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eight copies, R. Hall, R. Hill, T. Marshall, Tho. Churchyard, beforementioned, Lodowyke Loyd, one Yloop, and feveral others.*

The most poetical of Edwards's ditties, inthe Paradife of Dainty Devifes," is a defcription of May. The reft are moral fentences in itanzas.t

Warton cites the following beautiful stanza from Edwards's fong in the above Collection, on Terence's apothegm of "Amantium iræ. amoris integratio eft."

In going to my naked bed, as one that would have flept,
I heard a wife fing to her child, that long before had wept:
She fighed fore, and fang full sweete, to bring the babe to reft,
That would not ceafe, but cried ftill, in fucking at her breast.
She was full wearie of her watch, and greeved with her childe;
She rocked it, and rated it, till that on her it fmilde.
Then did fhe fay, now have I found this proverbe true to prove,
The falling out of faithfull frendes, renuing is of love.

The close of the second stanza is prettily conducted.

"Then kiffed fhe her little Babe, and fware by God above

The falling out of faithfull frendes, renuing is of love."+ EDWARD VERE, XVIIth Earl of Oxford, was fon of John, the XVIth Earl, who died in 1562, by Margaret, daughter of John Golding. He was in his younger days a penfioner of St. John's College in Cambridge. His

* Wood's Ath. I. p. 152. † Wart. ut fupra, p. 285.-Geo. Turberville, and Thomas Twyne, wrote each, an elegy on Edwards. Wart, ut fupra, p. 297. || Wood's F. I. p. 99.

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youth was distinguished by his wit, by adroitnefs in his exercises, by valour and zeal for his country. Having travelled into Italy, he is recorded to have been the first that brought into England, embroidered gloves, and perfumes; and prefenting the Queen with a pair of the former, fhe was fo pleased with them, as to be drawn with them in one of her portraits. In 29 Eliz. he fat upon the trial of Mary Q. of Scots-and in 1588 was one of the chief perfons employed in the Fleet that was opposed to the Spanish Armada.

Being a friend of Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, it is faid by Dugdale, that he interceded with Lord Burleigh his father-in-law for his life, but not fucceeding, was fo enraged that he swore he would do all he could to ruin his daughter, (whom himself had married) and accordingly not only forfook her bed, but fold and confumed that great inheritance, that defcended from his ancestors, leaving very little for Henry, his fon and fucceffor-The authority he cites for this ftory is Camden in his Annals of Q. Elizabeth-but all that Camden fays, is, "that he was in a fair way to spend his estate" without affigning this caufe. If this ftory is true therefore, Dugdale has mistaken.

Royal and Noble Authors, I. p. 159. † Ibid.

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the authority, from which he learned it. But Collins fays it is certainly unfounded, for the eftate descended to his family.

He died at a good old age on 24 June 1604. His poetry was much admired in his own time. But all that I have yet feen, fays Anthony Wood, are certain poems on several subjects, thus entitled, I. "His good name being blemished, he bewaileth." II. "The complaint of a lover wearing black and tawnie." III. "Being in love, he complaineth." IV, "A lover rejected complaineth." V. "Not attaining to his defire, he complaineth." VI. "His mind not being quietly fettled, he complaineth" with many fuch.*

In the 2d Volume of Percy's Antient Ballads, is printed p. 178, a poem of his, entitled "Fancy and Defire"-fimple, easy, and elegant.

In turning over the pages of " England's Parnaffus, 1600," I have found but two extracts from the Earl of Oxford's poems, which are the following:

"BLISS."

"Doth forrow fret thy foul? O direful spirit;
Doth pleasure feed thy heart? O bleffed man,
Haft thou bene happie once? O heavy plight,
Are thy mishaps forepaft? O happie than:
Or haft thou bliffe in old? O bliffe too late:
But haft thou bliffe in youth? O fweet eftate "f

*Wood, F. I. p. 99. † p. 21.
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"LOVE."

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"Love is a difcord and a strange divorce,
Betwixt our fenfe and reft, by whofe power,
As mad with reafon we admit that force,
Which wit or labour never may divorce.
It is a will that broketh no confent,
It would refufe, yet never may repent.

-Love's a defire, which for to waight a time,
Doth lofe an age of yeares, and fo doth paffe,
As doth the fhadow fever'd from his prime,
Seeming as though it were, yet never was.

Leaving behind nought but repentant thoughts,
Of dayes ill spent, of that which profits noughts:
It's now a peace, and then a fudden warre,
A hope confumde before it is conceiv'd,
At hand it feares, and menaceth a farre,

And he that gaines is most of all deceiv'd.

Love whets the dulleft wits his plagues be fuch,
But makes the wife by pleasing, dote as much."*

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WILLIAM HUNNYS, was a gentleman of the chapel royal under Edw. Vl. and afterwards Master of the Boys of Queen Elizabeth's chapel royal-He had a grant of arms in 1568. Warton fays he rendered into rhyme many sele pfalms, which had not the good fortune to be rescued from oblivion by being incorporated into Hopkins's Collection, nor to be fung in the royal chapel. They were printed. in 1550 with this title "Certayne pfalmes chofen out of the pfalter of David and drawen furth into Englyfh meter by William Hunnis, fervant to the ryght honourable Syr William Harberd, Knight. Newly collected and im

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printed." But the following is the enumeration of Hunnis's works by Tanner. "The Pfalms of David tranflated into english metre by Thomas Sternhold, Sir Tho. Wyat, and William Hunnis, with certain chapters of the Proverbs, and felect pfalms, by John Hall, ded. to K. Edward VI. 4to."" William Hunnis's abridgment, or brief meditation on certain of the pfalms in English metre," printed by Rob. Wier, 8" His Hive full of Honey, containing the firft booke of Mofes, called Genefis, in English metre," printed by Tho. Marfh, 1578, 4to." Seven Sobs of a Sorrowful Soul for Sin, comprehending the feven penitential pfalms in metre," dedicated to Frances, Countess of Suffex.-"Handful of Honeyfuckles, fc. prayers to Chrift: bleffings out of Deuteron: XXVIII. Athanafius Creed: Meditations at morning, and night; &c." all in metre with tunes.-" Poor Widow's Myte, fc. feven meditations: paraphrafe on the Lord's Prayer, &c." dedicated to Q. Elizabeth "Dialogue between Chrift, and a Sinner." Printed by Rob. Yardley, 1591, Lond. 12mo. -1610, 24mo. To which is added at the end, "A chriftian Confeffion of the Trinity, and other prayers," in profe: but qu: whether thefe additions are by the fame author? "Recreations, containing Adam's Banishment: Christ

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