Footnotes
[287:2] Noisy jargon of the schools.—Pomfret: Reason.
The sounding jargon of the schools.—Cowper: Truth, line 367.
But all the pleasure of the game
Is afar off to view the flight.
Variations in a copy dated 1692.
[287:4] See Davenant, page [217].
[287:5] See Jonson, page [180]. Also Dryden, page [268].
[287:6] Fine by defect, and delicately weak.—Pope: Moral Essays, epistle ii. line 43.
[288:1] As men that be lothe to departe do often take their leff. [John Clerk to Wolsey.]—Ellis: Letters, third series, vol. i. p. 262.
"A loth to depart" was the common term for a song, or a tune played, on taking leave of friends. Tarlton: News out of Purgatory (about 1689). Chapman: Widow's Tears. Middleton: The Old Law, act iv. sc. 1. Beaumont and Fletcher: Wit at Several Weapons, act ii. sc. 2.
[288:2] The following epitaph was written long before the time of Prior:—
Johnnie Carnegie lais heer,
Descendit of Adam and Eve.
Gif ony con gang hieher,
Ise willing give him leve.
[288:3] This thought is ascribed to Aristotle by Diogenes Laertius (Aristotle, v. xi.), who, when asked what hope is, answered, "The dream of a waking man." Menage, in his "Observations upon Laertius," says that Stobæus (Serm. cix.) ascribes it to Pindar, while Ælian (Var. Hist. xiii. 29) refers it to Plato.
Et spes inanes, et velut somnia quædam, vigilantium (Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake).—Quintilian: vi. 2, 27.
[289:1] A cup of cold Adam from the next purling stream.—Tom Brown: Works, vol. iv. p. 11.
JOHN POMFRET. 1667-1703.
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.[289:2]
Verses to his Friend under Affliction.
Heaven is not always angry when he strikes,
But most chastises those whom most he likes.
Verses to his Friend under Affliction.