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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2-1 S. IX. Jan. 28. 'GO. 



" What is she, man, that workes thy woe, 

 And thus thy tickling fancy moue ? 

 Thy drousie eyes, and sighes do shoe, 

 This new disease proceedes of loue, 



Tell what she is that witch't thee so, 



I sweare it shall no farder go. 



" Aheauy burden wearieth one, 



Which being parted then in twaine, 



Seeraes very light, or rather none, 



And boren well with little paine: 



The smothered flame, too closely pent, 

 Burnes more extreame for want of vent. 



" So sorrowes shrynde in secret brest, 

 Attainte the hart with hotter rage, 

 Then griefes that are to frendes exprest, 

 ' Whose comfort may some part asswage: 

 If I a frend, whose faith is tryde, 

 Let this request not be denyde. 



" Excessiue griefes good counsells want, 

 And cloud the sence from sharpe conceits; 

 No reason rules, where sorrowes plant, 

 And folly feedes, where fury fretes, 



Tell what she is, and you shall see, 



What hope and help shall come from mee." 



Cant. XL VI. 

 H. W. 



" Seest yonder howse, where hanges the badge 

 Of Englands Saint, when captaines cry 

 Victorious land, to conquering rage, 



Loe, there my hopelesse helpe doth ly : 

 And there that frendly foe doth dwell, 

 That makes my hart thus rage and swell." 



Cant. XLVII. 

 W. S. 

 " Well, say no more : I know thy griefe, 

 And face from whence these flames aryse, 

 It is not hard to fynd reliefe, 

 If thou wilt follow good aduyse : 



She is no Saynt, She is no Nonne, 

 I thinke in tyme she may be wonne. 



Ars " At first repulse you must not faint, 

 veteratoria. >^ or fl ye tne fi e i d though she deny 



You twise or thrise, yet manly bent, 



Againe you must, and still reply : 



When tyme permits you not to talke 

 Then let your pen and fingers walke. 



Munera " Apply her still with dyuers thinges, 

 (crede mihi) (For giftes the wysest will deceaue) 

 homfnesq j Sometymes with gold, somety mes with ringes, 

 deosq; No tyme nor fit occasion leaue, 



Though coy at first she seeme and wielde, 

 These toyes in tyme will make her yielde. 



" Looke what she likes ; that you must loue, 

 And what she hates, you must detest, 

 Where good or bad, you must approue, 

 The wordes and workes that please her best : 



If she be godly, you must sweare, 



That to offend you stand in feare. 



Wicked "You must commend her louing face, 

 ceavewitfes For women ioy in beauties praise, 

 women. You must admire her sober grace, 

 Her wisdome and her vertuous wayes, 

 Say, t'was her wit and modest shoe, 

 That made you like and loue her so. 



" You must be secret, constant, free, 

 Your silent sighes and trickling teares, 



Let her in secret often see, 



Then wring her hand, as one that feares 



To speake, then wish she were your wife, 



And last desire her saue your life. 



" When she doth laugh, you must be glad, 



And watch occasions, tyme and place, 



When she doth frowne, you must be sad, 



Let sighes and sobbes request her grace: 



Sweare that your love is truly ment, 



So she in tyme must needes relent." 



In a commendatory poem " In praise of Willobie 

 his Avisa," at the commencement of the volume, 

 is the following stanza, which is interesting as 

 containing perhaps the earliest notice of Shake- 

 speare's Rape of Lucrece, if, as I believe, this edi- 

 tion of Willobie is the first, 1594 : — 



" Though Collatine haue deerely bought, 

 To high renowne, a lasting life, 

 And found, that most in vaine have sought, 

 To haue a Faire, and Constant wife, 



Yet Tarquyne pluckt his glistering grape, 

 And Shakespeare paints poore Lucrece rape." 



This poem has at the end, in the place of the 

 author's name, — 



" Contraria Contrariis : 



Vigilantius : Dormitanus." 



Does it contain the name of the writer in disguise ? 

 In the article on Willobie, in Wood's A thenm (i. 

 756.) is given a copy of his LXIII. Sonnet, which 

 shows how essential it is in transcribing ancient 

 poetry to copy carefully the ancient spelling : and if 

 that had been done in this instance, it will be per- 

 ceived that the note of the editor would not have 

 been needed. The first lines of one of the stanzas 

 are, as given by Bliss : — 



" And shall my follie prove it true 

 That hastie pleasure doubleth paine ? 

 Shall griefe rebound, where ioy * grew ? " 



to the third line of which this note is appended : — 



* " This line wants a word, perhaps it should be ' ioy 

 (first or once) grew.' " — Haslewood. 



In the original, " ioy " is spelt " ioye," and 

 pronounced as a dissyllable, which of course makes 

 the metre all right, without the necessity of inter- 

 polating another word. 



W. C. Trevelyan. 



Wallingtou, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



AMESBURY. 



Amesbury, Ambrosebury, Ambrosia, or Ambrii 

 Caenobium (see Leland, Coll., ed. 1770, vol. iii. 

 pp. 29. 32. 34.). Here, says Bishop Tanner, is said 

 to have been an ancient British monastery for 300 

 monkes, founded, as some say, by Ambrius, an 

 abbat ; as others, by the famous Prince Ambrosius 

 (who was therein buried, destroyed by that cruel 

 Pagan Gurmundus, who overran all this country 

 in the sixth century). (Confer Geoffrey of Mon- 

 mouth, lib. iv. c. 4.) About the year 980, Alfrida, 

 or Ethelfrida, the queen dowager of King Edgar, 



