A morning-hymn, and to the fields away,
We dairy maidens have no time for play,
Love, and his idle Houres,

Neglected always be;

That grand simplicity

No pastime is of ours.

But joys supream in udders full we find,

The blessings of our kine we only mind,
Whose overflowing vein

Give nectar at our fire,

That gods and men admire

Our happiness and pains."

T. P.

ART. IV. Anglorum Speculum; or the Worthies of England, in Church and State. Alphabetically digested into the several Shires and Counties therein contained; wherein are illustrated the Lives and Characters of the most Eminent Persons since the Conquest to this present Age. Also an account of the Commodities and Trade of each respective County, and the most flourishing Cities and Towns therein. London: Printed for John Wright at the Crown on Ludgate Hill, Thomas Passinger at the Three Bibles on London Bridge, and William Thackary at the Angel in Duck Lane. 1684, 8vo. pp. 974.

"The Preface to the Reader.

"Courteous reader, I here present you with an abstract of the lives and memoirs of the most famous and illustrious personage of this realm, since the Conquest

quest to this present time: for order sake I have digested it alphabetically into the several shires and counties contained in this kingdom; which I hope will find a kind acceptance, there being nothing of the same method now extant.

"Dr. Fuller in his large history in folio, did go a great way in this matter, but here is included the lives of many more eminent heroes and generous patrons, (which I hope their memory may survive in succeeding ages) this being done with that brevity, which may be more beneficial to the reader. Here you have the original or rise of most of the eminent families in this kingdom.

"Also an epitome of the most material matters in church and state, containing the lives of the most eminent fathers in the English church, and the most flourishing statesmen in the latter times; also the most famous authors, as well divine as historical; together with the lives of the most memorable persons in the law, mathematicks, geographers, astronomers, poets, &c. which have made this kingdom known throughout the world.

"I need not enlarge, or give any further encomium upon this subject, but refer you to the table first, and then to the book itself, which I hope will find that kind acceptance, that may engage me in some further procedure that may please my countrymen, which I shall always endeavour to do in plainness and brevity to the reader's satisfaction, and in the mean time, am yours to command, G.S."

With the articles already mentioned on the "Worthies, &c. of England," (see CENSURA, III. 230,)

this

this volume claims an arrangement. The notice for this work is fully supplied by the above preface, which the editor (whose initials I have not discovered) has rather too highly tinted.

Conduit street.

J. H.

ART. V. A very fruteful and pleasant boke, called the Instruction of a Christen Woman; mude firste in Latyne, by the right famous clerke, Mayster Lewes Viues, and tourned out of Latyne into Englishe by Rychard Hyrde. Londini: Anno M.D.LVII. An ornamented title page. 4to. folios 140. . . Colophon. Here endeth the boke called the Instruction of a Christen woman; whiche who so shall reade, shall have muche, bothe knowlage, pleasure, and fruite by it. Imprinted at London in Flete-Strete, by Thomas Powell. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.

This volume has the folios; but except that addition, and the printer's name being "Henry Roykes," I have seen a copy which appeared completely similar in date, ornaments, text, and contents. *

In the course of the work are a few translations from the "Pagan Ouide," and, others which entitled "Rychard Hyrde," to mention by Ritson in his Bibl. Poetica, who probably would have been able to add, what I cannot, some biographical notice.

* Herbert speaks of an edition printed by Berthelet, in 1540, and of two others by the same printer, in 1541. See Typogr. Antiq. I. 438, 440. Bishop Tanner, in his Bibliotheca, p. 426, mentions a later edition by Bertholet, in 12mo. 1585.

Of

*

Of Johannes Ludovicus Vives, the industrious Wood has given an account; he was born at Valenza in Spain, educated in grammar there, in logic at Paris, and Latin and Greek at the University of Louvain. On July 4, 1517, he was made (being then at Louvain) one of the first Fellows of Corp. Christ. Coll. in Oxon. by the founder. Katherine of Spain, first wife of Henry VIII. had peculiar respect for him, and Wolsey invited him to England; where he came, and in Aug. or Sept. 1523, read the Cardinal's lecture of humanity, before the members of the University at Oxford; and was made Doctor of Civil Law, the latter end of the same year. He afterwards went to Bruges and married; but in March 1525 was at Oxford again, and was constituted Latin tutor to Mary, daughter of Henry VIII. His writings were published at Basil in two volumes, 1555. The time of his death is variously given, as 1536-40-41-and 45. The authority of 1545, which is John Whyte, in his Diacosio-Martyrion, who has it in the margin "morit. bruxellæ † An. 1545," is most relied on by Wood; but he afterwards inclines to place it in 1544.

"The preface of the most famos clerke Maister Lodovic Vives upon his boke called the Instruction of

* Athen. Oxon. I. 64.

+ Diacosio-Martyrion, id est Ducentorum virorum testimonium, de veritate corporis, et sanguinis Christi, in feucharistia, ante triennium, adversus Petrum Martyrem, ex professo conscriptum. Sed nunc primum in lucem æditum. Joanne Whito anglo Colloegij Wicamensis apud inclytam Wintoniam præside Authore. Math. xviii. In ore duorum aut trium testium, stet omne verbum. Excusum Londini in abdibus Roberti Cali, Typographi. Mense Decembri, Anno 1553. Cum privilegio ad Imprimendum solum. 4to. Folios 102. Tabulæ, &c.

A Christen

a Christen Woman, unto the moste gracious Princesse, Katharine of Englande," in one part says-" In the firste boke, I wyll beginne at the beginnyng of a woman's life, and leade her foorthe unto the tyme of mariage; in the seconde, from mariage unto wydowe head; howe she ought to passe the tyme of hir life well and vertuously with hir husband; in the laste booke, I enfourme and teache the widowhead." Again "I have ben more short, than many woulde I shuld have bene; notwithstandyng, who so considreth wel the cause of mine entent, and taketh good heede, shall finde it doone not without a skyl. For in givyng preceptes, a man ought specially to bee breefe, leste he soner dull the wittes of the reders, than teache them with longe bablyng, and preceptes ought to be suche that every body may sone con them, and beare easily in minde." The precept against "longe bablyng" is good, therefore end of preface" and so I pray God geve your good grace longe well to fare. At Bruges the yere of our Lorde God M. D. and XXIII. the V day of Aprill."

Then follows the table. The first book is divided into sixteen chapters-"Of the bringing up a maid when she is a babe; residue of her infancy; exercise; learning; what books be read and what not; virginity; keeping of chastity; ordering of the body; raiment; living alone; examples she should follow; behaviour abroad; dauncing; loving; how a maiden ought to love; and search of an husband."

The second book has fifteen chapters. "Of wedlock; what a woman ought to have in mind when she marries; two greatest points therein; behaviour to her husband; concord in marriage; privately living with

her