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ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 1 HE idea of the prefent publication was origi- 
 nally fuggelled in the courfe of a converfation 
 with the late George Steevens efquire^ of whofe 
 familiar acquaintance the editour is proud to boall -, 
 and whofe rich and wel-fele6ted library^ fup- 
 ply'd the title of many a rare and curious volume. 
 In the courfe of the performance the compileer 
 has been indebted to the bibliographical labours 
 of Leland^ Bale^, Pitts^ Wood^ and Tanner ; in 
 a flight degree^ to Wartons ingenious^ though too 
 frequently inaccurate^ ^^ History of Englifli poe- 
 try;" and^ above all^ to the elaborate ^'' Typo- 
 graphical antiquities" of Ames, as enlarge'd and 
 improve'd by the industrious Herbert -, and to 
 which his own tranfcript of the registers of the 
 ftationers-company, obligeingly furnifli'd by 
 
^ n ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 mister Chalmers-, has prove*d an admirable fup- 
 plement. The original books^ however^ have, 
 in numerous inllancees, been actually infpeded > 
 and a confiderable number,, as wel of authours, 
 as of works (unknown to all former collectors 
 upon this fubjed), has been retrieve'd from la- 
 tent obfcurity. That the compilation is more 
 extenfive, accurate, and minute, than it other- 
 wife could have been, is oweing to the kind at- 
 tention, and literary exertions, of a very learned 
 and ingenious friend, to whom the publick is not 
 lefs indebted than the editour. 
 
 For the dramatick poets, of whom the inquifi- 
 tive reader wil meet with few tracees in this ca- 
 talogue, he is refer' d to the valuable republica- 
 tion of Bakers ^' Companion to the play-houfe," 
 under the title of ^' Biograpkia dramatical' by 
 mister Ifaac Reed, with which the prefent work 
 is, in no refped, intended to interfere. 
 
POETS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 TWELFTH CENTURY, 
 
 GODRIC SAINT, born at Walpole, in Norfolk, 
 and, for the fpace of fixty years, a hermit at 
 Finchale, near Durham, where he dyed in 1 170, 
 feems, in that retirement, to have compofed a 
 hymn, which he ufed frequently to chant, pretend- 
 ing, in the genuine fpirit of his profeslion, that it 
 had been origina iy dictated and fung to him by 
 '*" the moft blefsed mother of god," who recom- 
 mended it as a folace in pain or temptation,* and 
 which, being, certainly, one of the moll ancient 
 fpecimens of Englifh poetry now extant, is here 
 corre6lly given, from a collation of feveral manu- 
 fcriptsf , in fome of which it is accompanyed with 
 the mufical notes. 
 
 * See Capgraves Nova legenda jlnglie, 1 5 1 6 , fo. 161. He 
 exprefsly fays, it was ^< rithmice in AngUco compofuum.*' 
 t Bib. Reg. 5 F. VII. Bib. Har. ill, 
 
 B 
 
2 POETS OF, THE 
 
 ^^ Sainte Marie [clane] virgine, 
 
 Moder Jhefu Criftes Nazarene^ 
 
 On fo*^ fchildj help ])in Godiic, 
 
 On fang bring hegilich pi^ fe in godes riche. 
 
 Sainte Marie^ Chrifles biu*^ 
 Maidens clenhad^ moderes flur^ 
 Dilie min linne^f rix in min mod. 
 Bring me to pinne wiS fe felfd god. "J 
 
 Another of his compofitions appears to be a 
 ftanza fung to him by the fpirit of his lister, which 
 had been fent down from heaven, under the care 
 of a couple of angels, to asfure him of its being 
 
 ^ filter On fong. 
 
 \ Aliter fennen. 
 
 \ By the asfistance of the latin verfions one is enabled 
 to give it literally in Englifli, as follows : Saint Mary, 
 [chafte] virgin, mother of Jefus Chrifl of Nazareth, 
 take, Ihield, help, thy Godric ; take, bring him quickly 
 with thee into gods kingdom. Saint Mary, Chrifts 
 chamber, purity of a maiden, flower of a mother, deflroy 
 my fin, reign in my mind, bring me to dwel with the 
 only god. 
 
 See alfo Matthai Farifienfis WJioriay pp.119. 120. Edit. 
 1640 ; and Nero D. V. 
 
TWELFTH CENTURY. 3 
 
 in the enjoyment of celestial* blifs.* The original 
 words and mulick^ with the chorus of the at- 
 
 * The faint is exceedingly anxious to know the fen- 
 tence of his fister, who had lately dyed a reclufe at Dur- 
 ham. '* Cum igitur vigiliis fef orationibus indefinenter inhc£' 
 reret, vidit duos 'venerandce cunitiei JeneSy pracedente beat a dei 
 genetrice Maria^ ecclefiam ejusdcmz/irgln/s introire : qui mat ro- 
 nam inter fe nobiVnfimam^ Jupra folis radium vultu &f vejlium 
 cu!tu rut i lantern J deduxerunt \ Winter manuilevantesfupercre-' 
 fidinem altaris reverenter locavtrunt . ^uam vis fan&us dili- 
 gent es intuens. . . foror, ait, dulcisjima^ qua caufa adventus 
 tui, out quibui ex oris hue advenisti. Cui ilia : Mijit ad te 
 idcirco me deus, ne de cetera dc me Jis Jolicitus^ non enlm torment a 
 fed gaudia me tenent Sempiternal c£f mirabil'iter -pedes meos it a 
 fcabelliraty quod illis terram tangerc etiamji velim non liceat. Ilia 
 igitur vocem extulit ^ duJci modulamine cantus intentum mi- 
 rant is fratris demulcebat audiium, Erat z'ero canticum : 
 
 Ne pede calcarem terrae contagia mundo. 
 Sic mea me domina deduxit fan6ta Maria. 
 
 Duo quoque viri, quorum unus dexteram altaris, alter Jinistram 
 tenuit, libellos kabentes in manibus, plaudcbant etiam in voce 
 juhilationis, ^ dicebant, Kyrie eleyfon, Christe eleyfon. 
 Illisque tacentibus, ilia canticum fuum refetiit, CSf ea con icente 
 illi Jubjunxerunt, Kyrie eleyfon, Christe eleyfon. Cum 
 igitur diutisfime alternls laudum praeconiis defervisfent, furfum 
 In aera conscenderunt ; C£f quo diver tebant nulla vestigia re- 
 
 liquerunty Vita S. Godrici (Adia SS. Maii, tomus V, 
 p. 77). See alfo Capgrave Nova legenda Anglie, fo. 
 162. 
 
 B2 
 
4 POETS OF THE 
 
 tendant angels^ are Hkewife fortunately preferved.* 
 
 The words are thefe t 
 
 ^^ Crift and fainte Marie fpa on fcamel me iledde 
 J>at ic on ]?is erde ne lilde pi^ mine bare fote 
 itredde."t 
 
 The chorus is Kyrie eleyson, &c. 
 
 A third hymn, by this poetical faint, extant witli 
 
 the original mufick, in the fame manufcript, is the 
 
 following : 
 
 '' Sainte Nicholaes, godes dru^, 
 
 Tymbre uf faire fcone hus. 
 
 At J)i burth, ar J)i bare, 
 
 Sainte Nicholaes, bring vs wel ]jare/* 
 
 HENRY, a monk of Saltry in Huntingdon- 
 fhire, wrote, according to Warton, ^^ Of a knight, 
 ^' called fir Oweyn, viiiting faint Patricks pur- 
 gatory:" he refers to Bihl, Bodl. MSS, BodL 
 550. MSS. Cott. Nero. A. vii. 4. This poem 
 
 * 5 F. VII. 
 
 f That is, Chrift and Mary, thus fupported, have 
 me brought, that i on this earth fhould not with my bare 
 foot tread. 
 
 + That is, Saint Nicholas, gods lover, build us a fair 
 beautiful houfe. At thy birth, at thy bier, St. Nicholas, 
 bring us fafel^^ thither. 
 
 II H, E. P. II, Emen. & ad. fig. k 3 , 6. 
 
TWELFTH CENTURY. 5 
 
 (^^ Owayne miles') of which there is a copy in the 
 Cot. MS. Calilgula A. II. may^ undoubtedly^ be 
 a translation of Henrys Latin profe^ butfhould not 
 have been confounded with it."^ 
 
 GULDEVORD JOHN DE wrote, in Englifh 
 verfe^ '^ La pasfyiin Jkefii Crift en Eiigleys'' 
 (begining '^ I hereth you one lutele tale that ich 
 eu wille telle")^ The contention of the oivl and 
 the nightingale (begining '^ Ich was in one 
 fumere dale) 3 Of the woman of Samaria ^ 8cc. all 
 extant in a manufcript of Jefus-college^ Oxford 
 (Num. 76). The contention of the ozvl and the 
 nightingale is, likewife^ ^referved in a manufcript 
 of the Cotton-library (Caligula. A. IX.) and, pos- 
 liblely^ tlie other fhort Englifh poems in that ma- 
 nufcript may be by the fame hand. 
 
 The Oxford catalogue feems to be bifhop Tan- 
 ners fole authority for afcribeing the contents of 
 the Jefus-coUege MS. to John de Guldevord^ as 
 he does not appear to have perfonally examined it. 
 In fa6l, one Nichole (or Nicholas) f of Gulde- 
 forde (Guildford) is twice named in The con- 
 
 * The adventures of Miles Oenusj in Saint Patricks pur- 
 gatory, are related by Matthew Paris, under the year 
 1153. 
 
 t Warton, on thisoccafion, calls him yo^«. 
 
 B3 
 
6 POETS OF THE 
 
 tention of the owl and the nightingale, not^ in- 
 deed, as the poet,, but as a fage perforin, an accom- 
 plifhed linger, and a fit judge of their controverfy. 
 He is mentioned to refide at Portes-hom in Dor- 
 fetfhire : but the language is not every- where 
 perfe6tly intelligible. It appears, however, by 
 fome lines cited from the Jefus MS. in The his- 
 tory of Englijh poetry (volume 1, page 25), that 
 John de Guldevprde was actually the author of 
 ^' la pasfyon Jhu Crift en En g leys ;" and, pro- 
 bablely, Nicholas was his brother. Mr. Warton 
 fays that '^ the whole MS. confifting of many de- 
 tached pieces both in verfe and profe, was per- 
 haps written in the reigja of Henry the fixth :" 
 which is highly improbable. The Cotton one, at 
 leall^ is of the thirteenth century. 
 
 HAMILLAN is a name introduced merely for 
 the purpofe of corre6ting the misreprefentation of 
 Winftanley. ^' Should we," fays that il- informed 
 and inaccurate writer, '^ forget the learned Ha- 
 millan, our book would be thought to be imper- 
 fe6t, fo terfe and fluent was his verfe, of which 
 we iliall give you two examples, the one out of 
 Mr. John Speed his defer iption of Devon . . . 
 The other^out of Mr. Weever his Funeral mo- 
 numents,'' Thefe examples are, doubtlefs, ailo- 
 nifhingly ^^ terfe and fluent" for the age alluded 
 
/ 
 
 TWELFTH CENTURY. 7 
 
 to, being, in fa6l, good translations, in the Alex- 
 andrine metre of Drayton, and, very probablely, 
 by that poet himfelf, from the Latin hexameters 
 of old Hanvillan, or Hanvill, quoted in Camdens 
 Britannia^ and more at large in his Remaines, 
 
 LAWEMAN, LAYAMON, or LAZAMON, 
 
 a prieJft at Ernleye upon Severn, translated the 
 flory of Brute, or old fabulous Britifh hiftory, 
 from the French of maistre Wace, a Norman 
 poet, native of the iland of Jerfey, who iinifhed 
 his work in 1155^. This moll ancient poem is 
 preferved in a MS. of the Cotton-library (Caligula. 
 A. IX.) extra6ts frorti which, as well as from a 
 different and fomewhat modernifed copy (Otho. 
 C. XIII. deftroyed by the fire of 173l), may be 
 feen in the learned Wanleys catalogue of Saxon 
 
 * Mr. Tyrvvhitt, upon the authority of Huet, fays 
 his name was Robert j which is, at any rate, improbable, 
 and, mofl likely, untrue : as, in the firft place, a double 
 name (the latter not being from the place of birth or 
 refidence) would be a lingular circumflance in that re- 
 mote age, and, fecondly, ^f'ace or Gace was actually a 
 Chriftian name ; there being two other ancient poets fo 
 called, viz» Gaces Brule, and Gaces de Vigne. Many copys, 
 as wel of this poem, as of others by the fame venerable 
 bard, being the mod ancient in the French language, 
 are ftil extant. 
 
 B 4 
 
6 POETS OF THE 
 
 MSS.* The language of this work is nearly 
 Saxon^ and the ftyle that of the Saxon poetry 
 without rime 3 the MS. being writen, as ufual, 
 like profe. 
 
 ORM, or ORMIN, wrote a paraphrafe of the 
 evangelical history^ intitled Ormulum, which is 
 preferved in a manufcript of the Bodleian library, 
 whence confiderable extra6ts are given by Hickes 
 and Wanley (Gram, A, S, 165, and L. V, S, 
 Cata, 59). Both of thefe learned men feem to 
 have confidered the work as mere profe^, but the 
 ingenious Tyrwhitt (who does not conceive it to 
 be earlyer than the reign of Henry II. whereas 
 Hickes places it near the conquefl) clearly fhews 
 it to be writen in verfes of fifteen^ or rather four- 
 teen^ fyllableSj without rime. See his ^' Esfay on 
 the language and verification of Chaucer/ '§ IV. 
 The author addrefses himfelf to his brother Wal- 
 ter ', which is all that can be gathered of his 
 history. 
 
 * See alfo Mr. Ellises elegant Specimens of the early Eng- 
 lijh Poets, I, 61. 
 
POETS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 THIRTEENTH CENTURY. 
 
POETS "^'*^ 
 
 OF THE 
 
 THIRTEENTH CENTURY, 
 
 GLOUCESTER ROBERT OF (fuppofed to 
 have been a monk in the abbey there) wrote a 
 chronicle of England in rime, which was publifh- 
 ed by the industrious Hearne, from a MS. in the 
 Harleian library, with a continuation, by the 
 author, from one in the Cotton collection, in two 
 volumes, octavo, at Oxford, in 1724. This chro- 
 nicle was writen after the year 1278, being the 
 6th year of king Edward the firfl, which is the 
 lateft date alluded to, though it ends with the 
 reign of that monarchs immediate predecesfor^ 
 Henry the third, who dyed in 1272. 
 
 GROSTHEAD, GROUTHEVED, GREAT- 
 HEAD, GROSTEST, alias COPLEY, ROBERT, 
 
 a native of Sutlblk, or, according to fome, of 
 Lincolnfliire, and, in procefs of time, bifliop of 
 Lincoln, a perfon of great learning, is fayed to 
 have writen '^ a tretyfe that ys ycleped [the] 
 
12 POETS OF THE 
 
 '*" castel of love^"^ extant in the Bodleian librarjr^ 
 MS. Vernon^ fo. 292. However^ as the poem 
 exills in French^ under the title of Chateau 
 d' amour, Komance par mesfire Robert Grojfetefie, 
 and ^^ La vie de D. J hit de fa huinanite, &€.'* 
 ('^ Ki penfe bien^ ben pent dire") (fee Wartons, 
 History of Englijli poetry , 1, 78) it feems mofi: 
 probable that he was not alfo the author of the 
 translation^ which this historian^ on the contrary,, 
 is inclined to attribute to Robert of Brunne^ whom 
 fee. To him^ likewife^ hath been afcribed^ hy 
 fome, the Stimidus confcientice of Richard Rolle : 
 fee Tanner, in nomine, note h. He was con- 
 fecrated in 1235, and dyed in 1253.t Of this 
 *' great clarke" Gower relates a fable, which was 
 afterward attributed to frier Bacon : 
 
 '^ I rede ho we bufy that he was 
 
 Upon the clergie an head of bras 
 
 To forge, and make it for to telle 
 
 Of fuche thynges as befelle : 
 
 * ** Her begynnet a tretife 
 That ys ycleped Cafiel of love, 
 That bifhop Grosteft made yvvis, 
 For lewd mens behove." 
 The firf; line, of the prologue or introduction, is, 
 ** That good think'eth good may do." 
 f Tanner alfo gives the latter year as that of his tfirt^ 
 
THIRTEENTH CENTURY. 13 
 
 And feven yeres belineffe 
 He laide^, but for the lachefTe 
 Of halfe a minute of an houre^ 
 Fro iirft he began laboure^ 
 He lofte all that he had do." 
 
 I KENDALE. A poet of this name is men- 
 tioned by Robert of Brunne^ as haveing writen 
 ^^ in fo quainte Inglis/' that it was not generally 
 underftood^ and had^ of courfe^ been much cor- 
 rupted : but upon what fubje6t he wrote we are 
 not informed. Thomas of Ercildon^ another poet 
 of the fame age^ and alfo mentioned by Brunne, 
 is to be placed amongft thofe of Scotland. 
 
POETS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 FOURTEENTH CENTURY. 
 
P O E 1' S 
 
 OF THE 
 
 FOURTEENTH CENTURY. 
 
 ASHEBURNE THOMAS, a frier of the order 
 of the blefsed Mar}^ of Mount-Carmel at North- 
 hampton, wrote, in 1384, a treatife of theological 
 argument, intitled, De contempt u mundl: extant, 
 but imperfect, in the Cotton library, Ap. VII. 
 At the begining of the volume is another reli- 
 gious poem, probablely by the fame author, com- 
 menceing ^^ Lyityns all gret and fmale." 
 
 BANISTER WILLIAM appears to have been 
 no lefs celebrated as a prophet in England, than 
 Thomas of Ercildon, his contemporary, was in 
 Scotland. Bifliop Tanner refers to fome '' Pro- 
 pheiies of Banister of England," in MS. Worfl. 
 8vo. pap. 7. The author of Scala chronica, writ- 
 en foon after isGo, mentions (according to 
 Lelands extra6t) '' William Banestre and Tho- 
 mas Erceldoune, whos wordes were fpoken yn 
 figure as were tlie propheties of Merlin." '' The 
 
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18 POETS OF THE 
 
 whole prophecies of Scotland,, &c.'* are fayed, 
 in the title, to be prophefyed, inter alios , by 
 ^' Baneftre and Sybilla/' but no prophecy by the 
 former is inferted in the work, though he is oc- 
 cafionaily cited 5 as in tlie following lines : 
 
 ^' Beids books have i feen, Banesters alfo :" 
 ^^ As Berlingtons books, and Banester us 
 
 tells:" 
 ^^ Beid hath brieved in his book, and Ban ester 
 
 alfo." 
 
 Forduns interpolator fpeaks of an Englifh knight 
 of this name, who, in the night in which Ed- 
 ward the iirfl dyed, faw, in a vifion, that mo- 
 narchs foul infulted and flagellated by devils. 
 (Scofichro, by Goodall, II, 236.) Biihop Tanner 
 feems to confound him with Gilbert Banastre, an 
 author of a different name and century. 
 
 BASTON ROBERT is only noticed for a rea- 
 fon fimilar to that already given with refped to 
 Hamillan. Both Winflanley and mistrefs 
 Cooper have fuppofed him to write in Englifh 
 verfe ; and inflanced, as a ^^ecimen of his ex- 
 torted production on the battle of Bannock-burn 
 (1314), the following lines : 
 
 *^ In dreary verfe my rymes i make. 
 Bewailing whileft fuch theme i take :'* 
 
FOURTEENTH CENTURY. IQ 
 
 which majj indeed^ pafs for a tolerable translation 
 of the firll couplet of his actual performance : 
 
 *^ De planctu cudo met rum cum carmine nudo : 
 liifum retrudoy dum tali themate ludo,'' 
 
 There is no authority (unlefs it be Bales expres- 
 iion of '^ Tragedian ^ comedice vulgar es') for pre- 
 tending that he wrote any tiling in Engliili , and, 
 indeed, one might be glad to know what Bale had 
 for attributeing to him fo many tilings in Latin.* 
 He waS;, however, a famous poet in his day, and 
 has even given name to a fpecies of metre : 
 '^ ryme Bastmi/' mentioned by Robert of Brunne. 
 
 BRUNNE ROBERT OF. See MANNYNG. 
 
 CHAUCER GEOFFREY, '' the father of Eng- 
 liih poetiy," born at London in or about the year 
 1328, wrote,f 1. ^^ The Canterbury tales :" twice 
 
 ^ Many pieces enumerated by this author among the 
 works of Baston occur together in a MS, of the Cotton 
 library, Titus A. XX ; which feems, from the marginal 
 notes, to have been in Bales posfesfion. 
 
 f Mr. Ellis prefumes that he was entered at the Inner- 
 temple, <* becaufe the records of that court [inn] are 
 laid to Hate, that he was fined two iliillings for beating 
 a Franciscan friar in Fleet-ftreer :" a .hum of Thomas 
 
 C2 
 
20 POETS OF THE 
 
 printed by Caxton, without date ; by Wynken de 
 Worde in 1495 5 again,, by Pynfon^ without date : 
 andj a fourth time^ along with other things^ by the 
 fame printer, in 1526 j again, in his works, by T, 
 Godfray, in 1532 5 J. Raynes, or W. Bonham, 
 15425 by T. Petit, without date 5 J. Kingfton, 
 in 1561 5 and A. IsHp, in 1598, and 16025 
 in the very pompous, but mofl inaccurate and 
 licentious edition, pubiiflied under the name of 
 John Urry, a native of Scotland, and Undent of 
 Chrift- church, Oxford, who did not live to wit- 
 nefs its appearance 3 * and finally, to the utmoft 
 advantage, by the very learned and industrious 
 Tyrwhitt, in 1775, four volumes, 8vo. the text 
 being fettled by an indefatigable collation of all the 
 
 Chatterton. See his M//c-f//aw/Vj, p. 137. He fays that 
 Chaucer haveing distributed copies of the tale of P/Vr5 
 Ploivmun [which it is we 1 known he did not write]," 
 the ** friar wrote a fatyric mummery upon him.'* 
 
 '^ In this edition, however, actually perfe6led by Mr. 
 William, and his brother, Dr. Timothy, Thomas, are 
 two fingularly curious and valuable poems, which the 
 editor, with a peculiar want of judgement, took to be 
 Chaucers : <« The cokes tale of Gamelyn," and ** The 
 merchants fecond tale, or The history of Beryn :" 
 the author of which, be he whom he might, was cer- 
 tainly a writer of uncommon merit. 
 
FOURTEEXTH CENTURY. 21 
 
 printed and MS. copys j and illuflrated as wel by 
 an admirable '^ Esfay on tlie learning and verlifi- 
 cation" of the autlior^ as by a feries of curious 
 and ufeful notes: to which^ in 1778^ he aded an 
 excellent glosfaiy for the whole of his genuine 
 compofitions : 2. '' The romaunt of the rofe/' a 
 translation from the French of Wm. de Lorris, 
 and John de Meun : 3. '' Troilus and Crefeide^" 
 a translation, for the moil part, from tlie I'ilojlrato 
 of Boccace, by the intervention, it would feem, 
 of fome Latin verhfyer (ii, 14.) whom he calls 
 L0UI116 3 * firll printed by Caxton, afterward by 
 W. de Worde, 1517 : 3. " The court of love :" 
 4. '"^ The complaint of pitie:'* b,^' Of queen 
 Annelida and falfe Arcite, witli the complaint of 
 Annelida 3" firft printed by Caxton or De Worde • 
 6, '^ The asfemble of fowles:" firft printed along 
 with tlie Canterbury tales, ^c. by Richard Pyn- 
 
 * Lydgate fays that the 
 
 — ** booke — called is Trophe 
 
 In Lutnlfard long" — 
 
 Pro. to Bochas, 
 
 Chaucer himfelf mentions thisLollius in The koufeoffame, 
 iii. 883, and Lydgate in his Troy-boke. Tropeay formerly 
 Trophaeay is a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, 
 in Further Calabria. There are or have been other places 
 of this name. See MartinUre. Troche is, therefor, a na- 
 tive of Trophaa, 
 
 c 3 
 
22 POETS OF THE 
 
 fon; in 1526: and feparately^ by W. de Worde^ 
 1530:" 7. '' The complaint of the black 
 knight:"^ 8. '' Chancers A. B. C." g. '' The 
 boke of the dnchelfe:" 10. '' The boke [or 
 houfe] of fame," firft printed by Caxton^ and fe- 
 condly by Pynfon, in 1526 :"f 11. ^'^ Chancers 
 dreme :" 12. *'*' The flour and the lefe :" 
 13. *"*" The legend of good women :" 14. '^ The 
 love and compleyntes bytwene Mars and Venus 3" 
 printed by Julian Notary. 15. ^'^ The cuckow 
 and the nightingale : " 16. '^ L' envoi/ de Chaucer 
 a Bukton, (or the counceyll of Chaucer touchyng 
 maryag, &c. which was fent to Bucketon^ Css'c'.)" 
 printed by Julian Notary: 18. "^^ Balade fent 
 to king Richard/' begining '^ Sometime tlie 
 worlds ^fj'c." 19. *'*' Balade/* begining *'*' Fie fro 
 the prefe, £f^c." and fayed^, in one MS. (Otho 
 A. xviii) to have been made ^^ upon his death- 
 bed^ lying in his anguiili :"J 20. '' Balade of 
 
 * For thefe two poems he is thought by Warton to 
 have been indebted to the troubadours, or poets of Pro- 
 vence, and though Mr. Tyrvvhitt was of a different 
 opinion, there is certainly a great deal of reafon in Mr. 
 Warton s argument. 
 
 f Printed alfo at Edinburgh, by Walter Chepman, in 
 1508, in the Scotifh diale6l or orthography, under the 
 title of *« The maying or disport of Chaucer." 
 
 + Q^and fee SCOGAN HENRY. 
 
FOURTEENTH CEXTURY. 23 
 
 the village/' begining ^^ This wretched worldes, 
 fsfc." 21. ^*' lu envoy de Chaucer a Skogan :" 22. 
 '' Proverbes by Chaucer :" 23 . ^^ Chancers wordes 
 to his fcrivenere:" 23. ^' A virelay^ begining 
 '^ Alone walking. In tliought plaining :" all which 
 along with many poems, eitlier anonymous, or 
 belonging to Lydgate, Hoccleve, and others^, are 
 inferted in moll of the editions of his works. 
 This famous and venerable bard, a perfon of fome 
 political confequence alfo in his time, dyed^ at his 
 birth-place, on the 25 tii of October 1400^ and was 
 intered in Weltminfler- Abbey. 
 
 DAVIE ADAM, marihal of Stratford-le-bow, 
 wrote^ 1. '' The vengeaunce of goddes deth3" 
 2. '' The legend of faint Alexius," translated out 
 of Latin, and begining '' All tliat willen here 
 in ryme3" 3. ^'' A complimental poem to tlie 
 king [Edward II.], by way of vifion;" 4. 
 '' The lyf of Alifaunder" (doubtlefs, alfo, from the 
 French 5* and begining, *^' Divers is tliis myddel 
 
 '"^ After defcribing the battle between Darius and 
 
 Alexander, Davie fays, 
 
 ** This batail destorted is 
 
 In the French wel y wis, 
 
 Therfore y have, hit to colour, 
 
 Borowed of the Latvn autour." (v. 2196.) 
 C 4 
 
24 POETS OF THE 
 
 erde"); 5. *'*' A poem on fcripture ftoiy (imper- 
 fed) 3 6. '' The battail of Jerufalem" {'' Liftenith 
 all thatbeth alyve") , 1 . '^ Fifteen toknes before 
 the day of judgment/' from the prophet Jeremiah3'' 
 and 8. ^^ The lamentation of fouls/' begining, 
 ^^ Off joye and bliffe;, is my care to bileve :" all 
 in MS. Bod. Laud. I. 74. and the 4th in one of 
 Hales MSS. in Lincolns-inn-library (Num. 150). 
 
 GOWER JOHN, wrote, in Englifh metre, a 
 prolix dialogue, of various argument^ according 
 to the fafhion of his age, intitled ^^ Confesjio 
 amantis, (that is to fay in Engliffhe, The confes- 
 fyon of the lover) 3" originally printed by William 
 Caxton^ in 1483^ and reprinted by Thomas Ber- 
 thelet, in 1532, and 1554, folio : alfo a long pa- 
 rafytical halade in praife of king Henry the fourth, 
 inferted in feveral editions of Chaucer.* In lord 
 
 * The two poets feem, for fome time, to have been 
 upon good terms ; mentioning each other in their re- 
 fpective productions : but a fracas had, probablely, hap- 
 ened between them, as Chaucer is furpe6led by his in- 
 telligent editor to have caft a reflection upon Gower in 
 the following lines : 
 
 ♦* But certainly no word ne writeth he [Ovid] 
 Of thilke wicked example of Canace^ 
 
FOURTEENTH CENTURY. 25 
 
 Gowers library^ as we are told by Warton, thei*e 
 is a thin oblong manufcript on vellum, containing 
 fome of Gowers poems in Latin, French, and 
 Englifli. ^ 
 
 Some of his fmaller poems are preferved in a 
 MS. of Trinity-college, Cambridge 5 and, it may 
 be, in other collections 5 but, posfefsing little or 
 no merit,f are likely to remain in obfcurity. He 
 dyed, aged, in 1402, and was intered in the 
 church of St. Mary-Oveiy, Southwark, where his 
 monument, a curious piece of antiquity, ftil re- 
 mains. 
 
 That loved here owen brother finfully ; 
 
 (Of all fwiche curfed flories i fay fy) 
 
 Or elles of Tyn'us Appol/on/us, 
 
 How that curfed king Antiochus 
 
 Berafthis doughter of here maidenhede, &'c.'* 
 both which florys are related by Gower ; who, in the 
 new edition of his Confesfw amantis, publifhed after the 
 accesfion of Henry IV. omited the verfes in praife of 
 Chaucer inferted in the original publication. See Tyr- 
 
 whitts Introductory discourfe (iv. 147). 
 
 '^ H. E. P. II, Emen. & Ad. fig. g. 6. 
 
 f His Fox ClamjHt/s might have dcferved publication, 
 in a historical view, if he had not proved an ingrate to 
 his lawful fovereign, and a fycophant to the ufurper of 
 his throne. 
 
26 POETS OF THE 
 
 HAMPOLE. See ROLLE. 
 
 HERBERT WILLIAM. '' In the library of 
 Mr. Farmer^ of Tusmore in Oxfordfliire/' ac- 
 cording to Warton^ ^' are [is] or were [was] 
 lately, a collection of hymns and antiphones, pa- 
 raphrafed into Englifh [verfe, it is prefumed], by 
 William Herbert, a Franciscan frier, and a famous 
 preacher, about the year 1330." (History of 
 Engiyii poetry y II, iy4.) 
 
 LANGELANDE ROBERT, '' 2i Shropfliire 
 
 man," it is fayed, '' borne in Cleybirie, aboute 
 eight myles from Malverne hilles," wrote ^^ The 
 vifion of Pierce Plowman," a curious allegorical 
 poem, firft printed by Robert Crowley, vicar of 
 Saint-Giles Cripplegate, in 1550 (of which date 
 there are at leall two, if not three editions), and^ 
 again, by Owen Rogers, in l56l (all in quarto and 
 black-letter*). The learned Tyrwhitt disputes 
 our authors title, fince in what he efteemed tlie beft 
 
 ■^ To Rogerses edition is annexed '^ The crede of 
 Pierce Ploughman j" firft printed by Raynold Wolfe 
 in 1553, 4to. the work of a later hand. Mr. Ellis has 
 erroneously attributed to Wolfe <' The vifion,'' and 
 mentions alfo an edition by Anftey, a printer never be- 
 fore heard of. 
 
FOURTEENTH CENTURY. 27 
 
 manufcripts (which^ whether they be fo or not, 
 differ materially from the printed copys) , tlie poet 
 is exprefsly faluted by tlie name of '' Wille/* 
 and the work itfelf intitled '' Vifio Willelmi 
 de Pefro Ploughman.''' Now,, unlefs the word 
 WiLLE be, as there is fome reafon to believe, no 
 more than a perfonification of the mental faculty, 
 and have, confequently, been misapprehended by 
 the writer of that title,* it fhould follow that the 
 authors name was William, and that his fur- 
 name and quality are totally unknown. However 
 this may be, the work itfelf, a very curious and 
 masterly production, appears to have been com- 
 pofed in, or foon after, the year 1362. It is a 
 kind of religious allegorical fatire^ in which Pierce 
 the ploughman, the principal perfonage, feems to 
 be intended for the pattern of Christian perfection, 
 if not, occalionally, for Jefus Chrill himfelf. 
 The mode of verfification adopted by this writer 
 (an alliterative metre of 9 and 1 1 fyllables with- 
 out rime) is originally Gothick, and, from the 
 many other inflances which occur in MS. is con- 
 
 * This appears from fo. 41, 6 : 
 *' l^hdin Thought in that time faydethefe wordes, 
 Whether Dowtf/, Dobet, 2Ln6.DobeJl bene in lande, 
 Here is Wyl wolde witte, if IFitte could techc hym." 
 
IS POETS OF THE 
 
 jectured to have been a favourite poetick ftile with 
 the common people (as they are called) down to 
 late period. (See Hickeses Gram. A. S, p. 217; 
 Percys ReliqueSy 11, 270.) Our author became 
 popular^ about the time of the reformation^ from 
 his haveing lafhed the vices of the clergy^ both 
 regular and fecular, with a juft feverity, and 
 foretold^ as was thought, the deftruction of the 
 monasterys by Henry VIII. The pasfage is cer- 
 . tainly curious : 
 
 *'*' — ther fhall come a king and confefTe you 
 
 religious. 
 And beat you as tlie byble telleth for breaking 
 
 of your rule^ 
 And amend monials, monkes and chanons. 
 And put hem to her penaunce, ad jpristinumjia^ 
 
 turn ire .... 
 And than Ihall the abot of Abington and all 
 
 his isfue for ever 
 Have a knocke of a kynge, and incurable the 
 
 wounde.'* 
 
 Manufcript copys of this work are by no means 
 uncommon in publick library s, but it requires a 
 thorough and attentive investigation to decide 
 upon the comparative merits of the printed copy, 
 refpe6ling the faultynefs and imperfection whereof 
 Mr. Tyrwhitt may have been fomewhat too haftey 
 
FOURTEENTH CENTURY. 2Q 
 
 in his judgement.* After all, it is probable that 
 the information which Crowley, the original edi- 
 
 ^ In order to enable any curious perfon to distinguifh 
 at firft fight to which of the two editions (as one may call 
 them) any new MS. he may hapen to meet with belongs, 
 a parallel extraft is here given from each : 
 
 The printed copys, and (in fubflance) i/ie Harleian 
 MSS. 3954, 875, and 6041 j the Vernon MS. in the 
 Bodleian, Hales, in Lincolns-inn, and others, without 
 noticeing the verbal alterations or corruptions of the 
 copyifts, commence as follows: 
 
 *' In a fomer feafon when fette was the funne 
 I fhope me into fhroubes as i a fhepe were, 
 In habyte as an hermet unholie of workes, 
 Wend wyde in thys world wonders to here, 
 And on a Maye-mornynge on Malverne hylles 5 
 
 Me befel a ferly of fay y met bought, 
 
 I ivas ivery of ivandrynge, and luente me to rejie 
 
 Under a brode banhe by a bourne fydc \ 
 
 jind as i laye and lened, and loked on the ivatery 
 
 IJlTmbred into ajlepyng, it fivyz.ed fo meryj* 10 
 
 The MSS. Vespafian B. XVI, Caligula A. II. 18 B. 
 XVI, Harleian, 2376, Mr. Douce's and others, nearly 
 agree in reading thus : 
 ** In a fomer fefon whan fofte was the fonne 
 
 I fchop me into fchrobbes as i a fchepherde were, 
 In an abiitof an ermite unholi of werkes, 
 Wente i forth in the world wondres to here. 
 
30 POETS OF THE 
 
 tor, fays he had received from, fome men, more 
 exercifed than himfelf in the ftudy of antiquitys, 
 whom he had confalted, as to the authors being 
 ^^ Robert Langelande, a Shropihire man, borne in 
 Cleybirie^ ^"c." and which, in fa6t, he might 
 have had from the printed book of Bales Scrip- 
 tores Britannice, was not altogether accurate 5 
 fince, from numerous inflances in the poem itfelf, 
 there is every reafon to conclude that he was a 
 
 I Ja'w many Jelled and felcouthe thynges^ ^ 
 
 As in a Mai morewing on Malverne hulles 
 
 Me biful to Jclef>e for iverynefse of ivalkyngy 
 
 In a launde as i lai^ i lenede adoun and fle-pte^ 
 
 Merveilousli i mette^ as i fchal xoiv telle ^ 
 
 Of all the ivelthe of the ivorld, and the luo bothey 10 
 
 Jll i fi fl^ping as i fchal xoiv fcheive,'* 
 
 (Vefpa. B. xvi.] 
 
 The fubfequent variations, throughout the poem, are ftil 
 more confiderable ; fo that it appears highly probable 
 that the author had revifed his original work, and given, 
 as it were, a new edition ; and it may be poslible for a 
 good judge of ancient poetry, posfefsed of a fufficient 
 flock of critical acumen, to determine which was the 
 firfl, and which the fecond. No MS. however, of this 
 celebrated and really excellent compofition examined by 
 the prefent annotator, has been found deferveing, either 
 for accuracy or antiquity, to be prefered to that or 
 thoie whence the printed copy appears to be taken. 
 
FOURTEENTH CENTURY. 31 
 
 Londoner, by refidencC;, at leaft, if not by birth. 
 Where Selden had red '' that the authors name 
 was John Malverne^ a fellow of Oriel-College, who 
 finilhed it i6 Ed. III." does not appear 3 but the 
 latter part of his information, though adopted by 
 Wood, who calls him WigornienfiSy is manifefUy 
 erroneous. 
 
 MANNYNG ROBERT, alias Robert of 
 Brunne, born, as it is fuppofed, at Malton in York- 
 fliire, whence he fomewhere calls himfelf ^^ Danz 
 Robert of Mai tone," and, in procefs of time, ca- 
 non of the priory of Brunne, or Bourne, in Lin- 
 colnfiiire, translated into Engliih meti*e, the 
 French riming chronicle of Piers, or Peter, de 
 Langetoft, a canon regular of Saint Auftin at Brid- 
 lington in Yorkfhire, which he finifhed in 1338. 
 The more interefling part of this translation (a 
 performance of conliderable merit), from the 
 time of Cadwallader to the death of Edward tlie 
 firft, was firfl publifhed in print by the industri- 
 ous T. Hearne, in 2 volumes, 8vo. at Oxford, in 
 1725. The former part, which, in fa6t, is a 
 translation from the Brut of *^ mayfter Wace," a 
 Norman poet of the 12th century,* and not from 
 
 * 
 
 See before p. 7. 
 
31 POETS OF THE 
 
 Langetoftj who^ it feems^ was lefs ful and fatis- 
 factory upon Britifh affairs^ (except as to a few 
 extra6ls given here and there by the Oxford editor) 
 remains unprinted in the hbrarys of Lambeth- 
 palace, and the Inner-Temple. He likewife 
 translated, ''^ The bokethat menclepyn ynFrenfhe 
 Manuele pecche [Le manuel de pecheesl, the 
 whych boke made yn Frenihe Robert Grofteft, 
 bysiliop of Lyncolne (begining ^^ Fadyr and fone 
 and holy ghofle")3"f and '^ Medytaciuns of 
 the foper of our lorde Jhefu -, and alfo of his pas- 
 fyun 3 and eke of the peynes of hys fwete modyr 
 may den Marye 3 the why die made yn Latyn Bo- 
 naventure cardynall" (begining ^^'^Alle mizhtigodin 
 
 t The *^ Manuel de fechees^^ is claimed by one Willi- 
 am de Wadington, who, at the end of a copy of this 
 poem, in two Harleian MSS. 4651, and 4971, fays 
 that no man ought to condemn his French or his 
 rimes, as he was born an Englifhman. In another 
 Harleian MS. (273) he is called William de Windin- 
 don. Either, therefor, Robert of Brunne was rhistaken, 
 or William de Wadington is an impostor ; unlefs we 
 can fuppofe that there were two French verfions from a 
 common Latin original. There does not appear any copy 
 of the Manuel de -pechees extant under the name of Bilhop 
 Grofthead, nor any other authority for its being writen 
 by him, than this of Mannyng, which, however, is not 
 meant to be impeached. 
 
FdURTEEXTH CENTURY. 33 
 
 trynyte") : both extant among theHarleian MSS. 
 (Num. 1701) and in the Bodleian librar)^ (N. E. 
 V. 7, and fuper D. i. art. 44). Mr. Warton has 
 done great injustice to Mannyng, in concludeing 
 that '' he has fcarcely more poetry than Robert 
 of Glocester3" which only proves his want of 
 tafle or judgement : he allows-, however, '' that 
 even fuch a writer as Robert de Brunne [and, in 
 fa6t, we have very few fuch] contributed to form 
 a ftyle, to teach expresfion, and to polifli his na- 
 tive tongue." 
 
 MINOT LAURENCE wrote, in 1352, ten 
 lyrick poems, of lingular merit, upon the principal 
 events of the reign of the then monarch, king 
 Edward the tliird 3 which were elegantly and ac- 
 curately printed, from the only MS. copy (Galba 
 E. IX.) in 1796. 
 
 ROLLE RICHARD, a hermit, of the order of 
 St. Augustine, relideing in or near tlie nunnery of 
 Hampole, near Doncaster, whence he is ufually 
 called' Richard of Hampole, or Richard Hampole, 
 wrote, ] . ^' Stiinulus confckntkey or The prykke 
 of confcience," a tlieological poem, in feven parts 3 
 the ift, of human natm'e, the 2d, of the world, 
 the 3d, of death, the 4th, of purgatory, the 5 th, 
 
 D 
 
34 POETS OF THE 
 
 of the day of judgement^ the 6th, of the pains of 
 hel, and the 7th, of the joys of heaven ; extant 
 in the Bodleian library. Num. Mgi, 1700,2322, 
 3059, 3679, in Univerfity-college, Num. 142, 
 in Caius-Gonvill college, Cambridge, Num. 845, 
 in the archiepiscopal library at Lambeth, Num. 
 260, among the Harleian MSS. Num. 1731, 
 6923, in the libraiy of Trinity-college, Dublin, 
 D. 4. 8. £5fc, and twice in the posfesfion of M, 
 Douce : the first line (in one copy) of the fhort 
 prologue being, ^*' The myzth of fadyr al- 
 myzthy," and that of the book, *^^ Before or god 
 had eny thing wrowt :"* 2. ^^ The ix lesfons of 
 the diryge whych Job made in hys trybulacyon 
 lying on the donghyll, and ben declared more 
 opynly to lewde mennes underftandyng, and ys 
 clepyd Pety Job, and is ful profytable to ftere fyn- 
 ners to compunccion :" begining, '^ LyefF lord 
 my foule thou fpare" : in tlie Harleian MSS. 
 Num. 1706: 3. A prolix paraphrafe, or com- 
 mentaiy, upon the lords prayer: '^ Almighty 
 
 * This poem, in two of the Oxford MSS. is attributed 
 to Robert Grostefl, bifhop of Lincoln. See Tanner. 
 There is alfo << The pricke of love after Ric. Hampol, 
 treting of three degrees of love fMSS. Bih. Bod, Arch. 
 B. 65) ; fuppofed to be a translation (in profe) of his 
 Incendium amoris. 
 
FOURTEENTH CENTURY. 35 
 
 god in trinite" : among the Harleian MSS. 
 Num. 435^ and Mores, Num. 215 : 4. A 
 paraphrafe upon the feven penitential pfalms : 
 Bodleys MSS. Digby 18 : 5. Speculum vi- 
 tee : or The mirrour of life, begining ^^ To 
 goddis worfchippe that dere us bougt:" in 
 MSS. Bod. 48. & MSS. Lang. 5. 6. Decern 
 mandata : ^^ Thou fchalte have on god and no 
 moo:" 7. De fuperbia : '^'^ Pryde is hede of alle 
 kynne fynne :" 8. Septem "cirtutes, contra feptem 
 vicia : ^^ Be meke and mylde of herte and 
 tonge:" 9. Septem opera ?nifericordie : ^' Seynt 
 Poule apostel thus fayth he:" "^ g. [Sept ein opera 
 char it ails'] ^^ Teche eche man with charyte ;" 
 10. Quinque feiifus corporaliter : ^' Kepe tlii fyzte 
 fro vanyte :" 11. Quinque fenfus fpiritualiter : 
 ^^ Have mynde in blyffe that never fhalle blynne :" 
 12. Tres virtutes theologice : /^ Byleve in god that 
 alle hath wrouzte :" 13. Quatuor virtutes cardi^ 
 nales : ^^ Be ryzt wys man what ever betyde :" 
 14. Od:o beatitudines : ^^ Jefus feynge peplys 
 comynge hym tylle :" 15. [A] lesfon [which] 
 a vertuofe chylde ihuld often fay to hys fove- 
 reynes :" ^^ Iff y lye, bacbyte, or ftele :" '"'■ Ex- 
 plicit Scala cell:'' 16. Howe oure lorde Jhefu 
 feven tymes bleed for us :"— ^^ Jhefu that alle 
 this worlde hafte wrouzte :" all in the Harley 
 
 D 2 
 
36 POETS OF THE 
 
 MS. 1706, though not certain to have been 
 writen by RoUe 3 any more than 17. '*^ A treatife 
 of Parce 7nUii domhie :'' ^' By a forefl fyde walk- 
 yng as i went :" inferted along with Peti/ Job in a 
 MS. of Mr. Douce. Mr. Warton^ who has been 
 rather liberal in his extracts from The pricke of 
 confcicnce, profefses himfelf, at the fame time, 
 not quite convinced that any manufcript of that 
 work in Englifh belongs to Hampole 5 this piece, 
 according to him, being a translation from his 
 Latin profe, and thinks '^ it is not very likely 
 that he Ihould translate his own work." (History 
 of Englifh poet ty, 1, 256).'^ Lydgate^ however, 
 in the following century, exprefsly fays that he 
 
 * It is by no means conclufive " that this piece is a 
 
 translation from the Latin, from thefe verfes'* floi- 
 
 264) : 
 
 ** Therefore this boke is in EngHs draw 
 
 Of fele matters that bene unknawe 
 
 To levved men that are unkonande ; 
 
 That con no Latyn undiiflonde :'* 
 
 Since this may be nothing more than his reafon for 
 prefering EngHfh to Latin. In one of Mr. Douce's 
 MSS. the pasfage (lands thus : 
 
 *' In thefe fevene be dyveres matters drawer* 
 Out of dyvers bokes that be unknawen, 
 To lewed men, namely of Ingeland, 
 That can bot Englyfch underfland ; 
 
FOURTEENTH CENTURY. 37 
 
 wrote^ or at leafl translated^ in his native 
 tongue : 
 
 ^^ In perfit living, which pafseth poylie^ 
 Richard hermite^ contemplative of fentence^ 
 Drough in Englishe The prick of con- 
 fcience,''* 
 He alio left a copy of this prolix poem to the 
 fociety of friers -minors in York, after his^ and 
 his brotliers death 3 which came^ afterward, into 
 the posfesfion of Dr. Monro. In fa 61, it would 
 rather feem that the Latin was translated from the 
 Englifh 3 lince in the library of Pembroke-hall is 
 a MS. '' Tract, infer ipt us Stimulus confcientiae 3 
 qui a minus fciolo ell translatus ("cerhafunt inter^ 
 pretisj. Si quis igifiir fapiens in illo aliquos re- 
 periat defect us, deprecor ut eos corrigat mente pi a, 
 ^ translatori imponaty (Num.118.) He dyed 
 in 1349, and, on account of his piety and his mi- 
 racles, was not only reputed a faint by tlie popu- 
 lace^ but appears to have been actually canonized. 
 See the catalogue of the Cotton MSS. Tiberius 
 A. XIII. fmce deftroyed^ and Cave^ or Tanner, 
 
 Tharfor this tretyce draw i walde 
 In Englyfch tung, that may be calde 
 The pryk of conlcyence, csrV." 
 without any reference to a Latin original. 
 
 * Bochaiy fo. 2i7y b. 
 D3 
 
38 POETS OF THE 
 
 STRODE RALPH, the greateft ornament of 
 Merton-college, according to Leland^ who fays, 
 in his poetical ftile, that he worihiped eloquence, 
 and the warbleing mufes with the moft pasfionate 
 love. Chaucer, it is tme, in his '^ Troilus and 
 Cresfeide," addrefses that poem to ^*' morall 
 Gower/* and ^^ to the philofophical Strode,'* 
 ^' To vouch fafe (there nede is) to correde. 
 Of their benignities and zelis goode :'* 
 whence Bale infers that he calls him an Englifh 
 poet. Lydgate, alfo, haveing this pasfage in his 
 eye, has placed him among poets, though he does 
 not exprefsly term him one : 
 
 **^ In moral matter ful notable was Gower, 
 And fo was Strood in his philofophie : " * 
 Nothing, however, of his compofition in the ver- 
 nacular language_, is known to be preferved^ 
 though lyeing Dempiler, who has ranked him 
 among the native writers of Scotland, pretends 
 that he wrote '^ Fahulce lepidce TerfuJ" 
 
 TAYSTEKE JOHN DE, a monk of Saint 
 Marys abbey, York, translated from the Latin, 
 in 1357, at the command of archbilhop Thoresby, 
 a poem on the decalogue -, extant in number 1022 
 
 * BochaSf fo. 217, b. 
 
FOURTEENTH CENTURY. 3^ 
 
 of the Harleian MSS. '' Thurgh grace grow and 
 in god almyght." 
 
 VICARY THOMAS, of Wimborn-minfter in 
 Dorfetfhire, feems to have been the author or 
 translator of a poem on the Hory of Apollonius of 
 Tyre (posfiblely from the F ant he on of Godfrey of 
 Viterbo), of which Dr. Farmer had a fragment. 
 See Steevenses AS/^fl^/peare^ XIII^ 381;, 609. 
 
 WALTON, or WALTWNEM, JOHN, ca- 
 
 non of Ofeney, translated into Englilh verfe ^' The 
 boke of comfort called in Latyn Boecius de con^ 
 folatione philofopJiie ; printed, in the exempt mo- 
 nasteiy of Taviftock, in Devonfhire^ by '^ Dan 
 Thomas Rychard monke of the fayd monastery, 
 to the inflant defyre of the ryght worfliypful 
 efquier mayfter Robert Langdon," anno 1525, 
 quarto : But the translation appears, from a ma- 
 nufcript copy quoted by Hearne (Frcefatio in 
 Camdeni Annales, p. cxxxiii) to have been finifhed 
 in 1410: conformablely to another, among the 
 kings MSS. (18 A XIII.) in which the work is 
 fayed to be translated '^ per capellanum Johan- 
 nera^" whom Casley mistook for ^^ Ludgate/' 
 
 D4 
 
POETS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 
 
POETS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 
 
 ALCOCK JOHN, biihop of Ely, is the author 
 of a comment upon the feven penitential pfalms, 
 in Englifh verfe (Harley MSS. 1704, imperfed). 
 He dyed in 1500. 
 
 ASHBY GEORGE, clerk of the fignet to 
 Margaret queen of Henry the fixtli, wrote a moral 
 poem, for the ufe of their fon prince Edward, on 
 the ^*^ active policy of a prince,'* finifhed, it ap- 
 pears, in tlie authors eightieth year, and extant 
 among bifliop Mores MSS. at Cambridge (Num. 
 492). 
 
 AWDELAY JOHN, who ftiles himfelf capel- 
 lanus, and appears to have been old, blind, and 
 deaf, and a canon of the monastery of Haghmon 
 in Shropfhire^ anno 1426, wrote fome metrical 
 
44 POETS OF THE 
 
 divinity and pious legends -, of which the late 
 Dr. Farmer had a coeval manufcript, now in the 
 posfesiion of Francis Douce^ efquire. At the end 
 are thefe lines : 
 
 ^^ No mon this book he take away, 
 
 Ny kutt owte noo leef y fay for why. 
 
 For hit ys facrelege lirus y zow fay, 
 
 Beth a curfed in the dede truly. 
 
 Zef ze wl have any copi, 
 
 Af kus leeve & ze flial have. 
 
 To pray for hyne fpecially 
 
 That hyt made zour foules to fave, 
 
 Jon the blynde Awdelay 
 
 The furfl: pre ft to the lord Straunge he was. 
 
 Of thys chauntre here in this place 
 
 That made this bok by goddus grace, 
 
 DeefF, fick, blynd, as he lay. 
 
 Cuius anhne propicietiir deus,'* 
 
 BANASTRE GILBERT wrote an Englifh 
 poem upon a miracle of St. Thomas, 146?, in- 
 ferted in Stones history of the monks of Chrift- 
 church, Canterbury ^ a MS. in Bennet-coUege-li- 
 brary (CCCCXVII). 
 
 BARCLAY ALEXANDER, prieft, chaplain 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 45 
 
 (1508) in the college of St. Mary-Oter}^ Devon, 
 and, aftenvard, monk of Ely, translated from 
 the French '' The castell of Labour, wherein is 
 Rychefse, Vertue and Honour," an allegorical 
 poem, in feven-line flanzas, printed by Wynken 
 de Worde, in 1506: alfo, ^^ out of Laten, 
 Frenche and Doche," ^^ This prefent boke named 
 the fhyp of folys of the worlde," printed by Rich- 
 ard Pinfon in 1509, and by John Cawood in 
 1570. It concludes with a ballad, of 12 octave 
 (lanzas, in honour of the virgin Maiy. He, 
 likewife, translated from the Latin, of Dominick 
 Mancyn, '^ A ryght frutefull treaty fe, intituled the 
 myrrour of good maners, conteyning the iiii ver- 
 tues, called cardin all 3" printed by Pinfon, '' at 
 the inftaunce and requefl of the r}^ght noble 
 Rychard yerle of Kent:" and, in his youth, com- 
 piled Five '^ Egloges, whereof the fy rfl; thre 
 conteyneth the myferyes of courters and courtes 
 of all prynces in generall : the matter whereof 
 was translated . . . out of a boke named in Latyn 
 Miferie cvrialimn compyled by Eneas Silvius 
 poete and oratour, whiche after was pope of 
 Rome and named Pius :" the fourth ^' conteyning 
 the maner of the riche men anenfl poets and 
 other clerkes^" and the fifth being '' of the 
 
 •JLJl^. 
 
46 POETS OF THE 
 
 cytezen and vplondyfliman :'' all printed by Pin- 
 fon or de Worde : and inferted^, alfo^ along 
 with ^^ The myrroiu' of good maners" in Cawoods 
 edition of ^' The fhyp of folys." There was like- 
 wife an edition of the three firfl eclogues by 
 Humphrey Powell. Wood^ from Bale^ mentions 
 ^' his anfwer to John Skelton tlie poet'* {'^ Contra 
 Skdtonumy lib, l") 3 which was probablely in me- 
 tre J but appears neither to have been printed^ nor 
 to be extant in manufcript.* He dyed^ very aged, 
 in 1552, and was intered at Croydon: where, 
 from his firft eclogue, he appears to have dwelt in 
 his youth. Both his name of baptifm and the or- 
 thography of his furname feem to prove that he 
 was of Scotifh extraction. Wood fuppofes him 
 to have been a Somerfetfliire man : but 
 Dr. Bulleyn, his contemporary fays, that he 
 ^^ was born beyond the cold river of Tweed.'* 
 See his ^^ Dialogue both pleafante and pitiful.'* 
 1564, 
 
 * In Maunfells catalogue is *^ Alex. Barkley his 
 figure of our mother holy church opprelsed by the 
 French king :" printed by Pinfon ; but whether in verfe 
 orprofe is uncertain. Bale, alfo, enumerates the lives 
 of St. George, from Mantuan, St. Catharine, St. Mar- 
 garet and St. Ethelred j which are in the fame predica- 
 ment. 
 
 tiiJlCiKl... 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. *45 
 
 Barclay is^ likewife^claim'd as a Scot, by Thomas 
 Dempfter, who fays '^ he livc'd in Engleland, 
 being expel'd [from his native country] for the 
 fake of rehgion." This, however, feems his pe- 
 culiar invention, fince no religious disfentions had 
 takeen place in Scotland fo early as 1506. Hol- 
 lynshed, even, pofitively calls him ^' a Scot :" 
 but Bale, the oldeft authority, fays onely, ^^ that 
 fome contend that he was a Scot, others, an . 
 Engleifhman," though he himfelf, from the fitua- 
 tion he has alloted him might have adopted the 
 latter opinion. He fays, moreover, that ^' this 
 Barkeley had prove'd feveral fe6ls, fometimes a6t- 
 ing the mafs-prieft, and fometimes, the Benedic- 
 tine, or Franciscan, certain to none : but in all 
 thefe," he ads, in his bigoted and foul-mouth'd 
 way, ^' he continue'd a hateer of truth, and, 
 under the disguife of celibacy, a filthy adulterer 
 tothelaft." Pitts, himfelf a papift, and, on that 
 account, it may be, better inform'd than Bale, 
 admits, that, with fome, he appear' d to have been 
 a Scot, ^' but was,^ veryly, an Engleifliman, and 
 his native country, as it is probable, Devonfhire/' 
 Wood, who defigns him Alexander de Barklay, 
 favs he '^ feems to have been born at, or near, a 
 
46* POETS OF THE 
 
 town fo called in Somerfetlliire^* was, for a time, 
 educated in this univerfity -, particularly, as it 
 feems, in Oriel-college, of which his great patron 
 and favourer of his fludies, Thomas Corniih, 
 bifhop of Tyne, was then provofl [to whom he 
 dedicateed his *'*' Shyp of folys," 150C)]. ''SSure 
 *tis, he ads, '^ that, living to fee his monastery 
 disfolv'd, he became vicar of Much-Badew in 
 Esfex, and, in 1546, of the church of St. Mat- 
 thew the apostle at Wokey in Somerfetfhire [and, 
 finally, inftituted to that of All-faints, Lombard- 
 fbreet]. In his younger days," he fays, '^ he 
 was efleemed a good poet and orator, but, when 
 years came on, he fpent his time moftly in pious 
 matters, and in reading the histories of faints.** 
 Warton, who (as wel as Tanner) asferts that 
 '^ He was of Oriel-college, in Oxford,'' by way 
 of proof, fhews him '^ to have fpent fome time 
 at Cambridge' (II, 240). 
 
 * There is no fuch place in that county j the onely 
 Berleley]^nO'^'n is in Gloucester/hire, 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 47 
 
 BARNES or BERNERS, DAME JULYAN, 
 
 priorefs of the nunnery of Sopewell^ near St. Al- 
 banS;, compiled the '^ boke of huntyng;" printed^ 
 along with a book of hawking, and '^ other 
 plefuris diverfe/' at St. Albans, in i486, folio; 
 and, again, by Wynken de Worde, in 1496, 
 folio: again, by Toye and Copland, 4to. This 
 lady whom Bale terms ^' illustris famina,'" is 
 noted by W. Bm*ton, to have been the daughter 
 of fir James Berners of Berners-Roding in Esfex, 
 and fister to Richard lord Berners, See Tanner, 
 
 BENET. See BURGH. 
 
 BOKENHAJN'I OS BERN, a native of Suffolk, 
 and canon of the order of St. Augustine in the 
 monaftery of Stoke-Clare, wrote, or translated, 
 in and about 1445, the lives of divers faints, 
 which are extant in a coeval MS. in the library of 
 the Royal fociety. 
 
 BOWYER JOHN, canon of Bodmin, wrote 
 a dul poem, addrefsed to Jefus Chrift, intitled 
 Confonplatio bona, and another, De piieritia do- 
 mini nostri Jhefu Ckristi, {'' AUemyzthty god yn 
 trynyte)j" both extant in Num. . 2399 of the 
 Harleian MSS. which, likewife, contains the old 
 
48 POETS OF THE 
 
 poem '^ Qiiomodo homo fapiens diclt ;'* '^ How 
 the wife man taught his fon^" posfiblely by the 
 fame hand. 
 
 BRADSHAA HENRY, a monk of the Bene- 
 dictine monastery of St. Werburg, in Chester, 
 the place of his nativity, translated '^ The holy 
 life and history of faynt Werburge, very frute- 
 fuli for all Christen people to rede 5" printed by 
 Richard Pinfon, 1521, in 4to, & b. 1. It is in 
 flanzas, chiefly of 7^ but fome of 8 lines. (Her- 
 bert, 269). To this author^ likewife, is attri- 
 buted by Ames, or Herbert, ^^ The lyfe of faynt 
 Radegunde :" printed by the fame Pinfon, in 4to. 
 and b. 1. but without date : in ftanzas of 7 lines. 
 He dyed, as it appears from the book, in 1513*. 
 
 ^ This virgin martyr Thomas Chatterton, in *^ The 
 ftorie of William Canyng/' has converted into a 
 
 male : 
 
 " ISIext holie Wareburghm fylld my mynde, 
 As fayre a fayncte as anie tovvne can boafte, — 
 I fee hy% ymage waulkeyng throwe the coafte : &c." 
 
 There is, at leaft, one very profound fcholar who ftil be- 
 lieves in the authenticity of Roivkys poems ! d. mistake 
 which muft have been imposfible to a prieft in the 13th 
 century. 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. ^Q 
 
 BREUS THOMAS. At the end of an old 
 Englifh poem, in the Harleian library (Num. 
 2338);, is this note^ writen, as Mr. Wanley ob- 
 ferves^ by a later hand,, "" Finis pasfionis Christ i 
 auctore Thoma Breus (1422) j"- which, he ads, 
 '^ feems to be a mistake, and perhaps a wilful 
 one : for the name Thomas Breus, which appears 
 in the firfl page, is of the very fame inke that 
 the whole book is written with, and^ that maketh 
 mention of the year 1536 : fo that 'tis much more 
 likely that this Breus was only the posfesfor of it." 
 However tliis may be, the manufcript is clearly 
 of the fifteenth century, and even the laft page 
 (part of a prophecy), which contains the above 
 date feems as old as the reft. Some words alfo ap- 
 pear to have been erafed, probably by the inter- 
 polator of the colophon, fromVvhich he may have 
 had authority for what he has there fayed. The 
 poem itfelf commences with this line : ^' Comyng 
 the gret tyme of mercy." 
 
 BURGH BENEDICT (orBENNET), canon 
 of St. Stephens Weftminfter, translated out of 
 Latin the book of distichs or precepts called Cato 
 magnusj which, as master Caxton obferves, full 
 craftily he made, '' in baladeryal^ for the erudicion 
 
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50 POETS OF THE 
 
 of my lord Eoufher^ fone and heyr at that tyme 
 to my lorde the erle of Eftfex." He was rector 
 of Sandon,, in Esfex, in 1440^ archdeacon of 
 Colchester in 1465^ prebendary of St. Pauls in 
 1472, and dyed in 1483. M. Caxton, prefering 
 his own profe to ^*' mayster Benets" poetry, trans- 
 lated the above work from the French, and printed 
 it in the laft of thofe years. ^' A Criftemafse 
 game made by maister Benet, howe god almyghty 
 feyde to his apostelys, and echen of them were 
 baptifte, and none knew of other/' is in the 
 Harlcy MS. 7333 : '' Sanctus Petrus. Petri, 
 Petri, prynce of aposteles all." *'*' Arysto[t]les 
 ABC made be mayster Benet :" '^ A to amerous 
 to aunterous" (MSS. Har. IJOQ). He, likewife^ 
 continued and completed the Regimen principum^ 
 or Secretum fecretoruw 3 of John Lydgate, left im- 
 perfe6t by his death. 
 
 CAUMPEDEN HUGH OF translated, out 
 of French, '^ The history of kyng Boccus and 
 Sydracke, how he confounded his lerned men^ 
 and in the fyght of them dronke llrong venym in 
 the name of the trynyte and did him no hurt, ^c'' 
 printed, at London, by Thomas Godfray, *^*' at the 
 cofte and charge of dan Robert Saltwode monke 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 51 
 
 of faynte Auflens at Cantorbury," in 15 10. A 
 MS. copy, in the Sloan colledion (Num. 2232), 
 has '' Explicit llobertiis Wakefelde,'" with the 
 date of 1502. 4to. In the catalogue of the Bod- 
 leian MSS. (Laud. G. 57.) is '' Hugh of Camp- . 
 dens poems in Engliili :" posfiblely the above 
 translation, of which manuicript copys are not 
 uncommon. 
 
 CAXTON WILLIAM, the firfl Engliih printer, 
 has aded two feven-line llanzas, apparently of 
 his own compofition, by way of conclufion to 
 '* The morale prouerbes of Cristyne [of Pyfe or 
 Pifan] j" reprinted in Ameses '' Typographical an- 
 tiquities," by Herbert, p. 18. Mr. Warton, alfo, 
 in addition to '^ the rhyming introductions and 
 epilogues with which he frequently decorates his 
 books," feems wiling to afcribe to him a poem of 
 conliderable length, intitled ^^ The worke of 
 fapience," of his own printing, and of which he 
 appears to be the author, by the prologue : but 
 which is, elfewhere, more juftly attributed to 
 Lydgate. It muft be owned, however, that our 
 venerable typographer does not feem (in his own 
 language) to have '^ dronken" very deep '^ of 
 Elycons well," as he translated Virgil and Ovidj 
 
 E2 
 
52 POETS OF THE 
 
 out of French, into Englifh prole. He dyed 
 in 1491. 
 
 CHERTESEY ANDREW translated from the 
 French^ 1. '' A lytcl tretife, intytuled or named 
 the Lucidarye^" printed by Caxton^ 2. ''The craft 
 to live well and to dye well/' finiihed the 2 ift of Ja- 
 nuary 15 05, and printed by Wynken de Wordein 
 the following year 3 and,. 3. '' The pasfion of our 
 lord Jefu Ciyft,'' printed by the fame printer in 
 1520.* In the title-page of his '' Fioure of the 
 commaundementes of god, ^c. (a translation from 
 the French) printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1521, 
 folio, are '' The x commaundementes of the 
 lawe," and '' The fyve commaundementes of the 
 churche/' in verfe. *' The prologue of the trans- 
 latour," alfo, is in ftanzas of 8 lines. 
 
 CHESTRE THOMAS is the author of a me- 
 trical romance, intitled '*" Launfal miles,'' relating 
 the adventures of one of king Artliurs knights ^o 
 called, as he himfelf informs us : 
 
 '' Thomas Chestre made thys tale 
 Of the noble knyzt fyr Launfal." 
 
 * Herbert feems to conjecture that there was an early 
 edition by this printer. See 203. 
 
 I 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 53 
 
 It is a free translation from the French ; and 
 is preferved in a MS. of the Cotton-hbrary 
 (Caligula A. II) j begining, '' Be douzty Ar- 
 tours dawes." Either this^ or a different, trans- 
 lation was printed before 1575^ under the title of 
 Sijr LainvceU. 
 
 COMBE JOHN. '' Biqmtatio inter equiun, 
 anferem ^ ovem, by John Combe, old Englifh.'* 
 MSS. Afhmole, 5 0. 4 to. If tliis be the '' dia- 
 logue between the horfe, the Iheep, and the 
 goofe/' of which there is a copy in the fame col- 
 ledion (754. 2), and which was originally printed 
 by Caxton_, it is ufually afcribed to John Lyd- 
 gate. 
 
 CORNISHE (otherwife NYSHEWHETE) 
 WILLIAM, chapelman to king Henry the fe- 
 venth^ compofed, during his confinement in the 
 Fleet, 1504, '' A treatife betwene trouth and in- 
 formation :" printed at the end of Skeltons 
 works, in Marfhes edition, and that of 1/36. 
 
 CROPHILL JOHN, a cunmng-man, conjurer, 
 or aflrological quack, who practifed in Suffolk 
 about the year 1420, has left fome poetry or rimes 
 fpoken at an entertainment of '' Frere Thomas/* 
 
 E3 
 
54 POETS OF THE 
 
 and five ladies of quality whofe names are men- 
 tioned : at which two great bowls^ or goblets^ 
 called ^*' Meriy & Scharyte" were brilkly circu- 
 lated: extant in the Harleian MS. 1735^ and be- 
 gining,, *'*' Frere Tomas P'airefelde," 
 
 FABIAN ROBERT, an alderman of London, 
 and one of the fherifs of that city in 1493, wrote 
 or translated certain poems or verfes, which are 
 interfperfed occaiionally in his ^' Newe crony cles 
 of Englande and of France/' firlt printed 151 6, 
 by Richard Pinfon 3 but omited, for the mofl: part, 
 in the fubfequent editions."^ As a favorable fpe- 
 cimen of his poetical talents may be mentioned 
 an elegy on Henry the firft, which mistrefs Cooper 
 has inferted in ^^ The mufes library/' as ^^ wrote 
 immediately after his death, the author un- 
 known 3" and which Mr. Preston, in his 
 '^ Thoughts on lyric poetry," printed in the ift 
 volume of '^ The tranfaclions of the royal Irifh 
 academy," calls ^' a very early fpecimen of the 
 irregular ode in the Englilli language 3 which,'* 
 
 * See Herbert, 264. The rarity of this edition may 
 be owing to a circumflance mentioned b}^ Bale : Eius 
 chronicorum exemplaria nonnulla cardinal'n Vuolftm i?i Juo furore 
 comhuri fecit : quod cUri froventus pingues plus fatis de- 
 texerit,^* 
 
FIFTEEXTH CENTURY. 55 
 
 he faySj '^ bears marks of the highell antiquity :" fo 
 little difference did thefe two ingenious criticks ima- 
 gine there was between the language of the 1 2th and 
 that of the I5th centuiy. The piece in question is, 
 in fa6t^ a translation from a Latin poem^, preferve'd, 
 and posfiblely writen^ by Henry archdeacon of Hun- 
 tingdon^ the contemporary of that monarchy and in- 
 ferted^ along with it, in our authours history. He 
 dye'dj according to Stow^ who gives his epitaph^ in 
 1511: Bale, who^ though he live'd nearer the time, 
 was much lefs accurate and inquifitive, fays the 28tli 
 of February 1512, and differs as to the place of inter- 
 ment. However^ as '*" His monument is gone," one 
 would be glad to have known honeft Johns au- 
 thority. 
 
 FANNANDE RICHARD, ironmonger, in the 
 year 1457, compofe'd a defcription, or account, in 
 rude and barbarous verfe, of the building of Culham- 
 bridge, near Abingdon, in Berkfhire, which he 
 caufe'd to be hung up, on a table, in the hall of St. 
 Helens hospital there, to the memory and honour of 
 Geoffrey Barber, a principal founder of that bridge ; 
 printed in Lelands Itinerary, VII, 79. 
 
 FEYLDE THOMAS compile'd '' A lytel trea- 
 tyfe called the contrauerfe betwene a louer and a 
 
 E 4 
 
56 POETS OF THE 
 
 jaye :" printed by Wynken de Worde^ in 4t.o. with- 
 out date. It is not, however, *'*' in Skeltonic verfe/* 
 as Herbert fays^ but in lix-line ftanzas."* 
 
 FLEMING JOHN. His '' old Engiilh poems" are, 
 in tlie Oxford-catalogue^ fay'd to be extant in the li- 
 brary of Trinity-college^ Dublin ; but he turns out^ in 
 fa6t, to be nothing more than the tranfcribeer of Ri- 
 chard Rolle. 
 
 FOX RICHARD, billiop of Durham, and '' lord 
 pryve feale of Englonde," has many metrical inter- 
 mixtures in '^ The contemplation of fynners," printed 
 by Wynken de Worde, in 1499^ 4to. b. 1. He 
 dye'd in 1528. 
 
 GARNESCHE . . . ., a courtier, it would feem, 
 of Henry the 8th, with whom Skelton, laureat, by the 
 kings command, as he fays, had a poetical or rimeing 
 controverfy, in which the latter, at leait, was very 
 perfonal and fcurrilous : but neither master Gar- 
 nefchees challenge, nor any other fpecimen of his ta- 
 lents, is preferve'd. 
 
 GRENE ACRES. At the end of Lydgates 
 
 * Ames calls him Richard -, but the misnomer is afterward 
 rectify 'd by Herbert, 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 57 
 
 '*■ Treatife excellent and compendious, Cs'c." 
 from the Latin of Bocatius, are four feven-line 
 flanzas, fuperfcribed '' Greneacres a Lenuoy 
 vpon John Bochas." 
 
 HALSAM^ '' fquiere/' made a halade begin- 
 ing '^ The worlde fo wyde, the ayer fo remuable :" 
 MSS. Har. 7S33, ufually attributed to Lydgate. 
 
 HAMPTON of Worcester feems to have been 
 retained at the court of Henry the 7th ^*' for 
 making of balades" a llately kind of poetry, then 
 much in vogue -, and had a reward from the 
 king, in 1498, of 2 Of. for his labour. (See Stee- 
 venfes Shahfpeare, II, 157.) He might be 
 what is now improperly called the poet-laureat, 
 an office which did not, under that denomination, 
 exift before the reign of James the firft.* 
 
 HARDYNGE JOHN wrote a chronicle, in 
 
 * Master Barnard ** the blinde poete," who had a 
 reward from the above monarch of loof. was Bernard 
 Andreas, the Augustine frier, tutor to prince Arthur, 
 poet-laureat, & historiographor royal. See Tanners 
 Bibliotheca, and Knights Life of Erajmus, p. 118. Maione, 
 from a blunder of Warton, calls him Andrew Ber- 
 nard. 
 
58 POETS OF THE 
 
 metre^ '' from the firft begynnyng of Englandc 
 unto the reigne of Edward the fourth 3" printed 
 by Richard Grafton in 1543^ 4to. ; but extant, in 
 greater perfection, in two manufcript copys, one 
 in the Bodleian Hbrary (Selden B. 26), the other 
 among the Harleian MSS. (Num.661). That 
 part of the work which relates to the Percys is the 
 mofl valuable, in point of fa6t^ as he was brought 
 up in the family, and, at the age of 25, fought 
 under the banners of Henry Hotfpur at the battle 
 of Shrewsbury : as a poet he is almolt beneath 
 contempt. He was, at the fame time, a moll 
 dexterous and notable forger, and obtained great 
 rewards from Henry the 6th and Edward the 4th, 
 for a number of fuppofititious charters of fealty 
 and homage, from the Scotilh monarchs to the 
 kings of England 3 which he pretended to have 
 obtained in Scotland at the hazard of his life, and 
 which are ftil carefully preferved in the Ex- 
 chequer. 
 
 HAWES STEPHEN, one of the grooms of 
 the chamber of king Henry the 7th, compiled, in 
 1506, ^^ The paiTe tyme of pleafure 3" printed by 
 Wynken de Worde in 1517. There are, like- 
 wife, editions by Wayland and Tottell, in 1554 
 and \bbb^ under the title of ^^ The historic of 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 59 
 
 Graunde amoure and la bell pucel^ called the 
 pastime of pleafure^, fe'c." '^ Such" obferves 
 Anthony Wood^ ^*^ is the fate of poetry, that 
 this book, which in the lime of Hen. 7^ and 
 8, was taken into the hands of all ingenious men^ 
 is now thought but worthy of a ballad-mongers 
 flail !" This complaint, however, has long ceafed 
 to exill:, as, it is believed, though the book may 
 be lefs red, it is infinitely more rare and precious 
 than it was in the above reigns. He, alfo, com- 
 piled '^ The converfyon of fwerers," in octave 
 llanzas, widi Latin lemmata ; printed by the fame 
 printer, in 1509 : likewife, '' A compendyous 
 itory, and it is called tlie example of vertu, in 
 the whiche ye fhall fynde many goodly ftorys & 
 naturall dyfputacyons bytwene foure ladyes named 
 Hardynes, Sapyence, Fortune, and Nature," 
 printed by him, in 1530 : to which muft be aded 
 '^ AjoyfuU medytacyon to all Englonde of the 
 coronacyon of our moofl naturall fouerayne lorde 
 kynge Henry the eyght :" a fingle flieet, alio by 
 the fame printer, without date. ^' The temple 
 of glaffe," which has been attributed to Hawes, 
 feems to belong to Lydgate : Mr. Warton being 
 apparently mistaken in asferting ^'' that it was 
 printed in Hawes's life-time, with his name by 
 Wynken ^q Worde." (See Hislory of Englijli 
 
60 POETS OF THE 
 
 poetry, 11, 212 3 Ames and Herberts Tj/pogr^'jp^zca/ 
 antiquities, 79, J 94.) Bale^ indeed^ mentions^, 
 among Haweses poems,, Templum chrystailinum 
 in one book : but it feems to be given to Lyd- 
 gate by Hawes himfelf ; who^ reciteing Lydgates 
 works^ in ^' The pafTetyme of pleafure" fays, 
 
 ^^ — — And the tyme to paffe 
 
 Of love he made the bryght temple of glajfe.^ 
 
 HOCCLEVE, or OCCLEVE, THOMAS, 
 wrote I. '^ Dialogus inter Occlyf ^ mendicum :'* 
 '*" Mufyng upon [or of] the refUes befynefle :'* 
 which, though fufficiently prohx, ferves as a pro- 
 logue to 2. ^^ T)e regimine principis,'" or ^' Trac- 
 tatus de regimine principiim,"' a free translation 
 from the Latin of iEgidius de Columna -, ad- 
 drefsed to Henry the fifth, when prince, to 
 whom he is reprefented, in fome MSS. in a red 
 habit, prefenting his book, in which he introduced 
 tlie defcription and character, and, in the margin, 
 depicted the portrait of his '' Maister Chaucer :*'f 
 
 * See Warton's History of E. foetry, II, 212. 
 
 f ** Although his lyfe queynte be, the refemblauncc, 
 ^c.'' He alfo mentions the fame great poet in his Dialo- 
 gusf or prologue : 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 6l 
 
 the poem begins^ '^ Hyh^ noble> and myghty 
 prynce excellent :" 3. The '^ fable of a certain 
 emprefs/' from the old MS. '' Jestus [Gesta\ Ro- 
 manoruiri" (Harleian MS. 7333), from Avhich he 
 has even adopted the profe morals with flight al- 
 teration : '*^ In the Romayn jeefles writen is 
 thus:" 4. '"''The tale of Jonathas and a wicked 
 w^oman" (it is the llory of Fortunatus), from the 
 fame work 5 introduced by William Browne, in 
 his '^ Shepherds pipe," l6l4 : '' Somtyme an 
 emperour prudent and wife :" 5. A dialogue 
 between a difciple and Sapience : '^ Sithen all 
 men naturally deliren :" all in a volume of the 
 royal library (17 D VI) : 6. '' The letter of Cu- 
 pide," printed among Chancers works : 7. '^^^ A 
 prologue of the nine lesfons that is read over AU- 
 hallow-day" (Bib. Bod. Sdd.fuper 53) : 8. ^^ The 
 moft profytable and holfummyfte crafte that ys 
 Oonlye lerne to dye :" ^^ No we leme for to dye i 
 me purpofe" (MSS. Har. 172) : 9. A poem be- 
 gining ^' Behold my child yf thou lyfte for to 
 lere" f i6/. J 10. Advice to a child : ''*' Bechaunce 
 my childe thou fett}^te thi delyte" (Ibi.J 10. 
 
 '* But wele away I fo is myne hert wo, 
 
 That the honour of Englifh tonge is dede, 
 
 Of which i was wonte have counfeile and reide." 
 
 ^* 
 
62 POETS OF THE 
 
 ^' Pentastichon to the king," printed in Chaucers 
 works, 1602 : 11. *^*^ Mercy after the word of 
 faint Austin :" \2. '' Dialogue to a friend" 
 {^iSS, Seld. utfupra) 13. *'*' Balade to his empty 
 purfe" (MS. Fairfax XVI, Har. 2251 5 and in 
 Chaucers works) : 14. ^' The daunce [of] 
 death:" (Seld, 53, ^ Laud, 1^. 78):^ 15. 
 *'*' Compleynte" [of the virgin Mary] : 16. ''A 
 balade to fir John Oldcastell :" 17 .'^ La male regie 
 de T. Hoccleve :" 18. ^' Balade au tres noble roy 
 H. le vt. 19. [Deux'] halades au roy H. ^ autres 
 honorable compaigne du jar tier :" 20. ^*' Ad bea- 
 tam I'irginem :'' 21. *"*" Balade fait e toft apres que 
 les osfes du roy Richard fur e?it apportez a Wefmen- 
 Jier:'' 22. '' Addrefs to Richard duke of York :" 
 23. '^ Adbeatam virginem :'" 24. '^ [Balade'] n}ys 
 enle livre de Johan due de Bedford:'' 25. A pe- 
 tition to the chancellor : 26. '^ Balade et chanceon 
 faites a H. Somer fouz treforer :'' 27. ^^ Balad& 
 mife en lefin du livre del Regiment des princes :" 
 28. '' Au roy .•" 29. '' A deB, ^ C de D, &c." 
 SO. ^^ Balade feut par le court:'' 31. '^Balade 
 translatee au cowmandewent de Robert Chichele :" 
 of thefe 17 pieces, in a MS. formerly belonging 
 
 * This, however, may be Lydgates Daunce of 
 Machahre, 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 63 
 
 to Dr. Askew^ and aftenv^ard to Mr. Mafon, at 
 whofe fale it was purchafed by Mr. Heber 3 fix 
 of peculiar flupidity were fele6ted and publiflied 
 by its late owner^ in 1796, 4to. Hoccleve was an 
 officer of the privy-feal, and appears to have dyed, 
 at the age of four-fcore or upward^ in or about 
 the year 1454 3 fo tliat there is no improbability 
 in his having been perfonally acquainted with 
 Chaucer. 
 
 HYLTON WALTER, a monk of Shene, in 
 Surry, and aftenvard doctor of divinity, and canon 
 of Thurgarton, author of a religious treatife, in- 
 titled '^ Scala perfeccionis , englyfllied, the ladder 
 of perfeccion," firfl printed by Wynken de 
 Worde, in I4g4, fo. wrote certain pious contem- 
 plations in Englifh rime, and a nordiern diale6t, 
 which are extant in the Cotton-library (Fauflina 
 B. VI. 22), with fine pictures of the ancient her- 
 mits, faints, and others, and the mystical trees 
 growing in the defert, or wildernefs, of religion 
 or penance, reprefenting the vices of the fpirit, 
 the twelve abufes of the age, C^'c* He dyed in 
 1395. 
 
 * It is prefumed the catalogue-maker had fome 
 authority for afcribeing this poem to Hylton, whofe 
 name, however, does not occur in it. 
 
64 POETS OF THE 
 
 IDLE PETER, of Kent, efquire, wrote '' Liber 
 confolacionis et confilii,'' or Inftructions to his 
 Ibn^ extant in tlie Bodleian library (Digby, I8l), 
 where his name is '' Peter Idywerte 3" in the pub- 
 lick library, Cambridge (MSS. More, 121)3 in 
 the Britilb-mufeum (MSS. Har. 172), and in 
 Trinity-college Dublin, D. 2. 7 : '' In the be- 
 gynnyng of thys lytill werke." 
 
 IMPINGHx\M, wrote '' Proverbes," begining 
 '^ Next the derke nyght the gray morewe 3" ex- 
 tant in the Harley MS. 7333. 
 
 KILDARE MICHAEL, a monk or frier, 
 wrote a pious poem, begining ^^ Sweet Jefu hende 
 and fre." (MSS. More 784.) 
 
 LACY JOHN wrote a poem intitled '' Wyl 
 Bucke his testament 3" printed by William Cop- 
 land, n. d. 4 to. b. 1. There is, likewife, a copy of 
 it in the Cotton MS. Julius A. V. 
 
 LICHFIELD WILLIAM, a doctor in theolo- 
 gy, but w^ho, according to Mr. Warton, '^ Ihone 
 moft in profe 3" and is faid to have writen witli 
 his own hand, 3083 Englifh fermons, wrote a 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. ()5 
 
 metrical '^ Dialogue between god and the penitent 
 foul;" prefen^ed at Caius-college, Cambridge, 
 begining "^ Our gracious lord prince of pite." 
 (MSS. E. 147. 6.) with other pieces of that kind. 
 He dyed in 1447. 
 
 LOCK HUMPHREY wrote '' Verfes on al- 
 chymy, to iir WiUiam Cycil, 149O3" among 
 Afhmoles MSS. at Oxford (Num. 18). 
 
 LONELICH HENRY, ikiner, translated out 
 of French, at the Inllance of Harry Barton, 
 *^ The romance of the St. Grayl:" an imperfe6t 
 copy of which translation is preferred in tlie 
 library of Bennet-college, Cambridge (Num. 
 LXXX). See Nasmiths catalogTie. 
 
 LUCAS JOHN compofed, or collected, about 
 the year 1450, a folio volume of fongs or ballads, 
 which Ames, the author of the T if po graphical 
 antiquities, had in his posfesiion, and which is 
 probablely yet in being. See Hawkinses History 
 of mufic, II, 91. In one of lir Heniy Worsleys 
 MSS. defcribed in the large Oxford catalogue. 
 Num. S, are '' Balades taken owte of the booke 
 of John Lucas:" and in another, belonging to 
 Mr. Douce^ are two poems, of which it is fayed, 
 
 F 
 
66 POETS OF THE 
 
 *"*" Thyefe balades that thus been wryten here be 
 take owte of the book of John Lucas,, and fayde 
 to the peple that ihall fee thys lytell tretyfe in 
 tyme to come." A halade, however, at that pe- 
 riod;, was J by no means, what we now mean by 
 the word ballad,'^ 
 
 LYDGATE JOHN, f a monk of Bury- St. 
 Edmunds, in Suffolk, and a moll prolix and 
 voluminous poetaster, wrote, l . '^ The hystory, 
 
 * A regular French ballade appears to have confifted 
 of 4 ftanzas, each of the firft 3 containing 1 1 Hnes of 
 9 or 10 fyllables, the firft line rimeing with the third, 
 the fecond with the fourth, the fifth and fixth together, 
 the feventh and eighth with the tenth, and the ninth with 
 the eleventh ; the fourth ftanza containing no more 
 than 4 lines, in alternate rime, or 5, of which the firft 
 and fecond rime with the fourth, and the third with the 
 fifdi; the fame rimes, alfo, being repeated in each ftanza, 
 of which the laft line is the fame with that of the reft. 
 See LesfaiBTL tt diSiz. de maijire yehan Molinet^ Paris, 1 531, 
 fo. fasfim, Thefe rules, however, do not appear to 
 have been attended to, and posfiblely were not under- 
 ftood by the Englifh poets. 
 
 f Ufually called Da?i John, a title given to the in- 
 dividuals of certain religious orders ; from the barbarous 
 Latin Domnm (a variation of Dominm^^ or the French 
 Dam, or Dom, 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 6*7 
 
 fegCy and dyftruccyon of Troy/' a paraphrasticai 
 translation from the Latin of Guido de Columna j 
 printed^ firfi:^ by Richard Pin fon^, 1613^ and, under 
 a different title,* by Thomas Marilie, 1555, fo. 
 2. '^ The boke of Johan Bochas, defcryuing the 
 fall of princes, princefscs, and other nobles 3" 
 printed by R. Pinfon, 1494, 152? 3 by R. Tottell, 
 15543 andby J. Wayiand, 1558, fo. AfineMS. 
 of tliis work is in the Harleian library (Num. 
 1766). 3. *' The daunce of Machabree3" an- 
 nexed, in Tottells edition, to the precedeing ar- 
 ticle : 4. '' The flory of Thebes 3" in continua- 
 tion of Chancers Canterhury talcs^ at the end of 
 Kingstons edition, I56l, £f7c. 5. ^'^ The lyf of 
 our lady 3" printed by W. Caxton, without date, 
 andby R.Redman, 1531^ 4to. 6. '' The la- 
 
 '* <* The auncient history & onely trewe & fyncere 
 cronicle of the warres betvvixtc the Grecians Sc the 
 Troyans, and fubfequently of the fyrfl evercyon of the 
 auncient and famoufe cyte of Troye under Lamedon 
 the king, & of the lafle & fynall diftru6lion of the fame 
 under Pryam, wrytten by Daretas a Troyan & Di6lis a 
 Grecian, and digeftcd in Latyn by the learned Guydo 
 de Columpnis &rythes translated into Englyfhe verfe by 
 John Lydgate, ^c*' There is a beautiful MS. of 
 this work in the Cotton library, Auguftus IV. with a 
 picture of the author prefenting it to Henry V. 
 
 F2 
 
68 POETS OF THE 
 
 mentacyon of our lady 3 ' ' printed by W. de Wordc^ 
 n. d. 4 to. b. 1. 7, ^^ The glorious lyfe and pas- 
 fion of feint Albon prothomartyr of Englande, 
 and alfo the lyfe and paslion of faint Amphabel, 
 whiche converted faint Albon to the fayth of 
 Chrifte^" printed at St. Albans, 1534, 4to. 
 8. Part of the life of the virgin Mary, and fe- 
 veral other poems, all printed in '^ The pilgre- ' 
 mage of tlie fowle^" a translation from the French,, 
 printed by Caxton, 1483, viz, ^^ The charter of 
 mercy 3 The pilgrims fong, with the anfwer by 
 . the guardian angels 3 The angels fong within 
 heaven 3 The guardian angels fong 3 The- green 
 trees complaint of the day for fpoiling her fweet 
 apple 3 Of the nativity of our lady 3 Of the puri- 
 fication 3 The long on the Twelfth-day 3 The fong 
 of the angels on Eafler-day 3 The fong of Adam, 
 fe'c. and laftly. The faints fong of praife for the 
 holy apoflles" (Harl. cat. 43) : 9. ^"^ The hors, 
 the fhepe, & the ghoos3" printed by Caxton,"^ 
 and, again, by W. de Worde, 4to. 10. *^*^ The 
 temple of glas3" by the fame printers, alfo by 
 
 * This edition, which neither Ames nor Herbert ever 
 faw, is in. the public library, Cambridge, in a volume 
 with feveral pieces by W. de Worde, ^c. being D. 5. 42. 
 (or A B. 5. 37. of the new order.) 
 
 J 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 69 
 
 Pinfon and Berthelet, 4to.* 11, ^^ Parvus Ca" 
 tho (or Cato Minor) ;" printed by Caxton (Seethe 
 Harleian MS. 225 1 ) : 12.'' The werke [or Court] 
 of Sapience 3" printed by Caxton^ and by W. de 
 Worde^ 1510 : 13. '' The interpretation of the 
 names of the goddes and goddefses 3" printed by 
 W. de Worde :f 14. '' The chorle & the byrde3" 
 printed by Caxton, de Worde_, ^c, and in Afh- 
 moles Theatrum chemicum, under the title of 
 '' Hermes bird :" 15. ^'^ The cronycle of all the 
 kynges names that have reyned in Englande fy th 
 the conqueft 3" printed by W. de Worde, 1530, 
 4 to. 16. '^ Stans piier ad mejifam;'' by the fame 
 printer, 4to.||. 17. '^ The proverbes of Lydgate3" 
 by the fame, 4to. 18. ^^'^ A goodly narrative, how 
 S. Augustine, the apoftle of England, raifed two 
 dead bodies at Long-Compton, collefted out of 
 
 * Called, in fome MSS. ^< The temple of brafer 
 See Tanner, 491. 
 
 f Suppofed, by Herbert, to be the fame with that in- 
 fer ted in the catalogue of Lydgates works, under the 
 title of *' Banket of the gods & goddefses, with a dis- 
 courfe of reafon and fenfualitie.'' 
 
 It is a translation from the Latin of Sulpitius, un- 
 
 der the fame title 3 printed by that printer in 15 18 and 
 1514, 4to. 
 
 F 3 
 
% 
 
 70 POETS OF THE 
 
 divers autors^" printed at St. Auftens, Canter- 
 bury, 4to. ]g. '^ The ferpent of diviiionj" 
 printed by Owen Rogers, 1559, l6mo.* 20. 
 '^ The iloure of courtefie:" 2\.'' Balade of the 
 village without paintyng, or *"*" Le Compleyntes con" 
 tre Fortune :" 22. ^' A balade of gode counfeile, 
 translated out of Latin verfes :'* 23. ^^ A balade 
 made in the preife (or ratlier dispreife) of women 
 for their doublenefs :" 24. ^*' A balade warning 
 men to beware of deceitful women :" 25. ^' Ba- 
 lade in commendation of [or. Invocation to] our 
 ladie :" 26. *"*" The lamentation of Marie Magda- 
 lene:" 27. '' The asfemblee of ladies:" 2S, 
 ^^ A praife of women:" 29. *'*^ The remedie of 
 love:" 30. '' The craft of lovers:" 31. ^' A 
 balade teching what is gentilnes:" 32. '^ Sayings 
 of Dan John:" all printed in feveral editions of 
 Chaucer 5 but fee Tyrwhitts ^' Account, fsfc." 
 '{Canterbury tales, V, xviii. &c.) 33. ^*" The tes- 
 tament of John Lydgate^" printed by R. Pinfon, 
 4to. 34. '' Of two monflrous beafls Bicorne 
 and Chichefachej" printed in Dodsleys Old plays, 
 1780, XII, 333, and thereby abfurdly fuppofed 
 '^ to be of a dramatic caft :" 35. ^' London Lyck- 
 penny^" printed lately in a half-flieet (from 
 
 * Tanner, from Woods MS. calls the author Lyd^au, 
 
 <ytfl 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 71 
 
 tlie Harley MSS. 36? ) . 36. Part of his translation 
 of the '^ Secrefa fecrefonini' (a popular work of 
 tlie middle ages), which he did not live to finiili, 
 is printed in Aflimoles T heat rum chcmicum : and 
 thefe are tlie whole of his printed works, the 
 reft remaining in raanufcript:' 37. ^' De rege 
 Arthur o:'' 38. *^*^ De ejus menfa rotunda: '^ The 
 feige of Jerufalem:" ^' Leftnethe alle that ben 
 alyve" (BodleyMSS.Digby230). 39. ^^Thelyf of 
 the mofte worthy knyght Guy of Warwike^" out 
 of tlie Latin chronicle of Gyrarde Cornubience :" 
 '' Frome Crieftes birthe complete nyen c. yere." 
 (Har. MSS. 7333) :-^' 40. '' Fabula duorum mer- 
 catorum dc et fuper Geftis Romanorum : " ^^ In 
 Egipt whilom as i rede and fynde :" (Harley MSS. 
 2251, 2255 :) 41. '^'^ A tale of a priorefs and her 
 three wooers :" Pro. ^^ Glor}Tis god our governer 
 glad :" Book : '' All hafte ys edyns" (Ibi, 78 J : 
 
 42. '' The tale of the childe of Briftow:" '' He 
 that made botlie lievene and hell" (Jbi. 23S2J: 
 
 43. A tale of two priefts : ^^ In Wiltfhire of 
 Ynglonde two priftes tlier were flbi, 2251J : 
 
 44. ^^ De fabro dominam rcfonnante:'' ^^ De 
 
 f Bale fpcaks of the ^cta Guidonis as a different work 
 
 from that De Guidone et Colbrando, but it is the conflant 
 
 practice of that mendacious prelate to fpht one book 
 
 into feveral. 
 
 F4 
 
72 
 
 POETS OF THE 
 
 duohus amantihus : ^^ A notable proverbe of 
 Yfopus in balade, made in Oxford fcff;?fA^ S^ urn- 
 hra) :" ^^ An old proverb hath bee feyd and 
 fhall" (Allimole MSS. 59. ii) : 45. ^^ Ifopes fa- 
 bules :" *'*' Wysdom is more of pris than gold in 
 cofres" (Harley MSS. 2251): 46. '' Tale of the 
 When Phebus dwelte in this worlde" 
 
 crow: 
 
 " <c 
 
 (Bodley MSS. 2527) : 47. '' Jak Hare which 
 of a bolle can pluck out the lyning:" '^ A 
 froward knave plainly to discryve" (Harley MSS. 
 2251): 48. '' Piers of Fulham" (Trinity-col. 
 Cam. 368 ) : 49. '' Dejlultis Qs fahula r '' The 
 ordre of foolis full yore agoon begone" (Bod- 
 ley MSS. 798, H^ar. 2251) : 50. '' The prohemy 
 of a manage betwix an olde man and a yong 
 wif, ^c." '^ A philofophre^ a good clerk fecu- 
 ler" (Harley MSS. 372): 5 1 . The vifion : 
 ^*' Allbufy fwymmyng in the llormy floode'* 
 (Harley MSS . 225 1): 52.*'*' Regimen pmicipum/* 
 live ^^ De Aristotele Sf Alexandra/' called alfo 
 '^ The booke of all goode thewes^ and Sec ret a 
 fecretorum: '^ God almyghty fave and conferme 
 our kyng" (Ibi,)"^ 53: Vegetius de re milifari 
 (Bodley MSS. 1479) •* 54. '' Liber magni 
 
 ^ In the margiii of fo. 236, oppofite to this line, 
 
 <' Where flowre of knyghthod the batel doth refuce,*' 
 
 is the following note : *' Here deyde the tifanslatour a 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 73 
 
 Cafonis :'' For that god is inwardly tlie wit** 
 ribij : 55. '' The diatory :" '' Iff it be fo 
 that leches do the fayle flbi.J: 56. ^^ Tlie pil- 
 grimage of the world by commandement of the 
 earle of Salisbury, 1426:'* 57. '^ Ofanefquire 
 that lived in Loves court:" 5S. ^^ Of a gentle- 
 woman that livTd with a man of great ellate:'* 
 59. ^^ Ragmanys roll:'* ^' My ladies and my 
 maiftrefses ech on" (Harley MSS. 2251) : 60. 
 The chaunfe of the dyfe : ^^ Firft myn uncun- 
 nynge and my rudenefs" ( Bodley MSS. ) 
 
 6 1 . Advice for health : ^'' For helth of body 
 cover for cold thy head" (Harley MSS. 225 1): 
 
 62. '^ Concilio [Confulo'] quis quis eris, &c," ^^ I 
 counceile whatfoer thow be" (Ibi.) Qs. On 
 beauty : ^^ Off god and kynd procedethe al beau- 
 tie" (Ibi.) 64. That every thing draweth to 
 his femblable : ^^ Trete every man like as he is 
 difpofed" (Ibi,) 65. Of tlie inftability of tlie 
 world: '' This world is ful of ftabilneffe." QQ. 
 '' Althynges in kynde defirith thyng alike" (Ibi,) 
 67 . Of hafte : ^^ The hafty man failith never woo" 
 (Ibi.) 68. '' That all flant on change like a 
 
 noble poete, dane John Lydgate, and his folower gan his 
 prolog in this wife, per Benedictum Burgh,'* The word 
 foloiver has, by feme fool, been perverted into FoTuUr, as 
 a proper name. See Tanner, 490. 
 
74 POETS OF THE 
 
 mydfomer rofe : " ^^ Late no man boileofkou- 
 nyng nor vertu" (Ihi.) 69. That all fliould be 
 in meafure : * *^ By witte of man all thing that is 
 contryved" fibi.) 70. ^^ Quis dahit capife meo 
 front em lacrimarwn :'' ^^ Who fhall give unto 
 my hede a welle" (Ihi,) 71. '^ A demawnd by 
 Lydgate:" *^^ The man folowith his owne fan- 
 tafye" (IbL) 72. A'^ morall epistle fent [from] 
 kynge Amafias to kyng Johas:" ^'^ Unto kyng 
 Johas of Ifraell was fent" (Harley MSS. 1704) : 
 73. '^ Epiflle of vartuous eniines efchewing idle- 
 neffe:" 74. '^ All thinges are rights fo as the 
 crab goeth forward:" 75. On prefenting an 
 eagle as a new-years-gift : ^' This hardy fowle, 
 this birdde victorious" (Harley MSS. 2251) : 76. 
 Moral precepts from ancient philofophers^ ^c, 
 out of French : ^^ The tyme approched of neces- 
 fite." (Ibi. ) 77 . On prudence^ justice, temperance^ 
 fe'c. *'^ By fapience tempre thy corage" (Ibi.) 
 78. ^^ Long will be water in a welle to keche" 
 (Ibi J 79. '^ The fangwine man of bloode hatii 
 hardynes" (Ibi.) 80. That '^ whofoever fpeketh 
 tlie befte of another man fliall never repent:" 
 ^^ Who feith the bell fhall never repent." 
 (Bod. MSS. Laud. K. 49) : 81. What maketh 
 the world fo variable. Ad re gem : ^' Sumtyme 
 thys world" (Harley MSS. 94) : 82. Of four 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 75 
 
 things that make a man a fool : ^^ Wurfliip, wo- 
 man^ wyne, unweldy" (Fan-fax MS. 165 Afh- 
 molc, 59^ ii) : 83. A poletike balade royal^ i^c. 
 what with the gode refrayde To fynde afriende at 
 neode: '^ Late whane Aurora of Titone toke leve'* 
 (Aili.MSS. 59,11): 84. Balade of wysdome: ''Goun- 
 feillyer^ where that ever thou be" (Ih'i.) 85. Com- 
 playnt d' amour: ^' I which tliat am the for- 
 roufullieil (Fairfax^ MS S. 16) : 86. *^ Le comjyleint 
 agein fortune:" ^^ Fortune alas, alas, what have i 
 gylt" (Harley MSS. 7333) : 87. The complaint 
 againft Hope: ^^ As i flood in ftudyenge alone" 
 (Fairfax MSS. 16) : 88.^^Firfl, C^'c." (Ibi.) '' To 
 the orient pearl as notice" (Ibi.) 89. On marriage : 
 ^^ Thurgh gl adde afpe6tes of the god Cupide" 
 (Harley MSS. 2251): 90. Of tithing: ^^ Lyk 
 as the bible makith mencion" (Ibide?n, 2255 J : 
 91. Rules for good behaviour: '^ Befymple of 
 chiere, cafl not thyn ye afide" (Ibi.) 92. A 
 ^' praier to bedward, and another at thine up- 
 rifing:" 93. Of poverty: ^'^ O thow povert, 
 meke, humble, and debonayre" (Harley MSS. 
 2251): 94. De faUacia mundi : ''^ Coniider wel 
 with every circumftance :" 95. On virtue: '' As 
 out of hony men g^io. oft fwetnes" (Ibi.) : 96. 
 How this world is a thurghfare ful of woo: 
 
76 POETS OF THE 
 
 ^' Lyft up 'the ieen of your advertence" (IhL) 
 97. ^^ The more i go tlie further i am behynde'* 
 (Ibi, 2251): 98. ^' Rex Salomon fiimmus of 
 fapience" (Ibi.) 99. Look in the merour, ^c, 
 ^' Toward the end of frofty January" (Ibi. 2255): 
 100. That nothing may long endure: *"*" This wyde 
 woourld is fo large of fpace" (Ibi.) 101. On 
 mercy, truths righteousnefs, and peace : ^^ Mer- 
 cy and Trouthe mette on an hih mounteyn" (Ibi.) 
 102. A holy meditation : ^^ After the ftormy tyme 
 ceffing therayne" (Aih. MSS. 59, ii) : lOS.Leta- 
 bundus : ^^ Grounde take in vertue by patriarchys 
 olde" (Harley MS. 2251) : 104. That experience 
 flieweth the world is variable : ^^ Toward Aurora 
 in the mony th of Decembre" (Ibi.) 105. ^^ Timor 
 mortis conturb at me:'' ^' ^o as i lay this othir 
 nyght" (Ibi.) 106. '^'^ AUe goo we ftille the cok 
 hatli lowe Ihoon :" '^ Sum man goth llille of 
 wysdom and refoun" (Ibi.) 107. On meafure: 
 ^' Men wryte of oold how mefour is trefour" 
 (Ibi.) 108. A fatire upon his mistrefs, with 
 *^ hire hood of green :" '' My fayre lady fo freffh 
 of hewe" (Ibi.) 109. '' To moralyfe a fymilitude 
 who lift thefe ballettes fewe" (Harley MSS . 225 1 ) : 
 110. A love balade : '^ Alias i woful creature" 
 (Ibi,) 111. Upon the antiquity of the town 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 77 
 
 and univerfity of Cambridge : ^' By trewe recorde 
 of the doaor Bede" (Harley MSS. 1704) : 112. 
 '^ Play at the chefTe between Reafon and Sen- 
 fuahtie :" 113.^^ Banket of gods and goddefses, 
 with a difcourfe of reafon and fenfualitie :** 
 '' To all folkys vertuofe:" (Fairfax, MSS. l6: 
 Royal MSS. 18 D II.) 114. '' Exliortation to 
 put away the 7 deadly linnes:" 115. '' The 
 fcven yeares for feven eftates:" *''^ Offices for aU 
 eftates." ll6. ^' The feven partes of wisdome:'* 
 117. '^ Founders of the feven faiences artihciall:'* 
 '^ Seven fciences called liberall :" 118. '^ Au- 
 thours of the feven fciences :'* 119.^*^ Dispofition 
 of the feven planets, Sc'c."^ 120. ^^ That now is 
 hay fometyme was gralTe, for quen Katharine:" 
 121. ^*' A wicked man will alway deme amilfe:'* 
 '^ 122. '^ Amor vincif omnia, mentiris quod pecu- 
 nia :'' 123. ^"^ Properties of wine, 9 in number:'* 
 124. '^ How all things muft be done by juft mea- 
 fure: 125. '^ All is right as a rams home:** 
 126. *"*" A ballad royal againft lecheiy:" '^ Man 
 in virtue to be ftable as ftone:" 127. '^ Magniii- 
 cenfe of tlie church:" 128. ^' Verfes of the 
 
 * Herbert fuppofes this to be the fame with the printed 
 ** Interpretation of the names of the gods, &c.'' but the 
 commencement is different. 
 
78 POETS OF THE 
 
 pfalter;, in mitre for H. the 5. to be by him ufed in 
 his chapell:" 129. A '' kalandre:" '' Jhefu 
 lorde for thy holy Circumcifiori' (Harley MSS. 
 1706.) : 130. — — ^^ Petigree of the emperors 
 from Julius Caefar to Dacian :" 131. Of tlie 
 kings of England : ^^ Froom tyme of Brute auc- 
 tours do fpecefye" (Harley MSS. 372) : 132. 
 On kyng Edward of Carnarvon^, Richard the fe- 
 cunde^ &:c. '^ Beholde this greete prynce Edward 
 the fecunde" (Harley MSS. 2251 ) : 133. A 
 prayer for K. Henry VI. before his coronation 
 (ballad- wyfe) : ^'^ A lorde amonge have a remem- 
 brance'* (Fairfax MSS. 161) : 134. A ballad pre- 
 fented to king Heniy VI. the day of his corona- 
 tion : **" Moft noble prince of Cryften princes all'* 
 (Ailimoles MSS. 5g, i\, and the Harleian^ 2251) : 
 135. ^'^ A remembrance of a pedeugre how that 
 the kyng of Englond Henry the fext is truly borne 
 heir unto the coronc of France^ Css'c." out of 
 French : Pro. '^ Trouble hertis to fette in quyete.'* 
 Trans. ^^ Crift Jhefu and foverain lord (Harley 
 MSS. 7333) : 136. '' A balad given to Henry the 
 6. and his mother on new-yeres-day at Hartford:" 
 137. '*' The complaints of my lady Holland, and 
 [the duke of ] Glocefter;, before their marriage:" 
 ^' A folitary full fore complaining" (Afhmoles 
 MSS. 59^ ii) : 138. ^' Litera misfa ad chicem 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. */Q 
 
 Glanced rice in tempore translationis libri Bochajii 
 pro oportunitafe ptcunie: or A complaint *' iox 
 lak of wignage:" ^' Right myghty prince^ and 
 it be youre wille" (Harley MSS. 2251, 2255) : 
 
 139. ^' Epitaphimn dacis Gloucejlrie :'' ^^ Sove- 
 rayne immortal everlaftyng god" (Ihi. 2251): 
 
 140. ^^ A compleynte for the departynge of Tho- 
 mas Chaucer into Fraunce by his fervantes upon 
 the kyngs ambasfade :*' ^^ Every maner creature" 
 (Harley MSS. 1704) : 141. '' An epistle to his 
 lady Sibille, of virtuous bufynefs, elchewing idle- 
 nefs:" *"* The chief gynnynge of grace" (Afh- 
 mole MSS. 59, ii) : 142. Devita hominis (Bod- 
 ley MSS. NE. Fii. 32.): 143. Froprietates 
 nationum : 144. De arte militari: 145. Free- 
 ceptiones Gallicce linguce : 146. ^^ A ballad to the 
 flieriffs of London on a May morning : " ^^ Mighty 
 Floura goddes of freih floures" (Alhmoles MSS. 
 59, ii) 147. ^^ A disguiling, or mumming, be- 
 fore the king at Eltham:" 148. Another at 
 Windfor: J 49. Another, before the mayor of 
 London, by tlie mercers : 150. Another, by the 
 goldfmiths : 151. Another, before tlie great 
 eftates of the land:" 152. *"*" A proceslion of pa- 
 geants from the creation:" 153. ''^ Procesiioun 
 of Corpus Cristi:'' '^ This high fefle for to mag- 
 nifye" (Harley MSS. 2255) : 154. '' The roiall 
 
80 POETS OF THE 
 
 receiving of Henry the 6. into his noble citie of 
 London^ after his returne out of France:" 155. 
 ^*' G-allants^ England may waile that .ever they 
 came here:" 156. ^^ Exhortation to the vi^orld 
 to avoid hafte and to work by good avertifement : " 
 
 157. '^ Againft the light attire of vi^omens heads :" 
 
 158. '' Moralifation of a fable how the trees chofe 
 them a king:" I5g, ^^ Dantis opusctda:'' l60. 
 ^^ Fetrarchce qucedam: l6l.^*^ Oratio ad deinrC 
 (Lambeth library) : 1 62 . The hymn of the fowls : 
 ^^ As i me lenyd unto a joyful place" (Harley 
 MSS. 2251) : l63. 1)6118 in nomine f ahum mefac; 
 translated and parraphrafed : ^' God in thy name 
 make me fafe and founde" (Afhmoles MSS. 5C), ii; 
 Caligula. A. II.) : l64. *"*" Hoc factum eft a do- 
 mino:'' '^ O man thow marrell in tliy mynd" 
 (Harley MSS. 2251): l65. Benedic anima mea 
 domino, &c." ^^ O thow my fowle gyf lawde 
 unto the lorde" (Ihi,) l66. ^' Mifericordia do- 
 mini in eternum cantaho: ^' Alle gooftly fong is 
 and ympnes that befonge" (Har. MSS. 2255): 
 167. De profiindis clamavi: (a paraphrafe on the 
 180th pfalm) : '^ Havyng a conceyt in my 
 fymple wit" (Ibi,) 168. Te deum laudamus : 
 to the lord foverayne" (Ibi,) 169. '^ Regem 
 regam infnite perfimdit, &c." ^' This gooftly 
 chorus figured in tlie byble" (Ibi,) 170. Bene* 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 81 
 
 diet us deus in donis fids: ^^ God departeth his 
 gyffttys dyversly:" f/6/J 171. "" Of the mer- 
 cies of god eternally to iing:" ^' Conditor alme 
 fiderum:'' 172. *''" God is my helpere^ and ay flial 
 be" (Ih'u) 173. '' The high aftripotent auctor 
 of all" (Har. MSS. j^25i) : 174. '' Gaudite 
 justi in domino '/' 175. In praife of the blefsed 
 trinity : '*' Neir a park ful prudently pyght'* 
 (Harley MSS. 2255) : 176. '' Of the heavenly 
 Jerufalem:" 177. '^ Of the general refurrec- 
 tion and judgement :" 178. ^' Madam Grace, 
 chancelor de dieu :'' 179. The five wife and five 
 foolifh virgins: 180. '^ De ccelorum gaudiis :'* 
 181. ^^ The fy fFtene joyes of oure lady cleped the 
 XV. Ooes_, translated out of French at thinftance 
 of the worfhipfull prynceiTe Ifabelle now coun- 
 tefTe of Warrwyke^ lady Defpenfer:" '"^ Atween 
 mydnyght and the freffh morwe gray" (Harley 
 MSS. 2255 5 Titus A. XXVI.) :-x- 182. De XV. 
 dolor ihus B. rirginis: '^ O glorious maydfor that" 
 (Bib. Bod. Laud. D. 31) : 183. De fancta Ma- 
 ria : ^' O queen of hevene^, of helle eek em- 
 perefTe" (Harley MSS. 2255, Hatton 94) : 184. 
 
 '^ Spcght, befide thefe Ooeu mentions <* The fiftecne 
 joyes and XV. forowes.*' 
 
 G 
 
A 
 
 S2 POETS OF THE 
 
 Stella cell extirpavU: ^' Thee hevenely queen 
 of grace our lood flerre" (Harley MSS. 2255,) 
 185. ^^ The image of our lady :" 186. In praife 
 of the virgin Mary : ^^ On hooly hillys, mooll 
 famous of renoun" flbij: 187. On the fame 
 fubje6t : ^^ O thoughtful herte plunged in dis- 
 treffe" (Cot. Ap. VIII. ) : 188. Surge mea 
 fponfa, fo fweete in fight" (Harley MSS. 2251) : 
 
 189. Ave Jesfe virgida: ^' Heyl vertuous jafpe 
 mooll ftedfafl; and our feith" ( Idem, 2255 J : 
 
 190. *^^ Haile ^05 campi, ave Jesfe virgula:'* 
 ^' Haile blifsed lady^ the moder of Chrifl Jhefu" 
 C Idem, 2251 ): 191. A balade to the fame: 
 '^ Be gladde mayde_, moder of Jhefu" (Idem) : 
 192. Maria virgo asfumpta ejl: Regina celi-, 
 qwene of the fowth f Idem J : 193. ^*^ An invoca- 
 tion to our blefsed lady in chofing of loves on S. 
 Valentines day 5 with the refrade^ I love one bejl of 
 all:'' '^ Sainte Valentyne of cuftome yeer by 
 yeer" (Alh. MSS. 59, ii) : 194. ^"^ An invoca- 
 tion to our lady : ^^ A thoufand llories i koultlie 
 to you reherfe:" 195. ^^ K glorious prayer to 
 ourelady:** ^' Dilectus tneus, fhewed dilection'* 
 Clbi.J: 196. ^^ Invocation to our lady^ with 
 the refrayde^ Stahat mater dolor of a:'' '^ Heyle 
 goddes mother dolorus" (Ibi.J : 197. ^*^ Gloriofa 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 83 
 
 dicta funt de te, kc. out of Latin^ *"' at the in- 
 flaunce of the bifllioppe of Excestre in ballade- 
 wife :" ^^ In holy hiUis which ben of grete re- 
 noun" (Harley MS. 2251): 198. ''The ave 
 Maria in Englifh mitre : 199. ^^ Al hayle Mary 
 ful of grace" {Ibi.) '*" The Magnificat, in mi- 
 tre :" 200. '^ Lament at io B. Marioe tirginis :"' 
 '' Who fhal geve unto myn" (Bod. MSS. ISI E. 
 E. 6. 3): 201. '^ A lamentation of our lady, 
 fliewde to St. Awflyn of Chriftes paslion, A?nore 
 langueo,'" **" In the touret of a toure" (Afh. 
 MSS. 59^ ii 3 in Har. 1706, '^ Canticum ayno- 
 ris :'' '*■ In a tabernacle of a toure) : 202. To 
 the Virgin Mary : '^ Joy blifsid lady with pure 
 virginal floure" (Harley MS. 372) : 203. 
 ^' Are regina celorum .*" *"*" Haile luminary and 
 benyng lanterne" {Ibi,) 204. In praife of the 
 fame : ^^ O thow joieful lights etemalye ihyne" 
 {Ibi) 205. Another: ^^ O welle of fwetnes. 
 replete in every veyne" {Ibi.) 206. Another : 
 *' Ahnighty and almerciable qwene" {Ibi.) 
 
 207. A prayer to Chrifl : '' O Jhefu Crift kepe 
 our lyppes from pollucioun" (Harley MSS. 2251) : 
 
 208. Testament iim Christi: '^ Whofo will over- 
 rede this boke" {Ibi. 2382) : 2 09. '' ratio 
 dominica paraphrastice expqfita ;" ^^ A twixe 
 
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84 POETS OF THE 
 
 dreed and tremblyng venerence" (Ibi, 2255) : 
 210. *^*^ The dyttie of Veybmn caro factum ejl :'' 
 *^ Ye devoute people which have obfervance" 
 {Ibi, k Aili. MSS. 59, ii) : 211. ^' An exhor- 
 tacion of the crucifix :" *' Man to refourme 
 thynexil & thi lofs" (Harley MS. 3721) : 212. 
 ^^ The ladie of pitie and Chrifls pasfion :'* ^^ O 
 wretched fynner what" (Afli. MSS. 5g, iii) : 
 
 213. ^*' A faying of the nightingale touching 
 Chrifi :" ^*' In June whan Titan was in Crabbes 
 hede" (Caligula. A. II. & the Harley MS. 2251) : 
 
 214. Chrifi: a lamb offered in facrifice : *'*' Be- 
 hold o man, lift up thy eye and fe" (Harley MS. 
 2251) : 215. Addrefs of Chrifi to his mother; 
 ^^ My fader above beholdyng thy mekeneiTe" 
 (Ibi.) 21 6. ^' Oratio Christi faper crucem pen- 
 den f is.'' 21/. ^' Ccmiiciis amoris :'' '^ Jhefus 
 thy fwetnefle who might hit fee" (Harley MS. 
 1706) : 218. ^*^ The name of Jefus, and bowing 
 of the knee :" 219, '^ Ab mimic is nostris de- 
 
 fende nos Christe ;" '^ Moil fovrayne lord^ o 
 blisful Criil Jhefu" (Harley MS. 2251): 220. 
 '' Of Chrids pasfion :" '' Meditation on Chrifts 
 pasfion:" 221. ^^ Pfalms of the pasfion-" 
 222. Merita ?nisfce : '^ God of hewine that 
 Ihoope erthe and helle" (Titus. A. XXVI.) 223. 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 85 
 
 On the mafs : '^'^ Ye that both of good devo- 
 cyoun" (Harley MS. 2251): 224. '' Qiumwdo 
 audle?ida fit in'isfa ;" (Lambeth library) : ''^ Quo- 
 modo audlendce fint litanuc'' (Ibi.) 225. '' The 
 court of fapience in heaven for redemption of 
 mankind:" 226. '^ Criste qui lux es, 0/ dies:'' 
 '' Crift that art both day and hght" (Harley MS. 
 5251): 227. '' O blyfsid lord, my lord, o Crift 
 Jhefu" {Ibi.) 228. '^ Upon a crofs nayled i was 
 for the" {Ibi.) 229. '' The fifFtene tokyns aforn 
 tlie doom :" '^ As the doctor f and as Jeronimus* 
 (Ibi,) 230. '' Sicut fidus, ikc^ (in praife of 
 Mary the mother of John) : '^ So as a llerre 
 fhedith out his beemys :" 231. '' The life of St. 
 Anne:" 232. ^'^ A deuout invocation of St. 
 Ann, made at the commandment of my ladye 
 countefs of Stafford :" ^^ Thou firft moever that 
 caufes" (Afh. MSS. 59, ii) : 233. De fribus 
 xirginibys, Kaferina, Margerefa , l^ Magdclcna : 
 ^' Kateryne with glorious Margarete" (Harley 
 MS. 2255): 234. ''The prologe [and lyf] of 
 the holy feint Margaret:" '*" To the reverence 
 of Seynt Margarete" (Harley MSS. 1704) : 235. 
 Vita Sancte Cecilie : ^' The ministre of tlie no- 
 rice unto vices" (Ibi. 2382J : 236. De fancta 
 Sytha : '^ Heyl^ hooly Sitha made of gret ver- 
 
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86 POETS OF THE 
 
 tu" (Harley MS. 2255) : 237. De fancta Bar- 
 bara: 238. Prayers to the 1 1^000 virgins : ^^ Ye 
 Bryton martirs^, famous in parfitneffe" (Ihi,) 
 239. ^^ Fabula moniaUs de fancta Maria:'' 
 Lord our lord the name how marvelous (Har- 
 ley MS S. 2382) : 240. De fane to Erasmo mar" 
 tire: ^' All criflen peple lifteneth ye & here** 
 (Ihi,) 241. Of Dionyfms^ George, and other 
 faints : ^^ BlifsydDenys of Athenys cheef fonne'* 
 (Harley MS. 2255) : 242. A prayer to St. Lio- 
 nard : ^^ Relle and refuge to folk difconfolat'* 
 (Ihi,) 243. ^' The martyrdome of faint Ed- 
 munde kyng [of the Eafl- Angles]/' translated 
 out of Latin : Pro. ^*' The noble llory to put in 
 rememberaunce : " Book. ^*^ In Saxone whilome 
 was a kyng" (Harley MS. 7333) : 244. A 
 poem on the banner and ilandard of St. Edmund : 
 ^^ Blysfyd Edmund, kyng, martyr, and vyrgyne** 
 (Harley MSS. 2278) : 245. '' A ballad royall of 
 invocation to faint Edmond at thenflaunce of 
 kynge Henry the fixt :" ^' Glorious master, that of 
 devout humblenefle" (Ibi, 1704) : 246, Miracula 
 S, Edmimdi : '^ Laude of our lord up to the hea- 
 venis" (Laud. MSS. D. 31) : 247- Vita fanctl 
 Fremundi martiris : unacum rniraculis Edmundi,'' 
 or '' The lyfF of faint Fremunde :** Pro. '' Who 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 87 
 
 kan remembre the myracles meiTelous :" Book, 
 '' OfBochardus folowe i ihall the flyle" (Harley 
 MSS. 2278, 7333): 248. '' The lyif of St. 
 Alexes :" '^ Alle that wolle a whyle here dwell" 
 (Titus A. XXVI) : *^ De vita S. Georgii, pro or^ 
 moru?n fabris Londini ;" '^ Ye folks that here 
 prefent:" 249. Vita S. Albani martyris ad J, 
 Frnmentarium ahhatcm (Whethamfted, abbot of 
 St. Albans), hbri 3 (Col. MSS. S. Trinitatis, 
 Ox. 10 3 Ec. Lin. I. bl) : 250. Vita S, ^^gi- 
 dii: ^' Of Agamemnoun under the large em- 
 pire" (Bod. MSS. Laud. D.ae 31) : 251. Invo- 
 cation to S. Denys, translated out of French into 
 Englifli, at the requeft of Charles the French 
 king : ^'^ O tliou chofen of God" (Ihi,) 
 
 This is believed to be the completed lift of this 
 voluminous, profaick, and driveling monk, that 
 can be formed, without accefs, at leaft, to every 
 manufcript library in the kingdom, w^hich would 
 be very difficult, if not imposfible, to obtain. It 
 is, at the fame time, highly probable that fome of 
 thefe pieces, moftly anonymous in the MS. co- 
 pys, are not by Lydgate 5 and that, on the other 
 hand, he may be the author of many others in the 
 fame predicament. In tlie library of Trinity- 
 
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88 POETS OF THE 
 
 college, Cambridge (Num. 377)> is Lidgati 
 Opera, 3 volumes. But, in truth, and fa6t, thefe^ 
 flupid and fatigueing productions, which by no 
 means deferve the name of poetry, and their ftil 
 more Itupid and disgufling author, who disgraces 
 the name and patronage of his master Chaucer, 
 are neither wortli colle6ting (unlefs it be as typo- 
 graphical curiolitys, or on account of the beauty- 
 ful illuminations in fome of his prefentation- 
 copys), nor even worthy of prefervation : being 
 only fuitablely adapted '^ ad Jicum (^ piperem,'* 
 and other more bafe and fervile ufes. How little 
 he profited by the correction, or inftructions of 
 his great patron is manifefl in almoft every part 
 of his elaborate drawlings, in which there are 
 fcarcely three lines together of pure and acuratc 
 metre. Wei, therefor, and necesfaryly did it be- 
 hove him to addrefs his readers : 
 
 ^*' Becaufe, i know the verfe therein is wrong. 
 As being fome too fliort, and fome too long." 
 
 He dyed, at a very advanced age, after 1446 5 
 no one, it is believed, having hitherto ascertained 
 the precife year of his death. "^ 
 
 * Pitts and Weever, from a misconftruction of Bale, 
 are, therefor, mistaken in placeing it in 1440, though 
 
FIFTEENTH CEXTURY. 8Q 
 
 In his prologue to '' the florie of Thebees/* he 
 gives the following defcription of himfelf, his 
 horfe, and fervant : 
 
 ^' In a cope of blacke^ and not of grene. 
 On a palfray_, flender, long and lene^ 
 With rufty bridell^ made not for the fale. 
 My man to forne^ with a voide male^ ^c." 
 
 His hoft haveing demanded the name and coun- 
 try of one 
 
 ^*' That ^ loked' fo pale, all devoide of blood. 
 Upon ^ his' hedde a wonder thred bare hood, 
 Wei araied [he fays] for to ride late 5 
 ' He' anfwered^ His name was Lidgate, 
 Monke of Burie, nie fiftie yere of age.'* 
 
 He frequently introduces his portrait in the il- 
 lumination of a prefentation copy, with that of 
 
 followed by Grainger and others. The former rebukes 
 one Pamphilus for extending his life to 148a, in which 
 year, according to Warton, he fays, ^* that our author 
 died/^ In a copy of Lydgates Chronicle of Englijh kingi 
 (Harl. MSS. 2251), there is a ftanza of Edward the 
 fourth, which proves that he furvived the year 1461. 
 
90 
 
 POETS OF THE 
 
 his patron^ generally the king 3 from one of 
 which portraits there is an engraveing by Vertue. 
 
 In his Troye-hokey C 5, he feems to imply 
 that Chaucer had overlooked and corre6ted his 
 writeings : aware that they would not endure a 
 rigid criticifm^ he calls upon his gentle readers 
 to 
 
 '* Amende a thynge, and hyndre never a dele. 
 Of custom aye ready to faye wele :'* 
 
 and then ads. 
 
 '^ For he that was grounde of well fayinge 
 
 In all his lyfe hyndred no makyng. 
 
 My master Chaucer that founde ful many fpot, 
 
 Hym lift not pynche, nor giiitche at every blot. 
 
 Nor meve hymfelfe to perturbe his refte, 
 
 I have herde tolde, but faye alway the befte, 
 
 SuiFerynge goodly of his gentilneffe. 
 
 Full many thynge embraced witli rudeneffe. 
 
 And if i fhall fhortly hym discrive 
 
 Was never none to thys daye aly ve 
 
 To reken all, bothe of yonge and olde 
 
 That worthy was his ynkehorne for to holde." 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. Q\ 
 
 MIRK JOHN, by Pitts called Mircus, and 
 by Leland and Bale Johannes Lilleshull ; 3. regular 
 Canon of the Monastery of Lilleshull in Shrop- 
 fhire, translated from the Latin into Englifh 
 verfe what he chufes to call '^ Pupillus oculi/' a 
 fort of directory for Parifh priefts ; of which one 
 copy is in the Cotton library (Claudius A. II.) and 
 two more are in the posfesfion of Francis Douce 
 efquire, who obferves that it fhould rather feem 
 to be an imitation than translation of the '^ Fit- 
 pilla ocuir of John de Burgo, Chancellor of the 
 Univerfity of Cambridge about the year 1380, 
 unlefs there be another work under the former of 
 tliefe titles. The Cotton MS. has this title: 
 '^ Propter preshytenim parochialem injlruendum :'* 
 begins, '^ God feyth hymfelf as wry ten we fynde 3 " 
 and ends with this colophon : *'*' Explicit tracta^ 
 tns qui dicitur Pars oculi de Latino in Anglicmn 
 translatus per f rat rem Johannem Myrcus canoni- 
 cum regularem monasterii de Lylleshul, cnjiis 
 anime propicietur dens. Amen.'' 
 
 NASSYNGTON WILLIAM OF, a proctor 
 at York, translated a religious treatife, on the 
 lords prayer, feven gifts of the holy ghoft, feven 
 deadly fins, fs'c. writen in Latin by John of 
 \Valdby3 which translation is extant among the 
 
Q2 POETS OF THE 
 
 royal MSS. in the B. Mufeum (17 C viii) ; 
 though improperly defcribed in Casleys cata- 
 logue, as the poetical works of Richard Rokeby, 
 who was merely the tranfcriber.* There is ano- 
 ther copy in the Bodleian library (Bod. A. 3. 13). 
 The mufeum copy begins : ^^ AUmyghty gode in 
 trynite.'* 
 
 NORTON THOMAS, of Bristol, wrote '' The 
 ordinall of alchimyj" which was begun in 1477, 
 and is printed in Alhmoles ^^ Theatrum chemicum 
 Britannicum^ ' * 1 65 2 . 
 
 OCCLEVE. SeeHOCCLEVE. 
 
 PEARCE, a black monk, wrote a '' Treatifc 
 
 ^ It was a common practice, in that age, for the co- 
 pyiftofapoem, to infert his name, as author. At the 
 end of John Lydgates Life of the virgin Mary (Har. MSS. 
 5272) is <* Here endith the life of oure lady. Quod 
 Johannes Forfter.*' So *« Quod Willms Woodeward'* 
 is fubfcribed to " The defolacyon of Rome made by 
 Lydgate" (Har. MSS.4011); and, at the end of his 
 Life of the B. V. in the fame MS. is << Explicit John 
 Lydgade monke of Bury. Quod W. Granell :" And 
 a MS. of RoUes poems, in T. C. D. has on this account 
 become the property of ** John Flemyng." See, alfo, 
 before, p. 25. 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. Q3 
 
 upon the elixir j" printed m Aihmolcs T/ieatnmt 
 chemicum. 
 
 PYLKYNTON GILBERT, parfon, as fome 
 have thought, of tlie pariili of Tottenham, in 
 Middlefex, is fuppofed, by his fuccesfor, Wil- 
 helm Bed well, to be the author of an excellent 
 fong, intitled '' The turnament of Tottenham, 
 or the wooing, wenning and wedding of Tibbe, 
 the reeves daughter there," which, with other 
 poems, posiiblely by the fame author, amongft 
 which was '' a flory of Robin Hood, and little 
 John," and a treatife fubfcribed ^^ Explicit pasfio 
 domini nostri lefu Christi, quod dominus Gil- 
 hertus Fylk}jnton,'' master Bedwell found in a 
 manufcript communicated by his '^ much ho- 
 noured good friend, M. Ge. Withers 3" and was 
 by him printed at the end of his ^^ Brief defer ip- 
 tion of tlie towne of Tottenham High-crofTe :" 
 London, l63l, 4to. *'*' It is likewife, extant in 
 a MS. of the Harleian libraiy (Num. ), 
 
 which was of ufe to Dr. Percy, in the tliird edi- 
 tion of his ^^ Reliques of ancient Englifh poe- 
 try." 
 
 PLANT AGENET EDWARD, duke of York, 
 flain at the battle of Agincourt, wrote a poem. 
 
94 POETS OF THE 
 
 addrefsed^ as lord Orford conjectures, to Joan the 
 fecond wife of Heniy the fourth, extant in a 
 MS. belonging to Mr. Strutt, who has given part 
 of it in his Manners and customs. 
 
 PLANTAGENET EDWARD, duke of York. 
 Warton fays ^' I have an antient manufcript alli- 
 terative poem, in which a defpairing lover bids 
 farewel to his mistrefs." At the end is written, 
 ^^ Explicit Amor, per ducem Ebor. niiper fa^t'' 
 (III, 10(5, /?.u.) 
 
 PLANTAGENET HENRY, king of England^ 
 the fixth of his name, compofed ^'^ a prettie verfe,** 
 which is preferved in a letter from iir John Ha- 
 ryngton to Henry prince of Wales, 1609, printed 
 in Nugce antiquce, volume 2, p. 143. '^ The 
 lines," lord Orford fays, ^^ are melancholy and 
 iimple, as we Should expe6l^ and not better than a 
 faint might compofe."* 
 
 RIPLEY GEORGE, iirft a canon-regular of 
 
 * His lordfhip might, likewife, have aded to his new 
 edition of the ** Royal and noble authors/' the follow- 
 ing article by king Edward the fecond ,• *^ De la roi Ed- 
 ivard le fix roi Edivard, le chanfon (je il fi/l mefmes^** which 
 was in a MS. that had belonged to fir Henry Spelman, 
 and was fold, with the reft of his collection, in 1709. 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. Qj 
 
 Saint Augustine at Bridlington,, and afterwards a 
 Carmelite at Boston, where he dyed in l4go, 
 wrote '^ The compound of alchymie j a mofl ex- 
 cellent, learned, and worthy worke^ conteining 
 twelve gates 3'* writen in 1471, and dedicated to 
 K. Edward IV. firft printed by T. Onvin, 159I, 
 4to. and along with other poems on the fame 
 fubje6t, inferted in Afhmoles Theatrum chemi- 
 cum, 1652. It may be remarked, however, that 
 *' The vilion of fir George Ripley," printed in 
 that work, was not writen by himfelf, but by 
 fome anonymous author, of the following century. 
 See Tanners Blbliotheca. 
 
 ROKEBY RICHARD. SeeNASSYNGTON. 
 
 ROS SIR RICHARD made the translation, 
 from Alain Chartier, of La belle dame fans merc'ie, 
 generally afcribed to Chaucer, and printed in his 
 works. See the Harleian MS. Num. 372. He 
 has, probablely, been an ungraduated parifli- 
 prieil, or one, as they were called, of '*" the 
 popes knights."^ 
 
 * Like fir Hugh Evans in T'he merry ivives of JVindfor, 
 and fir Oliver Martext in As you like it. The title is fill 
 common in Wales. 
 
g6 
 
 POETS OF THE 
 
 ROWLEY THOMAS, an imaginary prieft 
 and poet, in whofe name Thomas Chatterton, of 
 Bristol, a youth of 17, compofed, in the years 
 1769 and 1770, a number of poems, all or moft 
 of which were collected and publiihed by Thomas 
 Tyrwhitt efquire, in 1777, and by Dr. Milles, 
 dean of Exeter, in 1782 3 the latter editor being 
 a complete dupe to the imposture, from which 
 even the great learning and critical acumen of the 
 former did not, at firfl, altogether exempt him. 
 Rowley, according to his ingenious fabricator, 
 ^^ was born at Norton-Mal-reward in Somerfet- 
 ftiire, educated at the convent of St. Kenna at 
 Keynesham, and died at Weftbury in Gloucester- 
 {hire." 
 
 RUSSELL JOHN, '' fometyme fervande 
 with duke Umfrey of Glowceter," appears^ by 
 tlie commendation of himfelf, his wife and chil- 
 dren, to the readers prayers, to be author of a 
 *^ boke of nurtur," extant in tlie Harleian MS. 
 401 1, and begining, ^^ In 7i07nine patris god kepc 
 
 me. 
 
 »» 
 
 SALTWOOD DAN ROGERS, a monk of 
 Auftins, Canterbury, wrote '^ A comparyfon be- 
 
FIFTEENTH CEKTURY. 07 
 
 twene iiij byrdes, the lark, the nyghtyngalc, the 
 thruflie, and tlie cucko, for theyr lyngynge who 
 fhould be chauntoure of the quere;" in feven- 
 line flanzasj printed at Canterbury, by John 
 Mychel, without date, but about 1550. See 
 CAUMPEDEN HUGH. 
 
 SCOGAN HENRY is the author of a poem, 
 inferted in moft editions of Chancers works, and 
 addrefsed ^^ Unto the lordes and gentlemen of the 
 kynges houfej" though inaccurately intitled, in 
 feme copys, '^ A moral balade to the prince, the 
 duke of Clarence, the duke of Bedford, the duke 
 of Glocester, the kinges fonnes } at a flipper 
 among the marchants in the Vintry at London, 
 ,in the Houfe of Lewis John." (See Tyrv^-hitts 
 edition of The Canterbuiy tales, volume 5, p. 
 xix.) According to Ben Jonfon, he was — 
 
 '*■ A fine gentleman, and a master of arts^ 
 Of Henry the fourths times, that made disguifes 
 For the kings fons, and writ in ballad ro}^al 
 Daintily well, G/c." 
 
 {'' Mafque of The Fortunate iflesr) To this 
 Scogan, alfo, '' a ballade," ufually printed as 
 Chaucers^ and pretended to have been '' made 
 
 H 
 
gS POETS OF THE 
 
 upon his death-bed, lying in his anguifh," be- 
 gining '' Re fro the prele, Cs'c.'* is attributed in 
 a MS. of C. C. C. Oxford (Num. 203). He was 
 burred, according to Stow, in the cloifter of Weft- 
 minlter-abbey, 
 
 SCOGAX JOHX is fay'd, bv iVIr. Warton, 
 to have been ^^ educated at Oriel-college in Ox- 
 ford ; and, being an excellent mimick, and 
 of great plealantry in converiation," to have be- 
 come '' the favourite buffoon of the court of 
 Edward the fourth, in which he pafsed the greater 
 part of his life." \Miat authority there is (be- 
 fide biihop Tanners conjecture) for placeing him 
 in Oriel- college does not appear 3 but, in a book 
 intitled ^' The jefts of Scogin," or '' Scogins 
 jefts," the author, or compiler (Dr. Andrew 
 Borde], informs us, he had ^' heard fay, that 
 Scogin did come of an honelt frock, no kindred, 
 and that his friends did fet him to fchoole at Ox- 
 ford, where he did continue till he was made 
 master of art."* Holi}Ti5hed, alfo, fpeaking of 
 the great men of Edward the 4th3 time, has the 
 following words : '^ Skogan, a learned gentle- 
 man, and ftudent for a time in Oxforde, of a 
 
 * Bale fays the fame : Ex cffidnU li^rariontm. 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. OQ 
 
 pleafaunte witte^ and bcnte to men- deviies, in 
 refped whereof he was called into the courte, 
 where giving himfelf to his naturall inclination of 
 mirthe and plealant pastime, he plaied many 
 fporting parts, althoughe not in fuche uncivill 
 maner as hath bene of hvm reported 3"' meaning, 
 apparently, in the above jelt-book (biihop Tan- 
 ners fole authority, it would feem, for calling 
 him '^ regi joculator' ) : in which he is intro- 
 duced to court as the fool of lir William Ne\Tle, 
 who frequently calls him Tom ; the ufual appella- 
 tion, perhaps, of fuch characters, as we ftil fay 
 Tom Fool. He feems to have been marry ed ; as, 
 in lord Brookes CocUca (Workes, l633), is (what 
 the noble author is pleafed to call) ^^ a fonnet on 
 a ftory of Scogan and his wife." That he was a 
 poet is fcarcely to be doubted. Drajton, in the 
 preface to his eclogues, exprefsly mentions one of 
 his compolitions : ^^ The Colin Clout of Sco- 
 gan,'' fays he, ^^ under Henrj- the fevcnth [it 
 Ihould have have been Edward the fourth], is 
 pretty 5 but Barclays Ship of fool's hath twenty 
 wifer in it." He is fpeaking of pastoral poetry; 
 and cannot, therfor, mean the Colin Clout of 
 Skelton, which is not a pastoral, but a fatire. 
 Langham, alfo, in his enumeration of captain 
 Coxes library, notices '' The feargeaunt that be- 
 
 H 2 
 
100 POETS OF THE 
 
 came a frvar_, Skogan, Collyn Cloout^ 4^c." and 
 that by Skogan are not meant his Jejls^ is evident 
 from all the reft being poetical tra6ts. The only 
 relique of his poetry now known is a fatyrical 
 epigram^ which he wrote at Oxford, on takeing 
 his masters degree^ and is preferved in the above 
 book: 
 
 ^^ A master of art 
 
 Is not worth a fart^ 
 Except he be in fchools y 
 
 A batchelour of law 
 
 Is not worth a ftraw. 
 Except he be among fools." 
 
 That he was dead before Henry the feventlis 
 time appears^ not only from the above j eft-book, 
 but, with manifeft certainty, from the following 
 monkiih epitaph, extant in a MS. of the Har- 
 leian library (Num. 15 8?)^ writen toward the 
 latter part of Edward tlie fourths reign, that is, 
 about the year 1483, and containing the auto- 
 graph of (he celebrated cardinal Pole, when a boy 
 at fchool : 
 
 *' Hie jacet in turnulo corpus S cog an ecce Jo- 
 
 HANNIS 
 
 Sit tibiprofpecidoy Idusfuit ejus in annis. 
 
 an 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 101 
 
 Lcti tranfihunty tranfitus litare nequihunt } 
 Quo nefcimus ihunt, vinoji cito peribunt''^ 
 
 That this John has been frequently confoanded 
 with Henry, and that Shakfpeare is guilty of a 
 grofs anachronifm in makeing his head broken by 
 Falllaff ^' at the court-gate^ when he was a crack 
 not thus high/' or about 13? 0, mufl be readyly 
 admited ) but no one^ who is not altogether re- 
 gardlefs of truth _, and infeniible of iliame, wil 
 hereafter asfert that '^ there was no poet of the 
 name of Scogan in the time of king Edward IV. 
 nor any ancient poet of that name but Henry 
 Scogcuiy master of arts^ who lived in the time of 
 king Heniy IV." 
 
 SELLYNG RICHARD, ^^ fquier/' made a 
 poem in titled ^' Evidens to be ware and gode 
 counfayle;" extant in one of the Harleian MSS. 
 (Num. 7333 : '' Whilifl i hadeyouthe i wift nouzt 
 what it was.") He fubmits it to the correction 
 of John Shirley, who, if not himfelf a poet, was^ 
 at leaft, an industrious collector of poetry. In 
 the Alhmolean mufeum is *"*" A boke clepcd the 
 abftra6i:e brevyare compyled of divers balades, 
 
 ^ Another copy of this epitaph would fecm to be In 
 MS, Br. Twyrii 89. (Tanner.) 
 
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102 POETS OF THE 
 
 roundels, virilaySj tragedyes, envoys, complaints^ 
 moralities, ftoryes^ practyfed, and eke devyfed 
 and ymagined, as it Iheweth here followyng, 
 colleded by John Shirley" (MSS, 89. ii). (See 
 Warton, Emen. & Ad. to Vol. II.) This is, 
 doubtlefs, the collection, or one of the collec- 
 tions, which Stow had fecn^ containing pieces of 
 Chaucer, Lydgate, and other Englifh poets. The 
 hope, entertained by the compiler of thefe anec- 
 dotes, of finding it a treasure of old ballads, in 
 the prefent fenfe of the word, was miferablely dis- 
 appointed on its infpection. Shirley dyed in 
 1456, aged 90 years. 
 
 SKELTON JOHN, rector of DyfTe in Nor- 
 folk, and chaplain to king Henry the eighth, 
 whofe tutor he had been, was a perfon of great 
 learning and literary eminence, and actually re- 
 ceived the degree of poet-laureat in both the 
 Englifh univerfitys. His poetical performances, 
 fo far as they can be now afcertained, are as fol- 
 lows : 1 . ^*^ A right delectable treatyfe upon a 
 goodly garlande or chapelet of laurell ftudyously 
 dyvyfed at Sheryf hotton castell, in the forefte of 
 Galtres, wherein ar compryfed many and dyvers 
 folacyons and ryght pregnant allectyves of fyngu- 
 lar pleafure:" printed by ^^ Rycharde Faukes 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 103 
 
 dwellyng in Duram rent or els in Powlis chyrche 
 yarde at the fygne of the A. B. C. yhe yere of 
 ourlordegod. M.C.C.C.C.C. XXIII. The. III. 
 day of Octobre :" 4tOj b. 1. haveing, on the back 
 of the frontispiece^ a whole-lengtli portrait of 
 ^^ Skelton jDoe^fl'." (This curioiity was purchafcd, 
 at major Pearfons fale^ by Mr. Brand, and is now 
 in the kings Ubraiy at Buckingham-houfe^ but 
 was never J as Mr. Herbert misconceived,, the 
 property of George Steevens efquire.)* 2. ^'^ A 
 lytell treatyfe named the bowge of courte3'' 
 printed by Wynken de Worde^ without date, 
 4to. 3. '^A lytell boke called Collyn Clout:" 
 printed by Thomas Godfray^ and, afterward, by 
 Richard Kele, and by John Wyghte, without 
 date, 12mo. 4. '' The boke of Phyllyp Spa- 
 rowe :" printed by Robert Toye, by Richard 
 Kele, and by John Wyghte. 5. ^^ A litle boke 
 which hath to name Why come ye nat to court :" 
 by the fame printers, with a portrait, in Keles 
 edition, on the lafl page, of ^' Skylton poyet." 
 6. '' The boke called Speake Parrot :" ?. '^ On 
 the death of tlie noble prince kynge Edward the 
 
 * Wood gives, as a publication by Skelton, *^ Poeti- 
 cal fancies and fatyrs. Lond,ie^ii» oct. *' but no fuch 
 book is believed to have ever exifted. 
 
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104 POETS OF THE 
 
 fourth:" 8. "*^ A treaty fe of the Scottes :" Q. 
 *"*" Ware the hawke:" 10. *"*" The tunnynge of 
 Elynoure Rummynge :" all printed by John Day, 
 and alfo by John Kynge and Thomas Marche. 
 Thefe ten pieces, with fome others,^ were col- 
 le6ted and publifhed, under the title of ^*' Pithy 
 pleafaunt and profitable workes of maiiler Skel- 
 ton, poete laureate/' by Thomas Marfh, in 1568 : 
 reprinted in 1736. 11. ^'^ How yong fcholers 
 now a days emboldened in the fly-blown blall of 
 the moch vayne-gloryous pipplyng wind whan 
 they have dele6tably lycked a lytell of the lycorous 
 electurry of lufty lernyng in the moch ftudious 
 fcole-houfe of fcrupulous philology countyng 
 themfelfs clerkes excellently informed and tran- 
 fcendingly fped in moch high conyng and whan 
 they have ones fuperciously caught, fffc." printed 
 by Richard Pinfon, without date ii;i quarto. (Mr. 
 
 * The duke of Albany. How every thinge mufl have 
 a time. A prayer to the father of heaven. To the 
 fecond perfon. To the holy ghoft. The relucent mi- 
 nor. Of a comly coyftrowne. Upon a dead mans heed. 
 To maistris Anne. Of thre fooles. Epitaphes of two 
 knaves of Difc. Lamentation for Norwich. [Another] 
 againfl the Scottes. Praife of the palm tie. The dolo- 
 rous death of the lord Percie erle of Nonhumberlande. 
 Againfl venemous tongues. Of Calliope. 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 105 
 
 Herbert fuggefts it may be the invective againfl 
 Li lye the grammarian mentioned by Wood ; but 
 no copy is known to be now extant.) 12. ^' The 
 epitaph of Jafper duke of Bedford^" 4to. 13. 
 *' The miferies of England under H. 7." 4to. 
 both mentioned by bifliop Tanner^ but not other- 
 wife known. 14. ^^ Manerly maiftrefle Margery 
 mylke and ale:" a ballad, preferved in the Fair- 
 fax MS. and printed in Hawkinses ^' History of 
 mufic." 15. '' Wofully arayd :" a pious ron- 
 deau, alfo printed by Hawkins. l6. ^' The 
 image of Ypocrefye :" never printed: Mr. Le 
 Neve had the original MS. which, at his fale, 
 was purchafed by Mr. Weft : Mr. Heber has a 
 tranfcript, which belonged to Dr. Farmer, by 
 " Honeft Tom Martin of Palgrave." (See 
 Hearnes Peter de Langetoft, P. 684.) \^, '^ Vox 
 pop all, vox del:'' extant, among the Harleian 
 MSS. (Num. 367,) and in the archives of the 
 univerlity of Cambridge -, addrefsed ^^ To the 
 kings moft exelent majestic," and begining '^ I 
 praye you be not wrothe." 18. ^' Skeiton lau- 
 riate defender agenft M. Garnefche chalenger 
 &:c." (4 poems) preferved among the Harleian 
 MSS. (Num. 367) : in which volume, by the 
 way, is a copy of Speake parol very different 
 from, and much fuperior to, tliat in the printed 
 
 % 
 
*:d^. 
 
 m 
 
 106 POETS OF THE 
 
 books. Befide certain of the above-mentioned 
 articles, Skelton, in his Crowne of lawrell, names 
 feveral other *'*' bokes and balades with dities of 
 pleafure," which are now lofl. His ^^ goodly and 
 mery interlude of Magnyfycence/' printed by 
 John Rastell, is ftill extant 3 but it is utterly incre- 
 dible that *^*' The Nigramanfir," defcribed, in Mr. 
 Wartons '^ History of Englilli poetry" (II, 36o), 
 as printed by Wynken de Worde, in 1504, ever 
 exifled, any more than feveral editions, he quotes, 
 of other pieces. Our author dyed in fanctuary 
 at Wellminfter, where he had taken Ihelter from 
 the perfecution of cardinal Wolfey, and was 
 kindly entertained by abbot lilip, on the 2 1 ft of 
 June 1529, and was buryed in the chancel of the 
 par ifh- church of Saint-Margaret, being aged, by 
 conjecture, about 68. 
 
 STOKYS R. ^^ Froverhivm, AngUco car- 
 mine r MSS. C. C. C. O. 203. 
 
 T. J. wrote a prologue ^^ in the honour & 
 laude of faint Werburge, and in the prayfe of the 
 translatour of the legende folowinge ," prefixed 
 to Bradfhaas '' Lyfe" of that ^' faynt," and con- 
 taining fix ftanzas of feven lines each. 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 107 
 
 THORNTON ROBERT wrote the following 
 poems: 1. *"*■ Morte Artliure/' a romance in the 
 alliterative metre of ^^ The vifion of Pierce Plow- 
 man"* (begins, '' Now grett glorious godd 
 thurgh grace of hymfeh'en" ) : 2. ^*^ The romance 
 off Sir Percyuall of Gales/' in fhort eight-line 
 ftanzas (begins, **" Gef by thes to me") : 3. 
 '^ Vita fancti Christoferi" {^^ Lordynges if it be 
 zowre will") : all extant in a MS. of the library of 
 Lincoln-catliedral, examined by the prefent com- 
 piler. This author was, probablely, the perfon 
 who is mentioned in the catalogue of the Cotton- 
 library, in the defcription of Vitellius E. VII. 
 (fi nee deftroyed) : ^*" Hvnc librmn f rater Ro- 
 bertus de Thorneton, quondam, prior, dedid clau- 
 jlrallhus de Bardenay." 
 
 WADE LAURENCE, monk of Chrift- church, 
 Canterbury, translated into Englifh verfe, 1 497, 
 '^ The life of Thomas Beckett:" which trans- 
 lation is preferved in a MS. of Ben net- college. 
 
 * This, of courfe, has nothing but the fubjeft in 
 common with an unfinifhed poem, under the ran\e title, 
 among the Harleian MSS. (Num. 2252,) which, by the 
 way, is nothing more than fo much of Caxtons printed 
 book . 
 
i08 POETS OF THE 
 
 Cambridge (CCXCVIII) 5 and begins '' O yc 
 virtuous foverayns fpiritual and temporal.'* 
 
 WAKEFELDE ROBERT. See CAUMPE- 
 DEN. 
 
 WALTER WILLIAM, who ftiles himfelf 
 "^^ fervaunt to fyr Henry Marney, knight, chaun- 
 celor of the duchy of Lancastre," translated out of 
 Latin into Englifh ^' The amerous hystory of 
 Guystarde and Sygysmonde, and of theyr do- 
 lorous deth by her father;" printed by Wynken 
 deWorde, in 153^, 4to. and reprinted in *^*' Cer- 
 tayne worthye manufcript poems of great anti- 
 quitie/' 1597, l6mo. Alfo, '' The history of 
 Tytus & Gefyppus/' by the fame printer, 4 to. 
 He likewife compiled ^' A lytell contrauers dya- 
 , logue bytwene loue and councell, with many 
 goodly argumentes of good women and bad, very 
 compendyous to all eftates;" and *^^ The fpecta- 
 cle of louers," a dialogue in verfe : both by the 
 fame printer, in 4to, without date. 
 
 WATON BERTRAM wrote an ^Mnvective 
 poem againfl the licentiousnefs of nuns, and of 
 the churches of Rome, and their indulgences:'* 
 
FIFTEENTH CENTURV. lOQ 
 
 extant in the Cotton library (Vespafian D. IX) 5 
 imperfect : '' Amen quod Bertran Waton. 
 
 WATTON JOHN, a prieft, wrote the Specu- 
 hnn Chi'istiani, printed by V/illiam de MachUnia, 
 in or about 1483 3 in which are interfperfed fe- 
 veral religious pieces of poetry in Engliih. 
 
 WATSON HENRY, who translated '' The 
 grete lliyppe of fooles of this worlde," out of 
 Fiench into Engliih profe, at the requell of his 
 ^' worlhypfuU mayster Wykin de Worde" (by 
 v^honi it was printed in 1517), '' thmghe the en- 
 tyfement & exhortacyon of the excellent prynces 
 Margarete counteffe of Rychemonde and Derby^" 
 has prefixed arguments in verfe to each chapter. 
 
 WEY WILLIAM, a Devonfliire-man, fellow, 
 firll, of Exeter, and, aftei'ward, of Eton- college, 
 made fome Englifh rimes on ^' The way to Hie- 
 rufalem, and the holy places in that country*' 
 (MS. Bib. Bod. NE. F. 2. 12), whither he pere- 
 grinated in 145 8 and 1472 3 celebrateing mafs, in 
 that holy city (^according to Warton), Cum cantu 
 organ ico^ (II, 427.)* 
 
 * Purchas has printed a poem from a MS. in fir 
 
110 FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 
 
 WHYTYNG . . . appears to be author of a 
 ^^ lytyl boke of curtefy" for ^Mytyll children 3" a 
 fragment of which is preferved in the Harleian 
 MS. 541. 
 
 Robert Cottons library (but not to be found in Smiths 
 catalogue) which is thus intitled : *< Here beginneth 
 the way that is marked, and made wit mount loiez from 
 the lond of Engelond vnto fent lames in Galis, and 
 from thennez to Rome, and fromthennez to lerufalem : 
 and fo againe into Engelond, and the namez of all the 
 citeez be the waie, and the maner of hdr gouernaunce, 
 and namez of her filver that they vfe bealle thefe waie," 
 (Filgrimesy II, 1230) ; which may be the poem men- 
 tioned by Tanner (as above) in the Bodleian, and that 
 alfo the identical MS. ufed by Purchas. It begins ; 
 <* In the name of the fader that feteez in trone.** 
 
 ■ \ 
 
POETS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 
 
POETS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 
 
 A. B. has complimentary verfes before '^ Mor- 
 leys practicall introduction to mulicke^'* 1397. 
 
 A. G. Se^ ALLEY WILLIAM. 
 
 A. H. See ARTHINGTON HENRY. 
 
 A. T. See ACHELEY THOMAS. 
 
 ACHELEY THOMAS. '' A moll lamenta- 
 ble and tragicall historic, conteyning the outra- 
 gious and horrible tyrannic which a Spaniihe gan- 
 tlewoman named Violenta executed vpon her 
 louer Didaco, becaufe he efpoufed another beyng 
 firft betrothed vnto her. Newly translated into 
 Englifli meeter,, by T. A.* Imprinted at Lon- 
 
 * For thi^ work, mister Park obferves, he probablely 
 was place'd by the fide of Boccace, inMoreses ** Wits 
 
 I 
 
114 POETS OF THE 
 
 don by John Charlevvood for Thomas Butter. 
 1.576." 12mo. b. 1. It is a novel of Bandello, 
 and makes the 42d in the ifl volume of Painters 
 '^Palace "of pleafure," 1569, He has likewife, 
 verfes ^^ to the author^" before Watfons Sonnets. 
 
 ACHELLEY JOHN wrote commendatory 
 verfes prefix' d to fir G. Peckhams ^^ True re- 
 porte of the late discoueries, £f/c." 1583. 
 
 ADAMS ABRAHAM wrote '' The hunting 
 of the greene lyonj" printed in Afhmoles Thca" 
 triim chemicum Britannicum, l652. 
 
 ADLINGTON WILLIAM, the translator of 
 Apuleius, has a poetical ^' preface of the author 
 to his fonne Faustinus" &c. before '^ The eleven 
 bookes of the Golden alTe/' 1596. 4to. 
 
 ALDAY JOHN, '' A complaint of the pore 
 husbandmen in meeter, made upon,, Da pacem 
 domine in diehus nostris, &c." in his '^ TJiea- 
 trum Mnnd'i, The Theatre or rule of the world/' 
 
 Treafury," under die name of Tho. Atchelj%v ; as he had 
 before been lauded by Nafh, for haveing *' more than 
 once or twice manifeiled his deep-vvitted fcholarfhip m 
 places of credit.'* 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 115 
 
 &-C. Printed by H. D. for Thomas Hackct^ b. 1. 
 n. d. In this work, which is a translation from 
 Peter Boayftuau^ are other piecees of poetry. 
 
 ALLEY WILLIAM, bifliop of Exeter, intro- 
 ducees ^' Certaine verfes which are recited in a 
 certain interlude or play intituled JEegio,'" in 
 *' The poore mans library/' printed by John 
 Daye, 1571. He dye'd in the precedeing 
 year. 
 
 ALLOT ROBERT, the compileer and publiflier 
 of ^*' Englands Parnasfus : or The choyfeft flowers 
 of our modern poets, ^c^ 1600, prefixes to that 
 work a dedication in verfe to fir Thomas Moun- 
 fon. A fonnet fign'd Rob. Allot occurs before 
 Middletons ^^ Legend of duke Humphrey," 
 1600. 
 
 ANSLAY BRIAN. '' Here begynneth the 
 boke of the cyte of ladyes : the whiche boke is 
 devyded into iii partes : The fyrfl: parte telleth 
 howe and by whom the walle and the cloystre 
 aboute the cyte was made. The feconde parte 
 telleth howe and by whom the cyte was buylded 
 
 I 2 
 
ll6 
 
 POETS OF THE 
 
 within and peopled. The thyrde parte telleth 
 howe and by whom the hyghe battylmentes of the 
 towres were parfytely made^ and what noble la- 
 dyes were ordeyned to dwell in ye hyghe pa- 
 layces and hyghe dongeons. And ye fyrft chapy- 
 tre telleth howe and by whom and by what mou- 
 inge the fayd cyte was made. 
 
 The kyndly entente of every gentylman 
 Is the furtheraunce of all gentylnefle 
 And to procure in all that ever he can 
 For to renewe all noble worthynefTe 
 This dayly is fene at our eye exprelTe 
 Of noble men that do endyte and rede 
 In bokes olde theyr worthy myndes to fede. 
 
 So nowe of late came in my custodye 
 
 This forefayd boke by Bryan Anslay 
 
 Yoman of the feller with the eyght kynge 
 
 Henry 
 Of gentylwomen the excellence to fay 
 The whiche i lyked but yet i made delay 
 It to imprelTe for that it is the guyfe 
 Of people lewde theyr prowefTe to dyfpife. 
 
SIXTEKNTH CENTURY. *115 
 
 But then i {hewed the forefayd boke 
 
 Unto my lorde the gentyll erle of Kente 
 
 And hym requyred theron to loke 
 
 With his counfayle to put it into prente 
 
 And he forthwith as ever dylygente 
 
 Of ladyes (abrode) to fprede theyr royall 
 
 fame 
 Exhorted me to prynte it in his name. 
 
 And i obeyenge gladly his inflaunce 
 
 Have done my devoyre of it to make an ende 
 
 Prayenge his lordfhyp with others y' fhall 
 
 chaunce 
 On it to rede the fautes for to amende 
 If only be for i do fayne intende 
 Gladly to pleafe and wylfully remytte 
 This ordre rude to them that have frefflie 
 
 wytte. 
 
 Thus endeth the prolog*ue. 
 
 Imprynted at London in Poules chyrchyarde at 
 the fygne of the trynyte by Henry Pep well, in 
 the yere of our lorde MCCCCCXXJ. the xxvi 
 day of October, and the xij yere of the reygne of 
 our foverayne lorde kynge Henry tlie viij." It 
 is, probablely, a translation of the ^^ Trefor de la 
 
Il6^ POETS OF THE 
 
 cite des dames,'' by Christian of Pifa : Paris^ 
 1497> fo. 
 
 ARTHINGTON HENRY. '' Principall points 
 of holy profesfion^ touching thefe three eftates of 
 mankind : 1 . Their creation^ 2 . Their fubver- 
 tion;, 3. Their reftoration^ &c. Compofed in 
 verfe by H. A. G." Printed by Tho. Pavyer, 
 l607j, 4to. He pubhili'd other things before 
 l600^ and feems to have had a fliare in Hack- 
 etts confpiracy. See Herbert, \sQb, 1086, lOgS. 
 An account of Arthington is glveen in Weevers 
 '^ Discourfe on funeral monuments." 
 
 ASCHAM ROGER, Latin fecretary to queen 
 Elizabeth, wrote fome recommendatory verfees, 
 prefixed to Blundevilles '^'^ Fruyts of foes," I56l. 
 In his ^' Scholemaster," 1571, he introducees fix 
 Engleifh lines, as a *'*' little rude verfe," made by 
 him long ago, fo. 15. See his verfees on John 
 Whitney, in the fame book, where he fpeaks very 
 modeftly of his poetical talents. In this work, 
 as well as in Toxophilus, and A report... of the 
 affairs. ..of Germany, he ufually verfifys his quo- 
 tations from clasfick authours. 
 
 ASHLEY I. wrote commendatory verfees pre- 
 
■:^ 
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. ll/ 
 
 lix'd to Lewkenors translation of Contarenos 
 ^' Commonwealth and government of Venice," 
 
 1599. 
 
 ASKE JAMES wrote '' EUzahetha triinn^^ 
 phans. Conteyning The damned practizes that 
 the diuelilli popes of Rome haue vfed euer fithence 
 her highnefle firft comming to the crowne^ by 
 moiling her wicked & traiterous fubie6ls to rebel- 
 lion h confpiracies, ^c. With a declaration of 
 the manner how her excellency was entertained 
 by her fouldyers into her campe royall at Tilbery 
 in Esfex : and of the ouerthrovv had againft the 
 Spanifh fleele :" printed by Thomas Orwin, 1588, 
 4to. in blank verfe : reprinted in Nicholses '^ Pro- 
 grelTes of Q. Elizabeth." 
 
 ASKEWE ANNE. At the end of her '' latter 
 examination/' printed w. d. or p. n. l6mo, is 
 '' The ballade which Anne Askewe made and 
 fang, whan fhe was in Newgate." It is alfo to be 
 found in Foxes martyrs. 
 
 AVALE LEMEKE compile'd '' A commemo- 
 ration or dirge of bastarde Edmonde Boner, alia^ 
 Savage, ufurped bislhoppe of London:" 1569. 
 8vo. '' A moft fevere/' according to Herbert, 
 
 I 3 
 
118 POETS OF THE 
 
 ^^ and indeed profane burlefque^ in the Skeltonic 
 manner." The name feems fictitious."^ 
 
 B. A. Prefix'd to Bodenhams ^^ Belvedere^ or 
 the garden of the mufes/' l600^ 12mo^ are com- 
 mendatory verfes, iign'd A. B. An owner of 
 the fame fignature has fome poetical intermix- 
 tures in '' The NoblenefTe of the affe/* 1595. 
 
 B. B. See BARNES BARNABY. 
 
 B. E. See BOLTON EDMUND. 
 
 B. G. Thefe initials (G. B.) arc given by 
 Webbe. They are fign'd to the dedication of a 
 book intitle'd ""Beware tlie Cat/' 156l : at the 
 clofe of which book is a "" hymne." 
 
 B. H. Thefe initials (H. B.) are fubjoin'd to 
 a commendatory ftanza at the end of "^ The faerie 
 queene." 
 
 B. J. wrote verfes "" in praife of Gascolgnes 
 polies/' prefix'd to his ""Flowers^" 1575. 
 
 ^ One John Avalesy however, is mention 'd by Foxc. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 1 ] C) 
 
 B. N. See BRETON NICHOLAS. 
 
 B. P. is the authour of verfes,, addrefs'd '^ To 
 fuch as have heretofore found fault with ■ Gas- 
 coignes poiies 5" prehx'd to his '' Flowers/' 
 J 575. See BEVERLEY PETER. 
 
 B. R. has a copy of commendatory verfes pre- 
 fix'd to ^^ Bulleins newe boke of phificke^" anno 
 155 8^ 8vo : printed by John Daye. 
 
 B. R. wrote '^ An epitaph upon the death of 
 the woriliipfull maister Benedi6l Spinola^ mer- 
 chaunt of Genoa^ and free denizen of England^ 
 who dyed on Tuesday the 12 of Julie 1580 :" a 
 broadiide_, in 22 four-line flanzas -, printed by 
 Thomas Eaft : alfo ^' The plowmans complaint 
 of fundry wicked liuers, and efpecially of the bad 
 bringing-vp of children:" printed for Hugh 
 Corne, 1580, 8vo. See BARNEFIELD. 
 
 B. S. See BATEMAN STEPHEN. 
 
 B. S. T. in '' Englands Parnasfus/' 1600, are 
 probably intended for S. F. B. Sir Francis 
 Brian. 
 
 I 4 
 
120 POETS OF THE 
 
 B. T. See BASTARD THOMAS. 
 
 B. W. wrote ^' Scacckia Indus: CheiTe play :'' 
 a poetical translation of Vidas celebrated poem. 
 This is to be found at the end of '^ Ludus fcac- 
 chice : ChelTe-play. A game^ both pleafant_, wit- 
 tie^ and politicke^" ^c, printed by H. Jackfon^ 
 1597. 4to.* 
 
 BADGER Maister, M. A. and efquire beadle 
 of Oxford univerfity^ devife'd a copy of verfes in 
 ^' The princejy pleafures at Kenelworth^" 1576. 
 
 BAKER G. has commendatory verfes before 
 Peter Lowes ^^ Courfe of chirurgerie," 1597. 
 
 BAKER ROBERT wrote '' The firft voyage of 
 Robert Baker to Guinie^ with the Minion and 
 Primrofe^ fet out in October 1562, by fir Wil- 
 liam Garrard^ fir William Chester^ M. Thomas 
 
 * This W. B. may, posfiblely, be William Bafle, or 
 fias, who wrote *' Three pastorall elegies of Anander, 
 Anytor and Muridella :" entered to John Barnes, zSth 
 May 1602; and pubiifh'd *' The fword and buckler, 
 orferving-mans defence," in fix-line flanzas^ in the fame 
 year> 4to. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 121 
 
 Lodge, Anthony Hickman^ & Edward Caste- 
 lin :" alio, *' The fecond voyage to Guinie, and 
 the river of Sesto, let out in the moneth of No- 
 vember 1563, by lir WiUiam Garrard, ^c,'' both 
 printed in Hakkiyts collection,, 1589. 
 
 BALDWIN WILLIAM, at iirfl a printer, 
 and at lail a parfon, publifh'd '^ A myrrovre for 
 magistrates, wherein may be feen by example of 
 others, with howe greuous plages vices are pu- 
 niflied, and, howe frayl and vnftable worldly pro- 
 fperitie is founded, euen of thofe whom Fortvne 
 feemeth mofl highly to fauour. — Anno 15 59 •" 
 printed by Tho. Marllie, 4to. b. 1. to a new edi- 
 tion whereof, in 1563, was aded a fecond part. 
 In this work the legends of Henry Percey earle 
 of Northumberland, Richard earle of Cambridge, 
 Thomas Montagu the earle of Salisbur}^, ^^yng 
 James the firfl, William Delapole duke of Suf- 
 folke, Jacke Cade, Richard Plantagenet duke of 
 Yorke, Lorde Clilforde, John Tiptoft earle of 
 Worcester, Richard Nevel earle of Warwyke, 
 Kyng Henry the fixt, and George duke of Cla- 
 rence, in the firft, and thofe of Sir Anthony Wud- 
 vill, and Colli ngborne, in the fecond part, appear 
 to be of his own compolition. He had no concern 
 
122 POETS OF THE 
 
 whatever in the fubfequent editions.* When 
 ^*' fervaunt with Edward Whitchurche/' he wrote 
 and printed *"*" The canticles or balades of Salo- 
 mon^ phrafe lyke declared in Englyih metres/' 
 1549, 4to. He alfo wrote ^^ The funeralles of 
 king Edward the fixt. Wherin are declared the 
 caufers and caufes of his death :" printed by Tho. 
 Marfhe, 15 60, 4 to. 
 
 '' The mirrour of magistrates/' and^ particu- 
 larly, Sackvilles induction, are extol' d by Bolton 
 as '' the befl of thofe times." Bifliop Hall, 
 however, feems of a different opinion, thus cha- 
 racterifeing the authour : 
 
 -.it <( ^t ^\^^ latter end of the reign of queen Elifa- 
 beth," fays Warton, '* as i am informed from fome cu- 
 rious manufcript authorities, a thin quarto in the black 
 letter was publifiied, with this title, The mirrovr of 
 mirrovrs, or all the tragedys of the mirrovr for magi- 
 flrates abbreuiated in breefe histories in profe. Very 
 necesfary for thofe that have not the cronicle. London, 
 Imprinted for James Roberts in Barbican, 1598." 
 This information he profefses to have *< from manu- 
 fcripts of Mr. Coxeter ;" who appears to have been an 
 impostor of the fame ftamp as William Chetwood, in 
 furnifhing books and editions that never exifled, as, in 
 fa6l, Warton himfelf appears to have done, in more 
 than one initance. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 123 
 
 '* Another, whofe more heavy-hearted faint 
 Delights in nought but notes of rueful plaint, 
 Urgeth his melting mufe with folemn tears 
 Rhyme of fome dreary fates oflucklefs peers. 
 Then brings he- up fome branded whining ghoft. 
 To tell how old misfortunes had him tofs'd. 
 Then muft he ban the guiitlefs fates above. 
 Or fortune frail, or unrewarded love. 
 And w4ien he hath parbrak'd his grieved mind. 
 He fends him down where erfl he did him find^ 
 Without one penny to pay Charons hire. 
 That waitefl for the wandring ghofts retire.*' 
 
 BALE JOHN, biihop of Osfory, a foul- 
 mouth' d railer againft, and bitter enemy to the 
 papifts, turn'd into metre the twenty-third and 
 the hundred and thirtyeth pfalms, inferted at the 
 end of his ^^ Expostulation or complaynte agaynlle 
 the blasphemyes of a frantic papyft of Hamiliyre :" 
 printed by John Daye, 1552, 8vo. 
 
 BALES PETER (concerning whom fee Woods 
 At hence Oxonlenfes & Bio, Britan.J was au- 
 thour of '^ The writing fchoolemaster," ^c. 
 printed by Tho. Orwin, n. d. 4 to. in which he 
 has introduce'd fome precepts in verfe, and other 
 poetical pieces. He has a commendatory poem 
 
124 POETS OF THE 
 
 prefix'd to Rabbards translation of Ripleys ^^ Com- 
 pound of alchymy, " 1 5 9 1 . j| 
 
 BALTHORP NICHOLAS. '' A new balade 
 made by Nicholas Balthorp which fuffered in Ca- || 
 
 lys the XV. daie of Marche M. D. L." printed by 
 John Walley^ in that year 5 containing 12 lix- 
 line flanzas. He feems to be the fame with 
 '*" Nycholas Baltroppe/' who wrote '' A bally t of 
 mode/' licenfe'd to John Wallye and mistrefs 
 Toyein 1557. 
 
 BANSLEY CHARLES wrote a book upon the 
 pride and vices of women ^^ now a days:** 
 printed by Thomas Raynolde (about 1540), 4to. 
 
 BARNEFIELDE RICHARD wrote '' The af- 
 fectionate fhepherd [fonnets]," 1596, l6mo. 
 alfo '^ Cynthia/' and *' The legend of Casfan- 
 dra/* printed in 1595, for H. Lownes : ^^ The 
 encomion of lady Pecunia 5 or the praife of money, 
 by Richard Barnfield, graduate in Oxford : The 
 complaint of Poetrie for the death of Liberalitie : 
 The combat betweene Confcience and Covetuous- 
 nefs, in the minde of man : and poems in divers 
 humours :" were publiili'd in 1598, 4to. He is, 
 likewife, fuppofe'dto be the ^' R. B. gent." who 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 125 
 
 publilli'd ^' Greens funerals in xiv fonnets/' 
 London, l604, 4to. but of which there was pro- 
 bablely an earlyer edition*. In *' Englands He- 
 licon," 1600, are two poems by this authour, 
 intitl'd '' The iheepheards ode," and '' The 
 iheepheards fonnet." The '' iliepheards ode," 
 had appear'd with '^ Cynthia," in 1595 : and 
 among the fonnets fubjoin'd to Shakspeares 
 '^ Pasfionate pilgrims," 1599. See B. R. 
 
 BARNES BARNABY, a younger fon of Ri- 
 chard bifhop of Durham, wrote ^^ A divine cen- 
 turie of fpirituall fonnets :" printed by J. Windet, 
 Lon. 1595^ and dedicated to Toby Matthews, 
 bifhop of Durham. There is, alfo, a fonnet by 
 this writer in Harvey s ^*' Pierces fupererogation," 
 1593 ; witli his real fignature, and two others, 
 figned Farthenophil and Parthenophe, and he is, 
 probablely, the B. B. who prefixes to the '^ Worlde 
 of wordes," 1598, ^'^ A friendes gratulation, to 
 his beloved friend master John Florio, for that 
 which god hath fent him, and he us 3" in two 
 eight-hne Ilanzas. He was born in 1369, but 
 
 * '* Greenes memoriall or certaine funerall fonnets*' 
 (in number 22) appeared at the end of Harvey s four 
 letters, in 1592, 410. T. P. 
 
Vl6 POETS OF THE 
 
 the time of his death is uncertain,^ See B. B. 
 From Naihes ^^ Have with you to SafFron-Wal- 
 den/' 1596^ it appears that he had viiited France, 
 in fome miUtary capacity, about 1591. A ^^ Ma- 
 drigall" or fonnet, by Bar. Barnes, is prefix'd 
 to Fordes ^^ Fames memoriall," 1606. 
 
 BASTARD THOMAS. '' Chrestoleros. Se- 
 ven books of epigrams, written by T. B." 1534, 
 1598. 8vo. To this writer, alfo^ thofe initials 
 among Gascoignes complimenters (Flowers, 157 5 J 
 are fuppofe'd to belong. He was a Dorfetiliire 
 man, born at Blandford 3 and, haveing become 
 vicar of Bear-Regis, and rector of Amour, in that 
 county, dye'd in the prifon of Allhallows-parifh in 
 Dorchester, whither he had been commited for 
 debt^ in 16I83 ^Meaving behind him," accord- 
 
 *^ Oldys, in his MS. notes on Langbainc, fays that 
 after 159 1, he publifn'd his Parthemfhil and Parthe- 
 nove, translated The Spanijh counjellor, and WTit a poem 
 of Shores ivife. He ads, however, that Harvey and Nafli 
 fay that Shores ivije was Anthony Chewts, and that 
 Churchyard fays <* he had been rob'd of the fame of a 
 poem he publifh'd fo called.' ' 
 
 At the end of Percys '' Sonnets to the faircft Ccelia," 
 1594, is ** A madrigal to Parthenophil upon his Laja and 
 Parthenophe.'^ T. P. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 127 
 
 ing to Wood, ^*' many memorials of his wit and 
 drollery.'* An Englilli poem in ^^ The Odcom- 
 bian banquet/' l6il, has '^^ Explicit Thomas 
 Bastard." Sir John Harington has a poetical 
 vindication of Bastards '^' Chrestoleros/' in the 
 fecond book of his own epigrams : whence Shep- 
 pard takes occalion to fay, that ^' None in Eng- 
 land, fave Bastard and Harington, have divulged 
 epigrams worth notice." The Jirjl:, he ads, de- 
 ferve'd the laurel 5 but the laji, both crowning 
 and anointing. Poems, 1651. 
 
 BATMAN (or BATEMAN) STEPHEN, mi- 
 nister, wrote ^' The trauayled pylgrime, bringing 
 newes from all partes of the worlde, fuch like 
 fcarce harde of before," 1569 (without place or 
 printers name), 4 to. b. 1. an allegorico- theologi- 
 cal romance of the life of man, imitated from the 
 French or Spanifli, in verfe of 14 fyllables. He 
 has, likewife, fome poetical pieces in his '^ Chri- 
 ftall glalTe of christian reformation, ^c." printed, 
 by John Day, in the fame year. 
 
 BAYNES ROGER has fome verfes, prefix'd to 
 Turberviles '' Tragical tales," 1587, '' in the due 
 commendation of the author j" and, likewife, 
 
128 
 
 POETS OF THE 
 
 fome translated pasfages in his own ^^ Praife of 
 folitarinelTe/* 1577^ 4to. 
 
 BECKE EDMON publiih'd '' A brefe confu- 
 tation of the moft detestable and anabaptistical 
 opinion^, that Chrift dyd not take hys flefh of the 
 blefsed vyrgyn Mary/' in metre : printed by John 
 Day^ 1530;, 4 to. 
 
 BECON THOMAS, a voluminous theological 
 writer, publifh'd ^^ Davids harpe, full of moft de- 
 lectable harmony, newlye ftringed and fet in 
 tune" (which is prefum'd to have been in me- 
 tre) ', and '^ ChriftmafTe carols, very new and 
 godly." See his w^orks printed by J. Day, 1563, fo. 
 He alfo wrote a long poem intitle'd ^"^ An invec- 
 tive againft whoredome, and all other abomina- 
 cions of uncleaneffe:" printed by John Day, n. d. 
 8vo, He dyed in 1570. 
 
 BEDINGFELD THOMAS efquire, one of her 
 majesty s gentlemen penfioners, has feveral poeti- 
 cal verfions in his translation of '^ Cardanus com- 
 forte," £f/c. He appears to be the fame perfon 
 who, in the title of a letter before Boltons ^' Ele- 
 ments of armories^" i6lO, is call'd '' The grave 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 1 29 
 
 and courtly Thomas Bedingfield efquire, late 
 maister of his maiesties tents^ and Toilz/' ^c. 
 
 BEEARD RICHARD, parfon of Saint-Mary- 
 at-hill, in London, publifh'd, in 1557, 
 
 '' A godly pfalm of Mary queen, which brought 
 
 vs comfort all. 
 Thro god whom we of deuty praife tliat give 
 her foes a fall :" 
 with pfalm-tunes, in four parts, 8vo. alfo '' Al- 
 phabet urn Beeardi," a broadfide, printed by Wil- 
 liam Copland. 
 
 BENTLEY JOHN is tlie authour of a few 
 fhort poems in a manufcript collection belonging 
 to Samuel Lyfons efquire. 
 
 BERTHELET THOMAS, printer, is the au- 
 thour of a poem in ftanzas of 7 lines addrefs'd to 
 the readers of Fitzherberts '^ boke of furveying 
 and improuemetes : " pr. by R. Pynfon, 1523, 4to. 
 and which he afterward printed himfelf with- 
 out the poem. He has, likewife, three octave 
 flanzas before ^^ The historic of two tlie molie 
 noble captaines of the worlde, Anniball and Sci- 
 pio, Z^c. by Antonye Cope efquier 3" printed by 
 himfelf in 1544. 
 
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130 POETS OF THE 
 
 BEST CHARLES has feveral fonnets and odes 
 in '"^ Davifons poetical rapfody/' l602. 
 
 BEVERLEY PETER, of Staple-inn, wrote 
 '^ The history of Ariodanto and Jeneura, daugh- 
 ter to the king of Scottes in Englifh verfe : 
 printed by Thomas Eafl for Frauncis Coldocke"* 
 n. d. 8vo. b. T. there being, according to War- 
 ton, another edition for R. Watkins, in l600, 
 12mo. which, however, it is believe'd no one elfc 
 ever faw. It is the epifode of Geneura, in the 
 4th and 5th cantos of Orlando furiofo. He alfa 
 wrote fome commendatory verfes prefixed to Fen- 
 tons ^''Tragical discourfes," 1579^ 4to. See 
 B. P. 
 
 BE WE M. is the author of one poem in '' The 
 paradice of daintie devifes," 157^. 
 
 BEZE THOMAS wrote '' Verfes upon the new 
 flarre which appeared in 1572 and 1573," printed 
 in a treatife *' Of the ende of this world, 65'c." 
 1578. 
 
 • It was licenfe'd to H. Weekes, 1565. Ames, or, 
 at leaft, Herbert, fays, inftead of *< daughter of," << de- 
 dicated to" the king of Scots. It was dedicated, in 
 fa6t, to Peter Read, 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 131 
 
 BIESTON rxOGER wrote ''The bayte & fnare 
 of fortune : wherin may be feen that money is 
 not the only caufe of mischefe and vnfortunat 
 endes , but a necesfary mean to mayntayne a ver- 
 tuous quiet lyfcj treated in a dialoge betwene 
 man and money :" printed by John Wayland, 
 without date, folio : ten leaves in octave flan* 
 zas.^ 
 
 BING THOMAS is fpoken of as an excellent 
 orator and poet, in '^ Mufarurn lachrymcZy xel 
 SmithuSy' 1578. He has three poems in ^' Sor- 
 rowes joy, or a lamentation for the deceafe of 
 Elizabeth & a triumph for the fuccesfion of James/* 
 1603, 4to. 
 
 BIRCH W. See ELDERTON. 
 
 * This Bieston feems to be the perfon to whom Nafhe 
 infcribe'd his ** Strange newes of the intercepting cer- 
 taine letters, and a convoy of verfes, as they were going 
 priuilie to victuall the Ipw countries,'* 1592, by the fol- 
 lowing addrefs :" To the moft copious carrainifh of our 
 time, and famous perfecutor of Priscian, his verie friend 
 maister Apis lapis : Tho. Nafhe wiflieth new ftrings to 
 his old tawnle purfe, and all honorable increafe of ac- 
 quaintance in the cellar. — Thine intirely, Tho. Nafhe. 
 
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132 
 
 POETS OF THE 
 
 BLAGE THOMAS, lludent of Queens-college, 
 Cambridge, wrote ^' A dialogue betwene the au- 
 thor and the printer 3" prefixed to his ^^ Schole 
 of wife conceytes" (a book of iEfopian fables), 
 1569. 
 
 BLAGRAVE JOHN, of Reading, wrote ver- 
 fes, pretix'd to his *^* Mathematical jewel," 1584. 
 fo. 
 
 BLENERHASSET THOMAS wrote '' The 
 feconde part of the mirrour for magistrates, con- 
 teining the falles of the infortunate princes of this 
 lande From the conqueft of Caefar, vnto the 
 commyng of duke William the conquerour :" 
 printed by Richard Webiler, 15 78. 4to. b. 1. By 
 *'^ The authors epistle vnto his friende," dated 
 ^^ the 15. daye of Maye, an. 15 77," he appears 
 to have ftudy'd at Cambridge, where he had 
 translated Ovid De reniedio amons ; and to have 
 writen thefe legends at Guernfey-castle. This 
 *^ feconde part" was intended to connect the 
 '' firfl" and '' laft" parts, by Higins, and Bald- 
 wine and others. It contains 12 legends or tra- 
 gedys, viz, thofe of Guidericus, Carasfus, queen 
 Hellina^ Vortiger, Uter Pendragon, Cadwallader, 
 
, SIXTEENTPI CENTURY. 133 
 
 Sigebert^ lady Ebbe^ Alurede^ Egelrede^ Edri- 
 cus, and king Harolde. He afterward fettle' d in 
 Ireland, and appears to have been liveing in l6lO. 
 See Wares Writers^ by Harris (.'333) ^ who fays he 
 dye'd about the begining of the reign of Charles 
 the firft. 
 
 BLONDEVILLE (or BLUNDEVILLE) 
 THOMAS, of Newton-Flotman, in Norfolk, is 
 authour of '^ Three treatifes no lefs pleafant than 
 necesfary for all men to reade, wherof the one is 
 called tlie Learned prince, tlie other the Fruites 
 of foes, the thyrde the Porte of refl :" printed by 
 Wm. Seres, 1561 . The firft and fecond of thefe 
 treatifes are entirely poetical 3 the third has a poe- 
 tical introduction addrefs'd ^^ To the true lovers 
 of wifedome John Asteley, mayster of the queenes 
 majestyes jewell houfe, &: John Harington 
 efquier." 
 
 BLOOMFIELD SIR WILLIAM* wrote ^^The 
 compendiary of the noble fcience of alkemy,'* 
 
 * He appears to have been a native, as wel as a monk, 
 of Bury; but, after the reformation, recanted, and was 
 made vicar of Sts. Simon and Jude, in Norwich, whence 
 he was ejcCled by the papifts. See Tanner. 
 
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134 POETS OF THE 
 
 1557^ and other things ; all extant among Sloanes 
 MSS. in the Britifh mufeum. His poem^ inti- 
 tle'd '^ Eloomefields blosfoms/' or *^* The camp 
 of philofophy/' is printed in Afhmoles Theatrum 
 chemicmn^ l652. 
 
 BODENHAM JOHN is thought to be the 
 authour of two fonnets, the one ^^ To the univer- 
 iitie of Oxenford^" the other ^^ To the univerfi- 
 tie of Cambridge," before his '^ Belvedere, or the 
 garden of the mufes :" printed by F. K. for Hugh 
 Aflley, 1600. 12mo. From a fonnet by A. B. 
 prefixed to *^*^ Englands Helicon/' 1600, it ap- 
 pears that Bodenham was the compiler of that 
 miscellany. 
 
 BOLEYN GEORGE, vicount Rochford, fon 
 of Thomas earl of Wiltihire, and brother to lady 
 Ann Boleyn, the fecond of the fix wives of that 
 equally lufi:ful and fanguinary monfl:er, Henry the 
 8 th, and beheaded, two days before her, along 
 witli four others, in 1536, ^^ hath the fame,'' ac- 
 cording to Wood, *^ of being the author of feveral 
 poems, fongs, and fonnets, with other things of 
 the like nature."* Mister Warton fuspefts that 
 
 •^ Wood feems to have copy'd Phillips, who had* 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 135 
 
 fome of the compofitions of this amiable young 
 nobleman are inferted among the '' Uncertain 
 aucthors" in Surreys poems j which, by the way, 
 attribute exprefsly to fir Thomas Wyat a per- 
 formance of fingdar merit, the authors addrefs to 
 his lute, which the editor of the Nugce antiqiioe 
 afcribes to '' the earl of Rochford 5" a title which 
 never exilled. 
 
 BOLTON EDMUND, a profound fcholar, and 
 eminent critick, is one of the contributors to 
 " Englands Helicon," 1^00 3 haveing one poem, 
 with his name at length, and four others with his 
 initials. Prefix'd to Dray tons Mor timer iados, 
 1596, is a fonnet *^ to Lucie, countefse of Bed- 
 ford," fubfcribe'd E. B. Commendatory verfes by 
 
 probablely,-no other authority than Bale, who fays: 
 ** diverji generis in Anglico fertnone edidit Rhythmos elegan- 
 tisfimos, Lib. i. No one, it is believe'd, has ever feen 
 his name annexed to any thing, either in print or in MS. 
 unlefs by conjecture, in a collection of Ancient Jongs ^ 
 1790, p. 123, 2iw^m\\\^Nugde antiqudE. He is mentioned, 
 however, as mister Park obfervcs, by *' the printer 
 [Richard Smith], in commendation of Gascoigne and 
 his vvorkes," 1575 : 
 
 <* Olde Rochfort clambe the (lately throne, 
 Which mufes holde, inHellicons — .*' 
 
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136 POETS OF THE 
 
 E. B. gent, occur^ alfo^ before Andrewes ^^ Un- 
 mafking of a feminine Machiaveil^" l604. 
 
 BOORD ANDREW, doctor of phyfick, born 
 at Pevenfey in Susfex, and-, before the reformation, 
 a Carthufian frier ^ in his ^' Introduction to know- 
 ledge," 1542, defer ibes in metre the inhabitants 
 of various nations. To exprefs the fickle dispofi- 
 tion of the EngUfh, he exhibits a wooden cut of a 
 human figure, naked, holding a piece of cloth 
 over his arm, and a pair of llieers in his hand, 
 with the following lines : 
 
 '' I am an Engiyfhman, and naked i fland here, 
 Mufyng in my mynd what rayment i flial were. 
 For now i wyll were thys, and now i wyl were 
 
 that. 
 Now i wyl were i cannot tell what, ^c." 
 See Camdens lieinainSy l605, — Hearnes Benedic- 
 tus, ap. ad. praefa. xlv. He alfo gives a curious 
 fatyrical defcription of the Wellliman. ^' A right 
 pleafaunt and merye historic of the mylner of 
 Abyngton, with his wife and his fayre daughter 3 
 and of two poore fcholers of Cambridge :" (n. d. 
 4to. b.l.) is afcribe'd to this doctor Bord, by Wood, 
 upon the authority of a MS. note by Thomas 
 Newton. It is an imitation of Chancers Retes 
 tale. He dye'd in tlie Fleet, 1549. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 137 
 
 BOURCHER ARTHUR compofe'd, very 
 finely, 
 
 '^ A wortliy myrrour, wherin ye may marke^ 
 An excellent discourfe of a breeding larke :" 
 to fliew there is but little dependence to be had of 
 friends or kindred, but that each mull do for him- 
 felf : printed by Richard Jones ; a broadfide. 
 (Herbert, 1052.) It is a fable of ^fop, which 
 the verlifyer might have found in Painters ^^ Pa- 
 lace of pleafure," 15 66. (His name in the print 
 is Bour. as an abbreviation.) He is alfo the au- 
 thour of one poem^ in ^^ The paradice of daintie 
 devifes," 1596 and 1600 3 and hath a poem ^' to 
 the reader" before Whitney s emblems. 
 
 BOURMAN NICHOLAS wrote a ballad, in- 
 title'd '^ A frendelie well wifliinge to fuch as en- 
 dure/' l^c. enter'd to John Charlewood, 10th 
 March 15 80-1 5 alfo ^^ An epitaphe vpon the 
 death of the ladye Marie Ramfie^" enter'd to 
 Richard Read, 2-ith February 1 60 1-2. 
 
 BOWES SIR JHEROM, before his translation 
 of '' An apology or defence for the Christians of 
 France," ^c. 1579, has '' The author of this 
 apology his fong," in 4 fevcn-line'd ftanzas -, and 
 '' The author to his book," one ftanza more. 
 
138 POETS OF THE 
 
 BOWYER NICHOLAS wrote commendatory 
 verfes^ prelix'd to Gascoignes ^^ Steele-glaiTe/' 
 1576. 
 
 BRADSHAW THOMAS defcribe'd ^^ The 
 ihepherds flarre, now of late feene and at this 
 hower to be obferved merveilous orient in the 
 eaft, which bring glad tydings to all that may be- 
 hold her brightnefs :" printed by Robert Robin- 
 fon^ 1591^ 4to. Licenfe'd in the precedeing year_, 
 to Richard Jones. 
 
 BREIFILDE JO. wrote commendatory verfes, 
 prefixed to Fletchers '' Introduction to the love 
 of god/* 1581. 
 
 BRANDON SAMUEL, to his '' Tragicomoe- 
 di of the vertuous Octavia/' 1598, has annex'd 
 an epistle from Octavia to. M. Antony, and his 
 anfwer. 
 
 BRETON NICHOLAS, a moll prolifick writ- 
 er, of whofe poetical productions tlie following is 
 an imperfe6t catalogue : 
 
 1 . ^*' A fmall handfull of flagrant flowers ga- 
 thered out of the lovely garden of facred fcrip- 
 ture, fit for any worfliipfuil gentlewoman to fmell 
 
SIXTEKNTH CENTURY. ISQ 
 
 unto." 1575. i2mo. 2. '' A floorifh upon fan- 
 cie. As gallant a glofe upon fo triflinge a text, as 
 ever was written. To which are annexed the 
 Toyes of an idle head,, containing manie pretie 
 pamphlets, for pleafant heads to paffe away idle 
 time withal:" 1577. 1582. 4to. b. 1.* 3. 
 '^ The workes of a young wyt trufl vp with a 
 fardell of prettie fancies, profitable to young 
 poetes, preiudicial to no man, and pleafaunt to 
 euery man to paffe away idle tyme wythall : 
 whereunto is ioyned an odde kinde of wooing 
 with a banquet of comfettes to make an end 
 withall:" printed by T. Dawfon and T. Gardy- 
 ner, 1577. 4to. b. 1. 4. '^ The countefs of 
 Pembrooks pasfion/'f 1592. 5. '^ A folemne 
 pasfion of the foules loue :" printed by John Dan- 
 ter, 1595. l6mo. 6. '^ Brittons bowre of de- 
 
 * N. N. therefor, in Ames and Herberts Typographi- 
 cal antiquities^ p. 1052, muft be a mistake for N. B. 
 
 N. W. in an addrefs to Daniel before his translation 
 of P. Jovius, 15S5, fays, ^^ Gentlemen will honour your 
 Imprefa as a mofl rare Jewell, ^c for there is not pub- 
 lifhed a fiourifli upon fanciey OX Tarletons Toyes, or the 
 fillie enterlude of Diogenes." T. P. 
 
 f A MS. copy of this poem occurs in the Harleian col- 
 lection. No. 1303. T. P. 
 
140 
 
 POETS OF THE 
 
 lights^ contayning many moft delectable and fine 
 deuifes, of rare epitaphes^ pleafaunt poems, pas- 
 toralls^ and fonnets.*' 1597. 4 to. 7. '*" The ar- 
 bor of amorous deuices : wherein young gentle- 
 men may reade many pleafant fancies^ & fine 
 deuices : and thereon meditate divers fweete con- 
 ceites to court the loue of faire ladies & gen- 
 tlewomen." 1597. 8. ^*^ The will of wit. The 
 authors dream. Dispute of the fcholar &: foldier. 
 The miferies of Mavilla. The praife of woman. 
 Dialogue between anger &: patience^ and his phy- 
 ficians letter." 1597. 4to. (Thefe pieces are 
 in fjrofe, intermingle'd with verfe.) 9. '^ Me- 
 lancholike humours^ in verfes of diverfe na- 
 tures." 1600. 4to. (Prefix d is a fonnet^, *^ in 
 authorem,' by Ben Jonfon.) 10. ^' Pasquils 
 mad-cap, and mad-cappes mesfage." 1600. U. 
 ^^ The fecond part of Pasquils mad-cap, intituled 
 the fooles cap : with Pasquils pasfion : begun by 
 himfelf and finillied by his friend Morphorius." 
 1600. 12. ^^ Pasquils paffe and pafseth not: 
 fet downe in three pees. His pafie, procesfion, 
 and prognostication." 1600. 13. '*^ An excellent 
 poeme, upon the longing of a blefsed heart : 
 which loathing the world doth long to be with 
 Chrifi:. With an addition, upon the definition of 
 loue." 1601. 4to. 14. ^^ A diuine poeme^ di- 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 141 
 
 uided into two partes : The raviilit foule, and the 
 blefsed weeper." l6oi. 4to. 15. '' The foules 
 harmony." l602. 8vo. l6. '' Old mad-cappes 
 new gally-mawfry, made into a merrie mefTe of 
 mingle-mangle out of thefe three idle conceited 
 humours following: 1. I will not j 2. Oh tlie 
 meiTie time 5 3. Out of money." 1602. 4to. 
 17. '' A dialogue full of pithe and pleafure, be- 
 tween three philofophers^ Antonio^ Meandro^ and 
 Dinarco, upon the dignitie or indignitie of man y 
 partly translated out of Italian, and partly fet 
 downe by way of obfervation." l603. 4to, 18. 
 '^ A dialogue between the taker and mistaker.** 
 1603. 4to. 19. '' Grimellos fortunes." l604. 
 4to. 20. ^*" I pray you be not angry." l605. 
 4to. 21. ^^ The foules immortal crowne, con- 
 fifting of feauen glorious graces." l605. 4to. 22. 
 " The honour of valour." l605. 4to. 23. '' Sir 
 Philip Sydneys Ourania, that is, Endimions fong 
 and tragedie containing all philofophie." 1606. 
 4to. 24. '^ The praife of vertuous ladies. An 
 invective againft the discourteous discourfes of 
 certaine malicious perfons written againft women, 
 whom nature, w^it, & wisdome (wxl conlidered) 
 would us rather honour than disgrace." 1606. 
 4to. 25. ^^ Wits private wealth, flor'd witli 
 choife commodities to content the minde." 16 12. 
 
142 
 
 POETS OF THE 
 
 26. ^' I would and would not." l6l4. 4to* 
 
 27. *'*' Characters upon esfaies moral! & divine, 
 written for thofe good fpirits that will take tliem 
 in good part^ &: make ufe of them to good 
 purpofe." 1615. 8vo. 28. '' The good & the 
 badde^ or characters or defcriptions of the 
 worthies &: unworthies of the age.*' 16 16. 4to. 
 29. '' The mothers blefsing." 1621. 4to. 
 (Some of thefe are fufpe6ted to be in profe.) 
 Among the royal MSS. 17 C XXXIV. is Nic 
 Bretons ^^ Invective againft treafon^" and in 18 
 A LVII. his ^' poem upon the praife of vertue." 
 In 1578 was licenfe'd to Richard Jones, *^*^ The 
 payne of pleafure : compiled by N. Britten." 
 In '"'^ The phcenix neft/' 1593, are five, and in 
 **■ Englands Helicon/' 1600, eight, poems, by 
 this authour. In l602 (27th Octo.) was enter'd 
 to James Shawe ^' A merry dialouge betwixte 
 twoo trauellers, Lorenzo & Dorindo, by Nicholas 
 Britton.""^ In the church of Norton, a fmall vil- 
 lage in Northhamptonfliire, on the fouth fide of 
 
 ■■■^ Bretons '< Character of Q^ Elizabeth/' is printed 
 in Nicholses progrefscs, from the Harleian MSS. 
 
 Winstanley mentions two books by Nic. Breton, 
 which he had by him, intitle'd <* Wits private wealth," 
 and « The courtier & the countryman.*' T. P. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 143 
 
 the chancel, the following epitaph, apparently 
 tliat of our poet, is fix'd upon the wall : ^' Here 
 lieth the body of Nicholas Breton efqr. ; fonne of 
 captaine John Breton of Tamworth efqr. in the 
 countie of Stafford. He was alfo captaine of a foot 
 company in the Low countries under the coni- 
 maund of the right honourable Robert Dudley earle 
 of Leicester. He married Anne daughter of fir 
 Edward Legh of Rulhall in the countie of Stafford, 
 a wife of rare vertue and pietie. He had by her 
 five fons & four daughters (viz.) Edward, Chris- 
 topher, John, Gerard, William, Anne, Howard, 
 Frances, Lettis. He purchafed this lordlliip of 
 Norton, & departed from the troubles of this life 
 to eternal happinefs, the 22 day of June anno do- 
 mini 1624." (See Bridgeses Northawj)tonJhire, 
 p. 81.) 
 
 BRIAN SIR FRANCIS, gentleman of the 
 privy-chamber to Henr}^ the 8th and Edwai'd the 
 6th, wrote a few poems, inferted among the 
 " Songes and fonetes" of Henry earl of Surrey 
 and others. 
 
 BRICE THOMAS wrote and publilh'd <' A 
 register in metre, containing the names, and pa- 
 
144 
 
 POETS OF THE 
 
 tient fufferings, of the members of Jefus Chrifl_, 
 affli6ted^ tormented^ and cruelly burned here in 
 England in the time of queen Mary :" printed by 
 Richard Adams, 1559, 8vo. (There is another 
 edition without date.) In 156? were licenfe'd to 
 Hugh Singleton '' The couurte of Venus mora- 
 lized by Tho. Bryce/'"^ and to Henry Bynne- 
 man, ^^^ Songes and ibnnetes by Tho. Bryce :" 
 and, in 1570, was licenfe'd to John Allde, ^*' An 
 epytaph of Mr. Bryce preacher." 
 
 BRIGHAM NICHOLAS wrote '' miscella- 
 neous poems," as Wood fays, and dye'd in 155g. 
 He ere6ted a monument to Chaucer, and com- 
 pofe'd his epitaph in profe and verfe. 
 
 BROKE ARTHUR translated, paraphrasti- 
 cally, from the Italian of Bandello, or interme- 
 diate French of Boisteau, ^' The tragicall hystory 
 of Romeus and Juliet : contayning in it a rare 
 example of true conflancie, with the fubtill coun- 
 fels and practices of an old fryer and their ill 
 event :" printed by Richard Tottill, 1562 : which 
 furnifh'd Shakfpeare (at leaft in part) with the 
 
 * " The Couurte of Venus" was entered by Henry 
 Sutton in 1557. See alfo Herbert, 854. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 145 
 
 flibje^t of an admirable and pathctick drama. 
 There was another edition^ by Robert Robinfon, 
 in 1387. The authour^ as appears by a poem^ at 
 the end of his ^' Agreement of fundry places of 
 fcripture/' 1563, fubfcribe'd ^'^ Thomas Broke/' 
 had periili'd by iliipwreck in or before that year.*^ 
 
 BROOKE THOMAS, of Rolsbie, in Norfolk, 
 who was concern' d with Throgmorton and others 
 in a confpiracy, and fuffer'd at Norwich the 30th 
 of Augiift 1570, wrote ^' Certayne verfes in the 
 time of his imprifonment the day before his 
 deatlie:" printed there by Anthony de Solmpne, 
 in the fame year. Thefe verfes, eight four-line 
 ftanzas, are reprinted in Lelands Collectanea, VI, 
 41. 
 
 BROWNE THOMAS, of Lincolns-inn, wrote 
 fome execrable commendatory verfes, prefix'd to 
 Peterfons '^ Galateo of raaister John della Cafa," 
 1576. 
 
 BRYSKETT LODOWICK. '' The mourn- 
 ing mufes of Lod. Bryskett vpon the deathe of the 
 
 ^ Turbervile has *< An epitaph on the death of maister 
 Arthur Broohcy drowned in pafsing to Ncwhaven :" 
 printed with his <* Songs and fonets." 1567. T. P. 
 
 L 
 
146 POETS OF THE 
 
 mofte noble lir Philip Sydney knight^ fe'c.'' li- 
 cenfe'd to John Wolfe, 22d Auguft 15 87.* 
 
 BUG SIR GEORGE, master of the revels, 
 knighted in l603, wrote ^'^ Aaipv/j HoXva-rsJ^avog.. 
 An eclog treating of crownes, and of garlandes, 
 and to whom of right they appertaine. Addrefsed 
 and confecrated to the kings maiestie." l605. 
 4to. containing 57 ftanzas, with a JJ envoi/ au 
 roi/y and a '' hymne inauguratory for his maies- 
 tie." ^' The great Plantagenet, or a continued 
 fucceslion of that royall name, from Henry the 
 fecond, to our facred foveraigne K. Charles, by 
 Geo. Buck gent." l635> appears to be a reprint 
 of the former, with very confiderable altera- 
 tions, by fome fellow who asfume'd his name. 
 This genealogical poem is conilru6ted in the 
 form of ^' An eclog between Damaetas a wood- 
 man, & Silenus a prophet of the lliepheards." 
 
 * Bryskett was the friend of Spenfer, whom he has 
 introduced as one of the colioquifts in his *' Discourfe 
 of civill hfe," printed at London in i6o6; but com- 
 pofe'd, as Malone conjectures, between 1584 and 
 9. To him Spenfer addrefses the 33d fonnet in his 
 ** Amoretti:'* and to the fame literary friend we proba- 
 blely owe much that has defcended to us of the incom- 
 parable *< Faery queen." 
 
SrXTEEXTIi CEXTURY. 147 
 
 Notwithltanding the opinion of mister Malone, 
 there can be no doubt that fir George Buc was 
 the real author of '' The history of the Hfe and 
 reign of Richard the third/' publiih'd, and fay'd, 
 in the title^ to be ^^ compofed, by Geo. Bucke 
 efquire/' in l646 : his original manufcript (though 
 much injure'd by fire) being flil preferve'd 
 (fee Smiths catalogue of the Cotton library^ p. 
 32) : alfo of ^^ A quatorzain^ in the commenda- 
 tion of master Thomas Watfon, and of his mis- 
 tres^ for whom he wrote ^ his' booke of pasfionat 
 fonnetes/' prefix'd to the fayd book, and fub- 
 fcribe'd '' G. Bucke." He dye'd in l623. 
 
 BUCKHUFvST Lord. See SACKVIL THO- 
 MAS. 
 
 BUCKMASSTER THOMAS wrote commen- 
 datory verfes prefix'd to *"*" Whartons Dreame^" 
 1573. 
 
 BULLEIN WILLIAM, phyfician, wrote com- 
 mendatory verfes prefix'd to John Sadlers trans- 
 lation of '^ The foure bookes of Flauius Veg^etius 
 Ranatus/' 1572. Several pieces of poetry are in- 
 ferted in his '*' Newe boke of phisicke called tlie 
 government of health/' fsfc. pr. by J. Day, b. 1. 
 
 L 2 
 
148 
 
 POETS OF THE 
 
 [1558.] 8vo. n. d. 121110. and in his ^^ Bul^ 
 warke of defence againfl all ficknelTe^" ^c. pr. 
 by T. Marfhe, 1579, folio. Other verfes occur 
 in his *■' Dialogue both pleafaunt & pitifull," 
 1573, 12mo. 
 
 BULLOKER Yv^ILLIAM wrote '' The pro- 
 loge" to^ and other verfes in, his ^^ Booke at 
 large, for tlie amendment of orthographic/' 1580. 
 He like\\dfe translated '' The fhort fentencez of 
 the wyz Cato/' fubjoin'd to his ^*' ^fops fables in 
 tru ortography/' 1585. Prefix' d are fome verfes 
 *'^ to hiz chyld." 
 
 BURNABY THOMAS efquire, has a poetical 
 commendation before Greenes ^^ Ciceronis amovy' 
 1592. 
 
 BUSSHE SIR PAUL, priefl and bon home in 
 the good houfe of Edyndon, and, in time, pri- 
 mary bifliop of Bristol, compile'd '^ A lytell trea- 
 tyfe in Englyfllie, called the extripacion of ig- 
 norancy : and it treateth and fpeaketh of the ig- 
 norance of people, ihewyng them howe they are 
 bounde to feare god, to love god, and to honour 
 their prince : " printed by Richard Pinfon, with- 
 out date 3 4to. dedicated to the lady Mary. He, 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTUllV. IaQ 
 
 iikewifcj translated '*" A lytell trcatyfe called the 
 expofytyon of JSTifcrere ynei dcus :'' printed by 
 Wynken de Worde, 1525, 4to. and has verfes at 
 the begining and end of his '^ lytell boke con- 
 tayning certaine goftly medycynes agens the 
 comon plage of pestilence :" printed by Rd. Red- 
 man, without date, 12mo. He dye'd in 1558, 
 aged 6s. 
 
 C. A. See CHUTE ANTHONY, COPLEY 
 ANTHONY. 
 
 C. E. wrote commendatory verfes, prefixed to 
 Gascoignes ^''Flowers," 15755 and to '^ The 
 morall philofophie of Doni,'* 1 5 70. 
 
 C. F. Thefe initials (F. C.) are preferve'd by 
 Webbe. 
 
 C. G. *'*' A piteous platforme of an opprefsed 
 mynde." n. d. b. 1. 8vo. printed by T. Gardiner. 
 '' A dumpe, by G. C." occurs in Giffords '' Gil- 
 liflowers," 1580. See CHAPMAN GEORGE. 
 
 C. H. See CAMPION HENRY, CHEITLE 
 HENRY, CONSTABLE HENRY. 
 
 L 3 
 
150 POETS OF THE 
 
 C. M. wrote commendatory verfes^ preiix'd to 
 Gascoignes ^' Flowers." See CAVIL. 
 
 C. R. '■^^ A new booke intituled^ The blaiingc 
 of bawdrie^, daylie procured^ by Beldame B. 
 principall broker of all iniquitie. Geuen for a 
 new yeares gyfte^, as well to all fuche^ in whofe 
 charge the due puniihment thereof is committed^ 
 as alfo to all other that may reap commodytie^ by 
 lothyng their practifes^ either by readyng, or 
 hearing of the fame^ by R. C. citizen :" pr. by 
 Richard Jones^ 1574, l6rao. In 159S, was li- 
 cenfe'd to Thomas Creed, '' The troublefome & 
 hard adventures in love, with many fyne con- 
 ceyted fonnetts & pretty poemes, written in Tur- 
 key by R. C." Thefe ^^ adventures" were pub- 
 lilh'd by B. Alfop in l652, but without any 
 poems. See CAREW RICHARD, CARR R. 
 
 C. T. See CAMPION THOMAS, CHURCH- 
 YARDE THOMAS, CUTWODE THOMAS. 
 
 There is, likewife, one Thomas Collins, authour 
 of '' The penitent publican," 161O3 ^^nd '*^ The 
 teares of love, or Cupids progrefse," l6i5. 
 
 C. W. See CAMDEN. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 151 
 
 CALVERLY WILLIAM, '^ whyles he was 
 prifoner in the towre of London/' compil'd '' A 
 dialogue bitwene the playntife and the defend- 
 aunt :" in ftanzas of 7 lines. 
 
 CAMDEN WILLIAM, the famous antiquary 
 and topographer, then a ftudent at Chrill-cliurch, 
 wrote verfes in praife of, and prefix'd to, Thomas 
 Rogerses ^^ Anatomy of the mind," 1576, 8vo. 
 The initials W. C. under a copy of love- verfes in 
 Giffords '' Gilliflowers," 1580, may belong to 
 the fame great man. He dye'd in l623, aged 
 72. 
 
 CAMEL THOMAS had a poetical controverfy 
 with Churchyard, concerning a publication of the 
 latter, intitle'd '' Davie Dicars dreame." The 
 titles of two of his pieces are prefei*ve'd : ] . ^^ Ca- 
 melles rejoindre to Churchyarde, or Camelles con- 
 cluiionj" printed by Hen. Sutton, without date. 
 2. His anfwer ^' To good man Chappels fup- 
 plication :" 20 lines of a very od kind of 
 poetry, fpelt ftrangely, ^c. (Herbert, 846. See 
 alfo 15/1.) 
 
 CAMPION HENRY, of Emanuel College, 
 
 L 4 
 
152 
 
 POETS OF THE 
 
 Cambridge, has a poem in ^*^ Sorrowes joy,'* ^c, 
 1603. 4to. 
 
 CAMPION THOMAS. Four canzonets, by 
 this author, are printed in Davifons '^ Poetical 
 rapfody," l602. He alfo wrote '^ An account of 
 tlie entertainment of queen Anne, by the lord 
 Knowles, at Cawfome-houfe neere Redding,'* 
 1613, 4to. His '' Obfervation^ in the art of 
 Englifh poefie," 1602, are illustrated by exam- 
 ples, upon the Latin model, without rime. 
 
 CANDIDO IL. This fignature is fubfcribe'd 
 to feveral fonnets, prefix'd to Florios ^' Worlde 
 ofwordes," I5g8, 1611, and to his translation of 
 '^ The esfayes of Montaigne," l603 : wdiether it 
 were ufe'd, as mister Park fufpeds, by Samuel 
 Daniel , the brother-in-law of Florio, (who, how- 
 ever, before the latter work, fubfcribes a com- 
 mendatory poem with his proper name,) or by 
 whom elfe, cannot be ascertained. 
 
 CANDISH M. is the authour of a poem, inti- 
 tle'd '^ No ioy comparable to a quiet minde," in 
 '' The paradice of daintie deuifes," 1600. 
 
 CARELESS JOHN. '' A godly and virtuous 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 153 
 
 fong, or ballad^ made by tliat conftant member of 
 Chrift, being in prifon in the Kings-bench for 
 profefsing his word 3 who^ ending his days tliere- 
 in^ was thrown out and buried moft igno- 
 miniously upon a dunghill, by the adverfaries of 
 gods word" [ifl July 1556]. (Sloanes MSS. 
 I896.) 
 
 CAREW RICHARD. '' Godfrey of Bul- 
 loigne, or the recouerie of Hierufalem. An he- 
 roical poeme written in Italian by feig. Torquato 
 Tasfo, and translated into Englilh by R. C. 
 efquire : and now the firft part containing fiue 
 cantos^ imprinted in both languages :" printed 
 by John Windet for Thomas Man, n. d. 4to. 
 Other copys, with lefs matter in the title, bear 
 to be '^ printed for Christopher Hunt of Exeter," 
 1594, 4to. Afewverfes, by this authour, may 
 be found in his ^*' Survey of Cornwall," 1602. 
 He was born in 1555, and dye'd in 1620. His 
 name is pronounce'd Carey, not Careiv. 
 
 CARIE WALTER, master of arts, and fludent 
 in phyiick, has feveral admonitory ftanzas pre- 
 lix'd to a fmall medical tra6t, intitle'd '' The 
 hammer for the ftone, 0/c." 15 80. 
 
154 POETS OF THE 
 
 CARION JOHN has verfes in comendation of 
 the authour^, before Hollands ^' History of 
 ChriH;' 1594. 
 
 CARPENTER JOHN compofe'd '' A forrow- 
 full fong for finfuU foules, vpon the ilrange and 
 wonderful! fhaking of the earth the 6. of Aprill 
 15 86 :" printed for Henry Car^ in tjiat year, 
 8vo. 
 
 CARPENTER RICHARD wrote a chemical 
 poem, printed in Aihmoles *^ Theatrum chemicum 
 Britannicum/' \652, 
 
 CARR R. of the Middle-Temple, has a fonnet, 
 before his translation of ^' The Mahumetane, or 
 Turkifli history, G/c." l600. 
 
 CARTWRIGHT THO. has a probable claim 
 to feven ftanzas infcribe'd ^^ to the prelacie," and 
 printed with ^' a fecond admonition to the par- 
 liament," which is fay'd to be the entire compo- 
 fition of the faid T. C. (Herbert, 1 63 1 .) 
 
 CASE JOHN, to whom was attributed by 
 doctor Farmer, ^'' The praife of muficke," 1586, 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 155 
 
 in which are feveral translated verfes from the 
 Greek and Latin. 
 
 CAVIL MASTER wrote the legend of Roger 
 Mortimer in the ^' Myrrour for magistrates/' 
 15593 3i^d that of Michael Jofeph, the black- 
 fmith, in '^Mhe feconde parte/' 1563. 
 
 CHALKHILL JOHN, ^^ an acquaintant and 
 friend of Edmund Spencer/' wrote ^^ Thealma 
 and Clearchus, a pastoral history, in fmooth and 
 eafie vcrfe /' publifh'd by Izaak Walton, in 
 l683, 8v^o. but left unfinifli'd by the authours 
 death : alfo a fong, in praife of a country-life, 
 preferve'd in Waltons "' Complete angler." 
 
 CHALONER. Puttenham, '' For eglogue and 
 pastorall poelie," prefers "^ lir Philip Sydney and 
 maisfer ChaUener, and that other gentleman 
 [Spenfer], who wrate the late Shepheardes cal- 
 lender." Who he was, or what he wrote, can- 
 not be further ascertain'd. Meres likewife num- 
 bers master ChaUener, ^' amongft the befi: for 
 pastoral." Qu. whether this was not fir Tho. 
 Chaloner ? who publiih'd *''' De illustrium quo- 
 rundam cncomiis iniscellancay' 1579. 4to. and by 
 
156 
 
 POETS' OF THE 
 
 whom mister Park has a translation from Ovid^ of 
 Helens epistle to Paris^ MS. 
 
 CHAPMAN GEORGE, born in 1557. wrote, 
 1 . ^' ^KiavvKlog, The fhadow of night : con- 
 taining two poeticall hymnes :" printed by R. F. 
 for W. Ponfonby, I5y4, 4 to. 2. ^' Ovids ban- 
 quet offence. A coronet for his mistrefle philo- 
 fophie, and his amorous zodiacke. With a trans- 
 lation of a Latine coppie written by a fryer, ajino 
 do?n. 1400 :" printed by I. R. for Richard Smith, 
 1595, 4to.'^ 3. '' Hero and Leander. Begunne 
 by Ch. Marlow, and finiflied by Geo. Chap- 
 man, 1606. 4to. 4. '^ E?it hi/mice captus, or the 
 teares of peace, with interlocutions," 1609, 4to. 
 5. '^ Epicede on the death of Henry prince of 
 Wales," 1612, 4to. 6. ^'' Andromeda liber at a : 
 the nuptials of Perfeus and Andromeda," 16 14. 
 4to. 7. '' Noahs flood," 4to. Q. 8. '" Fro Vert 
 
 '-^ This translation is intitle'd ** The amorous con- 
 tention of Phi His and Flora.'* Chapman was mis- 
 taken both as to the authour, and as to the age 
 of the original, which was, probablely, writen by 
 Walter de Mapes, and, certainly, in or before the 13th 
 century : a much purer copy than he appears to have 
 made ufe of being extant in a MS. of that age, in the 
 Harieian library (978). See S. R. 
 
SIXTEENTH CEXTURY. 157 
 
 Autumni lachnjmcc, to the memorie of fir Hora- 
 tio Vere," 1622. 4to. 9. '' Justification of a 
 ftrange action of Nero in burying with a folemn 
 fun era 11 one of the cafi: hay res of his mistrefife 
 Poppaea," 1629. 4to. 10. '' A juft reproofe of a 
 Romane fmell-feaft, being the fifth fatire of Juve- 
 nall/' 1629. 4to. He alfo translated the Iliades 
 and Odysfey of Homer : of the former ^' Seaven 
 bookes_," and ^' Achilles Ihield/' out of the eigh- 
 teenth, were originally printed^ by John Windet;, 
 in 1598. His translation of ^''Hefiod/' appear'd 
 in 161 8^ 4to. He dye'd in l634. 
 
 CHAPPELL BARTHOLMEW wrote '' The 
 garden of prudence : wherein is contained a pa- 
 theticall discourfe and godly meditation, mofi: 
 brief lie touching the vanities of the world, the ca- 
 lamities of hell, and the felicities of heaven. 
 You ihal alfo find planted in the fame, divers 
 fweet & pleafant flowers, mofi; necesfarie & 
 comfortable both for body &: foule:" printed by 
 R.Jones, 1595, 8vo. part verfe^ part profe. He 
 was, probablely, the man who had feme poe- 
 tical altercation with Thomas Camel (whom fee). 
 
 CHARNOCK THOMAS, an '' unlettered fcho- 
 lar," and '' fiudent in the mofi: v/orthy fcyence of 
 
158 
 
 POETS OP THE 
 
 aflronomy and philofophy," compile'd, in 1557, 
 ^^ The breviary of natural! philofophy^" printed 
 in Aili moles Theatrvm chemicmn -/^ in which are 
 alfo certain '^ Fragments cpppied from Thomas 
 Charnocks owne hande-writing," by the ligna- 
 ture to one of which it appears that the year 1574 
 was the 50th of his age. 
 
 CHEKE SIR JOHN wrote '' A royall elegie 
 on king Edward the Vlth/' l6lO. 4to. He 
 dye'd in 1557. 
 
 CHESTER ROBERT. '' Loves martyr, or' 
 Rofaiins complaint^ allegorically fliadowing the 
 truth of love, in the conilant fate of the phoenix 
 and turtle. A poem enterlaced with much va- 
 rietie and raritie 3 now firfl: translated out of the 
 venerable Italian Torquato Caeliano, by Robert 
 Chester. With the true legend of famous king 
 Arthur, the 1 aft of the nine worthies 3 being the firlt 
 esfay of a new Britifh poet : colle6ted out of au- 
 thenticall records. To thefe are added fome new 
 compolitions of feveral modern writers, whofe 
 names are fubfcribed to their feverall workes ; 
 upon the firfl: fubje6t, viz, the phoenix and tur- 
 
 * A copy of this breviary is in Sloanes MS. 684. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. IdQ 
 
 tic," 1601. Thefe modern writers are Shak- 
 fpeare^ Jonfon^ Marston^ Chapman^ and others. 
 
 CHETTLE HENRY. '' The popes pitiful la- 
 mentation for the death of his deere darling don 
 loan of Auftrla : and Deaths anfwer to the fame. 
 Translated after the French printed copy by H. 
 C' printed by I. C. [1578,] 4to. '' The foreft 
 of fancy, wherein is contained veiy pretty apo- 
 thegmes, and pleafant histories, both in meeter 
 and profe, fonges, fonets, epigrams, and epis- 
 tles, ^c— Finis H. C." printed by T. Purfoote, 
 1579:, 4to. b. 1. '' A dolefull ditty or forowflil 
 fonet of the lord Darly, fome time king of Scots, 
 neuew to the noble and worthy king Henry the 
 eyght, and is to be fong to the tune of Black 
 and yallowe. — Finis H. C." Licenfe'd 24 March 
 1578-9, (Herbert, iSSg.) 
 
 CHURCHYARD THOMAS, a native of 
 Shrewsbury, and, tarn Marti quam MercuriOy 
 both foldier and poet, wrote and publilh'd a pro- 
 digious number of poetical pieces, of which the 
 moft accurate lift that can be made out (many of 
 them being to be neither feen nor hear'd of) is as 
 follows : 1 . ^' A mirrour for a man, wherein he 
 fliall fee the miferable ftate of tliis world :'♦ 
 
l60 POETS OF THE 
 
 printed (according to Tanner) in the time of Ed- 
 ward VI. 4to. 2. '' A fparke of frendiliip and 
 warme good will 5 with a poem concerning the 
 commodity of fundry fciences 3 efpecially con- 
 cerning paper and a paper-mill, lately fet up neer 
 Dartford by a high German, called M. Spilman, 
 jeweller to the queenes majesty." Lon. 1558, 
 4 to. (This edition is reprinted in the pro- 
 grefses of Q, Eliz. with fome variations in the 
 tide.) S. '' A playn and fynall confutation of 
 Cammelis corlyke obiatracion :'^ printed by W. 
 Griffitii, without date,, fo. (200 lines on one 
 flieet.)"^ 4. ^' The firfl: parte of Churchyardes 
 
 * ^* The contention betwixte Churchj^eard and Ca- 
 mell, vpon Dauid Dycers dreame, fett out in fuche or- 
 der, that it is bothe wyttye and profytable for all de- 
 gryes :" printed by Owen Rogers for Michael Loblee, 
 1560, 4to. b. 1. *' The debate betwyn Churchyard and 
 Camell." 4to. '' A decree betwene Cliurchyarde the 
 poet and Cameli." '* Weftern Wyll vpon the debate 
 betwyxte Churchyarde and Camell, with Dauid Dicars 
 dreame." 4to. in fix-line flanzas. See CAMELL. 
 
 Gascoigne has left behind him a ludicrous report, 
 that *' the contentions pafsed in verfe long fithence be- 
 twene maistcr Churchyard and Camell, were (by a block- 
 headed reader) conftrued to be indeed a quarell betwene 
 two neighbors : of whom that one having a Camell in 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. l6l 
 
 Chippes, contayning tvvelae feuerall labours, di* 
 uifed and publillied only by Thomas Churchyard^ 
 gentilman :" printed by T. Marfhe, 1565, and, 
 again, 1575, 1578, 4to.* 5. '' A discourfe of 
 rebellion, drawne forth for to warne the wanton 
 wittes how to kepe their heades on their fhoul- 
 ders :" printed by W. Griffith, 1570. 6. '' The 
 lamentation of Flaunders," (in ^^ a lamentable^ 
 and pitiful! defcription of the wofuU warres in 
 Flaunders, &c.") printed by, Ralph Newbery, 
 1578, 4to, 7. '' The three firil bookes of Ovid 
 de tristibus,'" 1578^ 4to. 8. '' Churchyards 
 
 keping, and that other having charge of the Church- 
 yard, it was fuppofed they had grown to debate, be- 
 caufe the Camell came into the Churchyard." Epistle to 
 the youth of England, before his <^ Poelies." 1575- 
 T. P. 
 
 * The contents are, *^ i. The fiege of Leeth. 2. A 
 farewell to the world. 3. A fayned fancie of a fpider 
 and the gow^tc. 4. A doleful I discourfe of a lady and a 
 knight. 5. The rode into Scotland, by fir William 
 Dniry, knight. 6. Sir Simond Burleis tragedie. 7. A 
 tragecall discourfe of the unhappie nnans life. 8. A dis- 
 courfe of vertue. 9. Churchyards dream. 10. A tale 
 of a frier and a Ihuemakers wief. 11. The fiege of 
 Edenborough castle. 12. The whole order of the re- 
 ceiving of the queens maiestie into Bristowe." 
 
 M 
 
l62 POETS OF THE 
 
 choice :" printed by E. White, without date, 4to. 
 licenfed 1579. 9* ^' Churchyards chance, con- 
 taining fancies, verfes^ epitaphs, ^c,'* I.on. 
 1580. 4to. 10. **" A light bondell of livly dis- 
 courfes called Churchyardes charge, prefented as 
 a new years gift to the right honourable the earle 
 of Surrie -, in which bondell of verfes is futche 
 varietie of matter, and feverall inventions, that 
 maie bee as delitefull to the reader, as it was a 
 charge and labour to the writer, fette forthe for a 
 peece of pastime:" printed by Jhon Kyngston, 
 1580, 4to."^ 11. '^ A warning to the wife, a 
 feare to the fond, a bridle to the lewde, and a 
 glaffe to the good. Written of the late earth- 
 quake chanced in London, and other places, the 
 6th of April 1580, for the glory of god, and be- 
 
 '-^ The contents of ^* Churchyards Charge*' are i, A 
 ftorie translated out of Frenche. 2. Churchyards fare- 
 well from the courte, the feconde yere of the queenes 
 majesties raigne. 3 . Of a mightie greate perfonage. 4. 
 Of beutie and bountie. 5. Of one that by difsemblying, 
 fedde his defire. 6. Of ftedfaftnelTe and conilancie. 7. 
 Of one that founde falshed in felovvlhip. 8. Written to 
 a virtuous gentlewoman, whofe name [DAMPPORT] 
 is in the verfes. 9. A farewell to a fondlyng. 10. 
 Written to the goode lorde maior of London, now in 
 office, called fir Nicholas Woodroffe knight. T. P. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. l63 
 
 nefite of men^ that warely can walke and wifely 
 can iudge. Set forth in verfe and profe^ by 
 Thomas Churchyard, gentleman :" printed by 
 John Allde, 15 80, 8vo. 12. *' The worthines 
 of Wales : wherein are more than a thoufand fe- 
 uerall things rehearfed : fome fet out in profe to 
 the pleafure of the reader, and with fuch variety 
 of verfe for the beautifying of tlie book^ as no 
 doubt fhal delight thoufand^ to vnderftand. 
 Which worke is interlarded with many wonders 
 & right flrange matter to confider of. All the 
 which labour and deuice is drawen forth & fet 
 out by Tho. Church-yard, to the glorie of god 
 and honour of his prince & countrey :" printed 
 by G. Robinfon for T. Cadman, 1587;, 4to. 13. 
 ^^ A feall full of fad chear ; being epitaphs on 
 the earl of Worcester, fir James Acroft, con- 
 troller of the houfehold, fir Will. Winter, fir 
 Will. Holftock controller of tlie navy^ Dr. Un- 
 derhill bifliop of Oxford, &c." Lon. 1592, 4to. 
 14. '^ Churchyards challenge:" printed by John 
 Wolfe, 1593, 4to. b. 1.^- 15. '' The mirror and 
 
 * ^* The feuerall matters contained in this booke" 
 are as follows : i. ** The tragedie of the earle of Mor- 
 ton." 2. *' The tragedie of fir Simon Burlie." 3. 
 ** A discourfe that a man is but his minde." 4. ** A 
 
 M 2 
 
\ 
 
 164 POETS OF THE 
 
 manners of men:'' printed by Arnold Hatfield 
 
 discourfe of the true ileps of manhood.'' [5» " A warn- 
 ing to the wanderers abroad."] 6. *' A discourfe of the 
 honor of afouldior.'' 7. '^ A discours of an oldefoul- 
 dier and a yong." 8. '* A discourfe and commenda- 
 tion of thofe that can make golde." 9. ** A discourfe 
 and rebuke to rebellious mindes." 10. <* A discourfe 
 of hospitalitie and confuming of time and wealth in 
 London.'' 11. *< A discourfe of misfortune and cala- 
 mitie." 12." A discourfe of law and worthy lawyers." 
 
 13. " A discourfe of the only phenix of the worlde." 
 
 14. *^ A praife of that phenix, and verfes translated out 
 of French." [15. << The tragedy of Shores wife much 
 augmented."] 16. ** A ftory of an eagle and a lady, ex- 
 cellently fet out in Du Bartas." 17. " A discourfe of 
 the ioy good fubie6ls haue when they fee our phenix 
 abroad.'* 18. << The tragicall discourfe of the haplelTe 
 mans life." (This ^' hapleffe man" is himfelf ) 19. 
 *' The adue the writer made long ago to the worlde." 
 20. '* A discourfe of a fantasticall dreame." 21. '* A 
 tragicall discourfe of a dolorous gentlewoman." 22. 
 *' A tragical! discourfe of a lord and a lady, translated 
 out of French." The ill and 2d articles feem to have 
 been defigned for the *< Mirror for magistrates;" the 
 3d, 4th, 5th, and loth (they arenot inferted precifelyin 
 that order) are in profe. Immediately after the table of 
 contents, he fays, << The bookes that i can call to me- 
 morie alreadie printed are thefe that foil owes." *' Firft, 
 in king Edwards dales, a book named Dauie Dicars dreamef 
 t\'hich one Camell wrote againfl, w^home i openly con- 
 
 t 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. l65 
 
 ibr W. Holn, 15g4, 4to. (Writen, he fays, 50 
 
 futed/* Shores ivife \ penned in that feafon.f Another 
 book in thofe daies called the Mirror of man. In queene 
 Maries raigne, a book called a Ne^-yeares gift to all Eng^ 
 laudy which booke treated of rebellion. And many things 
 in the booke of fongs and fonets, printed then [Surreys 
 poems, 1557]? were of my making. Since that time 
 till this day i wrote all thefe works. The booke of 
 Chi-pz [1565]-+ The booke called Chance [1580]. The 
 booke called my C-^^r^^ [^S^o]- The booke called my 
 ■Change^ in verfe and proes. The booke called my 
 Choke. The book of the fiege of Leeth and Edenbo- 
 rough castell. The book of fir William Drurles fer- 
 uice. The booke called the golden nut, dedicated to 
 the Qu. Ma. The book of receiuing her highnes into 
 Suffolk & Norfolke [1577-8]. The booke before of 
 her highnes receiuing into Eristow. The booke of the 
 earthquake [15S0]. The book of the troubles of 
 
 ** See CAMEL. Richard Harvey, before 1563, 
 printed ^* a decree [in verfe] betvvene Churchyarde the 
 poet and Camell," a broadfide. 
 
 f << Shores ivife is yong, fays Nafh, though you [T. 
 Churchyard] be ftept in yeares ; in her (hall you live 
 when you are dead." ** Foure letters confuted." 1593. 
 
 \ Ahnoft all thefe pieces are dedicated to fome noble- 
 man or gentleman, from whom the author receive*d, or 
 cxpedled, a prtfent, 
 
 M 3 
 
lUU POETS OF THE 
 
 years before.) i6. ^' The fortunate farewel to 
 
 Flanders [1578]. The booke called the fcourge of re- 
 bels in Ireland [1584]. The booke called a rebuke to 
 rebellion [1588]. The book of a fparke of freendlhipl 
 The book of forrows. The booke of the winning of 
 Macklin. The book called the Worthines of Wales, to 
 the Qu. Ma, [1587]. The book giuen her maiestie 
 at Bristow, where i made al the whole deuifes [i575]» 
 The deuifes of warre, and a play at Awfterley, her 
 highnes being at fir Thomas Greshams. The com- 
 medy before her maiestie at Norwich in the fielde when 
 Ihe went to dinner to mv lady Gerningams. The 
 whole deuifes, pastimes, and plaies at Norwich before 
 her maiestie. The deuifes and fpeeches that men and 
 boyes lliewed with in many prograces. The book of 
 king Henries epitaph, and other princes and lords. The 
 book of My deer adue. The book called a handfull of 
 gladfome verfes, to the Qu. M. at Woodflocke. The 
 book called a pleafant conceite, a new yeeres gift, to the 
 queenes maiestie, 1593 (reprinted in Nicholses Pro- 
 grefses of Q;^Elizabeth). 
 
 " Thefe workes following are gotten from me of 
 fome fuch noble freends as i am loath to offend. 
 
 '^ -^neas tale to Dydo, largely and truely translated 
 out of Virgin, which i once lliewed the Qu. M. and 
 had it againe. A book of the oath of a iudge and the 
 honor of law, deliuered to a ftacioner, whofent it to the 
 L. cheefe baron that laft dyed [recovered & printed 
 1596]. A book of a fumptuous fhew in Shrouetide, by 
 fir Walter Rawley, fir Robert Carey, M. Chidly, and 
 
SIXTEENTH CEXTURV. l67 
 
 the mofl forward and noble earle of Esfex^ Csj'c." 
 printed by E. Bollifant for W. Wood, 1599, 
 
 M. Arthur Gorge, in which book was the whole feruice 
 of my L. of Lester mencioned, that he and his traine did 
 in Flaunders, and the gentlemen pencioners proued to 
 be a great peece of honor to the court : all which book 
 was in as good verfe as euer i made : an honourable 
 knight dwelling in the black friers can witnefs the fame, 
 becaufe i read it vnto him. A great peecc of work 
 translated out of the great French poet feignior Dubar- 
 tas, which worke treated of a lady and an eagle, moft 
 diuineiy written on by Dubartas, and giuen by me to a 
 great lord of this land, who faith it is loft. An infinite 
 number of other fonges and fonets, giuen where they 
 cannct be recouered, nor purchafeany fauour when they 
 are craued.'* ** My next booke," fays he, at the end 
 of his preface, <* Ihal be the laft booke of the Worthines 
 of Wales. And my laft booke called my Vltlmum vaUy 
 fhal be (if it pleafe god) tvvelue long tales for Chriftmas 
 dedicated to twelue honorable lords j'* which, if fuc- 
 cefsful, would have proved a tolerable Chriftmas-box. 
 
 In the dedication, to fir John Wolley, he thus ex- 
 prefses himfelf : '« The long trauell and tracing out of 
 life in this wearifom pilgrimage hauing brought me now 
 almoft to the ende of my iourney, makes me glad to be 
 rid of the burthens of my minde and the labours of my 
 body, the one neuer free from ftudie, and the other fel- 
 dome voide of toyle, and yet both of them neither 
 brought great benefice to the life, nor blelsing to the 
 foule : in which fmall reft and vnquietnes, many for- 
 
 M 4 
 
ids POETS OF THE 
 
 4to.* 17. '^ Feafi: full of fad cheer e^ where 
 griefes are all on heape^ where follace is full 
 deere^ and forrows are good cheape." 4to.f 
 '^ The commendation of mufyke by Church- 
 yarde" was licenfe'd to W. Griffith in 1562^ 
 and ^^ A fayrewell called Churchyardes ronde 
 from the couurte to the country grounde," in 
 1565. His '' Rebuke to rebellion" is in the 
 royal MSS. 17 EVIL He is likewife the au- 
 thour of one poem^ wherein '' He perfwadeth 
 his freendes from the fond affects of loue^" in 
 *^ The paradice of daintie deuifes/' 1576. Pre- 
 
 rovvfuU discourfes in my dayes i haue written, and 
 numbers of bookes i haue printed : and bccaufe they 
 fhall not be buried with me i challenge them as my chil- 
 dren to abide behinde me in the worlde, c£fc." 
 
 * *' The welcome home of the erle of Esfex, by Tho. 
 Churchyard efq/' was entered to W. Wood, ifl Octo. 
 1599. From an edition by BoUifant in 1599, it was 
 reprinted by Nichols in *^ The progrefses of queen 
 Elizabeth,'^ Vol.11. 
 
 In the catalogue of pamphlets in the Harleian library 
 occur '^ A poean triumphall upon the kings [James I.] 
 entry to London from the town &c/' 1603. *< A blefsed 
 balme to fearch & falve fedition," 1604, both poetical 
 andafcribc'd to T, Churchyard. 
 
 f Cat a, bib. Haf. No. 474S. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. i6Q 
 
 fix'd to Lloids '' Pilgrimage of princes^" Gas- 
 coignes ^"^ Flowers/' 1575, Huloets '^'^ Dictiona- 
 ries' 1572, '' Cardanus comforte," 1576, Peter 
 Lowes ^"^ Courfe of chirurgerie," 1597, and Dr. 
 Joneses ^^ Bathes of Bathes ayde/' 1572^ are 
 commendatory verfes, by Churchyard. Skeltons 
 works, 1568, have a poetical preface by the fame 
 hand : and before Robinfons '^ Auncient order 
 ^c. of prince Arthure," 15 83^ is '*^ A praife of 
 the bowe and commendacion of this booke, writ- 
 ten by Thomas Churchyard gent." '^ T. C. gen- 
 tleman" translated out of Italian into Englifh 
 verfe^ '' A pleafaunt and delightfull history of 
 Galelius, Cymon and Iphigenia, defcribing the 
 Jicklenefs of fortune in love :" printed by Ni- 
 cholas Wyer, without date^ 4 to. This is, pro- 
 bablely, by Churchyard 3 who might, likewife, be 
 the translator of ^^ The rights pleafant^ and va- 
 riable tragical history of Fortunatus. Firfl penned 
 in the Dutch tongue, there-hence abftra6led, 
 and now firft of all publifhed in Englifh, by T. 
 C." London, l682, 8vo. b. 1. (but certainly lirft 
 printed before 1600) prefix'd to which are two 
 copys of verfes. Wyer, alfo, printed a ballad 
 intitle'd ^'The lamentation of Churchy ardes frynd- 
 Ihippe." Haveing been a mofl pains-takeing au- 
 thor for half a century, he dye'd, poor^ in l604. 
 
170 IPOETS OF THE 
 
 and was inter'd (April the 4th) in the quire of 
 St. Margarets churchy Weftminfter^ near his fa- 
 vourite Skelton ^ and not in the portico,, accord- 
 ing to a ludicrous epitaph^ quoted by Weever, 
 but already printed in Camdens Remaines. 
 
 CHUTE ANTHONY is the authour of 
 '*" Beawtie dishonoured written vnder the title of 
 Shores wife :" printed by John Wolfe^ 1593. 4to. 
 containing 197 fix-line llanzas^ in italicks. It ap- 
 pears from a pasfage in Nalhes '' Have with you 
 to Saffron- Walden/' 1596, that he had^ like- 
 wife^ writen '^ Procris & Cephalus."^ He was 
 a friend of Gabriel Harvey^ and has a letter, a 
 fonnet, and a copy of fatirick verfes on Nafh, at 
 the end of ^^ Pierces fupererogation/' 159S. 
 Nafli-, in '^ Have with you to Saffron-Walden/' 
 1596, fays. Chute was then dead and rotten. 
 
 CICELL THOMAS, author of a fingular 
 poem in alternate couplets of twelve and eight 
 
 * Entered on the flationers books, by J. Wolfe, 1593. 
 This is, probablely, the poerfi alluded to in the Mid- 
 fummer- nights dream : 
 
 " Not Shafalus tO Procrus was fo true. 
 As Shafalus to Procrus^ i to you." 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 371 
 
 lineSj prefix'd to Aihtons '' Sborte treatife upon 
 the Turkes chronicles^" ^c. 154G. 8vo. 
 
 CLAPHAM HENOCH wrote '' Bibliotheca 
 t/ieologica ; or, a library theological, containing, 
 1. A general analyfis or refolution : 2. A briefe 
 elucidation off the mofl facred characters of Elo- 
 him his bible : drawen for the vfe of the poorer 
 forte, vnable to purchafe variety off holy men 
 their wrytinges. Imprinted at Amftelrodam, 
 a7uio 1397." 4to. It confifts, befide the proem, 
 of an analyfis or elucidation of the firfl: 1 4 chap- 
 ters of Genelis, and breaks off abruptly. His 
 '' briefe of the bible, drawn iirll into Engiifh* 
 poefy, and then illustrated by apt annotations, 
 Cf/c." was printed at Edin. by R. Waldgrave, 
 1596, 8vo. 
 
 CLOWES WILLIAM, of London, '' maister 
 in chirurgerie," wrote commendatory verfes pre- 
 
 '* << iElohim Triuno, displayed by his workes phy- 
 ficali and metaphyficali, in a poenie of diverfe forme : 
 adapted to the Hebrue text, the frame of divinitie, and 
 catholike expofition, by Henoch Clapham," 1601, 410. 
 The fame writer has a copy of verfes before " The 
 olive leafe, or univerfal A, b, c." 1603. T. P. 
 
172 
 
 POfiTS OF THE 
 
 fix'd to Lytes '' Herball," 1578, and to Banis- 
 ters '' Historic of man," in the fame year. 
 
 CONSTABLE HENRY, B. A. of St. Johns 
 college, Cambridge 3 publifh'd ^' Diana, or the 
 excellent conceitful fonnets of H. C. augmented 
 with divers quatorzains of honorable and learned 
 perfonages, devided into viii decads, 1594:'* 
 printed by J. Roberts for R. Smith, 8vo. '"^ No 
 gentleman of our nation," according to Wood, 
 ^' had a more pure, quick, and higher delivery of 
 conceit -, witnefs, among all others, that fonnet of 
 his before the poetical translation called The fu- 
 ries, made by king James the firlt of England, 
 while he was king of Scots [Edin. 1591]," 
 The criticifm, however, is borrowed from Bol- 
 tons Hypercritica, which Anthony had in MS. 
 though an excellent judge pronounces the fonnet 
 in question '' a poor fpecimen 3 though," he ads, 
 ^^ Echo has been lavilh in its praife." Four fon- 
 nets by Conllable are prefix'd to Sidneys '^ Apo- 
 logy for poetrie," 1595, 4to. and in '^ Englands 
 Helicon," 1600, are four poems by H. C. : who, 
 likewife, has a fonnet before Bofswells *''' Workes 
 of armorie," 1517, 16 10, and feveral fele6led 
 pasfages from his poems, occur in '' Englands 
 Parnasfus." The reverend mister Todd has lately 
 
/" 
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 173 
 
 recover'd a very curious volume of unpubliili'd 
 foimets by Henry Conftable^ from a bookfeller at 
 Canterbury 5 of which an account may be feen in 
 his edition of Milton. 
 
 CONWAY SIR JOHN, knight, has fome com- 
 mendatory verfes prefix'd to Fentons ^^ tragical 
 discourfes/' 1579^ 4to. 
 
 COOKE R. has a few lines '^ In commenda- 
 tion of his friend M. Kyfiin," prefix'd to the 
 latters '' Blefsednes of Brytaine/' 1588. 
 
 COPLAND ROBERT, an eminent printer, 
 and, in 1542, the father of his profesfion, com- 
 pile' d and printed ^' The hye way to the fpyttell 
 hous," a dialogue of fome humour and merit 
 (fee Herbert, 349) : and is the true authour of 
 *' Jyl of Breyntfords testament," printed by W. 
 Copland (n. d. 4to. b. 1.) He, likewife, wrote 
 the prologue to Andrew Chertefeys '^ Pasfion of 
 our lord Jefu Chrift," in flanzas (fee Herbert, 
 161) : alfo a ^^ Petycyon" prefix'd, andLenvoys 
 fubjoin'd, to St. Auftins '^ Myrrour of tlie 
 chyrche," 1521 j to '' The fecrets of Aristotyle," 
 15285 ^i^d to Walters ^^'^ Lytell contrauers dya- 
 logue betwcne loue and councell." Prefix'd to 
 
174 
 
 POETS OF THE 
 
 Chaucers *'^ Asfemble of foules/' printed by Wyn- 
 ken de Worde^, 1530, is an addrefs by '^ Roberte 
 Coplande boke-prynter to new fangiers," in 4 
 octave llanzas, and at the end is his Lenvoy in 
 3. In ^^ The castell of pleafure/' alfo, another 
 publication by de Worde^ is a prologue and con- 
 cludeing addrefs" by ^^ Coplande the prynter to 
 the auctour." 
 
 COPLEY ANTHONY wrote ^^ A fig for for- 
 tune. Recta fecurus. A. C. London printed 
 by Richard Johnes for C. A. 1596," 4to. 
 
 COSBIE ARNOLD. '' Arnold Cosbies Ul- 
 timum vale to the vaine world, an elegie written 
 by himfelf in the Marfhalfea, after his condemna- 
 tion for murthering lord Brooke/' 1591. 4to. 
 
 COTTESFORD THOMAS turn'd into metre 
 *'*' a prayer to Dannyell/' which was licenfe'd, as 
 a ballad, to John Aide, in 15 69 or 70. 
 
 COTTON ROGER. '' An armor of proofe, 
 brought from the tower of Dauid, to fight again fi: 
 the Spanyards, and all enemies of the trueth. 
 By R. C. Imprinted by Gabriel Simfon and 
 William White, 1596." 4to. In fix-line llanzas. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 175 
 
 *"' A fpirituall fong : conteining an historicall 
 discourle from the infancie of the world, vntill 
 this prefent time : — Drawen out of the holy fcrip- 
 tures, by Roger Cotton. — At London _, printed by 
 Gabriel Simfon and William White, 1596." 4to. 
 In iive-line ftanzas. 
 
 COWTON THOMAS made '' An epitaphe 
 upon the deathe of Marmaduke Lacye efq. jus- 
 tyce of the peace within the eft rydinge of York, 
 who died the xiiuth of Dec. 1578 :" licenfe'd, 
 the 7th of February following, to Hen. Kyrk- 
 ham. 
 
 CREWE THOMAS has '' Verfes of a blefsed 
 life," and two other poems, at the end of ^' The 
 nofegay of morall philofophie," &:c. translated by 
 him from various Italian authors, and pr. by Tho. 
 Dawfon, 15 80. l2mo. 
 
 CROWLEY ROBERT translated into'Engliih 
 metre ^^'^ The pfalter of Dauid...in fuch fort that 
 it may more decently and wyth more delight of 
 the mynde be read and fong of all men :" printed 
 by himfelf, 1549, 4to. • This, according to War- 
 ton, contains alfo the litany and certain hymns. 
 In the fame year, he ads, Crowley publifli'd 
 
176 POETS OF THE 
 
 '^ Tiie voice of tlie lafl: trumpet blown by the le- 
 venth angel." Wood and Tanner afcribe to hiniy 
 as the author J ^' One and thirty epigrams wherein 
 are briefly touched fo many abufes that may and 
 ought to be put away :" 1550 and 1551. In the 
 latter of thefe years he publifh'd a kind of metri- 
 cal fermon '' on pleafure and pain, heaven and 
 hell." He was vicar of the parifh of St. Giles 
 Cripplegate, and exercife'd the art of printing in 
 Ely-rents Holborn. He dyed in 1588. 
 
 CUNYNGHAM W. has a poetical dialogue 
 prefix'd to Gales chirurgical pieces^ 1563. The 
 name^ however^ appears to be Scotifli. 
 
 * 
 
 CUTWODE T. efquire, compofe'd '' Caltha- 
 poetariuiiy or the bumble bee," 1599_, 4to."^ 
 
 D. E. authour of ^^ The prayfe of nothing/' 
 pr. by H. Jackfon, 1585, 4to. in which is a 
 poetical translation from Petrarch s triumph of 
 death, in blank verfes of twelve fyllables. 
 
 * Stay'd, at the prefs, by order of the archbifhop of 
 Canterbury and bifhop of London j and fuch copys as 
 could be found, or were already taken, were to ** bee 
 prefentlye broughte to the Bp. of London to be burnte :'* 
 and <* noe fatyres or epigrams [to] be printed /hereafter/' 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 177 
 
 D. H. Thefe initials are fubfcribe'd to a poem, 
 in '^ The paradice of daintie devifes," 1576, 
 *' written upon the death of his efpecial good 
 friend master lohn Barnabe." They likewife oc- 
 cur in ^*' Diella, or certain fonnets^ ^c."' logti, 
 
 D. J. '' In the year 15 54," according to 
 Warton, '^ a poem of two flieets, in the fpirit 
 and ftanza of Sternhold, was printed under the 
 title [of], *^^ The vngodlinelie of the Hethnicke 
 goddes, or the downfall of Diana of the Ephe- 
 lians, by J. D. an exile for the word, late a mi- 
 nister in London." (H. E. P. Ill, 314.) A 
 book intitle'd '^ Amours by J. D. with certen 
 other fonnets by W. S." was enter'd to Eleazar 
 Edgar^ the 3d of January 1599-600. Thefe are, 
 likewife, the initials of John Dickenfon, authour 
 of ^^ Greene in conceipte^ Q/c." 1598. J. D. 
 has a copy of verfes ^^ in praife of Gascoigne and 
 his pofies" (1575). There is, likewife, *^'' A 
 hedgerow of bufhes, brambles, and briars -, or a 
 field full of tares, thisfels and time ^ of the vani- 
 ties and vain delights of the world, i^c. now 
 newly compiled by I. D." printed by W. White, 
 for John Brown^ 15 83, 4to (which is prefume'd 
 to be a collection of verfes). See DAVIES SIR 
 JOHN. 
 
 N 
 
178 
 
 POETS OF The 
 
 D. M. See DOLMAN, DRAYTON, DY- 
 
 ER. Before Morleys '' Firft booke of balletts to 
 five voyces :" pr. by T. Efte, 1595, 4to. are 
 verfes of '' Mr. M. D. to the author.'' M. D. 
 is likewife mention'd as an Englifh poet by 
 Webbe. 
 
 D. P. has verfe.s^ ^^ In prayfe of the author," 
 before '^ The readie path to the pleafaunt pasture 
 of delitefome and eternall paradife, £5*0.'* by J. 
 T. Printed by Henry Bynneman, 8vo. 
 
 D. R. Thefe initials are annexed to one or 
 more poem or poems in ^' The paradice of dain- 
 tie devifes," 1576, and in ^^ Diella, or certain 
 fonnets, ^cr 1596. See DILLINGTON RO- 
 BERT, 
 
 D.T. SeeDELONE. 
 
 DALLINGTON ROBERT has fome fcraps 
 of poetry in his '^ Method for travell. Shewed by 
 taking the view of France. As it ftoode in the 
 yeare of our Lord 1598 :'* printed by Thomas 
 Creede, n. d. 4 to. 
 
 DANIEL JO. has a copy of commendatory 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 179 
 
 verfes prefix'd to the '^ Philofopher of the court, 
 by George North/' 1575. 
 
 DANIEL SAMUEL wrote, l. '' Delia: 
 contayning certayne fonnets 5 with The com- 
 plaint of Rofamond :" 1592, 4to. 1594, 12mo.* 
 2. ^*' The ciuile warres betwene the two houfes 
 of Lancaster and Yorke [in 8 books] :" of 
 which *■*" the firll fowre bookes" were printed 
 by P. Short for S. Waterfon, 1595, 4to.f 3. 
 '^ Poetical esfayes," 1599, 4to. 4. ^' A pane- 
 gyrike congratulatorie delivered to the kings 
 moft excellent maiestie at Burleigh-Harrington 
 in Rudandfhire. Alfo certaine epistles^... here- 
 tofore written, and now publilhed by the 
 author. At London imprinted for Edward 
 Blount, 1603/' 8vo. This contains 1. A pane- 
 gyrike, ^c. 2. To fir Thomas Egerton knight, 
 lord keeper -of the great feale of England. 3. To 
 the lord Henry Howard^ one of his maiesties 
 
 * Daniels firfl publication was the worthy tradt of 
 Paulus Jovius, 1585 : in the preface to which occur 
 verfes translated from Italian. 
 
 \ Affthho6k\\2iS aded in the impresfion of 1599, a 
 Jixthy in 1602 ; and two others in 1609. 
 
 N 2 
 
180 POETS OF THE 
 
 privie covncel. 4. To the lady Margaret conn* 
 tefTe of Cvmberland. 5. To the lady Lvci& 
 covnteffe of Bedford. 6. To the lady Anne Clif- 
 ford. 7. To Henry Wriothesly erle of Sovtham- 
 ton. 8. The paslion of a distrefsed man, ^c, 
 '' Certaine poems/' iQOb, 8vo. lately printed by 
 G. Elde for Simon Waterfon. *"*" Certaine fmall 
 workes heretofore divulged/' l6ll, 8vo. He 
 has, likewife, commendatory verfes prefix'd to 
 Joneses '^ Nennio, or a treatife of nobility,'* 
 1595 3 to Dymocks translation of ^' II pastor 
 fido,'' 16025 to Erondells '' French garden/' 
 1605 5 to Edmundes ^^ Obfervations on Csefars 
 Commentaries/' 16093 and Sylvesters *'*^ Du Bar- 
 tas/' 1613. Hedye'din 1619. A collected edi- 
 tion of his poems was publilli'd by his brother, in 
 1C23, 4to. Ben Jonfon fay'd of Daniel, that 
 he ^' was a good honeft man, had no chiMren, 
 and w^as no poet, and that he had wrote the civil 
 wars, and yet hath not one battle in his book/' 
 Drummond, on the contrary, pronounces him 
 ^^ for fweetnefs in ryming fecond to none." 
 
 BARREL. A poet of this name is mentioned 
 by Webbe, in his ^' Discourfe of Englifli poe- 
 trie/' 1586. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 181 
 
 DASTIN JOHN, a celebrated alchemifl, left 
 a poem intitle'd, his ^^ work," or ''dream 3'* 
 printed in Ailimoles Theatriun chemiciim, 
 
 DAVIE SAMPSON wrote '' The ende k 
 confesfion of Tho. Norton of Yorklliire, the 
 popifh rebel], and Chr. Norton his nephew ; 
 which fuffered at Tiburn, for treafon the 27. of 
 May :" printed by W. Howe, 1570, 8vo. 
 
 DAVIES SIR JOHN, born in 15 70, at Chir- 
 grove, in Wiltfliire, wrote, 1. '' ittinam, 1. 
 For queene Elizabeths fecuritie, ^. For her fub- 
 iefts prosperltie, 3. For a generall conformitie, 
 4. And for Englands tranquilitie :" printed by 
 R. Yardley and P. Short for J. Pennie, 1591, 
 l6mo.^ 2. '' Epigrams :" printed (along with 
 Ovids elegies, by Marlow) at Middleburg about 
 1596, 8vo. 3. Nosce teipfum. This oracle ex- 
 
 * Mr. Park thinks ** this £houId be configned over to 
 
 Davies of Hereford, or to any other Davies rather than 
 
 Jlr Johu^ Herbert, however, who had the book, ex- 
 
 prefsly asferts that this John Davies was *< The Welfli 
 
 poet, author of None teipfum'' (p. 1364). 
 
 Mr. Ritfons comment on my remark invites me to dis- 
 cufs this knotty point a little more fully. — Herberts copy 
 
 N 3 
 
182 POETS OF THE 
 
 pounded in two elegies. 1. Of humane know- 
 ledge. 2, Ofthefouleof man^ and the immor- 
 talitie thereof : printed by R. Field for J. Standick, 
 1599j» ^to. 4. ^^ Hymns of Ailraea^ in acros- 
 tick verfe :" 1599^ 4to. 5. ^^ Orchestra^ or a 
 poeme of dauncing:" printed by J. Roberts^ 
 1596^ 8vo. (licenfed to J. Harrifon^ in 1593). 
 6. ^^ Reafons moan," in eleven flanzas, at the 
 
 of O Utinam i purchafed from his nephew: and i 
 found that the vague information, conveyed in lus TypO' 
 gra-phical antiquities^ "was derived from a MS. addition to 
 the name of the author, which called him " the Welfhe 
 poet." In another place he was called, by the fame note- 
 maker, <* poet laureat." But was fir John Davies ever 
 ftyled *' the Welfi foetf* or was either of the poetical 
 Davieses, foet laureat ? What then becomes of Herberts 
 authorifed asfertion ? The production itfelf is not w^orth 
 a moments attention. It confifls of a fulfome fermonical 
 addrefs to the people ; an indecent prayer for the queen ; 
 ^c. and clofes with 7 fix-line ilanzas which are only re- 
 markable for their demerit. T. P. 
 
 However unworthy thefe poems may be of fir John 
 Davies, there is no other poet or poetaster of that name 
 to whom they can be more certainly afcribe'd. Herbert, 
 or his MS. authority, was clearly wrong in calling him 
 ** The Welfli poet;" the furname, however, is Welfli, 
 and fo might his family have been. J. R. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 183 
 
 end of ^^ Reafons academy/' l620^ 8vo. Other 
 pieces^ frequently afcribe'd to fir John Davies_, 
 belong, in fa6t^ to John Davies of Hereford^ 
 writeing-master, authour of ^^ The fcourge of 
 folly," [1611,] &c. &:c. who does not appear to 
 have publifh'd any thing before the year iGoo. 
 I. D. the initials^ it is prefume'd, of fir John Da- 
 vies, are annex'd to two commendatory fonnets 
 prefix'd toChapmans '^ Ovids banquet offence/* 
 1595 3 and to certain poems in *"*" Englands Heli- 
 con/' 1600, and Davifons ^^ Poetical rapfodie/' 
 16O8. '^ Sir John Davies," according to Jonfon, 
 '^ play'd on Drayton in an epigram, who in his 
 fonnet concluded his mistrefs might have been 
 the ninth w^orthy, and faid, he ufed a phrafe like 
 Dametas in [the] Arcadia, who faid, his mistris, 
 for wit, might be a giant/' Phillips remembers 
 to have feen from the hands of the countefs [of 
 Huntingdon, his daughter] a judicious meta- 
 phrafe of feveral of Davids pfalms/' He was, for 
 fome time, attorney-general of Ireland, was 
 knighted in 1607, and dye'd in 1626^ aged 57. 
 
 DAY ANGELO has commendatory verfes 
 before Joneses ^^ Nennio," 1595. 
 
 DEE JOHN^ alchemifl and conjurer^ wrote a 
 
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184 POETS OF THE 
 
 few lines intitled '^ Testamentum Johannis Dec 
 philofophi fummi ad Johannem G-xynn transmis- 
 fumy 1586 :" printed in Alhmoies Theatrum die- 
 miciim. He probablely wrote the poem addrefs'd 
 to '' M. Christopher Hatton^ efquyer^ capitayn 
 of her maiesties garde" at the end of his ^^ Ge- 
 neral and rare memorials pertayning to the per- 
 fe6l arte of navigation^" &:c. printed by John 
 Daye, 1577^ folio. 
 
 DELONE THOMAS. '' A moft ioyfull 
 fonge^ made in the behalfe of all her maiesties 
 faithfull & louing fubiedls : of the great ioy which 
 was made in London at the taking of the late 
 trayterous confpirators^ which fought oportunity 
 to kyll her maiesty, to fpoile the cittie^ and by 
 forraign inualion to ouerturn the realm : for the 
 which haynous treafons_, 1 4 of them haue fuffered 
 death on the 20^ and 21 of Sept. Alfo^ a detes- 
 tation again ft thofe confpirators^ and all their 
 confederates, giuing god the prayfe for the fafe 
 preferuation of her maiesty, and their fubuerfton. 
 Anno 15 86. To the tune of ivcin in despera- 
 Hon,'* 25 four-line ftanzas. At the end;, ^^ Finis 
 T. D." printed by Richard Jones. A broadfide. 
 '^ Strange histories,, or fonges and fonnets of 
 kingesj princes^ dukes^ lords^ ladyes^ knights 
 
 "^i 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 185 
 
 and gentlemen : &c. By Thomas Delone." Lon- 
 don^ 1612. 4 to. In this collection (according to 
 Percy) is the old ballad of Fair B^ofamondy which,, 
 with other^ perhap the whole, of its contents 
 may have been actually writen by him. He is 
 mentioned by Kempe (^^ Nine days wonder," 
 1600) as '^ the great ballade-maker T. D. or 
 Thomas Deloney, chronicler of the memorable 
 lives of The fix yeomen of the xcejl, Jack of Keiv- 
 bery, The gentle craft, and fuch like honell men, 
 omitted by Stowe, Hollinshed, Grafton, Hall, 
 Froisfart, and the reft of thofe well-deferving 
 writers." ( History of Englifh poetry. III, 430.) 
 He had fatirife'd the comedian in what he calls 
 ^' abhomin able ballets 3" and, in 1596, narrowly 
 cfcape'd a commitment to the counter for ridicule- 
 ing the queen, and book of orders, about the 
 dearth of corn, in a ^^ fcurrilous ballad." (See 
 Stows '' Survey," by Strype, B. 5, p. S3S,) 
 Nafhe, in his '^ Haue with you to Saffron-Wal- 
 den, or Gabriell Harueys hunt is up," 1596, 4to. 
 calls him ^' the balleting lilke-weaver," and fays 
 that he '^ hath rime inough for all myracles, & 
 wit to make a Garland of s:ood icill more than the 
 premisfes, with an epistle of Momus and Zoylus ; 
 whereas his mule from the firft peeping foorth. 
 
186 POETS OF THE 
 
 hath Hood at liuery at an alehoufe wifpe^ neuer 
 exceeding a penny a quart day nor night 5 and 
 this deere yeare^ together with the lilencing of his 
 looms^ fcarce that -, he being conflrained to be- 
 take himfelf to carded ale : whence it proceed- 
 eth_, that fince Candlemas^ or his iigge of John 
 for the king, not one merrie dittie will come from 
 him^ but The thunderbolt againjl fwearers. Re- ' 
 'pent England repent, and The ftrange iudgeinents 
 of god. '^ The garland of good will, by T. D.'* 
 has run through numerous editions^ and was^ til 
 very lately^ what is call'd a chap book. ^^ The 
 garland of delight^ by Thomas Delone^" and 
 ^' The royal garland of love and delight^ by T. 
 D.'* are both in the Pepyfian-library : but honeil: 
 Thomas is fuspe6ted to have occaiionally pub- 
 lifh'd the fame work under various titles. 
 
 DERRICKE JOHN '' The image of Irelande, 
 with a discoverie of Woodkarne^ wherin is mofle 
 lively exprefsed^ the nature & qualitie of the faied 
 wilde Irifhe Woodkarne, their notable aptnefTe^, ce- 
 leritie^ & prouefleto rebellion^ & by waie of argu- 
 ment is manifefted their originally & ofFspryng, 
 their defcent & pedigree : alfo their habite & ap- 
 parell is there plainly fliowne. The execrable life. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 187 
 
 and miferable death of Rorie Roge^ that famous 
 arch-traitour to god & the croune (otherwife called 
 Rorie Oge) is likewife defcribed. Laftlie the 
 commyng in of Thyrlaghe Deonaghe the great 
 Oneale of Irelande^ with the effe6t of his fubmis- 
 iion to the right hon. fir Henry Sidney (Id. de- 
 puty of the faid lande) is thereto adioyned. Made 
 & devifed by Jhon Derricke, anno 1578^ and 
 now publifhed & fet fortlie by the faid authour 
 this prefent yere of our lorde 1581^ for plea fure 
 and delight of the well dispofed reader." Printed 
 by J. Daye, 4 to. b. 1. He frequently refers to 
 engrave'd views^ ^c. with which^ it would feem, 
 his poem has been originally iliustrateed 3 but the 
 onely copy;, in which a few wooden cuts are known 
 to exiil^ is in the advocates-library^ Edinburgh. 
 
 DEVEREUX ROBERT, earl of Esfex, be- 
 headed in l600_, wrote '' The buzzing bees com- 
 plaint/' his **^ lafl voyage to the haven of happi- 
 nefs_," and other verfees , of which few or none 
 have been ever printed, but all or moil are pre- 
 ferve'd in Allimoles MSS. 767, 768, 78 1, and 
 Sloanes, 1303, 1779. 4128.^ '' Coxeter," ac- 
 
 * Ten lines are inclofc'd in a letter to Q^ Elizabeth, 
 and printed in the <* Calalay' p. 216. 
 
J 88 POETS OF THE 
 
 cording to Warton^ ^' i^iys, that he had feen one 
 of Ovids epistles translated by Robert earl of Es- 
 fex." 
 
 DEVEREUX WALTER, earl of Esfex, (fa- 
 ther to earl Robert), made, in 1567, ^' A godly 
 and wirtuous fong,'* extant in Sloanes MS. I898. 
 *' The complaint of a finner, [made] and fung 
 by the earle of Esfex vpon his death-bed in 
 Ireland," is printed in ^^ The paradice of daintie 
 deuifes," 1576 : in which year he dye'd. 
 
 DILLINGTON ROBERT has commendatory 
 verfees prefix'd to Lewkenors ^^ Refolved gentle- 
 man,** 1599) and his initials are fubjoin'd to 
 certain poems in ^^ The paradice of daintie de- 
 uifes," 1576. 
 
 DINGLEY FRANCIS wrote '' The bataile of 
 Brampton, or Floddon-fielde,'* inferted in '' The 
 mirour for magistrates," I687 : Higins, the pub- 
 lilher of that edition, informing us, that '^ it 
 was pende aboue fifty yeares agone, or euen 
 fliortly after the death of... king [James the fourth 
 of Scotland] 5" and that he had *^ altered the verfe, 
 ...becaufe tlie reft elfe would not haue beene well 
 liked." It is^ allfo, in the Harleian MS. 2252, 
 
SIXTEEyXH CEXTURY. ISQ 
 
 DOLMAN JOHN wrote the legend of the 
 lord Hailings^ in the '' Myrror for magistrates/* 
 1563 j being, as fome one has remark'd, in the 
 margin of his copy, ^^ evidently the worfl in the 
 collection." He is fuppofe'd to be tlie '*" M. John 
 Dolman of the Middle Temple," who translated 
 ^' Tullys Tusculane questions," I56l. 
 
 DORftELL WILLIAM compile'd '' The dis- 
 courfe of the life of a fervinge man :" enter'd to 
 Ralph Newberie, 14th Febmary 1577-8. (Q. if 
 in verfe.) 
 
 DOWNHALL C. wrote a poem, of three 
 ftanzas, prefix'd to Watfons ^^ Pasfionate cen- 
 turie of loue," and intitle'd, ^^ An ode, written to 
 tlie mufes concerning this authour." 
 
 DOWRICHE ANN publiili'd '' The French 
 historic. That is ; a lamentable discourfe of 
 three of the chiefe & moft famous bloodie broiles 
 that haue happened in France for the gofpell of 
 lefus Chrifi:. Namelie, The outrage called The 
 winning of S. lames his flreet, 1557. The con- 
 ftant martirdome of Annas Burgosus one of the 
 K. councell, 15 59. The bloodie marriage of 
 Margaret, lister to Charles the 9. anno 1572." 
 
IQO POETS OF THE 
 
 Printed by Tlio. Orwirij 158.9^ 4to. It Is writen 
 in verfe of 14 fyllables^ and dedicated '^ To her 
 louing brother master Pearfe Edgecombe of Mount 
 Edgecombe in Deuon^ efq." from '^ Honiton, 
 25 Julii 1589." 
 
 DRAKE SIR FRANCIS wrote commendatory 
 verfes, prefix' d to fir G. Peckliams '^ True re- 
 porte of the late discoueries^ Cf:^c." 1583. 
 
 DRANT THOMAS, archdeacon of Lewes, 
 pubHfh'd, 1. ^*^ A medicinabie morally that is, 
 the two bookes of Horace his fatyres, englyfhed 
 accordyng to the prefcription of faint Hierome. 
 — The wailyngs of the prophet Hieremiah, done 
 into Englyfiie verfe." Alfo ^^ Epigrammes and 
 panegyrical poems :" printed by T. Marftie, 1566> 
 4to. 2. '^ Horace his arte of poetrie, pistles, 
 and fatyrs, englilhed, and to the earle of Or- 
 mounte addrefsed :" printed by Marfhe, 1567, 
 4to. 3. *^ Greg. Nazianzen his epigrammes, 
 and fpirituall fentences :" printed by Marlhe, 
 1568, 8vo. Three ftanzas, by this authour, arc 
 prefix'd to Peterfons translation of '' Galateo," 
 1576.^ See SH ACKLOCKE ROGER . 
 
 * He could not wel be the 7hQma-s Vrant^ M. A. Cant. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. IQl 
 
 DRAYTON MICHAEL* wrote, i. '' The 
 harmonie of the church, containing the fpiri- 
 tuall fonges, and holy hymnes of godly men, pa- 
 triarkes and prophetes : all fweetly founding, to 
 the glory of the higheft:" printed by R. Jones, 
 159], 4to. 2. *"*" Idea: tlie fliepheards garland, 
 fafhioned in nine eglogs 5" '^ Rowlands facri- 
 fice to the nine mufes :" printed for T. Wood- 
 cocke, 1593, 4to.t 3. ^*' Matilda, the fair & 
 chafle daughter of Ld. Rob. FItzwater," 1594^ 
 4to. 4. ^' Mortimeriados. The lamentable ci- 
 uell warres of Edward tlie fecond and the bar- 
 rens:" printed by J. R. for Matthew Lownes, 
 1596, 4to. 5. '^ Englands heroical epistles :" 
 1598, 8vo. Nic. Ling had licence to print them 
 in 1597. (Herbert 1342.) 6. '' A gratulatorie 
 poem to the majestic of K. James," i603, 4to. 
 
 who has a complimentary addrefs ^* To his worthy 
 friend Mr. John Vicars," before the latters jEnelds of 
 Virgily 1632. It is, indeed, probable that he dye'd in 
 1578. 
 
 * He wrote his christian name " Michcll.*' 
 
 + From the title to this performance, Drayton was 
 fometimes called Roivland by his contemporarys. Sec 
 Lodges ** Fig for Momus/* 
 
IQ'l POETS OF THE 
 
 7. '' Theowle:" i604, 4to. 8. '' Moyfes in a 
 map of his miracles :" 16O4, 4to. 9. ^^ A poean 
 triumphall compofed for the fociety of goldfmiths 
 of London, on K. Jameses entering the citie ;" 
 1604, 4to. 10. '' Poems/' i605, 8vo. 11. 
 '' The legend of Great Cromwell :" 1607, 4to. 
 (enter'd to John Flaskett, 12th Octo.) 12. 
 '' Poly-Oibion" (firft 12 books) j 161 2, (24 
 books) 1622, fo.^ 13. '' Poems/' 1619, fo. and 
 without date 8vo. 14. *'*' The battle of Agin- 
 com-t/' 1627^ fo. 15. '' The mufes Elizium, 
 lately discovered^ by a new way over Parnasfus," 
 1630, 4to. Some of his poems are inferted in 
 '^ Englands Helicon/' 1600. His works were 
 coile6led and printed together in 1748. He dye'd 
 in 1631. A poem fign'd M. D. before Morleys 
 balletts, 160O;, is probablely by Drayton. He has 
 commendatory verfes before Middletons ^*' Legend 
 of D. Humphrey/' 160O5 Murrays *^^ Sophonisba," 
 1611 3 Davieses ^^ Holy roode/' 1G09 j Chapmans 
 *^'Hefiod/' 16185 Vicarses "'Manuduction/' l622; 
 fir John Beaumonts '^'^ Poems," 16293 in ^^ Annalia 
 
 ^ Drummond calls this one of die fmoothefl poems he 
 had feen in Englifh, poetical and well perform'd j and 
 fays " Tliere are fome pieces in him, i dare compare 
 with the bell transmarine poems." 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 1 QS 
 
 Duhrenfia,'' 1636 j and before Hollands '' Pqfi- 
 hiima,'' 1626; where he is erroneously ftile'd 
 poet-Iaureat, 
 
 DUDLEY LADY JANE, daughter of Henr>- 
 (Grey) duke of Suffolk, and wife to lord Guild- 
 ford Dudley, a younger fon of John duke of 
 Northhumberland, proclaim'd queen of England 
 on the lOth of July, 1553, and beheaded, after 
 her husband, by that bigoted and bloody papift 
 Mary Tudor, on the 12th of April following, 
 wrote, witli a pin, dureing her imprifonment in 
 the tower, ^^ Certaine pretie verfes : " printed in 
 Foxes Martyrs. 
 
 DYER SIR EDWARD, '' a Somerfetfhire 
 man," wrote, according to Wood, ^' A defcrip- 
 tion of friendlhip :" MS. in the Aihmolean mu- 
 feum (Num. 78 ^ p. 139). The letters M, D. 
 in '^ The paradice of daintie deuifes," 1576, are 
 prefume'd to denote this iVIaster D}^er.* He has. 
 
 '•^ It is afk'd, ** If this be a fignature ; would the 
 term Muster be adopted?" to which it may be an- 
 fwer'd, The fignature was not always by the authour, 
 but frequently by the printer, who might not know his 
 
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194 ' POETS OP THE 
 
 likewife^ five or fix poems in '^ Englands Heli- 
 con/' 1600. He was knighted in IbgQ, and 
 dye'd in 16... '^ Master Edward Dyar/' is ex- 
 tol'd by Puttenham, ^^ for elegie, moft fweete^ 
 folemne,, and of high conceit." 
 
 EDEN RICHARD, at the end of his '' Trea- 
 tyio^ of the newe India," 1553, 8vo. has twelve 
 couplets of verfes '^ To al adventurers, and fuch 
 as take in hande great enterpryfes." 
 
 EDWARDES C. wrote '' The manfion of 
 myrthe," licenfe'd, 1581, to R. Jones. 
 
 EDWARDS RICHARD, a native of Somerfet- 
 fliire, and one of the finging-men of queen Eliza- 
 beths chapel, is the authour of feveral poems in 
 '^ The paradice of daintie deuifes," 1576, fe'c. 
 The ^' pithy precepts, learned counfayles, and 
 excellent inventions," in which work, are fay'd, 
 in the title, to be ^^ deuifed and written, for the 
 mofte parte by M. Edwards." He dye'd in 1566 
 
 christian name, or fubftitute M. out of refpe^l. That 
 of Dolman in << The mirour for magistrates,*' 1587, is 
 <* Finis. Maister D." See alfo S. M. THORN M. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. IQS 
 
 or 7 3 andj according to Wood^ from Gascoigne,-* 
 '^ when he was in the extremity of his ficknefs^ 
 he compofed a noted poem^ called Edwards foul 
 knit J or the ^ Soid hull of M. Edwards,' which 
 was commended for a good piece." ^^ An epy- 
 taphe of the lorde of Pembroke by Mr. Ed- 
 wardes/* was licenfe'd to W. Griffith in 1069 5 
 and a fpecimen of his poetry, from the Cotton 
 library _, has been publiih'd by mister Ellis. Tar- 
 beirville, in his poems, 1566, has *^*' An epitaph 
 upon the death of the worfhipfuU M. Richarde 
 Edwardes, late maister of the children in the 
 queenes majesties chappell." This epitaph con- 
 fifts of 22 four-line flanzas 3 and is rather an elegy 
 than a lapidary infcription. 
 
 EEDES RICHARD, dean of Worcester, wrote, 
 according to Wood, ^^ Various poems, MS. in 
 Latin and Englifli." He dye'd in l604. 
 
 ELDERTON WILLIAM, a ballad-maker by 
 profesfion, and a drunkard by habit, wrote and 
 publilli'd '^ A new Yorklhyre fong, intituled : 
 
 * If Wood had look'd into Gascoigne with any at- 
 tention, he mufl have perceive'd that this popular idea 
 was ridicule'd for its childifli abfurdity. See Note to 
 VAUX THOMAS. T. P. 
 
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196 POETS OF THE 
 
 Yorke^ Yorke^ for my monie : Of all the cities 
 that euer i fee. For mery pastime and companies 
 Except the citie of London :" printed by Richard 
 Jones, 1584. It is an account of a match at 
 archery, in 22 fix-line llanzas -, dated '' From 
 Yorke, by W. E." Alfo ^^ A new- ballad, de- 
 claring the great treafon confpired againfl the 
 young king of Scots, and how one Andrew 
 Browne an Englifh-man, which was the kings 
 chamberlaine, prevented the fame." (See Percys 
 KeliqiieSy II, 206.) ^^ A ballad againfl mar- 
 riage by Will. Elderton, ballad-maker," was 
 printed by T. Colwell, without date. He, like- 
 wife, compofe'd a fong, or ballad, begining 
 '^ The god of love, "Who fits above, Csj'c." which 
 is quoted in Much ado about nothing, and whereof 
 a puritanical parody, or moralifation, by one 
 W^. Birch, under the title of '^ The complaint 
 of a finner, Csj'c." was printed by Alexander Lacy 
 for Richard Applow, without date, but licenfe'd 
 to the latter in 1562, as ^' The gods of love" 
 was to Lacy in 1567. In 156l was licenfe'd to 
 Hugh Singleton a ballad intitle'd '^ Eldertons 
 jefles with his mery toyes:" in 1562, to John 
 Aide, a ballad intitle'd '' An admonition to El- 
 derton to leave the toyes by hym begonne." In 
 the fame year Colwell was fine'd 5s. for printing 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. ]Q7 
 
 ballads^ one of them being '^ Eldertons amwerc 
 for his mery toyes, Cs^'c." In this year alfo was 
 licenfe'd to Edmund Halley a ballad intitle'd 
 '^ Eldertons parratt anfwered :" in 1569 to J. 
 Purfoot a ballad intitle'd '' Northumberlandes 
 nevves by Elderton ;" in I071 to T. Colwell 
 '^ Eldertons ell fortune 3" in 1578 to R. Jones 
 *^ Eldertons folace in tyme of his ficknesj con- 
 tayning fundrie fonets vpon many pi the para- 
 bles." In 1577 to Richard Jones '^ An anfwere 
 to the whippinge of the catt," a ballad^ by W. 
 Elderton : in 1579^, '"^ Eldertons advife to be- 
 ginne the newe yere :" in 1580-1^ ^*^ A repre" 
 henfion againfte greene fleves by Willm Elder- 
 ton :" and in 1581 was tolerated to E. White 
 *^ Eldertons anfwere to J. W." Nalhe, in his 
 '' Have with you to Saffron-Walden/' 1596, 
 fpeaks of *' Eldertons ancient note of meeting the 
 divell in conjurekonfc lane.'' About 1368 he was 
 an attorney in the flierifs court, London, and 
 made '^ Verfes on the images over the Guildhall 
 galcj" printed in Stows »Sz<rtY/^, 1598. He was, 
 afterward, master of a company of comedians, 
 and on the loth of January 1573-4, receive'd 
 61. 13s. 4d. for a play prefented before tlie queen. 
 '^ Thomas [meaning William] Elderton^" fays 
 Camden, '^ who did arme himfelfe with ale (as 
 
 O 3 
 
IQS POETS OF THE 
 
 ould father Ennius did with wine) when he bal- 
 
 lated^ had this^ in that refpe6t made to his me- 
 
 morie : 
 
 Hie Jit us ejl Jitiens atque ehriiis Eldertonus, 
 Quid dico hicfitns ejl? kic potius Jitis ejl. 
 
 Of him alfo was made this : 
 
 ^^ Here is Elderton lyeng in dull. 
 
 Or lyeng Elderton^ chofe which you luft. 
 
 Here he lyes dead^ i doe him no wrong. 
 
 For who knew him flanding, all his lifelong."* 
 
 He is thus fatirife*d by bifhop Hall : 
 
 ^^ Some drunken rhymer thinks his time well 
 
 fpentj 
 If he can live to fee his name in print 5 
 Who when he is once flelhed to the prefTe, 
 And fees his handfell have fuch faire fuccefle. 
 Sung to the wheele, and fung unto the payle^ 
 He fends forth thraves of ballades to the fale : 
 Nor then can relt^ but volumes up bodg'd 
 
 rhymes. 
 To have his name talk'd of in future times.** 
 
 * R&mahies, 1605, p. 56. The Latin epitaph was 
 translated by Oldys, as follows : 
 
 <* Dead drunk here Elderton doth lie j 
 Dead as he is, he ftiil is dry : 
 So of him it may well be faid, 
 Here he, but not his thirft, is laid." 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. IQQ 
 
 ELIOT JOHN has fome pieces of poetry in his 
 '' OrthoepiaGalUca:'' pr. byJohnWolfe^ 1593^ 
 4to. 
 
 ELIZABETH QUEEN. See TUDOR ELI- 
 ZABETH. 
 
 ELMES HENRY wrote commendatory verfes, 
 prefixed to Lewkenors translation of Contarenos 
 '^ Commonwealth of Venice/' 1599. 
 
 ELVIDEN EDTVIOND wrote '' The history of 
 Pifistratus and Catanea:" printed by H. Bynne- 
 man^ w. d. ismo. Alfo '^ The clofet of coun- 
 fells, conteining The aduice of diuers wyfe 
 philofophers^ touchinge fundry morall matters^ in 
 poelies, precepts, prouerbes^ & parrables, trans- 
 lated and colle6ted out of divers aucthors into 
 Engliih verfe:" printed by T. Colwell, IbQg, 
 8vo. 
 
 ELYOT SIR THOMAS, knight, has fome 
 poetical translations in his '^ Boke named the 
 governour," 1580, l2mo. In Webbes *^ Dis- 
 courfe of Englifh poetrie," 1586, eight lines are 
 preferve'd of an Engiilh verfion from Horace by 
 '' that famous knight fir T. Ehot." 
 
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200 POETS OF THE 
 
 EMET ABELL has commendatory verfes be* 
 fore '^ Willobie his Avifa," 1596. 
 
 EMLEY THOMAS wrote '' A new mery ba- 
 lad of a maid that wold mary wyth a feruyng 
 man :'* printed by John Waley, to whom it was 
 licenfe'd in 155? or 8. 
 
 ESSEX. See DEVEREUX. 
 
 ETHEREGE GEORGE, an Oxford fcholar, 
 and Roman catholick^ of great learning, wrote 
 *^ V erf us Anglicos, &c/' according to Pitts, who 
 registers '^ Libras plures' of his ^^ Diverforuni 
 carminum ;" none of which, however, at leaft in 
 Englifh, are now known to exift. Though con- 
 temporary with, and the familiar friend of Le- 
 land, being admited fcholar of Chrift- church in 
 1534, and, of courfe, '^ an ancient man," as 
 Wood calls him, in 1588, he has been ignorantly 
 and abfurdly confounded with fir George Ether- 
 ege, the famous poet and dramatift, who was born 
 about 1636 and dye*d after 1688.* 
 
 EVANS LEWES, fchoolmaster, engliih'd 
 ** See Phillipses T/5^rt/rz/w foetarum, new edition, 1800. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 201 
 
 " The fyrfte twoo fatars or poyfes of Orace :** 
 licenfe'd to Thomas Colwell, 1564. He alfo 
 wrote '' A new balet entituled howe to w}aie 
 well:" printed by Owen Rogers 3 to whom, in 
 1561, was licenfe'd '' A new yeres gyfte made by 
 Leues Euans." 
 
 EVANS WILLIAM has the following compli- 
 mentary lines inferted before the firft edition of 
 Spenfers '^ Faerie queene/' logo. 
 
 ^' Amongft the Grecians brave Homer bareth 
 the bell. 
 
 Virgin, the Romanes faid, noe man could ex- 
 cell— 
 
 But amongft Brittaines poet Spenfer beares the 
 fway. 
 
 And from all poets the bell doth beare away.""* 
 
 This William Evans is, probablely, alfo, the 
 
 "* Thefe lines contain the germ of many a poetic com- 
 pliment from the time of Virgil to that of Dryden, whofe 
 celebrated epigram appears to be little more than a para- 
 phrastic verfion of Sclvaggis distich ** ^d Joannew 
 Mlhonurriy^^ prefixed to ^^ Mi/toni Poemafa," 1645. 
 
 ** Gr(2ecia Mcronidemj jactet fibi Roma Maronewy 
 Anglia Miltonum jaciat utrique parem,** T. P. 
 
202 POETS OF THE 
 
 author of '^ Thamefiades, or Chastities triumph 5" 
 printed in l602^ 8vo. 
 
 F. J. This fignature, which occurs in '^ Eng- 
 lands Helicon/' l6oo^ is fuppofe'd to ftand for 
 the initials of John Ford of the Middle Temple, 
 author of ^' Fames memoriall^ or the earle of De- 
 vonfhire deceafed," 16065 which is thought to 
 be the earlyeil production of tlie celebrated dra- 
 matick writer of that name. 
 
 F. T. In a tra6i:^ intitled ^*' Newes from the 
 north. Other wife called the conference between 
 Simon Certain^ and Pierce Plowman, faithfully 
 colle6ted and gathered by T. F. ftudent :" printed 
 by John Allde, 1579^ 4to. b. 1. are fome verfes, 
 at the begining and end^ by the authour 5 the 
 bookj itsfelf, being in profe. 
 
 FAIREFAX EDWARD, a Yorkfhire gentle- 
 man, natural fon of fir Thomas Fairfax of Den- 
 ton in that county, translated^ from the Italian, 
 ftanza for ftanza^, with no lefs elegance than fide- 
 lity, '^ Godfrey of BuUoigne, or the recouerie of 
 leiTifalem :" printed by Ar. Hatfield for I. Jag- 
 gard and M. Lownes, 160O; and for John Bill,, 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 203 
 
 1624, fo. He, likewife, wrote ^^ The history of 
 Edward the black prince/' never printed, and 
 twelve eclogues, '^ on important lubje6ls, relat- 
 ing to the manners, characters, and incidents of 
 the times he lived in," the fourth of which was 
 publilh'd by mistrefs Cooper from the family 
 MS. 
 
 FALLOWES EDWARD, who fuffer'd death 
 at St. Thomas -a-Waterings for a robbery, made 
 *^ A dolefull discourfe, or forrowfull fonnet:" 
 licenfe'd to Edward White, 30th Auguit, 1578. 
 
 FANSHAW HENRY, of the Inner-Temple, 
 has a fonnet prefixed to Rofses '^ Authors teares 
 vpon the death of fir W. Sackvile," 1592, MS. 
 Might not this be fir Henry F. remembrancer of 
 the Exchequer, and father to the wel-known 
 poet ? 
 
 FELDE JOHN, a puritan^ and authour of 
 "" An admonition to parliament," at the end of 
 which are fome verfes which may be feen in 
 Herberts ^*^ Typographical antiquities," p. l63l. 
 In a prefentation copy of tlie above work are other 
 verfes (in MS.) addrefs'd by the authour to his 
 
204 POETS OF THE 
 
 *' louinge fFriende Mrs. Wrighte/* recommend- 
 ing a perufal of his book, ^c. See Woods 
 Athence^ co. 233. 
 
 FENNER DUDLEY, a puritan, translated 
 out of the Hebrue into Engiilhe meeter, ^' The 
 fong of fongs, that is, the mofl excellent fong 
 which was Solomons :" Middleb. 15 87, 8vo. 
 
 FERRERS GEORGE wrote the legends, of 
 Robert Trefilian, Thomas duke of Gloucester, 
 and king Richard the fecond, in the ^' Myrrour 
 for magistrates,'* 1559 3 that of Edmund duke of 
 Somerfet, in '^ the fecond parte," 1563 j and 
 thofe of dame Eleanor Cobham and Hurafrey 
 Plantagenet in the edition of 1578. Warton 
 fuspe6ts that this George Ferrers is the fame with 
 '* maister Edward Ferrys^' mention'd by Put- 
 tenham, as ^' the principail man in this profes- 
 fion [poetry]," in the time of Edward the 6th, 
 who ^^ wrate for the moll part to the llage in tra- 
 gedie and fometimes in comedie or enterlude, 
 wherein he gave the king fo much good recrea- 
 tion, as he had thereby many good rewardes:" 
 but, as one (Edward) is exprefsly ilated to have 
 dye'd at Badesley-Clinton in Warwickihire, in 
 
 It! 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 205 
 
 1564^ and the other (George) at Flamftead ia 
 Hertfordfliire, 1579, he, in tliis conjecture feems 
 to fubje6t himlelf to the very cenfui'e he has 
 elfewhere pafs'd upon Anthony Wood. (See His- 
 tory of EngTiili poetry. III, 293, 213.) A poe- 
 tical addrefs to queen Elizabeth, in '' The 
 princely pleafures at Kenelworth-Castle," 1576, 
 was '' devifed and penned by maister Ferrers, 
 fometime lord of misrule in the court :*' and may 
 be afcribe'd to this authour : who was appointed 
 lord of the pastimes in the kings houfe, Nov. 
 1532, according to an extract from the council 
 register, cited by Mr. Chalmers in his '' Apo- 
 logy," p. 347. 
 
 FETHERSTONE CHRISTOPHER publiih'd 
 '' The lamentations of leremie, in profe and 
 meeter, with apt notes to finge them withall :" 
 printed by John Wolfe, 1587, 8vO. 
 
 FIELD JOHN, chirurgeon, has verfes in 
 praife of M. Gale, before the latters *^ Treatife of 
 wounds made with gun fhot," 1563. 
 
 FITZGEFFRAY CHARLES, rector, in pro- 
 cefs of time^ of the parilli of St. Dominick, in 
 
206 POETS OF THE 
 
 his native county of Cornwall^ wrote *"*" Sir 
 Francis Drake his honorable Hfes commen- 
 dation,, and his tragicall deathes lamenta- 
 tion/'^ 1596^ 8vo. His name frequently occurs 
 in '^ Englands parnasfus/' 1600, which Wood^ 
 who could never meet with a copy^ and intitles it 
 '^ A collection of choice flowers and defcrip- 
 tions^" fays was of his makeing. He publifh'd 
 ^^ The blefsed birth-day," a poem, l634, 4to. 
 and dye'd at his parfonage-houfe in l636-7,f 
 Two commicndatory fonnets by Charles Fitz-Gef- 
 fray are prefix'd to Storers '^ Life and deatli of 
 cardinal Wolfey/' 1599, and one to Davieses 
 ^^ Microcosmos/' l603. 
 
 FITZHERBERT SIR ANTONY has two 
 
 flanzas of feven lines each at the end of his 
 
 ^' *' As C. Plinius," fays Meres, *' wrote the life of 
 Pomponius fecundus, fo yong Cha. Fitz-Geffray, that 
 high-touring falcon, hath moft gloriously penned the ho- 
 nourable life and death of worthy fir Francis Drake/' 
 T. 1\ 
 
 •f Robert Chamberlain has an epitaph upon him, fub- 
 )omt(\ to ^^ NocturrKS lucubrationeSf** 1638. T. P. 
 
SIXTEEXTH CENTURY.. 207 
 
 '^ Boke of furueyeng and emproumetes," fird 
 pr. by R. Pynfon, 1523, 4to. He has likewife 
 a fingle ftanza of feven lines at the end of his 
 ^*' Boke of husbandry," in which work is ^^ A 
 lefson made in Englifhe verfes to teache a gentyl- 
 mans fervant, to faye at every tyme, whan he 
 taketh his horfe for his remembrance, that he 
 fhall not forget his gere in his inne behynde 
 hym." This lefson is in hexametus. 
 
 FLEMING ABRAHAM, rector of St. Pan- 
 eras, Soper-lane, drew ^' into plain and fami- 
 liar verfe," that is, lines of 14 fyllables without 
 rime, '' The bucolikes of P. Virgilius Maro, with 
 alphabeticall annotations," 1575 -, to which he 
 afterward aded the Georgics. They were pub- 
 lifh'd together under the following title : ^' The 
 bucoliks of Publius Virgilius Maro, prince of all 
 Latine poets, otherwife called his pastoralls, cr 
 Ihepeherds meetings. Together with his Geor- 
 giks or ruralls, otherwife called his husbandrie, 
 conteyning four books. All newly translated into 
 Engliih verfe by A. F. Imprinted by T. O. for 
 Thomas Woodcock, 15 89," 4to. He alfo wTote 
 '^ Rythme decafyllabicall, upon this laft luckle 
 voyage of worthie capteine Frobifher, 155? j" 
 
208 
 
 FOETS OF THE 
 
 and appears to have made feveral poetical transla- 
 tions for Reginald Scot in his ^' Discoverie of 
 witchcraft*" A copy of verfes by him is prefixed 
 to Kendalls *^*' Epigrams," 1577. He has, likewife, 
 introduce'd many poetical pieces in his **' Dia- 
 mond of devotion ; cut and fquared into iix feve- 
 rall points : namely, 1. The foot-path to felicity. 
 2. A guide to godlinefs. 3. The fchoole of Ikill. 
 4. A fwarme of bees. 5. A plant of pleafure. 
 6. A grove of graces," 1582, 1586, i2mo. 
 Printed by Hen. Denham, 1598, l2mo. He dye'd 
 in 1607, aged 56. 
 
 FLEMING SAMUEL, the brother of Abra- 
 ham, according to Warton, is complimented by 
 Webbe for his poetical inventions, none of which, 
 however, appear to have been made publick. 
 
 FLETCHER ROBERT, a native of War- 
 wickfhire and Wood, Fasti L 101, turned 
 intoEnglilli metre '^ An introduction to thelooue 
 of god." Accoumpted among the workes of St. 
 Augustine, and translated into ^^ Englilh by ... 
 Edmund bilhop of London :" printed by Thomas 
 Purfoot, 1581, 8V0. and '^ Salomons fong," 
 printed by T. Chard, 1586, 8vo. 
 
SIXTEENTH CEXTURV. 20^ 
 
 FLORIO JOHN, intitle'd '' Refolute/' has, in 
 his *-' Worlde of wordes," 1598, a few Hues in 
 the ^' Epistle dedicatorie," and addrefs '' To the 
 reader/' and feveral fcmps in his translation of 
 Montaignes Esfaijcs, i603. See CANDIDO. 
 He dye'd in 1626^ aged 73. 
 
 FORJVIAN SIMON, an astrologer, conjurer, 
 and almanack-maker, wrote a dialogue between 
 himfelf and Death, in his ficknefs, 15 85 (MSS. 
 Afhmole, 208) 5 where is, likewife, another 
 poem by the fame authour : and, in 8 19, ^' Of 
 Antichrifl:^ Qj'c." by Simon Forman. 
 
 FORREST THOMAS, in his translation of 
 three orations of Ifocrates, under the title of ^^ A 
 perfite looking glafs for all eftates :" Ci^c. printed 
 by Tho. Purfoot, 1580. 4to. has ^^ The authour s 
 enchomion upon tlie right honorable and his fin- 
 guler good lord, fir Thomas Bromley, the lord 
 chauncellor of England," a poem in verfes of 
 eight and fix fyllables. He alfo, probablely, 
 wrote another fimilar poem in the fame volume 
 intitle'd '^ The booke to the reader." 
 
 FORREST WILLIAM, priefl, chaplain to 
 queen Mary, wrote, 1 . *^*' A true and moft nota- 
 
 P 
 
210 
 
 POETS OF THE 
 
 ble history of a right noble and famous lady, pro- 
 duced in Spain, entitled. The fecond Grylild, 
 practifed not long out of this time, in much part 
 tragedious, as delegable both to hearers and read- 
 ers :" containing the life of Catherine of Arra- 
 gon, firft wife of Henry the 8 th, and mother to 
 the then queen, to whom it is dedicated : among 
 A. Woods MSS. in the Bodleian library : 2. 
 *^ The tragedious troubles of the moll chafl and 
 innocent Jofeph, fon to the holy patriarch Jacob :" 
 a MS. in the Mufeum (Bib. Reg, 18 C XXX) : 
 3, ^^ A notable warke called The pleafant poefye 
 of princely practife'* C^bi. 17 D III). He, hke- 
 wife, translated feveral pfalms into metre flbi. 
 17 A XXI) J and made a paraphrafe of the 
 Pater noster and Te deum : printed by Fox. 
 Some of his poems are to be found in Num. 1 703 
 of the Harleian MSS. which appears to have been 
 his own book. 
 
 FORTESCUE THOMAS, before his '' Fo- 
 reft or collection of historyes," has a poem in- 
 title'd '^ An advertifement written by the transla- 
 tor to his booke." 
 
 FOULER JOHN, an Engliili printer at Ant- 
 werp, was the translatour of *^ An oration againfl 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 211 
 
 die vnlawfull infurrections of the protestantes of 
 our time^ under pretence to refourme religion/* 
 by Peter Frarin of Antwerp, where it was printed 
 by him in 1566. At the end of this translation 
 are feveral elegant wood cuts, the fubje6ts of 
 which are defcribe'd in miferable ftanzas under 
 each. 
 
 FRAUNCE ABRAHAM-^ wrote and pub- 
 lifli'd, 1. ^^ The lamentations of Amintas for the 
 death of Phillis : paraphrastically translated out of 
 Latine into Englifh hexameters :" printed by John 
 Charlewood for Tho. Newman, and Tho. Gub- 
 bin, 1588, 4to. 2. ^^ The counteiTeof Pembrokes 
 Emanuel. Conteining the natiuity, pasfion, bu- 
 riall, and refurrection of Chrift : togeather with 
 certaine pfalmes of Dauid. All in Englifh hexa- 
 meters :" printed for W. Ponfonby, 159 1, 4to. 
 3. ^^ The countefTe of Pembrokes Yuy church. 
 
 ^ Oidys fays, that Ab. Fraunce was bred up at the 
 expence of lir P. Sidney, continue'd aftenvard, in Grays- 
 inn til he was call'd to the bar, belong'd to the court 
 of the councill in the marches of Wales, and in Aug. 
 1590 was recommended by Hen. E. of Pembroke to the 
 Ld. treafurer Burghley, as a man in every refpe6l fufti- 
 cient for the place of her majestys folicitor in that court. 
 T. P. 
 
 P 2 
 
212 POETS OF THE 
 
 Conteining the affectionate life, and vnfortunate 
 death of Phillis Sc Amyntas : that in a pastorall -, 
 this in a funerall : both in Englifh hexameters :" 
 printed by T. Orwin for W. Ponfonby, 1591, 
 4to. To this laft poem are annex'd ^^ The la- 
 mentation of Corydon, for the loue of Alexis, 
 verfe for verfe out of Latine/' firfl printed by J, 
 Charlewood, 15 88, printed alfo in his ^^ Lawiers 
 logike/' 1588, by Wm. How, and '*■ The be- 
 ginning of Heliodorus his iEthiopicall history." 
 4. '^ I'he third part of the counteire of Pembrokes 
 Yuychurch : entituled : Amintas Dale. Wherein 
 are the moit conceited tales of the Pagan gods in 
 Englilb hexameters : together with their aun- 
 cient defcriptions & philofophicall explications :" 
 printed for T. Woodcock, 1592, 4to. 5. A dedi- 
 cation, in verfe, to the earl of Pembroke, in his 
 *' Lawiers logike," pr. by W. How, for Tho. 
 Gubbin, andT. Newman, 1588, 4to.. 6. '•^ The 
 Arcadian rhetoricke," 1588, 8vo. a mixture of 
 profe and verfe -, valuable, fays Warton, for its 
 Enghih examples (III, 406). 
 
 FULBECKE WILLIAM contributed two cho- 
 ruses to the '^ Misfortunes of Arthur, Utlier 
 Pendragons fonne," by Hughes, 15 87, l2mo. 
 
SIXTEENTH CEXTURY. 213 
 
 FULWELL ULPIAN, a Someiietililre man 
 by birth, and, in 1570, rector of Naunton in the 
 county of Gloucester, ^'' compyled," in verfe and 
 profe, '' The flower of fame : containing the 
 bright renowne, and mofte fortunate reigne of 
 king Henry VIII, wherein is mention of matters 
 by the reft of our cronographcrs ouerpalsed : 
 whereunto is annexed a lliort treatife of iij noble 
 and vertuous queenes : and a discourfe of the 
 worthy fervice tliat was done at Hadington in 
 Scotlande, the fecond yere of the reign of king 
 £dward the ftxt :" Printed byW. Hoskins, 1575^ 
 4to. ^^ Ars adulandi, the arte of llatterie," 
 1579, intermix'd with verfe. 
 
 FULWOODD WILLIAM wrote verfes in- 
 ferted at the begining and end of his ^^ Enemie of 
 idlenefle," 1568, 1578, 8vo. 1598, l2mo. and, 
 alfo of Bergomalifees ^'' Castle of memorie" (en- 
 glilh'd by him), 1562. 
 
 FYLDINGE FERDINAND has a fonnet to 
 Tho. Jeney, on his translation of Ronfards '^ Dis- 
 courfe of the troubles in France," 1568. 
 
 G. B. See GAR. BAR. GOOGE BARNA- 
 BY. 
 
 P 3 
 
214 POETS OF THE 
 
 G. E. has commendatory verfes prefix'd to 
 Kendalls '^ Flowre of Epigrams," 1577. See 
 GUILPIN EDWARD. 
 
 G F. See GREVILE FULKE. 
 
 G. J. are initials lign'd to a poem in ^*^ Eng- 
 lands Helicon/' 1600, and may posfiblely be thofe 
 of J. Gougli, a dramatick writer, who furvive'd to 
 the reign of Charles I. 
 
 G. L. is fign'd to a ditty in Robinfons 
 '' Handefull of pleafant dehtes/' 1584. See 
 GIBSON LEONARD. 
 
 G. N. See GRIMOALD NICHOLAS. 
 
 G. S. Thefe initials occur in '' Englands 
 Parnasfus/' 1600, and may, posfiblely, belong to 
 Stephen Gofson. 
 
 G. W. An epitaph, by tile owner of thefc 
 initials, on himfelf, with an anfwer to it, occurs 
 among the poems of the earl of Surrey and others, 
 1557. 
 
 GALE DUN STAN wrote '' Pyramus and 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 215 
 
 Thisbe :" fuppofe'd to have been printed in 1 597 ; 
 as the dedication is addrefs'd '' To the wor- 
 fhipfull his verie friend, D. B. H. 25. Novem- 
 ber, 1596." It is, alfo, annex'd to Greenes 
 *' History of Arbasto." 1617, in the title whereof 
 it is caird ^^ A lovely poem." There was another 
 edition in 1626. '^ Perymas & Thesbye" was, 
 likewife, enter'd to William Griffith in 15623 
 and, according to Warton, printed in quarto, for 
 T. Hackett, b. 1. but that, it is probable, was a 
 different work. 
 
 GALE HENRY has verfes prefix'd to Greenes 
 '* Planetomachia," 1585. 
 
 GAR. BAR. (BARNARD GARTER) wrote 
 '*' The tragical history of two Engiifli louers, 
 1563 :" printed by R. Tottell, 1565, 8vo. Some 
 verfes^ with the fignature of ^^ Ber. Gar." are 
 prefix'd to '^ Pasquine in a traunce," 1584 : 
 and, in 1565^ was licenfe'd to Alexander Lacy 
 *' A new yeres gey ft e, by Barnarde Garter." 
 Warton fays, that, among Coxeters papers, was 
 mention'd '^ The ballet of Helens epistle to Paris, 
 from Ovid/' and fufpe6ts this B. G. to be Ber. 
 Gar. '^ perhaps," he fays, with his ufual fa- 
 
 P 4 
 
2l6 
 
 POETS OF THE 
 
 cility, '' Bernard Gardiner." (Ill, 422.) See 
 GOOGE. 
 
 GASCOIGNE GEORGE, i. '' A hundreth 
 fundrie flowres bounde vp in one Imall poelie. 
 Gathered partely (by translation) in the fyne out- 
 landifh gardins of Euripides, Quid, Petrarke, 
 Ariosto, & others : and partly by inuention, out 
 of our owne fruitefull orchardes in Englande : 
 yelding fundrie fweete fauours of tragical, comi- 
 cal, and morall discourfes, both pleafaunt & pro- 
 fitable to the well fmellyng nofes of learned rea- 
 ders:" printed by H. Bynneman for R. Smith, 
 n. d. [1572] 4to. 2. '' The poefies of George 
 Gascoigne efquire. Corrected, perfe6led, and 
 augmented by the author, 1575 :" printed by H. 
 Bynneman for R. Smith, 4 to. 3. ^'^ The her- 
 mits tale, at Woodftock," 1575 : printed in '^ Q. 
 Elizabeths Progrefses," from a MS. in the 
 B. M. 4. '*' The fieele gias. A fatyre compiled 
 by Geo. Gascoigne efq 5 togither with the 
 complainte of Phylomene, an elegie deuifed by 
 the fame author:" printed for Richard Smith, 
 1576, 4to. 5. '' The whole workes of George 
 Gascoigne efquyre. Newlye compyled into one 
 volume^ tliat is to fay : ^^ His Flowers^ Hearbes, 
 
SIXTEEXTM CENTURY. 217 
 
 Weedes, the Fruites of warre, ^c. and the plea- 
 fare at Kenelworth castle/' 1587, 4to. Firft 
 printed in 1576, 8vo. by Rd. Jhones. Bp. 
 Tanner points out a poetical MS. by Gas- 
 coigne, in Bib. Regis , intitle'd '' The grief of 
 joy," being certain elegies, ^c. Some verfes 
 by him are prefix'd to '^ Cardanus comforte," 
 &c. 157G. He has, likewife, commendatory 
 verfes before Turberviles '^ Arte of venerie," 
 and Hollybands '*" French Littleton," I5g5; and 
 is celebrated by Harvey as one of the Englifli 
 poets who had writen in praife of wowen. (See 
 Gratidat. ValdlnenfeSy 1578.) This authour dye'd 
 at Stamford, in Lincolnfhire, the 7tli of Octo- 
 ber 1577 ; George Whetftones, gentleman, be- 
 ing '^ an eye-witnefs of his godly and charitable 
 end" (Herbert, 1805) : fo that Wood muft 
 needs be mistaken in placeing '' his laft exit... at 
 his houfe in \yalthamitow, in Octob. or Nov. 
 in fifteen hundred feventy and eight 3" unlefs 
 Whetftones pamphlet fliould relate to a different 
 perfon, which Bp. Tanner, who posfefs'd it, 
 feems unable to determine.^ Puttenham gives 
 
 '•^ The bifhops copy, it is fayM, did not come with 
 his other books to the Bodleian ; or at leaft, is not there 
 at prefent. If this tracl, however, had related to G^s- 
 
218 
 
 POETS OF THE 
 
 the prize to '' Gascon^ for a good meter and for a 
 plentifull vayne." 
 
 GASKE G. is the authour of '' A defcription 
 of the world/' in ^^ The paradice of daintie de- 
 uifes/* 1600. t 
 
 GIBSON LEONARD compile'd, in verfe and 
 profe, ^' A tower of trustineffe^ wherein euery 
 Christian fighting vnder the banner of Chrilt may- 
 defend himfelfe againll the cruell asfaults of his 
 enemies^'* 8vo. Alfo a fong intitle'd '' L. Gib- 
 fons Tantara^ wherin Danea welcommeth home 
 
 eoigne the pet, mister Park thinks the bifhop mufl furely 
 have discovered it (though, in fa6i:, he ascertains no- 
 thing either one way or the other). Nafh, he ads, feems 
 to fatirize Gascoigne, in P. Pennilefse, and to defignate 
 him as ** the greafy fon of a cloathier/* 
 
 f Mister Park alks *< whether this name be not an 
 abbreviation for G. Gascoigne V* It is not at all impro- 
 bable, except that Gascoigne had been dead many years 
 before the date of this edition, and never appears in a 
 precedeingc He, however, believes that the above figna- 
 ture appeared in the edition of 1580J and ads, that 
 Webbe fJDels his name GaskoyxiQ : but Gafi, at the fame 
 time, is not Gcifie, 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 219 
 
 her lord Diophon from the war," in Robinfons 
 *' Handefull of pleafant delites," 1 584. There are 
 fome poetical pieces in his translation out of 
 French of '' The joyful and royal entertainment 
 of the right high and mightie prince, Frauncis the 
 Frenche kings only brother, by the grace of god 
 duke of Brabande, Aniow, Alaunfon, &c. into 
 his noble citie of Antwerpe :" Pr. by Tho. 
 Dawfon for William Ponfonby, 1582, 12mo. 
 
 GIBSON THOMAS, a native of Morpeth in 
 Northhumberland, and, in time, an eminent 
 phyfician, wrote ^*' A breue cronycle of the bys- 
 fhope of Homes blefsynge, and of his prelates 
 beneficiall and charitable rewardes, from the 
 tyitie of kynge Heralde vnto this day :" printed 
 by John Day, n. d. l6mo. He dye'd at London 
 in 1562. 
 
 GIFFORD HUMPHREY, gentleman, put to- 
 gcther '' A polie of gilloflowers, eche differing 
 from other in colour and odour, yet all fweete:" 
 printed by J. Perin, 1580, 4 to. The only known 
 copy of this book is in the royal library : to 
 which the prefent catalogue is folely indebted for 
 feveral articles. Mister Ellis has given feveral 
 fpecimens from tliis collection. 
 
 ■»•> 
 
220 
 
 POETS OF THE 
 
 GILBART THOMAS wrote a ballad, intitle'd 
 '^ A declaration of the death of John Lewes, a 
 moft detestable & obilinate hereticke, at Nor- 
 wich, IS Sept. 1583. To the tune of John 
 Careleffe .-"'^ printed by Richard Jones, in the 
 fame year : a broadlide. 
 
 GOD JOHN fet forth, in Englilli verfe. 
 
 ie 
 
 discourfe of the great crueltie of a widow towards 
 a young gentleman, and by what means he re- 
 quited the fame :" printed by Henry Binneman, 
 n. d. 8vo. b. 1. 
 
 GOLDING ARTHUR translated '' The xv. 
 bookes of P. Ouidius Nafo, entytuled Metamor- 
 phofis, a worke very pleafaunt and delectable:" 
 printed by W. Seres, 15 67. 4 to. The firft 4 
 books were printed by the fame perfon in 1565. 
 There are feveral fubfequent editions. Commen- 
 datory verfes by ^' Arthur Golding to the reader,** 
 are prefixed to Barets '' Alvearie.'' 
 
 GOLDINGHAM HENRY wrote a poem, in- 
 fcribe'd to Q. Elizabeth, intitle'd '' The garden- 
 
 * Another heretick. See before, p. 153. 
 
SIXTEENTH CEXTURY. 221 
 
 plotf extant in Num. 6902 of the Harleian 
 MSS. More of his poetry, witli a mafque of his 
 devifeing, may be found in a tra6l intitle'd '^ The 
 ioyfull receyuing of the queenes maiestie into her 
 highnefs citie of Norwich^ ^c. IbJS, 4to. He 
 feems_, likewife, to have had a hand in the 
 '* Princely pleafures of K en il worth castle." See 
 an anecdote of him in Steevenses S/faltfpeare, 
 1793, V, 76, from the Harleian MS. 63Q5. 
 
 GOODWIN CHRISTOPHER wrote '' The 
 maydens dreme:" printed in 1542, 4 to. and 
 *' The chance of the dolorous lover 3" 15 20, 4to. 
 Both thefe pieces are mentioned by Tanner ; 
 and Warton, who fays the firft is '^ a vifion 
 without imagination," and the other '' a la- 
 mentable ftory without pathos," and gives, be- 
 lide, the firfl line of each, mull be prefume'd to 
 have feen them. 
 
 GOOGE BARNABY wrote '' Eglogs, epy- 
 taphes, and fonettes :" printed by Tho. Colwell 
 for Ralph Newbery, 1563, fe'c. 8vo. He, like- 
 wife, translated '' The Zodiake of life, written 
 by the godly and zealous poet Marcellus Pallin- 
 genius flellatus, wherein are conteyned twelve 
 
> 
 
 222 
 
 POETS OF THE 
 
 bookes disclofing the haynous cryraes and wicked 
 vices of our corrupt nature : and plainlye de- 
 claring the pleafaunt & perfit pathway vn to eter- 
 ternal lyfe,. beiides a numbre of digresfions both 
 pleafant and profitable :" printed by H. Denham 
 for Ralph Newbery, 1565^ l6mo. '' The firfl 
 thre bokes" of which were printed by J. Tisdale, 
 
 1560, 8vo. ^' Sixe bookes" were publilli'd in 
 
 1561. Alfo ^^ The popifh kingdome, or reigne 
 of Anti-chrill," from the Latin of Thomas Nao- 
 georgus : printed by H. Denham, 1570, 4to. 
 and '^ The overthrow of the gowte," written in 
 Latin verfe, by Chr. Balista, translated by B. G. 
 printed for Abraham Veale, 1577, 8vo. B. G. 
 the authour of feveral pieces of poetry interfperfe*d 
 throughout '' The ioyfull receyuing of the queenes 
 maiestie into her highnefs citye of Norwich, l^c.'' 
 1578, is fuppofe'd to be Bernard Garter; who, 
 and not ^' B. Goldingham," is certainly meant 
 in ^^ Queen Elizabeths progrefs to Norwich, an, 
 1578, colle6ted by Ber. Gar. and T. C. (Thomas 
 Churchyarde) :" pr. by John Day, 4to. (Her- 
 bert, QQQ.) ^^ A new yeares gifte, dedicated to 
 the popes holineffe" &c. by B. G. citizen of 
 London, 1579, 4ta. contains feveral pieces of 
 poetry. In his '^ Foure bookes of husbandry. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 223 
 
 colle6led by M. Conradus Heresbachius/' ^c. 
 pr. by Tho. Wight^ l6oi, 4to. are feveral poeti- 
 cal translations from Virgil and other writeers. 
 The edition of 1596 has^ at the end^ ^^ Old 
 Engleiili rules for purchaling land/' in verfe. 
 
 GOSSON STEPHEN, authour of '' The fchool 
 ©fabufe/' 1579^ wrote a poem, intitle'd, ^'Spe- 
 culum human invy' in fix eleven-line fi:anzas, 
 printed at the end of Kertons ^'^ Mirror of mans 
 life," 1580. Wood fays, he was noteed in the 
 great city, '' for his admirable penning of pasto- 
 rals/' none of which, however, he had feen. 
 
 GOSYNHYLL EDWARD wrote, in Eiigleilh 
 verfe, '^ The prayfe of all women, called Mu^ 
 lierum pean : very fruytfull and delectable unto all 
 thereders:" imprinted by Wyllyam Myddylton, 
 no date, 4to. b. 1. 
 
 GRAFTON RICHARD, printer, wrote a 
 poetical dedication, to the duke of Norfolk, before 
 Hardyngs chronicle, in 22 feven-line ftanzas 3 
 allfo ^' The preface" to the fame work, in 31. 
 
 GRANGE JOHN publilli'd '' The golden 
 aphroditis : a pleafant discourfe, penned by John 
 
224 POETS OP THE 
 
 Grange gentleman^ ftudent in the common lawe 
 of Englande. Whereunto be annexed by the 
 fame authour as well certayne metres vpon fun- 
 dry poyntes^ as alfo diuers pamphlets in profe, 
 which he entitled His GARDEN : pleafant to 
 the eare^ and delightful to the reader^ if he abiife 
 not the fcente of the flour es. At London 
 anno 1577." This work is interfperfe'd with fe- 
 veral piecees of poetry. At the end^ on a new 
 title^ ^^ Imprinted at London by Henry Bynne- 
 man," 4to. 
 
 GRANT EDWARD, fchoolmaster of Weft- 
 minster, wrote commendatory verfees prefix'd to 
 Twynes translation of Lhuyds ^^ Breviary of Bri- 
 tayne/' 1573, i2mo. 
 
 » 
 
 GRAY WILLIAM is fuppofe'd to be the au- 
 thour of '^ A booke intitled The fantalies of idola- 
 trie," coniifting of 50 llanzas, and inferted at 
 large in the hrft edition of Foxes ^' A6ts and mo- 
 numents," p. 599. In the Sloane MS. 1206, is 
 an old poem, begining thus : 
 
 ^' Helth onor and vertu longe tyme and fpace 
 
 William Gray wyihethe unto your good graffe :" 
 with an epitaph on Gray. He is probablely, the 
 perfon mention'd by Puttenham, as haveing growa 
 
SIXTEENTH CEXTURY. 225 
 
 and into good eftimation with king Henry the 8th, 
 afterward with the duke of Somerfet protector, 
 '^ for making certaine merry ballades, whereof 
 one chiefly was, T/ie hvnte is rp, the huiUe is 
 vpy This ballad appears to have been licenfe'd 
 to W. Griffith in 15 70. 
 
 GRAYNGER .... wrote a ballad or fong of 
 '^ Peters delyveraunce out of Herodes handesj" 
 licenfe'd to Peter French in 15/0. 
 
 GREENE ROBERT. Many pieces of poetry, 
 by this prolifick author, are interfperfe'd through- 
 out his numerous romantick and other publica- 
 tions ', whence, it is prefume'd, the 7 poems, in- 
 ferted, under his name, in ^^ Englands Helicon," 
 1600, are felefted. Herbert registers — '^ Greenes 
 vifion : written at the inftant of his death, con- 
 teyning a penitent pasfion for the folly of his 
 pen :" printed for Tho. Newman, n. d. 4to. in 
 the introduction to which is a copy of verfes in- 
 title'd '^ Greenes ode, of the vanity of wanton 
 writings."* He dye'd in 1592, of a furfeit, occa- 
 fion'd, as Wood fays, ^' by eating pickled her- 
 
 * The above tra6l alfo contains poetical dcfcriptions 
 
 Q 
 
226 POETS OF THE 
 
 rings, and drinking with them Rhenifli wine." 
 See H. I. 
 
 GREENE THOMAS, gentleman, wrote '' A 
 poets vilion & a princes glorie," dedicated to K. 
 James, l603, 4to. 
 
 GRENE BARTLET, burnt, along with fix 
 others, two being women, in January 1556, 
 wrote a few lines in a book of master Husfey of 
 the Temple, and another of master William Fleet- 
 wood of the fame houfe : printed by Foxe. 
 
 GREEPE THOMAS wrote '' The true and 
 perfe6le newes of the woorthy and valiaunt ex- 
 ploytes, performed and doone by that valiant 
 knight fyr Frauncis Drake. Not onely at Sancto 
 Domingo and Cartliagena, but alfo now at Gales, 
 and vppon the coall of Spayne :'* printed by J. 
 Charlewood, 1587, 4to.* 
 
 of Gower and Chaucer, which were reprinted in the Har- 
 leian miscellany [and alfo by Herbert]. T. P. 
 
 The bell account of Greene appeared in Berken- 
 houts '* Biografhia literariay^^ and was communicated by 
 Mr. Steevens from the MS. notes of Oldys. T. P. 
 
 * Greepe, in a dedication to George Clifford, E. of 
 
SIXTEEXTII CEXTUKY. 22/ 
 
 GREVILE SIR FULKE, lord Brooke, wrote 
 feveral poems,, which, with other of his ^* learned 
 and elegant workes," were collected and pub- 
 lifh'd in l633, fo. His ^^ Remains : being 
 poems of monarchy and religion/' appear'd in 
 1670, 8vo. ^*^ in all which/' as is remark'd by 
 Phillips or Milton, ^^ is obfervable a clofe, mys- 
 terious and fententious way of writing, without 
 much regard to elegancy of flyle, or fmoothnefs 
 of verfe." Four or five of his poems, two of 
 them under the fignature M. F. G. are inferted in 
 '■'^ Englands Helicon," 1600. Another^ with the 
 initials F. G. is in ^^ The paradice of daintie de- 
 uifes," 1576. He was born in 1554, knighted 
 in 1603, created a peer in iCsi, and dye'd, of a 
 ft ab from a revengeful fervant, in 1628. 
 
 GRIFFIN B. publiih'd '' Fidesfa, more chafle 
 then kinde 3" a collection of amatory fonnets : 
 printed for M. Lownes by the widow Orwin, 
 1596, 1 2mo. Dedicated to M. Wm. Esfex of 
 Lambourne, Berks : and to tlie g"entlemen of the 
 
 Cumberland, fpeaks of himfelf as ** a rude countriman, 
 brought up manie yeeres in husbandrie, having more 
 knowledge in culturing of lande dien in defcriptions of 
 conquefls of countries/' The rudenefs of his perform- 
 ance evinces the truth of his declaration. T. P. 
 
 Q 2 
 
228 POETS OF THE 
 
 innes of court. In the latter dedication he fpeaks 
 of ^' a pastorall yet unfinifhed^" which it was his 
 purpofe to have aded to his little volume of fon- 
 nets. 
 
 GRIMOALD NICHOLAS, a native of Hun- 
 tingdoniliire, translated into blank verfe, from 
 the Latin of Philip Gaultier, ^' The death of Zo- 
 roas, an Egiptian aftronomer, in the firll fight 
 that Alexander had witli the Perfians 3" alfo 
 ^' Marcus Tullius Ciceros death :" to which are 
 aded four lines '' Of M. T. Cicero :'' at the end 
 of '' Songes and fonettes," 153?: in which he 
 has a poem on the death of lady Margaret Lee, 
 in 1555, and on fir James Wilford. ^' He 
 hath alfo," according to Wood, '' divers Latin 
 and Englilh copies of verfes, occafionally printed 
 before, and in commendation of other mens 
 works :" and ufually fubfcribe'd with his initials. 
 One of thefe tributary offerings appeared before 
 ^^ Turners prefervative, or Triade agaynft the 
 poyfon of Pelagius," 1551. He dye'd about 1563. 
 See Steevenses Shakfpeare, IT, 109. 
 
 GROVE MATTHEW wrote '' I'he moll fa- 
 mous and tragicall historic of Pelops and Hippo- 
 damia. Whereunto are adjoyned fundrie plea- 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 22Q 
 
 fant deuifes^ epigrams^ fonges, and fonnettes :" 
 printed by Abel Jeffs, 1587, 8vo. Prcfix'd are 
 fome foolilh verfes, '''To the ryght honorable... 
 lord Compton/' by the editour, R. Smith, who 
 tels his patron, 
 
 '^ Th'aucthor fure i doe not know^ 
 
 Ne whetlier he be high or low. 
 
 Or now aliuc, or els be dead." 
 
 GRYFYTHE HUGH, a prifoner, made '' A 
 fonnet, or a lynners folace," botli in Welfli and 
 Englifh ; alio '' An epitaphe of the death of fir 
 Yevan Lloyd of Yale knight:" both licenfe'd to 
 Richard Jones, i'Oth March 1586-7. 
 
 GUILPIN EDWARD has two fonnets pre- 
 fix'd to Markhams *'Devereux:" 1597. One, 
 '^ in prayfe of the worke," the other, '' to his 
 deere friend Jervis Markham." A copy of verfea 
 by E. G. before Kendalls '' Flowers of epi- 
 grams," 1577^ niay, posliblely, belong to the 
 fame writer : and another fign'd Ed. G. before 
 Barets '' Alvearie," 1580. He, likewife, occurs 
 in '' Englands Parnasfus," 1600. 
 
 GUY RICHARD. See JACKSON. 
 
 Q 3 
 
230 POETS OF THE 
 
 GWYN DAVID, '' who for the fpace of ele- 
 uen yeeres and two mounths, was in moll greiuous 
 feruitude in the gallies, vnder the king of Spaine, 
 and, by the wonderfull prouidence of god, de- 
 liuered from captiuitie, to the ouerthrow of many 
 of the Spaniards, and the great reioycing of all 
 true hearted EngUihmen," pen'd, '^ Certayne 
 Engliih verfes," which he ^^ prefented to the 
 queens moil excellent maiestie in the park at 
 Saint James :" printed by Richard Hudfon, w. 
 d.* 
 
 H. C. is fpoken of by Herbert as a fignature in 
 The paradice of dainty devices." 
 
 <e 
 
 H. J. Thefe initials are prefix'd to a couple 
 of flanzas, at the head of Kyffins ^^ Blefsednes 
 ofBrytaine," 1588, ^*^ In commendation of this 
 worke, and the writer." They, likewife, belong 
 to the editour of ^^ Greenes Groatsworth of wit,*' 
 ^^ publifhed 'at his dying requeft," who has, at 
 the end, '^ Greenes epitaph, discourfed dialogue- 
 
 * This is, doubtlefs, *< Gwyms poems, black letter, 
 without date, Num. 13 711 of the Harleian catalogue, 
 
 ^nglijh -poetry y octavo,^* 
 
SIXTEKNTH CENTURY. 231 
 
 wife between Life and Death. See HEYWOOD 
 JASPER." 
 
 H. R. See HALL RICHARD. 
 
 H. T. See HOWELL THOMAS. 
 
 HAKE EDWARD wrote '' A commemora- 
 tion of the moft prosperous & peaceable raigne of 
 our gratious & deere foueraigne lady Elizabeth^ 
 C^'c." printed by W. How for R. Johnes^ 1575, 
 8vo. He was^ likewife, authour of ^^ A touch- 
 ftone for the time prefent, Cf/c." 15/4, l2mo. 
 (See Warton, III, 275.) A traft intitle'd '' Of 
 golds kingdom & this unhelping age, defcribed 
 in fundry poems, by E. Hake," was printed in 
 1604, 4to. 
 
 HAKE RICHARD, gentleman, has verfes be- 
 fore ^^ Greenes Never too late," l6oo. 
 
 HALL ARTHUR, efquire, translated out of 
 French '^ Ten books of Homers Iliades :" printed 
 by Ralph Newberie, 1581, 4to. b. 1. in lines of 
 14 fyllables. The translatours copy of his original 
 (^' Les dix premiers livres de Vlliade d'Homerc, 
 prince de poets : tradi6iz en vers Francois par M. 
 
 Q 4 
 
232 POETS OF THE 
 
 Hiigties Salcly 1555/') is in the Britifh mufeura. 
 He was member of parliament for Grantham. 
 
 HALL ELIZE, an impostour_, who^ in 1562^ 
 appear' d in the ftreets of London^ pretending to 
 be a mesfenger from heaven to the queen, wrote 
 ^*' Vilions/' which lir John Parker had in MS. 
 See Strypes Life of Elizabeth y^^. 253. 
 
 HALL JOHN wrote '' The courte of Vertue, 
 contayning many holy or fpretuall fonges, fon- 
 nettes, pfalmes, balletts, and fliorte fentences, as 
 well of holy fcripture as others :" with muiical 
 notes: printed by Tho. Marllie, 1565, l6mo. 
 That he was a medical man appears by ^^ A ditie 
 made to the prayfe of god, for a pacient to vfe 
 after helth attayned, who, contrary to all mens 
 expectation, was in hys handes by the goodnes of 
 god cured." The above book feems, from the 
 prologue, to have been writen in contraft to one 
 name'd ^^ The court of Venus." (See Herbert, 
 854.)* He, likewife, drew into metre ^'^ The 
 
 * By a fragment of *< The court of Venus/' in the 
 posfesfion of Francis Douce efquire, it appears to have 
 been a collection of love-fongs. !Nafh, in his ^* Ana- 
 tomy of abfurditie," 1589, fpeaks of " Venus' court,'* 
 as a '< forgotten legendary licence of lying." 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 233 
 
 prouerbes of Salamon, thre chapters of Ecclefi- 
 astes^ the fixthe chapter of Sapientia^ the ix. 
 chapter of Ecclefiasticus, and certayne pfalmes of 
 Dauid:" printed by Ed. Whitchurch^ without 
 date, 8vo. and grievously complains that '^ cer- 
 tayne chapters of tlie Frouerbcs, translated by 
 him into Englifh metre, 1550, had before been 
 untruely entituled to be the doyngs of mayster 
 Thomas Sternhold." In 1562 was licenfe'd to 
 Rowland Hall, '^ A poofye in forme of a vyfion 
 agaynfle wytche crafte & fofyrye in myter by 
 John Hall." Whether he were the fame with 
 John Hall '^ chirurgeon," who wrote commen- 
 datory verfes, prefix'd to Gales '^ Inllitution of a 
 chirurgian," and his '^ Enchiridion of chirurge- 
 rie," 1563, is uncertain,^ and to his own reduc- 
 tion of the ^' C/iirurgia parua La?ifra?ici/' 1565. 
 
 HALL JOSEPH, biiliop of Exeter, and of 
 Norwich, wrote '' Virgidemiarum, fixe bookes. 
 Firfl three bookes of tooth-lelTe fatyrs. 1. Poeti- 
 call. 2. Academicall. 3. Morall :" printed by 
 T. Creede for R. Dexter, 1597, 1598. — '' The 
 three lall bookes of byting fatyrs :" by R. Bra- 
 dock for Dexter, 1598. — Both parts, 1599: firfl 
 
 ^ That the former was a phyfician, fee Herbert, S54. 
 
234 POETS OF THE 
 
 part, 1602 :— all i6mo^. Thefe fatires were re- 
 publiih'd at Oxford, in 1753, by the reverend 
 William Dodd, afterward D. D. executed for for- 
 gery : or rather by the reverend William Thomp- 
 fon^ M. A. of Queens college Oxon, as mister 
 Reed appears to have fuggefted to doctor Far- 
 mer. The authour was born in 1574 and dye'd in 
 1606. 
 
 HALL WILLIAM, has verfes prefix'd to 
 Mundays ^^ Mirror of mutabili tie,'* 1579. 
 
 HARBERT SIR WILLIAM wrote '' Sidney, 
 or Baripenthes, briefely fhadowing out the rare 
 & neuer-ending laudes of that mofl honorable 
 &: praife- worthy gent, fir Philip Sidney knight :'* 
 printed by John Windet, 15 86, 4to. Alfo '^ A 
 propheiie of Cadwallader, lall king of the Bri- 
 taines, containing a comparifon of the Engliih 
 kings, with many worthy Romanes, from Wil- 
 liam Rufus till Henry the firfi:," ^c. infcribe'd to 
 
 * Bifhop Halls fatires were flay'd at the prefs, by 
 order of the archbilhop of Canterbury and bilhop of 
 London ; and fuch copys as could be found were to 
 " bee prefentlye broughte to the Bp. of London to be 
 burnte/* 
 
 ..^^^ 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 235 
 
 fir Philip Herbert. Printed by T. Creede, l604, 
 4to. There is, likewife, fomething by him in 
 '' The phoenix neft/' 1593 : and a poem before 
 Erondells *"' French garden/' l605, ''In laiidem 
 authorise "^ 
 
 HARINGTON FRANCIS, younger brother 
 of lir John Harington, furnifh'd the latter, for 
 his translation of Orlando furiofo, with the firll 
 50 flanzas of the 3 2d book. 
 
 HARINGTON JOHN wrote certain fonnets 
 and other poems : printed in '' Nugce antiquce,'" 
 1 779. Mister Ellis has printed one of thefe as the 
 performance of fir John Harington, his fon, 
 though it was fomid in a MS. dated 1564, before 
 the latter was born. Sir John, in his '' Briefe 
 view of the ftate of the church of England," has 
 inferted a few ftanzas, which, when confine'd in 
 the tower, he addrefs'd to biiliop Bonner. He 
 dye'd in 1582. f 
 
 '''^ He is calPd *' Sir William Harbert knight/' in 
 The typographical antiquitlcsy but by Wood ** one William 
 Herbert." 
 
 + Ben Jonfon gave it as his opinion " That fir John 
 Harringtons Ariostoy under all translations, was the 
 
236 POETS OF THE 
 
 HARINGTON SIR JOHN translated '' Or- 
 lando furiofo in Englilli heroicall verfe :" printed 
 by Richard Field-, Ibgi, fo. He, likewife, wrote 
 a book of epigrams : printed for John Bridges, 
 in 1615, 4to.* and publiili'd '' The Englilhmans 
 doctor, or The fchoole of Salerne, or Phyli- 
 call obferuations for the perfe6l preferving of the 
 body of man in continuall health:" printed for 
 John Helme, 1609 (a translation from the 
 Schola Salerni) : reprinted in l624, under tlie title 
 of ^^ The fchoole of Salerne, and the precepts of 
 Ronfovius 5'* both 8vo. In ten-line flanzas. He 
 has, likewife, fome fonnets in his '^ Pierces fu- 
 pererogation, or a new prayfe of the old aife," 
 1593, 4to. He has a fonnet in ^^'^ The Odcom- 
 bian banquet," 1611, upon that *^*^ whetflone of 
 all the wits," Tom Coriat. He verfify'd the 
 whole of the pfalter of David, which mister Douce 
 has in MS. He, likewife, has fome poetical fcraps 
 in his ^^ New discourfe of a ilale fubje6t, called 
 
 word : [ading] That when fir John defiied him to tell 
 the truth of his epigrams, he anfwered him, That he 
 loved not the truth, for they were narrations, not epi- 
 grams." 
 
 * This edition contains only 115, and forms the 4th 
 book of the entire collection in 1618, 1625 and 1634. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 237 
 
 The metamorphofis of Ajaxor a-jakes/' \5q6j^ 
 and wrote verfes on the death of Mary Q. of 
 Scots : which was in Flemings MS. defcribe'd by 
 Peck. An Inedited poem by him intitle'd ^^ Eng- 
 lands poverty/' is preferve'd in MS. Aflimole^ 78 1 . 
 Among the MSS. in the College-library Edin- 
 burgh, is ^^ A new yeares gift to K. James by fir 
 J. Harrington." He dye'd in l6l2. 
 
 HARVEY GABRIEL wrote fome Engliih 
 hexameters and other pieces of poetry, inferted, 
 or alluded to, in '' Three proper, and wittie, 
 familiar letters, Cf/c." 15 80. Particularly, at p. 
 51 [43], a ^^^ pawlting bungrely rime," beftow'd 
 by him upon '^ an honeft countrey gentleman, 
 fometimes a fchoUer, to prefent his maistreffe 
 
 * This ludicrous effufion combines much learning 
 with more humour, and had three distindl impresfions, 
 though a licence was refufed for printing the work, 
 and the author was forbid the court for writing it. In 
 the life of Harin^ton, prefixed to <* Nugae Antiquse," 
 it is faid to have been occafioned by the authors having 
 invented a kind of water-clofet for his houfe at Kelston 
 near Eath. The ingenious Mrs. Cooper has made an 
 odd mistake, from not having feen the tra6l, in fup- 
 pofing that it was written for a *' Court-amufement. 
 T. P. 
 
238 
 
 POETS OF THE 
 
 withall :" which has been^ inadvertently^ attri- 
 buted to Spenfer. He even boails^ in a fubfe- 
 quent publication {'' Foure letter3, ^^c." 1592) 
 of being the inventour of this unnatural fpecies of 
 veriification^ which had been practife'd by lord 
 Surrey and others before he was born."^ In tlie 
 fame pamphlet are 23 Ibnnets by him 3 and^ at 
 the end of another^ intitle'd '' A new letter of 
 notable contents^" 1593^ are 2 or 3 more. He 
 dye'd in l6...f 
 
 HATFIELD EDMUND translated, from the 
 Latin_, ^^ The lyf of faynt Urfula, after the crony- 
 cles of Englonde :" printed by Wynken de Worde, 
 without date, in 4to. 
 
 '* The great Milton, who profefses to be the firfl 
 Englijh poet who rejedled rime, feems to have fallen into 
 a fimilar mistake. 
 
 + It is no fmall honour to Harvey, that fir P. Sidney 
 highly efleemed him, or that he was the *^ fpecial 
 friend*' of Spenfer, as Webbe asferts, and his own let- 
 ters prove. Meres unites him with Stanihurft, as <* our 
 two iambical poets;" and Mr. Upton is of opinion, 
 that his verfes affixed to the Faery Queen, if he had 
 written nothing elfe, would have made his name im- 
 mortal : but this is excesfive and inconfiderate praife. 
 T.P. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 239 
 
 HATH WAY R. wrote commendatory verfes 
 prefixed to Bodenhams '^ Belvedere, or tlie gar- 
 den of the mufes/' l600, l2mo. Hathway is 
 number' d by Meres, among the chief dramatick 
 poets of his time. Malone fuggefts that he was, 
 perhaps, the kinsman of Ann Hathaway, who 
 marry'd Shakspeare. (Inquiry, p. 94.) 
 
 HATTON SIR CHRISTOPHER has an acros- 
 tick^ in Engliih Alexandrines, prefix'd to Lloids 
 ^' Pilgrimage of princes :" which is dedicated to 
 him. 
 
 HAWKINS ARTHUR, and JOHN, wiote 
 commendatory verfes, prefix'd to fir G. Peck- 
 hams ^^ True reporte of the late discoueries, £5'c." 
 1583. 
 
 HA WARD. See HOWARD. 
 
 HERBERT MARY, countefs of Pembroke, 
 the illustrious fister of fir Philip Sidney, wrote 
 '' A dialogue betweene two fhepheards, in praife 
 
 * This acrostick is not unlikely to have been the com- 
 pofition of Lloid. <* i/^7/'o;z each vice,'' fays the writer, 
 quaintly punning on his patrons name. T. P. 
 
240 POETS OF THE 
 
 ofAflrea:" printed in Davifons '"'^ Poetical rap- 
 fodie/' 1602. A few pfalms of her translation 
 are printed in Haringtons Niigoe a?ifiquce.^ She 
 dye'd in 1 62 1 . See SPENSER. 
 
 HERBERT SIR W. See HARBERT. 
 
 HEYWOOD JASPER, a jefuit, the elder fon 
 of John, is the authour of feveral poems in '^ The 
 paradice of daintie deuices/' 1576, ^c. The 
 initials I. H. are prefume'd to belong to the fame 
 perfon. He dye'd, at Naples, in 1597-8. 
 
 HEYWOOD JOHN wrote '' A dialogue, 
 contayning in effe6l the number of al the 
 proverbes in the Englifli tongue compa6l in a 
 matter concerning two marriages :'* printed by 
 T. Berthelet, 1547;, 4to. and 1549, 8vo. b. 1. 
 reprinted in his '' Woorkes/* 1562, 1576, 
 
 * The verfion commonly attributed to fir P. Sidney, 
 is, probablely, the joint production of his fister. iEmi- 
 lia Langer fpeaks of " the pfalms written newly by the 
 countefs of Pembroke," in Salve deusy 161 1 : and 
 Steele, in No. t8 of " The guardian," has printed 
 Pfalm CXXXVII from a MS. attributed to fir P. Sid- 
 ney, which nearly correfponds with the fame pfalm in 
 NugiS Antiqu<s, T. P, 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 241 
 
 1587>* and 1598, along with ^^ one hundreth 
 epigrammes : and three hundreth of epigramtnes 
 vpon thre hundreth prouerbes : and a fifth hun- 
 dred of epigrammes : whereunto/' in the edition 
 of 1576^ *^*' are newly added a fixte hundred of 
 epigrammes." He^ alfo, pen'd *^*'Abalade fpeci- 
 fienge partly the maner^ partly the matter, in the 
 moft excellent meetyng, and lyke manage be- 
 tw^ene our foueraigne lord ck" our foueraigne lady, 
 the kynges and queenes highnes [Philip & Ma- 
 ry] :" a flieet, in large black letter, printed by 
 W. Beddell : and, Ukewife, ^' A brefe balet, 
 touching the trayterous takynge of Scarborow 
 castle [1557] j" printed by Tho. Powell. His 
 principal performance feems to be '^ A parable 
 of the fpider and the flie^" printed by Tho. 
 Powell, 1556, 4to. b. 1. This is an allegorical 
 poem, in feven-line flanzas^ divided into 98 
 chapters, with a cut to each. On the back of 
 the title, and fometimes before the preface, is the 
 authors portrait at full length. f The preface is 
 
 * This edition, though unnoticed by Ames and Her- 
 bert, was recorded in the <* Bibliotkeca''* of bifhop Tan- 
 ner, whofe copy is now in my posfesfion. T. P. 
 
 t In BerkenhoutS '< Biografhla liter aria,'' this work 
 is faid to contain 79 wood portraits of the authour. 
 
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242 POETS OF THE 
 
 in verfe ^ and in '^ The conclulion'* we are 
 inform'd that by the fpiders we are to under- 
 ftand the protestants, by the flies the catholicks, 
 G^'c* It would feem^ however^ as if the ^*^ ex- 
 pofisfion of the auctor touching this parable^"^ 
 was not fufficiently lucid, fince, according to 
 Harrifon^ ^^ he dealeth fo profoundly, and beyond 
 all meafure of fkill, that neither he himfelf that 
 made it, neither any one that readeth it, can 
 reach unto the meaning thereof." 
 
 In the Harleian MS. 1703 is '^ John Hey- 
 woodes ingenious difcription of queen Mary at 
 18 years of age;'* and, in 367, his *^^ Poetical 
 dialogue concerning witty & witlefs^" made, as 
 it feems, to be recited before K. Henry the 8th. 
 Haveing, on the death of queen Mary, who had 
 a great value for him, become a refugee for his 
 religion, he dye'd, at Mechlin, 1565.f 
 
 HIGINS JOHN, educated at Oxford, wrote 
 ^^ The firft part of the mirour for magistrates, 
 
 *^ See Herbert, 874. 
 
 \ One John Heywood made a publick recantation of 
 the popes fupremacy, at Pauls-crofs, in 1544; but 
 whether this were our poet, or a different perfbn, does 
 not appear. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 243 
 
 contayning the falles of the firfl infortunate 
 princes of this lande : from the comming of 
 Brute to the incarnation of our fauiour and re- 
 demer lefu Chrifte :" printed^ at London, by 
 Thomas Marfhe, 1575, and again, 1578, 4 to. 
 b. 1. The legends in this work, being thofe of 
 Albana6t, Humber, Locrinus, Elflride, Sabrine, 
 Madan, Manlius, Mempricius, Bladud, Cordila^ 
 Morgan, Forrex, Porrex, Kimarus, Morindus, 
 Nennius, and Irenglas, are entirely his own. It 
 was call'd '^ The firll part" in reference to the 
 collection, by Baldwine and others, 1563 and 
 1571, which was now, and afterward, reprinted 
 as '' The lafl part." He, likewife, publiih'd 
 ^*' The mirour for magistrates, wherein may bee 
 feene, by examples pafsed in this realme, with 
 how greeuous plagues vices are puniflied in great 
 princes and magistrates, and how fraile and vn- 
 ftable worldly prosperity is found, where Fortune 
 feemeth mofl highly to fauour. Newly im- 
 printed, and with the addition of diuers trage- 
 dies enlarged. At London in Fleet-ftreet by 
 Henry Marfli, being the asiigne of Thomas 
 Marfh, 1587/' 4to. b. 1. which contains his own 
 work, with feveral additional legends, viz, thofe 
 of kings Jago, Pinnar, Stater, Rudacke, Bren- 
 nus, Emerianus, Chirinus, and Varianus, of 
 
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244 POETS OF THE 
 
 Csefar, Nero^, Caligula^ Guiderius, Loelius> Ha- 
 mO;, Drufus_, Domitius^ Galba, Otho, Vitellius, 
 Londricus, Severus^ Fulgentius^ Geta, and Ca- 
 racalla; and alfo that originally publilli'd by 
 Baldwine, with fome additions, in which the le- 
 gend of fir Nicholas Burdet is by himfelf. He, 
 at this time, as appears from the prefatory epistle, 
 relided at Winceham, in Somerfetfhire (Wood 
 fays, Surrey), where he was probablely parfon or 
 fchoolmaster. In the title of his edition of '^ Hu- 
 loets Dictionarie," 15/2, are fome flanzas. 
 
 HILARIE HUGH wrote '' The refarrection 
 of the maffe, with the wonderful vertues of the 
 fame:" Lon. 1554. b. 1. 
 
 HILL RICHARD is the authour of certain 
 poems in ^^ The paradice of daintie deuices," 
 1576, ^c. H. Hill, fubfcribe'd to a poem in 
 that collection, is fuppofe'd to be a mistake for 
 the fame perfon, to whom the initials R. H. in 
 other places are alfo prefume'd to belong. One, 
 perhap this fame, Hyll is mention'd by Webbe. 
 
 HITCHCOCKES WILLIAM, gentleman, has 
 commendatory verfes prefix'd to George Norths 
 ^' Philofophie of the court," 1575. 
 
SIXTEEXTII CENTURY. 245 
 
 HOGARD MILES, a hofier of London, in 
 tlie fervice of queen Mary, wrote 1. '' The 
 abufe of the blefsed facrament of the aultare 
 (See Herbert, 6l8):" 1548. 2. '' A treatife 
 of three weddings:" 1550. 3. ^' A confuta- 
 tion to tlie anfwer of a wicked ballad:" 1550. 
 4. ^' A treatife entitled. The pathway to tlie 
 towre of perfection:" 1554, 4to. 5. ^^ The as- 
 fault of the facrament of the altar, made from 
 tyme to tyme againfl the fayd blefsed facra- 
 ment, as alfo the names and opinions of all the 
 heretical captains of the fame asfaults : written 
 in the year of our lord 15 49,... and dedicated to 
 the queenes mofl excellent maiestie, being then 
 lady Mar}'e : in whiche tyme (herelie then reign- 
 ing) it could take no place :" printed by Robert 
 Caly, 1554, Bvo. b. 1. 6. '' A m^irrour of loue, 
 which fuch light doth giue. That all men may 
 learn how to loue and Hue :" printed by R. 
 Wyer, 1555, 4to. 7. '' A fh or t treatife in me- 
 ter vpon the CXXIX pfalme of Dauid, called 
 De profundis r' 1556, 4to. 8. '' New A. B. C. 
 paraphrastically applied as the ftate of tlie world 
 doth at this day require:" 1557, 4to. Major 
 Pearfonhad *''' A mirrour of myferie, newly com- 
 piled and fett fortlie by Myles Huggarde, fer- 
 vaunt to the queens mofl excellent majestie^'* 
 
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246 POETS OF THE 
 
 very finely writen upon vellum, 1557: fo that 
 it does not follow, as Warton fuppofes, that 
 authors affe6led the word ^^ Mirrour" in their 
 titles, from the example of ^' The mirrour for 
 magistrates." (See H. E, P. III.) 
 
 HOLBORNE ANTHONY has a commenda- 
 tory fonnet prefix'd to '*' Morleys practicall in- 
 troduction to muficke," 1597. 
 
 HOLLAND ROBERT, M. A. and minister 
 of^ the church of Prendergafl, wrote ^^ The holie 
 historic of our lord and faviour Jefus Chrifts na- 
 tivitie, life, a6les, miracles, doctrine, death, pas- 
 lion, refurrection and afcenfion : gathered into 
 Englilh meeter, and publifhed to withdraw vaine 
 wits from all unfaverie and wicked rimes and fa- 
 bles, to fome love and liking of fpirituall fongs 
 and holy fcriptures :" printed by R. Field, 1594, 
 8vo. 
 
 HOLLYBAND CLAUDIUS, the gramma- 
 rian, has a copy of commendatory verfes prefix'd 
 to Mundays ^^ Mirror of mutabilitie," 1579. 
 
 HOLME WILFRIDE, of Huntington in 
 Yorkihire, wrote ^^ The fall and evill fucceffe of 
 
 i''/4^ 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 247 
 
 rebellion^ from time to time -, wherein is con- 
 tained matter^ mofte meete for all eftates to view. 
 Written in old Engliili verfe".... Being a dialogue 
 between England and the author on the commo- 
 tions raife'd in the northern countys on ac- 
 count of the reformation^ in I537j, under 
 Cromwells adminiftration : printed by H. Bin- 
 neman^ Feb. 9^ 1572. 
 
 Colophon. 
 *' The xiiij day of July compofed and compiled. 
 In the XXIX yeare of the raigne of the VIII 
 
 Henry royall. 
 By Wilfride Holme unlearned, Umply com- 
 bined. 
 As a pigme to writing with Hercules for triall. 
 In Huntingdon in Yorkiliire," ^c. 
 
 HOLWELL THOMAS wrote '' New fonets 
 &: pratie pamphlets :" printed by T. Colwell, 
 without date, 4to. but fee HOWELL THOMAS. 
 
 HOPKINS JOHN translated fo many of the 
 pfalms (Wood fays 58) in what is now calfd 
 ^^ The old verfion" as are distinguifh'd by his 
 initials. 
 
 HOW WILLIAM feems the proprietor of a 
 
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248 POETS OF THE 
 
 copy of verfes from '' The printer to the faithfull 
 reader/' prefix' d to ^*^ The hanfome weapon of a 
 Christian knight : " imprinted by him for Abra- 
 ham Veaie^ 1576. 
 
 HOWARD HENRY, fon to Thomas duke of 
 Norfolk^ and^ by courtefy, earl of Surrey, wrote 
 feveral poems, inferted in a publication intitle'd 
 '^ Songes and fonettes by the right honorable 
 lorde Henry Haward late earl of Surrey, and 
 other. Apud Hichardmn Tottelly 1557 ^'^ 4to. b. 
 1. of which there are feveral later editions. 
 ^^ Certaine bookes of Virgiles ^neis turned into 
 Englilli metir, by the right honourable lorde 
 Henry earle of Surrey," 1557, 4to.-^ '' The 
 fourth boke of Virgill, in treeting of the love be- 
 
 * See Steevenses ** Ancient translations^' (Shalfpeare, 
 I, 98) << This," he ads, <* is a translation of the 
 fecond and fourth books :" of which, fays Barnabe 
 Googe, 
 
 " The noble Henry Haivarde once, 
 
 That raught eternall fame. 
 With mighty flyle did bryng a ptce 
 Of Firgih work in frame." 
 
 Eglogsand Sonettes, 1563. 
 Bolton, haveing commended the '' fongs and fon- 
 nets," as exceeding *' in noble, courtly, and lustrous 
 Engliili," Sackvils induction to The mirror of magist rates. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 24Q 
 
 twene ^neas and Dido^ translated into Englifli, 
 and drawn into a ftraunge metre^ by Henry earle 
 of Surry^" was, afterward, printed by John 
 Day, witliout date, 4to. This '^ ftraunge me- 
 tre" is blank verfe, of which it is the earlyeft 
 Englifli fpecimen. According to Puttenham, he 
 alfo translated ^^ The booke of the preacher 3 " ■^• 
 to which Warton ads a few of the Pfalms. Other 
 poems, not now extant, are cited in his printed 
 works 5 and Aubrey has preferve'd an epitaph by 
 him, upon fir Thomas Clere, which was once in 
 Lambeth church. The fonnet, quoted by Wood 
 and others, as made by this nobleman, on being 
 fliewn, in his travels, by Cornelias Agrippa, the 
 image of his Geraldine in a glafs, lick and weep- 
 
 ads ^' Neverthelefs they uho moft commend thofe 
 poems, and exercifes of honorable wit, if they have feen 
 that incomparable earl of Surrey his Englifh translation 
 of Virgils ^neids, which, for a book or /wo, he ad- 
 mirably rendreth, almoft line for line, will bear me 
 witnefs that thofe other were foils and fportives." 
 
 * Some lines from his " Ecckfiauices^^ are given in 
 the prolegomena to archbifliop Parkers Pfalms. Five 
 chapters verfified from Ecclefiaftes by lord Surrey, and 
 three pfalms, occur in the Harrington MS. (penes me) 
 with two poems, by the fame noble author, not printed 
 among his <* Songes and fonettes.'^ T. P. 
 
 m 
 
250 POETS OF THE 
 
 ing, was not actually written by him, nor is the 
 ftory itsfelf true : both being the invention of 
 Thomas Naihe, and iirll: publilh'd in his *' Un- 
 fortunate traveller;, or life of Jacke Wilton," 
 1594, 4to. He fel a victim to the groundlefs fus- 
 picions of a capricious and fanguinary tyrant, the 
 19th of January 1546-7. 
 
 HOWELL THOMAS fet forth ^^ The arbor 
 of amitie, wherein is comprifed piefaunt poems 
 and pretie poeiies :" printed by H. Denham, 
 1568, 1569, 8vo.* and wrote *^^ Devifes for his 
 owne exercife, and his friends pleafure,'' 1581, 
 4 to. He is, doubtlefs, the T. H. who trans- 
 lated '' The fable of Ovid treting of Narcisfus, 
 
 * 
 
 with a moral thereunto, very pleafante to rede :' 
 
 * This feem's the identical book afcribe'd above to 
 THOMAS HOLWELL, a flight inaccuracy, no 
 doubt, of Herbert, or his printer, for THOMAS 
 HOWELL, into which he was led by the name of the 
 printer THOMAS COLWELL j whofe edition neither 
 Ames nor Herbert appears to have actually feen. No- 
 thing, however, was more ufual at that period, than for 
 a work to be printed for feveral bookfellers, each of 
 • whom had his (ingle name to his own copys. Befide 
 " Newe fonets & pratie pamphlets'* favours very 
 ftrongly of the ftationers book. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 251 
 
 1560. (See Warton, H. E. P. Ill, 41?.) See 
 NOWELL. 
 
 HUBBARD WILLIAM drew into Englifh 
 metre '' The tragicall and lamentable historic of 
 two faythfull mates Ceyx kynge of Thrachyne, 
 and Alcione his wife, 1^69 :" printed by W. 
 Howe for R. Johnes : from the 1 1th book of Ovids 
 Metamorphofis. 
 
 HUDSON THOMAS translated '' The his- 
 toric of ludith in forme of a poeme. Penned in 
 French, by the noble poet G. Saluft, lord of 
 Bartas :" printed, at Edinburgh, by Thomas 
 Vautroullier, 1584^ 8vo.^ 
 
 '^ Ye learned : bind your browes with laurer 
 band, 
 
 I preafe not for to touch it with my hand." 
 This translation appears to have been made at the 
 exprefs command of K. James VI. to whom it is 
 
 * Reprinted at London with Sylvesters Du Bartas, 
 1608, 4to. and in fubfequent editions. T. P. 
 
 In the "Return from Parnasfus,'^ 1606, Hudfon is 
 recommended to let his books lie in fome old nooks 
 amongft old fhoes, that they may avoid the critics cen- 
 fure. T.P. 
 
252 POETS OF THE 
 
 declica4:ed^ and who has complimented the author 
 with a fonnet^ in which he fays of him in conge- 
 nial verfe : 
 
 ^^ Who though a flraunger yet he lovde fo dere 
 This realme and me^ fo as he fpoilde his awne.'* 
 A fonnet prefix'd to ^'^ Esfays of a prentife [the 
 above monarch] in the diuine arte of poeiie," 
 Edin. 1585, with the initials T. H. is doubtlefs 
 by this writer. 
 
 HUGGARD. See HOGARD. 
 
 HUNNIS WILLIAM, '' one of the gentle- 
 men of hir maiesties chapell, and maister to the 
 children of the fame," wrote l . ^'^ An abridge- 
 ment or brief meditation on certain of the pfalmes 
 m Engliih meeter:" printed by R. Wyer. 2. 
 ^*' Certayne pfalmes drawen furth into Englyfh 
 meter:" printed by the widow Herforde, 1550, 
 8V0. (See STERNHOLD.) 3. '' A hyve full 
 of hunnye, contayning the firlle booke of Mofes 
 called Genefis :" printed by Thomas Marflie, 
 1578, 4to. and 8vo. 4. ^'^ Seuen fobs of a for- 
 rowfull foule for iinne : comprehending thofe 
 feuen pfalmes of the princelie prophet David com- 
 monlie called Paeniten-tiall j framed into a forme 
 of familiar praters, and reduced into meeter... 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 253 
 
 whereunto are alfo annexed his Handfull of 
 honifuckles ; The poore widowes mite 3 A dia- 
 log betweene Chrifl and a iinner ; diuers godlie 
 & pithie ditties, with a Christian confesiion of 
 and to the trinitie j newlie printed and aug- 
 mented:" by PI. Denham, 1585, 1597:, 1629, 
 24to. Thomas Daw Ton had a licence for the 
 *^ Handfull of honifuckles" in 1578 5 and there 
 is an edition of it at ^' Edinburgh, printed by 
 Andro Hart, 1621," 12mo. 5. ^'^ Recreations: 
 containing Adams bannifhment, Chrifl his cribbe. 
 The loll fheepe, and The complaint of old age :" 
 printed by Henry Denham, 1588, 24to. He is, 
 likewife, the authour of feveral poems in ^' The 
 paradice of daintie deuices," 1576, ^c. and, 
 doubtlefs, of the two fubfcribe'd W. H. in 
 '^ Englands Helicon," 1600. In '^ The princely 
 pleafures at Kenelworth," 1575, one of the de- 
 vifes was invented, and a copy of verfes writen, 
 by maister Ilumieys, 
 
 HUNSDON P. is authour of commendatory 
 verfes before Baleses ^*^ Writing fchoolemaster :" 
 printed by Tho. Or\\'in, n. d. 4to. 
 
 HUNTINGDON JOHN, '' a zealous prieft 
 and poet," and, in time, a convert to the refor- 
 
1 
 
 254 POETS OF THE 
 
 mation^ wrote ^' The genealogye of herefye, 
 Compyled by Ponce Pantolabus :" printed by 
 John Redman^ and again^ by Robert Wyer (in^ or 
 before^ 1542); and inferted entire in Bales 
 ^^ Mysterye of inyquyte/' Geneva^ 1545. In 
 Skeltonick metre. See Herbert,, 373. 
 
 HUTTON LUKE wrote '' The blacke dogge 
 of Newgate : both pithie and profitable for all 
 readers : imprinted at London by G. Simfon and 
 W. White/' 4to. b. 1. 
 
 HYLL. See HILL. 
 
 I. or J. R. has commendatory verfees before 
 Cottons *"' Armor of proofe^ Cf^c." 1596. 
 
 IDEN HENRY translated various Italian 
 verfees into Engliih;, in his edition of Gellos 
 Circe ) 1557. 
 
 IGNOTO. This fignature is fubjoin'd, in 
 *^ Englands Helicon/' 1 600^ to ten poems^ and, 
 in the edition of 16 14, to f\.yt more. Two of the 
 former fet (pp. 76 and 95) have been originally 
 attributeed to S. JV. R. over which is palleed 
 IgnotOj which, though no more than the correc- 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 255 
 
 tion of a mistake^ of which there are fimilar in- 
 ftancees^ might, probablely, induce mister War- 
 ton to pronounce it '' Raleighs conflant iigna- 
 ture,'* one or more of his acknowlege'd poems, 
 at the fame time, being actually fo fubfcribe'd. 
 It is, however, manifeftly ufe'd by the publifher 
 of that book to fignify anonymous or unknown, 
 '' The dispraife of loue and louers follies," fub- 
 fcribe'd Ignoto, in the edition of l6l4, is now 
 ascertain'd to be the compofition of Francis Da- 
 vifon : and it is remarkable that ^' The flieep- 
 heards dumpe," in that of 1600 (p. 95) fign'd 
 6'. E. D. (fir Edward Dyer) is inferted in another 
 part of the book (p. 184) under the title of 
 ^^ Thirfis the flieepheard, to his pipe," witli this 
 (ignature of Tgnoto. At the end of Spenfers 
 *"*■ Faerie queene" is a fonnet with the initials 
 W, R. (doubtlefs, fir Walter Raleigh) and alfo a 
 poem in four fiianzas, fubfcribe'd Ignoto (neces- 
 faryly fome one elfe). Of the ^' poems found 
 among the papers of fir Henry Wotton," and 
 printed in his Remains, feveral have the above 
 fignature. 
 
 IMMERITO. A. fignature ufe'd by Edmund 
 ^penfer. 
 
 \ 
 
256 POETS OF THE 
 
 INFORTUNIO. The fignatare of Ralph 
 Starkey (whom fee) to his poem on the miferys 
 of Edward the fecond ) '^ which/' mister Warton 
 mistakenly thought^ '^ Spenfer fometimes as- 
 fumed." 
 
 JACKSON JOHN wrote a ballad '' Of the 
 llrange child in Italye :" licenfe'd to Hen. Kyrk- 
 ham^ 7th February 1578-9. 
 
 JACKSON RICHARD, a fchoolmaster at In- 
 gleton in the weft riding of Yorklhire, in the 
 time of queen Elizabeth, compofe'd a narrative or 
 history of the battle of Floddon in nine fits and 
 584 ftanzas, firft printed in 1664 5 again, by 
 Thomas Gent of York, about 1740, and, laftly, 
 by Robert Lambe, vicar of Norham, and Jofeph 
 Benfon philomath, in 1774 : the formers edition, 
 apparently from a tranfcript of the old printed 
 copy, being moft valuable on account of the notes 
 and additions -, but the latters more agreeable to 
 the MSS. of which one, of the authours age, is in 
 the Harleian library (Num. Sb2Q). His name is 
 giveen upon the authority of a MS. note in a 
 copy of Lambes edition which belong'd to Mr. 
 Bartlett : but that authority is confiderablely 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 257 
 
 fhake'en by Gent, who, at the head of his edi- 
 tion of this '' famous old ballad," fays it was 
 ^^ Taken from an antient manufcript, which was 
 tranfcrib'd by Mr. Richard Guy, late J'chooU 
 master in Ingleton^ Yorkfhire. 
 
 JENEY THOMAS. '' A discovrs of the 
 prefent troobles in Fraunce, and miferies of 
 this tyme, compyled by Peter Ronlard gentil- 
 man of Vandome, and dedicated unto the queene 
 mother} translated by Thomas Jeney gentilman." 
 Dedicated to ^' fir Henry Norries knight, L. am- 
 basfadour refident in Fraunce:" printed at And- 
 werpe, 1568^ 4 to. 
 
 JENYNGES EDWARD translateed into En- 
 gleiih metre '' The notable hystory of two faith- 
 full louers named Alfagus and Archelaus. 
 Whearein is declared the true fygure of amytie 
 and freyndfhyp. Much pleafaunte and delecta- 
 ble to the reader:" printed by Thomas Colwell, 
 1j74, 4to. b. 1. licenfe'd, 1565. 
 
 JOHNSON RICHARD, authour of the wel- 
 known histor}-- of '^ The feven champions of 
 Christendom," ^ffc. compile'd '*" The nine wor- 
 thies of London \ explaining the honourable ex- 
 
 S 
 
 \ 
 
258 POETS OF THE 
 
 ercife of armes^ the vertues of the valiant, and 
 the memorable attempts of magnanimous minds. 
 Pleafaunt for gentlemen, not vnfeemely for ma- 
 gistrates, and moft profitable for prentifes :" 
 printed by Tho. Orwin for Humf. Lownes, 15 92, 
 4 to. It is writen upon the plan of The mirror 
 for magistrates. (See Herbert, 1248). Some 
 of the ballads, likewife, contained in a publica- 
 tion by this writeer, intitle'd ^' A crown garland 
 of golden rofes" (London, 1612, 8vo), are, moft 
 probablely of his own compofition. He allfo 
 publifh'd '^ Anglorum lachrymce : in a fad pas- 
 fion complayning of the death of our late fove- 
 raigne lady queene Elizabeth -, yet comforted 
 againe by the vertuous hopes of our mofl royall 
 & renowned king James^" l603, 4to. and 
 has a poem intitle'd '^ Londons defcription," in 
 ^^ The pleafant walks of Moore-fields," &c. 
 1607. 
 
 JONES JOHN, a phyfician, authour of '' The 
 arte and fcience of preferving bodie and foule in 
 all health, wisdom, and catholique religion," 
 ^c. printed by H. Bynneman, 15 79, 4to. hath 
 therein fome poetical translations and other piecees 
 in verfe. 
 
 JONES RICHARD, printer. Before ^^ The 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 25^ 
 
 fchoolemaster^ or Teacher of table philofophie^" 
 1576^ 4to. printed by him, is '^ The printers 
 preamble to al eftates/' C^c. in flanzas of 6 lines. 
 
 JONSON BENJAMIN, the celebrateed dra- 
 matick writeer, born in 1574, has left ^''Epi- 
 grams," '^ The forefl" (poems and fongs), *"*" Un- 
 der- woods, conlifting of divers poems," and a 
 translation of ^' Horace his art of poetry:" all 
 printed with his plays and other works, 1616, 
 1640, fo. 1756, 7 vols. 8vo. The earlyell fpe- 
 cimen of his poetry is a translation of Ovids fif- 
 teenth elegy, publiih'd, with the verfion of Mar- 
 low, about 1596, under the fignature B. I. He 
 has, likewife, a commendatory fonnet before N. 
 Bretons ^^ Melancholike humours," 1600 3 and 
 dye'd in 1637. 
 
 K. F. See KYNWELMERSH FRANCIS. 
 
 K. M. A fignature, fays Herbert, in the Pa- 
 radice of daintie devifes. 
 
 K. T. Some verfees by '' T. K. to the reader," 
 are prefix'd to a book intitle'd ^^ Beware the 
 cat :" printed by E. Allde, 1584, 8vo. See KEN- 
 DAL TIMOTHY. 
 
 S 2 
 
260 POETS OF THfi 
 
 K. W. See MARSTON. 
 
 KEEPER JOHN. See PARKER. 
 
 KELLY EDMUND, otherwife TALBOT, 
 confederate with the famous doctor Dee, in his 
 chemical, aftrological,' and roficrucian cheats, 
 wrote a poem of chemistry, begining ^^ AU 
 you that faine philofophers would be 5" printed 
 in Aflimoles Theatrum chemicum Britannicum ; 
 and another ^^ concerning the philofophers 
 ftone^" printed before the Compendium of alchtj" 
 rny, publifli'd by Ralph Rabbard, 1591, and in 
 the above work. He was born at Worcester, in 
 1555, and, attempting to efcape from the impe- 
 rial prifon in Prague, dye'd of the bruifees he re- 
 ceive'd in his fall, 1595. 
 
 KELTON ARTHUR '' very wittely com- 
 pyled in meeter" *^* A chronycle with a genealo- 
 gie declaryng that the Brittons and Welfliemen 
 are lineally dyfcended from Brute:" printed by 
 R. Grafton, 1547, i6mo. Wood, who thinks 
 him a Shroplhire-man, fays, '^ he hath alfo 
 written another book of poetry in praife of the 
 Welihmen, dedicated to lir Will. Herbert : but 
 this," ads he, '^ i have not fee;i/* 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 26l 
 
 KEMPE WILLIAM, a celebratel'd comedian 
 and morris-danceer, compile'd, and fet forth,, for 
 a new-years-gift to all Engleiili fubjeds, '' A du- 
 tiful invective againfi: the raofte haynous treafons 
 of Ballard and Babington : with other their adhe- 
 rents latelie executed. Together with the horri- 
 ble attempts and actions of the Q. of Scottes : 
 and the ientence pronounced againfi her at Fod- 
 deringay :" printed by R. Johnes, 15 87, 4to. 
 His *^ Applauded merryments of the men of 
 Goteham/' licenfe'd in 1.393 3 his *"' New jigg* 
 of the kitchen-ftufr woman," and his '*" New 
 jigge betwixt a fouldier^ and a mifer, and Sym the 
 clowne," in 15 95, are prefume'd to have been 
 dramatick. He dye'd in l603. 
 
 KENDALL TIMOTHY. -' Flowers of epi- 
 grammes, out of fundrie the mofle fingular au- 
 tliours, as well auncient as late writers : pleafant 
 & profitable to expert readers of quick capaci- 
 tie J fele6ted, i^c. by Timothe Kendall, late of 
 the vniuerfitie of Oxford, now fludent of Staple- 
 inne in London." To which are annex'd '^ Tri- 
 fles by Timothe Kendal, deuifed and written 
 
 * Sifiginry'igs are fpoken of in Chcttles <* Kind- 
 hartes dreame," T. P. 
 
 S 3 
 
262 POETS OF THE 
 
 (for the mofte part) at fundrie tymes in his yong 
 and tender age:" printed by Jhon Shepperd, 
 1577^ l6mo. 
 
 KETH WILLIAM, an exile at Frankfort in 
 the time of queen Mary, wrote '^ A ballet, de- 
 claringe the fal of the whore of Babylone^ in- 
 tytuled, Tye thj mare Tom hoye:'' printed abroad, 
 n. d. 8vo. There is, likewife, a broadiide, with 
 the following title : 
 
 ^^ Of misrules contending, with gods worde by 
 name. 
 
 And then of ones judgement that had beared 
 the fame :" 
 containing 22 four-line flanzas, and conclude- 
 ing — ^^ Finis. Quod Wyllym Kethe:" printed 
 by Hugh Singleton. He has an Engleiih poem at 
 the end of Goodmans book De "cera obedientiaj 
 Geneva, 15085 and translate'ed fome of the old 
 linging pfalms, mark'd W. K. The 94th pfalm, 
 ^*' turned into metre, by W. Kethe," was an- 
 nex'd to ^'^ The appellation of John Knoxe,'* 
 printed at Geneva, 1558, 12mo. Warton pro- 
 fefses to have feen a moralifation of fome of 
 Ovids ilorys by the fame hand. Q. He is, doubt- 
 lefs, the William Keth, who was preacher and 
 minister of the chuixh of Newhaven, while in 
 
 m 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 203 
 
 the hands of the Engleiili^ and wrote *"*■ A per- 
 fpective, with the prayer of Daniel in metre, to 
 the nobles of England/* about 1570, though 
 Tanner makes him a different perfon. War- 
 tons authority, for calling him '^ a Scotch divine'* 
 feems equally questionable -, and may be nothing 
 more than his connection with Knox. 
 
 KINSAYDER W. A name asfume'd by John 
 Marston^ whom fee. 
 
 KNELL THOMAS wrote an '' Anfwere to the 
 moll heretical and trayterous papistical bil, cafl in 
 the ftreets of Northampton, and brought before 
 the judges^ Cs'c." printed by John Awdeley 
 (1570) : allfo^ as it feems^ '* An epitaph, or ra- 
 ther a fliort discourfe, made upon the life and 
 death of D. Boner^ fometimes unworthy bisfhop 
 of London, which dyed the v. of September in 
 the Marflialfea :" printed by J. AUde, 1069^ 8vo. 
 (Her. 889,) 
 
 KNIGHT ED. has verfes prefix'd to Mun- 
 days ^^ Mirror of mutabilitie," 1579 • ^^i^ is, 
 probablely, the Knyght mention'd by Webbe. 
 
 KYFFIN MAURICE wrote <' The blefsednes 
 
 S 4 
 
264 POETS OF THE 
 
 of Brytaine^ or a celebration of the queenes holy 
 day 5 wherein is briefly discourfed the moft 
 happy regiment of her highnes" (33 lix-line 
 ftanzas) : printed by John Windet in 1587:, and 
 by John Wolfe in 15 88, 4to. He has commen- 
 datory verfees prefix' d to Lewkenors translation of 
 Contarenos ^*^ Commonwealth and government 
 of Venice/' 1599, and a fonnet, '' to the reader,'* 
 before his '^'^ Refolved gentleman/' 1594. 
 
 KYNWELMERSH FRANCIS, of Grays-inn, 
 who united with Gascoigne in translating the 
 ^' Jocasta" of Euripides, 1566, is the authour of 
 feveral poems in '^ The paradice of daintie de- 
 uifes," 1576. 
 
 KYTTES G. wrote ^^ The unluckie firmen- 
 tie :" n. d. 4to. b. 1. a poem of fome humjpur. . 
 
 L. F. '' Ovidius Nafo his remedie of love, 
 translated and entituled to the youth of England, 
 by F. L." Lon. 1600, 4to. (Warton.) 
 
 L. G. *'*' An artificial apologie, in verfe, a 
 paumflet compyled by G. L." printed by Richard 
 Banks, The fame initials are fubfcribe'd to verfees 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 265 
 
 before Kendalls Epigrams^ 1577- See LEIGH 
 GERARD. 
 
 L. H. See LOK HENRY. 
 
 L. J. ^^ A good help for a weak memory^ or 
 tlie fumme of the bible in verfe/' 8vo. Allfo 
 '' The birth ^ purpofe, and mortall wound of the 
 Romilh holy league. Defcribing in a mappe 
 the enuie of Sathans fhauelings^ aud the follie of 
 their wifedome through the almighties proui- 
 dence. By I. L." printed for Thomas Cadman^ 
 1589, 4to. 32 ftanzas. 
 
 L. N. has recommendatory verfestothe reader 
 before Barets *^' Alvearie/' 1580. 
 
 L. R. '^ Diella. Certaine fonnets adioyned 
 to the amorous poeme of dom Diego and Gineura. 
 By R. L. gentleman :" printed for Hen. Olney, 
 1596, i6mo. Thefe fonnets are 28 in number, 
 and '^ The amorous poeme/' which they accom- 
 pany, a verlificatioR from Painters '^ Palace of 
 pleafure." The fame initials are annex'd to one 
 poem in '' The paradice of daintie deuifes," 
 157G. Barnefield addrefses a fonnet to his friend 
 
266 
 
 POETS OF THE 
 
 maister R. L. in ^^ Poems of divers humors/' 
 1598. 
 
 L. T. See LODGE THOMAS. 
 
 L. W. has 4 commendatory ftanzas at the 
 end of Spenfers ^' Faerie queene/*' 1590 : posfi- 
 blely LISLE WILLIAM, whom fee. 
 
 LANGLEY THOMAS has fome poetical ver- 
 lions in his translation of ^'^ Polydore Vergil," 
 154(5, l2mo. 
 
 LARKE JOHN has a poetical prologue to his 
 '^ Boke of wisdome otherwife called the Flower 
 of vertue :" pr. by T. Colwell, n. d. l6mo. 
 
 LEA JAMES has feveral poetical piecees in his 
 translation (from the Spanifh) of ^' An anfwer to 
 the vntruthes, publifhed and printed in Spaine, 
 in glorie of their fuppofed victorie atchieued 
 againft our Englilli name, ^c.^' printed by John 
 Jackfon, for Thomas Cadman, 1589, 4to. and, 
 likewife, commendatory verfees before Percy vails 
 ^^ Bibliotheca Hijpanica/' 159 1, 4to. 
 
 LEE THOMAS has commendatory verfees be- 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 267 
 
 fore Fletchers '' Introduction to the looue of god/* 
 1581. 
 
 LEIGH GERARD, authour (perhap) of a fhort 
 poem before his ^^ Accedence of armorie :" pr. 
 by R. TotuU, 1591, 4to. See L. G. 
 
 LEWICKE EDWARD drew into Engleifli 
 metre ^^ The moft wondeifull, and pleafant his- 
 toiy of Titus and Gifippus, whereby is fully de- 
 clared the figure of perfe6t frendfhip :" printed 
 by Thomas Hacket, \5Q2, 4to. This pleafant 
 histoiy makes one of the novels in the Decame- 
 rone of Boccaccio, but had been printed, fepa- 
 rately, in Latin and French, and even treated in 
 Engleifh verfe, before Lewickes time. See, un- 
 der the preceding century, WALTER WIL- 
 LIAM. Boccace had it from Petrus Alphonfus. 
 
 LISLE WILLIAM. '' The colonyes of Bar- 
 tas, with the commentarye of S. G. S. englillied 
 by Wm. Lille 3" was licenfed to Thomas Man, in 
 1-397. 
 
 LLOID LODOWICK, fergeant at arms to Q. 
 Elizabeth, wrote ^' The pilgrimage of queenes," 
 printed at the end of his ^^ Pilgrimage of princes," 
 
268 POETS OF THE 
 
 1573, 1586, 4to. where is, alfo, an addrefs of 
 '^ The aucthour to his booke," ^^ The deathes of 
 certaine noble princes, in EngHfh verfe j" and, 
 at the begining, an acrostick on lir Christopher 
 Hatton. He likewife wrote '^ Hilaria : or the 
 triumphant fealt for the fift of Auguft," l607 : 
 a complimentary poem to K. James. One poem, 
 by this authour [^' An epitaph on fir Edward 
 Saunders") J is printed in ^*^The paradice of dain- 
 tie deuifes," 15763 and he has commendatory 
 verfees, by the name of Lodowick Flood, pre- 
 iix'd to Blandys ^' Castle, or picture of pollicy,'* 
 1580. In his '' Triplicitie of triuraphes,'* pr. 
 by R. Jhones, 1591, 4to. are feveral fcraps of 
 poetry. He wrote verfees ^' in prayfe of the au- 
 thor," prefix'd to Twynes translation of Lhuyds 
 ^^ Breviary of Britayne," 1573, 12mo. where he 
 fpels his name Lhuyd. 
 
 One T. LL. (doubtlefs Lloyd) has, prefix'd to 
 Kyffins '' Blefsednes of Brytaine,*' 1588, two 
 ftanzas of 6 lines '' In praife of this booke, and 
 the author." 
 
 LODGE THOMAS, a learned and eminent 
 phyiician, and moft voluminous authour, wrote 
 1 . '' Rofalynde : Euphues golden legacie, found 
 in his cell at Silexdra," printed in 1592. '' The 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 269 
 
 life and death of William Longbeard, the moft 
 famous and witty Englifh traitor, borne in the 
 city of London : accompanied with manye other 
 moll pleafant and prettie histories-, by T. L." in 
 profe and verfe, 1^93, 4to. 2. '^ Phillis : ho- 
 noured with pastoral! fonnets_, elegies and amo- 
 rous delights. Where-unto is annexed^ tlie tra- 
 gical! complaynt of Elflred" (confifting of forty 
 fonnets) : printed for John Busbie, I5g3, 4to. 
 3. ^*' A fig for Momus : containing pleafant va- 
 rieties included in fatyres^ eclogues^ and epis- 
 tles :" printed for Clement Knight^ 1^93^ 4to. 
 (He then defigned himfelf '' T. L. of Lincolnes- 
 inne gent.) 4. ^^ A moft pleafant historic of 
 Glaucus and Scilla : with many excellent poems, 
 and delectable fonnets/' i6lO^ 4to. Severally- 
 . rick compofitions,, by this writer^ moftly colledled 
 from his ^' Euphues golden legacy,," and other 
 pamphlets, are inferted in ^' The phoenix neft," 
 1593, and '' Englands Helicon/' 1600. He 
 has, likewife, verfes prefixed to Baleses ^' Writ- 
 ing fchoolemaster," printed by Tho. Orwin^ and 
 dye'd in l625. 
 
 LOK HENRY, '' a divine poet," according to 
 Wood, translateed, and paraphrastically dilateed, 
 '^ Ecclefiaftes^" whereunto he aded ^' fundry 
 
 ,iMr- 
 
270 POETS OF THE 
 
 Christian pasiions^ contayned in two hundred 
 fonnets :" printed for R. Field, 15Q7, 4to. 
 Wood fays, he alfo translateed fundry pfalms of 
 David '^ as briefly and lignificantly as the fcope 
 of the text will fuffer^" printed in the fame 
 year. A laudatory fonnet by Henrie Lok, was 
 prefixed to the '^ Poetical! exercifes" of K. James, 
 1591. H. L. author of *^^ The legend of Orpheus 
 and Eurydice," 1597, l6mo. is, doubtlefs, the 
 fameperfon« 
 
 LOVELL THOMAS wrote '' A dialogue be- 
 tween Custome & Veritie, concerning the vfe 
 and abufe of dauncing & minftrelfie :" printed by 
 John Allde, w. d. 8vo. licenfe'd 1581. 
 
 LUPTON THOMAS wrote commendatory 
 verfees prefix' d to Dr. Joneses *'*' Bathes of Bathes 
 ayde," 1572, and Riches '^'^ Allarme to England," 
 1578. He has fome poetical piecees in his 
 ^^ Christian againft the Jefuite :" printed by 
 Thomas Dawfon for Tho. Woodcocke, 1582, 4to. 
 
 M. A. See MUNDAY ANTHONY. 
 
 M. G. Thefe initials (posfiblely thofe of Ger- 
 vafe Markham) are annexed to a poem in S. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 271 
 
 Lyfonses MS. begining '' My care to kepe my 
 worde by promife due." *' G. M. of Grayes- 
 inne, gent." authour of '^ Esfayes and charac- 
 ters of a prifon and prifoners/' l6l8, 4to. is 
 '' Geffray Mynfhul." 
 
 M. I. See MAEKHAM JERVIS.^ 
 
 M. R. has a fonnet '' to his friend R. C." be- 
 fore the latters ^* Mahumetane, or Turkifli his- 
 toiy, ^cr 1600. 
 
 M. T. ^' The filke-wormes^ and their flies : 
 liuely defcribed in verfe^ by T. M. a countrie 
 farmar^, and an apprentice in phylicke. For the 
 great benefit and enriching of England :" printed 
 by V. S. for Nicholas Ling, 1599^ 4to. Ano- 
 tlier T. M. gentleman^ is the authour of '^ Micro- 
 cynicon : fixe fnarling fatyres. 1 . Infatiat. 2. 
 Prodigall. 3. Infolent. 4. Cheating. 5. Ing- 
 ling. 6. Wife :" printed by T. Creede for The. 
 Bufhell, 1599, 8vo. T. M. is likewife fign'd to 
 a dedication before ^' The blacke booke/' l604^ 
 which contains a poetical ^^ morall or prologue." 
 
 * His baptismal name is printed indifferently with a 
 (?, an /, or a J. 
 
272 POETS OF TH£ 
 
 M. W. A few ftanzaSj prefix d to '' Newes 
 from the norths" 1579, '^ in commendation of 
 this treatife/' are fubfcribe'd W. M. 
 
 MALVERNE WILLIAM, abbot of Glouces- 
 ter, wrote a poem, in the year 1524, of ^Mhe 
 foundation of the abbey of Glocester, and the 
 change of the fame before the fuppresfion thereof 
 in the reign of king Henry the eight:" printed, 
 by Hearne, in the appendix to "^ Robert of Glou* 
 cesters chronicle." 
 
 MANNINGTONNE (or MANNYNGTON) 
 GEORGE made '' A woeful ballad, an hour be- 
 fore he fuffered at Cambridge-castell :" licenfe'd 
 to Richard Jones, 7th Novem. 1576 : and printed 
 in Robinfons '^ Handefull of pleafant delites,'* 
 1584, where it is intitle'd '^ A forrowfuU fonet 
 \..To the tune of Lahaiidala JJiot,'' It is, like- 
 wife, inferted in The gentlemans magazine for 
 January, 1781 5 ^.ndi m Ancient fongs , 179 • 
 
 MARBECK JOHN, organift of St. Georges 
 chapel at Windfor, drew '' into Englifh meetre, 
 for the youth to read," '^ The holie historic of 
 Mng Dauid, wherein is chieflye learned thefe 
 godly and wholfome lesfons, that is : to have fure 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURV. 273 
 
 patience in perfecution^ due obedience to our 
 prince without rebellion : and alfo the true and 
 mofl faithfull dealings of friendes:" printed by 
 H. Middleton for J. Harrifon, 1579^ 4to. 
 
 MARDELEY JOHN, clerk of the mint in 
 Southwark^ wrote '^ A complaint againft the 
 ftiiFnecked papift," 1548^ 8vo. and *^*' A ihort re- 
 fytal of certyne holie doctors [againft tranfub- 
 ftantiation] collected in myter." n. d. 12mo. 
 *^ The fupper of the lord/' '^ An invective againft 
 popery," and other poems, by this writeer, are 
 extant in the Mufeum (B, i{. 17B XXXVII). 
 He turn'd, according to Bale, twenty-four 
 pfalms into Engleifh odes, and made many reli- 
 gious fongs. 
 
 MARKHAM GERVASE, or JERVIS, wrote, 
 1 . '^ The poem of poems, or Sions mufe, con- 
 tayning the diuine fong of king Salomon, deuided 
 into eight eclogues" (with the initials I. M.) : 
 printed by James Roberts for Matthew Lownes, 
 1595, 8vo. 1596, l6mo. 2. '' The moft ho- 
 norable tragedie of fir Richard Grinvile knight 3" 
 a heroick poem, in eight-line flanzas -, dedicateed 
 to lord Monjoy : printed by James Roberts for 
 Jlichard Smith, 1595, 8vo. 3. '' Devoreux. Ver- 
 
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274 POETS OF THE 
 
 tues tears for the lofle of the mofl christian king 
 Henry, third of that name, king of Fraunce j 
 and the vntimely death of the moll noble and he*- 
 roicall gentleman, Walter Deuoreux, who was 
 flain before Roan in Fraunce" (paraphrastically 
 translateed from the French, of ^' the moil ex- 
 cellent and learned gentlewoman madam Ge- 
 neuuefue Petau Maulette) :" printed for Thomas 
 Millington, 15 97, 4 to. 4. '' The tears of the 
 beloued, or the lamentation of St. John, con- 
 taining the death & paslion of Chrifl :" printed 
 by Simon Stafford, 1600, 4to. 5. '^ Ariostos 
 fatyres," 16O8, 4to.* 6. *'*' The famous whore 
 or noble curtizan, conteining the lamentable 
 complaint of Paulina, the famous Roman cur- 
 tizan, fometiraes M®^ vnto the great cardmall 
 
 * In the title of the mufeum copy, the name of Ger- 
 vafeMarkhamis obliterateed,and that of '^ Robert Tofte, 
 gentleman'' inferted in its flead. R. T. [Rob. Tofte] 
 in his translation of Varchi, 161 5, fays, " read my 
 Ariostos Satyres in Englifh ; and, in a poftfcript'' to the 
 courteous reader, ^* he fpeaks of having intended to in- 
 fert the disastrous fall of three noble Roman gentlemen, 
 overthrown through jealouf}'' ; but the fame was (with 
 Ariostos Satyrs, translated by him out of Italian into 
 Englifh verfe and notes upon the fame) printed w^ith- 
 out his confent or knowledge, in another »/^«jname:" 
 probablely Markhams. (The latter part of this note is by 
 the ingenious and accurate mister Park.) 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 2/5 
 
 Hypolito, of Eft," 1609, 4 to. Alice Charle- 
 wood, in 1593, had a licenfe for '^ Geruis Mack- 
 win his Thyrfys &: Daphne j'' and Nicholas Ling, 
 in 1598, for ^^ Ariastos concluiions of the mar- 
 riage of Rogero and Rodomantho, the never- 
 conquered pagan, written in Frenche by Phillip 
 de Portes, and paraphrastically translated by G. 
 M." The initials /. M. fubjoin'd to two poems 
 in *^^ Englands Helicon," 1600, are prefume'd to 
 be thofe of Jeniis 3/arkham. 
 
 MARLOW CHRISTOPHER, educateed at 
 Cambridge, a dramatick writeer of great celebrity, 
 translateed, l. '^ Hero and Leander :" printed 
 by A. lilip for E. Blunt, 1598, 4to. (licenfe'd to 
 John Wolfe, 1593.) It contains onely the firft 
 two festiads 3 "^ but the translation was continue'd 
 and perfe6led by Chapman 3 though in the per- 
 formance thereof, he fel fliort of the fpirit and 
 invention with .which it was begun. f 2. ^^ Lv- 
 cans firft booke, line for line :" printed by P. 
 
 * In this " begun poetn," according to Phillips, or 
 Milton, <* he feems to have a refemblance of that clean 
 and unfophisticated wit, which is natural to that incom- 
 parable poet." 
 
 t Phillips. 
 
 T 2 
 
276 POETS OF THE 
 
 Short, 1600, 4to. but licenfe'd to Wolfe in 15gaf, 
 3. ^^ Certaine of Ovids elegies;" printed, at 
 Middleburgh, without date, 8vo. [1596]. 4* 
 ^' Coluthufes rape of Helen/* 15 87 (Wartorl, from 
 Coxeter). Q. A well-known fong, by Marlow> 
 of confiderable merit for its age and true pastoral 
 limplicity, intitle'd ^^ The pasfionate flieepheard 
 to his loue/' is printed in ^^ Englands Helicon/* 
 1600. He was ftab'd in a brothel, 1593 ; a fel- 
 low, upon whom he had drawn, in a fit of jea- 
 loufy, forceing his dagger into his own head (not 
 bofom, as Warton misreprefents). 
 
 MARSHALL GEORGE wrote '' A compen- 
 dious treatife in metre, declaring the firfl original 
 of facrifice, and of building churches and aultars, 
 and of the firft receiving the cristen faith here in 
 England:" 1554, 4to. b. 1. 
 
 MARSHALL THOMAS is mention'd bv 
 Wood and Tanner, among the contributors to 
 *^ The paradice of daintie devifes," 1578, and by 
 Herbert, among thofe to the edition of 1577 : 
 but no fuch name or initials occur in that of 
 1576 or of 1600.* Percy fays that a poem, in 
 
 * The name of T. Marihall is affix'd to one poem, i 
 believe, in the edition of 1577 onely. T. P. 
 
 f 
 
 .4 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 277 
 
 this collection^ begining '^ The (lardy rock/' is 
 " fubfcribed M. T. perhaps invertedly for T. 
 Marihall." , There is not,, however^ a iingle in- 
 fiance in that or any other collection^ of a Umilar 
 inverfion ; and^ in fa6l^ thefe letters rather be- 
 long to M. Thorn, whofe furname is elfewhere 
 printed at length. Marfhall dye'd in 1589. 
 
 MARSTON JOHN wrote and publiili'd, 1. 
 *^ The metamorphofis of Pigmalions image, and 
 certaine fatyres :" printed for Edmond Matts, 
 1598, l6mo. 2. ^*' The fcourge of villanie. 
 Three bookes of fatyres" (2 editions) : printed 
 by I, R. 1598, and 1599, l6mo.* Both thefe 
 
 * Thefe books, together with Davises Epigrams, and 
 others, were burnt in Stationers-hall, by order of the 
 archbifhop of Canterbury and bilhop of London, 4th 
 June 1599. It was likevvife ordered ** That noe fa- 
 tyres or epigrams be printed hereafter." In the Bod- 
 leian catalogue ^ The metamorphofis of Pygmalions 
 image," appears under the initials W. K. which are, 
 in faft, fignM to that work, [and were fo put for }V. 
 Kinfayder ; a name asfumeM by Marston, or adopted by 
 him as a fignature, to the profe addrefs before his 
 " Scourge of villanie." T. P.] 
 
 It is a ftrange and unaccountable blunder of Wood, 
 that all Marston s works (except The fcourge cf vUlany, 
 and The infatiate count ejs) *' were gathered together by 
 
 T 3 
 
278 POETS OF THE 
 
 piecees were reedited, by the reverend John 
 Bowie, in ^' Miscellaneous pieces of antient En- 
 glifh poefie/' 1764, 12mo. 
 
 MASCALL LEONARD, in his translation of 
 '^ The arte to plant &: grafFe all forts of trees," 
 1590, has a metrical addrefs of ^^ The booke to 
 the reader.'* 
 
 MEARES GEORGE has a copy of verfees pre- 
 fix'd to the ^^ Planetomachia" of Robert Greene, 
 1585. 
 
 MELBANCKE BRIAN has feveral poetick 
 fcraps in his '^ Philotimus : the warre betwixt 
 Nature and Fortune," 1583, 4 to. 
 
 MERQUAUNT JOHN compile'd '' Verfes to 
 diuerfe good purpofes :" licenfe'd to Tho. Pur- 
 foote, 3d Novem. 1580. 
 
 MICHELBORNE THOMAS has comment 
 datory verfees prefix' d to Fitzgeffrays ^' Life of 
 
 Will. Shakefpeare, the famous comedian, and being by 
 his care printed at Lond. 1633, Oct. [17 years, that 
 is, after his death] were by him.. .dedicated to Elizabeth 
 Cary viscountefs Falkland*' (Atheme Oxo» 1, 333-) 
 
SIXTEEXTH CEXTURV. 2/9 
 
 Drake/' 15965 Storers ''Lifeof Wolfey/' 15993 
 and Vaughans ^^ Golden grove moralifed/' 1GO8. 
 
 MIDDLETON CHRISTOPHER wrote '' The 
 historic of heaven^ contaming the poetical fictions 
 of all the Itarres in the firmament:" printed for 
 Clement Knight, 1596^ 4to. and ^' The legend 
 of Humphrey duke of Gloucester," l600_, 4to. 
 
 MIDDLETOX RICHARD. '' Epigrammes 
 & fatyres." Lond. 15 08. In the Auctariiwi bi^ 
 bliothecce Edinburgeme, 1627 : but not now to be 
 found. 
 
 MIDDLETON THOMAS uTote '' The wis- 
 dome of Solomon paraphrafed :" printed by Va- 
 lentine Simmes, 1507, 4to. 
 
 MOONE PETER wrote 
 
 '^ A Ihort treatife of certayne thinges abufed. 
 In the popifh church long vfed -, 
 But now abolylhed to our confolation. 
 And gods word aduaunced, the light of our 
 faluation :" 
 printed, at Ipfwich, by John Oswen^ in or about 
 1548, 4to. 
 
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280 POETS OF THE 
 
 MORE EDWARD wrote '' A lytle and bryefe 
 treatyfe^ called The defence of women, and efpe- 
 cially of Englyflie women, made agaynfl The 
 fchole howfe of women :" printed by John 
 Kynge, 1560, 4to. He dates ^^ from Hamblcden 
 [in Bucks] the xx. day of Julye M. D. L V. JJ." 
 
 MORE SIR THOMAS, born, in London, 
 1480, and beheaded, on Tower-hil, in 1535, 
 wrote, in his youth, 1. ^*^ A meiy ieft how a 
 fergeant would learne to play the frere :*' 2, 
 '^ Verfes over nine pageants devifed in his fa- 
 thers houfe in London:'' 3. ^' A ruful lamen- 
 tacion of the deth of quene Elifabeth mother 
 to king Henry the eight, wife to king Henry 
 the feventh, & eldefl doughter to king Ed- 
 ward the fourth, which quene Elifabeth dyed, 
 in childbed, in February in the yere of our 
 lord 1503, & in the 18 yere of the raigne of 
 king Henry the feventh :'* 4. '^ Certain meters 
 in Englifh written.... in hys youth for the boke 
 of fortune, and caufed them to be printed in 
 the begynning of that boke :" 5. ^^ Twelve 
 rules of John Picus earle of Mirandula, partely 
 exciting, partely direding a man in fpiritual ba-. 
 taile :" 6. ^^ The twelve weapons of fpirituall bat- 
 tayle, which every manne fliould have at hand when 
 
SIXTEKNTH CENTURY. 281 
 
 the pleafure of a finnefiill temptation commeth to 
 his minde :" 1 . '' The twelve properties or con- 
 dicions of a louer :" 8. '*" A praier of Pious 
 Mirandula unto god:" all which are printed 
 in his Englilh works, 1557, fo. The above 
 '*" mery jeft" had^ in all probability, been printed 
 finglely, being mention'd by Laneham in his 
 curious catalogue of captain Coxes collection. 
 '' The boke of fortune" is unknown. In ^^ The 
 lyfe of Johan Picus earle of Mirandula/' trans- 
 lated by him, and printed by W. de Worde, 
 4 to. are fome fpecimens of that nobleman s \'«r- 
 (ification, turn'd into Englifh. 
 
 MORFET .... did (or was to do) '' An epi- 
 taphe or epigram, or elegies :" enter'd for Ed- 
 mund Bollisfantj 15th January 15 88-9. 
 
 MORLE YE . See PARKER. 
 
 MUNCASTER Maister, was a poetical con- 
 tributor to ^' The princely pleafures at Kenil- 
 worth castle," 1576. This appears to have been, 
 in reality, Richard Mulcaster, who pubHfh'd a 
 poem in Latin and Engleifh, on the death of Q. 
 Elizabeth, intitled '' Nctnia confolanSy or a com- 
 forting complaint^" l603^ 4to. 
 
282 POETS OF THE 
 
 MUNDAY ANTHONY^ citizen and draper 
 of London^ and poet-laureat to that famous city, 
 ^^ feleded out of the facred fcriptures/' *' The 
 mirrour of mutabilitie^ or principall part of The 
 mirrour for magistrates. Defcribing the fall of 
 diuers famous princes^ and other memorable per- 
 fonages :" printed by John Aide, 15 79, 4to. b. 
 1. He alfo wrote ^^ The pain of pleafure :'* 
 printed by H. Car, 15 80, 4to. In Hakluyts 
 Voiages^ 1589, are ^^ Verfes written by A. M. 
 to the curteous readers, who was prefent at 
 Rome, Avhen John Fox received his letters of the 
 pope." *'*' A ballad made by Ant. Monday, of 
 thencoragement of an Engliflie foldior to his 
 fellowe mates,'* was licenfe'd to John Charle- 
 wood in 15795 and in ]583 the fame printer 
 had a licenfe for ^^ The fweete fobbes & amorous 
 complaints of fhepardes & nymphes by Ant. 
 Munday." ^' The fountayne of Fame erefted in 
 an orcharde of amorous adventures, by Ant. 
 Munday," 15 80. Preiix'd to '' Newes from the 
 north," 1579, and to Bodenhams '' Belvedere, 
 or the garden of the mufes," 1600, l2mo. are 
 commendatory verfees by A. M. There are feve- 
 ral poems in his ^' Zelauto. The fountaine of 
 Fame," 1580, 4to. Mundays **" Strangefl ad- 
 venture that ever happened^" 1601, 4to. (Bib, 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 283 
 
 Far. 3478). He dye'd in l633, age'd 80. 
 See his epitaph in Stows Survey y by Str}^e^ B. 3, 
 p. 6i. 
 
 MYCHILBOURNE EDWARD, '' a moll 
 noted poet of his time," according to Wood, 
 hath two of the eighteen copys of verfees prefix'd 
 to, and in praife of Peter Baleses '^ Art of bra- 
 chygraphy," 1597. 
 
 N. A. is figned to the dedication of *"*■ EHzas 
 memorial!, king James his arrival, and Romes 
 downfall," l603, 4to. 
 
 N. M. has a few verfees prefix'd to C. Holy- 
 bands ^^" Italian fchoole-master," 1597. 
 
 N. T. Prefix'd to Deerings '^ Lectures," 
 1576, 4to. are five fix-line ftanzas by T. N. and 
 to '^'^ The morall philofophie of Doni," 1570, 
 and Lytes '*" Newe herball," 15 78, commenda- 
 tory lines under the fame fignature."^ Thomas 
 Nicholas, an authour of that period, does not ap- 
 
 '* The translatour of Doni was Thomas North, 
 who might have takeen this equivocal method of paying 
 himfelf a compliment. 
 
284 POETS OF THE 
 
 pear to have been a poet. See NASHE, NEW- 
 TON, NORTON. 
 
 NASHE THOMAS has introduce'd feveral 
 piecees of poetry in his numerous pamphlets : 
 particularly fome lines, vehemently paslionate, in 
 ^^ Pierce Pennileffe his fuppiioation to the de- 
 uill,'* 1595, which mistrefs Cooper pronouncees 
 the firongefl picture of rage and defpair that fhe 
 ever met with.* He is fay'd to have been born 
 at LeoflofFe in Suffolk, was educateed at St. 
 Johns college Cambridge, and dye'd before 1 606. 
 See HOWARD.! 
 
 NEVYLL ALEXANDER has verfees prefix'd 
 to Googees ^^ Eglogs and fonettes," 1563. Sir J. 
 
 * Nafh was a leading partizan in the polemic brawl of 
 Martin Marprelate, and inferted feveral rhyming pas- 
 quinades in <* Martins Months minde," &c. 1589. 
 T.P. 
 
 f It was orderM, in 1599, either by the ftationers 
 company, or by the archbilhop of Canterbury and biihop 
 of London, *< That all Naffhes bookes, and D. Har- 
 vyes bookes be taken wherefoever they may be found, 
 and that none of... the fame bookes be ever printed here- 
 after." 
 
 ■:A 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 285 
 
 Harington commends certain verfe'e's made by 
 M. Alexander Nevill upon fir P. Sidneys fune- 
 rals. See his Annotations on book 37^ of Orlando 
 furiofo, 
 
 NEWBERY THOMAS has his name affix'd 
 to ^^ A booke in Englifh metre, of the great 
 marchauntman called Dixes FragmaticuSy \try 
 preaty for children to rede : wherby they may 
 the better, and more readyer, rede and wryte 
 wares and implementes, in this world contayned :'* 
 Lond. printed by Alex. Lacy, 1563. Running 
 title, '' The names of all kynd of wares." The 
 onely known copy of this book is among the duke 
 of Roxburghs poetical treafures, which were moft 
 hberally thrown open to enrich the prefent 
 work. 
 
 NEWPORT FRANCES made '' An epytaphe 
 of the godlye conftaunt & counfortable confesfor 
 mystres Darothye Wynnes, whiche flepte in 
 Chrifl the yere of grace M. D. I.X." 
 
 NEWTON THOMAS, a Latin poet of fome 
 celebrity, and one of the translatours and publifher 
 of '^ Seneca his tenne tragedies," 1581, wrote 
 " Atropdioji Delion : or tlie death of Delia, with 
 
286 POETS OF THE 
 
 the teares of lier fiinerall. A poeticall excufive 
 discoiirfe of our late Eliza:" Lon. IGOS^, 4to. 
 Alfo *"*" A pleafant new history : or^ a fragrant 
 poiie made of three flowers^ rofa^ rofalynd^ and 
 rofemary." Lon. l604. Thefe titles are given by 
 Wood^ who fays the authour dye'd at Little-Ilford 
 in Esfex (where he was minister and taught 
 fchool) in 1607. He had^ formerly^ been a 
 phyfician^ and refideed at Butley, in Chefhire. 
 Prefix'd to '^ Bulleins Bulwarke of defence," 
 1579;, s^G feven llanzas, and before ^*^ The mir- 
 ror for magistrates/' 15 87^ five, by this autliour. 
 Before the ^' Hyve of hunnye," by W. Hunnis, 
 
 1578, Newton has a copy of verfees ^^ In the 
 comendation of his frendes travayle." Others 
 are prefix'd to Niccolses edition of the ^^ Mirror 
 for magistrates," 1610: andtoTymmes *^*' Briefe 
 defcription of Hierufalem," ^c, 1595. He 
 has, likewife, a metrical '^ Epilogue or conclufion" 
 to the workes of John Hey wood, 1587 : and to 
 him may belong the initials T. N. beneath a copy 
 of verfes in Mundays ^^ Mirror of mutabilitie," 
 
 1579. ^ poem ^'^ To all gentlemen fouldiers, 
 and others, the readers of this booke," prefix'd 
 to Ives ^' Infi:ructions for the warres," ^c, 1589, 
 4 to. a translation from the French of monfieur 
 de Bellay. He figns himfelf **' Tho. Newton, 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 287 
 
 CestreJJiyrius'' Verfees before Bulleins '' Bul- 
 warke of defence againft all ficknefle," 0/c. 
 printed by T. Marlbe, 1579> folio. In his 
 ^^ Touchllone of complexions," 1581^ l2mo. are 
 feveral poetical translations. 
 
 NICCOLS JOHN, a converted papift, has fe- 
 veral poetical pieceesin his ^'^ Pilgrimage," 1581, 
 l2mo. 
 
 NICHOLSON SAMUEL wrote '' Acolastus, 
 his after witte :" printed for John Baylie, l600, 
 4to. 
 
 NICOLLS THOMAS, citizen and goldfmith 
 of London, translate'ed Thucydides (from the 
 French) prefix'd to which are fome flanzas pro- 
 bablely writen by him. This work was printed 
 at London in 1550, folio, without any printers 
 name. 
 
 NIXON ANTHONY wrote '' The christian 
 navy, wherein is playnely defcribed the perfect 
 courfe to fayle to the haven of happinefse," l602, 
 4to. 
 
 NORDEN JOHN, an eminent furveyer and 
 
!288 POETS OF THfi 
 
 topographer, wrote, l. '' Vicisfitudo rerum, aii 
 elegiacal! poeme of the interchangeable courfees 
 and varietie of things in this world :"* printed by 
 Simon Stafford, 1600, 4to. 2. ^' A penfive 
 foules delight," l603, 4to. 3. '' The labyrinth 
 of mans Hfe, or vertues delight, and envies oppo- 
 lite," 1614, 4to.t 
 
 NORMAN ROBERT, hydrographer, has, pre- 
 fix'dtohis ^' New attractive," 1585, 4to. ^' The 
 magnes or loadftones challenge," in verfe. 
 
 NORRETS S. Some verfees are by him pre- 
 fix'd to Forrefls Ifocrates. (See FORREST T.) 
 
 NORTHBROOKE JOHN, ^^ minister and 
 preacher of the worde of god," authour of ^^ A 
 treatife wherein dicing, dauncing, vaine plaies or 
 enterludes, with other idle pastimes, ^c. com- 
 
 "* In a new title, dateed 1601, this poem was call 'd 
 ** The ftorehoufe of varieties/' 
 
 f ^ If *' The finfull mans folace, moft fweete and 
 comfortable for theficke and forrowfull foule, contriued 
 in 7 dales conference between Chrift and a carelefle Tin- 
 ner:'' printed by Richard Jones, 15S5, 8vo, be in 
 proie or verfe r 
 
 i 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 28Q 
 
 monly vfed on the Hibbath day^ are reprooued, 
 by the authoritie of the worde of god and auncient 
 writers :" printed by Tho. Dawfon, for Geo. 
 Biilioppe^ 1579j "^to. in which are feueral poeti* 
 cal piecees. 
 
 NORTON THOMAS, of Sharpenhaale, or 
 Sharpenhoe, in Bedfordfhire, ^' a forward and 
 bufy Calvinift/' and joint authour with M. Sack- 
 vile, afterward lord Buckhurfl and earl of Dorfet,, 
 in '^ The tragedie of Gorboduc," 1565, wrote 
 ^^ An aunfwere to the proclamation of the rebells 
 in the north :'* printed by W. Seres, 15 69, and 
 without date, 8vo. and translateed feveral pfalms, 
 in Sternhold and Hopkinses verlion, which are 
 distinguifh'd by his initials. Two poems are fig- 
 nature'd Norton, in the Cotton MS. Titus. A. 
 XXIV. one of which was printed with the 
 ^^ Songes and fonettes" of lord Surrey, and one 
 given, as a fpecimen, by Mr. Ellis. 
 
 NOWELL M. H. wrote a fong '' Of disdain- 
 full Daphne j" printed in ^*^ Englands Helicon," 
 1600. In tlie fecond edition, however, it is M. 
 N. HOWELL. 
 
 O. E. See VERE EDWARD. 
 
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290 POETS OF THE 
 
 O. I. ^^ The lamentation of Troy for the 
 death of Hector. Whereunto is annexed an olde 
 womans tale in hir folitarie cell :" printed by 
 Peter Short for William Mattes, 1594, 4to. 
 The dedication to fir Peregrin Bartue knight, 
 lord of Willoughby, ^c, and the clofe of each 
 poem, have the lignature I. O. 
 
 OFFLEY HUGH appears to be the authour of 
 a ballad, '^ Defcrybing the vallures of our Eng. 
 archers and fhott that accompanied the blacke 
 prince of Portugall their governor into the feilds 
 on Twesdaie the 12. of Aug. with the welcome 
 into Lyme-ftreete 3" licenfe'd to W. Jones in 
 1589. 
 
 OPILIO. See SHEPHEARD. 
 
 OXFORD EARL OF. See VERE ED- 
 WARD. 
 
 OXFORD COUNTESS OF. Sec VERE 
 
 ANN. 
 
 P. D. has a ftanza, ^' To the reader," pre- 
 fixd to Kyffins '' Blefsednes of Brytaine/* 
 1588. 
 
 V 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 29 I 
 
 P. J. is fign'd to a poem in Robinfons ^' Hande- 
 full of pleafant delites/' 1584. 
 
 P. T. See PROCTOR THOMAS. 
 
 P. W. ^' doctor of the laws," hath feveral 
 poems in his "^ GlafTe of vaine-glorie, translateed 
 out of S. Augustine/' 1600, 12mo. printed by J. 
 Windet. 
 
 PAINTER WILLIAM, translatour and pub- 
 lilher of '*^ The palace of pleafure/* 1566, di/c. 
 has feveral poetical veriions interfperfe'd in that 
 work, 
 
 PARKER HENRY, lord Morley, is reported, 
 by Bale, to have writen in Engleifti, not onely 
 comedys and tragedys, but many verfees 3 none 
 of which are now known to be extant. 
 
 PARKER MATTHEW, archbifhop of Can- 
 terbury, translateed into Engleifh metre, ^^ The 
 whole pfalter3" printed by John Day, 4to. b. 1. 
 This book (according to Warton and Farmer) 
 was never publifli'd by fale (an asfertion, how- 
 ever, for which he feems to have had no autho- 
 
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292 
 
 POETS OF THE 
 
 nty),* and is, by Wood, followed in the Bodleian 
 catalogue^ erroneously afcribe*d to John Keepes. 
 The errour originateed from bifliop Barlows copy 
 of the book in the Bodleian library, and was re- 
 futeed in The gentlemajis magazine for 1781. 
 
 PARKHURST ANTHONY wrote commen- 
 datory verfees, prefix' d to fir G. Pekhams ^^ True 
 reporteofthe late discoueries, O^c." 15 83. 
 
 PARKYNN ROBERT, curate of Adwick-in- 
 the-ftreet, near Don caster, compile' d '^ The his- 
 tory of the blefsed Jefus," from the evangelifts 
 and ancient doctors, in Englifh verfe, an. 1548, 
 which Thoresby had in manufcript. 
 
 * The fuppofition may have arifen from Bp. Ken- 
 nets affirming that ^' though the archbilhop [Parker] 
 printed his book of pfalms, he forbore to publifh it with 
 his name, but fuffered his wife to prefent the book to 
 feveral of the nobility." See Hawkinses History of mufic. 
 Vol. III. It may be aded that fome of the copys now 
 extant appear to have been prefentation-copys from 
 Margaret Parker. T. P. 
 
 Dr. Burney fpeaks of archbifhop Parkers pfalms as 
 having been frinted but never fublified. The industrious 
 Strype, after a diligent fearch, could never gain a fight 
 of them : neither could Tanner. T. P. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 2Q3 
 
 PARRY ROBERT wrote a romance, or 
 *' Fancie" as he calls it, intitle'd '' Moderatus, 
 The moft delectable & famous history of the 
 black knight;" printed by R. Jones, 15C)5, 4to 
 in which he has introduce'd feveral oiecees of 
 poetry. Doctor Farmer had mistakenly fuppofe'd 
 the initials R. P. in his imperfect copy, to mean 
 Richard Parre (a writeer of romancees) ; but the 
 name is elfewhere printed at length. 
 
 PARTRIDGE JOHN wrote, i. '' The moll 
 famoufe and worthie historic of the worthy lady 
 Pandauola, daughter to the mighty paynim, the 
 great Turke :" printed by Thomas Purfoote, 
 1566, 8vo. b. I. 2. '^ The worthye historic of 
 the moile noble and- valiaunt knight Plafidas, 
 otherwife callid Euftas, who was martyred for the 
 profesfion of Jefus Cliriil:" printed by Henry 
 Denham for Thomas Hacket, 1566, 8vo. b. 1. 
 3. '^ The notable historic of two famous princes 
 Astianax and Polixona:" 1566, 8vo. The two 
 laft were licenfe'd to Hacket in I56l. In his 
 *^ Treafurie of commodious conceyts, Cfj'c." 1580, 
 are verfees by '' The printer [more likely himfelf] 
 to all til at couet tlie practife of good huswiuery, 
 as well wiues as maides.'* 
 
 U 3 
 
294 POETS OF THE 
 
 PATEN maister^ was an asfociate with Gas- 
 coigne^ Isfc, in devifeing ^^ The princely plea- 
 fures at Ken el worth/' 1576. 
 
 PAYNiP CHRISTOPHER wrote '' Chriflen- 
 mas-carrolles3" licenfe'd to James Roberts^ in 
 1569. 
 
 PEACHAM HENRY, authour of '' The 
 garden of eloquence," 1577, wrote '^ Minerva 
 Britanna, or a garden of heroycal devifes," l6l2, 
 4to. He has Ibme poetical translations in his 
 ^' Compleat gentleman." He publifh'd a volume 
 of epigrams, intitle'd '^ Thalias banquet," in 
 1620 3 and contributeed 4 copys of verfes to the 
 ^' Odcombian banquet," 161 1 3 in the Engleifh, 
 French, Latin, and Utopian tongues. 
 
 PEELE GEORGE, master of arts in the uni- 
 verfi ty of Oxford, and a dramatick authour of 
 fome celebrity,* wrote, l. '^ The device of the 
 pageant tSbrne before Woolfton Dixie, lord mayor 
 of London, Oft. 29, 1585," 4 to. printed by 
 
 * Nafh termM him ^^ the chief fupporter of pleafance, 
 thi' atlas of poetrie, and primus verborumartiftx." T. P. 
 
 I 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. « Q.Qj 
 
 Edw. Allde. 2. '' A farewell, entituled to the 
 famous and fortunate generalls of our Englilli 
 forces : fir lohn Norris and fyr Frauncis Drake, 
 knights, and all tlieyr brave and refolute fol- 
 lowers. Whereunto is annexed a tale of Troy:" 
 printed by I. C. 1389, 4to. 3. '' Polyhymnia 
 defcribing the honourable triumphs at tylt, be- 
 fore her maiestie, on the 17th of November laft 
 paft, with fir Henry Lea his refignation of ho- 
 nour at tylt to her maiestie:" printed by R. 
 Jhones, 159O, 4to. 4. '' The honour of the 
 garter : displaied in a poeme gratulatorie. En- 
 titled to the worthie & renowned earle of 
 Northumberland, created knight of that order, 
 and inllalled at Windfore, anrw regni Elizabethe 
 35, die Jiudi 26 '/' printed .by the widow Charle- 
 wood, 1593, 4to. He alfo wrote a lliort com- 
 pliment, in blank verfe, prefix'd to Watfons 
 fonnets : likewife, '^ Coridon and Melampus 
 fong," and '' Oenones complaint in blank verfe," 
 both in ^^ Englands Helicon," 1600. He has a 
 third piece in the fame collection, writen in lyrick 
 verfe, and intitle'd ^^ Colin, the enamoured fliep- 
 heard, fingeth thepasfion of love :" and has, like- 
 wife, a poem, intitle'd ^^ The praife of chastitie," 
 in '^ The phoenix- neft," 1593. In 1091 was li- 
 
 U 4 
 
2q6 poets op the 
 
 cenfe'd to R. Jones *' The hunting of Cupid^ by 
 Geo. Peele^ M. A. of Oxford." An account of 
 his theatrical performancees wil be found in the 
 ^' Biographia dramatica.'" ^^ This perfon," fays 
 Wood^" was hving in his middle age^ in the 
 latter end of Q. Elizabeth, but when or where 
 he died i cannot tell ; for fo it is^ and always 
 hath been, that moft poets die poor,, and confe- 
 quently obfcurely, and a hard matter it is to trace 
 them to their graves.""^ 
 
 PEEND THOMAS translateed '' The plea- 
 fant fable of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis/' out 
 of Ovids Metamorphofis^ with a morale printed 
 in 1564 and 1565, 8vo. He has a poem prefix'd 
 to Studleys Agamemnon^ 1566. 
 
 PEERIS WILLIAM, prieft and fecretary to 
 Henry (the 5th) earl of Northumberland, wrote 
 the ^^ discente of the lord Percis, in verfe," ex- 
 
 * He was dead in 1598. <* As Anacreon/' fays 
 Meres, ** dyed by the pot, fo George Peele by the 
 pox.'', Mister Steevens fuppofe'd that the character of 
 George Pieboard in the << Puritan," was defign'd for 
 George Peele, 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 297 
 
 tant in tlie royal MSS. isDII. where are^ like- 
 wife^ ^^ proverbs painted in feveral rooms^ at 
 Lekyngfelde &: Wrefille/' probablely by the fame 
 hand^ and printed in Vols. 3 and 4 of The Anti- 
 qUarian repertory, 1780 and 1784. 
 
 PEETERHOUSE JOHN has a few ftanzas, 
 before '' Newes -from the norths" 1579^ ad- 
 drefs'd '^ to the reporter of this history." 
 
 PELHAM SIR WILLIAM wrote commen- 
 datory verfees prefix'd to fir G. Peckhams, '' True 
 reporte of the late discoueries, Cs'c." 1583. 
 
 PEMBROKE. See HERBERT MARY. 
 
 PERCY WILLIAM wrote '' Sonnets to the 
 faireft Caeiia :" printed by Adam Iflip for W. P. 
 1594^ 4to. In the authours ^' Addrefs to the 
 reader/' he propofes, ^' ere long, to impart unto 
 the world another poeme more fruitfuU and pon- 
 derous." 
 
 PETOWE HENRY wrote, 1. '' I'he fecond 
 part of the loves of Hero and Leander, conteyn- 
 ing their further fortunes" (in continuation of 
 Marlows verfion of Mufaeus) : printed by T. 
 
 # 
 
298 POETS OF THE 
 
 Purfoot, 1598^ 4to. 2. '' Elizabetha quafi vi" 
 "oenSy Elizas funerall^, a few Aprill drops, fhowred 
 on the hearfe of dead Eliza, or the funerall 
 teares of a true hearted fubjed^" l603, 4to. 3, 
 '*" The whipping of runawaies ;'* for C. Burbie, 
 1603. 
 
 PETOWE WILLIAM is the authour, accord- 
 ing to Warton, of an old ballad on Jefhthajudge 
 oflsraeir (H. E. P. Ill, 434.) Q. 
 
 PETT PETER wrote '' Times journey to feek 
 his daughter Truth, and Truths letter to Fame, 
 of Englands excellencie : " 1599, 4to. 
 
 PETTIE GEORGE has fome fcraps of poetrj 
 in his translation of the three firfl bookes of 
 Guazzos '' Civile converfation f ' printed by Tho. 
 Eaft, 1586;, 4 to. 
 
 PHAER THOMAS. '' The feuen firfl bookes 
 of the Eneidos of Virgill, conuerted into Englifhe 
 meter by Thomas Phaer efquier, foUicitour to the 
 king and queues maiesties, attending their ho- 
 norable counfaile in the marchies of Wales, anno 
 1558, 28 Maij :" printed by John Kingston^, 1558, 
 4to. b. 1. '^ The nyne fyrfl bookes of the 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 2QQ 
 
 Eneidos of Virgil converted into Englifhe vearfe 
 by Tho. Phaer doctour of phifike^ with fo muche 
 of the tenthe booke as iince his death [l56o] 
 coulde be founde in vnperfit papers at his houfe 
 in Kilganan forefl in Penbrokelhire :" printed 
 by Rowland Hall for Nicholas England, 1562, 
 4to. b. 1. In 1566, T. Purfoot had a licenfe for 
 ^*' Serten verces of Cupydo, by Mr. Fayre," 
 He, likewife, fupply'd the legend of Owen 
 Glendower in the ^^ Mirror for magistrates, 
 1559 3 and has a recommendatory poem before 
 Philip Bethams '^ Military precepts," 1544. 
 Warton, alfo, fays, he had feen an old ballad, 
 called Gads-hill, by Faire, that was, probablely^ 
 our translator Phaer (III, 399) 3 which does not 
 feem very credible. 
 
 PHILLIP JOHN wrote and publiili'd '' A 
 rare and ftrange historicall nouell of Cleomenes 
 and Sophonisba, furnamed Juliet 3 very pleafant 
 toreade:" printed by Hugh Jackfon^ 1577^ 8vo. 
 
 PHIST W. (according to Warton) translateed 
 from the Italian '' The welfpring of wittie con- 
 ceights :" printed for R. Jones, 15 84, 4to. b. 1. 
 (Ill, 308) which, however^ no one elfe appears 
 ever to have met with. 
 
300 POETS OF THE 
 
 PICKS PETER contributeed a fhort poem to 
 Robinfons ^*^ Handfull of pleafant delites^" 15 84. 
 
 PIG VA. is iign'd to a poem in the Cotton 
 MS. Titus, A. XXIV. '' Poems written in Q. 
 Marys time^" Cf/c. 
 
 PINE JO. has a copy of commendatory verfes 
 before Plollands *"*" Historic of om* lord and fa- 
 vioiir," 1504. 
 
 POWELL MOSES fet forth (or meditateed) 
 '*" A book of carolls :" licenfe^d to John Wolf, 
 nth Decem. 1587. 
 
 POWELL THOMAS wrote '' The pasfionate 
 poet, with a defcription of the Thracian Ismarus, 
 in verfe :" London, printed by Valentine Simmes, 
 l601, 4to. 
 
 PRATT THOMAS wrote commendatory 
 verfees, prefixed to Fletchers ^' Introduction to 
 the looue of god," 1581. 
 
 PRESTON THOMAS, authour of the '' La- 
 mentable tragedie mixed ful of pleafant mirth 
 conteyning the life of Cambifes king of Perfia,*' 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 301 
 
 the but of contemporary wits^ wrote '^ A geli- 
 flower or fwete marygolde, wherein the frutes of 
 teranny you may beholde :" licenfe'd^ in 1369, 
 to W. Griffith. 
 
 PRIDEAUX .... wrote an elegy in com- 
 mendation of bilhop Bonner -, inferted in fir John 
 Haringtons '^ Briefe view of the fi:ate of the 
 church of England^ '^ together with an anfwer^" 
 verfe for verfe^ by an ill-wilier of the faid 
 bifhop.'^ 
 
 PROCTOR THOMAS. '' A gorgious gallery 
 of gallant inuentions, garnifhed and decked with 
 diuers daintie deuifes^ right delicate and delight- 
 full, to recreate eche modefi: minde withalL 
 Firfl: framed and fafiiioned in fundrie formes^ by 
 divers worthy workemen of late dayes : and now 
 joyned together and builded up. By T. P."- 
 
 * The latter part of this miscellany comprifees <^ Pre- 
 tie pamphlets by T. Proctor." 
 
 Tho. Proctor has a copy of commendatory verfees be- 
 fore Mundays ** Mirror of mutabilitie," 1597 : andfeems 
 to be the T. P. who inferted *^ Sentences in meeter 
 tending to fundrie purpofes," in his " Treatife of hea- 
 venly philofophie," 1578 ; and has verfees preflx'd to a 
 
302 POETS OF THE 
 
 printed by R. JoneS;, 1578, 4to. b. 1.* The 
 fame perfon has, likewife, commendatory verfees, 
 prefix'd to '' Newes from the north," 1379, 
 *^ in reporte of the authors good wil." 
 
 PROWSE ANN has fome verfees, in her trans- 
 lation of Taffins treatife ^^ Of the markes of the 
 children of god," isgo, on ^^ The neceslitie 
 &: benefite of afflictions." 
 
 PRYNE RALPH, grocer in London^ wrote a 
 fort of rimeing prayer for queen Mary, inferted 
 in an old pfalter, which he prefented to her ma- 
 jesty (Bib, regia, 2 B III.) 
 
 PULLAYNE JOHN, a native of Yorkihire, 
 
 work ** Of the knowledge & condudl of warres,'^ in the 
 fame year. 
 
 * On the 5th of June 1577 was licenfe'd to this Jones 
 ^< A handfull of hidden fecrets conteyninge therein 
 certaine fonets & other pleafante devifes pickt out 
 of the clofet of fundrie worthie writers, & collected 
 by R. Williams :" which, by a memorandum, after the 
 entry, appears to have been the above ^' Gorgious gal- 
 lery:" another title, " Delicate dainties to fvveten buties 
 lips withall," being obliterateed. 
 
rtf^o 
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 303 
 
 cducateed at Oxford, and, in time, archdeacon of 
 Colchester, translateed, 1 . The ecclefiastes of So- 
 lomon j 2. The history of Sufanna j 3. The his- 
 tory of Judith j 4. The history of Hester 3 5. 
 The testament of the 12 patriarchs 3 and dyed in 
 1563 : but whether thefe translations were ever 
 printed does not appear. Warton had ^^ feen 
 the name of John Pullayne affixed in manufcript 
 to a copy of an anonymous verfion of Solomons 
 fong," or '^ Solomons balads in metre." (Lon. 
 4to. n. d.) 
 
 PUNT WILLIAM made '' A ballade againft 
 the pope and popery :" printed by W. Hill, 
 about 1548. 
 
 PUTTENHAM WEBSTER,^ one of the gen^ 
 tlemen penlioners to queen Elizabeth, and author 
 of ^*^ The arte of Englifh poefie," 1589, wrote, 
 according to his own account, ^^ A litle brief ro- 
 
 * Neither Bolton, who firfl meations him, nor 
 Wood, gives his name; which for anything that ap- 
 pears, is firft mention'd by Ames, upon whatever au- 
 thority. Doctor Lort, in his copy, had inferred a memo- 
 randum to the fame purport : but mister Steevens call'd 
 the authour George, from a MS. (as he term*d it) of Ni- 
 coUbn among authours. T- P. 
 
304 POETS OF THE 
 
 mance or historicall ditty of the ifle of Great 
 Britaine in fhort and long meetres^ and by 
 breaches or diviiions to be more commodiously 
 fong to the harpe in places of asfemble^ where 
 the company fhal be deliroiis to heare of old ad- 
 ventures &• valiaunces of noble knights in times 
 paft, Cffc."' alfo '' Elpine,* an eclogue^ made at 
 the age of 18^ and other things; all now lofl.;, 
 unlefs certain lines^ inferted in pp. 147^ and 
 161^ maybe part of the above ditty.f He de- 
 
 ^ From Puttenhams report of having infcribe'd this 
 eclogue, at the age of 18, to K. Edward VI. it placees 
 the date of his birth anterior to 1535. 
 
 f " A ballad of Brittilhe Sidanen, applied by a cour- 
 tier to the praife of the quene," licenfe'd, 13th Auguft 
 1579, to Richard Jones, was, probablely, by this au- 
 thour. The following lift of his works w^as taken by mis- 
 ter Steevens from a MS. memorandum of Ben Jonfon. 
 *' Hicrotechni," " A brief romance of the ifle of Great 
 Britain," " Gynascocratia,'' ^' The original and pe- 
 digree of the Englifh tongue," ** The interview of two 
 great princefses," *^ Lustie London," ** Epitaphes." 
 <^ Partheniades," " Philocalia," " Minerva," « A 
 book," " Anhymne," *' De Durra." 
 
 " That Puttenham was a courtier (fays Oldys) is 
 vifible J alfo had been a traveller, and feen the courts of 
 foreign princes; wherefore his illustrations, both his- 
 torical and political, are drawn fo familiarly from 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 305 
 
 fcribes himfelf to have been '^ a fcholler in Ox^ 
 ford/' though Wood could not tel where he was 
 bred. 
 
 PYRRYE C. wrote '' The praife and dispraife 
 of women, very fruitfull to the w^ell dispofed 
 minde^ and delectable to the readers thereof : and 
 a fruitfull Ihorte dialogue vpon the fentence, 
 know before thou knitter" printed by W. How, 
 n. d. 8vo. b. 1. 
 
 PYTTES JOHN wrote '' A prayer or fup- 
 plycation made vnto god by a young man that he 
 would be mercifull to vs, and not kepe his worde 
 away from vs, but that the truth maie fpringe :" 
 printed by W. Herforde^ 1539, on a broad-lide, 
 confining of 17 lix-line ftanzas. See Herbert, 
 580. 
 
 Q. T. M. has fome commendatory verfees be- 
 fore Turberviles '^ Arte of venerie," with the 
 initials T. M. Q. 
 
 thence, that he may be callM the court-critic of that 
 reign." — Life of Raleigh. Wood hints, that *' fome 
 have thought'* the book waswriten by Sidney, T. P. 
 
 X 
 
306 POETS OF THE. 
 
 R. F. See ROUS FRANCIS. 
 
 R. I. H. (I. H. R,) wrote '' The moft excel- 
 lent historic of Lynmachus & Varrona, daughter 
 to Syllanus^ duke of Hypata, in Thesfalia : 
 wherein are contained the effe6ts of fortune, the 
 wonders of affection, & the conquefls of incer- 
 taine time :" printed by T. Creede, l604. 
 
 R. N. Thefe initials are prefixed to a com- 
 mendatory poem before Gascoignes ^^ Steele- 
 glaffe/' 1576. 
 
 R. S . See ROWLAND SAMUEL. 
 
 R. T. Thefe initials are prefix'd to verfees \.o 
 the reader, before Studleys ^^ Pageant of popes," 
 15745 and to Cottons ^'' Armor of proofe, fe'c." 
 1596. 
 
 R. W. ^^ The forrowfull fighes of a fadde 
 foule upon the unfortunate death of the right 
 hon. the vertuous & valarous gentleman, the 
 lord Bourgh." — A poem written by W. R. a fer- 
 vant of the faid lord B. and annex'd to a profe 
 account of ^^ The moft horrible & tragical 1 
 murther of John lord Bourgh, baron of Castell 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 307 
 
 Connelly committed by Arnold Cosby, the 14 
 of January:" printed by R. R. 1591, 4to. Q. 
 whether Arnold Cosbies ^'Ultirnumvalef' See 
 his article. 
 
 RAINSFORD EDWARD, efquire, has a copy 
 of verfees preiix'd to Greenes '^ Ciceronis Amor/* 
 1592. 
 
 RALEGH SIR WALTER, born in 1652, 
 convi6led of treafon in l603, and, after being 
 employ'd under the kings commisfion, beheaded, 
 upon that obfolete fen tence, in 16I8, wrote com- 
 mendatory verfees prefix'd to Gascoignes '' Steel e- 
 glaife," and Spenfers ^^ Faerie queene/'-^ allfo 
 '^ The filent lover," ^^ The nimphs reply to the 
 fheepheard" (in anfwer to Marlow), and other 
 piecees, moflly printed in ^' Englands Helicon,** 
 1600. Some of thefe being (like others, cer- 
 tainly not by him) fubfcribe'd Ignoto-f (or Anony* 
 
 *'^ From Spenfers dedicatory fonnet to Raleigh, and 
 from his Introduction to book 3, of the Faery Queen, 
 it would feem that fir Walter had writen a poem inti- 
 tled <« Cynthia,'* in praife of CLElizabeth. T. P. 
 
 •J- Ignoto and W. R. are fignM to a pair of compli- 
 mentary poems before Lithgows ** Pilgrims farewell :" 
 printed at Edinburgh, in 161 8. 
 
 X 2 
 
 S^ 
 
303 POETS OF THE 
 
 mousj, it has been erroneously asferted, by 
 Warton^ to be ^^ Raleighs conftant fignature." 
 It is likewife obfervable that this word is, in two 
 inftancees^ pafleed over the initials S, IF. R, either 
 becaufe he was not the authour, or willi'd to con- 
 ceal himfeif. The Anfaer to the lye^ ufually 
 afcribe'd to Ralegh _, and pretended to have been 
 writen the night before his execution, was, in 
 faa, by Francis Davifon. See IGNOTO. The 
 anfwer to, or parody upon. Withers fong '^ Shall 
 i, wafting in defpair," begining, '^ Shall i, like 
 an hermit, dwell," is likewife attrlbuteed to Ra- 
 legh 5 of whom, fays Puttenham, '^ For dittie 
 and amourous ode i finde fir Walter Rawleyghs 
 vayne moll loftie, infolent, and pasiionate." 
 This poem, by fome od blunder, may have been 
 confounded with his ^^ Epitaph," which appear'd 
 in Brathwaites '^ Remains after death," 16 1 8, 
 and profefses to be **" writ the night before his 
 execution.* ^' The Engliih poems of iir Walter 
 Raleigh," in Boltons opinion," are not eaiily to 
 be mended." 
 
 * As a complete refutation of this report, which 
 Percy thinh juay have been a mistake, it may be ob- 
 ferveM that Raleigh was executeed in 16 18, and the 
 poem was printed by Davifon in i6oS. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 309 
 
 RAMSEY LAURENCE wrote and fet-forth 
 '^ The practife of the diuell. The auncient poi- 
 foned practifes of the diuell^ in his papifles, 
 againft the true profesfors of gods holy worde, in 
 thefe our latter dayes :" printed for Timothy 
 Rider,, without date^ 4to. b. 1. in feven-line 
 ftanzas. It was, probablely, the fame man who 
 wrote ^^ Ramfies farewell to his late lord & mas- 
 ter therle of Leicester, which departed this 
 worlde at Cor'burye the 4 Sept. 1588:" 11- 
 cenfe'd, in the fame year, to Edward Aggas. 
 
 RAMSY JOHN wrote '' A plaister for a galled 
 horfe:" in 23 octave llanzas : printed by Tho. 
 Raynald, 1548, 4to. 
 
 RANDALL ROBERT, a native of Wales, 
 executeed, along with his fon Thomas, at St. 
 Thomas-a-Waterings, the 2 1 ft of Febmary 1593, 
 made '' A dolefull fonge," which was, two days 
 after, licenfe'd to Edward Aide, as was their 
 '^ Wofull and forrowfull complaints" to John 
 Danter. 
 
 RANKINS WILLIAM wrote '' Seven fa- 
 tyres," ^c. printed in 1596. He has, likewife, 
 
 X 3 
 
310 POETS OF THE 
 
 a fonnet prefixed to Bodenhams '' Belvedere, or 
 the garden of the mufes," l600, l2mo. 
 
 READ JOHN wrote '' A complaint of the 
 abufe of the noble arte of chirurgerie," in metre, 
 prefix'd to his translation of Arceuses '' Method 
 of curing woundes/' 1588, 4to. 
 
 RECORDE ROBERTE, doctor of phyfick, 
 wrote ^' The castle of knowledge," 1556, in 
 which various pieces of poetry or rimes are in- 
 terfperfed. In the preface to his '^ Ground of 
 artes teachyng the worke and practife of arith- 
 metike/' 6/c. printed by Reynold Wolff, 12mo. 
 b. 1. n. d. are twelve lines of poetry 3 and after- 
 ward a lingle flanza, intitle'd ^*' The bokes ver- 
 diae." 
 
 RHODES. See RODES. 
 
 RICE RICHARD publifli'd '' An invective 
 againft vices taken for vertue : gathered out of 
 tlie fcriptures by the unprofitable fervant of Jefus 
 Chrifte, Richard Rice. Alfo certain necesfary in- 
 ftructions meet to be taught the young gentlemen. 
 Done by D. W. Arch," in metre. Printed by Ro- 
 bert Waldegrave for Hen. Kirkman, 1581, 8vo. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 311 
 
 RICHARDSON THOMAS, fometime fhident 
 in Cambridge, has '^ A proper new fong, to the 
 tune of **■ I wilh to fee thofe happy dales 3" in 
 *' A handefuU of pleafant delites," 1584. 
 
 ROBERTS HENRY wrote '' An epitaph upon 
 the death of the erle of Leicester :" licenfe'd to 
 John Charlewood in December 1589. 
 
 ROBINSON CLEMENT. '' A handefhll of 
 pleafant delites, containing fundrie new fonets, 
 and delectable histories in divers kindes of mee- 
 ter : newly devifed to the neweft tunes, ^c. by 
 Clement Robinfon, and others," 15 84, l6mo. 
 In 1566 was Hcenfe'd to R. Johnes, ^'' A booke 
 intituled of \ery pleafaunte fonettes and lloryes in 
 myter by Clament Robynfon :" probablely the 
 fame work. 
 
 ROBINSON RICHARD, citizen of London, 
 compile'd ^^ The rewarde of wickedneffe dis- 
 coursing the fundrye monflrous abufes of wicked 
 and vngodlye worldelinges : in fuch fort fet downe 
 and written as the fame haue been dyuerfely prac- 
 tifed in the perfones of popes, harlots, proude 
 princes, tyrauntes, Romifh bysihoppes and others. 
 
 X 4 
 
312 
 
 POETS OF THE 
 
 With a liuely defcription of their feuerall fallcs 
 and fin all deflmdion. Verye profitable for all 
 forte of eflates to reade and looke vpon. Newly 
 compiled by Richard Robinfon^ fervaunt in hous- 
 holde to the right honorable earle of Shrewsbury. 
 A dreame moll pitiful^ and to be dreaded :" 
 
 ^' Of thinges that be fi:raunge^ 
 Who loveth to reede : 
 
 In this booke let him raunge. 
 His fancie to feede." 
 Imprinted by W. Williamfon [no printers name 
 in mister Hebers copy], n. d. 4to. b. 1. Upon the 
 plan of the '^ Mirror for magistrates." At the 
 end is a poem intitle'd *"*" Retouming from Plutos 
 kingdome, to noble Helicon : the place of in- 
 finite ioye :" in which he mentions Chaucer, 
 Lydgate, Skelton, Hey wood, Googe, and other 
 Engleifh poets. The addrefs from '^ The author 
 to the reader" is dated ^' From my chamber in 
 Sheffield-castle. The xix. of Maie. 1574."* 
 
 -'^ Robinfon appears to have been one of the domestick 
 centinels employed by Ld. Shrewsbury to guard the 
 Q^of Scots. During his night-watches this ** fimple 
 travaile/* he informs us, was compofe'd : and the au- 
 thour has juftly characterife'd his performance to be " a 
 droufie dreaming piece of worke, neither garnifhed with 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 313 
 
 He, likewife, translateed and colledled *^ The 
 auncient order, focietie, and unitie laudable, of 
 prince Arthure and his knightly armory of the 
 round table. With a threefold asfertion frendly 
 in fauour and furtherance of Englifh archery at 
 this day :" printed by John Wolfe, 1583, 4to. 
 b. 1. In 1569 or 70 was licenfe'd to H. Bynne- 
 man, '^ The ruffull tragedy of Hemidos & The- 
 lay, by Rye. Robynfon." Whether his '' Chrill- 
 mas recreations of histories & moralizations, aplied 
 for our folace & confolations," licenfe'd to Tho. 
 Eafte in 1576, but never printed, were in verfe 
 or profe is not known. 
 
 ROBINSON THOMAS wrote a iliort poem, 
 '*" De lapide philofophonim :" printed in Afh- 
 moles Theatrum chemicmn. 
 
 ROCHFORD Viscount. See BOLEYN 
 GEORGE. 
 
 rhetorike, eloquence, curious tearmes, nor pleafaunt 
 matter." T. P. 
 
 Dr. Farmer had furmifc'd that he might have been 
 the fameperfon whofe name appears among the principal 
 actours of Shakfpeares plays, in the lift prefixed to the 
 folio edition. 
 
314 POETS OF THE 
 
 RODES HUGH compile'd '' The bo>e of nur- 
 ture, for men, feruantes and chyldren, with 
 Stems puer ad menfam, very vtyle and necesfary 
 vnto all youth :" printed by Thomas Petyt^ with- 
 out date, 4to. b. 1. The author is fay'd to be 
 ^^ one of the kynges chapell," meaning, doubt- 
 lefs, that of Henry the 8th ) and the book to be 
 '^ newly correded^" fo that there mufl have 
 been an earlyer edition. There was a lateer, by 
 Hugh Jackfon, 1577, in which, though the mat- 
 ter is the fame, the language and metre display 
 coniiderable variation. The Stans puer ad men- 
 fam of Lydgate is a totally different perfor- 
 mance. Warton, who fuppofees '' The boke 
 of nurture" to have been firft publifli'd in the 
 reign of Edward the 6th, and defcribes the au- 
 thour as ''^ a gentleman or muiician of the royal 
 chapell," fays that, in the following reign of 
 Mary, the fame poet printed a poem, con filling 
 of thirty-lix octave flanzas, intitle'd, '^ The fong 
 of the chyld-bysfhop, as it was fonge before the 
 queenes maiestie in her priuie chamber at her 
 manour of faynt James-in-the-feeldes on faynt 
 Nicholas day and Innocents day...by the chylde- 
 bysfhope of Poules churche with his company. 
 Londini in mdihiis Johannis Cawood typographi 
 
 #• 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 315 
 
 reginct, 1555/' 4 to- b. 1. which feems to require 
 ibme further authority. See III^ 321.* 
 
 ROGERS GEORGE wrote commendatory 
 verfees, prefix'd to ^^ Wharton s dreame/' 1578. 
 
 ROGERS JOHN or MATTHEW. See 
 SMITH ROBERT. 
 
 ROSCARROCKE NICHOLAS has a long 
 copy of verfees, entitled '^ Cilenus his cenfure of 
 the aucther in his high court of Heraldrie,," be- 
 fore Boflewells Workes of armorie^ 1572. 
 
 ' ROSSE J. of the Inner Temple, wrote '' The 
 avthors teares vpon the death of his honorable 
 freende fir William Sackvile knight of the ordre 
 de la Colade in Fraunce : fonne to the right ho. 
 the lorde Buckhurft Anno Dni 1592 : a poem 
 in 168 fix-line ftanzas of confiderable merit 
 and with great defe6ts : a 4to. MS. in the pos- 
 
 '* Herbert, in p. 1794, asferts a copy of this book to 
 be in the pos(esfion of *' Francis Douce, efquire ;" who 
 never had, nor faw, nor (except from what Warton 
 fays) ever hear'd of fuch a thing. 
 
3l6 POETS or THE 
 
 fesiion of Francis Douce efquire. He lias, like- 
 wife, Latin and Engleifh verfees before the fe- 
 cond part of Femes '' Blazon of gentrie/' in- 
 tle'd '*■ Lacies Nobilitie/' 15S6. 
 
 ROUS FRANCIS. '' Thule, or vertues historic. 
 To the honorable and vertuous mistris Amy Audely. 
 By F. R. In two books. The lirft booke, printed 
 for Humfrey Lownes, 1598," 4to. If this were 
 the Francis Rous who is mention' d by Wood, as 
 haveing, at 1 2 years of age, become a commoner 
 of Broadgates-hall in 1591, helikewife translateed 
 the pfalms of David into Engleiili metre, which 
 were order'd to be printed by the houfe of com- 
 mons in 1645. Being a zealous and distin- 
 guifh'd puritan, he was, in l643, made provoit 
 of Eton-college, and continue'd in that fituation 
 til the time of his death, which hapen'd in 165 8, 
 being the 80th year of his age. 
 
 ROWLAND DAVID, the translatour of Laza- 
 rillo de Torrnes, made '' An epytaphe of my 
 lorde of Pembroke," which was licenfe'd to Tho. 
 Col well, in 15 69. 
 
 ROWLANDS SAMUEL wrote, I. '' The 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 317 
 
 betraying of Chriit. Judas in defpaire. The 
 feuen words of our fauiour on the crofle^ with 
 other poems on the pasfion :" printed by A. lilip, 
 1598, 4 to. 2. ^^ The famous history of Guy 
 earle of Warwicke :" printed by Edward Allde, 
 without date^ 4to. 3. *' The letting of humours 
 blood in the head-vaine : with a new Morisco 
 daunced by feaven fatyres upon the bottom of 
 Diogines table:" printed by W. White, 16OO, 
 4to. and reprinted in l607j under the title of 
 *^ Humors ordinarie, where a man may be verie 
 merrie, and exceeding well ufed for his fixe- 
 pence," 4to. 4. '*" Looke to it for ile flabbe 
 ye," being characters in verfe, l604^ 4to. 5. 
 '^ Democritus, or Dr. Merriman his medicines 
 againft melancholy humours 3 entered to John 
 Deane, 24th of October 1607. 6. '*" Humors 
 looking-glafTcj" printed by Ed. Allde, l60S^ 
 8vo. 7. ^^ Hell broke loofe, a terrible battell 
 betweeiie the two confumers of the whole world. 
 Time and Death," 4to. 8. ^' Doctor Merrie- 
 man, or notliing but mirth 3" printed for John 
 Deane, 1609, 4to. 9. ^' Martin Markal, bea- 
 dle of Bridewell," ^c, 1610, 4to. 10. '' The 
 knave of clubbs." fatirical characters, l6ll^ 4to. 
 11. *'' A facred memoire of the miracles wrought 
 
318 POETS OF THE 
 
 by our lord and faviour/' l6l8, 4to. 12. *' The 
 night raven," l6l8. 13. ^' Good newes and 
 bad newes/' 1622^ 4to. 14. ^^ Diogines lan- 
 thorne," 1628^ 4to. 15. ^^ Heavens glory, 
 earths vamty^ and hells horrour/' 1628, 4to. 
 He has a copy of verfees prefix d to Andrewes 
 '*" Unmaiking of a feminine Machiavell,'* l604, 
 and anotlier to Collinses ^^ Teares of Love,'* 
 1615. 
 
 ROY WILLIAM was the authour, according 
 to Bale, of a fingular book intitle'd '^ Rede me 
 and be nott wrothe For i fay no thynge but 
 trouthe;" being a fevere fatire againil Cardinal 
 Wolfey, in two parts, in *^*' A brefe dialoge be- 
 twene two preftes fervaunts named Watkin and 
 leffraye : preceded by a colloquy between the au- 
 thour and his work, and a ballad-lamentation on 
 the deceafe of the mafs. (See Herbert, 1539.) 
 It appears to have been printed abroad in, or 
 about, 1525, between, that is, the duke of 
 Buckinghams execution and the repudiation of 
 queen Catherine. There is another^ edition, 
 
 * This edition differs in many refpedls from the 
 former, and the force of the fatire is frequently weak- 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. SIQ 
 
 with a preface by L. R. '^ prynted at Wefell, in 
 1546^ by Henry Nycolfon." (Herbert, I060.) 
 This Roy, who had been a frier, was one of the 
 transiatours of the new testament, printed at 
 Hamburgh or Antwerp, about 1526, and was 
 burn'd in Portugal for herefy. 
 
 ROYDON MATTHEW was the authour of 
 *^ An elegie or friends pasfion for his Aftrophill ; 
 written upon the death of fir Philip Sidney," in 
 ^' The phoenix neft," 1593 (according to a note 
 in biihop Tanners copy) -, and has commendatory 
 verfe'es, prefixed to Watfons fonnets, and fir G. 
 Peckhams *^^ True reporte," 1583. To this Roy- 
 don, by the title of **" my deare and moll worthy 
 friend," ^' the trulie learned," and *' fweet Ma- 
 thew,'' Chapman addrefses his *' Shadow of 
 night," 1594, and his '^ Ovids banquet of fence," 
 1595. 
 
 ROYDON OWEN wrote commendatory 
 
 en'd, by being transfer'd from the cardinal to the 
 *< byfhoppes of Englande.'' 
 
 Pope injure'd his '* Dunciad/* in the fame manner, 
 by transfering to Gibber what was applicable onely to 
 Theobald. T. P. 
 
320 POETS OF THE 
 
 verfes prefix' d to Proctors ^^ Gorgious gallery of 
 gallant inventions," 1570. 
 
 S. C. has a fonnet '^ to his loving colin and 
 good friend^ R. C." preiix'd to the latter (Carr)s 
 '' , Mahumetane or Turkiih histoiy," ^c, l600. 
 
 S, D. See SAND. 
 
 S. F. See SABIE, SEAGER. 
 
 S. E. Thefe initials are fubjoin'd to feveral 
 poems in ^^ The paradice of daintie deuifes/' 
 1576. 
 
 S. J. has a prefatory fonnet in Carrs '*" Ma- 
 humetane or Turkifli history, C^'c." l600. 
 
 S. M. Thefe initials, peradventure thofe of 
 master Sackvile, are fubjoin'd to a lingle poem 
 in '' The paradice of daintie deuifes/' l600. 
 They, likewife, occur in '' Diella^ or certain 
 fonnets/' ^c. 1596. 
 
 S. R. '' Phillis and Flora. The fweete and 
 ciuill contention of two amorous la dyes. Trans- 
 
 
SIXTEEiVTH CENTURY. 321 
 
 lated out of Latine : by R. S. efquire. Aut 
 Marti vel Mercurio. Imprinted at London by 
 W. W. for Richard lohnes, 1598^ 4to. See 
 CHAPMAN GEORGE (who has either made 
 very free with the property of il. S. or been molt 
 cavalierly treated by that refpe<5lable efquire).* 
 The fame initials are fubfcribe'd to fome verfees 
 '*■ in praife of Gascoignes pofies," prefix'd to his 
 '^ Flowers," 1575. They are, likewife, thofe 
 of the editour of '' The phoenix neft : built up 
 with the moft rare and refined workes of noble- 
 men, worthy knights, gallant gentlemen, mas- 
 ters of arts, and brave fchollers. Full of varietie, 
 excellent invention, and fingular delight. Never 
 before this time publiihed. Set foorth by R. S. 
 of the Inner Temple, gentleman," 15 93, 4to. 
 printed by J. Jackfon (a [miscellaneous] collec- 
 tion of poems). The initials R. S. are, likewife, 
 fubjoin'd to a commendatory ftanza ai: the end of 
 Spenfers '* Faerie queene :" and to a copy of 
 verfees before Wilfred Holmeses *' Fall and evill 
 fuccelTe of rebellion," 1572. See SMITH R. 
 SOUTHWELL ROBERT. 
 
 * Chapmans poem was printed by I. R, (James Ro- 
 berts), for Richard Smith, in 1595. 
 
 y 
 
322 POETS OF THE 
 
 S. W. One W. S. has *'*' A prayer^ Surge^ 
 deusy &:c." in Sternholds metre in ^^ A dialogue 
 agaynft the tyrannic of the papilles, by E. C." 
 1562. See SMITH WILLIAM. D. C. J. 
 
 SABIE FRANCIS wrote '' Pans pipe, three 
 pastorall eglogues, in Englilh hexameter, with 
 other poetical verfes delightful!. For the further 
 delight of the reader, the printer hath annexed 
 hereunto the delectable poeme of the Fifher-mans 
 tale." Printed by Rd. Jhones, 1595, 4to. The 
 dedication is fign'd F. S. which, from the fol- 
 lowing entry, fufficiently ascertains the authour. 
 '^ The fisfher-mans tale: of the famous a6tes, 
 life and loue of Casfander a Grecian knight 3'* 
 alfo '^ Floras fortune. The fecond part and fi- 
 nilliing of the fifher-mans tale. Containing the 
 ftrange accidents which chaunced to Flora, and 
 her fuppofed father Thirfis : alfo the happie 
 meeting with her • delired Casfander :" both 
 printed by Richard Jones, 1595^ 4to. 
 
 SACKVIL THOMAS, createed, in 1567, lord 
 Buckhurft, and, in l603, earl ofDorfet, ^'hav- 
 ing been in his younger days^" according to 
 Wood, ^*' poetically inclined, did write^ while he 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 323 
 
 continued in Oxon^ feveral Latin and Englifli 
 poems^ which tho' publifhed^ either by them- 
 felves, or mixed among other mens poems, yet,"^ 
 he ads, '' i prefume they are loft or forgotten, as 
 having either no name to them, or that the copies 
 are worn out." He wrote, however, ftil extant, 
 '^ The complaynt of Henry duke of Buckingham," 
 in '^ The feconde parte" of the '' Myrrour for ma- 
 gistrates," 1563, accompany'd with a very poeti- 
 cal ^^ Induction or preface:" the caufe whereof, 
 ^^ feeing none other hath ufed the like order," 
 IS thus explained by Baldwin the publifher : 
 '^ After that he vnderftoode that fome of the 
 counfayle would not fuffer the booke to be printed 
 in fuche order as we had agreed and determined, 
 he propofed with himfelf to have gotten at my 
 hands al the tragedies that were before the duke 
 of Buckinghams, which he could have preferued 
 in one volume : and from that time backward 
 euen to the time of William the conqueror, he 
 determined to continue and perfe6t all the ftory 
 himfelfe, in fuch order as Lydgate (foiowing 
 Bocchas) had already vfed : and^ therefore to 
 make a mcete induction into the matter, he de- 
 uifed this poefye." Commendatory verfees by 
 this nobleman are prefix' d to '^ The courtier of 
 
 Y 2 
 
324 
 
 POETS OF THE 
 
 count Baldesfar Castilio/* 1588. He was born 
 m: 1636, and dye'd in l608. See S. M.* 
 
 SAKER AUG. wrote '^ The labirinth of li- 
 berty 5" licenfe'd to R. Jones, 1579. 
 
 SALTER THOMAS, a fchoolmaster and au- 
 thour of *^ A contention betweene three bre- 
 theren : that is to fay, the Whoremonger, the 
 Dronkarde, and the Diceplayer, to approue which 
 of them three is the worfte, by reafon that their 
 deceafed father had given his faccesfion from the 
 worite of them three," 1581, l2mo. before 
 which he has a copy of verfes ; and in the work 
 itfelf are fome poetical translations. 
 
 SAMUELL WILLIAM. '' An abridgment, 
 bref abftradt, or fhort fume of thefe bookes fol- 
 lowing, taken out of the bible, and fet into 
 Starnols meter by me William Samuell, minister 
 
 ,^ * Turbci viiic thus lauds him above his poetick fel- 
 
 lows : 
 
 ** 1 none dislike, i fancie fome, 
 
 But yet of ail the reft, 
 Sans envie, let my verdite palTe, 
 
 Z.orc/BUCKUKST ii the hejl*^ 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 325 
 
 t)f Chrifts churche (1 Gen. 2 Exod. ^c, to the 
 4th book of Kinges inclufive) :" printed abroad, 
 "without date, l6mo. There was another edition 
 (under the title of '^ An abridgement of all the 
 canonical books of the Olde Testament,, written 
 in Sternholds metre by W. Samuel minister") 
 by W. Seres, idGg, 8vo. and '^'^ An abridgment 
 of Goddes ftatutes in myter/' 1550, is fuppofe'd 
 to be the firll. He alfo wrote '^ A prayer to god 
 for his afflicted church in Englande/' 1556. 
 
 SAND D. is the authour of feveral poems, 
 with the lignature D. S. in '^ The paradice of 
 daintie deuifes," 1576. He is notice'd by 
 Webbe. 
 
 SAND FORD (or SANFORDE) JAMES wrote 
 *' Certayne poems dedicated to the queenes mofle 
 excellente maiestie," annex'd to his '' Hours of 
 recreation or after dinners," 1576, 8vo. San- 
 ford has alfo fome poetical piecees in his '' Mir- 
 rour of madnes," 1576, l2mo. In his transla- 
 tion of Agrippa '' of the vanitie of artes and 
 fciences," 1569, 4 to. are alfo feveral piecees of 
 poetry. 
 
 SAUNDERS LAURENCE, a reform'd prieft, 
 
 Y 3 
 
326 POETS OF THE 
 
 burn'd at Coventry^, in 1555^ while prifoner in the 
 Marfhalfea, addrefs'd a few lines to his fellow- 
 prifoners : printed In Foxes Martyrs, 
 
 SC. AN. (SCOLOKER ANTHONY), a 
 
 printer^ who translateed ^' A brief fum of the 
 Bible," out of Dutch into Englifh, in or before 
 1584, wrote *^ Daiphantus, or The pasfions of 
 loue:" London, printed l604, 4to. Anthony 
 Scoloker appears as the printer of '^ A goodly 
 dyalogue betweene Knowledge and Simplicities 
 b. 1. n. d. 
 
 SCOT GREGORY wrote '' A briefe treatife 
 agaynft certaine errors of the Romilh church :" 
 printed by J. Audeley, 1570, l2mo. 
 
 SENTLEGER SIR ANTHONY wrote an 
 epitaph on lir Thomas Wyatt j begining, ^^ Thus 
 lyvethe the deade that whilome lived here :'* 
 HarleyMS. 78. 
 
 SEGAR FRANCIS. '' Certayne pfalmes fe- 
 le6t out of the pfalter of Dauid, and drawen into 
 Englyfhe metre, wyth notes to euery pfalme in 
 iiij parts to fynge by F. S." printed by W. Seres, 
 1553, 8vo. This pubhcation is dedicateed, in 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 327 
 
 Sternholds ftanza, ^^ To the. ryght honorable lorde 
 Rusfell." There are 19 pfalms j at the end of 
 which is ^^ A defcription of the lyfe of man^ the 
 worlde, and vanities thereof," in the fame metre. 
 (Herbert, 691.) '' The fchoole of vertue and 
 booke 0/ good nurture for children and youth to 
 learne theyre dutie by. Newlie perufed, cor- 
 re6ted, and augmented by the fyrft auctour. F. 
 S. wrote with a declaration of the dutie of eche 
 degree^ anno \bb7 :" printed by W. Seres_, 8vo. 
 being a translation of fome ancient Latin hymns^ 
 with prayers and graces : fometimes afcribe'd to 
 Robert Crowley. He^ likewife^ wrote the le- 
 gend of '^ Richarde Plantagenet duke of Gloces- 
 ter^" in tlie ^' Myrrour for magistrates/' 1563; 
 and has a few flanzas, '^ To the reader/' pre- 
 fix'd to his *^ Brefe declaration of the great and 
 innumerable myferies &: wretchednefses vfed in 
 courtes ryall^ made by a lettre, whych mayster 
 Alayn Charatre wrote to hys brother^ fe'c." 1649. 
 
 SEYMOUR SIR THOMAS, lord high admi- 
 ral of England, wrote fome '* Verfes," the wtek 
 before he was beheaded^ 1549, which are printed 
 in Xugce antique (III, 259). ^ 
 
 SEYMOUR WILLIAM, gentleman, of Grays 
 
 Y 4 
 
328 POETS OF THE 
 
 Inn, has a copy of verfees before Kendalls Epi- 
 grams, 1577. 
 
 SHACKLOCK RICHARD, master of arts 
 and fludent of the civill laws in Lovalne, has an 
 introductory copy of verfees to his translation of 
 '*^ An epistle of Hieronymus Oforius to the prin- 
 ceffe Ehzabeth, queen of England, France, and 
 Ireland," 1565. 
 
 SHACKLOCKE ROGER made ^^ An epy- 
 gramme of the death of Cuthbert Skotte fomme- 
 tyme besihoppe of Chester,'* which was ^' re- 
 plyed agaynlle by Tho. Drant :'* licenfe'd to 
 Tho. Marlhe, 1565. 
 
 SHAKERLEY. '' Poore Shakerley his know- 
 ledge of good and evil, called otherwife Eccle- 
 iiaftes : by him turned into meeter :'* printed by 
 Robert Crowley for John Cafe, 1551, 8vo. 
 Maunfell afcribes to the fame authour two other 
 trafls, prefume'd to be in rime : '* French hoode, 
 and newe apparel for ladies and gentlewomen, 
 wherunto is added a froffe paite to lie in a nights :" 
 ** A dredge for defenders of womens apparel ;** 
 both printed for Cafe, Svo.''*" 
 
 * Was this the John Cafe mention'd in page 154 ? 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 32^ 
 
 SHAKSPEARE WILLIAM, the wonder and 
 ornament of the Engleiili drama, wrote, 1. '' Ve- 
 nus and Adonis :" printed for J. Harrifon, 
 15963* and, again, for W. Leake, l60L^ l6mo. 
 2. '* The rape of Lucrece :" printed by Pv.. Field 
 for J. Harrifon, 1594 ; and, again, by P. Short 
 for the fame bookfeller, 1598, 4to. S. Poems, 
 in a collection intitle'd '' The pasfionate pil- 
 grime:'* printed for W. Jaggard, 1599, 12mo. 
 4. '' Sonnets :" printed by G. Eld for T. J. 
 1609, 4to. All republifh'd collectively in l640^ 
 12mo. 
 
 SHAXTON NICHOLAS has feme '^ thyngs 
 in meter'* before ^^ A confutation of the XIII 
 articles," 1548. 
 
 SHEALE RICHARD. Thomas Hearne finding 
 this name {'' Expliceth quoth Rychard Sheale") 
 fubjoin'd to the ancient ballad of C/'frj/-r^r/ce, in 
 an old MS. communicateed to him by a learned 
 friend, from which he has printed it in the ap- 
 pendix to his preface to Gulfehvus Neuhrigejijis, 
 concludeed it to be writ en by that perfon, who he 
 found ^' was living in the year 1588," and ^^ au- 
 
 • Asfign'd to him in 1593 from R. Field. 
 
 
330 POETS OF THE 
 
 thor of many other poetical things." Since, 
 however, the ballad is manifeflly a compolition of 
 the precedeing century, it follows either that Rir 
 chard Sheale was not the writeer, or that he was 
 a different perfon from the authour mention 'd by 
 Hearne. There are, in fa6t, many inilancees of 
 a mere copyift ading his lignature with an Ex* 
 plicit or Finis, fome of which even occur in the 
 prefent catalogue. It is to be wifh'd, at the 
 fame time, that the industrious antiquary had 
 fpecify'd fome of the poetical things which he had 
 found afcribe'd to a Richard Sheale liveing in 
 1588, as no inftance of fuch a name has elfewhere 
 occur' d. 
 
 SHEFFILD EDMUND, lord Sheffield, is 
 fay'd by Bale, from the information of Grimoald, 
 to have writen (amongfl other things) fonnets in 
 the Italian manner. He was kil'd in 1549. 
 
 SHEPHEARD LUKE, a native of Colchester, 
 a moft facetious poet, according to Bale,* and in 
 
 * Lucas Opilio. — A dialogue in verfe, intideM " John 
 Bon and Mail Perfon,'' fay'd to have been writen by 
 -one Luke^ a phyfician, was printed by John Day in 
 
 ^^^ 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 331 
 
 his poems and rimes not inferior to Skelton, 
 wrote^ in elegant Engleifli, certain jocular and 
 wity pamphlets, againft the hateers of truth ; ver- 
 fify'd certain pfalms ; and did many other little 
 things, none of which are now to be met with. 
 He flourifh'd in 1554. 
 
 SIDLEY RALPH, has verfees printed before 
 '' Greenes Never too late," l600 : intitle'd '' A 
 madrigall to wanton lovers." 
 
 SIDNEY SIR PHILIP, '' Englands Mars and 
 Mufe," wrote feveral pieces of lyrical, pastoral, 
 and other kinds of poetry, disperfe'd throughout 
 '^ The countefTe of Pembrokes Arcadia," his 
 principal work ; originally, but imperfe6tly, 
 printed in 15 90, 4 to. again, complete, 1593, 
 fo. and often afterward. '^ Sir P. S. his Ailro- 
 phel and Stella. Wherein the excellence of 
 fweete poefie is concluded. To the end of which 
 are added, fundry other rare fonnets of diuers 
 noblemen and gentlemen :" printed for T. New- 
 man, 1591, 4to. This '^'^ Albophel and Stella," 
 a collection of 108 fonnets, and 1 1 fongs, is an- 
 
 1548, and by John Day and Wm. Seres, without date. 
 See Herbert. T. P. 
 
332 POETS OF THE 
 
 nex'd to the Arcadia y 15 93, and all fubfequent 
 editions ; to which are, likewife, fubjoin'd feve- 
 ral other piecee's of poetry under the general title 
 of '' Sonets," feveral of which appear'd in Con- 
 ftables ^*' Diana,'* 15943 together with a fort of 
 mafque or fliew exhibited to Q. Elizabeth in 
 Wanfteed garden. Two other poems,, by fir 
 Philip, may be found in Davifons '' Poetical rap- 
 fody," 1602. '' He alfo/' according to Wood, 
 ^' turn'd the pfalms of David into Englifh verfe,'* 
 which were in MS. in the library of the earl of 
 Pembroke at Wilton, left thereunto by his fister 
 Mary countefs of Pembroke. A copy, at leaft, is 
 in Trinity-college, Cambridge, A notlier was pur- 
 chafe'd by captain Alexander Dalrymple from the 
 library of doctor Taylour.** Ben Jonfons cenfure 
 of Sidney was, that he '^ did not keep a decorum 
 in making every one fpeak as well as himfelf.'* 
 Puttenham. however, reckons him, along with 
 '*■ maister Challener, and that other gentleman 
 who wrate the late Ihepheardes callender," as the 
 
 * From Donnes poem <* upon the translation of the 
 pfalmes by fir P. Sydney and the countefs of Pembroke 
 his fister, it would Teem that the performance had been 
 executeed in conjunction. See the edition of 16351 p. 
 366, 
 
SIXTEENTH CEXTURV. 333 
 
 beft " for eglogue and pastorall poefie." He 
 dye'd^ of a wound rcceive'd in the battle of Zut- 
 phen, on the l6th of October 16 86, and was in- 
 ter'd on the iGtli of February following in St. 
 Pauls cathedral, with univerfal lamentation. See 
 HERBERT MARY. 
 
 SINETES. '' Sinetes mournfull madrigalls 
 upon his discontented fortunes/' was licenfe'd to 
 William Hulme, in 1 5 96. 
 
 SINGLETON THOMAS has commendatory 
 verfees prefixed to Brookeses translation of Viret3 
 '^ Christian disputations," I57g. 
 
 SMITH JUD wrote and publifli'd '' A misti- 
 call deuife of the fplrituall and godly love be* 
 twene Chrifl the fpoufe and the church or con- 
 gregation. Whereunto is annex'd certeine other 
 briefe flories," t^c. Printed by Henry Kirk- 
 ham^ 1675, 12m.o, 
 
 SMITH RICHARD wrote a few lines, '' in 
 commendation of Gascoigne and his workes," 
 prefix d to that authors '^ Flowers," 1575, and 
 again to Conftables ''Diana" or fonnets, 1594. 
 A larger poem occurs before Rubinfons Rewarde 
 
334' POETS OF THE 
 
 of wickednefle^ ^^ in praife of the aucthor," ligned 
 ^^ Richard Smith, darkey Posfiblely the poet 
 and the ftationer were one and the fame man. 
 See BOLEYN GEORGE, GROVE MAT- 
 THEW, S. R. 
 
 SMITH ROBERT wrote, in prifon, a poem 
 intitle'd '' O ye that love the lord, fefc." allfo an 
 ^^ Exhortacion vnto his children, commenly fet 
 out in the name of maister Rogers."* ^^ [VerfeesJ 
 written at the requefl of a lady in her booke 
 '*■ Legem 'pone,'" '^ To his brother :" all printed in 
 Foxes '^ Actes and monumentes." See, likewife, 
 
 * This piece, commonly call'd <* John Rogerses frim- 
 fnery* was printed, with other things, under the title of 
 *< An exhortation of Matheive Rogers vnto his children," 
 1559, 8vo. (Herbert, 1600) ; and entered to John Ar- 
 nold, 13th October 1577. Bale, among the Engleifh 
 works of yohanries Rogers, enumerates ^^ Ad Jilios ex car- 
 cere J Lib, i. *' A copy, in the library of Emanuel- 
 college, bears the name of Thomas Mathe'w, which was 
 asfume'd by Rogers in his translation of the bible ; and 
 hence, it may be, he obtained the name of Mather 
 Rogers, unlefs it were, more likely, a mistake of M. 
 (i. e. master) Rogers. He, too, was a martyr in the 
 fame year with Smith, to whom Foxe, a diligent col- 
 lector, and good authority, afcribes the poem in ques- 
 tion. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 335 
 
 Ayscoughs Catalogue, p. 826. He wasburn'd at 
 Smithfield, as a heretick, in Auguft, 1355. 
 
 SMITH SIR THOMAS turned fome of the 
 pfalms into metre, and wrote certain fongs, ^c. 
 when prifoner in the tower, I54g. (See MSS, 
 regia, 17 A XVIII.) He, likewife, wrote com- 
 mendatory verfees preiix'd to '^ Whartons 
 dreame," 1578; but dye'd, it feems, in the pre- 
 cedeing year."^ 
 
 SMITH WALTER wrote and publiih'd a book 
 intitle'd ''' The wydow Edyth. Twelue merry 
 geflys of one called Edyth the lyeng widow 
 whych ftill lyueth :" printed by J. Rastell, 1525, 
 fo. and, again, by Richarde Johnes, 1573, 4to, 
 
 * According to the report of Barnabe George, 
 " Three bookes of Pallingeniuses Zodiacus vita were 
 both eloquently and excellently engliflied by this master 
 Smith," before 1565. 
 
 Richard Banks, ^bout 1545, printed *^ An anfwere 
 to maister Smyth fervaunt to the kynges mofl royall 
 maiestye, and clerke of the queenes graces counfell 
 though moft unworthy ;" alfo, " The retinue of M. 
 Smiths envoy. '^ What provocation he had given for 
 thefe apparently fcurrilous publications does not appear. 
 See Herbert, 411. 
 
336 POETS OF THE 
 
 which, though exceedingly rude, is a curious 
 piece for the manners of the time. 
 
 SMITH WILLIAM wrote '' Chloris, or the 
 complaint of the pasfionate defpifed fhepheard :'* 
 printed by Edmund Bollifant, 1596, 4to. and 
 infcribe'd '^ To the moll excellent and learned 
 fhepheard Collin Cloute,*' (i. e. Spenfer) whom 
 he calls '*' the patron of his maiden verfe.'* One 
 poem, intitle'd ^^ A notable defcription of the 
 world," with the fignature ^*' W. S. gentleman," 
 fuppofe'd to be thofe of the fame perfon, is in- 
 ferted in **^ The phoenix-nefl,'* 15y5, and ano- 
 ther in ^^ Englands* HeHcon/* 1600. Accord- 
 ing to Warton, ^^ A booke called Amours by S, 
 (or G.) D. with certain other fonnetts by W. S/* 
 is enter'd to Eleazar Edgar, 1599 : and the fame 
 initials are fubfcribe'd to a copy of verfees prefix'd 
 to the tragedy of Locrine, 1595 5 and to Bretons 
 Wil of wit, 1606. Prefix'd to Granges '' Golden 
 aphroditis," 1577, is a copy of verfes intitle'd 
 '^ W. S. in commendation of the aucthor." 
 
 * That in ** Englands Helicon," is ascertain'd to be 
 by Wm. Smith, from haveing appeare'd in his ** Chlo- 
 ris," 1596. T. R 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 33/ 
 
 SOAME THOMAS, a preacher in the time of 
 Edward the 6th, hath Englilli verfees at the end 
 of W. Turners '' Prefervative or triacle/' 1551. 
 
 SOOTHERN JOHN wrote and publifli'd 
 poems, confifling of an ode, a '^'^ Sonnet to the 
 reader," 13 fonnets ^' To his mystrelTe Diana," 
 6 Elegice, and another ode, of which flie is like- 
 wife the fubject, '^ Verfes taken out of his ftan- 
 fes, hymnes, and elegias -, all dedicated or fent 
 to his mistreiTe Diana 5" ^' New kinde of verfes 
 deuifed by him, and are a wofuU kinde of meter, 
 to fing a loue or death iuj" another ode 5 and 
 4 ^' odellets :" concludeing with a '*" Jianffe^' 
 and 2 qnadrans, in French. This rare and fin- 
 gular collection, or mingle-mangle, as Puttenham 
 aptly terms it, (of which but one copy, and that 
 wanting the title, is known to exiil:) is printed in 
 4to. b. 1. and addrefs'd '^ To the lyght honora- 
 ble the earle of Oxenford, Cf^c." The runing 
 title, for the firfl 6 pages, is ^^Ode/' for the 
 13 following, '^ Diana 3" for the next 4, '' Epi- 
 taphes 3" the next page has none j that of the 3 
 following pages is *^ Diana/' and that of the 2 
 next ^^ Odellet." There are 15 leaves in all. 
 The Epitaphes are by the countefs of Oxford, and 
 queen Elizabeth. The authour^ vyhofe wretched 
 
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338 POETS OF THE 
 
 ftile^ profligate plagiarifm, ridiculous pedantry, 
 and unnatural conceit^ are unexample'd^ is thus 
 characterife'd by Puttenham, in his '^ Arte of 
 Engliili poefie/' 1589 • ^^ Another of reafonable 
 good facilitie in translation finding certaine of the 
 hymnes of Pyndarus and of Anacreons odes, and 
 other lirickes among the Greekes, very well trans- 
 lated by Rounfard the French poet, and applied 
 to the honour of a great prince in France, comes 
 our minion and translates the fame out of French 
 into Englilli, and applieth them to the honour of 
 a great noble man in England (wherein i com- 
 mend his reuerent minde and duetie) but doth fo 
 impudently robbe the French poet both of his 
 prayfe and alfo of his French termes, that i can- 
 not fo much pitie him as be angrie with him for 
 his injurious dealing.... And in the end (which is 
 worlt of all) makes his vaunt that neuer Englilli 
 finger but his hath toucht Pindars firing, which 
 was neuerthelefle word by word as Rounfard had 
 faid before by like braggery."^ The following 
 fonnet is giveen as a fpecimen of the lyrick 
 powers of this arrogant and abfurd coxcomb : 
 
 * The particular ode, however, alludeed to by doctor 
 Farmer, in his Esfayy and a note on Timony was not in 
 mister Steevenses copy. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURA. SSQ 
 
 '' The Greeke poet to whome Bathill was the 
 guide. 
 Made her immortally by that which he did 
 
 fmg : 
 And (were it fo i knowe not but) of Co- 
 
 rine. 
 We faine the patrone of the Latine Guide. 
 And fince them (Petrarque) a wife Florentine, 
 Hath turnde his mistres into a tree of baye. 
 And he that foong the eldeft daughter of 
 
 Troye, 
 In Fraunce hath made of her, an astre di- 
 uine. 
 And like tliefe knowne men, can your 
 
 Soothern, write too : 
 And as long as Engliilie lafls, immortal) 
 you. 
 I the penne of Soothern will my fayre Diana, 
 Make thee immortall : if thou wilt give him 
 
 fauour : 
 For then hee'l iing Petrark, Tien, Guide, - 
 
 Ronfar : 
 And make thee Casfander, Corine, Bathyll, 
 Laura." 
 Drayton, in one of his odes, has tliis flanza in 
 praife of ^' Southerne an Engliih lyrick :" 
 
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340 POETS OF THE 
 
 ^' Southern ;, i long thee fpare^ 
 
 Yet wifh thee well to fare. 
 Who me pleafed'fl greatly. 
 
 As firil, therefore more rare. 
 Handling thy harpe neatly." 
 It is not, indeed, very intelligible j but one muft 
 prefume the panegyrift had met with more fa- 
 vorable fpecimens of the talents of his Engleifli 
 lyrick than fuch as are exhibited in the above 
 publication, with which it is abfolutely imposfi- 
 ble for any one, however partial, to have been 
 pleafe'd at all. Drayton, as mister Park thinks, 
 in his lyrick laud, has caught the very fpirit and 
 manner of his disgufting prototype. 
 
 SOUTHWELL LADY ANNE wrote '' A 
 poem, or certaine choice meditations, upon the 
 decalogue 3" which Thoresby had in manufcript. 
 
 SOUTHWELL ROBERT wrote, 1 . '' Saint 
 Peters complaint, with other poems :" printed by 
 I. R. for G. C. 1595, 1597, 1599, 4to.-^ 2. 
 ^' Moeoniae. Or certaine excellent poems and 
 fplrituall hymnes : omitted in the laft impreslion 
 
 * See Herbert, 1368. 
 
SIXTEEXTH CEXTURY. 341 
 
 of Peters complaint ; being necdefull thereunto 
 to be annexed, as being both diuine &: wittie :'* 
 printed by V. Simnies for John Basbie, 1595, 
 15g6, 4to. 3. '' The triumph ouer death : or a 
 confolatorie epistle for affli6ted minds, in the af- 
 feds of dying friends :" printed by and for the 
 fame perfons, 1395, 1596, 4 to. with a dedica- 
 tion,, in verfe, to M. Richard Sackvile, and 
 others, fign'd '' lohn Trusfell."^ Wood, who 
 fays that this Southwell was ^^ of the antient and 
 
 * There are fubfequent editions, under the' title of 
 *' St. Peters complaint, and Saint Mary Magdalens fu- 
 nerall teares. With fundry other fele6led, and deuout 
 poems. By R. S. of the fociety of lefus," 1616, 162c, 
 1630, 1634, and one at Edinburgh, by R. Walde- 
 grave, vv. d. 4to. Thefe poems, in addition to ** S. 
 Peters complaint" (confining of 112 flanzas), are his 
 *< PeccaTJi," his ^' Returae home,'' his *' Comfort.'* 
 and his <* Wifh ;" '' S. Mary Magdalens blufh," <* No 
 joy to live," her " Traunce," and her *< Farewell," 
 <* Athome in heaven," *' Chrifts nativity," his *' child- 
 hood," and '* The Christians manna:" ** St. Mary 
 Magdalens funerall teares" being in profe. So, like- 
 wife, is ** The triumph over death." The ** Chris- 
 tians manna" was annex'd to an edition of Southwells 
 pieces, printed at Doway, but has no legitimate claim to 
 be confidered as his production. T. P. 
 
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342 POETS OF THE 
 
 genteel family of his name in Norfolk* [Suf- 
 folk]/' elfewhere asferts that ^^ St. Peters com- 
 plaint" was actually writen by John Davies of 
 Hereford : a very improbable flory ! nor has 
 Warton commited a lefs grofs blunder in attri- 
 buteing it to Richard Stapilton. ^^ Never/' fays 
 Bolton, ^^ muil be forgotten St, Peters complaint, 
 and thofe other ferious poems faid to ht father 
 Southwells ; the Englifh whereof as it is mofl 
 proper, fo the iharpnefs, and light of wit is very 
 rare in them."f The authour enter' d into religion 
 
 * Wood, in his Athends^ and Dodd, in his Church 
 history, trace the family defcent from Norfolk : but 
 Fuller defcribes him to have been a Suffolk-man, on the 
 authority of Pits. T. P. 
 
 f The good fathers poetry, however, did not meet 
 with the approbation of bifliop Hall, who thus fings : 
 <* Hence ye profane : mell not with holy things 
 That Sions mufe from Palestina brings. 
 Parnasfus is transformed to Sion hill. 
 And iv'ry-palms her fteep ascents done fill. 
 Now good St. Peter weeps pure Helicon, 
 And both the Maries make a mufic moan : 
 Yea, and the prophet of theheav'nly lyre. 
 Great Solomon fings in the Englifh quire ; 
 And is become a new-found fonnetifl, 
 Singing his love, the holy fpoufe of Chrift : 
 
SIXTEKNTH CENTURY, 343 
 
 abroad^ and became a jefuit 3 but^ returning to 
 convert his countrymen^ was apprehended and 
 put to death,, at London^ in I5g5. See Gentle- 
 mans magazine for Novem. 1798^ p. 933. 
 
 SPENSER EDMUND, the prince of EngHfli 
 poets, and a Londoner by birth, wrote, 1. '^ The 
 fliepheardes calender, conteyning twelve ceg- 
 logues, proportionable to the twelve monethes :'* 
 printed by Hugh Singleton, 1579, 4to. b. 1. 
 
 by 15 86, 4to. by J. Windet for J. Hani- 
 
 fon, 1591, 4to. and by T. Creede for J. Harri- 
 fon, 1597, 4to. b. 1. 2. '^ The faerie queene. 
 Dispofed into twelue books, fafliioning XII. mo- 
 rall vertues :'* printed for W. Ponfonby, 1590, 
 1596, 4 to. (The edition of 159O contains no 
 more than the firll: three books j the fourth, hftli 
 and iixth were publifli'd as '^ The fecond part,'* 
 in 1 596 : the remaining fix* were never printed.) 
 
 Like as fhe were fome light-{kirts of the reft, 
 In mightieft inkhornifms he can thither \vrefl. 
 Ye Sion mufes fhall by my dear will, 
 For this your zeal and far-admired Ikill, 
 Be ftraight transported from Jerulalcm, 
 Unto the holy houfe of Bethlehem.'' 
 
 * Two imperfe£l cantos ** Of mutabilitie,*' were in- 
 ferred in the folio edition of 1 609, &'c. 
 
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344 POETS OF THE 
 
 3. ^^ Complaints. Containing fundrie fmall 
 poems of the worlds vanitle :" printed by Thomas 
 Orwin^ 1^91^ 4 to.* (Thefe are ^^ The ruines of 
 time ; The teares of the mufes 3 Virgils gnat ; 
 Profopopoia^ or Mother Hubberds tale 5 The 
 mines of Rome^, by Bellay ; Muiopotmos^, or the 
 tale of the butterflie 3 Vifions of the worlds va- 
 nitie 3 Bellayes vifions 3 "^Petrarches vifions.") 
 
 4. '^ Colin Clouts come home againe:" printed 
 for W. Ponfonby^ ibQo, 4to. (annex'd are *"*■ A- 
 liropell : a pastorail elegie vpon the death of fir 
 Philip Sidney 3 near the conclufion of which are 
 16 fianzas^ which appear to have been writen 
 by his fister^ the amiable countefs of Pembroke^ 
 under the name of Clarinda :" ^^ The mourning 
 mufe of Thestylis 3" and ^^ A pastorail aeglogue 
 vpon the death of fir Phillip Sidney." 5. '' Amo- 
 retti^ or fonnets : and epithalamion :" printed 
 by W. Ponfonby^ 1595^ 8vo.f 6. *'*' Four 
 hymnes. Daphnaida. Prothalamion : " printed by 
 W. Ponfonby^ 1596, 4to. ^' The faerie queen : 
 
 * See note on the poems of Vander Noodt. 
 
 \ Drummond fays, of Spenfers ^wor^///, ** I am not 
 of their opinion who think them his ; for they are fo 
 childilh, that it were not well to give them fo honourable 
 a father.^' 
 
 M^ 
 
SIXTEENTPI CEXTURY. 345 
 
 the fliepheards calendar : together with the other 
 works of Englands arch-poet^ Edm. Spenfer^" 
 were '^ colle6led into one volume^" and pubHlli'd 
 in 1609, 1611^ and 1617^ fo. In Davifons " Poe- 
 tical rhapfodie/' l602^ is ^^ Loues embasfie in an 
 lambicke* elegie [without rime]" by this great 
 poet ; who has, likewife_, commendatory verfes 
 before Joneses ''*' Nennio," 1595, ^'' The histo- 
 ric of George Castriot/' 1596, and Lewkenors 
 '^ Commonwealth of Venice/' 1599. In ^^ Three 
 proper, and wittie, familiar letters : lately pafsed 
 betwene two vniuerlitie men [Signior Immerito 
 (Spenfer) and maister G. H. (Gabriel Harvey)] : 
 touching the earthquake in Aprill laft, and our 
 Englifh refourmed veriifying/' and ''^ Two other, 
 very commendable letters of the fame mens WTit- 
 ing : both touching the forefaid artiiiciall veri- 
 fying, and certain other particulars," 15 80, are 
 fome fpecimens of his talent at Englifli hexame- 
 ter, pentameter, and iambick verfe. It appears, 
 alfo, by the fame publication, that he had then 
 finilli'd his '' Dreames," and ^' Dying pelli- 
 cane," which were '' prefentlye to bee imprint- 
 ed:" the former '*" bemg growen by meanes of 
 
 * This lamhicum Trlmetrwn had been previously printed 
 in Spenfers letter to Han-ey, 1580. 
 
346 POETS OF THE 
 
 the glofle, full as great as ^ his' Calendar y He 
 feems to have had fuch *' fpeciall liking of Englifh 
 verifying'* (i, e. hexameters)^ as to have writen, 
 or at leafl minded '^ iliortly at conuenient leyfure 
 to fette forth^ a booke in this kinde^ whyche^** 
 fays he, '' i entitle Epithalamion^ ThameJiSy' 
 which book he dares undertake '^ wil be very 
 profitable for the knowledge, and rare for the in- 
 uention and manner of handling, Ci^c/' This 
 fubje6t he afterward introduce'd in the 4th book 
 of his great work -, fome part of which appears to 
 have been then writen. His goods, as we are 
 told by Ben Jonfon, haveing been ^' robbed by 
 the Irifh, and his houfe, and a little child burnt, 
 he and his wife efcaped, and after died for 
 want of bread in King-llreet, between the ill 
 of January and 25th of March," 1598-9 j fays 
 Malone, in his edition of Drydens profe works, 
 III^ 92, haveing ^^ refufed 20 pieces fent him by 
 
 * Weaver, in his '« Mirror of martyrs,** written 
 1599, laments the lofs of Spenfer, and fpeaks particu- 
 larly of this epifode. 
 
 ** With what pompe T'hamesw^s to Medway marri'd, 
 Sweet Spenser Ihewes, (O griefe that Spenser's 
 
 gone!) 
 With whofe life heavens a while enricht us more, 
 That by his death vvee might be ever pore/' 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 34/ 
 
 my lord Esfex, and faid he was fure he had no 
 time to fpend tliem." That this King-ftreet 
 was not in Dublin (as asferted in a note in 
 Gibbers life of him^ and by Malone (Shak- 
 fpeare, 1778, I, 228),-^ but in Weftminfter, is 
 clearly prove'd by Camden, his contemporary, 
 who fays, that being fo thrown out of his dwel- 
 ing and plunder'd of his goods he return'd into 
 Engleland a poor man, where he Ihortly after 
 dye'd, and was inter'd at Weftminster, near to 
 Chaucer, at the charge of the earl of Esfex 3 f 
 ^^ his hearfe," according to tlie former, '' being 
 attended by poets, and mournfull elegies and 
 poems with the pens that wrote them thrown 
 
 ^ " Lord Esfex,'* according to the latter, " was not 
 in Ireland in 1598, but was there from April to Septem- 
 ber in the following year:'' and favs, '' If Spenfer had 
 dyed in London, his death would probably have been 
 mentioned by Rowland Whyte:" as if fuch frivolous 
 pretexts could outweigh the folemn testimony of a Cam- 
 den. 
 
 t Phineas Fletcher has found a different patron for 
 his remains, in the following beauty ful paslage of his 
 '* Purple ifland :" 
 
 ** Witnefs our Colin ; whom though all the graces, 
 
 And all the mufes nurfl ; whofe well -taught fong 
 
 Parnasfus felf, and Glorian, embraces, 
 
348 POETS OF THE 
 
 into his tomb."* A further proof (befide the 
 
 And all the learn'd, and all the lliepheid throng : 
 Yet all his hopes were croft, all lliits deni'd ; 
 Discouraged, fcorn'd, his writings vilifiM ; 
 
 Poorly (poore man) he liv'd ; poorly (poore man) he 
 di'd. 
 
 And had not that great Uart (whofe honoured head 
 Ah lies full low) piti'd thy wofull plight, 
 There hadft thou lien unwept, unburied, 
 Unbleft, nor grac't with any common rite : 
 
 Yet fhalt thou live, when thy great foef fhall fink 
 Beneath his mountain-tomb, whofe fame (hall 
 ftink; 
 And time his blacker name fhall blurre with blackell 
 ink." 
 
 * History of ^Elizabeth, p. 365. See alfo his i?^g^j 
 regln^ey nohiles, &c. 1603, 4to. The tomb, which was 
 of grey marble, on the fouth fide of the crofs, hard by 
 the little eafl door, haveing gone to decay, and being 
 very much deface'd, and nothing, in Keepes time, of 
 the ancient Latin infcription remaining, fome ignorant 
 perfon, in 1 631, ere£led a monument with a ridiculous 
 one in Engleifli, being oblige'd to leave a blank for the 
 year of his birth, and misplaceing that of his death in 
 1596. See Stows Survey, by Strype, B. 6, p. 32. His in- 
 terment, however, is not entered in the register of St, 
 Margarets parifli in 1598, or 1599, and that of the 
 abbey for this period has been loll or deflroy'd. 
 
 t Lord Burleigh. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 34^ 
 
 original epitaph giveen by Camden) has been 
 obligeingly. furnifli'd by tlie industrious mister 
 Park, from Fitzgeffreys ^^ Ccnotaplna/' appended 
 to his '' Affanicc,'' 16OI : 
 
 '^ Spenferus cubat hie, Chaucero cet ate priori 
 Inferior, tumulo proximus^ arte prior." 
 
 SPIGURNEL ANDREW has an addrefs '' to 
 the reader in maner of a prologue/' before 
 " The castle of love," a translation by John 
 Bowrchier lord Berners. 
 
 SPIGURNEL THOMAS has a copy of com- 
 mendatory verfees prefix'd to Mundays ^' Mirror 
 of mutabilitie/' 1579- 
 
 SPRINT JOHN of Chrifl church, Oxon, has 
 an encomiastick poem of confiderable merit, ^^ to 
 tlie author [T. Storer] of the life and death of 
 'Hiomas Wolfey, cardinall," 1599. It is printed 
 with Storers publication. 
 
 STANLEY THOMAS, biihop of Man, wrote 
 the pedigree of the Stanleys -, which is occa- 
 fionally quoteed by Weever, and, posfiblely, ex- 
 tant in MS. Har. 541. 
 
350 POETS OF THE 
 
 STANYHURST RICHARD, an Irifli priell, 
 translateed into (what he calls) Engleifh heroical 
 rerfe (that is, hexameters) '^ The firft foure 
 bookes of Virgils ^Eneis :"* printed by H. Byn- 
 
 '^ The translation of Virgil by Stanyhurft, could 
 *^ hardly be digefted" by Puttenham, and was feverely 
 raiPd at by Nafh, for being *< fuch as no hedge plow- 
 man in a countrie, but would have held as the extremi- 
 tie of clownerie.'* The fame opinion is thus fupported 
 by bifhop Hall : 
 " Another fcorns the home-fpun thread of rhymes, 
 Match'd with the lofty feet of elder times : 
 Give mt the numbred verfe that Virgil fung, 
 And Virgil's felf fhall Ipeak the Englifh tongue : 
 Manhood and garboils chaunt with chaunged feet 
 And head-llrong dactyls making mufick meet. 
 The nimble dactyl driving to out-go. 
 The drawling fpondees pacing it below. 
 The lingring fpondees, labouring to delay, 
 The breathlefs dactyls with a fudden ftay. 
 Whoever faw a colt wanton and wild, ^^ 
 
 Yok'd with a flow-foot ox on fallow -field, 
 Can right a reed how handfomely befets 
 Dull fpondees with the Englilh dactylets. 
 If Jove fpeak Englifh in a thundring cloud 
 Thivick thivack and riff raff y roars he out aloud. 
 Fie on the forged mint that did create 
 New coin of words never articulate." 
 Milton, likewife, or his nephew Phillips, cenfures this 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 351 
 
 neman, 1583^ 4to. to which ^^ other poetical de- 
 uifes" are annex'd:^ confifting of translations 
 from the epigrams of fir Thomas More^ and 
 others. He dye' d^, at Brusfels^ in l6l8. 
 
 STAPLETON RICHARD is the authour of a 
 complimentary fonnet^ prefix'd to Chapman s 
 ^^ Ovids banquet of fence/' 1595 3 and has a 
 copy of verfees before Greenes Mamillia, 1593. 
 
 STARKEY OLIVER, according to Warton, 
 made a translation of Eccleiiastes into rime, 
 which, he thinks, occurs in bifhop Tanners li- 
 brary. He is, however, moft probablely mis- 
 affectation of hexameter and pentameter in the inflancees 
 of Fraunce and Sidney, <* lince,'' he fays, " they nei- 
 ther become the Englifh nor any other modern lan- 
 guage.*' 
 
 * This work, from the entry in the ftationers books, 
 appears to have been firft printed at Leyden in Holland 
 (B. fo. 192) : an edition totally unknown to Ames and 
 Herbert* 
 
 Mister Gough, by a ftrange mistake, calls this Richard 
 Stanihurft ^^ popifi archhijhop oi Armagh \'' which is falfe : 
 and ads that he was *' fredecesfor to [his nephew] UJher\^^ 
 which is imposfible. 
 
352 POETS OP THE 
 
 takeen, as Tanner, who merely follows Bale and 
 Pitts, does not appear to have feen the book. 
 
 STARKEY (or STARKIE) RALPH, the 
 Chefhire antiquary, under the name of Infor- 
 tunio, wrote a poem, in feven-line ftanzas, upon 
 the misfortunes of Edward 11. originally intended 
 for queen Elizabeth, but alter'd and iited up for 
 the perufal of her fuccesfor : both copys are ex- 
 tant in the Harleian library (Num. 23g3) -, the 
 firft (imperfe6l) begining '^ "Where fhould a 
 wafted fpirit fpent in woe j" the other, ^^ I fing 
 thy fad disaster, fatal king." He was liveing in 
 1619. 
 
 STEPLE STEPHEN. '' Steuen Steple to 
 maft Camell :" a fmall doggerel of 24 lines, in 
 a rude country fort of Engleiili. The name, 
 however, feems onely asfume'd for the nonce. 
 
 STERNHOLD THO?viAS, groom of the 
 robes to Henry the 8th and Edward the 6th, 
 translateed 51 of the '' pfalmes of Dauid :'* 
 printed (after his death) by Ed. Whitchurch, 
 1549, 8V0.* alfo "^^ Certayne chapters of the pro- 
 
 * Another edition, ^^ by the wydowe of Jhon Har- 
 
SIXTEEVTH CENTURY. 353 
 
 uerbes of Salomon 3" printed by John Cafe for 
 W. Seres, \v. d. 8yo. Both thefe articles appear 
 to have been includeedin ^^ The pfalmes of David 
 translated into Engliih metre by T. Sternhold, 
 fir Thomas Wyat, and William Hunnis, with 
 certain chapters of the proverbs, and fele<5l 
 pfalms by John Hall. Dedicated to king Ed- 
 ward VI." The pfalms of Sternholds translateing 
 are distinguilh'd, in what is now call'd ^^ The old 
 verfion," by the letters T. S. 
 
 STILE CHRISTOPHER gather'd '' Pfalmes 
 of invocation vpon god to preferve her maiestie 
 &: the people of the land from the power of our 
 enemies :" allow' d to John Wolf, 2111 Auguft 
 1588: but, apparently, never printed. 
 
 STOPES L. wrote '' An A-ce Maria in com- 
 mendation of our moil vertuous queue [Mary] :" 
 printed by Richard Lant. See Herbert, 59O. 
 
 ^STORER THOMAS, fludent of Chrift-church, 
 in Oxford, wrote '^ The life and death of Thomas 
 Wolfey, cardinall, diuided into three parts ; his 
 
 rington,'' 1550 ; and two more, in 1552, and without 
 date by Whitchurch ; befide many others. 
 
 A a 
 
354 POETS OF THE 
 
 alpiring, triumph, and death :" printed by T. 
 Dawfon, 1599, 4to. This fame Storer.has a 
 copy of commendatory verfees before Vaughans 
 ^^ Golden grove," 1600 3 and fome of his poetick 
 flowers are transplanted into Englands Parnas- 
 fus. He dye'd in l604. 
 
 STOUGHTON I. iludent, wrote commen- 
 datory verfees prefix' d to Peterfons translation of 
 '' Galateo," 1576. 
 
 STRONGE S. is the authour of commendatory 
 verfees, prefixed to Riches '' Allarme to England/' 
 1578. 
 
 STUBBES (or STUBS) PHILIP, authour of 
 '^ The anatomic of abufes/* 1583, pen'd, about 
 two years before, the tragical discourfe of a cer- 
 tain young man dweling in Lincolnfliire, who, 
 being ^' a iilthy common fwearer," became '^ a 
 moft fearful example of gods wrath." He, allfo, 
 wrote ^^ A view of vaniiie, and Allarum to Eng- 
 land, or retrait from finne :" printed by J. Pur- 
 foot, 1582, 8vo. Prefix'd to his '^ Anatomic of 
 abufes," is a filly dialogue between ^^ The author 
 and his book."* 
 
 * Mafli ridicules Philip Stubs for <* for pretending to 
 anatomize abufm, RndfubU up fin by the rootes.** 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 355 
 
 STUDLEY JOHN has verfify'd feveral fcraps 
 from the Latin^ in his translation of Bales ^^ Pa- 
 geant of popes/' 1574. 
 
 STYWARD THOMAS wrote a poem ad- 
 drefs'd to the reader in his ^' Pathwaie to mar- 
 tial! discipline,'* ^c, printed by T. Eail for 
 Myles Jenyngs, 1581^ 4to. It is in lines of 
 fourteen fy llables. 
 
 SURREY EARL OF. See HOWARD HEN- 
 RY. 
 
 SYLVESTER JOSHUA, merchant-adven- 
 tureer, translateed from the French of ^' the no- 
 ble, learned, and deuine poet, William Salustius 
 lord of Bartas," ^c. i. ^*' A canticle of the vic- 
 torie obteined by the French king Henry the 
 fourth, at Yvry:" printed by Richard Yardley, 
 1590, 4to. 2. '' The triumph of faith. The 
 facrifice of Ifaac. The Ihip-wracke of lonas :'* 
 printed by R. Yardley and P. Short, 1592, 4to. 
 3. '' The Eden, The deceipt, and The Baby- 
 Ion :" printed by P. Short, 1598, l6mo. 4. 
 *' The furies. The handy- crafts, and The ark;'* 
 printed by him for W. Wood, l6mo. ^^ La- 
 dirym(e lachrymarum , or the fpirit of tears 
 
 A a 2 
 
356 POETS OF THE 
 
 distilled for the untimely death of Henrie prince 
 of Wales/' 1613, 4td. '' The parliament of 
 vertues royal^ Betlialiahs rescue^ Little Bartas/' 
 and other poems [l6l4], 8vo. '' Hymn of 
 alms. Memorials of mortalitie.' A hymn of St. 
 Louis. The trophies of Henry the great. Battle 
 of Yvry. Tobacco battered^" ^c. 161 5^ 8vo. 
 ^' The maidens blulli/' 1620, 8vo. Recommen- 
 datory verfeesj by Sylvester^ occur before Ed- 
 mundes ''Caefars commentaries/' 1609 ) Blaxtins 
 Englilli ufurer, l634; and Vicars Mischiefs 
 mysterie^ 1617. ^^ Du Bartas his devine weekes 
 and workes/' ^c, by Sylvester^ were printed in 
 4to. 1605^ 1608^ 1613, and in folio, 1621, 
 1633, 1641.-^ To Sylvester is afcribed a MS. 
 poem ^^ In praife of the cocoa fruit of the Weft 
 Indies/' in the Alufeum. He dye'd, at Middle- 
 burg in Zealand^ in 16 18, aged bo. 
 
 T. C. has fome poetick trifles in ^^ A fliort in- 
 
 * It was Ben Jonfons opinion, *' That Silvesters 
 translation of Du Bartas was not well done, and that he 
 wrote his verfes before he underllood to confer." Drum- 
 mond, however, thought his translation of Judith^ and 
 Battle of Tvory excellent ; though he allows him not to be 
 hapy in his inventions, as may be feen in his T'abacco 
 hatter^ d, and Epitaphs. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 357 
 
 ventory of certayne idle inventions, the fruits of 
 a clofe and fecret garden of great eafe and little 
 pleafure/' 1j81. 
 
 T. E. wrote ^' A fong of the lordes fupper : ' 
 printed by W. Copland, w. d. 4to. It is in the 
 octave ftanza, on 1 b pages^ and ends, ^^ Finis 
 quot E. T." (posliblely, Edmund Tilnay, authour 
 of '^ The flower of friendlliippe," 15G8^ 8vo.) 
 See Herbert^ 362. 
 
 T. H, has a fonnet '' In oucforon,'' prefix'd 
 to Bretons '' Divine poeme of The ravillit foule 
 & blefsed weeper/' 1 60 1 . 
 
 T. J. '' An ovld facioned loue. Or a loue of 
 the ould facion. By I. T. gent, printed by Pe- 
 ter Short for William Mattes, 1594," 4to. A 
 translation of Watfons '* A)nyjitce gaudia,'' a 
 Latin verflon of Tasfos iVmyntas, '' The haven 
 of pleafure, by J. T. Dedicateed to the bawling 
 wives and mi strefses :" London^ 1096^ 4to. 
 
 T. M. See THORN. 
 
 T. R. See TOFTE. 
 
 A a 3 
 
358 POETS OF THE 
 
 T. II . gentleman^ prefix' d a copy of verfees to 
 Bales '' Pageant of Popes/' 1574^ 4to. 
 
 T. T. {(J, TYMME or TWINE ?) has verfees 
 in commendation of Barneiields ''"Cynthia," 1595. 
 
 TARLTON RICHARD, a celebrateed come- 
 dian and buffoon, wrote ^^ Tragicall treatifes, 
 conteyninge fundrie discourfes & pretie con- 
 ceipts, bothe in profe and verfe :" licenfe'd to 
 H. Bynneman, 1577-8. His '' Toyes/' in 
 verfe, were Hcenfe'd to R. Jones in the precede- 
 ing year. In 1589, Henry Kirkliam enters on the 
 llationers book '^ A forowfuU newe fonnette, in- 
 titled Tarltons recantation vpon this theame gyuen 
 him by a gent, at the Belfauage without Lud- 
 gate (now or never) being the laft theame he 
 fong." (Herbert, 1322.) In the fame year is 
 enter'd ^' Tarltons repentance, or his farewell to 
 his frendes in his ficknes, a little before his 
 deathe." H€ feems to have been a great fa- 
 vourite with the common people, and his me- 
 mory treated with a certain degree of vulgar re- 
 fped : 
 
 '*" O honour far beyond a brazen-fhrine. 
 To fit with Tarlton on an ale-poils fign."*^ 
 
 *^ Halls Satires, B. 6. 
 
 In an elegant book of large ornamented capital letters 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 35^ 
 
 TAVERNER- RICHARD, a licenfed lay- 
 preacher in K. Edwards time^ and, in \56g, high 
 
 and fpecimens of fine writeing, by John Scottowe, in 
 the time of queen Elizabeth (Har. MSS. 3885), is a 
 portrait of *< Mr. Tharlton," playing on his pipe and 
 tabor, and, in the margin, thefe verfees : 
 
 " The picture here fet down, 
 
 Within this letter T, 
 Aright doth fhow the forme & fhap 
 
 Of Tharlton unto the. 
 
 When hee in pleafaunt wife 
 
 The counterfet exprefte 
 Of clowne with cote of rusfet hew, 
 
 And llurtups with the refle. 
 
 Whoe merry many made, 
 
 When he appeard in fight, 
 The grave and wife as well as rude 
 
 At him did take delight. 
 
 The parrie nowe is gone. 
 
 And closlie clad in claye. 
 Of ail the jefters in the lande 
 
 He bare the praife awaie. 
 
 Now hath he plaid his parte, 
 
 And fure he is of this, 
 If he in Chrifte did die, to livT, 
 
 With him in lalling blis.*' fo. 19. 
 
 He is reprefented with a flat cap on his head, a flat 
 
 A a 4 
 
360 POETS OF THE 
 
 fherif of the county of Oxford, wrote, according 
 to Wood, '^ various poems in Latin and Englifh/' 
 He was born in 1505, and dye'd in 1575. 
 
 TESHE WILLIAM wrote verfees to Q. Eliza- 
 betli : extant in the Harieian MS. Num. 3437. 
 
 THORIE, or THORIUS, JOHN, of Flemifli 
 extraction, though born in London, and, as 
 Wood fays, ^^ a noted poet of his time," has his 
 name fubfcribe'd to a fonnet in '^ Pierces Super- 
 erogation," 1593, which, according to Naihes 
 affirmation in '^ Have with you," he did not 
 write in that form.* 
 
 nofe on his face, a budget at his girdle, a Ihort jacket, 
 troufers, and fhoes buckle'd at the fide of the ancle. 
 
 On the following leaf is a lady playing upon the re- 
 gal, behind which is her fool, with a bauble by his 
 fide. 
 
 * Nafh has inferted a letter of recantation from Tho- 
 rius, for having fidced with his antagonifl, in which is 
 the following pasfage — <* Truely upon the fight of five 
 or fix fheets of doctor Harveys booke i wrote certaine 
 verfes in his commendation, but that Sonnet which in his 
 booke is fubfcribed with my name is not mine, & i 
 gefse at the mistaking of it. Indeed, the Jlanzas arc; 
 though altred to your disgrace in fome places/' 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 36l 
 
 THORN M. is the autliour of a poem in '' The 
 paradice of daintie deuifes," 1576. The letters 
 M. T. fubfcribe'd to another in that collection^ 
 are fuppofe'd to belong to the fame perfon. M, 
 feems to be frequently ufe'd for maater, 
 
 THYNNE FRANCIS, an eminent herald and 
 antiquary, wrote, according to Wood, '^ A dis- 
 courfe upon the philofophers ftone," 15 83. MS, 
 in Bib. AJhmo. n. 1374. 
 
 TICHBORN CHIDICK, or CHIDIOC, exe- 
 ccuteed for his concern in Babingtons confpi- 
 racy, 15 86, left an '' elegie, written with his 
 owne hand in the tower, before his execution 3" 
 in three fix-line flanzas 3 printed by John Wolfe 5 
 and reprinted in Reliquice Wottonianoe, 
 
 TIE PETER translateed '' The book of wis- 
 dom into Englifli metre :" printed by J. Allde, 
 w. d. 8vo. licenfe'd 1562. 
 
 TOFTE ROBERTE. 1. '' Orlando inamo- 
 rato. The three firll bookes of that famous noble 
 gentleman and learned poet, Mathew JVIaria 
 Boiardo earle of Scandiano in Lombardie. Done 
 into Englilli heroicall verfe^ by R. T. gentleman. 
 
302 
 
 POETS OF THE 
 
 Printed at London by Valentine Sims^ 1598.'* 
 4 to. 2. ^^ Two tales translated out of Ariosto. 
 The one in dispraife of men. The other in dis- 
 grace of women. With certaine other Italian 
 ftanzas and prouerbes. By R. T. gentleman. 
 Printed at London by Valentine Sims^ 1597." 
 4to. 3. ^' Laura. The toyes of a traueller 5 or 
 the feaft of fancie^ diuided into S parts^ by R. T. 
 gent, of London, Printed by Valentine Simmes, 
 1597." 4 to. 4. '^ Alba, the months minde of 
 a melancholy lover. By R. T. gentleman." 
 London, 1598, 8vo.* 5. ^^ Honours academy, or 
 the famous pastorall of the faire fhepherdeffe 
 •Julietta," 1610, fo. by this Tofte, is intermingle'd 
 with many poefys. See MARKHAM GER- 
 VASE. 
 
 TONIE SHEPHERD is the authour of 7 
 fongs, or piecees of lyrick poetry, printed in 
 '' Englands Helicon," 16OO. 
 
 TREGOO WILLIAM compile^d '' A daintic 
 
 * Though the initials R. T. are conftantly thought to 
 be thofe of Robert Tofte, it may be juft mentioned that 
 there was, iikewife, a Richard Turner, who wrote 
 ^' JVbir^/^ (humors),'* 1607, a collection of epigrams: 
 but nothing, it is believe'd, before i5oo. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 363 
 
 nofegay of diuers fmelles, containing mnny pretie 
 ditties to diuerfe effefts :" licenfe'd to Tho. Eaft, 
 1577. 
 
 TRUSSELL JOHN. See SOUTHWELL 
 ROBERT. 
 
 TUDOR EDWARD, king of Engleland, the 
 6th of his name, wrote ^^ Inllructions to lir An- 
 thony St. Leger of the eucharift^" printed in 
 Foxes '' A6ls &: monuments/* p. 2139. 
 
 TUDOR ELIZABETH, queen of Engleland, 
 wrote, in 155 5, while prifoner at Woodllock^ 
 with a charcoal on a fhuter, fome certain verfees, 
 printed in Hentzners travels 5 and a couplet, 
 with her diamond, in a glafs window, printed in 
 Foxes '^ A6les and monumentes/' allfoa poem, 
 touching the practicees of the queen of Scots and 
 her adherents 3 preferve'd in Puttenhams '^ Arte 
 of Englifh poelie," ]58pj and, apparently, other 
 things ; lince, according to that flattering cour- 
 tier, her '^ learned, delicate, noble mufe," ea- 
 feyly furmounted all the reft that had writen be- 
 fore her time, or iince, '' for fence, fweetnefle, 
 and fubtillitie^" were it in '*" ode, elegie, epi- 
 gram^ or any other kinde of poeme, heroick or 
 
3^4 POETS OF THE 
 
 lyricke/' wherein it lliould pleafe her majesty to 
 employ her pen^ '^ euen by as much oddes as her 
 owne gallant eflate and degree" exceeded *' all 
 the reft of her moft humble vasfalls." The fol- 
 lowing '^ Epitaph, made by the queenes males- 
 tie^ at the death of the princeffe of Efpinoye^'* 
 inferted among the poems of one Soothern^ 
 printed in her time (fee that name)^ is here 
 given merely as a curioiity ; iince there cannot 
 wel be a more abominable compofition^ the 
 mufees haveing favour'd her juft as much as Ve- 
 nus or Diana : ^ 
 
 '^ "When the warrier Phoebus^ goth to make 
 his round. 
 With a painefuU courfe^ to toother hemi- 
 
 fphere : 
 A darke ihadowe, a great horror, and a 
 
 feare. 
 In i knoe not what clowdes inueron the 
 ground. 
 And euen fo for Pinoy, that fayre vertues lady, 
 (Although lupiter haue in this orizon. 
 Made a ftarre of her, by the Ariadnan 
 crowne) 
 
 * Bolton, however, is of a different opinion : " Q^ 
 Elizabeths verfes," fays he, <« thofe which i have feen 
 and read....are princely, as herprofe.'* 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY, 365 
 
 Morns^ dolour, and griefc;, accompany our 
 body. 
 O Atropos, thou haft doone a worke per- 
 
 uerft. 
 And as a byrde tliat hath loft both young, 
 and neft : 
 About the place where it was, makes many a 
 
 tourne. 
 Euen fo dooth Cupid, that infaunt, god, of 
 
 amore, 
 Flie about the tombe, where fhe lyes all in do- 
 lore. 
 Weeping for her eies, wherein he made fo- 
 
 iourne.'*"* 
 Bolton, after citeing a fulfome and parafttical 
 dedication to this queen (or, rather, queaiiy as 
 one who would not onely fcold, and fwear Bij 
 
 * " Two little anthemes or thinges in meeter of hir 
 majestie,** were licenfe'd to Mr. Barker, her majesties 
 printer, the 15th of November 1578. She is generally 
 reprefented ^as beautyful, chafle, and an accomplifh'd 
 poetefs ; and was all, no doubt, with equal truth. 
 
 At the end of her translation of " Margarete, quene 
 of Naverres godly meditacyon of the christen fowle;'* 
 publifh'd by Bale in 1548, is a metrical verfion of the 
 thirteenth pfalm. 
 
366 
 
 POETS OF THE 
 
 gody at her nobles and maids of honour, but, 
 occafionally, box their ears), by lir Henry Savil, 
 before his abominable perverfion of Tacitus, 
 (principally, he fays, to incite her, as by a foil, 
 to communicate to the world, if not thofe ad- 
 mirable compofitions of her own, yet, at the 
 leafl, ^^ thofe moft rare and excellent translations of 
 histories," if he ^^ may call them translations, 
 which have fo infinitely exceeded the ori- 
 ginals" ! ! !) proceeds as follows : ^' Somewhat it 
 may detract from the credit of this feeming hyper- 
 bolical praife, both becaufe it was written in her 
 life-time, and alfo to her felf [a cenfure which 
 may apply, with no lefs justice, or propriety, to 
 Puttenham, and the reft of her fervile flatterers] : 
 but i can believe they were excellent. For, ^ per- 
 haps, the world never faw a lady, in whofe per- 
 fon more greatnefs of parts met ' than* in hers ; 
 unlefs it were in that moft noble princefs, and 
 heroine, Mary queen of Scots, inferior to her 
 only in her outward fortunes, in all other re- 
 fpe6ts, and abilities, at leaft her equal." This 
 panegyrick, though eloquently deliver'd, is, at 
 at any rate, a poor compliment to queen Mary, 
 to put her on an equal footing with a ^^ green- 
 eye'd monfter" (the illegitimate fpawn of a bloody 
 and luftful tyrant), who, not onely, imprifon'd 
 
I 
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 307 
 
 tliat mofl beautyful and accomplifh'd princefs, (to 
 whom file had hypocritically and feductively of- 
 fer'd a refuge J for the eighteen beft years of her 
 life and reign^ but^ upon the falfeeft fuggestions, 
 and the grofsefl forgerys, with a favage and ma- 
 lignant cruelty, unparallel'd even in the Furies or 
 Gorgons of antiquity, deprive'd of crown and king- 
 dom, and deliberately flied the facred and pre- 
 cious blood, of her neareft relation, and, even, 
 the prefumptive heir to her own realm, to which, 
 in fa6t, fhe had a better title than herfelf. 
 
 ^' O, tigrefs' heart, wrap*d in a womans 
 hide!" 
 
 TUDOR HENRY, king of England, the 8th 
 of his name, wrote a ^^ fpecial verfe, when he 
 conceive'd love for Anna Bulleign," printed in 
 Nitgce antiqiicBy II, 147 : which, '^ though," as 
 lord Orford remarks, *^ it has no great merit, 
 raifes our opinion of his majesty as an author." 
 He is, likewife, fuppofe'd to be the writeer of 
 a fong, begining '^ Pastime with good company," 
 preferve'd in a coeval MS. now in the Britifli- 
 mufeum, and intitle'd '^ The kynges ballet." 
 Mister Warton had been told '' that the late lord 
 Eglintoun had a genuine book of manufcript 
 fonnets, written by king Henry the eighth ;" and 
 
368 POETS OF THE 
 
 fays *"*" There is an old madrigal, fet to mufic 
 by William Bird, fuppofed to be written by 
 Henry, when he firft fell in love with Anne 
 Boleyn."-^ 
 
 TURBERVILE GEORGE translateed '' The 
 heroycall epistles of the learned poet Publius 
 Ouidius Nafo : with Aulus Sabinus aunfweres to 
 certaine of the fame :" printed by Henry Den- 
 ham, 1567, 8vo. He, likewife, fet out, ''^^ Epi- 
 taphes, epigrams, fongs, and fonets, with a dis- 
 courfe of the friendly affections of Tymetes to 
 Pyndara hisladie:" printed by Henry Denham, 
 1567^ 1570, 8vo. There are feveral piecees of 
 poetry in his "^^ Arte of venerie^'* and in his 
 ^^ Booke of faulconrie or hawking,'* he has a 
 poem in commendation of hunting, and a poeti- 
 cal epilogue. Allfo '^ Tragical tales, translated 
 by Turberuile, in time of his troubles, ou^^f 
 fundrie Italians, with the argument and lenuoye 
 toechtale:" printed by AbelJeffes, 15 87^ 8vo. 
 which Wood mistakeenly fuppofees '^ to be the 
 fame as his epitaphs , Sec." and Warton, flil 
 
 * It may be fo ; but there is nothing poetical, at 
 leaft in Engleifh, in his letters to her, publifh'd by 
 Hearne; many, of which, by the way, he was oblige'd 
 to fupprefs^. on account of their grofs indecency. 
 
'.>i 
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. SGQ 
 
 more erroneously^ pretends to be '^ in profc.'* 
 Being fecretary to the Engleilh embasfadour in 
 Rusfia, '^ he did^ at fpare hours," according to 
 Wood, ^*' exercife his mufe ; and wrote poems 
 defcribing the places and manners of the country 
 and people of Ruslia, a?i, 15695 written to 
 Edw. Dancie, Edm. Spencer, ^c. at London.'* 
 The three metrical epistles to Dancie and Spencer^ 
 were printed in Hakeluyts voyages, 1689. 
 Thefe are includeed among the ^^ Epitaphes and 
 fonets" annex'd to the ^^ Tragical tales^" by 
 the authour, '^ with fome other broken pam- 
 phlettes and epistles, fent to certaine his frends 
 in England^ at his being in Moscouia, a/uio 
 1569." Two of thefe epistles are fay'd to be 
 familiar congratulations to the famous Spenfer3 
 but mister Park conceives that the poems do not 
 afford any internal evidence to authorife fuch a 
 conclufion, notwithflanding the refpectable aver- 
 ments of bifhop Tanner and doctor Berkenhout. 
 It appears, by fome prefatory verfees to his ''^ Tra- 
 gical tales," as wel as from the dedication to his 
 *' Boke of faulconrie or hauking," 1575, that he 
 had undertakeen a translation, into Engleifh verfe, 
 of the ^^ haughty woorke of learned Lucan,* 
 
 * From a poem in Turbervilles <* Tragical tales," 
 
 B b 
 
370 POETS OF THE 
 
 touching tlie ciuill disfention of afpiring Caefar, 
 and pitifull Pompey, the protector of Rome/* 
 which \\t forexoent to write thefe historys. AUfo 
 ^^ The eglogs of the poet B. Mantuan Carmelitan^ 
 turned into Englifh verfe, and fet forth with the 
 argTiment to every egloge, anno 15 67 :" printed by 
 H. Bynneman^ 12mo. He has^ likewife, com- 
 mendatory verfees before Fentons ^^ Tragical dis- 
 courfes^" 1579: and at the end of David Row- 
 lands '^^ Plefant historic of Lazarillo de Tormes^" 
 1596. Sir John Harington has ^^ an epitaph in 
 commendation of George Turbervill, a learned 
 gentleman/' in his firfl book of epigrams, which 
 concludes — ^^ Mij pen doth praife thee dead^ 
 thine grac'd me living.*' Sir John^ in his note 
 on the 5th book of Orlando furiofo, fays ^' Allu- 
 iion there is in this tale of Geneura^ vnto a florie 
 written in Alciats duello, of a matron in Fraunce 
 accufed in fuch fort^ by two men^ and a cer- 
 taine fouldier of Barceliona came with a compa- 
 nion of his, and tooke vpon them the defence of 
 the woman, and being fighting the companion of 
 the fouldier fled : notwithftanding he of Barcel- 
 
 it appears that he had relinquifh'd the translation of 
 *' loftie Lucans verfe," as " more meete for noble 
 Buckhurp braine." T. P. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 371 
 
 lona with his courage and vertue gat the victorie 
 of the other two^ and fo in ftrange attire went 
 home to his own countrey vnknowne, to which 
 Ariodaiit feems to allude. Some others," heads, 
 '^ afftrme, that this very matter, though fet 
 downe here by other names, happened in Ferrara 
 to a kinswoman of the dukes, which is here 
 figured under the name of Ge/2ewrfir...[But] How- 
 foever it was, fure the tale," he fays, ^Ms a 
 pretie comicall matter, & hath bin written in 
 Englilh verfe fome few years pail (learnedly & 
 with good grace) though in verfe of another kind, 
 by M. George Turberuiiy No fuch tale, how- 
 ever, is otherwife known to have been writen by 
 Turberville, but '^ The history of Ariodante and 
 Jeneura," had, in fa6l, been allready writen by 
 Peter Beverlay, whom fee. It is, therefor, pos- 
 iible that the worthy knights memory had de- 
 ceive'd him, which, at the fame time, is a hard 
 matter to believe. 
 
 TURNER WILLIAM, a phyfician, afterward 
 dean of Wells, wrote '^ Tlie huntyng of the Ro- 
 myffhe Vuolfe:" printed abroad, without date, 
 8vo. and reprinted under the title of '^ The 
 bunting of the fox and the wolfe, becaufe they 
 
 B b 2 
 
372 POETS OF THE 
 
 make hauocke of the fheepe of Chrift Jefus :'* 
 i56\, 8vo. (See Herbert, p. 1575, i605.) alfo^ 
 ^^ A new dialogue, wherein is conteyned the exa- 
 mination of the meiTe, ^c." 1548 (partly in 
 verfe) . 
 
 TUSSER THOMAS wrote and publifli'd '' A 
 hundreth good pointes of husbandrie :" printed 
 by R. Tottel, 1557,* 4 to. and, according to John 
 Kings fale-catalogae, in 1562, 4to. enlarge'd, and 
 thus intitle'd— ^^ A hundreth good pointes of hus- 
 bandry, lately maried unto a hundreth good 
 poynts of huswifery : newly corre6ted and am- 
 plified with dyvers proper lefsons for houshold- 
 ers, ^c, fet foorth by Thomas Tufser, gentle- 
 man, fervant to the right hon. lorde Paget :" 
 printed by R. Tottyll, 15/0, 4to. and, again, 
 ^^ augmented with diuerfe approued lesfons con- 
 cerning hopps &■ gardening, and other needful 
 matters, ts'c." by R. Tottell, 1573, 4to. There 
 
 * Warton fays, that, in 1557, John Daye had licenfe 
 to print " the hundreth poyntes of good Jmjerie'' (III, 
 303)? which he feems to have asfign'd in the fame 
 year to Tottil, who, according to Herbert, had a li- 
 cenfe for it in 1 56 1 . Herbert, by mistake, fuppofe'd it 
 ip have been printed by Day. 
 
 m 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 3/3 
 
 are^ likewife, editions, by Henry Denham, in 
 1577, 1580, 1585, and 10863-^ by Richard 
 Yardley, in 1593, by Peter Short, in 1597,, and 
 by Robert Waldegrave, at Edinburgh, in 15 99 5 
 befide lateer editions by the company of flationers 
 in 1604 and 16 10, all in 4to. b. l.f At the end 
 are certain iliort poems, particularly ^' The au- 
 thors life." It is a work of great merit. In 
 1561 was licenfe'd to Thomas Hacket '' A dya- 
 logue of wyuynge & thryuyng of Tusfhers, with 
 ij lesfons for olde & yonge:" apparently a dif- 
 ferent work. Tusfer dye'd in 1580 3 and his 
 epitaph may be read in Stows " Survay of Lon- 
 don^" 1598^ p. 212. In Tufsers very curious 
 
 ^ The edition of 1580 took the following title — 
 ^* Five hundreth pointesof good husbandrie, as well for 
 the champion or open countrie, as alfo for the Woodland 
 or feverall, mixed in everie month with husvviferie, over 
 and befides the booke of huswiferie. Corre6led, better 
 ordered, and newlie augmented to a fourth part more, 
 with divers other lefsons, as a diet for the farmer, of the 
 properties of winds, planets, hops, herbs, bees, and 
 approov^ed remedies for flieepe and catteil, ^c. Newlie 
 fet foorth by Thomas Tufser, gentleman :" printed by 
 H. Denham, 4to. 
 
 t In the royal library is an edition printed in 1604 
 for the company of Itationers. T. P. 
 
 B b 3 
 
374 POETS OF THE' 
 
 and original production may be trace'd the popu- 
 lar flanza, which attain' d to fuch celebrity, in 
 the pastoral ballads of Shenllone. 
 
 TWYNE LAWRENCE and JOHN, wrote 
 
 verfees in praife of their brother Thomases trans- 
 lation of Lhuyds ^^ Breviary of Britayne/' 1573, 
 l2mo. 
 
 TWYNE THOMAS, doctor of phyfick, fi- 
 nifli'd the translation of Virgils -^neids, begun, 
 and continue'd, as far as about the middle of the 
 1 0th book, by doctor Thomas Phaer. The work 
 thus completed appeared under the following ti- 
 tle : ^' The whole xii. bookes of the ^neidos of 
 Virgin. Whereof the firft ix. and part of the 
 tenth, were conuerted into Englifh meeter by 
 Thomas Phaer efquier, and the refidue fupplied, 
 and the whole worke together newly fet forth, by 
 Thomas Twyne gentleman... Imprinted at Lon- 
 don by Wyllyam How, for Abraham Veale, 
 dwelling in Poules churchyearde, at the iigne of 
 the lambe. 1573." 4to. b. 1. There was another 
 edition, with the fupplement of Maphaeus, in 
 1584, and again in 1596. Doctor Twyne, who 
 has, likewife, fome poetical veriions in his trans- 
 lation of Lhuyds ^^ Breviary of Br itayne," 71573, 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 373 
 
 and has acrostical verfees affix'd to fir Nicholas 
 Bacon and his lady^ after a profe dedication, 
 dated 1574^ to '' The garland of godlie fiov/ers, 
 Cu'c." 1602^ dye'd^ at Lewes^ in \Q\3, aged 70. 
 
 TYE CHRISTOPHER, doctor of mufick, and 
 one of the gentlemen of the chapel royal, trans- 
 lateed into Englifh metre '' The avStes of the 
 apostles, wyth notes to eche chapter, to fynge 
 and alfo to play upon the lute, very necesfarye 
 for ftudentes after theyr ftudye, to fyle theyr 
 wyttes, and alfo for all christians that cannot 
 fynge, to rcade the good and godlye iloryes of the 
 lyues of Chryft hys apostles, 1.553" (only the 
 firft 14 chapters) : printed by Nicholas Hyll, for 
 W. Seres, and by Seres himfelf, without date, 
 8vo. with a rimeing dedication to K. Edward the 
 6th, in whofe chapel this verfion \X^as for a time 
 fung. '' A notable history e of Nastagio & Tra- 
 verfari, no lefs pitiefull than pleafaunt, trans- 
 lated out of Italian into Engl fli by C. T." 
 printed by T. Purfoot, 1569, l^mo. b. 1. is that 
 flory of Boccaccio to which Dryden has giveen a 
 fecond immortality under the name of Theodore 
 and Honoria. 
 
 TYMME THOMAS has a poetical addrefs to 
 
 B b 4 
 
376 POETS OF THE 
 
 the reader before fir Frauncis Briants translation 
 of Guevaras "^ Dispraife of a courtiers life," 
 1.57'3j 8vo. 
 
 UNDERDOWXE THOMAS translateed ^^O- 
 "uid his inuectiue agalnft Ibis :" printed by T. 
 Eaft in l.oGfj, and by IT. Bynnenaan in 1577, 
 8vo. dedicateed to ^^ fir Thonmas Sackuile knight, 
 lord Buckhurft." 
 
 UNDEPiHILL . . ., ''a witty and facetious 
 gentlenaan^" was, in 1568, fent, by the council, 
 to Newgate, for a ballad he had made, wherein 
 were fome ftrokes againft the papifts. See 
 Strypes Memoirs eccU^tasticalj III, 60. 
 
 UPCHER HEXRY has twenty-four lines in 
 alternate verfe prefixed to Greenes ^' Menaphon,** 
 
 UYEDALE NICHOLAS wrote '' diuers and 
 fundry verfes, whereof fum were fette vp and 
 fum other were fpoken and pronounced vnto the 
 ladie Anne wif vnto king Henry the eight in 
 many goodly and coftely pageauntes exhibited and 
 fijewed by the mayre and citizens of London on 
 Whitfon yeue in the xxv^^ yere of our faid foue- 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 377 
 
 rain lorde." (Royal MS. 18 A LXIV.) John 
 Leland fupply'd the Latin verfees, which are here 
 prefcrve'd^ in his own hand.'* 
 
 V. T. " Englilliman/* as he figns hinifclf, has 
 '^ a poefie to the nobilitie and people of England 
 and Scotland," in Lesleys ** Treatife towching the 
 right, title, and interell of the moll excellent 
 princellc Marie^ Q. ofScots^ ^c, 1584." 
 
 VAGHXE ROBERT wrote '' A dyalogue de- 
 fenfyue for women agaynll malicious detrac- 
 toures," 4to. — *' Thus endeth the faucon and the 
 pie. ^'In/io (Ini. 15 42. Imprynted by me Ro- 
 bert Wyer for Richarde Bankes." It is an alli- 
 terative metre, and the dialogue is fupported by 
 the above birds. This dialog^ue is thought to 
 have been occaiion'd by '' A lytell boke named 
 the fchole-houfe, wherein euery man may rede a 
 goodly prayfe of the condycyons of women." 
 
 VALLANS WILLIAM wrote '' A tale of two 
 fwannes. Wherein is comprehended the original 
 and encreafe of the riuer Lee, commonly called 
 
 * He always wrote his name Le)l\nd\ which no one, 
 after him, had a right to alter. 
 
378 POETS OF THE 
 
 Ware river ; together with the antiquitie of fun- 
 drie places and townes feated vpon the fame. 
 Pleafant to be read,, and not vnprofitable to be 
 vnderllood :" printed by Roger Ward for John 
 Sheldrake^ i^go^ 4to. and reprinted in the 5th 
 volume of Lelands Itinerary : twelve leaves in 
 blank verfe. He is^ likewife, the authoiir of 
 commendatory verfees prefixed to ^^ Whartons 
 dreame^" 1578. In the Harleian MS. 3 67, is a 
 '^ Ihort poem of Will. Vallans falter^ as it feems^ 
 upon John Stowes lack of reward for compiling 
 his furvey of London.'* 
 
 VAUX THOMAS, lord Vaux, of Harrowden 
 in Northhamptoniliire, is the authour of feveral 
 poems in ^' The paradice of daintie devifes," 
 1576, where he is distinguifh'd by the title of 
 *' lord Vaux the elder.'' He wrote a poem, 
 much commended by Puttenham, begining 
 ^' When Cupid fcaled firft the fort 5" and in the 
 Harleian MS. Num. 1703, is ''A dyttye or 
 fonet, made by the lorde Vaus in time of the no- 
 ble queene Marye, repre fen tinge the image of 
 Deathe" {^^ thought by fome to be made upon his 
 death-bed") ;* which is inferted among Surreys 
 
 * Gascoignes epistle <^ to all young gentlemen/' pre- 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 379 
 
 poems, and quoteed in Shakfpeares Hamlet : botli 
 thefe are reprinted by Percy. This Thomas lord 
 Vaux, by a mistake of Puttenham, (who com- 
 mends him chiefly for '' the facillitie of his mee- 
 tre, and the aptnefle of his descriptions^ namely 
 in fmidry of his fongs^ wherein he flieweth the 
 counterfait action very lively & pleafantly"^) has 
 been confounded, by Wood and others, with his 
 father Nicholas, whom he fucceeded in 1523, 
 and who was no poet. See EDWARDS RI- 
 CHARD. 
 
 VAUX WILLIAM, lord Vaux, fon of the 
 above nobleman, wrote feveral poems, in ^' The 
 paradice of daintie deuifes," 1576. He '*^ under-' 
 tooke to penne" the tragedy of '^ king Edwards 
 two fonnes cruelly murdered in the tower of Lon- 
 don," for Baldwines '^ Myrrour for magistrates," 
 1563 (fee fo. 114, b.) 3 but what he did therein 
 we are not informed. He was fummon'd to par- 
 liament in 1558, and dye'd in 1595. 
 
 VAVASER. This name is annex'd to fome 
 
 fix'd to his *' workes," 1575. Gascoigne, however, 
 as mister Park obferves, fcouts this as a vulgar notion, 
 and ridicules the abettors of it for their infantine cre- 
 dulity. 
 
380 POETS OF THE 
 
 poems, of queen Elizabeths time, in a MS. be- 
 longing to Samuel Lyfons, efquire. 
 
 VENNARD RICHAUD of Lincolns-inn, has 
 ^' The miracle of nature," a panegyrick on Q. 
 Elizabeth, and other poems, in a tra6l intitle'd 
 '^ The right way to heaven, & the true testl- 
 monie of a faithful! & loyall fubjed :" printed by 
 T. Efte, 1601, 4to. 
 
 VERE ANN, countefs of Oxford, firft wife to 
 carl Edward, the poet, and eldefl daughter of lir 
 William Cecil, lord Burleigh, made '^ Foure 
 epytaphes, after the death of her young fonne 
 the lord Bulbecke, £f/c." which, together with 
 ^^ the fowre lafl lynes of [two] other that fhfe 
 made alfo," are inferted in Sootherns poems. She 
 dye'd in* 1587. f 
 
 * Mister Steevens fays, " June 6, 1588/'— See ^«r&- 
 fean magazine, June 1 7 88, p. 390. 
 
 f In the Cotton MS. (Julius F. x.) feveral Latin 
 poems occur in commendation of <^ Anna Vera,'' as th 
 daughter of Ld. Burleigh, and wife of Ld. Oxford. In 
 tlie laft edition of << Royal & noble authors," lord Or- 
 ford notices the countefs of Oxenfords futile attempts in 
 poetry, as introduce'd into *< Sootherns Diana,'' for 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 381 
 
 VERE EDWARD, earl of Oxford, the I4th 
 of his furname and family, is the authour of fe- 
 veral poems printed in '^ The paradice of daintie 
 deuifes," 15 76, ^c. and in *"*" Englands Heli- 
 con," 1600." One piece, by this nobleman, 
 may be found in ^'^ The phoenix neft," 1593, 
 another is fubjoin'd to ^^ Aflrophel & Stella," 
 1591, and another to ^*^ Brittons bowre of de- 
 lights," 1597 (fele6led by mister Ellis). Some 
 lines of his are, allfo, prefixed to ^' Cardanuses 
 comforte," 1573. All or moft of his compofi- 
 tions are distinguifh'd by the iignature E. O. 
 He dye'd in l604 3 and was bury'd at Hack- 
 ney (not, as Wood fays, at Earls-Colne in 
 Esfex). Webbe and Puttenham applaud his at- 
 tainments in poefy : Meres ranks him with the 
 '' beft for comedy." Several fpecimens of lord 
 Oxfords poetry occur in Englands Parnasfus, 
 1600. In the pofthumous edition of lord Ox- 
 fords works. Vol. I. two poems, by the earl of 
 Oxford, are giveen from an ancient MS. miscel- 
 
 the account of which he fays, *' the editor of the Euro- 
 fean magaz,'ine mufl be refponfible.*' His lordfhip does 
 not feem to have been aware that the account was drawn 
 up by mister Steevens, who posfefs'd the unique copy 
 of Sootherns poems, whence thofe fpecimens were ex- 
 trafted. T. P. 
 
382 POETS OF THE 
 
 lany : but the posfefsor is not pointed out. One 
 of thefe is reprinted by mister Ellis. 
 
 W. A. is the authour of a pastoral^ in Davi- 
 fons *^' Poetical rhapfodie/' l602^ '' made long 
 fince upon the death of fir Philip Sidney." The 
 fame initials are fubfcribe'd to a poem^ ^^ in 
 praife of Gascoigne and his pofies," prefix'd to 
 his ^' Flowers/' 1575^ and to Cottons ^"^ Armor 
 of proofe^ ^c.'' 1596. They are, probablely, 
 thofe of Arthur Warren, authour of '' The poore 
 mans pasiions, and poverties patience:" printed 
 by J. R. for R. B. i605, 4to. A. W. has 
 verfees prefix'd to Kendalls Flowers of epigrams, 
 15775 snd others ^Mn commendation of Gas- 
 coigne and his polies," 1575. Andrew Willett 
 is a joint claimant to thefe initials. See his ar- 
 ticle. 
 
 W. E. has a fonnet ^*' to his deere mistris, 
 Elizabeth Sidney," before Markhams ^^ Poem of 
 poems or Sions mufe" [1595]. To the fame lady 
 (fir P. Sidneys daughter) the poem is dedicateed. 
 The fame initials are prefix'd to a poem intitle'd 
 '' Thamefeidos,'* l600^ 4to. 
 
 W. G. fenior, and junior ^ wrote a couple of 
 
SIXTEEXTH CEXTUKY. 383 
 
 fonnets, prefix'd to Spenfers ^'' Amorettl/' 1595. 
 G. W. alfo has veiTees prefix'd to Cottons '' Ar- 
 mor of proofe, C^'c." 1596. 
 
 W. H. See WOTTON HENRY. 
 
 W. J. has complimentary verfees before 
 '^ Morleys Practical introduction to muficke," 
 1597. 
 
 W. T. wrote '' an inuective agaynft treafon :" 
 printed by Roger Madeley, in two columns on a 
 half-ilieet^ fignifying the joy of the people, ^c 
 on the 19th of July 15 53, when Mary Tudor w^as 
 proclaim'd queen. See WATSON THOMAS. 
 
 WALDEN lord Verfees by, Ailimoles MSS. 
 781, or 6071. Thomas lord Howard of Wal- 
 den, fuppofe'd to be the nobleman here intended, 
 was fummon'd to parliament by writ, the 7th of 
 December, 1597. 
 
 WALLSALL SAMUEL wrote '' The authors 
 method comprifed in verfe," prefix'd to Butteses 
 ^^ Dyets dry dinner," 1599, l2mo. and allfo 
 more verfees '^ in prayfe of this learnedly witty 
 booke.'* 
 
384 POETS OF THE 
 
 WARNER WILLIAM, an attorney of the 
 Common-pleas, was the authour of a work of 
 confiderable merit, intitle'd ^^ Albions England, 
 or a historical map of the fame ifland:" printed 
 by George Robinfon for Tho. Cadman, 15 86 : 
 reprinted, as ^^ The firft and fecond parts of 
 Albions England : with historicall intermixtures, 
 invention and variety, profitably, briefly, and 
 pleafantly performed," by Thomas Orwin, 1589 : 
 again, '^ the third time coiTe6led & augmented,'* 
 by the fame printer, 15g2 : again, by the widow 
 Orwin, for I. B. 1596 and 1597 , and again, 
 '^ reuifed, and newly inlarged by the author:" 
 by Edmund Bolllfant for George Potter, in l602. 
 In 1606, appeared ^' A continuance of Albions 
 England : by the iirfl author. W. W." printed 
 by Felix Kyngston for George Potter. The lafl 
 edition, of which this '^ continuance," though 
 not actually reprinted, makes a part, was pub- 
 liili'd, after the authours death, in 16 12, for G. 
 P. [George Potter]. All thefc editions are in 
 quarto, and the firll three of them in black 
 letter.* Ames, in his '^ Typographical anti- 
 
 * It appears, by an entry in the flationers book (cited 
 by Herbert, 1190), that, on the 17th of Octo. 1586, 
 ." The wardens vpon ferche of Roger Wards houfe dyd 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 3S5 
 
 quities/* mentions '^ Warners poetry/' 15 86, 
 8vo. which, however, is, probablely, nothing 
 more than the '^ Albions England," 4to. of that 
 year : before which, according to Wood, he 
 wrote feveral fpecimens of poetry, whereby his 
 name was cried up among the minor poets :'* 
 but Wood knew nothing of the date of thofe 
 '*" matters of greater moment," which he fup- 
 pofees him to have writen and publilli'd '^ when 
 years came on." It is, at the fame time, evi- 
 dent, from the preface to Albions England, that 
 he had writen nothing in re/ye before 3 and the 
 only fpecimen of his profe, now known, is '^ Sy- 
 rinx, or a fevenfold history, ^c." printed, ap- 
 parently for the fecond time, in 1597. By his 
 dedications to Henry and George, fuccesiive ba- 
 rons of Hunsdon, he appears to have been pa- 
 
 find there in printing, a book in verfe, intytled Englan.is 
 Albion^ beinge in Englifh & not aucthorifed to be 
 printed, which he had ben forbidden to prynte, afwell 
 by the L. archb. of Canterburye, as alfo by the faid 
 wardens at his own houfe :" and forasmuch as he had 
 done this *' contrary to the late decrees of the hon. 
 court of Starre-chamber, the faid wardens feifed iij heaps 
 of the faid England^ Albyon.''^ As it was actually printed 
 by G. Robinpm for T*. Cadman, IVard feems to have been 
 pirateing it, as he was other books. 
 
 C c 
 
m 
 
 4 
 
 386 POETS OF THE 
 
 tronife'd by, or in fome manner connefted with, 
 that family -, but no farther particulars of his 
 history are known^ except that he dye'd^ fud- 
 denly^ in his bed,, at Amwell in Herts^ the gth 
 of March 1608-9^ and was there bury'd.* 
 
 WARREN ARTHUR. See W. A, 
 
 WARREN WILLIAM. '' A pleafant new 
 fancie, of a fondlings device^ intituled and cald. 
 The nur eerie of names, wherein is prefented 
 (to the order of our alphabet) the brandifh- 
 ing brightnes of our Englifh gentlewomen. 
 Contrived and written in this lafl time of vaca- 
 tion, &: now firft publiflied & committed to 
 printing, this prefent month of mery May, by 
 Guillam de Warrino :" printed by Richard Jones, 
 1581, 4to. b. 1. 
 
 WASTNES GEORGE efquire, has verfees 
 '' in praife of the author," before Melbanckes 
 '^ Philotimus. The warre betwixt Nature and 
 Fortune,'* 1583. 
 
 * Scotts *' Poetical! works," 1786, p. 84; but (ac- 
 cording to mister Park) firfl inferted in his notes to 
 ^* Amwell, adefcriptlvepoem," 1776. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTUliy. 387 
 
 WATREMAN WILLIAM wrote a copy of 
 verfees^ touching the controverfy between Church- 
 yard and Camell, begining, '' Weftern Will to 
 Camell, ^cr (See Herbert, 590.) Allfo '^ The 
 fardle of facions, conteining the aunciente ma- 
 ners, custonies, & lawes of the peoples, enha- 
 biting the two partes of the earth, called Affrike 
 & Afie:" printed by John Kingstone, 1555, 8vo. 
 b. 1. 
 
 WATSON THOMAS compofe'd, and, '' at 
 
 the requeft of certaine gentlemen his very 
 
 frendes," publilli"d, '' The iKcx, rofxTra^icxy or 
 
 pasfionate century of loue : diuided into two 
 
 parts : whereof the firit exprefseth the authors 
 
 fufferance in loue : the latter, his long farewell 
 
 to Loue and all his tyrannic :" printed by John 
 
 Wolfe for Gabriel Cawood, without date, 4to. 
 
 b. L but licenfe'd to Cawood in 1581, under the 
 
 title of ^' Watfons pasfions_, manifefling the true 
 
 frenzy of loue." It contains 94 fonnets in 
 
 Engleifh, fome originals, the reft translateed or 
 
 imitateed from the Greek, Latin, I-talian, and 
 
 French, poets.* Prefix'd are verfees to the au- 
 
 * Among the Harleian MSS. (No. 3277) in the mu- 
 feum, there is a fair copy of this work, with the follow- 
 
 C c 2 
 
I 
 
 n 
 
 ^ 
 
 388 POETS OF THE 
 
 thour by [fir] G. Bucke, T. Acheley, C. Doxvn- 
 hal, M. Roydon, and G. Peele. ^'^ An eglogue 
 upon the death of the right honorable fir Francis 
 WaKingham^ late principall fecretarie to her ma- 
 jesties ^c. written firft in Latine by Thomas 
 Watfon gentleman^ and now by himfelfe trans- 
 lated into Engiilh :" printed by Robert Robinfon^ 
 loQOj 4to.* This rare publication is in the 
 
 ing diverfity of title : " A looking-glaffe for loovers. 
 Wherein are conteyned two fortes of amorous pasfions ; 
 the one exprefsing the trewe eflate and perturbations of 
 hym that is overgon with lov^ ; the other a flatt defyance 
 to Love, &all his lawes.'* This MS. contains only 78 
 fonnets, the orthography of which is much more anti- 
 quated than in the printed copy. T. P. 
 
 * Watfon thus apologifes for having become the 
 translator of his own poem : ** 1 interpret myfelf, left 
 Melieteus in fpeaking Englifli by another mans la- 
 bour, ihouid leele my name in his chaunge, as my 
 Amintas did.*' This may allude to Fraunces ver- 
 fion in the ** Countefs of Pembrokes Yvychurch,'' who 
 profefses to have ** fomewhat altered S. Tafsoes Italian, 
 and M. Watfons Latine Amyntas, to make them 
 both one Eriglifli :'* or it may refer to another transla- 
 tion of Watlbns Amyntas, by J. T. intitled <* An 
 ould facioned love, or a love of the ould facion." 
 
 In an addrefs to the reader, before " Vallanses Tale 
 
SIXTEENTH CEXTURY. 389 
 
 royal library. He alfo publiili'd '' The firft fett 
 of Italian, madrigalls englilhed, not to the fen fe 
 of the original dittie, but after the affectiou of 
 the noate :'* whereunto are annex'd '' 2 excellent 
 madrigalls of M. Will. Byrds^ corapofed after 
 the Italian vaine, at the requeit of the fayd 
 Thomas Watfon :" printed by Thomas Efte, 
 1590, 4to. A few poems,, by this authour, are 
 inferted in ^*' The phoenix nell/' 1593 5 in 
 *^ Englands Helicon^" 160O3 in Davifons '^'Poe- 
 tical rapfodie/' 161 1 5 and prefix'd to Whetftones 
 ^' Heptameron/' 1.382, are fome verfees by *' T. 
 W. efquier^, in the commendation of the aucthour 
 and his needefuU booke.'* He was a native of 
 London, fpent fome time at Oxford {'^ not/* 
 fays Wood, *^Mn logic & philofophy as was ex- 
 pe6ted, but in the fmooth and pleafant ftudies 
 of poetry and romance"), afterward fludy'd the 
 common law, and dye' d before 15g6,^ 
 
 of two fwannes,** 1590, M. Tho. Watfons Odei 
 (Lat.) are quoted from, and an Englifii translation of 
 the pafsage is given by A. F. [ Ab. Fraunce]. 
 
 ^ In " Have with you," ^c, Nafh fpeaks of Watfon 
 as deceafeM in that vear, and laments him as ** a man 
 that he dearly loved and honoured, and who for all 
 things hath left few his equals in England." T. P. 
 
 C c 3 
 
3Q0 POETS OF THE 
 
 WEBBE WILLIAM, translateed the firfl and 
 fecond eclogues of Virgil into Engiifli hexameters, 
 and printed them in his '^ Discourfe of Englilh 
 poetrie," 15865 in which, according to Warton, 
 he alfo profefses to have translateed the Georgics. 
 
 WEBSTER WILLIAM wrote '' The moft 
 pleafant and delightful historic of Curan a prince 
 of Danlke, and the fayre princeffe Argentill, 
 daughter and hey re to Adelbright, fome time 
 king of Northumberland, fe'c." n. d. 4to. b. L 
 an indifferent paraphrafe, in fix-line ftanzas, of 
 a beautiful epifode in Warners Albions England, 
 There was a lateer edition in 1617. 
 
 WEEVER JOHN wrote and publifli^d, 1. 
 ^' A little book of epigrams/' 1599, 8vo. 2, 
 '' The mirror of martyrs, or the life and death 
 of that thrice valiant capitaine and moil godly 
 martyre fir John Oldcastle knight, lord Cob- 
 ham." 1601, l8mo. printed by V. S. for Wm. 
 Wood 3 and writen two years before. A com- 
 mendatory fonnet allfo, by John Weever, is pre- 
 fix'd to Middletons ^^ Legend of Humphrey duke 
 of Glocester," 1600. Whether this was the au- 
 thour of ^^ Ancient funerall monuments," l631, 
 is uncertain, though fufficiently probable : but, 
 if fo, he was a Lancalhire-man, born in 1576. 
 
• 
 
 SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 3QI 
 
 ' WHARTON JOHN, a puritanical fchool- 
 master,, pnblifli'd a pamphlet, chiefly in verfe, 
 intitled '^ Whartons dreame : conteyninge an 
 inuective agaynfl certaine abhominable caterpil- 
 lers, as ufurers, extorcioners, leasmongers and 
 fuch others, confounding their diuellylli fedles by 
 the authority of holy fcripture :" printed by John 
 Charlewood, 1578, 4 to. b. 1. He alfo wrote a 
 ballad, intitled ''Whartons follie^" licenfe'd to 
 John Hunter, 26th July 1576. '' Whartons no- 
 vels,'* licenfe'd to Henry Kirkham, in the fame 
 year, was, doubtlefs, a production of the fame 
 autliour, and posfiblely in metre. 
 
 WHETSTONE GEORGE wrote '' The rocke 
 of regarde," 1.576, 4to. in 4 parts: 1. '' The 
 castle of delight." 2. '' The garden of unthrifti- 
 nefs," 1576. 3. '' The arbour of vertue." 4. 
 ^' The ortchard of repentance 3 wherein is re- 
 ported the miferies of dice, the mischiefes of 
 quarelling, and the fall of prodigality," 15 76, 
 4to. Some pieces of poetry are, likewife, inter- 
 fperfe'd in his '' Heptameron"^ of cluill dis- 
 courfes," 1582 : reprinted under the title of 
 
 * Wood calls diis piece a " feven days exercife,** 
 ^c. but the copy he faw had loft the title. 
 
 C c 4 
 
 
# 
 
 392 POETS OF THE 
 
 
 ^*' Aurelia/* 1593. Mister Bindley has *'*' A mir- 
 ror of treue honour and christian nobilitie, ex- 
 pofing the life^ deaths and devine vertues^ of the 
 moll noble^ and godly lorde Frauncis earle of 
 Bedford^ baron Rufsell;, ^c. who deceafed at 
 Bedford houfe^ the xxviij of June^ 1595. Mtatis 
 fuoe 58. Whereunto is adjoyned a report of tlie 
 vertues of the right valiant & worthy knight S. 
 Frauncis^ Ld. Rufsell^ fonne and heire apparant 
 of the honour & good giftes of the fayd right no- 
 ble earle^ who vpon a daye of truce was llaine, 
 by a treacherous ftratageme of the Scots^ the 27 
 day of the faid month of June. The report of 
 George Whetflone^ gent, a faithfuU feruaunt of 
 the fayd right honorable earle :" printed by Rd. 
 Jones, 1685, 4 to. — 90 feven-line flanzas, & 
 epitaph. See, alfo, catalogue of pamphlets in the 
 Harleian library. His initials (G. W.) are fub- 
 join'd to certain lines '^ ih praife of Gascoigne 
 and his polies," prefix' d to that authours '' Flow- 
 ers,'* 1575. His name appears to a copy of 
 verfees before Kendalls ^' Flowers of epigrams,'* 
 15775 ^^^ ^^ epitaph, by him, on lir Philip 
 Sydney, is printed in '^ A true discourfe histo- 
 ricall, of the fucceeding governours in the Ne- 
 therlands," l^c. ^^ Translated and colle6led by 
 T. C. (Churchyard) efquire, and Ric. Ro." 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 3Q3 
 
 (Robinfon) : printed for Mat. Lownes, l602. 
 4 to. 
 
 WHITHORNE, or WHYTHORNE, THO- 
 MAS^ gentleman, publilh'd ^^ his fongs for S, 
 4, and 5 voyces : which fonges," he fays, ^'^ are 
 of fundrie forts, viz. Some fhort, fome eafie, 
 Effc. fome folemne, fome merry:" printed by 
 John Day, 157 1^ 4to. before which he has a long 
 poetical preface in lines of 14 fyllables : printed 
 by John Day, 1571, 4to. allfo ^*' Duos, or fongs 
 for two voices:" printed by T. Efle, 1590, 4to. 
 with his portrait on the back. 
 
 WHITNEY GEOFFREY wrote '' Fables or 
 epigrams :" printed at Leyden about 1586 : alfo 
 ^^ A choice of emblemes, and other devifes," 
 printed there in that year ; both 4to.-^ 
 
 WHITTYNGHAM WILLIAM, '' the un- 
 worthy [puritanical] dean of Durham," turn'd 
 into metre five of the pfalms which go by the 
 name of Sternhold and Hopkinses, or the old, 
 
 * See a particular defcription of the latter book in 
 Herberts General history (p. 1675). 
 
394 POETS OF THE^ 
 
 verlion^ being distinguilh'd by the letters W. W. 
 He dye'din 1579. 
 
 WHYTTLE THOMAS has an epistle in verfe, 
 printed with ^' Certaine godly and comfortable 
 letters, ^c." 1564, 4to. 
 
 WIGHTHAND mat. has a copy of verfees 
 prefix'd to Mundays ^^ Mirror of mutabilitie," 
 1579. 
 
 WILLET ANDREW (Vid. Fasti I. 128) he 
 publifh'd ^^ Sacrorum emhlematum centuria una,'' 
 in Latin and Engleifh verfe, 4 to. n. d. but, pro- 
 bablely, before 1598, from the alluiion of 
 Meres.* 
 
 WILLIAMS THOMAS, of the Inner-Tem- 
 ple, wrote two complimentary fonnets, prefix'd 
 to Chapmans '^ Ovids banquet offence," 1595 j 
 and a third, in memory of lir W. Sackvile, pre- 
 fix'd to Roflees '^ Authors teares, 1592, MS. 
 
 * <^ As the Latines have thefe emblematifls, An- 
 dreas Alciatus, Renfrenes, & Sambucus ; fo we have 
 thefe, Geoffrey Whitney, Andrew JVillet^ and Thomas 
 Combe.'* Palladis tamia. 
 
 \ 
 
SIXTEENTH CEXTURY. 305 
 
 WILLIS JOHN wrote '' Verfes concerning 
 the name and armes of Dunftaple 3" where he 
 appears to have been curate^ about 1558. See 
 Chronicon de Dunjlaple, a Hearne, Ap, Num. 
 IV. 
 
 WILLOBIE HENRY. '' Willobie his Avifa; 
 or the tine picture of a modeft maid^ and of a 
 chafl and conllant wife. In hexameter^ verfe. 
 The hke argument whereof was never heretofore 
 pubhlhed:" imprinted at London by John Win- 
 det^ 1594^ 4to. This poem, of which the verfe 
 is remarkably fmooth and fluent for its age_, ap- 
 pears to have been publifli'd, in the authours ab- 
 fence, by his friend Hadrian Dorrel. In the 
 fourth edition, 1609, is inferted *^' The victorie 
 of Enghlh chastitie vnder the fained name of 
 Avifa," fubfcribe'd ^*' Thomas Willoby f rater 
 Henrici Willobij miper defuncti ;'' ^^ The refolu- 
 tion of a chail and conftant wife," and ^*^The 
 praife of a contented mind." Dorrell, in his 
 '^ Apologie {hewing the true meaning of Willoby 
 his Aiifa,'' dateed, '^ Oxford this 30. of lune. 
 1596," in which year there was ^' a. new edi- 
 
 '^ Hexameter verfe, feems here intended to defignate 
 JiX'line ftanzas, in which form the poems are compofe'd. 
 
396 POETS OF THE 
 
 tion/' fays *'*' This poeticall fiction was penned 
 by the author at left for thirtie and fiue yeeres 
 fince [1561]^ and lay in waft papers in his ftudy, 
 as many other prettie things did, of his deaifing, 
 and... (as his Siifanna yet doth)." Prefix'd are 
 commendatory verfees by Abell Emet, and ano- 
 ther _, who ftgns C 071 tr aria contrariis, and men- 
 tions Shakfpeares Rape of Liter ece, but does not, as 
 hath been hafteyly furmife'd, celebrate Shakfpeare 
 himfelf: '' This Englifh eagle^" and ^^ Brytan 
 bird/' alludeing to Willobies own poem,"^ and 
 Shakfpeare being introduce'd onely by way of 
 foil. — The lines are, 
 
 '' Tarquyne pluckt his glistering grape. 
 And Sliahe-fpeare paints poore Liicrece rape,'' 
 
 WILSON THOMAS, dean of Durham, and 
 principal fecretary to K. Henry the 8th, has fome 
 poetical fcraps in his ^^ Rule of reafon, contein- 
 yng the art of logike :" printed by Jhon Kyng- 
 fton, 1580, 4to. 
 
 * Neither is there any reafon to conclude that thefe 
 verfees were writen by Dorrel^ the editor : i. becaufe he 
 allways figns his proper name ; and 2. becaufe the au- 
 thour mistakes the quantity of Avifu, which Dorrei 
 could not posfiblely have done. 
 
 ■M^ 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 307 
 
 WISDOM ROBERT, a protestant fugitive in 
 the time of queen Mary, afterward rector of 
 Stylled in Esfex, and of Settrington in York- 
 fhire, and a frequent preacher in Aldermary- 
 church, London, is the authour of a wel-known 
 prayer or hymn, printed at the end of Sternholds 
 pfalms, begining : 
 
 '^ Preferve us, lord, by thy dear word. 
 From Turk and Pope defend us, lord." 
 He likewife render'd the 25 th pfalm of that 
 verfion. The facetious billiop Corbet has an ad- 
 drefs ^'^ To the ghoft of Robert Wisdome." He 
 dye'd in 1568. 
 
 WITHYE WILLIAM wrote fome fhort 
 poems, 1581, and his own epitaph. (Sloanes 
 MSS. 300.) 
 
 WOLLAYE EDWARD wrote ^^ An admo- 
 nition to every degree, ihewing the right way to 
 joy and perfite reft," dedicateed to Q. Elizabeth. 
 {Royal MSS. 17 A XIX.) 
 
 WOOTTON JOHN is the autliour of two 
 poems, printed in *^' Englands Helicon," l600j 
 one of which is intitle'd ^' Damaetas jigge in 
 praife of his loue." 
 
 
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 Wh- 
 
 398 POETS OF THE 
 
 WOTTON SIR HENRY, born in 1568, has 
 an ode, under the lignature H. W. in Daviibns 
 ^*' Poetical rapfody/' l602 3 being tlie firft poem 
 in the Reliqvm Wottoniance, l685, where it is 
 fay'd to have been ^^ written in his youth." The 
 other poems in that collection are, apparently, of 
 a lateer date. He dye'd provofl of Eton-college 
 in 1639. 
 
 WRAGHTON WILLIAM, on the back of 
 the title to his '^ Rescuynge of the Romiflie foxe, 
 fe^c." printed abroad in 1545, Bvo. has certain 
 verfees which '^ The banniflied fox of Rome 
 fpeakethe." See Herbert, p. 1557, 
 
 WYATT SIR THOMAS, of Allington-castle 
 in Kent, llile'd by Wood '' The delight of the 
 mufes and of mankind," wrote many fonnets 
 and other poems, includeing translations from the 
 Latin and Italian poets, printed with thofe of 
 Henry earl of Surrey. (See HOWARD.) In 
 1549 were printed by T. Raynald and J. Har- 
 ryngton, '^ Certaine pfalmes chofen out of the 
 pfalmes of Daaid commonly called vij penyten- 
 tiall pfalmes, drawen into Englifh meter by fir 
 Thomas Wyatt knyght, whereunto is added a 
 prolog of the aucthore before euery pfalme very 
 
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 ^. 
 
SIXTEENTH CEXTURY. 309 
 
 pleafant and profettable to the godly reader :" 
 which Mr. Warton^ for whatever reafon, thinks 
 '^ a feparate work from his translation of tlie 
 whoTe pfaltery." He dye'd of a fever, at Sher- 
 borne, in Dorfetfliire, in the fummer of 1541, 
 aged 38, and was inter'd in the great church 
 there. His head, probablely by Holbein, was 
 prefix'd to Lelands '^ Ncenicc in mortem T. Via* 
 ti,"" 1542. It reprefents him as a much older 
 man than he live'd to be, with a large builiy 
 beard. See that authours CoUcctm^ea, by Hearne."*^ 
 See BOLEYN. 
 
 WYRLEY WILLIAM wrote two uncouth 
 ditties, in feven-line ftanzas, printed at the end 
 of Erdswickes ^*^ True ufe of armorie," 1592 : 
 one intitle'd *^^ Lord Chandos 3" the otlier, ^*' Ca- 
 pitall de Buz." 
 
 WYTHIPOLL master, of Ipswich, has a me- 
 trical translation of '^ Certaine Latin verfes made 
 
 ^ C. and C. W. in Nafmiths catalogue of Bennet- 
 coUege library fhould both be T. W. being fubfcribe*d 
 to poems of this fir Thomas Wyatt. *' A fine head of 
 him among the drawings, by Holbein, in the kings col- 
 lection, now publifliing by mister Chamberlain.'* 
 
 •* 
 
400 POETS OP THE 
 
 by Dr. Norton, for M. Thomas Sackford/' 
 printed,, with the letters which pafs'd between 
 Spenfer and Harvey, in 1580* 
 
 Y. S. Thefe initials (S. Y.) are giveen by 
 Webbe as thofe of fome Engleiih poet. 
 
 YATES JAMES, ferveing-man, wrote '' The 
 castell of courtefie, whereunto is adjoyned the 
 holde of humilitie, with the chariot of chasti- 
 tie thereunto annexed :"^ printed by John Wolfe, 
 1582, 4to. b. L 
 
 YELVERTON CHRISTOPHER wrote the 
 epilogue to Gascoigne and Kynwelmerihes Jo- 
 cast a, prefented, at Grays-inn, 15665 being 
 then a Itudent there 5 afterward an eminent 
 counfellor, knight, and judge. He dye'd in 1G07. 
 
 ■tV 
 
 * Thefe poems are divideed into three parts, accord- 
 ing to their titles, and to the third part is appended 
 ** A dialogue betvvene Diana & Venus : with ditties 
 devifed at fundrie idle times for recreation fake." Onely 
 one copy of this book appears to exift. It had formerly 
 belong'd to T. Martin, the Suffolk antiquary ; at ma- 
 jor Pearfons fale it was purchafe'd by mister Steevensj 
 and is now in the posfesfion of mister Park : who 
 obligeingly furnifhes this note. 
 
 ■A' . '. 
 
SIXTEENTH CENTURA. 401 
 
 YLOOP* master is the authour of two poems 
 in '' The paradice of daintie deuifes," 1576^ 
 
 ^c. 
 
 YONG BARTHOLOMEW, of the Middle- 
 Tern pie, translateed,, from the Spanifh, **" Diana 
 of George of Montemayor," a pastoral romance, 
 in which is a confiderable number of poetical 
 piecees, chiefly lyrick. Of thefe not lefs than 
 25 are inferted in *^^ Englands Helicon/' 1600. 
 The above translation, though finifh'd in 1583, 
 was not printed til 1598. There are, likewife^ 
 fome piecees of poetry in his translation of the 
 fourth book of Guazzos '^ Civile converfation :" 
 printed by Thomas Eaft, 158(5, 4to. 
 
 * Mister Steevens fuppofe'd his real name to be 
 Pooley; which, ads mister Park, occurs in Yateses 
 miscellany of poems, 1582. 
 
 D d 
 
^#. 
 
• 
 
 POETS, 
 
 NATIVES OF ENGLELAND, , 
 
 WHO WROTE fN LATIN OR FRENCH. 
 
 •^^* The latter is distinguifh'd by the letter F, 
 
 Century VIII. 
 
 Acca. 
 
 Bede. 
 
 Alcuinus. 
 
 Eddins. 
 
 Aldhelm. 
 
 
 Century XI. 
 
 Garland John de. 
 
 • 
 
 Century XII. 
 
 Exeter Jofeph of (Jofephus 
 
 Monmouth Geoffrey of. 
 
 Iscamis) . 
 
 bifhop of St. Afaph. 
 
 Hanvil John. 
 
 Necham Alexander. 
 
 Hoveden John de. 
 
 Salisbury John de. 
 
 Huntingdon Henry arch- 
 
 Serlo monachus. 
 
 deacon of. 
 
 Sotovagina Hugh de, arch- 
 
 Mapes Walter de^ archdea- 
 
 deacon of York. 
 
 con of Oxford. 
 
 
 * 
 
 D d 
 
• 
 
 400^ POETS, NATIVES OF ENGLELAND. 
 
 Century XIII. 
 
 Baston Robert. Canonicus John. 
 
 Blaunpayne Michael. Groilhead Robert, bifliop 
 
 Burgh Hugh de, prior of of Lincoln. F, 
 Lanercoft. 
 
 Century XIV. 
 
 Byblesworth Walter de. Rolle Richard, hermit of 
 Gower John. F. Hampole. 
 
 Langetoft Piers, or Peter, Roteland Hugh de. F, 
 
 de. F, Strode Ralph. 
 
 Century XV. 
 
 Kenton Nicholas. Ramfey W. 
 
 Lylye William. Skel ton John. 
 
 Century XVI. ^ 
 
 Aldrich Robert, bifhop of Brown Thomas, prebendary 
 
 Carlile. of Weftminfler. 
 
 Allen Nicholas. Brownfword (or Brun- 
 
 Ammon Andrew. fuerd) John. 
 
 Bales Peter. Buggans. 
 
 Barnam Thomas. Camden William. 
 
 Bell David. Campian Thomas. 
 
 Bett Richard. Carleton George. 
 
 * Moft of thefe are nothing more than the writeei s of com- 
 mendatory verfees. 
 
POETS, NATIVES OF ENGLELAND. "^'401 
 
 Carr Nicholas, Novo-caS' 
 trenjis. 
 
 Carlifle Christopher. 
 
 Chaloner fir Thomas. 
 
 Chaterton George. 
 
 Cole William. 
 
 Con liable John. 
 
 Cook Anthony. 
 
 Cook John. 
 
 Copland Robert. F. 
 
 Cox Leonard. 
 
 Dastyn John. 
 
 Delen Walter, 
 
 Denifot Nicholas. 
 
 Dethick Henry. 
 
 Doyley Thomas, JSL D. 
 
 Drant Thomas. 
 
 Duke Gilbert. 
 
 Eedes Richard. 
 
 Etherege George. 
 
 Fitzgeffrey Charles. 
 
 Fletewood William, re- 
 corder of London. 
 
 Garband John. 
 
 Grant Edward. 
 
 Grimoald Nicholas. 
 
 Haddon Walter. 
 
 Harvey Gabriel. 
 
 Hawgh Walter. 
 Hegatt William. 
 Herd John. 
 Higgins John. 
 Hbker John. 
 Holland Henry. 
 Humphreys Lawrence. 
 Hunsdon P. 
 
 Johnfon Christopher, 3 J. D. 
 Jones Philip. 
 Kervile Nicholas. 
 Latewar Richard. 
 Leland John. 
 Lewis Geoffrey. 
 Lily William. 
 . Limbert Stephen. 
 Maister William. 
 Moore Robert. 
 More fir Thomas. 
 Mulcaster Richard. 
 Nevyl Alexander. 
 Newton Theodore. 
 Newton Thomas. 
 Nightingale Thomas. 
 Norden John. 
 Nowell Alexander. 
 Ocland Christopher. 
 Owen Robert. 
 
402* POETS, NATIVES OF ENGLELAND 
 
 Parkliurll John, billiop of 
 
 Norwich. 
 Peacham Henry. 
 Pembridge Thomas. 
 Percyvall Richard. 
 Redman John. 
 Rightwich John. 
 Sadler Andrew. 
 Sadler John. 
 Seton John. 
 Smith Gervafe. 
 Stanihurft Richard. 
 Taverner Richard. 
 
 Traheron Bartholomew. 
 Twifl Robert. 
 Vaughan William. 
 Waddington Rodolph- 
 Wallfell Samuel. 
 Ward William. 
 Watfon Thomas. 
 Whitynton Robert. 
 Wickham William, 
 Willey Richard. 
 Wilfon Thomas. 
 Withye William. 
 Wysdome Robert. 
 
( 403 ) 
 
 CORRECTIONS 
 
 AND 
 
 ADDITIONAL NOTES. 
 
 Page 19, Notef. Chatterton mud be acquited as to 
 a part of this anecdote, which he appears to have met 
 with in Fullers Church- history y page 152 : <^ I finde," 
 fays he, << this Chaucer fined in the Temple two {hil- 
 lings, for ftriking a Franciscan frier in Fleet ftreet." 
 The blow and the fine muft, therefor, reft upon the au- 
 thority of that ecclefiastical historian, til << the records'* 
 of the <* Inner-Temple*' are produce'd j though the 
 motives for the asfaulf and battery muft, necesfaryly, 
 be attributeed to tTie fabricator of Rowley. 
 
 ^ « 
 
 P. 25, N.f. The Speculum meditantisy which neither 
 Stow nor Tyrwhitt ever faw, appears, from mister El- 
 lises Specimens y to be '^ a moral traft in French verfe, in 
 which the felicities of conjugal fidelity are illustrated by 
 examples feledted from various authors." Warton fays 
 it is in ten books, and refers to Bib, Bod. NE. F. 8. 9, 
 and MSS. Fairfax, 3. See, likewife, Tanners Bib, 
 Britan. Hiher. voce GOWER. 
 
 D d z' 
 
404 CORRECTIONS AND 
 
 This ancient poete, as he is characterife'd by Putten- 
 ham, ** faving for his good and grave moralities, had 
 nothing in him highly to be commended, for his verfe 
 was homely, and without good meafure, his wordes 
 flrained much deale out of the French writers, his ryme 
 wrefled, and in his inventions fmali fubtillitie/' 
 
 P. 29, N.* *^ In a fomer-feafon nvhen fette ivas the 
 funne,'^~\ Such is the reading of the firft line in all the 
 printed copys, to which, as wel as to fofte^ that of the 
 manufcripts, Warton and Percy prefer hot, without re- 
 garding the poets rule, " to have tkre [or four'l ivordes in 
 every verfe which beginne with fome one letter J ^ The 
 three or four words thus distinguifh'd upon the prefent 
 occafion are fomer feafon, fette^ and funne. Sette, it muft 
 be allowed, is an unhapy epithet, which was, certainly, 
 never inferted by the authour, nor in any one of the 
 manufcripts, which, if not very ancient, are, at leafl, 
 very numerous ; all which, in fa6l, read/o/>5; a word, 
 which, though precedeed by the requifite letter, was, 
 moll probablely, eje6led by Crowley the printer, who 
 did not underfland its meaning, and injudiciously fub- 
 ftituteed fette^ which, at all events, begins with an /, 
 and was, apparently, the onely word, fo circumflance'd, 
 which he could meet with for that purpofe. Unfor- 
 tunately, for this verbal critick, his emendation is all- 
 together inconfiftent with the poets idea : for, if the 
 funne were Jette^ its heat would not be fo intolerable as to 
 force him to Jhope himfelf into Jliroubs oy Jhrouds as he " a 
 fhepe, were;'* and, indeed, he, exprefsly, tels us, it 
 was 
 
ADDITIONAL NOTES. 405 
 
 " On a Maye mornynge on Malverne-hylles,'' 
 that he met with this *' marveyloufe fweven :" 
 
 He ** was wery of wandrynge and wente" him " to 
 refte 
 
 Under a brode bank by a burn-fide. 
 
 Where as he'* laye and lened, and loked on the 
 water 
 
 He ^' flombred into a flepyng, it fwyzed fo mery.*' 
 The word, JoftCy however, as it is, apparently, the ori- 
 ginal, fo is it, likewife, in all probability, the authen- 
 tick and genuine w^ord, ufe'd by the authour himfelf ; 
 and fet-ms, 14ke many others, to have formerly had an 
 appofite fignification, not at prefent underftood. In an 
 ancient metrical romance, intitle'd The foivdon of Baby- 
 loyne, for fome years in the- posfesfion of the worthy doc- 
 tor Farmer, and disperfe'd along with the other curiofi- 
 tys of his invaluable and extenfive library, are the fol- 
 lowing lines : 
 
 ** In the femely fefon of the yere 
 
 Of softenesse of the sonne, 
 In the prymfauns of grene vere, 
 
 Whan floures fpryngyn and bygynne." 
 Softey after all, as well dLtfoftene/fe, may have been, at a 
 ftil earlyer period, corrupted from fome Saxon word 
 compofe'd of hot, with the prefixture of an /, and, in 
 order to prevent the junction of / and h, the interven- 
 tion of a If, fo that if the original word may be pre- 
 fumeM to have been writen, Jiuhote, a very good Saxon 
 word, it would, naturally, in procefs of time, be mol- 
 lify*d into fofte, as it very probablely be pronounce'd ; 
 of which kind of variation there are innumerable in- 
 
406 CORRECTIONS AND 
 
 ftancees. This, it mull be admited, it little more than 
 
 the -petitio f>rincipi:j or beging of the question ; but they 
 who are the mofl converfant with old Engleifh manu- 
 fcripts, which have not yet made their way through the 
 prefs, are, at the fame time, the moft likely to allow, 
 that a lucky accident, in the courfe of their perufal, fre- 
 quently fupplys, if not an entire, or better word, at 
 leafl, its more genuine orthography, and perfpicuous 
 fignification : to which we fhal readyly leave it. 
 The poets fecond line is, 
 
 ** I fhope me mio fiirouhes, as i 2iJIiefe were.'* 
 Inflead of Jhroubes, and Jliepe, fome MSS. read the line 
 thus : 
 
 *^ And fhope me into a Jhroud as i a Jhepherd 
 were:" 
 fb that the true meaning may be, that he put on a frock, 
 orcoarfe garment, like 2ijhepherd, or hermit \ and the ra- 
 ther fo, as the fubfequent lines, ^' Went wyde in the 
 worlde, fe'c" and <* I was weary of wandringe, &'c." 
 do not very wel accord with the idea of his creeping into 
 Jhruhi or cavei (another fenfe of the woxdijhroudes) like a 
 /keep, 
 
 P. 32, N. There is a copy of the Manuel de fechees in 
 the Bodleian MS. Num. 4059, bound up with another 
 work of the fame bifhop. 
 
 P. 47. — '* fister to Richard lord Berners.*'] Whe- 
 ther this be true or not, certain it is that Bemers and 
 Barnes were one and the fame name ; Anflis, in an old 
 document, haveing " the lorde BarnelTe'* (I, 226). 
 
ADDITIONAL NOTES. 407 
 
 P. io6. Master Puttenham calls Skelton, *' a fharpe 
 fatirift, but with more railing and fcoffery than became 
 a poet.'* 
 
 P. 117. The initials J. A. probablely thofe of this 
 James Alke, are prefixed and fubfcribeM to *' A defiance 
 to K. A. [King Arthur] and his round table/' at the 
 end of Mufarum deliciay 1656 ; being the identical ballad 
 intended to have been fung by the mock minflrel de- 
 fcribe'd in Langhams letter from Killingworth, 1579; 
 begining *^ As it befell on a Pentecofl day. 
 
 P. 171. CLEVER WILLIAM, fchoolmaster, has 
 feveral verfify'd pasfagee's in his translation from the 
 Latin of Glaucuses- ** Knowledge for kings and a warn- 
 ing for fubje6ls/' 1576. 
 
 THE END. 
 
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