Done into English by the translatour for his last farewel too the sayd Virgil."

It was this detached version which supplied most of the passages ridiculed by Nash, in the following couplet :

"Then did he make heaven's vault to rebounde with rounce robble hobble,

Of ruffe raffe roaring, with twick thwack thurlery bouncing."

But it is not the description of a tempest in which they occur: it is in the detail of Vulcan's work-shop, from which Nash might have strengthened the force of his gibe by further citation, as the ensuing extract will shew:

"T'ward Sicil is seated, to the welkin loftily peaking, A soyl, ycleapt Liparen, from whence, with flownce fury? slinging,

Stoans and burlye bulets, like tamponds, maynelye be towring.

Under is a kennel, wheare chimneyes fyrye be scorching Of Cyclopan tosters, with rent rocks chamferye sharded, Lowd dub a dub tabering, with frapping rip rap of Etna," &c.

He then describes Brontes and Steropes, with bare limbed swarty Pyracmon, "upbotching, not shapte but partlye wel onward,

"A clapping fier bolt (such as oft, with rownce robel hobble, Jove to the ground clattreth) but yeet not finnished holye. Three showrs, wringlye wrythen, glimring, and forciblye sowcing;

Three watrie clowds, shymring, toe the craft they rampired hizzing;

Three wheru's fierd glystring, with south wynds rufflered

huffling.

Now doe they rayse gastly lightnings, now grislye reboundings

Of ruffe raffe roaring, men's harts with terror agrysing, With peale meale ramping, with thwick thwack sturdilye thundring."*

But it is time to take leave of our translator, where he did of his author, and proceed to the original compositions, &c.

5. The lover long sought unto by his friend, at last repayreth to her presence; and after a few meetings, smelling the drift of the mother, which earst hee did forecast, to tend to the preferring of her daughter in marriadge, refrayneth the gentlewoman's company, though eftsoones to the contrarie sollicited, as one unwilling to marry at al, and very loath to mar so curteous a dame ;-and therefore for the preservation of her honoure, and to avoyd the encoumbraunce of love, hee curbeth affection with discretion, and thus

This has likewise incurred the sensible rebuke of Bishop Hall: "If Jove speak English in a thundring cloud,

Thwick thwack, and riff raff roars he out aloud;

Fie on the forged mint that did create

New coin of words, never articulate."

VIRGIDEM, LIB. I. Sat. vi.

descanteth on the playne song. (This also is hexametrical, as are nearly all the following which are in English.)

6. An endevoured Description of his Mistresse. (Eng.)

7. His Devise written in his Mistresses booke.

(Lat.)

8. The same Englished.

9. Three especial giftes wherein his Mystresse excelleth. (Eng.)

10. Of a craking Cutter,* extracted out of Syr Thomas Moore his Latin epigrams. (Eng.) 11. Of a tempest, quayling + certeyn passengers; borowed of the same Syr Thomas Moore. (Eng.)

12. Hesperus his confession; written in Latin by the said Sir Thomas Moore. (Eng.) 13. Of Tyndarus, that frumped‡ a gentlewoman for having a long nose; delivered by the former author in Latine. (Eng.)

14. Syr Thomas Moore his receipt for a strong breath: translated out of his Latin epigrams. (Eng.)

"Here ensue certaine Epitaphes, framed as wel in Latin as English.

1. An epitaph devised upon the death of the Right Hon. James Earle of Ormond and Ossorie,

1

Craking Cutter seems to designate a braggadocio, or Captain Bobadil: or, in our translator's dialect," a Thrasonical huff snuffe." + Quayling is sinking into dejection. See Reed's Shaksp. XIV. 77. To frump is to flout. Teut.

who deceased at Elie-house in Holborne about the year 1546, the xviii of October; and lieth buried in S. Thomas Acres church, extracted out of the third booke of the His torie of Ireland. (Eight Latin lines, followed by a character, highly laudatory, in English prose.)

2. Upon the death of the Lord of the Out Isles

of Scotland; of whom mention is made in the third book of the Historie of Ireland, circa An. Dom. 1543. (Lat.)

3. Upon the death of his father, James Stanyhurst, esquyer, who deceased at Dublyn, anno 1573, xxvii of December, ætatis 51. (Lat.)

4. Upon the death of his father-in-law, Syr. Christofer Barnewal, Knight. (Lat. ver. and prose.)

5. Upon the death of his wife Genet, daughter to Syr Christofer Barnewal, Knt. who deceased at Knight-his-bridge, of chield-byrth, anno 1579, Aug. xxvi. ætat xix. and lieth enterred at Chelsye. (Lat.)*

6. Upon the death of the Right Hon. and his most deare coosen, the Lorde Baron of Louth, who was trayterously murthred by Mack Maughoun, an Irish Lording, about the yeare 1577. (Eng.) This from its biographical tendency shall be given.

*Even in this marital tribute the writer's jingling propensity pre"Quam dederas natæ vitam, tibi nata negavit,

vails; e. g.

Quam dederas lucem, luce (Genetta) çares.”

"Thus, loa, thyne hast (coosen) bred waste, to cittye, to

countrey;

Thee bearbrat boucher thy corps with villenye mangled, Not by his manlye valour, but through thy desperat offer As the liefe is lasting too sutch as in armes ar heedye, E'en so death is posting too those that in armor ar headye. Haulf penye, far better than on housful cluster of angels, Although habit, would not fro thye, danger deadlye be parted:

Whom lief combyned, death could not scatter asunder: Sutch is thee fastnesse of foster brootherhod Irish. Though Sydny* and Delvyn† the murther partlye revenged :

A losse so pretiouse may not bee fullye requited.

Thee death of a thousand Maghounds is unequal amendment.

Thee nobles may not but a death so bluddie remember: The Plunckets wil not from mind such boutcherie bannish. Thy ladie, thy kinred, doo misse thy freendship aprooved. Thee cittie mourneth thee lack of a counsalor holsoom; And thee countrie moneth thee want of a zealus upholder: Vertue eke lamenteth thee lack of an holye repentaunt. Howbeit, dame Vertue thy goodnesse kindlye rewardeth. In memory thine honour, thy soul eeke in glorie reposing.”

7. Upon the death of the Right Hon. the Lord

Girald Fitz-Girald L. Baron of Offalye, who deceased at St. Albans, in the yeare 1580, the last of June; the xxi yeare of his age. (Eng. ver. and pr.)

* Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland.

This might be Lord Delvin, who in 1567 was authorized by Q. Eliz. to extirpate the O'Mores and their followers. Lodge's Peer. of Ireland, I. 134,