III. Stances du mesme Autheur sur le mesme sujet.

76 lines.

Tant plus qu'vn bien est grand, &c.

IV. Del medesimo sopra il medesimo suggetto. Sonetto, 14 lines.

Il fior' de Prencipi nel fior' de gl' anni,
Et delle nostre speranze, ora è colto
Dalla spietata morte (ahi lasse) e tolto
A noi dolentì e miseri Britanni. &c.

The first two of these four last mentioned sonnets occur in a small pamphlet, entitled "Mavsoleum, or, The choicest Flowres of the Epitaphs, &c. on Prince Henrie. Edinburgh, Andro Hart, 1613," 4to. and are signed "W. Q." and "Walter Quin."

Next in order of time follows "The Memorie, &c. of Lord D'Aubigni, renewed," &c. as already referred to, and of which an extended account is to be found in the pages of RESTITUTA.

Ten lines in Latin, prefixed to Sir Thomas Herbert's Travels, signed "Walt. O-Quin, Armig." cannot surely be ascribed to our author.

The congratulatory poem there mentioned, entitled "Gratulatio quadrilinguis in nuptiis Caroli I. et Pr. Henr. Mar. Fr." 4to. not having met with, I cannot give any account thereof, but suppose it was the last of Quin's publications; a poet, who appears to have written with equal ease and success in the Latin, English, French, and Italian languages.*

June 1, 1815.

The Editor has not been able satisfactorily in all cases to read the MS. of this article: which yet, as it gave an account of a very rare book, he was unwilling to omit.

The practise of the Diuell.

The auncient poisened practises of the Diuell, in his Papistes, against the true professors of Gods holie worde, in these our latter dayes.

Newlie set forth by L. Ramsey.

Pro. iii.

¶ Withdraw no good thing from them that haue neede, so long as thine hund is hable to doe it.

Iames iv.

¶ Therefore to him that knoweth how to doe good, and doth it not, to him it is sinne.

Imprinted at London for Timothie Rider.

In 4to. C 2. being 10 leaves. Black letter. This work by Laurence Ramsay was probably printed before the year 1590.

IN "The preface to the earnest, and loving readers," the author, after observing that "Sathan, the auncient enimie to all mankinde, hath euer since the beginning sought by all meanes possible, to obscure by his practises and policies the pure and true light of the Gospell, and hath (almost) by his subtile inuentions, infected the whole worlde, with the sinke of all iniquities," goes on to mention some of his "knaueries" and other tricks, and ends thus, "Wherefore, as in a myrrour, I

deliver this vnto thee, (gentle and louing Reader) manifesting by this my emulation, most of his legerdemaynes, against God, and our lawfull Kings and Gouernors. Farewell. L. Ramsey,"

"The practise of the Diuell," in which the author makes the Devil to relate his thoughts, devises, &c. all in propria persona, extending to 82 stanzas, written in the septenary measure,

Spytefully complayning, in euery condition,
Against all the world, and all States resident.

After many invocations, and some advice for the English papists to

Out with your Portises, and defende my kingdome!
Your Grayelles, and Antyueners, Legendare and all,
Crosse, Cope, and Candlestick, is else lyke to fall,

and likewise to.

Beswinge them with holy Water, and ring out your Bels,
Blinde them with Pardons, disple downe theyr sinne,
Bleare them with Idols, &c.

continues,

¶ Stand to it Stapleton, Dorman, and Harding,
And Rastall, that rakehell, to mainteyne my order:
Bonner and Gardener, are worth the regarding,
For keeping my articles, so long in this border:
O Story, Story, thou art worthy of Recorder,

Thou stoodst to it stoutly, against God and King,
And at Tiborne desperatly, gaue me an offering.

Frier Forrest, and all his mery mates,

Dyd yeeld me the like, with heart and good will:

They puld of their Cowles, and hangd all saue the pates,
In honour of me, and thought it not yll:

And Sir Thomas More, likewise at Tower hyll,
Lost ther his head, for denying the King,

To be supreame head, and for no other thing.

I extract other two stanzas from this curious performance.

3

Suffer all sclaunder, against God and his trueth,
And prayse the olde fashion, in King Arthurs dayes:
Of abbaies, of monasteries, howe it is great rueth,

To haue them pluckt downe, and so the eldest sayes:`
And howe it was merrie, when Robin Hoods playes

Was in euerie Towne, the morrice and the foole,
The May poll, and the Drum, to bring the Calfe from
schoole.

With Madge, Madge, and Marian about the poll to dance,
And Stephen, that tall stripling, to lead Volans dale:
With roging Gangweeke, a goodly remembraunce,
With banners all a flount, with cakes, cheese, and ale,
With beades in euery hand, our prayers stoode by tale.
This was a merie world, talke among your menny,

And then of good egges, ye might haue twenty for an
penny.

The poem continues in such like strains, setting forth the Devil's deceitful practices upon credulous men, who (the author says) would believe

that sprites doe walk, if one doe crye bot, boe,

or things still more absurd. It concludes with the following pathetic farewell address :

Farewell my Babes, and newe borne Apostates,
Farewell my Papistes, and whoremonger Villaines,
Farewell all Epicures, and all drunken balde pates,
Farewell my Chaplaines, most filthy fountaines,
Farewell my dissembling Knaues, that heaps like mountains,
Farewell my Hypocrites, fraught with adulation,
For I must to hell, to prepare your damnation.

July 1, 1815.

Doctor Merrie-man: or Nothing but Mirth. Written by S. R.

At London, printed for John Deane, and are to be sold at his Shoppe at Temple Barre, under the Gate, 1609.

4to. pp. 24.

THIS is spoken of as a popular book in Fitz-geffrey's Satires, 1620. It was reprinted in 1623 and 1681; and may with probability be attributed to that versatile writer, Samuel Rowlands, who turned his pen "from grave to gay, from lively to severe," as his occasions served. Works of a satiric kind convey more of the manners perhaps of the times when they are written, than most other time-serving productions: but as the vices of men become the more prominent characteristics of human nature to a keenly penetrating eye, an immoral exposure of them is likely to be attended with little beneficial effect on the mind of the reader. The