7 "- :- '- ... -.-. >; .- .- - .- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES GIFT OF t-aul i. . tow ell A NEC DOTES LITERATURE AND SCARCE BOOKS. > BY THE REV. WILLIAM BELOE, TRANSLATOR OF HERODOTUS, &C. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. Lottnon t PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTOXj no. 62, st, Paul's church yardj By Bye and Law, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell, 1807. - / I/-/ TO THE HONOURABLE AND RIGHT REVEREND THE LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM. MY LORD., THE value of your good opinion is so well known and so duely estimated among Literary Men, that by thus returning thanks for the permission your Lordship has given me, to prefix your name to these Volumes, I am certain of rendering them the most important service. I am also, from the circum- stances in which I have incidentally a been 47.1.454 iv DEDICATION. been placed, both proud and anxi- ous to have it more generally known, that the kindness and friendship with which for many years your Lordship has conde- scended to distinguish me, has undergone no diminution. It will be my constant solicitude, by pursuing that conduct and those studies which first introduced metoyour attention, still to deserve the honour of being allowed to subscribe myself, MY LORD, Your Lordship's most obliged And most faithful Servant. WILLIAM BELOE. P R E FA C E. IF ever there were a time when I might wish for the unclouded use of my faculties, and to be divested of all prejudice and pas- sion, it would surely be the present. I am about to give an account of a work which was commenced under the most auspicious prospects, with the most favourable hopes of its successful and protracted continuation, with the best possible means to give it every aid of variety, with the opportunity of choice among almost infinite materials ; and finally, with every thing I could possibly desire to cheer the present, and to animate me to future exertion. a 3 My vi PREFACE. My situation at the conclusion of these two volumes is very different. But I hasten to give the following concise account of the matter. Having, as I may presume to affirm, led an irreproachable life in my profession, and having manifested my Literary diligence by my versions of Herodotus and Aulus Gellius, and by various other works, I had the good fortune to number among my friends and protectors, some of the most eminent, and some of the most estimable characters of my country. These, I am proud to sav, still remain I have not lost one. A few years since, the venerable and learned Prelate, lo whom these volumes, with his permission, are inscribed, and who has invariably demonstrated a warm and friendlv zeal towards Literature and its dia- ciples, asked me if 1 should wish for a situ- ation PREFACE. vi ation in the British Museum. It was the thing of all others I most wished. It had long been the great object of my ambition. I knew and esteemed almost all its members ; and from long and familiar acquaintance with books, I conceived myself to possess the necessary qualifications for the office of a Librarian. I was at that time at the head of a re- spectable institution, and in the enjoyment of no contemptible emolument. However, when the vacancy of Under Librarian hap- pened at the Museum, by the death of Mr. Harper, I applied, under the sanction of the Bishop of Durham's recommendation, and received my appointment, regularly signed by the late Archbishop of Canterbury, the late Lord Chancellor Eldon, and the Right Hon. Charles Abbott, the Speaker of the late House of Commons. a 4 How ,viii PREFACE. How I conducted myself in this situation I may fairly challenge the most rigid inves- tigation to determine. J appeal to my brother officers ; I appeal to every one con- nected with that institution, to decide ; I appeal to that part of the public who knew and observed me in the execution of my office. I conceived it my duty, and I felt it my delight, to assist and facilitate the researches of the learned, to gratify the in- genuous curiosity of strangers, and to ex- hibit, where the recommendation justified confidence, the sources of instruction and amusement which were committed to my care. But this 1 did not conceive to be sufficient; I thought that the public might not unreasonably expect more. As my office, therefore, confined me to the care and examination of printed books, 1 formed the determination of selecting such us were more extraordinary for their intrinsic value, PREFACE. i* value, or sought after for their rarity, and I undertook, from time to time, to give such a description of them and their contents, as might be interesting and useful both to the Student and Collector. I thought I should perform no unimportant office in commu- nicating to the Student the place where hft might find what he wanted, and in repre- senting to the Collector the genuine marks by which he might ascertain the object of his curious pursuit. The Museum contains great treasures of this kind, and most particularly in old English Literature, which had ever been a favourite branch of my occasional investigation, and which I knew, at this particular time, to be an object of very earnest research. Such was the foundation, and such the motive of my commencing the present undertaking. But on announcing my plan and design among my Literary friends, 1 had the satis- faction of discovering that niv ideas were sjeneraUv x PREFACE. generally approved, and I almost immedi- ately received such countenance and assist- ance, that I was not only confirmed in my determination, but induced to believe that I should be able to produce a Miscellaneous Volume once in every year. I had the grateful opportunity of reversing the excla- mation of Teucer in Sophocles. TloWOt [A6V %$0Ci 7TCCVPCL o u(p\Yi(ri[/,oi. I had no discouragement, but every thing to stimulate me in persevering in my pur- pose. T cannot have a better opportunity to make my acknowledgements where they are so eminently due. 1 begin with the Marquis of Stafford, who with great kindness admitted me to his va- luable library, where my excellent friend, Mr. Todd, eaeerlv and anxiously facilitated my researches. 8 To PREFACE. xi To the learned Bishop of Rochester I have not only to express my obligation for the use of many rare and curious books from his valuable Collection, but for his kind and friendly attention to me under a misfortune as unforeseen as it was severe. Mr. Barnard, the King's Librarian, whom I have long known and esteemed, admitted me to the innumerable rarities under his custody. When I name Mr. Douce, and call him, as I am allowed to do, my friend, it may seem superfluous to add another word con- cerning the value of his aid. It is sufficient to sav, that his most curious and valuable li- brary is easily accessible, and that his infor- mation, when required, on any subject of Li- terature, is alike prompt and satisfactory, in- teresting and elegant. With xii PREFACE. With great respect and sincere attachment I also introduce, among those to whom I am essentially indebted, the venerable Mr. Isaac Reed. He is far above my praise, but 1 can never forget the free use of many curious articles in his collection, the clearness, the precision, and the kindness of his various communications on many subjects of Early English Literature, concerning which, I was either ignorant or imperfectly acquainted. With Mr. John Kemble I have long and happily enjoyed a familiar intercourse. No man knows more, or better, whatever relates to the History of the Drama; no man pos- sesses more copious, or more valuable ma- terials; no man communicates what he knows and possesses, to his friends, with greater or more agreeable facility. When I intimated to Mr. Malone the purpose J bid in view, with the greatest politeness PREFACE. X iii politeness he exhibited his literary curiosities to my examination, afforded me every as- sistance in his power, and gave me much and important information. We differed, indeed, in one point, which, I trust, however, he will easily forgive. It was part of my plan to trace and point out the progressive changes of the value of rare books ; of this he did not entirely approve, thinking it might increase to professed collectors, the difficulty of ac- quiring them. I confess, this did not appear to me an argument of sufficient weight to induce me to deviate from the plan I had adopted. Mr. Chalmers, of the Office of Trade, is also entitled to my warmest acknowledge- ments. The zeal, activity and kindness he has demonstrated towards me, the unre- served use of his valuable collection, the ac- curacy of his information, the frank and manly sympathy he has on all occasions avowed in my behalf, have made an im- pression xiv PREFACE. pression upon my heart which can never be obliterated. I have also received from Sion College some curious articles, which however, as I am, from my local connection, intitled to the. benefit of them, I should not have mentioned, except that it affords me an opportunity of expressing my esteem for Mr. Watts, the worthy Librarian of the College, who, in every undertaking which has the benefit of Literature in view, is always prompt and kind in his assistance. Lastly, 1 must introduce the name of Mr. Nares. The intimate and affectionate connection which I have enjoyed with him for a long series of years, has ever been my pride, and is sufficiently known to the world. I may presume to add, that the li- terary labours, which at a most perilous pe- riod we commenced in concert, and have long and successfully prosecuted together, have PREFACE. xv have been allowed, by those best qualified to judge, to have rendered important benefit to our religious as well as our civil constitution. It is, therefore, almost useless to declare, that as I could not engage in any Literary pursuits "without the sanction of his approbation and the concurrence of his aid, the volumes now given to the public have had their full share of both. I am indebted to him for some curious articles, and I am cheered by the confidence, that what has received his ap- probation cannot entirely fail of success with the public. Thus was I engaged, and with these re- sources and these aids, in an occupation, of all others, the most grateful to my taste, and most in conformity with my habits, when a dark and sudden tempest arose, which me- naced my little bark with inevitable destruc- tion. While I was basking in the sunshine of a fair fame, with the fond hope, and strong *vi PREFACE. strong expectation, that I had only to draw my vessel on shore and suspend my votive tablet in the Muses' Temple, a whirlwind swept me to a gulph, where all but integrity must have foundered. " Animus meminisse horret 1" A man was introduced at the Museum, with the sanction of the most respectable re- commendation. I mention not his name the wounds of his own conscience must be so severe a punishment, that I shall not in- crease his sufferings. Satisfied with the credentials which he brought with him, and imposed upon by his frank, and seemingly honest manner, I re- ceived him in the progrels of many attend- ances with unsuspecting confidence. I be- * lieved, for why was I to distrust, the artful tale of what he had in view, and thought that I did PREFACE. xvii did no more than discharge my duty by pro- moting and facilitating its accomplishment. He proved to be dishonest ; he purloined valuable property which was in my custody, and it was thought that the good government of the institution required my dismissal. I acquiesced in the decision, and retired with no murmurs of resentment, with no querulous expostulation; but with whatanguish of mind, I leave those to determine who have experienced, or who can imagine what it is to have all their literary and domestic plans, in one unexpected moment, overthrown, and to exchange peace, competence, and a situ- ation most congenial to their feelings and pursuits, for loss, anxiety, uncertainty ; and above all, the dread of unmerited obloquy. Such were, undoubtedly, my first sen- sations, but they have been since alleviated. Indeed, it was soon apparent, that not only a my xviii PREFACE. my former friends and protectors still ad- hered to me, but that some of the most ex- alted, both in rank and character, among the Trustees themselves, demonstrated the kindest sympathy, and expressed a willingness to confirm their professions of regard by sub- stantial acts of friendship. While, therefore, I am able to enumerate among those who have stood forth as my protectors, individuals of the most exalted rank; and not only exalted by their rank, but by their virtues; while I can reckon among my familiar friends, some of the first scholars of the country, with a long list of the most excellent and amiable characters in private life, I may, and indeed I do, with many a pang, regret what I have lost, yet I cannot be considered as one who has no worldly consolation. The cup which was administered to me had gall, indeed, at the top I found hope, serenity, and peace of mind at the bottom. 1 pass PREFACE. x ix I pass now to other things. Some will say I have dwelt too long upon what pre- cedes, and will accuse me, perhaps, of the indulgence of a puerile vanity, by the intro- duction of the above recited names I shall only reply in the words of one of my old masters : Orca Se fjtvj rocs' cvtiv ev yvttfiy y&Tu, xocyu tcc$e. But to come to the contents of these vo- lumes. It is very possible that the expec- tations of many may be disappointed, and that looking for what they will not find, they may throw aside the book with dis- pleasure. But let it be remembered, what alone I have pledged myself to do, namely, to give a description of such rare and curious books as might happen to fall in my way ; with such occasional Anecdotes of Literature, interspersed, as might happen to occur to my recollection or reading. I pretended not to give xx PREFACE. give elaborate observations or critical disqui- sitions, but merely to point out to collectors and curious students, books known to be rare, and, as such, valuable. I have, how- ever, endeavoured so to diversify the po- sition, and the quality of my materials, that whilst I trust the scholar need not turn away in disgust, the Miscellaneous reader may find various sources of amusement I wish, therefore, these volumes to be considered as introductory to others of the same kind, to be periodically published, if it shall appear by this specimen that I have not mistaken or offended the taste of the public. I am still possessed of various and ample resources. Neither the kindness lior the curiosities of the friends above enume- rated, are yet ' exhausted. I have still ac- cess to some of the most numerous and most curious Libraries in the country ; my ardour of research is undiminished, my circle of Literary friends is enlarged, and my own grati* PREFACE. xx i gratification is materially involved in the pro- secution of my undertaking. I have not vet troubled my connections in either University. I have correspondents on the Continent, and I may safely engage to promise, that what I propose to succeed shall not be inferior to this attempt in interest or value. I take the liberty also to invite all those who possess rarities of the kind, which will be found hereafter to be described, to ac- commodate me with the loan of them for the public benefit and amusement. Having nothing more to add, I here take my leave of the reader, with hearty good will, earnestly desiring that he may receive as much pleasure in the examination of my volumes as I had in compiling them. East Sheen, Nov. 14, noGf, TABLE OF CONTENTS. VOL. L De Antiq. Canteb. Acad. - - 1 Dante - 3 Ditto - 6 De Bure - 10 Hooker - - - 1<> Hickes - - - - -23 Books - - - - -24 Cronica De Espana - - 49 Caxton . - - - 50 Egyptian Manuscript - - 54 CEdes Walpolianae - - - - 58 Matthew of Westminster - - -62 The Pretender - - 63 Epistres Francoise - > 65 Witchcraft - - - - 67 Common Prayer Book - - - 68 Thealma and Clearchf^v - 69 Memoires - . - - - 74 Classical Fragments - 75, 130 Wicliff - - - - - 130 James L - - - 133 Elegedia - - - - - 1S7 Pasquillorum. Tom. 2. - 140 Suidas . , - 144 Editions XXIV CONTENTS. Editions of the Classics Cantica Canticorum Fischetus Bembus Dr. Birch Countess of Shrewsbury Dr. Mead Original Letters Tusser. Zerenghi The Newe Testament Whichcot. Jeremy Taylor The Bishops Bible Devonshire Gems Camden - Donald Lufton Granger Inscriptions Hudibras - CEneas Vicus Stenography - Ars. Memorativa English Poetry Friar Rush The Ant and the Nightingale Thomas Nash Robin Goodfellow Garrick Collection Malone Collection Kemble Collection Appendix to the Garrick Collection Pag - 145 - 150 - 156 - 158 - 162 - 164 - 166 - 171 - 177 - 179 - 180 - 1S1 - 182 - 186 - 188 - 191 - 205 - 216 221 223 - 227 - 22Q - 243 - . 255 - 260 - 274 277, 355 .'356 - ;S6< - .'}8Q ANECDOTES ANECBOTES OP LITERATURE, $c. DE ANTIQUITATE * CANTEBRIGIENSIS ACADEMIC LIBRI DUO. LONDINI IN yEDIBUS JOHANNIS DAII. AN. DOM. 1574. 4to. j. HIS is one of the scarcest books that we have. There is a copy in the Cracherode Collection which belonged to Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, and is distinguished by his au- tograph; and indeed the book was written at his recommendation. There was a map of Cambridge engraved for the book, by one Lind, a domestic of Archbishop Parker. * This is the only example I have seen of Cantebrigien is instead of Cantabrigiensis. b Queen 2 JOHN CAIUS. Queen Elizabeth coming to Cambridge in August, 1564, the orator made a speech before her, in which he extolled the antiquity of that University, and affirmed, that it was more ancient, by much, than Oxford. The Oxonians being Offended at this, Thomas Key, Fellow of All Souls College, wrote, in the space of seven days, a little book, in which he strenuously asserted the antiquity of his own University, affirming that it was founded by some Greek Philosophers, companions of Brutus, and that it was restored by King Alfred about the year of Christ 870 ; conse- quently that it was more ancient than Cambridge; and this book he presented to Elizabeth at her coming to Oxford. On account of this incident, Dr. Caius, on the suggestion of the Archbishop, entered the lists like a true champion, and in a suitable style. He makes out undeniably, as he affirms, that Cambridge University had for its founder, Can- taber, 394 years before Christ, and in the year of the world 4300 and odd ; and therefore that the University of Cambridge was 1267 years more ancient than Oxford. John Caius died in 15/3, and in the year following, a new edition of this book appeared under the patronage of Archbishop Parker, with large additions. It was printed in quarto, and under Caius' own name. It had alio a plan of the JOHN CAIUS. 3 the Town and Schools, with the arms of the Colleges. This plan was, by the abovementioned Lind, servant of the Archbishop. The Cra- cherode Copy Was that of the Archbishop. The first edition of this book appeared in 4 1568, in octavo, typis J3ynneman. The second is that by John Day, in quarto, printed in 1574. The third was by Thomas Hearne, in 1730, in octavo. A Tract of Caius is subjoined to this edition, De Pronuntiatione Graeca* et L^tinas Linguae. fc a CATE- C AT HE C HIS M US. CATHECHISMUS, That is to say, a shorte instruction into Christian Religion, for the synguler commoditie and profyte of Child re and long People. Set forth by the mooste Reverend Father in God, Thomas, Archbyshop of Canterbury, Primate of al England, and Metropolitans Gualtcrm Lynne ejccudebat. 1548. l^mo. A COPY of this very rare book is in the Cracherode Collection, but it diners in many particulars from that which is preserved in the Bodleian Library, though it bear;, the s.ame date. Hans Holbein is engraved at full length in the plate cci, and his initials II. II. are visible on the book which is at the foot of the altar in the plate at p. ci. , * Holbein's manner of cutting in wood, as appears in this curious little book, makes it evident, that the wood cuts from which Hollar engraved his exquisite set of prints, entitled the Dance or Death, were not by Holbein. They were pro- bably the work of Albert Durcr, having the neatness and delicacy which distinguished the works of that master. Mr. DANTE. 5 Mr. Walpole speaks of a quarto edition of Archbishop Cranmer's Cathechism. It is de- dicated, by Cranmer, to Edward the- Sixth, and has on the back of the title a wood cut, repre- senting the King as presenting the Bible to the Bishops and Nobility. This book contains concise instructions, ex- planatory of the Ten Commandments, the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, Baptism, the Keys, and the Lord's Supper; not by Question and Answer, but in short Sermons and Homilies, DANTE. Con IS Espositione de M. Bernardino Danidlo Da Lucca. In Venetia appixsso Pietro da Ft no. m. v. lxviii. THERE is a great singularity observable in this edition. In the sixth Canto, del Purgatorio, twelve verses are omitted, which are found in every other edition. The circumstance is thus mentioned by Fontanini in his Biblioteca della Eloquenza Italiana, and seems worth the atten- tion of the curious. b-3- Se 6 DANTE, 86 a qu$sta ediaiohe si aggtengond a penna dodki v6ni che per isbaglio le mancano* nel Cahto Vr. del Purgatorio ella si pu6 dir la migliore, che abbia le spiegaaioni, e ^ucste son di Trifon Gabriello. Vide Fontanini Bibli, Ital. Tom. i. p, 3CKV wis DANTE, // medesimo Dante Alighieri cioc : rinferno y it Purgatorio, et it Paradiso ; col Commento di Ckristophcro Landino Fiorentino. In Firenze per Nicolo di Lorenzo della Magna, Anno 1481, info I. forma Major i. THIS is a most beautiful edition, and the first of Dante, with Landino's Commentary. There is a copy on vellum in the Magliabeccru Library at Florence, but the following remarks are sug- gested from the superb impression in the Cra* cherode Collection. This is said to be the first book, in which the Art of Engraving en taille-douce was introduced, but this however is not true. In the Cracherode copy the first plate is at the bottom of the first page, it might have been placed at the bottom of DANTE. 7 of the opposite side where there is sufficient room for it. There seems to have been a design to have engraved the initial letter in the same manner, as there is room left fpr it; but the space may have been left for illumination. The same appears at the Prologue to the second Canticle of the Purgatorio, and at the first verse of the first Canto. The same likewise seems to have been intended for the Prologue, if not for the first Canto of the Paradiso. It is most likely that Baldini or Botticelli en" graved plates for all the Cantos ; as he seems, by Vasari's account of him, to have been whim- sical, it is very likely that he did not work fast enough for the printer, who not choosing to stay longer, worked off the two first which were finished, and left room for the rest, which pro- bably were afterwards printed separately ; and no one has ever thought it worth while to collect the whole together, and in all probability they may never be compleated in one copy. This copy in the Cracherode Collection lias pine plates, but one is a duplicate. M. HeineJken in the third volume of the Dic- tionnaire des Artistes, under the article Botti^ celli, gives an account of nineteen vignettes, M. De Briennehad a copy of this edition with nineteen vignettes and sixteen pen drawings .in the same style. See the Catalogue of his Li- B 4 braryj 8 DANTE.< brary, P. 11, N. 1 1. It was sold at Paris in 1792, and is now in the Bibliotheque Nationale *. Mr. R. Wilbraham has a copy with nineteen vignettes. Lord Spencer, in 1792, purchased a copy of this edition, which has dso nineteen vignettes, of which, two are pen drawings. Mr. Fountaine, of Narford Hall, in Norfolk, has also another copy with nineteen vignettes. The following extract on the subject is from Audefreddi Spec. Historico. Crit Ed. Ital. Saec. xv. p. 288. Nonnulla exstant exemplaria in quibus praeter duas priores figuras in ipsis voluminis chartis impressas, (quas nulli exemplari deesse un- quam observavi) sexdecim vcl septemdecim alia; figura? ejusdcm rationis ac priores dure, in fronte sequentium canticorum Inferni, in quibus con- gruum spatium vacuum pro iis capiendis rclictnm fuit, (quod et factum fuit in fronte non modo aliorum canticorum inferni sed et Purgat^orii. ct Paradisi) agglutinata; non autem in ipsis open's foliis impressae cernuntur. Primuin ex liis vidi Roma; in I'ibliotheca Vaticana, duo Florentine, alterum in Maliabccchiana, alterum apud el virum doctorem de Marchis, quartum Ronue in bibliopolio Mich. Aug. Parbiellini : quod exein- * Sec also a minute description of this particular copy in Laiic'a Index Liforonun, Vol. n. p. 40. plum DANTE. '9 plum superioribus annis a Laerio comparatum fuisse pro Bibliotheca Brienniana audivi. lire figurae aeri incise sunt, et peritiorum judicio satis elesranter delineate. Non est nostri in- stituti de iis sennonem habere : videri tamen possunt quje de iisdem disseruerunt Bottarius nelle Lettere Pittortche et Heineckenius in opere inscripto : Idee gexerale d'une COLLECTION COMPLETE d'eSTA 1IPES. Alibi monuimus figuras quae ornant montem S. Ant. Bettini et ipsas aeri incisas, totum quadriennium figuras Dantis prrecessisse. Exstabat olim hujus editionis exemplum ab initio ad finemab excellen- tissimo Pictore Michaele Angelo Bonarotio miri- fice delineatum nee minus eleganter illuminatum; quod dum mari ltomam adveheretur naufragio periisse, narravit mihi olim cl. Praesul Bottarius. An imperfect copy of this scarce book sold at Dr. Monro's sale for six guineas and a half. It had eight plates, and appears to have been the property of our Charles the First. The Pinelli copy sold for eighteen guineas, and was bought by Mr. Tighe. Concerning this book the reader may refer to Iloym's Cat. p. 184. De Bure, 3324. Vallierc, 3563. Pinelli, vol. 4. no. ig\3. Panzer, p. 409. 4. p. n. 300. Maittaire, p. 419. In 1805, Messrs. Payne and Mackinlay had a superb copy of this edition, with nineteen vig- nettes, for which they demanded fifty guineas. Earl Spencer gave 100 guineas for his copy. DE' 10 DE BURE. D E BURE. THE curious collector of books will not be displeased to see a few inaccuracies of this ex cellent Bibliographer corrected, and a few de- ficiencies filled up. In the second volume of his " Bibliogra- phie Instructive, No. 56*9, he describes Las obras de Don Bartolomeo de Las Casas, printed at Seville, por Sebastian Trugillo, y Jacomo Cromberger, in 1552. He represents this most curious and remarkably scarce book, as containing only five traits of the truly christian and benevolent author. But the genuine edition, of which there is a fine copy in the Cracherode Collection, contains eight tracts. The three not mentioned by De Bure, are these which follow: 6 Pedayo de una carta y relacion. Sine anno. 7 Avisos y reglas para los confessores. Se- villa, por Trugillo, 1552, 3 Principia quaedam ex quibus procedendum est in disputatione ad manifestandam et defen- dendam justitiam Yndorum. Impressuin Hispali in cdibus Scbastiani Trugilli, Sine anno. It may not perhaps be known to every col- lector of books, that there are two editions of this work, one of which is a counterfeit, having the same DE BURE. n same date, and being printed in the same form. But thev may easily be distinguished, as the first and genuine edition is printed in gothic cha- racters. Bibliographic Instructive : Belles Lettres. No. 3581. Opus quod diciturj RecqlleCtorium; ex gestis romanorum, et morali2atum CUM PLUR1BUS APPLICATIS HlSTORIIS, Fa- Bulis, &c. Impr. Goudre, per Gerardum Leeu, Anno Domini, 1480. infol. Of this very scarce and curious work, De Bure calls this the first book, but it is the second. See the catalogue of the Oevenna Library, No. 791, and the catalogue Raisonne" de M, Cre-* venna. Vol. 6, p. 312, No. 4096. Belles Lettres as before. Cabbala del Cavallo Pegaseo, con Vagiunta del' Asino Cilenico, descritta da Gior* dano Bruno Nolano, In Parigi, Baio, 1585. in 8vo. De Burc expresses a doubt, whether any such book as this is to be fouiid, but there is certainly a copy in the library of M. Hoblin : see his ca- talogue, No. 2001. No. 4030. Luciani Samosatensis Opera omnia, Greece. Florentia3, anno 1496, in fol. This is the first edition of Lucian, of which there is a magnificent copy on vellum, in the Puke of Marlborough's Library at Blenheim. No. 22 DE CURE. NO. 22)7- CONSTANTIXI L.A&CARIS Bl- zawtini Grammatica Giicca, Gra?ce ex recou- nitione Demctrii Cretensis, cujus prrciixa epistola apparet in fronte volutninis. Mediolani, per Dionysium Paravisinum. Anno, 14/6, in 4to. De Bure had seen a copy of this book in a private collection at Paris, which he calls de- fective, as wanting I'Epitre lat'me de Lascar is. For Lascaris read Demctrii Crelensis. No. S97& Belles Lettres. Joannis ue Jaxua OrdinisFriitTum Praedica- torum, Somma quae vocatur Catholicon. opus impressum Moguntire per Johannem Fust et Pe- trara SclK>ylFlier de Gernsheim, anno incarna- croftis Dominiee. 1450. in foi. This book has often been described, and also been the occasion of many learned and elaborate discussions. It is therefore somewhat surprising that De Bure's account of it is not more accurate. He represents it as beginning: Liber Catho- licon incipit, whereas it commences thus : Incipit Surna quae vocat r Catholicon edita a Fratre .Johannc de Spira, Ordinis fratruin Prar- dicatonim. No. 2333. Belles Lettres. De Bure describes the quarto edition of Lon- ginus by Tollius, with the notes of Dacicr, and the French version of Boileau, hut he omits to make mention of the Fditio Princeps of Eon- iiiuws. DE BURE. 1J itius, a book of great raiity; it may be thus represented : Dionysii Longini liber de rand i, sivc sul>- limi orationis genere, a Franc. Robeitello. Grace 4fco. Basil Oporinus. 1554. No. 12413. ClCERONIS EpISTOLwSE AD < FAjYIILIARES. Mediolani per Philippum de Lavagnia. Anno Domini, 1472. In foL In contradiction to the authority of Mai-ttairc, De Bure considers this edition as, iiaving no ex- istence ; at least, he says, that after mature in- vestigation, he considers it as very doubtful. If the reader will consult the Pinelli Catalogue, Tom. 2. No. 3780, he will find the article. It is there well described, as of extraordinary rarity and value. It was purchased at the Pinelli sale for eighteen guineas, and is now in the Cracherode .Col- lection. No. 2630. LuCRETII DE RERUM NaTUUA, EI BRI VI. EX EDITIONS ET CUM Com MENTARUS DlO- nysii Lambini. ParisiisRovillil's 1563 in 4to. un tome reliee en 2 vol. Exemplar iin- pressum in membranis. The copy of this edition of Lucretius, in-vel- lum, is represented by De Bure, as having been iu the library of the Abbe De Rhotelin. He observes that he is ignorant into whose hands it afterwards passed. I can supply the lacuna by 1* t>E BURE. by informing the reader that it was in the pos- session of Mv Lamoignon, and is now in the Cracherode Collection. No. 2674. Vikgilii Maronjj Opera Vexetiis apud Aldum. 150 L In 8vo. This is the Editio Princeps of Virgil from the Aldine Press, and preferahle, as De Bure ob- serves, to those subsequently printed in 1514 and J 527. There is a copy of this edition on vellum in the Cracherode Collection. But a most superb impression of this book, printed on vellum, with miniatures, is in the possession of Lord Spencer. It was purchased at the sale of the Bibiiotheca Parisiana, a collection of bpoks, said to have been made by a gentleman in France, for 741. 1 Is. De Bure omits to mention the following Aldus edition of Virgil. Vikgilius Venet. 1505. Mense Decembri ex sedibus Aldi. 8vo. The Cracherode Library also possesses a most beautiful copy of this edition on vellum. No. 2752. Ovion Optra qu* extant omnia Ve- netiis in rcdibus Aldi 1502. 3 vol. in 8vo. A magnificent copy of this edition, perhaps the only one which exists on vellum, was pur- chased at the Parisian sale, by Lord Spencer for 631. No. DE BURE. 15 No. 2773. SeNEC.E TrAGED1.2E, &C. &C The first edition of Seneca's Tragedies was unknown to De Bure. It may be thus described : L. A. Seneca Tragozdi^ Ferrar. And. Gallus, absque anni nota. Vol. 1. This book is of extraordinary rarity and value. Gallus afterwards printed an edition at Ferrara in 1484. No. 2801. Statu Opera, &c. Venet Aldus. 1502. There is a beautiful copy of this edition of Statius on vellum, in the King's Library. No. 2816. Valerii Martialis Epigrammata. Ve- netiis, per Joannem de Colonia, sociosque ejus Joann. Man then de Gherretzem, Anno Domini 1475. in fol. De Bure speaks of this as a very beautiful edition. He represents these two lines as con- cluding the volume : Raphael Zouenzonius ister. Vindclino Spyrensi Ob ejus incredibilem imprimendi solertiam. D.D- This edition is described in the Crevenna Ca- talogue, No. 406*5, with this remark : - Edition tres belle, dont M. De Bure a donne la description mais les deux lignes qui! dit pre- ceder la souscription ne se trouvent pas dans cet 4 16 DE BURK. cct cxemplairc, et nous doutons qu'ils puissent sc trouver dans aucun autre. No. 4862. Histoirc. Sallustii Opera. Parisiis per Ulricum Cering Martinum CrantzetMichadem Friburger in Sorbona absque nota anni scd circa ami. 1470. In 4(o. De Bure informs us of a very elegant copy of this most rare book on vellum, preserved in the Library of the Sorbonne. There is a copy also on vellum in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. No. 1974. Marc i Maxilii Astkokomicon libri: opus imprcssum Bononias perUgonem Rugerium et Dominum Bertochum, die vigesima martii 1474. In fol. De Bure expresses the doubts of some Bibli- ographers about this edition, whether any such was to be found. There is however a fine copy of it in the Cracherode Collection. It is gene- rally called the first edition, but this is far from certain. About this period llegiomontanus published the same work at Nuremberg, but the date of the impression does not appear. Regiomontanusset up a press at Nuremberg, in- tending to print his works at that place, and he made use of it to publish the above mentioned edition of Manilius, which was in 4to, and pro- bably in the year 147^. No. a DE BURE. 17 No. 5. Theologie. De Bure expresses a doubt whether there is any large paper copy of CastelPs Lexicon. There is a magnificent one in the British Museum, No. 15. Theologie. Vetus Testamentum GRiicuM juxta Ixx.. Interpret. Studio Antonii Cardinalis Carafae, ope doctorum virorum adjuti cum prasfatione et scholiis Petri Morini: Roma3 Zanetti 1587. In fol. The error into which De Bure has fallen in his description of. this curious book, is thus satis- factorily explained and corrected in the Cata- logue des livres de M. Goutard. (Paris 1780.) p. 2. Cette edition de I'ancien Testament a 6te" an- nonc^e jusqu'a present, tant par les Biblio- graphies, que par les Bibliographes de Cata- logues, sous la date de 1587. Mais ni les uns, ni les autres n'ont fait attention que la vraic date est de m.d. lxxxvi et que Ton a ajoute a la plume, un 1, a tous les exemplaires qui sont dates de 1587- On voit par la Bulle de Sixte V. qui est au verso du quatrieme feuillet des pieces preliminaires, la irime date. Datum Romps apud Sanctum Marcum sub anulo piscatoris die vi it Octobris. m.d. lxxxvi. Pontificatus nostri anno secundo. II est tr6s raissemblable que ce qui emp^che que cet ouvrage ne fut mis au jour en 1586' e'est, c que 1$ DE BURL que Ton s'appercut que Ton aVoit laisse passer plusieurs fautes, et pour ajouter deux nouvcaux Errata &c. On retarda la publication de ce livre. Voici les augmentations qui se trouvent dans les exemplaires qui ont la dute de 1587- l mo . On a mis a la plume un 1 Apres M.DLXXXVI. 3 d0 . On a imprime* au bas de frOntispice : cum Privilegio Georgio Ferrario concesso. 3. Au bas du verso du 4 mc . feuillet des pieces preliminaires, on a aussi imprime un extrait du Privilege accord^ par Sixte V. a George Fer- rarius, Libraire de Cr^mone, et Citoyen Komain, il est date" du 9 Mai, 1587. 4. Au verso du feuillet 783 on a ajoute, ani- madvertenda. 5. Un feuillet qui tcrmine le volume, et qui n'est pas chiffre ; il est intitule' ; Corrigenda in notationibus Psalterii, et aliquot aliis locis. L'Autcur de la Bibliographic instructive a donne la description de cette Bible avec la date de 1587, ma is sa description n'est pas exacte, voyez, No. 15. 11 annonce que Ton doit trouver dans les pieces preliminaires unc Bulle de Sixte V. une preface Latine addressee au Lecteur, suivie d'une autre Bulle de Sixte V. date do 1586*, &c. cg qu'il a pris pour la premiere Bulle est une Dedicace en Latin addressee a Sixte V. par le Cardinal Antoihe Carafe. Void com me clle est intitule: Sixto V. Pontif. Max. Antonius 3 Curafa, HOOKER. 19 Carafa, Cardinalis Sanctae Sedis Apostolicos Bi- bliothecarius. II ne parle pas du dernier feuillet detach^, qui n'est pas chiffre, et qui doit se trouver apr6s celui numerose" 783, il est intitule^ Corrigenda in notationibus Psalterii, &c. Mais comme ce feuillet est fort rare, et qu'il manque dans beaucoup d'exemplaires il faut croire, qu'il n'6toit pas dans celui que Mons. De Bure le jeune a de*crit. HOOKER ECCLESIASTICAL POLITY. NEITHER Walton in his Life of Hooker, nor Bishop Gauden, nor many others, that give an account of Hooker and his writings, make mention of the particular books or tracts which gave occasion to his writing the Ecclesiastical Polity. Whitgift had written an answer to the Admonition to the Parliament, and thereby en- gaged in a controversy with Thomas Cartwright, the supposed author of it. Hooker, in this his excellent work, undertook the defence of our ecclesiastical establishment, against which Cart- c 2 wright 20 HOOKER. wright appears to hr.ye been the most powerful of all the opponents. Accordingly, we find throughout his work, references to T. C. lib. p. but citing no book by its proper title, we are at a loss at this day to know with whom he was contending. It is therefore necessary to state the controversy, the order whereof is this : Admonition to the Parliament, viz. the first and second, in a small duodecimo volume. No date or place. An Answer to an Admonition to the Parlia- ment, by John Whitgift, D. of Divinitie, 4to. printed by 1 ynneman, 1.572. 1. A Replie to the Answer, by T. C. no date or place. 4 to. N. P. Of this there are two editions, differing in the order of numbering the pages. A Second Answer of Whitgift, as must be pre- sumed from the title of the next article, and is probably no other than a book mentioned in Ames's Typ. Antiq. :V29, by the title of A De- fence of the Answer to the Admonition, fol J 574. Printed by l'ynneman. C. A Second Replie of Cartwright (his name at length) against Whitgift 's Second Answer, A to. 1.37v>. No place. 'J. '1 he rest of the Second Replie of Cart- w right against Whitgift's Second Answer. Upon HOOKER. 21 Upon a reference to these several publications of Cartwright, and a careful examination of sundry passages cited from him by Hooker, it most evidently appears that, by T. C. Lib. is meant No. 1, as above described. By T. C. Lib. 3. No. 3. But here it is to be observed, that the re- ferences to Lib. 1. agree but with one edition of it, namely, that which has the table to the prin- cipal points at the beginning, and not at the end, as the other has. The difference between them is, that in the former, the numbers of the pages commence with the Address to the Church of England, in the latter with the book itself: so that to give one instance of difference, this passage " It is no small Injury" is to be found in page 25 of one edition, and in page 14 of the other. In Ames's Typ. Antiq. 329, is this article, which seems to be a collateral branch of the controversy, " A Defence of the Ecclesiastical " Regiment of England defaced, by T. C. in his " Replie against 1). Whitgift, D. D." 1-ano. 1574. It does not appear that this defence is of Whitgift's writing, yet it has the name of his printer, " Bynneman." Euller, in his Church History, Book ix, 102. gives an account of Cartwright, and of his dis- c 3 pute US HICKES. pute with Whitgift, which is very erroneous ; for he makes it to end at Whitgift's Defence of his Answer : nay, he goes farther, and assigns reasons for Cartwright's silence. The truth is, he was not silent till long after, but continued the dispute in the Tracts, No. 2 and 3, above noted. The relation of the controversy by Neal, in his History of the Puritans, Vol. j. 285 etseq. is very fair and accurate. HICKES. THE neglect of learned men, and the little encouragement extended to their exertions for the benefit of science, is a theme which has been often agitated. Without entering into any ela- borate discussion on its truth or injustice, the fallowing Advertisement from the celebrated in- dividual, whose name is here prefixed, seems to deserve preservation. ADVERTISEMENT Concerning a book newly published at Ox- ford, by Dr. George Hickes, in two vols. fol. entituled " Antique Literature Septentrionalis labri duo," &c. Whereas, PIICKES. 23 Whereas, about six years since, proposals were published by Dr. George Hickes, for reprinting his Septentrional Grammars; and he then thinking the new impression might be finished in a hundred sheets, did then propose it to subscribers, at one pound tzco shillings per book, in quires ; ac- cording to which proposals, several worthy per- sons pay'd the sum proposed ; but nevertheless, upon search of public and private libraries, the work having grown upon the author beyond expectation, and he having been encouraged by learned men, to make it as compleat as con- veniently he could ; by which means it is en- creased to thrice as many sheets as were at first designed, with a great number of costly plates, whereof ten are of the Anglo-Saxonick, and Anglo-Danick coins. And whereas the whole is, by the great care and vast expence of the said Doctor, now finished in two vols. fol. and the prime cost of each copy, being found, upon exact computation of the charges of the im- pression, as appears by the following certificate, to amount to two pounds eight shillings, where- by he finds himself more than half loser : it is thought fit to send this advertisement to all persons, who pay'd according to the first pro- posals, not doubting but they will be s generous as to indemnifie the author, by advancing their subscriptions to the prime cost of his book ; which, if he had undertaken by agreement with c 4 any 24 BOOKS. any bookseller, he would not have contracted under 500 pounds for his pains, which would have made every copy worth five pounds. I certify hereby, that I have exactly com- puted the charges of the impression of Dr. Hickcs's book, printed at the Theatre in Oxon, cntituled Antiquae Literature Septentrionalis Libri duo, &c. Upon which computation, I find that the prime cost of each copy, in two volumes, amounts to two pounds eight shillings. Witness my hand this 27th day of November, 1704. Ed. Tiiwaits. BOOKS. THE curious in books cannot be displeased with the following anecdotes, which serve to shew the progressive value of well chosen collections. Subjoined is an account of a few choice books, first in the possession of the celebrated Dr. Mead, and purchased at the sale of his library, by the learned Dr. Askew. 1. Job. Tortelli Commentarii Grammatici, Editio Princeps. Rom. 1471. fol. Pr. BOOKS. 25 Dr. Askew purchased this book at Dr. Mead's sale for ll. 17s. which was then thought a con- siderable price. At Dr. Askew's sale it pro- duced nine guineas. No. 2. That very curious and scarce book containing the tracts of B. De la Casas de la destruycier de las Indies, printed at Seville 1554, was bought from Dr. Mead's sale by Dr. Askew for 17 shillings, and produced at Dr. Askew's 2l. 6s. No. 3. For Horsley's Britannia Romana, Dr. Askew gave 21. 15s. It was purchased at Dr. A.'s sale for six pounds. No. 4. The Paris edition of Olivet's Cicero, on large paper, was bought at Dr. Mead's sale for four- teen guineas, but at Dr. Askew's it sold for 361. 15s. It now adorns the splendid collection of the Duke of Grafton. At the Duke de la Valliere's sale it produced 1180 livres. Earl Spencer is in possession of a copy. 5. Luciani Opera. Edit. Princeps. 1 4^6. For this very rare book Dr. Askew only gave two guineas and a half. At Dr. Askew's sale, it produced l.Ql. 8s. 6d. It was bought by Mr. Aubery. At the Pinelli sale it only produced eight guineas and a half. No. 6. Ciceronis Epistolxe Familiares per Jcnson. 1471. Dr. Stf BOOKS. Dr. Mead's copy of this book was purchased by Dr, Askew, for three guineas. At Dr. Askew's sale it produced 111. 16s. It was bought for the British Museum. " No. 7. Ciceronis Orationes. 1472. Dr. Askew bought this book for 31. 5s. At Dr. Askew's sale, Dr. Hunter gave twelve pounds for it No. 8. Auli Gellii Noctes Attica? per Jenson. 1472. Dr. Askew at Dr. Mead's sale bought this book for two guineas and a half. At Dr. Askew's sale it was purchased for the British Museum, for 1 11. 10s. At the Pinelli sale, the Editio Princeps of Gcllius sold for o8l. 16s. No. 9. Macrobii Opera, Editio Princeps. Vet. 1472. Two guineas and a half was the price of this book, to Dr. Askew, at Dr. Mead's sale. At Dr. Askew's sale, the British Museum could not ob- tain it for less than eight pounds. But tins was exceedingly cheap, for at the Pinelli sale it was bought by Mr. Elmsly for 331. 12s. No. 10. Geographic Veteris Scriptores Gncci Minores Notis lludsoni. Gr. Eat. 4 Vol. Oxon. 1698. This is now one of the scarcest books in the world, particularly on large paper. Dr. Askew obtained it for the trifling sum of 2l. 3s. At BOOKS. 27 At Dr. Askew's sale it produced nine pounds iifteen shillings. It was bought by De Bure. No. 11. Hutchinson's Xenophon, 4 vols, large paper, was bought by Dr. Askew at Mead's sale for seven pounds. At Askew's it produced 1 31. 2s. 6d. No. 12. Rudbeckii Atlantica. Upsal. 1675. Dr. Askew obtained this magnificent book for eleven guineas. At the sale of his own books it produced nineteen pounds. No. 13. Justinus, Editio Princeps. Jenson. 1470. Dr. Askew transferred this curious book from Dr. Mead's library to his own, for three guineas. At Askew's sale it was purchased for thirteen guineas. It is in the British Museum. Mr. Elmsly purchased a copy of this book at the Pinelli sale for 181. 7s. 6d. No. 14. JEmilius Probus, Editio Princeps. Jenson. 1 47 1. This book at Mead's sale cost Dr. Askew three guineas and a half. At Askew's it was bought for eleven guineas. No. 15. Sallustius, Editio Princeps, per Spiram. Venet. 1470. For this very rare book Dr. Askew gave at Mead's sale 51. 17s. At Askew's it produced 141. 3s. 6U No. 8 BOOKS. No. 16. Valerius Maximus, Editio Princcps, Mogunt ap Schoyffer. 1471. with the Epistola Lugubris of Santius. With respect to this Epistola Lugubris, the reader will do well to consult Fabricius. Bibl. Mediae et Infinue Latiiutatis, P. 3 13 and 114. This is one of the rarest books in existence, and probably Dr. Askew thought four guineas and a half a large price for it. It was, however, at the sale of his own books, purchased for twenty-six pounds. No. \7. Eutropius et Paulus Diaconus, Editio Princeps. Roma?. 1471. Three guineas and a half was the sum given for this book by Dr. Askew at Mead's sale. At his own, it was purchased by De Pure for 12l. 15s. No. 13. A large paper copy of Hudson's edition of Dionysius Halicarnassensis, which Dr. Askew obtained for six pounds, was purchased at Askew's sale for fifteen pounds ten shillings, by his Grace the Duke of Grafton. No. \<). West's Pindar, on large paper, was bought by Dr. Askew for three guineas. At the sale of his own books it produced twelve guineas. No. 20. Ovidii Opera, Editio Princeps. 14S0. This BOOKS. 29 This book, which cost Dr. Askew at Mead's sale only two guineas and a half, was bought at the sale of Askew's books for 101. 15s. No. SI. Lucanus, Editio Princeps, Rom. apud Swein- heym. \-i6g. This very rare book was obtained by Dr. Askew for six guineas and a half; but De Bure, at Askew's sale, was obliged to give sixteen pounds for it. No. 22. Silius Italicus, Editio Princeps. 1471. Dr. Askew rave no more than three guineas for this curious book, which cost the British Museum, at the sale of Askew's books, no less than \3\. 2s. 6'd. and this may be considered as a cheap purchase. It produced a far larger sum at the Pinelli sale, where Mr. Knight pur- chased it for 481. No. 23. Juvenal ct Persius. Editio Princeps. This book exhibits a most remarkable example of the prodigious increase in the value of the first editions of Classics. Dr. Askew bought this book for the comparatively small sum of three pounds. At Dr. Askew's sale it was purchased by the British Museum for thirteen guineas, and this also was cheap. No. 24. Martialis Epigrammata, Editio Princeps, apud Spirarn. Four 50 BOOKS. Four guineas and a half was the sum far Which, at Mead's sale, Dr. Askew obtained this copy of the first edition of Martial's Epigrams At the sale of Dr. Askew's Collection it produced seventeen pounds. No. 25. Claudianus, Editio Princeps. This book, which at Mead's sale cost Dr. Askew no more than two guineas, at his own sale was bought for 71. 15s. At the Pinelli sale it was bought for nine guineas. To these examples of the progressive increase of the value of rare and curious books, a few others are subjoined of a miscellaneous kind. The Boke of Comforte, called in Latin, Boetius d6 Consolatione Philosophic, translated into Englesse Tonge, b. 1. emprentcd in the exempt monasteri of Tavestok in Denshvre, be me Dan Thomas Rychard, Monke of the said monastery, to the instant desyre of the ryght worshypful Esquyre Mayster Robert Langdon. \516. A copy of this book was purchased by Dr. Askew at Mr. West's sale for three pounds. At Dr. Askew's sale it was bought by Mr. Mason for five pounds. It would, if sold now, produce four times as much. UiBi.iA Sacra Latin a, Moguntis, per Jo- hannem FustetPetrum Schoyfier, dc Gernsheim, anno incarnacionis Dominica:. 14652. 2 Vols, in fol. Impress in meinbranis. A copy BOOKS. 31 A copy of this beautiful book on vellum, at the sale of Count Hoym's library, who was the Polish Ambassador at the Court of 1 ranee, sold for 2000 livres. At the sale of M. Gaignat's books it was bought for 3200 livres. In the sale of the Duke de la Valliere's col- lection it produced 4020 livres. Mr. Cracherode gave 250 guineas for the beautiful copy on vellum, now in his collection, and which belonged to Lamoismon. The Editio Princeps of Boetius, published at Nuremberg, ap. Ant. Coburgers in 1476, was purchased at Mr. West's sale by Dr. Askew for seven pounds. At Dr. Askew's sale, this copy was purchased by Mr. Mason for thirteen guineas. Lexicon Heptaglottox, Hebraicum, Chal- daicum Syriacum, Samaritanum, iEthiopicum, Arabicum conjunctim et Pcrsicum separatim Castelli. Londini. Fol. 16*6*9. 2 vols. De Bure intimates a doubt, whether there exists any large paper copy of this Lexicon ; and Dibdin, in his Introduction to the Knowledge of the Greek and Latin Classics^ says, that pro- bably there are but three large paper copies of this Lexicon in the world. A large paper copy is mentioned in Count Hoym's catalogue, and appears at the sale of that library to have produced 600 livres. Mr. 32 BOOKS. Mr. Dibdin expresses a doubt, whether the copy of Castell's Lexicon, which was sold at Dr. Mead's sale, was really large paper, but I see no reason for such doubt. This copy was purchased at Dr. Mead's sale, by the direction of Earl Granville, and was given by him to Dr. Taylor, of St. Paul's. Quere, whether this is the copy which is now preserved in the library of St. Paul's Cathedral? An advertisement in the London Gazette, N*. S6 C 2, 6 May, 166.9, and N. 4<2.5, informs the subscribers, that they may send for their copies of that long expected after and many waies most dismally obstructed and interrupted work, which is now fully finished, the author having laboured therein eighteen years, and expended not so little as ] '2,0001. besides that which has been brought in, cither by benefactors or subscribers. DlAl.OCOS DE MKDALLAS I NSC RICIONES, &c. ex UiiiLi Al'gustin'i Tarrag. 1587. 4to. A beautiful copy of this book, which is in the Eritish Museum, was formerly in the library of Dr. Mead. It was purchased at the sale of his books for five pounds fifteen shillings, by Sir Paul Mcthuen. Air. Methuen presented it to the Museum. Mention of this book is here in- troduced fur a very dirlerent reason, namely, to shew, that from the progressive advance and im- provement oi' particular branches of science, books, which at one time are deemed inestimable, are BOOKS. 33 are so depreciated in value, as to be of little or no esteem. Thus for example, this book, which was purchased for 5\. 15s., a very large sum at that period, and was considered as a suitable gift to bestow on a national library, is now so very little regarded, that it may be bought from a stall for half-a- crown, or even less. Evangelia Latine Codex Vetust, Saec. viii. vel ix. Literis majusculis, &c. &c. This curious manuscript, now preserved in the British Museum, formerly belonged to Dr. Askew. At the sale of Dr. Askew's manuscripts it was purchased by a Air. Jackson, of the City, for 261. 5s. This Mr. Jackson was a Quaker, and a dealer in wine and spirits. He had a great passion for books, of which he was a considerable pur- chaser at all the most celebrated sales for many years. In a fit of melancholy he destroyed himself, and his library was sold by Messrs. Leigh and Sotheby. This manuscript was then purchased for the Museum for 221. Is. Froissart's Chronicle, Englished, by Bouchier. Before the appearance of Col. Johnes's ele- gant Translation of Froissart, this by Lord Berners was the only one in English. It exhibits a memorable example of the progressive value of scarce books. A copy was purchased at Dr. d Mead's 34 BOOKS. Mead's sale, by Lord Berkely, for Gl. Us. The copy which is in the British Museum cost twelve guineas; and the last which I saw in a book- seller's shop was marked at sixteen guineas. A copy sold at Tutet's sale for 16*1. For a beautiful copy of Froissart on vellum, printed at Paris, by Eustace, 1514, in four vo- lumes, folio, Colonel Johnes gave the prodigious sum of 1491. 2s. It was purchased at the sale of the Parisian Library, and was there repre- sented as an unique copy. No larger prices were perhaps ever given for books than at the Parisian sale above-mentioned. I subjoin a few particulars. For a copy of the Latin Vulgate on vellum, printed at Venice by Jenson, 1476', Mr. Willctt gave 591- 17?. The Duke of Grafton gave 641. Is. for a copv of what is called Sextus the Fifth's Bible, on large paper. The same copy had before been sold for 501. 8s. 4d. (1C10 livres.) For the Biblia Pauperum, which is certainly :> great typographical curiosity, Mr. Willett gave 511. For a coloured copy of Sir Hans Sloaiv's Ja- maica, 381. 17s. was given. The Duke of Newcastle gave 1471. for a copv of Traite des Arbrcs lVuitieis, par Duhamel du Monceau. Paris, 1 70s. C vol. 4to. Lot, BOOKS. 35 Lot llOi Butterflies, Plants, and Rowers, painted by Aubriet, sold for 1121. 7s. A large paper copy of BurYon's Natural His- tory of Birds, finely coloured, was bought by Col. Johnes for 1081. 3s. Paintings of various Subjects in Natural History, by Agricola, fol. were purchased by Mr. Johnes for 1731. 5s. Lot 167- Guillermi Ficheti Theologize Doctoris, Rhetoricorum Libritres, Sll. 10s. This very rare book is in the Cracherode Collection. Quintiliani Institutiones Oratoriae. Roma?. Sweynheym & Pannentz. Fol. Romae. 1470. Editio Princeps 261. 5s. This fine book is also in the Cracherode Collection. Lot 201. Virgilii Opera Venetiis, Aldi 1501, on vellum. This is one of the most scarce books, and was purchased by Mr. White for 741. lis. It is in the possession of Earl Spencer. There is also a beautiful copy of this book on vellum, richly illuminated, in the Cracherode Collection. Ovidii Opera Venetiis Aldi 1502, 1503, 3 vol. on vellum. Bought by Earl Spencer for 631. Contes de la Fontaine. 2 vol. 4to. This book was richly adorned with miniatures, by the celebrated Marolles ; and the writing was by Monchaussee. It is a beautiful Manuscript on vellum. d2 The 36 SHAKSPEARE. The value of this cannot easily be defined. It was bought in by Laurent, the French book- seller, for the enormous sum of 3151- Sonetti et Canzoni de Petrarcha, da Aldo 1501. This beautiful book on vellum sold for 511. 9s. It is in the Cracherode Collection. Opere di Francesco Petrarcha. 1514. This beautiful book, on vellum, was bought by Earl Spencer for 1 161. lis. Grands Voyages. See De Bure Biblographie, No. 71. This most valuable copy was bought in by Laurent for 2101. SHAKSPEARE. PERHAPS there is no book in the English language which has risen so rapidly in value as the first edition of the works of our great natural Poet. I can remember a very fine copy to have been sold for five guineas. I could once have pur- chased a superb one for nine guineas. At the sale of Dr. Monro's books it was purchased for thirteen guineas; and two years since, I waji present SHAKSPEARE. 37 present when thirty-six guineas were demanded for a copy. I take this opportunity of correcting a mistake of Mr. Steevens, relative to the second folio edition of Shakspeare. Dr. Askew had a fine copy of this book, with the autograph of Charles the First. Mr. Stee- vens purchased it at Dr. Askew's sale for 51. 10s. In this book, Charles the First had written these words: di/m spiro spero, C. R. And Sir Henry Herbert, to whom the King presented it the night before his execution, had also written, " Ex dono sercnissimi Regis Car. Servo suo " Humiliss. T, Herberts." Mr. Steevens has been guilty of an error con- cerning this Sir Thomas Herbert, which could hardly have been expected from so very accurate a pen. He affirms that this Sir Thomas Herbert was Master of the Revels, the following words being copied from his own hand writing: " Sir " Thomas Herbert was Master of the Revels to " King Charles the First." Whereas it was a Sir Henry Herbert who had that office. This mis- take was immediately detected and rectified by his present Majesty, in his own hand, by which circumstance this book possesses the autographs of two Sovereigns of England. Beneath the above words of Mr. Steevens, his present Ma- jesty has written thus ; " This is a mistake, he (Sir Thomas Herbert) having been Groom of the Bed Chamber to King d 3 Charles 33 KEMPIANA. Charles I. but Sir Henry Herbert was Master of the Revels." Dr. Askew purchased this identical copy at Dr. Mead's sale for two guineas and a half. Tor this book, says Steevens, I gave the enormous sum of 51. 10s. It was purchased for the King's Library for eighteen guineas. I wonder what, under its present circumstances, it would produce at this time. MXJNUMENTA VKTUSTATIS KEMPIANA. JOIIX KEMP, the famous Antiquary, died September the 19th, 1717, aged about 52 years, and was buried in liunhill Fields, under the monument of Mrs. Hope Kemp, his brother's wife. His brother was an Undertaker at the bottom of Surrey Street, in the Strand. This volume which describes his valuable Col- lection, was edited by the celebrated Robert Ainsworth. The two following letters were written by him to his Patron, The Right Hon. Lord Cole ran e : April KEMPIANA. 59 April 14, 1720. My Lord, THE relation between Patron and Client in ancient Roman times, was so sacred, that both were called by one common name, Amici ; and the Potentes Amici, treated the tenues with a civility and respect suitable to the old maxim, Amicitia aut invenit aut facit pares. Indeed, in later and worse times, the case was so much alter'd, that the Client was esteemed little better than a servant, and used accordingly, which treatment Juvenal, in his 5th Satire, severely lashes* But, my Lord, that be- tween y r grandfather of blessed memory and myself, was of the former kind. He was a man Antiquae virtutis et fidei. He not only receiv'd my little services with an air of one obliged, but also returned them with such kind offices, as if he thought himself so, tho' they were far over- paid by his gratious acceptance, which was so delightfull and pleasing to me, that I cou'd cor- rect Horace, and read him thus : Dulcis, et cxpcrto cultura potentis amici. Marvel not, my Lord, at these scraps of Latin, they are such as would not bear a translation^ the English of this Epistle being but a version of a Dedication, intended to have been prefixed to the book herewith presented to y r Lords.p. Tor I could not endure to think of any other d.4 Patron 40 KEMPIANA. Patron of a book of Antiquities, whilst a suc- cessour to the fame, honour, vertues and learn- ing of my noble Patron, a famous Antiquary, was living. I had therefore design 'd to entreat the honour of y r shining name to illustrate a work, the design whereof is to illustrate antiquity; but to my surprize was lately acquainted by the owner of the Antiquities here describ'd, that he intended to present a book to the King, w ch wou'd not be accepted, if dedicated to any subject, which prevents my books receiving the desired honour and protection. Whether he has yet made his present, I know not, but cou\l no longer delay this of mine, to y r Lordsp. Your favorable acceptance thereof, will highly honour and oblige, My Lord, Your devoted Client And humble Servant, R. AlKSWORTH. My Lorp, I HAVE been obliged to delay the publication of this book, longer than was convenient, because I could not sooner put it into your Lordsps. hands, as I design'd, before any other noblcmans. 1 committed that care to my very good friend. Dr. Sam. Benson, who having been KEMPIANA. 4i been at Tottenham three times, hath as often been disappointed, y r Lords. p. not being at home. Since, therefore, this delay is owing to misfortune, not neglect, I hope y r Hon r . will vouchsafe gra- ciously to accept this mean present, from My Lord, Your Lds.p's. Dutifull and Obedient Serv.t. R. A INS WORTH. May xv. mdccxx. The above letters are preserved in the Cra- cherode Collection. Mr. John Creyk. M. a. formerly a Member of the Society of Antiquaries, and Executor to Heneage E. of Winchelsea, had written the fol- lowing note to " Monumenta Yetustatis Kem- " piana." " The whole collection produced 10901. 8s. 6d. " Great part of it was formed by Mons*. " Gailhard, Governor to the late Lord Carteret, " who sold them to his Lordship for an annuity " of 2001. After his Lordship's death Mr. " Kemp bought a great many of them, in the (i minority of Carteret, (now Earl Granville) " and added very much to them. The above (i note was from Heneage, E. of Winchelsea, " who saw many of those things in Mr. Gail- ' hard's possession at Angier, in France, in the " year 42 CAXTOX. " year 1676, afterwards much improved at Paris, " 1683." This last note is transcribed from Mr. Combe'? copy of the Monumenta Kempiana. CAXTON. AMES, in his History of Printing, p. 57 of Herbert's edition, enumerates among Caxton's works. " Le Morte De Arthur ;" but Herbert adds these words : " I make no question, but that Mr. Ames saw " this book ; but it is rather extraordinary that " he has not told us in whose possession it was, " according to his usual custom. " I have ex- " amincd Bibl.Harleiana, Wcstiana, llatcliffiana, " &c. &c, but have not been fortunate enough u to meet with any copy of this edition, or any " intelligence where to find one.'' But although the above edition of this curious and interesting Romance from the press of Cax- ton seems at present unknown, it may be worth stating, that it was reprinted by YVynkyn de Worde in 14D8 in folio, and also byWilliam C'oj>- las without date, in the same form. The lat- ter edition lmd escaped the research of the il- lustrious Herbert, but an imperfect copy was pur- CAX.TON. 43 purchased by W. Masa at a sale in 1794, for three guineas and a half. It was reprinted by Thomas East, without date, in folio, and so late as 1634 in quarto. I subjoin an extract. " And so he was restored unto hys byshop- " ryche and lefte that heremytge. And syr Be- " dyuere was there euer still an heremit unto " hys lyues ende. Than syr Bors de Canys, syr " Ector de Baris, syr Cahalatine, syr Calyhud, " syr Calyhodyn, syr Blamore, syr Bleoberys, " syr Vylliers le valyaunt, syr Clarrus of Clare- " moiit all these inyghtes drevve them to their " countryes, how bee it, kynge Constantyne " woulde haue had them wyth him. But they " woulde not abyde in thys realme. And " there they al lyued in their countries as " holy men. And some Englyshe bookes make " mencion, that they wente neuer out of Eng- " lande after the death of sir Launcelot, but " that was but a fauoure of makers. Eor the ES WALPQLIANjE. $$ The finest picture in the collection was that of the Immaculate Conception, by Guidq, and was valued at 3, 5001. This picture was formerly in the collection of the Marquis Angeli. When Sir Robert Walpolq had purchased the picture, and it was sent to Civita Vecchia to be embarked for England, Pope Innocent the xinth, ordered it to be brought back again, as being too line a thing to be allowed to be removed from Rome. But, as soon as he heard who the purchaser was, he gave permission to have it sent back again. The " Architecture," by Julio Romano, or as the late Lord Orford rather believed, by Po- lydore, was given to Sir Robert, by General Charles, Churchill, and was valued at 3001. The celebrated cast, in bronze, of the Gla- diator, executed by John, of Boulogne, was a, present to Lord Orford, from Thomas, Earl of Pembroke. This was not sold, and now re- mains to be seen at Houghton. The figure of King Charles the first in whole length in armour, by Vandyke, was valued at; 4001. There is a singular defect in this picture both the gauntlets being drawn for the right hand. When this picture was in the Wharton Col- lection, old Jacob Tonson, who had remarkably Ugly legs, was finding fault with the two gauntlets. Lady Wharton said, Mr. Tonson, why might not one 60 jEDES WALPOLIAKTE. one man have two right hands, as well as another two left legs ! Till I saw this anecdote, as related by the late Horace Walpole, I was at a loss to com- prehend what Pope intended by the two follow- ing lines in the Dunciad : With arms extended Bernard rows his state, And left-legged Jacob seems to emulate. These lines were afterwards thus altered : With legs expanded Bernard urged the race, And seemed to emulate great Jacob's pace. Dr. M r arton has inserted the first couplet in his edition, and as he has no annotation upon it, probably was not acquainted with its meaning. I may, perhaps, be excused taking this oc- casion to relate two other anecdotes which were told me by the late Earl of Orford, the writer of the book from which the above accounts are taken. % Every reader will remember the following lines in Pope : Each mortal has his pleasure, none deny ; Scarsdale his bottle, Darty his ham pye. Darty, an abbreviation of Dartneuf, was a most celebrated sensualist and glutton, and Lord Orford had frequently met him at his father's table. Par- iEDES WALPOLIANJE. 6l Dartneuf was one day walking in the street, when he overtook a fishmonger's boy, who was carrying home a fine Turbot; the mischievous rogue amused himself, as he went along, with striking the Turbot against every post he met. This, in the eyes of Dartneuf, was a crime not to be overlooked or forgiven. He immediately followed the boy to the house where he was going, and, in terms of great indignation, de- scribed what he had seen, and insisted on the boy's being severely chastised. At another time, Dartneuf was engaged to dine with a brother gourmand, expressly to eat one of two plums, the only produce of a particular tree, remarkable for the richness and delicacy of its fruit. It was agreed, that, when they had dined, to enjoy the fruit in its greatest perfection, they were to proceed to the garden, and each gather and eat his plum. Before dinner was entirely ended, Dartneuf made some excuse to retire for a few minutes from the room, when he instantly hastened to the garden, and, dire to relate, devoured both the plums, without the smallest compunction or remorse MATTHEW 62 MATTHEW OF WESTMINSTER. MATTHEW OF WESTMINSTER. Flora Historiarum per Mattkceum Westmonas- teriensev.i Collect i praripue de Rebus Bri- tannicis ab exordio Mundi usque ad Annum Domini 1307. Londini. EJr OJjicina Thonue Marshii. J.D. 1570. COPIES of the above book, particularly in any tolerable condition, are now become ex- ceedingly dear and scarce. It was published by Archbishop Parker in 1570. The copy preserved in the Cracherode Col- lection is the identical one which was presented l*y the Archbishop to Queen Elizabeth. It. afterwards fell into the hands of Francis, Earl of Bedford, who happening to bequeath the furniture of a little study to his secretary, it thus came into his possession. It was afterwards in the possession of Mr. Ritson. HIT. THE PRETENDER. 63 THE PRETENDER. IN the Rebellion of 1745, it is well known, that after the discomfiture of the rebels at the battle of Culloden, by the royal army under the command of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, Government issued a procla- mation, in which they offered a reward of 30,0001. for the apprehension of the Pretender, alive or dead. In opposition to this, the following curious paper Mas issued by the Pretender and his Council : CHARLES, PRINCE OF WALES, &c. Regent of the kingdoms of Scotland, England, France, and Ireland, and the dominions there- unto belonging : WHEREAS WE have seen a certain scandalous and malicious paper, published in the stile and form of a Proclamation, bearing date the 1st instant, wherein, under pretence of bringing us to justice, like our royal ancestor, King Charles the 1st of blessed memory, there is a reward of thirty thousand pounds sterling pro- mised to those who shall deliver us into the hands of ft. THE PRETENDER. of our enemies, we could not but be moved with a just indignation at so insolent an attempt : and though, from our nature and principles, we abhor and detest a practice so unusual among Christian Princes, we cannot, but out of a just regard to the dignity of our person, promise the like reward of thirty thousand pounds sterling, to him, or those, who shall seize or secure till our further orders, the person of the Elector of Hanover, whether landed, or attempting to land in any part of His Majesty's dominions. Should any fatal accident happen from hence, let the blame lie entirely at the door of those who first set the infamous example. Charles, P. R. Given at our Camp at Kinlockeill, August 22, 1745. By His Ilighncss's command, Jo. Murray. The original paper from which the above was copied is so rare, that I never heard of any other than that which accident lately deposited in the British Museum. The fact, however, itself i3 mentioned by Hume, and other historians. EPISTREL' EPISTRES FRANCOISES. 6$ EPISTRES FRANCOISES Des Personnages illustres et doctes a Mons x Jo- seph Juste De la Scala mises en lumiere. Par Jaques De Rcves. Harderwyck. 12mo. 1624. THIS is esteemed among the very rare books by Vogt, who quotes MorhorT as his authority. It consists of Epistles to Scaliger, which were published after Scaliger's death. Morhoff thus speaks of him : Sunt et Epistolae Gallica Lingua ad Scali- gerum scripts, Liber ille rarissimus est, atque multa continet singularia de libris et viris eru- ditis. Editus est post mortem Scaligeri. Morhoff. Poly-Hist. Lit. v. i. p. 286. For an account of this edition of J; De Reves, consult Niceron. v. 30. p. 30. The following letter from James the First, of England, to Scaliger, is extracted from this volume. MONSIEUR Scaliger le Sieur de la lessee Maistre des Requestes de Mad. de France estat venu en ce Royaume, y a demeur6 quelque espace de teps aupres de nous, pendant lequel nous avons eu pour tresagreable sa cog- noissance, ensemble les bos fruicts de son estude c"st pourquoy nous n'avons voulu permettre que f - partat $6 EP1STRES FRANCOISES. partat d'iey en deliberatio cle passer en Holl. il s'eallast au lieu de vostre residece, sans vous faire la prescnte qu'il vous donnera avec asseurance de lextreme amitie que nous portons aux gens de scauoir & de merite, & principalement a vous qui avez attainct ce beau degre avec une si louable reputatid. Ce sera aussi pour vous prier de la favoriser de vostre part & de vos meilleures cognoissancs ce qu6 pourroit serair a l'honnestc curiosite qu'il a d'estre honore de la bienveuil- lance des hommes verteux. De nation il nou? est & voisin & connne patriote. Et nous aussi, qui ne desnierons jatmais les effects de nostre singuliere affection a ses semblables, serons gran- dement satisfaicts si ceste nostre sincere recom- mendation ne luy est point inutile en vostre en- droict. Sur ce nous supplierons le Createur vous augmenter. Monsieur Scaliger, en parfaicte sante & longue vie la rarite de ses graces. De nostr6 chasteau de Lefco, ce 15, Apuril 1597. Vostre tres affectionne" amy JAQUES ll\ Among these letters are some from Henry the fourth, of France; from Theodore Beza, Henry Stevens, John Barclay, Diodati, Thuanus, and othei'3 the most distinguished individuals of their time, witch- WITCHCRAFT. . 67 WITCHCRAFT. The following curious letter is copied from a manuscript preserved in the British Museum: From Mr. Manning, dissenting teacher at Halstead in Essex, to J. Morley, Esq. Halstead. Halstead, August 2, 1732. SIR, THE narrative \v h I gave you in relation to witchcraft, and which you are pleased to lay your commands upon me to re- peat, is as follows : There was one master Collett, a smith by trade, of Haveningham in the County of Suffolk, formerly servant in Sir John Duke's family, in Benhall in Suffolk, who, as 'twas cus- tomary with him, assisting the maide to churne, and not being able, (as the phrase is) to make the butter come, threw an hot iron into the churn under the notion of witchcraft in the case, upon which a poore labourer, then em- ployed in carrying of dung in the yard, cryed out in a terrible manner, they have killed me, they have killed me; still keeping his hand upon his back, intimating where the paine was, and died upon the spott. Mr. Collett, with the rest of the servants then present, took off the poore man's cloathes, and f 2 found, 68 COMMON PRAYER BOOK. found, to their great surprize, the mark of the iron that was heated and thrown into the chum, deeply impressed upon his back. This account I had from Mr. Collett's own mouth, who being a man of an unblemished character, I verily be- lieve to be matter of fact . I am, Sir, Your obliged humble servant, SAM. MANNING, Harleian Man. 1686, COMMON PRAYER BOOK. In the third year of the reign of Edward the Sixth, the compilers of the Common Prayer Book were Dr. Cranmcr, Archbishop of Canterbury. Dr. Goodrich, Bishop of Ely. Dr. Skip, Bishop Of Hereford. Dr. Thirlby, Bishop of Westminster. Dr. Day, Bishop of Chichester. - Dr. Holbeck, Bishop of Lincoln. Dr. Ridley. Bishop of Rochester. Dr. May, Dean of St. Pauls. Dr. Taylor, Dean of Lincoln. Dr. THEALMA AND LEARCHUS. 6> Dr. Heyns, Dean of Exeter. . . Dr. Redman, Dean of Westminster, Dr. Cox, Almoner to King Edward vr. Dr. Robinson, Archdeacon of Leicester. March 4, 16^4. . Harleian :,is. 6866'. The above is inserted principally to direct the reader's attention to a book not so well known as it deserves, the lives of the above distinguished characters by Samuel Downes. THEALMA AND CLEARCIIUS, ^1 Pastoral History in smooth and easie Verse^ written long since by John Chalkhill, Esq, an acquaint a?it and friend of Edmund Spenser. London : Printed jor Benj. Tooke, at the Ship, in S. Pauls Church Yard. 1683. THIS is a book of extreme rarity. It is rendered remarkable by having been published by Isaac Walton, who highly commends the author. Chalkhill is said to have been a friend of Spenser. Isaac Walton has inserted two Ballads, written by his friend, John Chalkhill, in his Complete Angler. One is called Condon's ong; the p 3 subject 70 THEALMA AND CLEARCIIUS. subject of it is The Pleasures of the Country, and begins thus : " Oh the sweet contentment the countryman doth find !" See Hawkins's edition, p. 83. The other Ballad is on the Fisher's Life. See p. 227 of the same edition : it begins, Oh the gallant Fisher's Life !" Both these have much merit in their way. In a small History of Winchester, in two vo- lumes 12mo. printed in 1773, and written by Thomas Warton, though published without a name, is the following Epitaph on Clialkhill, by which it appears that he was a Fellow of Winchester College. It is represented to be in the South Cloister, on a black marble, against the wall. 11. S. E. Joan. Chalkhill, a.m. hujus Coll'ii annos 46. Socius, Vir quod vixit solitudine et* silentio, Temperantia et Castitate, Orationibus et Elee- mosynis, Contemplatione et sanctimonia ascetis vel primitivis par: qui cum a parvulo in reg- num Coclorum viam fecit, Octagenarius tandem rupuit 20 die Maii, 16*79. Tom. i. p. 140. It is true, however, that Walton, in his preface to Thealma and Clcarchus, which I have sub- joined, speaks of Chalkhill u^ then dead. This preface THEALMA AND CLEARCHUS. 71 preface is dated May 7, 16/8. But the pern itself was not published till 1(J83, when Walton himself was ninety years old; it is not impro- bable, therefore, that there is an error in the date, or else in the copy of the epitaph. Either of these things are more probable than that there should be another John Chalkhill just at that period, of a character so much correspond- ing to the interesting description of Walton. What Mrs. Cooper, in her Muses Library, says of this poem, is as follows : He (Chalkhill) died before he could perfect even the fable of his Poem, and by many pas- sages in it, I half believe he had not given the last hand to what he has left behind him. How- ever, to do both him and his editor justice, if my opinion can be of any weight, tis great pity so beautiful a relique should be lost; and the quotations I have extracted from it will suffi- ciently evidence a fine vein of imagination, a taste, far from indelicate ; and both language and numbers uncommonly harmonious and polite. Muses Library, p. 315. A stanza in the latter of Chalkhill's Songs, in- troduced by Walton in his Complete Angler, see Hawkins's edition, p. 229, has been elegantly translated into Latin, by Dr. Johnson. I give the two stanzas, that the reader may have the whole before him. f4 If 72 THEALMA AND CLEARCHUS, If the sun's excessive heat Make our bodies swelter, To an ozier hedge we get For a friendly shelter ; Where in a dike, Perch or Pike, Roach or Dace We do chase, Bleak or Gudgeon Without grudging, We are still contented. Or we sometimes pass an hour Under a green willow That defends us from a shower, Making earth our pillow ; Where we may Think and pray Before death Stops our breath; O the joys Are but toys, And to be lamented. E. Waltoni Piscatore Perfecto Exccrptum. Nunc per gramina fusj Densa frondc salicti Pum defenditur imber Molles ducimus boras Hie dum debita morti Paulum via moratur Nunc rcscjre priora Nunc instarc tuuiris Nunc summi piece snncta patris nunu n ad ire ri Quic.piid THEALMA AND CLEARCHUS. 73 Quicquid qua?ritur ultra Cceco ducit amore Vcl spe ludit inani Luctus mox pcriturum. The following preface to Thealma and Clear- chus by Isaac Walton, must necessarily be ad- mired by all lovers of simplicity in writing. " The reader will find in this book what the title declares, A Pastoral History in smooth and easie Verse; and will in it find, many hopes and fears finely painted, and feelingly ex- pressed. And he will find the first so often dis- appointed, when fullest of desire and expec- tation ; and the latter so often, so strongly, and so unexpectedly relieved by an unforeseen Providence, as may beget in him wonder and amazement. " And the reader will here also meet with pas- sions heightened by easy and fit descriptions of joy and sorrow, and find also such various events of innocent truth, and undissembled ho- nesty as is like to leave in him (if he be a good- natured reader) more sympathizing and virtuous expressions than ten times so much time spent in impertinent, critical, and needless disputes about religion; and I heartily wish it may do so. " And I have also this truth to say of the author, that he was, in his time, a man generally known, as well as beloved, for he was humble and obliging n MEMOIRES. obliging in his behaviour, a gentleman, a scholar, very innocent and prudent, and indeed his whole life was useful, quiet, and virtuous. God send the story may meet with and make all readers Jike him. May 7, 1678. I. W." As Walton was ninety years of age when this book was published, the above preface was not improbably the last thing this excellent man wrote for publication. There is no copy of this rare book in the British Museum, and I am indebted to a friend for being able to present the reader with the above account. MEMOIRES . Da La Vie (hi JSIcrechal De Viellevillc. Paris. 1757> THESE memoirs contain many curious and interesting anecdotes of the reigns of Francis I., Henry II., Francis II., and Charles IX., and were composed by Vincent Carloix, the Mar- 3iial's secretary. When MEMOIRE3. 7J When they first appeared, they contained, what was understood to reflect on the illustrious family of Rohan. As these passages gave great offence they were omitted in the subsequent editions, and it is very difficult to find a copy which contains the exceptionable remarks. They who are curious in French Literature will not be displeased to know that a perfect copy of this work is preserved in the Cracherode Collection. CLASSICAL FRAGMENTS, INSCRIPTION Written by the Earl of Hardwicke, in a copy of Sir Dudley Carletons Letters, presented by his Lordship to the Library of Christ Church, Oxford* BIBLIOTHECiE jEdis Christ! Omni librorum copia instructissimae Editonem hanc Epistolarum Dudlei Carleton JEdis 75 THEOCRITUS. jEdis istius quondam alumni Legati a pud gentes exteras Fideliter Regi et Patrice inservientis Summa observantia D. D. Memor dicrum septem Jueunde simul et utiliter In ista sede celeberrima 6c inter Oxonienses impensorum Philippus Comes Ilardvicensis 34 Cal. Jul. mdcclxx. THEOCRITUS. A SINGULAR circumstance occurs in the second edition of Theocritus, printed by the elder Aldus, at Venice, in 1493. At>Fol. Z. F. in. the Poem of Tv*n HpaxA^a? begins and pro^- cecds as far as the 13 th line, when there is an abrupt transition to the 34 th line of the Epita- phios Bionis, which is continued to its conclusion. The Fpitaphios Bionis is properly printed in its place at Pol. E E u i. It seems difficult to comprehend how such an error should escape the attention of so correct a printer. THEOCRITUS. 77 a printer, and so accomplished a scholar as the elder Aldus. Renouard is decidedly of opinion, that al- though some copies are found in which this mis- take does not appea^ that there were not two distinct editions. Aldus probably saw a copy of the earlier edition of Theocritus, printed at Milan in 1493, and reprinted some of the pages. Those copies, therefore, which are distin- guished by this error, may be considered, doubt- less, as the earlier impressions. This edition of 149-5 has usually been considered as the Editio Frinceps. The Editio Princeps was printed at Milan in 1493. That it was printed at Milan is presumed from the similarity of its type to the edition of Isocrates, which we know to have been printed at Milan in that same year. The reader may satisfy himself in this respect by con- sulting Warton's Prolegomena to his edition of Theocritus, published at Oxford in 1/70, and Valcnaers, printed at Leipsic in 1773. This is a book of uncommon rarity. There is a copy in the splendid library of Lord Spencer, which was purchased at the Pinelli sale by Count Revickzki for 311. 10s. It seems worth while here to correct a whim- sical mistake, into which Mr. Dibdin has fallen, in his Introduction to the Greek and Latin Classics, second edition, p. 403. Trans- 78 THEOCRITUS. Translating Renouard's account of this second edition of Theocritus, lie observes, that the earlier impressions have, on the first page of sheet Z. F. four verses printed over again. Whereas Re- nouard's expression is, quatrc vers doubles, which means returned, that is, having the last word of the verse, or part of it, begin another line, a9 thus: iHTCX xtnTam ut or xaXo? x$u) The reader who wishes to know other par- ticulars concerning this edition of 149.5, may consult Smith. l)e Bure, Xo. 2480, Valliere, Xo. 2355. Maittaire, 1 p. 590. Pinelli, 2 Xo. 4408. Panzer, 3 p. 378. Braun, 2 p. 274. Seemiller, 4 p. 6*0. Laire. Index, 2 p. 205. JUVEXAL JUVENAL ET PERSIUS. 7. CATULLUS. 91 CATULLUS. THE edition of Catullus, printed at Venice in 1475, by Jo. de Colon, is not the first, as Broukhusius has asserted, though probably it is a very exact copy of it. See Panzer, Annal. Typog. v. in. n. 189 The Editio Princeps was printed by Spira, at Venice, in 1472. This of 1475, is the second edition. Both the first and second Editions are in the Cracherode collection. The reader who wishes further information on this subject, may consult as under : Smith. De Bure, No. 2643. Valliere, No. 2422. Maittaire, 1 p. 350. Pinelli, 2 p. No. 449$. Panzer, 3 p. 108. Rossi, p. 64. Laire, 1 p. 358. The more curious reader of Catullus may find an interleaved copy of the Elzevir Catullus, en~ riched with many curious and valuable notes, in the British Museum. QUtNTUS 93 DEMOSTHENES. QUINTUS CALABER. THE Princeps Editio of this author is remark- ably scarce, and Bibliographers are much divided, about its date, as it is printed without any. It is one of the most beautiful of the Aldus books ; and although it is generally supposed to have been printed in or about 1521, I have very little doubt but that it was much earlier, probably in 1505. The works of Tryphiodorus, and the Rape of Helen, by Colli thus, are subjoined to this edition, which Renouard omits to mention. DEMOSTHENES. THERE were two editions of the Orations of Demosthenes, published by Aldus in the fame year, namely, in 1504. They differ materially from each other ; the first is the more elegant, on finer paper and a better type. The Anchor is also very different. The first edition is the most rare, but as Aldus had the use of many manuscripts for the second, this may be consi- dered OBSCtfR. Vlll. EPISTOLiE. 9$ dered as the most valuable. They are thus to be distinguished : the first edition has the Dol- phin only in outline, and unshadowed ; the se- cond has the Anchor shaded. There are other marks of difference, but these will be sufficient for the collector's purpose. There are beautiful copies of both editions in the Cracherode Col- lection. One of these editions was purchased by Earl Spencer from the Pinelli Library, for Jl. 17s. EPISTOUE OBSCURORUM VIRORUM. THIS work, which Mas written to expose the errors and absurdities of the monks in their writings as well as in their morals, was, by a decree of Leo the Tenth, condemned to the flames. This decree was obtained at the price of an enormous sum of money. See the Amoe- nitates Literar. torn. 9. p. 660. Jacob Thomasius, in his preface to the letters of Paulus Manutius, affirms, that after the most careful investigation of the fact, he was decidedly Convinced, that Huttenus was the author of Epistolx bianus, alias John Jaeger of Dornheim in Theu- nngen. I 3= HESIOD AMONG the fragments of Hesiod, published by Dr. Robinson in his splendid edition of that .author, is the following, which occurs in Plutarch; The same idea is found in the O^v^eg of Aris- tophanes, and is probably a quotation from Hesiod : Ovx cud) on ztwts ytviots avfyw w Xuxipv^ct Ornithes, L. 610. PAUSANIAS, $6 PAUSANIAS. PAUSANIAS. THERE is an error in all the editions which I have seen of this author, so obvious, and at the same time, so easy of emendation, that it may be justly allowed to excite surprize. It occurs in the fifth Book de Eliacis. Pausanias invites those who may visit Olympia, to contemplate the Alpheus, which he represents as a full and beautiful stream increased by the confluence of other noble rivers. His words are, To vSup tou AXtpita srA)0i $t sjohv iSouri xa tj 1584. Votre affectionne" a/"/ & servjteur, Hen 5 ^ Estiexne. H 2 SIMP LI- 100 SIMPLICttTS. S1MPLICIUS IN EPICTETUM. IN the quarto edition of the Commentaries of Simplicius on Epictetus, published at Leyden in 1640, with the notes of Salmasius, there is a most singular inaccuracy, which indeed prevails in all the editions and all the manuscripts, one only excepted. In p. 153, 1. 14 from the top, are these words: Sivopuv rf /At>/}ia? txtim? JWwst. This will be V'auid in his edition of Kpietetus. His tv n nientaries on the fact, and emenda- tion of the irtveumey, are well worth the scholar's serious attention, a~i may uc seen in the ^^ volume of liis excellent KOr fc on Epictetus, p. 349- 50. The HOMER. 101 The words of Schweighaeuser well deserve a place here : Erat lacuna, orta ex jactura integri folii, quod e vetustissimo aliquo codice, qui communis omnium istorum fons fuit, exciderat. Istam lacunam ex optimo nostro codice Pa. qui conti- nuo tenore ea omnia, qua? hie adposuimus, per- sequitur, explere nobis contigit ; quod et nobis eo jucundius accidit, et lectoribus hujus libelli eo gratius futurum confido, quod cum per se pulcerrimum est argumentum hoc ipso loco a Simplicio tractatum, turn vero miro quodam respectu ad tempora simillima eis, quae haud ita pridem ipsam nostram rempublicam oppressam tenuerant, memorabile. Bonaque insuper for^- tuna accidit, ut toto hoc loco ita satis emendata (praeter morein) merit codicis nostri scriptura, ut nulla magnopere difficultate pvematur auctoris ententia. HOMER, Homeri Ilias. Turncbus, Paris, 1554, Gt% THE copy of this excellent edition in the Cracherode Collection was purchased at the sale 3 of 103 HOMER. of Mr. Bridges's Library. The price was six guineas. This is the particular copy, upon which Mait taire made the following observation : Vidi inquit in Viri CI. Johan. Brydges arm. bibl. Turnebianum Homerica? Iliados codicem ad cujus finem adnectuntur Homeri Batrachomyo- machiaetHymnij Grace: eodemTyporumgenere, eodem in singulis paginis versuum numero, eadem ante tituliun florulenta decoratione, quae Iliados initio prajponitur. Ciphrae autem in prima pagi- na sunt 427 in ultima 4.98. Signatura horum opus- culorum prima est E Unde cum nulla sit inter et Iliados et istorum Ciphras signaturasque con- tinuatio, nemo non conjiciet aliquid, cujus nulla adhuc mihi fuit notitia fuisse autinterjectum, aut aliquando forsan interjiciendum. Oportet certe prseivisse 426 paginas, quae Odysseam continere potuerant. Neque longe aberit calculus si inter illarum paginarum et Odysseam totius versuum cum argumentorum lineis, numerum proportio- nem ex conjectura instituas. Annal. Typog. Tom. 3. p. 647. The fact abovementioned by Maittaire is very extraordinary, and leaves ample room for con- jecture. It is not improbable that Turnebus did intend, at one time or other, to print the Odyssey in the same form and size, so that the purchasers of the Iliad might be at liberty to complete HOMER. 103 complete their copy. The fact is, as Maittaire states it. The Iliad ends at p. 554>. The num- ber of the page where the Batrachomyomachia commenees x is 427, leaving a number of pages sufficient to comprehend the Odyssey, At the end of this copy of theTurnebus Homer, >n the Cracherode Collection, are these lines; rj ' Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books else appear so. mean, so poor : Verse will seem prose, but still persist to read j And Homer will be all the books you need. NOVUM TESTAMENTUM GREECE. /trgentorati apud JVolfium Cephalczum, Anno 1524, IT is remarkable of this edition, that the ce Jebrated passage, 1 John v. 7. is altogether omitted. So also is the Q6th verge of the ele venth chapter of St. Mark In this, and in most other respects, this edition is pearly a copy of the Editio Hagenoensis, printed in \o%i. H 4 Hagenau 104 PSALTERIUM. Hagenau is a city in Germany, in the Circle pf the Upper Rhine and Landgrave of Alsatia, once Imperial, but now subject to the French. This edition of Hagenau is among the most rare and curious of the editions of the Greek Testa- ment. There is a beautiful copy in the Crache- rode Collection enriched with many curious and important manuscript notes. I subjoin the description of this edition for the benefit of the curious collector. Hagenose in cedibus Thomae Anshelmi, Baden - sis, mense Martio, anno salutis nostras mdxxi. PSALTERIUM. Tn Quatuor L\nguis Hebrceq, Grceca, Chald(ta x Latina. fmpressum Cpfonice MDxvur. IN the beautiful copy of the very rare edition of this Psalter, which is preserved in the Crache- rode Collection, the following note occurs in the hand writing of Mr. Cracherode himself: Evulgavit hanc rarissimam Editionem Jo- hannes Potkcnius Germanus, Vir linguarum Orientaiium gnarus, et Ecclesiae S. Georgii Co- loniensis HEARNE. 105 loniensis propositus. Opinione se deceptum in- telligit qui Versionem Chaldaicam in hoc Hbro quserit. Reipsa enim est Psalterium redditum Lingua Mthwpica, quam iis temporibus Chal- daicam vocare solebant. Vid. Jo. Lad ol phi dissert, de Lingua iEthiopica. Idem Potkenius jam anno 151% Psalterium et Canticum Can- ticorum Chaldaice ut titulus fert, sed verius ./Ethiopice, in 4to. cum Pnefatione Latina Romas ediderat, id quod ex ejus epistola nostras editioni adject a adparet Conf. Maittaire Annales Typogr. t 11. p. 122. Mr. Cracherode's copy of this edition of the Psalter was purchased at th$ sale of the Pinelli books for 41. 5s, HEARNE. Acta Apostolorum Grceco Latine, Litteris Ma* jusculis E. Codice Zaudiano, c. $c, THE very curious manuscript of the Acts of the Apostles, from which this book was printed, is preserved in the Bodleian Library. It is spoken of by Wetstein in the Prolegomena to his edition of 105 HEARNE. f the Greek Testament Amsterdam. 1730. Cap. iv. n. iv. p. 34. To the disgrace of opulence and our country, when the learned Hearne published Proposals for printing no more than 120 copies of this book, he could only obtain the names of 41 subscribers, nor dispose of more than 76 copies. There is a beautiful copy of this book in the Cracherode Collection, which is enriched by many excellent notes by Do Missy. He has taken the pains to enumerate the subscribers and copies ; and beneath has written ; O Tempera ! O Mores ! Apres cela Docteur va piilir sur la Bible ! De Missy's notes, in the Cracherode Copy, demonstrate great acuteness, familiar acquaint- ance with all critical writers on Theology, and profound erudition. I subjoin one or two specimens to induce the Theological Student to examine it more closely ; P. 206. Etadsujipti. Conjicio antiquam hujus loci lectionem fuisse et-adaumptis Jorenshim viris quibusdam netjuissi- mis; non obedientes ct turbajacta conturbabant, #c. lleic forte adsumpti pro adsumptis ex corrupta vel imperfecta pronuntiatione ut infra, p. 17, ubi hi pro his. P. 5112. Insjxuas, Vnrlu HfcARNE. 107 Varia Lectio vocis proxime preecedentis In- fers. Translata vero in textum varia lectio cum locum occupasset, vocum in aures, has voces m- consulto fuere omissre, vel si mavis consulto: sed eo consiiio ut deleta deinde (quod tatnen non effectum fuit) voce insinuas in ejus loco poneretur In mires. P. 219- Et Miserans. -Pro migrans, ut notat Editor. Nota insuper nonnullos pronuntiatione migrans ac si scriptum esset mijerans, vel migerans : unde facilis tran- situs ad miserans, cum nonnulli porro sint qui Je vel ge ita pronuntiant ut vix distingui queat a se vel ze. Confer Annotationem in Act vi. ,5. P. 272. Indamascum. Nullam in hoc versu novi varietatem ante vocem ET2EBHS. Ad hanc vero vocem varie- tates notantur non prorsus aspernandae. No- tabilis etiam additio Ei* Aa/*a-xw post xaroocavTwv. Integram forte pericopen respicit Asteriscus. NOVUM TESTAMENTUM GIUECUM. IN his Copy of Bowyer's edition of the Greek Testament; reprinted by Nichols, Mr. Cracherode had 108 NOVUM TESTAMENTUM. had written various notes, quotations and re* ferences. These were all torn out and destroyed at his own particular request, thus written by himself in capital letters on the first interleaf of the book. It is my earnest desire that all notes, quotations and references, written upon the interfoliations of THESI TWO VOLUMES OF THE New TeSTA^ MENT, MAY BE CAREFULLY TAKEN OUT AND PESTROYED. C. M. C. This request has been faithfully complied with. We respect the piety of the act, but lament the loss which Biblical learning must have sus-* tained* SACROSANCTA QUATUOR JESU CHRISTI, d. n. EVANGELIA, /lrabice Scripta, Latine Iieddita, Figuristjuc ornata. Romoz, Ex Typographia Medicea, 1619- THE beautiful copy of this book preserved in the Cracherode Collection, formerly belonged to Trinity College, Cambridge. It was pur- chased PSALTE^IUM. 109 chased at the sale of the Duplicates of that Li- brary. At the end, Mr. Cracherode has written the following note : Prodiit Versio Arabica Quatuor Evangeliorum Romae ex Typographia Medica. 1590. Fol. In fronte Libri legitur Annus 1590, ad calcem 1591. Quinam hujus versionis Auctor ? Unde ea desumpta sit? prorsus ignoratur. Eadem prorsus Editio repetita est An. 1619, vel potius novus tantummodo titulus operi proefixus est. It is certainly not a little singular that the author of this Arabic version should be totally unknown to Bibliographers. PSALTERIUM. Hebraicum, Grcecum, Arabicum, et Chdldeum t cum tribus Latinis Interpret ationibus et glossis. ^nipressit miro ingenio Petrus Panlus Porrus, GenucBy in cedibus Nicolai Justiniani Pauli, #c. 8$c. 1516. Justinianus was assisted in this curious and now scarce edition of the Polyglott Psalter, by Jaeob 110 PSALTERIUM. Jacob Furnius and Baptista Cigala. This cir- cumstance, not generally known, appears from & note on the 78th Psalm. Haec suprascripta Carmina passim habent in cunctis Giaecis codicibus in principio hujus Psalmi, quae et ipsem et nostro octaplo inserere volui, additis duabus Latinis interpretationibus quam alteram ex tempore lusit Jacobus Furnius jure consultus insignis, et in Graecis literis etiam Hermolai testimonio nemini secundus, qui in castigatione Graeca mihi maximo adjumento fuit. Alteram vero etiam extemporanee cecinit Bap- tista Cigala Orator et Literarii ludi Preceptor doctissimus, quern in corrcctione Latina adju- torem mihi ascivi. By way of commentary on the 19th Psalm, v. 4. " Their words are gone to the end of the " world," Justinianus has inserted a very cu- rious sketch of the life of Columbus, an account of his discovery of America, with a very singular description of the inhabitants, particularly of the female native Americans. I insert, by way of specimen, the beginning of this sketch, hoping it may induce some curious Student to peruse and translate the whole : " Et in fines mundi verba eorum." Saltern temporibus nostris quibus mirabili ausu Christophori Columbi Genuensis, alter pene orbis, repertus est, Christianorumque cetui mggregatus. At vero riuoniam Columbus fre- quenter LUCIANI. in quenter prcedicabat se a deo eleetum et per ip- sum adimpleretur haec prophetia, non alienurn existimavi vitam ipsius hoc loco inserere. This, perhaps, is a circumstance in the life of Columbus not generally known, that he should boast himself to be the person, appointed by God, to fulfil the prophetic exclamation of David. A beautiful copy of this Polyglott edition of the Psalms is preserved in the Cracherode Col- lection, and was formerly in the possession of the learped De Missy. A copy on vellum was sold at the sale of the Duke de Valliere's library for 192 livres. It was purchased by De Bure. LUCIANI. Opera omnia Gr. Florent. mcccclxxxxvi. Fol. Editio PllINCEPS. It is a very singular circumstance of this, first edition of Lucian, that in the title page, the book is professed to contain the Icones, as well as sundry works of Philostratus. But nothing of Philostratus is to be found in it ; nor does the table 112 LUCIANI. table of contents at the end of the volume refer to any. This remarkable fact is thus mentioned in a note to be found in the beautiful copy of the first edition of Lucian, preserved in the Cra- cherode Collection. In titulo editionis Luciani Florent 149$- Philostratorum opera pleraque tanquam Luci- aneis addita indicantur quidem, neque tame n in toto libro inserta deprehenduntur, imo pinax ipse ad calcem operis post subscriptionem adjectus et quas toto volumine continentur indigitans, de Phi-> lostrato nee verbum habet, ut proinde Editio Aldina. Plerorumque utriusque Philostrati operum quae cum Luciano ann. 1503, in lucent emissa est pro principe sit habenda, quemad- modum pro tali habetur a Fabricio, aliisque fere omnibus. V. Biblioth. C. de It. p. 65. This reference is to the Catalogue Raisonne* of Count Revintzki, whose library was purchased by Earl Spencer. A copy of this first edition of Lucian was sold at the Pinelli sale for eight guineas and a half. At the sale of the Valliere Collection it produced 720 livres. At Askew's sale, a fine illuminated copy was bought for 19I. 8s. 6d. Neither De Bure nor any of the Bibliographers make mention of the singularity recorded in this article. NOVUM ftfc MISSV. Ms frOVUM TESTAMENTUM GRjECUM. Studio et labor e. Joannis Mitlil, S. T. P. I HAVE before had occasion to mention, with respect, the name of Cesar De Missy. He was a profound scholar, an acute critic, and above all, a most excellent Theologian. This will sufficiently appear from an edition of the Greek Testament, preserved in the Mu- seum. It formerly belonged to De Missy, and is en- riched -with innumerable notes from his pen. I transcribe a few of them, hoping they may serve as an inducement to the Student in Theology to consult the volume itself. (l) In the Prolegomena, p. 131, these words occur in the text : Paulo postevulgatam hanc editionem [Robert. Stephani] prodiit jam Bezas alia quaedam, &c. Upon which De Missy remarks : Cur Bezce dicatur haec editio ego quidem non video : imo et contrarium videre mihi videor, turn quia in Epistola nuncupatoria Henricus Stepha- nas sic loquitur ; " non solum autem otium sed " etiam prassentia Theodori Bezee mihi defuit," turn quia lectiones admittit diversas ab iis quas i Beza 114 DE MISSY. Beza sive ante secutus fuerat, exempli causa. Jac. iv. 5. pn> pro r^tv et Apoc. xu. 14. onus TgiipriTxi pro 07T8 Tpaptrxi. Sic porro Heb. x. l 2, xav for a* v vel pro a*, quibus de lectionibus vide ejusdem Stephani verba p. 23, laudatae a Millio praefationis. (2) P. 303. Acts, chap. xix. v. 26\ X fxovou E:ai quando respondet xxx. Imino ex ejusdem Evaugelio duo loca. hue re- ferre non esset absonum. Vide Job. xi. 52. et xu. o. (:i) Luke C xiv. v. 34. !> TIVJ xptvtnctTxi. Al. aAis-Sno-jTixj. In variis lectionibus quae ad ouJcem Editionis C'arohe Guillard, Paris. 1543. Millius in Append ice editionis sua: Oxoniensis- pro *pmQnci7zi legendum monet aXi^hvirxi (vel potiuft DE MISSY. 115 potius, ne'errorem scquar typographicum, aXic- fac-irai, cum spiritu a'spero.) Quod cur mo- nuerit nee ipse forte dicere potuisset, cum in editione Stephanica tertia, ut et in ceteris omnino legatur aprvfaviTui, Hoc tamen ejus monitum quantumvis absurdum prorsus a Kustero sup- primi non decebat. (4) The following note is introduced to shew the minuteness of his critical discrimination. J. Epist. ad Corinth. C. xiii. v. 3. Ka tau 7roipx$o0 to cau9t)u<7x.o[At\>os. Vide Origenis in Jeremiam Homil. x. Editionis Huctianic, torn. i. p. 108. D. (6') My last specimen is taken from the ce- lebrated passage, 1 John v. 7- Tertullian being quoted in the notes, " Ca*- terum de meo sumet (Paracletus) sicut ipse do Patris, ita connexus Patris in Filio, et Eilii in Paracleto, trcs efticit coluerentes, alterum ex altero. Qui trcs Unum sunt, non inls, quo- modo dictum est, Ego et Pater unum sumus," &c. &c. Upon tliis De Missy remarks thus : Hie aliquid subolfacio. Videtur Tcrtullianua lectionem rejicere quurundam Co Jici.m in quibus cat, DE MISSY. 117 crat, et ires units sunt. Poterat nimirum haec lectio manasse ex Grascis xai o rpug us uviv. Supposita enim in quibusdam tali lectione cxte- rarum rationem dare poteris, vero admodum si- milem. Aliquis nempe, cui us displicebat (ob causas aTertulliano jam indicatas) ad oramlibri scripserit >, sive ex conjectura sive aliqua fre- tus auctoritate, Inde Lectio Consilii Latera- nensis 01 rptig ny the numbers, the beauty, and the value of its various publications of the Greek Classics, that the above anecdote, I am persuaded, will not excite from any of its living members ought but, a smile of good humour. PLINII SECUNDJ Epistolarum Libri vni. Editio Princcp*. 1471. THIS very curious, rare, and beautiful edition of Pliny's Epistles appeared without the name oi either place or printer. It contains, however, in the beginning, a sort pf description, in the form of an epistle dedicatory from one Lewis Carbo, addressed " Illustrissimo et excellentis- " simo Principi Borsio, Due; Mutimeac Regii.*' It does not exactly appear who this Carbo was, nor arc Bibliographers agreed where this fust edition of Pliny's Letters was printed. De Bure conjectures it was at Venice, because the same PLINIUS SECUNDUS. 121 game Carbo published at Venice, in 1471, an edition of Cicero's Orations. Speaking of this edition of Pliny, Maittaire says, Mihi probabile videtur hunc librum excu- sum fulsse a Christophero Valdarfer, in cujus typo^rapheo Ludovicus Carbo correctoris rau- nere fungebatur. It does not, however, seem consistent or pro- bable, that the Corrector of the Press should de- dicate or write the dedication of the book to an illustrious Prince. One of the peculiarities of this edition is, that all the Greek passages and quotations are omitted, and a blank left for them to be inscribed with a pen. At this early period, none of the printers had Greek types. A superb copy of this edition was purchased at the Valliere sale by Count Revickzky for 809 livres, and is now in the possession of Earl Spencer. There is one also in the Bodleian, and one in the Cracherode Library. TATJANI. 122 TATIANUS TATIANI Oratio ad Graxos, 8$c. Oxoti. 1700. IN the beautiful edition of this book, pub- lished by Worth, from the Clarendon Press, there is a Dissertation upon Tatian, which the editor says, was communicated to him by the learned Peter Allix, on the express condition, that the name of the author should not be disclosed. See the Monitum ad Lectorem, p. in. of the said Dissertation at the end of the volume. It now appears, that the author of the said Dissertation, which is very learned and profound, was the celebrated Louis du Four de Longuerue. See the Longueruana, u Part. p. 10.0. J'ai fait trois Dissertations Latines sur Tatien, Athenagore, et S. Justin. . e les donnai a M. Alix et la premiere a etc imprimee a Oxford en 1720 dans le Tatien en octavo. lis esperoient jmprimer les deux autres avec les Auteurs qui en font le sujet: mais la guerre vint et elles sont demeurees la. J'avois exig qu'on ne mettront mon nom a aucune des trois, et on m'a tenu parole sur celle qui est imprimee. There is an error of the press in the above extract. The edition of Tatian, to which it al- ludes, was not published in 1720, but in J 700. PANEGYRICI YETEHES. 1^3 PANEGYRICI YETERES, THE first edition of this book is of uncom- mon rarity. It bears no mark of time or place; but, from the description, it appears to have been printed by Franciscus Puteolanus ; and from the following passage in Saxius, Hist Typog. Me- diolan. p. l 237, it was probably at Milan, and jn the year 1482. Harum [Orat. Panegyr.] nitidissimum pri- mum exemplar, minio auroque conspersum, at- que in pergamena impressum servat Bibliotheca Ambrosiana, quod quamvis adnotatione tern- poris, quo excusum est, destituatur, assignandum tamen huic anno (1483) censui ex verbis ipsis Puteolani qui dieans illud Jacobo Antiquario Se- cretarjo Ducali ait, florentissimas hasce duode- cim Orationes editas a se fuisse in gratiam Johan- nis Galeatii Sfortias, nunc primum pubescentis, et ad eloquentiam erudiendi: Dux autem ilie Mediolanensis natus anno m.cccclxix hoc prorsus tempore pubertatem ingrediebatur. To this first edition of the Panegyrici Veteres are added, the Life of Agricola, by Tacitus, and for the first time, Petronius Arbiter. This enables me to correct an error of many ^bJiogr.aphers, whc-caff thp edition of Petronius, published 3 JC4 PANEGYRICI VETERES. published at Venice, in quarto, in 1499? the Editio Princeps. A copy of this Editio Princeps of the Pane- gyrici Veteres, sold at the Pinelli sale for fifteen shillings. It would at this time, probably, pro- duce as many guineas. With the copy of this rare book, preserved in the Crachcrode Collection, there is bound up, the edition of Dictys Cretensis, printed by Ma- sellus Venia, at Milan, in 1477- In the new edition of Ilarwood's Introduction to the Clas- sics, mention is made of an edition anterior to this. If there was any such, Masellus Venia had not seen it, and Saxius, in the book above quoted on the publications at Milan in the fif- teenth century, expressly says, speaking of Ma- sellus Venia : Attamen non ociosum atque inglorium in hac urbe moratum ostendit cura quam in edendis alienis operibus per plures annos suscepit. Si- quitlcm Ephemeridem Belli Trojani Dictys Cre- tensis hoc ipso anno (1477) primus in publicum protulit Mediolanensibus typis, dicavitque mag- niiico ct prasstantissimo viro D. Bartholomaco ( halco, Ducali Secrctario dignissimo. That Masellus Venia himself knew of no preceding edition, seems clear, from the com- plaint in the dedication of his book. Quod inter tot Scriptores posterioris aevi qui de Trojanorum clade meminere, solus Dictys Cretensis 9 TERENTIUS VARRO. tSS Cretensis, vir non minus disertus quam pru- dentissimus, et ad Trojanarum rerum cogni- tionem necessarius, negligeretur, &c. &c. Concerning this book, the reader may also nonsuit Panzer, vol. n. p. 30. TERENTIUS VARRO. BIBLIOGRAPHERS have been much per- plexed about the first edition of* this author, De 13ure calls the edition, printed at Venice, by John de Colonia and John Manthem de Gherretzen in 1474, the first, but he is evidently mistaken. I have no doubt but the copy preserved in the Cracherode Collection, without name of place or date, ex recognitione Pomponii LaHi, cum ejus Epistola ad Barthol. Platinam, is the first. Maittaire, indeed, speaks of this as the first edition, but he describes it as having the emen- dations of Platina, whereas it is only inscribed to Platina. His words are these : p. 307- Terentius Varro de lingua Latina ex emenda- tione Platynre, et Eutropius historiographus, &c. Maittaire appears to have given but a con- fused account of this book, for nothing is more certain m fEflEXTtUS VARRO. certain than that it received no corrections from Platimt. This edition is printed precisely in the same tvpe as that, in which George Lavcrus printed Eutropius, at Rome, in 1471, sine signaturis, nu- meris, custodibus ac registro. This may serve to determine the date of this book also. As Maittaire has said that this edition has re- ceived the emendations of Platina, and as the book itself is one of the scarcest in the world, it may he worth while to transcribe the Epistle Dedicatory. POMVOMUS PLATIXJ; SUO. M. Terentius Varro, togatorum Litera- tissimus inter innumerabilia volnmina ingenii sui, Vir Ilomanns, et qui solus Asinii Pollionis judicio vivens statuam in Bibliotheca Palatina meruit'. >xir. libros de lingua Eatina scripsit. In primis tribus de Ethimologfa ; in secundis tribus unde vocabula sint imposila in lingua Ea- tina et de Poetarum consuetudinc, a septimo ad flecimum'de analogia ; in postremis tribus dc copia vcrborum: quorum omnium etatc nostra sex corrupt! in manibus habentur. F.os monitu E/Ki.ii Vallkxsis magne et singularis doc- trine legi summa curaac diligentia. Vbi librarii littcras mutaverunt, correxi. In his que inscitia penitus cbrrupit now ausussum mnnmniinponere ue forte magis depravarem : addidi tamen in- diccm TEKENTIUS VA&RO. 127 dicera per ordinem litterarum, ut qui non nimis curiosi sint facilius inveniant. Tu qui castiga- tissime omnia inspicis, si laborem hunc laudaveris, habebunt mihi gratias qui legerint. Sin minus, calamo non parcas, quoniam ego et scio non tailor in hac fece hominum tanti te facio quanti M. Tulli, cui dedicavit hos libros seculo erudi- tissimo, fecit Varro. Vale. The above epistle is transcribed without the abbreviations, but with particular regard to the orthography, from which it appears that Maittaire cannot be justified in asserting that this edition had received the corrections of Platina. In the original there is an error of the press ; Primis is printed Pirmis. The former possessor of the Cracherode copy justly calls it " Editio Princeps rarissima et pre- tiosissima," and tells us that this edition, but in a very indifferent condition, sold at the aifction of Smith's books (the English Consul at Venice) for 121. 16s. The very imperfect copy in the Valliere sale, which is, doubtless, that described by De Bure, sold for 80 livres. A copy would probably at this time be worth 9.5\. In the epistle above quoted, Pomponius Ltetus is mistaken in supposing, that the number of books which Varro wrote de Lingua Latina was only twelve : the work consisted of double that number. Of 123 TERENTIUS VARRO. Of these, six only are now extant; namely, the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th. Pomponius Lretus is farther in an error, when he says that these books were dedicated to Cicero : for the truth is, that only three of them were in- scribed to him, namely, the 4th, 5th, and 6th. It is evident, from the beginning of the 4th book, that the three first were addressed to Septimius. Yarro says, Dc his tres ante /tunc feci, quos Sept im to mis:. Hence the first book of the first edition is, properly speaking, the fourth book; the second, the fifth ; and the third, the sixth. That which is called, in the first edition, Analogiac Liber Primus, is the seventh book. Liber Quintus is the eighth book. The beginning of the next book is, by an error of the press, in the first edition, not noticed by any title. The book begins, " In verborum declinationi- c ' bus," and is properly the ninth and the last of the books which are extant. The numbers in the Index of the first edition, refer to the pages of the book. Some farther particulars of this Pomponius JLaetus, as well as of Platina, may not be un- acceptable. Pomponius Lajtus wrote a Roman History, the first edition of which was published in 1500. To TllE>mtJS VARRO. 129 To this edition, and to lio other, the Life of the Author is prefixed, which contains many curious particulars. Platina wrote the Lives of the Popes. He was a disciple of the celebrated Laurentius Valla, and succeeded him in reputation. Both Pomponius Lsetus and his friend Platina were implicated in a charge of High Treason against the then reigning; Pope. Platina had the whole of his property confiscated. But he was so popular, and so exceedingly beloved, that the contributions of his friends more than com- pensated him for the losses he sustained. Of Lrelius Vallensis, bv whose advice Pom- ponius Lretus undertook the publication of Te- rentius Varro, I can find no account. I have been sometimes induced to believe, that the copyer of the manuscript may have mistaken Lelii for the abbreviation of Laurentii, as Lau- rentius Valla must necessarily have been inti- mate with Pomponius Lastus. The reader who wishes farther information con- cerning this curious and rare book, mav consult Smith's Catalogue. Bauer, V. 4. p. 233. Panzer, 2 V. p. 205. Maittaire. Gaignat, 1 P. p. 363. Rossi, p. 52. Of this book Lord Spencer possesses three * opies, and the Hunterian Museum three copies. k What 130 W I CLIFF. What I conceive to be the second edition in Hunter's Collection, begins to have the leaves numbered at the eleventh page, which distinction extends no farther than the forty-second page. In all other particulars, this copy coincides with that above described, in the Cracherode Col- lection. The Hunterian Collection possesses a copy more ancient, as I believe, than either the Cra- cherode or Earl Spencer's copies. This is of a more Gothic character, and ends thus : Finis ejus quod invenitur Marci Varronis. The Greek words are omitted, and spaces left to be filled up with the pen. The three editions may be thus distinguished : 1. Without date, printer's name, place, or sign of any kind. 2. Without date, but certainly about 147Q. 3. Was printed at Brixia, 1483. WfCLIFF. It is almost unnecessary to state, that this il- lustrious personage was the forerunner of Luther, in establishing the principles of the reformation, ur that, on tins account, he was so obnoxious to the.. WICLIFF. 131 the court of Rome, that he was the perpetual object of their implacable hatred and unremitted persecution. His publications were invariably sought after to be destroyed, and perhaps, of all rare books, that which is the subject of this article is among the most rare, on this account. A minute de- scription of it is given by De Bure, in his 628th article. The title is as follows : Joannis Wiclefi viri undequaque piissimi, Dia- logorum Libri iv. quorum primus Divinitatem et Ideas tractat: secundus Universarum creationem complectitur : tertius de Virtutibus vitiisque contrariis copiosissime loquitur : quartus Ro- manae Ecclesias Sacramenta ejus pestiferam do- tationem Antichristi regnum, fratrum fraudu- lentam originem, atque eorum hypocrisim varia que nostro asvo scitu dignissima graphice per stringit. Anno 1525, in 4 to. There is no name of place or printer, but De Bure thinks, from the resemblance of the type, that it was printed by Oporin, at Basil. The court of Rome seized and burned every copy that could be procured. Some have thought that there is another work of Wicliff, with the title of Trialogorum Libri i v. But this is not the case, and the mistake has arisen from there being three speakers in these dialogues, namely, Alethia or Truth, Pseudis or falshood, Phronesis or Prudence. x 2 The 132 Wl CLIFF. The hatred with which \Vicl iff was persecuted by the advocates of the court of Rome, did not terminate with his life. His body was dug up some years after his death, burned, and his aslles thrown into the river. A most beautiful copy of this book, which answers, in every particular, the description given by De Biire, is preserved in the Crache- rode Collection. In a book so remarkably curious and rare, the following short extract from the Prologus by the editor, may easily be excused. En mitissime ac christiane Lector is (WiclifTus) ipse est qui jamjam sole rclucente tenebras ac densissimas lucis iniinicas nebulas propulsantc, ab inferis solertissimi cujusdam typographi be- nefitio et opera non vulgari aclonginquis ad- scitus, inlucem reviviscens prodit, qui uttestantur monumenta noverit quid distent sera lupinis tamen adeo sterile ac infelix erat quo vixit sa> culum ut eo quo decet nitore licet pie non potuit aut si potuit minus sure actati licuit ccelcstes sibi datas opes exactius Posteritati demandare. Again, speaking of Wicliff's body being dug tip and burned, he observes : Decretum enim Libri authorem Johannenl VViclefum qui jam diu vita? sua 1 temporariic pensum absolvisset ac sepultuni rursus effodi ac ejus ossa cremari statutum est. () CiecitaUm O Vindictam insignem qui ut in humanis ita in 4 unibiis JAMES I. 133 urabris placidjssimis cum Cbristo quiescens ma- gistri nempe Christi Domini sui testis evasit. His paucis Christiane Lector Vale et Typographi operam boni consule. JAMES I. THE examples of the Double Acrostic are not very common; they certainly must have cost the composers no small degree of labour and trouble. In a Presentation Copy of Verses to James the First and his Queen, Anne of Denmark, by Michael JHuass, a noble Dane, printed at Paris, is the following, which may serve as a sjpecimen of this sort of composition. Reg no rum f-lqrent1ssijviorum A>'-gu^, ScoTi#, Francis et JIibernij*, Jacobtfcs Rex, Anna Regina }vonne .JFselicjsisiinp tefiore,, F&ma Ilegja, Rritaiinaicas Jkari jEwi Uabenas, Longum Curet Rex Regina ? K 3 I-flgeaa 134 JAMES J. I-ngens pererrat, tutus aequor Navit-A A-urora lapsum, nee sequens Act Hespero-N . C-ur ? nonne fjelicissimo rati tame-N O-mnes tenore jlvi, atque fama Regi-A B-ritannicas longum, Britanniae Juba-R V-tcrque Rex Regina curet impigr-E S-urgens Ha ben as ? Impii terror Mago-G R-uctantis et Neptunus augustus Sal-I E-n Septicollis, ceu Pelasgus Ilio-N X-erxis cremet Tarpaeia fato Culmin-A In the original, from which the above is taken, the Acrostics are inserted in two open columns, with a crown as a capital to each, and the capital letters are variously illuminated with gold and different colours. The writer of the following letter to this same Monarch would not easily have believed, that the Prince his son would afterwards be expelled from his dominions, for his extravagant attach- ment to that same Babylonish strumpet, on a deliverance from which he thus congratulates the father. The letter is in manuscript, and prefixed to some congratulatory verses addressed to James, and printed in London, in \6\C). Serenissime et Laudatissime Rex Mundi hujus Ocelle clarissime. QUOTIES varias Vari illius Romani Scortiq. Babylonici machinationes, in te JAMES I. 13* is unctum Domini, tarn horrendis tamq. dolen- dis modis et modis non semel attetitatas, fixius penitiusq. mecum repeto : toties, crede mini Totus et obstupeo: Totus ct obrigeo 11EGI HEGUM, (in cujus manibus sortes nostra? fixas stant, hrcrentque) eas quas intime pectoris naei thalami concipere possunt, agens gratias, quod te Literarum Sydus, etjubar, aProgenie illaVipera- rum, Locustarumq. ubiq. irrumpentium ictibus vi- rulentissimis Sospitein hujusqiic ct sine noxa inco- lumem conservare dignatus sit. Cumq. ex Divo Augustino instructus sciam piorum ayuvxTtvpix ad Deum fusa nunquam fuisse irrita, nee gemitus bonorum qui ilium pungunt lacrumas fidelium, quse ilium ungunt esse vanas vel frustraneas : precibus meis toties reiteratis coram ccelica Ma- jestate insto, ut te Communem Literatorum Pa- trem ac Patronum et subditis tuis paternis et nobis Exteris, qui Virtutum tuarum per Germaniam, Hungariain, Bohemiam, Moraviam, Silesiam, re- gionesq. longo ordine subsequentes, sumus admi- ratores ad Ecclesiae et Reipubl. literariie magnum incrementum clementer respiciat benigneq. tu- eatur. Interim ut observantiam meam humilem et erga te non longe dissita regna jampridem con- ceptam ac circumportatam publice testatam faciam: en Augustissime Monarcha chartaceum hoc gratumq. animi mei grati Ttxpnpiov, quod pe- regrinus ego partim a Turcica in Hungaria, Ty- k 4 rannide 136 JAMES I. rannide omni alio inedio exhaustus, partim a Styrensi ilia persecutione in vera veri Evangelii membra totics continuata, cxacerbatus, studii mei in te sobolemq. tuam ad optima quasq. prognatam devotissimi arrham esse volui. Quod si ter- sissimo R. T. M. tis. Genio et ingenio non omnino ingratum fuisse sensero, ct beatum me coram aliis pnedicavero, et clementem R.T. M. tis adfectum *>? cuuvuq condignis laudum prgeco^ niis ad coeluni us.* evehere audivero. His Rex inclute, Vive, vale, flore, per secula longa superstes Si dignus vatem dilige quaeso tuum Serenissima? M. tis Tua? Obsequentissimus, Fradelius. The following example of the double Acrostic is taken from Alexander Neville's Lacrymse Aca- demic Cantabrigiensis tumulo nobilissimi Equitis D. Philippi Sidneii sacratae ; a very curious and exceedingly rare tract. PH-armaca mens spernens mediis stans dira truraplii-S T-njicit in pectus Sidneii tela Philipp-I L-ongius ergo fugis saccos O Anglia ? numqui-D I-n cineres differs tua gaudia vertere ? nemo-N P-loratum lugetComitcm ? cui nulla tuler-E P-ace, fule(|uc parcm, pcrmagni sxcula muud-I V-i superans, virtuto valcns sui bclliger ict-V S-tcrnitur aitra pet ens leiiibus Sidncius ali-S G. Fairfax. ELEG'DM, ELEGIDIA, 137 ELEGIDIA ET POEMATIA EPIDICTICA. Una cum ad V'vcum expressisPersonarumiconibus, Impressu Upsaine, 16'Jl. THIS little volume, which is probably unique, contains a collection of very elegant Verses, de- scriptive of the several persons who then (1-631) made a distinguished figure in Europe. Such, for example, as Ferdinand II., Emperor of the Romans; Frederic, Count Palatine; Christian, Duke of Brunswick ; Ernest, Count Mansfeld ; Sir Horace Vere, our countryman ; James the first, of England, &c. &c. The portraits of all these personages, some of which are remarkably well engraved, are an- nexed. I select, as a pleasing specimen of the versi-* fication, the following verses, in which Europe is supposed to speak of her own distressed and agitated situation, and the resemblance which the description bears to the present condition of this quarter of the globe, is much too striking to escape the reader's observation, furqpa. 138 ELEGIDIA. EUROPA. Jupiter assumta fallacis imagine tauri Me rapuit, quondam tactus amore mei. Impositam dorso per vitrea marmora vcxit, In molli salvam deposuitq. toro ; Mox ubi se confessus erat, vultusque priores Sumpsit gaudebam succabuisse Deo. Me quoque blanditiis multoque affecit honore, Utque suam dominam, mollis amavit amans, Nunc iterum rapior, sed vi, scd sanguine volvcns Invita exosos cogor inire toros : Qui rapit, hesperio prodit de cardinc monstrutn Saavitia me, non motus amore rapit. Humanos vultus, mentem nee induit unquam Sed diri mores cum feritate manent. Non nisi conscendit fecdatus sanguine lectum, Nil nisi quam spirat, pralia, bella, ncces ; Non mihi blanditias, non ullos reddit amores, Et torquct Venerem, caede, furore, minis. Me quoque servili vinclorum compede vinctam, Ut vilem servam mancipiumque tenet. Sic fuit Andromede famulis religata cathenis, Sic fuit ad duram brachia vincta petram. Ast illam potuit Porscus exsolvere vinclis, Sed me, bis miscram, solvere nemo potest. The following lines are descriptive of Sir Horace Vere, who commanded in the Nether- lands, in the service of the States : no rati us ELEGIDIA. 139 HORATIUS VEHR ANGLUS Dux Copiarum Britannkarum in Palatinatu* Me Rex Jacobus parvo cum militc misit, Subsidio genero, constituitque ducem; Moxque Palatinas jussit defendere terras, Sed nee vires, nee tela, nee anna dedit. Non potui durare diu, scd cedere campo Me major vis et dura coegit hyems. Quts cum majori decertet viribus impar? Est Virtus fato cedere consilio. The Sir Horace Vere abovementioned, was brother to the celebrated Sir Francis Vere, whose Commentaries, written by himself, are among our scarcest books in English literature. There is a print of Sir Horace Vere in the Com- mentaries of Sir Francis, which has a strong re- semblance to that which appears in the volume, from which the above extracts are taken. Above the head is the motto of the family: " Vero " nihil Verius." This Sir Horace Vere was afterwards created Baron of Tilbury. PASQUIL- ,140 rASQUILLOUUWr. PASQUILLORUM TOMI DUO. Quorum Primo versibus ac rhythmis, altero so- lata Oratione conscript a. quamplur'ima conti- nentur, ad exhilarandum, confirmandumque hoc ptrturbatissimo rerum statu pii lectoris animum, apprime conducentia. Ekutheropoli mdxliiii. I HAVE transcribed the whole title of this most curious book, on account of its extreme rarity. The following account of it was written by the learned Dr. Maty, formerly of the British Museum. COLLKCTIO hrec rarissima, Basilea?, apud S. Oporinum, a Coelio Secundo Carione, utcreditur, fuitedita. Constatcarminibus fiutyricis libellisque famosis contra Papas Roma- namque curiam variis locis conscriptis. Plures in Italia ipsa lucem primam viderunt, alii Cier- manum EquitemUlrichum Huttcnum, acerrimum Papistical causa? inimicum Lutherique vindicem, auctorem habuerunt. Inter illos Dialogus, qui tlicitur Julius exclusus et Erasmo fuit tributus, primus PASQtnLLORUM. HI primas meretur. Non mirum ergo hunc librum a Pontificiis fuisse conquisitum peneque de- structum. Saltern hoc credebat Daniel Heinsius, qui, quum' Veneris esset anno, exemplar Pas- quillorum ingenti praetio sibi comparavit. In capite hujus exemplaris, quod deinde in Hohen- dorfianam Bibliothecam transivit, hos versus, ut testimonium summas raritatis operis, manu sua adscripsisse fertur ; Roma, racos patrcs igni dcdit, Ulrica Phoenix Vivo, aureisque veneo centum Heinsio. In hoc tamen fuit bonus vir deceptus ; super- sunt enim plura ejusdem libri exernplaj'ia in variis Bibliothecis publicis, nee raro in auctioni- bus Germaniae invenitur, licet semper satis caro vendatur, et ob intrinsicum valorem opusculum a bibliophilis avide exquiratur. Qui plura de illo libro scire cupiunt, consulant Salens re in Mem. de Lit. T. u. p. 203232. Vogt. Cat. libr. rar. Hamb. 1738, et praesertim, Clement Bibl. sub nomine Curionis. Notoa scriptaj quae in nostro exeinplari inveniuntur nee frequentes, nee antiquae, nee magni pretii videntur. Nov. 20, 1758. M. Maty. One or two specimens from this very rar book will require no apologv. De 142 PASQUILLORUM. Dc indulgcntiis Julii Fraudc capit totum mcrcator Julius orbem, Vcndit onim coelos, non habet ipse, tamcn. Vendc mihi quod habcs, nam quo pudor, ut mihi vendas, Ipsum tc Juli cujus cgere vides. Quin fera centimauos emittat terra Gigantos, Julius cxpulso vendat ut astra Jove. Donee enim cudos alius regit, et tonat inde, Non ego tain magni muneris emptor ero. In Leonem x. Ac. San. Sumere maternis titulos cum posset ab ursis Cajculus hie noster, maluit esse Leo. Quid tibi cum magno commune est talpa lcone? Non cadit in tuvpes nobilis ira feras. Ipse licet cupias animos simulare leonis : Non lupus hoc genitor, non sinit Ursa parens Ergo aliud tibi prorsus habendum est Ca?cule nomen. Nam cuncta ut possis, non potes esse Leo. De Rome Petut.antia. Marti olim complcxa Venus poscebat amantciw Munus, quo nullum ma jus in orbe foret. Ille Stygcm jurat, danti quodcunque diUurum, Et llomam tota cum ditione dedit. Martia Roma prius tin rat, Citliereia nunc est, Cesserunt Aquilae, signaque Passer habct. Roma caput scelerum, nivei jactura pudoris, Lxitium fidei, luxuriasque parens. Sola Venus dispensat opes, dispensat honores, Si>!;i tacit, serva quicquid in uibe'libet. Extollit, magnosque facit sapentia turpis : Sit procul, in tenero cui sedet ore decor. Tartara sunt molli polius ;ul- u da juventaa; Si non est alius, sit tibi ba f ^a COtocs-. The PASQUILLORUM. 143 The following is taken from the Epigrams of Andreas Marianus, " Ruinarum Roma?," lib. 2. Me ego Pasquillus, fama notissimus Orbi, Sto lacer et laceris vatibus exitium ; Et quamvis videar formam variando quotannls Ridiculum pueris, et sine mente caput, Officium Censoris ago, morumque raagister Credor inurbanis ritibus excidium. O curvae in terris animal, quid nova paratis Vulnera, si tantum noxia lingua mihi est? Quid vates ulterius? saltern si Roma revulsit Brachia ne pugnem, crura det ut fugiam. Upon this book Vogt has the following not* in his Catalogus Librorum Rariorum. Nuper etiam pro xxv nummis aureis Hun- garicis coemptus fuit, teste Sam. Engel in Cata- logo librorum rar. p. 122. For the particulars, the reader may consult Maittaire Annal. Typog, T. 3. p. 217. MI IDAS 144 SUIDAS. SUIDAS. DIALOG UM HUNC, A C/ETERIS ED1TI0NIBI> OMISbUM, HABET MEDIOLANENSIS, ANN I 1499. dcxkoyoq gz^avov tov \izkccvoq. Bi. Gci/p* 9i (ptXopia9ir, e! rr,s l}J>.rrjix.r,s Ipxs r r Jy^x tyoiMr,s. (pjX. ri Ttoiriiuv. fiTre (j.01 o^ix rzy^vs. ov yxp y. r Ji aytikvi sartv. /3. SeaTO/XcVor rotyxpovv rauTr,v rr,v /2/CXov. r%v vscosl cLoiti^ o^EJj tztvtiou y.i-jr,'j xa! /AcTc'zrEjra a.'vriVoij.E- of. woXXopix,o7s xxi Xoyoypx^iois outqj 16/rx.oXoy xai ffxoTsivov, 'fiirep ovx. iuy^ipts xai ox$ts 7^oi;T. ef/j.r,)icUci yxp cos tXcTVo: xai y\2T ( si/>t.a;TaTa. iX. oux oln^iy. us fptoi JoxsT to Ttavrxy/i TcGs^XXr/piEvov. 5 9ToXXk XaXav TroXXaxat a^aXXsTai. (3i. oida TTa/r yap ov. aX '/;xis"a yi tcD coviox "EokutywAct Iviyjrxi T75 Trxpoifxtx. tov yap TrepiTToXXo/v y.xi oixtpipcuv Xiyovrx TroXXa xai XE'yetv avayxaibv. xai Svi xai aovi&as Trapt- ttoXXz avvTEptav oXi'yoif TcfiEtXy/tpE* xai to tv (/.eXtaauv (jlxXistcz sfjn(jLri9n. acTTcp yxp exH>a Ep' aVavTa /xtv Ta /3Xa47. Count Revickzky had another copy with the same ad* ditional pieces : it is now in the possession af Lord Spencer. f Ilias, Gr. 4to. Paris ap. Guil. Morelium. 156*2. et Odyssea, Gr. 4to. Lutet apud Viduam Guil. l Morelii, 146 EDITIONS of the CLASSICS. Morelii, 1566. This is a very beautiful and rare edition. Uatrachomyomachia, Gr. Lat. absque ulla nota, Sasc. xv. 4to. Editio Princeps. See the Bibliotheca M. Pinelli'i, t. 2. p. 281. This was purchased at the Pinelli sale, together with the edition of 1486, by Count Revickzky, for 27l. 16s. 6d. and is now in the library of- Lord Spencer. HESIOD. Opera et Dies Gr. Lat. I. Spondanus recensuit et Commentariis illustravit, 12mo. Rupelhe ap. Hieronym. Ilaulten. 1592. iESOP. Fabulie Electiores Gr. et Lat. 4to. Rcgii per Dionysium ]3artochum, 14.97- Gr. et Lat. 4to. Basil, per Joann. Hcrvagium. J544. PIXDAR. Opera Gr. Svo. et Lat. per N. Sudorium, Svo, Paris. A. Morel. l6<23. ANACREOX. ' "Greece cum Scholiis Gracis Joan. Armandi fiuthillcrii Abbatis, I'imo. Paris. Jac. Dugart, 1639. - A. Josepho EDITIONS of#the CLASSICS;. Uf A Josepho Spallatti, qui Vaticanas Membra- lias aeri insculptas Roiriae vulgavit. A. 1781. Fol. A.'R. F. P. JBrunck. Gr. 12 mo. Argent. 17S6\ Editio Secunda emendatior. Grace Literis majusculis 4to. Parrnae ex Re- gio Typograplieo. 1785. SOPHOCLES. Tragoedias cum Scholiis. recensuit, versione et tiotis illustravit, deperditarum Fragmenta collegit II. F. P. Brunck 4to. Argent. 1786. Toll. 2. ARISTOPHANES. Editio Aldina priores novem tantum fabulas continet. Decimam Lysistraten in Epistola ad Dan. Clarium praetermisisse se ait Aldus, quia vix dimidiatam habere earn potuit. Thesmoph. in ejus notitiam non venere. Comoediae ix. Gr. Florent. Junta, 1515. Ed. 2da. Eodem Anno, iisetem typis, eademque forma excusas fuerunt primum cura ejusdem Bern-. Juntas Thesmophoriazusas et Lysistrata ex an- tiquissimo codice Urbinatis Bibliothecas. Paris, Gr. 1540, apud Chr. Wechelum, 4to. Singular undecim comoediae separating excusae. , 1542 Apud Joann. Farreum. 1584 Typis Petri Brubachii. A Rich. F. Phil. Brunck, Gr. Lat. Argent 1783. 4to. 4 Vol}. L % ISOC RATES. 146 EDITIONS 6t tfri CLASSICS. ISOCRATES. Gr. Lat edidit Athanasius Auger, 4to. Paris. Didot, 1782. 3 Voll. THEOPHRASTUS. De Lapidibus, Gr. 4to. Lutet. Fred. Morel, 1577. Et Lat. ab Ad. Turnebo, 4to. ex omcina cjusdem F. Morel, 1578. Characterum Ethicorum Theophrasti Capita duo hactenus anecdota ex Cod. Vatican. Gra?ce edidit, Latine vertit, prasfatione et annotationibus illustravit J. Christoph. ArnaduUus, 4to. Parmac ex Regio Typographeo, 1786. APOLEOXIUS HHODIUS. Gra?ce cum variis le&ionibus et notis 11, F. P. Brunck, 4to. Argent. 1780. APOLLODORUS. Gr. cum Fragmentis Apollodori et notis Chr. G. Heyne, 12mo. Goettingre, 1782. 4 Volk EPICTETUS. Enchiridion, Gr. Latinis versibus adumbnv tuin per Ed. I vie, 8vo. Oxon. 1715. APPIAN. A Carolo Stcphano. Pari?, 1551. Ab Henrico Steplmno. Paris. 15^2, Gr EDITIONS of the CLASSICS. 149 Gr. & Lat. Adnotationibus variorum suisque illustravit Johannes Sehweighceuser, 8vo. Lipsise, 1785. Voll. 3. JELIAN. Varia Historia cum notis varjorum curante Carolo Gottlob Krehn, Gr. 8vo. <2 Vol. Lipsia?, 1780. De Animalibus, Gr. et Lat. cum notis Jo. Gottleb Schreider, 8vo. Lipsire, 1784. STOBtEUS. Gr. 4to. edente Viclore Trincarello, typis Bart. Zanetti. Venet. 1536. APULEIUS. Metamorphoseon Libri xr. cum notis vario- rum et Franc. Oudendorpii et praefatione David. Ruhnkenii, 4to. Lugd. Bat. 1786". PAULUS OROSIUS. Augustas, per Johannem Schuzzler, Anno Do- mini, 147 1. The reader will not be displeased to know that the Cracherode Collection possesses all the above editions. CANTICA 160 CANTICA CANTICORTOf. CANTICA CANTICORUM. Cantka Canticorum, sire Historic?, rel Proci- dentia Beatce Virginis Maria 3 <\r Can'tico Canticorum. Sine, anno, loco et typog. in Folio. Catalogue des Litres de M. Crevenna y No. 177- THIS is one of four very curious and rare publications, which have occasioned some con- troversy concerning the invention of the Art of Printing; and a doubt has been entertained by many, whether they should be called Books, or Books of Prints. The three others, as described by Ileineken, in, his Idee Generate d'une Collection complette d'Estampes, are these which follow : 1. Historian Veteriset Novi Testainenti, usually called the Biblia Pauperum. This is certainly a very great typographical curiosity, and consists of forty leaves, which \\- -present the principal historical subjects in the VJJiblc, coarsely cut in wood. It is, with the others which I shall describe, attributed to Laurence Coster, of Haarlem, between the years 1440 and 1450. Sentences are interspersed in scrolls, pomctirues above and sometimes below, as coin* ing from the mouths of the speakers, C ANTIC A CAKTICORUM. 151 ' This was certainly executed before the in- vention of moveable types. For more particular descriptions of this rare performance, the reader may consult u De Bure, No. 115. Gaignat, No. 113. Heineken, p. 292. Valliere, No. 121. Panzer, V. 4. p. 97- Meerman's Origines Typograph. The Royal Library possesses the copy which was Gaignat's. It was purchased ^at his sale for about 830 livres. The Valliere copy sold for 780 livres, and wag purchased for the late unfortunate Sovereign of France. This however was imperfect. The copy in the Bibliotheca Parisiana, which was sold in 1791, was purchased by Mr. Wilier for 511. . The above publication is often confounded with the Speculum humanae Salvationis, but they are perfectly distinct. See Heineken, p. 292, and De Bure, No. 117. p. 127. Mr. Rogers, jnhis letter to Mr. Astle, has been guilty of this error. His expression is Speculum Salutis or La Bible des Pauvres. I may here bej allowed to correct an error, into which JUr. Astle himself has fallen. In p. }9Q of his first edition he says, That the Romans deposited their most valuable, works in cases or chests made. P.f cedar. But; M thi% 152 CANTICA CANTICORUM. this no where appears. They rubbed then>wit'i oil of cedar; and the very quotations, which he introduces to prove his position, mean this and no more : Speramus carmina fmgi Poss<: Uncnda cedro. Horace. Ccdro nunc licet ambulcs per unci us. A specimen of the sort of Scrinium, in which they actually deposited these things, may be seen in Maffei, No. 131. The statue there repre- sented, is undoubtedly that of Trajan. 2. Historia Sancta Johannis Evangelittae ejus- que Visiones Apocalyptica?. There is also a copy of this in the Royal Li- brary, but it is the fifth edition, and wants the S6th and 37th plates. One of the blocks, from which this typogra- phical specimen was printed, was in the pos- session of the late Mr. Astle. It was given by him to Lord Spencer. See his Book on the Origin and Progress of Writing, first edition, p. 215. The reader will find it particularly described in De Bure, No. 116\ Gaignat, No. 1 15. Maittaire, V. 1. p. 17 and 18. lleineken, p. 334. Crevenna, P. 1. p. 31. Meerman, CANTICA CANTICOPOJM. 153 Meerman, V. 1. p. 234. Panzer, V. 4. p. 141. . Gaignat's copy was purchased for 400 livres. There was a copy in the Valliere Library, which also was purchased for the King of France, for 799 livres. 3. Historia scu Providentia Virginis Maria? ex Cantico Canticorum. This is the work announced in the commence- ment of this article, and is preserved in the Cracherode Collection. It consists of sixteen plates, printed only on one side, but each plate represents two distinct subjects. Scrolls, consisting of passages from Solomon's Song, are interspersed in all. This performance has more of the Gothic cha- racter, than the two which precede. The figures, as Heineken observes, very much resemble the sculptures in churches. This is perhaps the scarcest of them all. I know of no other than the Cracherode copy, and that which is in the Bodleian at Oxford. 4. Historia Beataj Marias Virginis, ex Evan- gelistis et Patribus excerpta, et per figuras de- monstrata. There is no copy of this work, that I know of, in this country. Heineken mentions one in the cabinet of Mr. Girardot de Prefond, at Paris. It is described by Gaignat, in his first volume,- No. 119, p. 36, 37. It sold for 3,52 livres. This }54 CANTICA CANTICORUM. This commences with the following sentence from Saint Gregory. Ausculta o amator beatissime dei genetricis : mira et stupeda a miidi philosophis concessa, et admirare virginem concepisse a Spiritu Sancto : atque immaculatam illorum insaniam parvipensa qui hoc negent de potencia dei immensa qd concedere non veretur de avium et aliorum ani- malium communi natura qualiter Iter apes sine patribus: fetus matrum corporibus tantumodo crescunt. Of these four productions, the Royal Library and the Hunterian Museum possess the first and the second. The third is in the Cracherode Collection. Lord Spencer has also a copy of the second and of the third. In the same library is also preserved a copy of the Ars Moriendi, mentioned by Heineken as a mere modern publication. This has fifteen plates, which are coloured, and appear to be so, with oil-colour. Instead of scrolls from the mouths of the personages represented, there arc whole pages, but evidently cut on blocks, and not with moveable types. This letter press, if it may so be denominated, is in Latin. In the same library there is also another pub- lication, executed in the same form, but which I do not find mentioned by any of the Biblio- graphers. This may be called Signa extremi Judicii C ANTIC A CANTICORUM. \55 Judicii. It consists of fifteen plates, with scrolls in German. The following is copied from the Apocalypse in Hunter's Museum, and from the Doctor's own hand writing. The most particular account of the work, which I have seen, is in p. 334, &c. by the anonymous author of the Idee Generate (Tune Collection com- plete d'Estampes avec une Dissertation sur l'Ori- gine de la Gravure, et sur les premiers Livres dTmages. a Leipsic et Vienne, chez Paul Kraus, 1771. 8vo. He supports his opinion with strong arguments, that card stamping gave birth to printing. In the 15th Century, card-making employed a num- ber of hands, not only in Venice, but in Ger- many, where they were made for exportation. From cutting on wood, and stamping cards, they proceeded to images, plain and coloured, and thence to Bible histories, such as this, which he believes to be a German, not a Haarlem wofL Printing in metal types produced first the fine Bible, from 1450 to 1452, and the Pope's Letters of Indulgence in 1454, by Fust and'Guttenburg; in 1457, the Psalter, by Fust and Schoefter, with wooden capitals. The Biblia Pauperum, which is in Hunter's Museum, is very imperfect, and wants several plates. This copy is not coloured. I am 156 FICHETUS. I am informed that the most perfect collection of these rare specimens of Typography is in the possession of Lord Pembroke. Palmer, in his History of Printing, is obvi- ously mistaken. He makes no mention of the rarest, which I believe to be the Historia Virginis ex Cantico Canticorum; nor of the Historia Vir- ginis ex Evangeliis. The Biblia Pauperum he ranks as the third in order, and the Ars Mo- riendi, the first. He decidedly pronounces that they are not of Coster's execution, but gives the credit to Guttenberg. FICHETUS. Gullelmi Ficheti Artium et Theologies Doctoris Rhetoricorum Libri m. acceclit ejusdem Fi- cheti Panegyricus Rob. Gagaino rersibus Compositus. In Parisiorum Sorbonti, per Ulricum Gering Martinum Crantz et Miclu Friburger Ann. 1471 in 4to. THIS is a book of extraordinary rarity, and very much sought after by the curious. It is generally considered as the first book which was printed FtCHETUS, 157 printed at the Sorbonne, in Paris, by Ulric Gering and his associates. The book is minutely described by M. Che- villier, in his Dissertation sur lTmprimerie de Paris, and by De Bure, No. 2335. In this book blank leaves were left in the beginning, for the purpose of inscribing different dedications to different individuals. The superb copy on vellum, in the Cracherode Collection, has four printed leaves, containing a dedication to Pope Sextus iv. The dedication commences thus : Sanctissimo Patri Sexto Quarto Pontifici Max- imo Guillermus Fichetus Minimus Theolosorum p Parisiensium doctorum devota Pedum Oscula. It then proceeds : Ante omnia petenti mini dabis veniam Pater Sancte si neque munusculo, neque sermone novo pontifice digno tecum again. Non enim quas tua Sanctitas semper abjecit opes ab inope, neque qua manas Latinam Eloquentiam ab eo qui Latium nunquam vidit expectes. Expcctes vero quos duces ad Petri locum habuisti, fidem, be- nevolentiam, amorem, observantiamque teretem ut sic dicam atque rotundam. The conclusion is this : Vale Spes reliqua Christianitatis iEdibus' Sorbonas Parish Scriptum pridie Kalendas Sep- tembris Anno uno et Septuagesimo quadringen- tesimoque supra MiU'esimum, 147 U The A 158 BEMBUS DE JETNA. The Cracherode copy is adorned with a beautiful illuminated Title page, representing the author, Fichetus, presenting his book to Pope Sextus iv. The initials throughout are also richly illuminated. This copy was sold at M. D. Limare's sale, for 1151 livres, equal to 4/1. 19s. At the Pa- risian sale it was purchased by Mr. Cracherode, for 311. 10s. At the end are some complimentary verses from Robert Gaguinus, addressed to Fichetus, which end thus : Gaude igitur Doctor habiturus nomen in aevum Gaguinumque magis usque benignus ama. Yale, Fclixque vive< BEMBUS DE jETNA. Bembi Petri Liber de JEtna. Venetiis Alduii 1495. THIS is one of the scarcest of the Aldine books, and indeed of all printed books. It is one of the five which Aldus published in 1495, and is of extraordinary beauty. It is also me- morable BEMBUS DE JETNA. 15 ftiorable as being the first Latin book printed at the Aldus press. The subject of it is a dialogue between Peter Bembus and his father Bernard Bembus, within a few days after their return from Sicily, on the conflagrations of iEtna. Peter Bembus represents, that he wrote this book to satisfy the curiosity of those, who after his return from Sicily, knowing that he had made it a particular object of his attention, were constantly making enquiries of him concerning iEtna. No mention is made of this wor] in any Life which I have seen of Peter Bembus, or, as he is called generally, Peter Bembo. I am rather surprized that the compilers of the last edition of the Dictionnaire Ilistorique have been guilty of this omission. This tract of Bembus is added to the fragments of P. Cornelius Severus, pub- lished at Amsterdam, cum notis Variorum, by David Mortier, in 1715. The reader who wishes for further particulars concerning this rare book, may consult Smith. Maittaire, 1 p. 595. Pinelli, 2 p. No. 3267. Panzer, 3 V. p. 378. Crevenna, 4 p. 250, There was a copy in the Pinelli Library, which sold for seven pounds. The Museum duplicate produced ten guineas and a half. From !60- BEMBUS DE JETNA. From a book sO exceedingly rare, a short ex* tract cannot fail of being acceptable. B. P. Sed quis inhabitat Deus ? B. F. Fauni esse fontem ilium dicunt. B. P. Fabellam te video inchoare : sed quoniam in Faunum inci- tlimus, sequerc: detineri enim me ab illo facile patior; cum quo te scio libenter etiam carmini- bus ludere interdum solcrc. Isiud autem qui sciunt? an ita fortasse conjectantur ? B. F. Videre se aiunt pastores ipsum Dcum passim errantem per sylvas, et pascua ; turn etiam sc- 'dentem sub illis -arboribus coronatum pinu, et tacentem saspius, interdum tamen etiam fistula solantem amores. Sed continebo potius me hie, pater, levia enim ista sunt ; et mihi loqui tecum, nisi reverenter, non licet : quanquam quidem ; si pergefem ; faceremus ipsi in-hac re; quod facere etiam rcges in ceenis solent: qui quidem inter apros, et pavones; quibus habundant quo- tidie; interdum tamen et allium poscunt, et betas. Neque sane animus noster vacare semper rebus severioribus potest; neque si vacet; tamen ex illis tarn plenam capit jocunditatem ; quam si <;a ipsa remitteret interdum, et mox non longo intervallo intermissa revocaret. Ita nos quidem nunc gravia ilia philosophia 3 - studia ; quibus quidem certe id omne tempus soles, quod tibi per rempubli. licet impertire ; melius etiam fa- bellis istis levioribus condicemus : et quidem licet maxime vcl in Noniano fabulari. B. P-, Sank BEMBUS DE .ETNA. 161 Sank quidem licet; dum illud tamen, semper teneatur ; tit cerato remige Sirenas, quod aiunt. Et profecto poeta ille sapientissimus nunquam Ulissi concessisset, quern prudentissimum semper facit; ut Sirenarum cantus audiret; nisi liceret etiam gravibus, et sapientibus viris; quorum tamen in numero me non pono; minus seriis adesse interdum rebus, et lusus captare non adeo severos; modo ne remiges audiant; hoc est, ne sensus pateant voluptatibus ; quibus et demulcentur ipsi semper; et nisi ratione occlusi sint, saepe etiam facillime capiuntur : quod tibi esse faciundum in vita maxime semper censeo Bembe fili : nam nisi te ita informaris, ut volup- tatum illecebris animum impervium geras; non possum dicere, quain multae tibi occurrent species earum ; qua? te non adolescentem modo (ut es nunc) demulcere possint, et delinire, ac etiam debellare, et devincere ; sed plane etiam virum. Itaque illis aut magnanimiter imperan- dum est ; quod fecerunt viri omnes magni, et boni, et ii, quos propterea deos etiam appellavere; vel omnino turpiter deserviendum, in quo qui- dem tu (si me audies) non committes; ut re- jecta continentia, atque ipso amore virtutis ex illorum sis grege, de quibus prEeclare Oratius, Nos numorus sumus, ct frugcs consumere nati, Sponsi Penelopes, nebulones, Antinoique In cute curanda plus aiquo operata juventus ; Quis pulehrum fuit in medios dormire dies, et Ad strepitum cithavse ctssantum ducerc curaui. M Sed 162 DR. BIRCH. Sed quoniam jam advesperascit, procedamus in atrium : nugae autem pastorales istce tuse sub umbris sunt potius, et inter arbores, quam intra penates recensendas. Qua? cum dixisset, et jam in atrium pervenissemus, ego finem lo- quendi feci : ille cogitabundus in bibliothecam perrexit. IiUPRESSUM VeNETIIS IN Aedjbus AldI Ro- man i Mense Fe- bruario An- no. M. .VD. DR. B I R C II. IN his Life of Henry, Prince of Wales, eldest Son of James I. Dr. Birch has inserted the fol- lowing account of the commencement and pro- gress of his work, which to individuals engaged in similar pursuits, will communicate a certain degree of interest. Tho. Birch, 24 January, 1760. " This book was begun to be compiled on Monday, January 1, l?op, and the iirst draught 7 finished DR. BIRCH. 163 finished on Monday the 29th of that month. It was revised in February and March following, and occasionally improved till it was committed to the press in September, the same year : the first proof sheet being corrected by me, on Friday the 2 1 st of that month, and the last sheet printed off on Wednesday, January 23d, 1760. On Thursday, January 31, it was presented to the Prince of Wales, at his Levee in Saville House, the Earl of Bute introducing me to His Royal Highness. " Friday, Feb. 8, the book was published. " It has been reprinted in Dublin, by George Faulkner, whose edition was published on Tues- day, April 15, 1760." By this circumstantial detail we learn, thai the author was one month in writing his book; he was occupied two months in revising it; but that he employed the interval between March and September to put the finishing hand to his labours. It was three entire months in passing through the press, which, as it consists of about thirty-five sheets, was in the proportion of three sheets a week. All this appears to be very judicious, and it is to be lamented at the present day, that authors and publishers do not take a little more time to deliberate upon these matters, and to render their labours more perfect. But it is almost the universal custom, that the moment an agreement M 2 is 161 COUNTESS OF SHREWSBURY. is made between publishers und authors, the work, whatever it may be, must at all events be got out ; so out it comes, with all its imper- fections on its head. Faulkner, the Dublin printer, was, it seems, very alert on this occasion, for he only took six weeks to get out his edition also. COUNTESS OF SHREWSBURY. IT is well known that this lady was one of the celebrated beauties at the Court- of Charles the Second. Her name was Anna Maria Brude- nell, daughter of Robert Brudenell, Earl of Cardigan. She was second wife to Francis Tal- bot, Earl of Shrewsbury, who was killed in a duel with the Duke of Buckingham, his wife's lover, in 1667. It was reported of her, that she held her lover's horse during the duel, in the habit of his page, and afterwards llcpt with him. She was, beyond all doubt, a very profligate character; but this anecdote cannot be founded in fact; at least, it is exceedingly improbable. Besides the principals engaged in this unfortu- nate duel, there were two other combatants en- gaged COUNTESS OF SHREWSBURY. 165 cased at the same time on each side: such beinjr the very absurd and preposterous custom of the time. The Earl of Shrewsbury had for his seconds, Sir John Talbot and Mr. Bernard Howard. The Duke of Buckingham's seconds were, Sir Robert Holmes and Captain Jenkins. To all, or most of these personages, the Countess of Shrewsbury must have been known, and she would scarcely have exposed herself to a discovery in so strange a disguise, and on so extraordinary an occasion. Captain Jenkins was killed at the same time with the Earl of Shrewsbury. Minute particulars and anecdotes of all these individuals may be found in the Mernoires de Grammont; from a copy of which, printed at Strawberry Hill, formerly belonging to Sir Wil- liam Musgrave, and from a note in Sir William's own hand writing, the substance of the above account was taken. The Lady Shrewsbury abovementioned, af- terwards was married to Mr. Rodney Bridges, of Hampshire, Son of Sir Thomas Bridges, of Keynsham, in Somersetshire. She died April 20, 1702. It is to this Lady Shrewsbury that Pope al- ludes in his animated description of her Para- mour Villers, Duke of Buckingham. M 3 '' I* 166 DR. MEAD. " In the worst inn's, worst room, with mat half hung, " The floors of plaister, and the walls of dung, " On once a flock bed, but rcpair'd with straw, " With tape-ry'd curtains, never meant to draw, M The George and Garter dangling from that bed, " Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, " Great Villers lies alas ! how chang'd from him " That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! " Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, " The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and Love ; " Or just as gay at Council in a ring " Of mimick'd Statesmen and their merry King. " No wit to flatter, left of all his store ! " No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. " There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends " And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends." There is a copy, in the Museum also, of the Old English translation of these Memoirs of the English Court, by Count Hamilton, which be- longed to Sir William Musgrave, and is full of manuscript notes. DR. MEAD. THE following particulars respecting this truly eminent and excellent character, though perhaps partially known, I have never yet seen brought together in one place. I have extracted them from DR. MEAD. 167 from different books and catalogues in the Mu- seum. Notwithstanding Dr. Mead's practice was so extensive, that in one year it produced him seven thousand pounds, and for several years between five and six thousand ; yet, after the payment of his debts, he did not leave more than about twenty thousand pounds. The Doctor's Son, Mr. Richard Mead, had an estate of about 8001. a year, left him by Lord Chief Justice Reeves. The following may be relied on, as an accurate account of the produce of his books, medals^ antiques, pictures, and prints. The books sold for 5518 10 11 Medals, 1977 17 Antiques, 3246 15 6 Pictures, 3417 11 Prints, 1908 14 6 . 16069 8 11 During the life of Dr. Mead, Dr. Askew bought all his Greek manuscripts for 5001. He sold his miniatures to the Prince of Wales, and his Series of Greek kings to Messrs. Carmey and Kennedy. Quere, who was this Carmey ? his name frequently occurs as a purchaser of the Doctor's coins for himself and others. The bronze head of Homer, which now adorns the Museum, and is too well known to re- al 4 quire 168 DR. MEAD. quire description, was purchased at Mead's sale for 1361. 10s. by Lord Exeter, and by him placed where it remains. The first picture that Dr. Mead purchased was the Flaying of St. Bartholomew, by Spag- noletto. There is a fine Etching of this, by Spagnoletto himself. This picture produced no more than eighteen guineas. The following pictures are described, because the verses written beneath them were by Dr. Mead himself, and were inscribed under the portraits. The original head of Mr. Samuel Butler, by Zoust, a small half length, engraved by Vertue, for the Editor of Butler's Works, published by Dr. Grey, sold for no more than 91. lis. 6d. Quere who bought this ? The head of the celebrated Earl of Arundel, by Rubens, sold for 361. Ids. This is engraved by Houbraken. Marmora Arundeliae Comiti qua; Patria debet Prisci a?vi et laudis sunt monumenta sua*. Sir Godfrey Kncller, by himself, a three quarters, painted when young, sold for 311. 10s. Qualis eram vultu Kncllerus quantus et arte Se pingciis dixit, saecula longa sciant. The head of Vcsa litis, the great Anatomist, by Titian, sold for 39L Beneath it are these lines: Vcsalium DR. MEAD. 169 Vcsalium pinxit Titianus, gnarus utcrque Monstrare hie vultum, i'abricat ille hominis. The head of Grsevius, by iloet, sold for 3l. 6s. Graevi Romans linguae clarissime vindex! Ipse tuo vellet Tullius ore loqui. Doctor Edmund Halley, by Sir Godfrey Knel- ler, sold for 31. 3s. Mensoris maris et terra? caeliqufi profundi Hallei nomen jactat utcrque poius. Hugo Grotius, by Cornelius Jansen, sold for 41. 5s. Unicus immensum qui cepit mente capaci Doctrinarum orbem, Grotius hicce i'uit. Doctor Harvey, the celebrated Physician, painted by Bemmet, sold for 421. Harveii magnum nomen laudesque manebunt, Sanguis dum in gyros itque reditquc suos. This picture has been engraved by Houbraken. Sir Isaac Newton, by Sir G. Kneller, sold for 131. 2s. 6*d. Ille hie Newtonus dicent volventia saecla Felix qui potuit noscerc quantus crat. Dr. Charlton, the Physician, by Kneller, sold for 81. 18s. 6d. Doctrina ornavit medicam Charltonius artcm ; Vis aninii senio jussit inesse deeus. Dr. 170 DR. MEAD. Dr. Pitcairn, by Sir John de Medina, 5l. 5$. Scire potentates herbarum et tangere plectrum Pitcairno Phcrbus munera magna dedit. Erasmus, a Kit Cat. on board, by Holbein* was purchased by Lord Folkstone for 1 101. 5s. E tenebris clarum doctrinae attollcre lumen Qui felix potuit, primus Erasmus erat. JEgidius, companion to the former, by. Holbein, sold for 951. 1 Is. jEgidium musis charum dilexit Erasmus Spirat ct Holbcnio pectus uterque suo. Two pieces by Watteau, the one a Pastoral Conversation, the other its companion, Italian Comedians; sold, the former for 42l., the latter for 521. 10s. These two picture- are monuments of the great and extensive benevolence of Dr. Mead. Wat- teau came to England in very bad health, and very indifferent circumstances. Dr. Mead relieved him in both, and gave him employment, by or- dering him to paint these two pictures. The Portrait, which in the Catalogue of Prints and Drawings, No. 6\0, the l;Jth day- sale, is called a Man's head, by Holbein, is tiie portrait of Ann of Cleves. It was purchased by Walter Chetwynd, of King's College, Cambridge, for five gaincas and a half. It is now in the Royal Collection ORIGINAL LETTERS. 171 Collection of Drawings, and has been engraved by Bartolozzi. Published November, 179-6, by Mr. Chamberlain. The manuscript of Virgil is in the possession of Lord Lansdown. At Dr. Mead's sale Dr. Askew purchased it for five guineas ; at the sale of the Askew Collection it cost Lord Lansdown twenty guineas. The Life of Dr. Mead, usually prefixed to the BibliothecaMeadiana, was written by Dr. Maty, of the British Museum. ORIGINAL LETTERS. THESE letters which follow, are too honour- able to our national character to require any apology for their insertion. From Lord Minto to the Cardinal of York. De Vknne, 9 Feb. 1800. MONSEIGNEUR, J'ai rccu les ordres de sa Majeste le Roi de la Grande Bretagne de faire remettre a votre Eminence la somme de deux mille livres sterling, et dassurer V. E. q'u'en ac- ceptant cette marque de Tinteret et de 1 estime de S. M. elle lui fera un sensible plaisir. II m'est en ni&me teaas ordonne de faire part a V.E. 172 ORIGINAL LETTERS. V. E. des intention de S. M. de lui transmcttre une pareille somme de 2,0001. sterling au mois de Juillet si les circoilstanccs demeuroicnt telles que V. E. continuat a la desirer. J'ai done l'honneur dc la prevenir que la sornme de 2,0001. sterling, est disposed a lamaison de Messrs. Coutts et Compagnie Banquiers, a Londres, a la disposition de votre Eminence. En executant les ordres du Roi mon Maitre V. E. me rendra la justice de croire que je suis infiniment sensible a l'honneur d'etre Torgane des sentimens nobles et touchans, qui ont dicte a S. INT. la dimanche dont elle a daigne me charger, et qui lui ont ete inspires, dun cote par ses propes vertus et dc l'autre tant par les qua- lites eminantes de la personne a-uguste qui en est l'objet que par son desir de reparer par tour (m il est possible, les desastres dans lesquels le fleau universel de nos jours a paru vouloir en- trainer par preference, tout ce qui est le plus digne de veneration et de respect. Je prie V. E. d'agreer les assurances de mes hommages respectueux et de la veneration pro- fonde avec laquelle. J'ai l'honneur De votre Eminence Le ties humble et trcs obeissant Servitcur, (Signe) Minto. Env. Ex. & Min. Plen. de S.M.B. A la (Jour dc Vienne. Copy ORIGINAL LETTERS. 173 Copy of a Letter from Sir John Cox Hippislcy t Bart, to the Cardinal of York. Sir, I trust your eminence will do me y c justice to believe that I was not in- sensible to the honor of receiving so flattering a proof of y r gracious consideration as that which 1 was favor'd with, dated c 26' th of last month, from the bosom of y e conclave. " The merciless scourge of the present age," (as my friend Lord Minto has so justly observed) " lias singled outasthe first object of its vengeance, " every thing that is most worthy, and best en- " titled to our veneratien and respect." The Infidels in Religion, but Zealots in Anarchy, whose malignity pursued the sacred remains of Pius y e Great even beyond the grave, assuredly would not exempt from their remorseless perse- cution the venerable person of the Cardinal of York ! Severe as have been your Eminence's suf- ferings, they will, nevertheless, find some alle- viation in the general sympathy of the British nation with all distinction of parties; with all differences of communion: among all conditions of men but one voice is heard; all breathe one applauding sentiment; all bless the gracious act of the Sovereign in favour of his illustrious but unfortunate relation ! Your 174 ORIGINAL LETTERS. Your Eminence greatly overvalues the humble part which has fallen to my lot, in common with my worthy friend Mr. Stuart. The cause of suffering humanity never wants supporters in the country with which I know, Sir, you feel a generous pride in being connected-. The sacred ministers of religion, exiled and driven from their altars, find refuge and security in Britain. The unfortunate Princes of y e house of Bourbon here too found an asylum -under the hospitable roof of the roynl ancestors of the Cardinal of York: and when every dignified virtue that can stamp worth on human nature is outraged in the venerable person of the Cardinal of York him- self- "Against such cruellies " With inward consolations recompens'd"' lie re also an inviolable sanctuary is unfolded in the kindred bosom ('four benevolent Soven ign !, It is incumbent on me to attest, that in the frequent communication Mr. Stuart and myself have had with the King's Ministers on this sub- ject, they have uniformly expressed their firm union, that His Majesty will think himself happy in repeating the same gracious attention to Ins royal relation, and in the same proportion, as long as his unfortunate circumstances have a claim to them. I can also, \\ ith equal confidence, assure your Eminence, that your reply to my JLortl Minto has given as much satisfaction to the King's ORIGINAL. LETTERS. 175 King's Ministers, as it, doubtless, has excited in the benevolent mind of His Majesty himself. Mr. Stuart unites with me in every heartfelt wish for your Eminence's health and happiness, equally flattered with myself by your Eminence's condescension and gracious acceptance of our humble attentions. With the most perfect consideration and pro- found respect, I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) J. C. Hippisley. Grosvenor S f , London, 31 st March. I think it necessary to say, that the order upon Mr. Coutts's house was immediately paid, in full acquittance of the little temporary advance in anticipation of the gracious act of His Majesty. From the Cardinal of York to Lord Mint o. With the arrival of Mr, Oakly, who has been this morning with me, I- have re- ceived by his discourses, and much more by your letters, so many tokens of your regard, sin- gular consideration and attention for my person, that oblige me to abandon all sort of ceremony, and to begin abruptly to assure you, my dear Lord, 176 ORIGINAL LETTERS. Lord, that your letters have been most accept* able to me in all shapes and regards. I did not in the least doubt oi' tne noble way of thinking of your generous and benehcent Sovereign: but I did not expect to see, in writing, so many and so obliging expressions that, well calculated by the persons who receive them and understand their force, impress in their minus a most lively sense of tenderness and gratitude ; which, I own to you, oblige me more than the generosity spon- taneously imparted. I am, in realitv, at a loss to express, in writing, all the sentiments of my heart, and, for that reason, leave it entirely to the interest you take in all that regards my person, to make known in an energetical and convenient manner all I fain would say to ex- press my thankfulness, which may easily be by you comprehended, after having perused the contents of this letter. I am much obliged to you to have indicated to me the way I may write unto Coutts, the Court Banker, and shall follow your friendly insinu- tions. In the mean time, I am very desirous that you should be convinced of my sentiments of sincere esteem and friendship, with which, niy dear Lord, with all my heart I embrace you. (Signed'; Henry Cardinal. TUSSEU. ZERENGHL 177 T U S S E R. ^ hundreth good Pointes of Htisbandrie Im- printed at London, in Flete St ret e, within Temple Barre, at the Sygne of the Hand and Starre, by Richard Tottel, the third Day of February \ an. 1557. THIS book is probably an unique, and is possessed by the British Museum. Warton re- fers to it in his History of English Poetry, but the late Mr. Ritson, with the petulance which marked his character, obstinately persisted that no such edition existed ; nor was he convinced, till Mr. Parke pointed out this particular copy to his notice. ZERENGHL Vera Descrittione Dell Hippopottamo, Animate Anfibio, che nasce in Egitto. Autore Fre- derico Zerenghi. In Mil a no. 1603. THIS tract on the Hippopotamus is most re- markably scarce, and perhaps the copy which k the y" 17$ ZE REN GUI. the Museum possesses is a unique in this country. It was presented to the Museum by Sir Joseph Banks. Buftbn, in his description of the Ilippopotamos, makes large use of this tract, of which he says, C'est le seul qu'on puisse regarder coinme ori- genit sur ce sujet. La description que l'Auteur donne de l'llippopotamc est aussi la seule qui soit bonne, &c. &c, lie further adds as follows: The a?ra of any exact knowledge of the ilip- popotamos is that of the year \(Si)3, when Ze- renghi a surgeon of Narni, in Italy, printed at Naples, the History of two Hippopotami,, which he had caused to be taken alive in a great ditch dug on purpose, in the neighbourhood of the Nile, near Damietta. Nobody, adds Buftbn, has done justice to Zcrenghi, although he merits the highest eulogiums. On the contrary, all Naturalists for these hundred and sixty years past, have ascribed to Fabius Columna what was due to Zerenghi alone. the tHE NEWE TESTAMENTE. 179 THE NEWE TESTAMENTE Of our Savyoure Christ, set forth by Willy am Ty?idale, with the Annotation of Thomas Matthew. Anno mdxlix. the xxni Daye of May. THIS book generally agrees with Tyndale's 2 d edition of his N. T. 153-4, except the spelling, and its wanting some of the marginal notes, 2. 9> Rev. x. 6. The deed are ignorant of God. 1 Jno iv. 1. Fayth is y e fyrste comandement, and love y e seconde ; and also the cuts in the Reve- lations. It also agrees with the folio edition of the O. andNJT. usually called Tyndale's Byble, printed by John Daye and JVylliam Seres, 1549, having the same preface ; prologe before each Gospel and Epistle, except Jude; contents before the chapters throughout; Matthew's notes after them; and scripture references in the margin : with the same exception as to the spelling, as the above- mentioned. It seems rare and curious, and is taken no notice of by Lewis in his History of the Translations. x 2 DR. ISO DR. TAYLOIl. BR. WHICHCOT. Select Sermons of Dr. JVhickcot, in too parts, Pfmted Jor Aun&ham and John Ckurchill. IN the Cracherode copy of this book the following note occurs : Mem. Mr. ChnrchilV, the Bookseller men- tioned in the title page, told me, in April, 1724, that the Lord Shaftsbury, author of the Charac- teristicks, was the publisher of these Sermons'; and as he believed, wrote the Preface. April, 1724. M. Roper. N. B. See what Dr. Salter says, in his Preface ta an edition of Whichcot's Aphorisms, p. xv, xvi. Consult also Dr. Birch's Life of Tillotson, second edition, p. 101. DR. JEREMY TAYLOR. FROM this venerable and learned writer'.^ Polemical Discourses, the Theological Student must THE BISHOPS BIBLE. m must derive the soundest instruction and most important advantages. It may not perhaps be generally known, but it is nevertheless true, that partly from the 44th section or discourse of Dr. Taylor, and partly from Stillingfleet's Irenicum, Mr. Locke borrowed 9. See also the second Editon of this Bible in the Cracherode Collection. The second edition was printed in 1572. v 3 DEVON* 18 DEVONSHIRE GEMS, DEVONSHIRE GEMS. THIS collection of Gems was begun to bo formed by William, the Third Duke of Devon- shire, and enlarged by William, the Fourth Duke, who was desirous of haying the whole series en- graved. He wished the engravings to be the precise representations of the originals. In his search, therefore, he was anxious to attain an artist, whose abilities were equal to the copying of the antique, and yet so much under command as not to improve any imperfection of the more moderate, or to fling on the more beautiful a cast of style, however admirable in itself, which the Gems did not justify. Such a plan was necessarily attended with difficulty. When an artist has acquired a suffi- ciently extensive taste to feel all the beauties of a work, and to disrelish its faults, it seldom hap- pens that he can induce himself not to remove the defect in his copy. Whether it is that lie has an unconquerable antipathy to deformity, or that he tears lest the blemish should be attributed to himself, certain it is, lie labours to amend it. It is the same disposition which urges his en- deavour to heighten even what is beautiful; and thus it arises, that in copies bv our best artists, \u perceive a general resemblance of the ori- DEVONSHIRE GEMS. 183 ginal, with a spirit, characteristic of their own peculiar manner. It is not surprizing, therefore, that some time elapsed before the Duke's en- quiries met with success. At length, about tiie year 1/24, Mr. Gos- mond, a Frenchman, was recommended to his Grace as well qualified to answer his Grace's expectations, and indeed the specimens, which are here collected, place his talents, as an artist, in a respectable point of view. They possess no inconsiderable share of breadth and simplicity )f style, and have the further recommendation of faithfulness. The Duke, as was natural for a liberal man, evinced his satisfaction by many offices of ge- nerosity. But these, unfortunately, met with no grateful return: perhaps they were even the very cause of ingratitude. For .Mr. Gosmoud con- ceiving that he had so strong a hold of his pa- tron's good opinion as to establish himself in the family, relaxed in his attention, and by degrees entered into dissipation. The work now went on slowly, and .objects of expence continued to increase on him. His calls on the Duke, there- fore, were more frequent, while his claims for patronage were diminishing; and thus every day forfeiting the esteem of his noble employer, the Duke was under the necessity of declaring to him, when the ninety-nine plates were finished, that he had already paid considerably more than x 4 the 184- DEVONSHIRE GEMS. the stipulated sum for the whole work, and, with {he hope of obliging him to be more attentive, refused to answer any further demand till the work should proceed less negligently. Meeting with this unexpected refusal, and fearing the impatience of his creditors, Mr, Gosmond secretly left the kingdom, and carried many of the plates with him. What became of him after his return to the Continent, is uncertain: enquiries were made, but they proved ineffectual. Probably, as no work bearing his name has ap- peared, he died soon after his return to his native country. From this unlucky accident the Duke was frustrated in his purpose, nor was he enabled to make up a few sets for his friends, of what even were done ; for either impressions of several of the plates were not taken, or if they were, they had been carried away by Mr. Gosmpnd. It does not appear what the number of plates left in the possession of the Duke amounted to. The Rev. C. Cracherode, whose taste and munificence are well known, could never obtain, though lie made it an object, more than *. But the scarcity of these plates may be col- lected from the following anecdote in Mr. Wesf's Catalogue of Books. * The Cracherudf Copy has 101 platrs DEVONSHIRE GEMS. 185 No. 2790. The Duke of Devonshire's Ca- * binetof Gems, by Gosmond, 39 plates, being " all that were ever engraved. " Mr. Gosmond, a Frenchman, was employed 41 by the Duke of Devonshire to engrave his " Cabinet of Gems, but when he had gone ft through the few here collected, he ran away, " leaving some plates behind, and carrying the ft rest with him. What plates came into the ft Duke's hands he favoured me with proofs " from: another parcel was purchased in France " by the Hon. 13. Bathurst, aud presented to me " by him, A. D. 1730." The numbers at the bottom of the plates refer to a catalogue in the Dujke of Devonshire's Li- brary. The above account was transcribed with the noble Earl's permission, from Lord Spencer's copy. This copy contains only 99 plates, which are differently arranged from those in the Cracherode Collection, and many of them also are differently named. The sum given for Lord Spencer's copy was .401. I know of no other copies, than the Devon- shire, Lord Spencer's, that in the Cracherode Library, with (hat which is alluded to in the above note. The 186 CAMDEN'S BRITANNIA. The copy which belonged to Mr. West, is now jn Dr. Hunter's Museum. It consists of only 39 plates, and was purchased for three guineas. CAMDEN'S BRITANNIA. To many curious collectors of books the fol-r lowing list of the various editions of Camden's Britannia will be acceptable, and may be de- pended upon as accurate : 1. 1586, printed by It. Newbery, 12mo. 2. 1587, It. Newbery, 1'Jmo. 3. 1590, G. Bishop, Svo. 4. 15.94, C. Bishop, 4 to. 5. 16'00. G. Bishop, 4to. This is the first edition of Camden which was published with maps. 6. 1607, printed by G. Bishop, folio. 7. 1610, G. Ihshop, folio. All the above-mentioned editions of Camden were in Latin. The first edition in English, was in If)l(), and in folio. This was translated by the indefatigable Pin- lemon Holland, who was supposed to have been assisted by Camden himself. " Therefore," ob- serves Mr. Gough, " great regard has been paid " to CAMDEN'S BRITANNIA. 187 ** to his additions and explanations." But what is very extraordinary, and indeed unaccountable, in an author of Mr. Cough's accuracy, he is, in the passage referred to, (Life Camden, p. xx.) called Philip Holland. The 8th edition, in 1(517, was a Latin Abridg- ment by Lirizaeus, in 12mo. 9. 1637, folio, Philemon Holland's second edition. With this edition, says Mr. Gough, Holland has taken unwarrantable liberties. Mr. Wanley thinks that this edition was published after Holland's death. 10. 1639, a second edition of Lirizaeus's Abridgment, in 12 mo. 11. 1 695, folio. This was the first edition by Bishop Gibson. 12. 1722, 2 vol. folio. 13. 1753, 2 vol. folio. 14. 1772, 2 vol. folio. 15. 178f), 2 vol. This was Mr f Cough's edition. The following memorandum from one of Hearne's Diaries, preserved in the Bodleian, forms no unimportant appendage to the above catalogue. *' There is in the Ashmolean Museum, amongst *' Mr. Ashmole's books, a very fair folio ms. f- handsomely bound, containing an English " translation of Mr. Camden's Britannia, by - Richard Knollcs, the same that writ the His- " tory m DONALD LUPTON. 0i tory of the Turks. This book was found *-* locked up m a box in Mr. Camden's study, ,l after his death. Mr. Camden set a great '* value upon it J suppose it was presented by u the author to Mr. Camden. Philemon Hol- " land's Translation came out in 1610, which " was the year in which Knolles died." Without calling in question the fair fame of honest Philemon Holland, some readers, from the above note of Hearne, may be inclined to entertain a doubt, whether Holland's is his own genuine translation. It was certainly believed, that he communi- cated with Camden on the subject, who might, in all probability lend him Knolles's Translation. Whether he did use it, and to what extent, may however be ascertained by examining the manu- script referred to in the Ashmolean Collection. DONALD L UPTON. I FIND no account of this Personage in any of our Biographical Dictionaries: yet he was the author of several curious, and now scarce works. His DONALD LtTFTON. igf> His History of the Moderne Protestant Di- vines, namely, John Hus, Melanctlion, Luther y Calvin, Beza, &c. and of Wickliffe, Bale, Tindal, Latimer, &c. is ornamented with " Effigies taken " to the life," some by Albeit Durer, and others by Henry Hondius. A copy of this work, which formerly belonged to Oldys, was presented to the British Museunij by Sir William Musgrave. Lupton was also author of " Emblems of Ra* " rities, or choice Observations out of Worthy " Histories." London, printed by N. Okes. 1636. Neither of the above works occur in the ca~ talogues of the Bodleian, or of Sion College. I find another work by Lupton in the Museum, entitled, " London and the Countrey carbo- " nadoed and quartered into several Characters." London, Nichols, 1632. From the last the following is extracted : Charter House. This place is well described by three thinges> magnificence, munificence, and religious govern- ment. Magnificence is the terminus a quo, good order, the terminus mediani, munificence and charity, the terminus ad quern. The first shewes the wealth of the founder and establisher ; the second shewes the means to make the good tiling done, durable \ the third demonstrates his intent that i 190 DONALD LUPTON. that thus establisht it. Had it beene great, witli- oat good government, it had long, ere this time, come to mine ; or had it bin great, and yet de- vOyd of charity, it would have bin laught at and derided ; but now charity shewes it is well go- verned, and that good govemement keepes it firme and makes it famous. Soldiers and schol- lers I thinke beginne their love here ; that they continue hereafter firme and solide, by living together, callings both honorable, and here bountifully maintayned. It is a reliefe for de- caied geutlemen, old souldiers, and auncient serving men : tis to bee pitied that such religious, charitable houses increase not in number : this one place hath sent many a famous member to the Universities, and not a few to the vvarres : I will not censure, as some do, that many places are heere sold for monies, nay, the reversions also : lie rather exhort the governors to dis- charge a good conscience, and not suffer their men, or any other, when they affect, to get thirty or forty pounds for the promise of the next va- cant place for a youth to come in, and to ob- serve their first institutions ; and those that so suppose, I wish them that they speake not that with their mouthes which they know not in their heartes. The decde of this man that, so ordered this house, is much spoken of and commended: but theres none (excqpt only one) .that as yet hath- eythcr GRANGER. igi cyther striven to equall or imitate that, and I fear never will : theres many that will not doe any such good workes, and give out that they smell something of Popery, and therefore not to be imitated. Well, I durst warrant thus much, let the overseers live religiously, governe civilly, avoid bribery, keep their cannons directly, and this house shall stand to upbraid this iron age, and see many brought to beggery for prodigality, when they shall be satisfied and have enough. Well, this is my opinion of it, that the founder is happy, and so are all the children that live here, if they degenerate not, and turne from fear- ing God., obeying their Prince, and from living in love amongst themselves. GRANGER. THE following anecdotes, illustrative of Granger, are extracted from Sir William Mus- grave's copy of that entertaining work. It must be remembered, that Sir William suggested the undertaking, principally supplied its materials, and was at the expence of the en- graving the head of Granger, which is pre- fixed. HISTORY 192 GRANGER. HISTORY OF ENGLAND, CLASS IX. PHYSICIANS. ANDREW BORDE. THERE is another wooden cut of the same person at the back of the title page to his Breviary of Health, ann. 1.557, where his name is spelt Boorde. This portrait is* sitting in an old fashioned gothic elbow chair, leaning on his right arm, with a reading desk and several books before him. Borde was born at Pevenscy, in Sussex, and brought up at Oxford ; but before he took a de- gree there, he entered himself a brother of the Carthusian Order ; of which growing tired, and having a rambling head and an unconstant mind, he travelled through and round about Christen-' dom, and out of Christendom. On his return he settled at Winchester, where he practised with success. In 1 541 or 42, he was at Montpelier, and probably took his Doctor's degree there, for he was soon after incorporated in the same degree at Oxford. At length, after many rambles to ancf fro in this world, he was made a close prisoner in the wards of the Fleet, in London. Though* the' GRANGER. 193 the reason of his confinement is not discovered here, he died in April, 1549, his Will being dated the 11th, and proved the 25th, of that month. Wood xA.th. Oxon. Vol r. p. 74, says that our author Borde was esteemed a noted poet, a witty and ingenious person, and an excellent physician of his time. WILLIAM BUTTS. Butts took his Doctor's Degree at Cambridge, and in 1519, petitioned to be incorporated ad eundem at Oxford. He was knighted by Henry VIII. and died 17 November, 1545, and was buried at Fulham Church. He is highly charac- terized for his eminent knowledge, singular judg- ment and great experience, not only by the re- cords of the College of Physicians; but he is also much extolled for his learning, by divers ,of his cotemporaries ; and Bishop John Parkhurst has several Epigrams on him. EDWARD SIXTH. Henry VIII laid strong injunctions on his executors to effect a marriage between Edwar4 Vlth and Queen Mary of Scotland. Th^ Scots, however, under the influence of French councils, having rejected all overtures for that o purpose, 19* GRANGER purpose, the Protector formed a resolution of bringing about an alliance and union by arms. Upon which a Scots noirteman said, I always liked the marriage, but upon my faith I fancy not the 7cooing. MARY. REMARKS W.V DRESS. In tins reign square toed shoes were in fashion, and the men wore them of so prodigious a bread tli, that Buhver says, it' he remembers aright, there was a proclamation came out, that no man should wear his shoes above sis inches square at the toes. SIR THOMAS MORE. The following lines are attributed to Sir T. More : if they do not establish his reputation as a Poet, they at least confirm the account of the more than philosophic indifference with which he went to his execution : If evils coinc not, thrn our (eats are vain; And ii tiny do, fear but augments flu- pain. JOHN RAINOLDS. The famous controversy between John Rai- noids and one of his brothers, wherein each con- verted (GRANGER. 195 verted the other, gave occasion to the following lines: In points of faith, some undetermined j 6$, that there were some differences between Mr. Poole and Mr. Cornelius Bee, concerning the printing of the Synopsis, which however were ended to the satisfaction of both parties, by the care and prudence of the Marquis of Dorchester and the Earl of Anglesey, Lords of His Majesty's Privy Council, to whose determination the parties sub- mitted themselves, and by their Lordships' award Mr. Poole was entitled to proceed in his work without any molestation. The first volume was accordingly published 14th October, lo'o'*). See London Gazette, No, 408. SIR THOMAS ARMSTRONG. On the 28th of June, 1683, a Proclamation was issued for apprehending him. He was taken at Leydcn, by order of the States of Holland, and being sent to England on board a Royal Yacht, he GRANGER. igg he was committed to Newgate on the 1 1 th of June, 1684, and on the 14th of June be was ordered to- be executed upon his attainder and outlawry, and on the 20th of June, he was accordingly executed at Tyburn. See London Gazette, No. 1937, 1938, 1940. JOHN ARCHER, yilYSICIAN IN ORDINARY TO CHARLES IF. This portrait of John Archer, m. d. is prefixed to his " Every Man his own Doctor/' printed 1673, for the author, who no doubt took care that the print should be a genuine likeness. He lived at the Golden Ball, in Winchester Street, near Broad Street, and says that his study and practice of Physic now draws near the prospect of twenty years. At the end of the work he gives an account of three inventions by him. 1. An Hot-bath, by steam, for the cure of various disorders, which seems to have given the hint to Dominichetti. 2. The oven which doth, with a small faggot, bake, boil a pot, or stew, all with the same charge of fire time and labour, and is moveable. 3. A Chariot, with which one horse can as easily draw four, five, or more people, as two horses can that number the ordinary way. It is also so contrived, that a man that sits in it may move it without a horse. In this last circum- o 4 stance 200 GRANGER. stance he seems to outdo Mr. Moore, whose plan, in other respects, is the same. He has increased the senses to six, by adding the sense of venery to the other five, and says that it is above any of the others, they being all subservient to, and commanded by it. Archer also prepared Tobacco for prevention and cure of most diseases, working by urine and spitting, being pleasant and safe, &c. See Ga- zette, No. 863. TOBIAS WHITAKER, PHYSICIAN IN ORDINARY TO CHARLES II. This man was the author of the " Tree of " Humane Life, or the Blood of the Grape ;" proving the possibility of maintaining life from infancy to old age without sickness, by the use of wine. Printed at London, 1638. Archer and Whitaker probably recommended themselves to the service of that gay Monarch, by the subjects they wrote uppn. Whitaker must have died soon after the re- storation, as I do not find him mentioned in the list of the College of Physicians, published by Chamberlain in l6"71. Where however it ap- pears, that besides four physicians in ordinary to the King's person, and two to the houshold, there are above a dozen more able physicians, who were the GRANGER. 201 the King's sworn servants, but wait not. In so large a number it is not to be wondered at, if some obscure physicians, and even quacks, were included. SIR JONAS MOORE. It may be worth mentioning in this place, that Sir Jonas Moore directed the rebuilding of Fleet Street, according to an appointed model, after the great fire of London ; and from that beginning the City soon grew to a great per- fection, and far transcended its former splendor, THOMAS FLATMAN. Mr. Oldys addressed the following Epigram to Thomas Flatman, on the three faculties in which lie was skilled, namely, the Law, Painting, and Poetry : Should Flatman for his client strain the laws, The painter gives some colour to the cause ; Should critics censure what the poet writ, The pleader quits him at the bar of wit. HENRY PURCELL. TO HENRY PURCELL. To you a tribute for each muse is due, The whole poetic tribes oblig'd to you ; For surely none but you, with equal ease, Could add to David, and make Durfey please. LOUISA #2 GRANGER. LOUISA DE QUERNUATLLE, DUTCHESS OF PORTSMOUTH. 0)i the Dutchess of Portsmouth's Pi t Who can on this picture look, And not strait be 'wonder struck, That such a sneaking dowdy thing Should make a beggar of a King ;. Three happy nations turn to tears, And ail their former love to fears: Ruin the great, and raise the small, Yet will by turns betray them all. Lowly born and meanly bred, Yet of this nation rs the head; For half Whitehall to her make court. Tho' t'other half make her their sport; Monmouth's tamer, Jeffreys advaw Toe to England, spy to France, False and foolish, proud and bold, Ugly as you sec, and okl : In a word, her mighty Grace Is w e in all tilings but her face. Even if the above verses be read with all the allowance that might be made for satirical com- positions, they still serve to confirm the obser- vations of Grander, That her Grace was never very beautiful, that she was governed by French councils, and that she had a great influence over the easy Monarch, which she preserved in some measure to the last. MILS. GRANGER. goj MRS. MIDDLETON. In a Satire against Charles lid. written iu ,680, is this stanza-: Not for the nation, but the fair, Our treasury provides; Bulkeley's Godolphin's only care, As Middleton is Hyde's. COLONEL BLOOD. Blood that means treason in his face, Villain complete in parsons gown, How much is he at Court in grace, For stealing Ormond and the Crown. Since loyalty does no man good, Let's steal the King, and out-do Blood. History of Insipids 1676. Among the different practices of Blood, he had assumed the character of a Doctor of Physic at Rumford. lie had been outlawed in Ireland for Rebellion in \663. His attempt on the Duke of Ormond was made on the 6th of December, 1670. See Ga- zettes, No. 528, 529- His attempt to steal the Crown was on the 11th of May, 16/1. See Gazette, No. 57 c 2. At last he was convicted of a conspiracy against the Duke of Buckingham in 16'7<). The 8 mortification 204 GRANGER. mortification of this, and the dread of punish- ment, it is said, contributed to shorten his days. JUDGE JEFFERIES. Notwithstanding the unjustifiable length that Jefferies went in Law, to please the ruling powers on earth, he does not seen! 10 have intended any alteration in the Gospel, as the following book was published at that time, viz. " A Discourse, shewing that Protestants are " on the safe side, notwithstanding the unchari- " table judgment of their adversaries, and that " their religion is the surest way to Heaven, by " Mr. Bolieu, Chaplain to the Lord Chancellor u Jefferies." As the author may reasonably be presumed to have expected preferment, he would scarcely have ventured to publish and set his name to a performance, which he knew would be disagree- able to his Patron at so critical a juncture. I take my leave of Granger with correcting an unaccountable error into which he has fallen in his octavo edition, vol. in. p. 138: Speaking of Simon, the celebrated Engraver of Medals, and who executed the dies for the Crown, Ilalf^ crown, Shilling, and Six-pence, of Oliver Crom- well, he has the following note : This INSCRIPTIONS. 205 " This piece [the Crown] which has about the edge a motto from Terence, " Has nisi periturus * mini adimat nemo," sold, credite posteri ! at the late Mr. West's sale for sixty-eight pounds." This is not the fact, for Mr. West's whole set f these coins, consisting of the Crown, Half- crown, Shilling, and proof Six-pence, sold for five pounds seven shillings and sixpence. Mr. G. I find afterwards qualified the assertion. INSCRIPTIONS, Selected from rare Portraits in the Cracherode Collection from the time of Henry the Vllth. JOHAN ALCOCK, B'YSSHOP OF ELY. An cxhortacyon made to relygyous systers in the tyme of theyr consecracyon by hym. I aske the banes betwyx the hyghe and moost myghty Prynce, Kyng of all Kynges, Sone of Almyghty God and the Virgyn Mary, in hu manyte Cryste Jesu of Nazareth, of the one partye, and A. B. of the thother partye, that y'f ony man or woman can shewe any lawfull im- pedyment, other by any precontracte made on. corrupcyon 206 INSCRIPTIONS. corrupcyon of body or soule of the sayd A. B: that she ought not to be maryed this daye unto the sayd mighty Prynce Jesu, that they wolde accordynge unto the lavve shewe it. SIR THOMAS WYATT, From the original Wood Cut by Hans Holbein, prefixed to the Nania, on the Death of Sir 2\ IVyatt. Holbonus nitida fingendi lnaximus arte Effigiem expressit graphics, scd nullus Apcllcs Exprimet ingenium felix, animumque Viati. ITSIIER, Bishop of Rochester, and SIR THOMAS MORE, Engraved on the same Plate. Johannes Fisciieue prim- KofTcnsis imago, Antistrs TflOMA More sccuruhi tua est. Anglia vos quondani communis patria junxit* Indigna hcu tantis mundus ct ipse viris ! Sod magis ingenium, probitas, doctrinaque pollens Et vera; junxit relligionis amor. Oh quern cainiricis vos pcrcutit una securis, Unaque nex binis, unaque causa nccis; Quam vere cables ti junc torn m sede duorum Junxit et efliszics una tabella dims! C A K D I -\ A I INSCRIPTIONS. 507 CARDINAL WOLSEY. J9en secus unda mari paulatim accrescit et uuda Neptuni irontun supcreminet, et sua tandem Visruitet pel ago labens devolvitur irao. Quam tua te Vuolsede tumens evexk honoris Aura et sublimcm super extulit ardua regis Culmina; sed tandem converso Cardine rernm, In scopulos rigidusque extrusa est gloria syx-tes; Terra oJim corpus tumuit, jam corpore tellu*. SKELTON POETA. Etcrno mansura die dum sidera fulgent, Jiquora duniquc tument, haec laurea nostra virebiL Hinc nostrum celebre et nomen referetur ad astra, Undeque Skeltonis mcmorabitur altera donis. , From the back of the title page to " A ryght delectable treatyse upon a goodly garland e or chapelet of laurell by Mayster Skelton Poete Laureat, studyously dyvysed at Sheryfhetten Castell, in the foreste of Galtres, where in ar coprysyde many and dyvers solacyons and ryght pregnant allectyves of syngular pleasure as more at large it doth apere in the pees followynge. " Ymprynted by me Rycharde Faukes, dwellyng in Duram Rent or els in Powlys Chyrche Yarde, at the sygne of the A B C. The yere of our Lorde God, m.ccccxxiii. The m day of Octobre." 4to. B. L. EDWARD 208 INSCRIPTIONS. EDWARD VI. The true portaicture of King Edward the 6th, with the prayer that hee made to himselfe, his eyes being closed, thinking none had heard him, three howers before his death, in the 7th year of his raygne and l6th of his age, y c 6 of Jul. A 1553. Lord God deliver me out of this miserable and wretched life, and take mee amonge thy chosen : howbeit not my will but thy will be done. Lord, I commit my spirit to thee. Oh Lorde thou knowest howe happye it were for me to be with thee, yet for the chosen's sake, send me life and health, that I may truely serve thee. Oh my Lord God, blesse thy people, and save thyne inheritaunce. Oh Lord God, save thy chosen people of Englande. Oh my Lord God, defend this realme from Papystrye, and maynetayne the true Religion, that I and my people may prayse thy holy name. Witnesse hereof present were Sir Thomas Wrott, Sir He. Sidney, 2 of y e cheefe gentl. of y e Privie Chamber. Doct. Owen, Doct. Wcndye, Cluistopher Salmon, Groome. BISHOP INSCRIPTIONS. 2(# BISHOP LATYMER. This inscription is principally introduced to inform the curious reader that it accompanies a very rare head of Latymer, prefixed to his Sermons, printed in 1635* Thus while he lived grave Latimer was seene^ I mean his outward part, and that within May heere be view'd above, for view his face, But in his booke behould his inward grace. MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS. I have here no inscription to give the reader ; but the collector of prints may not be displeased at the information, that perhaps the rarest of all similar engravings is the head of Mary Queen of of Scots, by Huret. Earl Spencer, who wanted one for a particular purpose, was obliged to give forty guineas for a copy* It is of octavo size. On the top is Conscius meus in excelsis. Job xvi. 20. In the back ground is observed the ceremony f the Queen's execution. On the left side is Huret f . The Queen is represented with her right hand on her breast, whilst her left hand, which hangs down, has a cross in it. At the bottom is Mariae Stuarts Franc, et Scot. Reginae. vera Effigies. p SIR. CIO INSCRIPTIONS. SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, Knight. Our ages *Tiphys, valours noble mirrour, Englishmen's glory, and the Spaniard's terrour, The saylors starre, sea-laming sail-winged Drake, Whose fame, tho' he be dead, lives fresh awake, Which with his corps whole oceans cannot dround But shall endure so long as world is round, Which he encompast, one whose like I hare England will never see again but here. JAMES I. Crownes have their compasse, length of dayes their date Triumphes their tombes, felicitie her fate ; Of more than earth can earth make none partaker, But knowledge makes the King most like his Maker. ANNE, WIVE OF JAMES I. Thee to invite the great God sent a starre, Whose friend and nearest kyn good princes are. For though they run the race of men and dye, Death seemes but to refine their majestye. So did the Queene from hence her court remove. And left the earth to be enthroned above. Then she is changed, not dead no good prince die But as the day sunne only setts to rise. * Tiphys \%as the Pilot of the Argo, the first ship. And INSCRIPTIONS. 211 And now that cloud of death is overflowne, To Heaven her native soil her soule is flowne, Where her Redeemer lives, with him to raygne, Millions of angels waiting on the traine. No more as here, half mortal, half divine, But in pure glory in her sphere to shine ; From whence she sendes a bryghter lustre downs Then Cassar's locke, or Ariadne's crowne. ANDREWES, BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. The lineaments of art have well set forth Some outward features, though no inward worth ; But to these lines his writings added can Make up the faire resemblance of a man. For as the bodies forme is figurd here, So there the beautyes of his soule appeare ; Which I had praised, but that in this place To praise them, were to praise him to his face. LUCIA HARIN [HARINGTON] COUNTESS OF BEDFORD. A munificent patroness of Poetry in the time of James I., particularly of Donne, Jonson ; Dravton and Daniel. Religious love, in wisdom's worth The truest beauty best sets forth, Judicious witt, with learning's love, A gracious spirit best approve. All these in one the shadowe shewes What honor with the substance goes. Ni. Br. Quere, Nicholas Brady. P 2 SPOTXIS- 212 INSCRIPTIONS. SPOTTISWOODE, ARCHBISHOP OF ST. ANDREWS. Aspico non frustra veneranda h.TC pingitur icon, Vivit adhuc tanti quaclibct umbra viri, Prisca nitet vultu pictas, virtusque sepulcri Neschi, in effigic nescit ct ipsa mori. Sic uno intuitu vultus morumque volumen Perlegis, ct pictor transit in Historicura. WILLIAM OUGIITRED, The celebrated Mathematician, who first in- troduced the study of Mathematics at Cambridge University. Ha;c est Oujhtredi senio labantis imago, Itala quern cupiit terra, Britanna tulit. Notus erat faina, jam vultu notus in aevum. lbit et ingenio vivet imago comes. Quod si charta refert, veniet cum justior aetas, Debitus auratum stare jubebit bono?. R. S. FRANCIS QUARLES. What heere we see is but a graven fact'. Om-ly the shadowe of that brittle case, Wherein are treasured up these gems which 1. I J -it h left behind him to posterilie. wor.soN- INSCRIPTIONS, 2i3 HOBSON The Cambridge Carrier, from whom originated the proverbial saying of Hobson's Choice. Laugh not to see so plaine a man in print : The shadowe's homely, yet there's something in't. Witness the * bagge he wears, though seeming poore, The fertile mother of a thousand more. He was a thriveing man through lawful gaine, And wealthy grew by warrantable paine. Then laugh at them that spend, not those that gather, Like thriving sons of such a thrifty father. CATHARINE, MARCHIONESS OF BUCKINGHAM. The head to which these lines are annexed is wonderfully scarce. The ancients who three graces only knew, Were rude and ignorant, looke here and view Thousands in this one visage ; yea in this, Which of the living but a shadow is. If thus her owtward graces be refined, What be the interior bewtes of her mind, These lines may be a guide to the Print col- ctor, who by Dclaram. lector, who should also know that it is engraved He is represented with a purse in his hands. P 3 IIACKET, 214 INSCRIPTIONS. RACKET, BISHOP OF LITCHFIELD AXD COVENTRY His face this Icon shewes, his pious wit These Sermons: would you know him further yet, Yourself must die ; for, reader, you must looke In Heaven for what's not of him in this booke. THOMAS BRITTON, The famous Musical Small-Coalman. Tho' mean thy rank, yet in thy humble cell Did gentle peace, and arts unpurchased dwell ; Well pleased, Apollo thither led his train And Musick warbled in her sweetest strain. Cyllenius so, as fables tell, and Jove Came willing guests to poor Philemon's grove; Let useless pomp behold, and blush to find So low a station, such a liberal mind. Tho' doom'd to small-coal, yet to arts allv'd. Rich without wealth, and famous without pride, Musick's best patron, judge of books and men, Belov'd and honour'd by Apollo's train. In Greece, or Rome, sure never did appear So bright a genius, in so dark a sphere ; More of the man had artfully been sav'd, Had Kntller painted, and had Vertue grav'd. GEORGE WITHER. No matter where the world bestowes her praie , Or whom she crownes with her victorious bayes ; For he that fearless hath opposed ihe crymes Aod chefkt the gyant vices of the tymes ; He INSCRIPTIONS. 215 He that unchanged hath afflictions borne, That smiles on wants, that laughs contempts to scorn*, And hath most courage when most perills are, Is he that should of right the laurel weare. I conclude this article with an account of one of the most rare prints that we have, of which no mention is made in Granger. It is a satirical representation of Titus Oates and the Pope. The latter is exhibited as sitting in his cabinet, writing to the Jesuits to be diligent in carrying on the plot, which Oates pretended to detect. Oates is looking over the Pope's shoulders, and is offering him a fool's cap instead of the Papal crown, which is falling from the Pope's shoulders. The Devil is whispering to the Pope that Oates is behind him. Beneath are these crude lines. POPE. See here the Devil's darling plotting still, With blood and treasons all the world to fill ; His Romish stratagems no one can tell, "Who cannot fathom to the depth of hell. Nothing but murdered Kings can him suffice, And flaming citys as a sacrifice. OATES. Yet see behind his chair whom Heaven has sent, Whom God hath made a timely instrument, England's intended ruin to prevent. That which the Devil and the Pope combined Against our King and Protestants designed, Disclosed and frustrated by him we find. p 4 216 HUDIBRAS. The price marked upon the back of the plate is five guineas, but it the following manuscript may be trusted, this copy cost a great deal more. " This is a mtost exceeding rare print: we had ?< a great battle at Langford's for this print. It " cost me a great deal more than I charge " for it," ee HUDIBRAS. THE translation of IJudibras in French, by John Townley, Esq. is so very scarce, that when INir. Tytler published some specimens from it in the first edition of his Essay on the Principles of Translation, the writers of the Critical Review were much inclined to consider it as spurious. Their words are these : " We shall preserve the little space that re- mains for some specimens of a French trans- lation of Hudibras, a work that was supposed impracticable. We have been almost led to suspect, that this pretended Translation is one 01 the pise fraudes, and that in reality no more has been translated than what appears. After a very diligent enquiry among the admirers of French literature. HUDIBRAS. 217 literature, we have been able to discover no such version of the truly English poet." As the book is certainly of great rarity, and as no specimens have elsewhere appeared, except in the above publication, I venture to subjoin what follows : This said, his courage to inflame, He called upon his mistress' name; His pistol then he cocked anew, And out his nut-brown whinyard drewj And placing Ralpho in the front, Reserved himself to bear the brunt, As expert warriors use : then ply'd With iron heel his courser's side, Conveying sympathetic speed, From heel of Knight to heel of steed. Meanwhile the foe, with equal rage And speed, advancing to engage, Both parties now were drawn so close, Almost to come to hardy blows j When Orsin first let fly a stone At Ralpho ; not so huge a one As that which Diomed did maul iEneas on the bum withal ; Yet big enough, if rightly hurled, T'have sent him to another world ; Whether above ground or below, Which saints twice dipt are destiued to, ******** He loosed his whinyard and the rein, But laying fast hold on the mane, Preserved his seat, and as a goose In death contracts her talons close, ho 218 HUDIBRAS. So did the Knight, and with one claw The tricker of his pistol draw ; The gun went oft*, and as it was Still fatal to stout Hudibras, In all his feats of arms, when least He dreamt of it, to prosper best ; So now he fared : the shot, let fly At random 'mong the enemy, Pierced Talgol's gabberdine, and grazing Upon his shoulder in the passing, Lodgd in Magnano's brass habergeon Who straight a surgeon cryed, a surgeon : He tumbled down, and, as he fell, Did murther, murther, murther yell. II dit, & son coeur s'enflamma, Trois fois *a Maitresse il nomma; Et l'amorce renouvcllee Aux pistolets, tira l'epee ; Fit marcher Ralpho le premier, Et lui, comme habile guerrier, Qui de son Art la regie observe, Se placa pour corps de reserve ; Puis du talon de fer arme Du cheval piqua le cote Et par eftet de sympathie, De marcher plus vite l'envje De ce talon du Chevalier Passa dans celui du coursier. Cependant, avec rage egale, S'c-mpress')it la troupe male ; Vers Hudibras ils s'approrhoiont, Et deja pr< squ'ils y touchoient, Quand Orsin, de main meurtrierc A Ralpho lai ca telle pieire, (Pas HUDIBRASS- 219 (Pas si grosse a la verifie Que celle, qui du terns passe, Par Diomede fut lancee Au croupion du pauvre Enee.) Mais qu'elle Pouvoit l'envoyer En i'autre monde voyager : (Soit qu'on y monte ou qu'on y rampe, Ou vont Saints que deux ibis on trempq*) yfc 7& V V ^ ll l'acha renes & rapiere, Mais, se prenant a la criniere, Garda la siege, & comme oiseaux, En mourant serrent les engots, Hudibras, dans cette epouvante, D'un ergot tira la detente D'un des pistolets, qui partit ; Et, comme mainte fois on vit Dans ses exploits, Dame Fortune Lui faire faveur non commune, Lorsqu'il pouvoit moins y songer, Aussi fit-elle en ce danger. Car le boulet, a l'aventure, Parti sans dessein, fit blessure Au gourdin de Talgol, frolant Sur son epaule en y passant, Et logea dans l'armet de cuivre De Magnano, qui voulant vivre, Cria d'abord, un chirurgien ; (La crainte a part, il n'avoit rien) Repetant, au meurtre sans cesse, II tomba, comme de foiblesse. The John Townley, Esq., who translated this work, was uncle to Charles Townley, Esq. Trustee of the British Museum, and celebrated for 220 HUDIBRA& for his noble and elegant collection of Ancient Marbles. In the copy, which Mr. Townley pre- sented to the Museum, of his uncle's perfoi ancc, is a head of him, very well engraved, with this inscription : JOHANNES TOWNLEY, Ordinis MMitaris Sti. Ludovici Eqites. Ad impertiendum amicis infer Gallos linguae Anglicana? nonnihil pcritis, Facetum poenia Iludibras dictum Accurate, festiveque Gallice convertit. Hie Johannes Townley in apro Lancastriensi Armigeri filiits Nat. A. D. 1697 Denat. A. D. 1782. Grato pioquc animo fieri curavit Johannes Townley, Nepos, 1797- The Critical Reviewers might, however, have known somethingof the Translation from G ranger. who speaks of the work in his fourth volume, p. 39. " I am credibly informed," says Granger, " that this Translation was done by Mr. Town- " ley, a gentleman of fortune in Lancashire, " who has been allowed by the French to un- " derstand their language as well as the natives " them&elvcs." Mr. Townley was educated in France, and was for a long time in the French service, and thui jENEas vicus. 9^1 thus naturally acquired an Intimate knowledge of the French language. In the French Translation, the Epistle to Si- drophel is omitted, which indeed has nothing to do with the rest of the Poem. The cuts which accompany this work are very neat and correct copies from Hogarth. The only Translation of the kind, that can at all be placed in competition with the above, is frhat of Rabelais, by Sir Thomas Urquhart JENEAS VICUS. Et Libris xxur Comment ariorum in Vetera Impp. Rom. Numismata lEiieaz Vici. Vene- tiis. MDLXII. The copy of this rare book, which is in the Cracherode Collection, formerly belonged to Mr. Folkes, at the sale of whose library it was purchased by Dr. Askew. It was once in the possession of Monsieur Grotier, who had been ambassador at Rome from Francis I. This gentleman had a library of about three thousand volumes, all of which 8 were 222 jENEAS vicus. were gilt in different fashions, and all of them lettered. " Io. Grotierii et amicorum." This library was publicly sold at Paris in 1670. ./Eneas Vicus was a very learned man, and wrote several works on coins, which are highly esteemed. He was one of the first, if not the first, who engraved the reverses of coins. The manner of his death was very singular and la- mentable. He was shewing some coins to the Duke of Ferrara, and fell down and died in a moment. The other works of iEneas Vicus, are 1. Omnium Caesarum verissimse imagines, &c. Parma, 1552. Patinus, in his Introduction to the History of Coins, misnames this book, " Caesarum rarissimas " imagines." 2. Augustarum imagines, (the wives of The Caesars) Venice, 1558. 3. Le Imagini con tutti i Reversi Trovati, ele Vite de gli Imperatori, &c. Parma, 1658. 4. Discorsi di M. Enea Vico Parmigiano sopra Medaglie, &c. Venice, 1555. All the above are in the Crachcrode Collec- tion, Avith a duplicate of the book specified at the head of the article. STENOGRAPHY. STENOGRAPHY. 2<23 STENOGRAPHY. Character and Arte of shorte, swift and secrete t Writing by Character, invented by Timothe Bright, Doctor of Phisike. Imprinted at London by J. JVindet, the Assignc of Tim Blight, 1558. Cum privilegio Regies Majestatis. Forbidding all others to print the same. THIS curious and scarce little book belongs to Mr. Douce, who has observed that it is the first treatise in our own, or perhaps in any other language, on the subject of short-hand writing. The author certainly claims the honour of the invention in his dedication, which is to Queen Elizabeth, and in the following terms: To the Most high and inightie Prince Elizabeth, by the Grace of God, of England, Fraunce, and Ireland, Queene, Defender of the Faith, &cc. Cicero did account it worthie his labor, and no less profitable to the Roman common weale (Most gratious Soueraigne) to inuent a speedie kinde of wryting by Character, as Plutarch reporteth in the life of Cato the yonger. This invention was increased afterwards by Seneca; that the number of characters grue to 7000. Whether through iniurie of time, or that men gaue it over for tediousness of learning, nothing 6 remain eth 224 STENOGRAPHY. remaineth extant of Cicero's inuention at thii day. Upon consideration of the great vse of such a kinde of writing, I haue inuented the like : of fewe Characters* short and easie> euery Cha- racter answering a word : My Inuention ineere English, without precept, or imitation of any. The uses are diuers : Short, that a swifte hande may therewith write orations, or publike actions of speach, vttered as becometh the grauitie of such actions, verbatim. Secrete as no kinde of wryting like. And herein (besides other pro- perties) excelling the wryting by letters and Alphabet, in that, Nations of strange languages, may hereby communicate their meaning together in writing, though of sundrie tonges. It is re- ported of the people of China, that they haue no other kinde, and so traffike together many Prouinces of that kingdom, ignorant one of an others speach. Their Characters are very long & hard to make, that a dousen of mine, may be written as soone as one of theirs : Besides, they wanting an Alphabet, fal into an infinite number, which is a thing that greatlic chargeth memory, and may discourage the learner. This my inuention I am emboldened to dedi- cate unto your Majesty, in that among other your Princelie vertues, your Majesty is woont to approue of euery good and profitable inuention of learning: and in duetie of thankefulnesse am I much more bounde thereunto, from whome, I have STENOGRAPHY. 22$ haue received assurance of the finite of my studies, by your Maiesties most gracious privi- ledge. And this my inuention being altogether of English yeeld, where your Maiestie is the Ladie of the soyle it appertained of right, to you onely. So, mooued by auctie, and incouraged by your Maiesties fauourable disposition to the vertuous and learned indeaueurs of your faithfull subiects, I haue presumed to publish my cha- ractery under the protection of your Maiesties name. It is like a tender plant, yong & strange, and so it resteth. If it may be so happy as to injoye the in- fluence of your Maiesties fauoure and good liking, I doubt not, but it will growe up, be em- braced, and yeeld profitable fruit unto many, & I myself thereby shal have atteined for my particular respect, that which in a lower degree, many shal enjoy the vse of this my inuentio, which I hope (be it said with modestie) wanteth little to equall it, with that olde deuise of Ci- ceroes, but your Maiesties alowance, & Ci- ceroes name. The later as I can easily spare, so without the former my characterie dareth pre- sume no farther, but liueth or dieth, according to your Maiesties account, whose blessed state, as it is to all your loyall subiectes an other life, besides the naturall, so to this new sprong ympe, and to me the parent thereof, nothing can be more comfortable then your Maiesties gracious q. accep* &6 STENOGRAPHY. acceptation, by whom all the land florisheth, and is at the very heart cheered. The eternal blesse your Maiestie with in- crease of all happinesse to your comfort, and your faithful subjects, that (under the great Maiestie of God) onely depend upon you. Your Maiesties faithful subicct, Timotiie Bright. This Timotbe Bright was also author of va- rious other works, of which copies of those that follow are in the British Museum Library. De Dyscrasia Corporis liumani. London, 1583. 8vo. A Treatise of Melancholy. London, 1586. 12mo. De Sanitate tuenda et rcstituenda. Franc. 1588. 8vo. Hygieina. London. 8vo. This latter is a very curious tract, and of itself entitles the author to a respectable place in the Biographia of our country, where, how- ever, his name does not appear; neither is he mentioned, because probably unknown to the writer, in Masseys very entertaining book on the Origin and Progress of Letters. I find him introduced, however, in the first volume of the Athens Oxouienscs, where he is represented as of Cambridge, and a Doctor of Physic, and Kector AltS MEMORATIVA. 227 Rector of Methley, in Yorkshire. He says of himself, Cantabrigiensis sum et genere et vitas instituto. The copy of the Hygieina, which is in the British Museum, was formerly in the possession of the celebrated Huinfrey Wanley, and has his autograph* Note The treatise De Dyscrasia, &c. is the second part of the tract De Sanitate tuenda. ARS MEMORATIVA. (Jacobi Publicii) Ars Memorativa. 4to. Goth. Fig. A VERY curious and scarce book, which, as Mi\ Douce is of opinion, was the earliest with wooden cuts, that was printed with moveable types, Denis (I use, with his permission, the words of Mr. Douce) affirms, in his Supplement to Maittaire, that it was printed at Cologne. This opinion seems to be founded on the resemblance of its type to that which was used by Ulric Zell. The capital letters, however, are different from tnose in a copy of Petrarch's Historia Griselidis q 2 in 238 ARS MEMORATIVA. in the possession of Mr. Douce, as well as from the engraved specimen in Meerman, Tab. ix. In the Catalogue of the Valliere Library, No. 1856, it is said to have been printed by J. Gul- denschoff, of Mayence, but who, according to Maittaire, was of Cologne. The volume consists of fourteen leaves, each page containing twenty-seven lines. The fol- lowing is a specimen of the contents. I must, however, remind the reader that the original is in the Gothic character, with so many and com- plicated abbreviations, as to render it by no means easy of perusal. Nonnihil etiam ad hac re opis onomathopcia nobis afrert ide agminlo ubi e sono vocis ducta. Sic eminet taratantara dixit. Equi hynnitus mugitusque boii balatuq. grege. Strix nocturna et vespertilio stridet, bubitus apium grus gruit crastinat corvus tu corvo voce notat barritus a barro ululat ulule pitat accipitres et alia qua? plurima sunt usu ct cosuetudine vocis sonitu ymagines pbebunt. The engravings on wood are of very rude ex- ecution, representing a book, part of a town, an old man sitting in a chair, horses. The book was, beyond doubt, printed between 146*0 and 1470. The authdr, Jacobus Publicius, was a Florentine, concerning whom, if the reader wishes for further particulars, he may consult Fusii Tjibliotheca Gesneri, p. 38S, and Fabric ii Biblioth. Media Abatis, iv. 42. Maittaire ENGLISH POETRY. 229 Maittaire was not acquainted with this edition ; and .some authors have attributed it to George Sibut. See the Valliere Catalogue, Preface, p. xvi. The Valliere Copy sold for 110 livres. Besides the copy in the Museum, Mr. Douce has one, but I know of no other. ENGLISH POETRY. MY friend Mr. Douce accommodated me, for the purpose of this publication, with a very curious and scarce treatise, containing Obser- vations on the Art of English Poesie, by Thomas Campion. Mr. Isaac Reed obligingly furnished me with the answer to the treatise, by Daniel, entitled * A Defence of Ryme." I was about to describe these two tracts, when Mr- G. Chalmers, whose knowledge of English Literature can only be exceeded by the promp- titude with which he communicates his resources to his friends, recommended to me to enlarge my plan, and give a succinct account of such essays on the subject of English Poetry as are most remarkable for their scarcity and value. q3 At 2S0 ENGLISH POETRY. At the same time, he, with the greatest kindness, supplied me with various materials, and the loan of such books as are not to be found in the Museum. v Indeed his communications were so ample and so satisfactory, that little has been left or fme, except to methodize and arrange them. The first publication * which we have upon the subject, is found in a most rare volume, which contains tracts written by King James I, The book itself is so very scarce that I may well be excused for minutely describing its contents. It is in quarto, printed at Edinburgh by Thomas Vautrouiller in 1585. James was born on the 19th of June, 1566, and he was consequently only nineteen years of age when he produced this work. It is called " The Essayes of a Pren- tise in the Divine Art of Poesie," and consists of seven different tracts. 1. The Twelve Sonnets of Invocations to the Goddis. 2. The Uranie, or Heavenly Muse translated! 3. The Metaphoricall Inventioun of a Tra- gedic callit Phcenix. * King James, in his Treatise on the Art of Scotch Poetry, ppraks of sundry writers who had written on the same subject in English, but the only one I remember to have {raced is Gascoigne, at the end of whose poems in 1675, and again with his works in 1587, was printed " Certayne Notes of In- duction concerning the making of Verse or Ryme." 4. A ENGLISH POETRY. g3i 4. A Paraphrasticall Translatioun out of the Poete Lucane. 5. A Treatise of the Airt of Scottis Poesie. , 6. The cuid Psalme of David, translated out of Tremellius. 7- A Poeme of Tyme. Of these articles, the fifth, or Treatise of the Airt of Scottis Poesie is singularly curious, as. may sufficiently appear from the following short specimen. For flyting or Invectives vse this kynde of verse following: call it Roancefalles, or Tumbling Verse, In the hinder end of harvest upon Allhallew f-ue Quhcn our gude nichtbors rydis nou gif I reid richt Some bucklit on a benwood and some on a bene Aye trottand into troupes fra the twilicht Some sadland a sho ape all grathed into grene Some hotcheard on a hemp stalk hovand on a heicht The King of Fary with the Court of the Eli Queue, With many etrage Incubus rydand that nicht. There an elf on ane ape ane ursell begat Besyde a pot baith auld and worne, This bratsherd in ane bus was borne, They fand a monster on the morne, Wnf facit nor a Cat. For compendious praysing of any bukes, or the authouris theirof, or ony argumentis of other hist'oreis quhair sindrie sentences and change of purposis are requyrit, use Sonet verse, of fourtene lynis and ten fete in every lyne. a 4 The 232 ENGLISH POETRY. The exemple quhairof I neid nocht to shaw zow in respect I have sat doun twa in the be- ginning of this treatise. In materis of love use this kynde of verse quhilk we call Commoun verse, as Quhais answer made thame nocht sa glaid, That they should thus the victors be, As even the answer quhilk I haid Did greatly joy and comfort me ; Quher lo, this spak Apollo myne All that thou seikis, it sail be thyne. Lyke verse of ten fete as this foirsaid is of aucht ze may use lykewayis. in love materis, as also all kyndis of cuttit and broken verse quhairof new formes are daylie inventit according to the Poetis pleasour, as Quha wald have tyrde to heir that tone Quhilk birds corroborat ay above Through schouting of the Larkis? They sprang sa heich into the skyes Quhill Cupide walknis with the cryis Of naturis chapell clarkis. Then leaving all the Heavins above, He lichted on the card. Lo how that lytill God of Love Before me then appeard So myld lyke "With bow three quarters skant, And chyld lyke, So moylie lie lukit lyke a cant. And coj lie. And sa futih. I am ENGLISH POETRY. 233 I am indebted to my friend Mr. Todd's ex- cellent edition of Spenser's works, for the op- portunity of placing chronologically the next writer on this subject. This was undoubtedly our great poet Spenser, who had written a treatise called, " The English Poet," which has unfortunately been lost, but which must have contained specimens of the writings of his countrymen. See Todd's edition of Spenser, The Life, p. 7 and p. 158. See also the Argument to October in the Shepherd's Ca- lendar. Speaking of " Poetrie," he calls it " a ' divine gift, and heavenly instinct, not to be ' gotten by labour and learning, but adorned ' with both, and poured into the witte by a ' certaineenthusiasmosand celestiall inspiration, ' as the author hereof elsewhere at large dis- 1 courseth, in his book called the English Poet ; * which booke being lately come to my handes, ' I minde also by God's grace, upon further advisement to publish." The next treatise in chronological order, of which I have any knowledge, is that of Webbe on English Poetry, printed in 1586. It is one of the scarcest books in the circle of English lite- rature. I never heard of but one copy *. This was bought at the sale of Major Pearson's li- * Mr. Malone possesses another. brary, 234 ENGLISH POETRY. brary, by George Steevens, for three pounds five shillings. At the sale of Mr. Steevens's library, it was purchased for the Duke of Roxburgh for eight guineas. Having examined this tract in the Roxburgh Collection, I am enabled to give the following account of it. It is entitled, A Discourse of English Poetrie, together with the author's judg- ment, touching the reformation of our English verse, by William Webbe, Graduate. Imprinted at London, by John Churl wood, for Robert Wallcy, 1586. 4to. Black letter. Dedicated " to the right worshipful!, learned, and most gentle gentleman, my v'erie good master, Ma. Edward Sullard, Esq. \V. W. wvsheth his harts desire. To give the reader some idea of this book, I have transcribed the paragraph with which it concludes. " This small travell, courteous reader, I de- " sire thee to take in good worth, which I have " compyled, not as an exquisite censure con- " cerning this matter, but as thou mayst well " perceive in trueth, to that onely ende that it " might be an occasion to have the same throughly " and with greater discretion taken in hande, " and laboured by some other of greater abilitie, " of whom I know there be manic among the " famous poets in London, who bothe for learn- " ing and lcysure may handle the argument far " more pvthelie." A ENGLISH POETRY. 235 As the Duke's library is to be sold by pub- lic auction, this tract will again be brought before the public ; and it requires no great sagacity to foretell, that it will produce a far larger sum. Sir John Iiarington's Apologie of Poetry, has an intermediate claim to. notice, from having been prefixed to his Translation of Orlando Fu- rioso, in 159 1, And so has Fraunee's Arcadian Rhetorike, 1588, a very scarce book in the li- brary of Mr. Malone. The next publication in order, is Sir Philip Sidney's " Apologie for Poetrie." This was published after Sir Philip's death. The date of the first edition is 1595, and Sir Philip died in 1 5 86. As this was, in all probability, composed though not published before Webbe's, perhaps in strict propriety it should have been mentioned first. The next publication in our series is, Bolton's Hypercritica. Of this very curious tract, or rather collec- tion of tracts, I know of no detached edition. It is printed at the end of Trivet's " Annalium Continuatio," edited by Hearne in 1722. The essay which entitles it to a place here, is the fourth, which is called, " Prime Gardens for gathering English : ac- cording to the true gage or standard of the tongue about fifteen or sixteen years ago." With the date of 1589 we have Puttenham's Arte of Englishe Poesie, a very rare and very curious 236 ENGLISH POETRY. curious book, progressively increasing in its value. Mr. Isaac Reed informs me, that he well remem- bers when the common price asked for a good copy of Gascoigne's works was five shillings. I do not think that it could now be obtained for five guineas. Thus also it has happened with Puttenham. I remember thinking forty shillings an enormous sum to be given for this book; but I have since seen one, with the head of Elizabeth, in no very excellent condition, produce some- what above eight pounds. Next to Puttenham, I believe I must place Ob- servations in the Art of English Poesie, by Thomas Campion, wherein it is demonstratively proved, and by example confirmed, that the English toong will receive eight severall kinds of numbers, proper to itselfe, which are all in this book set forth, and were never before this time by any man attempted. This was printed by Richard Field, for Andrew Wise, in 1600. This tract is a formal attack upon rhime. The author observes thus in his Preface. " For this end have I studyed to induce a " true forme of versefying into our language, for " the vulgar and unartificiall custome of riming " hath, I know, detered many excellent wits " from the exercise of English Poesy." This tract roused the indignation of Samuel Daniel, who in the very following year, nameJy, in ENGLISH POETRY. 237 in 1603, published " A Defence of Ryme, against a pamphlet, entituled, Observations in the Art of Poesie, wherein is demonstratively prooved that ryme is the fittest harmonie of wordes that comports with our language. I have seen two editions of this work, one in quarto, lent me by Mr. Reed, with the date of 1603, and one in a small folio, published with other poems of Daniel, of the same date. This last is in the possession of Mr. Chalmers. Among other remarks in vindication of ryme, Daniel has the following : " But had our adversary taugbt us by his ,f owne proceedings, this way of perfection, and " therein fram'd us a poeme of that excel- " lencie as should put downe all, and been " the maister-peece of these times, we should " all have admired him. But to deprave the " present forme of writing, and to bring us no- " thing but a few loose and uncharitable epi- 41 grammes, and yet would make us believe those " numbers were come to raise the glory of our " language, giveth us cause to suspect the per- " formance, and to examine whether this new " arte, constat sibi, or, allquid sit dictum quod " non sit dictum prhts" We have now to pass over a long interval of time before we-eoaie to- any treatise on the sub- ject of English Poetry. Indeed I know of none but " Pooles England's Parnassus," which was published t38 ENGLISH POETRY. published in 16.57. I mention this, on account of the Editor's prefatory remarks, otherwise it ought to be placed among the Collections of English Poetry, which I shall hereafter enu- merate. After the above, I do not recollect any thing till we come to the Critical Prefaces of Dryden : but here I rank Dryden, both on account of his great name, sacred to every lover of the Muses, and because as he says, " he had taught his " readers to be too nice critics." With respect to the dates of these prefaces, the more curious reader has only to refer to Mr. Malone's work. I have not specified them, as my intention was* only to give a succinct sketch of the subject. It does not seem to be of material consequence, whether we place Phillips before or after Dryden. The Theatrum Poetarum was published in 1675, and contains a " Prefatory Discourse of the Poets, and Poetry in generall." Edward Phillips was the nephew of Milton, and it was believed that Milton assisted him in his work. The next in order is the " Essay upon Poetry," by the famous Duke of Buckingham. This is a Poetical Essay, and was published in 1(>82. It begins with this maxim : Of things in which mankind does most exccll, feature's chief master-piece is writing well. g After ENGLISH POETRY, 239 After the above, I believe t must place the Essay on Translated Verse, by the Earl of Ros- common. In 1687, William Winstanley put forth his Lives of the most famous English Poets. In 1691, we have Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Dramatic Poets; and Gilo'on's ab- stract of it, in I698. In 1718, Gildon's Com* plete Art of Poetry*. In 1694, appeared re- marks on Poetry, with characters and censures of the most considerable poets. It contains a chapter on English Poetry, and characters of several English poets. In 1721, Lord Lans- down on Unnatural Flights in Poetry. In 1723, was published the Poetical Register of Giles Jacob. In 1725, Vida's Art of Poetry, by Chris- topher Pitt; and in 1740, the Quintessence of English Poetry, by Thomas I lay ward f, in 3 vols. 12mo. The Preface to this work is by the celebrated William Oldys, with the supervisal and corrections of his friend, Dr. Campbell, says Warton. See History of E. P. iii. 28 L It contains an historical and critical review of * See page 245. f First published under the title of The British Muse, in 1738, and pronounced by Warton to be the most com- prehensive and exact common-place of our most eminent Poets throughout the reign of Queen Elizabeth and after- wards. Pemberton's Observations on Poetry,, especially the Epic, Mere alio published in 1733, all 40 ENGLISH POETRY. all similar collections, but it is by no means so satisfactory as might hve been expected. I should have observed above, that Boileau s Art of Poetry was made English by Sir William Soames, which was afterwards revised by Dryden. I would avoid making this article too elabo- rate, but some readers may thank me, perhaps, for briefly mentioning the following publications on the subject, as a sort of link to the chain. The Art of Poetry on a new plan, was pub- lished in two volumes, octavo, in 1762, for New- bery. In 1? 6% Remarks on the Beauties of Poetry were published by Daniel Webb, Esq; and Ob- servations on the Correspondence between Poetry and Music, by the same author, in 17<\9- In 1764, we have the History of the Rise and Progress of Poetry, by Dr. Brown. In 1778, Percival Stockdales Inquiry into the Nature and genuine Laws of Poetry, &c. In 178'i, Henry Ileadley published Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, in '2 vols. liJino. These volumes contain many elegant criti- cisms, as well as pertinent biographical sketches and anecdotes, which evince, perhaps, a young, but certainly a fine taste, and highly polished mind. I am happy in this opportunity of pay- ing a tribute of esteem and atfection to his memory, for I knew him well. The different essays and critical pieces of Dr. Aikin, particularly his elegant Essay on Song Writing, ENGLISH POETRY. 241 \Vriting, deserve an honourable place, and will amply repay the readers' attention. Neither ought I to omit the Doctor's Essay on the Ap- plication of Natural History to Poetry, and Letters to a Young Lady on a Course of English Poetry. That I may have forgotten some respectable names in this series, is very possible. I can only say, that I shall be thankful in this, and indeed. in every other instance, to have the deficiencies pointed out. I proceed now to the other part of my design, which is to place before the reader a concise account of the different Poetical Miscellanies and Collections which have appeared in our language. The first of these is Tottell's Poetical Mis- cellany. The first edition of this work appeared in 1557, which was followed by a second in 1565. Warton is of opinion, that this Miscellany gave occasion to two very favourite and celebrated collections of the same kind, namely, The Pa- radise of Dainty Devises, and England's Helicon. See his History of English Poetry, vol. 3. p. 69. In the same vol. of his valuable work, p. 2,96, our poetical historian speaks of a miscellany, printed in 156"? or 156'S, entitled " Newe So- uettes and Pretty Pamphlettes," &c. In 1578, "The Paradise of Dainty Devises" was published in 4to. r When 242 ENGLISH POETRY. When it is considered how very popular tin* book was, and through what a variety of editions* the work passed, it seems astonishing that it should be so exceedingly scarce, and yet I hardly know where a copy is to be found. It is not in the Museum. Mr. George Ellis has a complete copy of the first edition. The Duke of Rox- burgh's collection, it seems, has three different editions. I have never seen a copy, but one in manu- script, lent me by Mr. Douce, from which I ex- tract the following particulars. Dr. Warton speaks of an edition of this work in 1573, but this is probably a mistake, and tho 3 must have been misprinted for 8. The book was fust printed by Henry Disle, who had not served out his apprenticeship till Midsummer, 1576. Resides, Warton himself mentions the edition of 1578, as the first edition, vol. 3. p. <285. note 1. Henry Disle died in July, 1582, when the copy of this book was granted to one Timothie Rider, by the Court of Assistants. See the Stationers' Hall Book, B. p. 190. b. As I do not think that Warton, though he makes frequent mention of the work, has any where given its title ; and as the book itself is so remarkably scarce, no apology seems necessary for transcribing it. Tur ENGLISH POETRY. fc "'The Pakadyse of Daynty Devises," Conteyning sundry paltry precepts, learned counsels, and excellent inventions, right pleasant and profitable for all estates. Devised and written for the most part by M. Edwardes, formerly of Her Majesties Chappell : the rest by sundry learned gentlemen, both of honour and worship, whose names hereafter followe * ; Imprinted at London by Henry Disle, dwellyng in Paule's Church Yard, at the South-west door of Saint Paules Churche, and are there to be solde. 1577." Of this book, notwithstanding its extraor- dinary rarity, there were no less than eight editions, of which, I believe the following will prove an accurate account: The first was in 15/6, of which George Steevens had the copy, which is now in the Library of the late D ke of Roxburgh. My friend Mr. George Ellis has also a copy. The second was in 1577. Of this, Mr. Douce possesses a Transcript by the late Mr. Herbert ; and with the use of which, he has obligingly ac- commodated me. The third was in 1578. This is quoted by the late Horace Walpole, and by Dri Wartoh. The fourth was in 1580. Of this edition there < m * - ii -' - " ' " * Their names are specified in Amis, p. 6S5. it 2 is 244 ENGLISH POETRY. is a copy in the King's Library, and one also in the collection of the Duke of Roxburg . The fifth Mas in 1585. This edition is referred to by Dr. Percy in his Reliques of Ancient Poetry. r lhe next edition is said to be of the date ot 1592, but this is considered as of doubtful au- thority. 'iue seventh edition was in 1596. Of this, G. Steevens had the copy which is now in the Library of the Duke of Roxburgh. liit last edition was of 1600, which also was in the possession of Mr. Steevens, and is now in the Roxburgh Collection. The Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions, a Poetical Miscellany, published in 1578, succeeded the Paradise of Dainty De- vises; and this was followed by A Handfuli. of Pleasant Delites, in 1584. The next Poetical Collection Mas entitled the Phenix Nest. This was in quarto, and ap- peared in 1593. By the kindness of Mr. Douce, I am enabled to transcribe the title page of this rare book. " The Phoenix Nest, built up with the most rare and refined Workes of Noblemen, woorthy Knights, gallant Gentlemen, Masters of Arts and brave Schollers. " Full of varietie, excellent Invention, and singular Delight. " Never before this time published. 11 Set foorth by R. S. of the Inner Temple, Gentleman, ENGLISH POETRY. 245 Gentleman. Imprinted at London, by John Jackson, 1593." The next in order is "England's Helicon." This was in quarto, and appeared in i6()0. A second edition was published in 1614. In 1600 appeared " Relvidere, or the Gar- den of the Muses." There was a second edition in 1610, entitled " The Garden of the Muses," with- cut the previous title of Belvieere, but they are one and the same Collection, and made by John Bodenham. This is a curious, but at the same time, very whimsical Miscellany, as the author in another edition made k a rule, to give place to no more tkan a quotation of a single line, or a couplet of ten syllables. An imperfect copy of this book produced, at the sale of Mr. Allen's Library, ll. lis. 6d. The reader, who wishes for more information concerning it, may consult Herbert's edition of Ames, vol. 111. p, 1382, and the " Return from Parnassus," Reed's edition, p. 211. In 16()0 also was published " England's Par- nassus, or the choycest Flowers of our modern Poets, with their Poetical Comparisons, by R. A." R. A. means Robert Allot, concerning whom the reader may consult Warton's History of English Poetry, vol. in. p. 280. In 1601 appeared Chester's "Rosaline's Complaint." There was a copy of this in Major Pierson's Sale -catalogue, from which I transcribe the title : R3 *46 ENGLISH POETRY. " Loves Martyr, or Rosaline's Complaint, a Poeme, enterlaced with much varietie, with the legend of King Arthur, by Robert Chester, 1601. Hereafter follow diverse Poetical Essaies, done by the best and chiefest of our moderne writers, and consecrated by them all, general to Sir John Salisburie. Imprinted for E. B. 1601." It must, from the above description, be a compilation of singular curiosity, but I have not been able to trace the purchaser, and no other copy is known. It sold for two pounds fourteen shillings. In 1602 was published Davison's " Po- etical Rapsody, containing divers Sonnets, Odes, Elegies, Madrigals, and other Poesies, both in rime and measured verse." This valuable Miscellany passed through three successive and augmented editions in 1608, 1611, and 16C1. T^he next publication of the kind, is " The English Treasury of Wit and Language, by John Cotgrave, 1655." This was taken from the Dramatic Writers, and is digested into common places. Of this book Mr. Douce possesses the Copy which belonged to Oldys ; who was at the pains to trace each quotation to its original author, and lias inscribed the writer's name be- neath each passage. I do not know what the value of this book may now be, but, in 1801, a copy in White's catalogue was marked at three guineas and a half. The next publication of the kind in our se- ries ENGLISH POETRY. 247 ries is, u The English Parnassus, or aa Help to English Poetry," by Joshua Poole. This appeared in 16.57. A second edition was published in 16*77. In 1703 we have " The Art of English Poetry," in l 2 vols. 8vo. by Edward Byshe. This has passed through a great variety of editions. The seventh edition, much corrected and ei> larged, was published in 1725, and entitled The British Parnassus. > In 171 S we have "The complete Art of Poetry," by Gildon, in 2 vols. >vo. In 1738 Thomas Hayward published "The British Muse," of which there was a se- cond edition in 1 740, with the title mentioned above. The last collection, of which it comes within my plan to make mention is, " The Muses Library, or a Series of English Poetry, from the Saxons to the reign of King Charles II." by E. Cooper, 1737. This elegant volume was, for a long time, held in so little esteem, that several titles were re- quired to sell off the impression ; and it migh t be purchased from stalls for a shilling or eigh- teen pence. It is now become scarce. It pro<- bably suggested his plan to Mr. Headley and to e, Pleased with the hearing, he desired to see What wondrous creature nature had composde. In whom>uch gracious rnusick was enclosed. To save her life, the Ant tells the " Lady Nightingale" a tale of what happened to him when he was a ploughman ; secondly, a tale when he was a soldier. I cannot give a better specimen of the prose, than the commencement of this latter tale. " Most musical and prickte singing madame, for if I erre not, your ladeshipp was the first that brought up Prick Song, being nothing else but the fatall notes of your pittifull ravishment. I not contented long, a vice cleaving to all world- lings, with the little estate of an ant, but stuft with envie and ambition, as small as I was, de- sired to enter into the world againe, which I may rather tearme the upper hell, or frigide geiienna, the cold charitable hell, Avherein are all kinds of divells too, as your gentle divell, your ordinary divell, and your gallant divell; and all these can chaunge their shape too : as to- day in cowardly white, to-morrow in politicke blacke, a thirde day in jealous yellow: for believe it, sweete ladye, there are divils of all colours : nevertheless, I, covetous of more change, leapt out of this little skin of an ant, and hung my s 2 sjdrj 560 THOMAS NASH. skin on the hedge, taking upon me the grisly shape of a dusty souldier, &c. &c. Sec. This curious little volume thus concludes: By this the day began to spring, And seize upon her watchful eies, When more tree queristers did singj And every bird did wake and rise ; Which was no sooner scene and heard, But all their pretty chat was marr'd. And then she saide We are betraide. The day is up, and all the birds, And they abroad will blab our words.. With that she bade the Ants farewell, And all they likewise, Philomel. Away they flew, Crying Tereu. And all the industrious Am?, in throngs, Pell to ther worke, and held their toongs. THOMAS NASH. AS the accounts of this writer are very concise and unsatisfactory in our biographical diction- aries, and as his works are now exceedingly rare, and purchased at a prodigious price, the follow- ing particulars may not be unacceptable. He ! tHOMAS NASH. 861 lie was born at LeostofFe, in Suffolk, in the reism of Charles the First. His father was de- scended from the Nashes of Herefordshire, as he himself informs us in his whimsical pro- duction, called, the Praise of a lied Herring, &c. &c. This pamphlet also contains an account, per- haps the earliest, of Great Yarmouth, in Norfolk, the haven of which, he tells us, cost above 26,0001. repairing in the last twenty-eight years. This was very scarce, even in the time of Sir Hans Sloane. Nash was educated at Cambridge, and was, for almost seven years, a member of St. John's College. He wrote a great dea 1 , both in prose and verse, particularly of the satirical kind. He obtained considerable reputation as an author, and was praised by many of his cotemporaries. He is thus described by Michael Drayton : And surely Nash, tho' he a proser were, A branch of laurel yet deserves to bear ; Sharply satyrick was he, and that way lle went ; since that his being to this day, Few have attempted, and 1 surely think, These words shall hardly be set down in ink. Shall scorch and blast, so as his could when he Would inflict vengeance. He is also thus mentioned in a very curious and scarce play, called, The Return from tar* s 3 nassus, 262 THOMAS NASH. nassus, or the Scourge of Simony, acted by the Students of St. John's College, Cambridge, \606. After introducing Spenser, Constable, Lodge, Daniel, Watson, Drayton, Davis, Marston, Mar- lowe, Shakspeare, and Churchyard, the Inter- locutors, Ingenioso and Judicio, thus proceed; Thomas Nash Ingenioso I here is a fellow, Judicio, that carried the deadly stocke in his pen, whose muse was armed with a jag tooth, and his pen possest with Her- cules furyes. Judicio. Lot all his faults slcepe with his mourneful client, An4 THOMAS NASH. The King's library contains 1. Mar- Martine. 4to. 2. Pappe with an hatchet, alias a Figge for my Godsonne, or cracke me this Nut, or a Countrie Cufte, that is a Sound Pox of the eare for the Idiot Martin to hold his peace, seeing the Patch w ill take no warning. Written by one that dares call a dog a dog, and made to prevent Martin's dog daics. Imprinted by John Anoke and John Astile, for the Baylive of Withernam cum privilegio perennitatis, and arc to bee sold at the signe of the Crab-tree Cudgel, in Thwacke Coate Lane. A scrtcne Martin hangs fit for my mewing. 3. Plaine Percivall the Peacemaker of England. 4to. 4. An Almond for a Parratt. 4to. 5. Martin's Months Mind. 4 to. 158.9. 6". The Tyrannicall dealing of Lords Pishops against God's Children. 4to. Reprinted 1640- 7. Pasquil's Apologic. 4to. 15. The Anatomic of Absurilitic. 4to. 15.00. 11. Pierce Pennilcsses Supplication to the Divell. 4 to. 15.95. 1 15. New Letter of notable Contents, with a strange Sonet, called the Gorgon. 4to. 1593. lo\ * Strange Newes of the intercepting cer- taine Letters and a Convoy of Verses as they were going privilie to victual the Low Countries. Unda impellitur unda. 4to. 1592. 17- Pierces Supererogation. 4to. 1593. 1 8. ' Have with you to Saffron Walden, or Gabriel Harvey's Hunt is up. 4to. 159o\ 19. Christ's Tears over Jerusalem. 4to. 1594. 20. The unfortunate Traveller, or the Life of Jacke Wilton. 4to. 1594. 21. Nash's Lenten Stuffe, &c. 1599. 22. The Trimming of Thomas Nash. 4to. 1597. 23. Summers Last Will, &c f 4to. 1600. 24. Tom Nashes Ghost. 4to. * This tract was in answer to the following, by Gabriel Harvey : " Three Proper and Witiie Familiar Letters, lately passed betweue two Universitie Men, touching the Earthquake in Aprill last, and our English refourmed Versifying ; vvith the Preface of a Well-wisher to them both. Imprinted at London, by H. Bynneman, dwelling in %T%ames Streate. neere unto Baynardes Castcll. Anno Do^ rami 1580. 4 to." The above is one of the scarcest of Nash's tracts. Dr. Farmer says, he never saw any copy but his own. Dr. Farmqr's copy sold for two guineas, and is in. the possession ? my friend Mr. G. Chalmers, Marquis 266 THOMAS NASH. Marquis Stafford's library possesses the fol- lowing works of Nash : 1. Pappe with a Hatchet, &c. 2. Martin's Months minde, that is, a certain report and true description of the Deathe and Funeral of olde Martin Marre Prelate the Great, Makedate of England, and Father of the Factious. Contayning the cause of his death, the manner of his burial, and the right copies, both of his Will, and of such Epitaphs, as by sundrie his discreet friends and other of his well-wishers were framed for him. Martin the ape, the drunke and the madde, The three Martins are whose workes we have had If Martin the fourth come, after Martins, so evill, Nor man, nor beast comes, but Martin the Devill. 3. Pierce Penilesse his supplication to the Divell. There are two editions of this tract; Mr. Isaac Reed has them both. 4. The Terrors of the Night, or a Discourse f Apparitions. Post tenebras dies. 4to. 1594. 5. Nashes Lenten Stuflfe, &c. 6. Christ's Teares over Jerusalem, whereuntqP is annexed a comparative Admonition to London. A Jove Musa. 4to. \6\3. 7. Strange Newes of the intercepting eertaine Letters, and a Convoy of Verses, &c. 1692. Of THOMAS NAS1L 267 Of these tracts, " The Terrors of the Night" is one of the scarcest in the circle of English literature. The only copy known to exist, is this of Lord Stafford's, by whose kind per- mission I am enabled to present the reader with the following extract, which at the same time may serve as a specimen of the author's style and manner. - " It was my chance in Februarie last, to be in the countrie some three score miles off from London, where a gentleman of good worship and credit falling sicke the verie seconde day of his lying downe, hee pretended to have mi- raculous waking visions; which before I enter to describe, thus much I will inform ye by the way, that at the reporting of them, he was in perfect memorie, nor had sickness yet so ti- rannized over him, to make his tongue grow idle. A wise, grave, and sensible man he was ever reputed, Sc so approved himselfe in all his actions in his life time. This which I deliver with manic preparative protestations to a great man of this land hee confidently avouched ; be- lieve it or condemn it as you shall see cause, for I leave it to be censured indifferently. " The first day of his distemperature, he visibly saw, as he affirmed, at his chamber, many with silken nets and siver hookes, the devill, as it should seeme, coming thither a fishing, whereupon every Pater Noster, while he looked whether in the jafo fliOMAS NASH. the nets he should be en tan sled, or with th hookes ensnared ; with the nets he feared to be strangled or smothered, and w rth the hooks to have his throat scratcht out, and his flesh rent and mangled ; at length he knew not how they sodainly vanished, and the whole chamber was cleered. Next a companie of lusty sailers, everie one a sharper, or a swaggerer at the least, hav- ing made a brave voyage, came carousing & quaffing in large silver kans to his helth Fel- lows theye were that had good big pop mouths to crie port a helme Saint George, and knew, as well as the best, what belongs to haling of bolings yare, and falling on the star boorde bulwicke. But to the issue of my talc these drunken prossers he utterly put by, & sayd he highly scorned & detested both them and their hellish disguisings ; which notwithstanding thev tost their cups to the skies, & reeled & staggered up & downc the roome like a ship shaking in the winde After all they danst lustie gallant, & a drunken Danish lavalto or two, & so departed For the third course rusht in a number of stately divels bringing in very strong chests of massie treasure betwixt them as brave they were as Turkish Janissaries, having their apparel all powdered with gold and pearle, and their arm; - as it were bcmanglcd with rich chaynes & bracelets ; but faces far blacker than anic ball of tobacco, great glaring eyes that had whoU THOMAS NASH. e6<| whole shelves of Kentish oysters in them, and terrible wyde mouths, whereof not one of them, but would well have made a case for Molenaa great gloabe of the world. " These lively youths & full of favour, having stalkt up and downe the just measures of a sink a pace opened one of the principal chests they brought, & out of it pluckt a princely royali tent whose empeailed shining canopie they quickly advanced on hie, and with all mag- nificence adorned like a state which performed, Pompous Lucifer entered imitating in goodly stature the huge picture of Laocoon at Rome: who sent unto him a gallant ambassador, signi- fying thus much, that if hee would serve him* hee should have all the rich treasure that he saw there, or anie farther wealth hee would de- sire. " The gentleman returned this milde answerer, that he knew not what he was, whether an angel, or a wicked fiend ; and if an angell he was but his fellow servant, and no otherwise to be served or regarded ; if a fiend or a devili, hee had no- thing to do with him, for God had exalted an# redeemed him above his desperate and outcast condition, and a strong faith lie had to defic and withstand all his juggling temptations, Having uttered these words, all the whole trairie of them invisibly avoided, & hee never set eye on them after. " Then 70 THOMAS NASH. " Then did there for the third pageant present themselves nnto him an inveigling troupe of naked virgins, thrice more amiable and beautiful than the bright vestals that brought in Augustus Testament to the Senate after his decease but no vestal ornament had they about them, for from top to toe, bare & exposed they were, except some two of thein that wore masks be- fore their faces. He obstinately bent to with- stand their allurements no lesse than the former, bad them goe seek entertainment of hotter bloods for he had not to satisfie them. A cold comfort vas this to poore wenches no better cloathed, yet they hearing what to trust too, verie sorrow- fully retyred and shrunk away. " Lo in the fourth act there sallied out a grave assembly of sober attyred matrons, much like the Virgins of Mary Magdalene, at Rome, which vow never to see man, or the Church Daughters ? Upbraiding, ill Uscemcs ymr bounteous mind: I do you lion< ur f< r aduancing ir.e, Why tis a credit fir your excellence To THOMAS Nx\SH. 273 To have so great a subject as I am : This is your glorie & magnificence, That without stouping of your mightinesse, Or taking any whit from your high state, You can make one as mightie as yourselfe. AUTUMNE. O arrogance, exceeding all beleif ! Summer, my Lord, this saucy upstart Jacke That now doth rule the chariot of the Sunne, And makes all Starres deriue their light from him, Is a most base insinuating slave, The son of parsomony and disdain, One that will shine, on friends and foes alike, That under brightest smiles hideth blacke showers : Whose enuious breath doth dry up springs and lakes And burnes the grasse, that beasts can get no foode. Winter. No dunghill hath so vilde an excrement, But with his beames hee will forthwith exhale : The fens and quagmires tithe to him their filth : foorth purest mines he sucks a gainefull drosse i Green ivy-bushes at the vintners doores He withers, & deuoureth all their sap. AUTUMHE. Lasciuous & intemperate he is. The wrong of Daphne is a itell-known tale : Erst euening he descends to Thetis lap, The while men thinke he bathes him in the sea. O ! but when he returneth whence he came, Downe to the West then dawnes his deity. Then doubled is the swelling of his lookes, He overloads his car with orient gems, And reynes his fiery horses with rich pearlc. He termes himselfe the god of poetry. And setteth wanton songs unto the lute. 274 ROBIN GOODFELLOW. ROBIN GOODFELLOW. For the account which I am able to give of this rare and curious book, I am also indebted to the great kindness of Marquis Stafford. Its title is as follows : " Robin Goodfellow His mad Pranks and merry Jests. Full of honest Mirth; and is a fit Medicine for Melancholy." Small quarto. 1628. Black letter. The copy in the Stafford library of this book is, I believe, unique. It is, as its title page represents, a book of tales and jests, of which I give the following specimen : " How the Fairyes called Robin Goodfellow to dance with them, and how they shewed him their severall conditions. " Robin Goodfellow being walking one night, heard the excellentc musicke of Tom Thumb's brave bag pipe : he remembring the sound (according to the command of King Oberon) went toward them : they for ioy that he was come, did circle him in, and in a ring did dance round about him. Robin Goodfellow, seeing their louc to him, danced in the midst of them, and sun;* them this son" to the tune of To him Bun. U THE ROBIN GOODFELLOW. 275 THE SONG. Round about little ones, quicke and nimble ; In & out wheele about, run, hop, or amble ; toyne your hands louingly ; well done, musition : Mirth keepeth man in haalth like a physicion. Elues, vrchins, goblins all, & little fairyes That doe filch, blacke, & pinch mayds of the dairyes, Make a ring on this grasse with your quicke measures : Tom shall play, and He sing, for all your pleasures. Pinch, & Patch, Gull, & Grim, Goe you together ; For you change your shapes Like to the weather: Sib, & Tib, Licke, & Lull, YoU all have trickes too : Little Tom Thumb that pipes, Shall goe betwixt you ; Tom, tickle vp thy pipes, Till they bee weary ; I will laugh ho, ho, hoh, And make me merry. Make a ring on this grasse With your quicke measures : Tom shall play, I will sing, For all your pleasures. The moone shines faire & bright. And the owle hollows : Mortals now take their rests Upon their pillows : The bats abroad likewise, And the night rauen, Which doth use for to call Men to deaths haven. t 2 Ncir S76 ROBIN GOODFELLOW. Now the mice peep abroad, And the cats take them. Now doe young wenches sleepe, Till their dreams wake them. Make a ring on the grasse With your quicke measures : Tom shall play, I will sing, For all your pleasures. u Thus danced they a good space : at last they left, and sal downc upon the grasse, &, to re- quite Rohm Goodfellowe's kindnesse, they pro- mised to tell him all the exploits that they were accustomed to doe. Robin thanked them, & listned to them,"' &c. &c r.ARRrtk GARRICK COLLECTION. 27; GARRICK COLLECTION. THE Garrick Collection is so deservedly an object of curiosity among those who are studious to mark the progress of English literature, from rudeness to refinement, that I consider mvself as rendering an acceptable piece of service, in point- ing out to attention, the more choice and valuable articles of which it is composed. I have been enabled to do this, through the kind assistance of my friend Mr. Kemble. Before I enter into the specification of any article in particular, I must intimate, as a pre- liminary observation, what is indeed known to the more curious Collector, though not to the general Reader, that all the quarto plays of the following writers are of increasing rarity and value; viz. Shakspeare, Middleton, Shirley, Mas- singer, Marston, Chapman, Ben Jonson, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Decker, Sir R. Davenant, John Lilly, and lastly, of Beaumont and Fletcher. I shall proceed to specify the writers whose works are most rare, and which of them are to be found in the Garrick Collection. T S JOHN 278 GARRICK COLLECTION JOHN BALE. The performance of John Bale, which is in J;he Garrick Collection, is one of its most rare and valuable articles, and to be found, I believe, neither in the Malone nor Kemble Collections, It is thus entitled, though the title page is mu- tilated : " A Tragedye, or E^te41Lude, many- festyng the chefe Promyses of God unto Man, by all ages in the Olde Lawe, from the Fall of Adam to the incarnacyon of the Lorde Jesus Christ. Compylcd by Johan Bale, Anno Do- mini, M.D.XXXVIJI." HENRY BURNELL. " Landgartha, a Tragie-Comedy, as it was presented in the new Theatre in Dublin with good applause; being an ancient Story. Written by H. B. Dublin, 1641." This play is exceedingly scarce, but it is also in the Kemble Collection. It is dedicated " To all faire, indifferent faire, vertuous that are not faire, and magnanimous ladies." The story of the play is borrowed from a memorable event in the History of Sweden. LADY GARRICK COLLECTION. 79 LADY ELIZABETH CAREW. " The Tragedie of Mariam, The Faire Queene of Jewry. Written by that learned, vertuous, and truly noble Ladie, E, C. London. Printed by Thomas Creede, for Richard Hawkins, and are to be solde at his Shoppe in Chancery Lane, neere unto Sargeants Inn. 1613." This play was, perhaps, never acted. It is written in alternate verse, with choruses of six Jines each. THOMAS CAxMPION. " The Description of a Maske, pre- sented in the Banqueting Roome at Whitehall, on Saint Stephen's Night last, at the Marriage of the Right Honourable the Earl of Somerset, and the Right Noble the Lady Frances Howard. Written by Thomas Campion. " Whereunto are annexed diyers choyse Ayres composed from this Maske, that may be sung with a single voyce, to the Lute or Base- ViolL " London. Printed for Laurence Lisle, dwelling in Paules Church Yarde, at the signe of the Tyger's head. 1614." T 4 GEOfcGE 280 GARRICK COLLECTION. GEORGE CHAPMAN. This author wrote sixteen Plays, and was con- cerned in another with Ben Jonson and Mar- ston. The Garrick Collection possesses them all. They are these : 1. " The Blind Beggar of Alexandria, most pleasantly discoursing his variable humours, in disguised shapes, full of conceite and pleasure. As it hath beene sundry times publickly acted in London, by the Right Honorable the Earl of Nottingham, Lord High Admiral his Servantes. By George Chapman, Gentleman. Imprinted at London, for William Jones, dwelling at the signe of the Gun, neere Holburne Conduit. 1598." 52. " A pleasant Comedy, entituled An Humekous Dayes Myrth. As it hath been sundrie times publickly acted by the Right Honourable the Earle of Nottingham, &c. By G. C. London: printed by Valentine Syms. 1599." Sold at Dr. Farmer's sale for 18s. (k\. 3. " Al Foolks, A Comedy, presented at the Black Fryers, and lately before His Majestic Written by George Chapman. At London printed for Thomas Thorpe. 1605." 4. " East- GARRICK COLLECTION. 281 4. " Eastward Hoe. As it was playd in the Black-friers, by the Children of Her Ma* jesties Revels. Made by Geo. Chapman, Ben J onson, Joh. Marston. At London printed for William Aspley. 1 605." King James was displeased with this perform- ance on account of some sarcastical remarks upon the Scotch. 5. " The Gentleman Usher. By George Chapman. At London printed by V. S. for Thomas Thorppe. 1606." 6. " Monsieer D'Olive. A Comedie, as it was sundrie times acted by her Majesties Children at the Blacke Friers. By George Chapman. London. Printed by T. C. for William Holmes, & are to be sold at his Shop in St Dunstan's Church Yard, in Fleete Streete. 1606." 7. " Bussy D'Amuois. A Tragedie, as it hath often been presented at Paules. London : printed for William Aspley. 1607" 8. " Cesar and Pompey. A Roman Tra- gedy, declaring their Warres, out of whose events is evicted this proposition : Only a just man is a freeman. By George Chapman. London, *82 GARRICK COLLECTION. London. Printed by Thomas Harper, and are to be sold by Godfrey Edmonson and Thomas Alchorne. m.d.c.xxxi." 9, 10. "The Conspiracie and Tragedie of charles, duke of byron, marshall of France, Acted lately in two Playes at the Black Friers. Written by George Chapman. Printed by G. Eld, for Thomas Thorppe, & are to be sold at the Tygers head, in Paules Church Yard. 1608." 11. " May Day. A Wittie Comedie, divers times acted at the Blacke Fryers. Written by George Chapman. London. Printed for John Browne, dwelling in Fleete Streete, in St. Dunstones Church Yard. 1611." 12. " The Widdowes Teares. A Co- medie, as it was often presented in the Blacke and White Friers. Written by George Chap; London. Printed for John Browne, and are to be sold at his shop in Fleet Street, in Saint Dunstancs Church Yard. 1612." 13. " The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois. A Tragedie, as it hath bcene often presented at the Private Play-house in the White Fryers. Written by George Chapman, Gentleman. London. Printed by T. S. and are to be sold by 6ARRICK COLLECTION. 283 by John Helme, at his Shop in S. Dunstone's Church Yard, in Fleet Street. Id 13." 14. " Two Wise Men, and all the rest Fooles, or a Comicall Morall, censuring the Follies of the Age. As it hath been diverse times, acted. By George Chapman. Anno 16 19." The four first leaves of this play, in the Garrick Collection, are beautifully supplied in manu- script. 15. "TheTragedie of Alphonsus, Em- perour of Germany. As it hath been very ofterj acted with great applause at the Private House in Black Friers, by his late Majesties Servants. By George Chapman, Gent. London. Printed by Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his Shopp, at the Princes Arms, jn St. Paul's Church Yard. 1654." In the Garrick copy the date is altered with a pen, to 1653. I know not on what authority, as Baker gives the date of 1654. 16. " Revinge fob Honour. A Tragedie, by George Chapman. London. Printed in the yeer 1654.*' JOHN DANCER. 1. " Nicomede. A Tragi-Comedy, trans- lated out of the French of Monsieur Corneille, by John Dancer. As it was acted at the Theatre Jloyal in Dublin, Together with an exact Cata- logue J84 GARRICK COLLECTION. logue of all the English Stage Plays printed till this present year, 1 67 1 Licenced Dec. 16, I67O. Roger L'estrange. Printed for Francis Kirkman, and are to be sold at his Shop in Thames Street, over against the Custom House. 1671." 2. " Agrippa, King of Alba, or the False Tiberinus. As it was several times acted with great applause, before his Grace the Duke of Ormond, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, at the Theatre Royal in Dublin. From the French of Monsieur Quinault. London. Printed by Jot. for Nich. Cox, neer Castle-yard, in HolbourfJp 1675." Small folio. There is a third Play by this Author, which is Amynta, translated from Tasso; but this is not in the Garrick collection. They are all re- markably scarce, but, except the last, are in the Kemble Collection. Langbaine, speaking of this author, calls him Dancer, alias Dauncy. JOHN DAY. Of this author's productions, the Garrick Col- lection possesses the four following : 1. " The Ile of Guls. As it hath been often played in the Black Fryars, by the Children of the Revels. Written by John Day. Imprinted 5 GARRICK COLLECTION. 285 Imprinted at London, and are to bee sold by John Hodgets in Paules Church Yard. 1606\" Of this play there is a second edition in the Garrick Collection, printed for William Sheares, at the Harrow in Britaines Bursse. 1633. 2. " Humour out of Breath. AComedie, divers times latelie acted by the Children of the King's Revels. Written by John Day. Printed at London, for John Helmes, & are to be sold at his Shop in Saint Dunston's Church Yard, in Fleet Street. 1608." 3. " The Parliament of Bees, with their proper Characters ; or, a Bee Hive furnisht with Twelve Honey Combes, as pleasant as profitable. Being an allegoricall Description of the Actions of good and bad men, in these our dales. By John Day, sometimes Student of Caius Colledge in Cambridge. Ovitlius. Mihi flavus Apollo Pocula Castaliae plena ministret aquse.'' To this play there is a frontispiece engraved on wood, and representing a swarm of bees issuing from a hive, with the queen bee dis- tinguished by a crown, in the midst of them. Beneath are these lines : The 86 GARKICK COLLECTION. The Parliament is held, Bils.and Complaints Heard and reformed, with severall restraints Of usurpt frecdome, constituted Law To keepe the Comaion-Wealth of Bees in awe. This edition was " printed for William Lee, to be sold at his Shop in Pauls Church Yard, neere Pauls Chain. 1641." 4. " The Blind Beggar of Bednal Green, with the merry Humour of Tom Strowd, the Norfolk Yeoman. As it was divers times publickly acted by the Princes Servants. Written by John Day. Printed for 11. Pollard and Thomas Dring, and are to be sold at the Ben Johnson's Head be- hind the Exchange, and the George, in Fleet Street, neer Saint Dunstans Church. looO^" The two plays by this author, which are not in the Garrick Collection are, " The Travels of Three English Brothers, an Historicall Play." 4to. 1607- And " Law Tricks, a Co- medy," in 4to. 1608. THOMAS DECKER. This name is printed Dekkcr in the author's original publications. All this writer's plays are remarkably scarce, as well those which he wrote himself, as those written in conjunction with Webster. The Garrick Collection possesses the following : 1. "Th2 GARRICK COLLECTION. 28T 1. " The Pleasant Comedie of Old Fortunatus. As it was plaied before the Queene's Majestie this Christmas, by the Right Honourable the Earle of Nottingham, Lord High Admirall of England his Servants. London. By S. S. for William Aspley, dwell- ing in Paules Church Yard, at the signe of the Tyger's Head. 1600." 2. " Satiro-Mastix, or the Untrussing of the Humorous Poet. As it hath been presented publiJcely by the Right Honorable the Lord Chamberlaine his Servants, and privately by the Children of Paules, By Thomas Dekker. Nee tecito cuiquam nisi amicis, ulque coactus. London. Printed for Edward White, and are to bee solde at his Shop, neere the little North Doore of Paules Church, at the signe of the Gun. 1602." 3. " The Honest Whore, with the Humours of the Patient Man and the Longing Wife. Tho. Dekker. London. Printed by V. S. for John Hodgets, and are to be solde at his Shop in Paules Church Yard. 1604." 4. " Westward Hoe. As it hath beene di- vers times acted by the Children of Paules. Written by Tho. Decker and John Webster. 3 Printed 288 GARRICK COLLECTION. Printed at London, and are to be sold by John Hodgets, dwelling in Paules Church Yard. 1607." 5. " Northward Hoe. Sundry times acted by the Children of Paules. By Thomas Decker and John Webster. Imprinted at London by G. Eld. 1607-" 6\ "The Whore of Babylon. As it was acted by the Princes Servants. Vexat Censura Columbas. Written by Thomas Dekker. London. Printed for Nathaniel Butler. 1 fT07 - " ' 7. " If it be not good, the Divel is in it. A New Play, as it hath bin lately acted, with great applause, by the Queenes Majesties Ser- vants, at the Red Bull. Written by Thomas Dekker. Flcctcrc si nerjueo Superos Achcronta rnovobo. London. Printed for T. T. and are to be sold by Edward Marchant, at his Shop against the Crosse in Pauls Church- Yarde. ]6l2." S. " A Tragi-Comedy, called, Match mee in London. As it hath beenc often pre- sented ; first at the Bell in St. Johns Street, and lately at the Private House in Drury Lane, called the Phoenix. Si non hi? utcie mecum. Written GARRICK COLLECTION. 289 Written by Tho. Dekker. London. Printed by B. Alsop and T. Faucett, for H. Serle, at the Tygers head, in St. Pauls Church Yard. 1631." 9. " The Wonder of a Kingdome. Quod non dant proceres, dabit Histrio. Written by Thomas Dekker. London, by Robert Raworth for Nicholas Va- vasour, & are to be solde at his Shop in the Inner Temple, neere the Church-doore. 1636." Dekker also wrote another Play in conjunction with Webster, called " Wyatt's History," which is not in the Museum. Of the above Plays, the first, namely, " Old Fortunatus," is, by collectors, esteemed as one of the most rare pieces of the kind. RICHARD EDWARDS. Of this early writer we have only two pieces left. Their titles are, 1. Damon and Pythias. 2. Paiamon and Arcite. The Garrick Collection possesses a perfect and beautiful copy of the first, of which the following correctly represents the title page. " The excellent Comedie of two the MOSTE FAITHFULLEST FrEENDES, DaMON AND PlTIIIAS. u Newlv 290 GARRICK COLLECTION. Newly imprinted, as the same was shewed before the Queenes Majestic, by the Children of her Graces Chappell, except the Prologue, that is somewhat altered for the proper use of them that hereafter shall have occasion to plaie it, either in private or open audience. Made by IVIaister Edwards, then beyinge Maister of the Children. 1571. Imprinted at London, in Eleete Lane, by Richard Johnes, and are to be solde at his Shop, joyning to the South-west Doore of Paules Churche." This play, which is exceedingly curious, has been reprinted in the first volume of Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays. NATHANIEL FIELD. This author wrote two dramatic pieces. ]. Woman is a Weathercock. 2. Amends for Ladies. He was also concerned with Vlassinijer in writ- ing The Fatal Dowry. The three are in the Garrick Collection. The following are the titles of each : 1. " A Woman is a Weathercocke. A new Comedy, as it was acted before the Kins; in White Hall. And divers times, publickly, at the White GARRICK COLLECTION. m White Friers, by the Children of Her Majesties Revels. Written by Nat. Field. Si natura negat, facit ind-a.gna.tio versum. Printed at London, for John Budge, and are to be sold at the great South Doore of Paules, and at Britains Bursse. 1612." It is thus by an error of the press printed in* d&o'nalio for indignatio. 2. " Amends for Ladies, with the merry Prankes of Moll Cutpurse : or, the Humour of Roaring. A Comedy, full of honest Mirth and Wit. As it was acted at the Blacke Fryers, both by the Princes Servants, and the Lady Elizabeth's. By Nath. Field. London. Printed by Jo. Okes, for Math. Walbailcke, and are to be sold at his Shop, at Graves Inne Gate. 1639." 3. " The Fatall Dowry. A Tragedy, as it hath beene often acted at the Private House in Black Friers, by his Majesties Servants. Written by P. M. and N. F. London. Printed by John Norton, for Francis Constable, and are to be sold at his Shop, at the Crane in Pauls Church Yard. 1632." P. M. is Philip Massinger, and N. F. is Nath. Field. This Play of the Fatal Dowry, is said to be a very good one. U 2 ABRAHAM 29ft GARRICK COLLECTION. ABRAHAM FRAUNCE. This very early writer lived in the time of Elizabeth. His production can hardly be called a play, ft consists of a translation of Tasso's Aminta, which is interwoven in the body of a pastoral, entitled, " The Countess of Pembrokes Ivy Church." The following is. the title page of this very rare tract. " The. Countesse of Pembrokes Ivy Church, containing the affectionate Life, and unfortunate Death of Phillis and Amyntas, that in a Pastoral, this in a Funerall, both in English Hexameters, by Abraham Fran nee. London. Printed by Thomas Orwyn, for Wil- liam Ponsonby, dwelling in Paules Church Yard, at the signe of the Bishop's Head. 1 591-^ Some readers may like a specimen of this truly whimsical performance. Now bony lasse Phil/is was newly betrothed to A)nyjitas By rick Montanua consent ; whoe yet, for a long tyme Wadding day diffcrd, til his owne byrth day was aproarhin*: That twooe solempac feasts joynd fryendly togeather. in on? day Might with more meryment, and more concurse be adorned. Soe men on earth purpose, but gods dispose in Olympus: For when as each thing was by the. father duly prepared* And byrth wedding day now nere and nearer aproached, Wedding by brydes death was most vntyincly preuented And GAItRICK COLLECTION. *$3 Aiul fathers byrth day was, deaths day to the daughter apoynted ; Deaths day lamented many dayes by the woeful Amyjitas, Deaths day which hastned deaths day to the mourneful Amyntas, Whose mournyhg all night all day, did weary the mountayncs, Weary the woods, and winds, and caues, and weary the foun- tayns. But when he saw in vayne his checks with teares to be wa* tred, Cheeks all pah' and wan, yet could not fynde any comfort; Comfortless then hee turns at length his watery countnance Vnto the water streames ; and there his playnts begynneth : Heare, 6 brooke, these playnts, heare, 6 sweet brooke, my bewaylings, And convey them downe to my kinsmans watery kingdomc, Downe to the world washing main-sea with speedy reflowing: World washing mayne sea will them convey to the worlds end This greeuous mournyng by the shore, by the sands, by the desert, Desert, sands, and shore lit witnesses unto my mournyhg. This is a most extremely rare piece. A copy at the sale of Air. Dodd's books, produced 41. 7s. GEORGE GASCOIGNE. The plays of this author, viz. Jocasta, The upposes, and the Glass of Government are in- corporated with his other works published in 4to. in 1575, with this title. u3 " Tm 2S4 GARRICK COLLECTION. " The Posies of George Gascoigne, Esq. corrrected and augmented by the Author. 1.375. Tam Marti quam Mercuric Printed at London, for Richard Smith, and are to be solde at the North West Doore of Paul's Church." ROBERT GREEN. Of this author's dramatic productions, the Garrick collection possesses only two. One written entirely by himself, entitled " The History of Fryer Bacon and Fryer Bungay." The other composed in conjunction with Dr. Lodge, and called, " A Looking Glass for London and Eng- land." The specific titles are these : 1. "The honourable History of Frier Bacon and Frifr Bungay. As it was lately plaid by the Prince Palatine his servants, made by Robert Green, Master of Arts. London. Printed by Jean Bell, and are to be sold at the East end of Christ Church. J 655.'" This has a curious frontispiece in wood, repre- senting the famous brazen head, with the in- scription, " Time is," Sec. 2. " A Looki.vg Glasse for London anb EngIanp. Made by Thomas Lodge, Gen- tleman, and Robert Greene, In Artibub Magister. London. GARRICK COLLECTION. 295 London. Imprinted by Barnard Alsop, and are to be sold at his House within Garter Place, in Barbican. 16 17-" RICHARD HEAD. This author wrote only one dramatic piece, which is in the Garrick Collection. It is en- titled, " II 1 c et ubique, or the Humours of Dublin. A Comedy, acted privately, with general applause. Written by Richard Head, Gent. Facilius est Carpere quam imitare. London. Printed by 11. D. for the Author. 1663." JASPER HEYWOOD. This author, who flourished in the reign of Elizabeth, translated three of Seneca's tragedies. 1. Thyestes. 2. Hercules Furens. 3. Troas. They are printed in a quarto volume, in black letter, of Seneca's Tragedies, translated by various hands, and published by Marsh, in 1581. u 4 JOHN $96 GAIfRICK COLLECTION. JOHN HEYWOOD. This is one of our very earliest dramatic writers, and memorable for his Poem on the Spider and the Fly. He wrote several plays, of which the Garrick Collection possesses only one, namely ; " The Play, called the Foure Ps. A very merry Enterlude of A Palmer. A Pardoner. A Poticary. A Pedler. Imprinted at London, at the long shop adjoyn- ing unto S. Mildred's Churche in the Poultrie, by John Allde. Anno Domini, 1569. Septembris There are two copies of this play in the Garrick Collection ; both in black letter. One is more ancient than the above, and without any date. " Imprinted at London, in Fletestrete, at the sygne of the George, by Wyllyam Myddylton." This latter is certainly the original, as Myd- dylton printed before Allde. THOMAS HEYWOOD. This author wrote, or was concerned in, no less than one hundred and twenty-four Plays; of GARRICK COLLECTION. 297 of which, however, there are no more than twenty-four remaining, all of which are ex- tremely rare. Of these, the Garrick Collection possesses the following : 1. " If you know not me, you know no- bo die, or the Troubles of Queene Elizabeth. At London. Printed for Nathaniel Butler. 1608." Baker gives the date of the first edition, 1606; he is either mistaken, or this is the second edition. 2. " The Faire Maide of the Exchange." The Garrick copy wants the title page, but it is certainly a later edition. The first edition was in ]606. 3. " The Golden Age, or the Lives of Jupiter and Saturne, with the Deifying of the Heathen Gods. As it hath been sundry times acted at the Red Bull, by the Queenes Majesties Servants. Written" " London. Printed for William Barenger, and are to be sold at his Shop neare the great North- Doore of Pauls. 1611." (In the Garrick copy, some foolish person has cut out Heywood's name, both from the title page, and from the Advertisement to the Reader.) 4. " The Silver Age, including The Love of Jupiter to Alcmena, The birth of Hercules, and the Rape of Proserpine, concluding with the Arraigne- COS GARRICK COLLECTION. Arraignement of the Moone. Written by Tho- mas Hevwood. Aut prodcssc sclent aut dclcctare. London. Printed by Nicholas Okes, and are to be sold by Benjamin Lightfoote, at his shop at the upper end of Graies Inn Lane in IIol- borne. 1613." 5. " The Brazen Ace. The first act con- taining The Death of the Centaure Nessus; the second, The Tragedy of Meleager; the third. The Tragedy of Jason and Medea; the fourth, Vulcan's Net; the fifth, The Labours and Deatli of Hercules. Written by Thomas Ileywood. London. Printed by Nicholas Okes, for Sa- muel Rand, dwelling neere Holborne-Bridije. 1613." 6. " A Woman kilde with Kindxesse. As it hath been oftentimes acted by The Queenes Majest. Servants. Written by The*. Ileywood. The third edition. London. Printed by Isaac Jaggard. 101 7." Baker gives the date of the first edition. 1O17. This play nm-t, therefore, have had a rapid sale. 7. ' Tiif Ra hi in Lickkc v.." The Garrick copy wants the title page. Baker savs it was lirsl published m lo'.i'J. 8. "The GARRICK COLLECTION. 299 8. " The English Traveller. As it hath beene publikely acted at the Cock Pit, in Drury Lane, by His Majesties Servants. Written by Thomas I ley wood. Aut prodosse solent aut delectare. London. By Robert Raworth, dwelling in Old Fish Street, neere Saint Mary Maudlins Church. 9. " A Pleasant Comedy, called, a Maydenhead well lostV As it liath beene publickly acted *at the Cocke Pit, in Drury Lane, with much applause, by Her Majesties Servants. Written by Thomas Hey wood. Aut prodcsse solent aut delectare. London, Printed by Nicholas Okes, for John Jackson and Francis Church, and are to be sold at the King's Arms, in Cheape Side. 1634." 10. " Loves Maistresse, or the Queens Masque. As it was three times presented before their two Excellent Majesties within the space of eight dayes, in the presence of sundry For- raigne Ambassadors. Publikely acted by the Queens Comoedians, at the Phcenix, in Drury Lane. Written by Thomas .Heywood. Aut prodesse solent aut delectare. London, 300 GARRICK COLLECTION. London. Printed by Robert Raworth, for John Crewel, and are to bee sold by Jasper Emery, at the signe of the Eagle and Child, in Pauls Church Yard. 1636." Nothing can more strongly mark the unsettled orthography of the times, than the above play. What is printed Maistressc in the title page, in the body of the work is written mist r is. 11. " A Challenge for a Beautie. As it hath been snndry times acted by the King's Majesties Servants, at the Black Friers, and the Globe, near the Banke Side. Aut prodcssc solcnt aut dclectare. Written by Thomas Hey wood. Printed by R. Raworth, and are to bee sold by James Beckct, at his Shop in the Inner Temple Gate. 1636." 12. "The Rovall King and the Loyal Subject. As it hath beene acted with great applause by the Queenes Majesties Servants. Aut prodcssc solcnt aut dclectare Written by Thomas Hey wood. London. Printed by Nich. and John Okes, for James Becket, and are to be sold at his Shop, at the Inner Temple, neare the Gate. 1637." 13. "The GARRICK COLLECTION. 301 13. " The Wise-Woman of Hogsdon. A Comedie. As it hath been sundry times acted with great applause. Written by Thomas Hey wood. Aut prodesse solent aut delectare. London. Printed by M. P. for Henry Shep- herd, and are to be sold at his Shop, in Chan- eerie Lane, at the signe of the Bible, between Serjeants Inn and Fleet Street 1638." 14. " Fortune by Land and Sea. A Tragi- Comedy. As it was acted with great applause by the Queens Servants. Written by Thomas Heywood and William Rowley. London. Printed for John Sweeting, at the Angel in Pope's Head Alley, and Robert Pollard, at the Ben Jonson's Head, behind the Exchange. 1655:' Id. " The Iron Age, contayening the Rape of Hellen The siege of Troy The Combat be- twixt Hector and Ajax Hector and Troilus slaine by Achilles Achilles slaine by Paris Ajax and Ulisses contend for the Armour of Achilles The Death of Ajax, &c. Written by Thomas Heywood. Aut prodesse solent aut delectare. Printed at London, by Nicholas Okes. l632." < 6 Of 302 GARRICK COLLECTION. Of these plays, No. 4 sold at Farmer's sale for 11. 2s. and No. .5 for ll. 1 Is. 6d. THOMAS INGELAND. This gentleman, who was one of our oldest dramatists, wrote only one piece. It is in black letter, and in the Garrick Collection. The fol- lowing is jts title : " A PRETIE AXD MERY NEW EnTERLUDE, called the Disobedient Child. Compiled by Thomas Ingeland, late Student in Cambridge. Imprinted at London, in Fletestrete, beneath the Conduit, by Thomas Colwell."' No date. A copy of this play, at Wright's sale, produced 21. 3s." THOMAS KYD. This person was the author of two plays. I. Cornelia. 2. The Spanish Tragedy, or Hie- ronymo is mad again. Mr. Hawkins believes him also to have been the author of Soliman and Persida. Both of these arc in tiic Ganick Col- lection ; the first without the title page. It was, however, printed in 1394, for N. L. and John Busbie. The GARRICK COLLECTION. 303 The author's name is printed at the end of the play, with this distich. Non prosunt domino quae prosunt omnibus artes. These are among the scarcest of the old plays. MAURICE KYFFIN Wrote in the beginning of the reign of Eliza- beth, but has left only one play ; a translation of the Andria of Terence. It is in black letter, with this title, ''Andria. The first Comoedie of Terence in English. . A Furtherance for the attainment unto the right Knowledge and true Proprietie of the Latin Tong. And also a commodious meane of help to such as have forgotten Latin, for their speedy recovering of habilitie to understand, write, and speake the same. Carefully translated out of Latin, by Maurice Kyffin. Huud t'vustra spero. Comcedia, hnitatiu viuv, speculum consuetudinis, imago veritatis. Cic. Printed at London, by T. E. tor Thomas Woodcocke, at trie Signe of the Blacke Eeare, in Paules Church Yard. 1J88. Plura Posthac." This 304 * GARRICK COLLECTION. This play is inscribed, by the author, to Lord Buckhurst. It is extremely rare, and sold at Farmer's sale for 21. 3s. JOHN LYLLY, or LILLY. All this author's dramatic productions are carce. They are nine in number. 1. Alex- ander and Campaspe. 2. Endimion. 3. Sappho and Phaon. 4. Galatea. 5. Mydas. 6. Mother Bombie. 7- Woman in the Moon. 8. Maid her Metamorphosis. 9. Love his Metamor- phosis. Of these, the following are in the Gar- rick Collection : 1. "Campaspe. Played beefore the Queenes Majestie on New-yeares Day at Night, by her Majesties Children, and the Children of PauJes. Imprinted at London, for Thomas Cadman. 1584. Sold at Wright's sale for a guinea. 2. " Endimion the Man in the Moone. Played before the Queenes Majestie at Greene - wich, on Candlemas Day at night, by the Chil- dren of Paules. At London, by J. Charlcwood, for the Widdowe Broome. 1 59 1 . " 3. " Sappho and Phao. Played beefore the Queenes Majestie on Shrovetcwsday, by her Ma- jesties Children and the Boyes of Panics. Im- printed at London, for Thomas Cadman. 1384." Sold GARRICK COLLECTION. 505 Sold at Wright's sale for a guinea, and at Pearson's for ll. lis. 6d. ; 4. " Gall A r rr a. As it was played before the Queenes Majestie at Green-whiche, on Newyear's Day at Night. By the Children of Paules. At London, by John Charlwood, for the Widdow Broome. 1592." 5. "Midas. Plaied before the Queer.es Ma- jestie upon Twelfe Day at Night, by the Chil- dren of Paules. London. Printed by Thomas Scarlet, for J. B. and are to be sold in Paules Church Yard, at the Signe of the Bible. 1592."' Sold at Major Pearson's sale for 7l. at Dr. Fanner's for gl. 7s. 6d. 6. " Mother Bombie. As it was sundrie Times plaied by the Children of Powles. Lon- don. Printed by Thomas Creede, for Cuthbert Burby. 1598." 7. " The Woman in the Moone. As it was presented before her Highnesse. By John Lyllie, Maister of Artes. Imprinted at London, for William Jones, and are to be sold at the Signe of the Gun, neere I Iolburne Conduit. 1597." Sold at Wright's sale for 11. 2s. 8. " Loves Metamorphosis. A Wittie and Courtly Pastoral. Written by Mr. John Lyllie. x First 306 GARRICK COLLECTION. First play'd by the Children of Paules, and now by the Children of the Chappell. London. Printed for William "Wood, dwelling at the West end of Paules, at the signe of Time. 1601." Sold at Wright's sale for ll. 14s. THOMAS LODGE. This gentleman was author of two plays. 1. Wounds of Civil War. 2. Looking Glass for London and England. Though some say that he wrote the last in conjunction with Greene, as I have mentioned above. The Garrick Col- lection has The Wounds of Civil War, of which this is the title : " The Wounds of Civil War. Lively set forth in the true Tragedies of Marius & Scilla. As it hath beene publiquely plaide in London by the Right Honourable the Lord High Admirall his Servants. Written by Thomas Lodge, Gent O Vita misero longa, faelici brevis. London, by John Dancer, and are to be sold at the signc of the Sunne, in Panics Church Yard. A copy of this play sold, at Pearson's sale, for 11. 3s. THOMAS "GARRICK COLLECTION. S07 THOMAS LUPTON. This author wrote only one play. It is re- markably scarce ; it is in rhime, black letter, and written in a very peculiar style. The interlo- cutors are figurative characters, as All for Money, Wit without Money, Money without Wit, &c. &c. Langbaine had never seen it, and Mr. Kemble does not possess it. I make no apology for giving the title page at length. " A MORAL AND PITIEFUL CoMEDIE, EN- tituled All for Money. Plainly repre- senting the Manners of Men and Fashion of the World nowe adaies. Compiled by T. Lupton. The names of them that play this Comedie, Thcologie Money without Learning. Science > All for Money. Arte Neither Money nor Learning. Money Moneyless and Friendless-. Adulation Gregoria Graceless. Mischievous Helpe Moneyless. Pleasure William with the two Wives. Prest for Pleasure Nychil. Sinne S.Laurence. Swift to Sinne Mother Crooke. Damnation Judas. Satan Dives. Pryde Godly Admonition. GP.ntonie Vertue. Learning with Money Humilitie. Learning without Money Charitic. x 2 At 308 GARRICK COLLECTION. At London, printed by Roger Wardc and Rich- ard Mundee, dwelling at Temple Barre. Anno 1578." JOIIX MARSTON. This autlior -wrote eight original plays, and was concerned in two others. The whole of the quarto editions are very scarce indeed, and of these, the Garrick Collection possesses the fol- lowing : 1. " Axtonios Revenge. The second part. As it hath been sundry times acted by the Chil- dren of Paules. Written by J. M. London. Printed for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde in Saint Dunstaifs Church Yarde. 16*02." 2. " The Insatiate Count esse. A Tra- geclic, acted at White Fryers. Written by John Mars ton. London. Printed by T. S. for Thomas Archer, and are to be sold at his Shop in Popes head Pallace, ncere the Royal Exchange. If) 13." The original edition, according to Baker, was printed in \G()3, but doubts are entertained, whether Marston is the real author of this play. A copy of this play, of this date, sold at Tanner's sale for. ll. 3. " The GARRICK COLLECTION. 509 3. " The Malcontent. Augmented by Marston. With the Additions played by the 'King's Majesties Servants. Written by John Webster. At London, printed by V. S. for William Aspley, and are to be sold at his Shop, in Paules Church Yard." This play is dedicated to Ben Jonson, in these terms : Benjamini Jonsonio Poetce, Elegantissimo Gravissimo Amico Suo candido et cordato Johannes Marston Musarum Alumnus Asperam banc suam Thaliam D. D. 4. " The Dutch Courtezan. As it was playd in the Blacke Friars by the Children of Her Majesties Revels. Written by John Marston. At London, printed by T. P. for John Hodgets, and are to be sould at his Shop in Paules Church Yarde. 1605." The author thus expressively gives the plan of Jiis work: " Fabule ArgumenUirn, x 3 The 310 GARRICK COLLECTION. The difference betwixt the love of a Curtezau and a Wife, is the full scope of the play, which, intermixed with the deceits of a wittie Citie Jester, fills up the Comedie.'' 5. " Pahisataster, or the Fawne. As it hath beene divers times presented at the Blacke Triers, by the Children of the Queenes Majesties Revels. Written by John Marston. At London, printed by T. P. for W. C. 1606." 6. " The Wonder of Women, or the Tra- gedie of Sophonisba. As it hath beene sundrie times acted at the Blacke Friers. Written by John Marston. London. Printed by John Winder, and are to be sold neere Ludgate. 1606." 7. "What you will. By John Marston. Imprinted at London, by G. Eld, for Thomas Thorppe. 1607." A Copy of this play of this edition, sold at Farmer's sale for 11. 2s. GERVASE MARKHAM. This learned and accomplished writer pro- duced many excellent works, but only one play, which is in the Garrick Collection. He was assisted in this, as appears by the title page, by William Sampson. " Th* GARRICK COLLECTION. 311 " The true Tragedy of Herod and Antipater, with the Death of Faire Marriam. According to Josephus, the learned and famous Jewe, as it hath beene, of late, divers times publiquely acted, with great applause, at the Red Bull, by the company of His Majesties Re- vels. Written by Gervase Markham} and /Gentlemen. William Sampson, 3 London. Printed by G. Eld, for Matthew Rhodes, and are to bee sold at his Shop, at the upper end of the Old Bayly, neere Newgate.. 1622." There is prefixed to this play, what is called " The Printers Epigrammaticall Epistle to the Understanding Readers," which is subscribed ' Yours obsequious in whats vertuous. Matthew Rhodes." But in the title page, the printer is called Eld, and Rhodes is the bookseller. CHRISTOPHER MARLOW, or MARLO, or MARLOE. The above personage was both author and actor. His plays are remarkably scarce, all of which, except one, are in the Garrick Col- lection, x 4 I. " Tam- 312 GARRICK COLLECTION. 1. "Tamburlaijje the Great, who from a Scythian Shepheard, by his rare and wonderful conquestes became a most puissant and mightic monarch, and for his tyrannie and terrour in war, was tearmcd The Scourge of God. The first part of the two tragical! discourses, as they were sundrie times most stately shewed upon stages in the Citie of London. By the Right Honorable the Lord Admirall his Servantes, now newly published. Printed by Richard Jones, dwelling at the Signe of the Rose and Crowne, necre liolborne Bridge. 1590." It will easily be perceived, that this is not the original edition, and it appears in the Garrick copy, that some one has altered the date. The original edition is in quarto, and very valuable. 2. " The troublesome Raigne and la- mentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England, with the tragical Eall of Proud Mortimer. " And also the Life and death of Peirs Gaves- ton, the Great, Earle of Cornewall, and mighty fa- vorite cf King Edward the Second, as it was pub- liquely acted by the Right Honorable the Earle of Pembrooke his Servantes. Written by Chri. Mar- low, Gent. Imprinted at London, by Richard Bradocke, for 'William Jones, dwelling neare llolbournq Conduit, at the Signe of the Gunne. 15y8." This 1 GARRICK COLLECTION. 313 This sold at Wright's sale for ll. 2s. 3. " The Massacre at Paris, with the Death of the Duke of Guise. As it was piaide by the Right Honourable the Lord High Admirall his Servants. Written by Christopher Marlow. At London, printed by E. A. for Edward White, dwelling neere the Little North Doore of S. Paules Church, at the Signe of the Gun."' No date. 4. "TheTragicall History of the Ltfk and Death of Doctor Faust us. Written by Ch. M. London. Printed by John Wright, and arc to be sold at his Shop, without Newgate, at the signe of the Bible. 16 16." This is in black letter. Some former possessor of this copy had filled up the initial M. and written Mark I'm. This sold at Wright's sale for ll. 7s. 5. " The famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta. As it was playd before the King and Queene in his Majesties Theatre at White Hall, by her Majesties Servants, at the Cock Pit. Written by Christopher Mario. London. Printed by J. 1). for Nicholas Va- vasour, and are to be sold at his Shop in the Inner Temple, neerc the Church. 1633." 6. " Lusts Dominion in the Lascivious Queen. A Tragedie written by Christofer Mario e, Gent, London, 314- GARRICK COLLECTION. London, for F. K. and are to be sold by Ro- bert Pollard, at the signe of Ben Jonson's Head, on the back side of the Old Exchange. 1657-" This play has the following dedication, which seems worth inserting : " To my worthy Friend, Mr. Thomas HammOn, of Grayes Inne, &c. &c. " THIS Play, composed by so worthy an authour as Mr. Marlo ; and the part of the Jew presented by so unimitable an actor as Mr. Allen, being in this later age commended to the stage : as I vshcrd it into the court, and pre- sented it to the Cock Pit, with these Prologues and Epilogues here inserted, so now being newly brought to the presse, I was loath it should be published without the ornament of an Epistle; making choyce of you vnto whom to deuote it; then whom (of all those gentlemen and acquaint- ance, within the compasse of my long knowledge) there is none more able to taxe ignorance, or attribute right to merit. Sir, you haue bin pleased to grace some of mine oune workes with your curteous patronage; I hope this will not be the worse accepted, because commended to mee ; ouer whom none can clayme more power or priuilege than your selfe. 1 had no hettcr a new years gift to present you with ; rcceiue it, there- GARRICK COLLECTION. 315 therefore, as a continuance of that inuiolable obliegement, by which he rests still ingaged ; who as he euer hath, shall always remaine, Tuissimus Thos. Heywood." The play of Harlow's, which is not in the Garrick Collection, is called Dido, Queen of Carthage. It was printed in 4to. 1594. This is one of the most rare publications in the English language, and produced, at Dr. Wright's sale, sixteen guineas. THOMAS MAY, The translator of Lucan's Pharsalia, and author of many valuable productions. He wrote five dramatic pieces, all of which are in the Garrick Collection. 1. " The Tragedy of Antigone, thje Theban Princesse. Written by T. M. London. Printed by Thomas Harper, for Ben- jamin Fisher, and are to be sould at his Shop at the signe of the Talbot, without Aldersgate. }63l." 8vo. 2. " The Heire. A Comedie, as it was acted by the Company of the Revels. 1620. Written fry T. M. London. 316 GARRICK COLLECTION. London. Printed by Augustine Mathevves, for Thomas Jones, and are to be sold at his Shop, in S. Dunstan's Church Yard, in Fleet Street. 1633." 3. " The Tkagedy of Julia Agrtppina, Empresse of Rome. By T. M. Esq. London. Printed by Ric. Hodgkinsonne, for Thomas Walkly, and are to be sold at his Shop, at the Flying Horse, neare Yorke House. 1(3:39." 12mo. 4. "TheTiiagedie of Cleopatra, Queex OF /Egypt. By T. M . Acted 1626. Luc. Quantum impulit Argos Iliacasquc dumos iacie Spartana nocenti Hespcrios auxit tan turn Cleopatra furores. London. Printed by Thomas Harper, for Thomas Walkly, and are to be sold at his Shop, at the Flying Horse, near York House. l63y." 12mo. 5. " The Old Couple. A Comedy, by- Thomas May, Esq. London. Printed by J. Cottrcl, for Samuel Speed, at the signe of the Printing Press, in S. Pauls Church Yard. 16j8. v 4 to. These two Inst plays have been reprinted if* Dodsley's Collection. lIENii* GARRICK COLLECTION. 317 HENRY MEDWALL. But little is known of this writer. He was Chaplain to Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury, and produced one dramatic piece. It is in black letter, and of most extraordinary rarity. It is in the Garrick Collection, and has this title, " Nature. A goodly Interlude of Nature, compyled by Mayster Henry Medwall, Chapleyn to the Ilyght Reverent Lather in God, Johan Morton, somtyme Cardynall and Archebyshopp of Canterbury." This was published by the celebrated Rastall. JOHN MILTON. The first editions of the Masques of Comus, and of Sampson Agonistes, are of great rarity, and are to be found in the Garrick Collection, with these titles : 1. " A Maske. Presented at Ludlow Castle, l63A, on Michaelmasse Night, before the Right Honourable John, Earie of Eiidgewater, Vicount Erackley, Lord President of Wales, and one ol his Majesties Most Honorable Privie Counsell. Eheu quid volui misero mihi ! fioribus austrum ^Peidittis, London. 318 GARRICK COLLECTION, London. Printed for Humphrey Robinson, at the signe of the Three Pidgeons, in Paul's Church Yard. 1637." 2. "Samson Agoxistes. A Dramatic Poem. The Author John Milton. Aristot. Poet. Cap. 6. Tpecyu^x (jup^cis srpa.'fctus ull in Little hrittaine. l6'4-n.' : To GARRICK COLLECTION. 325 To this play, a portrait of the author 13 pre- fixed, with this inscription round the border: " Sentite supera non Terrestria, suspice cesium, despice mundum, respice finero." SAMUEL ROWLEY. This author lived in the time of James the first, and wrote two plays, both of which, Garrick possessed. 1. " When you see me you know me, or the famous Chronicle Historie of Kin^ Henrie the Eight, with the Birth and vertuous Life of Edward, Prince of Wales. As it was playd by the High and Mightie Prince of Wales his Ser- vants. By Samuel Rowley, Servant to the Prince. At London. Printed for Nathaniell Butler, and are to be sold at his Siiop in Paules Church Yard, near S. Austin's Gate. 1613/' A portrait of Henry the Eighth is prefixed to the title page. A copy sold at Farmer's sale for 15s. 6d. 2. " The noble Souldier, or a Contract broken justly revenged. A Tragedy written by S. R. Non est lex justior ulla Quam nescis artifices arte perire sua. t 3 [Nescis 326 GARRICK COLLECTION. [j\ T e$cis is in the original printed for necisS\ London. Printed for Nicholas Vavasour, and are to be sold at his Shop in the Temple, neere the Church. l6'J4." WILLIAM ROWLEY Lived in the reign of James I, and wrote eleven plays, of which, six only were printed. The Garrick Collection possesses the following: 1. " A New Wonder, or Woman never vext. A pleasant conceited Comedy, sundry times acted. Never before printed. Written by William Rowley, one of His .Majesties Ser- vants. London. Imprinted by G. P. for Francis Constable. and arc to be solde at his Shop at the Signe of the Crane in Saint Pauls Church Yard. 16*32.'' 2. " A Tragedy, called all lost by Lust. Written by William Rowley. Divers times acted by the Lady Elizabeth's Servants, and now lately by her Majesties Servants with great ap- plause, at the Phoenix in Drury Lane. Quod nun dant Proccrcs, dabit Ili^tno. London. Printed by Thomas Harper. 1633." 3. " A Match at Midnight. A pleasant Comedie. As it hath beene acted by the Chil- dren of the Revels. Written GARRICK COLLECTION. 327 Written by W. R. London. Printed by Aug. Matthewes, for William Shearcs, and are to be sold at his Shop m Brittakies Bursse. 1633." 4. "a m err ie and pleasant comeodv, never before printed, called a slioq- Maker a Gentleman, As it hath bcene sundry times acted at the Red Bull and other Theaters with a generall and good applause. Written by W. R. Gentleman. London. Printed by J, Okes, and are to be .sold by John Cow per, at his Shop at the East end of St. Pauls Church, at the Signe of the Holy Lambe. 1638." William Rowley was engaged in eight other plays with I ley wood, Middle ton, Massiiiger, L)ay, and others. All of these are scarce, and such as are in this Collection are mentioned in their places. ELKANAH SETTLE. This author, who had the distinguished honour of being Poet Laureat to the City, and the mi- sery of dying a poor Pensioner in the Charter House, wrote seventeen Plavs. Of these, one only seems to attract the at- tention of Collectors; this is the following : "The Empress of Morocco. A Tragedy -with Sculptures. As it is acted at the Duke's y 4 Theatre. 328 GARRICK COLLECTION. Theatre. Written by Elkanah Settle, Servant to His Majesty. Primos da vcrsibus annes. Petr. Arb. London. Printed for William Cademan at the Popes Head, in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange in the Strand. 1073." This play is much sought after, as being the first which was ever published with engravings, and which was sold for what was then thought the enormous sum o( two shillings. The engravings were not, improbably, a representation of the scenes, in one of which, the most shocking tor- tures are exhibited. Horace did not think it possible that it should enter into the human imagination to exhibit things so offensive. This was exhibited before the King, by the great personages of the Court. Lord Mulgrave wrote the Prologue, and Lord Rochester the Epilogue, both of which were spoken by Lady Elizabeth Howard. Eor further anecdotes on this subject, the reader will do well to consult Malone's Life of Drydcn. HENRY SHIRLEY. This author wrote five dramatic pieces, only one of which was printed, and is in the Garrick Collection, viz. g " Tiil GARRICK COLLECTION. 329 " The Martyrd Souldieu. As it was sundry times acted with a generall applause at the Private House in Drury Lane, and at other Public Theaters, by the Queenes Majesties Ser- vants. The author, H. Shirley, Gent. London. Printed by J. Okes, and are to be sold by Francis Eglesfield, at his House in Paules Church Yard, at the Signe of the Mary-Gold. 1638." ROBERT TAILOR. Nothing seems to be known of this person, except that he wrote one play, viz. " The Hogge hath lost hts Pearle. A Comedy. Divers times publiquely acted by certaine London Prentices. By Robert Tailor. London. Printed for Richard Redmer, and are to be solde at the West Dore of Paules, at the Signe of the Starre. 1614." JOHN TATHAM, or TATEHAM. Little is known of this writer. He was City Poet in the reign of Charles I., and produced four plays, all of which the Garrick Collection possesses. 1. " Love 330 GARRICK COLLECTION. 1. " Love crownes the End. A Pastorall, presented by the * Schollees of Bingham, in the County of Notingham, in the Yeare 1632. Written by Jo. Tatham, Gent. Sed opus doccrf virtus. London. Printed by J. N. for Richard Best, and are to be sold at his Shop, neere Gray's Inn Gate, in Ilolborne. I64O." Bound up with this play in the Garrick Col- lection, is a small volume, entitled " Tup: Fan- cies Theater, b} r John Tatham, Gent." of which I do not remember to have seen another copy. It consists of miscellaneous Poems, on a variety of subjects, some of which entitle the author to great praise. Commendatory verses are pre- fixed by Broome, Nabbes, Davison, and other respectable names. 2. "The Distractkd St\tt\ A Tragedy. Written in the Yccr lo'-il, by J. T. Gent. Sfditiosi sunt R>ipublicx' Ruina. London. Printed by W. II. for John Try, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the White Lion in the Strand, neer the New Ex- change. 16.51." There are many peculiarities of orthography in this play. Sicily is every where spelt Ciciltf ; * Doultter', misprinted fur ScLUrrs. disperse. GARRICK COLLECTION. 331 disperse, dispierce; " The very boys throw Turap tops at one," I suppose for Turnip tops, &c 3. u The Scots Eiggaries, or a Knot of Knaves. A Comedy. London. Printed by W. H., for John Te} T , at the White Lion in the Strand, near tiie New Exchange. 1652." 4. " The Rump, or the Mirrour of the late Times. A New Comedy, written by J. Tathaw, Gent Acte,d many times, with great applause, at the Private House in Dorset Court. London. Printed by W. Godbid, for R, JBroome. 166U" CYRIL TOURXEUR. This author wrote three plays, two only of which were printed; both are in the Garrick Collection. 1. " The Revengers Tragozdie. As it hath beene sundry times acted by the King's Majesties Servants. At London. Printed by G. Eld, and are to be sold at his House in Eleete Lane, at the Signe of the Printers Presse. 16'07." 2. "The Atheists Tragedie, or the Honest Man's Revenge. As in divers places it hath often beene acted. Written 5:32 GARRICK COLLECTION". Written by Cyril Tourneur. At London. Printed for John Stepneth and Richard lledmer, and are to be sold at their Shops, at the West end of Pauks. 161 1." JOIIX WEBSTER. This author, who was cotemporary with Dek- ker, Marston, and Rowley, wrote six plays, of which, the Garrick Collection possesses only three, viz. 1. " The White Divel, or the Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Brachiano; with the Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona, the famous Venetian Curtizan. Acted by the Queencs Majesties Servants. Written by John Webster. Non infcriora sccutus. London. Printed by M. O. for Thomas Archer, and are to be sold at his Shop in Popes Head Pallaee, neere the Royall Exchange. lfil'J." 'J. " The Tragedy of the Dutciies.se or Mam y. As it was presented privately at the Black Friers, and publiquely at the Globe, by the Kings Majesties Servants. The perfect and exact coppy, with diverse things printed, that the length of the play would not beare in the presentment. Written by John Webster. Hora, GARRICK COLLECTION. SS3 Horat. Si quid Candidus imperti, si non his utcre mecum. London. Printed by Nicholas Okes, for John Waterson. and are to be sold at the Sign of the Crowne in Pauls Church Yard. 16<23." 3. " Appius and Virginia. A Tragedy. By John Webster. Printed in the Year 1654." GEORGE WHETSTONE. The only play written by this author, of whom very little is known, is most extremely scarce. It is in this Collection, and has this title : " The right excellent and famous Historye of Promos and Cassandra. Devided into two Commicall Discourses. In the fyrste parte is shoWne the unsufferable abuse of a lewde Magistrate. The vertuous behaviours of a chaste Ladye. The uncontrovvled leawdenes of a favoured Curtisan. And the undeserved estimation of a pernicious Parasyte. In the second part is discoursed, The perfect magnanimitye of a noble Kinge, in checking Vice and favouringe Vertue. Wherein is showne the ruyne and overthrowe of dishonest praises, with the advauncement of upright deeling. The $3i GARRICK COLLECTION, The worke of George Whetstones, Gent. Forma) nulla Fides/* It is in Black Letter. There was no copy of this play in Major Pearson's sale, nor in Dr. Farmer's. A copy in Dr. Wright's sale produced 11. S2s. There was a copy in Mr. Dodd's sale. ROBERT WILMOT. This author has the credit of writing one play, which is extremely scarce, viz. " The Tuagedie of Tancred and G Es- mond. Compiled by the Gentlemen of the Inner Temple, and by them presented before Her Majestic. Newly revived and polished accord- to the decorum of these daics. By R. W. London. Printed by Thomas Scarlet, and are to be solde by E. C. 11. Robinson. JoJ)2." The copy in the Garrick Collection is imper- fect, and has a manuscript title page. This play sold at Major Pearson's sale for sixteen shillings; at Dr. Wright's for 11. 1 Js. NATHANIEL WOODE Was a Clergyman of Norwich, and author of one dramatic piece. This is very rare in the original, GARRICK COLLECTION. 33S original, but it has been reprinted. The original copy has this title , " An excellent new Comedie, enti tuled, The Conflict of Conscience, coii- tayninge a most lamentable example of the dole- full dcsparation of a miserable worldlinge, termed by the name of Piiilo locus, who forsooke the trueth of God's Gospel for feare of the losse of Ivfe and worldly goods. Compiled by Nathaniell Woodes r Minister in Norwich. The actors names, devided into six partes, most convenient for such as be disposed, either to shew this Comedie in private houses 01 other- wise. Prologue, Mat betes, Conscience, Paphii>itu9, ( For ( one. ?atbnn, -v Lyrranye, / Spirit, \ Satban, T Spi Horror, Eusebius,, For one. Hypocrisie, "> For 11 Cardinal, ^For Iheologus, 4 one. :| Cacon, 4 one. Avarice, Suggestion, f For Gisbertus, one* Nuntius, Philologu*, ^Fof At London. Printed by Richard Bradoeke, dwelling in Aldehnanburie, a little above the Conduict. Anno. 1581." There was no copy of this play in the Pearson, Wright, Farmer, or Dodd's Collection. Of 336 GARRICK COLLECTION; Of the Anonymous Plays in the Garrick Col- lection, the following are of extreme rarity : 1. " Nobody and Somebody. With the true Chronicall History of Elydure, who was fortunately three several times crowned King of England. The true coppy thereof, as it hath beene acted by the Queen Majesties Servants. Printed for John Trundle, and are to be sold at his Shop in Barbican, at the Sign of No Body." No date. This play has not the usual division of acts. il. " The History of the Tryall of Chevaley. With the Life and Death of Ca- vallero, Dick Bowyer. As it hath bin lately acted by the Right Honourable the Earle of Darby his Servants. London. Printed by Simon Stafford, for Na- thaniel Butler, and are to be sold at his Shop in Paules Church Yard, near St. Austens Gate. 3. " Alarum for London, or the Siedge of Antvverpe, with the ventrous Actes and va- lorous deeds of the Lame Soldier. As it hath been playde by the Right Honorable the Lord Chambcrlaine his Servants. London. Printed for William Fcrbrand, and are to be solde at his Shop in Popes Head Alley, over against the Tavcrne doore, neere the RoyaH Exchange. 1(>(KJ.'' The GARRICK COLLECTION. 337 The above play also is not divided into acts. 4. " A New Interlude and a Mert of the Nature of the mi Elements, de- Clarynge many proper poynts of phylosophy na- turall, and of dyvers straunge landys, and of dyvers straunge effects and causis ; whiche Inter- lade yf the hole matter be playd wyl conteyne the space of an hour and a halfe, but yf ye lyst ye may leve out muche of the sad mater, as the messengers pte and some of naturys parte, and some of experyens pte, and yet the matter wyl depende convenyently, and than it wyll not be paste thre quarters of an hour of length. Here folow the namys of the Pleyers : The Messengere, Nature Naturale, Huma- nyte, Studious, Desire, Sensuall Appetyte, The Taverner, Experyence, Yngnoraunce. Also, yf ye lyst ye may brynge in a Dysgysynge. Here folow dyvers matters whiche be in this ^Interlude conteynyd. Of the sytuacyon of the mi elements, that is to say, the yerth, the water, the ayre, and fyre; and of theyr qualytese and propertese, and of the generacyon and corrupcyon of thyngs made of the commyxion of them. Of certeyn 2 elusions provynge that the yerth must neds be rounde, and that it heno;yth in ye myddle of thv l, . i i :>> iyn !\>r duunce ran we no mure ; For GARIUCK COLLECTION. 339 For mynstrells here be all laCkyng, To the taverne wc wyll therfore. Et exeunt cantando. Humakyte. Now yf that sensuall appetyte can fynd Any good mynstrells after his mynd, Dowt not we shall have good sport. YSGXORAUN'CE. And so shall we have for a swcrte, But what shall w<; do, now tell me, The meane whyle for our comfort. IIu. Then let us some lusty balet syng. Yn'G. Nay, syr, by the hevyn Kyng, For me thynkyth it servyth for no thyng, All such pcvysh prykyeryd song. Hu. Yes, man pryksong may not be dispysyd. For ther with God is well plesyd, Honowryd, prasyd and servyd In the churche oft tymes among. Yvg. Is God well ploasyd trowst thou therby } Nay, nay, for there is no reason why, For is it not as good to say playnly, Gyf me a spade^ As gyf me a spa ve va ve va ve vade ; But yf thou wylt have a song that is good, I have one of Kobyn Hode, The best that ever was made. Hu. Then a feleshyp let us here it. Yng. But there is a bordon thou must ber^it, Or ellys it wyll not be. \ , v / 340 GARRICK COLLECTION. Hu. Than begytt and care not to, Downe, downe, downe. &c. Yno. Robyn Hodt 1 in Varnysdalc stodr, And lent hymsyl a mapyl thystyll ; Than cam our lady and swetc Saint Andrewe Slepyst thou, wakysc thou Jeffrey Coke. Al wynier the water was depc, I can not till you how brode : He toke a gose nek in his hande, And over the water he went. He start up to a thystell top, And cut hym downe a holyn clobe. He stroke ye wren betwene the hornys, That fyrc sprangc out of the pyggs tayle, Jak Boy is thy bowe I broke, Or hath any man done ye wa}'guldy wrage. He plukkyd muskyllys out of a wyllowe, And put them into his sachell. Wylkyn was an archer good, And well coude handell a spade. He toke his bend bowe in his hand, And set him downe by the fyrc. He toke with him ix loves and ten, A pece of befe, a nother of baken. Of all the byndes in mery engiond, So merely pypys the mery botell. Nature. Well Huraanyte, now I so; playnly That thou hast usyd inuche foly The whyle 1 have ben absent. Hu. Syn I trust I have done nothynge That should be contrary to your pleas"vn Shirley. Mr. Robert 3 As it is now playd by her Majesties Servants. Printed at London, for John Wright, and are to bee sold at his Shoppe necre Christ Church Gale. 1607." p. " Law Tricks, or Who would have I II OUGHT IT. As it hath bene divers times acted by the. Children of the Revels. Written by John Day. London. KEMBLE COLLECTION. 371 London. Printed for Richard More, and are to be solde at his Shop in St. Dunstanes Church Yard, in Fleete Streete. 1608." This is said to be a performance of very su- perior merit. Mr. Kemble's copy wants the Epilogue. 10. " The Sunne in Aries. A noble So- lemnity. Performed through the Citie, at the sole Cost and Charges of the Honourable and Ancient Fraternity of Drapers, at the Confir- mation and Establishment of their most worthy Brother the Right Honourable Edward Barkham, in the high Office of His Majesties Lieutenant, the Lord Mayor of the famous Citie of London. Taking beginning at His Lordships going, and perfecting itselfe after his returne from receiving the oath at Westminster, on the morrow after Simon Jude's Day, being the 29 of October, 1621. By Tho. Middleton, Gent. At London. Printed by Ed. Allde, for H. G. 1621." 11. " The pleasaunt Comodie of Pa- tiext Grissill. As it hath been sundrie times lately plaid by the Right Honorable the Earle of Nottingham, Lord High Admirall his Servants. London. Imprinted for Henry Racket, and are to be solde at the long Shop under S. Mil- dred's Church, in the Poultry. 1603." ub2 12. 372 KEMBLE COLLECTION. 12. " The Rump, or the Mirrour of the late Times. A new Comedy, written by J. Tatham, Gent. Acted many times with great applause at the Private House in Dorset * * *. London. Printed by W. Godbid, for R * *. 1660." 13. " The Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe, with the Tragedy of Absalom. As it hath ben divers times plaied on the stage. Written by George Pecle. London. Printed by Adam Islip. 1599." 14. " Porta Pietatis, or the Port or Har- bour of Piety. Exprest in sundrie Triumphes, Pageants, and Shewes, at the Initiation of the Right Honourable Sir Maurice Abbot, Knight, into the Majoralty of the famous and farre renowned City London. All the Charge and Ex pence of the laborious Projects, both by Water and Land, being the sole Undertaking of the Right IV or ship full Company of the Drapers. Written by Thomas I ley wood. Rfdcuut Spectaeula. Printed at London, by J. Ok$s. 16\'3H." 15. " Londim Status Pacatus, or Lon- don V Peaceable Estate, exprest in sundry Tri- umphs, Pageants, and Shewes, at the Iqnitiation of the Right 1-Ionuurable Henry Garwav into the KEMBLE COLLECTION. 373 the Majoraky of the famous and farre renowned City London. All the Charge and Expence of the laborious Projects, both by Water and Land, being the sole Undertakings of the Right Worshipfull So- ciety of Drapers. Written by Thomas Heywood. Redeunt Spcctacula. Printed at London, by John Okes. 1639" 16. 4i The Kentish FaYre^ or the Par- liament sold to their best Worth. Good Oliver lend me thy nose, Tis darke, all lights are out ; For now I mean to write in prose, But guided by thy snout. Black Tom alreadys at the Faire, And in his coach is carried ; His men meanwhile blovvne in the Ayre, And to the fiends are married. Some Citizens they say will ride To buy knacks for their xviree, Let Skippin Skipp-on as their guid, He may protect their lives. At Rochester the Faire is held, By all good tokens know it, A thousand Saints late there were feld As yet the bridge can shew it. Printed at Rochester, and are to be sold to all those that dare to buy them. lG48." b b 3 1.7. 374 KEMBLE COLLECTION. J7. " London's Annual Triumph, per- formed on Thursday, October 29, 1685. For the entertainment of the Right Honour- able Sr. Robert Jeffreys, Kt. Lord Mayor of the City of London. With a description of the several Pageants, Speeches, and Songs, made proper for the occasion. All set forth at the proper cost and charge of the Worshipful Company of [ronmongers. Composed by Matthew Taubman. Durius vltihta fcrrum. Ovid. Metam. Lib. I. Printed and published by authority. London. Printed for lien. Playford, near the Temple Church. 16SJ." 18. " Mistris Parliament her Gos- sipping. Full of Mirth, merry Tales, chat, and other pleasant Discourse, between f Statute,^ r Parliament, Mrs. ' Justice, [- and Mrs. < Ordinance, (Truth, 3 f Synod. Mrs. England being Moderator. Mistris Parliament that late lay in, Invites you now unto her gossipping; And as the order is unto the day, For what you eate she'll make you lou/idfr/ pay. Pray Commons eate, hires chat and laughter, And com in it tee Fruit in dishes alter. rail too and welcome, 1 have still in store. Eler KEMBLE COLLECTION. 3% Her tryalls past ; shee is condemnd to die, Her execution day drawcs nie ; Come help to guard her to the Gallow-tree, England is freed of all her miserie. By Mercurius Melancholicus. Printed in the Year of the downfall of the Sectaries. 1648." )Q. " Worke for Cutlers, or a Merry Dialogue between Sword, Rapier, and Dagger. too Acted in a shew in the famous Universitie of Cambridge. London. Printed by Thomas Creede, for Richard Meighen and Thomas Jones, and are to be sold at S. Clements Church, without Temple Barre. 1615." 20. Of the book I am about to describe, the Garrick Collection once possessed a copy. It grieves me to say that it has disappeared from the Museum. " The Tragi Comcedi of the veiituous OCTAVIA. Done by Samuel Brandon. 1598." Carmen amat quisquis carmine digna gerit. B b 4 London. 376* KEMBLE COLLECTION. London. Printed for William Ponsonbye, and are to be soulde at his Shop in S. Paules Church Yard." This Play is printed in a duodecimo form. 21. " C.^sar and Pompey. A Roman Tragedy, declaring their Warres, out of whose events is erected the Proposition, only a Just Man is a Freeman. By George Chapman. London. Printed by Thomas Harper, and are to be sold by Godfrey Edmonson and Thomas Alchorne. 1631." 22. " The Weakest goetii to the Wall. As it hath bene sundry times plaide by the Right Honourable Earle of Oxenford, Lord Great Chamberlaine of England his Servants. London. Printed by Thomas Creede, for Richard Olive, dwelling in Long Lane. 1600." 23. " Wixe, Beere, and Ale, together by the Earls. A Dialogue, written first in Dutch, by Gal- lobelgicus, and faithfully translated out of the. originall copie, by Mercurius Britannicus, for the benefite of his Nation. Herat. Sicris omnia nam dura Dcus proposuit. London. Printed by A. M. for John Grove, and are to bee sold at his Shop at Furnivall's Inne Gate, in Ilolborne. l62, Intoxicates tint brainc with guiddy wifts, Then row les, and reeles, and tails at length plum ripe. Loe: heaving hie is of so small forecast, To totter lirvi, and tumble doune at last; Vet Paeg.'sin. still nans himselfe on hie, And cuiti&hly duth kicke the clouues in skic. Who GARRICK COLLECTION. 38? Who saw the griefe engraven in a crowne, Or knew the bad and banc whereto its bound, Would never sticke to throwe and fling it downe, Nor once vouchsafe to heave it from the ground. Such is the sweete of this ambitious powre, No sooner had thou turnde eftsoones to sowre^ Atchievede with envie, exercisede with hate, Garded with feare, supported with debate. O restlesse race of high aspyring head ! O worthlcsse rule of both pittyed and invied! How many millions to their losse you lead, With love and lure of kingdomes blisse untryed. So things untasted cause a quenchlcsse thirst, Which were they knowne would be refused first; Yea, oft we see, yet seeing, cannot shonne The facte we fmde, as fondly dared as donne. HYCKE SCORNER. This curious representation of the character^ and manners of the age has been reprinted by Hawkins, and analysed by Dr. Percy. The original, printed by Wynkyn de Worde, is among the choicest curiosities of English literature. It is in black letter, and without date. It probably requires a more skilful pen than mine to describe, but it exists in the Garrick Collection, and is accessible to the more curious reader. The following is a specimen of the Dialogue* Contemplation. Why Syn were ye then ? c 2 Frewyll. 388 APPENDIX TO THE Frewyll. Ye and that is scnc by my brayncs, For as I came there 1 was as wysc as a woodcock, And I thanke God, as wytte as a haddockc. Yet I trust to recover as other dose, For and I had ones as moche wytte as a gose, I sholde be marchaunt of the banke ; Ot' golde then I sholde have many a iranke, For yf I myste make in good vyages to Shoters Hyl, And have wynde and weder at my wyll, Than wolde I never travell the sec more, But hyt is herde to kepe the shyppe i'ro tlie shore, And yf hyt happe rb ryse a storme, Then tiirowen in a rase and so aboutc borna On rockes or brachis for to ronnc, Flics to stryke a grounde at Tyborne. That were a myschevous rase. For that rocke of Tyborne is so pervllous a place Yongc galantes dare not venture in to Kente, But when theyr monaye is gone and spente, With thevr longe botes they roue on the baye, And ony man of warre Ive by the wave, They must take a bote and throwc the helme al! And full harde hyt is to scape that greate jeopardye. For at Saynt Thomas of Watrynge they stryke a saylo, Then inustc they rydc in the haven of Hope without iayle. And were not these two jeopardo's places in dcAe. Thcr is many a marchaunt that thyder wolde spede ; But yet we have a sine careh at Westmynster. A thousande shyppes of theves therin ma) ryde Hire, For yf thide, as of no value, and not being able to dis- cover, anywhere, an account of it, have inserted tht whole,. " Ulul GARRICK COLLECTION. 389 " Here begynneth a Dialogue betavene the Comen Secretary and Jelowsy, ^ouchynnge the Unstablenes of Har- LOTTES, SECRETARY, jelowsy. Jelowsy. Wliat a world is this, I trow it be a curst, Fayne wold I marye, yf y* I durst, But I trow sith ye time that God was born, So many honest men never held hold of ye horn. Secretary. AVhat is the mater, be ye in ony doubte ? Pacyfye your mode, let it come oute ; Jpyscharge your stomake, a yoyde it forth, Sorowes in store be nothynge worth. Jelowsy. TroWth it is I trust ye wyll uot be graved To a small questyon be to you moved, In a mater to me doubtful and defuse, Whiche I suppose ye have had in experyence and use. Secretary. That paventure, but I wyll not promyse you hystely To assayle your questyon very wyseley; Howe be it that ye say I am of experyence, So ye wyll be close, ye shall here my sentence. Jelowsy. Then thus, she that hath a rollynge ey, And doth convey it well and wysely, And therto hath a waverynge thought, Trowe ye this trull wyll not be bought. c c 3 Secretary. 390 APPENDIX TO THE Secretary. Yes, but take hedc by the pryce yc have no los<-c A mode marchaunt that wyll gyve v marke for a goose ; Beware a rolling ey, which wavcrynge thought make that And for such stuffe passe not a dandy pratt. Jelowsy. She that is very wanton and nyse, Thynkyng herself marvaylous wyse, And wyll come to hym that doth her call, Wyll she not wrastell for a fall? Secretary. Yes, suorly for a full flat as a cake, And cares not how many falles she doth take, There is no fall can make her lame, For she wyll be sure of the best game. Jelowsy. She that doth make it all straunge and graynt, And lokyth as she were a very saynte, If a man in the darkc doo hyr Hssav, Hath she any power to holde owto, nay, nav, Secretary. Holde otte, yes, or it is pvttye she was borne, A horse, a whole barrowc, and a rammys borne, If the other thynge come, ye wott what 1 mene, Tor all her holly lookes, she wyll convey it clene, JeLOWsY. She that doth love moche dallying With dweiM' men lor fay re sp<*k)iigo, And tbynkys not on her owne shame, Wyll not tins wyldc fouie be made tame? Secretary- GARRICK COLLFXTION. 391 Secretary. Yes, with good handlynge as I ayine, Even by and by ye shall her reclayme, And make her tame as ever was turtyll, To sutfre kyssyng and tyklyng under her kyrtell. JelowsY. She that is somewhat lyght of credence, And to make her freshe large of expence, Howe say you, and her mony doo fayle, Wyll she not lay too pledge her tayle ? Secretary. Yes, and yf she be of that appetyte, She wyll pledge and sell oute ryght, Hede pece, tayle pece, and all iiii quarteres, To one or other, rather than fayle to carters. Jelowsy. She that lovys to sytte and muse, And craftly can herselfe excuse, When she is taken with a faulte, Wyll she not be wonne with a small saulte? Secretary. What nedys a saulte, I dare say she wyll consent That ye shall enter by a reasonable poyntment ; And then take hede, for in kepynge of this warde hold, Is more danger than in getting a thousand folde. Jelowsy. She that is of mynde somewhat rechellcs, Gyvynge herselfe all to ydelnes, And lovys to lye longe in her bed, Who wayteth his tyme shall he not be sped ? c c 4, Secretary 391 APPENDIX TO THE Secretary. Tyme nay nay wayte yf she be in good mode^ For out of chyrche all tymes be goode ; But passe not thereon, though she say nay, Fox so she wyll whan she hath best lust to play. Jelowsy. She that can no counsayll Wepe, And lyghtly wyll sobbe and wepe, Laughe agayne, and wote not why, Wyll she not be sone ti/ccd * to 1'oly ? Secretary. The teares betoken a gracyous coragc, And laughynge doth all malycc aswagc, Whan she is in that takynge marke well, markc, Let slip spare not for one course in her parkc- Jelowsy. She that is faire and lusty yonge, And can comyn in terms with fylcd tonge, And wyll byde whysperynge in the eare, Thynke ye her tayle is not lyght of the scare*. Secretary. By all these symblytudes me thynkes suerly Her owne tayle she sholdc occupy; Sumtyme for nede her honeste saved, She wyll washc often or she be ones shaved, Jelowsy. She that paynteth her in staryngfi appart 11, Use hote wynes, and dayly to fare well, And loves to slcpe at after none tyde, Who lyst to stryke too we ye she wyll not stryde* Enticti. Secretary. GARBICK COLLECTION. 398 Secretary. I can not say yf she wyll stryde, But yf reason be offered, nothynge shall fall besyde ; For of a trouth, as frost engendereth hayle, Ease and ranjke fedynge doth cause a lycorous tayle. Finis. COCKE LORELLS VOTE. This is a very curious and ancient satire in verse ; it is printed in black letter by Wynkyn de Worde. I am concerned to say that the first part is wanting. As I do not remember to have seen this work described, and it is remarkably scarce, I make no apology for giving a speci- men. Cocke sayd pardoner now ho and cease, Thou makeste me mery, holde thy pease, A thynge tell thou me. What profyte is to take thy pardon Shewe us what mede is to come To be in this fraternyte. Syr this pardon is newe founde By syde London Brydge in a holy groumle Late called the Stewes Banke. Ye know well all that there was Some relygyous women in that place, To whom men offered many a franke, And bycause they were so kynd and lyberall, A merveylous avanture there is befall. Yf ye lyst to here how, There came suche a wynde fro Wynchester, That blewe these women over the ryver. In 59* APPENDIX TO THE In wherye as I wyll you tell. Some at Saynt Kateryns stroke a grounde, And many in Holborne were founde, Some at Saynt Gyles I trowe, Also in Ave Maria Aly, and at Wcstmenster, And some in Shordyche drew theder With grete lamentacyon, And by cause they have lost that fayre place, They wyll bylde at Colman hedge in space. Another noble mansyon. Fayrer and over the halfe strete was ; For every house newe paved is with gras Shall be full of fayre floures ; The walk* shall be of hawthorne I wote well, And hanged wyth whyte motly the swetc doth smell ; Grene shall be the colourcs. And as for this olde place, these wenches holy They wyll not have it railed the stewis for foly, Rut maketh it strabery banko, And there is yet a chapell save, Of whiche ye all the pardon have. The saynt is of symrne trothanke. I wyll rehersc here in generall The indulgences that ye have shall Is these that folowcth with more. At the euro of deth whan ye have ne and How he begyled a doctour wyth hys medi- cines. How Howleglas made a sicke chylde shyte y* afore rnyght not shyte, and howe he gat great worship therof. d d How 404 APPENDIX TO THE How Howleglas made hole all the sycke folke that were in the hospytall, where the spere of our Lord is. How Howleglas was hyred to be a bakers ser- vant. How Howleglas was put in wages with the foster of Anhalte for to watche upon a tower, to se whil his enemies came, and than for to blowe an home to warne them therof. How Howleglas wan a great deale of mony wyth a poynt of foolyshnesse. How the Duke of Luncnborough banyshed Howleglas out of hys lande. How Howleglas set his hostyse upon the hoote ashes with her bare arce. How Howleglas toke upon him to be a paynter. How Howleglas had a great disputacion with all the sanctours of Pragcm in Bemen. How Howleglas became a Pandoner. How Howleglas did eate for money in the towne Banderbetche. How Howleglas wet to Rome to speke w h the Pope. How Howleglas deceived iii Jewes with durt. How Howleglas had gotten the persons horse by his confession. How Howleglas was hyred of a blackesmy th. How Howleglas was hyred of a shoemaker. How Howleglas served a taylor. How Howleglas sold tunics fur fat. () How GARRICK COLLECTION. 405 I low Howleglas, through his subtle disceytes deceyved a wyne drawer in Lubeke. How Howleglas became a maker of specta- cles, and ho we he could fynde no worke in no lande. How Howleglas was hyred of a marchaunt man to be his cooke. How Howleglas was desyred to a dyner. J low Howleglas wane a piece of cloth of a man of y e countrey. How Howleglas gave xx gylders to xii poore me for Christes love. How Howleglas feared his host w h a dead woulfe, How Howleglas flied a hound, and gave the skyn for halfe hys dynner. How Howleglas served the samehostise another tim, and he laye on a whele. How Howleglas served a Holader w h a rosted aple. How Howleglas made a woman that sold erthen potts to smyte them all in pieces. How Howleglas brake the stayres that the munkes shulde come downe on the matyns, and how thei fell downe into the yarde. How Howleglas bought creame of the women of the cuntrey that brought it for to sell. How Howleglas came to a scholer to make verses with him to the use of reason. d d 3 How 40(5 APPENDIX TO THE How Howleglas was sicke at niotsn, and how he dyd shyte in the potecaries boxes, and was borne in the Holy Ghoste. How Howleglas deceived his ghostly father. How Howleglas made his testament. How Howleglas was buried. How Howlesjas bought creame of the women of the coutrey that brought it for to sel to Ma- ryandra. Within a whyle after, or that he would en- ter into y e abbay of Maryandra to be a munke, he went a walkyng on the market daye to Bre- men, wher he sawe many women standing there to sell creatne. And then went Howleglas to the house where he was lodged, and borowed a tub of his hostise, and went again into y c market. And whan he was there, he set downe his tub, and came to a woman of the countrie, and he usked the pryce of her creame. And whan they were both agreed: he made her for to put the crcme into his tub, and than wet he to another, and agreed w h her also, and made her to put her Creme into his tub ; and so wet he fro the on to the other, tyll that lie had made all the women, that had the eremc, to put it into his tub. And whan lie had soo done : than asked thei poore women thuire money of Howleglas, for they woulde departe home. Than sayde Howie- V GARRICK COLLECTION. 407 Howleglas to the women, ye must do so much for me as to trust me these eight dayes, for I have no money at thys tyme. Tha ware the Avomen of the countrey angry, and the ran to they tub for to take every one of them their creame again, for the would not trust him. And as thei wold have taken theyr creme again, than began they to fal together by the eares, and sayde, Thou takest more than thou should have. And the other stode all wepyng, and sayde to them, shall I loose my creame. And other twayn were tumbling by the here in the myddes of the canel. And thus they pulled and haled on the other, that at the last the tub fell downe and arayed the very foule, so that they were all dysfygured, and wist not of whome the should be avenged of. And tha arose the and asked where is this false knave y* hath bought our mylke, and hath deeeved us so, for had we hym here amonge us, we she '.side chrysten hym here in the creame that is in the cannell, and paint him therwith as wel as we he, for lie is a false begyler and dyscever. But he was gone fro thence, for he cast before y 1 such a thvng shulde folowe. And whan the Burgeys of the towne, and many other folke of the town sawe that the cannels ran with creame, than went thei to the market place for to se. And wha y l ware ther ; they asked how the creme was spy It, and BtU tha 408 APPENDIX TO THE tha it was tolde them. And whan that the knew it, than the returned home laughyng, and praised greatli y 1 falsenes and subtilte of Howleglas. How Howleglas came to a scholer to make verses with hym to that use of reason. And howe that Howleglas began as after shall folowe. Howleglas. Mars with scepter, a King coronate Furius in affliction, and taketh no regarde, By terrible fightyng, he is our prymate, And God of Battell, and person ryght froward. Of warriev the tutor, the locke, and the warde, His power, his might, wlio can them resyst ? Not- all this worlde, if that himselfe lyst. The Scholek. Not all this worlde, who tolde the so. Where is that written, ryght fayne would I rc\ Ye came lyke a foole, and so shall ye go. By one person only, deceived ye may be, And by astronomy, I tell it unto the, If that wyll not helpe, some shyft shall I finde By craft, or cunnyng, Mars for to blynde. Howleglas. Venus a god of love most decorate. The flowre of women, and lady most pure, Lovers to Concorde, she doth aye aggregate, With parfyte love, us marble to dure. The knot of love, she knittes on them sine. With frendly amite, and never to discorde Bv dedes, thought, cojitacion, nor wordc. Tin. GARRICK COLLECTION. 409 The Scholeh. Not to dyscorde, yet dyd I never see, Knowe, nor here tell, of lovers such twayne, But some faute ther was, learne this of me, Other in thought, or yet in vvordes playne, Your reasons be nought, your tong goeth in vayne, By naturall person ; suche love is not founde In Fraunce, Flaunders, nor yet in Englyshe ground.. HoWLEGLAS. The god of vvyne, that Bachus hath to name, The sender of fruytes that maketh wynes all, May slake or make, or put them in frame, All at his pleasure and use dyuryall. He may the exalte in lykewyse to fall. Their lorde, and maister, and chiefe governour, He may them destroye, and make in an houre. The Scholer. All to destroy, it is not by his myght, Nor yet for to make, of that be thou sure, (Omnia per ipsum) Saint Johan sayes full right. Than we call Christ, our God and our treasure, Presume not so hye, you fayle of your measure ; Rede, heare, and se, and here well awaye Unknowen, unsayde, and for grace thou praye. Vale. The copy from which the above extracts art: . taken is, I believe, unique. None of my literary friends have ever seen any other. Ames, how- ever, mentions one in the collection of Mr. Tutet. THE 410 APPENDIX TO THE THE KNIGHT OF THE SWANNE. Here beginneth the History of the noble He- lyas, Knyght of the Swanne, newly translated out of Frenshe in to Englyshe, at thinstigation of the puyssant and illustryous Prynce, Lorde Edwarde, Duke of Buckyngham." At the end. " Thus endeth the Jife and myraculous hystory of the most noble and illustryous Helyas, Knight of the Swanne, and the birth of the excellent Knight Godfrey, of Boulyon, one of the nyne worthiest, and the last of the three Christen. Imprinted at London, by me, Wyllyain Cop- land." The above Romance, not being metrical, has not been noticed by Ellis or Ilitson. It is of extraordinary rarity. The title- page repre- sents the Knight in armour, with a Bugle Horn in his hand, drawn by a Swan. In the back ground is a town, on the walls of which are as- sembled various persons of rank, one of whom has an imperial crown on his head. The pro- logue of the translator is given in the last edi- tion of Ames. The tract is so very curious and rare, that I subjoin a specimen of the work itself. " I low at the commaundement of Matabrune, :i hourdes man, named Savary, came for to flea the GARRICK COLLECTION. 411 the vii litle chyldren of King Oriant, unknowen, ia the forest, where as they were tranSmued into swannes. At the cornmaundement of the pervers Ma- tabrune, her yotnan, or hourdcs man, named Savary, tooke vii felowes, strong and mijjhti with him, for to but in execucion that that unto them was commaunded, for to slea the vii children of the noble King Oriant and his good spouse Beatrice. And so as the sayd yoman and his felowes passed hi y c village, they sawc muche people assembled. Wherfore thei drew nere. And whan they were approched, Savarie de- manded wherfore they were so assembled. And they answered for to see a woman executed and brent by justice. And wherefore sayd Savary, what harme hath she doone, and they sayd, for that she had murdred and slaine the children that she bare in her owne bely. Then Savarie departed thens, and by those woides remembred the execucyon and the murther that lie went to dooe on the vii small children of the King and of the Queue, whereby he was muche esmayed, and began to refraine his courage, and that which he had undertaken to doo, in saying to his felowes, My brethren and felowes, here is a fayre glasse or spectacle for us. Howe .said thei? Have ye not seen, said he, that these people go for to doo justice, and put to death that unhappy woman, for that she hath murthred and 412 APPENDIX TO THE and slain the eh vide that she bare in her otvne body. And thcrfore faire frendes, ye wot that my Lady Matabrunc hath sent us hither for to go occise and put to death vii faire litle children, the which the other daye I founde in the middes of the forest, echone of them havinge a fairp chayne of sylver at his necke, but cursed be he of God, and confounded may he be, that any harme shall doo to them. Behold this woman that they go to brenne and execute for one onely childe that she hath murdred, and was her ow-ne. Consider we than what punicion might renne to us for to put to death the vii chyldren, of the whiche I have sjr>oken, the whiche to us ne to her that commaundeth cannot hinder nor here any damage. Syr Ilourdes man, saul his felowes, ye spake wiscli, and we be all of the same ad- vise. They shall have no harme, savd he, but this wee maye do, for to appease and contente the insaciable iniquiti of the pervers Matabrunc. We shall