Raleigh wrote this ballad. Sufficient literary references to "Walsingham Pilgrimages" will be found in Percy, and in Chappell's “ Popular Music of the Olden Time," pp. 121-2. XXIX. p. 82. This is one of the replies to Wither's verses, "Shall I, wasting in despair." It seems to me quite as unlikely that Raleigh wrote this answer as that Jonson wrote another.-Gifford's "Life of Ben Jonson," p. cxlix.; Bliss's Wood, "A. O." ii. 616. NOTES ON PART II. HE poems contained in this Part are chiefly taken from the collection of Sir Henry Wotton's minor writings, which was first published in 1651, twelve years after the author's death, and reprinted in 1654, 1672, and 1685. The first portion consists of Sir Henry Wotton's own poems; the second of poems found among his papers. I have added nothing to this division except a few scattered pieces, which seemed to make the collection more complete. I. p. 87. Of a woman's heart. Several copies insert the following couplet after line 16: "Or w II. p. 88. absence that did make her strange, Base flower of change?" Serjeant Hoskins. John Hoskins was originally a Fellow of New College, where he graduated M.A. in 1592; but some sarcasms in which he indulged as Terree Filius for that year led to his expulsion from the university? A prosperous marriage afterwards enabled him to 66 enter at the Middle Temple, and he became a member of Parliament, where "a desperate allusion to the Sicilian Vesper" consigned him to the Tower, June 7, 1614. This date alone disposes of Wood's story, that his participation in Raleigh's imprisonment led to their intimacy, with the result that Hoskins "viewed and reviewed" the History of the World;" for that volume, as Wood himself states, was published in April, 1614 (A. O. ii. 238, 626). It seems clear, however, that his "company" was "much desired by ingenious men." He spent about a year in the Tower; and was afterwards successively a reader at the Temple, serjeant-at-law, a judge for Wales, and a member of the Council of the Marches. He died Aug. 27, 1638. His "book of poems, bigger than those of Dr. Donne," which was lost by his son, has never been recovered; but a good many of his epigrams can be found in the small MS. miscellanies of the time. I have printed a few in No. xxv. p. 121. Dr. Bliss printed from the Ashmole MSS. a piece of eighty lines, called Mr. Hoskins' Dream;" edition of Wood, "A. O.” ii. 627. One of the epigrams which I have given consists of lines extracted from it. 66 III. p. 89. A happy life. The third stanza seems to be corrupt, but the reading given here is at all events intelligible; "Nor envies any whom vice doth raise." The copy found in Ben Jonson's handwriting sanctions this punctuation, reading "Or vice; who never understood." The text in "Rel. Wotton." leaves it without construction, reading Nor vice hath ever understood; How deepest," &c. Mr. Dyce reads: "Nor vice ; hath ever understood," &c. 66 VII. p. 95. On the Queen of Bohemia. This sprightly poem must have been written during the short interval which elapsed after Sept. 1619, before the brief day of Elizabeth's Bohemian sovereignty was clouded. It has been a favourite theme for imitations and additions; of which three stanzas will be a sufficient specimen. The first and second are taken from Archbishop Sancroft's MS., Tann. 465, fol. 43, where they rank as fourth and sixth (compare a somewhat similar copy in the "Topographer," i. 421); the third, in which the metre is altogether altered, is taken from the end of the copy in the Aberdeen "Cantus." It has found its way, with some variations, among Montrose's poems (Napier's "Life of Montrose," 1856, Appendix, p. xl). "You rubies that do gems adorn, And sapphires with your azure hue, Should little birds with eagles soar, Or little beasts with lions roar? No, no, not so, it is not meet The head should stoop down to the feet." VIII. p. 96. Sir Albertus Morton was Wotton's nephew, and had been his secretary at Venice. He was frequently employed by King James on foreign affairs, was knighted by him in 1617, and died secretary of state in 1625. Sir Henry never mentions him without adding some expressions of affectionate regard. IX. p. 98. Sir A. Morton's wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Edward Apsley, of Thakeham, Sussex; was married Jan. 13, 1624, and died s. p. in 1627. x. p. 98. The allusion in the first stanza is to the planet which was said to be visible at noon-day at the birth of Charles II., May 29, 1630. It was commemorated at the time, more or less directly, by Wotton, King, Corbet, Cleveland, and Herrick; and after the restoration, by Cowley and Waller. The figure of a star is found on some of the medals of Charles II. XI. p. 99. Sir H. Wotton wrote a Latin tract (afterwards inserted in "Rel. Wotton.") upon the same occasion, with the title, "Ad Regem è Scotiâ reducem Henrici Wottonii plausus et vota, MDCXXXIII." It was reprinted in various forms, both in Latin and English. XIII. p. 103, line 1. valing ebbs—i. e. failing, or retiring. Near the end, vade is fade, depart. xv. p. 106. Howell's Dodona's Grove. This flattering estimate of Howell's allegory has not been ratified. Mr. Hallam summarily calls it " an entire failure." The reference in line 4 is doubt. less to the well-known " Argenis " of John Barclay, and the "Advices from Parnassus" of Trajan Boccalini. XVII. p. 109. I have transferred this well-known piece from the "Complete Angler," as particularly suitable in style and subject, if not in authorship, to have formed part of the collection in "Rel. Wotton." Page 110, line 6. 66 Mind," i. e. mine, as it is spelt in Sancroft's MS. In some copies the line Dig out the bowels," which may be begins, correct. 66 Page 110, line 20. An angel was a piece of money worth ten shillings (see above, p. 28, line 24, and note). To "vie angels" is to stake or hazard coins against an antagonist, who may vie " if he is able, by putting down a larger sum. Page.111, line 7. In Sancroft's MS. these lines stand thus: "Here dwell no heating loves, no palsy fears, 66 re Here will I sit, and sigh my hot youth's folly," &c. XVIII. p. 111, line 3. Observe that the word "world's " is here a dissyllable, as it occurs twice in the Hatfield MS. (see above, p. 38, line 17, and p. 47, line 2.) XIX. p. 112. Dr. Samuel Brooke, the intimate friend of Dr. Donne, was a member of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated as M.A. in 1604, and as D.D. in 1615. He was successively Divinity Professor of Gresham College, Rector of St. Margaret's, Lothbury, Master of Trinity, and Archdeacon of Coventry; and died in 1631. His brother, Christopher Brooke, was better known as an English poet. He is probably the author of "The Ghost of Richard the Third," 1614, a poem which was republished by the Shakespeare Society. References to both brothers may be found among the poems of Donne, Crashaw, and William Browne. xx. p. 114. Chidiock Tychbourne, of Southampton, was executed, with Ballard and Babington, in 1586. The reply to his verses, which I copied many years ago from a contemporary MS., has |