[457:A] Troia Britannica; or Great Britaine's Troy. A Poem divided into xvij sevrall Cantons, intermixed with many pleasant Poeticall Tales. Concluding with an Universall Chronicle from the Creation, untill these present Times. Written by Tho. Heywood. 1609.
[458:A] One of his specimens of "our Englishe reformed Versifying," as he terms it, is entitled Encomium Lauri, and commences thus:—
lines which Nash, in his Foure Letters confuted, 1593, has most happily ridiculed, representing Harvey walking under the "ewe-tree at Trinitie Hall," and addressing it in similar terms, and making "verses of weather cocks on the top of steeples, as he did once of the weather cocke of Allhallows in Cambridge:—
Vide Todd's Spenser, vol. i. p. xliii.
[459:A] See a copious and interesting account of the controversy between Nash and Harvey, in D'Israeli's Calamities of Authors, vol. ii. p. 1. ad 49.
[459:B] The Returne from Parnassus; or the Scourge of Simony, publiquely acted by the Students in St. John's College in Cambridge, 1606.—Vide Ancient British Drama, vol. i. p. 49.
[460:A] Wits Miserie And The Worlds Madnesse. Discovering the Devils incarnate of this Age. 1596.—Vide Beloe's Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books, vol. ii. p. 164, 165.
[462:A] For a further and more minute account of James's "Essayes," I refer the reader to Pinkerton's Ancient Scotish Poems, vol. i. p. cxix.; to Park's Royal and Noble Authors, vol. i. p. 120; to Censura Literaria, vol. ii. p. 364; and to Beloe's Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books, vol. i. p. 230.
[463:A] Spenser's Works apud Todd, vol. i. p. 161. See also, vol. i. p. vii. and p. clviii.
[463:B] One in the King's Library, one in the late Mr. Malone's collection, and one purchased by the Marquis of Blandford, at the Roxburgh Sale, for 64l.!
[464:A] Vide Nash's "Four Letters Confuted," and his "Have with ye to Saffron-Walden," and D'Israeli's Calamities of Authors, vol. i.
[464:B] Vide Oldys's British Librarian, p. 86, and Beloe's Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books, vol. i. p. 234.
[464:C] Warton's History of English Poetry, vol. iii. p. 406.
[465:A] Warton's History, vol. iii. p. 275.
[465:B] "Mr. Wanley, in his Catalogue of the Harley Library, says he had been told, that Edm. Spencer was the author of that book, which came out anonymous." Vide Todd's Spenser, vol. i. p. clviii.
[465:C] Wood's Athenæ Oxon. edit. 1691. vol. i. col. 184.
[466:A] Haslewood's Reprint, 1811. p. xi.
[466:B] Censura Literaria, vol. i. p. 339.
[467:A] Haslewood's Puttenham, p. x.
[468:A] "The Schole of Abuse; containing a pleasant invective against poets, pipers, players, jesters, &c. and such like caterpillars of the commonwealth, by Ste. Gossen, Stud. Oxon. dedicated to M. Philip Sidney, Esquier, 1579."
[468:B] "Palladis Tamia. Wits Treasury. Being the second part of Wits Common Wealth. By Francis Meres, Maister of Artes of both Universities. Vivitur ingenio, cætera mortis erunt. At London printed by P. Short, for Cuthbert Burbie, and are to be solde at his shop at the Royall Exchange. 1598." Small 8vo. leaves 174. We are under many obligations to Mr. Haslewood for reprinting the whole of the "Comparative Discourse" in the ninth volume of the Censura Literaria, as it must necessarily be to us a subject of frequent reference.
[469:A] Chalmers's English Poets, vol. iii. p. 558, 559.
[470:A] Warton's History of English Poetry, vol. iii. p. 278.
[470:B] Hypercritica. Addresse iv. sect. 3. p. 237.
[470:C] Warton's History, vol. iii. p. 275.
[470:D] Bibliographia Poetica, p. 135.
[472:A] Reed's Shakspeare, vol. vi. p. 62, 63. Act ii. sc. 3.
[473:A] Wilson's Art of Rhetoric, p. 167, and Chalmers's Apology, p. 160.
[475:A] Meres's Palladis Tamia, in Censura Literaria, vol. ix. p. 46.
[476:A] A notable history of the Saracens. Lond. 4to. 1575.
[476:B] An historical collection of the continued factions, tumults, and massacres of the Romans before the peaceable empire of Augustus Cæsar. Lond. 1600. 8vo. 1601. 4to.
[478:A] Fuller's Worthies of England, part iii. p. 31.
[479:A] Fuller's Worthies, part iii. p. 167, 168.
[479:B] Bishop Nicolson's Historical Library, vol. i. p. 8.
[480:A] De Rebus Albionicis, Britannicis atque Anglicis Commentariorum, lib. duo. Lond. 1590. 8vo.
[481:A] Fuller's Worthies, part i. p. 205.
[482:A] Granger's Biographical History of England, 2d edit. 1775. vol. i. p. 222.
[485:A] As Batman's Bartholome, continues Mr. Douce, "is likely hereafter to form an article in a Shakspearean Library, it may be worth adding that in a private diary written at the time the original price of the volume appears to have been eight shillings."—Illustrations, vol. i. p. 9.
I have lately seen a copy of Batman, marked, in a Sale Catalogue, at three guineas and a half!
[486:A] Beloe's Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books, vol. i. p. 260-274.
[487:A] We are much obliged to Dr. Nott, for a most elegant reprint of this interesting tract; the accompanying notes are highly valuable and illustrative.
[487:B] Vide Warton's Hist. of English Poetry, Fragment of vol. iv. p. 28-64.
[488:A] For a catalogue of these, as far as they have hitherto been discovered, we refer the reader to Mr. Beloe's Anecdotes of Literature, vol. ii., and to Censura Literaria, vol. viii.
[488:B] In his pamphlet, entitled The Repentance of Robert Greene, he informs us, that "wags as lewd" as himself "drew him to march into Italy and Spaine," where he "saw and practised such villanie as is abhominable to declare."
[489:A] See Gilchrist's Examination of the Charges of Ben Jonson's enmity to Shakspeare, p. 22.
[489:B] Beloe's Anecdotes of Literature, vol. ii. p. 180.
[490:A] Censura Literaria, vol. viii. p. 11, 12.
[491:A] From Greene's Farewell to Follie. Vide Beloe's Anecdotes, vol. vi. p. 7.
[491:B] We learn these circumstances—his having squandered his paternal inheritance and his marriage portion—from his two tracts, Never Too Late, and Repentance, where all the prominent events of his life are detailed.
[491:C] Oldys says, that "he left his wife, for her good advice, in the year 1586." Berkenhout's Biographia Literaria, p. 390. note d.
[491:D] See Censura Literaria, vol. viii. p. 13.
[491:E] Berkenhout, p. 390. note d.
[492:A] "Never Too Late." See Censura Literaria, vol. viii. p. 15.
[493:A] Greene's Arcadia, 1587. Beloe's Anecdotes, vol. ii. p. 191.
[493:B] Berkenhout's Biographia Literaria, p. 389. note b.
[494:A] Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses, vol. i. col. 136.
[494:B] History of English Poetry, Fragment of vol. iv. p. 81.
[494:C] Act ii. sc. 3.
[494:D] Vide New and choice Characters of severall Authors, together with that exquisite and unmatcht poeme, The Wife; written by Syr Thomas Overburie. Lond. 1615. p.
[494:E] His "trifling pamphlets of Love," as he himself terms them, (see Repentance of Robert Greene,) we shall not notice; but there are two, under the titles of "Penelope's Webb," and "Ciceronis Amor," which deserve mention, as exhibiting many excellent precepts and examples for the youth of both sexes.
[496:A] Vide Beloe's Anecdotes of Literature, vol. vi. p. 9.
[497:A] Never Too Late, part ii. See Censura Literaria, vol. viii. p. 135, 136.
[497:B] Wood's Athenæ Oxon. vol. i. p. 137.
[498:A] Four Letters and Certaine Sonnets. Especially touching Robert Greene, and other Poets by him abused. Lond. 1592. Vide Beloe's Anecdotes, vol. ii. p. 201, 202.
[499:A] Vide D'Israeli's Calamities of Authors, vol. ii. p. 17, 18.
[500:A] This article has been chiefly drawn up from documents afforded by Wood, Berkenhout, Beloe's Anecdotes of Literature, D'Israeli, and the Censura Literaria. The extracts selected from his pamphlets by Mr. Beloe, in the opening of his sixth volume, will enable the reader to form a pretty good estimate of the poetical genius of Greene.
[500:B] Wood's Athenæ Oxon. vol. i.
[501:A] Warton's Hist. of English Poetry, vol. iii. p. 288. note t.
[502:A] Dibdin's Bibliomania, p. 366, 367, and note.
[502:B] Anatomie of Abuses, sig. P, p. 7.
[504:A] Ancient British Drama, vol. i. p. 49.
[505:A] For catalogues of Fleming's Works, see Herbert's Typographical Antiquities; Warton's Hist. of English Poetry, vol. iii. p. 402 ad 405. Tanner's Bibliotheca, p. 287, 288, and Censura Literaria, No. viii. p. 313, et seq.
[505:B] Censura Literaria, vol. ii. p. 218.
[506:A] As no complete catalogue of this ingenious author's productions is to be found in any one writer, I have thought it desirable to endeavour to form one, noticing only the first editions, when ascertained, and referring, for the full titles, to the works cited at the close of this note.
Numerous editions of many of these works, with alterations in the title-pages, were published to the year 1700. See Censura Literaria, vol. ii. p. 217-225. Ritson's Bibliographia Poetica, p. 273, 274. Beloe's Anecdotes of Literature, vol. ii. p. 244, et seq. and vol. ii. p. 339. Bridges's Theatrum Poetarum, p. 278-285. Biographia Dramatica. British Bibliographer, No. iv. p. 380, 381. Warton's Hist. of Engl. Poetry, vol. iii. p. 485.
[508:A] See Chalmers's Life of Ruddiman, 8vo. p. 106. Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. iv. p. 34, and Andrew's History of Great Britain, vol. i. p. 145, 156.
[509:A] Act ii., at the close.
[509:B] Fuller's Worthies, p. 359.
[509:C] "The Fraternitye of Uacabondes," 1565, and "A Caveat for common Cursetors vulgarely called Uagabones, set forth by Thomas Herman, Esq." 1567.
[510:A] Three editions were probably published in 1614; for Mr. Capel, in his Prolusions, 8vo., notices one in 8vo., and one in 4to. stated in the title-page to be the fourth. Vide Bliss's edition, of the Microcosmography, p. 258, and Censura Literaria, vol. v. p. 363.
[510:B] Cursory Remarks on Ancient English Poets, 1789. p. 27, et seq.
[511:A] For an accurate Catalogue of the various Writers of Characters to the year 1700, consult Bliss's edition of Earle's Microcosmography, 1811.
[512:A] Censura Literaria, vol. ix. p. 168.
[512:B] Bacon's Works, folio edit. 1740, vol. iv. p. 586.
[513:A] British Bibliographer, No. VI. p. 49. 51.
[515:A] British Bibliographer, No. VIII. p. 272, 273.
[515:B] Nugæ Antiquæ, vol. i. p. xi. edit. 1804.
[515:C] Reed's Shakspeare, vol. vii. p. 187. Act v. sc. 2.
[516:A] Nugæ Antiquæ, vol. i. p. 239, 240.
[517:A] Part II. chap. i.