 
 elucidatory of Brathwait's life and connections,
 
 316 
 
 we desist. He notices her Poesies for Rings, 
 and gives several specimens of them ; tells us 
 that his wife died of " a lineall consumption," 
 which had before carried off " mother, daugh- 
 ter, and Sonne;" and conchides with her dying 
 request, commending lier children to their fa- 
 ther's care. The whole volume ends with four 
 epitaphs : the first two on herself, the margin 
 stating that she died Mar. 7, 1633; the third 
 " Upon he?- onely sister \" the fourth "Upon 
 her dearest Fannie." 
 
 3. 
 
 In this vrnc interred lyes 
 
 One, who clos'd from mortall eyes. 
 
 Eyes tliat Day which knowcs no night, 
 
 Spheared in her Makers sight ; 
 
 Who to crowne her day with blisse, 
 
 Hath vouchsaf d to style her his. 
 *' Life so ended, is begun, 
 " Farre from Deatli, when Death has done." 
 
 4'. 
 I lost a ^tolhcr for a grave, 
 And by it I two Mothcrt have ;
 
 S17 
 
 Earth, and mine owne deare Mother too, 
 In whose bare breast I slumber now : 
 
 '** My corps sleep {Mother Earth) in thee 
 
 " While angels sing my lullabee." 
 
 PANARETIS lufjiuov. 
 TEISI^ me genuit, Sponsatam WESTRIA cepit, 
 Corpus CANDALIVM, pectus OLYMPVS habet.
 
 318 
 
 XXI. 
 
 32. Rapiands Niohe : or Elizas Elesiie : Ad- 
 
 dressed to the unexpiring memory oj' the most 
 
 noble Ladi/i Elizabeth Herbet't, ivife to the truly 
 
 honourable, Edward Somerset Lord Herbert, 
 
 SfC. 3ij Ri. Brathwait, Esq, 
 
 —— Siirrepla, refulsit in orbe 
 Clarior — — 
 
 Imprinted by F. K. fur RobcH Bostocke, at the 
 Kings head in Saint Pauls Church-yard, 1635, 
 12nio. 14^ leaves. 
 
 Sign. A 3, Dedication wishes : " To the Ho- 
 norable, Edward Somerset, Lord Herbert, my 
 most noble and accomplish'd Lord ; Treasures 
 of Comforts, after these Tributes of teares. 
 
 Peruse your owne, my I>ord, and be content ; 
 CocludJng lience on i artli nought permanent : 
 But if in tills inicriour Globe of ours 
 Ought constant be, it is my zeale to yours. 
 
 Niobaeus."
 
 319 
 
 Back of sign. A 3 is a quatrain to illustrate 
 the name of Elisabeth Herbert in the Anagram 
 of " Heere a blest birth." The Elegy is com- 
 prised in 294? lines, from which the following 
 extract, by the allusion to that part of the me- 
 tropolis as was then the ton, is curious : 
 
 Tell me thou State-surrounded Strand, canst finde 
 
 Through all thy prospects a selecter rainde 
 
 Cloath'd in a choicer dresse ! Pray, looke about. 
 
 Thou canst not chuse but see some face peepe out 
 
 T' attract the forc'd spectator ; but that skin 
 
 Is it so sleeke as 't has no staines within ? 
 
 Is it a native tincture ? does it wooe 
 
 The gazer without art? or if it doe. 
 
 Is it accomplish'd with some better part, 
 
 To polish nature with diviner art ? 
 
 Has it adorning graces to make good 
 
 The splendor of her beauty or her blood ? 
 
 Can it converse with fashion, and appeare 
 
 Discreet in her election what to weare ? 
 
 Can it send out her eies, and not be tane, 
 
 Or to take others make it not her aime ? 
 
 Can it discourse without affected state 
 
 Or hearken Lightnesse with a blushing hate ? 
 
 Shew me one within this orbe of ours. 
 
 That was so young in yeares and old in houres.
 
 S20 
 
 So sweetly hvimble and compassionate, 
 So well compos'd i' th' posture of her state ; 
 So loyall in her love, so firme to those 
 Who in her honour did their hopes repose. 
 
 At the end of the Elegy a leaf with an ' Epi- 
 taph,' and on the reverse the following lines, 
 which prove it had the yearly tribute in me- 
 mory of his first wife attached, but is wanting 
 in my copy : — 
 
 Let 't not distaste my Lord, that I have hecre 
 Annex'd th' Elegiack raptures of my Deaie : 
 Tis said that Polo the Tragedian 
 When hce on Stage to force some passion came, 
 Had his Sonnes ashes in an Urne enshrin'd 
 To worke more decpe impressions in his mind. 
 The Emblem's good : this Fiui'rall pile of ours 
 Strucke passion in each line addiess'd to yours.
 
 321 
 
 XXII. 
 
 33. Anniuersaries upon his Panarete conti- 
 nued, 1635. 
 
 A poetical tract with this title is known to 
 exist ; I have not seen it.
 
 322 
 
 XXIII. 
 
 S^. Essaies vpon the Five Senses, Revived by 
 a netu Supplement ; with a pithy one upon De- 
 traction, Continued tvith sundry Christian Re- 
 solves, and divine Contemplations, full of pas- 
 sion and devotion ; purposely composed for the 
 zealously disposed. By Ric, Brathvvayt Esquire, 
 The second Edition, revised and enlarged by 
 the Author. 
 
 Mallem me esse quam viverc mortuum. 
 
 London. Printed by Anne Griffin, and are to 
 bee sold by Henry Shcphard in Chancery lane^ 
 at the signe of the Bible. 1635. 12mo. 167 
 leaves. Reprinted 1815. 4to.* 
 
 This excellent collection of moral Essays 
 
 * Has ail otigraved title emblematical of the subject; 
 ♦' W. Marshall sculpsit,"
 
 323 
 
 forms part VI. of the Archaica. The circum- 
 stance of that reprint being imperfect, as al- 
 ready noticed, may be attributed to the adop- 
 tion of a copy made up, probably for the Au- 
 thor, from unrevised sheets. In the one used 
 by Sir Egerton Brydges the title has only, 
 " Printed by Anne Griffin, 1625;" and appears 
 in all other respects perfect: but it is a fact that 
 in the course of this enquiry similar variations 
 have been found in other productions of our 
 author. In a copy of the Remains after Death 
 there vras a sheet in the middle of the volume 
 so incorrect in orthography as to leave no 
 doubt, upon comparing with another, it was 
 the printer's first proof. These accidental facts 
 cannot be accounted for with any certainty, 
 though their frequency in early printed books 
 makes the cautious bibliographer always de- 
 sirous to have more authority than a single 
 copy. 
 
 y2
 
 224 
 
 After the Essays on the five senses, ending 
 p. 81, a second title: 
 
 35. A continuation of these Essai/es, enlarged 
 hy the Authour iji these subjects. 
 
 1. The Sense qfsinue. 
 
 2. The Sense of sorrow. 
 
 3. The Sense of humane vanili/. 
 
 4. The Sense of others misery. 
 
 5. The Sense or apprehension of future glory. 
 
 Imprinted at London. 1635. 
 
 In this division the Essay on Detraction, 
 Resolves*, and " the avthors opinion of Mar- 
 riage," are reprinted from the first edition. 
 After p. 229, a third title as 
 
 * In the list jriven by Anthony a Wood this portion 
 is entered by mistake as a complete work : 
 
 " Discourse of Detraction. Lond. 1635. in tw. 
 
 " Christian Kcsolvcs and divine Contemplations.— 
 •* Printed with the Discourse of Detraction.'^
 
 325 
 
 36. The distinct Titles of these Contempla- 
 tions, 
 
 1. The Soules Sole-Love. 
 
 2. The Wounded Heart. 
 
 3. The Netve Dresse. 
 
 With Love's Legaci/, or Panaretes Blessing to 
 her Children. 
 
 1. The Buriall of the old man. 
 
 2. Philaretvs his Instructions to his sonne. 
 
 3. Of loose Love: ivith Loves choice. 
 
 Our Author tells us " in his Contemplations 
 of Panarete, (whose memory he continues in 
 his Anniversaries) he distinguisheth them into 
 these three subjects : 
 
 1. The Soules Sole-Loue. 
 
 2. The Wounded Heart. 
 
 3. The New Dresse. 
 
 <' In the first, his Panarete (whom hee there 
 personates) invokes and invites her Soides Sole
 
 326 
 
 Lo'oe to receive her into the sweet armes of his 
 mercy, because, without his presence she findes 
 nothing but misery. 
 
 *' In the second, her Wounded Heart (like 
 the thirsty Hart) longing after the Water- 
 brookes, (the rivers of divine comforts) desires 
 to be affianc'd to her Spouse, longing to live 
 where she onely loves. 
 
 *' In the third, as one addressed for a Iloyall 
 Nuptiall rite, she attires herselfe in a new robe. 
 Shee so much disaffects the Fashion of this 
 time, as with a modest blush she diverts her 
 eye from it ; holding it her soules onely grace, 
 with a Ncvo Drcsse (a new regenerat Heart) 
 to purchase His love, to whom her troth is 
 plighted. 
 
 " Panarctc in her Loves last Legacjj, leaves 
 a Blessing to her children ; instructing them 
 by precept, dying ; whom shee informed by 
 Example, living. 
 
 '' In the Uuriall of the Old-man^ he brings
 
 327 
 in a Funerall solemnized with Joy, implying 
 that the Nevo-man cannot possibly live, unlesse 
 the Old-man dye. 
 
 '^ Philaretvs, under a shadowed name, di- 
 rects his short but pithy Instructions to his 
 Sonne, 
 
 *« In his Discourse of Loose Love, hee dis- 
 covers the no lesse pernicious then licentious 
 liberty of youth. After his free display of the 
 exuberance of this humour, he windes up all 
 in a dimensive cloze, entitled, Loves choice.'' 
 
 The discourse " of loose Love," though 
 placed otherwise in the above extract from the 
 table, precedes 
 
 " Philaretvs his Listructions to his Sonne, 
 
 Deare Sonne, as thou art tender to mee, re- 
 member these advertisements of thy careful 
 father. 
 
 Bee zealous in thy service of God : ever 
 recommending in the prime hoijij'e of the day.
 
 S28 
 
 all thy ensuing actions to his gracious pro- 
 tection. 
 
 Bee constant in thy Resolves, ever grounded 
 on a religious feare, that they may bee seconded 
 by Gods favour. 
 
 Bee serious in thy Studies; and with all hu- 
 mility crave the assistance of others, for thy 
 better proficiency. 
 
 Bee aftable to all ; familiar to few. 
 
 Bee to such a constant consort, where thou 
 hast hope to bee a daily proficient. 
 
 Bee provident and discreetly frugall in thy 
 expence. 
 
 Hon 
 trusted 
 
 Honour those, to whose charge thou art in- 
 
 And sweet Jcsu, with thy grace enrich 
 him, to thy glory, my comfort. 
 
 Thy dcare Father ; 
 
 Philarctvs."
 
 329 
 We come next to the '* dimensive close" as 
 
 Loves choice. 
 
 Love, whose sole object 's vertue, I doe love j 
 Loose Love, whose onely period is delight, 
 Is like a Basiliske unto my sight 
 
 That, though below, hath fixt his thoughts aboYe ; 
 This, though above, a brutish shape will take, 
 And leave a Juno for his Ino's sake. 
 
 So spheare your Love, that your chaste choice may seeke 
 More beauty in a minde than in a cheeke. 
 
 *^* The above extracts, with the one Upoji 
 the Errata at p. 170, supply the omissions in 
 the reprint of 1815.
 
 330 
 
 XXIV. 
 
 37. The Arcadian Princesse ; or, the Tri- 
 
 vmph of Ivstice : Prescribing excellent rules of 
 
 Physiche, for a sicJcc Iiistice. Digested into 
 
 Jbxiore Bookcs, And Faithfulli/ rendred to the ori' 
 
 ginall Jtalian Copy, By Ri. Brathvvait Esq, 
 
 Vulnera claiisa potius cruciant. Greg. 
 London^ Printed by Th. Harper for Robert 
 Bostoche, and are to bee sold at his shop in 
 Pauls Church yard, at the signe of the Kings 
 head. 1635.* 12mo. 
 
 Dedicated — <' To tlie excellent Modcll of 
 true Nobility ; the Right Honourable, Henry 
 
 * Prefixed isan engraved title, " Will. Marshall sculp." 
 of the fij^urc of " TJie Arcadian Princesse; or the Tri- 
 vmpl) of Justice," seated on a throne holding tlie scales 
 of Justice, wherein an old man lahellcd "■Jhrma pau- 
 peris," weighs down another well cloathed labelled ^' Ira 
 potaUis." Other sentences appear in several labels, and 
 on the foot of the throne "by Ric. Braithwait Arniig."
 
 331 
 
 Somerset, Earle of Worcester, Baron Herbert, 
 Lord of Chepstow, Ragland and Gower ; all 
 correspondence to his recollected'st thoughts. 
 " Sir; I have heere sent you an Italian plant, 
 translated to an English platte : whose flower 
 will not appeare halfe so delightfuU to your 
 smelling, as the fruit will become usefuU for 
 preserving. You shall here meet with an Au- 
 thor walking in an unbeat path. One, who 
 discurtains the vices of that time so smoothly, 
 though smartly, as his continued Allegorie 
 pleads his Apologie. A right Italian wit shal 
 your Honor find him, quick and spritely: and 
 of eminent race and ranke in his Country. And 
 it is my joy to addresse a worke so richly in- 
 terveined with straines of wit and iudgement, 
 to one, whom descent and desert have equally 
 ennobled, and who with so cleare and discern- 
 ing a spirit can iudge of it. Now, if this new 
 dresse doe not become him all that I can say 
 in mine owne defence is this, and no other ;
 
 332 
 
 * There is great difference betwixt Taylor and 
 Translator.' Sure I am, that the Loome is the 
 same, if not the Lustre ; the StufFe the same, 
 though not the Colour : wherein Hee freely 
 appeales to your Censure, who hath profest 
 hiraselfe your Honours in duest observance, 
 Ri. Brathwait." 
 
 The imitators of The co:npleat Gentlcxvoman 
 are attacked in an address: " To the deserving 
 Reader. — Deserving Reader; every Author, as 
 this scribbling age goes, may finde a reader 
 well worthy his Labour, but very few Authors 
 publish such Workes as deserve the labour of 
 a discerning Reader. Like to some of our Por- 
 cupine-Theatrall Pantomimes, who dare ad- 
 venture in their spongie labours, begot of a 
 barmie spirit, and other noxious vapours, to 
 display a Gentlewoman in her compleatcst Na- 
 ture ; though they crre cgrcgiously in her fa- 
 vour, figure and feature." 
 
 Testimonies in favour of the work are given,
 
 333 
 
 and '' the life of Mariano Silesio the approved 
 Author of this worke" appended to the vo- 
 lume. He was a Florentine, and after the death 
 of his wife " became a recluse neare to the 
 cliffs of Arpina, north-west from Corcyra," 
 where he died in 1368, after composing vari- 
 ous pieces : " Amongst which, he tooke espe- 
 ciale care that this worke should bee fairely 
 transcribed, and sent to Florence; where it 
 was entertained with such esteeme, as it re- 
 ceived a double honour, both for its owne 
 worth, and memory of the Author." 
 
 The story is allegorical and told in prose 
 and verse*, from which it is not easy to select 
 
 * For specimens of the poetry refer to the Biblioma'- 
 nia, 1811, p. 395 — 7. " Whoever does not see, in these 
 *' specimens, some of the most powerful rhyming couplets 
 *' of the early half of the seventeenth century, if not 
 " the model of some of the verses in Drj-den's satirical 
 *' pieces, has read both poets with ears differently con- 
 •' structed from those of the author of this book."— 
 Note.
 
 334 
 
 a passage of sufficient length to form an epi- 
 sode excerpt with relative interest. Whether 
 the translator considered it as applicable to 
 the rising politics of the day, or had intelli- 
 gence of another translation being made, is 
 uncertain; but something of the kind appears 
 to have occasioned a very unusual hurrying 
 through the press: and the following apology, 
 «pon that subject, becomes a curious record in 
 our history of typography. 
 
 *' Vpon the Errata s, 
 ** The genuine Translator of this ingenious 
 Author, was wholly absent from this Impres- 
 sion. For Themista's Court, whereof this sub- 
 ject treats, excluded these Errors from all cure. 
 This may serve for his excuse. Besides, it was 
 divided upon severall presses ; no marvaile if 
 he suffer in the one or other. Be it your Can- 
 dor to cleare it, upon this ingenious condition, 
 that the next impression shall rcdcemc it."
 
 335 
 
 XXV. 
 
 38. The Lives of all the Roman Emperors^ 
 lieing exactly collected from Iidius Ccssar u7ito 
 the now reio-nins; Ferdinand the second. With 
 their births, Governynents, remarkable Actioiis, 
 and Deaths, London : Printed by N. and 
 J, OkeSf and are to be sold by George Hutton 
 at the Signe of the Sun voithin Turning-stile in 
 Holborne. 1636. 12mo. pp. 384?, besides dedi- 
 cations and table. 
 
 An engraved title, * W. Marshall sculpsit,' 
 gives several medallions of the Roman empe- 
 rors, and a small one of the author, of nearly- 
 similar representation with that prefixed to the 
 Paraphrase of the Psalms, 1638. By that title 
 the volume is called The exact collection of all 
 the Roman Emperors, &c. by R,B. G. meaning 
 ■Richard Braithwait gentleman. 
 
 Dedicated — <^ To the worshipfvll, my most
 
 336 
 
 honoured PatroneWill. Stonovr Esquire;" who 
 is told " the noble Caesars now seek unto your 
 noble selfe for a protection, and to be patron- 
 ized as being all brought into the straights of 
 this epitomicke volume : and in entertaining 
 them being in number one hundred fifty six, 
 I hope you will not exclude their Conductour, 
 but reflect also upon him with a favourable, 
 though a different respect, who was ever most 
 studious to honour and serve you, as Yours 
 most obsequious, R. B." 
 
 A short address * to the Reader ' follows, 
 who is supposed to " rather love brevity, the 
 minion of delight, than the icudium of pleasure 
 in foho."
 
 337 
 
 XXVI. 
 
 39. A Survey of History : or, A Nursery for 
 Gentry, Contrived and Conqorized in an Inter- 
 mixt Discourse upon Historicall and Poeticall 
 Relations, [ut supra.] The like uhereqf for 
 Variety of Discourse, mixed ivith profit, and 
 modest DeligJit [in the opinion of the clearest 
 and refined' st judgements^ haih not heretofore 
 bin Puhlished. By Richard Brathtvait Esquire, 
 Oxon. Hor. &c. Imprinted at London by I, 
 Okes, for lasper Emery at the Eagle arid Child 
 in Pauls Church yard next TVatlin street. 1638*. 
 4to. 221 leaves f. 
 
 * " Printed again in 1652, qu., being then, I think, 
 epitomized; " says Anthony a Wood. I have not seen 
 a copy with the latter date, and doubt if it was more 
 than a new title-page. 
 
 •j" Tliere is also an engraved title-page prefixed, " Will. 
 Marshall sculpsit; " with several compartments crowded 
 with subjects, after the minutely distinct and expressive 
 manner of that artist, and a portrait of the Author in the 
 center, <'^Etatis 48," copied for the present edition. 
 z
 
 338 
 
 In the first edition this work was called The 
 SchoUers Medley, &c.* ; and '■'■ this last Impres- 
 sion (says the Author) to afford the Nobly 
 and Historically affected all generous content; 
 comes forth now otherwise attired the it was 
 at first Published : being revised, corrected, 
 and copiously enlarged." 
 
 At this period our Author had lost his pa- 
 tron the Earl of Southampton, and he there- 
 fore addressed a Second Epistle Dedicatory 
 "to the Right Honourable Elizabeth, Dowager, 
 Countesse of Sovthampton ; [invoking] the 
 fruition of Her Divincst Wishes ;" and that 
 she should " accept it, for his sake, who did so 
 highly prize it/' 
 
 To the address " to the Understanding 
 reader," he added the following remark : — 
 " How studiously, copiously and usefully this 
 last Edition hath bccne enlarged, may appeare 
 
 • Sec p. 193.
 
 339 
 
 by Digits or Signatures in the Margent every 
 where expressed." The Digits are the index, 
 grf", placed at the beginning of the enlarge- 
 ments of the text, and continually repeated 
 to show the copiousness of the matter added 
 by the author, who, from the references to the 
 Survey of Histories^ made in his other vo- 
 lumes, appears to have distinguished this as 
 the popular favourite of his labours. He added 
 "an exact table or compendary," <Src.; in fact, 
 an index of the principal matters, extending 
 to eleven pages. 
 
 z2
 
 340 
 
 XXVII. 
 
 40. A Spiriival Sjncerie : Containing Sun- 
 drie svoeet Tractates of Devotion and Piety. By 
 Ri. Brathvoait, Esq. 
 
 Cant. c. 1. 12. c. 5. 13. 
 
 My Welbeloved is as a bundle of Mi/rrhe unto mee : he 
 shall lye betwcene my bi'csts. 
 
 His cheekes are as a bed of Spices. 
 
 London, Printed by I. H. for George Hutton 
 at his shop toilhin Turning stile in Holhorne, 
 1638. 12mo. 247 leaves. 
 
 " To the trvly ennobled Thomas Lord Fau- 
 conbergCj Baron of Yarom : Together With his 
 pious Progeny, those succeeding Branches of 
 a prospering Family : R. B. Zealously Dedi- 
 cates this Spirituall Spicerie." Such is the leaf 
 succeeding Title ; the next has " Verses vpon 
 the translation of his Divine Dialogue;" and 
 the following commences " A Title Table or
 
 341 
 
 Short Summarie of all such Tractates, Medi- 
 tations, Prayers, Contemplations, and Motives 
 to Piety, as are comprised within this Spirituall 
 Spicerie." Here are the names of Jacobus 
 Gruytrodius a German, Bonaventure, Saint 
 Augustine, F. Lewis of Granado, Th. Aquinas, 
 St. Bernard, Johannes Justus Lanspergius, 
 St. Dionysius, Ludovicus Blosius, Henricus 
 Suso, and Damian ; from whose works many 
 of the tractates and meditations are translated, 
 which are intermixt with original pieces by 
 Brathwait. 
 
 At the end of the Spiritual Spicery the au- 
 thor gives 
 
 Upon these Miscellane Meditations, toith other 
 mixt Subjects, conteined in this precedent Tract; 
 a dozing Sonnet. 
 
 Morall mixtures or Divine, 
 Aptly cvill'd and couch'd in order, 
 Are like colours in a shrine, 
 Or choice flow'rs set in a border.
 
 342 
 
 Or like dishes at a Feast, 
 Each attended -with his sallet, 
 To delight the curious Guest, 
 And give relish to liis palat. 
 
 Store of colours they are meet, 
 "Wlien wee should ones picture take, 
 One choice flow'r bee 't neere so sweet, 
 Would no pleasing posic make, 
 One Dish be it neere so precious 
 To the scent or to the tast. 
 Though at first it seeme delicious. 
 It will cloy the sense at last. 
 
 Here are Colours permanent, 
 Objects which will cheere the eye, 
 Here are flowers redolent, 
 Whicli will bloome and never dye : 
 Here are Dislies of delight, 
 (Such deh'ghts can never cloy) 
 To renew the appetite, 
 And to ncw-revive your joy. 
 
 INIusc not then, if here you see 
 In tliis various workc of miae, 
 Sucli a mixt variety, 
 Sorting with this hum'ious time i
 
 S43 
 
 Though the Sunne shine in our sphere, 
 Cloud or Night invelop it, 
 But the Sunne shines ever here, 
 Darting forth pure rayes of wit. 
 
 Now the fruit I wish to gaine. 
 
 Is your pi'ofit for my paine. 
 
 And next 
 
 A reply to a rigid Precisian, objecting, that 
 Jloviers from Romish Authors extracted, became 
 lesse wholesome and divinely redolent, 
 
 *' Sir, It was your pleasure positively to con- 
 clude touching Flowers of this nature, that they 
 lost much of their native beauty, vigour and 
 verdure, because culled from a Roman border : 
 wherein I referre you to that sententious Poet, 
 to returne you answer. 
 
 Flores qui lambunt terrce vapores, 
 Non magis tetros referunt odores. 
 Nee minus suaves redolere Floresj 
 Tibridis oris. 
 
 Which I have thus rendred in true currant En-
 
 344. 
 
 gllsh, fearing lest that Latine rnetall might dis- 
 rehsh your more queasy palate. 
 
 Flow'rs Avliich doe lick up from the Earth a vapour, 
 Yeeld to the nostlirils ne're the worscr savour, 
 Nor bee these Soots Icsse redolent in odour 
 
 ^Vhich grew by Tiber." 
 
 Then at p. 228, a new title : 
 
 4'1. A Christian JDiaJl ; Bij ivJiich hee is di' 
 rectedy hotv to dispose of his houres tvhile he is 
 living, hotv to addresse himself e for the houre of 
 his di/ing, and hoto to close his dayes tvith a 
 comfortable ending. Faithfully rendered accord- 
 ing to the Originall. 
 
 By a dedicatory address '< to the (Generous, 
 Ingenious, and Judicious, Sir Walter Vavasor 
 Knight and Baronet ; together with his ver- 
 tuously accompHshed Lady : R. B. Zealously 
 consecrates this Christian Diall. 
 
 To your GranJ-fathcr have I welconi bin, 
 Receive this G'a^'i- in memory of him ; 
 Wliilst no Sun-(U(dl may more truly give 
 The houre o' th' day, than this the way to live,"
 
 S45 
 
 Prefixed is a short '' life of Johannes Justus 
 Lanspergius, a Carthusian," who <' slept in the 
 Lord the 4 of the ides of August in the yeare 
 of Christs Nativity, m,d.xxxix," as the Author 
 of these Meditations. An Elegy from Diony- 
 sius, an Epistle from Blosius, and other pieces, 
 are included in this portion of the volume. At 
 p. 324 
 
 42. The Passionate Pilgrim; breathing a con- 
 templative Mans Exercise : offering a Penitent 
 Soules Sacrifice. 
 
 *' To his most deare and affectionate Sisters, 
 their faithfull Brother dedicates this Passionate 
 Pilgrim, as a living Memoriall of his unfained 
 love never dying. 
 
 My teares, my joyes ; my widdow-weed, my bride ; 
 My prize, heav'ns praise; my love, Christ crucifide." 
 
 The Passionate Pilgrim is taken from Au- 
 gustine ; Death's Memorials, which continues 
 the subject, from Damian ; and Death's Di-
 
 346 
 
 stinction from Bernard. At p. 345, a liead^ 
 title for 
 
 43. Holtj Memorials; or Heavenly Me- 
 mentos. 
 
 The Memorials are ten in number, and were 
 written by our Author as drawing pious in- 
 struction from the eventful course of his own 
 life. They treat " of his Conception ; his 
 Birth ; his Childhood ; his Youth ; his Man- 
 hood; his Age; his Pleasures; his Labours; 
 his Life ; and his Death." 
 
 In the following extracts may be traced part 
 of his own character : — 
 
 " Lachrymce were the onely musicall aires 
 that ushcr'd mee to this vale of woes. My very 
 first voyce implyed a propliecic: my tcares fore- 
 runners of my following misery. I came into 
 the world naked ; whereas all other creatures 
 come cloathcd and armed. With what joy was 
 T received, while those that saw nice, cried, 
 * How like is hee to his Father?' And they
 
 347 
 said well, if they pointed at Adam, for his 
 bloud made mee his sonne and like himselfe a 
 sinner. What a foolish part it was (had I well 
 considered it) to see wise men rejoycing at the 
 sight of one who was entring the Tyring house 
 of mourning. The Thracians though Pagans, 
 shewed themselves in this more Christians. 
 These lamented their Babes birth but rejoyced 
 at their death. What great delight could any 
 take in mee, when I came so bare into the 
 world, as I brought not with mee one poore 
 ragge to shroud my shame: and all tlie re- 
 greets I returned them, teares and shrikes? 
 These deserved no great entertainment of joy. 
 To see such a feeble thing, as could afford it 
 selfe no succour. An Infant Pilgrim, who 
 could not find a tongue to beg him harbour!' 
 One who wanted all things, yet could not tell 
 its owne wants. This might rather move com- 
 passion than joy. And such a poore one was I." 
 Of his Bhih,
 
 348 
 
 "My childish ambition, indeed, was not high. 
 My delights as tliey required no great cost ; 
 so were they purchased with lesse care. Easie 
 and narrow were my desires ; they aspired no 
 higher than to points, pins, or cherry-stones. 
 Trifles had so taken up my imagination, as it 
 could reach no further. Yet in these weakc 
 vanities, my desire was to be a conquerour. 
 Now when I found myselfe growne from my 
 coat, my parents found no such thing in my 
 conditions. Those were childish still, and held 
 both their first shape and size. None ever 
 breathed that was longer time a child: or that 
 longed lesse after the state and style of Man. 
 My thoughts were so fitted to that age, as if 
 that age were ever to bee master of my thoughts. 
 I measured everie one by mine owne last, and 
 mused how any one could bee serious. I knew 
 not what they meant by a deare Summer, or 
 an unseasonable Harvest. These were the least 
 and lightest of my cares: while I found plen- 
 
 I
 
 349 
 
 tie, I dreamed little of others scarcitie. — How 
 easily might any one have deceived mee with 
 shadowes for substance ; Esau in preferring a 
 raesse of pottage before his inheritance was 
 never more foolish, than I was in the estimate 
 of my vanities. What a brave youth held I 
 myselfe with mine eldern gun, hobbie-horse, 
 and rattle? A poore pride, and yet rich enough 
 for that time. What v/as onely before mee, 
 seemed deare unto mee. Yesterday was too 
 long for mee to remember: and tomorrow too 
 long for me to expect. I held the present day, 
 the only date of my pleasure." Of Ids Child' 
 hood, 
 
 " The easiest of my vanities were light amo- 
 rous poems. I held those employments for my 
 best houres. O what a prize, vvhat a bootie, 
 held I a favour snatcht from a light piece of 
 beautie? My fortunes were not great, which 
 enjoyned mee to a sparer expence. But if my 
 small credit could supply what my fortunes
 
 350 
 wanted, I stickt not much on the meanest 
 commodities to make up that want. My me- 
 lanchoUy ever proceeded from want of money. 
 While roring was in request, 1 held it a com- 
 plete fashion. For civility, I held it for such 
 a rag of unbeseeming gentrie, as I scorned to 
 take acquaintance of it. I had long before this, 
 aspired to a pipe of rich smoake with a tinder- 
 box, and these gave light to my lighter dis- 
 courses. I held my pockets sufficiently stored, 
 if they could but bring mee off for mine ordi- 
 narie, and after dinner purchase mee a stoole 
 on the stage. I had cares enough besides 
 hoording, so as I held it fit to disburden my- 
 selfe of that, and resigne it over to the world- 
 ling. A long winter night seemed but a Alid- 
 Slimmer nig/it\s drcame, being merrily past in a 
 catch of foure parts, a deej) health to a light 
 Mistresse and a knot of brave blades to make 
 up the consort. I could jeerc him to his face 
 whom I needed most : Ten at hundred^ I 
 
 i
 
 351 
 rneane, and he would not stick to pay mee in 
 mine ovvne coyne. I might beg a courtesie at 
 his hands, but to starve for 't never prevaile, 
 for herein I found this instrument of usurie 
 and the Devill to be of one Societie, and that 
 they craved nothing of any one, save onely se- 
 curitie. A weake blast of light fame was a 
 great part of that portion I aimed at. And 
 herein was my madnesse ! I held nothing so 
 likely to make mee knowne to the world, or 
 admired in it, as to be debauch't, and to pur- 
 chase a parasite's praise by my riot." Of his 
 Youth. 
 
 *' The day seemed long wherein I did not 
 enjoy them (pleasures:) the night long wherein 
 I thought not of them. I knew what sinne it 
 was to sollicit a maid unto lightnesse; or to be 
 drunken with wine, wherein was excesse ; or 
 to suffer mine heart to be oppressed with sur- 
 fetting and drunkennesse ; yet for all this, run 
 I on still in mine evill wayes; and so continued
 
 S52 
 
 till my evill dayes came upon mee, which fitted 
 themselves for pleasures too, but of another 
 degree, and in an higher straine of vanitie. 
 Alas, poore decrepit age ! what pleasure can 
 the whole world find for such a cripple? Thine 
 eyes are too dim to disctrne heautie; thy lame 
 legs can find no feet, to walke to the house 
 of the strange woman. Thy May-flowers no 
 sooner withered than th}' ."N.'ay-ganies ended. 
 Uselessc yeares, hawthorne haires, fruitlesse 
 cares stick close to thee; all things else (saving 
 onely these constant companions, the infirmi- 
 ties of age) have long since left thee." His 
 Pleasures, 
 
 ■ *' Free-bred were my studies; so as, lapwing- 
 like, with shell on head, I begun to write be- 
 fore my ycai'es cotdd well make mee an author. 
 But hence my teares ! The subjects I made 
 cjioycc of were of love ; to close with my fan- 
 cie which was veric light. I was proud in 
 bearing the title of a writer, which, I must con-
 
 353 
 
 fesse, together with the instancie of such as 
 either truly applauded mee, or deluded mee, 
 made mee ambitious after the name of an au- 
 thor. And what were those light poems I then 
 penned; but such as are now pensive odes to 
 my dolorous soule, grieving to peruse what my 
 youth so dearely loved ? O how familiar was 
 I with Parnassus, Helicon. Hippocrene, and 
 all the Muses! Meanetime, I seldome or never 
 thought ofthat heavenly OlympuSjwhich crowns 
 all vertuou ; labours with true happinesse. It 
 was the saying of an holy father * Those studies 
 which I once loved, now condemne mee; those 
 which I sometimes praised now disparage meeT 
 Far more cause have I to say how those la- 
 bours which I once fancied now afflict mee, 
 those which sometimes delighted mee, now 
 perplex mee. I am many times in company 
 where I heare some of my youthfull verses re- 
 peated ; and though I doe neither owne them 
 nor praise them ; yet must I in another place 
 2a
 
 354 
 
 answer for them, if hee, on whom I depend, 
 shall not in these teares which I shed, drowne 
 the memory of them. For, alas ! how many- 
 chaste eares have I offended, how many light 
 eares have T corrupted with those unhappie 
 works which I have published ? What wanton 
 measures have I writ for the nonc't, to move a 
 light curtezan to hugge my conceit; and next 
 her Venus and Adonis, or some other immodest 
 toy, to lodge mee in her bosome?" His La- 
 bours. 
 
 <' Being put on by my superiours, at whose 
 dispose I was, I addressed my pen to labours 
 historicall, moral!, and divine. Neither was I 
 in these lesse blame-worthy : for even those 
 wherein I should only have aym'd at God's 
 glory, had ever in them some sprinklings of 
 vaine-glory: Nay, what was more, (for enough 
 I cannot speake to my owne shame,) those 
 Cardinall Vcrhics whereof I treated; and which 
 ,to the imitation of others I commended, found
 
 355 
 
 ever the worst example in myselfe. Which 
 could not chuse but redound to my great dis- 
 honour, to see mee the least observer of that, 
 which I commended to another. Likewise 
 those Theologicall Vertues, v/hich in those my 
 diviner workes, I so highly honoured; with 
 those Seven Beatitudes, the practice whereof 
 I so much pressed, where found they my imi- 
 tation in them, to confirme my admiration of 
 them? Now tell mee, was this all that might 
 bee required of mee? Was it sufficient for mee 
 to commend to others what I meant not to 
 amend in myselfe ? Was this the duty of an 
 author? Whether bee our lives to be showne 
 in our pens, or our pens in our lives ? Truth 
 is, for one active man we have ten contempla- 
 tive} amongst which none ever professed more, 
 and expressed lesse than myselfe*." lb. 
 
 * The ninth Memorial is given entire in the Resti- 
 tuta, vol. ii. p. 287. 
 
 2 a2
 
 356 
 A leaf at the end has the following coup- 
 let:— 
 
 Both Hand and Heart are joyntly given, 
 My Hand subscribes, my Heart 's for Heaven.
 
 S57 
 
 XXVIII. 
 
 44?. The Psalmes of David the King and Pro- 
 phet, and of other holy Prophets, paraphrasd 
 in English : Conferred xmth the Hebrew Veritie, 
 set forth by B, Arias Montanus, together ivith 
 the Latine, Greek Septiiagint, and Chaldee Pa- 
 raphrase, ByR,B. Lo7idon, Printed by Robert 
 Young, for Francis Constable, and are to be 
 sold at his shop under S. MaHins Church neere 
 Ludgate, 1638. 12mo. pp.300. 
 
 This little volume has an engraved title by 
 Marshal, representing in three-quarter figures 
 (miniature ovals), Moses, David, Asaph, He- 
 man, and iEthan. Various instruments of mu- 
 sick, as improving psalmod}', are hung against 
 a pedestal upon each side of the title, which is 
 given in an oval tablet as " by R. B. Esq." 
 Beneath the title, in another small oval, is a 
 portrait subscribed Quanquam 6, This portrait 
 -appears to have been intended for our author,
 
 358 
 
 when advanced in years, and therefore re-en- 
 graved for the present edition. 
 
 " The authors observed in this paraphrase," 
 are stated to be " ApoUinarius, B. Arias Mon- 
 tanus, Genebrard, Lorinus, Buchanan, Berse- 
 man, Ainsworth, Snegedin, and M. Anton 
 Flammin." It is divided into five books, con- 
 taining respectively, viz. 41, 31, 17, 17, and 
 44' : and added at the end, from Apolhnarius, 
 the combat of David with Gohah ; making the 
 total 151. 
 
 As this entire version is very little known, 
 we shall venture to give rather longer extracts 
 than the subject might otherwise require, as a 
 favourable specimen of our author's easy versi- 
 fication. 
 
 Psal. 107. Covfitemini Domino. 
 
 The Lord is God, with thanks czprcssc, 
 His mercy is for ever: and 
 2 So let tlie Lord's rcdecm'd confcssc, 
 Redeem'd from their distressors hand.
 
 359 
 
 ^ Which gathred were out of the lands 
 From shining East, from shady West, 
 From where the frozen Pole-starre stands 
 From desert south seas sun-burnt brest. 
 
 4 They wandred in the Wildernesse, 
 And tooke a solitary way, 
 
 \Vhere foot of man did seldom presse, 
 Nor found they city where to stay. 
 
 5 With hunger pin'd, with thirsting faint, 
 Their anguish't soule was overcharg'd, 
 
 6 Then to the Lord they made complaint, 
 "Who them from their distresse enlarg'd. 
 
 7 He led them on, and brought them home, 
 The readiest way, for them the best ; 
 That to a city they might come, 
 
 An habitation where to rest. 
 
 8 Let them before the Lord confesse 
 His tender mercies many a one, 
 
 To men his wondrous workes expresse. 
 That he for Adams sons hath done. 
 
 9 The thirsty soule he satiates, 
 
 The hungry soule wdth good sustaines, 
 
 10 That sits in darknesse, at the gates. 
 And shade of death in iron chaines. 
 
 1 1 Because against the words of God 
 They bent themselves rebelliously, 
 Despis'd his counsell, and withstood 
 The hand of him that is Most- Hie.
 
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 12 Tims humbled, for tJicy did not well, 
 In griefe of heart he let them he, 
 Wliere down they fell, but helplesse fell, 
 For refuge none, nor help was nie. 
 
 13 Distrest unto the Lord they cri'd. 
 Who set them free from their distresse : 
 
 14 From darknesse, from deaths shade unti'd. 
 And brake their bands of hcavinesse. 
 
 15 Let them before the Lord confesse 
 His tender mercies many a one. 
 
 To men his wondrous workes cxpressc. 
 That he for Adams sons hath done. 
 
 16 For he tlie gates of brasse hath broke. 
 The gates of brasse against him bent ; 
 And by his hands resistlesse stroke, 
 The iron banes in sunder rent. 
 
 17 Fooles for their faults afllicted arc, 
 "Whose way hath made their will their lawi 
 
 18 Their soule abhorrcs all kind of fare, 
 Neere to the gates of death they draw. 
 
 19 Distrest, unto the Lord they cry. 
 Who them from dying anguish saves : 
 
 20 He heales them by his wordes supply, 
 And frees them from corrupting graves. 
 
 21 Let them before the Lord confesse 
 His tender mercies many a one, 
 
 To men his ivondrous workes exprcsse, 
 Which he for Adam's sons hath donr.
 
 361 
 
 22 Before him offrhigs let them lay, 
 Confessions of their thankfulnesse, 
 And sacrifice of praises pay, 
 
 His workes with shouts of joy expresse. 
 
 23 They that in ships goe downe to sea, 
 And marts in many waters keep : 
 
 24 What deeds the Lord hath shoune them, see 
 His workes of wonder in the deep. 
 
 25 The stormy wind his word bespake, 
 That all the maine with mountaines fills : 
 The sea- wet starres their mantles shake, 
 The brinie downes are turn'd to hills. 
 
 26 As high as heaven the billowes mount ; 
 Dis-mounted, deep as hell descend : 
 Their melting soule makes small account. 
 But feare of death, in death to end. 
 
 27 Thus bandi'd to and fro they reele. 
 And stagger like a drunken man : 
 111 may the Pilot rule the keele. 
 Where wisedomes care so little can. 
 
 28 Distrest unto the Lord they crie. 
 
 Who seti^ them free from their distresse : 
 
 29 The storme he calmes with cleerer skie. 
 And sets their waves at quietnesse. 
 
 30 The combat ceast, the seamen glad 
 
 That winds and waves were parted friends : 
 He that of them the conduct had. 
 To their desired haven them sends.
 
 362 
 
 31 Let them before the Lord confessc 
 His tender mercies many a one, 
 
 To men his wondrous workes expresse, 
 That he for Adams sons hath done. 
 
 32 Assembled in the peoples throngs, 
 His worthy acts when they repeat, 
 
 With hpnnes of praise, and thankfull songs. 
 Exalt him in the Elders seat : 
 S3 Which turnes the flouds to desert sands, 
 To drinessc drawes the springing well : 
 
 34 With salt lie sowcs the fruitful! lands. 
 For their misdeeds that therein dwell. 
 
 35 Againe, he turnes the desert dry 
 
 To standing pooles with water fill'd : 
 
 36 And seats the hungry down thereby, 
 Where they to dwell a city build. 
 
 37 Their fields they sow, their vines they plant, 
 Which yeeld them fruits of fairc cncrease ; 
 
 38 Tlieir mynes of wealth no blessings want. 
 Nor sufTreth lie their beards decrease. 
 
 39 On them made lesse, and low brought downc, 
 He makes restraint, and anguish prey : 
 
 •10 On princes leaves contempt to frownc, 
 In deserts lets them lose their way. 
 
 41 Yet raiseth hce the poore man's head. 
 And makes him peopled housholds keep, 
 From selfc-waste want, with plenty fed, 
 i'or number like a flockc of sheep. 
 
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 363 
 
 42 Right-sighted eyes shall see this day, 
 The joy of all the righteous name, 
 And all iniquity shall lay 
 
 Her hand upon her mouth for shame. 
 
 43 Who so is wise, will take in hand 
 These observations to record : 
 And they shall truly understand 
 The tender mercies of the Lord. 
 
 Psal. 133. Ecce quam homim, 
 
 Canticum Graduum Davidis. 
 
 Behold how good it is, how pleasing well. 
 That there dwell unity where brethren dwell ; 
 The precious odour did not sweeter smell, 
 When on the head the holy oil that fell, 
 
 As downe the beard, downe Aaron's beard it went, 
 Perfum'd the border of his vestiment. 
 So fall the pearly gems from Hermon Hill, 
 On Sion Mountaines so the deaws distill ; 
 And cithers fields with rich embroidry fill, 
 Powdring their un-shorne lockes with various skill : 
 For there the Lord's command the blessing bound, 
 And Brethren's love with life eternall crown'd.
 
 364 
 
 Psal. 137. Super Jlumina Bahyl. 
 
 Downe sate we by the rivers side 
 
 that waters Babel's wall : 
 To raise whose streames, a springing tide 
 
 of teares, our eyes let fall. 
 Remembring Sion in our vowes, 
 
 our uselesse harps we hung 
 Up, on amidst the willow boughes, 
 
 as slightly tun'd as strung. 
 For they that led us captives there, 
 
 requir'd of us a song ; 
 A Sion song (said) let us heare, 
 
 these inoanes some mirth among : 
 O no ! nor harp we have, nor hand, 
 
 nor voice to strainc, nor string. 
 Our Sion-song, in Shinar-land, 
 
 song of the Lord to sing. 
 If, O Jerusalem, I set 
 
 no more by thee than so ; 
 Let my right hand her skill forget, 
 
 my voice lier song forcgoc. 
 My tongue fast to my palate cling 
 
 and never tunc cmi)loy, 
 If ought I doe but Salem sing, 
 
 the soveraigne of my joy. 
 
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 365 
 
 7 Be mindful], Lord, of Edom's sons, 
 
 who said on Salem's day, 
 Raze, raze, to her foundations, 
 with earth her levell lay. 
 
 8 Thou daughter, Babel, laidst us waste, 
 
 thy selfe shalt wasted be : 
 O happy ! that as done thou hast 
 to us shall doe to thee. 
 
 9 O happy ! that thy little ones, 
 
 from mother's breasts shall rash, 
 And (pitilesse) against the stones, 
 their braines in pieces dash. 
 
 Psal. 151. 
 
 Ex Additione Apolinarii. 
 1 Sam. cap. 17. 
 
 Of all my Brethren, I (the least) 
 
 my Harp and Song assai'd ; 
 And while my flocke was at their feast, 
 
 to feast their Master plai'd. 
 Such happinesse have Shepheards crew, 
 
 that know no further care ; 
 How happy were they, if they knew 
 
 how happy men they are !
 
 366 
 
 5 That common not ^^here clamours dwell, 
 nor covet but their ownc ; 
 Nor to their betters knowne too well, 
 dye to themselves unknowne. 
 
 4 But ah, my shepherds fare, farewell, 
 
 farewell my flocke of sheep ; 
 My little flocke, who kept you well 
 must you no longer keep. 
 
 5 Yet harp and song, that shepherd sings 
 
 to whom the muse is given. 
 May change a straine, and sing of kings, 
 may sing the King of Heaven. 
 
 6 Say tlien, what angel came to call 
 
 Heaven's champion forth to fight. 
 Against Heaven's foe, and in his fall 
 put all his host to flight ? 
 
 7 ^ A man of Gath, an infldell, 
 
 w^ith liim at handy-strokes, 
 Of all the host of Israel, 
 a combatant provokes. 
 
 8 His limbcs were vast, and ample nerv'd, 
 
 liis weapons not a few : 
 His sword and sliield, the saint he serv'd, 
 his idols serv'd for shew. 
 
 9 My Brethren valiant were and strong, 
 
 but God liad not decreetl. 
 To them tlie glory should belong, 
 of this Heaven-sorted deed.
 
 367 
 
 10 God gave me courage to confound 
 
 this crest-swolne Python's power ; 
 To batter downe, and bring to ground 
 this cloud-threat Babel Tower. 
 
 1 1 Full forty dayes this Behemoth came, 
 
 to our hearts griefs to heare, 
 Blaspheming God's Almighty name. 
 Like weaver's beame, his speare. 
 
 12 ^ No speare brought I, nor bow, nor bill, 
 
 of armour use had none : 
 To charge a sling I had some skill, 
 and thence discharge a stone. 
 
 13 Wherewith, if right his murrion sit, 
 
 may I but see his face, 
 My thunder-handed bolt shall hit 
 the destin'd speeding place. 
 
 14 Enrag'd, mine eldest brother cri'd. 
 
 This fight com'st thou to see ? 
 Avant, proud boy : I soon repli'd. 
 Is here no cause for mee ? 
 
 15 More calm King Saul: My heart (holds) good, 
 
 yeeres (doubts) too few, in truth : 
 Oath flesh't in battels, broiles, and blood, 
 a kill-man from his youth. 
 
 16 But I, "What is he more than man? 
 
 Let no man's heart (said) faile : 
 Against six cubits and a span, 
 
 shall not Heaven's arme prevaile ?
 
 368 
 
 17 A lion and a bcnre surpriz'd, 
 
 and slainc my right hand hath : 
 This Philistine uncircumcis'd, 
 What is this man of Gath ? 
 
 18 Comes Gath to shed our bloud for spoile, 
 
 as wine-presse sheds the grape ? 
 Or dotli his Ekron's hungry soile, 
 for Judah's cities gape? 
 
 19 With him to deal doe T desire, 
 
 these Rcphaims force to feele : 
 Although his hands were hands of fire, 
 or Gad's of burning Steele. 
 
 20 The lion and the beare for might, 
 
 were much tlic better part : 
 But man to man is cquall fight, 
 the odds is in the heart. 
 
 21 Admit with sithe he mowe his beard, 
 
 with haiTow rake liis head : 
 His lance be like a mainc-mast rear'd, 
 an iron racke his bed ! 
 
 22 I bring to field (and God before) 
 
 as many hands as he : 
 A better cause, and courage more, 
 and tlicse are armes for me. 
 
 23 The iron he is wont to wcarc, 
 
 who blames me to refuse ? 
 As much perhaps as I can bcarc, 
 much more than ho can use.
 
 369 
 
 24 He comes to me -wdth sword and shield, 
 
 with steel'd-head speare in hand : 
 Ann'd with his name, come I to field, 
 that armies can command. 
 
 25 5[ Then he, thy dreame-beleeving boasts, 
 
 old Jesse's beardlesse sonne : 
 Thine host, thine hosts. Lord God of Hosts, 
 accurs'd be all, as one : 
 
 26 What honour shall my combate gaine, 
 
 with Shepherd Rivall shar'd : 
 Of thee, when men shall say (though slaine) 
 yet this was he that dar'd. 
 
 27 Tlie only man of all his host, 
 
 so often urg'd thereto : 
 WTiat none durst doe, who durst doe most, 
 that undertooke to doe. 
 
 28 That dar'd with one, that did excel!, 
 
 encounter hand to hand ; 
 In which encounter though he fell, 
 he fell, where none durst stand. 
 
 29 Thy glory will be casie bought, 
 
 a deathlesse victorie, 
 With me fit match but to be thought, 
 though purchas't with to die. 
 
 30 Give me a man, my equall match, 
 
 where like proportion lies : 
 With flies men may not eagles catch, 
 and eagles catch no flies. 
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 370 
 
 31 Ye reeds of Judah raise high wind, 
 
 and trumpet loud of Avarre : 
 But we by proofe, asunder finde, 
 your sound and substance farrc. 
 
 32 "Why, race of leaves ? why, shades on wall, 
 
 why should your female feare, 
 Since fall ye must, refuse to fall 
 by great Pelesheth's speare ? 
 
 33 By us to have been overcome, 
 
 what losse shall ye sustaine ? 
 Sometime to have been lost, to some 
 hath prov'd the looser's gaine. 
 
 34 Yeeld us your Lords, and home returnc, 
 
 possesse your daies in peace : 
 
 "With sword incense, not fire to burne, 
 
 thy braves, Ben-Jesse, cease. 
 
 35 Five thousand shekels weight of brassc, 
 
 my coat of INIaile out-'\\eighes : 
 Six hundred iron shekels masso, 
 
 upon my speare-pile playes. 
 3G Beneath this weight thou scarce canst stand, 
 
 scarce this bare burthen bcare : 
 But much more heavie my right hand, 
 
 dye, ere thou feele, for feare. 
 37 Addc then my helm, sword, sliield, and lance, 
 
 a second load, alone 
 Too biggc for thee but to advance 
 
 Brat, with thy feeble bone !
 
 371 
 
 fJ8 Thou hast three brethren arm'J in Held, 
 were all your strength in one ; 
 All foure could not one Anak yeeld, 
 to combat me alone. 
 
 39 More blest hadst thou abode at home, 
 
 and serv'd thy father's slaves, 
 Than, wretch, with me to cope have come, 
 as to a dogge with staves. 
 
 40 In scome, my sword is stain'd Vv'ith none 
 
 before my wroth be vvhet : 
 
 Now scome and anger joyne in one, 
 
 what rage shall both beget ? 
 
 41 Thy bowels, and white-marrow'd bones, 
 
 shall therefore wild beasts eate : 
 Thy braines beat out with bats and stones, 
 shall be the vultures meat. 
 
 42 ^ What help ! I had no reaching dart, 
 
 no tackling but a thong ; 
 A sling my weapon ; but a heart 
 
 above all weapon, strong. 
 4.> Thy railing challenge speakes thee base, 
 
 in termes bla?phemous flung : 
 Nor suits it with a souldier's grace, 
 
 to be so ranke of tongue. 
 44 A lion's head (foole) can out-beard 
 
 an host of heartlesse liinds : 
 The greatest men (is often heard) 
 
 beare not tli^ gvcatcsi: minds. 
 
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 372 
 
 45 Tliy hcline and target trust thou not, 
 
 with those unwieldy thighes : 
 
 The complcat-arm'd Rhinocerot, 
 
 looke where he falls, he lies. 
 
 46 Thine armour's load but laggs faint heart, 
 
 for flight the more unfit : 
 
 The bigger man tliou art, thou art 
 
 the bigger raarke to hit. 
 
 47 Thou hast not soule enough to cramme, 
 
 that Carriole's every chinke : 
 The hugest hulke that ever swamme, 
 a small sprung leake may sinke. 
 
 48 When aire and water fall to myre, 
 
 the purest from to fall, 
 Tlie soule of elements, the fire 
 is spher'd above them all. 
 
 49 No sparke of that ethercall flame, 
 
 inspir'd thine earth-borne birtli : 
 As from the earth thy Chaos came, 
 thou hast a soule of earth. 
 
 50 As earth, thy mother groan'd in painc, 
 
 when she thy burthen gave : 
 Tliy breath, between thy teeth constraine, 
 and groaning gnaw thy grave. 
 
 51 But most, to make thy quarrell good, 
 
 must grounded cause be given : 
 'Hiy vantage is but flesh and bloud, 
 mine is the liand of heaven.
 
 52 What fury forc't thee on tliese pikes, 
 
 forlorne attempt to give ? 
 " At heaven who strikes, hiniselfe he strikes, 
 and hath not long to Hve. 
 
 53 Of five I chose one pibble round, 
 
 that levell flew as line ; 
 And in his fore-head sunke a wound ; 
 Thou hast It, PhiHstlne ! 
 
 54 Now, for mine owne I can thee claime ! 
 
 " To Ida's faire-ey'd Swaine, 
 " The Delian gave not so good aime, 
 " when Thetis son was slaine. 
 
 55 God, even our God, of Mighties most, 
 
 whom thou revild'st this day, 
 By me, the meanest of his host, 
 hath sent thee death for pay. 
 
 56 His sword then drew I from his side, 
 
 and groveling on the land, 
 As he the living God deii'd, 
 at once, with either hand. 
 
 57 His head I from his shoulders strooke ; 
 
 there our Colossus fell : 
 So this reproach Ben-Jesse tooke 
 from honour' d Israel. 
 
 58 Thou, Vale of Elah, saw'st this fight, 
 
 that cost Goliath's head, 
 Thou, Vale of Elah, saw'st this flight 
 when lost PeleshetU fled.
 
 374 
 
 59 Yc neighbour gi-ovcs, and ecclioing trees, 
 
 heard Gath on Dagon call : 
 Proud Ashteroth, beneath our knees, 
 saw Ekron's Idols f\ill. 
 
 60 For joy let Judali shout to God, 
 
 •while Gath and Ekron howle ; 
 My soldo a valiant inarch hath trod, 
 a valiant march my soulc. 
 
 A distinguished literary friend, possessing a 
 copy of this work, has suggested the possibi- 
 lity of the initials R. B. not being intended for 
 our author. At p. 284', occurs the following 
 peculiarity : 
 
 Our Oxen fed, to lal)our stout, 
 
 the biuthen, strong to bcare : 
 No breaking in, none going out, 
 
 our streets no clamour heare. «^;:D 
 
 We have here the potent but incomprehensible 
 finger, as in the Journey, vol. ii. p. 71. Com- 
 pare also the note upon Malt-worm, ante p. 1 31 , 
 which was in print before this number in the 
 catalogue had been inspected ; and can there
 
 375 
 
 exist any doubt of the author of the following 
 lines, given at the end of the Psalms ? — 
 
 Praise to the God of Heaven, 
 Be given by mee a IForme, 
 That Davids numbers in this forme, 
 
 To mee a Worme hath given. 
 
 R.B. 
 
 On the last leaf, after the Errata, it is added: 
 *• Other errours favourably excuse, and amend 
 at pleasure." Need there any further sign ?
 
 376 
 
 XXIX. 
 
 45. Ai't asleepe Husband? A Boulster Lec^ 
 ture ; stored tvith all variety of tvitfj/ jeasts, 
 merry Tales, and other pleasant passages ; Ex- 
 tracted, Jrom the choicest Jlowers of Philosophy, 
 Poesy, antlent and moderne History. Illustrated 
 'with Examples of incovijjarable constancy, in the 
 excellent History of Philocles and Dor idea. By 
 Philogenes Panedonius. 
 
 O nox longa ! Hor. 
 London, Printed hy R. Bishop, for R. B. or his 
 Assignes. 1640*. 8vo. pp.330. 
 
 The Epistle Dedicatory. 
 ** To all modest Dames 
 From Twede unto Thames, 
 \Vlio prize their good names above Nectar ; 
 With a Paphian kisse 
 Doc I tender them this 
 To silence a Canopy Lecture." 
 
 They are invited to patronise, as none are more 
 * A frontispiece, * Will. Marshall sculpsit,' exhibits
 
 377 
 free from Boulster Lectures; and in a short 
 address <' to his Dainty Doxes," *' bids Mu- 
 saeus adieu." 
 
 The subjects treated of are divided into Nine 
 Sections : — Upon the Excellence of Women ; 
 their inimitable Vertues ; moderation of Pas- 
 
 * A Bovlster Lectvre ' by two persons in bed, the female 
 with a label inscribed ' Du7n loquor ista faces,' and the 
 man another with ' Surdo cams.* The following lines 
 beneath : 
 
 " This wife a wondrous racket raeanes to keepe, 
 While th' Husband seemes to sleepe but does not sleepe ; 
 But she might full as well her Lecture smother, 
 For ent'ring one Eare, it goes out at t'other." 
 
 Another print exhibits an altar with a perforated vessel 
 of fire blown up by Cupid with a pair of bellows, with 
 two heai-ts burning at the top. The lovers kneeling at 
 the foot of the altar -v^ ith labels : 
 
 He. — " Cupid retire, what wouldst desire?" 
 She. — " Our flaming hearts are both a fire." 
 This embellishment refers to p. 24.6, and is sometimes 
 found in this article, as well as the following one of the 
 Two Lancashire Lovers, to which it appears most appli- 
 cable ; but the text in neither instance is according to 
 the subject represented.
 
 378 
 
 sion; Continency; Modesty; violence against 
 Corrivals ; Defence ; witty Aphorisms ; and 
 eminent Labours. " Every one of which sub- 
 jects you shall finde interveined with choice 
 variety of pleasing tales and delightfull Stories, 
 to comply with the fancy of the most curious 
 and censorious reader." 
 
 Many articles arc introduced as distinct but 
 apphcable to the general title of the Section. 
 Under the head of Disdain the author enume- 
 rates for his authorities Ariosto, Tasso, Boc- 
 cace, Rheginus, Alcoeus, &'C. Indeed the whole 
 work exhibits, as usual, Brathwait's extensive 
 reading and ready application of the stores of 
 his mind to embellish light and trifling sub- 
 jects. The historical stories are appropriate 
 and amusing, as well as those of less authority; 
 and command thereby a conditional license for 
 the times when loose expressions were too fre- 
 cjuently tolerated for humour; and indelicacy 
 believed an allowable substitute for wit.
 
 379 
 An appropriation of authorship is now fo? 
 the first time made; and to the strong internal 
 evidence of its being the production of Brath- 
 wait, may be added the following extract, re- 
 ferring to one of his acknowledged pieces, as 
 an absolute confirmation of his title : " That 
 Wife of Bath, upon whose tale, at the instancy 
 of some pecuhar friends, wee have by way of 
 Comment, lately annexed some Illustrations, 
 could tell you well enough, v/hat would please 
 a Woman best." — p. 201 . Two or three pieces 
 of poetry are introduced that first appeared in 
 the Strappado. At the end of the Lecture is 
 " Menippvs his IMadrigall, to his Coy-duck 
 Ciarabell;" and another poem called "Loves 
 Festivall, at Lvsts Fvnerall." Then the follow- 
 ing piece of humour, feigned to be the produc- 
 tion of a stranger hand, and printed as prose: 
 
 A Postscript writte by an Auditor , upon hear- 
 ing this Lecture, 
 
 " Many wayes have I rid, many works have
 
 3S0 
 I read; many yeares have I serv'd, many stories 
 have I heard ; yet none to be compared to this 
 Boidster Lecture, in affording all delight to a 
 passionate Lover : or to beguile the long-some 
 houre of an accurate Reader. 
 
 *' I have scene sometimes a Pamphlet beare 
 the stile of a Curtaine Lecture'^: but so bald 
 were those jests, they'd shame modest Guests: 
 Stale tales were sold for new that were old, 
 Nay, many were in graven In the Cuckolds haven f 
 (the Divell was in't) before they came to print, 
 So Oyster women cry, Ni/ Wainjiect, Nij: When 
 
 * The first piece censured is entitled ^' A Curtaine 
 Lecture : as it is read : JTy a dnnilrcy Fanner s wife to 
 her Good man. By a Conntrry Gentlewoman or Lady to 
 her Esquire or Knight. liy a Souldicrs leifc to her Cap- 
 tain or Lievtenant. By a Cilirwns or Trades7nans wife to 
 Jier husband. By a court Lady to her Lord. Concluding 
 with an inimiiahle L.ecture read by a Queene to her Sovc- 
 raigne Lord and King. London, Printed by Robert Young 
 for John Aston, \6'M . pp. 2G4. 21mo. Dedicated " to 
 the generous Reader, but especially to Bachclours and 
 Virgins," and divided into Eleven Chapters, of whicii 
 the above title is a sufficient analvsis.
 
 381 
 
 as (phoh) they partake of Cocytus slimy Lake. 
 A Pumice stone for these, or else they cannot 
 please. I wish with all my heart, to save a 
 fruitlesse mart, that Curtaine Lecture may be 
 employ'd another way, and in our Curtaine 
 Fields, where Cloacina builds, her shields so 
 neatly chus'd, those papers may be used. 
 
 <' I have scene a Juniper Lecture withall, 
 begging sale on a stall ; with ragg'd Tales so 
 befitted, he was mad sure, that writ it. The 
 Title is sweet, but weares no Socks on her feet, 
 for it smels of the pumpe, like a Pye-corner 
 rumpe. He reports from his Booke, which from 
 Pliny he tooke. Juniper coales are so hot, as 
 quench'd they are not for many yeares, but re- 
 taines, bote embers ith' graines. And to have, 
 it is said, hottest coales, coolest shade. May 
 those Coales I doe wish, cinge those seere 
 Leafes of his : For he can never looke to be 
 sav'd by his Booke. 
 
 '' A Crab Tree Lecture I have seene too,
 
 382 
 
 which no Judgement can estecme so, as to 
 beare a Presse charges, unlessc to presse Ver- 
 juice. 
 
 " That IVormexvood Lecture too descries, a 
 quaint Tormentor for Flyes : but no Eagle- 
 thought will endure, to stoupe to so Fly blowne 
 a Lure. 
 
 '' I have read too of a complete Womauy a 
 subject so common, as there is no man, but in 
 every street he may such an one meet. For 
 go he to the Court, where in glorious port 
 they make their resort. He shall finde to each 
 face Love-spotts give a grace. And servants 
 they have more, than false haire in store. 
 
 *' In Progresse-time too, th' Black Guard 
 make a show, and Old Landresses know what 
 Complement mcanes ; Though over-wrought 
 queanes : Huge Jacks fill'd with Litpior flakes 
 ag'd Beldams quicker. Though they want for 
 no age, They can hudle a Page, And triiine 
 ]jim to Sin by a Nnpolitan gin : Though larded
 
 383 
 
 with sweat, and Offals of meat, these can be 
 complete. 
 
 " To our suburbs then go, to our Citty chicks 
 too, you may finde choice enow; when you 
 meet them in the street, How their neat-nimble 
 Feet, And her trim-tinkling toes Pace congies 
 as she goes. From her head to her foot, and 
 all round about, Shee's a dainty fine Trout. 
 
 *' Go to our Country Jone, though she ne're 
 v/ent from home, More complete there is none: 
 To the Kyrk she'l repaire, To see more than 
 heare, In her holyday geere ; Shee can smirke, 
 she can smile. And her Swainling beguile, And 
 walke halfe a Mile, To Meet her awne Jenkin, 
 Whom she takes with her blenkin. Thus from 
 the Court to the Sheeld, In fold and in Feeld, 
 Will Complement yeeld. 
 
 " What needs then his Whench drest up first 
 in French, but English turn'd since! Our Girles 
 appeare so completely here, We need no Dames 
 there.
 
 '* That Authors device more forward than 
 wise, was made to wrappe Spice. 
 
 '' Whereas this Boulster Lecture, drain'd 
 from Rils of Nectar, shewes such Judgement 
 and Wit, with Stories to fit, As I sweare by 
 my Life, to be school'd by a W^ife in such 
 seemely sort, were no spight but a sport." 
 
 [From the Margin.] " He hokis each of 
 these shallow subjects a vading Vapour, a dying 
 Taper, a limping Labour, in comparison of this 
 Boulster Lecture."
 
 385 
 
 XXX. 
 
 46* The Two Lancashire Lovers : or the 
 Excellent History of Phil odes and Doriclea, 
 Expressing the faithfull constancy and mutuall 
 fidelity of two loyall Lovers. Stored with no 
 lesse variety of discourse to delight the Generoiis, 
 then of serious advice to instruct the Amorous, 
 By Musceus Palatinus, Pereo, si taceo. Zow- 
 don^ Printed hy Edward Griffin, for R. B, or 
 his Assignes. IG^O. pp. 268.* oct. 
 
 Dedication. — " To my trvly generovs and 
 
 * An engraved title has on an entablature, " The two 
 Lancashire Lovers ; or the Excellent History of Philocles 
 and Doriclea." Within two curtains, partly undrawn, 
 appear two hands in union supporting a double heart, 
 labelled over " This holy vow Makes one of two." At 
 bottom, on a lesser tablet, " London, Printed by E. G. 
 for R. Best, and are to be sould at his shop neare Graies 
 Inn gate in Houlbourne." — At p. 247, as a second em- 
 bellishment, the print already described in the preceding 
 article as facing p. 246. 
 
 2c
 
 586 
 judicious friend, Alexander Rigby Esq. Clarke 
 of the Crowne for the County Palatine of Lan- 
 caster ; the perusall of this History ; wherein 
 the subjects of love and loyalty are recorded, 
 to the honour of their Countrey. 
 
 *' Sir, I here present you with two native 
 plants of your owne Countrey; branches derived 
 from a faire and flourishing Family. Give them 
 entertainment according to their merit; whose 
 memory redounds highly to their Countries 
 
 glory. 
 
 <' Really 
 
 ^*Alexandro-philus," 
 
 From the title to the preceding article it 
 appears that the present was proposed to be 
 appended thereto, which was certainly not re- 
 quired, as each forms a sufficient volume and 
 is separately paged. 
 
 In this History, — *' whose ground-colour is 
 truth, and consequently deserves," says the
 
 387 
 author, " to be entertained with more trust," — 
 Philocles is a younger brother, who has been 
 educated at the University, and is a poet. He 
 becomes the tutor of Doriclea, the daughter of 
 Androgens and Euryclea, a woman *' of good 
 descent," and he a gentleman that had " borne 
 offices of account and quality under his Sove- 
 raigne." The young lady has wealthy suitors, 
 which are rejected, and becomes enamoured 
 of her instructor, who is thereupon discarded, 
 and afterwards recalled upon the declining state 
 of health of Doriclea, with the usual termina- 
 tion — marriage. An under-plot or two, not 
 more eventful, end equally satisfactory. 
 
 The scene of action is " neare to that an» 
 tient Towne of famous and time-honoured 
 Gaunt;'' from whence Barnabee commences 
 the second journey. (See note p. 100.) 
 
 Some small pieces of poetry are introduced ; 
 
 the following is called 
 
 2c2
 
 388 
 
 Love's Description, 
 
 Love, what's thy name, a phrensie : Whence thy birth ? 
 
 From Heaven : How comes it then thou lives on Earth? 
 
 T live not there : yet each usurps tliy name : 
 
 'Tis true indeed, but hence redounds their shame ! 
 
 I live not there, my Nature 's pure and just, 
 
 JBut lust lives there, and love 's a foe to lust.
 
 389 
 
 XXXL 
 
 The English Gentleman ; and the English 
 Gentlewoman : Both in one Volume couched^ and 
 in one Modell portrayed: to the living glory 
 of their Sexe, the lasting story of their Worth. 
 Being presented to present times for ornaments; 
 commended to posterity for Presidents, With a 
 Ladies Love-Lectvre and a Sipplcment lately 
 annexed, and Entitided the Tvrtles Trivmph, 
 The Third Edition revised^ corrected, and en- 
 larged. By Richard Brathvvait Esq, 
 
 Turture sic Turtur jungit amanda suo. 
 
 London, Printed by John Dawson. 1641. fol. 
 
 In an engraved title there is an interesting 
 display of the principal subjects discussed in 
 the two works, after the manner but not pre- 
 cisely copied from the titles to the earlier edi- 
 tions. The figures are nearly all changed,
 
 390 
 
 the mottoes omitted, and much of the garni- 
 ture altered. Whether this deviation from the 
 original designs obtained the sanction of the 
 author seems doubtful, unless he was too indo- 
 lent to revise the broadside, containing an ex- 
 planation of the frontispiece, as the two sheets 
 of the first edition are here printed together 
 without alteration. The title has < W. Marshall 
 sculpsit,' and is a valuable specimen of the cor- 
 rect taste and execution of that engraver. 
 
 The second leaf of the volume is a distinct 
 title to 
 
 47. The English Gentleman: [as at p. 285.] 
 The Third Edition revised ^ corrected and en- 
 larged. B\} Richard Braihvvait Esq, 
 Seneca in Here, fiircn. 
 
 Qui ^amsjactat suum 
 
 jiUeyia hnidut. 
 
 London, Printed by I. Daxvson, 1641. 
 
 Dedication inscribed *' To tlie nobly accom-
 
 391 
 
 plished the Right Honourable Philip, Earle of 
 Pembroke, and Montgomery, &c. Lord Chan*, 
 berlaine of his Majesties Household, Knight 
 of the most Honourable Order of the Garter; 
 all correspondence to his Intirest and Inte- 
 grion'st Resolves. Worthily Honoured, Vertiie 
 the greatest signally" &c. This address con- 
 cludes: ^'tvhose intimate ctffectioii to your Lord- 
 ship, made him erre, if he erre. Your Honours 
 in all devotion, Richard Brathwait." 
 
 An address " to the knowing Reader," and 
 <' vpon the volume and Title," occupy the sixth 
 (including titles) and last leaf of the introduc- 
 tory matter. The English Gentleman has at 
 the end the description of "a Gentleman*," 
 and the table concluding at p. 262. 
 
 48. The English Gentlewoman : [as at p. 289.] 
 
 * The three choice characters in preceding editions are 
 not given.
 
 S92 
 
 The Third* Edition revised, corrected, and en- 
 larged, Bi) Richard Brathvvait Esq, 
 
 Modestia, non Forma. 
 London, Printed by I, Daijoson, 1641. 
 
 This portion concludes with the character of 
 " a Gentlewoman" and " Appendix," as in the 
 first edition, and ends at p. 417 with the fol- 
 lowing lines : 
 
 Had woman, man's choyce succour, ne're becne sinner. 
 Pure as slice's faire, shec'd had no error in her : 
 Now liumble sonic, her Error to descrj'e, 
 Shee still reteines the apple in her eye. 
 
 49. A Ladies Love-Lecivre : composed, aiid 
 from the choicest Jlotvers of Divinitie and Hu- 
 mauitie Culled, and Compiled: As it hath heene 
 by sundry Personages of eminent qualiiie, upon 
 sight of some Copies dispersed, modestly imj^or- 
 tuned: To the memory of ikhai Sexes honour; 
 
 * The date of the second edition I have not ascer- 
 tained.
 
 393 
 
 for ijohose sweet sakes he originaUij addressed this 
 Labour. By Ri, Brathvvait Esquire, 
 
 London, Printed hi) lohn Dawson. 1641. 
 
 This entertaining lecture concludes with a 
 sonnet eulogising Virtue as making "happy 
 schollers in Loves-Lecture," at p. 454. In place 
 of an index a table sheet, or broadside of con- 
 tents, is placed at the end. 
 
 50. The Turtles Trivmph ; presented In A 
 Svpplement ; Highly condvcing to an usejidl 
 Application, and gratefull Reconciliation of the 
 ttw former Subjects. Continued hy Ri. Brathxvait 
 Esquire. London, Printed by lohn Dawson. 
 
 The signature of the volume is continued 
 though the pagination recommences. This re- 
 conciliation of the Gentleman with the Gen- 
 tlewoman ends with "a conclusive poem" at 
 p. 52, sig. Ggg.
 
 394. 
 
 XXXII. 
 
 51. The Penitent Pilgrim. 
 
 Psal. 66. 16. 
 
 Co7ne and hearken, all yee that feare God, and I will tell 
 you what he hath done to my soidc. 
 
 London, Printed hy lohn Daimon, and are to 
 he sold by lohn JVilliams at the signe of the 
 Crane in Paids Church-yard, 164-1. 12mo. 
 pp. 445.* 
 
 The clue for appropriating this pious pro- 
 duction to Brathwait is the mannerism of style, 
 which Ills many unacknowledged publications 
 now compel us to confidently rely upon. It 
 is dedicated to our Saviour; and '■'■ the summe, 
 
 * Has an engraved frontispiece of an aged man as 
 "tJic Penitent Pilgrim," journeying barefoot with bottle 
 and staff, scallop shell in liis liat, his loins girded, and 
 beneath his feet : " Few and evili have the dayes of my 
 life been. Gen. cap. 47. v. <)." It is by our author's 
 usual artist, " VV. Marshall sculp."
 
 395 
 or Gradual Symptome of the Penitent Pilgrim," 
 is divided into seventy-five chapters. To enu- 
 merate instances of the peculiarities of the lan- 
 guage is unnecessary, as they may be easily 
 discovered on perusal by those acquainted with 
 his acknowledged works. The favourite meta- 
 phor of the Worm occurs several times, and the 
 following passage undoubtedly refers to events 
 that had recently happened to himself: — 
 
 <' I knew well how the Harlot would bring a 
 man even to a morsell of bread. How her 
 paths were full of deceipt ; and how her foot- 
 stepps led unto death. And I understood how 
 there was nothing to be compared to a vertuous 
 Womajif and what felicity I enjoyed in such a 
 Choice. With what pious obsequies I solem- 
 niz'd her Funeralls ; whom I once enjoyed : 
 with what purposes I entertained to remaine 
 a constant Widdower, after such time as I 
 was deprived of her. Yet, though ripenesse 
 of yeares had nipped in mee the blossoms of
 
 396 
 youth ; nay, though age had writ deepe fur- 
 rows in my brow, yet found I youth enough 
 in my doating fancy. For I am ashamed to 
 thinke with what an unbeseeming lightnesse I 
 encountred a strange face. How soone I could 
 gather by the wandring motion of her eye, the 
 disposition of her heart. Thus in my decHning 
 age begun I to renue my acquaintance with 
 light love: and to practise that which did least 
 become me. So dangerous is the custome of 
 sinne, when it has taken full seazure, or pos- 
 session of the soule." — p. 99. 
 
 At the end of the work is <* His Obsequies," 
 and a poem of six stanzas for " His (Jrave- 
 stone," which is somewhat similar in measure 
 to the Itinerary. 
 
 On the last leaf a quaint couplet occurs be- 
 fore the 
 
 Errata, 
 
 No p'ace ])iit is of Errors rife, 
 
 In labours, lectures, Icafes, lines, life,
 
 397 
 
 XXXIII. 
 
 52. Mercurius Britannicus : or, the English 
 Intelligencer, a tragic comedy, at Paris acted 
 mth great applause. Reprinted tuith sundry ad' 
 ditions. Printed in the yeare 164:1, 4to. Lat. 
 and Eng. 
 
 This was a political squib ; and considering 
 the ready pen and unceasing desire of Brath- 
 wait to acquire popularity, we may conclude 
 it was not the only time-serving piece he put 
 forth at that eventful period*. 
 
 * Then every groaning press was delivered almost 
 daily of a slovenly ill-digested satii-e, and the title of 
 Mercurius was appendicated to a shoal of ill-written 
 lampoons. There was a kind of public stipulatory whim 
 for a quarto sheet embellished with one or two wood-cuts, 
 and that impotent fashion existed near ten years.
 
 398 
 
 XXXIV. 
 
 53. Astraeas Teares. AnElegieVfon the death 
 <)f that Reverend, Learned and Honest Judge, 
 Sir Richard Hiitton Knight; Lately one of his 
 Majesties lustices in his Highnesse Court of 
 Common Flees at Westminster, London, Printed 
 hy T. ILJbr Philip Nevil, and are to be sold at 
 his Shop in Ivie Lane, at the signe of the Gun, 
 1641. 12mo sig. H 2. oo leaves*. 
 
 As early as IGlt our author dedicated The 
 Prodigals Teares to Richard Ilutton, Sergeant 
 at Lavvf , with whom he appears to have been 
 
 * A frontispiece with all the strength and spirit of 
 
 ^Marshall, has a strong likeness and \vhole length figure 
 of the Judge in his robes, in a reclining posture; a hand 
 fromtlie clouds with a label " Farewell, Honest Judge. " 
 Otlier inscriptions — " Vale pauperis opti/nc prases,^ 
 " Vale dchilh almc Saldlcs.'" It is an excellent portrait 
 of the judge, and of the greatest rarity, not being no- 
 ticed by Grainger. f See p. liil. 
 
 1
 
 399 
 
 intimate, and probably they were distantly re- 
 lated. 
 
 Some dedicatory lines are inscribed *' to 
 my truly-esteemed and highly-respected Cosin 
 Thomas Hutton Esquire; a member of the 
 Honourable Society of Grais-Inne." Another 
 poem entitled " Astraeas Shrine," and " Upon 
 this poem," are followed by an address 
 
 " To my worthily-accomplished and most 
 endeared Cosin, Sir Richard Hutton 
 Knight. 
 
 Sir, here receive these Obit-teares of ours, 
 While Native love and duty nourish yours : 
 Let us then joyne our Funerall odes in one, 
 His dearest God-sonne with his Eldest Sonne. 
 Though Heires in such like Teares doe seldom share, 
 I'm sure true tears streame from your Fathers heire. 
 
 Excuse me, Sir, that these come forth so late. 
 
 They come too soone by Voice and Vote oth' State." 
 
 The latter couplet is explained by the mar- 
 ginal note at the head of the Elegy, giving the
 
 400 
 
 time of Sir Richard Hutton's death : " Obiit 
 Feb. 26, Anno Domini 1638;" the Elegy not 
 appearing until three years after the event had 
 happened. 
 
 Astrcsas Teares consist of an Elegy, or rather 
 a very long and severe satire, upon the knavery 
 and foppery of the times, concluding with an 
 eulogium upon Judge Hutton. Then his 
 
 Epitaph. 
 
 A rarer sage ne're Age brought forth, 
 
 Richer in fame, love, reall wortli, 
 
 Freer in heart, milder in speech, 
 
 Apter to learne, fitter to teach, 
 
 Gladder to dye, nor in liis death 
 
 Lesse taken witli affected breath : 
 Nor did he any Sermon need, 
 Who left his life a Book to read. 
 
 An Elegy follows that " was composed the 
 
 very same morning he dyed," which concludes 
 
 But lo ! the place wliere thou interred art, 
 Presents new-pensive olyects to my hart : 
 For nearc tliis lioly ground of thine posscst, 
 A grimmer Ilagge then Death did me arrest, 
 
 1
 
 401 
 
 Till thy just-judging eye did rightly scan 
 My cause, and free'd me from th' Leviathan : 
 For ne're was man surpriz'd with more deceite, 
 Nor with more Grace retreved from a Grate. 
 
 In the margin the following note on these 
 lines — " Sainct Dunstons. Vid. Panarete : An- 
 nivers. 5;" probably refers to some juvenile 
 imprudence whereby Brathwait suffered incar- 
 ceration for a time, and also alluded to in the 
 Strappado for the Diuell, 1615. There a poem 
 is entitled : " The occasion of this Epigram 
 proceeded from the restraint of the Author, 
 who in the iustnes of his cause (like Zeno- 
 phons Sparrow) fled for refuge to the worthily 
 esteemed, the right worshipfull Rich. Hytton, 
 Sergeant at Lawe, &c." 
 
 An Epitaph records the virtues and praise 
 of a Judge who died 16 Dec. 1639, who was 
 George Vernon ; 
 
 A numerous book-man, who from severall places 
 Could store his pleadings with a thousand cases, 
 2d
 
 402 
 
 Which prov'd his studies were cstrang'd from sloath, 
 His leafes not spidcr-wov'n nor known to moath ; 
 As I've seen some, who shelv'd Uirge volumes by them, 
 But knew not what was in them should you try them. 
 Tlicse take up Law and Learning upon trust, 
 And with a foxes tiiile brush off the dust 
 From their rare visited Authors. — Such as these 
 Account it their prime theory to get fees. 
 
 Other Epitaphs on Richard Viscount Moli- 
 neux, and that judicious patriot Sir Christopher 
 Dalston, knt., conclude the work at sig. E 4 : 
 then a new title for
 
 403 
 
 XXXV. 
 
 54. Panaretees Trivmph ; or Hymens heci' 
 venly Hymne. 
 
 Paeana cantat Hymen ; taceat lachrymabile Carmen. 
 London, Printed by T. H.Jor Philip Nevil, and 
 are to be sold at his Shop in Ivie Lane, at the 
 signe of the Gun. 1641. 
 
 The poem begins at the back of the title: 
 
 Remove that funerall-pile ; now six whole yeares 
 
 Have beene the nursing mothers of my teares. 
 
 Tliese rivell'd furrows of mine aged cheeke 
 
 Have writ griefes characters exceeding deepe 
 
 But what's perpetuall cannot mix with earth, 
 
 Joyes must partake with teares and teares with mirth. 
 
 Those carelesse foldings of mine armes must cease 
 
 While ayres resounded cares, and cares ay-mees ; 
 
 "While tones were threnes, ech motion of my tongue 
 
 The dying accent of a swan-like song. 
 
 Tliese must be closed in her sacred shrine 
 
 Whose living beautie, while enstyled mine, 
 
 Made me too earthly blest ; — Another rite 
 
 Must banish these presentments from my sight* 
 
 2d2
 
 404 
 
 He then describes the necessity of foregoing 
 
 funeral tears during another nuptial, and they 
 
 are to be preserved for those who cannot weep ; 
 
 as " spritely blades — some widows — profuse 
 
 gallants," whose necessity in that respect is 
 
 interestingly described. Of himself he says, 
 
 Now some will aske why my decaying time 
 Should to such solemne nuptiall rites incline ? 
 Whereto I answer, no licentious fire 
 Inflam'd my sprinkling organs with desire, 
 No glowing heat of fimcy did I feclc, 
 Unto my : : : : : I freely may appeale. 
 These were unfitting motives to weake sense, 
 Though age must render age benevolence 
 AVhen time, place, spirit may such acts admit 
 With equall willing minds to second it. 
 No, my aftcction never tooke delight 
 I th' light embraces of a marriage night. 
 Nor to make sacred rites sudi tempting lures 
 To sate th' desire without more inward cures. 
 For had these bene mine ends, my constant ayme 
 Had long since fixt upon more youthfull game. 
 Nor did I want in mnnbcr to supply 
 The curious clioice of love's attractive eye, 
 Wliicli may appearc by those selcclcr lines 
 My widdow INIusc conipos'd in former times. 
 
 I
 
 405 
 
 " Four wenches be there who my love would win, 
 " And stick as close as ticks unto my skin; 
 " The first a M'iddow worth six thousand pound, 
 " But my hopes say, more thousands may be found ; 
 " The next as nimble as the mountaine Roe, 
 " But all her fortunes are not worth a stroe; 
 " The third a wanton witty worldly cricket, 
 " But too too many Cubbs have sprung her wicket; 
 " The fourth of lovely hue and lively quicknesse, 
 " For th' trickle-bed has cured her green-sicknesse, 
 " A damsell fresh as is the flower in May, 
 " But her pure zeale impurer acts display : 
 " Advise me which to chuse, and I'le have at her, 
 " One must I have, more is a hanging matter. 
 And these were true, as I may hope for life. 
 Yet could no beautie stamp the style of wife 
 In my affections. 
 
 His moral reflections conclude as the bell 
 tinketh : he married, a second time a lady of 
 Scottish extraction, which occasions his in- 
 troducing " Calliopees expostidation with the 
 Calidonian Nation." A " courteous Curtain 
 Lecture " is also delivered by his wife, and a 
 florid description is given of her person and 
 manners*
 
 406 
 
 XXXVI. 
 
 55. Barnahce Itincrarium, Mirtili 8^ Fans- 
 tuliy &c. 
 
 Barnahecs Journall, under the Names of Mir' 
 tilus S^ Faustulus, &c. 
 
 N.D. 1716, 1723, DuhUn 1762, 1776, i805, 
 again 1805, 1818. 12mo and 8vo. 
 
 Juxta-position demands for the liincrarij a 
 few " more last words." — It miglit be expected 
 that for a popular work like this, many attempts 
 would be made to fix a date to the first edition. 
 One has been considered of some authority. It 
 is found in the Catalogue of the library of the 
 lateJohnWoodhouse esq. sold by Messrs. Leigh 
 and Sotheby, 12 Dec. 1803*, where Lot 24 
 was described as " Barnabce's Journal with 
 
 ♦ Purchased l)y tlic Marquis of Blaudford for 2/. lO.v. 
 and sold with the While Knight's Library for 8/. 10s. 
 It wanted the engraved title. 
 
 I
 
 407 
 Bessie Bell. First Edition. B. M. g. 1. 1648." 
 A catalogue with the name of the late vene- 
 rable, ' courteous/ and honest George Leigh 
 in the front, demands attention. With his in- 
 spection before the printing, it might be de- 
 signated an oracle ; for he neither indulged in 
 the pastime of puffing, nor speciously drew an 
 audience to his sales by a florid description of 
 worm-eaten, dirty copies. But the date in the 
 present case is not certain. The authority in 
 this instance was a poem in manuscript copied 
 on the ^y leaves, undoubtedly by Brathwait, 
 entitled : Rustica Academice Oxoniensis nuper 
 refonnatcB Descriptio, &c. cIddcxlviii. 
 
 This authority neither confirms nor refutes 
 the opinion already expressed of the time of 
 publication being 1650* or thereabouts. Had 
 it been after the Restoration, it is not easy 
 to believe that our author, whose religion re- 
 
 * See p. 73—74.
 
 408 
 
 mained untainted by the times, and his loyalty 
 unimpeached, would have stifled his feelings 
 upon the happening of that cheerful event, 
 when he had already recorded the more me- 
 lancholy one of the death of Charles I.* 
 
 However, strong as the probability may be 
 for the above date being correctly assigned, 
 there must not be forgotten it supplies no proof 
 as to the time of the Journal being written. 
 The existence of several pieces was announced 
 by our author long before they were submitted 
 to the public. And many circumstances unite 
 to confirm the belief that the Itinerary was the 
 lapped and cradled bantling of years, scarcely, 
 in his own opinion, pubescent, until himself 
 might be believed past the age of such waggery. 
 It may be characterised as a seedling planted 
 in the spring of youth ; nourished and pruned 
 in the sunnncr of his days; courted to blos- 
 
 • Sec p. 73^7 U
 
 409 
 
 som amid evergreens that circled his autumnal 
 brow, and which formed the wreath of fame 
 that adorned and cheered the winter of his age, 
 and remains unfaded*. 
 
 * In an Article in The Quarterly RevL'w, No. xxxv. 
 p. 32, ascribed, we believe, to Mr. Southey, it is said : 
 '' The best serious piece of Latin in modern metre, is 
 Sir Francis Kinaston's Amoves Truili ei CresseidcB, a 
 translation of the two first books of Chaucer's poem; 
 but it was reserved ^oy famous Barnaby to employ the 
 barbarous ornament of rhyme, so as to give thereby point 
 and character to good Latinity."
 
 410 
 
 XXXVII. 
 
 56. Times Treasury ; or Academy Jor Gen- 
 try, Laying dovone excellent grounds both Di' 
 vine and Humane, in relation to Sexes of Both 
 Kindes : For their accomidishment in arguments 
 of Discourse, Habit, Fashion : and hajjpy pro- 
 gresse in their Spirituall Conversation, Revised, 
 Corrected, and Inlarged, tvith a Ladies Love- 
 Lecture; And a Supplement, Entiiulcd the Tur- 
 tles Triumph : Summing up all in an exquisite 
 Character of Honour. By Ui, Brathimit Esq, 
 London, Printed Jor Nath. Brooke, at the Angel 
 in Cornhill. 1652. fol. 
 
 After the above title prefixed to some copies 
 of The English Genilonan, IGi], a dedication 
 " to the right Honourable William Earle of 
 Straft'ord; Sonne and lleire to that incon)para- 
 ble Master-piece of Wit, Worth and Wisdome, 
 Thomas, Lord Wentworth, Viscount Wood-
 
 411 
 
 house, late Lord Deputy of Ireland, [stiled] 
 my constantly memorized and perpetually in- 
 deared Mecenas. [Wishing] All correspond- 
 ing honour and happinesse suitable to a branch 
 of such rising hopes ; lineally ennobled and 
 enabled to all proficience. Highly Honovred 
 [our author continues] ; Piety, as it hath the 
 promise, so it renders the best deblazon to the 
 House of Honour. In which highest ascent of 
 Heraldry, (for all other Titles or Gradations 
 appear irreal and shady,) Vertue the greatest 
 Signall" &c. Here the text proceeds as in 
 the dedication to the Earl of Pembroke*, and 
 verbatim to " tvhose intimate affection to your 
 Lordship^ will quickly sweeten and attemper 
 the rigidst Censure : and signe an easy indul- 
 gence to such an obsequious errour. Your 
 Honours in all Devotion, lineally obliged, 
 Ri. Brathwait." 
 
 * See p. P,91.
 
 412 
 
 An entire leaf appropriated to the following 
 dedicatory address, which is set out on the 
 first page : — " For the most Vertvovs, and No- 
 bly- Accomplisht Ladie, the right honourable, 
 Elizabeth, (Dowager) Covntesse of Strafford; 
 highly eminent in the skale of the serious't, 
 and serenest judgements, for her pious Con- 
 versation of the living memory of Her most 
 Absolute Consort." 
 
 The above matter, in four leaves, is substi- 
 tuted for the first two title-pages already de- 
 scribed as before edition 164-1 *. In other 
 respects the copies are the same: Except at 
 the end 
 
 A character of Honour 
 of four leaves and only a head- title. The sig- 
 natures do not continue, being aaan and hhhb. 
 There is not any reference to the preceding 
 matter, although undoubtedly by our authon 
 
 • P. S8t>.
 
 413 
 
 XXXVIII. 
 
 57. A Mustur Roll of the evill Angels emhat' 
 teld against S. Michael. Being a Collection^ 
 according to the order of time, [throughout all 
 the Centuries) of the chiefe of the Ancioit Here- 
 tikes, tvith their Tenets, such as were condemned 
 hy Generall Councels. Faithfully collected out 
 of the most Authentike Authors. By R. B. Gent, 
 
 Sil. Ital. 
 Heu irrima scelerum causa Mortalibus aegris, 
 Naturam nescire Deum. 
 
 London, Printed Jbr William Sheers, and are 
 to be sold at his shop in S. Pauls Church yard 
 at the sign of the Bible. 1655. 24mo. pp.94'. 
 
 Dedication. — " To Sir J. P. Baronet. Sir, 
 I send you heere an Assize Booke, or rather a 
 Treatise of Poysons ; to peruse which, I had 
 not given you the trouble, had not your own 
 commands obhged mee to it: for what my me-
 
 4U 
 
 mory faild me of in our last discourse upon 
 this subject of Heretikes, I have, to comply 
 with your desires, turn'd over those few Trea- 
 suries of Common places wherewith my read- 
 ing hath furnished mee. And now you may 
 behold the Locusts creeping out of the bot- 
 tomlesse Pit in their orders, and heare all their 
 severall tones," &c. 
 
 The Muster Roll of " Capitall Heretikes in 
 the severall Centuries/'commences with No. "I. 
 Simon Magus, An. Dom. 55. or thereabouts," 
 and terminates with No. " L. The new Arrians, 
 Ann. 1534'. or thereabouts." At the end the 
 following 
 
 " Postscript. — And now, Sir, I could wish 
 that these Heretikes survived only in Paper, 
 but alas they are all lived over againe, though 
 they sceme not at this rcsussitation to have so 
 bright ascendants as at their birth, for then 
 many approved Wits, and persons of reverend 
 name were given over to believe these lies now
 
 415 
 
 few besides narrow indigested souls run after 
 them : a providence tliat promises they will 
 the sooner find their graves, for the vulgar are 
 still as covetous of novelty, as of your com- 
 mands is 
 
 " Sir, 
 
 " Your most humble Servant 
 
 " R. B."
 
 416 
 
 XXXIX. 
 
 58. Lignum VitcB. Libellvs in quatuor partes 
 distinctus : et ad utilitatem cujusque AnimcB in 
 altiorem vitcB perfectionem suspirantisy Nuper- 
 rime Editus. Authore Richardo Brathvoait Ar- 
 mio-ero ; Memoratissimce matris, FlorentissimcB 
 Academice Oxoniensis, Humillimo Alumno. 
 
 Apoc. 2. 17. 
 Vincenti dabo edere de Ligno Vitce quod est in paradlso 
 Dei mei. 
 
 Londinif Excudebat Joh, Grismond, mdclviii. 
 duod. pp.579. 
 
 This volume has an engraved title, " Vaughan 
 sculp." crowded, as usual, with Latin sentences 
 applicable to the figure and design. 
 
 It is divided into three parts, and at the end 
 of the second is a piece of Latin poetry of 
 forty stanzas, that corroborates the appropria-
 
 417 
 tion of Barnaby's Journal, as the following spe- 
 cimen will confirm : — 
 
 Hymnus Jidelis AnimcB, de Jcelicitate perennis 
 gloricB, 
 
 perennis vitie nierces, 
 
 lata jtiessis anima?, 
 Palma pads, porta lucis, 
 
 lauta veris area, 
 Vita pollens, curam peuens 
 
 Florae comis aurea ! 
 
 Moius hostis, metus mortis 
 
 nullus in perpel^ium, 
 Sponsa Icetans, mcesta vetans, 
 
 opem fert ossichiam. 
 Res opimce, spes didnep, 
 
 dissipaiit invidiam. —■—«—. 
 
 Caste, caute, lecte, laute, 
 
 sese virgo prceparat, 
 Longe prints venit dies 
 
 quo conclave visitat, 
 Ne rugosa sit erplosa 
 
 quando jwrtarn penetrat. 
 2 E
 
 418 
 
 Primo queer-it, carpii, gerit 
 humilitatis violam, 
 
 Secundo jlorein perdecorum 
 Castitatis Lilium 
 
 Tertio Roseum et ambroscum 
 Charitatis Jiosculum. — - 
 
 Sic Jinitd brevi vita, 
 
 vitcs hac dieculd, 
 Jnstruatur, induatur 
 
 glorus amicula, 
 Hccc mens mea in me Dea, 
 
 laudans te per seada. 
 Amen.
 
 419 
 
 XL. 
 
 ' 59. The Honest Ghost, or a voice from the 
 
 Vault, 
 
 In noxam sectatur et umbra, ' 
 
 London, Printed hy Ric, Hodgkinsonne. 1658. 
 Oct. 169 leaves. 
 
 To the initials of our author at p. 310 may 
 be cited the following lines, confirming the late 
 Mr. Malone's assertion that this volume was 
 the production of Brathwait : — 
 
 What can these spruce Silk -worms do at me? [p. 1.] 
 Thus did this Worme-sprout sheild him from their hate. 
 
 [p. 121.] 
 This the spruce credulous Silk-worm seems to trust. , 
 
 [p. 185.] 
 Now ivere it fit like Glow-wormes to discover, [p. 262. ] 
 Of vicious Silke-wormes in this age of Apes. [p. 266.] * 
 
 ♦ See note p. 131. 
 2e2
 
 420 
 
 Who could liavc tliouglit lliis downy Lapwing would. 
 
 [p. 96]* 
 To th' Cent we goe, where we at Cent-foot play. 
 
 [p. 151.]t 
 Or th' Alchimists owne Ape, Tom Trinculo. [p. 231.]]: 
 
 For while these to the Ballad-monger flocked, 
 
 My nimble-nipps div'd deep into their pocket, [p. 233. ] \ 
 
 Dedicatory lines inscribed " to my Stationer 
 health, wealth, and liberty." Others " to the 
 ingenuous State-censor," commence — 
 
 My younger years corapos'd these rurall rymcs 
 To taxc the errors of corrupter times : 
 
 And that 
 
 Twenty four harvests now are spent and gone 
 Since i/ds rcceiv'd its first conception ; 
 So, as you may suspect, there 's something in 't 
 That kept this work so many yeers from print." 
 
 At p. 21-9 a note describes the poem as written 
 in 1632. 
 
 ' Note p. 1.:;. t r. loj. 
 
 J See character of a Hallad-moiigcr, p. '209.
 
 421 
 
 The Honest Ghost is a severe satirist, making 
 the macliinery of his oration the Five Senses. 
 " A Postscript" in prose is appended to the 
 poem, with " The copy of a Letter sent from 
 a Burgess of the Lower-House, to the brittle 
 Society, or broken company of Bankrupt-^Ier- 
 chants, 1625;" and " A Prisoners picture, pos- 
 ture and pressure," &c. which is subscribed 
 ' Altanus Ponticus.' Then a new title for 
 
 60. Tiw Poems Penned by the Author, he- 
 fore his restraint, Eiitituled Loves Lottery and 
 The Ciickow. Whereiuito are annexed. The Tra- 
 panner. The Tarpolin, Messalina. An Elegie 
 on Phil. Porters death. With his Farewell to 
 Poetry, or Motto upon Misery : Shelving hoio 
 the Muses are jxdronesses of Poverty. 
 
 At p. 115 commences another portion of the 
 volume, and the most curious. The prefatory 
 lines are entitled "His Vision;" wherein having 
 communed with certain Apes, we have next
 
 422 
 
 ITie Apes of Honour, Pleasure, Vaine-glory, 
 Fancy, Fashion, Observation: with Court, City, 
 Country, Church, Judicial!, Politicall, Chymi- 
 call, and Criticall Apes. Address to the State- 
 Critick ; Apes Censure : with " The Life of 
 Polymorphus Simianus Author of this Poem," 
 and " The Draught or Portrait of every Ape, 
 with their distinct properties, &c." — These 
 biting satires show a long and well-studied 
 knowledge of mankind, and are given with the 
 same strong cast of character which our au- 
 thor commonly displayed. The Life seems a 
 doubtful compilation. From v\here the Criti- 
 call Ape describes some of England's wonders, 
 we select the following lines : — 
 
 IJut, sirra, you 
 Who knows more coasts then ere Columbus knew, 
 While forrainc-countrv wonders are made known, 
 You must forget tin's country of your ownc. 
 For in tliis Hand wjicre yourselfe was borne, 
 Did you nerc visit Glastcnbnry Thorne? 
 Saint Thomas ncchets Path, his Shrine, his Cell? 
 The civit-Kciiting mosse of WbCfrrch Well ?
 
 423 
 
 Tlie stones of Salisbury-plain, which none can number ? 
 
 Tlie stones of Whitby-strand, that snakie wonder ? 
 
 Bniertons Logg which on a mote doth lye, 
 
 And sinking bodes the Ajicestor must dye. 
 
 Or of Saiyit Quintins (as I've heard it told) 
 
 WTiose ancient seat is Harpham in the Would ; 
 
 Where at such times as chiefe of th' house shall dy, 
 
 A drum to th' hearing of the neighbours by, 
 
 For three dales space together sounds alarum, 
 
 (A gentle easie summons to prepare him) 
 
 Which dying march, as I have understood. 
 
 Issues from th' covert of a shadie wood, 
 
 But whence or how produc'd, that know not I, 
 
 A sacred-secret seal'd from mortall eye : 
 
 But it implies, this charity will grant. 
 
 He dies a champion i' th' church militant, ^-c. 
 
 Parthenias Passions, consisting of a few mis- 
 cellaneous poems, some addressed to our au- 
 thor's Mecaenas, the Earle of Strafford as the 
 tvestern Knights Pasquill , conclude the volume. 
 We select the following as short : — 
 
 To Captaine Sadler ; a rare Scarlet dyer* 
 
 Noble Sir, I am here, neare unto your proper sphere : 
 Visit him who holds you doar. 
 Dearest fiiend, who all thy time 
 Hast been blest in each designe ;
 
 424? 
 
 And hast Colour for thine ends, 
 To improve and right thy friends : 
 Mayst thou live in Honours eye, 
 Till thy Scarlet lose her dye : 
 Love's a colour dydc in graine, 
 Whose reflcxc admits no staine. 
 
 Neq^ dives, nee egenus, 
 2^eq* satur, ncq plenus ; 
 Nee agrestis, nee amccmis, 
 Nee sylvestris, nee sercnus: 
 Palmis nee juulcendus j)crnis. 
 At in omni sorte lenis. 
 
 The dates of the pieces in this division are 
 of the year of publication. The last piige an- 
 nounces — 
 
 *' These papers bearing the title of Parthe- 
 nia's Passions, were privately procured without 
 the Authors knowledge. Excuse then these 
 Errors : being at the instancy of persons of 
 quality, published without his directions."
 
 425 
 
 XLI. 
 
 61. Capitall Hereticks, or the Evill Angels 
 
 embatteVd against St. Michael. Being a Col' 
 
 lection, according to the order of Time, [through' 
 
 out all the Centuries) of the chief of the Antient 
 
 Hereticks ; ivith their Tenets, such as were con- 
 
 demned hy General Coiincels. Faithfully CoU 
 
 hded out of the most Authentike Authors. By 
 
 R.B. Gent. 
 
 Heu prima scelerum causae Mortalibus aegris, 
 Naturam rescire Deum 
 
 London, Printed for William Shears, at the 
 Bible ill Bedford street, and in the A>tu Ex' 
 change. 1659. 
 
 This is only a new title-page to the article 
 already described at p. 413.
 
 426 
 
 XLII. 
 
 62. To his Majesty upon his happy arrivall 
 in our late discomposed Albion. 
 
 Sidon. 
 
 Vidl quod speravi, vidisse tamen dolui, 
 Vcrcrgre spectando quod j^ctii. 
 
 By R. Brathwait Esq, London^ Printed for 
 Henry Brome, at the Gun in Ivie-lane. 1660. 
 ^to. 8 leaves. 
 
 From u date in manuscript this poem ap- 
 pears to have been published * July 12,' 1660, 
 being forty-four days after the king entered 
 London. It is a hasty loyal effusion, begin- 
 ning- 
 Blest be tlint all-cy'd-I-rord, ^vho gave us eyes 
 To SCO the period of our miseries. 
 Now be our longing liopes safe brouglit ashore, 
 Our blate secur'd, what can we wish lor more.
 
 427 
 He tells the king : 
 
 Aniidst those dusky clouds wliich adverse fate 
 Had thrown on mine anatomized state, 
 Tlie morning sun shone cheerfully on me 
 Because a subject sworn to loyalty. 
 
 At the end are some lines addressed " to the 
 croud of suppliants at Whitehall."
 
 428 
 
 XLIII. 
 
 63. The Captive- Captain : or the Restrain d 
 
 Cavalier ; Draivn to his Jlill Bodie in these 
 
 Characters ; 
 
 I. Of a Prison. -^ r\l. The Fat Pmoner. 
 
 W.llieAuatoimjofaJaijlcr. | I VII. The Lean Prisoner. 
 
 III. A Jmjlers Wife, )-\ VIII. The restrain d Ca- 
 
 IV. The Porter. I I valier, u-ilh his Melan- 
 
 V. The Century. -' ^ cholij fancy. 
 
 Presented, and Acted to Life in a suit of Du- 
 rance ; an Habit suiting best ivifh the Place of 
 his Residence, 
 
 NuUus extra te Career. 
 London, Printed by J. Grismond. 1665. oct. 
 98 leaves. 
 
 The following is the dedicatory address: — 
 *' For the worthily honoured, richly accomplish- 
 ed ; and absolutely complcated, Sir Tho. Pres- 
 ton, Baronet; his most aSectionatcly oblii^ed
 
 429 
 
 Servant R. B. presents these Characters : (be- 
 ing native and genuine displayers of the hu- 
 mours of these Times;) in. lieu of those grace- 
 full respects, so amicably and amply rendered; 
 and by the Author humbly acknowledged." 
 
 Characters, essays, poems, &c. form this 
 medley, " interlac'd with sundry other emer- 
 gent subjects, properly and ingeniously dilating 
 on the Humours of these times." 
 
 The characters are of a prison ; jaylor ; his 
 wife ; a porter ; the centry ; fat prisoner ; lean 
 prisoner; and restrained Cavalier, with his me- 
 lancholy fancy. Essays as advice to a peer . 
 a peasant ; a landlord ; a farmer ; a simple 
 country curate ; a country justice ; an heir ; a 
 younger brother ; a gallant ; his mistress ; and 
 advice to him that v, ill take it. There are also 
 characters of a country commissioner, state 
 competitor, phanatick, &c.; with letters of ad- 
 vice and two dissertations upon the interests 
 of Westmorland and Cumberland.
 
 430 
 
 To the essays as Advices is given a distinct 
 title as 
 
 64. Choice Cabinet Counsel, 
 
 Aperiatur Scrinium, 
 
 Ut reperiatur Consilium. Produs. 
 
 Sperate Miseri, 
 Cavcte Fa-lices. 
 
 What })recious treasures best inrich the mind, 
 Unlock the Cabinet, and you shall Jlnd. 
 Gemms may be stol)i, or lustre lose with rust, 
 But these more ]>urc than to resolve to dust.
 
 431 
 
 XLIV. 
 
 65. Tragi- Comoedia, Cid in titulum inscri- 
 bitur Regicidiunif Perspicacissimus Judiciis acu- 
 ratius perspecta, pensata, comprohata ; Authore 
 Ri. Brathwait, ArmigerOy utriusque Academics 
 Alumno. Londini, Typis J, G, Sf prostat ve- 
 nalis in qfficina Theodori Sadleri, in Strandensi, 
 platea cedibus Somersetensis contigua. 1665. 
 oct. pp.192. 
 
 At p. 159, Bedlamum Novum. Scena Bri- 
 tannia. (Pars Secunda.)
 
 432 
 
 XLV. 
 
 66. A Comment upon the Two Tales of our 
 Ancient, Renowned, and Ever Living Poet S*" 
 Jeffray Chavcer, Knight. Who, for his Rich 
 Fancy, Pregnant Invention, and Present Com- 
 posure, deserved the Countenance of a Prince, 
 and his Laurent Honour. 
 
 The Millers Tale, 
 
 and 
 The Wife of Bath. 
 
 Addressed and published by Special Authority. 
 London, Printed by IV. Godbid, and are to be 
 sold by Robert Clavell at the Stags- Head in Ivy- 
 lane*. 1665. oct. pp.199. 
 
 Dedication. — '< To the highly-honoured, and 
 nobly accomplished, S"* John Wintovr, Secrc- 
 
 * In some copies, sold bi/ Robert Crofts at the Crown in 
 C'luinccri/-lunc nccr Sajcanls-Imu 160'5.
 
 433 
 
 tary of State to her sacred Majesty, the Queen 
 Mother, a loyal Subject to his Sovereign, a 
 faithful Servant to his Covntrey, a resolute suf- 
 ferer for both ; R. B. his most devotional ser- 
 viteure presents tliese illustrations, primarily 
 intended, and purposely published for enter- 
 tainment of retired hours." 
 
 Advertisement. — *' This Comment was an 
 Assay, whereto the Author was importun'd by 
 Persons of Quality, to compleat with Brief, 
 Pithy, and Proper Illustrations, Suitable to 
 such Subjects." 
 
 The commentary is reducing the tales to 
 prose, with occasional observations and quota- 
 tions from other poets, where we have to regret 
 the total omission of references to the originals. 
 The following " old Sylvan charm" is given in 
 the comment on the Miller's Tale as similar to 
 one used anciently, when people " shut their 
 doors at night and opened them in the morn- 
 ing :"— 
 
 2f
 
 434^ 
 
 Fawns and Fairies keep away, 
 
 "Wliile we in these coverts stay; 
 
 Goblins, Elves, of Oberon's train. 
 
 Never in these plains remain, 
 
 Till I and my nymph awake. 
 
 And do hence our Journey take, 
 
 May the Night-mare never ride us. 
 
 Nor a fright by night betide us :' 
 
 So shall Ileav'ns praise sound as clear, 
 
 As the shrill voyc'd Chanticleer. [p. 31.] 
 
 The versification of the old proverb of the 
 flitch of bacon is thus given : — 
 
 He that is not with Tenitence taken 
 For tliat he married not l)efore, or married now, 
 
 May challenge a Flitch of Essex Bacon, 
 And carve his Morsel in the Cow of Donmow. [p. 80.] 
 
 At p. 85 a story ' which the Epigrammatist 
 no less pleasantly ueavcs up,' is repeated from 
 the Slrappaclo for the Divcl, 1615, as to the 
 * wily wencir who to ' Capricorn her husband* 
 makes lier lover provide his servant with a bear- 
 skin, to lay at tlie chamber door; because as 
 her liusband hates the horn, so equally he fears 
 the bear.
 
 435 
 
 In the comment on the Tale of the Wife of 
 Bath, as to the story of Arthur's Round-table 
 reference is made to Leland, who says, in me- 
 mory of its foundation there was still " to be 
 seen in Denbighshire, in the parish of Llan- 
 savan, in the side of a Stony hill, a place arti- 
 ficially compos'd." On the lines 
 
 All was this lond fulfilled of fairy 
 
 The Elfe quene, with her joly company ; 
 
 the commentator observes : " King Oberon, 
 Queen Mab, Prince Cricket, and his paramour 
 Pig-Widgeon, with all their fair company, used 
 to repare hither, and dance a Cinque-pace upon 
 the Meads, (if they had so much art among 
 them.) Yea by usually resorting and consort- 
 ing together, they became so familiar with our 
 Milk-maids on the Downs, as they would not 
 only sport with them, but woo them and win 
 them ; whence the poet : 
 
 Pug wooed Jug, a wily Cub, 
 To drink with him a Siilibub, 
 
 2f2
 
 436 
 
 Which drunk they so familiar grew, 
 As Jug became one of the Crew. 
 
 But this (saith our Wife of Bath) was many- 
 hundred years ago. King Oberon's race is quite 
 extinct and gone, or else confin'd to some other 
 remote island, where they reside." — p. 151. 
 At the end of the volume it is said in 
 
 An Appendix: "After such time as the Au- 
 thor, upon the instancy of sundry persons of 
 Quality, had finish'd his Conmients upon these 
 Two Tales; the perusal of them begot that in- 
 fluence over the clear and weighty judgments 
 of the strictest and rigidest Censors ; as their 
 high approvement of them induced their im- 
 portunity to the Author to go on with the rest, 
 as he had successfully done with these two first : 
 Ingenuously protesting, that they had not read 
 any subject discoursing by way of Illustration, 
 and running Descant on such light, but harm- 
 less fancies, more liandsomly couched, nor mo- 
 destly shadowed. All which, though urgently
 
 437 
 
 press'd could make no impression on the Au- 
 thor: For his Definite Answer was this: ' That 
 
 * his Age, without any Appellant, might render 
 
 * his Apology ; and priviledge him from Com- 
 
 * menting on Conceptions (were they never so 
 
 * pregnant) being interveined with Levity, say- 
 *ing; 
 
 * Of such light toyes hee'd ta'n a long adew, 
 ' Nor did he meane his knowledge to renew. 
 
 * Neither could he entertain any such thought 
 < of perfection in these, being begun andfinish'd 
 
 * in his blooming years ; wherein the heat of 
 
 * conceipt, more than the depth of Intellect dic- 
 
 * tated to his pen. The remainder of his hours 
 
 * henceforth was to number his Dales : But if 
 ' ^^son's Herb should revive him, and store 
 
 * him with a new plumage, he was persuaded 
 
 * that his youthful Genius could not bestow his 
 
 * endeavour on any Author with more pleasure 
 < nor complacency to Fancy, than the Illustra- 
 « tions of Chaucer.'
 
 438 
 
 " Amidst this discourse, a Critick stepping 
 in, objected out of the quickness of his Cen- 
 sure, much hke that phantastical Madam who 
 drew rapsodies from her carpet, that he could 
 allow well of Chaucer, if his language were 
 better. Whereto the Author of these com- 
 mentaries return'd him this Answer: ' Sir, it 
 
 * appears you prefer Speech before the Head' 
 ^ piece ; La)i(riiao;e before Invention; whereas 
 
 * weight of judgment has ever given Invention 
 
 * priority before Language. And not to leave 
 
 * you dissatisfied, as the time wherein these 
 ' Tales were writ, rendered him incapable of 
 
 * the one; so his pregnancy of Fancy approv'd 
 
 * him incomparable for the otlier.' \Miich an- 
 swer still'd this Censor and justified the Au- 
 thor; leaving Ncxv-liolmc to attest his deserts; 
 his xwrks to perpetuate his honour."
 
 439 
 
 (^ In forming the foregoing Catalogue I have 
 derived much valuable assistance from the col- 
 lections of Mr. Heber, ?»Ir. Freeling, Mr. Perry 
 and Mr. Hibbert, and from the Bodleian Li- 
 brary through the Rev. P. Bliss ; and it vvill 
 be found to add considerably to the number of 
 our author's known works*. 
 
 Of the Anniversaries upon Panarete^ those 
 for the years 1636 to 164<0 remain undiscover- 
 ed. They were probably appended to Elegies 
 on distinguished characters then recently de- 
 ceased. Their annual continuance after 16il 
 may be doubted: it was a subject unlikely to 
 assimilate with the feelings of the second v/ife 
 and bruit of common observation. 
 
 That other articles should hereafter be dis- 
 covered, uiay be expected; as from the many 
 pieces of humour, essays, and poems Brathwait 
 
 * See p. 444.
 
 440 
 
 put forth anonymously, the present research is 
 not likely to have ascertained all his unappro- 
 priated pieces*. 
 
 As the eulogist of a contemporary writer 
 Brathwait has a copy of Verses prefixed to 
 Yorke's Union of Honour, and possibly many 
 others of a similar description. 
 
 * The want of information as to his early Avritings for 
 the stage has been already noticed (p. xx). The story 
 related in the English Gcnl/cfuan, 1630, p. 195, of a sick 
 young gentlewoman, fond of plays, crying " Oh Hiero- 
 nimo, Hieronimo, methinks I see the brave Hieronimo '" 
 is strangely garbled by Prynne in that crude mass of 
 dullness and ridiculous profoundness of quotation, Uie 
 Hislrio-Mastlr, p. 556. She there exclaims, " Hieronimo, 
 Hieronimo, O let mee see Hieronimo acted ;" and a note 
 states our "autlior being then present at lier departure." 
 From this Brathwait declared himself "injuriously tra- 
 duced by Mr.W. P. in his IJhlrio-MaslU." iScc Eiii^/is/i 
 Gcnlkiaan, 1G41, p. 109.
 
 INDEXES 
 
 TO THE 
 
 FIRST AND SECOND VOLUMES.
 
 1
 
 4?'il('4''Jp'i^#'3f'l?')!(''j4?i''J?'J''i'''l''"l(''fr'J''i!<''J''}' 
 
 INDEX 
 
 TO 
 
 THE FIRST VOLUME. 
 
 A 
 
 Aberford, 93 
 
 Agonethes, 54 
 
 Advertisement to Cata- 
 logue, 165 
 
 Alerton, 128 
 
 Allane, William, xxx 
 
 Allison, Francis, his con- 
 jecture of the author, 35 
 
 Anatomy of Vanity, 271 
 
 Anniversaries upon his Pa- 
 narete, 309, 321 
 
 Anthony a Wood, 224, 337 
 
 Antidote against Melan- 
 choly, 203 
 
 Apollo laughs, 44 
 
 Appleby, 136 
 
 Arcadian Princess, 330 
 
 Archaica, 168, 323 
 
 Arminian Nunnery, 117 
 
 Ar't asleep Husband? 376 
 
 Arthur's round table, 435 
 
 Art of Poesy, 185 
 
 x'\scham, Wi'lliam, 186 
 
 Astra;a's Tears, 398 
 
 Attorney's clerk surprised, 
 114 
 
 Aviary, a collection of 
 songs, 84 
 
 Ausonius, 25 
 
 Author's Farce, by Field- 
 ing, 68 
 
 B 
 
 Bacco, 110 
 
 Bagford, 47 
 
 Ballad-monger, 296
 
 444 
 
 Ballad of John Doiy, 142 
 Banbury, 78, 86 
 Barnabee's Itincraiy. Of 
 tlio first edition, 1 
 Second edition, 2 
 Third edition, 10 
 Foiirlh edition, 12 
 Fifth edhion, 13 
 Sixth edition, 28 
 Irish edition, 29 
 Seventh edition, 01 
 , Notes upon, 49 
 Barnabre Itinerarium, 406 
 Bamaby, tlie hero's pre- 
 sumed character, 61 
 Barnaby Byndloss, 60 
 Barna})y, a coachman, 64 
 Barnaby Harrington, 7, 15, 
 
 37 
 Barnaby, a maudlin drunk- 
 ard, 52 
 Barnaby, song upon, GCy 
 Bartendale, John, the piper, 
 
 22 
 Bartholomew-fair, 301 
 Bateman, ("hr., 47 
 Bedford, Duke of, 119 
 Bessy Bell, print of, alter- 
 ed, 11 
 Bever hat, value of a, xliii 
 
 Bibliographical Catalogue, 
 163* 
 
 Golden Fleece, 175 
 Poet's Willow, 186 
 Prodigal's Tears, 191 
 Scholar's Medley, 193 
 Strappado for the De- 
 vil, 195 
 •j- Solemn Jovial Dispu- 
 tation, 202 
 •f-Smoaking Age, 211 
 A Good Wife, 226 
 -f-New Spring shadowed 
 in Pithy Poems, 239 
 Essays upon the Five 
 Senses (1620), 249 
 f The Shepheards Tales 
 (1621), 253 
 Nature's Embassy, or 
 Wild -man's Mea- 
 sures, 259 
 Ti me's C urtain Drawn , 
 271 
 f Britain's Bath, 283 
 ■j- Huntsman's Range, 
 284 
 English Gentleman, 
 
 285, 308 
 English Gentlewo- 
 man, 289 
 
 * The articles marked f are now first given to Brath- 
 wait.
 
 445 
 
 f "Whimzies, or a new 
 cast of Characters, 
 291 
 Anniversaries upon his 
 Panarete (1634), 
 309 
 f Ragland's Niobe, 318 
 •j- Anniversaries, &.c. 
 (1635), 321 
 Essays upon the Five 
 Senses (1635), 322 
 Arcadian Princess, 330 
 •}• Lives of all the Ro- 
 man Emperors, 335 
 Survey of History, 337 
 Spiritual Spicery, 340 
 f Psalms of David, 357 
 fAr't asleep Husband? 
 
 376 
 fThe Two Lancashire 
 Lovers, 385 
 The English Gentle- 
 man and English 
 Gentlewoman, 389 
 f Penitent Pilgrim, 394 
 Mercurius Britanni- 
 cus, 397 
 f Astra?a's Tears, 398 
 ^Panaretees Triumph 
 
 (1641), 403 
 ■f BarnabcC Itinerarium, 
 406 
 Time's Treasury, 410 
 
 f Muster Roll of evil 
 
 Angels, 413 
 f Lignum Yitse, 416 
 Honest Ghost, 419 
 f Capital Hereticks, 425 
 -f To his Majesty, 426 
 f Captive Captain, 428 
 Tragi- Comoedia, 431 
 f Comment upon Two 
 Tales of Chaucer, 
 432 
 Bindley, Mr., 223 
 Bindloss, Robert, 175 
 Bliss, Rev. P., 439 
 Bon-socios, 95 
 Bosworth,Wm., his Lovers, 
 
 33 
 Bottle-nos'd Bacchus, 98 
 Boucher'sBiographiaCum- 
 
 berlandire, 16 
 Boulster Lecture, 376 
 Bowes, Sir Geo., xxxiii 
 Bowes, Sir Talbot, ib. 
 Brackley, 89 
 Bradford, 94 
 
 Brathwait, Richard, Life 
 of, ix 
 
 His name, x 
 Family, xi 
 
 Lines to his sisters, xiii 
 Commoner at Oriel 
 
 College, XV 
 Studies the law, xvi
 
 U6 
 
 Writes for the stage, 
 
 xviii 
 Retires toBurncshead, 
 
 xxi 
 Marries, xxv 
 License, xxvi 
 Children, xxviii 
 Writings, xxx 
 Wife dies, xxxiv 
 Marries again, xxxv 
 Loyalty, xxxvii 
 Death, xxxviii 
 Character, xl 
 Brathwait, Richard, author 
 
 of the Itinerary, ;?9 
 BratliAvait, of his birth, 346 
 Cliildhood, :H8 
 Youth, {]\9 
 Pleasures, 351 
 Labours, 352 
 Brathvvait, Stralford, xxxvi 
 Brathwait, Thomas, Esq., 
 
 178, -23^ 
 Brazen-nose College at 
 
 Stamford, 121 
 Bridgwater, Earl of, 272 
 Britains Bath, 283 
 Brown Dozen of Drunk- 
 ards, 51) 
 Brydges, Sir Egerton, 1G8, 
 
 2G9 
 Buckingiiani, Duke of, 9[) 
 Burrowes, Sir John, ib. 
 
 Butts, Henn,', 216 
 Byndloss, family of, 60 
 
 C 
 
 Cambrian Alchymist, an 
 
 Epigram, 77 
 Capitall Heretick, or Evill 
 
 Angels, 425 
 Captive Captain, or Re- 
 straint Cavalier, 428 
 Care's Cure, or a figg for 
 
 Care, 273 
 Carouse Canto, 209 
 Cartvvright, William, 80 
 Cai)tious reader addressed, 
 
 198 
 Cat hanged on Monday, 80 
 Catch upon Barnaby, 63 
 Cater Ciuuacter, 302 
 Catterick, manor of, xxxviii 
 Cent-foot, 102 
 Characters described, 292 
 CharaclerofaCotteclIouse, 
 
 109 
 Charles I., xxix, 21, 39, 72, 
 
 73, 408 
 Charles II., xxix, 420 
 Chaucer, 432 
 Chaucer's incensed Ghost, 
 
 218 
 Clievy Chace, 12 
 ('iioiceCiil)iiietCounsel,430 
 Christian Diall, 344
 
 447 
 
 Christmas Carols, 297 
 
 Clapham, 96 
 
 Clericus, 55 
 
 Cleveland, John, 88 
 
 Clitus, xxix, 292 
 
 Cokain, Sir A., 80 
 
 Collations of the text of the 
 Itinerary : 
 
 Second edition, 149 
 Third edition, 157 
 Fom-th edition, 159 
 Fifth edition, 160 
 
 Comments upon Two Tales 
 of Chaucer, 432 
 
 Contemplations, 325 
 
 Conventicle rap, 81 
 
 Coombe, John, 237 
 
 Corbet, Bishop, 88 
 
 Coriate, Tom, 99 
 
 Cotton, Charles, 66 
 
 Coventry, 103 
 
 Courtenay, Mr., 85 
 
 Cranes, Three, 109 
 
 Crofts, Roger, xxxv, xxxviii 
 
 Curtain Lecture, 380 
 
 D 
 
 Darcy, H., Esq., xxxviii 
 Dalston, Sir Christ., 402 
 Dapper Dick, xliv 
 Deuteromeha, 142 
 Divine and Moral Satires, 
 2S1 
 
 Digby, S. Kenelm, 35 
 
 Drayton, 25, 96 
 
 Drink-hard Helluoh, 53 
 
 Drunkards, their names, 
 53—9 
 
 Drunken Barnaby, proba- 
 ble origin of, 3 
 
 Drunken Barnabee, his cha- 
 racter, 53 
 
 Drunken Dick the Gull- 
 Gallant, 54 
 
 Drunkenness, its eflPect, 51 
 
 Don Quixot, 54 
 
 Dolben, Sir William, 85 
 
 Dorinda, lines to, 76 
 
 Dory, John, 142 
 
 Ducket, Sir F., 239 
 
 Dugdale, 125 
 
 D'Urfey, Tom, 99 
 
 Dyets Dry Dinner, 216 
 E 
 
 Eels of large size, 123 
 
 Eldcrton, tippling, 62 
 
 English Gentleman, 285, 
 308 
 
 English Gentlewoman, 289 
 
 EngUsliGentlemanandEn- 
 glish Gentlewoman, 389 
 
 Epitaphs, 62, 237, 316, 400, 
 401 
 
 Essay:^ ui)on tlie Five Senses, 
 249, 322 
 
 Essays continued, 324
 
 448 
 
 Fairies, 435 
 
 Fanny, epitaphs on, 316 
 Fauconberg, Lord, 340 
 Fen*ars, Nicholas, his nun- 
 nery, 116 
 Fielding, Henry, 68 
 Fincli, John, 34 
 Flitch of bacon, 434 
 Foramen Saric, 122 
 Franks, i\Ir., 84 
 Freeling, F., Esq., 439 
 
 G 
 
 Gainsford, SirT., Knt., 273 
 
 Garestang, 139 
 
 Gay, 26 
 
 Gent's History of York, 
 
 16, 22 
 Gidding, Little, nunnery 
 
 at, 116 
 Giggk'swick, 95 
 Golden Fleece, 175 
 Gottam, 90 
 Grantham, 124 
 Green, I'nink, 103 
 Greene, Robert, xxxi 
 Guests of three nights, 135 
 Gypsies, a mas(]ue, 65 
 
 II 
 
 Ilannay, Patrick, 225 
 Happy Husband, 225 
 
 Harrington, town-piece so 
 
 called, 23, 24 
 Ilaviland, John, the printer, 
 
 74 
 Hauxide, 137 
 Hearne,Toni, his testimony 
 
 of the Author, 47, 118 
 Heber, R., Esq., 439 
 Heggc, Mr., xxiii 
 Henry VIII., 129 
 Henry Prince of Wales, 
 
 111, 187 
 Herbert, Lord and Lady, 
 
 318 
 Hibbert, G., Esq., 223, 439 
 High Court of Requests, 44 
 Highgate, 107 
 Hill, Sir Richard, 85 
 Ilobbinalls Galliard, 264 
 Hogg, James, his Jacobite 
 
 Relics, 85 
 Hollar, 125 
 Holy Memorials, 346 
 Honour, Character of, 412 
 Huntsman's Range, 284 
 Hutchinson's Durham, 16 
 Hutton, Sir Ricl ard, 191, 
 
 253, 398, 4tX) 
 Hutton, Sir Timothy, xxix 
 
 I 
 
 lacco. 111 
 
 John a Gaunt, 100
 
 U9 
 
 Jonson, Ben, 35, 37, 64, 
 
 65, 79 
 Islington, 107 
 
 K 
 
 Kendall, 130, 141 
 
 Ladies Love-Lecture, 392 
 
 Lapwing, 45 
 
 Laurence, 54 
 
 Lawson, Jas. , xxii, xxiv, 1 29 
 
 Lawson, Johanna, 129 
 
 Leland, 120, 141 
 
 Levity of Woman, a poem, 
 
 268 
 Lignum Vita?, 416 
 Lives of Koman Emperors, 
 
 335 
 Lonesdale, 139 
 Love's Choice, 329 
 Love's Description, 388 
 Love's Labyrinth, 199 
 Love's Legacy, 325 
 Loyall Pheander, 74 
 
 iVI 
 
 Mab, Queen, 435 
 Malton, 135 
 Malt-worm, 131 
 Marlow, Christopher, 34 
 
 [arriage, Ch( 
 
 ters of, 287 
 
 Marsh, his mickle Monu- 
 ment, 145 
 Marshall, W,, 19, 204, 212, 
 289, 322, 330, 335, 337, 
 357, 376, 390, 394, 398 
 Marston, John, MS. poem 
 
 by, 96 
 May-games, Sec, 304 
 ^McrcuriusBritannicus, 397 
 Middlam, 130 
 Middleton, Sir II., 20, 111 
 3Iill, Humphry, 195 
 INIolineux, Viscount, 402 
 ^Morocco, Empress of, 142 
 Mortimeriados, 92 
 Musgrave, Sir Richard, 199 
 Musophilus, xiii, 232, 239, 
 
 240, 262, 263 
 Muster Roll of Evill An- 
 gells, 413 
 
 N 
 Nature's Embassy, 259 
 Newfounded College, 116 
 New Inn, a comedy, 64 
 Nesham, xxxv, 128 
 New Spring shadowed ia 
 sundry Pithy Poems, 239 
 Nicholson, Allen, 138 
 Norton, Ma., Esq., xxxvi 
 
 O 
 
 Oberon, King, 435 
 
 G
 
 450 
 
 Odes, or Philomel's Tears, 
 
 269 
 Of the Title, 59 
 Omphale, or the Inconstant 
 
 Sheplierdess, 267 
 Onions used by widows, 44 
 Orlando Viirioso, 105 
 Ovle of malt, 44 
 
 Panarete's IJlcssing, 325 
 Triumph, 403 
 
 Park,Thomas, Esq.,1 8, 226 
 
 Parnassus Biceps, 88 
 
 Passionate Pilgrim, 345 
 
 Pedler, 303 
 
 Pembroke, Earl of, 391 ,4 1 1 
 
 Penitent Pilgrim, 394 
 
 Perrj', James, Esq., 439 
 
 Philaretus, 327 
 
 IMiilautus, 55 
 
 IMiilomfl's Tears, 269 
 
 I'iper that was lianged, 22 
 
 Pithy Poems, 239 
 
 Playford's ^Musical Com- 
 panion, 1-13 
 
 Poetam 1 Iipi)odramum, 71 
 
 Poet's Willow, 186 
 
 I'oints in dross of women 
 insecure, i»l 
 
 l»()mfret, 21 
 
 I'ostscript, humoiuous, 379 
 
 Poulterers, 43 
 
 Precisian's cat, 80 
 
 Precisian, reply to, 343 
 
 Preston, 101 
 
 Preston, Sir Thomas, 422 
 
 Prcstwick, Edmund, 65 
 
 Prior, 26 
 
 Prodigal's Tears, 191 
 
 Proverb, Stamford, 122 
 
 Prynne, "William, 167, 440 
 
 Psalms of David, 357 
 
 Queen's College, 7, 16 
 Queen's College horn, 89 
 
 Raddine, Sir Alex., 303 
 ]{agland's Kiobe, 318 
 Uaieigh, Sir W., 35 
 Kalph of IJrainford, 206 
 llandoljih, 79 
 lia\ en, a choice Collection, 
 
 84 
 Redcap, INFotlier, 108 
 Remains after Death, 230 
 Retford, 127 
 Rhe, Isle of, 99 
 Richnnmd, 129, 140 
 Rigby, Alex., Esq., 213, 
 
 386 
 Ril)pon, 1:56 
 
 Ititson, Josc'pli, 18, 84, 144 
 Robin Hood's Well, 127
 
 451 
 
 Rose, 101 
 
 Rowland's Itinerary, 86 
 
 Royston, 112 
 
 Rubens, 39 
 
 Rumming, Ellenor, 109 
 
 Rustica Academiiu Oxoni- 
 ensis, a poem by 13. un- 
 published, 407 
 
 S 
 Saint Alban, 107 
 iampson, William, 82 
 Sapphics, 188 
 Scliolar's Medley, 193 
 Settle, Elkanah, 142 
 Shepheards Tales (1621), 
 
 263 
 Shrew, character of, 2jO 
 Sidney, Sir Philip, 35 
 Sip-Sobrius, 55 
 Skimmington, 102 
 Skinkers, 106 
 Smoaking Age, 211 
 Snyders, 39 
 Solemn Jovial Disputation, 
 
 202 
 Song — Hey, Barnaby ! 7, 
 
 9, 18, 55, 68 
 Song on Presbyterian Cat, 
 
 83 
 Sonnets or Madrigals, 178 
 Southampton, Earl of, 1 94, 
 
 338 
 
 2g 
 
 Southampton, Countess of, 
 
 338 
 Southey, Mr., 409 
 Spencer, Ediiiund, 35 
 Spermologus, 55 
 Spiritual Spicery, 340 
 Stamford, 120 
 Staveley, 97 
 StonL'gate-hoIe, 113 
 Stonour, Will., Esq., 336 
 Strafford, Earl of, 410 
 
 , Countess of, 412 
 Strappaduforthe Divel,195 
 Stratford, 103 
 Suckling, Sir John, 143 
 Swift, 14 
 
 Syddall, Rev. Michall, xxxv 
 Sylvan charm, 433 
 
 Tadcaster, 127 
 
 Taylor, John, SI 
 
 Teniers, 39 
 
 Thornton, William, Esq , 
 xxxv 
 
 Threnode, 189 
 
 Time's Curtain Drawn, 271 
 
 Time's Treasury, 410 
 
 Tippling Barnaby's cha- 
 racter, 51 
 
 Tmolus, 43 
 
 Tom Tell-troth, 55 
 
 Tom Trouble-to wne, 54 
 
 2
 
 452 
 
 Tragi- Comoedla, &c., 425 
 Transliitor, 75 
 Tu quoqne, 'J32 
 Turner, Sir Charles, 129 
 Turtle's Triumph, S93 
 Two Lancashire Lovers, 
 
 385 
 
 U 
 Vale, 134 
 Vandunk's four Humours, 
 
 209 
 Vavasor, Sir Walter, Bart., 
 
 344 
 Vaughan, Ro., 28G, 41 G 
 Vernon, Judge, Epitaph 
 
 upon, 401 
 Voltaire, 14 
 Upon the Errata, 40, 41, 
 
 43, 292, 3:H 
 
 W 
 
 Wakefield, 93 
 Wakes, Sec, 304 
 Ware, 111 
 
 Wandesford, Sir Christo- 
 pher, xxxvi 
 
 Wansforth Briggs, 21, 118 
 Wharton, Lord, 199 
 Whimzies, or new CJiarac- 
 
 ters, 291 
 Wlioop l>arnal)y, 63, 65 
 Whyte, Lawrence, 144 
 Wife, a good, 226 
 Wild-man's Measures, 259 
 Wilson, Edward, knew the 
 
 Author, xliv, 48, 139 
 Wimble-tree, ali-ass Heeler, 
 
 53 
 Wintovr, Sir John, 432 
 Witham, 123 
 
 Wither, Geo., 167, 236, 260 
 Woodhouse, Vise, 410 
 Worcester, Earl of, 331 
 Wordsworth, C, 118 
 Worm, a favourite meta- 
 phor by Brathwait, 131, 
 375 
 Wouvermans, 39 
 Wrightson, Mr., 129 
 
 Y 
 
 Yclvcrton, Sir Ilcniy, 249
 
 AN INDEX 
 
 TO 
 
 THE SECOND VOLUME, 
 
 OF 
 
 THE MEN, PLACES, SIGNS, &c. 
 MENTIONED IN 
 
 THE ITINERARY. 
 
 Aberford, 57, 351 
 Actors at Redburne, 159 
 Address to Alexander, 5 
 Adckess to the Traveller, 9 
 Address to the Translator, 
 
 11 
 Address to Philoxenus, 431 
 Albane, IGl, 359 
 Alder-bury, at the Axe, 171 
 Alerton, 303, 381 
 a^lexander, address to, 5, 99 
 Amwell, 203 
 Appleby, 387 
 Arden, Kate, surpassed in 
 
 wautoaness, 59 
 Ashton, 105, 407 
 
 Askrig, 327, 371 
 
 Attorney's clerk, story of, 
 225 
 
 Author marries, 309; for- 
 sakes youthful pranks, 
 369 
 
 Author's address on this 
 three days' task, 7 
 
 Ayscarth, 321, 371 
 
 B 
 
 Bacchus' Buih and Barna- 
 bee's Nose, upon, 85 
 
 Bacchus laughs with Apol- 
 lo once a year, 401 
 
 Biiinbrig, 325, 371 
 
 Baubery, 23, 349
 
 454^ 
 
 Banister, a noted Inn- 
 keeper at Preston, 109 
 
 Barnet,the Bears made him 
 bewray himself, 1G3, 359 
 
 Bautrce, 269, S55 
 
 Bedford, ;>59 
 
 Bekensfield, 3G7 
 
 Bessy Bell, a Ballad, 431 
 
 Bevar's Vale, 2G1 
 
 Bracklcv, 31, 319 
 
 Bradford, (i:>, 351 
 
 Bramliam, '283 
 
 Brickhill, 153, 359 
 
 Bruarlon, a merry Story, 
 133, 36-5 
 
 Budworth, 119, 35 1 
 
 Buntinjrford, 209, 363 
 
 Burleigh, 245 
 
 Burton, 371, 391 
 
 Cambridge, 215, 353 
 Cardinal's Ilaf, 175 
 Carperby, 313, 371 
 Castle under IJne, 355 
 Caxslon, 213, 353 
 Cliajjpell, 3(;-5 
 Chester, 349 
 Chichester, 'MO 
 Claphaui, 71, :5')'7 
 Claud of lb iiarton, 133 
 Clothram, 3(j7 
 Clowne, 51, 3G7 
 
 Cole's harbour, 329 
 Colesill, 137, 365 
 Conicatcliing at Ilodsdon, 
 
 201 
 Corollarie, 87 
 Coventre, for blue, 141, 
 
 365 
 Cowbrow, 77, 409 
 Cranes, Three, 173 
 Cudworth, 351 
 
 D 
 
 Daintre, 33, 145, 349 
 Dalton, 389 
 Darlington, 309, 381 
 Delia, honey-suckle, 127 
 Doncaster, 55, 271, 367 
 Dorv, John, danced w ith, 
 
 417 
 Drover, commences, 373 
 Dunchurch, 143, 359 
 Dunstable, 157, 359 
 
 E 
 
 Echo at Burleigh, 247 
 
 Edglay, :iG5 
 
 Ei)liesi;ni Diana not more 
 
 renowned than Barnaby, 
 
 187 
 Errata's, ni)on the, 179, 
 
 425 
 Euxston, 111, 351
 
 455 
 
 Fairs, Plorse, S75 
 
 Northern, 379 
 
 — — — Tramontane, 385 
 Family of Sisters, 65 
 Farewell taken of all the 
 
 places he drank at, 349 
 
 —371 
 Ferry brig, 277, 371 
 Fortune, uncared for, 189 
 
 G 
 
 Gadshill, 355 
 
 Gandy, Tom, 121 
 
 Garestang, 107, 391 
 
 Gastile, 331, 371 
 
 Giggleswick, 69, 353 
 
 Godmanchester, 219, 361, 
 425 
 
 Godsto, 27 
 
 Gottam, 37, 353 
 
 Green, (Frank) of Strat- 
 ford, the beauty, 151 
 
 Greene, George-a-, only a 
 Sign, 63, 365 
 
 Griffin in the Old Bailev, 
 171 
 
 Grantham, spire to be trans- 
 lated to St. Paul's, 257, 
 367, 448 
 
 H 
 
 Hair become hoary, 369 
 
 Hardraw, 329, 371 
 
 Hamngton, 223, 353, 425 
 Harts-horns, 175 
 Hauxide, 389 
 Hay-cock, voyage on a, 
 
 243 
 Haywood, 129, 365 
 Helperby, 297, 376 
 Highgate, 165, 355 
 Hocklavhole, 155 
 Hockley, 349 
 Hodsdon, 201, 353 
 Holborne-b ridge, 171 
 Hollowell, 167, 349 
 Holme Chappell, 121 
 Horn of Matriculation, 165 
 Horne-alley at AVetherbe, 
 
 59 
 Horneby, 393 
 Horse-fairs, 375 
 Huntington, 221, 353 
 
 Index of this work, 13 
 Ingleforth, 391 
 Ingleton, 73, 367 
 John, Little, 39 
 John a Gant, 103 
 Islington, 169, 193, 361 
 Juggler, 169 
 
 K 
 
 Kendall, 81, 337, 415 
 Kighley, 67, 351
 
 456 
 
 KilHngton, 335, 371 
 
 Kingslaiul, 195, C>01 
 
 Kirklaiul, 81, 413 
 
 Knavesmirc, Pijx.n- hanged, 
 and plavcd afterwards, 
 291 
 
 L 
 
 Lancaster, r,cat of old, 389 
 
 Leicester, 35, 349 
 
 Lemnian Lydia, 357 
 
 Levite, at DtMicaster, 55 
 
 Lichfield, he borro\ved mo- 
 ney of an old usurer, 
 135, 365 
 
 Licorice, choicest, 279 
 
 Lines ' upon this work,' 7 
 
 Lion at Islington, 10"9 
 
 Little John, 'J9 
 
 London, 165, 193, 361 
 
 Lonesdale, 75, 395 
 
 Lousy Hill, 305 
 
 Lysander, 101 
 
 i\r 
 
 Maidenly John, 325 
 Malton, 375 
 Mansfield, 41, 349 
 Maypole at Natland, 79 
 Mayor and Lawyer, at 
 
 Doncastcr, 271 
 IMerbunie, 371 
 Mercdin, merry with Iiis 
 
 Landlady Joan, 139, 30"5 
 
 INIiddlam, 319, 383 
 3Iiddleton's wealth, 203" 
 Milton, 353 
 jMortimer's glory, 39 
 ]Mother Ked-cap's, at Hol- 
 lowell, 167 
 
 N 
 Natland, 79, 411 
 Kesham, for its Nunnery 
 
 famous, 307, 405 
 Newcastle-u nder-Line, 1 25 
 Newfounded College, 233 
 Newton in theAVillo ws, 115, 
 
 351 
 New Troy (London), sights 
 
 of, 165, 361 
 New-worke, 157, 261 
 Northern Fairs, 379 
 Northerne Journey, First) 
 
 part, 17 
 
 , Second part, 89 
 
 , Tiiird part, 183 
 
 , Fourth part, 339 
 
 Nottingham, 39, 349 
 
 O 
 
 Old Bayly, 171 
 Orlando, mad as, 155 
 Oswald, 199, 361 
 ()verl)0\vles, 13 
 Ouston, 389 
 Oxford, 25, 307
 
 457 
 
 Penrith, 387 
 
 Pheander's address, 5 
 
 Philoxenus, address to, 431 
 
 Pimlico, 359 
 
 Pinner choaked with pin- 
 dust, 57 
 
 Piper, condemned, story of, 
 291 
 
 Players at Redburne, 159 
 
 Pomfret, 279, 379 
 
 Proselyta, his woman at 
 Daintree married, 145 
 
 Preacher, witli nose pot- 
 tipt, 45 
 
 Preston, 109, 351 
 
 Puckridge, 207, 353 
 
 Puritans ridiculed, at Ban- 
 berry, 23 
 
 ', at Doncaster, 55 
 
 , at Bradford, 65 
 
 ; at Newcastle~un- 
 der-line, 125 
 
 Q 
 
 Queene's College Horn, 
 
 25 
 
 R 
 Race at Bramham, 283 
 Rainesford, buried, the 
 
 Prelate, 231 
 Ravinglass, 389 
 Reader, address to the, 446 
 
 Redburne, 159 
 Redmeere, 313, 371 
 Ree, Isle of, 101 
 Retford, 265, 359 
 Richmund, 311, 405 
 Ridgelay, 131, 365 
 Rippon, 377 
 Robin Hood, 39; his Well, 
 
 273, 359 
 Roiston, 211, 333 
 Rosamund's Tomb, 27 
 Rose, a dainty pearl at 
 
 Newton, 115 
 Rose in Plolborne, 171 
 Rosington, 359 
 Roslay, 387 
 Rothram, 53, 367 
 Rozinant, wearied, 195 
 
 Sara's Hole, 251 
 
 Sautry, 231, 355 
 
 Scarlet, Robin Hood's 
 Man, 39 
 
 Scrubie, 265, 355 
 
 Sedbergh, 333, 371 
 
 Sherburne, 281, 371 
 
 Sherwood, 39 
 
 Signs particularly named: 
 Axe, Alderbury, 171 
 Bell, Leister, io 
 Bell, Stone, 127 
 Bull, Rothram, 53
 
 458 
 
 Cardinal's Tint, 175 
 Cock, Ikulwoith, 119 
 Georcje - a - (jvecnc, 
 
 "SVakcficld, 61 
 Griphin, Old Bayly, 
 
 171 
 Hole i'th' Wall, Stam- 
 ford, 249 
 Lion, Islington, 1C9 
 MothcrlUd Cap, IIol- 
 
 lowcU, H)7 
 Tursc, IJarnt't, 16';5 
 Rose in llolborne, 171 
 Three Cranes [Vin- 
 
 try], 17:5 
 Vine -l)nsli, Cam- 
 bridge, "21 3 
 Smcton, 'Mil, 311 
 St. A 1 ban's, KJl, ?,59 
 Stamford, 249, 355 
 Staveley, S3, 419 
 Stella, more fresh than an 
 
 apple, 3G5 
 Stiltoji, 2;37, 353 
 Stone, 127, 365 
 Stonegatchole, story of At- 
 torney's clerk, 225 
 Stratford, a Crcen head 
 gray, 151, .'551 
 
 Tadcaster, 2H5, 
 Taulield, 3-10 
 
 371 
 
 Tanke-a-Hill, 123, 357 
 Theobald's, 199, SGI 
 Thvrsk, SOI, S79 
 Tickhill, S59 
 Tnioliis cups, 423 
 Tobacco vended, 177 
 Topclitf, 299, S79 
 Tosseter, where he sate up 
 
 all night, 149, S51 
 Tot' nam High Cross, 197, 
 
 ;55S 
 Towlerton, 295, 371 
 Tra-montane Fairs, 385 
 Translator, to the, 1 1 
 Traveller, to the, 9 
 Troy, New, 165, 361 
 Tuxworlh, 2()S, SG7 
 Tweak to a Captain, 59 
 
 U 
 
 Venus, veins of, 181 
 Uxi)ridgc, SG7 
 
 Wademill, 205, 355 
 Wakefield, 63 
 Wakelield Tinder, Gl, 3G5 
 Waldon, 3G7 
 Waltham Cross, 199, 3G1 
 "SVanstbrth-brigs, 239 
 AVare, 20S, 355 
 Warrington, 117, 351 
 Weavei-, a fuming, 289 
 
 I
 
 459 
 
 Wedon, 147 
 Wenchly, 317, 371 
 Wentbrig, 275, 371 
 Wetherbe, 59, 349 
 Wiggin, 113, 351 
 Witham, noted for eels, 
 
 255, 367 
 Wolf, proverb of the, 287 
 Woodstock, 29 
 "Worton, 323, 371 
 
 York, where he lay with 
 
 the Weaver's wife, 287, 
 
 369 
 Young, the Tobacconist, 
 
 177 
 Younger, Tom, the eighth 
 
 wise man of Greece, 
 
 153 
 
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