printed various poems, including some or all of his Satires, which Freeman complains were too brief. 66 "Epigram 84. To John Dunne. Thy Storme describ'd hath set thy name afloate; "The Storme," in the edition of 1633, p. 56, is dedicated "to Mr. Christopher Brooke," and it is immediately followed by "The Calme." The Satires contain many proofs that they were written while Elizabeth was on the throne. In a copy of the impression of 1633, now before us, the blanks are filled up in a hand-writing of about the time. I. 37. The remaining five pieces are only found in this volume.]-The reader may like to see a specimen of Daniel's subsequently excluded poems: one sonnet runs thus : "The slie Inchanter, when to worke his will, ; And secret wrong, on some forespoken wight, Naught could, save this, my sweetest faire suffice We are not sure whether the sprightly lines here imputed to the Earl of Oxford have ever been reprinted in modern times (we suspect that they have been), but we add them by way of illustration. This was the Earl of Oxford who had put the affront upon Sir Philip Sidney he died in 1604. We divide the lines exactly as they stand in the original copy of 1591. "Faction that ever dwelles in Court where wit excelles hath set defiance : Fortune and Love have sworne, that they were never borne Cupid, which doth aspire to be God of desire, sweares he gives lawes; That where his arrowes hit, some joy, some sorrow it, Fortune sweares weakest hearts, (the bookes of Cupids arts) Sensles themselves shall prove venter hath place in love, This discord is begot Atheists that honor not: Nature thought good Fortune should ever dwell in Court where wits excell; So to the wood went I, with Love to live and die, Experience of my youth made me thinke humble Truth My Sainte I keepe to mee, and Joane her selfe is shee, She doth onely move passions of love with love. Fortune, adieu ! Finis, E. O." L. 43. An office which we know that Ferrers had filled under Edw. VI. and his royal father.]-See respecting George Ferrers and his employments, Hist. Engl. Dram. Poetry and the Stage, Vol I. p. 151, &c. I. 47. The Encomion of Lady Pecunia.]—In giving the title of "Barnfield's Encomion of Lady Pecunia," the words "Horace. By Richard Barnfield, Graduate in Oxford,' have by a strange accident been omitted. It may be questioned whether John Jaggard were brother or son to William Jaggard : there was an Isaac Jaggard, who followed the business of & stationer about the same date. L. 50. He mentions a second book assigned to him.]—The full title of “Orpheus his Journey to Hell." is this-"Orpheus, his Journey to Hell, and his Musicke to the Ghosts for the regaining of faire Eurydice, his Love and new spoused Wife. By R B." 4to. 1595. We cannot say that the "music to the ghosts" is very seductive, and his song before Pluto and Proserpine is not much better, each stanza ending with Quod Amor vincit omnia. We quote a stanza, specially addressed to Pluto : "Thou great Commaunder of this Court, To whom so manie soules resort, When pale-fac'd death gins stop their breath, Quod Amor vincit omnia." I. 52. We believe the above to be unique.]-Playford's " Pleasant Musical Companion," 1701, supplies us with two Bartholomew Fair songs, shewing the nature of some of the sights and entertainments there nearly two centuries ago. The earliest of these is called "The Second Part of Bartholomew Fair," and the music to it was by the famous Dr. John Blow. It runs as follows: "Here are the rarities of the whole fair! Pimperle-Pimp, and the wise Dancing Mare. Heres valiant St. George and the Dragon, a farce, A girl of fifteen with strange moles on her Here is Vienna besieg'd, a rare thing, And here is Punchinello, shown thrice to the King. Ladies mask'd to the Cloysters repair, But there will be no raffling-a pox take the Mayor !" This proves that at the commencement of the eighteenth century masked Come buy my nuts and damsons, my burgamy pear! Here's Dives and Lazarus and the World's Creation! To-ta, to-ta-tot goes the little penny trumpet ! Sound, Trumpet, sound! A silver spoon and fork : Come, here's your dainty Pig and Pork !" Although it has no relation to Bartholomew Fair, we cannot refuse a place to the following bacchanalian Catch, "words by Mr. Otway," which may, however, have been elsewhere printed : Would you know how we meet o'er our jolly full bowls, As we mingle our liquors we mingle our souls, The sweet melts the sharp, and the kind sooths the strong, Love only remains, our unquenchable fire." I. 53. It happened that Drake died off Portobello.]-Several pieces were published on the death of Sir Francis Drake; but the most popular, as well as the best, was by Charles Fitzgeffrey, under the title "Sir Francis Drake, his honorable Life's Commendation, and his tragicall Death's Lamentation," of which two editions appeared in 1596 in the second edition it is stated that it had been "newly printed with additions," the additions being to the commendatory poems. The work has been reprinted in modern times, but very unsatisfactorily, because not only is the spelling of nearly every word altered, but some are totally misrepresented; as, for instance, "all" is changed to that, “ lightend" to lighted, when the poet's meaning is enlightened," and even the rhyme is sometimes deserted: when Fitzgeffrey wrote and printed, "For he that sings of matchlesse Drake hath neede To have all Helicon within his braine," the printer altered "neede" to new, making nonsense of the passage, and leaving the worde "reede," at the close of the preceding line, without any rhyme. These errors are near the commencement, but we have not had patience to go through the whole of the 101 pages, of which the reprint consists. As Fitzgeffrey was a very ambitious, vigorous, and often striking poet, we will quote, in his own words, his address to the great dramatists of his day, in which he calls upon them to abandon inferior subjects, and to celebrate the name and achievements of Drake. "O you, the quaint Tragedians of our times, Whose statelie shanks embuskend by the Muses 46 While you with golden chaines of well-tun'd songes Linke all mens eares and teares unto your tongues: Cease to eternize in your marble verse The fals of fortune-tossed Venerists And straine your tragicke Muses to rehearse The high exploites of Jove-borne Martialists, That Fitzgeffrey had Shakespeare in his mind when he wrote the above is evidenced by the fact that he almost quotes one of our great dramatist's lines, (1 Henry IV. A. II. sc. 4) with the alteration of the word "floodhatches" for flood-gates. It is the earliest allusion to the play. I. 59. It does not belong to Nicholas Breton.]-It is but fair to the memory of that excellent antiquary, the Rev. Joseph Hunter, to say, that we 66 are not sure whether he was not the first to point out the fact that Nicholas Baxter was the author of the work entitled "Sir Philip Sidney's Ourania," 1606. We think that we confirmed his statement by the production of our volume, signed and corrected by Baxter, which we subsequently lent to him. I. 69. One of the writers in the Mirror for Magistrates.]-The fact is, that as early as 1578, Thomas Blenerhasset, or Blener Hasset, published his "second part" of the work, and we give the full title of this separate contribution to the same design: "The Seconde part of the Mirrour for Magistrates, conteining the falles of the infortunate Princes of this Lande. From the Conquest of Cæsar, unto the commyng of Duke William the Conquerour.-Imprinted by Richard Webster, Anno Domini, 1578. Goe straight and feare not." This motto is at the bottom of an architectural compartment; and the author's Epistle to his unnamed friend is dated 15th May, 1577. The work contains twelve Legends. I. 71. Such as Spenser, Constable, &c. were dead.]-This is a mistake as regards Constable, who did not die until after 1604, when he wrote to the Earl of Shrewsbury from the Tower. See Mr. W. C. Hazlitt's edit. of Constable's "Diana," 1859, p. xiv. II 73. A slip pasted over, on which is printed Ignoto.]-This was written about 1840; after which date the writer lent his copy of "England's Helicon," 1600; and the old paste having given way, the minute slip came off, and the book was returned without it, but the place where it, and others, were stuck on is clearly discernible. ¡ I. 76. King Richard's exclamation had been parodied by John Marston.]-He quotes it in one of his comedies; and in his "Parasitaster," 1606, he introduces another line from "Richard III." "Plots ha' you laid, inductions dangerous?" In the same comedy he again thus parodies Richard's exclamation, “ A foole, a foole! my coxcombe for a foole !" Here, too, we meet with a couplet that more than reminds us of the two lines in "The M. W. of W." A. II. sc. 2, "Love like a shadow flies, when substance love pursues, Marston's lines are, "So may we learn that nicer love's a shade; It follows fled, pursued flies as afraid." L. 76. Fenner's "England's Joy."]-Read Vennar's "England's Joy." See also Vol. II. p. 466. In this Vol. p. 88, Fenner's name is wrongly inserted: he had, in fact, no concern in "England's Joy ;" it belongs solely to Vennar or Vennard. I. 89. The only edition of this satirical poem mentioned by bibliographers is dated 1658.]-The edit. of 1624 is noticed by Mr. Bohn in his 2nd edit. of Lowndes B. M. p. 269, from the copy in the Bridgw. Catalogue. I. 103. His "Lamentation of Follie," printed by Edward Allde.]—It was reprinted by the Percy Society in 1840, with a more interesting, but not more curious ballad, entitled The Panges of Love and Lover's Fittes," which is quoted by Shakespeare in "Twelfth Night," and in "Romeo and Juliet." It is also mentioned in the old play, " The Triumphs of Love and "Knowe ye not how Troylus To slepe with him and graunt him rest, : I. 109. "The gardner hath her sickle sharpte."]-The figure, resembling a garden to a kingdom, will bring to mind A. III. sc. 4, of Shakespeare's "Richard II." I. 116. Row well, ye mariners.]-Regarding this tune, see Chappell's admirable work "Popular Music of the olden Time," pp. 712, 770. I. 117. Alcilia, Philoparthens Loving Folly.]-See also, respecting this work and the edition of 1613 (which we never saw until sometime after the appearance of the Bridgw. Catalogue), the Rev. T. Corser's valuable Collectanea Anglo-poetica, printed for the Chetham Society in 1860, p. 15. I. 120. Misirere Domine.]—Read Miserere Domine. I. 130. Nor doth the silver tongued Melicert.]-We may here notice that Melicertus is one of the heroes in R. Greene's "Menaphon," 1587: we never saw any edition of it earlier than 1589. I. 133. "A Myrrour for Man."]-In 1594, Churchyard published another work under a similar title, and of a similar character: he called it "The Mirror of Man, and manners of Men," and it was printed "by Arnold Hatfield for W. Holme." In it he refers to "a little booke almost fifty years ago made by me," of which we might suppose that that of 1594 was a reprint; but they are entirely different, and the "Mirror" is there succeeded by what is thus entitled, "Heere follows a glance, and dash with a pen On worlds great mischance, and maners of men." It was dedicated to Sir Robert Cecil, and is not by any means so offensive to the great, as the production under the same name printed in the reign of Edward VI. The method is the same, but the matter different, as may be seen by a brief quotation : "Who safely will goe, or surely would stand, Dwels in some low place, and walks on playne land. Great trees have weake bowes, that bends at each blast; Churchyard, like many other writers of that day, was apparently altogether careless of his concords. than I. 136. The following remarkable obituary.]—We may add a list of no fewer 18 "Epitaphs" upon different individuals, which Churchyard had written before 1580: it is taken from his "Pleasant Laborinth, called Churchyardes Chance framed in Fancies," published in that year: |