To please us his cur he kept under clog, And was ever after both shepherd and dog. And through his false worship such power he did gain, As kept him o' th' mountain and us on the plain : Where many a hornpipe he tuned to his Phyllis, And sweetly sung Walsingham to 's Amaryllis. (Two lines omitted.) VII. A POEM PUT INTO MY LADY LAITON'S POCKET BY SIR WALTER RALEIGH.1 LADY, farewell, whom I in silence serve! Would God thou knewest the depth of my desire! Then mought I wish, though nought I can deserve, Some drops of grace to slake my scalding fire; But sith to live alone I have decreed, I'll spare to speak, that I may spare to speed! VIII. SIR W. RALEIGH ON THE SNUFF OF A CANDLE THE NIGHT BEFORE HE DIED.2 COWARDS [may] fear to die; but courage stout, Rather than live in snuff, will be put out. Chetham MS., 8012, p. 85; erased, but still legible. 2 Raleigh's "Remains," p. 258, edition 1661, &c. XXIV. METRICAL TRANSLATIONS OCCURRING IN SIR W. RALEIGH'S HISTORY OF THE WORLD. I. BOOK I. CH. I. § 6. Virgil, Eneid, vi. 724-7. HE heaven and earth and all the liquid The moon's bright globe and stars A spirit within maintains; and their whole mass II. BOOK I. CH. I. § 7. Ovid, Metam. iv. 226-8. THE world discerns itself, while I the world behold; By me the longest years and other times are told; I, the world's eye. III. BOOK I. CH. I. § 11. Ovid, Trist. iii. vi. 18; and Juvenal, vii. 201. 'GAINST fate no counsel can prevail. IV. BOOK I. CH. I. § 15. Athenæus (? Agathon: cf. Ar. Eth. N. vi. 4). FROM wisdom fortune differs far; V. BOOK I. CH. I. § 15. Ovid, Remed. Am. 119. WHILE fury gallops on the way, VI. BOOK I. CH. II. § 1. Ovid, Metam. i. 76-8. MORE holy than the rest, and understanding more, A living creature wants, to rule all made before; So man began to be. VII. BOOK I. CH. II. § 3. Marius Victor, de perversis suæ æt. moribus Epist. 30-33. DISEASES, famine, enemies, in us no change have wrought; What erst we were, we are; still in the same snare caught: No time can our corrupted manners mend; VIII. BOOK I. CH. II. § 5. Ovid, Metam. i. 414-5. FROM thence our kind hard-hearted is, enduring pain and care; Approving that our bodies of a stony nature are. IX. BOOK I. CH. II. § 5. Albinovanus, Eleg. de ob. Mæc. 113-4. THE plants and trees made poor and old The spring-time bounteous Covers again from shame and cold; X. BOOK I. CH. II. § 5. Catull. Carm. v. 4-6. THE Sun may set and rise; Sleep after our short light One everlasting night. XI. BOOK I. CH. III. § 3. Ovid, Metam. I. 61-2. THE East wind with Aurora hath abiding Among the Arabian and the Persian hills, Whom Phoebus first salutes at his uprising. XII. BOOK I. CH. III. § 3. Ovid, Metam. 1. 107-8. THE joyful spring did ever last, and Zephyrus did breed Sweet flowers by his gentle blast, without the help of seed. XIII. BOOK I. CH. IV. § 2. THE Amazon with crescent-formed shield XIV. BOOK I. CH. V. § 5. Lucan, Pharsal. Iv. 373-8, 380-1. O WASTEFUL riot, never well content With low-priced fare; hunger ambitious Learn with how little life may be preserved. In gold and myrrh they need not to carouse; But with the brook the people's thirst is served, Who, fed with bread and water, are not starved. XV. BOOK I. CH. V. § 8. John Cassam out of Orpheus, Fragm. L. from Etym. M. FROM the earth and from thy blood, O heaven, they came, Whom thereupon the gods did giants name. |