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1 8 English Reprints. 25 - Rev. THOMAS LEVER, Fellow and Preacher of St Johns College , Cambridge . Sermons. 1550- (a) A fruitful l Ser- mon in Paules church at London in the Shroudes. (b) A Sermon preached the fourth Sunday in Lent before the Kynges Maiestie , and his honorable Counsell. (c) A Sermon preached at Pauls Crosse. r SS°* These Sermons are reprinted from the original editions, which are of extreme rarity. They throw much light on the communistic theories of the Norfolk rebels ; and the one at Paul’s Cross contains a curious account of Cambridge University life in the reign of Edward VI. r 26. WILLIAM WEBBE, Graduate. A Discourse of English Poetry. 1586. A Discourse of English Poetrie. To- gether with the A uthors iudgement , touching the reformation of our English Verse. Another of the early pieces of Poetical Criticism, written in the year in which Shake- speare is supposed to have left Stratford for London. Only two copies of this Work are known, one of these was sold for £64 This Work should be read with Stanyhurst’s Trans- lation of PE neid, I.-IV. t 1582, see p. 64. Webbe was an advocate of English Hexa- meters ; and here translates Virgil’s first two Eglogues into them. He also translates into Sapphics Colin’s Song in the Fourth Eglogue of Spenser’s Shephard's Cal- endar. 27. FRANCIS BACON, afterwards Lord VERULAM Viscount ST. ALBANS. A Harmony of the Essays , <§cC. 1597-1626. And after my manner, / alter ever , when I add. So that nothing is finished, till all be finished. — Sir Francis Bacon, 27 Feb. i6io-[ii.] (a) Essayes , Re- ligious Meditations , and Places of per- swasion and disswa- sion. 1597. (b) The Writings of Sir Ffrancis Bacon Knight the Kinges Sollicitor Generali in Moralitie , Policie, Historie. {c) The Essaies of Sir Francis Bacon Knight , the Kings Solliciter Generali. 1 612. (d) The Essayes or Counsells , Civill and Morall of Francis Lord Verulam, Vis- counts. Alban. 1625.