WITS RECREATIONS.

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P. 3, 1. 1." Francis Newport," according to Clarendon, was ng gentleman of great expectation, and of excellent parts, a Member he House of Commons ;" his father, Sir Richard Newport, resided Shrewsbury, and was made Baron Newport of Ercall. by King

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P. 9, l. 12.—“ Sir John Suckling" published his Aglaura in 1638 h wide margins and a narrow streamlet of type, for which he urred the ridicule of the writers in the "Musarum Delicia." The ce was, notwithstanding these criticisms, much admired, and obtained the author this poetical compliment.

P. 10, 1. 1.—" George Sands or Sandys." Traveller and poet; b. 77, d. 1644. Sandys is pronounced by Dryden to be the best versifier the last age: and Pope affirmed, in his notes to the "Iliad," that English etry owed much of its present beauty to his (Sandys') translations. e first edition of his "Metamorphoses Englished" appeared in 1626. P. 10, 1. 10.-" William Habbington." Poet and historian; b. 1605, 1637. His "Castara," poems addressed to his wife, Lady Lucie, ighter of Lord Powis, appeared in 1634.

P. 10, 1. 18.—“ Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher." The former d in 1616, the latter 1625. The first of their plays, "The Woman tter," appeared in 1607, and the first collected edition-edited by nes Shirley was published in 1647.

P. 11, 1. 1.—“ Benjamin Johnson." "O, rare Ben Jonson!" Born 74, d. 1637.

P. 11. 1. 6.-" George Chapman," b. 1557, d. 1634; buried in the urchyard of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields. His monument, designed and ected by his friend Inigo Jones, bore this inscription :-"Georgius rapmannus, Poeta Homericus, Philosophus verus (et si Christianus eta) plusquam celebris," &c. The first edition of his translation of Iliad" appeared in 1611.

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P. 11, 1. 12.-" William Shake-spear." 1564-1616.

P. II, 1. 17.-" Thomas Randolph ;" b. 1605, d. 1634. He very rly began to exercise his poetical talents, having, it is said, written

"The History of the Incarnation of our Saviour, in Verse," at the age of ten years. His irregular and too free mode of living among his friends and admirers in all probability shortened his life. He died at Blatherwick, in Northamptonshire, aged not quite 30 years.

P. 12, 1. 7.-" Thomas May." Poet and historian; b. 1594, d. 1650. He published "A Continuation of Lucan's Historical Poem till the Death of Julius Cæsar," 1630. His history of the arbitrary government of Oliver Cromwell gained for him the esteem of the Royalists. Nero's persecution of Lucan, which caused the poet to join in Piso's conspiracy, and occasioned his death, is here alluded to.

P. 12, l. 12.- 66 George Wythers." Poet, b. 1588, d. 1667. Author of "Abuses Stript and Whipt," 1613.

P. 12, 1. 19.-" Thomas Middleton." Circa 1570-1627. Dramatic poet. A writer in the Retrospective Review classes Middleton with Webster and Ford; but Mr. Dyce, who deems these poets of a higher order, ranges him rather with Dekker, Heywood, Marston, Chapman, and Rowley. He was the author of "The Mayor of Queenborough," a comedy probably alluded to in " Wit Restor'd," p. 284.

P. 13, 1. 1.-"James Shirley." Dramatic poet, b. 1594, d. 1666. "The Young Admiral," a tragi-comedy, was acted at the private house, Drury Lane, and is mentioned by Evelyn in his Diary, vol. i. 393, Bohn's ed.

P. 13, 1. 7.

P. 13, 1. 12.

-“ Philip Massinger." Dramatic poet, b. 1584, d. 1640. "John Ford." Dramatic writer, 1586-1639.

P. 13, 1. 17.-" Thomas Heywood." Actor and writer: lived in the reigns of Elizabeth-Charles I. He was the most voluminous writer of his age. His "Hierarchie of the Blessed Angels" appeared in 1635. P. 13, 1. 24" Mr. Thomas Goffe." Divine and dramatist, 15921627. He wrote four dramatic pieces : "The Raging Turk, 1631 Courageous Turk,” 1632; Orestes," 1633; "Careless Shepherdess,"

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P. 15, 1. 21.

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-" Virginals," a stringed musical instrument.

P. 16, 1. 21.- "Epithites," epithets.

P. 27, 1. 16.—“ The Queene of Bohemia." Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of James I.

P. 30, l. 14.—“ Talbot." John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury.

P. 51, 1. 15.—“ Wittall," "a contented cuckold."-Bailey's Dict. P. 93, 1. 6.-"King of Sweden." Gustavus Adolphus. Killed at the battle of Lutzen, 1632.

P. 99, 1. 11.—" Fr. Drake," Admiral. 1559–1596.

P. 108, 1. 6.-"Lipsius," Justus, b. 1547, taught at Louvain and

many other Universities. He had been a Protestant, or at least feigned himself to be one, while he was professor at Leyden: from whence he went to Louvain, where he wrote the "History of our Lady," and caused a silver pen to be hung up near her image, in acknowledgment that all he had written was under her favour and protection.

P. 219, l. 6.—"Tom Coriat." Vide Notes to Musarum Delicia.

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P. 225, 1. 7.-" Prince Henry," Henry Prince of Wales, son of K. James I., lived not full eighteen years. He died Nov. 6, 1612, much lamented by the nation.

P. 226, 1. I.- 66 Queene Anne." Anne of Denmark, Queen of James I.; b. 1574, d. 1619.

P. 226, l. 19.—“ Edmund Spencer," b. 1553, d. 1599. The favour of Queen Elizabeth is supposed to have extended to his being appointed poet laureate; but Elizabeth, as Malone has proved, had no poet laureate. She indeed, in Feb. 1591, conferred on Spencer a pension of 50l. a year, which he enjoyed till his death; but the title of laureate is not given in his patent.

P. 228, l. 10.—" Richard Burbage." The fellow-actor and friend of Shakspeare. The parish register of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, records his burial in 1618-19.

P. 230, l. 7.-" Countesse of Pembroke." Mary Sidney, daughter of Sir Henry, and sister of Sir Philip Sidney. This elegant Epitaph, by an unknown author, is quoted in the Spectator, No. 323. P. 231, 1. 21.- "On a Lyer." This commences the Edition of 1640. P. 234, l. 19.—“ A Fart's Epitaph.” "As it was born, so it cry'd."

Ed. 1667.

P. 236, 1. 4.-"A Pauls-walker.

Vide Notes to Musarum Delicia.

P. 247, l. 19.—“ On Mr. Dumbelow." Thus in Ed. 1640:—

"Here lyes John Dumbello,

Who dy'd because he was so.

For if his breech could have spoke

His heart surely had not broke."

P. 272, 1. 24.—“Doctor Hacket," Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, b. 1592, d. 1670.

P. 274, l. I." Martin Mar-Prelate. The nom de plume of a Puritan libeller, who put forth several tracts, violently attacking VOL. II.

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Episcopacy. The writer was believed to be one Henry Penry, who was executed in 1593 for having written seditious words against the queen.

P. 275, 1. 12,-"John Owen," b. 1560, d. 1622. Latin poet and Epigrammatist.

P. 275, 1. 15. "Michael Drayton," 1563-1631.

Polyolbion.

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P. 277, 1. 20.-" Francis Quarles," b. 1592, d. 1644, Poet. Author of the "Emblems.”

P. 278, 1. 19.-" Dr. Donne," Dean of St. Paul's. Ob. 1631.

P. 279, 1. 22.-"Dr. Bambrigg," of Trinity College, Oxford. Mentioned by Antony à Wood.

P. 280, 1. 15.-" Sir Walter Rawleigh," b. 1552, d. 1618.

P. 283, 1. 24.-"Queen Anne" died on the 2nd of March, 1619, at Hampton Court. Her corpse was brought to Denmark House, and from thence conveyed to Westminster, where in the Royal Chapel it was interred.

FANCIES AND FANTASTICKS.

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P. 291, 1. 1.-" Thomas Egerton," First Lord Ellesmere, Governor of Lincoln's Inn; Chancellor of Oxford; High Steward on Somerset's trial; Lord Chancellor. B. 1540, ob. 1617.

P. 292, 1. 15.-" Phineas Fletcher," Poet. Author of the "Purple Island," &c. B. 1584, d. 1650.

P. 478.-" Henry Vaughan," Poet, b. 1621, d. 1695. His "Silex Scintillans; or, Sacred Poems and private Ejaculations" appeared in 1650. He called himself Silurist from being a resident of that rocky region of Wales whose inhabitants were called Silures.

OUTLANDISH PROVERBS.

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P. 481.-"Mr. G. H.," George Herbert. The first Edition of his Outlandish Proverbs, &c., appeared in 1640. Second Edition, entitled Jacula Prudentium: or, Outlandish Proverbs," &c., 1651. Reprinted with the "Remains." First Edition 1652, and afterwards.