liuing vitiouslie in hir husbandes dayes. 13 Retourning from Plutos Kingdome, to noble Helicon: the place of infinite joy.--Col. Imprinted at London in Pawles Churche Yarde, by William Williamson. [29] See Vol. I. p. 243. Where, in note 8, the reader is requested to alter 'first’ to 'second’ edition. In a few other notes the like alteration may be wanted. I did not obtain sight of the copy described above, until the volume was in print. [30] By very close examination it appears, as if the whole of the first sheet was reprinted. [31] In the present edition the very numerous notes subscribed with the initial N. will point out the unusual interpolations or substitutions made upon the original text by Niccols; as the [brackets] in the text also show the words, lines, and passages wholly omitted in the edition of 1610. [32] To select only three may be sufficient. “I account (says Sir Philip Sydney, in the _Defence of Poesy_) the Mirrour of Magistrates meetly furnished of beautiful parts.” That profound critic, Edmund Bolton, says: “Among the lesser late poets, George Gascoigne’s work may be endur’d. But the best of those times (if _Albion’s England_ be not preferr’d) for our business is, the _Mirrour of Magistrates_, and in that Mirrour Sackvil’s Induction,” &c. And Oldys, in his preface before _The British Muse_, examining the reign of Elizabeth, observes: “At that time came out the fine collection, called _The Mirror for Magistrates_. This piece was done by several hands. It represents pathetically the falls of many great and unfortunate men of our nation, and beautifully advises others to avoid following their example. Besides the particular praises given this work by Sir Philip Sidney and Mr. Edmund Bolton, (another judicious critick, who writes not long after him;) that it received the general approbation, appears from its having been three or four times reprinted. Every impression had new additions from other eminent hands, amongst whom the Earl of Dorset is not the least conspicuous.”