The history of English poetry: from the close of the eleventh to the commencement of the eighteenth century. To which are prefixed, two dissertations. ... By Thomas Warton, ... [pt.4]

Table of contents

- SECT. XLIV.

- SECT. XLV.

- SECT. XLVI.

- SECT. XLVII.

- SECT. XLVIII.

- INDEX TO THE THIRD VOLUME OF WARTON'S History of English Poetry.

- INDEX TO THE GESTA ROMANORUM, PREFIXED TO THE THIRD VOLUME OF WARTON'S History of English Poetry.

THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH POETRY.

SECT. XLIV.

MORE poetry was written in the single reign of Elizabeth, than in the two preceding centuries. The same causes, among others already enumerated and explained, which called forth genius and imagination, such as the new sources of fiction opened by a study of the classics, a familiarity with the French Italian and Spanish writers, the growing elegancies of the English language, the diffusion of polished manners, the felicities of long peace and public prosperity, and a certain freedom and activity of mind which immediately followed the national emancipation from superstition, contributed also to produce innumerable compositions in poetry. In prosecuting my further examination of the poetical annals of this reign, it there•ore becomes necessary to reduce such a latitude of materials to some sort of methodical arrangement. On which account, I shall class and consider the poets of this reign, under the general heads, or divisions, of SATIRE, SONNET, PASTORAL, and MISCELLANEOUS poetry. Spenser will stand alone, without a class, and without a rival.

Satire, specifically so called, did not commence in England till the latter end of the reign of queen Elizabeth. We have seen, indeed, that eclogues, and allegories were made the vehicle of satire, and that many poems of a satirical tendency had been published, long ago. And here, the censure was rather confined to the corruptions of the clergy, than extended to popular follies and vices. But the first professed English satirist, to speak technically, is bishop Joseph Hall, successively bishop of Exeter and Norwich, born at Bristow-park within the parish of Ashby de la Zouch in Leicestershire, in the year 1574, and at the age of fifteen, in the year 1588, admitted into Emanuel-college at Cambridge, where he remained about eight years. He soon became eminent in the theology of those times, preached against predestination before prince Henry with unrivalled applause, and discussed the doctrines of Arminianism in voluminous dissertations. But so variable are our studies, and so fickle is opinion, that the poet is better known to posterity than the prelate or the polemic. His satires have outlived his sermons at court, and his laborious confutations of the Brownists. One of his later controversial tracts is, however, remembered on account of the celebrity of its antagonist. When Milton descended from his dignity to plead the cause of fanaticism and ideal liberty, bishop Hall was the defender of our hierarchical establishment. Bayle, who knew Hall only as a theologist, seems to have written his life merely because he was one of the English divines at the Synod of Dort, in 1618. From his inflexible and conscientious attachment to the royal and episcopal cause under king Charles the first, he suffered in his old age the severities of imprisonment and sequestration; and lived to see his cathedral converted into a barrack, and his palace into an ale-house. His uncommon learning was meliorated with great penetration and knowledge of the world, and his mildness of manners and his humility were characteristical. He died, and was obscurely buried without a memorial on his grave, in 1656, and in his eighty second year, at Heigham a small village near Norwich, where he had sought shelter from the storms of usurpation, and the intolerance of presbyterianism.

I have had the good fortune to see bishop Hall's funeralsermon, preached some days after his interment, on the thirtieth day of September, 1656, at saint Peter's church in Norwich, by one John Whitefoote, Master of Arts, and rector of Heigham. The preacher, no contemptible orator, before he proceeds to draw a parallel between our prelate and the patriarch Israel, thus illustrates that part of his character with which we are chiefly concerned, and which I am now hastening to consider. "Two yeares together he was chosen rhetorick professor in the universitie of Cambridge, and performed the office with extraordinary applause. He was noted for a singular wit from his youth: a most acute rhetorician, and an elegant poet. He understood many tongues; and in the rhetorick of his own, he was second to none that lived in his time [a]." It is much to our present purpose to observe, that the style of his prose is strongly tinctured with the manner of Seneca. The writer of the satires is perceptible in some of his gravest polemical or scriptural treatises; which are perpetually interspersed with excursive illustrations, familiar allusions, and observations on life. Many of them were early translated into French; and their character is well drawn by himself, in a dedication to James the first, who perhaps would have much better relished a more sedate and profound theology. "Seldome any man hath offered to your royall hands a greater bundle of his owne thoughts, nor perhaps more varietie of discourse. For here shall your maiestie find Moralitie, like a good handmaid, waiting on Divinitie: and Divinitie, like some great lady, euery day in seuerall dresses. Speculation interchanged with experience, Positiue theology with polemical, textuall with discursorie, popular with scholasticall [b]."

At the age of twenty-three, while a student at Emanuelcollege, and in the year 1597, he published at London three Books of anonymous Satires, which he called Toothless SATYRS, poetical, academical, moral [c]. They were printed by Thomas Creede for Robert Dexter, and are not recited in the registers of the Stationers of London. The following year, and licenced by the stationers, three more books appeared, entitled, "VIRGIDEMIARUM, The three last Bookes of Byting Satyres." These are without his name, and were printed by Richard Bradock for Robert Dexter, in the size and letter of the last [d]. All the six Books were printed together in 1599, in the same form, with this title, "VIRGIDEMIARUM, The three last Bookes of byting Satyres corrected and amended with some additions by J. H. [John Hall.] LONDON, for R. Dexter, &c. 1599." A most incomprehensive and inaccurate title: for this edition, the last and the best, contains the three first as well as the three last Books [e]. It begins with the first three books: then at the end of the third book, follow the three last, but preceded by a new title, "VIRGIDEMIARUM. The three last Bookes, of byting Satyres. Corrected and amended with some additions by J. H." For R. Dexter, as before, 1599. But the seventh of the fourth Book is here made a second satire to the sixth or last Book. Annexed are, "Certaine worthye manvscript poems of great antiquitie reserued long since in the studie of a Northfolke gentleman, And now first published by J. S. I. The stately tragedy of Guistard and Sismond. II. The Northerne mother's blessing. III. The way to Thrifte. Imprinted at London for R. D. 1597." Dedicated, "to the worthiest poet Maister Ed. Spenser." To this identical impression of Hall's Satires, and the Norfolk gentleman's manuscript poems annexed, a false title appeared in 1602, "VIRGIDEMIARUM. Sixe Bookes. First three bookes, Of toothlesse Satyrs. 1. POETICALL. 2. ACADEMICALL. 3. MORAL. London, Printed by John Harison, for Robert Dexter, 1602." All that follows is exactly what is in the edition of 1599. By VIRGIDEMIA, an uncouth and uncommon word, we are to understand a Gathering or Harvest of rods, in reference to the nature of the subject.

These satires are marked with a classical precision, to which English poetry had yet rarely attained. They are replete with animation of style and sentiment. The indignation of the satirist is always the result of good sense. Nor are the thorns of severe invective unmixed with the flowers of pure poetry. The characters are delineated in strong and lively colouring, and their discriminations are touched with the masterly traces of genuine humour. The versification is equally energetic and elegant, and the fabric of the couplets approaches to the modern standard. It is no inconsiderable proof of a genius predominating over the general taste of an age when every preacher was a punster, to have written verses, where laughter was to be raised, and the reader to be entertained with sallies of pleasantry, without quibbles and conceits. His chief fault is obscurity, arising from a remote phraseology, constrained combinations, unfamiliar allusions, elleiptical apostrophes, and abruptness of expression. Perhaps some will think, that his manner betrays too much of the laborious exactness and pedantic anxiety of the scholar and the student. Ariosto in Italian, and Regnier in French, were now almost the only modern writers of satire: and I believe there had been an English translation of Ariosto's satires. But Hall's acknowledged patterns are Juvenal and Persius, not without some touches of the urbanity of Horace. His parodies of these poets, or rather his adaptations of antient to modern manners, a mode of imitation not unhappily practiced by Oldham, Rochester, and Pope, discover great facility and dexterity of invention. The moral gravity and the censorial declamation of Juvenal, he frequently enlivens with a train of more refined reflection, or adorns with a novelty and variety of images.

In the opening of his general PROLOGUE, he expresses a decent consciousness of the difficulty and danger of his new undertaking. The laurel which he sought had been unworn, and it was not to be won without hazard.

His first book, containing nine satires, is aimed at the numerous impotent yet fashionable scribblers with which his age was infested. It must be esteemed a curious and valuable picture, drawn from real life, of the abuses of poetical composition which then prevailed; and which our author has at once exposed with the wit of a spirited satirist, and the good taste of a judicious critic. Of Spenser, who could not have been his cotemporary at Cambridge, as some have thought, but perhaps was his friend, he constantly speaks with respect and applause.

I avail myself of a more minute analysis of this Book, not only as displaying the critical talents of our satirist, but as historical of the poetry of the present period, and illustrative of my general subject. And if in general, I should be thought too copious and prolix in my examination of these satires, my apology must be, my wish to revive a neglected writer of real genius, and my opinion, that the first legitimate author in our language of a species of poetry of the most important and popular utility, which our countrymen have so successfully cultivated, and from which Pope derives his chief celebrity, deserved to be distinguished with a particular degree of attention.

From the first satire, which I shall exhibit at length, we learn what kinds of pieces were then most in fashion, and in what manner they were written. They seem to have been, tales of love and chivalry, amatorial sonnets, tragedies, comedies, and pastorals.

The compliment in the close to Spenser, is introduced and turned with singular address and elegance. The allusion is to Spenser's beautiful episode of the marriage of Thames and Medway, recently published, in 1595, in the fourth book of the second part of the FAIRY QUEEN [q]. But had I, says the poet, been inclined to invoke the assistance of a Muse, what Muse, even of a lower order, is there now to be found, who would condescend to sit and sing on the desolated margin of the Cam? The Muses frequent other rivers, ever since Spenser celebrated the nuptials of Thames and Medway. Cam has now nothing on his banks but willows, the types of desertion.

I observe here in general, that Thomas Hudson and Henry Lock, were the Bavius and Mevius of this age. In the RETURN FROM PARNASSUS, 1606, they are thus consigned to oblivion by Judicio. "Locke and Hudson, sleep you quiet shavers among the shavings of the press, and let your books lie in some old nook amongst old boots and shoes, so you may avoid my censure [r]." Hudson translated into English Du Bartas's poem of JUDITH AND HOLOFERNES, in which is this couplet.

And at her eare a pearle of greater valew

There hung, than that th' Egyptian queene did swallow.

Yet he is commended by Harrington for making this translation in a
"verie good and sweet English verse [s],"
and is largely cited in ENGLAND'S PARNASSUS, 1600. Lock applied the Sonnet to a spiritual purpose, and substituting christian love in the place of amorous passion, made it the vehicle of humiliation, holy comfort, and thanksgiving. This book he dedicated, under the title of the PASSIONATE PRESENT to queen Elizabeth, who perhaps from the title expected to be entertained with a subject of very different nature [t].

In the second satire, our author poetically laments that the nine Muses are no longer vestal virgins.

He complains, that the rabble of rymesters new have engrafted the myrtle on the bay; and that poetry, departing from its antient moral tendency, has been unnaturally perverted to the purposes of corruption and impurity. The Muses have changed, in defiance of chastity,

Their modest stole to garish looser weed,

Deckt with loue-fauours, their late whoredom's meed.

While the pellucid spring of Pyrene is converted into a poisonous and muddy puddle.

—Whose infectious staine

Corrupteth all the lowly fruitfull plaine [s].

Marlow's OVID'S ELEGIES, and some of the dissolute sallies of Green and Nash, seem to be here pointed out. I know not of any edition of Marston's PYGMALION'S IMAGE before the year 1598, and the CALTHA POETARUM, or BUMBLE-BEE, one of the most exceptionable books of this kind, written by T. Cutwode, appeared in 1599 [t]. Shakespeare's VENUS AND ADONIS, published in 1593, had given great offence to the graver readers of English verse [u].

In the subsequent satire, our author more particularly censures the intemperance of his brethren; and illustrates their absolute inability to write, till their imaginations were animated by wine, in the following apt and witty comparison, which is worthy of Young.

In the succeeding lines, he confines his attack to Marlow, eminent for his drunken frolicks, who was both a player and a poet, and whose tragedy of TAMERLANE THE GREAT, represented before the year 1588, published in 1590, and confessedly one of the worst of his plays, abounds in bombast. Its false splendour was also burlesqued by Beaumont and Fletcher in the COXCOMB; and it has these two lines, which are ridiculed by Pistol, in Shakespeare's KING HENRY THE FOURTH [w], addressed to the captive princes who drew Tamerlane's chariot.

Holla, you pamper'd jades of Asia,

What, can ye draw but twenty miles a day?

We should, in the mean time, remember, that by many of the most skilful of our dramatic writers, tragedy was now thought almost essentially and solely to consist, in the pomp of declamation, in sounding expressions, and unnatural amplifications of style. But to proceed.

But, adds the critical satirist, that the minds of the astonished audience may not be too powerfully impressed with the terrours of tragic solemnity, a VICE, or buffoon, is suddenly and most seasonably introduced.

To complete these genuine and humorous anecdotes of the state of our stage in the reign of Elizabeth, I make no apology for adding the paragraph immediately following, which records the infancy of theatric criticism.

In the beginning of the next satire, he resumes this topic. He seems to have conceived a contempt for blank verse; observing that the English iambic is written with little trouble, and seems rather a spontaneous effusion, than an artificial construction.

To these antique tales he condemns the application of the extravagant enchantments of Ariosto's ORLANDO FURIOSO, particularly of such licentious fictions as the removal of Merlin's tomb from Wales into France, or Tuscany, by the magic operations of the sorceress Melissa [c]. The ORLANDO had been just now translated by Harrington.

But he suddenly checks his career, and retracts his thoughtless temerity in presuming to blame such themes as had been immortalised by the fairy muse of Spenser.

In the fifth, he ridicules the whining ghosts of the MIRROUR OF MAGISTRATES, which the ungenerous and unpitying poet sends back to hell, without a penny to pay Charon for their return over the river Styx [f].

In the sixth, he laughs at the hexametrical versification of the Roman prosody, so contrary to the genius of our language, lately introduced into English poetry by Stanihurst the translator of Virgil, and patronised by Gabriel Harvey and sir Philip Sidney.

His own lines on the subject are a proof that English verse wanted to borrow no graces from the Roman.

The false and foolish compliments of the sonnet-writer, are the object of the seventh satire.

Be she all sooty black, or berry brown,

She's white as morrow's milk, or flakes new-blown.

He judges it absurd, that the world should be troubled with the history of the smiles or frowns of a lady; as if all mankind were deeply interested in the privacies of a lover's heart, and the momentary revolutions of his hope and despair [h].

In the eighth, our author insinuates his disapprobation of sacred poetry, and the metrical versions of scripture, which were encouraged and circulated by the puritans. He glances at Robert Southwell's SAINT PETER'S COMPLAINT [i], in which the saint weeps pure Helicon, published this year, and the same writer's FUNERALL TEARES of the two Maries. He then, but without mentioning his name, ridicules Markham's SION'S MUSE, a translation of Solomon's Song [k]. Here, says our satirical critic, Solomon assumes the character of a modern sonnetteer; and celebrates the sacred spouse of Christ with the levities and in the language of a lover singing the praises of his mistress [l].

The hero of the next satire I suspect to be Robert Greene, who practiced the vices which he so freely displayed in his poems. Greene, however, died three or four years before the publication of these satires [m]. Nor is it very likely that he should have been, as Oldys has suggested in some manuscript papers, Hall's cotemporary at Cambridge, for he was incorporated into the University of Oxford, as a Master of Arts from Cambridge, in July, under the year 1588 [n]. But why should we be sollicitous to recover a name, which indecency, most probably joined with dulness, has long ago deservedly delivered to oblivion? Whoever he was, he is surely unworthy of these elegant lines.

He then proceeds, with a liberal disdain, and with an eye on the stately buildings of his university, to reprobate the Muses for this unworthy profanation of their dignity.

His execration of the infamy of adding to the mischiefs of obscenity, by making it the subject of a book, is strongly expressed.

Our poets, too frequently the children of idleness, too naturally the lovers of pleasure, began now to be men of the world, and affected to mingle in the dissipations and debaucheries of the metropolis. To support a popularity of character, not so easily attainable in the obscurities of retirement and study, they frequented taverns, became libertines and buffoons, and exhilarated the circles of the polite and the profligate. Their way of life gave the colour to their writings: and what had been the favourite topic of conversation, was sure to please, when recommended by the graces of poetry. Add to this, that poets now began to write for hire, and a rapid sale was to be obtained at the expence of the purity of the reader's mind [*]. The author of the RETURN FROM PARNASSUS, acted in 1606, says of Drayton a true genius, "However, he wants one true note of a poet of our times, and that is this: he cannot swagger it well in a tavern [q]."

The first satire of the second Book properly belongs to the last. In it, our author continues his just and pointed animadversions on immodest poetry, and hints at some pernicious versions from the FACETIAE of Poggius Florentinus, and from Rabelais. The last couplet of the passage I am going to transcribe, is most elegantly expressive.

By tauernings, he means the encreasing fashion of frequenting taverns, which seems to have multiplied with the playhou•es. As new modes of entertainment sprung up, and new places of public resort became common, the people were more often called together, and the scale of convivial life in London was enlarged. From the play-house they went to the tavern. In one of Decker's pamphlets, printed in 1609, there is a curious chapter, "How a yong Gallant should behave himself in an Ordinarie
[t]
. One of the most expensive and elegant meetings of this kind in London is here described. It appears that the company dined so very late, as at half an hour after eleven in the morning; and that it was the fashion to ride to this polite symposium on a Spanish jennet, a servant running before with his master's cloak. After dinner, they went on horseback to the newest play. The same author in his BELMAN'S NIGHT WALKES [u], a lively description of London, almost two centuries ago, gives the following instructions. "Haunt tavernes, there shalt thou find prodigalls: pay thy two pence to a player in his gallerie, there shalt thou sit by an harlot. At ORDINARIES thou maist dine with silken fooles [w]."

In the second satire, he celebrates the wisdom and liberality of our ancestors, in erecting magnificent mansions for the accommodation of scholars, which yet at present have little more use than that of reproaching the rich with their comparative neglect of learning. The verses have much dignity, and are equal to the subject.

He concludes his complaint of the general disregard of the literary profession, with a spirited paraphrase of that passage of Persius, in which the philosophy of the profound Arcesilaus and of the aerumnosi Solones, is proved to be of so little use and estimation
[y]
.

In the third, he laments the lucrative injustice of the law, while ingenuous science is without emolument or reward. The exordium is a fine improvement of his original.

The interview between the anxious client and the rapacious lawyer, is drawn with much humour: and shews the authoritative superiority and the mean subordination subsisting between the two characters, at that time.

The fourth displays the difficulties and discouragements of the physician. Here we learn, that the sick lady and the gouty peer were then topics of the ridicule of the satirist.

He thus laughs at the quintessence of a sublimated mineral elixir.

Each powdred graine ransometh captive kings,

Purchaseth realmes, and life prolonged brings [c].

Imperial oils, golden cordials, and universal panaceas, are of high antiquity: and perhaps the puffs of quackery were formerly more ostentatious than even at present, before the profession of medicine was freed from the operations of a spurious and superstitious alchemy, and when there were mystics in philosophy as well in religion. Paracelsus was the father of empericism.

From the fifth we learn, that advertisements of a LIVING WANTED were affixed on one of the doors of Saint Paul's cathedral.

Sawst thou ere SIQUIS [d] patch'd on Paul's church dore,

To gaine some vacant vicarage before?

The sixth, one of the most perspicuous and easy, perhaps the most humorous, in the whole collection, and which I shall therefore give at length, exhibits the servile condition of a domestic preceptor in the family of an esquire. Several of the satires of this second BOOK, are intended to shew the depressed state of modest and true genius, and the inattention of men of fortune to literary merit.

From those who despised learning, he makes a transition to those who abused or degraded it by false pretences. Judicial astrology is the subject of the seventh satire. He supposes that astrology was the daughter of one of the Egyptian midwives, and that having been nursed by Superstition, she assumed the garb of Science.

That now, who pares his nailes, or libs his swine?

But he must first take covnsel of the signe.

Again, of the believer in the stars, he says,

The numerous astrological tracts, particularly pieces called PROGNOSTICATIONS, published in the reign of queen Elizabeth, are a proof how strongly the people were infatuated with this sort of divination. One of the most remarkable, was a treatise written in the year 1582, by Richard Harvey, brother to Gabriel Harvey, a learned astrologer of Cambridge, predicting the portentous conjunction of the primary planets, Saturn and Jupiter, which was to happen the next year. It had the immediate effect of throwing the whole kingdom into the most violent consternation. When the fears of the people were over, Nash published a droll account of their opinions and apprehensions while this formidable phenomenon was impending; and Elderton a ballad-maker, and Tarleton the comedian, joined in the laugh. This was the best way of confuting the impertinencies of the science of the stars. True knowledge must have been beginning to dawn, when these profound fooleries became the objects of wit and ridicule [i].

Notes

a
Fol. 3.
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b
WORKS, Lond. 1628. sol. vol. i. p. 3.
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c
In small duodecimo, Wh. Let. But see the Catalogue to Mr. Capell's SHAKESPERIANA, given to Trinity college Cambridge, NUM. 347. "Virgidemiarum, libri 6. Satires, Hall. 1597, 8^0."
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d
In pages 106. With vignettes. Entered, March 30, 1598, to R. Dexter. REGISTR. STATION. C. f. 33. a. Ames recites an edition of all the SIX BOOKS, in 68 pages, in 1598. HIST. PRINT. p. 434. I suspect this to be a mistake.
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e
A modern edition, however, a thin duodecimo, was printed at Oxford, for R. Clements, 1753, under the direction of Mr. Thomson, late fellow of Queen's college Oxford. The editors followed an edition bought from Lord Oxford's library, which they destroyed, when the new one was finished.
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q
B. iv. C. xi.
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r
A. i. S. ii.
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s
Transl. ORL. FUR. Notes, B. xxxv. p. 296. 1633. Hence, or from an old Play, the name HOLOFERNES got into Shakespeare.
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t
I have before cited this Collection, which appeared in 1597, vol. iii. 445. That was a second edition. To his ECCLESIASTES there is a recommendatory poem by Lilly. Some of David's Psalms in verse appear with his name the same year.
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s
B. i. 2. f. 4.
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t
To R. Olave, April 17, 1599. REGISTR. STATION. C. f. 50. b.
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u

This we learn from a poem entitled, "A Scourge for Paper-persecutors, by J. D. with an Inquisition against Paperpersecutors by A. H. Lond. for H. H." 1625. 4to. Signat. A. 3.
‘’
See also Freeman's Epigrams, the Second Part, entitled, RUN AND A GREAT CAST, Lond. 1614. 4to. EPIGR. 92. Signat. K. 3.
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w
A. ii. S. iv.
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c
See ORL. FUR. iii. 10. xxvi. 39.
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f
B. i. 5. f. 12.
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h
B. i. 7. f. 15.
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i
Wood says that this poem was written by Davies of Hereford. ATH. OXON. i. 445. But he had given it to Southwell, p. 334.
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k
See supr. vol. iii. p. 318.
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l
B. i. 8. f. 1 7.
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m
In 1593, Feb. 1, a piece is entered to Danter called Greene's Funerall. REGISTR. STATION, B. f. 304. b.
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n
Registr. Univ. Oxon. sub ann.
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*
Harrington has an Epigram on this subject. EPIGR. B. i. 40. ‘’ And again, he says a poet was paid "two crownes a sonnet." EPIGR. B. i. 39.
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q
A. i. S. ii.
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t
Decker's GULS HORNE BOOK, p. 22. There is an old quarto. "The Meeting of Gallants at an Ordinarie, or the Walkes of Powles," 1604. Jonson says of lieutenant Shift. EPIGR. xii.

He steales to Ordinaries, there he playes

At dice his borrowed money.—

And in CYNTHIA'S REVELLS, 1600. "You must frequent Ordinaries a month more, to initiate yourself." A. iii. S i.
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u
The title page is "O per se O, or A newe Cryer of Lanthorne and candle light, &c" Lond. 1612. 4to. Bl. Lett. For J. Busbie. There is a later edition 1620. 4to.
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w
CH. ii. Again, in the same writer's "BELMAN of LONDON Bringing to light the most notorious villanies that are now practised in the kingdom," Signat. E. 3. "At the best ORDINARIES where your only Gallants spend afternoones, &c." Edit. 1608. 4to. Bl. Lett. Printed at London for N. Butter. This is called a second edition. There was another, 1616, 4to. This piece is called by a cotemporary writer, the most witty, elegant, and eloquent display of the vices of London then extant. W. Fennnor's COMPTOR'S COMMONWEALTH, 1617. 4to. p. 16.
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y
B. ii. 2. f. 28. In the last line of this satire he says,

Let swinish Grill delight in dunghill clay.

Gryllus is one of Ulysses's companions transformed into a hog by Circe, who refuses to be restored to his human shape. But perhaps the allusion is immediately to Spenser, FAIR. QU. ii. 12. 81.
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c
B. ii. 4. f. 35.
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d
SIQUIS was the first word of advertisements, often published on the doors of Saint Paul's. Decker says, "The first time that you enter into Paules, pass thorough the body of the church like a porter; yet presvme not to fetch so much as one whole turne in the middle ile, nor to cast an eye vpon SIQUIS doore, pasted and plaistered vp with seruingmens supplications, &c." THE GULS HORNE BOOKE, 1609. p. 21. And in Wroth's EPIGRAMS, 1620. EPIG
•
. 93. ‘’

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i
See Nash's APOLOGY OF PEERS PENNILESS, &c. Lond. 1593. 4to. f. 11.
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SECT. XLV.

THE opening of the first satire of the third Book, which is a contrast of antient parsimony with modern luxury, is so witty, so elegant, and so poetical an enlargement of a shining passage in Juvenal, that the reader will pardon another long quotation.

He then, in the prosecution of a sort of poetical philosophy, which prefers civilized to savage life, wishes for the nakedness or the furs of our simple ancestors, in comparison of the fantastic fopperies of the exotic apparel of his own age.

One of the vanities of the age of Elizabeth was the erection of monuments, equally costly and cumbersome, charged with a waste of capricious decorations, and loaded with superfluous and disproportionate sculpture. They succeeded to the rich solemnity of the gothic shrine, which yet, amid a profusion of embellishments, preserved uniform principles of architecture.

In the second satire, our author moralises on these empty memorials, which were alike allotted to illustrious or infamous characters.

The third is the description of a citizen's feast, to which he was invited,

With hollow words, and ouerly[e] request.

But the great profusion of the entertainment was not the effect of liberality, but a hint that no second invitation must be expected. The effort was too great to be repeated. The guest who dined at this table often, had only a single dish [f].

The fourth is an arraignment of ostentatious piety, and of those who strove to push themselves into notice and esteem by petty pretensions. The illustrations are highly humorous.

The same affectation appeared in dress.

The fifth is a droll portrait of the distress of a lustie courtier, or fine gentleman, whose periwinkle, or peruke, was suddenly blown off by a boisterous puff of wind while he was making his bows [l].

He lights, and runs and quicklie hath him sped

To ouertake his ouer-running head, &c.

These are our satirist's reflections on this disgraceful accident.

In the next, is the figure of a famished Gallant, or beau, which is much better drawn than in any of the comedies of those times. His hand is perpetually on the hilt of his rapier. He picks his teeth, but has dined with duke Humphry [n]. He professes to keep a plentiful and open house for every straggling cavaliere, where the dinners are long and enlivened with music, and where many a gay youth, with a high-plumed hat, chuses to dine, much rather than to pay his shilling. He is so emaciated for want of eating, that his sword-belt hangs loose over his hip, the effect of hunger and heavy iron. Yet he is dressed in the height of the fashion,

All trapped in the new-found brauerie.

He pretends to have been at the conquest of Cales, where the nuns worked his bonnet. His hair stands upright in the French style, with one long lock hanging low on his shoulders, which, the satirist adds, puts us in mind of a native cord, the truely English rope which he probably will one day wear.

In the Prologue to this book, our author strives to obviate the objections of certain critics who falsely and foolishly thought his satires too perspicuous. Nothing could be more absurd, than the notion, that because Persius is obscure, therefore obscurity must be necessarily one of the qualities of satire. If Persius, under the severities of a proscriptive and sanguinary government, was often obliged to conceal his meaning, this was not the case of Hall. But the darkness and difficulties of Persius arise in great measure from his own affectation and false taste. He would have been enigmatical under the mildest government. To be unintelligible can never naturally or properly belong to any species of writing. Hall of himself is certainly obscure: yet he owes some of his obscurity to an imitation of this ideal excellence of the Roman satirists.

The fourth Book breathes a stronger spirit of indignation, and abounds with applications of Juvenal to modern manners, yet with the appearance of original and unborrowed satire.

The first is miscellaneous and excursive, but the subjects often lead to an unbecoming licentiousness of language and images. In the following nervous lines, he has caught and finely heightened the force and manner of his master.

He thus enhances the value of certain novelties, by declaring them to be,

Worth little less than landing of a whale,

Or Gades spoils [r], or a churl's funerale.

The allusion is to Spenser's Talus in the following couplet,

Gird but the cynicke's helmet on his head,

Cares he for Talus, or his flayle of leade?

He adds, that the guilty person, when marked, destroys all distinction, like the cuttle-fish concealed in his own blackness.

He thus describes the effect of his satire, and the enjoyment of his own success in this species of poetry.

It is in Juvenal's style to make illustrations satirical. They are here very artfully and ingeniously introduced [w].

The second is the character of an old country squire, who starves himself, to breed his son a lawyer and a gentleman. It appears, that the vanity or luxury of purchasing dainties at an exorbitant price began early.

He predicts, with no small sagacity, that Lollio's son's distant posterity will rack their rents to a treble proportion,

And hedge in all their neighbours common lands.

Enclosures of waste lands were among the great and national grievances of our author's age [d]. It may be presumed, that the practice was then carried on with the most arbitrary spirit of oppression and monopoly.

The third is on the pride of pedigree. The introduction is from Juvenal's eighth satire; and the substitution of the memorials of English ancestry, such as were then fashionable, in the place of Juvenal's parade of family statues without arms or ears, is remarkably happy. But the humour is half lost, unless by recollecting the Roman original, the reader perceives the unexpected parallel.

Afterwards, some adventurers for raising a fortune are introduced. One trades to Guiana for gold. This is a glance at sir Walter Rawleigh's expedition to that country. Another, with more success, seeks it in the philosopher's stone.

Some well-known classical passages are thus happily mixed, modernised, and accommodated to his general purpose.

In the fourth, these diversions of a delicate youth of fashion and refined manners are mentioned, as opposed to the rougher employments of a military life.

He adds,

In the contrast between the martial and effeminate life, which includes a general ridicule of the foolish passion which now prevailed, of making it a part of the education of our youth to bear arms in the wars of the Netherlands, are some of Hall's most spirited and nervous verses.

The fifth, the most obscure of any, exhibits the extremes of prodigality and avarice, and affords the first instance I remember to have seen, of nominal initials with dashes. Yet in his POSTSCRIPT, he professes to have avoided all personal applications [a].

In the sixth, from Juvenal's position that every man is naturally discontented, and wishes to change his proper condition and character, he ingeniously takes occasion to expose some of the new fashions and affectations.

Beside what is here said, we have before seen, that perukes were now among the novelties in dress. From what follows it appears that coaches were now in common use [c].

Is't not a shame, to see each homely groome

Sit perched in an idle chariot-roome?

The rustic wishing to turn soldier, is pictured in these lively and poetical colours.

Another, fired with the flattering idea of seeing his name in print, abandons his occupation, and turns poet.

Having traced various scenes of dissatisfaction, and the desultory pursuits of the world, he comes home to himself, and concludes, that real happiness is only to be found in the academic life. This was a natural conclusion from one who had experienced no other situation [h].

The last of this Book, is a satire on the pageantries of the papal chair, and the superstitious practices of popery, with which it is easy to make sport. But our author has done this, by an uncommon quickness of allusion, poignancy of ridicule, and fertility of burlesque invention. Were Juvenal to appear at Rome, he says,

The following ludicrous ideas are annexed to the exclusive appropriation of the eucharistic wine to the priest in the mass.

But this sort of ridicule is improper and dangerous. It has a tendency, even without an entire parity of circumstances, to burlesque the celebration of this aweful solemnity in the reformed church. In laughing at false religion, we may sometimes hurt the true. Though the rites of the papistic eucharist are erroneous and absurd, yet great part of the ceremony, and above all the radical idea, belong also to the protestant communion.

Notes

e
Slight. Shallow.
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f
B. iii. 3. f. 52.
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l

In a set of articles of enquiry sent to a college in Oxford, about the year 1676, by the visitor bishop Morley, the commissary is ordered diligently to remark, and report, whether any of the senior fellows wore periwigs. I will not suppose that bobwigs are here intended. But after such a proscription, who could imagine, that the bushy grizzle-wig should ever have been adopted as a badge of gravity? So arbitrary are ideas of dignity or levity in dress! There is an Epigram in Harrington, written perhaps about 1600, "Of Galla's goodly periwigge." B. i. 66. This was undoubtedly false hair. In Hayman's QUODLIBETS or Epigrams, printed 1628, there is one "to a Periwiggian." B. i. 65. p. 10. Again, "to a certaine Periwiggian." B. ii. 9. p. 21. Our author mentions a periwigg again, B. v. 2. f. 63.
‘A golden periwigg on a blackmoor's brow.’
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n
That is, he has walked all day in saint Paul's church without a dinner. In the body of old saint Paul's, was a huge and conspicuous monument of sir John Beauchamp, buried in 1358. son of Guy and brother of Thomas, earls of Warwick. This, by a vulgar mistake, was at length called the tomb of Humphry duke of Gloucester, who was really buried at Saint Alban's, where his magnificent shrine now remains. The middle ile of Saint Paul's is called the Dukes gallery, in a chapter of the GULS HORNE BOOKE, "How a gallant should behaue himself in Powles Walkes." CH. iiii. p. 17. Of the humours of this famous ambulatory, the general rendezvous of lawyers and their clients, pickpookets, cheats, bu
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ks, pimps, whores, poets, players, and many others who either for idleness or business found it convenient to frequent the most fashionable crowd in London, a more particular description may be seen, in Dekker's "DEAD TERME, or Westminsters Complaint for long Vacations and short Termes, under the chapter, Pawles Steeples complaint." SIGNAT. D. 3. Lond. for John Hodgetts, 1608. 4to. Bl. Lett.

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r
Cadiz was newly taken.
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w
B. iv. 1. f. 7.
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d
Without attending to this circumstance, we miss the meaning and humour of the following lines, B. v. 1. ‘’ Great part of the third satire of the same book turns on this idea.
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a
B. iv. 6. Collybist, here used, means a rent or tax gatherer.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
, nummularius.

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c

Of the rapid encrease of the number of coaches, but more particularly of Hackney-coaches, we have a curious proof in A pleasant Dispute between Coach and Sedan, Lond. 1636. 4to. "The most eminent places for stoppage are Pawles-gate into Cheapside, Ludgate and Ludgatehill, especially when the Play is done at the Friers: then Holborne Conduit, and Holborne-Bridge, is villainously pestered with them, Hosier-Lane, Smithfield, and Cow-Lane, sending all about their new or old mended coaches. Then about the Stockes, and Poultrie, Temple-Barre, Fetter-lane, and Shoe-Lane next to Fleetstreete. But to see their multitude, either when there is a Masque at Whitehall, or a lord Mayor's Feast, or a New Play at some of the playhouses, you would admire to see them how close they stand together, like mutton-pies in a cook's oven, &c." Signat. F. Marston, in 1598, speaks of the joulting Coach of a Messalina. Sc. VILLAN. B. i. 3. And in Marston's Postscript to PIGMALION, 1598, we are to understand a coach, where he says,

—Run as sweet

As doth a tumbrell through the paved street.

In CYNTHIA'S REVELS, 1600, a spendthrift is introduced, who among other polite extravagancies, is "able to maintaine a ladie in her two carroches a day." A. iv. S. ii. However, in the old comedy of RAMALLEY, or MERRY TRICKS, first printed in 1611, a coach and a caroche seem different vehicles, A. iv. S. ii.

In horslitters, [in] coaches or caroaches.

Unless the poet means a synonime for coach.

In some old account I have seen of queen Elizabeth's progress to Cambridge, in 1564, it is said, that lord Leicester went in a coach, because he had hurt his leg. In a comedy, so late as the reign of Charles the first, among many studied wonders of fictitious and hyperbolical luxury, a lover promises his lady that she shall ride in a coach to the next door. Cartwright's LOVES CONVERT. A. ii. S. vi. Lond. 1651. WORKS, p. 125.
‘’
Stowe says, "In the yeare 1564, Guylliam Boonen, a dutchman, became the Queene's coachmanne, and was the first that brought the vse of coaches into England. And after a while, diuers great ladies, with as great iealousie of the queene's displeasure, made them coaches, and rid in them vp and downe the countries to the great admiration of all the behoulders, but then by little and little they grew vsuall among the nobilitie, and others of sort, and within twenty yeares became a great trade of coachmaking. And about that time began long wagons to come in vse, such as now come to London, from Caunterbury, Norwich, Ipswich, Glocester, &c. with passengers and commodities. Lastly, euen at this time, 1605, began the ordinary vse of caroaches." Edit. fol. 1615. p. 867. col. 2.

From a comparison of the former and latter part of the context, it will perhaps appear that Coaches and Caroaches were the same.

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h
In this Satire, among the lying narratives of travellers, our author, with Mandeville and others, mentions the SPANISH DECADS. It is an old black-letter quarto, a translation from the Spanish into English, about 1590. In the old anonymous play of LINGUA, 1607, Mendacio says, "Sir John Mandeviles trauells, and great part of the DECADS, were of my doing." A. ii. S. i.
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SECT. XLVI.

THE argument of the first satire of the fifth Book, is the oppressive exaction of landlords, the consequence of the growing decrease of the value of money. One of these had perhaps a poor grandsire, who grew rich by availing himself of the general rapine at the dissolution of the monasteries. There is great pleasantry in one of the lines, that he

Begg'd a cast abbey in the church's wayne.

In the mean time, the old patrimonial mansion is desolated; and even the parish-church unroofed and dilapidated, through the poverty of the inhabitants, and neglect or avarice of the patron.

By an enumeration of real circumstances, he gives us the following lively draught of the miserable tenement, yet ample services, of a poor copyholder.

The lord's acceptance of these presents is touched with much humour.

In the second
[f]
, he reprehends the incongruity of splendid edifices and worthless inhabitants.

He then beautifully drawes, and with a selection of the most picturesque natural circumstances, the inhospitality or rather desertion of an old magnificent rural mansion.

Afterwards, the figure of FAMINE is thus imagined.

In the third, a satire is compared to the porcupine.

The satire should be like the porcupine,

That shoots sharp quills out in each angry line [m].

This ingenious thought, though founded on a vulgar errour, has been copied, among other passages, by Oldham. Of a true writer of satire, he says,

He'd shoot his quills just like a porcupine,

At view, and make them stab in every line [n].

In the fourth and last of this Book, he enumerates the extravagancies of a married spendthrift, a farmer's heir, of twenty pounds a year. He rides with two liveries, and keeps a pack of hounds.

The last Book consisting of one long satire only, is a sort of epilogue to the whole, and contains a humorous ironical description of the effect of his satires, and a recapitulatory view of many of the characters and foibles which he had before delineated. But the scribblers seem to have the chief share. The character of Labeo, already repeatedly mentioned, who was some cotemporary poet, a constant censurer of our author, and who from pastoral proceeded to heroic poetry, is here more distinctly represented. He was a writer who affected compound epithets, which sir Philip Sydney had imported from France, and first used in his ARCADIA
[p]
. The character in many respects suits Chapman, though I do not recollect that he wrote any pastorals.

The arts of composition must have been much practiced, and a knowledge of critical niceties widely diffused, when observations of this kind could be written. He proceeds to remark, it was now customary for every poet, before he attempted the dignity of heroic verse, to try his strength by writing pastorals [q].

Poems on petty subjects or occasions, on the death of a favourite bird or dog, seem to have been as common in our author's age, as at present. He says,

In the old comedy, the RETURN FROM PARNASSUS, we are told of a coxcomb who could bear no poetry "but flyblown sonnets of his mistress, and her loving pretty creatures her monkey and her parrot [u]."

The following exquisite couplet exhibits our satirist in another and a more delicate species of poetry.

Her lids like Cupid's bow-case, where he hides

The weapons that do wound the wanton-ey'd [w].

One is surprised to recollect, that these satires are the production of a young man of twenty three. They rather seem the work of an experienced master, of long observation, of study and practice in composition.

They are recited among the best performances of the kind, and with applause, by Francis Meres, a cotemporary critic, who wrote in 1598 [x]. But whatever fame they had acquired, it soon received a check, which was never recovered. They were condemned to the flames, as licentious and immoral, by an order of bishop Bancroft in 1599. And this is obviously the chief reason why they are not named by our author, in the SPECIALITIES of his Life, written by himself after his preferment to a bishoprick [y]. They were, however, admired and imitated by Oldham. And Pope, who modernised Donne, is said to have wished he had seen Hall's satires sooner. But had Pope undertaken to modernise Hall, he must have adopted, because he could not have improved, many of his lines. Hall is too finished and smooth for such an operation. Donne, though he lived so many years later, was susceptible of modern refinement, and his asperities were such as wanted and would bear the chissel.

I was informed, by the late learned bishop of Glocester, that in a copy of Hall's Satires in Pope's library, the whole first satire of the sixth book was corrected in the margin, or interlined, in Pope's own hadn; and that Pope had written at the head of that satire, OPTIMA SATIRA.

Milton who had a controversy with Hall, as I have observed, in a remonstrance called an APOLOGY FOR SMECTYMNUUS, published in 1641, rather unsuitably and disingenuously goes out of his way, to attack these satires, a juvenile effort of his dignified adversary, and under every consideration alien to the dispute. Milton's strictures are more sarcastic than critical; yet they deserve to be cited, more especially as they present a striking specimen of those aukward attempts at humour and raillery, which disgrace his prose-works.

"Lighting upon this title of TOOTHLESS SATYRS, I will not conceal ye what I thought, readers, that sure this must be some sucking satyr, who might have done better to have used his coral, and made an end of breeding ere he took upon him to wield a satyr's whip. But when I heard him talk of scouring the shields of elvish knights [z], do not blame me if I changed my thought, and concluded him some desperate cutler. But why his scornful Muse could never abide with tragick shoes her ancles for to hide [a], the pace of the verse told me, that her mawkin knuckles were never shapen to that royal buskin. And turning by chance to the sixth [seventh] Satyr of his second Book, I was confirmed: where having begun loftily in heaven's universal alphabet, he falls down to that wretched poorness and frigidity as to talk of Bridge-street in heaven, and the ostler of heaven
[b]
. And there wanting other matter to catch him a heat, (for certain he was on the frozen zone miserably benummed,) with thoughts lower than any beadle's, betakes him to whip the sign-posts of Cambridge alehouses, the ordinary subject of freshmens tales, and in a strain as pitiful. Which, for him who would be counted the FIRST ENGLISH SATYRIST, to abase himselfe to, who might have learned better among the Latin and Italian Satyrists, and in our own tongue from the VISION AND CREEDE OF PIERCE PLOWMAN, besides others before him, manifested a presumptuous undertaking with weak and unexamined shoulders. For a Satyr is as it were born out of a Tragedy, so ought to resemble his parentage, to strike high, and adventure dangerously at the most eminent vices among the greatest persons, and not to creep into every blind taphouse that fears a constable more than a satyr. But that such a poem should be TOOTHLESS, I still affirm it to be a bull, taking away the essence of that which it calls itself. For if it bite neither the persons nor the vices, how is it a satyr? And if it bite either, how is it toothless? So that TOOTHLESS SATYRS, are as much as if he had said TOOTHLESS TEETH, &c [c]."

With Hall's SATIRES should be ranked his MUNDUS ALTER ET IDEM, an ingenious satirical fiction in prose, where under a pretended description of the TERRA AUSTRALIS, he forms a pleasant invective against the characteristic vices of various nations, and is remarkably severe on the church of Rome. This piece was written about the year 1600, before he had quitted the classics for the fathers, and published some years afterwards, against his consent. Under the same class should also be mentioned his CHARACTERISMES OF VERTUES, a set of sensible and lively moral essays, which contain traces of the satires [d].

I take the opportunity of observing here, that among Hall's prose-works are some metaphrastic versions in metre of a few of David's Psalms [e], and three anthems or hymns written for the use of his cathedral. Hall, in his Satires, had condemned this sort of poetry.

An able inquirer into the literature of this period has affirmed, that Hall's Epistles, written before the year 1613 [f], are the first example of epistolary composition which England had seen. "Bishop Hall, he says, was not only our first satirist, but was the first who brought epistolary writing to the view of the public: which was common in that age to other parts of Europe, but not practiced in England till he published his own Epistles [g]." And Hall himself in the Dedication of his Epistles to Prince Henry observes, "Your grace shall herein perceiue a new fashion of discourse by EPISTLES, new to our language, vsuall to others: and, as nouelty is neuer without plea of vse, more free, more familiar [h]."

The first of our countrymen, however, who published a set of his own Letters, though not in English, was Roger Ascham, who flourished about the time of the Reformation; and when that mode of writing had been cultivated by the best scholars in various parts of Europe, was celebrated for the terseness of his epistolary style. I believe the second published correspondence of this kind, and in our own language, at least of any importance after Hall, will be found to be EPISTOLAE HOELIANAE, or the Letters of James Howell, a great traveller, an intimate friend of Jonson, and the first who bore the office of the royal historiographer, which discover a variety of literature, and abound with much entertaining and useful information [i].

Notes

f
In this Satire there is an allusion to an elegant fiction in Chaucer, v. 5. f. 61.

Certes if Pity dyed at Chaucer's date.

Chaucer places the sepulchre of PITY in the COURT OF LOVE. See COURT OF L. v. 700. ‘’ This thought is borrowed by Fenton, in his MARIAMNE.
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m
B. v. 3.
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n
APOLOGY for the foregoing ODE, &c. WORKS, vol. i. p. 97. edit. 1722. 12mo.
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p
We have our author's opinion of Skelton in these lines of this satire. f. 83.

Well might these checks have fitted former times,

And shoulder'd angry Skelton's breathelesse rimes.

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q
Though these lines bear a general sense, yet at the same time they seem to be connected with the character of Labeo, by which they are introduced. By the Carmelite, a pastoral writer ranked with Theocritus and Virgil, he means Mantuan.
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u
A. 3. Sc. iv.
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w
B. vi. Pontan here mentioned, I presume, is Jovinianus Pontanus, an elegant Latin amatorial and pastoral poet of Italy, at the revival of learning.
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x
WIT
•
TREAS. f. 282. It is extraordinary, that they should not have afforded any choice flowers to ENGLAND'S PARNASSUS, printed in 1600.

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y
SHAKING OF THE OLIVE, or his Remaining Works, 1660. 4to. Nor are they here inserted.
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z
A misquoted line in the DEFIANCE TO ENVY, prefixed to the Satires. I will give the whole passage, which is a compliment to Spenser, and shews how happily Hall would have succeeded in the majestic march of the long stanza.

Or scoure the rusted swordes of Elvish knights,

Bathed in pagan blood: or sheathe them new

In mistie moral types: or tell their fights,

Who mighty giants, or who monsters slew:

And by some strange inchanted speare and shield,

Vanquish'd their foe, and won the doubtful field.

May be she might, in stately stanzas frame

Stories of ladies, and aduenturous knights:

To raise her silent and inglorious name

Vnto a reachlesse pitch of praise's hight:

And somewhat say, as more vnworthy done [*],

Worthy of brasse, and hoary marble stone.

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*
That is, have done.
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a
B. i. 1.
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b
Hall supposes, that the twelve signs of the zodiac are twelve inns, in the highstreet of heaven,

—With twelve fayre signes

Euer well tended by our star-divines.

Of the astrologers, who give their attendance, some are ostlers, others chamberlaines, &c. The zodiacal Sign AQUARIUS, he supposes to be in the BRIDGE-STREET of heaven. He alludes to Bridge-street at Cambridge, and the signs are of inns at Cambridge.
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c
APOLOGY FOR SMECTYMNUUS, Milton's Prose-works, vol. i. p. 186. edit. Amst. 1698. fol. See also p. 185. 187. 191.
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d
WORKS ut supr. p. 171. Under the Character of the HYPOCRITE, he says, "When a rimer reads his poeme to him, he begs a copie, and perswades the presse, &c." p 187. Of the VAINEGLORIOUS. "He sweares bigge at an Ordinary, and talkes of the Court with a sharp voice.—He calls for pheasants at a common inne.—If he haue bestowed but a little summe in the glazing, pauing, parieting, of gods house, you shall find it in the church-window." [See SAT. B. iv. 3.] "His talke is, how many mourners he has furnished with gownes at his father's funerals, what exploits he did at Cales and Newport, &c." p. 194, 195. Of the BUSIE BODIE. "If he see but two men talke and reade a letter in the streete, he runnes to them and askes if he may not be partner of that secret relation: and if they deny it, he offers to tell, since he cannot heare, wonders: and then falls vpon the report of the Scottish Mine, or of the great fish taken vp at Linne, or of the freezing of the Thames, &c." p. 188. Of the SUPERSTITIOUS. "He never goes without an Erra Pater in his pocket.—Every lanterne is a ghost, and every noise is of chaines, &c." p. 189. These pieces were written after the Gunpowder-plot, for it is mentioned, p. 196.
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e
WORK
•
, ut supr. p. 151. In the DEDICATION he says, "Indeed my Poetry was long sithence out of date, and yelded her place to grauer studies, &c." In his EPISTLES he speaks of this unfinished undertaking. "Many great wits haue vndertaken this task.—Among the rest, were those two rare spirits of the Sidnyes; to whom poesie was as natvrall as it is affected of others: and our worthy friend Mr. Sylvester hath shewed me how happily he hath sometimes turned from his Bartas to the sweet singer of Israel.—There is none of all my labours so open to all censures. Perhaps some think the verse harsh, whose nice eare regardeth roundnesse more than sense. I embrace smoothnesse, but affect it not." DEC. ii. Ep. v. p. 302. 303. ut supr.

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f
See WORKS, ut supr. p. 275.
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g
See Whalley's INQUIRY INTO THE LEARNING OF SHAKESPEARE, p. 41.
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h
WORKS, ut supr. p. 172. The reader of Hall's SATIRES is referred to DEC. vi. Epist. vi. p. 394.
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i

"EPISTOLAE HOELIANAE, Familiar Letters, Domestic and Foreign, divided into sundry sections partly historical, political, and philosophical." Lond. 1645. 4to. They had five editions from 1645, to 1673, inclusive. A third and fourth volume was added to the last impression.

I must not dismiss our satirist without observing, that Fuller has preserved a witty encomiastic English epigram by Hall, written at Cambridge, on Greenham's Book of the SABBATH, before the year 1592. CHURCHHISTORY, B. ix. CENT. xvi. §. vii. pag. 220. edit. 1655. fol. I find it also prefixed to Greenham's WORKS, in folio, 1601.

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SECT. XLVII.

IN the same year, 1598, soon after the appearance of Hall's Satires, John Marston, probably educated at Cambridge, a dramatic writer who rose above mediocrity, and the friend and coadjutor of Jonson, published "The metamorphosis of Pigmalion's image. And Certaine Satyres. By John Marston. At London, printed for Edmond Matts [a], and are to be sold at the signe of the hand and plough in Fleetstreete, 1598 [b]." I have nothing to do with PIGMALIONS IMAGE, one of Ovid's transformations heightened with much paraphrastic obscenity [c]. The Satires here specified are only four in number. In Charles Fitzgeoffry's AFFANIAE, a set of Latin epigrams, printed at Oxford in 1601, he is not inelegantly complimented as the second English Satirist, or rather as dividing the palm of priority and excellence in English satire with Hall.

In general it is not easy to give a specimen of Marston's satires, as his strongest lines are either openly vitiated with gross expression, or pervaded with a hidden vain of impure sentiment. The following humorous portrait of a sick inamorato is in his best, at least in his chastest, manner of drawing a character.

In these lines there is great elegance of allusion, and vigour of expression. He addresses the objects of his satire, as the sons of the giants,

In the same satire he calls himself,

A beadle to the world's impuritie!

Marston seems to have been the poetic rival of Hall at Cambridge, whom he repeatedly censures or ridicules. In the fourth satire, he supposes Hall's criticisms on Dubartas, the versions of David's Psalms by Sternhold and king James, Southwell's MARY and SAINT PETER'S TEARS, the MIRROUR OF MAGISTRATES, and other pieces of equal reputation, to be the production of pedantry or malignity. And the remainder of this satire is no unpleasant parody of Hall's prefatory stanzas against envy [k].

A Thrasonical captain, fresh from the siege of Cadiz, is delineated in this lively colouring.

Marston's allusions often want truth and accuracy. In describing the ruff of a beau, he says,

His ruffe did eate more time in neatest setting,

Than Woodstock-worke in painfull perfecting.

The comparison of the workmanship of a laced and plaited ruff, to the laboured nicety of the steel-work of Woodstock, is just. He adds, with an appearance of wit,

It hath more doubles farre than Ajax shield.

This was no exaggeration. The shield of Ajax was only sevenfold. To say nothing of one of the leading ideas, the delicacy of contexture, which could not belong to such a shield.

But Marston is much better known as a satirist by a larger and a separate collection, yet entirely in the strain of the last, called the SCOURGE OF VILLANY, published the same year. I will give the title exactly and at length. "The SCOVRGE OF VILLANIE. Three Bookes of SATYRES. [No Name of the Author.]—Nec scombros metuentia carmina nec thus. At London, Printed by I. R. [James Roberts,] and are to be sold by John Buzbie, in Pawles churchyard, at the signe of of the Crane, 1598 [k]." He here assumes the appellation of KINSAYDER, by which he is recognised among other cotemporary poets in the RETURN FROM PARNASSUS. In his metrical introduction, he wishes all readers of fashion would pass over his poetry, and rather examine the play-bills pasted on every post, or buy some ballad about the fairy king, and king Cophetua and the female beggar. Instead of a Muse, he invocates REPROOF, in this elegant and animated address.

The passage reminds us of a witty line in Young's UNIVERSAL PASSION, I know not if borrowed from hence.

And cleanse the Augean stable with thy quill [m].

Part of the following nervous paragraph has been copied either by Dryden or Oldham.

In an invocation to RIME, while he is not inelegantly illustrating the pleasingness of an easy association of consonant syllables, he artfully intermixes the severities of satire.

He thus wages war with his brother-bards, especially the dreamers in fairy land.

The following line is a ridicule on the poetical language of his time, which seems rather intended for certain strains of modern poetry.

Thou nursing mother of faire wisdom's lore,

Ingenuous Melancholy [t]!—

He supposes himself talking with Esop, and alludes to the story of his coming into the streets of Athens to look for a man
[u]
. This idea introduces several ridiculous characters. Among the rest a fine lady.

He thus nervously describes the strength of custom.

Of the influence of the drama, which now began to be the most polite and popular diversion, on conversation, we have the following instance.

He appears to have been a violent enemy of the puritans.

It is not that I am afraid of being tedious, that I find myself obliged to refrain from producing any more citations. There are however, a few more passages which may safely be quoted, but which I choose to reserve for future illustration.

There is a carelessness and laxity in Marston's versification, but there is a freedom and facility, which Hall has too frequently missed, by labouring to confine the sense to the couplet. Hall's measures are more musical, not because the music of verse consists in uniformity of pause, and regularity of cadence. Hall had a correcter ear; and his lines have a tuneful strength, in proportion as his language is more polished, his phraseology more select, and his structure more studied. Hall's meaning, among other reasons, is not always so soon apprehended, on account of his compression both in sentiment and diction. Marston is more perspicuous, as he thinks less and writes hastily. Hall is superiour in penetration, accurate conception of character, acuteness of reflection, and the accumulation of thoughts and images. Hall has more humour, Marston more acrimony. Hall often draws his materials from books and the diligent perusal of other satirists, Marston from real life. Yet Hall has a larger variety of characters. He possessed the talent of borrowing with address, and of giving originality to his copies. On the whole, Hall is more elegant, exact, and elaborate.

It is Marston's misfortune, that he can never keep clear of the impurities of the brothel. His stream of poetry, if sometimes bright and unpolluted, almost always betrays a muddy bottom. The satirist who too freely indulges himself in the display of that licentiousness which he means to proscribe, absolutely defeats his own design. He inflames those passions which he professes to suppress, gratifies the depravations of a prurient curiosity, and seduces innocent minds to an acquaintance with ideas which they might never have known.

The satires of Hall and Marston were condemned to the same flame and by the same authority. But Hall certainly deserved a milder sentence. Hall exposes vice, not in the wantonness of description, but with the reserve of a cautious yet lively moralist. Perhaps every censurer of obscenity does some harm, by turning the attention to an immodest object. But this effect is to be counteracted by the force and propriety of his reproof, by shewing the pernicious consequences of voluptuous excesses, by suggesting motives to an opposite conduct, and by making the picture disgustful by dashes of deformity. When Vice is led forth to be sacrificed at the shrine of virtue, the victim should not be too richly dressed.

Notes

a
The Colophon at the end of the book, is "At London printed by James Roberts, 1598."
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b
In duodecimo. With vignettes. Pages 82. They are entered to Matts, May 27, 1598. REGISTR. STATION. C. f. 36. b. Hall's Satires are entered only the thirtieth day of March preceding.
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c
Of this piece I shall say little more, than that it is thought by some, notwithstanding the title-page just produced, not to be Marston's. But in his SCOURGE OF VILLANIE he cites it as his own. B. ii. 6. Again, B. iii. 10. And in ENGLAND'S PARNASSUS, published in 1600, part of the dedication to OPINION is quoted, with the name J. Marston, p. 221. He seems to have written it in ridicule of Shakespeare's VENUS AND ADONIS. He offers this apology, B. i. 6. (ut supr.) ‘’ The author of the Satires appears in stanzas, x. xiv. xix. I have thought that this poem suggested to Shakespeare what Lucio says in MEASURE FOR MEASURE. A. iii. S. ii. Vol. ii. p. 92. [See supr. vol. iii. 417.]
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k

It appears from the SCOURGE OF VILLANIE, that Hall had caused a severe Epigram to be pasted on the last page of every copy of Marston's PIGMALION'S IMAGE, that was sent from London to the booksellers of Cambridge. B. iii. 10. The Epigram is there cited. This tenth satire of the third Book was added in the second edition, in 1599. It is addressed "to his very friend maister E. G." One Edward Gilpin is cited in ENGLAND'S PARNASSUS, 1600.

It appears from this Satire, that the devices on shields and banners, at tournaments, were now taken from the classics.
‘’
Peacham says, that of Emblems and Impresses, "the best I have seen have been the devices of tilting, whereof many were till of late reserved in the private gallery at White-Hall, of sir Philip Sydney, the earl of Cumberland, sir Henry Leigh, the earl of Essex, with many others: most of which I once collected with intent to publish them, but the charge dissuaded me." COMPL. GENT. CH. xviii. p. 277. edit. 3•. 1661. 4to.

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k
In duodecimo. With vignettes. Wh. Let. The signatures run inclusively to, Sign. I 3. The title of the second edition is "THE SCOURGE OF VILLANIE. By John Marston. Nec scombros, &c. At London. Printed by I. R. Anno Dom. 1599." The tenth Satire is not in the former edition. All Marston's SATIRES, with other pieces of old poetry, were reprinted, Lond. for R. Horsfield, 1764, 12mo.
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m
There is a thought like this in Dekker's GULS HORNE BOOKE, 1609, p. 4. "To pvrge [the world] will be a sorer labour, than the cleansing of Augeas' stable, or the scouring of Moore-ditch."
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t
PROEM. B. i.
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u
The introductory line, supposed to be spoken by Esop, is no unhappy parody on a well-known line in Shakespeare's RICHARD.

A Man, a Man, my kingdom for a man.

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SECT. XLVIII.

THE popularity of Hall's and Marston's Satires, notwithstanding their proscription or rather extermination by spiritual authority, produced an innumerable crop of SATIRISTS, and of a set of writers, differing but little more than in name, and now properly belonging to the same species, EPIGRAMMATISTS.

In 1598, printed at London, appeared "SKIALETHEIA, or a Shadowe of Truth in certaine Epigrams and Satyres." The same year, SEUEN SATIRES, applied to the week, including the world's ridiculous follies [a]. This form was an imitation of the SEMAINES of Du Bartas, just translated into English by Delisle. The same year, "A SHADOWE of TRUTH in certaine Epigrams and Satires. [b]." This year also, as I conjecture, were published Epigrams by sir John Davies, author of NOSCE TEIPSUM
[c]
. These must not be confounded with the SCOURGE OF FOLLY, by John Davies of Hereford, printed in 1611. In 1598 also, was published in quarto, "Tyros roaring Megge, planted against the walls of Melancholy, London, 1598." With two Decads of Epigrams [d]. The author appears to have been of Cambridge. Tyro is perhaps a real name. The dedication is to Master John Lucas.

In the year 1598, was also published, under the general title of CHRESTOLOROS, seven Books of Epigrams, by Thomas Bastard [e]. Bastard, a native of Blandford in Dorsetshire, was removed from a fellowship of New-College Oxford, in 1591, being, as Wood says,
"much guilty of the vices belonging to the poets, "and given to libelling [f]."
Harrington, the translator of Ariosto, has an Epigram addressed to "Master Bastard, a minister, that made a pleasant Booke of English Epigrams [g]." Wood, in his manuscript Collection of Oxford libels and lampoons, which perhaps he took as much pleasure in collecting as the authors in writing, now remaining in the Ashmolean Museum, and composed by various students of Oxford in the reign of queen Elizabeth, has preserved two of Bastard's satyrical pieces [h]. By the patronage or favour of lord treasurer Suffolk, he was made vicar of Bere-regis, and rector of Hamer, in Dorsetshire; and from writing smart epigrams in his youth, became in his graver years a quaint preacher [i]. He died a prisoner for debt, in Dorchester-gaol, April 19, 1618. He was an elegant classic scholar, and appears to have been better qualified for that species of the occasional pointed Latin epigram established by his fellow-collegian John Owen, than for any sort of English versification.

In 1599, appeared "MICROCYNICON sixe snarling satyres by T. M. Gentleman," perhaps Thomas Middleton. About the same time appeared, without date, in quarto, written by William Goddard, "A MASTIF WHELP, with other ruff-iland-like currs fetcht from amongst the Antipedes, which bite and barke at the fantastical humourists and abusers of the time. Imprinted at the Antipedes, and are to be bought where they are to be sold." It contains eighty-five satires. To these is added, "Dogges from the Antipedes," containing forty one [k].

A satyrical piece in stanzas, which has considerable merit, called PASQUILL'S MAD-CAP, was printed at London in quarto, for V. S. in the year 1600
[l]
. With Pasquill's MESSAGE. Also by the same author, perhaps Nicholas Breton, Pasquill's FOOLE-CAP, printed for T. Johnes in the same year, the dedication signed, N. B. At the end is "Pasquill's passion for the world's waiwardnesse [m]." In the year 1601, was published in duodecimo, "The whipper of the Satyre, his pennance in a white sheete, Or the Beadles Confutation, Imprinted at London, by John Fasket, 1601." And by way of reply, "No whippinge nor trippinge, but a kind of snippinge, London, 1601." Again, "The whipping of the SATYRE, Imprinted at London for John Flasket, 1601
[n]
." About the same time, as I conjecture, were published, "Epigrams served out in fifty-two severall dishes, for every man to taste without surfeting. By I. C. gentleman." At London, without date. In 1608,
"Epigrams, or Humour's Lottery [o]."
The same year, "A Century of Epigrams, by R. W. Bachelor of Arts, Oxon [p]." The same year, "Satyres, by Richard Myddleton, gentleman, of Yorke [q]." In 1619, "Newe Epigrams, having in their Companie a mad satyre, by Joseph Martin, London, for Elde [r]." In 1613, were published two books of epigrams, written by Henry Perrot, entitled, "LAQUEI RIDICULOSI, or Springes for Woodcockes. Caveat emptor. Lond. for J. Busbie, 1613 [s]." Many of them are worthy to be revived in modern collections. I am tempted to transcribe a specimen.

John Weaver, I believe the antiquary who wrote ANTIENT FUNERAL MONUMENTS, published a book of Epigrams, in 1599, or rather 1600, which are ranked among the best, by Jonson [w]. Thomas Freeman, a student in Magdalen college Oxford, about the year 1607, who appears to have enjoyed the friendship and encouragement of Owen, Shakespeare, Daniel, Donne, Chapman, and Heywood the dramatist, printed in quarto, "RUB AND A GREAT CAST. In one hundred Epigrams, London, 1614
[x]
." To these is annexed, "RUB AND A GREAT CAST. The second Bowl in an hundred Epigrams." Both sets are dedicated to Thomas Lord, Windsor. Thomas Wroth of Glocester-Hall, Oxford, about 1603, published at London, in quarto, 1620, "An Abortive of an idle Hour, or a century of Epigrams [y]."

To the opening of 1600, I would also assign "The MASTIVE or young Whelpe of the old dogge. Epigrams and Satyres. London, printed by Thomas Creede. In quarto, without date." The Advertisement to the reader is subscribed H. P [z]. We are sure that they were at least written after Churchyard's death: for in the third Epigram, the writer says, that Haywood was held for EPIGRAMS the best when Churchyard wrote [a].

Some of the critics of the author's days are thus described.

In these days, the young students of the Inns of Court, seem to have been the most formidable of the critics [e].

The figure and stratagems of the hungry captain, fresh from abroad, are thus exposed.

The wars in Spain and the Low-countries filled the metropolis with a set of needy military adventurers, returning from those expeditions, who were a mixture of swaggering and submission, of flattery and ferocity, of cowardice and courage, who assumed a sort of professional magnanimity, yet stooped to the most ignominious insults, who endeavoured to attract the attention of the public, by the splendour of martial habiliments, were ready for any adventures of riot and debauchery, and insinuated themselves into favour by hyperbolical narrations of their hazardous atchievements. Jonson's Bobadill was of this race of heroic rakes. We have seen one of them admirably described by Marston [i].

In 1600 appeared, a mixture of Satires and Epigrams, "THE LETTING OF HUMOURS BLOOD IN THE HEAD VAINE, with a new morisco daunced by seauen satyrs, upon the bottom of Diogenes tubbe," written by Samuel Rowlands, and printed by William White [h].

In a panegyric on Charnico, a potation mentioned by Shakespeare, he alludes to the unfortunate death of three cotemporary poets, two of which are perhaps Green and Marlowe, or perhaps George Peele
[k]
.

The rotation of fashionable pleasures, and the mode of passing a day of polite dissipation in the metropolis, are thus represented. The speaker is SIR REVELL, who is elegantly dressed in a dish-crowned hat and square-toed shoes.

In another we have the accomplished fashion-monger [q].

In another, of a beau still more affected, he says,

How rare his spurres do ring the morris dance [s]!

One of the swaggerers of the times, who in his rambles about the town, visits the Royal Exchange as a mercantile traveller, is not unluckily delineated.

Gabriel Harvey, in his Four Letters printed in 1592, quotes some English hexameters, from "those vnsatyrical Satyres, which Mr. Spencer long since embraced in an overloving sonnet [y]." This passage seems to indicate a set of satires, now unknown, to which Spenser had prefixed the undeserved honour of a recommendatory sonnet, now equally forgotten.

Meres, who wrote in 1598, observes, "As Horace, Lucilius, Juvenal, Persius, and Lucullus, are the best for SATYRE among the Latins, so with us, in the same faculty these are chiefe: Piers PLOWMAN, Lodge, Hall of Emanuel colledge in Cambridge, the author of PIGMALION'S IMAGE AND CERTAINE SATYRES [z], the author of SHIALETHIA [a]." And in another place, having cited some of Marston's satires, he adds Rankins as a satirist [b]. I have never elsewhere seen the name of Rankins. Nor have I seen Lodge's Satires, unless his "ALARUM AGAINST USURERS, containing tried experiences against worldly abuses," and its appendix his History of Forbonius and Prisaeria, printed at London, in 1584, may be considered under that character.

Wood also, a great dealer in the works of our old minor poets, yet at the same time a frequent transcriber from Meres, still more embarrasses this matter, where he says, that Lodge, after he left Trinity college at Oxford, about the year 1576, and "had spent some time in exercising his fancy among the poets in the great city, he was esteemed, not Joseph Hall of Emanuel college excepted, the best for satyr among English men [c]." Lodge was fitted for a different mode of composition. He was chiefly noted for pastorals, madrigals, and sonnets; and for his EUPHUES GOLDEN LEGACY, which furnished the plot of the AS YOU LIKE IT of Shakespeare. In an extended acceptation, many of the prose-pamphlets written about this period, by Greene and Decker, which paint or expose popular foibles and fashions, particularly Decker's GUL'S HORN-BOOK, a manual or directory for initiating an unexperienced spendthrift into the gaieties of the metropolis, might claim the appellation of satires
[d]
. That the rage of writing satires, and satirical epigrams, continued long, will appear from a piece of some humour, called "An Inquisition against Paper-persecutors," written in 1625 [e]. But of this, more distinct proofs will appear in the progress of our history.

It must not be forgotten, that a second impression of an English version of Ariosto's Satires, which contain many anecdotes of his life and circumstances, and some humourous tales, and which are marked with a strong vein of free reprehension, but with much less obscenity than might be expected from satires written by the author of ORLANDO FURIOSO, appeared in long verse, by an anonymous translator, in 1611 [c]. I believe these satires are but little known or esteemed by the Italians.

For the sake of juxtaposition, I will here anticipate in throwing together the titles of some others of the most remarkable collections of satires and satirical epigrams, published between 1600 and 1620, meaning to consider hereafter those that best deserve, more critically and distinctly [f]. The COURT OF CONSCIENCE, or Dick Whipper's Sessions, appeared in 1607. More fooles yet, a collection of Epigrams in quarto, by R. S. perhaps Richard Smith, in 1610. The most elegant and wittie Epigrams of sir James Harrington, the translator of Ariosto, in four books, in 1611 [g]. Jonson's EPIGRAMS, in 1616 [h]. Henry Fitzgeoffry's SATIRES in 1617 [i]. PHILOMYTHIE or PHILOMYTHOLOGIE, wherein outlandish birds, beasts, and fishes, are taught to speake true English plainely, By T. SCOT. gentleman, including satires in long English verse, in 1616 [k]. The second part of PHILOMYTHIE, containing certaine Tales of True Libertie, False Friendship, Power United, Faction and Ambition, by the same, 1616 [l]. Certaine Pieces of this age parabolized, by the same, in 1616 [m]. George Wither, of Manydowne in Hamshire, educated at Magdalene College, in Oxford, and at Lincolns inn, afterwards an officer in Cromwell's army, and popular even among the puritans as a poet, published ABUSES stript and whipt, or Satyricall Essayes. Divided into two Bookes. in 1613 [n]. For this publication, which was too licentious in attacking establishments, and has a vein of severity unseasoned by wit, he suffered an imprisonment for many months in the Marshalsea. Not being debarred the use of paper, pens and ink, he wrote during his confinement, an apology to James the first, under the title of A SATYRE, printed the following year, for his censures of the government in his first book. But, like Prynne in the pillory railing at the bishops, instead of the lenient language of recantation and concession, in this piece he still perseveres in his invectives against the court [o]. Being taken prisoner in the rebellion, by the royalists, he was sentenced to be hanged; but sir John Denham the poet, prevailed with the king to spare his life, by telling his majesty, So long as Wither lives, I shall not be the worst poet in England. The revenge of our satirist was held so cheap, that he was lampooned by Taylor the water-poet [p]. Richard Brathwayte, a native of Northumberland, admitted at Oriel college, Oxford, in 1604, and afterwards a student at Cambridge, chiefly remembered, if remembered at all, as one of the minor pastoral poets of the reign of James the first, published in 1619, "NATVRES embassie, or the Wilde-mans measures, danced naked, by twelve Satyres, with sundry others, &c
[q]
."—Donne's SATIRES were written early in the reign of James the first, though they were not published till after his death, in the year 1633. Jonson sends one of his Epigrams to Lucy Countess of Bedford, with MR. DONNES SATYRES [r]. It is conjectured by Wood, that a lively satirical piece, on the literature of the times, which I have already cited, with Donne's initials, and connected with another poem of the same cast, is one of Donne's juvenile performances. I had supposed John Davies. But I will again exhibit the whole title of the Bodleian edition. "A Scourge for paper-persecutors, by I. D. With an Inquisition against paper-persecutors, by A. H. London, for H. H. 1625," in quarto. But Wood had seen a detached edition of the former piece. He says, "Quaere, whether John Donne published A Scourge for Paper Persecutors, printed in quarto, tempore Jacobi primi. The running title at the top of every page is PAPER'S COMPLAINT, in three sheets and a half. The date on the title pared out at the bottom
[s]
." This must have been an older edition, than that in which it appears connected, from similarity of subject, with its companion, An Inquisition against paper-persecutors, in the year 1625, as I have just noticed.

Owen's idea of an epigram points out the notion which now prevailed of this kind of composition, and shews the propriety of blending the epigrams and satires of these times, under one class. A satire, he says, is an epigram on a larger scale. Epigrams are only satires in miniature. An epigram must be satyrical, and a satire epigrammatical
[t]
. And Jonson, in the Dedication of his EPIGRAMS to Lord Pembroke, was so far from viewing this species of verse, in its original plan, as the most harmless and inoffensive species of verse, that he supposes it to be conversant above the likenesse of vice and facts, and is conscious that epigrams carry danger in the sound. Yet in one of his epigrams, addressed TO THE MEERE ENGLISH CENSVRER, he professes not exactly to follow the track of the late and most celebrated epigrammatists.

This, however, discovers the opinion of the general reader.

Of the popularity of the epigram about the year 1600, if no specimens had remained, a proof may be drawn, together with evidences of the nature of the composition, from Marston's humourous character of Tuscus, a retailer of wit.

And the same author says, in his Postscript to PIGMALION,

Now by the whyppes of EPIGRAMMATISTS,

I'll not be lash'd.—

One of Harrington's Epigrams, is a comparison of the Sonnet and the Epigram.

In the RETURN FROM PARNASSUS, acted 1616, perhaps written fome time before, Sir Roderick says, "I hope at length England will be wise enough: then an old knight may haue his wench in a corner, without any SATIRES or EPIGRAMS [y]." In Decker's VNTRUSSING OF THE HUMOROUS POET, Horace, that is Jonson, exclaims in a passion, "Sirrah! I'll compose an EPIGRAM vpon him shall go thus—[z]."

Notes

a
Entered to William Fyrebrand, May 3, 1598. REGISTR. STATION. C. f. 34. b.
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b
Entered to N. Linge, Sept. 15, 1598. Ibid. f. 41. b.
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c
Marlowe's OVID'S ELEGIES were accompanied with these Epigrams. The whole title is, "Epigrammes and Elegies, by J. D. and C. M. [Marlowe.] at Middleburgh." No date. Davies's Epigrams are commended in Jonson's Epigrams, xviii. And in Fitzgeoffry's AFFANIAE, Lib. ii. Signat E. 4.

DAVISIOS laedat mihi, Jonsoniosque lacessat.

↵

d
With ‘"sequitur Tyronis Epistola."’ Compare Wood, ATH. OXON, F. i. 219.
↵

e
Entered to Joane Brome, Apr. 3, 1598. Ibid. f. 38. b.
↵

f
ATH. OXON. i. 431.
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g
HARRINGTON'S EPIGRAMS, B. ii. 64. See also B. ii. 84. They are also mentioned with applause in Goddard's MASTIF, no date, SAT. 81. And in Parrot's SPRINGES FOR WOODCOCKES, Lib. i. EPIGR. 118.
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h
One of them is entitled, "An admonition to the City of Oxford, or Mareplate's Bastardine." In this piece, says Wood, he "reflects upon all persons of note in Oxford, who were guilty of amorous exploits, or that mixed themselves with other men's wives, or with wanton houswives in Oxon." The other is a disavowal of this lampoon, written after his expulsion, and beginning Jenkin, why man, &c. See Meres, WITS TR. f. 284.
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i
There are two sets of his Sermons, Five, London, 1615, 4to. The three first of these are called the MARIGOLD OF THE SUN. Twelve, London, 1615. 4to.
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k

The name of the author, who appears to have been a soldier, is added in the Dedication, to some of his flatt-cappe friends at the Temple. The Satires were written after Bastard's EPIGRAMS, which are commended, SAT. 81. I will give a specimen from the second part, SAT. 5.
‘’
Here is the dress of a modern amazon, in what is called a Riding-habit. The sidelock of hair, which was common both to men and women, was called the French Lock. So Freeman of a beau, in RUB AND A GREAT CAST, edit. 1614, EPIGR. 32.
‘’
Hence may be illustrated a passage in a Letting of Humours blood, &c. printed about 1600. EPIGR. 27.

Aske Humors why a feather he doth weare,—

Or what he doth with such a horsetail locke.

See also Perrott's Springes for Woodcockes, or Epigrams, 1613, Lib. i. EPIGR. i. Of a beau.

And on his shoulder weares a dangling locke.

In B. Rich's OPINION DEIFIED, &c. "Some by wearing a long locke that hangs dangling by his eare, do think by that louzie commoditie to be esteemed by the opinion of foolery." Lond. 1613. 4to. ch. xxix. p. 53. Again, in RETURN FROM PARNASSUS, 1606, A. iii. S. ii.

Must take tobacco, and must weare a lock.

Compare Warburton's note on MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, A. v. S. i. "He wears a key in his ear, and a long lock hanging by it, &c." I add but one more instance, from the character of a RUFFIAN, or bully. "When without money, his gingling spurre hath last his voyce, his head his locke, &c." WHIMZIES, or a new Cast of CHARACTERS, Lond. 1631. 16mo. p. 136.

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l
He says, p. 36.

And tell prose writers, STORIES are so stale,

That penie ballads make a better sale.

He mentions country-players, p. 31. PASQUILL'S MAD-CAP is applauded in THE WHIPPINGE OF THE SATYRE, 1601. Signat. F. 3.

That MAD-CAP yet superiour praise doth win, &c.

In Dekker's GUL'S HORNE BOOK, 1609, we have, "I am the Pasquill's MAD-CAPPE that will doot." p. 8. "PASQUILL'S IESTS, with the merriments of mother Bunch," were published, Lond. 1629. Bl. Let. 4to. But this I suppose not to have been the first edition. And in reference to Pasquill's MAD-CAP, there is, "Old Mad-cappes new gallimaufry, made into a merrie messe of mingle mangle, 1602."
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m
Under the title of PASQUIN, we have also the following coeval pieces. "PASQUILL'S MISTRESSE, or the worthie and unworthie woman, 1600.—PASQUILL'S PASSE, and passeth not, set downe in three pees, 1600.—PASQUILL'S PALINODIA, and his Progresse to the taverne, where, after the survey of the Sellar, you are presented with a pleasant pynte of poeticall sherry, 1619."
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n
In duodecimo. It is dedicated to the "Vayne glorious, the HUMOURIST, SATYRIST, and EPIGRAMMATIST." The writer's initials are I. W. I believe this piece to be a Reply to Rowlands. But in one place he seems to attack Marston. Signat. D 2.

But harke, I heare the Cynicke Satyre crie,

A man, a man, a kingdom for a man!

He mentions the Fatness of Falstaff. Signat. D 3.

That sir John Falstaffe was not any way

More grosse in body, than you are in brayne.

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o
Entered, April 11, to Busbie and Holme. REGISTR. STATION. C. f. 165. b.
↵

p
Entered, Apr. 21, to T. Thorpe, Ib. f. 166. a. I take R. W. to be Richard West, who is the author of "Newes from Bartholomew fair," entered to I. Wright, Jul. 16, 1606. Ibid. f. 141. b. I find "Merry Jests, concerning popes, monks, and fryers, from the French, by R. W. Bachelor of Arts, of H. H. [Hart-Hall] Oxon, assigned to John Barnes." REGISTR. STATION. D. f. 11. a.
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q
Entered to Jos. Harrison, May 4. REGISTR. C. f. 167. a.
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r
There is a second edition entered to Elde, May 8, 1621. REGISTR. D. f. 15. a. In 1617, "A paraphrasticke transcript of Juvenal's tenth Satyre, with the tragicall narrative of Virginia's death is entered, Oct. 14, to N. Newbury." REGISTR. C. f. 284. b.
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s
In the Latin Dedication, it appears they were written in 1611. Mr. Steevens quotes an edition in 1606. Shakesp. Vol. viii. 409.
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w
Jonson's EPIGR. xviii. They are in duodecimo, and cited in ENGLAND'S PARNASSUS, 1600.
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x
I am tempted to give the following specimen of our author's humour, more especially as it displays the growing extent of London, in the year 1614. Sign. B. 3. EPIGR. 13.

LONDON'S PROGRESSE.

Quo ruis, ab demens?—

‘’ This poetical rant has been verified far beyond the writer's imagination.
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y
They are mentioned with applause in Stradling's EPIGRAMMATA, published 1607.
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z
I know not if these initials mean Henry Parrot, an epigrammatist before recited. There is also, "THE MORE THE MERRIER, containing threescore and odde headlesse Epigrams shott, like the Fools bolt amongst you, light where you will. By H. P. Gent." Lond. 1608. 4to. "Who says in his dedication, Concerning vnsauorie lewdnesse, which many of our Epigrammatist so much affect, I haue esteemed it fitter for Pick-hatch than Powles churchyard." Is H. P. for Henry Peacham? One of the Epigrams (Epig. 51.) in the last mentioned collection appears, with some little difference only, in Peacham's MINERVA, fol. 61. edit. 4to. By one H. P. are "Characters and Cures for the Itch. Characters, Epigrams, Epitaphs." A BALLAD-MAKER is one of the characters, p. 3. London, for T. Jones, 1626. 12mo.
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a
I have some faint remembrance of a collection of Epigrams, by Thomas Harman, about the year 1599. Perhaps he is the same who wrote the following very curious tract, unmentioned by Ames. "A Caueat for common •vrsitors uulgariter, called Uagabondes, set forth by Thomas Harman, esqvier, for the vtilitie and proffyt of his naturall countrey. Newly augmented and imprinted Anno domini. M. D. LXVII. Imprinted at London in fletestrete, at the signe of the faulcon, by Wylliam Gryffith, and are to be solde at his shoope, in saynt Dunstones churchyard, in the west." A quarto in black letter, with a wooden cut in the title. In the work, is a reference to the first edition in the preceding year, 1566. It is dedicated, with singular impropriety, to Elizabeth countess of Shrewsbury. The writer speaks of his lodgings "at the White fryers within the cloyster." fol. 20. b. This seems to have given rise to another piece of the same sort, unnoticed also by Ames, "The fraternitye of vacabondes, as wel of ruflyng vacabondes, as of beggerly, as women as of men, of gyrles as of boyes, &c. Wherevnto also is adioyned the xxv order of Knaues, &c. Imprinted at London, by Iohn Awdely, dwellyng in little Britayne streete, without Aldersgate, 1575." Bl. Let. 4to. These, by the way, are some of the first books exhibiting, not only the tricks but the language, of thieves, which Jonson has introduced into his MASQUE OF GIPSIES. Compare Ames, HIST. PR. p. 423.
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e
Hence, among a variety of instances, says Marston in the second preface to his SCOURGE OF VILLANY. ‘’
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i

And in another place, B. ii. 7.
‘’
The great man's head, if the true reading, must be a cant word for the Sign of some tavern. Harrington has an Epigram of one getting drunk at the Sarazens head. B. i. 52. W. Fenner mentions the Saracen's head, without Newgate, and another without Bishopsgate, both famous for ferocity of feature. The Compter's Commonwealth, &c. p. 3. Lond. 1617. 4to. Brill, which we now call The Brill, is a town in the Netherlands. See also Hall, SAT. iv. 4.

And pointed on the shoulders for the nonce,

As new come from the Belgian garrisons.

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In small octavo. There is another edition, without date, in small quarto, exhibiting a very different title, "HUMORS ORDINARIE, where a man may be verie marrie, and exceedingly well vsed for his six-pence. At London, Printed for William Firebrand, &c." I know not which is the first of the two. He praises Tarleton the comedian, for his part of the Clowne, and his Clownishe ••oppe, EPIGR. 30. And Pope for his part of the Clowne. SAT. iv. Singer the player is also mentioned. ibid. One Samuel Rowlands, I know not if the same, has left in verse, "The Betraying of Christ, Judas in despair, The seven wounds of our Saviour on the crosse, with other poems on the passion," dedicated to sir Nicholas Walsh, knight, 1598, for Adam Islip, in quarto. Under the same name I have seen other religious poems, rather later. See Percy's BALL. iii. 117.
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It is called a sparkling liquor, in Goddard's MASTIF-WHELP, or Satires, no date. SAT. 63. [See Notes to SE
•
. P. HENR. vi. A. ii. S. 3.]

—I will steepe

Thy muddy braines in sparkling CHA•∣NICO.

See Reed's OLD PLAYS, iii. 457.

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I will subjoin the same character from Marston's SCOURGE OF VILLANIE, which is more witty, but less distinct and circumstantial. B. iii. 11. ‘’ See above, a fantastic beau by Hall, p. 30.
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EPIGR. 32. Boots were a mark of dignity or elegance, ibid. EPIGR. 8.

He scornes to walke in Powles without his bootes.

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y
LET. iii. p. 44.
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z
Marston's SCOURGE OF VILLANIE had not yet appeared.
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Fol. 282. 2.
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b
Fol. 277.
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c
ATH. OXON. i. 498.
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Harrrington in his Epigrams, mentions the Satires of a poet whom he often attacks under the name of Lynus. B. i. 67.

His Distickes, SATYRES, Sonnets and Hexameters,

His Epigrams, his Lyricks, and Pentameters.

And again, he has an Epigram "Against a foolish Satyrist, called Lynus." B. i. 14. See also, B. i. 41.
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e

By A. H. Lond. for H. H. 1625. p. 1. At the end of "A Scourge for Paperpersecutors, by I. D."
‘’
After having censured those who versified the bible, and made it all Apocryphal, but with a compliment to the translators of Du Bartas, he adds,
‘’
The reader will recollect, that Saint Paul's church-yard and its environs, in which was LITTLE-BRITAIN, abounded with shops and stalls of booksellers: that its steeple was thrown down by lightening, in 1561: and that a general reparation of the church was now become a great object of the nation.

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c

"Ariosto's SEVEN PLANETS gouerning Italie. Or, his Satyrs in seuen famous discourses, &c. Newly corrected and augmented, &c. With a new edition of three most excellent ELEGIES, written by the same Lodovico Ariosto." By W. Stan•by, 1611. 4to. I believe this title gave rise to the following. "A Booke of the seuen planets, or seuen wandring motions of William Alablaster's wit, retrograded or removed by John Ra•ster." Lond. 1598. 4to. There is an edition of this translation of Ariosto's Satires, 1608. See supr. vol. iii. 481.

It is more certain that Ariosto's title gave rise to "The Philosophers Satyrs, or the Philosophers Seven Satyrs, alluding to the seuen Planets, &c." By Robert Anton of Magdalene college, Cambridge. Lond. 1616. 4to. It may be sufficient to have mentioned these Satires here.

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f
I have seen "N. Britland's BOURE OF DELIGHT, Contayning Epigrams, Pastorals, Sonnets, &c." Printed for W. Jones 1597. But these Epigrams do not so properly belong to the class before us. The same may be said of the Epigrams of George Turberville, and some few others.
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g
Many of Harrington's Epigrams were certainly written before. Perhaps there was an older edition. In Fitzgeoffrey's Latin Epigrams, called AFFANIAE, published 1601, there is an Epigram to Harrington, with these lines preferring him to Haywood or Davies, as an English epigrammatist. Signat. B. 3. ‘’ And in sir John Stradling's Epigrams, published 1607, there is one to Harrington with this title, Lib. i. p. 32. "Ad D. I. Harrington, Equitem doctissimum, de quibusdam epigrammatis Stradlingo, equiti, dono missis, 1590." And in Stradling's epigrams, we have two of Harrington's translated into Latin.
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h

Jonson's epigrams, as we have seen, are mentioned with Davies's, by Fitzgeoffrey, 1601. AFFAN. Lib. ii. Signat. E. 4.

DAVISIOS laedis mihi, JONSONIOSQUE lacessis.

Of this the first Davies, Harrington says, "This Haywood [the epigrammatist] for his prouerbs and epigrams is not yet put down by any of our country, though one [Davies in the margin] doth indeede come neare him, that graces him the more in saying he put him downe, &c."—"A NEW DISCOVRSE of a stale svbiect, called the METAMORPHOSIS of AJAX, &c." Printed 1596. 12mo. SIGNAT. D. 2. Again, "But as my good friend M. Dauies saide of his Epigrams, that they were made like doublets in Birchen-lane, for euery one whom they will serue, &c." Ibid. SIGNAT. I.

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In Hayman's QUODLIBETS, or Epigrams, there is one, "To the reverend, learned, and acute, Master Charles FitzGeoffrey, bachelor in diuinity, my especiall kind friend, and most excellent poet." He compares him to Homer, being blind of one eye. B. i. 111. p. 18. This was Charles the author of the Latin Epigrams, abovementioned.
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This is a second edition, "much inlarged," Lond. For Francis Constable, &c. 8vo.
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For Constable. ut supr.
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Lond. Printed by E. Griffin, for F. Constable, &c. 8vo. I suppose these two last to be second editions.
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n
Three editions soon followed, 1614, 1615, 1622, 8vo.
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o
Reprinted 1615, 1622, 8vo.
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p

The titles of Wither's numerous pieces may be seen in Wood, ATH. OXON. i. 392. seq. He was born in 1588, and died in 1667. He has left some anecdotes of the early part of his life, in the first book of his ABUSES, &. The OCCASION, p. 1. seq. In Hayman's Epigrams, 1628, there is one, "To the accute Satyrist, Master George Wither." EPIGR. 20. And 21. p. 61.

Here might be mentioned, "ESSAYES and CHARACTERS, ironicall and instructive, &c, By John Stephens the younger, of Lincolnes inne, Gent." Lond. 1615. 12mo. Mine is a second impression. Many of the ESSAYES are Satires in verse.

There is also a collection of Satyrical poems called the KNAVE OF HEARTS, 1612. Another, the KNAVE OF SPADES, 1611. And "Knaves yet, The Knaves of Spades and Diamonds. With new additions," 1612. 4to. Among Mr. Capell's SHAKESPERIANA, at Trinity college, Cambridge, are "Dobson's Dry Bobs," 1610, Bl. Let•. 4to. And Heath's EPIGRAMS, 1610. 8vo.

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q
For R. Whitcher, 12mo. They were reprinted for the same, 1621. 12mo. In his satire on ADULTERIE, are these lines, p. 30.

And when you haue no favours to bestow,

Lookes are the lures which drawe Affection's bow.

To these pieces is annexed, "The second Section of Divine and Morall Satyres, &c." This is dedicated to S. W. C. by R. B. See also Brathwayte's STRAPPADO for the Devil, 1615. 8vo.
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r
EPIGR. xciii. See xcvi. Though Jonson's EPIGRAMS were printed in 1616, many were written long before. And among Freeman's Epigrams, RUN AND A GREAT CAST, 1614, we have the following. EPIGR. 84. ‘’
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ATH. OXON. i. 556. [See above, p. 81.] He thus ridicules the minute commemoration of unhistorical occurrences in the Chronicles of Hollinshead and Stowe. Signat. B. 3. ‘’

As also when the weathercock of Paules

Amended was, this chronicler enroules, &c.—

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Robert Hayman above quoted, thus recommends his own Epigrams. QUODLIBETS, B. iv. 19. p. 61.

Epigrams are like Satyrs, rough without,

Like chesnuts sweet; take thou the kernell out.

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A. ii. S. 2.
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Edit. 1602. Sign. C. 2. Again, ibid. ‘"Heere be EPIGRAMS upon Tucca."’ E. 3. "They are bitter EPIGRAMS composed on you by Horace." F. 3. "A gentleman, or honest citizen, shall not sit in your pennie-bench theaters with his squirrell by his side cracking nuttes, but he shall be SATYRED and EPIGRAMMED upon, &c." H. 3. "It shall not be the whippinge o' th' satyre nor the whipping of the blind beare, &c." L. 3. "He says here, you diuulged my EPIGRAMS." H. "And that same PASQUILLS-MADCAP nibble, &c." A.
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INDEX TO THE THIRD VOLUME OF WARTON'S History of English Poetry.

- A. R. 480, 483

- Abbot, Archbishop, 487

- Achelly, or Acheley, Thomas, 281

- Acricious, Ball•t of, 417

- Active Policy of a Prince, a Poem, by George Ashby, 81

- Acts of the Apostles, translated into Englyshe metre by Dr. C. Tye, 190, 191, 192, 193, 468

- Acts of the Popes by Bale, translated by Studley, 384

- Aesop, 347, 449

- Aelian's various History, translated by Abraham Fleming, 403

- Aeneidos of Virgil translated. See Virgil.

- Affaniae, by Charles Fitzjeffrey, 281

- Affectionate Shepherd, by Barnefield, 405

- Agamemnon, Seneca's Tragedy of, translated by Studeley, 290, 383, 417

- Aged Lover renounceth Love, a Poem, by Lord Vaulx, 45

- Agon Heroicus, by Edmund Bolton, 278

- Agriculture, Spiritual, 458

- Agrippa, Cornelius, 7

- Alan, Cardinal, 276

- Albion's England, by Warner, 272, 273, 277

- Alcione and Ceyx. 413

- Alcoran of the Prelates, by John Bale, 79

- Ales, various kinds, Account of, 128, 129

- Alexander, Geste of, by Adam Davie, 112, 124, 126, 127, 128, 132

- Alexander and Campaspe, Play of, 423

- Alexander, Campaspe, and Apelles, 423

- Alexius, 466

- Alfayn• and Archelaus, the famooste and notable History of, 422

- Allen, Edward, Founder of Dulwich College, 436, 475

- Allot, Robert, 280, 281, 483

- Alveare, by Baret, 404, 414

- Amadis de Gaule, Romance of, 425, 477, 488

- Amours, with Sonnets by J. or G. D. and W. S. 402

- Anatomy of Melancholy, by Burton, 295, 434

- Andria of Terence, translated by Kyffin, 449

- Andria of Terence, Commentary on, by M. Grimoald, 60

- Anglorum Prelia, a Latin Poem, by Ocland, 314

- Anne Boleyn, 28, 49, 58

- Anslay, or Annesley, Brian, 79

- Anstis, 279

- Antichrist's Mas, or Mass, the Downsal of, 145

- Antichrist, or the Papal Dominion, a Poem on, by Naogeorgius, or Kirchmaier, 458

- Antigone of Sophocles, translated, 433

- Antiprognosticon of W. Fulk, translated by William Paynter, 465

- Antonio, Nicholas, 476

- Apelles and Pygmalyne, 423

- Appelles, Songe of, 423

- Apius, Terannye of Judge, a Poem, 416

- Apology for Woman, by William Heale, 320

- Apology of Pierce Penniless, 400

- Apostolic Creed, versified by William Whyttingham, 168

- Appius and Virginia, Tragedy of, 416

- Appolyn of Tyre, Romance of, 142

- Arbor of Ami•ie set foorth by Thomas Howell, 418

- Arcaoeus, F. Anatomy, by, 181

- Arca•dia, by Sidney, 419, 425, 496

- Arcadian Rhetoricke by Fraunce, 406

- Arc•te and Palamon, Play of, 287, 290

- Arch•propheta sive Johannes Baptista Tragedia; that i•, the Archprophet, or St. John the Baptist, a Latin Tragedy, by Nicholas Gr•moald, 60

- Are•ine's War of Italy, tra•slated, 413

- Argonautica of Catullus, 407

- Ariodanto and Jane•ra, daughter unto the Kynge of Scots, the tragicall and pleasaunte History of, by Peter Beverley, 479

- Ariosto, 11, 25, 352, 485, 488

- Arisbas, by J D. 417

- Aristotle, 330. Table of the Ten Categories o• translated by Googe, 458

- Aristotle's Ethics, Commentary on, by Figlinei Fel••e, 24

- Arnalt and Lucinda, a fyn Tuscane Hy•torye, 474

- Arnolds, R•. Chronicle, by, 135

- Arraignment of Paris, by Geo. Peele, 417, 418

- Art of English Poesie, see Puttenham, 10, 44, 96, 213, 277, 293, 335, 400, 415, 426, 499. Of French Poetry, 350, 351

- Art of Logic, by Wilson, 298, 331

- Art of Rhetoric, by Wilson, 91, 331, 332 339 to 344

- Art de Rhetorique, in French Ryme, 348

- Art et Science de Rhetorique, metrifiée par N. Viellard. 348

- Arthur, an Armorican Knight, H•story of, translated by Lord Berners, 58

- Arthur, King, History of, 123, 341

- Arthur of Little Brittayne, Romance of, 477

- Arthure, Prince, by R. R. i. e. Richard Robinson, 391

- Arundel, Philip, Earl of, 421

- Ascham, Roger. 24, 300, 329, 330, 331, 415, 441, 461, 491

- Ashby, George, 81

- Ashmole, Elias, Theatrum Chemicum, by. 85

- Asserterio Arthuri of Leland, translated by Robinson, 391

- Astionax and Polixine, 417

- Assault of Cupide upon the Fort in which the Lover's Heart lay wounded, a Poem by Lord Vaulx, 45, 49

- As•le, 30•

- Atchlow, a Player, 436

- Athanasian Creed, versified by W. Whyttingham, 169. By Hunnis, 180

- Atropoion De•ion, a Poem, 392

- Aubrey, 26

- Auctours, uncertain, 28, 41

- Audley, Lord Chancellor, Poem on the Death of, 46

- Aulica, de, by Gabriel Harvey, 426

- Aurelio and Isabella, Romance of, 477

- Aurelius, Marcus, Golden Boke of, by Lord Ber•ers, 279

- Ausonius, Epigrams of, translated by Kendall, 432

B

- B. N. See Nicholas Breton.

- B. T. 290, 390

- B. W. 448

- Babtism and Temptation, an Interlude, by John Bale, 78

- Bacon• Sir Nicholas, 336

- Bais, Lazare de, 35

- Baldwyn, William, 181, 212, 213, 214, 267, 317

- Bale, John, 43, 58, 61, 78, 83, 195, 198, 206, 213, 316

- Bancroft, Archbishop, 488

- Bandello, 470, 484

- Banishment of Cupid, 402, 477

- Banockburn, a Poem, by Laurence Minot, 107

- Banquet of Daintie Conceiptes, 485

- Bansley, Charles, 84

- Barcham, Dr. John, 279

- Barnefielde, Richard, 405

- Barrett, John, 404, 414

- Bartholomeus, 487

- Bastard, Thomas, 281

- Bathsabe and David, Play of, by Geo. Peele, 328

- Batman, or Bateman, Dr. Stephen, 450, 487

- Batman's Doom, 487

- Batrachomuomachy of Homer, translated by Chapman, 445

- Batrachomuomachy of Homer, imitated by John Heywood, 95

- Batrachomuomachy of Homer, translated by Dr. Johnson, 433

- Bavande, William, 274

- Bayes, Poem on, 51

- Beard, D. Theatre of God's Judgements, by, 289, 437

- Beau Miracle de S. Nicolas, French Play of, 325

- Beaumont, Francis, 279, 280, 419

- Bede, 248

- Bedwell, William, 103

- Beearde, Richard, 319

- Bell, David, 450

- Bellay, 352

- Belleforest, 487

- Belvedere, or Garden of the Muses, by John Bodenham, 280

- Bembo, Pietro, 352

- Bentley, 436

- Bernard, Richard, 449

- Berners, Lord, 42, 58, 147, 279

- Besalin, Ramon, Vidal de, 349

- Betham's Military Precepts, 396

- Beverly, Peter, 479

- Bevis of Southampton, Romance of, 141

- Beza, Theodore, 162, 432

- Bible, translated by William Bedwell, 103

- Bird, William, 58, 59

- Blase, Bishop, 353

- Blasts of Retrait from Plaies, the Seconde and Third, 288

- Blazon of Jealousie, by R. T. 481

- Blessedness of Brytaine, a Poem, by Kyffin, 449

- Blomefield, William, 84, 85, 86

- Blomefield's Blossoms, or Campe of Philosophy, 85

- Blount's Ancient Tenures, 73

- Blundeville, or Blondeville, Thomas, 274

- Boar's Head, Custom of the, 143

- Boccace's Epistle to Pinus, translated by Lord Surrey, 26

- Boccace, 99, 216, 251, 352, 458, 464, 465, 467, 468, 470, 484, 488

- Bodenham, John, 280

- Boleyne, Anne, 28, 49, 58, 152

- Boleyne, Geo. Viscount Rochford, 41, 42, 43, 57

- Bolton, Edmund, 24, 275, 276, 278

- Bonner, Bishop, 28

- Borbonius's Epigrams, translated by Kendall, 432

- Borde, Andrew, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 337

- Boy, Bishop, Ceremony of the, 302, 303, 304, 321, 322, 323, 324, 325

- Bouchier, John, Lord Berners, 42, 58, 147, 279

- Brandon, Charles and Henry, Account of, 342. Epitaphia on, by Wilson, 432

- Breton, Nicholas, 402, 485

- Breviary of Health, by Andrew Borde, 70, 77

- Breviarie of Britaine, by T. Twyne, 396

- Brian, Sir Francis. See Bryan.

- Brice, Thomas, 355

- Briggam, or Brigham, Nicholas, 353

- Brimsley's Translation of Virgil's Bucolics, and Fourth Georgic, 404

- British Muse, by Thomas Hayward, 281

- Broadgate Hall, Oxford, Account of, 90

- Brooke, Thomas, 272. Arthur, 471, 472

- Brown, Prebendary of Westminster, 396

- Brunetto's Tesoretto, and Tesoro, 237, 254

- Brunne, Robert de, 127

- Bruno's Epigrams, translated by Kendall, 432

- Brunswerd, John, 192

- Bryan, Sir Francis, 28, 34, 41, 42, 57

- Buchanan, 70

- Bucer, 179, 450

- Bucolics of Virgil, translated. See Virgil

- Buckhurst, Lord. See Sackville Thomas

- Bullocar, William, 346

- Burton, John, alias Robert, 295, 425, 434, 471, 483

- Buryal and Resurrection of Christ, an Interlude, by Bale, 78

- Burying of the Masse, in Rithme, 197

- Buttis, Doctor, 78

- Bussy d'Amboise, Tragedy of, by Chapman, 448

- Byron, Charles, Duke of, a Play, 447

C

- C. H. i. e. Henry Chettle, 291

- C. H. i. e. Henry Constable, 292

- C. I. 170, 469

- Caesar's Commentaries, translated by Golding, 414. By Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, 414

- Calvin, John, 164, 169, 179

- Caltha Poetarum, 488

- Cambyses, Play of, by Preston, 289

- Camden, William, 384, 401

- Campaspe and Alexander, Play of, 423

- Campbell, Dr. 281

- Campe of Philosophy, 85

- Campion, Edmund, 290, 291, 401. Thomas, 469

- Campo di Fior, or the Flourie Field of Four Languages of M. Claudius Desainliens, 465

- Canterbury Tales by Chaucer, 203

- Canticles of Solomon, versified, 181. Metrical Commentary on, by Dudley Fenner, 317. In English Verse, by Spenser, 317

- Carew, Sir Nicholas, 58

- Carlile, Christopher, 450

- Carman's Whistle, a Ballad, 292

- Carols, Account of, 142, 143, 144, 306, 307

- Carowles, certayne goodly, to be songe to the Glory of God, 306

- Carr, Nicholas, 334

- Carter, Peter, 429

- Case is Altered, Play of, 291

- Castiglio's il Cortegiano, translated by Thomas Hoby, 371

- Castle of Love, translated from the Spanish by Lord Berners, 58

- Castle of Memorie, translated by William Fullwood, 345

- Catechismus Paulinus, by Mulcaster, 346

- Catherine, Saint, Play of, 323

- Cato, 449

- Catullus, 407

- Cave, Henry, Narration of the Fall of Paris Garden, by, 289

- Cavyll, or Cavil, 215, 270

- Caxton's Ovid, 57. Epilogue to Chaucer's Book of Fame, 353

- Cecil, Sir William, 24

- Ceiris, a Fable of Nisus and Scylla, 406

- Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles, les, 475

- Cent Histoires Tragiques of Belleforest, 487

- Cephalus and Procris, 417

- Certaine Noble Storyes, 484

- Certain Meters by Sir Thomas More, 98

- Ceyx and Alcione, Historie of, drawn into English Meeter by William Hubbard, 413

- Chaloner, Sir Thomas, 396, 464

- Chance of the Dolorous Lover, a Poem, by Christopher Goodwin, 84

- Chanson à Boire, or Drinking Ballad, the first, 206

- Chaos of Histories, 484

- Chapman, George, 276, 279, 281, 291, 434, 441, 442, 445, 446, 447, 448

- Charles, Duke of Biron, Play of, 447

- Chatter•on, George, 450

- Chaucer, Geoffry, 12, 25, 35, 56, 76, 81, 93, 103, 203, 276, 311, 327, 335, 353, 354, 415, 426, 436, 451, 464

- Chertsey, Andrew, 80, 313

- Chestre, Thomas, 133, 134

- Chettle, Henry, 291, 292, 386, 436

- Children of the Chapel Stript and Wipt, 288

- Child Bishop, Song of the, 321

- Chopping Knives, a Ballad, 292

- Christian Friendship, by Newton, 392

- Christ in his Twelfth Year, Interlude of, by John Bale, 78

- Christmas Carols, 142, 143, 144, 306, 307

- Christmas Recreations, by Robinson, 391

- Chronicle of Brutes, in English Verse, by Arthur Kelton, 205, 206

- Chronicle of the Emperors, by Richard Reynholds, 346

- Chrysanalia, by A. Munday, 290

- Chryso-Triumphos, a City Pageant, by A. Munday, 290

- Churchyard, Thomas, 11, 214, 215, 260, 280, 281, 391, 421

- Chyld, Bysshop, Song of the, 321

- Chytraeus, Postils of, 413

- Cicero, Marcus Tullius, Poem on the Death of, by N. Grimoald, 62

- Cicero's Epistles, translated by Fleming, 404

- Oration for the Poet Archias, translated by Drant, 431

- Orations, translated, 431

- Dream of Scipio, translated, 86

- Cicero, 200, 330

- Citie of Civilitie, 466

- Citie of Dames, a Comedy, by Brian Annesley, 80

- Clavell, John, 399

- Clem Clawbacke and Prig Pickshanke, Picture of, 370

- Cleomenes and Juliet, Historie of, 473

- Clerc, John, 26

- Clere, Sir Thomas, Poetical Epitaph on, by Lord Surrey, 26

- Clerke of Tranent, his Scotch Version of the Exploits of Gawaine, 133

- Clitophon and Leucippe, 448

- Cloris, or Complaynt of the Passion of the Despised Sheppard, by W. Smyth, 402

- Cognatus Gilbertus, 416

- Collection of Choice Flowers, by Fitzgëffry, 281

- Collins, William, 81, 292, 478

- Coluthus's Rape of Helen, translated by Marlowe, 433

- Comoedia, a Worke in Rhyme, by H. N. 202

- Commandments, versified by Whyttingham, 169

- Commedia il Divina, di Dante, 236, 237, 238, 239 to 255

- Commendacion of True Poetry, 486

- Commune Desunctorum, by Stanyhurst, 401

- Complaint against the Stiff-necked Papists, in Verse, by Mardiley, 194

- Complaint, a Poem, ascribed to Anne Boleyn, 58

- Complete Angler, 438

- Comus, Masque of, by Milton, 22

- Confessio Amantis, 353

- Consutation of Miles Hoggard, by Crowley, 197

- Consutation to the Answer of a Wicked Ballad, 197

- Constable, Henry, 277, 280, 281, 286, 292, 386

- Conway, Sir John, 479

- Cooper, John, 469

- Copland, Robert, 180, 313

- Coprario, or Cooper, John, 469

- Corbet, Bishop, 170

- Cosen•, Dr. 189

- Council of the High Priests, an Interlude, by John Bale, 78

- Court of Venus, moralised, 355

- Courte of Virtue, by J. Hall, 181, 424

- Coverdale's Bible, 172

- Courtier of Castilio, translated, 211, 371

- Courtier's Life, by Sir Thomas Wyat, 37, 38

- Cox, Leonarde, Tract on Rhetorick, by, 331

- Cowper, the Fearfull Fantyses of the Florentyne, 477

- Coxeter, Thomas, 281, 401, 410, 415, •••, 422, 431, 433

- Cranmer, Archbishop, 198, 204

- Creeds, the Nicene, Apostolic, and Athanasian, versified by Whyttingham and Clement Marot, 168

- Cromwell, Thomas, Lord, a ballad on, 144

- Cromwell, Oliver, 164

- Cronicle of the Brutes, in English Verse, by Arthur Kelton, 205, 206

- Crowley, Rob. the Printer, 187, 188, 197

- Cruel Detter, by Wayer, a Ballet, 423

- Cruget, Claude, 481

- Cuckowe, William, 292

- Culex, by Spenser, 406

- Cundyt of Comfort, by Fleming, 404

- Cupid, Banishment of, a Romance, 477

- Cupid and Psyche, Play of, 288

- Cupydo, serten Verses of, by Mr. Fayre, 396

- Cupid's Whirligig, Play of, 484

- Cymon and Iphigenia, 469

- Cynthia and Cassandra, by Barnefield, 405

- Cyropoedia, English Version of, by Grimoald, 61

D

- D. G. 402

- D. J. 314, 402

- D. R. 259

- D. T. 430. See Thoma• Deloney

- Damon and Pythias, Play of, by Edwards, 284, 289

- Damonde and Pi•hias, Tragical Comedye of, 289

- Daniel, Samuel, 272, 276, 280, 281, 400, 447

- Dante, 11, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 255, 453, 464

- Darius, King, Play of, 328

- David and Bethsabe, Play of, by George Peele, 67, 328

- David and Goliah, Story of, exhibited in Dumb Show, 350

- Davi•, Adam, 112, 124, 126, 128, 132

- David's Psalms, translated, &c. See Psalms

- David, Kinge, a newe Interlude on the tw• Sy•nes of, 328

- Davies, Sir John, 280, 488

- Davison's Poems, 32

- Day, John, the Printer, 182

- Decameron of Boccace, 487, 488

- Deceipts in Love, discoursed in a Comedie of two Italian Gentlemen, and translated into English, 485

- Decker, or Dekker, Thomas, 281, 292, 426, 430, 436, 488

- Declaration of God's Judgements at Paris Garden, by John Field, 288

- Dee, John, 396, 478

- Defence of Poetry, by Sir P. Syney, 273, 363

- Defence of Women, by E. More, 320

- Deloney, Thomas, 430

- Democritus, Junior, 295. See Burton

- Demosthenes, Seven Orations of, translated by T. Wilson, 334; by Carr, 384

- Denny, Sir Anthony, Poem on the Death of, 46

- Dering, Edward, 466

- Description of the Restlesse State of a Lover, a Poem, by Lord Surrey, 19

- Descriptio Hiberniae, 401

- Devereux, Richard, Poem on the Death of, 46

- Diamant of Devotions, by A. Fleming, 404

- Diana, or the excellent Conceitful Sonnets of H. C. 292

- Diana of Montmayer, Romance of, translated from Spanish by Tho. Wilson, 344

- Diall for Daintie Darlings, 485

- Dialogue against the Pope, by Ochin, Englished by Poynet, 188

- Dialogue on Proverbes, by J. Heywood, 91

- Dialogue on Tribulation, by Sir Thomas More, 329

- Dickenson, 417

- Didaco and Violenta, Tragical History of, 422

- Dido, Tragedy of, by Edw. Haliwell, 84

- Dido, Queen of Carthage, Tragedy of, by Christopher Marloe, 435

- Dido and Eneas, Interlude of, 435

- Diella, certaine Sonnets adjoyning to the Amorous Poeme of Dom Diego and Gineura, by R. L. Gentleman, 480

- Dietarie of Health, by Andrew Borde, 77

- Dietarie for the Clergy, 204

- Dingley, Francis, 261

- Discoverie of Campion the Jesuit, 290, 291

- Discourse of English Poetrie, by Webbe, 44, 291, 400

- Doctrine of Urines, by Andrew Borde, 77

- Dodipoll, Doctor, the Wisdom of, a Play, 475

- Dodington, Bartholomew, 384

- Dolce, 482

- Dolman, John, 215

- Doni's Morall Philosophie, from the Italian, by Sir T. North, 273

- Donne, John, 278, 279, 424

- Doom, by Batman, 487

- Downsal of Antichrist's Masse, 145

- Downsal of Diana of the Ephesians, 314

- Dramata Sacra, by Oporinus, 458

- Drant, Thomas, 320, 386, 424, 425, 426, 427, 428, 429, 431, 450

- Drayton, Michael, 3, 11, 14, 41, 76, 263, 264, 266, 270, 272, 277, 280, 433, 435, 445

- Dream of Scipio, Tully's, 86

- Drinking Ballad, the First, 206

- Dryden, John, 443, 447, 470

- Dumb Show, Account of, 291, 350, 360, 361

- Duke, Gilbert, 450

- Dugdale's Monasticon, 153

- Dyer, Sir Edward, 277

E

- E. R.; quaere, R. C. i. e. R. Carew

- Earthquake, Account of, in the Year 1580, by A. Golding, 414

- Eastward Hoe, Play of, 447

- Ecclesiastes of Solomon, versifyed by Lord Surrey, 26, 182

- Ecclesiastes, versifyed by Oliver Starchy, 320

- Ecclesiastes, versifyed by John P•llaine, 316

- Ecclesiastes, versifyed by Ed. Spenser, 320

- Ecclesiastes, versifyed by Henry Lok, or Lock, 320, 445

- Ecclesiastes, versifyed by Drant, 320, 429

- Ecclesiasticus, versifyed by John Hall, 181

- Edmonton, Merry Devil of, Play of the, 81

- Edward II. Play of, by Marlowe, 438

- Edward III. Poem on the Wars of, by Minot, 103

- Edward VI. 195

- Education, a Compendious Fourm of, &c. in Verse, by E. Hake, 275, 276

- Edward•, Richard, 283, 285, 286, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 296, 297

- Elizabetha, a Latin Poem, by Christopher Ocland, 314

- Elucidarium, 81

- Elementarie, by Mulcaster, 346

- Elizabeth, Queen, 277, 287, 394, 418, 425, 493

- Elisabeth, Queen, a rueful Lamentation on the Death of, by Sir Thomas More, 99, 100, 101, 102

- Emare, Lay, or Romance of, 117, 134

- Enchiridion of Surgery, by Gale, 181

- Endimion and Phoebe, 418

- Eneidos of Virgil, translated. See Virgil

- Enemy of Idleness, by Fullwood, 345

- England's Parnassus, 280, 440, 469, 483

- England's Helicon, 292, 319, 402

- English Policie, a Poem, 123

- Englishman's Roman Life, by Ant. Mundaye, 290

- Ennius, 431

- Enterlude for Boyes to handle and passe Tyme at Christmas, 307

- Enterludes prohibited, 198

- Entertainment at Killing worth Castle, 98

- Epictetus, 459

- Epigrammata Seria, by Parker, 432

- Epigrams, by J. Heywood, 88; by Crowley, 188

- Episcopus Puerorum, 302, 303, 304, 321, 322, 325

- Erasmus, 59, 404

- Erra Pater, 77

- Esdras and Darius, Play of, 328

- Esop's Fables, translated by Bullocar, 347

- Esop, translated by Bullokar, 347, 449

- Essex, Robert, Earl of, 421, 422

- Ester, Queen, Play of, 328

- Esther, Book of, versified by John Pullaine, 316

- Ethics of Aristotle, Commentary on, by Fignilei Felice, 24

- Ethiriden, George, 284

- Etiocles and Polynices, Tale of, 386

- Evans, Lewis, 425

- Eunuchu• of Terence, translated, 449

- Euryalus and Lucretia, 416

- Eustathius, 444

- Exhortations to the Citizens of London, a Poem, by Lord Surrey, 26

- Exposition on the Psalms, by Thomas Wilson, 345

- Exposition on the Proverbs, by Thomas Wilson, 345

- Expedition into Scotlande, of the most woorthely fortunate Prince, Edward, Duke of Somerset, by William Patten, 213

F

- F. A. 403. See Abraham Fleming.

- Fabell's Merry Pranks, 82

- Fabri Pierre, or Le Fevre, 350

- Fabyl's Ghoste, a Poem, 81

- Fagius, 179

- Fairsax, Edward, 281, 485

- Faire. See Phaier

- Fairy Queen, by Spenser, 87, 234, 262, 409, 445, 498

- Falcon and the Pie, a Poem, by Robert Vaughan, 106, 107

- Fall and Evil Success of Rebellion, a Poem, by Wilfrid Holme, 83

- Fall of Princes, by Lidgate, 217

- Family of Love, 202

- Fansie of a Wearied Lover, by Howard, Earl of Surrey, 8

- Farmer, Dr. 482

- Fasti, 415

- Faust, John, 4•7

- Faustus, Dr. Play of, 437

- Faustus, Dr. Ballad on the Life and Death of the Great Congerer, 437

- Fearfull Fantyses of the Florentine Cowper, 477

- Fenner, Dudley, 317

- Fenton, Edward, 481, Geffray, 479, 480, 481

- Ferdinando, Jeronimi, Tale of, 474

- Ferrers, George, 212, 213, 218, 293, 294, 414. Edward, 213, 285, 293

- Ferrex and Porrex, Tragedy of, 356. See Gordobu•

- Ferris, Richard, the dangerous Adventure of, &c. 214

- Feyld, or Field, Richard, 84

- Fiametta of Boccace, translated by B. Giouanno del M. Temp, 467, 488

- Field, John, 288. Richard, 84

- Figlinei Felice, 24

- Finnaeus Historica Litteraria, 26•

- First Frutes, by Florio, 465

- Fitzgerald, Lord Gerald, 6

- Fitzgerald, Lady Elizabeth, 6

- Fitzgeffrey, Charles, 281

- Fitzroy, Henry, Duke of Richmond, 2, 3

- Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandrie, by Tusser, 303, 304, 305, 306

- Fleming, Abraham, 402, 403, 404, 451, 460. John, 404.- Samuel, 402, 403

- Fletcher, Giles, 432. Robert, 279, 317

- Fleury, Jean, 470

- Florio, John, 465

- Florishe upon Fancie, by N. B. Nicholas Breton, 484

- Florentine Cowper, 477

- Florus, English Version of, by Bolton, 278

- Flosculi of Terence, by Higgins, 259

- Floure of God's Commandments, 80

- Flowres of Epigrams, by Timothy Kendall, 432

- Flower of Fame, compyled by Ulpia• Fulwell, 271

- Fontaine, 161

- Fontanini, 407

- Forest, or Collection of Histories, by Fortescue, 481

- Fornari, Simon, 352

- Forrest of Fancy, 386

- Forrest, Syr William, 311, 312, 313

- Fortescue, Thomas, 481

- Fortunate Isles, Masque of, by Ben Jonson, 76

- Fortune, Boke of, by Sir Thomas More, 98

- Fountaine of Ancient Fiction, by Richard Linche, 486

- Four P's, Play of, 88

- Fox, 167, 354

- Foxa, Je•re de, 349

- Franc, Guillaume de, 164

- Fraunce, Abraham, 281, 400, 405, 406, 420, 421

- Frere and the Boye, 475

- Frier Fox-Taile, a Ballad, 292

- Froissart, 123, 431

- Frogs and Mice, 433, 445

- Fulk, William, 465

- Fullwood, William, 345

- Fulwell, Ulpian, 271

- Furio's Counsels and Counselors, translated into English Verse by Blundeville, 274

G

- G. B. 422; i. e. Bernard Garter

- G. H. 486

- G. I. 289

- G. N. See Nicholas Grimoald

- G. W. 47, 357

- Gar. Ber. 423; i. e. Bernard Gardiner, or Bernard Garter

- Gadshill, Ballad of, by Faire, 399

- Gager, Dr. 290, 320

- Galathea, Play of, by Lilly, 406

- Galesus, Cymon and Iphigenia, pleasaunt and delightful Historie of, by T. C. 469

- Gallery of Gallant Inventions, 485

- Gallus, Cornelius, 407

- Gammer Gurtons Needle, Comedy of, 208

- Garter, Bernard, 423

- Gascoigne, George, 44, 45, 67, 277, 281, 286, 290, 293, 346, 372, 382 to 386, 414, 426, 44•, 473, 474

- Gaya Sciencia, Consistorio de la, sounded by Ramon Vidal de Besalin, 349

- Gay Science, Account of, 349

- Genesis, translated into English Ryme by Hunnis, 180

- Genesis, the First Chapter of, Ballet of, 424

- Gentle Craft, the, 430

- Gentleness and Nobilitie, Play of, 88

- Geoffrey of Monmouth, 38, 278

- Geography of P. Mela, translated by Golding, 414

- George, Saint, Play of, 326

- Georgics of Virgil, translated. See Virgil

- Geraldine, the Fair, 7, 16

- Gerileon, a Poem, 292

- Geste of Alexander, a Poem, by Adam Davie, 112, 124, 126, 127

- Giamboni, Bono, Tesoro of Brunetto, translated into Italian by, 237

- Giavanno, B. del M. Temp. 467

- Gilpin, Edward, 281

- Giuletta, La, 471

- Glaucus and Scylla, 418

- God's Promises to Man, Tragedy of, by John Bale, 78

- Godfrey of Bolloign, an heroycall Poem of S. Torquato Tasso, Englished by R. E. quaere, 485

- Godfrey of Bolloigne, Interlude of, with the Conquest of Jerusalem, 485

- Golden Apple, Ballet of, 417

- Golden Boke, or Life of Marcus Aurelius, translated by Lord Berners, 42

- Golden Booke of the Leaden Goddes, by Dr. Stephen Batman, 487

- Golden Legend, 154

- Golden Terge, by Sir D. Lyndsey, 50

- Golding, Arthur, 290, 409 to 413, 414, 439, 441, 494

- Goldingham, Henry, 414

- Goodman, Dr. Christopher, a Pamphlet against Queen Mary, by, 305

- Goodly Matter, Play of, 326

- Goodwin, Christopher, 84

- Googe, Barnaby, 274, 290, 322, 405, 441, 449, 450

- Gordobucke, Tragedy of, by Sackville, 67, 169, 277, 355, 356, 357, 358, 359, 360, 361, 362, 363, 364, 365, 366, 367, 368, 369, 370, 371

- Gosson, Stephen, 288

- Gotham, Mad Men of, 72

- Got•eham, Kemp's Merymentes of the Men of, 475

- Goujet, 350

- Gower, 81, 203, 336, 353

- Grafton's Chronicle, 213, 431

- Grammar, English, by Bullocar, 347

- Grantham, Henry, his translation of Scipio Lentulo's Italian Grammar, 465

- Grant, Edward, Specilegium of the Greek Tongue, by, 402

- Grant, 396

- Gratalorus, 393

- Gratian du Pont, 348

- Gratulationes Valdinenses, by Gabriel Harvey, 426

- Greene, Robert, 290, 291, 386, 436

- Greenwich, Devices shewn at, 157, 302

- Gresield, Patient, 311

- Gresield the Second, a Poem, by Syr Wm. Forrest, 311

- Grevile, Fulke, Lord Brooke, 278

- Grimoald, Nicholas, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69

- Groatsworth of Wit, by Robert Greene, 292, 386

- Groundes of Good Huswisery, 425

- Guazzo, Stephen, Civile Conversation of, translated by Bartholemew Yong and William Pe•tie, 466

- Guevara, Antonio de, Golden Epistles of, versifyed by Fenton, 480

- Guicciadini's History, translated by Fenton, 480

- Guido de Columna, 409

- Guichard et Sigismonde, 47•

- Guillaume de Franc, 164

- Guls Hombook, 425, 426

- Guy, Earl of Warwick, Romance of, 141

H

- H. A. i. e. Arthur Hall, 440

- H. E. 275

- H. R. 307

- H. T. 417

- Hackluyt's Voyages, 123

- Haddon, Dr. Walter, 343, 432

- Hake, Edward, 275, 426

- Haliwell, Edward, 84

- Hall's Satires, 272, 315, 317

- Hall, Bishop Joseph, 272, 315, 317, 486. Arthur, 440. Eliseus, 181. Edward, 156. John, 181, 424

- Hall's Chronicle, 154, 156, 214, 431

- Hamanus, a Latin Tragedy, by Kirchmaier, 458

- Hamlet, Play of, 45, 289, 435, 501

- Hampole, 86

- Handfull of Hidden Secrets, collected by R. Williams, 485

- Handfull of Honeysuckles, by William Hunnis, 180

- Harpalus and Phyllida, a Poem, 51, 52, 53, 54

- Harrington, Sir John, 281, 389, 485

- Harriots, Master, 442

- Harrison's Description of Britain, 74, 93, 94

- Harvey, Gabriel, 334, 382, 400, 426, 474, 475, 480, 488

- Harvey's (Gabriel) Hunt is up, by T. Nash, 475

- Hatcher, 298

- Hathway, Richard, 291

- Hatton, Sir Christopher, 376

- Haunse, Everard, 291

- Hawkins, Sir Thomas, 424

- Hawkwood, Sir John, Life and Death of, 66

- Hayward, Thomas, 281

- Hecuba of Euripides, translated into French by Lazare de Baëf, 351

- Hecuba and the Ladies of Troy, Lamentation of, a Ballad, 445

- Heale, William, 320

- Hearne, Thomas, 13, 71, 73, 76, 151, 178, 279, 328

- Hebdomada, Mariana, 401

- Hedly, Thomas, 477

- Helen's Epistle to Paris, a Ballet, by B. G. 422

- Helenae Raptus, or Helen's Rape, 433

- Helicon, England's, 69, 292, 319, 402, 438

- Heliodorus, Ethiopics of, translated, 419, 420, 449, 496

- Hellowes, Edward, 481

- Hemidos, ruefull Tragedy of, by Robinson, 391

- Henry IV. by Shakespeare, 399

- Henry V. Play of, 501

- Henry and Emma, a Poem, by Prior, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141

- Henry VIII. Encomium in Greek Verse, on, by George Etheredge, 284

- Henry VIII. King, •, 58, 59, 203, 205

- Heptameron of Civill Discourses, by Whetstone, 483

- Hercules and his End, Ballet of, 417

- Hercules Oetaeus of Seneca, translated into Blank Verse by Q. Elizabeth, 394

- Heresbach, Conrade, Treatise on Agrigulture, by, translated by Googe, 458

- Hermaphroditus and Salmacus, by Peend, 416

- Hermes, Fable of, 404

- Hero and Leander, 434

- Hesiod's Works and Days, Second Book of, translated by Geo. Chapman, 446

- Hether, Dr. William, 313

- Heusius, or Hews, 442

- Heuterus, 295

- Heywood, Jasper, 273, 287, 290, 386, 388, 441. Thomas, 290, 418, 436; or Heiwood, John, 87, 96, 343, 347, 388

- Hiberniae Descriptio, by Stanyhurst, 401

- Hieronymo, Tragedy of, 67

- Higgins, or Higins, John, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 275, 28•

- Historical Parallel, by Bolton, 278

- Histories, Chaos of, 484

- Histriomastix, by Prynne, 314, 464

- Hive full of Honey, by William Hunni•, 180

- Hoby, Thomas, 371

- Hoggard, Miles, 197, 319

- Holcot's Dictionarie, corrected, &c. by Higgins, 259

- Holland, 195. Hugh, 278, 279

- Hollinshed, 47, 50, 159, 431, 493. Chronicle of, supervised by Fleming, 403

- Holme, Wilfrid, 83

- Holofernes, Play of, 328

- Homer, 24, 276, 395, 434, 440, 441

- Odyssy, translated into Spanish Blank Verse by Gonsalvo Perez, 24

- Illiad, by G. Chapman, 276, 441, 442. By Arthur Hall, 440

- Honestie of this Age, by Barnabe Riche, 482

- Honourable Prentice, 66

- Hooker, John, 84, 276

- Hopkins, John, 39, 167, 171, 173, 174, 175, 178, 180, 189, 275, 355, 455

- Horace's Art of Poetry, translated into French by Pelletier, 352

- Horace, translated, 35, 352, 395, 424, 451

- Horace, Epistles of, Commentary on, by N. Grimoald, 60

- Horace's Satyres, two Books of, translated by Drant, 424

- Horologium Principum, by Antonio Guevara, translated by Sir Thomas North, 273

- Horne, Bishop of Winchester, 290

- Howard, Henry. See Surrey, Lord

- Howard, Henry, Earl of Northampton, 421

- Howell, Thomas, 418

- Hubbard, William, 413

- Hudson, Thomas, 280, 281

- Hues, Robert, 442

- Hugh, Sir, of Bourdeaux, 58, 425

- Hughes, Robert, 442

- Humphry, Duke, Legend of, by C. Middleton, 483

- Hundred Sonnets, or Passionate Century of Love, by Thos. Watson, 433

- Hundred Merry Tales, 475

- Hundred Poyntes of Evell Huswyfraye, 304

- Hundred good Poyntes of Husboundry, &c. 304

- Hunnis, William, 180, 370, 414

- Hypercritica, by Bolton, 24, 276, 278

I

- Jacob and Esau, a newe, merry, and wittie Comedie, 328

- Jack of Newbery, 430

- James I. King, 173, 281

- Jane Shore, Tragedy of, 280

- Jancura and Ariodanto, 479

- Jardin de Plaisance et Fleur de Rhetorique, 347

- Jason and Medea, Story of, translated by Nycholas Whyte, 409

- Jealousie, Blazon of, 481

- Jeptha, Judge of Israel, a Ballad, by Wm. Petowe, 434

- Jeremiah, translated, 424

- Jeremye, Lamentation of, 424

- Jew of Malta, Tragedy of, by Marlowe, 392, 436

- Ignoto, 438

- Iliad of Homer, translated. See Homer

- Illustria aliquot Anglorum Encomia, 391

- Introduction of Knowledge, a Poem, by A. Borde, 73

- Job, Book of, by Saint Jerome, 248

- Job, Book of, paraphrased by Drant, 429

- Jocasta of Euripides, translated by Geo. Gascoigne, 67, 372, 373, 374

- Johan, Johan the Husband, Tyb the Wife, and Sir Johan the Preeste, Play of, 88

- Johnson, Dr. Christopher, 433

- John, King, Play of, 435

- John the Babtist, Comedy of, by John •ale, 78

- Jones, Inigo, 237, 447. John, 450

- Jonson, Ben, 79, 129, 278, 279, 281, 291, 433, 435, 436, 447, 448

- Jordi Messen, a Provencial Poet, 31

- Jopas, Song of, by Sir Thomas Wyat, 38

- Joseph, the tragedious Troubles, &c. of, a Poem, by Sir William Forrest, 312

- Iphis, unfortunate Ende of, versified, 413

- Irish Hubbub, by B. Riche, 482

- Iscanus, Josephus, Poem on the Trojan War, by, 61

- Isocrates, 330

- Isocrates, certen Orations, translated by Christopher Johnson, 433

- Italia Liberata di Goti, by Trissino, 25

- Italian Schoolemaister, 474

- Ite in Vineam, or the Parable of the Vineyard, Comedy, by Lord Berners, 58

- Itzwert, James, 450

- Julian of Brentford, the Testament of, by R. Copland, 313

- Judith, Book of, versified by Pullaine, 316

- Judith and Holofernes, Ballad of, 328

- Juliet and Cleomenes, History of, 473

- Justinian, 160

- Justin's History, translated by Golding, 414

- Juvenal, 451

- Ivychurch, Countess of Pembroke's, by Fraunce, 405

K

- K. J. or John Kepyer, 418

- K. W. i. e. William Kethe, 170, 305, 418

- Keeper, John, 186, 418

- Kelton, Arthur, Chronicle of Brutes, by, 205, 206

- Kempe, William, 290, 430, 475

- Kendall, Timothy, 404, 432

- Kenilworth Castle, Princely Pleasures of, 129, 139, 293, 356, 414, 498

- Kepyer, John, 186, 418

- Kethe, William, 170, 305, 418

- Kett's Norsolk Insurrection, Latin Narrative of, by Nevyl, 385

- Kinwelmersh, Francis, 372, 374

- Killingworth Castle, Entertainments at, 98, 139

- Kinde-Hart's Dreame, by Henry Chettle, 291

- King, Dr. Philip; alias Henry, 279

- Kings, Book of, versified, 190

- Knack to Know a Knave, a Comedy, 475

- Knight• Conjuring, by Decker, 292

- Knyght of the Burning Pestle, a Play, by Beaumont and Fletcher, 280

- Knox, 168, 418

- Kongs-Scugg Sio, or Royal Mirrour, 263

- Kyd, Thos. 281

- Kyffin, Maurice, 449

- Kyng Appolyn of Tyre, Romance of, 142

L

- L. F. 420

- L. R. 480, 482

- La Croze, Histoire de la Vie et des Ouvrages de, 477

- Lambarde, 385

- Lambe, William, Memorial of, by A. Fleming, 404

- Lament for the Death of the Makkari•, 133

- Lamentation of Hecuba and the Ladies of Troy, 445

- Lamentation of Jeremye, &c. 424

- Lamentation of Troy for the Death of Hector, 445

- Lamentation of Corydon for Love of Alexis, by A. Fraunce, 405

- Lamentation of Amyntas for the Death of Phillis, 405

- Laneham, 98, 139, 416

- Lancelot du Lac, Romance of, 242, 477

- Latimer, Bishop, Song on, 197

- Lattini, Brunetto, 237

- Lavaterus of Ghosts, translated into English by R. H. 307

- Launval, Romance of, 123, 133

- Lay of Emare, 117, 134

- Lay of Launval, 123, 133

- Lay of the Erle of Tholouse, 122

- Laws, the Three, a Comedy, by Bale, 198

- Lear, King, Play of, 379.

- Lectionary of Cardinal Wolsey, 146

- Lee, Lady Margaret, Poem on the Death of, 69

- Leland, John, 11, 29, 79, 160, 353, 429

- Lent and Liberty, Dialogue between, by Crowley, 188

- Lenten Stuff, by Nash, 434

- Lentulo, Scipio, his Italian Grammar, translated by Henry Grantham, 465

- Lepanto, by King James I. 277

- Lewick, Edw. 468

- Lhuyd, Humphrey, 396

- Lidgate, John, 81, 99, 217, 275, 336, 353

- Life of Man, a Description of the, a Poem, 181

- Life of Milliado, a British Knight, 476

- Lillie, John, 290; or Lilly, 406, 416, 423

- Lives of the Saints, 149

- Lives and Sayings of Philosophers, &c. by W. Baldwyn, 212

- Linch, Richard, 486

- Litany, translated into Ryme by R. Crowley the Printer, 187

- Lloyd, Lodowyke, 322, 390

- Locke, or Lok, Henry, 280, 320, 445

- Locrine, Play of, 435

- Lodge, Thomas, 280, 281, 288, 290

- Logic, by Seton, 429

- London Chaunticleres, 475

- Lord of Misrule, 213, 293, 307

- Lord's Prayer, versified by Whittingham, 168

- Lord's Supper, Interlude of, by John Bale, 78

- Love, Play of, 88

- Lover and the Jaye, Treatise of, a Poem, by Richard Feylde, 84

- Love's Labour Lost, Play of, 465

- Lucan, First Book of, translated by C. Marlowe, 434

- Lu••nda and Arnalt, 474

- 〈◊〉, a Ballad of the traiterous and unbrideled Crueltye of, executed over Eriphile, Daughter to Hortensia Castilion, of Genoway, in Italy, 485

- Lucrece, Rape of, by Shakespeare, 416

- Lucrece, grievous Complaynt of, 415

- Lucretia, Poem on, 415, 416

- ••••etius 209, 308

- L••••dayre, 81

- Lu•••ra seu Epigrammata Juvenilia, by Parkhurst, 432

- Luther, the Pope, Cardinal and Husbandman, Balad of, 196

- Luther, 164

- Lusty Juventus, an Enterlude, by R. Wever, 200, 201

- Lyndsey, Sir David, 50, 455

M

- M. A. 290. i. e. Anthony Mundaye

- M. J. 319. 485. See Jervis Markham

- Macbeth, Play of, 413

- Machiavel, 470

- Mad Men of Gotham, Merry Tales of the, 72, 73

- Magna Charta, translated from the French into Latin and English, by Geo. Ferrers, 213

- Mamillia, by Greene, 402

- Mantuan, versified by Turberville, 421

- Marbeck, John, a Musician, 172, 194, 313

- Marcus Aurelius, 279

- Marloe, or Marlowe, Christopher, 280, 281, 392, 420, 433, 434, 435, 436, 437, 438, 439

- Mardiley, John, 194

- Margarite of Ambrica, a Romance, by Thomas Lodge, 481

- Markham, Jervis or Gervaise, 281, 319, 485

- Marot, Clement, 161, 163, 164, 167, 169, 177

- Marshall, George, 319

- Marston, John, 272, 280, 281, 318, 417, 437, 447, 486, 488

- Martial, 20, 395, 432

- Martorell, John, 476

- Martyrs and Confessors, Register of, in Metre, by Thomas Brice, 355

- Mary Magdalen, Repentance of, an Interlude, 328

- Mary, Queen of Scots, a Poem, by, 56

- Mary, Queen, Latin Life of, by Samuel Fleming, 402

- Mary, Queen, Accession of, celebrated in a goodly Psalm, by Rich. Beearde, 319

- Mason, William, 438

- Mason's English Garden, 310

- Masques, Account of the, 155, 156, 157

- Mass of the Gluttons, by Bale, 79

- Mass, the Antichrist's, Downfal of, 149

- May Day, Comedy of, by Chapman, 279

- Mayden's Dreme, a Poem, by Christopher Goodwin, 84

- Measure for Measure, Play of, 483

- Medea and Jason, 409

- Medusa, Ballet of, 418

- Mela, Pomponius, Geography of, translated by Golding, 414

- Meliado, Sir, Life of, 476

- Menaechmi of Plautus, translated by W. W. 449

- Mendoza, Lopez de, his Proverbs, translated by Googe, 458

- Merbeck, John. See Marbeck

- Merchant of Venice, Play of, 57, 483

- Meres, Francis, 46, 213, 290, 345, 399, 401, 414, 432, 433, 441, 469, 473

- Merlini Vitae et Prophetiae, 146

- Merlyn, Treatise of, or his Prophecies in Verse, 146, 151

- Mery Jest, &c. by Sir Thos. More, 97

- Merie Devil of Edmonton, Play of the, 81, 83

- Mery Tales, Wittye Questions, and Quicke Answers, 484

- Merry Andrew, 71

- Merry Passages and Jeastes, 414

- Merry Wives of Windsor, Play of, 438

- Messia, Petro de, 481

- Meteranus, 350

- Metrical Preface to Heywood's Thyestes, 273, 387

- Metropolis Coronata, a City Pageant, by A. Munday, 290

- Midas, King, Ballad of, 417

- Middleton, Christopher, 280, 281, 483

- Midsummer Night's Dream, 417, 418, 435

- Military Precepts, by Philip Betham, 396

- Milton, John, 160, 240, 246, 247, 440

- Minerva, a Book of Emblems, by Peacham, 299

- Minot, Laurence, 103, 146, 148, 149, 150

- Minstrels, Account of, 302

- Miracles, 325

- Mirandula, John Picus, Lyfe of, translated by Sir Thomas More, 102

- Mirrour for Magistrates, 99, 209, 213, 216 to 239, 251, 256, 279, 281, 282, 293, 294, 298, 339, 359, 361, 423

- Mirrour of the Church of Saint Austin• of Abyngdon, 313

- Mirrour for Magistrates of Cities, by Whetstone, 279, 289

- Mirrour of the Mathematikes, 259

- Mirrour of Mirth, by R. D. 259

- Mirrour of Monsters, 259

- Mirrour of Mirrours, 281

- Moderation, a Poem in Praise of, by M. Grimoald, 67

- Montanus, Ferrarius, 274

- Monge, Negro, 349

- Monthly Miscellany, or Memoirs for the Curious, the Muse's Mercury, 139

- Month's Minde of Margaret, Countess of Richmond, a Sermon, by Bishop Fisher, 322

- Moone, Peter, 319

- Morando, the Tritameron of Love, 483

- Moralities, 203, 350, 351, 352

- More, Sir Thomas, 55, 56, 87, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 136, 159, •••, 399, 432. Edward, 320

- Morley, Lord, Henry Parker, 85

- Mornay's, Philip, Treatise on the Truth of Christianity, translated by Sir P. Sydney and A. Golding, 414

- Morte D'Arthur, 119, 123, 462, 463

- Morys, John, 145, 148, 151

- Mother Redd Cappe, 484

- Much Ado About Nothing, Play of, by Shakespeare, 201, 475

- Mulcaster, Richard, 315, 346

- Munday, a Musician, 172

- Mundaye, Anthony, 290, 291, 292

- Muses Library, 12

- Muses Mercury, 139, improperly called the Monthly Miscellany

- Musaeus, translated, 395

- Mustapha, Tragedy of, by Greville, Lord Brook, 278

- Myce and the Frogges, 433, 434, 445

- Mylner of Abington, a ryght pleasant and merry History of the, with his Wife, and his Faire Daughter, and of two Poor Scolars of Cambridge, 76

- Mysteries, 203, 324, 325

N

- N. H. 202

- N. T. 370, 391. See Thomas Norton

- N. T. 392. See Thomas Newton

- Naenia, by Stephanus Surigonius, 353

- Naogeorgii Regnum Papisticum, 458

- Naogeorgii Regnum Antichristi, 322

- ΝΑΟΓΕΟΡΓΟΣ, or Kirchmaier, 458

- Narcissus, from Ovid, translated into English Mytre, 417

- Nash, Thomas, 280, 290, 291, 400, 434, 435, 488

- Nastagio and Traversari, the History of, translated out of Italian into English, by C. T. 194, 468

- Nazianzen, Gregory, his Greek Epigrams, translated by Drant, 429

- New Caesar, or Monarchie depraved, by Bolton, 278

- Nevil, Sir Edward, 156

- Nevill's Kettu•, 429

- Nevyle, Alexander, 290, 384

- Newbery, Jack of, 430

- Newce, or Nuce, Thomas, 384

- Newe Sonettes and Pretty Pamphettes, 297

- News oute of Kent, a Ballad, 306

- News out of Heaven and Hell, 306

- Newton, Thomas, 76, 159, 261, 269, 315, 383, 390, 391, 392, 393

- Niccols, Richard, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 294

- Nice Valour, Play of, by Fletcher, 475

- Nicene Creed, versified by W. Whytting¦ham, 168

- Nicholas, Henry, 202

- Nine Daies Wonder, by Kemp, 290, 430

- Nine Worthies, Pageant of the, 326

- Nobilitie, Treatise of, by John Clerc, 26

- Nomenclator of Adrian Junius, translated by Higgins and Fleming, 260

- Norden's Speculum Britaniae, 76, 83

- North, Sir Thomas, 273, 293

- Northampton, Hen. Howard, Earl of, 421

- Norton, Thomas, 169, 274, 355, 357, 370, 415

- Norvicus, by Nevyl, 386

- Nosegay, 423

- No• Browne Mayde, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141

- Nouvelles Nouvelles, les Cent, 475

- Nuce, Thomas, 384

- Nugae Antiquae, 59

- Nugae, or Latin Epigrams, by Borbonius, 432

O

- Ochin, 188

- Ocland, Christopher, 314

- Octavia, by T. N. or Thomas Nuce, 384

- Odyssy of Homer, translated into Spanish Blank Verse, 24

- Oedipus, Lamentable History of the Prynce 384

- Oedipus of Seneca, translated by Neville, 290

- Oenone to Paris, 420

- Olave, Saint, Play of the Life of, 326

- Oldy•, William, 281

- Opilio, or Lucas Shepherd, 316

- Oporinus, Religious Interludes in Latin, published by, 327, 328

- Orator, the, written in French by Alexander Silvayn, and Englished by L. P. or Lazarus Pilot, 482

- Orlando Furioso, 352, 484

- Orthographie, Treatise of, by Bullocar, 347

- Othello, Tragedy of, 287

- Overbury, Sir Thomas, 419

- Ovid, 57, 162, 409, 413, 415, 420, 421, 494

- Ovid's Metamorphosis, translated by Golding, 409, 415; by Sandy•, 413; by Peend, 413

- Ovid's Fasti, translated, 415

- Ovid's Ibis, translated by Thomas Underdown, 419

- Ovid's Remedy of Love, translated by Underdown, 419; by Sir T. Overbury, 419; by Marlowe, 420

- Ovid's Elegies, translated by Marlowe, 420

- Ovid's Epistles, translated, 57, 420, 421

- Ovid's Banquet of Sauce, by Geo. Chapman, 446

- Owen's Epigrams, 433

- Oxford, Edw. Earl of, 290, 292

P

- P. L. i. e. Lazarus Pilot, 482

- P's, Four, Play of the, by John Heywood, 88

- Pace, 26

- Pageant of Popes, by T. S. 384

- Pageantries, 151

- Pageants, Nine, of the Stages of Life, contrived by Sir Thomas More, 101, 102

- Paget, William, Lord, 299

- Painter, William, 465, 466

- Palace of Pleasure, 465

- Palamon and Arcite, Poem, by Chaucer, 35, 416

- Palamon and Arcite, 470, Play of, by Edwards, 284, 287

- Palingenius, 274, 387, 405, 415, 449

- Palladis Tamia. See Witt's Treasury—by Meres

- Palmerin of England, 488

- Pammachius, Tragedy of, translated by Bale, 79

- Panoplie of Epistles, by Fleming, 404

- Pan, his Pipe, a Poem, 405

- Papal Dominion, by Googe, 458

- Parable of the Vineyard, Comedy of the, by Lord Berners, 58

- Paradise of Dainty Devises, 44, 69, 181, 283, 287, 297, 322, 388, 396

- Paragon of Pleasant Histories, or this Nutt was New Cracked, contayning a Discourse of a Noble Kynge and his Three Sonnes, 481

- Pardoner and the Frere, Play of, 88

- Parker, Henry, Lord Morley, 85

- Parker, Archbishop, 1, 181, 365, 385, 386, 487

- Parkhurst, John, Bishop of Norwich, 432

- Parlour of Pleasaunte Delyghtes, 485

- Parnassus, England's, 280, 440, 469

- Parsons, a Musician, 172

- Pascale, Lodovico, 482

- Pasquill's Madness, a Poem, 425

- Pasquill's Mad Cappe, 445, 484

- Pasquill's Mad Cappe's Message, 484

- Passion of Christ, Play of the, 326

- Passion of our Lord, an Interlude, by Bale, 78; translated by Chertsey, 80, 313

- Passio Domini Jesu, by Gilbert Pilkington, 103

- Passionate Shepherd to his Love, 438

- Patch, Cardinal Wolsey's Fool, 88

- Pater Noster, versified by Forrest, 313

- Pathway to Military Practise, by Barnabie Riche, 482

- Patient Gre•ield, 311

- Patten, William, 213

- Paynter, William, 465, 466

- Peacham, Henry, 299

- Peckham, Archbishop, 325

- Peele, George, 67, 281, 328, 417, 418, 436

- Peend, Thomas, 416, 417

- Peleus and Thetis, 407

- Pelle•ier, Jaques, 351, 352

- Pembroke, Countess of, Poem on the Death of, 46

- Penelope's Webbe, 418

- Penetential Psalms of David, translated by Sir Thos. Wyat, 39

- Peny, Sir, Romance of, 93, 94, 106

- Perceforest, Romance of, 477

- Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Play of, 280

- Perez Gonsalvo, Homer's Odyssy, translated into Spanish by, 24

- Perseus and Andromeda, 446

- Perymus and Thybye, 417

- Petite Palace of Petie, his Pleasure, 466

- Petowe, Henry, 434. William, 434

- Pettie, William, 466

- Petrarch, 1, 11, 12, 25, 31, 40, 58, 162, 311, 352, 447, 463

- Petrarch's Seven Penetential Psalms, translated by Chapman, 447

- Phaier, or Phayer, Thomas, 214, 290, 395, 396, 397, 399, 410, 415, 441

- Phebe and Endimion, 418

- Phelyppis, or Philips, Sir Thomas, 46

- Phillips, John, 11, 440. Robert, Poem on the Death of, 46

- Phillis and Flora, Amorous Contention of, by Chapman, 446

- Philocasander and Elamira, the Fayre Ladye of Brytayne, 477

- Philotas, Comedie of, 88

- Phist, William, Welspring of Wittie Conceights, translated from the Italian by, 308

- Phoenix Nest, by R. S. 401, 402

- Pictorius Epigrams, translated by Kendall, 432

- Pie and Falcon, a Poem, 106

- Pierce Plainness, Seven Yeres Prentiship, a Romance, by H. C. i. e. Henry Chettle, 291

- Pierce Plowman, 108, 128, 187, 196, 197, 336

- Pilkington, Gilbert, 103

- Pilot, Lazarus, 482, 48•

- Pinner of Wakefi•ld, Comedy of, 88

- Piscator, or the Fisher Caught, a Comedy, by John Hooker, 84

- Pit•, 281

- Pithias and Damon, a Ballad, intituled two lamentable Songes of, 289

- Plato, 330

- Plautus, 449, 473

- Play of Love, by John Heywood, 88

- Play of Playes, 288

- Plays, 198, 338

- Plays confuted in Five Actions, 288

- Pleasant Poesie of Princelie Practise, a Poem, by Forrest, 312

- Pleasure and Pain, Metrical Sermon on, by Crowley, 188

- Plowman, Pierce. See Pierce Plowman

- Plutarch, 393

- Plutarch's Commentary, translated into English Meeter by Thomas Blundeville, 274

- Poem of Poems, or Sion's Muse, by J. M. 318

- Poemata Varia et Externa, by Drant, 429

- Poetry, English, a Character of, in the Age of Elizabeth, 490, &c.

- Poines, John, 34, 36

- Poggio, 470

- Pole, Cardinal, 9

- Politian's Epigrams, translated by Kendall, 432

- Polixinë and Astionax [i. e. Astyanax], 417

- Polliceute, Kynge, Ballet of, 423

- Polybius, 278

- Polyhistory of Solinus, 414

- Polyolbion, by Drayton, 266

- Pontanus, Isaacus, 349

- Pope and the Turk, a Metrical Prayer, by Rob. Wisdome, 170

- Pope, a, 11, 67, 357

- Pope, Sir Thomas, Life of, 34, 44, 46, 389

- Pope and Popery, Ballade made against, by William Punt, 320

- Popish Kingdom, a Poem, by Googe, 322

- Portes, Philip de, 485

- Pore Helpe, a Poem, 197

- Porter, Henry, 291. Endimion, 278

- Positions, by Mulcaster, 346

- Pos•ils of Chrytaeus, 413

- Potter, George, 486

- Powell, Thomas, 426

- Poynet, Bishop of Winchester, 71, 188

- Preservative, a Tract against the Pelagians, by Turner, 355

- Preston, 289

- Princelie Pleasures of Kenilworth-Cas¦tle, by Gascoigne, 293

- Principles of Astronomical Prognostication, by Borde, 77

- Prior, Matthew, 135, 137, 138, 140

- Procris and Cephalus, 417

- Procopius, 160

- Progymnasmata aliquot Poemata, 392

- Prolusions, by E. Capel, 136

- Promos and Cassandra, 484

- Promptuarie of Medicine, by Borde, 77

- Prosopopeia Basilica, a Latin Poem, by Bolton. 279

- Proverbes, &c. by John Heywood, 91, 343

- Proverbs of Lopez de Mendoza, by Googe, 458

- Proverbes, Exposition on the, by Th. Willson, 345

- Prynne, Wil iam, 314, 464

- Psalms of David, translated

- by Lord Surrey, 26, 166

- by Wyat, 39, 166, 181

- into French Rymes by Clement Marot, 162, 163, 164, 165, 167

- by R. Wisdome, 170

- by King James I. 173

- by William Hunnis, 180

- by John Keeper, 186

- by John Hall, 181

- by Francis Seagar, 181

- by Archbishop Parker, 181, 186

- by Crowley, 187

- by John Mardiley, 194

- into a short Hebrew Metre by Etheredge. 284

- into English Meter, by Sir William Forrest, 313

- into English Prose, by Christopher Carlile, 450

- by Anonymus Authors, 182, 186

- Psalms of David,

- versifyed by Thomas Norton, 169

- fitted to Tunes by William Slatyer, 144

- versifyed by Sternhold and Hopkins, 161, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 185, 189, 191

- Metrical Translation of, by Lucas Shepherd, 316

- Treatise in Meter on the 119th, by Miles Hogard, 319

- Exposition on the, by Drant, 429

- Exposition on the, by Thomas Wilson, 345

- Seven, reduced into Meter by Will. Hunnys, 370

- Four First, Englished in Latin Measures by Rd. Stanyhurst, 399

- the Ninety-fourth, paraphrased by Lord Morley, 86

- Psalter, by A. Golding, 414

- Psyche and Cupid, Play of, 288

- Pullayne, John, 316, 317

- Punt, William, Ballad• made against Pope and Popery, by, 320

- Puttenham, 44, 50, 96, 213, 277, 285, 291, 293, 335, 400, 415, 426

- Pygmalion's Image, by Marston, 272, 417

- Pygmalion, Ballet of, 417

- Pymlico, or run away Red Cap, 280

- Pyramus and Thybe, 417

- Pythias and Damon, Play of, 284, 289

Q

- Queens, Masque of, by Ben Johnson, 129

- Quintil, 351

- Quintilian, translated, 336, 338

R

- Rainolde, Richard, 345, 346

- Raleigh, Sir Walter, 276, 278, 438

- Randolph, Thomas, 418

- Rape of Helen, by Marlowe, 433

- Rape of Lucrece, 416

- Raphael, 159

- Rattlesden, or Bloomefield, William, 84, 85

- Raydon; i. e. Roydon, Matthew, 281

- Recreations on Adam's Banishment, in Verse, by W. Hunnis, 180

- Redford, John, Organist of St. Paul's, a celebrated Musician, 298

- Red-Cappe, Mother, her Last Will and Testament, 484

- Refutation of Heywood's Apology for Actors, 289

- Register of York Cathedral, 302

- Resurrection of Lazarus, an Interlude, by John Bale, 78

- Return from Parnassus, Play of the, 280, 436

- Reve of Totenham, 104

- Reulidge, Richard, 289

- Reynard the Fox, 73

- Reynholds, Henry, 41, 435. Thomas, 345, 346

- Rhetorick, System of, by Grimoald, 61

- Rhetoric, English, 331, &c.

- Rhodes, Hugh, the Boke of Nurtur for Men's Servants and Children, or of the Governance of Youth, by, 321

- Richard Coeur de Lyon, a Romance, 141, 347, 348

- Richard III History of, by Sir Thomas More, 329

- Richard III. Play of, 339, 361

- Richard III. Tragicall Report of, a Ballad, 339

- Rich, Barnaby, 482

- Richmond, Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, e. Poem on, by Lord Surrey, 26

- Rightwise, John, 435

- Robert de Brunne, 127

- Robin Hood, 290

- Robinson, Richard, 391. Clement, 391

- Rochford, Earl of, 41

- Rock of Regard, by Whetstone, 404

- Rogero and Rhodomont, Ariosto's Story of, translated from the French of Philip de Portes, by Gervis Markham, 485

- Romanus Egidius, 313

- Romeo and Juliet, Play of, 287, 471

- Romeus and Juletta, 471

- Rosa Rosalynd and Rosemary, Romance of, by Newton, 392

- Round Table, Order of the, 476

- Rowley, 290

- Roydon, Matthew, 281

- Rubric explained, 434

- Rufull Lamentation, a Poem, by Sir Thomas More, 99

- Rule of Life, or the Fifth Essence, by Bloomefield, 85

- Rythmi Elegantissimi, by George Boleyn, 43

S

- S. E. 484

- S. I. 384

- S. M. 285

- S. R. i. e. Robert Southwell, 402, 442

- S. W. 402

- Sachetti, 470

- Sackefull of Newes, 423

- Sackville, Thomas, Lord Buckhurst, 169, 210, 212, 221, 233, 264, 273, 277, 281, 285, 293, 355, 356, 362, 397

- Sacra Dramata, 458

- Sadler, John, 429

- Saint Catherine, Play of, 323

- Saint George, Play of, 327

- Saint Nicholas Day, 322, 325

- Saint Paul's Epistles, versified by John Hall, 181

- Saint Peter's Complaint, by Southwell, 277, 318

- Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, translated by Peend, 416; by Beaumont, 417

- Salomon, Kynge, a Ballad, 306

- Sandys, Lord, 155

- Sappho and Phao, Play of, by Lilly, 418, 420

- Saracens, Notable History of the, by Thomas Newton, 392

- Scaliger, 444

- School of Vertue and Book of Good Nurture, a Rhyming Manual, by Crowley, 188

- Schoole of Abuse, by Gosson, 288

- Schoolmaster, by Ascham, 331

- Scogan, 76

- Scoggin's Jests, 76, 475

- Scole House of Women, 142, 320, 423

- Scot, Dr. Cuthbert, Latin Elegy on, by Drant, 429

- Scots, Queen of, Mary, 56

- Scourge of Villanie, by Marston, 272

- Scourging of Tiplers, by Re•lidge, 289

- Scylla and Glaucus, 418

- Seagar, or Seagers, Francis, 181, 215, 267, 272

- Secrete of Secretes of Aristotle, translated by Copland, 313

- Seige of Tournay, by Minot, 148

- Seneca, 273, 290, 382, 386, 415, 417

- Sergeant and Freere, Mery Jeste of, by Sir Thomas More, 97, 98, 136

- Seton, John, 429

- Settle, Dennis, Voyage of, 404

- Seven Sobs of a Sorrowful Soule for Sin, by William Hunnis, 180

- Seven Steppes to Heaven, 370

- Seven Wise Men of Gotham, 475

- Sexton, Maister, the real Name of Patch, Cardinal Wolsey's Fool, 89

- Shadowe of Truth in Epigrams and Satires, 488

- Shakespeare, William, 45, 57, 67, 102, 108, 153, 265, 266, 267, 281, 287, 290, 293, 294, 295, 339, 361, 366, 393, 399, 416, 435, 447, 465, 471, 475, 478, 483, 494, 496, 499

- Sheffield, Edmund, Lord, 58

- Shelton, 26

- Shepherd, Lucas, 316

- Sheppard, 313

- Shepreve, John, 284

- Sherlock, Roger, 429

- Sherry, Richard, English Rhetoric, by, 345

- Shoemaker's Holyday, or the Gentle Craft, Play of, 430

- Shore, Jane, 215, 270, 280

- Short Resytal of certyne Holie Doctors, collected in Myter, by John Mardiley, 194

- Sibelet, Thomas, 350, 351

- Sidney. See Sydney.

- Similies and Proverbes, by Baldwyn, 212

- Similis, a Treasorie and Storehouse of, 486

- Simon the Leper, an Interlude, by John Bale, 78

- Simonides, the straunge and wonderfull Adventures of, by Barnaby Rich, 48•

- Sion's Muse, or the Poem of Poems, 318, 319

- Sir Bevis of Southampton, Romance of, 141, 142

- Sir Hugh of Bourdeux, Romance of, translated from the French by Lord Berners, 58

- Sir Peny, Romance of, 93, 94, 106

- Sir Thopas, Poem, by Chaucer, 35

- Sir Tristram and Bel Isoulde, Romance of, 420

- Siworix and Camma, 466

- Six Yeomen of the West, 430

- Skelton, John, 44, 74, 83, 200, 215, 270, 276

- Skotte, Cuthbert, 429

- Slatyer, William, certaine Psalms of David, fitted to Tunes, by, 144

- Smith, or Smyth, Sir Thomas, 450. Robert, 481. William, 402. Richard, 450

- Smithus, by Gabriel Harvey, 334

- Solinus, 414. Polyhistory of, translated by Golding, 414

- Solomon and Queen of Sheba, a Ballad, 307

- Solomon, Canticles or Songs of, versified by W. Baldwyn, 181, 212

- Solomon's Proverbes, translated into English Metre by John Hall, 181

- Solomon's Song, 317, 318, 451

- Somerset, Edw. Duke of, Expedition into Scotlande, by Wm. Patten, 213

- Somerset, Lord Protector, 198

- Sommers, William, 336, 337

- Somnium Scipionis, by Tully, 236

- Song of Songs, translated into English Meater, 317

- Sonnets by B. Googe, 450

- Sonnets by Henry Lock, 445

- Sonnets by Sackville, 273

- Sonnets by Turberville, &c. 286, 296, 355

- Sonnets by Watson, 433

- Southwell, Robert, 277, 318. Sir Richard, 299

- Spanish Library, 476

- Speculum Britanniae, by Norden, 76, 83

- Speed, 279

- Spence, 366

- Spencer, Edmund, 14, 51, 87, 233, 234, 239, 262, 276, 280, 281, 400, 406, 409, 421, 422, 436, 445, 447, 480, 498, 499

- Spicelegium of the Greek Tongue, by Edward Grant, 402

- Spider and the Flie, a Poem, by J. Heywood, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96

- Spiritual Agriculture, by Barnaby Googe, 458

- Spondanus, 444

- Stage of Popish Toyes, written by T. N. 370

- Stafford, Lord Henry, 216

- Stanbridge's Latin Prosody, 393

- Stanyhurst, Robert, 399, 400, 401, James, 399

- Stapylton, Richard, 402, 442

- Starkey, Oliver, 320

- Statius, 253

- Steevens, Henry, Epigrams of, translated by Kendall, 432

- Sternhold, Thomas, 39, 161, 166, 167, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 178, 181, 185, 189, 191, 314, 319, 441, 455

- Stoke Clare, College of, 183

- Stonehenge, 278

- Storehouse of Similies, 486

- Storer, Thomas, 281

- Stories of Men's Lives, 203

- Stowe, 291, 425

- Strype, John, 186, 191, 202, 204, 301, 326, 355

- Stubb's Anatomie of Abuses, 289

- Studley, John, 290, 383, 384, 417

- Suffolk, Henry, Duke of, 342

- Sundry Christian Passions in 200 Sonnets, by Lock, 445

- Supposes, a Comedy, by G. Gascoigne, 474

- Surfeit to A, B, C, by Dr. Philip King, 279

- Surrey, Lord, 2 to 9, 27, 57, 65, 70, 85, 166, 182, 273, 277, 281, 382, 415, 426

- Susannah, Book of, versified by Pullaine, 316

- Susanna, Play of, 328. Balad of, 287.

- Swi•t, Dean, 13

- Sydney, Sir P. 11, 169, 273, 277, 281, 363, 386, 414, 419, 421, 480, 496

- Sylva, by Drant, 429

- Sylvan, or Sylvain, Alexander, 482, 483

- Sylvester, John, 281

- Sylvius, Aeneas, 416

- Synesius, Greek Panegyric on Baldness, translated by Fleming, 404

- Syrinx, or a Seavenfold Historie, by Warner, 473

T

- T. C. 194

- T. R. i. e. Robert To•ts, 481

- Table of Aristotle's Ten Categories, by Googe, 458

- Tale of Two Swannes, a Poem in Blank Verse, by Wm. Vall•ns, 65

- Tales in Prose, set forth by Edwards, 293

- Tales, Utility of, 340

- Tallis, a Musician, 172, 194

- Tamberlain the Great, Play of, 392

- Taming of the Shrew, a Play, by Shakespeare, 294

- Tancred and Gismund, 376, 470

- Tanner, Bishop, 293, 425, 430, 450, 473

- Tarlton, Richard, 291, 345, 481

- Tasso, Torquato, 485, 499

- Taverner, John, 313

- Teares of the Muses, by Spenser, 409

- Te Deum, versified by Whyttingham, 168; by _____ , 182; by Forrest, 313

- Tempest, Play of the, 129, 435, 478

- Ten Commandments, versified by W. Whittingham, 168

- Terannye of Judge Apius, a Ballad, 416

- Terence, translated, 449

- Terence, And•ia of, Commentary on, by N. Grimoald, 60

- Terge, Golden, by Sir D. Lyndsay, 50

- Tesoretto, a Poem, by Brunetto Lattini, 237, 254

- Textor's Epigrams, translated by Kewdall, 432

- Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs, by Pullaine, 316

- Testwood, a Singer, 46

- Theatre of God's Judgements, 289, 437

- Theatrum Poetarum, by Phillips, 11, 392

- Thebais, by Newton, 391

- Theodore and Honoria, 468

- Thersytes, his Humours and Conceits, an Interlude, 445

- Theseid and Troilus, by Boccace, 464

- Theseus and Ariadne, excellent Historie of, 420

- Tholouse, the Erle of, Lay of the, 122

- Thomas, William, Italian Grammar, by, 464

- Three Bookes of Moral Philosophy, by W. Baldwyn, 212

- Three worthy Squires of Darius King of Persia, 328

- Three Laws, a Comedy, by John Bale, 198, 200

- Thyestes of Seneca, translated, 273

- Tiberius, Life of the Emperor, by Bolton, 278

- Tibullus, 408

- Timon of Athens, Play of, 153

- Terante the White, Romance of, 476

- Titerus and Galathea, Comoedie of, 406

- Titian, 159

- Titus Andronicus, Tragedy of, 485

- Titus and Gesippus, 468

- Tom of all Trades, by Thomas Powell, 426

- Tom Thumb, Origin of, 71

- Tottell, Richard, 28, 47, 60, 69

- Touchstone of Wittes, by Edward Hake, 275

- Touchstone for this Time present, by Edward Hake, 426

- Tournament of Tottenham, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106

- Toxophilus, by Ascham, 300, 329, 331

- Tragical Discourses, by Fenton, 478

- Tragical Tales, by Turberville, 475

- Tragical Treatises, by R. Tarleton, 481

- Treasorie of Similes, 486

- Trionli d'Amour of Petrarch, 463

- Trissino, 25

- Tristram, Sir, Romance of, 242

- Tristram, Sir, and Bel Isoulde, 420

- Tritameron of Love, 483

- Triumphs of reunited Britannia, 290

- Triumphs of Old Drapery, 290

- Troa• of Seneca, translated by Jasper Heywood, 290

- Troilus, History of, a Ballet, 417

- Troilus and Cressida, by Chaucer, 12, 57

- Troilus and Cressida, Play of, by Shakespeare, 57, 108

- Trojan War, by Iscanus, 61

- Trovar, Libro de la Arte de, o Gaya Sciencia, por Enrique de Villena, 349

- Troya, Belenguer de, 349

- Tully's Dream of Scipio, translated by Parker, Lord Morley, 86. See Cicero

- Tully's Offices, translated by N. Grimoald, 60

- Tully's Tusculane Questions, translated by I. Dolman, 215

- Tumblers, 303

- Turberville, George, 11, 57, 281, 286, 420, 421, 457, 472, 475, 476, 479, 481, 485. Thomas lege George, 420

- Turner, Dr. William, a Poem against the Papists, by, 188

- Tusser, Thomas, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310

- Twel•th Night, Comedy of, 287

- Twelve Patriarch•, Testament of, versified by Pullai•e, 316

- Two Gentlemen of Verona, Play of the, 345

- Two Synnes of King Davide, enterlude of the, 328

- Twyne, Thomas, 287, 396. John, 396. Lawrence, 396

- Tye, Dr. Christopher, 170, 190, 19•, 468

- Tye the Mare Tomboye, a Ballad, 418

- Tyndale's Bible, 203

V

- Vaghane or Vaughan, Robert, 106, 107

- Valerius Flaccus, 409

- Valla Laurentio, 61

- Vallans, William, 65, 66, 67

- Van Wilder, Philip, 301

- Vandenbright, Alexander, 483

- Vaulx or Vaux, Lord, 41, 43, 45, 57, 215

- Udall, Nicholas, 259, 298

- Vegetius's Tactics, English Version of, by Sadler, 429

- Verstegan's Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, 399

- Vindiciae Britanicae, by Bolton, 279

- Vineyard of Virtue, by Robinson, 391

- Violenta and Didaco, 422

- Virgil, 21 to 25, 209, 238, 278, 395, 396, 402, 403, 407, 415

- Eneid, Second and Fourth Books of, translated by Lord Surrey, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 278

- Eneid, Second Part of, translated by Sir Thomas Wroth, 404

- Eneid, translated by Phair, 395, 396 to 415

- Eneid, translated by Stanyhurst, 399, 400

- Bucolics, translated by Abraham Fleming, 25, 402

- Virgil's Bucolics, and Fourth Georgic, translated by Mr. Brinsly, 404

- Georgics, translated by Abraham Fleming, 25, 402, 403

- Georgics, translated by William Webbe, 405

- Georgics, paraphrased by Nicholas Grimoald, 60

- Alexis, translated by Abraham Fraunce, 405

- Culex, paraphrase on, by Edmund Spenser, 406

- Ceiris, or the Fable of Nisus and Scylla, a Poem, attributed to, 406, 407, 408

- Virgil, Polydore, 307

- Virginia and Appius, a poem, 415

- Virtue, Court of, 424

- Virtues and Vices, Battle between, by A. Fleming, 404

- Vive• Ludovicus, 294

- Underdown, Thomas, 419, 420

- Ungod•inesse of the Hethnicke Goddes, a Poem, by J. D. 314

- Union of the two Noble and Illustrious Families of York and Lancaster, by Hall, 214

- Untrussing of the Humorous Poet, Play of, by Dekker, 488

- Voice of the last Trumpet blown by the Seventh Angel, by Crowley, 187

- Voltaire, 177, 252, 253

- Voyage Liturgique, by Sieur Le Brun, 152

- Urania, a Romance, by Lady Mary Wroth, 444

- Use of Adagues, by W. Baldwyn, 212

W

- W. R. i. e. Robert Wilmot, 376, 466, 470, 482

- W. W. See William Warner

- Waller, Ed. 11, 16, 443

- Walpole, Horace, 4

- Walton, Isaac, Compleat Angler, by, 438

- Warner, William, 272, 277, 281, 449, 473

- Watkin's Ale, a Ballad, 292

- Watson, Thomas, 280, 281, 315, 400, 433

- Wayer, 423

- Waylings of the Prophet Hieremiah done into English Verse by T. Drant, 424

- Weathers, Enterlude of all maner of, 88

- Webbe, William, 44, 275, 276, 291, 376, 399, 400, 404, 414, 479

- Weede•, by George Gascoigne, 474

- Weever, John, 280, 281. William, 281

- Weever's Funeral Monuments, 81

- Welspring of Wittie Conceipts, translated out of the Italian by W. Phist, 308

- Wentworth, Lady, Poem on the Death of, 46

- Wever, R. 200

- Whetstone, George, 279, 289, 404, 483, 484

- Whipping of Runawaies, by Pe•owe, 434

- Whitgift, John, 488

- Whyttingham, William, 167, 168 172

- Whore of Babylon, a ballad on the Fall of the, 418

- Whore of Babylon, Comedy of the, 195

- Whyte, Nycholas, 409

- Wiat. See Wyat

- Wickliffe, 354

- Wil of Wit, by Nicholas Breton, 402

- Wilford, Sir James, Poem on the Death of, 46, 69

- Williams, R. 485. Henry, Poem on the Death of, 46. Sir John, 46

- Willow Garland, a Song, 287

- Wilmot, Robert, 376, 466, 470, 482

- Wilson, Thomas, 91, 291, 298, 331, 334, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 343, 344, 345, 353

- Wilton's Epitaphia, 432

- Windsor Castle, 12, 13

- Winsore, Miles, an Actor, 287

- Wisdome, Robert, 170

- Wit's Commonwealth, 290

- Wit's Treasury, by Meres, 213, 290, 345, 399, 433

- Wolsey, Cardinal, 146, 155, 158, 435

- Wood, Anthony, 28, 45, 72, 96, 167, 283, 293, 311, 425

- Woorkes of a Yong Witte, &c. by N. B. or Nicholas Breton, 485

- Wroth, Lady Mary, 444. Sir Thomas, 404

- Wyat, Sir Thomas, 10 to 18, 28, 38, 46, 57, 70, 166, 277, 281, 415

- Wyvyng and Thryvynge of Tushers, with two Lessons for Olde and Yonge, a Dialogue, 304

Y

- Ywain and Gawain, Romance of, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134

- Yelverton, Christopher, 274

- Young or Yong Bartholemew, 466

- Youthe, Charite and Humylite, 475

Z

- Zodiacus Vitae of Palingenius, 405, 449, 451, 466

- Zodiacke of Life, translated by B. Googe, 405, 449, 466

- Zorvas, an Egyptian Astronomer, Poem on the Death of, by Nicholas Grimoald, 63, 64, 65

INDEX TO THE GESTA ROMANORUM, PREFIXED TO THE THIRD VOLUME OF WARTON'S History of English Poetry.

- AELIAN, 58

- Aesopicae Anonymi Fabulae, 73

- Agrippa Cornelius, 21

- Ahasuerus and Ester, Romance of, 74

- Alanus de Lynne, 87

- Albione King of the Lombards, History of, 24. Tragedy by Davenant, 25

- Alexander, Romance of, 33, 39, 42, 43, 59

- Allexius, or Alexis, 11, 12, 13

- Alphonsus Peter, 6, 42, 66, 68, 69, 73, 74, 82, 94

- Amadis de Gaule, Romance of, 16, 96

- Amyot 20

- Amys and Amelion, 54

- Androclus, Story of, 40

- Andronicus Titus, 25

- Antiche Cento Novelle, 25, 49, 54, 58, 66, 84

- Antiochus, Story of, 4

- Antoine Marc La Vie et Fais de, et de sa mie Cleopatra, 20

- Appollonius of Tyre, Romance of, 4, 62, 63

- Appion, 40, 41

- Aquinas, Thomas, 74,

- Argus and Mercury, Story of, 51

- Ariosto, 16, 96

- Artstotle's Secretum Secretorum, 10, 19

- Aristotelem de Regina quae equitavit, 93

- Arthur King, Romance of, 80, 88

- Asmodeus King, 26

- Askew Dr. 69

- Atis and Porphilion, Romance of, 35

- Atalanta, Tale of, 27

- Aunfour le Romaunz de pere coment il aprist et chastia son fils belement, 6

- Austin Saint, his City of God, 58, 74

B

- Barlaam and Josaphat, Romance of, by Joannes Damascenus, 49, 51, 61, 68

- Belleforest, 3, 25

- Berchorius Petrus, or Pierre Bercheur, Author of the Gesta Romanorum, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93

- Bernard Saint, Legend of, 68

- Bible allegorised, 87

- Bibliae Moralizationes, 87

- Boccace, 2, 16, 25, 49, 50, 68, 81, 84, 92, 93, 94

- Boethius, 5

- Breviari d'Amor, by Eymegau de Bezers, 81

- Browne William, 56, 57

C

- Caesar Julius, Romance of, 20, 32

- Cacan or Cacanus, 23

- Calilah u Dumnah, 6, 55, 74

- Cambucas, by Vincent Beauvais, 39

- Canterbury Tales, 65

- Caxton, 2, 13, 14, 17, 22, 24, 50, 52, 62, 68, 69, 70

- Celestinus, 67

- Cendrata Ludovicus, 66

- Cent's Novelle Antiche, 25, 49, 54, 58, 66, 84

- Cervantes, 72,

- Cesarius, 82

- Chapman George, 3

- Charlemagne, 23

- Chaucer, 3, 6, 15, 38, 39, 47, 59, 65, 66, 69, 70, 74, 81, 83, 84, 93

- Chorle and the Bird, by Lidgate, 6

- Christine of Pisa, 52

- Chronica Novella, by Herman Korner, 7, 88

- Chronicle of St. Albans, 6

- Chronicon of St. Denis, 38

- City of God, by S. Austin, 58, 62, 74

- City of Ladies, Romance of the, 58

- Clericalis Disciplina, by Peter Alphonsus, 5, 6, 42, 68, 73, 82

- Conan and Rosmilla, 23

- Contemptu Mundi, by Pope Innocent the Third, 89

- Copland Robert, 63

- Cosmographie, by Heylin, 25, 90

- Court of Sapience, translated by Caxton, 2, 70

D

- Daemonologie, by James First, 37

- Damascenus Joannes, his Romance of Barlaam and Josaphat, 49, 61, 68

- Darius, Romance of, 56, 57, 78

- Davenant Sir William, 25

- Davie Adam, 33, 39, 43

- Decameron of Boccaccio, 2, •2

- Despauterius, 90

- Diaconus Paulus, 23

- Dialogues Divine, by Dr. Henry More, 31

- Diasconios Syr Libeaux, Romance of, 47

- Dictionarium Morale, by Berchorius, 87

- Dionysius, 22

- Discipulus, or Herolt John, 93, 94

- Ditmar, 47

- Doctrinale Metricum, by Berchorius, 87

- Doni, 55

- Dryden John, 25

- Dymock Roger, 65

E

- Edituus Hermanus, 90

- Edric, 6

- Edwards Richard, 69

- Elizabeth Queen, 90

- Emare, Lay of, 59, 75, 78

- Engelhus Conrade, 90

- Esop, Fables of, 1, 17, 73, 74

- Ester and Ahasuerus, a Romance, 74

- Eusebius, Chronica of, 58, 88

- Eymegau de Bezers, a Bard of Languedoc, 81

F

- Fabricius, 66

- Fais de Romains, 6

- Faguel Lady of, Romance of the, 25

- Farmer Dr. 4

- Fayttes of Armes and of Chivalrye, by Christine of Pisa. Translated by Caxton, 52

- Florence, History of, by Machiavel, 25

- Florentino Giovanni, 83

- Florio and Biancoflore, Adventures of, by Boccaccio, 81

- Florus, 6, 89

- Frankelein's Tale, by Chaucer, 15

- Froissart, 74, 76, 77

G

- Ganterus, 33

- Garin, French Romance of, 38

- Gaston, Earl of Foiz, 75

- Gerbert Pope, or Sylvester Second, 45, 46

- Gerelaus, 83

- Gervase of Tilbury, 64, 67, 88, 90

- Gesta Grayorum, 3

- Gesta Longobardorum, 18, 23

- Gesta Romanorum, Account of the Editions of, 4, 5, 6, 7, 82, 83

- Giles Goosecap, Comedy of, 3

- Gilbert King, 18

- Giron the Courteous, Romance of, 16

- Glassius Salomon, 86, 87

- Godfrey of Viterbo, 90

- Golden Legende, 50

- Gorgonius, 52

- Gower, 3, 7, 9, 22, 26, 37, 49, 55, 61, 65, 70, 83, 84

- Gregory of Tours, 76

- Guiccardini, 22

- Guido and Tirius, 71

- Guillaume, Prior of Chaulis, 69

- Guy Earl of Warwick, Romance of, 71

H

- Herbert Sir Philip, his Conceptions to his Son, 31

- Hermegild, 84

- Heroldus Joannes Basilius, 90

- Herolt John, 93, 94

- Histories Tragiques, by Belleforest, 3, 25

- Howel's Letter, 30

I

- Jacobus de Vitriaco

- Jacobus de Voragine, 13, 18

- James, King, the First, 37

- Jerusalem, Sege of, a Romance, 43

- Innocent, Pope 3rd, his Miserie of Human Nature, 89

- Johnson, Dr. 50

- Josephus, 66

- Julian, 14

- Jovinian, l'Empereur, L'Orgueil et Presomption de, an old French Moralite, 27

- Iris and Osiris, how the Egyptians deified, 19

- Isodore, 21

- Julius Caesar, Romance of, 20, 32

- Ivo, 90

- Justin, 68, 89

K

- Kalendrier des Bergers, 67

- Knyght of the Swanne, Romance of the, translated by Copland, 63

- Korner Herman, 7

L

- Lady of Faguel, Romance of the, 25

- Lancelot du Lake, Romance of, 16

- Lanfrane, 90

- Langius Paulus, 90, 91

- Lapus de Castellione, 7

- Launfal Syr, Romance of, 35, 38, 43, 54, 56, 63

- Legenda Aurea, translated by Caxton, 13, 14, 17, 51, 68

- Livy, 6, 7, 68, 89, 91

- Lucretia, Story of, 58

- Luther, Martin, 17

- Lycophron, 95

- Lydgate, 3, 6, 26, 69, 70

M

- Machiavel's History of Florence, 25

- Macrobius, 5, 22

- Malmsbury William of, 47

- Man of Law's Tale, by Chaucer, 84

- Mauffer Peter, 66

- Maundeville Sir John, Travels, 11

- Maximus Valerius, 21

- May-day, a Comedy, by George Chapman, 3

- Mazentius, 32

- Medro King, 58

- Merchant of Venice, Play of the, 49, 82

- Metrical Lives of the Saints, 11, 18, 50, 68

- Milton, 42, 79

- Mirabilia Romae, 26

- Mirror of History, by Vincent Beauvais, 1

- Mirrour for Magistrates, 4

- Miseries of Human Nature, or de Miseria Humanae conditionis, by Innocent the Third, 89

- Montaigne, 77

- Montfaucon, 20, 26

- Moralizationes Bibliae, 87

- More Dr. Henry, 31

- Mozarabes, or Missal of St. Isodore, 52

- Muratori, 21

- Mysteries, 17, 37

N

- Nangis Guillaume, 88

- Nevelet, 73

- North Sir Thomas, 20

- Nonnes Preestes Prologue, by Chaucer, 39

O

- Occleve, 56, 83, 84, 94

- Orosius, 89

- Otia Imperialia, by Gervase of Tilbury, 67

- Ovid, 65, 88, 92, 95. Commentary on, by Berchorius, 92

P

- Pallas, Discovery of the gigantic Body of, 88

- Paris Matthew, 55

- Parnell, 30, 94

- Paulus Diaconus, 23

- Pecorone of Ser Florentino Giovanni, 83

- Pelagyen, the Lyf of, 17

- Pelerin de l'Ame, by Guillaume, Prior of Chaulis, 69

- Pepin, 53, 54

- Perce Forest, Romance of, 16

- Periander of Corinth, 62

- Pfinzing Melchior, Romance of Teurdank, 23

- Phebus de deduiz de la Chasse des Bestes Sauvages et des Oyseaux de proye, 21

- Philip of Macedon, a Romance, 57

- Philologiae Sacrae, by Glassius, 86

- Piso, 59

- Placidus or Placidas, the Life of, 51

- Plistonices or Appion, 40

- Pliny, 5, 20, 21, 32

- Polonus Martinus, 90

- Pompey of a Daughter of King, whose Chamber was guarded by five armed Knights and a Dog, 8

- Pope Alexander, 31

- Porphilion and Ati•, Romance of, 35

- Possevin, 16

- Primalcon, Romance of, 16

- Prodigal Son, 9

- Pylgrimage of the Sowle, by Caxton, 69

- Pilgrimage of the World, 70,

R

- Record of Ancient Hystories, 83

- Reductorium Morale, by Berchorius, 87

- Repertorium Morale, by Berchorius, 87

- Rinucinus Alamanus, 64, 74

- Robert of Gloucester, 79

- Robert of St. Victor, 90

- Robert King of Sicily, Poem of, 27

- Romaunt of the Ro•e 38, 81, 96

- Rome, the Stacions of, a Romance, 26

- Romeo and Juliet, Play of, 76

- Romuleon, or des Fais de Romains, 6, 7, 89

- Romulus, 73

- Rosmilla and Conan, 23

- Rucellai Giovanni, 25

- Rudimentum Novitiorum, 74

- Rymer, 77

S

- Saint Alban's Chronicle, 6

- Saint Austin, 58, 74

- Saints, Metrical Lives of the, 11, 18, 50, 68

- Sapience, laberous and marveylous Worke of, 70. Court of, 2, 70

- Salmeron, 87

- Scotus Marianus, his Epitaphia joco seria, 90

- Scientiarum de Vanitate, 21

- Secretum Secretorum of Aristotle, 8, 10, 19

- Sege of Jerusalem, Romance of the, 44

- Seneca, 5, 59

- Sermones de Sanctis, 94

- Sermones Quadragesimales, 94

- Seth Simeon, 55, 59

- Shakespeare, 20, 25, 49, 50, 76, 82, 83

- Shepherd's Pipe, by W. Browne, 56, 57

- Speculum Historiale, by Vincent Beauvais, 11, 49, 59, 61

- Spenser, Edmund, 44, 96

- Solinus, 90

- Sompnour's Tale, by Chaucer, 59

- Stacions of Rome, Romance of, 26

- Swanne, Knyght of the, a Romance, 63

- Sweertius, 91

- Swift Dean, 32

- Sylvester the Second, 45

- Syr Launfal, Romance of, 35, 38, 43, 54, 56, 63

- Syr Libeaux Diasconio• Romance of, 47

- Syr Tryamore, Romance of, 84

T

- Tale of two Marchants of Egypt and Bagdad, by Lidgate, 69

- Tale of a Tub, by Swift, 32

- Tankarville, le Comte de, 21

- Tanner Bishop, 4

- Theagenes and Chariclea of Heliodorus, translated into French by Amyot, 20

- Theocritus, 37

- Thomas of Elmhan, 74

- Tito and Gesippo, 68, 69, 94

- Titus Andronicus, by Shakespeare, 25

- Tristan, Romance of, 16

- Trogus Pompeius, 68, 69

- Trophologia, 90

- Troy Book, 65

- Tryamore Sir, Romance of, 84

- Tuerdank, a Romance in German Rhymes, 23

- Tumbeley Robert, 65

- Turpin, 54, 65

- Tyrwhitt, 66, 67, 92

V

- Valerius Maximus, 5

- Vanitate Scientiarum, 21

- Vere Guido, Bishop of Trevoly, 10

- Vespasian, 10

- Vincent of Beauvais, 1, 9, 15, 25, 39, 49, 54, 59, 61, 74, 86

- Virgil the Nicromancer, History of, 25 83

- Virgin Mary, Li• of, by Lidgate, 69, 70. Miracles of, 94

- Voragine Jacobus de, 18

- Vossius, 64

W

- Waley's Thomas, 65. John, 95

- Westfalia John de, 4

- William of Malmsbury, 45, 88

- Witte H. his Diarum Biographicum, 86

X

- Ximenes Cardinal, 53

- Yvan of Leschell, 75

Z

- Zeiner Joannes de Reutlingen, his Moralizationes Bibliae, 87

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