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
Navane'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 Epi-
grams, 150; specimens, 152-7
King and the Hermit, a metrical ro-
mance, 81
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
New year's address, by Churchyard, 259
Odes on a Country Life, 146; upon As-
Ogle, George, translator of the Basia, 95
Old Madrigals, 46, 386
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
Markham, Gervaise, 391-393.
Mary, Q. of Scots, her conspiracies, 141 Poets attacked by Gosson, 290
Poesy, nature and value of surveyed, 379
Maitland, Sir Richard, poems by,
18
114-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
Matravers, Lord, dedication to, 378
Maxwell, James, verses on Prince Henry,
30
May-games in Oxfordshire, 335
Merchant, his character, 271
Merchant Taylor's Hall, a triumph there,
359
Mercury, his character, 43
Meres, F. 2
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
Moral characters in a Mask, 342
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, 285
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
Romance and Minstrelsy, an Essay, 177 | Sylvester's Joshua, Miracle of the Peace,
Romances and legendary tales and ballads,
condemned, 372
Romanists, attacked, 174
Rosemary lane, 322
Rowicy's, W. Search for Money, 320
Roydon, M. author of verses, 2
Russell, Knt. Sir Will. dedication to,
170
Tarleton, a cock so named, Szo
Ten yeares travels by R. Flecknoe, 143 i
the letters analysed, 144-6
Thornton, Mrs. dedication to, 341
Thurlow, L. writes in the true spirit of
Spenser, 5
Toft's, R. Satires from Ariosto, 393
Rutland House, Davenant's entertainment Tower of persection, 67
at, 234
St. Albans, Chronicle of, 112-13
Saint George, address to the soldiers
armed under the ensign of, 171
St. Mary's Spittle, sermons preached
there, 173-176
Salisbury, Robert, Earl of, his life writ-
ten by R. Johnson, 208
Sanderson's Will, Graphice, 226
Search for Money, 320
Seraphine's sonnet translated, 8
Sermon, by Sir Thos. Elyot, 149
Scotland, Borde's picture of, 23
Scots poems, collections of, 302
Scott, Alex. poem by, 188
Scottish poets, list of early, 300
Scottish youth, address to, 293
Scylla and Carybdis, a poem, 46
Shakespeare's merit as a sonneteer,
Lucreece, 247
Toxophilus, first edition of, 206
Treatise of Recreations, 224
Trevisa, John, note upon, 109
Trifies, by T. Kendall, 154
Turtle Doues, pair of, by R. Greene,
Universities, address to, 161
Van Dort, anecdote of, 226
V. T. Latin verses by, 313
Vulcan, his attributes, 44
Waldron's Literary Museum, 38
Walker, Weston, and Wilcocks, a dia-
logue, 141
Wallys, John, inedited poem by, 133
Walter, Hen. VIII. 203
Walthal, T. dedication to, 340
Warwick, Guy, Earl of, fragments of a
romance, 268
Washbourne's Thomas, divine poems,45
Watson's collection of Scots poems 902
Thomas, Centurie of Love, 1;
Essay upon his Sonnets, 2; Specimen
of his Sonnets, 5
Weber's, Mr. Metrical romance of Sir
Cleges, completed, 17
Westmoreland, Earl of, lines by, 185
Sirith, Dame, lay of, 193; similar to Whetstone's George, censure of a loyal
story related by Caxton, 200
Sir Philip Sidney, 286; dedication to,
289
Sivqila, too good to be truc, 148
Skelton, John, portrait of, 389
Sonnets, by A. Hume, 297; by K.
James, 306
Sonnets, five, addressed to Wootton, 64
best English writers of, 17
Souldier, reputation of a, 170
Stanley, Thomas, the poct, 360; his
works, ib.; his pedigree, 361; errors
of former writers corrected, 362
Steevens, G. opinion examined, 2; note
upon R. Greene's Turtle doves, 210
Strange Horse-kace, by Deckar, 340
Strozza's verses translated, 16
Stryke partnere, a term of merriment, 90
subject, 140; reputation of a soldier,
170; verses by, 171
Willobie, Henry, the poet, some account
of, 241; his Avisa, 244; author's
passion for Avisa, 253
Wimbleton, Cecill, Viscount, his edi-
fice, 227
Wolsey, Cardinall, a favourable charac
ter of, 283
Wootton, five Sonnets addressed to, as
the spot of the Author's nativity, 64
Worde's, W. de, edition of the Chroni-
cles of England, 110-14
Wright's, A. Parnassus Biceps, 357
Wyat, Sir Thomas, Epitaph on, 310
Wynkyn de Worde, 219
Yonge's, N. Musica Transalpina, 386
Portrait of James Shirley, xi
John Skelton, 389
T. Bensley, Printer,
Bolt-court, Fleet-stret, London.
TY AND ALL OTHER IN
OFFICE, GOD GRAUNT THE IN-
crease of wisedome, with all thinges neces-
sary for preseruation of theyr estates.
Amen.
AMONGSTE the wise (right Honorable) whose sentences (for
the moste parte) tende either to teache the attayning of vertue
or eschuing of vice, Plotinus that wonderfull and excellent Plotinus.
Philosopher hath these wordes: The property of Temper-
aunce is to couet nothing which may be repented: not to
excede the bands of measure, & to kepe Desire vnder the
yoke of Reason. Whiche saying if it were so well knowen,
as it is nedefull; so well embraced, as is' wished; or so
surely fixed in minde, as it is printed in his workes: then
certis many Christians might by the instruction of an Ethnicke
Philosopher, shun great and daungerous perils. For to
couet without consideration, to passe the measure of his degree,
and to let will run at randon, is the only destruction of
all estates. Else howe were it possible, so many learned,
polliticke, wise, renoumed, valiaunt, and victorious personages,
might euer haue come to such vtter decay? For example, wee
haue Alexander the Great, Caesar, Pompey, Cyrus, Hannibal, Quintus
&c. All which (by desier of glorye) felte the reward of theire Curtius.
immoderate and insatiable lustes: for if Alexander had beene
content with Macedonie, or not beene pufte vp with pride after
his triumphes, hee had neuer beene so miserably poysoned. If
Caesar and Pompey had beene satisfied with theire victories, and
2 Will you that I rehearse, ib.
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