་ lxii ART. CONTENTS. PAGE 5 Syr Degore, printed by Wynkyn de Worde ........ 30 6 Hawes's Pastime of Pleasure, 1555................... 7 Roy's Satire on Cardinal Wolsey.... 8 The same Work, 1546 9 Gawen Douglas's Virgil, 1553..... 31 39 47 49 54 ib. 10 Lydgate's Proverbs, printed by Wynkyn de Worde. 12 13 lairs Balletys and Dyties...... Replycasion against certain young Scho ...... ུ་ 55 ib. 14 Syrs, spare youre Good, Fragment by W. de Worde ib. 15 John Bon and Mast Person, 1548, 4to... 19 Sterneholde's Psalmes, 1551, 1561, 1581, 1594. 20 Tottel's Miscellany, 16mo. 1565........ by Sewel, 1717 by Curll.... 21 Paradise of Daynty Devises, 1576, 1578 ... 59 62 66 68 69 90 91 ib. 101 Extracts from 113 22 Sir David Lyndsay's Dialogue between Experience and a Courtier 121 23 Kalender of Shepardes, 15, 1618.......... 30 Belvedere, or the Garden of the Muses, 1600...... 195 31 Baldwin's Canticles of Solomon, 1549 32 201 Mirror for Magistrates, 1563, 1578, &c.... 204 33 John Heywood's Play of the Wether, 4to. b. l....... 238 34 Epigrams, 1587 35 Thomas Howell's Arbor of Amitie. 1568. 244 256 ib. .... CENSURA LITERARIA. POETRY. ART. I. Jo. Gower de Confessione Amantis. Imprinted at London in Fletestrete by Thomas Berthelette the xii daie of March An. MDLIIII. Cum privilegio. Folio. Fol. 191, besides the Dedication, Preface, and Table.* On the back of the title-page "Epigramma Au toris in suum librum." "DEDICATION. "To the most victorious and our moste gracious soveraigne lorde kynge Henry the VIII. kynge of Englande and of France, Defender of the fayth, and lorde of Irelande, &c." "Plutarke writeth, whan Alexander had discomfite Darius the kynge of Perse, amonge other jewels of the saide kynges, there was founde a curious littel cheste of great value, which the noble King Alexander beholding said: this same shall serve for Homere; whiche is noted for the greate love and favour that Alexander had unto lernyng: but this I thinke verily, that his love and favour therto was not so great as your gracis: whiche caused me, moste victo * The first edition was by William Caxton, Sept. 2, 1483. Herb. 1.45. Berthelet printed a former edition in 1532. Ib. I. 419. |