Perrow—The Last Will and Testament in Literature. 737 
Galantha. How handsomely thou play’st with harmless 
sport 
Of mere imagination! Speak the last. 
I strangely like thy will. 
Penthea. This jewel, madam, 
Is dearly precious to me; you must use 
The best of your descretion to employ 
This gift as I intend it. 
Galantha. Do not doubt me. 
Penthea. ’Tis long agone since I first lost my heart: 
Long have I liv’d without it, else for certain 
I should have given that too; but instead 
Of it, to great Calantha, Sparta’s heir, 
By service bound, and by affection bow’d, 
I do bequeath in holiest rites of love 
Mine only brother, Ithocles. 
This testament is admirably introduced. It is well phrased, 
and it adds to the scene a touch of pathos that perhaps no 
other device could have given. 
In Love's Sacnfice (1633) the same author again uses the 
testament. 1 The Duke Caralfa has found his wife, Bianca, 
with his friend Fernando. Bianco boldly defends her conduct 
on the ground that she is true to her love Fernando. The Duke 
stabs her, and she, with her dying breath makes her testament, 
leaving the tragedy to her husband and her heart to Fernando. 
Sir Walter Raleigh's Farewell to his Lady (1644) is a tes¬ 
tament though it is not so called 2 * * He sends his wife his love 
and his counsel that she may keep the one and remember the 
other when he is dead. “I would not/’ he says, “with my 
will present you sorrows: let them go to the grave with me.’ 7 
He urges her to love God and to train their son to do so. He 
advises her to give to the poor. His body he hopes she will 
beg and bury beside his father and mother. 
A little poem called An Elegy (1646), .written by Henry 
Vaughn, opens as a testament : 
’Tis true I am undone: yet ere I die, 
I’le leave these sighes and teares, a legacye 
To after-lovers, s 
iV, i. 
2 E. W. Ashbee, Occasional Facsimile Reprints , London, 1868, II, 
No. 26. 
s Grossart, Henry Vaughn's Works , 1871, II, 18. 
