Part 80

On 'door-posts' in 'The Aldermen' he quotes, "a pair of such brothers were fitter for posts without dore indeed, to make a shew at a new-chosen magistrate's gate."--The Widow, 4to, 1652.

Of 'Paul's Walk' there is yet one more illustration. "Walk in the middle Ile in Paul's, and gentlemen's teeth walk not faster at ordinaries than there a whole day togeather about inquirie after newes."--Theeves falling out true men come by their good, or the Belman wanted a clapper, 4to, Lond., 1615.

On the Pot-Poet he has a quotation from Whimzies, a new cast of Characters, 8vo, Lond., 1633, an illustration of the "strange monster out of Germany." "Nor comes his invention farre short of his imagination: for want of truer relations, for a neede he can find a Sussex dragone, some sea or Inland monster, drawn out by some Shoe Lane man in a gorgon-like feature, to enforce more horror in the beholder."

At the end of the Characters there is an extract from a letter of Clarendon which mentions that the deanery of Westminster "was designed to a person of very known and confessed merit," (most probably Dr. John Earle) written below. He quotes Anthony Wood on the other side of this leaf for Earle's friendships, with Henry Cary, first Earle of Monmouth--with George Morley, afterwards Bishop of Winchester. Morley and Earle lived together at Antwerp till they were called to attend on the Duke of York in France. Two passages of Anthony Wood, which he does not quote, are worth recalling. Morley was sent by Charles II. to "thank Salmasius for his Apology for his Martyrd father, but not with a purse of gold as Joh. Milton, the impudent lyer, reported." Henry Cary was "well skill'd in the modern languages, and a general scholar"; and thus "was capacitated [by a forced retiredness in the troublesome times of Rebellion] to exercise himself in studies, while others of the nobility were fain to truckle to their inferiors for company sake."

I have only given two title-pages of editions in the year of publication. A table of editions is given on the next page.

Micro-cosmographie;

or,

A Peece of The World discovered; In Essayes and Characters.

Newly composed for the Northerne parts of this Kingdome.

AT LONDON: PRINTED BY W. S., FOR ED. BLOUNT. 1628.

Micro-cosmographie;

or,

A Peece of

The World

discovered;

In Essayes and

Characters.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY WILLIAM STANSBURY, FOR ROBERT ALLOT, 1628.

The last written page of the Durham MS. has by way of Colophon

Finis.

December anno Do This 14th mini day 1627.

"This little volume in calf binding, about 12mo size, is doubtless one of those referred to by Ed. Blount in his address to the Reader. The MS. is written in an exceedingly neat and small hand on the pages of the previously bound book, with margin lines ruled in red. At the top of the first page is written in a different hand, 'Edw. Blunt, Author.' The MS. contains 46 Characters in all, and is free from some evident blunders in the first printed copies, as if they had been done from dictation."

This MS. in the Durham Cathedral Library is entered in the catalogue (of the Hunter MSS.) as "Characters by Edward Blunt," and dated "about 1636," the date in the MS. having been overlooked.

Dr. Fowler in Notes and Queries, Nov. 4th, 1871.

EARLE'S MICROCOSMOGRAPHY.

--------------------------------------+------+----------+-----+-------+-------- | | |Bliss| | |Bliss,| Bliss, |Sale,|British| EDITION. |1811 .| 1812-57. |1858.|Museum |Bodleian --------------------------------------+------+----------+-----+-------+-------- "W. Stansby for Edward Blount," | | | | | 1628(a) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes "W. Stansby for Robert Allot," 1628 | | | | | (b) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No "W. S. for Ed. Blount," 1628 (c)| Yes | | Yes | Yes | Yes 4th | No | No | No | No | No 5th 1629 | Yes | | Yes | Yes | Yes 6th 1630 | No | No | No | Yes | No "6th" 1633 | Yes | | Yes | Yes | Yes 7th 1638 | Yes | | Yes | Yes | Yes (A reprint of one of the | | | | | first four) 1650 | Yes | | Yes | Yes | Yes (Very doubtful) 1659 | No |"Mr. | No | No | No | |Gilchrist"| | | | |told him | | | | |he possessed a | | | |copy by the same| | | |printers as in | | | |1669 but with | | | |"1659." | | | 8th 1664 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No 9th 1669 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No (1669 edition, with new title) 1676 | No | Yes | Yes | No | No (Reprint of 1633 edition) 1732 | Yes | | Yes | Yes | Yes (1732 edition, with new title | | | | | and small changes) 1740 | Yes | | Yes | Yes | Yes (Reprint of 1650 edition) 1786 | Yes | | Yes | Yes | No (Bliss's edition) 1811 | | | Yes | Yes | Yes (Arber's edition) 1868 or 1869 | | | | Yes | Yes --------------------------------------+------+----------+-----+-------+--------

British Museum. Bodleian. Bliss. As to the three 1628 editions-- A is regarded as 1st 2nd 3rd B " " 2nd 3rd 2nd C " " 3rd 1st 1st