ed "Ro. Bacchus," and a sextain signed "Tho. Talkinghame, Gentleman." The Historie is printed in the black letter; þut 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? No turtle without pheare. The day without the sunne doth lowre for woe; Then to embrace his deare. The starres from earthlie humours gaine their light, 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, In them the heaven of joy and solace lies, Whereto this solace tends."* T P. 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. Ar the end of this long poem, is "a Song of re This also, if 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. T. P. 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. T. P. ART. CXV. An Elegie upon the Death of Queen 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. 4to. T. P. 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. [1601.] 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 great ingenuity and learning, I am afraid I cannot add taste,) and as little is known of this prelate, it is my wish to make a somewhat copious article on the subject. Of Dr. John Bridges, Bishop of Oxford, I know not the descent.* He was not of the Chandos family; for his arms on his tombstone (3 owls) have no similitude to theirs; nor to any others of the name with which I am acquainted. He was educated at Pem broke Hall, Cambridge;† was made Prebendary of Winchester, 1565; and had also the rectories of Crawley and Cheriton in Hants; and of Brightwell in Berks. In 1577 he was appointed Dean of Salisbury, and consecrated Bishop of Oxford, Feb. 12, 1603.+ He was buried in the church of March Baldon, in Oxfordshire, with the following inscription. "Here under lieth buried the body of the Reverend Father John Bridges, late Bishop of Oxford, who departed this life, the 26th day of March A. D. 1618." Arms as abovementioned. He was eminent for his theological writings, more especially as a defender of the church against the Puritans. In 1571 appeared his Sermon upon " Deus sic dilexit mundum ut daret, &c. Lond. 4to. § In 1573|| his Supremacy of Christian Princes over He was a Londoner. ↑ Wood's F. I. 172. ‡ Gent. Mag. LXIV. p. 328 § Herbert, II. 936. He must not be confounded with John Bridges, Vicar of Herne, in Kent, who translated An hundred, threescore and fifteen Homilies from Radulphe Gualthere Sigurine, &c. 1572. Fol. Herb. II. 947. He died 1590. |