Excerpt from Poems Some Poems in Part I. Have been claimed for other writers (n. I. Vi. Vii. Xiii); but Wotton has gained as well as lost by the general confusion of property in these smaller composi tions. It is not necessary to give a list of all the poems which have been erroneously attributed to him; but two ia stances may be mentioned, because they are brought forward by better authorities than usual. - Archbishop Suncroft as signs to him one of the most popular pieces printed among the Poems of Carew; it has also ...
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Excerpt from Poems Some Poems in Part I. Have been claimed for other writers (n. I. Vi. Vii. Xiii); but Wotton has gained as well as lost by the general confusion of property in these smaller composi tions. It is not necessary to give a list of all the poems which have been erroneously attributed to him; but two ia stances may be mentioned, because they are brought forward by better authorities than usual. - Archbishop Suncroft as signs to him one of the most popular pieces printed among the Poems of Carew; it has also been given to Lord Pembroke; but Carew'e title will probably be thought most valid, not by any means from the authority of the Collection which bears his name, but from the nature of the verses. -mr. Collier has printed, from Ben Jonson' s handwriting, a translation of Martial's Vitam qwfaciunt beatiorem, which he thought might be Wotton' s, because the same paper contained one of Wotton' 8 pieces which Jonson had transcribed (see p. But there can be no doubt that it is Jonson' s own, as he told Drummond that he had translated that very Epigramcl' In Carew it begins, Aske me no more where Jove bestowes-p. 129, repr. Of 1824. The other copies are in Pembroke's Poems, 1660, p. 92, and ms. Tann. 466, fol. 60. A fourth is in Wit Restored, 1668, p. 114. It is curious that no two of these agree throughout in the arrangement of the stanzas; but all the others begin with what is the second stanza in Carew, - Aske me no more whither do stray. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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