FORD-FRAUNCE. FORD, JOHN. The Broken Heart. 19 The Broken Heart. A Tragedy. Acted By the King's Majesties Seruants at the priuate House in the Black-Friers. Fide Honor. London, Printed by I. B. for Hugh Beeston, and are to be sold at his Shop, neere the Castle in Corne-hill. 1633. 4to. [1st Edition.] A, 3 leaves; B-K, in fours. Title, A 1; Dedication to William, Lord Craven, Baron of Hamsteed-Marshall, A 2; "The Sceane, Sparta," with "The Speakers names and Prologue, A 3. Ford's first efforts as a writer for the stage were made in unison with Webster and Dekker. He has been edited by Hartley Coleridge, and has attracted the attention of other literary men. Charles Lamb ranks him with the first order of poets; it would be curious therefore to know whom he would put in the second and third. Hallam remarks that he has the power over tears, for he makes his readers sympathize even with his vicious characters. An unknown contemporary has left a trait of Ford's appearance and reserved de meanour: "Deep in a dump John Ford alone was got, With folded arms and melancholy hat." As early as his eighteenth year he published a poem entitled "Fame's Memorial," a tribute to the memory of Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy and Earl of Devonshire, but it was of inferior quality and small promise. Thomas May said gracefully of Ford: Vellum. ""Tis said, from Shakespeare's mine your play you drew, But grant it were from his vast treasure reft, *FRAUNCE, ABRAHAM. The Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch. Conteining the affectionate life, and vnfortunate death of Phillis and Amyntas : That in a Pastorall; This in a Funerall: both in English Hexameters. By Abraham Fravnce. London. Printed by Thomas Orwyn for William Ponsonby, dwelling in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of the Bishops head. 1591. 4to. A-M, in fours. Title, within woodcut border, A 1; Dedication, A 2; in this Fraunce states: "I have somewhat altered S. Tassoes Italian, & M. Watsons Latine Amyntas, to make them both one English." [This page has "George Slinger" written in a contemporary hand.] "The first part, etc.," A 3-F 4. "The second part, etc.," G 1-L2, verso blank. "The Lamentation of Corydon, for the loue of Alexis, verse for verse out of Latine," L 3-4, verso blank. "The beginning of Heliodorus his Ethiopical History," M 1-3 verso. Errata, M 4. [Three out of four are printed correctly in the text.] On Hi is a curious Note by way of reply to a criticism of another work of Fraunce, "The Lawyers Logic," 1588. [In this latter volume "The Lamentation of Corydon" was first printed, Bk. 2, fol. 121, verso.] The Countess of Pembroke's Ivy Church was published under the name of "The Lamentations of Amyntas for the death of Phillis," etc., in the year 1587; other editions appeared in 1588 and 1589. This copy of 1591 is the 1st edition therefore of the book with the present title and the 4th edition of the text. The Countesse of Pembrokes Emanuel. Conteining the Natiuity, Passion, Buriall, and Resurrection of Christ: together with certaine 20 Psalmes of Dauid. FRAUNCE-GREENE. All in English Hexameters. By Abraham Fravnce. Imprinted at London, for William Ponsonby, dwelling in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of the Bishop's head. 1591. 4to. A-E 3. Title, within woodcut border, A1; Dedication, A2; The Natiuity, A 3-B 2; The Passion, etc., B 3-D 2; Certain Psalms, D 2 verso-E 3 verso. Formerly in the possession of Mr. T. Park, whose MS. extracts of Hexameter Translations from Wm. Webbe's "Discourse of English Poetrie," 1586, three leaves, are bound at end of the volume. George Peele, in the Poem of the Order of the Garter, n.d. (1593), calls Fraunce “a peerless sweet translator of our time." Light Blue Mor., tooled back, panelled sides, g. e., with Countesse of Pembroke's Yuychurch. *FRAUNCE, ABRAHAM. The Third Part of the Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch: Entituled, Amintas Dale. Wherein are the most conceited tales of the Pagan Gods in English Hexameters: together with their auncient descriptions and Philosophicall explications. By Abraham Fravnce. [Greek quotation.] At London Printed, for Thomas Woodcocke, dwelling in Paules Churchyeard, at the signe of the blacke Beare. 1592. 4to. A-Q2, in fours. Title, within woodcut border, AI; Dedication, A2; + folios 60 (7 printed for 5, 15 for 16, 17 for 18, 32 for 39, 34 for 42). 66 'Yuychurch is variously printed in headlines as "Yuychurch," "Yuychurche," “Yuichurch,” and “Yuichurche." [Title, dedication, and last 2 leaves in facsimile.] This is one of the rarest of Elizabethan poetical books. Of the third part only five perfect copies are known, viz.: Mr. Huth's, two at Britwell, that sold at the Gaisford sale in 1890, and the one in the British Museum, which is badly cropped. A note by Mr. Thomas Park, to whom this book belonged, as to the rarity of the "third part," is on the fly-leaf. "It was purchased by the Duke of Roxburghe from the library of [William] Herbert." A letter from the Duke of Roxburghe to Mr. Park inserted, dated from St. James's Square, April 11th, 1803. Light Blue Mor., tooled back, panelled sides, g. e. VVherein vnder a GREENE, ROBERT. The Spanish Masquerado. pleasant deuise, is discouered effectuallie, in certaine breefe sentences and Mottos, the pride and insolencie of the Spanish estate: with the disgrace conceiued by their losse, and the dismaied confusion of their troubled thoughtes. Whereunto by the Author, for the better vnderstanding of his deuice, is added a breefe glosse. By Robert Greene, in Artibus Magister. Twelve Articles of the state of Spaine. The Cardinals sollicite all. The Pope determines all. The Cleargie disposeth all. The Duke of Medina hopes for all. Alonso receiues all. GREENE. The Indians minister all. The Souldiours eat all. The people paie all. The Monkes and Friers consume all. And the deuill at length wil cary away all. 21 ¶ Printed at London by Roger Ward, for Thomas Cadman. 1589. 4to. B. L. [1st Edition.] A-E, in fours. This book was not reprinted. Title, AI; Dedication to "Hvgh Ofley, Sheriffe of the Citie of London," with Sonnet in French by T. Lodge on verso, A 2; Preface, "To the Gentltmen Readers," A 3 recto, "The Spanish Masquerado with the Mottos," A 3 verso-4, verso blank. The work, B-E4. Greene "To the Gentlemen Readers" says, "Hitherto gentlemen I have written of loves. . . now . . . I have adventured to discover my conscience in Religion." Greene was a dissolute wretch, and confessed his debaucheries in "The Repentance of Robert Greene" (1592). Hallam says that Greene succeeds “in that florid and gay style, a little redundant in images, which Shakespeare frequently gives to his princes and courtiers, and which renders some unimpassioned scenes in the historic plays effective and brilliant." Professor Tieck says he has "a happy talent, a clear spirit, and a lively imagination," qualities which Tieck himself enjoyed in no little degree-witness the latter's "Volksmärchen." "Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay" is said by some to be his best comedy. Mr. Collier thinks this was one of the last instances of the devil being brought upon the stage in propria persona. Greene was buried in the New Churchyard near Bedlam [its site is now covered by the North London Railway terminus in Broad Street], the cost of his funeral being 6s. 4d. Harvey says Greene's corpse was decked by the cordwainer's wife with "a garland of bays, pursuant to his last request ! Calf. GREENE, ROBERT. [Ciceronis Amor. Tvllies Love. Wherein is discoursed, the prime of Ciceroes youth, setting out in liuely Portraitures, how yong gentlemen, that ayme at Honour, should leuell the end of their affections, holding the loue of Countrey and friends in more esteeme, then those fading blossomes of beautie, that onely feede the curious suruey of the eye. A worke full of pleasure, as following Ciceroes vaine, who was as conceited in his youth, as Graue in his Age, profitable, as contayning precepts worthy so famous an Orator. Robert Greene. In artibus Magister. Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit vtile dulci. London Printed by W. Stansby for John Smethwicke and are to be sold at his shop in S. Dunstanes Church-yard Vnder the Dyall. 1616.] 4to. B. L. A-K, in fours. [This copy wants Title, A 1; Dedication to Lord Strange, A 2; Address by Greene and Commendatory Verse by T. Watson, G. B., T. Burneby, and E. Rainsford, A 3-4. Also I 4-K 4.] It differs from the rare edition of 1609, in the 1886 Catalogue of the Rowfant Library, on line 6, sig. E 2, which reads: "I found one orient"; this edition and that of 1611 has "I found out one orient." It was Greene who wrote the following not wholly worthless lines— "Sweete are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crowne: 22 Paper cover. HAWES-HERBERT. Sweete are the nights in carelesse slumber spent, [Greene's Farewell to Follie.] HAWES, STEPHEN. The History of graund Amoure and la bel Pucel called the Pastime of pleasure, conteynyng the Knowledge of the seuer sciences, and the course of mans lyfe in this worlde. Inuented by Stepher Hawes, grome of Kyng Henry the seuenth, his chamber Anno domin 1555. B. L. 4to. A-C c 3 in fours. Signatures, A a iii printed A iii; Cc printed "C". Title, within decorated border, A1; Table of Contents starts on verso of A1 to A ii [46 chapters are given; this copy wants 43-46]. "This boke called the pastyme of pleasure was made and compyled by Stephen Hawes one of the gromes of the most honorable chambre of our souerayne lorde Kynge Henry the seventh. The xxi yere of his most noble reygne, chapitred and marked after the Table here before sette." At foot of same page begins the Dedication in verse to King Henry VII., A 2 verso-3. There are woodcut illustrations on A4, C2, repeated on A a 2 verso, D 1, repeated on D3 verso, EI; K 3, M 3, repeated on Z 3; N 1 verso, N4, O I verso, P I verso, P 4, R 4, T2, UI, ZI, Z 4 verso, B b 1, Bb2, Bb 3, Cc 1, Cc 2. This was the poet Gray's copy, whose autograph is on the Title-page besides marginal notes on the text. Gray has written on the fly-leaf, “This Poem was printed (I believe) for the first time in 1517, 4to by Wynkyn De Worde, the 2nd Edit" in 1554 by S. Wayland, 4to; & this is the 3rd Edition. It was written in the 21st year of K. Henry 7th (wch is 1506) 47 years before Spencer was born, & above 50 years after the death of Lydgate, whose praises the Author celebrates in his Proëme, addressed to the King; also in Canto 11 [G1] & 12 [G4]. N. B. I am informed, there are three more editions of this work all in 4to, black letter, viz 1535, 1544 & 1550 so that this is the 6th ̧” Hawes wrote besides, "The Temple of Glasse," "The Conversion of Swerers," and "The Pass Tyme of Pleasure." Original Vellum. HERBERT, GEORGE. The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. By Mr. George Herbert. Psal. 29.. In his Temple doth every man speak of his honour. Cambridge: Printed by Thom. Buck, and Roger Daniel, printers to the Universitie. 1633. 12mo. [2nd issue of 1st Edition.] T, 6 leaves; A-H, in twelves. Title and "The Printers to the Reader," 3 leaves; Titles of the severall poems, 2 leaves; Dedication, I leaf; The Poems, pp. 1-192. Inserted are the following lines written in the hand of Frederick Locker: "Know you, Fair, on what you look? Divinest love lies in this book, Expecting fire from your eyes To kindle this his sacrifice. When your hands untie these strings One that gladly would be nigh HOLBEIN-LOVELACE. To flutter in the balmy air Of your well perfumed prayer. These white plumes of his he'll lend you, To take acquaintance of the sphere, And all the smooth faced kindred there!" [Richard Crashaw, "On Mr. G. Herbert's Temple," Steps to the Temple.] 23 A posthumous volume. The first and undated [1631] issue is said to have consisted of a few presentation copies printed at Little Gidding by Nicholas Ferrar, Herbert's literary executor, before publication and license at Cambridge. The title Herbert had given his MS. was "The Church," which Ferrar changed to "The Temple." There was a trifling delay in publication; the licenser at first refused to allow lines 25 and 26 on p. 190: "Religion stands on tip-toe in our land, Readie to passe to the American strand." Herbert was the intimate friend of Sir Henry Wotton and Dr. Donne, and admired by several distinguished men. Bacon dedicated to him his translation of some of the Psalms"It being,” as he says, his "manner for dedications to choose those that I hold most fit for the argument." When Cowper was struggling with the fiend of melancholy he wrote: "Day and night I was on the rack; lying down in horror, and rising up in despair. . . . The classics had no longer any charms for me. . . . At length I met with Herbert's Poems; and, Gothic and uncouth as they were, I yet found in them a strain of piety which I could not but admire. This was the only author I had any delight in reading. I pored over him all day long; and, though I found not here what I might have found,- -a cure for my malady, -yet never seemed so much alleviated as while I was reading him." High tribute to Herbert. Drab Mor., tooled back, g. e. HOLBEIN, HANS. Icones Mortis, Dvodecim Imaginibus præter priores, totidemque inscriptionibus, præter epigrammata è Gallicis à Georgio A Emylio in Latinum versa, cumulatæ. Qvæ his addita sunt, sequent pagina commonstrabit. Basilea, 1554. 8vo. A-L, in eights. Title with Index on verso, A 1; Ad Lectorem Christianvm, A 2; from A 3-D 5 recto are 53 woodcuts, 2 × 2 in. in centre of text, by Holbein ; Medicina animæ, D6-H 1; Ratio & Methodus consolandi, H 2-I 2; Sermo De Mortalitate, I 3-K 5; Oratio ad Deum, K 5 verso-K 6 recto; Oratio ad Christvm, K 6 verso-K 7 recto; Sermon D. Ioannis Chrysostomi, K 7 verso-K 8, verso blank. Crim. Mor. by Capé, richly tooled in the style of Grolier; with bookplate of Francis, 2nd Earl of Kilmorey. LOVELACE, RICHARD. Lucasta. Posthume Poems of Richard Lovelace Esq: London, Printed by William Godbid for Clement Darby. 1659. Sm. 8vo. [Since the printing of the 1886 Catalogue of the Rowfant Library the rare genuine portrait by Hollar has been added to the book.] Anthony Wood describes Lovelace at the age of sixteen "as the most amiable and beautiful person that eye ever beheld; a person also of innate modesty, virtue, and courtly deportment, which made him then, but especially after, when he retired to the great city, much admired and adored by the female sex." The title "Lucasta" was derived from the "lady of his love," Miss Lucy Sacheverell, whom he used to call Lux Casta. His love, |