here till after 1649. But of course it may have come from an older source, and it has quite the appearance of being genuine. Whoever made the collection would seem to have had access to some of Goodyere's work, for this poem is almost immediately preceded by an _Epithalamion of the Princess Mariage_, by S^{r} H. G., and a little earlier the _Good Friday_ poem by Donne is headed _Mr J. Dun goeing from Sir H. G. on good friday sent him back this Meditacon on the waye_. That reads like a note by Goodyere himself. If this be what happened, the copyist may have ascribed to Donne some of Goodyere's own verses. Certainly there is nothing in the other three poems, 'O Fruitful garden,' 'Fie, fie, you sons of Pallas,' 'Why chose she black' (all in the handwriting C) which would warrant our ascribing them to Donne. Later in the collection a coarse poem, 'Why should not Pilgrims to thy body come,' in a fifth hand, is signed J. D., but _P_ assigns it to F. B., and it is more in Beaumont's style. Poems by and on Beaumont occupy a considerable space in _A25_. He is a quite possible candidate for the authorship of some of the poems assigned to Donne in the hand C. Mr. Hazlitt attributes to Donne (_General Index to Hazlitt's Handbook, &c._, p. 228) a Funeral Elegie on the death of Philip Stanhope, who died at Christ Church in 1625. I have not been able to find the volume in which it appears; but, as it is said to be by John Donne _Alumnus_, the author must be the younger Donne. [Footnote 1: Mr. Chambers has reprinted a good many of these, but only in an Appendix and under the title of _Doubtful Poems_. He has added a few more from _A25_, from _Coryats Crudities_, and from some manuscripts in the Bodleian Library. If printed at all it is a pity that these poems were not reproduced more correctly. Textually the appendices are much the worst part of Mr. Chambers' edition. In most cases he has, I presume, taken the poems over as they stand from Simeon and Grosart.] [Footnote 2: All three editors have also dropped the song 'Deare Love continue nice and chaste', David Laing having pointed out (_Archaeologia Scotica_, iv. 73-6) that this poem occurs in the Hawthornden MSS, with the signature 'J. R.' Chambers also rejects the sonnet _On the Blessed Virgin Mary_, probably by Henry Constable, and all three editors exclude the lines _On the Sacrament_.] [Footnote 3: I have given with each poem a list of the editions and manuscripts (known to me) in which it is contained. A glance at these will show the weight of the external evidence. Of internal evidence every man must be judge for himself.] [Footnote 4: To these must of course be added poems already published in Donne's name. See II. lvi.] [Footnote 5: In F. G. Waldron's _A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry_. 1802.]