  P. 6, l. 1.—Blin.] To cease. Mon that loveth falsnesse and nule never blynne, Sore may him drede the lyf that he is ynne. Wright's Political Songs, p. 212. P. 7, l. 25.—Her hart more hard than adamant or steele.] Compare "Midsummer Night's Dream," ii. 2.— "You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant; But yet you draw not iron, for my heart Is true as steel: leave you your power to draw, And I shall have no power to follow you." P. 8, l. 15.—Ban.] Curse. P. 9, l. 13.—Crownets.] Coronets. The term occurs in Shakespeare. P. 9, l. 22.—Hunts-up.] Mr. Collier has printed a very curious song, from which it appears that the hunts-up was known as early as 28 Henry VIII. The following extract will show the nature of it:— "The hunt is up, the hunt is up, &c. The Masters of Art and Doctors of Divinity Have brought this name out of good unity, Three noblemen have this to stay,— My lord of Norfolk, Lord of Surrey, And my Lord of Shrewsbury, The Duke of Suffolk might have made England merry." P. 10, l. 10.—Eughes.] Yews. P. 10, l. 15.—Ladon.] A river in Arcadia. P. 11, l. 24.—Prickets.] Bucks of the second year. P. 12, l. 10.—Spyke.] Lavender. P. 12, l. 11.—The scarlet dyde carnation bleeding yet.] The idea of a bleeding flower gives additional grace to one of the most beautiful passages in Shakespeare.— "Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell; It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound." P. 12, l. 13.—Good for the blinde.] According to Gerard, p. 537, "eiebright stamped and laid upon the eies, or the juice thereof, mixed with white wine, and dropped into the eies, or the destilled water, taketh awaie the darknesse and dimnesse of the eies, and cleereth the sight." P. 12, l. 18.—Sops in wine.] Pinks. P. 12, l. 19.—Bootes.] The marsh marigold. According to Gerard, p. 671, this name for the plant was current only "in Cheshire and those parts." P. 13, l. 2.—Tyce.] To entice. P. 15, l. 6.—The christall fountaines.] "Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams." Midsummer Night's Dream, iii. 2. P. 16, l. 24.—Boult.] A short thick arrow. P. 16, l. 24.—Thrustle-cocke.] The male thrush. P. 16, l. 25.—Afforde.] "Afford's," orig. P. 17, l. 6.—Grype.] A griffin. P. 17, l. 13.—Oozels.] Blackbirds. See p. 24. P. 18, l. 3.—As white as whale.] "This is the flower that smiles on every one, That show his teeth as white as whales bone." Love's Labour's Lost, v. ii. ——"O, happy fair! Your eyes are lode-stars." P. 22, l. 3.—Fautors.] Abetters, supporters. P. 25, l. 1.—When huntsmen, &c.] ——"imitatus castora, qui se Eunuchum ipse facit, cupiens evadere damno Testiculorum." Juvenal, xii. 84. P. 27, l. 1.—White is the colour.] This stanza seems to have been imitated in "Greenes Funeralls," 4to. London, 1594. See the "First Sketches of Henry VI," Introduction, p. xxiii. P. 30, l. 4.—Knife.] So in the original, but probably a mistake for swords. P. 30, l. 8.—Glaver.] To flatter. P. 35, l. 11.—Deck.] Pack of cards. P. 40, l. 12.—Rampicke.] Partially decayed; a term generally applied to a tree which begins to decay at the top through age. P. 40, l. 21.—Melt.] "Melts" in the original. P. 42, l. 24.—Cruell, unkinde, and wilt thou leave me so.] Compare Midsummer Night's Dream, iii. 2, "why unkindly didst thou leave me so?" P. 46, l. 3.—After.] Afterwards. The poetical legend by Drayton, here alluded to, will be found in the collected works of that writer. P. 48, l. 4.—Ones.] Once. After this poem is inserted, in the original, three pages entitled, "Hellens Rape, or a light Lanthorne for light Ladies. Written in English hexameters." |
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