E.P._ iv. 229.; but there is not a hint of its existence in
Ritson, although it ought to have found a place in his _Bibliographia
Poetica_; neither do I find it noticed in later authorities; if it be,
they have escaped my researches. You will not blame me, then, for
indulging my usual wish to quote the title-page at length, which exactly
agrees with the terms of the entry in the books of the Stationers'
Company. It runs _literatim_ thus:--
"A Paradoxe, proving by reason and example, that baldnesse is
much better than bushie haire, &c. Written by that excellent
philosopher Synesius, Bishop of Thebes, or (as some say) Cyren.
A prettie pamphlet to pervse, and relenished with
recreation.--Englished {85} by Abraham Fleming.--Herevnto is
annexed the pleasant tale of Hemetes the Heremite, pronounced
before the Queenes Maiestie. Newly recognised both in Latin and
Englishe, by the said A.F.--[Greek: hae taes sophias phalakra
saemeion.]--The badge of wisdome is baldnesse.--Printed by H.
Denham, 1579." 8vo. B.L.
If I am not greatly mistaken, your readers will look in vain for a
notice of the book in any collected list of the many productions of
Abraham Fleming; if I am not greatly mistaken, also, some of them will
be disapppointed if I do not subjoin a few sentences describing more
particularly the contents of the small volume, which (speaking as a
bibliographer) extends to sign.
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