author. But as Thomas Ford, who set these words to music, was a musician in the suite of Prince Henry in 1607, and on the accession of Charles was appointed one of the king's musicians, dying, evidently a very old man, in 1648; and as Vaughan's earliest published work is dated 1650, I think that we may safely place this poem within our period. Mr. Bullen suggests that these verses may have once formed part of a longer poem. I have printed them for the first time in the stanzas which their structure demands. 208 7-18. "Few could have dealt with common household objects tables and chairs and candles and the rest -in so dignified a spirit," comments Mr. Bullen. 208 10. 208 14. 208 30. Order taken. Arrangements made. Dazie. A canopy of state. Mr. Bullen reads dais. |