lume entitled _Covent Garden
drolery_. This small volume contains twenty-two prologues or epilogues,
and more than fifty songs--all anonymous, but said to be written by the
_refinedest wits of the age_. We have, 1. A prologue and epilogue to the
_Maiden queen_ of Dryden--not those printed in 1668; 2. A prologue and
epilogue to the _Parson's wedding_ of Thomas Killigrew; 3. A prologue
and epilogue to the _Marriage a la mode_ of Dryden--printed with the
play in 1673; 4. The prologue to JULIUS CAESAR; 5. A prologue to the _Wit
without money_ of Beaumont and Fletcher--printed in the _Poems_ of
Dryden, 1701; 6. A prologue to the _Pilgrim_ of Fletcher--not that
printed in 1700. These pieces occupy the first twelve pages of the
volume. It cannot be requisite to give any further account of its
contents.

I waive the question of internal evidence; but have no misgiving, on
that score, as to the opinion which may henceforth prevail on the
validity of the claim now advanced in favour of Dryden.

Sir Walter Scott observes, with reference to the essay _Of dramatick
poesie_, "The contrast of Ben. Jonson and Shakspere is peculiarly and
strikingly felicitous." He could have said no less--whatever he might
have said as to its authorship--had he seen the _Prologue to Julius
Caesar_.

BOLTON CORNEY.

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PARTY SIMILES OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY:--NO. I. "FOXES AND
FIREBRANDS." NO. II. "THE TROJAN HORSE."

(_Continued from_ Vol. viii., p. 488.)

The following works I omitted to mention in my last Note from want of
room. The first is by that _amiable_ Nimrod, John Bale, Bishop of
Ossory:

"Yet a Course at the Romyshe Foxe, &c. Compyled by Johan
Harrison. Zurich. 1543. 4to."

The four following are by William Turner, M.D., who also wrote under an
assumed name:

"The Huntyng of the Romishe Foxe, &c. By William Wraughton.
Basil. 1543."

"The Rescuynge of the Romishe Foxe, &c. Winchester. 1545. 8vo."

"The Huntyng of the Romyshe Wolfe. 8vo. 1554(?)."

"The Huntyng of the Foxe and Wolfe, &c. 8vo."

The next is the most important work, and I give the title in full:

"The Hunting of the Romish Fox, and the Quenching of Sectarian
_Firebrands_. Being a Specimen of Popery and Separation.
Collected by the Honourable Sir James Ware, Knight, out of the
Memorials of Eminent Men, both in Church and State: A. B.
Cranmer, A. B. Usher, A. B. Parker, S