NAT. LEE'S CERTIFICATE

I have before me a copy of verses regarding which I request some information. The lines are printed upon the two sides of a half sheet of foolscap, and are entitled *The Character of an English-Man*; no date is appended, but at the end is the following, in Italic type, signed with a name so celebrated, that my attention was instantly fixed by it:— "I have perused these verses, and find them composed according to the rules of poetry, and therefore think them fitting to be printed."—Nath. Lee. It is clear, therefore, that the verses were printed before 1591 or 1592, when Nat. Lee died in very ab…