[17] [A note to accompany this Sonnet No. VII has been almost completely destroyed by the excision, unique in the notebook, of what was originally folio 17. The mutilated line ends of the note read thus: "... nd/ ... on/... omas/... s _Tr._" This note presumably referred to Thomas Watson and cited Section XI of "A Comparative Discourse of our English Poets," in Francis Meres's _Palladis Tamia: Wit's Treasury_ (London, 1598, fol. 280), where among those praised for their Latin verse are Christopher Ocland, Thomas Watson, Thomas Campion, Walter Haddon, and "Thomas Newton with his Leyland."] [18] Novemb. 19. [1594, not 1595.] Registr. _Station_. B. fol. 315. a. [19] There is [a] Sonnet by Spenser, never printed with his works, prefixed to Gabriel Harveys "Foure Letters, &c. Lond. 1592." I have much pleasure in drawing this little piece from obscurity, not only as it bears the name of Spenser, but as it is at the same time a natural unaffected effusion of friendship ... [four words illegible]. (See _Observations_ on Spenser's _Fair. Qu._ [II]. [245-247?].) "_Harvey_, the happy aboue happiest men, I read: that sitting like a looker-on of this worldes stage, doest note with critique pen The sharpe dislikes of each condition; And, as one carelesse of suspition, Ne fawnest for the favour of the great, Ne fearest foolish reprehension of faulty men, which daunger to thee threat; But freely doest, of what thee list, entreat, Like a great lord of peerlesse liberty: Lifting the good vp to high honours seat, And th' euil damning euermore to dy. For life and death is in thy doomefull writing So thy renowme liues euer by endighting. _Dublin_ this 18 of July, 1586. _Your devoted Friend during life, Edmund Spencer._" I avail myself of an opportunity of throwing together a few particulars of the life and writings of this very intimate friend of Spenser, more especially as they will throw general light on the present period. He was born at Saffron-Walden in Essex, [John] Strype's [_Life of the Learned Sir Thomas] Smith_. [London, 1698] p. 18. He was a fellow of Pembroke-Hall, Spenser's college: and was one of the proctors of the university of Cambridge, in 1583. [Thomas] Fuller's [_History of the University of] Cambridge_, p. 146. [in his] _Ch[urch] Hist[ory of Britain_]. [London, 1655.] Wood says, he was first of Christ's college, and afterwards fellow of Trinity-Hall, _Ath. Oxon._ F[asti, I, col. 755]. But Wood must be mistaken, for in the _Epilogus_ to his _Smithus_, addressed to John Wood Smith's amanuensis, Harvey dates from Pembroke-Hall. _Smithus_, Signat. G. iij. [G4 verso.] [Warton probably did not intend to deny that Harvey was a fellow of Trinity, but evidently felt that Wood was ignorant of the intermediate fellowship at Pembroke.] He was doctorated in jurisprudence at both universities. With his brother Henry, he was much addicted to Astrology. (See supr. [Vol. IV], p. 23.)