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POEMS

BY SIR HENRY WOTTON

SIR WALTER RALEIGH

AND OTHERS

EDITED

BY THE REV. JOHN HANNAH M. A.

LATE FELLOW OF LINCOLN COLLEGE OXFORD

B

CHARLES WHITTINGHAM, CHISWICK.

INTRODUCTION.

1. SIR HENRY WOTTON.

1. General account of Wotton's Poems

2. Account of Wotton's Prose Works.

3. Account of unfinished Works by Wotton

II. SIR WALTER RALEIGH,

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xiv

xviii

1. List of Poems ascribed to him by Brydges.. xxiv

2. Additional Poems printed in his Works, ed. 1829 xxxiv

3. Poems by Raleigh not previously collected. .

4. Classification of all the Poems ascribed to Ra-

xxxvii

leigh.

xliii

III. GENERAL REMARKS.

1. On the difficulty of ascertaining the real authors

of such Poems as those ascribed to Raleigh lviii

2. On the traditions annexed to some of these

Poems . . . .

lxviii

3. On the state of their text

lxxii

lxxiv

INDEX I. Poems ascribed to Sir Walter Raleigh.

INDEX II. Poems by Wotton and others . . . .

PART I. POEMS BY SIR HENRY WOTTON. FROM RELIQUIE

WOTTONIANE, ED. 1685.

lxxvi

1. A Poem Written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth

11. Sir Henry Wotton and Serjeant Hoskins riding on

the way

III. On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia.

IV. To a Noble Friend in his Sickness

v. A short Hymn upon the Birth of Prince Charles

VI. An Ode to the King, at his returning from Scotland

to the Queen, after his Coronation there

VII. Vpon the sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset,

then falling from Favour

VIII. The Character of a happy Life

1x. On a Bank as I sate a Fishing. A Description of

the Spring

x. A Translation of the CIV. Psalm to the Original Sense

XI. Tears at the Grave of Sir Albertus Morton (who was

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12

16

18

21

25

28

32

36

buried at Southampton) wept by Sir H. Wotton. 40

XII. Vpon the Death of Sir Albert. Morton's Wife . . . 44

XIII. This Hymn was made by Sir H. Wotton, when he

was an Ambassador at Venice, in the time of a

great Sickness there

45

XIV. A Hymn to my God in a Night of my late Sickness 49

PART II. POEMS FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS OF SIR HENRY

WOTTON. FROM RELIQUIE WOTTONIANÆ, ED. 1685.

1. A Description of the Country's Recreations [Ignoto] 55

II. Imitatio Horatianæ Odes ix. Donec gratus eram tibi.

Lib. iii. A Dialogue betwixt God and the Soul

[Ignoto]

....

III. Doctor B[rooke] of Tears.

IV. By Chidick Tychborn (being young and then in the

Tower) the Night before his Execution..

V.

"Rise, oh my Soul, with thy desires to Heaven"

[Ignoto]

VI. Sir Walter Raleigh the Night before his Death

VII. The World [Fra. Lord Bacon]

x. John Hoskins to his little Child Benjamin from the

Tower.

PART III. POEMS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES CHIEFLY BY SIR

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63

68

71

73

76

81

83

84

89

104

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III. A Farewell to the Vanities of the World

......

IV. "Water thy plants with Grace divine" [Ascribed to

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Sir Walter Raleigh] . . .

114

v. A Vision vpon this Conceipt of the Faery Queene.

[By Sir Walter Raleigh]

115

VI. A Poesie to prove Affection is not Love [By Sir

Walter Raleigh]

117

VII. As you came from the holy land" [Ascribed to Sir

Walter Raleigh]

120

VIII. "If all the World and Love were young" [Ascribed

to Sir Walter Raleigh]

125

IX.

"Passions are likened best to flouds and streames"

[By Sir Walter Raleigh]

150

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS

135