WILLIAM BASSE AND HIS POEMS

I regret that I am unable to offer any information in answer to "Mr. P. Collier's" inquiry (No. 13. p. 200.) respecting the existence of a perfect or imperfect copy of a poem by William Basse on the Death of Prince Henry, printed at Oxford by Joseph Barnes, 1613, and am only aware of such a poem from the slight mention of it by Sir Harris Nicolas in his beautiful edition of Walton's *Complete Angler*, p. 422. But as the possessor of the 4to. MS. volume of poems by Basse, called *Polyhymnia*, formerly belonging to Mr. Heber, I feel greatly interested in endeavouring to obtain some further biogr…