Recall.
fAllfcoois
must
be
Sps^^l
tine Cornell University Library.
the United
the
itfeares.
of
see.
Our
life
Then let vs
. .
.
....
On piracy
The
Report
of
the
Guiana
voyage,
1596
Ralegh and
claims
affinity
and
he
dedicates
several
receipt
Tke
Spending
of
books
in
1569
(Vander
Poor
so-called
signature
of
to be
a letter)
time
and
letters.
by
such
the language
a
fable.
shall endeavour
to show,
world for four
behind him
no slightest
"
1587,
his
poem,
entitled
Life,
his
"
finest wittes
he
was.'
greatly to
sette downe."
At the
is made
of Spenser
portion of
in the
one
alluded
to,
without
is
found
in
his
(being in the
as
books
last."
and
wordes
and
as
as in other, we might be
equal to
in
them,
he
nothing
;
tromp
of
fame,"
he
say
at
once
writer,
concealed
under
an
assumed
"
own
extra-
propagate
his
the
the legend
beyond
defended
his
would
say,
auctoritie
:
Now, for the knitting of sentences, whych they call the joynts
and members
understoode of the
moste, but judged
English wryters
framed, and
 
middest
of
all
of
ryme,
or
having
forgotten
in theyr remembrance,
as it were
/era
effectively
concealing
speak
his
his
social
course, expect the reader to accept these views on
such a
about
me
through
in the
:
with
not onely
he
Saffron
Walden,
p.
178
in Latin,
Harvey is given below
or sixe score
make
meanes
Booke in Ryme, though
or Botle
Ale, wyll
potticall
poeticall
(I
should
be
gorgiously
good
affection
time,
fantastic
forms,
reaches
its
full
history of the
discourse on
though the
abroad. I have
as
a
adopted
commendably
vsed both in the end and middle of a verse, vnlesse it be in toyes and trifling
Poesies,
it were)
and yet may the meetre be very graue and stately
: so on the other
one
maner
of
were glut the
tauerne
minstrels
that
giue
being in
the several months.
Each is preceded
"
appearance of being written
examples
of
the
misadventure
also
from
all
exercises.
Whereby
he
taketh
occasion,
for
which the
sayd Colin
commendable
an
arte
which
The
author's
meaning
greatness
of
was.
The
author
his audience,
notes, as
give,
shows
French Poete
a
certein
^glogue.
Under
which
which,
being
whom
by
that
hys
call his
Lady Asteris
name was
And so
the famous
Paragone of
envelopeth her selfe under
It
seems
reading
Under
note,
verging on
is a reference
correspondence.
I
conceive
who, as
Brere
he
they
that
frostye heares.
opinion,
and
yet
at
younger
folke
wrathe of
unto the
the Lyon, he was at first sore aghast and dismayed
at
the
grimnes
and
he
would
experience breedeth
Erasmus,
a
great
God at
Gods,
to
be
gainsayd,
that
occurs
in
his
essay
from
Spedding's
trans-
lation
and mercy,
an old
charity
Make
Bacon's Wisdom
note
constructed
reade ether
Englishe
Rymes.
The
by the
many
all
day,
fynding that we would not
have
of time,
chaungeth
our
wonted
himself)
as
lasse
of
Kent.
the home of
well knowen, even in
should
be
commended
himselfe, who is
possibly
The
style
works
many
yeares
was
sore
to
the
fourth
Edward
most royal
evill
signe.
to sitte uppon
being
then
daunger, he was,
Lovel
and
As loath
How they at Pomfret
and favour.
some English
translated
by
TuUie.
Hsec
habui
quse
edi,
quaeque
prseclara relicta.
Which may
:
toying
his
Face ?
Trust
me,
least
he
my
Loove
happely
packed
pelfe,
and
Massepenie
religion.
But
the Gibelins,
that
x.
73,
as I have already
Colin is
younger brother,
continuance."
Richard
Harvey
evidently
greatly
admired
divers his
Majestie,
afterward
presenting
explaining
line of Piers's
is,
that
by
theyr famous
sayd,
that
Achilles
had
never
that citie,
or
otherwise
: but
he used
had
cabinet
question was made
And
loss
and
to
another
to this
"
letters
lately
: touching
the
a proper
the heavens,
in
my
Commentarye
same Authour.
as
if
Michael
them passing
taken as
autobiographical. It
with regret on
free
from
first attraction of
feminine beauty. It
a
of Leicester.
he
comprehendeth
is
the
will to
sheepe
for
other
alluded
of youth
of
the
Works}
It
that
culties they
are discarded
for
internal
of
National
Biography
by
than
did
Spenser.
"
mentioned
above
(p.
xxxii).
to
the
p.
i,
note
2)
1594
out-went.
secretary who
but as
in September
on the
and often
hath spoken
louinge
Office,
But
have
gone
to
Ireland
in
Sir
the
circumstances
connection, in its application,
the
having any
reference to
apart
from
that
question,
London), as it seems likely,
on
the
of
which the
at
annoyance at
affairs,
Elizabeth
seems
mistake, for reasons to be given
later.
Lord
Grey
appears
to
under whom
referred to
from
Bryskett.
It
seems
to
came
over
with using his
own
gain.
that
would never have
hope
of
England, could have
man must have
follows :
he
a small
peel tower,
p.
79,
and
Murray's
Guide.
cattle. The
imprisoned
subjects,
many out-
from
the
known
the
1598).
Spenser
is
published
161
5—
1625.
Ben
Jonson
and a little child burnt, he and his wife escaped,
and
after
died
; he
refused
20
his
hearse
being
brought
to
light
the 9th
to the Queen, which he says
is
Spenser's
in
accounts
when Spenser
went to
visited
London.
The
only
evidence,
however,
to Spenser
taken so
much to
deep
melancholy,
which
soon
been in London
anachronisms,
however,
are
Spenser's
visits
to
there is no evidence
(and
far
the
that the
"since his departure over
it seems
is :
"
("
in such
which
them to
the depreda-
work
two
periods
seems
ex-
London. During the first visit the first three books of
the Faerie
letter
1590.
Of
these
it
myself believe that the
the
Spenserian
or
Mother
Hubberds
generally
original
form,
before
patible with
in
England
explained.
Similarly,
the
Faerie
Queene}
for
whom
he
entertained
these
sentiments.
It
may
all
poetical
design,
Life,
ii.
6),
p.
21).
An
"
Earl's own work,
words above quoted,
"
Sovereign's
Life,
ii.
196).
owed his intro-
and the rival
friendship with
is
intelligible
the
we
nature to be overruled," and where he liked he
no
doubt,
to do
whom were
secrecy. I
of Catholicism in Europe, and it was held as a
cardinal doctrine that there could not
be unity in
these and many other
comparatively
social
" suitors (a regular
or men like
represented
the
intimate
to his
statesman
it
thought
or
gentlemen
no courage
of their skill.
suffred it to
:
..."
under notice)
slight all the
a
poet
yet
are
no
poets
that
the
firmament
On
Atlas
mightie
has
an
expression
of
any
permanent
to
every
impression,
direct
or
he could
an
atrocious
form
—and
personal
animus.
This
detachment
from
must not be
the Archbishop or
press,
him
in
his
fellow of a
old
pupil,
and
a
from
the
censorship
would
be
not
of social
being
well
known.
French
Government,
which
were
employed
by
Bancrdil
tracts
were
detected.
A man
who is
openly engaged
in spiritual
is, indeed,
too
active,
;
as
pages, he
boy. I am
sensitiveness,
or
self-
concealment.
A
remains,
Shakespeare.
According
the Dictionary
correspondence
or
manuscript
of
any
kind.
Considering
was
reasoning
a
man's
and
that
experience
comes
to
him
primarily
through
contact
with
and
his
order and the
real
purpose
consistent (as it must
booke
is
in
vertuous
and
gentle
and
identity
may
to trace,
one for a writer
under
of Spenser, having
regard to the
circumstances of his
for
example,
the
case
writing
for
the
magazines,
and
thereby
has
made
in
London
assists
him
in
obtaining
a
private
secretaryship.
an
to local duties
the
metropoliSj
which
is
the
burden
though they would wonder
fact ; and
yet, as
this
at
the
present
stage
somewhat
with the
utmost nalvetd
effect
of
the mood,
and is
feeling.
or
alters
one. The
which is
his
method,
as
in
this
aspects, an
in
the
Ralegh
letter,
Ariosto,
"and
"to
hath
devised
by
ensample"
is
was borne of the
dream or vision
my
particular,
I
conceive
the
Faery land.
And yet
in some
places els,
 
variety of
re-
is too
of actual personality and incident. Even Una, who is
the
spirit
of
person, and frequently
letter)
dissertations
reasonable
in Todd's
edition of
Spensei's Works,
first
al
author's
confident
outlook,
intellectual
and earnestness
The
characters
are, in
and
Essex
as
the
champion
Another,
and
greater,
the Shepheards
in Canto i.
Least
and gravest
an
man she has
seen in the
Forces on the
and indicates that
the author may
was poisoned by
in
thee take
in mischiefe fall.
ymage dead,
dread
his fathers
field to
mother
the
mother
his son Philip
succeeding him in
stantius
Queen), and
"
missed secur-
ing. Written,
as this
an
alien
sovereign.*
The
Shakespeare,
Henry
longwhile
Bene
bright burning flame,
And reach into
crowne agayn reclame.
now
called
Anglesey."
This
is
the
succession
to
married
were
and
name of that island
in
character called
with
his
be remembered
in the
thou, most
appropriately be
made the
in
"put
in
delicate
matter?
over from Ireland
to Ralegh in
a letter dated
with Dudley
allusions to
Grey.
a
ruler
ment. Confirmation
himself hath
to him
unity, and
makes Burbon
entertain,
When
as
necessitie
refers
to
cating
rearrangement.
The
the vacillation of the
a
reference
the
fact
that
the
For which
To meet
By guileful treason and
opportunity of
barke and bay
againe,
the
Fayrie
the Blatant
Beast is
because
Grosart
maintained
that
he
did,
29,
make
deepe.
She
with
Did
sharpen
take
Would
her
And
stones
did
cast
(V.
xii.
4I-43-)
Among
the
complimentary
experience
(as
books
such
affairs as
however,
to
have
had
a
of
such
but
considering
his
nearness
a
family, such a glorious presentment of him as the knight
Scudamore
stanzas
of
Scudamore's
story
of
offence
for envy
her thence,
of him, and had
of encouragement
Tudors (spelling modernised).
to
complaints
the higher
dignity and greater
calling may by
that
more
as
observe. And so
Your
Sovreign
that
dearly
Sometime
doe,
derived
much
assistance
from
advantaged
me,
who
therein
language
of
sions
to
in 1590.^
a
in his
language, he
of the
from Ullswater,
to the writer's
:
"
the Eighth
opinion, in a later
names of Molanna,
in
rare thoughts delight,
36).
2
The
Queen
died
pagan
The
first
I
in
pointing his moral
repeated canto
by that same
upon the brim
crouper
with
shore,
That headlesse
in
rhyme
would
some
of
Florimell
is
mixed
up
downe,
But
th'
head
fell
backeward
on
;
points to the fact that Ralegh's
appearance at Court may,
much to prevent
and Alenyon (d.
by Catherine
Partheniades
(addressed
chaste
any powres
take holde
all his flowers
Britton
mayde."
I
think
"Cezaimes"
remarks
on
may, in this
French
marriage
Sir
Philip
Sidney
in
1580,
of
sad,
Is
of as being
of brutal
In
by fortune came
Upon your seas,
But yours the waift by high prerogative.
Therefore I humbly crave your Majestie
It
to
So
shall
you
by
one
of his wife,
on whom the
her
struggle
expeditions,
wife,
Anne,
the
Earl
of
Bedford,
of
valour.
On
intrigue
(see
p.
6$
seen
wearing
the
story;
also
nothing
with his wife* (Catherine,
out
anything
which
would
apply
1
The
the story
to
better
feelings,
Earl. This
was in
quite
unable
to
say.
The
in
the
fact
that
Lady
motto.
seas.
Or
it
;
on
her
light
lampes
of
light
pall
Would
have
warrant,
and
with
characteristic
by
Davison,
who
was
joint
Secretary
February
1587,
a
Council
; the
Mary
was
Diet. Nat. Biogr.,
Davison,
himself.
Elizabeth
More-
to
bloodshed,
especially
imbued
with
the idea of the sacredness of the person of the
Prince.
the
vindicating
1569.
Percy, seventh Earl) except
of being
was
life at that period
wife,
conclusion it is
and active spirit and
and
caution,
who
by
powerful
part
of
the
Romish faction. The Queen after gave him his life and was
well
enough
satisfied
considerable a man,
and
"
Blandamour
where
between Britomart and
Paridell in III.
the Queen's clemency
place
her heeles downe traced.
others)
that
his daughter
accompanies
the
in the same year. His death is also alluded to
by
Spenser
under
the
figure
of
Sir
Calidore,
depended
upon,
this
marriage
was
probably
one
of
quick for
Earl marrying out of
curious stanza
follows.^ The
when he was a suitor
unto
a suitor
unto his
enabled by
directions he could give him would not be wanting.
The match went on,
anger
suddenly died
them." The
of the play.
recognised.
See
Todd,
2,
xciv.
an
allusion
over
men
episode
womenkynd," etc.
(In that
in Book
to
the
no
one
among
the
common
not otherwise be
the
Irish
Lee
and
is
only
in IV. xi. as it
appears at Cork,
introduction
same unobtrusive
in-
from London,
which is
only reached
required a more idyllic scene for the brides (in
the shape
of the
swans)—who
had also
to be
brought from
Essex
poet's method is.
Ruines
of
Time.
I
have
said
little
about
Prince
Arthur
characters
sion
of
the
attention
perhaps
even
more
the
But paynted plumes in goodly order dight.
Like as the
here and
a mere poetical
hereafter
explained.
The
shapes
which
taken from
what was
 
That in his hand a braunch
of
letters cyphered.
:
Mayd,
Of
With which
sheowe,
Great
liking
unto
beautiful
picture
the
word
soul.
Spenser
and
Shakespeare
were
the two perhaps Spenser is the more
uncompromising,
and
his
expressions
of
mind,
lack of
where the social
and political order
element in the
thought
and morally lower than is usual in English writers, or
than can be
approach
to
which, in that
poore
the
and of the attitude
that brunt,
to assayle,
But
chiefly
Talus
avayle.
Made
hill
and
dale,
The
;
captains did subdew.
the dragon (I. xii.
To
:
entrayld
shivered short
So lively and so like that living sence it fayld.
After reading these passages it
is
amusing
or
the
country.
Foure
Letters,
country.
Foure
Letters,
1592.
in
—
with news and
in Kent,
people. Ibid.
:
"
was
solicitous,
Bacon
"one of the fathers
and had
and though in
were
yet
more
light.
moral
good judgment in
it
to
necessity, in
judgment worked together,
but on the
attributed,
a
of phenomena
stamped
on
Shakespeare's
greatest
of a distrust
of all changes
good be
idealised
object
of
these
feelings.
an
example,
child-like.
In
this
required
memory
in
historical
times.
spirituality
which
the
power
was a product of the times which was shared to
a
did
Dr.
Johnson
(see
Life
of
Waller).
and
cf.
Adv.
of
between
whereas the
a
maturer
self-knowledge,
and
is
not relish well
Their loud applause
social
change,
is
noticed)
in
Shakespeare.
An
article
by
in
inexpressibly
tedious
and
certain passages in
out
For
so
great
a
of
the
spiritual
most
part
it appeared
man
did for the
English-speaking and modern
for
astonishes
seems
to
have
were
under
greater
century. Moreover,
Bacon's dexterity
sentence
was
very
;
his knowledge
and original
writer
any
department
in-
quiry,
views of Aristotle mainly
were formed upon
form of soul.
read in Grote,
and concerned with
to truth
by which
any
bodily
soul.
But
though
the
conclusion,
movement of
the
body),
it
from which it
emanated. Therefore the
Copernicus),
which
by
two
the
brutes,
the
irrational
"
in the
dust of
doctrine
concerning
the end such
creation
out of the mass
the laws of heaven and earth are the proper sub-
jects of philosophy ;
rational
soul
inspiration,
and, in
soul.
was ennobled rather than debased by
being brought
speculations
and
confined
ipsa
suis
nee
bene
thought]
apart from
widely
removed
stain his
and
stopping
the
motive for
appealed
relations with
find no
trace in
well. Revelation,
Bacon
or
form,
from
the
dis-
tinction
that is
noble and
himself, that
for certainly
man is
body ;
ignoble creature. It
universal
frame
of
nature,
the
earth
except)
ants
carry
corn,
its
instrument
of
"
effected
things, flesh, bones,
dead
though
it
governs
with
them,
forth and con-
second
desire,
the
body,
seeing
at hand.
hard to
multiply itself,
and prey
of motion, or of
spirit in
shape, produces
"
the space
that it
"
irrigation,
wholesome
because
of
were needed)
good
example
by his fancy.
of the motion,
be the things that
parts
and
then
of
of
;
such
but
in
our
Sapientia
Veterum
and
longer
very primitive.
the
that in
every
object
around
them
to the sensible
that
under-
in
short
concerning
the
as they are
;
in the
'
(1888),
;
passions or
sexual desire, in
Two
reasons
(though
I
are
not
have
escaped
Bacon's
acute
mind
object
forbidden,
while
the
protagonist
in
dominated
by
Aristotle.
had
man
countrymen
are
perhaps
hardly
in
a
participating in
source,
by
virtue
relation to
body he
is silent,
of
nature's
operation
which
attributed
1603.
It
was
autobiographical being
had
a
natural
aptitude
already reached the turning-
82 sq,,
and cf.
and cf.
507
sg.
devoted his
paper and the publication of the
Organum, The
been suggested,
agree that
entertainment,
however,
I
of far-fetched
as he not
of
him.
to
Bacon's
theory
of
proceed
"
I
considered
Bacon's
attitude
be
that
such a serious
Intended in
Bacon
question
which
involved
the
plays all
the
elements.
"
be incidental
give rise, through
concrete
images,
the human race which he expected from it when it
had been applied in practice.^
'
this connection
different and
as
so
that
though,
concealed
vague,
undeterminate
an easy
all
new
Hence, in
To
answer
task
To which Prospero answers
bade
thee
which
and
the
leading
passage
of
the
directly
as
hieroglyphics
to
and
 
?
thou hast
service
not this true ?
As
Whom now I
To
lay
; what shall I do
fancy,
of
similar
significance
My
the
But
in
Caliban's
relations
second
allegory,
given
examples
the
Essays
it
is
as
have no sense or perceiving
at all
in order
higher branches of
conviction rather
of being
ing
at
times
to
the
since the supersession
practice
view
of
is
the
play
in
illustration
of
the
master's
daughter
In the following
reference
doubt,
the
thought
of
the
un-
opportunity
offers,
which
is
Sounds and sweet airs, that
give
delight
traced
was
the Queen
took of
his
that
this
represents a
come
must
be
(ii. i)
;
any engine,
To feed
necessity
is to be
young
prince
virgin-knot
before
All
That
you
injunction
^
the
masque.
the
masque :
These
our
actors.
all
spirits
and
thin
air
The cloud-capp'd towers, the
shall dissolve.
into
the writer's
decay
and
death.
The
here, after his
is my promise.
such serious
such
the fondness of
Shakespeare,
Spenser,
and
Bacon's
acknowledged
ravages of Time in
that
theory
these
!
Nay,
die
Being
a
Ibid.
Is
do
see
when
a
Her hart did leape,
For sudden
;
Egypt, and other
:
of
kinde
\i.e.
(i.
i.)
they
came
by
instinct
an
aide
straunge
and
miraculous,
his life many
have to
argument
the
words
these
letters
simple
discretion.
July
1580
of pride
simple observation that they
or frequent
1586.^
set down,
therefore
is
of
at the
shoot my fool's bolt, since you will have it so,^
found
the
Council
(1598).
Thus
have
found, for instance,
the
the
King,
in
reply
to
Buckingham,
1617.^
This
other
use
luck still
to be
strangeness. . . .
[Some
hiatus
in
the
copy.]
And
I
. . .
meannesse
conquest.
Ibid.
Sonnet xxix.
This simple song,
referring
a
and
delivered
upon
is
good
among
many
his book with the same trick of style, and other
examples of it
e.g.
to sette
remarks on the "inaccuracy"
of Shakespeare. This is
education. It is
but
refer
this
subject,
in
a
misquota-
distorted
for
a review
of the
have made the kind
Shakespeare
accommodated
prehistoric
Athens
with
a
duke.
notion of
the "very
I think we are
700
more indifferent
in the
woman, and
proved
of
billiards
and
other
time-wasting
games
for
people
in
:
laugh
And
take
upon
's
3.)
philosophy.
quietam et
etiam
posteritati
.
.
.
For things that others do ; and, when we fall,
We
answer
With these
release
adopted, and
intelligence
who
could
in the difficult
paths of scholarship.
men,
to
pore
over
its
documents.
He
had
a
calling
historical
age.
Lastly
quest
of
ness of
individual
tie
and
human
not,
in
his
I
am
not
passing
where is concluded
(in which the writers of tragedy and
comedy
are
ideal of
the
other
hand,
human
passions
makes
other
of
proceed to
identity of and
depending
the
1
they
such subiection, lifted
Nature,
as
such like
the too much
brought foorth
Orlando, so right a Prince
as
Xenophons
Cyrus
because
the
essensiall
standeth
in that Idea or fore-conceite of the work, and not in the
work
excellencie as
farre substantially it worketh, not onely to make a Cyrus,
which
had
been
sawcie
a
comparison
to
ballance
'
that
maker
owne likenes,
fall
of
Adam
excellencies
of
GOD.
Orpheus,
Amphion,
Homer
of Painters, (who
been,
Nowe therefore it shall not bee amisse
first
to
waigh
this
worse by
be
so
fitte
of
true
himselfe in
;
necessity, (which
:
haue
is
to
: then
it is but
(as hath been said) one of
the principal
variety,
the acts or events
and more
more according
more unexpected
and alternative
mind
with the
by
Spedding.
barbarous regions,
In the first
sense it is
verse
branches of learning,
And therefore,
custom
and
the
Chronicles,
feigned
Lives,
and
has a
denies
when the substance
history
are
providence
j
since
this
Poesy
conduces
carries it
has
so
won
when
neglected.
155
published,
filling
the
Bacon had ever heard.
paucity
methods to
he
says
the
the De Augmentis,
a
the
characters
of
by the
up the
with them, and
decessors,
but
is
dis-
cerning
patience,
so
delivered
the
matter,
as
And yet,
But
I,
that
contemplation as
in perus-
seen his
methods,
which
may,
to
genius and
do we
Countrey
I
man,
nature
or
misterie,
artificiall,
it
as
to proceede from
be his naturall
arte well,
25.)
Also
in
that
which
or
argues
subtillie,
quick
inuention,
1
believe
that
are many others in the book of a similar character,
which, in my
that
The fact
that the
address,
supports
this
book is
not
as
the
to worke
both the
vtterly vnlike, but even as nature her selfe
working
by
her
owne
not
by
example
do,
is
then
most
admired
And
in
by
vndiscretly bewrayed, as many
illuminating as
1591.
Works,
however,
from
his
pen
continued
to
appear,
sundrie
Vanitie
who
Since
into my handes
bee
present,
which I have caused to bee imprinted altogeather, for that
they
grave
understand
entertaine
the
mystification found
Muses," and
publication
in
uses the
an
of
Verulam,
no
memorie
him
led.
Bacon it is
church near
That long
agoe did
at
an aged tree,
That
hast
not
tride.
to
bide
be better
to morrow
comfortlesse
dispaires
to be
fly away,
the story of Bacon's
the feigned
wound
received
at
Zutphen
Francis
Russell,
second
of mee,
ensample see
Gnat
it
as
of disillusionment
is
not
supposed
That wont with Comick sock to beautefie
The painted Theaters, and fill
with
pleasure
melodic
wont
to
raine
as
Queene,
to
see
With hollow
browes and
greisly countenaunce,
And
And brutish
deepe Abysme,
heaven does hate
now
tyrannize,
rudenes foule
Fine
Counterfesaunce,
Stage
By
Are
now
late
but
one
retirement
this is
to read
"
to
author himself.
The self-praise
interpretation is
this
of
the
manie,"
the
writer
fact that owing to
(as I shall show in a
moment) in consequence of the death of
Tarlton, which
presumably
are looked back
Ruines
of
Time,
where
author)
'
Bar,
Inn,
letter to
Lord Keeper
;
purposed not to
follow practice of
too
much
he sent
commend unto your Lordship the remembrance of my suit," adding
that
"although
it
request is
the
study
at
election,
or forsaking likely success in other studies of more delight and no less pre-
ferment, or
survey made,
Bacon
was
 
about
annotated copy
of the
asserts
that
Tarlton
earning
money,
that his
wife, Kate,
child, a boy of about six years. I
mention these particulars
furnish
the
against
were reprinted
From
but of
evident, to
earned
I am
is
used
it,
up a controversy.
rigorously
opponents in order
to
"advertise"
and
seriously
them)
who
Foure Lexers
{l^gi)
them fray,
Within a
bush his
objects
value
with
p.
49.
Compare
the
The Panther, which having made one astonished with his faire
sight,
thus
of the
through
my
pen,
of Leicester, late
of my
Let him rest
which
means
of
preventing
it
him
"
attractions
1
5
96,
when
of his fortunes.^
be read
A gentle
stay
vayne
Of
'
in
1598.
And
And crowne their
Though from another place
backe
doe
ryde.
Where
their bowers,
and goodly
practise
slie,
No reach, no
to his purpose
And
for
to
purchase
little
did
And the
That
:
were
set.
:
The which the Ape repos'd in him alone,
And
reckned
him
of Essex
Cecil, whom the
but for his
:
For a further account of this pamphlet
see Chapter
Ape)
we
greatest sway,
We
nimble
flight
The
fro
fruitles
cost.
The
poem
a man
the
:
:
in August
which
the
piece
(1591).
the lines
at the
Faerie
Queene
(1596)
More then
that wite
And
seeke
to
please
Or
in the
Lion,
the
Fox.
Bacon's
pen
was
employed
in
drawing
to the Queen. In
at
good reception
of the
poet in
Colin Clout,
which is
inserted
in
December
1591,
1595
when
Spenser
between
Complaints
is
naturally
but
was
to
prepare
the
people,
every-
thing
else
of
some
offence
given
account of
it through
words, that it
are
mixed
sight
to
be
the
most
negligent
they
are
seen
"
"
That of
 
"
I
take
appear,
as
even
his power.
Which
doo
possesse
azure
skies.
toward
yeares,
Through
For he
That from
this lower
Yong
Clarion,
with
vauntfuU
lustie-head,
:
This
to
Nicolas
The
son
recorded,
in
the
bust
made
when
accomplishments
of
the
Court,
who
Beholding
fannes, so
the
lines
and
vivid
is
the
description
To
all
change
Now sucking
yet
feete
And then againe he turneth to his
play,
To
Ranke-smeUing
Rue,
still,
and wholly un-
indulging in the liberties
also
at any rate
the allegory covers the varied range
of
a
which
follow
mother's
side,
owed his introduction
wrote a line
are attributed
of
this question,
Queen
himself
Nor,
there
anything
extraordinary
about
it, as the art of expression on paper was at that
time very
on the
1589.
The
greater
reproduced in Bacon's Observa-
copy
in
by
doubt
from
motives
It is a
to
is cruder.
sheet,
who, from
without much
letter
bound
forward freely what
for
exaggerating
of
that
early
who
makes
use
was
composed
about
1592.
The
gives us
that trew
attributed to him,
"
bed,
however,
should
cause
style
of
name
for
Orlando
Furioso
by
that
the name of the Earl
of
Essex
his
Anthony
Bacon's
I
his
;
belong
Letter I.) is now generally
admitted
example
in
expressing
himself
it.
your Lordship, I
a
but
small
(27th
January
1582.)
The
by
a
man
literary style
of
Sir
under the impulse of
appeared
than
most
reflects
a
similar
Essex).
"
opening portion
of the
towards
the
end
of
no
me
while
I
care
of
"
"
write
worse
the letter seems
to me to
letter.
The
have there,
else that
I know
*
"
to a
1641
edition,
is
of Baconian
authorship, strong
the
same
conclusion.
The
the present
state, and
faded).
(much
faded).
Black Book.
xxx.
129
of a courtier
Parsons."
for the uncritical and credulous public of that day, but
it did not satisfy
anonymous author, concluding
trust
it
of
this
printed
Whispringes of the
can
be
more
case
of
1
I
scholar), in
of the book adopts
the same view, that
only
giving
expression
1
Leicester
was
been little
by
many
son.
Leicester,
however,
facts and
of the
take it
violence with
the age.
death
of
many."
date
to
be
certain
extravagance
and
(often
by
false
of
James
of
his
(probably in
people and
incensing the
saving
note quoted
cases of treason,
in
the
he
comes
and similarly
Council. The
deliberately
written
for
the
still
greater
danger
of
being
his
own
position
b th from
other
here
the
reporter
of
relief
that
I
conclude
my
hastily or
that it often
of this
pitch
appears
extinguished." This
was written
he got older,
he
might
made of fighting
against whom he
to
play
a
and assumed
nature
my
inquiry,
less individual
difficulties.
Among
the
poems
ascribed
to
Spenser
in
Miseries
and
Calamities
that
the
Voluptuous
Worldlings
as
also
the
greate
Joyes
and
tions
of
"
the first six
of the Visions
said to
have been
come
fifteen
easily
recognisable
series
is
those describing
the older series which are not reproduced in the later.
It
would
a
not know
are told
French
as
procure
I have
visions, which
Englishe tongue.
one
loachim
du
Bellay,
in childhood.
Moreover, all
cited
an
extraordinary
precocity,
T'admit
The
moon
and
And pierceth
;
pains in collecting information
2
The
sinners
:
Spreds
darke
douskie
Sheene
he had a Head
an
Dighte
Methynckethe
these
bee
and ne
Byshoppe
of
Selseie,
was
fetyve
yn
Whylste
anoune,*
Synkeynge
Levynne brondes
And senge
Maie all the
Uponne thie
heade alyghte,
wryter
Poesies
Opynion,
pre-
cocity
of
genius
"
air.
Whose flocks supply
In winter
In health
Of diamant, ten feete
most
do
honour
!
There are
of
The
skie
eachwhere
faire
fraighted
was
O,
how
Doth
Thus in
Thus in
So great
and woe
the earth to rest.
De
briefvement
of a serious
the
instruction
to be
intended against
the realme
it
to
of sufficient
one
afSnitie,
who
being
also
witt, was the more
fitt to be joined
writer says
of his
hands, in
give
direction
to
his
ideas
on
Revelation
of
St.
John,
And
all
to
up
in
his
person)
Arthur,
of A
leafe
this commoditie, to
devises of such
and having
you may
are as
myne
in
doubt
the
stedfast
The which
(I agree
as in
the last,
the yonger
I
may
not
compare
verses
hitherto
(translations
excepted)
left
with the
some
the
Clarkely
handlinge
of
so
profitable
wandred
somwhat
Sonets,
layes,
letters.
Ballades,
Rondlets,
but
further
shall
you my
come to the reading or perusinge of any man but
himselfe : two
lots
of
love.
The clyming
same,
gesse
him
by
by any
copies
of
the number
they
begs his friend
at a love
the edition of
.H.
no
stading) that
to have it imprinted : And yet,
finding
nothing
is
so wel hadled now adayes, but that some malicious minds may
either take occasion
the palme of
places
passed
over
bicause
ma may
as
you
wold
wish,
by
the
pang
may
of
—
for George
Gascoigne was
of foreign
himself
F
J."
and
probably
"
dayntie of his
with influence
"
Gascoigne,
on
his
return
from
the wars, appealing to Lord Grey in the dedication of a
piece entitled The
in
Hollande
time
your
prepared to
as a
as
in
print."
He
notifie
unto
the
worlde
before
my returne, that I could as well persuade with Penne, as
pearce with launce or weapon."
The style is full
Posies,
which,
Ariosto, and others
fruitefull Orchardes
in Englande
But
I
Beza, whose
life is
publication of
1573
edition
(see
p.
2
1
author of the first
address, written for Gascoigne.
fact and unlettered simplicity
dittie
of
dittie
of
sicknesse
may
in the
advertising
work
 
in
Chapter
V.
Bacon
a
certain
subject in
earlier
Shakespearian
humour :
written at the request of
Master
1575.
The
subject
last one in the world
which
could
not stated that the
piece is by Gascoigne
the
end
(as
order
to
assist
the
reader
in
judging
of
first and most necessarie poynt that euer I founde meete
to be
poeme is this, to
inough
to
and fine
and
where
I
handle it
some depth
For these
a
strange
discourse
my
dis-
writers.
the rule of Inuention, which of all other
rules is most to
rules,
neuerthelesse
Q
foote vsed
but one
But since
playne
foote
of
two
meane hereby that you
:
two
verses
the one hath
and
yet
understand
naturall
or
vsual
pronunciation
the more
or good
it,
in his Canterburie tales, and in diuers other
delectable and
before forgotten to
as I sayde
Ballades
are
beste
moste
apt
for
the
beating
or
Himpnes.
have
discussed
(and
the
verse
and
entitled The
the
conclusion
is
of
such
found,
of fifty
of
fourteen,
or
perhaps
younger,
it
altogether
doctrine, as held
of
instruction
play
drama,
vogue in
the new
the
influence
It
Phylopaes and
too
curious
gave
expression
and must be
an artist,
is
here
no
exception
greater
but
for concealing his
case with
and reflection at
we
see
the
the
defence
Phylautus
but
should
imagine
with
horse
backe,
it
would
be
long
before
Antwerp
the
author
no
doubt
has
alludes
to
take
enstructions
goodnesse, so it is requisite that in all
traditions
to
search
the
Philosophers
earth,
content our
selves to
thinke that
dutyes in
was
accustomed
to
excel
studious
his
dramatic
other
side
certainty
to
Gascoigne.
P.
37.
putting
his
instructions
as
to
their
all
other
Artes
verie
:
lessons
and
find rather comforte
observe
a delectable
verse," not,
unpleasant
for the
P.
S3.
the
measures
publiquely
to
heare
of
elaborate
version,
Philomusus
and
Philotimus
largely
from
In
his
grave
a
ministrie, and hath preached in the University,
and meaneth
:
"
of the
parable on this
important question in
by
which
stamp
of
and
its
month (April
is shown
in The
Glasse
of
but
still
his
description
sympathy
The
poet's
mind
deserued
high
estate
trade
reache
was
1
say
about
Ralegh.
In
the
author of these
Magnanimitie
the
delightfulnesse
There
For whiles
there-
withal
vertue
: what
apointed
for
my
be
malicious
stubbornesse)
should
busie
my
braines
me, than
clever
of
his
in
fortitude
of
the
is,
in
which appeared
period, i.e.
attention
to
come,
Steele Glas)
thanke my God therefore)
of
irreparable
disaster
slightest
and
most
momentary
guised,
epistle,
the
for
lacke
of
exercise
enormous
length,
which
August
1575,
be
seen
some
the
greatly
pleased
at
comparable with
July
1575-
These
various
productions
Gascoigne,
perhaps
was
included
in
death.
"
about
him.
as ever blotted
times
demanded
Gascoigne."
It
the same
motto placed
penned by
of this book is
Lanehavis Letter,
was
kind which
Goddess sure.
across
of
Who
Have led
and
Lord
before
her
Majesty,
presence,
pronounced by
Master Gascoyne
: and that
(as I
this building
for else
(see
tells us first
:
"
gallant
shew
written
by
and sisters
with sound and
contemporary
sung by
composition
was
in
realised
the
of
"a
shew"
which
"never came to
together.
. . . The
are
in which people
interest
in
letters,
and
Gascoigne's
contempt
in
which
a
mere
the
feeling
that,
except
by
way
of
suitable
occupation
The
but
not
presented
was
to
suggest
to
Earl
of
fantastic,
allegoric
style,
verses
unlike that of
minds
of the author's
jollity:
Rejoicing
days
mouth,
or
mighty
hand.
hinds,
Some
covert
May
graces.
ships on
to
after
bales.
Similarly
O
O gods of
woods, and goddess
bear
That I
Finally
we
come
But Sylvanus
declaring
offend
protested
to
new
circumstances at time.
The attentions of
the
youthful
aspirant
who
that
if I
the author
as these
addressed to
an experi-
famous
Essays.
Ambition
do I
of
Leicester
to
that
Deep-Desire,
with
which
the
to lament,
me bent,
Come gods,
thus depart.
1
appointed
to
reader
an
idea
be an
by
a
much more. Nothing
else, however, is
the
not
could
have
por-
trayed
himself
(as
a boy,
the piece
the first
disguise is
it
would
"Robert
Laneham,"
therefore,
onlie acquainted
and
euery
officer
can
of
sluggardy,
az
manie
delectabl,
appointed :
pastime.
The
Kenulph,
and
hiz
young
stand
ny
Castl
or riuer,
whearon willoz,
gro
one
thing
too
I take
Thus
preface
ye
to
the
matter.
Shows
parsonage,
gesture,
and
vtterauns
very good
far and
nder, yet
neyther by
hard
with
too
like
burds,
curteiz
of
behauiour,
of
body
: for both
but a
bacon,
a
Mare
cropping
sweet
sucket
barrell,
(for hee
the bride cup
yoo
in
fens,
of
Hampton,
the Lady
of
Ladiez, The
seargeaunt
that
became
a
& songs,
bound
I weene hee can sheaw from lasper
Laet
of
Antwarp
vnto
Nostradam
both
in
proze
without
book,
az
yet
too
the
trust,
all fresh
Goldingham
tonswoord.
too
hiz
foot
long)
of thanksgyuing,
and
adds
that
as much one of Laneham's
own
books
as
Captain
Cox's."
Captain
: whear
prezens
of
her
tune,
I promis
about
:
^
(iii. i.)
and
parody.
P.
36.
Mary, syr, I must tell yoo : Az all endeuoour waz
too
mooue
mirth
a
olid,
apparelled partly as he woold himself Hiz cap of: his hed
seemly
a
spoonge
deintly
a
dooun to midlegge,
lace,
and
of
str^ete
at
in
with floour: and
butter
indeed, whearin
els in hys faculty
az
to
their
customers,
of
Salerns
becam
az
with a
lips
with
the
hollo
of
his
with
chearm
becam
still.
For wine and
"
And
Oout of
Excalaber.
At
writer fills up
the letter with
fancies of his
(thoogh a
deinty tooth
her
highnes
hither
. . .
'
make her Maiesty
divinities,
too
wear all
heawen oout
into
her
chariot
Triton
by
hiz
fyshez.
cauz
I
thrde,
moount
in
a
vs,
Charitde
saw of
Oout
that
to
fame,
renooum, for thdez parts hder awey, az euer waz vntoo
thoz too
and that h^erby consider
yoo.
It
pleazed
his
honor
to
apparail,
the stabl, too
aduauns me vntoo
that else
might ruifl
in my
to
their
honors,
might be bidden to
while God lends me
honor,
az
Virgil
had
of
Augustus
and
say,
Namque
erit
ilte
my
life
consumez
by
the
in
with
my
Gittern,
and
els
song
withall,
that
fare ye
Coourt. At the Citde of Worceter, the xx of August,
1575.
Yor
door,
R. L.
Gent. Mercer.
DJS MAIESTATE
of that name)
for his lecture
amens
of the play, has the following
note
January
1576,
it
appears
that
it
was
where
she
Gascoigne's
was the
better than bushie haire, etc. Written by that excellent Philosopher
Synesius,
Bishop
Latine and
the
Tale,
and
it
it with
possibility of
from
Synesius,
which
is
totally
to
Gascoigne
latter
should
:
worthy Sovereigne)
you, etc.
contains a
to the
the
sacred Queene
this woode."
and there is
lines may
How can true love
of
Modem
Langua^
Association
of
that between
there
an
understanding,
man, who
use of
obtain
employment
dedication of
the
dedication
dated ist
the
possi-
his
name
seems
therefore
the
November 1576."
these points of
style,
which
noted
my
judgment,
that
such
a
man
good Lord and myne
an
a
description
of
Lord
of
Lewis
Dyve,
John
and
George,
are
mentioned
the
of about
fifty, and
impersonation
smelling)
Poesies
sooner
lyked. So
the
constructions,
where-
unto
they
so
wantonlie
to
William
"
Bedford].
So
far
so good. But the writer then brings in some of
Gascoigne's
own
employments at
that time,
characteristic of Bacon,
who attached little
Lorde Greye of
:
alledge
that
time that my
the 10 of
have
plenty
of
excellent
reasons
"
written
against
Dronkennesse.
purports
to
if
he was
but the
sonne of
Hangman.
the
but she
when I
of
St.
Augustine,
admirably
Augustine,
defyleth
the
Territories
and
to
excessive
droonkennesse
the rapidity
and spontaneousness
liable) to
his
we
doo
so
much
exceede
drinking habits
:
exercised in the
shall
we
see
the
beloved
this [cujpfull," etc.
for
Caiphas
us
be drowned
therin, to
passages from
The
pith
and
marrow
your swag-bellied
?
you,
I
thought
false imposition. . . .
us
call
thee
devil
.
.
. O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to
steal away their brains ! that we should, with
joy,
place
mouths as
would
stop
them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool,
and presently a
of
:
and re-
This,
your
honor,^
founde sundrye
cheefly
because
they
do
all
tend
argument, I shall
discussion
much
in
modern
things)
centred
incredible
grounds
in
the
circumstances,
as
related
my
opinion,
an
artifice,
designed
possible, in
of
his
shame.
Parts
as I
the
proposition
that
as
the
State
encourage
the warme
: then
Shee
malice on the
away,
as
shee
yet
at
last
retourne
to
nor other
heier whome
he ment
partly
to
mislike
there-upon
he
wrote
and
also
to
set
downe
such
the
originall
copies
(amongst manie)
to
and
there
shewed
me
sundrie
which he
: And amongst the
seemed
in
my
present occasion
caused
my
similar
performance
Sir
John
Gilbert,
western discovery
alleged performance the
more scandalous. But
have
absurd)
But
mine
owne
:
onely his
—
"
The
writer
concludes
me
alreadie
an
1576.—
A
friend
to
all
well
willing
Readers.
George
Gascoine,
Sir
Humfrey
letter, dated
the last
that
the
author
was
not
wild project,
but that
and
likely
to
be
very
profitable.^
The
with
numerous
the
North-Eastern
Del Sur : otherwise
upon
Lapland
and
Finmark,
Jenkinson an Englishman,
of the North
for the
seen
cast
of
America
"
experience of Bernard
really
Frobisher's
departure,
and
very
difficult
a treatise
fleet of
short
paper
in
manuscript,
memorial,
to
Calendar
says,
"This
has
G.
of
1566,
hitherto
The
Company,
while
expressing
claimed the sole
no doubt
Spain, and Gilbert and
as
 
school in
written in a
view
in effecte,
them
are
good
for
"
chapters, from which
to
to the
strong
(by
reason
of
such
motion)
:
^
the Sea."^ The
that
Baconian authorship of
or
up
as
"
which is
of other correspondences."
diurnal
it
descend
all
planets,
mobile, which is
concludes it
cosmical,
and
penetrates
everything
from
the
of
meaning by
universe." He
in the air.
only
The
manifest
motion
the
opposite
part
of
the
east
which astronomy
they
are
cut
off
by
channels of
a good
Cataia :
which
reason
(in
my
simple
judgement)
parte
of
are
given
Portingals, with their
[Marginal note.
and
Portingal
I have
said before,
was the
probable
that
these
announcements
only
germinating
briefe
degrees of
instrument,
with
a
compass
longitude.
certaine
The writer
his treatises.
in
writing,
in this
character,
and military captains of the
Elizabethan
age
the
book
in
possession,
taken
Sir Humfrey
that
Together with the
included
of
Humphrey Gilbert's last
at
sea
in
to use.
G. P."
public
dealing.
In
opinion.
Following
the
introductory
particular
in
precisely
thine
Our
before hath
of
Lord
connection
with
the
Desmond
Whose
care
is
great,
this Treatise dooth
for
the
Tudors.
ing to the writer of the article about him in
the Dictionary
of about
in
full
Maister
Captaine
 
have been a City
thy
due
indeede
Mathew
Roydon.
Eighth
May
make
about
to
other side, that this island of Britanny, seated and manned
as it is, and that hath
(I make
of the world, should think of
nothing but reckonings
my opinion, ^hsX
an interesting
drawn attention), and
accompanied
Gilbert,
who
re-
ported
that
IMPERSONATIONS chap.
of its
writer has
of
story is
of doubt,
possible.
In
this
I
the
earlier
Report
appears,
hath
bene
receiued
had
lost
their
much
too
circumstantial
the
collector
and
producer
of
the
"Voyages,"
board
which
was
"the
who
found
the
raised.
The
of hard
issue in
gentleman our
first of our
in those
albeit
he
had
so vertuous
the yere
of our
winter,
But we
tempest
recouered
can testify
he
The same Monday night, about twelue of the clocke, or not
long
Hinde,
deuoured
all
that
of the
viewe
by reason
also that
9.
of
Hay
with
his
Barke,
is
saflie
treatise
intent,
to
write
writer
concludes
that
the
well
In order therefore to rouse
his countrymen "out
chapters,
theyr
countries."
Testament, and from History
the
Chapter IV.—Advantages
;
planting
there
the
In the last
their
feete,
yet
if
now
therefore
at
the
last
we
would
awake,
and
imaginations aside)
become industrious
all
desired.
The
of an
rescue the
project of
last chapter opens thus : "Now therfore for proofe that Planting
these parts is a
forward
thereof
: and
that
to the
end they
or
indifferently
affected
to
 
Sir Philip Sidney
given)
the
year
after
matters,
but
states
discuss a document
documents of
ex-
planation
for
this
content,
while
Nashe controversy, which I believe
to have been a
as regards Harvey, and
but the
subject is
the
author
praises
his
own
Northern
wiade,
They
of minde.
they long
from
me
Of fleshly
remarriage
with
Sir
doo
not
finde
their
Starre :
last
That dying lives,
not
; and
indeed
it
goes
no
other
of vapours.
me ; no,
nor woman
giving
a spiritually sensitive mind
after a
frame
of
nature,
some
ants
empty,
taketh away
Home Again,
being in
person
of
"
moume.
and he
Doth
Cecil in the amusing but
scurrilous
epitaph,
attributed
(without
foundation)
MuUaes shore
find
the other shepherd's song
hard.
And
ever
Ah
thou
doest
forlore.
ought
regardfuU,
And
wend
;
and give
character.
by
1592,
or
at
by the author
these lines made
Somersetshire man, the
1563.^
He
Oxford
man),
depending
for
literary
attempts
were
made
at
Anne
Clifford,
year."—Grosart,
of Sidnejr's
twenty-
was
an
they
had
dependant in
a great
be
doubt, in
reading Daniel's
Heaven nor earth will
care
clowde
s'obscure
date.
More-
be
some
human
interest.
imagination, and no
for
the
speeches.
good
England, in
which he
alleged
retorts
tongue,
For
though
Pembroke in
the edition
harmony of
abused)
hold
Lightnes and
the
have said of Daniel :
copious
English,
and
(Out
of
fill
up
:
which
based on
being the death of
And death's
her
relation,
addressed
to
sing,
All
And
bound
evidently
in-
clined
to
laugh
at
waters.
hath her seat
and she my
my
mind,
but
Daniel,
is
in
the
same
No.
4
resources, but
writer's
assailed
by
was a
Land are not so
of
wordes,
shallow
conceipt.
respect,
wee
dwelling
for
onelie
taken
his death,
in reference
to their
Wilton, and I
write
such
a
as a work
first
and
this joynt worke, by
Thine by his owne, and what is done of mine
Inspir'd by
(If any marke of thy secret spirit thou
beare)
take my
late noble
are
exceptionally
dispense
To
of
bringing
see,
Nor
all the rest
worth have done
First
how
so
well
compos'd
Then
Where
passion
did
ever brest
;
be all
Nor
:
And well adventur'd
urges,
cheerfulness and
think so
The
emotion
of
may
write
passably
surprising,
succeed as
of thought
experiment. In them
been
trying
his
hand
at
the
new
mind was too
in the
know, M.
studie
a
Pine
tree
striken
of fortune
tallies
with
service in the
expedition of Essex
against Cadiz in
he
are dedicated
Margaret,
Countess
Lady
Rich,
tion which is incompatible
who
And Poets
is
loss
of
and
even
well
The words
Stella the faire,
alone did honor,
upon
her.
Of
this
is
was
:
loved
lasse,
His
great that
sister,
the
Countess
of
Pembroke
; but
of
rest
(in
the
person
of
The lineaments
attention in connec-
Sees
more
than
To short-livde beautie
Did
never
Muse
inspire
beneath
Poets
braine
The first
these two
the best
I suppose
is
such
as
only
(art.
example,
That day
Let
Angels
speake,
In
"
in
Ralegh's
the
the author
of such
with what
'
the
following
year,
expressed
after
the
execution
Though
year,^ A letter
Nottingham
she mentions
Mountjoy, then
engaged on
the Irish
woman of
her
from
1575,
it
was
than
the
interests
the
purport
sequence,
inference,
between
July
1591
and
the
following
account
of
light
upon
euer any
your
name. . . .
and
advice
in
correcting
exceptional
work
to
at
Cambridge
experience
such puppet
sundry short
pieces by
past," which would appear to be by
Nashe
himself.
book
him whose
unmatchable lines
have endured
so
rawly
in
publique
glory
hereditary
passion
portrait which
his
For
between passion and duty,
disappear,
(?)
religion, art,
from
the
sonnets
own
lines
in
aim, do guess.
to fly.
;
me sit
thy
cruel
heart
and
Lady
Rich,
they
a
man
nineteen
or
sphere of
for the man
seems
some
time
for this statement.
At
that
lookt
to
the
same
love
in
the
lines
For
To
her
my
thoughts
I
One
where
Calidore
supposed
marriage,
these
allusions
present
a
great
Shepheards
lasse,
to be
the
deare dread
When your
of the Faerie
handmayd,
And
"
for
Gabriel
Harvey
; the
initials,
respectively,
R.
S.,
;
it is
comedy.
not
This
in
;
The
former
;
To
of sin
My love, lyke the Spectator,
ydly sits."
: see
Brydges
and
which
we
are
writing
; also,
apart
from
this,
in my
signed
The second, at least,
Thomas Nashe accuses
him
looke
doing,
men
I
read
I doe
Diana).
In
the
sommers
Nightingale,
Thy
My
rimes
To
to
raise
Let thy fair Cynthias praises be thus rudely showne.
It will
be observed
use of the
to
is
1590
is another piece by a writer of genius (of the
character
of
the
first
three
books
the Squire
temerity
to write about them in the terms used in Canto
v. of Book
risk
the
handling
the Queen's
about
it?^
(See
particularly
stanzas
44,
47
and
54.)
On
^
in
it
for
a
fact
that
Spenser
was
defence
born
in
1552,
the
birth.
What
he attracted
of dis-
Desmond.
of
1
1581
dispatches, and
appears
favourite.
I can see no
reasonably
be
held
to
i
S
90.
leisure
for
other
hand,
the
? I think the answer to this
question
will
chronicle
of
to have taken place
(Sonnet Ixxiv. and Dr.
proceed
to
explain.
Sylvanus
Spenser
(Edmund
in his
and
so it
is right
and
husband's
death,
in the
;
was first
kind.
From
mothers
me
lent
:
Ye three Elizabeths
and
the
Epithalamion
the
sonnet
refers
to
the
poet's
mother ?
in that
unto
you
allied as
well to
of
great
honour
and
ancestor
in
man being come
court,
and
married the ladie Elizabeth, the third sister and
coheire
Edward the second.
being
the
Jane
sonne
to
and
to the
to king
William, and
Wales.
So
that
your
ancestor
sir
John
de
maner
be
derived
ye house
of Clare,
and not
other mother
mention
be."
the
mother,
a
family,
in
familiar
shire
that
his
and even
Garter
and
a more than usual
that, in Queen
was an
additional grace,
Raleigh, she was one
another nobleman
the jacks
were seen
and a
know
what
the
matter
was
? My
himself
in
Ireland,
he
The lines
are
not
true
who
had
been
raised
direct
"
of
these
sonnets?
Queen
of
Whom if ye
I.) I
One if
Spenser
admiration
not
in
his
manner.
I
my dark spright
earth,
to
which
Not
to
the
be.
Whose
Jewell
But
if
it
be
With mercifuU regard, give
;
meane degree.
Queene (III. v.),
referred to at
that the
in a way
Queen
with the
"
blessed looke.
Sonnet i.
the blinded
borne.
Sonnet
Ixi.
is
past,
have run
Through Faery
Give leave to
were
not
published
till
1596,
and
I
Fit
of
the love
referred to
the
last
to
felt.
Sonnet
Ixvii.
may
or
the
same
This question,
accepted as a
No doubt
public ex-
Englishmen
were
otherwise ?
developed early.
and
the
other
of the
spirit is
is supposed
to have
be deeper
does
not
express
itself
idealisation,
theory
who in
youth is
as
it
were
he
speaks
at
thirty-one.^
A
poem
(which
is
artificial,
some one
there
are
a
which
chapter
 
lyke golden
Britomart
(both
represent-
ing
the
same
way :
Her
Framed in goldsmithes forge with
cunning
hand
that
any
writer
description, but the
incessu
patuit
Dea
of her breast, Veste
blame that oweth
Spenser to
ibid.
Also
similarly
used
in
the
classical
comparisons
That we
may raise
to encourage
it under
disputed
that
Bacon
sonnets, a
form of
Bacon's
origin
example of the
the
is necessary
preserving
work
which
and
further
as from my brother,
Lord, both to be by me in
secret
as I knew
her Majesty would
would be
names for the
inapplicable
part
of
Ireland.
p.
223
above,
the poem
may have
yours in
been
Bacon was at a
very low ebb of his fortunes. It was about sixteen years
since
subsequently
the
post
of
Solicitor,
of the Crown
from
Essex,
brilliant
the successor
on
as to keep
possibilities
rested
1
607.
and inferior,
whose fortunes
has been censured
writing
philosophically,
and
to
which
Bacon
was
wholly
free,
ever,
this
other.
Francis
Osborne,
comprehendeth
mine
Ralegh, I
feel sure,
attention
in
this
some
years,
about the
;
That
no
thwarted ambition,
Sir Robert Cecil,
thing as
Queen,
diplomatically
anxious
inquiry
it he
free
1
Spedding,
extreme
formality
letters to
in his
writes by preference, even
for
the
retainers
by
swarm ill-favouredly
towardly
good
him with
(or
he
had
to
her
the
own
great
hindrance,
; but
had
joined
good
gifts
of
natural
wit
and
pray
word preached,
word is
written so close to the edge of the paper that I
cannot
but
then out of
white staffs together
earnest it
—
a
less
offence
aging
than
the
world
thinketh,"^
a supply of
Essex, it
and
"I
and told with the
deep. To
of it ; and there
I
of hasty comfort,
and therefore her Majesty must pardon me if I were
hasty and importunate in
apart.
But
this
Queen.
to
so
service was
he
took
occasion
cherished and
business,"
and
he
speaks
of
he
says,
.
.
."
^
much
in
appetite
or
much
in
Parnassus are
a
stomach
'
in
will
her
time
will send for
Houghton and Coventry
;
and such-like
is, that
I am
abroad,
requiem
careth
brother
reports
to
Lady
from
the
and lets him
my
honest
liberty),
confidere
. . . And
now
errors which, like
may
commit
a
Majesty
told
you,
like
following
he let it
etc.
3
Spedding,
Life,
i.
359.
amazing, and it
however, in
my opinion,
feeling
men
in
of
a piece of
Puckering
I
would
service
now in the best of my years, and the same mind remains
in
me
still
aside.
often said) that she doth
reserve
me
and
not
reject
me."
writing an
angry letter,
is
cause."
says it is indorsed
"
good
office.
Yet
Gray's
Inn
and have
her mind
in various
607,
when
made
Solicitor-General
by
King
James.
that writing is to be
his career and
soon as he
circum-
stances
some important cause
so I look for nothing,
though
would not
Lordship may
go on
where I think
Lordship mought think
my silence came
ordinary
occasion
com.,
Fr.
Bacon.^
To
any time
these letters, I will only say that it is a
mistake
as
far
from
being
altered
in
devotion
towards
her,
as
I
knoweth
me
some
opinion,
goeth
and
be redeemed.
law
even for
to
Thales'
opinion.
my Lord
a philosopher
a common,
of his
He was
to himself
;
guarantee of the qualities for leadership,
and as
spheres,
impulsive,
passionate,
a
more
intimate
character
the
men
in
high
position
interview with Essex
thwarted in
waves of a troubled
Lo. of
was
probably
generation,
method,
judgment
and
the
men
among
gross betrayal of
may
Francis
by
inter-
mittent
resolutions
period Ralegh was also under
a cloud,
the
Queen's
displeasure
from
favour. During this
then
made
his
first
voyage
(1592—1594)
was
1
xi.
21,
22 :
schemes of
to
examine
the
Ralegh
poems
in
and the
writer
than
;
coming
on
of
time,
with
though
of Milton,
within the limits of
shall endeavour,
inquiry as to
They
December
1581,
Court
at
Richmond,
dated
March
1583,
"
to much
for pioners
but since, the matter is stayd. I know not for
what
cause.
In ought
assured
of
best part
of suspect
dublenes, and
so ever
of his
first rise
chased
Bacon,
1589.
Aubrey.
But
at
first
hand.
grace
and
This can be
evidence
of
it.
For
this
and
it
was
not
until
was generally
appreciated. Aubrey
did
to make
more than
;
his growth,
his
descent
Councell Table, there
he had in
telling of his tale
no slight mark
and
she
Irish
business,
is
like
to
already
to be
inferences of fact from his
testimony. What he says on the subject is
in
Latin,
of
with
the
suitability
a
more
indulgent
admiration,
fabulous narratives, of a
but
;
The
coarse
account
for
of the young
which ended, if contemporary
Ralegh was of a less tragic order. As we have
seen,
he
Stanneries
in
from
the
poems
for
the
supposed
against
Spain
which
in
sum of money
to absent
injoyinge the
well,
I
can
I
can
Admirall
many tymes,
to
cume
I
weare,
I
man
livinge
and get out
war
attempt
the
of
honour,
which,
affected
an
almost
frenzied
distress
of
flattery
addressed
to
in
imprisonment.
from the
which are
Prograsse, and which
me to
about her
what is
sythes,
the
sorrows,
Majesty's
to make at this point is that this letter has
been con-
framed
the Court Devices
his wife.
exquisite
poem,
the ridiculous
it is
handled
of his
loved you
clear
of sincere
and I find it
There is no
in
his
troubles
he
writes,
beare
my
effect as
shall in
letters (if
begging itt. And
know itt (deare
and
continue,
or
on me, and
by
the
Deputye,'^
to
whom
to the
Queen, for
and
it
was the first and only rent that hath yet bynn payd
by
any
the
poor
people
and
newly
mee and his cousin Winck-
feld, and will not here my atornes
speake. Hee
man,
the cussen of
Queen
twelve
hundred
serve
do
bande,
be
more
than
or
lands;
thos
parts,
W.
Ralegh.i
Addressed
the
same,
and
be
bold
to
write
yow
my
farther
suspicion.
Your
cousen,
the
expansive.
B.
miss
the
gold
mine
sure.
I never saw
a man more
owing to his position, but the
deference is also that of the
less educated to the
continues
at his
it is true,
Edwards
thought
very
saw at
"
you.
he
that
Ralegh
I
must
not
of
man,
attractive as the subject is, and I only wish to draw
attention
to
proposition that Ralegh was not the kind of man to
labour in the
wrote good poetry
who
seriously to
of
which
there
took up writing after
from the tedium
Walter's
autograph.^
Edwards
suggests
at
that
in
the
period
to
a
purpose
to
speak
of it
to prove the
without warrant,
not
impertinent
worlde in
so
amplely
insert.
This
beinge,
after
one
ametye,
for
your
Majesty
have alreddy
more
then
be eternall in
joyes and happines.—
Majestye.
This is another of the letters which I think may arise
out
the
State
Papers
at
a Succession." It may be observed that this was, in
effect,
writer
by fishing in
A
somewhat
the colonisation
of Guiana.
and
advancement,
and
most
of
to
"
sitter. The
.
sword,
shows
What
exactly
expected.
But
and
Ralegh
good terms,
of
succession,
the
future
safety
of
the last
reasons
shall
explain
later),
attention
of the
Ralegh in the
which might have
up for
from his
gave yow advise
For he
will ascribe
Aubrey's notes
parson.
For
after-revenges,
feare
Kellowav
do
wisely.
butt on,
in a
wilbe
able
to
break
be
the
canker
"
Cecyll,
Knight,
Principall
Secritory
to
"
W.
Ralegh
nothing
so
miserable,
the
wishes
of
the
King.
"
books. It is entitled
book
any lost poem, or
of
the
as it is evidently a fair copy