A man at arms must now sit on his knees, And feed on prayers, that are old age's alms. And so from court to cottage I depart; My saint is sure of mine unspotted heart. And when I sadly sit in homely cell, I'll teach my swains this carol for a song: "Blest be the hearts that think my sovereign well, "Curs'd be the souls that think to do her "wrong." Goddess! vouchsafe this aged man his right, your beadsman now, that was your knight. Wodenfride's Song in Praise of Amargana. THE sun, the season, in each thing The paths where Amargana treads The green, groves put on their rich array, With hawthorn-blooms embroider'd gay, And sweet perfum'd with eglantine, The silent river stays his course, The woods at her fair sight rejoices, * Great Pan, our god, for her dear sake, To glad our lovely summer queen. And every swain his chance doth prove; To win fair Amargana's love, In sporting strifes, quite void of spleen, All happiness let heaven her lend, W. H[UNNIS?] Tityrus to his fair Phillis. [From England's Helicon.] THE silly swain, whose love breeds discontent, But when his fortune's malice doth relent, Then Tityrus, whom love hath happy made, J. D[AVIS?] HENRY PEACHAM Was author of " Minerva Britanna, or a garden of heroical "Devises," &c. 1612, 4to, (a collection of Emblems in verse, with a plate to each, from which the following extracts are taken) as well as "The Period of Mourning "-in memorie of the late Prince. Together with Nup"tial Hymnes in honour of this happy marriage betweene "-Fred. Count Pal.-and Eliz.-Daughter to our So"vereigne," 1613, 40. "A most true relation of the "affairs of Cleve and Gulick," &c. 1614, 4to. (prose) "Prince Henrie revived; or a Poeme upon the Birth"of-Prince H. Frederick-Heire apparant to Fred. "Count Pal. of the Rhine," &c. 1615, 4to. "The Com"pleat Gentleman," 1622, 1627, 1634, 1654, 1661, 4to. (prose)" The Gentleman's Exercise," 1612, 1634, 1654, 1661, 4to. (prose)" Thalia's Banquet," a volume of epigrams, 1620, 12mo. "The Valley of Varietie,” 1638, 12mo. (prose, as well as the two following.) "The Duty "of all true subjects to their king; as also to their na❝tive country in time of extremity and danger," &c. in <6 two bookes," 1639, 4to. “The Worth of a Peny, or a "caution to keep money," 1647, 1667, 1677, 1695, 4to. &c. All works of considerable merit. He is placed here owing to the uncertainty of the time of his birth. If, as Mr Ritson assumes, he is the same as "Henry Pecham, Minister," who published "The Gar"den of Eloquence," (a treatise on rhetoric,) in 1577, 4to, bl. 1. he ought to be referred to the early part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. If, on the other hand, as Mr Malone conceives, our author is a different person, (perhaps son to the last-mentioned), and the earliest date of his compositions, 1611, (verses in "The Odcombian Ban"6 quet,") he would then rather belong to the succeeding one of James I. I have only to add, that he was born at or near St Albans; assisted in educating the children of Thomas, earl of Arundel; and attended that nobleman into the Low Countries. In the title to his "Minerva” he styles himself Master of Arts; and it appears that he was some"time of Trinity College, Cambridge." His father was "Mr Henry Peacham, of Leverton, in Holland, in the 66 county of Lincoln." 66 Further particulars of his History I am unable to furnish, (though, in all probability, they might be supplied by an attentive perusal of his various publications,) and, till I have it in my power to ascertain with accuracy, either the year of his birth, or whether or not he was the author of "The Garden of Eloquence," venture to place him between the reigns of Elizabeth and James. Humilibus dat Gratiam. THE mountains huge, that seem to check the sky, So God oft-times denies unto the great |