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III.

UPON THE DEATH OF KING CHARLES I.1

REAT, good, and just! could I but rate
My griefs and thy too rigid fate,

I'd weep the world to such a strain,

As it should deluge once again.

But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies
More from Briareus' hands than Argus' eyes,
I'll sing thy obsequies with trumpet sounds,
And write thy epitaph with blood and wounds.
MONTROSE.

IV.2

ET them bestow on every airt a limb; Then open all my veins, that I may swim To Thee, my Maker, in that crimson lake; Then place my par-boiled head upon a stake; Scatter my ashes; strew them in the air: Lord! since Thou know'st where all these atoms are, I'm hopeful Thou'lt recover once my dust, And confident Thou'lt raise me with the just!

1 In "Monumentum Regale," 1649, p. 45, as "written with the point of his sword." In "The History of the King's Majesty's affairs in Scotland," &c., 1649, at the end of the Preface, with the same note. So also in Lloyd's "Memoirs," 1668, p. 223, cf. p. 641; and in Winstanley's "England's Worthies," 1684, p. 533. For the true account see Napier's" Memoirs of Montrose," 1856, Appendix, pp. xxvii-ix.; cf. p. 693.

2

Napier's "Memoirs of Montrose," 1856, p. 796, and App., p. xxx.

NOTES.

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NOTES ON PART I.

RALEIGH'S POEMS.

HOUGH the striking vicissitudes of Raleigh's life have made it a favourite theme for biographers, no research has

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been expended on his poems since the days of Oldys (1736), unless I may venture to claim an exception for a little volume published by myself in 1845. Oldys mentioned about seventeen different pieces; but his references long remained neglected and unverified. In Birch's edition of "Raleigh's Minor Works (1751), only nine of his poems were included; and when Sir E. Brydges published, in 1813-4, the thin quarto volume which he called, "The Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh, now first collected," he made no attempt to exhaust the materials which Oldys had gathered; but swelled out Birch's nine to twenty-eight, by accepting two questionable pieces from Cayley, and appropriating seventeen poems-thirteen from "England's Helicon," and four from "Reliquiæ Wottonianæ," -on the worthless evidence of the signature

Namely, in this volume, Part I., Nos. I. IV. V. VI. XIV. XVI. XVII. XXII. and xxIII. 8.

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