A LOVER RELINQUISHETH THE PURSUIT. WHOSO list to hunte? I knowe where is an hinde! The vaine travaile hath wearied me so sore; 'Noli me tangere; for Cæsar's I am, And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.' HOPE UNSATISFIED IS A PROLONGED DEATH. I ABIDE, and abide; and better abide, Much were it better for to be plaine, HE PRAYETH HIS LADY TO BE TRUE. THOUGH I myselfe be bridled of my minde, At all hours; still under the defence Of Time, Truth, and Love to save thee from offence. With my dear Mistress that may not follow; A LOVER DESCRIBETH HIS RESTLESS STATE. THE flaming sighs that boil within my breaste, The wound, alas! hap in some other place, CONTINUATION. BUT you, that of such like have had your part, That though I feel my hearte doth wounde and beate, I sit alone, save on the second day My fever comes, with whom I spende my time Let him thank God, and let him not provoke, LAMENT ON THE DEATH OF HIS LADYE. THE pillar perished is, whereto I leant, 'Till dreadful death doe ease by doleful state. HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY, was son of Thomas, third Duke of Norfolk, by his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of the Duke of Buckingham. The exact date of his birth is not known; but may be assigned to some time between 1516 and 1518; nor has it been decided where it occurred, though many circumstances render it probable that Framlingham, in Suffolk, was the place. His youth was passed at Windsor, where he formed a friendship with the young Duke of Richmond, natural son of Henry the Eighth, which continued till his friend's death, shortly after his marriage with Lady Mary Howard, Surrey's only sister, at the early age of seventeen. Surrey married when not more than sixteen, Frances Vere, daughter of the Earl of Oxford, and fell a victim to the jealousy of the despotic Henry, while in the summer of his existence. He was executed on Tower Hill the 21st of January, 1547. The tyrant survived his victim but a few days, and his memory has been as much execrated as Surrey's has been reverenced. The fair Geraldine, whom Surrey celebrated in his poems, and whose name is indissolubly connected with that of the noble poet, was Elizabeth, daughter of Gerald Fitzgerald, ninth Earl of Kildare, and afterwards wife, first to Sir Anthony Brown, and secondly, to Henry Clinton, Earl of Lincoln. Whether Surrey's passion for this lady was real, or but an imaginary or poetical one, is of little importance; though it has been so fertile a subject of dispute among his biographers and admirers. From the circumstance of Surrey's not being more than sixteen at the time of his marriage, there is nothing improbable, but rather the reverse, in the supposition, that when grown to man's estate, he might prefer another to the wife that had been doubtless selected for him by his family. The difference of twelve years between his age and that of the fair Geraldine, would have been no impediment. It is true we do not hear of any estrangement between him and his Countess; one of his poems has rather been considered as bearing marks of genuine affection for her, though the authority there is for asserting the poem in question to have had reference to her is uncertain. But allowing this to be the case, we know nothing of the date on which it was written; and it appears by no means incompatible that Surrey should at one period of his life have entertained a genuine passion for Geraldine, though aware of the impossibility, from his previous marriage, of his winning her. In the concluding line of a Sonnet, which can by no possible torturing be made to refer to any one else, he seems to admit this. "Happy is he that can obtain her love!" Which certainly warrants the inference that he himself had no hope of doing so. HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY. 15 DESCRIPTION OF SPRING. THE SOOte season, that bud and bloome forth bringes, And thus I see among these pleasant things, A LOVER REBUKED. LOVE, that liveth and reigneth in my thought, |