June 22. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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the pursuer, and either sinks into the earth with a 

 strange noise, or is lost upon the slightest momentary 

 inattention. Many have attempted to strike it 

 with any weapon they had at hand ; but although 

 the appearance stood its ground, no material sub- 

 stance could ever be detected. It may be added 

 that "trash" does not confine itself to church- 

 yards, though frequently seen in such localities. 



T. T. W. 

 Burnley. 



NOTES ON MliTON. 



(Continued from Vol. i., p. 387.) 



L'Allegro. 

 On 1.6. (D.): — 



" Where triumphant Darkness hovers 

 Witli a sable wing, that covers 

 Brooding Horror." 



Crashaw, Psalm xxiii. 



Oti 1. II. (G.) Drayton has this expression in 

 his Heroical Epistles : — 



" Find me out one so young, so fair, so free." 



King John to Matilda. 

 and afterwards, — 



" Leave that accursed cell ; 

 There let black Night and Melancholy dwell." 



On 1. 24. (G.) Most probably from a couplet 

 in Burton's Anatomi/ of Melancholy : — 



" And ever and anon she thinks upon the man. 

 That was so fine, so fair, so blith, so debonaire." 

 P. 3. Sc. 2. p. 603. ed. 1621. 4to. 



And in Randolph's Aristippus, — 



" A bowle of wine is wondrous boone chere 

 To make one biuh, buxoine, and deboneere. " 



P. 13. ed. 1630. 4to. 

 On 1.27. (G.): — 



" Manes. Didst thou not find I did quip thee ? 

 " Psyllus. No, verily ; why, what's a quip9 

 " Manes. We great girders call it a short saying of 

 a sharp wit, with a bitter sense in a sweet word." 



Alexander and Campaspe, Old Plays, vol. ii. p. 113. 



ed. J780. 

 " Then for your Lordship's Quippes and quick jestes. 

 Why Gesta Romanorum were nothing to them." 

 Sir Gyles Goosecappe, a Com., Sig. G. 2. 4to. 1606. 



Crank is used in a different sense by Drayton : — 

 " Like Chanticleare he crowed crank, 

 And pii)ed full merily." 



Vol. iv. p. 1402. ed. 1753. 

 On 1.31. (M.): — 



" Tliere dai.ity Joys laugh at white-headed Caring." 



Fletcher's Purple Island, C. vi. St. 35. 

 On I. 42. (G.): — 



" 'J'lie cheerful lark, mounting from early l)ed. 

 With sweet salutes awakes the drowsy Light; 

 The earth shee left, and up to Heaven is lied: 

 Tliere chants her Maker's praises out of sight." 

 Purple Island, C. ix. St. 2. 



" From heaven high to chase the cheareless darke, 

 With mery note her lowd salutes the morning larke." 



Faery Queene, B. i. c. 11. 

 On 1.45. (G.): — 

 " The chearful birds, chirping him sweet good-morrow, 

 With nature's music do beguile his sorrow." 



Sylvester's Du Bartas. 



On 1. 67. (G.) See note already inserted in 

 "Notes and Queries," p. 316. 



On 1. 75. (G.) : — 



" In May the meads are not so pied with flowers." 

 Sylvester's Du Bartas. 

 On 1. 78. (G.) So in Comus : — 



" And casts a gleam over the tufted grove." 



v. 225. 

 On 1.80. (G.): — 



" Loadstar of Love and Loadstone of all hearts." 



Drummond. 

 On 1. 117. (Anon.) See extracts from the 

 Diary of a Lover of Literature. To me this line 

 seems to allude to the imagination in sleep : — 

 " Such sights as youthful poets dream." 

 Onl. 121. (G.): — 



" Yet served 1, gentles, seeing store 

 Of dainty girls beside." 



Albion's England, p. 218. 4to. 1602. 



On 1.125. (G.): — 



" In saffron robes and all his solemn rites, 

 Thrice sacred Hymen." 



Sylvester's Du Bartas. 

 And in Spanish Tragedy : — 



" The two first the nuptial torches bore, 

 As brightly burning as the mid-day's sun; 

 But after them doth Hymen hie as fast. 

 Clothed in sable and a saffron robe." 



Onl. 187. (G.): — 



" Marrying their sweet tunes to the angels' lays." 



Sylvester's Du Bartas. 

 Onl. 144. (D.): — 



" Those precious mysteries that dwell 

 In Music's ravished soul." 



Crashaw's Music's Duet. 



J. F. M. 



COLVIL S WHIGG S SUPPLICATION. 



Heber possessed a curious MS. volume entitled 

 A Poetical Miscellany, selected from the Works of 

 the Men of Genius of the XVIIth Century. In 

 Part XI. of the Bibliotheca Heberiana it is thus 

 described : — 



" The first part of this volume was obviously col- 

 lected by a Scotchman, and it includes pieces by Ben 

 Jonson, Wither, Dr. Donne, &c. It must have been 

 made in the latter part of the reign of Charles I. The 

 second portion of the volume is a later production ; a 

 humourous poem, called a H'hiy's Supplication, by 



