[EV] To Bliss's notice of {Blount Blunt}; it may be added that "Pericles" was printed for him in 1609; and the first edition of Marlow's "Hero and Leander" in 1598 ["printed for Edward Blunt by Adam Islip" (Philemon Holland's printer)]. Marlow's "First Book of Lucan" (1600) has a humorous and complimentary dedication to Blunt from another bookseller, Thomas Thorpe. See "Earlier History of English Bookselling." (Sampson and Low.) [EW] The second folio Shakespeare (1632) was printed for him. [EX] The 1613 edition of Hero and Leander was printed by W. Stansby for Ed. Blunt. He also published some of Ben Jonson's works. [EY] Sir Henry Savile, Provost of Eton, and editor of the famous Chrysostom, recognised Earle's scholarship. "When a young scholar was recommended to him for a good witt,--Out upon him! I'll have nothing to do with him--he would say, give me the plodding student. If I would look for witts, I would go to Newgate--There be the witts! and John Earle was the only scholar that ever he took as recommended for a witt."--_Aubrey._ [EZ] David Lloyd, "Memoirs," 1668, folio. [FA] "The very Parliament naming him as worthy ... though he thought not it worthy of him."--_Ib._ [FB] Aubrey calls him "an ingeniose young gent, but no writer." [FC] "Ben Jonson, Edmund Waller, Esq., Mr. Th. Hobbes, and all the excellent witts of that peaceable time."--_Aubrey._