John, K. of France, opinion of the English council, 172
Ignis fatuus, a light explained, 385 Irish-man, description of, 28
Italian Tailor and his boy, taken from Straparola, 180
Jews, singular character of, 283
Narcissus and Echo, their tale, 378 Navane's, Q. of, Tales, 366 Nicholas, Friar, 201
Norway, Borde's, description of, 26 Nova legenda anglie, 354
Newcastle, Marquis of, dedication and verses to, 143
Johnson's, R. remembrance, &c. of Ro- Newton, Thomas, 41 bert E. of Salisbury, 208
Jupiter, his attributes, 42 Kemp, Lady, dedication to, 341 Kendal's, Timothy, Flowers of Epi- grams, 150; specimens, 152-7 King and the Hermit, a metrical ro- mance, 81
King Lear, of the original story, 106 Knight, character of a, 271 Knowledge, A. Borde's Introduction to,19 Lachryma Musarum, by R. B. described, 134-8
Lamentation upon rebellion, 284 Lay of Dame Sirith, 193 Leaden Gods, golden book of, 40 Lee Priory, elegant specimens of the press there, noticed, 381
Leycester, Dudley Earl of, dedication to 150
Lincolnshire traitors answered, 281 Lisle, W. translator of Babylon, 382 London, described, 235; full of taverns, 283; Bellman of, 293
Longland, John, bishop of Lincoln, 201 Lupton's, Thomas, Sivqila, 148 Mars, his triumph, 359
New year's address, by Churchyard, 259 Odes on a Country Life, 146; upon As-
Ogle, George, translator of the Basia, 95 Old Madrigals, 46, 386
Old Meg of Herefordshire, 320 Orford's, Lord, plot of the Mysterious Mother, where obtained from, 367 Our Lady's return to England, 50 Paget, Knt. Sir Will, 207
Parnassus Biceps, by A. Wright, 357 Parvula's, Lady, gift to the dwarf, 278 Palace of Pleasure, 182
Pathway to the tower of perfection, ac- count of, 67-73
Petrarch's sonnets, translated by Watson,6 Philosopher, his address, 274 Philosopher's Game, author of, 385 Philosophy, Hist. of, by J. Stanley, 360 Pipers censured, 290
Planetomachia, by R. Greene, 338 Players of Enterludes wore long cloaks, 27 dangerous people, 290 Ploughman superior to either Merchant or Knight, 272
Markham, Gervaise, 391-393. Mary, Q. of Scots, her conspiracies, 141 Poets attacked by Gosson, 290
Poesy, nature and value of surveyed, 379
Maitland, Sir Richard, poems by, 18
114-Polichronicon, by W. de Worde, 348 --, by P. Treveris, 349 -, Prohemy to, 350 Pope's apparel domestical, 45 Poverty, holy, 129-30 Prayer to our Saviour, in verse, 139 Prestwich, Edmund, account of his
Matravers, Lord, dedication to, 378 Maxwell, James, verses on Prince Henry, 30
May-games in Oxfordshire, 335 Merchant, his character, 271 Merchant Taylor's Hall, a triumph there, 359
Mercury, his character, 43 Meres, F. 2
Mery play of Johan the husband, &c. 118 Metrical romance, fragment of, 81 Minimus, Lord, called Little Jeffery, his New year's gift, 278 Ministrelsy, Essay upon, 177
Moral characters in a Mask, 342
Price, Daniel, Sermons upon Prince Henry 33.
Prohemy, by Caxton, 350 Prologues, spoken by persons in long cloaks, 27
Prymer of Salisbury, by Copland, 138 Rawlinson's, Dr. MSS. in the Bodleian,73 Rebellion, lamentation of, 285 Redshanks in Ireland, 29
Remedy for Sedition, 282
Morley's Henry Lord, address to his pos- R. H. Author of our Lady's Return to
Romance and Minstrelsy, an Essay, 177 | Sylvester's Joshua, Miracle of the Peace, Romances and legendary tales and ballads, condemned, 372 Romanists, attacked, 174 Rosemary lane, 322
Rowicy's, W. Search for Money, 320 Roydon, M. author of verses, 2
Russell, Knt. Sir Will. dedication to, 170
Tarleton, a cock so named, Szo Ten yeares travels by R. Flecknoe, 143 i the letters analysed, 144-6 Thornton, Mrs. dedication to, 341 Thurlow, L. writes in the true spirit of Spenser, 5
Toft's, R. Satires from Ariosto, 393
Rutland House, Davenant's entertainment Tower of persection, 67 at, 234
St. Albans, Chronicle of, 112-13 Saint George, address to the soldiers armed under the ensign of, 171 St. Mary's Spittle, sermons preached there, 173-176
Salisbury, Robert, Earl of, his life writ- ten by R. Johnson, 208 Sanderson's Will, Graphice, 226 Search for Money, 320 Seraphine's sonnet translated, 8 Sermon, by Sir Thos. Elyot, 149 Scotland, Borde's picture of, 23 Scots poems, collections of, 302 Scott, Alex. poem by, 188 Scottish poets, list of early, 300 Scottish youth, address to, 293 Scylla and Carybdis, a poem, 46 Shakespeare's merit as a sonneteer, Lucreece, 247
Toxophilus, first edition of, 206 Treatise of Recreations, 224 Trevisa, John, note upon, 109 Trifies, by T. Kendall, 154 Turtle Doues, pair of, by R. Greene,
Universities, address to, 161 Van Dort, anecdote of, 226 V. T. Latin verses by, 313 Vulcan, his attributes, 44 Waldron's Literary Museum, 38 Walker, Weston, and Wilcocks, a dia- logue, 141
Wallys, John, inedited poem by, 133 Walter, Hen. VIII. 203
Walthal, T. dedication to, 340 Warwick, Guy, Earl of, fragments of a romance, 268
Washbourne's Thomas, divine poems,45 Watson's collection of Scots poems 902 Thomas, Centurie of Love, 1; Essay upon his Sonnets, 2; Specimen of his Sonnets, 5
Weber's, Mr. Metrical romance of Sir Cleges, completed, 17
Westmoreland, Earl of, lines by, 185
Sirith, Dame, lay of, 193; similar to Whetstone's George, censure of a loyal
story related by Caxton, 200
Sir Philip Sidney, 286; dedication to, 289
Sivqila, too good to be truc, 148 Skelton, John, portrait of, 389 Sonnets, by A. Hume, 297; by K. James, 306
Sonnets, five, addressed to Wootton, 64 best English writers of, 17 Souldier, reputation of a, 170 Stanley, Thomas, the poct, 360; his works, ib.; his pedigree, 361; errors of former writers corrected, 362 Steevens, G. opinion examined, 2; note upon R. Greene's Turtle doves, 210 Strange Horse-kace, by Deckar, 340 Strozza's verses translated, 16 Stryke partnere, a term of merriment, 90
subject, 140; reputation of a soldier, 170; verses by, 171
Willobie, Henry, the poet, some account of, 241; his Avisa, 244; author's passion for Avisa, 253
Wimbleton, Cecill, Viscount, his edi- fice, 227
Wolsey, Cardinall, a favourable charac ter of, 283
Wootton, five Sonnets addressed to, as the spot of the Author's nativity, 64 Worde's, W. de, edition of the Chroni- cles of England, 110-14 Wright's, A. Parnassus Biceps, 357 Wyat, Sir Thomas, Epitaph on, 310 Wynkyn de Worde, 219
Yonge's, N. Musica Transalpina, 386
Portrait of James Shirley, xi John Skelton, 389
T. Bensley, Printer, Bolt-court, Fleet-stret, London.
TY AND ALL OTHER IN
OFFICE, GOD GRAUNT THE IN- crease of wisedome, with all thinges neces- sary for preseruation of theyr estates. Amen.
AMONGSTE the wise (right Honorable) whose sentences (for the moste parte) tende either to teache the attayning of vertue or eschuing of vice, Plotinus that wonderfull and excellent Plotinus. Philosopher hath these wordes: The property of Temper- aunce is to couet nothing which may be repented: not to excede the bands of measure, & to kepe Desire vnder the yoke of Reason. Whiche saying if it were so well knowen, as it is nedefull; so well embraced, as is' wished; or so surely fixed in minde, as it is printed in his workes: then certis many Christians might by the instruction of an Ethnicke Philosopher, shun great and daungerous perils. For to couet without consideration, to passe the measure of his degree, and to let will run at randon, is the only destruction of all estates. Else howe were it possible, so many learned, polliticke, wise, renoumed, valiaunt, and victorious personages, might euer haue come to such vtter decay? For example, wee haue Alexander the Great, Caesar, Pompey, Cyrus, Hannibal, Quintus &c. All which (by desier of glorye) felte the reward of theire Curtius. immoderate and insatiable lustes: for if Alexander had beene content with Macedonie, or not beene pufte vp with pride after his triumphes, hee had neuer beene so miserably poysoned. If Caesar and Pompey had beene satisfied with theire victories, and
2 Will you that I rehearse, ib.
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