be able to instruct thy selfe and others; but by practising as thou ought, thou shalt finde setled happinesse. Let the example of others be thy instruction, to flye that euill which hath beene their ouerthrow, and to embrace that good which was their aduancement. Be thankfull first to God, then to the Author, and lastly to thy Country-man, who for thy sake without any other recompence, hath taken the paines in most exquisite manner, to bee thy interpreter. Vale."
Then the argument of the whole worke, and the reasons why Lodouico Ariosto writ these Seauen Satyres." Some tales are introduced in the Satires as the well known one of Hans Carvels ring in the fifth Satire. The following is from the third.
William surnamed Rufus, when in hand, He swaid the english scepter at command, It chan't a wealthy Abby voide did fall, Whose great demeanes being rich in generall, Many came to the king the same to buy, (For he did money loue exceedingly.)
Now when Church-chapmen all were com'd vnto him, And with their vtmost summes did amply woo him, He spide a Monke stood halfe behinde the dore, Whom straight he cald, and bade him come before Imagining he came as did the rest,
With full filde bagges, to make his offer best : And therefore thus the King most gra iously Speakes to the Monke: "Tell me man willingly, What thou wilt giue; great the revenues are, And thou free leaue to offer for thy share." "My gracious Lord (the old man did reply) I came not hither this rich place to buy: For I am poore: or had I wealth at will, I would not load my conscience with such ill, As to ingrosse Church-liuings aboue other, Making me rich by robbing of my brother. Besides I were an asse to vndertake,
To lay too great a burthen on my backe: Which to support I know I am vņfit, Both for my learning, industry and wit Onely I hither came in humble wise,
To beg of him which to this place should rise, Thai I this petty fauour might but haue,
To be his priest, his Beadse-man or his slaue." The King who heard this olde man gratiously, Aud finding in him trae humility,
Whence his rare vertues sprang so curiously, That they exceld his ranke in dignity: Freely and franckly without recompence, Gaue him this Abbey and dispatcht him thence.
We feel particularly indebted to the Gentleman who furnished several volumes for inspection, through the medium of Mr. Triphook. The not giving excerpts from his interesting Collection of Manuscript Poems, has arisen from not being able to appropriate so large a space as the nature of the Col lection was entitled to.
An intelligent friend suggests, that at p. 103, 1. 5, for bowgyt we should read bowgty, i. e. booty; and at p. 115, 1. 6 from the bottom, thoil means toil.
Acheley, T. author of verses, I Alcida, Greene's Metamorphosis, 379 Amadis of Greece, 157
Angler, a limb of an upright man, 293 Anglo Saxon poem on the Battle of Finsborough, 261
Anonymous verses from Bannatyne MS. 186, 190, 191
Answer to Lincolnshire rebels, 281 Apollonius Tyrius, 105
Caveat for common Cursetors, 291 Caxton's edition of Lord Rivers's Dictes and Sayings, 237; Cato Magnus, 323 Cecill, Sir William, dedication to, 141 Censure of a loyal Subject, by G. Whet- stone, 140
Chapman, George, author of funeral song on P. Henry, 36
Charles, prince, infant of Albion, dedica- tion to, 30
Archery, Ded cation to first edit. of Toxo- Chaunt of R. Sheale, the minstrel, 100;
Aristophanes, a character, 234 Ariosto's Satires, by R. Toft. 393 Arthur of Brytayn, 2 28; various edition, of, 229-30; extracts from, 231-3, Artists temp. of Charles,enumerated, 227 Ascham, Roger, First edition of his Toxophilus, 206; dedication, ib. Astrea, Ode by Sylvester, 221 Babylon, a poem from Du Bartus, 382 Bacon, Sir Nich, dedication to, 59 Bannatyne Manuscript, 183 Banquet on baptism of P. Henry, 315 Barrist's, W. triumph of Mars, 359 Barners, Boucher Lord, romance of Ar- thur of Brytayn,228, Prologueto, 231 Bartholomeus de proprietatibus rerum, MS. 107
Batman's, Stephen, Golden book of Leaden Gods, 40; address before Bar- tholomeus, 110
Bion, description of, 26 Peauties of Great Britain, address to, 159 Belman of London, by Decker, 293 Berkley, the Lords, patrons of revisa,
Bernardino's tale, by R. Greene, 164 Bibliographia Scotica, by Ritson, 301 Blunt, N. an upright man, 252 Bodleian MSS. of Dr. Rawlinson, 73 Book of St. Albans, 112—13, Borde, Andrew, 19; some account of, 20; his portrait of no authority, 21 Breton's N. poem upon the lunging of a blessed heart, 356 Buc, Sir Geo. eclogue by, 365 Bucke's, G. verses before Watson's
his farewell, 105 Chess, 149
Chevy Chase, author of ascertained, 97 Christian prayers, printed by John Day,
Chronicles of England, a metrical one described, 76-80; printed by W. de Wo: d, 1528, descrived, 110-14 Chronicle of John Harding, 132 Churchyard's, T. Fortunate Farewell, 345 Churchyard's, Thomas, pleasant conceit penned in verse, 259 Cleges, Sir, MS. poem, 17 Cocks and Cock-fighting, 318 Colbrand's battle with Guy of Warwick, 269
Commendation of Cock-fighting, 318 Contemplation of Sinners, 219 Coppin, family of, possessors of Wootton,
Cotton, Charles, verses by, 137 Country life, Ode, 146
Cypress garland, by Hugh Hollaud, 168 Dan Hew, of Lincoln, 179 AAONIE ПOATEтEDANOZ, by Sir Geo. Buc, 365
Davenant's Entertainment at Rutland House, 234
Declaration against the Scots, 285 Dedication to those that lack money, 321 Deckar's Strange Horse-Race, 340 Denne, W. author of a Mask, 344 Dering's Works, 371; preface thereto, curious, ib.
Derby, Countess of, an epilogue upon her death, 98 Son-Dice,play, 149
Buckingham, D. of, dedication to, 168 Caledonian Muse, 302 Capgrave's lives of the Saints, 354 Carey, Lord Henry, dedication to, 40 Carey, Robert, dedication to, 160 Carmichaell, W. verses by, 184 Catalogue of early Scottish poets, 300 Catherine, Q. & Hen. VIll., metrical description of what passed at Oxford on their divorce, 201-5
Dictes and sayings, 237
Digges, Leonard, author of Treatise upon the Science of Numbers, 52 Digges, Sir Dudley, account of, 60
, "Dudley, a great scholar, 61; list of celebrated names in the family, 63 ➖➖, Thomas, enlarged the treatise upon numbers, 52; author of Panto- metria, 52; account of, 53; epitaph, 54; dedications to, and extracts from, his treatises, 57-60
Diogenes, a character, 234 Dives et pauper, printed by Pynson, 129 Divine poems, by Washbourne, 45 Dorrell, Hadrian, edited Willobre's Avisa, 244; preface to same, 244-7 Downhalus, C. wrote an ode to Muses, I
Fusty bandyas, term of merriment, ge Gain in Loss poem by Prestwich, 123 Gascony described, 26
Genings, N. a counnterfiet crank, 291 Genius, as anciently represented, 44 the German Giant described, 276
Drama, Heywood's play of Johan the husband, &c. 118-22; Hippolitus, from Seneca by Prestwich, 122; Gen- tleness and nobility, 270; unlawfulness of plays, 225; Shepherd Holiday, 341 Drant's, Thomas, sermons, 173 Drummood, Margaret, anonymous verses probably addressed to, 186
Gentleness and nobility, by John Hey. wood, 270
Giant, address of one, 276 Glanville Bartholomew, 106; verses by, 108
God's omnipotency, verses upon, 297 Goodly Gallery of pleasant prospects, by W. Fulce, 384
Golden Book of the Leaden Gods, 40
Dudley, Earl of Leicester, dedications to, Gorgas, Sir Arthur, verses by, 136
Dumb Lover, poem, 125
Dunbar, W. verses by, 192
Gosson's, Stephen, Ephemerides of Phialo, 289
Grafton, W. owner of Our Lady, 50
Durer's, Albert, designs copied for Chris- Graphice, by W. Sanderson, 220
tian prayers, by Day, 209
Dwarf, gift to Hu son the, 278 Echo, verses replving by, 9; upon, 262 Eclogue, by Sir Geo. Buc, 365 Ekatomalia, or passionate Centurie of Love, by T. Watson, I
Elyot, Knight, Sir Thomas, sermon on the Mortality of man, 149 Elizabeth, princess, infant of Albion, dedication to, 30 Elizabeth, Q.383; mercy to the Scotish Queen, 141
England, Chronicles of, 76-80, 110- 14, 132
Ephemerides of Phialo, by S. Gosson, 289 Epigrams by S. Kendall, 154-7 Epitaph on Sir T. Wyatt, 316 Essex, Earl of, poem to, 345 Evans, W. the great porter, address to, 279 Excellent poem by N. Breton, 356 Farewell to folly, by Greene, 159
Farewell of the Minstrels, 105 Falkland, Lord, fugitive poetry by, 66 verses on Henry Lord
Hastings, 135 Fenner, Dudley, upen recreations, 224 Field pastimes, 313-14 Finsborough, Battle of, an Anglo-Saxon poem, 261; translated into Latin, 263 Finsburg, fight of, poem from the Anglo- Saxon, 288
Flecknoe's, R. travels, 143 Fiora, description of, 44 Flowers of Epigrams, by T. Kendall, 150 Forrest's, W. poem upon Hen. VIII. and Q. Catherine, 200
Fortunate Farewell, by Churchyard, 345 Fragments of a romance upon Guy, Earl of Warwick, 268
Fulce's, W. Goudly Gallery, 384
Great Britain's Mourning Garment, 37 Greene's, Robert, pair of Turtle Doves, 210; extraces from, 211-19
Farewel to folly, 159; address to the Universities, 161
―, Planetomachia, 338 Alcida, 579; dedication, ib.; the au thor's character lately reconsidered, 381 Grisildy, Q Katherine, 203 Guy, E. of Warwick, 268 Harding, J. Chronicle by, 232 Harman's, T. Caveat for Cuisitors, 292 Hawks, from Norway, in estimation, 26 Heneage, Sir T. dedication to, 173 Henry, Prince of Scotland, his baptism, 313
Elegy upon, 30; an Epicede, or Funeral Soug upon, 36; Madrigal upon, 49
the VIII. Dedication to, 206 dedication to, 22; and Q. Catherine, what passed at Oxford on their divorce, 200 Heywood's, John, play of Johan the bus band, &c. 118-24
Gentilness and no-
bility, 270 Higgons, Sir Thomas, lines by, 136 Hippolitus, by Prestwich, 122 Holland, Hugh, 36; notices of himself and family, 168; his Cypress Ga land, ib.
Holbein, Hans, his book of crayons, 228 Honour in perfection, by G. M. 390 Hudson's Jeffery, New Yeare's Gift 278 Huggarde's, Miles, pathway to the tower of perfection, 67
Hume's, Alez. sacred songs, 294 Huntingdon's, Countess, Epitaph, 65 Hymns, by A. Hume, 294 Hypnerotomachia, translation of, 285
John, K. of France, opinion of the English council, 172 Ignis fatuus, a light explained, 385 Irish-man, description of, 28
Italian Tailor and his boy, taken from Straparola, 180
Jews, singular character of, 283
Narcissus and Echo, their tale, 378 Navarre's, Q. of, Tales, 366 Nicholas, Friar, 201
Norway, Borde's, description of, 26 Nova legenda anglie, 354
Newcastle, Marquis of, dedication and verses to, 143
Johnson's, R. remembrance, &c. of Ro- Newton, Thomas, 41
bert E. of Salisbury, 208 Jupiter, his attributes, 42 Kemp, Lady, dedication to, 341 Kendal's, Timothy, Flowers of grams, 150; specimens, 152-7 King and the Hermit, a metrical ro- mance, 81
New year's address, by Churchyard, 259 Odes on a Country Life, 146; upon As- trea, 221
Epi-Ogle, George, translator of the Basia, 95 Old Madrigals, 46, 386
King Lear, of the original story, 106 Knight, character of a, 271 Knowledge, A. Borde's Introduction to,19 Lachryma Musarum, by R. B. described, 134-8
Lamentation upon rebellion, 284 Lay of Dame Sirith, 193 Leaden Gods, golden book of, 40
Lee Priory, elegant specimens of the press there, noticed, 381
Leycester, Dudley Earl of, dedication to 150
Lincolnshire traitors answered, 281 Lisle, W. translator of Babylon, 382 London, described, 235; full of taverns, 283; Bellman of, 293 Longland, John, bishop of Lincoln, 201 Lupton's, Thomas, Sivqila, 148 Mars, his triumph, 359
Markham, Gervaise, 391–393. Mary, Q. of Scots, her conspiracies, 141 Maitland, Sir Richard, poems by, 114- 18
Matravers, Lord, dedication to, 378 Maxwell, James, verses on Prince Henry,
Mery play of Johan the husband, &c. 118 Metrical romance, fragment of, 81 Minimus, Lord, called Little Jeffery, his New year's gift, 278 Ministrelsy, Essay upon, 177
Money, Search for, 320
Moral characters in a Mask, 342
Old Meg of Herefordshire, 320 Orford's, Lord, plot of the Mysterious Mother, where obtained from, 367 Our Lady's return to England, 50 Paget, Knt. Sir Will, 207
Parnassus Biceps, by A. Wright, 357 Parvula's, Lady, gift to the dwarf, 278 Palace of Pleasure, 182
Pathway to the tower of perfection, ac- count of, 67-73
Petrarch's sonnets, translated by Watson,6 Philosopher, his address, 274 Philosopher's Game, author of, 385 Philosophy, Hist. of, by J. Stanley, 360 Pipers censured, 290
Planetomachia, by R. Greene, 338 Players of Enterludes wore long cloaks, 27 dangerous people, 290 Ploughman superior to either Merchant or Knight, 272
Poesy, nature and value of surveyed, 379 Poets attacked by Gosson, 290 Polichronicon, by W. de Worde, 348 , by P. Treveris, 349 --, Prohemy to, 350 Pope's apparel domestical, 45 Poverty, holy, 129-30 Prayer to our Saviour, in verse, 139 Prestwich, Edmund, account of his poems, 122-
Price, Daniel, Sermons upon. Prince Henry 33.
Prohemy, by Caxton, 350 Prologues, spoken by persons in long cloaks, 27
Prymer of Salisbury, by Copland, 138 Rawlinson's,Dr. MSS. in the Bodleian,73 Rebellion, lamentation of, 2,85 Redshanks in Ireland, 29
Remedy for Sedition, 282
Morley's Henry Lord, address to his pos- R. H. Author of our Lady's Return to
Morning, description of, 287
Morris dancers, ancient, 327; modern,
335; speech in rhyme by, 333 Mysterious Mother, note upon the story of, 182; origin of the plot, 367 Mythomystes, or survey of true poetry,
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