[5] “British Bibliographer,” Introduction to the “Paradise of Dainty Devices,” p. vi. The reader may also be referred to Brydges’ “Restituta,” i., 367; “Brit. Bibl.” i., 494; “Censura Literaria,” first edit. vii., 350. [6] [Warton’s “H.E.P.,” by Hazlitt,” iv., 215.] [7] See “Nugæ Antiquæ,” vol. ii., p. 392, ed. 1804. [8] [As to the song of the “Willow Garland,” mentioned by Warton as by Edwards, see “H.E.P.” by Hazlitt, iv., 216.] [9] “History of English Poetry,” by Hazlitt, iv., p. 21. [A writer in the “Shakespeare Society’s Papers,” vol. ii., printed from what he supposed to be a fragment of a later impression of this book the story of the “Waking Man’s Dream,” which is also to be found narrated in Burton’s “Anatomy of Melancholy,” 1621.] [10] [See Warton’s “H.E.P.” by Hazlitt, iv., 214. Warton is very positive in asserting that the first edition was not in 1571, but in 1570, yet no such edition is at present known. The play, however, having been licensed in 1567 (Collier’s “Extr. from Stat. Reg.” i., 166), it is extremely probable that it was published even before 1570.] [11] A specimen of the elegy on Edwards by Turbervile printed in the editions of his poems in 1567 and 1570, is here subjoined: “Epitaph on Maister Edwards, sometime Maister of the Children of the Chappell, and Gentleman of Lyncolnes Inne of Court-- “Ye Learned Muses nine, and sacred Sisters all, Now lay your cheereful Cithrons downe and to lamenting fall. Rent off those garlandes greene, doe laurel leaves away, Remove the myrtill from your browes, and stint on strings to play; For he that led the daunce, the chiefest of your traine, I meane the man that Edwards height, by cruell death is slaine. Ye courtyers chaunge your cheere, lament in wailfull wise, For now your Orpheus hath resignd, in clay his Carcas lies. O ruth, he is bereft, that whilst he liued heere, For Poet’s Pen and passing Wit, could haue no Englishe Peere. His vaine in Verse was such, so stately eke his stile, His feate in forging sugred Songs with cleane and curious file; As all the learned Greekes and Romaines would repine, If they did live againe, to vewe his Verse with scornefull eine.” [12] Nature. [13] _Authours_, first edition. [14] _Spake_, second edition.