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RICHARD EDWARDS.

Circa 1523-1566.

The fallyng out of faithfull frends, is the renuyng of loue. The Paradise of Dainty Devices.1

BISHOP STILL (JOHN). 1543-1607.

I cannot eat but little meat,

My stomach is not good;

But sure I think that I can drink

With him that wears a hood.

Gammer Gurton's Needle.2 Act ii.

Back and side go bare, go bare,
Both foot and hand go cold;

But, belly, God send thee good ale enough,
Whether it be new or old.

Act ii.

THOMAS STERNHOLD.

--1549.

The Lord descended from above
And bow'd the heavens high;
And underneath his feet he cast
The darkness of the sky.

On cherubs and on cherubims

Full royally he rode;

And on the wings of all the winds

Came flying all abroad.

Collection of Hymns. 104th Psalm.

1 Amantium iræ amoris integratiost. - Terence, Andria, 555. 2 Stated by Dyce to be from a MS. of older date than Gammer Gurton's Needle. - Skelton, Works, ed. Dyce, vol. i. pp. vii.-x., n.

EDWARD DYER. Circa 1540-1607.

My mind to me a kingdom is;

Such present joys therein I find,
That it excels all other bliss,

That earth affords or grows by kind:
Though much I want which most would have,
Yet still my mind forbids to crave.1

MS. Rawl. 85, p. 17. Hannah's Courtly Poets.

MATHEW ROYDON. Circa 1586.

A sweet attractive kinde of grace,
A full assurance given by lookes,
Continuall comfort in a face

The lineaments of Gospell bookes.

Elegie, or a Friend's Passion for his Astrophill.2

1 Mens regnum bona possidet.

Seneca, Thyestes, Act ii. Line 380.

My mind to me a kingdom is;

Such perfect joy therein I find,

As far exceeds all earthly bliss,

That God and Nature hath assigned.

Though much I want that most would have,

Yet still my mind forbids to crave.

Byrd's Psalmes, Sonnets, &c., 1588.

My mind to me an empire is

While grace affordeth health.

Robert Southwell (1560-1595), Loo Home.

2 This piece (ascribed to Spenser) was printed in The Phenix Nest, 4to, 1593, where it is anonymous. Todd has shown that it was written by Mathew Roydon.

Was never eie did see that face,
Was never eare did heare that tong,
Was never minde did minde his grace,
That ever thought the travell long;
But eies, and eares, and ev'ry thought
Were with his sweete perfections caught.
Elegie, or a Friend's Passion for his Astrophill.

LORD BROOKE. 1554-1628.

O wearisome condition of humanity!

Mustapha. Act v. Sc. 4.

And out of mind as soon as out of sight.1

Sonnet lvi.

SIR EDWARD COKE. 1549-1634.

The gladsome light of jurisprudence.

First Institute.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law

itself is nothing else but reason. is perfection of reason.2

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The law, which

Ibid.

For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium. Third Institute. Page 162.

1 See Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, Book i. Ch. 23. Page 5.

2 Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason. Sir John Powell, Coggs vs. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. 911.

8 Pandects, Lib. ii. tit. iv. De in Jus vocando.

The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose. Semayne's Case, 5 Rep. 91.

They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed nor excommunicate, for they have no souls. Case of Sutton's Hospital, 10 Rep. 32.

Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign. Debate in the Commons, May 17, 1628. Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six, Four spend in prayer, the rest on nature fix.1 Translation of lines quoted by Coke.

EDMUND SPENSER.

1553-1599.

Fierce warres, and faithfull loves shall moralize my Faerie Queene. Introduction. St. 1.

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As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright,
And made a sunshine in the shady place.

Book i. Canto iii. St. 4.

1 Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven,

2 Moralized my song.

Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven. - Sir William Jones. Pope, Epistle to Arbuthnot. Line 340. 3 This bold bad man. — - Shakespeare, Henry VIII., Act ii. Sc. 2; Massinger, A New Way to Pay Oid Debts, Act iv. Sc. 2.

Ay me, how many perils doe enfold

The righteous man, to make him daily fall.

Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto viii. St. 1.

Entire affection hateth nicer hands.

Book i. Canto viii. St. 40.

That darksome cave they enter, where they find
That cursed man, low sitting on the ground,
Musing full sadly in his sullein mind.

Book i. Canto ix. St. 35.

No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd,
No arborett with painted blossoms drest

And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd
To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd.
Book ii. Canto vi. St. 12.

And is there care in Heaven? And is there love
In heavenly spirits to these Creatures bace?

Book ii. Canto viii. St. 1.

How oft do they their silver bowers leave
To come to succour us that succour want!

Book ii. Canto viii. St. 2.

Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound.

Book ii. Canto xii. St. 70.

Through thick and thin,1 both over bank and bush,
In hope her to attain by hook or crook.2

Book iii. Canto i. St. 17.

Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew,3
And her conception of the joyous Prime.

1 See Appendix, p. 649.

Book iii. Canto vi. St. 3.

2 See Appendix, p. 637.

3 The dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning. - Common Prayer, Psalm cx. 3.

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