That no vile tongue may spot her with disgrace, O let her rest in peace, that rul'd in peace, Now after death: but let her Graue inclose All but her good, and that it can not close. The success and advantages which would attend the union are again brought forward in some stanzas referring to the closer union of the two Crowns by the marriage of James the Fourth of Scotland with Margaret the daughter of Henry the Seventh, and granddaughter of Margaret Countess of Richmond, Henry's mother, which important event brought about in its issue the happy union of the two Kingdoms under one crown: Mourton B. of Ely first mooued the vnion to the Lady Margarét Countesse of Richmond. 51. How much hast thou bound all posterities As that the good successe that thereof came Shew'd well, that holy hands, clean thoughts, cleare harts, At the end of the Panegyrike Congratulatorie is a blank leaf, followed by "Poetical Epistles" to Sir Tho. Egerton, Knight, Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England, the Lord Henry Howard, The Lady Margaret Countesse of Cumberland, The Lady Lucie Countesse of Bedford, The Lady Anne Clifford, and to Henry Wriothesly Erle of Southampton. After these are some lines on "The passion of a distressed man, who being in a tempest on the Sea, and having in his boate two women, of whome he loued the one that disdained him, and scorned the other who affected him, was, by commandement of Neptune, to cast out one of them to appease the rage of the tempest, but which, was referred to his own choice." Then another blank leaf and a fresh title-page occurs: "A Defence of Ryme. Against a Pamphlet entituled Observations in the Art of English Poesie. Wherein is demonstratiuely prooued, that Ryme is the fittest Harmonie of wordes that comports with our Language. By Sa: D. At London Printed for Edward Blount. 1603." This "Defence of Ryme" was written by Daniel in answer to "Obseruations in the Art of English Poesie," a tract published in 1602 by Dr. Thomas Campion, a physician and a poet, who wrote several masques or musical entertainments, and endeavoured in this pamphlet to introduce the classical metres of Rome into English verse, and to abolish the use of rhyme, as "having deterred many excellent wits from the exercise of English Poetry." The answer by Daniel is considered to be a complete triumph over his opponent, and is written in a manly, sensible, and unaffected style. It was never replied to by his adversary, and while Campion's pamphlet is now exceedingly rare, the answer by Daniel has been frequently reprinted, and has usually accompanied the Poems of the author. In the Dedication of this tract, "To all the Worthie Louers and Learned Professors of Ryme within his Maiesties Dominions," Daniel states that "about a yeare since, vpon the great reproach giuen to the Professors. of Ryme, and the vse thereof," by Campion's attack, he "wrote a priuate letter in its defence to a learned Gentleman and great friend of his, then in Court. But now, seeing the times were more favourable and encouraging, he determined to publish it, under the patronage of a noble Earle, who in bloud and nature was interested to take his part in this cause." This was William Herbert Earl of Pembroke, who had been his pupil, and to whom the Defence of Ryme is addressed. "Hauing beene first incourag'd and fram'd to poetry," he remarks, "by his most worthy and honorable mother, and receiued the first notion for the formall ordering of those compositions at Wilton, which," says he, "I must euer acknowledge to haue beene my best Schoole, and thereof alwayes am to hold a feeling and gratefull memory." After many excellent and judicious remarks, and while giving all due honour to the learning and talents of his opponent, he argues: "Had our Aduersarie taught vs by his owne proceedings this way of perfection, and therein fram'd vs a Poeme of that excellence as should haue put downe all, and beene the maister-peece of these times, we should all haue admired him. But to depraue the present forme of writing, and to bring vs nothing but a few loose and vncharitable Epigrammes, and yet would make vs beleeue those numbers were come to raise the glory of our language, giveth us cause to suspect the performance, and to examine whether this new Arte constat sibi. or, aliquid sit dictum, quod non sit dictum prius." He acknowledges there are many things he could desire were more certaine and better ordered: wishes that there were not that multiplicity of Rymes as is vsed by many in Sonnets: thinks a Tragedie would best comporte with blanke verse, and dispense with Ryme, sauing in the Chorus or where a sentence shall require a couplet: and confesses that Ryme has been sometimes too frequently used, when blank verse might haue been adopted with better effect. And then in conclusion, filled with esteem and admiration for the labours of others, he nobly and manfully declares: "Therefore heere I stand foorth onelie to make good the place wee haue thus taken vp, and to defend the sacred monuments erected therein, which containe the honour of the dead, the fame of the liuing, the glory of peace, and the best power of our speach, and wherein so many honorable spirits haue sacrificed to Memorie their dearest passions, shewing by what diuine influence they haue beene mooued, and vnder what starres they liued." Mr. Collier in his Bibliogr. Cat. of the Bridgewater Library, p. 80, has noticed an edition of this work in folio, from the only known complete copy in that Collection, and which he supposes to have been printed on this size for presents, and given to the noble persons whom Daniel addresses in his Epistles. Mr. Collier has pointed out some variations in the text between that edition and the present. It appears also to have an additional titlepage before the Epistles, not inserted in the present, and some ornamental borders around them, not in this edition. The introductory dedication to the Earl of Hertford, and the Epistles to this nobleman, contained in the folio, are also wanting in the present edition. Both Campion's pamphlet and Daniel's Defence of Ryme have been reprinted by Mr. Haslewood in 1814, 4to, with some critical remarks in the Introduction; and the reader will find these works further noticed in Drake's Shakespeare and his Times, vol. i. pp. 468-9; in Collier's Hist. Dram. Poet., vol. i. p. 367, vol. iii. p. 254; and Bridgewater Catal., p. 82; Bibl. Angl. Poet., p. 192; and in Wood's Ath. Oxon., vol. ii. col. 270. From the Bibl. Heber. In Blue Morocco, gilt leaves. DANIEL, (SAMUEL.) — A Panegyrike Congratulatory deliuered to the King's most excellent maiesty at Burleigh Harrington in Rutlandshire. By Samuel Daniel. Also certaine Epistles. With a Defence of Ryme, heeretofore written, and now published by the Author. Carmen amat, quisquis carmine digna gerit. At London Printed by V. S. for Edward Blount. n.d. Folio, pp. 80. Since the preceding article was written, a copy of the folio edition of this work has come into the Editor's possession, which, having been printed, as is supposed, only for presents to the noble Patrons to whom the Epistles are addressed, is of such extreme rarity, that the account of the volume by Mr. Collier in the Bridg. Cat. p. 80, was written, as was then conjectured, "from the only known compiete copy of this edition." The volume has been so fully and particularly described by Mr. Collier in that catalogue that it will be sufficient here merely to note the variations between the present and the 8vo edition. These are the beautiful woodcut ornamental borders round the first and third title pages omitted in the latter edition — the alteration of the 30th stanza of the Panegyrike, not the 40th as Mr. Collier has stated-the omission of the marginal note to stanza 51, referring to Morton, Bishop of Ely, in the folio-in the 55th stanza, line 5, the word unmanly" in the 8vo for "unruly" in the folio-the entire want in the Svo edition of the title-page to the Epistles, with the date of 1603, in which the author states that they are "after the manner of Horace❞—and the dedicatory address "to Edward Seymour Earle of Hertford: concerning his question of a distressed man in a Boate upon the Seas," and the Epistle to this Nobleman, omitted in the 8vo edition. The present is a beautiful and complete copy of the folio edition of this interesting volume, and is bound by Bedford, In Dark Green Morocco, gilt leaves. DANIEL, (SAMUEL.) - The Works of Samuel Daniel. Newly augmented. Ætas prima canat veneres, postrema tumultus. London. Printed for Simon Waterson. 1602. Folio. This is the first collected edition of the complete works of Daniel, of which it appears that copies on large paper with the date of 1601 had been sent as presents to his patrons in that year. Mr. Collier has described one of these presented by Daniel to his patron Sir Thomas Egerton, the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, now in the Bridgewater collection, and accompanied by a highly interesting letter from Daniel, reprinted in the New Facts regarding the Life of Shakespeare, p. 52. From this letter it appears that the Lord Keeper had conferred upon his brother John Daniel some Patent office; and we know from another still more interesting letter also reprinted by Mr. Collier, p. 48, that he had procured for Daniel the office of Master of the Queen's Revels and Inspector of Plays. And it was to express his gratitude to his Patron for these kind offices that these letters were written. The title is within a large ornamental compartment, with the royal arms at the top, with the motto "Semper eadem" below them, which are repeated on the next page before the dedicatory Epistle “To her sacred Maiestie," four eight-line stanzas. This was Anne of Denmark, consort of James I., his patron, to whom he was afterwards appointed Gentleman Extraordinary, and one of the Grooms of the Privy Chamber. The contents of the volume are "The Civil Warres," in six books; the VOL. III. PART I. G |