III. IN vain mine eyes, in vain you waste your tears; 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 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.+ 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 through his false worship such power he did gain, As kept him o' th' mountain and us on the plain : 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 COWARDS [may] fear to die; but courage stout, 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 The moon's bright globe and stars A spirit within maintains; and their whole mass 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. IV. BOOK I. CH. I. § 15. Athenæus (? Agathon: cf. Ar. Eth. N. vi. 4). FROM wisdom fortune differs far; V. BOOK I. CH. I. § 15. Ovid, Remed. Am. 119. WHILE fury gallops on the way, 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 The spring-time bounteous х. воок І. сн. п. § 5. Catull. Carm. v. 4-6. THE sun may set and rise; 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 |