INDEX OF FIRST LINES.

LAS! so all things now do hold their peace, 15
Although I had a check, 33,

As oft as I behold, and see, 37.

Brittle beauty, that Nature made so frail, 14.
But now the wounded Queen, with heavy care, 147.
Divers thy death do diversely bemoan, 59.

Each beast can choose his fere according to his mind, 47.
From Tuscane came my Lady's worthy race, 13.
From pensive fancies then I gan my heart revoke, 83.
Girt in my guiltless gown, as I sit here and sow, 43.
Give ear to my suit, Lord! fromward hide not thy face, 106.
Give place, ye lovers, here before, 31.

Good ladies! ye that have your pleasures in exile, 28.
If care do cause men cry, why do not I complain, 53.
If he that erst the form so lively drew, 32.

I never saw my Lady lay apart, 17.

In Cyprus springs, whereas dame Venus dwelt, 12.
In the rude age, when knowledge was not rife, 61.
In winter's just return, when Boreas gan his reign, 24.

I, Solomon, David's son, King of Jerusalem, 80.

Laid in my quiet bed, in study as I were, 64.

Like to the steerless boat that swerves with every wind, 87. London! hast thou accused me, 68.

Love, that liveth and reigneth in my thought, 12.

Martial, the things that do attain, 56.

My Ratclif, when thy rechless youth offends, 67.

My fearful hope from me is fled, 177.

Norfolk sprung thee, Lambeth holds thee dead, 62.
Of thy life, Thomas, this compass well mark, 57.
O happy dames that may embrace, 22.

O loathsome place! where I, 36.

O Lord! upon whose will dependeth my welfare, 98.
Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green, 16.
Since fortune's wrath envieth the wealth, 45.

So cruel prison how could betide, alas, 19.

Such wayward ways hath Love, that most part in dis-
cord, 6.

The sun hath twice brought forth his tender green, 1.
Th' Assyrian king, in peace, with foul desire, 63.
The soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings, 3.
The golden gift that Nature did thee give, 18.
The great Macedon, that out of Persia chased, 58.
The storms are past; the clouds are overblown, 66.
The fancy which that I have served long, 67.
The Sun, when he hath spread his rays, 71.
The sudden storms that heave me to and fro, 101.
They whisted all, with fixed face attent, 112.
Though I regarded not, 39.

Though, Lord, to Israel thy graces plenteous be, 102.
Thy name, O Lord, how great, is found before our sight,

108.

Too dearly had I bought my green and youthful years, 34.
When youth had led me half the race, 4.

When Summer took in hand the Winter to assail, 9.
When Windsor walls sustain'd my wearied arm, 15.

When raging love with extreme pain, 21.

When I bethought me well, under the restless Sun, 91.

When that repentant tears hath cleansed clear from ill, 94.

Where rechless youth in an unquiet breast, 98.

Wrapt in my careless cloak, as I walk to and fro, 41.
Wyatt resteth here, that quick could never rest, 60
Your fearful hope cannot prevail, 179.

"I write of him whose fame for aye endures." Turbervile's Epitaph on Surrey.

ISTINGUISHED alike by his talents and rank, HENRY HOWARD EARL OF SURREY has attracted considerable attention; and as the first writer who attempted to refine our language, and to rescue English poetry from the grossness for which the productions of his predecessors are remarkable, he is worthy of the extraordinary research which his latest biographer has displayed in collecting particulars respecting his history. Dr. Nott affords a very creditable example of industry, and it is no slight praise to say that he appears to have exhausted every available source of information. The following Memoir has, therefore, been drawn up almost entirely from materials collected by Dr. Nott; an admission which it would be disingenuous to withhold: but considerable difference

will be found with respect to the inferences which that writer has drawn from some of the facts he has brought to light; and it is from this circumstance that these sheets derive their claim to attention. The most interesting of the letters which occur in the appendix to Dr. Nott's edition are here introduced into the Memoir, and though the present narrative is destitute of those pleasing speculations which distinguish that biographer's Life of Surrey, the loss may, perhaps, be borne with, when it is remembered that it is as dangerous for a biographer as for an historian to indulge his imaginative powers.

Although the Earl of Surrey owes but little of the respect which is felt for his memory to the adventitious splendour of his birth, it is necessary to speak of his genealogy with some minuteness, because it was from circumstances arising out of his pedigree that he became one of the victims of Henry the Eighth.

Doubts have been expressed as to the remote antiquity of the family of Howard; but it is beyond dispute that they descend from Sir William Howard, the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the reigns of Edward the First and Second, whose son, Sir John, was a Knight Banneret as early as 1307. His great great grandson, Sir Robert Howard, married Margaret Mowbray, daughter of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk and Earl Marshal, whose mother was Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John, Lord Segrave, the granddaughter and heiress of Thomas de Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk, a younger son of King Edward

the First. Sir John Howard, K.G., the eldest son of Sir Robert by the Lady Margaret Mowbray, was created a Baron in 1470; and on the extinction of the Mowbrays, Dukes of Norfolk, about the year 1480, he became, in right of his mother, the eldest coheir of that house, which entitled him to quarter whatever arms were borne by them, a fact, as will afterwards appear, of some importance. Sir John Howard was raised to the dukedom of Norfolk by Richard the Third, who at the same time created his eldest son, Thomas, Earl of Surrey. These titles were forfeited after the battle of Bosworth, in which the "Jocky of Norfolk" gallantly fell in the cause of his sovereign and benefactor.

Thomas Howard, his son, was restored to the earldom of Surrey in 1489; and in reward of his services at Flodden Field he was created Duke of Norfolk, in February, 1514. Dying in 1524, he was succeeded by his son Thomas, third Duke of Norfolk, who was twice married-first to Anne, daughter of King Edward the Fourth, by whom he had no issue that survived their childhood, and secondly to Elizabeth Stafford, eldest daughter of Edward, Duke of Buckingham, by whom he was father of the Poet. His second marriage, which proved an unhappy one, took place soon after Easter in 1512; the Duchess was twenty years younger than her husband, and was then the object of an attachment, which was reciprocal, to the Earl of Westmorland.

The exact date of the birth of the Earl of Surrey has not been ascertained, but it may be