Trailes on the ground: her gate a goddesse shows.
The pleased Queen to Paphos then retires,

Where stood her temple: there a hundred fires,
(Whose flagrant flames Sabean gums devoures)
Blaze on as many altars crown'd with flowers."

From these specimens it will be seen, that Sandys's translation is more close and literal than poetical; and if compared with Dryden's, published only fiftyseven years after, there will be found a greater difference than could be expected in so short a time.

George Sandys was seventh and youngest son of Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York, in whose palace of Bishopthorp he was born in 1577, and died at his nephew, Sir Francis Wyat's house, of Boxley Abbey, in Kent, in 1643. He was younger brother of Sir Edwin Sandys, of Northbourn, in Kent, who wrote the "Europa Speculum." George Sandys is better known as a traveller than as a poet. An account of his Travels will be given in a future volume.

M. P.

ART. CLXXII. Argalus and Parthenia, newly perused, perfected, and written, by Fra. Quarles. Lusit Anacreon. 4to. pp. 153.

2. fragrant?" Sabæo-Ture calent aræ," &c.

+ Biog. Dict. In the account of him in this work, he is said to have died at Bexley instead of Boxley. His translation of Ovid is also said there to have heen published at Oxford in 1632. My edition was published in London in 1640, and no notice is taken in it of any former edition; and the dedication to the King alludes to troubles which did not exist in 1632.

The first edition seems to have been of the First Five Books, in 1621, and again 1627, and 1632. See p. 421. See also Wood's Ath. II. 47. Editor.

DEDICATED to Henry Rich, Earl of Holland, and dated from Dublin March 4, 1621, in an Address to the Reader, in which he calls it "the fruits of a few broken hours ;" and says it was a scion taken out of the orchard of Sir Philip Sydney, which he has lately grafted on a crab-stock of his own. "Ladies," he adds, "(for in your silken laps I know this book will choose to lie, which being far fetched, if the stationers be wise, will be most fit for you) my suit is that you would be pleased to give the fair Parthenia your noble entertainment: she hath crossed the seas for your acquaintance, and is come to live and die with you; to whose gentle hands I recommend her, and kiss them."

I give a specimen from the commencement of the first book.

"Within the limits of the Arcadian land,

Whose grateful bounty hath enrich'd the hand
Of many a shepherd swain, whose rural art
(Untaught to gloze, or with a double heart
To vow dissembled love) did build to fame
Eternal trophies of a pastoral name;
That sweet Arcadia, which in antique days.
Was wont to warble out her well tuned lays
To all the world; and with her oaten reed
Did sing her love whilst her proud flocks did feed;
Arcadia, whose deserts did claim to be

As great a sharer in the Daphnian tree,
As his, whose Eneid so proudly sings
Heroic conquests of victorious kings;
There (if the exuberance of a word may swell
So high, that angels may be said to dwell)

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There dwelt that virgin, that Arcadian glory,
Whose rare composure did abstract the story
Of true perfection, modelizing forth

The height of beauty, and admired worth;
Her name Parthenia, whose renown'd descent
Can serve but as a needless compliment
To gild perfection: she shall boast alone
What bounteous art and nature makes her own.
Her mother was a lady, whom deep age
More fill'd with honour than diseases; sage,
A modest nation, strict, reserv'd, austere,
Sparing in speech, but liberal of her ear;
Fierce to her foes, and violent where she likes;
Wedded to what her own opinion strikes;
Frequent in alms, and charitable deeds,
Of mighty spirit, constant to her beads ;*
Wisely suspicious; but what need we other
Than this? She was the fair Parthenia's mother;
That rare Parthenia, in whose heavenly eye
Sits maiden mildness, mixt with majesty,

Whose secret power hath a double skill,

By frowns or smiles to make alive or kill." &c. &c. Here follows a description of her person, which my readers will not thank me for transcribing. The works of Quarles are too common to require a further specimen.

ART. CLXXIII. The History of Great Britanie from the first peopling of this Iland to this presant raigne of o' hapy & peaceful Monarke K. James, by Will. Slatyer. London: Printed by W. Stansby

*This sounds like a couplet of Dryden.

for Richd. Meighen, and are to be sold at his shop at St. Clement's Church. Fol.

THIS is in the centre of an engraved title-page, or frontispiece, which is explained by a poem on the opposite leaf. Anthony Wood gives this work the date of 1621. The chronological table ends with the date of 1619.

It appears by a marginal note to one of the prefatory poems, entitled Authoris Votum, that Slatyer was born at Tykenham in Somersetshire, not far from Bristol. His birth was about the year 1587, and in 1600, he became, at the age of thirteen, a member of Oxford University. He took orders, and was beneficed as early as 1611. In 1625 he was presented to the rectory of Otterden in Kent, which he had a dispensation for holding with that of Newchurch. He was also treasurer of the cathedral church of St. David's in Wales. But by his own poem, just mentioned, it appears that he had preferment in both these situations before the publication of his book; and that he had already had a residence both in Wiltshire and London. After speaking of Oxford he goes on:

"Thence silver-founted christal Thames,
His forehead deck'd, clear limpid stream,
With dangling reeds, and flaggy flowers,
Conveyed her down to old Lud's bowers,
Where she beheld with wondring eyes
Both city's pride and courtly guise,
Whom noblest nymphs, that haunt the place,
Gently deign'd more than look'd for grace.

Rymer's Fœd. XVIII. 647, 665. Hasted's Kent, II, 508.

Next courtly troops, the country trains
Did hear her sing, and those wild plains
That thee, dear DANIEL, so did bless,
And ravishing notions first* impress
Into thy soul! from whence she went
TO CAMBERS wild, and flowry KENT,
Rhutupian furthest shores i' th' east.
Old holy David'st shrine by west
Did hear her tunes, and odes she ended
In those well-hop'd-of bowers intended
To Phoebus honour, of King James

Nam'd; west of London by fair Thames."‡

He died Feb. 14, 1646, æt. 59, and was buried in Otterden church.§

The following poetical address is worth transcribing.

"Poetarum facile Principi, ac Coriphao, Michaeli Drayton Ar.

περι της τω δε των Βιβλων Πολυ-Ολβινοος και Παλαι Αλβιονος προς αλληλες παρονομασίας

"So Master Daniel writes of himself; and Wilton, of which Wilton, Wiltshire, (alluded to by some from the wild plains, quasi Wilde-shire) takes her name; ubi in villa Bedwyn antiquitus totius Comitatus pæne nulli secundâ, nec satis ignobili, tam ob incolarum rusticitatem, quam ob suarum olim celebritatum jacturam, aliquandiu moram traxit."

"Rhutupiæ, or the coasts of Dover and Sandwich east, and St. David's called Menevia, in the west, are, and are ordinarily accounted the utmost limits, those ways, of Great Britain."

"Chelsea College is King James's foundation, and in the patent so called of his name."

§ See Hasted ut supra-and Topographer, I. 406. A list of his other works may be found in Wood's Ath. II. III.