The Carte "Notes" (as before) thus tell the whole story and ratify Anthony-a-Wood:--"Vpon a quarrell between him and Mr. Martin before y^{e} Judges, where he strooke Mr. Martin hee was confined and made a prisoner: after w^{ch} in discontentment he retired to y^{e} countrye, and writt y^{t} excellent poeme of his Nosce Teipsum, w^{ch} was so well aprooved of by the Lord Mountioy after Lord Deputy of Ireland and Earle of Devonshire, that by his aduise he publisht it and dedicated it to Queen Elizabeth, to whom hee presented it, being introduced by y^{e} aforesaide Lord his pattron, and y^{e} first essay of his pen was so well relisht y^{t} y^{e} Queen encouraged him in his studdys, promising him preferment, and had him sworn her servant in ordinary." "Nosce Teipsum" was not his "first essay" so that perchance the meaning is that its verse-dedication was his "first essay" in addressing the Queen--his second being the Hymns to Astræa. The "Hymns to Astræa" appeared in quick succession to "Nosce Teipsum" in the same year 1599. They are dainty trifles; but from all we know of Elizabeth would be received as "sweet incense." If they seem to us to-day flattering not to say adulatory, it must be remembered that such was the _mode_. Much later, Epistles-dedicatory from Bacon and others of the mighties, and not to Elizabeth but to James--are infinitely fulsome compared with the ideal praises of an ideal Elizabeth--that Elizabeth who had stirred the nation's pulses through her great patriotic words when "The Armada" threatened--in the most superlative of these "Hymnes." Their workmanship is as of diamond-facets. The "bright light" of olden promise was now "lining" the dark cloud. The discipline of his retirement to Oxford did him life-long good. Speedily outward events dove-tailed with the deepened ethical experience and resultant character. [Footnote 16: Vol. I., pp. 115-116, "Nosce Teipsum."]