Sept. 21. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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stated, Gray's EZeo-?/ comes first. Dodsley's isa po- I 

 pular and well-known work, and yet I cannot find j 

 that anybody has given the dates connected with ; 

 it accurately. If Gray's Elegy appeared in it ibr 

 the first tiiue (which I do not suppose), it came out 

 in 1755 ; which is the date of vol. iv. of Dodsley's 

 Collection, and not in 1757, which is the date of 

 the Strawberry Hill edition of Gray's Oiles. The 

 Rev. J. Mitford (Aldine edit, xxxiii.) informs us 

 that " Dodsley published three volumes of this 

 Collection in 1752; the fourth volume was pub- 

 lished in 1755; and the fifth and sixth volumes, 

 which completed the Collection, in 1758." I am 

 writing with the title-pages of the work open 

 before me, and I find that the first three volumes 

 were published, not in 1752, but in 17-i8, and that 

 even this was " the second edition ;" so that there 

 must have been an edition of the first three vo- 

 lumes, either anterior to 1748, or earlier in that 

 year. The s;de of the work encouraged Dodsley 

 to add a fourth volume in 1755, and two others 

 in 1758; and the plate of Apollo and the Muses 

 was re-engraved for vols, v, and vi., because the 

 original copper, which had served for vols, i., ii., 

 iii., and iv., was so much worn. 



This matter will not seem of such trifling im- 

 portance to those who bear in mind, that if Gray's 

 Elegy did not originally come out in this Col- 

 lection in 1755, various other poems of great 

 merit and considerable popularity did then make 

 their earliest appearance. 



The Hermit of Holyport. 



Sept. 1850. 



P.S. My attention has been directed to the 

 subject of Gray's Poems, and particularly to his 

 Elegy, by a recent pilgrimage I made to Stoke 

 Poges, which is only five or six miles from this 

 neighbourhood. The <-hurch and the poet's monu- 

 ment to his mother are worth a much longer walk ; 

 but the mausoleum to Gray, in the immediate 

 vicinity, is a preposterous edifice. The residence 

 of Lady Cobham has been lamentably modernised. 



nUGn HOLLAND AND HIS WORKS. 



The name of Hugh Holland has been handed 

 down to posterity in connexion with that of our 

 innnortal bnrd ; but few know anything of him 

 bcyonii his commendatory verses prefixed to the 

 first folio of Shakspcare. 



He was born at Denbigh in 1558, and educated 

 at Westiniiisler School while Caiiiden tiiught 

 there. In 1582 he matriculatiid at lialiol College, 

 Oxford; aixl about 1590 he succeeded to a Fel- 

 lowship at 'i'rinity College, Cambridge. Tiicnce 

 lie travelled into Italy, and at Rome was guilly of 

 several indiscretions by the freedom of his conver- 

 sations. He next went to Jerusalem to pay his 



devotions at the Holy Sepulchre, and on his re- 

 turn touched at Constantinople, where he received 

 a reprimand from the English ambassador (or the 

 former freedom of his tongue. At his return to : 

 England, he retired to Oxford, and, according to 

 \V'ood, spent some years there for the sake of the 

 public library. He died in July, 1G33, and was 

 buried in Westminster Abbey, " in the south 

 crosse aisle, neere the dore of St. Benet's Cha- 

 pell," but no inscription now remains to record 

 the event. 



Whalley, in GifTord's Jonson (1. cccxiv.), says, 

 speaking of Hugh Holland — 



" He wrote several things, amongst wliieh is the 

 life of Camden ; but none of them, 1 believe, have been 

 ever published." [ 



Holland published two works, the titles of | 

 which are as follows, and perhaps others which 

 I am not aware of: — 



1. " Monuraeiita Sepulchralia Sancti Pauli. Loud. 

 1613. 4to." 



'2. " A Cypres Garland for the Sacred Forehead of 

 our late Soveraigiie King James. Lond. 1625. 4to." 



The first is a catalogue of the monuments, in- 

 scriptions, and epitaphs in the Cathedral Church 

 of St. Paul, which Nicolson calls " a mean and 

 dull performance." It was, at any rate, very 

 popular, being printed again in the years 1616, 

 1618, and 1633. 



The second is a poetical tract of twelve leaves, 

 of the greatest possible rarity. 



Holland also printed commendatory verses be- 

 fore a curious musical work, eniitled Purtheuia, or 

 the Muydenhead of the First Musick for the Vir- 

 ginalls, 1611 ; and a copy of Latin verses before 

 Dr. Alexander's Roxana, 1632. 



In one of the Lansdowne MSS. are preserved 

 the following verses written np<m . the death of \ 

 Prince Henry, by " Hugh Hollande, fellow of ^ 

 Trinity College, Cambridge:"' — 



" Loe, where he sliincth yonder 



A Hxcd Star in heaven, 

 Whose motion here came under 



None of the planets seven. 

 If thiit the Moone should tender 



The Sun her love, and marry, 

 They both could not engender 



So sweet a star as Hakry." 



Our author was evidently a man of some poeti- 

 cal fancy, and if not worthy to be classed "among 

 the chief of English poets," he is at least entitled 

 to a niche in the temple of fame. 



My object in calling attention to this long for- 

 gotten author is, to gain some information respect- 

 ing his manuscript works. According to Wood, 

 they consist of — 1. Verses in l)escri[)tion of the 

 chief Cities of Eiirojje; 2. Ciironiclc of Queen 

 P^lizabeth's reign; 3. Life of \\iHi:im Cannlen. 



Can any of your readers say in whose posses- 



