SUCKLING (SIR JOHN).

line here and there, suggests to us what the metre is supposed to be, and occasionally, such a line as 'Oh! it is wisdom and great thrift to die! proves that Suckling had it in him to write blank verse."-REV. RONALD BAYNE, M.A.

In all his plays, he has a trick of appropriating SHAKESPEAREAN phrases and lines, and the following are some which may be found in The Discontented Colonell. "Grainevert. So pale and spiritlesse a wretch,

Drew Priam's curtaine in the dead of night,
And told him halfe his Troy was burnt-” II., i.
"Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless,

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So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone,

Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night,

And would have told him half his Troy was burnt."

SHAKESPEARE'S Henry IV., Part 2, L., : i.

'Iphigenea. Will you not send me neither,
Your picture when y'are gone?

That when my eye is famisht for a looke,
It may have where to feed

And to the painted feast invite my heart."-V., i.
"Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took
And each doth now good turn unto the other
When that mine eye is famished for a look,
Or heart is love with sighs himself doth smother,
With my loves picture then mere eye doth feast
And to the painted banquet bids my heart."

"Iph.!

Shee's gone :

SHAKESPEARE'S Sonnet, 47.

Shee's gone. Life like a Dials hand hath stolne
From me the faire figure, ere it was perceiv'd."-V., i.

"Ah! yet doth beauty like a dial-hand

Steal from his figure and no pace perceived.”

BRAITHWAITE (RICHARD).

4089 Ar't Asleep Husband.

SHAKESPEARE's Sonnet, 104.

A BOULSTER LECTURE, STORED WITH ALL VARIETY OF WITTY JESTS, MERRY TALES, AND POESY, Antiente and Moderne History, illustrated with Examples of Incomparable Constancy, in the excellent History of Philocles and Doricles. R. Bishop for R. B., 1640. FIRST EDITION, very fine impression of the curious engraved frontispiece by WILLIAM MARSHALL. (See Reproduction.) Small 8vo, A FINE CÓPY, old russia, yellow edges.

£15 15s

An exceedingly scarce and curious volume of interesting pieces in Prose and Verse, containing the two poems at end, "Menippus, his Madrigal to his Coy-duck Clarabel," and Love's Festival at Lust's Funeral," which are often wanting.

LUPTON (DONALD).

4089a The Glory of Their Times: OR, THE LIVES OF YE PRIMITIVE FATHERS, Contayning their Chiefest Actions, Workes, Sentences, and Deaths. Aske thy father, and hee will shew thee, Ask thy Elders and they will tell thee. Deu. 32, 7. 1. Okes, and are to be sold in Pauls Church-yard at the White Lyon. 1640. Engraved title-page in compartments by G. Glover, and numerous portraits in text. EDITION. Small 4to, old calf.

FIRST

£2 15s

NABBES (THOMAS).

4090 The Bride, a COMEDIE. Acted in the yeere 1638, at the private house in Drury-Lane by their Majesties Servants. The Author, THOMAS NABBES. R. H. for Lawrence Blaikelocke, 1640. FIRST EDITION. 4to, half calf, interleaved and cut close, A CHEAP COPY. £2 2s

Dedication to the Generalty, Prologue, Epilogue (4 pp.). The Scene, London. There is an interesting character in this play, Mrs. Terret, the imperious wife, which has been compared to Jonson's Mistress Otter.

Dedication to Cornet George Porter, and Mr. Charles Porter (by W.A.). (1 p.).

WEBSTER (JOHN).

Play

4092 The Dutchesse of Malfy. A TRAGEDY. As it was approvedly well acted at the Black-Friers, By his Majesties Servants. The perfect and exact Copy, with divers things Printed, that the length of the Play would not beare in the Presentment. Written by JOHN WEBSTER. J. Raworth, for J. Benson. 1640. Small 4to, half calf. £4 14s 6d Dramatis Personæ (1 p.).

CHARLES I.

4093 The Impeachment and Articles of complaint against Father Philips The Queenes Confessor. LATELY COMMITTED TO THE TOWER, by the Hon. and High Court of Prlmnt., Nov. 2, 1641. As also, THE COMMITTING OF THREE OF THE QUEENES SERVANTS, that came to visit him; who deny to take the Oath of Supremacie, and the Protestation. With THE PLOT ABOUT THE TOWER, supposed to rescue him out, or some such Evill Designe. Printed for A. J., 1641. Small 4to, rough woodcut of Father Philips occupies last leaf. 8 pp., sewn. £1 1s

Two Traga Comedies
As they were presented at the
Phoenix in Drury-Lane, by her
Mties Servants.

Written by Tho. Killigrew, Gent.
Printed by T. Cotes, for Andrew Crooke,
and are to be sold at his shop, at the
signe of the Greene Dragon in Pauls
Church-Yard. 1641.

(Separate titles.) THE PRISONERS. A Traga-Comedy. Tho. Cotes, 1640.-CLARACILLA. A Traga-Comedy.

Tho.

Cotes, 1641. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, morocco extra. EXTREMELY RARE.

£28

Verses to Mr. Thomas Killigrew, by H. Benet, Robert Waring, William Cartwright, and another in Latin by the same. (10 pp.). The Prisoners with the date 1640 is unrecorded; it is always given as 1641.

[WENTWORTH (THOMAS, Earl of Strafford)].

4095 Canterburies Dreame: IN WHICH THE APPARITION OF CAR-
DINALL WOLSEY did present himself unto him on the fourteenth of
May last past: It being The Third night after my LORD OF STRAF-
FORD HAD TAKEN HIS FARE-WELL TO THE WORLD.
Printed in the Yeare 1641. Quaint engraving on title, showing the
Archbp in bed, with the ghost of Wolsey. (See Reproduction.)—The
Downfall of the Bailiffs: OR A LASH FOR YOUR 'BUMMS Wherein
The Oppressions, Extortions, and Villanies of Catch-Poles, Serjeants,
Bayliffs, and Marshall men, with their Yeomen, Followers, and under-
Letter of Setting Dogs, are fully exposed and detected in their proper
colours. By GOODLOVE FREEMAN, Esq. Thomas Grumbleton,* 1675.
In one vol., small 4to, half calf.
£8 8s

POTTER (FRANCIS).

4096 An Interpretation of the Number 666. WHEREIN NOT ONELY THE MANNER, HOW THIS NUMBER OUGHT TO BE INTERPRETED is clearly proved and Demonstrated, but it is also shewed yt this Number is an exquisite and perfect Character, truly, exactly and essentially describing that state of Government, to wth all other notes of Antichrist doe agree. With all knowne objections solidly and fully answered yt can be materially made against it. By FRANCIS POTTER, B.D. Oxford: Leonard Lichfield, 1642. Engraved front. (See Reproduction.) Small 4to, half vellum, boards.

£9 9s

Canterburies

DREAME:

IN WHICH

The Apparition of Cardinall Wolfey did present himselfe unto him on the fourtenth of May last past :

It being

The third night after my Lord of STRAFFORD had taken his fare-well to the WORLD.

Printed in the yeare 1641.

[WENTWORTH (THOMAS, Earl of Stafford)].
CANTERBURIES DREAME. 1641.
(See No. 4095.)

THORNDIKE (HERBERT). 4097 Of Religious Assemblies, AND THE PUBLICK SERVICE OF GOD: A Discourse According to Apostolicall Rule and Practice. By HERBERT THORNDIKE. Cambridge: Roger Daniel, 1642. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, sprinkled calf, yellow edges.

BERKSHIRE.

18s

WHERE

4098 A Letter Sent to the Hon. William Lenthall, Esq. IN IS TRUELY RELATED THE GREAT VICTORY OBTAINED BY GOD'S BLESSING BY THE BY THE PARLIAMENTS ARMY AGAINST THE KINGS FORCES NEER NEWBERY, on Sunday, the 27 of this present October. Which Letter was read in the House of Commons, and ordered to be printed. E. Husbands. Oct. 29, 1644. Black Letter. Small 4to, half calf. 15s

GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

4099 A True Relation of a Wicked Plot, INTENDED AND STILL ON FOOT AGAINST THE CITY OF GLOCESTER, TO BETRAY THE SAME INTO THE HANDS OF THE CAVALIERS. Discovered by Capt. Backhouse, who was wrought upon to have betrayed the same by the Solicitation of one Edward Stanford, Esq. Together with severall Letters from my Lord Digby, and Sir William Vavasour, to Capt. Backhouse, concerning the said design. E. Husbands. May 7, 1644. Small 4to, calf, some foredges a little shaved.

12s 6d

GOUGH (WILLIAM). 4100 Mercie's Memoriall SET OUT IN A SERMON preached in Paul's Church, Nov. 17, 1644, in memoriall of the great deliverance which England had from Antichristian bondage by Queen Elizabeth attaining the Crowne. By WILLIAM GOUGHE. George Miller, 1465. Small 4to, sewn. 7s 6d

M.L.L., St: of Ch. Ch. in Oxon.
Printed in the yeare 1646.

FIRST EDITION.
SCARCE.

12mo, old calf, a few headlines just shaved, £8 8s

Dedicated to James Duke of Yorke, Poems by J.B., J.C., E.G., J.F., W.C., J.H., W.B. Table (12 pp.).

QUARLES (FRANCIS). 4102 Midnights Meditations of Death, WITH PIIUS AND PROFITABLE OBSERVATIONS AND CONSOLATIONS: Perused by Francis Quarles a little before his Death. Published by E[dward] B[enlowes]. John Macock, 1646. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, engraving with verses facing, old calf, RARE.

£15 15s