But if store of crowns be scant,
No man will supply thy want.
If that one be prodigal,
Bountiful they will him call,
And with such-like flattering,
"Pity but he were a king;"
If he be addict to vice,
Quickly him they will entice;
If to women he be bent,

They have him at commandment :(22)
But if Fortune once do frown,
Then farewell his great renown;
They that fawn'd on him before
Use his company no more.
He that is thy friend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need:

he will

If thou sorrow,
weep;
If thou wake, he cannot sleep;

Thus of every grief in heart
He with thee doth bear a part.
These are certain signs to know
Faithful friend from flattering foe.

P. 455. (1)

In The Passionate Pilgrim I have omitted the pieces already given (and with a better text),-three of them in our author's Love's Labour's lost (“If love make me forsworn, how shall I swear to love?" &c.; "Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye," &c.; and " On a day-alack the day !" &c.,,-see vol. ii. pp. 195, 198, 200), and two others among his Sonnets (Sonnet CXXXVIII. and Sonnet CXLIV.).

This sonnet occurs, and with very considerable variations, in Griffin's Fidessa, &c. 1596, standing as the third sonnet of that collection. Whether it was composed by Shakespeare or by Griffin has not been determined. Mr. Collier mentions having had before him an old Ms. copy of it, with “the initials W. S. at the end :" but that Ms. would seem to have been transcribed from The Passionate Pilgrim, since it agrees with it in its erroneous readings of the first and fourth lines.

So Griffin's Fidessa.-Omitted by mistake in The Pass. Pilgrim.

So Griffin's Fidessa.-The Pass. Pilgrim has "she fell to him" (wrongly,— forming an imperfect rhyme to "began to woo him”).

In the second of these lines The Pass. Pilgrim has " And as she;" an errror evidently occasioned by the "And" above and below. (The text of this part of the sonnet in Griffin's Fidessa is quite different.)

So Steevens.-The Pass. Pilgrim has “an hour."

"Qu. 'a master,'-a scholar by profession, a master of arts; if the word, ita nude positum, was ever used in this sense. See the context." Walker's Crit. Exam. &c. vol. iii. p. 371. An unnecessary conjecture.

This poem is printed anonymously, with the music, in Weelkes's Madrigals, 1597; and, with the signature Ignoto, in England's Helicon, 1600.-Not without reason does Boswell ask, "Is it possible that Shakespeare could have written this strange farrago; or what is, if possible, still worse-'It was a lording's daughter' ?"

"The Pass. Pilgrim and Weelkes's Madrigals have 'Love is dying' and 'Heart's denying.' The reading of the text is found in England's Helicon, except that it has Love is' and Faith is'." MALONE.

So Weelkes's Madrigals.-The other old eds. have "With."

So Weelkes's Madrigals.-The other old eds. have "loue."

P. 462. (13)

"the cause of all my moan:"

So Weelkes's Madrigals and England's Hel.-The Pass. Pilgrim has “. all my woe."—" Perhaps we ought to read 'thou cause,' &c." MALONE.-Qy. "though cause," &c.?

P. 462. (14)

"As well as partial fancy like :"

So a Ms. of this poem in Mr. Collier's possession.-The Pass. Pilgrim has "As well as fancy party all might."

P. 462. (15)

"And set thy person forth to sell."

So a Ms. used by Malone, and so too Mr. Collier's Ms. of this poem.-The Pass. Pilgrim has "And set her person forth to sale" (which Mr. Grant White understands to mean "Praise her person highly, as a salesman praises his wares").

So the Ms. used by Malone.-The Pass. Pilgrim has “calm.'

So the Ms. used by Malone.-The Pass. Pilgrim has “There

So the Ms. used by Malone.-The Pass. Pilgrim has "Lest that," which does not suit the context.

P. 463. (19)

"She will not stick to warm my ear,"

So Mr. Collier's Ms.-The Pass. Pilgrim has “She will not sticke to round me on th' ear," &c.-The Ms. used by Malone had "She will not stick to ring mine ear."

So the copy of this poem (or rather, of part of this poem) in England's Helicon, 1600.-The Pass. Pilgrim has "bears,"-wrongly see the fifth line.

P. 464. (21)

"Even so, poor bird, like thee,
None alive will pity me."

With this couplet, which is wanting in The Pass. Pilgrim, the poem ends in England's Helicon.

To be read as a quadrisyllable: see note 77 on The Merchant of Venice, vol. ii. p. 426.

THE PHOENIX AND TURTLE.

(From the additional poems to Chester's Love's Martyr, or Rosalin's Complaint, 1601.)

LET the bird of loudest lay,
On the sole Arabian tree,
Herald sad and trumpet be,

To whose sound chaste wings obey.

But thou shrieking harbinger,

Foul precurrer of the fiend,

Augur of the fever's end,

To this troop come thou not near!

From this session interdict

Every fowl of tyrant wing,
Save the eagle, feather'd king:
Keep the obsequy so strict.

Let the priest in surplice white,
That defunctive music can,
Be the death-divining swan,
Lest the requiem lack his right.

And thou treble-dated crow,

That thy sable gender mak'st

With the breath thou giv'st and tak'st,

'Mongst our mourners shalt thou

Here the anthem doth commence :-
Love and constancy is dead;
Phoenix and the turtle fled

In a mutual flame from hence.

go.