Stercora; dicet ubi est tandem qui viderat illum?
Atque volans non visus abest ut visio noctis.
Et vidisse sat est oculo qui vidit, et ultra
Heu locus ipsius non contemplabitur ipsum,
Ossa juventutis vitiis implentur iniquæ
Cumque illo remanent misero sociata sepulchro.
O quam dulce suo scelus ipsius ore fuisset!
Et quam sub linguâ tacite celaverat illud!
Atque epulæ illius conversæ in viscera ventris
Illic instanter factæ lethale venenum.
Evomuisset opes male quas surrepserat omnes,
Nam de ventre ejus Deus ipse extraxerat illas.
Aspidis hic suxit cerebrum, quoque vipera lingua
Occidit, hic nunquam rivos spectabit amœnos
Mellis torrentes dulcis, butyrique placentis.
Exitus hic malus est hominis, qui bella movebat
In cœlum, DOMINUMQUE SUUM REGEMQUE beatum.
Hi, quamvis titulis speciosis fallere mentes
Mortales possunt, quamvis imponere turbis
Simplicibus valeant verbis, et pectore ficto,

Non tamen illi oculum qui conspicit omnia fallent
Atherie patris, qui cernens abdita rerum
Intima rimatur clausi penetralia cordis.

Qui capite obliquo incedunt, qui lumine terram
Figunt, qui longo ducunt suspiria tractu,
Quique preces longas bulbis de naribus efflant,
Atque supercilio breviores ferre capillos
Gaudent, sed ficto simulant pia pectora vultu,
Qui facie gestant agnas, sed corde leones :
Hi quamvis fallant homines mendacibus umbris,
Et ficta pietate colant, et Sabbata servant,
Non tamen illudent oculis vigilantis Olympi.
Tempus erit, quando Dominus qui pectora cuncta
Scrutatur, vultus simulatos deteget omnes,
Et manifestabit secreta latentia cordis,

Tune

Tunc deturbabit cunctos ad Tartara fictos
Torquendos sine fine pice, et nigrantibus undis
Cocyti, et facibus furiarum ardentibus intus."

Such are the contents of this little volume. I am afraid the author's English poetry has still less claims to praise, if we may judge from the only specimen in my power, which is copied from a mouldering tombstone under the communion rails of my little church of Denton. It is the epitaph on my remote predeces

"Sir Anthony Perceval, Knight, 12 Jan. 1646, Aged about 45, and Dame Gertrude,

his Lady Deceased May 12, 1647, aged 33; from hence Expect the speedy return of their blessed Saviour." "Behold the ashes of a worthy Knight,

Which make for thee, O Reader, a glasse light.
Hee had not been confined to this grave,

If wit or prudence him from thence could save.
But these his vertues only were the shade
Of heavenly grace that flowers in their fade.

And thou in Christ thy choicest giftes must raise

Who

with vertue's highest spheare,

And where both wits and beauties were abundant

E'en there for wit and beauty was transcendant.

But this her graces above all did beare,

That they were sublimated in God's feare,
Who loving her before the world began
Ordained her a spouse for 's only sonne.

She was daughter of Sir Henry Gibbs, of Co. Warwick, Bart.
Covered by the Communion rails.

O blest

O blest beyond the reach of human chance,
Whom neither Order nor yet Ordinance
Can hurt or reach, or Envy can annoye,

Or vote them from the pleasures they enjoye.
in vain,

And Death
For these your Master

with him to raigne.*

TESTE HEN. OXINDEN
De Barham."

ART. VI. The Whole Workes of Samuel Daniel, Esquire, in Poetrie. London: Printed by Nicholas Okes for Simon Waterson, and are to be sold at his shoppe in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of the Crowne, 1623. 4to. pp. 231 and 479.

The first series of pages contains the poem of The Civil Wars between the Houses of York and Lancaster, in 8 books. † In the second series of pages are several additional title-pages, viz.

1. A Letter from Octavia to Marcus Antonius. London, &c. as before. Here, at p. 15, occurs A Funeral Poem on the Death of the Earl of Devonshire.

• Sir Anthony Percival (who appears by his arms to have been of the Egmont family) left a son and heir, John Percival, Esq. who married a coheir of the family of Monins of Waldershare, (now the seat of Lord Guilford.) He sold the Denton estate about the time of the Restoration. Sir Anthony's first wife, Alice Kempe, has a monument in St. James's church, Dover, 1637, (see Topogr. I. 125) where a funeral sermon was preached on the occasion by the learned John Reading, for whose numerous publications see Wood's Ath. II. 407.—Sir Anthony was at that time Comptroller of the Customs at Dover. He was knighted by Charles I. on Dec. 8, 1641. The four first books were published 1595, 4to.; a fifth book was added 1599; a sixth, 1602; and the two last 16c9.

2. At p. 27, A Panegyrike Congratulatorie, delivered to the King's most excellent Majestie at Burleigh Harrington in Rutlandshire. By Samuel Daniel. Also certaine Epistles,* with a Defence of Ryme heretofore written, and now published by the Author.

Carmen amat, quisquis carmine digna gerit.

London, &c. as before. The Epistles are to Sir Thomas Egerton, Lord Keeper; to Lord Henry Howard; to Lady Margaret, Countess of Cumberland; to Lady Lucy, Countess of Bedford; to Lady Anne Clifford; and to Henry Wrothesley, Earl of Southampton. Then follows "The passion of a distressed man, who being in a tempest on the sea, and having in his boat two women, of whom he loved the one that disdained him, and scorned the other, who affected him, was by commandement from Neptune, to cast out one of them to appease the rage of the tempest, but which was referred to his own choice," two pages.

3. At page 79, Musophilus, containing a General Defence of Learning.

4. At p. 113 The Complaint of Rosamond. † At p. 149 commence the Sonnets, called Delia. After p. 180, A Description of Beauty, translated out of Marino, three pages. Then an address To the Angell Spirit of the most excellent Sir Phillip Sidney, three pages. Then, A Letter written to a worthy Countess, three pages of prose. Then, "To the Right Rev. James Montague, Bishop of Winchester, a poetical epistle, three pages. All these pages are unnumbered.

Published separately. London, 1603.

+First published 1592, 4to.-1594, 12mo.

Daniel's first publication was "The Tract of Paulus Jovius, 1585."

5. At

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5. At p. 181, The Tragedy of Philotas. London: Printed &c. *

6. At p. 257, Hymen's Triumph. A Pastorall Tragicomedie, presented at the Queene's Court in the Strand, at her Majestie's magnificent entertainement of the King's most excellent Majesty, being at the nuptials of the Lord Roxborough.

7. At p. 325, The Queene's Arcadia. A Pastorall Trage-Comedie, presented to her Majesty and her Ladies by the University of Oxford in Christ's Church in Aug. 1605. †

8. At p. 403, The vision of the Twelve Goddesses, presented in a Maske the eight of January, at Hampton Court by the Queene's most excellent Majesty and her Ladies. I

9. At p. 421, The Tragedie of Cleopatra.

Ætas prima canat veneres, postrema tumultus.

ART. VII. Poems by Michael Drayton, Esquyer. Collected into one volume. Newly corrected MDCXXXVII. London: Printed for John Smethwick. In an engraved title-page by Marshall, with Drayton's head at top. pp. 487. 12mo.

These poems consist of, 1. The Barons' Wars. 2. England's Heroical Epistles. 3. The Legend of Robert Duke of Normandie. 4. The Legend of Matilda. 5. The Legend of Pierce Gaveston. 6. The Legend of Great Cromwell. 7. Idea, containing sixtythree Sonnets. Why the historical poem of the Battle of Agincourt is left out, does not appear.

First published 1602, 12m0.-1605, 4to.-1611, 12m0.
Published following year, 16c6, 4to.—1611, 12m0.

Printed by Waterson, 1594, 12mo.-1599, 4to.-1611, 12mo.

ART.