Whom subjects' love doth guard, because that he
Guards them from all oppression, and makes free
His noble favourers to desert and worth,
Spreading his valiant vertues frankly forth,

That both his own may find, and neighbours know
What glorious fruit doth from religion grow;
How sweet an odour justice sends to heaven,
How rare example is to princes given,

By vertuous deeds to stop the mouths of those,
Who, unreform'd, are reformation's foes."

From the great disparity of merit between this and the preceding article, there is little reason to suppose them by the same author, though they bear the same name. T. P.

ART. CIX. The most excellent Histoire of Lysimachus and Varrona, daughter to Syllanus, Duke of Hypata, in Thessalia. Wherein are contained the effects of Fortune, the wonders of Affection, and the conquests of incertaine Time. By I. H. R.

London: Printed by Thomas Creede. 1604. Sto.

THIS perhaps unique volume is in the Marquis of Stafford's fine library. The dedication to the Right Honourable Henry Wriothesly, Earle of Southampton, is signed only I. H. Then follows an address "to the Gentleman Readers," beginning "Gentlemen, I have written the storie of Lysimachus and Varrona, &c." signed as in the title-page I. H. R.

The verses in praise of the book are a Sonnet sign

ed "Ro. Bacchus," and a sextain signed "Tho. Talkinghame, Gentleman."

The Historie is printed in the black letter; but the verses intermixed, are in the Roman. It is worthy of remark, that the very first song, entitled "Lysimachus' Sonnet that he made in prison," may be found in Greene's Arcadia: it begins,

"Yon restlesse cares, companions of the night, &c." and the burden to the four stanzas is

"Farewell my hopes, farewell my happie dayes; Welcome sweet griefe, the subject of my layes."

The following madrigal, sung by a shepherd, is pleasing; and presents a mode of versification not often met with; viz. of the fifth and sixth lines corresponding with the eleventh and twelfth.

"What are my sheepe without their woonted foode?
What [is] my life except I gaine my love?
My sheepe consume, and faint for want of blood;
My life is lost, unlesse I grace approve,
No flower that saplesse thrives,

No turtle without pheare.

The day without the sunne doth lowre for woe;
Then woe mine eyes, unless they beawtie see;
My sunne, Varrona's eyes, by whom I know
Wherein delight consists, where pleasures be.
Nought more the heart revives,

Then to embrace his deare.

The starres from earthlie humours gaine their light,
Our humours by their light possesse their

power:

Varrona's eyes, fed by my weeping sight,
Infude my paines or joyes, by smile or lower.

So wends the source of love,

It feeds, it failes, it ends.

Kind lookes, clear to your joy, behold her eies,
Admire her heart, desire to taste her kisses:
In them the heaven of joy and solace lies,
Without them every hope his succour misses.
Oh, how I love to prove,

Whereto this solace tends."*

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ART. CX. A Souldier's Wish unto his Sovereign Lord, King James. By Robert Pricket. 1603. 4to.

THIS military poet, Robert Pricket, published a prose tract also, in 1603, entitled "The souldier's resolution," which he dedicated to James the first and he appears to have excited another congenial versifier to puth forth the following:

ART. CXI. Times Anatomie. Containing the poore man's plaint, Brittons trouble and her triumph. The pope's pride, Rome's treasure, and her destruction: affirming that Gog and Magog both shall perish, the church of Christ shall flourish, Judea's Race shall be restored, and the manner how this mightie work shall be accomplished. Made by Robert Pricket, a souldier: and dedicated to all the Lords of his Majesties most honourable privie councell, 1606, 4to.

At the end of this long poem, is "a Song of reAr

*This also, if I recollect rightly, is in one of Greene's pieces. Editor.

joycing for our late deliverance," i. e. from the gunpowder plot.

T. P.

ART. CXII. An Epitaph or briefe Lamentation for the late Queen [Elizabeth] by Robert Fletcher; Yeoman purveyor of carriages for removes of our sayde late soveraigne Lady the Queene. 1603. 4to. On the same occasion the following laments were also published.

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ART. CXIII. Anglorum Lacrymæ, in a sad passion, complayning the death of our late Queene Elizabeth; by Richard Johnson. 1603. 4to. T.P.

ART. CXIV. Atropoion Delion; or the Death of Delia, with the Teares of her Funerall: a poetical excursive discourse of our late Eliza: by Thomas Newton. 1603. 4to.

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ART. CXV. An Elegie upon the Death of Queen
Elizabeth, by J. L. 1603. 4to.
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ART. CXVI. The poore's Lamentation for the death of Queen Elizabeth: with their prayers to God for the high and mightie prince James, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, &c. 1603. Ato.

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ART. CXVII.

Threno-Thriambeuticon: and Sor

rowes Joy. On the death of Elizabeth and succession of James. 1603. 4to.

THESE were university collections from Cambridge; and have been reprinted in Vol. 3 of the Royal Progresses. So has the following.

T. P.

ART. CXVIII. A Chaine of Pearle or a Memorial of the peerless graces and heroick vertues of Q. Elizabeth, of glorious memory. Composed by the noble lady Diana Primrose. 1603. ib.

THESE pearls consist of cardinal virtues, poetically strung together by a lady, of whom any biographical notices would be singularly acceptable.

T. P:

ART. CXIX. Sacro-Sanctum Novum Testamentum Domini Servatoris Nostri Jesu Christi, in hexametros versus ad verbum et genuinum sensum fideliter in Latinam linguam translatum per Johannem Episcopum Oxoniensem. Londini excudebat Valentinus Simsius CIIIIII. [1604.]

MR. BELOE, in his third volume of Anecdotes of Literature just published, says that this is a very uncommon book. I confess I was not aware that it was; or I should long since have introduced it, having for many years been possessed of a copy. As Mr. Beloe's extract is not sufficiently full to do justice to the ingenuity of the work, (for it exhibits