Part 10

Some account of bishop Earle 186

Characters of bishop Earle 194

List of Dr. Earle's Works 197

Lines on sir John Burroughs 199

Lines on the death of the earl of Pembroke 201

Lines on Mr. Beaumont 203

Dedication to the Latin translation of the [Greek: Eikôn Basilikê] 207

Inscription on Dr. Heylin's monument 211

Correspondence between Dr. Earle and Mr. Bagster 213

Inscription in Streglethorp church 217

Chronological List of Books of Characters, from 1567 to 1700 219

Corrections and additions 279

A note on bishop Earle's arms, from Guillim's Heraldry 282

Supplementary Appendix, 1897, (Durham MS., Letters of Earle and Clarendon, etc.) 303

FOOTNOTES:

It will be remarked, that Dr. Earle's name is frequently spelled Earle and Earles in the following pages. Wherever the editor has had occasion to use the name himself, he has invariably called it Earle, conceiving that to be the proper orthography. Wherever it is found Earles, he has attended strictly to the original, from which the article or information has been derived.

TO THE READER.

I have (for once) adventured to play the midwife's part, helping to bring forth these infants into the world, which the father would have smothered; who having left them lapt up in loose sheets, as soon as his fancy was delivered of them, written especially for his private recreation, to pass away the time in the country, and by the forcible request of friends drawn from him: yet, passing severally from hand to hand, in written copies, grew at length to be a pretty number in a little volume: and among so many sundry dispersed transcripts, some very imperfect and surreptitious had liked to have passed the press, if the author had not used speedy means of prevention; when, perceiving the hazard he ran to be wronged, was unwillingly willing to let them pass as now they appear to the world. If any faults have escaped the press (as few books can be printed without), impose them not on the author, I intreat thee; but rather impute them to mine and the printer's oversight, who seriously promise, on the re-impression hereof, by greater care and diligence for this our former default, to make thee ample satisfaction. In the mean while, I remain

Thine,

ED. BLOUNT.

FOOTNOTES:

Gentile, or Gentle, 8th edit. 1650.

Willingly, 8th edit. evidently a typographical error.

Edward Blount, who lived at the Black Bear, Saint Paul's Church-yard, appears to have been a bookseller of respectability, and in some respects a man of letters. Many dedications and prefaces, with as much merit as compositions of this nature generally possess, bear his name, and there is every reason to suppose that he translated a work from the Italian, which is intituled "The Hospitall of Incurable Fooles," &c. 4to. 1600. Mr. Ames has discovered, from the Stationer's Register, that he was the son of Ralph Blount or Blunt, merchant-taylor of London; that he was apprenticed to William Ponsonby, in 1578, and made free in 1588. It is no slight honour to his taste and judgment, that he was one of the partners in the first edition of Shakspeare.

MICROCOSMOGRAPHY;

or,

A piece of the World characterized.

A CHILD