The Chiefe of Chriftes Churche fitte in Councell to aduife: ben al relates and princes thinke ye yourselucs może wyle? FOWLER (JOHN). THE UNLAWFULL INSURRECTION OF PROTESTANTS. 1566. (See No. 3931.) FOWLER (JOHN). 3931 On Oration Against the Unlawfull Insurrections of the Protestantes OF OUR TIME UNDER PRETENCE OF REFOURMED RELIGION. Made and pronounced in Latin, in the Schole of Artes at Louvoine, the xiii. of December, Anno 1565. By PETER FRARIN OF ANTWERP. M. of Arte, and Bacheler of both lawes. And now translated into English [by JOHN FOULER], with the advise of the Author. Antverpia Ex officina Joannis Fouleri M.D.LXVI. (1566). FIRST EDITION. Table at end illustrating the narrative by a series of thirty-six woodcuts, (See Reproduction) displaying the abominations of the Reformers, with doggrel verses beneath each, 12mo, original calf, rebacked, EX TREMELY RARE. Epist. Judæ, Extracts of Privelege, Translator to Reader (12 pp.). John Fowler, Catholic Printer and scholar, was born at Bristol in 1537. DRANT (THOMAS). £65 3932 A Medicinable Moral, that is, The Two Bookes of Horace his Satyres, Englyshed accordyng to the prescription of Saint Hierome. Episto, ad Ruffin. Quod malum est, muta. The Wailyngs of the Prophet Hieremiah, done into Englysshe verse also Epigrammes. T. DRANT. Imprinted at London in Fletestrete by Thomas Marshe, 1566. (See Reproduction of Title-page). FIRST EDITION. Black Letter. This copy contains two extra leaves at end, obviously an addition, and only found in two or three copies. These were not in the Huth or Hoe copies, and are not called for in the Grolier collation. Small 4to, old russia. AN EXTREMELY RARE BOOK. £85 WILSON (THOMAS). 3933 The Three Orations of Demosthenes, chiefe Orator among the Grecians, IN FAVOUR OF THE OLYNTHIANS, a people in Thracia, now called Romania, with those his fower Orations titled expressely & by name against King Philip of Macedonie; most nedefull to be redde in these daungerous dayes, of all them that love their Countries libertie, and desire to take warning for their better avayle, by example of others, Englished out of the Greeke by THOMAS WYLSON, Doctor of the civill lawes. After these Orations ended, Demosthenes lyfe is set foorth, and gathered out of Plutarch, Lucian, Suidas, and others, with a large table, declaring all the principall matters conteyned in everye part of this booke. Scene and allowed according to the Queenes Majesties Injunctions. [Henrie Denham]. 1570. (Colophon.) Imprinted at London by Henrie Denham, dwelling in Paternoster Rowe, at the signe of the Starre. Cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum. Anno Domini, 1570. FIRST EDITION. Black Letter. Small 4to, original calf, view of Athens. (See Reproduction.) Calf, RARE. Verses, Dedication to Sir William Cecil, Kt., Preface, Testamonies (24 pp.). LHUYD (HUMPHREY). £20 3933a Commentarioli Britannica Descriptionis Fragmentum. AUCTORE HUMFREDO LHUYD, DENBYGHIENSE Cambro Britano. Huius auctoris dilgentiam & indicium lector admirabitur, Colonia Agrippinæ, Apud Joannem Birckmannum. 1572.. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, original A Medicinable Morall, that is, the two Bookes of Epifto. ad Ruffin. Quod malum eft, muta. The wallyngs of the Prophet T.Drant, Antidoti: falutaris amaror. Perufed and allowed accordyng to the Quenes Malce Imprinted at London in Fleteftrete M.D.LXVI DRANT (THOMAS). A MEDICINABLE MORALL. 1566. (See No. 3932.) BEDINGFIELD (THOMAS). 3934 Cardanus Comforte, translated into English, and published by commaundement of the right Honourable the Earl of Oxenford. Anno Domini, 1573. Imprinted at London in Fleetestreate, neare to S. Dunstones Church, by Thomas Marshe (1573). Black Letter. FIRST EDITION. Border around title-page. (See Reproduction.) Sm. 4to, old russia blind tooled, gilt edges, neatly rebacked, VERY RARE. £145 Dedication to the Earle of Oxforde, To my loving friend Thomas Bedingfield (by the Earl of Oxford), The Earle of Oxenforde to the Reader (poem), GEORGE GASCOIGNE to the Reader (poem), THOMAS CHURCHYARD, gentleman, to the Reader, THOMAS CHURCHYARD in the behalf of the book (poem), (12 pp.). 66 66 A RARE SHAKESPEAREAN SOURCE BOOK, ESPECIALLY RELATING TO THE CHARACTER OF Hamlet. An extraordinarily rare and highly important Shakespearean volume. It was, says Douce (who only knew the edition of 1576), in his "Illustrations" of Hamlet, 66 66 a book which Shakespeare had certainly read." Again in his 'Illustrations" of Macbeth he says: Whoever will take the trouble of reading over the whole of Cardanus' second book as traslated by Bedingfield, will soon be convinced that it had been perused by Shakespeare." And Hunter says that "it seems to be the book which Shakespeare placed in the hands of Hamlet." Hunter's account of it is so important that it is here transcribed in full. 66 Having shown that the Poet's original intention was that Hamlet should give utterence to the sertiments, in this celebrated soliliquy immediately on having perused a certain book, it becomes a point of reasonable curiosity, to inquire whether Shakespeare had more particularly in his mind any one book, and if so what book it was. The passage would lose something of its effect, if we supposed that the whole was merely artificial, that there was no one book thought of, but the mind was thrown upon a confused heap of writers of all ages, who may have touched upon these awful topics. This would lead to the conclusion that there was some one book more particularly in his mind, and it may, I think, be determined what particular book it was. وو "Douce had noticed the resemblance between the expression "To die-to sleep-No more?' and the following passage 'In the Holy Scripture, death is not accounted otherwise than sleep, and to die is to sleep.' This passage occurs in a book entitled Cardanus Comforte and this seems to be the book which Shakespeare placed in the hands of Hamlet. of be "It was one of the many treatises written by one of the most extraordinary persons of the sixteenth century, Jerome Cardan, best known in our times as the inventor of the rule for solving equations of three dimensions in a particular case. The treatise written by him entitled Comfort attracted the attention of Edward Vere, Earl Oxford, who was much abroad, and who caused an English translation of it to published in 1573. The translation was made by Thomas Bedingfield one of the Gentlemen Pensioners of Queen Elizabeth, and there are prefixed to it commendatory verses by Thomas Churchyard, who says of it: This book bewrays that wretched wrack belongs to life of man. What burthens bore he on his back since first this world began.' Here we have the 'who would fardels bear' of the monologue.' "The treatise is divided into three books. In the first we have an enumeration and description of various calamities to which man is subject. In the second the author treats of the alleviation of them, and comes to the conclusion that Death is the object most worthy the desire of man. In the third he illustrates the vain desires of men, and shews how their own faults and whims are the chief cause of their misfortune. "The whole of the first and second books we perceive a close resemblance to the subject of this soliliquising; but the following passages seem to approach so near to the thoughts of Hamlet, that we can hardly doubt that they were in the Poet's mind when he put his speech into the mouth of his hero: How much were it better to follow the counsels of Agathius, who right well commended death, saying, that it did not |