Among  the  books  which  he  read  during  the
years  1610-1612,  we  note  the  Rime  of  Petrarch,
the  Pastor  Fido  of  Guarini,  Rime  and  Arcadia
of  Sanazzaro,  with  various  works  of  Tasso,
Bembo,  Rinaldi,  Contarini,  and  Coquinato.  Of
English  books  read  during  the  same  period
the  most  noteworthy  are  Spenser's  Faery
Queen,  Amoretti,  and  Epiihalamium,  poems  of
Drayton  and  Alexander,  Ben  Jonson's  Epi
grams,  Bacon's  Essays,  and  Puttenham's  Art
of  English  Poesy.  The  Hawthornden  MSS.
include  lists,  in  Drummond's  handwriting,
of  the  books  which  constituted  his  library
at  Hawthornden  in  1611.  Of  Italian  books
there  are  61  ;  of  Spanish,  8  ;  of  French,  120  ;
of  English,  50 ;  of  Greek,  35  ;  of  Hebrew,  n  ;
of  Latin,  164,  comprising  31  of  theology,  24
of  law,  54  of  philosophy,  and  55  of  poetry:
lastly,  there  is  "an  additional  list,  chiefly  of
classics  or  miscellaneous  Latin  authors,  con
taining  103  books."*  A  total  of  552  books  in
seven  languages.
Drummond's  love  of  retirement  was  certainly
unaffected.     It  is  evinced  not   only  by  many

*  Archceologia  Scoticat  vol.  iv.  p.  77.
