Mr WITHER and M DAVIES. | [Device.]| LONDON | Printed by N.O. for G. Norton | 1614. The second of these, "Thirsis and Alexis," afterwards appeared as Eclogue V. in the Shepherd's Hunting. (8) AN OTHER | ECLOGVE | BY | M' GEORGE WITHER. | Dedicated to his truely louing and worthy friend, Mr | W. BROWNE. | [Device.] LONDON | Printed for George Norton | 1614. This afterwards became Eclogue IV. in the Shepherd's Hunting. 1615. Fidelia. | [Device.]| LONDON | Printed by NICHOLAS OKES. 1615. This is the privately-printed edition, of which only one copy is known. The unique copy is in the Bodleian Library, and perhaps deserves a short description. It is a thin volume, small 12mo., now bound in green morocco; but at the end are preserved the original vellum slipcovers, on the exterior of which gold tooling is still faintly discernible. The insides of these, as well as the fly-leaves, are covered in contemporary handwriting, which consists, where legible, of poetry written as prose, e.g. "but fate must unresisted stand, oh who can it oppose, necessity is a tyrant, & no meane in mischief knows; else might my fairer love and I unsevered live, till one did die." [This is from Epigram 19 in Thomas Beedome's Poems Divine and Humane, 1641]. On the verso of the title fly-leaf is written the name "Anthony Shepard." The pages of the text itself are now carefully covered with thin transparent material. Two pages have been misplaced in rebinding. There is a long introduction. Apparently it was first recorded by W. T. Arnold in his article on Wither in T. H. Ward's English Poets. It was reprinted, with errors, in vol. vi. of Arber's English Garner, 1883. 1615. THE SHEPHERDS | Hunting: | Being, | CERTAINE EGLOGS | written during the time of the Authors Imprisonment in the | Marshalsey. BY GEORGE WITHER, | Gentleman. | [Device.]| LONDON: | Printed by THOMAS SNODHAM | for George Norton, and are to be sold at the signe of the red-Bull, neere | Temple-barre. 1615. 8vo. Another edition was issued in the same year with the same title-page. A third was printed by "W. White for George Norton," and bound up with Abuses Stript and Whipt and A Satyre to the King, both of 1615. It was reprinted in the Workes 1620, in Juvenilia 1622 and 1633; by Sir Egerton Brydges in 1814; and by Southey in 1831. 1617. Fidelia. | Written | By G. W. of Lin- | colnes Inne, Gentleman. | [Device.] | LONDON, | Printed by NICHOLAS | OKES. 1617. Hazlitt (Handbook, p. 665) mentions two copies, both imperfect, which together would 12mo. make a complete copy. One, wanting 4 pp., is in the Bodleian. Lowndes mentions that one was in Sir M. Sykes' library. Reprinted, "newly corrected and augmented" 1619, in the Workes 1620, in Juvenilia 1622 and 1633, and by Sir Egerton Brydges in 1815. 1620. THE WORKES | OF GEORGE WITHER, OF INNE, GENTLEMAN. | (Satyrs. Epigrams. Containing Eclogues. Sonnets, and Poems. MASTER | Whereunto is annexed a Pa- | raphrase on the 8vo. It contains A Satyre to the King, Epithalamia, The Shepherd's Pipe, Other Eglogues (only those by Brooke and Davies), The Shepherd's Hunting, and Fidelia. A pirated edition, disclaimed by Wither. It is carelessly printed. 1621. (a) WITHER'S | MOTTO. | Nec habeo, nec Careo, nec Curo. | Anno Domini. | ciɔɔxxi. (6) Engraved title-page :-"WITHER'S MOTTO. | Nec habeo, nec Careo, nec Curo." in a scroll at the head of the page; in the lefthand bottom corner, "R.E. sculpsit." [Both these books are otherwise identical. Later editions of the same year have the engraved title-page alone, with this addition inserted at the foot of the engraving itselfLONDON printed for Iohn Marriott 1621.] GEO: 8vo. Reprinted in Juvenilia 1622 and 1633, also by Sir Egerton Brydges in Restituta, vol. i. p. 166, and at Birmingham in 1814. 1622. FAIRE - VIRTVE, | THE | MISTRESSE| OF PHIL'ARETE. | Written by WITHER. Catul. Carm. xv. | —nihil veremur | Istos, qui in platea, modo huc, modo illuc | In re pretereunt sua occupati. | LONDON, | Printed for John Grismand. | C1.1ƆC.XXII. 8vo. A variation gives "himselfe" instead of Wither's name. Issued the same year bound with Juvenilia 1622; few copies now to be found are so complete. Reprinted in Juvenilia 1633, by Sir Egerton Brydges in 1818, and in vol. iv. of Arber's English Garner, 1882. 1622. Engraved title-page :— | IVVENILIA. | A| Collection of those | POEMES | which were | heretofore imprin- | ted, and written by | George wither. [LONDON, printed for John Budge, in Paul's Churchyard at the sign of the green dragon, 1622. LONDON, printed for Robert Allott, in Paul's Churchyard at the sign of the greyhound, 1626 (remainders of 1622 with a new date and name). LONDON, printed for Robert Allott, at the bear in Paul's Churchyard, 1633.] Note. The complete Juvenilia, both of 1622 and 1633, should contain the following, in order : To the Reader. Abuses Stript and Whipt. The Scourge. Epigrams. Prince Henries Obsequies. Satyre to the King. Epithalamia. The Shepherd's Hunting. Fidelia (dated 1632 in the 1633 Juvenilia). Metrical Paraphrase upon the Creed. : Wither's Motto (engraved title-page). Fair Virtue, or the Mistress of Philarete. A Miscellany of Epigrams, etc. The Stationer's Postscript. A complete 1622 Juvenilia is in the British Museum (press-mark 1076. c. 20), and a complete copy of the 1633 edition is in the Dyce Library. Some copies of the 1622 do not contain Fair Virtue, some have neither that nor the Motto. LIST OF EDITIONS, REPRINTS, ETC. 1765. Percy. Reliques of Ancient Poetry. |