(Second part.)

Harke, harke, I heare [the dauncing]
And a nimble morris prauncing;
The bagpipe and the morris bells,
That they are not farre hence vs tells;
Come let vs all goe thether,

And daunce like friends together.*
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Lady the birds right fairely,

Are singing euer earely;

The larke, the thrush, the nightingale,
The make sport cuckow, and the quaile;
These sing of loue, then why sleepe yee?
To loue your sleepe it may not be!

xxxviij.+ (First part)

Thule, the period of cosmographie

Doth vaunt of Hecla, whose sulphurious fire
Doth melt the frozen clime and thaw the skie,
Trinacrian Ætna's flames ascend not hier;

f

These

The bagpipe must be considered as only provincially attached to the Morice-daunce. Of its musical estimation in the time of the author there is proof in Shakspeare's Winter's Tale, where the servant, announcing the arrival of Autelicus, says, "If you did but hear the pedler at the door, you would never dance again after a tabor and pipe; no, the bagpipe could not move you.”—The above lines are too modern to appear like an authority, or the daunce like friends together" might supply an idea of the undescribed characters which appear in Mr. Tollett's window, and also in the Flemish print given by Mr. Douce. Upon this subject I shall take the liberty of noticing a slight recollection, (but which I consider may be depended on,) of having heard at a juvenile period, when such trifles make lasting impressions, an old maudlin ditty, containing in one part the followirg words;

"I am a Morice-dancer,

And have a tongue within my teeth

To give the folks an answer."

"Carto. Madriga's of six parts, apt" &c. (ut sup.) Conclusion of the

last,

These things seeme wondrous, yet more wondrous ĺ, Whose hart with feare doth freeze, with loue doth fry. (Second Part.)

The Andelusian merchant that returnes,

Laden with Cutchinele and china dishes;

Reports in Spaine how strangely Fogo burnes,
Amidst an ocean full of flying fishes;

These things seeme wondrous, yet more wondrous 1,
Whose hart with feare doth freeze, with lote doth fry.

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A sparow hauke proud did hold in wicked iayle,
Musicke's sweet chorister the nightingale,
To whom with sighes she said, oh set me free,
And in my song, I'll praise no bird but thee;
The hauke replide, I will not loose my dyet,
To let a thousand such enioy their quiet.

x1.

Mars in a furie gainst loue's brightest queene,
Put on his healme and toke him to his launce;
And marching to the mount this warrior was seene,
And there his ensigns did the god aduance;
And by heauen's greatest gates, hee stoutly swore,
Venus should dye, for shee had wrong'd him sore."
Conduit street.

J. H.

ART. II. Admirable Events selected out of Fovre Bookes; VVritten in French by the Right Reverend John Peter Camus Bishop of Belley; together with

last, dedicated" to the right noble minded, and most vertuous gentleman, Maister George Brooke, Esquier." Contains ten songs. Neither of Weelkes's publications are noticed by Herbert.

morall

morall Relations written by the same Author, and translated into English by S. Du Verger. London: Printed by Thomas Harper for William Brooks, and are to be sold at his shop in Holborn, in Turnstile Lane. 1639. 4to. pp. 357. Both parts.

In the Dedication" to the most excellent Maiesty of Henrietta Maria, Queene of Great Britain," the translator says "In point of subject, since nothing from mine own conceptions was fit to adventure upon so high a theater, I assign my part to the onely choise and conveyance of an authour, with language intelligible to the English shore, who in the variety and multitude of his writings, both theologicall, morall, and historicall, hath as with a christall streame watered a continent of the greatest extent in Europe.-Give leave then, most gracious Princesse, where I began, there to determine my thrice humble dedication, with homage and binding oblation of these first fruits of my small industry. The humblest and lowest of all your Majestie's most devoted servants, S. Du Verger.”

A cancelled leaf in my copy contains a portion of an address from "the translator to the reader," which precedes the author's epistle." There is a second part, or division, in the volume, with the following title:

"Certain Moral Relations selected out of the two Books written therof in French, by the Right Reve rend Father John Peter Camous, Bishop of Belley, Anno Domini 1628. Faithfully translated into English. London (ut sup.)

This continuance has a short advertisement from the author, and a second of "the translator to the

reader."

reader." By the initials subjoined it appears that the continuation was translated by another hand. After noticing, to avoid reiteration, the original preface is omitted, as "not pleasant to the reader. I have" (says the writer) "only given you a little taste of the latter part; the reason chiefly is, that because I ioyne these singular Events and Morrall Relations in one volume, you have an epistle at the beginning which at large informes you of his intents, reasons, and motives, which I think may suffice; my intents and wishes shall ever equall, and accompany the authours, in these his worthy and my poore labours, farewell. T. B."

The first book contains twelve stories or events, and the continuance seventeen relations. The following is from part the first, and is the induction story to Shakspeare's Taming the Shrew. It is evidently taken from Heuterus, but remains to be added to the list given by the annotators.

"The Waking Man's Dreame. The fifth event.

"The Greek proverbe saith that a man is but the dreame of a shaddow, or the shaddow of a dreame; is there any thing more vaine then a shadow? which is nothing in itselfe, being but a privation of light framed by the opposition of a thicke body unto a luminous: is there any thing more frivolous then a dreame? which hath no subsistence but in the hollownesse of a sleeping braine, and which to speake properly is nothing but a meere gathering together of chimericall images: and this is it which makes an ancient say that we are but dust and shadow; our life is compared unto those, who sleeping dreame that they eate, and waking

find

find themselves empty and hungry? and who is he that doth not find this experimented in himselfe; as often as he revolves in his memory the time which is past: who can in these passages of this world distinguish the things which have beene done, from those that have beene dreamed? vanities; delights, riches, pleasure, and all are past and gone, are they not dreames? what hath our pride and pompe availed us say those poore miserable soules shut up in the infernall prisons, where is our bravery become, and the glorious shew of our magnificence? all these things are passed like a flying shadow, or as a post who hastens to his journeye's end. This is it, which caused the ancient comicke poet to say that the world was nothing but an universall comedy, because all the passages thereof serves but to make the wisest laugh, and, according to the opinion of Democritus, all that is acted on this great theater of the whole world, when it is ended differs in nothing from what hath been acted on a player's stage. The mirrour which I will heere set before your eyes will so lively expresse all these verities, and so truly shew the vanities of the greatnesse and opulencies of the earth; that although in these events I gather not either examples not farre distant from our times, or that have been published by any other writer, yet I beleeve that the serious pleasantnesse of this one will supply its want of novelty, and that its repetition will neither bee unfruitfull nor unpleasing.

"In the time that Phillip Duke of Burgandy (who by the gentlenesse and curteousnesse of his carriage purchaste the name of good) guided the reines of the country of Flanders; this Prince, who was of an humour

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