Dedicated "To the true Lover of all good Learning, the Honourable lohn Finch, Esq." after which an address to the reader by R. C. and commendatory verses by L. B.—F. L.—E. G.—S. P. —and L. C. Warton remarks, that it would appear from the preface to this volume that Christopher Marlow was a favourite with Ben Jonson; the passage to which he alludes is this: "The strength of his fancy, and the shadowing of it in words he (Bosworth) taketh from Mr. Marlow in his Hero and Leander, whose mighty lines Mr. Benjamin lohnson (a man sensible enough of his own abilities) was »ften heard to say, that they were Examples fitter for admiration than for parallel." 66. Baxter (Richard).—Poetical Fragments: Heart Imployment with God and It-self. The concordant Discord of a Broken healed Heart. Sorrowing-rejoycing, fearing-hoping, dying-living. Written partly for himself, and partly for near Friends in Sickness, and other deep Affliction. By Richard Baxter.—Neat.—London, printed by T. Snowden, 1681. Small octavo, pp. 152. . . £3. 8s. In his address to the reader, Baxter extols George Wither, Quarles, Silvester, Lord Brooke, Davies, Sandys, and other poets. Wood, notwithstanding his intolerant prejudices, styles Baxter " a most learned and eminent nonconformist." The present volume appears to have been his only poetic opusculum. 67. Bradstreet (Anne).—The Tenth Muse lately sprung up in America. Or severall Poems, compiled with great variety of Wit and Learning, full of delight. Wherein especially is contained a complete discourse and description of the Four Elements, Constitutions, Ages of Man, Seasons of the Year. Together with an Exact Epitomie of the Four Monarchies, viz. The Assyrian, Persian, Grecian, Roman. Also a Dialogue between Old England and New, concerning the late troubles. With divers other pleasant and serious Poems. By a Gentlewoman in those parts (Anne Bradstreet).—Calf Extra.—Printed at London for Stephen Bou'iell, 1650. Small octavo, pp. 222. . . «£l. 5s. "It is the work of a Woman, honoured and esteemed where she lives for her gracious demeanour, her eminent parts, her pious conversation, her courteous disposition, her exact diligence in her place, and discreet managing of her family occasions; and more then so, these Poems are the fruit but of some few hours, curtailed from her sleep, and other refreshments."—Preface. Dr. Franklin, in his Life, mentions a volume of poetry, by his maternal grandfather, Peter Folger, of Sherburne Town, in the Island of Nantucket; the doctor alludes to it as an early specimen of New England poesy, being published in 1675, and says, " the Poems appear to be written with a manly freedom and a pleasing simplicity." He appears not to have known the present volume, which is an earlier specimen. 68. Bidle (John).—Virgil's Bucolicks englished. Whereunto is added the Translation of the two first Satyrs of Juvenal. By John Bidle.—Calf Extra.—London, printed by /. L. 1634. Small octavo, pp. 62. . . £]. ]Os. Dedicated in rhyme "To the Worshipfull his most worthy Patron, lohn Smith of Nibly, Esquier, Mecsenas of the Wottonian Muses."—This little volume is the production of that zealous Socinian and very learned man John Biddle, and was published by him when at the Free School of Wotton under Edge, at the age of nineteen. 69. Browne (William).—Britannia's Pastorals. Two Books, with frontispiece by Hole.—Part I. Lond: print: for Geo: Norton, 1613.—Part II. London: printed by Thomas Snodhamfor George Norton, 1616. Folio, pp. 266 £3. 3s. This is the first edition of Browne's Pastorals j at p. 60 of Part I. occur some verses, with figures of a heart, a shepherd's hook, and a comb, on which the lines are inscribed—these figures are not in any of the later editions. The first part of this volume is dedicated in rhyme to " The right Honorable Edward, Lord Zouch," and has commendatory verses by I. Selden, M. Drayton, E. Heyward, C. Brooke, F. Dynne, T. Gardiner, W. Ferrar, and F. Guide. The second part is dedicated in rhyme to " The Truely noble and learned William Earle of Pembroke," and has commendatory verses by J. Glanvill, T. Wenman, W. Herbert, J. Davies (of Hereford), C. Croke, U. Croke, A. Vincent, J. Morgan, T. Heygate, Aug. Csesar, George Wither, and Ben. Jonson. 70. Browne (William).—Britannia's Pastorals. Two Books.—Half Bound, Russia. —London, printed by John Haviland, 1625. Octavo, pp. 348 £2. 2s. The dedications and commendatory verses in this edition correspond with those in the preceding article. 71. The Shepherds Pipe. (By T¥r-ii- -r. s T \v ilham Browne).—Half Bound, Russia.—Lon don, printed by John Beak, 1620. Octavo, pp. 114 £6. 6s. Dedicated in rhyme to " The truelie vertuous and worthie of all honor, Edward, Lord Zouch," with commendatory verses by E. Johnson, and John Onley. In the advertisement to the following article, it is said, in speaking of this volume: "This admirable collection of Eclogues was become so very scarce, that if the Rev. Mr. Tho. Warton had not lent his own copy to be transcribed, the Publick might have been deprived of so valuable a treasure." This volume has a second title, viz. "Other Eglogues. By Master Brooke, and Master Dauies."—Ellis, in his " Historical Sketch," preceding the " Specimens," says: "The most favourable specimen of Occleve's poetry is his ' Story of Jonathas,' which the reader will find in the ' Shepherd's Pipe,' by William Browne." 72. The Works of William Browne. Containing Britannia's Pastorals: with Notes and Observations by the Rev. W. Thompson, late of Queen's-College, Oxford: The Shepherd's Pipe: consisting of Pastorals. The InnerTemple Masque, never published before; and other Poems. With the Life of the Author.— Calf Extra.—London, printed for T. Davies^ 1772. Small octavo, 3 vols. . . <£l. 7*. 73. Blount (Sir T. P.).—De Re Poetica: or Remarks upon Poetry. With Characters and Censures or the most Considerable Poets, whether Ancient or Modern. Extracted out of the Best and Choicest Criticks. By Sir Thomas Pope Blount.—London, printed by Ric. Everingham, 1694. Quarto, pp. 392 £\. 5s. 74. Bacchvs Bovntie, Describing the debonaire dietie of his bountiful godhead, in the royall obseruance of his great feast of Pentecost. Necessarie to be read and marked of all, for the eschuing of like enormities. By Philip Foulface of Alefoord, student in good fellowship.—At London, printed for Henry Kyrkham, 15D4. Quarto, pp. 24 ,£6. This curious little tract is partly in verse, and partly in prose; it is written in an ironical manner, with considerable humour, and much resembles the style of Robert Greene. "The intention of this Pamphlet was to expose the sin of drunkenness, and the folly and danger of those who give themselves up to that chargeable, silly, and health-destroying vice: a vice, in which a man takes the utmost pains to drown his own reason, to commence a fool, the object of a sober man's resentment and reproach, and to ruin both his own estate and constitution. And it plainly demonstrates, that drunkenness is not the peculiar vice of the present age, as some pretend; but that strong liquor was both as intoxicating, and as much abused in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, as in our days: otherwise it could not have given occasion to the severe satire of this ancient treatise; it was thought as necessary to forewarn the temptations, as to anatomize the vice, by its reputed author Mr. Philip Foulface, who it appears was a miracle of his age, forasmuch as he was a reformed drunkard; and, though he could not rub the ale-wife's score out of his carbuncled face, was resolved to be no more ensnared with the goodness of her ale."—Oldys. 75. Brome (Alexander).—Songs and other Poems. By Alex. Brome, Gent.—Portrait by D. Loggan. —Calf Extra.—London, printed for Henry Brome, 1664. Octavo, pp. 376 £l. is. Dedicated " To Sir John Robinson, Lieutenant of the Tower of London," with commendatory verses by W. Paulet, Rob. Napier, Iz. Walton, Cha. Steynings, and Valentine Oldis. 76. The Poems of Horace, Consisting of Odes, Satyrs, and Epistles, Rendred in English Verse by Several Persons, (chiefly by Alexander Brome,) with a portrait of Brome by Loggan, and of Horace by Dunstall.—Calf ExTra.—London, printed by E. C. 1666. Octavo, pp. 428 16& 77. Broome (William).—Poems on several Occasions. By William Broome, Chaplain to the Right Honourable Charles Lord Cornwallis, &c. &c. Fine portrait by Vertue.—Calf Extra.— London, 1727. Octavo, pp. 260 12*. 78. Barnes (Barnabe).—A Divine Centvrie of Spirituall Sonnets. (By Barnabe Barnes.)—London, printed by Iohn Windet, dwelling at Poules Wharf, at the signe of the Crosse Keys, and are there to be sold, 1595. Quarto, pp. 62. .... . £30. Dedicated " To the Right Reverende Father in God the Rigbjt honourable and my very good Lord, Tobie (by the grace of God) Bishop and Counte Palatine of Duresrne and Sadberge;" then follows a prose address " To the fauorable and Christian Reader," after which the sonnets, in number one hundred, commence, and are succeeded by a " Hymne to the glorious honovr of the most blessed and indiuisible Trinitie." Between this and the colophon comes " A Table to find out any Sonnet herein Alphabetically." The volume is neatly printed with italic type, and has a border around each page. Ames remarks, that Windet was a good printer and used a pretty device, which he describes, but it is in no respect like the device in this very rare volume. The following is the opening sonnet: Sonnet I. No more lewde laies of Lighter loues I sing, But my Muse fethered with an Angels wing, His quenchlesse Torch forcshowcs hell's quenchlcs fire To pearce my thoughts thy fierie Cherubinne, F |