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# A Handful of Pleasant Delights/A proper new Song made by a Studient in Cambridge

¶ A proper new Song made by a Studient in Cambridge, To the tune of I wish to see those happy daies.
Which was once a happie wight,
and hie in Fortunes grace:
And which did spend my golden prime,
in running pleasures race,
Am now enforst of late,
contrariwise to mourne,
Since fortune ioies, into annoies,
my former state to turne.
¶ The toiling oxe, the horse, the asse,
haue time to take their rest,
Yea all things else which Nature wrought,
sometimes haue ioies in brest:
Saue onelie I and such
which vexed are with paine:
For still in teares, my life it weares,
and so I must remaine.
¶ How oft haue I in folded armes,
enioied my delight,
How oft haue I excuses made,
of her to haue a sight?
But now to fortunes wil,
I caused am to bow.
And for to reape a hugie heape,
which youthful yeares did sow.
¶ Wherefore all ye which do as yet,
remaine and bide behind:
Whose eies dame beauties blazing beams,
as yet did neuer blind.
Example let me be,
to you and other more:
Whose heauie hart, hath felt the smart,
subdued by Cupids lore.
​¶ Take heed of gazing ouer much,
on Damsels faire vnknowne:
For oftentimes the Snake doth lie,
with roses ouergrowde:
And vnder fairest flowers,
do noisome Adders lurke:
Of whom take heed, I thee areed:
least that thy cares they worke.
¶ What though that she doth smile on thee,
perchance shee doth not loue:
And though she smack thee once or twice,
she thinks thee so to prooue,
And when that thou dost thinke,
she loueth none but thee:
She hath in store, perhaps some more,
which so deceiued be,
¶ Trust not therefore the outward shew
beware in anie case:
For good conditions do not lie,
where is a pleasant face:
But if it be thy chaunce,
a louer true to haue:
Be sure of this, thou shalt not misse,
ech thing that thou wilt craue.
¶ And when as thou (good Reader) shalt
peruse this scrole of mine:
Let this a warning be to thee,
and saie a friend of thine,
Did write thee this of loue,
and of a zealous mind:
Because that he sufficiently,
hath tried the female kind.
¶ Here Cambridge now I bid farewell,
adue to Students all:
Adue vnto the Colledges,
and vnto Gunuil Hall: ​And you my fellowes once,
pray vnto Ioue that I
May haue releef, for this my grief,
and speedie remedie.
¶And that he shield you euerichone,
from Beauties luring looks:
Whose baite hath brought me to my baine,
and caught me from my Books:
Wherefore, for you, my praier shall be,
to send you better grace,
That modestie with honestie,
may guide your youthfull race.
Finis quod Thomas Richardson, sometime Student in Cambridge.
# A Handful of Pleasant Delights/A proper sonet, wherin the Louer dolefully sheweth his grief to his Lady, and requireth pity

A proper sonet, wherin the Louer dolefully sheweth his grief to his L[ady]. and requireth pity.
To the tune of, Row wel ye Marriners.
s one without refuge, For life doth pleade with panting breath And rufully the Iudge, Beholds (whose doome grants life or death,) So fare I now my onelie Loue, Whom I tender as Turtle Doue, Whose tender looks (O ioly ioy) Shall win me sure your louing boy: Faire lookes, sweet Dame, Or else (alas) I take my bane: Nice talke, coying, Wil bring me sure to my ending,
¶Too little is my skil, By pen (I saie) my loue to paint, And when that my good will, My tong wold shew, my heart doth faint: Sith both the meanes do faile therefore, My loue for to expresse with lore: The torments of my inward smart. You may well gesse within your hart: ​Wherefore, sweet wench,
Some louing words, this heat to quench
Fine smiles, smirke lookes,
And then I neede no other lookes,
¶Your gleams hath gript the hart,
alas within my captiue breast:
O how I feele the smart,
And how I find my griefe increast:
My fancie is so fixt on you,
That none away the same can do:
My deer vnlesse you it remooue:
Without redresse I die for loue,
Lament with me,
Ye Muses nine, where euer be,
My life I loth,
My Ioies are gone, I tel you troth.
¶All Musicks solemne sound,
Of song, or else of instrument:
Me thinks they do resound,
With doleful tunes, me to lament,
And in my sleep vnsound, alas,
Me thinks such dreadful things to passe:
that out I crie in midst of dreames,
Wherwith my tears run down as streams,
O Lord, think I,
She is not here that should be by:
What chance is this,
That I embrace that froward is?
¶The Lions noble minde,
His raging mood (you know) oft staies,
When beasts do yeeld by kinde,
On them (forsooth) he neuer praies:
Then sithence that I am your thrall,
To ease my smart on you I call.
A bloudie conquest is your part,
To kill so kind a louing heart: ​Alas remorce,
Or presently I die perforce:
God grant pitie,
Within your breast now planted be.
¶As nature hath you deckt,
with worthie gifts aboue the rest,
So to your praise most great,
Let pitie dwell within your brest,
That I may saie with heart and wil,
Lo, this is she that might me kil:
For why? in hand she held the knife,
And yet (forsooth) she saued my life.
Hey-ho, darling:
With lustie loue, now let vs sing,
Plaie on, Minstrel,
My Ladie is mine onelie girle.
# A Handful of Pleasant Delights/A proper Sonet, Intituled, Maid, wil you marrie

¶A proper Sonet, Intituled, Maid, wil you marrie. To the Blacke Almaine.
Aid, wil you marie? I pray sir tarie,
I am not disposed to wed a:
For he yat shal haue me, wil neuer deny me
he shal haue my maidenhed a.
Why then you wil not wed me?
No sure sir I haue sped me,
You must go seeke some other wight,
That better may your heart delight.
For I am sped I tell you true,
beleue me it greues me, I may not haue you,
To wed you and bed you as a woman shold be
¶For if I could, be sure I would,
consent to your desire:
I would not doubt, to bring about
ech thing you would require:
But promise now is made,
Which cannot be staide:
It is a womans honestie,
To keep her promise faithfully.
And so I do meane til death to do,
Consider and gather, that this is true:
Choose it, and vse it, the honester you.
​¶But if you seek, for to misleeke,
with this that I haue done:
Or else disdaine, that I so plaine
this talke with you haue begone:
Farewell I wil not let you,
He fisheth well that gets you,
And sure I thinke your other friend,
Wil prooue a Cuckold in the end:
But he wil take heed if he be wise,
To watch you and catch you, with Argus eies,
Besetting and letting your wonted guise.
¶Although the Cat doth winke a while,
yet sure she is not blinde:
It is the waie for to beguile,
the Mice that run behind:
And if she see them running,
Then straightway she is comming:
Vpon their head she claps her foote,
To striue with her it is no boote.
The seelie poore Mice dare neuer play,
She catcheth and snatcheth them euery day,
Yet whip they, and skip they, when she is away.
¶And if perhaps they fall in trap,
to death then must they yeeld:
They were better then, to haue kept their den
than straie abroad the field:
But they that will be ranging,
Shall soone repent their changing:
And so shall you ere it be long,
Wherefore remember well my song:
And do not snuffe though I be plaine,
But cherily, merily, take the same.
For huffing and snuffing deserueth blame.
¶For where you say you must obay,
the promise you haue made,
So sure as I wil neuer flie,
from that I haue said: ​Therefore to them I leaue you,
Which gladly wil receiue you:
You must go choose some other mate,
According to your own estate.
For I do meane to liue in rest,
Go seek you, and leek you an other guest,
And choose him, and vse him, as you like best.
# A Handful of Pleasant Delights/A proper wooing Song, intituled: Maide will ye loue me: ye or no?

A proper wooing Song, intituled: Maide will ye loue me: ye or no?
To the tune of the Mirchaunts Daughter went ouer the fielde.
Ayde will ye loue me yea or no? tell me the trothe, and let me goe. It can be no lesse then a sinfull deed, trust me truely, To linger a Louer that lookes to speede in due time duely.
¶You Maids that thinke your selu[e]s as fine, As Venus and all the Muses nine: The Father himselfe, when he first made man trust me truely: Made you for his help when the world began in due time duely.
¶Then sith Gods wil was euen so. Why should you disdaine you Louer tho? But rather with a willing heart, Loue him truely? For in so doing, you do but your, part, Let reason rule ye.
¶Consider (sweet) what sighs and sobbes, Do nip my heart with cruell throbbes, And al (my deer) for the loue of you, Trust me truly: But I hope that you wil some mercie show, In due time duely. ​¶that you do my case well way, And shew some signe whereby I may Haue some good hope of your good grace, Trust me truely: I count my selfe in a blessed case, Let reason rule ye.
¶And for my part, whilst I do liue, To loue you most faithfully, my hand I giue, Forsaking all other, for your sweet sake, Trust me truly: In token whereof, my troth I betake, to your selfe most duely.
¶And though for this time we must depart, yet keep you this ring tru[e] token of my hart, Til time do serue, we meet againe, Let reason rule ye. When an answer of comfort, I trust to obtain, In due time duly.
¶Now must I depart with sighing teares, With sobbing heart and burning eares: Pale in the face, and faint as I may, trust me truly: But I hope our next meeting, a ioyfull day, in due time duly.
# A Handful of Pleasant Delights/A proper Sonet, of an vnkinde Damsell, to her faithful Louer

A proper Sonet, of an vnkinde Damsell, to to her faithful Louer. To, the nine Muses.
He ofter that I view and see, That plesant face and faire beautie, whereto my heart is bound: The neer my Mistresse is to me, My health is farthest off I see: and fresher is my wound: Like as the flame doth quench by fire, or streams consume by raigne, So doth the sight that I desire, appease my grief and paine: ​Like a flie that doth hie, and haste into the fire: So in brief, findes her grief, that thought to sport aspire.
¶When first I saw those Christal streams, I little thought on beauties beams: sweet venom to haue found, But wilful wil did prick me foorth, Perforce to take my grief in woorth, that causd my mortall wound: And Cupid blind compeld me so, my fruitlesse hope to hide: Wherein remaind my bitter wo: thus stil he did me guide? Then his dart, to my hart, he slung with cruell fist: Whose poison fel, I know right wel, no louer may resist.
¶Thus vainly stil, I frame my sute, Of ill sowen seeds, such is the frute, experience doth it show: The fault is hers the pain is mine, And thus my sentence I define, I hapned on a shrow: And now beware, ye yongmen all, Example take by mee: Least beauties bait in Cupids thrall, do catch you priuily: So stay you, I pray you, and marke you my great wrong, Forsaken, not taken, thus end I now my song.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Edwards (Thomas)

​EDWARDS (THOMAS), (?) bookseller in London, 1642. Only known from the imprint to a pamphlet entitled The Scots resolution Concerning this present Expedition … London: Printed for Tho. Edwards. His address has not been found.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Eglesfield (Francis)

​EGLESFIELD (FRANCIS), bookseller in London; Marigold, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1637-67. Took up his freedom July 4th, 1636. [Arber, iii. 687.] Became one of the largest and most important publishers of theological literature. At the end of David Dickson's Short Explanation of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews, 1649, there is a list of 72 books published by him, mostly Divinity, but including Herrick's Hesperides. [A. W. Pollard, ​Library, October, 1901, p. 436.] This is one of the earliest book lists known, as they are seldom found before 1650. In 1660, in company with John Williams, he published an edition of the Book of Common Prayer, which was at once seized by the agents of Christopher Barker the third. Eglesfield and his partner excused themselves by saying that they did not know who was the King's printer. [Domestic State Papers, Charles II.] He received a bequest of a ring from Peter Parker, q.v.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Dunster (Thomas)

​DUNSTER (THOMAS), printer and bookseller in London; Red Lion in Grub Street, 1650. Assisted Bernard Alsop, q.v., to print a pamphlet entitled A Brief Narration of the Plotting, Beginning and carrying on of ​that Execrable Rebellion in Ireland. London: Printed by B. Alsop and T. Dunster, And are to be delivered at Bernard Alsop's house in Grub Street, 1650. [March 19th, 1649/50.] His imprint is also found again the same year in The Fallacie of the great water drinker, discovered by Mr. Tho. Peedle and Mr. Thos. Corbie. 1650. [Harl., 5921. 180, 181.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Emerson (Godfrey)

​EMERSON (GODFREY), bookseller in London; The Swan Little Britain, 1637-46. Took up his freedom March 1st, 1613. [Arber, iii. 684.] He may be identical with the Godfrey Emonson or Edmondson who was publishing between 1623-37. His name occurs in the Churchwardens' Books of St. Botolph without Aldersgate as paying 26s. towards the restoration of the church in 1637. Amongst his later publications was a work on the subject of letter writing entitled The Secretary in Fashion, 1640, 4$^o$., edited by John Massinger and printed, it is believed, by John Beale and Samuel Bulkley.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Edmonds (Walter)

​EDMONDS (WALTER), bookseller in London; Crown near Ludgate, 1638-41. Took up his freedom March 26th, 1635. [Arber, iii. 687.] Mentioned in a list of stationers, dated August 5th, 1641, as paying ten shillings as his proportion of the poll tax. [Domestic State Papers, Charles I, vol. 483. 11.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Ekins (Nathaniel)

​EKINS (NATHANIEL), bookseller in London; Gun in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1641-60. Son of John Ekins, of Ringsted, co. Northampton, gent., apprentice to John Bellamy for eight years from July 7th, 1641. [Register of Apprentices, Stationers' Hall.] Partner with Edward Dod, q.v. In 1660 he was granted the office of licenser of Pedlars and Petty Chapmen. [Domestic State Papers, Charles II, vol. 25, 94.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Ellis (William)

​ELLIS (WILLIAM), printer in London; Thames Street, 1649-51. On June 3rd, 1650, a person of the name of Ellis was committed to Newgate for printing Pragmaticus. [Domestic State Papers, Interr., vol. 64, pp. 415-416.] He is further mentioned in that year as one of those giving security for good behaviour. [Domestic State Papers, 1649-50, pp. 522, 523.] The only thing traced to his press is a pamphlet in verse entitled News from Newcastle, 1651, a copy of which is in the Malone Collection in the Bodleian.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Eccleston (Christopher)

​ECCLESTON (CHRISTOPHER), bookseller in London; Middle shop under St. Dunstan's church in Fleet Street, 1662-64. His name is found on the two following books: Sale's Epigrammatum. Being the choicest disticks of Martial's Fourteen Books of Epigrams, 1663, 8$^o$. [B.M. 833. c. 4.]; Howel (John), Discourse concerning the precedency of kings, 1664.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Eeles (Robert)

​EELES (ROBERT), printer in London, 1646. Only known from certain papers in the House of Lords, in which it is stated that he was employed by a committee of the Lords to suppress seditious books, and had seized a press and letters, belonging to William Larner, which had been used in printing London's Last Warning; A Remonstrance to the House of Commons; An Alarum to the House of Lords, and all or most of Lilburne's books. He further obtained the arrest of Richard Overton, a notorious writer among the Independents. The Stationers' Company referred to him as "a common printer and seller of unlicensed books," and did their best to ruin him. [Library, October, 1904, pp. 390-91.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Eles (Robert)

​ELES (ROBERT), bookseller in London (?), 1651. Only known from the imprint to the following pamphlet: True Speech delivered on the scaffold by James, Earl of Derby … 1651. His address has not been found. He may possibly be identical with Robert Eeles, q.v.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Nason, Henry

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​NASON. (Lieutenant, 1809. f-p., 9; h-p., 35.)
Henry Nason lost a brother at the battle of Almeida.
This officer entered the Navy, 12 March, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Antelope 50, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Wm. Sidney Smith; and, on 16 May, 1804, was present in an attack made by a British squadron on a division of the enemy’s flotilla passing alongshore between Flushing and Ostend. After a servitude of two years and a half in the North Sea and off Brest in the Crescent frigate, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, he again, in Dec. 1806, joined Sir W. S. Smith on board the Pompée 74, in which ship, in the course of 1807, we find him sharing in a series of operations on the coast of Calabria, and accompanying also the expeditions past the Dardanells and to Copenhagen. During the 20 months which immediately preceded his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 28 Oct. 1809, he served on the Home and Brazilian stations in the Victory 100, Capt. John Serrell, and London 98, Foudroyant 80, and Diana 38, bearing each the ​flag of Sir W. S. Smith. His succeeding appointments were – 18 Dec. 1809, to the Argus 16, Capt. Stewart, on the Irish station – 11 April, 1810, to the Thais 20, Capt. Ferrier, attached to the force in the Mediterranean, where, owing to the death of his brother, and to the necessity of attending to his family affairs, he was superseded at his own request in Jan. 1811 – and, 30 April, 1813, as Senior, to the Bonne Citoyenne 20, Capt. Pitt Burnaby Greene, in the North Sea. In 1810 he commanded the boats of the Thais at the re-capture of two merchant-vessels under the protection of two privateers off Cape Spartivento. He invalided from the Bonne Citoyenne from the effects of rheumatism in Nov. 1813, and has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Nason is married and has issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Nason, Richard

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​NASON. (Lieutenant, 1812. f-p., 15; h-p., 31.)
Richard Nason entered the Navy, 3 May, 1801, as a Supernumerary, on board the Ville de Paris 110, Capt. John Sutton, bearing the flag in the Channel of Hon. Wm. Cornwallis; and, after his name had been borne in a similar capacity on the books of the De Ruyter and Texel 64’s, Capts. Rich. Dacres and Rich. Incledon, Ajax 74, Capt. Hon. Alex. Inglis Cochrane, and Cambrian and Nemesis frigates, Capts. Bradley and Owen, all flag-ships at Spithead, became in succession Midshipman, in the course of 1802, of the Childers sloop, Capt. Jas. Coutts Crawford, of a vessel commanded by Capt. John G. Saville, and of the Calcutta 54, Capt. Dan. Woodriff. In that ship he was at first employed in the transport of convicts to Van Diemen’s Land, on his return whence he proceeded for convoy to St. Helena. During her passage home the Calcutta, after having beaten the French 40-gun frigate Armide, was attacked, 26 Sept. 1805, and, at the end of a gallant action of three-quarters of an hour, productive to her of a loss, out of 343 men, of 6 killed and 6 wounded, unavoidably captured by the 74-gun ship Majestueux, part of a squadron under the orders of Rear-Admiral Allemand. On effecting his escape from confinement Mr. Nason was received on board the Briseis 10, Capt. Chas. Thurlow Smith. He attained the rank of Lieutenant 21 March, 1812, and was subsequently appointed – 1 Oct. and 22 Dec. following, to the Alfred and Mars 74’s, Capts. Joshua Sydney Horton and Henry Raper, employed off the coast of Spain and at Portsmouth – 2 Feb. 1813, to the Venerable 74, Capt. David Milne, cruizing in the Channel and among the Western Islands – and, 24 Jan. and 4 June, 1814, to the Cretan 16, Capt. Chas. Fred. Payne, and Chanticleer 10, Capts. Stewart Blacker, John Thompson, Geo. Tupman, and Wm. Henry Dickson. The Cretan led a squadron of frigates and brigs through the Wielinge Passage into the West Scheldt for the purpose of co-operating with the British and Russian troops before Antwerp and Bergen-op-Zoom; and was afterwards employed in blockading Fort Bathz, in the island of South Beveland, where the enemy’s deserted batteries were all dismantled. The Chanticleer formed part of the force employed in the reduction of Guadeloupe in 1815. Since Aug. 1816, at which period that sloop was put out of commission, Lieut. Nason has been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Napier, Gerard John

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​NAPIER. (Lieutenant, 1842. f-p., 15; h-p., 1.)
Gerard John Napier was born 2 Nov. 1818. This officer entered the Navy in Sept. 1831; served two years at the Royal Naval College, and nearly five in the West Indies on board the Racer 16, Capt. Jas. Hope; passed his examination 3 Oct. 1838; and, between that period and the date of his promotion, 28 Jan. 1842, was employed at Home and in the Mediterranean in the Excellent gunnery-ship, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, Vanguard 80, Capt. Sir David Dunn, Britannia 120, flag-ship of Sir John Acworth Ommanney, Powerful 84, Capt. Geo. Mansel, and Lightning steamer, Master-Commander Geo. Henry Karr Bowen. His appointments have since been – 27 Aug. 1842, to the Orestes 18, Capt. Edw. St. Leger Cannon, again in the Mediterranean – 10 Nov. 1846 (soon after the latter vessel had been paid off), as Additional-Lieutenant, to the President 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres at the Cape of Good Hope – and, 26 April, 1847, as Senior, to the Rosamond steam-sloop, of 287-horse power, Capt. John Poote, on the same station, where he is now serving. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Muston, Thomas Goldwyer

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​MUSTON. (Retired Captain, 1840. f-p., 12; h-p., 39.)
Thomas Goldwyer Muston entered the Navy 24 July, 1796, as Midshipman, on board, we believe, the Iris 32, Capt. Thos. Surridge, with whom, after serving for 12 months in the North Sea, he sailed in 1797 for India as Master’s Mate of the Leopard 50, and there, in May, 1802, followed him into the Trident 64; of which ship, bearing for some time the flag of Admiral Rainier, he became an acting and a confirmed Lieutenant 31 March, 1803, and 4 July, 1804. His succeeding appointments were – 8 Sept. 1804, to the Albion 74, Capt. John Ferrier, also in the East Indies, where his health soon obliged him to invalid – 19 Aug. and 24 Nov. 1806, to the Spartan 38, and Africa 64, Capts. Geo. Astle and Wm. Henry Bayntun, on the Home and South American stations – and, 28 Jan. and 8 Aug. 1808, to the Victory 100, and Caledonia 120, flagships at the Nore and in the Channel of Sir Jas. Saumarez and Lord Gambier. For the distinguished manner in which he conducted the Harmony fire-vessel, at the destruction of the French shipping in Aix Roads, Lieut. Muston was promoted, on the recommendation of Lord Cochrane, to the command, 11 April, 1809, of the Doterel 18. In that sloop he served off Lisbon until the ensuing Sept. In 1810 he was again ordered to India to join Vice-Admiral Wm. O’Brien Drury on promotion. Finding, however, on his arrival that that gallant officer had just expired, he was under the necessity of returning to England without having received any appointment. It was afterwards proposed to send him on Admiralty promotion to the West Indies; but this offer the state of his health obliged him to decline. Unable subsequently to procure employment, he accepted, 10 Sept. 1840, the rank he now holds.
Capt. Muston married, in 1816, Susanna Eliza, daughter of Nathaniel Godbold, Esq., of London. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.