5. "A MARGARITE OF AMERICA. 1596." This Tract is in the King's Library.

6. "A TREATISE OF THE PLAGUE, containing the Nature, Signes and Accidents of the same, with the certaine and absolute Cure of the Fevers, Botches and Carbuncles that raigne in these Times. And above all Things most singular Experiments and Preservatives in the same, gathered by the Observation of divers worthy Travailers, and selected out of the Writings of the best learned Phisitians in this Age.

By Thomas Lodge, Doctor in Phisicke. London. Printed for Edward White and

N. L. 1603."

This Tract is in the British Museum, 7. "CATHAROS.

DIOGENES IN HIS SINGULARITIE.

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Wherein is comprehended his merrie Baighting, fit for all Mens benefit. Christened him,

A Nettle for Nice Noses.

By T. L. of Lincolns Inne, Gent.

by

At London. Printed by William Haskins and John Darter, for John Busbie," No date.

This Tract is inscribed by the publisher, John Busbie, "To the Ryght Worshipfull Syr John Hart, Knight."

There is a sort of Preface from "Diogenes to such as are disposed to reade," which concludes in this facetious manner:

*If any of you reade and like, why then it likes me: if reade and dislike, yet it likes me: for philosophie hath taught me to set as light by envie as flatterie. Greedines hath got up all the garden plots, and hardly have I a roome left to turn my tub round in: the best field flowers now fade, and better than nettles my lands will not affoord. They that list may take, the rest leave, and so I leave you.

Every good meaners well-wisher,

DIOGENES."

The Tract itself is a Dialogue, in which the interlocutors are Diogenes, Philoplutos, and Cosmosophos. There is a considerable degree of wit in this work, but a strange confusion of time, circumstance and persons. Diogenes is made to quote Virgil, the Evangelists, and Saint Augustine.

ROBERT GREENE.

THIS Author was exceedingly popular in his day, and his works are very voluminous, but no accurate account of them has ever yet appeared.

Wood mentions very few of them, and Ritson contents himself with saying, that he was a prolific Author. Many Collectors have thought that I shall render an acceptable service, by bringing together as many of his pieces as could be collected.

I have accordingly consulted the Royal Library, the collection of the late Duke of Roxburgh, of Marquis Stafford, and of the Museum, from which collectively I give the following catalogue :

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1. THE MYRROUR OF MODESTIE.

Wherein it appeareth, as in a perfect glasse, howe the Lord delivereth the innocent from all imminent perils and plagueth the blood thirstie hypocrites with deserved punishments.

Shewing that the graie heades of dooting adulterers shall not go with peace into the grave, neither shall the righteous be forsaken in the daie of trouble.

By R. G. Maister of Artes.

Imprinted

Imprinted at London by Roger Warde, dwelling at the Signe of the Talbot, neere unto Holburne Conduit. 1584."

The reader will hardly guess that this is a protracted History of Susannah and the Elders. It seems to have been the first of the Author's productions, and written with a spirit very different from that which characterised many of his succeeding productions.

This Tract is in the Museum, in black letter. 2. "EUPHUES CENSURE TO PHILAUTUS. Wherein is presented a philosophical Combat betweene Hector and Achylles, discovering in foure Discourses, interlaced with diverse delightful Tragedies, the Vertues necessary to be incident in every Gentleman, had in question at the Siege of Troy, betwixt sondry Grecian and Troian Lords, especially debated to discover the perfection of a Souldier, containing Mirth to purge Melancholy, holsome Precepts to profit Manners, neither unsaverie to Youth for Delight, nor offensive to Age for Scurrilitie.

Ea habentur optima quæ et jucunda, honesta et utilia,

Robertus Greene in Artibus Magister. 1587." In the King's collection.

3. "PANDOSTO. THE TRIUMPH OF TIME. Wherein is discovered by a pleasant Historie, that although by the means of sinister Fortune, Truth

Truth may be concealed; yet by Time, in spight of Fortune, it is most manifestly revealed.

Pleasant for Age to avoyde drowsie Thoughts, profitable for Youth to eschue other wanton Pastimes, and bringing to both a desired Con

tent.

Temporis filia Veritas. 1588."

This singular Tract is not mentioned by Ames. It is in the King's collection, and in the Mar quis of Stafford's.

4" MENAPHON,

Camillas Alarm to Slumbering Euphues, in his melancholie Cell at Silenedra.

Wherein are deciphered the variable Effects of Fortune, the Wonders of Love, the Triumphes of inconstant Time.

Displaying, in sundrie conceipted Passions, figured in a continuate Historie, the Trophees. that Vertue carieth triumphant maugre the wrath of Envie, or the Resolution of Fortune.

A Worke worthie, the youngest Eares for Pleasure, or the gravest Censurers for Principles.

Robertus Greene, Maister of Arts.

1589*.**

This

I was at first inclined to suspect that there was some imposition in this Tract, and that the Title Page was not genuine. It is introduced by a long Prefatory Address from Thomas Nash "To the Gentlemen Students of both Uni

versities,"