Then came there à nother that Jyueth by laundry,

Who muste haue wether hote and clere here clothys to dry's
Then came there a boy for froste and snow contynuall,
Snow to make snowballys and frost for his pytfale,*
For whyche god wote he seweth full gredely."

Having thus enumerated the desires of the mortals, Jupiter sends for and addresses them; he promises to fulfil every request at due seasons, by which means all occupations may prosper without one retarding the other: he continues

"Now on the tother syde yf we had graunted

: The full of some one sewt, and no mo,
And from all the rest the wether had forbyd,

Yet who so hadde obtayned, had wonne his owne wo;
There is no one craft that can preserue man so,
But by other craftes of necessyte

He muste haue myche parte of his commodyte.

All to serue at ones, and one destroy a nother,
Or ellys to serue one, and destroy all the rest,
Nother wyll we do the t'one, nor the tother,
But serue as many or as few as we thynke best;
And where or what tyme to serve moste or lest,
The dyreccyon of that doutles shall stande
Perpetually in the power of our hande.

Wherfore we wyll the hole worlde to attende,
Eche sort on suche wether as for them doth fall,
Now

one, now other, as lyketh vs to sende,

This pytfale, by the former part of the play, I conceive to be a decoy

to entrap birds.

"And to here the byrdes how they flycker theyr wynges,

In the pytfale I say yt passeth all thynges."

Who

Who that hath yt ply it, and suer we shall
So gyde the wether in course to you all,
That eche wyth other ye shall hole remayne
In pleasure and plenty full welth certayne."

At this determination each petitioner is satisfied, and returns thanks for the mildness and clemency with which he has been treated. And here, as I suppose, the play ends: the copy from which I have written the above wants about the last page: seven out of the eight have expressed their gratitude, and the boy is the only one remaining, whose speech, if it accords with those of his companions, takes up two lines: we may then suppose either Jupiter or Mery Reporte address the audience by way of epilogue, and that it concludes with "Imprinted by W. Rastell, 1533-Cum privilegio." P. B.

Additions by the Editor.

John Heywood was born at North-Mims, near St. Albans, in Hertfordshire, and was educated at Oxford. He was a familiar friend of Sir Thomas More, and is said to have been a favourite with Hen. VIII. He was certainly patronized by Q. Mary.*

"His pleasant wit" says Oldys, "saved him from the gallows in the reign of Edw. VI. See Sir John Harrington's Metamorphosis of Ajax. He was so entangled with some of the Popish party, that he narrowly

That Heywood had been introduced to Princess Mary, is ascertained by a poem complimentary to her person, in the MSS. of Brit. Mus. and ately printed in Vol. I, of the Royal and Noble Authors. T. P.

escaped

escaped being noosed; but the Muses were his advocates "

The following story is extracted from Puttenham's "Art of English Poesie," 1589, p. 230.

"Some Speech may be, when it is spoken, very undecent, yet the same having something added to it, may become prety, and decent, as —— hapned on a time at the Duke of Northumberlandes bourd, where merry John Heywood was allowed to sit at the table's end. The Duke had a very noble and honourable mynde alwayes to pay his debts well; and when he lacked money, would not sticke to sell the greatest part of his plate: so he had done a few dayes before. Heywood, being loth to call for his drink so oft as he was dry, turned his eye towards the cupboard, and said,

I find great misse of your Grace's standing cups.' The Duke, thinking he had spoken it of some knowledge that his plate was lately sold, said somewhat sharply, Why, Sir, will not those cuppes serve as good a man as yourselfe?' Heywood readily replied,

Yes, if it please your Grace; but I would have one of them stand still at my elbow, full of drinke, that I might not be driven to trouble your man so often to call for it.' This pleasant and speedy reverse of the former wordes holpe all the matter againe, whereupon the Duke became very pleasaunt, and dranke a bolle of wine to Heywood, and bid a cuppe should alwayes be standing by him.”

"I have seen," says Oldys, "A briefe Balet touching the Traytorous takynge of Scarborow Castle," subscribed at the end, "I. fleywood." Imprinted at London by Thomas Powell, on a broad-side of two columns, bl., letter. (It is among the Fol. Vol. of

Dyson's

Dyson's Collections in the Library of the Society of Antiquaries.) Thomas Stafford, who took that castle, 23 April 1557, and proclaimed himself Protector of the Realm, was beheaded 28 May following, and three of his accomplices were hanged.",

"This Heywood also printed "A Balade of the meeting and marriage of the King and Queen's Highness. Imprinted by W. Ryddel on one side of a large half sheet."*

ART. XXIX. Bibliographical Catalogue.

1. The Mirror of Mutability, or principall part of the Mirror for Magistrates, describing the fall of divers famous princes and other memorable personages. Selected out of the sacred Scriptures, by Antony Munday; and dedicated to the Earle of Oxenford. Imprinted by J. Alde. 1579. 4to.

This work is divided into two books, and contains the Complaints of King Nabuchodonozer, Herod, Pharaoh, David, Dives, Judas, Jonas, Absalon, Triphon, Achab, Jephthah, Sampson, Solomon, Ammon, Adonia, Ptolomye, Jesabel, and Zedekiah; whose vices are characterised under the heads of Pride, Envy, Wrath, Lechery, Gluttony, Avarice, Sloth, Beautie, Crueltie, Wickedness, Rashness, Magnanimitie, Sapience, Incontinency, Voluptuousness, Vainglory, Vanitie, and Wilfulness. Each poem has a prose induction by the author.

2. A Fig for Momus: Containing pleasant varietie, included in Satyres, Eclogues, and Epistles. By T. L. [Thomas Lodge of Lincolnes Inne, Gent.

*Oldys's MS. notes to Langbaine.

VOL. 111.

X

This

This book is dedicated to William Earle of Darbie: and the preface is dated 6 May, 1595. Different poems are severally inscribed to Master E. Dig[bie], To reverend Colin [qu. Spenser ?], To happie Menalcas [forsan Watson], To Rowland [f. Drayton], To Master Samuel Daniel, To W. Bolton, and to Michael Drayton.

3. Devoreux. Vertues Teares for the losse of King Henry FII. of Fraunce, and the death of Walter Devoreux, who was slaine before Roan in Fraunce. First written in French by the most excellent and learned gentlewoman, Madam Genuivefere, Peter Maulette: and paraphrastically translated into English by Jervis Markham. At London. Printed by J. Roberts, for Tho. Millington, and are to be sold at his shop in Cornhill, under saint Peters church. 1597. 4to.

This poem has many creditable passages, and is inscribed by Markham to Dorothy, Countess of Northumberland, and Lady Penelope Rich, the sisters of Walter Devoreux.

Two Sonnets are prefixed by R. Allot, the reputed editor of England's Parnassus, and two others by E. Guilpin, a writer whose name appears in that work.

4. Discours of the present troubles in Fraunce, and Miseries of this tyme. Compiled ly Peter Ronsard: Translated by Thomas Jeney, gentilman. Printed at Andwerpe, 1568.

Ato.

A specimen of very indifferent versification: dedicated to Sir Hen. Norris.

5. A prophesie of Cadwallader, last king of the Britaines: containing a Comparison of the English kings, with many worthy romanes: from Willm. Rufus till Henry the fift. Henry the fift, his life and death. Foure battels betweene the houses of Yorke and Lancaster. The Field of Banbery.