1797. Reverend Mr. Parkhurst, 21 February William Cadogan, M.D. 26 February George Keate, F.R.S. 28 June, æt. circ. 67 Edmund Burke, 9 July, æt. 68 Charles Macklin, 11 July, æt. 98 Harvey Viscount Mountmorris, 18 Aug. æt. 55 Josiah Dornford, Barrister, 1 July, æt. 34 1798, Thomas Kirkland, M.D. 17 January Edward Edward Waring, M.D. 15 August, æt. 63 John Reinhold Forster, LL.D. 16 December, æt. 70 William Wales, F. R. S. 29 December 1799. Thomas Mulso, Esq 7 February, aged 78 William Melmoth, 14 March, aged 89 William Seward, F.R S. 24 April William Curtis, (botanist) 7 July, æt. 53 General Washington, 14 December, æt 58. Joseph Black, M. D. 1800. Sir William Musgrave, Bart. F. A. S. 3 January William Newcome, D.D. Primate of Ireland, 11 Jan, aged 71 John Warner, D. D. 22 January, æt. 64 George George Steevens, F.A.S. 22 January, aged 65 Robert Glyn (Clobery), M.D. 8 February, æt. 81 Dr. Macknight Rev. William Tasker, 4 February, aged 60 Rev. Joseph Warton, D.D. 23 February, aged 78 Honourable Daines Barrington, 14 March William Brownrig, M.D. F. R.S. 7 January, æt. 89 Samuel Pegge, Esq. F. A. S. 22 May, aged 68 Rev. William Bagshaw Stevens, 28 May, æt. 45. Bryan Edwards, 16 July Right Honourable Frederick Montagu, 29 July Mrs. Montagu, 25 August Mrs. Gunning, 28 August Matthew Lord Rokeby, 30 November, æt. 88 Mrs. Robinson, Poetess, 26 December [This List will be continued. } T. BENSLEY, Printer, Bolt Court, Flect Street. CENSURA LITERARIA. NUMBER II. ART. I. A Poetical Rapsodie; containing diverse Sonnets, Odes, Elegies, Madrigals, Epigrams, Pastorals, Eglogues, with other Poems, both in Rime and Measured Verse. For varietie and pleasure, the like never yet published. The Bee and Spider by a diverse power, Sucke hony and poyson from the selfe-same flower.* Newly corrected and augmented. London. Printed by William Stansby for Roger Jackson, dwelling in Fleet Street, near the Great Conduit, 1611. 12mo. THIS perhaps most valuable of our early metrical miscellanies (the rare occurrence of which can alone account for the little use which has been made of it by our republishers of early English poetry,) was first printed in 1602; and passed through three successive and augmented editions in 1608, 1611, and 1621. The So Chettle, in his Kind Hart's dreame, 1592;- I principal principal contributor appears to have been the avowed editor, Francis Davison, son of that unfortunate Secretary of State, who suffered so much from the affair of Mary Queen of Scots. Being a poet himself, he was more ably qualified for the delicate task of selection from his contemporaries, than Bodenham, the compiler of England's Helicon," in 1600; though his publisher, like some modern purveyors of literature, seems to have slighted the judgment and taste of an editor, for the purpose of making a bulkier book. This we gather from the preface, which, as it contains a casual notice of Walter Davison, † the natural and poetical brother to Francis, and as it is written in a strain of animated defiance to the hypercritics of that period, is here transcribed. "To the Reader. 66 Being induced by some private reasons and by the instant entreaty of speciall friends, to suffer some of my worthlesse poems to be published, I desired to make some written by my deere friends Anonymoi, and my deerer Brother, to beare them company: both, without their consent; the latter being in the low-country warres, and the rest utterly ignorant thereof. My friends' names I concealed; mine owne and my brother's, I willed the Printer to suppresse, as well as I had concealed the other, which he having put in without my privity, we must now undergo a sharper censure perhaps than our nanelesse workes should have done; and I especially. For if their poems be See Reliques of English Poetry, I. 332, edit. 1794. A very friendly letter from the Earl of Essex to Walter Davison is printed in Birch's Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth. |
