CENSURA LITERARIA.

CONTAINING

TITLES, ABSTRACTS,

AND

OPINIONS

OF

OLD ENGLISH BOOKS,

WITH

ORIGINAL DISQUISITIONS, ARTICLES OF BIOGRAPHY AND OTHER LITERARY ANTIQUITIES.

By SIR EGERTON BRYDGES, K. J.

VOLUME IX.

BEING THE SIXTH OF THE NEW SERIES.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY T. BENSLEY, BOLT-COURT, FLEET STREET,

FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME, PATERNOSTER-ROW,

AND J. WHITE, FLEET-STREET.

1809.

.

DIGESTED TABLE OF CONTENTS.

POETRY.

1. Syrs, Spare youre good. Fragment, by W. de Worde

2. The First Book of Palingenius, translated by Googe, 1561.

3. Seneca's Tragedies, translated into English, 1581, 4to..

4. John Heywood's Epigrams, 1587....

5. Account of Hawking, extracted from Turberville, &c.

6. Mar-Martine, a farrago of rimes, Fol. n. d.

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7. Old Madrigals by Bird, Morley, Yonge, Wilbye and Weelkes, 1590, &c... I
8. Serpent of Devifion, with the Tragedye of Gorboduc, 1590, 4to........367

9. Sternhold's Pfalms, 1594, 12mo.........

10. Slatyer's Hiftory of Great Britain, in Verse, 1621, Fol..

143

31

11. N. Breton's Divine Poem, divided into two parts, 1601, 4to.........

160

12. ......... Soul's Immortal Crown, 1605, 4to.

13. Tatham's Fancy's Theatre, 1640, 12m0.....

14. ................ Oftella, 1650, 4to..

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15. Carew's Poems, 1640, 8vo......

16. Habingdon's Çaftara, 1640, 12mo...

17. Lovelace's Lucasta, 8vo.......

ib.

18......... Pofthume Poems, 1659, 8vo..

338

19. Elegies to Lovelace's Memory, 1660, 8vo.......

ib.

20. Stanley's Anacreon, Bion, Mofchus, &c. 1651, 8vo......

233

MISCELLANEOUS.

21. A Treatife called the Damage and Destruction of Realms, printed by

22. Ariftotle's Poetics by Paccius, printed by Aldus, 1536.

23. † Les grandes Annalles de la grant Bretaigne, 1541, Fol.... . . . . . . . .

24. The Golden Boke of Marcus Aurelius, by Lord Berners, 1546, 8vo.

25. Palfryman's Divine Meditations, 1572, 8vo.

26. † A very proper Treatise, setting forth the arte of Limning, 1573, 4to..436

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27. Palfryman's Treatife of Heavenly Philofophy,, 1578, 4to..

.383

31. Plain Perceval, the Peace-Maker of England, a controverfial tract. n. d... 250

32.

The Choife of Change, by S. R. Gent. 1585, 4to.....

33. † Difcourfe on the Victories obtained by the French King against the

Rebels, 1589. Tranflated by T. D. 4to. 1589

34. French King's Declaration for assembling his Parliament, 1589, 4to.

35.

n. d.

The Discoverer of France to the Parifians, &c. 1590, 4to.

36. † Occurrences of the King's Army at Paris, 1590, 4to...

37. Office of a Husband by Vives, tranflated by Paynell, printed by Cawood,

n. d. 8vo.......

38. Meres's Palladis Tamia, or Wit's Treafury, 1598, 8vo....

434

331

334

ib.

.25

.39

39.

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Wit's Academy, 1636..............

ib.

40. Chamber's Tréatife against Judicial Aftrology, 1601, 4to.

41. Wright's Paffions of the Mind, 1601, 8vo..

42. Capt. Rob. Markham's Description of Sir John Burgh, Kt. 1628, 4to... 253

43. Du Verger's Admirable Events, felected from Cainus, 1639, 4to. ...

44. † A Modell of truths or a Difcovery of certain reall paffages of this

Parliament, 1642, 4to....

45. The Generall History of Women, by T. H. Gent. 1657, 8vo.

46. † Bentivolio and Urania, by N. Ingelo, D.D. 1669, Fol..

47. Deftruction of Troy, 11th edit. 1684, 4to.

Letters to a Peer on the honour of Earl Marshal, 1703, 8vo..

48. Anftis's Curia Militaris, 1702, 8vo.......

49.

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50. Fitzherbert's Enquiry into titles conferred at Portsmouth, 1779, 8vo.. ..232

51. A Prognoftication for ever of Erra Pater, a Jewe, born in Jewrye,

n. d. 8vo.......

431

ORIGINAL PIECES.

52. The Ruminator... No. XLIV. On the Latin Poems of Cowley..

.. XLV. On the fame.

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84

go

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... XLVI. Armorial bearings on the fhields of the Grecian Chiefs.

XLVIII. Original Poems by Mr. Capel Lofft

.... ·94

99

LI. On the imperfect morality of the Heathens, compared with

that of Christianity

385

...................... LII. Fugitive Poetry....

310

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