Dublin.
[Maittaire, in his _Annales Typograph._, tom. v. pt. ii. p. 102.,
notices the following work: "Olivarius (Petrus Joannes) Valentinus
de Prophetiâ. Basileæ ex officinâ Joannis Oporini, 1543, mense
Augusto." From the catalogues of the British Museum and the
Bodleian, it does not appear to be in either of these libraries.]
_Vincent Bourne's Epilogus in Eunuchum Terentii._--Will any of your
readers inform me whether an Epilogue to the _Eunuch_ of Terence,
written by V. Bourne, and spoken in 1746, has ever been printed in any,
and what, edition of Bourne's _Poems_? Gnatho appears on the stage,
dressed as a recruiting sergeant, with several recruits, and thus
begins:
"Siste--tace--Gnatho sum Miles, cum gloria cives
Evocat ad Martem, quis parasitus erit?
Aut quis venari coenas et prandia malit,
Nobile cui stimulet pectus honoris amor?"
And the concluding lines are:
"Arma viros facient--Vosmet simul arma geratis,
Seribatis, jubeo, protinus armigeros:
Hâc lege, ut conclametis, Rex Vivat; idemque
Tu repetas, Stentor noster, utrâque manu."
This epilogue is in my possession in MS., the handwriting of my father,
who was, in 1746, a scholar of Westminster College. It should seem, from
a letter written to the _Gentleman's Magazine_ by the late Archdeacon
Nares, in April, 1826, and reprinted in Nichols's _Illustrations_, vol.
vii. p. 656., that he was in possession of a copy, as he there tenders
it to the editor of the sixth edition of _Bourne_, which had then (1826)
recently issued from the Oxford press.