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This book was really published by William 'umer, under the assumed name of W raghtoii ; Dd Dr. Cotton is decidedly of opinion, that the ook in question was not printed at Winclicster, or indeed in any part of England. The tvi'os re of Swiss make, similar to those of the (irst lition of Coverdale's Bible ; the spelliiii; is not Inglish ; the sentences printed in Roman letter luad on the title-page are made up with the othic w and y. Turner, the author, wa.s at lis time an exile on the continent on account of is religion, and had dated his first Hunting of v. Romithe Foxe, from Basil, only two yciirs efore. The phraseology of the colophon also eseires examination. It is evident that the ex- rcsion Imprinted have, is of German <ir Dutch liom, notof English: at Wineheiter may mean against the bishop of Winchester." (Gardiner): le printer's christian name is not Ju/ni !<ut lans (the German for John), and hil-prik is a ime which perhaps the author assumeil for the ike of shewing that he had not faile<l in his bject, but had succeeded in hitting tht: pricke, I mark. Uit-pricke, i. e. 6 roB vicov rvxiiv. Iiis rare and curious volume may be seen in the todleian library.
lant was committed to ward for printing the ipitaph cpon the Death of the moost Excellent id our late vertuoiu Queen Marie, deceased, rithout date. He had idso a privilege from tlie tationers' for printing the following ballads, 'hich were licenced to William Ryddall :
I. Oodlr Immes vaed In tbe Chnrch. J. Who are >o mery as they of low estate. ■ 3. The woaerb is trac yt weddyage is deatfiic.
- . The Robbery at Gadds hill.
5. Holde the Ancer faste. A. Be mery good Jone. 7. The pangs of Ixine.
The following are two other works printed by Uchard Lant, both without date : —
The A,B, C,with thePater-noster,Avo, Credc, lid Ten Commaundementtet in Englysshc, neiili/ faruiated and set forth as the kynges most i/rari/ous •ommaundement. It begins with five different Alphabets, and Gloria Patri; then, the Pater- loster, &c. grace before meat and after. It »ntains but one sheet. Quarto.
A copy of verses, beginning:
A'ctteme Will to Camell, and for himself alone, Utluragh he leodly lost, to knit up three in one. ^Hien calmely blowes the winde. and seas but by t he mouc. Iwl doode appereth none, to threaten born abcivc [Towelcomc chaunge of wether, with rage of stonncs loude, ^femistes their mantels sprcade,the sonne away t« > shroude, Ihe Maister idle sytte, and shipboyes stere the sterne, rhe course so rarelesse is, he lust it not goueme, &c.
Containing only two leaves, and at the end iigned, W. Watreman, 172 lines. Folio.
1647. Henrv Smyth resided in St.Clcment's prish, at the sign of the Holy Trinity without fempel Bar, in 1640. Ames states he was son- ffl-law to Robert Redman. He printed seven twoks, amongst which was an edition of Little- ton's Tenures, 1546, octavo. lustic of Peace, 1M5, octavo ; and the others also chiefly on law.
William Follinoham, or Follinoton, lived at Holy Well, in Shoreditch, where he printed for Richard Banks. All that is known of his productions is an exceedingly rare work entitled Analomi/ nf a Ilande, Sj-c. 1544, twelves.
15.57, Feb. 3 A Hundrcth good Pointes of lIiLibandrie. By ThonuLi Twiser. Imprinted at London, in Flele Strete, inthin Temple Darre, at the Signe nf the Ilaml and Starve, by Richard Tollel.
The first edition has these Hues in the title page, which do not appear in the subsequent ones:
" A hundieth good pointes of good husbandry, Maintaincth gfod househoUl with huswifry, Housckcpinff and liasbandry, if it be pood. Must love one another as cousincs in lilood ; The wife too must husband as well as the man. Or farewell thy husbandry, do what thou can."
The original letter from the author, " To the right honourable, and my special! good lord and maister, the lord Paget, difl'ers so exceedingly in the subsequent editions, that the curious reader will not be displeased at seeing it as it was first printed.
" The trnsh doth teach that tyme must serve However man doth blase his mynde. Of thynpes most lykc to thry vc or stervc. Much apt to jutl^^ is often biynde. And therefore tyme it doth bchcxjfe Shall make of trouth a perfect proofe.
Take you, ray Lord and Mayster then Unlesse iniscliaunce mischaunceth me. Such homely gif^ of your own man, Synce more in Court I may not be; Ami let your praise wonnc heretofore, Rctnayno abrodo for evermore.
My serving you thus understandc, And God his hclpc, and yours withall, Dyd cause good luckc to take myne hande. Erecting one most like to fall. My ser\'ing you, I know it was. Enforced this to come to passe.
But synce I was at Cambridge tou^ht. Of Court ten ycres 1 made a say ■, No musikc then was left unsought, A care 1 had to serve that way ; JVly joygan slake, then must 1 chaungc Exposed myrth for muslke straunge.
My niusike synce hath been the jdough, Entangled with some care among ; The gayn not great, the payn enough. Hath maite me syn)? aitotiicr song. And If 1 may my song avowe. No man 1 crave to judge but you.
Your servant,
Thomas Tusaer.
The first eighteen lines arc an acrostic, and form the words, Thomas Tussar made me.
Dr. Johnson derives the word Acrostic from the Greek, and says it is a poem in which the first letter of eveiy line being taken, makes up the name of the person or tiling on which the poem is wiitten. Mr. DTsraeli observes, that no ingenuity can make an acrostic ingenious. This is nothing more than a mechanical arrangement of tlie letters of a name, and yet this literary folly long prevailed in Europe.
In the above poem, we meet with perhaps the first exhibition of didactic poetry in this country.
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