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THE SAD SHEPHERD,

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SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES.

THE following Extracts, &c. have no immediate reference to the Paftoral or Notes; but, being of a congenial nature, it is prefumed they may, with-out any great impropriety, be annexed.

EXTRACTS, OBSERVATIONS, &c.

IN the first volume of Mr. Malone's Supplement to the laft edition of Shakspeare's Plays, page 76, he says that to note e, Vol. I. page 288. of that work, we should

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It should likewife be remembered, that verfes by SPENSER are prefixed to LEWKNOR's Commonwealth and Government of Venice, printed in 1599."

Mr. Malone having very obligingly favoured me with a tranfcript of the title-page to Lewkeror's work, and of the verfes on it; they are here, for the purpofe of multiplying copies of them, in aid of their prefervation, inferted.

"THE COMMONWEALTH AND Government of VENICE, WRITTEN BY THE Carainal Gaspar Contareno, and translated out of Italian into English, by Lewes Lewkenor, Esquire, LONDON, imprinted by John Windet, for Edmund Mattes, and are to be fold at his shop at the figne of the Hand and Plow in Fleet-street, 1599.”

"The antique Babel, empreffe of the East,

Uprear'd her buildinges to the threatned fkie ;
And fecond Babel, tyrant of the Weft,
Her ayry towers upraised much more high.
But with the weight of their own furquedry
They both are fallen, that all the earth did feare,
And buried now in their own ashes lie,

Yet fhewing by their heapes how great they were.
But in their place doth now a third appeare,
Fayre Venice, Aower of the laft world's delight,
And next to them in beauty draweth neare,
But farre exceedes in policie of right.
Yet not fo fayre her buildinges to behold,
As Lewkenor's ftile that hath her beautie told.

'Edm. Spencer."

Mr. Malone having met with, or obferved only these commendatory Verfes by Spenfer, it is not likely that many

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have seen, or noticed any other; I have not the leaft doubt therefore of the following being acceptable.

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"The Hiftorie of George Caftriot, furnamed, Scanderbeg, King of Albanie.

Containing his famous actes, his noble deedes of Armes,
and memorable victories against the Turkes, for the
Faith of Chrift.
Comprised in twelve Bookes:

By JAQUES DE LAVARDIN, Lord of PLESSIS Bourrot, a Nobleman of France.

Newly tranflated out of French into English by Z. J. Gentleman. London, imprinted for William Ponsonby, 1596." This eulogy is prefixed.

"Upon the Hiftorie of George Caftriot, alias Scanderbeg king of the Epirots, tranflated into English." "Wherefore doth vaine antiquitie fo vaunt, Her ancient monuments of mightie peeres,

And old Heroes, which their world did daunt
With their great deedes, and fild their childrens eares?
Who rapt with wonder of their famous praise,
Admire their ftatues, their Coloffoes great,
Their rich triumphall Arcks which they did raise,
Their huge Pyramids, which do heaven threat.
Lo one, whom later age hath brought to light,
Matchable to the great ft of those great :

Great both by name, and great in power and might,
And meriting a meere triumphant seate.

The fcourge of Turkes, and plague of infidels,
Thy acts, ô Scanderbeg, this volume tels.
Ed. Spenfer."

To Peacham's Minerva Britanna are prefixed the following Stanzas, thus addreffed:

"To Mafter Henry Peacham.

A Vifion upon this his Minerva."
"Methought I faw in dead of filent night
A goodly Citie all to cinders turned,
Upon whofe ruines fate a Nymphe in white,

Rending

Rending her haire of wiery gold, who mourned
Or for the fall of that faire Citie burned,

Or fome deare Love, whofe death fo made her fad :
That fince no joye in worldly thing she had."

"This was that Genius of that auntient Troy,
In her owne afhes buried long agoe :
So griev'd to fee that Britaine fhould enjoy
Her Palas, whom the held and honour'd fo:
And now no litle memorie could show
To eternize her, fince fhe did infufe,
Her Enthean foule, into this English Muse.

E. S." Whether or not thefe initials meán Edmund Spenfer, rëmains to be enquired into.

I have seen no other copy of this work of Peacham's but the one I transcribed these Stanzas from; of which the title-page to the firft part is want ng, and that to the fecond part is not dated. If the verfes are Spenfer's, the edition they are prefixed to muft either have been a good deal delayed in its publication, or it is a fecond one, with additions, fince he read the work; for Peacham's first verses therein are addreffed, "To my dread Soveraigne James, King of Great Britaine, &c." there are others to the queen (Anne), princefs Elizabeth, Henrie Prince of Wales, and Charles Duke of Yorke (afterwards King Charles I.), whɔ was not so created tilt about the year 1605, or 1606; and Spenfer died, if we can depend on tradition, in 1598, or 1599. See his Life by Hughes, Birch, Church, and Upton.

It may be thought thefe initials E. S. ftand for Edward Sharpham, whofe Comedy of The Fleire was entered on the Books of the Stationers' Company, May 9, 16o6. See Mr. Reed's much improved edition of the Biographia Dramatica, Vol. II. page 125. or that they may fignify Edmund Story or Scory; there being verfes prefixed to Drayton's Heroical Epiftles, 1605, figned E. St. Gent. which in the 8vo edition of Drayton's works, 1753, are figned Edmund Scory, Knt. See Vol. I. p. 214.

"One good turn deferves another."

This maxim feems to have been fo well understood by commendatory authors, as to be at length ridiculed

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