George Wither, the Poet, a Printer

In addition to DR. RIMBAULT'S extract from Wither's *Britain's Remembrancer*, showing that he printed (or rather composed) every sheet thereof with his own hand, I find, in a note to Mr. R.A. Willmott's volume of the *Lives of the English Sacred Poets*, in that interesting one of George Wither, the following corroboration of this singular labour of his: the poem, independent of the address to the King and the præmonition, consisting of between nine and ten thousand lines, many of which, I doubt not, were the production of his brain while he stood at the printing-case. A MS. note of Mr. Park's,…