ABSTRACT
Brydges (1762-1837), a barrister and sometime M.P., wrote copiously on bibliography and genealogy. In his edition of Raleigh's poems he compared the several variations upon Marlowe's 'Come, live with me and be my love'-Raleigh's 'answer' the anonymous 'Another of the Same Nature Made Since' ('Come, live with me, and be my dear'), and Donne's 'The Baite'. (The Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh: Now First Collected, 1813, p. 67 of the 'Notes to Raleigh's Poems'. The 'Biographical and Critical Introduction' is separately paginated.) Brydges spoke of Donne again in characterising the bad taste of most English poets in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Restituta; or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature Revived, 1814, ii, p. 9, and iii, p. 2).
