THOMAS CAMPION WAS a physician in the reign of James I. and author of two Masques; one presented at Whitehall, on the marriage of Lord Hayes, printed 1607, 4to, and the other represented at Lord Knowles's, at Cawsome-house, &c., printed 1613, 4to. The following pieces are taken from Davison's miscellany. Of Corinna's Singing. WHEN to her lute Corinna sings, But when she doth of mourning speak, And as her lute doth live or die, E'en from my heart the strings do break. Of his Mistress's Face. AND would you see my mistress' face? Where knots of beauty have such grace, It is a sweet delicious morn, It is the heaven's bright reflex, Envy of whom doth world perplex. It is a face of death that smiles, It is fair beauty's freshest youth: It is the feigned Elysium's truth, The spring that winter'd hearts renew'th ;And this is that my soul pursu'th. VOL. III. C GEORGE SANDYS, 66 ONE of the most harmonious versifiers of his age, was the youngest son of Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York, and born at Bishop's-Thorp, 1577. He was entered at St. Mary Hall, Oxford, in 1589, but received his tuition, according to Wood, in Corpus Christi College; and in 1610 began his travels into the East, of which he published an account on his return: a work much esteemed, having passed through many editions since the first in 1615. Wood he was says an accomplished gentleman,”—“ master of several languages, of a fluent and ready discourse, and excellent comportment. He had also naturally a poetical fancy, and a zealous inclination to all human learning." He was gentleman of the privy chamber to Charles I., and intimately acquainted with the celebrated Lucius Lord Falkland, who contributed two copies of verses in honour of his Tragedy and his Psalms. He died in 1643. His poetical version of Ovid's Metamorphoses, once much admired, was originally published in 1627, with the first book of Virgil's Æneid, and twice afterwards. His Tragedy, called "Christ's Passion,” translated from Hugo Grotius, and first printed in 1640, 12mo, is much praised by Langbaine. His "Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David, and upon the hymnes dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments," appeared in 1636, 12mo, a book which Wood tells us King Charles "delighted to read in, while prisoner in Carisbroke Castle." This, together with a Paraphrase upon Job, Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, &c., was reprinted in 1638, folio, and in 1676, 8vo. The last contains, besides, a paraphrase on Solomon's Song, first published at Oxford in 1641, 4to. For further particulars the reader may consult Langbaine's and Cibber's [Shiell's] Lives of the Poets. The two last of the following specimens, besides the harmony of their numbers, have the additional recommendation of exhibiting the order of their Author's publications, and the course of his travels. PSALM CXLVIII. You who dwell above the skies, You whom highest heaven embowers, Heaven of heavens, his praise declare! His deserved praise record, His, who made you by his word— Made you evermore to last, Set bounds not to be past. Let the earth his praise resound; Monstrous whales, and seas profound, Vapours, lightning, hail, and snow, Flowery hills, and mountains high, Cedars, neighbours to the sky, Trees, that fruit in season yield, Savage beasts, all creeping things, * Urania to the Queen. [Prefixed to his "Translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses."] THE Muses by your favour blest, Fair queen, invite you to their feast. The Graces will rejoice and sue, Since so excell'd, to wait on you. Ambrosia taste, which frees from death, |