[86] The full title is, “The state of the Church of England, laid open in a Conference between Diotrephes a Bishop, Tertullus a Papist, Demetrius a Usurer, Pandochus an Inn-Keeper, and Paul a Preacher of the Word of God”; with quotations from Psalm cxxii. 6 and Revelations xiv. 9, 10. The titles of all these pamphlets are long, and commonly also abusive.
[87] The titles of these pamphlets were very important parts of them, and this may be quoted as an example: “Hay any Work for Cooper, or a briefe Pistle directed by way of hublication to the reverend Byshopps, counselling them if they will needs be barrelled up, for fear of smelling in the nostrels of her Magestie and the State, that they would use the advice of reverend Martin, for the providing of their Cooper. Because the reverend T. C. (by which mystical letters is meant either the bouncing Parson of Eastmeane, or Tom Coakes his Chaplaine) hath showne himself in his late Admonition to the people of England to bee an unskilfull and deceytfull tub-trimmer. Wherein worthy Martin quits himselfe like a man, I warrant you, in the modest defences of his self and his learned Pistles, and makes the Cooper’s hoops to fly off, and the Bishops’ tubs to leake out of all crye. Penned and compiled by Martin the Metropolitane. Printed in Europe, not farre from some of the Bounsing Priests.”
[88] Works of Richard Hooker. Oxford, 1841.
[89] Sainte-Beuve, Tableau historique et critique de la Poesie Française et du Théâtre Français au XVIme. Siècle. Le Seizième Siècle en France. Par MM. Darmsteter et Hatzfeld.
[90] Œuvres complètes de P. de Ronsard, edited by M. Prosper Blanchemain. Bibliothèque Elzévirienne, 1858.
[91] Ed. Marty-Laveaux. 2 vols.
[92] A Selection of Baïf’s verse has been made by M. Becq de Fonquières, 1874, and his Mimes have been reprinted by M. Blanchemain.
[93] Ed. M. Alfred Michiels. 1858.
[94] There is still no modern edition of Du Bartas. The standard edition is that of 1610-1611, in 2 vols. folio.
[95] An edition of the works of D’Aubigné, complete with the exception of L’Histoire Universelle, was published in Paris, 1873-1892, by MM. Réaume et de Caussade. Partial reprints are numerous.