Footnotes

[35:2] Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?—Marlowe: Hero and Leander.

I saw and loved.—Gibbon: Memoirs, vol. i. p. 106.

[35:3] See Heywood, page [13].

[35:4] Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.—Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Verona, act v. sc. 2.

[35:5] There is pansies, that 's for thoughts.—Shakespeare: Hamlet, act iv. sc. 5.

[35:6] Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.—Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, act ii. sc. 5.

[36:1] Quoted by Camden as a saying of one Dr. Metcalf. It is now in many peoples' mouths, and likely to pass into a proverb.—Ray: Proverbs (Bohn ed.), p. 145.

[36:2]

One fire burns out another's burning,

One pain is lessened by another's anguish.

Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, act i. sc. 2.

[36:3] I 'll put a girdle round about the earth.—Shakespeare: Midsummer Night's Dream, act ii. sc. 1.

[36:4]

Lives of great men all remind us

We can make our lives sublime.

Longfellow: A Psalm of Life.

[37:1] Here lies one whose name was writ in water.—Keats's own Epitaph.

[37:2] To be noble we 'll be good.—Winifreda (Percy's Reliques).

'T is only noble to be good.—Tennyson: Lady Clara Vere de Vere, stanza 7.

[37:3] The same in Franklin's Poor Richard.

[37:4] See Heywood, page [9].

[37:5] By Chapman, Jonson, and Marston.

[37:6] This is the famous passage that gave offence to James I., and caused the imprisonment of the authors. The leaves containing it were cancelled and reprinted, and it only occurs in a few of the original copies.—Richard Herne Shepherd.

[38:1] Dives and Pauper (1493). Gascoigne: Memories (1575). Fielding: Covent Garden Tragedy, act ii. sc. 6. Bickerstaff: Love in a Village, act iii. sc. 1. See Heywood, page [20].

[38:2] See Heywood, page [12].

[38:3] See Heywood, page [13].


WILLIAM WARNER.  1558-1609.

With that she dasht her on the lippes,

So dyed double red:

Hard was the heart that gave the blow,

Soft were those lips that bled.

Albion's England. Book viii. chap. xli. stanza 53.

We thinke no greater blisse then such

To be as be we would,

When blessed none but such as be

The same as be they should.

Albion's England. Book x. chap. lix. stanza 68.


SIR RICHARD HOLLAND.

O Douglas, O Douglas!

Tendir and trewe.

The Buke of the Howlat.[38:4] Stanza xxxi.