Footnotes
Man was made when Nature was
But an apprentice, but woman when she
Was a skilful mistress of her art.
Cupid's Whirligig (1607).
[447:1] See Fletcher, page [183].
[448:2] See Young, page [309].
[448:3] See Burton, page [193].
[448:4] See Shakespeare, page [129].
[449:1] See Beaumont and Fletcher, page [198].
[449:2] See Bickerstaff, page [427].
[450:1] These lines from an old song, entitled "The Strong Walls of Derry," Burns made a basis for his own beautiful ditty.
[450:2] See Heywood, page [9].
[450:3] See Fletcher, page [183].
[450:4] Durance vile.—W. Kenrick (1766): Falstaff's Wedding, act i. sc. 2. Burke: The Present Discontents.
[451:1] See Heywood, page [10].
[452:1] To know her was to love her.—Rogers: Jacqueline, stanza 1.
[452:2] I weigh the man, not his title; 't is not the king's stamp can make the metal better.—Wycherley: The Plaindealer, act. i. sc. 1.
[452:3] See Southerne, page [282].
[452:4] This ballad first appeared in Johnson's "Museum," 1796. Sir Walter Scott was never tired of hearing it sung.
[453:1] Under the impression that this stanza is ancient, Scott has made very free use of it, first in "Rokeby" (1813), and then in the "Monastery" (1816). In "Rokeby" he thus introduces the verse:—
He turn'd his charger as he spake,
Upon the river shore,
He gave his bridle reins a shake,
Said, "Adieu for evermore, my love,
And adieu for evermore."
WILLIAM PITT. 1759-1806.
Necessity is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.[453:2]
Speech on the India Bill, November, 1783.
Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all
That shared its shelter perish in its fall.
The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. No. xxxvi.