land, Switzerland, Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, Italy, Turkey, France, England, Scotland, and Ireland. 1617. Reprinted, Glasgow, 1907-8. (Text of 1907.)

NICHOLAS BRETON

Fantasticks: Serving for a Perpetuall Prognostication. 1626. Reprinted in Volume Two of the Works in Verse and Prose of Nicholas Breton, edited by Rev. Alexander Grosart. Chertsey Worthies Library. 1879. (Grosart's text.)

JOSEPH HALL

In Two Books.

Characters of Virtues and Vices. 1608. Reprinted in Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century, edited by Henry Morley, 1891, and A Book of Characters, edited by Richard Aldington, 1924. (Morley's text.)

SIR THOMAS OVERBURY

A Wife: now the Widdow of Sir Thomas Overburye. Being a most exquisite and singular Poem of the Choice of a Wife. Whereunto are added many witty characters, and conceited Newes, written by himself and other learned Gentlemen his friends, 1614. Reprinted in Library of Old Authors, ed. E. F. Rimbault, 1890, Morley's Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century, and Aldington's A Book of Characters. of 1614.)

JOHN EARLE

(Text

Microcosmographie or a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters. 1628. Edited by P. Bliss, 1811; Edward Arber, 1868; A. S. West, 1897;

in Morley's Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century and Aldington's A Book of Character. (Arber's text.)

THOMAS FULLER

The Holy State and the Profane State. Reprinted by Pickering, 1840. (Text of 1642.)

ROBERT BURTON

1642.

The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is. With all the Kindes, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their Severall Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut-up. By Democritus Junior, With a Satyricall Preface, conducing to the following Discourse. Oxford, 1621. Re-issued four times, with additions, during the author's life. Modern edition by A. R. Shilleto, with Introduction by A. H. Bullen, 1893. (Text of Eighth Edition, 1676, with corrections from earlier editions.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Religio Medici (Two unauthorized editions appeared in 1642, the first authorized edition in 1643). Modern editions by W. A. Greenhill in Golden Treasury Series, 1881, and C. H. Herford in Everyman Library, 1906. Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or a Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes lately found in Norfolk. 1658. Modern editions by Sir John Evans, 1893, and W. A. Greenhill, 1906.

Christian Morals Published from the original manuscript. Edited by J. Jeffrey. Cambridge, 1716. Works including his Life and Correspondence, 4 vols., edited by Simon Wilkin, 1835-6 (Bohn Library, 3 vols.,

1852). Works, 3 vols., ed. Charles Sayle, 1904. (Greenhill's text for Religio Medici and Christian Morals; Wilkin's for Um Burial.)

JAMES HOWELL

Epistolae Ho-Elianae. Vol. i, 1645; vol. ii, 1647; vols. i-iii, 1650; vols. i-iv, 1655. Modern editions by Joseph Jacobs 1890, by Oliphant Smeaton, Temple Classics, 1903, and by Agnes Repplier, 1907. (Text of 1650.)

JEREMY TAYLOR

N The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying. 1651. Edited by Rev. Reginald Heber and Rev. Charles Page Eden, Whole Works of Jeremy Taylor, vol. iii. 1850. Reprinted in Temple Classics, 1901. (Text of Heber and Eden.)

FRANCIS OSBORNE

Advice to a Son. Part I, 1656; Modern edition by Judge Parry, 1896.

LORD CLARENDON

Part II, 1658. (Text of 1673.)

A Collection of Several Tracts of the Rights Honourable Edward, Earl of Clarendon. 1727. The essays alone from this collection were reprinted in 1815. (Text of 1727.)

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