No;

she must be perfect snow,
In effect as well as show;
Warming but as snow-balls do,
Not, like fire, by burning too;
But when she by change hath got
To her heart a second lot,

Then, if others share with me,
Farewell her, whate’er she be !

XXX.

TO HIS SINGULAR FRIEND,

WILLIAM LITHGOW.1

(1618.)

HILES I admire thy first and second

ways,

Long ten years wandering in the world-wide bounds;

I rest amazed to think on these assays

That thy first travel to the world forth sounds: In bravest sense, compendious ornate style, Didst show most rare adventures to this isle.

And now thy second pilgrimage I see

At London thou resolvest to put in light;
Thy Libyan ways, so fearful to the eye,
And Garamants their strange amazing sight.

Prefixed to Lithgow's "Pilgrim's Farewell," 1618.

84 POEMS OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

Meanwhile this work affords a three-fold gain In fury of thy fierce Castalian vein ;

As thou for travels brookest the greatest name, So voyage on, increase, maintain the same!

W. R.

PART II

POEMS FROM

RELIQUIE WOTTONIAN Æ,

1651-1685,

WITH SOME ADDITIONS.

POEMS FROM

RELIQUIE WOTTONIANÆ.

I.

A POEM WRITTEN BY SIR HENRY WOTTON

IN HIS YOUTH.'

(Before 1602.)

FAITHLESS world, and thy most faithless part,

A woman's heart!

The true shop of variety, where sits
Nothing but fits

And fevers of desire, and pangs of love,
Which toys remove.

Why was she born to please? or I to trust
Words writ in dust,

Suffering her eyes to govern my despair,
My pain for air;

"Rel. Wotton." Also in Davison's" Poetical Rhapsody," 1602, &c., with Wotton's initials, as an Elegy." In ed. 1621, p. 202, it has the longer title, "Of a Woman's Heart." Wrongly claimed for Rudyard in the "Poems of Pembroke and Rudyard," 1660, p. 34. A copy in MS. Rawl. Poet. 147, p. 74, signed "H. Wotton."