gton in 1586.

_Page_ 80. "My sweetest Lesbia."--The first stanza is an elegant
paraphrase from Catullus, though the last line fails to render the
rhythmical sweetness long-drawn-out of "Nox est perpetua una dormienda."

_Page_ 81. "My Thoughts are winged with Hopes."--This piece is also
found in "England's Helicon." A MS. copy, in a commonplace book found at
Hamburg, is signed "W. S." I have frequently met with these initials in
volumes of MS. poetry of the early part of the seventeenth century. The
following pretty verses in Add. MS. 21, 433, fol. 158, are subscribed
"W. S.":--

"O when will Cupid show such art
To strike two lovers with one dart?
I'm ice to him or he to me;
Two hearts alike there seldom be.

If ten thousand meet together,
Scarce one face is like another:
If scarce two faces can agree,
Two hearts alike there seldom be."

There is not the slightest ground for identifying "W. S." with
Shakespeare. Mr. Linton ("Rare Poems," p. 255) conjectures that "My
Thoughts are winged with Hopes"--which has the heading "To Cynthia" in
"England's Helicon"--may be by Raleigh.

_Page_ 83. "Now each creature."--The first stanza of "An Ode" by Samuel
Daniel, originally printed in the 1592 edition of "Delia."

"Now God be with old Simeon."--Here is another round from "Pammelia":--

"Come drink to me,
And I to thee.
And then shall we
Full well agree.

I've loved the jolly tankard,
Full seven winters and more;
I loved it so long
That I went upon the score.

Who loveth not the tankard,
He is no honest man;
And he is no right soldier,
That loveth not the can.

Tap the cannikin, troll the cannikin,
Toss the cannikin, turn the cannikin!
Hold now, good son, and fill us a fresh can,
That we may quaff it round from man to man."

Good honest verse, but ill-suited to these degenerate, tea-drinking
days.

_Page_ 85. "Now I see thy looks were feigned."--First printed in "The
Ph[oe]nix Nest," 1593, subscribed "T. L. Gent," _i.e._ Thomas Lodge, one
of the most brilliant of Elizabethan lyrists.

_Page_ 87. "Shall we play barley-break."--The fullest description of the
rustic game of barley-break is to be found in the first book of Sidney's
"Arcadia."

_Page_ 87. "Now let her change." This song is also set to Music in
Robert Jones' "Ultimum Vale" (1608).

_Page_ 89. "Now what is love" &c.--This poem originally