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BY SIR HENRY WOTTON
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
AND OTHERS
EDITED
BY THE REV. JOHN HANNAH M. A.
LATE FELLOW OF LINCOLN COLLEGE OXFORD
INTRODUCTION.
1. SIR HENRY WOTTON.
1. General account of Wotton's Poems
2. Account of Wotton's Prose Works ..
3. Account of unfinished Works by Wotton
II. SIR WALTER RALEIGH.
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1. List of Poems ascribed to him by Brydges
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..
III. GENERAL REMARKS.
xliii
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 ...
3. On the state of their text.
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INDEX I. Poems ascribed to Sir Walter Raleigh.
INDEX II. Poems by Wotton and others. .
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PART I. POEMS BY SIR HENRY WOTTON. FROM RELIQUIE
WOTTONIANE, ED. 1685.
1. A Poem Written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth
11. Sir Henry Wotton and Serjeant Hoskins riding on
the way
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III. On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia.
IV. To a Noble Friend in his Sickness
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
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VII. Vpon the sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset,
then falling from Favour
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Ix. On a Bank as I sate a Fishing. A Description of
the Spring
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VIII. The Character of a happy Life
x. A Translation of the CIV. Psalm to the Original Sense
XI. Tears at the Grave of Sir Albertus Morton (who was
buried at Southampton) wept by Sir H. Wotton.
XII. Vpon the Death of Sir Albert. Morton's Wife ...
XIII. This Hymn was made by Sir H. Wotton, when he
was an Ambassador at Venice, in the time of a
great Sickness there
XIV. A Hymn to my God in a Night of my late Sickness
PART II. POEMS FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS OF SIR HENRY
WOTTON. FROM RELIQUIE WOTTONIANA, ED. 1685.
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I. A Description of the Country's Recreations [Ignoto] 55
II. Imitatio Horatianæ Odes ix. Donec gratus eram tibi.
Lib. iii. A Dialogue betwixt God and the Soul
[Ignoto]
III. Doctor B[rooke] of Tears.
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V.
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
VII. The World [Fra. Lord Bacon]
VIII. De Morte [Ignoto]
IX. Epigram
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x. John Hoskins to his little Child Benjamin from the
Tower..
PART III. POEMS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES CHIEFLY BY SIR
WALTER RALEIGH.
1. The Lie [By Sir Walter Raleigh]
II. Sir Walter Raleigh's Pilgrimage