duced. Thus, in the copy before us, we meet with the following stanzas, which speak for themselves: they are numbered 37 and 38:

"But now more Angels then on Earth yet weare
Her golden impresse, haue to Heaven attended
Her Virgin-soule: now, now she sojornes there,
Tasting more joyes then may be comprehended.
Life she hath changde for life, (oh, countlesse gaine)
An earthlie rule for an eternall Raigne

"Such a Successor leaving in her stead,
So peerelesse worthie, and so Royall wise,
In him her vertues live, though she be dead:
Bounty and Zeale in him both soveranize.
To him alone Pecunia doth obay;

He ruling her that doth all others sway."

Barnfield proceeds in the same strain for three other stanzas. It is a very clever poem, and it is not surprising that it was popular, although no other copy of this edition is known, and those of 1598 are of the utmost rarity. The subsequent are four stanzas from an earlier part of "Lady Pecunia," numbered severally 16, 17, 18, and 19:

"But now unto her praise I will proceed,
Which is as ample as the world is wide.

What great Contentment doth her presence breed
In him that can his wealth with Wisdome guide.
She is the Soveraine Queene of all Delights:
For the Lawyer pleads, the Souldier fights.

"For her the Merchant ventures on the seas;

For her the Scholler studies at his booke;

For her the Usurer (with greater ease)
For silly fishes layes a silver hooke;

For her the Townsman leaves the country village;
For her the Plowman gives himselfe to tillage.

"For her the Gentleman doth raise his rentes;
For her the Servingman attends his mayster;
For her the curious head new toyes invents;
For her to sores the Surgeon layes his playster.
In fine for her each man in his Vocation
Applies himselfe in every sev'rall Nation.

"What can thy hart desire, but thou mayst have it,

If thou have ready money to disburse?
Then thanke thy Fortune that so freely gave it,

For of all friends the surest is thy Pursse.

Friends may prove fals and leave the in thy need,

But still thy purse will be thy friend indeed."

“Lady Pecunia” consists of 56 stanzas, followed by "the Authors Prayer to Pecunia," and by "The Combat betwixt Conscience and Covetousnesse in the minde of Man," a sort of Dialogue, in couplets, occupying four leaves. "The Complaint of Poetry," &c. (which in the copy of 1598 precedes "The Combat," &c.) is in 45 stanzas, concluding with " A comparison of the Life of Man," in seven lines. On the last page is the following remarkable "Remembrance of some English Poets," viz., Spenser, Daniel, Drayton, and Shake

These lines vary slightly in the two editions of 1598 and 1605. The whole work is introduced by eight dedicatory lines, not addressed to any particular person, and by two pages of prose "to the gentlemen Readers," in which

Barnfield mentions his Cynthia. In the Epistle before that poem, printed in 1595, he speaks of his Affectionate Shepherd as his "first fruit." Cynthia was his second production; and the tract under review his third. It is now ascertained that Barnfield was not the author of Greene's Funerals, 1594, attributed to him by Ritson and others. In the introductory matter to his Cynthia, he mentions that a second book had been falsely assigned to him, probably referring to Orpheus his Journey to Hell, 1595, to which his initials R. B. seem to have been fraudulently affixed.

Barnfield's Praise of Money, in 1598, was, no doubt, the occasion of a poem called The Massacre of Money, which came out with the initials T. A. in 1602, 4to. It was perhaps by Thomas Achelly.

BASTARD, THOMAS.-Chrestoleros. Seven bookes of Epigrames written by T. B.

Hunc novere modum nostri servare libelli,

Parcere personis : dicere de vitiis.

Imprinted at London by Richard Bradocke for I. B. &c. 1598. 8vo. 95 leaves.

The dedication to Sir Charles Blunt, Lord Mountjoy, is subscribed at length "Thomas Bastard;" and, consistently with the motto on his title-page, the author says of his work, "I have taught Epigrams to speake chastlie; besides, I have acquainted them with more gravitie of sense, and barring them of their olde libertie, not onelie forbidden them to be personall, but turned all their bitternesse rather into sharpnesse." According to an Epigram upon Bastard by Sir John Harington, printed in 1615, but no doubt written soon after Chrestoleros first appeared, the author was at the time in orders, and credit is there given to him both for his design and execution.

"And this I note, your verses have intendment,
Still kept within the lists of good sobriety,

To work in men's ill manners good amendment."

These lines and others are addressed to “Master Bastard, a Minister, that made a pleasant Book of English Epigrams." In 1615, Bastard published some Sermons, he then having the living of Bear-Regis, Dorsetshire; but it seems that he subsequently was imprisoned for debt, and died in 1618. No doubt, he brought out his Chrestoleros in 1598, to relieve his present necessity, although he complains that he could find no printer who would give him a fair

price for it. The Epigram (21 Liber i), in which he mentions this fact, is one of the best in the volume.

"De Typographo.

"The Printer, when I askt a little summe,

Huckt with me for my booke and came not nere;

Ne could my reason or perswasion

Move him a whit, though all things now were deere.

Hath my conceipt no helpe to set it forth?

Are all things deere, and is wit nothing worth?"

The Epigrams extend over a considerable space of time, from about the year 1580 downwards; but there is some reason to think that Ritson erred when (Bibl. Poet. 126) he noticed an edition of 1584. None such is now known, and, if it ever existed, it could not have contained much that was printed in 1598, which refers to events long subsequent to 1584. It appears from Epigr. 4 of Liber ii, inscribed to Sir Henry Wotton, that Bastard resided and wrote chiefly in the country. Epigr. 6 of Liber vi is addressed—

"Ad Thomam Egerton, equitem, Custodem Magni Sigilli.

'Egerton, all the artes whom thou dost cherish

Sing to thy praises most melodiously,

And register thee to eternitie,

Forbidding thee, as thou dost them, to perish:

And artes praise the[e] and she which is above,

Whom thou above all artes dost so protect,

And for her sake all sciences respect;

Arts soveraigne mistresse, whom thy soule doth love.

Thus you as stars in earth and heaven shine,

Thou hers on earth, and she in heaven thine."

The following is addressed to a poet of considerable celebrity in his day, of whom we have no printed remains: it shows the nature of his productions. It is Epigr. 27 of Liber iii.

"Ad Richardum Eeds.

"Eeds, onely thou an Epigram dost season
With a sweete tast and relish of enditing;
With sharpes of sense and delicates of reason,
With salt of witt and wonderfull delighting;
For in my judgement him thou hast exprest
In whose sweet mouth hony did build her nest."

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BEAUMONT, FRANCIS.-Poems: by Francis Beaumont, Gent. viz. The Hermaphrodite, The Remedie of Love, Elegies, Sonnets, with other Poems. London, Printed by Richard Hodgkinson for W. W. and Laurence Blaikelocke &c. 1640. 4to. 39 leaves. The author died in March 1615-16, and the only poem in this volume printed in his life-time is "Salmaces & Hermaphroditus or the Hermaphrodite," which appeared in 1602. The rest were collected by Blakelocke the publisher, dedicated by him in verse to Robert Ducie, Esq. of Aston, Staffordshire, and preceded by lines "to the true Patronesse of all Poetrie, Caliope," signed F. B., perhaps to make it appear as if Beaumont had himself intended them for publication in this form. This is impossible, since the volume includes several pieces written by King, Randolph, &c.; and two others, upon indisputable evidence now first afforded, do not belong to Beaumont. The present copy was presented by Henry Lawes (the friend of Milton, and the composer of the music to Comus) to the Earl of Bridgewater, with the following inscription, which has been fastened within the cover.

For the Right Hoble John
Earl of Bidzwahr
much Honound Lond

my

After two Elegies, one "on the Lady Markham," the other anonymous,