Notes 



Where none but Love shall ever find me out, 

 And at my gates despair shall linger still, 

 To let in death, when love and fortune will. 



A Gown of grey my body shall attire : 



My Staff, of broken hope "whereon I'll stay : 

 Of late repentance link' d with long desire 



The Couch is framed -whereon my limbs FH lay : 

 And at my gates, etc. 



My food shall be of cart and sorrow made : 



My Drink, naught else but tears falfn from mine eyes : 



And for my Light in this obscure shade, 



The jlames may serve which from my heart arise : 

 And at my gates, etc. 



The old music is printed by Major and Dr. Bethune. Nicolas quotes a very 

 similar poem by Thomas Lodge, through whom, he suggests, it probably came from 

 Italy to England. 



Page 128. 'Bryan. Probably a favourite dog. H. 



Page 128. Shawford 'Brook. Shawford-brook is the name of that part of the 

 river Sow that runs through the land which Walton bequeathed to the Corporation 

 of Stafford to find coals for the poor. The right of fishery attaches to the little 

 estate. Shawford, or Shallowford, is a liberty in the parish of St. Mary, Stafford, 

 though five miles distant from the town. The messuage there described in 

 Walton's will, is now divided into two tenements. It is a poor cottage, thatched 

 and old. Shawford-brook winds beautifully through a narrow vale, and deserved 

 Walton's commendation. E. 



This note still applies, no changes have been made at the cottage. But it 

 must be noted that there is also a Shawford a little below Winchester on the 

 Itchen. 



Page 1 29. our late English Gusman. A reference to a notorious highwayman 

 of the day, whose exploits had been celebrated in a book entitled The English Bus- 

 man ; or the History of that Unparalleled Thief, James Hind, written by G. F. (George 

 Fidge) (1652). The original Gusman was the hero of a famous Spanish book, 

 Ike Life of Busman d* Alfarache, by Matheo Aleman. 



Page 130. Beggar's Bush. This was, of course, written by John Fletcher, 

 not Ben Jonson. 



Page 130. Frank 'Davison's song. Francis Davison was the editor of the 

 famous Poetical Rhapsody (1602), in which this song bears the signature "A.W." a 

 frequent contributor who has not been identified with certainty. See Mr. Bullen's 

 introduction to his edition of the Poetical Rhapsody. 



Page 132. hares change sexes. An old fable among country-folk and sports- 

 men. Men and women have been supposed to change sexes in the same way. 



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