The Occasions why this Worke was taken in hand. [BY SIR JOHN HARINGTON.] ABOUT the monthe of August last past, [A. D. 1606] his Majestie then being at Windsor, a Londoner of honest credit told me how a preacher in the citty had, with more zeale than discretion, (reprehending the spoylers of the Church, and such as gape for such spoyls) told withall how some lewd person had scatterd in divers places this ryme : Henry the 8. pulld down abbeys and cells, But Henry the 9. shall pull down Bishops and bells. This most reasonles ryme, borne away by the vulgar auditors better perhaps than any part of the text or sermon, hath bred since amongst divers men dyvers cogitations. The worst sort 3 Not printed in the editions of Dr. Chetwind and Mr. Harington; though subjoined as a postscript to the MS. copy of this production in the British Museum, marked Bibl. Reg. 17 B. xxii. It is here brought forward as a preface, in lieu of Dr. Chetwind's dedicatory epistle, on the recommendation of Mr. Malone. * i. e. ignorant, unlearned. NUGE ANTIQUE: BEING A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL PAPERS, IN PROSE AND VERSE; WRITTEN DURING THE REIGNS OF HENRY VIII. EDWARD VI. QUEEN MARY, BY SIR JOHN HARINGTON, KNT. And by others who lived in those Times. SELECTED FROM AUTHENTIC REMAINS BY THE LATE HENRY HARINGTON, M. A. AND NEWLY ARRANGED, WITH ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES, BY THOMAS PARK, F. S. A. VOL. II. We ought to judge of the editions of books as we judge of men ;---none are LONDON: Printed by J. Wright, Denmark-Court, Strand, FOR VERNOR AND HOOD, POULTRY, AND CUTHELL AND MARTIN, MIDDLE ROW, HOLBORN. 1804. ها |