been preserved in rather an imperfect form. In line 4, the MS. reads, "Thy hope in hurt as wasted," the writer's eye having caught the line above; in line 11, there is an evident omission, which I have attempted to supply; in line 16, the MS. reads, "hadst ne'er been born;" and, in the last line, it makes an unnecessary insertion,"Which, O unhappy man," &c. I am doubtful about the reading of one or two other words. "Lewdly," in line 14, means mistakenly, ignorantly.

XXI. p. 116. The repetition of "thoughts" in line 4 appears to be an error; but it stands so in all the editions I have used. The shortness of line 5 in the old editions is not countenanced by the form of the other stanzas. The word which I have supplied is found only in some modern copies. This piece is followed in "Rel. Wotton." by Raleigh's lines, "Even such is time," which have been given already in Part I. No. XXII. p. 54.

XXII. p. 117. Though there is no reason to doubt that Bacon wrote these verses, his claim does not seem to have been commonly known; for it will be seen that his name was an after-insertion in many of the MS. copies, as well as in "Rel. Wotton." The lines bear some resemblance to a well-known epigram ascribed to Posidippus, which had been very frequently translated; e. g. in Tottel's "Songs and Sonnets," 1557; in Puttenham's "Art of Poesy," 1589; by Sir John Beaumont, and by others. Possibly from this circums the last line frequently occurs in almost e the same shape among the minor poems time; e. g. Bacon, as here:

"What then remains, but that we
For being born, and, being born,

Drummond of Hawthornden, "Works," 1711; Poems, p. 44:

"Who would not one of those two offers try,-
Not to be born, or, being born, to die?"

Bishop King, "Poems," &c. 1657, p. 145:

"At least with that Greek sage still make us cry,
Not to be born, or, being born, to die."

The mythical author of the phrase was Silenus, who is said to have bestowed it on his captor, King Midas.

xxv. p. 121, No. 1. The son of Hoskins who is generally mentioned was called Benedict or Bennet. Hence it is very probable that Hoskins wrote "My little Ben," &c. which is the reading of a Rawlinson MS.

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NOTES ON PART III.

T will save repetition to note here, that the old editions of the early poetical mis

cellanies, by which I have rectified the text of extracts, are as follows:-Tottel's "Songs and Sonnets," those of 1557 and 1585; "The Paradise of Dainty Devices" (first published in 1576), those of 1580 and 1596; "The Phoenix Nest," 1593; England's Helicon," the first edition, 1600; and Davison's "Poetical Rhapsody" (first published in 1602), generally the fourth edition, 1621. But in giving mere lists of first lines, I have referred by page to the reprnits of Park, Brydges, &c., as most likely to be commonly accessible; and I have availed myself, in one or two

instances, which are duly acknowledged, of further information contained in Mr. Collier's recent reprints.

1. p. 125. The seventh line of this piece, "As lead to grave in marble stone," means, "as for lead to engrave," &c.; that is, it is as hard for my song to pierce her heart, as for the soft metal to cut letters on the hard marble. In line 24, "unquit" means "unrequited, unpunished." In line 26, as

again in line 31, "may chance thee lie," means, "it may chance for thee to lie," &c. The Harington MS. destroys the sense by reading, "Perchance they lie withered and old."

II. p. 127. The copy ascribed to John Heywood is printed at length by Park in his notes to Walpole, "R. and N. A." vol. i. p. 80. It can scarcely be doubted that Heywood has simply laid hands on a popular poem for purposes of flattery, and utterly destroyed its beauty in the process. His сору closes thus:

"This worthy lady, too, bewray;

A king's daughter was she,

Of whom John Heywood list to say
In such worthy degree.

"And Mary was her name, weet ye,
With these graces endued;
At eighteen years so flourished she:
So doth his mean conclude."

The readings "roseal" (st. 8, line 1).
(ib. line 4), and "honesty" (st. 11,
from the old copies; instead of "rog
and "modesty," as given in some

III.-VI. pp. 129-134. Thomas, I here selected four pieces out of ascribed to this nobleman; two among the uncertain authors in and Sonnets," and fourteen in "

Dainty Devices." The following are the first lines of the other twelve, arranged alphabetically:

5. "How can the tree but waste and wither away."-P. of D. D., p. 64; “L. Vaux.” An anonymous copy in Harl. MS. 6910, fol. 168, verso; and another printed from a Music-Book of 1596 by Mr. Collier, "Lyrical Poems," &c. p. 31.

6. "If ever man had love too dearly bought."P. of D. D., p. 73; “L. V.”

7.

I loathe that I did love."-Tottel, anon. Ascribed to Lord Vaux "in time of the noble Queen Mary," in Harl. MS. 1703, fol. 100. See more on this poem in Percy, Warton (iii. 54, ed. Park), and the Commentators on Hamlet.

8. "Like as the hart that lifteth up his ears."P. of D. D., p. 81; “L. Vaux.”

9. "Mistrust misdeems amiss, whereby displeasure grows.”—P. of D. D., p. 82: “ L. V.”

10. "The day delayed of that I most do wish." -P. of D. D., p. 10; "L. Vaux."

11. "To counsel my estate abandoned to the spoil."-P. of D. D., p. 81; "L. Vaux.”

12. "What doom is this, I fain would know."P. of D. D., p. 72; “L. V.”

13. "What grieves my bones and makes my body faint?"-P. of D. D., p. 3; “L. Vaux.”

14. anon.

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When Cupid scaled first the fort."-Tottel, Quoted, with a wrong Christian name, by Puttenham, A. P. 1589, p. 200, as by "the Lord Nicholas Vaux, a noble gentleman, and much delighted in vulgar making," &c. A copy in Harl. MS. 6910, fol. 175. See also Warton (iii. 57), Percy, and Ellis.

15. "When I behold the bier, my last and posting horse."-P. of D. D., p. 103; "L. Vaux."

16. "Where seething sighs and sour sobs."P. of D. D., p. 44; "L. V." In some editions ascribed to W. Hunnis. The fifth stanza begins, "These hairs of age are messengers ;" which forms the first line in some modern copies.

It will be observed that at least three of the sixteen, including two of those which I have given at length, have been also claimed for other authors. The same remark will apply to two other pieces, the first lines of which I add here

17. "Brittle beauty, that nature made so frail." -Found also among Lord Surrey's Poems; but Dr. Nott is rather anxious to resign it to Lord Vaux. See his edition of Surrey, pp. 20, 288.

18. "To seem for to revenge each wrong in hasty wise."-P. of D. D., p. 30; "E. S." Mr. Collier mentions that there is " early authority' (e. g. ed. 1580) for Lord Vaux; "Bibl. Cat." i. 245.

III. p. 129. This is undoubtedly very “heavy verse," as the author acknowledges; and it is extremely obscure. In the second stanza we may perhaps suspect an inversion; as though the first and third lines were nearly transposed: "If weary woe enwrapped in the shroud my wonted cheer, which is eclipsed, &c. (so that it) lies slain by tongue of the unfriendly sort." (Both the old editions used read, "If weary we.") In line 15, all the copies I have seen read, "On that I gape the issue," &c., for which I have conjectured, 66 gage," i. e. stake.

IV. p. 130. The old reading of the first line, "do grow," is an instance of one of the commonest errors in Elizabethan grammar; when the verb is made to agree with the number of the nearest noun, even though not a nominative at all. So