340 LIBEARY OF OLD AUTHORS. 



Mr. Hazlitt, for some inscrutable reason, has changed 

 ''haii'e" to "eare" in the fii'st Hne, preferring the ear 

 of a heard to its hair ! 

 Mr. Hazhtt prints, — 



" Poor verdant foole ! and now green ice, thy joys 

 Large and as lasting as tliy peircii of grass, 

 Bid us laj' in 'gainst waiter rame and poize 

 Tlieir fiouds witli an o'erflowiug 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, 

 £irf," &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 orjier complexion." 



Of course " complexion " had not its present limited 

 meaning. 



" . . . . my future daring baj'es 

 Shall bow itself."" (p. 107.) 



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



authoritatively. Of course 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 cj'press, 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 uam«." 



But we will cite Mr. Bayes himself : — 



