(2) The most Honorable Tragedie of Sir Richarde Grinuille, Knight (∴)Bramo assai, poco spero, nulla chieggio. [By Gervase Markham] London. 1595. [Two copies only are known, Mr. Grenville’s cost £40.] Sixpence. [Dec.
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The publication of the ‘English Reprints’ passed into the Editor’s hands on the 1st of May last. An inevitable cessation in the issue of new works ensued: but with the appearance of Howell’s Instructions, &c., the Series resumes its growth.
A few changes have been made as to works in immediate preparation. (1) Roister Doister can be published for Sixpence. (2) An early printed rarity, The Revelation to the Monk of Evesham, has therefore been interpolated. (3) Elyot’s Governor has been postponed to next year. (4) In its stead Naunton’s Fragmenta Regalia, and Watson’s ἐκατομπαθία, &c. have been inserted.
It is a great gratification to bring back from oblivion the works of so elegant a poet as Thomas Watson, of whose renown in his own age Francis Meres thus testifies in his Palladis Tamia, 1598.
‘As Italy had Dante, Boccace, Petrarch, Tasso, Celiano, and Ariosto: so England had Mathew Roydon, Thomas Atchelow, Thomas Watson, Thomas Kid, Robert Greene and George Peele.’ —p. 282, b.
‘As Theocritus in Greeke, Virgil and Mantuan in Latine, Sanazar in Italian, and the Authour of Amyntæ Gaudia and Walsinghams Melibœus are the best for pastorall....’ —p. 284, a.