Both church and court may want you well; they are not at

such ebb.

As quarrels once begun are not so quickly ended,

So many faults may soon be found, but not so soon amended. And when you come again to give the world the lie, I pray you tell them how to live, and teach them how to die. (Chetham MS. 8012, p. 107, each line as two. First printed by me, partially in 1842, and at length in 1845.)

2. The Answer to the Lie.

Court's scorn, state's disgracing, potentates' scoff, governments' defacing,

Princes' touch, church's unhallowing, arts' injury, virtue's debasing,

Age's monster, honour's wasting, beauty's blemish, favour's blasting,

Wit's excrement, wisdom's vomit, physic's scorn, law's comet, Fortune's child, valour's defiler, justice' revenger, friendship's beguiler,

Such is the song, such is the author; worthy to be rewarded with a halter.

Erroris Responsio.

Court's commender, state's maintainer, potentate's defender, governments' gainer,

Princes' praiser, church's preacher, arts' raiser, virtue's teacher,

Age's rewarder, honour's strengthener, beauty's guarder, favour's lengthener,

Wit's admirer, wisdom's scholar, physic's desirer, law's follower,

Fortune's blamer, nature's observer, justice' proclaimer, friendship's preserver;

Such is the author, such is the song; returning the halter, contemning the wrong. SR. WA. RA.

(MS. Ashm. 781, p. 164. Printed from that MS. among Raleigh's own poems in the Oxford edition of his works, viii. 735.)

3. Extract from another Contemporary
Answer to the Lie.

St. 2.

"The Court hath settled sureness

In banishing such boldness;

The Church retains her pureness,

Though Atheists show their coldness:
The Court and Church, though base,
Turn lies into thy face."

St. 3.

"The Potentates reply,

Thou base, by them advanced,
Sinisterly soarest high,

And at their actions glanced:
They, for this thankless part,
Turn lies into thy heart," &c.

(MS. Tann. 306, fol. 188; written stanza by stanza at the side of a copy of the original poem.)

V.

THE REACTION AFTER HIS DEATH.

1.

"O hadst thou served thy Heroine all thy days!
Had Heaven from storms of envy screened thy bays!
Hadst thou still flourished in a warlike reign,
Thy sword had made a conquest, like thy pen!
But nought to such untimely fate could bring

The valiant subject, but a coward king."

("Phoenix Britannicus," 1732. p. 453; Oldys' "Life of Raleigh," p. clxxxv., slightly altered. I have taken one word from Oldys' copy.)

2.

"I will not weep; for 'twere as great a sin

To shed a tear for thee, as to have been

An actor in thy death. Thy life and age

Was but a various scene on Fortune's stage,

With whom thou tugg'st and strov'st even out of breath

In thy long toil, ne'er mastered till thy death;

And then, despite of trains and cruel wit,

Thou didst at once subdue malice and it.

"I dare not then so blast thy memory
As
say I do lament or pity thee.
Were I to choose a subject to bestow
My pity on, he should be one as low
In spirit as desert; that durst not die,
But rather were content by slavery
To purchase life: or I would pity those,

Thy most industrious and friendly foes,

Who, when they thought to make thee scandal's story,
Lent thee a swifter flight to heaven and glory;
That thought, by cutting off some withered days
Which thou could'st spare them, to eclipse thy praise;
Yet gave it brighter foil; made thy ag'd fame
Appear more white and fair than foul their shame;
And did promote an execution

Which, but for them, nature and age had done.
"Such worthless things as these were only born
To live on pity's alms, too mean for scorn.

Thou diedst an envious wonder, whose high fate
The world must still admire, scarce imitate."

(From Bishop Henry King's "Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes, and Sonnets," 1657, p. 97, as "An Elegy upon S. W. R." Also in Oldys, p. ccxxxi.)

3.

"Great heart, who taught thee thus to die,

Death yielding thee the victory?

Where took'st thou leave of life? If here,
How could'st thou be so free from fear?
But sure thou diedst, and quittedst the state
Of flesh and blood before that fate:
Else what a miracle were wrought,-
To triumph both in life and thought!
I saw in every stander by

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Pale Death; Life only in thine eye. The legacy thou gav'st, we then Will sue for, when thou diest again. Farewell! Truth shall this story say,We died,-thou only livedst that day!" (Printed in Shirley's "Life of Raleigh," ad fin., as a taste of the poetry of those times." It occurs in MS. Rawl. Misc. 699, p. 35, along with the preceding elegy; also among the Hawthornden MSS. vol. viii. as by "A. B.," and was printed from this last copy by Mr. Laing, Arch. Scot." iv. 238.)

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APPENDIX B.

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF POEMS WHICH HAVE

BEEN ASCRIBED TO SIR W. RALEIGH

WITHOUT OR AGAINST EVIDENCE.

1.

RE women fair? aye, wondrous fair to see too."Included among "Poems supposed to be written by Sir W. Raleigh," in the Lee Priory ed. of Davison's "Poetical Rhapsody," vol. ii. p. 89, on no evidence but the signature "Ignoto." Title, "An Invective against Women." An anonymous copy in the Percy folio; see Furnivall's edit. vol. iii. p. 364.

2. "As at noon Dulcina rested."-Given to Raleigh in Ellis's "Specimens," edit. 1801 (not retained in edit. 1811). Thence Cayley and Brydges, and the Oxford editors. No evidence whatever. An anonymous copy in the Percy folio; see Furnivall's edit. vol. iv. p. 32.

3. "Come, gentle herdman, sit by me."-Among Raleigh's poems in Lee Priory ed. of Davison's "Poetical Rhapsody" (as above), vol. ii. p. 92. No evidence but the signature "Ignoto." "Title, "Eclogue.”

4. "Come, live with me and be my dear."—E. H., p. 216, as a second reply to Marlowe's song (see this vol. p. 10). It is headed, "Another of the same nature made since," and signed" Ignoto." Hence claimed for Raleigh by Ellis, Cayley, Brydges, and the Oxford editors.

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5. "Corydon, arise, my Corydon."-E. H., p. 73, signed Ignoto." Hence claimed for Raleigh by Brydges and the Oxford editors. There is an anonymous copy in the " CrownGarland of Golden Roses," 1612, p. 63, repr.

6. "Court's commender, state's maintainer."-A defence of "The Lie" in the Ashm. MSS.; claimed for Raleigh by the Oxford editors. (See it in this vol. above, p. xxvii.)

7. "Court's scorn, state's disgracing."-The attack to which the above is a reply. Printed among Raleigh's poems by the Oxford editors. (See it in this vol. above, p. xxvii.)

8 "Eternal mover, whose diffused glory."-Sir Henry Wotton's (see it in this vol. p. 91). Erroneously claimed for Raleigh in the "Topographer," on the authority of a B. M. MS.

9. Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles !"— Author uncertain. (See it in this vol. p. 109.) Ascribed to Raleigh by Sir H. Nicolas, without any known authority.

10. "Hey, down-a-down, did Dian sing."-E. H., p. 135, as "A Nymph's disdain of Love," signed " Ignoto." Hence claimed for Raleigh by Brydges and the Oxford editors.

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11. "If love be life, I long to die."-E. H., p. 211, as Dispraise of love and lovers' follies," signed “Ignoto." Hence claimed for Raleigh by Brydges and the Oxford editors. It was added in the second ed. of E. H., from Davison's "Poetical Rhapsody," and is really by A. W.

12. "In Peascod time, when hound to horn."-E. H., p. 206, as "The Shepherd's Slumber," signed "Ignoto" in the first edition. Hence claimed for Raleigh by Brydges

and the Oxford editors.

13. " 'It chanced of late a shepherd's swain."-In the first part of the Lee Priory ed. of Davison's "Poetical Rhapsody," vol. i. p. 17, as " a Fiction how Cupid made a Nymph wound herself with his arrows." Brydges "suspected" it" to be Raleigh's, as well from internal evidence, as because it had the signature of' Anomos' (!) in the edition of 1602." Ibid. p. 40; see also his Introduction, p. 39, and "Exc. Tudor." ii. 123. It has been ascribed to Sidney Godolphin, though written, as Percy remarks, "before he was born." It is really by A. W.

14. "Lady, my flame still burning."--The first part of a "Dialogue betwixt the Lover and his Lady" (see No. 23). Included among Raleigh's supposed poems in the Lee Priory ed. of Davison's "Poetical Rhapsody" (as before), vol. ii. p. 88. No evidence but the signature "Ignoto."

15. "Like desert woods with darksome shades obscured." -E. H., p. 224, as "Thyrsis the shepherd to his pipe," signed "Ignoto." Hence claimed for Raleigh by Brydges and the Oxford editors. It is either by Lodge or Dyer (see note in this vol. p. 245).

16. "Love is the link, the knot, the band of unity."-Included among Raleigh's supposed poems in the Lee Priory