proved authors, which have writ any thing concerning the fame, &c. Lond. 1611, qu. There are prefixed fome commendatory verses by George Gascoigne.*

Thomas Churchyard, of whom an account has already been given, tranflated the three first books of Ovid's Triftia, which he dedicated to Sir Chriftopher Hatton, and printed at Lond. in 1580.†

Among Coxeter's papers is the ballet of Helen's Epistle to Paris, from Ovid, in 1570, by B. G. whom Warton gueffes to be Bernard Gardiner.

It is extraordinary that Horace's Odes fhould not have been tranflated at this period. In 1566 THOMAS DRANT published what he called "A Medicinable Morall, that is, the two bookes of Horace his fatyres englished, according to the prescription of St. Hierome," &c. Lond. for Thomas Marfhe, 1566. In the following year appeared "Horace his Arte of Poetrie, Piftles, and Satyrs englished, and to the Earle of Ormounte by Thomas Drant addreffed, imprinted at Lond. in Fleteftrete near to S. Dunstones churche, by Thomas Marfhe,

These feem almost to afcertain it to have been written by the firft of the three. The book is not uncommon, tho' Wood fays he had not feen it. It has often fallen in my way.

Wart. p. 422. Ibid. p. 423.

1567." This verfion is very paraphraftic, and fometimes parodical.* Drant undertook this verfion in the character of a grave divine, and as a teacher of morality. He was educated at St. John's College in Cambridge, where he was graduated in Theology in 1569. The fame year he was admitted to the prebend of Firles in the Cathedral of Chichester on 27 June, and on 2 July to that of Chamberlaynwood in St. Paul's, and 9 March following he was inftalled Archdeacon of Lewes. He feems to have been chaplain to Grindall, Archbishop of York. He was a tolerable latin Poet. He tranflated the Ecclefiaftes into Latin Hexameters, 1572, and publifhed two mifcellanies of Latin poetry, the one entitled "Sylva," and the other Poemata Varia et externa:" the laft printed at Paris. In the Sylva, he mentions his new verfion of David's Pfalms, which Warton supposes to have been in English, and fays he had begun to tranflate the Iliad, but had gone no further than the fourth book.+

Hiftorical ballads occur about this time with the initials T. D. This was THOMAS DELONEY, a famous ballad writer of these days, whom Kemp, one of the original actors in Shakefpeare's plays, in his "Nine Daies Wonder,"

* Warton, p. 424-Tann. Bib. p. 233. † Ibid.

mentions

mentions as the chronicler of the memorable lives of "The Six Yeomen of the Weft, Jack of Newbery, Gentle Craft, and fuch like honeft men, omitted by Stowe, Hollinfhed, Grafton, Hall, Froy fart, and the rest of those welldeferving writers.”*

TIMOTHY KENDALL tranflated in part the Epigrams of Martial. He was born at NorthAfton in Oxfordshire, the son of William and Alice Kendall,+ was educated at Eton, and thence removed to Oxford, and afterwards became a Student of the Law at Staples-Inn. This performance, which cannot strictly be called a tranflation of Martial, has the following title, "Flowers of Epigrams out of fundrie the most fingular Authors felected, &c. by Timothie Kendall late of the Universitie of Oxford, now Student of Staple-Inn, Lond. 1577, 12mo. It is dedicated to Robert Earl of Leicester. The Epigrams tranflated are from Martial, Pictorius, Borbonius, Politian, Bruno, Textor, Aufonius, the Greek Anthology, Beza, Sir Thomas More, Henry Stephens, Haddon, Parkhurft and others. But by much the greater part is from Martial. It is charitable to hope that he wafted no more

*Edit. 1600, 4to, Signat D. 2. Warton, III. p. 430, 431. † Tanner, p. 452-Warton, p. 432.

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of his time at Staples-Inn in culling these fugitive bloffoms. Yet he has annexed to these verfions his "Trifles" or juvenile Epigrams, dated the fame year.

ARTHUR HALL, Efq. of Grantham, a Member of Parliament, tranflated from a metrical French verfion into English, ten books of Homer's Iliad, printed at London by Ralph Newberie, 1581. qu. this tranflation has no other merit than that of being the first appearance of a part of the Iliad in an English dreis.* But a complete and regular verfion of Homer was referved for George Chapman, whose translation of the Shield of Achilles appeared in 1596 -and feven books of the Iliad the fame year -and fifteen more in 1600.+ But I fhall reserve the account of this poet for a future period.

In 1577, was published a translation of The Clitophon and Leucippe of Achilles Tatius, a poetical novel of Greece, under the title of "The most delectable and plefant Historye of Clitophon and Leucippe from the Greek of Achilles Tatius, &c. by W. B." Lond. qu.

BARNABY GOOGE was educated at Chrift's College, in Cambridge, from whence he removed to Staples-Inn. In 1563 he published

Wart. p. 440. + Ibid p. 441..

"Eglogs,

"Eglogs, Epitaphs, and Sonnetes, newly written by Barnabe Googe, 15 Marche, for Rauve Newbury dwelling in Flete ftrete a little above. the Conduit in the late fhop of Thomas Berthelet," 12mo. On 18 April, 1565, he publifhed "The Zodiake of Life, written by the godly and learned poet Marcellus Pallingenius Stellatus, wherein are conteyned twelve bookes difclofing the haynous crymes and wicked vices of our corrupt nature: and plainlye declaring the plefaunt and perfit pathway unto eternall life, befides a number of digreffions both pleasaunt and profitable. Newly tranflated into English verfe by Barnabee Googe. Probitas laudatur et alget. Imprinted at London by Henry Denham for Rafe Newberye, dwelling in Fleetftreate." This poem, written by Marcello Palingeni, an Italian about 1531, has no aftronomical allufions, as might be fuppofed from its title, the author merely diftinguishing each of the twelve books of his poem by the name of a celeftial fign. It is a general fatire upon life, yet without peevishness, or malevolence; and with more of the folemnity of the cenfor, than the petulance of the fatirift. Much of the morality is couched under allegorical perfonages and adventures. The Latinity is tolerably pure, but there is a mediocrity in the verfification. Googe feems chiefly

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