FROM AMONG THEBODKSQF IRENE ^d EDMUND ANDREWS _ . t-< *^* A SECON9 JOURNEY ROUND OP A BIBLIOMANIAC; OB, 4 CENTO OF NOTES AND REMINISCENCES CONCERNING RARE, CURIOUS, AND VALUABLE ****** WILLIAM DAVIS, AUTHOR OF " THE OLIO OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND LITERARY ANECDOTIC AND MEMORANDA." LONDON. PRINTED FOR W. DAVIS, BOOKSELLER, AT THE BEDFORD LIBRARY, SOUTHAMPTON ROAV, RUSSELL SQUARE. 1825. TAYLpR, PRINTER, LAMB'S CONDUIT PASSAGE, RED LION PREFACE. MANY know to their cost the truth of Harwood's re- mark " that the knowledge of Books, like the knowledge of every Art that is arduous and useful, must be purchased at a high price, and can only be acquired by an assiduous and judicious application to this pursuit for a considera- ble number of years." Experienced individuals will also readily admit, with Oldys, in his Librarian, " that the most industrious part in performances of this kind, is that which is most invisible ; the mass of reference and reading therein required bearing no proportion to the small quantity of writing that appears." It has therefore usually happened, that any attempt to facilitate such knowledge, has been received with indulgence, if not with approbation. Without such encouragement to the Author's former productions, the present performance had never been submitted to public scrutiny ; and having pub- licly but uselessly invited the more valuable suggestions or contributions of others, he only trusts that the sanc- tion he has hitherto experienced may not in the present instance be diminished, " And if I have d- ne well and as fitting the occasion, it is that which I desired but if slenderly and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto.'' W. D. 2040061 " Nature will hare her course, and dull Books will be forgotten in spite of Bibliographers.' 1 Campbell. TAfcLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE. Acuna Desciibrimiento de las Amazonas, 4to. 1641 .... 84 Annalia Dubrensia, 4to. 1 636 85 Arnolde's Chronicle 35 Arthur (Kynge) and his Knyghtes, Caxton, 1485 28 Barksdale's Nympha Libethris, 12mo. 1651 87 Baron's Cyprian Academy, 8vo. 1 647 83 Pocula Castalia, 1 650 84 Bassentinus's Free Will, a Tragedy, 4to 57 Bateman's Travayled Pilgrim, 1569 51 Bible (First Protestant) 1535 37 (First edition of Luther's) 1 541 38 (Bill and Barker's) Bunyan's copy, with account of Bunyan , 3$ Blanchardyne (King) and Princess Eglantine, Caxton, 1485 28- Boecius's Boke of Consolation, 1525 37 Borde's Book of Knowledge, &c 43- Bracelli Bizarie di Vare Figure, 1 624 77 Brusonii Facetiarum, folio, 1518 34 Bry (De) Peregrination*, &c. 1590-1634, folio 60 Bury (De) Phylobiblion, 1 473 1O Carmeliani Carmen, 4to. Pynson 32 Case's (J.) Angelical Guide, 8vo. 1697 101 Chroniques de France, 1 476 16 de Normandie, 1 487 1 ( (i CONTENTS. PACK. Churchyarde's (T.) Works 53 Clizia, L'Infelice Amore di Giulia e Romeo, 8vo. 1553.. 43 Collins's Families of Vere, Cavendish, &c. folio, 1762.. 119 Court and Kitchen of Elizabeth Cromwell, 12mo. 1664 90 Cowley's Poetical Blossoms, &c. 4to. 1633, &c. 78 Anacreontic Odes on Gold, the Grasshopper, and the Epicure 81 Cromwell the Perfect Politician, 8vo. 1680 91 Dance of Death (The History of) 24 Danse Macabre, 1485, &c 20 des Morts, 1744, &c. 23 Darcie's Annales of Queen Elizabeth, 1625 77 Dee's (Dr. J.) Arte of Navigation, folio, 1557 56 Demosthenis, Aldus, 1 504 32 Taylori, 1748-57 33 El Diablo Coivelo, 8vo. 1646 87 Drayton's (M.) Poly Olbion 73 Queen Elizabeth's Prayer, or Booke of Christian Praiers 27 Fazio Dita Mundi, 1474 14 Fraunce's Countess of Pembroke's Ivy Church ; Amyntas, &c. 4to. 1591, &c 62 Froissart Chroniques de France, &c : 29 Froissart's Chronicles, Pynson, 1523, &c 30 by Johnes 30 Fuller's Worthies of England, folio, 1662, (Directions for Collating) O.'i Church History (plates in) i " Abel Rcdivivus (Collation of) !'"> CONTENTS. 7 PAGE. Geuinge's Life and Death, 4to. 1614 71 Godwin's (Bp.) Man in the Moon, 8vo. 1 638 65 Gower Coiifessio Amantis, 1483 17 Greinville's (Sir R.) Briefe Report of Virginia, folio, 1590 61 Grimstone's (Lord) Lawyer's Fortune 103 Hall's (Jos.) Discovery of a New World, 8vo 65 Virgedimiarium, 12mo. 1597-1598 ...... 66 Han'ay's (Patrick) Nightingale, &c. Svo. 1622 72 Hearne, (T.) Acta Apostolorum, Svo. 1715 104. Hey wood's (J.) Spider and Flie and other Works, 1556- 1562, &c 48 Hooker's Ecclesiastical Politie, folio, 1723 63 Howleglas (Merie Jests of) 46 King's (Dr.) Toast, (Key to the Characters in) with extracts 106 Languct's Junius Brutus's Defence of Liberty, 4to. 1648 88 Meliador, or the Knight of the Sun of Gold 31 Moliere, (Oeuvres de) 97 Nice Wanton, (Interlude of) 4to. 1560 52 Palsgrave's Edaircissement de la Langue Francoise, 1530 40 Perrault, Hommes Illustres, folio, 1696-1700 100 Porto, (L.) Romeo e Giulietta 42 La Giulietta, 1539 43 CONTENTS.^ Rabutin, (Bussy) Hibt. Amourense des Oanles ........ 96 Relation de la Riviere des Amazones, par Gomberville, 1682 ........................................ 85 Saint Greaal, Paris, 1516 and 1523 ................ 33 Sallust, 4to. 1475 ............................ 15 Simolacliri Historia, &c. Lyon, 1549 ................ 26 Smith's (Capt. J.) History of Virginia, folio, 1624 ---- 75 ------ Travels in" Europe, &c. 1680 ...... 77 Smollett's Adventures of an Atom (Key to the Characters in) ........................................ 116 Spencer's Faerie Queene and other Works, 1590, &c. . . . 58 Spence's Polymetis, folio, 1747 . . .................. 105 Tonstallus de Arte Supputandi, Pynson, 1522 ........ 36 Towneley's Translation of Hudibras ................ 119 Virgilii Opera, 1469 .............................. 9 Waller's (Edmd.) Poems, 1711 .................... 104 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND /"ir^ it'll Opera. Folio. Printed by Sweynheim and Pannartz at Rome. 1469. Of this edition of the Mantuan Bard, which Beloe calls Editlo Princeps, he, in his Anecdotes of Literature, vol. i. p. 85, tells^the following amusing anecdote. " It seems that a copy was discovered in a Monastery in Suabia, whence it has found its way into the collection of a Noble Earl. The anecdote which belongs to it is rather lu- dicrous. The good Monks to whom this and other valuable books belonged were not, it seems, to be prevailed upon by money to part with them. It happened however that they were remarkably fond of OLD HOCK, and for as much of this same HOCK as was worth seven guineas, they parted with this Virgil to a kind friend and acquaintance. This gentleman 10 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND sold it again to an English dealer in books for ^650, and doubtless believed he had turned his Hock to very good account. I have nevertheless heard that the nobleman above alluded to did not obtain possession of this literary treasure for a less sum than 36400." See the Valliere Catalogue, No. 2432, where it sold for 4101 livres. Bury. (Richardi de) Phylobiblion de querimoniis Librorum omnibus liter arum amatoribus perutlle. 4fo. Spiree. 1473. Ditto. (Said to be prior to the edition above cited.) 4to. Colen. 1473. The Editions of Paris, Frankfort, Leipsic, &c. are various. The Oxford Edition, 1599, is most known in this country, but is rare, like most of the other Editions. Copies of this curious book may be found in most of our PuMic Libraries. The learned and munificent Prelate, whose paternal name was Richard de Aungerville, but which he altered upon taking religious orders to that of De Bur}-, from the place of his nativity, founded a Public Library at Oxford,* for the benefit of the Students : having furnished it with the best collection of Books then in England, he wrote his Philobiblion, a Trea- tise containing Rules for the management of the Library, how the Books were to be preserved, and on what conditions lent out to the Scholars. It is written, according to Horne,f Chalmers is in error when he says it was at Cambridge, f Introduction to Bibliography, vol. i. p. 518. A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 11 hi very indifferent Latin, in a declamatory style, and is divided into twenty Chapters. In chapter 1 the Author praises Wisdom, and the Books in which it is contained. 2. That Books are to be preferred to Riches and Pleasure. 3. That they ought always to be bought. 4. How much good arises from Books, and that they are only misused by ignorant people. 5. That good Monks write Books, Avhilst bad ones are differently employed. 6. The praise of the antient begging Friars, with a reproof of the modern ones. 7. He bewails the loss of Books by fires and wars. 8. He shews what fine opportunities he had of collecting Books while he was Chancellor and Treasurer, as well as dur- ing his Embassies. 9. That the antients surpassed the moderns in hard studying. 10. That learning arrives at perfection by degrees, and that he had procured a Greek and Hebrew Grammar. 1 1 . That the Law and Law Books are not properly learning. 12. The usefulness and necessity of Grammar. 13. An Apology for Poetry, and the usefulness of it. 14. Who ought to love Books. 15. The manifold advantages of Learning. 16. Of writing new Books and mending old ones. 17. Of using Books well, and in what manner they should be placed. 18. An Answer to his Calumniators. 19. On what conditions Books are to be lent to strangers. 20. Conclusion. B2 12 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND Our Author was appointed Bishop of Durham in 1333, and Lord Treasurer of England in 1344. His Book relates the measures he took to gratify his favourite passion, the love of books ; whilst Treasurer and Chancellor of England he took his perquisites and new year's gifts in books ; and by Edward the Third's favor rummaged the Libraries of the principal men, and brought to light many books \vhich had been locked up for ages. At Avignon, in the year 1331, among the distinguished and learned men with whom Petrarch became acquainted, Richard de Bury is thus characterized by the Author of the life of Petrarch. " One of these was Richard of Bury or Aungerville, who came to Avignon this year. He was sent thither by Edward the Third, his Pupil and his King. Edward wrote a letter to the Pope, recommending to him in particular Richard of Bury, and Anthony of Besanges, whom he had sent with an em- bassy to his Court. Richard of Bury had a piercing wit, a cultivated understanding, and an eager desire after every kind of knowledge. Nothing could satisfy this ardour, no obstacle could stop its progress. He had given himself up to study from his youth. His genius threw light on the darkest, and his penetration fathomed the deepest, subjects. He was passion- ately fond of books ; and laboured all his life to collect the largest library at that time in Europe. A man of such merit, and the Minister and favorite of the King of England, was re- ceived with every mark of distinction in the society of Cardinal Colonna." His stay at Avignon was short : Edward, who could not do yrithout him, recalled him to England soon after. On his A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 13 returu he possessed all the confidence and favor of his Mas- ter, who first made him Bishop of Durham, Chancellor the year following, then High Treasurer, and Plenipotentiary for a treaty of peace with France. Ricaard of Bury did in England what Petrarch did in France, Italy, and Germany ; he gave much of his attention, and spent great part of his fortune, to discover the manu- scripts of ancient Authors, and have them copied under his immediate inspection, and kept binders, illuminators, and wri- ters in his palaces. Richard in his Philobiblion, a Treatise which he wrote on the love and choice of books, relates the incredible expense he was at to form his famous Library, not- withstanding he made use of the authority which his dignity and favor with the King procured him. He mentions the arts he was obliged to use to compass his design, and informs us that the first Hebrew and Greek Grammars that ever appeared were derived from his labours. He had them composed for the English students > persuaded that without the knowledge of these two languages, and especially the Greek, it was impossible to understand the principles of either the ancient Heathen or Christian Writers. Richard de Bury died in 1345, and is said to have possessed more books than all the Bishops of England together. Besides the fixed Libraries which he had formed in his several Palaces, the floor of his common apartment was so covered with books that those who entered could not with due reverence approach his presence. See some further curious particulars in the new edition of Warton's History of English Poetry, vol. i. Svo. p. cxlvii, &c. 14 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND Fazio Dita Mundl Folio. 1474. A chard, in his Cours de Bibliographic, torn. iii. p. 191, places this amongst the Poemes Scientifiques, and from actual inspection of a fine copy in the Public Library at Marseilles, plumes himself upon being the first Bibliographer who has accurately described it. I shall content myself by giving its title from Achard, and adding a few miscellaneous remarks, omitting some of his details, as of little general interest. Its title is as follows : Incominza el Libro primo Dita Mundl cumponuto per Fazio Dl Gl Uberti da Firenza. Et prima de la buona dispositione che egli ebe adretarsi da gli J^itii et saguire le Virtute Capituolo primo. Each following chapter is headed by its argument, with its number in Roman figures, and the whole work is printed in double columns. It is not paged, neither has it catchwords. It has signatures only to the gatherings, which begin with a, and extend to and comprise the letter o-, these gatherings are all of eight leaves, excepting n, which only has six, and o, which only comprises 4 leaves. It is remarkable that the signatures of the gatherings are entirely at the bottom of the page, therefore if the book- binder happen to be at all liberal in the application of his knife the signatures must be found wanting. Payne's Catologue for 1801 refers for an account of this Work to the Irish Philosophical Transactions by Lord (?harlemont. In book iv. cap. xxiii, of Dita Mundl there is an account of a nation of tailed men, and it is well known that Lord Monboddo A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 16 believed in the existence of such a race.* Jean Struys, Voyages in Muscovie, &c. positively asserts that he saw a race of men in Formosa with tails. In Bulwer's Artificial Changling, scene 22 relates to tailed nations and breech gallantry. A copy of this rare first edition sold at the Valliere sale for 480 francs. M. Crevenna's for 136 francs. Pinelli's, 1789-90, forafiS. 10*.: and Floncel's, which, according to Brunet, was a very beautiful copy, for 800 francs; and " thereby hangs a tale I'll tell it." Floncel's copy, according to the Abbe" St. Leger,f no longer exists. An English amateur having commissioned some one to buy it for him without fixing the price, the book was run up to the enormous sum of 800 francs, at which price it was purchased for him, but when he received it he was so irritated at having been made to pay so dearly for his folly, that he threw the book out of spite into the fire. " Happily," says the quizzical French Bibliographer, " English Bibliomaniacs do not act so spitefully now a days for so trifling a matter, otherwise at the prices which they give for rare Books, it might be expected that entire Libraries would share the fate of the Dita Mundi." Sallust. 4to. Valentif introducing and adapting subjects of a very dis- tant nature, and which are totally foreign to his general design. Considered in a general view, the ' Confessio Amant'is may be pronounced to be no unpleasing miscellany of those shorter tales which delighted the readers of the middle age. The only Classics which our Author cites are Virgil, Ovid, Horace, and Tully. Amidst his grave Literature, he appears to have been a great reader of Romances.* The Rev. Mr. Todd, in his Account of the Lives and Wri- 20 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND tings of Gower and Chaucer, has aptly illustrated Warton's preceding remark, by citing from the Lambeth MSS. a be- quest by Guy Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, to the Abbey of Bordesley in Worcestershire, of a long list of Romances, some of which are alluded to by Gower himself, and it is therefore reasonable to suppose that he was well acquainted with many others in this collection. It is an exceedingly curious illustration of Ancient Literary History, and will amply repay the inquisitive reader for the trouble of turning to p. 161, of the " Illustrations of Gower and Chaucer," 8vo. London, 1810. Mr. Ellis, in his Specimens of the Early English Poets, vol. i. has pointed out some portions of Gower's work, which he thinks might be reprinted with advantage Danse Macabre. La Danse Macabre. First Edition. Small folio. Paris. 1485. Ce present Livre est appele Miroer salutaire pour toutes gens. La Danse Macabre nouvelle. La Danse Macabre des Femmes, et le debat du Corps et de T Ame. Folio. Impr. a Paris par Guyot Marchant. 1486. At the Valliere sale 45 francs. A copy on vellum, with 35 highly finished illuminations, is in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth. There was also a copy of the first part of this volume printed on vellum, with 19 illuminations, sold at the Valliere sale for 220 francs. The dates of some of the other editions of this rarity are 1490, 1491, 1499, 1501, 1531, 1550, and 1589. A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 21 Edit, de Troyes. Folio. Sans date. Nicholas Le Rouge. Said for 19 francs at the Gaignat sale. La Grande Danse Macabre des Hommes et des Femmes, Hlstorlee et Renouvellee de vlcuje Gaulols en Langage le plus poly dc notre terns. Le debat du Corps et de FAme. Le Complalnte de V Ame daninfe. avec L" Exhortation de blen vlvre et de blen mourlr. La Vie du mauuais Ante-Christ. Les qulnze signes. Le Jugement. 'A Troyes Chez la f^euve Oudot. 4to. 1723. This is a very singular and curious production, as much on account of the spirited wood cats, which resemble in form those ornamenting the earliest Speculum, as for the French Versification or Dialogues by Marot, in explanation of this Dance of Death the original of which evidently appears to have been Hans Holbein's exemplar in his " Ttiomphe de la Mart,"* wherein he has taken pretty nearly all the personages in the Danse Macabre, and amplified the subject ; but to my mind the story is much better and more distinctly told in its rude original, than in what seems to be only a more polished copy. Hans Holbein was born 1498, and the first edition of the Danse Macabre appeared 1485. * It is Warton's opinion that tlie Dance of Death cut in Wood was the work of Albert Durer and not of Hans Holbein. Rubens set the highest value on it and recommended it to Sandraart, informing him at the same time that he iu his youth had copied it. See more on this subject in \Var- tou's Observations, vol. ii. p. II", c^c. 22 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND The Troyes edition of 1 723, by the Widow Oudot, I have ; it consists of 38 leaves, having wood-cut head-pieces to almost every page : each cut of the Danse Macabre contains four figures, viz. two of Death and two of the Personages he is ad- dressing. The Vignette to the Title-page represents four Skeletons playing in concert, on bagpipe, hurdy gurdy, harp, pipe and tabor. At the back of the Title, is a representation of the Author, and facing him three emblematical figures, and beneath are 1 6 lines in verse. The next leaf begins the Work by a repetition of the Vignette on the Title, and a Poetical Quartette by these Skeleton Performers, and, as a specimen, I shall give the chant of Le Troisi^me Mort. Entendez ce que je vous dis Jeunes et vieux, petits et grands, De jour en jour dedans nos lits, Comme nous allez mourans, Vos corps iront diininuans, Comme nous autres Trepassez Et quoy que 1'on vive cent ans, Ces cent ans sont bientot passez. These four relentless personages then quit their troubadour occupation, and begin to lay violent hands on the Pope, the Emperor, the Cardinal, and the King: the Pope wishes to ex- cuse himself from quadrilling with Death, and pleads ineffec- tually his sanctity as God's Vicar, and the bearer of St. Peter's keys. The Emperor seems less unwilling, as he does not know where to appeal against Death's unmannerly citation, and thinks a death bed easier and lighter than an Emperor's throne and diadem. The Cardinal is told he must throw off his rich robes with his astonishment, and join in the dance, Death then addresses the King as follows : A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 23 La Mort. Venez noble Roy Couronne Renomme par votre prouesse, D'un Sceptre vous futes orne Par votre pompeuse noblesse, Mais raaintenant toute hautesse, Vous faut laisser pour etre seul, Dites adieu a votre ricliesse, Le plus riche n'a qu'un linceul. Reponse du Roy. Je n'ay pas appris a Danser, Votre Danse est un peu trop sauvage, O Mort ! vous pouvez me laisser. Cherchez quelqu'autre personnage, II est bien vrai pnisq; Alexandre, A marche sur vos tristrs pas, Que comme luy je dois me rendre Aux Loix t'atales du Trepas. In the succeeding pages Death dances a measure with men of various conditions and situations in life, from the highest to the lowest ; with the Sage, the Buffoon, the Soldier, as well as the Ecclesiastic. The last trumpet then sounds, and a vision in verse succeeds. After which comes La Danse Maca- bre des Femines, &c. &c. La Dame des Morts, comme elle est dcpeinte dans la louable et celebre faille de Basic, pour servir d'un Miroir de la nature humainc, gravte sur I 'original de Math. Merian, avec des f^ers ti chaque fig. en Allcmand et en Francois. 4(0' 1744, 1756, and] 789. The first edition (1744) of this Work is looked upon as the best, on account of the early impressions. It differs mate- 24 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND rially from Dcuchar's Etchings of Holbein's Designs, and is also totally different in its versification from the Danse Ma- cabre before mentioned. The History of the origin of this monument of mortality, depicted in the cemetry near the Dominican Convent at Bale, throws a light on the subject, which I believe not to be gene- rally known. It appears to have been commemorative of the plague which raged at Bale in the year 1439, during the sitting of the Great Council, and which committed great de- vastation, and amongst the rest carried off various persons of quality, as well as Cardinals and Prelates, many of whom were interred in this Cemetry, but still greater numbers in the Chartreuse. The Emperor Sigismund being an encourager of the arts, either employed Jean d'Eick, who, according to Merian, in- vented the art of oil painting,* (painting in distemper being the only mode previously known,) or some other celebrated Artist, whose name may have been lost, to execute this praise- worthy work. It is very remarkable, says Merian, that in this Work men of almost all conditions and ranks are natu- rally depicted, and in the dress of the period. The figure of the Pope represents Felix V. who was elected in the place of Eugene. The representation of the Emperor is the true Por- trait of Sigismund ;+ that of the King is the Portrait of Albert * Beckman, in his History of Inventions, if I remember correctly, dates the Origin of Oil Painting much earlier than Jean d'Eick's time. f- A rude representation certainly, but as Granger says of the Por- traiu of William the Conqueror, "Accuracy of Drawing is not to be expected in an age in which the generality of Artists had not arrived at suintient precision to distinguish between a Monkey and a Man." A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 25 the 2d, then King of the Romans. All these Personages as- sisted at the Council. The descriptions beneath were in Ger- man, which, as time had in some degree effaced both the Paint- ing and the Inscriptions, the Magistrate had them retouched in 1568 by one Klauber of Bale, who succeeded so well in his restoration, that it is said not the smallest difference from the original was perceptible. In the whole length of the wall there yet remained some space, the painter therefore added the image of the pious and learned Jean Oecolampade, in me- mory of the Reformation recently effected : viz. in 1529, and, as a finish to the work, he pourtrayed himself, wife, and children in the dress of the period. It again experienced reparation many years after, and in its then state Merian depicted it.* If this be the true history of the Dance of Death, which I at present see no reason to disbelieve, similar representations or copies were soon transmitted and became popular in other cities ; among the rest the walls of St. Innocent's Cloister, at Paris, were thus ornamented, and according to Warton in his observations on Spenser, one Machabre, a French Poet, wrote a description of it in verse ; whence no doubt originated the title of " Danse Macabre." Stow, in his Survey of London, speaking of the cloisters which anciently belonged to St. Paul's Church, says, about this cloister was artificially and richly painted the Dance of Machabray, or Dance of Pauls ; the like whereof was painted about St. Innocent's Cloister at * The S5th and last plate in Merian's book is a very singular one ; it perfectly represents a good looking healthy man, with whiskers, beard, hair, and a ruff round his neck; turn the book upside down, and a most horrible Death'i head, as accurately delineated, presents iinelf.' * 26 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND Paris : the metres or Poesie of this Dance were translated out of French into English by John Lidgate, Monk of Bury. Warton mentions two editions of Lydgate's Translation, one by Tottell, 1554, and another, 1599, he also names a MS. Dance Macabre as among the Cottouian MSS. Lydgate, describing the Lady Abbess, says, And ye my Ladie, gentle Dame Abbesse, With your mantles furred, large, and wide, Your veile, yoar wimple passing great riches. Prefixed is a wood cut, which was afterwards engraved by Hollar, in Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. iii. p. 368. Warton thought and from all the investigation I have been able to bestow on the subject, his conjecture was well founded that the Dunse Machabray was the original printed source whence most of the other Dances of Death were derived.* The book from which Hollar copied his cuts is entitled Icone Mortis. Basil. 1554. Spenser, in whose time the representations of Death's Dance were fashionable and familiar, says, All Musicke sleeps where Death doth lead the Daunce ; and Mr. D' Israeli, who in his second series of the Curiosities of Literature has an entire chapter on the Book of Death and the Skeleton of Death, says, " the Dance of Death was a fa- vourite pageant or religious mummery performed in Churches, in which the chief characters in society were supported in a sort of masquerade, mixing together in a general dance, in the course of which every one in his turn vanished from the scene, to shew how one after the other died off." * u Simolachri Historia, &c. Lyons, 1549," with the Inscriptions, &c- n Italian, was the earliest book on the subject Warton had seen. A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 27 See an illustration of this, in the article entitled " A Merle Jest of a Man that was called Howleglasf in the present volume. Whilst on the subject of Death's Dance, it may not be amiss to mention the " Booke of Christian Praicrs" usually called Queen Eliza- beth's Prayer Book. 4to. 1569, 1578, 81, 90, and 1608, Containing the Portrait of the Queen, each page bordered with spirited and appropriate marginal wood-cuts, and among the rest, the Dance of Death, apparently from Holbein's de- signs, with the name of the personage whom Death seizes above each cut, and beneath ever)* design a couplet in doggrel rhyme, addressed by Death to his victim. The edition of 1569, by Jo. Day, is in the Lambeth Library. Mr. Roscoe'scopy of the edition of 1581 sold for 10A 10*.; Mr. Townley's for 8/. 8*.; one at Saunders's in 1818 for 41.; and G. Nassau's, 1824, for 71. 7s. The edition of 1590, at Evans's, in 1817, for 47. 5*. A copy of the 1608 edition, at Saunders's, November, 1823, 41. 14*. 6d. Before I conclude this desultory account of Death's Dance, I must not omit to mention, in reference to Merian's History of its origin, that the Editor of the new edition of Warton's History of English Poetry, in the notes to that work, vol. ii. p. 364, refers to some Paintings on the same subject in public buildings at Minden in Westphalia, as early as 1383, but I do not perceive upon what authority the statement is made. c2 28 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND Arthur (Kynge) and his Knyghtes* A Book of the Noble Hystories of Kynge Arthur and of cef- tayne of his Knyghtes : reduced into Englysshe by Syr Tho- mas Malory, Knight. Folio. Printed by IV. Caxton. 1485. Earl Spencer purchased a copy of this book at the sale of John Lloyd, Esq. of Wygfair, January, 1816, for ^6320. Mr. Southey has edited a reprint from this copy, in 2 vols. 4to. with notes. There is a copy of the original in the Library at Osterley Park, which has been amply described in Dibdin's Ames, vol. i. p. 241 to 255. There are also two miniature reprints, one in two and the other in three volumes ; the latter of these, in its prefixed ad- vertisement, contains a notice of the six earliest editions. The Hystorye of Kynge Blanchardyne and Princess Eglan- tyne. Folio. Cavton. 1485. Of this book there is no other than an imperfect copy known, which once belonged to Mr. G. Mason, at whose sale it was bought by John Duke of Roxburghe for 2 1 /. and at the Duke's sale in 1812 purchased by Earl Spencer for 215/. 5*. For an account of this volume see Dibdin's Ames, vol. i. p, 346 to 349. It appears that at Mason's sale, the two noble personages, Earl Spencer and the Duke of Roxburghe, had what in book- sellers' and brokers' slang would be called a regular knock out, and then resorted to the elegant amusement of toss up to de- cide their gains. By the single toss up for the book just named the Duke of Roxburghe's Executors became ultimately gainers f atarly 2007. A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 29 Fraixsart (Jehan) Les Grands Chroniques de France, tf Angle- terre, dEcosse, d Espaigne, de Bretaigne, fyc. depuis 1326 1400, et continuees jusquen 1498, par un anonyme. 4 torn, folio. Paris. Anth. Gerard. Original edition, of which well conditioned copies are ex- ceedingly rare. A copy printed on vellum, with 18 miniatures in gold and colours, sold at Gaignat's for 540 francs, at the Valiere sale for 020 francs, and at Count Me Carthy's for 4250 francs. The Edition by Michael Le Noir, 4 vols. folio, Paris 1505 et 1 ."/ 1 3, sometimes bound in 2 vols. is said by some French Bib- liogr.-iphers to be scarcely less rare tlian that of Anthony Verard. A copy in Bibliptheca Lansdowniana sold for 8/. 13*. Jjcs M ernes. 4 torn, folio. Paris. G. Eustace. 1514. A fine copy of this edition, printed on vellum, brought 3000 francs, in the Soubise collection; and one^sold at M. Paris's gale, 1791, for 149/. 2s., bought by Col. Johnes. Les Memcs. 4 torn, en 3 vols. folio. Paris. Jehan Petit et F. Regnault. 1518. La Valliere 52 francs ; 36 francs d'Aguesseau ; 170 francs Thierry. Ditto. 4 torn, en 2 vol. folio. Paris. J. Petit. 1530. La Valliere 29 francs ; Roxburghe 9/. 14*. Copies of Froissart are sometimes met with consisting of volumes belonging to different editions. According to De Bure, all the Gothic Editions of this Histo- rian were, for a long time, little if at all esteemed, because it 30 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND was imagined that the Edition by Denys Sauvagc,* 4 torn. 2 vols. folio. Lyon. 1559, Sfc. was correct and entire ; but as the contrary has been proved, they have since been infinitely more sought after and esteemed, and it is very difficult to find a good and well conditioned copy of the first and original edi- tion, which is most esteemed by the curious. Froivsart's Chronicles of England, France, Spain, Portugal, fyc. translated by John Bourchier, Lord Berners. Imprinted London by Richard Pynson. 2 vols. Folio. 1523-25. Notwithstanding Mr. Utterson's reprint of this translation of Froissart, 2 vols. 4to. 1812, it still bears a very high price. At Mason's sale it brought 36/. 15*. the Duke of Roxburghe's 63/. Townley's 42/. Stanley's 38/. 10*. the Marquis of Blandford's 34/. 2s. 6d. Ditto. Middleton. 2 vols. Folio. 1525. Verbatim from Pynson's edition. Steevens 1 71. Bibliotheca Lansdovvnia, a fine copy in russia, 24/. 3*.; bought by Mr. Digge. Stanley, 38/. 17*. Lord Peterborough, 1815, 471. 15*. 6d. See Censura Literaria, vol. i. p. 116, 17, and 18, for the distinguishing marks of these editions. Col. Johness Translation. 4 vols. 4to. Hafod. 1803-4. A copy, at a sale of some of Earl Spencer's duplicates, bound in russia, sold for 35 /. 3*. 6d. Large paper copies of this edition are rare. * At the sale of the Merly Library, 1813, a copy of this edition, bound in morocco, sold for 137. 13s.; at the Bibliotheca Lansdowniana, 1804, a copy, 4 rols. in 1, sold for 6/. 6s, Boxbttryhe 71. It. A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 31 There is also an edition, 12 vols. Svo. with a 4to. Atlas of Plates. London. 1805. Published at 71. 4s. Jean Froissart, a native of Valenciennes, and an able Histo- rian, whose Chronicle has been abridged by Sleidan, came over to England in the reign of Edward 3d, to offer to Philippa, his countrywoman, the first part of his History. She received him and his work graciously, and is said to have rewarded him like a Queen. Froissart was a great traveller, and generally in the train of some elevated personage ; whilst attached to Winceslaus of Luxembourg, Duke of Brabant, he was employed by him in making a Collection of his Songs, Rondeaus, and Virelays, and Froissart adding some of his own to those of the Prince, formed a sort of Romance, under the title of Mellador, or the Knight of tlic Sun of Gold. In 1395 he visited England a second time, after an absence of 27 years, and was well received by Richard 2d, and the Royal Family, and had the honour of pre- senting his Mellador to the King who was much delighted with it. He has been accused of lavishing his panegyric on the English, at the expence of his own countrymen. Mr. Johnes has vin- dicated his character from this aspersion ; he certainly had no great reason to falsify events in favor of his countrymen, from whom the benefits he received were as nothing in comparison with a good pension he received from the English. The His- torian mourns over the death of each valiant Knight, exults in the success of every hardy enterprise, and seems almost carried away by his chivalrous feelings, independently of party con- siderations. There is a good account of Froissart in Oldys's Brii'tslt l.i 32 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND brarian, p. 67, &c.; and Warton, in his History of English Poetry, is not a little indebted to him for numerous illustrative quotations. Carmellanl (Petrl) Carmen. 4(o. Without date. London. Richard Pynson. 24 leaves only. This little Poem contains some curious details relative to the projected marriage between Charles of Castile, Archduke of Austria (afterwards Charles the 5th) and the Princess Mary, daughter of Henry the 7th of England. There was a copy on vellum in the Harleian Library, No. 7485, which, says Brunei, probably was the same sold in the Me Carthy sale for 1000 francs, and which, I believe, the Rt. Hon. T. Grenville now has. Demosthenis Orationes, fyc. Gr. Folio, f^enct. Aldus. 1504. First Greek Edition of this Author. Aldus printed two edi- tions of this book the same year. In the first, which is the most rare, the Dolphin and Anchor (on the Title-page) are in outline only, with the word ALDUS between two stars on one side of the Anchor, and MA. Ro. on the other. The second edition, which is most esteemed by scholars, on account of its greater correctness and better execution, has the Dolphin and Anchor shaded with AL on one side and Dus on the other. The value of the second edition varies according to condition at from 187. 18*. to 251. The first edition being the scarcer is pretty nearly of equal value when in good preservation. A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 33 Demosthenis Opera Omnia. Gr. Lot. Edente Js. Taylor. 4to. Tom.2et3. Cantab. 17-181757. Large paper copies of this excellent edition, (the first volume of which never appeared,) and which was intended to have been completed iii 5 vols. are rare and valuable. At Heath's sale, 1810, 9/. 14*. Gd. Merly Library-, 1813, 6/. 6*. Viscount Harberton, 1822, 1. 8s. Small paper copies bear a very limited price. Saint Grtaal ( L' Histolrc ou le Roman du) qvl cst le fonde- mcnt de la Table Rondc. Translate dn Lat. en Ryrnc Fran- 9*7?*, et de Rime en Prose. Par Rob. Borron ou Bonron. 1 voL in folio. Paris. Dupr6. 1516. Roxburghe, 17/. 17*. Sainct Greaul contenant la Conqucste du diet Sainct Greaal (falcte par Lancelot du Lac.) Lett. Goth. Jig. en bo'ts. 2 torn, en 1. Folio. Paris. 1523. Crofts, 51. 7s. 6d. " The Holy Grale, that is, the Real Blood of our Blessed Saviour. King Arthur's Knights are represented as advcntnr- ing in quest of the Sangrcal or Sanguls R calls. This expedi- tion was one of the first subjects of the old Romance." Gee Warton on Spenser, vol. i. p. 51, and vol. ii. p. 287, &c. St. Graal, or Snngreal, is elsewhere derived from Grasal, which signifies a cup in old French, or from the Sanguis Realis, with which it was supposed to have been filled. According to 34 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND Dunlop's History of Fiction, the Sangreal is the scarcest Ro- mance of the Round Table. In Warton's History of English Poetry, vol. i. 8vo. p. 69 to 85, is a long and learned dissertation by the Editor, on the History of the Holy Graal or Sacred Cup, which the curious on this subject would do well to refer to. See also the Edi- tor's note at p. 138 of the same volume, respecting the Author of the " Roman du Saint Graal." Brusonii (L. Domlti'i) Facetiarum et E longer shall the Nut-brown Maiil be old ; Though since her youth three hundred years have roll'd: For the " Ballad of the Not Browne Muyde" first appeared in the Chronicle above cited. " The Nut Brown Maid and her Lover," which Prior paraphrased in his beautiful ballad* of Henry and Emma, are with some reason conjectured tp have been a young Lord, the Earl of Westmoreland's son, and a Lady of equal quality. This conjecture has been advanced by "Whitaker, in his History of Craven, but some dates in contra- vention of this surmise may be consulted in Censura Lit. vol. vii. p. 95. Wartonf says of this now exceedingly rare Chronicle, " that it is perhaps the most heterogeneous and multifarious miscel- * The two Ballads may be compared in the edition of Prior's Poetical Works, 2vols. post 8vo. Lond. 1779. The Original Poem from the Chronicle is also carefully copied in the Censura Literaria, vol. vi. p. 114 It is also the first article in Capel's Prolusions, 8vo. 1760. | Hist, of English Poetry/ vol. iii. Kvo. p. 419. 36 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND lany that ever existed. The collector sets out with a catalogue of the Mayors and Sheriffs, the customs and charters of the City of London. Soon afterwards we have receipts to pickle sturgeon, to make vinegar, ink, and gunpowder ; how to raise parsley in an hour ; the arts of brewery and soap making ; an estimate of the livings in London ; an account of the last visitation of St. Magnus's Church ; the weight of Essex cheese ; and a letter to Cardinal Wolsey. The Nut Browne Mayde is introduced between an estimate of some subsidies paid into the Exchequer j and directions for buying goods in Flanders. Oldys, in his British Librarian, says this book cannot be better described than by a recital of the contents of the several chap* ters in the table or kalendar prefixed, which recital occupies three closely printed 8vo. pages, and may be referred to in the British Librarian, 8vo. 1738, p. 22, &c. Warton's remarks on, and comparison of, the ancient and modern versions of the Nut Brown Maid, are well worthy of being turned to ; and I am glad that the new edition in 8vo. of this work will enable any person of moderate means to do so. There is a 4to. reprint ofArnold's book, edited by Mr. Douce, in the preface to which he conjectures the Nut Brown Maid to derive its origin from an old German Ballad, translated into Latin by Bebelias. Tonstallus (Cuthb.) DC Arte Supputandi, libri quatuor. 4to. Pynson. 1522. See Dibdin's More's Utopia, vol. i. p. 20, for some account of Tunstal, and his Typographical Antiquities, vol. ii. for the full title and description of this booL A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY". 37 Granger says, this is the first Treatise on Arithmetic pub- lished in this country. It is by no means a rare book, and I have seen more than one copy sell at a very cheap rate. At Sir Peter Thompson's sale, in 1815, a copy was bought by Mr. Heber for 21. 1 6s. Bishop Tonstall's own copy, upon vellum, is in the Public Library at Cambridge. Boeclus Boke of Consolation. Folio. Printed by JV. Caxton. At the Alchorne sale, 1813, an imperfect copy of this book sold for 531. Us. Boeclus, translated into English. 4to. Tavestok. 1525. West's sale, 31. ; Dr. Askew, 51.; Forster, 11. 10*,} Mason, 1//.J Gough, 271. 6s., (resold, being imperfect, for I4/. 3*. 6 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND Translator did not long survive the publication, having been poisoned at Rome the following year.* A copy sold at Mr. Evans's auction-room, in 1818, for 41. 14*. 6d. Blblla Sacra Germanice, ex recognitione Martini Lutherl. 2 vols. Folio, fitcmb. 1541. The first edition of Luther's translation of the Bible. At J. Edwards's sale in 1 8 1 5, Luther's own copy, with Au- tographs and MS. insertions of Luther, Melancthon, &c. &c. was bought by G. Hibbert, Esq. for 89/. 15*. Bible. 4to. Printed by Bill and Barker. John Bunyan's identical Pulpit Bible of this Edition, bound in morocco, and which had been his companion during his 12 years' unjustifiable confinement in Bedford gaol, where he wrote his Pilgrims Progress, was purchased at the sale of the library of the Rev. S. Palmer, of Hackney, March, 1814, for the late Samuel Whitbread, Esq. for the sum of 2 1/. This Bible, and the " Book of Martyrs" are said to have constituted the whole library of Bunyan during his 1 2 years' imprisonment. See his Life, at end of his " Heavenly Foot- man" p. 128. I am indebted to Granger for the following animated account of Bunyan : " John Bunyan, a well known Preacher and Writer of Anti- nomian principles, was son of a tinker in Bedfordshire, where he for some time followed his father's occupation. His conver- sion, as he informs us himself, began in the early part of his life, while he was at play with his companions ; when he was sud- denly surprized with a voice which said to him, " ffilt thou leave * See De Bure Bibliographic, No. 52, and Beloe, vol. Hi. p. 20 ; alia D'lsraeli's Curiositie*, 2(1 ncries, vol. ii. p. 191, &c. A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 39 thy sins and go to Heaven, or have thy sins and go to Hell?" upon which he lifted up his eyes in great amazement towards hea- ven, whence the voice came, and thought he saw Christ looking down upon him.* This had a great effect upon his mind : but he grew far more serious upon a casual conference which he held with four poor women of Bedford, upon the subject of the new birth. From that time he applied himself diligently to reading the Scriptures, and in a few years became a Preacher and Writer of note. He was long confined in the county gaol of Bedford for holding Conventicles : here he spent his time in preaching, writing books, and tagging laces for his support. After his enlargement, he travelled into many parts of the king- dom, "to visit and comfirm the brethren." These visitations procured him the nick-name of Bishop Bunyan. When he arrived at the sixtieth year of his age, which was the period of his life, he had written books equal to the number of his years : but as many of these are on similar subjects, they are very much alike. His Master Piece is his " Pilgrims Progress" one of the most popular, and I may add, one of the most ingenious books in the English Language. Bunyan, who has been mentioned amongst the least and lowest of our writers, and even ridiculed as a driveller by those who have never read him, deserves much higher rank than is commonly imagined. His " Pilgrims Progress" gives us a clear and distinct idea of Calvinistical Divinity. The allegory is admirably carried on, and the characters justly drawn and uniformly supported." Biographical History of England, vol. iii p. 347-8 8vo. 1775. * This is the substance of his own account in his " Grace Abounding," which contains the History of his Conversion and many other particulars of hi* life. 40 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND Lesclarcissement de la langue Francayse, compose par Maistre Jehan Palsgrave, Angloys natyf de Londres, et Gradue de Paris. Thick folio. The Jmprynt'mg fynysshed by Johan Haukins, the XfHIth day of July, the ycre of our Lorde God 1530. In most of my notices I have endeavoured to point out what I conceived to be either curious, valuable, or entertaining, and in pursuance of this plan, I present the above singular and rare production to my reader, as an honorable testimonial of the abilities of a Londoner, and as a singular proof, acknowledged by French Bibliographers, of the first attempt at reducing the French tongue to grammatical rules ; and that effected by an Englishman, and as the title says natyf de Londres. Our Author, according to that indefatigable Chronicler An- thony Wood, was born in London, and educated in Grammar learning there, studied Logic and Philosophy at Cambridge till he became Batchelor of Arts; afterwards went to Paris, where also spending several years in Philosophical and other learning, he took the degree of Master of the said Faculty, and became so excellently skilled in the French tongue, that he was thought fit and appointed to be tutor to the Lady Mary, daugh- ter of King Henry VII. and sister to our King Henry VIII. when she was betrothed at the age of 1 8, from motives of state policy, to the aged and decrepid Monarch Louis XII. of France, who very shortly survived the consummation of this unequal match. On the death of this Monarch, Mary, now be- come Queen Dowager of France, was privately married to her first lover the Duke of Suffolk, and having made her peace with her Royal Brother for so degrading an act, returned to her na- A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 41 tive country with her husband, and John Palsgrave, our author, accompanied his Royal Pupil. On his return he was appointed Chaplain to Henry VIII. taught the French language to divers of our young nobility, and became well beneficed. In 1531 he settled in Oxford for a time, and the next year being incorporated Master of Arts, was, in a few days afterwards, admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Divinity, " and esteemed the first Author of our nation, (as honest Anthony says,) or of the Frenchmen, that had reduced the French tongue under, certain rules, and the first in that kind of exercise that did begin to labour," as .plainly appears by this Esclarsisseincnt, which is a thick folio, black letter, divided into three parts or books, and preceded by a copious Introduction in English. Dibdin, in his 3d vol. of Ames's Typographical Antiquities, mentions having seen and examined five copies ; and Collations of the Book by Collins and Herbert are given at p. 366 of that work. It appears that Henry VIII. granted Palsgrave the exclusive right to the printing and profits of this book for seven years. " I never yet saw," says Wood, in his Athenae Oxoniensis, " but one copy of this book, which, being filled with marginal notes (by whom I know not) in a scribbling hand, was bought by the learned Scldcn, and in his library at Oxon I perused it." Mr. Beloe, in his Anecdotes of Literature, vol. vi. p. 344, has given an account of this book from two copies in the pos- session of the Bishop of Ely and Mr. Douce ; and Brunet, in his Manuel du Libraire, has given the collation of a copy, torn, iii. p. 8, in the Mazarine Library at Paris. Dibdin says, Palsgrave's book is so scarce as to be worth 2 1/, at least. 42 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND The said John Palsgrave hath also (continues Wood) written several Epistles, and published a Translation of a Book, inti- tuled, Ecphrastes Anglica in Comasdiam Acolasti. Or, the Comedy of Acolastus translated Into our English Tongue, after such a manner as Children are taught in the Grammar School ; first word by word as the Latin lyeth, and afterwards accord- ing to the sense and meaning of the Latin sentences, fyc. 4to. Lond. 1540. Which scarce Play, at Farmer's sale, sold for 41. 5s. 6d. A copy at the sale of Hayley's library brought 22/. 1*. An account of this Play, which is a version of the Prodigal Son, written originally in Latin Verse by Guill. Fullonius,* may be found in Reed and Jones's Biographia Dramatica, where also an account of Palsgrave may be met with, but containing no- thing more than the account given in Wood's Athense, but with- out any acknowledgment of the source whence derived. Dibdin, in his edition of Ames, vol. iii. p. 368, describes Palsgrave's translation of " Acolastus." It is also mentioned by Percy in his Reliques, vol. i. p. 134 (note p.) 2d edition, 1767. Porto (L.) Istoria di due Nobili Amanti (Romeo c Gml'ietta.), 8vq. Venice. No date. Borromeo, 1817, 15/. * See Brunei Manuel du Libraire for an account of the earliest edi- tions of the Latin original. A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 43 Pvrto (L da) Rime e Prosacio6 la Glulietta Novella. Svo. Venice. 1539. Dl Gran Rant a. Pinelli, 51. 5s. K?' This is the earliest novel upon the unhappy loves of Romeo and Juliet, printed several years prior to that of Ban- dello on the same subject. There is a translation of it in the Res Literaria, noticed in the Gentleman's Magazine, Dec. 1, 1822. Clizla L'lnfdice Amore di Gmlia e Romeo, in ottava rima. Svo. Venet. Giolito. 1553. Molini, Florence, 1807, 33 francs. B.andello's History of Romeo and Juliet was metrically pa- raphrased by Arthur Brooke, and printed by It, Tothill, 1562. Brydges, in Phillips's Theatrum Poetarum, 8vo. Canterl>ury, 1800, p. 128, says, " the Editors of Shakspeare have discovered this to have been the original of Shakspeare's Romeo and Juliet. \ Horde (Andrew.) A Bokc of the Introduction of Knowledge, the which doth teache a man to spcake part of all maner of languages, and to know the usage and fashion of all maner of countries, and for to know the most part of all maner of coins of money. 4to. Black letter. Imprint*' by f William Copland. Without date* Dedicated to the Lady Mary, daughter of King Henry the Eighth which dedication is dated from Mountpelyer, May 3, 1542. Pearson, 1788, 4/. 15*. to Mr. Bindley. D 2 44 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND This book is partly written in verse and partly in prose, con- tained in 39 chapters, before each of which are wood cuts with representations of men. Before the first chapter, in which- he has characterized an Englishman, is the print of a naked man, with a piece of cloth lying on his right arm, and a pair of sheers in his left hand, under which is an inscription in verse, of which the following are the four first lines : " I am an English Man, and naked I stand here, Musing in my mind what rayment I shall were : For now I will were thys, and now I will were that, And now I will were I cannot tell what," &c. Before the 7th Chapter is the portrait of the Author himself, standing in a pew with a canopy over it, habited in a loose gown with wide sleeves, and on his head a chaplet of laurel, with a book before him on a desk, with the following title of the said chapter beneath : " The VII Chapyter sheweth how the auctor of this Bake had dwelt in Scotland and other Hands, and did go thorow and round about Christendom and out of Christendom declaring- t/te Properties of all the Rcgiont, Countries, and Provinces, the which he did Travel thorow." This Portrait, according to Herbert's Memoranda, served also for a Portrait of Skelton, Poet Laureat. See Dibdin' Ames, vol. iii. p. 160. Mr. Upcott edited a re-print of 100 copies of this curious tract, with wood-cuts, one of which is in Rivington's Catalogue for 1824, marked at I/. II*. 6rf. The cut of the English- man from this reprint is given in Dibdin's account of it, who says oC it in conclusion, " this is probably the most curious and interesting volume ever put forth from the press of Cop- land." A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 45 Andrew Borde was a whimsical being, and said by Granger to have been Physician to Henry VHIth ; whether from his facetious mode of practice according to Phillips, or from the Harlequinisin of his pursuits and writings, he gave rise to the name and character of MERRY ANDREW, seems uncertain : he appears to have applied his mind to many subjects, afid, like most quacks, to have been equally confident in all. The Book of Knowledge, The Breviary of Health, The Dietary of Health, Merry Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham, Merry History of the Mylner of Ab'mgton, Book of Prognost ic-f, Urines, Road*, are specimens of what he aimed at. According to Wood's Athense, vol. i. p. 61, folio, " It was Borde's practice, when living at Winchester, where, as at other places, it was his custom to drink water three days in a week, to wear constantly a shirt of hair, and every night to hang his shroud and socking, or burial sheet, at his bed's feet, accord- ing as he had done, as I conceive, while he was a Carthusian. " He always professed celibacy, and did zealously write against such Monks, Priests, and Friars, that violated their vow by marriage, as many did when their respective houses were dissolved by Henry VIII." This xoal caused his opponents to promulgate various scan- dalous stories, to the discredit of the Doctor's continence for which see Athence Oxonicnsis. " But letting these matters pass, I cannot otherwise but say," continues Wood, " that our 46 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND author Borde was esteemed a noted poet, a witty and ingenious person, and an excellent Physician of his time ; and that he is reported by some to have been, not only Physician to King Henry 8th, but also a Member of the College of Physicians at London, to whom he dedicated his Breviarie of Health. 4to. 1552. Ditto. 1557. A Merie Jest of a Man that teas called Howleglas, and of many rnarveylous Thinges and Jests that he dyd in his lyfe. 4to. With a rude Title-page, representing two mean people, one of whom is a Peasant, holding a pitchfork in his hand, addressing a Prince with a crown on his head and a sceptre ia his hand. Printed by IVyllyam Copland. An imperfect copy was in the Duke of Roxburghe's collec- tion, and sold for 14/. 5*. and is now, I belieye, in Mr. He- ber's possession. Mr. Beloe, in his Anecdotes of Literature, vol. i. p. 407, &c, has enumerated the marveylous things and jests of this Mister Howleglass, from the table of contents, of a perfect copy in the Garrick Collection ; and has a specimen at length of how this Howleglas cheated some milk-maids of their cream ; as also a " Dialogue between Howleglas and a Scholar" It should seem that this Howleglas was a sort of Lazarillo or Scapin, and that the book is a translation from the Dutch language, wherein he is named Ulenspiegle. Percy, in his " Essay on the Origin of the English Stage" &c. Relics, vol. i. p. 126, quotes this old novel to show how our ancient mysteries were represented in their most simple form. A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 47 " It is well known," says Percy, " that Dramatic Poetry in this and most other nations of Europe owes its origin, or at least its revival, to those religious shows, which in the dark ages were usually exhibited on the more solemn festivals. At those times they were wont to represent in the Churches the lives and miracles of the Saints, or some of the more important stories of Scripture. And as the most mysterious subjects were frequently chosen, such as the Incarnation, Passion, and Resur- rection of Christ, &c. these exhibitions acquired the general name of Mysteries. At first they were probably a kind of dumb shews, intermingled, it may be, with a few short speeches j at length they grew into a regular series of connected Dialogues, formally divided into acts and scenes. Specimens of these in their most improved state (being at best but poor artless com- positions) may be seen among Dodsley's Old Plays, and in the Harleian Miscellany." How they were exhibited in their most simple form, we may learn from a "A merye-Jest of a man that was called Howleglas," whose waggish tricks are the subject of the book at the head of the present article. After many adventures, he cosines to live with a Priest, who makes him his Parish Clerk. This Priest is described as keeping a Leman, or Concubine, who had but one eye, to whom Howleglas owed a grudge, for revealing his rogueries to his master. The story thus proceeds : " And than in the meane season, while Howle- " glas was Parysh Clarke, at Easter they should play the rcsur- " fection of our Lorde : and for because than the men wcr not " learned, nor could not read, the Priest toke his Leman, and " put her in the grave for an Aungell : and this seing, Howle- " glas toke to hym iij of the symplest persons that were in the " towne, that played the iij Maries ; and the Person (i. e. Par- " son or Rector) played Christe, with a baner in his hand. " Than saide Howleglas to the symple persons, When the " Aungell asketh you whome you seke, you may saye, the Par- " son's Leman with one iye. Than it fortuned that the tyme " was come that they must playe ; and the Aungel asked them " whom they sought, and then sayd they, as Howleglas had " shewed and lerned them afore, and than answered thay, " ' We seke the Priest's Leman with one iyc.' And than the " Prieste might heare that he was mocked. And when the " Priest's Leman herd that, she arose out of the grave, and " would have smyten with her fist Howleglas upon the cheke, " but she missed him and smote one of the symple persons " that played one of the thre Maries ; and he gave her another 5 " and than toke she him by the heare (hair) ; and that seing " his wyfe came running hastely to smite the Priest's Leman ; " and than the Priest seing this, caste down hys baner, and " went to help his woman, so that the one gave the other sore " strokes, and made great noyse in the churche. And than " Howleglas seyng them lyinge together by the eares in the " bodi of the churche, went his way out of the village, and " came no more there." Heywood (John.) A Parable of the Spider and Flte. 4(o. Lond. 1556. Pearson, 1788, 21. 13s. 6d.; Gordon, 9/. 9s.; Stewart's, 1814, 10/. 10*.} Townley, 16/. 16s.; G.Nassau, Esq. 1824, (the last leaf a reprint in fac simile,) 21. 12$. 6d. A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 49 Hcywood's (John} JVoorhes, containing the Spider and the File, His Dialogues on English Proverbes, and his 600 Epigrammes. 4to. 1562. Mason, 31. 13*. 6 G.Nassau, 1824, 5/. 5*.; Thorpe, 1824, 31. 13. 6d.; Ditto, 41. 14*. 6d. in russia. The Poet supposes that the FAERIE QUEENE, according to an annual custom, held a magnificent feast, which continued twelve daysj oa each of which respectively, twelve several complaints are presented before her. Accordingly, in order to- redress the injuries which were the occasion of these seve- ral complaints, she dispatches, with proper commissions, twelve different Knights, each of which, in the particular ad- venture allotted to him, proves an example of some particular virtue, as of Holiness, Temperance, Justice, Chastity ; and has one complete book assigned to him, of which he is the Hero. But besides these twelve Knights, severally exemplifyiag twelve moral virtues, the Poet has constituted one principal Knight or general Hero, viz. PRINCE ARTHUR. This personage repre- sents Magnificence ; a virtue which is supposed to be the per- fection of all the rest. He moreover assists in every Book, and the end of his actions is to discover and win Gloriana,* or * The Poet intended Gloriana in praise of our Queen Elizabeth- A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 59 Glory. In a word, in this character the Poet professes to pour- tray " The image of a brave Knight perfected in the twelve private moral virtues." To the foregoing, which is a sketch of the Poem by Phillips, Milton's nephew, I shall here add Pope's opinion of the " Faerie Queene" given in 1 743-4, o'nly a year before his death, and printed in Spence's Anecdotes. " After reading a Canto of Spenser two or three days ago to an old lady between 70 and 80 years of age, she said, " that I had been showing her a Gallery of Pictures" I don't know how it is, but she said very right. There is something in Spenser that pleases one as strongly in one's old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Faerie Queene, when I was about twelve, with infinite delight ; and I think it gave me as much when I read it over about a year or two ago." The following are among the most esteemed editions of Spenser's Works. 6 vols. 12mo. by Hughes. Lond. 1715. Ditto, 3 vols. 4to. Lond. Brindley, 1751. Ditto, by the Rev. H. J. Todd, 8 vols. 8vo. 1805. Ditto, by Dr. Aikin, 6 vols. 8vo. 1806. \ It might be thought remiss in me to omit, in a Bibliomaniac's Library, the mention of Spenser 's (Edmond) Complaints, containing sundrie small Po- emes of the World's Varietie. 4to. 1591. Kt* This includes the 1st editions of the Ruincs of Time, Tears of the Muses, Mother Hifbberd's Tale, &c. At the Alchorne sale, May, 1813, a copy sold to Mr. Bol- larid for 8/. 8*. B2 60 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND At the Roxburghe sale " Spenser s Shepheard's Kalendar,' 4to. 1586, sold for 21/. Ditto, 4to. 1597, G. Nassau, Esq. 1824, 41. 19*. Ditto, 4to. 1579, first edition. Bry (Theodoms, Johannes-Theodoms, Israel dc) et Mattheiis Merian Collectwncs Peregnnatwnum in Indium Orientalem et Indium Occidentalem, xxvpartibtu comprehensae. Franco- furti ad Mcenum, 1590 1634. 25 parts in folio. The above is the general title, under which the 25 parts of this important and rare work is known, and which, when com- plete, is of considerable value, as the copies I shall presently instance will testify. To give an exact and detailed descrip- tion of the different parts and their variations, would, as Brunet says, occupy about 40 pages. I shall therefore only notice, at the foot of the page, where the details may be found,* and im- mediately proceed to a few more general remarks on the subject. The denomination of " Grands et petits Voyages" has been occasioned by the thirteen separate parts which concern the West Indies being printed on a rather larger size than the twelve which relate to the East Indies. The copy in the Paris sale, 1791, was knocked down at 21 0/. and bought in at that price. * De Bure Bibliographia Instructive. Camus Mernoires sur la Collection de grands et petits Voyages, Stc. 4to. Paris. 180a Bibliotheca Parisiana. No. 486. 1791. Brunet Manuel du Libraire, torn. i. p. 291. Paris. 1821. A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 61 At the sale of the Merly collection, 1813, a copy, wanting 1 1 leaves, and some plates, sold for 126/., and was purchased by Messrs. Arch, who were fortunate enough to complete what was wanting, and make some additions, and in its improved state they sold it to the Hon. T. Grenville for 240/. who has since rendered it, according to the Rev. T. F. Dibdin's account, the most complete copy in the world. Colonel Stanley's copy, which was sold in 1813, contained duplicates of parts x. and xi. and a considerable number of du- plicate plates ; it was bound in 7 vols. folio, blue morocco, and sold for 54G/., and I believe now is in the Duke of Devon- shire's collection. Mr. Beckford's copy sold at Fonthill, in 1823, for 200 gui- neas. I do not know whether Mr. Dibdin is correct in saying it was M. Paris's copy, and supposed to be perfect. In the library of the Right Hon. T. Grenville is a complete set of these Voyages, very copiously described in Dibdin's Li- brary Companion, p. 373, &c. containing also the English part of Virginia,* dedicated to Sir Walter Raleigh by De Bry ; it is prior to the Latin part, of the same date, Francof. 1590. This edition of this part is unnoticed by M. Camus. The fol- lowing is its title : A^ briefe and true report of the newfound Land of Virginia, discovered by Sir Richard Grc'mvile, Knt. in 1585, translated into English by TTiomas Harlot, at the charges of Sir Walter Raleigh, and som Pictures of the Pictes, which in the olde Tyine dyd habltc one part of the Great Brettaine, found in a oold English Chronicle, plates by DC Dry. Folio. Francof. 1590. * This copy is said to have cost Jiarley Earl of Oxford 100 guineas, who, after many years' search, obtained it at Frankfort for that sum. 62 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND The copy of G. Nassau, Esq. sold, in 1824, for 100/. and in his Catalogue it is said that not more than four perfect copies of this part are known to exist. Fraunccs (Abraham) Countesse of Pembroke's Ivy Church, conte'ming the affectionate Life and unfortunate Death of Phlllis and Amyntas, that in a Pastoral, this in a Funeral. 4to. London. 1591. Dodds, 41. 7s.; Mason, 31. 13*. 6d.; Roxburghe, 61. 16*. 6d, Ditto, with Fraunce's Emanuel,* at Saunders', 1818, 13/. 2s. 6d.; Bindley, 25 /. 4*., bought by Perry, at whose sale, in 1822, it sold for 2 II. 10*. 6rf. Lord Spencer is said to have given White 2 1/, for his copy; White asked 25 guineas for it. G. Nassau, Esq. 1824, 5/. 18*. Third Part of Ditto, entitled A mint as Dale, being Tales of the Heathen Gods, in English Hexam- eters. 4to. 1592. A copy of this third part, which is very rare, with the Title and two leaves in MS. sold at Saunders', in 1818, for 15/. 15*. This Author is classed amongst Dramatic Writers, but his production, says Beloe, can hardly be called a Play; it consists of a translation of Tassos Aminta, which is interwoven in the body of a Pastoral, entitled Ivy Church. A specimen of this whimsical performance is given in Beloe's Anecdotes. Phillips, speaking of Fraunce, characterized him as " a versifier in Queen Elizabeth's time, who, imitating Latin measure in Eng- * G. Nassau, (the Emanuel only), 1834, U 10s. A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 63 lish verse, wrote his Ivie Church, and some other things in Hexameter ; some also in Hexameter and Pentameter ; nor n as he altogether singular in this way of writing ; for Sir P. Sidney, in the Pastoral Interludes of his Arcadia, uses not only these but all other sorts of Latin measure, in which no wonder he is followed by so few, since they neither become the Eng- lish, nor any other modern language." How true Phillips's opinion on the subject is, has been evinced in our day, by the attempt and complete failure of a celebrated Poetical Luminary to tread in the steps of Abra- ham Frauncc. A concise account of Fraunce, and some of his productions, may be found in the Theatrum Poetarum, 8vo. p. 108, 9 ; and also some particulars in Warton, vol. iv. 8vo. p. 230. Hooker s (Richard) Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politic. Folio. BEST EDITION. 1723. There arc various other folio and octavo editions of this Work. " This," according to Neal, in his History of the Puritans, " is esteemed the most learned defence of the Church of Eng- land, wherein all that would be acquainted with its constitu- tion (says a learned Prelate) may see upon what foundation it is built. " Several champions appeared about this time (1594) for the cause of Episcopacy, but the most celebrated performance, and of the greatest note, was Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, in eight books ; the four first of which were published this year, 64 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND and the fifth in 1597, and the three last not till many years after his death, for which reason some have suspected them to be interpolated, though they were deposited in the hands of Archbishop Abbot, from whose copy they were printed about the beginning of the Civil Wars." Beloe, in his Anecdotes of Literature, says, " Neither Walton in his Life of Hooker, nor Bishop Gauden, nor many others that give an account of Hooker and his Writings, make any mention of the Books or Tracts which gave occasion to his writing The Ecclesiastical Polity. Whitgift had written an Answer to the Admonition to the Parliament, and thereby en- gaged in a controversy with Thomas Cartwright, the supposed Author of it. Hooker, iu this his excellent Work, undertook the defence of pur Ecclesiastical Establishment, against which Cartwright appears to have been the most powerful of all the opponents."* Hooker was some time Master of the Temple, and afterwards Rector of Bishopsbourne in Kent. There is a Portrait of him, 12mo. Hollar sculp, from Sparrow's Rationale of the Common Prayer j and another in folio, Gull. Falthorne sculp, frontispiece to his Ecclesiastical Polity, and according to Granger the best impressions are to be found in the earliest editions of that work containing only the fiye books. Much surprise has been expressed at the Rev. T. F. Dibdin's omission of this work in his " Library Companion .-"f its re- * Beloe's Anecdotes of Literature, vol. i. p. 22, 23, furnishes a detailed list of these controversial Writings. J- There is an old folio Book, called u The Student's Library, selected from the Athenian Oracles," somewhat approximating to Mr. Dibdin's plan : but a mere skeleton, both in bulk and matter, in comparison with the Rev. Gentleman's " sleeke and ryghte usefull" volume. A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 65 putatiou precludes all suspicion of any other cause than acci- deut, and I doubt not that in a future edition the zealous Bib- liomaniac, will bring this Ecclesiastical Canon into full play, and if his great gun fail in silencing such petty cavillers, I think he will be perfectly justified, rs a true son of the Church MlTltant, in knocking his opponent down with the first folio edition of Hookers Ecclesiastical Politic ; but let him take care and not injure the Portrait! Hair.? (Jos.) Mundus alter et idem : s'tve Terra sfustraKs ante hac semper incognita, fyc. Authore Mercuric Britannico. 8vo. First edition, with frontispiece by Kip. Sold at Brand's sale for I/. 7*.} at G. Nassau's, 1824, 1/. 13*. Reprinted, with the Maps, in Pratt's edition of Hall's n'orhs, 10 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1808. Hallos (Jos.) Discovery of a A^/r J1 r orld, or a Description of South Indies, hitherto unknown, by an English Mercury. 8vo. No date. Imprinted for E. Blount. Unknown to Ames or Herbert. B rand's sale, IW, 31. 7s.; G. Nassau's, 1824, 2/. 1*. The preceding Work by Hall, Bishop of Norwich, was the prototype whence Dean Swift borrowed the idea of Gulliver's Travels.* Mr. Campbell, speaking of this satirical fiction, * It is also very probable that Swift derived some portion of his Voyage to Laputa from Bishop Godwin's " Man in the Moon, or a Discourse of a Voyage thither by Domingo Consoles," 8vo. 1638. " In this Philosophical Romance, which was repeatedly printed, Domingo Gonsales, a diminu- tive Spaniard, is supposed to be shipwrecked on an uninhabited Island, 66 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND says, that under the pretence of describing the Terra Australia Incognita, Hall reversed the plan of Sir T. More's Utopia, and characterized the vices of existing nations. Hall's (J.) JS'irgedcmlarlum. The three first Books, called " Toothless Satires, Poetical, Academical, and Moral" were first printed by T. Creed for R. Dexter, \2rno. Lond. 1597. The three last Books appeared under the Title of Virgcdl- miarium, The three last Bookes of By ting Satyres. \'2mo. Lond. Printed by R. Bradocke for R. Dexter, ^c. 1598. It begins with Satires of Book 4. This original edition complete is estimated by Dibdin at 1 5/. Longman and Co. in the Bibl. Ang. Poet, mark a copy at 25 /. The next edition (of the whole) is entitled J^lrgedimlarlum, the three last (in reality all six) Bookes of the By ting Satyres, corrected and amended with some additions by J. If. \2rno. Lond. for M. Dexter, %c. 1599 .* G. Nassau, 1824, II. Is. Ditto. Svo. 1602. Brand, 21. 12*. 6d.; Stevens, 3/. 3\ where he taught several Ganzas or Wild Geese to fly with a light ma- cliine, and to fetch and carry things for his convenience. He after some time ventured to put himself into the machine, and they carried him with great ease. He happened to be in this ^Erial Chariot when these Ganzas, which were birds of passage, took their flight to the Moon, and was di- rectly carried to that Planet He gives a very ingenious description o what occurred in his Journey, and also of the Wonders he saw when he arrived there." * See Warton's Observations on Spense, vol. i. p. 187, Svo. A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 67 Reprinted at Oxford, \2rno. 1/53. G. Nassau, 1824, 12*. Gray, the Poet, in a letter to his friend Dr. Wharton, of Durham, alluding to this edition, says, " Bishop Hall's Satires, called Virgidcmiarium, are lately republished. They are full of spirit and poetry, as much of the first as Dr. Donne, and far more of the latter ; they were written when he was about 23 years old." These Satires, with Notes by Singer, in addition to Warton's observations, have been republished in 8vo. 1824. They may also be found in the 10th volume of Haul's Works, Svo. 1808, with Warton's Notes, as well as Mr. Ellis' s and Mr: Pratt's Illustrations. Of our Satirical Poetry, taking satire in its moral and dig- nified sense, Hall, according to Campbell, claims and may be allowed to be the founder thus in the Prologue to his Satires lie says I first adventure with fool hardy might, To thread the steps of perilous despight : I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English Satyrist Hall's Prologue to Book 3, implies his knowledge of former Satirists. " Some say my Satyrs over-loosely flow, Nor hide their gall inougii from open show : Not riddle like, obscuring their intent ; But, pxcke-staffe plaine, uttering what thing they meant, Contrairie to the Roman Ancients, Whose words were short, and darksome was their sence. Who reads one line of their harsh poesies, Tlirise must he tak his wind, and breath him thrise. My muse icould follow them that have fore-yone, 68 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND But cannot with an English Pineon : For looke how farre the Ancient Comedie Past former Satyrs in her Libertie ; So farre must mine yeelde unto them of olde, 'Tis better be too bad, than be too bold. Prologue to Book 3. The first satire of the third Book affords a fair specimen of the Author, and, in the opinion of Mr. Ellis, strikingly resem- bles the YIth Satire of Juvenal ; it exhibits a lively contrast between the olden time and the effeminacy of the Satirists own cotcmporaries. BOOK III. SATIRE L Time was, and that was term'd the Time of Gold, Whose world and time were yong, that now are old: (When quiet Saturn swaid the mace of Lead ; And Pride was yet unborne, and yet unbred.) Time was, that, whiles the Autumne fall did last, Our hungry Sires gap't for the falling Mast Of the Dodonian okes. Could no unhusked akorne leave the tree, But there was challenge made whose it might bee. And, if some nice and likuorous appetite Desir'd more daintie dish of rare delite, They scal'd the stored Crab with clasped knee, Till they had sated their delicious eie : Or search'd the hopefull thicks of hedgy-rowes, For brierie berries, or hawes, or sourer sloes : Or, when they meant to fare fin'st of all, They lick't oake-leaves besprint with hony fall. As for the thrise three-angled Beechnut shell, Or Chesnut's armed huske and hid kernel!, No Squire durst touch, the Law would not afford, Kept for the Court, and for the Kings owne bord. A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 69 Their Royall Plate was clay, or wood, or stone, The Vulgar, save his hand, else had he none. Their only seller was the neighbour brooke : None did for better care, for better looke. Wns then no paying of the Brewer's scape, Nor greedie Vintner inixt the strained grape. The King's Pavilion was the grassy green, Under safe shelter of the shadie treen. Under each banke men layd their Kins along, Not wishing any ease, not fearing wrong : Clad with their owne, as they were made of old, Not fearing shame, not feeling any cold. But when, by Ceres huswifry and paine Men learn'd to bury the reviving graine ; And father Janus taught the new found Vine Rise on the Elme, with many a Friendly Twine ; And base desire bade men to delven low, For needlesse mettals ; then 'gan mischief grow. Then farewell, fayrest age, the worlds best dayes; Thriving in ill, as it in age decaics. Then crept in Pride, and Peevish Covetise ; And Men grew gredy, discordous, and nice. Now Man, that earst haile-fellow was with Beast, Woxe on to weene himselfe a God at least No aery foule can take so high a flight, Tho' she her daring wings in clouds have diglit ; Nor Fish can dive so deep in yeekling sea, Tho' Thetis' self should swear her safetie ; Nor fearefull Beast can dig his cave so lowe, As could he further than Earth's centre go ; As that the ayre, the earth, or ocean, Should shield them from the gorge of greedy Man. Hath utmost Inde ought better, than his owne? Then utmost Inde is neare, and rife to gone. O Nature ! was the World ordain'd for nought 70 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND? But fill Man's maw, and feed Man's idle thought ? Thy Grandsire's words savour'd of thriftie leekes r Or manly garlick ; but thy furnace reekes Hote steams of wine ; and can aloofe descrie The drunken draughts of sweete autummitie. They naked went ; or clad in ruder hide, Or home-spun russet, void of forraine pride : But thou canst maske in garish gauderie, To smite a foole's far-fetched liverie. A French head join'd to necke Italian : Thy thighs from Germanic, and breast fro' Spain ; An Englishman is none, a fool in all : Many in one, and one in severalL Then Men were Men ; but now the greater part Beasts are in life, and Women are in heart. Good nature 'selfe, that homely Emperour, In proudest pompe was not so clad of yore, As is the under Groome of the Ostlerie, Husbanding it in work day yeomanrie. Lo ! the long date of those expired dayes, Which the inspired Merlin's word fore-says ; When dunghill peasants shall be dight as Kings Then one confusion another brings : Then fare well, fairest age, the Worlds best dayes Thriving in all, as it in age decayes. In Phillips's Theatrum Poetarum, 8vo. Canterbury, 1800, p. 326, &c. may be found a concise and satisfactory account of Bishop Hall. " He is universally allowed," says Phillips, " to have been a man of great wit and learning, and of as great meekness, modesty, and piety." His works, published at va- rious periods in folio, quarto, and octavo, " are filled," says Bayle, " with fine thoughts, excellent morality, and a great deal of piety." A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 71 Life and Death of Edmund Geninges, (alias Ironmonger.} 4to. Portrait and Plates. St. Omers. 1614. Gulston, 21.; Townley, o/.; G. Nassau, 1824, blue morocco, 121. 5.y. " Edmund Jennings," says Granger, " was admitted into the English College, at Rheims, under Dr. afterwards Cardinal Allen, and when he was 20 years of age, ordained Priest. He was soon afterwards sent into England, where he was appre- hended in the act of celebrating Mass. He was executed by hanging and quartering in Gray's Inn Fields, Dec. 10th, 1591." In the above rare book are several Historical Prints, repre- senting the principal circumstances of his Life and Death. This work was published at a considerable expence by the Pa- pists, in order to perpetuate the remembrance of two " Mira- cles," which are there said to have happened at his death. The first is, that, after his heart was taken out, he said, " Sancte Oregon, ora pro me" which the Hangman hearing, swore, " God's wounds ! see his heart is in my hand ; yet Gre- gory is in his mouth." The other is, that an holy Virgin being desirous of procuring some relick of him, contrived to approach the basket into which his quarters were thrown, and touched his right hand, which she esteemed most holy from its having been employed in acts of consecration and elevating the Host, and immediately his thumb came off without force or discovery, and she carried it home, and preserved it with the greatest care. 72 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND Han ay s (Patrick}. The Nightingale, Sheretine, and Mari- ana A Happy Husband Effigies on the Death of Queen Anne Songs and Sonnets. Svo. For Mat. Butler. 1622. With Portrait of the Author on the engraved Title. " Of tins Sonnetteer," says Granger, vol. ii. p. 17, " i find no mention made by any of our Biographical Authors." Beloe, in his Anecdotes, calls the above " a book by no means of common occurrence ;" and from its estimation among Collectors, if we may judge from the price it has obtained in three recent sales, he appears to have been pretty correct in his appreciation of its rarity. At Mr. Bindley 's sale it produced 35/. 14*.; at Mr. Perry's, 1822, 38/. 6s. described as containing the Portraits of Hannay and of his Patroness, Anne of Denmark. Sir M. Sykes's copy, which had been Mr. Biudley's, sold, in 1824, for 421. 10*. 6d. The following extracts may be found in Beloe's Anecdotes of Literature, vol. vi. and which I hope I shall be excused fb abstracting, considering the value of the Book cited, and the difficulty of obtaining even a glance at such Bibliomaniacal Desiderata. Experienced Nature in this latter age, Willing 1 her master-piece should then be wrought, Such my faire Celia set on Earth's large stage, As all the Gods in emulation brought, For they did thinke if Nature only might Brag of her worth, she should insult o're them ; \Vhcrefore they 'greed to have an equal right, That they of her perfection part might claime : Pallas gave wisdome, Juno statelinesse, And the n.i!de morning gave her modestie ; A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 73 The Grace's carriage, Venus lovelinesse, And chaste Diana choisest chastitie. Thus heaven and earth their powers did combine To make her perfect, kind love made her mine. TO CMLIA. Once early as the ruddy bashfull morne Did leave wan Phcebus purple streaming bed, And did with scarlet streames east Heaven adorne, I to my fairest Caelia's chamber sped : She, goddesse-like, stood combing of her haire, Which like a sable vaile did cloathe her round, Her ivorie combe was white, her hand more faire, She straight and tall, her tresses trailed to ground, Amazed I stood, thinking my deere had beene Turn'd goddesse, every sense to sight was gone, With bashfull blush my blisse fled I once scene, Lett me transformed as it were in stone, Yet did I wish so ever to have remained, Had she but stay'd, and I my sight retained. Dray tons (Michael) Poly-Olbion, with the second part, folio. Frontispiece and Portrait of Prince Henry by Hole, and all the other Plates. 1 613 1622. Col. Stanley's sale, 1813, 9/. 19*. 6d.; G. Nassau, Esq. 1824, 51. " In 1613," says ' Phillips's Theatrum Poctarum, 8vo. 1800,' " Drayton published the first part of his Poly-olbion, by which Greek title, signyfying very happy, he denotes England ; as the antient name of Albion is by some derived from Olbion, happy. It is a chorographical description of the rivers, moim- 74 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND tains, forests, castles, &c. in this Island, intermixed with it's remarkable antiquities, rarities, and commodities. Prince Henry, to whom this first part is dedicated, and of whom it exhibits a Print, in a military posture, exercising a pike, had shewn the Poet some singular marks of his favor : the imma- ture death, therefore, of this young Prince, was a great loss to him. There are eighteen songs in this volume, illustrated with the learned notes of Selden ; and there are maps before every song, wherein the cities, mountains, forests, rivers, &c. are re- presented by the figures of men and women. His metre of twelve syllables being now antiquated, it is quoted more for the History than the Poetry in it ; and in that respect is so very exact, that, as Bishop Nicholson observes, it affords a much truer account of this kingdom and the dominion of Wales, than could well be expected from the pen of a Poet. It is in- terwoven with many fine Episodes ; of the conquest of this Island by the Romans ; of the coming of the Saxons, the Danes, and the Normans, with an account of their Kings ; of English Warriors, Navigators, Saints, and of the Civil Wars of England, &c. This volume was reprinted in 1 622, with the Second Part, or continuation of twelve Songs more, making thirty in the whole, and dedicated to Prince Charles, to whom he gives hopes of bestowing the like pains upon Scotland." Winstanley, in his Lives of the English Poets, says of Dray- ton that " he was a Poet of a pious temper, his conscience having always the command of his fancy ; very temperate in his life, slow of speech, and inoffensive in company. He changed his laurel for a crown of glory, anno 1631, and was buried in Westminster Abbey." A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY". 75 Smith's (Captn. John) History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles. Folio. 1 624. With Frontispiece, containing the Portraits of Queen Elizabeth, King James 1 st, and Prince Charles; also the scarce Portraits of the Duchess of Richmond and Matoako,* the Portrait of Captn. Smith on the Map of New England, and several other Maps and Prints. Folio. 1624.f A fine copy of this book, handsomely bound, was in Collins the bookseller's catalogue, a few years back, marked 8/. 8s. Payne and Foss mark a copy at 61. 6s. At Dr. F. Bernard's sale, in 1 698, a copy sold for four shillings and two pence ! ! A large paper copy at Hunter's sale, in 1813, produced 271. 6s. It is remarked by Mr. Grenville (says Dibdin), that sheet O in this work is suppressed, and that the defective paging from 96 to 105 is not supplied in ALL the copies of this book. Captain John Smith, Admiral of New England, (says Gran- ger,) deserves to be ranked with the greatest travellers and adventurers of his age. He was sometime in the service of the Emperor, and the Prince of Transylvania, against the Grand Signior, where he distinguished himself by challenging three Turks of quality to single combat, and cutting off their heads, * The Portrait of Matoako, by Simon Passe, alone is valued by Caul- field at 4/. 4s. Smith's own Portrait, by Passe, of an 8vo. size, is at top on left hand corner of the Map of New England, and also occurs several times on another Map belonging to the same History. See Granger, vol. i. p. 399. f An Edition, folio, dated 1632, with Portraits and Plates, sold in the sale of G. Nassau's Library, 1824, for 71. 76 SECOND JOURNEY ROtTN'D for which achievement he bore on his coat of arras three Turks Heads. He afterwards went to America, where he was taken prisoner by the savage Indians, from whom he found means to escape. He often hazarded his life in naval engagements with Pirates, Spanish Men of War, and in other adventures ; and had a considerable hand in reducing New England to the obe- dience of Great Britain, and in reclaiming the inhabitants from barbarism." All which exploits are detailed in the History of Virginia by himself. Matoako, alias Rebecca, daughter to Pouhatan, Sovereign of Virginia, and who is called Pocahontas by Capt. Smith in his History, may be considered as a national benefactress, as to her (says Granger, vol. ii. p. 58) we are indebted for the preservation of Virginia, when in the state of an infant colony. In 1607, when she was about 12 or 13 years of age, she not only procured the liberty, but saved the life of Capt. Smith, whom, together with his men, her father intended to murder by surprize. In 1612, she was herself a prisoner) and soon after married Mr. Rolfe, whom Smith calls a gentleman. In 1616, after she had been instructed in our language and the Christian religion, she was brought to England, and introduced and graciously received at Court. The next year, upon her re- turn home, she died on ship board at Gravesend, strongly im- pressed with religious sentiments. The good sense, humanity, and generosity of this woman, do her honour, as they carried her far above the prejudices of her education, and the barbarous customs of her country. She was the first Virginian who was converted to Christianity, that could speak our language, or had a child by an Englishman." The Library at Eton contains King James 1st' 3 copy, and in. A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 77 the Fonthill Library was a presentation <:opy ; other large pa- per copies are in the Libraries of some of our principal Bibli- omaniacs. Smith's Travels and Adventures in Europe, Ama, Africa, and America. Small folio. Sixty pages only. Wltth Plates. 1630. Mr. Grenville's copy, according to Dibdin's Library Com- panion, p. 284, cost him 5/. 5*. It was reprinted in vol. ii. of Churchill's Collection of Voyages. Braccclli (Giov. Bat.) Bizarie di f^arie Figure. 8vo. oblong. 1624. See The Repertorium BibliograpJiicum, where it is described as " A most rare and singular Book, containing Prints of human Figures formed by the strangest materials, as diamonds, hoops, bladders, pieces of carpentery, battledores, chains, culinary utensils, &c. When the correctness of the delineations, and the boldness of the attitudes, are considered we see the hand of a great Master through the laughable whimsicality of his subjects." A copy is in the Strawberry Hill Collection, and one was in the Library at Fonthill. Darcie (Abraham) Annalesof the famous Emprcsse Elizabeth, Qiteene of England, fyc. translated out of French. Large paper. 2 vols. 4to. Benj. Fisher. (No date.) Large paper copies differ from the small in the following particulars: viz. that the date (1625) is wanting in them, 78 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND whilst it is added to the small paper copies. At the back of the Print of Elizabeth are fourteen verses in colour, but in the small copies only the two last verses in common print are found. Mr. T. Grenville has a large paper copy, with the dedication to Prince Charles, in letters of gold. On the last leaf of vol. ii. is a brilliant Portrait of Darcie by Delaram, of which also impressions are to be found in the copies possessed by the Marquis of Stafford, General Dowdeswell, and in Mr. Plumer's qopy, sold at Sotheby's, in 1822, for 10/. 15*. Cowleys (Abraham) Poetical Blossoms. With Portrait of the Author in his 1 3th year, by f^aughan. 4to. 1 633. In Longman's Bibliotheca Aug. Poet, a copy, with the Por- trait, is marked at 161.; and another, wanting the Portrait, at4/. Perry's sale, 1822, 41. Cowleys Loves Riddle, a Pastoral Comcdic, written at the time of his being a Kings Schollar in Westminster Schoole. frith Portrait. 1638. G. Nassau, Esq. 1824, 31. 10*. The JVorhs of Mr. Abraham Cowlcy, consisting- of those which were formerly printed, and those which he designed for the press. Now published out of the Authors Original Copies. 12mo. Lond. 1631. Second Part of Ditto, including his Poetical Blossoms. Lond. 1682. This latter edition of Cowley's Works contains Dr. Sprat's " Account of the Life and Writings of Cowley, written to Mr. A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 79 M. Clifford," and which is of such a character that Dr. John- son, who places Cowley first in his " Lives'" and has devoted one hundred 8vo. pages to the examination of his Works, says, "that what Sprat did not tell of Cowley cannot now be known. I must, therefore/' he continues, " recommend the perusal of his Work, to which my narration can be considered only as a slen- der supplement." Cowley's Poetical Blossoms gave early promise of future ripe fame] they were first printed at the early age of 15, and whilst he was a school boy at Westminster ; three editions had been sold, and the book had become very scarce, when the fourth edition appeared, in 1 682, the Town, according to the Book- seller's Advertisement, hardly affording one copy. The follow- ing Address to the reader, by Cowley himself, is exceedingly curious, both on its own account, and for the fact of fixing the age at which his early productions were written. " Reader, (I know not yet whether gentle or no,) some I know have been angry (I dare not assume the honour of their anger) at my Poetical Boldness, and blamed in mine, what commends other suits earliness : others who are either of a weak faith or string malice have thought me like a pipe, which never sounds but when 'tis blowed in, and read me not as Abra- ham Cowley, but Authorem Anonymum : To the first I an- swer, that it is an envious Frost which nips the blossoms because they appear quickly : to the latter, that he is the worst Homicide who strives to murther another's fume : to both, that it is a ridiculous folly to condemn or laugh at the Stars, because the Moon and Sun shine brighter. The small Fire I have is rather blown than extinguished by this Wind. For the itch of Poesie by being angered increasetli, by rubbing 80 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND spreads farther ; which appears in that I have ventured upon this third edition. What though it be neglected ? It is not, I am sure, the first book which hath lighted Tobacco, or been employed by Cooks and Grocers. If in all mens judgments it suffer Shipwrack, it shall something content me, that it hath pleased myself and the Bookseller. In it you shall find one argument (and I hope I shall need no more) to confute un- believers ; which is, that as mine age, and consequently expe- rience (which is yet but little) hath increased, so they have not left my Poesie flagging behind them. I should not be angry to see any one burn my Pyramus and Thisbe, nay I would do it myself, but that I hope a pardon may easily be gotten for the errors of ten years of age. My Constantia and Philetus confesseth me two years older when I writ it. The rest were made since upon several occasions, and perhaps do not bely the time of their birth. Such as they are, they were created by me, but their fate lies in your hands ; it is only you can effect that neither the Bookseller repent himself of his charge in Printing them, nor I of my labour in composing them. Farewell." A. COWLEY. However unfashionable in our days Cowley may have be- come from the harshness and conceit of some of his composi- tions, there are still many who think both highly and justly of him as a Poet he was considered by his co-temporaries as excelled by none, and King Charles II. when told of his death, declared " That Mr. Cowley had not left a better man behind him in England." I certainly think with Dr. Blair, that Cowley's Anacreontic Odes, are by far the happiest of his efforts : "they are smooth A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 81 and elegant ; and, indeed, the most agreeable, and the most perfect in their kind of all Mr. Cowley's Poems." One or two specimens of them here cannot but prove ac- ceptable, and will convey their own excuse for the space they occupy. GOLD. A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss But of all pains the greatest pain It is to love but love in vain. Virtue now nor Noble Blood, Nor Wit by Love is understood ; Gold alone does passion move. Gold monopolizes Love ! A curse on her, and on the man Who this traffick thus began ! A curse on him who found the ore ! A curse on him who digg'd the store ! A curse on him who did refine it ! A curse on him who first did coin it! A curse all curses else above On him, who us'd it first in Love ! ! Gold begets in Brethren, hate ; Gold in Families, debate ; Gold does Friendships separate, Gold does Civil-Wars create ; These the smallest harms of it ! Gold, alas, does Love beget. THE GRASSHOPPER. Happy Insect what can be In Happiness compar'd to Thee? Fed with nourishment divine, 82 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND The dewy-morning's gentle Wine ! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill, 'Tis fill'd wliereever tliou dost tread Nature's self's thy Ganimede. Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing ; Happier than the happiest King ! All the fields which thou dost see, All the Plants belong to thee, All that Summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice. Man for thee does Sow and Plough ; Farmer He, and Landlord Thou '. Thou doest innocently Joy ; Nor does thy Luxury destroy ; The Shepherd gladly heareth thee, More Harmonious than He. Thee, Country hinds with gladness hear, Prophet of the ripened year! Thee Phoebus loves, and does inspire ; Phoebus is himself thy Sire. To thee of all things upon Earth, Life is no longer than thy mirth. Happy Insect, happy Thou, Dost neither Age nor Winter know. But when thou'st drunk, and danc'd, and sung, Thy fill, the flow'ry Leaves among, (Voluptuous, and wise withall, Epicuraean Animal !) Sated with thy Summer Feast, Thou retirest to endless rest. THE EPICURE. Fill the Bowl with rofie Wine, Arcund our Temples Roses twine. A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 83 And let us chearfully awhile, Like the Wine and Roses smile. Crown'd with Roses we contemn Gyge's wealthy diadem. To Day is OUT'S ; what do we fear? To Day is our'tt, we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay. Let's banish Business, banish Sorrow ; To the Coils belongs To-Morrotv. Hnrons (R.) Cyprian Academy. 8vo. 1647. A copy sold at Saunders', 1818, for 61. 16*. 6d. This Romance was written when the Author was only 17 years of age, and in it he introduces two Dramatic Pieces, en- titled " Deorum Dono" and " Gripus and Hegio." The Au- thor was nephew of James How ell, Author of the Familiar Letters, who thus speaks of it in his Letters, Svo. p. 432, Land. 1754. To Mr. R. Baron, at Paris. Gentle Sir, I received and presently ran over your Cyprian Academy with much greediness and no vulgar delight ; and Sir, I hold myself much honoured for the Dedication you have been pleased to make thereof to me, for it deserved a far higher patronage. Truly I must tell you without any compliment, that I have sel- dom met with such an ingenious mixture of prose and versej interwoven with such varieties of fancy and charming strains 84 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND of amorous passions, which have made all the Ladies of the land in love with you. If you begin already to court the Muses so handsomely, and have got such footing on Parnassus, you may in time be Lord of the whole Hill ; aud those nice Girls, because Apollo is now grown unwieldly and old, and may make choice of you to officiate in his room .and preside over them. There is usually a Portrait prefixed to the Cyprian Academy of the Author, aged 1 9, without his name, but this, from the date, must have been intended for the Work I shall next men- tion : viz. Pocula Castalia, 8fc. Poems. 8vo. 1650. By R. Baron, Which sold at Woodhouse's sale for 21. 8s. According to the Author of Censura Literaria, vol. i. p. 166, R. Baron, the Author of these Poems, was born 1630, edu- cated at Cambridge, and afterwards at Gray's Inn. Mr. Ellis, who has given a specimen of his writings, says, " Whatever is Poetical in him appears to be pilfered from other Writers." Acuna (Christoval de) Nuevo descubrimiento del Gran Rio de las Amazonas. Small 4to. En Madrid en la emprlnta del Reyno. 1641. This very rare book contains only 46 leaves of text, preceded by six leaves of preliminary matter, including the title. Camus de Limare 248 francs ; Saint Ceran 1 8 1 francs ; Gaignat 170 francs; Paris sale, 1791, 10/. lOs.; Heathcote, 87. 18.9. 6d.; Stanley, 16/. The Author, a Spanish Jesuit, was sent on a mission to the American Indians : but the projects expected from its disco- A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 85 reries respecting the great River were afterwards discounte- nanced by the House of Braganza; and Philip IV. ordered all the copies of this curious book to be destroyed, so that for many years two only were known to exist ; one in the Vatican Library, and another in the possession of M. de Gomberville, who translated it into French under the title of " Relation de la Riviere das Amazones." 2 torn. 12mo. Paris. 1 682. Annulia Dubrensia. Upon the Yearly Celebration of Mr* Robert Dover's Olimpick Games upon Cotswold Hills, fyc. 4(o. Land. 1G36. Steevens, 1 /. 2s. ; Townley, 3/. 3*. (reprint) ; Saunders, 1818, 13/. 2*. 6d.; Bindley, December, 1818, 12/. 12*.; Hon. G. Nassau, 1824, (reprint J 21. 11*. 6d. Thorpe's Catalogue, 1824, 8/. 8*. The Frontispiece to the above Book represents the Games and Sports, such as men playing at cudgels, wrestling, leap- ing, pitching the bar, throwing the iron hammer, handling the pike, leaping over the heads of men kneeling, standing upon their hands, &c. Also women dancing, men hunting and coursing the hare with hounds, greyhounds, &c. With a castle built of boards, on a hillock, with guns therein firing, and the Picture of the great Director, Captain Dover, on horseback, riding from place to place. This Book, which hath the running title Cotswold Games on every page, consists of verses made by several hands, on the said Annalia Duhrcnxla. These Games were begun and continued, at a certain time in the year, for -10 years, by one 86 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND Robert Dover, an Attorney, of Barton on the Heath, in War-, wickshire, son of John Dover, of Norfolk, who being full of activity, and of a generous, free, and publick spirit, did, with leave from King James 1st, select a place on Cots wold Hills, in Gloucestershire, wherein those Games should be acted. En- dimion Porter, Esq. a native of this country, and a servant to that King, to encourage Dover, gave him some of the King's clothes, with a hat, feather, and ruff, purposely to be used on the occasion of these Sports. Dover used to be constantly there in person, thus decked out and well mounted and accou- tred, and was the chief Director and Manager of those Games, which were frequented by the Nobility and Gentry, for sixty" miles round, 'till, as blunt Anthony Wood expresses it, " the rascally Rebellion was began by the Presbyterians, which gave a stop to their proceedings, and spoyled all that was generous or ingenious elsewhere." These sports were afterwards revived, but not, I imagine, with their original spirit ; I recollect, that Geoffry Wildgoose and his man Tugwell's first Essay in Spiritual Quixotism, is described by the Rev. Mr. Graves, as taking place at Dover's Hill Revel.* T.ie Poetry in the Annalia Dubrensia, was the work of se- veral Poets, some of whom were then, as Wood says, the chiefcst of the Nation, as Michael Drayton, Thomas Randolph, of Cambridge ; Ben Johnson ; Owen Feltham ; Captain John Mennes ; Shakerley Marmion, Esq.; T. Heywood, Gent.; &c. Others of lesser note were John Trussell, who continued Daniels' History of England ; Joh. Monson ; F. Rutter ; W. Basse ; W. Denny, &c. &c. See the Spiritual Quixote, vol. i. cbap. ix. A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 87 Barksdales (Clement) Nympha Libethris : or the Cotstcold Muse presenting some extempore l r erses to the Imitation of Young Scholars. Four Parts. I2mo. Loud. 1651. A copy of this rare book, of which the contents have been amply described by Mr. Park in the 6th volume of the Censura Literaria, sold in a sale at Saunders's, in 1818, for 15/. 15*. and was bought, I believe, by Mr. Dent. A reprint by Sir E. Brydges, 8vo. 1816, sold at Mr. G. Nassau's sale, 1824, for 16*. Wood, who also furnishes an account of Barksdale and his very numerous productions, says that this work has nothing at all to do with the Annal'ia Dubrensia, with which it has by some persons been confounded. El Diablo Coivclo, Novclte de la otra vida. Svo. Barcelona. 1646. Le Sage is supposed to have founded his Diable Bo'iteux on this work. A copy in Lloyd's sale, 1819, I/. 2s. findicite, contra Tyrannos : sive, de Principis in Popuhim, Populique in Principem, legitima potestate, Stephano Juaio Bruto Celta, Auctore. Svo. Edinburgi. Annt, 15/9. De la Puissance legitime du Prince sur le Peuple et du Peu- ple sur le Prince, trad, du Lat. (par Francois Etienne) Svo. 1581. 88 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND A Defence of Liberty against Tyrants. Or, of the Lawfull power of the Prince over the People, and of the People over the Prince. Being a Treatise written in Latin and French ly Junius Brutus, and translated out of both into English. Small 4to. p.p. 148. Lond. 1648. The preceding pseudonymous production, published under the name of Jun'ms Brutus, is attributed to Hubert Languet. The French translation made much noise in its day, and by well informed persons is said to have been rigorously suppressed, and consequently to have been sought after with an avidity which renders its rarity very great. Peignot, in his Diet, des Livres condamns au feu, torn. i. p. 2, says, " this is the pro- duction of au ardent Republican, who, in treating of the power of the Prince over the People, and of the People over the Prince, leans toward the People." According to the English translation, the questions discussed in this Treatise are as follow : 1. Whether subjects are bound and ought to obey Princes, if they command that which is against the law of God. 2. Whether it be lawful to resist a Prince which doth in- fringe the law of God, or mine the Church, by whom, how> and how farre it is lawfull ? 3. Whether it be lawfull to resist a Prince which doth op- presse or mine a publique State, and how farre such resistance may be extended ; by whom, how, and by what right or law it is permitted ? 4. Whether neighbour Princes or States may be, or arc bound by law, to give succours to the subjects of other Princes, afflicted for the cause of true religion, or oppressed by manifest tyranny ? A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 89 Of the Latin original there are, besides the original edition, standing at the head of this article, editions, Frankfort, 1608, and Amst. 1660. I shall give one extract from this Book, which treats amply of the subjects before enumerated ; in order to shew the man- ner in which the author handles his subject, and for the style in which the translation is made. Who may truly be called Tyrants, " Hitherto we have treated of a King ; it now rests wee doe somewhat more fully describe a Tyrant. Wee have shewed that he is a King, which lawfully gorernes a kingdome, either derived to him by succes- sion, or committed to him by election. It followes therefore that he is reputed a Tyrant, which as opposite to a King, either gaines a kingdom by violence, or indirect means, or being in- vested therewith by lawful election or succession, governes it not according to law and equitie, or neglects those contracts and agreements, to the observation whereof he was strictly obliged at his reception. All which may very well occurre in one and the same person. The first is commonly called a Ty- rant without title : the second a Tyrant by practise. Now it may well so come to passe, that he which possesseth himselfe of a kingdome by force, to govcrnc justly, and he on whom it descends by a lawfull title, to rule unjustly. But for so much as a kingdom is rather a right than an inheritance, and an of- fice than a possession j he seems rather worthy the name of a Tyrant, which unworthily acquits himselfe of his charge, than he which entered into his place by a wrong door. In- the same sence is the Pope called an intruder which entered by indirect means into the Papacy : and he an abuser which governs ill in it."* P. 103 and 4 of the- Knglish Translation, o. 90 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND " And to conclude this discourse in a word, piety commands that the Law and Church of God be maintain'd : Justice re- quires that Tyrants and Destroyers be compelled to reason : Charity challenges the right of relieving and restoring the op- pressed. Those that make no account of these things doe as much as in them lies to drive pietie, justice, and charity out of this World, that they may never more be heard of."* Me Crie, in his Life of Andrew Melville, vol. i. p. 424, 8vo. 1819, says, this Work resembles Hottomaris Franco Gall'ia, and that Languet's Work is properly only an enlargement of Bezas suppressed Work, De Jure Magistratuum, and although more guarded, yet still far from evasive in the expression of liberal opinions. The Court and Kitchen of Elizabeth, called Joan Cromwell, the fFlfe of the late Usurper, truly described and repre- sented. I2mo. With her Portrait as a frontispiece. Lond. 1664. Mason, 1798, 21. \2s. 6d.; Woodhouse, 1803, 71. 10*.; G. Nassau, 1824, 41. 6s. Underneath the frontispiece are the following lines : From feigned glory and usurped Throne, And all the greatness to me falsely shewn, And from the arts of government set free ; See how Protectress and a Drudge agree. Over the right shoulder of the portrait is represented a monkey, in allusion to a vulgar adage. Mr. Noble, in his Me- moirs of the Cromwell Family, has caused a copy to be en- * P. 148 d Finis. A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 91 graved of the said head, but has at the same time apologized for inserting the monkey, and thereby tending to perpetuate the allusion. The book itself, which is very scarce, is a violent satire. Loyalty at that period was shewn in satire ; to be loyal was to abuse all the opposite party guilty or innocent.* Granger^ says of the subject of this satire, " Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Bourchier, and wife of Oliver Cromwell, was a woman of an enlarged understanding, and an elevated spirit. She was an excellent housewife, and as capable of de- scending to the kitchen with propriety, as she was of acting in her exalted station with dignity. It has been asserted that she as deeply interested herself in steering the helm, as she had often done in turning the spit ; and that she was as constant a spur to her husband in the career of his ambition, as she had been to her servants in their culinary employments : certain it is that she acted a much more prudent part as Protectress, than Henrietta did as Queen ; and that she educated her children with as much ability, as she governed her family with address." Cromwell The Perfect Politician, or a full View of the Life find Actions of Oliver Cromwell, with Portraits. 8vo. 1680. A copy, with two portraits of Cromwell, Desbrow, and Ire- ton, added, sold at Holies' sale, April, 1817, for 291. The most copious and satisfactory account of the various Lives of the Protector Oliver, by the different authors who * Noble's House of Cromwell, vol. i. p. 131. . | Biographical Hist, of England, TO!, iii. p. 18. y 2 02 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND preceded, is given by Mr. Noble, in his Memoirs of the Pro- tectoral House of Cromwell, vol. i. 8vo. Load. 1787, pages 294 to 300. The character of the Protector Oliver, after the ablest scru- tiny of his Biographers, both favourable and adverse both subsequent to and siuce the publication of Mr. Noble's minute investigation seems never to have been more correctly drawn than in Granger's short summary. " This great man, whose genius was awakened by the dis- tractions of his country, was looked upon as one of the people till he was upwards of forty years of age. He is an amazing instance of what ambition, heated by enthusiasm, restrained by judgment, disguised by hypocrisy, and aided by natural vigour of mind, can do. He was never oppress'd with the weight, or perplexed with the intricacy of affairs : but his deep penetra- tion, indefatigable activity, and invincible resolution, seemed to render him a master of all events. He persuaded without eloquence ; and exacted obedience, more from the terror of his name, than the rigour of his administration. He appeared as a powerful instrument in the hand of Providence, and dared to appeal to the decisions of heaven for the justice of his cause. He knew every man of abilities in the three kingdoms, and endeavoured to avail himself of their respective talents. He has always been regarded by foreigners, and of late years by the generality of his countrymen, as the greatest man this nation ever produced. It has been disputed which he deserved most, ' a halter or a crown 5' and there is no less disparity betwixt the characters drawn of him, and the reports propagated by his enemies and his friends." Mr. Noble sensibly enough remarks, that the cognizance of A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 93 the monkey added to the portrait of Elizabeth Cromwell would be a more proper appendage to that of her husband Oliver, if the story told by Audley, brother to the famed Civilian of that name, from the Rev. Dr. Lort's MSS. be true it is as follows : " His very infancy was marked with a peculiar accident that seemed to threaten the existence of the future Protector ; for his grandfather, Sir Henry Cromwell, having sent for him to Hinchinbrook, when an infant in arms, a monkey took him from the cradle, and ran with him upon the lead that covered the roofing of the house ; alarmed at the danger Oliver was in, the family brought beds to catch him upon, fearing the crea- ture's dropping him ; but the sagacious animal brought the ' fortune of England' down in safety : so narrow an escape had he, who was doomed to be the conqueror and sovereign magis- trate of three mighty nations, from the paws of a monkey." Fullers (T.) Worthies of England. Folio. 1662. With Portrait of Fuller by Loggan. Value about^lO/. 10*. Mr. Malone bought Stevens's copy, containing MS. Notes by Oldys and Thoresby, and Stevens's own additions, for 431. This book is so incorrectly printed as frequently to leave a doubt as to its being perfect. The following are directions for ascertaining a perfect copy, on collation, left in MS. by a person whose whole life was directed to such pursuits. Page 30-33, wrong, but the catchword right, viz. Chap. 42, catchword wrong : 2 Even done, should be of. 94 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND Page 70-73, paged wrong : catchword right, viz. Chap. 144-149, paged wrong: catchword right, viz. Paper. 1 82-183, catchword wrong, should be 1 to, instead of 1 the. - 292-193, paged wrong, have gone back 100 pages. 228, no catchword. 300, 317, paging wrong : catchword wrong, viz. Pem- broke, should be Essex : goes from Q q to T t : in some copies the catchword Essex is right. 368, Hantshire begins paging again 1 Hants/lire. 16, 17, wrong paged : catchword Sheriff Harford. 100, 105, paged wrong: catchword right, viz. Lancashire. 110, 111, catchword wrong, his, should be thence. 144, 149, paging wrong : and should be Thane. 314, 315, no catchword. 354, last page begins again with Shropshire, page 1. Pages 1 67, 1 67, wrong paged and wrong catchword ; against, should be well. 198, 199, catchword wrong; but should be and. Page 232, last page of the Worthies of England. Then follows the Principality of Wales, which begins the paging anew. Page 40, 41, catchword Merioneth wrong, should be Glamor- ganshire. 48, 49, catchword wrong; Merioneth should be Monmoutk. 60, last page of the Worthies of Wales. Then should follow the Index, 12 pages, which was not printed with the book. N. B. In some copies the catchword at page 300 is Essex", and in others Pembroke, but the pages go from 300 to 317. There were two editions of the book ; viz. London : printed A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 95 by J. W. L. and W. G. for Thos. Williams, and are to be sold at the sign of the Bible in Little Brittain. 1 662. London : printed by J. G, W. L. and W. G. 1 662. There has been a reprint of Fuller's Worthies, with Notes, by J. Nichols. 2 vols. 4to. published at 51. 5*. Lond. 181 1. Fullers Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Christ f/7/1648. Folio. 1655. A copy in the Merly collection sold for 8/. 8*. Should have the following plates : Arms of the Knights and Monks of Ely, page 1 68. Two plates of Litchficld Cathedral, one by Hollar, the other by Vaughan, at page 174. Plan of Cambridge, to face page 1 of the Hist, of Cambridge University. And Seals of Arms of all the Mitred Abbies in England, at the end of the book. Fullers (Thos.) Abel Redivivus: or the Dead yet Speaking. The Lives and Deaths of the Moderns Divines written by sevcrall able and learned Men; and now digested into one volume. 4to. 1 65 1 . Frontispiece by Vaughan of the Au- thor, with his right hand ou a book, and Portraits on the letter-press. At page 440 Life of Bishop Andrews and Portrait, 10 leaves, concluding with Finis. Page 441 to 599 follow and finish the volume.* * See Crangrr, vol. ii. p 171, and Ceiisura Literaria, vol. i. p. 311, 96 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND According to the Epistle to the Reader, " The most part of the Poetry was done by Master Quarles, father and son, suffi- ciently known for their abilities therein. The rest the Sta- tioner got transcribed out of Mr. Holland and other Authors." Besides the preceding works, Fuller was author of the His- tory of the Holy IFar. 1 640. Folk. Pisgah Sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof, nith the History of the Old and New Testament: and numerous other less celebrated productions. The best impressions of Fuller's Portrait are, I believe, usually found prefixed to the Pisgah sight. Fuller's memory is said to have been so retentive, that he could repeat a sermon verbatim after once hearing it ; and on a day walking from Temple Bar to the end of Cheapside, he mentioned all the signs on both sides of the way either back- wards or forwards, (no slight task in those days.) It is said that he once travelled with a friend of the name of Sparrow-Hawk, and he could not but ask him jocosely what was the difference between an owl and a sparrow-hawk. " The difference is very great," replied his companion, eyeing his corpulent person with a smile, " for it is Fuller in the head, fuller in the body, and fuller all over." Bussy Rabutin (Roger) Hlstoire Amoureuse des Gaules. \2rno. Sans date. Liege. Ditto. 12mo. Liege. 1665. Ditto. 5 torn. \2tno. Paris. 1754. This latter edition, in addition to the original work, contains many pieces analogous to it. The original work caused its author an eighteen months' residence in the Bastilc, from A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 97 whence he was only released to become an exile for 17 years on his own estate. He had entrusted his manuscript to his intimate friend the Marchioness of Beaume, who having fallen out with him, had it printed out of spite. Les Oeuvres de Jean Bapt. Pocquclln do Mollere, 5 torn. Small \2rno. Amsterdam. 1675. This uncommon little edition, to which is often added Vie de Moliere, Amst. 1705, which forms a 6th volume, ranks with the Elzevir collection, and has sold in France for 130 francs, and in London, at the sale of Amos Strettcll, Esq. 1820, the 6 vols. bound in morocco, for 41. 15*. In this edition the Festln de Pierre of Corneille, in verse, is included, instead of that of Moliere ; the 5th volume termi- nates with L' Ombre de Moliere petite Comcdle. The edition of Moliere, 6 torn. 12mo. Wetstein, Amsterdam, 1691, is somewhat remarkable, as containing the noted Scene of Don Juan and the Mendicant, torn. iii. p. 38, and which Brunei says, he has met with in no edition of Moliere printed in France earlier than 1817, with the exception of a single copy of the Oemres Posthumes, torn. vii. Parts, 1 682. This scene was suppressed on the 2d representation of the Festln de Pierre to quell the clamours which it excited against the Author, by the too strong colours perhaps with which he had depicted the reasoning villainy of his hero. The following is the passage as gix-en by Bret in his edition, of Moliere. Don Juan meets a beggar in the Forest, of whom he asks how he passes his life ? who answers " }1 prler Dleu pour !e& konnctcs gens yui me donncnt fan munc. Tu passes ta vie i 98 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND prler Dieu ? Si cela est, tu dots etre, fort a ton alsc. Helas ! Monsieur, je not pas souvent de quoi manger. Cela ne se pent pas, Dieu ne sauroit laisser mourir de faim ceux qui le prient du soir au matin : tiens, voila un louis d'or, maisje te la donne pour f amour de fhumanit6" In the Dutch edition the passage according to Brunet is much bolder, viz. Je vais te donner un Louis d'Or, tout a Vheure, pourvu que tu veuillc jurer. These particulars have lost some of their interest, since the same scenes have been reprinted in Didot's 8vo. edition and in M. Auger's. Bret's edition, 6 vols. 8vo. 1773, with Moreau's plates, en- joyed the reputation for many years of being the best of this author, but according to the latest French catalogues, appears to be superseded in reputation by that, of M. Auger, Paris, 1819 and 20, 9 vols. 8vo. with prints after Vernet, which is spoken of in rapturous terms by Brunet : " Pour la purcte du texte, le merite du commentaire, la beaute de rimpression et le firii des gravures" To this, as to every other 8vo. edition, may be added 3 1 en- gravings, done from the new drawings of M. Moreau, which are much superior to those of the same artist made in 1773. The editions of this celebrated Author are nearly as nume- rous as our Shakspeare, and it would be an endless as well as useless task to enumerate even a tythe of them, I shall there- fore only add one more edition to my list, viz. that of Paris, 1 734, 6 vols. 4to. with plates, as it was revised from the ori- ginal editions of Moliere's Plays, and served as the text, from which Bret's edition was printed. There are two editions of the same date and size : l\\e first and best is recognized by a fault in torn. vi. page 360, line 12' A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 99 where stands the word Comteese, which in the reprint is cor- rected to La Comtesse. La Harpe in his Cours de la Litterature, says, ' An Author's commendation, is in his own works :' and it may justly be said that Moliere's eulogium is contained both in the works of Wri- ters who preceded as well as succeeded him, so completely have both classes been distanced by him. He certainly classes among the front rank of Moral Philosophers. Dr. Blair, in his Lectures on Belles Lettres and Rhetoric, calls him an Author in whom the French glory most, and whom they justly place at the head of all their Comedians. There is indeed no Author in all the fruitful and distinguished age of Louis XIV. who has attained a higher reputation than Moliere ; or who has more nearly reached the summit of perfection in his own art, according to the judgment of all the French Critics j Voltaire boldly pronounced him to be the most eminent Comic Poet of any age or Country ; nor perhaps, is this the decision of mere partiality, for taking him upon the whole, I know none who deserves to be preferred to him. Moliere is always the satirist only of vice and folly. He has selected a great va- riety of ridiculous characters, peculiar to the times in which he lived, and he generally placed the ridicule justly. He possessed strong comic powers , he is full of mirth and pleasantry : and his pleasantry is always innocent. In fine, notwithstanding some few imperfections and improbabilities, which are mere specks on the disc of this luminary, few writers, if any, ever possessed the spirit or attained the true end of comedy, so perfectly, on the whole, as Moliere. 100 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND Perrault (Charles) Les Hommes Illustres qui ont paru en France pendant le slecle de Louis XI f^. avec leurs Portraits au nature!. Paris. 1 696 1700. 2 torn. Folio. It may have been remarked, that whenever this book, which is much in request, on account of the portraits, engraved by Edelinck, falls into the company of book collectors, they im- mediately enquire if it contain the portraits of Arnauld and Pascal, and either turn themselves to the end of the first vo- lume, or request someone else to make the reference for them. The occasion of this invariable enquiry it may not be consi- dered misplaced in a work like the present to detail. When this work was on the point of publication, the Censor not hav- ing allowed the lives and portraits of Arnauld and Pascal, at pages 15, 16 65 and 66, to form part of the publication the publisher was under the necessity of suppressing them, and filling the void thus left by the lives and portraits of Thomas- sin and Du Cange. Some amateurs, however, procured copies of the suppressed portraits, and added them to their copies. In time the cause of suppression no longer existing, the book- seller and proprietor replaced Arnauld and Pascal in their ori- ginal situations, and Thomassiu and Du Cange disappeared in turn. Copies, therefore, in which the lives of Arnauld and Pascal are wanting, but having their portraits inserted at the end of the volume or volumes, may be considered as first im- pressions. About eight guineas is the value of a fine copy in England. The copy of G. Nassau, Esq. sold, 1 824, for 1 1 /. 1 1 *. Still more valuable would be a copy containing both the por- traits and lives of Thomassin, Du Cange, Aruauld, and Pascal, so that the pages 15 and 16 65 and 66, of torn. i. as well as plates 8 and 33, be found repeated. A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 101 " The Angelical Guide, shewing Men and JVomen their Lot and Chance in this elementary Life" In 4 books. By John Case, M.D. 8vo. 1697. G. Nassau, Esq. 1824, I/. 8*. " -This," says Granger, " is one of the most profound astro- logical pieces that the world ever saw. The Diagrams would probably have puzzled Euclid, though he had studied Astrology. Immediately after the unintelligible Hieroglyphic inscribed ' Adam in Paradise}* is this passage, selected as a specimen, of the work : ' Thus Adam was created in that pleasant place Paradise, about the year before Christ 4002, viz. on April 24, at twelve o'clock or midnight. Now this place Paradise is in Mesopotamia, where the. Pole is elevated 34 deg. 30 min. and the Sun riseth four hours sooner than under the elevation of the Pole at London. Now our curious Reader may be inquisi- tive concerning this matter. If you will not credit these rea- sons laid down, pray read Joscphua : there you will see some- thing of this matter, viz. of the first primuui mobile or moving posture of the World, and place of Paradise, and elevation of its Pole. Many controversies have been about the time and season of the year, therefore I shall not trouble my reader any further with them. Let the Scripture be our guide in this mat- ter. Let there be (saith the word) and there was : and also the fifth day's work of the creation, when the grasshoppers were, and the trees sprang out ; this may give us to under- stand that the time of the Creation must have its beginning in the spring. Now for the place or centre of the earth, from * " The Philosophical Figure deduced by an Ang-flical hand Astrolo- gically," seems lo be equally unintel'igible. See this figure at p. 254. 102 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND whence we may observe the Poles as aforementioned in Meso- potamia, where God placed Adam : so the spring is two months sooner there than here with us, under the elevation of the Pole at London.' " This passage is so unconnected with any thing else, except we suppose some abstruse meaning in the Hieroglyphic, that it must be presumed to be self-evident, or else the Author (con- tinues Granger) must have acted like James Moore,* as is inti- mated in the following dialogue between that Author and his Reader : Reader. What makes you write and trifle so ? Moore. Because I've nothing else to do. Reader. But there's no meaning to be seen, Moore. Why that's the very thing I mean ! Case, who was a native of Lime Regis, in Dorsetshire, was many years a practitioner both of Physic and Astrology, and was looked upon as the successor of the famous Lilly, whose magical utensils he possessed. From the ensuing anecdote, communicated by the Rev. Mr. Gosling to Mr. Granger, it would appear that Case was no novice in his profession. Drs. Maundy, Radcliffe, and Case, being brought to dine together on some trifling occasion, Radcliffe thus toasted Case, " Here Brother Case, to all the fools your patients j" I thank you, good Brother," replied Case; "let me have all the fools, and you are heartily welcome to all the rest of the practice." Author of " The Rira! Modes.' A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 103 The Lawyers Fortune ; or Love in a Hollow Tree. Comedy, by Ifm. Lord discount Gritnstone. 4 to. 1/05. 8vo. and 12 mo. 1736. G. Nassau, 1824, 7s. Lord Grimstone, who wrote this Comedy when a school boy at the age of 1 3, afterwards, as far as ky in his power, at- tempted it's suppression, by buying up the copies. This attempt to obliterate all trace of authorship, of which his Lordship's inaturer years rendered him ashamed, would most probably have succeeded, had not the malevolence of Sarah Duchess of Marl- borough procured a copy, at a time when his Lordship was Candidate for the Borough of St. Albans, and when she took occasion to interest herself in opposition to him ; and as a means to forward her plans, caused an impression in 8vo. to be printed and distributed amongst the electors, at her own sole charge, with a frontispiece, " conveying," says the Biographia Dramatica, " a most indecent and unmannerly reflection on his Lordship's understanding, under the allegorical figure of an elephant dancing on a rope." This edition he also bought up as nearly as he was able, upon which she sent a copy to Hol- land to be reprinted. The 8vo. edition has a sarcastic dedica- tion, and some ill-natured notes. Swift, in allusion to this Play and its Author, says, " The Leaden Crown devolrd to thee Great Poet of the Hollow Tree." See Walpole's Royal and Noble Authors, Noble's Continua- tion of Granger, and Biographia Dramatica. 104 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND Waller s (Edmond) Poems. Svo. Tonson. 1711. Should contain the following Plates by Vertue and Vander- gucht. Portrait of the Author in his 23d year. Edmond Waller, aged 76, at end of the life. Monument of ditto ditto Countess of Carlisle page 23 of Sunderlaiid . . . ' . 98 Ben Johnson ...... Jack Fletcher .159 Lady Morton 1 69 General Montague, afterwards Earl of Sandwich . 192 William and Mary . . . . . .325 Col. Townley's copy, large paper, in morocco, sold for 41. 8*. Ordinary copies are of moderate value. Hearne, (T.) Acta Apostolonim, Grace Latine, Litterls Mnjusculis E. Codice Laud'iano, fyc. fyc. 810. 0< CoJ. -> lMt i r to Wulpnle. in the Ilritis!) Museum, f[uolffl &T Mr. npv-r, in his rdiron of Spruce's Anecdotes. 106 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND The Toast, dn Heroic Poem. In four Books. JVrltten originally in Latin, by Frederick Scheffer : now done into English, and illustrated with Notes and Observations, by Peregrine O Donald, Esq. Dublin printed. London reprinted. 4to. With Frontispiece. 1747. This Poem, by Dr. Wm. King, Principal of St. Mary's, Oxford, of which much has been said, but the contents of which have been a sealed book except to the select few, is a violent satire, and, if not true, a virulent libel against his ad- versaries, in a law suit about an estate in Galway, to which the Dr. laid claim, as having lent his uncle, Sir Thos. Smith, large sums on mortgage, previous to his death ; but which claim was contested, and subsequently compromised. In the former Journey Round a Bibliomaniac's Library, I mentioned a MS. Key, as being contained in the copy of Dr. King's Works, sold in Isaac Reed's sale for 1 01. 10*. I have now in my possession a copy of the Toast, from which the above re- cited title is correctly extracted, and containing in manuscript the following Explanation of the persons alluded to in the Toast : Page. 1. Myra.* Lady Frances Brudenal, (celebrated by Lans- downej sister to the Earl of Cardigan, married first Count Newburgh, afterwards to Lord Bellew, and lastly to Sir Thos. Smith, Dr. King's uncle, but this match was not owned. 3. O * *. Walpole. 5. Volcan or Vol. Capt. John Pratt, Deputy Vice Treasu- * See Noble's continuation of Granger for some account of this Lady, roL i. p. 365 and 366, A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 107 Page. rer of Ireland, who while in that office is supposed to have cheated Government of 30,0007. He became bankrupt, and it is believed died in the Marshalsea. He was father of Lady Saville, mother of Sir George. 7. Mars Chevalier. Sir Thos. Smith, the Author's uncle, appointed in 1704 Ranger of the Phoenix Park, in which he had a Lodge. 8. Mrs. D. Mrs. Denton, another man's wife ; which in- trigue cost about 50001. 15. Lord John. Lord Gran ville. 16. Hortetmus. Dr. Hort, Archbishop of Tuam. 1 7. Mtlo, (a huge B(attle A)x Chief) Butler, a Lieutenant of the Yeomen of the Guards. 18. Clara. Lady Lowth. 20. Trulla. A woman that Butler kept. 27. Lord f Discount A. Lord Viscount Allen. . 37. Ottor. Dr. Trotter, a Master in Chancery, or, as another copy of the Key lias it, Judge of the Prerogative Court. 40. Jocco. Robert Jocelyn, Esq. Attorney General at that time, and afterwards Lord Chancellor of Ireland. 42. The PRIME. Singleton, then Premier Serjeant, after- wards Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. 49. Little All. Lady Allen, wife to Lord Viscount Allen, and mother of Lady Carysfort and Lady Newburgh of Castlemaine. She was the daughter of a Dutch Jew. 84. Piercy. Sir Edward Pierce, Surveyor-General of Ireland. 86'. LORD PAM. Dr. Hort, Archbishop of Toam, called Pam by Dean Swift. 89. Per. Pierce. 2 108 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND Page. 107. Maecar. One Me Carty, an evidence and favorite of Myra's. 91.* H . G . and G . Hoar, Gideon, and Gore. 93.* H (or) t. M (awson). L (Me).K (ing). 99. Boyle. Lord Orrery. Arlsto. Mr. Forrester. 100.* Jernes rude Pleaders. Jocelyn and Bowes. 100.* Old Chum.Dr. Monro. 101. Jewess. Lady Allen. 107. Ales. Lady Allen. 113. Curcullo. Capt. Cugley, a pragmatical Officer and Bully of Lord Allen's. Image of (Hort.) B /. Brudenel. G mile, Granville. 113.* Bocca. Bowes, Lord Chief Baron. C r. The Chancellor (Wyndham.) 114. Miracides. LordBellew, Myra's son. 115. P r D . Peter Daly, an Irish Lawyer. 125. * *. Walpole. 126. Cacus. Sir Edward Crofton. He was executor with Sir Edward Pierce to Sir Thos. Smith's will, and suspected of forging it. B. iv. 146. * * * *. Lady Allen. Cugley. C /.Council. Traulus. Lord Allen. M * *. ^Jocelyn. Bowes. E(l)wood.to (King.) 147. Epal. Episcopal. * * Hoadley. * Hort. Fuscut. Judge Ward, of the Common Pleas. A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. Page 149. ZW/.- Counsellor Dillon. 150. Mac. Me Carty, a hired Witness. 156. (Note.) Dr. King's own case. 157. OndlllandJ. Occo. Dillon and Jocelyn. 158. Surveyor. Charles Withers, brother-in-law to Dr. King. 168. * * * *. Duke of Grafton.* S / gan. Stilorgan, a seat of Lord Allen. 1 93. Lord J . Joshua, Lord Allen's name. In the title to a former edition of the Toast, 4to. Lond. 1 736, after Peregrine O' Donald, Esq. in the Title-page, was Pus atque l r enenem, Rabies armavit. Dr. Win. King was also Author of the following Pieces, which, with the Toast, were printed in a quarto volume, under the title of " Opera Gul. King, L. L. D." This volume was never published, and on the death of the Author the whole im- pression, except 60 copies, were destroyed by his Executors ; one of these was sold in Reed's sale, No. 2204, with MS. Key, for 10/. 10*. Miltoni Epistola ad Pollionem. (Lord Polwarth.)f Sermo Pedestris. Scamnum Ecloga. Templum Libertatis. Tres Oratiunculse. Antonietti Epistola ad Corsos. * D. of Dorset, says the key in the copy presented by the Author to John Gaseoyne, 1747 t See King's Anecdotes ot'his own Time?, STO. Lond. 181!), p. \9\. 110 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND Eulogium Jacci Etonensis. Oratio in Theatre Bibliotheca Radcliviana.* Oratio in Theatre Sheldoniana. Epistola Objurgatoria. Aviti Epistola ad Perillam. Oratiuncula in Domo Convocationis Oxon. Epitaphium Richard! Nash. King's Apology or Vindication "of himself. There is a striking likeness of Dr. King in Worlidge's View of the Installation of Lord Westmoreland, as Chancellor of Oxford, in 1761. In the MS. Account of Dr. King, attached to the copy of his Work whence the preceding Key has been extracted, it is re- counted that he was no friend to the two first Georges, but soon after the accession of George the Third to the Throne, he renounced his former antipathy to the Hanoverian Family, and transferred his allegiance from James to George. On the Dedication of Radcliffe's Library in 1749 he spoke the Latin Oration, which was received with the highest accla- mations by a splendid auditory ; and Mr. Warton, in his " Tri- umphs of his," pays him a very great compliment on the com- position. Mr. Chalmers, in the Biographical Dictionary, after relating various particulars of our Author, upon the authority of Ni- chols's Life of Bowyer and Swift's Works, mentions, that he was the Editor of the Five First Illumes of Dr. SoutKs Ser- mons my manuscript account says he was Editor of the Five LAST Volumes. * See Kind's Anecdotes of his own Times, 8vo. Loncl. 1819, p. 15a A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. Ill As I have Dr. King's Work now before me, I should be thought negligent were I not to extract a specimen ; which, as devoid of any personality, shall be from the Night Ramble of the Sun, and his Visit to Dublin. Book i. "Sol was now in the Ocean ; his Horses were drest ; And the Household of Thetis was onler'd to rest When his Godship, or curious to Visit old Night, To see how we supply the defect of his Light ; Or perhaps to invent a new subject of mirth, Took a fancy to stroll for one Evening on Earth. But he doft all his rays, and his bow he laid down : For a God by his ensigns of honour is known ; As an Idiot's distinguish'd by putting a bib on, And a great Chevalier by a cross and a ribbon. Tho' the Magi assures us, the Sun is not proud, Yet his habit was made of the brightest blue Cloud Well embroidered and spangled : He seem'd a mere Beau ; For he knew that fine clothes are a passport below. Nor his tresses neglected now flow in the Wind, But were furl'd, and with art in a silk bag confined, Who of all the smart Toupees so graceful appears ? Who can please the Nymph's more by producing his ears? From the head of the Xiphias* he cut off a sword, Fit to grace a new Mayor, tho' he's titled My Lord ; For the handle was pearl, and the scabbard shagreen; And his sword-knot unsully'd had garter'd a Queen. From a tortoiseshell trident he shap'd a neat cane, * Xiphias, a fish larger than a Dolphin, by the Italians called Pesr.e Spada, by the French, L'E;npereur, by the Germans, Schtverdt Fisch, and by us the Sicord FisA. See a description of it in Pliny, Oppian, and in the Natural History of Johan Johnstone. Xijthiee are likewise a sort of Stars or Comets which appear in the form of a sword, in Mncrmieni Jnstigiatif. Plin. Nfif. Hi*t. 112 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND With a gold head adorn'd, tlio' the work was but plain. Shone his shoes with gold buckles : well lined were his fobs With a watch of chas'd gold, and purse of gold cobs.* Nor pronounce the good muse, who bedights him too bold : For we know when he pleases, the Sun can make gold. Thus his Godship equipt sallies out from his port, And as swift, as a Triton thro' Mare del Nort, To thy Channel, George ! with a spring tide he flows; And anon on lerne's fair Island arose. Still the stairs may be seen, in the deep far extended, (Mighty work of the Sea Gods !) by which he ascended, Giants Caiisey (For Sol in his travelling dress, Hieroglyphical Giants are us'd to express) Over mountains and bogs, speeding hence in a line, He arrived at Port Eblanv exactly at nine, Here he travers'd the streets, every bridge, and each quay ; (For the turnings he often had noted by day.) First the lamps he examined, concave and convex ; How the same were supply'd, with their various aspects : But condemn'd the dull glare, that would scarcely suffice To direct a night-walker, who wanted good eyes : He remark'd, that short links serv'd to light home poor wits; That a lanthorn mov'd slowly before the rich cits : That the traders become by their drinking more dull, And the bards debonnair, when their bellies are full. To the God were more grateful the well scented flames Of the flambeaux, conducting the chairs of high dames. How inviting the Belles ! how diffusive the blaze ! How their eyes and the glasses reflected the rays ! But astonish'd he look'd, where his excellence shone In a Berlin, whose guard was a counterfeit Moon : Such an Orb, as a deluge of Rain had endur'd, Unextinguish'd by Winds, and by Clouds unobscur'd : * A Gold Cob is it Spanish Coin, value .f 3. 14s. A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 113 Phoebe views with much envy a rival so bright, Who assumes her own form, and eclipses her light ! How the streets were adorn'd, when his Godship had seen, He would know how the houses were lighted within : So to Court he repairs to make observation ; For at Court must needs be the grand illumination. Here the bougies and tapers soon drew his attention : Much the form he admired ; much he praised the invention. Such a radiance can matter thus moulded, display ! Can a night-beam be made to resemble the day ! As if this was his noon-tide, his sight was as clear; Nor himself could cause objects more plainly appear. He distinguished Lord John by his noble Greek mien ; And observ'd all who circled the graceful Vice-Queen: Haughty DAMES set with di'monds, and stiffen'd with gold ; Whom to dress for one day half a county is sold : Mitred PRIESTS who besides a good conscience and wife, Here enjoy all the other good things of this life: Who refuse, what they ask, which to lay-men sounds odd.; And are forc'd to accept, tho' the gifts are of God, Fair revenues and Lordships : Hortensius and I know That Episcopal Coaches are Jure Divino." Dr. King- died December 30th, 1763, in the 78t/t year of his age, and was burled in Baling Church. A marble tablet was erected to his Memory in the Chapel of St. Mary Hall, Oxford. I feel pleased at being enabled to add, from " Dr. King's Anecdotes of his Own Times," which have been published, from the MS. in the possession of two ladies, relatives of Dr. King, his own account of the publication of the Toast. " I began the TOAST in anger, but I finished it in good humour. When I had concluded the second Book, I bid aside the work, and \ did not take it up again till some years after, at the pressing 114 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND instances of Dr. Swift. In the last letter which I received from him, he writes thus : ' In malice I hope your law suit will force you to come over (to Dublin} the next term, which I think is a long- one, and I will allow you time to finish it ; in the mean time I wish I could hear of the progress and finishing of another affair (The Toast} relating to the same law-suit, but tryed in the Courts above, upon a hill with two heads, where the Defendants will as infallibly and more effectually be cast,' &c. And speaking of this Work to a lady, his near relation, who is now living, after he had perused the greater part of it in the MS. he told her, if he had read the Toast when he teas only twenty years of age, he never would have wrote a satire. It is no wonder that such a singular approbation should raise the vanity of a young writer, or that I imagined I wanted no other vindication of this performance than Dr. Swift's opinion. He was chiefly pleased with the Notes, and expressed his surprise that I had attained such a facility in writing the burlesque Latin. The motives which induced me to form the Notes in that manner, was the judgment I made on those of Mr. Pope's Dunciad. That Poem, it must be allowed, is an excellent Sa- tire ; but there is little wit or humour in the Notes, although there is a great affectation of both. After Dr. Swift's testimo- nial, I ought perhaps to esteem the TOAST above all my other Works ; however, I must confess there are some parts of it which my riper judgment condemns, and which I wish were expunged ; particularly the description of Mira's person in the third Book is fulsome, and unsuitable to the polite manners of the present age. But if this work was more exceptionable than my enemies pretend it to be, I may urge for my excuse, that although it has been printed more than thirty years, yet A BIBLIOMAMAC'S LIBRARY. 115 it has never been published : I have indeed presented a few copies to some friends, on giving me their honour that they would not suffer the books to go out of their hands without my consent. One of these persons, however, forfeited his honour in the basest manner, by putting his copy into the hands of BLACOW, and the rest of the Oxford informers 3 but as they had no KEY to the work, and did not understand or know how to apply the characters, they were content to call it an execra- ble book, and throw dirt at the Author : and this, in their judg- ment, is the most effectual way of answering any performance of wit and humour."* Key to Smollett's History and Adventures of an Atom. 2 vols, \2rno. Lond. 1/19. The Adventures of an Atom exhibit under fictitious charac- ters the conduct and dissensions of the several political parties in Great Britain, from the commencement of the French war in 1754, to the dissolution of Lord Chatham's Administration in 17C8. It is rather a Novel in form than in substance. The circumstances are true in the main, though occasionally exag- gerated by the flights of fancy, or obscured by the clouds of prejudice. " Smollett seems," says one of his Biographers, " in this Work to have relaxed in his attachment to Lord Bute, as much as he did in the Continuation of his History to Lord Chatham ; indeed he had been equally disappointed in his cx- * See u political and Literary Anecdotes of his Own Times. By Dr, VV. King." Tost 8vo. Lond. 1819. p, 07, ,\c. 116 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND pectations of patronage from those two noblemen ; a circum- stance which has a wonderful influence on the pens of Political Writers." KEY TO SMOLLETT'S ADVENTURES OF AN ATOM. Abra-moria Ab by Corea Spain Abrenthi Council of 28 Privy Council Akousti (Prince) Poland Dairo King Apothecary Dr. Hill. Domains Saxony Bupo George 1st Empire of The British Ein- Bihn Goh. Byng. Japan pire Brut-an-Tiffi K. of Prussia Frenoxena Cambridge Bha-koke Pocock Fika-kaka D. of Newcastle Bonzas Clergy? Authors?Foksi Rokhu Fox Lcl.H 1 d Party Writers Foutao Gibraltar Bonze (2nd) Home Fide-Tada Gen. Blakeney Brave Adml. Pocock Fla-Sao Plassy Bron-xi-Tic Duke Ferdinand Fas-khan Boscawen Cambadoxi Cambridge Fumma Portugal China France * Frarep Draper Chinese French Freebooter CertainTreatyUtrecht (this) King of Prussia Crazy Hogs- Fishery Newfoundland head Beckford Fan Sey Great Cham Emp. of GerinanyFakku Basi House of Hano- Celebrated ver ; from the General Count Daun quartering in the Commr. of the Arms of England 1st or Ft. Sir J. M 1. Foggien (period) China Fort Lonisbourg Fatsissio America Cuboy Prime Minister Fun Yah A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 117 Gothama-baba George 2nd Gotto-Mio D. of Bedford Gentile Province Silesia Gen. in Chief Earl of Loudon Gio-Gio George 3d Hy lab Bib Bligh Hob Nob Hopson He Kliiiimi Moore Hell y otte Elliott Hoard Montague Japan British Empire Japanese English Jedoo Germany Jan-on-i Sir W. J n Island Cape Breton Japanese Comr. Earl of London Jan-ki-dtzin Wilkes Jacko Kowkin R y Koan Braddock Ka-liff Clive Ka-frit-o Cape Breton Kunt Than Count Daun Kho-rhe Goree Kha-fell Keppel Khutt Whang Cook Kep-Marl Albemarle Kio Kurd Latter's Post Sir J. Hodges Lha-dohn Laudohn Lob Kob Earl Temple Lli-nam Manilla Lo Yaw French Tyranny Llur-chir Churchill Ley-nah Northington Le-Yawter (Gen.) Motao Minorca Mura-Clami Murray, Earl of Mansfield Mantchou Tartars Russians Myn Than Mindcn Mona Tanti Mordaunt Meaco London Ninkom-poo-po Ld. Anson Niphon Great Britain Nob-o-di Ld. B n (Minister of War) Nembuds-ju Ostrog Austria Orn-bas Osborn Old Rich Hag Duchess of Marlbro' Obans Coin Pekin Paris Pol-hassan Akousti Poland Phal Khan Hawke Pliyll-Koll Colvillo Praff-patt-phogg Pratt 118 SECOND JOURNEY ROUND I Smollett Philosophize like H , or dogmatize like S . Quanbuku Duke Q. Syko Queen Anne Quamba Cun- dono, or Fatzman Quib Quab Quebec Qua Chu Guadaloupe Quiutus Curtius Voltaire Rha-rin-tumm Barr n Rhum-kikh Beckford Stiphirumpoo Ld. Hardwicke Soo-san-sino E. of Gr lie Scrednees Swedes Sel-uon Knowles Strong Post Tieonderoga Sagacity of an Engineer? Sh-telk Tory Sh-ktimo Whig Sey-seo-Gun Admiral Sa-Boi Savoy Shi-Wang-ti Sarouf Slir.gers Alluding to The Shore > &C " St ' Cas Hume and Ta y cho Pitt Ld ' Ch ~~ m Trading Town Rochefort Town Louisbourg Tziii Khali Senegal Ter Austr Africa Thum-Khumm Qua T. Cummings D. of CumberlandThin Quo Thon Syn Townshend Tan Yah Havannah Twitzer The Financier ? Toks Zantinc's Understrapper ? Tensio-dai-sin Tartary Russia Tartars of Yesso Hanoverians Village Cherburg Ximo Scotland Ximian Scotchman Xicoco Ireland Yaffrai Amherst Yesso Hanover Ya-loff Gen. Wolfe Yam a Khcit Marshal Keith Yak Strot Earl of Bute Zantinc Sandwich A BIBLIOMANIAC'S LIBRARY. 119 Collins s (Arthur) Historical Collections of the Noble Families of Vere, Cavendish, Harley, fyc.fyc. Folio. 1752. Clarke, 1820, 8/. 8*.; G, Nassau, Esq. 1824, large paper, 10/. 10*. The following Portraits, &c. should be contained in the above work, which was compiled by Collins, at the request of Lady Oxford, mother to the Duchess Dowager of Portland. 1. Lady Eliz. Cavendish page 14 2. Wm. Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle .... 25 3. Tomb of the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle . 44 4. Denzil Baron Hollis, of Ifield 100 5. Tonib of John Hollis, Duke of Newcastle . . 185 6. Thos. Harley, of Bramton Bryan 197 7. Sir Robert Harley, of ditto 198 8. Sir E. Harley, Knt 200 9. Hon. E. Harley 206 10. R. Harley, Esq., of Oxford, &c 207 11. Edward, Earl of Oxford ' 212 12. Horace, Lord Vere, of Tilbury 330 Towneley s French Translation of Butler s Hudibras. I wish before concluding the present Journey to correct an error in my former one, respecting this translation of Hudi- bras. I there attributed it to Col. Francis Towncley, being misled by Tytler in his Essay on Translation, and my error fur- ther confirmed by Nichols in his Biographical Anecdotes of Hogarth, aud by Ray in his History of the Rebellion, 1745, but I now find that it was John and not Francis Towneley, who was author of this translation, and that he was Uncle to Charles Towneley, Esq. celebrated for his noble and elegant collection of Marbles. FINIS. 120 NOTICE. Third Journey round a Bibliomaniacs Library. W. DAVIS is preparing, and, if encouragement be given, will soon publish, A Third Journey, comprising an enlarged and corrected edition (being the third) of his Olio of Bibliographi- cal and Literary Anecdotes and Memoranda, uniformly printed with his first and second " Journies round the Library of a Bibliomaniac." Recently published, price 3s. extra boards, i&ftfolrs,