5. The dates assigned to the Monumenta Sancti Pauli are "1613, 1616, 1618, and 1633." Here are three errors in as many lines. The first edition is dated in 1614. The edition of 1633, which is entitled Ecclesia Sancti Pavli illvstrata, is the second. No other editions exist.
6. "Holland also printed a copy of Latin verses before Alexander's Roxana, 1632." No such work exists. He may have printed verses before the Roxana of W. Alabaster, who was his brother-collegian.
The authorities which I have consulted are Fuller, Anthony à Wood, Henry Holland, son of the celebrated Philemon Holland, Hugh Holland, and Joseph Welch; and in submitting the result of my researches to critical examination, I must commend the writer of the article in question for his continued efforts to produce new facts, and to explode current errors.
Insensible as modern critics may be to the poetical merits of Hugh Holland, we find him described by Camden as one of the most pregnant wits of those times; and he certainly gave a notable proof of his wit—for fame is that which all hunt after—in contributing some lines to Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, and tragedies.
On that account, if on no other, the particulars of his life should be inquired into and recorded. His Cypress garland, a copy of which I possess, is rich in autobiographical anecdote; and I have collected some of his fugitive verses, a specimen of which may amuse. As one of the shortest, I transcribe the lines which he addressed to Giles Farnaby, a musical composer of some eminence, on the publication of his Canzonets to fowre voyces, A. D. 1598.
"M. Hu. Holland to the author.
I would both sing thy praise, and praise thy singing,
That in the winter nowe are both a-springing;
But my muse must be stronger,
And the daies must be longer.