Note 182 — XI—THE DEVELOPMENT OF DRAMATIC POWER

There were twenty pieces in all. The five by Shakespeare are placed in the order i. ii. iii. v. xvi. Of the remainder, two—‘If music and sweet poetry agree’ (No. viii.) and ‘As it fell upon a day’ (No. xx.)—were borrowed from Barnfield’s Poems in divers Humours (1598). ‘Venus with Adonis sitting by her’ (No. xi.) is from Bartholomew Griffin’s Fidessa (1596); ‘My flocks feed not’ (No. xvii.) is adapted from Thomas Weelkes’s Madrigals (1597); ‘Live with me and be my love’ is by Marlowe; and the appended stanza, entitled ‘Love’s Answer,’ by Sir Walter Ralegh (No. xix.); ‘Crabbed age and youth cannot live together’ (No. xii.) is a popular song often quoted by the Elizabethan dramatists. Nothing has been ascertained of the origin and history of the remaining nine poems (iv. vi. vii. ix. x. xiii. xiv. xviii.)