delicacy; for in a very long prologue to this book he gives many exhortations to young women, in this manner: "Eschawe, young virgins, and fair dampcellis, You to defloure," &c. Probably there is an older edition; for he says it was written in eighteen months, and finished in 1513. The work ends with the Translator's Rebus. "To know the name of the Translater. "The gaw unbrokin mydlit with the wine Seik no farther, for, lo, with lytil pyne Spye leile this vers, men clepis him sa at hame." M.P. Warton says "This translation is executed with equal spirit and fidelity: and is a proof that the lowland Scotch and English languages were now nearly the same. I mean the style of composition; more especially in the glaring affectation of anglicising Latin words. The several books are introduced with metrical prologues, which are often highly poetical; and shew that Douglas's proper walk was original poetry. The most conspicuous of these prologues is a Description of May."* This translation was reprinted in folio at Edinburgh, * Wart. Hist. E. Poetry, II. 281. 1710, with a glossary by Ruddiman, and a life of the author by the Rev. John Sage. * Douglas's "Palis of Honour" was printed at London, by William Copland, in 1553, 4to. and at Edinburgh 1579 by John Ross for Henry Charters, 4to. and has been lately reprinted in Pinkerton's Scotish Poems, and among the "Select Works of Gawin Douglass,' at Perth, 1787.† Pinkerton has also in the above publication printed for the first time Douglas's "King Hart." ART. XXIII. A Farewell. Entituled to the famous and fortunate Generalls of our English forces, Sir John Norris and Syr Frauncis Drake, Knights; and all theyr brave and resolute followers. Whereunto is annexed a Tale of Troy. Doone by George Peele, Maister of Artes in Oxforde. At London. Printed by J. C. and are to be solde by Willm. Wright, at his shop adjoyning to S. Mildred's church in the Poultrie. Anno 1589. 4to. pp. 21. Notices of this author and his works are to be found in Wood and Tanner, in the Biographia Dramatica, Biographia +Ibid. Irving's Lives of Scottish Poets, II. 24. An excellen: edition of another old Scotch poet has lately been given to the public by Mr. Chalmers, under the following title. "The Poetical Works of Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount, Lion King of Arms, under James V. A new Edition corrected and enlarged: with a life of the author, prefatory Dissertations; and an appropriate Glossary. By George Chalmers, F.R.S. S.A. In three volumes. London. Printed for Longman and Co. 1806." 8vo. The eighth Dissertation, containing "A philosophical View of the Teutonic language of Scotland, from the Demise of Malcolm Cean more, Biographia Literaria, Bibliographia Poetica, and in the republication of Phillips's Theatrum Poetarum. The performances of Peele are all rare, and as this is believed to be particularly so, that portion of it which appertains to our English heroes, Drake and Norris, has been transcribed as a specimen of the blank verse of that period, not written for the stage; and as a creditable proof of Peele's poetic talent. "Have done with care, my hearts! aboard amain, To that brave bridge, * the bar that thwarts her course, The glorious hold that Julius Cæsar built; Change love for arms; girt to your blades, my boys! Bid Mahomet's Poo, and mighty Tamberlain, more, to the Age of Lyndsay," is peculiarly curious, interesting, and full of deep research, and accurate and original deductions. The writer of this note never read an antiquarian discussion so completely satisfactory. Editor. VOL. III. * London. King King Charlemagne, Tom Stukeley, and the rest, Under the sanguine cross, brave England's badge, And hew a passage with your conquering swords By land and sea; where ever Phoebus' eye, And cleanse Augeus' stalls in Italy. To arms, my fellow-soldiers! sea and land Lie open to the voyage you intend : And sea or land, bold Britons, far or near, Down to the shades of deep Avernus' crags, To arms, to arms, to honourable arms! To you, my mates, as Cæsar said to his, Striving with Neptune's hills You bear (quoth he) Caesar Cæsar and Cæsar's fortune in your ships.". You follow them, whose swords successful are: Spreads by the gates of Europe, to the courts Over whose throne the enemies of God Have thunder'd erst their vain successless braves. O ten times treble happy men, that fight 'T. P. ART. XXIV. The Parliament of Bees; with their proper characters: or a Bee-hive furnished with twelve honey-combs, as pleasant as profitable: being an allegorical description of the actions of good and bad men, in these our daies. A Masque, by John Day. 1640. 4to. This author, says Mr. Reed,* had been a student in Caius College, Cambridge, and by the date of his |