a sword by his side:' how sutable to his age, calling, or person, I leave to others to judge from his pictures, he owning a countenance not in the least regard semblable to any my eyes ever met with, besides an host dwelling in Anthill, formerly a sheppherd, and so metaphorically of the same profession: He that evening parted with his queene, and to shew himselfe more uxorious before the people at his first coming than in private he was, he did at her coach side take his leave, by kissing her sufficiently to the middle of the shoulders, for so low she went bare all the dayes I had the fortune to know her; having a skinne far

That the reader may judge for himself,, we have here inserted the copy of a rare print occurring in Turberville's "Nobie Art of Venerie, or Hunting," 1611, prefixed to the chapter, entitled, " An Advertisement by the Translatour of the English Manner in Breaking up of the Deare." The huntsman is in the act of presenting to James the knife with which he is to make the assay, i. e. the first cut on the stag's breast, to discover how fat he is. The dress and appearance of his majesty is an excellent commentary on Osborne's text.

more amiable than the features it covered, though not the disposition, in which report rendred her very debonaire.

18. I doe now consent freely to the justnesse of their award, who may in this age condemne of vanity such observations as these: Yet having deduced from experience, that it is not only the frailty, but custome and pure nature of humanity to venerate the least splinter of antiquity, beyond any thing beares the impresse of the present age, though commonly of no higher descent then the Grecian or Roman monarchy, young and infantine in relation to the world's beginning, and so of an inconsiderable force to contest with printing, having themselves, with all the monuments they could raise, been out-stripped by a number of bookes, that had nothing else to keep them alive but the inke that dropped from the writers pen. Nor shall I, incouraged by the presumption of this greater advantage, refuse to register all I know or doe but firmly believe, as one delighting

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more in the contemplation of a future resurrection in the opinions of those that may possesse this nation many ages hence, then terrified with the censures or contempt of my own. Nor did I ever yet meet any reason to alter the confidence I have in some of my contemporaries, that they equall, if not exceed, such as are most celebrated in all things but time: And he that is such an infidell in the desert of his country as to deny it, I leave him to our former sermons for his conversion, and to the stage for a finall confutation of so much partiality. As for me, I ever aimed my indeavours rather at the satisfaction of a single reader, like myselfe, who only seekes to learne, than those think they are able to teach; who deale by authours, as the Jewes did by our Saviour, that buried all the advantage might have been made of his divinity, in the seeming frailties of his humanity, without which they could not have had any commerce, or understanding of truth, or drawne any benefite from what

others writ, or himselfe suffered. Neither can I apprehend it a greater folly in me to register the yellownesse of Queen Anne's haire, with other levities, (which may seeme pertinent to posterity, though triviall now, yet of as high concernment as Cæsar's nose,) than for the Earle of Arundell to give so many hundred crownes for an urne, a mason would not have valu'd at a penny;' yet he was not only commended but imitated by King Charles, who cannot appeare ignorant to any so happy as to read what he hath left. And these are the merchants I look one day to trafique with; in the meane time, the stock of the buyer need not lye dead, having some thing else of more credit in the world's opinion, though not in my own that writ it. But, to sound a retreat to this sally, I would faine know,

Thus profanely does the author treat the celebrated collection of Arundelian marbles, collected by the celebrated Thomas, Earl of Arundel. Nor can the unfortunate Charles the First's love of the fine arts be justly stated as an aggravation of his foibles.

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how this low circumstance could be spared by such almanack-gazers, (that are none of the booksellers worst chapmen,) who may give credit to the White King,' or the vision of one in greene, said to be averred from Italy by -; though I take such predictions upon no more solid an accompt, than flying vapors the former terrified ima

The celebrated Lily published an exposition of a (pretended) ancient prophecy, concerning a White King, which ran thus :-" When the lion of rightfulnesse is dead, then shall arise a White King in Britain, first flying, and after riding, after ligging downe, and in this lig down he shall be lymed, and after that he shall be led. Then shall be gadred together much folk, and he shall take helpe for him; then shall be sought helpe, and there shall none arise but bed for head. And then shall one gone there, the sun ariseth another, then the sun gone down, &c. &c. &c. After the White King shall fall into a kirk-yard over a hall." In interpreting this piece of fustian, it cost the astrologer hard work to make out James I. to be the lion of rightfulness, since he very little resembled that magnanimous animal. But Charles I. was said to be the White King, because, contrary to former usage, he was apparelled in white at the coronation. See the Lives of Ashmole and Lilye, 8vo. 1774. p. 258. Of the Green King we have found no

traces.