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This part contains-"The Virgine Marie's Conception," three stanzas. "Her Nativitie," three stanzas. "Her Spousals," three stanzas. "The Virgin's Salutation," three stanzas. "The Visitation," three stanzas." His Circumcision," three stanzas." The Epiphanie," four stanzas. "The Presentation,” three stanzas. "The Flight into Egypt," three stanzas. "Christ's bloudy Sweat," two stanzas. "Christ's sleeping friends," seven stanzas. "The Virgin Mary to Christ on the Crosse," twenty-eight quatrains. "An holy Hymne," eight stanzas. "S. Peter's afflicted mind," six quatrains. "S. Peter's remorse," fifteen quatrains. "Man to the wound in Christ's side," seven quatrains. "Upon the image of death," nine stanzas. "A vale of teares," seventy-six lines in alternate rhime. The prodigall child's soule-wracke," sixty lines, in quatrain rhyme. "Man's civil warre," thirty-two quatrains. "Seek flowers of heaven," twenty-four lines.

3. Marie Magdalen's Funerall Teares. Jeremie, chap. vi. perse 26. Luctum unigeniti fac tibi planctum amarum. London. Printed for W. Barret. +

"A dedication "to the Worshipfull and vertuous (Dodd's Church History) Lond. 1595. [Probably says Mr. PARK, the same as Mæoniæ.] Idem (Herbert, 1288) Lond. 1596. Idem Lond. by A. L. for W. Leake, 4to. no date.

Marie Magdalen's Funerall Teares, Jeremie, &c. At London, printed for William Leake, dwelling in Paule's Church-yard, at the sign of the Holy Ghost, 1609, 4to. 46 leaves. Idem (Dodd Ch. Hist.) Doway [no date.] Idem. With some alterations to make it read easy, by the Rev. W. Tooke. (Some of Dr. Watt's short poems are annexed.) Lond. 1772:

Gentlewoman, Mistresse D. A." concluding "your loving friend, R. S." and an address "to the reader," wherein the author states "sith the copies flew so fast, and so false abroad, that it was in danger to come corrupted to the print, it seemed a lesse evill to let it fly to common view in the native plume, and with the owne wings, than disguised in a coat of a bastard feather; or case off from the fist of such a corrector, as might hapily have perished the sound, and imped in some sicke and sory feathers of his own fansies; and concludes "let the worke defend itselfe, and every one passe his censure as he seeth cause. Many carps are expected when curious, eyes come a-fishing. But the care is already taken, and patience wayteth at the table, ready to take away, when that dish is served in, and to make roome for others to set on the desired fruit.

R.S."

This work is in prose, and extends to 152 pages. 4. The triumphs over Death; or a consolatorie Epistle,

for afflicted minds, in the effects of dying friends. First written for the consolation of one; but now published for the generall good of all: by R. S. London, Printed for W. Barret.*

This work has the following dedication:

*The Triumphs over Death, or a consolatorie Epistle, for afflicted minds, in the affects of dying friends. First written for the consolation of one but nowe published for the generall good of all, by R. S. the authour of S. Peter's Complaint, and Mæoniæ his other Hymnes. London, printed by Valentine Simmes for John Busbie, and are to be solde at Nicolas Ling's shop, at the West end of Paule's Church, 1596, 4to. nineteen leaves. First ed. by the same printer in 1595 (Herbert, 1289.)

This Tract has been since reprinted in Archaica, 1814.

"To the Worshipfull M. Richard Sackvile, Edward Sackvile, Cicilie Sackvile, the hopeful issues of the honorable Gentleman, Maister Robert Sackvile, Esquire.

"Most lines do not the best conceit containe,

Few words, well-coucht, may comprehend much Then, as to use the first is counted vaine,

So is't praise-worthy to conceit the latter. The gravest wits that most grave works expect, The qualitie, not quantitie respect.

The smallest sparke will cast a burning heate:

Base cottages may harbour things of worth:
Then though this volume is nor gay, nor great,
Which under your protection I set forth,
Do not, with coy disdainefull oversight,
Deny to read this well-meant orphan's mite.
And since his father in his infancie

[matter;

Provided patrons to protect his heire;
But now by death's none-sparing crueltie,
Is turn'd an orphan to the open ayre;
I, his unworthy foster-sire, have dar'de
To make you patronizer of this warde.
You, glorying issues of that glorious dame,
Whose life is made the subject of death's will;
To you succeeding hopes of mother's fame,

I dedicate this fruit of SOUTHWELL's quill:
He, for your unkle's comfort first it writ,

I for your consolation, print and send you it.

*" And Ann Sackvile," ed. 1596. These were the issue of Robert Sackvil (who succeeded to the Earldom of Dorset in 1608) by Margaret daughter of Thomas Duke of Norfolk and Margaret his second wife, who was daughter of Thomas Lord Audley of Walden.

Then daine in kindnesse to accept the worke,
Which he in kindnesse writ, I send to you;
The which till now clouded, obscure did lurke:
But now opposed to ech readers view,
May yeeld commodious fruite to everie wight,
That feeles his conscience prickt by Parcæ's spight.
But if in ought I have presumptuous bene,

My pardon-craving pen implores your favour;
If any fault in print be past unseene,

To let it passe, the printer is the craver;
So shall he thanke you; and I, by duty bound,
Pray, that in you may all good gifts abound.

S. W."

A prose address of "the Authour to the Reader," with initials "R. S." then "The Triumphs over Death: or a consolatorie epistle for troubled minds, in the affects of dying friends," also in prose: concluding with four six-line stanzas,* having eight Latin lines as a motto; neither title nor signature.

5. Short Rules of Good Life by R. S. London, printed for W. Barret. +

*The information contained in the first stanza will apologize for transcribing.

"Of Howard's stemme a glorious branch is dead,

Sweet lights eclipsed were at her decease;

In Buckehurst line she gracious issue spread,

She hev'n with two, with four did earth increase:
Fame, honor, grace, gave ayre unto her breath,
Rest, glory, joyes, were sequeles of her death."

+"Rules of a Good Life; with a Letter to his Father." (Dodd's Ch. Hist.) St. Omer's and Doway, [no date.] Southwell also wrote " A Consolation for Catholicks imprisoned on account of Religion." (Dodd's Ch. Hist.) Printed at St. Omer's, n. d. "A Supplication to Queen Elizabeth," (Ib.) Lond. 1593. "Two epistles, to be seen

This is inscribed "to my deare affected friend, M. D. S. gentleman," from "your's in firme affection, R. S." Then" to the Christian reader," six quatrains. "A preparative to prayer," four stanzas. "The effects of Prayer," one stanza. '66 Ensamples of our Saviour," three stanzas. The remainder is in prose, divided under many different heads, upon religious subjects.

Of the above induction poem, subscribed with the initials S. W. little can be said in commendation. Those initials are conjectured by Mr. Waldron, with much consistent reason, to describe the author's name SOUTH-WELL; they are also affixed to the epistle dedicatory and address to the reader, (both certainly by S.) preceding "Mary Magdalen's Funeral Teares," 1609. In the present instance they have been improperly adopted, as the same lines are inserted in the first edition of the Triumphs over Death 1595, and subscribed "your Worship's bumbly devoted, John Trussell." Where they are followed by an acrostic on the author's name, and five octave stanzas to the reader with the same signature. The tenor of the lines does not admit a doubt of the mistake-but, to better matter.-In what a beautiful strain of panegyric are these Triumphs! The pen of the master and the gifts of the Muse flow in unison to delineate the character of the deceased Margaret,* and little has the mould of age affected it,

in Didacus Yepes de Persecut. Angl. (Dodd.) [These are translated and inserted in Bishop Challoner's Memoirs of Missionary Priests, &c." Manchester, 1803.] In "Catal Univ. lib. in Bibl. Bodl." Oxon. 1620, is "R. Southwell's Epistle to his Father."

Margaret I suppose to have been the Lady Margaret Sackvill,