The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-02
'DOCTOR KINGSBURY ON RALEIGH
"Truly a Great Many-Sided Man. The DisaoNaA
taqes of Education Considered.

name OF the greatest genus OF ali
world Is not definitely fixed either III as
much as there are some ten or Twelve
ways OF spelling Shakespeare, ali o. Them
used in the past. Some scholars ana
writers IN our time prefer Shak7peIe'
and SO it appears III editions OF the WORKS
of this marvellous man. Shakespeare was
The common style about $4,000. NOW tHe
preferred name by most of the best
hakespearians Is as first written ABOVE
For forty years l have always so written
# In England among critical and ledIiN4
authors YOU Will find Raleigh's name, as
it is written in North Carolina, spelled
without the Raleigh. l notice that the
capital writer and man of letters, Dean
church. of St. Pauls. London, SO writes
it always in his very instructive Lie or
Edmund Spenser." BY the way, that
very original and richly endowed poetic
| genius was greatly indebted to the Illus
| trious Sir Walter for recognition and most
timely aid in a day OF stress and obscurlty-
/ Spenser spent a long time in Ireland. l do
not know precisely how long, but some
| twelve or fifteen years. He saw a great
| deal of misery and desoiatlon and many
murders committed by the savage Eng
| lish. Sir Walter had himself aided In the
butcheries, we may we'll p as 1T IS
\ fact that he had served through much
of what is known as the Munster War.
! He behaved like most Of the English IN
the Elizabethan wars upon Ireland. Dean
Church, high authority, says OF him that
.he had shown in Ireland some OF the
characteristic points of his nature which
made him at once the glory and shame OF
Tnglish manhood" Profuse euloglsts oil
| Raleigh would be wise to write with care
in view of historic facts and records. Here
! is another illuminating passage from Dean
Church (see his Spenser, page 1lS): lie
| had shown his audacity, his self-rellance,
his resource, and some signs of that
boundless but prudent ambition which
marked his career" He had shown that
freedom of tongue, that restless and high
reaching adventurousness, and that tenacl-
ty Of opinion which made him a difficult
person for others to work with" Of his
connection with the devilish Munster out
RACES and butcheries, the Dean writes:
Raleigh had been at Snurwlck: he had
been in command of one of the bands put
in by Lord Grey to do the
l.. He had secured for himself a
large share of the Desmond lands" He
and his assistants and tenants secured 49,
900 acres apiece" in the three counties
of Munster, Waterford and Cork. A very
good share that of the "spOlls Of war"
The kindness he did to Spenser was to
first discover the extraordinary work of
genius (the Faerle Queen) which was
growing up amid the turbulence and mis-
cry and despair of Ireland" and then to
bring "its author into the centre Of Eng
lish life" This was the noblest act of
Raleigh-to be the first to recognize the
| splendor, the richness, the originality and
| lofty genius manifested in one of the
| greatest of poems in all time. After Raj
eigh had enriched himself in Ireland, and
exploited abroad in SO much OF adventure,
daring, ambition and partial success, Dean
Church tells that the hero appeared be
fore Spenser in all the glory of a brilliant
favorite-the soldier, the explorer, The
daring sea-captain, the founder of planta-
| lions across the ocean, and wlthal the
poet, the ready and eloquent
the true judge and measurer Of what was
, great and beautiful" Truly a great,
~many-sided man, however much of alloy
there may have been mixed with the gold
of his character. Raleigh's fortunes suf-
fered reverses, and after Ibis return from
his Portugal voyage his court fortunes
underwent a change" Elizabeth was cold
dIlu 'O1IcliNed dllu ii VI IASSCA L
to him as chat knave Raleigh" Church
says "he bent before the storm" He
says of all the distinguished officers who
were doing so much for England and
England's mistress "Ralegh was one Of
the most active and distinguished I
make one more extract from Dean
Church's very interesting review of the
friendship of the two great men-Raleigh
,aJ oa,ro, VHho 1a4@nr oxroo{oI
help from Raleigh than he received-1590-
i91-but the latter had embarked on a
tempestuous sea, and was very busy with
his own affairs. Here is the extract:
"Falegh, from whom Spenser might hope
! most, was just beginning to plunge into
that extraordinary career, IN the thread
Of which glory and disgrace, far-sighted
and princely public spirit and insatiate
private greed, were TO be so strangely IN
tertWined." In 1892, he was imprisoned
under disgrace because of a secret mar
rlage, and he affected "the most ridiculous
Despair because the Queen was absent
from the neighborhood of the Tower of
London, pouring forth his batteries on
this old woman of sixty as II he had no
bride of his own to love- It is worth
while to copy his fulsome alteration and
adulation of the homely, red-haired old
Queen: Il that was wont to behold her
riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana,
walking like Venus; the gentle wind
blowing her fair hair about her pure
cheeks like a nymph; some times, sitting
in the shade like a goddess; sometimes,
playing like Orpheus-behold the sorrow
of this World-once amiss, hath bereaved
me of ALL" It is not surprising that one
OF the very greatest of all modern poets
fell into neglect because his fortunes Ian
guished. Raleigh was absorbed in his own
affairs and gains and worship of a decayed
woman. Farther on in his life of Spenser
Dean Church turns again to Raleigh and
pays HIM a high tribute while not con-
cealing his blemishes and weaknesses.
Spenser referred his magnificent poem to
Raleigh, and found the appreciation he
sought. Church writes of Raleigh: "He
had not Sldney's fine enthusiasm and
nobleness: he had not either Sidnev's af-
tectatlOns. He was a man to whom his
own interests were much: he was I'M
ScrlIDll Ions. he was oStantat iouc. he v,c