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O hands that conquer more than Caesars force, O wit that turns huge kingdoms vpside downe.

Then Loue be Iudge, what hart may thee withstand: Such eies, such haire, such wit, and such a hand.

P Raisd be  Dianas   faire and harmles light, +Reprinted in                             Englands Helicon  with the title ‘The Sheepheards praise of his sacred Diana’ *, the one variant                            is recorded in the notes. Author: in some copies of  Helicon  the poem is attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh, but these have a cancel with                             the name ‘Ignoto’ pasted over Raleigh’s initials; Francis Davison’s manuscript (L: Harl. 280, fol. 99) similarly attributes the poem to ‘W. R.’;                            Bond attributes it to John Lyly,  Complete Works , III.478. Structure (May/Ringler):                             18: 4×4, 1×2, abab10, aa10 Praisd be the dewes, wherwith she moists the ground; Praisd be hir beames, the glorie of the night, Praisd be hir powre, by which all powres abound. 

 Praisd be hir Nimphs, with whom she decks the woods, Praisd be hir knights, in whom true honor liues, Praisd be that force, by which she moues the floods, Let that Diana shine, which all these giues. 

In heauen Queene she is among the spheares,  In ayayr, air  she Mistres like makes all things pure,She Mistresse-like makes all things to be pure (EH) Eternitie in hir oft chaunge she beares, She beautie is, by hir the faire endure. 

Time weareswears: wastes, saps  hir not, she doth his chariot guide, Mortalitie belowe hir orbe is plaste,  By hir the vertue of the starrs downe slide, In hir is vertues perfect image cast. 

A knowledge pure it is hir worth to kno, With Circes let them dwell that thinke not so.

L Ike to a Hermite poore in place obscure, +A translation of Desportes,  Diane , II.8, see Lodge’s translation in  Scillaes Metamorphoses , (1589).                            A similar poem appears in L: Add 38823, fol. 8. Printed in:  Britton’s Bowre of Delights ,                            (1591), sigs. B4v-C1 accompanied by a similar poem entitled ‘The complaint of a forsaken Louer’, which was reprinteds in  The Arbor of amorous Deuises ,                            (1597), sig. F2v. Other copies: L: Harl. 6910, c. 1596, fol. 139v; L: Add 38823, fol. 58v; L: Add. 56279, fol. 5; ARUND: Harrington, Temp. Eliz., c. 1550-92, fol. 145v; O: Rawl. Poet. 85, c. 1590,                            fol. 25v; F: V.a.169, pt. 2, fol. 10v; NY: Drexel 4257 [c. 1659], fol. 17; Lady Catherine Aston’s Poems, c. 1658, in  Tixall Poetry , ed. Arthur Clifford, (1813),                            pp. 115-16. For the music for this lyric, see  Musical Settings  . Author: Hannah                            attributed the poem to Raleigh and reprinted it in  The Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh , (1875),(1892), 12. Structure (May/Ringler): 14. Ss I meane to spend my daies of endles doubt, To waile such woes as time cannot recurecure , Where none but Loue shall euer finde me out. 

(5) My foode shall be of care and sorow made, My drink nought else but teares falne from mine eies,