is a suggestion of the Archbishop of Dublin's, to complete the imperfect metre.

XXXVIII. p. 200. In line 5, "sophy" is changed in most modern editions to sophist. The word, which occurs in Shakespeare, &c., as a Persian title, is used by Giles Fletcher for the Magians :

"To see their king the kingly Sophies come.'

"Christ's Victory," 1610, st. lxxxii, p. 24. Page 200, line 19. The reference is to the story how Jason of Pheræ medicinam invenit ex hoste, when the dagger of an assassin saved his life by opening an imposthume which his physicians had given over as incurable: Pliny, H. N. vii. 51; Cicero, De Nat. D. iii. 28; Valerius Maximus, I. viii. Externa, § 6.

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Page 201, stanza ix. This stanza is rejected by Lady Theresa Lewis, as at variance with the drift and purport of the poem; Clarendon Gallery," vol. ii. p. 183, note. But it is found in the original 4to., and in Lloyd. The copies of the poem differ widely, both in arrangement and in readings.

XXXIX-XLI., pp. 203-207. Marquis of Montrose. The fragments of verse ascribed by Watson and others to Montrose have been collected with great care by Mr. Mark Napier. It is sufficient therefore to refer to his work for details on the following list, which is given in continuation of the six pieces here printed :

7. "As Macedo his Homer, I'll thee still." Six lines on Lucan; Napier, p. 60.

8. "Burst out, my soul, in main of tears." Supposed to have been written on the death of Charles I.; ib. Appendix, p. xlii.

9. "Here lies a dog whose quality did plead." From Balfour's MSS., ib. p. 377.

10. "There's nothing in this world can prove." Ib. Appendix, p. xli.

11. "When Heaven's great Jove had made the world's round frame." Ib. Appendix, p. xl.

Another fragment which Mr. Napier has retained from Watson, Appendix, p. xl., and p. 464, has been printed above, p. 232, from the "Aberdeen Song Book," 1682, where it forms the last verse of a continuation of Sir H. Wotton's poem on the Queen of Bohemia. The second part of the Ballad No. XXXIX. consists of thirteen additional stanzas; Napier, Appendix, p. xxxv. It begins:

"My dear and only love, take heed—”

But Mr. Chappell gives reasons for supposing that this other piece dates from the reign of James I., and Montrose was only born in 1612.

Page 204, line 13. This is Mr. Napier's text; but most copies retain the Scottish pronunciation, "Or committees if thou erect." In the last stanza, also, I follow Mr. Napier; and annex here the better-known reading given by Sir W. Scott, Legend of Montrose," ch. xv.:

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"But if no faithless action stain
Thy true and constant word,
I'll make thee famous by my pen,
And glorious by my sword:
I'll serve thee in such noble ways

As ne'er were known before;

I'll deck and crown thy head with bays,
And love thee more and more.'
""

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Page 206, line 5. Paragon" is used for equal, parallel, or rival. Shakespeare employs it in the same sense as a verb:

"If thou with Cæsar paragon again

My man of men."

Antony and Cleopatra," i. 5.

I.

INDEX OF FIRST LINES.

H! wretched they that worship vanities

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A king? oh, boon for my aspiring mind! 148
And now all nature seemed in love

A Satyr once did run away for dread
As Philip's noble son did still disdain
Astræa last of heavenly wights the earth did leave
As you came from the holy land

Beat on, proud billows! Boreas, blow
Because that, stealing immortality

Before the sixth day of the next new year
Believe it, sir, you happily have hit
Bura and Helice on Achaian ground

But fortune governed all their works, till when
By gifts the Macedon clave gates asunder

Calling to mind, my eyes went long about
Come hither, shepherd's swain! .

Come live with me, and be my love

Come, sleep; O sleep! the certain knot of peace
Conceit, begotten by the eyes

Cowards may fear to die; but courage stout

101

. 152

. 206

62

80

. 199

69

19

93

59
121

Dazzled thus with height of place
Diseases, famine, enemies, in us no change have wrought
Dum puer es, vanæ nescisque incommoda vocis

Eternal Mover, whose diffused glory
Eternal Time! that wastest without waste
Even such is time, that takes in trust.
Even they that have no murderous will

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16

55

144

Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall
Fain would I sing, but Fury makes me fret.
Fair Britain's Prince, in the April of his years
Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!
First shall the heavens want starry light
From death and dark oblivion, near the same
From the earth and from thy blood, O heaven, they came
From thence our kind hard-hearted is, enduring pain and

care

From wisdom fortune differs far

'Gainst fate no counsel can prevail

. 183

109

173

186

61

23

. 207

Give me my scallop-shell of quiet

Give place, you ladies, and begone!

God gives not kings the style of gods in vain
Go, empty joys

Go, Soul, the body's guest

Great, good, and just! could I but rate

Great Monarch of the world, from whose power springs 195

Have special care that valiant poverty
Heaven and earth one form did bear
He first deceased; she for a little tried
Here lies Hobbinol, our pastor whilere
Here lies the man was born and cried

Here lies the noble warrior that never blunted sword
Here lies the world's delight

Here Tantalus in water seeks for water, and doth miss
Her face, her tongue, her wit, so fair, so sweet, so sharp
Hesperia the Grecians call the place
He that his mirth hath lost

He that his mirth hath lost
How happy is he born and taught

I am that Dido which thou here dost see
If all the world and love were young
If all this world had no original

If a Phoenician born I am, what then?
If breath were made for every man to buy
If Croesus over Halys go

If Cynthia be a queen, a princess, and supreme