at the beginning of the seventeenth century.

[Curly-pi].

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POEMS DISCOVERED AMONG THE PAPERS OF SIR KENELM DIGBY.

MR. HALLIWELL (Vol. ii., p. 238.) says that he
does not believe my MS. of the "Minde of the
Lady Venetia Digby" can be an autograph. I
have reason to think that he is right from discovering
another MS. written in the same hand as the
above, and containing two poems without date or
signature, neither of which (I _believe_) are Ben
Jonson's. I enclose the shorter of the two, and
should feel obliged if any of your correspondents
could tell me the author of it, as this would throw
some light upon the _writer_ of the two MSS.

THE HOURGLASSE.

Doe but consider this small dust running in this glasse,
By atoms moved;
Would you believe that this the body ever was
Of one that loved;
Who in his mistresse flames playing like a fly,
Burnt to cinders by her eye?
Yes! and in death as life unblest,