Royal MS 18 A XLII

'A CLOSET of Cownsell, exhausted and drawne forth of the prudent preceptes of Cato': poem (98 x 8 lines, rhymes ababcdcd) with dedicatory letter to 'the right honorable and vertuous lord Jhon Lumney', i.e. John Lumley, Lord Lumley (d. 1609), by J[ohannes] Philippus, i.e. apparently John Phillip, of Queens' College, Cambridge, author of A Commemoration of the . . . Counlis of Lennox, 1578, and perhaps of The Commodye of pacient Grissill, 1566? (repr. by the Malone Soc., 1909), The Wonderfull Worke of God shewed vpon . William Withers, 1581, The Life and Death of Sir P. Sidney, 1587, and A Commemoration on the life and death of Sir C. Hatton, 1591 (repr. Roxburghe Club, 1881. Several other works are attributed to him by Cooper, Athenae Cantab. ii, p. 99, but it is perhaps doubtful whether the Jhon Phillipps of 7 A. xii, art. 14, is the same person. Apparently autograph. The title on f. 1 is 'Phillip's verses to my L. Lumley' and in the Lumley cat. 'Jo. Phillipes verses of newe yeares giftes giuen to my lorde Lumley'. In the dedicatory letter Phillip speaks of another gift of 'the goulden sentenses of Marcus Tullius Cicero impressed [? M.T. Ciceronis Sententiae illustriores ... authore Petro Lagnetio, Lyons, 1547], which I have atempted to reduse into our vulgar toung'. The poem beg. 'Venerare deum. This counsell Cato seemes to giue'. At the end (f. 15) are acrostic verses 'John Lumney' (sic).

Paper; ff. 15. Quarto. 8 in. x 6 in. Late XVI cent. Lumley cat. f. 219; not in the other old catalogues.