d in Davison's
"Poetical Rhapsody" with the signature "Incerto."

_Page_ 121. "The man of life upright."--In some old MS. copies this poem
is ascribed to Francis Bacon: see Hannah's "Poems of Raleigh and
Wotton," p. 119. Canon Hannah makes no mention of Campion's claim.
Campion distinctly tells us that he wrote both the verses and the music
of his songs: and I have no doubt that he was the author of the present
lyric, which has more merit than any of Bacon's poems. In an epigram
printed in his "Observations in the Art of English Poetry," 1602, there
is a striking image that reappears in the present poem:--

"A wise man wary lives yet most secure,
Sorrows move not him greatly, nor delights,
Fortune and death he scorning only makes
_Th' earth his sober inn_, but still heaven his home."
(SIG. C2).

Henceforward let nobody claim "The man of life upright" for Bacon.

_Page_ 124. "The Nightingale so pleasant and so gay."--"According to
Peacham," says Oliphant ("_Musa Madrigalesca_," p. 45), "there was a
virtuous contention between W. Byrd and Ferrabosco who of the two should
best set these words; in which according to his (Peacham's) opinion,
Ferrabosco succeeded so well that 'it could not be bettered for
sweetness of ayre and depth of judgment.'"

_Page_ 124. "The Nightingale so soon as April bringeth."--From the first
stanza of a poem printed in the third edition of Sidney's "Arcadia,"
1598.

_Page_ 126. "There is a garden in her face."--This poem is also set to
music in Alison's "Hour's Recreation," 1606, and Robert Jones' "Ultimum
Vale" (1608). Herrick's dainty verses "Cherry-Ripe" are well-known:--

"Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe! I cry:
Full and fair ones, come and buy.
If so be you ask me where
They do grow, I answer,--There,
Where my Julia's lips do smile,
There's the land or cherry-isle,
Whose plantations fully show
All the year where cherries grow."

_Page_ 127. "There is a lady sweet and kind."--Printed also in "The
Golden Garland of Princely Delights," 1620.

_Page_ 128. "There were three Ravens."--The north-country version of
this noble dirge contains some verses of appalling intensity:--

"His horse is to the huntin gane
His hounds to bring the wild deer hame;
His lady's ta'en another mate,
So we may mak our dinner sweet.

"O we'll sit on his bonny breast-bane,
And we'll py