Sackville has strutted into
obscurity; and even Lyly, though his writings were once the
delight of a court, and apparently perpetuated by a proverb, is
now scarcely known even by name. A whole crowd of authors who
wrote and wrangled at the time, have likewise gone down with all
their writings and their controversies. Wave after wave of
succeeding literature has rolled over them, until they are buried
so deep, that it is only now and then that some industrious diver
after fragments of antiquity brings up a specimen for the
gratification of the curious.
* "Live ever sweete booke; the simple image of his gentle witt,
and the golden pillar of his noble courage; and ever notify unto
the world that thy writer was the secretary of eloquence, the
breath of the muses, the honey bee of the daintyest flowers of
witt and arte, the pith of morale and intellectual virtues, the
arme of Bellona in the field, the tongue of Suada in the chamber,
the spirits of Practise in esse, and the paragon of excellence in
print."-Harvey Pierce's Supererogation.
"For my part," I continued, "I consider this mutability of
language a wise precaution of Providence for the benefit of the
world at large, and of authors in particular.
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