Goffe's plays were posthumously published. He was born in 1592, educated at Westminster and at Christ Church, received a living in Surrey, married a shrewish widow (who is said to have made his life miserable), and died in 1627. There is a good deal of fustian in his tragedies, but he was inspired at times.

Page 198. "Now fie on love, it ill befits.”—Among Shirley's Poems, 1646, we have a shortened form of this song:

"Now fie on foolish love! it not befits

Or man or woman know it:

Love was not meant for people in their wits,
And they that fondly show it

Betray the straw and feathers in their brain,
And shall have Bedlam for their pain.

If single love be such a curse,

To marry is to make it ten times worse."

We have seen that another song-“ Heigh-ho, what shall a shepherd do?"—is ascribed both to Shirley and to Goffe. Shirley claimed them in 1646; and I suspect that they were introduced into Goffe's Careless Shepherdess, 1656, by some irresponsible editor.

Page 203. "And leave these uncouth woods."Uncouth has the meaning unfrequented, solitary.

Page 219. "Still-born Silence, thou that art."Richard Flecknoe, the author of this beautiful invocation, was immortalized by Dryden. Langbaine writes with mischievous pleasantry :-"He has published sundry works (as he styles them) to continue his name, to posterity; tho' possibly an enemy has done that for him which his own endeavours would never have perfected; for whatever become of his own pieces his name will continue whilst Mr. Dryden's satire called

Mac Flecknoe shall remain in vogue." There is not much to be said in favour of Flecknoe's plays, but some of his poems have real merit. He had been a traveller in Spain, Brazil, and other countries. Southey has a kindly notice of him in Omniana, i. 105-10.

Page 220. Run to love's lottery."-This song and the next are not found in the early editions, but first appeared in the folio of 1673.

Page 228. "Love's Duel."-This is a free render ng of the fourteenth ode of Anacreon.

Page 270.

Turn I my looks unto the skies."-This poem was doubtless suggested by the following sonnet of Desportes:

"Si je me siez à l'ombre, aussi soudainement
Amour, laissant son arc, s'assied et se repose;
Si je pense à des vers, je le voy qui compose;
Si je plains mes douleurs, il se plaint tantement.
Si je me plains au mal, il accroist ma tourment;
Si je respans des pleurs, son visage il arrose;
Si je monstre ma plage, en ma poitrine enclose,
Il defait son bandeau, l'essuyant doucement,
Si je vais par les bois, aux bois il m'accompagne ;
Si je me suis cruel, dans mon sang il se bagne ;
Si je vais à la guerre, il devient mon soldart;
Si je passe la mer, il conduit me nacelle;
Bref, jamais l'importun de moy ne se départ
Pour rendre mon dèsir et ma peine eternelle."

Lodge was fond of this sonnet of Desportes. In Scylla's Metamorphosis, 1589, he gives us a literal rendering, which he reprinted (with some alterations) in “Phillis," 1593. His translation runs thus :

"If so I seek the shades I suddenly do see
The god of love forsake his bow and sit me by ;
If that I think to write his Muses pliant be,
If so I plain my grief the wanton boy will cry.

If I lament his pride he doth increase my pain;

If tears my cheeks attaint, his cheeks are moist with moan; If I disclose the wounds the which my heart hath slain,

He takes his fascia off and wipes them dry anon.

If so I walk the woods, the woods are his delight;
If I myself torment, he bathes him in my blood;
He will my soldier be if once I went to fight;

If seas delight, he steers my bark amidst the flood:
In brief the cruel God doth never from me go,
But makes my lasting love eternal with my woe."

He gives us no inkling that this is a translation.

LIST OF AUTHORS.

EAUMONT, FRANCIS (1586--1616). Pages

BEAUMON

BEAUMONT, FRANCIS, and FLETCHER, JOHN (1579— 1625). 96-106.

BELCHIER, DABRIDGECOURT (d. 1621). 168-9.
BERKLEY, SIR WILLIAM (d. 1677). 226.

BREWER, ANTHONY (fl. 1607.) 176.

BROME, RICHARD (d. 1652?). 208-9.
BROWNE, WILLIAM (1590-1650?).

170.

CAMPION, DR. THOMAS (d. 1620). 93-4.

CARTWRIGHT, WILLIAM (d. 1643). 193-4.
DANIEL, SAMUEL (1562-1619). 79-80.

DAVENANT, SIR WILLIAM (1605-1668). 219-225.
DAVENPORT, Robert (fl. 1639). 210.

DEKKER, THOMAS (1570?-1641?). 81-90.

FIELD, NATHANIEL (d. 1633). 173.

FLECKNOE, RICHARD (fl. 1654). 219.

FLETCHER, JOHN. 107-144. See also BEAUMONT, FRANCIS.

FLETCHER, JOHN, and ROWLEY, WILLIAM (?-?).

145.

FLETCHER, JOHN, and SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM

(1564-1616).

146-7.

FLETCHER, PHINEAS (d. 1649). 171-2.
FORD, JOHN (1586—?). 150.

FORDE, THOMAS (fl. 1660). 228-9.
GOFFE, THOMAS (1592-1627). 197-8.
GREENE, ROBERT (1560-1592). 25, 233-263.
HABINGTON, WILLIAM (1605-45). 201-2.

HARDING, SAMUEL (fl. 1640). 207.

HAUSTED, PETER (d. 1645).

195-7.

HEYWOOD, THOMAS (?-?). 151-5.

JONES, JOHN (f. 1635). 205.

JONSON, BEN (1573-1637). 61-78.

LODGE, THOMAS (d. 1625). 25, 264-282.

London Chanticleers, 1659 (Anonymous). 199-200. Luminalia, or The Festival of Light, 1637 (Anonymous). 206.

LYLY, JOHN (1553?-?). 5-16.

MABBE, JAMES (A. 1631).

176.

Maid's Metamorphosis, 1600 (Anonymous). 16.

MARSTON, JOHN (1575?-1634). 167.

MASSINGER, PHILIP (1584-1639). 175.
MAY, THOMAS (1594?—1650). 175.

MAYNE, JASPER (1604-1672). 226-7.

MIDDLETON, THOMAS (1570?--1627).

160-6.

MIDDLETON, THOMAS, and ROWLEY, WILLIAM.

MUNDAY, ANTHONY (1553—1633). 90-92.

156-160.

MILTON, JOHN (1608-1674).

211-8.

NABBES, THOMAS (fl. 1638). 200.

NASHE, THOMAS (1567-1600?). 26-30.

PEELE, GEORGE (1558?-1598). 17-24.

QUARLES, FRANCIS (1592—1644).

194.

RANDOLPH, THOMAS (1605-1635). 189.

ROWLEY, SAMUEL (?-?). 172.