were printed without date, were entered on the
books of the Stationer's Company, in 1581: under the Title of, "Watsons
Passions, manifesting the true frenzy of Love". The Entry is to Gabriel
Cawood, who afterwards published them. [See _A Transcript of the
Registers of the Company of Stationers of London_, ed. Edward Arber
(London, 1875-1894), II, 409.] Ad Lectorem Hexasticon is prefixed
"Green's Tullie's Love", & subscribed "Tho. Watson. Oxon."--[Robert
Greene, _Ciceronis Amor. Tullies Love_ (London, 1601), Sig. A3 verso.]

I find in [Joseph] _Ames' Typographical Antiquities_. [London, 1749]
page 423. Amintae Gaudia. Authore Tho. Watsono. Londinensi. Juris
studiosi [sic]. 4.'to. 1592 [This unique pencilled annotation seems to
be in Joseph Warton's hand.]

[17] [A note to accompany this Sonnet No. VII has been almost completely
destroyed by the excision, unique in the notebook, of what was
originally folio 17. The mutilated line ends of the note read thus: "...
nd/ ... on/... omas/... s _Tr._" This note presumably referred to Thomas
Watson and cited Section XI of "A Comparative Discourse of our English
Poets," in Francis Meres's _Palladis Tamia: Wit's Treasury_ (London,
1598, fol. 280), where among those praised for their Latin verse are
Christopher Ocland, Thomas Watson, Thomas Campion, Walter Haddon, and
"Thomas Newton with his Leyland."]

[18] Novemb. 19. [1594, not 1595.] Registr. _Station_. B. fol. 315. a.

[19] There is [a] Sonnet by Spenser, never printed with his works,
prefixed to Gabriel Harveys "Foure Letters, &c. Lond. 1592." I have much
pleasure in drawing this little piece from obscurity, not only as it
bears the name of Spenser, but as it is at the same time a natural
unaffected effusion of friendship ... [four words illegible]. (See
_Observations_ on Spenser's _Fair. Qu._ [II]. [245-247?].)

"_Harvey_, the happy aboue happiest men,
I read: that sitting like a looker-on
of this worldes stage, doest note with critique pen
The sharpe dislikes of each condition;
And, as one carelesse of suspition,
Ne fawnest for the favour of the great,
Ne fearest foolish reprehension
of faulty men, which daunger to thee threat;
But freely doest, of what thee list, entreat,
Like a great lord of peerlesse liberty:
Lifting the good vp to high honours seat,
And th' euil damning euermore to dy.
For life and death is in thy doomefull writing
So thy re