ADDITIONAL NOTES.

Playford's Harmonia Sacra, B. i., London, 1726, p. 10, contains, as I have been told, a translation, by Taylor, of Job's curse, set to music by Henry Purcell, beginning, “Let the night perish, cursed by the morn;" but I have never seen the book.

I am indebted to the kindness of the Rev. R. C. Jenkins, the Incumbent of Christ Church, Turnham Green, for the interesting reference to Sir John Hayward, at p. 250.

ERRATA.

Page 66, for "greatest man of," read "greatest name of.”

89, for" Petty Cuzy," read "Petty Cury."

220, after "His biography, like Shakspere's," insert

"is."

BISHOP JEREMY TAYLOR;

HIS PREDECESSORS, CONTEMPORARIES, AND

SUCCESSORS.

CHAPTER I.

Introductory remarks. II. English prose, its rude beginning; Mandeville, Wickliff, and Chaucer. Sir Thomas More's Life of Edward the Fifth. III. Singular aids to the preacher; block-books and stories. — IV. Ecclesiastical sketches during the 15th and 16th centuries, taken from contemporary poets; the Pardoner, the Limitor, and the Good Parson.-V. The suppression of itinerancy not immediately beneficial.

IT

T has been remarked, that while a national collection of pictures should be composed of the works of great masters, it is necessary, if we would understand and appreciate their merits, to examine those who immediately preceded and taught them. We must contemplate Cimabue before Raffaelle. The caution is equally applicable to all the branches of learning and literature. The picturesque beauty of the Shaksperian drama winds out, with a gathered splendour, from the enveloping mist of the rude Morality. There is, however, some danger of