Wotton's Poem to Lord Bacon

The poem communicated by Dr. Rimbault, with the heading, "To the Lord Bacon when falling from Favour," and with the remark that he does "not remember to have seen it in print," was written by Sir Henry Wotton, and may be found under the title, "Upon the sudden restraint of the *Earl of Somerset*, then falling from Favour," in all the old editions of the *Reliquiæ Wottonianæ* (1651, 1654, 1672, and 1685), as well as in the modern editions of Sir Henry's poems, by Mr. Dyce and Mr. Hannah. It was also printed as Wotton's in Clarke's *Aurea Legenda*, 1682, p. 97., and more recently in Campbell's *…