the noble practise of that worthie Societie_, &c. 1616, qto. For an account of this Poem, see _British Bibliographer_, Vol. I. p. 363. 7. _Sir Thomas Overbury’s Vision_, &c. 1616. Reprinted in the _Harleian Miscellany_, 1811. Vol. VII. p. 178. The author makes the ghost of Overbury, in his address to him, say, O thou mortal wight! Whose mournful muse, but whilome, did recite Our Britain’s princes and their woeful fates In that true 'Mirrour of our Magistrates.’ [51] Compare _Hist. of Eng. Poetry_, vol. iii p. 234. with vol. ii, p. 330. [52] See the Induction: However, according to Stowe, there was not any Lord Mayor’s Show for three years after 1605 “by reason of continuall sickness.” [53] Hee. edit. 1575. [54] Will you that I rehearse. ib. [55] Of. ed. 1575. [56] Of. ib. [57] Which must I needs be confesse. ib. [58] Veritie: [but for so much as the above named virtue by Plotinus his iudgement hath such excellent properties it is so fit in a Magistrate, that] I surely &c. ib. [59] Facts estates fortunes, ib. [60] Yet. ib. [61] Yea and though. ib. [62] And. ib. [63] Those whiche were counted the wisest that ever were. ib. [64] Yea and though. ib. [65] Be. ib. [66] He is not counted bolde, manly and constant but made beastly and desperate. I will also sith I haue gone so farre with the vertues (and the place so vrgeth) lastly set downe the difinition of Temperaunce, according to Cicero his opinion. Temperaunce (saith he) is of reason, &c. ib. [67] Vertue hath three, ib. [68] Well and wisely. [69] An immoderate, ib. [70] Also to. ib. [71] Learnedly touched. ib. [72] Other. ib. [73] Further. [Onely I would to God it were so ofte read and regarded of all Magistrates as the matter requireth.] ib. [74] Booke (which I am so bold to dedicate to your honors.) ib. [75] Not in first edit. [76] And. ed. 1575. [77] Can do farre better, either with eloquence to amend that is amisse in mine, or else when they see these so rudely pende, to publish their own, ib. [78] Your humble Iohn Higgins, [ed. 1575.] [79] From edition, 1587. [80] From first edition. This address is omitted in editions 1587 and 1610. [81] This is principally taken from the latter part of the prefatory epistle of 1575. [82] First printed and now given from edition 1587: also in Niccols. [83] Higins, by correcting what he had wrote before, re-composed several passages: The first three stanzas of the Induction are thus varied in the edition of 1575. As Somer sweete with all hir pleasures past, And leaues began to leaue both braunche and tree, While winter cold approched neere full faste, Mee thought the time to sadnes moued mee On drouping daies not half such mirth haue wee, As when the time of yeare and wether’s fayre, So moue our mindes as mocions moue the ayre.