Chases, and Warrens by South Trent, and Lorde Chamberlaine to her Highnesse; Thomas Palfryman, one of the Gentlemen of her Maiestie's Chappel, wisheth the continuaunce alwayes of the grace & fauour of Almightie God, health, long life, and the increase of much honor." The other prefixtures are an address to the reader, the lives of Moses and of David, and one page entitled " of Heauenlie Theologie and of the onely necessitie thereof, to eternall saluation, &c. As I haue heeretofore, [says the author] with right glad endeuour bestowed my simple trauell and diligence, in the studies of morall philosophie, & haue gathered thereout together at times not onely for my selfe, but for the delight also of others, the most apte (and as they seemed) diuine, vertuous, pleasant and quicke sentences (intituled the treatise of Moral Philosophie,) tending in effect for sundrie purposes, to the vpholding, or fauouring at the leaste of vertue, and to haue vice in vtter detestation, &c.-So I haue nowapplied my selfe to be studious in Heauenlie Philosophie;-I haue not therefore ouerslipped the order of the other treatise: but according to the verie effect or pith of the said worke,-the whole booke conteyning, or diuided into 10 partes, haue set in the end of euery chapiter, the summe thereof in meeter; and for the most parte, an exhortation according to the matter preceding: and thereunto also a prayer for the atteynement of God's fauour, to obserue in conuersation the effecte of the same."

The verses at the conclusion of each chapter, and other pieces, must add the author's name to the list of poets of that period. From the chapter on Sloth are the

following

following lines as "needefull trauell auoydeth shame

and euill life."

"If thou be borne the ground to till,
or else to labour with thine hand:
T' auoyde all shame and life moste yll,
seeke then not idly for to stand.

But see thou plowe, both plant, and sowe,
and doe thy needefull businesse:

As one that doth his duetie knowe,

of will, God's lawes not to transgresse.

For what doest thou, if thou desire,
to be a lorde or gentleman;
But still to heape on thee God's ire,
and shewe thy selfe no Christian.

For Christe's sheepe doe heare his voyce,
which biddeth worke moste busily;
Sixe dayes, and in the seuenth reioyce,

and where neede is, to giue freely."

As a specimen of the prose dissertations the following extract is from the one "of Vertue," and contains an extraordinary description of the spiritual man, anđ seems framed for a member now bawling to the modern sectarists.

"There hathe beene some, as nowe doubtlesse there are also some, which so are be deawed with the sweete droppes of God's grace, that they are euer studious to knowe the dignitie and woorthinesse of thinges pertinent both to bodie and soule: howe muche they shoulde be esteemed, trulye valued, or had in regard of vs: which laboureth with diligence (touching himself and others) to sifte, to trie, and truely to finde out what

is to bee of duetie embraced, and what also moste gladly to bee lefte and refused. And all suche men for their vertue, for their will to studie and Christian practise, are worthily called spirituall menne. For wee must knowe, that an husbandman, a farmer, a poore labouringe man, a weauer, a carrman, a taylour, a glouer, a tanner, a currier, a shoomaker, a carpenter, a wheerie man, or mariner, and all others of more inferiour state, without bothe learning, degrees of schoole, or taking orders vppon them may become spiritual: when a maister of arte, a bacheler or doctour of diuinitie, an archedeacon, a deane; yea, either a bishop, or archebishoppe, lacking the spirit of God, and destitute of true mortification, with all their highe cunning, shewe of great learning, holinesse and dignitie may be temporall and not spirituall: for so muche, as the true definition of a spirituall man, is in deede to bee such a one, in whome not the power of fleshe and bloude, but where the minde and spirite chiefely beareth rule. Likewise also the temporall man is hee, in whome the present time of this transitorie life, beareth with mishappe, the moste greate and forceable swaye."

In describing persons who are daily incurring divine vengeance by their acts, they are supposed to "haue more in reuerence the shewes of triumphes and vanities, and to reade of them, then reuerently to reade the histories of Moses, Genesis, and suche like: they esteeme more of Tullie's Offices, then of Saint Paule's Epistles of a tale of Bocace, yea or Robin Whoode, then the historie of the Bible: suche count but as fables, the holie mysteries of Christian religion: yea, they make Christe him selfe and his gospell to serue onely for ciuil policie: there commeth not amisse

vnto them any religion: and in time of them both they be open promoters: and againe, in apt places for their purpose, but gybers & priuie mockers of bothe: as in these verses following, is very aptly and truely set forth, by a right vertuous, wel learned, and godlie gentleman, lately in office about the Prince. *

Now newe, nowe olde, nowe bothe, nowe neither:

To serue the worlde's course, they care not with whether." In the tenth and last book are

"Sentences in meeter, tending to sundrie purposes. Against the wicked.

"The Lord of hostes most stronge, a right man is of warre,
Who soon confoundes his foes, that vaine and wicked arre.
His friendes he doth preserue, and shield them from their foe,
But such as them afflicte, he sharply workth their woe.
Beholde the Egyptian king, full proude with all his power,
In raging seas were cast, which them did streight deuower."
Conduit street.
J. H.

ART. XI. [Diuine Meditations. Title wanting. Colophon.] Imprinted at London by Henry Bynneman, for William Norton. Anno 1572. Printed in eights. 91 leaves.

By the Epistle" to the Righte Worshipful, Maistresse Isabel Harington, one of the Gentlewomen of the Queene's Maiestie's most Honorable Priuie Chamber, Thomas Paulfreyman, hir dayly orator, wisheth (with continuance) the increase of God's eternal grace and fauour." This address occupies twelve pages, and

Probably George Ferrars.

concludes

concludes" to the ende therefore, this small and moste simple volume, may (vnder youre godly protection) gather the rather some estimation and credite, & passe forth for good to the vse of the godly, I moste humbly beseeche your Worship, so to accepte it in the simplicitie therof, and graunt thereunto your Christian furtherance, that some good for Godde's glory, may growe thereby to some-I shall (as of bounden duetie, for this and for other the like causes deserved) most humbly pray for you, that God in mercie may euer blesse, both you, your moste worthy beloued in Christe, your ofspring, and whole familie. Your humble and daily oratoure, Thomas Paulfreyman.”

"An exhortation to the Christen reader," extending through seventeen leaves, is succeeded by the work as "a deuout meditation of the godly Christian, with a briefe confession and prayer."

The volume is neatly printed in a fancy border. Herbert, p. 878, has "Diuine meditations of the milde Christia," 1574, an imperfect notice from a catalogue, which may be the same work mis-dated.

Conduit street.

J. H.

ART. XII. A treatise against ivdicial astrologie Dedicated to the Right Honorable Sir Thomas Egerton, Knight, Lord Keeper of the Great Seale, and one of her Maiestie's most Honorable Priuie Councell. VVritten by Iohn Chamber, one of the Prebendaries of her Maiestie's Free Chappell of VVindsor, and Fellow of Eaton College. [A pair of compasses on an ornamented oval, scroll without