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tions, therefore, which were begun before the year 1600, require that we fhould here acquaint the reader with fome particulars of his life. He wrote eighteen plays, which, although now forgotten, must have contributed in no inconfiderable degree to enrich and advance the English ftage. He was born in 1557, perhaps in Kent. He paffed about two years at Trinity college in Oxford, with a contempt of philosophy, but in a close attention to the Greek and Roman claffics". Leaving the univerfity about 1576, he seems to have been led to London in the character of a poet; where he foon commenced a friendship with Spenfer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Daniel, and attracted the notice of secretary Walfingham. He probably acquired fome appointment in the court of king James the firft; where untimely death, and unexpected difgrace, quickly deprived him of his liberal patrons Prince Henry and Carr. Jonfon was commonly too proud, either to affift, or to be affifted; yet he engaged with Chapman and Marston in writing the Comedy of EASTWARD HOE, which was performed by the children of the revels in 1605°. But this affociation gave Jonson an opportunity of throwing out many fatirical parodies on Shakespeare with more fecurity. All the three authors, however, were in danger of being pilloried for fome reflections on the Scotch nation, which were too seriously understood by James the firft. When the focieties of Lincoln's-inn and the Middle-temple, in 1613, had refolved to exhibit a splendid mafque at Whitehall in honour of the nuptials of the Palfgrave and the princess Elifabeth,

ANDROMEDA, dedicated in a prolix metrical Epistle to Carr earl of Somerset and Frances his countefs. Lond. 1614. 4to. Chapman wrote a vindication of this pieee, both in profe and verse, called, A free and offenceless Juftification of a late published and mifinterpreted poem entitled ANDROMEDA LIBERATA. Lond. 1614. 4to.

Among Chapman's pieces recited by Wood, the following does not appear. “ A "booke called Petrarkes feauen peniten"tiall pfalmes in verfe, paraphraftically "tranflated, with other poems philofophi

"call, and a hymne to Chrift upon the "croffe, written by Geo. Chapman." To Matthew Selman, Jan. 13, 1611. REGISTR. STATION. C. fol. 215. a.

From the information of Mr. Wife, late Radcliffe's librarian, and keeper of the Archives, at Oxford."

• The first of Chapman's plays, I mean with his name, which appears in the Stationers Registers, is the Tragedy of CHARLES DUKE OF BYRON. Entered to T. Thorp, Jun. 5, 1608, REGISTR, C. fol. 168. b.

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Chapman was employed for the poetry, and Inigo Jones for the
machinery. It is not clear, whether Dryden's refolution to burn
annually one copy of Chapman's beft tragedy BUSSY D'AM-
BOISE, to the memory of Jonfon, was a cenfure or a compli-
He says, however, that this play pleased only in the
representation, like a ftar which glitters only while it shoots.
The manes of Jonson perhaps required fome reconciliatory rites:
for Jonfon being delivered from Shakespeare, began unexpectedly
to be disturbed at the rifing reputation of a new theatric rival. Wood
says, that Chapman was " a person of most reverend aspect, re-
ligious and temperate, QUALITIES RARELY MEETING IN A
POET 1 "The truth is, he does not seem to have mingled
in the diffipations and indiscretions, which then marked his
profeffion. He died at the age of seventy-feven, in 1634, and
was buried on the fouth fide of faint Giles's church in the
Fields. His friend Inigo Jones planned and erected a monument
to his memory, in the style of the new architecture, which was
unluckily destroyed with the old church'. There was an inti-
mate friendship between our author, and this celebrated restorer
of Grecian palaces. Chapman's MUSAEUS, not that begun by
Marlowe, but published in 1616, has a dedication to Jones: in
which he is addressed as the most skilful and ingenious architect
that England had yet feen.

As a poetical novel of Greece, it will not be improper to
mention here, the CLITOPHON AND LEUCIPPE of Achilles
Tatius, under the title of "The most delectable and plefant
"Historye of Clitophon and Leucippe from the Greek of
"Achilles Statius, &c. by W. B. Lond. 1577'." The prefi-
dent Montefquieu, whose refined taste was equal to his political
wisdom, is of opinion, that a certain notion of tranquillity in
the fields of Greece, gave rife to the defcription of soft and

Preface to SPANISH FRYER.
1 ATH. Oxon. i. 592.

Wood has preserved part of the epi-
taph, "Georgius Chapmannus, poeta Ho-

"mericus, philofophus verus (etfi chrif
"tianus poeta) plufquam celebris, &c."
Ubi fupr.

• In quarto. T. Creede.

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amorous fentiments in the Greek romance of the middle age. But that gallantry fprung from the tales of Gothic chivalry. "Une certaine idée de tranquillité dans les campagnes de la "Greece, fit decrire les fentimens de l'amour. On peut voir "les Romans de Grecs du moyen age. L'idée des Paladins, pro"tecteurs de la vertu et de la beauté des femmes, conduisit à "celle de la galanterie '." I have mentioned a version of Heliodorus.

As Barnaby Googe's ZODIAC of Palingenius was a favorite performance, and is constantly claffed and compared with the poetical tranflations of this period, by the cotemporary critics, I make no apology for giving it a place at the close of this review ". It was printed so early as the year 1565, with the following title". "The ZODIAKE OF LIFE, written by the godly "and learned poet Marcellus Pallingenius Stellatus, wherein "are conteyned twelue bookes difclofing the haynous crymes "and wicked vices of our corrupt nature: And plainlye declaring the pleasaunt and perfit pathway vnto eternall life, be"fides a number of digreffions both pleafaunt and profitable. Newly tranflated into Englishe verfe by Barnabee Googe. "Probitas laudatur et alget. Imprinted at London by Henry

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Efprit des Loix, Liv. xxvii. ch. 22. "I know not if translations of Plautus and Terence are to be mentioned here with propriety. I obferve however in the notes, that Plautus's MENACHMI, copied by Shakespeare, appeared in English by W. W. or William Warner, author of Albion's England. Lond. 1595. Tanner fays that he tranflated but not printed all Plautus. MSS. Tann. Oxon. Raftall printed TERENS IN ENGLISH, that is, the ANDRIA. There is alfo, "ANDRIA the first Come"dye of Terence," by Maurice Kyffin, Lond. 1588. 4to. By the way, this Kyffyn, a Welshman, published a poem called "The Bleffednefs of Brytaine, or a cele"bration of the queenes holyday." Lond. 1588. 4to. For John Wolfe. The EUNU

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CHUS was entered at Stationers Hall, to W. Leche, in 1597. And the ANDRIA and EUNUCHUS, in 1600. REGISTR. C. fol. zo. a. Richard Bernard published Te'rence in English, Cambr. 1598. 4to. A fourth edition was printed at London,

Opera ac induftria R. B. in Axholmienfi "infula Lincolnefherii Epwortheatis." By John Legatt, 1614. 4to.

Three or four verfions of Cato, and one of Æfop's Fables, are entered in the re gifter of the Stationers, between 1557 and 1571. REGISTR. A.

A receipt for Ralph Newbery's licence is entered for printing "A boke called "Pallingenius," I fuppofe the original, 1560. REGISTR, STATION. A. fol. 48. a.

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"Denham for Rafe Newberye dwelling in Fleet-ftreate. Anno 1565. Aprilis 18 *." Bishop Tanner, deceived by Wood's papers, supposes that this first edition, which he had evidently never seen, and which is indeed uncommonly rare, contained only the first seven books. In the epistle dedicatory to secretary fir William Cecill, he mentions his " fimple trauayles lately de"dicated vnto your honor.' These are his fet of mifcellaneous poems printed in 1563, or, "Eglogs, Epytaphes, and Sonnetes, "newly written by Barnabe Googe, 15 Marche, for Rauve [Raufe] Newbury dwelling in Flete-ftrete a little aboue the "Conduit in the late fhop of Thomas Berthelet "." He logifes for attempting this work, three books of which, as he had understood too late, were " both eloquentely and excellently Englished by Maister Smith, clark vnto the most honorable "of the queenes maiefties counsell. Whofe doings as in other "matters I haue with admiration behelde, &c "." Googe was

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* In 12mo. Bl. Lett. Not paged. The laft fignature is Yy iiij. The colophon, "Imprinted at London by Henry Den"ham, &c." On the fecond leaf after the title, is an armorial coat with fix copartments, and at the top the initials B. G. Then follow Latin commendatory verses, by Gilbert Duke, Chriftopher Carlile doctor in divinity, James Itzwert, George Chatterton fellow of Chrift college in Cambridge, and David Bell, with fome anonymous. Doctor Christopher Carlile was of Cambridge, and a learned orientalift, about 1550. He published many tracts in divinity. He was a writer of Greek and Latin verfes. He has fome in both languages on the death of Bucer in 1551. See Bucer's ENGLISH WORKS, Bafil. fol. 1577. f. 903. And in the Collection on the death of the two Brandons, 1551.4to. ut fupr. Others, before his Reply to Richard Smyth, a papiftic divine, Lond. 1582. 4to. He prefixed four Latin copies to Drant's ECCLESIASTES abovementioned, Lond. 1572. 4to. Two, to one of doctor John Jones's books on BATHS, Lond. 1572. 4to. A Sapphic ode to Sadler's verfion of

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Vegetius, Lond. 1572. 4to. A Latin copy to Chaloner's DE REP. ANGLORUM, Lond. 1579. 4to. A Latin hexaftic to Batman's DOOм, Lond. 1581. 4to. Two of his Latin poems IN PAPAM, are (MS. Bale.) in MSS. Cotton. TIT. D. x. f. 77. He tranflated the Pfalms into English profe, with learned notes. Finished Jun. 24, 1573. Among MSS. MORE, 206. Colomefius has published a fragment of a Latin Epiftle from him to Caftalio, dat. kal. Maii, 1562. CL. VIROR, EPIST. SINGUL. Lond. 1694.

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y In 12mo. Bl. Lett. See REGISTR. STATION. A. fol. 88. b.

z It is doubtful whether he means fir Thomas Smith, the secretary. Nor does it appear, whether this tranflation was in verfe or profe. Sir Thomas Smith, however, has left fome English poetry. While a prifoner in the Tower in 1549, he tranflated eleven of David's Pfalms into Englifh metre, and compofed three English metrical prayers, with three English copies of verses befides. These are now in the British Museum, MSS. REG. 17 A. xvii. I ought to have mentioned this before.

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first a retainer to Cecill, and afterwards in 1563, a gentlemanpenfioner to the queen'. In his addrefs to the vertuous and frendley reader, he thus, but with the zeal of a puritan, defends divine poetry. "The diuine and notable Prophecies of Esay, the La❝mentation of Jeremie, the Songs and Ballades of Solomon, "the Pfalter of Dauid, and the Booke of Hiob ', were written by the first auctours in perfect and pleasaunt hexameter verses. "So that the deuine and canonicall volumes were garnished and "set forth with sweete according tunes and heauenly foundes "of pleasaunt metre. Yet wyll not the graceleffe company of "our pernicious hypocrites allow, that the Pfalmes of Dauid "should be tranflated into Englishe metre. Marry, faye they, "bycause they were only receiued to be chaunted in the church, " and not to be song in euery coblers fhop. O monftrous and "malicious infidels !-do you abhorre to heare [God's] glory " and prayse founding in the mouth of a poore christian arti"ficer? &c." He adds, that fince Chaucer, "there hath "flourished in England fo fine and filed phrafes, and fo good "and pleasant poets, as may counteruayle the doings of Virgill, "Ouid, Horace, Iuuenal, Martial, &c." There was a fecond edition in 1588, in which the former prefatory matters of every kind are omitted. This edition is dedicated to lord Buckhurst". From the title of this work, ZODIACUS VITÆ, written in Latin hexameters by Marcello Palingeni, an Italian, about the year 1531, the reader at least expects fome aftronomical allufions. But it has not the moft diftant connection with the ftars: except that the poet is once tranfported to the moon, not to measure her diameter, but for a moral purpose; and that he once takes occafion, in his general furvey of the world, and in reference to his title, to introduce a philofophic explanation of the zodiacal system. The author meaning to divide his poem into twelve books, chose to diftinguish each with a name of the celestial

• Strype's PARKER, p. 144. b Job.

Bl. Lett. 4to.

At the end is a fhort copy of verfes by Abraham Fleming. See fupr. p. 404. • B. xi. AQUARIUS.

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