Note 58 — THE PROLOGUE.
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Thomas Storer, in his metrical Life of Wolsey, 1599, has the following stanza, in which the expedition Wolsey used on this occasion is not unpoetically alluded to:
“The Argonautic vessel never past With swifter course along the Colchian main, Than my small bark with fair and speedy blast Convey’d me forth, and reconvey’d again; Thrice had Arcturus driv’n his restless wain, And heav’n’s bright lamp the day had thrice reviv’d From first departure, till I last arriv’d.”
This poem was reprinted by Mr. Park in the Supplement to the Harleian Miscellany. There are extracts from it in the Retrospective Review, Vol. v. p. 275.