All such as know you thinke the same,
But in ech kind you are beguilde;

For when you looke for praises sound,
Then are you for light fisgiggs crownde.

The better sort, that modest are,

Whom garish pompe doth not infect,
Of them Dame Honour hath a care,
With glorious fame that they be deckt :
Their praises will for aie remaine,
When bodies rot, shall vertue gaine.

Thou poet rude, if thou be scorn'd,
Disdaine it not; for preachers grave
Are still dispis'd by faces hornde,
When they for better manners crave:
That hap which fals on men divine,
If thou it feele, doe not repine.

I know some think my tearmes are grosse;
Too plaine thou art, some others deeme:
Be not agast, thy foes are drosse ;

Full well doth rudnesse them beseeme.
Who thee mislike, are but a messe,
And here their kinds I will expresse.

First, a simple swaine that nothing knowes;
Next, curtaile flurt, as ranke as beast;
Then peacocke proud that statelie goes;
Last, roisting knaves of vertue least.
None els but these will thee disdaine :
Contemne them all as causes vaine.

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Good men of skill doe know it well,

That these our dayes require such speech;
Who oft are moved with threats of hell,
Whome preachers still in vaine beseech,
Is any knife too sharpe for such,

Or

any word for them too much?

Let fearfull poets pardon crave,
That seeke for praise at everie lips;
Doe thou not favor, nor yet rave:

The golden meane is free from trips.
This lesson old was taught in schooles;
Its praise to be dispraisde of fooles.

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heads Prophesie.

PIECE of Friar Bacons Brazen-heads Prophesie. By William Terilo. London. Printed by T. C. for Arthur Iohnson, dwelling in Powles Church-yard, at the Signe of the white Horse. 1604. 4to. 18 leaves.

This well-written and entertaining tract has been already printed for the Percy Society; but it deserves on more than one account reproduction here. In presenting it to the reader once more, a careful collation of the original text has been obtained from the only known copy, which is among Burton's books at Oxford. It is bound up with several other rare articles.

The press-mark of the volume is J. 27, and the following is a list of the contents:

1. Heywood, (Tho.,) First and Second Parts of King Edward IV, a play. 1613.

2. Hero and Leander.

Begun by Christopher Marlowe, and

finished by George Chapman. 1606.

3. King James his Entertainment at Theobalds. By John

Savile.

1603.

4. Skelton's Elinour Rumming.

5. Newton's Atropeion Delion.

1624. 1603.

6. A Piece of Friar Bacons Brazen-heads Prophesie. 1604. 7. The Legend of Humphrey Duke of Gloucester. By Chr. Middleton. 1600.

8. The Countess of Pembroke's Ivychurch. By A. Fraunce. Parts I. and II. only.

1591.

9. Lamentations of Amyntas for the Death of Phillis. Tasso. Transl. by A. Fraunce. [1587.]

By

10. The Ethiopian History of Heliodorus, translated by Underdowne.

1587.

11. Countess of Pembroke's Emanuel. By A. Fraunce.

1591.

It is not possible, as far as our information goes at present, to identify William Terilo with any known writer of James the First's reign. The name itself is pretty evidently fictitious.

The author has resorted to the "Famous History of Friar Bacon" for little more than the fatal words Time is Past, which gave the deathblow to the Friar's ever memorable scheme for surrounding his country with a wall of brass, superseding all other defences, and making the modern system of Ironclads look like child's play by comparison!

White Horfe.

1604.