Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850 | Page 5

Queene_. {149}
(D.) For what is here finely said, and again beautifully expressed (v.
381.), we may perhaps refer to Ariosto's description of the gems which
form the walls of the castle of Logistilla, or Reason:--
"Che chi l'ha, ovunque sia, sempre che vuole, Febo (mal grado tuo) si
può far giorno."
_Orl. Fur_. x. 60.
On l. 404. (G.):--
"Whiles a puft and rechlesse libertine, Himselfe the primrose path of
dalliance treads, And reakes not his owne reed."
_Hamlet>_ i. 3.

On l. 405. (G.):--
"Where death and danger dog the heels of worth."
_All's Well that ends Well_, iii. 4.
On l. 421. (M.):--
"Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just: And he but naked, though
locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted."
2 _Henry IV._, iii. 2.
On l. 424. (G.):--
"And now he treads th' infamous woods and downs."
Ph. Fletcher's _Eclog._, i. p. 4. ed. 1633.
On l. 494. (G.) The same sort of compliment occurs in Wither's
_Sheperd's Hunting_. (See _Gentleman's Mag._ for December 1800, p.
1151.)
"Thou wert wont to charm thy flocks; And among the massy rocks Hast
so cheered me with thy song, That I have forgot my wrong."
He adds:--
"Hath some churle done thee a spight? Dost thou miss a lamb
to-night?"
_Juvenilia_, p. 417. ed. 12mo. 1633.
On l. 535. (M.):--
"Not powerful Circe with her Hecate rites."
Ph. Fletcher's _Poetical Miscellanies_, p. 65. ed. 1633.
On l. 544. (D.):--
"The soft sweet moss shall be thy bed With crawling woodbine
overspread."
Herrick's _Hesperides_, p. 223.
On l. 554 (G.):--
"And flattery to his sinne close curtain draws."
Ph. Fletcher's _Purple Island_, p. 112. ed. 1633.
On l. 635. (G.):--
"His clouted shoon were nailed for fear of wasting."
Ph. Fletcher's _Purple Island_, p. 113.
On l. 707. (G.) A passage in the Spanish Tragedy confirms Mr.
Warton's reasoning--
"After them doth Hymen hie as fast, Clothed in sable and a saffron
robe."
_Old Plays_, vol. iii. p. 214. ed. 1780.

On l. 734. (G.):--
"Saw you not a lady come this way on a sable horse studded with stars
of white?"
Beaumont and Fletcher's _Philaster_, Act iv.
On l. 752. (G.):--
"A sweet vermilian tincture stained The bride's fair cheek."
Quarles' _Argalus and Parthenia_, p. 118. ed. 1647.
On l. 812. (G.):--
"Bathed in worldly bliss."
_Drayton_, p. 586. ed. 1753.
"The fortunate who bathe in floods of joys."
E. of Sterline's _Works_, p. 251. ed. 1637.
On l. 834. (D.):--
"The lily-wristed morn."
The Country Life, Herrick's _Hesperides_, p. 269.
(G.):--
"Reacht him her ivory hand."
Ph. Fletcher's _Purple Island_, p. 117.
On l. 853. (G.) Compare this line of Drayton in his _Baron's Warrs_:--
"Of gloomy magicks and benumbing charms."
Vol. i. p. 110. ed. 1753.
On l. 861. (G.):--
"Through whose translucent sides much light is born."
Ph. Fletcher's _Pur. Island_, C. 5. St. 31. p. 54.
On l. 862. (M.):--
"All hundred nymphs, that in his rivers dwell, About him flock, with
water-lilies crowned."
Ph. Fletcher's _Poet. Miscell._, p 67. ed. 1633.
On l. 863. (G.) The use of Ambergris, mentioned in Warton's note,
appears from Drayton, v. ii. p. 483.:--
"Eat capons cooked at fifteen crowns apiece, With their fat bellies stuft
with ambergrise."
On l. 886. (G.):--
"The wealth of Tarsus nor the _rocks of pearl_, _That pave the court of
Neptune_, can weigh down That virtue."
Beaumont and Fletcher's _Philaster_, Act iv.
On l. 894. (G.):--

"Beset at th' end with emeralds and turches."
Lingua iv. 4. _Old Plays_, v. 5. p. 202. ed. 1780.
On l. 924. (M.) Mr. Warton says this votive address was suggested by
that of Amoret in the _Faithful Shepherdess_; but observes that "the
form and subject, rather than the imagery, is copied." In the following
maledictory address from Ph. Fletcher's 2nd eclogue, st. 23., the
imagery is precisely similar to Milton's, the good and evil being made
to consist in the fulness or decrease of the water, the clearness or
muddiness of the stream, and the nature of the plants flowing on its
banks:--
"But thou, proud Chame, which thus hast wrought me spite, Some
greater river drown thy hatefull name; Let never myrtle on thy banks
delight; But willows pale, the leads of spite and blame, Crown thy
ungratefull shores with scorn and shame: {150} Let dirt and mud thy
lazie waters seize, Thy weeds still grow, thy waters still decrease; Nor
let thy wretched love to Gripus ever cease."
P. 13. ed. 1633.
See also the "Masque," in Beaumont and Fletcher's _Maid's Tragedy_,
Act I. vol. i. p. 17. edit. 1750.
On l. 936. (G.):--
"And here and there were pleasant arbors pight, And shadie seats and
sundry flowring banks."
Spenser's _F. Queen_, vol. ii. p. 146. ed. 1596.
On