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imprinted at London, in Flete-strete, neare to St. Dunstone's 

 Church, by Thomas Marshe, 1658. There are other editions, 

 as 1570 and 1574, 4to. ; 1568, 12mo. ; and 1563 and 1594, 16mo. 

 Bromley thus mentions a portrait of him : — " Thomas Hill, 

 wooden cut, prefixed to his Physiognomie; 12mo. 1571. Aged 

 42. A friend to Hyll, in a complimentary letter, prefixed to 

 the above book, thus, in part, addresses the reader: — 



With painfull pen the writer hath exprest in English plane, 

 The needfull ayd, and mightie force, that doth in hearbes remaine, 

 The time to set, the time to plant, the time to raise again, 

 This man by treble diligence hath brought to light with paine. 



The portraits of the Lord Chancellor Bacon are well 

 known ; but in Mr. Montagu's late edition of his works, a 

 new or juvenile portrait is added, namely, a most expressive, 

 intelligent, and beautiful miniature of him at his age of eigh- 

 teen, by Hilyard, of whom Dr. Donne said, 



a hand or eye 



By Hilyard drawn, is worth a history 

 By a worse painter. 



This fine edition of his works is illustrated by five portraits, 

 taken at different periods of his lordship's life ; by engravings 

 of his residence, and monument, fac-similes, and other em- 

 bellishments. In Mallett's edition are two portraits, one by 

 Vertue, finely engraved.* 



zeal and taste (I am copying from De Sismondi's View of the Literature of 

 the South of Europe) to render Italian poetry classical, or a pure imitation 

 of the ancients, published his most celebrated poem on Bees. " It receives 

 (says De Sismondi) a particular interest from the real fondness which Rucel- 

 lai seems to have entertained for these creatures. There is something so 

 sincere in his respect for their virgin purity, and in his admiration of the 

 order of their government, that he inspires us with real interest for them. 

 All his descriptions are full of life and truth." 



* Ben Jonson, in his Discourses, gives the following eulogy on this illus- 



