e's Plays_
(London, 1780), I, 581.]

[34] See supr. vol. iii. [p. 405].

[35] _Wits Tr._ fol. 284. a. He is again mentioned by Meres for his
distich on king James's _Furies_ & _Lepanto_. fol. 284. b. [The distich,
printed by Meres, is the final couplet of Barnfield's Sonnet II.]

[36] _Sonn._ xii.

[37] It begins thus.

Nights were short, and daies were long,
Blossoms on the hauthorns hong;
Philomel, night-musickes kinge,
Tolde the comming of the springe, &c.

He does not scruple to insert these lines,

Loue I did the fairest boy,
That these fields did ere enioy.
Loue I did faire Ganymed,
Venus darling, beauties bed, &c.

This piece was afterwards inserted in _Englands Helicon_.

[38] See supr. vol. iii. p. [292, n.] I [am] now most inclined to think,
that these initials mean Henry Constable, and not Henry Chettle. The
Sonnets do not justify the applauses paid to Constable, by his
contemporaries, Edmond Bolton, Meres, the author of the _Return_ from
_Parnassus_, and many others. Some of his sonnets are prefixed to
Sydney's _Apology for Poetry_. The initials H. C. often occur in
_Englands Helicon_. I take this opportunity of saying that some pieces
of Chettle were among Mr. Beauclerc's books. (See supr. iii. [291-292,
n.?]) [Indeed the annotations in the Harvard Library copy of the
_Bibliotheca Beauclerkiana_ (p. 102) suggest that either Thomas Warton
or, more probably, his brother may have purchased the copy of Chettle's
_Englands Mourning Garment_ owned by Thomas Warton's former student. It
was sold to "Dr. W."]

[39] See supr. iii. [480.] [R. L. was Richard Lynch.]

[40] In 16'mo. With vignettes. They are sixty two in number. The best is
that which begins,

Venus, and yong Adonis sitting by her,
Vnder a myrtle shade began to woe him
She told the yongling, &c. Sonn. iii.

He calls Sleep, "Balme of the brused heart." Sonn. xv.

PUBLICATIONS OF THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY

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SECOND YEAR (1947-1948)

7. John Gay's _The Present State of Wit_ (1711); and a
section on Wit from _The English Theophrastus_ (1702).

8. Rapin's _De Carmine Pastorali_, translated by Creech
(1684).

9. T. Hanmer's (?) _Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet_
(1736).

10. Corbyn Morris' _Essay towards Fixing the True Standards
of Wit, etc._ (1744).

11. Thomas Pu