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college library, Edinburgh, and who styles himself the "loving cousin" of David Murray. The lovesonnets entitled "Cælia," which Mr. Pinkerton had not been able to meet with,* are inscribed to Richard Lord Dingwall, in a metrical dedication which intimates a suspicion that his Lordship's martial mind would have been more congenially amused if the poet had saluted him with the dread sounds

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"Of neighing coursers and of trumpets shrill." He at the same time announces his future intention to impart some subject to his patron's "noble ears,' which shall seem of more worth than these idle and light conceits,

"Where youth and folly shew their skil-lesse art." That his poetical conceits were not skil-less the following quatuorzain may show.

"On his being accused by a Gentlewoman for stealing of a book.

"Let not thyselfe, faire nimphe! nor none of thine, Accuse me of a sacrilegious theft;

For by the world, and by the starry lift,† And by the honour I do owe thy shrine,

By the infernall spirits and gods divine,

And by the hallowed stately Stigian brayes,‡

I never meant, sweete dame, thee to displease : For why? thy griefe had likewise then been mine.

with others I know, hath done well, if they could be brought to publish their works." Conversation with Ben Jonson, in 1619.

* See Preliminaries to Scotish poems, 1792, Vol. I. p. xxxiii. Mr. A. Campbell, in his Hist. of Poetry in Scotland, notices a copy, at p. 130,

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If ever aught, deare love, from thee I stole,
I both protest & sweare it was no booke;
No: nothing but a poore inveigling looke,
For which againe I left my freedome thrall.

Then blame me not for stealing of thy books,
Since you steal hearts-I only steale poore looks."

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One of his sonnets was made, at the author's being in Bourdeaux." Mr. Alex. Campbell has reprinted another "on the misfortune of Belisarius." Two others are addressed" to the right worthy gentleman and his loving cousin Mr. John Murray." Another was written" on the death of Lady Cicely Weemes, Lady of Tillebarne." This is followed by an epitaph, or rather elegy, on the death of his deare cousin, M. David Murray, and a sonnet on the death of his cousin Adam Murray. The following little poem appears to be composed on a plan of one among the Uncertain Authors annexed to Lord Surrey's poems, which is considered by Mr. Warton as the first example in our language, now remaining, of the pure and unmixed pastoral.*

"The Complaint of the shepheard Harpalus.

"Poore Harpalus, opprest with love,

Sate by a christal brooke ;
Thinking his sorrowes to remove
Oft times therein did looke;

And hearing how on pebble stones
The murmuring river ran,
As if it had bewail'd his grones,

Unto it thus began:

* See Hist. of Eng. Poetry, iii. 31.

Faire stream, (quoth he) that pities me,

And hears matchlesse moane,

my

If thou be going to the sea,

As I do so suppone ;*

Attend my plaints, past all releefe,

Which dolefully I breath;

Acquaint the sea nymphes with the greefe,

Which still procures my death:

Who sitting on the cliffy rocks,

May in their songs expresse,

While as they combe their golden locks,

Poore Harpalus' distresse.

And so, perhaps, some passenger,

That passeth by the way, May stay & listen for to hear

Them sing this dolefull lay ;—

Poore Harpalus, a shepheard-swaine
More rich in youth than store,
Lov'd faire Philena, hapless man !
Philena, oh! therefore.

Who still, remorceless-hearted maide,

Took pleasure in his paine,

And his good will, poor soule! repayd
With undeserv'd disdayne.

Ne're shepheard lov'd a shepheardesse
More faithfully then he;

Ne're shepheard yet beloved lesse

Of shepheardesse could be.

How oft with dying looks did he

To her his woes impart !

* Suppose.

How oft his sighs did testifie
The dolour of his heart!

How oft from vallies to the hills
Did he his griefs rehearse !
How oft re-echo'd they his ills
Abacke again, alas !

How oft on barks of stately pines
Of beech, of holen greene,
Did he ingrave in mournfull lines

The dole he did sustaine !

Yet all his plaints could have no place,
To change Philena's mind;

The more his sorrowes did increase,
The more she prov'd unkind.

The thought whereof, through verie care,
Poore Harpalus did move;

That overcome with high despaire,

He quat both life and love."

Several of the sonnets bear much similarity in their structure to those of the Scotian Petrarch, Drummond; but they appeared five years before any known edition of the bard of Hawthornden, whose tender amatory effusions long preceded the mythological elegancies of Waller, as Mr. Neve has fully shewn in his "Cursory Remarks on ancient English poets." T. P.

ART. CXXXV. Ciceronis Amor. Tellie's Love. Wherein is discoursed, the prime of Ciceroes youth,

* Quitted.

eye.

setting out in liuely Portraitures, how yong Gentle. men, that aime at Honour, should leuell the end of their affections, holding the love of Countrey and friends in more esteeme, then those fading blossomes of beautie, that onely feede the curious survey of the A worke full of pleasure, as following Ciceroes veine, who was so conceited in his youth, as graue in his age, profitable, as containing precepts worthy so famous an Oratour. By Robert Green, in Artibus Magister. Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit vtile dulci. London: Printed by W. Stansby for John Smethwicke, and are to be sold at his shop in S. Dunstanes Church-yard, vnder the Diall. 1611. 4to. *

By the Dedication "to the Right Honourable Ferdinando Stanley, Lord Strange, ennobled with all titles that honour may affoord, or vertue challenge, Robert Greene wisheth increase of vertuous and lordly resolutions."

Then "to the gentle Readers health.”

"Ad Lectorem Hexasticon," 6 lines, sig. "Tho. Watson, Oxon."

"Ad Lectorem de Ciceronis amore Hexasticon," 6 lines, sig. "G. B. Cantabrigiensis."

Two pieces of English poetry of 12 lines each, in six-line stanzas, unentitled; subscribed "Thomas Burneby, Esquire," and "Edward Rainesford, Esquire."

This Roman wooing and wedding extends to 71

*These pieces of Greene, &c. being principally in prose, are yet placed in this class, on account of the intermixture of poetry, which they contain, as well as from being works of Fiction.

Who succeeded to the earldom of Derby, 1594. VOL. II.

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