in number; 7 others are placed on the cornice of the basement, and a map of South America fills a recess beneath it.

On the left is the burning of the Armada thus inscribed, "In the straits of Gibraltar was the invincible navy pretended, prevented and burned by Drake, 1587;" and on the right, " Albion's comfort, Iberia's terror. The famous overthrow of the Spanish navy the 30th year of the Q. R." Both these plates are neatly engraved.

"To the honourable Reverend and Right Worshipful Sir John Branston Knight Lord chief Justice of his Majesty's Bench Sir William Jones Sir George Crooke Sir Robert BarcKley Knights the learned Judges of that Court.

"Licence me (I beseech your Reverend fatherhoods) with the contrite penitent: Ingeniously to acknowledge my error, which is over much presumption in undertaking, more in publishing, but most in thus presenting this my collection: But withal to appeal from the bar of rigour, to the board of favour, and thereat to obtain this extenuation of censure; that being it was begun with a good intent, prosecuted to a seeming good end, and is now in all befitting humbleness presented to procure protection, that I may pass without publick reprehension: And sithence words and writing are not real according as they are spoke or writ, but as they are approved by

others:

others: Let noble dispositions but make a favourable exposition of what is done: And then I am confident I shall untouched pass the pikes of scorn and reproof; In earnest expectation whereof, humble and hearty prayers to God, the giver of all good gifts for your long lives, in health and hearts ease here, and sempiternal happiness hereafter, shall not want daily to be poured out by him that hourly rests

"Your Lordships reallest in all service and duty "JOHN TRUSSELL."

"April 24. 1635 Perlegi hoc opus Hystoricum duobus voluminibus comprehensum, cui titulus, A continuation of the collection of the history of England, &c. quod quidem in toto continet folia 418. aut circiter, in quibus nihil reperio sanæ doctrinæ, aut bonis moribus contrarium, quo minùs cum utilitate publica imprimi possit: Sub ea tamen conditione, ut si non intra triennium typis mandetur hæc licentia sit omnino irrita.

"GULIELMUS HAYWOOD CAPELL. dom. "R. R. P. Archiep. Cant."

Milton's Lycidas, 1637.

"Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past,
That shrunk thy streams; Return Sicilian Muse,
And call the Vales, and bid them hither cast
Their Bells, and Flourets of a thousand hues.

VOL. III.

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Ye

Ye Valleys low where the mild whispers use,
Of shades and wanton winds, and gushing brooks,
On whose fresh lap the swart Star sparely looks,
Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes,
That on the green terf suck the honied showres,
And purple all the ground with vernal flowres
Bring the rathe Primrose that forsaken dies,
The tufted Crow-toe, and pale Gessamine,
The White Pink, and the Pansie freakt with jeat,
The Musk-rose, and the well attir'd Woodbine,
With Cowslips wan that hang the pensive head,
And every flower that sad embroidery wears:
Bid Amarantus all his beauty shed,

And Daffadillies fill their Cups with tears,
To strew the Laureat Herse where Lycid lies."

"Recreations with the Muses by William earl of Sterline 1637." The border surrounding this title is remarkably laboured, ingenious, and, in some parts, elegant. Fourteen stanzas are addressed to his Sacred Majesty: the following is the

last:

"Vnto the Ocean of thy worth I send

Those runnels, rising from a rash attempt;
Not that I to augment that depth pretend,
Which Heavens from all necessitie exempt

The

The Gods small gifts of zealous mindes commend,
While Hecatombes are holden in contempt:
So (Sir) I offer at your vertues shrine

This little incense, or this smoke of mine."

Beneath are extracts from complimentary lines to the author:

"Well may the programme of thy Tragicke stage Invite the curious pompe-expecting eyes

To gaze on present shewes of passed age,

Which just desert Monarchicke dare baptize," &c. S. Robert Ayton.

And

Whom Sophocles, Euripides have song,

schylus in stately Tragicke tune:

Yet none of all hath so divinely done

As matchlesse Menstrie in his native tongue,

Thus Darius Ghost seemes glad now to be so,
Triumpht on twise by Alexanders two."

Jo. Murray.

"Du Bartas, his Divine weeks and works with a complete collection of all the other most delightful works translated and written by that famous Philomusus Joshuah Sylvester Gent: 1641."

This book seems to be the very extreme and essence of the prevailing customs of compliment

ing and recommending authors in the reign of James I., and many years after. The variety it offers requires illustration; and particularly as it makes a surprising contrast to the present simple mode of sending works to their fate. Indeed, a modern reviewer would have expended all his ire ere he had demolished the pallisades and fascines, and Master Sylvester must have escaped through the exhausted state of the critic.

We have, in the first place, a portrait of Sylvester by Cornelius v. Dalen, with six well written lines, by John Vicars; and an engraved title-page, with globes and compartments, from Scripture subjects. The typographical part begins with Anagrammata Regia: Regi. Jacobus Stuart: Juste Scrutabo.

In this he sports with the words, "A just master," till he concludes James to be one, and declares his readinesse to serve him justly: two other addresses in French and Italian verse follow. He then proceeds with five folio pages of verses, or "Corona Dedicatoria;" each containing two copies: printed in the form of pedestals, and including the name of a muse in the plinth, thus:

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