340 LIBRARY OF OLD AUTHORS. 



Mr. Hazlitt, for some inscrutable reason, has changed 



"hau'e'' to "care" in the first hne, preferring the ear 



of a heard *d its hair ! 



Mr. HazHtt prints, — 



*' Poor verdant foole ! and now green ice, thy joys 

 Large and as lasting as thy peu-ch of gi-ass, 

 Bid us hiy in 'gainst winter rame and poize 

 Their flouds witli 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 aganist winter, warns us to do 



otherwise." 



" The radiant gemme was brightly set 

 In as divine a carlianet; 

 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 



Tneaning. 



" . . . . my future daring bayes 

 Shall bow itself." (p. 107.) 



"We should read themselves,''^ says Mr. Hazlitt's note 



authoritatively. Of com'se a noun ending in s is plural ! 



Not so fast. In spite of the dictionaries, hays 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 nara«." 



But we will cite Mr. Bayes himself : — 



