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_Letters_ (1651), p. 197. ]

[Footnote 21: Five are to the Countess of Bedford--'Reason
is', 'Honour is', 'You have refin'd', 'To have written then',
and 'This Twy-light'. One is to the Countess of Huntingdon,
'Man to Gods image'; one to the Countess of Salisbury, 'Fair,
great and good'; and one to Lady Carey, 'Here where by all. ']

[Footnote 22: In citing this collection I use _TC_ for the two
groups _TCC_, _TCD_. ]

[Footnote 23: Additional lines to the _Annuntiation and
Passion_, 'The greatest and the most conceald impostor', 'Now
why should Love a footeboys place despise', 'Believe not him
whom love hath made so wise', 'Pure link of bodies where
no lust controules', 'Whoso terms love a fire', _Upon his
scornefull Mistresse_ ('Cruel, since that thou dost not fear
the curse'), _The Hower Glass_ ('Doe but consider this small
Dust'), 'If I freely may discover', _Song_ ('Now you
have kill'd me with your scorn'), 'Absence, heare thou my
protestation', _Song_ ('Love bred of glances'), 'Love if a god
thou art', 'Greate Lord of Love how busy still thou art', 'To
sue for all thy Love and thy whole hart'. ]

[Footnote 24: 'Believe not him whom love hath made so wise',
_On the death of Mris Boulstred_ ('Stay view this stone'),
_Against Absence_ ('Absence, heare thou my protestation'),
'Thou send'st me prose and rhyme', _Tempore Hen: 3_ ('The
state of Fraunce, as now it stands'), _A fragment_ ('Now why
shuld love a Footboyes place despise'), _To J. D. from Mr. H.
W. _ ('Worthie Sir, Tis not a coate of gray,' see II. p.
141), 'Love bred of glances twixt amorous eyes', _To a Watch
restored to its mystres_ ('Goe and count her better houres'),
'Deare Love continue nyce and chast', 'Cruell, since thou
doest not feare the curse', _On the blessed virgin Marie_ ('In
that, o Queene of Queenes'). ]

[Footnote 25: Of 128 items in the volume 99 are by Donne, and
I have excluded some that might be claimed for him.
The poems
certainly not by Donne are 'Wrong not deare Empresse of my
heart', 'Good folkes for gold or hire', 'Love bred of glances
twixt amorous eyes', 'Worthy Sir, Tis not a coat of gray'
(here marked 'J. D'. ), 'Censure not sharply then' (marked 'B.
J. '), 'Whosoever seeks my love to know', 'Thou sendst me prose
and rimes' (see II. p. 166), 'An English lad long wooed
a lasse of Wales', 'Marcella now grown old hath broke her
glasse', 'Pretus of late had office borne in London', _To
his mistresse_ ('O love whose power and might'), _Her answer_
('Your letter I receaved'), _The Mar: B. to the Lady Fe.
Her. _ ('Victorious beauty though your eyes')--a poem generally
attributed to the Earl of Pembroke, _A poem_ ('Absence heare
my protestation'), 'True love findes witt but hee whom witt
doth move', Earle of Pembroke 'If her disdain', Ben Ruddier
'Till love breeds love', 'Good madam Fowler doe not truble
mee', 'Oh faithlesse world; and the most faithlesse part, A
womans hart', 'As unthrifts greeve in straw for their pawn'd
beds' (marked 'J. D. '), 'Why shuld not pilgrimes to thy body
come' (marked 'F. B. '), _On Mrs. Bulstreed_, 'Mee thinkes
death like one laughing lies', 'When this fly liv'd shee us'd
to play' (marked 'Cary'), _The Epitaph_ ('Underneath this
sable hearse'), a couple of long heroical epistles (with notes
appended) entitled _Sir Philip Sidney to the Lady Penelope
Rich_ and _The Lady Penelope Rich to Sir Philipe Sidney_. The
latter epistle after some lines gives way quite abruptly to a
different poem, a fragment of an elegy, which I have printed
in Appendix C, p.