340 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 pelrch 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, 



u 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 Mv. Hazlitt's note 

 authoritatively. 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 : 



