Francis Beaumont: Dramatist / A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, / And of His Association with John Fletcher

by Charles Mills Gayley

FOOTNOTES:

[137] See his Ode to Sir William Skipwith.

[138] "Thou wert not meant, Sure, for a woman, thou art so innocent," philosophizes the Sullen Shepherd concerning Amoret;—and not only wanton nymphs but modest swains are of the same philosophy.

[139] Ward, E. Dr. Lit., II, 649,—quoting, in the footnote, from The Nice Valour, V, 3.

[140] Dyce, B. and F., I, lxxiii.

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