Where conscience judgeth plainly,
They spend no money vainly.

O happy who thus liveth,
Not caring much for gold;
With clothing, which sufficeth

To keep him from the cold.
Though poor and plain his diet,
Yet merry it is and quiet.

[At an annual Triumph, held in honour of Queen Elizabeth, Nov. 17, 1590, in the Tilt-yard, Westminster, the following verses were "pronounced and sung by M. Hales, her "Majesty's servant, a gentleman in that art excellent, and "for his voice both commendable and admirable." Segar's “Honor, Military and Civill,” 1602. fol. c. 54. p. 198.] My golden locks time hath to silver turn'd,

(Oh time too swift, and swiftness never ceasing!) My youth 'gainst age, and age at youth hath spurn'd,

But spurn'd in vain: youth waneth by in-
creasing.

Beauty, and strength, and youth, flowers fading been,
Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

My helmet now shall make an hive for bees,

And lovers' songs shall turn to holy psalms :

Now attributed to Georg Pakle

A man at arms must now sit on his knees,

And feed on prayers, that are old age's alms.

And so from court to cottage I depart ;

My saint is sure of mine unspotted heart.

And when I sadly sit in homely cell,

I'll teach my swains this carol for a song:

"Blest be the hearts that think my sovereign well, "Curs'd be the souls that think to do her "wrong."

Goddess! vouchsafe this aged man his right,

To be your beadsman now, that was your knight.

Wodenfride's Song in praise of Amargana.
[From England's Helicon.]

THE SUN, the season, in each thing
Revives new pleasures; the sweet spring
Hath put to flight the winter keen,
To glad our lovely summer queen.

The paths where Amargana treads
With flowery tapestries Flora spreads,
And nature clothes the ground in green,
To glad our lovely summer queen.

The groves put on their rich array,
With hawthorn-blooms embroider'd gay,

And sweet perfum'd with eglantine,
To glad our lovely summer queen.

The silent river stays his course,
Whilst playing on the chrystal source
The silver-scaled fish are seen,
To glad our lovely summer queen.

The woods at her fair sight rejoices,
The little birds with their loud voices
In concert on the briars been,
To glad our lovely summer queen.

Great Pan, our god, for her dear sake,
This feast and meeting bids us make,
Of shepherds, lads, and lasses sheen,
To glad our lovely summer queen.

And every swain his chance doth prove,
To win fair Amargana's love,

In sporting strifes, quite void of spleen,
To glad our lovely summer queen.

All happiness let heaven her lend,
And all the graces her attend;
Thus bid me pray the Muses nine,
Long live our lovely summer queen.
W. H[UNNIS?].

Tityrus to his fair Phillis.

[From England's Helicon.]

THE silly swain, whose love breeds discontent,
Thinks death a trifle, life a loathsome thing;
Sad he looks, sad he lies:

But when his fortune's malice doth relent,
Then of love's sweetness he will sweetly sing:
Thus he lives, thus he dies.

Then Tityrus, whom love hath happy made,
Will rest thrice happy in this myrtle shade:
For though love at first did grieve him,
Yet did love at last relieve him.

J. D[AVIS?].

HENRY PEACHAM

Was author of " Minerva Britanna, or a garden of heroical "Devises," &c.1612.4to. (a collection of Emblems in verse, with a plate to each, from which the following extracts are taken) as well as "The Period of Mourning-in memorie "of the late Prince. Together with Nuptial Hymnes in "honour of this happy marriage betweene Fred. "Count Pal.-and Eliz.-Daughter to our Sovereigne," 1613, 40. "A most true relation of the affaires of Cleve " and Gulick," &c. 1614, 4to. (próse) "Prince Henrie re"vived; or a Poeme upon the Birth-of-Prince H. Fre"derick-Heire apparant to Fred.Count Pal. of the Rhine," &c. 1615, 4to. "The Compleat Gentleman," 1622, 1627, 1634,1654,1661, 4to. (prose) "The Gentleman's Exercise," 1612, 1634, 1654, 1661, 4to. (prose) "Thalia's Banquet,” a volume of epigrams, 1620, 12mo. "The Valley of Varie"tie," 1638, 12mo. (prose, as well as the two following.) "The Duty of all true subjects to their king; as also to "their native country in time of extremity and danger," &c. in "two bookes," 1639, 4to. "The Worth of a Peny, "or a caution to keep money," 1647, 1667, 1677, 1695, 4to. &c. All works of considerable merit.

He is placed here owing to the uncertainty of the time of his birth. If, as Mr. Ritson assumes, he is the same as "Henry Pecham, Minister," who published "The Garden of Eloquence," (a treatise on rhetoric,) in 1577, 4to. bl. 1. he ought to be referred to the early part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. If, on the other hand, as Mr. Malone conceives, our author is a different person, (perhaps son to the last-mentioned,) and the earliest date of his compositions 1611, (verses in "The Odcombian Banquet") he would then rather belong to the succeeding one of James I.

I have only to add, that he was born at or near St. Albans ; assisted in educating the children of Thomas, earl of