notice his _library_,
if I am not able to discover any thing particularly interesting
relating to the same. And so, wishing every lover of his country's
literature to purchase a copy of the poems of both these heroes,[319]
I march onward to introduce a new friend to you, who preceded Leland
in his career, and for an account of whom we are chiefly indebted to
the excellent and best editor of the works of Spencer and Milton.
Did'st ever hear, Lisardo, of one WILLIAM THYNNE?

[Footnote 318: About the year 1519, Hall mentions the Earl
of Surrey "on a great coursir richely trapped, and a greate
whistle of gold set with stones and perle, hanging at a
great and massy chayne baudrick-wise." Chronicles: p. 65, a.
See Warton's _Life of Sir Thomas Pope_: p. 166, note o., ed.
1780. This is a very amusing page about the custom of
wearing whistles, among noblemen, at the commencement of the
16th century. If Franklin had been then alive, he would have
had abundant reason for exclaiming that these men "paid too
much for their _whistles_!"]

[Footnote 319: Till the long promised, elaborate, and
beautiful edition of the works of SIR THOMAS WYATT and LORD
SURREY, by the Rev. Dr. Nott,[E] shall make its appearance,
the bibliomaniac must satisfy his book-appetite, about the
editions of the same which have already appeared, by
perusing the elegant volumes of Mr. George Ellis, and Mr.
Park; _Specimens of the Early English Poets_; vol. ii., pp.
43-67: _Royal and Noble Authors_, vol. i., pp. 255-276. As
to early black letter editions, let him look at _Bibl.
Pearson_, no. 2544; where, however, he will find only the
7th edition of 1587: the first being of the date of 1557.
The eighth and last edition was published by Tonson, in
1717, 8vo. It will be unpardonable not to add that the Rev.
Mr. Conybeare is in possession of a perfect copy of Lord
Surrey's Translation of a part of the Aeneid, which is the
third only known copy in existence. Turn to the animating
pages of Warton, _Hist. Engl. Poetry_; vol. iii., pp. 2-21,
about this translation and its author.]

[Footnote E: Conducting this celebrated book through the
press occupied Dr. Nott several years; it was printed by the
father of the printer of this work, in two large 4to.
volumes--and was just finished when, in the year 1819, the