When rhymers vex'd his ghost and men to see't,
Staining fair paper with their cloven feet,
Thou hast new made him, for, as if by thee
Shuffled into his antique dust, we see
Him rise, but visible in some earthy part,
His soul is the new creature of thy art.
This could thy great converse with Virgil do,
To make old Æsop rise a poet too.

What in thy method must our wits amaze
Next thy Translation, and this Paraphrase?
Awake that Poem, born from thy own flame,
And at least second in heroic name;

This, only this remains; then, thou may'st try,
And thy Muse tell thee 'tis too late, to die.

ON THE DEATH OF ANNE, QUEEN OF JAMES THE FIRST.

Oh, let me weep! and, though I censur'd be,
I'll add one drop of water to this sea:
Yet why should this be vain, since that before
Heaven being full, one star is added more?

Flens post posuit Jac. Shirley, Aul. Cather. in
Art. Bac.

6 On the death of Anne, &c.] These verses, and the epitaph, are written on a fly leaf at the end of a copy of the following work, in the possession of Mr. David Laing of Edinburgh, who kindly communicated them to me: Lacrymæ Cantabrigienses : In obitum Serenissimæ Reginæ Annæ, Conjugis dilectissimæ Jacobi Magna Britanniæ et Hibernia Regis, 1619, 4to. The first four lines were transplanted by Shirley, with some variations, into his poems Upon the Death of G. M. and Upon the Death of King James, as the latter stands in Rawlinson's MS. see p. 443. D.

EPITAPHIUM.

Lo, here the star, which rose on Denmark's sky,
By Juno fix'd in Scotland's royal sphere!
Whose princely orb did mount her up so high,
That she on kingdoms three shin'd sixteen year;
To mighty kings both daughter, sister, wife,
And mother, have her princely son long life!
Now God her soul, the world her fame doth keep,
All hearts her love, her corpse herein doth sleep.

GLOSSARIAL INDEX.

ability, iv. 485.

A

bell-men, iii. 199.

Bermudas, iii. 342.

adamant broken with blood, ii. Bethlem Gabor, ii. 427, iii. 13,

280.

Alexander and his physician, v. black guard, the, iv. 575, vi.

139.

Amsterdam, the receptacle of blades, iii. 199.

sectaries, v. 37.

angel, i. 374, vi. 34.

antimasque, ii. 136, vi. 265.

Apollo, ii. 284.

blue, the general livery of ser.

vants, v. 306.

Book of Martyrs, i. 294.

born to consume fruits, vi. 294.

Archy, the king's jester, allu- brave, ii. 418, v. 61.

Bear, the, at the bridge foot, chrisom children, iv. 298.

coat with a cognizance, i. 301. Endymion, allusion to Lyly's

confess and be hang'd, vi. 24. fading, ii. 424.

curse by Jack and Tom, iii. 62. flying people, iii. 506.

draw Dun out of the mire, iv. Gresham's foundation, ii. 335.