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Where virtue, honor, wit, and beauty lay;
Which taking thence you have escap'd
away,

Yet stand as free as e'er you did before:
Yet old Prometheus punish'd for his

rape:

Thus poor thieves suffer, when the greater 'scape.

KING HENRY TO FAIR
ROSAMOND.

THE little flow'rs dropping their honey'd
dew,

Which (as thou writ'st) do weep upon thy shoe,

Not for thy fault (sweet Rosamond) do

moan,

Only lament that thou so soon art gone:
For if thy foot touch hemlock as it goes,
That hemlock's made far sweeter than
the rose.

My camp resounds with fearful shocks of war,

Yet in my breast more dang'rous conflicts are;

Yet is my signal to the battle's sound The blessed name of beauteous Rosa mond.

Accursed be that heart, that tongue, that breath,

Should think, should speak, or whisper of thy death:

For in one smile or lower from thy sweet eye

Consists my life, my hope, my victory. Sweet Woodstock, where my Rosamond doth rest,

Be blest in her, in whom thy king is blest:

For though in France awhile my body be,

My heart remains (dear paradise) in

thee.

WILLIAM DRUMMOND

OF HAWTHORNDEN.

1585-1649.

[WILLIAM DRUMMOND was born at the manor-house of Hawthornden, near Edinburgh, on December 13, 1585, and died there December 4, 1649. His chief poetical works are: Teares on the Death of Maliades (Prince Henry), 1613: Poems, 1616; Forth Feasting, a panegyricke to the King's most excellent Majestie, 1617; Flowers of Sion, 1623; The Entertainment of the high and mighty monarch Charles, 1633; The Exequies of the Honourable Sir Anthony Alexander, Knight, 1638. Besides these he wrote innumerable political pamphlets, etc., and a considerable historical work. More important are his well-known Conversations with Ben Jonson, of which an authentic copy was discovered by Mr. David Laing and printed by him in 1832. A unique copy of the Poems, printed on one side of the paper only, and containing Drummond's autograph corrections, is in the Bodleian Library. It varies most curiously from the later editions.]

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With diadem of pearl thy temples fair: Chase hence the ugly night

Fair seasons, budding sprays, sweetsmelling flowers:

Which serves but to make dear thy glo- To rocks, to springs, to rills, from leafy

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[FORN 1573, in London; his mother being a descendant of Sir Thomas More. He studied both at Oxford and Cambridge, and also at Lincoln's Inn; travelled in Italy and Spain, "and returned perfect in their languages." He was afterwards in the service of Lord Chancellor Ellesmere and others, and in 1610 was persuaded by James I. " to enter into sacred orders." In 1621 the king made him Dean of St. Paul's, and he held other benefices. He died in 1631. Izaak Walton's celebrated Life was prefixed to his Eighty Sermons, fol., 1640; and this Life asserts that “most of his poems were written before the twentieth year of his age." The Poems were collected and first published posthumously in 1633; but Harl. MS. 5110 (British Museum), is entitled, "Jhon Dunne, his Satyres anno domini 1593."]

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