is in Verse; of which the reader will prot Кино почи priated in " Consydrynge well, most godly Kyng grace doth beare to eche good thynge That geuen is from aboue. And that your grace, oft tymes doth looke The whiche ye fmde, with in Gods booke Whose boke is geuen, in these your dayes, And eke prayse hym, in al his wayes And that with thankeful voyce. &c. The version of the history is no less homely than this Address to the King. In the former treatyse to thee Deare frende Theophilus: I have written the verite Of the Lorde Christe Jesus. Whiche he to do, and eke to teache In which the sprite up dyd hym feache After that he had power to do His chosen least & most. The whole is printed in black letter, and is carried through the first fourteen chapters of the the Acts. The music is in four parts, Meane, Countertenor, Tenor, and Bass. This curious book is in the possession of the Rev. Henry White of Lichfield. In the same volume is bound up a selection from the Psalms, versified by Francis Seagar, of the same date. It is dedicated, in metre also, to "the ryght honorable lorde Russell." These have also Music with them, in four parts. Since the first edition of this work I have discovered, that the Acts of the Apostles by Dr. Tye are described in Sir John Hawkins's History of Music, vol. iii. p. 253, and are mentioned in An Extenbey an old Comedy of Rowley's there cited, called "When you see me you know me." It is in the Garrick Collection. blished in Miller Fily Lear Sept 1864. Sir John has also given a specimen of the Music, in modern notes, in four parts. They were sung, he says, in the Chapel of Edward VI. and probably in other places where Church service was performed; but the success of them not answering the expectation of their Author, he applied himself to another kind of study, the composing of music to words selected from the Psalms of David, in four, five, and more parts, to which species of harmony, for want of a better, the name of Anthem, a corruption of Antiphon, was given. P. 258. It should seem from this passage, that Sir John considers Dr. Tye as the inventor of the Anthem. Bb 2 $IR SIR JOHN HARRINGTON. SOME readers may be inclined to express surprize at the seeming want of regularity in these pages, and that articles which ought to follow one another as descriptions of works by the same author, or from similar subjects being discussed, are often widely separated. The reason is, that the rare books here exhibited are not of every day's occurrence, that accident has thrown in my way curious publications by the same author, or on similar subjects, at different periods of my work; besides this, as an act of atrocious villany perpetrated on the property of the Museum, by a Visitor with which the public are well acquainted, has been the means of depriving me of the source from which I drew most largely, I have been compelled to drink at smaller, though not less pellucid and refreshing, streams, and, in short, to obtain the means of fulfilling my engagements where I could find them. The volume hereafter described is the property of Mr. Isaac Reed: it is of most extraordinary rarity, and particularly curious as having been Sir John Harrington's own copy of a work which procured him the displeasure of his Royal Mistress; Mistress; and above all, as being distinguished by his own manuscript notes. The volume contains three Tracts by the same author. 1. "A NEW DISCOURSE OF A STALE SUBJECT, CALLED THE METAMORPHOSIS OF AJAX. Written by MISACMOS to his friend and cosin PHILOSTILPNOS. At London. Printed by Richard Field, dwelling in the Blackfriers. 1596.' At the bottom of the title page Sir John has written, in red ink, "Seen and dissalowed." The dedication is also in manuscript by the author, and is as follows: "To the Right Worshipfull Thomas Markham, bee d. d. I will not say moche to you in the beginning of my booke, becaus I have sayd perhaps more then enough of you in the end. I pray you to take yt well for I doubt not but some wyll take yt ill, but yf they doe yt will be because they doe ill understand yt: yo' interest SIR JOHN HARRINGTON. SOME readers may be inclined to express surprize at the seeming want of regularity in these pages, and that articles which ought to follow one another as descriptions of works by the same author, or from similar subjects being discussed, are often widely separated. The reason is, that the rare books here exhibited are not of every day's occurrence, that accident has thrown in my way curious publications by the same author, or on similar subjects, at different periods of my work; besides this, as an act of atrocious villany perpetrated on the property of the Museum, by a Visitor with which the public are well acquainted, has been the means of depriving me of the source from which I drew most largely, I have been compelled to drink at smaller, though not less pellucid and refreshing, streams, and, in short, to obtain the means of fulfilling my engagements where I could find them. The volume hereafter described is the property of Mr. Isaac Reed: it is of most extraordinary rarity, and particularly curious as having been Sir John Harrington's own copy of a work which procured him the displeasure of his Royal Mistress; |