versifiers for their learned translations are of good note among vs, Phaer for Virgil's Aeneads, Golding for Ouid's Metamorphosis, Harington for his Orla do Furioso, the translators of Senecae's Tragedies,* Barnabe Googe for Palingenius, Turbeuile for Ouid's Į Epistles and Mantuan, and Chapman for his inchoate Homer. "As the Latines haue these emblematists, Andreas Alciatus, Reusnerus, and Sambucus, so we haue these, Geffrey Whitney, Andrew Willet,t and Thomas Conibe. "As Momus Panapolyta writ the gospell of Saint John in Greeke hexameters, so Ieruis Markham hath written Salomon's Canticles in English verse. "As C. Plinius writ the life of Pomponius Secudus, so young Charles Fitz Ieffrey, that high touring falcon, hath most gloriously penned the honourable life and death of worthy Sir Francis Drake. "As Hesiod writ learnedly of husbandry in Greeke, so hath Tusser very wittily and experimentally written of it in English. "As Antipater Sidonus was famous for extemporall verse in Greeke, and Ouid for his Quicquid conabar dicere versus eral, so was our Tarleton, of whome Doctour Case that learned physitian thus speaketh in the seventh booke, & seuenteenth chapter of his poli Latin hexameters, which appeared in quarto, at London, in 1580. Thomas Watson, author of a Hundred Sonnets, or the passionate century of Love, published a Latin Antigone in 1581." Hist. of Eng. Po. V. iii. p. 433 Jasper Heywood, John Studley, Thomas Nuce, Alexander Nevyle, and Thomas Newton. A critical account of the work may be found in Warton, Vol. iii. p. 382; and further specimens will be found in the present volume. + See CINS. Vol. I. p. 312. tikes; tikes; Aristoteles suum Theodoretum laudauit quendam peritum Tragadiarum actorem; Cicero suum Roscium: nos Angli Tarletonum, in cuius voce & vultu omnes iocosi affectus, in cuius cerebroso capite lepida facetia habitant. And so is now our wittie Wilson, who, for learning and extemporall in this facultie, is without compare or compeere, as to his great and eternal commendations he manifested in his chalenge at the Swanne on the Banke side. "As Achilles tortured the deade bodie of Hector, and as Antonius, and his wife Fulvia tormented, so Gabriell Haruey hath shewed the same inhumanitie to Greene that lies full low in his graue.† "As Eupolis of Athens vsed great libertie in taxing the vices of men, so dooth Thomas Nash, witnesse the broode of the Harueys. "As Acteon was wooried of his owne hounds, so is Tom Nash of his Ile of Dogs. Dogges were the death of Euripedes, but bee not disconsolate gallant young Iuvenall: Linus, the sonne of Apollo died the same death. Yet, God forbid that so braue a witte should so basely "Robert Wilson was one of the Earl of Leicester's servants, to whom the theatrical license was granted in 1574." (Chalmers's Supp. Apology, p. 161). Whether this was the "witty Wilson," also noticed by Thomas Heywood, in his Apology, 1612, (CENS, Vol. vi. p. 341) may admit of some doubt, though there is little hazard in considering the preceding notice of "one of the best for comedy," and the actor as the same person. He was author of five plays alone, and six more conjunctively with others. Of these only one is known, and that scarce; the title is "The Cobler's Prophesie, written by Robert Willson, Gent. Printed at London by John Danter for Cuthbert Burbic, and are to be sold at his shop near the Royal Exchange, 1594." It may be added Mr. Reed did not consider this author alluded to by Mears. Biog. Dram. Vol. I. p. 473. I have to notice an omission (in Vol, viii. p. 386,) at No. 9, in the list of Greene's works, of the dates 1655, and 1664. perish; perish; thine are but paper dogges, neither is thy banishment like Ouid's, eternally to conuerse with the barbarous Getes. Therefore comfort thy selfe sweete Tom, with Ciceroe's glorious return to Rome, and with the counsel Aeneas giues to his sea beaten soldiers. Lib. I. Aeneid. 'Pluck vp thine heart, & driue from thence both feare and care away: To thinke on this may pleasure be perhaps another day.. Durato, temet rebus seruato secundis.' "As Anacreon died by the pot, so George Peele by the pox. "As Archesilaus Prytanæus perished by wine at a drunken feast, as Hermippus testifieth in Diogenes, so Robert Greene died of a surfet taken at pickeld her rings, & rhenish wine, as witnesseth Thomas Nash who was at the fatal banquet. "As Iodelle, a French tragical poet, being an epicure and an Atheist, made a pittifull end, so our tragicall poet Marlow, for his epicurisme and atheisme, had a tragicall death; you may read of this Marlow-more at large in the Theatre of God's iudgments, in the 25. chapter, entreating of epicures and Atheists. "As the poet Lycophron was shot to death by a certain riual of his, so Christopher Marlow was stabd to death by a bawdy seruing man, a riuall of his in his lewde loue." Conduit street. J. H. This epicurean treat appears to have continued in vogue several years. Sir Toby, in Twelfth Night, exclaims "A plague o' these pickle herrings!" I know not why a trueth in rime set out * This farrago of rimes appears to be the performance of more than one writer. There are eighteen pieces, of various length, from the galling couplet to the string of desultory stanzas, and equally dissimilar in point of measure. They are printed on four leaves, in folio, without date or name of printer. The first page is occupied with the above lines as a title, and which general title is considered sufficient for the whole; the only division between the respective pieces being a black line. The following is the second piece; it is the longest and the lightest. "England was wont by auncient rites, To stand and so endure: But now new faulkeners make men birds, And call vs to the lure. The painted lure the hauke deceaues, 1 This catching sport will scratching make, flew, I caught, the hauke may say, The faulkener what? I'le haue the praie. • Herbert says it" consists of different epitaphs, or satirical verses, of various metres." It has only one epitaph at the end. The The cleargie man like sillie hauke If ought be caught by flight of thine, I swoopt at fair'st bothe church and lande But lai-man laies, lai-man so calde, And vowes to lay abuse; O greedie dirt thy craft I see, Be hauke and faulkener both for me. Is this thy sigh, thy hand devout, O greedy dirt, O hellish hart, Thy cunning coven will make thee smart, The country cleane forlorne, Abbots were fat & friers frimme, The whoresons lov'de their ease; Yet standing house by them was kept, Which did the poore man please; Now much of theirs to them is gone, Who having much yet spend they none. They fly to wood like breeding hauke, And leaue old neighbour's loué, And soare in th' aire aboue; There |