of Scotland, espoused to King James the Fourth of that Name: in the Dayes of her most puissaunt and magnificent Father, Henry the Seaventh of England, Fraunce and Ireland, King. Wherein is rehearsed hir godly Life, her Constancy and perfit Patience in Time of Infortune, her godly and last Farewel taken of all noble Estates at the Howre of her Death, the Ninth Day of March, 1577, at her House of Hackney, in the Countie of Midlesex and now lyeth enterred the Thyrd of April, in the Chappel of King Henry the Seaventh, her worthy Grandfather, 1578, and Anno 20 of our Soveraigne, Lady Queene Elizabeth, by God's Permission, of England, Fraunce and Irelande, Queene." The Poem is thus inscribed: "To all Right Noble, Honorable, Godlye and Worshipfull Ladyes, John Phillip wisheth the feare of God, prosperitie and peace in Jesus Christ." I subjoin the following specimen : All flesh is grasse, and doth wither away, Even as the flower that doth partch with the sunne, Some Some by long sicknesse thyr lyves do resigne, And some in the floudes deepe drentched do lye, Subject to miseries we are on the earth, No charter of life is graunted to man, Our time is but short, our dayes are not long, To earth we shall tourne be we never so stronge. Consider that time runnes on without stay, If he once passe by he will not turne back; For the web of this lyfe runnes still unto wrack. Seeke to themselves destruction to winne. At the end is "Yours at commaunde in the Lord, John Phyllips. Imprinted at London, by John Charlewood, dwelling in Barbycan, at the signe of the Halfe Eagle and Key." VOL. II. A FIG A FIG FOR MOMUS. I AM indebted to my friend Mr. G. Chalmers for an opportunity of describing the following most rare and curious work. This I presume to be the first Collection of Satires, so named and intended in the English language. This work Warton had never seen, and what his indefatigable research had not discovered, cannot be of every days occurrence. In his Catalogue of English Satirists, Warton gives precedence to Hall, but Halls Toothlesse Satyrs, Poetical, Academical, Moral, were published in 1597. Meres observes, "As Horace, Lucilius, Juvenal, Persius and Lucullus are the best for Satyre among the Latins, so with us in the same faculty, these are chiefe: Piers Plowman, Lodge, Hall of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge, the author of PIGMALIONS IMAGE, &c." Commenting on this passage, Warton says, (see the sheets of the fourth volume which were printed p. 80.) "I have never seen Lodges Satires, unless his ALARUM AGAINST USURERS Containing tried experiences against worldly abuses, and its Appendix, his History of Forbonius and Prisania, may be considered under that character." I now therefore proceed to describe this literary curiosity. A FIG FOR MOMUS, CONTAINING Pleasant Varietie, included in Satyres, Eclogues and Epistles, by T. L. of Lincolns Inne, Gent. At London, for Clement Knight, and are to bee solde at his Shop at the Little North Doore of Pauls Church. 1595." It is inscribed "To the right honorable and thrice renowned Lord William, Earle of Darbie." When the early period is considered, at which these Satires were written, the reader will naturally be surprised at the extraordinary ease and melody of the verse. I give the first Satire at length. TO MASTER E. DIG. SATYRE 1. Digbie, whence comes it that the world begins And crosse his friend because he (2) soundes him not. He is a gallant fit to serve my Lord, Which clawes and sooths him up at every word, That cries when his lame poesie he heares, Tis rare my This makes Amphidius welcome to good cheere, And spend his master fortie poundes a yeere, And keep his (4) plaise-mouthed wife in welts and guardes, For flatterie can never want rewardes; And therefore Humfrey holdes this paradox, Tis better be a foole then be a fox, For folly is rewarded and respected, Where subtiltie is hated and rejected; Selfe-will doth frowne when honest zeale reproves (5), That sloth corrupts and choakes the vital sprights |