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Text. Milton Areopagitica . . . . e 1644

Latimer The Ploughers . . • I 549 GOSSon The School of Abuse I 579 Sidney An Apology for Poetry . ? 158o

Travels • • • E. Webbe • I 590

Selden Table Talk • • • • . 1634-54 Ascham Toxophilus • • - • I 544 Addison Criticism on Paradise Lost . I7II-I2

| Lyly EU PHUES • • . I579-80

IO. Williers The Rehearsal . - • 1671

Gascoigne The Steel Glass, etc. - • • 1576

I2. Earle Micro-cosmographie • • • I628 I3. Latimer 7 Sermons before Epiva Rp VI. 1549

I4. More Utopia . • • • . I 516-57 I5. Puttenham The Art of English Poesy I589 I6. HOWell Instructions for Foreign Travel • I642

I7. TJdall Rotster Dogsfer • . I553-66 I8. Mk. Of Eves. II86-I4Io The Revelation, etc. . - I9. James I. A Counterblast to Tobacco, etc. 1604 2O. Naunton Fragmenta Regalia . I653

2I. Watson Aoems . • - • . I 582-93

Habington CASTARA e • o 1640

23. Ascham The Schoolmaster • • I570

24. Tottel's Miscellany [Songs and Sonnets] • I 557

25. Lever Sermons . • • • • I550

26. W. Webbe A Discourse of English Poetry • 1586 27. Lord Bacon A Harmony of the Essays 1597-1626 28. Roy, etc. Read me, and be not wroth / 1528 29. Raleigh, etc. Last Fight of the “Revenge’ I59 I 3O. Googe Eglogues, Epitaphs, and Sonnets 1563

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I. 2. 3. JOH HUGH STEPHEN MILTON. LAT IM ER. GOS SON Ex-Bishop of Worcester. Stud. Oxon.

Areopagitica, The The School Of Abuse. 1644. Ploughers. I549. I579.

(a) AREOPAGITICA: A notable Sermon (a) The Schoole of A Speech of Mr. JoHN of ye reuerende father Abuse. Conteining MILTON For the Master HUGHE a pleasaunt inuective Liberty of Vnlicenc'd LATIMER, whiche he against Poets, Pipers, Printing, To the Par £reached in ye Shrouds Platers, /esters, and liament of England. at paules churche in such like Caterpillers (5) A Decree of Starre Jondon on the xviii. of a Common wealth; #Chamber, concerning Print daye of Januarye. Setting zip the Flagge * £ the eleuenth of uly last past, 1637. of Defiance to their (c) An Order # the Lords and Commons assembled in SIR. R. MoRIsoN. Did there mischieuous exercise, Parliament for the Regulat ever any one (I say not in and ouerthrowing ing of Printing, &c. 1643. England only, but among other RD Macaulay. He at nations) flourish since the their Bulwarkes, by tacked the licensing system time of the Apostles; who in that sublime treatise which preached the gospel more sin Prophane Writers, every statesman should wear cerely, purely, and honestly, AVaturall reason and as a sign upon his hand, and than HUGH LATIMER, Bishop as frontlets between his eyes. of Worcester. - Aponaxis common experience. Calumniarum . . ouibus - Edinburgh Review, p. 344, I579. A # 1825. JoANNES Coclavs &“c., f. . HALLAM. Many pas 78. Ed. 1537. sages in this famous tract are (b) An Apologie of admirably eloquent: an in the Schoole of Abuse, tense love of liberty and truth It was in this Sermon, that flows through it: the majestic LATIMER (himself an ex against Poets, Pipers, soul of Milton breathes such Bishop) astonished his gener Players, and their high thoughts as had not been ation, by saying that the Devil Excusers. [Dec.] uttered before.—Introduction was the most diligent Prelate to the Literature of Europe, and Preacher in all England. I579. iii. 660. Ed. 1839. “Ye shal neuer fynde him ‘. This attack is thought W. H. PREScott. The idle I warraunte you.” to have occasioned Sir Philip most splendid argument, per haps, the world had then SIDNEY's writing of the follow witnessed on behalf of in ing Apologie for Poesie. tellectual liberty.—History of Gosson was, in succession, FERDINANDandisABELLA, Poet, Actor, Dramatist, Satir iii. 391. Ed. 1845. ist, and a Puritan Clergyman. English Reprints. II

4. 5. 6. Sir PHILIP EDWARD JOHN SIDNEY. WEBBE. SELDEN. A Chief Master Gunner.

An Apology TravelS. Table Talk. for Poetry. I590. [1634-1654.] [? 1580.]

An Apologie for The rare and most Table Talk : being Poetrie. Written by vvonderful thinges the Discourses of JoHN the right noble, vertu zohich EDWARD SELDEN, Esq., or his ous, and learned Sir WEBBE an English Sence of various Mat PHILIP SIDNEY, man borne, hath seene ters of weight and high A night. 1595. and passed in his consequence, relating troublesome trauailes, H. W. LoNGFellow. The especially to Religion defence of Poetry is a work in the Citties of Jer and State. 1689. of rare merit. It is a golden tasalem, Damasko, Be littlevolume,which the scholar S.T. ColeRIDGE. There is may lay beneath his pillow, as thelem and Galely : more weighty bullion sense in Chrysostom did the works and in all the landes this book than I ever found in of AristoPHANES. - North the same number of pages of American Review, p. 57. of Jewrie, Egipt, any uninspired writer. . . . Ol January 1832. to have been with SELDEN Grecia, Russia, and over his glass of wine, making in the Land of every accident an outlet and a The Work thus divides itself: vehicle of wisdom.–Literary The Etymology of Poetry. Prester John. Remains, iii. 361-2. Ed. 1836. The Anatomy of the Effects of Poetry. Wherein is setfoorth H. HALLAM. This very The Anatomy of the Parts his extreame slauerie short and small volume gives, of Poetry. perhaps, a more exalted notion Objections to Poetry an sustained many yeres of SelDEN's natural talents swered. togither, in the Gallies than any of his learned writ Criticism of the existing ings. - Introduction to the English Poetry. and wars of the great Literature of Europe, iii. 347. Turk against the Ed. 1836. Landes of Persia, Tar taria, Spaine, and Rortugall, with the Above all things, Liberty? manner of his release ment and coming to England. [1590.] I 2 English Reprints.

7. 8. 9. ROGER JOSEPH JOHN LYLY, A/ovelist, Wit, Poet, ASCHAM. ADDISON. and Dramatist.

Toxophilus. Criticism. On Eup hues. Paradise Lost. I544. 1579-1580. 1711-1712.

From the Spectator, being Toxophilus, the its Saturday issues between EUPHVES, the An Schole of Shootinge, 1 December, 1711, and 3 atomy of Wit. Very ay 1712. In these papers, conteyned in two which constitute a Primer Pleasant for all Gentle bookes. to Paradise Lost, ADDISON men to reade, and most first made known and inter To all Gentlemen preted, to the general English necessary to remember. public, the great Epic poem, VWherein are con and yomen of Eng which had then been published lande, pleasaunte for nearly half-a-century. teined the delights that theyr pastime to rede, Wit followeth in his and profitable for theyr youth, by the pleasant use to follow both in After a general discussion nesse of loue, and the of the Fable, the Characters, awar and peace. the Sentiments, the Lan happinesse he reapeth guage, and the Defects of MILTON's Great Poem; the in age by the perfect In a dialogue between Critic devotes a Paper to the nesse of Wisedome. To YOPHILUs and PHIEO consideration of the Beauties Eocus, ASCHAM not only of each of its Twelve Books. I579. gives us one of the very best EUPHUES and his books on Archery in our language; but as he tells England. Contain King Henry VIII, in his ing his voyage and ad Dedication, “this litle treatise was purposed, begon, and wentures, myxed with ended of me, onelie for this intent, that Labour, Honest sundry pretie dis pastime, and Vertu might courses of honest Loue, recouer againe that place and right, that Idlenesse, Un the description of the thriftie Gaming, and Vice countrey, the Court, hath put them fro.” and the manners of that Isle. 158o. Of great importance in our Literary History.

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IO. II. 12. GEORGE GEORGE JOHN VILLIERS, GASCOIG NE, E A R L E, Soldier and Poet. Second Duke of BUCK. After wards Bishop of JNGHAM. SALISBURP. The The Steel Microcosmo. ReheaPSal. Glass, &c. graphie. 1671. 1576. 1628.

The Rehearsal, as it (a) A Remembraunce Micro-cosmographie, was Acted at the of the wel imployed or a Peece of the Theatre Royal. life, and godly end, of World discovered, in GEORGE GASKoIGNE, Essays and Many of the passages of Esquire, who deceassed Characters. anterior plays that were paro died in this famous Dramatic at Stalmford in Lin Satire on DRYDEN in the char coln shire, the 7 of This celebrated book of acter of BA YES, are placed Characters is graphically de on opposite pages to the text. October, 1577. The scriptive of the English social BRIAN FAIRfax's remarkable reporte of GEOR. life of the time, as it pre life of this Duke of BUCKING sented itself to a young Fellow HAM is also prefixed to the WHETSTONs, Gent. of Merton College, Oxford; play. [1577.] including A She precise Hypo There is only one copy of crite, A Sceptic in Religion, The Heroic Plays, first intro this metrical Life. It is in A good old man, &c. duced by Sir W. D'AvenANT, the Bodleian Library. and afterwards greatly de This Work is a notable veloped by DRYDEN, are the (b) Certayne notes specimen of a considerable object of this laughable attack. of instruction concern s of books in our Litera LACY, who acted the part of ture, full of interest; and AA YES, imitated the dress ing the making of verse which help Posterity much and gesticulation of DRYDEN. or ryme in Eng better to understand the The Poetrepaid this compli Times in which they were ment to the Duke of BuckinG lish. 1575. written. HAM, in 1681, by introduc This is our First printed ing him in the character of piece of Poetical Criticism. 21MRI in his ABSOLoM and ACHITOPHE 5. (c) The Steele Glas. Written in Blank Verse. Probably the fourth printed English Satire: those % BAR cLAY, Roy, and Sir T. WYATT being the three earlier ones. (d) The Complaynt of PHILOMENE. An Elegie. 1576. I4 English Reprints.

13. I4. HUGH I 5. Sir THOMAS GEORGE LATIMER, MORE. *Bishop of Wor CESTER. PUTTEN

HAM, 4 Gentleman Pensioner to Queen 4: LIZABETH. Seven Ser 7 ranslation of The Art In OnS before Utopia. of English Edward VI. 1516-1557.

1549. Poesy. 1589. Z%e/yrste [-reuenth] 4 frutefull and | The Arte of Anglish Sermon of Maysle; Akasaunt worke of the Aoeste. HUGHE LATIMER, best state of a £ublique Contriued into three %iche he preached *éale, and of the new before the Á:yages £ookes : The first of 3% called Utopia: POETs and PoESIE, 4Maiestie wythin his PWritten in Zatine $?aces £alayae at West the second of PRO minster on each £y Sir THOMAS MoRE PORTION, the thiray Anyght, and trans of ORNAMENT. Ariday in Zent. dated into Anglyshe 1549. W. OLDvs. It contains £yRALPH Robynson. many pretty observations, examples, characters, and Lord CAMPBELL. Since the Sir JAMEs MACKINTosh. time of PLATO, there had been fragments of poetry for those LATIMER, . . brave, sincere, no composition given to the times, now nowhere else to be honest, inflexible, not distin: world which, for imagination, met with. – Sir WAzz-Ex AALEIGH, liv. Ed. 1736. £wrigorasch.i. for philosophical discrimina. * 5xercising his power over tion, for a familiarity with the O. GILCHRIST. On many men's minds by a fervid elo principles of government, for accounts one of the most Quence flowing from the deep a knowledge of the springs of curious and entertaining, and human action, for a keen ob. £nviction which animated # intrinsically one of the most £ pithy, and free-spoken servation of men and manners, valuable, £ of the age 'mons-History of 2ng and for felicity of expression, of QUEEN ElizaBETH. The "and, ii. 291.3% 1831. Gould be compared to the copious intermixture of con £opia-Lives of the Lord temporary anecdote, tradition, Chancellors (Life of Sir 7. manners, opinions, and the AMore) i. 583, E3, 1845. numerous specimens of coeval Poetry nowhere else preserved, In the imaginary country of contribute to form a volume Utopia, More endeavours to of infinite amusement, curios sketch out a State based upon ity, and Value. - Censura two principles—(1) community £iteraria, i. 339. Ed. 1805. of goods, no private property; and consequently (2) no use This is still also an import for money. #it book on Rhetoric and the Figures of Speech. English Reprints. I5 18. 17. I6. A Monk of NICHOLAS JAMES Evesham. HOWELL, UDALL, Master, first of Eton College, Clerk of the Council to then of Westminster School. CHARLES H.; afterwards Historiographer to CHARLES II. The Revela InStructionS ROister DOister. tion, &c. for Foreign 1186-141ol. 1485. Travel. [1553-1566.]

1642. This is believed to be the "I Here begynnyth Instructions for first true English Comedy a maruelous reuelacion that ever came to the press. forreine travell. Shew From the unique copy, that was schewyd of which wants a title-page, now almighty god by sent ing by what cours, and at Eton College; and which in what compasse of is thought to have been printed AVycholas to a monke time, one may take an in 1566. of Euyshamme yn the exact Survey of the days of Kynge Richard Dramatis Personae. the fyrst. And the Kingdomes and States RALPH Rolster Doister. of Christendome, and MATTHEw MERRYGREEK. yere of owre lord. GAwIN GooDLUCK, affianced AM. C. Cazz:xvi. arrive to the prac to Dame CUSTANCE. ticall knowledge of TRISTRAMTRUSTY, his/riend. DobinET DougHTY, “boy” to the Languages, to Roister DoisTER. One of the rarest of English ToM TRUEPENNY, servant to books printed by one of the good purpose. Aame CUSTANCE. earliest of English printers, SIM SURESBY, servant to WILLIAM DE MACLINIA; who The MURRAP, BAEDEKER, printed this text about 1485, and Practical Guide to the GooDLuck. in the lifetime of CAATON. Grand Tour of Europe, which, Scrivener. The essence of the storv is at that time, was considered Aaróax. as old as it professes to be; the finishing touch to the Dame CHRISTIAN CUSTANCE, but contains later additions, complete education of an a widow. the orthography being of English Gentleman. MUMBLECRust, about 1410, It is very de MARGERY and contains a her nurse. voutly written, The route sketched out by TiBET #} her curious Vision of Purgatory. thisdelightfully quaint Writer, ANNoTALYFACE * maidens The Writer is a prototype of is France, Spain, Italy, Swit. BUNYan; and his description zerland, Germany, the Nether of the Gate in the Crystal lands, and Holland. The Wall of Heaven, and of the time allowed is 3 years and 4 months: the months to be solemn and marvellously sweet Peal of the Bells of Heaven spent in travelling, the years that came to him through it, in residence at the different is very beautiful. cities. I6 English Reprints.

I9. 2O. 2I. JAMES I. Sir ROBERT THOMAS NAUNTON, WATSON, Master of the Court of Wards. Londoner, Student-at-Law.

A COUnter Fragmenta POenns. blast to Regalia. 1582-1593. Tobacco. 1653. 1604. (a) The Essayes of Aragmenta A'e (a) The #xarouradia a Prentise, in the galia: or Observations or Passionate Cen Diuine Arte of on the late Queen turie of Loue, Aoesie. ELIZABETH, her Liuided into two Printed while JAMEs VI. Times and Parts : whereof, the of Scotland, at Edinburgh in Aavourites. 1585; and includes Ane first expresseth the Schort treatise, conteining [1630.] Authours sufferance in some Reulis and Cautelis to be obseruit and eschewit in Loue: the latter, his Scottis Poesie, which is an Naunton writes: long farewell to other very early piece of “And thus I have delivered Loue and all his printed Poetical Criticism. up, this my poor Essay; a little Draught of this great tyrannie. 1582. (b) A Counterblaste Princess, and her Times, with the Servants of her State and (b) MELIBGEUs, to Zobacco. 1604. favour.” To this text has been added Siue Ecloga in obitum a full account of the Introduc Aonoratissimi Virt tion and Early use of Tobacco Domini FRANCISCI in England. The herb first came into use in Europe as a WALSINGHAMI. 1590. medicinal leaf for poultices: smoking it was afterwards (c) The same trans learnt from the American Indians. lated into English, by the Author. 1590. Our Royal Author thus sums up his opinion: (d) The Tears of “A custome lothsome to the Aancie, or Loue dis eye, hatefull to the nose, harmefull to the braine, dan dained. 1593. gerous to the lungs, and in From the unique copy, the blacke stinking fume wanting Sonnets 9-16, in the thereof, nearest resembling possession of S. CHRISTIE the horrible Stigian smoke of MILLER, Esq., of Britwell. the pit that is bottomlesse.” English Reprints. 17 22. 23. 24. WILLIAM ROGER HENRY HOWARD, Earl of SURREP. H A B ING ASCHAM. Sir THOMAS WYATT. TO N. NIC HOLAS G R IMALD. Lord VAU X.

Castara. The School TOttel'S 1640. ImaSter. Miscellany. I570. 5 June, 1557.

CASTARA. The third The Scholemaster, Songes and Sonettes, Adition. Corrected or plaine and perfite vwritten by the right and augmented. way of teachyng chil honorable Lorde dren, to vnderstand, HENRY HOWARD CASTARA was Lady Lucy write, and speake, in late Earle of HERBERT, the youngest child of the first Lord Powis; and Latin tong, but spe SURREY, and other. these Poems were chiefly cially purposed for the marks of affection during a pure courtship followed by a £riuate brynging zip With 39 additional Poems happy marriage. With these, from the second edition by the of youth in Mentlemen Same #" # are also Songs of Friendship, especially those referring to and AVoble mens TEL: of 31 July, 1557. the Hon. GEORGE TALBoT. This celebrated Collection In addition to these Poems, houses, &c. is the First of our Poetical there are four prose Char Miscellanies, and also the first acters; on A Mistress, A This celebrated Work con appearance in print of any Wife, A Priend, and The tains the story of Lady JANE considerable number of Eng Aoly Man. lish Sonnets. GREY's delight in reading ToTTEL in his Address to PLATO, an attack on the the Reader, says: Italianated Englishman of “That to haue wel written the time, and much other in formation not specified in the in verse, yea and in small par above title. celles, deserueth great praise, In it, ASCHAM gives us very the workes of diuers Latines, fully his plan of studying Italians, and other, doe proue Languages, which may be sufficiently. That our tong is described as the double trans able in that kynde to do as praiseworthely as ye rest, the dation of a model book. honorable stile of the noble earle of Surrey, and the weightinesse of the depe witted Sir Thomas Wyat the elders verse, with seuerall graces in Sondry good Eng lishe writers, doe show abun dantly.” 18 English Reprints.

25. 26. 27. Rev. THOMAS WILLIAM FRANCIS LEVER, WEBBE, BACON, Rellow and Preacher of St Graduate. afterwards Lord VERULAM John's College, Cambridge. Viscount ST ALBANS.

SermonS. A Discourse A Harmony Of the I55o. of English Poetry. Assays, &c. 1586. 1597-1626. And after my manner, I (a) A fruitfull Ser A Discourse of alter ever, when I ada. So mon in Paules church English Poetrie. To that nothing is finished, til/ FRANcis in the all be finished.—Sir at London getherwith the Authors BAcon, 27 Feb. 1610-[11.] Shroudes. iudgement, touching (a) Essayes, Re the reformation of ligious Meditations, (b) A Sermon our English the fourth and Places of per preached Verse. swasion and disswa Sunday in Lent before ston, 1597. the Kynges Maiestie, Another of the early pieces and his honorable of Poetical Criticism, written (b) The Writings in the year in which SHAKE of Sir FFRANCIS Counsell. SPEARE is supposed to have left Stratford for London. BACON Knight the (c) A Sermon Only two copies of this Work are known, one of these Ringes Sollicitor preached at Paul's was sold for £64 Generall in Moralitie, Crosse. This Work should be read Aolicie, Historie. 155o. with STANYHURST's Trans lation of Æneid, I.- IV., 1582, (c) The Essaies of see p. 64. ... WEBBE was an Sir FRANCIS BACON These Sermons are reprinted advocate of English Hexa from the original editions, meters; and here translates Anight, the Kings extreme rarity. VIRGIL's first two Eglogues Solliciter Generall. which are of them. He also translates They throw much light on the into communistic theories of the into Sapphics, CoLIN's Song 1612. Norfolk rebels; and the one in the Fourth Eglogue of at Paul's Cross contains a SPENSER's Shephard's Cat (d) The Essayes curious account of Cambridge endar. or Counsells, Civil/ University life in the reign of Edward VI. and Moral/of FRANCIS Lord VERULAM, Vis countST.ALBAN. 1625. English Reprints. I9

28. 29. 3O. WILLIAM Sir WALTER BARNABE RALEIGH. R.O.Y. GERVASE GOOGE. JEROME MARKHAM. J. H. v.AN LIN BAR LOW. SCHOTEN. Aºranciscan Friars. Read me, The Last Eglogu eS, and be not Fight of the Epitaphs, WrOth I “Revenge.” and Sonnets. [1528]. I59I: 1563. (a) Rede me and be mott (a) A Report of the Eglogs, Epytaphes, wrothe, Aror I saye no thynge but towth of the fight about and Sonettes Newly trothe. the Iles of Acores, this written by BARNABE A zwill ascende makynge my last la Sommer. Be GOOGE. state so hye, That my pompous honoure twixt the REUENGE, dye. shall never one of her Maiesties Three copies only known. O Caytye when thou thynkest Reprinted from the Huth least of all, Shippes, and an MVith confusion thou shalt *: n the prefatory Wotes haze a fall. ARMADA of the King of the Life and Writings of This is the famous satire on of Spaine. B. GOOGE, will be found an Cardinal Wolsey, and is the account of the trouble he had First English Protestant book [By Sir W. RALEIGH.] in winning MARY DARELL for ever printed, not being a por his wife. tion of Holy Scripture. See £. 22 for the Fifth such book. (b) The most honor. A new Literature generally The next two pieces form Tragedie of Sir begins with imitations and one book, printed by HANs able translations. When this book LUFT, at Marburg, in 1530. RICHARD GRINUILE, first appeared, Translations (b) A proper dya Knight. 1595. were all the rage among the loge, betwene a “young England” of the day. [By GERVASE MARKHAM.] This Collection of original Gentillman and a Occasional Verse is therefore the more noticeable. The /husbandman, eche com (c) [The Fight and Introduction gives a glimpse of the principal Writers of the playnynge toothertheir Cyclone at the Azores. time, such as the Authors of miserable calamite, By JAN HuygHEN van the Mirror for Magistrates, LINschoten.] the Translators of SENECA's through the ambicion Tragedies, &c., and including of the clergye. Several accounts are here such names as BALDwin, given of one of the most extra BA v A.N DE, BLUNDEston, (c) A compendious ordinary, Sea fights in our NEvillE, North, Norton, old treatyse, shewynge, Naval History. SACKviLLE, and YELVERT.on. how that we ought to haue the scripture in Englysshe. 2O Works in the Old Spelling. The English Scholar's Library. 16 Parts are now published, in Cloth Boards, £2, 1s. Any part may be obtained separately.

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Translation of THE FIRST A HANDFUL REYNARD BLAST OF THE OF PLEASANT THE FOX. TRUMPET,&C. DELIGHTS. 1481. 1558. 1584. [ColoFHoN.] I (a) The First Blast A Handefull of haue not added me of the Trumpet against Pleasant delites, Con mynusshed but haue the monstrous Regi taining sundrie new folowed as nyghe as I ment of Women. Sonets and delectable can my copye which (b) The Propositions Aistories, in diuers tvas in dutche/ and by to be entreated in the kindes of Meeter. me WILLIAM CAXTON Second BLAST. AVewly deuised to the translated in to this newest tunes that are This work was wrung out rude and symple en of the heart of JoHN KNox, now in vse, to be sung: while, at Dieppe, he heard of glyssh in th [e] abbey the martyr fires of England, euerie Sonet orderly of westmestre. and was anguished thereby. pointed to his At that moment, the liberties Interesting for its own sake; of Great Britain, and therein proper Tune. but especially as being trans the hopes of the whole World, lated as well as printed by lay in the laps of four women With new additions of CAxton, who finished the -MARY of Loraine, the Re certain Songs, to verie printing on 6 June 1481. gent of Scotland; her daugh The Story is the History of ter MARY (the Queen of late deuised Notes, not the Three fraudulent Escapes Scots); Queen , MARY TU commonly knowen, nor of the Fox from punishment, DOR; and the Princess ELIZA the record of the Defeat of BETH. vsed heretofore. Justice by flattering lips and The Volume was printed at dishonourable deeds. It also Geneva. shows the struggle between OPHELLA quotes from A the power of Words and the (c) KNox's apolo Mosegaie &c. in this Poetical power of Blows, a conflict be getical Defence of his Miscellany; of which only tween Mind and Matter. It one copy is now known. was necessary for the physi FIRST BLAST, &C. to It also contains the earliest cally weak to have Eloquence: Queen ELIZABETH. text extant of the Ladie the blame of REYNARD is in Greensleeues, which first ap # frightful misuse he makes I559. peared four years previously. of it. This is # Third printed The author says, “There Poetical Miscellany in our is in the world much seed left language. of the Fox, which now over all groweth and cometh sore up, though they have no red beards.” 22 The English Scholar's Library.

4. 5. 6. [Simon [Rev. John [ . . Fish, Udall, of Gray's Inn.] AMinister at Kingston on 'hames.]

A SUPPLICA DIOTREPHES. THE RETURN TION FOR THE [1588.] FROM BEGGARS. PARNASSUS. [? 1529.] [Acted 1602.] 1606. A Supplicacyon for The state of the The Returne from the Beggars. Church of Englande, Aernassus: or Zhe laid open in a con Scourge of Simony. Stated by J. Fox to have ference betweene DIO Publiquely acted by been distributed in the streets the Students in Saint of London on Candlemas Day TREPHEs a Byshopp, [2 Feb. 1529]. TERTULLUS a Papiste, Johns Colledge in This is the Fifth Protestant DEMETRIUSanz surer, Cambridge. book (not being a portion of PANDOCHUS an Inne Holy Scripture) that was printed in the English Lan keeper, and PAULE a This play, written by a guage. University man in December £reacher of the word 1601, brings WILLIAM KEMP The authorship of this of God. and Ric:RD Bursace on to anonymous, tract, is fixed by the Stage, and makes them a passage in Sir T. MoRE's speak thus: A#ology, of 1533, quoted in “KEMP. Few of the vniuer the Introduction. This is the forerunning tract of the MARTIN MARPRE sity pen plaies well, they smell DATE Controversy. For the too much of that writer Ouid roduction of it, Robert and that writer Metamor ALDEGRAvE, the printer, £hosis, and talke too much of was ruined; and so became Proserpina and ... I upgiter. available for the printing of Why herees our fellow Shake the Martinist invectives. speare puts them all downe, I [Ay] and Ben Ionson too... O that Ben Monson is a pestilent ... The scene of the Dialogue fellow, he brought vp Horace is in PANDocHus's Inn, which giuing the Poets a pill, but is in a posting-town on the our fellow Shakespeare hath high, road from London to given him a purge. that made Edinburgh. him beray his credit: “BURBAGE. It's a shrewd fellow indeed: ” What this controversv be tween SHAKESPEARE an : soN was, has not yet cleared up. It was evidently recent, when (in Dec. 1601) this play was written. The English Scholar's Library. 23

7. 8. [Rev 9 • John Thomas The Aditor. Decker, Udall, the Dramatist. Minister at Kingston on Thames.] THE SEVEN AN INTRODUC A DEMON DEADLY SINS TORY SKETCH STRATION OF TO THE MARTIN OF LONDON, MARPRELATE DISCIPLINE. 3.C. CONTROVERSY. 1588. 1606. 1588-1590. The Seuen deadly (a) The general A Demonstration of Sinnes of London : Episcopal Adminis the trueth of that dis drawn in seuen seuerall tration, Censorship, &c. cipline which CHRISTE Coaches, through the (b) The Origin of the hath prescribed in his seuen severall Gates of Controversy. worde for the gouerne the Citie, bringing (c) Depositions and ment of his Church, the Plague with Axaminations. in all times and places, them. (d) State Documents. vntill the ende of (e) The Brief held the worlde. A prose allegorical Satire, by Sir JoHN PUCKER iving a most vivid picture of ING, against the Mar Printed with the secret ondon life, in October 1606. Martinist press, at East Mole The Seven Sins are finists. sey, near Hampton Court, in FRAUDULENT BANK The Rev. J. UDALL (who was July 1588; and secretly dis RUPTCY. however not a Martinist); tributed with the Epitome LYING. Mrs. CRANE, of Molesey; R v. in the following November. CANDLELIGHT (Deeds of J. PENRY: Sir R.KNIGHTLEy, For this Work, UDALL lin Darkness). of Fawsley, near North gered to death in prison. Sloth. ampton; HUMFREYNEwMAN, APIsHNEss (Changes of the London cobler; JoHN It is perhaps the most com Rashion). HALEs, Esq. of Coventry: Mr. plete argument, in our lan SHAvING (Cheating), and and Mrs. WEEkston, of Wol guage, for Presbyterian Puri tanism, as it was then under CRUELTY. ston; JoB THROCKMoRTON, stood. Its author asserted for Their chariots, drivers, Esq.; HENRY SHARPE, book binder of Northampton, an it, the infallibility of a Divine pages, attendants, and fol the four printers. Logic; but two generations lowers are all allegorically had not passed away, before described. (f) Miscellaneous (under the teachings of Expe rience) much of this Church Information. Polity had been discarded. (g) Who were the Writers who wrote un der the name of MAR TIN MARPRELATEP 24 The English Scholar's Library.

IO. II. I2. Richard Martin Robert Stanyhurst, Manprelate. Greene, M.A. the Irish Historian.

Translation of THE EPISTLE. MENAPHON. AENEID I-IV. 1588. 1589. 1582. Thee first fovre Oh read ouer D. MENAPHON. CAM Bookes of VIRGIL his JoHN BRIDGES, for it ILLAS alarum to AEneis translated is a worthy worke: slumbering EUPHUES, intoo English heroical Or an epitome of the in his melancholie [i.e., hexameter] fyrste Booke of that Cell at Silexedra. werse by RICHARD right worshipfull VWherein are de STANYHURST, wyth zolume, written a ciphered the variable oother Poétical diuises gainst the Puritanes, effects of Fortune, the theretoo annexed. in the defence of the wonders of Loue, the Imprinted at Leiden noble cleargie, by as triumphes of incon in Holland by IOHN worshipfull a prieste, stant Time. Display PATEs, Anno JOHN BRIDGES, Pres ing in sundrie con AM. D. LXXXII. byter, Priest or Elder, ceipted passions doctor of Diuillitie, (figured in a con This is one of the oddest and Deane of Sarum. tinuate Historie) the and most grotesque books in the English language; and The Epitome [p. 26] Trophees that Vertue having been printed in Flan carrieth ders, the original Edition is is not yet published, triumphant, of extreme rarity. but it shall be, when maugre the wrath of the Byshops are at Enute, or the resolu The present text is, by the conuenient leysure tion of Fortune. kindness of Lord ASHBURN to HAM and S.CHRISTIE-MILLER, ziew the same. In Esq., reprinted from the only the meane time, let One of GREENE's novels, two copies known, neither of with ToM NAsh's Preface, so which is quite perfect. them be content with GABRIEL HARVEY desired important in reference to the this learned Epistle. earlier HAMLET, before to be epitaphed, The Inventor SHAKESPEARE's tragedy. of the English Hexameter; Printed oversea, in and STANYHURST, in imitat ing went further him, than Europe, within two GREENE’s “love pamphlets” anyone else in maltreating were the most popular Works English words suit furlongs of a Bounsing to the of Fiction in England, up to exigencies of Classical feet. Ariest, at the cost and the appearance of Sir P charges of M. MAR SIDNEY's Arcadia in 1590. PRELATE, gentleman. The English Scholar's Library. 25

I3. I4. I5. George Joy, Richard T[homas] an early Protestant Reformer. Barnfield, C[ooper]. of Darlaston, Staffordshire. [Bishop of WINCHESTER.] AN APOLOGY POEMS. ADMONITION TO TO TINDALE. 1594-1598. THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. I 535. [1589.] An Apologye made The affectionate An admonition to by GEORGE JoyE to Shepheard. Contain the people of England: satisfye (if it may be) ing the Complaint of VWherein are an W. T IN DALE: to DAPHNIs for the Loue svvered, not onely the fourge and defende of GANYMEDE. slaunderous Untrue himself ageinst so In the following Work, BARNFIELD states that this is thes, reprochfully vt many sclaunderouse “an imitation of Virgill, in tered by MARTIN the lyes fayned upon him the second Eglogue of Alexis.” Libeller, but also in T IN DALS vn CYNTHIA. With many other Crimes by charitable and vn some of his broode, Certaine Sonnets, and sober Pystle so well objected generally worthye to be prefixed the Legend of CASS against all Bishops, for the Reader to ANDRA. I 595. and the chiefe of the induce him into the The Author thus concludes his Preface: “Thus, hoping Cleargie, purposely to vnderstanding of hys you will beare with my rude conceit of Cynthia (if for no deface and discredite new Testament, dili other cause, yet, for that it is the present state of gently corrected and the First Imitation of the the Church. verse of that excellent Poet, printed in the yeare Maister Spencer, in his [/an. 1589.] of our Lorde 1534, Rayrie Queene), I leaue you to the reading of that, which in Nouember I so much desire may breed This is the official reply on [Antwerp, 27 Feb. 1535.] your Delight.” the part of the Hierarchy, to MARTIN MARPRELATE's This almost lost book is our The Encomion of Epistle of [Nov.] 1508: see only authority in respect to No. 11 on p. 24. the surreptitious editions of Lady PECUNIA: or, It was published between the English New Testament, the appearance of the Epistle which were printed for the The praise of Money. and that of the Epitomte. English market with very many errors, by Antwerp 1598. printers who knew not English, Two of the Poems in this in the interval between TINDALE's first editions in Text have been wrongly at tributed to SHAKESPEARE. 1526, and his revised Text The disproof is given in the (above referred to) in 1534. Introduction. 26 The English Scholar's Library. I6. Captain John Smith, President of Virginia, and Admiral of New England. WORKS.–1608-1631. A connplete edition, vvith six facsimile plates. Occasion was taken, in the preparation of this Edition, dispassionately to test the Author's statements. The result is perfectly satisfactory. The Lincoln shire Captain is to be implicity believed in all that he relates of his own personal knowledge. The following are the chief Texts in this Volume:— (1.) A true Relation of Occurences in Virginia. 1608. (2.) A Map of Virginia. 1612. (3.) A Description of New England. 1616. (4.) New England's Trials. 1620 and 1622. (5.) The History of Virginia, New England, and Bermuda. 1624. (6.) An Accidence for young Seamen. 1626. (7.) His true Travels, Adventures, and Observations. 1630. (8.) Advertisements for Planters in New England, or anywhere. 1631. The first Three English Books on America. [? 1511]-1555. This Work is a perfect Encyclopaedia respecting the earliest ~ Spanish and English Voyages to America. Small Paper Edition, 456 pp., in One Volume, Demy 4to, £1, Is. Large Paper Edition, in One Volume, Royal 4to, £3, 3s. The Three Books are— (1.) Of the new landes, etc. Printed at Antwerp about 1511. This is the first English book in which the word America [i.e., Armonica] occurs. (2.) A Treatise of the new India, etc. Translated by RICHARD EDEN from SEBASTIAN MUENSTER’s Cosmography: and printed in 1553. The Second English Book on America. (3.) The Decades of the New World, etc., by PIETRO MARTIRE [PETRUs MARTYR], translated by RICHARD EDEN, and printed in 1555. The Third English Book on America. SHAKESPEARE obtained the character of CALIBAN from this Work. A List of 837 London Publishers, 1553–1640. This Master Key to English Bibliography for the period also gives the approximate period that each Publisher was in business, Demy, 4to, 32 pp., Ios. 6d. net. 27

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