2nd S. NO 27., July 5. '66.1 



.Js^OTES AND QUERIES. 



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field's Encomion of Lady Pecunia was " printed 

 by G. S. foi' John Jaggard" in tliat year. Al- 

 though a thin tract, it is divided into four parts, 

 and every part has a separate title-page and im- 

 print, but the first only bears the name of the 

 author, "Richard Barnfeild, graduate in Oxford:" 

 neither does the first title-page mention any of 

 the three other distinct portions of the volume. 

 It is to be observed also (a circumstance that 

 escaped my notice when I wrote to The AthencBum), 

 that after " The Encomion of Lady Pecunia," 

 * forming the first portion of the volume, and which 

 alone has the name of Barnfield upon the title- 

 page, a new set of signatures at the bottom of the 

 page begins. "The Encomion of Lady Pecunia" 

 begins on A 2 (A 1 having formed the fly-leaf), 

 and ends on C 4. Then we arrive at a new title- 

 page, " The Complaint of Poetrie, for the Death 

 of Liberalitie," which begins on sig. A 1, and ends 

 on sig. C 2. The title-page of the third division 

 of the work, " The Combat betvveene Conscience 

 and Covetousnesse in the Minde of Man" is upon 

 sig. C 3, and it goes on as far as sig. D 4. The 

 fourth division of the work, " Poems in Divers 

 Humors," has its separate title-page on sig. E 1 ; 

 and on sig. E 4 the whole ends. The imprint 

 upon the four title-pages is precisely in the same 

 ■vrords and figures, viz., " London, printed by G. 

 S. for lohn laggard ; and are to be solde at his 

 shoppe neere Temple-barre, at the Signe of the 

 Hand and starre, 1598." The poems, formerly 

 in dispute between Shakspeare and Barnfield, are 

 in the fourth division of the volume, " Poems in 

 divers humors." 



My mistaken notion, twelve years ago, was, that 

 Barnfield, in 1605, had republished the whole of 

 what had first appeared in 1598. This is not so. 

 In 1605 he prefixed a general title-page, men- 

 tioning only three of the four divisions of his 

 original work, viz. — 1. "Lady Pecunia, or The 

 Praise of Money." 2. " A Combat betwixt Con- 

 science and Covetousnesse;" and 3. " The Com- 

 plaint of Poetry, or the Death of Liberality." He 

 says not one word about what had been his fourth 

 division in 1508, "Poems in divers humors;" but 

 still, on the very last leaf of the impression of 

 1605, Barnfield places "A Rernembrance of some 

 English Poets," which had appeared as one of the 

 " Poems in divers humors," in 1598. All the rest 

 he seems purposely to have excluded, as if they 

 were not his. 



As I have the necessary books upon my table, 

 I will subjoin an enumeration of the contents of 

 " Poems in divers humors," including, of course, 

 those which I now suppose Shakspeare to have 

 written, and which are mixed *up with other 

 pieces, some of them of a personal nature. 



1. Six lines, at the back of the title, "To the 

 learned and accomplisht Gentleman, Maister Ni- 



cholas Blackleech of Grayes Inne," without any 

 signature. 



2. " Sonnet to his friend Maister R. L. in 

 praise of Musique and Poetrie :' this is No. "VIII. 

 in The Passionate Pilgrim (see my edit., vol. viii. 

 p. 566.). 



3. " Sonnet against the Dispraysers of Poetrie :" 

 it mentions Chaucer, Gower, Lord Surrey, Sir P. 

 Sidney, Gascoigne, and the King of Scots. 



4. " A Remembrance of some English Poets," 

 in eighteen lines : it speaks of Spenser, Daniel, 

 Drayton, and Shakspeare. 



5. " An Ode," beginning " An it fell upon a 

 day:" it is inserted in 27te Passionate Pilgrim, 

 No. XXL (see my edit., vol. viii. p. 577.). The 

 poem beginning " Whilst as fickle fortune smilde," 

 which I treated as a separate production, is here 

 united with that which precedes it. 



6. Some lines thus headed " Written at the 

 request of a Gentleman under a Gentlewoman's 

 Picture :" it consists of six fourteen-syllable lines. 



7. " An Epitaph upon the Death of Sir Philip 

 Sidney, Knight, Lord-governour of Vlissing :" it 

 is in ten long lines in couplets. 



8. " An Epitaph upon the Death of his Aunt, 

 Mistresse Elizabeth Skrymsher :" it is in twenty- 

 four long lines, in couplets. 



"A Comparison of the Life of Man :" it is a 

 seven-line stanza, followed by the word " Finis." 

 This, as well as " A Remembrance of some En- 

 glish Poets," is reprinted in Barnfield's edition of 

 1605. 



The two impressions of " Lady Pecunia," in 

 1598 and in 1605, I have before me. I have also 

 copies of Barnfield's Affectionate Shepheard, 1594 

 (Ritson, by mistake, dates it 15t6); and of his 

 Cynthia, with certaine Sonnets, 1595. In the ad- 

 dress " to the courteous gentleman Readers," be- 

 fore the last, Barnfield repudiates " two books," 

 which had been untruly imputed to him : he pro- 

 bably means Greene's Funerals, 1594, and Or- 

 pheus his Journey to Hell, 1595, both of which 

 were put forth with his initials. Therefore, in 

 1598, it would have been no novelty to him to 

 have other men's productions printed as his, since 

 the practice had begun in 1594, and he had com- 

 plained of it in 1595. 



In reference to " As it fell upon a day," it may 

 be noticed, that thcmgh published as Barnfield's 

 in 1598, and as Shakspeare's in 1599, the real 

 authorship of it was so little ascertained in 1600, 

 that it was printed in that year in England's 

 Helicon, under the signature of Ignoto. If any of 

 your readers can throw light upon this subject, 

 or add to the list of Barnfield's performances, 

 whether in print or in manuscript, they will con- 

 fer a favour upon J. Patne Cojulieb. 



Maidenhead. 



