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thy languished grace-thy state descries," and 'descrive "in Spenser, “ F. Q.” II. iii. st. 25, &c.

XXIII. p. 55. Fragments, &c. With No. 1, compare the piece given above from a Rawlinson MS., No. XI. p. 16.-The two riddles in No. 2 are often found apart; and that on Noel is sometimes ascribed to Queen Elizabeth.-Raleigh's claim to No. 5, the well-known epitaph on Leicester, rests solely on the evidence of the Bridgewater MSS., as reported by Mr. Collier. There are two anonymous copies among the Hawthornden MSS. at Edinburgh, the first of which was printed by Mr. Laing, and quoted in the notes to Scott's "Kenilworth :"

"Here lies a valiant warrior, who never drew a sword; Here lies a noble courtier, who never kept his word; Here lies the Earl of Leicester, who governed the estates, Whom the earth could never living love, and the just heaven now hates."

The first line of the second copy gives a variation worth preserving: "Here lies a noble warrior, who never stained a sword."-Raleigh's title to No. 6, the epitaph on Salisbury, rests on the word of the biographer Shirley, who says, "which I am upon very good grounds assured to be his. King James was so much taken with the smartness of it, that he hoped the author would die before him." It is thus introduced in Osborne's "Traditional Memoirs on the Reign of King James," 1658, p. 88: "those that follow are from so smart a pen in the king's sense, that he said he hoped the author would die before him: who it was, God knows." Compare Oldys, "Life of Raleigh," p. clxxiv.-No. 7: "My aunt Laighton" is mentioned in a wellknown letter from Lord Essex to Dyer (Tytler's

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Raleigh," p. 62).

A "Lady Leighton" was, I believe, one of the bedchamber-women to the Queen. A "Sir Thomas Leighton" was a governor of Guernsey; and a " Sir William" was "one of his Majesty's band of pensioners" in 1612, and is known as a writer of verses.

XXIV. pp. 58-75. These fragments of metre, which are scattered through Raleigh's "History of the World," have never been collected before. I have verified and completed the references, which were often incorrect or imperfect, and often omitted altogether. The original is nearly always prefixed in Raleigh's text, except that all the Greek passages are quoted in a Latin version. It is curious that the very first translation which we meet with in the volume is borrowed, and I have therefore omitted it; viz. book I., ch. i. § 5; Ovid, Metam. i. 5-8, from A. Golding's Ovid : "Before the sea and land were made, and Heaven that all doth hide,

In all the world one only face of Nature did abide,
Which Chaos hight, a huge rude heap-"

I have not observed any other instances of the kind, though it is quite possible that some may have escaped my notice. The second quotation from Ovid stands thus in Golding (p. 46):

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Said, I am he that metes the year, that all things do behold,

By whom the earth doth all things see, the Eye of all the world."

The translation of Lucan, to which Raleigh prefixed a Sonnet (above, No. xix. p. 30) to oblige his relative Sir A. Gorges, is different in all the pas sages which Raleigh has made use of; thus:No. xiv. p. 61. In Gorges, p. 141:

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"O Luxury! thou prodigue vain,
That never canst the mean retain;
And thou, insatiate Gluttony,
Pampered with superfluity," &c.

No. xxxi. p. 65. In Gorges, p. 128:

"Cæsar small skiffs prepares and rigs,
Composed of green willow twigs,

And over it doth ox-hides dight,

Wherewith to keep them staunch and tight," &c.

No. xliii. p. 68. In Gorges, p. 93:

"So likewise, if we credit fame,
Phoenicians were the first had name
The use of characters to find,

And letters to express our mind."

But it must not be forgotten that Ben Jonson claimed a share in the great History, both for himself and for others. The probable amount of Raleigh's obligations has been fairly stated by Oldys, exaggerated by D'Israeli, and again reduced to reasonable dimensions by Mr. Tytler, Mr. Macvey Napier, and Mr. Edwards.. I have not thought it necessary to criticize the translations; but it will be observed that in No. LV. p. 72, he takes Corythus for the hero instead of the town.

XXVI. and XXVII. pp. 77-78. The change of signature in "England's Helicon" leaves Raleigh's claims to these two poems doubtful; but it is not conclusive evidence against him, because the editor may have merely discovered that the author wished to remain concealed.

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Page 78, last line. Sauncing bell" is frequently used for "saints' bell," quod ad sancta vocat. Another form found is "sacring bell," the bell announcing the elevation of the host. Sain" is of course say, as frequently in Spenser.

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XXVIII. p. 80. I think it very improbable that

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.

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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 was it absence that did make her strange,
Base flower of change?"

II. p. 88.

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 Terre Filius for that year led to his expulsion from the university. A prosperous marriage afterwards enabled him to

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.

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.