Samuel Daniel
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 72
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... NOTE. The Earl of Devonshire died on 3rd April, 1606, and this 'Fvneral! Poeme, ' which appeared originally as a thin quarto, having a title-page printed in white letters on a black ground, may be dated in the same year, though without date anywhere. The title-page thus runs: -- A Fvnerall Poeme Vpon the Death of the late noble Earle of Deuonshire. (11 leaves?) An exemplar is in the British Museum. It is found in all the collective editions after 1606. A collation of the quarto of 1623 with this original edition--never before done--abundantly rewards us. At the bottom of the pages lines and whole passages left out by the Author on revision are recorded, and some re-introduced into the text. Passages in the quarto of 1623 not in the original edition are also noted. The 1607 edition supplies in margin an important name. See Memorial-Introduction on this nobleman, and for an original and unpublished letter from Daniel to him. A. B. G. A FVNERALL P O E M E . Vpon the Death os the late noble Ear/e of Deuonjhire. OW that the hand of death hath layd thee there, Where neither greatnesse, pompe, nor grace, we see, Nor any differences of earth; and where No vaile is drawne betwixt thy felfe and thee: Now Deuonjhire that thou art but a name, 10 And all the rest of thee besides is gone, When men conceiue thee not, but by the fame Of what thy vertue, and thy worth haue done: 11. 7-13 in the original edition are as follows: -- Where all must be, and leuel'd thee with th' Earth-- Where men are all 6f them alike, and where There are no seu'rall roomes for state or birth: Now thou hast nothing left thee but a name (O noble Deuonshire) and all is gone With thee, except the memorie, and fame Of what thy vertue . . . hath . . . Now shal my verse which thou..