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1596. TnoMAS Scarlet was a good printer, and carried on business from the year 1576 to 1595, though he printed but few books. In 1593 he printed the tragedy of Taneredand Gisnumd. Compiled by the Gentlemen of the Inner Temple, and by them presented before her majestie. Newly reTired and polished according to the decorum of these daies. By R. W. In 1594 he printed The unfnrtimate traveller : or the life of Jack Wilton. By Thomas Nash. Printed for George Busby. 4lo.
1 696; A Book of Secrets ; thewing diuers waiet to make and prepare all sortea of Inke and Colors, 4-c. translated out of Dutch by W. P. London, 1596, 4(0. To which is annexed a little treatise, intituled Instructions of ordering Wines, trans- lated from the Italian, by W. P. Sold at Bind- 1^'s sale for £3 lOt.
1596. A progress of pietie, or the harbour of heavenly harts ease, to recreate the afflicted soids of all such as are shut up in anye inward, or out- ward affliction. By John Norden. Printed for John Oxenbridge.
The rebus of John Oxenbridoe was an Ox, with the letter N on his bad, as going over a bridge.
1596. Sommoru to doomes-daie, sent unto his helored England, as a memorial of his deepe printed love and loyaltie. By Henoch Claphan. Edinburgh: printed by R. Waldegrave. ISrao.
1696. A New DUcourse of a Stale Subject, called the Metamorphosis of Ajax. Written by Miscamos to his fnend and cosin Philostilpnos. London : printed by Richard Field, dwelling in the Blackfriers. At the bottom of the title page, sir John Harrington,* the author, has written, in red ink,
" Seen and dissalowed."
The dedication is also in manuscript by the author, and is as follows :
"To the Right Worshipfull
Thomes Markham,
Esquyre, this
bee d. d.»
This work is frequently alluded to by co- temporarv writers; as in Shakspeare's Love's Labour Lost, act v. scene 2, and the several writers quoted by Mr. Steevens in his note on that passage. It is remarkable, that for writing this pamphlet, sir John Harrington fell into dis- grace with queen Elizabeth. Mr. Robert Markham writing to him two years after, in 1598, says, " Since your departure from hence Tou have been spoke of and with no ill will, both by the nobles and the queene herself. Your booke IS almost forgiven, and I may say, for- gotten, but not for its lacke of wit or satyr. Those whome you feared moste are now becoming themselves in the queen's grace; and tbo' her bighnesse signified displeasure in outwarde
- Sir John Hazrington publiBhed a tiaDsUtioo of Aiios-
to*8 Orlando FuriotOt to which was prefixed his Apology of Poetry. A collectioa of his worlu tun be«n print^, under the tiUe of Huga JuMfnc, in 3 vols. lamo. He diedinlSia, aged 51.
sorte, yet she ^d like the marrow of your booke. Your great enemye sir James, did once mention the star chamber; but your good esteem in better mindes outdid his endeavours, and all is silente again. The queene is minded to take TOU to her favour; but she sweareth that she believes you will make epigrams, and write Misacmos again on her, and all the courte. She hath been heard to say, ' That merry poet, her godson, must not come to Greenwich 'till he hath grown sober, and leaveth the ladies sportes and frolicks. She did conceive much disquiet, on being toldc you had a shafle at Leicester. I wishe you knew the author of that ill deed, I would not be in his best jerkin for a thousand markes.'" — Nugte Antiquee, vol. ii. p. 442.
1597. At this time the literary public received ^ a high gratification, from the appearance of the yfrtf^Mirt of Francis Bacon's Essays;* concerning which we need not say, that they opened a rich treasury of moral observation, and that they were worthy of the great and comprehensive mind from which they proceeded. The name of Essays were then new to the world, and perhaps nad been derived from Montaigne.f Thus did Bacon introduce into England a species of writing which hath since been largely cultivated, and hath produced a vast number of beautiful compositions, which constitutes a fine part of modern literature, and the history of which, and its effects on the understanding and manners of men, will at all times afford matter of useful and interesting discussion. — Kivpis. ,,
Lord Bacon speaking of books says, read not ' ' to contradict and confute, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention. Reading maketh a full man, con- , , ference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
1697. Richard Jones, Jhones, or Johnes, printed in conjunction with Thomas Colwell, in 1670. He kept a shop at the south-west door of St. Paul's church, and lived at the sign of the Rose and Crown, near Saffron Hill, in Uolbom; and at the upper end of Fleet-lane, over against St. Sepulchre's church, at the sign of the Spread Eagle. He printed several books in partnership
- Euaia, religiouM meditations, places ofpemoasion and i ^ C>
diswasion. Seen and allowed. Dedicated by Fnuida ^ Bacon, esq., of Gray'a Ian, to his brother Anthony, the./ "S (lOi 30th of Jannary, 1597. This flrat edition of the Essays, )•> ' contains only these ten :— Of study. Discourse. Core- /• ; monies and respects. Of followers and friends. Sutors. '. Expense. Regiment of health. Honour and repatation. ' Faction aod negociatiou. In 18 leaves, oronesheet. ISmo. London : printed by John Windet. for Humphry Hooper, ■ ^ ' and are to be sold at the Black Bear, in Chancery-lane. ' 1 Another edition appeared the following year.
t Michael de Montaigne, a celebrated Frendi writer, was born at a seat of that name, in Perigord. Feb. as, 1533, and died at the same place, in his 60th year, Sept. 13, 15g3. His fsKiyi show great knowledge of the human mind, and contain many vaiaable lessons of instruction. Cardinal du Perron emphatically called them the breviary of honest men. The best edition is that of Coste, with notes, in I73S or 173}, 3 vols. 4to. The Traeels of Mon- taigne were printed in 177s, 3 vols. l2mo.
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