one of the said Captaines, and sent to Sir Walter Ralegh, Knight, at whose charge and direction the said Voyage was set forth.' First printed in Hakluyt's third volume (London, 1600). Our text is that of the reprint of 1809-11.

AN AFFAIR OF HONOUR

From Chapter vi. of The Life of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney. . 'Written by Sir Fulke Grevile, Lord Brook, a Servant to Queen Elizabeth, and his Companion and Friend.' Printed after the text of the editio princeps (1652) but set here in the year of Sidney's death.

THE LAST FIGHT OF THE REVENGE'

From A Report of the Truth of the fight about the Isles of Azores this last summer, betwixt The Revenge, One of Her Maiestie's Shippes and an Armada of the King of Spain: Written some few weeks after the event by Sir Walter Raleigh and published the same year (1591) by William Ponsonby. Our text is based on that of Mr. Arber's reprint (1871).

GLORIANA

From the Memoirs of His Own Life: written some time before 1607, when the author died, by Sir James Melville, of Halhill, and for the first time accurately printed for the Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh 1827) from what is held to be the Author's own manuscript.

JOHN DAVYS THE NAVIGATOR

Excerpted from The last Voyage of the worshipfull M. Thomas Candish, Esquire, intended for the South Sea, the Philippines and the coast of China, with 3 tall ships and two barks: 'Written by M. John Jane, a man of good observation, imployed in the same and many other voyages.' Cavendish set out on this most disastrous expedition in 1591; but this story of Davys's part in it, the work of his supercargo, could not have been written till after 1593. under which date it is here presented. It first appeared in Hakluyt's fourth volume, and is here reprinted from the edition of 1809-1811. Authorities (it is to be noted) spell the Navigator's name with a y to distinguish him from a contemporary seaman, John Davis of Limehouse.

THE DIVINE ARETINE

From The Unfortunate Traveller, or the Life of Jack Wilton, 1594. Our text is modernised from the edition 'printed and issued by Charles Whittingham & Co., at the Chiswick Press, MDCCCXCII.'

DISCOVERING GUIANA

From The Discouerie of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana, with a Relation of the Great and Golden City of Manoa (which the Spaniards call El Dorado) And the provinces of Emeria, Arromaia, Amapaia, and other countries with their riuers adioyning: Performed in the yeare 1595 by Sir W. Ralegh, Knight, Captaine of Her Maiestie's Guard, Ld. Warden of the Stanneries, and her Highnesse Lieutenant Generall of the Countie of Cornewall. Our text is that of the editio princeps: 'Imprinted at London by Robert Robinson, 1596.'

THE MEN IN BUCKRAM

From Act ii., Scene 4, of The History of Henry the Fourth; With the Battell at Shrewsburie, between the King and Lord Henry Percy, surnamed Henrie Hotspur of the North; with the Humoures conceits of Sir John Falstaffe. "At London, printed by P. S. for Andrew Wise, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the sign of the Angell.' Our text is that presented by Mr. Aldis Wright in Vol. iv. of The Works of William Shakespeare (London, 1891), itself a revised version of that of the First Folio (1623).

A PLOT AGAINST THE THRONE

From The First Part of the Life and Raigne of Henrie IIII. extending to the end of the first yeare of his Raigne. Written by Sir John Hayward; published in 1599; and reprinted in 1642, which edition is here followed.

THE PASSAGE OF THE ALPS

From Book XXI. of Philemon Holland's translation of Livy's Romane Historie, London, 1600. Our text is that of the editio princeps.

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JULIUS CAESAR

Excerpted from The Historie of Spurina,' Book 11. Chapter 33, of the Essaies Written in French by Michael Lord of Montaigne: 'Done into English according to the Last French Edition, by John Florio, Reader of the Italian Tongue unto the Soveraigne Maiestie of Anna, Queen of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, etc., and one of the gentlemen of her Royale Priuie Chamber.' Printed in 1603. Our text is that of the edition of 1632.

THE MOST CHRISTIAN KING

From Book vi., Chapters 8 and 12, of The Historie of Philip de Commines, Knight, Lord of Argenton. Translated by Thomas Danett, London, 1601.

TAMERLANE

Excerpted from The Generall Historie of the Turkes from the first beginning of that Nation to the rising of the Othoman Familie... by Richard Knolles, London, 1603. Our text is that of the Sixth Edition, London, 1689.

TWO CHARACTERS

No. vi. of the 'Characterisms of Virtues,' and No. VIII. of the 'Characterisms of Vices,' contained in the Characters of Virtues and Vices. In Two Books (1608). Written by Joseph Hall, D.D., successively Bishop of Exeter and Norwich. Our text is that of the edition of Hall's Works, in Ten Volumes, prepared by Josiah Pratt, and published at London in 1808.

A COMPLETE GALLANT

From Chapter v. of The Gull's Hornbook, written by Thomas Dekker, and 'Imprinted at London for R.S., 1609.' Our text is that of Mr. Saintsbury's reprint in Elizabethan and Jacobean Pamphlets ('Pocket Library'), 1892.

THREE CHARACTERS

Selected from the set of Characters,' or 'Wittie Descriptions of the Properties of Sundry Persons,' issued (1616) with the Ninth Impression of Sir Thomas Overbury's poem,' A Wife. The first edition of that work, dated 1614, appeared a few months after Overbury's death in the September of 1613: to the second, also of 1614, there were added 'many wittie characters' twenty-one, to speak by the card-'written by himself and other learned Gentlemen, his friends'; still more were included in subsequent editions, till in the ninth, the original of Dr. Rimbault's (1856), from which our text is modernised, the list is full eighty strong. Overbury's part in the work is. therefore, impossible to determine. But the authorship of our second excerpt, A Tinker' (Sixth Edition, 1615), with that of two others, 'An Apparitor' and 'An Almanack Maker,' was claimed by one J. Cocke.

THE PROVING OF ALIPIU

Book VI., Chapters 8 and 9, of The Confessiones of the Incomparable Doctour, S. Augustine: Translated by Sir Tobie Mathew, and printed at London in 1620.

A WONDER FOR WISE MEN

From The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh: 'Written (1621) by the Right Honourable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban,' and Printed' (at London) 'by W. Staresby, for Matthew Lownes and William Barret, 1622.' Our text is that set forth in the Sixth Volume of Spedding's edition of the Works of Francis Bacon (London, 1858).

STEPS IN HIS SICKNESS

Meditations, I., II., III., and IV., in Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Several Steps in my Sickness, Digested into (1) Meditations upon our Human Conditions; (2) Expostulations and Debatements with God; (3) Prayers upon the several occasions to Him: by John Donne, Dean of St. Paul's: London, 1624. Our text is that of Dean Álford's edition, London, 1839.

Two PILGRIMS

1. From The Second Voyage of John Davis with Sir Edward Michelbourne, Knight, into the East Indies, in the Tigre, a ship of two hundred and forty tonnes, with a pinnace called the Tigre's Whelpe. Printed (1625) in Part I., Book 3, of Purchas his Pilgrims. II. From William Hore's Discourse of his Voyage in the Dragon and Expedition from Surat to Achen. Printed in Part I., Book 5, of the same collection. These adventures, dated severally 1605, and 1619, are grouped under a common date, which is that of the publication of Purchas his book.

SOME UNIVErsity CharaCTERS.

From the first edition, 1628, of Microcosmographie, or, A Peece of the World Discovered in Essayes and Characters: Attributed (1624) to John Earle, M.A., Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, afterwards Dean of Westminster, 1660, Bishop of Worcester, 1662, and Bishop of Salisbury, 1663. Our text is that of Mr. Arber's reprint (1862).

AN UNEQUAL COMBAT

From The Private Memoirs of Sir Kenelm Digby: Gentleman of the Bedchamber to King Charles the First: Written by Himself. The MS., which Digby entitled Loose Fantasies, was first edited in 1827 by Sir Harris Nicholas. The characters are pseudonymous: Theagenes being Sir Kenelm himself, while Leodivius is probably the son of the Countess of Bristol by her first husband, Sir John Dive, and Alexandria is certainly Madrid. The passage is quoted under date of 1629, at which year the record ceases.

THREE CHARACTERS

From the Second Edition (1635) of William Habington's Castara. text is that of Mr. Arber's reprint (1870) of the edition of 1640.

A BOUT WITH THE ADVERSARY

Our

From the Memoirs of the Rev. Robert Blair (1593-1666), printed-not in their integrity-in 1754, and republished by the Wodrow Society in 1848. The passage is quoted by Sharpe, pp. 114-116, in his edition of Law's Memorials (Edinburgh, 1818).

A STRATAGEM

From Book 111. of Naval Tracts, written by Sir William Monson (15691636), first published in Churchill's Voyages and Travels. Our text is that of the Third Edition (lii. 225-228): Printed by assignment from Messrs. Churchill for Henry Lintot and John Osborn, at the Golden Bull in Paternoster Row,' London, 1745. The extract is printed under date of Monson's death.

A COVENANTING ARMY

From Vol. I. of the Letters and Journals of Robert Baillie (1602-1661), Principal (1661) of the University of Glasgow. Edited by David Laing for the Bannatyne Club, and printed at Edinburgh for Robert Ogle in 1841.

'CAREY'S RAID'

From the Memoirs of Robert Carey, Earl of Monmouth (1559-1639), written by Himself. Published (1759) at London, from the original MS.,' with a Preface and Notes by the Earl of Orrery and Corke. Reprinted for Archibald Constable and John Murray at Edinburgh in 1808, with annotations by Walter Scott, who remarks that in his time the feat of arms depicted in our excerpt was still remembered in Liddisdale as 'Carey's Raid.' 'The extract is given under date of Carey's death.

A NIGHT'S ADVENTURES

From Book 11., 'The Lady Cornelia,' one of the Exemplarie Novells, of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: 'Turned into English by Don Diego PuedeSer.' London, 1640.

TWO FAVOURITES

From the Fragmenta Regalia of Sir Robert Naunton (d. 1635) Knight, 'One of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, and Master of the Court of Wards and Liveries.' Written (Mr. Arber thinks) about 1630, and first printed in 1641, under which date it is here presented. Our text is edited from that of Mr. Arber's reprint (1870) of the edition of 1653.

DISCOVERIES

Selected and arranged from Ben Jonson's Timber, or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter, As they have Flowed out of his Daily Readings; or Had their Reflux to His Peculiar Notion of the Times. 'Written,' says Gifford, 'for the most part subsequently to 1630,' and first printed in the folio of 1641. Our text is that presented in the Ninth Volume of Gifford's edition, London, 1816.

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE-THE TRUE GENTLEMAN

From Thomas Fuller's Holy and Profane State, 1642. Reprinted from Pickering's edition, 1846.

A VISION OF ENGLAND

From Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing. To the Parliament of England: London, 1644.

A KING OF FRANCE

Excerpted from Book 1., Section 1, Letter xviii., of the Epistolae Ho-Elianae, Familiar Letters, Domestic and Foreign, of James Howell, Esq.; One of the Clerks of his late Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council.' The letter, which is addressed To Sir James Crofts, from Paris,' is dated 12 May 1620; but, whether written then or not, it was published as late as 1645, under which year it is here presented. Our text is revised from that of Mr. Jacobs's reprint of 1891-3.

LUTHER AT WORMS

From the Familiar Discourses of Dr. Martin Luther at his Table: Translated from the High German (1646) by Captain Henry Bell. The text is that of the edition of 1791.

A PRIVATE BRAWL

From the Autobiography written by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582-3-1648), somewhere after 1642, and printed at Strawberry Hill by Horace Walpole in 1764. Given under date of Herbert's death, from Mr. Sidney Lee's edition, 1886.