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[A large woodcut of the Ship.]
London, Printed by J. W. for J. Clark, at the Bible and Harp in
West-Smithfield. n. d. [Circa 1650.] 4to. 4 leaves.
"This book, or rather tract, has nothing in common with Barclay's Ship
of Fools, except the general idea. It is entirely in prose. My copy has
nothing to show to whom it formerly belonged."--(Letter of H. Huth,
Esq.) The last sentence was elicited by the inquiry whether Mr Huth's
copy were the one formerly belonging to Mr Heber.--See _Bibliotheca
Heberiana_, Part IV., No. 752.
Stultifera Navis ... The modern Ship of fools. Lond. 1807, 80. Pp. xxiv.,
295.
A wretched production in verse, in imitation of Barclay's Ship of
Fools, published anonymously by W. H. Ireland, the Shakesperian forger.
* * * * *
III. THE EGLOGES OF ALEXADER BARCLAY, PREST.--The first three, without
printer's name or device. No date. Quarto. Black letter.
"Here begynneth the Egloges of Alexader Barclay, prest, wherof the
fyrst thre conteyneth the myseryes of courters and courtes of all
prynces in generall, the matter wherof was translated into Englyshe by
the sayd Alexander in fourme of Dialogues, out of a boke named in latyn
Miserie Curialiu, compyled by Eneas Siluius, Poete and oratour, whiche
after was Pope of Rome, & named Pius." This title is over a cut of two
shepherds, Coridon and Cornix, the interlocutors in these three
eclogues. On the back is a cut of David and Bathsheba. At the end of
the third egloge: "Thus endyth the thyrde and last egloge of the mysery
of court and courters, composed by Alexander Barclay, preste, in his
youthe." A cut of the two shepherds and a courtier fills up the page.
Without date, printer's name, or device. Contains P 6, in fours, the
last leaf blank.
III.a. THE FOURTHE EGLOGE OF ALEXANDER BARCLAY.--Pynson. No date. Quarto.
Black letter.
It is entitled, "The Boke of Codrus and Mynaclus," over the cut of a
priest, with a shaven crown, writing at a plutus. It concludes with
"The discrypcion of the towre of Vertue & Honour, into whiche the noble
Hawarde contended to entre, by worthy acts of chiualry," related by
Menalcas, in stanzas of eight verses. At the end, "Thus endeth the
fourthe Eglogge of Alexandre Barcley, coteyning the maner of the riche
men anenst poets and other clerkes. Emprinted by Richarde Pynson priter
to the kynges noble grace." On the last leaf is his device, No. V.
Contains 22 leaves, with cuts.
III.b. THE FYFTE EGLOGE OF ALEXANDER BARCLAY. --Wynkyn de Worde. No date.
Quarto. Black letter.
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