Aug. 3. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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(D.) For what is here finely said, 

 and again beautifully expressed (v. 381.), we may 

 perhaps refer to Ariosto's description of the gems 

 which form the walls of the castle of Logistilla, or 

 Reason : — 



" Che chi r ha, ovunque sia, sempre che vuole, 

 Febo (mal grado tuo) si puo far giorno." 



Oil Fur. X. 60. 

 On 1. 404. (G.) : - 

 " Whiles a puft and rechlesse libertine, 

 Himselfe the primrose path of dalliance treads. 

 And reakes not his owne reed." 



Hamlet, i. 3. 

 On 1.405. (G.): — 

 " Where death and danger dog the heels of worth." 

 AlVs Weil that ends Well, iii. 4. 



On 1.421. (M.): — 



" Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just: 

 And he but naked, tliough locked up in steel. 

 Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted." 



2 Henri/ IF., iii. 2. 

 On 1. 424. (G.) : — 

 " And now he treads th' infamous woods and downs." 

 Ph. Fletcher's \Ec%., i. p. 4. ed. 1633. 



On 1. 494. (G.) The same sort of compliment 

 occurs in Wither's Shepherd's Hunting. (See 

 Genllemuns M'/g. for December 1800, p. II31.) 

 " Thou wert wont to charm thy flocks; 

 And among the massy rocks 

 Hast so cheered me with thy song, 

 That I have forgot my wrong." 



He adds : — 



" Hath some churle done thee a spiglit ? 

 Dost thou miss a iaml) to-niglit? " 



Juvenilia, p. 417. ed. 12mo. 1633. 



On 1.535. (M.): — 



" Not powerful Circe with her Hecnte r'les." 

 Ph. Fletcher's Poetical Miscellanies, p. 65. ed. 1 633. 



On 1.544. (D.): — 



" The soft sweet moss shall be thy bed 

 With crawling woodbme overspread." 



Herrick's Hcujierides, p. 223. 

 On 1.554 (G.): — 

 " And flattery to liis sinne close curtain draws." 

 Ph. Fletcher's Purple Island, p. 112. ed. 1633. 



Onl. 635. (G.): — 



" His clouted shoon were nailed for fear of wasting." 

 Ph. Fletcher's Purple Island, p. 113. 



On 1. 707. (G.) A passage in the Spanish 

 Tragedy confirms Mr. Warton's reasoning: — 

 " After them doth Hymen hie as fast. 

 Clothed in sable and a saH'ron robe." 



Old Plays, vol. iii. p. 214. ed. 1780. 



On 1.734. (G.):- 



" .Saw you not a lady come this way on a sable horse 

 studded with stars of white ? " 



Kuaumunt and Fletcher's Philaster, Act iv. 



Onl. 752. (G.): — 



" A sweet vermilian tincture stained 

 The bride's fair cheek." 

 Quarles' Aryalas and Parthenia, p. 118. ed. 1647. 



Onl. 812. (G.): — 



" Bathed in wordly bliss." 



Drayton, p. 586. ed. 1753. 

 " The fortunate who bathe in floods of joys. " 



E. of Sterline's Worhs, p. 251. ed." 1637. 



On 1. 834. (D.) : — 



" The lily-wristed morn." 

 The Country Life, Herrick's Hesperides, p. 269. 



(G.):- 

 " Ileacht him her ivory hand." 



Ph. Fletcher's Purple Island, p. 117. 



On 1. 853. (G.) Compare this line of Drayton 

 in his Baron^s Wuits : — 



" Of gloomy niagicks and benumbing charms." 

 Vol. i. p. 110. ed. 1753. 

 Onl. 861. (G.): — 

 " Through whose translucent %\die%va\ic\\ light is born." 

 Ph. Fletcher's Pur. Island, C. 5. St. 31. p. 54. 



Onl. 862. (M.): — 



" An hundred nymphs, that in his rivers dwell. 

 About him Hock, with water-lilies crowned." 

 Ph. Fletcher's Poet. Miscdl., p. 67. ed. 1633. 



On 1. 863. (G.) The use of Ambergris, men- 

 tioned in Warton's note, appears from Drayton, 

 V. ii. p. 483. : — 



" Eat capons cooked at fifteen crowns apiece. 

 With their fat bellies stuft with ambergrise." 



Onl. 886. (G.): — 



" The wealth of Tagus nor the rocks of pearl, 



That pave the court of Neptune, can weigh down 



That virtue." 



Beaumont and Fletcher's Philaster, Act iv. 



On 1. 894. (G.) : — 

 " Beset at th end with emeralds and turches." 

 Lingua iv. 4. Old Plays, v. 5. p. 202. ed. 1780. 



On 1. 924. (M.) Mr. Warton says this votive 

 address was suggested by that of Amoret in the 

 Faithful Shepherdess ; but observes that " the 

 form and subject, rather than the imagery, is 

 copied." In the following maledictory address 

 from Ph. Fletcher's 2nd eclogue, st. 23., the 

 imagery is precisely similar to Milton's, the good 

 and evil being made to consist in the fidness or 

 decrease of the water, the clearness or nuiddiness 

 of the stream, and the nature of the plants iiowing 

 on its banks : — 



" But thou, proud Chame, which thus hast wrought 

 uie .spite. 

 Some greater river drown thy hatofull name ; 

 Let never myrtle ou thy banks delight ; 

 But willows pale, the badge of spite and blame. 

 Crown thy ungratefull shores with scorn and shame : 



