III.

IN vain mine eyes, in vain you waste your tears;
In vain my sighs, the smokes of my despairs;
In vain you search the earth and heavens above;
In vain ye seek; for Fortune keeps my love.1

IV.

WITH wisdom's eyes had but blind fortune seen, Then had my love, my love for ever been.2

V.

EPITAPH ON THE EARL OF LEICESTER.3
(Died Sept. 4, 1588.)

HERE lies the noble warrior that never blunted

sword;

Here lies the noble courtier that never kept his

word;

Here lies his excellency that governed all the state; Here lies the L. of Leicester that all the world did

hate.

VI.

WA. RA.

1

EPITAPH ON THE EARL OF SALISBURY.+
(Died May 24, 1612.)

HERE lies Hobbinol, our pastor whilere,

That once in a quarter our fleeces did sheer.

1 Puttenham's "Art of English Poesie," 1589, p. 165,

as this written by Sir Walter Raleigh of his greatest mistress in most excellent verses.

2 Puttenham, ibid., p. 167, as "that of Sir Walter Raleigh's very sweet."

3 Collier's "Bibliographical Catalogue," vol. ii. p. 222, from a Bridgewater MS. It is anonymous in the Hawthornden MSS.; and in a shorter form in MS. Ashm. 38, p. 181. 4 Shirley's "Life of Raleigh," p. 28, folio.

To please us his cur he kept under clog,
And was ever after both shepherd and dog.
For oblation to Pan his custom was thus:-
He first gave a trifle, then offered up us.

And through his false worship such power he did gain,

As kept him o' th' mountain and us on the plain :
Where many a hornpipe he tuned to his Phyllis,
And sweetly sung Walsingham to's Amaryllis.
(Two lines omitted.)

VII.

A POEM PUT INTO MY LADY LAITON'S POCKET BY SIR WALTER RALEIGH.1

LADY, farewell, whom I in silence serve!

Would God thou knewest the depth of my desire! Then mought I wish, though nought I can deserve, Some drops of grace to slake my scalding fire; But sith to live alone I have decreed,

I'll spare to speak, that I may spare to speed!

VIII.

SIR W. RALEIGH ON THE SNUFF OF A CANDLE
THE NIGHT BEFORE HE DIED.2

COWARDS [may] fear to die; but courage stout,
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.

1 Chetham MS., 8012, p. 85; erased, but still legible. 2 Raleigh's "Remains," p. 258, edition 1661, &c.

XXIV.

METRICAL TRANSLATIONS

OCCURRING IN SIR W. RALEIGH'S HISTORY OF

THE WORLD.

I. BOOK I. CH. I. § 6.

Virgil, Æneid, vi. 724-7.

HE heaven and earth and all the liquid
main,

The moon's bright globe and stars
Titanian,

A spirit within maintains; and their whole mass
A mind, which through each part infused doth pass,
Fashions and works, and wholly doth transpierce
All this great body of the universe.

II. BOOK I. CH. I. § 7.

Ovid, Metam. iv. 226-8.

THE world discerns itself, while I the world behold; By me the longest years and other times are told; I, the world's eye.

III. BOOK I. CH. I. § 11.

Ovid, Trist. iii. vi. 18; and Juvenal, vii. 201.

'GAINST fate no counsel can prevail.
Kingdoms to slaves by destiny,
To captives triumphs given be.

IV. BOOK I. CH. I. § 15.

Athenæus (? Agathon: cf. Ar. Eth. N. vi. 4).

FROM wisdom fortune differs far;
And yet in works most like they are.

V. BOOK I. CH. I. § 15.

Ovid, Remed. Am. 119.

WHILE fury gallops on the way,
Let no man fury's gallop stay.

VI. BOOK I. CH. II. § 1.

Ovid, Metam. i. 76-8.

MORE holy than the rest, and understanding more, A living creature wants, to rule all made before; So man began to be.

VII. BOOK I. CH. II. § 3.

Marius Victor, de perversis suæ æt. moribus Epist. 30-33.

DISEASES, famine, enemies, in us no change have

wrought;

What erst we were, we are; still in the same snare caught:

No time can our corrupted manners mend;

In vice we dwell, in sin that hath no end.

VIII. BOOK I. CH. II. § 5.

Ovid, Metam. i. 414-5.

FROM thence our kind hard-hearted is, enduring pain and care;

Approving that our bodies of a stony nature are.

IX. BOOK I. CH. II. § 5.

Albinovanus, Eleg. de ob. Mæc. 113-4.

THE plants and trees made poor and old
By winter envious,

The spring-time bounteous
Covers again from shame and cold;
But never man repaired again
His youth and beauty lost,
Though art and care and cost
Do promise nature's help in vain.

х. воок І. сн. п. § 5.

Catull. Carm. v. 4-6.

THE sun may set and rise;
But we, contrariwise,

Sleep after our short light

One everlasting night.

XI. BOOK I. CH. III. § 3.

Ovid, Metam. I. 61-2.

THE East wind with Aurora hath abiding
Among the Arabian and the Persian hills,
Whom Phoebus first salutes at his uprising.