For the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. Advancement of Learning. Book į.

The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.1

Ibid. Book ii.

It [Poesy] was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise. and erect the mind, by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind.

Ibid. Book 2.

Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.

Ibid. Book ii.

Cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

Ibid. Book ii.

1 The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.-Adv. of Learning, ed. Dewey. The sun, too, shines into cess-pools and is not polluted. Diogenes Laertius, Lib. vi. § 63.

Spiritalis enim virtus sacramenti ita est ut lux: etsi per immundos transeat, non inquinatur.-St. Augustine, Works, Vol. 3, In Johannis Evang. Cap. 1. Tr. v. § 15. The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted. Lilly's Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit. Arber's

reprint, p. 43.

The sun reflecting upon the mud of strands and shores is unpolluted in his beam. - Taylor, Holy Living, Ch. i.

Sect. 3.

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.- Milton, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce.

States as great engines move slowly.

Advancement of Learning. Book ii.

The world's a bubble, and the life of man

Less than a span.1

The World.

For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages. From his Will.

RICHARD ALLISON.

There is a garden in her face,
Where roses and white lilies grow;
A heavenly paradise is that place,
Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow:
There cherries grow that none may buy
Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.

From An Howres Recreation in Musike, 1606.

Those cherries fairly do enclose
Of orient pearl a double row,
Which, when her lovely laughter shows,
They look like rosebuds fill'd with snow.

1 Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.

Our life is but a span.

Ibid.

Browne, Pastoral ii.

From The New England Primer.

GEORGE PEELE.

1552-1598.

His golden locks time hath to silver turned;
O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!
His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurned,
But spurn'd in vaine; youth waneth by en-
Sonnet ad fin. Polyhymnia.

creasing.

His helmet now shall make a hive for bees,
And lovers' songs be turn'd to holy psalms;
A man at arms must now serve on his knees,
And feed on prayers, which are old age's alms.

My merry, merry, merry roundelay

Concludes with Cupid's curse :

Ibid.

They that do change old love for new,
Pray gods, they change for worse!

Cupid's Curse,

From the Arraignment of Paris.

JOHN HEYWOOD.

- 1565.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
As sages in all times assert;
The happy man 's without a shirt.

Be Merry Friends.

go:

Let the world slide, let the world
A fig for care, and a fig for woe!
If I can't pay, why I can owe,
And death makes equal the high and low.

SIR HENRY WOTTON.

1568-1639.

How happy is he born or taught,
That serveth not another's will;
Whose armour is his honest thought,
And simple truth his utmost skill!

The Character of a Happy Life.

And entertains the harmless day
With a religious book or friend.

Ibid.

Lord of himself, though not of lands;

And having nothing, yet hath all.

Ibid.

You meaner beauties of the night,
That poorly satisfy our eyes

More by your number than your light,
You common people of the skies ;
What are you when the moon 1 shall rise?
To his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia.

He first deceased; she for a little tried To live without him, liked it not, and died. Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife. I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff. Preface to the Elements of Architecture. Hanging was the worst use man could be put to.

1 "sun

The Disparity between Buckingham and Essex.

"in Reliquia Wottoniana, Eds. 1651, 1672, 1685. 2 This was printed with music as early as 1624, in Est's "Sixth Set of Books," &c., and is found in many MSS. Hannah, The Courtly Poets.

Harrington.-Daniel.-Drayton. 149

Wotton continued.]

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.1

The itch of disputing will prove the scab of churches.2 A Panegyric to King Charles.

SIR JOHN HARRINGTON.

1561-1612.

Treason doth never prosper, what 's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason." Epigrams. Book iv. Ep. 5.

SAMUEL DANIEL. 1562-1619.

Unless above himself he can

Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!
To the Countess of Cumberland. Stanza 12.

MICHAEL DRAYTON. 1563-1631. For that fine madness still he did retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. (Of Marlowe.) To Henry Reynolds, of Poets and Poesy.

1 In a letter to Velserus, 1612, Wotton says, "This merry definition of an Ambassador I had chanced to set down at my friend's Mr. Christopher Fleckamore, in his Album."

? In his will, he directed the stone over his grave to be thus inscribed:

:

Hic jacet hujus sententiæ primus author:
DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.
Nomen alias quære.

Walton's Life of Wotton.

3 Prosperum ac felix scelus

Virtus vocatur.

Seneca, Herc. Furens, 2, 250.