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��The Poetical Works of Robert Stephen Hawker (Kegan Paul, 1879). By permission of Mrs. R. S. Hawker. ' With the exception of the choral lines

And shall Trelawney die? There's twenty thousand Cornishmen Will know the reason why !

and which have been, ever since the imprisonment by James II. of the Seven Bishops one of them Sir Jonathan Trelawney a popular proverb throughout Cornwall, the whole of this song was composed by me in the year 1825. I wrote it under a stag-horned oak in Sir Beville's Walk in Stowe Wood. It was sent by me anonymously to a Plymouth paper, and there it attracted the notice of Mr. Davies Gilbert, who reprinted it at his private press at East- bourne under the avowed impression that it was the original ballad. It had the good fortune to win the eulogy of Sir Walter Scott, who also deemed it to be the ancient song. It was praised under the same persuasion by Lord Macaulay and Mr. Dickens.' Author's Note.

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From The Sea Side and the Fire Side, 1851 ; Birds of Passage, Flight the First, and Flight the Second; and Flower de Luce, 1866. Of these four examples of the picturesque and taking art of Long- fellow, I need say no more than that all are printed in their integrity, with the exception of the first. This I leave the lighter by a moral and an application, both of which, superfluous or not, are remote irom the general purpose of this book : a confession in which I may include the following number, Mr. Whittier's Barbara Frietchie (In War- Time, 1863).

��Nineteenth Century, March 1878 ; Ballads and other Poems, 1880. By permission of Messrs. Macmillan, to whom I am indebted for some of my choicest numbers. For the story of Sir Richard Gren- ville's heroic death, 'in the last of August,' 1591 after the Revenge had endured the onset of ' fifteen several armadas," and received some 'eight hundred shot of great artillerie,' see Hakluyt (1598- 1600), ii. 169-176, where you will find it told with singular animation and directness by Sir Walter Raleigh, who held a brief against the Spaniards in Sir Richard's case as always. To Sir Richard's pro- posal to blow up the ship the master gunner ' readily condescended,' as did ' divers others ' ; but the captain was of ' another opinion," and in the end Sir Richard was taken aboard the ship of the Span- ish admiral, Don Alfonso de Bazan, who used him well and hon- ourably until he died : leaving to his friends the ' comfort that being dead he hath not outlived his own honour," and that he had nobly

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