That from his wise hart did alwaies chase

Envie and malice, and sought of yoong and olde Love and favour, that passeth stone and gold; Unto a worthie man, a rich purchase.

These waies he used, and obtained thereby
Good fame of all men, as well far off as nie;
And now is joyfull in that celestial sphere,
Where with saincts he sings uncessantlie,
Holie honor, praise, and glorie,

Give to God; that gave him such might

To live so nobly, and come to that delight.

By the kind researches of Mr. Douce, I have been enabled to subjoin the epitaph on Dante, in its original garb, instead of the motley" mingle-mangle" it wears at page 349.

"Dante Aligieri son, Minerva oscura

D'intelligenza, é d'arte; nel cui ingegno L'eleganza materna aggiunse al segno, Che si tien gran miracol di natura," &c.

These lines were not placed on the tomb of Dante, as lord Morley announces, but beneath the poet's engraved portrait. Boccacio was their author.

In the Bodleian library is a translation by lord Morley, from "The Tryumphes of Fraunces Petrarches," 4to. printed by Cawood: and among the

5 This is inscribed to "the most toward yonge gentleman, lord Matravers, son and heir apparent to the worthy and noble

Ashmole MSS. are two short moral poems. One of them has been printed in Mr. Bliss's edition of the Athenæ Oxon. and the other in Dr. Nott's Memoirs of the Earl of Surrey.]

earle of Arundel." Dr. Nott has reprinted an entire canto of it,

in his Appendix to the Works of Surrey.

MARY,

DUCHESS OF NORFOLK2,

YOUNGER OUNGER sister of Joanna lady Lumley, and first wife of Thomas duke of Norfolk, who

2 She died in 1557. (In Haddoni Poemata, 1567, are lines on Mary, Margaret, and Elizabeth, the three wives of Thomas duke of Norfolk, who were buried in one tomb.]

3 [Son to the celebrated Henry, earl of Surrey. Mr. Lloyd, of Buckingham Street, York Buildings, possessed a copy of Grafton's abridged Chronicle, 1570, which contained the following interesting memorandum in the hand-writing of this unfortunate but magnanimous personage: "Good frynd George, farewell! I have no other tokins to send my fryndes but my bokes; and I knowe howe soryfull you are amongst the rest for my hard hape, wheroff I thanke God, because I hope hys mercyfull chastysment wyll prepare me for a better world. Looke well thowrowe thys boke; and you schall fynd the name off a duke verye unhappye. I prey God ytt maye ende with me, and that others maye spede better hereafter. But yff I myght have my wysche, and weare in as good state as ever you knewe me, yeat I wold wysche for a lower degre. Be frynd, I praye you, to myne; and do my hartye commendatyons to your good wyfe, and to gentle Mr. Dennye. I dye in the faythe that you have ever knowen me to be off. Farewell, good frynd. 1571-2. "Yours dyyng as he was lyvyng,

"NORFFOLK.

"God blysse my god sone. Amē."

Dr. Nott has printed a most interesting, and, indeed, morallyestimable letter, from this duke of Norfolk to his children, while

a prisoner in the Tower, in his well-stored Appendix to Surrey's Works.]

was beheaded on account of the queen of Scots, translated from the Greek

"Certain ingenious Sentences collected out of various Authors."

Dedicated to her father."

6

[This lady was the second daughter and co-heir of Henry Fitz-Allan, earl of Arundel, an account of whose life occurs among the royal manuscripts in the Museum. She died at Arundel house in the Strand, August 25, 15577; and, according to the manuscript memoir of her father, in childbed of an earl of Surrey, being but sixteen years of age.

The dedication to her father, before the performance pointed out by lord Orford, begins thus:

"Etsi plurimis modis, honoratissime pater, mutuus hominum amor, atque studia elucere solent, tum etiam non mediocriter ex xeniis, et muneribus, hoc

In the king's library.

6 (17 A. ix.) He died Feb. 24, 1579, at the age of sixty-eight; and was accounted in his time to be "a flower of righte nobilitye."

7 Strype's Memorials, col. iii. p. 37.; and Dugdale, tom. iii. p. 276.

8 This must have been Philip, who inherited Arundel castle, Sussex, and the title of earl of Arundel, by descent from his mother; the dukedom of Norfolk being forfeited by attainder. See Dugdale and Collins.

9 "Sententiæ quædam acute ex variis Authoribus collectæ atque e Græcis in Latina versæ." 12 A. ii.

tempore vicissim datis acceptisque: In quibus unusquisque facile declarat, quare, et ille ipse qui dat, et illi, qui accipiunt, delectantur. Quibus gemmas, aurum, vestes, equos, vel quicquid est ejusmodi generis, gratum esse norunt, id illi ad amicos suos, ut judicia amoris, deferre solent. Qua ratione et consuetudine, ornatissime pater, ego impulsa fui, ut aliquod munusculum literarium dominationi tuæ in præsentia offerrem, persuasa D. T. inde non mediocrem voluptatem capturam esse,” &c.

From another performance of a similar nature2, in the same volume, the entire dedication is here copied.

"Postquam statuissem, honoratissime pater, aliquod xeniolum dominationi tuæ exhibere, ut neque temporis consuetudini, neque officio meo omni ex parte deessem, in varias cogitationes facile distrahebar. Nam, etsi nihil haberem dominatione tua dignum, pro maximis et paternis tuis in me cumulatissime collatis beneficiis; putavi tamen aliquod potius usitatæ meæ literariæ exercitationis munusculum dare, quod dominationi tuæ ante hac gratum fuisse intellexi, quam officii mei penitus immemor videri. Cum igitur quasdam breves sententias Græcas legens, Latinas fecissem, nihilque mihi aliud esset, quod tam convenienter dominationi tuæ a me dari posset, volui easdem dominationi tuæ offerre, tum propter elegantiam sermonis, cujus plenissime sunt, tum propter non mediocrem fructum, qui inde hauriri quest. Ex his enim intel

"Sententiæ quædam ingeniosæ ex variis Grecorum Authoribus collectæ." 12 A. i.