306).

[f] Davies [Grosart, _Works_ (1888) 1-75, lines 64-72.]

[g] These have been incorporated in "National Ballad and
Song" (Section 2, _Merry Songs and Ballads_, Series 1).

[h] This is not quite correct. The title in the MS. runs "The
Choise of Valentines," and Dr. Grosart purports to give the first
eighteen lines, but in transcription he has omitted line 4.




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TO THE RIGHT
honorable the Lord S.[i]

Pardon, _sweete flower of Matchles poetrie,
And fairest bud the red rose euer bare;
Although my Muse, devorst from deeper care,
Presents thee with a wanton Elegie. 4

Ne blame my verse of loose unchastitie
For painting forth the things that hidden are,
Since all men acte what I in speache declare,
Onlie induced with varietie. 8

Complants and praises euery one can write,