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 lone Collection in the Bodleian. 7. ‘Looke to it; for Ile stabbe ye. Imprinted at London by E. Allde for W. Ferbrand and George Loftus,’ 1604, 4to (Bodl., Ellesmere Library); licensed 19 Nov. 1603. A copy at Britwell bears the imprint ‘W. W. for W. Ferbrand, and are to be sold by W. F. and G. L. in Popes-head Allie,’ 1604. Death describes the classes of men whom he designs to slay, such as tyrant kings, wicked magistrates, and thirty-six other types. 8. ‘Hell's Broke Loose; London, by W. W., and are to be sold by G. Loftus,’ 1605; licensed 29 Jan. 1604–5 (Huth and Britwell): it is an account of the life of John of Leyden. 9. ‘A terrible Batell betwene the Two Consumers of the whole World, Time and Death. By Samuell Rowlands. Printed at London for John Deane, and are to be sold at his Shop at Temple Barre,’ 4to, 1606 (Bodl. title cropped); licensed 16 Sept. 1606, dedicated to George Gaywood. 10. ‘Diogines Lanthorne. [In] Athens I seeke for honest men; But I shal finde thē God knows when. Ile search the Citie, where if I can see One honest man, he shal goe with me’ (with woodcut), London, printed for Thomas Archer, 1607 (Bodl. and Britwell); licensed 15 Dec. 1606. The piece is in both prose and verse. Athens is of course London, as in Lodge's tract, ‘Catharos Diogenes in his Singularity,’ 1591. Later editions are dated in 1608, 1617, 1628, 1631, and 1634. There were ten in all, up to 1659. 11. ‘The Famous History of Guy, Earle of Warwicke; London, by Elizabeth Allde,’ 1607; dedicated in prose to Philip Herbert, earl of Montgomery, and in verse to the ‘noble English nation,’ in twelve cantos with rough woodcuts by E. B. No copy of this edition is known. Another edition by Edward Allde, at Rowfant, has a mutilated titlepage and the date destroyed; the license for publication—of this edition apparently—is dated 23 June 1608. Reprints are numerous. A mutilated one of 1632 is in the British Museum; one of 1649 is in the Bodleian; others are dated 1654, 1667, 1679, and 1682. The copy of the last, in the British Museum, has a facsimile of the title-page of the 1607 edition inserted, with the result that it has been mistaken for the original edition. The tract is hastily and carelessly written, closely following the old romance first printed by William Copland. 12. ‘Democritus, or Doctor Merryman his Medicines against Melancholy humors. Written by S. R. Printed for John Deane,’ 1607, 4to (Rowfant, only copy known); entered on the ‘Stationers' Registers’ 24 Oct. 1607; reissued, with the omission of five preliminary pages, as ‘Dr. Merrie Man, or nothing but Mirth. Written by S. R.; London, printed by John Deane,’ 1609. It is a collection of humorous pieces in verse; reprinted in 1616, 1618, 1623, 1631, 1637, 1681. An edition for twopence was sold by J. Blare on London Bridge. 13. ‘Humors Looking Glasse. London. Imprinted by Ed. Allde for William Ferebrand,’ 1608, 4to (Bodl., Britwell, and Edinburgh University Library); dedicated to ‘his verie loving friend, Master George Lee.’ It is reprinted in J. P. Collier's ‘Miscellaneous Tracts,’ yellow ser. No. 10. 14. ‘A Whole Crew of Kind Gossips, all met to be Merry’ (London, for John Deane, 1609, 4to) (Bodl.). The edition of 1613, ‘newly enlarged,’ with somewhat longer title, was again issued in 1663; both are at Britwell. It supplies complaints in verse of six husbands and six wives, with some prose stories appended. It is possibly identical with ‘Sixe London Gossips’ of 1607, a work mentioned as by Rowlands in the ‘Harleian Catalogue,’ but not otherwise known. 15. ‘Martin Mark-all, Beadle of Bridewell; His Defence and Answere to the Belman of London. Discouering the long-concealed Originall and Regiment of Rogues. By S. R., London, for John Budge and Richard Bonian,’ 1610. An interesting account in prose of the habits, tricks, and language of thieves, correcting Dekker's account in his ‘Bellman of London,’ 1608, and partly illustrating Dekker's plagiarisms from a ‘Caueat or Warening for Commen Cursetors’ (1568), by Thomas Harman [q. v.] Rowlands claims that his vocabulary of thieves' slang is completer than that in any earlier work. His book was licensed for the press 31 March 1600; six copies are known; two are in the British Museum, and one each is respectively in the Bodleian, at Britwell, and Rowfant. 16. ‘The Knaue of Harts. Haile Fellow, well met:’ London, printed for T. S., and sold by John Loftus, 1612 (Bodl. and Britwell); licensed 31 Aug. 1614; reprinted for John Back, 1613 (Brit. Mus.). 17. ‘More Knaves Yet? The Knaves of Spades and Diamonds; London, printed for John Toye, dwelling at Saint Magnus,’ 1613, with woodcut (Bodl., only copy known), licensed 27 Oct. 1613. 18. ‘Sir Thomas Overbury; or the Poysoned Knights Complaint; London, for John White,’ 1614, broadside, with large woodcut (London Society of Antiquaries Library). 19. ‘A Fooles Bolt is soone shott,’ London, for George Loftus, 1614 (Trinity College, Cambridge); licensed