ESSAYES OF CERTAIN PARADOXES: POEM ON NOTHING

Who was the author of a thin 4to. volume with the above title, printed for Tho. Thorpe, 1616? The contents are, "The Praise of K. Richard the Third—The French Poetes—Nothing—That it is good to be in Debt." The late Mr. Yarnold has a MS. copy of the "Praise of K. Richard," to which was prefixed the following dedication:— "TO THE HONOURABLE SIR HENRY NEVILL, KNIGHTE." "I am bolde to adventure to your honors viewe this small portion of my privatt labors, as an earnest peny of my love, beinge a mere Paradoxe in prayse of a most blame-worthie and condemned Prince, Kinge Richard the Third; who albei…