dication the furious and calumnious bigot says: & Audio adhuc multos de eorum grege in Scoua hærere, qui volitant per ædes principum, quique in senatum veniunt, et nunc clanculum, nunc apertè regi detrahunt, suas hæreses multò audacius solito prædicant, atque ostentant, qui populum imp ritum contra eorum regem temere armant, qui, nisi cum cæteris sui gregis quam ocyssime fugiant, in crucem sunt tollendi. Non tam lenitatem, quam severitatem res ipsa flagitat, etc.

This libeller thus mentions Beza's juvenile poems.

« Nam si unquam quisquam dissolutè vixit, fœdissimæque voluptati corporis obsecutus est omnisque honestatis, et pudicitiæ oblitus fuit, iste sui sæculi facilè primas tulit, non modo in his sordibus, quæ vulgo et inter familiares, amicosque fieri solent, verùm etiam in corruptis, atque depravatis moribus, immo in omni miserabili, horribili detestabilique modo vivendi id, vel me tacente libris, quos scripsit in suum ingens dedecus, æternam ignominiam, turpitudinemque extremam, anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo, quadragesimo octavo, intelligi potest. Et quanquam omnibus modis laboravit ipse suos libros e manibus hominum eripere, atque supprimere, illorun.que loco alios curare imprimi, atque excudi, tamen nihilominus nunquam primam editionem, quam Rebertus Stephanus Parisiis typis mandaverat, quæ in tot manus hominum exierat supprimere potuit, quum semper aliqui illorum librorum adhuc reperirentur, qui ejus fœdissimam, maximeque horrendam atque detestandam, plusquam belluinam testentur luxuriam, effeminatamque vitam. Certissimè scio post hominum me¬ moriam non tam lascivum, impudicum, petulantem, atque salacem fuisse poetam, qui omnes fines, terminosque honestatis trangressus est, omnesque cancellos pudoris transilivit, et omni execrabili, atque detestabili libidini cor

poris laxatas concessit habenas. Istud aperte satis ostenditis ipse Beza libro suorum Epigrammatum, ubi suam Candidam, uxorem etiam alienam, cum qua publicé scortatus fuit, immensis laudibus ornat. Interea vir bonus Vezeliis domi patris fuit, cum miro absentis suæ Candida torqueretur amore, neque etiam cum Audeberto suo juvene admodum formoso nefandum amorem exerceret. Hic Epigramma latinum subscribere volui, vel ut impudentissimi et sceleratissimi ministri hæretici Scoti et Angli istum execrandum maximéque nefandum amorem, si quis adhuc sit sensus in illis, etiam vel minimus, detestari possint.

Here the foul-penned detractor gives the Epigram on Candida and Audebertus, beginning:

Abest Candida: Beza quid moraris ?

See this volume, p. 424. etc.

By such perverted comments was the name of the celebrated Beza attempted to be blasted. The Libeller goes on:

« Istud est bellum Epigramma Theodori Bezæ, qui luxu perditus, impudens, cffrenatus, ita molliter, dissolutè, delicate, luxuriosèque cum libidinosis juventutem traduxit, ut totus effœtus, languidus, pustulisque infectus esset, et in quibusdam Lutetiæ locis suburbanis ægré curatus. » ——

The Tract De Vita et Moribus Beza consists of pp. 144. at p. 112. commences Historia de Morte Reverendi Patris Edmundi Campionis Sacerdotis de Societate nominis Jesu, et aliorum qui in Anglia propter fidem Catholicam Apostolicam atque Romanam, crudelissimam passi sunt mortem primo die Decembris Anno Domini 1581. Traducta ex Sermone Gallico in Latinum: Interprete Jacobo Langæus (*) Scoto Sorbonico.

(*) Sic.

At p. 142. Nunc sequitur Mors acerbissima atque terribilissima Edouardi Hance Sacerdotis Angli anno Domini 1581. The following Tract of the same Author was first published in 1581.

« De Vita et moribus atque rebus gestis hæreticorum nostri temporis, etc. Traductis ex sermone Gallico in Latinum, quibus multa addita sunt, quæ in priori editione quorundam negligentia omissa fuere. Authore Jacobo Laingao Scoto Doctore Sorbonico. Parisiis, apud Michaëlem de Roigny via Jacobea sub signo quatuor Elementorum (s. d.) (1585) 8. ff. 127.

After a long dedication, and Index Rerum, page 1. commences De Vita et rebus gestis Martini Lutheri, et aliorum trium subsequentium Speudoapostolorum hæreseos nostri temporis, etc. Traductis ex sermone Gallico in Latinum, Authore Jacobo Laingo Scoto Doctore Sorbonico.

At f. 32, is introduced De vita Andræe (*) Carlostadii. At f. 37. Nunc sequitur de Vita et moribus atque morte Joannis Calvini.

FROISSART AND MONSTRELET.

1. Le Premier Volume de l'Histoire et Chronique de Messire Jehan Froissart, Reueue et corrigé sus diuers Exemplaires, et su uant les bons Auteurs, par DENIS SAUVAGE de Fontenailles en Brie, Historiographe du Trescrestien Boy Henr 11. de ce nom. A Lyon, par Jean de Tovrnes, Imprimevr du Roy. MDLIX. fol.

Vol. 11. MDLIX. Vol. III. MDLX. Vol. IV. MDLXI.

The first Edition was, Paris, Anth. Verard, 4 vol. in-fol.

(*) Sic.

goth; (RARE.) The Second, Paris, Michel le Noir, 1505, 4 tom, in 3 vol. pet. in-fol. RARE; the third, Paris, G. Eustace, 1514, 4 tom. en 3 vol. in-fol. goth; the fourth, Paris , pour Jehan et Fr. Regnault, 1518, 4 tom. en 3 vol. in-fol. goth; the fifth, Paris, J. Petit, 1530, 4 tom. en 2 vol. in-fol. goth. The above edition is the most sought after.

The first Edition of Lord Berners's translation is London Imprinted by Rich. Pynson, 1523-25, 2 vol. fol. VERY BARE. This last edition, has been reedited by Mr. E. V. Utterson, London, 1812. 2 vol. 4.o

II. Volume Premier des Chroniques d'Engverran de Monstrelet Gentilhomme iadis demevrant a Cambray en Cambresis. Contenans les cruelles guerres ciuiles entre les maisons d'Orleans et de Bourgongne, l'occupations de Paris et de Normandie par les Anglois, l'expulsion d'iceux, et autres choses memorables aduenues de son temps en ce Royaume, et pays estranges. Histoire de bel exemple et de grand fruict aux Francois, commenceant en l'an MCCCC. où finist celle de Jean Froissart, et finissant en l'an MCCCC. LXVII. peu outre le commencement de celle de Mess. Philippes de Commines. Reueüe et corrigée sur l'exemplaire de la Libraire du Roy, et enrichie d'abbregez pour l'introduction d'icelle, et de tables fort copieuses. A Paris, chez Guillaume Chaudiere, rue Sainct Jaques, à l'enseigne du Temps et de l'Homme Sauuage. MDLXXII. fol. ff. 324.

Volume Second. 1572. fol. ff. 201, Volume Troisiesme. 1572. fol. ff. 251.

( Avec les continuations jusqu'en 1516, édition revue par DENIS SAUVAGE. »)

The two first Editions were printed at Paris, Anth. Verard, 3 vol. in-fol. goth, without date: the third edition

Paris, Jehan Petit et Mich. le Noir, 1512, 3 tom. pet. in-fol. goth; continued to the death of Charles VIII.th in 1498, by Peter Desray; the fourth edition Paris, François Regnault, 1518, 3 vol. pet. in-fol. goth, with additions to 1516. All these editions are RARE (1).

The late translations of Froissart and Monstrelet, by the late Mr. Johnes, printed At the Hafod Press, 1809; are well known to the English Literati.

[1] See Brunet, II. p. 507-8.

Geneva, 17 Sept. 1822.