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 AN

ENGLISH

GARNER

INGATHERINGS

FROM OUR

HISTORY AND LITERATURE

Vol. I.

Queen ELIZABETH.

Importune me no more!

[Ranlinson MS.]

A royal hand moved by a true English heart shall unlock this Garner.

Among the large collection of manuscripts bequeathed in 1755 by Doctor RAWLINSON to the University of Oxford, and now in the Bodleian; there are upwards of two hundred volumes of verse, consisting chiefly of transcripts of favourite poems into common-place books; some of which poems have never yet been printed.

Volume 85 of this Collection, in the handwriting of from 1590-1610 A.D., opens with the following poem; which has been erroneously ascribed by "Lord ORFORD (Works, 1. 552, Ed. 1790) to EDWARD DE VERE, Earl of OXFORD.