Owen's idea of an epigram points out the notion which now prevailed of this kind of composition, and shows the propriety of blending the epigrams and satires of these times under one class. A satire, he says, is an epigram on a larger scale. Epigrams are only satires in miniature. An epigram must be satirical, and a satire epigrammatical'. And Jonson, in the Dedication of his EPIGRAMS to Lord Pembroke, was so far from viewing this species of verse, in its original plan, as the most harmless and inoffensive species of verse, that he supposes it to be conversant above the likenesse of vice and facts, and is conscious that epigrams carry danger in the sound. Yet in one of his epigrams, addressed TO THE MEERE ENGLISH CENSVRER, he professes not exactly to follow the track of the late and most celebrated epigrammatists. To thee my way in EPIGRAMMES seemes newe, Thou saist that cannot be for thou hast seene This, however, discovers the opinion of the general reader*. Of the popularity of the epigram about the year 1600, if no specimens had remained, a proof may be drawn, together with evidences of the nature of the composition, from Marston's humorous character of Tuscus, a retailer of wit. But roome for Tuscus, that iest-moungering youth, Robert Hayman above quoted thus recommends his own Epigrams. Quodli bets, B. iv. 19. p. 61. Epigrams are like Satyrs, rough without, Like chesnuts sweet; take thou the kernell out. Our bastard eglets dare not see the sun Yet bee it knowne, wee dare look tow'rds Though not like you, nor in so great a height. MSS. Sloan. 1489. 1889. 1947.-PARK.] In Dunbar's Latin Epigrams, published 1616, there is a compliment to Davies of Hereford, author of the Scourge of Folly, as a Satirist or Epigrammatist. Cent. xx. p. 66. [Hust, in his "Clara Stella," has the following odd tribute, addressed "To one that asked me why I would write an English epigram after Ben Jonson." How! dost thou ask me why my ventrous pen Durst write an English epigram after Ben? Oh! after him is manners:-though it would 'Fore him have writ, if how it could have told. Hust's Cl. St. 1650. p. 33.-PARK.] Your present talke, with, Sir, I'll tell a iest,— And the same author says, in his Postscript to PIGMALION, Now by the whyppes of EPIGRAMMATISTS, One of Harrington's Epigrams is a comparison of the Sonnet and the Epigram. Once by mishap two poets fell a squaring, In the RETURN FROM PARNASSUS, acted 1616*, perhaps written some time before, Sir Roderick says, "I hope at length England will be wise enough: then an old knight may haue his wench in a corner, without any SATIRES or EPIGRAMS." In Decker's VNTRUssing of THE HUMOROUS POET, Horace, that is Jonson, exclaims in a passion, "Sirrah! I'll compose an EPIGRAM vpon him shall go thus .... Sc. Villan. B. iii. 11. x Epigr. B. i. 37. *[Or rather in 1602, and printed in 1606.-PARK.] Y A. ii. S. 2. Edit. 1602. Sign. C. 2. Again, ibid. "Heere be Epigrams upon Tucca." E. 3. "They are bitter Epigrams composed on you by Horace." F. 3. "A gentleman, or honest citizen, shall not sit in your pennie-bench theaters with his squirrell by his side cracking nuttes, but he shall be satyred and epigrammed upon," &c. H. 3. "It shall not be the whippinge o' th' satyre nor the whipping of the blind beare," &c. L. 3. "He says here, you diuulged my Epigrams." H. "And that same Pasquills-madcap nibble," &c. A. INDEX. INDEX. A. B. C. of Aristotille. ii. 361, 389. A. M. i. e. Antony Munday. iii. 242. Abby of the Holy Ghost, by Alcock, bishop Abdella, king of Persia ; account of a clock presented to Charlemagne by. i. xcix. Abelard's Letters, translated. ii. 149. Abyndon, Thomas. ii. 260. Acca, bishop of Hexham. i. xcvii. Achelly, or Acheley, Thomas. iii. 233. Acrisious, Ballet of. iii. 337. Active Policy of a Prince, a poem, by Acts of the Apostles, translated into Eng- Acts of the Popes, by Bale, translated by Acuparius, Thomas. ii. 420. Adam de Orleton, bishop of Winchester, Adam and Eve, their Sufferings and Re- Adenez, a French poet, his Enfances de Pepin et de Berthe. ibid. Not the Ægidius Romanus. ii. 128, 259, 260, 311. Elian. i. clxxx. his Various History, trans- Æneæ Gesta post Destructionem Troja. Eneid of Virgil. i. ix. cxv. Aeneidos of Virgil translated. See Virgil. Enigmata, by Aldhelm. i. c. ci. Eschylus. ii. 224. Æsop. iii. 283, 363. Æsopicæ Anonymi Fabulæ. i. cxc. Afer Dionysius. ii. 267. Afer Leo. i. xl. Affaniæ, by Charles Fitzjeffrey. lii. 233, 234. Affectionate Shepherd, by Barnefield. iii. Africanus, Julius. ii. 232. Agamemnon, Seneca's tragedy of, trans- Age and Youth, Comparison between, a Aged Lover renounceth Love, a poem, by Agon Heroicus, by Edmund Bolton. iii. 232. Agricola Rodolphus. iii. 12, 16. Agynkourte, Battallye of, and Seyge of Ahasuerus and Esther, Romance of. i. cxci. Ailward Simeon. ii. 261. Aiton, or Haiton, not king of Armenia but Alan, cardinal, iii. 229. Alanus, Anticlaudian of. i. cxxxii. ii. 166. Alanus de Lynne. i. cci. Alardus Lampridius. ii. 157. Alasco, Albertus de. ii. 527. Alba, a pastoral comedy. ii. 528. Albert, abbot of Gemblours. i. lxxxv. Albertus Magnus. ii. 173, 317, 337. Albin, abbot of Saint Austin's. i. c. Albion's Triumph, a masque. ii. 540. of. i. clv. Tragedy, by Davenant. i. clvi. Alcestis, Romance of. ii. 185. Alcione and Ceyx. iii. 334. Alcock, bishop of Ely. ii. 102, 425-427, Alcoran of the Prelates, by John Bale. iii. Alcuine. i. xciii. xcviii. cii. cxviii. ii. 364. Aldred. i. ci. Aldred, archbishop. ii. 99, 100. Ales, various kinds of, account of. iii. 118, 119. Alexander the Great. i. xi. Alexander Magnus, Aristoteli præceptori Alexander, Life of, by Adam Davie. i. Alexander, Life and Actions of, translated from the Persian, into Greek, by Simeon Alexander de Villa Dei, ii. 363. 135, 136. ii. 103-105, 130, 133, 134. Αλεξανδρους ὁ Μακεδων, translated by Alexander Campaspe and Apelles. iii. 842. Alexis or Allexius. i. cxlvi. cxlvii. iii. 375. Alfayns and Archelaus, the famooste and Alfred's, King, Saxon Translation of the Mercian Law. i. x. His Account of the Alfred, King. i. xlv. xcix. c. cíx. ii. 254, Alfred of Beverly. i. viii. ii. 372. Allard, Monsieur. i. xvii. Allen, Edward, Founder of Dulwich Col- Allen, Thomas. ii. 89. All Fools, a comedy, by George Chapman. Alliteration used in Welsh poetry. ii. 106. Almasor or Albumasar, and Rhasis. ii. 204. Alphabet of Birds, by Stephen Hawes. ii. Alphonsus, King of Castile. ii. 168. Alveare. iii. 327, 335. Alyngton, Sir Giles. ii. 425. Amadis de Gaul, Romance of. i. exlix. Amergot Marcell, account of. ii. 486. decai, Story of, a poem. ii. 372. Amorous Prison, a poem, by Froissart. ii. Amour Espris, le Livre de Cuer d'. ii. 185. Amys and Amelion. i. clxxvi. Romance of. Anatomy of Melancholy, by Burton. iii. Anciseno Dominicho Falugi, an Italian Andria of Terence, translated by Kyffin. Androclus, Story of. i. clxvii. |