Edward Fairfax's 'Fourth Ecologue': Lost and found

This article prints a manuscript copy of an ecologue by Edward Fairfax (d. 1635) discovered in Lambeth Palace Library, London. A manuscript of all twe lve of Fairfax's ecologues once existed, but is now lost, only a small port ion of the whole managed to get into print. The Lambeth manuscript contains Fairfax's fourth ecologue, 'Eglon and Alexis', which had been printed in M rs Cooper's anthology The Muses Library (1737). The manuscript copy is lack ing a number of early stanzas, but also includes one line not given in Mrs Cooper's text. The manuscript copy is, therefore, unique, and not the one u sed by Cooper.