UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 
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 BIBLiOGRAPlIIA - POETIC A: 
 
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 CATALOGUE 
 
 OF 
 
 ENGLEISH POETS, 
 
 OF THE 
 
 TWELFTH, THIRTEENTH, FOURTEENTH, 
 
 FIFTEENTH, AND SIXTEENTH, 
 
 CENTURYS, 
 
 WITH A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THEIR 
 WORKS. 
 
 Invenias etiam disjecti incmhra poetce. 
 
 HORATIUS. 
 
 LONDON : 
 
 PRINTED BY C. ROWORTH, HUDSONS-COURT^ 
 
 FOR G. AND W. NICOL, BOOKSELERS TO HIS 
 
 MAJESTY, PEL-MEL. 
 
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 .ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 1 HE idea of the prefent publication was origi- 
 nally fuggefted in the courfe of a converfation 
 with the late George Steevens efquire, of whofe 
 familiar acquaintance the editour is proud to boaft j 
 and whofe rich and wel-fele6ted library, fup- 
 ply'd the title of many a rare and curious volume. 
 In the courfe of the performance the corapileer 
 has been indebted to the bibliographical labours 
 of Leland, Bale, Pitts, Wood, and Tanner ; in 
 a flight degree, to Wartons ingenious, though too 
 frequently inaccurate, "^ History of Englifli poe- 
 tr)^;" and, above all, to the elaborate "^Typo- 
 graphical antiquities" of Ames, as enlarge'd and 
 improve'd by the industrious Herbert ; and to 
 which his own tranfcript of tlie registers of the 
 ftationers-company, obligeingly furniih'd by
 
 11 ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 mister Chalmers, has prove'd an admirable fup- 
 plement. The original books, however, have, 
 in numerous inftancees, been actually infpefted ; 
 and a confiderable number, as wel of authours, 
 as of works (unknown to all former collectors 
 upon this fubjet5t), has been retrieve'd from la- 
 tent obfcurity. That the compilation is more 
 extenfive, accurate, and minute, than it other- 
 wife could have been, is oweing to tlie kind at- 
 tention, and literary exertions, of a very learned 
 and ingenious friend, to whom the publick is not 
 lefs indebted than the editour. 
 
 For the dramatick poets, of whom the inquifi- 
 tive reader wil meet with few tracees in this ca- 
 talogue, he is refer'd to the valuable republica- 
 tion of Bakers " Companion to the play-houfe," 
 under the title of " Biograp/iia (Iratnafica," by 
 mister Ifaac Reed, with which tlic prefent work 
 is, in no refped, intended to interfere.
 
 POETS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 TWELFTH CENTURY. 
 
 GODRIC SAINT, born at Walpole, in Norfolk, 
 and, for the fpace of fixty years, a hermit at 
 Finchale, near Durham, where he dyed in 1 170, 
 feems, in that retirement, to have compofed a 
 h}Tnn, which he ufed frequently to chant, pretend- 
 ing, in the genuine fpirit of his profesfion, that it 
 had been originally dictated and fung to him by 
 " the moft blefsed mother of god," who recom- 
 mended it as a folace in pain or temptation,* and 
 which, being, certainly, one of the moft ancient 
 fpecimens of Englifh poctiy now extant, is here 
 con-e6tly given, from a collation of feveral mauu- 
 fcriptsf , in fome of which it is accompanyed with 
 the mulical notes. 
 
 * See Capgraves Nova legenda Anglic, i ? 1 6 , fo. 1 6 1 . He 
 exprefsly fays, it was " ritfmice in ylnglico comi>ofitum." 
 t Bib. Reg. 5 F. VII. Bib. Bar. 321. 
 
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 2 POETS OF THE 
 
 " Sainte Marie [ckne] virgine, 
 
 Moder Jhefu Criftes Nazarene, 
 
 On fo*, fchild, help Jjin Godric, 
 
 On fang bring hegilich pi^ fe in godes riche. 
 
 Sainte Marie, Chriftes bur. 
 Maidens clenhad, moderes flur, 
 Dilie min (inne,f rix in min mod. 
 Bring me to pinne wi^ fe felfd god."i 
 
 Another of his compofitions appears to be a 
 ftanza fung to him by the fpiritof his lister, which 
 had been fent down from heaven, under the care 
 o'f a couple of angels, to asfure him of its being 
 
 * ^Uter On fong. 
 
 ■|- ^Hter fcnncn. 
 
 \ By the asfisunce of the latin vcrficns one is enabled 
 to give it literally in Englifli, as follows : Saint Mary, 
 [chafte] virgin, mother of Jcfus Chrift of Nazareth, 
 take, fhield, help, thy Godric ; take, bring him quickly 
 with thee into gods kingdom. Saint Mary, Chrifts 
 chamber, purity of a maiden, flower of a mother, deftroy 
 my fin, reign in my mind, bring me to dwel with the 
 only god. 
 
 See alfo Mntthxi Parifienftt Hijioria, pp.119. 1 20. Edit. 
 1640 ; and Nero D. V.
 
 TWELFTH CENTURY. 3 
 
 in the enjoyment of celestial blifs.* The original 
 words and mufick, with the chorus of the at- 
 
 • The faint is exceedingly anxious to know the fen- 
 tence of his fister, who had lately dyed a reclufe at Dur- 
 ham. " Cum igitur vigiliit &f orationihus indefinenter inhtc- 
 reretf •uidil duos %>eneranda canitiei Jcnes, fracedenle beata dti 
 genetrice Maria, ecclejiam ejusdem virginis introire : qui matro- 
 nam inter ft nobiliif.tnum, fupra folis radium "vullu Hf iiejiium 
 cuitu rutilantemy deiluxerunl ; Winter mariuslcvantei Juper crt^ 
 fidinem altarii reverenter locavirunt . ^uam vis fanftus Jill' 
 gentes intuens. . . joror, ait, dulciijima, qUiC cauja adventut 
 tui, out quibui ex oris hue advenisti. Cui ilia : Mifit ad tt 
 idcirco me deus, ne de cett^o de me fis Jolicitus, non enlm tormenta 
 fed gaudia me tenent fempiterna, ^ mirabiliter fedts meos ita 
 fcabellirat, quod illis terram t.tngerc etiamji velim nun liceat. Ilia 
 igitur vocem extulit Sf dulci modulamine cantus intentum mi- 
 rantis fratris dtmulcebat audilum. Er^t vera canticum': 
 
 Ne pede calcarem terrze contagia mundo, 
 Sic mea me domina deduxit landla Maria. 
 
 Duo quoque -viri, quorum u'lus dexieram altaris, alter finistram 
 tenuit, libellos hahentes in manil.ui, pluudcbant etiam ii i>oct 
 juhilaiionis, &" diccbant, Kvrie eleyfon, Christe tleyfon. 
 lUisque tacentibus, iila canticum fuum refetiit, CS eu con icente 
 illi Jubjunxerunt, Kyrie eleyion, Christe elc)fon. Cum 
 igitur diutts/ime alternii laudum prieconiis defervisfent , Jurjum 
 in aera conicendcunt ; & quo divertcbant nulla '.lestigia re- 
 liquerunt." Vita S. Godrici (Afta SS. Mali, toinus V, 
 p. 77). See alio Capgiave Nova legenda j^nglie, fo 
 i6z. 
 
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 4 POETS OF THE 
 
 tendantangds, are likewife fortunately prefervcd.* 
 
 The words are thefe : 
 
 " Crift and fainte Marie fpa on fcamel me iledde 
 J>at ic on ])is erde ne lilde pi^ mine bare fotc 
 itredde."f 
 
 The cboms is Kyrle elei/son, &c. 
 
 A third hymn, by this poetical faint, extant with 
 
 the original mufick, in the fame manufcript, is the 
 
 following : 
 
 " SainTc Nicholaes, godes druS, 
 
 Tymbre uf faire fcone hus. 
 
 At |ji burrh, ar fi bare, 
 
 Sainre Nicholaes, bring vs wel ])arc." 
 
 HENRY, a monk of Saltry in Huntingdon- 
 fliire, wrote, according to Warton, "Of a knight, 
 " called fir Oweyn, vifiting faint Pati'icks pur- 
 gatory:" he refers to Bibi. Rodl. MSS. Bod/. 
 550. MSS. Cott. Nero. A. vii. 4. This poem 
 
 * 5 F. VII. 
 
 t That is, Chrift and Mary, thus fupportcd, have 
 me brought, that i on this earth fhould not with my bare 
 foot tread. 
 
 J That is, Saint Nicholas, gods lover, build us a fair 
 >>eautiful houfc. At thy birth, at thy bier, St. Nicholas, 
 brine; us (:ifi.lv thither. 
 
 li //■. F.. P. II, Kmen. &:ad. fig. k 3, 6.
 
 TWELFTH CENTURY. 5 
 
 (" Owayne miles") of which there is a copy in the 
 Cot. MS. Calilgiila A. II. may, undoubtedly, be 
 a translation of Henrys Latin profe, butfhould not 
 have been confounded with it. * 
 
 GULDEVORD JOHN DE wrote, in Englifh 
 verfe, " La pasfi/un Jhefu Criji en Engleys" 
 (begining " I hereth you one lutele tale tliat ich 
 eu wille telle"); T/ie contention of the oul and 
 the nightingale (begining " Ich was in one 
 fumere dale) ; Of the woman of Samaria, &c. all 
 extant in a manufcript of Jefus-college, Oxford 
 (Num. 76). The contention of the owl and the 
 nightingale is, likewife, preferred in a manufcript 
 of the Cotton-library (Caligula. A. IX.) and, pos- 
 liblely, the other fhort Englilh poems in diat ma- 
 nufcript may be by the fame hand. 
 
 The Oxford catalogue feems to be bifliop Tan- 
 ners fole authority for afcribeing the contents of 
 the Jefus-college MS. to John de Guldevord, as 
 he does not appear to have perfonally examined it. 
 In faft, one Nichole (or Nicholas) f of Gulde- 
 forde (Guildford) is twice named in The con- 
 
 * The adventures of Mila Genus, in Saint Patricks pur- 
 gatory, are related by Matthew I'aris, under the year 
 1153. 
 
 f Warton, on thisoccafion, calls \\\n\Jokn. 
 
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 POETS OF THE 
 
 tention of the owl and the nightingale, not, in- 
 deed, as the poet, but as a fage perfon, an accom- 
 plifhed finger, and a fit judge of their controverfy . 
 He is mentioned to refide at Portes-hom in Dor- 
 fetfhire : but the language is not every- where 
 perfe6tly intelligible. It appeals, however, by 
 fome lines cited from the Jefus MS. in The his- 
 tory of En glijh foefry (volume 1, page 25), that 
 John de Guldevorde was actually the author of 
 " la pasfyon J/iii Criji en Engleys :" and, pro- 
 bablely, Nicholas was his brother. Mr. Warton 
 fays that " the whole MS.confilting of many de- 
 tached pieces both in verfe and profe, was per- 
 haps written in the reign of Henry the fixth :" 
 which is highly improbable. The Cotton one, at 
 leaft, is of the thirteenth century. 
 
 HAMILLAN is a name introduced merely for 
 the purpufe of correfting the misreprefentation of 
 Winftanlry. " Should we," fays that il-informed 
 and inaccurate writer, " forget the learned Ha- 
 millan, our book would be thought to be imper- 
 fect, fo terfe and fluent was his verfe, of which 
 we fliall give you two examples, the one out of 
 Mr. John Speed his defcription of Devon . . . 
 The other out of Mr. Wcever his Funeral ?no- 
 numrnts." Thefe examples are, doubtlefs, afto- 
 nifliingly " terfe and fluent" for the age alluded
 
 TWELFTH CENTURY. 7 
 
 to, being, in fa6t, good translations, in the Alex- 
 andrine metre of Drayton, and, very Jirobablely, 
 by that poet himfclf, from the Latin hexameters 
 of old Hanvillan, or Hanvill, quoted in Camdens 
 Britannia, and more at large in his Remaincs. 
 
 LAWEMAN, LAYAMON, or LAZAMON, 
 a priefl at Ernleye upon Severn, translated the 
 ilory of Brute, or old fabulous Britilh hiftory, 
 from the French of maistrc Wace, a Norman 
 poet, native of the iland of Jerfey, who finiflied 
 his work in 115.5*. This moft ancient poem is 
 preferved in a MS. of the Cotton-library (Caligixla, 
 A. IX.) extrafts from which, as well as from a 
 different and fomewhat modernifed copy (Otho. 
 C. XIII. defti'oyed by the fire of I73i), may be 
 feen in the learned Wanleys catalogue of Saxon 
 
 • Mr. Tyrwhitt, upon the authority of Huet, fays 
 his name was /Jo^:;r/ ; which is, atfciyrate, improbable, 
 and, moft likely, untrue : as, in the firft place, a double 
 name (the latter not being from the place of birth or 
 refidcnce) would be a lingular circumftancc in that re- 
 mote age, and, fecondly, IVace or Gace was actually a 
 Chriftian name ; there being two other ancient poets fo 
 called, viz.. Gaces Brule, and Guces de Vigne. Many copys, 
 as wel of this poem, as of others by the fame venerable 
 bard, being the moft ancient in the French language, 
 are ftil extant. 
 
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 8 POETS OF THE 
 
 MSS.* The language of this work is nearly- 
 Saxon, and the ftyle that of the Saxon poetry 
 without rime ; the MS. being writen, as ufual, 
 like profe. 
 
 ORM, or ORMIN, vTote a paraphrafe of the 
 evangelical history, intided Oniiulum, which is 
 prefen'ed in a manufcript of the Bodleian library, 
 whence conliderable extrafts are given by Hickes 
 and Wanley (Grayn. A. S. l63, and L. V. S. 
 Cata. 39). Both of thefe learned men feem to 
 have confidered the work as mere profe, but the 
 ingenious Tyrwhitt (who does not conceive it to 
 be earlyer than the reign of Henry II. whereas 
 Hickes places it near the conqueft) clearly fhews 
 it to be writen in verfes of fifteen, or rather four- 
 teen, fyllables, without rime. See his " Esfay on 
 the language and verfification of Chaucer," § IV. 
 The author addrefses himfelf to his brother Wal- 
 ter ; which is all tliat can be gathered of his 
 history. 
 
 • Sec alfo Mr. Ellises elegant Spccim(m of the early Eng' 
 lijh Poeti, I, 61.
 
 POETS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 THIRTEENTH CENTURY.
 
 POETS 
 
 OP THE 
 
 THIRTEENTH CENTURY. 
 
 •GLOUCESTER ROBERT OF (fuppofed to 
 have been a monk in the abbey there) wrote a 
 chronicle of England in rime, which was publiih- 
 ed by the industrious Hearne, from a MS. in the 
 Harleian library, with a continuation, by the 
 autlior, from one in the Cotton collection, in two 
 volumes, octavo, at Oxford, in 1724. This chro- 
 nicle was writen after the year 12/8, being the 
 6th year of king Edward the firft, which is the 
 lateft date alluded to, though it ends with the 
 reign of tliat monarchs immediate predecesfor, 
 Henry die tliird, who dyed in 1272. 
 
 GROSTHEAD, GROUTHEVED, GREAT- 
 HEAD, GROSTEST, «//«v COPLEY, ROBERT, 
 a native of Suffolk, or, according to fome, of 
 Lincolnfliire, and, in proctfs of time, bifliop of 
 Lincoln, a perfon of great learning, is fayed to 
 have writen " a trctj'fe Uiat ys ycleped [the]
 
 ]'2 POETS OF THE 
 
 " castelof love/'* extant in the Bodleian libraiy, 
 ■MS. Vernon, fo. 292, However, as the poem 
 exifts in French, under the title of Chateau 
 d'dmour, Roma/i'^e par vtesjire Robert Grqffetejlc, 
 and " La tie de D. Jhu de fa humanitc, &c." 
 (" Ki penfe bien, ben pent dire") (fee Wartons 
 History of Englijh poetry, I, ?«) it feems raoft 
 probable tliat he was not alfo die author of the 
 translation, which this historian, on tlie contrary, 
 is inclined to attribute to Robert of Brunne, whom 
 fee. To him, likewife, hath been afcribed, by 
 fome, the Stimulus confcientice of Richard Rolle: 
 fee Tanner, in nomine, note h. He was con- 
 fecrated in 1235, and dyed in 1253. f Of this 
 " great clarke" Gower relates a fable, which was 
 afterward attributed to frier Bacon : 
 " I rede howe bufy that he was 
 Upon the clergie an head of bras 
 To forge, and make it for to telle 
 Of fuche thynges as befelle : 
 
 * " Her bfgynnet a tretifc 
 
 That ys yclepcd Cufiel cf lo-ue, 
 
 Tliat bifliop Grostcrt made ywis, 
 
 For lewd mens behove." 
 The firft line, of the prologue or introduction, is, 
 
 '* That good thinkcth good may do." 
 ■ + Tanner alfo gives the laaer year as that of his hlttk.
 
 THIRTEENTH CENTURY. 13 
 
 And feven yeres befinefle 
 He laide, but for the lachefle 
 Of halfc a minute of an houre. 
 Fro lirft he began laboure. 
 He lofte all that he had do." 
 
 KENDALE. a poet of this name is men- 
 tioned by Robert of Bnmne, as havei'ng writen 
 " in fo quainte Inglis," that it was not generally 
 underftood, and had, of courfe, been much cor- 
 rupted : but upon what fubje6t he wrote we are 
 not informed. Thomas of Ercildon, another poet 
 of the fame age, and alfo mentioned by Brunne^ 
 is to be placed amongft thofe of Scotland.
 
 POETS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 FOURTEENTH CENTURY.
 
 P O E 1 S 
 
 OF THE 
 
 FOURTEENTH CENTURY 
 
 ASHEBURNE THOMAS, a frier of the order 
 of the blefsed Mar)' of Mount-Carmel at Nortli- 
 hampton, wrote, in 1J84, a treatife of theolvjgical 
 argument, intitled, De coiitemplu vnindi: extant, 
 but imperfect, in the Cotton librar}', Ap. VII. 
 At the begining of the volume is another reli- 
 gious poem, probablcly by the fame author, com- 
 menceing *' Lyftyns all gret and fraale." 
 
 BANISTER WILLIAM appears to have been 
 no lefs eelcbrated as a prophet in England, than 
 Thomas of Erelldon, his contemporary, was in 
 Scotland. Bilhop Tanner refers to fome " Pro- 
 phcfies of Banister of England," in MS. Worll. 
 8vo. pap. 7. The author of Scald chfonka, writ- 
 en foon after ISGo, nuiitions ( according to 
 Lelands extract) " William Banestre and Tho- 
 mas Erceldoune, whos wordes were fpoken yn 
 figure as were the propheties of Merlin." " The 
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 18 POETS OF THE 
 
 whole prophecies of Scotiand, &c." are fayed, 
 in the title, to be prophefyed, inter alios, by 
 " Banellre and Sybilla," but no prophecy by the 
 former is inferted in the work, though he is oc- 
 calionally cited j as in the following lines : 
 
 " Beids books have i feen, Banesters alfo:" 
 " As Berlingtons books, and Banester us 
 
 tells:" 
 " Beid hath brieved in his book, and Banester 
 
 alfo." 
 
 Forduns interpolator fpeaks of an Englifli knight 
 of this name, who, in the night in which Ed- 
 ward the firft dyed, faw, in a vifion, that mo- 
 narchs foul infiilted and flagellated by devils. 
 (Scofic/iro. by GoodaU, II, 236.) Bilhop Tanner 
 feems to confound him witli Gilbert Banastrc, an 
 author of a different name and century. 
 
 BASTON ROBERT is only noticed for a rea- 
 fon fimilar to tliat already given with refped to 
 Hamillan. BoUi Winftanley and mistrefs 
 Cooper have fuppofed him to \\Tite in Englifli 
 verfe 5 and inftanced, as a fpecimen of his ex- 
 torted production on the battle of Bannock-burn 
 (l.'] 14), the following lines : 
 
 " In dreary verfe my rymes i make. 
 Bewailing whiloft fuch tlieme i take :"
 
 FOURTEENTH CENTURY. IQ 
 
 which may, indeed, pafs for a tolerable translation 
 of tlie firft couplet of his actual performance : 
 
 " De planctu cudo met mm cum, carmine iiudo : 
 liifum rctrudo, dum tali thcmate hido.'' 
 
 There is no authority (unlefs it be Bales expres- 
 lion of " Tragcdicc &* come diet vulgar es") for pre- 
 tending that he WTote any thing in Englifh ; and, 
 indeed, one might be glad to know what Bale had 
 for attributeing to him fo many things in Latin.* 
 He was, however, a famous poet in his day, and 
 has even given name to a fpecies of metre : 
 " ryme Bastoii," mentioned by Robert of Brunne. 
 
 BRUNNE ROBERT OF. See MiVNNYNG. 
 
 CHAUCER GEOFFREY, " the father of Eng- 
 lifh poetry," born at London in or about the year 
 1328, wrote,f 1. " The Canterbuiy tales :" twice 
 
 * Many pieces enumerated by this author among the 
 works of Baston occur together in a MS. of the Cotton 
 library, Titus A. XX ; which feems, from the marginal 
 notes, to have been in Bales posfesfion. 
 
 t Mr. Ellis prefumcs that he was entered at the Inner- 
 temple, " becaufe the records of that court [inn] are 
 faid to ftate, that he was fined two fliillings for beating 
 a Franciscan friar in Flcet-ftrecr :" a ium of Thomas 
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 20 POETS OF THE 
 
 printed by Caxton, without date ; by Wynken de 
 Worde in 1495 j again, by Pynfon, without date : 
 and, a fourtli time, along with other things, by the 
 fame printer, in 1326 ; again, in his works, by T. 
 Godfray, in 15323 J. Raynes, or W. Bonham, 
 1342; by T. Petit, witliout date; J. Kingfton, 
 in 1361 ; and A. Islip, in 1598, and 1602 ; 
 in the very pompous, but moft inaccurate and 
 licentious edition, publiflied under the name of 
 John Urry, a native of Scotland, and ftudent of 
 Chrift-church, Oxford, who did not live to wit- 
 nefs its appearance ; * and finally, to the utmoft 
 advantage, by the very learned and industrious 
 Tyrwhitt, in 1773, four volumes, 8vo. tlie text 
 being fettled by an indefatigable collation of all the 
 
 Chatterton. See his Af//<r(r//a///«, p. 137. He fays that 
 Chaucer haveing distributed copies of the tale of P/Vrj 
 Plvwmun [which it is wel known he did not write]," 
 the " friar wrote a fatyric mummery upon him." 
 
 * In this edition, however, actually pcrfefted by Mr. 
 William, and his brother, Dr. Timothy, Thomas, , are 
 two fmgularly curious and valuable poems, which the 
 editor, with a peculiar want of judgement, took to be 
 Chaucers : " The cokes talc of Gamelyn," and " The 
 merchants fecond tale, or The history of Bcryn :" 
 the author of which, be he wliom he might, was cer- 
 tainly a writer of uncommon merit.
 
 FOURTEENTH CENTURY. 21 
 
 printed and MS, copys; and illiiftrated as wel by 
 an admirable " Esfay on the learning and verfifi- 
 cation" of the autlior, as by a feries of curious 
 and ufeful notes: to which, in 1778, he aded an 
 excellent glosfary for tlie whole of his genuine 
 compofitions : 2. " The roraaunt of the rofe," a 
 translation from the French of Wm. de Lorris, 
 and John de Meun : 3. " Troilus and Crefeide>" 
 a translation, for tlie moft part, from tlie Filojlrato 
 of Boccace, by tlie intervention, it would feem, 
 of fome Latin verfifyer (ii, 14.) whom he calls 
 Lal/iit.s 3 * firll printed by Caxton, afterward by 
 W. de Worde, 1517: 3. " The court of love :" 
 4. " The complaint of pitie:" b. " Of queen 
 Annelida and falfe Arcite, with the complaint of 
 Annelida j" firft printed by Caxton or De Worde • 
 6. " The asfemble of fowles : " firft printed along 
 with the Canterbury tales, ^c. by Richard Pyn- 
 
 * Lydgate (ays that the 
 
 — *♦ booke — called is Trophe 
 
 In Lumbarci tong" — 
 
 Pro. to Bochas. 
 
 Chaucer himfelf mentions thisLolIius in Ththoufroffume, 
 iii. S83, and Lydgate in his Troy bote. Tropta, formerly 
 Trophcxa, is a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, 
 in Further Calabria. There arc or have been other places 
 of this name. See MurtinUn. Trophe is, therefor, a na- 
 tive of Trephdca. 
 
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 22 POETS OF THK 
 
 fonj in 1526: and leparately, by W. de Worde, 
 1530:" 7. " The complaint of the black 
 knight:"* 8. " Chancers A, B. C." 9. " The 
 boke of the duchelTe:" 10. " The boke [or 
 houfe] of fame," firft printed by Caxton, and fe- 
 condly by Pynfon, inl52G:"f 11," Chancers 
 dreme :" 12. " The flour and the lefe :" 
 13. " The legend of good women :" 14. " The 
 love and compleyntes bytwene Mars and Venus ;" 
 printed by Julian Notary. 1 5 . " The cuckow 
 and the nightingale : " 16. " L' envoi/ de Chaucer 
 (I Bukton, (or the counceyU of Chaucer touchyng 
 maryag, &c, which was fent to Bucketon, Cs'f.)" 
 printed by Julian Notary: 18. " Biilade fent 
 to king Richard," begining " Sometime tlie 
 world, QTc." 19. " Balade," begining " Flo fro 
 die prefe, to'c." and fayed, in one MS. (Otho 
 A. xviii) to have been made " upon his deatli- 
 bcd, lying in his anguilh :"i 20. " Baladc of 
 
 * For the fc two poems he is thought by Warton to 
 have been indebted to tlic troubadours, or poets of Pro- 
 vence, and though Mr. Tyrwhitt was of a different 
 opinion, there i% certainly a great deal of reafon in Mr. 
 Warton s argument. 
 
 t Printed alfo at Edinburgh, by Walter Chcpman, in 
 ii;oR, in the Scotifli dialcfl or orthography, under the 
 title oi " The maying or disport i)i Chaucer." 
 
 \ CLand fee SCOGAN HENRY.
 
 FOURTEENTH CENTUKV. 23 
 
 the village," begining " This wretched worldes, 
 (s'c." 21. *' I, 'envoy dc C/iaucer a S/coga/i :" 22. 
 " Proverbes by Chaucer:" 23. " Chancers wordes 
 to his icrivencre:" 23. " A virelay, begining 
 " Alone walking. In tlaought plaining :" all which 
 along with many poems, either anonymous, or 
 belonging to Lydgate, Hoccleve, and others, are 
 inferted in moft of the editions of his works. 
 This famous and venerable bard, a perfon of fome 
 political confequence alfo in his time, dyed, at his 
 birth-place, on the 23tli of October 1400, and was 
 intered in Weftminfter- Abbey. 
 
 DAVIE ADAM, marflial of Stratford-le-bow, 
 wrote, 1. '' The vengeaunce of goddes deth j" 
 2. " The legend of faint Alexius," translated out 
 of Latin, and begining " All tliat willen here 
 in ryme;" 3, " A complimental poem to the 
 king [Edward II.], by way of viiion 5" 4. 
 " The lyf of Alifaunder" (doubtlels, alfo, from the 
 French;* and begining, "Divers is tliis myddel 
 
 ■" After ckfcribing the battle between DariuK and 
 Alexander, Davie fays, 
 
 '' This batail destortcd is 
 In the Frencii wcl y wi;;, 
 Thcrforc y bavc, hit to colour, 
 Borowcd of the Latvn autour." {v. 1196.) 
 
 c: 4
 
 24 POETS OF THE 
 
 erde"); 5. "A poem on fcripture ftory (imper- 
 fc.&) ; 6, " The battail of" Jemfalem" (" Liftenith 
 all tliatbeth alyve") ; 7. " Fifteen toknes before 
 the day of judgment," from the prophet Jeremiah;" 
 and 8. " The lamentation of fouls/' begining, 
 " Off joye and bliffe, is my care to bileve :" all 
 in MS, Bod. Laud. I. 74. and the 4th in one of 
 Hales MSS. in Lincolns-inn-library (Num. 150). 
 
 GOWER JOHN, wrote, in Englilh metre, a 
 prolix dialogue, of various argument, according 
 to the fafhion of his age, intitled " Confesfio 
 amcmfis, (that is to fay in Englifihe, The confes- 
 fyon of the lover) ;" originally printed by William 
 Caxton, in 1483, and reprinted by Thomas Ber- 
 thelet, in 1532, and 1554, folio: alfo a long pa- 
 rafytical haladc in praife of king Henry the fourth, 
 inferted in feveral editions of Chaucer.* In lord 
 
 * The two poets fccm, for fome time, to Iiavc been 
 upon good terms; mentioning each other in their re- 
 fpcctive productions : but a fracas had, probahlely, hap- 
 ened between thtm, as Chaucer is fufpefted bv his in- 
 telligent editor to have caft a reflection upon Gower in 
 the following lines : 
 
 " But certainly no word nc writeth he [Ovid] 
 Of thilke wicked example of C:inacf,
 
 FOURTEENTH CENTURY. 15 
 
 Gowers library^ as we are told by Warton, there 
 is a thin oblong manufcript on vellum, containing 
 fome of Gowers poems in Latin, French, and 
 Englifli. * 
 
 Some of his fmaller poems are preferved in a 
 MS. of Trinity-college, Cambridge 3 and, it may 
 be, in other collections ; but, posfefsing little or 
 no merit,f are likely to remain in obfcurity. He 
 dyed, aged, in 1402, and was intered in the 
 church of St. Mary-Overy, Southwark, where his 
 monument, a curious piece of antiquity, ftil re- 
 mains. 
 
 That loved here owen brother finfully ; 
 
 (Of all fwiche curfed ftories i fay fy) 
 
 Or elles of Tyn'us Appolionius, 
 
 How that curied king Antiochus 
 
 Beraft his doughter of here maidenhede, isfc" 
 both which ftorys are related by Gower ; who, in the 
 new edition of his Conjafio amanth, publifhed after the 
 acccsfion of Henry IV. omited the verfes in praife of 
 Chaucer infertcd in the original publication. See Tyr- 
 whitts Introductory disccurj'e (iv. 147). 
 
 ' //. E. P. II, Emen. & Ad. fig. g. 6. 
 
 t His Cox Clam.iHtii might have deferved publication, 
 in a historiciil view, if he had not proved an ingrate to 
 his lawful fovereign, and a fycophant to the ufurper of 
 his throne.
 
 26 POETS OF THE 
 
 HAMPOLE. See ROLLE. 
 
 HERBERT WILLIAM. " In tlie library of 
 Mr. Farmer, of Tusmore in Oxfordfhire," ac- 
 cording to Warton, " are [is] or were [was] 
 lately, a collection of hymns and antiphones, pa- 
 raphrafed into Englilh [verfe, it is prefumed], by 
 William Herbert, a Franciscan frier, and a famous 
 preacher, about the year 133U." ( Historij of 
 Evglijk poet 11/, 11, U)4.) 
 
 LANGELANDE ROBERT, " a Shropfhire 
 
 man," it is Ibyed, " borne in Cleybirie, aboute 
 eight myles Irom iMolverne hilles," wrote " The 
 vifion of Pierce Plowman," a curious allegorical 
 poem, firll printed by Robert Crowley, vicar of 
 Saint-Giles Cripplcgate, in 15.50 (of which date 
 tlicre are at leaft two, if not three editions), and, 
 again, by Owen Rogers, in loGl (all in (juarto and 
 black-letter*). The learned Tyrwhiit disputes 
 our autliors title, lincc in what he elteemed tlie beft 
 
 •* To Rogerscs edition is annexed " The crede of 
 Pierce Ploughman;" firft printed by Raynold Wolfe 
 in 1553, 4to. the work of a later hand. Mr. Ellis has 
 erroneously attributed to Wolfe " The vifion," and 
 mentions alfo an edition by Anftcy, a printer never bc- 
 fiTc heard of.
 
 -^^l' 
 
 FOURTEENTH CENTURY. 27 
 
 manufcripts (which, whether they be fo or not, 
 differ materially from the printed copys), the poet 
 is exprefsly faluted by the name of " Wille," 
 and the work itfelf intitled " Vifio Willelmi 
 de Pctro Ploi/g/iman." Now, unlefs the word 
 WiLLE be, as there is fome reafon to believe, no 
 more tlian a perfonification of the mental faculty, 
 and have, confequently, been misapprehended by 
 the writer of that title,* it fhould follow that the 
 autliors name was William, and that his fur- 
 name and quality are totally unknown. However 
 this may be, tlie work itfelf, a very curious and 
 masterly production, appears to have been com- 
 pofed in, or foon after, the year 1362. It is a 
 kind of religious allegorical fatircj in which Pierce 
 the ploughman, the principal perfonage, feems to 
 be intended for the pattern of Christian perfection, 
 if not, occalionally, for Jefus Chrift himfelf. 
 The mode of verfilication adopted by this writer 
 (an alliterative metre of 9 and 1 1 fyllables with- 
 out rime) is originally Gotliick, and, from the 
 many other inftances which occur in MS. is con- 
 
 * This ajipcars from fo. 41, 0: 
 " Thzn T/joup/it in that time fayde thcfc wordes, 
 \\'hcther Do^we!, Dohet, ^nd Doieji bene in iandc, 
 litre is Wyl woldc witte, if iFitte could teche hym.'
 
 28 POETS OF THE 
 
 jectured to have been a favourite poetick ftile with 
 the common people (as they are called) down to 
 late period. (See Hickeses Gram. A. S. p, 217; 
 Percys Reliques, 11, 270.) Chir author became 
 popular, about the time of the reformation, fronx 
 his liaveing lafhed the vices of the clergy, both 
 regular and fecular, with a juft feverityj and 
 foretold, as was thought, the deftruction of the 
 monasterys by Henry VIII. The pasfage is cer- 
 tainly curious : 
 
 "■ — ther fhall come a king and confefTe you 
 
 religious. 
 And beat you as the byble telleth for breaking 
 
 of your mle. 
 And amend monials, monkes and chanons. 
 And put hem to her penaunce, ad pristinvmfta- 
 
 tiim ire .... 
 And than fhall tlie abot of Abington and all 
 
 his isfue for ever 
 Have a knocke of a kynge, and incurable the 
 
 woundc." 
 
 Manufcript copys of this work are by no means 
 uncommon in publick librarys, but it requires a 
 thorough and attentive investigation to decide 
 upon the comparative merits of the printed copy, 
 rcfpcAing tlie faultynefs and imperfection whereof 
 Mr. Tyrwhitt may have bren fomewhat too haftey
 
 FOURTEENTH CENTURY. 29 
 
 in his judgement.* After all, it is probable that 
 the information which Crowley, the original edi- 
 
 ■* In order to enable any curious perfon to distinguilh 
 at firft fight to which of the two editions (as one may call 
 them) any new MS. he may hapen to meet with belongs, 
 a parallel extraft is here given from each : 
 
 The printed copys, and (in fubftance) the Harleian 
 MSS. 3954, 875, and 6041 ; the Vernon MS. in the 
 Bodleian, Hales, in Lincolns-iiin, and others, without 
 noticeing the verbal alterations or corruptions of the 
 copyifts, commence as follows: 
 
 " In a fonier feaion when iettc was the I'unne 
 I (hope me into fhroubes as i a fhepe were, 
 In habyte as an hermet unholie of workes, 
 Wend wyde in thys world wonders to here, 
 And on a Maye-mornynge on Malverne hyllcs 5 
 Me befcl a ferly of jayy methought. 
 I ivas ivfry of ivandrynge, and ivtntt mc to ref.e 
 Under a brode banle by a bourne iydi ; 
 An I as : laye and lened, ,md loked on the njuater, 
 IJlmtb'ed into ajlrpyng, it jiuyz,ed jo mery." lO 
 
 The MSS. Vespafian B. XVI, Caligula A. II. 18 B. 
 XVI, Harleian, 2376, Mr. Douce's and others, nearly 
 agree in reading thus : 
 " In a fomer fefon whan fofte was the fonne 
 
 I fchop me into fchrobbes as i a fchcpherde were. 
 In an abiitof an ermitc unholi ofwcrk.es, 
 Wente i forth in the world wondres to here.
 
 30 POETS OF THE 
 
 tor, fays he had received from fome men, more 
 exercifed than himfelf in the ftudy of antiqtiitys, 
 whom he had confulted, as to tlie authors being 
 " Robert Langclande, a Shropfliire man, borne in 
 Cleybiriej CsJ'c." and which, in fa6t, he might 
 have had from the printed book of Bales 'Scrip- 
 tores Britannuc, was not altogether accurate; 
 fince, from numerous inftances in the poem itlelf, 
 there is everj^ reafon to conclude that he was a 
 
 I fanv many fella and Jelcouthe thynges, 5 
 
 As in a Mai morcwing on Malvcrnc hulles 
 
 Me biful to Jclepe for luerynefse of tvalkyng. 
 
 In a laundc as i lai, i lenede adoun and Jhfte, 
 
 Merveiloutli i mefte, as i fchal xotv telle, 
 
 Of all the ivelthe of the luorld, and the ivo bathe, I O 
 
 ^l i fi flif'ig as i fchtil xoiv fc/ievje." 
 
 (Vefpa. B. xvi.] 
 
 The fubfcquent variations, throughout the poem, arc ftil 
 more confiderable ; fo that it appears highly probable 
 that the author had revifed his original work, and given, 
 as it were, a new edition ; and it may i)c posfiblc f"oi\a 
 good judge of ancient poetry, posfefscd of a fufficient 
 flock of critical acumen, to determine which was the 
 firft, and which the fccond. No MS. however, of this 
 celebrated and really excellent compofition examined by 
 the prefentannotator, has been found defciveing, cither 
 for accuracy or antiquity, to be prcfercd to that or 
 thole whence the printed copy appears to be taken.
 
 FOURTEENTH CENTURY. 31 
 
 Londoner, by refidence, at leaft, if not by birtli. 
 Where Selden had red " that the autliors name 
 was John Malverne, a fellow of Oriel-College, who 
 finilhed it l6Ed. Ill," does not appear 3 but the 
 latter part of his information, though adopted by 
 Wood, who calls him Wigomienfis, is manifeftly 
 erroneous. 
 
 MANNYNG ROBERT, alias Robert of 
 Brunne, born, as it is fuppofed, at Malton in York- 
 Ihire, whence he fomewhere calls himfelf " Danz 
 Robert of Maltonc," and, in procefs of time, ca- 
 non of the priory of Brunne, or Bourne, in Lin- 
 colnfhire, translated into Englilh metre, the 
 French riming chronicle of Piers, or Peter, de 
 Langetoft, a canon regular of Saint Auftin at Brid- 
 lington in Yorkfliire, which he finifhed in 1338. 
 The more interefting part of tliis translation (a 
 performance of confiderable merit), from the 
 time of Cadwallader to the death of Edward tlie 
 firft, was firft publilhed in print by the industri- 
 ous T. Hearne, in 2 volumes, 8vo. at Oxford, in 
 17C5. The former part, which, in fa6t, is a 
 translation from the Brut of " mayfter Wace," a 
 Xorman poet of the 12th centur}^,* and not from 
 
 ■* See before p. 7.
 
 32 POETS OF THt 
 
 Langetoft, who, it feems, was lefs ful and fatis- 
 factory upon Britifli affairs, (except as to a few 
 extradb given here and there by the Oxford editor) 
 remains unprinted in the Hbrarys of Lambeth- 
 palace, and the Inner-Temple. He likewife 
 translated, " The bokethat menclepyn ynFrenlhe 
 Manuele pecche [Lt 7)ninuel dc pcchccsl, the 
 whych boke made yn Frenllie Robert Grofteft, 
 bysthop of Lyncolne (begining " Fadyr and fone 
 and holy ghofte")j"-|- and " Medytaciuns of 
 tlie foper of our lorde Jhefu; and alfo of his pas- 
 lyun ; and eke of the peynes of hys fwete modyr 
 mayden Maryej the whyche made yn Latyn Bo- 
 naventure cardynall" (begining "AUemizhti god in 
 
 f The " Manuel (ie pechcs" is claimed by one Willi- 
 am de Wadington, who, at the end of a copy of this 
 poem, in two Harleian MSS. 4651, and 497c, fays 
 that no man ought to con<lcmn his French or his 
 rimes, as he was born an Englifhman. In another 
 Harleian MS. (z73) he is called William de VVindin- 
 don. Either, therefor, Robert of Brunne was mistaken, 
 or William de Wadington is an impostor ; unlefs we 
 can fuppofe that there were two French verfions from a 
 common Latin original. There does not appear any copy 
 of the M.mud de pec/iees extant under the name of Bifhop 
 Grofthead, nor any other authority for its being writen 
 by him, than this of Mannyng, which, however, is not 
 meant to be impeached.
 
 FOURTEENTH CENTURY. 33 
 
 trynyte") : both extant among theHarleian MSS. 
 (Num. 1701) and in tlie Bodleian library (N. E. 
 V. 7, and fuper D. i. art. 44). Mr. Warton has 
 done great injustice to Mannyng, in concludeing 
 that " he has fcarcely more poetry than Robert 
 of Glocester;" which only proves his want of 
 tafte or judgement : he allows, however, " that 
 even fuch a writer as Robert de Brunne [and, in 
 fa6t, we have vei'y few fuch] contributed to form 
 a ftyle, to teach expreslion, and to polilh his na- 
 tive tongue." 
 
 MINOT LAURENCE wrote, in 1332, ten 
 lyrick poems, of fingular merit, upon tlie principal 
 events of the reign of the then monarch, king 
 Edward the third ; which were elegantly and ac- 
 curately printed, from tlie only MS. copy (Galba 
 E. IX.) in 1796. 
 
 ROLLE RICHARD, a hermit, of the order of 
 St. Augustine, refideing in or near tlie nunnery of 
 Hampole, near Doncaster, whence he is ufually 
 called Richard of Hampole, or Richard Hampole, 
 wrote, 1 . " Stimulus cofifcientiw, or The pr}'kke 
 of confcience," a tlieological poem, in feven parts ; 
 the 1 ft, of human nature, the 2d, of the world, 
 the 3d, of death, the 4th, of purgatory, the 5Ui, 
 D
 
 34 POETS OF THE 
 
 of the day of judgement, the 6th, of the pains of 
 hel, and the 7 th, of the joys of heaven : extant 
 in the Bodleian library. Num. Ugi, 1700,2322, 
 305g, 36/9, in Univerfity-coUege, Num. 142, 
 in Caius-Gonvill college, Cambridge, Num. 845, 
 in the archiepiscopal library at Lambeth, Num. 
 260, among the Harleian MSS. Num. 1731, 
 6923, in tlie libraiy of Trinity-college, Dublin, 
 D. 4. 8. &3*c. and twice in the posfesfion of M. 
 Douce : the first line (in one copy) of the fhort 
 prologue being, " The myzth of fadyr al- 
 my/.thy," and that of the book, " Before or god 
 had eny tiling wi'owt :"* 2. " The ix lesfons of 
 the diryge whych Job made in hys trybulacyon 
 lying on the donghyU, and ben declared more 
 opynly to lewde mennes underftandyng, and ys 
 clepyd Pety Job, and is ful profitable to Here fyn- 
 ners to compunccion :" begining, " LyefF lord 
 my foule tliou fpare" : in the Harleian MSS. 
 Num. 1706: 3. A prolix paraphrafe, or com- 
 mentary, upon the lords prayer: " Almighty 
 
 * This poem, in two of the Oxford MSS. is attributed 
 to Robert Grosteft, bifliop of Lincoln. See Tanner. 
 There is alfo " The prickc of love after Ric. Hampol, 
 treting of three degrees of love (MSS. Bib. Bod. Arch. 
 5. 65) ; fuppofcd to be a translation (in profe) of his 
 
 Inctndium amorii.
 
 FOURTEENTH CENTURY. 35 
 
 god in trinite" : among the Harleian MSS. 
 Num. 435, and Mores, Num. 215 : 4. A 
 paraphrafe upon the feven penitential pfahns : 
 Bodleys MSS. Digby 18 : 5. Speculum vi- 
 ta : or The mirrour of life, begining " To 
 goddis worfchippe that dere us bougt :" in 
 MSS. Bod. 48. & MSS. Lang, 5. 6. Decern 
 mandatu : " Thou fchalte have on god and no 
 moo:" 7. T>e fuperbia: " Pryde is hede of alle 
 kynne fynne :" 8. Septem virtutes, contra feptem 
 vicia : " Be meke and mylde of herte and 
 tonge :" 9. Septem opera mi/ericordie : " Seynt 
 Poule apostel thus fayth he:" *Q.[^Scptem opera 
 charitatis} " Teche eche man with charyte :" 
 10. Quinque fen/us corporaUter : " Kepe thi fyzte 
 fro vanyte :" II. Quinque fen/us fpiritualiter : 
 " Have mynde in blyffe that never flialle Wynne :" 
 12. Tres virtutes thcologice : " Byleve in god that 
 alle hatli wrouzte : " 13. Quatuor virtutes cardi- 
 nules : " Be ryzt wys man what ever betyde :" 
 14. 06io bcatitudines : " Jefus feynge peplys 
 comynge hym tylle :" 15. [A] lesfon [which] 
 a vertuofe chylde fliuld often fay to hys fove- 
 reynes :" " Iff y lye, bacbyte, or ftele :" " Ex- 
 plicit Scala celi :" 16. Howe oure lorde Jhefu 
 feven tymes bleed for us :"—'" Jhefu that alle 
 this worlde hafte wrouzte :" all in the Harley 
 D 2
 
 36 POETS OF THE 
 
 MS. 1706, though not certain t» have bden 
 writen by RoUe ; any more than 17. "A treatife 
 of Parce mild domine :" " By a foreft fyde walk- 
 yng as i went : " inferted along with Peti/ Job in a 
 MS. of Mr. Douce. Mr. Warton, who has been 
 rather liberal in his extracts from T/ie pricke of 
 coiifcience, profefses himfelf, at the fame time, 
 Jiot quite convinced that any manufcript of that 
 work in Englifh belongs to Hampole ; this piece, 
 according to him, being a translation from his 
 Latin profe, and thinks '' it is not very likely 
 that he Ihould translate his own work." (History 
 of Englijh poetry, 1, 256).* Lydgate, however, 
 in the following century, exprefsly fays that he 
 
 * It is by no means conclufive " that this piece is a 
 
 translation from the Latin, from thefe vcrfes" (Ibi. 
 
 264) : 
 
 " 1 herefore this boke is in Engiis draw 
 
 Of felc matters that bene unknawe 
 
 To lewed men that arc unkonande ; 
 
 That con no Latyn undirftonde :" 
 
 Since this may be nothing more than his reafon for 
 prcfcring Englifli to Latin. In one of Mr. Douce's 
 MSS. the pasfage ftands thus : 
 
 " In thefe fcvcne be dyvercs matters drawcri 
 Out of dyvers bokes that be unknavven, 
 To lewed men, namely of Ingcland, 
 That can bot Englyfch underftand ;
 
 FOURTEENTH CENTURY. 37 
 
 wrote, or at leaft translated, in his native 
 tongue : 
 
 " In perfit living, which pafseth poyfie, 
 Richard hermite, contemplative of fentence, 
 Drough in Englishe The prick of con- 
 fcience."* 
 He alfo left a copy of this prolix poem to tlie 
 fociety of friers-minors in York, after his, and 
 his brothers death ; which came, afterward, into 
 the posfesfion of Dr. Monro, In fa6t, it would 
 rather feem that the Latin was translated from the 
 Englifh ; lince in the library of Pembroke-hall is 
 a MS. " Traft. infcriptus Stimulus confcientiae ; 
 quid, minus fciolo eft translatus (verba funt inter- 
 pretis) . Si quis igitur fnpiens in illo aliquos rc- 
 periat defect us, dcprecor vt eos corrigat mente pin, 
 ^ translatori imponat ." (Num.118.) He dyed 
 in 134g, and, on account of his piety and his mi- 
 racles, was not only reputed a faint by the popu- 
 lace, but appears to have been actually canonized. 
 See the catalogue of the Cotton MSS. Tiberius 
 A, XIII. fince deftroyed j and Cave, or Tanner. 
 
 Tharfor this tretyce draw i walde 
 In Englyfch tung, that may be calde 
 The pryk of confryence, Sfc." 
 without any reference to a Latin original. 
 
 * Bochus, fo. 217, b. 
 D3 
 
 » 1
 
 38 POETS OF THE 
 
 STRODE RALPH, the greateft ornament of 
 Merton-college, according to Leland, who fays, 
 in his poetical ftile, tliat he worfhiped eloquence, 
 and the warbleing mufes with the moft pasfionate 
 love. Chaucer, it is true, in his " Troilus and 
 Cresfeide," addrefses that poem to "■ morall 
 Gower," and " to the philofophical Strode," 
 " To vouch fafe (there nede is) to coiredte. 
 Of their benignities and zelis goode :" 
 whence Bale infers tliat he calls him an Englifh 
 poet. Lydgate, alfo, haveing this pasfage in his 
 eye, has placed him among poets, though he does 
 not exprefsly term him one : 
 
 " In moral matter ful notable was Gower, 
 And fo was Strood in his philofophie:"* 
 Nothing, however, of his compofition in the ver- 
 nacular language, is known to be preferved; 
 though lyeing Dempfter, who has ranked him 
 among the native writers of Scotland, pretends 
 that he wrote " Fahiilce lepidoe ver/u." 
 
 TAYSTEKE JOHN DE, a monk of Saint 
 Marys abbey, York, translated from the Latin, 
 in i.'J57, at the command of archbifliop Tlioresby, 
 a poem on the decalogue ; extant in number 1022 
 
 * BochdSf fo. 217, b.
 
 FOUKTEENTH CENTURY. 3§ 
 
 of the Harleian MSS. " Thurgh grace grow and 
 in god almyght." 
 
 VICARY THOMAS, of Wimborn-minfter in 
 Dorfetihire, feems to have been the author or 
 translator of a poem on the ftory of ApoUonius of 
 Tyre (posfiblely from the Pantheon of Godfrey of 
 Viterbo), of which Dr. Fanner had a fragment. 
 See Steevenses <S7/fl^eare, XIII, 381, G09. 
 
 WALTON, or WALTWNEM, JOHN, ca- 
 non of Ofeney, translated into Englilh verfe " The 
 boke of comfort called in Latyn Boecius de con- 
 folatione philofophie ; printed, in the exempt mo- 
 nastery of Taviftock, in Devonlhire, by " Dan 
 Thomas Rychard monke of the fayd monastery, 
 to the inftant defyre of the ryght worflaypful 
 efquier mayfter Robert Langdon," anno 1525, 
 quarto : But the translation appears, from a ma- 
 nufcript copy quoted by Hearne (Prcefatio in 
 Camdeni Annales, p. cxxxiii) to have been finilhed 
 in 1410: conformablely to anotlaer, among the 
 kings MSS. (18 A XIII.) in which the work i^ 
 fayed to be translated " per capellanum Johan- 
 nem," whom Casley mistook for " Ludgate." 
 
 D4
 
 POETS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
 
 POETS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 
 
 ALCOCK JOHN, bilhop of Ely, is the author 
 of a comment upon the feven penitential pfalms, 
 in Englilh verfe (Harley MSS. 1704, imperfed). 
 He dyed in 1300. 
 
 ASHBY GEORGE, clerk of the fignet to 
 Margaret queen of Henry the fixth, wrote a moral 
 poem, for the ufe of their fon prince Edward, on 
 the " active policy of a prince," finiftied, it ap- 
 pears, in tlie authors eightieth year, and extant 
 among biftiop Mores MSS. at Cambridge (Num. 
 492). 
 
 AWDELAY JOHN, who ftiles himfelf capel- 
 lanus, and appears to have been old, blind, and 
 deaf, and a canon of tlie monastery of Haghmon 
 in Shrop{hire, anno 1426, wrote fome metrical
 
 44 POETS OF THE 
 
 divinity and pious legends ; of which the late 
 Dr. Farmer had a coeval manufcript, now in the 
 posfesfion of Francis Douce, efquire. At the end 
 are thefe lines : 
 
 " No mon this book he take away, 
 
 Ny kutt owte noo leef y fay for why. 
 
 For hit ys facrelege lirus y zow fay, 
 
 Beth a curfed in the dede truly, 
 
 Zef ze wl have any copi, 
 
 Afkus leeve & ze flial have. 
 
 To pray for hyne fpecially 
 
 That hyt made zour foules to fave, 
 
 Jon the blynde Awdelay 
 
 The furft preft to tlie lord Straunge he was^ 
 
 Of thys chauntre here in this place 
 
 That made this bok by goddus grace, 
 
 Deeff, lick, blynd, as he lay. 
 
 Cuius aiiime propicietur deus." 
 
 BANASTRE GIEBERT wrote an Englifli 
 poem upon a miracle of St. Thomas, 1467, in- 
 ferted in Stones history of the monks of Chrift- 
 church, Canterbury 3 a MS. in Bennct-coUege-li- 
 brary (CCCCXVII). 
 
 BARCLAY ALEXANDER, priefl, chaplain
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 45 
 
 (1508) in the college of St. Mary-Otery, Devon, 
 and, afterward, monk of Ely, translated from 
 the French " The castell of Labour, wherein is 
 Rychefse, Vertue and Honour," an allegorical 
 poem, in feven-line ftanzas, printed by Wynken 
 de Worde, in 1 506 : alfo, "" out of Laten, 
 Frenche and Doche," " This prefent boke named 
 the ihyp of folys of the worlde," printed by Rich- 
 ard Pinfon in 1509, and by John Cawood in 
 1570. It concludes with a ballad, of 12 octave 
 ftanzas, in honour of the virgin Mary. He, 
 likewife, translated from the Latin, of Dominick 
 Mancyn, " A ryght frutefuU treatyfe, intituled the 
 myrrour of good maners, conteyning the iiii ver- 
 tues, called cardinalli" printed by Pinfon, " at 
 the inftaunce and requeft of the r}'ght noble 
 Rychard yerle of Kent:" and, in his youth, com- 
 piled Five " Egloges, whereof the fyrfl: thre 
 conteyneth the myferyes of courters and courtes 
 of all prynces in generall : the matter whereof 
 was translated . . » out of a boke named in Latyn 
 Miferie cvrialhtm compyled by Eneas Silvius 
 poete and oratour, whiche after was pope of 
 Rome and named Pius :" the fourth " conteyning 
 the maner of the riche men anenft poets and 
 otlier clerke*;" and the fifth being " of the
 
 46 POETS OF THE 
 
 cytezen and vplondyiliman :" all printed by Pin- 
 fon or de Worde : and inferted, alfo, along 
 with " The myrroiir of good maners" in Cawoods 
 edition of " The ihyp of folys," There was like- 
 wife an edition of the three firft eclogues by 
 Humphrey Powell. Wood, from Bale, mentions 
 " his anfwer to John Skelton the poet" {" Contra 
 Skeltonum, lib. l"); which was probablely in me- 
 tre ; but appears neither to have been printed, nor 
 to be extant in manufcript.* He dyed, very aged, 
 in 1552, and was intered at Croydon: where, 
 from his firft eclogue, he appears to have dwelt in 
 his you til. Both his name of baptifm and the or- 
 thography of his fumame feem to prove that he 
 was of Scotifli extraction. Wood fuppofes him 
 to have been a Somerfetfliire man : but 
 Dr. Bulleyn, his contemporary fays, that he 
 " was born beyond the cold river of Tweed." 
 See his " Dialogue botii pleafante and pitiful." 
 1564. 
 
 • In Maunfells catalogue is " Alex. Barkley his 
 figure of our mother holy church opprclsed by the 
 French king :" printed by Pinfon j but whether in verle 
 or profc is uncertain. Bale, alfo, enumerates the lives 
 of St. George, from Mantuan, St. Catharine, St. Mar- 
 garet and St. Ethelrcd; which are in the fame predica- 
 ment.
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. *45 
 
 Barclay is, likewife,claim'd as a Scot, by Thomas 
 Dempfter, who fays " he livc'd in Engleland, 
 being expel'd [from his native country] for the 
 fake of religion." This, however, feems his pe- 
 culiar invention, fince no religious disfentions had 
 takeen place in Scotland fo early as 1506. Hol- 
 lynshed, even, pofitively calls him " a Scot :" 
 but Bale, the oldeft authority, fays onely, " that 
 fome contend that he was a Scot, others, an 
 Engleiihman," though he himfelf, from the litua- 
 tion he has alloted him might have adopted the 
 latter opinion. He fays, moreover, that ''this 
 Barkeley had prove'd feveral fe6ls, foraetimes a6t- 
 ing the mafs-prieft, and fometimes, the Benedic- 
 tine, or Franciscan, certain to none : but in all 
 thefe," he ads, in his bigoted and foul-mouth'd 
 way, " he continue'd a hateer of truth, and, 
 under the disguife of celibacy, a filthy adulterer 
 tothelaft." Pitts, himfelf a papift, and, on that 
 account, it may be, better inform'd tlian Bale, 
 admits, that, with fome, he appear'd to have been 
 a Scot, " but was, veryly, an Engleiihman, and 
 his native country, as it is probable, Devonfliire." 
 "Wood, who defigns him Alexander dc Barklay, 
 favs he " feems to have been born at, or near, a
 
 46* POETS OF THE 
 
 town fo called in Somerfetfliire,* was, for a time, 
 educated in this univerfity ; particularly, as it 
 feems, in Oriel-coll^e, of which his great patron 
 and favourer of his ftudies, Thomas Cornifli, 
 bifhop of Tyne, was then provoft [to whom he 
 dedicateed his " Shyp of folys," 1509]. "Sure 
 'tis, he ads, "■ that, living to fee his monastery 
 disfolv'd, he became vicar of Much-Badew in 
 Esfex, and, in 1546, of the church of St. Mat- 
 thew the apostle at "Wokey in Somerfetfhire [and, 
 finally, inftituted to that of All-faints, Lombard- 
 ftreet]. In his younger days," he fays, " he 
 was efteemed a good poet and orator, but, when 
 years came on, he fpent his time moftly in pious 
 matters, and in reading the histories of faints." 
 Warton, who (as wel as Tanner) asferts that 
 " He was of Oriel-college, in Oxford" by way 
 of proof, fhews him " to have fpent fome time 
 at Cambridge" (II, 240). 
 
 * There is no fuch place in that county ; the onely 
 Berktlrf)/inavtn is in Ghuctitcrjhire.
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 47 
 
 BARNES or BERNERS, DAME JULYAN^ 
 priorefs of the nunnery of Sopewell near St. Al- 
 bans, compiled the " boke of huntyng;" printed, 
 along with a book of hawking, and " other 
 plefuris diverfe," at St, Albans, in i486, folio j 
 and, again, by Wynken de Worde, in 1496, 
 foUo: again, by Toye and Copland, 4to. This 
 lady whom Bale terms " illustris famina," is 
 noted by W, Burton, to have been the daughter 
 of fir James Berners of Beniers-Roding in Esfex, 
 and fister to Richard lord Berners. See Tanner. 
 
 BENET. See BURGH. 
 
 BOKENHAM OSBERN, a native of Suffolk, 
 and canon of the order of St. AugTistine in the 
 monaftery of Stoke-Clare, wrote, or translated, 
 in and about 1445, the lives of divers faints, 
 which are extant in a coeval MS. in the library of 
 tlie Royal fociety. 
 
 BOWYER JOHN, canon of Bodmin, wrote 
 a dul poem, addrefsed to Jefus Chrift, intitled 
 Conteinplatio bona, and another, De pverifia do- 
 mini nostii Jhcfu Christi, (" Allemyzthty god yn 
 trynyte);" both extant in Num. 2399 of the 
 Harleian MSS. which, likewife, contains the old
 
 ^ # 
 
 48 POETS OF THE 
 
 poem " Quomodo homo fapiens dicit ;" " How 
 the wife man taught his fon;" posfiblelyby the 
 fame hand. 
 
 BRADSHAA HENRY, a monk of the Bene- 
 dictine monastery of St. Werburg, in Chester, 
 the place of his nativity, translated " The holy 
 life and history of faynt Werburge, very frute- 
 ftill for alJ Christen people to rede j" printed by 
 Richard Pinfon, 1321, in 4to, & b. 1, It is in 
 ftanzas, chiefly of 7, but fome of 8 lines. (Her- 
 bert, 269). To this author, likewife, is attri- 
 buted by Ames, or Herbert, " The lyfe of faynt 
 Radegunde :" printed by the fame Pinfon, in 4to. 
 and b. 1. but without date : in ftanzas of 7 lines. 
 He dyed, as it appears from the book, in 1313*. 
 
 * This virgin martyr Thomas Chatterton, in " The 
 ftorie of William Canyng," has converted into a 
 
 fnaU : 
 
 " Next holie IVareburghui fylld my myndc, 
 As fayre a fayncte as anic towne can boafte, — 
 I fee hyi ymage waulkeyng throwe the coafte : &c." 
 
 There is, at leaft,one very profound fcholarwhoftil be- 
 lieves in the authenticity of Ro-wUyi poms ! a mistake 
 which mull have been imposfible to a prieft in the 1 5th 
 
 century.
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 4^ 
 
 BREUS THOMAS. At the end of an old 
 Englifli poem, in tlie Harleian library (Num. 
 2338), is this note, writen, as Mr. Wanley ob- 
 ferves, by a later hand, " Finis pasjionis Christi 
 mictore Thoma Brciis (1422);" which, he ads, 
 " feems to be a mistake, and perhaps a wilful 
 one : for the name Thonnis Breits, which appears 
 in the firft page, is of the very fame inke that 
 the whole book is written with, and, that maketh 
 mention of the year 1536 : fo that 'tis much more 
 likely that this Breiis was only the posfesfor of it." 
 However this may be, the manufcript is clearly 
 of the fifteenth century, and even the laft page 
 (part of a prophecy), which contains the above 
 date feems as old as the reft. Some words alfo ap- 
 pear to have been erafed, probably by the inter- 
 polator of the colophon, from which he may have 
 had authority for what he has there fayed. The 
 poem itfelf commences with this line : " Comyng 
 the gret tyme of mercy." 
 
 BURGH BENEDICT (orBENNET), canon 
 of St. Stephens Weftminfter, translated out of 
 Latin the book of distichs or precepts called Cato 
 magnu.s, which, as master Caxton obferves, full 
 craftily he made, " in baladeryal, for the erudicion 
 E
 
 50 POETS OF THE 
 
 of my lord Bouflier, fone and heyr at tliat tyme 
 to my lorde the erle of Eftfex," He was rector 
 of Sandon, in Esfex, in 1440, archdeacon of 
 Colchester in 1465, prebendaiy of St. Pauls in 
 1472, and dyed in 1483. M. Caxton, prefering 
 his own profe to " mayster Benets" poetry, trans- 
 lated tlie above work from the French, ^nd printed 
 it in the laft of tliofe years. " A Criftemafse 
 game made by maister Benet, howe god almyghty 
 feyde to his apostelys, and echen of them were 
 baptifte, and none knew of other," is in tlie 
 Harlcy MS. 7333 : " Sanctus Petrus. Petri, 
 Petri, prynce of aposteles all." " Arysto[t]les 
 ABC made be mayster Benet :" *' A to amerous 
 to aunteroxxs" (MSS. liar. 1706). He, likewifc, 
 continued and completed the Regimen principum, 
 or Secretum fccretorum, of John Lydgate, left im- 
 perfe6t by his death. 
 
 CAUMPEDEN HUGH OF translated, out 
 of French, " The history of kyng Boccus and 
 Sydracke, how he confounded his lerned men, 
 and in the fyght of them dronke ftrong venym in 
 the name of tlie tiynyte and did him no hurt, fc'c." 
 printed, at Tendon, by Thomas Godfray, " at tlie 
 cofte and charge of dan Robert Saltwode monke
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 51 
 
 of faynte Auftens at Cantorbury," in 1510. A 
 MS. copy, in the Sloan colleftion (Num. 2232), 
 has " Explieif Robert us JVuhcfelde,''' with the 
 date of 1502. 4to. In the catalogue of the Bod- 
 leian MSS. (Laud. G. 57.) is " Hugh of Camp- 
 dens poems in Englifh :" posfiblely the above 
 translation, of which manufcript copys are not 
 uncommon. 
 
 CAXTON WILLIAM, the firft Englilh printer, 
 has aded two feven-line ftanzas, apparently of 
 his own compofition, by way of conclufion to 
 " The morale prouerbes of Cristyne [of Pyfe or 
 Pifan] j" reprinted in Ameses " Typographical an- 
 tiquities," by Herbert, p. 1 1*. Mr. Warton, alfo, 
 in addition to " the rhyming introductions and 
 epilogues with which he frequently decorates his 
 books," feems wiling to afcribe to him a poem of 
 confiderable length, intitled " The worke -of 
 fapience," of his own printing, and of which he 
 appears to be the author, by the prologue : but 
 which is, elliswhere, more juftly attributed to 
 Lydgate. It mull be owned, however, that our 
 venerable typographer does not feem (in his own 
 language) to have " dronken" very deep " of 
 Elycons well," as he translated Virgil and Ovid, 
 
 E2
 
 52 POETS OF THE 
 
 out of French, into Englilh profe. He dyed 
 in 1491. 
 
 CHERTESEY ANDREW translated from the 
 French, 1 . " A lytcl tretife, intytuled or named 
 the Lucidar}'e j" printed by Caxton j 2. "The craft 
 to live well and to dye well," finilhed the 2 1 ft of Ja- 
 nuary 1505, and printed by Wynken deWordein 
 the following year ; and, 3. " The pasfion of our 
 lord Jcfu Cryft," printed by the fame printer in 
 1620.* In the title-page of his " Floure of tlie 
 commaundementes of god, ^c. (a translation from 
 the French) printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1521, 
 folio, are " The x commaundementes of the 
 lawe," and " The fyve commaundementes of the 
 churche," in verfe. " The prologue of the trans- 
 latour," alfo, is in ftanzas of 8 lines. 
 
 CHESTRE THOMAS is the author of a me- 
 trical romance, intitled " Launfal miles,'' relating 
 tlie adventures of one of king Artliurs knights fo 
 called, as he himfelf informs us: 
 
 " Thomas Chestre made thys talc 
 Of the noble knyzt fyr Launfal." 
 
 » Herbert fecms to conjecture that there was an early 
 e<1it;<m by this printer. Sec zo^.
 
 FIPTEENtH CENTURY. 53 
 
 It is a free translation from the French ; and 
 is preferved in a MS. of the Cotton-library 
 (Caligula A. II) ; begining, " Be douzty Ar- 
 tours dawes." Either this, or a different, trans- 
 lation was printed before 1575, under the title of 
 Si/r Lamicel/. 
 
 COMBE JOHN, '' Disputatio inter eqmtni, 
 anfcrem ^ ovem, by John Combe, old Engliili." 
 MSS. Aflimole, 30. 4to. If this be the " dia- 
 logue between the horfe, the Iheep, and the 
 goofe," of which tlicre is a copy in the fame col- 
 le6tion (754. 2), and which was originally printed 
 by Caxton, it is ufually afcribed to John Lyd- 
 gate. 
 
 CORNISHE (other\vife NYSHEWHETE) 
 WILLIAM, chapelman to king Henry the fe- 
 venth, compofed, during his confinement in the 
 Fleet, 1504, " A treatife betwene trouth and in- 
 formation :" printed at the end of Skeltons 
 works, in Marflics edition, and that of 1730'. 
 
 CROPHILL JOHN, a ci/nni/ig-tnan, conjurer, 
 or aftrological quack, who practiled in Suffolk 
 about the year 14C(), has left fome poctr}^ or rimes 
 fpokcn at an entertainment of " Frcre Thomas,"
 
 54 POETS OF THE 
 
 and five ladies of quality whofe names are men- 
 tioned : at which two great bowls, or goblets, 
 called " Merly & Scharyte" were brilkly circu- 
 lated: extant in the Harleian MS. 1735, and be- 
 gining, " Frere Tomas Fairefelde," 
 
 FABIAN ROBERT, an alderman of London, 
 and one of the fherifs of that city in 1493, wrote 
 or translated certain poems or verfes, which are 
 interfperfed occafionally in his " Newe cionycjes 
 of Englande and of France," firft printed I5l6, 
 by Richard Pinfon ; but omited, for the moft part, 
 in the fubfequent editions.* As a favorable fpe- 
 cimen of his poetical talents may be mentioned 
 an elegy on Henrj' the firft, which mistrefs Cooper 
 has infcrted in " The mufes library," as " wrote 
 immediately after his death, the author un- 
 known }" and which Mr. Preston, in his 
 " Thoughts on lyric poetry," printed in the I ft 
 volume of " The tranfactions of the royal Irifli 
 academy," calls " a very early fpecimen of the 
 irregular ode in the Englilh laixgungc ; which," 
 
 • See Herbert, 264. The rarity of this edition may 
 be owing to a circumftance mentioned by Bale : Fiui 
 chronUirum exemplatla nonnuHu curJ/ruHs Vuolfius n Jwj fuiore 
 eomburi fecit : quod ckri provtntui finguet f ui fatii d<- 
 ttxeril."
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 55 
 
 he fays, " bears marks of the higheft antiquity :" fo 
 little difference did thefe two ingenious criticks ima- 
 gine there was between the language of the 1 2tli and 
 that of tlie 15th century. The piece in question is, 
 in fact, a translation from a Latin poem, preferve'd, 
 and posfiblely writen, by Hcnrj'^ archdeacon of Hun- 
 tingdon, the contemporary of that monarch, and in- 
 ferted, along with it^ in our authours history. He 
 dye'd, according to Stow, who gives his epitaph, in 
 151 1 : Bale, who, though he live'd nearer the time, 
 was much left accurate and inquifitive, fays the 28tli 
 of February 15 12, and differs as to the place of inter- 
 ment. However, as " His monument is gone," one 
 would be glad to have known honell Johns au- 
 thority. 
 
 FANNANDE RICHARD, ironmonger, in the 
 year 1457, compofc'd a defcription, or account, in 
 rude and barbarous verfe, of the building of Culham- 
 bridge, near Abingdon, in Berklliire, which he 
 caufe'd to be hung up, on a table, in the hall of St. 
 Helens hospital there, to the memory and honour of 
 Geoffrey Barber, a principal founder of that bridge ; 
 printed in Lelands Idiuran/, VII, 79. 
 
 FEYLDE THCXMAS compile'd " A lytel trea- 
 tyfe called the contraucrfe bctwene a h^uer and a 
 E 4
 
 56 POETS OF THE 
 
 jaye :" printed by Wynken de Worde, in 4to, with- 
 out date. It is not, however, "^ in Skehonic verfe," 
 as Herbert fays, but in fix-line ftanzas.* 
 
 FLEMING JOHN. His " old Englifli poems" are, 
 in die Oxford-catalogue, fay'd to be extant in the li- 
 brary of Trinity-college, Dublin j but he turns out, in 
 fa6t, to be nothing more than the tranfcribeer of Ri- 
 chard Rolle. 
 
 FOX RICHARD, bifhop of Durham, and " lord 
 pryve feale of Englonde," has many metrical inter- 
 mixtures in " The contemplation of fynners," printed 
 by Wynken de Worde, in I499, 4to. b. 1. He 
 dye'd in 1528. 
 
 GARNESCHE , . . ., a courtier, it would feem, 
 of Henry the 8th, with whom Skelton, laureat, by the 
 kings command, as he fays, had a poetical or rirneing 
 controverfy, in which the latter, at Icaft, was very 
 perfonal and fcurrilous : but neither master Gar- 
 ncfchees challenge, nor any otlier fpecimen of his ta- 
 lents, is preferve'd. 
 
 GRENEACRES. At the end of LydgateS 
 
 * Ar.ics calls XnmRUhurd; but the misnomer is afctrward 
 rcciify'd by Herbert.
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 5^ 
 
 '* Treatife excellent and compendious, (fSc^ 
 from the Latin of Bocatius, are four feven-line 
 ftanzas, fuperfcribed " Greneacres a Lenuoy 
 vf>on John Bochas." 
 
 HALSAM, " fquierc/' made a balade begin- 
 ing " The worlde fo wyde, theayer fo remuable:" 
 MSS. Har. 7S33, ufually attributed to Lydgate. 
 
 HAMPTON of Worcester feems to have been 
 retained at the court of Henry the 7th " for 
 making of balades" a ftately kind of poetry, then 
 much in vogue ; and had a reward from the 
 king, in I4g8, of20f for his labour. (See Stee- 
 venfes Shakfpcare, II, 137.) He might be 
 what is now improperly called the poet-laureat, 
 an office which did not, under that denomination, 
 exift before the reign of James the firft.* 
 
 HARDYNGE JOHN wrote a chronicle, in 
 
 "* ^Master Barnard ** the blindc poete," who had a 
 reward from the above monarch of iccC. was Bernard 
 Andreas, the Augustine frier, tutor to prince Arthur, 
 poet-laureat, & historiographer royal. See Tanners 
 Bil'licthcc I, and Knights Life »f Erafmus, p. ii8. Malone, 
 from a blunder of Warton, calls him Andrew Ber- 
 nard.
 
 58 POETS or THE 
 
 metre, " from the firft begynnyng of Englande 
 unto the reigne of Edward the fourth ;" printed 
 by Richard Grafton in 1543, 4to. ; but extant, in 
 greater perfection, in two manuicript copys, one 
 in the Bodleian library (Selden B. 26), the other 
 among the Harleian MSS. (Num. 661). That 
 part of the work which relates to the Percys is the 
 moft valuable, in point of fa6l, as he was brought 
 up in the family, and, at tlie age of 25, fought 
 under the banners of Henry Hotfpur at the battle 
 of Shrewsbury : as a poet he is almoft beneath 
 contempt. He was, at the fame time, a moft 
 dexterous and notable forger, and obtained great 
 rewards from Henry the 6th and Edward the 4th, 
 for a number of fuppofititious charters of fealty 
 and homage, from tlie Scotilh monarchs to the 
 kings of England; which he pretended to have 
 obtained in Scotland at the hazard of his life, and 
 which are ftil carefully preferved in the Ex- 
 chequer, 
 
 HAWES STEPHEN, one of the grooms of 
 the chamber of king Henry the 7th, compiled, in 
 150G, " The paffe tyme of pleafure ;" printed by 
 Wynkcn de Worde in 1517. There are, like- 
 wife, editions by Wayland and Tottcll, in 1554 
 and 15.T5, undrr the title of " The historic of
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 5Q 
 
 Graunde amoure and la bell pucel, called the 
 pastime of pleafure, isfc." " Such" obferves 
 Anthony Wood, " is the fate of poetry, that 
 this book, which in the time of Hen. 7, and 
 8, was taken into the hands of all ingenious men, 
 is now tliought but wortliy of a ballad-mongers 
 ftall!" This complaint, however, has long ceafed 
 to exift, as, it is believed, though the book may 
 be lefs red, it is infinitely more rare and precious 
 than it was in the above reigns. He, alfo, com- 
 piled " The converfyon of fwercrs," in octave 
 flanzas, with Latin leiimiata ; printed by the fame 
 printer, in 1309: likewife, " A compendyous 
 ftory, and it is called' the example of vertu, in 
 the whiche ye fliall fynde many goodly ftorys & 
 naturall dyfputacyons bytwene foure ladyes named 
 Hardynes, Sapyence, Fortune, and Nature," 
 printed by him, in 1530 : to which muft be aded 
 " A joyfuU raedytacyon to all Englonde of the 
 coronacyon of our mooft naturall fouerayne lorde 
 kyngc Henry the cyglit :" a fingle flieet, alfo by 
 the fame printer, without date. " The temple 
 of glaili-," which has been attributed to Hawes, 
 feems to belong to Lvdgate : Mr. Warton being 
 apparently mistaken in aslcrting " that it was 
 printed in Hawes's life-time,' with his name by 
 Wynken de Wordc." (See Ilis/uiy of Engi'Jh
 
 60 1»0ETS OF THE 
 
 poetry, II, 2 1 2 j Ames and Herberts Typographical 
 antujuities, 7g, 194.) Bale, indeed, mentions, 
 among Haweses poems, Templu7n chrystaUinvm 
 in one book : but it feems to be given to Lyd- 
 gate by Hawes himfelf ; who, reciteing Lydgatcs 
 works, in " The pafletyme of pleafure" fays, 
 
 " And the tyme to pafle 
 
 Of love he made the bryght ton pic of glaffe.* 
 
 HOCCLEVE, or OCCLEVE, THOMAS, 
 wrote 1. " Dialog us inter Occlof' ^ mejidicum :" 
 " Mufyng upon [or of] the reftles befyneflfe :" 
 which, though fufficiently prolLx, ferves as a pro- 
 logue to 2. " Dc regiminc pri/icipis," or " Trac- 
 tatus fie rcgiiitinc principum" a free translation 
 from the Latin of iEgidius de Columna ; ad- 
 drcfsed to Henry the fifth, when prince, to 
 whom he is reprcfented, in fomc MSS. in a red 
 habit, prefenting his book, in which he introduced 
 die defcription and character, and, in tlie margin, 
 depicted tlie portrait of his " Maister Chaucer :"f 
 
 * See Warton's lUsioryof E. foefy. II, 212. 
 
 t '* Although liis lyfe queynte be, the rcfemblauiice, 
 fe^c." lie alfo mentions tlie iame great poet in his D/Wo- 
 ^ui, or proUn;iK- :
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 6l 
 
 the poem begins, " Hyh, noble, and myghty 
 pry nee excellent :" 3. The " fable of a certain 
 emprefs," from the old MS. " Jcsim iGesta] Ru- 
 manorum" (Harlcian MS. 7333), from which he 
 has even adopted the profe- morals with flight al- 
 teration : " In the Romayn jeellts writen is 
 thus:" 4. "The tale of Jonathas and a wicked 
 woman" (it is tlie ftory of Fortunatus), from the 
 fame work ; introduced by William Browne, in 
 his " Shepherds pipe," lGl4 : " Somtyme an 
 emperour prudent and wife :" 5. A dialogue 
 between a difciple and Sapience : " Sithen all 
 men naturally deliren :" all in a volume of the 
 royal library (17 D VI) : 6. " The letter of Cu- 
 pide," printed among Chaucers works : 7. " A 
 prologue of the nine lesfons that is read over All- 
 hallow-day" (Bib. Bod. Sdd.fupcr 53) : 8. " The 
 moft profytable and holfummyfte crafte that ys 
 Oonlye Icrne to dye :" " No we lerne for to dye i 
 me piu-pofe" (MSS. liar. 172): g. A poem be- 
 gin ing '* Behold my child yf thou lyfle for to 
 lere" f 76/. J 10. Advice to a child : " Bechaunce 
 my childe thou fettyfte thi delyte" (Ibi.) 10. 
 
 " But wele awav ! fb is myne hert wo. 
 
 That the honour of Englifh tonge is dede, 
 
 Of which i was wonte have counfeile and reide."
 
 62 POETS OF THE 
 
 " Pentaslichon to the king," printed in Chaucers 
 works, 1602 : 11. '' Mercy after tlie word of 
 faint Austin :" 12, " Dialogue to a friend" 
 (.MSS. Scld. utfupra) 13. " Balade to his empty 
 purfe" (MS. Fairfax XVI, Har. 2251 ; and in 
 Chaucers works) : 14. " The daunce [of] 
 death:" CHcld. 53, »c Laud, K. 78):* 15, 
 " Compleynte" [of the virgin Mary] : \6. "A 
 balade to fir John Oldcastell :" 17. " La male regie 
 de T, Hoccleve :" 18. " Balade au tres noble roy 
 H. le vt. 19. [Deux] balades au roy H. £9* autres 
 honorable compaigne du jartier :" 20. " Ad bea- 
 tarn xirginem :" 21. " Balade fait e toft aprcs que 
 les osfes du roy Richard furent apportez a JVrftjricn' 
 Jler:" 22. " Addrefs to Richard duke of York :" 
 23, " Adbcatam lirginem :'' 24. " [Baladcl mys 
 en le livre de Jolian due de Bedford:" 25. A pe- 
 tition to the chancellor : 26. " Balade el chanceon 
 faites a H . Somer fouz frej'orer :" 27. " Balade 
 mife en le fin du livre del Regiment des princes :" 
 28. " Au roy :" 29. " A de B, &' C de D, &c." 
 SO." Balade f cut par le court:" 31, "Balade 
 tran.slalee au cotmnandevient de Robert Chichelc :" 
 of thefe 17 pieces, in a MS. formerly belonging 
 
 * This, however, may be Lydgatcs Daunce of 
 
 Muc^atirf.
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 63 
 
 to Dr, A&kew, and afterward to Mr. Mafon, at 
 whofe fale it was purchafed by Mr. Heber j fix 
 of peculiar ftupidity were fele6ted and publifhed 
 by its late owner,, in 1796, 4to. Hoccleve was an 
 officer of the privy-feal, and appears to have dyed, 
 at the age of four-fcore or upward, in or about 
 the year 1454; fo that there is no improbability 
 in his having been perfonally acquainted with 
 Chaucer. 
 
 HYLTON WALTER, a monk of Shene, in 
 Surry, and afterward doctor of divinity, and canon 
 of Thurgarton, author of a religious treatife, in- 
 tided " Scala perfcccioni.s, englyffhed, the ladder 
 of perfeccion," firft printed by Wynken de 
 Worde, in 14g4, fo. wrote certain pious contem- 
 plations in Englifh rime, and a northern diale6t, 
 which are extant in tlie Cotton-library (Fauftina 
 B. VI. 22), with fine pictures of the ancient her- 
 mits, faints, and others, and the mystical trees 
 growing in the defert, or wilderncfs, of religion 
 or penance, reprefenting the vices of the fpirit, 
 the twelve abufes of- the age, Effc* He dyed in 
 1395. 
 
 * It is prefumcd the catalogue-maker had fomc 
 authority for afcribeing this poem to Hylton, whofe 
 name, however, does not occur in it.
 
 64 POETS OF THE 
 
 IDLE PETER, of Kent, efquire, wrote " Liber 
 confolacionis et confiiii," or Inftructions to his 
 fon; extant in the Bodleian library (Digby, I8l), 
 where his name is " Peter Idywerte ;'" in the pub- 
 lick library, Cambridge (MSS. More, 121 ) ; in 
 the Britilh-mufeum (MSS. Har. 172), and in 
 Trinity-college Dublin, D. 2. 7 : " In the be- 
 gynnyng of thys lytill werke." 
 
 IMPINGHAM, wrote " Proverbes," begining 
 " Next the derke nyght the gray morewe ;" ex- 
 tant in the Harley MS. 7333. 
 
 KILDARE MICHAEL, a monk or frier, 
 wrote a pious poem, begining " Sweet Jefu hende 
 and fre." (MSS. More 784.) 
 
 LACY JOHN wrote a poem intitled " Wyl 
 Bucke his testament j" printed by William Cop- 
 land, n. d. 4to. b. 1. There is, likewife, a copy of 
 it in the Cotton MS. Julius A. V. 
 
 LICHFIELD WILLIAM, a doctor in theolo- 
 gy, but who, according to Mr. Warton, " flione 
 moft in profe j" and is faid to have writen with 
 his own hand, 3083 Englilh fermons, wrote a
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. ()5 
 
 metrical " Dialogue between god and tlie penitent 
 foul;" preferved at Caius-college, Cambridge, 
 begining " Our gracious lord prince of pite." 
 (MSS. E. 147. 6.) with other pieces of that kind. 
 He dyed in 144?. 
 
 LOCK HUMPHREY wrote " Verlcs on al- 
 chymy, to fir William Cycil, 1490 3" among 
 AflimolesMSS, at Oxford (Num. 18). 
 
 LONELICH HENRY, ikiner, translated out 
 of French, at tlie inftance of Harry Barton, 
 " The romance of the St. Grayl:" an imperfe6t 
 copy of which translation is preferved in the 
 library of Bennet-coUege, Cambridge (Num. 
 LXXX). See Nasmiths catalog-ue. 
 
 LUCAS JOHN compofed, or collefted, about 
 the year 1450, a folio volume of fongs or ballads, 
 which Ames, the author qf the Tifpographhal 
 antiquities, had in his posfesfion, and which is 
 probablely yet in being. See Hawkinses History 
 of mi/Jiv, II, 9 1 . In one of fir Henry Worsleys 
 MSS. defcribed in tlie kirge Oxford catalogue. 
 Num. 3, are "■ Balades taken owte of the booke 
 of John Lucas:" and in another, belonging to 
 Mr. Douce, are two poems, of which it is fayed, 
 F
 
 60 POETS OF THE 
 
 " Thyefe balades that tlaus been wryten here be 
 take owte of the bcx)k of John Lucas, and fayde 
 to the peple that Ihall fee thys lytell tretyfe in 
 tyme to come." A balade, however, at that pe- 
 riod, was, by no means, what we now mean by 
 the word ballad.* 
 
 LYDGATE JOHN, f a monk of Bury-St. 
 Edmunds, in Suffolk, and a moft prolix and 
 voluminous poetaster, wrote, 1 . " The hystory, 
 
 * A regular French ballade appears to have confifted 
 of 4 ftanzas, each of the firft 3 containing 11 lines of 
 9 or 10 fyllables, the firft line rimcing with the third, 
 the fecond with the fourth, the fifth and fixth together, 
 the feventhand eighth with the tenth, and the ninth with 
 the eleventh ; the fourth ftanza containing no more 
 than 4 lines, in alternate rime, or 5, of which the firft 
 and fecond rime with the fourth, and the third with the 
 fifth; the fame rimes, alfo, being repeated in each ftanza, 
 of w hich the laft line is the fame with tliat of the reft. 
 See Leifa'tiiz. it di£}z, .le maijhe yehan Molinet, Paris, 1 53 1, 
 fo. faifim. Thefe rules, however, do not appear to 
 have been attended to, and posfiblely were not under- 
 ftood by the Englifh poets. 
 
 t Ufually called Dan John, a title given to the in- 
 dividuals of certain religious orders ; from the barbarous 
 Latin Domnus (a variation of Dominus), or the French 
 Dam, or Dent,
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. Qj 
 
 fege, and dyftruccyon of Troy," a paraplirastical 
 translation from the Latin of Guido de Coliimnaj 
 printed, firft, by Richard Pinfon, 1613, and, under 
 a different title,* by Thomas Marfhe, 1555, fo, 
 2. " The boke of Johan Bochas, defcryuing the 
 fall of princes, princefses, and other nobles 5" 
 printed by R. Pinfon, 1494, 1527 ; by R. Tottell, 
 1554; andby J. Wayland, 1558, fo. AfincMS. 
 of this work is in the Harleian library (Num. 
 1766). 3. " The daunce of Machabreej" an- 
 nexed, in Tottells edition, to the precedeing ar- 
 ticle : 4. " The ftoiy of Thebes ;" in continua- 
 tion of Chancers Canttrbury talcs, at the end of 
 Kingstons edition, 156l, ^c. 5. " The lyf of 
 our lady 3" printed by W. Caxton, without date, 
 andby R.Redman, 1531, 4to. G. " The la- 
 
 * " The auncient history & oncly trewe &: fyucere 
 cronicle of the warres betwixte the Grecians & the 
 Troyans, and fubfequently of the fyrft cvercyon of the 
 auncient and famoufe cyte of Troye under Lamcdon 
 the king, & of the lafte Sc fynall diftruftion of the fame 
 under Pryam, wrytten by Daretas a Troyan Sc Di£lis a 
 Grecian, and digeftcd in Latyn by the learned Guydo 
 de Columpnis & fythes translated into Englyfhe verfe by 
 John Lydgate, Sfc." There is a beautiful MS. of 
 this work in the Cotton library, Auguftus IV. with a 
 picture of the author prcfenting it to Henry V. 
 
 F2
 
 68 POETS OF THE 
 
 mentaqron of our lady ; " printed by W. de Word*, 
 n. d. 4to. b. 1. 7. " The glorious lyfe and pas- 
 lion of feint Albon prothoraartyr of Englande, 
 and alfo the lyfe and pasfion of faint Amphabel, 
 whiche converted faint Albon to the fayth of 
 Chrifte;" printed at St. Albans, 1534, 4to. 
 8. Part of the life of the virgin Mary, and fe- 
 veral other poems, all printed in " The pilgre- 
 mage of the fowlej" a translation from the French, 
 printed by Caxton, 1483, viz. " The charter of 
 mercy ; The pilgrims fong, with the anfwer by 
 the guardian angels ; The angels fong within 
 heaven 3 The guardian angels fong; The green 
 trees complaint of tlie day for fpoiling her fweet 
 apple ; Of the nativity of our lady j Of the puri- 
 fication ; The fong on the Twelfth-day ; The fong 
 of the angels on Eafter-day j The fong of Adam, 
 tsfc. and laftly. The faints fong of praife for the 
 holy apoftles" (Harl. cat. 43) : 9. " The hors, 
 the ihepe, & the ghoos;" printed by Caxton,* 
 and, again, by W. de Worde, 4to. 10. "The 
 temple of glasj" by the fame printers, alfo by 
 
 • This edition, which neither Ames nor Herbert ever 
 faw, is in the public library, Cambridge, in a volume 
 with fcvcral pieces by VV. dc Worde, &"«. being D. 5. 41. 
 (or A B. 5. 37. of the new order.)
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. gQ 
 
 Pinfon and Berthelet, 4 to.* ii. " Parvus Ca- 
 tho (or Ca(o MinorJ ;" printed by Caxton (Seethe 
 Harleian MS. 225 1 ) : 12." The werke [or Court] 
 of Sapience;" printed by Caxton, and byW.de 
 Worde, 1510 : 13. " The interpretation of the 
 names of the goddes and goddefses;" printed by 
 W. de Worde : f 1 4. '^ The chorle & the byrde j " 
 printed by Caxton, de Worde, CsJ'c. and in Afh- 
 moles Theatrum chemkum, under the title of 
 " Hermes bird :" 15. " The cronyck of all the 
 kynges names that have reyned in Englande fyth 
 the conqueftj" printed by W. de Worde, 1530, 
 4to. 16. " Starts puer ad 7nenfam ;" by the fame 
 printer, 4to.||. 17 • " The proverbes of Lydgatej" 
 by the fame, 4to. 18. "A goodly narrative, how 
 S. Augustine, the apoftle of England, raifed two 
 dead bodies at Long-Compton, coUefted out of 
 
 • Called, in fome MSS. " The temple of irafe." 
 See Tanner, 491. 
 
 f Suppofed, by Herbert, to be the fame with that in- 
 fcrted in the catalogue of Lydgates works, under the 
 title of " Banket of the gods & goddefses, with a dis 
 courfe of reafon and fenfualitie." 
 
 II It is a translation from the Latin of Sulpitius, un- 
 der the fame title ; printed by that printer in 1518 and 
 1 514, 4to. 
 
 Fs
 
 70 POETS OF THE 
 
 divers autorsj" printed at St. Auftcns, Canter- 
 bury, 4to. ig. " The ferpent of divifion j" 
 printed by Owen Rogers, 133(), l6mo.* 20. 
 " The floure of courtefie:" 21 . " Balade of the 
 village without paintyng, or "■ Ia: Compleyntes con- 
 tre Fortune :" 22. " A balade of gode counfeile, 
 translated out of Latin verfes :" 23. " A balade 
 made in the preife (or rather dispreife) of women 
 for their doublenefs :'* 24. " A balade warning 
 men to beware of deceitful women :" 25. " Ba- 
 lade in commendation of [or. Invocation to] our 
 Indie :" 26. " The lamentation of Marie Magda- 
 lene:" 27- " The asfcmblee of ladies:" 28. 
 *' A praife of women:" 2p. " The remcdie of 
 love:" 30. " The craft of lovers:" 31. "A 
 balade teching what is gentilncs:" 32. " Sayings 
 of Dan John:" all printed in feveral editions of 
 Chaucer J but fee Tyrwhitts " Account, fe'c." 
 (Ca/j/t7-6wrv /(7/r.f, V, xviii. &c.) 33. " The tes- 
 tament of John Lydgate;" printed by R. Pinfon^ 
 4to. 34. " Of two monftrous beads Bicorne 
 and Chichefache;" printed in Dodslcys Old playt, 
 i7H0, XII, 333, and tlicreby abfurdly fuppofed 
 " to be of a dramatic cad :". 35. " London Lyck- 
 pnnyj" printed lately in a half-flieet (from 
 
 • Tanner, from Woods MS. calls the author Lydpate.
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 71 
 
 tlie Harley MSS.S67). 36. Part of his translaUon 
 of the " Secret a ftcretorum" (a popular work of 
 tlie middle ages), which he did not live to finifh, 
 is printed in Afhmoles Theatrum ckemicum : and 
 thefe are the whole of his printed works, the 
 reft remaining in raanufcript: 37. " De rcge 
 Arthuro:" 38. " De ejus inenfa rotunda: " The 
 feige of Jerufalem:" " Leftnethe alle that ben 
 alyve" (BodleyMSS.Digb7230). 39. "Thelyf of 
 the mofte worthy knyght Guy of Warwike," out 
 of the Latin chronicle of Gyrarde Cornubience :" 
 " Frome Crieftes birthe complete nycn c. yere," 
 (Har. MSS, 7333) :* 40. " Fahula duorum mer- 
 catorum de et fuper Geftis Romanorum :" "In 
 Egipt whilom as i rede and fynde :" (Harley MSS. 
 2251, 2255 :) 41. "A tale of a priorefs and her 
 three wooers :" Pro. " Gloryus god our governer 
 glad :" Book : " All hafte ys edyns" (Ibi. 78 J : 
 
 42. " The tale of the childe of Briftow:" " He 
 that made bothe hevene and hell" fibi. 2382^: 
 
 43. A tale of two priefts : " In Wiltfliire of 
 Ynglonde two priftes ther were (Ibl. 22o\J : 
 
 44. " De fabro dominam refurvianfc:" " De 
 
 •\- Bale fpcaks of the ^chi Guidonls as a different work 
 from that Dc Guidone et Colhrando, but it is the conftant 
 practice of that mendacious prelate to (plit one book 
 
 into feveral. 
 
 F4
 
 72 POETS OF THE 
 
 (luobiis amantihus: " A notable provcrbe of 
 Yfopus in balade, made in Oxford (canis ^ um- 
 bra) :" " An old proverb hath bee feyd and 
 ihall" (Alhmole MSS. 59. ii) : 45. " Ifopes fa- 
 bules:" " Wysdom is more of pris than gold in 
 cofres" (Harley MSS. 223 1 ) : 46. " Tale of tlie 
 crow:" " When Phebus dwelte in tliis worlde" 
 (Bodley MSS. 2.527): 47- " Jak Hare which 
 of a bolle can pluck out the lyning:" " A 
 froward knave plainly to discryve" (Harley MSS. 
 2251): 48. " Piers of Fulham" (Trinity-col. 
 Cam. 368) : 49. " Deftultis 63fabula:" " The 
 ordre of foolis fiiU yore agoon begone" (Bod- 
 ley MSS. 798, Har. 2231) : 50. " The prohemy 
 of a mariage betwix an olde man and a yong 
 wif, &'(•." " A philofophrc, a good clerk fecu- 
 Icr" (Harley MSS. 872): 51. The vifion : 
 " All buly fwymmyng in the ftormy floode" 
 (Harley MSS. 225 1 ) : 52. " Regimen prineipum," 
 five " Dc Aristolele S^ Alexandro,'' called alfo 
 " The booke of all goode thewes, and Seereta 
 fecrefonim: " God almyghty fave and confemie 
 our kyng" Clbi.)* 53. Vcgcthis de re militari 
 (Bodlcy MSS. 1479) : 54, " Liher magni 
 
 * In the margin of fo. 236, oppofitc to tins line, 
 
 " Where flowrc of knyghthod the bate! doth rcfucc," 
 
 is the following note: " Here deyde the translatour a
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 73 
 
 Catonis:" For that god is inwardly the wit" 
 Clbi.J : 55. " The diatory :" " Iff it be fo 
 that leches do the fayle (Jbi.J : 56, " The pil- 
 grimage of the world by commandement of the 
 earle of Salisbury, 1426:" 57. " Ofanefquire 
 tliat lived in Loves court:" 58. *■*■ Of a gentle- 
 woman tliat lived with a man of great eftate:" 
 59. " Ragmanys roll:" " My ladies and my 
 maiftrefses ech on" (Harley MSS. 2251) : 60. 
 The chaunfe of the dyfe : " Firft myn uncun- 
 nynge and my rudenefs" ( Bodley MSS. ) 
 
 6 1 . Advice for health : " For helth of body 
 cover for cold thy head" (Harley MSS. 2251): 
 
 62. " Concilio [Cortftilo'] quis quis eris, &c." " I 
 counceile whatfoer thow be" (Ibi.) 63. On 
 beauty : " Off god and kynd procedetlie al beau- 
 tie" (Ibi.) 64. That every thing draweth to 
 his femblable : " Trete ever)'^ man like as he is 
 difpofed" (Ibi.) Qb. Of the inftability of tlic 
 world : '' This world is ful of ftabilnefle." 66, 
 " Althynges in kynde delirith thyng alike" (Ibi.) 
 67. Of hafte : " The hafty man failith never woo" 
 (Ibi.) 68. " That all ftant on change like a 
 
 noble poete, dane John Lydgate, and his folower gan his 
 prolog in this wife, per Benedictum Burgh." The word 
 folower has, by feme fool, been perverted into Fo-w!er, as 
 a proper name. See Tanner, 490.
 
 74 POETS OF THE 
 
 mydfomer rofe :" " Late no man bofte of kou- 
 nyng nor vertu" (I hi.) 69. That all fliould be 
 in meafure: *' By witte of man all thing that is 
 contrj'ved" (Ibi.) 70. " Quis dabit capitc meo 
 froittein lucrimarum :" " Who fliall give unto 
 my hede a welle" (Ihi.) 71- " A demawnd by 
 Lydgate :" " The man folowith his owne fan- 
 tafye" (Ibi.) 72. A " morall epistle fent [from] 
 kynge Amafias to kyng Johas :" ^' Unto kyng 
 Johas of Ifraell was fent" (HarleyMSS. 1704): 
 73. " Epiftle of vartuous enfines efchewing idle- 
 .neffe:" 74. " All thinges are right, fo as the 
 crab goeth forward : " 75. On prefenting an 
 eagle as a new -years-gift : " This hardy fowle, 
 this birdde victorious" (Harley MSS. 2231) : 76. 
 Moral precepts from ancient philofophers, isfc. 
 out of French : " The tyme approched of neces- 
 i\te."(lbi.) 77. On prudence, justice, temperance, 
 tsfc. " By fapience tempre thy corage" (Jbi.) 
 78. " Long will be water in a welle to keche" 
 (Ibi.) 79. " The fangwine man of bloode hatli 
 hardynes" (Ibi.) 80. That " whofoever fpeketh 
 tlie bcfte of another man fhall never repent: ' 
 " Who feith the beft fhall never repent." 
 (Bod. MSS. Laud. K. 49) : 81. What maketh 
 the world fo variable. Ad regent : " Sumtyme 
 thys world" (Harley MSS. g4) : 82. Of four
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 75 
 
 things that make a man a fool : " Wurfliip, wo- 
 man, uyne, unweldy" (Fairfax MS. \Q ; Afli- 
 mole, 59, ii) : 83. A poletike balade royal, ^r. 
 what with the gode refrayde To fynde a friende at 
 ricode: " Late whane Aurora of Titone toke leve" 
 (Afli.MSS.5C),ii): 84. Balade of wysdome: "Coun- 
 feillyer, where that ever thou be" (Ibi.) 83. Com- 
 plai/nt d' amour : " I which that am the for- 
 roufullieft (Fairfax, MSS. 1 6) : 86. " Le complcint 
 agein fortune:" " Fortune alas, alas, what have i 
 g)'lt" (Harley MSS, 7333) : 87. The complaint 
 againftHope: " As i flood in ftudyenge alone" 
 (Fairfax MSS. 16) : 88."Firft, fe'c." (Ibi.) " To 
 the orient pearl as notice" (Ibi.) 89. On marriage: 
 " Thurgh gladde afpeftes of the god Cupide" 
 (Harley MSS. 2251): 90. Of tithing: " Lyk 
 as the bible makitli mencion" (Ibidem, 2255) : 
 Q 1 . Rules for good behaviour : " Befymple of 
 chiere, caft not thyn ye afide" (Ibi.) 92. A 
 " praier to bedward, and another at thine up- 
 rifing:" 93. Of poverty: " O thow povert, 
 meke, humble, and debonayre" (Harley MSS. 
 225 1): 94. De fallacia miindi: " Conlider wel 
 witli every circumflance :" 95. On virtue: " As 
 out of hony men gete oft fwetnes" (Ibi.) : 96. 
 How this world is a thurghfare ful of woo:
 
 76 POETS OF THE 
 
 " Lyft up the ieen of your advertence" (Ibi.) 
 97 . " The more i go tlie further i am behynde" 
 (Jbi. 2251): 98. " Rex Salomon fummus of 
 fapience" (Ibi.) 99. Look in the merour, ^c. 
 " Toward the end of frofty January" (Ibi. 2253;: 
 100. That nothing may long endure: " This wyde 
 woourld is fo large of fpace" (Ibi.) lOi.On 
 mercy, truth, righteousnefs, and peace : " Mer- 
 cy and Trouthe mette on an hih mounteyn" (Ibi.) 
 102. A holy meditation : " After the ftormy tyme 
 ceihng tlierayne" (Afh. MSS.59, ii) : lOS.Leta- 
 bimdus : " Grounde take in vertue by patriarchys 
 olde" (Harley MS. 225 1 ) : 1 04. That experience 
 Ihewcth tlie world is variable : " Toward Aurora 
 in the monytliof Decembre" (Ibi.) 105. " Timor 
 mortis conturbat mcT " So as i lay this othir 
 nyght" (Wi.) 106. " AUe goo we ftille the cok 
 hatli lowe Ihoon:" " Sum man goth ftille of 
 W7sdom and refoun" (Ibi.) 107. On meafure: 
 "■ Men wryte of oold how mefour is trefour" 
 (Ibi.) 108. A fatire upon his mistrefs, witli 
 " hire hood of green :" " My fayre lady fo freffh 
 ofhewe" (Ibi.) 109. " To moralyfea fymilitude 
 who lift thcfe ballettes fewe" (Harley MSS. 225 1 ): 
 110. A love balade : " Alias i wofial creature" 
 (Ibi.) 111. Upon tlie antiquity of the town
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. T] 
 
 and univerfity of Cambridge : " By trewe recordc 
 of the doaor Bede" (Harley MSS. 1704) : 112. 
 " Play at the chefle between Reafon and Sen- 
 fualitie :" 1 13. " Banket of gods and goddefses, 
 with a difcourfe of reafon and fenfualitie:" 
 " To aU folkys vertuofe:" (Fairfax, MSS. l6: 
 Royal MSS, isDII.) 114. " Exhortation to 
 put away the 7 deadly finnes:" 115. " The 
 fcven yeares for feven eftates:" '' Offices for all 
 cftates." 1 16. " The feven partes of wisdome:" 
 117. " Founders of the feven fciences artificiall:" 
 " Seven fciences called liberall :" 118. " Au- 
 thours of tlie feven fciences :" 1 19. " Dispofition 
 of the feven planets, &c."* 120. *' That now is 
 hay fometyme was graffe, for quen Katharine:" 
 121. "A wicked man will alway derae amiife:" 
 " 122. " Amor vincit omnia, mentiris quod pecU' 
 nia:" 123. " Properties of wine, 9 in number:** 
 124. " How all things muft be done by juft raea- 
 fure: 125. " All is right as a rams home:" 
 126. " A ballad royal againft lechery:" " Man 
 in virtue to be liable as ftone:" 127. " Magnifi- 
 cenfe of the church:" 128. " Verfes of the 
 
 * Herbert fuppofes this to be the fame with the printed 
 " Interpretation of the names of the gods, Sec." but the 
 commencement is different.
 
 78 POETS OF THE 
 
 w 
 
 pfalter, in mitre for H. the 5. to be by him ufed in 
 his chapell:" 129. A " kalandre:" " Jhefu 
 lorde for thy holy Circumcijion" (Harley ^MSS. 
 
 1706.): 130, " Petlgree of the emperors 
 
 from Julius Caefar to Dacian :" 131. Of tlie 
 kings of England : " Froom tyme of Brute auc- 
 tours do fpecefye" (Harley MSS. 372) : 132. 
 On kyng Edward of Carnarvon, Richard the fe- 
 cunde, &c. " Beholde this greete prynce Edward 
 the fecunde" (Harley MSS. 2251 ) : 133. A 
 prayer for K. Henry VI. before his coronation 
 (ballad-wyfe) : " A lorde amonge have a remem- 
 brance" (Fairfax MSS. 161) : 134. A ballad pre- 
 fented to king Henry VI. the day of his corona- 
 tion : " Mod noble prince of Cryften princes all" 
 (Alhmoles MSS. 59, ii, and the Harleian, 2251) : 
 135. " A remembrance of a pedeugre how that 
 the kyng of Englond Henry the fext is truly borne 
 heir unto the coronc of France, (sfc." out of 
 French : Pro. " Trouble hertis to fette in quyete." 
 Trans. " Crift Jhefu and foverain lord (Harley 
 MSS. 7333) : 136. " A balad given to Henry the 
 6. and his mother on new-yeres-day at Hartford:" 
 137. " The complaints of my lady Holland, and 
 [the duke of ] Glocefter, before their marriage:" 
 " A folitary full fore complaining" (Alhmoles 
 MSS. 59, ii) : 138. " Litcra 7iiisjh ad clticem
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 79 
 
 Gloucestrice in tempore translaticmis libri Bockaju 
 pro oportunitafe pecunie: or A complaint " for 
 lak of wignage:" *' Right myghty prince, and 
 it be youre wille" (Harley MSS. 2251, 2255) : 
 ISQ. " Epitaphium duels Gloncejlrie :" " Sove- 
 rayne immortal everlaftyng god" (Ibi. 2251): 
 1 40. " A compleynte for the departynge of Tho- 
 mas Chaucer into Fraunce by his fervantes upon 
 the kyngs ambasfade :" " Every maner creature" 
 (Harley MSS. 1704) : 141. " An epistle to his 
 lady Sibille, of virtuous bufynefs, efchewing idle- 
 nefs:" "^ The chief gynnynge of grace" (Afh- 
 mole MSS. 3g, ii) : 142. Devita hominis (Bod- 
 ley MSS. NE. F ii. 32.) : 143. Proprietates 
 nationum : 144. Dc arte militari: 145. Prce^ 
 ceptiones Galliccc linguae : 146. " A ballad to the 
 IherifFs of London on a May morning :" " Mighty 
 Floura goddes of frelh floures" (Alhmoles MSS. 
 59, ii) 147. "^ A disguiling, or mumming, be- 
 fore the king at Eltham:" 148. Anotlier at 
 Windfor: i4g. Another, before the mayor of 
 London, by the mercers : 150. Another, by the 
 goldfmiths : 131. Another, before the great 
 ellates of the land:" 132. " A procesfion of pa- 
 geants from the creation:" 153. " Procesfioun 
 of Corpus Cri^ti:" " This high fefte for to mag- 
 nifye " (Harley MSS. 2235) : 154. " The roiall
 
 80 POETS OF THE 
 
 receiving of Henry the 6. into his noble citie of 
 London, after his retume out of France:" 155. 
 ** Gallants, England may waile that ever they 
 came here:" 156. " Exhortation to the world 
 to avoid hafte and to work by good avertifement : " 
 
 157. " Againft the light attire of womens heads :" 
 
 158. " Moralifation of a fable how the trees chofe 
 them a king:" 15Q. " Dantis opuscvla:" l60. 
 " Vctrarcha; qucedam: l6l." Oratio ad deum" 
 (Lambeth library) : 1 62. The hymn of the fowls : 
 " As i me lenyd unto a joyful place" (Harley 
 MSS. 2251) : l63. Deus in nomine falvvm mefac; 
 translated and parraphrafed : " God in thy name 
 make me fafe and founde" (Afhmoles MSS, 5y, ii; 
 Caligula. A. IL) : l64. " Hoc factum efi. a do- 
 mino :" " O man thow marreft in tliy mynd" 
 (Harley MSS. 2251) : i65. Benedic anima mea 
 domino, &c." " O thow my fowle gyf lawde 
 unto the lorde" (Jbi.) l66. " Mifericordia do- 
 mini in ctcrnum cantabo: " AUe gooftly fong is 
 and ympnes tliat befonge" (Har. MSS. 2255): 
 167. Dc ■profundis clamavi: (a paraplirafe on the 
 130th pfalm) : " Havyng a conceyt in my 
 fymple wit" (Ibi.) 168. Te dciim laudajnus : 
 to the lord foverayne" (lln.) l6g. " Rcgcm 
 rcgum in/iiife pcrfiindit, &:c." " This gooftly 
 chorus figured in tlic byble" (Ibi.) 170. Bene-
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 81 
 
 die fits deus in donis fuis : " God departeth his 
 gy fFttys dyversly:" (Ihi.) 17 1. "Of the mer- 
 cies of god eternally to fing:" " Conditor abne 
 fiderum:" 172. " God is my helpere, and ay fhal 
 be" flb/J 173. " The high aftripotent auctor 
 of all" (Har. MSS. 2251): 174. " Gaudite 
 justi in do7nino:" 175. In praife of the blefsed 
 trinity: " Neir a park ful prudently pyght" 
 (Harley MSS. 2255) : 176. " Of the heavenly 
 Jerufalera:" 1/7. " Of the general refurrec- 
 tion and judgement:" 178. " Madam Grace, 
 chancelor de dieu :" I79. The five wife and five 
 foolilh virgins: 180. " De ccelorum gaudiis :" 
 181. " The fyfFtene joyes of oure lady cleped the 
 XV. Ooes, translated out of French at thinftance 
 of the worth ipfitll pryncefle Ifabelle now coun- 
 tefle of Warrwyke, lady Defpenfer:" " Atween 
 mydnyght and tlie frefih morwe gray" (Harley 
 MSS. 2255 ; Titus A. XXVI.):* 182. De XV. 
 doloribus B. virginis: " O glorious maydfor that" 
 (Bib. Bod. Laud. D. 31) : 183. De fancta Ma- 
 ria : " O queen of hevene, of helle eek em- 
 perefle" (Harley MSS. 2255, Hatton 94) : 184. 
 
 * Speght, bcfide thcfe Ooes, mentions '• The fifteene 
 joyes aad xv. Ibrowes." 
 
 G
 
 82 POETS OF THE 
 
 Stella cell exlirpavit: " Thee hevcnely queen 
 of grace our lood fterre" (Harley MSS. 2255.) 
 185. " Tlie image of our lady :" 186. In praife 
 of the virgin Mary : '* On hooly hillys, mooft 
 famous of renoun" (Ibi.): 187. On the fame 
 fubje6t : " O thoughtful herte plunged in dis- 
 trelTe" (Cot, Ap. VIII. ) : 188. Surge mea 
 fponfa, fo fweete in fight" (Harley MSS. 225 1) : 
 18(). Ave Jesfe Tirgula: " Heyl vertuous jafpe 
 mooft ftedfaft and our feith" ( Idem, ^.'ibb ) : 
 igo. '' Haile ^os campi, o ate Jesfe virgula" 
 *' Haile blifsed lady, the moder of Chrifl Jhefu" 
 C Idem, 2251 J: igi. A balade to the fame: 
 *' Be gladde mayde, raoder of Jhefu" C Idem J : 
 192. Maria xirgo usfumpta ejl: Regina cell; 
 qwene of the fowth C Idem J : 198."^ An invoca- 
 tion to our blefsed lady in choling of loves on S. 
 Valentines day ; with the refrade, I love one hejl of 
 all" " Sainte Valentyne of cuftome yeer by 
 yeer" (Alh. MSS. 59, ii) : l()4. " An invoca- 
 tion to our lady : " A thoufand ftories i koulthe 
 to you reherfe:" 195. "A glorious prayer to 
 ourelady:" " Dilectus mens, fhewed dilection" 
 (Ihi.): 196, " Invocation to our lady, with 
 the refrayde, Sfahat mater dolorofa:" " Heylc 
 goddes mother dolorus" (Ibi.) : 197. " Gloriofa
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 83 
 
 dicta funt de ie, kc. out of Latin, *' at the in- 
 ftaunce of the biffhoppe of Excestre in ballade- 
 wife :" "In holy hillis which ben of grete re- 
 noun" (Harley MS. 2251): 198. "The are 
 Mar/a in Englifh mitre: 199. " Al hayle Mary 
 ful of grace" {Ibi.) " The Magnificat, in mi- 
 tre :" 200, " Lament atio B. Marice virginis :" 
 " Who Ihal geve unto myn" (Bod. MSS. N E, 
 E. 6. 3) : 201. "A lamentation of our lady, 
 fliewde to St. Awftyn of Chriftes pasfion. Amove 
 langueo" " In the touret of a toure" (Afh. 
 MSS. 59, ii 3 in Har. 1706, " Canticum amo- 
 ris" "In a tabernacle of a toui'e) : 202. To 
 the Virgin Mary : " Joy blifsid lady with pure 
 virginal flovu-e" (Harley MS. 372) : 203. 
 " Ave regina ce/onim ;" " Haile luminary and 
 benyng lanterne" (Ibi.) 204. In praife of the 
 fame : " O thow joieful light, etemalye fhyne" 
 (Ibi) 205. Another: " O welle of fwetnes. 
 replete in every veyne" (Ibi.) 206. Another : 
 " Almighty and almerciable qwene" (Ibi.) 
 
 207. A prayer to Chrift : " O Jhefu Crift kepe 
 our lyppes from pollucioun" (Harley MSS. 225 1) : 
 
 208. Testamcntum Christi: " Whofo will over- 
 rede this boke" (Ibi. 2382) : 209. " ratio 
 dominica paraphrastic^ expofita :" *' A twixe 
 
 G 2
 
 64 POETS OF THE 
 
 dreed and txemblyng venerence" (Ihi. 2255): 
 2 10. "The dyttie of rerbum euro factum ejl :" 
 " Ye devoute people which have obfervance" 
 (Ibi. & Afli. MSS. 59, ii) : 211. " An exhor- 
 tacion of the crucifix :" " Man to refourme 
 thyn exil & thi lofs" (Harley MS. 3721) : 212. 
 " The ladie of pitie and Chrifts pasfion :" " O 
 wretched fynner what" (Afli. MSS. 5g, iii) : 
 
 213. "A faying of the nightingale touching 
 Chrift :" " In June whan Titan was in Crabbes 
 hede" (Caligula. A. II. & tlie Harley MS. 2251) : 
 
 214. Chrift a lamb offered in facrifice : " Be- 
 liold o man, lift up thy eye and fe" (Harley MS. 
 2251) : 215. Addrefs of Chrift to his mother: 
 " My fader above behold}'ng thy raekenelfe" 
 (Ibi.) 21 6. " Oratio Cliristi fiiper crucem pen- 
 dent is.'' 217. " Canticus amoris :" " Jhefus 
 thy fwelneife who might hit fee" (Harley MS, 
 170C) : 218. " The name of Jefus, and bowing 
 of the knee :" 219. " Jb ini/uicis vostris dc- 
 fuide no.s Chrisle :" " Moft fovrayne lord, o 
 blisfiil Crirt Jhcfu" (Harley MS. 2251): 220. 
 " Of Chrifts pasfion :" -' Meditation on Chrifts 
 pasfion:" 221. " Pfalms of tlie pasfion " 
 222. Merita viisfic : " God of hewine that 
 flioopc crthe and hcUe" (Titus. A. XXV^.) 223.
 
 FIFtEENTH CEXTtllV. 85 
 
 On the mafs : "Ye that beth of good devo- 
 cyoun" (Harley MS. 2251): 224, " Quonwdo 
 audicnda fit niisjh :" (Lambeth library): " Quo- 
 modo audiendcc jiiit I'ttanhi" (Ibi.) 225. " Tlie 
 court of fapience in heaven for redemption of 
 mankind:" 226. " Cristc qui lux es, (sf dies:" 
 " Crift that art both day and light" (Harley MS. 
 5251) : 227. " O blyfsid lord, my lord, o Crift 
 Jhefu" {Ibi.) 228. "Upon a crofs nayled i was 
 for the" (Ibi.) 229. " The fifttcne tokyns aforn 
 tliedoom:" " As the doctor fa/icf us Jcronimus" 
 {Ibi.) 230, " Sicut fidus, &c." (in praife of 
 Mary the mother of John) : " So as a fterre 
 fheditli out his beemys :" 23 1 . " The life of St, 
 Anne:" 232, " A deuout invocation of St. 
 Ann, made at the commandment of my ladye 
 countefs of Stafford :" " Thou firft moever that 
 caufes" (Afh. MSS. 59, ii) : 233. De tribus 
 virginibus, Kafcrina, Margcreta, ^ Magdekna : 
 " Kateryne witli glorious Margarete" (Harley 
 MS. 2255) : 234. " The prologe [and lyf] of 
 the holy feint Margaret:" " To the reverence 
 of Seynt Margarete" (Harley MSS. 1 704) : 235, 
 Vita Sanctc Cccilic : " The ministre of the no- 
 rice unto vices" f7/>rf. 2382^ ; !236. De fancta 
 Si/tha : " Heyl, hooly Sitha made of gret vcr- 
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 86 POETS OF THE 
 
 tu" (Harley MS. 2255) : 237. De fancta Bar' 
 bara: 238. Prayers to the 11,000 virgins : ''Ye 
 Bryton niartirs, famous in parfitnefle" (Ibi.) 
 239. " Falnila monialis dc fancta Maria" 
 Lord our lord tlie name how marA'elous (Har- 
 ley MSS. 2382) : 240. De fancto Erasmo mar- 
 tire: " All criften peple lifteneth ye & here" 
 (Ibi.) 241. Of Dionyfius, George, and other 
 faints : " Blifsyd Denys of Athenys cheef fonne" 
 (Harley MS. 2255) : 242, A prayer to St. Lio- 
 nard : " Refte and refuge to folk difconfolat" 
 (Ibi.) 243, " The martyrdome of faint Ed- 
 munde kyng [of tlie Eaft- Angles]," translated 
 out of Latin : Pro. " The noble ftory to put in 
 rememberaunce :" Book. " In Saxone wliilorae 
 was a kyng" (Harley MS. 7333) : 244, A 
 poem on the banner and ftandard of St. Edmund : 
 " Blysfyd Edmund, kyng, martyr, and vyrgyne" 
 (Harley MSS. 2278) : 245. " A ballad royall of 
 invocation to faint Edmond at thcnftaunce of 
 kynge Henry the fixt :" " Glorious master, that of 
 devout humblcnefle" (Ibi.llOA) : 2i6. 3Iiracula 
 S. Edminidi: " Laudeof our lord up to the hea- 
 venis" (Laud. MSS. D. 3l) : 247. Vita fancti 
 Frrmundi martiris : unacum miracuHs Edmu/idi," 
 or " The lyfF of faint Fremunde :" Pro. " Who
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 87 
 
 kan remembre the myracles mervelous :" Book, 
 " Of Bochardus folowe i Ihall the ftyle" (Harley 
 MSS. 2278, 7333): 248. " The lyfF of St. 
 Alexes :" " AUe that woUe a whyle here dwell" 
 (Titus A. XXVI) : " Dc vUa S. Georgii, pro ar- 
 morum fabiis Londini:" " Ye folks that here 
 prefent:" 24g. Vita S. Albani martyris ad J. 
 Frumcntarium abbatcm (Whetliamfted, abbot of 
 St. Albans), libri 3 (Col. MSS. S. Trinitatis, 
 Ox. 10; Ec. Lin. I. 57): 250. Vita S. Jllgi- 
 dii: " Of Agamemnoun under the large em- 
 pire" (Bod. MSS. Laud, D. oe 31) : 251. Invo- 
 cation to S. Denys, translated out of French into 
 Englifh, at the requeft of Charles the French 
 king : " O thou chofen of God" (Ibi.) 
 
 This is believed to be tlie completeft lift of this 
 voluminous, profaick, and driveling monk, that 
 can be formed, without accefs, at leaft, to every 
 manufcript library in the kingdom, which would 
 be very difficult, if not imposfible, to obtain. It 
 is, at the fame time, highly probable that feme of 
 thefe pieces, moftly anonymous in die MS. co- 
 pys, are not by Lydgate ; and that, on the other 
 hand, he may be the author of many others in the 
 fame predicament. In the libraiy of Trinity- 
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 88 POETS OF THE 
 
 college, Cambridge (Num. 377), is Lhlgati 
 Opera, 3 volumes. But, in truth, and fa<5t, thel'e 
 ftupid and fatigueing productions, which by no 
 means deferve the name of poetry, and their ftil 
 more ftupid and disgufling author, who disgraces 
 the name and patronage of his master Chaucer, 
 are neither worth collefting (unlefs it be as typo- 
 graphical curiofity,s, or on account of the beauty- 
 ful illuminations in fome of his prefentation- 
 copys), nor even worthy of prefervation : being 
 only fuitablely adapted " ad Jicuin tsf piperem" 
 and other more bafe and fervile ufes. How little 
 he profited by the correction, or inftructions of 
 his great patron is manifeft in almofl every part 
 of his elaborate drawlings, in which there are 
 fcarcely three lines together of pure and acurate 
 metre. Wei, therefor, and necesfaryly did it be- 
 hove him to addrel's his readers : 
 
 " Becaufe, i know the verfe tlierein is wrong. 
 As being fome too fliort, and fome too long." 
 
 He dyed, at a very advanced age, after 1446; 
 no one, it is believed, having hitlierto ascertained 
 the precife year of his death.* 
 
 * Pitts and W'tevcr, from a misconftruction of Bale, 
 arc, thcrtfor, mistaken in placcing it in 1440, though
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 8Q 
 
 In his prologue to " the ftorie of Thebees," he 
 gives the following defcription of himfelf, his 
 horfe, and fenant : 
 
 " In a cope of blacke, and not of grene. 
 On a palfray, (lender, long and lene. 
 With rufty bridell, made not for tlie fale. 
 My man to forne, with a voide male, ^c." 
 
 His hoft haveing demanded the name and coun- 
 try of one 
 
 " That ' loked' fo pale, all devoide of blood. 
 Upon ' his' hedde a wonder thred bare hood, 
 Wei araicd [he fays] for to ride late j 
 ' He' anfwered. His name was Lidgate, 
 Monke of Burie, nie fiftie yere of age." 
 
 He frequently introduces his portrait in the il- 
 lumination of a prefentation copy, witli that of 
 
 followed by Grainger and others. The former rebukes 
 one Pjmphilus for extending his life to 14S1, in which 
 year, according to Warton, he fays, ** that our author 
 died." In a copy of Lydgates Chronicle of Englijh kingi 
 (Harl. MSS. 2251), there is a ftanza of Edward the 
 fourth, which proves that he furvived the year 1461.
 
 go POETS OF THE 
 
 his patron, generally the king ; from one of 
 which portraits there is an engraveing by Vertue. 
 
 In his Troye-boke, C. b, he feems to imply 
 that Chaucer had overlooked and cone6ted his 
 writeings : aware that, tliey would not endure a 
 rigid criticifro, he calls upon his gentle readers 
 to 
 
 '* Amende a thynge, and hyndre never a dele. 
 Of custom aye ready to faye wele :" 
 
 and then ads, 
 
 " For he that was grounde of well fayinge 
 
 In all his lyfe hyndred no makyng. 
 
 My master Chaucer that founde ful many fpot, 
 
 Hym lift not pynche, nor grutche at every blot. 
 
 Nor meve hymfelfe to perturbe his refte, 
 
 I have herde tolde, but faye alway the befte, 
 
 Sufferynge goodly. of his gentilnefle. 
 
 Full many tli}Tige embraced with rudeneffe. 
 
 And if i fhall Ihortly hym discrive 
 
 Was never none to thys daye alyve 
 
 To reken all, bothe of yonge and olde 
 
 That worthy was his ynkchorne for to holde."
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. Ql 
 
 MIRK JOHN, by Pitts called Minus, and 
 by Leland and Bale Johannes LiUcshull ; a regular 
 Canon of the Monastery of LilleshuU in Shrop- 
 Ihire, translated from the Latin into Englifh 
 verfe what he chufes to call " Pvpillvs oculi," a 
 fort of directory for Parilli priefts ; of which one 
 copy is in the Cotton library (Claudius A. II.) and 
 two more are in the posfesfion of Francis Douce 
 efquire, who obferves tliat it fhould rather feem 
 to be an imitation than translation of the " P«- 
 pilla oculi" of John de Burgo, Chancellor of the . 
 Univerfity of Cambridge about the year IS 80, 
 unlefs there be another work under the former of 
 tliefe titles. The Cotton MS. has this title: 
 " Propter presbytenim paroc/iialem iiijlrucndum :" 
 begins, " God feyth hymfelf as wryten we fynde ;" 
 and ends with this colophon : " Explicit tracta- 
 tus qui dicitur Pars oculi de Latino in Anglicxnn 
 tramlatus per f rat rem Johannem Myrcus canoni- 
 cum rcgularem monasterii de Lylleshul, cujus 
 animc propicietur deus. Amen." 
 
 NASSYNGTON WILLIAM OF, a proctor 
 at York, translated a religious treatife, on the 
 lords prayer, feven gifts of the holy ghoft, i*i\ti\ 
 deadly lins, fe'f. writen in Latin by John of 
 Waldby ; which translation is extant among the
 
 g2 POETS OF THE 
 
 royal MSS. in the B. Mufeum (17 C viii) j 
 though improperly defcribed in Casleys cata- 
 logue, as the poetical works of Richard Rokeby, 
 who was merely the tranfcriber.* There is ano- 
 ther copy in the Bodleian library (Bod. A. 3. 13). 
 The mufeum copy begins : " Allmyghty gode in 
 trynite." 
 
 NORTON THOMAS, of Bristol, wrote " The 
 ordinall of alchimyj" which was begun in 1477, 
 and is printed in Aflimoles " Theatrum chemicufn 
 Britannicitmy' l652. 
 
 OCCLEVE. See HOCCLEVE. 
 
 PEARCE, a bl^k monk, wrote a " Treatife 
 
 * It was a common practice, in that age, for the co- 
 pyiftofapoem, to infert his name, as author. At the 
 end of John Lydgates Life of the virgin Mary (Har. MSS. 
 5272) is ♦' Here endirh the life of oure lady. Quod 
 Johannes Forftcr." So " Quod Willms Woodeward" 
 is fubfcril^ed to " The dcfolacyon of Rome made by 
 Lydgate" (Har. MSS.4011); and, at the end of his 
 Life of the B. V. in the fame MS. is " Explicit John 
 Lydgade monke of Bury. Quod W. Grancll:" And 
 a MS. of RoUcs poems, in T. C. D. has on this account 
 become the property of •' John Flcmyng." See, alfo, 
 before, p. 25.
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. Q3 
 
 upon the elixir}" printed in Afhraoles 77<ea^/w»* 
 cAemicum. 
 
 PYLKYNTON GILBERT, parfon, as fomc 
 have thought, of tlie parilh of Tottenham, in 
 Middlefex, is fuppofed, by his fuccesfor, Wil- 
 helm Bedwell, to be tlie author of an excellent 
 fong, intitled " The turnament of Tottenham, 
 or the wooing, wenning and wedding of Tibbe, 
 the reeves daughter there," which, with other 
 poems, posfiblely by the fame author, amongft 
 which was " a ftory of Robin Hood, and little 
 lohn," and a treatife fubfcribed " Explicit pasjio 
 dumini noatri Icju Christi, quod dominus Gil- 
 bcrtus Pi/Ih/nfoii," master Bedwell found in a 
 manufcript communicated by his " much ho- 
 noured good friend, M, Ge. Withers j" and was 
 by him printed at the end of his '' Brief defcrip- 
 tion of tlae towne of Tottenham High-crofle :'' 
 London, IGSI, 4to. " It is likcwife, extant in 
 a MS. of the Harleian library (Num. ), 
 
 which was of ufe to Dr. Percy, in the third edi- 
 tion of his " Reliques of ancient Englifh poe- 
 try." 
 
 PLANT AGENET EDWARD, duke of York, 
 llain at the battle of Agineourt, wrote a poem.
 
 94 POETS OF THE 
 
 addrefsed, as lord Orford conjectures, to Joan the 
 fecond wife of Henry the fourth, extant in a 
 MS. belonging to Mr. Stnitt, who has given part 
 of it in his Manners and customs. 
 
 PLANTAGENET EDWARD, duke of York. 
 Warton fays *' I have an antient manufcript alli- 
 terative poem, in which a defpairing lover bids 
 farewel to his mistrefs." At the end is written, 
 *' Explicit Amor, per ducem Ebor. riuper fact." 
 (Ill, 106, w.u.) 
 
 PLANTAGENET HENRY, king of England, 
 the fixth of his name, compofed " a prettie verfe," 
 which is preferved in a letter from fir John Ha- 
 ryngton to Henry prince of Wales, 1 609, printed 
 in Nugce antiquce, volume 2, p. 143. " The 
 lines," lord Orford fays, " are melancholy and 
 fimple, as we fliould expe6t, and not better than a 
 faint might compofe,"* 
 
 RIPLEY GEORGE, firft a canon-regular of 
 
 * His lordlhip might, likcwifc, have adcd to his new 
 edition of the " Royal and noble authors," the follow- 
 ing article by king Edward the fecond ; " De la roi Ed- 
 •ward le fx. roi Ed-ward, It chanfon qe il fifl mefmei," which 
 was in a MS. that had belonged to fir Henry Spclman, 
 and was fold, with the reft of his collection, in 1709.
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. Q5 
 
 Saint Augustine at Bridlington, and afterwards a 
 Carmelite at Boston, where he dyed in 1490, 
 wrote "■ The compound of alchymie ; a moft ex- 
 cellent, learned, and worthy worke, conteining 
 twelve gates ;" writen in 1471, and dedicated to 
 K. Edward IV. firft printed by T. Orwin, 159I, 
 4to. and along with other poems on tlie fame 
 fubject, inferted in Aihmoles Theatrum chemi' 
 cinu, 1652. It may be remarked, however, that 
 " The vifion of fir George Ripley," printed in 
 that work, was not writen by himfelf, but by 
 fome anonymous autlior, of the following century. 
 See Tanners Bibliothcca. 
 
 ROKEBY RICHARD. See NASSYNGTON. 
 
 ROS SIR RICHARD made the translation, 
 from Alain Chartier, of La belle dame fans mercie, 
 generally afcribed to Chaucer, and printed in his 
 works. See the Harleian MS, Num. 372. He 
 has, probablely, been an ungraduated parilli- 
 prieft, or one, as they were called, of ^'^ the 
 popes knights."* 
 
 * Like fir Hugh Evans in Tie merry wives of tfindfrr, 
 and fir Oliver Martext in ^s you Hie it. The title is ftil 
 common in Wales.
 
 g6 POETS OF THE 
 
 ROWLEY THOMAS, an imaginary prieft 
 and poet, in whole name Thomas Chatterton, of 
 Bristol, a youth of 17, compofed, in tlie years 
 17C9 and 1770, a number of poems, all or moft 
 of which were collefted and publiftied by Thomas 
 Tyrwhitt efquire, in 1777, and by Dr. Milles, 
 dean of Exeter, in 1782; the latter editor being 
 a complete dupe to the imposture, from which 
 even the great learning and critical acumen of the 
 former did not, at firft, altogether exempt him. 
 Rowley, according to his ingenious fabricator, 
 " was born at Norton-Mal-reward in Somerfet- 
 fhire, educated at the convent of St. Kenna at 
 Keynesham, and died at Weftbury in Gloucester- 
 lliire." 
 
 RUSSELL JOHN, " fometyrae fer\ande 
 with duke Umfrey of Glowceter," appears, by 
 the commendation of himfelf, his wife and chil- 
 dren, to the readers prayers, to be author of a 
 " boke of nurtur," extant in tlie Harleian MS. 
 40 11, and begining, " In nomine pafris god kepe 
 me." 
 
 SALl^VOOD DAN ROGERS, a monk of 
 Auftins, Canterbury, wrote " A comparyfon be-
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 97 
 
 twene iiij byrdes, the lark, the nyghtyngale, tlie 
 thruflie, and the cucko, for tlieyr fyngynge who 
 fhould be chauntoure of the quere;" in feven- 
 line ftanzasj printed at Canterbury, by John 
 Mychel, without date, but about 1550. Sec 
 CAUMPEDEN HUGH. 
 
 SCOGAN HENRY is the author of a poem, 
 inferted in moft editions of Chaucers works, and 
 addrefsed " Unto the lordes and gentlemen of the 
 kynges houfej" though inaccurately intitled, in 
 fome copys, " A moral balade to the prince, the 
 duke of Clarence, the duke of Bedford, the duke 
 of Glocester, the kinges fonnes ; at a fupper 
 among the marchants in the Vintry at London, 
 in the houfe of Lewis John." (See Tyrwhitts 
 edition of The Canterbuiy tales, volume 5, p. 
 xix.) According to Ben Jonfon, he was — 
 
 " A fine gentleman, and a master of arts. 
 Of Henry the fourths times, that made disguifes 
 For the kings fons, and writ in ballad royal 
 Daintily well, Cs'c." 
 
 (" Mafque of The Fortunate ?/?<"?."; To this 
 
 Scogan, alfo, " a ballade," ufually printed as 
 
 Chaucers, and pretended to have been " made 
 
 H
 
 gS POETS OF THE 
 
 upon his death-bed, lying in his anguifh," bc- 
 gining " Fie fro the prefe, &3'c." is attributed in 
 a MS. of C, C. C. Oxford (Num. 203), He was 
 buryed, according to Stow, in the cloifter of Weft- 
 minfter-abbey. 
 
 SCOGAN JOHN is fay'd, by Mr. Warton, 
 to have been *' educated at Oriel-college in Ox- 
 ford ; and, being an excellent mimick, and 
 of great pleafantry in converfation," to have be- 
 come " tlie favourite buffoon of the court of 
 Edward tlae fourtli, in which he pafsed the greater 
 part of his life" What authority there is (be- 
 fide bifhop Tanners conjecture) for placeing him 
 in Oriel-college docs not appear ; but, in a book 
 intitled " The jcfts of Scogin," or " Scogins 
 jefts," the author, or compiler (Dr. Andrew 
 Borde), informs us, lie had "heard fay, that 
 Scogin did come of an hontfl ftock, no kindred, 
 and that his friends did fet him to fchoole at Ox- 
 ford, where he did continue till he was made 
 master of art."* HoUynshed, alfo, fpeaking of 
 tlie great men of Edward the 4 ths time, has the 
 following words : "■ Skogan, a learned gentle- 
 man, and ftudent for a time in Oxforde, of a 
 
 ■■* Bale fays the fame : Ex cfficinit Ubrariorum.
 
 FIFTEEXTH CENTURY. QQ 
 
 pleafaunte witte, and bente to mery devifes, in 
 refpeft whereof he was called into the courte, 
 where giving himfelf to his naturall inclination of 
 mirthe and pleafant pastime, he plaied many 
 fporting parts, altlioughe not in fuche uncivill 
 maner as hatli bene of hym reported 3" meaning, 
 apparently, in tlie above jeft-book (bilhop Tan- 
 ners fole authority, it would fe-em, for calling 
 him " regi jociilator" ) : in which he is intro- 
 duced to court as the fool of lir William Nevyle, 
 who frequently calls him Tom ; the ufual appella- 
 tion, perhaps, of fuch characters, as we ftil fay 
 Tom Fool. He feems to have been marryed ; as, 
 in lord Brookes Calica (Workes, 10"33), is (what 
 the noble author is pleafed to call) " a fonnet on 
 a ftory of Scogan and his wife." That he was a 
 poet is fcarcely to be doubted. Drayton, in the 
 preface to his eclogues, exprefsly mentions one of 
 his compolitions : " The Co/in Clout of Sco- 
 gan," fays he, " under Henry the feventh [it 
 fliould have have been Edward tlie fourth], is 
 pretty ; but Barclays S/iip of fools hath twenty 
 wifer in it." He is fpeaking of pastoral poetry j 
 and cannot, tlierfor, mean the Colin Clout of 
 Skelton, which is not a pastoral, but a fatire. 
 Langham, alfo, in his envinieration of captain 
 Coxes library, notices " The feargeaunt that be- 
 H 2
 
 100 POETS OF THE 
 
 came a fryar, Skogan, Collyn Cloout, Spc." and 
 that by Skogan are not meant his Jejis, is evident 
 from all the reft being poetical trafts. The only 
 relique of his poetry now known is a fatyrical 
 epigram, which he wrote at Oxford, on takeing 
 his masters degree, and is preferved in the above 
 book: 
 
 " A master of art 
 
 Is not worth a fart. 
 Except he be in fchools ; 
 
 A batchelour of law 
 
 Is not worth a ftraw. 
 Except he be among fools." 
 
 That he was dead before Henry the feventlis 
 time appears, not only from the above jeft-book, 
 but, with manifeft certainty, from the following 
 monkifh epitaph, extant in a MS. of the Har- 
 leian library (Num. 158?), writen toward the 
 latter part of Edward the fourths reign, that is, 
 about the year 1483, and containing the auto- 
 graph of the celebrated cardinal Pole, when a boy 
 at fchool : 
 
 " Hie jacet in tumulo corpus Scogan eccc Jo- 
 
 HANNIS 
 
 Sit tibi profpcadoj Ictus fuit ejus in annis.
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 101 
 
 Leti tranjihunt, tranjitus vitare nequibunt ; 
 Quo nefcimiis ibunt, vinoji cito peribunt."* 
 
 That this Jo/m has been frequently confounded 
 with Henry, and that Shakfpeare is guilty of a 
 grofs anachronifin in makeing his head broken by 
 FaHlafF " at the court-gate, when he was a crack 
 not thus high," or about 1370, muft be readyly 
 admited j but no one, who is not altogether re- 
 gardlefs of truth, and infenfible of fhame, wil 
 hereafter asfert that " tliere was no poet of the 
 name of Scogan in the time of king Edwai-d IV. 
 nor any ancient poet of that name but Henry 
 Scogan, master of arts, who lived in the time of 
 king Henry IV." 
 
 SELLYNG RICHARD, " fquier," made a 
 poem intitled " Evidens to be ware and gode 
 counfaylej" extant in one of the Harleian MSS. 
 (Num. 7333 : " Whilift i hadeyouthe i wift nouzt 
 what it was.") He fubmits it to the correction 
 of John Shirley, who, if not himfelf a poet, was, 
 at leaft, an industrious collector of poetry. In 
 the Alhmolean mufeum is " A boke clepcd the 
 abftra6te brevyarc compyled of divers balades, 
 
 * Another copy of this epitaph would feem to be /'« 
 MS. Br. Ttvyii 89. (Tanner.) 
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 102 POETS OF THE 
 
 roundels, virilays, tragedyes, envoys, complaints, 
 moralities, ftoryes, practyfed, and eke devyfed 
 and ymagined, as it Iheweth here foUowyng, 
 colleaed by John Shirley" (MSS. 89. ii). (See 
 Warton, Emen. & Ad. to Vol. II.) This is, 
 doubtlefs, the collection, or one of the collec- 
 tions, which Stow had feen, containing pieces of 
 Chaucer, Lydgatc, and other Englifh poets. The 
 hope, entertained by the compiler of thefe anec- 
 dotes, of finding it a treasure of old ballads, in 
 the prefent fenfe of the word, was miferablely dis- 
 appointed on its infpection. Shirley dyed in 
 1456, aged 90 years. 
 
 SKELTON JOHN, rector of Dyfle in Nor- 
 folk, and chaplain to king Henry the eighth, 
 whofe tutor he had been, was a pcrfon of great 
 learning and literary eminence, and actually re- 
 ceived the degree of poet-laureat in both tlie 
 Englilh univerfitys. His poetical performances, 
 fo far as they can be now afcertained, are as fol- 
 lows : 1 . " A right delectable treatyfe upon a 
 gfxjdly garlande or chapelet 0^ laurell ftudyously 
 dyvv'fed at Shcryfhotton castell, in the forefte of 
 Galtrcs, wherein ar compryfed many and dyvers 
 folacyons and ryght pregnant allectyves of fyngu- 
 lar pleafurc:" printed by " Rycharde Faukea
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 103 
 
 dwellyng in Duram rent or els in Powlis chyrche 
 yarde at the fygne of the A. B. C. yhe yere of 
 ourlordegod. M.C.C.C.C.C. XXIII. The. III. 
 day of Octobre :" 4to, b. 1. haveing, on the back 
 of the frontispiece, a whole-length portrait of 
 " Skelton poeta." (This curiofity was purchafed, 
 at major Pearfons fale, by Mr. Brand, and is now 
 in the kings library at Buckingham-houfe, but 
 was never, as Mr. Herbert misconceived, the 
 property of George Steevens efquire.)* 2. "A 
 lytell treatyfe named the bowge of courtej'' 
 printed by Wynken de Worde, without date, 
 4to. 3. "A lytell boke called Collyn Clout:" 
 printed by Thomas Godfray, and, afterward, by 
 Richard Kele, and by John Wyghte, without 
 date, i2mo. 4. " The boke of Phyllj'p Spa- 
 rowe :" printed by Robert Toye, by Richard 
 Kele, and by John Wyghte. 5. "A litle boke 
 which hath to name Why come ye nat to court :" 
 by the fame printers, witli a portrait, in Keles 
 edition, on the laft page, of " Skylton poyet." 
 6. " The boke called Speake Parrot :" 7. " On 
 the death of tlie noble prince kynge Edward the 
 
 * Wood gives, as a publication by Skelton, " Poeti- 
 cal fancies and fatyrs. Z.»W. 1512, oct. »* but no fuch 
 book is believed to have ever exifted. 
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 104 POETS OF THE 
 
 fourth:" 8. " A treatyfe of the Scottes :" g. 
 " AVare tlie hawke:" 10. " The tunnynge of 
 Elynoure Rummynge :" all printed by John Day, 
 and alfo by John Kynge and Thomas Marche. 
 Tliefe ten pieces, with fome others,* were col- 
 Icded and publifh^xJ, under the title of " Pithy 
 pleafaunt and profitable workes of noaifter Skel- 
 ton, poete laureate," by Thomas Marfh, in 1568: 
 reprinted 4li^ 1736. 11. "How yong fcholers 
 now a days emboldened in the fly-blown blaft of 
 the moch vayne-gloryous pipplyng wind whan 
 they have deiedtably lycked a lytell of the lycorous 
 electurry of lufty lernyng in the moch ihidious 
 fcole-houfe of fcrupulous philology countyng 
 themfelfs clerkes excellently informed and tran- 
 fcendingly fpcd in moch high conyng and whan 
 tliey have ones fuperciously caught, {ffc." printed 
 by Richard Pinfon, without date in quarto. (Mr. 
 
 ♦ The duke of Albany. How every thinge muft have 
 a time. A prayer to the father of heaven. To the 
 fccond perfon. To the holy ghoft. The relucent mi- 
 nor. Of a comly coyftrowne. Upon a dead mans heed. 
 To maistris Anne. Of thrc foolcs. Epitaphes of two 
 knaves of Difc. Lamentation for Norwich. [Another] 
 againft the Scottes. Praife of the pahn tre. The dolo- 
 rous death of the lord Pcrcie crle of Northumberlande. 
 Agaiiift vcncmous tongues. Of Calliope.
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 105 
 
 Herbert fuggefts it maybe the invective againft 
 Lilye the grammarian mentioned by Wood ; but 
 no copy is known to be now extant.) 12. " The 
 epitaph of Jafper duke of Bedford," 4to. 13. 
 " The miferies of England under H. 7-" 4to. 
 both mentioned by bilhop Tanner, but not other- 
 wife known. 14. " Manerly maiftrefle Margery 
 mylke and ale:" a ballad, preferved in the Fair- 
 fax MS. and printed in Hawkinses " History of 
 mufic." 13. " WofiiUy arayd :" a pious ron- 
 deau, alfo printed by Hawkins. 1(5. " The 
 image of Ypocrefye :" never printed: Mr. Le 
 Neve had the original MS. which, at his fale, 
 was purchafed by Mr. Weft : Mr. Heber has a 
 tranfcript, which belonged to Dr. Farmer, by 
 " Honeft Tom Martin of Palgrave." (See 
 Hearnes Peter de Langetoft, P. 684.) 17- " Vox 
 populi, vox dei." extant, among the Harleian 
 MSS. (Num. 367,") and in the archives of tlie 
 univerfity of Cambridge ; addrefsed " To the 
 kings moft exelent majestic," and begining " I 
 praye you be not wrothe. ' 18. " Skelton lau- 
 riate defender agenft M. Garnefche chalenger 
 &c." (4 poems) preferved among the Harleiau 
 MSS. (Num. 367) : in which volume, by the 
 w:iy, is a copy of Speake parot very different 
 from, and much fuperior to, that in the printrd
 
 106 POETS OF THE 
 
 books. Befide certain of the above-mentioned 
 articles, Skclton, in his Croume of faxcrell, names 
 feveral otlier " bokes and balades with dities of 
 pleafure," which are now loft. His *' goodly and 
 mery interlude of Magnyfycence," printed by 
 John Rastell, i : ftill extant ; but it is utterly incre- 
 dible that " The Nigramanfir," dcfcribed, in Mr. 
 Wartons " History of Englifh poetry" (II, 36o), 
 as printed by Wynken de Worde, in 1504, ever 
 exifted, any more tlian feveral editions, he quotes, 
 of other pieces. Our author dyed in fanctuary 
 at Weftminfter, where he had taken fhelter from 
 the perfecution of cardinal Wolfey, and was 
 kindly entertained by abbot Iflip, on the 2 1 ft of 
 June 1529, and was buryed in the chancel of the 
 parifli-church of Saint-Margaret, being aged, by 
 conjecture, about 68. 
 
 STOKYS R. " Proverbium, Anglko car- 
 miner MSS. C. C. C. O. 203. 
 
 T. J. wrote a prologue ''in the honour & 
 laude of faint Werburge, and in the prayfe of the 
 translatour of the legende folowinge 3" prefixed 
 to Bradlhaas " Lyfe" of tliat " faynt," and con- 
 taininsr fix ftanzas of feven lines each.
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 107 
 
 THORNTON ROBERT wrote the following 
 poems: 1. " Morte Arthure," a romance in the 
 alliterative metre of " The vifion of Pierce Plow- 
 man"* (begins, " Now grett glorious godd 
 thurgh grace of hymfelven") : 2. " The romance 
 off Sir Percyuall of Gales," in Ihort eight-line 
 ftanzas (begins, " Gef by thes to me"): 3. 
 *' Vita fancti Christofen' {" Lordynges if it be 
 zowre will") : all extant in a MS. of the library of 
 Lincoln-catlicdral, examined by the prefent com- 
 piler. This author was, probablely, tlie perfon 
 who is mentioned in the catalogue of the Cotton- 
 library, in the defcription of Vitellius E. VII. 
 (fince deftroyed) : " Hunc librum f rater Ro- 
 bertus de Thometon, quondam prior, dedid claii- 
 jlralibus de Bardenay." 
 
 WADE LAURENCE, monk of Chrift-church, 
 Canterbury, translated into Englifh verfe, 1497, 
 " The life of Thomas Beckett :" which trans- 
 lation is preferved in a MS. of Bennet-coUege, 
 
 * This, of courfe, has nothing but the fubjeft in 
 common with an unfinifhed poem, under the fame title, 
 among the Harlcian MSS. (Num. 2252,) which, by the 
 way, is nothing more than fo much of Caxtons printed 
 book.
 
 108 POETS OF THE 
 
 Cambridge (CCXCVIII) ; and begins " O ye 
 virtuous foverayns fpiritual and temporal," 
 
 WAKEFELDE ROBERT. See CAUMPE- 
 DEN. 
 
 WALTER WILLIAM, who ftiles himfelf 
 '' fervaunt to fyr Henry Marney, knight, chaun- 
 celorof the duchy of Lancastre," translated out of 
 Latin into Englifli " The amerous hystory of 
 Guystarde and Sygysmonde, and of theyr do- . 
 lorous detli by her father;" printed by Wynken 
 deWorde, in 153'2, 4to. and reprinted in " Cer- 
 tayne wortliye manufcript poems of great anti- 
 quitie," 1597, l6mo. Alfo, " The history of 
 Tytus & Gefyppus," by the fame printer, 4to. 
 He likewifc compiled " A lytcll contrauers dya- 
 logue bytwene loue and councell, with many 
 goodly argumentes of good women and bad, very 
 compendyoui? to all eftates ;" and " The fpecta- 
 cle of louers," a dialogue in verfe : both by the 
 fame printer, in 4to, without date. 
 
 WATON BERTRAM wrote an "invective 
 poem againfl; the licentiousnefs of nuns, and of 
 the churchci of Rome, and their indulgences :"
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURA. IO9 
 
 extant in the Cotton library (Vespafian D. IX) ; 
 imperfeft : " Amen quod Bertran Waton. 
 
 WATTON JOHN, a prieft, wrote the Speai- 
 Inm Christiani, printed by William de Machlinia, 
 in or about 1483 j in which are inter fperfed fe- 
 veral religious pieces of poetry in Engliih. 
 
 WATSON HENRY, who translated " The 
 grete Ihyppe of fooles of this worlde," out of 
 French into Englifh profe, at the requeft of his 
 " worlhypfuU mayster Wykin de Worde" (by 
 whom it was printed in 1517), " thrughe the en- 
 tyfement & exhortacyon of the excellent prynces 
 Margarcte countefle of Rychemonde and Derby," 
 has prefixed arguments in verfe to each chapter. 
 
 WEY WILLIAM, a Devonfhire-man, fellow, 
 firft, of Exeter, and, afterward, of Eton-college, 
 made fome Englifli rimes on " The way to Hie- 
 rufalem, and the holy places in that country" 
 (MS. Bib. Bod. NE. F. 2. 12), whither he pere- 
 grinated in 1458 and 1472 3 celebrateing mats, in 
 that holy city (according to Warton), Cum cantu 
 organicoj (11, 427.)* 
 
 * Purchas has printed a poem from a MS. in fir
 
 110 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 
 
 WHYTYNG . . . appears to be author of a 
 " lytyl boke of curtefy" for " lytyll children j" a 
 fragment of which is preferved in the Harleian 
 MS. 541. 
 
 Robert Cottons library (but not to be found in Smiths 
 catalogue) which is thus intitled : " Here beginneth 
 the way that is marked, and made wit mount loiez from 
 the lond of Engelond vnto fent lames in Galis, and 
 from thennez to Rome, and from thennez to Icrufalem : 
 and fo againe into Engelond, and the namez of all the 
 citeez be the waie, and the maner of her gouernaunce, 
 and namez of her filver that they vfe be alle thefe waie," 
 fPilgrimes, II, 1230) ; which may be the poem men- 
 tioned by Tanner (as above) in the Bodleian, and tliat 
 alfo the identical MS. ufed by Purchas. It begins ; 
 ** In the name of the fader that feteez in trone."
 
 POETS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
 
 POETS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 
 
 A. B. has complimentary verfes before " Mor- 
 leys practical! introduction to muficke," I597. 
 
 A. G. See ALLEY WILLIAM. 
 
 A. H. See ARTHINGTON HENRY. 
 
 A, T. See ACHELEY THOMAS. 
 
 ACHELEY THOMAS. " A moft lamenta- 
 ble and tragicall historic, conteyning the outra- 
 gious and horrible tyrannic which a Spanifhe gan- 
 tlewoman named Violenta executed vpon her 
 loner Didaco, becaufe he efpoufed another beyng 
 firft betrothed vnto her. Newly translated into 
 Engliih meeter, by T. A.* Imprinted at Lon- 
 
 • For this work, mister Park obfcrvcs, he probablely 
 was place'd by the fide of Boccace, in Moreses " Wits 
 
 I
 
 1 14 rOETS OF THE 
 
 don by John Charlevvood for Thomas Butter. 
 157G." I'Jmo. b. 1. It is a novel of BandcUo, 
 and makes the 4L'd in tlie ift volume of Painters 
 " Palace of pleafurc," 156q. Pie has likewife, 
 vcrfes " to tlie author," before Watlbns Sonnets. 
 
 ACHELLEY JOHN wrote commendatory 
 verfes prefix d to lir G. Peckhams " True re- 
 porte of the late discoueries, ^c." 1583. 
 
 ADAMS ABRAHAM wrote " The hunting 
 of the grecne lyon 5" printed in Alhnioles TAea- 
 trum clttnticuin Britan/iicmn, 1652. 
 
 ADLINGTON WILLIAM, the translator of 
 Apuleius, has a poetical " preface of the author 
 to his fonne Faustinus" &c. before "Tlie eleven 
 bookes of tlie Golden alTe," \5gG. 4to. 
 
 ALDAY JOHN, " A complaint of tlie pore 
 husbandmen in meeter, made upon. Da pacent 
 domijw in duhiis nosfrlx. Sec," in his " Thca- 
 trum Mitndi, The Theatre or rule of the world," 
 
 TrcaCui V," under the name of Tko. ylichd-jiv ; as he had 
 l)cforc been lauded !)y Nafh, for haveing " more than 
 once or twice nianifcftcd his decp-wittcd fcholarlhip in 
 places of credit."
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 115 
 
 &c. Printed by H. D. for Thomas Hacket, b.'l. 
 D. d. In this work, which is a translation from 
 Peter Boayftuau, are other piececs of poetry, 
 
 ALLEY WILLIAM, bifliop of Exeter, intro- 
 ducees " Certaine verfes which are recited in a 
 certain interlude or play intituled JEcgio," in 
 " The poore mans library," printed by John 
 Daye, 1371. He dye'd in the precedeing 
 year, 
 
 ALLOT ROBERT, the compileer and pubUfher 
 of " Englands Parnasfus : or The choyfeft flowers 
 of our modern poets, ^c." 1600, prefixes to that 
 work a dedication in verfe to lir Thomas Moun- 
 fon. A fonnet fign'd Rob. Allot occurs before 
 Middletons " Legend of duke Humphrey," 
 1600. 
 
 ANSLAY BRIAN. " Here begynneth the 
 boke of tlie cyte of ladyes : the whiche boke is 
 devyded into iii partes : The fyrft parte telletli 
 howe and by whom the walle and the cloystre 
 aboute the cyte was made. The feconde parte 
 telleth howe and by whom the cyte was buylded 
 I 2
 
 11(5 POETS OF THE 
 
 within and peopled^ The thyrde parte telleth 
 howe and by whom the hyghe battytmentes of the 
 towres were parfytely made, and what noble la- 
 dyes were ordeyned to dwell in ye hyghe pa- 
 layces and hyghe dongeons. And ye fyrft chapy- 
 tre telleth howe and by whom and by what mou- 
 inge the fayd cyte was made. 
 
 The kyndly entente of every gentylman 
 Is the furtheraunce of all gentylnefle 
 And to procure in all that ever he can ' 
 For to renewe all noble worthynefle 
 This dayly is fene at our eye exprefle 
 Of noble men that do endyte and rede 
 In bokes olde theyr worthy myndes to fede. 
 
 So nowe of late came in my custodye 
 This forefayd boke by Bryan Anslay 
 Yoman ofs the feller with the eyght kynge 
 
 Henry 
 Of gentylwomen the excellence to fay 
 The whiche i lyked but yet i made delay 
 It to imprefle for that it is the guyfe 
 Of people lewde theyr prowefle to dyfpife.
 
 SIXTEKNTH CENTURY. *115 
 
 But then i fliewed the forefayd boke 
 
 Unto my lorde the gentyll erle of Kente 
 
 And hym requyred theron to loke 
 
 With his counfayle to put it into prente 
 
 And he forthwith as ever dylygente 
 
 Of ladyes (abrode) to fprede theyr royall 
 
 fame 
 Exhorted me to piynte it in his name. 
 
 And i obeyenge gladly his inftaunce 
 
 Have done my devoyre of it to make an ende 
 
 Prayenge his lordfliyp with others y' iliall 
 
 chaunce 
 On it to rede the fautes for to amende 
 If only be for i do fayne intende 
 Gladly to pleafe and wylfuUy remytte 
 This ordre rude to them that have frefflie 
 
 wytte. 
 
 Thus endeth the prologue. 
 
 Imprynted at London in Poules chyrchyarde at 
 the fygne of the trynyte by Henry Pcpwellj in 
 the yere of our lorde MCCCCCXXJ. the xxvi 
 day of October, and tlie xij yere of the reygne of 
 our foverayne lorde kynge Henry the viij." It 
 is, probablcly^ a translation of tlie " Trcfor de la
 
 Il6* POETS OF THE 
 
 cite dcs dames," by Christian of Pifa : Paris, 
 1497, fo. 
 
 ARTHINGTON HENRY. " Principall points 
 of holy profesfion, touching thefe three eftates of 
 mankind: 1. Their creation, 2, Their fubver- 
 tion, 3. Their reftoration, &c. Compofed in 
 verfe by H. A. G." Printed by Tho. Pa\7er, 
 lG07, 4to. He publilVd other things before 
 l600 ; and feems to have had a lliare in Hack- 
 etts confpiracy. See Herbert, 1365, 1086, IO93. 
 An account of Arthington is glveen in Weevers 
 " Discourfe on funeral monuments." 
 
 ASCHAM ROGER, Latin fecretary to queen 
 Elizabeth, wrote fome recommendatory verfees, 
 prefix'd to Blundevilles " Fruyts of foes," 1561. 
 In his " Scholemaster," 1571, he introducees fix 
 Engleilh lines, as a " little rude verfe," made by 
 him long ago, fo. 15. See his verfees on John 
 Whitney, in the fame book, -where he fpeaks very 
 modeltly of his poetical talents. In this work, 
 as well as in Toxoph'ilus, and A report... of the 
 a (fairs... of Gcrniani/, he ufually verfifys his quo- 
 tations from clasfick authours. 
 
 ASHLEY I. wrote commendatory verfees pre-
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 117 
 
 fix'd to Lewkenors translation of Contarenos 
 " Commonwealth and government of Venice," 
 1599. 
 
 ASKE JAMES wrote " Elizabetha trivm- 
 phaiiH. Conteyuing Tlie damned practizes that 
 the diuelilh popes of Rome haue vfed euer iithencc 
 her highneffe lirft comming to the crowne, by 
 moiling her wicked & traiterous fubiefts to rebel- 
 lion & confpiracies, Sa'c. VVitli a declaration of 
 the manner how her excellency was entertained 
 by her fouldyers into her campe royall at Tilbery 
 in Esfex : and of the ouerthrow had againll the 
 Spanilh fleete :" printed by Thomas Orwin, 1388, 
 4to. in blank verfe : reprinted in Nicholses " Pro- 
 grelfes of Q. Elizabeth." 
 
 ASKEWE ANNE. At the end of her " latter 
 examination," printed w d. or p. n. l6mo, is 
 " The ballade whieh Anne Askewe made and 
 fang, whan llie was in Newgate." It is alfo to be 
 found in Foxes martyrs. 
 
 AVALE LEMEKE compileM " A commemo- 
 ration or dirge of bastardc Edmonde Boner, alias 
 Savage, ufurped bislhoppe of London:" 1569. 
 8vo. " A moft fevere," according to Herbert, 
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 118 POETS OF THE 
 
 " and indeed profane burlel'que, in the Skeltonic 
 manner." The name feems fictitious.* 
 
 B. A. Prelix'd to Bodenhams " Belvedere, or 
 the garden of the mufes/' 1 600, 1 2mo, are com- 
 mendatory verfcs, fign'd A. B. An owner of 
 the fame fignature has fome poetical intermix- 
 tures in " The NoblenefTe of the affe," 15g5. 
 
 B. B. Sec BARNES BARNABY. 
 
 B. E. See BOLTON EDMUND. 
 
 B. G. Thefe initials (G. B.) arc given by 
 Webbc. They are fign'd to the dedication of a 
 book intitle'd ''Beware the Cat," I56i : at the 
 clofc of which book is a " hymnc." 
 
 B. II. Thefe initials (H. B.) are fubjoin'd to 
 a commendatoiy ftanza at the end of " The faerie 
 quecne." 
 
 K. J. wrote verfes " in praife of Gascoignes 
 pofies," prcfix'd to his " Flowers," 157-^. 
 
 * One J'J:ri Av.iUi, however, is mcntior/d by Foxt.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. IIQ 
 
 B. N. See BRETON NICHOLAS. 
 
 B. P. is the authcnir of verfes, addrefs'd " To 
 fuch as have heretofore found fault with Gas- 
 coignes poiies 3" prefix'd to his " flowers," 
 1570. See BEVERLEY PETER. 
 
 B. R. has a copy of commendatory verfes pre- 
 fix'd to " Bulleins newe boke of phifickc," auno 
 1558, 8vo : printed by John Daye. 
 
 B. R. wrote "^ An epitaph upon the death of 
 the worlliipfull maister Benedict Spinola, mer- 
 chaunt of Genoa, and free denizen of England, 
 who dyed on Tuesday the 12 of Julie 1580:" a 
 broadfide, in 22 four-line ftanzas ; printed by 
 Thomas Eaft : alfo " The plowmans complaint 
 of fundry wicked liuers, and efpecially of the bad 
 bringing-vp of children :" printed for Hugh 
 Corne, 1580, 8vo. See BARNEFIELD. 
 
 B. S. See BATEMAN STEPHEN. 
 
 B. S. T. in " Englands Parnasfus," 1600, arc 
 probably intended for S. F. B. Sir Franci"; 
 Brian. 
 
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 120 POETS OF THE 
 
 B. T. See BASTARD THOMAS. 
 
 B. W. wrote " Scacchia Indus: Cheffe play :'' 
 a poetical translation of Vidas celebrated poem. 
 This is to be found at the end of " Ludus fcac- 
 chicp : Chelfe-play. A game, both pleafant, wit- 
 tie, and politicke," ^c. printed by H. Jackfon, 
 I5y7. 4to.* 
 
 BADGER Maistcr, M. A. and efquire beadle 
 of Oxford univerfity, devifc'd a copy of verfes in 
 " The princely pleafures at Kenelworth," 1376. 
 
 BAKER G. has commendatory verfes before 
 Peter Lowes " Courfe of chirurgerie," I5g7, 
 
 BAKER ROBERT wrote " The firft voyage of 
 Robert Baker to Guinie, witli the Minion and 
 Primrofe, fet out in October 1.562, by fir Wil- 
 liam Garrard, fir William Chester, M. Thomas 
 
 • This W. B. may, posfibkly, be William BafTe, or 
 Ba', who wrote " Three pastorall elegies of Anander, 
 Anytor and Muridella:" enter'd to John Barnes, 28th 
 May 1602 ; and publifh'd " The Iword and buckler, 
 or ftrving-mans defence," in (ix-linc ftanzas, in the fame 
 year, 410.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 121 
 
 Lodge, Anthony Flickman, & Edward Caste- 
 lin :" alio, " The fecond voyage to Guinie, and 
 tlie river of Sesto, let out in the moneth of No- 
 vember 156s, by (ir William Garrard, ^c." botli 
 printed in Hakluyts collection, 1589. 
 
 BALDWIN WILLIAM, at firft a printer, 
 and at laft a parfon, publiih'd " A myrrovre for 
 magistrates, whertin may be feen by example of 
 others, with howe greuous plages vices are pu- 
 nifhed, and howe frayl and-vnftable worldly pro- 
 fperitie is founded, euen of thofe whom Fortvne 
 feemeth moll highly to fauour. — Anno 1559 '" 
 printed by Tho. IMarflie, 4to. b. 1. to a new edi- 
 tion whereof, in 15G3, was aded a fecond part. 
 In this work the legends of Henry Percey earle 
 of Northumberland, Richard earle of Cambridge, 
 Thomas IVIontagu the earle of Salisbury, Kyng 
 James the tirft, William Delapole duke of Suf- 
 folke, Jacke Cade, Richard Plantagenet duke of 
 Yorke, Lorde Cliflbrde, John Tiptoft earle of 
 Worcester, Richard Nevel earle of Warwyke, 
 Kyng Henry the lixt, and Gaeorge duke of Cla- 
 rence, in the firft, and thofe of Sir Anthony Wud- 
 vill, and Collingborne, in tlic fecond part, appear 
 to be of his own compofition. He had no concern
 
 122 POETS OF THE 
 
 whatever in the fublequent editions,* When 
 " fcrvauut with Edward Whitchurche," he wrote 
 and printed " The canticles or balades of Salo- 
 mon, phrafe lyke declared in Englyfli metres," 
 1549, 4to. He alfo wrote "The fiineralles of 
 king Edward the lixt. Wherin are declared the 
 caul'ers and caufes of his death :" printed by Tho. 
 Marflie, 15 60, 4to, 
 
 " The mirrour of magistrates," and, particu- 
 larly, Sackvilles induction, are extol'd by Bolton 
 as " the beft of thofe times." Bifhop Hall, 
 however, feems of a different opinion, thus cha- 
 racterifeing the authour : 
 
 * " At the latter end of the reign of queen Elifa- 
 bcth," fays VVarton, " as i am informed from fome cu- 
 rious manufcript authorities, a thin quarto in the black 
 letter was publifhed, with this title, Tlie mirrovr of 
 mirrovrs, or all the tragcdys of the min ovr for inagi- 
 ftrates abbreuiated in breefe histories in profe. Very 
 necesfary for thofe that have not the cronicle. London, 
 Imprinted for James Roberts in Barbican, 1598." 
 This information he profefscs to have " from manu- 
 Icripts of Mr. Coxeter;" who appears to have been an 
 impostor of the fame ftamp as William Chetwood, in 
 hirnifhing books and editions that never exiftcd, as, in 
 faft, Warton himfelf a))pears to have done, in more 
 than one inftance.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 123 
 
 " Another, whofe more heavy-hearted faint 
 Delights in nought but notes of rueful plaint, 
 Urgeth his melting mufe with folemn tears 
 Rhyme of fomc dreary fates of lucklefs peers. 
 Then brings he up fome branded whining ghoft. 
 To tell how old misfortunes had him tofs'd. 
 Then muft he ban the guiltlefs fates above. 
 Or fortune frail, or unrewarded love. 
 And when he hath parbrak'd his grieved mind. 
 He fends him down where erft he did him find. 
 Without one penny to pay Charons hire. 
 That waitell for the wandring ghofts retire." 
 
 BALE JOHN, bifliop of Osfory, a foul- 
 mouth'd railer againft, and bitter enemy to the 
 papifts, turn'd into metre the twenty-third and 
 the hundred and thirtveth pfalms, inferted at the 
 end of his " Expostulation or complaynte agaynfte 
 the blasphtmyes of a frantic papyftof Hamfhyre :" 
 printed by John Day e, 1552, 8vo. 
 
 BAI>ES PETER (concerning whom fee Woods 
 
 AiluiHV Oiii//.u/i;rs &; B/u. Jirifan.J was au- 
 thnur of " The writing fchoolemaster," ^c. 
 printed by Tho. Orwin, n. d. 4to. in which he 
 has iiitrodufxi'd fome precepts in verfe, and other 
 podical picei s. He has a commendatory poem
 
 124 POETS OF THE 
 
 prefix'd to Rabbards translation of Ripleys " Com- 
 pound of alchymy , " 1 5 9 1 . 
 
 BALTHORP NICHOLAS. " A new balade 
 made by Nicholas Balthorp which fuffered in Ca- 
 lys the XV. daie of Marche M. D. L." printed by 
 John Walley, in that yearj containing 12 fix- 
 line ftanzas. He feems to be the fame with 
 " Nycholas Baltroppe," who wrote " A ballyt of 
 mode," licenfe'd to John Wallye and mistrefs 
 Toye in 1557. 
 
 BANSLEY CHARLES wrote a book upon the 
 pride and vices of women "now a days:" 
 printed by Thomas Raynolde (about 1340), 4to. 
 
 BARNEFIELDE RICHARD wrote " The af- 
 fectionate fhepherd [fonnets]," I696, itimo. 
 alfo " Cynthia," and " The legend of Casfan- 
 dra," printed in 1^95, for H. Lownes : " The 
 encomion of lady Pecunia ; or the praife of money, 
 by Richard Barnfield, graduate in Oxford : Tlie 
 complaint of Poetric for the death of Liberalitie : 
 The combat betweene Confcience and Co\ etuous- 
 nefs, in the minde of man : and poems in divers 
 humouitt :" were publilli'd in 15()8, 4to. He is, 
 likewife, fuppofc'd to be the " 11. B. gent." who
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 125 
 
 publifh'd " Greens funerals in xiv fonnets," 
 London, l604, 4to. but of which tliere was pro- 
 bablely an earlyer edition*. In " Englands He- 
 licon," 1600, are two poems by this authour, 
 intitl'd " The (heepheards ode," and " The 
 fheepheards fonnet." The " fliepheards ode," 
 had appear'd with " Cynthia," in 159.7 : and 
 among the fonnets fubjoin'd to Shakspeares 
 " Pasfionate pilgrims," 1599. See B. R. 
 
 BARNES BARNABY, a younger fon of Ri- 
 chard bilhop of Durham, wrote " A divine cen- 
 turie of fpirituall fonnets :" printed by J. Windet, 
 Lon. 1.5955 and dedicated to Toby Matthews, 
 bifhop of Durham. There is, alfo, a fonnet by 
 this writer in Harveys " Pierces fupererogation," 
 1593; witli his real lignature, and two others, 
 figned Parthenophil and Parthenop/ic, and he is, 
 probablely, the B. B. who prefixes to the " Worlde 
 of wordes," 1398, " A friendes gratulation, to 
 his beloved friend master John Florio, for that 
 which god hath fent him, and he us;" in two 
 eight-line ftanzas. He was born in 15G9, but 
 
 * " Greenes memoriall or certaine funerall fonnets" 
 (in number 22) appeared at the end of Harveys four 
 letters, in 1592, 410. T. P.
 
 126 POETS OF THE 
 
 die time of his death is uncertain.* See B, B. 
 From Nafties *' Have with you to Saffron-Wal- 
 den," 13()6, it appears that he had vifited France, 
 in fomc military capacity, about ibgi. A " Ma- 
 drigall" or fonnct, by Bar. Barnes, is prefix'd 
 to Fordes " Fames memoriall," l6o6. 
 
 BASTARD THOMAS. " Chrestoleros. Se- 
 ven books of epigrams, written by T. B." 1534, 
 1398. 8vo. To this writer, aUb, thofe initials 
 among Gascoignes complimenters (Fhicers, 1575 J 
 are fuppofe'd to belong. He was a Dorfetfhire 
 man, born at Blandford ; and, haveing become 
 vicar of Bear-Regis, and rector of Amour, in that 
 county, dye'd in the prifon of AUhallows-pariih in 
 Dorchester, whither he had been commited for 
 debt, in 161 8; "leaving behind him," accord- 
 
 * Oldys, in his MS. notes on Langbaine, fays that 
 after 1591, he pubhftl'd his Porthenofhil and Paithe- 
 ntjve, translated The Spanljh caunjeilor, and writ a poem 
 oi Shores ivifi. Heads, howcvci, that Harvey and Naflx 
 fay that Sho'fi ivife was Anthony Clitwts, and that 
 Churchyard fays " he had been lob'd of the fame of a 
 poem he pubHfli'd fo called." 
 
 At the end of Percys '• Sonnets to the faircft Coclia," 
 1594, ii " A madrigal to Part/iemphil upon his Laja and 
 Pa'ther^phc" T. P.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 127 
 
 ing to Wood, " many memorials of his wit and 
 drollery." An Englifh poem in " The Odcom- 
 bian banquet," l6ll, has '^ Explicit Thomas 
 Bastard." Sir John Harington has a poetical 
 vindication of Bastards " Chrestoleros," in the 
 fecond book of his own epigrams : whence Shep- 
 pard takes occafion to fay, Uiat "" None in Eng- 
 land, fave Bastard and Harington, have divulged 
 epigrams worth notice." The Jirjl, he ads, de- 
 ferve'd the laurel ; but the lajl, both crowning 
 and anointing. Poems, iGsi. 
 
 BATMAN (or BATEMAN) STEPHEN, mi- 
 nister, wrote " The trauayled pylgrime, bringing 
 newes from all partes of the worlde, fuch like 
 fcarce harde of before," 1569 (without place or 
 printers name), 4to. b. 1. an allegorieo- theologi- 
 cal romance of the life of man, imitated from the 
 French or Spanilh, in verfe of 14 fyllables. He 
 has, likewife, feme poetical pieces in his* " Chri- 
 ftall glalle of christian reformation, 65'c." printed, 
 by Joim Day, in the fame year. 
 
 BAYNES ROGER has fome verfes, prefix'd to 
 Turberviles " Tragical tales," 1687, " in the due 
 commendation of the author;" and, likewife,
 
 128 POETS OF THE 
 
 forae translated pasfages in his own " Praife of 
 folitarinelTe," 1577, 4to. 
 
 BECKE EDMON publifli'd " A brefe confu- 
 tation of the moft detestable and anabaptistical 
 opinion, that Chrift dyd not take hys flclh of the 
 blefsed vyrg)'n Mary," in metre : printed by John 
 Day, 1350, 4 to. 
 
 BECON THOMAS, a voluminous theological 
 writer, publifli'd " Davids harpe, full of moft de- 
 lectable harmony, newlye ftfinged and fet in 
 tune" (which is prefum'd to have been in me- 
 tre) ; and " Chriftmafle carols, very new and 
 godly." See his works printed by J. Day, 1 563, fo. 
 He alfo wrote a long poem intitle'd '' An invec- 
 tive againft whoredome, and all otlier abomina- 
 cions of uncleanefle:" printed by John Day, n. d, 
 8vo. He dyed in 1570. 
 
 BEDINGFELD THOMAS efquire, one of her 
 majestys gentlemen penfioners, has feveral poeti- 
 cal verfions in his translation of " Cardanus com- 
 forte," 65'f. He appears to be the fame perfon 
 who, in the title of a letter before Boltons " Ele- 
 ments of armories," iClO, is call'd " The grave
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 129 
 
 and courtly Thomas Bedingfield efquire, late 
 maister of his maiesties tents, and Toilz," Cs'f. 
 
 BEEARD RICHARD, parfon of Saint-Maiy- 
 at-hill, in London, publifh'd, in 1557, 
 
 " A godly pfalm of Mary queen, which brought 
 
 vs comfort all. 
 Thro god whom we of deuty praife that give 
 her foes a fall:" 
 with pfalm-tunes, in four parts, 8vo. alfo " Al- 
 phabetum Rceardi," a broadfide, printed by Wil- 
 liam Copland. 
 
 BENTLEY JOHN is tlie authour of a few 
 lliort poems in a manufcript collection belonging 
 to Samuel I^yfons efquire. 
 
 BERTHELET THOMAS, printer, is the au- 
 thour of a poem in ftanzas of 7 lines addrefs'd to 
 the readers of Fitzherberts " boke of fur\'eying 
 and improuemetes:" pr. by R. Pynfon, 1523, 4to. 
 and which he afterward printed himfelf \\ ith- 
 out the poem. He has, likewife, three octave 
 llan/.as bctbre " The historic of two tlie moftc 
 noble captaincs of the worlde, Anniball and Sci- 
 nio, £i/c. by Antonye Cope cfquier ;" printed by 
 liimlVUin l.vi 1-. 
 
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 130 POETS OF THE 
 
 BEST CHARLES has feveral fonnets and ode» 
 in " Davifons poetical rapfody," l602, 
 
 BEVERLEY PETER, of Staple-inn, wrote 
 " Tlie history of Ariodanto and Jeneura, daugh- 
 ter to the king of Scottes in Englifh verfe: 
 printed by Thomas Eaft for Frauncis Coldocke"* 
 n. d. 8vo, b. 1. there being, according to War- 
 ton, another edition for R. Watkins, in 1600, 
 i2mo. which, liowever, it is believc'd no one elfe 
 ever faw. It is the epifode of Gencura, in the 
 4th and 5th cantos of Orlando furiofo. He alfo 
 wrote fome commendatory verfes prefix'd to Fen- 
 tons "Tragical discourfes," 1579, 4to. See 
 B. P. 
 
 BEWE M, is the author of one poem in " The 
 paradice of daintie devifes," 1576. 
 
 BEZE THOMAS wrote " Verfes upon the new 
 ftarre which appeared in 1572 and 1573," printed 
 in a treatife " Of the ende of this world, ^c." 
 1578. 
 
 • It was licenfc'd to H. Wcckcs, 1565. Ames, or, 
 atleaft, Herbert, fays, inftcad of " daughter of," " dc- 
 dicAted to" the king of Scots. It was dedicated, in 
 fait, to Peter Read.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 131 
 
 BIESTON ROGER wrote " The bayte & fnare 
 of fortune : wlierin may be feen that money is 
 not the only caufe of itlischefe and vnfortunat 
 endes ; but a necesfaiy mean to mayntayne a ver- 
 tuous quiet lyfej treated in a dialoge betwene 
 man and money :" printed by John Wayland, 
 witliout date, folio : ten leaves in octave ftan- 
 zas.* 
 
 RING THOMAS is fpoken of as an excellent 
 orator and poet, in " Mufarinn lachrymoE, xel 
 SmU/iUs," 1578. He has three poems in " Sor- 
 rowes joy, or a lamentation for the deceafe of 
 Elizabeth & a triumph for the fuccesfion of James," 
 i603, 4to. 
 
 BIRCH W. See ELDERTON. 
 
 '* This BiestoH feems to be the perfon to whom Nafhe 
 infcribe'd his " Strange newes of the intercepting cer- 
 taine letters, and a convoy of verfes, as they were going 
 priuilie to victuall the low countries," 1 592, by the fol- 
 lowing addrefs :" To the moft copious carnainiil of our 
 time, and famous perfecutor of Priscian, his verie friend 
 maister j4pis lapis : Tho. Nafhe wiftjeth new firings to 
 his old tawnie purfe, and all honorable increafe of ac- 
 quaintance in the cellar. — Thine intirely, Tho. Nafhe. 
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 132 POETS OF THE 
 
 BLAGE THOMAS, ftudent of Queens-college, 
 Cambridge, wrote " A dialogue betwene the au- 
 thor and the printer;" prefix'd to his " Scholc 
 of wife conceytes" (a book of iEfopian fables), 
 1569. 
 
 BLAGRAVE JOHN, of Reading, wrote ver- 
 fes, prefix'd to his " Mathematical jewel," 1584. 
 £0. 
 
 BLENERHASSET THOMAS wrote " Tlie 
 feconde part of the mirrour for magistrates^ con- 
 teining the falles of the infortunate princes of this 
 lande. From the conqueft of Caefar, vnto the 
 commyng of duke William the conquerour :" 
 printed by Richard Webfter, 1578. 4to. b. 1. By 
 " The authors epistle vnto his friende," dated 
 " the 15. daye of Maye, an. 1677," he appears 
 to have fmdy'd at Cambridge, where he had 
 translated Ovid De remedio amoris ; and to have 
 writen thefe legends at Guernfey-castle. This 
 " feconde part" was intended to conneft the 
 *' firll" and " laft" parts, by Higins, and Bald- 
 wine and others. It contains 12 legends or tra- 
 gedys, viz. thofe of Guidcricus, Carasfus, queen 
 Hellina^ Vortiger, Uter Pendragon, Cadwallader,
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 133 
 
 Sigebert, lady Ebbe, Alurede, Egelrede, Edri- 
 cus, and king Harolde. He afterward fettle'd, in 
 Ireland, and appears to have been liveing in 1 6 1 0, 
 See Wares Jl' titers, by Harris (3S3), who fays he 
 dyt'd about tlie begining gf the reign of Charles 
 the firll. 
 
 BLONDEVILl-E (or BLUNDEVILLE) 
 THOMAS, of Newton-Flotman, in Norfolk, is 
 authour of " Three treatifes no lefs pleafant than 
 necesfary for all men to reade, wherof the one is 
 called the Learned prince, tlie other the Fruites 
 of foes, the thyrde the Porte of reft :" printed by 
 Wm. Seres, I56i. The firft and fecond ofthefc 
 treatifes are entirely poetical ) the third has a poe- 
 tical introduction addrefs'd " To the true lovers 
 of wifedome John Asteley, mayster of the queenes 
 majestyes jewell houfe, & John Harington 
 efquier." 
 
 BLOOMFIELD SIR WILLIAM* wrote "The 
 compendiary of the noble fcicnce of alkemy," 
 
 * He appears to have been a native, as wcl as a nionk» 
 of Bury; but, after the reformation, recanted, and wa* 
 made vicar of Sts. Simon and Jude, in Norwich, whcnctf 
 he was cjcftcd by the papifts. See Tanner. 
 
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 134 POETS OF THE 
 
 1557, and other things : all extant among Sloanes 
 MSS. in tlie Britifh mufeum. His poem, inti- 
 tle'd " Bloomefields blosfoms," or " The camp 
 of philofophy/* is printed in Afhmoles Theatrum 
 chemicum, i652. 
 
 BODENHAM JOHN is thought to be the 
 authour of two fonnets, the one " To the univer- 
 litie of Oxenford j" the otlier " To the univerfi- 
 tie of Cambridge," before his " Belvedere, or the 
 garden of the mufes :" printed by F. K. for Hugh 
 Aftley, 1600. 12mo. From a fonnet by A, B. 
 prefixed to " Englands Helicon," 1600, it ap- 
 pears that Bodenham was tlie compiler of that 
 miscellany, 
 
 BOLEYN GEORGE, vicount Rochford, fon 
 of Thomas earl of Wiltfhire, and brother to lady 
 Ann Boleyn, the fecond of the fix wives of that 
 equally luftful and fanguinary monfter, Henry the 
 8th, and beheaded, two days before her, along 
 with four others, in 1536, " hath the fame," ac- 
 cording to Wood, " of being the author of feveral 
 poems, fongs, and fonnets, with other things of 
 the like nature."* Mister Warton fusj)eds that 
 
 " Wood ftcms' to have copy'd Phillifs, wlio had,
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 135 
 
 feme of the conipofitions of this amiable young 
 nobleman are inferted among the " Uncertain 
 aucthors" in Surreys poems 3 which, by tlie way, 
 attribute exprefsly to fir Thomas Wyat a per- 
 formance of fingular merit, the authors addrefs to 
 his lute, which the editor of the Nugie antiquct 
 afcribes to " the earl of Rochford 3" a title which 
 never cxifted. 
 
 BOLTON EDMUND, a profound fcholar, and 
 eminent critick, is one of the contributors to 
 '*■ Englands Helicon," i600j haveing one poem, 
 with his name at length, and four others with his 
 initials. Prefix'd to Draytons Mortimeriados, 
 IbgQ, is a fonnet " to Lucie, countefse of Bed- 
 ford," fubfcribe'd E. B. Commendatory verfes by 
 
 probablely, no other authority than Bale, who fays : 
 " diverfi generis in Anglico Jermone edidit Rhythmos elegan- 
 tisfimos. Lib. i. No one, it is believe'd, has ever feen 
 his name annex'd to any thing, cither in print or in MS. 
 unlefs by conjecture, in a collection of Ancient fangs, 
 1790, p. 123, iVidi\ni\\Q Nuga: antiqua:. He is meution'd, 
 however, as mister Park obfcrvcs, by " the printer 
 [Richard Smith], in commendation of Gascoigne and 
 his workes," 1575 : 
 
 " Olde Rochfort clambe the ftately throne, - 
 Which niufes holde, inHellicons — ." 
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 130 POETS OF THE 
 
 E. B. gent, occur, alio, before Audrewcs " Un- 
 malking of a feminine Machiavell," lC04. 
 
 BOORD ANDREW, doctor of phyfick, born 
 at Pevenfcy in Susfex, and, before tlie reformation, 
 a Cartliufian frier, in his " Introduction to know- 
 ledge," 1642, delcribes in metre the inhabitants 
 of various nations. To exprefs the fickle dispofi- 
 tion of the Englifli, he exhibits a wooden cut of a 
 human figure, naked, holding a piece of cloth 
 over his arm, and a pair of flieers in his hand, 
 with the following lines : 
 
 " I am an Englyfliman, and naked i ftand here, 
 Mufyng in my mynd what ra}'ment i Ihal were. 
 For now i wyll were thys, and now i \\y\ were 
 
 that. 
 Now i viyl were i cannot tell what, fe't." 
 See Camdens llcmainsj l605, — Hearnes Bcncdic- 
 tiis, ap. ad. praefa. xlv. He alfo gives a cm'ious 
 fatyrical dcfcription of tlae Wdlhman. " A right 
 pleafaunt and merye historie of the mylner of 
 Abyngton, with his wife and his fayrc daughter; 
 and of two poore fcholers of Cambridge :" (n. d. 
 4to. b.l.) is afcribt'd to this doctor Bord, by Wood, 
 upon the autliority of a MS. note by Thomas 
 Newton. It is an imitation of Chaucers Rcxtx 
 I'llt. He dye'd in the Fleet, 1 --!<).
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 137 
 
 BOURCHER ARTHUR compofe'd, very 
 finely, 
 
 " A wortliy myrrour, wherin ye may marke. 
 An excellent discourfe of a breeding larke :" 
 to Ihew there is but little dependence to be had of 
 friends or kindred, but that each muft do for hira- 
 felf : printed by Richard Jones ; a broadlide. 
 (Herbert, 1052.) It is a fable of^Efop, which 
 theverfifyer might have found in Painters " Pa- 
 lace of pleafure," lo6G. (His name in the print 
 is Bour. as an abbreviation.) He is alfo the au- 
 thour of one poem, in " The paradice of daintie 
 devifes," 1596 and 1600 ; and hath a poem " to 
 the reader" before Whitneys emblems, 
 
 BOURMAN NICHOLAS wrote a baUad, in- 
 title'd " A frendelie well wilhinge to fuch as en- 
 dure," fe'c, enter'd to John Charlewood, lOth 
 March 1380-1} alfo "An epitaphe vpon the 
 death of the ladye Marie Rarafiej" enter'd to 
 Richard Read, 24th February I Go 1-2. 
 
 BOWES SIR JHEROM, before his translation 
 of " An apology or defence for the Christians of 
 France," ^c. li>79, has " The audior of this 
 apology his fong," in 4 feven-line'd ftanzas ; and 
 " The autlior to his book," one ftanza more.
 
 138 POETS OF THE 
 
 BOWYER NICHOLAS wrote commendatory 
 verfes, prefix'd to Gascoignes " Steele-glaffe," 
 1576. 
 
 BRADSHAW THOMAS defcribe'd " Tlie 
 Ihepherds ftarre, now of late feene and at this 
 hower to be obferved merveilous orient in the 
 eaft, which bring glad tydings to all that may be- 
 hold her brightnefs :" printed by Robert Robin- 
 fon, I3f)i, 4to. Licenfe'd in the precedeing year, 
 to Richard Jones. 
 
 BREIFILDE JO. wrote commendatory verfes, 
 prefix'd to Fletchers " Introduction to the love 
 of god," 1581. 
 
 BRANDON SAMUEL, to his " Tragicomoe- 
 di of the vertuous Octavia," 1598, has annex'd 
 an epistle from Octavia to M. Antony, and his 
 anfwer. 
 
 BRETON NICHOLAS, a moft prolifick writ- 
 er, of whofe poetical productions tJie following is 
 an imperfect catalogue : 
 
 I . " A fmall handfull of flagrant flowers ga- 
 thered out of tlie lovely garden of facred fcrip- 
 ture, fit for any worfliipfull gentlewoman to fmell
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. ISQ 
 
 unto." 1575. i2mo. 2. " A floorifh upon fan- 
 cie. As gallant a glofe upon fo txifiinge a text, as 
 ever was written. To which -are annexed the 
 Toyes of an idle head, containing manic pretie 
 pamphlets, for pleafant heads to pafle away idle 
 time withal:" 1577. 1582. 4to. b. 1.* S. 
 " The workes of a young wyt truft vp with a 
 fardell of prettie fancies, profitable to young 
 poetes, preiudicial to no man, and pleafaunt to 
 euery man to pafle away idle tyme wythall : 
 whereunto is ioyned an odde kinde of wooing 
 with a banquet of comfettcs to make an end 
 withall:" printed by T. Dawfon and T. Gardy- 
 ner, 1577. 4to. b, 1. 4. " The countefs of 
 Pembrooks pasfion."f 1592, 5. " A folemne 
 pasfion of the foules loue :" printed by John Ban- 
 ter, 1595. l6mo. 0. " Brittons bowre of de- 
 
 * N. N. therefor, in Ames and Herberts Typografhi- 
 cal antiquities, p. 1052, muft be a mistake for N. B. 
 
 N. W. ia an addrefs to Daniel before his translation 
 of P. Jovius, n;S;, fays, " Gentlemen will honour your 
 Imprcfa as a moft rare jewell, Sfc. for there is not pub- 
 lished a flouriflt ufon fincie, or Tarletons Toyes, or the 
 fiUie entcrludc of Diogenes." T. P. 
 
 t A MS. copy of this poem occurs in the Harleian col- 
 lection, No. 1303. T. P.
 
 140 POETS OF THE 
 
 lights, contayning many moft delectable and fine 
 deuifes, of rare epitaphes, pleafaunt poems, pas- 
 toralls, and fonnets." 1397. 4to. 7. " The ar- 
 bor of amorous deuices : wherein young gentle- 
 men may reade many pleafant fancies, & fine 
 deuices : and thereon meditate divers fweete con- 
 ccites to court the loue of faire ladies & gen- 
 tlewomen." 1597, 8, " The will of wit. The 
 authors dream. Dispute of the fcholar & foldier. 
 The miferies of Mavilla. The praife of woman. 
 Dialogue between anger & patience, and his phy- 
 ficians letter." 1597. 4to. (Thefe pieces are 
 in profe, intermingle'd with verfe.) 9. " Me- 
 lancholike humours, in verfes of diverfe na- 
 tures." 1600. 4to. (Prefix'd is a fonnet, " in 
 authoretn," by Ben Jonfon.) 10. " Pasquils 
 mad-cap, and mad-cappes mesfage." 1600. 11. 
 " The fecond part of Pasquils mad-cap, intituled 
 the fooles cap : with Pasquils pasfion : begun by 
 himfclf and finiflied by his friend Morphorius." 
 1600. 12. " Pasquils palfe and pafseth not: 
 fet downe in Uiree pees. His pafle, procesfion, 
 and prognostication." ICOO. 13. " An excellent 
 poeme, upon the longing of a blefsed heart : 
 which loathing the world doth long to be with 
 Chrift, With an addition, upon the definition of 
 louc." iCoi. 4to. 14. " A diuine poeme, di-
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 141 
 
 ;ulded into two partes : The ravifht foule, and the 
 blefsed weeper." l6oi. 4to. 15. " The foules 
 harmony." l602. 8vo. l6. " Old mad-cappes 
 new gally-mawfry, made into a merrie mefle of 
 mingle-mangle out of tliefe three idle conceited 
 humours following: 1. I will not; 2. Oh the 
 merrie time; S. Out of money." l602. 4to. 
 17. "A. dialogue full of pithe and pleafure, be- 
 tween three philofophers, Antonio, Meandro, and 
 Dinarco, upon the dignitie or indignitie of man ; 
 partly translated out of Italian, and partly fet 
 downe by way of obfervation." i603. 4to. 18. 
 *' A dialogue between the taker and mistaker." 
 i603. 4to. ip. " Grimellos fortunes." i6"04. 
 4to. 20. " I pray you be not angry." lG05. 
 4to. 21. " The foules immortal crowne, con- 
 fifting of feauen glorious graces." i605. 4to. 22. 
 " The honour of valour." i605. 4to. 23. " Sir 
 Philip Sydneys Ourania, that is, Endimions fong 
 and tragedie containing all philofophie." l6oC. 
 4to. 24. " The praife of vertuous ladies. An 
 invective again ft the discourteous discourfes of 
 certaine malicious perfons written againft women, 
 whom nature, wit, & wisdome (wel confidered) 
 would us rather honour than disgrace." i6o6. 
 4to. 25. " Wits private wealtli, ftor'd with 
 choife commodities to content the minde." i6J'~'
 
 142 POETS OF THE 
 
 96. " I would and would not." )6l4. 4to. 
 27. " Characters upon esfaies morall & divine, 
 written for thofe good fpirits that will take tliera 
 in good part, & make ufe of them to good 
 purpofe." 1615. 8vo. 28. " The good & the 
 badde, or characters or defcriptions of the 
 worthies & unwortliies of the age." 16 16. 4to. 
 29. " The mothers blefsing." 1621. 4to. 
 (Some of thefe are fufpeded to be in profe.) 
 Among the royal MSS. 17 C XXXIV. is Nic 
 Bretons "Invective againft treafonj" and in 18 
 A LVII. his " poem upon tlae praife of vertuc." 
 In 15/8 was licenfe'd to Richard Jones, ''The 
 payne of pleafure : compiled by N. Britten." 
 In " The phoenix neft," 1 593, are five, and in 
 " Englands Helicon," 1600, eight, poems, by 
 this authour. In l602 (27th Octo.) was enter'd 
 to James Shawe " A merry dialouge betwixte 
 twoo trauellers, Lorenzo & Dorindo, by Nicholas 
 Britton."* In the church of Norton, a fmall vil- 
 lage in Nortlihamptonfliire, on tlie fouth fide of 
 
 '" Bretons " Character of Q^ Elizabeth," is printed 
 in Nicholses progrcfses, from the Harleian MSS. 
 
 Winstanlcy mentions two books by Nic. Breton, 
 which he had by him, intitlc'd " Wits private wealth," 
 and '« Tlic courtier &; the countryman." T. P.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 143 
 
 the chancel, the following epitaph, apparently 
 tliat of our poet, is fix'd upon tlie wall : " Here 
 lieth the body of Nicholas Breton efqr. ; fonne of 
 captaine John Breton of Tamworth efqr, in the 
 countie of Stafford. He was alfo captaine of a foot 
 company in the Low countries under the com- 
 maund of the right honourable Robert Dudley earle 
 of Leicester. He married Anne daughter of fir 
 Edward Legh of Rulhall in the countie of Stafford, 
 a wife of rare vertue and pietie. He had by her 
 five fons & four daughters (viz.) Edward, Chris- 
 topher, John, Gerard, William, Anne, Howard, 
 Frances, Lettis. He purchafed this lordfliip of 
 Norton, & departed from the troubles of this life 
 to eternal happinefs, the 22 day of June anno do- 
 mini 1624." (See Bridgeses Nort/iamptoiijhire, 
 p. 81.) 
 
 BRIAN SIR FRANCIS, gentleman of the 
 privy-chamber to Henry the 8th and Edward the 
 Cth, wrote a few poems, inferted among tlie 
 " Songes and fonetes" of Henry earl of Surrey 
 and others. 
 
 BRICE THOMAS wrote and publilhd " A 
 register in metre, containing the names, and pa-
 
 144 , POETS OF TH* 
 
 tient fufferings, of the members of Jefus Chrift, 
 affli6ted, tormented, and cmelly burned here in 
 England in the time of queen Mary :" printed by 
 Richard Adams, 1559, 8vo. (There is another 
 edition without date.) In 1567 were Ucenfe'd to 
 Hugh Singleton " The couurte of Venus mora- 
 lized by Tho. Bryce,"* and to Henry Bynne- 
 raan, " Songes and fonnetes by Tho. Bryce :" 
 and, in 1570, was licenfe'd to John Allde, "An 
 epytaph of Mr. Bryce preacher." 
 
 BRIGHAM NICHOLAS wrote " miscella- 
 neous poems," lis Wood fays, and dye'd in 155y, 
 He erefted a monument to Chaucer, and com- 
 pofe'd his epitnph in profe and vcrfe. 
 
 BROKE ARTHUR translated, paraphrasti- 
 cally, from the Italian of Bandello, or interme- 
 diate French of Boisteau, " The traglcall hystory 
 of Romeus and Juliet : contayning in it a rare 
 example of true conftancie, with the fubtill coun- 
 fels and practices of an old fryer and tlieir ill 
 event:" printed by Richard Toltill, lo6'J : which 
 furniih'd Shakfpeare (at leaft in part; with the 
 
 • " The Couurte of Venus" was cntcr'd by Henry 
 Sutton iii 1557. See alfo Herbert, S54.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 145 
 
 fabjeft of an admirable and patlictick drama. 
 There was another edition, by Robert Robinfon, 
 in 1387. The authour, as appears by a poem, at 
 the end of his " Agreement of fundry places of 
 fcripture," 1563, fubfcribc'd " Thomas Broke," 
 had perilli'd by fliipwreck in or before that year.* 
 
 BROOKE THOMAS, ofRolsbie, in Norfolk, 
 who was.concern'd with Throgmorton and others 
 in a confpiracy, and fuffer'd at Norwich the 30th 
 of Auguft 15 70, wrote " Certayne verfes in the 
 time of his imprifonment the day before his 
 deatlie:" printed there by Anthony de Solmpne, 
 in the fame year. Thefe verfes, eight four-line 
 ftanzas, are reprinted in Lelands Collectanea, VI, 
 41. 
 
 BROWNE THOMAS, of Lincolns-inn, wrote 
 fome execrable commendator}'^ verfes, prefix'd to 
 Petcrfons " Galateo of maister John della Cafa," 
 15;6. 
 
 BRYSKETT LODOWICK. " The mourn- 
 ing mufes of Lod. Bryskett vpon the dcatlie of the 
 
 ^ Turbcrvile has " An epitaph on the death of maister 
 .■iftlmr BrciU, diowned in pafsing to Nevvhaven ;" 
 printed with his " Songs and foncts." 1567. T. P. 
 L
 
 146 POETS OF THE 
 
 mode noble fir Philip Sydney knight, fe'c." li- 
 cenfe'd to John Wolfe, 22d Auguft 1587.* 
 
 BUG SIR GEORGE, master of the revels, 
 knighted in l603, wrote " Aa^vig XIoXuarE^avof. 
 An eclog treating of crownes, and of garlandes, 
 and to whom of right they appertaine. Addrefsed 
 and confecrated to the kings maiestie." l605, 
 4to. containing 57 ftanzas, with a V envoy au 
 roy, and a " hymne inauguratory for his maies- 
 tie." " The great Plantagenet, or a continued 
 fucceslion of that royall name, from Henry the 
 fecond, to our facred foveraigne K. Charles, by 
 Greo. Buck gent." l635, appears to be a reprint 
 of the former, with very confiderable altera- 
 tions, by fome fellow who asfume'd his name. 
 This genealogical poem is conftiTiiSed in the 
 form of " An eclog between Damaetas a wood- 
 man, & Silenus a prophet of the lliepheards." 
 
 * Bryskett was the friend of Spenfer, whom he has 
 introduce'd as one of the colloquifts in his " Discourfe 
 of civiil life," printed at London in i6o6; but cotn- 
 pofe'd, as Malone conjectures, between 1584 and 
 9. To him Spenfer addrefses the 33d fonnet in his 
 ♦' ^moretti :" and to the fame literary friend we proba- 
 blcly owe much that has defcended to us of the incom- 
 parable " Faery queen."
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 147 
 
 Notwithftanding the opinion of mister Malone, 
 tliere can be no doubt that fir George Buc was 
 the real author of " The history of the life and 
 reign of Richard the third," publifh'd, and fay'd, 
 in the title, to be " compofed, by Geo. Bucke 
 efquire," in l646 : his original manufcript (though 
 much injure'd by fire) being ftil preferve'd 
 (fee Smiths catalogue of the Cotton library, p. 
 32) : alfo of " Aquatorzain, in the commenda- 
 tion of master Thomas Watlbn, and of his mis- 
 tres, for whom he wrote ' his' booke of pasfionat 
 fonnetes," prefix'd to the fayd book, and fub- 
 fcribe'd " G. Bucke." He dye'd in l623. 
 
 BUCKHURST Lord. See SACKVIL THO 
 MAS. 
 
 BUCKMASSTER THOMAS wrote commen- 
 datory verfes prefix'd to " Whartons Dreame," 
 1373. 
 
 BULLEIN WILLIAM, phyfician, wrote com- 
 mendatory verfes prefix'd to John Sadlers trans- 
 lation of " The fourc bookes of Flauius Vegetius 
 Ranatus," 1572. Several pieces of poetry are in- 
 ferted in his " Newe boke of phisicke called the 
 government of healtli," fe'c. pr. by J. Day, b. 1. 
 L 2
 
 148 POETS OF THE 
 
 [1538.] 8vo. n. d. i2mo. and in his " Bd- 
 warke of defence againft all ficknefle/' ^c. pr. 
 by T. Mai-fhe, 1579, folio. Other verfes occur 
 in his " Dialogue both pleafaunt & pitiftill," 
 1573, l2mo, 
 
 BULIX)KER WILLIAM wrote "The pro- 
 loge" to, and other verfes in, his " Booke at 
 large, for the amendment of orthographic," 1580. 
 He likeuife translated " The fhort fentencez of 
 the wyz Cato," fubjoin'd to his " ^fops fables id 
 tru ortography," 1585. Prefix'd are fome verfes 
 " to hiz chyld." 
 
 BURNABY THOMAS efquire, has a poetical 
 commendation before Greenes " Ciceronis amor," 
 I6yi>. 
 
 BUSSHE SIR PAUL, prieft and bon home in 
 llie good houfe of Edyndon, and, in time, pri- 
 mary bifhop of Bristol, compile'd " Alytell trea- 
 ty fe in Englyflhe, called tlie extripacion of ig- 
 norancy : and it treateth and fpeaketli of the ig- 
 norance of people, Ihewyng them howe they are 
 boundc to feare god, to love god, and to honour 
 thtir prince :" printed by Richard Pinfon, with- 
 out date ; 4 to. dedicated to tlie lady Mary. He,
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURT. \AQ 
 
 likewife, translated " A lytell treatyfe called the 
 expofytyon of Mifcrere mei devs ;" printed by 
 Wynken de Worde, 1525, 4to. and has verfes at 
 the begining and end of his " lytell boke con- 
 tayning certaine goftly medycynes agens the 
 comon plage of pestilence:" printed by Rd. Red- 
 man, without date, l2mo. He dye'd in 1568, 
 aged 68. 
 
 C. A. See CHUTE ANTHONY, COPLEY 
 ANTHONY. 
 
 C. E. wrote commendatory verfes, prefix'd to 
 Gascoignes ''Flowers," 1575; and to "The 
 raorall philofophieof Doni," 1570. 
 
 C. F. Thefe initials (F. C.) are preferve'd by 
 Webbe. 
 
 C. G. " A piteous platforme of an opprefsed 
 mynde." n. d. b. 1. Svo. printed by T. Gardiner. 
 " A dumpe, by G. C." occurs in Giffords " Gil- 
 lifiowers," 1580. See CHAPMAN GEORGE. 
 
 C. H. See CAMPION HENRY, CHETTLE 
 HENRY, CONSTABLE HENRY. 
 L 3
 
 150 POETS OF THE 
 
 C. M. wrote commendatory vcrfes, prefix'd to 
 Gascoignes " Flowers," See CAVIL. 
 
 C. R, " A new booke intituled. The blafingc 
 of bawdrie, daylie procured, by Beldame B. 
 principall broker of all iniquitie. Geuen for a 
 new yeares gyfte, as well to all fuche, in whofe 
 charge the due punilhment thereof is committed, 
 as alfo to all other that may reap commodytie, by 
 lothyng their practifes, either by readyng, or 
 hearing of the fame, by R. C. citizen :" pr. by 
 Richard Jones, 1574, i6mo. In 1593, was li- 
 cenfe'd to Thomas Creed, " The troublefome & 
 hard adventures in love, with many fyne con- 
 ceyted fonnetts & pretty poemes, written in Tur- 
 key by R, C." Thefe " adventures" were pub- 
 lifh'd by B. Alfop in l652, but without any 
 poems. See CAREW RICHARD, CARR R. 
 
 C. T. See CAMPION THOMAS, CHURCH- 
 YARDE THOMAS, CUTVVODE THOMAS. 
 
 There is, likewife, one Thomas Collins, authour 
 of " The penitent publican," 161O; and "The 
 teares of love, or Cupids progrefse," lGl5. 
 
 C. W. See CAMDEN.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 15l 
 
 CALVERLY WILLIAM, " whyles he was 
 prifoner in the towre of London," compil'd " A 
 dialogue* bitwene the playntife and the defend- 
 aunt :" in ftanzas of 7 lines. 
 
 CAMDEN "WILLIAM, the famous antiquary 
 and topographer, then a ftudent at Chrift-church, 
 wrote verfes in praife of, and prefix'd to, Thomas 
 Rogerses " Anatomy of the mind," 1576, 8vo. 
 The initials W. C. under a copy of love-verfes in 
 GifFords " Gilliflowers," 1580, may belong to 
 the fame great man. He dye'd in i623, aged 
 72. 
 
 CAMEL THOMAS had a poetical controverfy 
 with Churchyard, concerning a publication of the 
 latter, intitle'd " Davie Dicars dreame." The 
 titles of two of his pieces are prefeiTe'd : 1 . " Ca- 
 melles rejoindre to Churchyarde, or Camelles con- 
 cluIion3" printed by Hen. Sutton, without date. 
 2. His anfwer " To good man Chappels fup- 
 plication :" 20 lines of a very od kind of 
 poetry, fpelt ftrangely, Wc. (Herbert, 846. See 
 alfo 1571.) 
 
 CAMPION HENRY, of Emanuel College, 
 L 4
 
 152 POETS OF THE 
 
 Cambridge, has a poem in " Sorrowes joy," Cs'c, 
 1603. 4to. 
 
 CAMPION THOMAS. Four canzonets, by 
 this author, arc printed in Davifons " Poetical 
 ■rapfody," l602. He alfo wrote " An account of 
 the entertainment of queen Anne, by the lord 
 Knowles, at Cawfome-houfe neere Redding," 
 iGi3, 4to. His " Obfervations in the art of 
 Englilli poefie," 1602, are illustrated by exam- 
 ples, upon the Latin model, witliout rime. 
 
 CANDIDO IL. This fignature is fubfcribe'd 
 to fevcral fonnets, prefix'd to Florios " Worlde 
 ofwordes," I098, 1611, and to his translation of 
 " The esfayes of iVIontaigne," lG03 : whether it 
 were ufe'd, as mister Park fufpcds, by Samuel 
 Daniel, the brother-in-law of Florio, (who, how- 
 ever, before the latter work, fubfcribes a com- 
 mendatory poem with his proper name,) or by 
 whom elfe, cannot be ascertaind. 
 
 CANDISH M. is the authour of a poem, inti- 
 tle'd " No ioy comparable to a quiet minde," iu 
 " The paradice of daintie deuifes," 16OO. 
 
 CARELESS JOHN. " A godly and virtuous
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 153 
 
 fong, or ballad, made by that conftant member of 
 Chrift, being in prifon in the Kings-bench for 
 profetsing his word ; who, ending his days there- 
 in, was thrown out and buried moft igno- 
 miniously upon a dunghill, by the adverfaries of 
 gods word" [ift July 155G]. (Sloanes MSS. 
 1896.) 
 
 CAREW RICHARD. " Godfrey of Bul- 
 loigne, or the recouerie of Hierufalem. An he- 
 roical poeme Avritten in Italian by feig, Torquato 
 Tasfo, and translated into Englilla by R. C. 
 efquire : and now the lirft part containing fiue 
 cantos, imprinted in botli languages:" printed 
 by John Windet for Thomas Man, n. d. 4to. 
 Other copys, with lefs matter in the title, bear 
 to be " printed for Christopher Hunt of Exeter," 
 l.)94, 4to. Afevvverfes, by this authour, may 
 be found in his " Survey of Cornwall," i602. 
 He was born in 1553, and dye'd in 1620. His 
 name is pronounce'd Carey, not Carcw. 
 
 CARIE WALTER, master of arts, and ftudent 
 in phylick, has fcveral admonitory ftanzas pre- 
 tix'd to a fmall medical traft, intitle'd " The 
 hammer for the ftone, (ffc." 1580.
 
 154 POETS OF THE 
 
 CARION JOHN has verfes in comendation of 
 the authour, before Hollands " History of 
 Chrift," 1594. 
 
 CARPENTER JOHN compofe'd " A forrow- 
 ftill fong for finfuU foules, vpon the ftrange and 
 wonderfull fhaking of the earth the 6. of Aprill 
 1586:" printed for Henry Car, in that year, 
 8vo. 
 
 CARPENTER RICHARD wrote a chemical 
 poem, printed in Aflimoles " T heat rum chemicum 
 Britannicum," \652. 
 
 CARR R. of the Middle-Temple, has a fonnet, 
 before his translation of " The Mahuraetane, or 
 Turkifli history, Cs'c." 1600. 
 
 CARTWRIGHT THO. has a probable claim 
 to feven ftanzas infcribe'd " to the prelacie," and 
 printed with " a fecond admonition to the par- 
 liament," which is fay'd to be the entire compo- 
 fition of the faid T. C. (Herbert, 1 63 1 .) 
 
 CASE JOHN, to whom was attributed by 
 doctor Farmer, " The praife of muficke," 1386,
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 155 
 
 in which are feveral translated verfes from the 
 Greek and Latin. 
 
 CAVIL MASTER wrote the legend of Roger 
 Mortimer in the " Myrrour for magistrates," 
 lo5Q; and that of Michael Jofeph, the black- 
 fmith, in " the feconde parte," 1563. 
 
 CHALKHILL JOHN, "an acquaintant and 
 friend of Edmund Spencer," wrote " Thealma 
 and Clearchus, a pastoral history, in fmooth and 
 eaiie verfe ;" publilh'd by Izaak Walton, in 
 l683, 8vo. but left unfinifh'd by the authours 
 death : alfo a fong, in praife of a country-life, 
 preferve'd in Waltons " Complete angler." 
 
 CHALONER. Puttenham, " For eglogue and 
 pastorall poefie," prefers " fir Philip Sydney and 
 maister Challener, and that other gentleman 
 [Spenfer], who wrate the late Shepheardes cal- 
 lender," Who he was, or what he wrote, can- 
 not be further ascertain'd. Meres likewife niun- 
 bers muster Challener, " amongft the beft for 
 pastoral." Qu. whether this was not ftr Tho, 
 Chaloner ? who publifh'd " De illustrium quo- 
 rundam cncomiis miscellanea," 1579. 4to. and by
 
 156 POETS OF THE 
 
 whom mister Park has a translation from Ovid, of 
 Helens epistle to Paris, MS. 
 
 CHAPMAN GEORGE, born in 155?, wrote, 
 1 . " XKiawKlog. The Ihadow of night : con- 
 taining two poeticall hymnes :" printed by R. F. 
 for W. Ponfonby, I5y4, 4to. 2, " Ovids ban- 
 quet of fence. A coronet for his mistreffe philo- 
 fophie, and his amorous zodiacke. With a trans- 
 lation of a Latine coppie written by a fryer, anno 
 dom. 1400 :" printed by I. R. for Richard Smith, 
 1595, 4to.* 3. " Hero and Leander. Begunne 
 by Ch. Marlow, and finifhed by Geo. Chap- 
 man, 1G06. 4to. 4. " Enthymice cnptiis, or the 
 teares of peace, with interlocutions," 1 C09, 4to. 
 5. " Epicede on the death of Henry prince of 
 Wales," 1C12, 4to. 6. "" Jndromeda libcrato : 
 the nuptials of Perfeus and Andromeda," J C14. 
 4to. 7. " Noahs flood," 4to. Q. 8. " Pro Fere 
 
 * This translation is intitlc'd " The amorous con- 
 tention of Phillis and Flora." Chapman was mis- 
 taken both as to the authour, and as to the age 
 of the original, which was, probablely, writen by 
 Walter dc Mapes, and, certainly, in or before the 13th 
 century : a much purer copy than he appears to have 
 made ufe of being extant in a MS. of that age, in tlxc 
 Harleian library (978). See S. R.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 157 
 
 Autmnni lachrymce, to the memorie of fir Hora- 
 tio Vere," 1622. 4to. 9. *' Justification of a 
 ftrange action of Nero in burying with a folemn 
 funerall one of tlie cafl: hayres of his raistrefle 
 Poppaea," 1 629. 4to. 10. " A juft reproofe of a 
 Romane fmell-feaft, being the fifth fatire of Juve- 
 nall/' 1C29. 4to. He ahb translated tlie Iliades 
 and Odysfey of Homer : of the former " Seaven 
 bookes/' and " Achilles lliield," out of the eigh- 
 teentli, were originally printed, by John Windet, 
 in 1.598. His translation of " Hefiod/' appear'd 
 in 16I8, 4to. He dye'd in l634, 
 
 CHAPPELL BARTHOLMEW wrote '' The 
 garden of prudence : wherein is contained a pa- 
 theticall discourfe and godly meditation, moft 
 brieflie touching tlie vanities of the world, tlie ca- 
 lamities of hell, and the felicities of heaven. 
 You thai alfo find planted in the fame, divers 
 fweet & pleafant flowers, moft necesfarie & 
 comfortable both for body & foule:" printed by 
 R.Jones, 1595, 8vo. part verfe, part profe. He 
 was, probablely, the man who had fome poe- 
 tical altercation witli Thomas Camel (whom fee). 
 
 CHARNOCK THOMAS, an '' unlettered fcho- 
 lur," and " lludent in tlic moft worthy fcyence of
 
 158 POETS OP THE 
 
 aftronomy and philofophy," compile'd, in 1557, 
 " The breviary of naturall philofophy ;" printed 
 in Afhmoles Theatrum chemicum;* in which are 
 alfo certain " Fragments coppied from Thomas 
 Charnocks owne hande-writing," by the figna- 
 ture to one of whicli it appears that the year 1 574 
 was the 50th of his age. 
 
 CHEKE SIR JOHN wrote " A royall elegie 
 on king Edward the Vlth," l6lO. 4to. He 
 dye'd in 1557- 
 
 CHESTER ROBERT. " Loves martyr, or 
 Rofalins complaint, allegorically Ihadowing the 
 truth of love, in tlae conftant fate of the phoenix 
 and turtle. A poem enterlaced with much va- 
 rietie and raritie j now firft translated out of the 
 venerable Italian Torquato Caeliano, by Robert 
 Chester. With the true legend of famous king 
 Arthur, the laft of the nine worthies j being the firft 
 esfay of a new Britifli poet : colleded out of au- 
 thenticall records. To thefe are added fome new 
 compofitions of feveral modern writers, whofe 
 names are fubfcribed to tlieir feverall workes ; 
 upon the firft fubjeft, viz. the phoenix and tur- 
 
 * A copy of this breviary is in Sloanes MS. 684.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 15Q 
 
 tic," 1601. Thefe modern writers are Shak- 
 fpeare, Jonfon, Marston, Chapman, and others. 
 
 CHETTLE HENRY. " The popes pitiful la- 
 mentation for the death of his deere darling don 
 loan of Auftria : and Deaths anfwer to the fame. 
 Translated after the French printed copy by H. 
 C." printed by I. C. [1578,] 4to. " The foreft 
 of fancy, wherein is contained very pretty apo- 
 thegmes, and pleafant histories, both in meeter 
 and profe, fonges, fonets, epigrams, and epis- 
 tles, Cs'c, —Finis H. C." printed by T. Purfoote, 
 1579, 4to. b. 1. " A dolefull ditty or forowful 
 fonet of the lord Darly, fome time king of Scots, 
 neuew to the noble and worthy king Henry the 
 eyght, and is to be fong to the tune of Black 
 and yallowe. — Finis H, C." Licenfe'd 24 March 
 1578-9. (Herbert, iSSg.) 
 
 CHURCHYARD THOMAS, a native of 
 Shrewsbury, and, tarn Marti quam Mercurio, 
 both foldier and poet, wrote and publilh'd a pro- 
 digious number of poetical pieces, of which tlae 
 moft accurate lift that can be made out (many of 
 them being to be neither feen nor hear'd of) is as 
 follows : 1 , " A mirrour for a man, wherein he 
 <hall fee the miferable ftate of this world :''
 
 l60 POETS OF THE 
 
 printed (according to Tanner) in the time of Ed- 
 ward VI. 4to. 2. " A fparke of frendfhip and 
 warme good will ; with a poem concerning the 
 commodity of fundry fciences ; efpecially con- 
 cerning paper and a paper-mill, lately fet up neer 
 Dartford by a high German, called M. Spilman, 
 jeweller to the queenes majesty." Lon, 1558, 
 4to, (This edition is reprinted in the pro- 
 grefees of Q. Eliz. with feme variations in the 
 tide.) 3. " A playn and tynall confutation of 
 Cammells. corlyke oblatracion :" printed by W. 
 Griffith, without date, fo. (200 lines on one 
 ftieet.)* 4. " The firft parte of Churchyardes 
 
 • " The contention betvvixtc Churchj'eard and Ca- 
 mell, vjxra Dauid Dycers dreame, iett out in fuche or- 
 der, that it is bolhe wyttye and profytable for all de-»- 
 gryes:" printed by Owen Rogers for Michael Loblee, 
 1560, 4to. b, 1. «' The debate betwyn Churchyard and 
 Camell." 410. " A decree bctwenc Churchyarde tlie 
 poet and Canncll." " Weftcrn Wyll vpon the debate 
 betwyxte Churchyarde and Camell, with Dauid Dicars 
 dreame." 4to. in fix-line ftanzas. Sec CAMELL. 
 
 Gascoigne has left behind him a ludicrous n-port, 
 that " the contentions palsed in verfe long fithence be- 
 twcne maiittr Churchward and Camel!, were (by a block- 
 headed reader) condrued to be indeed a quareil beiwcne 
 two ncighbcis : of whom that one having a Camell in
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. l6l 
 
 Cliipi^es, contayning twelue feuerall labours, di- 
 uifed and publilbed only by Thomas Churchyard, 
 gentilman :" printed by T. Marlhe, 1365, and, 
 again, 1575, 1578, 4to.* 5. " A discourfe of 
 rebellion, drawne forth for to warne the wanton 
 wittes how to kepe their heades on their Ihoul- 
 ders :" printed by W. Griffitli, 1570. 6. " The 
 lamentation of Flaunders," (in " a lamentable, 
 and pitifuU defcription of the wofull warres in 
 Flaunders, &c.") printed by Ralph Newbery, 
 1578, 4to. 7. " The three firft bookes of Ovid 
 de tristibm" 1578, 4to. 8. " Churchyards 
 
 keping, and that other having charge of the Church- 
 yard, it was fuppofed they had grown to debate, be- 
 caufe the CamcU came into the Churchyard." Epistle to 
 the youth of England, before his *' Poefies." 1575. 
 T. P. 
 
 • The contents arc, " i. The fiege of Leeth. 2. A 
 farewell to the world. 3. A fayned fancie of a fpider 
 and the gowte. 4. A dolefuU discourfe of a lady and a 
 knight. 5. The rode into Scotland, by fir William 
 Drury, knight. 6. Sir Simond Burleis tragedie. 7. A 
 tragecall discourfe of the unhappic mans life. 8. A dis- 
 courfe of vcrtue. 9. Churchyards dream. 10. A tale 
 of a frier and a fhuemakers wief. ri. The fiege of 
 Edenborough castle. 12. The whole order of the re- 
 ceiving of the queens maiestie into Bristovve." 
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 l62 POETS OF THE 
 
 choice :" printed by E, White, without date, 4to, 
 licenfed 1579. 9- " Churchyards chance, con- 
 taining fancies, verfes, epitaphs, fo'c." Jxm. 
 1580. 4to. 10. " A light bondell of livly dis- 
 courfes called Churchyardes charge, prefented as 
 a new years gift to the right honourable the earle 
 of Surrie ; in which bondell of verfes is futche 
 varietie of matter, and feverall inventions, that 
 male bee as delitefull to the reader, as it was a 
 charge and labour to the writer, fette forthe for a 
 peece of pastime:" printed by Jhon Kyngston, 
 1580, 4to.* 11. " A warning to the wife, a 
 feare to the fond, a bridle to the lewde, and a 
 glaffe to the good. Written of the late eartli- 
 quake chanced in London, and other places, the 
 6th of April 1580, for the glory of god, and be- 
 
 * The contents of " Churchyards Charge" are i. A 
 ftoiie translated out of Frenche. 2. Churchyards fare- 
 well from the courte, the feconde yere of the queenes 
 majesties raigne. 3. Of a mightie greate perfonage. 4. 
 Of beutie and bountie. 5. Of one that by difsembiying, 
 fedde his defire. 6. Of ftedfaftneffe and conftancie. 7. 
 Of one that founde falshed in fclowftiip. 8. Written to 
 a virtuous gentlewoman, whofe name [DAMPPORT] 
 is in the verfes. 9. A farewell to a fondlyng. 10. 
 Written to the goode lorde maior of London, now in 
 office, called fir Nicholas Woodroffe knight. T. P.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. l63 
 
 nefite of men, that warely can walke and wifely 
 can iudge. Set forth in verfe and profe, by 
 Thomas Churchyard, gentleman :" printed by 
 John Allde, 1580, 8vo, 12. " The wordiines 
 of Wales : wherein are more than a thoufand fe- 
 uerall things rehearfed : fome fet out in profe to 
 the pleafore of the reader, and with fuch variety 
 of verfe for the beautifying of the book, as no 
 doubt Ihal delight tlioufands to vnderftand. 
 Which worke is interlarded with many wonders 
 & right ftrange matter to confider of. All the 
 which labour and deuice is drawen forth & fet 
 out by Tho, Church-yard, to the glorie of god 
 and honour of his prince & countrey :" printed 
 by G. Robinfon for T. Cadman, 1587, 4 to. 13. 
 " A feaft full of fad chearj being epitaphs on 
 the earl of Worcester, fir James Acroft, con- 
 troller of the houfehold, fir Will. Winter, fir 
 Will. Holftock controller of the navy. Dr. Un- 
 derbill bilhop of Oxford, &c." Lon. 1592, 4to. 
 14. " Churchyards challenge:" printed by John 
 Wolfe, 1593, 4to. b. 1.* 15. " The mirror and 
 
 * " The feuerall matters contained in this booke" 
 are as follows : i. " The tragedie of the carle of Mor- 
 ton." 2. " The tragedie of fir Simon Burlie." 3. 
 " A discourfe that a man is but his minde." 4. " A 
 
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 l64 POETS OF THE 
 
 manners of men :" printed by Arnold Hatfield 
 
 discourfc of the true fteps of manhood." [5. " A warn- 
 ing to the wanderers abroad,"] 6. " A discourfe of the 
 honor of afouldior." 7. *' A discours of an oldefoul- 
 dier and a yong." 8. " A discourfe and commenda- 
 tion of thofe that can make golde." 9. " A discourfe 
 and rebuke to rebellious mindes." 10. " A discourfe 
 of hospitalitie and coufuming of time and wealth in 
 London." 11. " A discourfe of misfortune and cala- 
 mitie." 12." A discourfc of law and worthy lawyers." 
 
 13. " A discourfc of the only phenix of the worlde." 
 
 14. " A praife of that phenix, and verfes translated out 
 of French." [15. " The tragedy of Shores wife much 
 augmented."] 16. " A ftory of an eagle and a lady, ex- 
 cellently let out in Du Bartas." 17. " A discourfe of 
 the ioy good fubiefts haue when they fee our phenix 
 abroad." 18. " The tragicall discourfc of the haplcffe 
 mans life." (This " hapleffe man" is himfelf ) 19. 
 *' The adue the writer made long ago to the worlde." 
 20. " A discourfe of a fantasticall dreamc." 11. " A 
 tragicall discourfc of a dolorous gentlewoman." 21. 
 " A tragicnll discourfc of a lord and a lady, translated 
 out of French." The ill and 2d articles feem to have 
 been defigned for the " Mirror for magistrates;" the 
 3d, 4th, 5th, and icth (they arc not infcrtcd precifelyin 
 that order) are in profc. Immediately after the table of 
 contents, he fays, " The bookcs that i can call to me- 
 moriealrcadie printed are thefe that followcs." " Firft, 
 in king Edwards daies, a book named Dauie Dican drtamt, 
 which one Camcll wrote againll, whome i openly con-
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 105 
 
 forW. Holn, 1594, 4to. (Writen, he fays, 50 
 
 futed.* Scores tv/fe i penned in that feafon.f Another 
 book in thofe dales called the Mirror of man. In queene 
 Maries raigne, a book called a New-yeares gift to all Eng- 
 /a«i, which booke treated of rebellion. And many things 
 in the bookc of fongs and Ibnets, printed then [Surreys 
 poems, 1557], were of my making. Since that time 
 till this day i wrote all thefe works. The booke of 
 Chips \^ic^(i{].\ The booke called C^a«« [1580]. The 
 booke called my Charge [1580I]. The booke called my 
 Change, in verfe and proes. The booke called my 
 Choice. The book of the ficge of Leeth and Edenbo- 
 rough castell. The book of fir William Druries fer- 
 uice. The booke called the golden nut, dedicated to 
 the Qu. Ma. The book of receiuing her highnes into 
 Suffolk & Norfolke [i577-^]- The booke before of 
 her highnes receiuing into Bristow. The booke of the 
 earthquake [15S0]. The book of the troubles of 
 
 * See CAMEL. Richard Harvey, before 1563, 
 printed " a decree [in verfe] betwene Churchyarde the 
 poet and Camell," a broadfide. 
 
 \ *' Shores ivife is Yong, fays Nafli, though you [T. 
 Churchyard] be llcpt in yeares ; in her (hall you live 
 when you are dead." " Foure letters confuted." 1593. 
 
 J Almoft all tiiefc pieces are dedicated to fome noble- 
 man or gentleman, from whom the author receivc'd, or 
 f xpefted, a prefcnt. 
 
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 l66 POETS OF THE 
 
 years before.) 16. " The fortunate farewel to 
 
 Flanders [1578]. The booke called the fcourge of re- 
 bels in Ireland [1584]. The booke called a rebuke to 
 rebellion [1588]. The book of a fparke of freendfliip. 
 The book of forrows. The booke of the winning of 
 Macklin. . The book called the Worthines of Wales, to 
 the Qu. Ma, [15 S7]. The book giuen her maiestie 
 at Bristow, where i made al the whole deuifes [1575]- 
 The deuifes of warre, and a play at Awfterley, her 
 highnes being at fir Thomas Greshams. The com- 
 medy before her maiestie at Norwich in the fielde when 
 Ihe went to dinner to my lady Gerningams. The 
 whole deuifes, pastimes, and plaies at Norwich before 
 her maiestie. The deuifes and fpecches that men and 
 boves (hewed with in many prograces. The book of 
 k^g Henries epitaph, and other princes and lords. The 
 book of My deer adue. The book called a haadfuU of 
 gladfome verfes, to the Qu. M. at Woodftockc. The 
 book called a pleafant conceite, anew yceres gift, to the 
 queenes maicbtie, 1593 (reprinted in Nicholses Pro- 
 grefses of Q^Elizabeth). 
 
 " Thefe workcs following are gotten from me of 
 fome fuch noble frcends as i am loath to offend. 
 
 " ALneas tale to Dydo, largely and truely translated 
 out of Virgin, which i once fhewed the Qu. M. and 
 had it againe. A book of the oath of a iudge and the 
 honor of law, deliuered to a ftacioncr, who fent it to the 
 L. chccfe baron that laft dyed [recovered & printed 
 1596]. A book of a fumptuous (hew in Shrouctide, by 
 fir Walter Rawley, fir Robert Carey, M. Chidly, and
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. I67 
 
 the moft forward and noble earle of Esfex, Cs'c." 
 printed by E. Bollifant for W. Wood, 1599, 
 
 M. Arthur Gorge, in which book was the whole feruice 
 of my L. of Lester mencioned, that he and his traine did 
 in Flaunders, and the gentlemen pencioners proued to 
 be a great peece of honor to the court : all which book 
 was in as good verfe as euer i made : an honourable 
 knight dwelling in the black friers can witnefs the fame, 
 becaufe i read it vnio him. A great pecce of work 
 translated out of the great French poet feignior Dubar- 
 tas, which worke treated of a lady and an eagle, moft 
 diuinely written on by Dubartas, and giuen by me to a 
 great lord of this land, who faith it is loft. An infinite 
 number of other fonges and fonets, giuen where they 
 cannot be recouered, nor purchafeany fauour when they 
 are craued." " My next booke," fays he, at the end 
 of his preface, " Ihal be the laft booke of the Worthines 
 of Wales. And my laft booke called my Vltimum vale, 
 Ihal be (if it pleafe god) twelue long tales for Chriftmas 
 dedicated to twelue honorable lords;" which, if fuc- 
 cefsful, would have proved a tolerable Chiiflmas-box. 
 
 In the dedication, to fir John Wolley, he thus ex- 
 prefses himfelf : " The long trauell and tracing out of 
 life in this wearifom pilgrimage hauing brought me now 
 almoft to the endc of my iourney, makes me glad to be 
 rid of the burthens of my minde and thclabours of my 
 body, the one ncuer free from ftudie, and the other fel- 
 dome voide of toyle, and yet both of them neither 
 brought great benefice to the life, nor blefsing to the 
 foulc : in which fmall reft and vnquietnes, many for- 
 M 4
 
 l68 POETS OF THE 
 
 4to.* 17. " Feaft full of fad cheere, where 
 griefes are all on heape, where foUace is full 
 deere, and forrows are good cheape." 4to.f 
 *' The commendation of mufyke by Church- 
 yarde" was licenfe'd to W. Griffith in 1562, 
 and " A fayrcwell called Churchyardes ronde 
 from the couurte to the country grounde/' in 
 1565. His " Rebuke to rebellion" is in the 
 royal MSS. 17 B VII. He is likewife the au- 
 thour of one poem, wherein " He perfwadeth 
 his freendes from the fond affects of loue," in 
 ^' The paradice of daintie deuifes," 1576. Pre- 
 
 rowfuU discourfes in my dayes i haue written, and 
 numbers of bookes i haue printed : and bccaufe they 
 Ihall not be buried with me i challenge them as my chil- 
 dzen to abide behinde me in the worldc, &">." 
 
 * " The welcome home of the erle of Esfex, by The. 
 Churchyard efq." was entered to W. Wood, ift Octo. 
 J 599. From an edition by BoUifant in 1599, it was 
 reprinted by Nichols in " The progrefses of queen 
 Elizabeth," Vol.11. 
 
 In the catalogue of pamphlets in the Harleian library 
 occur " A poean triumpliall upon the kings [James I.] 
 entry to London fiom the town &c." 1603. " A blcfsed 
 baimc to ftarch &: falve fedition," 1604, both poetical 
 andafcribt'd to T. Churchyard. 
 
 t Cata. bib. Uar. No. 474?.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. i6Q 
 
 fix'd to Lloids " Pilgrimage of princes," Gas- 
 coignes "Flowers," 1575, Huloets " Dictiona- 
 rie," 1572, " Cardanus comforte," 15/6, Peter 
 Lowes " Courfe of chirurgerie," 15g7, and Dr, 
 Joneses " Bathes of Bathes ayde," 1572, are 
 commendatory verfes, by Churchyard. Skeltons 
 works, 1568, have a poetical preface by the fame 
 hand : and before Robinfons " Auncicnt order 
 65'c. of prince Artliure," 1583, is " A praife of 
 the bowe and commendacion of this booke, writ- 
 ten by Thomas Churchyard gent." " T. C. gen- 
 tleman" translated out of Italian into Englifh 
 verfe, " A pleafaunt and delightfuU history of 
 Galefiiis, Cymon and Iphigenia, defcribing the 
 ficklenefs of fortune in love :" printed by Ni- 
 cholas Wyer, witliout date, 4to. This is, pro- 
 bablely, by Churchyard ; who might, likewife, be 
 the translator of " The right, pleafant, and va- 
 riable tragical historj'^ of Fortunatus. Firft penned 
 in the Dutch tongue, there-hence abftrafted, 
 and now tirft of all publiflied in Englifli, by T. 
 C." London, 1682, 8vo. b. 1. (but certainly firft 
 printed before 1600) prefix'd to which are two 
 copys of verfes. Wyer, alfo, printed a ballad 
 intitle'd " The lamentation of Chvu"chyardes frynd- 
 fhippe." Havcing been a moll pains-takeing au- 
 thor for half a century, he dye'd, poor^ in J604,
 
 170 POETS OF THE 
 
 and was inter'd (April the 4th) in the quire of 
 St. Margarets church, Weftminfter, near his fa- 
 vourite Skelton ; and not in the portico, accord- 
 ing to a ludicrous epitaph, quoted by Weever, 
 but already printed in Camdens Remaines. 
 
 CHUTE ANTHONY is the authour of 
 " Beawtie dishonoured written vnder the title of 
 Shores wife :" printed by John Wolfe, 1593, 4to. 
 containing 197 fix-line ftanzas, in italicks. It ap- 
 pears from a pasfage in Nafhes " Have with you 
 to Saffron-Walden," 1596, that he had, like- 
 wife, writcn " Procris & Cephalus."* He was 
 a friend of Gabriel Harvey, and has a letter, a 
 fonnet, and a copy of fatirick verfes on Nafh, at 
 the end of " Pierces fupererogation," 1593. 
 Nalh, in " Have with you to Saffron-Walden," 
 1596, fays. Chute was then dead and rotten. 
 
 CICELL THOMAS, auUior of a fingular 
 poem in alternate couplets of twelve and eight 
 
 * Enter'd on the ftationers books, by J. Wolfe, 1593. 
 This is, probablely, the poem alluded to in the Mi<i- 
 JutTimer-nighti dream : 
 
 " Not SAafalut to Procrus was fo truc. 
 As ShaJ'alui to Procrui, i to you."
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. I7I 
 
 lines, prefix'd to Alhtons *' Sborte treatife upon 
 the Turkes chronicles," ^c. 1346. 8vo. 
 
 CLAPHAM HENOCH wrote " Bibliotheca 
 theologica; or, a library theological, containing, 
 1. A general analyfis or refolution : 2. A briefe 
 elucidation off the moft facred characters of Elo- 
 him his bible : drawen for the vfe of the poorer 
 forte, vnable to purchafe variety off holy men 
 their wrytinges. Imprinted at Amftelrodam, 
 nnno 1397." 4to. It confifls, befide the proem, 
 of an analyfis or elucidation of the firfl 1 4 chap- 
 ters of Genefis, and breaks off abruptly. His 
 " briefe of the bible, drawn firfl into Englifh* 
 poefy, and then illustrated by apt annotations, 
 £9*0." was printed at Edin. by R. Waldgrave, 
 1596, 8vo, 
 
 CLOWES WILLIAM, of London, " maister 
 in chirurgerie," wrote commendatory verfes pre- 
 
 * " iElohim Trluno, displayed by his workes phy- 
 ficall and metaphyficall, in a poeme of divcrfc forme : 
 adapted to the Hebrue text, the frame of divinitie, and 
 catholike expofition, by Henoch Clapham," 1601, 410. 
 The fame writer has a copy of verfes before ** The 
 olive leafe, or univerfal A, b, c." 1603. T. P.
 
 lyi POETS OF THE 
 
 fix'd to Lytes " Herball," 1578, and to Banis- 
 ters " Historic of man," in the fame year. 
 
 CONSTABLE HENRY, B. A. of St. Johns 
 college, Cambridge ; publilh'd " Diana, or the 
 excellent conceitful fonnets of H. C. augmented 
 with divers quatorzains of honorable and learned 
 perfonages, devided into viii decads, 1594:" 
 printed by J. Robei'ts for R. Smith, 8vo. " No 
 gentleman of our nation," according to Wood, 
 *' had. a more pure, quick, and higher delivery of 
 conceit ; witnefs, among all others, that fonnet of 
 his before the poetical translation called The fu- 
 ries, made by king James the firft of England, 
 while he was king of Scots [Edin. 1591]." 
 The criticifm, however, is borrow'd from Bol- 
 tons Hi/pcrcritica, which Anthony had in MS. 
 though an excellent judge pronounces the fonnet 
 in question " a poor fpecimen ; though," he ads, 
 " Echo has been lavilh in its praife," Four fon- 
 nets by Conftable are prefix'd to Sidneys " Apo- 
 logy for poetrie," 1595, 4to. and in " Englands 
 Helicon," 1600, are four poems by H. C. : who, 
 likewife, has a fonnet before Bofswells " Workes 
 of armorie," 1517, 1610, and feveral feleded 
 pasfages from his poems, occur in " Englands 
 Parnasfus." The reverend mister Todd has lately
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 173 
 
 recover'd a very curious volume of unpublifh'd 
 fonnets by Henry Conftable, from a bookfeller at 
 Canterbury ; of which an account may be feen in 
 his edition of Milton, 
 
 CONWAY SIR JOHN, knight, has fome com- 
 mendatory verfes prefix'd to Fentons " tragical 
 discourfes," 1379, 4to, 
 
 COOKE R. has a few lines " In commenda- 
 tion of his friend M. Kyffin," prefix'd to the 
 latters " Blefsednes of Brytaine," 1588. 
 
 COPLAND ROBERT, an eminent printer, 
 and, in 1542, the father of his profesfion, com- 
 pile'd and printed " The hye way to the fpytteU 
 hous," a dialogue of fome humour and merit 
 (fee Herbert, 349) : and is the true authour of 
 " Jyl of Breyntfords testament," printed by W. 
 Copland (n. d. 4to. b. 1.) He, likewife, wrote 
 the prologue to Andrew Chertefeys " Pasfion of 
 our lord Jefu Chrift," in ftanzas (fee Herbert, 
 1 G I ) : alfo a " Petycyon" prefix'd, and Lenvoys 
 fubjoin'd, to St. Auftins " Myrrour of die 
 chyrche," 1521 ; to " The fecrets of Aristotyle," 
 1528; and to Walters '' Lytell contrauers dya- 
 logue betwcne loue and councell." Prefix'd to
 
 174 POETS OF THE 
 
 Chaucers " Asfemble of foules," printed by Wy li- 
 ken de Worde, 1530, is an addrefs by " Roberte 
 Coplande boke-prynter to new fanglers," in 4 
 octave ftanzas, and at the end is his Lenvoy in 
 3. In "The castell of pleafure," alfo, another 
 publication by de Worde, is a prologue and con- 
 cludeing addrefs" by " Coplande the prynter to 
 the auctour." 
 
 COPLEY ANTHONY wrote " A fig for for- 
 tune. Recta fecurus. A. C. London printed 
 by Richard Johnes for C. A. 1 596," 4to. 
 
 COSBIE ARNOLD. " Arnold Cosbies Ul- 
 timum vale to the vaine world, an elegie written 
 by himfelf in the Marthalfea, after his condemna- 
 tion for murthering lord Brooke," 1591. 4to. 
 
 COTTESFORD THOMAS turn'd into metre 
 " a prayer to Dannyell," which was licenfe'd, as 
 a ballad, to John Aide, in l3C9or70. 
 
 COTTON ROGER. " An armor of proofe, 
 brought from the tower of Dauid, to fight againft 
 the Spanyards, and all enemies of the trueth. 
 By K. C. Imprinted by Gabriel Simfon and 
 William White, I.096." 4to. In fix-line ftanzas.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 175 
 
 '' A fpirituall fong : conteining an historicall 
 discourfe from the infancie of the world, vntUl 
 this prefent time : — Drawen out of the holy fcrip- 
 tures, by Roger Cotton. — At London, printed by 
 Gabriel Simfon and William White, 1596." 4to. 
 In five-line ftanzas. 
 
 COWTON THOMAS made " An epitaphe 
 npon the deathe of Marmaduke Lacye efq. jus- 
 tyce of the peace within the eft rydinge of York, 
 who died the xiiuth of Dec. 1378 :" licenfe'd, 
 the 7th of February following, to Hen. Kyrk- 
 ham. 
 
 CREWE THOMAS has " Verfes of a blefsed 
 life," and two other poems, at the end of " The 
 noftgay of morall philofophie," &c. translated by 
 him from various Italian authors, and pr. by Tho. 
 Dawfon, 1380. l2mo. 
 
 CROWLEY ROBERT translated into EngHfh 
 metre '* The pfalter of Dauid...in fuch fort that 
 it may more decently and wyth more delight of 
 the mynde be read and fong of all men :" printed 
 byhimfelf, lo4g, 4to. This, according to War- 
 ton, contains alfo the litany and certain hymns. 
 In the fame year, he ads, Crowley publiih'd
 
 176 POETS OF THE 
 
 " The voice of the laft trumpet blown by the Te-* 
 venth angel." Wood and Tanner afcribe to him, 
 as the author, " One and thirty epigrams wherein 
 are briefly touched fo many abufes that may and 
 ought to be put away :" 1550 and 1551. In tlie 
 latter of thefe years he publifh'd a kind of metri- 
 cal fermon " on pleafure and pain, heaven and 
 hell." He was vicar of the parilli of St. Giles 
 Cripplegate, and exercifc'd the art of printing in 
 Ely-rents Holborn. He dyed iu 1588. 
 
 CUNYNGHAM W. has a poetical dialogue 
 prefix'd to Gales chirurgical pieces, loCS. The 
 name, however, appears to be Scotiih. 
 
 CUTWODE T. efquire, compofe'd " Caltha- 
 poetano/i, or the bumble bee," I699, 4to.* 
 
 D. E. authour of " The prayfe of nothing," 
 pr. by H. Jackfon, 1385, 4to, in which is a 
 poetical translation from Petrarchs triumph of 
 death, in blank verfes of twelve fyllables. 
 
 • Stay'd, at ihepiefs, by order of the arclibifliop of 
 Canterbury and bifhop of London; and fuch copys a$ 
 could be found, or were already taken, were to "bee 
 prcfentlyc broughte to the Bp. of London to be burnte :" 
 and " nocfatyrcs or epigrams [to] be printed /hereafter."
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 177 
 
 D. H. Thefe initials ire fabfcribe'd to a poem, 
 in "The paradice of daintie devifes," 1576, 
 " written upon tlie death of his efpecial good 
 friend master lohn Barnabe." They likewife oc- 
 cur in " Diella, or certain fonnets, &c.^' 1596. 
 
 D. J, " In the year 1554," according to 
 Warton, *' a poem of two flieets, in the fpirit 
 and flanza of Sternhold, was printed under the 
 title [of], " The vngodlinefle of the Hethnicke 
 goddes, or the downfall of Diana of the Ephe- 
 fians, by J. D. an exile for the word, late a mi- 
 nister in I/ondon." fi/. E. P. Ill, 314.) A 
 book intitle'd " Amours by J. D. with certen 
 other fonnets by W. S." was enler'd to Eleazar 
 Edgar, the Sd of January iScjg-OOO. Thefe are, 
 likewife, the initials of John Dickenfon, authour 
 of " Greene in conceipte, fe'c." I5g8. J. D, 
 has a copy of verfes " in praife of Gascoigne and 
 his pofies" (1573). There is, likewife, "A 
 hedgerow of bufhes, brambles, and briars ; or a 
 field full of tares, thisfels and time j of the vani- 
 ties and vain delights of the world, tyc. now 
 newly compiled by I. D." printed by W, White, 
 for John Brown, 1583, 4to (which is prefume'd 
 to be a collection of verfes). See DAVIES SIR 
 JOHN. 
 
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 178 POETS OF THE 
 
 D. M. See DOLMAN, DRAYTON, DY- 
 ER. Before Morleys " Firft booke of balletts to 
 five voyces :" pr. by T. Efte, 1595, 4to. are 
 verfes of " Mr. M. D. to the author." M. D. 
 is likewife mention'd as an Englifli poet by 
 Webbe. 
 
 D. P. has verfes " In prayfe of the author," 
 before " The readie path to the pleafaunt pasture 
 of dehtefome and etemall paradife, Cs'c." by J. 
 T. Printed by Henry Bynneman, 8vo. 
 
 D. R. Thefe initials are annex'd to one or 
 more poem or poems in " The paradice of dain- 
 tie devifes," 1576, and in " Diella, or certain 
 fonnets, ^c" 1596. See DILLINGTON RO- 
 BERT. 
 
 D.T. SeeDELONE. 
 
 DALLINGTON ROBERT has fomc fcraps 
 of poetry in his " Method for travell. Shewed by 
 taking the view of France. As it ftoode in the 
 yeare of our Lord 1398 :" printed by Thomas 
 Creede, n. d, 4to. 
 
 DANIEL JO. has a copy of commendatory
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 179 
 
 verfes prefix'd to the " Philofopher of the court, 
 by George Norths" 1575, 
 
 DANIEL SAMUEL wrote, l. " Delia: 
 contayn'mg certayne fonnets ; with The com- 
 plaint of Rofamond :" 1592, 4to. 1594, l2mo.* 
 2. " The ciuile warres betwene the two houfes 
 of Lancaster and Yorkc [in 8 books] :" of 
 which " the firft fowre bookes" were printed 
 by P. Short for S. Waterfon, 1595, 4to.t 3. 
 " Poetical esfayes," 1599, 4to, 4. " A pane- 
 gyrike congratulatorie delivered to the kings 
 moft excellent maiestie at Burleigh-Harrington 
 in Rutlandfliire. Alfo certaine epistles,... here- 
 tofore written, and now publilhed by the 
 author. At London imprinted for Edward 
 Blount, 1603," 8vo. This contains 1. A pane- 
 gyrike, ^c. 2. To fir Thomas Egerton knight, 
 lord keeper of the great feale of England. 3. To 
 the lord Henry Howard, one of his maiesties 
 
 * Daniels firft publication was the worthy trad.1 of 
 Paulus Jovius, 1585: in the preface to which occur 
 verfes translated from Italian. 
 
 t Ayf/>A book was aded in the impresfion of 1599, a 
 /'xth, in 1602 ; and /ws others in 1609- 
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 180 POETS OF THE 
 
 privie covncel. 4. To the lady Margaret coun-' 
 tefle of Cvmberlaad. 5. To the lady Lvcie 
 covntelTe of Bedford. 6. To the lady Anne Clif- 
 ford, 7. To Henry Wriothesly erle of Sovthara- 
 ton. 8. The pasfion of a distrefsed man, ^c. 
 " Certaine poems," l605, 8vo. lately printed by 
 G. Elde for Simon Waterfon. " Certaine fmall 
 workes heretofore divulged," l6ll, 8vo. He 
 has, likewife, commendatory verfes prefix'd to 
 Joneses " Nennio, or a Ixeatife of nobility," 
 1593 ; to Dymocks translation of " // pastor 
 ^fido,'' 1 (502 ; to Erondells " French garden," 
 1 603 ; to Edmimdes " Obfer\'ations on Caefars 
 Commentaries," 1609; and Sylvesters " Du Bar- 
 tas," iGl3. Hedye'din 1619. A colle6ted edi- 
 tion of his poems was publifla'd by his brother, in 
 1623, 4to. Ben Jonfon fay'd of Daniel, that 
 he " was a good honeft man, had no children, 
 and was no poet, and that he had wrote the civil 
 wars,' and yet hatii not one battle in his book." 
 Drummond, on the contrary, pronounces him 
 " for fweetncfs in ryming fecond to none." 
 
 BARREL. A poet of this name is mention'd 
 by Webbe, in his " Discourfe of Engliih poe- 
 trie," 1.086.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 181 
 
 DASTIN JOHN, a celebrated alchemift, left 
 a poem intitle'd, his " work," or " dream j" 
 j)rinted in Aflimoles Tkeafriim chemicum. 
 
 DAVIE SAMPSON wrote " The ende & 
 confeslion of Tho, Norton of Yorkfhire, the 
 popifh rebell, and Chr. Norton his nephew 3 
 which fuffered at Tiburn, for treafon the 27. of 
 May :" printed by W, Howe, 1570, 8vo. 
 
 DAVIES SIR JOHN, bom in 1570, at Chir- 
 grove, in Wiltlhire, wrote, 1, " utinam. 1. 
 For queene Elizabeths fecuritie, 2. For her fub- 
 iefts prosper! tie, 3. For a generall conformitie, 
 4. And for Englands tranquilitie :" printed by 
 R, Yardley and P. Short for J. Pennie, 159I, 
 l6mo.* 2, " Epigrams :" printed (along with 
 Ovids elegies, by Marlow) at Middleburg about 
 1596, 8vo. 3. Nosce teipfiim. This oracle ex- 
 
 * Mr. Park thinks " this fliould be configned over to 
 Davies of Hereford, or to any other Davies rather than 
 fir John." Herbert, however, who had the book, ex- 
 prcfsly asferts that this John Davies was " The Welfli 
 poet, author of iVojctf teiffum" (p. 1364). 
 
 Mr. Ritfons comment on my remark invites me to dis- 
 cufs this knotty point a little more fully. — Herberts copy 
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 182 POETS OF THE 
 
 pounded in two elegies. 1 . Of humane know- 
 ledge, a. Of the foule of man^ and the immor- 
 talitie thereof : printed by R. Field for J. Standick, 
 1399, 4to. 4. " Hymns of Aftraea, in acros- 
 tick verfe :" 1599, 4to. 5, " Orchestra, or a 
 poeme of dauncing:" printed by J. Roberts, 
 1596, 8vo. (licenfed to J. Harrifon, in 1593). 
 6. " Reafons moan/' in eleven ftanzas, at the 
 
 of OUtinam / purchafed from his nephew: and i 
 found that the vague information, conveyed in liis Typo- 
 grafhkal antiquities, was derived from a MS. addition to 
 the name of the author, which called him " the Welfhe 
 poet." In another place he was called, by the fame note- 
 maker, " poet laureat." But was fir John Davies ever 
 ftyled " the Weijh foetf" or was either of the poetical 
 Davieses, foet laureat * What then becomes of Herberts 
 authoriftd asfertion ? The production itfelf is not worth 
 a moments attention. It confifts of a fulfome fermonical 
 addrefs to the people ; an indecent prayer for the queen ; 
 &■<:. and clofcs with 7 fix-line flanzas which are only re- 
 markable for their demerit. T. P. 
 
 However unworthy thefe poems may be of fir John 
 Davies, there is no other poet or poetaster of that name 
 to whom they can be more certainly afcribe'd. Herbert, 
 or his MS. authority, was clearly wrong in calling him 
 " The Wclfh poet;" the flirname, however, is Welfli, 
 and fo might his family have been. J. R.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 183 
 
 end of " Reafons academy," 1G20, 8vo. Other 
 pieces, frequently afcribe'd to, fir John Davies, 
 belong, in fa6t, to John Davies of Hereford, 
 writeing-master, authour of " The fcourge of 
 folly," [iCii,] &c. &c. who does not appear to 
 have publilh'd any thing before the year 1600. 
 I, D. the initials, it is prefume'd, of fir John Da- 
 vies, are annex'd to two commendatoiy fonnets 
 prefix'd to Chapmans " Ovids banquet of fence," 
 1595 j and to certain poems in " Englands Heli- 
 con," 1600, and Davifons "Poetical rapfodie," 
 1608. " Sir John Davies," according to Jonfon, 
 " play'd on Drayton in an epigram, who in his 
 fonnet concluded his mistrefs might have been 
 the ninth worthy, and faid, he ufed a phrafe like 
 Daraetas in [the] Arcadia, who faid, his mistris, 
 for wit, might be a giant." Phillips remembers 
 to have feen from the hands of the countefs [of 
 Huntingdon, his daughter] a judicious meta- 
 phrafe of feveral of Davids pfalms." He was, for 
 fome time, attorney-general of Ireland, was 
 knighted in 1607, and dye'd in 1626, aged 37. 
 
 DAY ANGELO has commendatory verfes 
 before Joneses '' Nennio," 1593, 
 
 DEE JOHN, alchemifl and conjurer, wrote a 
 
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 184 POETS OF THE 
 
 few lines intitled " Testamentum Johannis Dee 
 phllofophi fummi ad Johannem Gicynn transmis- 
 fum, 1586 :" printed in Aftimoles Theatrum che- 
 micum. He probablely wrote the poem addrefs'd 
 to " M. Christopher Hatton, efquyer, capvtayn 
 of her maiesties garde" at the end of his " Ge- 
 neral and rare memorials pertayning to the per- 
 fe6t arte of navigation," &c. printed by John 
 Daye, 1377, folio. 
 
 DELONE THOMAS. " A moft ioyftiU 
 fonge, made in the behalfe of all her maiesties 
 faithfull & louing fubiefts : of the great ioy which 
 was made in London at the taking of tlie late 
 trayterous confpirators, which fought oportunity 
 to kyll her maiesty, to fpoile the cittie, and by 
 forraign inuafion to ouerturn the realm : for the 
 which haynous treafons, 1 4 of them haue fuffered 
 death on Uic 20, andsi of Sept. Alfo, a detes- 
 tation againft tliofc confpirators, and all their 
 confederates, giuing god the prayfe for the fafe 
 preferuation of her m/iesty, and their fubiierfion. 
 Anno 1586'. To the tune of man in despera- 
 tion." 25 four-line ftanzas. At the end, " Finis 
 T. D." printed by Richard Jones. A broadlide. 
 " Strange histories, or fongcs and fonnets of 
 kinges, princes, dukes, lords, ladyes, knights
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 185 
 
 and gentlemen: &c. By Thomas Delone." Lon- 
 don, 1612. 4to. In this collection (according to 
 Percy) is tlie old ballad of Fair Rofamond, which, 
 with otlier, perhap the whole, of its contents 
 may have been actually writen by him. He is 
 mention'd by Kempe (" Nine days wonder," 
 1600) as " the great ballade-maker T. D. or 
 Thomas Deloney, chronicler of the memorable 
 lives of The fix yeomen of the ivejl. Jack of New- 
 hery. The gentle craft, and fuch like honeft men, 
 omitted by Stowe, HoUinshed, Grafton, Hall, 
 Froisfart, and the reft of thofe wcU-deferving 
 writers." ( History of Englijh poetry. III, 430.) 
 He had fatirife'd the comedian in what he calls 
 " abhorainable ballets J " and, in 1596, narrowly 
 efcape'd a commitment to the counter for ridicule- 
 ing the queen, and book of orders, about the 
 dearth of corn, in a " fcurrilous ballad." (See 
 Stows " Survey," by Strype, B. 5, p. 333.) 
 Nalhe, in his " Haue with you to Saffron-Wal- 
 den, or Gabriell Harueys hunt is up," I5g6, 4to. 
 calls him " the balleting filke-weaver," and fays 
 that he " hatli rime inough for all myracles, & 
 wit to make a Garland of good xi-ill more than the 
 premisfes, with an epistle of Glomus and Zoylus ; 
 whereas his mufe from the firft peeping foorth.
 
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 186 POETS OF THE 
 
 hath flood at liuery at an alehoufe wifpe, neuer 
 exceeding a penny a quart day nor night j and 
 tliis deere yeare, together with tlie filencing of his 
 looms, fcarce that j he being conftrained to be- 
 take hinifelf to carded ale : whence it proceed- 
 eth, that fince Candlemas, or his iigge of John 
 for the king, not one merrie dittie will come from 
 him, but The thunderbolt againji /wearers. Re- 
 pent England repent, and The Jlrange Mgements 
 of god. " The garland of good will, by T. D." 
 has run through numerous editions, and was, til 
 very lately, what is call'd a chap book. " The 
 garland of delight, by Thomas Delone," and 
 " The royal garland of love and delight, by T. 
 D." are both in the Pepyfian-library : but honeft 
 Thomas is fuspefted to have occafionally pub- 
 lifh'd the fame work under various titles, 
 
 DERRICKE JOHN " The image of Irelande, 
 with a discoverie of Woodkame, wherin is mofte 
 lively exprefsed, the nature & qualitie of the faied 
 wilde Irifhe "Woodkame, their notable aptnefle, ce- 
 leritie, & proueffe to rebellion, & by waie of argu- 
 ment is manifefted their originall, & offspryng, 
 their defcent & pedigree : alfo their habite & ap- 
 parell is there plainly fliowne. The execrable life.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 187 
 
 and miferable death of Rorie Roge, that famous 
 arch-traitour to god & the croune (otherwife called 
 Rorie Oge) is likewife defcribed. Laftlie the 
 comrayng in of Thyrlaghe Deonaghe the great 
 Oneale of Irelande, with the effe6t of his fubmis- 
 fion to the right hon. fir Henry Sidney (Id. de- 
 puty of the faid lande) is thereto adioyned. Made 
 & devifed by Jhon Derricke, anno 1378, and 
 now publilhed & fet fortlie by the faid authour 
 this prefent yere of our lorde 1581, for pleafure 
 and delight of the well dispofed reader." Printed 
 by J. Daye, 4to. b. 1. He frequently refers to 
 engrave'd views, Cs'f. with which, it would feem, 
 his poem has been originally illustrateed j but the 
 onely copy, in which a few Wooden cuts are known 
 to exift, is in the advocates-library, Edinburgh. 
 
 DEVEREUX ROBERT, earl of Esfex, be- 
 headed in i6oo, wrote " The buzzing bees com- 
 plaint," his " laft voyage to the haven of happi- 
 nefs," and other verfees ; of which few or none 
 have been ever printed, but all or moft are pre- 
 ferve'd in Aflimoles MSS. 7(J7, 768, 781, and 
 Sloanes, 1303, 1779, 4128.* " Co.x.eter," ac- 
 
 * Ten lines are inclofe'd in a letter to Q^ Elizabeth, 
 and printed in the " Cubalay" p. 216.
 
 188 POETS OF THE 
 
 cording to Warton, " fays, that he had fecn one 
 of Ovids epistles translated by Robert earl of Es- 
 fex." 
 
 DEVEREUX WALTEil, earl of Esfex, (fa- 
 ther to earl Robert), made, in 156?, " A godly 
 and wirtuous fong," extant in Sloaues MS. I898. 
 " The complaint of a finner, [made] and fung 
 by the earle of Esfex vpon his death-bed in 
 Ireland," is printed in " The paradice of daintie 
 deuifes," 1376: in which year he dye'd, 
 
 DILLINGTON ROBERT has commendatory 
 ▼erfees prefix'd to Lewkenors " Refolved gentle- 
 man," 1599; and his initials are fubjoin'd to 
 certain poems in " The paradice of daintie de- 
 uifes," 1576. 
 
 DINGLEY FRANCIS wrote " The bataile of 
 Brampton, or Floddon-fielde," inferted in " The 
 mirour for magistrates," I687 : Higins, the pub - 
 lilher of that edition, informing us, that " it 
 was pende aboue fifty yeares agone, or euen 
 {hortly after the death of... king [James the fourth 
 of Scotland] ;" and that he had " altered the verfe, 
 ...becaufe tlie reft elfe would not haue beene well 
 liked." It is^ allib, in the Harleian MS. 2252.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 18() 
 
 DOLMAN JOHN wrote the legend of the 
 lord Haftings, in the " Myrror for magistrates," 
 1563} being, as fome one has remark'd, in the 
 margin of his copy, " evidently the worft in the 
 collection," He is fuppofe'd to be the " JVL John 
 Dolman of the Middle Temple," who translated 
 *' Tullys Tusculane questions," I36l., 
 
 DORRELL WILLIAM compile'd '' The dis- 
 courfe of tlie life of a fervinge man :" enter'd to 
 Ralph Newberie, 14th February 1377-8. (Q. if 
 in verfe.) 
 
 DOWNHALL C. wrote a poem, of three 
 ftanzas, prefix'd to Watfons " Pasfionate cen- 
 turie of lone," and intitle'd, " An ode, written to 
 the mufes concerning this authour." 
 
 DOWRICHE ANN publiih'd " The French 
 historic. That is ; a lamentable discourfe of 
 three of the chiefe & moil famous bloodie broiles 
 that haue happened in France for the gofpell of 
 lefus Chrift. Namelie, The outrage called The 
 winning of S. lames his ftreet, 1557. The con- 
 ftant martirdome of Annas Burgoeus one of the 
 K. councell, 1559. The bloodie marriage of 
 Margaret, lister to Charles the g. anno 1372."
 
 igO POETS OF THE 
 
 Printed by Tho. Orwin, 1589, 4to. It is writen 
 in verfe of 14 fyllables, and dedicated " To her 
 louing brother master Pearfe Edgecombe of Mount 
 Edgecombe in Deuon, efq." from " Honiton, 
 25 Julii 1589." 
 
 DRAKE SIR FRANCIS wrote commendatory 
 verfes, prefix'd to lir G. Peckhams " True re- 
 porte of the late discoueries, CiJ'c," 1583. 
 
 DRANT THOMAS, archdeacon of Lewes, 
 publifh'd, 1. " A medicinable morall, tliat is, 
 the two bookes of Horace his fatyres, englyflied 
 accordyng to tlie prefcription of faint Hierome. 
 — The wailyngs of the prophet Hieremiah, done 
 into Englylhe verfe." Alfo " Epigrammes and 
 panegyrical poems :" printed by T, Marflie, 1566, 
 4to. 2. " Horace his arte of poetrie, pistles, 
 and fatyrs, englilhed, and to tlie earle of Or- 
 mounte addrefsed :" printed by Marfhe, 156?, 
 4to. 3. " Greg. Nazianzen his epigrammes, 
 and fpirituall fentenccs :" printed by Marlhe, 
 1568, 8vo. Three llanz as, by this authour, are 
 prefix'd to Peterfons translation of " Galateo," 
 1576.* Sec SHACKLOCKE ROGER. 
 
 • He could not uxl be the Thomas Dru/u, M. A. Cant.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. I9I 
 
 DRAYTON MICHAEL* wrote, l. '' The 
 harmonic of the church, containing the fpiri- 
 tuall fonges, and holy hymnes of godly men, pa- 
 triarkes and prophetes : all fweetly founding, to 
 the glory of the higheft:" printed by R. Jones, 
 1591, 4to. 2. " Idea: the lliepheards garland, 
 falliioned in nine eglogs j" " Rowlands facri- 
 fice to the nine mufes :" printed for T. Wood- 
 cocke, 1593, 4to.t 3. " Matilda, the fair &c 
 chafte daughter of Ld. Rob. Fitzwater," 1594, ^s 
 4to. 4. " Mortimeriados. The lamentable ci-*"^ 
 uell warres of Edward the fecond and the bar- 
 rons:" printed by J. R. for Mattliew Lownes, 
 1596, 4to. 5. " Englands herolcal epistles :" 
 1398, 8vo. Nic. Ling had licence to print them 
 in 1597. (Herbert 1342.) 6. " A gratulatorie 
 poem to the majestie of K. James," i603, 4to. 
 
 who has a complimentary addrefs " To his worthy 
 friend Mr. John Vicars," before the \sxt&c% jEneldi of 
 Virgil, 1632. It is, indeed, probable that he dye'd in 
 
 1578. 
 
 * He wrote his christian name « Michcll." 
 
 t From the ////* to this performance, Drayton was 
 fometimes called Rowland by his contcmporarys. Sec 
 Lodges " Fig for Momus."
 
 I: 
 
 192 POETS OF THE 
 
 7. " Tlieowle:" i604, 4to. 8. " Moyfes in a 
 map of his miracles :" 16O4, 4to. 9. " A pcean 
 triumphal! compofed for the fociety of goldfmiths 
 of London, on K. Jameses entering the citie :" 
 1604, 4to. 10. " Poems," 1605, 8vo. 11. 
 " The legend of Gireat Cromwell :" 1607, 4to. 
 (enter'd to John Flaskett, 12th Octo.) 12, 
 " Poly-Olbion" (firft 12 books) ; 161 2, (24 
 books) 1622, fo.* 13. " Poems," 1619, fo. and 
 without date 8vo. 14. " The battle of Agin- 
 
 ourt," 1627, fo. 15. " The mufes Elizium, 
 lately discovered, by a new way over Parnasfus," 
 1630, 4to. Some of his poems are inferted in 
 " Englands Helicon," 1600. His works were 
 collected and printed together in 1748, He dye'd 
 in 1631. A poem fign'd M. D, before Morleys 
 balletts, iGoo, is probablely by Drayton. He has 
 commendatory verfes before Middletons " Legend 
 of D. Plumphrey," 1G0O5 Murrays " Sophonisba," 
 
 iGi 1 J Daviescs " Holy roode," iGOQj Chapmans 
 "Hefiod," 16I8 ; Vicarses " Manuduction," 1622 5 
 
 fir John Beaumonts "Poems," 1G29 j in " Annalia 
 
 * Diumtnond calls this one of the finoothcft poems he 
 had fecn in Englifh, poetical and well pcrform'd ; and 
 fays "There arc Ibme pieces in him, i dare compare 
 with the bcft transmarine poems."
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. IQ3 
 
 Dubrenjia" i636 ; and before Hollands " Pq/l' 
 huma," l626j where he is erroneously ftile'd 
 pcet-laitreat. 
 
 DUDLEY LADY JANE, daughter of Henry 
 (Grey) duke of Suffolk, and wife to lord Guild- 
 ford Dudley, a younger fon of John duke of 
 Northhumberland, proclaim'd queen of England 
 on tlie lOth of July, 1553, and beheaded, after 
 her husband^ by that bigoted and bloody papift 
 Mary Tudor, on the 12th of April following, 
 wrote, with a pin, dureing her imprifonment in 
 the tower, " Certaine pretie verfes :" printed in 
 Foxes Martyrs. 
 
 DYER SIR EDWARD, " a Somerfetlhire 
 man," wrote, according to Wood, " A defcrip- 
 tion of friendlhip :" MS. in the Afhmolean mu- 
 feum (Num. 781, p. 139). The letters M. D. 
 in *' The paradice of daintie deuifes," 1576, are 
 prefume'd to denote this iUaster Dyer.* He has. 
 
 * It is afk'd, "If this be a fignature ; would the 
 term Muster be adopted ?" to which it may be an- 
 fwer'd, The fignature was not always by the authour, 
 but frequently by the printer, who might not know his 
 
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 194 POETS OP THE 
 
 likewife, five or fix poems in " Englands Heli- 
 con," 1600. He was knighted in 1596, and 
 dye'd in 16,.. " Master Edward Dyar," is ex- 
 tol'd by Puttenham, " for elegie, mod fweete, 
 iblemne, and of high conceit." 
 
 EDEN RICHARD, at the end of his " Trea- 
 tyfe of the newe India," 1553, 8vo. has twelve 
 couplets of verfes " To al adventurers, and fuch 
 as take in hande great enterpryfes." 
 
 EDWARDES C. wrote " The raanfion of 
 myrthe," licenfe'd, 1581, to R. Jones. 
 
 EDWARDS RICHARD, a native of Somerfet- 
 fhire, and one of the finging-men of queen Eliza- 
 beths chapel, is tlie authour of feveral poems in 
 " The paradice of daintie deuifes," 1576, fe'c. 
 The " pidiy precepts, learned counfayles, and 
 excellent inventions," in which work, are fay'd, 
 in the title, to be " deuifed and written, for the 
 mofte parte by M. Edwards." He dye'd in 1366 
 
 christian name, or fubftitute M. out of refpeft. That 
 of Dolman in " The mirour for magistrates," 1587, is 
 " Finis. Maister D." Sec aifo S. M. THORN M.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 105 
 
 or 7 ; andj according to Wood, from Gascoigne,* 
 ". when he was in the extremity of his ficknefs, 
 he compofed a noted poem, called Edwards frnil 
 hnil, or the ' Soul knill of M. Edwards,' which 
 was commended for a good piece," " An epy- 
 taphe of the lorde of Pembroke by Mr. Ed- 
 wardes," was licenfe'd to W. Griffith in 1569 ; 
 and a fpecimen of his poetry, from the Cotton 
 library, has been publifh'd by mister Ellis. Tur- 
 berville, in his poems, 1566, has " An epitaph 
 upon the deatli of the worlhipfuU M. Richarde 
 Edwardes, late maister of the children in the 
 queenes majesties chappell." This epitaph con- 
 lifts of 22 four-line ftanzas j and is rather an elegy 
 than a lapidary infcription, 
 
 EEDES RICHARD, dean of Worcester, wrote, 
 according to Wood, " Various poems, MS. in 
 Latin and Englifli." He dye'd in i604, 
 
 ELDERTON WILLIAM, a ballad-maker by 
 profesfion, and a drunkard by habit, wrote and 
 publifh'd " A new Yorkfliyre fong, intituled • 
 
 * It Wood had iook'd into Gascoigne with any at- 
 tention, he muft have perceivc'd that this popular idea 
 was ridicule'd for its childifh abfurdity. See Note to 
 VAUX TPIOMAS. T.P. 
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 196 POETS OF THE 
 
 Yorke, Yorke, for my monie : Of all the cities 
 that euer i fee. For mery pastime and companie. 
 Except the citie of London :" printed by Richard 
 Jones, 1384. It is an account of a match at 
 archery, in 22 fix-line ftanzas j dated " From 
 Yorke, by W. E." Alfo " A new ballad, de- 
 claring tlie great treafon confpired againft tlie 
 young king of Scots, and how one Andrew 
 Browne an Engliih-man, which was the kings 
 chamberlaine, prevented the fame." (See Percys 
 Rellqucs, II, 206.) " A ballad againft mar- 
 riage by Will. Elderton, ballad-maker," was 
 printed by T. Colwell, without date. He, like- 
 wife, compofe'd a fong, or ballad, begining 
 " The god of love. Who fits above, fe>'c." which 
 is quoted in Much ado about nothing, and whereof 
 .a puritanical parody, or moralifation, by one 
 W. Birch, under tlie title of " The complaint 
 of a finncr, &*(-." was printed by Alexander Lacy 
 for Richard Applow, without date, but licenfe'd 
 to tiie latter in 1362, as " The gods of love" 
 was to Lacy in 1567. In I36l was licenfe'd to 
 Hugh Singleton a ballad intitle'd " Eldertons 
 jeftes with his mery toyes :" in 1362, to John 
 Aide, a ballad intitle'd " An admonition to El- 
 derton to leave the toyes by hym begonne." In 
 tlic fame year Colwell was fine'd 3s. for printing
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. IQ/ 
 
 ballads, one of them being " Eldertons anfwerc 
 for his mery toyes, &'(•." In tliis year alfo was 
 licenfe'd to Edmund Halley a ballad intitle'd 
 " Eldertons parratt anfwered :" in \56g to J. 
 Purfoot a ballad intitle'd " Northumberlandes 
 newes by Elderton j" in 1371 to T. Colwell 
 " Eldertons ell fortune 3" in 1578 to R. Jones 
 " Eldertons folace in tyme of his licknes, con- 
 tayning fundrie fonets vpon many pithe para- 
 bles." In 1577 to Richard Jones " An anlwere 
 to the whippinge of tlie catt/' a ballad, by W. 
 Elderton: in 1579, "Eldertons advife to be- 
 ginne the newe yere:" in 1580-1, "A repre- 
 henfion againfte greene lleves by Willm Elder- 
 ton :" and in 1581 was tolerated to E. White 
 " Eldertons anfwere to J. W." Nalhc, in his 
 " Have with you to Saffron-Walden," 1596, 
 fpeaks of " Eldertons ancient note of meeting the 
 divell in conjure/ioiife lane.'' About laCs he was 
 an attorney in the flierifs court^ London, and 
 made " Verfes on the images over tlic Guildhall 
 gate/' printed in Stows 6'//>c7/3^, 1598. He was, 
 afterward, master of a company of comedians, 
 and on the lOth of January 1578-4, receive'd 
 61. 13s. 4d. for a play prefented before die queen. 
 *' Tliomas [meaning William] Elderton," fays 
 Camden, " who did arme himfelfe with ale (as 
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 198 POETS OP THE 
 
 ould father Ennius did with wine) when he bal- 
 
 lated, had this, in that refpe6t made to his me- 
 
 morle : 
 
 Hie Jitus eft Jitiens atque ebrius Eldertonus, 
 Quid dico hie Jitus eji? hie potius Jitis eft. 
 
 Of him alfo was made this : 
 
 " Here is Elderton lyeng in dull. 
 
 Or lyeng Elderton, chofe which you luft. 
 
 Here he lyes dead, i doe him no wrong, 
 
 For who knew him (landing, all his lifelong."* 
 
 He is thus fatirife'd by bifhop Hall : 
 , " Some drunken rhymer thinks his time well 
 fpent. 
 If he can live to fee his name in print 3 
 Who when he is once flelhed to the preffe. 
 And fees his handfell have fuch faire fuccefle. 
 Sung to the wheele, and fung unto the payle. 
 He fends forth thraves of ballades to the fale : 
 Nor then can reft, but volumes up bodg'd 
 
 rhymes. 
 To have his name talk'd of in future times." 
 
 * Rmnainei, 1 605, p. 56. The Latin epitaph was 
 translated by Oldys, as follows : 
 
 " Dead drunk here Elderton doth lie ; 
 Dead as he is, he ftill is dry : 
 So of him it may well be faid. 
 Here he, but not his thirft, is laid."
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. IQQ 
 
 ELIOT JOHN has fome pieces of poetry in his 
 *' Ort/ioepiaGallica:'' pr. by John Wolfe, isgs, 
 4to. 
 
 ELIZABETH QUEEN, See TUDOR ELI- 
 ZABETH. 
 
 ELMES HENRY wrote commendatory verfes, 
 prefix'd to Lewkenors translation of Contarenos 
 " Commonwealth of Venice," 1599. 
 
 ELVIDEN EDMOND ^vrote " The history of 
 Pifistratus and Catanea:" printed by H. Bynne- 
 man, w. d. 1 2mo. Alfo " The clofet of coun- 
 fells, conteining The aduice of diuers wyfe 
 philofophers, touchinge fundry morall matters, in 
 poefies, precepts, prouerbes, & parrables, trans- 
 lated and colleded out of divers aucthors into 
 Englifh verfe:" printed by T. Colwell, 1369, 
 8vo. ' 
 
 ELYOT SIR THOMAS, knight, has fome 
 poetical translations in his " Boke named the 
 governour," 1580, i2rao. In Webbes " Dis- 
 courfe of Englilh poetrie," 1586, eight lines are 
 preferve'd of an Englilh verlion from Horace by 
 " that famous knight fir T. Eliot." 
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 200 POETS OF THE 
 
 EMET ABELL has commendatory verfes be- 
 fore " Willobie his Avifa," 1596, 
 
 EMLEY THOMAS wrote " A new mery ba- 
 lad of a maid that wold mary wyth a feruyng 
 man:" printed by John Waley, to whom it was 
 licenfe'd in 1557 or 8. 
 
 ESSEX. See DEVEREUX. 
 
 ETHEREGE GEORGE, an Oxford fcholar, 
 and Roman catholickj of great learning, wrote 
 " Verfus Anglkos, &c," according to Pitts, who 
 registers " Libros plures" of his " Diteiforum 
 carminutn ;" none of which, however, at leaft in 
 Engliih, are now known to exift. Though con- 
 temporary with, and the familiar friend of Le- 
 land, being admited fcholar of Chrift-church in 
 1534, and, of courfe, *' an ancient man," as 
 Wood calls him, in 1588, he has been ignorantly 
 and abfurdly confounded with fir George Ether- 
 ege, the famous poet and dramatift, who was bora 
 about 1636 and dyc'd after 1688.* 
 
 EVANS LEWES, fchoolraaster, englifh'd 
 
 • See Phillipses thtatrum foitarum, ncw edition, 1800.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 201 
 
 " The fyrfte twoo fatars or poyfes of Orace :" 
 licenfe'd to Thomas Colwell, 1564. He alfo 
 wrote " A new balet entituled howe to wyue 
 well:" printed by Owen Rogers 3 to whom, in 
 1561, was licenfe'd " A new yeres gyfte made by 
 Leues Euans." 
 
 EVANS WILLIAM has the following compli- 
 mentary lines inferted before the firft edition of 
 Spenfers " Faerie queene," 159O. 
 
 " Amongft the Grecians brave Homer bareth 
 the bell. 
 
 Virgin, the Romanes faid, noe man could ex- 
 cell— 
 
 But amongft Brittaines poet Spenfer beares the 
 fway. 
 
 And from all poets the bell doth beare away."* 
 
 This William Evans is, probablely, alfo, the 
 
 * Thefe lines contain the germ of many a poetic com- 
 pliment from the time of Virgil to that of Dryden, whofe 
 celebrated epigram appears to be little more than a para- 
 phrastic verfion of Sehaggis distich " ^d Joannem 
 Miitonum," prefixed to ^^ MUtoni PcematOy' 1645. 
 
 " Gr^cia Mjconidem, jaclet fibi Roma Marcnem, 
 y^nglia MUtonum jactat utrique fnrem," T. P.
 
 202 POETS OF THE 
 
 author of " Thamefiades, or Chastities triumph j" 
 printed in l602, 8vo. 
 
 F. J. This fignature, which occurs in " Eng- 
 lands Helicon," l600, is fuppofe'd to Hand for 
 the initials of John Ford of the Middle Temple, 
 author of " Fames memoriall, or the earle of De- 
 vonfliire deceafed," l6o6} which is thought to 
 be the earlyeft production of the celebrated dra- 
 matick writer of that name. 
 
 F. T. In a traft, intided " Newes from the 
 nortli. Otherwife called the conference between 
 Simon Certain, and Pierce Plowman, faithfully 
 collefted and gathered by T. F. ftudent :" printfed 
 by John Allde, 1579, 4to. b. 1, are fome verfes, 
 at the begining and end, by the authour ; the 
 book, itsfelf, being in profe. 
 
 FAIREFAX EDWARD, a Yorkfhire gentle- 
 man, natural fon of fir Thomas Fairfax of Den- 
 ton in that county, translated, from the Italian, 
 ftanza for llanza, witli no lefs elegance than fide- 
 lity, " Godfrey of Bulloigne, or the recouerie of 
 lerufalem :" printed by Ar. Hatfield for I, Jag- 
 gard and M. Lownes, 160O3 and for John Bill,
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY, 203 
 
 1624, fo. He, likewife, wrote " The history of 
 Edward the black prince," never printed, and 
 twelve eclogues, " on important fubjefts, relat- 
 ing to the manners, characters, and incidents of 
 the times he lived in," the fourth of which was 
 publiih'd by mistrefs Cooper from the family 
 MS. 
 
 FALLOWES EDWARD, who fuffer'd death 
 at St. Thomas-a-Waterings for a robbery, made 
 " A dolefull discourfe, or forrowfiill fonnet:'* 
 licenfe'd to Edward White, 30th Auguft, 1578. 
 
 FANSHAW HENRY, of the Inner-Temple, 
 has a fonnet prefixed to Rofses " Authors teares 
 vpon the deatli of fir W. Sackvile," 1592, MS. 
 Might not this be fir Henry F. remembrancer of 
 the Exchequer, and father to the wel-known 
 poet ? 
 
 FELDE JOHN, a puritan, and authour of 
 " An admonition to parliament," at the end of 
 which are fome verfes which may be feen in 
 Herberts "Typographical antiquities," p. l63l. 
 In a prefentation copy of the above work are other 
 verfes (in MS.) addrefs'd by the authour to his
 
 204 POETS OF THE 
 
 " louinge ffriende Mrs. Wrighte," recommend- 
 ing a perufal of his book, &'c. See Woods 
 Athence, co. 233. 
 
 FENNER DUDLEY, a puritan, translated 
 out of the Hebrue into Englilhe meeter, " The 
 fong of fongs, that is, the moft excellent fong 
 which was Solomons :" Middleb. 1387, 8vo. 
 
 FERRERS GEORGE wrote the legends of 
 Robert Trelilian, lliomas duke of Gloucester, 
 and king Richard the fecond, in the " Myrrour 
 for magistrates," 1559 j that of Edmund duke of 
 Somerfet, in " the fecond parte," 1563 j and 
 thofe of dame Eleanor Cobham and Humfrey 
 Plantagenet in the edition of 1378. Warton 
 fuspe6ts that this George Ferrers is the fame with 
 " maister Edward Ferrys," mention'd by Put- 
 tcnham, as " the principall man in this profes- 
 fion [poetry]," in the time of Edward the 6th, 
 who " wrate for the moft part to the ftage in tra- 
 gedie and fometimes in comedie or enterlude, 
 wherein he gave the king fo much good recrea- 
 tion, as he had thereby many good rewardes:" 
 but, as one (Edward) is exprefsly ftated to have 
 dye'd at Badesley-Clinton in Warwicklhire, in
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 205 
 
 1564, and the other (George) at Flamftead in 
 Hertfordfhire, 1379, he, in this conjecture feems 
 to fubje6l himfelf to the very cenfure he has 
 elfewhere pafs'd upon Anthony Wood. (See His- 
 tory of Engliih poetry. III, 293, 213.) A poe- 
 tical addrefs to queen Elizabeth, in " Tlie 
 princely pleafures at Kenelworth-Castle," 1576, 
 was " devifed and penned by maister Ferrers, 
 fometime lord of misrule in the court :" and may 
 be afcribe'd to this authour : who was appointed 
 lord of the pastimes in the kings houfe, Nov. 
 1352, according to an extract from tlie council 
 register, cited by Mr. Chalmers in his " Apo- 
 logy," p. 347. 
 
 FETHERSTONE CHRISTOPHER publifli'd 
 " The lamentations of leremie, in profe and 
 meeter, with apt notes to finge them withall :" 
 printed by John Wolfe, 1387, 8vo. 
 
 FIELD JOHN, chirurgeon, has verfes in 
 praife of M. Gale, before the latters " Treatife of 
 wounds made with gun Ihot," 1503. 
 
 FITZGEFFRAY CHARLES, rector, in pro- 
 cefs of time, of the parifli of St. Dominick, in
 
 206 POETS OP THE 
 
 bis native county of Cornwall, wrote " Sir 
 Francis Drake his honorable lifes commen- 
 dation, and his tragicall deathes lamenta- 
 tion,"* 1596, 8vo. His name frequently occurs 
 in " Englands parnasfus," 1600, which Wood, 
 who could never meet with a copy, and intitles it 
 *' A collection of choice flowers and defcrip- 
 tions," fays was of his makeing. He publilh'd 
 " The blefsed birth-day," a poem, iG34, 4to, 
 and dye'd at his parfonage-houfe in 1 636-7. f 
 Two commendatory fonnets by Charles Fitz-Gef- 
 fray are prefix' d to Storers " Life and death of 
 cardinal Wolfey," 1599, and one to Davieses 
 " Microcosmos," l603. 
 
 FrrZHERBERT SIR ANTONY has two 
 ftanzas of feven lines each at the end of his 
 
 • " As C. Plinius," fays Meres, " wrote the life of 
 Pomponius lecundus, fo yong Cha. Fitz-Geffray, that 
 high-touring falcon, hath moft gloriously penned the ho- 
 nourable life and death of worthy fir Francis Drake." 
 T. P. 
 
 f Robert Chamberlain has an epitaph upon him, fub- 
 ]OmtJir.o ^^ Nocturna lucubrationtty" 163S. T. P.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 207 
 
 *' Boke of furueyeng and emproumetes," firft 
 pr. by R. Pynfon, 1523, 4to. He has likewife 
 a fingle ftanza of feven lines at the end of his 
 " Boke of husbandry," in which work is *' A 
 lefson made in Englifhe verfes to teache a gentyl- 
 mans fervant, to faye at every tyme, whan he 
 taketh his horfe for his remembrance, that he 
 Ihall not forget his gere in his inne behynde 
 hyra." This lefson is in hexametus. 
 
 FLEMING ABRAHAM, rector of St. Pan- 
 eras, Soper-lane, drew " into plain and fami- 
 liar verfe," that is, lines of 14 fyllables without 
 rime, " The bucolikes of P. Virgilius Maro, with, 
 alphabeticall annotations," 1575 ; to which he; 
 afterward aded the Georgics. They were pub- 
 lifh'd together under the following title : " The 
 bucoliks of Publius Virgilius Maro, prince of all 
 Latine poets, otherwife called his pastoralls, or 
 (hepeherds meetings. Together with his Geor- 
 giks or ruralls, otherwife called his husbandrie,. 
 conteyning four books. All newly translated into 
 Englifli verfe by A. F. Imprinted by T. O. for 
 Thomas Woodcock, I5 8y," 4to. He alfo wrote 
 " Rythme decafyllabicaU, upon this laft luckier 
 voyage of worthie capteine Frobiiher, 1567 i"
 
 2QB POETS OF THE 
 
 and appears to have made feveral poetical transla- 
 tions for Reginald Scot in his " Discoverie of 
 witchcraft." A copy of verfes by him is prefix'd 
 to Kendalls "Epigrams," 1577. He has, likewife, 
 introduce'd many poetical pieces in his " Dia- 
 mond of devotion ; cut and fquared into fix feve- 
 rall points : namely, 1. The foot-path to felicity. 
 2. A guide to godlinefs. 3. The fchoole oflkill. 
 4. A fwarme of bees, 5. A plant of pleafure. 
 6. A grove of graces," 1582, 1586, l2mo. 
 Printed by Hen. Denham, 1598, 12mo. He dye'd 
 in 1607, aged 56. 
 
 FLEMING SAMUEL, the brother of Abra- 
 ham, according to Warton, is complimented by 
 "VVebbe for his poetical inventions, none of which, 
 however, appear to have been made publick. 
 
 FLETCHER ROBERT, a native of War- 
 wickfhire and Wood, Fasti I. 1 01, turned 
 intoEnglifli metre " An introduction to thelooue 
 of god." Accoumpted among the workes of St. 
 Augustine, and translated into " Englifti by ... 
 Edmund bifliup of London :" printed by Thomas 
 Purfoot, 1681, 8V0. and " Salomons fong," 
 printed by T. Chard, 1586, 8vo,
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 209 
 
 FLORIO JOHN, int'itle'd " Refolute," has, in 
 his " Worlde of wordes," 1598, a few lines in 
 the " Epistle dedicatorie," and addrefs " To the 
 reader," and feveral fcraps in his translation of 
 Montaignes Esfayes, l603. See CANDIDO. 
 He dye'd in 1626, aged 73. 
 
 FORJVIAN SIMON, an astrologer, conjurer, 
 and almanack-maker, wrote a dialogue between 
 himfclf and Death, in his ficknefs, 1585 (MSS. 
 Aflimole, 208) ; where is, likewife, another 
 poem by the fame autliour : and, in 8 19, "Of 
 Antichrift, Ca'c." by Simon Forman. 
 
 FORREST THOMAS, in his translation of 
 three orations of Ifocrates, under the title of " A 
 perfite looking glafs for all eftates :" ^c. printed 
 by Tho. Purfoot, 15 80. 4to. has " The authours 
 ehchomion upon the right honorable and his fin- 
 guler good lord, fir Thomas Bromley, tlie lord 
 chauncellor of England," a poem in verfes of 
 eight and fix fyllables. He alfo, probablely, 
 wrote another fmiilar poem in the fame volume 
 intitle'd " The booke to the reader." 
 
 FORREST WILLIAM, prieft, chaplain to 
 queen Mary, wrote, 1. " A true and moft nota- 
 P
 
 210 POETS OF THE 
 
 ble history of a right noble and famous lady, pro- 
 duced in Spain, entitled. The fecond Gryfild, 
 practifed not long out of this time, in much part 
 tragedious, as delegable both to hearers and read- 
 ers :" containing tlie life of Catherine of Arra- 
 gon, lirft wife of Henry the 8th, and mother to 
 the then queen, to whom it is dedicated : among 
 A. Woods MSS. in the Bodleian library : 2. 
 " The tragedious troubles of the moft chaft and 
 innocent Jofeph, fon to the holy patriarch Jacob :" 
 a MS. in the Mufeum CBib. Reg. 18 C XXX) : 
 3. " A notable warke called The pleafant poefye 
 of princely practife" flbi. 17 D III). He, like- 
 wife, translated fcveral pfalms into metre f/6i. 
 17 A XXI); and made a paraphrafe of the 
 Pater noster and Te deum : printed by Fox. 
 Some of his poems are to be found in Num. 1703 
 of the Harleian MSS. which appears to have been 
 his own book. 
 
 FORTESCUE THOMAS, before his *' Fo- 
 reft or collection of historyes," has a poem in- 
 title'd " An advertifement written by the transla- 
 tor to his booke." 
 
 FOULER JOHN, an Englifh printer at Ant- 
 werp, was the translatour of " An oration againft
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 211 
 
 the vnlavrfull infurrections of the protestantes of 
 oiir time, under pretence to refourme religion," 
 by Peter Frarin of Antwerp, where it was printed 
 by hira in 1566. At the end of this translation 
 are feveral elegant wood cuts, the fubjetSts of 
 which are defcribe'd in miferable ftanzas under 
 each. 
 
 FRAUNCE ABRAHAM* wrote and pub- 
 lilh'd, 1. " The lamentations of Amintas for the 
 death of Phillis : paraphrastically translated out of 
 Latine into Englifli hexameters :" printed by John 
 Charlewood for Tho. Newman, and Tho. Gub- 
 bin, 1588, 4to. 2. " The countefleof Pembrokes 
 Emanuel. Conteining the natiuity, pasfion, bu- 
 riall, and refiurrection of Chrift : togcather with 
 certaine pfalraes of Dauid. All in Englifh hexa- 
 meters :" printed for W. Ponfonby, 159 1, 4to. 
 3. " The countefle of Pembrokes Yuychurch. 
 
 * Oldys fays, that Ab. Fraunce was bred up at the 
 cxpence of fir P. Sidney, continue'd afterward, in Grays- 
 inn til he was call'd to the bar, belong'd to the court 
 of the councill in the marches of Wales, and in Aug. 
 1590 was recommended by Hen. E. of Pembroke to the 
 Ld. treafurer Burghley, as a man in every refpeft fuffi- 
 cicnt for the place of her majestys fblicitor in that court. 
 T. P. 
 
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 212 POETS OF THE 
 
 Conteining the affectionate life, and vnfortQnate 
 death of Phillis & Amyntas : that in a pastorall ; 
 tliis in a funerall : both in Englilh hexameters :" 
 printed by T, Orwin for W. Ponfonby, 1591, 
 4to. To this laft poem are annex'd " The la- 
 mentation of Cor)'don, for the loue of Alexis, 
 verfe for verfe out of Latine," firft printed by J. 
 Charlewood, 1588, printed alfo in his "^ Lawiers 
 logike," 1588, by Wm. How, and "The be- 
 ginning of Heliodorus his iEthiopicall history." 
 4 . " ITie third part of the countefle of Pembrokes 
 Yuychiif ch : entituled : Amintas Dale. Wherein 
 are the moft conceited tales of the Pagan gods in 
 Englifli hexameters : together with their aun- 
 cient defcriptions & philofophicall explications :" 
 printed for T. Woodcock, 1592, 4to. 5. A dedi- 
 cation, in verfe, to the earl of Pembroke, in his 
 " Lawiers logike," pr. by W. How, for Tho. 
 Gubbin, and T. Newman, 1588, 4to. 6. "The 
 Arcadian rhetorickc," 1588, 8vo. a mixture of 
 profe and verfe ; valuable, fays Warton, for its 
 Englifli examples (III, 4 06). 
 
 FULBECKE WILLIAM contributed two cho- 
 ruses to the " Misfortunes of Arthur, Uther 
 Pendragous fonne," by Hughes, 1587, l2mo.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 213 
 
 FULWELL ULPIAN, a Somerfetfliire man 
 by birth, and, in 1570, rector of Naunton in the 
 county of Gloucester, " compyled," in verfe and 
 profe, " The flower of fame : containing the 
 bright renowne, and mofte fortunate reigne of 
 king Henry VIII, wherein is mention of matters 
 by the reft of our cronographers ouerpafsed : 
 whereunto is annexed a fliort treatife of iij noble 
 and vertuous queenes : and a discourfe of the 
 worthy fervice that was done at Hadington in 
 Scotlande, the fecond yere of the reign of king 
 Edward tJie fixt :" Printed by W. Hoskins, 1575, 
 4to. " Ais adulaiidi, the arte of flatterie," 
 1579, intermix'd with verfe. 
 
 FULWOODD WILLIAM wrote verfes in- 
 ferted at the begining and end of his " Enemie of 
 idleneffe," 1568, 1578, 8vo. 1598, i2mo. and, 
 alfo of Bergomalifees " Castle of mcmorie" (en- 
 glifh'd by him), 1562. 
 
 FYLDINGE FEFxDINAND has a fonnet to 
 Tho. Jeney, on his translation of Ronfards " Dis- 
 courfe of tlie troubles in France," 156h. 
 
 G. B. See GAR. BAR. GOOGE BARNA- 
 EY. 
 
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 214 POETS OF THE 
 
 G. E. has commendatory verfes prefix'd to 
 Kendalls " Flowre of Epigrams/' 1577. See 
 GUILPIN EDWARD. 
 
 G. F. See GREVILE FULKE. 
 
 G. J. aie initials fign'd to a poem in " Eng- 
 lands Helicon/' 1600, and may posfiblely be thofe 
 of J. Gough, a dramatick writer, who furvive'd to 
 the reign of Charles I. 
 
 G, L. is fign'd to a ditty in Robinfons 
 " HandefuU of pleafant delites/' 1384. See 
 GIBSON LEONARD. 
 
 G. N. See GRIMOALD NICHOLAS. 
 
 G S. Thefe initials occur in " Englands 
 Parnasfus/' 1600, and may, posfiblely, belong to 
 Stephen Gofson. 
 
 G. W. An epitaph, by the owner of thefe 
 initials, on hirafelf, with an anfwer to it, occurs 
 among the poems of the earl of Surrey and others, 
 1557. 
 
 GALE DUN STAN wrote " Pyraraus and
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 215 
 
 Thisbe :" fuppofe'd to have been printed in 1597 j 
 as the dedication is addrefs'd " To the wor- 
 Ihipfull his verie friend, D, B. H. 25. Novem- 
 ber, 1596." It is, alfo, annex'd to Greenes 
 " History of Arbasto." 16 17, in the title whereof 
 it is call'd " A lovely poem." There was another 
 edition in 162G. " Perymus & Thesbye" was, 
 likewife, enter'd to "William Griffith in 1562} 
 and, according to Warton, printed in quarto, for 
 T. Hackett, b. 1. but that, it is probable, was a 
 different work. 
 
 GALE HENRY has verfes prefix'd to Greenes 
 " Planetomachia," 1585. 
 
 GAR. BAR. (BARNARD GARTER) wrote 
 " The tragical history of two Englifli loners, 
 1563:" printed by R. Tottell, 1565, 8vo, Some 
 verfes, with the fignaturc of " Ber. Gar." are 
 prefix'd to " Pasquine in a traunce," 1584: 
 and, in 1565, was licenfe'd to Alexander Lacy 
 " A new yeres geyfte, by Barnardc Garter." 
 Warton fays, that, among Coxeters papers, was 
 mention'd " The ballet of Helens epistle to Paris, 
 from Ovid /' and fufpedls this B. G. to be Ber. 
 Gar. " perhaps," he fays, with his ufual fa- 
 P 4
 
 2l6 POETS OF THE 
 
 cility, " Bernard Gardiner." (Ill, 422.) See 
 GOOGE. 
 
 GASCOIGNE GEORGE, l. " A hundreth 
 fundrie flowres bounde vp in one fmall poefie. 
 Gathered partely (by translation) in the fyne out- 
 landifh gardins of Euripides, Quid, Petrarke, 
 Ariosto, & others : and partly by inuention, out 
 of our owne fruitefiUl orchardes in Englande : 
 yelding fundrie fweete fauours of tragical, comi- 
 cal, and morall discourfes, both pleafaunt & pro- 
 fitable to the well fmellyng nofes of learned rea- 
 ders:" printed by H. Bynncman for R. Smith, 
 n. d. [1572] 4to. 2. " The poefies of George 
 Gascoigne efquire. Correfted, perfe<Sled, and 
 augmented by the author, 1573 :" printed by H. 
 Bynnenian for R. Smitli, 4 to. 3. " The her- 
 mits talc, at Woodrtock," 1.075 : printed in " Q. 
 Elizabeths Progrefses," from a MS. in the 
 B. M. 4. " The fteele glas. A fatyre compiled 
 by Geo. Gascoigne efq ; togither with the 
 complainte of Phylomene, an elegie deuifcd by 
 the fame author :" printed for Richard Smith, 
 \bT6, 4to. 5. " The whole workcs of George 
 Gascoigne efquyre. Newlye compyled into one 
 volume, that is to fay : "His Flowers, Hrarbes.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 217 
 
 Wecdes, the Fruites of warre, &'c. and the plea- 
 fure at Kenelworth castle," 1587, 4to. Firft 
 printed in 1576, 8vo. by Rd. Jhones. Bp. 
 Tanner points out a poetical MS, by Gas- 
 coigne, in Bib. Regis, intitle'd " The grief of 
 joy," being certain elegies, Cs'c. Some verfes 
 by him are prefix'd to " Cardanus comforte," 
 &c. 1576. He has, likewife, commendatory 
 verfes before Turberviles " Arte of venerie," 
 and Hollybands " French Littleton," l^gSj and 
 is celebrated by Harvey as- one of the Engliih 
 poets who had writen in praij'c of women . (See 
 Gratulat.Valdinevfes, 1578.) This authour dye'd 
 at Stamford, in Lincolnfliire, the 7tli of Octo- 
 ber 1577 j George Whetftones, gentleman, be- 
 ing " an eye-witnefs of his godly and charitable 
 end" (Herbert, 1805) : fo that Wood muft 
 needs be mistaken in placeing " his laft exit... at 
 his houfe in Walthamftow, in Octob. or Nov. 
 in fifteen hundred feventy and eight;" unlefs 
 Wlietllones pamphlet fliould relate to a different 
 pcrfon, which Bp. Tanner, who posfefs'd it, 
 items unable to determine.* Puttenham sives 
 
 ■'' The billiops copv, it is fay'd, ciid not come with 
 his other books to the Bodleian ; or at Icaft, is not there 
 at prcfent. If tills tracl, however, had related to G.n-
 
 218 POETS OF THE 
 
 the prize to " Gascon, for a good meter and for a 
 plentifull vayne." 
 
 GASKE G. is the authour of " A defcription 
 of the world," in " The paradice of daintie de- 
 uifes," iGoo.f 
 
 GIBSON LEONARD compile'd, in verfe and 
 profe, " A tower of trustinefTe, wherein euery 
 Christian fighting vnder the banner of Chrift may 
 defend himfelfe againft the cruell asfaults of his 
 enemies," 8vo. Alfo a fong intitle'd " L. Gib- 
 fons Tantara, wherin Danea welcommeth home 
 
 toigne the -poet, mister Park thinks the bifhop muft furcly 
 have discover'd it (though, in faft, he ascertains no- 
 thing either one way or the other). Nafli, he ads, feems 
 to fatirize Gascoigne, in P. Pennilefse, and to dcfignate 
 him as '* the grcafy fon of a cloathier." 
 
 t Mister Park afks " whether this name be not an 
 abbreviation for G. Gascoigne r" It is not at all impro- 
 bable, except that Gascoigne had been dead many years 
 before the date of this edition, and never appears in a 
 precedeing. He, however, believes that the above figna- 
 ture appear'd in the edition of 15 So; and ads, that 
 Webbe ipcls his name Gaiioync : but Oufi, at the fame 
 time, is not Gajlt.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 219 
 
 her lord Diophon from the war/' in Robinfons 
 " HandefuU of pleafant delites," 1584. There are 
 fome poetical pieces in his translation out of 
 French of " The joyful and royal entertainment 
 of the right high and mightie prince, Frauncis the 
 Frenche kings only brother, by the grace of god 
 duke of Brabande, Aniow, Alaunfon, &c. into 
 his noble citie of Antwerpe :" Pr. by Tho. 
 Dawfon for William Ponfonby, 1582, l2mo. 
 
 GIBSON THOMAS, a native of Morpeth in 
 Northhumberland, and, in time, an eminent 
 phyfician, wrote " A breue cronycle of the bys- 
 fhope of Romes blefsynge, and of his prelates 
 beneficiall and charitable rewardes, from the 
 tyme of 'kynge Heralde vnto this day :" printed 
 by John Day, n. d. l6mo. He dye'd at London 
 in 1562. 
 
 GIFFORD HUMPHREY, gentleman, put to- 
 gether " A pofie of gilloflowers, eche differing 
 from other in colour and odour, yet all fweete:" 
 printed by J. Perin, 1580, 4to. The only known 
 copy of this book is in the royal library : to 
 which the prefent catalogue is folely indebted for 
 fevcral articles. Mister Ellis has given feveral 
 fpecimens from tliis collection.
 
 220 POETS OF THE 
 
 GILBART THOMAS wrote a ballad, intitle'd 
 " A declaration of the death of -John Lewes, a 
 moft detestable & obftinate hereticke, at Nor- 
 wich, 18 Sept, 1.583. To the tune of John 
 Carelejh ."* printed by Richard Jones, in the 
 fame year : a broadlide, • 
 
 GOD JOHN fet forth, in Engliih verfe, " A 
 discourfe of the great craeltie of a widow towards 
 a young gentleman, and by what means he re- 
 quited the fame :" printed by Henry Binneman, 
 n. d. 8vo. b. 1. 
 
 GOLDING ARTHUR translated " The xv. 
 bookes of P. Ouidius Nafo, entytuled Metamor- 
 phofis, a worke very pleafaunt and delectable:" 
 printed by W. Seres, 156?, 4to. The firft 4 
 books were printed by the fame perfon in 1565. 
 There are feveral fubfequent editions. Commen- 
 datory- verfes by " Arthur Goldingto the reader," 
 are prefix'd to Barets " Alvearie." 
 
 GOLDINGHAM HENRY wrote a poem, in- 
 fcribe'd to Q. Elizabeth, intitle'd " The garden? 
 
 * Another licretick. Sec before, p. 153.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 12\ 
 
 plot}" extant in Num. 6g02 of the Harleian 
 MSS. More ofliis poetry, with a mafque of his 
 devifeing, may be found in a traft intitle'd " The 
 ioyfuU receyuing of the queenes maiestie into her 
 highnefs citie of Norwich, fe'c. 1578, 4to. He 
 feems, likewife, to have had a hand in the 
 ** Princely pleafures of Kenilworth castle." See 
 an anecdote of him in Steevenses S/iakfpeare, 
 1793, V, 76, from the Harleian MS. 63Q5. 
 
 GOODWIN CHRISTOPHER wrote " The 
 maydens dreme:" printed in 1542, 4to. and 
 " The chance of the dolorous lover 5" 1520, 4to. 
 Both thefe pieces ai^ mention'd by Tanner j 
 and Warton, who fays the firft is " a vifion 
 without imagination," and the other '' a la- 
 mentable llory without pathos," and gives, be- 
 lide, the firft line of each, muft be prefume'd to 
 have feen them. 
 
 GOOGE BARNABY wrote '' Eglogs, epy- 
 taphcs, and Ibnettes:" printed by Tho. Colwell 
 for Ralph Newbery, 15G3, ^c. 8vo. He, like- 
 wile, translated " The Zodiake of life, written 
 by the godly and zealous poet INIarcellus Pallin- 
 genius ftellatus, wherein are conteyned twelve
 
 222 POETS OF THE 
 
 bookes disclofing the hay nous crymes and wicked 
 vices of our corrupt nature : and plainlye de- 
 claring the pleafaunt & perfit pathway vnto eter- 
 ternal lyfc, befides a numbre of digreslions both 
 pleafant and profitable :" printed by H. Denham 
 for Ralph Newbery, 1665, l6mo. " The firft 
 thre bokes" of which were printed by J. Tisdale, 
 
 1560, 8vo, " Sixe bookes" were publillid in 
 
 1561. Alfo " The popilh kingdome, or reignc 
 of Anti-chrift," from the Latin of Thomas Nao- 
 georgus : printed by H. Denham, 1570, 4to. 
 and " The overthrow of the gowte," written in 
 Latin verfe, by Chr. Balista, translated by B. G. 
 printed for Abraham Veale, 1577, 8vo. B. G. 
 the authour of feveral pieces of poetry interfperfe'd 
 throughout " The ioyfiill receyuing of the queenes 
 maiestie into her highnefs citye of Norwich, fe'c." 
 1578, is fuppofe'd to be Bernard Garter j who, 
 and not " B. Goldingham," is certainly meant 
 in " Queen Elizabeths progrefs to Norwich, an. 
 1578, collcfted by Ber. Gar. and T. C. (Thomas 
 Churchyarde) :" pr. by John Day, 4to. (Her- 
 bert, 6QQ.) " A new yeares gifte, dedicated to 
 the popes holinefle" &c. by B. G. citizen of 
 London, 1579, 4to. contains feveral pieces of 
 poetry. In his " Foure bookes of husbandry.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 223 
 
 coUeded by M, Conradus Heresbachius," ^c. 
 pr. by Tho, Wight, l6oi, 4to. are feveral poeti- 
 cal translations from Virgil and other writeers. 
 The edition of 1596 has, at the end, " Old 
 Engleifli rules for purchaling land," in verfe. 
 
 GOSSON STEPHEN, authour of " The fchool 
 ofabufe," 1579, wrote a poem, intitle'd, "Spe- 
 culum humanum," in fix eleven-line ftanzas, 
 printed at the end of Kertons ''Mirror of mans 
 life," 1580. Wood fays, he was noteed in the 
 great city, " for his admirable penning of pasto- 
 rals j" none of which, however, he had feen. 
 
 GOSYNHYLL EDWARD wrote, in Engleifli 
 verfe, " The prayfe of all women, called Mxi- 
 lierum pcan : very fruytfuU and delectable unto all 
 thereders:" imprinted by Wyllyam Myddylton, 
 no date, 4to. b. 1. 
 
 GRAFTON RICHARD, printer, wrote a 
 poetical dedication, to the duke of Norfolk, before 
 Hardyngs chronicle, in 22 feven-line ftanzas j 
 allfo " The preface" to the fame work, in 31. 
 
 GRANGE JOHN publilli'd " The golden 
 aphroditis : a plcafant discourfe, penned by John
 
 224 POETS OP THE 
 
 Grange gentieman, ftudeiit in the common lawe 
 of Englande. Whereunto be annexed by the 
 fame authour as well certayne metres vpon fun- 
 dry poyntes, as alfo diuers pamphlets in profe, 
 which he entitled His GARDEN : pleafant to 
 the care, and delightful to the reader, if he abufe 
 not the fcente of the floures. At London 
 anno 1377." This work is interfperfe'd with fe- 
 veral piecees of poetry. At tlie end, on a new 
 title, " Imprinted at London by Henry Bynne- 
 man," 4to. 
 
 GRANT EDWARD, fchoolmaster of Weft- 
 minster, wrote commendatory verfees prefix'd to 
 Twynes translation of Lhuyds " Breviary of Bri- 
 taync," 1373, l2mo. 
 
 GRAY WILLIAM is fuppofe'd to be the au- 
 thour of " A booke intitlcd The fantafies of idola- 
 trie," confifting of 30 ftanzas, and inferted at 
 large in the firft edition of Foxes " A6ts and mo- 
 nimients," p. sgg. In the Sloane MS. 1200, is 
 an old poem, begining thus : 
 
 " Helth onor and vertu longe tyme and fpace 
 William Gray wyfhethe unto your good gralfe:" 
 with an epitaph on Gray. He is probablcly, the 
 perfon mcntion'd by Putteiiliam, as havcing grown
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 225 
 
 antl into good eftimation with king Henry tlie 8th, 
 afterward with the duke of Soraerfet protector, 
 " for making certaine merry ballades, whereof 
 one chiefly was. The himte is vp, the hunte is 
 vp." This ballad appears to have been licenfe'd 
 to W. Griffith in 15/0. 
 
 GRAYNGER .... wrote a ballad or fong of 
 " Peters delyveraunce out of Herodes handes j" 
 licenfe'd to Peter French in 1570. 
 
 GREENE ROBERT. Many pieces of poetry, 
 by this prolifick author, are interfperfe'd through- 
 out his numerous romantick and otlier publica- 
 tions ; whence, it is prefume'd, tlie 7 poems, in- 
 ferted, under his name, in " Englands Helicon," 
 1 600, are fele6ted. Herbert registers — " Greenes 
 vifion : written at the inftant of his deatli, con- 
 teyning a penitent pasfion for the folly of his 
 pen :" printed for Tho. Newman, n. d. 4to. in 
 the introduction to which is a copy of verfes in- 
 title'd " Greenes ode, of the vanity of wanton 
 writings."* He dye'd in I5t)2, of a furfeit, occa- 
 fion'd, as Wood fays, " by eating pickled her- 
 
 * The above tiaft alfo contains poetical dcfcriptions 
 Q
 
 226 POETS OF THE 
 
 Tings, and drinking with them Rhenifli wine." 
 See H. I. 
 
 GREENE THOMAS, gentleman, wrote " A 
 ■ poets vifion & a princes glorie," dedicated to K. 
 James, iC03, 4 to. 
 
 GRENE BARTLET, burnt, along with fix 
 others, two being women, in January 155G, 
 wrote a few lines in a book of master Husfey of 
 the Temple, and another of master William Fleet- 
 wood of the fame houfe : printed by Foxe. 
 
 GREEPE THOMAS wrote " The true and 
 perfede newes of tlie woortliy and valiaunt ex- 
 ploytes, performed and doone by that valiant 
 knight fyr Frauncis Drake. Not onely at Sancto 
 Domingo and Carthagena, but alfo now at Gales, 
 and vppon the coaft of Spayne :" printed by J. 
 Charlewood, 1387, 4to. * 
 
 of Gower and Chaucer, which were reprinted in theHar- 
 Ician miscellany [and alfo by Herbert]. T. P. 
 
 The beft account of Greene appeared in Berken- 
 houts •' Bi'>graphia literaria," and was communicated by 
 Mr. Steevens from the MS. notes of Oldys. T. P. 
 
 • Greepe, in a dedication to George Clifford, E. of
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 2^7 
 
 GREVILE SIR FULKE. lord Brooke, wrote 
 feveral poems, which, with other of his " learned 
 and elegant workes," were collefted and pub- 
 lifh'd in lGS3, fo. His " Remains : being 
 poems of monarchy and religion," appear'd in 
 1670, 8vo. " in all which," as is remark'd by 
 Phillips or Milton, " is obfervable a clofe, mys- 
 terious and fententious way of writing, without 
 much regard to elegancy of flyle, or fmoothnefs 
 of verfe." Four or five of his poems, two of 
 tliem under the fignature M. F. G. are inferted in 
 " Englands Helicon," 160O. Another, with the 
 initials F. G. is in " The paradice of daintie de- 
 uifes," 1576. He was born in 1554, knighted 
 in 1603, created a peer in 1O21, and dye'd, of a 
 ftab from a revengeful fervant, in 1628. 
 
 GRIFFIN B. publifli'd " Fidesfa, more chatle 
 then kinde j" a collection of amatory fonnets ; 
 printed for M. Lowncs by the widow Orwin, 
 159G, l2mo. Dedicated to M. Wm. Esfex of 
 Lambourne, Berks : and to the gentlemen of the 
 
 Cumberland, fpeaks of himfclf as " a rude countiiman, 
 brought up manic yceres in husbandrie, liaving more 
 knowledge in cultuiing of lande then in dcfcriptions of 
 conquefts of countries." The rudencfs of his perform- 
 ance evinces the truth of his declaration. T. P. 
 Q 2
 
 118 POETS OF THE 
 
 innes of court. In the latter dedication he fpeaks 
 of " a pastorall yet unfiniflied," which it was his 
 purpofe to have aded to his little volume of Ibn- 
 nets. 
 
 GRIMOALD NICHOLAS, a native of Hun- 
 tingdonfhire, translated into blank verfe, from 
 the Latin of Philip Gaultier, " The death of 2k> 
 roas, an Egiptian aftronomer, in the firft fight 
 that Alexander had widi the Perfians ;" alfo 
 ** Marcus TuUius Ciceros death :" to which are 
 aded four lines " Of M. T. Cicero :" at the end 
 of " Songes and fonettes," 1337: in which he 
 has a poem on the death of lady Margaret Lee, 
 in 1535, and on fir James Wilford. " He 
 hath alfo," according to Wood, " divers Latin 
 and Englifli copies of verfes, occafionally printed 
 before, and in commendation of other mens 
 works :" and ufually fubfcribe'd witli his initials. 
 One of thefe tributary offerings appear'd before 
 " Turners prefervative, or Triadc agaynft the 
 poyfon of Pelagius," I ;';3 I . He dyed about IbOj. 
 See Steevcnses S/ia/il'pcarc, 11, 109, 
 
 GROVE MATTHEW wrote " The moll fa- 
 mous and tragicall historic of Pelops and Hippo- 
 daniia. Whcreunto are adjoyned fundric plea-
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 22C) 
 
 fant deuifes, epigrams, fonges, and fonncttes:" 
 printed by Abel Jeffs, 1587, 8vo. Prefix'd are 
 fome foolilh veries, " To the ryght honorable... 
 lord Compton," by the editour, R. Smith, who 
 tels his patron, 
 
 " Th"aucthor fure i doe not know, 
 
 Ne whetlier he be high or low. 
 
 Or now aliue, or els be dead." 
 
 GRYFYTHE HUGH, a priibner, made " A 
 fonnet, or a lynners folace," both in Wdlh and 
 Englifh ; alio " An cpitaphc of the death of fir 
 Yevan Lloyd of Yale knight:" both licenle'd to 
 Richard Jones, I'Oth March 1586-7. 
 
 GUILPIX EDWARD has two fonnets pre- 
 fix'd to Markhams "Devereux:" 1597. One, 
 " in prayfe of tlie worke," the other, " to his 
 deere friend Jervis Markham." A copy of verfes 
 by E. G. before Kendalls " Flowers of epi- 
 grams," 1577, may, posfiblely, belong to the 
 fame writer : and another fignd Ed. G. before 
 Earets " Alvcarie," 1580. He, likewilV, occurs 
 in " Englands Parnasfus," iGoo. 
 
 GUY RICHARD. See JACKSON. 
 Q. 3
 
 230 POETS OF THE 
 
 GWYN DAVID, " who for the fpace of ele- 
 uen yeeres and two raounths, was in moft greiuous 
 feruitude in the gallies, vnder the king of Spaine, 
 and, by the wonderfull prouidence of god, de- 
 liuered from captiuitie, to the ouerthrow of many 
 of the Spaniards, and tlie great reioycing of all 
 true hearted Engliihmen," pen'd, " Certayne 
 Englifli verfes," which he " prefented to tlie 
 queens moft excellent maiestie in the park at 
 Saint James :" printed by Richard Hudfon, w. 
 d.* 
 
 H. C. is fpoken of by Herbert as a fignature in 
 " The paradice of dainty devices." 
 
 H. J. Thefe initials are prefix'd to a couple 
 of ftanzas, at tlie head of Kyffins " Blefsednes 
 of Brytaine," 1588, " In commendation of this 
 worke, and the writer." They, likewifc, belong 
 to the editour of " Greenes Groatsworth of wit," 
 " publiihed at his dying requell," who has, at 
 the end, *' Greenes epitaph, discourfed dialogue- 
 
 * This is, doubtlefs, «• Gwyms poems, black letter, 
 without date, Isum. 13 711 of the Harkian catalogue, 
 
 Englljli -poetry, octavo."
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 231 
 
 wife between Life and Death. See HEYWOOD 
 JASPER." 
 
 H. R. See HALL RICHARD. 
 
 H. T. See HOWELL THOMAS. 
 
 HAKE EDWARD wrote " A commemora- 
 tion of the moft prosperous & peaceable raigne of 
 our gratious & deere foueraigne lady Elizabeth, 
 (jfc." printed by W. How for R. Johnes, 1575, 
 8vo. He was, likewife, authour of " A touch- 
 ftone for the time prefent, Cfj'c." 1574, i2mo. 
 (See Warton, III, 275.) A trad intitle'd " Of 
 golds kingdom 8c this unhelping age, delcribed 
 in fundry poems, by E. Hake," was printed in 
 l604, 4to. 
 
 HAKE RICHARD, gentleman, has verfes be- 
 fore " Greenes Never too late," i600. 
 
 HALL ARTHUR, efquire, translated out of 
 French " Ten books of Homers Iliades :" printed 
 by Ralph Newberie, 1581, 4to. b. 1. in lines of 
 14 fyllables. The translatours copy of his original 
 (" Lcs dif premiers livres de L'lliade d'llomere, 
 prince de poeta : tradidz en lers Francois par 31, 
 
 a 4
 
 232 POETS OF THE 
 
 Hugues Salel, 1555,") is in the Britiih mufeum. 
 ~He was member of parliament for Grantham. 
 
 HALL ELIZE, an impostour, who, in 1562, 
 appear'd in the ftreets of London, pretending to 
 be a mesfenger from hea\'en to the queen, wrote 
 " Vifions," which fir John Parker had in MS. 
 See Strypes Life of Elizabeth, p. 253. 
 
 HALL JOHN wrote " The courte of Vertue, 
 coutayning many holy or fpretuall fonges, fon- 
 nettes, pfalmes, balletts, and fliorte fentences, as 
 well of holy fcripture as others :" with mufical 
 notes: printed by Tho, Marlhe, 1565, i6mo. 
 That he was a medical man appears by " A ditie 
 made to the prayfe of god, for a pacient to vfe 
 after helth attayned, who, contrary to all mens 
 expectation, was in hys handcs by the goodnes of 
 god cured." The above book fcems, from the 
 prologue, to have been writen in contrail to one 
 name'd " The court of Venus." (See Herbert, 
 854.)* He, likewife, drew into metre " The 
 
 * By a fragment of *' The court of Venus," in the 
 posfcsfion of Francis Douce cfquire, it appears to have 
 been a collection of love-fongs. Naih, in his " Ana- 
 tomy of abl'urditie," 1589, fpeaks of " Venus' court," 
 as a " forgotten legendary Ucence of lying."
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 233 
 
 prouerbes of Salamon, thre chapters of Eccleli- 
 astes, the lixthe chapter of Sapientia, the ix. 
 cliapter of Ecclefiasticus, and certayne pfalmes of 
 Dauid:" printed by Ed. Whitchurch, without 
 date, 8vo. and grievously complains that " cer- 
 tayne chapters of tlie Pruitcrbcs, translated by 
 him into Englith metre, 1550, had before been 
 untruely entituled to be the doyngs of mayster 
 Thomas Sternhold." In 1562 was licenfe'd to 
 Rowland Hall, " A poofye in forme of a vyfion 
 agaynfte wytche crafte & fofyrye in myter by 
 John Hall." Whether he were die fame with 
 John Hall " chiangeon," who wrote commen- 
 datory verfes, prcfix'd to Gales " Inftitution of a 
 chirurgian," and his " Enchiridion of chirurge- 
 rie," 1 jC3, is uncertain,* and to his own reduc- 
 tion of die " C/iiriirgia parua Lu/ifranci," 1565. 
 
 HALL JOSEPH, billiop of Exeter, and of 
 Norwich, wrote " Virgidemiarum, fixe bookes. 
 Fir tt three bookes of tooth-leffe fatyrs. i. Poeti- 
 cal!. 2. Academicall. 3. Morall :" printed by 
 T. Crecde for R. Dexter, 1597, 1598. — " The 
 diree laft bookes of byling fatyrs :" by R. Bra- 
 dock for Dexter, 1598. — Both parts, 1599: firft 
 
 '* Tiiat ihc former was a phyfician, fee Herbert, S54.
 
 234 POETS OF THE 
 
 part, 1602 :— all i6mo*. Thefe fatires were re- 
 publifh'd at Oxford, in 1753, by the reverend 
 William Dodd, afterward D. D. executed for for- 
 gery : or rather by the reverend William Thomp- 
 fon, M. A. of Queens college Oxon, as mister 
 Reed appears to have fuggefted to doctor Far- 
 mer. The authour was born in 1574 and dyed in 
 1606. 
 
 HALL WILLL-yVI, has verfes prefix'd to 
 Mundays " Mirror of mutabilitie," I57g. 
 
 HARBERT SIR WILLIAM wrote " Sidney, 
 or Baripenthes, briefely fhadowing out the rare 
 & neuer-ending laudes of that moft honorable 
 & praife- worthy gent, fir Philip Sidney knight :" 
 printed by John Windet, 1586, 4to. Alfo "A 
 prophefie of Cadwallader, laft king of the Bri- 
 taines, containing a comparifon of the Engliih 
 kings, with many worthy Romanes, from Wil- 
 liam Rufus till Henry the firft," ^c. infcribe'd to 
 
 * Bifhop Halls fatires were ftay'd at the prefs, by 
 order of the archbifhop of Canterbury and bifliop of 
 London ; and fuch copys as could be found were to 
 " bee prefentlye broughte. to the Bp. of London to be 
 burnte."
 
 i^ 
 
 XTEENTH CENTURY. 235 
 
 fir Philip Herbert. Printed by T. Creede, l604, 
 4to. Tlicre is, likewife, fomething by him in 
 " The phoenix neft," 1593 : and a poem before 
 Erondells " French garden," l603, "In laudan 
 authoris."* 
 
 HARINGTON FRANCIS, younger brother 
 of fir John Harington, furnilh'd the latter, for 
 his translation of Orlando furiofo, with tlie firft 
 50 ftanzas of the S2d book. 
 
 HARINGTON JOHN wrote certain fonnets 
 and other poems : printed in " Nugceantiqiut," 
 1779. Mister Ellis has printed one of thefe as the 
 performance of lir John Harington, his fon, 
 though it was found in a MS. dated 1564, before 
 the latter was born. Sir John, in his " Briefe 
 view of the ftate of the church of England," has 
 inferted a few ftanzas, which, when confine'd in 
 the tower, he addrefs'd to bifliop Bonner. He 
 dyc'd in 15 82.f 
 
 * He is call'd " Sir William Harbert knight," in 
 T^e typographical antiquitlis, but by Wood " onc William 
 Herbert." 
 
 + Ben Jonfon gave it as his opinion " That fir John 
 Harringtons Arkitoy under all translations, was the
 
 23(5 POETS OF THE 
 
 HARINGTON SIR JOHN translated " Or- 
 lando furiofo in Englilh heroicall verle :" printed 
 by Richard Field, I3i)i, fo. He, likewile, wrote 
 a book of epigrams : printed for John Bridges, 
 in l6l3, 4to.* and pnblilli'd " The Jingliflimans 
 doctor, or The fchoole of Salerne, or Phyfi- 
 call obferuations for tlie perftft preferring of tlie 
 body of man in continuall healtli:" printed for 
 John Helme, 1609 (a translation from the 
 Schola SalcrniJ : reprinted in l624, under tlie title 
 of " The fchoole of Salerne, and the precepts of 
 Ronfovius ;" both 8vo. In ten-line ftanzas. He 
 has, likewife, fome fonnets in his " Pierces fu- 
 pererogation, or a new prayfe of tlie old affe," 
 13.Q3, 4to. He has a fonnet in " The Odcom- 
 bian banquet," 161 1, upon that " whetftone of 
 all the wits," Tom Coriat. He verfify'd the 
 whole of tlie pfalter of David, which mister Douce 
 has in MS. He, likewife, has fome poetical fcraps 
 in his " New discourfe of a Hale fubjeft, called 
 
 word: [ading] That when fir John dcfiicd him to tcU 
 the truth of his epigrams, he anfwered him, That he 
 loved not the truth, for they were narrations, not epi- 
 grams." 
 
 * This edition contains only 115, and forms the 4th 
 book of the entire collection in 161S, 1625 and 1634.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 237 
 
 The metamorphofis of Ajaxor a-jakes," IjqGj* 
 and wrote verfes on the death of Mary Q. of 
 Scots : which was in Flemings MS. defcribe'd by 
 Peck. An inedited poem by him intitle'd " Eng- 
 lands poverty," is preferve'd in MS. Aihmole, 78 1 . 
 Among the MSS. in the College-library Edin- 
 burgh, is " A new yeares gift to K. James by lir 
 J.Harrington."' He dye'd in 16'12. 
 
 HARVEY GABRIEL wrote fome Englifli 
 hexameters and otlier pieces of poetry, inferted, 
 or alluded to, in " Three proper, and wittie, 
 familiar letters, fire" i580. Particularly, at p. 
 3 1 [4S], a " pawlting bungrely rime," beftow'd 
 by him upon " an honeft counti'ey gentleman, 
 fometimes a fchoUer, to prefent his maistreile 
 
 * This ludicrous effufion combines much learning 
 with more humour, and had three distindl impresfions, 
 though a licence was refufed for printing the work, 
 and the author was forbid the court for writing it. In 
 the life of Harington, prefixed to " Nugae Antiquse," 
 it is faid to have been occafioned by the authors having 
 invented a kind of water-clofct for his houfe at Kelstou 
 near Dath. The ingenious iVIrs. Cooper has made an 
 odd mistake, from not having feen the traft, in fup- 
 pofing that it was written for a '< Court-amufcmcnt. 
 T. P.
 
 238 POETS OF THE 
 
 withall :" whlcli has been, inadvertently, attri- 
 buted to Spcnfer. He even boafts, in a fubfe- 
 quent publication (" Foure letters, &*(•." 1392) 
 of being tlie inventour of tliis unnatural fpecies of 
 verfifieation, which had been practife'd by lord 
 Surrey and others before he was born.* In the 
 fame pamphlet are 23 fonnets by him ; and, at 
 the end of another, intitle'd " A new letter of 
 notable contents," 1593, are 2 or 3 more. He 
 dye'd in fG...-)- 
 
 HATFIELD EDMUND translated, from the 
 Latin, " The \yi of faynt Urfula, after the crony- 
 cles of Englonde :" printed by Wynken de Worde, 
 without date, in 4 to. 
 
 * The great Milton, who profefses to be the firft 
 Englijk poet who rejefted rime, fcems to have fallen into 
 a fimilar mistake. 
 
 f It is no fmall honour to Harvey, that fir P. Sidney 
 highly efteemed him, or that he was the " fpecial 
 friend" of Spenfer, as Webbe asfcrts, and his own let- 
 ters prove. Meres unites him with Stanihurft, as " our 
 two iambical poets;" and Mr. Upton is of opinion, 
 that his verfes aftixed to the Faery Queen, if he had 
 written nothing elfe, would have made his name im- 
 n^.ortal : but this is cxccsfivc and inconfideratc praii'e. 
 
 T.r.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 239 
 
 HATHWAY R. wrote commendatory verfes 
 prefixed to Bodenhams " Belvedere, or the gar- 
 den of the mufes," 16OO, l2mo. Hathway is 
 number'd by Meres, among the chief dramatick 
 poets of his time. Malone fuggefts that he was, 
 perhaps, the kinsman of Ann Hathaway, who 
 marry'd Shakspeare. (Inquiry, p, 94.) 
 
 HATTON SIR CHRISTOPHER has an acros- 
 tick* in Englilh Alexandrines, prefix'd to Lloids 
 *' Pilgrimage of princes:" which is dedicated to 
 him, 
 
 HAWKINS ARTHUR, and JOHN, wrote 
 commendatory verfes, prefix'd to fir G. Peck- 
 hams " True reporte of the late discoueries, fc^c." 
 1583, 
 
 H AWARD. See HOWARD. 
 
 HERBERT MARY, countefs of Pembroke, 
 tlie illustrious fister of fir Philip Sidney, wrote 
 " A dialogue betweene two (hepheards, in praifc 
 
 * This acrostick is not unlikely to have been the com- 
 pofition of Lloid. " iZ-j/'c'j each vice," fays the writer, 
 quaiatly punning on his patrons name T. P.
 
 240 POETS OF THE 
 
 ofAftrea:" printed in Davifons "Poetical rap- 
 fodie/' 1602. A few pfalms of her translation 
 are printed in Haringtons ^'//o-rp ffH//Vywtr.* She 
 dye'd in 1 62 1 . See SPENSER. 
 
 HERBERT SIR W. See HARBERT. 
 
 HEYWOOD JASPER, a jefuit, the elder fon 
 of John, is the authour of feveral poems in " The 
 paradice of daintic dcuices," I57(i, &"<•. The 
 initials I. H. are prefume'd to belong to tlie fame 
 perfon. He dye'd, at Naples, in 1597-8, 
 
 HEYWOOD JOHN wrote " A dialogue 
 contayning in effe6t the number of al tlie 
 proverbes in tlie Englitli tongue compa6l in a 
 matter concerning two marriages :" printed by 
 T. Berthelet, 1547, 4to. and I54y, 8vo. b. 1, 
 reprinted in his " Woorkes," 1562, 1576, 
 
 * The vcrfion commonly attributed to fir P. Sidney, 
 is, probablely, the joint production of his fisttr. iEmi- 
 lia Langer fpcaks of " the pfalms written nculy by the 
 co'jntcfs of Pembroke," in Salve dcui, 1611: and 
 Steele, in No. 18 of " The guardian," has printed 
 PfaimCXXXVII from a MS. attributed to fir P. Sid- 
 ney, which nearly correfponds with the fame pfalni in 
 Nuga Antiqut:. T. P.
 
 StXTfefeNTH CENTURY. 241 
 
 1587,* and 1598, along with " one hundreth 
 epigrammes : and three hundreth of epigrammes 
 vpon thre hundreth prouerbes : and a fifth hun- 
 dred of epigrammes : whereunto," in the edition 
 of 1576, "are newly added a fixte hundred of 
 epigrammes." He, alfo, pen'd "Abalade fpeci- 
 fienge partly the maner, partly the matter, in the 
 moft excellent meetyng, and lyke mariage be- 
 twene our foueraigne lord & our foueraigne lady, 
 the kynges and queenes highnes [Philip & Ma- 
 ry] :" a Iheet, in large black letter, printed by 
 W. Beddell : and, likewife, " A brefe balet, 
 touching the trayterous takyiige of Scarborow 
 castle [1557] }" printed by Tho. Powell. His 
 principal performance feems to be "A parable 
 of the fpider and the flie;" printed by Tho. 
 Powell, 1556, 4to. b. 1, This is an allegorical 
 poem, in feven-line ftanzas, divided into 98 
 chapters, with a cut to each. On the back of 
 the title, and fometimes before the preface, is the 
 autliors portrait at full length. f The preface is 
 
 * This edition, though unnoticed by Ames and Her- 
 bert, was recorded in the " Bibliotheca' of bifliop Tan- 
 ner, whofe copy is now in my posfesfion. T. P. 
 
 f In Bcrkcnhouts " Biographia Uterarhi," this work 
 isfaid to contain 79 wood portraits of the authour. 
 R
 
 242 POETS OF THE 
 
 in verfe ; and in " The conclufion" we are 
 inform'd tliat by the fpiders we are to under- 
 ftand the protestants, by the flies tlie catholicks, 
 t^c* It would feem, however, as if the " ex- 
 pofisfion of the auctor touching this parable," 
 was not fufficiently lucid, fince, according to 
 Harrifon, " he dealeth fo profoundly, and beyond 
 all meafure of fkill, that neither he himfelf that 
 made it, neither any one that readeth it, can 
 reach unto the meaning thereof." 
 
 In tlie Harleian MS. 1703 is " John Hey- 
 woodes ingenious difcription of queen Mary at 
 18 years of age:" and, in 367, his "Poetical 
 dialogue concerning witty & witlefs;" made, as 
 it feems, to be recited before K. Henry the 8th. 
 Haveing, on the death of queen Mary, who liad 
 a great value for him, become a refugee for his 
 religion, he dye'd, at Mechlin, isSs.f 
 
 HIGINS JOHN, educated at Oxford, wrote 
 " The firft part of the mirour for magistrates, 
 
 * Sec Herbert, 874. 
 
 i One John Heywood made a publick recantation of 
 the popes fupremacy, at Pauls-crofs, in 1544; but 
 whether this were our poet, or a different perfon, does 
 not ap])ear.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 243 
 
 contayning the falles of the firft infortunate 
 princes of tliis lande : from the comming of 
 Brute to the incarnation of our fauiour and re- 
 demer lefu Chrifte:" printed, at London, by 
 Thomas Marflie, 1575, and again, 1578, 4to. 
 b. 1, The legends in this work, being thofe of 
 Albanaft, Humber, Locrinus, Elilride, Sabrine, 
 Madan, Manliqs, Mempricius, Bladud, Cordila, 
 Morgan, Forrex, Porrex, Kimarus, Morindus, 
 Nennius, and Irenglas, are entirely his own. It 
 was call'd " The firft part" in reference to the 
 collection, by 6aldwine and others, 1563 and 
 1571, which was now, and afterward, reprinted 
 as " The laft part." He, likewife, publifh'd 
 " The rairour for magistrates, wherein may bee 
 feene, by examples pafsed In tliis realme, with 
 how greeuous plagues vices are punilhed in great 
 princes and magistrates, and how fraile and vn- 
 ftable worldly prosperity is found, where Fortune 
 feemeth moft highly to fauour. Newly im- 
 printed, and with the addition of diuers trage- 
 dies enlarged. At London in Fleet-ftrcet by 
 Henry Marfli, being the asfigne of Thomas 
 Marfh, 1587," 4to. b. 1. which contains his own 
 work, with feveral additional legends, viz. thofe 
 of kings Jago, Pinnar, Stater, Rudacke, Bren- 
 nus, Lmerianus^ Chirinus, and Varianus, of 
 R 2
 
 244 POETS OP THE 
 
 Caefar, Nero, Caligula, Guiderius, Laelius, Ha- 
 nio, Drufus, Domitius, Galba, Otho, Vitellhig, 
 Londricus, Severus, Fulgentius, Geta, and Ca- 
 racalla ; and alfo that originally publilh'd by 
 Baldwine, with Ibme additions, in which the le- 
 gend of fir Nicholas Burdet is by himfelf. He, 
 at this time, as appears from the prefatory epistle, 
 refided at WinceJiam, in Somerfetlhire (Wood 
 fays, Surrey), where he was probablely parfon or 
 fchoolinaster. In the title of his edition of " Hu- 
 loets Dictionaries" 1572, are fome ftanzas. 
 
 HILARIE' HUGH wrote " The refurrection 
 of the mafle, witli the wonderful vertues of the 
 fame:" Lon. 1354. b. I. 
 
 HILL RICHARD is the authour of certain 
 poems in " The paradice of daintie deuices," 
 1576, ^c. H. Hill, fubfcribe'd to a poem in 
 that collection, is fuppofe'd to be a mistake for 
 the fame perfon, to whom the initials R. H. in 
 oth(".r places are alfo prefume'd to belong. One, 
 perhap this fame, H\ 11 is mention'd by Webbe. 
 
 HITCIICOCKES WILLIAM, gentleman, has 
 commendatory verfts prcfix'd to George Norths 
 " Philofophie of tlic court," 1375.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 245 
 
 HOGARD MILES, a holier of London, in 
 the fervice of queen Mary, wrote 1. " The 
 abufe of tlie blefsed facrament of the aultare 
 (See Herbert, (ilS):" 1548. 2. " A treatife 
 of three weddings:" 1550. 3. " A confuta- 
 tion to the anfwer of a wicked ballad:" 1550. 
 4. " A treatife entitled. The pathway to the 
 towre of perfection:" 1554, 4to. 5. " The as- 
 fault of the facrament of the altar, made from 
 tyme to tyme againft the fayd blefsed facra- 
 ment, as alio the names and opinions of all the 
 heretical captains of the fame asfaults : written 
 in the year of our lord 1549, ...and dedicated to 
 the queenes moft excellent maiestie, being then 
 lady Marye : in whiche tyme (herelie then reign- 
 ing) it could take no place :" printed by Robert 
 Caly, 1554, 8vo. b. 1. 6. " A mirrour of lone, 
 which fuch light doth giue. That all men may 
 learn how to loue and Hue:" printed by R, 
 Wyer, 1555, 4to. 7. " A lliort treatife in me- 
 ter vpon the CXXIX pfalnie of Dauid, called 
 Dv profiindis :" 15:)(), 4to. 8. " New A. 13. C. 
 paraphrastically applied as the ftate of the world 
 doth at this day require:" 1557, 4to. Major 
 Pearfon had " A mirrour of myferie, newly com- 
 piled and lett forthe by Myles Huggarde, fer- 
 vaunt to tlie queens moll excellent majestie," 
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 246 POETS OF THE 
 
 very finely ^vriten upon vellum, 1557: fo that 
 it does not follow, as Warton fuppofes, that 
 authors affe6ted the word " Mirrour" in their 
 titles, from the example of " The mirrour for 
 magistrates." (See H. E. P. III.) 
 
 HOLBORNE ANTHONY has a commenda- 
 tory fonnet prefix'd to " Morleys practicall in- 
 troduction to muficke," 1597. 
 
 HOLLAND ROBERT, M. A. and minister 
 of the church of Prendergaft, wrote " The holie 
 historic of our lord and faviour Jefus Chrifts na- 
 tivitie, life, aftes, miracles, doctrine, death, pas- 
 lion, refurrection and afcenfion : gathered into 
 Englifli meeter, and publiflied to withdraw vaine 
 wits from all unfaverie and wicked rimes and fa- 
 bles, to fome love and liking of fpirituall fongs 
 and holy fcriptures :" printed by R. Field, 1594, 
 8vo. 
 
 HOLLYBAND CLAUDIUS, the gramma- 
 rian, has a copy of commendatory verfes prefix'd 
 to Mundays " Mirror of mutabilitie," 1579. 
 
 HOLME WILFRIDE, of Huntington in 
 Yorkftiire, wrote " The fall and evill fucccfle of
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 247 
 
 rebellion, from time to timej wherein is con- 
 tained matter, mofte meete for all eftates to view. 
 Written in old Englilh verfe".... Being a dialogue 
 between England and the author on the commo- 
 tions raife'd in the northern countys on ac- 
 count of the reformation, in 1537^ under 
 Cromwells adminiftration : printed by H. Bin- 
 neman, Feb. 9, I672. 
 
 Colophon. 
 " The xiiij day of July compofed and compiled. 
 In the XXIX yeare of the raigne of the VIII 
 
 Henry royall. 
 By Wilfride Holme unlearned, fimply com- 
 bined. 
 As a pigme to writing with Hercules for triall. 
 In Huntingdon in Yorklliire," Q/c. 
 
 HOLWELL THOMAS wrote " New fonets 
 & pratie pamphlets :" printed by T. Colwell, 
 without date, 4to. but fee HOWELL THOMAS. 
 
 HOPKINS JOHN translated fo many of the 
 plalms (Wood fays 38) in what is now call'd 
 " The old verfion'* as are distinguiih'd by his 
 initials. 
 
 HOW WILLIAM feeras the proprietor of a 
 R 4
 
 248 POETS OP THE 
 
 copy of verfes from " The printer to the faithfuil 
 reader," prefix'd to " The hanfome weapon of a 
 Christian knight:" imprinted by him for Abra- 
 ham Veale, 15/6. 
 
 HOWARD HENRY, fon to Thomas duke of 
 Norfolk, and, by courtefy, earl of Surrey, wrote 
 feveral poems, inferted in a publication intitle'd 
 " .Songes and fonettes by tlie right honorable 
 lorde Henry Haward late earl of Surrey, and 
 other. Apiid Rk/iardum Tottell, 1557 " 4to. b. 
 1. of Avhich there are feveral later editions. 
 " Certaine bookes of Virgiles iEneis turned into 
 Englilh metir, by the right honourable lorde 
 Henry earle of Surrey," 1537, 4to.* " The 
 fourth boke of Virgill, in treeting of the love be- 
 
 * See Steevenscs " Ancient translations" ( Shakfpeare, 
 I, 98) " This," he ads, <* is a translation of the 
 fecond and fourth books :" of which, fays Barnabe 
 Googe, 
 
 " The noble Henry Hawarde once, 
 
 That raught eternall fame, 
 With mighty ftyle did bryng a ptce 
 Of Virgili work in frame." 
 
 Eglogsand Sonettes, 1563. 
 Bolton, havcing commended the " fongs and fon- 
 ncts," as exceeding '• in noble, courtly, and lustrous 
 Englifl)," Sackvils \ndi\izX\oa.toT/ie mirtor of magiuf^itei,
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 24C) 
 
 Iwene iEneas and Dido, translated into Englifh, 
 and drawn into a ftraunge metre, by Henry earle 
 of Surry," was, afterward, printed by John 
 t)ay, without date, 4to. ITiis " ftraunge me- 
 tre" is blank verfe, of which it is the earlyeft 
 Englifli fpecimen. According to Puttenham, he 
 alfo translated "The booke of the preacher 5"* 
 to which Warton ads a few of tlie Pfalras. Other 
 poems, not now extant, are cited in his printed 
 works ; and Aubrey has preferve'd an epitaph by 
 him, upon fir Thomas Clere, which was once in 
 Lambeth church. The fonnet, quoted by Wood 
 and others, as made by tliis nobleman, on being 
 fliewn, in his travels, by Cornelius Agrippa, the 
 image of his Geraldine in a glafs, lick and weep- 
 
 ads '< Nevcrthelefs they who moft commend thofe 
 poems, and excrcifes of honorable wit, if they have feen 
 that incomparable earl of Surrey his Englifli translation 
 of Virgils ^neids, which, for a book or tivo, he ad- 
 mirably rendreth, almoft line for line, will bear m€ 
 witncfs that thofe other were foils and fportives." 
 
 * Some lines from his " Ecclejlauicei^' are given in 
 the prolegomena to archbifliop Parkers Pfalms. Five 
 chliptcrs verlificd from Ecclcfiaftes by lord Surrev, and 
 three pfalms, occur in the Harrington MS. (fencs me) 
 with two poems, by the lame noble author, not printed 
 among his ♦' Songes and fonettes." T. P.
 
 250 POETS OP THE 
 
 ing, was not actually written by him^ nor is the 
 ftory itsfelf true : both being the invention of 
 Thomas Nalhe, and firft publifh'd in his " Un- 
 fortunate traveller, or life of Jacke Wilton/' 
 1594, 4to. He fel a victim to the groundlefs fus- 
 picions of a capricious and fanguinary tyrant, the 
 19th of January 1646-7. 
 
 HOWELL THOMAS fet forth "The arbor 
 of amitie, wherein is comprifed plefaunt poems 
 and pretie poefies :" printed by H, Denham, 
 1568, 1569, 8vo.* and wrote " Devifes for his 
 owne exercife, and his friends pleafure," 1581, 
 4to. He is, doubtlefs, the T. H. who trans- 
 lated " The fable of Ovid treting of Narcisfus, 
 with a moral thereunto, very pleafante to rede : ' 
 
 * This feems the identical book afcribe'd above to 
 THOMAS HOLWELL, a flight inaccuracy, no 
 doubt, of Herbert, or his printer, for THOMAS 
 HOWELL, into which he was led by the name of the 
 printer THOMAS COLWELL ; whofe edition neither 
 Ames nor Herbert appears to have actually feen. No- 
 thing, however, was moreufual at that period, than for 
 a work to be printed for feveral bookfellers, each of 
 whom had his fingle name to his own copys. Befidc 
 «* Nevvc foncts & pratie pamphlets" favours very 
 ftrongly of the ftationers book.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 251 
 
 1560. (See Warton, H. E, P. Ill, 417.) See 
 NOWELL. 
 
 HUBBARD WILLIAM drew into Englifh 
 metre " The tragicall and lamentable historic of 
 two faythfuU mates Ceyx kynge of Thrachyne, 
 and Alcione his wife, 136g :" printed by W. 
 Howe for R. Johnes : from the nth book of Ovids 
 Metamorphofis. 
 
 HUDSON THOMAS translated " The his- 
 toric of ludith in forme of a poeme. Penned in 
 French, by the noble poet G. Saluft, lord of 
 Bartas :" printed, at Edinburgh, by Thomas 
 VautrouUier, 1584, 8vo,* 
 
 " Yc learned : bind your browes with laurer 
 band, 
 
 I preafe not for to touch it with my hand," 
 This translation appears to have been made at the 
 exprefs command of K. James VI, to whom it is 
 
 * Reprinted at London with Sylvesters Du Bartasy 
 i6o8, 4to. and in fubfequent editions, T, P. 
 
 In the '< Return from Parnasfus," i6o6, Hudfon is 
 recommended to let his books lie in Ibme old nooks 
 amongft old flioes, that they may avoid the critics cen- 
 fure. T.P.
 
 252 POETS OF THE 
 
 dedicated, and who has complimented tlie author 
 with a fonnet, in which he fays of him in conge- 
 nial verfe : 
 
 " "Who though a ftraunger yet he lovde fo dere 
 This realme and me, fo as he fpoilde his awne." 
 A fonnet prefix'd to " Esfays of a prentife [the 
 above monarch] in tlie diuine arte of poefie," 
 Edin, 1583, witli the initials T. H. is doubtlefs 
 by this writer. 
 
 HUGGARD. See HOGARD. 
 
 HUNNIS WILLIAM, " one of the gentle- 
 men of hir maiesties chapel), and raaistei; to the 
 children of the fame," wrote i . '' An abridge- 
 ment or brief meditation on certain of the pfalmcs 
 in Englifh meeter:" printed by R. Wyer. 2. 
 " Certayne pfalmes drawcn furth into Englyfli 
 meter:" printed by tlie widow Herfordc, 1530, 
 8VO. (See STERNHOLD.) 3. " A hyve full 
 of hunnye, contayning the firfte booke of Mofes 
 called Genefis :" printed by Thomas Marfhe, 
 1578, 4to. and Svo. 4. " Seuen fobs of a for- 
 rowfull foule for finne : comprehending thofe 
 feuen pfalmes of the princelie pfophct David com- 
 monlic called Paeniten-tiall ; framed into a forme 
 of familiar praters, and reduced into meeter.,.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 253 
 
 whereunto are alfo annexed his Handfull of 
 honifuckles ; The poore widowes mite 5 A dia- 
 log betweene Chrift and a finner j diners godlie 
 & pithie ditties, with a Christian confesfion of 
 and to the trinitie ; newlie printed and aug- 
 mented:" by H. Denham, 1585, 1597, 1G29, 
 24to. Thomas Dawfon had a licence for the 
 " Handfull of honifuckles" in 1578 ; and there 
 is an edition of it at " Edinburgh, printed by 
 Andro Hart, 1621," 12mo. 5. " Recreations: 
 containing Adams bannilhment, Chrift his cribbe. 
 The loft ftieepe, and The complaint of old age :'* 
 printed by Henry Denham, 1588, 24to. He is, 
 likewife, the authour of feveral poems in " The 
 paradice of daintie deuices," 1576, Ca'c. and, 
 doubtlefs, of the two fubfcribe'd W. H. in 
 " Englands Helicon," 1600. In " The princely 
 pleafures at Kenelworth," 1575, one of the de- 
 vifes was invented, and a copy of verfes writen, 
 by maister Tlunncys. 
 
 HUNSDON P. is authour of commendatory 
 verfes before Baleses " Writing fchoolemaster :" 
 printed by Tho. Orwin, n. d. 4to. 
 
 HUNTINGDON JOHN, " a zealous prieft 
 and poet," and, in time, a convert to the refor-
 
 254 POETS OF THE 
 
 mation, wrote " The genealogye of herefye. 
 Compyled by Ponce Pantolabus :" printed by 
 John Redman, and again, by Hobert Wyer (in, or 
 before, 1542) j and inferted entire in Bales 
 " Mysterye of inyqiiyte," Geneva, 1543. In 
 Skeltonick metre. See Herbert, 373, 
 
 HUTTON LUKE wrote " The blacke doggc 
 of Newgate : botli pithie and profitable for all 
 readers : imprinted at London by G. Simfon and 
 W. White," 4to. b. 1, 
 
 HYLL. See HILL. 
 
 I. or J. R. has commendatory verfees before 
 Cottons " Armor of proofe, Gfc." 1596. 
 
 JDEN HENRY translated various Italian 
 verfees into Englifh, in his edition of Gellos 
 Circe, 1557. ^ 
 
 IGNOTO. This fignature is fubjoin'd, in 
 " Englands Helicon," 1 600, to ten poems, and, 
 in the edition of lCl4, to five more. Two of the 
 former fet (pp. 76 and 95) have been originally 
 attributeed to S. W. li. over which is palleed 
 Xgnuto, which, tliough no more than tl)e correc-
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 255 
 
 tion of a mistake, of which there are fimilar in- 
 ftancees, might, probablely, induce mister War- 
 ton to pronounce it " Raleighs conflant (igna- 
 ture," one or more of his acknowlege'd poems, 
 at the fame time, being actually fo fubfcribe'd. 
 It is, however, manifeftly ufe'd by the publifher 
 of that book to fignify anonymous or unknown. 
 " The dispraife of loue and louers follies," fub- 
 fcribe'd Ignofo, in the edition of l6i4, is now 
 ascertain'd to be the compofition of Francis Da- 
 vifon : and it is remarkable that " The fheep- 
 heards dumpe," in that of iG'oo (p. 93) fign'd 
 S. E. D. (fir Edward Dyer) is inferted in another 
 part of tlie book (p. 184) under the title of 
 " Thirfis the iheepheard, to his pipe," with this 
 fignature of Ignoto. At the end of Spenfers 
 " Faerie queene" is a fonnet with the initials 
 ^r. R. (doubtlefs, fir Walter Raleigh) and alfo a 
 poem in four ftanzas, fubfcribe'd Ignoto (neces- 
 faryly fome one elfe). Of the " poems found 
 among tlie papers of fir Henry Wotton," and 
 printed in his Remains, feveral have the above 
 fignature. 
 
 IMMERITO. A fignature ufe'd by Edmund 
 Spenfer.
 
 250 POETS OF THE 
 
 INFORTUNIO. The fignature of Ralph 
 Starkey (whom fee) to his poem on the mii'er)'s 
 of Edward the fecond ; " which," mister Warton 
 mistakenly tliought, '^ Spenfer fometimes as- 
 fumed." 
 
 JACKSON JOHN wrote a ballad " Of the 
 ftrange child in Italye :" licenfe'd to Hen. Kyrk- 
 ham, 7th February 157 8-g. 
 
 JACKSON RICHARD, a fchoolmaster at In- 
 gleton in the weft riding of Yorklhire, in the 
 time of queen Elizabetli, compofe'd a narrative or 
 history of the battle of Floddon in nine fits and 
 584 ftanzas, firft printed in \664 ; again, by 
 Thomas Gent of York, about 1740, and, laftly, 
 by Robert Lambe, vicar of Norham, and Jofeph 
 Beni'on phllo/i/nf/i. m 1774: the formers edition, 
 apparently from a tranfcript of the old printed 
 copy, being moft valuable on account of the note?, 
 and additions j but the latters more agreeable to 
 the MSS. of which one, of the auUiours age, is in 
 the Harleian library (Num. 3520). His name is 
 giveen upon the authority of a MS. note in a 
 copy of Lambes edition which belong'd to Mr. 
 Bartlett : but that authority is conliderablely
 
 SIXttENTH CENTURY. 257 
 
 (hakeen by Gent, who, at the head of his edi- 
 tion of this *' famous old ballad," fays it was 
 " Taken from an antient manufcript, which was 
 tranfcrib'd by Mr. Richard Guy, late J'chool- 
 master in Ingleto7i, Yorkfliire. 
 
 JENEY THOMAS. " A discovrs of the 
 prefent troobles in Fraunce, and miferies of 
 this tyme, compyled by Peter Ronfard gentil- 
 man of Vandome, and dedicated unto the queene 
 mother J translated by Thomas Jeney gentilman." 
 Dedicated to " fir Henry Norries knight, L. am- 
 basfadour refident in Fraunce:" printed at And- 
 werpe, 156"8, 4to. 
 
 JENYNGES EDWARD translateed into En- 
 gleilh metre " The notable hystory of two faitli- 
 fuU louefs named Alfagus and Archelaus. 
 Whearein is declared the true iygure of amytie 
 and freyndfliyp. Much pleafaunte and delecta- 
 ble to the reader:" printed by Thomas Col well, 
 1374, 4to. b. 1. licenfe'd, 1565. 
 
 JOHNSON RICHARD, authour of the wel- 
 known history of " The feven champions of 
 Christendom," &'c. compile'd " The nine wor- 
 thies of London ; explaining the honourable ex- 
 S
 
 258 POETS OF THE 
 
 ercife of anues^ the vertues of the valiant, and 
 the memorable attempts of magnanimous minds. 
 Pleafaunt for gentlemen, not vnfeemely for ma- 
 gistrates, and moft profitable for prentifes :'* 
 printed by Tho. Orwin for Humf. Lownes, 1592, 
 4to. It is writen upon the plan of The mirror 
 for magistrates. (See Herbert, 1248). Some 
 of tlie ballads, likewife, contain'd in a publica- 
 tion by this writeer, intitle'd " A crown garland 
 of golden rofes" (London, 1612, 8vo), are, moft 
 probablely of his own compofition. He allfo 
 publifli'd " Anglorum lachiymoe : in a fad pas- 
 fion complayning of the death of our late fove- 
 raigne lady queene Elizabeth ; yet comforted 
 againe by the vertuous hopes of our moft royall 
 & renowned king James," 1603, 4to. and 
 has a poem intitle'd " Londons defcription," in 
 " Tlie pleafant walks of Moore-fields," ?^c. 
 1607. 
 
 JONES JOHN, a phyfician, authour of " The 
 arte and fcience of preferving bodie and foule in 
 all health, wisdom, and catliolique religion," 
 £s'c. printed by H. Bynneman, I37f), 4to. hath 
 tlierein fome poetical translations and otlier piecees 
 in verfe. 
 
 JONES illCHAIlD, printer. Before " Tlic
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 259 
 
 fchoolemaster, or Teacher of table philofophie," 
 1576, 4to. printed by him, is "The printers 
 preamble to al eftates^" Cs'c. in ftanzas of 6 lines. 
 
 JONSON BENJAMIN, the celebrateed dra- 
 matick writeer, born in 1574, has left "Epi- 
 grams," " Theforeft" (poems and fongs), " Un- 
 der-woods, confifting of divers poems," and a 
 translation of " Horace his art of poetry:" all 
 printed with his plays and other works, 1616, 
 1640, fo, 1756, 7 vols. 8V0. The earlyeft fpe- 
 cimen of his poetry is a translation of Ovids fif- 
 teenth elegy, publifh'd, with the verfion of Mar- 
 low, about 1596, under the fignature B. I. He 
 has, likewife, a commendatory fonnet before N. 
 Bretons " Melancholike humours," l600j and 
 dye'd in 1637. 
 
 K. F. See KYNWELMERSH FRANCIS. 
 
 K. M. A fignature, fays Herbert, in the Pa- 
 radice of daintie devifes, 
 
 K. T. Some verfees by " T. K. to the reader," 
 are prefix'd to a book intitle'd " Beware tlie 
 cat :" printed by E. Allde, 1584, 8vo. See KEN- 
 DAL TIMOTHY, 
 
 S 2
 
 2(30 POETS OF TH£ 
 
 K. W. See MARSTON. 
 
 KEEPER JOHN. See PARKER. 
 
 KELLY EDMUND, otherwife TALBOT, 
 confederate with the famous doctor Dee, in his 
 chemical, aftrological, and roficrucian cheats, 
 wrote a poem of chemistry, begining " All 
 you that faine philofophers would be j" printed 
 in Alhmoles Theatrum cheviicum Britannicum ; 
 and another ** concerning the philofophers 
 ftone;" printed before the Compendium of alchy- 
 my, publifh'd by Ralph Rabbard, 1591, and in 
 the above work. He was born at Worcester, in 
 1555, and, attempting to efcape from the impe- 
 rial prifon in Prague, dye'd of the bruifees he rc- 
 ceive'd in his fall, 1595. 
 
 KELTON ARTHUR " very wittely com- 
 pyled in meeter" '' A chronycle witli a genealo- 
 gie declaryng that the Brittons and Welfhemen 
 are lineally dyfcended from Brute:" printed by 
 R. Grafton, 1547, l6mo. Wood, who thinks 
 him a Shropfhire-man, fays, " he hath alfo 
 written anotlier book of poetry in praife of the 
 Wdihmen, dedicated to fir Will. Herbert : but 
 this," ads he, " i have not feen."
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. lOl 
 
 KEMPE WILLIAM, a celebrateed comedian 
 and morris-danceer, compile'd, and fet forth, for 
 a new-years-gjft to all Engleifh fubjefts, " A du- 
 tiftil invective againft the mofte haynous treafons 
 of Ballard and Babington : with other their adhe- 
 rents latdie executed. Together with the horri- 
 ble attempts and actions of the Q. of Scottes : 
 and the fentence pronounced againft her at Fod- 
 deringay :" printed by R. Johnes, 1587, 4to. 
 His " Applauded merryments of the men of 
 Goteham," licenfe'd in 1593 j his "New jigg* 
 of tlie kitchen-ftuft' woman," and his " New 
 jigge betwixt a fouldier, and a mifer, and Sym the 
 clowne," in 15Q5, are prefume'd to have been 
 dramatick. He dye'din lG03. 
 
 KENDALL TIMOTHY, " Flowers of epi- 
 grammes, out of fundrie the mofte Angular au- 
 thours, as well ^uncient as late writers : pleafant 
 & profitable to expert readers of quick capaci- 
 tie ; felefted, fe'c. by Timothe Kendall, late of 
 the vniuerfitie of Oxford, now ftudent of Staple- 
 inne in London." To which are annex'd " Tri- 
 fles by Timothe Kendal, deuifed and written 
 
 * Singing-jigs are fpoken of in Chettles " Kind- 
 hartcs dreamc." T. P. 
 
 S 3
 
 262 POETS OF THE 
 
 (for the mofte part) at fundrie tymes in his yong 
 and tender age :" printed by Jhon Shepperd, 
 1577, i6mo. 
 
 KETH WILLIAM, an exile at Frankfort in 
 the time of queen Mary, wrote " A ballet, de- 
 claringe the fal of the whore of Babylone, in- 
 tytuled, Tye thy mare Tom boye:" printed abroad, 
 n. d. 8vo. There is, likewife, a broadfide, with 
 the following title : 
 
 " Of misrules contending, with gods worde by 
 name. 
 
 And then of ones judgement that had beared 
 tlie fame :" 
 containing 22 four-line i^anzas, and conclude- 
 ing — " Finis. Quod Wyllym Ketlie:" printed 
 by Hugh Singleton. He has an Engleiih poem at 
 the end of Goodmans book De vera obedientia, 
 Geneva, 1558 j and translateed .fome of the old 
 finging pfalms, mark'd W, K. The 94th pfalm, 
 " turned into metre, by W. Kethe," was aft- 
 nex'd to " The appellation of John Knoxe," 
 printed at Geneva, 1558, l2mo. Warton pro- 
 fefses to have feen a moralifation of fome of 
 -Ovids ftorys by the fame hand. Q. He is, doubt- 
 lefs, tlie William Keth, who was preacher and 
 minister of the church of Ncwhaven, while in
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 203 
 
 tlie hands of the Engleifh, and wrote *' A pcr- 
 fpective, with the prayer of Daniel in metre, to 
 the nobles of England," about 1570, though 
 Tanner makes him a different perfon. War- 
 tons authority, for calling him " a Scotch divine" 
 feems equally questionable ; and may be nothing 
 more than his connection with Knox. 
 
 KINSAYDER W. A name asfume'd by John 
 Mars ton, whom fee, 
 
 KNELL THOMAS wrote an " Anfwere to the 
 moft heretical and trayterous papistical bil, caft in 
 tlie ftreets of Northampton, and brought before 
 the judges, 65'c." printed by John Awdeley 
 (1570) : allfo, as it feems, " An epitaph, or ra- 
 ther a fhort discourfe, made upon tlie life and 
 death of D. Boner, fometimes unworthy bisfliop 
 of London, which dyed the v. of September in 
 the Marlhalfea :" printed by J. Allde; 1569, 8vo. 
 (Her. 889.) 
 
 KNIGHT ED. has verfes prefix'd to Mun- 
 days "Mirror of mutabilitie," 1579: and is, 
 probablely, the Kvyght mention'd by Webbe. 
 
 KYFFIN MAURICE wrote " The blefsednes 
 S 4
 
 264 POETS OF THE 
 
 of Brytaine, or a celebration of the queenes holy 
 day J wherein is briefly discourfed the moft 
 happy regiment of her highnes" (33 fix-line 
 ftanzas) : printed by John Windet in 1587, and 
 by John Wolfe in 1588, 4to. He has commen- 
 datory verfees prefix' d to Lewkenors translation of 
 Contarenos " Commonwealth and government 
 of Venice," 1599, and a fonnet, " to the reader," 
 before his " Refolved gentleman," I5y4. 
 
 KYNWELMERSH FRANCIS, of Grays-inn, 
 who united with Gascoigne in translating the 
 " Jocasta" of Euripides, 1566, is the authour of 
 feveral poems in " The paradice of daintie de- 
 uifes," 1576. 
 
 KYTTES G. wrote " The unluckie firmen- 
 tie :" n. d. 4to. b. 1, a poem of fome humour. 
 
 L. F. " Ovidius Nafo his remedie of love, 
 translated and entituled to the youth of England, 
 by F. L." Lon. 1600, 4to, (Warton.) 
 
 L. G. *' An artificial apologie, in verfe, a 
 paumflet compylcd by G. L." printed by Richard 
 Banks, The fame initials are fubfcribe'd to verfees
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 265 
 
 before Kendalls Epigrams, 1577. See LEIGH 
 GERARD. 
 
 L. H. See LOK HENRY. 
 
 L. J. "■ A good help for a weak memory, or 
 the fumme of the bible in verfe," 8vo. Allfo 
 " The birth, purpofe, and mortall wound of the 
 Romifh holy league. Defcribing in a mappe 
 the enuie of Sathans fhauelings, aud the follie of 
 their wifedome through the almighties proui- 
 dence. By I. L." printed for Thomas Cadman, 
 1589, 4to. 32 ftanzas. 
 
 L. N. has recommendatory verfes to the reader 
 before Barets " Alvearie," 1580. 
 
 L. R. " Diella. Certaine fonnets adioyned 
 to the amorous poeme of dom Diego and Gineura. 
 By R. L. gentleman :" printed for Hen. Olney, 
 1596, i6mo. Thefe fonnets are 28 in number, 
 and " The amorous poeme," which they accom- 
 pany, a verfification from Painters " Palace of 
 pleafure." The fame initials are annex'd to one 
 poem in " The paradice of daintie deuifes," 
 1576. Barnefield addrefses a fonnet to his friend
 
 'l66 POETS OF THE 
 
 maister R, L. in " Poems of divers humors," 
 1598. 
 
 L. T. See LODGE THOMAS. 
 
 L. W, has 4 commendatory ftanzas at the 
 end of Spenfers " Faerie queene," 1 590 : posfi- 
 blely LISLE WILLIAM, whom fee. 
 
 LANGLEY THOMAS has fome poetical ver- 
 fions in his translation of " Polydore Vergil," 
 1546, i2mo. 
 
 LARKE JOHN has a poetical prologue to his 
 '*" Boke of wisdome otherwife called the Flower 
 of vertue :" pr. by T. Colwell, n. d. l6rao. 
 
 LEA JAMES has feveral poetical piecees in his 
 
 translation (from the Spanilh) of " An anfwer to 
 the vntruthes, publifhed and printed in Spaine, 
 in glorie of their fuppofed victorie atchieued 
 againft our Englilli name, Ca'c." printed by John 
 Jackfon, for Thomas Cadman, 1589, 4to. and, 
 likewife, commendatory verfeiis before Percj-^alls 
 " Bibliotheca Hifpanica," 1591, 4to. 
 
 LKE THOMAS has commendatory verfees be-
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. I67 
 
 fore Fletchers " Introduction to the looue of god," 
 
 1581. 
 
 LEIGH GERARD, authour (perhap) of a fhort 
 poem before his " Accedence of armor ie :" pr. 
 by R. Totull, 1591, 4to. See L. G. 
 
 LEWICKE EDWARD drew into Engleilh 
 metre ** The moft wondei-full, and pleafant his- 
 tory of Titus and Gifippus, whereby is fully de- 
 clared the figure of perfe6l firendlhip :" printed 
 by Thomas Racket, 1562, 4 to. This pleafant 
 history makes one of the novels in the Decame- 
 rotie of Boccaccio, but had been printed, fepa- 
 rately, in Latin and French, and even treated in 
 Engleifh verfe, before Lewickes time. See, un- 
 der the preceding century, WALTER WIL- 
 LIAM. Boccace had it from Petnis Alphonfus. 
 
 LISLE WILLIAM. " The colonyes of Bar- 
 tas, with the commentarye of S. G. S, englifhed 
 by Wm. Lille 5 " was licenfe'd to Thomas Man, in 
 1.597. 
 
 LLOID LODOWICK, fergeant at arms to Q. 
 Elizabeth, wrote " The pilgi-imagc of queenes," 
 printed at the end of his " Pilgi'image of princes,"
 
 268 POETS OF THE 
 
 1573, 1586, 4 to. where is, alfo, an addrefs of 
 " The aucthour to his booke," " The deatlies of 
 certaine noble princes, in Englifli verfe ;" and, 
 at the begining, an acrostick on fir Christopher 
 Hatlon. He likewife wrote " Hilaria : or the 
 triumphant feaft for the fift of Auguft," 1 607 : 
 a complimentary poem to K. James. One poem, 
 by tliis autliour {" An epitaph on fir Edward 
 Saunders"), is printed in ''The paradice of dain- 
 tie deuifes," 1576 j and he has commendatory 
 verfees, by the name of Lodowick Flood, pre- 
 fix'd to Blandys " Castle, or picture of poUicy," 
 1580, In his '' Triplicitie of triumphes," pr. 
 by R. Jhones, I5gi, 4to, are feveral fcraps of 
 poetry. He wrote verfees " in prayfe of the au- 
 thor," prefix'd to Twynes translation of Lhuyds 
 " Breviary of Britayne," 1573, 12mo. where he 
 fpels his name Lhuyd. 
 
 One T. LL. (doubtlefs Lloyd) has, prefix'd to 
 Kyffins " Blefsednes of Brytaine," 1588, two 
 ftanzas of 6 lines " In praife of this booke, and 
 the author." 
 
 LODGE THOMAS, a learned and eminent 
 phyfician, and moft voluminous authour, wrote 
 I. " Rofalynde : Euphues golden legacie, found 
 in his cell at Silexdra," printed in 1592. " The
 
 SIXT6ENTH CENTURY. 26^ 
 
 life and death of William Longbeard, the raoft 
 famous and witty Englifh traitor, borne in the 
 city of London : accompanied with raanye other 
 moft pleafant and prettie histories, by T. L." in 
 profe and verfe, 1593, 4to. 2. " Phillis : ho- 
 noured with pastorall fonnets, elegies and amo- 
 rous delights. Where-unto is annexed, the tra- 
 gicall complaynt of Elftred" (conlifting of forty 
 fonnets): printed for John Busbie, 1593, 4to. 
 3. " A fig for Momus : containing pleafant va- 
 rietie, included in fatyres, eclogues, and epis- 
 tles :" printed for Clement Knight, 1595, 4to. 
 (He then defigned himfelf " T. L. of Lincolnes- 
 inne gent.) 4. " A moft pleafant historie of 
 Glaucus and Scilla : with many excellent poems, 
 and delectable fonnets," 161 0, 4to. Several ly- 
 rick compofitions, by this writer, moftly coUeAed 
 from his " Euphues golden legacy," and other 
 pamphlets, are inferted in " The phoenix neft," 
 1593, and •* Englands Helicon," 1600. He 
 has, likewife, verfes prefix'd to Baleses *' Writ- 
 ing fchoolemaster," printed by Tho. Orwin, and 
 dye'd in 16 25. ^ 
 
 LOK HENRY, " a divine poet," according to 
 Wood, translateed, and paraphrastically dilateed, 
 " Eccleliaftes," whereunto he aded " fundry
 
 270 POETS OF THE 
 
 Christian pasfions, contayned in two hundred 
 fonnets:" printed for R. Field, 1597, 4to. 
 Wood fays, he alfo translateed fundry pfalms of 
 David " as briefly and fignificantly as the fcope 
 of the text will fuffexj" printed in the fame 
 year. A laudatory fonnet by Henrie Lok, was 
 prefix'd to the " Poeticall exercifes" of K. James, 
 1 69 1 . H. L. autlior of " The legend of Orpheus 
 and Eurjdice," 1597, i6mo. is, doubtlefs, the 
 fameperfon. 
 
 LOVELL THOMAS wrote " A dialogue be- 
 tween Custome & Veritie, concerning the vfe 
 and abufe of dauncing &minftrelfie :" printed by 
 John Allde, w. d. 8vo. licenfe'd 1581. 
 
 LUPTON THOMAS wrote comraendatoiy 
 verfeiis prefix'd to Dr. Joneses " Batlies of Bathes 
 ay de," 1572, and Riches " Allarme to England," 
 1578. He has fome poetical piecees in his 
 " Christian againft the Jefuite:" printed by 
 Thomas Dawfon for Tho. Woodcocke, I58i!, 4to. 
 
 M. A. See MUNDAY ANTHONY. 
 
 M. G. Thefe initials (posfiblely thofe of Ger- 
 vafe Markham) are annex'd to a poem in S,
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 271 
 
 Lyfonses MS, begining " My care to kepe my 
 worde by promife due," " G. M, of Grayes- 
 inne, gent." authour of " Esfayes and charac- 
 ters of a prifon and prifoners," l6l8, 4to. is 
 " Geffray Mynfhul," 
 
 M. I. See MARKHAM JERVIS.* 
 
 M. R. has a fonnet " to his friend R. C," be- 
 fore the latters " Mahumetane, or Turkilh his- 
 toiy, £5*0." 1600, 
 
 M. T, " The filke-wormes, and their flies : 
 liuely defcribed in verfe, by T. M. a countrie 
 farmar, and an apprentice in phylicke. For the 
 great benefit and enriching of England :" printed 
 by V. S. for Nicholas Ling, 1399, 4to. Ano- 
 ther T. M. gentleman, is the authour of " Micro- 
 cynicon : fixe fnarling fatyres. 1. Infatiat, 2. 
 Prodigall. 3; Infolent. 4. Cheating. 5. Ing- 
 ling. 6. Wife :" printed by T. Creede for The. 
 Bulhcll, 1399, 8vo, T, M. is likewife fign'd to 
 a dedication before " The blacke booke," 1 604, 
 which contains a poetical " morall or prologue." 
 
 * His baptismal name is printed indifferendy with a 
 G, an /, or a J.
 
 272 POETS OF THE 
 
 M. W. A few ftanzas, prefix'd to " Newc« 
 from the north," 1579, " in commendation of 
 this treatife," are fubfcribe'd W. M. 
 
 MALVERNE WILLIAM, abbot of Glouces- 
 ter, ^\Tote a poem, in the year 1524, of " the 
 foundation of the abbey of Glocester, and the 
 change of the fame before the fuppresfion thereof 
 in the reign of king Henry the eight:" printed, 
 by Hearne, in the appendix to " Robert of Glou- 
 cesters chronicle," 
 
 MANNINGTONNE (or MANNYNGTON) 
 GEORGE made " A woeful ballad, an hour be- 
 fore he fuffered at Cambridge-castell :" licenfe'd 
 to Richard Jones, 7th Novem. 1576 : and printed 
 in Robinfons " HandefuU of pleafant delites," 
 1584, where it is intitle'd " A forrowfuU fonet 
 ;..To the tune of Labandala Jhot ." It is, like- 
 wife, inferted in The gcntlemans magazine for 
 January, 178I ; zxi(\ in A7icient fungf, 179 . 
 
 MARBEOK JOHN, organift of St. Georges 
 chapel at Windfor, drew " into Englifti meetre, 
 for the youth to read," "The holie historic of 
 king Dauid, wherein is chieflye learned thefe 
 godly and wholfome lesfons, that is : to ha^trfure
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 273 
 
 patience in perfecution, due obedience to our 
 prince without rebellion : and alfo the true and 
 moft faithfull dealings of friendes:" printed by 
 H. Middleton for J. Harrifon, 1579, 4to. 
 
 MARDELEY JOHN, clerk of the mint in 
 Soutliwark, wrote " A complaint againft the 
 ftifFnecked papift," 1548, 8vo. and '' A fhort re- 
 fytal of certyne holie doctors [againft tranfub- 
 ftantiation] collected in mytcr." n. d. 12mo. 
 " The fupper of the lord," " An invective againft 
 popery," and other poems, by this writeer, are 
 extant in the Mufeum (B. R. i? B XXXVII). 
 He turn'd, according to Bale, twenty-four 
 pfalms into Engleifh odes, and made many reli- 
 gious fongs. 
 
 MARKHAM GERVASE, or JERVIS, wrote, 
 1. " The poem of poems, or Sions mufe, con- 
 tayning the diuine fong of king Salomon, deuided 
 into eight eclogues" (with the initials I. M.) : 
 printed by James Roberts for Matthew Lownes, 
 1595, 8vo. 1596, l6mo. 2. " The moft ho- 
 norable tragedie of fir Richard Grinvile knight ;" 
 a heroick poem, in eight-line ftanzas ; dedicateed 
 to lord Monjoy : printed by James Roberts for 
 Richard Smith, 1595, 8V0. 3."Devoreux, Ver- 
 T
 
 274 POETS OF THE 
 
 tues tears for the loffe of the raoft christian king 
 Henry, third of that name, king of Fraunce ; 
 and tlie vntimely death of the moft noble and he- 
 roicall gentleman, Walter Deuoreux, who was 
 llain before Roan in Fraunce" (paraphrastically 
 translateed from tlie French, of " the moft ex- 
 cellent and learned gentlewoman madam Ge- 
 neuuefue Petau Maulette) :" printed for Thomas 
 MlUington, 1397, 4to. 4. " The tears of the 
 beloued, or tlie lamentation of St. John, con- 
 taining the death &: pasfion of Chrift :" printed 
 by Simon Stafford, 1600, 4to. 5. '' Ariostos 
 fatyres," 16O8, 4to.* 6. " The famous whore 
 or noble curtizan, conteining the lamentable 
 complaint of Paulina, the famous Roman cur- 
 tizan, fometimcs M"^*. vnto the great cardinal! 
 
 * In the title of the mufeum copy, the name of Ger- 
 vafeMarkham is obliterateed,and that of " Robert Tofte, 
 gentleman" infencd in its ftead. R. T. [Rob. Tofte] 
 in his translation of Varchi, 1615, fays, " read my 
 Ariostos Satyres in Englifh ; and, in a poftfcript" to the 
 courteous reader, " he fpeaks of having iiitcrided to in- 
 fert the disastrous fall of three noble Roman gentlemen, 
 overthrown through jealoufy ; but the fame was (with 
 Ariostos Satyrs, translated by him out of Italian into 
 Englifli vcrfe and notes upon the fame) printed with- 
 out Ills confcnt or knowledge, in another mans name :" 
 probablcly Markhams. (The latter part of this note is by 
 the ingenious and accurate mister Park.)
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 275 
 
 Hypolito, of Eft," 1609, 4to. Alice Charle- 
 wood, in 1593, had a licenfe for " Geruis Mack- 
 win his Thyrfys & Daphne j" and Nicholas Ling, 
 in 1598, for " Ariastos conclufions of the mar- 
 riage of Rogero and Rodomantho, the never- 
 conquered pagan, written in Frenche by Phillip 
 de Fortes, and paraphrastically translated by G. 
 M." The initials /. 31. fubjoin'd to two poems 
 in '* Englands Helicon," 1600, are prefume'd to 
 be thofe of /eruis iVarkham. 
 
 MARLOW CHRISTOPHER, educateed at 
 Cambridge, a dramatick writeer of great celebrity, 
 translateed, 1. " Hero and Leander :" printed 
 by A. Iflip for E. Blunt, 1598, 4to. (licenfe'd to 
 John Wolfe, 1093.) It contains onely the firft 
 two festiads ; * but the translation was continue'd 
 and perfeded by Chapman ; though in the per- 
 formance thereof, he fel Ihort of the fpirit and 
 invention with which it was begun. f 2. " Lv- 
 cans firft booke, line for line:" printed by P. 
 
 * In this " begun poem," according to Phillips, or 
 Milton, " he feems to have a refemblance of that clean 
 and unfophisticatcd wit, which is natural to that incom- 
 parable poet." 
 
 t Phillips. 
 
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 270 POETS OF THE 
 
 Short, 1600; 4to. but licenfe'd to Wolfe in 1593, 
 3. " Certaine of Ovids elegies:" printed, at 
 Middleburgh, without date, 8vo. [1596]. 4. 
 " Coluthufes rape of Helen," 1587 (Warton, from 
 Coxeter). Q. A well-known fong, by Marlow, 
 of coniiderable merit for its age and true pastoral 
 limplicity, intitle'd " The pasfionatc fheepheard 
 to his loue," is printed in " Englands Helicon," 
 iCoo. He was ftab'd in a brothel, 1593 ; a fel- 
 low, upon whom he had drawn, in a fit of jea- 
 loufy, forceing his dagger into his own head (not 
 boforn, as Warton misreprefents), 
 
 MARSHALL GEORGE wiote " A compen- 
 dious treatife in metre, declaring the firft original 
 of facrifice, and of building churches and aultais, 
 and of the firft receiving the cristen faith here in 
 England:" 1554, 4to. b. 1. 
 
 MARSHALL THOMAS is mention'd by 
 Wood and Tanner, among tlie contributors to 
 '' The paradiceof daintie devifes," 1578, and by 
 Herbert, among thofe to tlie edition of 1577 : 
 but no fuch name or initials occur in that of 
 1576 or of iGoo.* Percy fays tliat a poem, in 
 
 * The name of T. Marfliall is affix'd to one poem, i 
 believe, in tlie edition of 1577 onely. T. P.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 277 
 
 this collection, begining " The fturdy rock," is 
 " fubfcribed M. T. perhaps invertedly for T, 
 Marihall." There is not, however, a fingle in- 
 ftance in that or any other collection, of a fimilar 
 inverfion ; and, in fa6t, thefe letters ratlier be- 
 long to M. Thorn, whofe furname is elfewhere 
 printed at length, Marfhall dye'd in loSg. 
 
 MARSTON JOHN wrote and publifli'd, i. 
 " The metamorphofis of Pigmalions image, and 
 certaine fatyres :" printed for, Edmond Matts, 
 1598, iGmo. 2. " The fcourge of villanie. 
 Three bookes of fatyres" (2 editions) : printed 
 by I. R. 1598, and 1599, l6mo.* Both tliefe 
 
 * Thcfe books, together with Davises Epigrams, and 
 others, were burnt in Stationers-hall, by order of the 
 archbifliop of Canterbury and bifhop of London, 4th 
 June 1599. It was likewife order'd " That noe fa- 
 tyres or epigrams be printed hereafter." In the Bod- 
 leian catalogue " The metamorphofis of Pygmalions 
 image," appears under the initials W. K. which are, 
 in faft, fign'd to that work, [and were To put for W. 
 Kinf.ty.ler ; a name asfume'd by Marston, or adopted by 
 him as a fignature, to the profe addref's before his 
 " Scourge of villanie." T. P.] 
 
 It is a ftrange and unaccountable blunder of Wood, 
 that all Marstons works (except The jcwrge of vilLiny^ 
 and the injatiate countcjs) " were gathered together by 
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 278 POETS OF THE 
 
 piecees were reedited, by the reverend John 
 Bowie, in " Miscellaneous pieces of antient En- 
 glilh poefie," 1764, l2mo, 
 
 MASCALL LEONARD, in his translation of 
 " The arte to plant & graffe all forts of trees," 
 1590, has a metrical addrefs of " The booke to 
 the reader." 
 
 MEARES GEORGE has a copy of verfees prc- 
 fix'd to the " Planetomachia" of Robert Greene, 
 1585. 
 
 MELBANCKE BRIAN has feveral poetick 
 fcraps in his " Philotimus : the warre betwixt 
 Nature and Fortune," 1583, 4to. 
 
 MERQUAUNT JOHN compile'd " Verfes to 
 diuerfe good purpofes :" licenfe'd to Tho. Pur- 
 foote, 3d Novem. 1580. 
 
 MICHELBORNE THOMAS has commen- 
 datory verfees prefix'd to Fitzgeffrays " Life of 
 
 Will. Shakcfpcarc, the famous comedian, and being by 
 his care printed at Lend. 1633, Oct. [17 years, that 
 is, after his death] were by him...dcdicated to Elizabeth 
 Gary viscountefs Falkland" (Athtna: Oxo. 1, 333)
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. *279 
 
 Drake," 1596; Storers " Life of Wolfey," isgg; 
 and Vaughans " Golden grove moralifed," 16O8. 
 
 MIDDLETON CHRISTOPHER wrote " The 
 historic of heaven, containing the poetical fictions 
 of all the ftarres in the firmament:" printed for 
 Clement Knight, l5yG, 4to. and ''The legend 
 of Humphrey duke of Gloucester," 16OO, 4to. 
 
 MIDDLETON RICHARD. " Epigrammes 
 & latyres," Lond. 1508, In the Aiictarium bi- 
 bliothecx Edinburgcnct, 1627: but not now to be 
 found, 
 
 MIDDLETON THOMAS wrote " The wis- 
 dome of Solomon paraphrafed :" printed by Va- 
 lentine Sirames, 1397, 4to. 
 
 MOONE PETER wrote 
 
 " A Ihort treatife of certayne thinges abufed. 
 In tlie popilh church long vfed ; 
 But now abolyflied to our confolation. 
 And gods word aduaunced, the light of our 
 faluation :" 
 printed, at Ipfwich, by John Oswen, in or about 
 1548, 4to, 
 
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 280 POETS OF THE 
 
 MORE EDWARD wrote " A lytle and bryefe 
 treatyfe, called The defence of women, and efpe- 
 cially of Englyfhe women, made agaynft: The 
 fchole howfe of women:" printed by John 
 Kynge, i56o, 4to. He dates *' from Hamblcden 
 [in Bucks] the xx. day of Julye M, D. L V, JJ." 
 
 MORE SIR THOMAS, born, in London, 
 1480, and beheaded, on Tower-hil, in 1535, 
 wrote, in his youth, i. " A mery left how a 
 fergeant would learlie to play the frere:" 2. 
 " Verfes over nine pageants devifed in his fa- 
 thers houfe in London:" 3. " A ruful lamen- 
 tacion of the deth of queue Elifabeth mother 
 to king Henry the eight, wife to king Henry 
 the feventh, & eldeft doughter to king Ed- 
 ward the fourth, which quene Elifabeth dyed, 
 in childbed, in February in the yere of our 
 lord 1503, &: in the 18 yere of the raigne of 
 king Henry the feventh:" 4. " Certain meters 
 in Englifh written.... in hys youth for the boke 
 of fortune, and caufed them to be printed in 
 the begynning of that boke :" b. " Twelve 
 rules of John Picus earle of Mirandula, partely 
 exciting, partely direding a man in fpiritual ba- 
 taile :" 6. " The twelve weapons of fpirituall bat- 
 tayle, which every nianne fliould have at hand when
 
 6IXTEKNTH CENTURY. 281 
 
 the pleafure of a finnefull temptation commeth to 
 hisminde :" 1 . " The twelve properties or con- 
 dicions of a louer :" 8. " A praier of Pious 
 Mirandula unto god:" all which are printed 
 in his Englilh works, 1557, fo. The above 
 " mery jeft" had, in all probability, been printed 
 finglely, being mention'd by Laneham in his 
 curious catalogue of captain Coxes collection, 
 " The boke of fortune" is unknown. In *' The 
 lyfe of Johan Picus earle of Mirandula," trans- 
 lated by him, and printed by W. de Worde, 
 4to. are fome fpecimens of that noblemans ver- 
 filication, turn'd into Englifli. 
 
 MORFET .... did (or was to do) " An epi- 
 taphe or epigram, or elegies :" enter'd for Ed- 
 mund Belli sfant, 15th January 1588-9. 
 
 MORLEYE. See PARKER. 
 
 MUNCASTER Maister, was a poetical con- 
 tributor to " The princely pleafures at Kenil- 
 worth castle," 157C. This appears to have been, 
 in reality, Richard ISlukastcr, who publifh'd a 
 poem in Latin and Engleilh, on the death of Q. 
 Elizabeth, intitled " Xuniu conjo/ans, or a com- 
 forting complaint," l603, 4to.
 
 482 POETS OF THE 
 
 MUNDAY ANTHONY, citizen and draper 
 of London, and poet-laureat to that famous city, 
 " fele6ted out of the facred fcriptures," " The 
 mirrour of rautabilitie, or principall part of The 
 mirrour for magistrates. Defcribing the fail of 
 diners famous princes, and other memorable per- 
 fonages :" printed by John Aide, 1379, 4to. b. 
 1. He alfo wrote " The pain of pleafure :" 
 printed by H. Car, 1580, 4to, In Hakluyts 
 Voiages, 1589, are " Verfes written by A. M. 
 to the curteous readers, who was prefent at 
 R(»ne, when John Fox received his letters of the 
 pope." " A ballad made by Ant. Monday, of 
 thencoragement of an Englifhe foldior to his 
 fellowe mates," was licenfe'd to John Charle- 
 wood in 15795 and in 1583 the fame printer 
 had a licenfe for " The fweete fobbes & amorous 
 complaints of Ihepardes & nymphes by Ant. 
 Munday." " The fountayne of Fame eredted in 
 an orcharde of amorous adventures, by Ant. 
 Munday," 1580. Prefix'd to " Newes from the 
 north," 1579, and to Bodenhams " Belvedere, 
 or the garden of the mufes," 1600, l2mo. are 
 commendatory verfe'es by A. M. There are feve- 
 ral poems in his " Zelauto. The fountaine of 
 Fame," 1580, 4to. Mundays " Strangeft ad- 
 venture that ever happened," 1601, 4to. (Bib.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 283 
 
 Far. 3478). He dye'd in l633, age'd 80, 
 See his epitaph in Stows Survey, by Strype, B. 3, 
 p. 6i. 
 
 MYCHILBOURNE EDWARD, " a moft 
 noted poet of his time," according to Wood, 
 hath two of the eighteen copys of verfees prefix'd 
 to, and in praife of Peter Baleses " Art of bra- 
 chygraphy," 1597. 
 
 N. A. is figned to the dedication of " Elizas 
 memoriall, king James his arrival, and Homes 
 downfall," l603, 4to. 
 
 N. M. has a few verfees prefix'd to C. Holy- 
 bands " Italian fchoole-master," 1597. 
 
 N, T. Prefix'd to Deerings " lectures," 
 1576, 4to. are five fix-line ftanzas by T. N. and 
 to "The morall philofophie of Doni," 1570, 
 and Lytes " Newe herball," 15 78, commenda- 
 tory lines under the fame fignature.* Thomas 
 Nicholas^ an authour of that period, does not ap- 
 
 * The translatour of Doni was Thomas North, 
 who might have takeen this equivocal method of paying 
 himfelf a compliment.
 
 284 POETS OF THE 
 
 pear to have been a poet. See NASHE, NEW- 
 TON, NORTON. 
 
 NASHE THOMAS has introduce'd feveral 
 piecees of poetry in his numerous pamphlets : 
 particularly fome lines, vehemently pasfionate, in 
 " Pierce PennilefTe his fupplication to the de- 
 uill," 1395, which mistrefs Cooper pronouncees 
 the ftrongeft picture of rage and defpair that Ihe 
 ever met with.* He is fay'd to have been born 
 at LeoftofFe in Suffolk, was educateed at St. 
 Johns college Cambridge, and dye'd before 1606. 
 See HO WARD, t 
 
 NEVYLL ALEXANDER has verfees prefix'd 
 to Googees " Eglogs and fonettes," 1563. Sir J. 
 
 * Nafli was a leading partizan in the polemic brawl of 
 Martin Marprelate, and inferted feveral rhyming pas- 
 quinades in " Manins Months minde," &c. 1589. 
 T.P. 
 
 + It was order'd, in 1599, either by the ftationers 
 company, or by thearchbilhopof Canterbury and bifhop 
 of London, " That all N^ihcs bookes, and D. Har- 
 vyes bookes be taken whercfocver they may be found, 
 and that none of.. .the fame bookes be ever printed here- 
 after."
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 283 
 
 Harington commends certain verfees made hj 
 M. Alexander Nevill upon fir P. Sidneys fune- 
 rals. See his Annotations on book 37, of Orlando 
 furiofo. 
 
 NEWBERY THOMAS has his name affix'd 
 to " A booke in Englifh metre, of the great 
 marchauntman called Dives Pragmaticus, very 
 preaty for children to rede : wherby they may 
 the better, and more readyer, rede and wryte 
 wares arid implemcntes, in this world contayned :" 
 Lond. printed by Alex, Lacy, 1563. Running 
 title, '' The names of all kynd of wares." The 
 onely known copy of this book is among the duke 
 of Roxburghs poetical treafures, which were moft 
 liberally thrown open to enrich the prefent 
 work. 
 
 NEWPORT FRANCES made " An epytaphe 
 of the godlye conftaunt & counfortable confesfor 
 mystres Darotliye Wynnes, whiche flepte in 
 Chrift tlie yere of grace M. D. LX." 
 
 NEAVTON THOMAS, a Latin poet of fome 
 celebrity, and one of the translatours and publilher 
 of " Seneca his tenne tragedies," 1581, wrote 
 " Atrupoion Deliun : or tlie death of Delia, with
 
 286 POETS OF THE 
 
 the teares of lier funerall. A poeticall excufive 
 discourfe of our late Eliza:" Lon. i603, 4to. 
 Alfo '' A pleafant new history : or, a fragrant 
 pofie made of three flowers, rofa, rofal)Tid, and 
 rofemary." Lon. l604, Thefe titles are given by 
 Wood, who fays the authour dye'd at Little-Hford 
 in Esfex (where he was minister and taught 
 fchool) in 1607. He had, formerly, been a 
 phyfician, and refideed at Butley, in Chefliire. 
 Prefix'd to " BuUeins Bulwarke of defence," 
 1579, are feven ftanzas, and before *' The mir- 
 ror for magistrates," 1587, five, by this authour. 
 Before the " Hyve of hunnye," by W. Hunnis, 
 
 1578, Newton has a copy of verfees "In the 
 comendation of his frendes travayle." Others 
 are pretix'd to Niccolses edition of tlie " Mirror 
 for magistrates," 161O: andtoTymmes " Briefc 
 defcription of Hienifalem," ^c. 1595. He 
 has, llkewife, a metrical " Epilogue or conclufion" 
 to the workes of John Hey wood, 1387 : and to 
 him may belong the initials T. N. beneath a copy 
 of vcrfes in Mundays " Mirror of mutabilitie," 
 
 1579. -^ poem " To all gentlemen fouldiers, 
 and others, the readers of tliis booke," prefix'd 
 to Ives " Inlhxictions for tlie warres," Cs'c. 1589, 
 4to. a translation from the French of monfieur 
 de Bellay. He figns himfelf " Tho. Newton,
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 287 
 
 ^estrcjhyrius" Verfees before Bulleins "Bul- 
 warke of defence againft all ficknefle," Cs'c. 
 printed by T. Marfbe, 1679, folio. In his 
 " Touchftone of complexions," 1581, l2mo. are 
 feveral poetical translations. 
 
 NICCOLS JOHN, a converted papift, has fe- 
 veral poetical piecees in his "^ Pilgrimage," 1381, 
 isimo. 
 
 NICHOLSON SAMUEL wrote " Acolastus, 
 his after witte :" printed for John Baylie, l600, 
 4tO. 
 
 NICOLLS THOMAS, citizen and goldfmith 
 of London, translateed Thucydides (from the 
 French) prefix'd to which are fome ftanzas pro- 
 bablely writen by him. This work was printed 
 at London in 1550, folio, without any printers 
 name. 
 
 NIXON ANTHONY wrote " The christian 
 navy, wherein is playnely defcribed the perfed 
 courfe to fayle to the haven of happinefse," l602, 
 4to. 
 
 NORDEN JOHN, an eminent fur\'eyer and
 
 288 POETS OF THE 
 
 topographer, wrote, l. " Vicisfifudo rerunt, an 
 elegiacall poerae of the interchangeable courfees 
 and varietie of things in this world :"* printed by 
 Simon Stafford, l600, 4to. 2. " A penfive 
 foules delight," l603, 4to. 3. " The labyrinth 
 of mans life, or vertues delight, and envies oppo- 
 fite," l6l4, 4to.-t- 
 
 NORMAN ROBERT, hydrographer, has, pre- 
 fix'd to his " New attractive," 1585, 4to. " The 
 magnes or loadftones challenge," in verfe, 
 
 NORRETS S. Some verfees are by him pre- 
 fix'd to Forrefts Ifocrates. (See FORREST T.) 
 
 NORTHBROOKE JOHN, "minister and 
 preacher of tlie worde of god," authour of "^ A 
 treatifc wherein dicing, dauncing, vaine plaies or 
 enterludes, with other idle pastimes, Cs'c. com- 
 
 * In a new title, dateed i6oi, this poem was call 'd 
 " The ftorehoufe of varieties." 
 
 f ^ If " The finfull mans folace, mod fweete and 
 comfortable for the fickc and forrowfull foule, contriued 
 in 7 dales conference lx.t\\ ccn Chrift and a carcleffe fin- 
 ncr :" printed by Richard Jones, 1585, 8vo. be in 
 prole or vtrfc -
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 18g 
 
 nionly vfed on the fabbath day, are reprooued, 
 by theautlioritie of the worde of god and auncient 
 writers :" printed by Tho. DaAvfon, for Geo. 
 Billjoppe, 1579, ^^o. in which are fcueral poeti- 
 cal piecees. 
 
 NORTON THOMAS, of Sliarpenhaule, or 
 Sharpenhoe, in Bedfordfliire, " a forward and 
 bufy Calvinift," and joint authour with INI. Sack- 
 vile, afterward lord Buckhurft and earl of Dorfet, 
 in " The tragedie of Gorboduc," 1 565, wrote 
 " An aunfwere to the proclamation of the rebells 
 in the north :" printed by W. Seres, I56g, and 
 witliout date, 8vo. and translateed feveral pfalms, 
 in Sternhold and Hopkinses verfion, which are 
 distinguilh'd by his initials. Two poems are fig- 
 naturc'd Norton, in the Cotton MS. Titus. A. 
 XXIV. one of which \\as printed with the 
 " Songes and fonettes" of lord Surrey, and one 
 given, as a fpecimen, by Mr. Ellis. 
 
 NOWELL M. H. wrote a fong " Of disdain- 
 full Daphne:" printed in " Englands Helicon,'' 
 l()0(). In the fccond edition, however, it is M. 
 N. HO^^'ELL. 
 
 ( >. K. Sec VERE EDWARD. 
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 290 POETS OF THE 
 
 O. I. " The lamentation of Troy for tlic 
 death of Hector. Whereunto is annexed an olde 
 womans tale in hir folitarie cell :" printed by 
 Peter Short for William Mattes, 1594, 4to. 
 The dedication to fir Peregrin Bartue knight, 
 lord of Willoughby, ^c. and the clofe of each 
 poem, have the fignature I. O. 
 
 OFFLEY HUGH appears to be the authour of 
 a ballad, " Defcrybing the vallures of our Eng. 
 archers and thott that accompanied the blacke 
 prince of Portugall their governor into the feilds 
 on Twesdaie the 12. of Aug, witli the welcome 
 into Lyrae-ftreete j" licenfe'd to W. Jones in 
 1589. 
 
 OPILIO, See SHEPHEARD. 
 
 OXFORD EARL OF. See VERE ED- 
 WARD. 
 
 OXFORD COUNTESS OF. See VERE 
 
 ANN. 
 
 P. D. has a ftanza, " To the reader," pre- 
 fix'd to Kyffins " Blefsednes of Brytaine," 
 
 1688.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. IQl 
 
 V. J. is fign'd to a poem in Robinfons " Hande- 
 full of pleafant delites," 1584. 
 
 P. T. See PROCTOR THOMAS. 
 
 P. \V. *' doctor of the laws," hath feveral 
 poems in his " Glafle of vaine-glorie, translateed 
 out of S. Augustine," l600, 12mo. printed by J. 
 Windet. 
 
 PAINTER WILLIAM, translatour and pub- 
 lifher of " The palace of 'plealure," 1566, t^c. 
 has feveral poetical verfions interfperfe'd in that 
 work. 
 
 PARKER HENRY, lord Morley, is reported, 
 by Bale, to have writen in Engleifli, not onely 
 comedys and tragedys, but many verfees ; none 
 of which are now known to be extant. 
 
 PARKER MATTHEW, archbifhop of Can- 
 terbury, translateed into Engleifli metre, " The 
 whole pfalterj" printed by John Day, 4to. b. 1. 
 This book (according to Warton and Farmer) 
 was never publifli'd by fale (an asiertion, how- 
 ever, for which, he feems to have had no autho- 
 U 2
 
 '1Q2 POETS OF THE 
 
 rity),* and is, by Wood, follow'd in the Bodleian 
 catalogue, erroneously afcribe'd to John Keepes. 
 The errour originateed from bifliop Barlows copy 
 of the book in the Bodleian library, and was re- 
 futeed in T/ie gcntlfiuann magazine for 178I. 
 
 PARKHURST ANTHONY wrote commen- 
 datory verfecs, prefix'd to lir G. Pekhams " True 
 reporte of the late discoueries, G/c." 1383. 
 
 PARKYNN ROBERT, curate of Adwick-in- 
 the-ftreet, near Doncaster, compile'd " The his- 
 tory of the blefsed Jcfus," from the evangelifts 
 and ancient doctors, in Englilli verfe, an. 1348, 
 wliich Thoresby liad in manufcript. 
 
 * The fuppolitioii may have arilen from Bp. Ken- 
 iicts affirming that " though the archbifhop [Parker] 
 printed his book <jf plahiis, lie forbore to publifh it with 
 his name, but fuffcrtd his wife to preicnt the book to 
 Itveral of the nobility." Sec Hav. kinses History of mufic, 
 Vol. III. It may be acted that ibme of the copys now 
 extant appear to have liecn prcfcntation-copys from 
 Margaret Parker. T. P. 
 
 Dr. Burney fpeaks of arciioilftop i'a: kcrs pfauns as 
 having been printed but never puhhJIieJ. The industrious 
 Stryix:, after a diligent I'earcii, could never gain a figbr 
 ofthcni: neither cf^.i::!(! Ts.pn':'-. T. !'.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 203 
 
 PARRY ROBERT wrote a romance, or 
 " Fancie" as he calls it, intitle'd " Mcnkrutits, 
 The moft delectable & famous history of the 
 black knight;" printed by R. Jones, \b[)S, 4to 
 in which he has introduce'd feveral piececs ot 
 poetry. Doctor Farmer had mistakenly fuppofe'd 
 tlie initials R. P. in his imperfe(!il copy, to mean 
 Richard Parre (a writeer of romancces) ; but the 
 name is elfewhere printed at length. 
 
 PARTRIDGE JOHN wrote, i. ''The moft 
 famoufe and worthie historie of the worthy lady 
 Pandauola, daughter to tlie mighty paynim, the 
 great Turke :" printed by Thomas Purfoote, 
 1566, 8vo. b. 1. 2. " The worthye historie of 
 the mofle noble and valiaunt knight Plafidas, 
 otherwile callid Euftas, who was martyred for the 
 profesfion of Jefus Chritl: :" printed by Henry 
 Denham for Thomas Hacket, 1366, 8vo. b. 1. 
 3, " The notable historie of two famous princes 
 Astianax and Polixona:" l.}66, 8vo. The two 
 laft were licenfe'd to Hacket in I56l. In his 
 " Treafurie of commodious conceyts, li/f." i:j80, 
 arc vcrfccs by " l"he printer [more likely himfelf] 
 to all that couet tlic practif'e of good huswiuery, 
 as well wiues as maides." 
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 294 POETS OF THE 
 
 PATEN maister, was an asfociate with Gas- 
 coigne, fe'c. in devifeing " The princely plea- 
 fures at Kenelworth," 1576. 
 
 PAYNE CHRISTOPHER wrote " Chriften- 
 mas-carrolles ;" licenfe'd to James Roberts, in 
 1569. 
 
 PEACHAM HENRY, authour of " The 
 garden of eloquence," 1577, vvrote " Minerva 
 Britanna, or a garden of heroycal devifes," i6l2, 
 4to. He has fome poetical translations in his 
 " Compleat gentleman." He publifh'd a volume 
 of epigrams, intitle'd " Thalias banquet," in 
 1 620 ; and contributeed 4 copys of verfes to the 
 " Odcombian banquet," 161 1 5 in the Engleifh, 
 French, Latin, and Utopian tongues. 
 
 PEELE GEORGE, master of arts in the uni- 
 verfity of Oxford, and a dramatick authour of 
 fome celebrity,* wrote, 1. " The device of the 
 pageant borne before Woolfton Dixie, lord mayor 
 of London, 06t. 29, 15S3," 4to. printed by 
 
 * Nafh term'd him " the chief fupporter of plcafancc, 
 the atlas of poctrie, and primus verborumartif/x." T. P.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 295 
 
 Edw. Allde. 2. " A farewell, entituled to the 
 famous and fortunate generalls of our Englilli 
 forces : fir lohn Norris and fyr Frauncis Drake, 
 knights, and all tlieyr brave and refolute fol- 
 lowers. Whereunto is annexed a tale of Troy:" 
 printed by I. C. 158.0, 4to. 3. " Polyhymnia 
 defcribing the honourable triumphs at tylt, be- 
 fore her maiestie, on the 17th of November laft 
 paft, with fir Henry Lea his refignation of ho- 
 nour at tylt to her maiestie:" printed by R. 
 Jhones, 1590, 4to. 4. " The honour of the 
 garter : displaied in a poeme gratulatorie. En- 
 titled to the worthie & renowned earle of 
 Nortliumberland, created knight of that order, 
 and inftalled at Windfore, anno irgni Elizabethe 
 35, die Jimii 26 :" printed by the widow Charle- 
 wood, 1593, 4to. He alfo wrote a lliort com- 
 pliment, in blank verfe, prefix'd to Watfons 
 fonnets : likewife, " Coridon and Melampus 
 fong," and " Oenones complaint in blank verfe," 
 both in " Englands Helicon," 1600. He has a 
 third piece in the fame collection, writen in lyrick 
 verle, and intitle'd "Colin, the enamoured Ihep- 
 hcard, fingeth the pasfion of love :" and has, like- 
 wife, a poem, intitle'd " The praife of chastitie," 
 in " The phocnix-nell," 1593. In 1591 was li- 
 U 4
 
 296 POETS OF THE 
 
 cenfe'd to R. Jones " The hunting of Cupid, by 
 Geo. Peele, M. A. of Oxford," An account of 
 his theatrical performancees wil be found in the 
 " Biograp/iia dramatica." " This perfon," fays 
 Wood," was living in his middle age, in tlie 
 latter end of Q. Elizabeth, but Avhen or where 
 he died i cannot tell ; for fo it is, and always 
 hath been, that moft poets die poor, and confe- 
 quently obfcurely, and a hard matter it is to trace 
 them to their graves."* 
 
 PEEND THOMAS translateed " The plea- 
 fant fable of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis," out 
 of Ovids Metamorpholis, with a moral, printed 
 in 1364 nnd 1565, 8vo. He has a poem prefix'd 
 to Studleys Agamemnon, 156C. 
 
 PEERIS WILLIAM, prieft and fccretaiy to 
 Henry (the 3tli) earl of Northumberland, wrote 
 the " discente of tlie lord Percis, in verfc," cx- 
 
 * He was dead in 1598. " As Anacrcon," fays 
 Meres, " d)xd by the pot, fo Cicorge Pctle by the 
 pox." Mister Stecvens fuppofc'd that the character of 
 George Picboard in the " Puritan," was dcliijn'd for 
 George Peek.
 
 SIXTEEXTH CEKTl'UV. 2l)7 
 
 tant in tlie royal MSS. 18 D II. where are, like- 
 wife, " proverbs painted in feveral rooms, at 
 Lekyngfelde & WrefiUe," probablely by the fame 
 hand, and printed in Vols. 3 and 4 of The Jnli- 
 quarian rq)ertorfj, 1780 and 1784. 
 
 PEETERHOUSE JOHN has a few ftanzas, 
 before " Newes from the north," 1579, ad- 
 drefs'd " to the reporter of this history." 
 
 PELHAM SIR WILLIAM wrote commen- 
 datory verfees prefix'd to fir G. Peckhams, '* True 
 reporte of the late discoueries, fc!*c." 1583. 
 
 PEMBROKE. See HERBERT MARY. 
 
 PERCY WILLIAM wrote " Sonnets to the 
 faireft Ca4ia :" printed by Adam Iflip for W. P. 
 1594, 4to. In the audiours " Addrefs to the 
 reader," he propofes, " ere long, to impart unto 
 the world another porwc more fruitful! and pon- 
 derous." 
 
 PETOWE HENRY wrote, 1. " The fccond 
 part of the loves of Hero and Leander, conteyn- 
 ing their further fortunes" (in continuation of 
 Marlows verfion of Mufaeus) ; printed by 1'.
 
 2Q8 POETS OF THE 
 
 Purfoot, 1598, 4to. 2, " EUzabttha qxiafi 17- 
 vens, Elizas funerall, a few Aprill drops, fliowred 
 on the hearfe of dead Eliza, or the funerall 
 teares of a true hearted fubjeft," i603, 4to. 3. 
 " The whipping of runawaies :" for C. Burbie, 
 i60S. 
 
 PETOWE WILLIAM is the authour, accord- 
 ing to Warton, of an old ballad on Jephthajvdge 
 of Israel." (H. E. P. Ill, 434.) Q. 
 
 PETT PETER wrote " Times journey to feek 
 his daughter Truth, and Truths letter to Fame, 
 of Englands excellencie :" 15QQ, 4to. 
 
 PETTIE GEORGE has fome fcraps of poetry 
 in his translation of the three lirft bookes of 
 Guazzos " Civile con verfation : " printed by Tho. 
 Eaft, 1586, 4to. 
 
 PHAER THOMAS. " The feuen firft bookes 
 of the Eneidos of Virgin, conuerted into Engliflie 
 meter by Thomas Phaer efquier, foUicitour to the 
 king and queues maiesties, attending their ho- 
 norable counfaile in the marchies of Wales, anno 
 1558, 28 Maij :" printed by John Kingston, 1558, 
 4to, b. 1, " The nyne fyrft bookes of the
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 2QQ 
 
 Eneidos of Virgil converted into Engliflie vearfe 
 by Tho. Phaer doctour of phifike, with fo muche 
 of the tenthe booke as fince his death [isGo] 
 collide be founde in vnperfit papers at his houfe 
 in Kilganan foreft in Penbrokelhire :" printed 
 by Rowland Hall for Nicholas England, 1562, 
 4to. b. 1. In lb66, T. Purfoot had a licenfe for 
 " Serten verces of Cupydo, by Mr. Fayre/* 
 He, likewife, fupply'd the legend of Owen 
 Glendower in the " Mirror for magistrates^ 
 1559 J and has a recommendatory poem before 
 Philip Bethams " Military precepts," 1544, 
 Warton, alfo, fays, he had feen an old ballad, 
 called Gads-hill, by Faire, that was, probablely, 
 our translator Phaer (III, S99) ; which does not 
 feem very credible. 
 
 PHILLIP JOHN wro^e and publilh'd " A 
 rare and ftrange historicall nouell of Cleomenes 
 and Sophonisba, furnamed Juliet ; very pleafant 
 toreade:" printed by Hugh Jackfon, 1577, 8vo. 
 
 PHIST \V. (according to Warton) translateed 
 from the Italian " The wellpring of wittie con- 
 ceights :" printed for R. Jones, 1584, 4to. b. 1. 
 (Ill, 308) which, however, no one elfe appears 
 ever to have met with.
 
 300 ^ POETS OP THE 
 
 PICKS PETER contributeed a fhort poem to 
 Robinfons " Handfull of pleafant delites," 15 84. 
 
 PIG VA. is fign'd to a poem in the Cotton 
 MS. Titus, A. XXIV. " Poems written in Q. 
 Marys time," Cs'c. 
 
 PINE JO. has a copy of commendatory verfes 
 before Hollands " Historic of our lord and far 
 viour," 1594. 
 
 POWELL MOSES fet forth (or meditateed) 
 " A book of carolls :" liccnfe'd to John Wolf, 
 1 1th Decern. 1587. 
 
 POWELL THOMAS wrote " The pasfionate 
 poet, with a defcription of tlie Thracian Ismarus, 
 in verfe :" London, printed by Valentine Simmes, 
 1601, 4ro. 
 
 PRATT THOMAS wrote commendatory 
 verfees, prcfix'd to Fletchers " Introduction to 
 the looue of god," 1581. 
 
 PRESTON THOMAS, authour of the " La- 
 mentable tragedie mixed ful of pleafant mirtli 
 conteyning the life of Cambifes king of Pcrfiaj"
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 301 
 
 the but of contemporary wits, wrote " A geli- 
 tlower or I'wete marygolde, wherein the frutes of 
 tcranny you may beliolde :" hcenfe'd, in 16Gy, 
 to W. Griffith. 
 
 PRIDEAUX .... wrote an elegy in com- 
 mendation of billiop Bonner ; inferted in fir John 
 Haringtons " Briefe view of the fl:ate of the 
 church of England, " together witli an anfwer," 
 verfe for verfe, by an ill-wilier of the faid 
 biiliop." 
 
 PROCTOR THOMAS. " A gorgious gallery 
 of gallant inucntions, garnilhed and decked witli 
 diners daintie deuifcs, right delicate and delight- 
 fiill, to recreate eche modeft minde withall. 
 Firll framed and fafiiioned in fundrie formes, by 
 divers worthy workemcn of late dayes : and now 
 joyned together and builded up. By T, P."* 
 
 * The latter part of this miscellany comprilecs " Pre- 
 tic pamph.lcts by T. Proctor." 
 
 Tho. Proctor has a copy of commendatory vcrfees b^- 
 foreMundays" Mirror of mutabilitic," 1597 :andftems 
 tu be the T. P. who inferted " Sentences in meeter 
 tending to fundrie purpofes," in his " Treatife of hea- 
 venly philofophie," 1578; and has verfees prcfix'd to a
 
 302 POETS OF THE 
 
 printed by R. Jones, 1578, 4to. b. 1.* The 
 fame perfon has, likewife, commendatory verfees, 
 prefix' d to " Newes from the north," 1579, 
 '* in reporteof the authors good wil." 
 
 PROWSE ANN has fome verfees, in her trans- 
 lation of Taffms treatife " Of the markes of the 
 children of god," 159O, on "The necesfitie 
 & benefite of afflictions." 
 
 PRYNE RALPH, grocer in London, wrote a 
 fort of rimeing prayer for queen Mary, inferted 
 in an old pfalter, which he prefented to her ma- 
 jesty (Bib. regia, 2 B III.) 
 
 PULLAYNE JOHN, a native of Yorkfliire, 
 
 work " Of the knowledge & conduft of warres," in the 
 fame year. 
 
 * On the 5th of June 1577 was licenfc'd to this Jones 
 " A handful! of hidden fecrets conteyninge therein 
 ccrtaine fonets & other pleafante devifes pickt out 
 of the clofct of fundrie worthie writers, & colletled 
 by R. Williains :" %vhich, by a memorandum, after the 
 entry, appears to have been the above " Gorgious gal- 
 lery :" another title, " Delicate dainties to fweten buties 
 lips withall," being obliteratced.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 303 
 
 educateed at Oxford, and, in time, afchdeacon of 
 Colchester, translateed, 1. The eccle.fi astes of So- 
 lomon ; 2. The history of Sufanna 5 3. The his- 
 tory of Judith; 4. The history of Hester j 5. 
 The testament of the 12 patriarchs ; and dyed in 
 15Cd : but whether tliefe translations were ever 
 printed does not appear. Warton had *' feen 
 the name of John Pullayne affix'd in manufcript 
 to a copy of an anonymous verfion of Solomons 
 fong," or " Solomons balads in metre." (Lon. 
 4to. n. d.) 
 
 PUNT WILLIAM made '' A ballade againft 
 the pope and popery :" printed by \V. Hill, 
 about 1548. 
 
 PUTTENHAM WEBSTER,* one of the gen- 
 tlemen penfioners to queen Elizabeth, and author 
 of "The arte of Englilh poefie," 1589, wrote, 
 according to his own account, " A litle brief ro- 
 
 * Neither Bolton, who firft mentions him, nor 
 Wood, gives his name; which for anything that ap- 
 pears, is firft mentiori'd by Ames, upon whatever au- 
 thority. Doctor Lort, in his copy, had inferred a memo- 
 randum to the fame purport : but mister Steevens call'd 
 the authour George, from a MS. (as he term'd it) of Ni- 
 colfon amone: authours. T. P.
 
 304 POETS OP THE 
 
 mance or historical! ditty of tlie ifle of Great 
 Britaine in Ihort and long raeetres, and by 
 breaches or divilions to be more commodiously 
 fong to the harpe in places of asfemble, where 
 the company Ihal be defirous to heare of old ad- 
 ventures & valiaunces of noble knights in times 
 pad, Cs'f." alfo " Elpine,* an eclogue, made at 
 the age of 18, and other things; all now loll, 
 unlefs certain lines, inferted in pp. 147, and 
 161, maybe part of the above ditty.f He de- 
 
 * From Puttenhams report of having infcribe'd this 
 eclogue, at the age of iR, to K. Edward VI. it placecs 
 the date of his birth anterior to 1535. 
 
 f " A balladof Brittiflie Sidanen, applied by a cour- 
 tier to the praife of the quene," licenfe'd, 13th Auguft 
 1579, to Richard Jones, was, probablcly, by this au- 
 thour. The following lift of his works was taken by mis- 
 ter Stcevens from a MS. memorandum of Ben Jonfon. 
 *' Hicrotcthni," " A brief romance of the ifle of Great 
 Britain," " Gynaicocratia," " The oiiginal and pe- 
 digree of the Englifli tongue," " The interview of two 
 great princcfses," " Lustie London," *' Epitaphes." 
 •' Partheniadcs," " Philocalia," " Minerva," " A 
 book," " An hvmne," " Dc Durra." 
 
 " That Putttnham was a courtier (fays Oldys) is 
 vifible; alf) had been a traveller, and fccn the courts of 
 foreign princes; wherefore his illustrations, both his- 
 torical and political, are draun fo familiarly from
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 305 
 
 fcribes himfelf to have been " a fcholler in Ox- 
 ford," though Wood could not tel where he was 
 bred. 
 
 PYRRYE C. wrote " The praife and dispraife 
 of women, very fruitfull to the well dispofed 
 minde, and delectable to the readers thereof : and 
 a fruitfull Ihorte dialogue vpon the fentence, 
 know before thou knitte:" printed by W, How, 
 n. d, 8vo. b. 1. 
 
 PYTTES JOHN wrote "A prayer or fup- 
 plycation made vnto god by a young man that he 
 would be mercifull to vs, and not kepe his worde 
 away from vs, but that the truth maie fpringe :" 
 printed by W, Herforde, 1559, on a broad-fide, 
 confifting of 17 fix-line ftanzas. See Herbert, 
 580. 
 
 Q,', T. M. has fome commendatory verfees be- 
 fore Turberviles " Arte of venerie," with tlie 
 initials T. M. Q. 
 
 thence, that he may be call'd the court-critic of that 
 reign." — Life of Raleigh. Wood hints, that *' fome 
 have thought" the book was writen by Sidney. T. P. 
 
 X
 
 306 POETS OF THE 
 
 R. F. See ROUS FRANCIS. 
 
 R. I. H. (I. H. R.) wrote " The moft excel- 
 lent historic of Lynmachus & Varrona, daughter 
 to Syllanus, duke of Hypata, in Thesfalia : 
 wherein are contained tlie effeSs of fortune, the 
 wonders of affection, & tlie conquefts of incer- 
 taine time :" printed by T. Creede, l604. 
 
 R. N. Thefe initials are prefix'd to a com- 
 mendatory poem before Gascoignes " Steele- 
 glaffe," 1376, 
 
 R. S. See ROWLAND SAMUEL. 
 
 R, T. Thefe initials are prefix'd to vcrfces to 
 the reader, before Studleys " Pageant, of popes," 
 15745 and to Cottons '' Armor of proofe, tij'c." 
 13y6. 
 
 R. W. " The forrowfull fighes of a faddc 
 foule upon the unfortunate death of the right 
 hon. the vertuous & valarous gentleman, the 
 lord Bourgh." — A poem written by W, R. a fer- 
 vant of the faid lord B. and annex'd to a profe 
 account of " The moft horrible & tragicall 
 raurther of John lord Bourgh, baron of Castell
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 307 
 
 Connell ; committed by Arnold Cosby, the 14 
 of January:" printed by R. R. 1591, 4to. Q. 
 whether Arnold Cosbies " Ultimum vale f" Sec 
 his article. 
 
 RAINSFORD EDWARD, efquire, has a copy 
 of verfees prefix'd to Greenes " Ciceronis Amor," 
 1592. 
 
 RALEGH SIR WALTER, born in 1552, 
 convided of treafon in l6'03, and, after being 
 employ'd under tlie kings commisfion, beheaded, 
 upon that obfolete fentcnce, in 1G18, wrote com- 
 mendatory verfees prefix'd to Gascoigues " Steele- 
 glafle," and Spcnfers "Faerie queenej"* allfo 
 " Tlie filent lover," " The nimphs reply to the 
 fheepheard" (in anfwer to Marlow), and other 
 piecees, moftly printed in " Englands Heliccn," 
 1600. Some of thefe being (like others, cer- 
 tainly not by him) fubfcribe'd Ignotof (or Anony- 
 
 * From Spenfers dedicatory fonnet to Raleigh, and 
 from his Introduction to book 3, of the Faery Queen, 
 it would feem that fir Walter had writen a poem inti- 
 tled " Cynthia," in praifc of CLElizabcth. T. P. 
 
 ■\ Ignoto and W. R. are fign'd to a pair of compli- 
 mentary poems before Lithgows " Pilgrims farewell :" 
 printed at Ediaburgh, in i6i8. 
 
 X 2
 
 308^ tOETS OF THE 
 
 mousj, it has been erroneously asferted, by 
 Warton, to be *' Raleighs conftant fignature." 
 It is likewife obfervable that this word is, in two 
 inftancees, pafteed over the initials S. W. R. either 
 becaufe he was not the authour, or wifh'd to con- 
 ceal himfelf, Tlie Anfxoer to the lye, ufually 
 afcribe'd to Ralegh, and pretended to have been 
 writen the night before his execution, was, in 
 faa, by Francis Davilbn. See IGNOTO. The 
 anfwer to, or parody upon. Withers fong " Shall 
 i, wafting in defpair," begining, " Shall i, like 
 an hermit, dwell," is likewife attributeed to Ra- 
 legh ; of whom, fays Puttenham, " For dittie 
 and amourous ode i finde fir Walter Rawleyghs 
 vayne moft loftie, infolent, and pasfionate." 
 This poem, by fome od blunder, may have been 
 confounded with his " Epitaph," which appear'd 
 in Brathwaites " Remains after death," 161 8, 
 and profefses to be " writ the night before his 
 execution.* " The Englilli poems of fir Walter 
 Raleigh," in Boltons opinion," are not eafily to 
 be mended." 
 
 * As a complete refutation of this report, which 
 Percy thinkt may have been a mistake, it may be ob- 
 fcrvc'd that Raleigh was cxecuteed in 1618, and the 
 poem was printed by Davifon in r6oS.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 30Q 
 
 RAMSEY, LAURENCE wrote and fet-forth 
 " The practife of the diuell. The auncient poi- 
 foned practifes of the diuell, in his papiftes, 
 againft the true profesfors of gods holy worde, in 
 thefe our latter dayes :'* printed for Timothy 
 Rider, without date, 4to. b. 1. in feven-line 
 ftanzas. It was, probablely, the fame man who 
 wrote " Ramfies farewell to his late lord & mas- 
 ter therle of Leicester, which departed this 
 worlde at Cor'burye the 4 Sept. 1588:" li- 
 cenfe'd, in the fame year^ to Edward Aggas. 
 
 RAMSY JOHN wrote " A plaister for a galled 
 horfe:" in 23 octave ftanzas : printed by Tho, 
 Raynald, 1548, 4to. 
 
 RANDALL ROBERT, a native of Wales, 
 executeed, along with his fon Thomas, at St. 
 Thomas-a- Waterings, the 2 ift of February 1593, 
 made " A dolefull fonge," which was^ two days 
 after, licenfe'd to Edward Aide, as was their 
 " Wofull and forrowfull complaints" to John 
 Danter. 
 
 RANKINS WILLIAM wrote " Seven fa- 
 tyres," Ci/f. printed in 1596. He has, likewife, 
 X 3
 
 310 POETS OF THE 
 
 a fonnet prefix'd to Bodenhams " Belvedere^ or 
 the garden of the mufes/' i600, l2mo. 
 
 READ JOHN wrote " A complaint of the 
 abufe of the noble arte of chirurgerie," in metre, 
 prefix'd to his translation of Arceuses " Method 
 of curing woundes/' 1588, 4to. 
 
 RECORDE ROBERTE, doctor of phyfick, 
 wrote "The castle of knowledge," 1556, in 
 which various pieces of poetry or rimes are in- 
 terfperfed. In the preface to his " Ground of 
 artes teachyng the worke and practife of arith- 
 metike," ^c. printed by Reynold Wolff, 12mo. 
 b. 1. n. d. are twelve lines of poetry ; and after- 
 ward a lingle ftanza, intitle'd " The bokes ver- 
 diae." 
 
 RHODES. See RODES. 
 
 RICE RICHARD publifli'd " An invective 
 againft vices taken for vertue : gathered out of 
 tlie frriptures by tlic unprofitable fcrvant of Jefus 
 Chrifte, Richard Rice. Alfo certain nccesfary in- 
 ftructions meet to be taught the young gentlemen. 
 Done by D, W. Arch," in metre. Printed by Ro- 
 bert Waldcgrave for Hen. Kirkman, 1581, 8vo.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 311 
 
 RICHARDSON THOMAS, fometime ftudent 
 in Cambridge, has " A proper new fong, to the 
 tune of " I wifh to fee thofe happy dales;" in 
 " A handefull of pleafant delites/' 1584. 
 
 ROBERTS HENRY wrote " An epitaph upon 
 the death of the erle of Leicester :" licenfe'd to 
 John Charlewood in December 16 89. 
 
 ROBINSON CLEMENT. " A handefull of 
 pleafant delites, containing fundrie new fonets, 
 and delectable histories in divers kindes of mee- 
 ter : newly devifed to the neweft tunes, Cs'c. by 
 Clement Robinfon, and others," 1584, l6mo. 
 In 15G6 was licenfe'd to R. Johnes, ""A booke 
 intituled of very pleafaunte fonettes and ftoryes in 
 myter by Clament Robynfon :" probablely the 
 fame work. 
 
 ROBINSON RICHARD, citizen of London, 
 compile'd " The rewarde of wickedneffe dis- 
 coursing the fundrye monftrous abufes of wicked 
 and vngodlye worldelinges : in fuch fort fet downe 
 and written as the famehaue been dyuerfely prac- 
 tlfed In the perfones of popes, harlots, proude 
 princes, tyrauntes, Romilh byslhoppes and others. 
 X 4
 
 312 POETS OF THE 
 
 With a liuely defcriptioa of tlieir feuerall fallcs 
 and fin all definition. Veryc profitable for all 
 forte of eflates to reade and looke vpon. Newljr 
 compiled by Richard Robinfon, fervaunt in hous- 
 holde to the right honorable earle of Shrowsburjr. 
 A dreame mofl pitiful, and to be dreaded :" 
 
 " Of thinges that be flraunge. 
 Who loveth to reede : 
 
 In this booke let him raunge, 
 His fancie to feede," 
 Imprinted by W. Williamfon [no printers name 
 in mister Hebers copy], n. d. 4to. b. 1. Upon the 
 plan of the " Mirror for magistrates." At the 
 end is a poem intitle'd " Retourning from Plutos 
 kingdome^ to noble Helicon : the place of in- 
 finite ioye :" in which he mentions Chaucer, 
 Lydgate, Skelton, Heywood, Googe, and other 
 Engleifh poets. The addrefs from " The author 
 to the reader" is dated " From my chamber in 
 Sheffield-castle. The xix. of Maie. 1574."* 
 
 * Robinfon appears to have been one of the domestick 
 ccntinels employed by Ld. Shrewsbury to guard the 
 Q^of Scots. During his night-watches this " fimplc 
 travaile," he informs us, was compofe'd : and the au- 
 thour has juflly characterife'd his performance to be "a 
 droufie dreaming piece of worke, neither garnifhed with
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 313 
 
 He, likewife, translateed and coUefted " The 
 auncient order, focietie, and unitie laudable, of 
 prince Arthure and his knightly armory of the 
 round table. With a threefold asfertion frendly 
 in fauour and furtherance of Englilh archery at 
 this day :" printed by John Wolfe, 1383, 4to. 
 b. 1. In ]56q or 70 was licenfe'd to H. Bynne- 
 man, " The ruffull tragedy of Hemidos & The- 
 lay, by Rye. Robynfon." Whether his " Chrift- 
 mas recreations of histories & moralizations, aplied 
 for our folace & confolations," licenfe'd to Tho. 
 Eafte in 1576, but never printed, were in verfe 
 or profe is not known. 
 
 ROBINSON THOMAS wrote a fliort poem, 
 " De lapide phi/ofopkoriim :" printed in Afh- 
 moles Theatriwi c/temiciim, 
 
 ROCHFORD Viscount. See BOLEYN 
 GEORGE. 
 
 rhetorike, eloquence, curious tearmes, nor pleafaunt 
 matter." T. P. 
 
 Dr. Farmer had furmife'd that he might have been 
 the fame perfon whofe name appears among the principal 
 actours of Shakfpeares plays, in the lift prefix'd to the 
 folio edition.
 
 314 POETS OF THE 
 
 RODES HUGH compile'd " The boke of nur- 
 ture, for men, feruantes and chyldren, with 
 Stans puer ad mcn/iwi, very vtyle and necesfary 
 vnto all youth :" printed by Thomas Petyt, with- 
 out date, 4to. b. 1. The author is fay'd to be 
 " one of the kynges chapell," meaning, doubt- 
 lefs, that of Henry the 8 th ; and the book to be 
 " newly corrected j" fo that there muft have 
 been an earlyer edition. There was a latecr, by 
 Hugh Jackfon, 1577, in which, though the mat- 
 ter is the fame, the language and metre display 
 confiderable variation. The Stans puer ad men- 
 fam of Lydgate is a totally different perfor- 
 mance. Warton, who fuppofees " The boke 
 of nurture" to have been firft publilh'd in the 
 reign of Edward the 6th, and defcribes tlie au- 
 thour as " a gentleman or mufician of the royal 
 chapell," fays that, in tlie following reign of 
 Mary, the ftme poet printed a poem, confiding 
 of thirty-fix octave ftanzas, intitle'd, " The fong 
 of the chyld-bysfliop, as it was fonge before the 
 queenes maieslie in her priuie chamber at her 
 manour of faynt James-in-the-feeldes on faynt 
 Nicholas day and Innocents day...by the chylde- 
 bysfhope of Poules churche with his company. 
 Londini in adibiis Johannin Cauood tt/pngraphi
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 315 
 
 regince, 1555," 4to. b. 1. which feems to require 
 fome further authority. See III, 321.* 
 
 ROGERS GEORGE wrote commendatory 
 verfees, prefix'd to " Wharton s dreame," 1578. 
 
 ROGERS JOHN or MATTHEW. See 
 SMITH ROBERT. 
 
 ROSCARROCKE NICHOLAS has a long 
 copy of verfe'e's, entitled " Cilenus his cenfure of 
 the aucther in his high court of Heraldrie," be- 
 fore Boflewells Workes of armorie, 1572. 
 
 ROSSE J. of the Inner Temple, wrote " The 
 avthors tearcs vpon the death of his honorable 
 freende fir William Sackvile knight of tlie ordre 
 de la Colade in Fraunce : fonne to the right ho. 
 the lorde Buckhurft Anno Dni I5g2 : a poem 
 in l68 fix-line ftanzas of confiderable merit 
 and with great defefts : a 4to. MS. in the pos- 
 
 * Herbert, in p. 1794, asferts a copy of this book to 
 be in the pos(esfion of " Francis Douce, efquire;" who 
 never had, nor faw, nor (except from what Warton 
 fays) ever hcar'd of fuch a thing.
 
 3l6 POETS OF THE 
 
 fesfion of Francis Douce efquire. He has, like- 
 wife, Latin and Engleifh verfees before the fe- 
 cond part of Femes " Blazon of gentrie," in- 
 tle'd " Lacies Nobilitie," 1586. 
 
 ROUS FRANCIS. " Thule, or vertues historic. 
 To the honorable and vertuous mistris Amy Audely . 
 By F. R. In two books. The firft booke, printed 
 for Humfrey Lownes, 1598," 4to. If this were 
 the Francis Rous who is mention'd by Wood, as 
 haveing, at 1 2 years of age, become a commoner 
 of Broadgates-hall in 1591, he likewife translateed 
 the pfalms of David into Engleifh metre, which 
 were order'd to be printed by the houfe of com- 
 mons in 1645. Being a zealous and distin- 
 guifh'd puritan, he was, in i643, made provoft 
 of Eton-college, and continue'd in that fituation 
 til the time of his death, which hapen'd in l658, 
 being the 80th year of his age. 
 
 ROWLAND DAVID, the translatour of Laza- 
 rillo (le Tonnes, made " An epytaphe of my 
 lorde of Pembroke," which was licenfe'd to Tho. 
 Col well, in I56g. 
 
 ROWLANDS SAMUEL wrote, 1. "The
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 317 
 
 betraying of Chrift. Judas in defpaire. The 
 feuen words of our fauiour on the croffe, with 
 other poems on the pasfion :" printed by A, Iflip, 
 1598, 4to. 2, " The famous history of Guy 
 carle of Warwicke :" printed by Edward Allde, 
 without date, 4to. 3. " The letting of humours 
 blood in the head-vaine : with a new Morisco 
 daunced by feaven fatyres upon the bottom of 
 Diogines table:" printed by W, Wliite, 1600, 
 4to. and reprinted in 1607, under the title of 
 " Humors ordinarie, where a man may be verie 
 merrie, and exceeding well ufed for his fixe- 
 pence," 4to. 4. " Looke to it for ile flabbe 
 ye," being characters in verfe, l604, 4 to. 5. 
 "■ Democritus, or Dr. Merriman his medicines 
 ngainft melancholy humours ; enter'd to John 
 Deane, 24th of October 1607. 6. " Humors 
 looking-glafle }" printed by Ed. Alldc, 16O8, 
 8vo. 7. " Hell broke loofe, a terrible battell 
 betweene the two confumers of the whole world. 
 Time and Death," 4to. 8. " Doctor Merrie- 
 man, or nothing but mirth ;" printed for John 
 Deane, l6og, 4to. 9. *' Martin Markal, bea- 
 dle of Bridewell," Cs'c. 1610, 4to. 10. " The 
 knave of clubbs." fatirical characters, 161 1, 4to. 
 n. *' A facred memoire of the miracles wrought
 
 318 POETS OF THE 
 
 by our lord and faviour," l6i8, 4to. 12. ''The 
 night raven," l6i8. 13. '• Good newes and 
 bad newes," 1622, 4to. 14. " Diogines lan- 
 thome," l628, 4to. 15. " Heavens glory, 
 earths vanity, and hells horrour," 1628, 4to. 
 He has a copy of verfees prcfix'd to Andrewes 
 " Unmaflting of a feminine Machiavell," i604, 
 and another to Collinses " Teares of Love," 
 1615. 
 
 ROY WILLIAM was the authour, according 
 to Bale, of a Angular book intitle'd " Rede me 
 and be nott wrothe For i fay no thynge but 
 trouthe j" being a fevere fatire againft Cardinal 
 Wolfey, in two parts, in " A brefe dialoge be- 
 twene two preftes fervaunts named Watkin and 
 leffraye : preceded by a colloquy between the au- 
 thour and his work, and a ballad-lamentation on 
 the deceafe of the mafs. (See Herbert, 1339.) 
 It appears to have been printed abroad in, or 
 about, 1323, between, that is, the duke of 
 Buckinghams execution and the repudiation of 
 queen Catherine. There is another* edition, 
 
 * This edition differs in many refpcfts from the 
 former, and the force of the fatire is frequently weak-
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. SIQ 
 
 with a preface by L. R. " prynted at Wefell, in 
 1546, by Henry Nycolfon." (Herbert, 1560.) 
 This Roy, who had been a frier, was one of the 
 translatours of the new testament, printed at 
 Hamburgh or Antwerp, about 1526, and was 
 bmn'd in Portugal for herefy. 
 
 ROYDON MATTHEW was the authour of 
 " An elegie or friends pasfion for his Aftrophill ; 
 written upon the death of fir Philip Sidney," in 
 " The phoenix neft," 1593 (according to a note 
 in bifhop Tanners copy) ; and has commendatory 
 verfees, prefix'd to Watfons fonnets, and fir G. 
 Peckhams " True reporte," 1583. To this Roy- 
 don, by the title of " my deare and mod worthy 
 friend," " the trulie learned," and " fweet Ma- 
 thew," Chapman addrefses his " Shadow of 
 night," 1504, and his " Ovids banquet of fence," 
 1595. 
 
 ROYDON OWEN wrote commendatory' 
 
 en'd, by being transfer'd from the cardinal to the 
 " byfhoppes of Englandc." 
 
 Pope injurc'd his '< Dunciad," in the fame manner, 
 by transfcting to Gibber what was applicable onely to 
 Theobald. T. P.
 
 320 POETS OF THE 
 
 rerfes prefix'd to Proctors " Gorgious gallery of 
 gallant inventions," 15 70. 
 
 S. C. has a fonnet *' to his loving colin and 
 good friend, R. C." prefix'd to the latter (Cait)8 
 " Mahumetane or Turkifh history," Cs'c. 1600. 
 
 S. D. See SAND. 
 
 S. F. See SABIE, SEAGER. 
 
 8. E. Thefe initials are fubjoin'd to feveral 
 poems in " The paradice of daiutie deuifes," 
 1576. 
 
 S. J. lias a prefatory fonnet in Carrs " Ma- 
 humetane or Turkifh histor}', &3'c." i6oo. 
 
 S. M. Thefe initials, peradventure thofe of 
 master Sackvile, are fubjoin'd to a fingle poem 
 in " The paradice of daintie deuifes," 1600. 
 They, likewife, occur in *' Diella, or certain 
 fonnets," ^c. I096. 
 
 S. R. " Phillis and Flora. The fweetc and 
 ciuill contention of two amorous ladyes. Trans-
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 3'il 
 
 lated out of Latine : by R. S. efquirc. Aut 
 Marti vel Mercurio. Imprinted at London by 
 W. W, for Richard lohnes, 1398, 4to. See 
 CHAPMAN GEORGE (who has either made 
 very free with the property of il. 5. or been moft 
 cavalierly treated by that refpeAable efquirej.* 
 The fame initials are fubfcribe'd to fome verfees 
 " in praife of Gascoignes pofies," prefix'd to his 
 " Flowers," 15/5. They are, likewife, thofe 
 of the editour of " The phoenix neft : built up 
 with the moft rare and refined workes of noble- 
 men, worthy knights, gallant gentlemen, mas- 
 ters of arts, and brave fchoUers. Full of varietie, 
 excellent invention, and fingular delight. Never 
 before this time publilbed. Set foorth by R. S. 
 of the Inner Temple, gentleman," 1593, 4lo. 
 printed by J. Jackfon (a [miscellaneous] collec- 
 tion of poems). The initials R. S. are, likewife, 
 fubjoin'd to a commendatory ftanza at tlie end of 
 Spenfers "Faerie queene :" and to a copy of 
 verfees before Wilfred Holmeses " Fall and evill 
 fuccelTe of rebellion," 1572. See SMITH R. 
 SOUTHWELL ROBERT. 
 
 * Chapmans poem was printed by I. R. (James Ro- 
 berts), for Richard Smith, in 1595. 
 Y
 
 322 POETS OF THE 
 
 S. W. One W, S. has " A prayer. Surge 
 deus, &c." in Sternholds metre in " A dialogue 
 agaynft the tyrannic of the papiftes, by E. C." 
 1562. See SMITH WILLIAM. D. C, J. 
 
 SABIE FRANCIS wrote " Pans pipe, three 
 pastorall eglogues, in Englifh hexameter, with 
 other poetical verfe5 delightfull. For the further 
 delight of the reader, the printer hatli annexed 
 hereunto the delectable poeme of tlie Fiftier-mans 
 tale."^ Printed by Rd. Jhones, 1.595, 4to. The 
 dedication is fign'd F. S. which, from the fol- 
 lowing entry, fufficiently ascertains the authour. 
 " The fisfher-mans tale : of the famous ades, 
 life and loue of Casfander a Grecian knight ;'* 
 alfo " Floras fortune. The fecond part and fi- 
 nifliing of the fiilier-mans tale. Containing the 
 ftrange accidents which chaunced to Flora, and 
 her fuppofed father Thirds : alfo the happie 
 meeting witli her defired Casfander :" both 
 printed by Richard Jones, 1595, 4to, 
 
 SACKVIL THOMAS, createed, in 1567, lord 
 Buckhurft, and, in l603, earl ofDorfet, "hav- 
 ing been in his younger days," according to 
 Wood, " poetically inclined, did write, while he
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTUIlY. 323 
 
 continued in Oxon, feveral Latin and Englilh 
 poems, which tho' publi(hed, either by them- 
 felves, or mixed among other mens poems, yet," 
 he ads, " i prefume they are loft or forgotten, as 
 having either no name to them, or that the copies 
 are worn out." He wrote, however, ftil extant, 
 " The complaynt of Henry duke of Buckingham," 
 in " The feconde parte" of the " Myrrour for ma- 
 gistrates," 1563, accompany'd with a very poeti- 
 cal "Induction or preface:" the caufe whereof, 
 " feeing none other hath ufed the like order," 
 is thus explain'd by Baldwin the publifher : 
 " After that he vnderftoode that fome of the 
 counfayle would not fuffer the booke to be printed 
 in fuche order as we had agreed and determined, 
 he propofed with himfelf to have gotten at my 
 hands al the tragedies that were before the duke 
 of Buckinghams, which he could have preferued 
 in one volume : and from that time backward 
 euen to the time of William the conqueror, he 
 determined to continue and perfcdt all the ftory 
 himfelfe, in fuch order as Lydgate (folowing 
 Bocchas) had already vfed : and, therefore to 
 make a meete induction into die matter, he de- 
 uifed this poefye." Commendatory verfees by 
 this nobleman are prefix'd to "" The courtier of 
 Y 2
 
 324 POETS OF THE 
 
 count Baldesfar Castillo," 1588, He was born 
 in 1636, and dye'd in it)08. See S. M.* 
 
 SAKER AUG. wrote " The labirinth of li- 
 berty j" licenfe'd to R. Joues, 1579. 
 
 SALTER THOMAS, a fchoolmaster and an- 
 thour of " A contention betweene tliree bre- 
 theren : that is to fay, the Whoremonger^ the 
 Dronkarde, and the Diceplayer, to approue which 
 of them three is the worfte, by reafon that their 
 deceafed fatlier had given his filccesfion from the 
 worfte of them tliree," 1581, i2mo. before 
 which he has a copy of verfes ; and in the work 
 itfelf are fome poetical translations. 
 
 SAMUELL WILLIAM. " An abridgment, 
 bref abftraft, or ihort fume of thefe bookes fol- 
 lowing, taken out of the bible, and fet into 
 Starnols meter by me William Samuell, minister 
 
 * Turbeiviilc thus lauds him above his poctick fel- 
 lows : 
 
 '* 1 none dislike, i fancic (bme, 
 
 But yet of all the reft, 
 Sans envie, let my verdite paflc, 
 Lord BUCKU KS T is the bcjl."
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 325 
 
 of Chrifts churche (1 Gen. 2 Exod. ^c. to the 
 4th book of Kinges inclufive) :" printed abroad, 
 without date, 1 Cmo. There was another edition 
 (under the title of " An abridgement of all the 
 canonical books of the Olde Testament, written 
 in Sternholds metre by \V. Samuel minister") 
 by W. Seres, 1569, 8vo. and "An abridgment 
 of Goddes ftatutes in myter," 1550, is fuppofe'd 
 to be the firft. He alfo wrote " A prayer to god 
 for his affli6led church in Englande," 1556, 
 
 SAND D. is the authour of feveral poems, 
 with the fignature D. S. in " The paradice of 
 daintie deuifes," 1576. He is notice'd by 
 Webbe. 
 
 SANDFORD (or SANFORDE) JAMES wrote 
 " Certayne poems dedicated to the_que.enes mol^e 
 excellente maiestie," annex'd to his " Hours of 
 recreation or after dinners," 1576, 8vo. San- 
 ford has alfo fome poetical piecees in his " Mir- 
 rour of madnes," 1576, 12mo. In his transla- 
 tion of Agrippa " of the vanitie of artes and 
 fciences," I0O9, 4to. are alfo feveral piecees of 
 poetry. 
 
 SAUNDERS LAURENCE, a reform'd prieft, 
 Y 3
 
 326 POETS OF THE 
 
 burn'd at Coventry, in 1555, while prifonerin the 
 Marfhalfea, addrefs'd a few lines to his fellow- 
 prifoners : printed in Foxes Martyrs. 
 
 SC. AN. (SCOLOKER ANTHONY), a 
 printer, who translateed " A brief fum of the 
 Bible," out of Dutch into Englifh, in or before 
 1584, wrote " Daiphantus, or The pasfions of 
 loue:" London, printed l604, 4to. Anthony 
 Scoloker appears as the printer of " A goodly 
 dyalogue betweene Knowledge and Simplicitie, 
 b. 1.. n. d. 
 
 SCOT GREGORY wrote " A briefe treatife 
 agaynft certaine errors of the Romifli church :" 
 printed by J, Audeley, 1570, i2mo, 
 
 SENTLEGER SIR ANTHONY wrote an 
 epitaph on fir Thomas Wyatt ; begining, " Thus 
 lyvethe the deade that whilome lived here :" 
 Harley MS. 78. 
 
 SEGAR FRANCIS. " Certayne pfalmes fe- 
 lc6t out of the pfalter of Dauid, and drawen into 
 Englyflie metre, wyth notes to eucry pfalme in 
 iiij parts to fyngc by F. S." printed by W. Seres, 
 1563, 8vo. This pubUcation is dedicateed, in
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 327 
 
 Stemholds ftanza, " To the ryght honorable lorde 
 Rusfell." There are 19 pfalms ; at the end of 
 which is " A defcription of th'' lyfe of man, the 
 worlde, and vanities thereof," in the fame metre. 
 (Herbert, G91.) " The fchoole of vertue and 
 booke of good nurture for children and youtli to 
 learne theyre dutie by. Newlie perufed, cor- 
 reded, and augmented by the fyrft auctour. F. 
 S. wrote with a declaration of the dutie of eche 
 degree, anno 1557 :' printed by W. Seres, 8vo. 
 being a translation of fome ancient Latin hymns, 
 with prayers and graces : fometimes afcribe'd to 
 Robert Crowley. He, likewife, wrote the le- 
 gend of " Richarde Plantagenet duke of Gloces- 
 ter," in the " Myrrour for magistrates," 1563; 
 and has a few ftanzas, " To the reader," pre- 
 fix'd to his " Brefe declaration of the great and 
 innumerable myferies & wretchednefses vfed in 
 courtes ryail, made by a lettre, whych mayster 
 Alayn Charatre wrote to hys brother, ^i ." I649. 
 
 SEYMOUR SIR THOxMAS, lord high admi- 
 ral of England, wrote fome " Verfes," the ueek 
 before he was beheaded, io4y, which arc printed 
 in Niigie untiqiue (III, 259). 
 
 SEYMOUR WILLIAM, gentleman, of Grays 
 Y 4
 
 328 POETS OF THE 
 
 Inn, has a copy of verfees before Kendalls Epf>- 
 grams, I677. 
 
 SHACKLOCK RICHARD, master of arts 
 and ftudent of the civill laws in Lovaine, has an 
 introductory copy of verfees to his translation of 
 " An epistle of Hieronymus Oforius to the prin- 
 celTe Elizabeth, queen of England, France, and 
 Ireland," 1565. 
 
 SHACKLOCKE ROGER made "An epy- 
 gramme of the death of Cutlibert Skotte fomme- 
 tyme besflioppe of Chester," which was " re- 
 plyed agaynfte by Tho. Drant :" licenfe'd to 
 Tho. Marlhe, 1565. 
 
 SHAKERLEY. " Poore Shakerley his know- 
 ledge of good and evil, called otherwife Eccle- 
 (iaftes : by him turned into meeter :" printed by 
 Robert Crowley for John Cafe, 1551, 8vo. 
 Maunfell afcribes to the fame authour two other 
 trafits, prefume'd to be in rime : " French hoode, 
 and newe apparel for ladies and gentlewomen, 
 wherunto is added a frofl'e pafte to lie in a nights :" 
 " A dredge for defenders of womens apparel :" 
 both printed for Cafe, 8vo.* 
 
 * Was this the John Cafe mcntion'd in page 1 54 ?
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 32^ 
 
 SHAKSPEARE WILLIAM, the wonder and 
 ornament of the Engleifh drama, wrote, 1 , " Ve- 
 nus and Adonis :" printed for J. Harrifon, 
 15963* and, again, for W. Leake, 1602, l6mo. 
 2. " The rape of Lucrece :" printed by R. Field 
 for J. Harrifon, 1594 ; and, again, by P. Short 
 for the fame bookfeller, 1598, 4to. 3. Poems, 
 in a collection intitle'd " The paslionate pil- 
 grime:" printed for W. Jaggard, isgg, i2mo. 
 4. " Sonnets :" printed by G. Eld for T. J. 
 1609, 4to. All republith'd collectively in l640, 
 12 mo. 
 
 SHAXTON NICHOLAS has fome " thyngs 
 in meter" before " A confutation of die XIII 
 articles," 1648, 
 
 SHEALE RICHARD. Thomas Hearne finding 
 this name (" Expliceth quoth Rychard Sheale") 
 fubjoin'd to the ancient ballad of (V/rTy-c/zr/tr, in 
 an old MS. communicateed to him by a learned 
 friend, from which he has printed it in the ap- 
 pendix to his preface to Giihelmus Neuhrigeiifis, 
 concludeed it to be writen by that perfon, who he 
 found " was living in the year 1388," and " au- 
 
 • Asfign'd to him in 1593 from R. Field.
 
 330 POETS OF THE 
 
 thor of many other poetical things." Since, 
 however, the ballad is tnanifeftly a compofition of 
 the precedeing century, it follows either that Ri- 
 chard Sheale was not the writeer, or that he was 
 a different perfon from the authour mention'd by 
 Hearne, There are, in fa6t, many inftancees of 
 a mere copyift ading his fignature with an Ex- 
 plicit or Finis, fome of which even occur in the 
 prefent catalogue. It is to be wilh'd, at the 
 fame time, that the industrious antiquary had 
 fpecify'd fome of the poetical things which he had 
 found afcribe'd to a Richard Sheale liveing in 
 1588, as no inftance of fuch a name has elfewhere 
 occur' d. 
 
 SHEFFILD EDMUND, lord Sheftield, is 
 fay'd by Bale, from the information of Grimoald, 
 to have writen (amongtl other things) fonnets in 
 the Italian manner. He was kil'd in 1549. 
 
 SHEPHEARD LUKE, a native of Colchester, 
 a moft facetious poet, according to Bale,* and in 
 
 • Lucas Ofilio. — A dialogue in verfe, intitle'd " John 
 Bon and Maft Perfon," fay'd to have been writen by 
 one LMke, a phyfician, was printed by John Day in
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 331 
 
 his poems and rimes not inferior to Skelton, 
 wrote, in elegant Engleifh, certain jocular and 
 wity pamphlets, againft the hateers of truth ; ver- 
 fify'd certain pfalms j and did many other little 
 things, none of which are now to be met with. 
 He flourifh'd in 1354. 
 
 SIDLEY RALPH, has verfees printed before 
 " Greenes Never too- late," 160O: intitle'd "A 
 madrigall to wanton lovers." 
 
 SIDNEY SIR PHILIP, " Englands Mars and 
 Mufe," wrote feveral pieces of lyrical, pastoral, 
 and other kinds of poetry, disperfe'd throughout 
 " The countefle of Pembrokes Arcadia," his 
 principal work ; originally, but imperfectly, 
 printed in 1590, 4to. again, complete, 1593, 
 fo. and often afterward. " Sir P. S. his Allro- 
 phel and Stella. Wherein tlie excellence of 
 fweete poefie is concluded. To the end of which 
 are added, fundry other rare fonnets of diuers 
 noblemen and gentlemen :" printed for T. New- 
 man, ijyi, 4to. This " Aftrophel and Stella," 
 a collection of 108 fonuets, and 1 1 longs, is an- 
 
 I c;4S, and by John Day and Wm. Seres, without date. 
 Sec Herbert. T. P.
 
 332 POETS OF THE 
 
 nex'd to the Arcadia, 1 593, and all fubfequent 
 editions ; to which are, likewife, fubjoin'd feve- 
 ral other piecees of poetry under the general title 
 of " Sonets," fcveral of which appear'd in Con- 
 ftables "Diana," 1594; together with a fort of 
 mafque or Ihew exhibited to Q. Elizabeth in 
 Wanfteed garden. Two other poems, by fir 
 Philip, may be found in Davifons " Poetical rap- 
 fody," 1602. " He alfo," according to Wood, 
 " turn'd the pfalms of David into Englifli verfe," 
 which were in MS. in the library of the earl of 
 Pembroke at Wilton, left thereunto by his fister 
 Mary countefs of Pembroke. A copy, at leaft, is 
 in Trinity-college, Cambridge. Another waspur- 
 chafe'd by captain Alexander Dalrymple from the 
 library of doctor Taylour,* Ben Jonfons cenfure 
 of Sidney was, that he " did not keep a decorum 
 in making every one fpeak as well as himfelf.'* 
 Puttenham, however, reckons him, along with 
 *' maister Challener, and that other gentleman 
 who wrate the late fhepheardes callender," as the 
 
 * From Donnes poem *' upon the translation of the 
 pfalmes by fir P. Sydney and the countefs of Pembroke 
 his fister, it would fcem that the performance had been 
 cxecutei-d in conjunction. See the edition of 1635, p. 
 366.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 333 
 
 beft " for eglogue and pastorall poefie." He 
 dye'd, of a wound receive'd in the battle of Zut- 
 phen, on the l6th of October 1386, and was in- 
 ter'd on the l6th of February following in St. 
 Pauls cathedral, with univerfal lamentation. See 
 HERBERT MARY. 
 
 SINETES. " Sinetes mournfull madrigalls 
 upon his discontented fortunes," was licenfe'd to 
 William Hulme, in I3g6. 
 
 SINGLETON THOMAS has commendatory 
 verfees prefix'd to Brookeses translation of Virets 
 " Christian disputations," 1579. 
 
 SMITH JUD wrote and publilh'd " A misti- 
 call deuife of the fpirituall and godly love be- 
 twene Chrift the fpoufe and the church or con- 
 gregation. Whereunto is annex'd certeine other 
 briefe ftories," t^c. Printed by Henry Kirk- 
 ham, 1373, i2nio. 
 
 SMITH RICHARD wrote a few lines, " in 
 commendation of Gascoigne and his workes," 
 pretix'd to that authors " Flowers," 1373, and 
 again to Conftables "Diana" or fonnets, 1394. 
 A larger poem occurs before Robinfons Rewarde
 
 334 POETS OF THE 
 
 of wickednefle, " in praife of the aucthor," figned 
 " Richard Smith, clarke.'" Posfiblely the poet 
 and tlie ftationer were one and the fame man. 
 See BOLEYN GEORGE, GROVE MAT- 
 THEW, S. R. 
 
 SMITH ROBERT wrote, in prifon, a poem 
 intitle'd " O ye that love the lord, t^c." allfo an 
 " Exhortaci9n vnto his children, commenly fet 
 out in the name of maister Rogers."* " [Verfees] 
 written at the requeft of a lady in her booke 
 " Legem jione," " To his brother :" all printed in 
 Foxes " Actes and monumentes." See, likewife, 
 
 • This piece, commonly call'd " John Rogerse: prim- 
 mer," was printed, with other things, under the title of 
 " An exhortation of Mathrwe Rogers vnto his children," 
 1559, Svo. (Herbert, i6co) ; and enter'd to John Ar- 
 nold, 13th October 1577. Bale, among the Engleifli 
 works of y-Aiinms Rogers, enumerates " ^J fiUos ex car- 
 cere. Lib. T. "A copy, in the library of Emanuel- 
 coilege, bears the name of Thomas Mathevj, which was 
 asfume'd by Rogers in his translation of the bible ; and 
 hence, it may be, he obtain'd the name of Mathe^ju 
 Rogers, unltfs it were, more likely, a mibtake of M. 
 (i. e. master) Rogers. He, too, was a martyr in the 
 fame year witli Smith, to whom Foxe, a diligent col- 
 lector, and good authority, afcribes the poem in ques- 
 tion.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 335 
 
 Ayscoughs Catalogue, p. 826. He was burn'd at 
 Smithfield, as a heretick, in Auguft, 1555. 
 
 SMITH SIR THOMAS turn'd fome of the 
 pfalms into metre, and wrote certain fongs, ^c. 
 when prifoner in the tower, 1549. (See iV/S6'. 
 regia, 17 A XVIII.) He, likewife, wrote com- 
 mendatory verfees prefix'd to " Whartons 
 dreame," 1578 j but dye'd, it feems, in the pre- 
 cedeing year.* 
 
 SMITH WALTER wrote and publiih'd a book 
 intitle'd " The wydow Edyth. Twelue merry 
 geftys of one called Edyth the lyeng widow 
 why ch ft ill lyueth :" printed by J. RastelJ, 1525, 
 fo. and, again, by Richarde Johnes, 1573, 4to. 
 
 * According to the report of Bamabe Goorgc, 
 " Three bookes of Pallingeniuses ZiJiacus vita; were 
 both eloquently and excellently engliflied by this master 
 Smith," before 1565. 
 
 Richard Banks, about 1545, printed "An anfwere 
 to maister Smyth fervaunt to the kynges moft royall 
 maiestye, and clerke of the quecnes graces counfell 
 though moft unwonhy ;" alfo, " The retinue of M. 
 Smiths envoy." What provocation he had given for 
 the(e apparently fcurrilous publications does not appear. 
 See Herbert, 411.
 
 336 POETS OF THE 
 
 which, though exceedingly rude, is a curious 
 piece for the manners of the time. 
 
 SMITH WILLIAM wrote " Chloris, or the 
 complaint of the pasfionate defpifed Ihepheard :" 
 printed by Edmund Bollifant, 1596, 4to. and 
 infcribe'd " To the moft excellent and learned 
 Ihepheard Collin Cloute," (i. e. Spenfer) whom 
 he calls " the patron of his maiden verfe." One 
 poem, intitle'd " A notable defcription of the 
 world," with the fignature " W. S. gentleman," 
 fuppofe'd to be thofe of the fame perfon, is in- 
 ferted in "The phcenix-neft," I3y5, and ano- 
 ther in " Englands* Helicon," 1600. Accord- 
 ing to Warton, '' A booke called Amours by J. 
 (or G.) D. with certain other fonnetts by W. S." 
 is enter'd to Eleazar Edgar, 1599 : and the fame 
 initials are fubfcribe'd to a copy of verfees prefix'd 
 to the tragedy of Locrine, 1393 ; and to Bretons 
 Wil of wit, 1C06. Prefix'd to Granges " Golden 
 aphroditis," 1577, is a copy of verfes intitle'd 
 " W. S. in commendation of the aucthor," 
 
 * That in "Englands Helicon," is ascertain'd tobe 
 by Wm. Smith, from haveing appcurc'd in his " Chlo- 
 ris," 1596. T. P.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 337 
 
 SOAME THOMAS, a preacher in the time of 
 Edward the 6th, hath Englifti verfees at the end 
 of W. Turners " Prefervative or triacle," 1351. 
 
 SOOTHERN JOHN \tTote and publifh'd 
 poems, confifting of an ode, a " Sonnet to the 
 reader," 13 fonnets " To his mystrefle Diana," 
 6 Elegicc, and another ode, of which fhe is like- 
 wife the fubjeft, " Verfes taken out of his ftan- 
 fes, hymnes, and elegias ; all dedicated or fent 
 to his mistreffe Diana 3" "New kinde of verfes 
 deuifed by him, and are a wofuU kinde of meter, 
 to fing a loue or death in j" anotlier ode ; and 
 4 " odellets:" concludeing with a " fiavffe" 
 and 2 quadrans, in French. This rare and lin- 
 gular collection, or mingle-maitgle, as Puttenham 
 aptly terms it, (of which but one copy, and that 
 wanting the title, is known to exill) is printed in 
 4to, b. 1. and addrefs'd " To the ryght honora- 
 ble the earle of Oxenford, idc." The naning 
 title, for the firft 6 pages, is "Ode;" for the 
 13 following, " Diana j" for the next 4, " Epi- 
 taphes ;" the next page has none j that of the 3 
 following pages is " Diana/' and that of the 2 
 next " Odellct." There are 15 leaves in all. 
 The Epitaplics are by tlie countefs of Oxford, and 
 queen Elizabetli. The authour, whofe wretched 
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 338 POETS OF THE 
 
 ftUe, profligate plagiarifm, ridiculous pedantry, 
 and unnatural conceit, are unexample'd, is thus 
 characterife'd by Puttenham, in his " Arte of 
 Englilh poefie," 1589 : " Another of reafonable 
 good facilitie in translation finding certaine of the 
 hymnes of Pyndarus and of Anacreons odes, and 
 other lirickes among the Greekes, very well trans- 
 lated by Rounfard the French poet, and applied 
 to die honour of a great prince in France, comes 
 our minion and translates the fame out of French 
 into Englifh, and applieth them to tlie honour of 
 a great noble man in England (wherein i com- 
 mend his reuerent minde apd duetie) but doth fo 
 impudently robbe the French poet both of his 
 prayfe and alfo of his French termes, that i can- 
 not fo much pitie him as be angrie with him for 
 his injuriou3;,dealing....And in tlie end (which is 
 worft of all) makes his vaunt that neuer Englilli 
 finger but his hath toucht Pindars fl:ring, which 
 was neuerthelelTe word by word as Rounfard had 
 faid before by like braggery."* The following 
 fonnet is giveen as a fpecimen of the lyrick 
 powers of this arrogant and abfurd coxcomb : 
 
 * The particular ode, however, alludeed to by doctor 
 Farmer, in his E^fay, and a note on Timon, was not in 
 mister Steevenses copy.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 33Q 
 
 *' The Greeke poet to whome Bathill was the 
 guide. 
 Made her immortall, by that which he did 
 
 fing: 
 And (were it fo i knowe not but) of Co- 
 
 rine. 
 We faine the patrone of the Latine Guide, 
 And fince them (Petrarque) a wife Florentine, 
 Hath turnde his mistres into a tree of baye. 
 And he tliat foong the eldeft daughter of 
 
 Troye, 
 In Fraunce hath made of her, an astre di- 
 uine. 
 And like thefe knowne men, can your 
 
 Soother n, write too : 
 And as long as Englifhe lafts, immortall 
 you. 
 I the penne of Soothern will my fayre Diana, 
 Make thee immortall : if thou wilt give him 
 
 fauour : 
 For tlien hee'l fing Petrark, Tien, Guide, 
 
 Ron far : 
 And make thee Casfander, Corine, Bathyll, 
 Laura." 
 Drayton, in one of his odes, has this ftanza in 
 praile of " Southerne an Englilh lyrick :" 
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 340 POETS OF THE 
 
 " Southern, i long thee fpare. 
 
 Yet wifh thee well to fare. 
 Who me pleafed'ft greatly. 
 
 As firft, therefore more rare. 
 Handling thy harpe neatly." 
 It is not, indeed, very intelligible } but one muft 
 prefume the panegyrift had met with more fa- 
 vorable fpecimens of the talents of his Engleifh 
 lyrick Uian fuch as are exhibited in the above 
 publication, with which it is abfolutely imposfi- 
 ble for any one, however partial, to have been 
 pleafe'd at all. Drayton, as mister Park thinks, 
 in his lyrick laud, has caught the very fpirit and 
 manner of his disgufting prototype. 
 
 SOUTHWELL LADY ANNE wrote " A 
 poem, or certaine choice meditations, upon the 
 decalogue j" which Thoresby had in manufcript. 
 
 SOUTHWELL ROBERT wrote, i. "Saint 
 Peters complaint, witli other poems :" printed by 
 I. R. for G. C. 1595, 1597, 1599, 4to.* 2, 
 " Maeoniae. Or certaine excellent poems and 
 fpirituall hymnes : omitted in the laft impresfion 
 
 • Sec Herbert, 1368.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 341 
 
 of Peters complaint ; being needefuU thereunto 
 to be annexed, as being both diulne & wittie :" 
 printed by V. Simmes for John Busbie, isgs, 
 1596, 4to, 3. '' The triumph ouer death : or a 
 confolatorie epistle for affli6ted minds, in the af- 
 fefts of dying friends :" printed by and for the 
 fame perfons, I5c)5, 1596, 4to. with a dedica- 
 tion, in verfe, to M. Richard Sackvile, and 
 others, fign'd " lohn Trusfell,"* Wood, who 
 fays that this Southwell was " of the antient and 
 
 * There are fubfcquent editions, under the title of 
 *' St. Peters complaint, and Saint Mary Magdalens fu- 
 nerall teares. With fundry other felefled, and deuout 
 poems. By R. S. of the fociety of lefus," 1616, 1620, 
 1630, 1634, and one at Edinburgh, by R. Walde- 
 grave, \v. d. 4to. Thefe poems, in addition to " S. 
 Peters complaint" (confifting of 112 ftanzas), are his 
 " Peccavi," his " Retume home," his •' Comfort," 
 and his '< Wilh ;" " S, Mary Magdalens blufli," •' No 
 joy to live," her " Traunce," and her " Farewell," 
 " At home in heaven," " Chrifts nativity," his " child- 
 hood," and "The Christians manna:" " St. Mary 
 Magdalens funerall teares" being in profe. So, like- 
 wife, is " The triumph over death." The " Chris- 
 tians manna" \\asaniiex'd to an edition of Southwells 
 pieces, printed at Doway, but has no legitimate claim to 
 be confidercd as his production. T. P. 
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 342 POETS OF THE 
 
 genteel family of his name in Norfolk* [Suf- 
 folk],'* elfewhere asferts that ** St. Peters com- 
 plaint" was actually wxiten by John Davies of 
 Hereford : a very improbable ftory ! nor has 
 Warton commited a lefs grofs blunder in attri- 
 buteing it to Richard Stapilton. " Never," fays 
 Bolton, " muft be forgotten St. Peters complaint, 
 and thofe other ferious poems faid to he father 
 Southwells ; the Englifh whereof as it is moft 
 proper, fo the iharpnefs, and light of wit is very 
 rare in them."f The authour enter'd into religion 
 
 • Wood, in his AtheniEy and Dodd, in his Church 
 history, trace the family defcent from Norfolk : but 
 Fuller defcribes him to have been a Suffolk-man, on the 
 authority of Pits, T. P. 
 
 t The good fathers poetry, however, did not meet 
 with the approbation of bifhop Hall, who thus fings : 
 " Hence ye profane : mell not with holy things 
 That Sions mufe from Palestina brings. 
 Parnasfus is transform'd to Sion hill, 
 And iv'ry-palms hcrfteep ascents done fill. 
 Now good St. Peter weeps pure Helicon, 
 And both the Maries make a mufic moan : 
 Yea, and the prophet of the heav'nly lyre, 
 Great Solomon fings in the Englifh quire ; 
 And is become a new-found fonnctift. 
 Singing his love, the holy fpoufe of Chrift :
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 343 
 
 abroad, and became a jefuit j but, returning to 
 convert his countrymen, was apprehended and 
 put to death, at London, in 1593. SeeGeiiflc' 
 mans magazine for Novem, 1798, p, 933. 
 
 SPENSER EDMUND, the prince of Englifli 
 poets, and a Ix)ndoner by birth, wrote, 1 . " The 
 ihepheardes calender, conteyning twelve oeg- 
 logues, proportionable to the twelve monethes :" 
 printed by Hugh Singleton, 1579, 4to. b. I. 
 
 by 1586, 4to. by J. Windet for J. Harri- 
 
 fon, 1391, 4to. and by T. Creede for J. Harri- 
 fon, 1397, 4to. b, 1. 2. " The faerie queene. 
 Dispofed into twelue books, fafhioningXII, mo- 
 rall vertues :" printed for W. Ponfonby, 1590, 
 1396, 4to, (The edition of 159O contains no 
 more than the firft three books ; the fourth, fifth 
 and iixth were publifh'd as " The fecond part," 
 in 1596 : the remaining fix* were never printed.) 
 
 Like as flie were fome light-ikirts of the reft. 
 In mightieft inkhornifms he can thither wreft. 
 Ye Sion mufcs fhall by my dear will, 
 For this your zeal and far-admired fkill, 
 Be ftraight transported from Jerufalcm, 
 UnCD the holy houfe of Bethlehem." 
 
 • Two imperfeft cantos " Of mutabilitie," were in - 
 ferted in the folio edition of 1609, &"<•, 
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 344 POETS OF THE 
 
 3. " Complaints. Containing fundrie (mall 
 poems of the worlds vanitie :" printed by Thomas 
 Orwin, 1591, 4to. (Thefe are "The ruines of 
 time J The tea res of the mufes ; Virgils gnat j 
 Profopopoia, or Mother Hubberds tale j The 
 ruines of Rome^ by Bellay ; Muiopotmos, or the 
 tale of the butterflie j Vifions of the worlds va- 
 nitie ; Bellayes vifions ; *Petrarches vifions.") 
 
 4. " Colin Clouts come home againe :" printed 
 for W, Ponfonby, 1395, 4to. (annex'd are " A- 
 ftropell : a pastorall elegie vpon the death of fir 
 Philip Sidney ; near the conclufion of which are 
 16 flanzas, which appear to have been writen 
 by his fister, the amiable countefs of Pembroke, 
 under the name of Clarinda :" " The mourning 
 mufe of Thestylis ;" and " A pastorall aeglogue 
 vpon the death of fir Phillip Sidney." 5. " Amo- 
 retti, or fonnets : and epitlialamion :" printed 
 by W. Ponfonby, 1595, 8vo.t 6. " Four 
 hymnes. Daphnaida. Prothalamion :" printed by 
 W. Ponfonby, 1596, 4to. " The faerie queen : 
 
 * See note on the poems of Vander Noodt. 
 
 ■\ Drummond fays, of Spenfers y^mor^///, " I am not 
 of their opinion who think them his; for they are fo 
 childidi, that it were not well to give them fo honourable 
 a fatlicr."
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 345 
 
 the Ihepheards calendar : together with the other 
 works of Englands arch-poet, Edm. Spenfer," 
 were " colle6ted into one volume," and publilh'd 
 in 1609, 1611, and 1617, fo. In Davifons " Poe- 
 tical rhaplbdie," 1602, is " Louesembasfie in an 
 lambicke* elegie [without rime]" by this great 
 poet 5 who has, likewife, commendatory verfes 
 before Joneses " Nennio," 1595, "The histo- 
 ric of George Castriot," I3g6, and Lewkenors 
 " Commonwealth of Venice," 1599. In ''Three 
 proper, and wittie, familiar letters : lately pafsed 
 betwene two vniuerfitie men [Signior Immerito 
 (Spenfer) and maister G. H. (Gabriel Harvey)] : 
 touching the earthquake in Aprill laft, and our 
 Englith refourmed verifying," and " Two other, 
 very commendable letters of the fame mens writ- 
 ing : both touching the forefaid artificiall verfi- 
 fying, and certain otlier particulars," 1380, are 
 fome fpecimens of his talent at Englifh hexame- 
 ter, pentameter, and iambick verfe. It appears, 
 alfo, by the fame publication, that he had then 
 finilh'd his " Dreames," and " Dying pelli- 
 cane," which were " prefentlye to bee imprint- 
 ed :" die former " being growen by meancs of 
 
 * This Limbicum Trhnetrum had been previously printed 
 in Spenfers letter to Harvey, 15S0.
 
 346 POETS OF THE 
 
 the glofle, full as great as ' his* Calendar." He 
 feeras to have had fuch " fpeciall liking of Englilh 
 verfifying" (i.e. hexameters), as to have writen, 
 or at leaft minded " Ihortly at conuenient leyfure 
 to fette forth, a booke in this kinde, whyche," 
 fays he, " i entitle Epithalamion* Thamcfis," 
 which book he dares vindertake " wll be very 
 profitable for the knowledge, and rare for the in- 
 uention and manner of handling, £9*0." This 
 fubje6t he afterward introduce'd in the 4th book 
 of his great work ; fome part of which appears to 
 have been then writen. His goods, as we are 
 told by Ben Jonfon, haveing been " robbed by 
 the Irifti, and his houfe, and a little child burnt, 
 he and his wife efcaped, and after died for 
 want of bread in King-ftreet, between the ift 
 of January and 25th of March," 1598-95 fays 
 Malone, in his edition of Drydens profe works, 
 III, 92, haveing " refufed 20 pieces fent him by 
 
 ** Weever, in his << Mirror of martyrs," written 
 1599, laments the lofs of Spcnfer, and fpeaks particu- 
 larly of this epifode. 
 
 " With what pompc Thames was to Med-way marri'd. 
 Sweet Spenser Ihewes, (O griefe that Spenser's 
 
 gone ! ) 
 With whofc life heavens a while cnricht us more, 
 That by his death wee might be ever pore."
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 347 
 
 my lord Esfex, and faid he was fure he had no 
 time to fpend them." That this King-ftreet 
 was not in Dublin (as asferted in a note in 
 Gibbers life of him, and by Malone (Shak- 
 fpeare, 1778, I, 228),* but in Weftminfter, is 
 clearly prove' d by Camden, his contemporary, 
 who fays, that being fo thrown out of his dwel- 
 ing and plunder'd of his goods he return'd into 
 Engleland a poor man, where he fliortly after 
 dye'd, and was inter'd at "Weftminster, near to 
 Chaucer, at the charge of the earl of Esfex ; f 
 " his hearfe," according to the former, " being 
 attended by poets, and mournfuU elegies and 
 poems with the pens that wrote them thrown 
 
 * " Lord Esfex," according to the latter, " was not 
 in Ireland in 1598, but was there from April to Septem- 
 ber in the following year:" and fays, " If Spenfer had 
 dyed in London, his death would probably have been 
 mentioned by Rowland Whyte:" as if fuch frivolous 
 pretexts could outweigh the folemn testimony of a Cam- 
 den. 
 
 f rhineas Fletcher has found a different patron for 
 his remains, in the following bcautyful pasfage of his 
 " Purple ifland :" 
 
 " Witncfs our Colin ; whom though all the graces, 
 
 And all the mufes nurft ; whofe well-taught fong 
 
 Parnaslus felf, and Glorian, embraces,
 
 348 POETS OF THE 
 
 into his tomb."* A further proof (befide the 
 
 And all the learn'd, and all the fhepherd throng : 
 Yet all his hopes were croft, all I'uits deni'd ; 
 Discourag'd, fcom'd, his writings vilifi'd ; 
 
 Poorly (poore man) he liv'd ; poorly (poore man) he 
 di'd. 
 
 And had not that great Hart (whofe honour'd head 
 Ah lies full low) piti'd thy vvofuU plight, 
 There hadft thou lien unwept, unburied, 
 Unbleft, nor grac't with any common rite : 
 Yet flialt thou live, when thy great foef fliall fink 
 Beneath his mountain-tomb, whofe fame fliall 
 ftink; 
 And time his blacker name ftiall blurrc with blackeft 
 ink." 
 
 * History of S>^ Elixabeth, p. 365. See alfo hi% Reges 
 rtgifia, nobiles, &;c. 1603, 4to. The tomb, which was 
 of grey marble, on the fouth fide of the crofs, hard by 
 the little eaft door, haveing gone to decay, and being 
 very much deface'd, and nothing, in Kccpes time, of 
 the ancient Latin infcription remaining, fome ignorant 
 perfon, in 163 1, ere£l:ed a monument with a ridiculous 
 one in Engleifli, being oblige'd to leave a blank for the 
 year of his birth, and misplaceing that of his death in 
 1596. See Stows .Wi^tf), by Strype, B. 6, p. 32. His in- 
 terment, however, is not enter'd in the register of St. 
 Margarets parifli in 159S, cr 1599, and that of the 
 abbey for this period has been loft or deftroy'd. 
 
 t Lord Burleigh.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 349 
 
 original epitaph giveen by Camden) has been 
 obligeingly furnifli'd by the industrious mister 
 Park, from Fitzgeffreys " Cenotaphia," appended 
 to his " Affanlce" l601 : 
 
 " Spenferus cj/6a^ A/c, Chsacexo cet ate priori 
 Inferior, tumulo proximus, arte prior." 
 
 SPIGURNEL ANDREW has an addrefs " to 
 the reader in maner of a prologue," before 
 " The castle of love," a translation by John 
 Bowrchier lord Berners. 
 
 SPIGURNEL THOMAS has a copy of com- 
 mendatory verfees prefix'd to Mundays " Mirror 
 of mutabilitie," 1379. 
 
 SPRINT JOHN of Chrift church, Oxon, has 
 an encomiastick poem of confiderable merit, " to 
 the author [T. Storer] of the life and death of 
 Tliomas WoUey, cardinall," ISgg. It is printed 
 with Storers publication. 
 
 STANLEY THOMAS, biihop of Man, wrote 
 the pedigree of the Stanleys ; which is occa- 
 fionally quoteed by Weever, and, posfiblely, ex- 
 tant in MS. Har, 341.
 
 350 POETS OP THE 
 
 STANYHURST RICHARD, an Iiifli prieft, 
 translateed into (what he calls) Engleifh heroical 
 verfe (that is, hexameters) " The firft foure 
 bookes of Virgiis iEneis :"* printed by H. Byn- 
 
 * The translation of Virgil by Stanyhurft, could 
 *♦ hardly be digefted" by Puttenham, and was feverely 
 rail'd at by Nafli, for being " fuch as no hedge plow- 
 man in a countrie, but would have held as the extremi- 
 tie of clownerie." The fame opinion is thus fupported 
 by bilhop Hall : 
 " Another fcoms the home-fpun thread of rhymes, 
 Match'd with the lofty feet of elder times : 
 Give me the numbred verfe that Virgil fung, 
 And Virgil's felf fhall Ipeak the Englilh tongue : 
 Manhood and garboils chaunt with chaunged feet 
 And head-ftrong dactyls making mufick meet. 
 The nimble dactyl driving to out-go. 
 The drawling fpondees pacing it below. 
 The lingring fpondees, labouring to delay, 
 The breathlefs dactyls with a fudden flay. 
 Whoever faw a colt wanton and wild, 
 Yok'd with a flow-foot ox on fallow-field. 
 Can right areed how handfomely befets 
 Dull fpondees with the Englilh dactylets. 
 If Jove fpeak Englifh in a thundring cloud 
 Thwick thwack and riffraff, roars he out aloud. 
 Fie on the forged mint that did create 
 New coin of words never articulate." 
 Milton, likewife, or his nephew Phillips, cenfurcs this
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURV. 351 
 
 neman, 1583, 4to. to which " other poetical de- 
 uifes" are annex'd:* conlifting of translations 
 from the epigrams of fir Thomas More, and 
 others. Hedye'd, at Brusfels, in i6i8. 
 
 STAPLETON RICHARD is the authour of a 
 complimentary fonnet, prefix'd to Chapmans 
 " Ovids banquet of fence," I5g5 ; and has a 
 copy of verfees before Greenes Mamillia, 1593. 
 
 STARKEY OLIVER, according to Warton, 
 made a translation of Ecclefiastes into rime, 
 which, he thinks, occurs in bifhop Tanners li- 
 brary. He is, however, moft probablely mis- 
 affectation of hexameter and pentameter in the inftancces 
 of Fraunce and Sidney, " fiiice," he fays, " they nei- 
 ther become the Engli/h nor any other modern lan- 
 guage." 
 
 * This work, from the entry in the ftationers books, 
 appears to have been fit ft printed at Leyden in Holland 
 (B. fo. 192) : an edition totally unknown to Ames and 
 Herbert . 
 
 Mister Gough, by a ftrange mistake, calls this Richard 
 Stanihurft *' fopijh archbijhop oi Armagh;" which is falfe ; 
 and ads that he was " peila-eifor to [his nephew] U/ier\'' 
 which is imposfible.
 
 352 POETS OP THE 
 
 takeen, as Tanner, who merely follows Bale and 
 Pitts, does not appear to have feen tlie book. 
 
 STARKEY (or STARKIE) RALPH, the 
 Chelhire antiquary, under the name of Infor- 
 tunio, wrote a poem, in feven-line ftanzas, upon 
 the misfortunes of Edward 11. originally intended 
 for queen Elizabeth, but alter'd and fited up for 
 tlie perufal of her fuccesfor : both copys are ex- 
 tant in the Harleian library (Num. 23g3) ; the 
 firft (imperfed) begining " Where fhould a 
 wafted fpirit fpent in woe;" the other, " I fing 
 tliy fad disaster, fatal king." He was liveing in 
 1619. 
 
 STEPLE STEPHEN. " Steuen Steple to 
 maft Camell :" a fmall doggerel of 24 lines, in 
 a rude country fort of Engleifh. The name, 
 however, fcems onely asfurae'd for the nonce, 
 
 STERNHOLD THOMAS, groom of the 
 robes to Henry the 8th and Edward the 6th, 
 translateed 5 1 of the " pfalmes of Dauid :" 
 printed (after his death) by Ed. Whitchurch, 
 1549, 8vo.* alfo " Certayne chapters of tlie pro- 
 
 * Another edition, " by the wydovve of Jhon Har-
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 353 
 
 uerbes of Salomon j" printed by John Cafe for 
 W. Seres, w. d. 8vo, Both thefc articles appear 
 to have been includeed in " The pfalmes of David 
 translated into Englilli metre by T. Sternhold, 
 fir Thomas Wyat, and William Hunnis, with 
 certain chapters of the proverbs, and fele6t 
 pfalms by John Hall. Dedicated to king Ed- 
 ward VI." The pfalms of Sternholds translating 
 are distinguilli'd, in what is now call'd " The old 
 verfion," by tlie letters T. S. 
 
 STILE CHRISTOPHER gather'd " Pfalmes 
 of invocation \pon god to preferve her maiestie 
 & the people of the land from the power of our 
 enemies:" allow'd to John Wolf, 21 ft Auguft 
 1588: but, apparently, never printed. 
 
 STOPES L. wrote " An Aie Maria in com- 
 mendation of our nioft vertuous quene [Mary] :" 
 printed by Richard Lant. See Herbert, 590. 
 
 STORER THOxMAS, ftudent of Chrift-church, 
 in Oxford, wrote " The life and death of Thomas 
 Wolfey, cardinall, diuided into three parts ; his 
 
 rington," 1550 ; and two more, in 155a, and without 
 date by Whitchurch ; befido many others. 
 A a
 
 354 POETS OF THE 
 
 alpiring, triumph, and death :" printed by T. 
 Dawfon, 1599, 4to. This fame Storer has a 
 copy of commendatory verfees before Vaughans 
 " Golden grove/' 1600 ; and fome of his poetick 
 flowers are transplanted into Englands Parnas- 
 fus. Hedye'd in 1604, 
 
 STOUGHTON I. ftudent, wrote commen- 
 datory verfees prefix'd to Pcterfons translation of 
 " Galateo," I076. 
 
 STKONGE S. is the authour of commendatory 
 verfees, prefix'd to Riches " AUarmeto England," 
 1378. 
 
 '*' 
 
 STUBBES (or STUBS) PHILIP, autliour of 
 " The anatomie of abufes," 1383, pen'd, about 
 two years before, the tragical discourfe of a cer- 
 tain young man dweling in Lincolnlhire, who, 
 being " a filthy common fwearer," became " a 
 mod fearful example of gods wratli." He, allfo, 
 wrote " A view of vanitie, and AUarura to Eng- 
 land, or retrait from finne :" printed by J. Pur- 
 foot, 1382, 8vo. Prefix'd to his " Anatomie of 
 abufes," is a filly dialogue between " The author 
 and his book."* 
 
 • Nafh ridicules Philip Stubs for " for pretending to 
 iiuMomix,e utu/u, andjiubtc up fin by the rootes."
 
 m 
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 355 
 
 STUDLEY JOHN has verfify'd feveral fcraps 
 from the Latin, iti his translation of Bales *' Pa- 
 ■^eant of popes," 1574. 
 
 STYWARD THOMAS wrote a poem ad- 
 drefs'd to the reader in his " Pathwaie to mar- 
 tiall discipline," ^c. printed by T. Eail for 
 Myles Jenyngs, 1381, 4to. It is in lines of 
 fourteen fyllables, 
 
 SURREY EARL OF. See HOWARD HEN- 
 RY. 
 
 SYLVESTER JOSHUA, merchant-adven- 
 tureer, translateed from the French of " the no- 
 ble, learned, and deuine poet, William Salustius 
 lord of Bartas," ijfc. 1. "^ A canticle of the vic- 
 torie obtained by the French king Henry tlie 
 fourtli, at Yvr)':" printed by Richard Yardley, 
 l5go, 4to. 2. " The triumph of faith. The 
 facrifice of Ifaac. The fliip-wracke of lonas :" 
 printed by R. Yardley and P. Short, 15(}2, 4to. 
 3. " The Eden, The deceipt, and The Baby- 
 lon :" printed by P. Short, 1598, l6mo. 4. 
 " The furies. The handy-crafts, and The ark:" 
 printed by him for W. Wood, l6mo. " La- 
 c/iri/?>/(/: laclinimurum, or the fpirit of tears 
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 356 POETS OF THE 
 
 distilled for the untimely death of Henrie prince 
 of Wales," iGi3, 4 to. " The parliament of 
 vertues royal, Bethaliahs rescue. Little Bartas," 
 and otlier poems [lGi4], 8vo. " Hymn of 
 alms. Memorials of mortalitie. A hymn of St. 
 Louis. The trophies of Henry the great. Battle 
 of Yvry. Tobacco battered," ^c. i6l5, 8vo. 
 *' The maidens bhilli," 1 620, 8vo. Recommen- 
 datory verfees, by Sylvester, occur before Ed- 
 mundes " Caefars commentaries," 1609 5 Blaxtins 
 Engliilx ufurer, 1634 j and Vicars Mischiefs 
 mysterie, 1617. " Du Bartas his devine weekes 
 and workes," &"(•. by S}'lvcster, were printed in 
 4to. 1605, 16O8, l()iy, and in folio, 1C21, 
 I(j33, 1041.* To Sylvester is afcribe'd a MS. 
 poem " In praile of the cocoa fruit of the Weft 
 Indies," in the Mufeum. He dye'd, at Middle- 
 burg in Zealand, in 1G18, aged 55. 
 
 T. C. has fome poetick tritlts in " A lliort in- 
 
 * It was Ben Jonfons opinion, " That Silvesters 
 translatiori of Du Bartas was not well done, and that he 
 wrote his verlcs before lie undciftood to confer." Drum- 
 mond, however, thouijht his translation of J'W///;, and 
 BatiU oj Yv'jry excellent ; though he allows him not to be 
 hnpy in Ills inventions, as may be fecn in his Tubacc^ 
 batter' J, and Epitaphs.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 35/ 
 
 ventory of ccrtayne idle inventions, the fruits of 
 a clofe and lecrct garden of great eafe and little 
 pleafure," Ij8i. 
 
 T. E. wrote " A fong of tlie lordes fupper : " 
 printed by W. Copland, w. d. 4to. It is in the 
 octave ftanza, on 15 pages, and ends, " Finis 
 qiiot E. T." (posfiblely, Edmund Tilnay, authour 
 of "The flower of friendfliippe," 1508, 8vo.) 
 See Herbert, 362, 
 
 T. H. has a fonnet " In aucforem," prefix'd 
 to Bretons " Divine poenie of The ravilht foule 
 & blefsed weeper," 1 0"0 1 . 
 
 T. J. " An ovld facioned loue. Or a loue of 
 the ould facion. Ry I. T. gent, printed by Pe- 
 ter Short for William Mattes, 1594," 4to. A 
 translation of Watfons " A/in/nfce gatidia," a 
 Latin vcrfion of Tasfos Amyntas. " The haven 
 of pleafure, by J. T. Dedicateed to the bawling 
 -wives and mistrcfses :" London, 159(3, 4to. 
 
 T. ^L Sec TMORX. 
 
 T. R. Sec TOFTE. 
 
 A a 3
 
 358 POETS OF THE 
 
 T. R. gentleman, prefix'd a copy of verfees to 
 Bales " Pageant of Popes/' 1574, 4to. 
 
 T. T. (7. TYMME or TWINE ?) has verfees 
 in commendation of Barnefields "Cyntliia," 1593. 
 
 TARLTON RICHARD, a celebrateed come- 
 dian and buffoon, wrote " Tragicall treatifes, 
 conteyninge fundrie discourfes & pretie con- 
 cepts, bothe in profe and verfe :" licenfe'd to 
 H. Bynneman, 1577-8. His " Toyes," in 
 verfe, were licenfe'd to R. Jones in the preccde- 
 ing year. In 1589, Henry Kirkham enters on the 
 flationcrs book " A forowfull newe fonnette, in- 
 titled Tarltons recantation vpon this theame gyuen 
 him by a gent, at the Bellauage without Lud- 
 gate (now or never) being the laft theame he 
 fong." (Herbert, \3'22.) In the fame year is 
 cuter'd " Tarltons repentance, or his firewell to 
 his frcndcs in his licknes, a little before his 
 doathe." He feems to have been a great fa- 
 vourite with the common people, and his me- 
 mory treated with a certain degree of vulgar rc- 
 fpcct : 
 
 " O honour iar beyond a brazcn-lhrine. 
 To fit witli Tarlton on an ale-polis lign."* 
 
 * Halls, S.;, ■-,•>, 15. 6. 
 
 In an elegant book of large ornamented capital letters
 
 SIXTEEN^TH CENTURY. 35() 
 
 TAVERNER RICHARD, a licenfe'd lay- 
 preacher in K. Edwards time, and, in IsGp, high 
 
 and fpecimens of fine writcing, by John Scottowe, in 
 the time of queen Elizabeth (Har. MSS. 38S5), is a 
 portrait of " Mr. Tharlton," playing on his pipe and 
 tabor, and, in the margin, thefe verfces : 
 
 " The picture here fet down, 
 
 Within this letter T, 
 Ariglit doth fliow the forme & fhap 
 
 Of Tharlton unto the. 
 
 When hoc in plcafaunt wife 
 
 The countcrfct exprefte 
 Of tlowne with cote of rusfct hew, 
 
 And fturtups with the refte. 
 
 Whoc mcrrv many made. 
 
 When he appeard in i'lght, 
 The grave and wife as well as rude 
 
 At him did take delight. 
 
 The parrie nowe is gone, 
 
 . And closlic clad in clave, 
 
 Of all the jeliers in the lande 
 
 He bare the praife awaie. 
 
 Now hath he plaid his parte, 
 
 And furc he is of this, 
 If he in Chriftc did die, to live, 
 
 Willi him in Lifting blis." fo. 19. 
 
 He is rcprciented with a il.it cap on liis hcaJ, 3 flat 
 A a 4
 
 360 POETS OF THE 
 
 flierif of the county of Oxford, wrote, according 
 to Wood, " various poems in Latin and Englifh." 
 He was born in 1505, and dye'd in 1573. 
 
 TESHE WILLIAM wrote verfees to Q. Eliza- 
 beth : extant in tlie Harleian MS. Num. 3437. 
 
 THORIE, or THORIUS, JOHN, of Flemiai 
 extraction, though born in London, and, as 
 Wood fays, " a noted poet of his time," has his 
 name fubfcribe'd to a fonnet in " Pierces Super- 
 erogation," 1593, which, according to Naflies 
 affirmation in " Have witli you," he did not 
 write in tliat form.* 
 
 nofe on his face, a budget at his girdle, a fliort jacket, 
 troufcrs, and flioes buckle'd at the fide of the ancle. 
 
 On the following leaf is a lady playing upon the re- 
 gal, behind which is her fool, with a bauble by his 
 fide. 
 
 * Nafli has infertcd a letter of recantation from Tho- 
 rius, for having fidted with his antagonift, in which is 
 the following pasfage — " Trucly upon the fight of five 
 or fix flicets of doctor Harveys bookc i wrote ccitainc 
 verfcs in his commendation, but that S'.nnet which in his 
 bookc is (ubfcribcd with my name is not mine, & i 
 gefse at the mistaking of it. Indeed, the y?<j«zai arc; 
 though altred to your disgrace in fome places."
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 36l 
 
 THORN M, is the authour of a poem in " The 
 paradice of daintie deuifes," 1576. The letters 
 M. T. fubfcribe'd to another in that collection, 
 are fuppofe'd to belong to the fame perfon. M. 
 feems to be frequently ufe'd for master. 
 
 THYNNE FRANCIS, an eminent herald and 
 antiquary, wrote, according to Wood, " A dis- 
 courfe upon the philofophers done," 1583, MS. 
 in Bib. Ajhmo. n. 1374. 
 
 TICHBORN CHIDICK, or CHIDIOC, exe- 
 ecuteed for his concern in Babingtons confpi- 
 racy, 15 86, left an " elcgie, written with his 
 owne hand in the tower, before his execution 3" 
 in tliree (ix-linc ftanzas ; printed by John Wolfe ; 
 and reprinted in lieliquij: IVottoiiiana:. 
 
 TIE PETER translateed " The book of wis- 
 dom into Englifh metre:" printed by J. Allde, 
 w. d. 8vo. licenfe'd 1")()2. 
 
 TOFTE ROBERTE. 1. " Orlando inamo- 
 rato. The three iirfl bookes of that famous noble 
 gentleman and learned poet, Mathew Maria 
 Eoiardo carle of Scandiano in l-yombardie. Done 
 into Englilh hcroicall verle^ by R. T. gentleman.
 
 362 POETS OF THE 
 
 Printed at London by Valentine Sims, 1598.'' 
 4to, 2. " Two tales translated out of Ariosto. 
 The one in dispraife of men. The other in dis- 
 grace of women. With certaine other Italian 
 ftanzas and prouerbes. By R, T. gentleman. 
 Printed at London by Valentine Sims, 1597." 
 4to. 3. " Laura. The toyes of a traueller j or 
 the feaft of fancie, diuided into 3 parts, by R. T. 
 gent, of London. Printed by Valentine Simmes, 
 1597." 4to. 4. " Alba, the months minde of 
 a melancholy lover. By R. T. gentleman." 
 London, 1598, 8vo.* 5. '' Honours academy, or 
 the famous pastorall of the faire fhepherdefle 
 Julietta," 1610, fo. by this Tofte, is intermingle'd 
 with many poefys. See MARKHAM GER- 
 VASE. 
 
 TONIE SHEPHERD is the authour of 7 
 fongs, or piecees of lyrick poetry, printed in 
 *' Englands Helicon," iCoo. 
 
 TREGOO WILLLVM compiled " A daintie 
 
 * Though the initials R. T. are conftantly thought to 
 
 be thofe of Robert Tofte, it may be juft mention'd that 
 
 there was, likewife, a Richard Turner, who wrote 
 
 " N'jsce te (humors)," 1607, a collection of epigrams: 
 
 , but nothing, it is belicve'd, before 1600.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 363 
 
 nofegay of diuers fmelles, containing many pretie 
 ditties to diuerfe effeds :" licenfe'd toTho. Eaft, 
 1577. 
 
 TRUSSELL JOHN. See SOUTHWELL 
 ROBERT. 
 
 TUDOR EDWARD, king of Engleland, the 
 6th of his name, wrote " Inllructions to fir An- 
 thony St. Leger of the euchariftj" printed in 
 Foxes " A6ls & monuments," p. 2l3g. 
 
 TUDOR ELIZABETH, queen of Engleland, 
 wrote, in 1355, \\\\\\c prifoner at Woodftock, 
 with a charcoal on a fliuter, fome certain verfees, 
 printed in Hcntzners travels ; and a couplet, 
 with her diamond, in a glafs window, printed in 
 Foxes " A6les and monumentesj" allfoa poem, 
 touching the practicces of the queen of Scots and 
 her adherents ;, prcftrve'd in Puttenhams " Arte 
 of Englifli pix-lie," 158(); and, apparently, otlier 
 things ; fince, according to that tlattering cour- 
 tier, her " learned, delicate, noble mule," ea- 
 I(}ly riumounted all the retl that had writen be- 
 fore her time, or finee, " for fence, f\\eetnefle, 
 and fubtillitie," were it in " ode, elegie, epi- 
 gram, or any other kinde of poeme, heroick or
 
 3^4 POETS OF THE 
 
 lyricke," wherein it Ihould pleafe her majesty to 
 employ her pen, " euen by as much oddes as her 
 owne gallant eftate and degree" exceeded *' all 
 the reft of her moft humble vasfalls," The fol- 
 lowing " Epitaph, made by the queenes maies- 
 tie, at the death of tlie princeffe of Efpinoye," 
 inferted among the poems of one Soothern, 
 printed in her time (fee tliat name), is here 
 given merely as a curiofity ; fince tliere cannot 
 wel be a more abominable compofition, the 
 mufees haveing favour'd her juft as much as Ve- 
 nus or Diana : * 
 
 " When the warrier Phoebus, goth to make 
 his round. 
 With a painefuU courfe, to toother hemi- 
 
 fphere : 
 A darke fliadowe, a great horror, and a 
 
 feare. 
 In i knoe not what clowdes inueron the 
 ground. 
 And euen fo for Pinoy, that fayre vertues lady, 
 (Although lupiter haue in this orizon. 
 Made a ftarre of her, by the Ariadnan 
 crowne) 
 
 * Bolton, however, is of a different opinion : ** Q^ 
 Elizabeths vcrfcs," fays he, " thofe which i have feen 
 and read. ...arc princely, as her profe."
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 365 
 
 Morns, dolour, and griefe, accompany our 
 body. 
 O Atropos, thou haft doone a worke per- 
 
 uerft. 
 And as a byrde tliat hath loft both young, 
 and neft : 
 About the place where it was, makes many a 
 
 tourne. 
 Euen fo dooth Cupid, that infaunt, god, of 
 
 amore. 
 Flic about the tombe, where flie lyes all in do- 
 lore. 
 Weeping for her eies, wherein he made fo- 
 
 iourne."* 
 Bolton, after citeing a fulfome and parafitical 
 dedication to this queen (or, rather, quean, as 
 one who would not onely fcold, and fwear By 
 
 * " Two little anthcmes or thinges in meeter of hir 
 majestic, " were lictnfe'd to Mr. Barker, her majesties 
 printer, the 15th of November 157S. She is generally 
 reprefented as beautyful, challe, and an accomplilh'd 
 poetcfs ; and was all, no doubt, with equal truth. 
 
 At the end of her translation of " Margarete, quene 
 of Naverrcs godly meditacyon of the christen fowlej" 
 publifli'd by Bale in 1548, is a metrical vcrfion of the 
 thirteenth pfalm.
 
 366 POETS OF THE 
 
 god, at her nobles and maids of honour, but, 
 occafionally, box their ears), by fir Henry Savil, 
 before his abominable per^'erfion of Tacitus, 
 (principally, he fays, to incite her, as by a foil, 
 to communicate to the world, if not thofe ad- 
 mirable compolitions of her own, yet, at tlie 
 lead, "thofe moll rare and excellent translations of 
 histories," if he " may call them translations, 
 which have fo infinitely exceeded the ori- 
 ginals"!!!) proceeds as follows: " Somewhat it 
 may detract from the credit of this feeming hyper- 
 bolical praife, both becaufe it was written in her 
 life-time, and alfb to her felf [a cenfure which 
 may apply, with no lefs justice, or propriety, to 
 Puttenham, and the reft of her fervile flatterers] : 
 but i can believe they were excellent. For, ' per- 
 hap', the world never law a lady, in whofe per- 
 fon more greatnefs of parts met ' than' in hers ; 
 unlets it were in that molt noble princefs, and 
 heroine, Mary queen of Scots, inferior to lier 
 only in her outward fortunes, in all other re- 
 fpe6ts, and abilities, at Icafl her equal." This 
 panegyrick, though eloquently delivcr'd, is, at 
 at any rate, a poor compliment to queen ^'laiy, 
 to put her on an equal footing with a " green- 
 eyc'd monflcr" (the illegitimate fpawn of a bloody 
 and luftful tyrant), who, not oncly, imprifon"d
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 367 
 
 that moft beautyful and accomplifli'd princefs, (to 
 whom fhe liad liypocritically and feductively of- 
 fer'd a refuge,) for tlie eighteen beft years of her 
 life and reign, but, upon the falfeeft fuggestions, 
 and the gi-ofsefl; forgery's, with a favage and ma- 
 lignant cruelty, unparallel'd even in the Furies or 
 Gorgons of antiquity, deprive'd of crown and king- 
 dom, and deliberately flied the facred and pre- 
 cious blood, of her neareft relation, and, even, 
 the prefumptive heir to her ovyn realm, to which, 
 in faft, flie had a better title than herfelf. 
 
 " O, tigrefs' heart, wrap'd in a womans 
 hide !" 
 
 TUDOR HENRY, king of England, the 8th 
 of his name, wrote a " fpecial verfe, when he 
 conceive'd love for Anna Bulleign," printed in 
 Nugtv a/ifiqiur, II, 147 : which, " though," as 
 lord Orford remarks, " it has no great merit, 
 raifes our opinion of his majesty as an author." 
 He is, likewife, fuppofe'd to be the writeer of 
 a fong, begining " Pastime with good company," 
 prefcrve'd in a coeval MS. now in tlie Britifli- 
 mufeum, and intitle'd " The kynges ballet." 
 ]Mister Warton had been told " that the late lord 
 Eglintoun had a genuine book of manufcript 
 fonncts, written by king Henry the eighth j" and
 
 368 POETS OF THE 
 
 fays '* There is an old madrigal, fet to mufic 
 by William Bird, fuppofed to be written by 
 Henry, when he firft fell in love with Ajine 
 Boleyn,"* 
 
 TURBERVILE GEORGE translateed " The 
 heroycall epistles of the learned poet Publius 
 Ouidius Nafo : with Aulus Sabinus aunfweres to 
 certaine of the fame:" printed by Henry Den- 
 ham, 136;, 8vo. He, likewife, fet out, " Epi- 
 taphcs, epigrams, fongs, and fonets, with a dis- 
 courfe of the friendly affections of Tymctes to 
 Pyndara his ladle:" printed by Henry Denham, 
 1567, 1570, 8vo. There are feveral piecees of 
 poetry in his "Arte of venerie/' and in his 
 " Booke of faulconrie or hawking," he has a 
 poem in commendation of hunting, and a poeti- 
 cal epilogue. Allfo " Tragical talcs, translated 
 by Turberuilc, in time of his troubles, out of 
 fundrie Italians, with the argument and Icnuoye 
 toechtalc:" printed by Abel Jeffcs, 1587, 8vo. 
 which Wood mistaketinly fuppofecs " to be the 
 fame as his epitaphs, &:c." and Warton, ftil 
 
 * It may be fo ; but tlicre is nothing poetical, at 
 kaft in Engleifh, in his letters to her, publifli'd by 
 Hcarnc; many, of which, by the way, he was obligc'd 
 to fupprefs, on account of their grofs indecency.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 36Q 
 
 more erroneously, pretends to be " in profe." 
 Being fecretary to the Engleifli embasfadour in 
 Rusfia, " he did, at fpare hours," according to 
 Wood, " exercife his mule ; and wrote poems 
 defcriblng the places and manners of the country 
 and people of Rusfia, an. 156q; written to 
 Edw. Dancie, Edm. Spencer, ^c. at London." 
 The tliree metrical epistles to Dancie and Spencer, 
 were printed in Hakeluyts voyages, 158(). 
 Thefe are includeed among tlie " Epitaphes and 
 fonets" annex'd to the " Tragical tales," by 
 the authour, " with feme other broken pam- 
 phlettes and epistles, fent to certaine his frends 
 in England, at his being in Moscouia, anno 
 1369." Two of thefe epistles are fay'd to be 
 familiar congrntulations to the famous Spenferj 
 but mister Park conceives tliat the poems do not 
 afford any internal evidence to autliorife fuch a 
 conclufion, notwiihftanding the refpectable aver- 
 ments of biftiop Tanner and doctor Berkenhout. 
 It appears, by fome prefatory verfees to his " Tra- 
 gical tales," as wel as from the dedication to his 
 " Boke of faulconrie or banking, " 1375, that he 
 had undertakeen a translation, into Engleifh vcrfe, 
 of the " haughty woorke of learned Lucan,* 
 
 * From a poem in Tuibcrvillcs " Tragical tales," 
 B b
 
 370 POETS OF THE 
 
 touching tlie ciuill disfention of afpiring Caefar, 
 and pitifull Pompey, the protector of Rome," 
 which he furace/it to -write tliefe historys. AUfo 
 " The eglogs of the poet B, Mantuan Carmelitan, 
 turned into Englilh verfe, and fet forth with the 
 argument to every egloge, anno 15 67 :" printed by 
 H. Bynneman, l2mo. He has, likewife, com- 
 mendatory verfees before Fentons " Tragical dis- 
 courfes," 1579: and at tlie end of David Row- 
 lands " Plefant historic of Lazarillo de Tonnes," 
 i5gG. Sir John Harington has ''an epitaph in 
 commendation of George Turben'ill, a learned 
 gentleman," in his firft book of epigrams, which 
 concludes — " Mj/ pen doth praife tliee dead, 
 t/ihie grac'd me living." Sir John, in his note 
 on the 3th book of Orlando furiofo, fays " Allu- 
 fion there is in this tale of Gencura, vnto a ftorie 
 written in Alciats duello, of a matron in Fraunce 
 accufcd in fuch fort, by two men, and a cer- 
 taine fouldier of Barcellona came with a compa- 
 nion of his, and tooke vpon them the defence of 
 the woman, and being fighting the companion of 
 the fouldier fled : notwithitanding he of Barcel- 
 
 it appears that he had relinquifli'd the translation of 
 " loftic Lucans verfe," as " more mccte for noble 
 Buckhu,jls brainc." T. P.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 371 
 
 lona with his courage and vertue gat the Victoria 
 of the other two, and fo in ftrange attire went 
 home to his own countrey vnknowne, to which 
 Ariodant feems to allude. Some others," heads, 
 " affirme, that this very matter, though fet 
 downe here by other names, happened in Ferrara 
 to a kinswoman of the dukes, which is here 
 figured under the name oi Geneura...[E\xi\ How- 
 foever it was, fure the tale," he fays, " is a 
 pretie comicall matter, & hath bin written in 
 Engllfh verfe fome few years part (learnedly & 
 with good grace) though in verfe of another kind, 
 hyM. George Turbtniil." No fuch tale, how- 
 ever, is otherwife known to have been writen by 
 Turber\ille, but " The history of Ariodante and 
 Jeneura," had, in faft, been allready writen by 
 Peter Beverlay, whom fee. It is, therefor, pos- 
 fible that the worthy knights memory had de- 
 ceive'd him, which, at the fame time, is a hard 
 matter to believe. 
 
 TURNER WILLIAM, a phyfician, afterward 
 dean of Wells, wrote " The huntyng of the Ro- 
 myfflie Vuolfe:" printed abroad, without date, 
 8vo. and reprinted under the title of " The 
 hunting of the fox and the wolfc, becaufe they 
 B b 2
 
 371 POETS OF THE 
 
 make hauocke of the fheepe of Chrift Jefus :" 
 156 1, 8vo. (See Herbert, p. 1575, i605.) alfo, 
 " A new dialogue, wherein is conteyned the exa- 
 mination of the mefTe, CfJ'c." 1548 (partly in 
 verfe). 
 
 TUSSER THOMAS wrote and publifh'd " A 
 hundreth good pointes of husbandrie :" printed 
 by R. Tottel, 1537,* 4to. and, according to John 
 Kings fale-catalogue, in 1362, 4to. enlarge'd, and 
 thus intitle'd— " A hundreth good pointes of hus- 
 bandry, lately maried unto a hundreth good 
 poynts of huswifery : newly corre<!iled and am- 
 plified with dyvers proper lefsons for houshold- 
 ers, £3'c. fet foorth by Thomas Tufser, gentle- 
 man, fervant to the right hon. lorde Paget :" 
 printed by R. Tottyll, 1370, 4to. and, again, 
 " augmented witli diuerfe approued lesfons con- 
 cerning hopps & gardening, and other needful 
 matters, tjfc."' by R. Tottell, 1373, 4to. There 
 
 * Warton fays, that, in 1557, John Daye had licenfc 
 to print " the hundreth poyntes of good Aj/i/irr/>" (III, 
 303), which he feems to have asfign'd in the lame 
 year to Totti!, who, accoiding to Herbert, had a li- 
 cenfc for it in I 56 1. Herbert, by mistake, fuppofe'd it 
 to have been printed by Day.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 373 
 
 are, likewife, editions, by Henry Denhani, in 
 1577, 1380, 1583, and 1386 j* by Richard 
 Yardley, in I3c)3, by Peter Short, in 15()7, and 
 by Robert Waldegrave, at Edinburgh, in IoQQ; 
 befide lateer editions by the company of ftationers 
 in i604 and iGiO, all in 4to. b. l.f At the end 
 are certain Ihort poems, particularly " The au- 
 thors life." It is a work of great merit. In 
 136l was licenfe'd to Thomas Hacket " A dya- 
 logue of wyuynge & thryuyng of Tusfhers, with 
 ij lesfons for olde & yonge:" apparently a dif- 
 ferent work. Tusfer dye'd in 1580 j and his 
 epitaph may be- read in Stows " Survay of Lon- 
 don," logs, p. 212. In Tufsers \ery curious 
 
 * The edition of 15S0 took the following title — 
 " Five hundreth pointes of good husbandrie, as well for 
 the champion or open countric, as alfo for the Woodland 
 or ftverall, mixed in everic month with huswifcrie, over 
 and bcfidcs the booke of huswiferie. Correfled, better 
 ordered, and newlie augmented to a fourtli part more, 
 with divtrs other lefsons, as a diet for the farmer, of the 
 properties of wmds, planets, hops, herbs, bees, and 
 approovcd remedies for Iheepe and cattell, fe^c. Newlie 
 fet foorth by Thomas Tulser, gentleman:" printed by 
 H. Denham, 410. 
 
 t In the roya! library is an edition printed in 1604 
 for the company of ftationers. T. P. 
 B b 3
 
 374 POETS OF THE 
 
 and original production may be trace'd the popu- 
 lar llanza, which attain'd to fuch celebrity, in 
 the pastoral ballads of Shenftone. 
 
 TWYNE LAWRENCE and JOHN, wrote 
 verfees in praife of tlieir brother Thomases trans- 
 lation of Lhuyds '' Breviaiy of Britayne," 157S, 
 l2mo. 
 
 TWYNE THOMAS, doctor of phyfick, fi- 
 nifli'd tlie translation of Virgils ^neids, begun, 
 and continue'd, as far as about the middle of the 
 lOth book, by doctor Thomas Phaer. The work 
 thus completed appear'd under the following ti- 
 tle : " The whole xii. bookes of the ^neidos of 
 Virgin. Whereof the firft ix. and part of the 
 tenth, were conuerted into Englifli meeter by 
 Thomas Phaer efquier, and the refidue fupplied, 
 and the whole worke together newly fet forth, by 
 Thomas Twync gentleman. ..Imprinted at Lon- 
 don by Wyllyara How, for Abraham Veale, 
 dwelling in Poules churchycarde, at the ligne of 
 the lambe. 1373," 4to. b. 1. There was another 
 edition, witli the fupplement of Maphauis, in 
 i.'>84, and again in 1596. Doctor Twyne, who 
 has, likewife, fome poetical verlions in his trans- 
 lation of Lhuyds " Breviary of Britayne," 1373,
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 375 
 
 and has acrostical verfees affix'd to fir Nicholas 
 Bacon and his lady, after a profe dedication, 
 dated 1574, to " The garland of godlie flowers, 
 (sfc." 1602, dye'd, at Lewes, in lGl3, aged 70. 
 
 TYE CHRISTOPHER, doctor of mufick, and 
 one of the gentlemen of the chapel royal, trans- 
 lateed into Englifli metre " I'he adtes of the 
 apostles, wyth notes to eche chapter, to lynge 
 and alfo to play upon the lute, very necesfarj'C 
 for fliudentes after theyr ftudye, to fyle theyr 
 wyttes, and alfo for all christians that cannot 
 fynge, to reade the good and godlye ftoryes of the 
 lyues of Chryft hys apostles, 1553" (only the 
 firft 14 chapters) : printed by Nicholas Hyll, for 
 W. Seres, and by Seres himfelf, without date, 
 8vo. with a rimeing dedication to K. Edward the 
 Cth, in whofe chapel this verfion was for a time 
 fung. " A notable histor\'e of Nast:igio & Tra- 
 verfari, no lefs pitiefull than plcalaunt, trans- 
 lated out of Italian into Englifli by C. T." 
 printed by T. Purfoot, I56g, l2mo. b. 1. is that 
 ftory of Boccaccio to which Drydcn has givcen a 
 fecund immortality under tlie name of Theodore 
 and Honoria. 
 
 TYMME THOMAS has a poetical addrefs to 
 B b 4
 
 376 POETS OF THE 
 
 the reader before fir Frauncis Briants translation 
 of Guevaras " Dispraife of a courtiers life," 
 1573, 8vo. 
 
 UNDERDOWNE THOMAS translateed "O- 
 uid his inuectiue againft Ibis:" printed by T. 
 Eaft in 1569, and by H. Bynneman in 1577> 
 8vo. dedicateed to " fir Thomas Sackuile knight, 
 lord Buckhurft." 
 
 UNDERHILL . . ., "a witty and facetious 
 gentleman," was, in 1358, fent, by the council, 
 to Newgate, for a ballad he had made, wherein 
 were fome ftrokes againft the papifts. See 
 Strypes Memoirs ecdefiastical , III, 60. 
 
 UPCHER HENRY has twenty-four lines in 
 alternate verfe prefix'd to Greenes " Mcnaphon," 
 1399. 
 
 UVEDALE NICHOLAS wrote " diners and 
 fundry verfes, whereof fum were fette vp and 
 fum other were fpoken and pronounced vnto the 
 ladie Anne wif vnto king Henry the eight in 
 many goodly and coftely pageauntes exhibited and 
 flu wed by the mayre and citizens of London on 
 Whitlbn ycue in tlie xxv^^ yere of our faid fouc-
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 377 
 
 rain lorde." (Royal MS. 18 A LXIV.) John 
 Leland fupply'd the Latin verfees, which are here 
 preferve'd, in his own hand.* 
 
 V. T. " Englifhman," as he figns himfelf, has 
 " a poefie to tlie nobilitie and people of England 
 and Scotland," in Lesleys " Treatife towching tlie 
 right, title, and intereft of the moft excellent 
 princelTe Marie, Q. of Scots, ^c. 1584." 
 
 VAGHNE ROBERT wrote " A dyalogue de- 
 fenf}ue for women agaynft malicious detrac- 
 toures," 4to. — " Thus endeth the faucon and the 
 pie. Jnno dni. 1542, Imprynted by me Ro- 
 bert Wyer for Richarde Bankes." It is an alli- 
 terative metre, and the dialogue is fupported by 
 the above birds. This dialogue is thought to 
 have been occafion'd by " A lytell boke named 
 the fchole-houfe, wherein euery man may rede a 
 goodly prayfe of the condycyons of women." 
 
 VALLANS WILLIAM wrote " A tale of two 
 fwanncs. \Mierein is comprehended the original 
 and encreafe of the riuer Lee, commonly called 
 
 •'^ He always wrote his name Z.c;7.;//.7; which no one, 
 after him, had a right to alter.
 
 378 POETS OF THE 
 
 Ware river ; together with the antiquitie of fun- 
 drie places and townes feated vpon the fame. 
 Pleafant to be read, and not vnprofitable to be 
 vnderftood :" printed by Roger Ward for John 
 Sheldrake^ isgo, 4to. and reprinted in the 5th 
 volume of Lelands Itinerary : twelve leaves in 
 blank verfe. He is, likewife, the authour of 
 commendatory verfees prefix'd to " Whartons 
 dreame," 1578. In the Harleian MS. 367, is a 
 "" fliort poem of Will. Vallans falter, as it feeras, 
 upon John Stowes lack of reward for compiling 
 his furvey of London." 
 
 VAUX THOMAS, lord Vaux, of Harrowden 
 in Northharaptonfliire, is the authour of feveral 
 poems in " The paradice of daintie devifes," 
 1576, where he is distinguilh'd by the title of 
 " lord Vaux the elder." He wrote a poem, 
 much commended by Puttenham, begin ing 
 " When Cupid fcaled firft the fort 5" and in the 
 Harleian MS. Num. 1703, is "A dyttye or 
 fonet, made by the lorde Vans in time of the no- 
 ble (]ueene Marye, reprefentinge the image of 
 Deathe" (" tlioug/it by fome to be made upon /lis 
 death-bed") ;* which is infcrted among Surreys 
 
 • Gascoigncs epistle •' to all young gentlemen," pre-
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 379 
 
 poems, and quoteed in Shakfpeares Hamlet : botli 
 thefe are reprinted by Percy. This Thomas lord 
 Vaux, by a mistake of Puttenham, (who com- 
 mends him chiefly for " the facillitie of his mee- 
 tre, and the aptneffe of his defcriptions, namely 
 in fundry of his fongs, wherein he iheweth the 
 counterfait action very lively & pleafantly",) has 
 been confounded, by Wood and others, with hi» 
 father Nicholas, whom he fucceeded in 1523, 
 and who was no poet. See EDWARDS RI- 
 CHARD. 
 
 VAUX WILLIAM, lord Vaux, fon of the 
 above nobleman, wrote feveral poems, in " The 
 paradice of daintie deuifes," 1376. He " under- 
 tooke to penne" die tragedy of " king Edwards 
 two fonnes cruelly murdered in the tower of Lon- 
 don," for Baldwines " Myrrour for magistrates," 
 1563 (fee fo. 114, h.) ; but what he did therein 
 we are not inform'd. He was fummon'd to par- 
 liament in 1558, and dyed in 15g5. 
 
 VAVASER. This name is annex'd to fome 
 
 fix'd to his "woikcs," 1575. Gascoigne, however, 
 as mister Park obfcrves, fcouts this as a vulgar notion, 
 and ridicules the abettors of it for their infantine cre- 
 dulity.
 
 380 POETS OF THE 
 
 poems, of queen Elizabeths time, in a MS. be- 
 longing to Samuel Lyfons, efquire. 
 
 VENNARD RICHARD of Lincolns-inn, has 
 " The miracle of nature," a panegyrick on Q. 
 Elizabeth, and other poems, in a traft intitle'd 
 " The right way to heaven, & the true testi- 
 monic of a faithfull & loyall fubjed : " printed by 
 T. Efte, 1601, 4to. 
 
 VEREANN, countefs of Oxford, firftwifeto 
 carl Edward, the poet, and eldeft daughter of fir 
 William Cecil, lord Burleigh, made " Foure 
 cpytaphes, after the death of her young fonne 
 the lord Bulbecke, Cs'c." which, together with 
 " the fowre laft lynes of [two] other that fhe 
 made alfo," are inferted in Sootherns poems. She 
 dye'd in* I587.t 
 
 • Mister Steevens fays, " June 6, 1588."— See£«'6- 
 fean miigax.ine, June 1788, p. 390. 
 
 f In the Cotton MS. (Julius F. x.) feveral Latin 
 poems occur in commendation of " Anna Vera," as th 
 daughter of Ld. Burleigh, and wife of Ld. Oxford. In 
 the laft edition of " Royal & noble authors," lord Or- 
 ford notices the countefs of Oxcnfords futile attempts in 
 poetry, as introduce'd into •' Sootherns Diana," for
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 381 
 
 VERE EDWARD, earl of Oxford, the 1 4th 
 of his furnaine and family, is the authour of fe- 
 veral poems printed in " The paradice of daintie 
 deuifes," isyfi, &"(•, and in " Englands Heli- 
 con," 1600." One piece, by this nobleman, 
 may be found in "The phoenix neft," 1593, 
 another is fubjoin'd to " Altrophel & Stella," 
 1591, and another to " Brittons bowre of de- 
 lights," 1597 (fele6ted by mister Ellis). Some 
 lines of his are, allfo, prefix'd to " Cardanuses 
 comforte," 1573. All or mofl of his compofi- 
 tions are distinguifh'd by the fignature E. O. 
 He dye'd in lG04 ; and was bury'd at Hack- 
 ney (not, as Wood fays, at Earls-Colne in 
 Esfex). Webbe and Piittenham applaud his at- 
 tainments in poefy : Meres ranks him with the 
 " beft for comedy." Several fpecimens of lord 
 Oxfords poetry occur in Englands Parnasfus, 
 iCOO. In the pofthumous edition of lord Ox- 
 fords works, Vol. I. two poems, by the earl of 
 Oxford, are givccn from an ancient MS. miscel- 
 
 the account of which he fays, " the edliar of the Euro- 
 fean magazine muft be refponfiblc." His lorcilhip does 
 not fcem to have been aware that the account was drawn 
 up bv mister Stccvcns, who posfefs'd the unique copy 
 of Soothcrns poems, whence thofe fpecimens were ex- 
 traftcd. T. P.
 
 382 POETS OF THE 
 
 lany : but the posfefsor is not pointed out. One 
 of thefe is reprinted by mister Ellis. 
 
 W, A. is the authour of a pastoral, in Davi- 
 fons " Poetical rhapfodie," l602, " made long 
 fince upon the death of fir Philip Sidney." The 
 fame initials are fubfcribe'd to a poem, " in 
 praife of Gascoigne and his pofies," prefix'd to 
 his " Flowers," \5iFi, and to Cottons "Armor 
 of proofe, £5'c." I5g6, They are, probablely, 
 thofe of Arthur Warren, authour of " The poore 
 mans pasfions, and poverties patience:" printed 
 by J. R. for R. B. ]603, 4to. A. W. has 
 verfees prefix'd to Kendalls Flowers of epigrams, 
 15775 and others "in commendation of Gas- 
 coigne and his pofies," 1575. Andrew Willett 
 is a joint claimant to thefe initials. See his ar- 
 ticle. 
 
 W. E. has a fonnet " to his deere mistris, 
 Elizabeth Sidney," before Markhams " Poem of 
 poems or Sions mufe" [I5g5]. To the fame lady 
 (fir P. Sidneys daughter) the poem is dcdicatced. 
 The fame initials arc prefix'd to a poem intitle'd 
 " Thamtfeidos," 1600, 4 to. 
 
 W. G. fcniur, and junior, wrote a couple of
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 383 
 
 fonnets, prefix'd to Spenfers " Amoretti," 1595. 
 G. W. alfo has verfees prefix'd to Cottons " Ar- 
 mor of proofe, £3*0." 1596. 
 
 W. H. See WOTTON HENRY. 
 
 W, J. has complimentary verfees before 
 " Morleys Practical introduction to muficke/' 
 1597. 
 
 W. T. wrote "an inuective agaynft treafon :" 
 printed by Roger Madeley, in two columns on a 
 half-flieet, fignifying the joy of the people, &'c 
 on the 19th of July 1553, when Mary Tudor was 
 proclaim'd queen. See WATSON THOMAS. 
 
 WALDEN lord Verfees by, Alhmoles MSS. 
 781, or 6071. Thomas lord Howard of Wal- 
 den, fuppofe'd to be the nobleman here intended, 
 was fummon'd to parliament by writ, the 7th of 
 December, 1397. 
 
 WALLSALL SAMUEL wrote " The authors 
 method comprifed in verfe," prefix'd to Butteses 
 '^ Dycts dry dinner," 1599, 12mo. and allfo 
 more verfees " in prayfe of this learnedly witty 
 booke."
 
 384 POETS OF THE 
 
 WARNER WILLIAM, an attorney of the 
 Common -pleas, was the autliour of a work of 
 confiderable merit, intitle'd " Albions England, 
 or a historical map of the fame ifland :" printed 
 by George Robinfon for Tho. Cadman, 1386: 
 reprinted, as " The firft and fecond parts of 
 Albions England : with historicall intermixtures, 
 invention and variety, profitably, briefly, and 
 pleafantly performed," by Thomas Orwin, I58g: 
 again, " tlie third time corre6ted & augmented," 
 by the fame printer, 1.592: again, by the widow 
 Orwin, for I. B. 1596 and 1697 ; and again, 
 " reuifed, and newly inlarged by the author:" 
 by Edmund Bollifant for George Potter, in lC02. 
 In 1606, appear'd " A continuance of Albions 
 England : by the firft autlior. W. W." printed 
 by Felix Kyngston for George Potter. The laft 
 edition, of which this " continuance," though 
 not actually reprinted, makes a part, was pub- 
 lilh'd, after the authonrs death, in 1612, for G. 
 P. [George Potter]. All thefe editions are in 
 quarto, and the firft thrct- of them in black 
 letter.* Ames, in his '' Typographical anti- 
 
 * It appeals, by an entiy in the ftationcrs Iiook (cited 
 by Hcrbeir, 1190), that, on th.e 17th of Octo. 15S6, 
 ** The wardens vpon ferchc of Roger Wards houfc dyd
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 385 
 
 quities," mentions " Warners poetry," 1586, 
 8vo. which, however, is, probablely, nothing 
 more than the " Albions England," 4to. of that 
 year : before which, according to Wood, he 
 wrote feveral fpecimens of poetry, whereby his 
 name was cried up among the minor poets :" 
 but Wood knew nothing of the date of thofe 
 " matters of greater moment," which he fup- 
 pofees him to have writen and publilh'd " when 
 years came on." It is, at the fame time, evi- 
 dent, from the preface to Albions England, that 
 he had writen notliing in lerjl before; and the 
 only fpecimen of his profe, now known, is " Sy- 
 rinx, or a fevenfold history, Csj'c." printed, ap- 
 parently for the fecond time, in 1597. By his 
 dedications to Henry and George, fuccesfive ba- 
 rons of Hunsdon, he appears to ha\'e been pa- 
 
 find there in printing, a book in verfe, intytled Englandt 
 Albion, beinge in Englifh & not aucthorifed to be 
 printed, which he had ben forbidden to prynte, afwell 
 by the L. archb. of Canterburye, as alfo by the laid 
 wardens at his own houfe :" and forasmuch as he had 
 done this " contrary to the late decrees of the hon. 
 court of Starre-chamber, the faid wardens feifed iij heaps 
 of the faid Englandi Albpn.^^ As it was actually printed 
 by G. Robinf.ri for T. Cadman, )Vard feems to have been 
 pirateing it, as he was other books. 
 C c
 
 386 POETS OF THE 
 
 tronife'd by, or in fome manner connefted with, 
 that family ; but no further particulars of his 
 history are known, except that he dye'd, fud- 
 denly, in his bed, at Amwell in Herts, the gth 
 of March l608-g, and was there bviry'd.* 
 
 WARREN ARTHUR. See W. A. 
 
 WARREN WILLIAM. " A pleafant new 
 fancie, of a fondlings device, intituled and cald. 
 The nurcerie of names, wherein is prefented 
 (to the order of our alphabet) the brandifli- 
 ing brightnes of our Englilh gentlewomen. 
 Contrived and written in tliis laft time of vaca- 
 tion, & now firft publilhed & committed to 
 printing, tills prefent month of mery May, by 
 Guillam de Warrino :" printed by Richard Jones, 
 1581, 4to. b. 1. 
 
 WASTNES GEORGE cfquirc, has verfecs 
 " in praife of the author," before Melbanckes 
 " Philotimus. The warre betwixt Nature and 
 Fortune," 1583. 
 
 * Scotts "Pocticall works," 1786, p. 84; but (ac- 
 cording to mister Park) firft inferted in his notes to 
 " Amwell, a dcfcriptlve poem," 1776.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 387 
 
 WATREMAN WILLIAM wrote a copy of 
 verfees, touching the controverfy between Church- 
 yard and Camel], begining, " Weftern Will to 
 Camell, Cs'f." (See Herbert, 69O.) Allfo " The 
 fardle of facions, conteining the aunciente ma- 
 ners, customes, & lawes of the peoples, enha- 
 biting the two partes of the earth, called Affrike 
 & Afie :" printed by John Kingstone, 1555, 8vo. 
 b. 1. 
 
 WATSON THOMAS compofe'd, and, " at 
 the requeft of certaine gentlemen his very 
 frendes," publifli'd, " The iko. ro/xTra^ia, or 
 pasfionate century of loue : diuided into two 
 parts : whereof the firft exprefseth the authors 
 fufferance in loue : the latter, his long farewell 
 to Loue and all his tyrannic :" printed by John 
 Wolfe for Gabriel Cawood, without date, 4to. 
 b. 1. but licenfe'd to Cawood in 1581, under the 
 title of " Watfons pasfions, manifefting the true 
 frenzy of loue." It contains 94 fonnets in 
 Engleilli, feme originals, the reft translateed or 
 imitateed from the Greek, Latin, Italian, and 
 French, poets.* Prefix'd are verfees to the au- 
 
 • Among the Harleian MSS. (No. 3277) in the mu- 
 fcum, there is a fair copy of this work, with the follow- 
 C C 2
 
 388 POETS OF THE 
 
 thour by [fir] G. Bucke, T. Acheley, C. Down- 
 hal, M. Roydon, and G. Peele. *' An eglogue 
 upon the death of tlie right honorable fir Francis 
 Walfingham, late principall fecretarie to her ma- 
 jestic, Csi'c. written firft in Latine by Thomas 
 Watfon gentleman, and now by himfelfe trans- 
 lated into Englifli :" printed by Robert Robinfon, 
 iogo, 4to,* This rare publication is in the 
 
 ing diverfity of title : " A looking-glaffe for loovcrs. 
 Wherein are conteyned two fortes of amorous pasfions ; 
 the one exprefsing the trewe eftate and perturbations of 
 hym that is overgon with love ; the other a flatt defyance 
 to Love, & all his lawes." This MS. contains only 78 
 fonnets, the orthography of which is much more anti- 
 quated than in the printed copy. T. P. 
 
 * VVatfon thus apologift-s for having become the 
 translator of his own poem : " I interpret myfeif, left 
 Melib^eus in fpeaking Englifli by another mans la- 
 bour, ftiould leefe my name in his chaunge, as my 
 Amintas did." This may allude to Fraunces ver- 
 fion in the " Countcfs of Pcmbrokes Yvychurch," who 
 profefses to have " fomewhat altered S. Tafsocs Italian, 
 and M. Watfons Latine Amyntas, to make them 
 both one Englifli:" or it may refer to another transla- 
 tion of Watlbns Amyntas, by J. T. intitled '« An 
 ould facioned love, or a love of the ould facion." 
 
 Inanaddrcfs to the reader, before *' Vallanscs Tale
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 389 
 
 TOyal libraty. He alfo publifh'd " The firfl fett 
 of Italian niadrigalls englillied, not to tJie fenfe 
 of the original dittie, but after the affection of 
 the noate :" whereunto are annex'd " '2 excellent 
 madrigalls of M. Will. Byrds, compofed after 
 the Italian vaine, at the rcqueft of the fayd 
 Thomas Watfon:" printed by Thomas Efte, 
 1590, 4to. A few poems, by this authour, are 
 inferted in " The phoenix neft," 1593 ; in 
 " Englands Helicon/' 1600 j in Davifons " Poe- 
 tical rapfodie," 1G1I3 and prefix'd to Whetftones 
 " Heptameron," 1582, arefome verfees by " T. 
 \V. efquier, in tlie commendation of the aucthour 
 and his needefuU booke." He was a native of 
 London, fpent fome time at Oxford (" not," 
 fays Wood, " in logic & philofophy as was ex- 
 peAcd, but in the fmooth and pleafant ftudies 
 of poetry and romance"), afterward iludyd tlie 
 common law, and dye'd before 159G.* 
 
 of two fwannes," ii,^o, M. Tho. Watfons OJei 
 (Lat.) arc quoted from, and an Englifh translation of 
 the pafsage is given by A. F. [ Ab. Fraunce]. 
 
 * In " Have with vou," ^c Is'afli fpcaks of Watfon 
 as deccafe'd in that vtar, and laments him as '' a man 
 that he dearly loved and honoured, and who for all 
 things hath left few his equals in England." T. P. 
 C c 3
 
 3Q0 POETS OF THE 
 
 WEBBE WILLIAM, translateed the firft and 
 fecond eclogues of Virgil into Englifli hexameters, 
 and printed them in his *' Discourfe of Englilh 
 poetrie," 1586 j in which, according to Warton, 
 he alfo profefses to have translateed the Georgics. 
 
 WEBSTER WILLIAM wrote " The moft 
 pleafant and delightful historic of Curan a prince 
 of Danfke, and the fayre princefle Argentill, 
 daughter and heyre to Adelbright, fome time 
 king of Northumberland, fe'c." n. d. 4to. b. 1. 
 an indifferent paraphrafe, in fix-line ftanzas, of 
 a beautiful epifode in Warners Albions England. 
 There was a lateer edition in 1617. 
 
 WEEVER JOHN wrote and publifh'd, I. 
 " A little book of epigrams," isgg, 8vo. 2. 
 " The mirror of martyrs, or tlie life and deatla 
 of that thrice valiant capitaine and moft godly 
 raartyre fir John Oldcastle knight, lord Cob- 
 ham." 1601, l8mo. printed by V. S. for Wm. 
 Wood } and writen two years before. A com- 
 mendatory fonnet allfo, by John Weever, is pre- 
 fix'd to Middletons " Legend of Humphrey duke 
 of Glocester," 1600. Whether this was the au- 
 tliour of " Ancient funerall monuments," lO'Si, 
 is uncertain, though fufficiently probable : but, 
 if fo, he was a Lancaflaire-man, born in 157O.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. SQl 
 
 WHARTON JOHN, a puritanical fchool- 
 master, publilli'd a pamphlet, chiefly in verfe, 
 intitled " Whartons dreame : conteyninge an 
 inuective agaynft certaine abhominable caterpil- 
 leri, as ufurers, extorcioners, leasmongers and 
 fuch others, confounding their diuellyfli fedes by 
 the authority of holy fcripture :" printed by John 
 Charlewood, 1578, 4to. b. 1. He alfo wrote a 
 ballad, intitled " Whartons foUie ;" licenfe'd to 
 John Hunter, 20th July 1576. " Whartons no- 
 vels," licenfe'd to Henry Kirkham, in the fame 
 year, was, doubtlefs, a production of the fame 
 autliour, and posfiblely in metre. 
 
 WHETSTONE GEORGE wrote " The rocke 
 of regarde," 1570, 4to. in 4 parts: 1. " The 
 castle of delight." 2. " The garden of untlirifti- 
 nefs," 1576. 3. " The arbour of vertue." 4. 
 " The ortchard of repentance ; wherein is re- 
 ported the miferies of dice, the mischiefes of 
 quarelling, and the fall of prodigality," 1576, 
 4to. Some pieces of poetry are, likewife, inter- 
 fperfe'd in his " Heptaraeron* of cluill dis- 
 courfes," 1582 : reprinted under the title of 
 
 * Wood calls diis piece a " fevcn days exercife," 
 &" -. but the copy he faw had loft the title. 
 
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 392 POETS OF THE 
 
 " Avirelia," 1593. Mister Bindley has '' A mir- 
 ror of treue honour and christian nobilitie, ex- 
 pofing the life, death, and devine vertues, of the 
 moft noble, and godly lorde Frauncis earle of 
 Bedford, baron Rufsell, Cs'c. who deceafed at 
 Bedford houfe, tlie xxviij of June, 1595, Mtatis 
 face 58. Whereunto is adjoyned a report of the 
 vertues of the right valiant & worthy knight S. 
 Frauncis, Ld. Rufsell, fonne and heire apparant 
 of the honour & good giftes of the fayd right no- 
 ble earle, who vpon a daye of truce was flaine, 
 by a treacherous ftratageme of the Scots, the 27 
 day of the faid montli of June. The report of 
 George Whetftone, gent, a faithful! feruaunt of 
 the fayd right honorable earle :" printed by Rd. 
 Jones, 1585, 4to. — 90 feven-line ftanzas, & 
 epitaph. See, alfo, catalogue of pamphlets in the 
 Harleian library. His initials (G. W.) are fub- 
 join'd to certain lines /'in praife of Gascoigne 
 and his pofies," prefix'd to that authours ** Flow- 
 ers," 1575. His name appears to a copy of 
 verfees before Kendalls " Flowers of epigrams," 
 1577 J and an epitaph, by him, on fir Philip 
 Sydney, is printed in " A true discourfe histo- 
 rical!, of the fucceeding governours in the Ne- 
 therlands," i^c. " Translated and colleded by 
 T. C. (Churchyard) efquire, and Ric. Ro."
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 393 
 
 (Robinfon) : printed for Mat. Lownes, 1602. 
 4 to. 
 
 WHITHORNE, or WHYTHORNE, THO- 
 MAS, gentleman, publilh'd " his fongs for 3, 
 4, and 5 voyces : which fonges," he fajs, " are 
 of fundrie forts, viz. Some fhort, fome eafie, 
 Cs'c. fome folemne, fome merry :" printed by 
 John Day, 1571, 4to. before which he has a long 
 poetical preface in lines of 14 fyllables: printed 
 by John Day, 1571, 4to. allfo "Duos, or fongs 
 for two voices:" printed by T. Efte, 15go, 4to. 
 with his portrait on the back. 
 
 WHITNEY GEOFFREY wrote '' Fables or 
 epigrams:" printed at Leyden about 1386: alfo 
 " A choice of emblemes, and other devifes," 
 printed there in that year j both 4to.* 
 
 WHITTYNGHAM WILLIAM, " the un- 
 worthy [puritanical] dean of Durham," turn'd 
 into metre five of the pfalras which go by the 
 name of Sternhold and Hopkinses, or tlie old. 
 
 ** See a particular defcription of the latter book in 
 Herberts General history (p. 1675).
 
 394 POETS OF THE 
 
 veifion, being distinguifli'd by the letters W. W, 
 He dye'd in 1579. 
 
 WHYTTLE THOMAS has an epistle in verfc, 
 printed with " Certaine godly and comfortable 
 letters, (src." 1564, 4to. 
 
 WIGHTHAND MAT. has a copy of verfees 
 prefix'd to Mundays " Mirror of mutabilitie," 
 1579- 
 
 WILLET ANDREW (Vid. Fasti I. 128) he 
 publifh'd " Sacrorum emblematum centuria vna" 
 in Latin and Engleilh verfe, 4to. n. d. but, pro- 
 bablely, before isgs, from the allufion of 
 Meres,* 
 
 WILLIAMS THOMAS, of the Inner-Tem- 
 ple, wrote two complimentary fonnets, prefix'd 
 to Chapmans " Ovids banquet of fence," 1595 j 
 and a tliird, in memory of fir W. Sackvile, pre- 
 fix'd to Roflees " Authors teares, 1392, MS. 
 
 * " As the Latines have thefe emblematifts, An- 
 dreas Alciatus, Rcnfrenes, & Sambucus ; fo we have 
 thcfc, Geoffrey Whitney, AndrevJ Willcty and Thomas 
 Combe." PalUdh tamia.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 3Q5 
 
 WILLIS JOHN wrote " Verfes concerning 
 the name and armes of Dunftaple j" where he 
 appears to have been curate, about 1558. See 
 C/iroiiicon de Dunjlaple, a Hearne, Ap. Num. 
 IV. 
 
 WILLOBIE HENRY. " WiUobie his Avifaj 
 or the true picture of a modeft maid, and of a 
 chaft and conftant wife. In hexameter* verfe. 
 The hke argument whereof was never heretofore 
 publilhed:" imprinted at London by John Win- 
 det, 1594, 4to. This poem, of which the verfe 
 is remarkably fmooth and fluent for its age, ap- 
 pears to have been publifh'd, in the authours ab- 
 fence, by his friend Hadrian Dorrel. In the 
 fourth edition, 1609, is inferted "^ The victorie 
 of Enghfh chastitie vnder the fained name of 
 Avifa," fubfcribe'd " Thomas Willoby frater 
 Henrici Willoby nuper defunct i ;" "The refolu- 
 tion of a chaft and conftant wifej" and "The 
 praife of a contented mind." Dorrell, in his 
 " Apologie fhewing the true meaning of IVilloby 
 his Avifa," dateed, " Oxford this 30. of lune. 
 1596," in which year there was "a new edi- 
 
 * Hexameter vetfe, fcems here intended todefignatc 
 /.v-line ftanzas, in which form the jxjems are coinpofe'd.
 
 396 POETS OF THE 
 
 tion/' fays " This poeticall fiction was penned 
 by the author at left for thirtie and fine yeeres 
 fince [1361], and lay in waft papers in his ftudy, 
 as many other prettie tilings did, of his deuifing, 
 and. ..(as his Svfanna yet doth)." Prefix'd are 
 commendatory verfees by Abell Emet, and ano- 
 ther, who figns Covtraria contrariis, and men- 
 tions Shakfpeares liapeof Lucrecc, but does not, as 
 hath been hafteyly furmife'd, celebrate Shakfpeare 
 himfelf : " This Englifti eagle," and " Brytan 
 bird," alludeing to Willobies own poem,* and 
 Shakfpeare being introduce'd onely by way of 
 foil. — The lines are, 
 
 " Tarquyne pluckt his glisteriagjprape. 
 And Shake-fpeare paints poore Liicrece rape." 
 
 WILSON THOMAS, dean of Durham, and 
 principal fecretary to K. Henry the 8th, has fome 
 poetical fcraps in his " Rule of reafon, contein- 
 yng the art of logike:" printed by Jhon Kyng- 
 fton, 1580, 4to, 
 
 * Neither is there any reafon to conclude that thefe 
 verfees were writen by Dorrel, the editor : i. becaufe he 
 allways figns his proper name ; and 2. becaufe the au- 
 thour mistakes the quantity of Avf/u, which Dorrel 
 could not posfibiely luve done.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 397 
 
 WISDOM ROBERT, a protestant fugitive in 
 tlie time of queen Mary, afterward rector of 
 Styfted in Esfex, and of Settrington in York- 
 shire, and a frequent preaclier in Aldermary- 
 church, London, is the authour of a wel-known 
 prayer or hymn, printed at the end of Sternholds 
 pfalms, begining : 
 
 " Preferve us, lord, by thy dear word. 
 From Turk and Pope defend us, lord." 
 He likewife render'd the 25th pfahn of that 
 verfion. The facetious bifliop Corbet has an ad- 
 drefs '' To the gholl of Robert Wisdome." He 
 dye'd in 1568. 
 
 WITHYE WILLIAM wrote fome Ihort 
 poems, 1581, and his own epitaph. (Sloanes 
 MSS. 300.) 
 
 WOLLAYE EDWARD wrote " An admo- 
 nition to ever}' degree, (hewing the right way to 
 joy and perfite reft," dedicatecid to Q, Elizabetli. 
 <Royal MSS. 17 A XIX.) 
 
 WOOTTON JOHN is tlie authour of two 
 poems, printed in " Englands Helicon," l600j 
 one of which is intitle'd " Damsetas jigge in 
 praife of his loue."
 
 398 POETS OF THE - 
 
 WOTTON SIR HENRY, born in 1568, has 
 an ode, under the lignature H. W. in Davifons 
 " Poetical rapfody," l602 j being the firft poem 
 in the Reliqriia Wottonianct, lC85, where it is 
 fay'd to have been " written in his youth." The 
 other poems in that collection are, apparently, of 
 a lateer date. He dye'd provoft of Eton-college 
 in 1639. 
 
 WRAGHTON WILLIAM, on the back of 
 the title to his " Rescuynge of the Romifhe foxe, 
 tslc.'" printed abroad in 1545, 8vo. has certain 
 verfees which " The bannifhed fox of Rome 
 fpeakethe." See Herbert, p. 1557. 
 
 WYATT SIR THOMAS, of Allington-castle 
 in Kent, ftile'd by Wood " The delight of the 
 mufes and of mankind," wrote many fonnets 
 and other poems, includeing translations from the 
 Latin and Italian poets, printed with thofe of 
 Henry earl of Surrey, (See HOWARD.) In 
 1549 were printed by T. Raynald and J. Har- 
 ryngton, " Certaine pfalmes chofen out of the 
 pfalmes of Daaid commonly called vij penyten- 
 tiall pfalmes, drawen into Englifli meter by fir 
 Tliomas Wyatt knyght, whereunto is added a 
 prolog of the aucthore before euery pfalnie very
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. dQQ 
 
 pleafant and profettable to the godly reader :" 
 which Mr. Warton, for whatever reafon, thinks 
 " a feparate work from his translation of the 
 whole pfaltery," He dye'd of a fever, at Sher- 
 borne, in Dorfetftiire, in the fummer of 1541, 
 aged 38, and was inter'd in the great church 
 there. His head, probablely by Holbein, was 
 prefix'd to Lelands " Ncenicc in tnortem T. Via- 
 ti," 1542. It reprefents him as a much older 
 man than he live'd to be, with a large bufhy 
 beard. See that authours Collectanea, by Hearne.* 
 See BOLEYN. 
 
 WYRLEY WILLIAM wrote two uncouth 
 ditties, m feven-line ftanzas, printed at the end^ 
 of Erdswickes "True ufe of armorie," 1592: 
 one intitle'd " Lord Chandos ;" the other, " Ca- 
 pitall de Buz." 
 
 WYTHIPOLL master, of Ipswich, has a me- 
 trical translation of " Certaine Latin verfes made 
 
 * C. and C. W. in Nafmiths catalogue of Bennet- 
 coUege library ftiould both be T. W. being fubfcribe'd 
 to poems of this fir Thomas Wyatt. " A fine head of 
 him among the drawings, by Holbein, in the kings col- 
 lection, now publifhing by mister Chamberlain."
 
 400 POETS OP THE 
 
 by Dr. Norton, for M. Thomas Sackford/' 
 printed, with the letters which pafs'd between 
 Spenferand Haivey, in 1380. 
 
 Y. S. Thefe initials (S. Y.) are givecn by 
 Webbe as thofe of fome Engleilli poet. 
 
 YATES JAMES, ferveing-man, wrote " The 
 castell of courtefie, whereunto is adjoyned the 
 holde of humilitie, with the chariot of chasti- 
 tie thereunto annexed :"* printed by John Wolfe, 
 1582, 4tO. b. 1. 
 
 YELVERTON CHRISTOPHER wTote the 
 epilogue to Gascoigne and Kynwelmerlhes Jo- 
 cast a, prefented, at Grays-inn, 1566 j being 
 then a ftudent there j afterward an eminent 
 couufellor, knight, and judge. He dye'd in 1607. 
 
 • Thefe poems are divideed into three parts, accord- 
 ing to their titles, and to the third part is appended 
 " A dialogue betvvene Diana & Venus : with ditties 
 devifed at fundrie idle times for recreation fake." Onely 
 one copy of this book appears to cxift. It had foimerly 
 belong'd to T. Martin, the Suffolk antiquary; at ma- 
 jor Pearfons fale it was purchafe'd by mister Steevcns; 
 and is now in the poslcsfion of mister Park : who 
 ■obligcingly fumifhes this note.
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURT. 401 
 
 YLOOP* master is the authour of two poems 
 in " The paradice of daintie deuifes," 1376, 
 
 YONG BARTHOLOMEW, of the Middle- 
 Temple, translateed, from the Spanifli, "Diana 
 of George of Montemayor," a pastoral romance, 
 in which is a confiderable number of poetical 
 piecees, chiefly lyrick. Of thefe not lefs than 
 23 are inferted in " Englands Helicon," 1600. 
 The above translation, though finifh'd in 1583, 
 was not printed til I3g8. There are, likewife, 
 fome piecees of poetry in his translation of the 
 fourth book of Guazzos " Civile converfation :" 
 printed by Thomas Eaft, 1386, 4to. 
 
 * Mister Steevens fuppofe'd his real name to be 
 Pooley; which, ads mister Park, occurs in Yateses 
 miscellany of poems, 1582. 
 
 D d
 
 ( 403 ) 
 CORRECTIONS 
 
 AND 
 
 ADDITIONAL NOTES. 
 
 Page 19, Notef- Chatterton muft be acquited as to 
 a part of this anecdote, which he appears to have met 
 with in Fullers Church-history, page 152 : "I finde," 
 fays he, •* this Chaucer fined in the Temple two (hil- 
 lings, for ftriking a Franciscan frier in Fleet ftreet." 
 The blow and the fine muft, therefor, reft upon the au-' 
 thority of that ecclefiastical historian, til ** the records" 
 of the " Inner-Temple" are produce'd ; though the 
 motives for the asfault and battery muft, necesfaryly, 
 be attributecd to the fabricator of Rowley. 
 
 p. 25, N.f' The Specu/um meditantis, which neither 
 Stow nor Tyrwhitt ever faw, appears, from mister El- 
 lises Specimens, to bc "a moral tra£l in French verfe, in 
 which the felicities of conjugal fidelity are illustrated by 
 examples felefled from various authors." Warton fays 
 it is in ten books, and refers to Bib- Bod. NE. F. 8. 9. 
 and MSS. Fairfax, 3. See, likcwifc, Tanners Bib. 
 
 Britart.Ihba. VOCC GOWER. 
 
 D d 1
 
 404 CORRECTIONS AND 
 
 This ancient poete, as he is characterifc'd by Puttcn- 
 ham, " faving for his good and grave moralities, had 
 nothing in him highly to be commended, for his verfe 
 was homely, and without good meafure, his wordes 
 ftrained much deale out of the French writers, his ryme 
 wrefted, and in his inventions fmall fubtillitie." 
 
 P. 29, N.* " In a fomer-feafon •when fettt ivas the 
 funne,"'] Such is the reading of the firft line in all the 
 printed copys, to which, as wel as to fofte, that of the 
 manufcripts, Warton and Percy prefer hot, without re- 
 garding the poets rule, " to have thre [or /ear] ivordes in 
 every verfe which beginne with fame one letter." The 
 three or four words thus distinguifli'd upon the prefent 
 occafion are fomer feaftn, fe:te, and junne. Stite, it muft 
 be allow'd, is an unhapy epithet, which was, certainly, 
 never infertcd Ly the authour, nor in any one of the 
 manufcripts, which, if not very ancient, are, at leaft, 
 very numerous ; all which, in faft, read /o/>*; a word, 
 which, though precedced by the requifite letter, was, 
 moft probabiely, ejefted by Crowley the printer, who 
 did not undei Hand its meaning, and injudiciously fub- 
 ftitutccd Jette, which, at all events, begins with an /, 
 and was, apparently, tlic oncly word, fo circumftancc'd, 
 which he could meet with for that purpofb. Unfor- 
 tunately, for this verbal critick, his emendation is all- 
 togcther inconfiftent with the poets idea : for, if the 
 Junne were fette, its heat would not be fo intolerable as to 
 force him to Jkope himlelf into Jhrauhi ox Jhrouih as he " a 
 flicpc, were;" and, indeed, he, exprefsly, tels us, it 
 was
 
 ADDITIONAL NOTES. 405 
 
 " On a Maye mornynge on Malverne-hylles," 
 that he met with this " marveyloufe fweven :" 
 
 He " was wery of vvandrynge and wente" him " to 
 refte 
 
 Under a brode bank by a burn-fide. 
 
 Where as he" laye and Icned, and loked on the 
 water 
 
 He <' flombred into a flepyng, it fwyzed Co mery." 
 The word , /o/Vf, however, as it is, apparently, the ori- 
 ginal, fo is it, likewife, in all probability, theauthcn- 
 tick and genuine word, ufe'd by the authour himfelf ; 
 and fecms, Hke many others, to have formerly had an 
 appofite fignification, not at prefent underftood. In an 
 ancient metrical romance, intitle'd T/ie foivdon of Baby- 
 loyne, for fome years in the posfesfion of the worthy doc- 
 tor Farmer, and disperfe'd along with the other curiofi- 
 tys of his invaluable and txtenfive library, are the fol- 
 lowing lines : 
 
 " In the fcmcly fefon of the yerc 
 
 Of SOFTENE.SSE OF THE SONNE, 
 In the prymfauns of grene vere. 
 
 Whan floures fpryngyn and bygynne." 
 5'o/>?, after all, as well a,%fnfteneffe, may have been, at a 
 ftil carlyer period, corrupted from fome Saxon word 
 compofe'd of hot, with <he prcfixture of an /, and, in 
 order to prevent the junction of / and h, the interven- 
 tion of a w, To that if the original word may be pre- 
 fume'd to have been writen, f-whote, a very good Saxon 
 word, it would, naturally, in proccfs of time, be mol- 
 lify'd into fofte, as it very probablely be pronounce'd ; 
 of which kind of variation there are innumerable in-
 
 406 CORRECTIONS AND 
 
 fiancees. This, it muft be admited, it little more than 
 the fetitio frincipii, or beging of the quest/on ; but they 
 who are -the moft converfant with old Engleifh nianu- 
 fcripls, which have not yet made their way through the 
 prefs, are, at the fame time, the moft likely to allow, 
 that a lucky accident, in the courfe of their perufal, fre- 
 quently fupplys, if not an entire, or better word, at 
 leaft, its more genuine orthography, and perfpicuous 
 fignification : to which we flial readyly leave it. 
 The poets fecond line is, 
 
 *' I fhope me inlo ^rouBa, as i z^efe were." 
 Inftead of Jkroubei, and Jhefe^ fome MSS. read the line 
 thus : 
 
 " And (hope me into a Jhroud as i a Jhefherd 
 were :" 
 fo that the true meaning may be, that he put on a frock, 
 or coarfe garment, ViV.t& fief herd, or hermit; and the ra- 
 ther fo, as the fubfequent lines, " Went wyde in the 
 worlde, fefc" and " I was weary of wandringe, fe^c." 
 do not very vvel accord with the idea of his creeping into 
 ^rubt or cavei (another fenfe of the word Jkroudes) like a 
 fieep. 
 
 P. 32, N. There is a copy of the Marmel de pechees in 
 the Bodleian MS. Num. 4059, bound up with another 
 work of the fame bifliop. W 
 
 P. 47. — " fistcr to Richard lord Berrers."] Whe- 
 ther this be true or not, certain it is that Bcmen and 
 Barnei were one and the fame name ; Anftis, in an old 
 document, haveing " the lorde Barneffe" (I, ii(r).
 
 ADDITIONAL NOTES. 407 
 
 P. io6. Master Puttcnham calls Skckon, " a fliarpc 
 fatirift, but with more railing and fcoffery than became 
 a poet." 
 
 P. 117. The initials J. A. probablely thofe of this 
 James Afke, are prefix'd and fubfcribe'd to " A defiance 
 toK. A. [King Arthur] and his round table," at the 
 end oi Mufarum dcUci<e, 1656 ; being the identical ballad 
 intended to have been fung by the mock minftrel de- 
 fcribe'd in Langhams letter from KillingAvorth, 1579; 
 begining " As it befell on a Pentecoftday. 
 
 P. 171. CLEVER WILLIAM/ fcHoolmaster, has 
 feveral verfify'd pasfagees in his translation from the 
 Latin of Glaucuses " Knowledge for kings and a warn- 
 ing for fubjefts," 1576. 
 
 THE END. 
 
 Printed by C. Roworth, 
 Hudfon's-court, Strand.
 
 POETS, 
 
 NATIVES OF ENGLELAND, 
 
 WHO WROTE IN LATIN OR FRENCH. 
 
 **• The latter is distinguiih'd by the letter F. 
 
 
 Century VIII. 
 
 Acca, 
 
 Bede. 
 
 Alcuinus. 
 
 Eddins, 
 
 AJdhelm. 
 
 
 
 Century XI. 
 
 Garland John de. 
 
 
 Century XII, 
 
 Exeter Jofeph of (Jofcphus Monmouth Geoffrey of, 
 Iscanm). bilhopof St. Afaph. 
 
 Hanvil John. Necham Alexander. 
 
 Hoveden John de. Salisbury John de. 
 
 Huntingdon Henry arch- Serlo monachu.s. 
 
 deacon of. Sotovagina Hugh de, arch- 
 
 Mapes Walter de, archdea- deacon of York, 
 con of Oxford. 
 
 *D d
 
 400* POETS, NATIVES OF ENGLELAND. 
 
 Century XIII. 
 
 Baston Robert. Canonicus John. 
 
 Blaunpayne Michael. Grofthead Robert, bifhop 
 
 Burgh Hugh de, prior of of Lincoln. F. 
 Lanercoft. 
 
 Century XIV. 
 
 Byblesworth Walter de. Rolle Richard, hermit of 
 
 GowerJohn. F. Hampole. 
 
 Langetoft Piers, or Peter, Roteland Hugh de. F. 
 
 de. F. Strode Ralph. 
 
 Century XV. 
 Kenton Nicholas. Ramfey W. 
 
 Lylye "William. Skelton John. 
 
 Century XVI.* 
 
 Aldrich Robert, bilhop of Brown Thomas, prebendary 
 
 Carlile. of Weftminfter. 
 
 Allen Nicholas. Brownfword (or Brun- 
 
 Ammon Andrew. fuerd) John. 
 
 Bales Peter. Buggans. 
 
 Barnam Thomas. Camden William. 
 
 Bell David. Campian Thomas. 
 
 Bett Richard. Carleton George. 
 
 • Moft of tliefc are nothing more than the writeers of cotn- 
 mcndatory vciTccs.
 
 POETS, NATIVES OF ENGLELAND. *401 
 
 Carr Nicholas, Noio-cas- 
 trenjis. 
 
 Carlifle Christopher. 
 
 Chaloner fir Thomas. 
 
 Chaterton George. 
 
 Cole William. 
 
 Conftable John. 
 
 Cook Anthony. 
 
 Cook John. 
 
 Copland Robert. F. 
 
 Cox Leonard. 
 
 Dastyn John. 
 
 Dclen Walter. 
 
 Denifot Nicholas. 
 
 Dethick Henry. 
 
 Doy ley Thomas, M. D. 
 
 Drant Thomas. 
 
 Duke Gilbert. 
 
 Eedes Richard. 
 
 Ethcregc George. 
 
 Fitzgeffrey Charles. 
 
 Fletcwood William, re- 
 corder of London. 
 
 Garband John. 
 
 Grant Edward. 
 
 Grimoald Nicholas. 
 
 Haddon Walter. 
 
 Harvey Gabriel. 
 
 Hawgh Walter. 
 Hegatt William. 
 Herd John. 
 Higgins John. 
 Hoker John. 
 Holland Henry. 
 Humphreys Lawrence, 
 Hunsdon P. 
 
 Johnlbn Christopher, M. D. 
 Jones Philip. 
 Kervile Nicholas. 
 Latewar Richard. 
 Leland John. 
 Lewis Geoffrey. 
 Lily William. 
 Limbert Stephen. 
 Maister William. 
 Moore Robert. 
 More fir Thomas. 
 Mulcaster Richard. 
 Nevyl Alexander. 
 Newton Theodore. 
 Newton Thomas. 
 Nightingale Thomas. 
 Nordc n John. 
 Nowell Alexander, 
 Ocland Ciiristopher. 
 Owen Robert.
 
 402* POETS, NATIVES OF ENGLELAND. 
 
 Parkliurft John, bifhop of 
 
 Norwich, 
 Peacham Henry. 
 Pembridge Thoma. 
 Percy vail Richard. 
 Redman John. 
 Rightwich John. 
 Sadler Andrew. 
 Sadler John . 
 Seton John. 
 Smith Gervafe. 
 Stanihm-ft Richard. 
 Taverner Ricliard. 
 
 Traheron Bartholomew. 
 Twift Robert. 
 Vaughan William. 
 Waddington Rodolph. 
 Wallfall Samuel. 
 Ward William. 
 Watfon Thomas. 
 Whitynton Robert, 
 Wickham William, 
 Willey Richard. 
 Wilfon Thomas. 
 Withye William. 
 Wysdome Robert.
 
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