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Did the Muscovite men like their maidens fight,
In their lines we had scarcely supped to-night."

So a deeper trench 'mong the trenches there
Was dug, for the form as brave as fair;
And none, till the judgment trump and shout,
Shall drive her out of the last redoubt.

ALFRED AUSTIN.

NOTES.

My Mind to Me a Kingdom is. Page 1. BYRD (b. 1540, d. 1623) was organist to Queen Elizabeth, and composed an immense amount of vocal music. Three or four other stanzas, inferior to these, are sometimes inserted in this poem, and its authorship has been claimed for Sir Edward Dyer, a contemporary of Byrd's. There are also four stanzas of precisely similar construction, having many of the same thoughts, and in some cases almost identical words, which are attributed to Joshua Sylvester. These are given at page 15.

The Lye. Page 2. The authorship of this poem has been disputed. Percy ascribes it to RALEIGH (b. 1552, executed 1618), and a copy of it among the Chetham manuscripts bears his signature.

Man's Mortality. Page 6. WASTEL (b. about 1566) published in 1629 "Microbiblion, or the Bible's Epitome in Verse," of which these famous stanzas are a fragment.

Willy Drowned in Yarrow. Page 8. This poem is believed to date from the 15th century.

Verses. Page 9. The story of CHEDIOCK TICHEBORNE is told in Disraeli's "Curiosities of Literature," Vol. II. He was executed for treason (of which he was probably innocent) in 1586.

The Ballad of Agincourt. Page 10. DRAYTON (b. 1563, d. 1631) published many poems, this being one of his latest. The battle, in which 15,000 English defeated 50,000 French, took place in 1415. Longfellow borrows the metrical formula of this poem for his "Skeleton in Armor."

Take thy Old Cloake about thee. Page 13. The seventh stanza of this poem is sung by Iago in the Second Act of "Othello." The whole appeared in Ramsay's "Tea-Table Miscellany," 1724.

A Contented Mind. Page 15. See the first of these Notes. SYLVESTER was born in England in 1563, and died in 1618.

Love me Little, Love me Long. Page 16. This poem dates from the latter half of the 16th century.

Good Ale. Page 18. STILL (d. 1607), Bishop of Bath and Wells, was the author of "Gammer Gurton's Needle," one of the earliest of English comedies, in which this poem occurs.

Exequy. Page 19. KING (b. 1592, d. 1669) was chaplain to James I. and became Bishop of Chichester. A single stanza exactly imitating those of Simon Wastel given at page 6 of this volume, is attributed to him. He turned the Psalms of David into verse, and wrote other poems.

The Angler's Wish. Page 23. These lines occur in the "Complete Angler" of IZAAK WALTON (b. 1593, d. 1683). Old Piscator says, "When

I sat last on this primrose bank, and looked down these meadows, I thought of them as Charles the Emperor did of the city of Florence, 'that they were too pleasant to be looked on but only on holidays.' As I then sat on this very grass, I turned my pleasant thoughts into verse.' Bryan, mentioned in the last stanza, is supposed to be his dog.

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Death's Final Conquest. Page 24. SHIRLEY (b. in London, 1596, d. 1666) was a dramatist, and this poem occurs in his "Contention of Ajax and Ulysses."

The Bride. Page 24. SUCKLING'S (b. 1609, d. 1641) "Ballad upon a Wedding," from which these stanzas are taken, is never printed complete now-a-days; for reasons which would be obvious if it were.

Ye Gentlemen of England. Page 26. These verses have probably attracted much more attention than they ever would if Campbell had not re-written them as "Ye Mariners of England." The three stanzas here given are the best of a long ballad which is not worth printing entire. PARKER lived in the 17th century.

Song. Page 26. SEDLEY (b. 1639, d. 1701) was one of the wits of the Restoration.

My Dear and Only Love. Page 27. The author of this poem (b. 1612, hanged in Edinburgh in 1650) is the hero of Aytoun's "Execution of Montrose."

The Splendid Shilling. Page 32. PHILIPS (b. 1676, d. 1708) wrote this poem to parody the style of Milton.

Bonnie George Campbell. Page 36. Motherwell, in his "Minstrelsy," says this is "probably a lament for one of the adherents of the house of Argyle, who fell in the battle of Glenlivat, Oct. 3, 1594."

The Hermit. Page 37. PARNELL (b. 1679, d. 1718) was a native of Dublin, and became Archdeacon of Clogher.

On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America. Page 44. Bishop BERKELEY (b. in Ireland, 1684, d. 1753) formed a scheme "for converting the American savages to Christianity, by a college to be erected in the Summer Islands, otherwise called the Isles of Bermuda,'

obtained a royal charter, and with several friends came to Rhode Island. But his promised funds were not forthcoming, and at the end of seven years he returned. This poem was an expression of his enthusiastic faith in the scheme.

Sally in our Alley. Page 44. CAREY (d. by his own hand, 1743) was an Englishman and a musical composer.

Grongar Hill. Page 46.

DYER (b. in Wales, 1698, d. 1758) was a landscape painter, but afterward entered holy orders. Grongar Hill is in Caermarthen, Wales.

A Soliloquy. Page 51. HARTE (b. about 1700, d. 1774) was a clergyman of the Church of England.

The Braes of Yarrow. Page 52. HAMILTON (b. 1704, d. 1754) wrote this ballad in imitation of an old one with the same refrain.

The Schoolmistress. Page 56. SHENSTONE (b. 1714, d. 1763) published this poem in 1742. Goldsmith said, "It is one of those happinesses in which a poet excels himself, as there is nothing in all Shenstone which any way approaches it in merit."

The Chameleon. Page 65. MERRICK (b. 1720, d. 1769) was an eminent Greek scholar at Oxford, and published a versification of the Psalms, and other poems.

Waly, Waly, but Love be Bonny. Page 68. Percy says the heroine of this ballad was the wife of James, second Marquis of Douglas. "This lady, married in 1670, was expelled from the society of her husband in consequence of scandals which a disappointed lover basely insinuated into the ear of the Marquis."

The Tears of Scotland. Page 69. SMOLLETT the novelist (b. in Scotland, 1721, d. 1771) produced a few poems, of which this, written just after the battle of Culloden, is the most successful.

Cumnor Hall. Page 72. MICKLE (b. in Scotland, 1734, d. 1788) was a printer, and used frequently to put his poetry into type without writing it. This ballad suggested to Scott his novel of "Kenilworth."

The Sailor's Wife. Page 76. This poem has been commonly attributed to Mickle, author of “Cumnor Hall," because an imperfect copy of it was found among his papers. He never claimed it, nor would he be likely to have written it, as he never lived in a seaport. Miss ADAM was a schoolmistress, who lived near Greenock, and died in Glasgow in 1765. She published a volume of poems, and claimed this as one of hers.

The Toper's Apology. Page 78. Captain MORRIS (b. in England, 1739 or 1749, d. 1838) published a great number of songs, scarcely another one of which rises above doggerel.

The Three Warnings. Page 80. It is said that Mrs. THRALE (b. 1740, d. 1821) was indebted to her good friend Dr. Johnson for much of the finish of this poem.

Life. Page 83. Mrs. BARBAULD (b. 1743, d. 1825) wrote numerous short poems, including some hymns. This one was greatly admired by Rogers.

When Shall we Three Meet Again? Page 84. There is no very satisfactory theory as to the authorship of this poem. The one which ascribes it to three early students at Dartmouth College rests on slender evidence.

Gaffer Gray. Page 85. HOLCROFT (b. 1745, d. 1809), author of "The Road to Ruin," was successively a shoemaker, horse-jockey, schoolmaster, actor, playwright, and novelist.

What Constitutes a State. Page 86. JONES (b. 1746, d. 1794) tells us he got the idea of this poem from one of the extant fragments of Alcæus:

Οὐ λίθοι, οὐδὲ ξύλα, οὐδὲ

Τέχνη τεκτόνων αἱ πόλεις εἰσὶν,

̓Αλλ' ὅπου ποτ' ἂν ὦσιν ̓́ΑΝΔΡΕΣ
Αὐτοὺς σωζεῖν εἰδότες,

Ενταῦθα τείχη καὶ πόλεις.

To the Cuckoo. Page 87. LOGAN (b. 1748, d. 1788) was a Scottish minister. Edmund Burke, when in Edinburgh, sought him out, solely because of his admiration for this poem. Its authorship has been claimed for MICHAEL BRUCE (b. 1746, d. 1767), whose manuscript poems were entrusted to Logan for editing and publication.

Auld Robin Gray. Page 88. LADY BARNARD (b. in Scotland, 1750, d. 1825) published this ballad anonymously, about 1771, and it excited so much comment that a reward of twenty guineas was offered for discovery of the authorship. She never acknowledged it till two years before her death. Scott said, “Auld Robin Gray' is that real pastoral which is worth all the dialogues which Corydon and Phillis have had together, from the days of Theocritus downwards."

Mary's Dream. Page 89. LowE (b. in Scotland, 1750, d. in Virginia, 1798) wrote this poem on the loss at sea of a young surgeon named Miller, the fiancé of a Miss McGhie in whose father's family Lowe was

tutor.

What is Time? Page 90. MARSDEN (b. in Dublin, 1754, d. 1836), who spent thirty years in India, was famous as an orientalist.

The Groves of Blarney. Page 92. MILLIKIN (b. in Ireland, 1767, d. 1815) was a lawyer, painter, and littérateur. The intention of this poem, written about 1798, was to ridicule the songs of the Irish village bards. There are several versions, and it is said that the fifth stanza was inserted by John Lander, when singing the song at an electioneering dinner.

Helen of Kirkconnel. Page 93. There are numerous versions of this

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