the parallel, the following lines
are sufficient.

How Night and Day conspire a secret flight;
For Day, they say, is gone away by Night.
The Day is past, but landlord where's your rent?
You might have seen, that Day was almost spent.
Day sold, and did put off whate'er he might,
Tho' it was ne'er so dark, Day wou'd be light.

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Sir WALTER RALEIGH

Was descended of an ancient family in Devonshire, which was seated
in that county before the conquest[1], and was fourth son of Walter
Raleigh, esquire, of Fards, in the parish of Cornwood. He was born in
the year 1552 at Hayes, a pleasant farm of his father's in the parish
of Budley, in that part of Devonshire bordering Eastward upon the Sea,
near where the Ottery discharges itself into the British Channel; he
was educated at the university of Oxford, where, according to Dr.
Fuller, he became a commoner of Oriel College, as well as Christ
Church, and displayed in his early years a great vivacity of genius in
his application to his studies. Some have said, that after leaving the
university, he settled himself in the Middle-Temple, and studied the
law, but this opinion must be erroneous, since he declares afterwards
on his trial, that he never read a word of law 'till he was prisoner
in the Tower. In 1569, when he was not above 17 years of age, he was
one of the select troop of a hundred gentlemen voluntiers, whom Queen
Elizabeth permitted Henry Champernon to transport into France, for the
assistance of protestant Princes there[2], but of what service they
were, or what was the consequence of the expedition, we have no
account. So great a scene of action as the whole kingdom of France was
at that period, gave Raleigh an opportunity of acquiring experience,
and reading characters, as well as improving himself in the knowledge
of languages and manners, and his own History of the World contains
some remarks which he then made of the conduct of some great generals
there, of which he had himself been witness. After our author's return
from France, he embarked in an expedition to the northern parts of
America, with Sir Humphry Gilbert, his brother by the mother's side,
that gentleman having obtained the Queen's Patent to plant and inhabit
such parts of it as were unpossessed by any Prince with whom she was
in alliance; but this attempt proved unsuccessful by means of the
division which arose amongst the Voluntiers. The next