POEMS DISCOVERED AMONG THE PAPERS OF SIR KENELM DIGBY

MR. HALLIWELL (Vol. ii., p. 238.) says that he does not believe my MS. of the "Minde of the Lady Venetia Digby" can be an autograph. I have reason to think that he is right from discovering another MS. written in the same hand as the above, and containing two poems without date or signature, neither of which (I *believe*) are Ben Jonson's. I enclose the shorter of the two, and should feel obliged if any of your correspondents could tell me the author of it, as this would throw some light upon the *writer* of the two MSS. THE HOURGLASSE. Doe but consider this small dust running in this glasse,…