The famed six articles proposed a creed, For which both Protestants and Romans bleed. BARTON, the visionary maid of Kent, With many followers to the scaffold went.* With all his faults, the King promoted knowledge, At Cambridge, Trinity the monarch founded; WOLSEY gave Oxford Christchurch College, And ENGLAND's Court by learning was surrounded. Talking of learning, let's have piu poco; And if you'll but allow nunc est ridendum, In quitting HAL, forgive me if I dare * "The King's persecution of the Lutherans was savage and inexorable:-at Coventry, six men and a woman were burnt for teaching their children the Lord's Prayer, Commandments, &c. in the vulgar tongue," J.P. ANDREWS. Humming Humming, scarce consciously, in accent pretty, A retrospective amatory ditty; Anachronasm marks the tune, 'tis true, But if I find no fault, pray why should you ? Chansonette de la Cour de Henri VIIIme. REX CANIT. O dear what will become of me? O dear what shall I do? There's nobody coming to marry me, TO KATHERINE of ARRAGON married, In wedlock with her to have tarried, O dear what will become of me? &c. Sweet BOLEYNE enamoured my fancy, If you ask why I kill'd my poor NANCY, O dear what will become of me? &c. ANNE ANNE of CLEVES from her brother next came, But a moment we scarcely were wed; When KATE HOWARD another new flame, By winning my heart lost her head. O dear what will become of me? &c. Widow PARR,* tho' not one of the worst, I'm afraid she'll live longer than me. Then O dear! what will become of me? There's nobody coming to marry me, * This Lady, whose "beauty raised her to a throne, and whose merit deserved two better husbands," wrote and published many Psalms, Prayers, Pious Discourses, &c. "wherein," says the Title page, "the mynde is stirred patiently to suffer all afflictions here, to set at nought the vaine prosperitee of this worlde, and always to long for the everlastynge felicitee."-She also published several Letters; was not only learned, but a patroness of learning-interceding for, and saving, the University of Cambridge, when an Act passed to throw all Colleges into the King's disposal. Nicholas Udal, Master of Eton, in his time says "it was then a common thyng to see young virgins so nouzled and trained in the studie of letters, that they willingly set all other pastymes at nought for learning's sake." Vide CATALOGUE OF ROYAL AUTHORS. We We do not imagine the following description could apply to any of the Wives of Henry: but it is given by Andrews as " an Example of the Quaint turn of the Times," with respect to the Poetry of this Reign, The ATTENTIVE SPOUSE. TWELVE Sortes of mete my wife provides, Foure are of flesh, of fruite are foure, The other foure of fyshe. In the first corse she stores my borde, Myne appetyte when cloyde with these, The second corse of frute well served, Fyttinge well the seson; A medlar and a hartichoke, A crab and a smale reson. What's hee that having such a wyfe, Upon hir sholde not dote; Who every day provides him fare, The following SONNET and ODE are by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey an "Almost Classic Author," celebrated by Drayton, Dryden, Fenton, and Pope, illustrated by his own muse, and lamented for his unhappy and unmerited death.* CATALOGUE OF NOBLE AUTHORS. "From Tuscane came my ladie's worthy race, "Fair Florence was sometyme her auncient state; "The western yle, whose pleasant shore doth face "Wild Camber's cliffs, did geve her lively heate; * He was brought to the block in 1547, on pretence of using the Royal Arms, and proposing to marry the Lady Mary, Daughter of the King. † I would read thei -HORACE WALPOLE. "Foster'd |