TENOX LIBRARIA

NEW YORK

CHARLES WHITTINGHAM, CHISWICK.

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INTRODUCTION.

1. Sir Henry Wotton.

1. General account of Wotton's Poems

2. Account of Wotton's Prose Works ...

xiv

3. Account of unfinished Works by Wotton xviii

11. Sir Walter RALEIGH.

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 . . xxxvii

4. Classification of all the Poems ascribed to Ra-

leigh ....

xliii

III. GENEAL 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 .....

Ixviii

3. On the state of their text.

lxxii

Index I. Poems ascribed to Sir Walter Raleigh. lxxiv

INDEX II. Poems by Wotton and others .

lxxvi

Part I. POEMS BY SIR HENRY WOTTON, FROM RELIQUIÆ

WOTTONIANÆ, ED. 1685.

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

11. Sir Henry Wotton and Serjeant Hoskins riding on

the way

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i. On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia . .

12

iv. To a Noble Friend in his Sickness

16

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

21

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

then falling from Favour

25

VII. The Character of a happy Life

28

IX. On a Bank as I sate a Fishing. A Description of

the Spring

32

X. A Translation of the CIV. Psalm to the Original Sense 36

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

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

XII. V pon the Death of Sir Albert. Morton's Wife

xi. 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 RELIQUIÆ WOTTONIAN Æ, ED. 1685.

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

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

Lib. iii. A Dialogue betwixt God and the Soul

[Ignoto]

60

11. Doctor B[rooke] of Tears.

63

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

Tower) the Night before his Execution .....

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

[Ignoto] ..

vi. Sir Walter Raleigh the Night before his Death 73

vii. The World (Fra. Lord Bucon]

76

vii. De Morte [Ignoto]

81

IX. Epigram

83

x. John Hoskins to his little Child Benjamin from the

84

Part III, Poems FROM VARIOUS SOURCES CHIEFLY BY SIR

WALTER RALEIGH.

1. The Lie [By Sir Walter Raleigh)

89

11. Sir Walter Raleigh's Pilgrimage

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68

V.

Tower ....