The aisles of St. Pauls Church were then the fashionable City walk. EPIG. 46. POPERIES PRINCIPAL ABSURDITIES, Of all the hoodwinkt trickes in Popery, When God is made to speake and to command Men in a tongue they doe not understand, Themselves doe not know what themselves have said, Note on the above. "In Papisticall Churches they both read the Scripture, and sing and pray to images, in Lattaine." One more specimen may suffice. EPIG. 114. ΤΟ MY HONEST BED-FELLOW, THE PRIVATLY CHARITABLE DISCREETLY BENEFICIAL MASTER Piein is Greeke to drinke, Pain French for bread, JOHN JOHN HEATH. THE following rare Tract will conclude my Selection of this kind: 66 Two CENTURIFS OF EPIGRAMMES. Written by John Heath, Bachelour of Arts, and Fellow of New Colledge, in Oxford. London. Printed by John Windet. 1610." These Epigrams are inscribed "To the Vertuous Gentleman, M. Thomas Bilson, sole Sonne to that Reverend Father, the now L. Bishop of Winchester." The following complimentary lines to the Author deserve preservation Jocos, delitias, sales, lepores Casta placent? castus liber iste. Jocosa? jocosus. Oh quot habes ipsis Musis et Apolline digna! EPIG. 2. IN LIBRUM SUUM. My booke it must please all, or some, or none, And for to please none thats a maine disgrace. I rather would, it should please none than some. EPIG. 5. It must be questioned in philosophy, Might I, with my poore skill, resolve the doubt, T. DECKER, T. DECKER. THE Dramatic Works of this Author have been mentioned in their place. This Tract, the description of which follows, is curious in itself, and of such rarity as to merit a place here. The reader will find some account of it in the Prolegomena to Steevens's edition of Shakspeare. That Critic has given as a specimen, the chapter which instructs a Gallant how to behave himself in a Playhouse. The following is the Title: "THE GULS HORNE-BOOKE, Stultorum plena sunt omnia, By T. Decker. Printed at London, for R. S. 1609." The reader will, I hope, be entertained with the following chapter, which instructs a Gallant "how to behave himselfe in an Ordinary." How a Yong Gallant should behave himselfe in an Ordinary. First having diligently enquired out an ordinary of the largest reckoning, whither most of your Which done, and brought him at another season, This Poet is not mentioned by Ritson, or any of our poetical Biographers, but he was the author, among other works, of the following: "Two CENTURIES OF EPIGRAMMES. Written by John Heath, Bachelour of Arts, and Fellow of New Colledge in Oxford, Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, Gaudia, discursus; nostri farrago libelli est. London. Printed by John Windet. EPIG. 17. 1610." I tooke the wall, one thrust me rudely by, |