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toe to be solde by William Barley, at his shop, in Gratious Streete.*
1612. Printing introduced into Presburg, the capital of Lower Hungary. Dr. Cotton says, " Probably this was the first town of the king- dom into which the art was introduced : nor did it make any extensive progress for many years afterwards ; since so late as the year 1046, Chris- topher Ravius observed, ' in tola Hungaria vix tres Vint U/vographia.' "
1612. The college of Jesuits erected a press at Fleche, a town of France, in Anjou; and iu the year 1638, one George Griveau designates himself " printer to the King, and to the Hen- rician college of Jesuits."
1613. The Petruses were a celebrated family «f printers at Basil, in Switzerland. There was Adah the father, and Henry and Jerom his sons. Henry again had a son of the name of Sebastian. Adam had been a fellow-labourer with John Froben in the printing office of Nico- las Brylinger. Henry died in 1679, in his 71st year, and his epitaph is given in a note in the Annal. Typog. vol. iii. p. 220, and Sebastian his son published an edition of Virgil in this year. Their device was an allusion to their name — irhich is the Greek for a rock.
1613. Died, Richard Collins, clerk of the stationers' company from 1578. He was suc- ceeded in his -office by Thomas Mountfort.
1613, April 13. Strange News from Lancaster. A pamphlet written by a reverend gentleman, containing an account of a prodigioat monster that was born at Addlington, in Lancashire ; with two bodies joined to one back.
1613. The three sisters teares, shed at the late tolemne funeral of Henri) Prince ef Wales. By Richard Nichols. London, 1613, 4to. dedicated to lady Hay. The three sisters are Angela, (England.) Albana, (Scotland.) and Cambra, (Wales.) Richard Niccols was " a poet of great elegance and imagination, and one of the orna- ments of the reign of Elizabeth." — Headley.
Henry prince of Wales, was the eldest son of Jamesl. whose premature death in his eighteenth year, was wept by all the Muses, and mourned by all the brave in Britain. At an early age he evinced a thoughtfulness of character, extraor- dinary in a child, and attracted the attention, and excited the hopes of those who were about his person. His bold and martial character was discoverable upon many occasions ; and had he lived to govern these realms, the whole face of our history might have been changed, and the dajrs of Agincourt and Cressy been revived, and Henry IX. had rivalled Henry V. This prince, though ambitious to wield the sword, did not neglect the pen ; and the finest geniuses of the age addressed their works to him, and wrote several at his suggestion. Dallington, in the preface to his curious Aphorisms, Civil and Militaire, has described prince Henry's domestic
- The reader will observe that what is now spelt Grace
chnrch-street, was at this time written Oratioua-stnet. It was oricinaUy Orass-street, froin a herb market there.
life : " Myself," says he, " the unablest of many in that a(»demy, for so was his family, had (Aw especial employment for his proper use, which he pleased favourably to entertain, and often to read over." He was born at the castle of Stirling, February, 1594, and died Nor. 6, 1612.*
1614. The Description of a Maske, presented in the Banqueting Roome at Whitehall, on Saint Stephen's Night last, at the Marriage of the Right Honourable the Earl of Somerset, and the Right Noble the Lady Frances Howard. Written by Thomas Campion.
Whereunlo are annexed divers choyse Ayres composed from this Maske, that may he sung with a single voyce, to the Lute or Base-Violl.
London : printed for Laurence Lisle, dwelling in Panics Church Yarde, at the signe of the Tyger's head.
The compositions called Masques were carried to their greatest perfection at this time, and the chief writers of these dramatic entertainments, were Ben Jonson and Samuel Daniels, though, perhaps none of them rivals the Cuntiu of Milton. They were generally founded on some story from the Greek or Roman mythology ; and, though therefore possessing little human interest, were so well set off by hne poetry, dresses, and ma- chinery, that, during the reigns of James I. and Charles I. they formed a favourite amusement of the gay persons of the court, who were them- selves the chief performers.
The following song is taken from Luminalia, or the Festival of Light. A Masque, presented at Court, on Shrove Tuesday night, 1637.
BONO OF NIOHT.
In wet and cloodir mists 1 slowljr rise. As with mine owne dull weight opprest.
To dose with sleep the Jealous lover's eyes, And give forsaken virgins rest.
Th' adven*trous merchant and the mariner. Whom stormes all day vex in the deep,
Begione to trust the windes when I appeare. And lose their dangers in their sleep.
The studious that consume their brains and sight. In search where doubtful knowledge lies.
Grow wearie of their Iruitlesse use of ligh^ And wish my shades to ease their eyes.
The ambitious toy ing statesman that prepares
Great miscAiefs ere the day begins. Nor measures day by boures, but by his cares,
And night must intermit his sinnes.
Then why when my slow chariot used to clime.
Did old mistaking sages weepe t As if my empire did usurpe their time.
And hours were lost when spent in sleep.
I come to ease their labours, and prevent
That wearinesse that would destroy ; The profit of their toyles are stUl mlspent.
Till rest enables to enjoy.
1614. " In an unpublished letter of the times," says Mr. D'Israeli, " I find a cause in the star- chamber, respecting a play being acted at Christ- mas in this year, at the house of sir John Yorke ; the consequences of which were heavy fines and
- The Life of Henry Prince of Walet, ton of James I.,
compiled ch^fiy fiom his own paperM^ never before pub. liMkei. By Thomas Birch, D.D., F.R.S. London, 17(10. gvo.
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