In minde,—the which none, truely, were.
This youth I well remember, and
In neere, loe, manner kisse your hand;
Hoping, of gentle courtesie,
You will no worse remember me.’
—MS. Harl. 7002, f. 118.
[15]. And as, it must be remembered, Cotton himself believed.
[16]. Curiously enough, part of these documents, so carefully brought together by Sir Robert Cotton, remained with the Cottonian MSS., and part of them were severed from that collection for more than two centuries. Their recovery is one of the smallest of the innumerable obligations which the Department of MSS. owes to the care and far-spread researches of the late Keeper, Sir Frederick Madden.
[17]. It is Cottonian MS., Vitellius, c. 17, ff. 380, seqq.
[18]. Verses entitled Sir Philip Sydney lying on his Deathbed; in MS. Chetham 8012 (Chetham Library, Manchester).