her going into Ireland, two Sonnets. The Youth in the Boat.
Acrostics of the truly noble, vertuous, and learned Lady, the
Lady Agnes Wenman; of the Lady Penelope Dynham; of Mrs. Jane
Wenman. Verses on the Chapel of Wadham College consecration, St.
Peter's Day, 1613; on Caversham or Causham House; of Witham
House, Oxfordshire, the house of a noble Knight, and favourer of
my Muse; and Elegy on a Bullfinch, 1648; of the Four Mile Course
of Bayaides Green, six times run over, by two famous Irish
footmen, Patrick Dorning and William O'Farrell.--It contains
about 40 leaves, much corrected, and at the end is 'L'Envoy':--

"'Go, sweet Polymnia, thanks for all your cost
And love to me; wherein no love is lost.
As you have taught me various verse to use,
I have to right you to be a Christian Muse.'"

I have been thus particular in transcribing this passage from Cole,
because this copy, mentioned as being in the possession of Mr. Knight,
jun. (quere, where is it now?), varies from mine, obtained from Mr.
Heber's Collection, and was no doubt the one prepared and corrected for
the press by Basse. The following poems, mentioned by Cole, are not in
my copy:--

"To the Right Hon. the Lady Aungier (then wife of Sir Thos.
Wenman) upon her coming out of Ireland, {297} and return
thither. Acrostics of the truly noble, vertuous, and learned
Lady, the Lady Agnes Wenman; of the Lady Penelope Dynham; of
Mrs. Jane Wenman. Verses on the Chapel of Wadham College
consecration, St. Peter's Day, 1613; and on Caversham or Causham
House."