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Chuse one whose pre election can admit
None save thy selfe, that she can dearly love;
Yet so discreet, as she can silence it

Till th' time her parents shall her choice approve:
For that implies her modestie and wit;

While rash assents, whens'ever they do come,
Are ever seen to bring repentance home."

T.P.

ART. X. A Happy Husband: or Directions for a Maid to chuse her Mate. Together with a Wive's behaviour after Marriage. By Patrick Hannay, Gent. London: Printed by John Haviland for Nathaniel Butter, &c. 1619. Small 8vo.

This was reprinted with the poems of Hannay, in 1622, of whom a brief notice is given in Vol. III. of Mr. Ellis's Specimens. His present production is not without moral merit or wholesome advice; and may admit of a short extract from the rules laid down for a Wife's behaviour.

"If anger once begin 'twixt man and wife,
If soon not reconcil'd, it turns to strife,

Which still will stir, on every light occasion,
What might have ceas'd in silence; then, persuasion

Of friends will hardly end: for every jarre

Is ominous, presaging life-long warre:

And where two join'd do jar, their state decays;
They go not forward who draw divers ways.
Being yoakt together, your first care must be,
That with your Husband you in love agree:
As far from fondness be, as from neglect,
Mixing affection with a staid respect.

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Thy own desert must him unto thee bind;
Desert doth make a savage to be kind:

It is an adamantine chaine to knit

Two souls so fast, nought can them disunite."

T. P.

ART. XI. Picturæ Loquentes: or Pictures drawne forth in Characters. With a poeme of a Maid. By Wye Saltonstall. Ne sutor ultra crepidam. London: Printed by T. Cotes, &c. 1631. 12mo.

A second edition of this little volume was printed in 1635, with twelve additional characters. In Wood's Athenæ, I. 640, some account is given of the author and his work. The plan of the latter was undoubtedly derived from that of Overbury: but the execution is greatly superior. Four selected stanzas are here subjoined, from the poem entitled "A Maid."

"Maidens have no advancement to derive

Unto themselves, but when they match aright;
For 'tis their marriage must them honour give,
They shine but with a mutaticious light:
For women's honours from their husbands come,
As Cynthia borrows lustre from the sun.

And since that marriage is a strict relation,

Methinks good counsell were not here in vaine,
That they be sure to make a good foundation,
Since that they cannot play their cast again:
For hence, their future good is lost or won,
And once to err, is still to be undone.

'Tis

Tis no cold walls or nunnery, no false spies,
That can secure a maid that's once inclin'd
To ill; though watcht by jealous Argus' eyes,
To act her thoughts a time yet will she find:'
There is no way to keepe a maid at all,
But when herselfe is like a brazen wall;

That can repell men's flatteryes, though afar,

And make her looks her liking soone to show;
Which, like a frost, such thoughts as lustfull are
Nips in the blossom ere they ranker grow.
Since then the eye and gesture speak the heart,
A maiden carriage is a maid's chief art."

Though somewhat of a different character from the preceding poems, yet the following may be superadded, on account of its title.

T. P.

ART. XII. A Wife not ready made, but bespoken: By Dicus the batchelor; and made up for him by his fellow shepheard Tityrus. In four pastorall eglogues. The Second Edition. London: Printed for A. R. 1653. 8vo.

This is a poetical pleading for and against marriage, in which the opposite advocates display equal ingenuity. The tract has a dedication in verse by R. A. "to his honoured good friend Sir Robert Stapleton," the translator of Juvenal and Musæus. R. A. is Robert Aylet, LL D. who wrote several pieces of a graver cast on scriptural subjects, which were collected into a thick octavo volume, of unfrequent occurrence. The present little work exhibits a few lyric stanzas which invite transcription.

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transcription. They appear under the quaint title of "A Mandee to Grammar-Scholars."

"In time of seed, no cost or labour spare;
Who soweth cheap,

Shall never reap

Things admirable, excellent, and rare.

One hour in youth, well-spent, may go for two:
When we grow old

Our studie's cold;

The things we learn in youth, in age we do.

Look but before, you plainly shall descry--
Honours attend

On them that spend

Their youth in sacred Muses' company:

When they that follow worldly vain delights,
In folly spend

What heav'ns do send,

And set in mists of sad obscured night.

Hence, younger brothers by their studies raise
Their houses' name

To height of fame,

And build brave monuments of lasting praise:

Which th' elder finding ready built to hand,
Their genius please

In sloth and ease,

Or waste, in pride and riot, goods and land."

Two elegies are added on the deaths of Edmund Alleyn, Esq. of Hatfield in Essex, (son and heir to Sir Edward Alleyn, Bart.) and Mary his wife.

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ART. XIII. The most excellent Historie of Lysimachus and Varrona, daughter to Syllanus, Duke of Hypata, in Thessalia. Wherin are contained the effects of Fortune, the wonders of Affection, and the conquests of incertaine Time. By I. H. R.

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London: Printed by Thomas Creede. 1604. 8vo.

This perhaps unique volume is in the Marquis of Stafford's fine library. The dedication to the Right Honourable Henry Wriothesly, Earle of Southampton, is signed only I. H. Then follows an address "to the Gentlemen Readers," beginning "Gentlemen, I have written the storie of Lysimachus and Varrona, &c." signed as in the title-page I. H. R.

The verses in praise of the book are a sonnet signed "Ro. Bacchus," and a sextain signed "Tho. Talkinghame, Gentleman."

The Historie is printed in the black letter; but the verses intermixed, are in the Roman. It is worthy of remark, that the very first song, entitled "Lysimachus' Sonnet that he made in prison," may be found in Greene's Arcadia: it begins,

"Yon restlesse cares, companions of the night, &c.".

and the burden to the four stanzas is

"Farewell my hopes, farewell my happie dayes; Welcome sweet griefe, the subject of my layes."

The following madrigal, sung by a shepherd, is pleasing; and presents a mode of versification not

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