_~Draiton~ is sweet and smooth: though not exact,_ _Perhaps to stricter Eyes; yet he shall live_ _Beyond their Malice: to the Scene and Act,_ _Read Comicke ~Shakespeare~; or if you would give_ _Praise to a just Desert, crowning the Stage,_ _See ~Beaumont~, once the honour of his Age._ _The reverent ~Donne~; whose quill God purely fil’d,_ _Liveth to his Character: so though he claim’d_ _A greater glory, may not be exil’d_ _This Commonwealth_, &c. _Here pause a little; for I would not cloy_ [verse 15] _The curious Eare, with recitations;_ _And meerily looke at names; attend with joy,_ _Unto an ~English~ Quill, who rivall’d once_ _~Rome~, not to make her blush; and knowne of late_ _Unenvied (’cause unequall’d) Laureate._ _This, this was JONSON; who in his own name_ _Carries his praise; and may he shine alone;_ _I am not tyed to any generall ffame,_ _Nor fixed by the Approbation_ _Of great ones: But I speake without pretence_ _Hee was of ~English~ Dramatiskes, the Prince._ Page 10. _Come, my White-head, let our Muses._ This was written by SIR SIMEON STEWARD, or Stewart. The numbers 1 and 2 of our text are twice incorrect in original, viz. the 10th and 14th verses, each assigned to 1 (Red-head), whereas they certainly belong to 2 (White-head). From third verse the figure “1” has unfortunately dropt in printing. By aid of Addit. MS. No. 11, 811, p. 36, we are enabled to correct a few other errors, some being gross corruptions of sense; although, as a general rule, regarding poems that had appeared in print, the private MS. versions abound with blunders of the transcriber, additional to those of the original printer. It is, in the MS., entitled “A Dialogue between _Pyrrotrichus_ and _Leucothrix_,” the latter taking verses 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and the final verse, 14 (marked _Leuc_). His earliest verse reads, in the MS., “_And higher, Rufus_, who would pass; were _some_; 3rd. v. ’Tis _this_ that; 6th. The Roman _King who_; be _lopt_; Ruddy _pates_; 8th v. Red like _unto_; _colour_; 9th. _Nay_ if; doth _beare_ no; side _looks_ as fair; other _doth_ my; bear _my_ [?]; 10th. _Therefore_, methinks; Besides, _of_ all the; 12th. N.B.—Yet _what thy head must buy with_ yeares, Crosses; That _hath_ nature _giv’n_; 13th, be _two_ friendly peeres; let us _joyn_; make _one_ beauteous; 14th, [_Leucothrix_.] We _joyn’d_ our heads; beat them _to heart_ [i.e. to boot]; Was _just_ but; _of_ our head.” In the Reresby Memoirs, we believe, is mention of an ancestress, who, about 1619, married this (?) “Sir Simeon Steward.” Page 15. _A Stranger coming to the town._