But, unfortunately, the sole pretext for affirming his title, as the editors of the 1829 collection of his works affirmed it, is that the poems are found in the _Reliquiae Wottonianae_, in Davison's _Poetical Rhapsody_, or in _England's Helicon_, and are there marked 'Ignoto.' [Sidenote: _Carelessness of Literary Renown._] The assignment, often, as Mr. Bullen shows in his editions of _England's Helicon_, and _A Poetical Rhapsody_, without the slightest authority or foundation, of poetic foundlings of rare charm and distinction to Ralegh is a token of the prevalent belief in the unfathomed range of his powers. At the same time it implies that he had never been adopted, and identified, by the contemporary public specifically as a poet. He would not be discontented with the degree and kind of the poetic fame conceded to him. Had he coveted more he would have been at more pains to stamp his verses. His poetic gift he valued merely as a weapon in his armoury, like many others. It held its own and a more important place in his career. Imagination, which might have made a poet, elevated and illuminated the captain's and the courtier's ambition and acts. If it put him at a disadvantage in a race for power with a Robert Cecil, it carried him to Guiana, and gave him the palm in the glorious struggle at the mouth of Cadiz harbour; it inspired him in the more tremendous strife with judicial obliquity; it supported him on the scaffold in Palace Yard. CHAPTER IX. THE REVENGE. (September, 1591). [Sidenote: _Sir Richard Grenville._]