Animaduersions vppon the annotacions and corrections of some imperfections of impressiones of Chaucers workes Volume 13; (sett downe before tyme, and nowe) reprinted in the yere of oure lorde 1598

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ... Countrie hath no peere, The Towne is but a toyle, and wearie lyfe: We like your Countrie sportes (Friend Francis) heere, The Citie is a place of bate and strife. Wherefore I thinke thee wise and full of thrift, That fledst the Towne, and hast that blessed gift. In Turberville's volume there is another poem, of 3 pages, "To his Friend T: hauing bene long studied and well experienced, and now at length louing a Gentlewoman that forced2 him naught at all/' leaf 76, back. IThought good fayth, & durst haue gagde my hand For you (Friend T.) that beautie should now hight Haue rasde your hart, nor Cupid with his brand Haue brought thy learned breast to such a plight. 1 In the edition of 1570 this is printed Frances, and ao in the tahle at the beginning, but it has his lyfe like the 1st edition. 2 cared for 4 8 12 16 20 24 cxliv AUTHORITIES FOB FRANCIS THYNNE's LIFE. Messrs Cooper give the following authorities1 for their Life of Thynne and list of his Works, in the Gent's Mag., July, 18G5 (p. 90): Ayscough's Cat. of MSS. Bernard's Cat. of MSS. Black's Cat. of Ashmol. MSS. 383, 520, 559, 625. Blakeway's Sheriffs of Salop, 116. Botfield's Stemmata Botevilliana, 29, 51-53, 56, 59, 66, cxxxvi. clxxvi. cccxliii. Collier's Bridgewater Catalogue, 217,311,312. Collier's Rarest Books, i. p. xlii. 334; ii. 25, 427, 432, 450. Collier's Reg. Stat. Comp., ii. 101. MS. Cotton. Gough's Topogr., i. 473; ii. 42, 563. MS. Harl. Hearne's Curious Discourses, 2 ed. i. 13, 21, 33, 66,139, 251; ii. 24, 143, 444. Herald and Genealogist, i. 74. Herbert's Ames. MS. Lansd. Lemon's Cal. Dom. St. Pap. ii. 487, 559, 564. Lowndes's Bibl. Man. ed. Bohn, 2,682. Moule's Bibl. Herald. 119, 309, 324. Noble's Coll. of Arms, 184, 188, 213. Bestituta, i. 548 Eitson's Bibl. Poet. 361. Rymer, xv...