Note 1. CIV. H. C.—He wrote “The Forrest of Fancy. Wherein is conteined very pretty apothegmes and pleasant histories both in meeter and prose,” etc. This was published in 1579, and is chiefly of a secular character. Who H. C. was, is not known. Warton considers the initials as appertaining to Henry Constable; but, as Sir Egerton Brydges observes, this perhaps proceeded from the difficulty of finding another coeval claimant, as there is nothing in the style which assimilates it to the poetical productions which that author published about fifteen years afterwards. [back]
