A sonet or brief rehersall of the properties
of the twelve monethesafore rehersed.

As Janeuer fryse pot, bidth corne kepe hym lowe:
And feuerell fill dyke, doth good with his snowe:
A bushel of Marche dust, worth raunsomes of gold
And Aprill his stormes, be to good to be solde:
As May with his flowers, geue ladies their lust:
And June after blooming, set carnels so iust:
As July bid all thing, in order to ripe:
And August bid reapers, to take full their gripe.
September his fruit, biddeth gather as fast:
October bid bogges, to come eate vp his mast:
As dirtie Nouember, bid threshe at thine ease:
December bid Christmas, to spende what he please:
So wisdom bid kepe, and prouide while we may :
For age creepeth on as the time passeth away.
Finis.

Thinges thriftie, that teacheth the thriuing to thriue;
teach timely to trauas, the thing that thou triue.
Transferring thy toyle, to the times truely tought:
that teacheth the temperaunce, to temper thy thought.
To temper thy trauaile, to tarrye the tide:
this teacheth the thriftines, twenty times tride.
Thinke truely to trauaile, that thinkest to thee:
the trade that thy teacher taught truely to the.
Take thankfully thinges, thanking tenderly those :
that teacheth thee thriftly, thy time to transpose.
The trouth teached two times, teach thou two times ten:
this trade thou that takest, take thrift to the then.

¶ Imprinted at London in flete strete
within Temple barre, at the sygne of the
Hand and starre, by Richard Tottel,
the third day of February. An. 1557.
Cum priuilegio ad impri-
mendum solum.

T. Bensley, Printer,

Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London.

THE

PARADISE

OF

Dainty Deuices,

REPRINTED FROM

A TRANSCRIPT OF THE FIRST EDITION, 1576,

In the hand writing of the late

GEORGE STEEVENS, Esa.

With an Appendix:

Containing Additional Picces from the Editions of

1580 & 1600.

AND INTRODUCTORY REMARKS, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL.

By SIR EGERTON BRYDGES, K. J. Rienard Edwa idą

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR ROBERT TRIPHOOK, 37, ST. JAMES'S STREET, AND WILLIAM SANCHO, AT THE MES GATE.

T. Eenfey, Printer, Belt Court, Fleet Street, London.

THE present new edition of the Paradise of Dainty Deuises is printed literatim from a copy belonging to the Editor, made by the hand of the late eminent George Steevens, the Commentator on Shakspeare, from the first edition of the original, then possessed by his friend Dr. Farmer. The public, it is hoped, will give credit to the accuracy of such a copy. The defects, if any, are best accounted for by a note in Steevens's hand-writing.

"It has been attempted to render the following MS. "a fac-simile of the first edition of the Paradise of "Dainty Devices, with all its inaccuracy of spelling, 66 punctuation, &c.; but as habits of orthography, &c. are not easily got rid of, perhaps they may have occa66 sionally prevailed over the blunders which the tran"scriber has professed to copy."

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The pages of the original are imperfectly numbered; and this peculiarity has been retained in the present impression. It has been also thought proper to retain the ancient orthography; but the punctuation has been somewhat changed, as, in its old state, it appeared to the Editor too frequently to destroy the sense.

Mr. HASLEWOOD, with that indefatigable zeal and industry which cannot be too much applauded, transcribed with his own hand the copy, which has passed the press; and most carefully and faithfully corrected the sheets from the Printer.

The

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The additional pieces from the subsequent editions of 1580 and 1600, were kindly communicated by Mr. PARK, from copies made by George Ellis, esq. from the originals in the possession of the late Duke of Roxburgh.

The present impression does not exceed 250 copies in octavo, attached to the BRITISH BIBLIOGRAPHER, and 120 taken off in quarto.

Denton, Nov. 26, 1809.

SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES.

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