Chryste hymselfe, recordeth in scrypture For whiche ye lordes & prynces of renowne Make a myrrour, tofore in your reason Harme done by dethe no man may recure Her whele so ofte turneth vp & downe Finis." Conduit street. J. H. ART. VIII. Syrs, spare youre good. [The fragment of a poem printed in quarto by Wynkyn de Worde ] Of the shattered remains of two leaves the first page has apparently the customary ribband, for title which begins, "Sy." Beneath, a wood-cut of an old man and a young one in the attitudes of walking, and the last pointing to the preceding figure, yet looking at an object past; probably meant to represent the intention of youth to follow the course of experience. A tree between the figures and a blank label over each person. The same cut appears noticed in Herbert, 1780, as prefixed to the complaynt of a louer's lyfe." On the second page the poem commences, and might have been entitled "prologe." Some letters of the rhime of the first couplet remain, as follows: haue I blesse it well by a thynge whiche I hauh had knowlegynge As here after ye shall here full well Of a knyghtes sone howe it befell A ryche kuyght there was in Fraunce I vnderstnade And was a man of grete lande And hyght Syr Thomas perlore A sone he hadde wyth his wyfe and no more And she was called fayre ysaungrayne And theyr sone was called Rafeleyne Of his fader he was lefe and dere That this yonge man sholde sporte and playe That he myght lerne some good of theym That after his faders counseyll he wolde do nonght But to yll compayne he bym drewe And lerned all vyce and lefte vertue But burye theym after the comen vse [Conclusion of second side.] Whan soeuer in the world of ryote my be th[ought] I coude it lyghtly helpe for to be wrought Whiche Whiche is now bytter it was than swete at that And yf good locke dyde rayne, I sholde not be wete It cometh to hym that shall haue it at a clappe In the wyne in good ale in bere where so it be Thus maye a man haunte myrth and game Fare well I sette you all this testamente Who well lerne this shall be vnshente And can kepe bym amonge good company Who so euer taketh this testament in remembraunce FINIS [Conclusion of third side.] [Her]e endeth a lytell treatyse very profytable for [euery] yonge man and yonge women called Syrs spare [youre] good. Emprynted at London in the Fletestrete [at the] sygne of the Soone by me Wyuken de Worde. After the colophon the printer's device, as described in CENSURA, Vol. VIII. p. 354. From the errors of the press, and entire neglect of punctuation, this tract appears to have been one of the earliest attempts by Wynken de Worde. The alteration of measure in the verse also implies the first portion contained an introductory description of the whole relation, and the hiatus a deficiency of four pages. These fragments were pasted within fly leaves of an old folio volume, and are now in the possession of the Reverend JAMES ASHLEY, of Biufield, Buckinghamshire, from whose obliging communication the transcript has been made. Conduit street. J. H. ART. IX. A treatice of Morall Philosophy contayuynge the sayinges of the wyse, wherein you maye see the woorthye and pytthye sayinges of Philsophers, Emperors, Kynges and Oratours; of their liues their aunsweres, of what linage they came of, and of what countrey they were; whose worthy sentences, notable preceptes, counsailes, parables, and semblables doe hereafter followe. First gathered and partly set forth by William Baudwin, and nowe the fourth time since that enlarged by Thomas Paulfreyman, one of the Gentlemen of the Queenes Maiesties Chappell. If wysedome It is difficult to ascertain the deficiency of such fragments. To ascertain at what period printers first adopted the plan of occasionally printing by sixes of a quarto size, or inserting a half sheet in the middle, is become material from the many titles and ends discovered as above described. I believe it was not practised so early as Wynken de Worde. enter enter into thyne harte, and thy soule delyght in knowledge; then shall counsell preserue thee, and understanding shall keepe thee. Prouer. ij. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum 1579. 12mo. 136 leaves. * Dedicated to Henry Hastings, Earle of Huntington, as a treatise" very expedient to al estates but most necessary (as Aristotle saith in his Ethnicks) to those yt. by vertu of knowledge shal haue the gouernance of a com on wealth." In the prologue to the reader the writer states having read Bauldwin's work to avoid idleness, and calling "to reme brance the like worthy and notable sentences and good counsailes that I had often read in diuers and sundry other woorks; and to thentent by placing them together, I might the better keepe them in memory, and effectuallye bestowe some smale part of my tyme in such kinde of exercise, as should be to the glory of God-I minded this slender and small enterprise, which by his grace I haue most gladly finished." The volume commences with the history of philosophy, a brief notice of several philosophers, princes, poets and wise men, from whose works the selection is The work origina'ly formed by Baldwin passed three editions; then followed the enlargement of Palfreyman, printed by Tottel 1564. The words of the title, "fourth time," was continually repeated in subsequent editions. That of 1579 is without printer's name or colophon.-Again, "Imprinted at London by Thomas Este, 1584."-Again, "at London, printed by Robert Robinson, dwelling in Feter Lane neere Holborne. 1587." -According to Brand's catalogue, by Whitchurch, without date.-The latest edition I have is also without date. "London, printed by Thom s Snodham," and described as "the sixt time since inlarged by," &c.—An dition by Richard Bishop, 1651," and probably many others. formed. |