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Title: Poems
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639 Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639 Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618 Hannah, J. (John), 1818-1888
Subjects: Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639 Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618
Publisher: London : William Pickering
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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-t. ii. 309, 4;h ed. But Gifford states Grangers mistaketoo strongly ; for lie speaks very doubtfully about it; and though HerrickgHesperides were not published till 1C48, this Dialogue is expressly said tohave been Translated anno 1627. p. 76. Davisons Translation is in thePoet. Rhaps. p. 94, ed. Nicolas. 62 POEMS FOUND AMONG THE G. I, and some few pure Souls conspire,And burn both in a mutual Fire,(ir>) For whom Ill die* once more, ere they Should miss of Heavens eternal day. S. But, Lord, what if I turn again,And, with an Adamantine Chain,Lock me to thee ? What if I chase(20) The World away to give thee place ? G. Then, though these Souls, in whom I joy,Are Seraphims,—Thou but a toy,A Foolish Toy,—yet once more IWould with thee live, and for thee die. Ignoto. * Tld dy—eds. 1651 and 1654, and Biydges, /V die.—In ed. 1672,the title is, * Imitatio i/orc^/««a Odes 9—&c. In line 21, those souls—.d. 1651. In line 4, « little—Brydges. PAPERS OF SIR HENRY WOTTON. 63
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III. DOCTOR B. OF TEARS. (The full name of the writer is preserved in an old MS.Collection belonging to Mr. J. P. Collier, with the loanof which he favoured me some time since. The pieceis there entitled, Doc. Brooke of Teares.—Dr. SamuelBrooke, the intimate friend of Dr. Donne, was the son ofa Yorkshire merchant, and was entered at Trinity College,Cambridge, in 1596. He took the degree of M. A. in 1604,that of B.D. in 1607, and that of D.D.in 1615. In 1612,he was made Divinity Professor of Gresham College, andwas afterwards in succession Rector of St. Margarets, Loth-bury, Master of Trinity, and Archdeacon of Coventry. Thislast preferment he held only for a few months, and died inSeptember, 1631.* I believe he has not generally been re-cognized as an English poet, though some of his contempo-raries have left allusions which would have led us to look * See Wards Lives of the Gresham Professors, in Blisss ed. of WoodsFasti, i. 401, ami iii Zoiichs Walton, pp. 35, 36, ed. 1796: where

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