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GEORGE VILLIERS, Second Duke of BUCK- INGHAM. The Rehearsal. 1671 . The Rehearsal , as it was Acted at the Theatre Royal. Many of the passages of anterior plays that were paro- died in this famous Dramatic Satire on Dryden in the char- acter of _ BA YES, are placed on opposite pages to the text. Brian Fairfax’s remarkable life of this Duke of Bucking- ham is also prefixed to the play. The Heroic Plays, first intro- duced by Sir W. D’Avenant, and afterwards greatly de- veloped by Dryden, are the object of this laughable attack. Lacy, who acted the part of Bayes, imitated the dress and gesticulation of Dryden. The Poet repaid this compli- ment to the Duke of Bucking- ham, in 1681, by introduc- ing him in the character of ZlMRl in his ABSOLOM and A CHIT OP REE. English Reprints 1 1. GEORGE GASCOIGNE, Soldier and Poet. The Steel Glass, &c. 1576. (a) A Rememhraunce of the wel imployed life, and godly end , of George Gaskoigne, Esquire, whodeceassed at Sialmford in Lin- coln shire , the 7 of October , 1577 . The reporte of Geor. Whetstons, Gent. ,[ I S77-] There is only one copy of this metrical Life. It is in the Bodleian Library. (b) Certayne notes of instruction concern- ing the maki ng of verse or ryme in Eng- lish. 1575 . This is our First printed piece of Poetical Criticism. (c) The Steele Glas . Written in Blank Verse. Probably the fourth printed English Satire : those by Bar- clay, Roy, and Sir T. Wyatt 1 being the three earlier ones. (d) The Complaynt of Philomene. An Elegie. 1576 . 13 12 . JOHN EARLE, A Jie 7 wards Bishop oj Salisbury- Microcosmo- graphie. 1628 . Micro-cosmographie , or a Peece of the World discovered; in Essays and Characters. This celebrated book of Characters is graphically de- scriptive of the English social life of the time, as it pre- sented itself to a young Fellow of Merton College, Oxford ; including A She precise Hypo- crite , A Sceptic in Religion , A good old man, &c. This Work is a notable specimen of a considerable class of books in our Litera- ture, full of interest ; and which help Posterity much better to understand the Times in which they were written.