an address" to the sad household of prince Henry.". It is inscribed "To the Honorable Knight, Sir DAVID MURRAY.✶ and To the other Nobly discended, and honorably minded fol lowers of the late deceased Prince HENRY. On whom shall I these funerall notes bestow, Yet spare your teares though you haue cause to mone, Few publications of this nature possess greater claim to notice than that now before me. It much resembles the Period of Moorning by Peacham, written at the same time and on the same occasion, which is reprinted by Waldron in his Literary Museum, 8vo. 1792. But the following extracts will enable the reader to judge for himself of the merits or defects of the poet. SONNET V. And you foule wrinckled destinies that do sit As yet amased of his sodaine change Lookes for those louing friends whom he lov'd best; He yields his spirit to eternall rest. He was master of the prince's wardrobe. Peacham addresses one of his emblems to him. See Minerva Britannica, 4to. 1612, p. 36. which work was dedicated to Prince Henry. Hard. Hard-hearted fates, that him of life depriue, Sad Melancholy lead me to the caue Where thy black Incense and dim Tapers burne, And euer let this direfull voice rebound And if to plaints thou wilt inure thy mind, X. You sacred Forrests, and you spotles streames With brinish teares weep in your sandy ford: XVIII. Once more Melpomene grant thy willing aide, But But let such vaine thoughts vanish with my sleepe, May thinke that all the Westerne world did die. The Golden Booke of the Leaden Goddes. Wherein is described the vayne imaginations of Heathe Pagans, and counterfaict Christians: wyth a description of their several Tables, what ech of their pictures signified. By Stephan Batman, Student in Diuinitie. Exod. 17. Wryte this for a remembraunce in a Booke and committe it onto the eares of Josua: for 1 wyll roote Amalech, from under heauen, so that hee shalbe no more remembred. Psal. 102. This shalbee written for those that come after, that the people which shalbe borne, maie prayse the Lord. Anno. 1577. [In the border generally used by Marshe, see Her.856. Colophon.] Imprinted at London in Fleetestreete, neare onto Saynet Dunstanes Churche, by Thomas Marshe. Anno Domini. 1577. Cum Priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis. qto. 40 leaves. In a dedication" to the Right Honorable Lord Henry Cary, of the most noble order of the Garter Knight, Baron of Hunsdon," &c. the author says, "this smal treatise of the putative & imagined Gods of the Gentiles, a worke, as heretofore, not gathered in oure vulgar tonge: So I trust not so barrein of fruictfull documentes, but that it maye seeme both to sauour of no small paynes on myne owne behalfe, and also to yelde out such other instructions, as maye tende to sundrye Godlye purposes, and to the betteringe of manye others. Wherein we Christians, now lyuinge in the cleare light of the Gospel, may euidently see, with what erroneous trūperies, antiquitie hath bene nozzeled: in what foggy mystes they haue long wandered in what filthye puddles they haue been myered: Ynder what masking vysors of clouted religios, they haue bene bene bewytched: what traditions they haue of theyr owne phantastical braynes to themselues forged: & finallye into what Apostacye, Atheisme, Blasphemy, Idolatrye, and Heresie they haue plunged their soules & affiaunced their beleeues." Subscribed at Newington the 8 of September 1577, your Lordshippes mos: humble Seruaunt in the Lord, Stephan Batman, Minister." "To the wel disposed reader. Mennes natures being as sundry and variable as their Phisnomies & faces bee diuers & disagreeable, small maruayle is it, though in iudgements and verdicts, they square fro an vnity, and iump not together in one reasonable accord of opinio. Knowing therfore gentle reader, that there be as many Tastes as there be mouthes, I loke not to be accompted so perfect a cooke as is able to season foode and condimentes for euery palate & appetite : but referring the construction of my good wil to the considerations of such hugry stomakes as cã and wil feede vpon and digest such holesome (thoughe homely) cheare, as is sette before them: for the other coyer sorte, I professe 'my selfe more redier to disclayme acquaintaunce, then willing to ioine with the in their so squemish affectios. A proofe of both these natured persons, I am sure in this boke to find, hoping as touching the censure thereof, rather to fal into the hades of indifferente welwillers and by theym to be tryed, then among the whych (lyke Aesopes dogge) lying in the Maunger wil neyther doe any thyng themselues, nor thynke wel of others, yt sweat for their comody ty. Whiche poore labour if I perceive to be wel accepted, I shalbe animated shortly to aduenture a further, paynfuller and greater enterprise. Farewell." "Thomas Newtonus, Cestresbyrius" has a Latin poem prefixed and "E. L. in the Author's commendation," has five English stanzas concluding "Certes, such a worke in english neuer was, As this (though small) which doth vayne thinges bewraye: This volume contains first the description of a considerable number of the heathen deities for gods of the gentiles, then an article having a symbolical figure as set between the heathens, pagans, and false christians, and and an abstruse calculation on the subject of our Saviour; concluding with the disputation between Adrianus and Epictetus: An account of the gods of superstition as belonging to the Romish church follows, among which are the names of Arrius, Donatus, Henry Nicolas, &c. with certaine vpstart Anabaptisticall Errours." At the end the names of the authors out of whom this worke is gathered." : "Iupiter was figured sytting in throne of Estate, with three eyes, and no eares, al naked from the middle vpward, the rest couered his vysage resemling a womans counte naunce in his right hand he held lightening and in the left a scepter, standing or treading vpon gyauntes: before him. an Eagle, and a page presentinge a cup of golde. Quer his. head an Angel standing on a globe holding a laurell gar land. Signification. His sitting in throne betokeneth his kingdome to be durable, his three eyes signifieth his merueilous wysdome, by which hee ruleth Heauen, Sea, and Earth: his want of eares declare him to be indifferent vnto all, not harkening more to one, then to another. The nakednesse of his vpper partes and couerture of the nether, did purport him to be inuisible vnto me which dwel beelow, but visible to the heauenly myndes which are aboue. Hys womanly looke and full breastes intimate al thinges to be made & nourished by him. His lightening in his right hand dooth signifie his power, which lyke to lightening pearceth through all: his scepter betokeneth his prouidence by which as by a scepter hee disposeth with hys creatures as he thinketh best. treading vpon Giauntes doth declare him to be a punisher of the which are at defiaunce with him: by the Eagle is vnderstode the soule for as the eagle surmounteth all other birdes and is swiftest, so much doth the minde surpasse the bodye: by the page the simplicity therof: intimating thereby that if the soule of man be free from the querkes of dissembling phantasie, and as the eagle soareth aloft, so if the soule of man shalbe occupied with heauenlye cogitations that then shalbee cnioyed the cup of golde, whereby is signified the rewarde of vertue in the presence of Jupiter. By the angell is signified the swiftness of well doing. By the globe vnder his feete the small regarde of worldlye vanitie. By the gar lande, the endlesse crowne of Immortalitie. The auncient Romans entituled him Optimus Maximus, because in very dede it is better, and more acceptable, to profite many, the to possesse great wealth and reuenue." Ilis "Mercurie |