That han hir wil here
Withouten travaille the tithe deel
That trewe men biswynken."
L. 10571. et seq., ed. Wright.]
La Mer des Histoires.
—Who is the author of La Mer des Histoires? I have seen the first volume in large folio; the type and paper are beautiful, the capital letters very fine. It is stated in the preface to be a translation from the Latin of Rudimentum Noviciorum, with the addition of the French Chronicles, and made at the instance of André de la Haye, Seigneur de Chaumot, Paymaster of Sens. It is printed at Paris in the month of July, 1448, by Pierre le Rouge. In how many volumes is the work comprised? Is it very scarce?
R. C. H. H.
[Greswell, in his Annals of Parisian Typography, p. 307., says, "The designation La Mer des Histoires seems, as a popular one, to have been given to French chronicles of various descriptions. Two impressions thus entitled appeared Parisiis, post 1500, viz., 'Mer des Histoires et Chroniques de France: extrait en partis de tous les anciens chroniquers, &c. jusqu' au temps de Francois I.,' 2 voll. fol. Galliot du Pres, 1514, 16; and more especially 'La Mer des Hystoires et Croniques de France: Extraict en partie de tous les anciens croniquers,' 4 voll. fol.—'Le premier volume,' Galliot du pre, 1517; 'Le second volume,' M. le Noir, 1517; 'Le tiers volume,' sine anno et impressoris nomine; 'Le quatriesme liure,' Par. 1518. Panzer says that both these chronicles, of which the latter seems to be an improved edition of the former, are said to have been compiled by Johannes Descourtils, the French king's historiographer.">[
"The noiseless Foot of Time."
—Not having by me at present the means of ascertaining, will some one kindly inform me where the above words are to be found in Shakspeare, giving me the exact reference?