POEM BY SIR EDWARD DYER

*Dr. Rimbault's 4th Qu.* (No. 19. p. 302.).—"My mind to me a kingdom is" will be found to be of much earlier date than Nicholas Breton. Percy partly printed it from William Byrds's *Psalmes, Sonets, and Songs of Sadnes* (no date, but 1588 according to Ames), with some additions and *improvements (?)* from a B.L. copy in the Pepysian collection. I have met with it in some early poetical miscellany—perhaps Tottel, or *England's Helicon*—but cannot just now refer to either. The following copy is from a cotemporary MS. containing many of the poems of Sir Edward Dyer, Edward Earl of Oxford, and the…