sundrie times acted by the Right Honourable the Earle of Pembrooke his Servants.

Printed at London, by P. S. for Thomas Millington, and are to be sold at his Shoppe, under Saint Peters Church in Cornwal. 1595."

This is in Duodecimo. It is, in the eyes of Collectors, invaluable. Mr. Chalmers purchased it for something more than six pounds, at the sale of Dr. Pegge's books: but if it were now exposed to sale, it would not improbably produce fifty.

Mr. Chalmers, in his Supplemental Apology, has produced some most extraordinary and convincing proofs, that Shakspeare copied much of this play from one of Marlow's on the same subject. I shall only produce two lines, and refer the curious reader, for other particulars, to Mr. Chalmers's volume, above referred to, p 293, et seq.

MARLOW.

GLOS. What will the aspiring blood of Lancaster Sink into the ground, I had thought it would have mounted.

LOS.

SHAKSPEARE.

What! will the aspiring blood of Lancaster

Sink in the ground, I thought it would have mounted.

KEMBLE

KEMBLE COLLECTION.

I NEXT proceed to make my acknowledgments to Mr. Kemble, whose name I am happy to introduce on this occasion, because it gives me the opportunity of declaring how proud I am of his friendship, which I have enjoyed for a long series of years. As soon as I explained to him the intention I had in view, his stores were immediately opened to me; and what is more, he discovered an eager promptness to point out the more rare and curious articles in the Garrick Collection, which I was anxious to ascertain, but which were out of the ordinary habits of my studies.

Of the many rarities in his collection, I mention that first which seems to be the greatest, which is not only not in the possession of any other collector, but which is asserted in Baker's Biographia Dramatica, to exist only in manuscript. Mr. Kemble had the good fortune to meet with it accidentally on a stall in perfect condition, and to purchase it for a very trifle The following is its description:

"A NEWE ENTERLUDE, drawen oute of the Holy Scripture, of Godly Queene Hester, verye necessary.

necessary. Newly made and imprinted this pre

sent Yere, M.D.LXI.

Com nere vertuous matrons and women kind,

Here may ye

learne of Hesters duty,

In all comlines of vertue you shall finde
How to behave yourselves in humilitie.

This is in black letter. At the end we find "Imprynted at London, by Wyllyam Pickerynge and Thomas Hacket, and are to be solde at theyr Shoppes."

It is by no means easy to comprehend what the use or importance of this same Hardy Dardy is in this piece.

He is, it seems, introduced as a kind of Buffoon; and the following is his first speech. He onters as the King Assuerus leaves the place.

HARDY DARDY.

A proverbe as men say, a dogge hath a day

When so ever that it chaunce,

He that wyll drinke wine and hath never, a vine,

Muste sende or goe to Fraunce.

And yf he do not endure he cannot,

He muste nedes shrynke.

Shrinke, yea say that againe, for it is a great paine

To be with out drynke.

In such case am I, I sware by Goddes pety,

I lacke both drynke and meate.

But as I say, a dogge hath a day,

For now I truste to get;

My tyme is come for to get some

If I be not lette.

It is the common worde Aman is a Lorde

And Amau is of price.

And hath perdye all this cuntric,

At his rewell and device.

2.

To weare his bage and marke,

An office I wold beare, and it noughte elles wheare
But the Keper of his Parke.

"THE BLOODIE BANQUET. A Tragedie.

Hector adest secumque deos in prælia ducit.

Nos hæc novimus esse nihil.

By T. D.

London.

3. "THE TRAGEDIE OF CLAUDIUS TrBERIUS NERO, Romes greatest Tyrant. Truly represented out of the purest records of these. lines:

Et studio et labore.

London. Printed for Francis Burton, dwelling in Paules Church Yard, at the Signe of the Flower-de-Luce and Crowne. 1607."

The

The above is thus introduced:

Ad Lectores.

Instead of prologue to my play,

Observe the one thing I shall say.

`I use no sceane supposed as many doe,

But make the truth my sceane and actors too;
For

Of Romes great Tyrant I the storie tell,

And what unto that state in Neroes raign befel.

4. "CORONA MINERVE, or a Masque, presented before Prince Charles, His Highnesse The Duke of Yorke his Brother, and the Lady Mary his Sister, the 27th of February, at the Colledge of the Museum Minervæ.

London. Printed for William Sheares. 1635." 5. "THE GOLDSMITHS JUBILE, or Londons Triumphs, containing a Description of the several Pageants in which are represented emblematical Figures, artful Pieces of Architecture and rural Dancing, with the Speeches spoken on each Pageant, performed October 29, 1674, for the Entertainment of the Right Honourable and truly noble Pattern of Prudence and Loyalty, Sir Robert Vyner, Kt. and Bart. Lord Mayor of the City of London, at the proper costs and charges of the worshipful Company of Goldsmiths.

The King's Most Sacred Majesty and his Royal Consort, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York, Prince Rupert, the Duke of Monmouth, several Foreign Ambassadours,