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Excerpt from The Works of the English Poets, Vol. 9: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
The queen-mother that I would find fome means to get accefs to him, {he was pleafed to fend me; and by the help of Hugh Peters I got my admittance, and com ing well infirué'tcd. From the queen (his majefiy having been kept long in the dark) he was pleafcd to dif courfe very freely with me of the whole {late of his afairs But, fir, I will not launch into an hifiory, infioad of an epilile. One morning waiting'on him at Caufham, finiling upon me, he faid he could tell me fome news of myfelf, which was, that he had feen fome verres of mine the evening before (being thofe to Sir R. Fanlhaw); and a¿ting me when I made them, I told him two or three years fince; he was plcafed to fay, that having never feen them before, he was afraid I had written them fince my return into England, and though he liked them w,cll he would advife me to write no more; alledging, that when men are young, and have little elfe to do, they might vent the over¿owings of their fancy that way 3 but when the l were thought fit for more fcrious employments, if B a thq.
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