CONTENTS

OF THE SECOND CONVERSATION.

Henry Parker, Lord Morley's translation of the Triumphs of
Petrarch, printed by J. Cawood-Its extreme rarity-Lord Mor-
ley's place and rank among English poets-His MS. translation
presented to Henry VIII.—Ascham quoted regarding the trans-
lators of Petrarch-Specimen of Lord Morley's version of the
Triumph of Fame, and critical remarks-Further quotations-An
original poem at the end of his translation-His Epitaph in Latin ́
upon himself Writers of blank-verse who preceded Milton-
Milton's error-Bishop Percy's unpublished work on this subject
-Lord Surrey's translation of part of the Æneid-Ascham, Hall,
Marston, and Abraham Fleming quoted against rhyme-Nicholas
Grimoald, and Gascoyne-John Vandernoodt's" Theatre, &c. of
Voluptuous Worldlings,” 1569—Quotation from it-Specimen
of peculiar blank-verse in Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar, 1579,
for August-His claim to "The Mourning Muse of Thestylis"
disputed-Lodowick Briskett's "Discourse of Civil Life," 1606,
and notice of Spenser in it" Mother Hubberd's Tale" and
"Father Hubbard's Tales," 1604, remarked upon-John Hig-
gins's blank-verse in the Mirror for Magistrates-Quotation from
the Letter of Pontius Pilate to Tiberius-Thomas Blenerhasset's
Legend of Cadwallader, also in the Mirror for Magistrates, and also
in blank-verse-Specimen-His pamphlet called " A direction for
the Plantation of Ulster," 1610-Spenser on the Irish kerns-
Abraham Fleming's translation of the Bucolics and Georgics of
Virgil, 1575 and 1589, in fourteen-syllable blank-verse-Quota-
tions from the Bucolics and Georgics-Rabelais on laughter-
Hobbes' version of Homer-And Vicars' ludicrous translation of
Virgil, and opinions upon it-Abraham Fleming's most rare and

curious relation of "A straunge and terrible Wunder, &c. in the Parish Church of Bongay," &c. 1577-Extract from it-Stanzas in rhyme by him quoted from his "Bright burning Beacon" on the Earthquake of 1580—Fleming's list of poets, &c who wrote on the same subject-Turberville and N. Breton-R. Greene's blankverse in "Perimedes the Blacke-Smith," 1588-Two specimens "Enones complaint," in blank-verse, from George Peele's “Arraygnment of Paris," 1584-Thomas Heywood's authority for the introduction of the classic measures in his "Apology for Actors," 1612-His practice in his "Pleasant Dialogues and Dramas," 1637-Aske's Elizabetha triumphans, 1588, and quotation from it regarding Mary Queen of Scots-W. Vallan's "Tale of two Swannes," 1590-Christopher Marlow's translation of the first book of Lucan's Pharsalia, 1600, in blank-verse, with specimens and observations-Cause of his death before 1593 -Comparison between Marlow and Thomas May-Anonymous production of the same kind of verse, "Queen Elizabeth's Entertainment by the Earl of Hertford," in 1591-Description of a poet from it, and quotation of a passage in his address-Speech of the "Fairy Queene" in the same George Chapman-Francis Sabie's productions, and particularly his "Fisherman's Tale" and "Floras Fortune," 1595, in blank-verse-Sabie's poetical experiments in hexameters, blank-verse and rhyme, the last in a work only recently discovered-Richard Mulcaster-His Nania Consolans, 1603, on the death of Queen Elizabeth, and its translation into blank-verse, by himself-Its character, and

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