judgment, so all the Arcadia is a continual grove of morality,
shadowing moral and political truths under the plain and striking
emblems of lovers, so that the reader may be deceived, but not hurt,
and happily surprized to more knowledge than he expected.

Besides the celebrated Arcadia, Sir Philip wrote,

A dissuasive letter addressed to Queen Elizabeth; against her marriage
with the duke of Anjou, printed in a book called Serinia Ceciliana,
4to. 1663.

Astrophel & Stella, written at the desire of Lady Rich, whom he
perfectly loved, and is thought to be celebrated in the Arcadia by the
name of Philoclea.

--------------- Ourania, a poem, 1606.

An Essay on Valour: Some impute this to Sir Thomas Overbury.

Almanzor and Almanzaida, a novel printed in 1678, which is likewise
disputed; and Wood says that he believes Sir Philip's name was only
prefixed to it by the bookseller, to secure a demand for it.

--------England's Helicon, a collection of songs.

--------The Psalms of David turned into English.

The true PICTURE of LOVE.

Poore painters oft with silly poets joyne,
To fill the world with vain and strange conceits,
One brings the stuff, the other stamps the coyne
Which breeds nought else but glosses of deceits.
Thus painters Cupid paint, thus poets doe
A naked god, blind, young, with arrows two.

Is he a god, that ever flyes the light?
Or naked he, disguis'd in all untruth?
If he be blind, how hitteth he so right?
How is he young, that tamed old Phoebus
youth?
But arrowes two, and tipt with gold or lead,
Some hurt, accuse a third with horney head.

No nothing so; an old, false knave he is,
By Argus got on Io, then a cow:
What time for her, Juno her Jove did miss,
And charge of her to Argus did allow.
Mercury killed his false sire for this act,
His damme a beast was pardoned, beastly
fact.

With father's death, and mother's guilty shame,
With Jove's disdain at such a rival's feed:
The wretch compel'd, a runegate became,
And learn'd what ill, a miser-state did breed,
To lye, to steal, to prie, and to accuse,
Nought in himself, each other to abuse.

[Footnote 1: Athen, Oxon, folio, p. 226.]

[Footnote 2: Wood, p. 227.]

[Footnote 3: Earl of Leicester.]

[Footnote 4: Lord Brook's life.]

[Footnote 5: For a great many months after his death, it was reckoned
indecent in any gentleman to appear splendidly dress'd; the public
mourned him