And glory of our Day set in his Night.
Prince Henry.] Besides composing these English verses King contributed two Latin sets to Justa Oxoniensium, one of several Oxford tombeaux for the Prince who was taken away from the evil to come. The present poem appears to me (though, of course, the high-strung character of the mourning seems to have been both general and sincere) to be much more 'frigid and artificial' than the Mrs. Anne Kirk. Hannah gives several variants, not merely from his usual MS. but from Malone 21. I have taken those which seem to have some point.
5-6 For 'Hark ... dead.' the Malone reading is:
Death and horror wed
To vent their teeming mischief: Henry's dead.
The other MS., for l. 6, has:
Through the astonisht world, Henry is dead.
11 Malone MS. 'Compendious Eloquence of Death', &c.
18 For the first half, Malone MS. 'lies in this narrow compass'; the other, 'throngs' for 'lies'.