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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
Be merciful and just:

If thou be just, O wherefore doth thy dart
Wound mine alone, and not my Ladie's hart?

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,
Laughes thee to scorne and lives at liberty?
Then, if a god thou wilt accounted be,

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,
But by Art and not by Nature;

Some as tall and goodly be too,

But want beauty to their stature.
Some have gratious kind behaviour,
But are foule or simple creatures;
Some have wit, but want sweet favour,
Or are proud of their good features.
Only you, and you want pity,
Are most faire, tall, kinde, and witty.

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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.
Heroicall, in his Civill Warres.

OLYMPIAS matchlesse son, when-as he knew

How many crownes his father's sword had gain'd,
With smoaking sighs and deep-fetch'd sobs did rew,
And his brave cheeks with scalding teares bedew,
Because that kingdomes now so few remain'd
By his victorious arme to be obtain'd.

So, learned Daniel, when-as thou didst see

That Spenser erst so farre had spred his fame,
That he was monarch deem'd of poesie,
Thou didst, I gesse, even burne with jealousie,
Least lawrell were not left ynough to frame
A neast sufficient for thine endlesse name.

But as that pearle of Greece, soone after past
In wondrous conquests his renowned sire,
And others all, whose names by Fame are plac't
In higher seat:-so hath thy Muse surpast
Spenser, and all that do with hot desire

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,
The mightiest kings in might did match alone:
So of thy fkill the greatnesse thus is showne,

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That each of those great poets deemed are,
Who may in no one kind with thee compare,

One shar'd out Greece, another Asia held,
And fertile Egypt to a third did fall;
But only Alexander all did wield:
So in soft-pleasing lyricks some are skil'd;
In tragicke some, some in heroicall;
But thou alone art matchlesse in them all.

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,
But flourish greene, like laurell and the bay.)
'Tis grosse, sayth he, and vaine for to upholde
That all reports which travellers unfolde
Of forraine lands, are lyes; because they see
No such strange things in their owne parish be:
And if I may not tearme such fellowes vaine,
I'le say, they're dull and of a shallow braine:
And him I count no wise man that imparts
To men of such base misconceiving hearts
Any rare matter; for their brutish wit
Will very quickly wrong both him and it:
For thus the saying is, and I hold so,
Ignorance only is true wisdome's foe.

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;
Th' abortive bastard of a coward kinde,`

See Theatrum Poetarum, p. 228, last edit.

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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."

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