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 attention of fellow book-lovers to the details of the several series, and request their kmd co-operation in completing 
 my limited lists of subscribers. That is to say, I am very anxious to have the (relatively) few sets and separate 
 volumes remaining, taken up. At this point of progress in the ' Huth Library' is an excellent opportunity for 
 libraries and institutions and private persons ordering these noble books. They will thus see the volumes for 
 themselves, not subscribe in the dark. I require (in all) fifty additional names for the ' Huth Library.' So, 
 too, with the collective editions of the Life and Works of Edmund Spekseb (io vols.) and Samuel Daniel 
 (S vols.). The former now only lacks the final volume (Vol. X.), containing the full Glo.ssary and Notes and 
 Illustrations from all sources, and the latter the Prose. Broken health and increased cost of production of 
 these beautiful books, have delayed somewhat their completion ; but (God willing) they will be duly forth- 
 coming — only from deaths of subscribers and removals I require at least thirty additional names for Spenser 
 and Daniel in the various forms, in order to recoup expenditure and to enable me to go forward without 
 anxiety. By thus 'placing' the 'Huth,' and Spenser and Daniel, and the few other works available, my 
 feet will be cleared. I venture to appeal to all who really care for our great early literature to extend 
 their influence, sympathy, and practical help to me, as above ; and my past books may be accepted as evidence 
 and pledges that whatever more may be undertaken will be given worthily and in integrity. I have never 
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 I. lElObCtt (S>XZ%XiZ* It seems extraordinary that one who filled so large a 
 ..-. space in the great Elizabethan era, should never before 
 
 ^ ■ have had his Works (save in slender selections) collected 
 
 or edited. This has now been accomplished in the ' Huth Library,' including a 
 translation of the ' Life ' by Professor Storojenko of Moscow, fully annotated 
 and supplemented. Intrinsically and extrinsically the Works of Greene are of 
 supreme interest to the Shakespearian student and students generally of th'e 
 Elizabethan period. Strangely unequal and uncertain as many of his books are, 
 there is none that does not bear the mint-mark of a peculiar and remarkable 
 genius, while in manifold ways they place the England and Englishmen and 
 Englishwomen of the time vividly and realistically before us. The closing volume 
 (Glossarial Index, Vol. XV.) shows such a vocabulary as few writers could match. 
 The following is a condensed summary of the several volumes : — 
 
 Vol. I. (pp. Ixxxvii, 262). 
 
 Life, by Professor Storojenko, University of Moscow. Translated from the Russian by E. A. Brayley Hodgetts, 
 London, with Introduction and Notes and Illustrations by the Editor. Facsimile of handwriting. 
 
 Vol. II. (pp. xvi, 348). 
 
 (a) Mamillia. A Mirrour or Looking-glasse for the (^) Mamillia : The Second Part of the Triumph of 
 
 Ladies of Englande. Wherein is deciphered, Pallas : wherein with Perpetval fame the con- 
 
 howe Gentlemen vnder the perfect substaunce of stancie of Gentlewomen is canonised, and the 
 
 pure loue, are oft inueigled with the shadov/e of vniust blasphemies of womens supposed fickle- 
 
 lewde luste : and their iirme faith brought asleepe nesse (breathed out by diverse iniurious persons) 
 
 by fading fancie, vntill wit ioyned with wisdome by manifest examples clearly infringed, (1593.) 
 
 doth awake it by the helpe of reason (c) The Anatomie of Lovers Flatteries. 
 
 (1580.3.) 
 
NOTSS Jiiyjj iyuiii.11.^. 
 
 Vol. III. (pp. vi, 282). 
 
 id) The Mirrovr of Modestie, wherein appeareth as in 
 a perfect Glasse howe the Lorde deliuereth the 
 Innocent from all imminent perils, and plagueth 
 the bloudthirstie hypocrite with deserued punish- 
 ments. Shewing that the graie heades of dooting 
 adulterers shall not go with peace into the graue. 
 .... (1584.) 
 
 (i) Morando, the Tritameron of Loue. "Wherein 
 certaine pleasant conceites, vttered by diuers 
 worthie personages, are perfectly discoursed, and 
 three doubtful questions of Loue, most pithely 
 and pleasantly discussed : shewing to the wise 
 how to vse Loue, and to the fond, how to eschew 
 
 Lust ; and yeelding to all both pleasiure and 
 profit. (15S7.) 
 
 (c) Tlxe Second Part of the Tritameron .... 
 wherein is set forth a delightfull discouerie of 
 Fortune and Friendship newly adjoyned. (1587.) 
 
 {d) Arbasto, the Anatomic of Fortune. Wherein is 
 discouered .... that the highest state of 
 prosperitie, is oftimes the first step to mishap, 
 and that to stay vpon Fortune's lotte is to treade 
 on brittle Glasse. Wherein also Gentlemen may 
 finde pleasaunte conceytes to purge Melancholy, 
 and perfite counsell topreuent misfortune, (1584.) 
 
 Vol. IV. (pp. viii, 356). 
 
 (a) Carde of Fancie, wherein the Folly of those Carpet 
 Knights is deciphered, which guiding their course 
 by the compasse of Cupid, either dash their ship 
 against most dangerous Rocks, or else attaine 
 the haven with pain and peril. Wherein also is 
 described in the person of Gwydonius a cruell 
 Combate between Nature and Necessitie. (1584- 
 
 87.) .... 
 
 iji) The Debate between Follie and Loue. . . . 
 
 (c) Pandosto. TT The Triumph of Time, wherein is 
 discouered by a pleasant Hlstorje, that although 
 by the meanes of sinister fortune Truth may be 
 concealed, yet by Time, in spight of fortune, it is 
 most manifestly reuealed. Pleasant for age to 
 auoyde drowsle thoughtes, profitable for youth. 
 .... (1588.) Known also as 'Dorastusand 
 Fawnia.' 
 
 Vol. V. (pp. vili, 320). 
 
 («) Planetomachia, or the first parte of the generail 
 opposition of the seuen Planets : wherein is 
 Astionomically described their essence, nature, 
 and influence. Diuersly discouering in their 
 pleasaunt and tragicall histories, the inward 
 affections of the mindes, and painting them out 
 in such perfect colors as youth may perceive what 
 fond fancies their florishing yeares doe foster ; 
 and age clerely see what doting desires their 
 withered heares doe afForde. Conteyning also 
 a briefe Apologie of the sacred and misticall 
 Science of Astronomie (1585.) 
 
 (J}) Penelopes Web : Wherein a Christall Myrror of 
 fosminine perfection represents to the viewe of 
 euery one those vertues and graces, which more 
 curiously beautifies the mynd of women, then 
 eyther sumptuous apparell, or lewels of inestim- 
 able valew .... interlaced with three seuerall 
 and comical! Histories (1587.) 
 
 (c) The Spanish Masquerade. Wherein vnder a 
 pleasant deuise, is discouered efifectuallie . . . the 
 pride and insolencie of the Spanish estate : with the 
 disgrace conceiued by their losse and the dismaied 
 confusion of their troubled thoughts. , , . (1589.) 
 
 Vol. VI. (pp. vi, 316). 
 
 {a) Menaphon. Camillas Alarum to slumbering Eu- 
 phues, in his melanchoUe Cell at Silexedra. 
 Wherein are deciphered the variable effects of 
 Fortune, the wonders of Loue, the triumphes of 
 inconstant Time (1589.) 
 
 {]}) Euphues his Censure to Philautus. Wherein is 
 presented a philosophicall combat between Hector 
 
 and Achylles, discouering In foure Discourses, 
 interlaced with diverse delightfull Tragedies the 
 vertues necessary to be incident in every gentle- 
 man Containing mirth to purge melan- 
 choly, holsome precepts to profit manners, neither 
 vnsauerie to youth for delight, nor offensiue to 
 age for scurrilitie (1587.) 
 
 Vol. VII. (pp. vi, 352). 
 
 {a) Perimedes the Blacke-smith, a golden methode 
 how to vse the minde in pleasant and profitable 
 Exercise. Wherein is contained speciall principles 
 fit for the highest to imitate, and the meanest to 
 put in practice, how best to spend the wearie 
 
 Winters nights or the longest Summers Evenings 
 
 in honest and delightful recreation 
 
 Herein are interlaced three merrie and necessarie 
 discourses fit for our time, with certaine pleasant 
 Histories and tragicall tales, . . . (1588.) 
 
NOTES AND NOTICES. 
 
 id) Ciceronis Amor. TulUes Loue. Wherein is dis- 
 coursed the prime of Ciceroes youth, setting out 
 in liuely portratures how yong Gentlemen that 
 ayme at honour should leuell the end of their 
 afifections, holding the loue of countrie and friends 
 in more esteeme than those fading blossomes of 
 
 beautie that onely feede the curious survey of the 
 
 eye (1589-) 
 
 (c) The Royal Exchange. Contayning sundry Apho- 
 rismes of Phylosophie and golden Principles of 
 morall and naturall Quadruplicities. . . . 
 (1590-) 
 
 Vol. VIII. (pp. vi, 266). 
 
 (a) Greene's Neuer Too Late, or a Powder of Ex- 
 perience ; sent to all youthfuU Gentlemen ; to 
 roote out the infectious follies that ouer-reaching 
 conceits foster in the spring time of their youth, 
 .... as pleasant as profitable, being a right 
 pumice stone, apt to race out idlenesse with 
 delight and follie with admonition. (1590.) 
 
 (d) Francescoes Fortunes, or the second Part of Greene's 
 Neuer Too Late. Wherein is discouered the 
 Fall of Love, the bitter fruites of Follies pleasure, 
 and the repentant sorrowes of a Reformed Man. 
 (1590.) 
 
 (a) Alcida, Greene's Metamorphosis, wherein is dis- 
 couered a pleasant transformation of Bodies into 
 sundrie shapes, .shewing that as Vertues beautifie 
 the Mind so Vanities giue greater staines, than 
 the perfection of any quality can rase out. The 
 Discourse confirmed with diuerse merry and de- 
 HghtfiiU Histories. . . . (1588 — 1617,) 
 
 (If) Greene's Mourning Garment ; giuen him by Re- 
 
 Vol. IX. (pp. vi, 392). 
 
 pentance at the Funerals of Loue ; which he 
 presents for a fauour to all yong Gentlemen, that 
 wish to weane themselues from wanton desiress 
 .... (1590 — 1616,) 
 (c) Greene's Farewell to Folly : sent to Courtiers and 
 Schollers as a President to warne them from the 
 vaine delights that drawe youth on to repentance. 
 .... (1391-) 
 
 Vol. X. (pp. vi, 322). 
 
 (a) A Notable Discouery of Coosnage. Now daily 
 practised by sundry lewd persons called Connie- 
 catchers and Crosse-biters. Plainely laying open 
 those pemitipus sleights that hath brought many 
 ignorant men to confusion. . . With a delightful 
 Discourse of the Coosnage of Colliers. . . (1591/) 
 
 (d) The Second Part of Conny-catching. Contayning the 
 discouery of certaine wondrous Coosenages, either 
 superficiallie past over, or vtterlie vntoucht in the 
 
 first With sundrie pithy and pleasant 
 
 Tales (i59»-) 
 
 (c) The Thirde and last Part of Conny-catching- 
 
 With the new deuised Knauish Art of Foole. 
 taking (1592.) 
 
 (d) A Disputation betweene a Hee Conny-catcher and 
 
 a Shee Conny-catcher, whether a Theefe or a 
 Whoore is most hurtfull in Cousonage to the 
 Commonwealth. Discouering secret Villames. 
 , , . . With the Conuersion of an English 
 Courtizep reformed this present yeare (1592). 
 
 (a) The Blacke Bookes Messenger. Laying open the 
 Life and Death of Ned Browne, one of the most 
 notable Cutpurses, Crosbiters, and Conny-catchers, 
 that euer liued in England (1592.) 
 
 (6) The Defence of Conny-Catching ; or, A Confvta- 
 tion of those two iniurious Pamphlets published 
 by R. G. against the practitioners of many Nimble- 
 witted and mysticall Sciences. By Cuthbert 
 
 Vol. XI. (pp. vi, 344). 
 
 Cunny-catcher, Licentiate in Whittington Col- 
 ledge (1592.) 
 
 (c) Philomela. The Lady Fitzwaters Nightingale. 
 
 .... (1592.) 
 
 (d) A Qvip for an Vpstart Courtier : or, A quaint 
 dispute between Veluet-breeches and Cloth- 
 breeches. Wherein is plainely set downe the 
 disorders in all Estates and Trades 
 
 (a) Greene's Orpharion. Wherein is discouered a 
 musicall concorde of pleasant Histories, many 
 sweet modes gi'aced with such harmonious dis- 
 cords, as agreeing in a delightfiill closse, they 
 
 sound both pleasure and profit to the eare 
 
 (»599-) 
 
 Vol. XII. (pp. vi, 311). 
 
 (&) Green's Groats-worth of Wit, bought with a Million 
 of Repentance. Describing the follie of youth, 
 the falshoode of make-shift flatterers, the miserie 
 of the negligent, and mischiefes of deceiuing 
 Courtezans. Written before his death, and 
 published at his dying request (xS9^-) 
 
NOTES~ANir~NljTTUKE~. 
 
 ic) The Repentance of Robert Greene Maister of 
 Artes. Wherein by himselfe is laid open his 
 
 loose life, with the manner of his death 
 
 (1592-) 
 
 (d) Greene's Vision : written at the instant of his 
 death. Conteyning a penitent passion for the 
 folly of his pen (1592?) 
 
 Vol. XIII. (pp. x, 415). 
 
 (a) Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay. 
 
 (b) The Historie of Orlando Furioso. 
 
 (c) The Scottish Historie of James the Fourth. 
 
 (d) The Comicall Historie of Alphonsus King of 
 
 Arragon. (1594 — IS99-) 
 
 Vol. XIV. (pp. x, 318). 
 PlaSS BxCa Poems. 
 
 (a) A Looking-glasse for London and England. (c) Selimus, Empcrour of the Turkes. 
 
 (i) George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield. 
 
 (rf) Poem — ^A Maiden's Dreame. (1591 — 1599-) 
 
 Vol. XV. (pp. x, 244, and cancel Titles as in 15 vols.). 
 
 (a) Prefatory Note. 
 {b) General Index. 
 if) Index of Names. 
 
 {d) Special Lists of Plants, Animals, etc. 
 
 {e) Tliieves' Vocabulary. 
 
 (/) Occasional Notes and Illustrations. 
 
 %* Various woodcuts, facsimiles of title-pages, etc. 
 
 
 6 Vols. 
 
 This ' free lance ' of our early literature has never 
 hitherto had justice done him. His power, his swing, 
 his odd fantastic humour, his wealth of ' wicked wit,' 
 his aquafortis sarcasm and badinage, his audacity, his unexpected touches of 
 pathos, his miracle of vocabulary, his passion, few comparatively know. Second 
 only to Greene is the mass of material in Nashe, for insight into the literary life of 
 the olden days in our England. Lowell does not exaggerate in naming him the 
 English Rabelais. 
 
 Vol. I. (pp. Ixxii, 253). 
 
 Memorial-Introduction : i. Biographical. 
 
 (a) The Anatomic of Absurditie : Contayning a breefe 
 confutation of the slender imputed prayses to 
 feminine perfection, with a short description of 
 the seuerall practices of youth, and sundry follies 
 of our licentious times. {1589.) 
 
 (3) Martin Mar-Prelate Tractates : (i) A CountercufFe 
 giuen to Martin lunior : by the venturous, hardie 
 and renowned Pasquill of England, Caualiero. 
 .... (1591.) (z) The Returne of the renowned 
 Caviliere Pasquill of England from the other side 
 
 of the Seas and his meeting with Marforius at 
 
 London upon the Royal Exchange (1589.) 
 
 (3) Martins Months Minde, that is, a certaine 
 report, and true description of the Death, and 
 Funerals of olde Martin Marre-Prelate, the great 
 makebate of England, and father of the Factions. 
 (1589.) (4) The First Parte of Pasquils Apologie. 
 Wherein he renders a reason to his friendes of 
 his long silence ; and gallops the fielde with the 
 Treatise of Reformation (1590.) 
 
 Vol. II. (pp. vi, 288). 
 
 (a) Pierce Pennilesse His Supplication to the Deuill. 
 
 Describing the ouer-spreading Vice, and the 
 
 suppression of Vertue. Pleasantly interlac'd with 
 
 variable delights, (1592.) 
 (^) Harvey-Greene Tractates: (i) A Wonderfull, 
 
 strange, and Miraculous Astrologicall Prognosti- 
 
 cation for this year of our Lord God (1591). 
 (2) Strange Newes of the Intercepting certaine 
 Letters and a Convoy of Verses, as they were 
 going Privilie to victuall the Low Countries. 
 (1593.) 
 
NOTES AND NOTICES. 
 
 Vol. III. (pp. vi, 282). 
 
 (a) Haue with you to Saffron-Walden, or Gabriell (J) The Terrors of the Night, or a Discourse of 
 Haruey's Hunt is vp. Containing a full Answere Apparitions. (1594.) 
 
 to the eldest Sonne of the Halter-Maker. {1596.) 
 
 Vol. IV. (pp. xxii, 264). 
 
 Christes Teares ouer Jerusalem. Whereunto is annexed a comparative admonition to London. (1593.) 
 
 Vol. v. (pp. vi, 308). 
 
 (a) The Vnfortunate Traueller. Or the Life of lacke 
 
 Wilton. (1594.) 
 (5). Nashes Lenten Stuffe, containing the Description 
 
 and First Procreation and Increase of the Towne 
 
 of Great Yarmouth in Norfolke : with a new 
 Play neuer played before, of the Praise of the 
 Red Herring. (1599.) 
 
 Vol. VI. (pp. xxxix, 263). 
 
 (a) Memorial-Introduction : ii. Critical : Plays — 
 
 (i) The Tragedie of Dido, Queene of Carthage. 
 
 .... Written by Christopher Marlowe and 
 
 Thomas Nashe. (1594.) 
 (c) A Pleasant Comedie called Summers Last Will 
 
 and Testament. (1600.) 
 
 Glossarial Index, including Notes and Illustrations for 
 all the Works : Index of names, and curiosities of 
 folk-lore, etc. 
 
 *,^* Fac-similes, etc. 
 
 III. 2Dr* (EabCiel l^artjep. I^ King James was rightly pronounced the 'wisest 
 .y. fool' in Europe, with equal justice might this friend 
 
 ^ ■ of Sidney and Spenser be designated a ' wise fool.' 
 
 For beneath all his pedantry, his oddities of style, and preposterous poetical theories, 
 there was the brain of no commonplace man. Now that his Works are here brought 
 together, it is felt that though he had the art and perpetual practice of putting his 
 worst foot foremost, he had learning, wit, swiftness of insight, and a quick eye to 
 character. As for his vituperative power it is indefinable. He is as a babe in 
 Nashe's iron grip ; yet are his retorts and exposures clever and memorable. His 
 relations to Spenser — since our original prospectus much more fully known — his 
 immortal quarrel with Nashe, and his assault on ' dead Robert Greene,' made it a 
 necessity to associate his collected Works with Greene and Nashe. 
 
 r 
 
 172 
 
 Vol. I. (pp. 1, 298). 
 
 (a) Memorial-Introduction : i. Biographical, 
 (i) Letters between Spenser and Harvey, (i) Two 
 .... very commendable Letters of the same 
 Mens Writing : both touching the foresaid Arti- 
 fictall Versifying, and certain other Particulars. 
 More lately deliuered vnto the Printer (1580). 
 (2) Three Proper and Wittie Familiar Letters 
 lately passed betweene two Vniuersitie men : 
 touching the Earthquake in April last, and our 
 
 English Refourmed Versifying (1580.) 
 
 (3) Letters from Letter-Book of Gabriel Harvey, 
 T573-80, from Sloane MS, 93. 
 
 (c) Foure Letters and certaine Sonnets : especially 
 
 touching Robert Greene and other Parties by 
 him abused (1592.) 
 
 (d) A New Letter of Notable Contents. With a 
 
 strange Sonet, intituled Gorgon, Or the Wonderful 
 Yeare(i593). 
 
NOTES AND NOTICES. 
 
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 r 
 
 ;^r 
 
 Vol. II. (pp. vi, 346). 
 
 {a) Precursor of Pierces Supererogation or a New Old Asse. A Preparatiue to certain larger Dis- 
 
 Prayse of the Olde Asse. (1593.) courses, intituled Nashes S. Fame. (i593-) 
 
 (i) Pierces Supererogation or a New Prayse of the 
 
 Vol. III. (pp. xxxiv, 208). 
 
 (a) Memorial-Introduction : ii. Critical. (<r) Story of Mercy Harvey. From Letter-Book in 
 
 \i) The Trimming of Thomas Nashe Gentleman, by Sloane MS. 93. 
 
 the high-tituled Don Richardo de Medico Campo, {d) Glossarial Index — including Notes and IHustra- 
 Barber Chirurgeon to Trinitie College in Cam- tions, etc., etc. 
 
 bridge. (iS97-) 
 *^ In the Memorial-Introduction representative quotations — translated for the first time — are given from his 
 Latin Tractates — e.g.t ' Ciceronianus' (1577); ' Gratul. Valdinensium' (1578); * Musarum Lachrymje' 
 (1578). 
 
 IV. 11^6011190 2D0fefecr+ Every one who cares at all for our dramatic literature 
 must have given welcome to Mr. R. H. Shepherd's 
 5 ■ collection of the ' Dramatic Works' of Dekker (4 vols., 
 
 1873: Pearson); but the wonder as the regret was, that his other and equally 
 characteristic Writings were not included. For we have not Thomas Dekker at 
 his best in either his independent or associated Plays — except in those isolated 
 passages that Charles Lamb fetched from their obscurity with so much penetrative 
 and loving sjonpathy. His non-dramatic books are more deliberate, more sub- 
 stantive, more redolent of wit and more iridescent with his swift humour, and dewy 
 freshness of thought, and keen observation, combined with alternate vigour and 
 pathos and colour-like brightness of wording. Emphatically, that London City 
 of which he was so proud, lives more memorably — alike in its glory and shame, 
 traditions and every-day life — in these than in those. Each is a mirror of the 
 passing time in such luminousness as few contemporary books furnish. Granted 
 that they are uneven and in accidents occasionally coarse ; none the less is their 
 realism of permanent value. As with Nashe, their vein of religious melancholy 
 and ' intermeddling' with spiritual problems, is most noticeable. I feel sure, there- 
 fore, that in bringing together Dekker's non-dramatic Writings, I have done a right 
 and worthy thing. The following is a (condensed) list of the non-dramatic Works, 
 as now for the first time collected. Mr. A. H. Bullen is re-editing the dramatic 
 Works. 
 
 Vol. I. (pp. 27s). 
 
 lem's W 
 [b) The Wonderful! Yeare, 1603, 
 
 id) Canaan's Calamitie, Jerusalem's Miserie, and (c) The Batchelars Banquet, or a Banquet for Batche- 
 England's Mirror, (i 598 — 1 618.) lars. (i 603.) 
 
 Vol. II. (pp. 359). 
 
 {a) The Seauen Deadly Sinnes of London. i,d) The Gvls Home-Booke. 
 
 (^) Newes from Hell. (f) lests to make you merrie. (1606-7.) 
 
 {c) The Double P P. 
 
 VOL. III. (pp. 378). 
 
 (ff) Dekker his Dreame. (1620.) {c) Lanthome and Candle-light. (1609.) 
 
 ip) The Belman of London. (i6o8.) (<^) A Strange Horse-race. (1613.) 
 
NOTES AND NOTICES. 
 
 Vol. IV. (pp. 310). 
 
 (a) The Dead Terme. (<r) The Rauens Almanacke. 
 
 (4) Worke for the Armourours. (rf) A Rod for Runawayes. (1608-35.) 
 
 Vol. V. (pp. 280). 
 
 (a) Memorial-Introduction. (rf) Appendix. 
 
 ib) Foure Birdes of Noahs Arke. \e) Glossarial Index. 
 
 ((t) The Comedie of Patient Grissell. 
 
 There remain of ' The Huth Library,' as originally announced, 
 
 the following : — 
 
 I. fe)iC 'JC^OlttaSf !^Obgt ' the Covrtyer of Covnt Baldessar Castilio diuided 
 -^ into foure bookes. Very necessary for yonge Gentil- 
 
 men and Gentilwomen abiding in Court, Palaice, 
 or Place : done into Englyshe by Thomas Hoby.' (1561.) 
 
 I know no early English book of 'manners' that is comparable with this in 
 actualising to us the 'upper ten' of the day. For though nominally a translation 
 (or transfusion) of the Italian of Castiglione, it is an out-and-out English book. It 
 must have passed at a bound into the 'stately homes' of England; for in' all 
 directions its impress is discernible. It abounds in stories, quaintly told, 'wise 
 saws and modem instances,' out-of-the-way observations and da^a, and altogether 
 is far ahead of the well-known books of Peacham and Brathwaite in inter- 
 preting for us the ceremonial dignities and every-day life of ' fair women and brave 
 men ' of long ago. Italy was then closely linked with England. My exemplar of 
 this very rare book was formerly in the possession of the famous Gabriel Harvey, 
 and has, in addition to his fine autograph, many annotations and corrections, of 
 singular interest and notableness — all of which shall be included in relative Notes 
 and Illustrations. 
 
 II- »'ir l@f)iUp felltinCPt having done some service in my two editions of 
 
 the Poems of Sidney — (a) In ' Fuller Worthies' 
 ^ *^°"' Library,' 2 vols. ; (d) 'Early English Poets,' 3 vols. 
 
 (Chatto and Windus), — I wish now to fulfil a cherished purpose by similarly 
 editing his prose. As everybody knows, his ' Arcadia ' constitutes his largest 
 ' prose ' work ; but, as few do know, this remarkable book was early tampered 
 with. I have read and studied the original edition (see below), as published in 
 quarto in 1590, with the folio of 1593 before me ; and I was soon and deepeningly 
 convinced that the original only presents the genuine writing of Sidney, and that 
 the text of 1593 was ' improved ' (!) by the Countess of Pembroke. I hold therefore 
 that it is obligatory to reproduce the Jirsf edition, and to give the variations, 
 insertions, etc., etc., only as notes. With profoundest reverence for " Sidney's 
 
10 NOTES AND NOTICES. 
 
 sister, Pembroke's mother," I prefer Sidney's own inviolate words. The alleged 
 ' errors and omissions ' demand critical study. 
 
 {a) The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, written by {b) An Apologie for Poetrie. Written by the right ' 
 Sir Philippe Sidnei. (1590.) Collated with noble, vertuous, and learned Sir Philip Sidney, 
 
 'The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, Written Knight. (1595.) 
 
 by Sir Philip Sidney, Knight, Now since the (c) Indices, Glossary, etc., etc, 
 first edition augmented and ended,' (1593.) 
 
 III. (15eorO;e (l(El)0t0tOne. as Historian (or Annalist), Biographer, Storyteller 
 -. (in a good sense), Traveller and Observer, Painter of 
 
 ^ * Manners and Poet and Dramatist, Wit and Humourist 
 
 and Satirist, George Whetstone holds a unique place in our literature ; and yet I 
 have found none who really knows him, except in the most superficial way. Were 
 it for no more than his preservation of contemporary and preceding history and 
 biography, as 'eye-witness,' in quaintest and raciest fashion, and his affluent 
 vocabulary, his Works should deserve collection and reproduction ; but there is 
 far more than these, — such swift versatility and thought- weighted 'meditativeness' 
 and drastic invective and charactering of men, gentle and simple, as with his other 
 faculty, make the serene ignorance of him by our (so-called) Historians of English 
 Literature, alike grotesque and blameworthy. The very popularity of his books 
 wore them out ; and no friend brought them together when he had departed. It is 
 pathetic that it should have been left to this late day to do him justice. As with 
 Dekker, the England of Elizabeth in her prime, and 'London City' — which both 
 knew as well as Dickens did the modern Babylon — live and breathe in his rich- 
 coloured pages. So that after every (inevitable) deduction, George Whetstone 
 stands forth still a noticeable figure of those 'golden years.' With one or two 
 exceptions, his books have been hitherto among the rarest and most inaccessible. 
 
 {(£) The Rocke of Regard, diuided into foure Parts. ((^ The Right Excellent and Famous Historye of 
 The first, the Castle of delight ; Wherein is Promos and Cassandra : Diuided into Comniical 
 reported the wretched end of wanton and disso- Discourses. In the Fyrste Parte is showne, The 
 lute lining. The second, the Garden of Vnthrifti- vnsufferable Abuse of a lewde Magistrate. The 
 nesse : Wherein are many sweete flowers (or vertuous Behauiors of a chaste Ladye. The 
 rather fancies) of honest loue. The thirde, the vncontrowled Leaudnes of a fauoured Curtisan ; 
 Arbour of VerEue : Wherein slaunder is highly And the vndeserued Estimation of a pernicious 
 punished, and vertuous Ladies and Gentlewomen Parasyte. In the Second Parte is discoursed, 
 worthily commended. The fourth, the Ortchard The perfect Magnanimitye of a noble Kinge, In 
 of Repentance : Wherein are discoursed the checking Vice and fauouringe Vertue. Wherein 
 miseries that follow dicing, the mischiefes of is showne, The Ruyne andOuerthrowe of dis- 
 quareling, the fall of prodigalitie, and the souden honest Practices ; with the Aduancement of 
 ouerthrowe of foure notable coseners, with diners vpright Dealing. . . . (1578.) 
 other morall, naturall, and tragicall discourses, («) An Heptameron of Ciuill Discourses. Containing: 
 documents and admonitions, being all the inuen- The Christmasse Exercise of sundrie well Courted 
 tion, collection and translation of George Whet- Gentlemen and Gentlewomen. In whose he- 
 stone, Gent <I576-) [Verse.] hauiours, the better sort may see a represetation 
 
 (b) A Remembraunce of the wel-employed life and of their own Vertues. And the Inferiour, may 
 
 godly end of George Gaskoigne, Esquire. . . . leame such Rules of Ciuill Gouermet, as wil rase 
 
 The reporte of Geor. Whetstone, Gent., an eye out the Blemish of their basenesse : Wherein is 
 
 witnes .... (1577-8.) [Verse.] Renowned, the Vertues of a most Honourable 
 
 (c) A Remembraunce of .... the Right Honour- and brave-mynded Gentleman. And herein also, 
 
 able Sir Nicholas Bacon, Knight With [as it were in a Mirrour] the Vnmaried may see 
 
 an Exhortation necessarie for euery estate ,. . . . the Defectes which Eclipse the Glorie of Mariage : 
 
 (1578.) And the wel Maried, as in a Table of House- 
 
NOTES AND NOTICES. 
 
 II 
 
 holde T.awes, may cull out needefuU Preceptes to 
 establysh their good Fortune. A Worke, inter- 
 coursed with Ciuyll Pleasure, to reaue tedious- 
 nesse from the Reader ; and garnished with 
 Morall Noates to make it profitable, to the 
 
 Regarder (1582.) *^* The plot of 
 
 Measure /or Measure was most probably fetched 
 from this ' Heptameron.' 
 
 {/) A Remembraunce of ... . the Right Honour- 
 able Sir lames Dier, Knight (1582.) 
 
 {g) A Remembraunce of ... . Thomas, late Earle 
 of Sussex (1583.) 
 
 (fi) A Mirror for Magistrates of Cyties, Representing 
 the Ordinaunces, Policies, and Diligence, o/ the 
 Noble Emperour, Alexander (sumamed Severvs) 
 to suppresse and chastise the notorious Vices 
 nourished in Rome, by the superfluous number of 
 Dicing-houses, Tauerns, and Common Stewes, 
 Suffred and cheerished by his beastlye Prede- 
 
 cessour, Helyogabalvs And wherevnto is 
 
 added, A Touchstone for the Time, Containyng : 
 many perillous Mischiefes, bred in the Bowels 
 of the Citie of Londoru . . (1584.) 
 
 (r) A Mirror of True Honnour and Christian Nobilitie ! 
 exposing the Life, Death, and Deuine Vertues of 
 .... Frauncis Earle of Bedford, Baron Russell. 
 .... Wherevnto is adjoyned a Report of .... 
 Frauncis Lord Russell (1585.) 
 
 (/) The Honourable Reputation of a Souldier. With 
 a Morall Report of the Vertues, Offices, and (by 
 
 abuse) the Disgrace of his profession. . t . ^ 
 (tSSs.) 
 
 (k) The English Myrror. A Regard wherein al estates 
 may behold the Conquests of Emuy : Containing 
 mine of common weales, murther of Princes, 
 causes of heresies, and in atl ages, spoile of deuine 
 and humane blessings, vnto which is adioyned, 
 Enuy conquered by vertues. Publishing the 
 peaceful victories obtained by the Queenes most 
 excellent Maiesty, against this mortall enimie of 
 publike peace and prosperitie, and lastly, A 
 Fortris against Enuy (1586.) 
 
 (/) Sir Philip Sidney, his honourable Life, his valiant 
 Death, and his true Vertues : A perfect Myrror 
 for the followers of Mars and Mercury. (1587.) 
 
 {m) The Censure of a loyall Subiect : vpon certaine 
 noted Speech and behauiours of those fourteene 
 notable Traitors, at the place of their executions. 
 .... Wherein is handled matter of necessarye 
 instruction for all dutifull Subiects. 
 (1587.) [With addition on Mary Queen of Scots 
 from a 2nd ed" in same year.] 
 
 («) Which of these fewer that you see, 
 In greatest danger you thinke to bee, 
 X . A Clyent betweene two Lawyers. 
 
 2. A Maide betweene two Friers, 
 
 3. A Goose betweene two Foxes, 
 
 4. A Rat betweene two Cats. (1623.) 
 ((?) Occasional Poems, etc. 
 
 {/) Glossary, etc. 
 
 IV. aptnoc aaiortljfes. 
 
 HENRY CHETTLE. 
 ANTHONY MUNDAY. 
 CAP AND HEAD. 
 THOMAS MIDDLETON. 
 HENRY REYNOLDS. 
 
 W. E. E. W. 
 HUMPHREY KING. 
 ROBIN GOODFELLOW. 
 RICHARD WEST. 
 ROBERT YARRANTON. 
 
 3 Vols. 
 
 (i) Kind-Harts Dreame. Conteining fiue Apparitions, 
 with their Invectiues against abuses raiging. De- 
 liuered byseverall Ghosts vnto him to bepublisht, 
 after Piers Penilesse Post had refused the car- 
 riage. (1593.) [By Henry Chettle.] 
 
 (2) A Banqvet of Daintie Conceyts. Furnished with 
 
 verie delicate and choyse inuentions, to delight 
 their mindes, who take pleasure in musique, and 
 therewithal! to sing sweet Ditties .... (1588.) 
 [By Anthony Munday,] 
 
 (3) A Pleasaunt Dialogue or Disputation betweene 
 
 the Cap and the Head. (1564.) 
 
 (4) The Ant and the Nightingale ; or Father Hub- 
 
 bard's Tales. (1604.) [By Thomas Middleton,] 
 
 (5) Mythomystes, wherein a Short Survey is taken of 
 
 the Nature and Value of true Poesy, and depth of 
 the Ancients aboue our moderne Poets. To which 
 is annexed the Tale of Narcissus, &c, "^^t* By 
 the friend of Drayton, who addressed to him his 
 verse-discourse of Poets and Poesy. 
 
 (6) W. E. E. W. His Thameseidos. Devided into 
 
 three Books or Cantos. (1600.) 
 
 (7) An Hal fe-Penny- worth of Wit on a Penny-worth 
 
 of Paper. Or the Hermites Tale. 3d. ed"- (1613). 
 [By Humphrey King,- to Friend of Nashe.] 
 
 (8) Robin Goodfellow, His Mad Prankes and Merry 
 
 Jests, full of honest Mirth, and is a fit Medicine 
 for Melancholy. (1590 — 1628,) 
 
NOTES AND NOTICES. 
 
 (9) The Court of Conscience, or Dick Wlilpper's Ses- 
 
 sions. With the order of his arraigning and 
 punishing of many notorious, dissembling, wiclced 
 and vilious Liuers in this age. (1607,) [By 
 Richard West.] 
 
 (10) Two Lamentable Tragedies, The one of the 
 murther of Maister Beech, a Chaundler in 
 Thames-streete, and his boye, done by Thomas 
 
 Merry. The other of a young childe murthered 
 in a Wood by two Rvilins, with the consent of his 
 Vncle. (1601.) [By Robert Yarranton.] 
 
 *,* The latter is probably the earliest celebra- 
 tion of the tragedy of the * Babes in the Wood '; 
 otherwise, the composition is strong and compact, 
 reminding of Arden of Faversham. It has been 
 curiously overlooked. 
 
 The whole of the above have this extrinsic value, that all are of excessive 
 rarity — most, existing only in single exemplars or two or three. Intrinsically, they 
 severally furnish the student of our elder literature and national manners and 
 language with untold treasure of material for their illustration. Of the first, by 
 Henry Chettle, Hazlitt, s.n., observes — " Reprinted for the Percy Society, but so 
 inaccurately as to be unserviceable." Of No. 2, only Mr. Huth's copy is known. 
 Nos. 3 and 4 are manners-painting, and of rare interest in relation to Shakespeare 
 and Rowlands and Greene. No 5 holds a potential place in the history of our 
 English Poetry. No. 6 has been utterly neglected apparently, save by Biblio- 
 graphers. Nos. 7 and 8 correspond with Nos. 3 and 4. No. 9 has also been hitherto 
 overlooked. Richard Bernard and John Bunyan must have seen it. No. 10 I have 
 annotated in its place. I must regard myself as fortunate to be able to command 
 so many book-rarities as will be embraced in these 3 Vols, of 'The Huth Library.' 
 
 Cd^ // •will be seen by preceding, that 29 vols, out of (af;proximately) 42 i)olS. of 
 the whole, have been duly issued. See Note, ^age 2, on additional names 
 required in order to go forward. 
 
NOT^S AND NOTICES. 
 
 n 
 
 II. The Complete Works in Verse and Prose 
 
 of Edmund Spenser, 17^7^ 
 
 With a new Life by the Editor, based on Original Researches, and a Glossary 
 embracing Notes and Illustrations ; 
 
 IN ASSOCIATION WITH 
 
 Professor ANGUS, LL.D., London. 
 
 The Rev. THOMAS ASHE, M.A., London. 
 
 Professor CHILD, LL.D., Harvard University, 
 
 Cambridge, U.S.A. 
 The Right Honble. THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE 
 
 OF ENGLAND. 
 Professor EDWARD DOWDEN, LL.D., Trinity 
 
 College, Dublin. 
 EDMUND W. GOSSE, Esq., London. 
 The Rev. WILLIAM HUBB.ARD, Ipswich. 
 Professor HENRY MORLEY, LL.D., London. 
 Dr. BRINSLEY NICHOLSON, London. 
 
 GEORGE SAINTSBURy, Esq., London. 
 
 FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE, Esq., LL.D., 
 London. 
 
 AUBREY DE VERB, Esq., Curragh Chase, 
 Adarb. 
 
 Professor WARD, M.A., Owens College, Man- 
 chester. 
 
 The Rev. RICHARD WILTON, M.A., Londes- 
 borough Rectory. 
 
 WILLIAM ALDIS WRIGHT, Esq., M.A., LL.D., 
 Trinity. Collbgb, Cambridge. 
 
 10 Vols. 
 
 Post 4to, jfis 2j. per vol. (loo copies.) 
 Small 4to, 12s, 6d. per vol. (loo copies.) 
 Demy 8vo, izs, 6d, per vol. (Uniform with the 'Cambridge Shakespeare.' 
 Crown 8vo, 7J. 6(/. per vol. f 100 copies.) 
 
 Vol. I. (pp. Ixiv, 571.) 
 
 100 copies.) 
 
 Life of Spenser. By the Editor : — I., Introduction — 
 The Ancestry and Family of Spenser ; II., Birth, 
 and Birthplace, and Boyhood; III., Jean Vander 
 Noodt, and Blank Verse and Rhymed Sonnets in 
 The Theatre 0/ Worldlings, 1369 ; IV., At the 
 University, 1569-76; V., In North-East Lanca- 
 shire, and "Rosalind," 1S76-7; VI., In the 
 South — How occupied, — Letters of Spenser and 
 Harvey, 1577-8 — 1580; VIL, Early and "Lost" 
 Poems, and Publication of the Shepherds 
 Calendar; VIII., Love-Experiences — Shine and 
 Shadow; IX., In London, and Appointment to 
 Ireland. — Capture of Fort-del-Ore. — Vindication 
 of Grey and Spenser; X., In Ireland — Dublin 
 and Kilcolman, 1580-90; XI., "Home Again" 
 in Ireland ; XII., Wooing and Marriage— Wife's 
 Name for the first time disclosed ; XIII., After 
 Marriage at Kilcolman, and again in London ; 
 XIV., Back again at Kilcolman. — Rebellion of 
 Tyrone. — State-Papers. — Death. 
 
 Appendix to the Life :— A, Entries concerning Spenser 
 
 from the Burnley Church Register ; B, Lancashire 
 Dialect-Words and Phrases from the Works of 
 Spenser — North East Lancashire Words common 
 to the Towneley Mysteries and the Shephfrds 
 Calendar— Foiats of Theology talked of all over 
 Lancashire contemporarily ; C, Descent of the 
 Traverses ; D, Jean Vander Noodt or Noot ; E, 
 Translation of Spenser's Latin Verse-Letter to 
 Harvey; F, Harvey's Letters to Spenser; G, 
 Doni's Moral Philosophy ; H, T,he f den,tification 
 of "Cuddie"; I, Spenser's Friendship with Sir 
 Philip Sidney; J, Artificial Ethics; K, Docu- 
 ments and State-Papers on Lord Grey's Ad- 
 ministration— Smenvick ; L, The Forfeiture of 
 ' Desmond's Lands— Justification ; M, On Brys- 
 kett's Discourse 0/ Civill Life \ N, Mr. Sebastian 
 Evans on a "Lost Poem" by Spenser; O, 
 Critical Analysis of the Amoretti: P, Dr. G. 
 Macdonald on Spenser's Poetry; Q, After 
 Marriage at Kilcolman, by Dean Church ; R, 
 Lord Roche and Spenser again ; S, Literature of 
 
 t 
 
14 
 
 NOTES AND NOTICES. 
 
 the year 1596 ; T, Dean Church on the State of 
 Ireland in 1596 ; U, Dean Church on Spenser's 
 Indebtedness to Ireland ; V, Spenser's State- 
 Papers — "A Briefe Note of Ireland, etc.," ; W, 
 Widow and Family of Spenser, and Descendants. 
 Essays : — I. Characteristics of Spenser's Poetry, by 
 Aubrey de Vere, Esq. II. Spenser, the Poet 
 
 and Teacher, by Professor Edward Dowden, 
 LL.D. III. Certain Aspects of the Faery 
 Queen, and some of the other Poetry of Spenser, 
 by Rev. W. B. Philpot, M.A. IV. The Intro- 
 spection and Outlook of Spenser, by Rev. William 
 Hubbard] Manchester. 
 
 Vol. II. (pp. 289.) 
 
 The Shepheards Calendar and Glosse (1597) : with Various Readings of the Quartos, (1579-91.) 
 
 Vol. III. (pp. cxiv, 237.) 
 
 Essay on English Pastoral Poetry, by Professor E. W, 
 
 Gosse. 
 Rider on the Same — ^by the Editor. 
 Who were Rosalinde and Menalcas ? — by the Editor. 
 Notices of Edward Kirke — by the Editor. 
 Complaints : j, The Ruines of Time, vs, The Teares 
 
 of the Muses. 3, Vlrgils Gnat. 4, Prosopopoia, or 
 Mother Hubberds Tale, and Appendix. 5, The 
 Ruines of Rome, by Bellay. 6, Muiopotmos, or the 
 Tale of the Butterflie. 7, Visions of the World's 
 Vanitie, 8, Bellay's Visions. 9, Petrarche's Visions ; 
 and Appendix. 
 
 Essay on the Minor Poems of Spenser, by F, T. 
 
 Palgrave, Esq., LL.D. 
 (i) Daphnaida : an Elegie upon the Death of the 
 
 noble and vertuous Douglas Howard, etc. 
 (2) Colin Clouts Come Home Again. 
 
 Vol. IV. (pp. cvii, 256.) 
 
 (3) Amoretti and Epithalamion. 
 
 (4) Foure Hymnes. 
 
 (5) Prothalamion, or a Spousal Verse, etc. 
 
 (6) Astrophel, etc., and Sonnets. 
 
 Vols. V.— VIII. (pp. 338, 342, 349, i2,1- 
 
 The Faerie Queene : with Various Readings of 1390, etc, etc. 
 
 Vol. IX. (pp. 278.) 
 
 Prose Works : — (a) View of the Present State of Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. With 
 
 Ireland. Discoursed by way of Dialogue various readings, etc, 
 
 between Eudoxus and Irenseus .... from (J>) Letters, etc., etc. 
 MS. in Lambeth Palace, by permission of His 
 
 Vol. X. {In j>re^araiion.'\ 
 
 Glossarial Index, with Notes and Illustrations on every word, person and thing, in the entire Works, 
 
 i^ In the noble post 4to copies, besides minor illustrations, there are steel-plate 
 portraits of Edmund Spenser — one from an original in possession of the Rev. Sabine 
 Baring-Gould, M.A. ; a second from a verified miniature given by Queen Elizabeth 
 to Lady EUzabeth Carey ; Sir Walter Raleigh, from an original in possession of the 
 Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould, M.A. ; Anne, Countess of Derby, friend of Shakespeare 
 and Spenser and Milton, from an original miniature furnished by the Earl of Derby ; 
 also many fac-similes, etc., etc. 
 
NOTES AND NOTICES. 15 
 
 III. The Complete Works in Verse and Prose 
 
 of Samuel Daniel. i7S 7 ^/^' 
 
 Post 4to, ;C2 25. per vol. ii.oo co^s.) | Demy 8vo, i2j. 6^^. per vol, {loo copies.) 
 
 Small 4to, I2J. 6d. per vol. (loo copies.) \ Crown 8vo, is, td, per vol. (loo copies.) 
 
 ^ Read Daniel — the admirable Daniel,' — Coleridge's 'Table Talk' (edn. 1852, p. 311). 
 Except the increasingly high-priced, because more and more eagerly secured, 
 original and early editions, the Works of ' well-languaged Daniel ' — as William 
 Browne in his ' Britannia's Pastorals ' felicitously named him — are practically 
 unobtainable at present ; for the wretched little edition of 1718 (2 vols. i2mo) is 
 really worthless. Occasionally the excellent volume of ' Selections ' by Mr. Morris 
 of Bath (1855) occurs ; but even it has become a bibliographic rarity already, so 
 instantly was it absorbed. It is as inexplicable' as that only now at long-last are 
 we getting a critical edition of Michael Drayton, that we should still be without one 
 of Samuel Daniel. The extreme rarity of all his books and booklets — some of them 
 from their private issue rare from the outset — and the heavy editorial labour required 
 worthily to furnish them, explain, if they do not excuse, the long omission and 
 neglect. Contemporaneously he won the praise of his greatest fellow-poets, and 
 was welcomed into the circle within which walked Marlowe and Chapman and 
 Shakespeare — as earlier Nashe stole a whole sheaf of his Poems and surreptitiously 
 published them in his 1591 edition of ' Astrophel and Stella,' thus uniting him with 
 Sir Philip Sidney. Spenser tried to sting him into achievement more commensurate 
 with his genius. Camden similarly associates him with Shakespeare and Spenser, 
 Jonson and Drayton and Chapman, as of ' the most pregnant wits then flourishing ' 
 (' Remaines,' s.n.'). Even away down in Scotland, Drummond of Hawthomden 
 pronounced him ' for sweetness and rhyming, second to none ' — hitting oif as with 
 stroke of sculptor's chisel his two leading characteristics, his ' sweetness ' and 
 exquisiteness of art — ^exquisite poet' being also Thomas Fuller's praise in ranking 
 him high among his ' Worthies,' and playing further on his name and surname thus : 
 ' He carried in his Christian and surname two holy prophets [Samuel and Daniel] 
 his monitors so to qualify his raptures, that he abhorred all prophaneness,' — Fuller 
 again, like Drummond, hereby bringing out another of his characteristics and 
 honours — ^viz., his stainless purity as well of thought and emotion as of wording. 
 Richard Bamfield, in 1598, in his ' Remembrance of some English Poets,' had 
 similarly glorified his 'sweet-chast verse.' This latter is the more noticeable in 
 that his Love-Sonnets to ' Delia '—which preceded Shakespeare's by several years 
 — led, in a sense, the way in this subtle and perilous literature. Southey grasped 
 the whole elements of his Works when in his little notice prefixed to his brief 
 ' Specimens ' (' British Poets from Chaucerto Jonson '— 1831) he thus summarises his 
 estimate of him : ' Daniel frequently [occasionally only] writes below his subject and 
 his strength ; but always in a strain of tender feeling, and in language as easy and 
 natural as it is pure. For his diction alone he would deserve to be studied by all 
 
 ') ? 
 
1 5 NOTES AND NOTICES. 
 
 students or lovers of poetiy, even if his works did not abound with passages of 
 singular beauty. Thoughtful, graceful, right-minded, and gentle-hearted, there is 
 no poet, in any language, of whom it may be inferred witlj more certainty, from his 
 writings, that he was an amiable, and wise, and good man.' Hallam more 
 judicially, if as usual chillingly, observes : ' It is the chief praise of Daniel, and 
 must have contributed to what popularity he enjoyed in his own age, that his 
 English is eminently pure, free from affectation and archaism, and from pedantic 
 innovations, with very little that is now obsolete. Both in prose and in poetry, he 
 is, as to langfuage, among the best writers of his time, and wanted but a greater 
 confidence in his own power .... to sustain his correct taste, calm sense, and 
 moral feeling.' (Introd.to 'Hist, of the Literature of Europe,' iii. 258;) His Sonnets 
 to ' Delia ' (which rank him with Sidney and Bamabe Barnes at their best, just 
 under Shakespeare's), his ' Musophilus,' his 'Complaint of Rosamond,' and his 
 ' Fvnerall Poeme vpon the Death of the Earle of Devonshire,' are better known than 
 the great body (or soul) of his Verse, but are not intrinsically better than most of his 
 generally unknown Poetry. 
 
 Vol. I.— iHcr«ie (pp. xwiii, 296). 
 
 Memorial-Introduction : I. BiographicaL (6) A Fvnerall Poeme vpon the Death of the Earle of 
 (i) Inedited Introductory Poems. (1595 — 1623.) Deuonshire. 
 
 (2) Sonnets to Delia. (1592.) (7) Certaine Epistles. 
 
 (3) The Complaint of Rosamond. (8) Musophilus, or Defence of all Learning. (1603.) 
 
 (4) A Letter fromOctauia toMarcus Antonius.(i59g.) (9) Occasional Poems, from various sources, (1593 — 
 
 (5) A Panegyrike Congratulatorie to James I. (1603.) Portrait on steel, and autograph. [X607.) 
 
 VOL. II.— aJerge (pp. 335). 
 
 The Civile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke. (1595 — 1623.) 
 
 Vol. III.— IPIagB (pp. xi, 399). 
 
 Preliminary Note of George Saintsbury, Esq. (3) The Vision of the Twelue Goddesses. 
 
 (i) Cleopatra. (4) The Queenes Arcadia. 
 
 (2) Philotas. (5) Tethys Festivall. (6) Hymenes Triumph. 
 
 Vols. IV. and V. — Prose {in Pre;paration). 
 
 Curiously enough, the prose of Daniel was, earlier, put in the fore-front. Thus, 
 Langbaine says : " However his genius was qualified for poetry, I take his History 
 of England to be the crown of his works " (Dramatick Poets : 1691). Dr. Drake — 
 worth half a score of self-conscious modern Shakespearians — ^having spoken of 
 Raleigh and Bacon, observes : " But all these historians are excelled, in purity 
 of style and perspicuity of narration, by Daniel, whose ' History of England,' closing 
 with the reign of Edwar,d the Third, is a production which reflects great credit 
 on the age in which it,was written " (' Shakespeare and his Tiines '). 
 
 Besides his ' Ijistory ' there is his excessively rare ' Worthy Tract of Paulus 
 lovius, contayning' a Discourse of rare Inuentions, both Militarie and Amorous 
 called Impresses Wherunto is added a Preface contayning the Arte of composing 
 them, withrmany other notable deuises ' (1585). The ' Preface ' is still quick. There 
 is also his prescient ' Defence ' of Rhyme, and ' English Poetrie,' and minor things. 
 The prose, it is found, will make two matterful volumes. 
 
 *»* special Increase of Suiscription List for Sterner atui Daniel is solicited and needed. 
 
NOTES AND NOTICES. 17 
 
 IV. Occasional Issues of Unique and Very 
 
 Rare Books. 
 
 38 Parts. 
 
 *,* The following only can now be supplied in one, two, and at most four copies. 
 
 1. ANTHONY SCOLOKER and JOHN RAYNOLDS. £2 is. 
 
 (a) Daiphantvs, or The Passions of Love. Comicall to Reade, but Tragical! to Act : As full of Wit as Ex- 
 perience .... Whereunto is added The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage. (1604.) 
 
 (5) Dolarnys Primerose, or The first Part of the Passionate Hermit : wherein is expressed the liuely passions of 
 Zeale and Loue, with an alluding discourse to Valours ghost. Both pleasarit and profitable if iudiciously 
 read, and rightly vnderstood. , . . (1606,) 
 
 2. ROBERT TOFTE. £% <,s. td. 
 
 Alba. The Months Minde of a melancholy Louer ('593.) With full quotations from ' Laura. The 
 
 Toyes of a Traveller. Or the Feast of Fancie,' (1597.) 
 
 3. ANONYMOUS. £i \s. 
 
 Choice, Chance, and Change, or Conceites in their Colours. (1606.) 
 
 4. ANONYMOUS. £\ lu. bd. 
 
 (a) Polimanteia .... Whereunto is added, a Letter from England to her three daughters, Cambridge, 
 Oxford, Innes of Court, and to all the rest of her inhabitants : perswading them to a constant vnitie of what 
 religion soever they are, for the defence of our dread Soveraigne, and native Cuntry (r595.) 
 
 (i) A Quest of Enquirie by Women to know whether the Tripe-woman was trimmed. (1595.) 
 
 5. RICHARD CAREW. £i lu. td. 
 
 Godfrey of Bvlloigne, or the Recouerie of Hiervsalem. An Heroicall poeme written in Italian by Seign. 
 Torquato Tasso, and translated into English by R. C. Gent. , . . (i594.) 
 
 6. ANONYMOUS. £i \\s. 6d. 
 
 (a) A True Coppie of a Discourse written by a Gentleman employed in the late Voyage of Spain and Portugall : 
 Sent to his particular Friend, and by him published for the better satisfaction of all such, as having been 
 reduced by partiall report, have entered into conceipts tending to the discredit of the enterprise, and actors 
 in the same, 
 
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 Vol. I.— ©cr0e* 
 
 (i) Memorial-Introduction : 1. Biographical ; II. (8) Pasqvils Passe and passeth not. Set downe in 
 
 Critical, Three Pees. His Passe, Precession and Prog- 
 
 (2 and 3) A Floorish vpon Fancie. As gallant a nostication. (1600,) 
 
 Glose, vpon so trifling a text as euer was written. (9) MelanchoUke Humours, In Verse of Diverse 
 
 Compiled by N. B., Gent. To which are an- Natures. (1600.) i, Epistles — dedicatory and to 
 
 nexed The Toyes of an Idle head : containing the Reader. 2, In Authorem — by Ben Jonson. 
 
 many pretie Pamphlets, for pleasaunt heads to 3, See and say nothing. 4, What is hell ? 5, 
 
 passe away Idle time withall. By the same Mal-Content. 6, A doleful! Passion, 7, A 
 
 Authour. (1582.) Testament vpon the Passion. 8, A Fantasticke 
 
 (4) The Pilgrimage to Paradise, ioyned with the solemne Humour, g, A Briefe of Sorrow. 10 and 
 
 Countess of Pembroakes loue. . . . (1592.) 11, A Solemne Fancy and Solemne Sound. 12, 
 
 (5) The Arbor of Amorous Deuices : Wherein yonng An extreame Passion. 13 and 14, A Solemne 
 
 Gentlemen may reade many pleasant fancies and Farewell to the World and a Solemne Conceipt. 
 
 fine deuices : And thereon meditate diuers sweete 15, A straunge A. B. C. 16, Fie on Pride. 17, 
 
 Conceites to Court the loue of faire Ladies and A Farewell to Loue, 18, A Jeasting Curse, ig. 
 
 Gentlewomen, . . . (1597.) A solemne Toie. 20, A Displeasure against Loue. 
 
 (6) Pasqvils Mad-cappe, Throwne at the Corruptions of 21, A Farewell to Conceipt, 22, An unhappy, 
 
 these Times. With his Message to Men of all solemne, jeasting Curse. 23, A Quarrell with 
 
 Estates. (1626.) Loue. 24, A Wish in Vaine. 25, A conceipt 
 
 (7) Pasqvils Fooles-cap Sent to Such (To keepe their upon an Eagle and 'a Phoenix. 26, A conceited 
 
 weake braines warme) as are not able to conceiue Fancy. 27, A Smile misconstrued. 28, An 
 
 aright of his Mad-cap. With Pasquils Passion odde Humour. 39, A Waggery. 30 and 31, 
 
 for the Worlds waywardnesse. Begun by him- An odde Conceipt and a Dolefull Fancy. 32, An 
 selfe, and finished by his friend Morphorias. Epitaph vpon Poet Spencer. 
 
 (1600.) (10) A Solemne Passion of the Sovles Love. (1623.) 
 
NOTES AND NOTICES. 
 
 19 
 
 (11) A Diuine Poeme, diuided into two Pjirtes : the 
 Rauisht Soule and the Blessed Weeper. (1601,) 
 
 (12) An Excellent Poeme, Vpon the Longing of a 
 Blessed Heart : which loathing the World, doth 
 long to be with Christ. With an Addition vpon 
 the Definition of Loue. (t6or,) 
 
 (13) The Soules Harmony. (1602.) 
 
 (14) The Mothers Blessing. (1602.) 
 
 (15) The Passionate Shepheard, or the Shephearde's 
 Loue : set downe in Passions to his Shepheardesse 
 Aglaia. With many excellent conceited Poems 
 and pleasant Sonnets, fit for young heads to 
 passe away idle houres. (1604.) 
 
 (16) The Soule's immortall crowne consisting ofseauen 
 glorious graces. ijVertue. 2,Wisedome. 3, Loue. 
 4, Constancie. 5, Patience. 6, 'Humilitie. 7, In- 
 finiteness. Deuided into seu^n dayes Workes. 
 (160S.) 
 
 (17) The Honovr of Valovr. (1605.) 
 
 (18) An Invective against Treason. (1616.) 
 (ig) I wovld and wovld not. (1614.) 
 
 (20) Daffodils and Primroses. Part ist, Poems from 
 'Phosnix Nest' and ' England's Helicon,' 1593 — 
 1600 : Part 2nd, Poems from Hitherto Unpub- 
 lished MSS, in the possession of F. W. Cosens, 
 Esq., London, and from the Tanner MSS., 
 Bodleian, Oxford. 
 
 L — I, The Preamble. The Garden-plot, z, A 
 strange description of a rare Garden. ... 3» An 
 excellent Dreame of I-adies and their Riddles. 
 4, The Chesse Play, 5, A moste excellent Passion. 
 
 6, Phillida and Coridon, 7, A Pastorall of 
 Phillida and Coridon. 8, A sweete Pastorall. 
 9, Astrophell, his Song. 10, Coridon's Suppli- 
 cation. II, A Sheepheard's Dreame. 12, A 
 Report-Song in a dreame. . . . i3) Another of 
 the Same. 
 
 II. — X, Elizabeth Regina. 2, In Sadness. 3, 
 Love rejected. 4, My Lady-loue. 5, Breton's 
 Resolution. 6, Faith disdained. 7, The Rose 
 the Queen. 8, Let Loue kill me, 9, Mine only 
 Princesse. 10, Coridon's Dreame. 11, Sir 
 Philip Sidney's Epitaph. 12, Loue dead. 
 13, Faithful imto death. 14, Transitoriness. 
 1 5) Nightingale and Phillis. 1 6, Heart-pain. 
 17, Olden loue-making. 18, Quatuor elementa. 
 x$-20, A Sonnet vpon a worde in truth spoken. 
 , . . . zi-2, Despondency and Melancholia. 
 23-4, Aspiration and Dead Hopes. 25, Sweete 
 Penelope. 26-7, Beauty and Loue-Rapture. 
 28-30, Loue almost slaine, and Phillis in Sorrow 
 and Fascination. 31-2, Of Sidney and *Perfect- 
 tion Dead.' 33, Coridon Unhappy. 
 
 (21) Amoris Lachrimas for Sir Philip Sidney. (1586.) 
 
 (22) Gleanings from 'The Workes of a young Wyt 
 trust vp with a Fardell of pretie Fancies.' .... 
 (i577') Gleanings from * Morley's New Book of 
 Tablature.' (1596.) Gleanings from ' Bowre of 
 Delights.' (1597.) Gleanings from ' Dowland's 
 Third Book of Songs.' (1603.) Gleanings from 
 'Honest Counsaile.' .... (1605.) Gleanings 
 from 'Eliosto Libidinoso.' .... (1606.) 
 
 Vol. II,— Projse* 
 
 (i) Auspicante Jehoua. Maries Exercise. (1597.) 
 
 (2) Wits Trenchmour, In a Conference had betwixt 
 a Scholler and an Angler. (1597.) 
 
 (3) The WU of Wit, Wits Will, or Wil's Wit, Chuse 
 you whether. Containing fine Discourses, the 
 effects whereof follow : — 1, A Pretie and Wittie 
 Discourse betwixt Wit and Will. The Author's 
 Dreame of strange Effects. 2, The Scholler and 
 the Souldiour : a Disputation pithily passed be- 
 tweene them, the one defending Learning, the 
 other Martiall Discipline, 3, The Miseries of 
 Mauilia. 4, The Praise of Vertuous Ladies and 
 Gentlewomen. 5, A Dialogue between Anger 
 and Patience. A Phisition's Letter. Farewell. 
 
 (1599-) 
 
 (4) The Strange Fortvnes of Two Excellent Princes : 
 in their Lines and Loues, to their equall Ladies 
 in all the titles of true honour. (1600.) 
 
 (5) Crossing of Proverbs ; Crosse-Answers and Crosse- 
 Humours. (1616.) 
 
 (6) The Figure of Foure : Wherein are sweet flowers 
 gathered out of that fruitfull ground, that I hope 
 will yeeld pleasure and profit to all sorts of 
 people. (1636.) 
 
 (7) Wonders Worth the Hearing : Which being read 
 or heard in a Winter's evening by a good fire, or 
 
 a Summer's morning in the greene fields : may 
 serue both to purge melancholy from the minde, 
 and grosse humours from the body. Pleasant for 
 youth, recreative for age, profitable for all, and 
 not hurtfuU to any. (1602.) 
 
 (8) A Poste with a Packet of Mad Letters. (1637.) 
 
 (9) A Mad World my masters. Mistake me not. Or 
 a Merry Dialogue betweene two Travellers, the 
 Taker and Mistaker : Being very Delightfull, 
 Pleasant and Profitable to all. (1635.) 
 
 (10) A Dialogue full of pithe and pleasure : betweene 
 three Phylosophers, Antonio, Meandro, and 
 Dinarco, Vpon the Dignitie or Indignitie of 
 Man (1603.) 
 
 (11) Grimello's Fortvnes. With the Entertainment 
 in his trauaille, a Discourse full of pleasure, 
 (1604.) 
 
 <i2) An Olde Man's Lesson and a Young Man's L©ue. 
 (1605.) 
 
 (13) I Pray you be not Angrie : a Pleasant and Merry 
 Dialogue between two Trauellers as they met on 
 the High-way. (1605.) 
 
 (14) A Murmurer. (1607.) 
 
 (15) Divine Considerations of the Soule: concerning 
 the excellence of God and the vilenesse of Man. 
 .... (1608.) 
 
20 
 
 NOTES AND NOTICES, 
 
 (i6) Wits Private Wealth Stored with Choise of 
 Commodities to content the Minde. (1639.) 
 
 (17) Characters vpon Essaies, Morall and Diuine. 
 Written for those good spirits that will take them 
 in good part, and make use of them to good 
 purpose, (1615.) 
 
 (18) The Good and the Badde, or Descriptions of the 
 Worthies and Vnworthies of this Age. Where 
 the Best may see their Graces and the Worst 
 discerne their Basenesse. (1616.) 
 
 (ig) Strange Newes ovt of Diuers Countries. Neuer 
 discovered till of late, by a strange Pilgrim in 
 those parts. (1622.) 
 
 (20) Fantasticks : Seruing for a perpetuall Prognosti- 
 cation, Descants of— i, The World. 2, The 
 
 Earth. 3, Water. 4, Ayre. 5, Fire. 6, Fish. 
 7, Beasts. 8, Man. 9, Woman. 10, Loue. 
 II, Money. 12, The Spring. 13, Summer, 
 14, Harvest 15, Winter. 16, The 12 Months. 
 17, Christmas. x8, Lent. 19, Good Friday, 
 zo, Easter Day. 21, Morning. 32, The 12 
 hours. 23, Midnight. 24, Conclusion. (1626.) 
 
 (21) The Court aud Country, or a Brlefe Discourse 
 betweene the Courtier and Countryman ; of the 
 Manner, Nature and Condition of their Lines. 
 .... (1618.) 
 
 (22) Character of Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 (23) Glossarial Index. 
 
 (24) Index of Names and Places. 
 
 (25) Proverbs and Proverbial Sayings, etc., etc. 
 
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 Vol. I. 
 
 (i) Memorial-Introduction : I. Biographical ; II. 
 Critical. 
 
 (2) Mirum in Modum. A Glimpse of God's Glorie 
 
 and the Soule's Shape, (1602.) 
 
 (3) Summa Totalis or All in All, and the same for 
 
 euer ; or an Addition to Mirum in Modum. 
 (1607.) 
 
 (4) Microcosmos. The Discovery of the little World, 
 
 with the Government lliereof. (1603.) An 
 
 Extasie. Sonnets. 
 (s) The Holy Roode, or Christ's Crosse : Containing 
 
 Christ Crucified, described in speaking Pictures. 
 
 (1609.) 
 (6) Humours Heau'n on Earth : with The Ciuile 
 
 Warres of Death : or the Picture of the Plaguei 
 according to the Life : as it was in Anno Domin, 
 1603. (1609.) 
 
 (7) The Muses Teares for the losse of their Hope ; 
 
 heroick and nere-too-mvch praised, Henry, Prince 
 of Wales, etc. Together with Time's Sobs for 
 the vntimely death of his glory in that his 
 Darling : and, lastly, his Epitaphs .... where- 
 vnto is added Consolatory Straines to wrest 
 Nature (1613.) 
 
 (8) Bien Venv. Great Britaine's Welcome to her 
 
 Create Friendes, and deere Brethren, the Danes. 
 (1606.) 
 
 Vol. II. 
 
 (i) Witte's Pilgrimage (by Poeticall Essaies) Through 
 a World of amorous Sonnets, Soule-passions, and 
 other Passiges, diuine, philosophicall, morall, 
 poeticall, and politicall. («. d.) 
 
 (a) A Select Second Husband for Sir Thomas Over- 
 burie's Wife, now a match-lesse widow. (1606.) 
 
 (3) The Scourge of Folly. Consisting of Satyricall 
 
 Epigrams and others in honor of many noble and 
 worthy persons of our Land. Together with a 
 pleasant (though discordant) Descant vpon most 
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 cutors by A. H. (£611,) 
 
 (6) The Muse's Sacrifice, or Divine Meditations. 
 (1612,) 
 
 (7) Commendatory Poems. 
 
 (8) Additions. 
 
 (g) An Eclogue between young Willy [William 
 Browne] the Singer of his native Pastorals, and 
 old Wernicke his friend. (16 14 ) 
 
 (10) Wit's Bedlam. Where is had Whipping cheer to 
 cure the mad. (1617,) 
 
 (11) Glossary and Index of Names. 
 
NOTES AND NOTICES. 
 
 
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 a Vols. 4to. Porlrait (steel), faosimiles, etc., etc. 
 
 Vol. I. 
 
 (i) Memorial - Introduction : I. Biographical : II. 
 Critical. 
 
 (2) Du Bart AS : Corona Dedicatoria. 
 
 (3) Poems commendatory, etc., etc. 
 
 (4) First Weeke or Birth of the World, i, The Chaos. 
 
 2, The Elements. 3, The Sea and Earth. 4, 
 The Heavens. 5, The Fishes and Fowles. 6, 
 The Beasts and Man. 7, The Sabbath. 
 
 (5) Second Weeke disposed after the proportion of his 
 
 First into Seaven Days : i, Adam. 2, Noah. 
 3, Abraham. 4, David. 5, Zedechias. 6, 
 Messias. 7, The Eternall Sabbath . . or 
 
 Eden : the Imposture — the Furies— the Handy. 
 
 crafts. Noah : the Ark — Babylon — Colonies 
 
 Columnes. Abraham : the Vocation^the Fathers 
 — the Law — the Captains. David : The Trophees 
 — :the Magnificence — the Schism — the Decay. 
 
 Vol. II. 
 
 (i) Urania, or the Heavenly Muse. 
 
 (2) The Triumph of Faith. 
 
 (3) Tetrastica, or the Quadrains of Guy de Faur, 
 Lord of Pibrac. 
 
 (4) Sonnets upon the late miraculous Peace. 
 
 (5) A Dialogue upon the Troubles Past. 
 
 (6) An Ode of the love and beauties of Astrsea. 
 
 (7) Sonnets. ' 
 
 (8) Epigrammes and Epitaphes upon Wane and 
 Peace. 
 
 (9) The Profit of Imprisonment, a Paradox. 
 (10) A Briefe Index .... 
 
 (xi) Little Bartas, or Briefe Meditations on the Power, 
 Providence, Greatnes and Goodnesse of God, &c. 
 
 (12) Micro-cosmo-graphia : the little world's description 
 or the Map of Man. 
 
 (13) The Maiden's Blush, or Joseph 
 
 (14) The Parliament of Vertues Royall 
 
 (15) Panaretus. 
 
 (16) The Second Session of the Parliament of Vertues 
 Royall .... 
 
 (17) A Divine and True Tragi-comedy . , , , 
 (iS) Bethulia's Rescue .... 
 
 (19) A Hymn of Almes, or the Begger's Bell. . 
 
 (20) Memorials of Mortalitie. 
 
 (21) Hymn of St. Lewis, 
 
 (22) Henrie the Great. 
 
 (23) The Battle of Ivry. 
 
 (24) Similem non est idem. 
 
 (25) A Glimpse of heavenly joyes 
 
 (26) Auto-machia, or the Selfe-civil-War. 
 
 (27) Tobacco Battered and the Pipes shattered 
 
 (28) Lacrymse Lacrymarum. 
 
 (29) Elegiac Epistle Consolatory. 
 
 (30) Honour's Farewell. 
 
 (31) Honour's Epitaph. 
 
 (32) A Funeral Elegie. 
 
 (33) A Brief Catechisme. 
 
 (34) Spectacles New-polished. 
 
 (35) Mottoes. 
 
 (36) The Wood-man's Bear. 
 
 (37) Epithalamion. 
 
 (38) A Holy Preparation. 
 
 (39) Mysterie of Mysteries. 
 
 (40) Posthumi, or Sylvester's Remains. . . 
 
 (41) Glossarial Index, etc., etc. 
 
 
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 2 Vols. 4to, Portrait (steel), facsimile, etc. 
 
 Vol. I. 
 
 (r) Memorial - Introduction : I. Biographical ; II. 
 Critical. 
 
 (2) Psyche or Love's Mystery in xxiv. Cantos : dis- 
 playing the Intercourse between Christ and the 
 Soul. Author to Reader. Poem to the Memory 
 of Dr. Beaumont ; — Canto i. The Preparatiue ; 
 
 II. Lust Conquered ; III. The Girdle or Loue- 
 token ; iv. Rebellion ; V. The Pacification ; ri. 
 The Humiliation vii. The Great Little One ; 
 VIII. The Pilgrimage ; ix. The Temptation ; x. 
 The Marvels ; xi. The Traitor, 
 
 Vol. II. 
 
 Psyche : — Canto xii. The Banquet ; xiii. The Im- 
 peachment ; XIV. The Death of Love ; xv. The 
 Triumph of Love ; xvi. The Supply ; xvn. The 
 Cheat ; xviii. The Poyson ; xix. The Antidote ; 
 XX. The Mortification ; xxi. The Sublimation ; 
 
 XXII. The Persecution ; xxiii. The Dersliction ; 
 
 XXIV. The Consummation. 
 
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NOTES AND N02ICES. 
 
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 Critical ; III. Appendix. 
 
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 epistle-dedicatory to Alexander More, A Pla- 
 tonick Song of the Soul. To the Reader. 
 Psychozoia, or Life of the Soul, The First Part 
 of the Song of the Soul, cantos i., ii., iii. 
 Psychathanasia, Immortality of Souls, especially 
 Man's Soul, being the Second Part, B. I. cc. i. — 
 iv. : B. II., cc. i. — iii. : B. III., cc. i. — iv. 
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 Infinity of Worlds Antipsychopan- 
 
 nychia, confutation of the Sleep of the Soul, or 
 
 Portrait (steel). 
 
 the Third Part, cc. i.— iii. The Prae-existency of 
 the Soul. Antimonopsychia, confutation of the 
 Unity of Souls, or the Fourth Part. The Oracle. 
 The Author's Notes. 
 
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 Fluctuans. 3. Resolution. 4. Devotion. 5. 
 Aphroditus. 6. Out of Anthologie. 7. Neces- 
 sitas Triumphata. 8. Exorcismus. g. Deliquium. 
 10, Insomnium Philosophicum. 11. Monocardia, 
 12. The Philosopher's Devotion. 13. Charitie 
 and Humilitie. 14. The Triumph. 
 
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 Portrait (steel), and numerous remarkable Illustrations (of * The Emblems '), Fac-similes, etc. 
 
 Vol. I.— Proae* 
 
 (i) Memorial - Introduction : I. Biographical; II. Parts. (1646.) Meditations, Soliloquies and 
 
 Critical, Prayers — includes ' Barnabas and Boanerges,' or 
 
 (2) Enchyridion containing Institutions : Divine and Wine and OiL 
 
 Morall : Contemplative, Practicall, Ethycall, (5) The Loyall Convert. (1643.) 
 
 (Economical!, Political. In Four Books in (6) The New Distemper. (1643.) 
 
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 Vol. II.— SOtewe* 
 
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 History of Jonah. (1620-26.) Perlphras'd. (1625.) 
 
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 (3) Eleuen Pious Meditations. (lo) Solomon's Recantation, entituled Ecclesiastes 
 
 (4) Pentelogia or the Quintessence of Meditation. .... with a Soliloquie or Meditation upon 
 
 (5) Kadassa or the History of Queene Ester, every chapter. (1645.) 
 
 (6) lob Militant : with Meditations Divine and Morall, (11) Divine Fancies digested into Epigrammes, Medi- 
 
 (1624.) tations, and Observations. (1632.) 
 
 (7) Sion's Elegies wept by Jeremie the Prophet and (12) Notes and Illustrations, 
 
 and Periphras'd. (1624.) 
 
 Vol. III.— aicrse. 
 
 (i) Elegiacal Poems. (1630-40.) a. An Alphabet of (2) The Emblemes. (1643.) 
 
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 Memorials vpon the Death of Sir Robert Quarles. (5) The Shepherd's Oracles. (1646,) 
 
 .... g^. Elegie vpon .... Sir John Wolsten- (6) Argalus and Parthenia. (1629.) 
 
 holme h. Sighes at the contemporary (7) The Virgin Widow, a Comedie. 
 
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 (d) Additions ; (c) Critical, 
 (i) Poetical Blossomes. (1633.) 
 
 (2) Sylva. (1636.) 
 
 (3) Love's Riddle. (1638.) 
 
 (4) Naufragium Joculare. (1638,) 
 
 (5) The Mistress, or Loue Poems. (1647.) 
 
 (6) Anacreontiques. 
 
 (7) Miscellanies. (1656.) 
 
 Vol. II. 
 
 (8) Pindarick Odes. 
 
 (9) Davideis : a sacred Poem of the Troubles of 
 
 David. In Four Books. 
 
 (10) The Author's Notes. 
 
 (11) Latin Poems. 
 
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 The Dangers of an honest man in much company. 
 13, Claudian's Old Man of Verona. 14, The 
 shortness of Life and uncertainty of Riches. 1 5, 
 The danger of Procrastination. x6. Of myself. 
 17, To the Duke of Buckingham upon his mar- 
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 3. FULKE GREVILLE LORD BROOKE'S WORKS in Verse and Prose. 
 4 vols. 8vo, izs. 6d. per vol. ; cr. 8vo, 8s. id. 
 
 %♦ Nowhere else to be obtained ; many from his own M5S. 
 
 i^ ^4. COMPLETE WORKS IN Verse and Prose of HENRY VAUGHAN 
 
 I / '^ |S THE SiLURlST. 4 vols, Post 4to, ;^2 2J. per vol. ; 8vo, I2J. 6if. per vol. ; cr. Bvo, 
 
 ^^,^ ' ' *#• Includes also the Poems of his twin-brother Thomas Vaughan. 
 
 /7J ^ C"? 5- WORKS OF RICHARD CRASHAW. 2 vols. Post 4to, ;^i us. 6d. per 
 
 ' L >f'^' *■ I vol.; 8vo, 12^. (jd. per vol. ; cr. Bvo, is. id. 
 
 ^ . n 6. Dr. DONNE'S COMPLETE POEMS. 2 vols. Post 4to, ;£'2 2S. per vol.; 
 
 ^ ^ 8vo, 2\s. per vol.; cr. Bvo, los. td. per vol. 
 
 W'^' 
 
 ff^ ^7- ANDREW MARVELL'S COMPLETE WORKS, IN Verse and Prose. 
 
 / "J ^^ 4^ '^ ^°^^' ■^°®* '^^°' ^^ ^^' P^^ ^°^' ' ^^°' ^^^' P®'' ^°^* ' ^^' ^^°' '°^' ^'^' p^'- ^°^' 
 
 ■'l'%*Ki ^" ^OBE'^T SOUTHWELL'S POEMS. l vol. Post 4to, £2 2S. ; 8vo, 21s.; 
 
 / / 0^/^ ". Bvo, los. 6d. 
 
 -if^^J i)9- SIR PHILIP SIDNEY'S POEMS. 2 vols. Bvo, 15^. 6d. per vol. ; cr. Bvo, 
 n^fef 9^. S-^. per vol. ^ / 
 
 ilty ^°' ^^^'^^^ HERBERT'S COMPLETE WORKS, Verse AND Prose!, 4 vols. 
 
 C^ V^ II. CHRISTOPHER HARVEY'S POEMS. (As Supplement to Herbert.) Post 
 
 i-'J 'I ? 4to, £2 2S. ; Bvo, 21J. ; cr. Bvo, ioj. 6d. 
 
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NOTES AND NOTICES. 25 
 
 VII. Extra Books. 
 
 The following only are now obtainable in one, two, and at most five copies :— 
 
 1. THE MONARCHIE OF MAN. By Sir Jt)hn Eliot. 2 vols. 4to— from the 
 
 original MSS. in the British Museum, Portraits (steel), £2 izs. td. 
 
 2. (a) AN APOLOGIE FOR SOCRATES, n.d.: Defence of himself. 
 
 (5) NEGOTIUM POSTERORUM, or Transactions of the First Two Parliaments 
 of Charles I. By Sir John Eliot. 2 vols. 4to— from the original MSS. at Port 
 Eliot, with Additions from other MSS. there. £2 \is. td. 
 
 3. DE JURE MAJESTATIS. Sir John Eliot's great treatise on Government and 
 
 Law— with Additions from other unpublished MSS. at Port Eliot. 2 vols. 4to, 
 £2 1 2 J. bd. lOni Set only of the 6 vols. 
 
 4. THE POEMS OF RICHARD JAMES, B.D. i thick vol. 4to, now £2 I2J. bd. 
 
 \Four copies only. 
 
 (i) Iter Lancastrense. 
 
 (2) Legend and Defence of the Noble Knight and Martyr, Sir John Oldcastel. 
 
 (3) The Muses Dirge — great poem on Shakespeare — Sacred Poems from MSS. — Minor and fugitive Poems — . 
 
 Letter-treatise ' Whether it were allowable to put a King to death ' — a Memoir and Notes and Illustrations, 
 
 The ' Iter Lancastrense' is one of our very few local descriptive poems. It is full of delightful glimpses of 
 old Lancashire and beyond. The 'Falstaff' Epistle-dedicatory and the great poem on Sliakespeare are of 
 rarest interest to Shakespearians. Altogether a notable man, and this first collection a notable book. 
 
 5. THE TOWNLEY MSS. i. The Spending of the Money of Robert Nowell, of 
 
 Reade Hall, Lancashire : Brother of Dean Alexander Nowell, 1568-80 — from 
 the original MS. at Townley Hall, Lancashire ; pp. Iv and 445 ; small paper, 
 £1 I IS. 6d. 2. English Jacobite Ballads, Songs and Satires, etc., from the 
 MSS. at Townley Hall, Lancashire ; pp. xxviii and 200. Large paper, £1 lis. td. ; 
 small paper, £1 is. 
 
 There have been few * Finds ' more remarkable than these by the Master of the Rolls' Historical Commission. 
 The * Spending' for the first time supplies priceless information on the early life and education of Edmund 
 Spenser and many of his contemporaries. Indeed, among the hundreds (almost thousands) of names are few 
 families of Lancashire without illustration. The Editor and Mr, W. A. Abram, the Historian of Blackburn, 
 have fully annotated the names and things, and so supplied a noticeable body of new data, on very many family- 
 names. The ' English Jacobite Ballads ' give light on the strong feeling in favour of the Stuarts and against the 
 reigning house, and conversely. 
 
 6. THE LISMORE PAPERS. First Series— viz., Autobiographical Notes, Re- 
 
 membrances and Diaries of Sir Richard Boyle, First and ' Great' Earl of Cork. 
 Never before printed. From the original MSS. belonging to his Grace the Duke 
 of Devonshire, found in Lismore Castle. In 5 vols, small 4to, ;^8 %s. 
 
 7. THE LISMORE PAPERS. Second Series. Correspondence and State and 
 
 Historical MSS. At press, in 4 vols., £■] js. 
 
26 ISIOTES .^5Tv2T~7vT77TU2io7" 
 
 VIII. Private (steel) plate Portraits. 
 
 1. EDMUND SPENSER, from the original painting lent by the Countess of 
 
 Chesterfield, Bretby Park. 
 
 %* All the three forms were taken up in a few weeks, and the plate destroyed. 
 Not now obtainable. 
 
 2. JOHN MILTON, from the engraving published during his lifetime (1670) by 
 
 Faithorne ad mvum. 
 
 3. ANDREW MARVELL, from the original painting in the British Museum. 
 
 4. THOMAS OTWAY, from the original painting lent by the Countess of Chester- 
 
 field. 
 
 "Charming his face, and charming was his verse.'' 
 
 William Oldys, in his famous annotated copy of Langbaine's ' Dramatick Poets ' (British Museum, c. 28, 
 g. i), thus writes of Otway : " There is an excellent and beautiful Picture of Mr. Otway, who was a fine portly 
 graceful Man, now among the Poeticall Collection of the Lord Chesterfield (I think it was painted by John 
 Ryley), in a full bottom wig, and nothing like that Quakerish Figure which Knapton has impost upon the 
 world." Interlined is the following: "was of middle size, about, 5-ft. 7-in., inclinable to corpulency, had 
 thoughtful yet lively and as it were speaking eyes." Having been unreservedly entrusted — as before with the 
 priceless Edmund Spenser — by Lady Chestei-field of Bretby Park, with this authenticated original portrait of 
 the author of 'Venice Preserved' and 'The Orphan' — the entire gallery of the 'Poeticall Collection' being still 
 in admirable preservation — I have had it engraved, in every way worthily, by W, J, Alais, Esq., of London. 
 The size of the steel-plate is 11 in. x 9 in. ; the portrait itself, 7 in. x 5 in. ; artist's proofs, on paper 
 30 in. X 22 in. ; lettered proofs and prints 22 in. x 13^ in. A more attractive engraving it is impossible to 
 think of, while no one will dispute the authority of so sound and careful an antiquary as William Oldys, or 
 hesitate henceforth to dismiss Knapton's spurious as uncharacteristic portrait. Of my engraving I will leave one 
 well qualified, to pronounce judgment — the writer of a recent brilliant critical paper on Thomas Otway in 
 Cot-«Ai7/ (December 1877). Edmund W. Gosse, Esq^, Poet and Critic, thus acknowledges an early impression, 
 indeed the very first : *' My dear Dr. Grosart, — A thousand thanks for the beautiful gift that has reached me. 
 This is, indeed, a portrait worthy of that great and unfortunate poet. It is just what I have always imagined 
 that Otway must be. I value it extremely, and thank you most heartily for what I shall always prize among 
 my especial treasures." 
 
 5. GEORGE HERBERT, from the original of R. White, 1670, in Walton (uniform 
 
 with Otway), £1 i\s. 6d., 21s. ^ 10s. 6d. 
 
 6. ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON, from an exquisite original miniature formerly in 
 
 possession of his sister— never before engraved, and now engraved in fac-simile. 
 , [^Afew co;pies only remain : 21^., \os, dd.^ ys. 6d. 
 
 Of above (2 to 5) only a very few impressions in any form are obtainable : (a) Artist's proofs, ;£3 3^'. ; 
 (i5) Lettered proofs, £^ zs. ; (c) Prints, £z is. These are (practically) the only large engraved portraits 
 of their subjects that ever have been produced ; and they have won universal admiration from all who have seen 
 them. A few separate impre.ssions of the portraits of Sir Philip Sidney, Father Southwell (from an 
 original never before engraved), Marvell, George Herbert and his Father and Mother, Donne (from an 
 original miniature), and Bishop Croft, from the Fuller Worthies' Library, may still be had. 
 
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 I. — Literary Finds. 
 
 It has been my good fortune to make a number of literary discoveries and recoveries. These have been 
 generously and gratefully acknowledged by fellow-workers on our great literature. As introductory to others now 
 to be announced, it may be permitted me to recall some of them, e.g. : That Herbert Palmer — a saintly old 
 Puritan divine — ^not Lord Bacon, was the author of 'The Christian Paradoxes, or Seeming Contradictions' — 
 thus at a stroke rescuing a supreme name from honour that was dishonour at the hands of English, German, and 
 French opponents of Christianity, who claimed Verulam to be 'of them,' on the basis of these Paradoxes, mis- 
 assigned and misread for more than two hundred years (l vol. 1865) ; the long vainly-sought name and stoiy of 
 Edmund Spenser's 'Elizabeth,' shown in the ' Lismore Papers' (10 vols. 4°, 1886-88) to have been Elizabeth 
 Boyle, a ward of the ' Great Earl of Cork ' (with fac-similes of her letters), and a demonstration that so far from 
 having died in dejection and penury, Spenser up to the last was writing strenuous and statesmanly State-papers — 
 all reproduced from the MSS. ('Life,' vol. I. of Works, 1884) ; the relatively considerable additions from MSS. in 
 Williams' Library, Bodleian, and elsewhere, to the Poems of Richard Crashaw, and George Herbert, and 
 Dr Donne, and Nicholas Breton, and numerous others (in Fuller Worthies' Library, 39 vols. ; Chertsey 
 Worthies' Library, 14 vols. ; Huth Libraiy, 29 vols. ; Early English Poets, 9 vols. ; Unique and Rare Books, 
 39 vols., &c. &c.) ; over and above having been the first to collect, edit, and annotate, with original and full 
 memoirs, the works of foremost men of the 'spacious times of great Elizabeth' onward to the Prose Works of 
 Wordsworth (3 vols. ) at request of his family. 
 
 I venture to hope and assume that those capable and sympathetic with the toil and painstaking demanded 
 by such labours as these, wiU not count it boastful but simply informing, that I thus invite attention to some of 
 my work as Editor, Biographer, and Annotator. 
 
 I have now to announce Literary Finds of coequal interest and values with any made either by myself or 
 others and to seek co-operation to enable me to print them for lovers of our elder poets. These fresh finds 
 consist of Elizabethan, Jacobean, Carolian verse, not only hitherto unprinted, but so far as Icnown or shown, 
 absolutely unrecognized, though they include poems by Bacon, Philip Massinger, Francis Beaumont, 
 Sir John Beaumont, Cyril Tourneur, Thomas Randolph, Bishop Corbet, Dr. William Strode, 
 AuRELiAN Townshend, and a whole choir of our minor but genuine Singers. 
 
( 2 ) 
 
 I concede that on the first blush it may seem scarcely credible that It should have been reserved to this late 
 day to come upon such spolia opima, such literary treasure -trove (far beyond a chest of spade guraeas of the 
 Henrys) ; nevertheless, it is simple matter-of-fact, that in Trinity College, Dublin, vifherein I write this, there has 
 been lying for (it is believed) more than two centuries, a MS. volume of the middle of the 17th century, of nearly 500 
 folio pages, and other scarcely less important MSS. there, and in other libraries. The first-named Jis. (g. 2. 21) is 
 the chief source, of my present LITERARY FINDS ; but associated with it and other Trinity MSS. are (as intimated) 
 others of kindred importance, c g. an infinitely pathetic ' Farewell to Fortune,' by Bacon, on his fall and retire- 
 ment ; a singularly interesting verse-lament and appeal ' On behalf of the Lord Chancellor Bacon, by Mr. Lee ' 
 (who was probably Humphrey Leigh, yeoman-usher and almoner to Bacon (164 lines) ; an Epithalamium on Lord 
 Goring's maiTiage, by THOMAS RANDOLPH, wholly in his own autograph, signed ; and many like prizes. Not 
 only is aU this so, but as with the Williams and Bodleian Sancroft, Crashaw and Herbert poems, these MSS. 
 have been seen and consulted by successive generations of s(?holars without any one of them — earlier or recent- 
 recognizing that the poems preserved in them were not merely poems already printed — as it would appear must 
 have been taken for granted, or surely the literary world should have heard of it — but wholly unprinted and 
 unknown.* I frankly confess that when I first saw 'Philip Massinger,' and 'Francis Beaumont,' and 'Cyril 
 Toumeur' (misspelled CecilTumer), 'Thomas Randolph,' and the rest, signed to noticeable poems, I could hardly 
 credit my own eyes when I found none of them all in any edition of their works, or any -knowledge of them ; and 
 in relation to Massinger, further, it is surely singular that with such editors as GiiFord, Darley, Cunningham, I 
 shall be the first to reclaim from Musarum Deliciae a characteristically well-languaged poem by him, overlooked 
 by all his editors. 
 
 There remain other two things to be accentuated : — 
 
 (a) The chief Trinity College MS. notonly contains all these unprinted and unknown poems, but besides has 
 an equal number of those already printed in their several authors' works. For example, there is practically a 
 collection of the entire poems of Dr. Donne, dnd of a number of the best-known of Beaumont, Ben Jonson, 
 Carew, Corbet, &c. &c. The whole of these I intend to collate, and record their various readings wherever of 
 value, and not merely orthographical or trivial. My ideal is that our literature should be edited with the same 
 care as Greek or Latin Classics are. 
 
 (^) As the MS. furnishes several extremely interesting poems of Dr. William Strode and Aurelian 
 TOWNSHEND, I propose for the first time to collect their too-long scattered and inedited poems from every 
 available source. With reference to them, I shall be grateful if fellow-students, on reading the annexed first lines 
 under their names, favour me with any others I may have overlooked. So, too, with anonymous poems. Save 
 as above, and a few others exceptional, I do not wish to print anything already in print and accessible. 
 
 The summary details of the contents of my intended volume will speak for its weight, worth, and interest, 
 and reveal a quantity and quality of hitherto unknown verse that cannot fail to come as a pleasant surprise on 
 most. 
 
 Precious, however, as such LITERARY FINDS are, they are not of the marketable kind to command a 
 Publisher, or to warrant hazard of ordinary sales. Hence I send out this Prospectus to ascertain if I can get ' fit 
 audience, if few,' amongst my fellow book-lovers to share with me the cost of production. I trust my Chertsey, 
 Huth, and other books may be pointed to as pledges that this new volume will be in every respect a handsome 
 one, and especially in the large paper. I propose to limit the impression for our own country and America and 
 the Continent to 405 (300 in post 8° and 105 in post 4°). As I shall not go to Press until the whole have 
 been taken up, the book will be 'out of print' on the day of issue, and not obtainable by others at any price. 
 Each copy wiU be numbered and signed, and the volume wiU not be reprinted. The prices will be £1 is. bd. 
 ordinary; j^z 2s. 6d. large paper, delivered free. An Order-Form will be found on last leaf of this Prospectus, 
 and friends -mil oblige by speedily filling up and returning, that the book may go to Press with least possible 
 delay. iVo money to be sent until delivery of the book. 
 
 * The most striking illustration of this non-recognition is, that while the Royal Commission's Eighth 
 Report on Historical MSS. gives indeed a brief notice of the Trinity MS. it is simply described as a ' transcript ' 
 (not ' transcripts ' ) and as ' imperfect '; but with not the least gleam of knowledge that many of the poems by 
 names enumerated were unknown and unprinted. It can only be called a ' transcript ' as not being holographs, 
 and 'imperfect' applies alone to the closing poem and a few missing leaves. This is only a typical instance 
 of obliviousness in these otherwise valuable Blue-books. 
 
II. — Completion of the Works of Edmund Spenser and 
 
 Samuel Daniel. 
 
 Vols. I. to IX. of my Spenser in all its four forms — (a) cr. 8°; (5) 8°; {c) sm. 4° for 'The Spenser 
 Society ' ; [d) post 4° ; and vols. I. to III. of my DANIEL have for some years been issued. The former 
 contain the entire Works of Spenser, and the latter the entire Verse of Daniel ; but there remain vol. X. 
 of Spenser, viz. a full Glossary corresponding to Dyce's Glossarial volume to his Shakespeare, and vols. IV. 
 and V. of Daniel — his prose and a Glossary. 
 
 It has been a sorrow and almost humiliation to me that the completion of these two so cordially welcomed 
 editions of two master-poets has been so long postponed. I do not care to wear my heart upon my sleeve ; or 
 unmetaphorically to enter into the privacies of an utter break-down of my health and enforced retirement from all 
 mental occupation. But it lies on the surface that if I could have done it I long since would, had it only been to 
 recoup expenditure by having my remaintler sets completed and distributed. Restored recently to some measure 
 of former strength, and with the additional advantage of release from the vast responsibilities and pre-occupations 
 of my Chui'ch, and consequent restful leisure, I feel that I may now address myself to the discharge of a too pro- 
 longed obligation. But of necessity any such undertaking must be contingent on the response given to this 
 announcement. Glancing over ray subscribei's' list, it is saddening to note how many have in the interval joined 
 the majority, and most of whose representatives it were impossible to trace. Hence I postulate two things as 
 conditioning my completion of these books : — 
 
 [a) That surviving subscribers of the several forms shall fiU up the Order-Forms for the three remaining 
 volumes. 
 
 (S) That each such will do his utmost to secure a new subscriber so as to take up remaining sets along with 
 the new volumes, and otherwise interest himself in making the books known. "With these taken 
 up, the way would be clear ; without this, not. I specially need new names for the fine library 
 demy 8vos. 
 
 The cost of the 12 vols. (Spenser 9, Daniel 3) considerably exceeded my receipts — ^not reckoning my own 
 biogi-aphic and editorial work — and I simply dare not incur further liabilities unless (as before) fellow book- 
 lovers assume their part of the responsibility by themselves ordering the three new complete vols., and (ut 
 supra) interesting those unacquainted with the books. I should not wish in any case to raise the prices, and 
 therefore state them as before. (See the contents on page 6 of this Prospectus, and Order-Form.) 
 
 III. — Recoveries of missing books of Nicholas Breton. 
 
 In my Chertsey Worthies' Library I issued, in two massive volumes, the Verse and Prose of this fine old 
 Englishman ; and their reception and rapid absorption at home and abroad testified, that it met a literary want, as 
 indeed did the swift going out of print of all the Fuller Worthies' Library, Chertsey, Huth, &c., &c., of all. I 
 had to regret that certain of Breton's most coveted books were missing and absolutely unavailable. But recently 
 my good friend Dr. Richard Garnett of the British Museum reported to me the acquisition of no fewer than 
 four of these missing books, together with others that will enable me to perfect the imperfect texts before known. 
 They are as follows : 
 
 {3) Breton's Bowre of Delights. Contayning Many most delect- (d) Olde Mad-cappes new Gally-mawfrey. Made into amesse of 
 able and fine deuises, rare Epitaphs, pleasant Poems, Minglemangle out of these three idle-conceited Humours 
 
 Pastoralls and Sonnets. By N. B. Gent. Imprinted at following : i. I will not. 2. Oh ! the merne time. 3. Out 
 
 London by Richard lohnes at the Rose and Crowne.neere upon Money. At London. Printed for Richard lohnes, 
 
 Saint Andrewes Church in Holborne, 1597. pp.62. neere St. Andrews Church in Holborne, 1602. pp.50. 
 
 (*) No Whippings nor trippinge: but a kinde friendly snippinge. (e) A Merrie Dialogue betwixt the Maker and Mistaken Im- 
 Imprinted at London for lohn Browne and lohn Deane, printed at London for lames Shaw and are to be sold at 
 
 1601. pp. 59. his shop neare Lud-gate, 1603. 4 pp. The Epistle- 
 
 , , „ .. ^ ., , ,, . -„ ,„,.,,_. „ , dedicatory to John Florio and to the Reader, that up till 
 
 (c) Honest Gounsaile. A Heme fitte of a Poeticall Furie ; Good „™, iT^^ vfo^n lost 
 
 to read, better to follow. Imprinted at London by W. W. now nas Deen lost, 
 
 for William tones dwelling at the signe of the Gunne (/) Other minor additions, 
 neare Holborne Conduit, 1605. pp. 22. 
 
If the interval since the issue of my Spenser and ' Daniel has removed many Subscribers' names from the 
 living, still more has the much longer interval (1879) removed more from my Chertsey Worthies' Library list, and so 
 for Breton. Hence I am compelled to make my reproduction of above a distinct work from the "Works. There 
 were only 100 copies of the Chertsey Worthies' Library printed, and most probably nearly a-half are untraceable. 
 It is plain that it would be idle to try to trace present possessors. Accordingly, I prefer to print these recovered 
 works of Breton independent of the former works, and in type not small and double-columned, but uniform with 
 my Spenser, Daniel, Huth Library, Sec, &c. But I shall make the large paper of the same quarto size of 
 page with the others, so as to range with them if so wished ; the other in octavo to range with my octavos. 
 
 These recovered books of Breton have all his best characteristics, regarded as a whole. If the 'Bowre of 
 Delights' shows him only 'imping his wing for higher flights,' it none the less is an interesting land-mark in 
 contemporaiy verse between Cimucer and later Klizabethans. The others are bright and pleasant and manners- 
 painting. They yield delightful glimpses of old England in * the good old times' ; and tlieir wit is so gentle and 
 their gentleness so tunable and sweet, that one is drawn to their author irresistibly. To those who do not know 
 Breton", seeing that the complete works cannot now be obtained (save in chance sale copies), the present 
 intended volume will serve as a good introduction to him. The originals covld not be obtained under at least a 
 couple of hundred guineas, and indeed no price could purchase them as at present known. An Order-Form is 
 annexed on page 7, as before, and it too will please be filled up and returned, as there directed. 
 
 ALEXAl^DER B. GROSART. 
 
 Literary Finds. 
 
 Introduction, with detailed contents of the MSS. drawn on, and biographical and annotatory notes. 
 
 Lord Bacon. — A farewell to Fortune (23 lines), 
 facsimile will be given. 
 
 ^* Photo- 8. 
 
 i:. Philip Massinger. — (i) Copy of a verse-letter written to the 
 Earl of Pembroke {26 lines) ; (2) A New Year's verse-gift 
 to the Countess of Chesterfield {46 lines) ; (3) Verseaddress 
 to Dr. James Smith (20 lines). 
 
 3, Francis Beaumont.— On Madam Fowler desiring a sonnet 
 
 to be writ on her (18 lines). 
 
 4. Sir John Beaumont. — The Buckingham ms. discoveries of 
 
 Mr. Kenj-on. 
 
 5, Cyril Tourneur. — On [the death of a child but one year 
 
 old — a literary jewel. 
 
 6. I. B. (i) A funeral elegy on Mr. Christopher Herrys— who 
 
 was lamented by Crashaw as Milton lamented King in 
 * Lycidas,' — andvery beautiful (51 lines) ; (2) A funeral elegy 
 on King James I., with letter to br. Donne (23 lines)— heart- 
 felt and far above other contemporary laments — the more 
 noticeable as I. B. reveals himself to have been an Irishman. 
 
 7, Thomas Randolph- — Epithalamium on the auspicious 
 
 marriage of the noble George Goring to Lettice, 3rd 
 daughter of the * Great Earl of Cork' (186 lines). 
 
 8. William Strode, d.d., Canon of Christ Church, Oxford.— 
 
 1. Biographical introduction. 
 
 2. Upon his Mistress walking in a gentle snow. 
 
 3. To his Mistress having black eyes. 
 
 4. On one who kissinp his Mistress, at his departure left 
 
 some sign of blood upon her. 
 
 5. On his Mistress— Gaze not on swans. 
 
 6. Song — Keep on your mask. 
 
 7. Song~On a friend's absence— Come, come. . . . 
 
 8. Song— "When Orpheus sweetly did complain. 
 
 9. Song on a sigh— Oh tell me, tell me. 
 
 10. To his Mrs. playing on the lute— When whisp'ring 
 
 strains. 
 
 11. Desperato's banquet — Come heavy souls. 
 
 William Strode — Conhnued. 
 
 12. The chimney -swepers song— Hath Christmas furr'd 
 
 your chimney? 
 
 13. Upon Fairford Windows. 
 
 14. Caps— A Satire on Oxford Dons. 
 
 15. A Sonnet— My love and I for kisses play'd. 
 
 16. A parallel betwixt bowling and preferments. _ 
 
 17. A Quip— If that from glove you take G. 
 
 18. Love— Love 's like a game at Tables. 
 
 19. On a blush — Stay lusty blood. 
 
 20. A Song in the Baths— What angel stirs this happy well ? 
 
 21. Upon a good leg and a good foot. 
 
 22. To his Sister — Loving sister, every line. 
 
 23. To the Lady Knighton. 
 
 24. To Sir Edmund King. 
 
 25. His thanks to Sir John Ferrars. 
 
 26. Another to the Same. 
 
 27. A third to the Same. 
 
 28. To a gentleman from a friend — No marvel if the sun's 
 
 bright eye. 
 
 29. On a stranger gentlewoman passing by his window. 
 
 30. (i) On the death of Mrs. Mary Prideaux. 
 
 31. {2) Consolation to her parents. 
 
 32. (3) Her Epitaph. 
 
 33. On Sir John Walter's death. 
 
 34. On the death of Sir Rowland Cotton. 
 
 35. On the death of Lord Viscount Bayning. 
 
 36. On Dr. Langton's death. 
 
 37. Opposite to Melancholy. 
 
 38. Translation of Strada's Nightingale — with the Latin. 
 
 39. Upon Justification. 
 
 40. A Register for a Bible. 
 
 41. Another — I your memory's recorder, 
 
 42. Of death and resurrection. 
 
 43. On a dissembler. 
 
 44. A poem in Devonshire dialect— Thou n'ere woot riddle. 
 
 45. Lyrics, &c., from * The Floating Island' (1655). 
 
 46. Toavalentine — Fair valentine, since once yourwelcome 
 
 hand. 
 
 47. To Mr. Rives upon his recovery. 
 
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 84 William Strode — continued, 
 
 48. On John Dawson, butler of Christchurch. 
 
 49. On Westwell Downes— The pleated wrinkles on the 
 
 face, 
 
 50. On a Fountain — These dolphins twisted each on others 
 
 side. 
 
 51. Thanks for a welcome— For your good looks. 
 
 52 A superscription on Sir Philip Sidney's * Arcadia,' sent 
 tor a token. 
 
 53. To his Mrs.— Oft when I look. 
 
 54. On a spark that leapt into a lady's breast. 
 
 55. On a girdle — This circle here is drawn about. 
 
 56. A posy on a necklace — These veins are Nature's net. 
 
 57. On a Watch-Ring— Time s picture here invites j'o.u. 
 
 58. Purse-King— We hugin pairs. 
 
 59. On a watch that wanted a key — Thou pretty heaven. 
 
 60. Latin and other elegiacs. 
 
 *e* Any additions will be acceptable to Dr. Giosart. 
 
 g. AURELIAN TOWNSHEWD : — 
 
 1. Biographical Notice. 
 
 2. Pure, simple Love (105 lines). 
 
 3. Love's immortality (36 lines)— and various readings. 
 
 4. There is no lover he or she (66 lines). 
 
 5. In honour of Charles I. (30 lines). 
 
 6. On hearing her Majesty sing (iS lines). 
 
 7. Youth and Beauty— Thou art so fair and young, 
 
 8. Dialogue betwixt Time and a Pilgrim. 
 Q. A Bacchanal — Bacchus lacchus. 
 
 10. In praise of his Mrs.— Thcu shepherd whose intentive 
 
 eye— with Herrick's 'Enquiry,' 
 
 11. Sufferance — Delicate Beauty, &c. 
 
 12. When we were parted. 
 
 13. Elegy on Lady venetiaDigby. 
 
 14. The Lady May. 
 
 15. 'Tis not how witty nor how free. 
 
 16. Songs and Choruses from (i) ' Tempe Restored ' (1631). 
 
 (2) * Albion's Triumph ' (1631), 
 
 %* As with Dr. Strode, any additions will be acceptable. 
 
 10. Sir Thomas Jeay or Jay :— 
 
 X. On a lady that grieved herself to death for the death of 
 her husband. 
 
 2. To Philip Massinger on * The Picture' (1629-30). 
 
 3. ditto on ' A New Way to pay Old Debts ' 
 
 4. To Philip Massinger on * Roman Actor ' (1629). 
 
 5. On the death of an honest cobbler. 
 
 11. Walton Poolk. — (i) On death of James I. (56 lines); 
 
 (2) To Lady Denham ; {3) Grand Jury on Mr. Dover. 
 
 12. Mr. Lee. — On the behalf of the Lord Chancellor Bacon 
 
 (164 lines). 
 
 13. John Grange. — (i) Biographical notices ; (2) To his Mrs. ; 
 
 what he would have her to be ; (2) Against pride in pedi- 
 grees ; (3) To his thoughts ; (4) A lovei: once I did spy ; 
 (5) Be not proud 'cause fair and trim; (6) Songs. 
 
 14. W. Robins. — AnJmitation of a former poem. 
 
 15. George Markham. — To his Mrs. as she sate singing. 
 
 16. Robert Wisdome {not the Archdeacon and Reformer).— 
 
 (i) To one somewhat nice in the business ; (2) An apology 
 for drinking; {3) A New Year's gift against New Year's 
 tide; (4) A religious use of taking tobacco; (5) On 
 Elizabeth Nott ; (6) Intemperance, a fancy upon words. 
 
 17. Humphry Hyde. — (i) To one thinking herself too young 
 
 for the business ; (2) The eminence of grey eyes ; (3) Por- 
 traiture of Mrs. Elizabeth Paulet ; (4) Upon a lady's sick- 
 ness ; (5) A Song — Stay error, why dost set ? 
 
 18. George Lucye.— Love's imprisonment and ransom (24 
 
 lines). 
 
 19. Henky Hull. — On the death of a fair infant. 
 
 20. John Carew.— On the death of a great tobacconist. 
 
 21. William Lewis, d.d.— (i) To the god of Love, his Mrs. 
 
 not loving ; (2) Upon a borrowed watch. 
 
 22. John Gill.— (i) The fervency of his affection ; {2) To bis 
 
 Mrs. — I dare not praise. 
 
 23. Bp. Corbet. — On death of Duke of Buckingham (distinct 
 from already published poems); (2) Another; (3) Epigram; 
 (4) Against Dr. Price's anniversaries to illustrate another 
 * Reply ' by Dr. Price. 
 
 24. Dk. Charles Lambert.— Epitaph. 
 
 25. Thomas Wriothesley. — A Lover's embassy by the god of 
 Love (70 lines). 
 
 26. Thomas Jordan.— (i) Letter to Abp. Ussher; {2) On S. 
 Peter's rescue from nrison ; (3) A verse abstract of the 12 
 articles of our BeliefT 
 
 27. Anonymous. — 
 
 1. On death of William, earl of Pembroke (1630), 68 lines. 
 
 ' Did not my sorrow sigh'd into a verse.* 
 
 2. Epigram on the Prince's birth (1630). 
 
 3. Parting— As souls from bodies part. 
 
 4. If ever tears did flow from eyes. 
 
 5. When first thy love grew cold. 
 
 6. All that I can sing of love. 
 
 7. Come, come, let us singing strive to raise. 
 
 8. If when I die, to Hell's eternal shade. 
 
 9. Simple is the man that will confess, 
 
 10. Look, Chloris, in this fountain clear. 
 
 11. All that have eyes now wake and weep. 
 
 12. When Drake had rounded all the world. 
 
 13. Epigram — Reader, stand still ; lo ! here I am. 
 
 14. Tell me, shepherd, dost thou love ? 
 
 15. Come, come, with our voices let us war. 
 
 16. To his Mrs, not to conceal her affections. 
 
 17. Had she a glass and faced the fire ? 
 
 18. What means this strangeness now of late? 
 
 19. Now you have kill'd me with your scorn. 
 
 20. Pure things be those vows we boast on. 
 
 21. The lamp of heaven that measures out the year. 
 
 22. The New Year's gifts, friend John. 
 
 23. Why should passion lead thee blind ? 
 
 24. On death of a deboist young fellow. 
 
 25. In imitation of the former. 
 
 26. Nature waxing old began. 
 
 27. If thou would'st know the reason why. 
 
 28. I heard me say tell her anon. 
 
 29. Epigram — Here six feet deep 
 
 30. Dear, if you say 'I love you.* 
 
 31. Great men for New Year's gifts give greater things. 
 
 32. Six of the weakest sex but purest sect. 
 
 33. To the King — Thou darling of the gods, 
 
 34. Blind beauty if it be a loss. 
 
 35. See'st thoii these rubies which she wears ? 
 
 36. To King on New Year's day {1631), The joys of eager 
 
 youth. 
 
 37. I will not saint my Ccelia. 
 
 38. Read, lovely maid, and know the heart. 
 
 39. To both their Majesties — Blest pair who only can bring 
 
 down. 
 •40. To Queen — Thou that began'st. 
 
 41. Tell me, Amintas, Chloris cries. 
 
 42. Come lovers all to me, and cease your moaning. 
 
 43. To her whose beauty doth excel. 
 
 44. Thou mighty monarch of this famous isle. 
 
 45. That love with thee is on the wane. 
 
 46. So Gerundi some do, some overcome. 
 
 47. Epitaph — The span of my days. 
 
 48. On a parson's son newly knighted. 
 
 49. On death of Sir Nicholas Smith — Reader, I liv'd. 
 
 •»• The above is a tentative list. I am haunted with the 
 memory of having seen some of them printed. I have traced 
 double the number anonymous in the mss., and will be grateful 
 for notice if any of above be recognised as already in print, not 
 wishing to reprint any such. 
 
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