Difcitur effæti proles facunda Laërtæ, Nec ferò Dominam, venientem in vota, nec Aurum, Quod fi quæfitum nec ibi invenerimus, ingens Plura vellem per Charites, fed non licet per Mufas. I was minded also to have fent you fome English verses, or rymes, for a farewell; but, by my troth, I have no spare time in the world to thinke on fuch Toyes, that you know will demaund a freer head than mine is presently. I befeeche you by all your Curtefies and Graces let me be answered ere I goe; which will be (I hope, I feare, I thinke), the next weeke, if I can be difpatched of my Lorde. I goe thither as fent by him, and maintained most what of him; and there am to employ my time, my body, my minde, to his Honour's fervice. Thus with many fuperhartie commendations and recommendations to your felfe, and all my friendes with you, I ende my last Farewell, not thinking any more to write unto you before I goe; and withall committing to your faithfull credence the eternall memorie of our everlasting friendshippe, the inviolable memorie of our unspotted friendship, the facred memorie of our vowed friendship; which I beseech you continue with ufuall writings, as you may, and of all things let me heare fome newes from you. gentle M. Sidney, I thanke his good Worship, hath required of me, and fo promised to doe againe. Qui monet, ut facias, quod jam facis; you knowe the reft. You may alwayes fend them moft fafely to me by Miftreffe Kerke, and by none other. So As once againe, and yet once more, Farewell most hartily, mine owne good Master H. and love me as I love you, and thinke upon poore Immerito, as he thinketh upon you. Leycefter House, this 5 of October, 2579.e Per mare, per terras, ADDITIONAL NOTES TO THE PRECEDING MEMOIR. P. xv. he was a bachelor.] It is incorrect to say that it never was suspected that Spenfer had been married before 1594. It seems to have been thought poffible that fuch was the cafe, but nothing meriting the name of evidence upon the point has till now been adduced. P. xx. or connection with the government.] Read "“ nection with the government.' "" or in con P. xxix. Of nobleneffe and chivalrie.] This injurious change appears first to have been made in the 4to. 1591. P. xxxviii. Puttenham, in his "Arte of English Poefie."] There was both a George and a Richard Puttenham in the latter part of the reign of Elizabeth. George was a fuitor refpecting his property in the year 1584, when the Council made an order in his favour. Richard Puttenham, in 28 Eliz., was fued for 50l. in the Court of Requefts, and pleaded that the extravagance of his wife had brought him to poverty. A Richard Puttenham, yeoman of her Majefty's Guard," was buried at St. Clement Danes on 2nd July, 1601. The name, with the ordinary license in this refpect, was frequently written Putnam. • An obvious mifprint in the original for 1579, this letter being of a date previous to the former one of "Quarto nonas Aprilis, 1580," inserted on p. clvii. P. xxxix. Hall has a ftanza which is directly aimed at Spenser.] It is but fair to counterbalance this paffage by another from "Hall's Satires," where he has alfo applauded the marriage of the Thames and Medway, and has introduced Talus, though with a "leaden flail." In Book I. Sat. Iv. he has also these lines: "But let no rebel fatire dare traduce In fome copies the word "dares" is interpolated in the last line, to the ruin of the measure: "Dares once to emulate, much less dares despite." P. xlii. Spenfer himself tells us.] In a previous note on p. xxxiv. it is ftated that Spenfer does not mention Edward Kirke: we there alluded to Spenser's poems, and the observation ought fo to have been reftricted; because here and elsewhere in his Letters he speaks of E. K., though it has only been very recently ascertained that E. K. meant Edward Kirke. P. xlviii. under the title of Stemmata Dudleiana.] We need scarcely add here, that Spenfer's "Ruins of Time" (vol. iv. p. 295) are chiefly devoted to the celebration of the Dudley family, and that they were probably founded upon the Stemmata Dudleiana, if indeed they were not substantially the same production. P. lxvi. if not thofe he derived from the fituation he held in the Irish Court of Chancery.] It has been fuppofed by fome that he relinquifhed this fituation on being appointed Secretary to the Council of Munfter. However, this question, like various others, remains fomewhat doubtful. P. lxxix. The last part of note d on this page ought to run thus:-"It is an interefting tract, and near the middle of it (Sign. D 2 b) after the notice of Spenfer, Chettle praises his contemporaries," &c. P. ciii. For" merely called Mr. Henry, McHenry," read "Mr. Henry or McHenry." P. cxxxvi. John Chalkhill was also perhaps the author of "Alcilia: Philoparthen's Loving Folly," which has his initials, J. C. on the title-page. It was firft printed in 1613, together with Marfton's "Pigmalions Image: "The Loves of Amos and Laura," by S. P., follow; with fome Epigrams by Sir John Harrington, and others. Poffibly the whole volume was edited by Izaac Walton, then a very young man; but it was reprinted (as the Rev. Mr. Corfer has fhown) in 1619, and 1628. P. cxlv. William Warner, in fome lines prefixed to the "Continuance" of his "Albion's England," in the edition of 1606, tells us that it was only by chance that Spenfer was buried near Chaucer; whom, in the fame paffage, he knights : "The Mufifts, though themselves they please, Nigh venerable Chaucer, lost Had not kind Brigham reard him coft; P. cxlvi. Mr. Halliwell, in his tract upon "the Character of Falstaff," has quoted the subsequent ftanzas on Spenser from a poem (MS. Rawl. Poet. 28, in the Bodleian Library) by Samuel Sheppard : Spencer the next, whom I doe thinke't no fhame Had he not doated on exploded words, Find veneration 'bove the earths great lords. "Immortall Mirrour of all poefie, Spirit of Orpheus, bring your precious balms: Wee'l offer incense, finging hymns and psalms. Ingyrt his grave with myrtle and with palms, Shepherd's poem is entitled "The Fairy King," and it has been fuppofed that it was written "foon after 1610." This can hardly be the fact, seeing that James I. is there spoken of in the past tense : "During whofe reigne the heavens were pleas'd to fmile; |
