In great affaires, and poets fill their place,
Whether the times be generous, or base.
Though I no pardon find, assur'd I am

This work would not have done the author shame,

In better times: nay, if an Irish bard

Had sung thus much to them, they would have heard
His numbers with respect; and manie things
Bestow'd, beside a harp with silver strings.

But, I shall think my game hath well been plaid,
If I with mischief shall not be repaid

For my good will; nor left when I have done
To bear the burthen of despights, alone.——

My next, oh! noble friends! and last request
Is this, that if I should be so opprest
As is intended, you would thinke upon
Those, whom by serving you, I have undone;
That halfe of me (who had a share in that,
Which I adventur'd freely, for the State)
And those branch'd from us, 'who thereby are left
No means of bread, or breeding; but bereft
Of all their outward helps: Oh! let them find
More grace than yet I do: yea, be so kind,
That unto them may truly payed be

What on the publike faith you owe to me
In debts, on faire account, due from this nation,
By private and by publike obligation.

My naturall-affection makes me feare

This motion needfull: therefore, have a care
You sleight it not; for doubtless if you do,
God will require it and requite it too;
Yea, if you shall forget what I prefer,
God will remember your Remembrancer.

And

And when your children shall with hunger pine,
Provide abundance of good things for mine.

Thus hopes, and thus believes,

Fiat voluntas Dei."

GEO. WITHER.

To this is added rather more than a page in prose as "The Printer to the Reader," signature "Benevol. Typographus." It appears to be intended as a further declaration of the author's political creed. "He protesteth he is neither for, or against, the Presbyterians, Independents, Scots, English, King, Parliament, members, of people, more or less, then according as he (in his judgment and conscience) thinks it may conduce to the wrong or right way, from or toward the truth of God, and the peace of the kingdom; with a charitable respect, so farre as is possible, to the remedy of our general distempers, without the wrong, or disquiet of any person, who wilfully draweth it not upon himself." Conduit street.

J. H.

ART. XV. The Unmasking of a feminine Machiavell. By Thomas Andrewe, Gent. Est nobis voluisse satis. Seene and allowed by authority. London: Printed by Simon Stafford, and are to be sold by George Loftis, at the Golden Ball in Pope's Head Alley. 1604. 4to. 22 leaves.

Dedicated to his worthy and reverend uncle M.D. Langworth, Archdeacon of Wells."

"To the vertuous Mistris Judith Hawkins." A Sonnet "to the Reader." A short prose address,

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wherein the author says, "some may imagin I have written of malice to some particular person, by reason of my titles strangenes, wherin whosoever is opinionate, is far wide: yet if any guilty conscience (that perhaps I know not) will wrest my writings, and interpret my meaning in other than the right sence, I am not to bee blamed, if that creature's corruption accuse it selfe.”

"To detraction," 22 lines, by the author.

"In laudem authoris, &c." 10 lines Latin, sig. "Rob. Hunt, Heath-fieldensis."

"To his worthy friend, &c." 6 lines, sig. “E. B. Gent."

"To his respected and kind affected friend, Mr. Thomas Andrewe, Gent." two six-line stanzas, signed Samuel Rowlands.".

Then follows the poem. The story appears founded on the acts of a false female friend, while the author was gone abroad with (it may be supposed) the Scottish part of the army, in which he was at the battle at Newport, in Flanders, 22 June, 1600; and a description of that event forms a considerable portion of the work. The relation is made in the manner of a vision, and recounting the misfortunes of another.

"The Argument of this Booke.

"Possest with sleepe, in silent night,
Me thought I found a wofull wight,
Whose heart was heavy, looke was sad,
In sorrowes colours being clad,

In a vast desart all alone,

For his desaster making mone,

Filling

Filling with plaints the tender ayre,
Who, when to him I did repayre,
His various fortunes and estate, ·
To me did mournfully relate:
And did desire I would unfold,
What unto me by him was told.
Haplesse Andrea was he call'd,

Whose heart with sorrowes deepe was gal'd..
What e're I saw in that strange dreame,

My Muse hath chosen for her theame."

From about 900 lines, of which the poem consists, the selection of a specimen is difficult; there is not much interest in a long description, where

"Pikes pikes encounter, shot at shot let flye,
All nations on their several patrons crie."

Nor is the following account of the arrival of Morpheus, at the conclusion of Andrea's tale, much preferable; but it may serve for a dull poem to give a drowsy end.

"Scarce had he ended, when we saw from farre,
As we imagined, a waiged carre,

Which coming neere us, presently I knew,

'Twas Morpheus' coach that foure night ravens drew; The wheeles did make no noise, yet so fast ran,

As could beguile the very sight of man.

With soft Arabian silke 'twas over-cover'd,

About the which, light dreames and visions hover'd:

The curtains of the same were made of rings

Of the quicke battes that Vesperugo brings

To flie as harbengers before the night,

When to th' inferiour spheare the sun gives light.

ART. XVI. The Touchstone of Complexions; generallye appliable, expedient and profitable for all such, as be desirous and carefull of their bodylye health. Contayning most easie rules and ready tokens, whereby euery one may perfectly try, and throughly know, aswell the exacte state, habite, disposition, and constitution, of his owne body outwardly: as also the inclinations, affections, motions, and desires of his mind inwardly. First written in Latine, by Leuine Lemnie, and now Englished by Thomas Newton. Nosce teipsum. Imprinted at London, in Fleete-streete, by Thomas Marsh, Anno 1576. Cum Priuilegio. Small 8vo. 157 leaves, without dedication, &c. b. l. Herbert 865.

Dedicated to the Right Honorable, his singuler good Lorde, Sir William Brooke, Knighte, Baron Cobham, and Lorde Warden of the Cinque Portes; Thomas Newton, his humble orator, wisheth long life, encrease of honor, with prosperous health, and eternall felicitye." Dated Butley, in Cheshire, 21 Sept. 1756.

The work is divided into two books; the first containing ten, and the second six chapters, discussing various maladies attending human life, interspersed with apposite anecdotes, proverbs, and translations, from Horace, Juvenal, &c.

In giving advice as to mitigating the heat of the dog days, the author relates his visit to England; he says, "It shall be verye good to sprinckle on the pavements and coole the floores of our houses or chambers wyth springing water, and then to strew them over with sedge, and to trimme up our parlours with greene

Lævinius Lemnius, an eminent physician and divine, was born at ZirieZee in Zealand, 1504, where he died in 1568. Editor.

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