fortunate union, for the severity and bitterness of the remarks it occasioned so preyed upon his spirits, that he sunk into the grave at the premature age of 43.

The title is printed in white cursive letters upon a mourning leaf of black, and is without any printer's name, place, or date, and the Poem commences without any prefix. At the end is another similar leaf in black. Like most of the other poems of Daniel, this funeral elegy is much altered in the collected edition of all his Poetical Works in 1623, 4to; and is another proof how desirable it is to the poetical collector, to endeavour to possess the different editions of Daniel's Poems, in order to mark the various alterations and corrections made in each successive impression.

There is a noble and independent spirit running through this Poem in commemoration of the author's former accomplished patron, which is highly honourable to his feelings, and induces us to give the opening lines:

Now that the hand of death hath layd thee there
Where all must lie, and leuel'd thee with th' earth,
Where men are all of them alike, and where
There are no seu❜rall roomes for state or birth:

Now thou hast nothing left thee but a name
(O noble Devonshire) and all is gone

With thee, except the memorie, and fame

Of what thy vertue, and thy worth hath done:
Now shall my verse which thou in life didst grace
(And which was no disgrace for thee to doe)
Not leaue thee in the graue, that darkesome place
That few regard, or haue respect vnto.
Where all attendance, and obseruance ends,
Where all the Sun-shine of our fauour sets;
Where what was ill, no countenance defends,
And what was good, th' vnthankfull world forgets.
Now shalt thou haue the seruice of my pen,

(The tongue of my best thoughts) and in this case,

I cannot be suppos'd to flatter, when

I speake behinde thy backe, not to thy face.

And am unti'de from any other chaine

Than of my loue, which free-borne draws free breath.

The benefite thou gau'st me to sustaine

My humble life, I lose it by thy death.

Nor was it such, as it could lay on me
Any exaction of respect, so stronge,
As to enforce my obseruance beyond thee,
Or make my conscience differ from my tongue.

Let those be vassals to such seruices

Who haue their hopes, or whose desires are hye
For me, I haue my ends, and know it is

For Free-men to speake truth, for slaues to lye.

But Deuonshire I here stand cleere with thee
I haue a manumission to be free,

I owe thee nothing, and I may be bold
To speake the certaine truth of what I know
There is no power remaines in thee, to hold
The tongues of men, that will be talking now.
And now being dead, I may anatomise
And open here all that thou wert within,

Shew how thy minde was built, and in what wise
All the contexture of thy heart hath been
Which was so nobly fram'd, so well compos'd,
As virtue neuer had a fairer seat.

Nor could be better lodg'd, nor more repos'd,

Than in that goodly frame, where all things sweet,

And all things quiet, held a peacefull rest.

Mountjoy was not only brave and active in war, but an elegant and accomplished scholar, and while living at Wanstead, devoted his leisure hours to the pursuit and acquirement of knowledge.

Though thou hadst made a general surview
Of all the best of mens best knowledges,
And knew as much as euer learning knew,
Yet did it make thee trust thyself the lesse,
And lesse presume; and yet when being mou'd
In priuate talke to speake, thou didst bewray
How fully fraught thou wert within, and prou'd
That thou didst know what euer wit could say.
Which shew'd thou had'st not bookes as many haue
For ostentation, but for vse, and that

Thy bountious memorie was such, as gaue

A large reuenu of the good it gat.

Witnesse so many volumes whereto thou

Hast set thy notes vnder thy learned hand,

And markt them with that print as will shew how
The point of thy conceiuing thoughts did stand.
That none would thinke if all thy life had been
Turn'd into leasure, thou couldst haue attain'd
So much of time, to haue perus'd and seen
So many volumes that so much contain❜d.

Which furniture may not be deem'd least rare
Amongst those ornaments that sweetly dight
Thy solitarie Wanstead, where thy care
Had gathered all what hart, or eyes delight.
And whereas many others haue, we see,

All things within their houses worth the sight
Except themselues, that furniture of thee

And of thy presence, gaue the best delight.

He joined the war then raging in the United Provinces, where he had the command of a company, and served under Sir John Norris in the expedition to Bretagne in 1591. It would seem also from the following lines that he was present in that fatal encounter which deprived his country of Sir Philip Sidney.

The Belgique war first tri'de thy martiall spirit

And what thou wert, and what thou wouldst be found

And markt thee there according to thy merit

With honors stampe, a deepe and noble wound.

And that same place that rent from mortall men
Immortall Sydney, glorie of the field

And glorie of the Muses, and their pen,

(Who equall bare the Caduce and the Shield)

Had likewise been thy last, had not the fate
Of England then reseru'd thy worthy blood
Vnto the preseruation of a State

That much concern'd her honour and her good.
And thence return'd thee to enioy the blis

Of grace and fauour in Elizaes eyes,

(That miracle of women) who by this

Made thee behold, and made thee to arise

Vnto a note more bye, which thou might'st well
Haue farre more rays'd, had not thine enemie,
Retired priuacie, made thee to sell

Thy greatnesse for thy quiet, and denie

To meete faire Fortune, when she came to thee.

There is a sketch of Lord Mountjoy in Sir Robert Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia, 8vo, 1624, p. 131. And Mr. Lodge has given a Portrait and interesting Memoir of him in his Illustrious Personages of British History. A copy of this scarce edition of Daniel's Poem sold in Heber's sale, pt. 4, No. 540, for 31. The present one was obtained at Sir Francis Freeling's sale.

DANIEL, (SAMUEL.) The Civile Wares betweene the Howses of Lancaster and Yorke corrected and continued by Samuel Daniel, one of the Groomes of hir Maiesties most honorable Priuie Chamber.

Ætas prima canat veneres postrema tumultus.

Printed at London by Simon Watersonne. 1609. 4to, pp. 240.

The above title is within an oval at the top of an elaborately engraved frontispiece by F. Cookson, containing in the centre a portrait of Daniel. This is followed by a dedication in prose "To the Right Noble Lady, the Lady Marie, Countesse Dowager of Pembrooke," from which it appears that the work had already passed through several editions, and that the author had now sent it forth with two additional Books; "the one, continuing the course of the Historie; the other, making up a part, which (for haste) was left unfurnisht in the former Impressions." The present therefore contains eight Books, and continues the History down to the marriage of Edward IV. to Elizabeth Woodville, Lady Grey; but Daniel states in this Dedication, that he intended "to continue the same, unto the glorious Vnion of Hen. 7," which was never accomplished, and in the end he mentions his purpose of writing the History of England from the Conquest, "being incouraged thereunto by many noble and worthy spirits." The alterations made in this edition of those parts which had been previously published are very considerable. We have taken some pains in ascertaining these alterations, and we find that the following, amongst other changes, may be enumerated.

1st Book. Since the publication of the first Edition, Charles Mountjoy, Earl of Devonshire, to whom the work had been originally consecrated, had been cut off at the early age of 43, and the 5th Stanza is thus altered accordingly:

And thou Charles Mountioy (who didst once afford
Rest for my fortunes, on thy quiet shore;
And cheer'dst mee on, these measures to record

In grauer tones, then I had vs'd before)
Beholde my gratitude makes good my word
Ingag'd to thee (although thou be no more)
That I, who heretofore haue liued by thee,
Doo giue thee now a roome to liue with me.

The 9th Stanza in the first Edition is omitted in this. Five Stanzas devoted to Henry II. in the first Edition, are compressed into one in this of 1609. The murder of the Duke of Glocester, which in the first Edition occupies only one Stanza, is here extended to four. An additional Stanza, 61, is inserted in the Edition of 1609, and Stanzas 119 and 120 in the first Edition are omitted in 1609.

2nd Book. Stanzas 21, 58, 59, 60, 61, 100, 109, and 110 in the first Edition are omitted in this of 1609. The speech of the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Edition of 1609, on proclaiming Henry IV. King, 3 Stanzas, not in the first Edition. This 2nd Book in Edition 1609, consists of only 117 Stanzas, while in the first Edition there are 131. All after the 122nd Stanza are omitted in this of 1609. A portion of these omitted. Stanzas are filled with the eulogium on Robert, Earl of Essex, and Lord Mountjoy, which we have already quoted, and which for some reason or other were here left out.

3rd Book.-The 5th Stanza in the first Edition is omitted in this of 1609. Stanzas 10 and 11 in this are not in the first Edition. Stanzas 67, 68, 70, and 82 in the first Edition, are omitted in those of 1602 and 1609. The remaining Stanzas, from the 83 to the end of this 3rd Book, in the Edition of 1609, are entirely new. The 3rd Book, which in the first Edition contains 132 Stanzas, has in the Edition of 1609 only 91, the reason being that it is divided into two Books and considerably enlarged.

4th Book. The opening of this Book is all new up to the end of the 14th Stanza. The continuation of the story is then taken up with the rebellion of the Percies, from the 86th Stanza of the 3rd Book of the first Edition. Stanzas 17, 18, 19, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 41, 42, 50, 51, 52, and from the 54th to the end of the 82nd, are all new in the present Edition. Stanzas 106, 120, 122, 123, and 132 in the first Edition are omitted in this of 1609.

5th Book.

Book 5 in this Edition commences with the 1st Stanza of Book 4 of the first Edition. Stanzas 2, 36, 107, 108, 109, and 110, in the first Edition are omitted in the present one. This 5th Book, which is the 4th in the first Edition, is less altered in diction than the others, and has only a difference of five Stanzas in number, 116 as compared with 121 in the first Edition.

6th Book.-Stanzas 8, 9, 15 and 49 in the first Edition are omitted in this of 1609. 118 Stanzas in first Edition, and 114 in 1609.

7th and 8th Books. These last two Books are now added for the first time.