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ANCIENT INEDITED BALLADS, NO. IV

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I next transcribe the following lines from the same MS. as my last. It is another epitaph on the Mr. Browne that I mentioned in No. II. It contains a curious illustration of a passage in Shakspeare, which has been often debated in the pages of "Notes and Queries," and so deserves preservation.

"Vpon the death of that right worthye man, Mr. Browne, late of Caius and Gonville Colledge disceased. Epicedion."—(Harl. MSS., No. 367. fol. 155.)

"If vowes or teares from heartes or eyes,

Could pearce the unpenitrable skyes,

Then might he live, that now heere lyes.

But teares are tonguelesse, vowes are vaine,

T' recall what fate calls; els how faine

What death hath seis'd, wold I regaine.

But sure th' immortal one belaves

This wished soule in 's blissfull waves:

Ill comes too oft, when no man craves.

Rest, therefore, vrne, rest quietlye,

And when my fates shall call on me,

So may I rest, as I wish the.


"R. Constable,

Caio-Gonvillensis."

I need hardly point out the striking similarity between the expression in Shakspeare—

"and the delighted spirit

To bathe in fiery floods,"—


and the third stanza of this poem.

Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie.

Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851

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