FOOTNOTES:
[1] Ben Jonson (Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden) took exception to the opening lines:—
'He scorned such verses as could be transponed—
Where is the man that never yett did hear
Of faire Penelope, Ulisses Queene?
Of faire Penelope Ulisses Queene,
Wher is the man that never yett did hear?'
[2] The passage is thus rendered by Jasper Mayne (Part of Lucian, made English ... in the year 1638):—'Nor were it amiss, having passed through India and Aethiopia, to draw our discourse down to their neighbouring Aegypt. Where the ancient fiction which goes of Proteus, methinks, signifies him only to be a certain dancer and mimic; who could transform and change himself into all shapes, sometimes acting the fluidness of water, sometimes the sharpness of fire, occasioned by the quickness of its aspiring motion, sometimes the fierceness of a lion, and fury of a libbard, and waving of an oak, and whatever he liked.'
[3] Cf. also Arnold's "Obermann once more":—
'"Poor World," she cried, "so deep accurst,
That runn'st from pole to pole
To seek a draught to quench thy thirst,
Go seek it in thy soul."'
[4] The poems of Barnfield were not in the original Garner and are now incorporated for the first time.
[5] Prince in his Worthies of Devon(1701) quotes this couplet as an epitaph, by an anonymous writer, on Drake.
[6] There is a better epitaph on Drake in Wit's Recreations(1640):—
'Sir Drake, whom well the world's end knew,
Which thou didst compasse round.
And whom both Poles of Heaven once saw,
Which North and South do bound:
The Stars above would make thee known
If men here silent were:
The Sun himselfe cannot forget
His fellow-passenger.'
[7] On March 31, 1605, Captain George Weymouth started from the Downs with a crew of twenty-nine to discover a North-West Passage to the East Indies. On May 14 he 'descries land in 41° 30' N. in the midst of dangerous rocks and shoals. Upon which he puts to sea, the wind blowing south-south-west and west-south-west many days' (Prince's New England Chronology ap. Garner, ii. 356). Drayton advises the Virginian voyagers to keep the west-by-south course and so avoid misadventures. He had not reckoned on the Spanish fleet.
[8] Several of Drayton's works have been reprinted by the Spenser Society, and an excellent Introduction to them has been written by Professor Oliver Elton (1895).
[9] Diogenes.
[10] Chaucer.
[11] pincers.
[12] In Warwickshire.
Transcriber notes:
P.[18]. 'aad' changed to 'and' in stanza #53.
P.[80]. Sidenote: 'sensative' changed to 'sensitive'.
P.[82]. Sidenote: 'Unerstanding' changed to 'Understanding'.
P.[110]. 'Astrea' changed to 'Astræ' in Hymn II.
Fixed various punctuation.