34. Infants unborne should scape the horne,
By being murther'd then-a;

Which they were sure if life indure,
To have when they were men-a.

35. The precise frie, that now mounts high,
Full lowe we cast their lot-a,

And all that thinke it sin to drinke,
We doom'd unto the pot-a.

36. The parliament is fully bent,

To roote up bishops cleane-a;

To raze their fort and spoile their sport,
Wee did intend and meane-a.

57. With many things, confusion bringes,
To kingdoms in an hour-a

To burn up tillage, sack and pillage,
And handsome maides deflour-a.

38. But Argus eye did soon espy

What we so much did trust-a;

And to our shame and love of fame

Our plot laid in the dust-a.

39. And had we staid, I am affraid,

That their Briarian hand-a,

Had struct us dead (who now are fled)

And ceised all our land-a.

40. But thanks to heaven, three of the seven,
That were the plotter's chiefe-a,

Have led to France their wits a dance
To finde out a reliefe-a.

41. But Davenant shakes and buttons makes,
As strongly with his breech-a;

As hee ere long did with bis tongue,

Make many a bombast speech-a. 42. But yet we hope hee 'le 'scape the rope, That now doth him so fright a;

The parliament being content,

That he this fact should write-a. Finis.

From Paris, June 16, 1641.

1. S. K"

From

From a quarto tract of four leaves, the above is copied verbatim. The same rhyming measure was used in the ballad upon the Campaign of Sir John Suckling. The above is not without value, as far as such authority can be admitted. Joining in the plot with Sir William D'Avenant, and himself being alive at Paris in June 1641, are new biographical anecdotes, His death was given as upon May 7, 164, some late writers say 1641, in the 28th, what by their own computation was the 29th year of his age, being, as they supposed, born in April 1613, until Mr. Lysons proved the inaccuracy from the parish register, where it is entered of Feb. 10, 1608-9.

That research is tedious work is no excuse for inattentive errors. Men that live in such turbulent periods as Suckling did, and take a prominent part in the national spectacle, should have their entrances and exits marked with accuracy, as forming no mean portion in the outline of their public character.

J. H.

ART. XII. The copie of a letter sent from the roaring boyes in Elixium; to the two arrant Knights of the Grape, in Limbo, Alderman Abel and M. Kilvert, the two great projectors for wine; and to the rest of the worshipfull brotherhood of that Patent. Brought over lately by Quart pot, an ancient servant to Bacchus, whom for a long time they had most cruelly rackt, but hope shortly to be restored to his ancient liberties. Whereunto is added, the Oration which Bacchus made to his subjects, in the lower world; publishea for the satisfaction

and benefit of his subjects here. [Two wood-cut oval portraits of Abel and Kilvert, with incidental accompaniments.] Brought over by the same Messenger. 1641. 4to. four leaves.

From the link of continuation created by the title, as brought from France with the last article, a brief notice of this tract seemed necessary. Seven pages of

poetry, of lines introductory, the superscription, letter, and oration, commence thus:

"Bacchus into Elizium tooke his way,
And to his crew proclaym'd a holy day;
And taking up his horne that held a tonne
Of right Canary, drunk't off, and begunne
To wind it so loud that Elizium

Rang with the noyes, and every blade did come;
First came the poets, of each land, and tooke
Their place in order, learned Virgill struck

In for the first; Ben Iohnson cast a glout,
And swore a mighty oath hee'd pluck him out,
And wallowing towards him with a cup of wine,
He did so rattle him with Catiline,

That had not Horace him appeas'd, 'tis said
He had throwne great Sejanus at his head.".

J. H.

ART. XIII. A true reporte of the death & martyrdome of M. Campion Iesuite and preiste & M. Sherwin, & M. Bryan preistes at Tiborne the first of December 1581. Observid and written by a Catholike preist, which was present therat. Wherunto is annexid certayne verses made by sundrie

persons.

persons. [Printer's device I. H. S. with a cross above; a heart pierced with three nails beneath; the whole in a double oval, and the inner irradiated]. Apoca. 7. These are they that came out of gret' tribulation, and haue washed their stoles and made them white in the bloud of the Lambe. 16mo. 26 leaves.

It is probable this anonymous tract was printed at Doway; the device in the title appears similar to one used at that place in 1581.

By an address "to the reader," the work is declared to be a relation in answer to the slaunder spread abroad "to diminish the honour of their resolute departure & martirdome, as that M. Campion was timerous and fearfull, & that M. Sherwin died a Protestant.-And here by the way I might point out M. Elmer's folly, as not one of the least, who, notwithstanding the knowen lerning of M. Campion (he himselfe a man of knowen wisedome, & iudgement,) was not ashamed, at a sessions at Newgate, vpon the apparance of the Cutler of Holborne, to say openly, that M. Campion was vnlerned, and that a note booke or two of his felowes being taken from him he had nothing in him, as it was manifest in his disputations in the tower.Muche more M. Elmer spake that day, as he thought, to the discredite of M. Campion, but I pray God giue him better consideration both of this and of further iustice, and so shall the poore poulter at his nexte complaynt be heard, euen of himself, beeing as he himself said a Bishop, a Lorde, and of some credite." Farewell."

This true report" might be written by Robert

Parsons,

Parsons, whose pen was repeatedly employed by the Catholics on similar defences. He describes himself as a priest and an eye witness of the execution. "Since which time, vpon request of some of my fellows and brethren, I wrote those dealings, to answere and satisfie our aduersaries generally, to content and comfort our persecuted brethren specially, and, in part, to diminishe those sinister rumors which are raysed against these good men by a notable and most infamous libel, entituled, An Aduertisement and defence for truth against her backbyters, and specially against the whispering fauorers and colorers of Campions, and the rest of his confederates treasons, published there, and openly read, printed abrode without authoritie of seen and alowed, a pamphlet, false, impudent, and farssed with lyes and vntruthes, only to colour and shadowe with some face of equitie those strange proceedinges."

Edmund Campion is described as a "Jesuite & preist, a man reputed and taken, and by diuers his coequals plainlye confessed the flower of Oxforde for that time he studied there, and since abrode in foreine countries one in whom our countrey hath had great honor, the frute of his lerning, vertue, and rare giftes, whiche as they were in his childhood here among vs wonderful, so they were abrode, as in Italy, Germany, and Bohemia, an honour to our country, a glasse and mirror, a light and lanterne, a paterne and example to youth, to age, to lerned, to vnlerned, to religious, and to the laytie of al sort, state, & condition of modestie, grauitie, eloquence, knowledge, vertu and pietie, of which iust and due commendation some of our aduersaries can giue true and certeyn testimonie, who after diligent sifting and enquiring of his life, maners, and demeinor,