Sir Thomas Wyat. Inferior to Surrey as a writer of fonnets. His The first printed Mifcellany of English poetry. Its contributors. SECTION XXII. p. 60. The fecond writer of blank-verfe in English. Specimens of early A 2 SECTION Andrew Borde. Bale. Anflay. Chertsey. Fabyll's ghost a poem. John Heywood the epigrammatift. His works examined. Antient Sir Thomas More's English poetry. Tournament of Tottenham. The Notbrowne Mayde. Not older than the fixteenth century. Artful contrivance of the ftory. Mifrepresented by Prior. Me- trical romances, Guy, fyr Bevys, and Kynge Apolyn, printed in the reign of Henry. The Scole howfe, a fatire. Chriftmas carols. Religious libels in rhyme. Merlin's prophefies. Lau- rence Minot. Occafional difquifition on the late continuance of the use of waxen tablets. Pageantries of Henry's court. Dawn Effects of the Reformation on our poetry. Clement Marot's Pfalms. Why adopted by Calvin. Verfion of the Pfalms by Sternhold and Hopkins. Defects of this verfion, which is patronised by the Tye's Acts of the Apostles in rhyme. His merit as a musician. Reign of queen Mary. Mirrour of Magiftrates. Its inventor, Sackville's Legend of Buckingham in the Mirrour of Magistrates. View of Niccols's edition of the Mirrour of Magiftrates. High SECTION L Richard Edwards. Principal poet, player, musician, and buffoon, to the courts of Mary and Elifabeth. Anecdotes of his life. Cotemporary teftimonies of his merit. A contributor to the Pa- radife of daintie Devifes. His book of comic hiftories, fuppofed to have fuggefted Shakespeare's Induction of the Tinker. Oc- Tuffer. Remarkable circumftances of his life. His Husbandrie, William Forreft's poems. His Queen Catharine, an elegant manu- English language begins to be cultivated. Earliest book of Criticism SECTION |