CARPENTER (Richard)—continued.

This is a Play against the Jesuits. The Author, Richard Carpenter, educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, was converted to Roman Catholicism by an English monk in London, and studied in Rome. He became a Benedictine monk at Douay for some time, and was sent as a missionary to England, where, after about a year, he returned to the Protestant religion, was ordained, and through the intervention of the Archbishop of Canterbury, was presented, in 1635, to the small living of Poling, near Arundel. During his incumbency he was much annoyed by the Roman Catholics in Arundel, who lost no opportunity of slandering him or holding him up to ridicule before his parishioners, they affirming that his change of creed was in “order to gain a wife " and that he had run away with the wife of the man with whom he lodged.' During the Civil War he went over to Paris and again joined the Roman Church, and made it his business to rail at Protestantism. Returning to England, he joined the Independents, and Dodd's "Church History "records that "he played his pulpit pranks according to the humour of the time, and became a mere mountebank of religion." Towards the latter part of his life he became very serious, and, in company with his wife, embraced Catholicism for a third time. Wood, who was intimately acquainted with him, says, that he was a fantastical man that changed his mind with his clothes, and that for his juggles and tricks in matters of religion he was esteemed a theological mountebank." (D.N.B.).

249 CARTWRIGHT (Wm.).

COMEDIES, TRAGI-COMEDIES, with

other Poems, by William Cartwright.

The Ayres and Songs set by Mr. Henry Lawes, Servant to His late Majesty in His Public and Private Musick.

FIRST EDITION. With fine impression of the portrait of Cartwright, by Lombart.

Thick small 8vo. Full mottled calf.

London, Printed for Humphrey Mosely, and are to be sold at his Shop, at the Sign of the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1651. £15 155

This copy contains the cancelled leaves of verses pp. 301-306, and also the leaves containing the substituted Poems.

Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps only possessed an imperfect copy. The volume is referred to in "Shakespeare's Centurie of Prayse on account of the Shakespeare allusions in the Commendatory verses, namely:

See Item No. 263.

CARTWRIGHT (Wm.)-continued.

"To the Memory of Mr. William Cartwright.

"How had we lost both Mint, and Coyn too, were
That salvage love still fashionable here,
The sacrifice upon the Funerall Wood,
All, deceas'd had er held deer and good!

We would bring all our speed, to ransome thine
With Don's rich Gold, and Johnson's silver mine;
Then to the pile add all that Fletcher writ,
Stamp'd by the Character a current Wit:
Suckling's Ore, with Sherley's small mony, by
Heywood's Old Iron, and Shakespear's Alchemy."
WILLIAM BELL.

"To the deceased Author of these Poems.

"For thou_to Nature had'st joyn'd Art and skill,
In Thee Ben Johnson still held Shakespear's Quill:
A Quill, rul'd by sharp judgment, and such Laws,
As a well studied Mind, and Reason draws.'

JASPER MAYNE.

"William Cartwright not only wrote some of the best poems and plays of his time, and preached some of the best sermons, but as a reader of metaphysics in his University he earned especial praise. King Charles wore black on the day of his funeral, and fifty wits and poets of the time supplied their tributary verses to the volumes, first published in 1651, of Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with other Poems, by Mr. William Cartwright, late Student of Christ Church in Oxford, and Proctor of the University. The Airs and Songs set by Mr. Henry Lawes."

"There is in this book a touching portrait of young Cartwright, evidently a true likeness, with two rows of books over his head, and his elbow upon the open volume of Aristotle's Metapyhics. He rests on his hand a young head, in which the full underlip and downy beard are harmonized to a face made spiritual by intensity of thought. Cartwright died, in his thirty-second year, of a camp fever that killed many in Oxford.” HENRY MORLEY.

250

THE ROYALL SLAVE: A Tragi-Comedy. Presented to the King and Queene by the Students of Christ-Church in Oxford. August 30, 1636. Presented since to both their Majesties at Hampton-Court by the Kings Servants.

FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. Full calf gilt, g. e.

Oxford, Printed by William Turner for Thomas Robinson, 1639.

£9 9s

251 CASAUBON (Meric). OF THE NECESSITY Of Reformation in, AND BEFORE LUTHER'S TIME; and what (visibly) hath most hindred the Progress of it, occasioned by some late virulent Books, written by Papists; but especially by that intituled Labyrinthus Cantuariensis.

66

Frontispiece by Hollar of the Author in a winding sheet.
FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. Fine copy in the original calf.
London, 1664.

252 CASIMIRE.

£225

THE ODES OF CASIMIRE, translated by G. Hils. With Introductory Poem and engraved title.

12m0. Old calf (rebacked). Printed for Humphrey Moseley at the Princes Armes in Pauls Churchyard, 1646.

Some leaves cut close in margin.

253 CASTIGLIONE (Baldesar). THE COURTIER OF COUNT Baldesar CASTILIO, devided into foure Bookes. Verie necessarie and profitable for young Gentlemen and Gentlewomen abiding in Court, Pallace, or Place, done into English by Thomas Hobby. Title within woodcut border.

254

Thick small 4to. Very fine cobv. bound by Riviere in full brown morocco gilt, g. e.

London, Printed by John Wolfe, 1588.

This edition is printed in three columns, viz., Italian in Italics, French in Roman, and English in Black Letter.

Castiglione is chiefly remembered by his "Il Cortegiano," a manual for courtiers, remarkable for its elegance and grace of style. Hobby, in his translation, was no less successful, and the book became extremely popular. Ascham praises it, both for style and matter.

LE COURTISAN. Nouvellement reveu, et corrigé.
Thick 12mo. Old calf (worn).

Paris, Pour Estienne Groulleau, 1557.

£9 9s

With autograph on the title-page of William Lambarde, the Kentish historian, dated April, 1560.