List of poetical Tracts. 1. Elegies on Horace Lord Vere. 2. Wither's Remembrancer. 3. Eugenio's Tears. 4. Psalms in four languages, by W. Sclater. 5. Wither's Campo-Musa. 6. Triumphs of Love, from Petrarch, by Anna Hume. 7. Milton's Poems, 8. Philipot's Poems, 9. Waller's Poems, 10. Wither's Vox Pacifica. 11. John Hall's Poems. 12. Crashaw's Steps to the Temple. 13. G. Hills's Odes of Casimir. 14. Hen. Vaughan's Poeins, with 10th Satire of Juvenal. 15. Llewellin's Men Miracles. 16. Sir Robert Stapylton's Musæus. 17. Rob. Baron's Cyprian Academy. 18. Jas. Shirley's Poems. 19. Bp. Corbet's Poems. 20. Stanley's Aurora and Oronta, principally prose. 21. Rob. Herrick's Hesperides. 22. Sir Rob. Stapylton's Musæus. 23. Cowley's Mistress. 24. Wither's Prosopopæia Britannica. 25. Alexander Ross's Muse's Interpreter. 33. Peter Hausted's Poem in Honour of Tobacco. 34. Reliquiæ Wottonianæ. 35. Rob. Heath's Clarastella. 36. R. Baron's Pocula Castalia. 37. The Tenth Muse, lately sprung up in America. 38. The Loves of Hero and Leander, a mock poem. 39. W. Cartwright's Plays and Poems. 40. J. Harington's Polender and Flostella. 41. W. B.'s Haleluiah, or Hymns from Scripture. 42. Mrs. A. W.'s Continuation of Sydney's Arcadia. 43. Herbert's Remains. 44. Digges's Gerardo, or the unfortunate Spaniard. 45. Francis Beaumont's Poems. 46. Rd. Flecknoe's Miscellanea, or Poems. 47. Selected Parts of Horace, Prince of Lyrics. 48. Lamentations of Jeremiah, in metre. 49. Tho. Manley's Whole Book of Job, in metre. 50. Anacreon, Bion, Moschus, Kisses, by Tho. Stanley, (Dec. 30, 1652.) 51. G. Wither's Dark Lanthorn. 52. Verses to be reprinted with the 2d edition of Gondibert. 53. Rd. Brome's five new Plays. 54. Lady Newcastle's Philosophical Fancies. 55. G. Wither's Westrow revived. 56. Song of Solomon, in metre. 57. J. C.'s Melancholy Cavalier. 58. Tho. Washbourne's Divine Poems. 59. J. C.'s Wit's Interpreter; or the English Parnassus. 60. W. W.'s Muse's Cabinet, stored with variety of Poems. 61. Geo. Wither's Protector, a poem. 62. E. E.'s Dia Poemata. 63. Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece. 64. R. C.'s Sacred Poems, presented to the Countess of Den bigh. 65. Poems by W. H[ammond.] 66. Jos. Rigby's Drunkard's Burning Glass. 67. John Collop's Poesis Rediviva. 68. Sir J. M[ennes's] Jovial Poems. 69. John White's Psalms of David, in metre. 70. The Diarium, in burlesque verse. 71. Vaticinia Poetica. 72. Parnassus Biceps. 73. John Quarles's Elegy on the most Rev. James Usher. 77. Sir W. Davenant's Entertainment at Rutland House. 79. Bp. King's Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes, and Sonnets. 80. Hugh Crompton's Pierides. 81. Garden of Delight, deck'd with choice flowers. 82. J. Jones's Ovid's Invective against Ibis. 83. E. E.'s Divine Poems, with a short description of Christian Magnanimity. 84. Poems, consisting of Epistles and Epigrams, Satires, Epitaphs and Elegies, Songs, Sonnets, &c. 85, Sir W. Lower's Enchanted Lovers, a pastoral. 86. Naps upon Parnassus. 87. Pharonnida, an heroick poem, by William Chamberlain of Shaftsbury. 88. Last Remains of Sir John Suckling. 89. Tho. Peck's Parnassi Puerperium. 90. J. Cleaveland's Poems, revived. 91. William Shipton's Dia. 92. G. Wither's Furor Poeticus. 93. The Rump, a collection of Songs. 94. John Dancer's Aminta and other Poems. 95. Sir Rob. Howard's Poems. 96. Poems by Wm. Earl of Pembroke, and Sir Ben. Rudyard. It may be thought that the comparative disesteem, with which I have spoken of most of these productions, is inconsistent with the industry and zeal hitherto exercised in rescuing them from oblivion. Such an opinion would, as I contend, be uncandid, and ill-founded. To place them at an immeasurable distance from Milton, is not to exclude them from all honour and consideration. There is a minor ingenuity which is still amusing and instructive. The various purposes to which the revival of them may be applied, has been already frequently insisted on; and the repetition would fatigue the reader. It would be unjust to Lovelace, were I not here to renew my testimony of praise to some of his Songs. That exquisite Lyric to Althea, from prison, is familiar to every one acquainted with the Collections of Percy and Ellis. And while I mention the latter name, may I may be permitted to consecrate a tear to the recent loss of one, who adorned the pursuits of the literary antiquary by his taste and his genius; and which will leave a vacancy in his department, that I know no one capable of filling! April 21, 1815. THE VALLEY OF VARIETIE, &c. 1638.* AN engraved plate is prefixed to this little volume containing an oak encircled with flowers: at the top of the plate is the following motto-dat gratiam humilibus; at the bottom are the following lines, versifying that passage in the Psalms from which the motto is taken God hates the proud, the humble are his care, In a note in the third volume of The History of Music, Sir John Hawkins, whose historical and biographical knowledge have not been very often exceeded, has given a few outlines of Peacham's life, under his account of Horatio Vecchi, Peacham's musical instructor. These Mr. Park has filled up, as far as an examination of the writer's works affords materials; at any rate, the clue has been laid down by the latter, so as to enable any future biographer, whose concern may be more immediate with Peacham, to follow out the particulars of his various life. Having myself made no discoveries in that way, I will not give any account of Peacham, lest, as it could only be an abbreviation or alteration of what has been already done by others, I should in reality or appearance derive to myself credit from industry in which I had no share. |