be said of you (excellent abstract of greatnesse) that you are nunquam minus parvus, quam cum parvus; never lesse little then when little. I hope you will pardon me if in my stile I have used a little boldnesse, & familiarity, you knowing it to bee so commendable, and that it is Nimia familiaritas, great boldnes onely which breedeth contempt; especially since you are no stranger, but of my owne countrie, an englishman, though some (iudging by your stature) have taken you to bee a low-country-man. Many merry new-yeares are wished unto you, by the sworne servant of your Honour's perfections, PARVULA. "Postscript. If the great length of my letter hath molested your more serious affairs, you may thence gather the convenience of little, and that it might not displease, I appointed it (by my servant Microphilus) to be written in your owne hand. Finis." E. HOOD. Answere to the petitions of the Traytours and rebelles in Lyncolneshyre. Anno M. D. XXXVI. qto. 4 leaves. This tract is in reply to the articles of complaint of the men in Lincolnshire, under the heads of chusing counsellors; suppressing religious houses and monas teries; the act of uses; the grant of the fifteenth and of the first fruits. They are called "the rude comons of one shire, and that one of the most brute and beastely of the hole realme, and of least experience to fynde faulte." It is written as in the person of the king, and concludes, "We pray vnto almyghty god, to gyue you grace to doo your duities, to vse yourselfes towarde vs lyke trewe and faythefull subiectes, so as we may haue cause to order you thereafter, and rather obedyentely to consent amongest you, to delyuer into thandes of our lieutenant C. persons, to be ordered according to their demerites at our wyll and pleasure, than by your obstinacy and wylfulnes, to put your selfes, your lyues, wyues, chyldren, landes, goodes and cattalles, besydes the indignation of god, in thutter aduenture of total distruction and vtter ruine by force and violence of the swerde. Londini in aedibus Thomae Bertheleti regii impressoris. cum privilegio.' J. H. TA Remedy for Sedition, wherin are conteyned many thynges, concernyng the true and loyall obeysance, that comme's owe vnto their prince and soueraygne lorde the kynge. Anno M. D. XXXVI. qto. 26 leaves. "Who so ever (this tract begins,) welle consyderewth ith * hymselfe, the high co modyties, that come of good lawes, he wyl, I am right assured, thinke as diuine Plato thought, ali those lawes, that are made for the welth and safegarde of man kynde, to be of god, all be it they be constituted by manne: on the other syde, he that wel pondereth the damages, that of necessitie muste folowe, where eyther none be, that can rule, or fewe that wyll obey, shall thynke as I doo, all realmes, regions, cities, and townes, that are not gouerned by lawes, to be forestis of wyld beastis, and not places habytable for men. We lacke noo good lawes God be tha ked: but what auayle they, whan as Diogenes saith, men that are good, nede them ly tell, and they that be euyle, are neuer the better for them..... A comune welthe is lyke a body, and soo lyke, that it can be resembled to nothyng so conuenient, as vnto that. Nowe, were it not by your faythe, a madde herynge, if the fote shulde say, I wyl wear a cappe with an ouche as the heade dothe? If the kneess shulde say we woll carie the eyes, an other whyle: if the shulders shulde clayme each of them an eare: if the heles wold nowe go before, and the toes behinde? This were vndoubted a mad heryng: euery man wold say, the fete, the knees, the shoulders, the heles make vnlawfull requestes, and very madde petitions. But if it were so in dede, if the fote had a cap, the knees eies, the shulders eares, what a monstrous body should this be? God se ide them suche a one, that shal at any time go about to make as euil a comune welth, as this is a a body. It is not mete, euery man to do that he thinketh best...... I haue ofte meruailed to see the diligencye that the Jewes vse in bringynge up theyr youthe and ben moch ashamed to se howe neglygent christen men are in so godly a thynge. There is neyther man, woman, nor child of any lawful age, but he, for the moste parte, knoweth the lawes of Moyses: and with vs he is almoste a good curate, that knoweth vi. or vii. of the x. commandementes: amonges the Jews, there is not one, but he can by some honest occupation, get his liuinge. There be fewe idell, none at all, but suche as be ryche ynoughe, and may liue without labour. There is not one begger amonges them. Al the cities of Italy, many places in Ce * Sic. cilia, many bourges in Germany, haue a great nombre of Jewes in them. I haue ben long amonges them that are in Italy, I nuer harde of a Jewe that was a thefe, neuer that was a murderer. No, I neuer harde of a fray betwene them. I am ashamed to saye as I neede must saye; they maye well thynke theyr religion better than ours, if religio be tried by mens lynes. Nowe if Moyses lawe, lerned in youthe, and but carnally vnderstande, can so steye them, that fewe or none fal into other vice than vsury, whiche also they do thynke permitted by Moyses lawe, so that they vse it not one to an other, as in dede they do not, but a Jewe to a straunger, might not we lerne so moch of Christis law, as were able to kepe vs from rebellion? Maye not poore mens chyldren come to the sermons? May they not here preachers? Can they here goddis lawes, ye though they be but easily preached, and not abhorre sedycyon and rebellion.....Who was lesse beloned in the northe, than my lorde Cardinall, god haue his sowle, before he was amonges them? Who better beloued after he had ben there a whyle? We hate oft times, whom we haue good cause to loue. It is a wonder to see howe they were turned, howe of vtter ennemyes, they becam his dere frendes. He gaue byshops a right good ensample, how they might wyn mens hartis. There was fewe holy dayes, but he wolde ride v. or vi. myle from his howse, nowe to this paryshe churche, nowe to that, and ther cause one or other of his doctours, to make a sermone vuto the people. He sat amonges them and sayd masse before al the paryshe. He sawe why churches were made. He began to restore them to their ryght and propre vse. If our byshops had done so, we shuld haue sene, that preachyng of the gospell is not the cause of sedition, but rather lacke of preachyng of it. He broughte his dinner with hym, and bad dyuers of the parish to it. He enquired whether there was any debate or grudge betwene any of them, yf there were, after dinner be sente for the parties to the church, and made them at one. Men say wel that do wel. Goddis lawes shal neuer be so set by, as they ought, before they be well knowen..... You wil thynke I knowe London well, that make this offer vnto you: Blyndefelde me, carye me after to what place ye woll, I wyll lyttel fayle, to tel where ye set me, and before whose doore. They that know not my cunnynge, wyll skace beleue me. I praye you, can ye set me in any place, but I may say, and lye lyttell, I am nowe before a tauerne, or an ale howse. Fayle I maye, but farre I can not fayle.. ... We shall haue a better tyme, a worse quarell we can not haue, to spende our bloode in. We woll our enemies laughe not at our distruction. We woll that they be not mery at our calamitie, whiche can not be mery, excepte they see vs sadde. We woll be frendes, God saue Englande as it is, if all Englyshe men say so to, I am sure God God wyl saye amen. Londini in aedibus Thomae Bertheleti regii impressoris. cum privilegio." J. H. TA Lamentation in whiche is shewed what Ruyne and destruction cometh of seditious rebellyon. Anno M. D. XXXVI. qto. 12 leaves. "If stvdy" (it commences) "had goten me as much eloquence, as true and vnfeyned loue of my countrey gyueth me cause to lament: the durst I boldely say, that there is none so wycked, none so vnnaturall, none so farre vnder all the senses of humanitie, but I coude fully perswade hym, nothynge so moché to be eschewed, as sedition, none soo worthy all punyshement, as they whyche trayterously make of one nation two, of them that euen now were frendes sodaynly to be vtter ennemies. But seing min eloquence, whiche I muste nedes graunte to be very smalle, can not so serue me, as I desyre in so weighty a mattier, I wyll see what loue, sorowe, and pitie can do, whiche if they coude as ernestlye worke, as they be greatte in me, I wolde truste to make all honeste stomackes to deteste and abhorre sedicious traytours..... These spirituall traytours, that are in barneys ayenste theyr countrey call theymselfe, which haue none other spirite than their father the dyuelle ha'h inspired into them. If these be spiritual put a coule on Catilin's backe, is not he than a religious moke, and a good spirituall man? If these be religious and spirituall men, whiche doo all that they can to distroye bothe the lawes of god and of man, to bryng this realme in desolation, why maye not Jacke Cade, Jacke Strawe, Wyll Wawe, Wat Tyler, Jacke Shepeherde, Tomme Myllar, and Hob Carter, a barbour sent for, be shorne into religion? If they be spirituall, that consume the day eyther in ydelnes, or in another thynge worse then that, sowynge sede in other mens forowes, whom shall we call carnall?.... If God be on our syde, the Cobbler hath clouted euylle, he hath putte to moche hempe in his lyngell. God is with the right parte, and cannot leaue it. All traytours God wylling, shall lerne by Lyncolneshire, nothing to be more odious to God and man, than treason. God saue the kynge. Londini in aedibus Thomae Bertheleti regii impressoris. com. privilegio." J. H. ART. A Declaration, conteynyng the ivst. cavses and consyderations, of this present warre with the Scottis, wherin alsoo appereth the trewe & right, that the kinges most royall maiesty hath to the souerayntie of Scotlande. (Col.) Londini in officina Thomas Bertheleti typis impress. Cum &c. Anno M. D. XLII. qto. 16 leaves. This and the three preceding articles have each of the titles in a compartment of naked boys in procession; six of them bearing one, preceded by some with musical instruments, with a chief and others following: up the sides boys climbing through vine leaves, and at the top a laureated head in an oval between two sphynxes. In Holinshed's Chronicles of England, edit. 1809, this tract is closely copied. See Vol. III. the latter part of p. 826 to p. 828; and the whole of it is inserted under the head of Scotland, in Vol. V. p.517-26. J. H. Hypnerotomachia. The Strife of Loue in a Dreame. At London, Printed for Simon Waterson, and are to be sold at his shop, in S. Paules Church-yard, at Cheape-gate. 1592. qto. 104 leaves. This is a translation of a large portion of the Hypnerotomachie Polyphili, first printed in 1499: see De Bure, No. 3766. A copious account of that work, with some spirited specimens of the wood-cuts, will, we understand, be found in the third volume of Mr. Dibdin's Catalogue of Lord Spencer's library. The translation is not mentioned by Herbert. The initials R. D.* are subscribed to the dedication, but without any notice that the work had before ap peared in any other language. At the back of the titlepage is the following brief invocation" to the thrise Probably, by the following simile, educated at Cambridge; "When the foote of the phane or image in turning about, did rub and grinde vpon the copper base, fixed vpon the pointe of the obeliske, it gaue such a sound as if the tower bell of Saint John's Colledge in the famous Vniuersitie of Cambridge had beene rung." honovrable |