this incomparable lyric from Captain Tobias Hume's "First Part of Airs" (1605), with which Mr. Bullen begins his "Lyrics from Elizabethan Song-Books", I am indebted to Mr. Bullen, who has not yet been able to make the correction in his own edition. 260. p. 257. The eighth line of this song, from "The Sun's Darling", 1656, reads “There all but books of fancy's writing". Mr. Bullen queries the "but", and I have ventured to replace it by "the which at least makes sense. 294. p. 300. Many readings have been suggested for the opening lines of the second stanza of this song from "The Two Noble Kinsmen", a song whose beauty is not beyond the reach of Fletcher, though certainly not outside the manner of Shakespeare. The commonly accepted emendation is "harebells instead of "her bells "; but, as Mr. Quiller Couch points out in the notes to his "Golden Pomp", all that is needed is to restore the semicolon of the original edition after “Ver", which allows " merry springtime's harbinger" to refer to the snowdrop, and not, as it would seem to do if only a comma were used, to the primrose. p. 305. 307. I have followed Prof. Arber in printing in full, and restoring to its author, a poem usually printed as it stands, anonymously, in Martin Peerson's "Private Music " of 1620. As there printed, it contains only the first four stanzas, with no suggestion of its religious character. The poem is contained in Richard Verstegen's "Odes in imitation of the Seaven Penitential Psalmes, with sundry other Poemes and ditties tending to devotion and pietie. Imprinted Anno Domini M.D.C.I.", at Antwerp. It follows other poems to the Virgin, among which are "The Fifteen Mysteries of the Rosarie, of Our Blessed Lady". There is no name on the title-page, but the dedication "To the Vertuous Ladies and Gentlewomen Readers of these Ditties" is signed "Yours in his best endeavours, R. V." P. 311. 316. This splendid fragment (as it probably is, though it can well stand as a poem complete in itself) was found by Mr. Bullen in one of those Christ Church MSS. from which he has printed other lovely things, such as the intoxicating song “Hey nonny no!" (No. 12). P. 321. 325.—I found this grave epigram in Mr. Quiller Couch's anthology, who had it from Grosart's "Unique and Rare Books", 1879. It is from "Newe Sonets, and Pretie Pamphlets written by Thomas Howell, Gentleman ", 1567. 359. p. 364.-Only Lamb may be allowed to praise the dirge in "The White Devil": "I never saw anything like this Dirge, except the Ditty which reminds Ferdinand of his drowned father in the Tempest. As that is of the water, watery; so this is of the earth, earthy. Both have that intenseness of feeling, which seems to resolve itself into the elements which it contemplates.' 366. p. 369. It is not certain whether this epitaph belongs in whole or part to Ben Jonson (as has generally been supposed) or to Browne of Tavistock (who seems to have more claim to it). Mr. Gordon Goodwin, in his edition of Browne in the Muses' Library, claims it for Browne on the authority of a MS. in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, dating from the middle of the seventeenth century, where it is signed "William Browne", and of Aubrey ("Natural History of Wiltshire", of about the same date), who quotes the first six lines as made by Mr. Browne, who wrote the 'Pastorals They were not attributed to Jonson before Whalley's edition in 1756, where they are quoted incorrectly, and are inserted for the reason that they were "universally assigned" to him. 370. p. 371. This poem is found in many MSS., including the "Reliquiae Wottonianae", where it is said to be by "Chidick Tychborn, being young and then in the Tower, the night before his execution”. He was executed in 1586, together with Antony Babington, for participation in the plot on behalf of Mary Queen of Scots. He is one of the characters in Swinburne's "Mary Stuart". 378. p. 379. In the original Quarto of Shakespeare's Sonnets the words "my sinful earth", which end the first line, are repeated by mistake at the beginning of the second line. Two words are thus evidently missing, and they have been supplied in many ways, none of which can ever be satisfactory or final. I have accepted Palgrave's improvement of the conjecture of Malone, Fooled by those rebel powers", and printed, though with hesitation, "Foiled by these rebel powers". 66 Index of Authors Bacon, Francis, Viscount St. Albans (1561-1626), 330. Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616), 1, 301, 362, 364. Browne, William (1591-1643?), 12, 73, 113, 174, 182, Campion, Thomas (d. 1619), 2, 25, 38, 55, III, 132, 144, 146, 149, 157, 158, 165, 167, 168, 171, 176, Constable, Henry (1562–1613), 114, 145. Daniel, Samuel (1562–1619), 20, 150, 187, 332, 345. 221, 226, 242, 245, 249, 251, 255, 259, 260, 270, Drayton, Michael (1563-1631), 19, 43, 46, 74, 101, 119, 130, 131, 167, 168, 188, 216, 218, 222, 223, 227, Drummond, William (1585-1649), 19, 20, 69, 70, 136, Field, Nathaniel (1537-1633), 302. Fletcher, John (1579–1625), 1, 4, 10, 11, 21, 42, 156, Greene, Robert (1560?-1592), 23, 50, 58, 62, 135, 306. Herrick, Robert (1591–1674), 3, 6, 11, 13, 15, 18, 26, 32, |