From Roister Doister Written, probably also represented, before 1553. Carefully edited from the unique copy, now at Eton College by Nicholas Udall

XII.--Containing Nos. 25, 26, and 27; in green cloth, red edges. Half a Crown. 5 Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London, W.C. June 1869. The publication of the 'English Reprints' passed into the Editor's hands on the 1st of May last. An inevitable cessation in the issue of new works ensued: but with the appearance of Howell's Instructions, &c., the Series resumes its growth. A few changes have been made as to works in immediate preparation. (1) Roister Doister can be published for Sixpence. (2) An early printed rarity, The Revelation to the Monk of Evesham, has therefore been interpolated. (3) Elyot's Governor has been postponed to next year. (4) In its stead Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia, and Watson's #ekatompathia#, &c. have been inserted. It is a great gratification to bring back from oblivion the works of so elegant a poet as Thomas Watson, of whose renown in his own age Francis Meres thus testifies in his Palladis Tamia, 1598. 'As Italy had Dante, Boccace, Petrarch, Tasso, Celiano, and Ariosto: so England had Mathew Roydon, Thomas Atchelow, Thomas Watson, Thomas Kid, Robert Greene and George Peele.' -- p. 282, b. 'As Theocritus in Greeke, Virgil and Mantuan in Latine, Sanazar in Italian, and the Authour of Amyntæ Gaudia and Walsinghams Meliboeus are the best for pastorall....' -- p. 284, a. There is, however, further gratulation in that S. Christie-Miller, Esq. has generously consented to the printing of Watson's The Tears of Fancy, the unique copy of which forms one of the gems of his remarkable collection at Britwell. Altogether, therefore, the Reprint will include above 150 Sonnets, besides the Latin-English elegy Meliboeus. The temporary loan of original editions greatly facilitates the work. Gentlemen who may be willing so to trust the Editor are requested to communicate with him a considerable time in advance of date of publication. The Series will continue perpetually on sale. Profit is sacrificed to cheapness: and cheapness aimed at, in order that purchasers may acquire not a few works simply, but the entire series. Every endeavour is made that the selection shall be representative of the national literature, as well as varied and interesting in itself: while scrupulous care is bestowed upon each book. It may not therefore be presumption to bespeak unceasing co-operation on the part of all readers of English. The Large Paper edition will be continued in the autumn. All communications should be addressed to the undersigned.

Vol Monologue from Roister Doister Written, probably also represented, before 1553. Carefully edited from the unique copy, now at Eton College

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