250 LIBRARY OF OLD AUTHORS. 



Mr. Hazlitt, for some inscrutable reason, has changed haire * 

 to eare in the first line, preferring the ear of a beard to its hair! 

 Mr. Hazlitt prints, 



Poor verdant foole ! and now green ice, thy joys 

 Large and as lasting as thy peirch of grass, 

 Bid us lay in gainst winter raine and poize 

 Their flouds with an o erflowing glasse. (p. 95.) 



Surely we should read : 



Poor verdant foole and now green ice, thy joys, 

 Large and as lasting as thy perch of grass, 

 Bid, &c. 



i. e. Poor fool now frozen, the shortness of thy joys, who mad st 

 no provision against winter, warns us to do otherwise. 



The radiant gemme was brightly set 

 In as divine a carkanet ; 

 Of which the clearer was not knowne 

 Her minde or her complexion, (p. 101.) 



The original reads rightly * for which/ &c., and, the passage 

 being rightly pointed, we have, 



For which the clearer was not known, 

 Her mind or her complexion. 



Of course complexion had not its present limited meaning. 



. . . . my future daring bayes 

 Shall bow itself, (p. 107.) 



We should read themselves] says Mr. Hazlitt s note autho 

 ritatively. Of course a noun ending in s is plural ! Not so 

 fast. In spite of the dictionaries, bays was often used in the 

 singular. 



Do plant a sprig of cypress, not of bays, 



says Robert Randolph in verses prefixed to his brother s poems ; 

 and Felltham in Jonsonus Virbius, 



A greener bays shall crown Ben Jonson s name. 



But we will cite Mr. Bayes himself: 



And, where he took it up, resigns the lays. 

 But we (defend us !) are divine, 

 [Not] female, but madam born, and come 

 From a right-honorable wombe. (p. 115.) 



Here Mr. Hazlitt has ruined both sense and metre by his un 

 happy not. We should read Female, but madam-born/ 

 meaning clearly enough we are women, it is true, but of another 

 race. 



In every hand [let] a cup be found 



That from all hearts a health may sound, (p. 121.) . 



Wrong again, and the inserted let ruinous to the measure. Is 



