་་ * Patre, Sinuque tuo, Mysteria scrinio in imo -5 Per quos Spiritu et Almifluo scriptis dictando sacravit. 80 Quod verbum manet usque potens, semperque manebit, Contra omnes hostes, adversus denique portas Inferni; mortem, peccatum dæmona pellens. Fasciolis involvebantur membra tenella Et loris constrictus erat, deductus ad hostes 100 Qui nos a Sathanæ vinclis exolvit et Orci: Parce, precor, Jesu, non vincula fasciolæque Sic, ut et hæc servent; sunt libera ut ante fuerunt. 110 Fasciolæ faciles, et vincula mollia sic te, 120 Diceris, esque simul tuus est hic Sermo tuumque 130 Est Evangelium, Verbum vitæque perennis: Spiritus et tu Sancte Deus, dictator es ejus. Trinæ vos Diæ personæ, Tu Deus une : Est opus hoc vestrum : vestrum dicamne? tuumve? Utrumque est verum. Nec Apostoli erant nisi scribæ, Huic Evangelio tu Doctor, et author es une. Textum vertentes in linguas post alienas, Namque ego quod feci tantillum, nil ego fèci, 140 Quam quod debui, et expetii. Dignabere, saltem, Omne tuæ. Placeat; dic verbum: cætera salva. Te colo, te recolo, te prædico, temet adoro, 150 Atque tuum per eum verbum stabilito, propaga. 154 Amen." The extract which Mr. Beloe has given from chapter v." is from chapter V. of the Gospel of St. Matthew: the numeration of the chapters recommencing of course with each Gospel. In the preface to the reader the more pious than poetical bishop gives a full account of his design and motives. He begins thus: "In nova fert animus, Divini oracula Verbi Ordine, si placeat, salvo remanente priori.” At about the ninetieth verse he thus expresses his views. "En, nova, lector amice, tibi tralatio facta, In quâ vulganda, si feci audacius ecquid; ART. CXX. A prophesie of Cadwallader, last king of the Britaines containing a Comparison of the English kings, with many worthy romanes: from Willm. Rufus till Henry the fift. Henry the fift, his life and death. Foure battles betweene the houses of Yorke and Lancaster. The Field of Banbery. The losse of Elizabeth. The praise of King James. And lastly, a Poeme to the young Prince. London, Printed by T. Creed for R. Jackson, 1604. 4to. THE Dedication to this Historical Miscellany, is addressed to the no less vertuous than honourable Gentleman, Sir Philip Herbert, Knight of the Bath, and is signed, William Herbert, who thus apostrophizes Elizabeth: Bright gem of honour! Albion's glorious starre! Princess of Peace! Cytherean queen of warre! Rides through the clouds on her celestial bier, r ART. CXXI. Albion's England. A continued historie of the same kingdome from the originals of the first inhabitants thereof: with most the chiefe alterations and accidents theare hapning, unto and in the happie raigne of our now most gracious Soveraigne, Queene Elizabeth. Not barren in varietie of inventive and historicall intermixtures. First penned and published by William Warner: and now revised and newly inlarged by the same author: whereunto is also newly added an Epitome of the whole Historie of England. London, printed by Edm. Bollifant for George Potter, and are to be sold at his shop in Paule's Churchyard, at the signe of the Bible, 1602. 4to. pp. 398, besides Epistle, Address to the Reader, and Contents. THIS once celebrated poem, first published 1586, and of which there were several intermediate editions, is dedicated by Warner, (for an account of whom see Percy's Ballads, I. 311. II. 238, &c.) * to his patron, Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon. The poem begins with these four lines, "I tell of things done long agoe, of many things in few; And chiefly of this clime of ours the accidents pursue, Thou high Director of the same, assist mine artlesse penne, To write the gests of Brutons stout, and actes of Englishmen." It consists of 13 books, and 79 chapters. The Epitome of the History of England is in prose. ART. CXXII. "Microcosmos. The Discovery of the Little World, with the government thereof. Manilius. An mirum est habitare Deum sub pectore nostro ? Exemplumque Dei quisque est sub imagine parva. See also Wart. H. E. P. 111, 474, Theatr. Poet. 215. Ritts. Bibl. Po. 384. |