DEDICATION. MARY! Sweet maid, with flowing auburn hair, Lips like twin cherries, eyes of heavenly blue, And blooming cheek, tinctured with Health's own hue, Such as in Spring the apple-blossoms wear; Cheerful as Morn, and innocent as fair! Accept this GARLAND, for it is thy due: Thou didst direct me oft where hidden grew And warn me oft against a noxious flower, Of colour bright, and tempting to the eye, But all unfit in Beauty's breast to lie, To wreathe her brow, or deck her latticed bower: Wand'ring with thee through meads in summer hour. LATE wreathing a garland I happen'd to find Young Love 'mongst the roses. Fast pinioned behind, I plunged him, and drank up the liquor divine:- [From the Greek of JULIAN THE APOSTATE.] C. The following piece, which is given as Lord Rochford's, in Harrington's Nugæ Antiquæ, has also been ascribed to Sir Thomas Wyatt. In Ellis's Specimens of the Early English Poets it is placed among those of "Uncertain Authors." THE LOVER'S COMPLAINT OF THE UNKINDNESS My lewt awake, performe the laste And ende that I have nowe begunne; B As to be heard wheare eare is none, My songe may pierce her heart as sone : The rocks do not so cruellye As she my sute and affection ; Whearbye my lewt and I have done. Vengeance shall fall on thy disdayne, Unquit to cause thy lovers playne, May chaunce thee lye withered and olde† Playninge in vayne unto the morne : The three first lines * This stanza is omitted in Ellis's Specimens. are obscure; the writer's meaning appears to be: "That as soon will there be hearing where there are no ears, or as soon may marble be graved or carved with lead, as will his verse affect her heart." † This line is given according to Mr. Ellis's emendation. Nugæ Antiquæ it stands thus: "Perchance they lye withered and olde." In the |