Part 83

To Bliss's notice of {Blount Blunt}; it may be added that "Pericles" was printed for him in 1609; and the first edition of Marlow's "Hero and Leander" in 1598 ["printed for Edward Blunt by Adam Islip" (Philemon Holland's printer)]. Marlow's "First Book of Lucan" (1600) has a humorous and complimentary dedication to Blunt from another bookseller, Thomas Thorpe. See "Earlier History of English Bookselling." (Sampson and Low.)

The second folio Shakespeare (1632) was printed for him.

The 1613 edition of Hero and Leander was printed by W. Stansby for Ed. Blunt. He also published some of Ben Jonson's works.

Sir Henry Savile, Provost of Eton, and editor of the famous Chrysostom, recognised Earle's scholarship. "When a young scholar was recommended to him for a good witt,--Out upon him! I'll have nothing to do with him--he would say, give me the plodding student. If I would look for witts, I would go to Newgate--There be the witts! and John Earle was the only scholar that ever he took as recommended for a witt."--Aubrey.

David Lloyd, "Memoirs," 1668, folio.

"The very Parliament naming him as worthy ... though he thought not it worthy of him."--Ib.

Aubrey calls him "an ingeniose young gent, but no writer."

"Ben Jonson, Edmund Waller, Esq., Mr. Th. Hobbes, and all the excellent witts of that peaceable time."--Aubrey.