the authours names not there set downe, and therefore left to their owners.

123. Montanus Sonnet to the woods. By Sir E. D. 124. The Sheepheard's Sorrow, being disdaind in Move. By Tho. Lodge.

125. A pastorall song between Phillis and Amaryllis, two Nimphs, each aunswering other line for line. By H. C.

126. The Sheepheard's Anthem. By M. Drayton. 127. The Countesse of Pembroke's Pastorall. By Shep. Tonie.

128. Another of Astrophell. By Sir P. Sydney.

129. Faire Phillis and her Sheepheard. By J. G.' 130. The Sheepheard's song of Venus and Adonis. By H. C.

131. Thirsis, the Shepheard, his death's song. Out of Maister N. Young, his Musica Transalpina.

132. Another stanza added after. Out of the same. 133. Another sonnet thence taken.

134. The Sheepheard's Slumber. By Ignoto. 135. "In wonted Walkes." By Sir P. Sydney. 136. Of disdainful Daphne. By M. H. Nowell. 137. The passionate Sheepheard to his Love. By Chr. Marlow.

138. The Nimph's reply to the Sheepheard. By Ignoto.

139. Another of the same nature made since. By Ignoto.

140. The Woodman's Walke. By Shep. Tonie. 141. Thirsis, the Sheepheard, to his pipe. By Ig

noto.

142. An excellent Sonnet of a Nimph. By Sir P. Sydney.

143. A reporte songe in a dreame: betweene a Sheepheard and his Nimph. By N. Breton.

144. Another of the same. By the same.

145. The Sheepheard's conceite of Prometheus. By Sir E. D.

146. Another of the same. By Sir P. Sydney.

147. The Sheepheard's Sunne. By Shep. Tonie. 148. Colin the enamoured Sheepheard singeth this passion of love. By Geo. Peele.

149. Oenone's Complaint in blank verse. By the

same.

150. The Sheepheard's consort, Out of M. Morley's Madrigals.

Finis.

The only specimen I have room for is the following:

TO COLIN CLOUT.

Beautie sat bathing by a spring,

Where fayrest shades did hide her,
The winds blew calm, the birds did sing,
The coole streames ranne beside her.
My wanton thoughts entic'd mine eye,
To see what was forbidden:

But better Memory said, fie,

So vain Desire was chidden.

Hey nonnie, nonnie, &c.

Into a slumber then I fell,

When fond imagination

Seemed to see, but could not tell

Her feature or her fashion.

But

But even as babes in dreames do smile,
And sometimes fall a weeping:

So I awak't, as wise this while,

As when I fell a sleeping.

Hey nonnie, nonnie, &c.

Sheepheard Tonie.

ART. II. Davison's Poetical Rapsodie, &c. 1611. [Continued from p. 109.]

In addition to the names of Francis and Walter Davison, this Miscellany is rendered interesting by the signatures of Edmund Spencer, sir Philip Sidney, sir John Davis; Mary countess of Pembroke; Thomas Campion, Charles Best, Thomas Spilman, T. W.* [Tho. Watson]. H. C. [Henry Constable]. W. R. [Walter Raleigh]. H. W. [Hen. Wotton]. R. G. [Rob. Greene]. A,W. [Andw. Willet]. J. S. [Jos. Sylvefter], &c.

Spenser's signature is appended to "Loves Embassie, in an iambicke Elegie," first printed in one of his familiar letters to Gabriel Harvey, 1580; and since reprinted by Warton, in his Observations on the Fairy Queen; and by Waldron, in his Literary Museum.

To sir P. Sidney are ascribed "Two Pastorals, upon his meeting with his two worthy friends and fellow poets, sir Edward Dier and M. Fulke Grevill," afterwards lord Brook.

Sir John Davis has three productions, not included in the modern editions of his poems. They are en

These initials have been ascertained to belong to Watson, the sonnetteer; but the other names between brackets are rather offered as conjectures than certainties.

titled "Yet other twelve Wonders of the World." "A Lottery presented before the late queen's majes→ tie, at the lord chancellor's house, 1601,” and “A Contention, betwixt a wife, a widow. and a maid." The initials J. D. are affixed to "A Hymn in praise of muficke," and to "Ten Sonnets to Philomel."

Lady Pembroke has "A Dialogue between two fhepherds, Thenot and Piers, in praise of Astrea ;" i.e. Queen Elizabeth. (See this poem inserted in the Monthly Mirror, for May, 1801.)

Tho. Campion has." A Hymne in praise of Neptune," and three love poems "Of his Mistresses Face: Upon her Palenesse: Of Corinna's Singing."

Charles Beft has "A Sonnet of the Sunne," and another "Of the Moone," with several Epitaphs on royalty.

Tho. Spilman has an amatory plaint "To his Ladies Garden, being absent far from her :" and another "Upon his Ladies Sicknesse of the Small-pocks." The same writer, probably under the signature of T.S., has a version of Anacreon's second Ode.

From Watson's Hecatompathia are inserted, with several variations, in the text, Sonnets 3, 18, 40, 56, 61, 62, 77, 79, 85, and 94.

To H. C. appertains a sonnet, entitled "Love's seven deadly Sinnes;" and a second, "To two most honorable and virtuous ladies and sisters, the ladie Margaret countesse of Cumberland, the ladie Anne countesse of Warwicke."

For some notice of whom, vide Fasti Oxon. I. 229. Davies of Hereford, in his Scourge of Folly, has a sonnet "to the most judicious and excellent lyrick poet, doctor Campion:" He was distinguished as a poet and a musician; and published " Observations on the Arte of English Poesie," in 1602, which drew forth Daniel's "Defence of Ryme."

W. R.

W. R. signatures "A Poesie to prove affection is not love:" and Dr. Percy has reprinted "The Lie,” from this collection, where it has no signature, as the production of sir Walter Raleigh: * but his authority for doing so is not quite satisfactory. A parody upon the same poem occurs in the folio edition of Sylvester's works, 1652, which is termed "The Soules Errand;" and it was reprinted, with some diversity, in lord Pembroke's poems, 1660. Ritson peremptorily ascribes it to Francis Davison, of whom the same critic observes, that some of his performances appear the effusions of a real poetical genius, and deserve much praise. This encomium, however, must have been grounded on the supposition that to him were attributable many of the pieces which bear no identifying signature, except what attaches to certain divisions of the book, and particularly to that division which includes "Sonnets, Odes, Elegies, Madrigals, and Epigrams, by Francis and Walter Davison, brethren.” Dr. Percy has reprinted the most elegant poem in this collection, under the title of "Cupid's Pastime," † in his estimable reliques of ancient English poetry. Sir John Davis's" Contention betwixt a Wife, a Widow, and a Maid," is deserving of incorporation into any

*The traditionary report that it was penned by sir Walter, the night before his execution, is refuted by this consideration:-that Raleigh suffered death in 1618, and the poem was printed by Davison in 1608.

Dr. Percy has at the same time remarked, that this beautiful fiction, which possesses a classical elegance hardly to be expected in the age of James the first, may be found in a medley, entitled "Le Prince d'Amour," 1660; and in the fourth volume of Dryden's Miscellanies; where it was given to Sidney Godolphin, but erroneously, being written probably before he was born. Reliq. vol. I. p. 332.

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