greater) and a wisdome of falshood. The first is both lawfull and necessary, the second is lawfull but not necessary, the third is neither. 116. Colonel Gray coming to him out of Germany in a garb of a soldier, buckl'd up in a buff jerkin, a great belt and a huge sword, and a case of pistolls; the King said, that this towne was so well fortifyed, that if it were well victualled, it seem'd impregnable. 117. My ends are still constant, howsoever my wayes to them may seem to differ according to occasion. 118. There are many things which my selfe would not doe, and yet, in my judgement, think lawfull to be done; but where there is a broadway besides, what need I tread nere the borders of vice. 119. I will not reward any man in matter of justice, for that is not mine, but God's and the people's. 120. The art of governing is a deep mistery, and noe man can judge who is fitt to be a King, till he see him one. 121. The people do never esteem truly of the present state, for some thing in it they must mislike whilst it is at present; and yet such and such men either to be good or bad, their censure is almost infalliable. 122. I desire to live no longer than I am accounted an honest and reasonable man, of honest and reasonable men; nor longer to be a King, than I use my power to maintain reason, and not to overthrow it. 123. I will never offer to bring a new custome upon the people without the peoples consent, but only like a good phisitian tell them what is a-miss; and after, if they will not concur to amend it, yet I have discharged my part. 124. At Oking, being shewed a gentleman's house, a great part whereof was burn't by the Queens servants when she was entertain'd there, for which the Queen never gave him satisfaction; one said, that if it had been done by a common person, he had been bound to sattisfaction by law. The King said, whatsoever a private man ought to doe, by law, a King is bound to doe by conscience. NOTES. Page 7, line 5; D. T.] ROBABLY the same person who wrote Essaies Politicke and Morall, Lond. 1608, 12mo. His name is unknown. Page 8, line 31; C. B.] Christopher Brooke, the author of Eglogues; dedicated to his much loved Friend Mr. Will. Brown, of the Inner Temple, Lond. 1614, 8vo. &c. Page 10, line 23; A cleane contrary way]. This expression seems to have been proverbial. "Come heare, lady muses, and help mee to sing, Come love mee where as I lay; Of a duke that deserves to be made a king, The cleane contrary way, O the cleane contrary way." " 'Tis you Sloane MS. No. 826. must perfect this great work, And all malignants slay, You must bring back the king again The cleane contrary way." A. Brome's Songs and Poems, 1664, p. 162. Many other instances might be quoted. Page 10, line 30; Weston]. One of the persons exe cuted for the murder of Overbury. See Life. Page 11, line 14; W. S.] According to a MS. note of T. Park's, these initials stand for William Ship ton. Page 13, line 12; W.B. Int. temp.] William Browne, the celebrated author of Britannia's Pastorals. He was a student of the Temple at the same time with Overbury. Page 13, line 25; B. G. Medii Temp.] Probably Bernard Griffin, the author of a collection of sonnets, entitled Fidessa, more Chaste then Kinde, Lond. 1596. The latter has an address, “To the Gentlemen of the Innes of Court," which strengthens the supposition. Page 14, line 23; Cap. Tho. Gainsford]. The name of this writer occurs to some verses in Add. MS. 15, 227, in the British Museum. See also Collier's Poetical Decameron. Page 16, line 8; Io. Fo.] Undoubtedly John Ford, the celebrated dramatist. He became a member of the Middle Temple November 16, 1602, and was in all likelihood well acquainted with Overbury, who was of the same Society. Page 16, line 23; R. CA.] In a copy of Overbury's Characters, formerly belonging to Octavius Gilchrist, that Gentleman has filled up these initials, R[ichard] Ca[rew], the author of The Survey of Cornwall. Page 18, line 15; E. G.] Query, Edmund Gayton ? Page 20, line 31; I. F.] John Fletcher, the celebrated dramatist? Le Neve, speaking of the Elegies prefixed to Overbury's Wife, says, "Amongst which, two, from the initials, and the general satire on the Cursory Remarks on sex, appear to be by Fletcher." the English Poets, p. 28. Page 24, line 25; W. STRA.] According to Park's MS. note, William Stradling. Page 25, line 1; OF THE CHOYCE OF A WIFE]. This little poem is always quoted as Overbury's; but Mr. Collier considers it "an unclaimed poem." the Bridgewater Catalogue, p. 223. See Page 33, line 12; A WIFE]. This poem is printed in Capell's interesting volume entitled Prolusions ; or Select Pieces of Antient Poetry, 1760, 8vo. A collation of the first, fourth, and ninth editions is there given. The differences are so trifling, that it was not thought worth while to transfer them to these pages. Page 46, line 1; THE AUTHOUR'S EPITAPH]. In the rare" Portraiture of Sir Thomas Overbury," engraved by R. Elstracke, these lines are given upon a scroll, which the unfortunate knight is in the act of penning. This portrait is of such rarity, that at General Dowdeswell's sale, Sir Mark M. Sykes purchased an impression for fifty pounds. On the dispersion of the Sykes' Collection, it realized the large sum of seventy-four guineas! Page 49, line 5; the voider]. i. e. “ a basket or tray, into which the relics of a dinner or other meal, the trenchers, &c. were swept from the table with a wooden knife."-DYCE. Page 49, line 14; the Knight of the Sun]. A wellknown hero of romance. Page 50, line 7; napery]. i. e. linen of any kind, but chiefly table linen; from nappe, French. Page 50, line 14; Her next part]. i. e. Her marriage state. Page 50, line 16; her wrie little finger bewraies carving, &c.] The passage in the text sufficiently shows that carving was a sign of intelligence made with the little finger, as the glass was raised to the mouth. See the prefatory Letter prefixed to Mr. R. G. White's Shakespeare's Scholar, 8vo. New York, 1854, p. xxxiii. Mr. Hunter (New Illustrations of Shakespeare, i. 215), Mr. Dyce (A few Notes on Shakespeare, |