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Not force tlie liquor run ; although before 
The glasse (of water) could contain no more: 
Yet so, all-worthy Brooke, though all men sound 
With plummets of just praise thy skill profound, 
Thou in thy verse those attributes can’st take, 
And not ajoparent ostentation make. 
That any second can thy vertues raise. 
Striving as much to hide, as merit praise.” 
The fifth eglogue of his poem, called The Shepheard’s 
Pipe,”^ Browne dedicates “to his ingenious friend Mr. 
Christopher Brooke.” Indeed the two poets seem to have 
taken great pleasure in bandying compliments with each other. 
An eclogue written by Brooke, and published about the same 
time, is dedicated “ to his much loved friend William Browne, 
of the Inner Temple, the celebrated author of Britannia’s 
Pastorals ; ” and the following sonnet by Brooke is among the 
commendatory verses prefixed to that poem. 
To his Friend the Author upon his Poem. 
This plant is knotlesse that puts forth these leaves, 
Upon whose branches I his praise do sing: 
Fruitful! the ground, whose verdure it receives 
From fertile nature, and the learned spring. 
In zeale to good ; knowne but impractiz’d ill, 
Chast in his thoughts, though in his youthful prime. 
He wu'ites of past’rail love, with nectar’d quill. 
And offers up his first fruits unto time. 
Receive them. Time, and in thy border place them 
Among thy various flowers of poesie ; 
No envy blast, nor ignorance deface them. 
But keep them fresh in fairest memorie ! 
And when from Daphne’s tree he plucks more bales, 
His Shepeard’s Pipe may chant more heav’nly laies. 
CHRISTOPHER BROOKE. 
Drayton’s Poem, called “The Legend of the great Crumwell,” 
is accompanied with verses from the pen of Brooke, and two of 
his sonnets are prefixed to Henry Lichfield’s Madrigals, pub¬ 
lished in 1614. 
In the same year that Brooke’s Muse was prolific of minor 
poems, she took a higher flight, and brought out a poem of 
* London, 4to, 1614. 
