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NOTES ON MILTON
Оглавление(Continued from Vol. ii., p. 53.)
Il Penseroso.
On l. 8 (G.):—
"Fantastic swarms of dreams there hover'd,
Green, red, and yellow, tawney, black, and blue;
They make no noise, but right resemble may
Th' unnumber'd moats that in the sun-beams play."
Sylvester's Du Bartas.
Cælia, in Beaumont and Fletcher's Humorous Lieutenant, says,—
"My maidenhead to a mote in the sun, he's jealous."
Act iv. Sc. 8.
On l. 35. (G.) Mr. Warton might have found a happier illustration of his argument in Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humour, Act i. Sc. 3.:—
"Too conceal such real ornaments as these, and shadow
their glory, as a milliner's wife does her wrought
stomacher, with a smoaky lawn, or a black cyprus."
—Whalley's edit. vol. i. p. 33.
On l. 39. (G.) The origin of this uncommon use of the word "commerce" is from Donne:—
"If this commerce 'twixt heaven and earth were not
embarred."
—Poems, p. 249. Ed. 4to. 1633.
On l. 43. (G.):—
"That sallow-faced, sad, stooping nymph, whose eye
Still on the ground is fixed steadfastly."
Sylvester's Du Bartas
On l. 52. (G.):—
"Mounted aloft on Contemplation's wings."
G. Wither, P. 1. vol. i. Ed. 1633.
Drummond has given "golden wings" to Fame.
On l. 88. (G.):—
Hermes Trismegistus.
On l. 100. (G.):—
"Tyrants' bloody gests
Of Thebes, Mycenæ, or proud Ilion."
Sylvester's Du Bartas.
Arcades.
On l. 23. (G.):—
"And without respect of odds,
Vye renown with Demy-gods."
Wither's Mistresse of Philarete, Sig. E. 5. Ed. 1633.
On l. 27. (G.):—
"But yet, whate'er he do or can devise,
Disguised glory shineth in his eyes."
Sylvester's Du Bartas.
On l. 46. (G.):—
"An eastern wind commix'd with noisome airs,
Shall blast the plants and the young sapplings."
Span. Trag. Old Plays, vol. iii. p. 222.
On l. 65. (G.) Compare Drunmond—speech of Endymion before Charles:—
"To tell by me, their herald, coming things,
And what each Fate to her stern distaff sings," &c.
On l. 84. (M.):—
"And with his beams enamel'd every greene."
Fairfax's Tasso, b. i. st. 35.
On l. 97. (G.):—
"Those brooks with lilies bravely deck't."
Drayton, 1447.
On l. 106. (G.):—
"Pan entertains, this coming night,
His paramour, the Syrinx bright."
Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdess, Act i.
J.F.M.
