EPIGRAMS.

ALL the Epigrams appeared in 1633. must be later than 1602, that on the than Satire v. (1602-3).

p. 211. ANTIQUARY.

That on Raderus Antiquary earlier

In the Harvey MS. the first line is, "If in his study Hamond hath such care.' This is evidently the Hammon of Satire v., 1. 87, and the Epigram is therefore the earlier in date of the two poems.

Drummond states that Ben Jonson "had (i. e. quoted) this oft" (Conversations, ed. Laing).

Matthew Rader (1561-1634), a German Jesuit, published an edition of and commentary upon Martial in 1602.

p. 212. MERCURIUS GALLO-BELGICUS.

A journal or register of news, started at Cologne in 1598.

APPENDIX A.

DOUBTFUL POEMS.

ABSENCE.

That time and absence proves
Rather helps than hurts to loves.

ABSENCE, hear thou my protestation
Against thy strength,

Distance, and length;

Do what thou canst for alteration,
For hearts of truest mettle

Absence doth join and time doth settle.

Who loves a mistress of such quality,

His mind hath found

Affection's ground

Beyond time, place; and all mortality;

To hearts that cannot vary

Absence is present, Time doth tarry.

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1. 1. So Poet. Rh., Harvey MS.; Sim., Cott. MS. hear my protestation; St. MS. hear this my protestation

1. 4. Poet. Rh. ed. 2, you can

1 8. Poet. Rh, He soon hath found

My senses want their outward motion,

Which now within

Reason doth win,

Redoubled by her secret notion;

Like rich men that take pleasure
In hiding more than handling treasure.

By absence this good means I gain,
That I can catch her,

Where none can watch her,

In some close corner of my brain ;
There I embrace and kiss her,

And so enjoy her, and none miss her.

LOVE'S WAR.

TILL I have peace with thee, war other men,
And when I have peace, can I leave thee then?
All other wars are scrupulous; only thou

O free fair city, mayst thyself allow
To any one. In Flanders, who can tell
Whether the master press, or men rebel?
Only we know, that which most idiots say,
They must bear blows which come to part the fray.

1. 13. Sim. Thy senses; Poet. Rh. motions.

1. 16. Poet. Rh. Redoubled in her secret notions.

1. 18. Cotton MS. In finding.

11. 23, 24. Cotton MS. while none miss her. Poet. Rh. And so I both enjoy and miss her.

Sim.

1. 4. St. MS.

There I embrace her and there kiss her,
And so enjoy her and so miss her.

A free

1. 7. Sim. St. MS. all idiots

1. 8. Sim, who come; St. MS. that come

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France in her lunatic giddiness did hate
Ever our men, yea, and our God, of late;
Yet she relies upon our angels well,

Which ne'er return, no more than they which fell.
Sick Ireland is with a strange war possest,

Like to an ague, now raging, now at rest,
Which time will cure; yet it must do her good
If she were purg'd, and her head-vein let blood;
And Midas joys our Spanish journeys give ;
We touch all gold, but find no food to live;
And I should be in that hot parching clime
To dust and ashes turned before my time.
To mew me in a ship is to enthral
Me in a prison that were like to fall;
Or in a cloister, save that there men dwell
In a calm heaven, here in a swaying hell.
Long voyages are long consumptions,
And ships are carts for executions;

Yea, they are deaths; is 't not all one to fly
Into another world, as 'tis to die?
Here let me war; in these arms let me lie:
Here let me parley, batter, bleed, and die.
Thine arms imprison me, and my arms thee;
Thy heart thy ransom is; take mine for me.
Other men war, that they their rest may gain,
But we will rest that we may fight again.

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9. So St. MS.; Wald, giddinge, Sim. guidings.

1. 13. Sim. straying

1. 16. Sim. dead vein

1. 18. St. MS. find all gold

1. 19. St. MS. the hot

J. 24. Wald. Sim. swaggering; St. MS. swayring

1. 26. Wald. omits this line.

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