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" unfparing hand, and there feems to have been ample fcope for
" the exercife of his trenchant pen. His references to places and
" objects of interest are not the leafl valuable of his allufions, and
"what Mr. John Payne Collier has faid regarding his 'Hvmors
" ' Looking Glaffe ' may with equal truth be applied to many of
"his other works : — 'Some of the fhort productions are of courfe
" ' not fo good as others, but there is fcarcely one that does not
"'fupply fome curious information regarding places, opinions,
"'fafhions, and manners.' Befides being a writer of humorous,
" fatirical, and moral poetry, Rowlands was alfo the author of
" various religious works, and one of his hymns was printed a few
" years ago in a popular magazine as the befl fpccimen of
"hyninology belonging to the clofe of the i6th century. One
" of Rowlands' Tracts was edited by Sir Walter Scott, who was
" perhaps the firfl to recognife his worth. J\'Ir. Ulterfon, Mr.
"Collier, Mr. Halliwell-Phillips, and Dr. Rimbault alio edited
" one or more of them. The originals are all of great, fome
"of exceffive, rarity, and in no library, public or private, hov.-ever
' rich it may be in remains of Early Englifli literature, is there a
" complete collection of his works."
In the courfe of the third year Thomas Lodge was fixed upon
as an Englifli author whofe works, of great merit, had never been
republiflied in their entirety. Of them Dr. David Laing wrote
in an Introduction to two of Lodge's pieces reprinted in 1S53
by the Shakefpeare Society : — " It is, however, in his character as
" a poet that Lodge perhaps claims his chief diflindtion. It may,
"therefore, be hoped that the plan which Mr. Singer in his
"Select Early Englifli Poets left uncompleted, may yet be
" accompliflied, by publilliing the whole of Lodge's poetical com-
"pofitions in a collective form ... Sir Egerton Brydges has
" paid a jufl and eloquent tribute to his genius in his republica-
" tion of ' England's Helicon,' a poetical miscellany to which
"Lodge was a contributor in 1600. ' By far the firil of thefe,' he
" remarks, ' are the compofitions of Dr. Thomas Lodge and
" ' Nicholas Breton. That the genius of both of thefe writers
" ' was not only elegant, but pure and unsophifticated, and far