Then follows

Gulielmus Leuinus Typographo, et eloquentiæ studiosis salutem."

It begins

Ego vero ad te, Typographe, Gabrielis Harueii strenam mitto: eam ut tu ad CICERONIANÆ studiosos eloquentiæ transmittas. Si qualem a me quæris: argenteam sane, et quidem dupliciter inauratam: addo etiam distinctam gemmis, et variis emblematis insignitam."

Harvey's Oration is, of course, prose,

Gabrielis Harueii Gratulationum Valdinensium Libri Quatuor. Ad illustriss. augustissimamque principem, Elizabetham, Angliæ, Francia, Hiberniæque Reginam longe serenissimam atque optatissimam.

Londini ex Officina Typographica Henrici Binnemani. Anno cio.io.lxxviii. Mensi Septembri.

DEDICATION to Q. Eliz. in 52 hexameter and pen

tameter verses.

Then Liber Primus has several Latin epigrams prefixed, principally by celebrated foreign scholars, commendatory of Q. Eliz.

Liber Secundus is dedicated to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, whose crest adorns the title of the second book, and whose arms and quarterings are at the end of

it, accompanied by "Corollarium Edouardi Granta,' on this "Symbolum gentilitium.”

Liber Tertius is dedicated in like manner, and with similar ornaments, to Lord Burleigh.

Liber Quartus is divided into three parts. The first is dedicated to the Earl of Oxford, the second to Sir Christopher Hatton, and the third to Sir Philip Sydney.

This last,

"Ad nobilissimum humanissimumque Juvenem, Philippum SIDNEIUM, mihi multis nominibus longe charissimum,”

begins

"Tene ego, te solum taceam, Præclare Philippe,

Quemque aliæ gentes, quemque ora externa loquuntur ?"

"Sum jecur, ex quo te primum, Sidneie, vidi;
Os, oculosque regit, cogit amare jecur."

Gabrielis Harueii Valdinatis, Smithus; vel Musarum Lachrymæ; pro obitu Honoratissimi viri, atque hominis multis nominibus clarissimi Thoma Smithi, Equitis Britannie Maiestatisque Regia Secretarii. Ad Gualterum Mildmaium, Equitem Britannum, et Consiliarium Regium.

Londini ex Officina Typographica Henrici Binnemani. Anno ciɔis.lxxviii.

4to.

AFTER the dedication follows a leaf adorned with the arms of Smith, (now of Hill Hall in Essex).

Then comes "Gabriel Harueius ad Charites, de Smithæis insignibus," answered by "Charites ad G. Harueium."

Then comes the dedication of the Lachrymæ, ad Joannem Vuddum, clarissimi equitis, Thomæ Smithi, dum viueret, amanuensein, et sororis filium, beginning, "O ego diuino si numine percitus essem

Vudde, meosque, tuosque valerem pandere luctus."

The Lachryma are "Novem luctuosis Canticis, seu Næniis effusæ. Each Canticum having the title of one of the Muses.

Canticum VII, entitled Calliope, "quod est instar octo reliquorum; quodque integram totius fere vitæ Historiam, non ita multis versibus expressam, complectitur."

Then follow lines "Ad Joannem Vuddum-Charitum Hymnus-Epilogus ad Joannem Vuddum-et Alter Epilogus, ad Ricardum Harueium-Fratrem, ac pupillum." Then "Ricardi Harueii Mercurius, siue Lachrymæ, a fratre, ac tutore extorta."

These are accompanied by Sir Thomas Smith's portrait, cut in wood, to which are subjoined

"In effigiem, duo honoraria emblemata, alterum Illustrissimæ Reginæ : alterum Dominæ Russellæ, jam tum forte ad Aulam aduententis."

Lastly, a wood cut of Sir Thomas's tomb, with an Epitaph and an Elegy, by Dr. Thomas Bing, the Cambridge Professor.

The Betraying of Christ: Judas in despaire: with Poems on the Passion. London, printed by Adam Islip; and are to be sold by Henry Toms at the signe of the White Beare at Sepulchres Church dore, 1598. 4to. 29 leaves.

A DEDICATION to the Author's "deare affected friend, Maister H. W. Gentleman," is signed S. R. the initials, it is supposed, of SAMUEL ROWLANDS, who afterwards published several little works of a much less credibtable tendency. A specification of one of these will be seen in Censura Literaria, vi. 277; and in Ritson's Bibliographia Poetica, many others are enumerated. The present he professes to have written "to prevent mispent hours of idleness;" the subject being in itself "the most laudable and highest theame of man's dutiful applaud." Pity, that he quitted this Christian path of poesy, for the thorny track of a lampooner and epigrammatist: and more especially so, when he could form such an appreciation of spiritual themes, as the following Address conveys to his reader.

Courteous and wise! vouchsafe, mild censures lend;

Let favor's boone with my endevors beare:

The lines included, are not meant and pen'd

To picke a thanke with every dainty eare;
But where the manner faileth to delight,
The matter (lesse defective) may invite.

Who presse abroad more pamphlets now adaies,
Then such as borrow quils from Cupid's wings?
Although there's none stand farther off from praise
Than those that plot downe fictions fabled things:
Yet of blind Cupid blindly still they write,
For Love's blind poets have unperfect sight.

The art of poësie, being well applide,
Hath Scripture's warrant to approve the same :
But poets shoot the mark so short and wide,
Not one in twenty finds a certaine aime :

And sure the cause is this-they shoot awrye:
Cupid gives aime, and he hath nere an eye.

What beauty hath been found in all the earth
For forme and feature, since the world began,
That ever liv'd, or draweth vital breath,

Is heav'nly faire as is the soule of mau?

Man's soule hath beauty that did most intice,
For never beauty cost so deare a price.

A price so pretious, time can nere decay it,

Yea, more than angels were of power to give :

None found in earth, in heaven but One could pay it, Who gave His life that dying souls might live:

Unto whose love, soule's love is bound in duty, T exclude world's love, unworthy such a beauty,

Immortall soules! regard your sacred stile,
You are the temples of the Holy Ghost:'
Let not polluted thoughts that place defile,
In which the love of God delighteth most:
For you disloyal and false-hearted prove,
When you preferre base earth's inferior love.