"Learn to speak first, then to woo, to wooing much pertaineth; He that hath not art to hide, soon falters when he feigneth, And, as one that wants his wits, he smiles when he complaineth. "If with wit we be deceived our faults may be excused, Seeming good with flattery graced is but of few refused, But of all accursed are they that are by fools abused." _Page_ 131. "Thou art not fair for all thy red and white."--These lines are printed in Dr. Grosart's edition of Donne's poems, vol. ii. p. 259. They are ascribed to Donne in an early MS.; but I see no reason for depriving Campion of them. (The first stanza is also set to music in Thomas Vautor's "Airs," 1619.) _Page_ 132. "Though Amaryllis dance in green."--Also printed in "England's Helicon," 1600. _Page_ 148. "We must not part as others do."--These lines are very much in Donne's manner. The MS. from which they are taken (Egerton MS. 2013) contains some undoubted poems of Donne. _Page_ 151. "Were I a king."--Canon Hannah prints these verses (in his "Poems of Raleigh and Wotton," p. 147) from a MS. copy, in which they are assigned to Edward Earl of Oxford. Appended in the MS. are the following answers:-- "ANSWERED THUS BY SIR P. S. Wert thou a king, yet not command content, Sith empire none thy mind could yet suffice; Wert thou obscure, still cares would thee torment; But wert thou dead all care and sorrow dies. An easy choice, of these three which to crave: No kingdom, nor a cottage, but a grave. "ANOTHER OF ANOTHER MIND. A king? oh, boon for my aspiring mind, A cottage makes a country swad rejoice: And as for death, I like him in his kind But God forbid that he should be my choice! A kingdom or a cottage or a grave,-- Nor last, nor next, but first and best I crave; The rest I can, whenas I list, enjoy, Till then salute me thus--_Vive le roy_! "ANOTHER OF ANOTHER MIND. The greatest kings do least command content; The greatest cares do still attend a crown; A grave all happy fortunes doth prevent Making the noble equal with the clown: A quiet country life to lead I crave; A cottage then; no kingdom nor a grave." _Page_ 152. "What is our life?"--A MS. copy of these verses is subscribed "S^r W. R.", _i.e._, Sir Walter Raleigh. See Hannah's "Poems of Raleigh and Wotton," p. 27. Compare the sombre verses, signed "Ignoto," in "Reliquiae Wottonianae":--