That runn'st from pole to pole

To seek a draught to quench thy thirst,

Go seek it in thy soul."'

[4] The poems of Barnfield were not in the original Garner and are now incorporated for the first time.

[5] Prince in his Worthies of Devon(1701) quotes this couplet as an epitaph, by an anonymous writer, on Drake.

[6] There is a better epitaph on Drake in Wit's Recreations(1640):—

'Sir Drake, whom well the world's end knew,

Which thou didst compasse round.

And whom both Poles of Heaven once saw,

Which North and South do bound: