tions passed, finding the French bark not to be so ready, nor so fit as that himself had formerly provided, gave him thanks, and told him that he would make use of his own bark, but for his letters, and the rest of his offer, he should be beholden to him, because his acquaintance in France was worn-out. So passionately bent was he upon his escape, as that he did not forbear to trust his life, and to communicate a secret importing him so near, upon his first acquaintance, and unto a stranger, whom he hath since confessed that he never saw before. And thus after two nights stay, the third night he made an actual attempt to escape, and was in boat toward his ship, but was by Stukely arrested, brought back, and delivered into the custody of the lieutenant of the Tower.

For these his great and heinous offences, in acts of hostility upon His Majesty's confederates, depredations, and abuses, as well of his commission, as of His Majesty's subjects under his charge, impostures, attempts of escape, declining His Majesty's justice, and the rest, evidently proved or confessed by himself, he had made himself utterly unworthy of His Majesty's farther mercy; and because he could not by law be judicially called in question, for that his former attainder of treason is the highest and last work of the law (whereby he was civiliter mortuus) His Majesty was inforced (except attainders should become privileges for all subsequent offences) to resolve to have him executed upon his former attainder.

His Majesty's just and honourable proceedings being thus made manifest to all his good subjects by this preceding declaration, not founded upon conjectures or likelihoods, but either upon confession of the party himself, or upon the examination of divers unsuspected witnesses, he leaves it to the world to judge, how he could either have satisfied his own justice, (his honourable intentions having been so perverted and abused by the said Sir Walter Ralegh) or yet make the uprightness of the same his intentions appear to his dearest brother the King of Spain; if he had not by a legal punishment of the offender, given an example, as well of terror to all his other subjects, not to abuse his gracious meanings, in taking the contrary courses for the attaining to their own unlawful ends; as also of demonstration to all other foreign princes and states, whereby they might rest assured of His Majesty's honourable proceeding with them, when any the like case shall occur. By which means His Majesty may the more assuredly expect and claim an honourable concurrence, and a reciprocal correspondence from them, upon any the like occasion. But as to Sir Walter Ra

legh's

legh's confession at his death, what he confessed or denied touching any the points of this declaration, His Majesty leaves him and his concience therein to God, as was said in the beginning of this discourse. For sovereign princes cannot make a true judgment upon the bare speeches or asseverations of a delinquent at the time of his death, but their judgment must be founded upon examinations, re-examinations, and confrontments, and such-like real proofs, as all this former discourse is made-up and built upon; all the material and most important of the said examinations being taken under the hands of the examinates that could write, and that in the presence of no fewer than six of His Majesty's privy-council, and attested. by their alike several subscriptions under their hands, which were My Lords, the archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Verulam, lord-chancellor of England, the Earl of Worcester, lord privy-seal, master secretary Naunton, the master of the rolls, and Sir Edward Coke."

No. XIX.

Poetry ascribed to Sir WALTER RALEGH.

DULCINA.

As at noon Dulcina rested

In her sweet and shady bower,
Came a shepherd and requested
In her lap to sleep an hour.
But from her look

A wound he took

So deep, that for a farther boon
The nymph he prays,

Whereto she says,

Forego me now, come to me soon.

But in vain she did conjure him

To depart her presence so,

Having a thousand tongues t'allure him,
And but one to bid him go.
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When

THE EXCUSE.

Calling to mind, my eyes went long about,
To cause my heart for to forsake my breast
All in a rage, I sought to pull them out,

As who had been such traitors to my rest.
What could they say to win again my grace?—
Forsooth, that they had seen my mistress' face.

Another time my heart I called to mind,

Thinking that he this woe on me had brought, Because that he to love his force resign'd,

When of such wars my fancy never thought. What could he say when I would have him slain? That he was her's, and had forgone my chain.

At last, when I perceiv'd both eyes and heart
Excuse themselves, as guiltless of
my ill,
I found myself the cause of all my smart,
And told myself that I myself would kill.
Yet when I saw myself to you was true,
I lov'd myself, because myself lov'd you.

Shall I, like an hermit, dwell
On a rock, or in a cell,
Calling home the smallest part
That is missing of my heart,
To bestow it where I may
Meet a rival ev'ry day?

If she undervalue me,

What care I how fair she be?

Were her tresses angel gold,

If a stranger may be bold,
Unrebuked, unafraid,
To convert them to a braid,

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And

And with little more ado,
Work them into bracelets, too;
If the mine be grown so free,
What care I how rich it be?

Were her hand as rich a prize.
As her hairs or precious eyes,
If she lay them out to take
Kisses, for good manners' sake,
And let ev'ry lover skip
From her hand unto her lip;
If she seem not chaste to me,
What care I how chaste she be ?

No; she must be perfect snow,
In effect as well as shew;
Warming but as snow-balls do,
Not like fire, by burning too;
But when she by change hath gota

To her heart a second lot,

Then, if others share with me,

Farewell her, whate'er she be *..

No. XX.

An Examination of Mr. DAVID HUME'S Arguments against Sir WALTER RALEGH, in Note I. Vol. VI. p. 555, of his History of England.

(N. B. Mr. HUME's words are distinguished by the Italic character.)

I. There seems to be an improbability that the Spaniards, who knew nothing of Ralegh's pretended mine, should have built a town in so wide a coast, within three miles of it. The chances are extremely against such a supposition, and it is more natural to think that the view of plun