Ite hodie armati grippis, drivare caballos Hic aderant Geordy Akinhedius et little Johnus Et Jamy Richæus, et stout Michael Hendersonus, Qui gillatis pulchris ante alios dansare solebat, Et bobbare bene, et lassas kissare boneas; Duncan Olyphantus, valde stalvertus, et ejus Filius eldestus jolyboyus, atque Olmondus, Qui pleugham lango gaddo drivare solebat; Et Hob Gyb wantonus homo, atque Oliver Hutchin Et plouchy-fac'd Waty Strang, atque inkneed Alisander Atkin, Et Wily Dick, heavy-arstus homo Insuper hic aderant Tom Taylor et Henry Watsonus, Et Tomy Gilchristus et fool Jocky Robinsonus, Andrew Atshenderus, et Jamy Thomsonus, et unus Norland-bornus homo, valde valde anti-covenanter, Nomine Gordonus, valde black-mondus, et alter (Heu piget ignoro nomen!) slavry-beardius homo, Qui pottas diltavit, et assas jecerit extra." Vitarva having thus mustered her forces, addresses Geordy in the front of the ranks, whom she had chosen as her foreman, "et inter stoutissimus omnes," and commands him and his attendants to yoke the horses to the muck-carts, and to drive them in the very front of the windows of Neberna: "In cartis yokkato omnes, extrahito muckam "The "The march begins in military state," and the invaders are immediately assailed by the hastily collected inmates of Neberna. Vitarva is at first appalled at the numbers and threats of her opponent, but at length she recovers her courage, and the dirt begins to fly! "O quale hoc hurly burly fuit, si forte vidisses In faciem girnavit atrox, et Tigrida facta Per Ter quater exclamat, et ô quam sæpe nisavit Disjuniumque omne evomuit valde hungrius homo, Lausavitque supra, atque infra, miserabile visu, Et luggas necko imponens, sic cucurrit absens Et fy fy! exclamat, prope nunc victoria lossa est. Exit Corngrevius wracco omnia tendere videns, James the Fifth's poem of "Christ's Kirk on the Green," has been so often reprinted that it is needless to say much in this place; but it may be observed that the language in this edition is so polished, and the orthography so changed, as to give it the air of a modern rather than an ancient Scottish poem. VOL. III. B B The The notes to both are curious and valuable; and if Drummond's poems are re-published, which I have been long taught to expect, it were prudent to retain them. I have now only to add the three concluding lines of the preface before me: "Si hæc placeant bene erit, si nonтws xaλws; moriones enim æque morantur scommata et plausus. Utere, fruere, Lector, et salve." O. G. ART. V. Ancient Prices of Books. The following curious items, relative to the prices of books, are extracted from an authentic Household Book of "the golden days of good Queen Bess." Anno 1564. Iteme, for booke of the dysease of horses, honest men Iteme, pd. for a Lytlton in English iiij.d. xx.d. Iteme, for a Diologge betwine the cap and the heade ij.d. Iteme, pd. for the booke of the ij Englishe lovers vj.d. Iteme, for a French booke called the his torye de noster temes xvj.d. Iteme, pd. for iij French bookes, the on called Pawlus Jovius XX.S. WILLIAM HAMPER. ART. ART. VI. The Negotiations of Thomas Woolsey the great Cardinall of England, containing his life and death; viz. 1. The originall of his promotion. 2. The continuance in his magnificence. 3. His fall, death, and buriall. Composed by one of his own servants, being his Gentleman-Usher. London. Printed for William Sheeres. 1641. 4to. pp. 118. With a print of Wolsey. ART. VII. The life and death of Thomas Woolsey, Cardinal; once Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellour of England. Containing 1. The original of his promotion, and the way he took to obtain it. 2. The continuance in his magnificence. 3. His negotiations concerning the peace with France and the Netherlands. 4. His fall, death, and buriall. Wherein are things remarkable for these times. Written by one of his own servants, being his Gentleman Usher. London. Printed for Dorcas Newman, and are to be sold at the Chyrur→ geon's Armes in Little Brittain, near the Hospitalgate. 1667. Dedicated to Duod. pp. 157. Henry, Marquis of Dorchester. The former of these is the first edition of Sir Wil Jiam Cavendish's Memoirs of Wolsey. It is not mentioned in Kippis's Biogr. Brit. III. 324, (Art. Cavendish) nor in Collins's account of Sir W. C. in his "Noble Families." The first impression, there registered, is that of 1667, printed for Dorcas Newman. It was again reprinted in 1707, duod. A very fair and valuable MS. copy of these memoirs is |