Had the author of Hudibras lived when this Madrigal was written, the two first lines of the second stanza might from similarity of style have been attributed to him. CCXXX. Ye restless cares, companions of the night, From Robert Greene's Menaphon (afterwards called Arcadia), it is there entitled Menaphon's Song in bed. The word tire signifies to fasten upon, like a bird of prey, as in the Third Part of Henry the Sixth, act i. sc. 1. "Tire on the flesh of me, and of my son." And again, "Ev'n as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, " Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone." Este's second set was published in 1606, and the dedication to the Right Worshipful Sir Thomas Gerard, Knight, is dated from Ely House, Holborn. It contains twenty-two compositions. CCXXXI. How merrily we live that shepherds be! In "The Complainte of Scotland," published at St. Andrews in 1549, the author (Wedderburn) gives a most vivid description of pastoral life. Being weak and sad thro' study he passes to "the green wholsom fields," where, says he, "I beheld mony herds blawing their buck-horns "and their corn pipes, calling and convoying mony fat "flocks to be fed on the fields: then the shepherds put "their sheep on banks and braes, and on dry hills to get "their pasture. Then I beheld the shepherds' wives and "their childer, that brought their morning breakfasts to "the shepherds. Then after their disjeune, they began "to talk of great merryness that was right pleasant to be "heard. "When the shepherds had told all their pleasant stories, "then they and their wives began to sing sweet melodious "songs of natural music of the antiquity, in good accords "and reports of diapason, diatesseron, and prolations. The "musician Amphion did sing sae dulce, that the stones "moved, and also the sheep and nolt*, and the fowls of the "air pronounced their bestial voice to sing with him; yet "nathless his harmonious song preferred not the sweet "songs of these shepherds. "Then after this sweet celest harmony they began to "dance," &c., &c. * Oxen. A ССХХХІІ. So much to give and be so small regarded, very sensible Rule of Three statement. CCXXXIII. O metaphysical tobacco! Fetch'd as far as from Morocco: Exhales the rheum; O metaphysical tobacco! At the time when this most elaborate eulogium was penned, tobacco was somewhat of a novelty, having been introduced into England, about the middle of Queen Elizabeth's reign, by the expedition under Sir F. Drake, who "being instructed by the Indians, used it against crudities “of the stomach, and certès since that time it is grown so frequent in use, and of such price, that many, nay most 66 part, with an insatiable desire do take of it; drawing into "their mouths the smoke thereof, (which is of a strong "scent,) through a pipe made of earth," (making the nose serve for an Indian chimney, as Decker describes it in his Gull's Hornbook,) "some for wantonness, or rather "fashion's sake, others for health's sake; insomuch that "tobacco shops are set up in a greater number than either "ale houses or taverns.”—Annales of Elizabeth. Paul Hentzner, an intelligent German who travelled in this country in 1598, gives a similar testimony to the fondness of the English for tobacco. "At these spectacles," says he, "and everywhere else, "they are constantly smoking tobacco, and in this manner: "they have pipes on purpose made of clay, into the further "end of which, they put the herb so dry that it may be "rubbed into powder; and putting fire to it, they draw "the smoke into their mouths, which they puff out again through their nostrils like funnels." 66 F. Beaumont thus celebrates it in a poem called "The 66 Triumph of Tobacco over Sack and Ale." 66 "The poets of old 'Many fables have told "Of the Gods and their symposia ; "But Tobacco alone, "Had they known it, had gone "For their Nectar and Ambrosia." The worthy Mr. Burton is not so outrageous in praise of the filthy weed. "Tobacco," (says he ironically) "divine, "rare, superexcellent tobacco; which goes far beyond all “their panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones; a 'sovereign remedy to all diseases! A good vomit I con"fess; a vertuous herb, if it be well qualified, opportunely “taken, and medicinally used: but, as it is commonly "abused by most men, who take it as tinkers do ale; 't is a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, and "health; hellish, devilish, and damned tobacco; the ruin "and overthrow of body and soul!" 66 I have never seen more than these two sets of Este's Madrigals, and have reason to believe that most of his other publications were sets of sacred songs in parts. THOMAS BATESON. Of this Composer we have two sets of Madrigals. The first is for three, four, five, and six voices (in all twentynine pieces) wherein he styles himself "Practitioner in the "Art of Music, and Organist of the Cathedral Church "of Christ in the City of Chester. Printed by Thos. Este, "1604," and inscribed to his "Honorable and most respect"ed good friend Sir William Norres, Knight of the most "honorable Order of the Bath." It is to be inferred from the dedication that he was then a young man, as he compares his compositions to " young birds feared out of the "nest before they be well-feathered, and hopes they will be so shrouded in the leaves of his Patrons' good liking, so "that neither any ravenous kite nor crafty fowler, any open-mouthed Momus, or more sly detractor, may devour 66 Ior harm them that cannot succour nor shift for them"selves." 66 66 In this set appears one of the Triumphs of Oriana which should have been in that work, A.D. 1601, but was sent too late for publication; and also a Madrigal called Oriana's farewell, written after the death of Elizabeth. 66 CCXXXIV. Beauty is a lovely sweet, Where pure white and crimson meet, Join'd with favour of the face, Chiefest flower of female race. Yet if virtue could be seen, It would more delight the eyne. Although" (as Mr. Burton observes,) "beauty be the |