[Line: 30 In this very obscure and ultra-Clevelandian line _1677_ reads 'their'. I think 'our'--the reading of _Cleaveland Revived_, followed by _1662_ and _1668_--is better. But the whole poem (one of Cleveland's earliest political attempts) is weak and pithless.] [Line: 33 'that' _1687_: 'the' _1659_, _1662_, _1668_.] [Line: 42 'counterpart' _1677_: 'counterpane' _1659_, _1662_, _1668_.] Poems certainly or almost certainly Cleveland's but not included in 1653 or 1677. [_Poems, &c._ I have been exceedingly chary of admission under this head, for there seems to me to be no reasonable _via media_ between such severity and the complete reprinting of _1687_--with perhaps the _known_ larcenies in that and its originals left out. Thus, of eleven poems given--but as 'not in _1677_'--by Mr. Berdan I have kept but three, besides one or two which, though not in _1677_, are in _1653_, and so appear above. Of these the Jonson Elegy from _Jonsonus Virbius_ is signed, and as well authenticated as anything can be; _News from Newcastle_ is quoted by Johnson and therefore of importance to students of the _Lives_. The _Elegy upon Charles I_ is in _1654_ among the poems which that collection adds to _1653_, is very like him, and relieves Cleveland partly, if not wholly, from the charge of being wanting to the greatest occasion of his life and calling.] An Elegy on Ben Jonson. Who first reformed our stage with justest laws, And was the first best judge in his own cause; Who, when his actors trembled for applause, Could (with a noble confidence) prefer His own, by right, to a whole theatre; From principles which he knew could not err: Who to his fable did his persons fit, With all the properties of art and wit, And above all that could be acted, writ: Who public follies did to covert drive, 10 Which he again could cunningly retrive, Leaving them no ground to rest on and thrive: Here JONSON lies, whom, had I named before, In that one word alone I had paid more Than can be now, when plenty makes me poor. J. CL. [_An Elegy, &c._ Although this appears neither in _1653_ nor in _1677_, it is included, with some corruptions not worth noting, in some editions both before and after the latter. Gifford ascribed to Cleveland another unsigned Elegy in _Jonsonus Virbius_ and one of the Odes to Ben Jonson on his own Ode to himself, 'Come, quit the loathèd stage'. There is no authority for the ascription in either case, and the styles of both pieces are as unlike as possible to Cleveland's.] [Line: 2 Orig., by a slip, '_your_ own cause'. Cleveland may have meant to address the poet throughout, or till the last verse; but, if so, he evidently changed his mind.] News from Newcastle: Upon the Coal-pits about Newcastle-upon-Tyne.