his crib the loft fheep: and the complaint of old age," printed by R. Denham, 1588, 12mo. In the "Paradife of Dainty Devifes," 2d. Edit. 1585, 4to, are these verses of William Hunnis. -I." Our pleasures are but vanities."-II. "Being asked the occafion of his white head." He here acknowledges himself an old man, 1578.-III. "No pleasure without fome pain." -IV. "If thou defire to live in quiet rest, give ear, and fee, but fay the beft."-V. " Dialogue between the author, and his eye.”—VI.

Finding no joy, he defireth death."-VII. 66 Hope well, and have well."-VIII. "He complaineth his mishap."-IX. "No foe to a flatterer."-X. "His comparifon of love."XI." He affureth his conftancy."—XII. “No pains comparable to the attempt."-XIII. "He repenteth his folly."-XIV. "Love requited by Difdain."-XV. Of a contented state.". XVI. "Of a mean ftate."-XVII. "Being in trouble."*

An account of Lord Vaux has been given before. Of FRANCIS KYNWELMARSH, all I find is that he and his brother ANTHONY, were gentlemen of Effex, noted poets of their time, and acquainted with Gafcoigne, a celebrated poet hereafter mentioned.+

Tanner's Bibliotheca. 422 † Wood's Ath. I. p. 190,

of

Of R. HALL, R. HILL, T. MARSHALL, and YLOOP, I find nothing. LoDOWICK LOYD, Efq. was a perfon confpicuous in the Court of Q. Elizabeth. He wrote "The Confent of Time," &c. Lond. 1590, 4to." The Stratagems of Jerufalem," &c. Lond. 1602, 4to." The Pilgrimage of Kings and Princes," &c.-" By Lodowick Loyd, Gentleman to Q. Elizabeth; revived by R. C. M. A. Lond. 1653, 4to. He prefixed an English poem to Twyne's latin verfion of Humphry Loyd's " Breviary of Health," Lond. 1573,

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About the fame time with Richard Edwards flourished THOMAS TUSSER, one of our earliest didactic poets. He was born of an ancient family at Rivenhall, in Effex; was then a finging-boy in the collegiate chapel of Wallingford, whence he was placed under the famous John Redford to learn mufic, and was afterwards removed to Eton School; and according to Warton, from thence to Trinity College, Cambridge; but Tanner from Hatcher's MS. fays he became a fcholar of King's College in 1543. From the University he was called to Court by his patron William Lord Paget, where he lived ten years; and then difgufted with the

*Tanner's Bibl. p. 484. ↑ Warton, III. p. 298.

vices

vices and quarrels of the great, he betook himfelf to a country life; and used a farm, first at Ratwood in Suffex, then at Ipswich in Suffolk, Fairfted in Effex, &c. At length he returned to London, whence flying from the plague, he retired to Trinity College, Cambridge. He died very aged in 1580, and was buried in St. Mildred's church in the Poultry, London.* "He was fucceffively," fays Fuller, "a mufician, schoolmafter, ferving-man, husbandman, grazier, poet, more fkilful in all than thriving in any profeffion. He traded at large in oxen, sheep, dairies, grain of all kinds to no profit. Whether he bought, or fold, he loft, and when a Renter impoverished himself, and never inriched his landlord. Yet hath he laid down excellent rules in his book of Husbandry, and Houfwifry (fo that the obferver thereof muft be rich) in his own defence. He spread his bread with all forts of butter, yet none would ftick thereon. Yet I hear no man to charge him with any vicious extravagancy, or visible carelessness, imputing his ill fuccefs to fome occult cause in God's Counsel. Thus our Englifh Columella might fay with the poet,

Monitis fum minor ipfe meis,

none being better at the theory, or worse at the

* Warton, ut fupra.-Tanner's Bibl 728, 729.

practice

practice of husbandry. I match him with Thomas Churchyard, they being marked alike in their poetical parts, living at the same time, and statur'd alike in their eftates, being low enough, I affure you."*

He wrote during his refidence at Ratwood a work in rhyme, entitled "Hundred Points of good Husbandrie," Lond. 1557, 4to. which he afterwards enlarged to "Five hundred Points of good Husbandrie," Lond. 1586, 4to. To which is added in rhyme "The Author's Life." It must be acknowledged that this old English Georgic has much more of the fimplicity of Hefiod, than of the elegance of Virgil: and a modern reader would fufpect that many of its falutary maxims, decorated the margins, and illuftrated the calendars of an ancient almanac. It is without invocations, digreffions, and defcriptions: no pleafing pictures of rural imagery are drawn from meadows covered with flocks, and fields waving with corn, nor are Pan and Ceres once named. Yet it is valuable as a genuine picture of the Agriculture, the rural arts and the domeftic œconomy and cuftoms of our industrious ancestors.+

*Fuller's Worthies, Effex, p. 334, † Warton, ut fupra, p 304.

GEORGE

GEORGE GASCOIGNE.

"George Gascoign, one of the smaller poets "of Queen Elizabeth's days, whofe poetical "works nevertheless have been thought wor

thy to be quoted among the chief of that "time; his Suppofes, a Comedy; Glafs of "Government, a Tragi-comedy; Jocafta, a Tragedy, are particularly remembred."

GEORGE GASCOIGNE was born in Effex; had his education in both the Universities, but chiefly at Cambridge; whence he removed to Gray's Inn to pursue the Law, but like other poets, found his abilities too volatile for that dull study. He therefore travelled, went to various cities in Holland, and became a foldier of note, Tam Marti quam Mercurio, according to the motto he affumed. Hence he vifited the French Court, and fell in love with a Scotch Lady. But being at length weary of rambling, he returned to England, and again fixing his refidence at Gray's Inn, was in high esteem amongst the wits of the age, for his talents in amatory poetry, and his skill in dra