Cavalier and Courtier Lyrics. With Introduction by W. H. Deriks,
and Notes by E. Sherwood Smith. (Walter Scott.)—This volume is not by any means the least attractive of its series,— " The Canterbury Poets." Some thirty poets are put under con- tribution, among whose names the most famous are Carew, Carley, Lord Dorset, Drummond (of Hawthornden), Lovelace, Randolph, Lord Rochester, Sir Charles Sedley, Sir John Suckling, and Waller. Here is a specimen, known probably to many of our readers, but such as they will not be sorry to see again :-
" Love still has something of the sea From whence his mother rose ;
No time his slaves from doubt can free, Nor give their thoughts repose.
They are becalmed in clearest days, And in rough weather tossed; They wither under cold delays,
Or are in tempests lost.
One while they seem to reach the port ; Then straight into the main Some angry winds in cruel sport Their vessel drives again."
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