future edition of his works, but is too long for insertion in the CENSURA. The following very polished amatory extracts will not be liable to this objection. They occur in the portion of Odes assignable to Fras. Davison. TO CUPID. LOVE, if a god thou art, Then evermore thou must If thou be just, O wherefore doth thy dart If merciful; then why Am I to paine reserv'd, Who have thee truely serv'd, While she that by thy power sets not a flye, Heale me like her, or else wound her like me. Commendation of his mistresses beauty, stature, behaviour, and wit. Some there are as faire to see to, Some as tall and goodly be too, But want beauty to their stature. The The following encomiastic tribute to Daniel, who was termed by Headley, "the Atticus of his day," may be welcome to some poetical readers, as an antiquarian novelty. TO SAMUEL DANIEL, prince of English poets. Upon his three several sorts of Poesie, Lyricall, in his Sonnets. Tragical, in Rosamond and Cleopatra. OLYMPIAS matchlesse son, when-as he knew How many crownes his father's sword had gain'd, So, learned Daniel, when-as thou didst see That Spenser erst so farre had spred his fame, But as that pearle of Greece, soone after past To the thunder-scorning lawrell-crowne aspire. And as his empire's linked force was knowne, When each of those that did his kingdome share, That each of those great poets deemed are, One shar'd out Greece, another Asia held, Non equidem invideo, miror magis. I only protract this article for the purpose of remarking, that in Harl. MS. 6930, occurs a version of several selected psalms, by Fra. Davison, Jos. Bryan, Rich. Gipps, and Chr. Davison; with Poems prefixed by the former two, and with a metrical introduction by W.Bagnall, "to so many of the psalms as are of Mr. Fra. Davison's composure." T. P. ART. III. Notices and Fragments of English Poets and Poetry. [FROM TOFTE'S TRANSLATION OF VARCHI'S BLAZON OF JEALOUSIE.] R. T. (believed to be Robert Tofte) who published "Two Tales from Ariosto," 1597; and "Orlando Inamorato," 1598; also translated "The Blazon of JEALOUSY," from Varchi, in 1615, and added "special Notes upon the same," from which the following Notices and Fragments of English poets are extracted. "A country-man of mine, a stranger unto mee, called Mr. George Wither, hath penn'd divers witty satyres, whereof one is of this subject, [Jealousy] whereof you may read in his "Abuses stript and whipt." whipt." Indeede, I am of opinion that the most worthlesse persons are alwayes most subject to this infectious disease of jealousie, as Mr. G. Wither rightly saith: There is none jealous I durst pawne my life, But he that hath defilde another's wife. And commonly mala mens malus animus: an ill disposition breeds an ill suspicion. I will tell them, in their owne natural and mother tongue, what young master Wither writes: (Whose pleasing satyres never shall decay, Mine old acquaintance Mr. Henry Constable*, having set downe this passion in her right colours, I could not chuse but acquaint the reader therewith. Care, the consuming canker of the minde, The discord that disorders sweet-hearts time; See Theatrum Poetarum, p. 228, last edit. R 2 The of the faire shepherdesse Julietta;" 1610, fol. The bibliographer, however, has added in a note, that though the initials R. T. are constantly thought to be those of Robert Tofte, it may be just mentioned, that there was likewise a Richard Turner, who wrote "Nosce Te (Humors)," 1607, a collection of Epigrams; but nothing, it is believed, before 1600. T.P. name. ART. IV. WILLIAM SHENSTONE. Dr. Johnson, in his life of this poet, says, that at Oxford he employed himself upon English poetry; and in 1737 published a small miscellany without his Dr. Anderson repeats this information, but, from his usual ardour of research and more successful inquiry, has produced a title to that miscellany. The fact however is, that there were two titles, which as the book is extremely scarce, shall here be given : though the author's name and the mottos form the only difference. "Poems upon various Occasions. Written for the entertainment of the author, and printed for the entertainment of a few friends, prejudic'd in his favour, By William Shenstone, gent. Spes et Fortuna, valete ! Oxford: printed by Leon. Lichfield, near East-gate, 1737." "Poems upon various Occasions. Written for the entertainment of the author, and printed for the amusement of a few friends, prejudic'd in his favour. Contentus paucis lectoribus. HOR. Oxford: printed by Leon. Lichfield near East-gate, 1737." The |