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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»'i S. VI. 136,, Aug. 7. '58. 



years before the published collection of Carew's 

 poems. (See the British BiUiographer, vol. ii. 

 p. 318.) 



Who is the real author of the Masque Cmlum 

 Britlanicum, " performed at Whitehall in theBan- 

 quetting-house on Shrove-Tuesday-night, the 18. 

 of February, 1633 ? " It was printed for Thomas 

 Walkley, with Carew's name, in 1640, but is also 

 found in the folio edition of The Wo7-ks of S'' 

 William Davenant, 1673, p. 360.* 



I am acquainted with three engraved portraits 

 of Thomas Carew. One from the picture at 

 Windsor^ another from a medal by Varin ; and a 

 third, I think different from either, published by 

 Horace Rodd. Edward F. Rimbault. 



The only notice of tlic translation of De la 

 Serre's work that I have as yet met with is in 

 Allebone's Critical History of English Literature^ 

 Philadelphia, 1855, where I find the following : — 



"Gary, Thomas, Serms., 1691, 4to. a trans, of the Sieur 

 de la Serres' Mirrour which flatters not ; with some verses 

 bj' the translator, 1639, 8vo." 



Watt tells us that the Thomas Carey who pub- 

 lished sermons in 1691 was prebendary of Bristol. 



I have unfortunately been unable to find any 

 authority for Allebone's statement, and I am the less 

 inclined to depend on it from his making no men- 

 tion of any other Thomas Carey or Cary. There 

 was, however, a Thomas Carey alive in 1638, who 

 might well have been the translator, the brother 

 of Henry Carey, Earl of Monmouth ; whose father 

 was " Warden of the Marches towards Scotland," 

 and who (Thomas) was born in Northumberland 

 at the time his father held that office, about 

 1595. Thomas Carey was admitted B.A. (Exet. 

 Coll. Oxon.), Feb. 17, 1613. Wood says that 

 " He was a most ingenious poet, and was author 

 of several poems printed scatterdly in divers 

 books, one of which beginning 'Farewel Fair 

 Saint,' was set by Henry Lawes. Upon the break- 

 ing out of the rebellion, 1642, he adhered to his 

 majestie, being then of the bed chamber, and 

 much esteemed by him. But after that good 

 king lost his head, he took it so much to heart 

 that he fell suddenly sick, and died before the 

 year 1648, aged 53 or thereabouts." (I am not 

 answerable for Wood's dates.) 



I do not assert that I have any positive proof 

 that Mr. Allebone is wrong ; but I do think that 

 there are several points which make it probable 

 that the Earl of Monmouth's brother, and not the 

 Prebend of Bristol, was the translator of De la 

 Serre. It is strange that a poet of power enough 

 to write the verses at the end of that work should 



[* The first edition, in 1634, was published anony- 

 mously by Thomas Walkley, and it is attributed by the 

 best dramatic authorities to Thomas Carcw, the Sewer in 

 Ordinary to Charles 1. — Kd.] 



be silent for half a century, and then produce 

 nothing but a couple of quarto sermons ; and that 

 the Thomas Carey who translated the work was 

 a poet, I think the following verses, which de- 

 serve to be written in letters of gold, prove : — 



" Doe something ere thou doe bequeath 

 To wormes thy flesh, to aire thy breath ; 

 Something that may, when thou art cold, 

 Thaw frozen spirits when 'tis told ; 

 Somethiyig that may the grave controule, 

 And shew thou hadst a noble soule. 



Doe something to advance thy blisse. 

 Both in the other world and this." 



The book reads like a prophecy of the misery that 

 the faithful servant of this prince saw hanging over 

 him. It was dedicated by Dela Serre to the King 

 and Queen of England, and was published just when 

 the king's cause must have begun to look gloomy 

 in the eyes of far-seeing men. I think that the 

 allusion to "the last summer's sad effects," in the 

 Advertissement an, Lecteur, may possibly refer to 

 the trial of Hampden : it is a point which may be 

 worth the examining. 



The translator was known as an original author 

 before he published De la Serre, as I think at 

 least we may gather from the following: — 



" Friend, here remoulded by thy English hand 



(To speake it is no feare) 



In hew as slicke and cleare. 

 Nay, when thy owne Minerva now doth stand 



On a composing state (sic orig.), 



'Twas curtsie to translate (sic orig.). 

 But most thj' choise doth my applause command — 

 First for thy selfe, then for this crazie land." 



I have more to say, but I have trespassed too 

 much on your space already. Only permit me to 

 ask if anything is known of the "Carey"* whose 

 clever, and more than clever, cavalier and other 

 poems were published in 1771, "from a MS. in the 

 possession of the Rev. Mr. Pierrepoint Cromp." 



G. H. KiNGSLEY. 



DEMOSTHENES ADVICE. 



(2"'i S. vi. 70.) 



Valerius Maximus has preserved the Greek 

 word Ti vTTOKpia-is of Demosthenes which he thrice 

 repeated as most effective in oratory, and the 

 heading of the chapter (viii. 10.) is de pro7tuntia- 

 tione, et apto motil corporis. The remarks of 

 Aristotle {Rhetoric, iii. 1, 2.) on this word show 



[* " Ah ! you do not know Pat Carey, a younger bro- 

 ther of Lord Falkland," says the disguised Prince 

 Charles to Dr. Albany Eochecliffe, in Sir Walter Scott's 

 Woodstock. The first edition of his poems appeared 

 under the following title, Poems from a Manuscript writ- 

 ten in the Time of Oliver CronmM, 4to., 1771. In 1820, 

 Sir Walter Scott, ignorant, as he confesses himself, at the 

 time of an earlier edition, edited once more the poems, 

 from an original MS. presented to him by Mr. Murray. 

 The first edition contains nine poems, the second edition 

 thirty-seven. See "N. & Q." 1« S. viii. 406. ; x. 172.] 



