Note 328 — Chapter XLVIII
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Harrington to Justice Carey in Nugæ Antiquæ, i. 247. Park gives April as the date of this letter, but this is disproved by internal evidence, and it certainly belongs to October. See also ib. pp. 260 and 340. Warren’s own account of his ‘second journey to the Earl of Tyrone,’ is dated Oct. 20. The first lines of the 45th canto of Harrington’s translation of Orlando are:—
Look how much higher Fortune doth erect The climbing wight on her unstable wheel, So much the higher may a man expect To see his head where late he saw his heel, &c.