either to Yorkshire or Cheshire, by the names which are recorded in his book.

The Odes translated are Lib. I. Odes 1, 5, 13, 22, 23, 26. Lib. II. Odes 10, 14, 16, 18. Lib. III. Odes 9, 30. Lib. IV. Odes 3, 7, 8. Epode 2. I will give one specimen, which I select as the shortest.

"Ad Melpomenen. (Lib. IV. Ode 3.)

Whose birth Melpomeney

Thou smiling look'st upon,

No toyle in Isthmos him can make

A famous champion.

No stately steeds shall draw,
Contending for the prize,

His conquering charet going on
With joyfull shouts and cryes.

Nor good successe in warre

To th' Capitoll him brings
Adorn'd with bayes, because the threats

He batter'd of proud kings.

But waters that their course

By fertill Tiber take,

And woods with leaves thick-clad shall him

Renown'd by verses make.

The Gallants of great Rome
Amongst the crue recite me
Of lovely poets: Envie now,
With venim split, less bites me.

Ó Muse, that guid'st the strings
Of the sweet warbling lute;
O thou, that, if thou wilt, canst give
Swans notes to fishes mute!

It's thy free gift, that me

Her Poet Rome doth call:

It's by thee, that I breath, and please,
If ought I please at all."

At p. 29 is the following new title-page. Epigrammes, Epitaphes, Anagrammes, and other Poems of divers subjects; in Latine and English. London. Printed, &c. as before.

This is followed by the ensuing dedicatory verses to Sir George Calvert, [afterwards Lord Baltimore.]

"Excerptos variis ex hortis undique flores,

Naribus afflantes qui placuere meis,
Eque meo paucos collectos nuper agello
Connexosque, unum in do tibi fasciculum:
Queis si læta tui spiraverit aura favoris,
(Ambrosii quæ illis roris ad instar erit,)
Mista rosis noster calathis tibi lilia plenis

Hortus, et hyberno tempore, pulchra dabit."

The first of the poems is "A Speech made to the King's Majestie comming in his Progress to Rippon, the 15 of Aprill 1617, in the person of Mercurie." The rest are principally short addresses or epigrams to several of the author's patrons and friends, except a few more translations at the end, dedicated to Sir Thomas Wharton, son and heir of Philip Lord Wharton. The principal of which is "The Praise of a Country Life" from the second book of Virgil's Georgics. I will transcribe the last, not

only because it is short, but because it has some

poetical merit.

Ex M. Antonio Flaminio, ad Agellum suum.

incipit" Umbræ frigidulæ," &c.

"Cool shades, air-fanning groves,

With your soft whisperings,
Where Pleasure smiling roves

Through dewy caves and springs,

And bathes her purple wings :

With flowers enamel'd ground,
Nature's fair tapestry,.
Where chattering birds abound,
Flickering from tree to tree
With change of melody:

Sweet Liberty and Leisures,
Where still the Muses keep,
O! if to those true treasures,

That from your bosoms peep,
I might securely creep :

If I might spend my days,
Remote from public brawls,

Now tuning lovely lays,

Now light-foot madrigals,

Ne'er check'd with sudden calls:

Now follow Sleep that goes

Rustling i' th' greenwood shade! .

Now milk my goat, that knows

With her young fearful cade,
The pail i' th' cooly glade;

And with bowls fill'd to th' brims
Of milky moisture new,

Sic

To water my dried limbs,

And t' all the wrangling crew

Of Cares to bid adieu !

What life then should I lead!

How like then would it be
Unto the gods, that tread
I' th' starry gallery
Of true felicity!

But you, O virgins sweet,
In Helicon that dwell,
That oft the fountains greet,

When you the pleasures tell,
I' th' country that excell!

If I my life, though dear,

For

your far dearer sake,

To yeild would nothing fear;

From city's tumults take me,

And free i' th' country make me!"

After this there are still appended six pages, of small translations, with a dedication to Sir Richard Hutton, Judge of the Common Pleas.

Sir Thomas Hawkins of Nash, in the parish of Boughton Blean, Kent, published a Translation of Horace's Odes, in 1638.*

ART. CLXX. The most Elegant and Witty Epigrams of Sir John Harington, Knight, digested into four bookes.

Fama bonum quo non felicius ullum.

*Wood's Ath. II. 268.

London. Printed by T. S. for John Budge, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Greene Dragon. 1625. Sm. 8vo. not paged, but ends with sign. M.

Ir seems that this collection had been already published in 1618; and it was appended to the third edition of the Translation of "Orlando Furioso," in 1634, fol. but the fourth book had before been printed by itself in 4to. in 1615.

Sir John Harington was born 1561, and died at his seat at Kelston, near Bath, in 1612, aged 51. The NUGE ANTIQUE, which have been lately reedited with so much elegance, and so much erudite industry, have so fully brought back his memory to the public notice, that it would be superfluous for me to repeat the circumstances of his life or cha

racter.

The epigrams, it must be confessed, although they appear to have once enjoyed some reputation, possess no poetical merit. They are flat, colloquial, rhymes, of that low tone, above which it seems to have been difficult for the genius of Harington to rise. But they may still be perused with some in

*The first edition of this translation was printed in 1591 by Richard Field, fol. The title of the third edition is this: "Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse. By Sir John Harington, of Bathe, Knight. Now thirdly revised and amended, with the addition of the author's Epigrams.

Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est. HORAce.

London. Printed by G. Miller for J. Parker, 1634. Fol,

This is an engraved title page, at the bottom of which is the poet's portrait, "æt. suæ 30, primo Augusti, 1591."