Both day and night:

That man shall bee

Like to the tree

Fast planted by the running river growes,

That frute doth beare

In tyme of yeare,

Whose leafe shall never fade nor rute unloose.

T. P.

ART. CXXIX. JOHN WEEVER,*

WROTE the History of Christ in verse, in minimo, or a nutt-shell; a most small volume, dedicated "To Prince Henry," your humble servant,

JO. WEEVER.

THE EPISTLE.

"Thou matchlesse issue of a mighty king,

To whose greene yeares and judgment grave I bring
These holy numbers of my heav'nly Muse,
Which my late Empresse dained to peruse,
The like acceptance humbly I intreat,
My booke is little, but my heart is great.

Jo. WEEVER."

ART, CXXX. Epigrams by H. P. Mortui non mordent. Imprinted at London by R. B. and are to be soulde by John Helme at his shoppe in S, Dunstan's Churchyarde. 1608, 4to. 32 leaves.

* Supposed to be the author of the "Funeral Monuments."

AFTER the above title, some Latin lines are addressed "Ad candidum Lectorem," and some English verses "To the ungentilized Censurer." The epigrams are 160 in number; and each has a Latin motto prefixed. The following are among those that have most point.

EP. 100.

"Linguam vis nulla domabit.

Mun's skill in horses doth so much excell,
As no man living breaks them half so well:
But see one sillie shrew controls his art,

And, worse than all those horses, breaks his heart.

nunquam cessat quo perdat perdere lusor.

Aske Ficus how his luck at dicing goes:
Like to the tide (saith he) it ebbes and flows:
Then I suppose his chance cannot be good;
For all men knowe 'tis longer ebb than flood.
EP. 135.

Pudor est sua damna referre.

Peter hath lost his purse, but will conceal it,
Least she, that stole it, to his shame reveal it.

EP. 139.

Impar impares odit.

Sotus hates wise men, for himselfe is none;
And fooles he hates, because himselfe is one.
EP. 145.

Nil gratum, ratione carens.

Paulus a pamphlet doth in prose present
Unto his lord, ("the fruites of idle time.”)

Who far more careless than therewith content,
Wished it were converted into rime;

Which done, and brought him, at another season,
Said-now 'tis rime ;-before, nor rime nor reason."

On first meeting with this publication, in the shop of the late worthy Mr. Sael, I had conjectured H. P. in the title, to stand for Henry Peacham;* who put forth some epigrammatic trifles in 1620: but I have since ascertained that these initials belong to HENRY PARROT, who printed, in 1613, a collection of epigrams in two parts; in which some of these coarse conceits make their re-appearance. Several of them may also be traced in the two collections, entitled:

ART. CXXXI. The Mouse Trap. Consisting of 100 Epigrams. Printed at London F. B. dwelling at the Flower du Luce and Crowne, in Paul's Church-yard. 1606. 4to.

THE author's dedication "to his no little respected friend, little John Buck," is signed H. P. An address "to the plain-dealing reader," follows in prose; and to this succeed verses "ad Curiosum." A copy of this rare tract is in the British Museum. A copy of the following sold at Mr. Steevens' sale for 17, 13s.

ART. CXXXII. The More the Merrier: containing three-score and odde headlesse epigrams, shot

* Warton, I just observe, makes a query to the same effect, from having found one of the epigrams, with some little difference only, in Peacham's Minerva. Hist. of E. P. iv. 74.

cut from from the

(like the Fooles bolt) amongst you, light where they will. By H. P. Gent. 1608. 4to.

The following is the writer's apology for his indelicacies.

EP. 45.

"Be not agreeved, my humorous lines afford,
Of looser language, here and there a word:
Who undertakes to sweepe a common sinke,
I cannot blame him, though his besom stinke."

A more general collection, and apparently, compilation, was published under the title of the next article.

ART. CXXXIII. Laquei Ridiculosi: or Springes for Woodcocks. In 2 books. Caveat emptor. London. Printed for J. Busbie. 1613. 12mo.

IN some title pages H. P. is added. Warton has printed a specimen in his 4th volume of Eng. Poetry, p. 73, and remarks that "many of them are worthy to be revived in modern collections." Some of them have been so. T. P.

ART. CXXXIV. Cœlia: containing certaine Sonets. By David Murray, Scoto-Brittaine. At London, printed for John Smethwick, and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstons Church-yard, in Fleet street, under the Diall. 1611, 12mo.

THESE Sonnets are appended to the "Tragicall Leath of Sophonisba," a long poem, in seven-line It is conjectured* that the author may

stanzas.

* See Ellis's Specimens of early English poets, iii. 80, where two of the sonnets are inserted,

have been Sir David Murray, Knt. Gentleman of the Bed-chamber and Groom of the Stole to Henry, Prince of Wales.* This conjecture is principally founded on two sonnets addressed to that Prince, and prefixed to the death of Sophonisba. The second of these I transcribe. It is constructed after the Ita

lian model; and not unsuccessfully.

"Even as the eagle through the empty skie

Convoys her young ones on her soaring wings
Above the azur'd vaults, till she them brings
Where they on Phœbus' glorious beames may pry;
So, mighty Prince! my Muse now soars on high
Above the vulgar reach to higher spheres,
With this scarce-ripen'd eaglet birth of her's,
Unto the view of your majestick eye.

But if it hap (as hap I feare it shall)

She may not bide your censure's dazling touch; The higher flight, the more renowned fall;

It shall suffice that her attempt was such: But if in aught she please your princely view, Then she attains the marke at which she flew. Your Highnesse most loyall & affectionate servant, DA. MURRAY."

Complimentary verses follow, by Michael Drayton, the well-known poet; by Simon Grahame, the au thor of the "Anatomie of Humors ;" and by John Murray, who has a MS. volume of Sonnetst in the

To the latter situation he was appointed in Dec. 1610. Set Birch's Life of P. Henry, p. 218. In August 1600, it appears fron Birrel's diary, that Sir David Murray was comptroller of the house. hold to James VI. See Dalyel's Fragments of Scotish Hist. p. 50.

+ To these Drummond seems to allude, when he says-" Murray,,