"Hee that in words explaines a Frontispiece, Betrayes the secret trust of his Device: Who cannot guesse, where Mott's and Emblemes

be,

The drift, may still bee ignorant for me."

His work is dedicated to the Earl of Worcester, "all correspondance to his recollected'st thoughts. Sir," he proceeds, " I have heere sent you an Italian plant, translated to an English platte: whose flower will not appeare halfe so delightful to your smelling as the fruit will become useful for preserving. You shall here meet with an Author walking in an un-beat path. One, who discurtains the vices of that Time so smoothly, though smartly, as his continued Allegorie pleads his Apologie. A right Italian wit shal your honour find him, quick and spritely: and of eminent race and ranke in his country. And it is my joy, to addresse a worke so richly interveined with straines of wit and iudgement, to one, whom descent and desert have equally ennobled ; and who with so cleare and discerning a spirit can judge of it. Now, if this new dresse doe not become him, all that I can say in mine owne defence is this, and no other; there is great difference betwixt Taylor and Translator:" sure I am, that the loom is the same, if not the lustre; the stuffe the same, though not the colour: Wherein

Wherein He freely appeals to your Censure, who hath profest himselfe, &c.

"R. BRATHWAIT."

The translation printed for Benjamin Fisher in Aldersgate-street, 1635, of "Camden's Annales; or the history of the most renowned and victorious Princess Elizabeth, late Queen of England," has a frontispiece and title-page, which are curious illustrations of the custom of the times in literary matters.

The portrait is a half-length of the Queen, surrounded by clouds, a nimbus beams behind her, and a circle of stars are suspended over her head. She is dressed in the most extravagant ornaments, and holds a fan composed of feathers in her right hand the arms of England are near her head.

The title-page consists of a basement, six composite pillars, a frieze, and pediment; the latter has "Cadiz in Spain ransacked by the earl of Essex and Nottingham. Anno 1596; and St. John of Portarico taken from the Spaniard by the earl of Cumberland," represented on it: a phoenix rises from flames on the apex of the pediment, and the rose and crown with " eadem" fills the tympan; the intercolumniation holds the title; and wreaths of laurel and palm twined round the pillars make circles for shields of arms, and the names of those who bore them, 30

semper

in number; 7 others are placed on the cornice of the basement, and a map of South America fills a recess beneath it.

On the left is the burning of the Armada thus inscribed, "In the straits of Gibraltar was the invincible navy pretended, prevented and burned by Drake, 1587;" and on the right, "Albion's comfort, Iberia's terror. The famous overthrow of the Spanish navy the 30th year of the Q. R.” Both these plates are neatly engraved.

"To the honourable Reverend and Right Worshipful Sir John Branston Knight Lord chief Justice of his Majesty's Bench Sir William Jones Sir George Crooke Sir Robert BarcKley Knights the learned Judges of that Court.

"Licence me (I beseech your Reverend fatherhoods) with the contrite penitent: Ingeniously to acknowledge my error, which is over much presumption in undertaking, more in publishing, but most in thus presenting this my collection: But withal to appeal from the bar of rigour, to the board of favour, and thereat to obtain this extenuation of censure; that being it was begun with a good intent, prosecuted to a seeming good end, and is now in all befitting humbleness presented to procure protection, that I may pass without publick reprehension: And sithence words and writing are not real according as they are spoke or writ, but as they are approved by

others:

others: Let noble dispositions but make a favourable exposition of what is done: And then I am confident I shall untouched pass the pikes of scorn and reproof; In earnest expectation whereof, humble and hearty prayers to God, the giver of all good gifts for your long lives, in health and hearts ease here, and sempiternal happiness hereafter, shall not want daily to be poured out by him that hourly rests

"Your Lordships reallest in all service and duty "JOHN TRUSSELL."

"April 24. 1635 Perlegi hoc opus Hystoricum duobus voluminibus comprehensum, cui titulus, A continuation of the collection of the history of England, &c. quod quidem in toto continet folia 418. aut circiter, in quibus nihil reperio sanæ doctrinæ, aut bonis moribus contrarium, quo minùs cum utilitate publica imprimi possit Sub ea tamen conditione, ut si non intra triennium typis mandetur hæc licentia sit omnino irrita.

"GULIELMUS HAYWOOD CAPELL. dom. "R. R. P. Archiep. Cant."

Milton's Lycidas, 1637.

"Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past,
That shrunk thy streams; Return Sicilian Muse,
And call the Vales, and bid them hither cast
Their Bells, and Flourets of a thousand hues.

Ye Valleys low where the mild whispers use,
Of shades and wanton winds, and gushing brooks,
On whose fresh lap the swart Star sparely looks,
Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes,
That on the green terf suck the honied showres,
And purple all the ground with vernal flowres
Bring the rathe Primrose that forsaken dies,
The tufted Crow-toe, and pale Gessamine,
The White Pink, and the Pansie freakt with jeat
The Musk-rose, and the well attir'd Woodbine,
With Cowslips wan that hang the pensive head,
And every flower that sad embroidery wears:
Bid Amarantus all his beauty shed,

And Daffadillies fill their Cups with tears,
To strew the Laureat Herse where Lycid lies.”

"Recreations with the Muses by William earl of Sterline 1637." The border surrounding this title is remarkably laboured, ingenious, and, in some parts, elegant. Fourteen stanzas are addressed to his Sacred Majesty: the following is the last:

"Vnto the Ocean of thy worth I send

Those runnels, rising from a rash attempt;
Not that I to augment that depth pretend,
Which Heavens from all necessitie exempt

The