Note. The following is the title-page of "Thalia Rediviva" from the only known copy, (with which I have been favoured by the Rev. Thomas Corser, M.A., Stand Rectory, near Manchester :) THALIA REDIVIVA: Licensed, Roger L'Estrange. London. Printed for Robert Pawlett att the Bible in Collation: Title-page-Epistle-Dedicatory pp 4-to the Eugenius Philalethes, with separate title-page, and pp 7193, and three pages of books published by Pawlet. Our exemplar was that sold at Skegg's for a guinea, and it is believed was the same that Mr. Lyte had, so that latedated as the little volume is, it would seem to be of the rarest of rarities. It looks as though the Silurist had bought in and suppressed it. I am pleased to find that Mr. Corser's unique copy was secured at his Sale for the British Museum. See our Essay in the present Volume for more on Thalia Rediviva. The sacred Poetry from it will be found in Vol. Ist. G. Epistle-Dedicatory. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND TRULY NOBLE HENRY, LORD MARQUIS AND EARL OF WORCESTER.1 &c. MY LORD, HOUGH dedications are now become a kind of tyranny over the peace and repose of great men; yet I have confidence I shall so manage the present address as to entertain your lordship without much disturbance ; This was Henry Somerset, seventh earl and third marquis of Worcester, and created Duke of Beaufort second December 1682. He was son of Edward sixth earl and second marquis (author of the "Century of Inventions") by his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Dormer Knight, and succeeded to his father's titles on his death, 3rd April, 1667. He refused to subscribe the oaths of allegiance to William III, and lived in retirement after his accession to the throne. He married Mary, daughter of Arthur, Lord Capel, and widow of Henry, Lord Beauchamp, and had five sons and four |