With that she gan to vaile her head,
Her cheeks were like the roses red,
But not a word she sayd.

With that the shepheard gan to frowne,
He threw his pretie pypes adowne,

And on the ground him layd.

Sayth she, "I may not stay till night,
And leave my summer-hall undight,

And all for long of thee."

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'My coate," sayth he, nor yet my foulde Shall neither sheepe nor shepheard hould, Except thou favour mee."

Sayth she, "Yet lever were I dead,

Then I should lose my mayden-head,
And all for love of men."

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Unto her paramour.”

With that she bent her snow-white knee,

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VIII.

The Farewell to Lobe.

From Beaumont and Fletcher's play, entitled The
Lover's Progress, act iii. sc. 1.

ADIEU, fond love! farewell, you wanton powers!
I am free again:

Thou dull disease of bloud and idle hours,

Bewitching pain,

Fly to fools that sigh away their time!
My nobler love to heaven doth climb,

And there behold beauty still young,

That time can ne'er corrupt, nor death destroy;

Immortal sweetness by fair angels sung,

And honour'd by eternity and joy!

There lies my love, thither my hopes aspire;

Fond love declines, this heavenly love grows higher.

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IX.

Ulysses and the Syren

affords a pretty poetical contest between Pleasure and Honour. It is found at the end of "Hymen's Triumph: a pastoral tragi-cc medie," written by Daniel, and printed among his works, 4to, 1623.1 Daniel, who was a contemporary of Drayton's, and is said to have been poetlaureate to Queen Elizabeth, was born in 1562, and died in 1619. Anne, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery (to whom Daniel had been tutor), has inserted a small portrait of him in a full length picture of herself, preserved at Appleby Castle, in Cumberland. This little poem is the rather selected for a specimen of Daniel's poetic powers, as it is omitted in the later edition of his works, 2 vols. 12mo, 1718.

SYREN.

"COME, worthy Greeke, Ulysses come,
Possesse these shores with me,

The windes and seas are troublesome,

And here we may be free.

In this edition it is collated with a copy printed at the end of his "Tragedie of Cleopatra. Lond. 1607," 12mo.

Here may we sit and view their toyle,
That travaile in the deepe,

Enjoy the day in mirth the while,
And spend the night in sleepe."

ULYSSES.

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"Faire nymph, if fame or honour were To be attain'd with ease,

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Then would I come and rest with thee,
And leave such toiles as these;

But here it dwels, and here must I

With danger seek it forth;

To spend the time luxuriously
Becomes not men of worth."

SYREN.

Ulysses, O be not deceiv'd
With that unreall name;

This honour is a thing conceiv'd,

And rests on others' fame.

Begotten only to molest

Our peace, and to beguile

(The best thing of our life) our rest,

And give us up to toyle!"

ULYSSES.

"Delicious nymph, suppose there were

Nor honour, nor report,

Yet manlinesse would scorne to weare

The time in idle sport;

For toyle doth give a better touch

To make us feele our joy;

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And ease findes tediousnes, as much
As labour yeelds annoy."

SYREN.

"Then pleasure likewise seemes the shore Whereto tendes all your toyle;

Which you forego to make it more,

And perish oft the while.

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I must be wonne that cannot win,
Yet lost were I not wonne;
For beauty hath created bin
T'undoo or be undone."

X.

Cupid's Pastime.

This beautiful poem, which possesses a classical elegance hardly to be expected in the age of James I., is printed from the fourth edition of Davison's Poems,' &c., 1621. It is also found in a later miscellany, entitled Le Prince d'Amour, 1660, 8vo. Francis Davison, editor of the poems above referred to, was son of that unfortunate secretary of state, who suffered so much from the affair of Mary, Queen of Scots. These poems, he tells us in his preface, were written by himself, by his brother [Walter], who was a soldier in the wars of the Low Countries, and by some dear friends "anonymoi." Among them are found some pieces by Sir J. Davis, the Countess of Pembroke, Sir Philip Sidney, Spenser, and other wits of those times.

In the fourth volume of Dryden's Miscellanies, this poem is attributed to Sidney Godolphin, Esq., but erroneously, being probably written before he was born. One edition of Davison's book was published in 1608. Godolphin was born in 1610, and died in 1642-3.—Ãth. Ox. ii. 23. IT chanc'd of late a shepherd swain, That went to seek his straying sheep, Within a thicket on a plain

Espied a dainty nymph asleep.

Her golden hair o'erspred her face;
Her careless arms abroad were cast;

Her quiver had her pillows place;

Her breast lay bare to every blast.

The shepherd stood and gaz'd his fill;
Nought durst he do; nought durst he say;
Whilst chance, or else perhaps his will,

Did guide the god of love that way.

The crafty boy thus sees her sleep,
Whom if she wak'd he durst not see,
Behind her closely seeks to creep,
Before her nap should ended bee.

1 See the full title in book vi. no. iv.

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