IX. TITYRUS TO HIS FAIRE PHILLIS.6 HE silly Swaine whose loue breedes discontent, THE Thinkes death a trifle, life a loathsome thing, Sad he lookes, sad he lyes. But when his Fortunes mallice doth relent, Then of Loues sweetnes he will sweetly sing, thus he liues, thus he dyes. Then Tityrus whom Loue hath happy made, For though Loue at first did greeue him : I. D. "From "Englands Helicon : Casta placent superis pura cum Veste venite, Et manibus puris sumite fontis aquam. At London Printed by 1. R. for Iohn Flasket, and are to be sold in St. Paules Church-yard, at the E 3 (verso) The Davies authorship of this little lilt, is confirmed by a contem porary (Harleian) MS. list of contributors to England's Helicon (280), wherein his name is placed against it. G. UPON A COFFIN BY S. J. D. There was a man bespake a thing Which when the owner home did bring, He that made it did refuse it; And he that brought it would not use it, And he that hath it doth not know Whether he hath it, ay or no. From "The Curtaine-Drawer of the Worlde . . . by W. Parkes, Gentleman . . . 1621.7 7 In my Fuller Worthies' Library edition of Davies, I inserted above Riddle as kindly sent me by Mr. W. C. Hazlitt, from the Philosopher's Banquet: 2d edition, 1614, p. 261. In its text 1. 6 'he' is spelled 'hee,' and 'ay' is 'yea.' G. X. EPITAPH AND EPIGRAM. Sir John Davies had a son who became, if he were not born, an idiot. Anthony-a-Wood states "The son dying, Sir John made an epitaph of four verses on him, beginning Hic in visceribus terræ &c." It is much to be wished that these 'four verses' were recovered. Further, he had a daughter named 'Lucy'; and of her the same authority writes: "So that the said Lucy being sole heiress to her father, Ferdinando, Lord Hastings, (afterwards Earl of Huntingdon) became a suitor to her for marriage; whereupon the father made this Epigram: LUCIDA VIS Oculos teneri perstrinxit amantis Nec tamen erravit nam VIA DULCIS erat." On this WATTS remarks: "This is a remarkable anagram of Lucy Davies. See as remarkable ones on the mother Eleanor Davies, Reveal O Daniel, by herself, the other made on her by DR. LAMB,-Dame Eleanor Davies, Never so mad a Lady. Heylin's Life of Laud p. 266." Wood's Athenæ, (edn. by Bliss) Vol. 11. P. 404. G. |