14. Puteanus, Erycius. ErycI PuTEANI | AMOENITATVM | HuMANARuM | DIATRIBÆ DuÆ. | PRIOR | De Laconismo: | Ad Illustriss: & Excellentiss: | Ducem Arschotanum. | ALTERA, | Thyrsi | Philotesii, | SIVE | Amor Laconissans: | Ad V. Nobilem & Prudentem, | Maxim. Plouvierium. | Utraque elegantiis & acumini-|bus referta. | [two lines.]
Impr. 198: 1640: (twelves) 16o: pp. [8] + 200 + [8]: p. 11 beg. factus ita, 101 Laconismum: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within a line: (3–7) “Lectori benevolo ...”, signed “J. W” (estall): 1–116, 117 (misprinted 711)-195, the two diatribae: 196–200 “Sententiæ aliquot aculeatæ, è Seneca”.
These are reprints of Diatribae 7 and 8 out of the entire set of twelve which form the Amœnitates. The Thyrsi are short essays on aculei, which are pointed sentences on friendship and love. The editor (and printer) mentions the Suada Attica as “nuper excusa”: see below.
15. ——. ErycI PuTEANI | svada attica, | SIVE | ORATIONVM | SELECTARVM | SYNTAGMA. | Item Palæstra Bonæ Mentis, | prorsus innovata. | [device.]
Impr. 205: 1640: (eights) 16o: pp. [16] + 534 + [2 + ?]: p. 11 beg. ego didicerim, 501 munerúmque: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 3–10, dedication “Tribus ordinibus Brabantiæ”, dated “Lovanii, in Arce, Kalendis Martiis M.DC.XV”: 11–12, two quotations: 13 “Syllabus Orationum”: (14) “Character harum orationum”: (15) a quotation: 1–419, the 22 orations: 419–421, two passages from Aulus Gellius: 421 “Typographo lectori”: 422–424, “ErycI Puteani paucula de morte”: 425, a bastard title to the Palæstra: 427–429, “Ad lectorem”, dated “Lovanii”, XI. Kalend. Octobr. M.DC.XI.”: 430–512, the Palæstra, 20 exercitationes &c.: 513–534, “Syllabus exercitationum” and short pieces, ending with “... Puteanus Lectori ...”: (1–2) blank, the rest (if any) not seen.
There is no bibliography of the numerous works of Erycius Puteanus, but the Suada Attica was first published at Louvain in 1615, and the Palæstra in 1611. They contain orations and exercises delivered at Milan and Louvain. The Palæstra Bonæ Mentis is properly a hall at Louvain, where some of these were delivered, and in another sense a literary club which met there for debate, recitations and the like. See preceding article.
16. Randolph, Thomas. POEMS, | With the MuSES | LOOKING-GLASSE, | AND | AMYNTAS· | [line] | By Tho. Randolph M.A. and late | Fellow of Trinity Col. in | Cambridge. | [line.] | The second Edition Enlarged. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 174: 1640: (eights) 16o: pp. [28] + 134 + [2] + 87 + [7] + 101 + [1]: pp. 11 beg. Africk he loaths, High as the men, and For Mopsus: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) an engraved title, see below: (3) title, as above, within double lines: (5–26) twelve poems on the author and book: 1–134, the poems: (1) title of the Muses Looking-glass, almost as in 1638 R, with impr. 174: 1–87, (1), the play: (2) title of Amyntas, nearly as in 1638 R, but “By T.R.”, with impr. 174: (4) “Dramatis Personæ”: (6–7), 1–101, the play.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, i. 565, and 1638 R. The “enlargement” in this edition is not evident. The engraved title bears a bust of Randolph on a pedestal, with Philosophia and Poesis doing him honour, and a celestial sphere and Pegasus above. On the pedestal are the words “Poems by Tho : Randolph. The 2d Edition much Enlarged.”, and below is impr. 196. Each of the three parts is separately paged, but the two plays are linked by the signatures, while the title alone connects the plays with the poems. The Cambridge 1640 edition of “The Jealous Lovers”, a comedy by Randolph, is not infrequently found bound with this volume, but has no necessary connexion with it.
17. R[ogers], H[ugh]. ΓΑΜΗΛΙΑ | On the happy marriage of the most | accomplished paire, | H. R. Esq. | And the vertuous A. B. | [device.] |