be able to instruct thy selfe and others; but by practising as thou ought, thou shalt finde setled happinesse. Let the example of others be thy instruction, to flye that euill which hath beene their ouerthrow, and to embrace that good which was their aduancement. Be thankfull first to God, then to the Author, and lastly to thy Country-man, who for thy sake without any other recompence, hath taken the paines in most exquisite manner, to bee thy interpreter. Vale."

Then the argument of the whole worke, and the reasons why Lodouico Ariosto writ these Seauen Satyres." Some tales are introduced in the Satires as the well known one of Hans Carvels ring in the fifth Satire. The following is from the third.

William surnamed Rufus, when in hand,
He swaid the english scepter at command,
It chan't a wealthy Abby voide did fall,
Whose great demeanes being rich in generall,
Many came to the king the same to buy,
(For he did money loue exceedingly.)

Now when Church-chapmen all were com'd vnto him,
And with their vtmost summes did amply woo him,
He spide a Monke stood halfe behinde the dore,
Whom straight he cald, and bade him come before
Imagining he came as did the rest,

With full filde bagges, to make his offer best :
And therefore thus the King most gra iously
Speakes to the Monke: "Tell me man willingly,
What thou wilt giue; great the revenues are,
And thou free leaue to offer for thy share."
"My gracious Lord (the old man did reply)
I came not hither this rich place to buy:
For I am poore: or had I wealth at will,
I would not load my conscience with such ill,
As to ingrosse Church-liuings aboue other,
Making me rich by robbing of my brother.
Besides I were an asse to vndertake,

To lay too great a burthen on my backe:
Which to support I know I am vņfit,
Both for my learning, industry and wit
Onely I hither came in humble wise,

To beg of him which to this place should rise,
Thai I this petty fauour might but haue,

To be his priest, his Beadse-man or his slaue."
The King who heard this olde man gratiously,
Aud finding in him trae humility,

Whence

Whence his rare vertues sprang so curiously,
That they exceld his ranke in dignity:
Freely and franckly without recompence,
Gaue him this Abbey and dispatcht him thence.

J. H.

To Correspondents.

We feel particularly indebted to the Gentleman who furnished several volumes for inspection, through the medium of Mr. Triphook. The not giving excerpts from his interesting Collection of Manuscript Poems, has arisen from not being able to appropriate so large a space as the nature of the Col lection was entitled to.

An intelligent friend suggests, that at p. 103, 1. 5, for bowgyt we should read bowgty, i. e. booty; and at p. 115, 1. 6 from the bottom, thoil means toil.

Acheley, T. author of verses, I
Alcida, Greene's Metamorphosis, 379
Amadis of Greece, 157

Angler, a limb of an upright man, 293
Anglo Saxon poem on the Battle of
Finsborough, 261

Anonymous verses from Bannatyne MS.
186, 190, 191

Answer to Lincolnshire rebels, 281
Apollonius Tyrius, 105

Caveat for common Cursetors, 291
Caxton's edition of Lord Rivers's Dictes
and Sayings, 237; Cato Magnus, 323
Cecill, Sir William, dedication to, 141
Censure of a loyal Subject, by G. Whet-
stone, 140

Chapman, George, author of funeral song
on P. Henry, 36

Charles, prince, infant of Albion, dedica-
tion to, 30

Archery, Ded cation to first edit. of Toxo- Chaunt of R. Sheale, the minstrel, 100;

philus, 206

Aristophanes, a character, 234
Ariosto's Satires, by R. Toft. 393
Arthur of Brytayn, 2 28; various edition,
of, 229-30; extracts from, 231-3,
Artists temp. of Charles,enumerated, 227
Ascham, Roger, First edition of his
Toxophilus, 206; dedication, ib.
Astrea, Ode by Sylvester, 221
Babylon, a poem from Du Bartus, 382
Bacon, Sir Nich, dedication to, 59
Bannatyne Manuscript, 183
Banquet on baptism of P. Henry, 315
Barrist's, W. triumph of Mars, 359
Barners, Boucher Lord, romance of Ar-
thur of Brytayn,228, Prologueto, 231
Bartholomeus de proprietatibus rerum,
MS. 107

Batman's, Stephen, Golden book of
Leaden Gods, 40; address before Bar-
tholomeus, 110

Bion, description of, 26
Peauties of Great Britain, address to, 159
Belman of London, by Decker, 293
Berkley, the Lords, patrons of revisa,

108-10

Bernardino's tale, by R. Greene, 164
Bibliographia Scotica, by Ritson, 301
Blunt, N. an upright man, 252
Bodleian MSS. of Dr. Rawlinson, 73
Book of St. Albans, 112—13,
Borde, Andrew, 19; some account of,
20; his portrait of no authority, 21
Breton's N. poem upon the lunging of a
blessed heart, 356
Buc, Sir Geo. eclogue by, 365
Bucke's, G. verses before Watson's

nets, I

his farewell, 105
Chess, 149

Chevy Chase, author of ascertained, 97
Christian prayers, printed by John Day,

209

Chronicles of England, a metrical one
described, 76-80; printed by W. de
Wo: d, 1528, descrived, 110-14
Chronicle of John Harding, 132
Churchyard's, T. Fortunate Farewell, 345
Churchyard's, Thomas, pleasant conceit
penned in verse, 259
Cleges, Sir, MS. poem, 17
Cocks and Cock-fighting, 318
Colbrand's battle with Guy of Warwick,
269

Commendation of Cock-fighting, 318
Contemplation of Sinners, 219
Coppin, family of, possessors of Wootton,

62

Cotton, Charles, verses by, 137
Country life, Ode, 146

Cypress garland, by Hugh Hollaud, 168
Dan Hew, of Lincoln, 179
AAONIE ПOATEтEDANOZ, by Sir
Geo. Buc, 365

Davenant's Entertainment at Rutland
House, 234

Declaration against the Scots, 285
Dedication to those that lack money, 321
Deckar's Strange Horse-Race, 340
Denne, W. author of a Mask, 344
Dering's Works, 371; preface thereto,
curious, ib.

Derby, Countess of, an epilogue upon her
death, 98
Son-Dice,play, 149

Buckingham, D. of, dedication to, 168
Caledonian Muse, 302
Capgrave's lives of the Saints, 354
Carey, Lord Henry, dedication to, 40
Carey, Robert, dedication to, 160
Carmichaell, W. verses by, 184
Catalogue of early Scottish poets, 300
Catherine, Q. & Hen. VIll., metrical
description of what passed at Oxford
on their divorce, 201-5

VOL. IV.

Dictes and sayings, 237

Digges, Leonard, author of Treatise upon
the Science of Numbers, 52
Digges, Sir Dudley, account of, 60

, "Dudley, a great scholar, 61;
list of celebrated names in the family, 63
➖➖, Thomas, enlarged the treatise
upon numbers, 52; author of Panto-
metria, 52; account of, 53; epitaph,
54; dedications to, and extracts from,
his treatises, 57-60

Diogenes,

Fusty bandyas, term of merriment, ge
Gain in Loss poem by Prestwich, 123
Gascony described, 26

Genings, N. a counnterfiet crank, 291
Genius, as anciently represented, 44
the German Giant described, 276

Dudley, Earl of Leicester, dedications to, Gorgas, Sir Arthur, verses by, 136

Durer's, Albert, designs copied for Chris- Graphice, by W. Sanderson, 220

Newcastle, Marquis of, dedication and
verses to, 143

Johnson's, R. remembrance, &c. of Ro- Newton, Thomas, 41

bert E. of Salisbury, 208
Jupiter, his attributes, 42
Kemp, Lady, dedication to, 341
Kendal's, Timothy, Flowers of
grams, 150; specimens, 152-7
King and the Hermit, a metrical ro-
mance, 81

New year's address, by Churchyard, 259
Odes on a Country Life, 146; upon As-
trea, 221

Epi-Ogle, George, translator of the Basia, 95
Old Madrigals, 46, 386

Morley's Henry Lord, address to his pos- R. H. Author of our Lady's Return to