his viage beyonde the sea, clothed poorely as a pilgrim, asking his meat for God sake, the duke of Normandi tooke Alarde, Guycharde, and Richarde, and brought them with him to Charlemayne, which received them honourably, and tooke up his siege and went to Paris. But, whan he cam to the citie of Lege upon the river Meuze, he made Bayarde to be cast into it, with a milstone at the necke of him. But men sayen that Bayarde scaped out, and that he is alyve yet in the forest of Ardeyne." ALMANACKS. Foure great Lyers, striving who shall win the silver Whetstone. Also a Resolution to the countri-man, proving it utterly unlawfull to buye, or use our yeerly Prognostications. Written by W. P., &c. At London, Printed by Robert Walde-grave, n. d. B. L. Svo. 54 leaves. Under a humorous title this is a serious attack upon the makers of Almanacks, then most frequently called Prognostications, whom Dekker and others subsequently turned into ridicule. (Vide Dekker's Raven's Almanack, in this Catalogue). The "four great liars" are designated by W. P., under the initials B. F. T. and D; and he first shows their discordances by the juxtaposition of their predictions, and afterwards, under the title of "a Resolution to the countreyman," argues against the folly and impiety of such a pretended insight into the mysterious ways of Providence. Perhaps the most remarkable production of this kind is a tract published by William Paynter, (editor of the collection of novels called The Palace of Pleasure), under the title of Antiprognosticon. It is partly a translation from the Latin, and partly an original invective against the professors of the art of foretelling the events and prospects of the coming year. It was printed by Henry Sutton in 1560, 8vo., and is preceded by some verses by Paynter and by "Henry Bennet Calesian." Paynter's lines are curious from the mention they make of Archbishop Grindall, as a fellow-labourer in this undertaking, although he fell under Queen Elizabeth's displeasure in 1576 for favouring such supposed prophesies. It is not at all improbable that the initials W. P. in the title-page at the head of the present article are those of William Paynter, and that it was a renewed attack upon astrologers. ANAGRAMS. Anagrammata Regia. In Honorem Maximi et Mansuetissimi Regis Caroli conscripta. Quibus Heroica quædam subnectuntur. Opusculum Regiis Nuptiis destinatum. Nunc verò Auctoris opera auctum & emendatum. 1626. 4to. 60 leaves. This work is in Latin and English, and by an anagram upon the name of the author at the end, "I pen hony," we are led to suppose that it was John Peny, or perhaps Penny. By a chronogram at the foot of the title, it appears that it was printed in 1626, and by another on Sign. E. 3, that it was published by William Stansble: Extant ista in ædibus Gulielmi Stansble. [Forsan Stansbie]. The words auctum et emendatum seem to show that it had appeared earlier, but no other copy even of this edition has occurred. It is a very elaborate and tedious trifle, and could have had no sale, having been printed, probably, more for the gratification of the writer than of the reader. The first eighteen leaves are filled by complimentary anagrams to the king and to the principal nobility, followed by this address. "Typographus Lectori : Si placebunt quæ precedunt Anagrammata jucundissima, Auctoris Epigrammata tibi non invidebo." The epigrams are, however, far from meriting the praise thus bestowed upon the anagrams, and they are divided into Religiosa, Officiosa, and Jocosa: here the author makes the ordinary excuse for publication, viz. that he sent them to the press propiorum amicorum jussu. The religious epigrams are all of a pious character: those in the next division of the work are addressed to persons in office. One or two specimens of the epigrammata jocosa, most of which are in Latin only, others in Latin and English, and some in English, may be given: The following has often been repeated since, and probably it was not new in 1626. Of a Schoolemaster and his Scholler. "A Pedant ask'd a Puny rife and bold, In a hard frost, the Latin word for cold. Ile tell you out of hand, (quoth he) for loe, I have it at my fingers' ends, you know." The two following are interesting on account of the poets to whom they relate. Hall was made Bishop of Exeter in 1627. "To Dr. Hall Deane of Worcester. “You in high straines have sung Gods Heavenly graces, Sweet Hall, what Hallelujahs shall you sing In Heavens high Quire to the eternall King." "Samuel Daniel. "Diceris egregius duplici tu nomine Vates; Non tibi lasciva est Pagina, Vita proba est." ANATOMY OF THE WORLD.-An Anatomy of the World. Wherein by occasion of the untimely death of Mistris Elizabeth Drury, the frailty and the decay of this whole world is represented. London, Printed for Samuel Macham, &c. An. Dom. 1611. 8vo. 15 leaves. This is an earlier edition than any hitherto discovered, that of 1612 being the first mentioned by bibliographers, and it was published anonymously in four distinct impressions, viz., of 1611, 1612, 1621, and 1625, before it was included in the 4to volume of the Poems of Dr. Donne, printed in 1633, after his death. The subject of the tribute before us was the daughter of Sir Robert Drury, with whom Donne for some time resided, and whom he accompanied to Paris. In a letter dated from Paris, 14th April, 1612, Donne mentions that the "Anatomy of the World" had been printed. He was at one period, before his marriage with the daughter of Sir George C Moore, Secretary to Lord Chancellor Ellesmere; and some documents subscribed by Donne are preserved among the MSS. at Bridgewater House; but It is remarkable that this small volume is the only one of his authorship now in the Library. It was probably presented by him to his noble patron, and it might be printed in 1611 merely for private distribution. Dr. Doune was a poet before he had attained his twentieth year; for although his Satires are not known to have been printed until 1633, some of them were written forty years earlier, and a MS. copy dated 1593 is preserved in the British Museum-[MS. Harl. 5110.] From what he says in one of his letters dated in 1614, and from other circumstances, it may be doubted whether a now lost edition of his Satires was not then privately circulated. ARNOLD'S CHRONICLE.-In this boke is conteined ye names of the baylyfs Custose mayers and sherefs of ye cyte of london from the tyme of kynge Richard the fyrst, & also the artycles of ye Chartour & lybartyes of the same Cyte, And of the chartour and lybartyes of England, with other dyuers maters good and necessary for euery cytezen to vnderstond and knowe. n. d. B. L. fol. 133 leaves. This is the edition of Arnold's Chronicle, which, though without his name, came from the press of Peter Treveris, who is supposed to have been the first printer who carried on business in Southwark. Dr. Dibdin does not seem to have made up his mind whether this edition by Treveris was the earliest, or whether it had been previously printed by John Doesborowe at Antwerp; for, on p. 34, of Vol. iii. of his "Typographical Antiquities," he speaks of Doesborowe's edition as "the second," and inserts, in a note on p. 35, the statement of the late Mr. Douce, that Treveris printed the second edition. There is little doubt that the latter is the correct conclusion. It is only from similarity of type that it has been decided to be the work of Treveris, and not of Pynson, as Ames supposed. The date has been fixed in 1521, from the following paragraph at the end of the list of the mayors and sheriffs of London: "This yere Galy halfpens was banysshed out of england, & whete was worthe xviij. s. a quarter. And this yere one Luther was accowntyd an eretyck and on sonday that was the xii day of Maij, in the presence of the lorde legate and many other bysshops and lordys of england, the sayd Luther was openly declared an heretyck at powlys crosse and all his bokes burnyd." On Sign. O. vi., commences the celebrated ballad of "The Not-browne Mayde," which Prior modernized, and which, with many inaccuracies, was inserted by Capel in his Prolusions, p. 3. Mr. Douce superintended a reprint of the whole chronicle from the edition of Doesborowe, but, even he, with all his exactness, made some trifling mistakes when giving the ballad. In the edition by Treveris, it frequently varies typographically from the impression by Doesborowe. Capel divided the lines differently, but, in the original, and in the second edition before us, they stand precisely in this manner: "Be it right or wrog, these me amōg, on woma do complayne Laboureth for nought, for from her tought. he is a banysshed man." This form of stanza is peculiar to this ballad, and no other poem which exactly adopts it is known. It seems agreed that "The Nut-brown Maid" is not older than the beginning of the sixteenth century, though Hearne, in one of his letters, printed in Restituta, i, p. 70, would carry it back to the time of Henry V., and Dr. Percy, (Reliques, ii, p 28, Edit. 1812), to the early part of the reign of Henry VII. ARTHUR.-The storye of the most noble and worthy Kynge Arthur, the which was the fyrst of the worthyes Chrysten, and also of hys noble and valyaunt knyghtes of the rounde Table. Newly imprynted and corrected. Imprynted at London by Thomas East. n. d. B. L. fol. 307 leaves. A rare edition of the Mort Arthur, which work came originally from the press of Caxton in 1485. East's impression is without date, the Colophon running thus: "Imprinted at London, by Thomas East dwelling betweene Paules wharfe and Baynardes Castell," and it differs, as far as the text is concerned, in no material respect from the reprint previously made by William Copland from the text of Caxton: some of the wood cuts, which are placed at the head of every book, are also identical, and must have devolved into the hands of East; but others vary rather in design than in subject. On the title-page is a wood cut representing the conflict between St. George and the Dragon, but here the Knight of Cappadocia is made to pass for King Arthur. A reduced |