We are told that there is an extra leaf to _Choyce Drollery_, “only found in a few copies, containing ten lines of verse, beginning _Fame’s windy trump_, &c. This leaf occurs in one or two extant copies of _England’s Parnassus_, 1600. Many of the pieces found here are much older than the date of the book [viz., 1656]. It contains notices of many of our early poets, and, unlike some of its successors, is of intrinsic value. Only two or three copies have occurred.” (_W. C. H.’s Handb. Pop. Lit. G. B._, 1867, p. 168.) “Cromwell’s Government ordered this book to be burned.” (_Ibid._) On this last item see our Introduction, section first. J. P. Collier, who prepared the Catalogue of Richard Heber’s Collection, _Bibliotheca Heberiana_, Pt. iv., 1834 (a rich storehouse for bibliographical students, but not often gratefully acknowledged by them), thus writes of _Choyce Drollery_:—“This is one of the most intrinsically valuable of the _Drolleries_, if only for the sake of the very interesting poem in which characters are given of all the following Poets: Shakespeare, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Massinger, Chapman, Daborne, Sylvester, Quarles, May, Sands, Digges, Daniel, Drayton, Withers, Brown, Shirley, Ford, Middleton, Heywood, Churchyard, Dekker, Brome, Chaucer, Spencer, Basse, and finally John Shank, the Actor, who is said to have been famous for a jig. Other pieces are much older, and are here reprinted from previous collections” [mostly lost]. P. 90. It is also known to J. O. Halliwell-Phillips; (but, truly, what is _not_ known to him?) See _Shakespeare Society’s Papers_, iii. 172, 1847. In our copy of _England’s Parnassus_ (unindexed, save subjects), 1600, we sought to find “_Fame’s windy trump_.” [We hear that the leaf was in _E. P._ at Tite’s sale, 1874.] As we have never seen a copy of _Choyce Drollery_ containing the passage of “ten lines,” described as beginning “Fame’s Windy Trump,” we cannot be quite certain of the following, from _England’s Parnassus_, 1600, being the one in question, but believe that it is so. Perhaps it ran, “_Fame’s Windy Trump, whatever sound out-flies_,” &c. There are twenty-seven lines in all. We distinguish the probable portion of “ten lines” by enclosing the other two parts in brackets:— FAME. [_A Monster swifter none is under sunne;_ _Encreasing, as in waters we descrie_ _The circles small, of nothing that begun,_ _Which, at the length, unto such breadth do come,_ _That of a drop, which from the skies doth fall,_ _The circles spread, and hide the waters all:_ _So Fame, in flight encreasing more and more;_ _For, at the first, she is not scarcely knowne,_ _But by and by she fleets from shore to shore,_ _To clouds from th’ earth her stature straight is growne._ _There whatsoever by her trumpe is blowne,_]