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Thomas Westcott John Connye 
Davy Ricche, farrier . Connie’s wyfe 
Thomas Hewes, ale brewer Connie’s boy 
Thomas Warren, ostringer[?.e. Falconer) Jack, the Falconer’s boy 
Gilbert, the beer-brewer Edmonds, Robert Tutt’s man 
Barnaby, the baker James, Mr. Ludloe’s boy 4 
Cusse, the boy of the bakehouse Southerne, Mr. Smith’s boy.” 
Hugh, boy of the Warderobe 
Mr. Robert Smith, at the head of the above list, was tutor to the 
young Lord Beauchamp and his brother Thomas, and probably 
chaplain. Of his style of composition, the following specimen 
remains :— 
R. Smyth to Edward E. of Hertford. 
30 Jan. ‘ Bi this bearer (my singuler good Lord) I have sent two such as I 
could call to mynd, the one longer, the other shorter, more wold I have sent but 
that ‘omnium rerum est satietas,’ I feare theise be to much. The names of 
suche bokes are herein enclosed, as apperteine to such purpose. The argument 
of the first titled boke is; the Poete meaning to extoll the praise of Isotta 
dawghter to the prince of Ariminium and married to the Duke of Forence [sic] 
he feineth Jupiter to have been ravished wyth her excellent beuty. His first 
epistle conteyneth Jupiter’s wowing. The second Isotta her modest and matron- 
lyke refusall. The third Jupiter’s reply wherein ‘precibusg minas regaliter 
addit.’ But as appeareth by the others folowing, 
‘Nil prece, nil pretio, nil valet ille minis,’ 
For she told hyr husband who writeth to Mars to defend him from Jupiter’s 
wrath. And Mars to Phoebus to take his parte. Jupiter wrytes it to Saturne, 
and Saturne to Luna to steal her away by night. Mercury calleth a counsel of 
the gods wherein yt ys determined that Pallas and Venus should be sent with 
this embassage ; that Sigismunde should enjoye Isolta peaceably .as long as she 
ys mortall and after Jupiter to have her when she isimmortall. The peace 
being thus concluded Luna and Juno gratulate the Erth for joy of the peace 
concluded... 
What story was ment that I told whether of Cephalus or Procris or Hippo- 
manes and Attalanta or Linceus and Hipermnestra, I know not. If I misse 
the title of the boke of Questions, theise are some of theime. A lady loving 
two at a banquett she toke from one a garland and put yt on her heade: to the 
other she gave a garland which before she had upon her head. The question 
_ys, whether (of the two) she loved better. Another, whether yt be better for 
@ woman to marry a wyse man, a stronge man, or a riche man. 
Another, whether the lover is more passioned in presence or in absence. 
Thus, with ‘‘Jucundum est amare si cures ne quid insit amari,” I take my 
leaye.—Wolphall, 30 January. 
Y°, L. most bounden and humble 
R. SMYTH.” 
