(Contains also the fifth book,
pagination
and
signatures following consecutively.
signatures following consecutively.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04
Also A
Dialogue betweene Age and Youth and other matters herein conteined.
(1582. ]
Yong, Bartholomew. Los Sieste Libros de la Diana de Iorge de Mõtemayor.
Valencia. [1559 ? . ]
Diana of George of Montemayor. Trans. 1598.
V. BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM.
Barrett, W. A. English Glee and Madrigal writers. 1877.
Chappell, W. Some account of an Unpublished Collection of Songs and
Ballads by King Henry VIII and his Contemporaries. Archaeologia,
XLI, p. 371.
Courthope, W. J. A History of English Poetry. Vols. 11 (1904) and in (1903).
Elizabethan Lyric, The. Quarterly Review, No. 302, October 1902.
Erskine, J. The Elizabethan Lyric. A Study. New York and London, 1903.
(Contains a bibliography on pp. 315-329. )
Furnivall, F. J. Robert Laneham's Letter; Describing a part of the enter-
tainment unto Queen Elizabeth at the Castle of Kenilworth in 1575,
1907.
Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Ed. Maitland, J. A. F. 5 vols.
1904.
Greg, W. W. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama. A Literary Inquiry
with special reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England. 1906.
## p. 473 (#495) ############################################
Chapter VI
473
Hadow, W. H. The Oxford History of Music. 6 vols. Oxford, 1901-5.
Kastner, L. E. Thomas Lodge as an imitator of the Italian Poets. Modern
Language Review, 11, 2, p. 155, January 1907.
Knaut, C. F. Über die Metrik Robert Greene's. 1890.
Lanier, S. Shakspere and his Forerunners. 2 vols. 1902.
Penner, E. Metrische Untersuchungen zu George Peele. 1890.
Ritson, J. Bibliographia Poetica. 1802.
Saintsbury, G. A History of Elizabethan Literature. 1890.
A History of English Prosody. Vols. 1. (1906) and 11 (1908).
Schelling, F. E. Poetic and verse criticism of the reign of Elizabeth. Publi-
cations of the University of Pennsylvania. 1891.
Scott, C. K. Madrigal Singing. 1907.
Scott, M. A. Elizabethan Translations from the Italian. Modern Language
Association of America, x, XI, XIII and xiv. Baltimore, 1895, 1896, 1898
and 1899.
Stopes, C. C. William Hunnis and the Revels of the Chapel Royal. Bang's
Materialien, 1910.
Symonds J. A. In the key of blue and other prose essays. 1893. (Lyrics
from Elizabethan Song-Books, p. 265. )
Essays Speculative and Suggestive. Third edition. 1907. (A Com-
parison of Elizabethan with Victorian Poetry, p. 365. )
Tappan, E. M. Nicholas Breton. Modern Language Association, XIII.
Baltimore, 1898.
Tovey, D. C. Reviews and Essays. 1897.
Warton, T. The History of English Poetry. 3 vols. 1774-81.
Wood, Anthony à. Athenae Oxonienses. Ed. Bliss, P. 1820.
CHAPTER VII
ROBERT SOUTH WELL. SAMUEL DANIEL
Andrews, John. Anatomie of Basenesse. 1615. Rptd in Grosart's Fuller
Worthies’ Library, vol. II.
Barret, Robert (A. 1600). For his epic The Sacred Warr, see D. of N. B.
ROBERT CHESTER,
Lores Martyr: or Rosalins Complaint. Allegorically shadowing the truth of
Love, in the constant Fate of the Phænix and Turtle. A Poeme enter-
laced with much varietie and raritie; now first translated out of the
venerable Italian Torquato Cæliano, by Robert Chester. With the true
legend of famous King Arthur. . . . 1601. Reissued as: The Annals of
great Brittaine. Or, A Most Excellent Monument, wherein may be
seene all the antiqnities of the kingdome. . 1611. Ed. Grosart, A. B.
Occ. Issues, vol. VII. 1878. [Cf. Nathaniel Baxter's Sir Philip Sydney's
Ourania, 1606).
Sir Robert Chester, Knight, 1566 (? )-1640 (? ). This extraordinary collection
of poems displays much learning in natural history as understood in its
author's time, much ingenuity in the making of acrostics and very little
poetry. The portions concerning the Phoenix and Turtle appear to relate
to Elizabeth and Essex. For the title given to it on its reissue there is little
excuse, King Arthur being the only historical, or mythological, subject with
which it deals. The translation from “Torquato Cæliano' appears to be a
pure fiction.
## p. 474 (#496) ############################################
474
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a
SAMUEL DANIEL.
Syr P. S. His Astrophel and Stella. Wherein the excellence of sweet Poesy
is concluded. To the end of which are added, sundry other rare Sonnets
of divers Noble men and Gentlemen. 1591. (2 issues. )
Delia. Contayning certayne Sonnets. 1592.
Delia . . . with the complaint of Rosamond. 1592.
Delia and Rosamond angmented. Cleopatra. 1594. Ed. Arber, E. 1877.
The Tragedie of Cleopatra. 1594.
Daniel's Delia and Drayton's Idea. Ed. Esdaile, A. 1908. (Contains a biblio-
graphy of Delia. )
The first fowre Bookes of the civile wars between the two houses of Lan.
caster and Yorke. 1595.
(Contains also the fifth book, pagination and
signatures following consecutively. )
The Poeticall Essayes of Sam. Danyel. Newly corrected and augmented.
1599.
This volume contains: Musophilus: containing a generall defence of
learning, 1599; A letter from Octavia to Marcus Antonius, 1599; The
Tragedie of Cleopatra, 1599; The first fowre Bookes of the civile wars,
etc. , 1595.
The Works of Samuel Daniel Newly augmented. 1601, 1602.
This folio contains: A Defence of Ryme: Against a Pamphlet en-
tituled: Observations in the Art of English Poesie. wherein is demon-
stratively proved, that Ryme is the fittest harmonie of words that
comportes with our Language (n. d. ), rptd by Haslewood, J. , in Ancient
Critical Essays, 1815; and also: A panegyrike congratulatory Delivered
to the Kings most excellent majesty at Burleigh Harrington in Rutland-
shire; also certaine Epistles. With a Defence of Ryme, heertofore
written, and now published by the Author (n. d. ).
The Vision of the 12. Goddesses, presented in a maske the 8. of January, at
Hampton Court. 1604.
Certaine small poems lately printed: with the Tragedie of Philotas. 1605,
1607.
The Queenes Arcadia. A Pastorall Trage-Comedie presented to her Majestie
and her Ladies, by the Universitie of Oxford in Christs Church, in August
last. 1605, 1606.
A Funerall Poeme uppon the Death of the late noble Earle of Devonshyre.
(n. d. , 1606. ]
The Civile Wares betweene the Howses of Lancaster and Yorke. 1609.
Tethys Festival: or The Queenes Wake. Celebrated at Whitehall, the fifth
day of June 1610. 1610.
Hymens' Triumph. A Pastorall Tragicomaedie. Presented at the Queenes
Court in the Strand at her Majesties magnificent intertainement of the
Kings most excellent Majestie, being at the Nuptials of the Lord Rox-
borough. 1615.
:
The whole workes of Samuel Daniel Esquire in Poetrie. 1623.
The Complete Works in verse and prose of Samuel Daniel. Ed. Grosart,
A. B. Five volumes. 1885.
A Selection from the Poetry of Samuel Daniel & Michael Drayton. Ed.
Beeching, H. C. 1899.
Inedited poems of Samuel Daniel. Philobiblon Society. Bibliographical
and Historical Miscellanies. Vol. 11. 1854.
[See, also, Mod. Lang. Rev. vols. vii and xi, 1912 and 1916. ]
## p. 475 (#497) ############################################
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475
John DAVIES OF HEREFORD.
Mirum in modum. A Glimpse of Gods Glorie and the Soules Shape. Eyes
must be bright, or else no eyes at all can see this sight, much more then
mysticall. 1602.
Microcosmos. The Discovery of the Little World, with the government
thereof. Oxford, 1603.
Humours Heav'n on Earth; With the Civile Warres of Death and Fortune.
As also The Triumph of Death: Or, The Picture of the Plague, ac-
cording to the Life; as it was in Anno Domini. 1603. 1605.
Bien Venu. Greate Britaines Welcome to her greate friendes, and deere
brethren the Danes. 1606.
Summa Totalis or, All in All, and the same for ever: Or, an Addition to
Mirum in Modum. 1607.
The Holy Roode, or Christs Crosse: Containing Christ Crucified, described
in Speaking-picture. 1609.
Humours Heav'n on Earth: With the Civile Warres of Death and Fortune.
As also The Triumph of Death: Or, The Picture of the Plague, ac-
cording to the Life; as it was in Anno Domini 1603. 1609.
Wittes Pilgrimage, (by Poeticall Essaies) Through a World of amorous
Sonnets, Soule-passions, and other Passages, Divine, Philosophicall,
Morall, Poeticall and Politicall. [1610. ]
The Scourge of Folly. Consisting of satyricall Epigrams, And others in
honour of many noble Persons and worthy friends, together, With a
pleasant (though discordant) Descant upon most English Proverbs and
others. [1611-12? . ]
The Muse's Sacrifice, or Divine Meditations. 1612.
The Muses Teares for the losse of their hope; heroick and nere-too-much
praised, Henry, Prince of Wales, &c. Together with Times Sobs for
the untimely death of his Glory in that his Darling: and lastly, his
Epitaphs. Consecrated To the hight and mighty Prince, Frederick the
fift, Count Palatine of Rhoyn. &c. Whereunto is added, Consolatory
Straines to wrest Nature from her bent in immoderate mourning. 1613.
A Select Second Husband for Sir Thomas Overburie's Wife, now a matchlesse
widow. 1617.
The Complete Works of John Davies of Hereford (15. . -1618). Ed. Grosart,
A. B. 2 vols. 1878.
Les Oeuvres Poetiques et Chretiennes de G. de Saluste, Seigneur du Bartas.
2 vols. [Paris. ] 1598.
Chertsey Worthies' Library. The Complete works of Joshuah Sylvester.
Ed. Grosart, A. B. 2 vols. 1880.
CHARLES FITZGEFFREY.
A Cornish clergyman (15752–1637) educated at Cambridge, who wrote
much Latin verse. His work was well known to, and much admired by, his
poetical contemporaries.
Sir Francis Drake, His Honorable lifes commendation, and his Tragical]
Deathes lamentations. Oxford, 1596. Lee Priory reprint, 1819.
A very long poem in rime royal, full of classical allusion; dignified
and scholarly, rather than poetical.
The Blessed Birth-day, celebrated in some religious meditations on the Angels
Anthem. Luc. 2. 14. Also Holy Transportations in contemplating some
## p. 476 (#498) ############################################
476
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of the most observable adjuncts about our Saviours Nativity. The second
Edition with Additions. Oxford, 1636.
In rimed couplets of decasyllables: a work of considerable accom-
plishment and religious and poetical fervour.
Poems. Ed. Grosart, A. B. Manchester, 1881.
WILLIAM FOREST.
The History of Joseph the Chaiste composed in balladde royall crudely:
largely derived from the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs. In two
parts. Ms. Part 1 in the library of University College, Oxford; Part 11
in British Museum, Royal Library, 18. C. xiii. Partially ptd in Second
Grisilde, v. inf.
A Notable warke called the pleasaunt poesye of princelie practise, composed
of late in meatre royall by the symple and unlearned sir William forrest
preeiste, muche parte collecte owte of A booke entiteled The governaunce
of noblemen, which booke the wise philosopher Aristotele wrote too his
discyple Alexandre the great and unightie Conqueroure. 1548. British
Museum, Royal Library, 17. D. iii. Partially ptd in England in the
Reign of King Henry VIII. Part 1. Starkey's Life and Letters. Ed.
Herrtage, S. J. Early English Text Society. 1878.
A metrical version of fifty of the Psalms. British Museum, Royal Library,
17. A. xxi. Partially ptd in Second Grisilde. v. inf.
A New Ballade of the Marigolde. Rptd in Harl. Misc. x, 253, 1813.
Paternoster and Te Deum in English Verse. In Foxe's Actes and Monuments,
1563.
A true and moste notable Historye of a right noble and famous ladye produced
in Spayne, intytuled, the Seconde Grisilde, practiced not longe oute of this
tyme, in muche parte tragedous, as delectable bothe to Heearers and
Readers. MS in Bodleian library. Ptd by Roxburghe Club. Ed. Macray,
W. D. 1875.
An Oration consolatorye to Marye oure Queene. In same MS as preceding
entry, and ptd as above.
The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary with other poems. British Museum,
Harl. MSS 1703. Ptd as above.
William Forrest (f. 1581) was a Catholic priest, chaplain to queen Mary,
and probably holder of an office in Wolsey's new college of Christ Church,
Oxford. His most important poem, the Seconde Grisilde, presented by him
to Mary in 1558, is a narrative of the divorce of her mother, queen Catherine
of Arragon. His poems are interesting rather for the light they throw on
the theological and social history of his times than for their merits as poetry.
Forrest was a friend of Alexander Barclay, whom he mentions in the
prologue to the second part of the Pleasaunt poesye of princelie practise.
He was a musician, and the owner of copies of much good music of his day;
his collection is now at Oxford.
ABRAHAM FRAUNCE.
The Lamentations of Amintas for the Death of Phillis; paraphrastically
translated out of Latine into English Hexameteres. 1587, etc.
The Countesse of Pembrokes Yvychurch.
Dialogue betweene Age and Youth and other matters herein conteined.
(1582. ]
Yong, Bartholomew. Los Sieste Libros de la Diana de Iorge de Mõtemayor.
Valencia. [1559 ? . ]
Diana of George of Montemayor. Trans. 1598.
V. BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM.
Barrett, W. A. English Glee and Madrigal writers. 1877.
Chappell, W. Some account of an Unpublished Collection of Songs and
Ballads by King Henry VIII and his Contemporaries. Archaeologia,
XLI, p. 371.
Courthope, W. J. A History of English Poetry. Vols. 11 (1904) and in (1903).
Elizabethan Lyric, The. Quarterly Review, No. 302, October 1902.
Erskine, J. The Elizabethan Lyric. A Study. New York and London, 1903.
(Contains a bibliography on pp. 315-329. )
Furnivall, F. J. Robert Laneham's Letter; Describing a part of the enter-
tainment unto Queen Elizabeth at the Castle of Kenilworth in 1575,
1907.
Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Ed. Maitland, J. A. F. 5 vols.
1904.
Greg, W. W. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama. A Literary Inquiry
with special reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England. 1906.
## p. 473 (#495) ############################################
Chapter VI
473
Hadow, W. H. The Oxford History of Music. 6 vols. Oxford, 1901-5.
Kastner, L. E. Thomas Lodge as an imitator of the Italian Poets. Modern
Language Review, 11, 2, p. 155, January 1907.
Knaut, C. F. Über die Metrik Robert Greene's. 1890.
Lanier, S. Shakspere and his Forerunners. 2 vols. 1902.
Penner, E. Metrische Untersuchungen zu George Peele. 1890.
Ritson, J. Bibliographia Poetica. 1802.
Saintsbury, G. A History of Elizabethan Literature. 1890.
A History of English Prosody. Vols. 1. (1906) and 11 (1908).
Schelling, F. E. Poetic and verse criticism of the reign of Elizabeth. Publi-
cations of the University of Pennsylvania. 1891.
Scott, C. K. Madrigal Singing. 1907.
Scott, M. A. Elizabethan Translations from the Italian. Modern Language
Association of America, x, XI, XIII and xiv. Baltimore, 1895, 1896, 1898
and 1899.
Stopes, C. C. William Hunnis and the Revels of the Chapel Royal. Bang's
Materialien, 1910.
Symonds J. A. In the key of blue and other prose essays. 1893. (Lyrics
from Elizabethan Song-Books, p. 265. )
Essays Speculative and Suggestive. Third edition. 1907. (A Com-
parison of Elizabethan with Victorian Poetry, p. 365. )
Tappan, E. M. Nicholas Breton. Modern Language Association, XIII.
Baltimore, 1898.
Tovey, D. C. Reviews and Essays. 1897.
Warton, T. The History of English Poetry. 3 vols. 1774-81.
Wood, Anthony à. Athenae Oxonienses. Ed. Bliss, P. 1820.
CHAPTER VII
ROBERT SOUTH WELL. SAMUEL DANIEL
Andrews, John. Anatomie of Basenesse. 1615. Rptd in Grosart's Fuller
Worthies’ Library, vol. II.
Barret, Robert (A. 1600). For his epic The Sacred Warr, see D. of N. B.
ROBERT CHESTER,
Lores Martyr: or Rosalins Complaint. Allegorically shadowing the truth of
Love, in the constant Fate of the Phænix and Turtle. A Poeme enter-
laced with much varietie and raritie; now first translated out of the
venerable Italian Torquato Cæliano, by Robert Chester. With the true
legend of famous King Arthur. . . . 1601. Reissued as: The Annals of
great Brittaine. Or, A Most Excellent Monument, wherein may be
seene all the antiqnities of the kingdome. . 1611. Ed. Grosart, A. B.
Occ. Issues, vol. VII. 1878. [Cf. Nathaniel Baxter's Sir Philip Sydney's
Ourania, 1606).
Sir Robert Chester, Knight, 1566 (? )-1640 (? ). This extraordinary collection
of poems displays much learning in natural history as understood in its
author's time, much ingenuity in the making of acrostics and very little
poetry. The portions concerning the Phoenix and Turtle appear to relate
to Elizabeth and Essex. For the title given to it on its reissue there is little
excuse, King Arthur being the only historical, or mythological, subject with
which it deals. The translation from “Torquato Cæliano' appears to be a
pure fiction.
## p. 474 (#496) ############################################
474
Bibliography
a
SAMUEL DANIEL.
Syr P. S. His Astrophel and Stella. Wherein the excellence of sweet Poesy
is concluded. To the end of which are added, sundry other rare Sonnets
of divers Noble men and Gentlemen. 1591. (2 issues. )
Delia. Contayning certayne Sonnets. 1592.
Delia . . . with the complaint of Rosamond. 1592.
Delia and Rosamond angmented. Cleopatra. 1594. Ed. Arber, E. 1877.
The Tragedie of Cleopatra. 1594.
Daniel's Delia and Drayton's Idea. Ed. Esdaile, A. 1908. (Contains a biblio-
graphy of Delia. )
The first fowre Bookes of the civile wars between the two houses of Lan.
caster and Yorke. 1595.
(Contains also the fifth book, pagination and
signatures following consecutively. )
The Poeticall Essayes of Sam. Danyel. Newly corrected and augmented.
1599.
This volume contains: Musophilus: containing a generall defence of
learning, 1599; A letter from Octavia to Marcus Antonius, 1599; The
Tragedie of Cleopatra, 1599; The first fowre Bookes of the civile wars,
etc. , 1595.
The Works of Samuel Daniel Newly augmented. 1601, 1602.
This folio contains: A Defence of Ryme: Against a Pamphlet en-
tituled: Observations in the Art of English Poesie. wherein is demon-
stratively proved, that Ryme is the fittest harmonie of words that
comportes with our Language (n. d. ), rptd by Haslewood, J. , in Ancient
Critical Essays, 1815; and also: A panegyrike congratulatory Delivered
to the Kings most excellent majesty at Burleigh Harrington in Rutland-
shire; also certaine Epistles. With a Defence of Ryme, heertofore
written, and now published by the Author (n. d. ).
The Vision of the 12. Goddesses, presented in a maske the 8. of January, at
Hampton Court. 1604.
Certaine small poems lately printed: with the Tragedie of Philotas. 1605,
1607.
The Queenes Arcadia. A Pastorall Trage-Comedie presented to her Majestie
and her Ladies, by the Universitie of Oxford in Christs Church, in August
last. 1605, 1606.
A Funerall Poeme uppon the Death of the late noble Earle of Devonshyre.
(n. d. , 1606. ]
The Civile Wares betweene the Howses of Lancaster and Yorke. 1609.
Tethys Festival: or The Queenes Wake. Celebrated at Whitehall, the fifth
day of June 1610. 1610.
Hymens' Triumph. A Pastorall Tragicomaedie. Presented at the Queenes
Court in the Strand at her Majesties magnificent intertainement of the
Kings most excellent Majestie, being at the Nuptials of the Lord Rox-
borough. 1615.
:
The whole workes of Samuel Daniel Esquire in Poetrie. 1623.
The Complete Works in verse and prose of Samuel Daniel. Ed. Grosart,
A. B. Five volumes. 1885.
A Selection from the Poetry of Samuel Daniel & Michael Drayton. Ed.
Beeching, H. C. 1899.
Inedited poems of Samuel Daniel. Philobiblon Society. Bibliographical
and Historical Miscellanies. Vol. 11. 1854.
[See, also, Mod. Lang. Rev. vols. vii and xi, 1912 and 1916. ]
## p. 475 (#497) ############################################
Chapter VII
475
John DAVIES OF HEREFORD.
Mirum in modum. A Glimpse of Gods Glorie and the Soules Shape. Eyes
must be bright, or else no eyes at all can see this sight, much more then
mysticall. 1602.
Microcosmos. The Discovery of the Little World, with the government
thereof. Oxford, 1603.
Humours Heav'n on Earth; With the Civile Warres of Death and Fortune.
As also The Triumph of Death: Or, The Picture of the Plague, ac-
cording to the Life; as it was in Anno Domini. 1603. 1605.
Bien Venu. Greate Britaines Welcome to her greate friendes, and deere
brethren the Danes. 1606.
Summa Totalis or, All in All, and the same for ever: Or, an Addition to
Mirum in Modum. 1607.
The Holy Roode, or Christs Crosse: Containing Christ Crucified, described
in Speaking-picture. 1609.
Humours Heav'n on Earth: With the Civile Warres of Death and Fortune.
As also The Triumph of Death: Or, The Picture of the Plague, ac-
cording to the Life; as it was in Anno Domini 1603. 1609.
Wittes Pilgrimage, (by Poeticall Essaies) Through a World of amorous
Sonnets, Soule-passions, and other Passages, Divine, Philosophicall,
Morall, Poeticall and Politicall. [1610. ]
The Scourge of Folly. Consisting of satyricall Epigrams, And others in
honour of many noble Persons and worthy friends, together, With a
pleasant (though discordant) Descant upon most English Proverbs and
others. [1611-12? . ]
The Muse's Sacrifice, or Divine Meditations. 1612.
The Muses Teares for the losse of their hope; heroick and nere-too-much
praised, Henry, Prince of Wales, &c. Together with Times Sobs for
the untimely death of his Glory in that his Darling: and lastly, his
Epitaphs. Consecrated To the hight and mighty Prince, Frederick the
fift, Count Palatine of Rhoyn. &c. Whereunto is added, Consolatory
Straines to wrest Nature from her bent in immoderate mourning. 1613.
A Select Second Husband for Sir Thomas Overburie's Wife, now a matchlesse
widow. 1617.
The Complete Works of John Davies of Hereford (15. . -1618). Ed. Grosart,
A. B. 2 vols. 1878.
Les Oeuvres Poetiques et Chretiennes de G. de Saluste, Seigneur du Bartas.
2 vols. [Paris. ] 1598.
Chertsey Worthies' Library. The Complete works of Joshuah Sylvester.
Ed. Grosart, A. B. 2 vols. 1880.
CHARLES FITZGEFFREY.
A Cornish clergyman (15752–1637) educated at Cambridge, who wrote
much Latin verse. His work was well known to, and much admired by, his
poetical contemporaries.
Sir Francis Drake, His Honorable lifes commendation, and his Tragical]
Deathes lamentations. Oxford, 1596. Lee Priory reprint, 1819.
A very long poem in rime royal, full of classical allusion; dignified
and scholarly, rather than poetical.
The Blessed Birth-day, celebrated in some religious meditations on the Angels
Anthem. Luc. 2. 14. Also Holy Transportations in contemplating some
## p. 476 (#498) ############################################
476
Bibliography
of the most observable adjuncts about our Saviours Nativity. The second
Edition with Additions. Oxford, 1636.
In rimed couplets of decasyllables: a work of considerable accom-
plishment and religious and poetical fervour.
Poems. Ed. Grosart, A. B. Manchester, 1881.
WILLIAM FOREST.
The History of Joseph the Chaiste composed in balladde royall crudely:
largely derived from the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs. In two
parts. Ms. Part 1 in the library of University College, Oxford; Part 11
in British Museum, Royal Library, 18. C. xiii. Partially ptd in Second
Grisilde, v. inf.
A Notable warke called the pleasaunt poesye of princelie practise, composed
of late in meatre royall by the symple and unlearned sir William forrest
preeiste, muche parte collecte owte of A booke entiteled The governaunce
of noblemen, which booke the wise philosopher Aristotele wrote too his
discyple Alexandre the great and unightie Conqueroure. 1548. British
Museum, Royal Library, 17. D. iii. Partially ptd in England in the
Reign of King Henry VIII. Part 1. Starkey's Life and Letters. Ed.
Herrtage, S. J. Early English Text Society. 1878.
A metrical version of fifty of the Psalms. British Museum, Royal Library,
17. A. xxi. Partially ptd in Second Grisilde. v. inf.
A New Ballade of the Marigolde. Rptd in Harl. Misc. x, 253, 1813.
Paternoster and Te Deum in English Verse. In Foxe's Actes and Monuments,
1563.
A true and moste notable Historye of a right noble and famous ladye produced
in Spayne, intytuled, the Seconde Grisilde, practiced not longe oute of this
tyme, in muche parte tragedous, as delectable bothe to Heearers and
Readers. MS in Bodleian library. Ptd by Roxburghe Club. Ed. Macray,
W. D. 1875.
An Oration consolatorye to Marye oure Queene. In same MS as preceding
entry, and ptd as above.
The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary with other poems. British Museum,
Harl. MSS 1703. Ptd as above.
William Forrest (f. 1581) was a Catholic priest, chaplain to queen Mary,
and probably holder of an office in Wolsey's new college of Christ Church,
Oxford. His most important poem, the Seconde Grisilde, presented by him
to Mary in 1558, is a narrative of the divorce of her mother, queen Catherine
of Arragon. His poems are interesting rather for the light they throw on
the theological and social history of his times than for their merits as poetry.
Forrest was a friend of Alexander Barclay, whom he mentions in the
prologue to the second part of the Pleasaunt poesye of princelie practise.
He was a musician, and the owner of copies of much good music of his day;
his collection is now at Oxford.
ABRAHAM FRAUNCE.
The Lamentations of Amintas for the Death of Phillis; paraphrastically
translated out of Latine into English Hexameteres. 1587, etc.
The Countesse of Pembrokes Yvychurch.
