NOTES ON MILTON.
(Continued from Vol. i., p. 387.)
L'Allegro.
On l. 6. (D.):—
"Where triumphant Darkness hovers
With a sable wing, that covers
Brooding Horror."
Crashaw, Psalm xxiii.
On l. 11. (G.) Drayton has this expression in his Heroical Epistles:—
"Find me out one so young, so fair, so free."
King John to Matilda.
and afterwards,—
"Leave that accursed cell;
There let black Night and Melancholy dwell."
On l. 24. (G.) Most probably from a couplet in Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy:—
"And ever and anon she thinks upon the man,
That was so fine, so fair, so blith, so debonaire."
P. 3. Sc. 2. p. 603. ed. 1621. 4to.
And in Randolph's Aristippus,—
"A bowle of wine is wondrous boone chere
To make one blith, buxome, and deboneere."
P. 13. ed. 1630. 4to.
On l. 27. (G.):—
"Manes. Didst thou not find I did quip thee?
"Psyllus. No, verily; why, what's a quip?
"Manes. We great girders call it a short saying of a sharp wit, with a bitter sense in a sweet word."
Alexander and Campaspe, Old Plays,
vol. ii. p. 113. ed. 1780.
"Then for your Lordship's Quippes and quick jestes,
Why Gesta Romanorum were nothing to them."
Sir Gyles Goosecappe, a Com., Sig. G. 2. 4to. 1606.
Crank is used in a different sense by Drayton:—
"Like Chanticleare he crowed crank,
And piped full merily."
Vol. iv. p. 1402. ed. 1753.
On l. 31. (M.):—
"There dainty Joys laugh at white-headed Caring."
Fletcher's Purple Island, C. vi. St. 35.
On l. 42. (G.):—
"The cheerful lark, mounting from early bed,
With sweet salutes awakes the drowsy Light;
The earth shee left, and up to Heaven is fled:
There chants her Maker's praises out of sight."
Purple Island, C. ix. St. 2.
"From heaven high to chase the cheareless darke,
With mery note her lowd salutes the morning larke."
Faery Queene, B. i. c. 11.
On l. 45. (G.):—
"The chearful birds, chirping him sweet good-morrow,
With nature's music do beguile his sorrow."
Sylvester's Du Bartas.
On l. 67. (G.) See note already inserted in "Notes and Queries," p. 316.
On l. 75. (G.):—
"In May the meads are not so pied with flowers."
Sylvester's Du Bartas.
On l. 78. (G.) So in Comus:—
"And casts a gleam over the tufted grove."
v. 225.
On l. 80. (G.):—
"Loadstar of Love and Loadstone of all hearts."
Drummond.
On l. 117. (Anon.) See extracts from the Diary of a Lover of Literature. To me this line seems to allude to the imagination in sleep:—
"Such sights as youthful poets dream."
On l. 121. (G.):—
"Yet served I, gentles, seeing store
Of dainty girls beside."
Albion's England, p. 218. 4to. 1602.
On l. 125. (G.):—
"In saffron robes and all his solemn rites,
Thrice sacred Hymen."
Sylvester's Du Bartas.
and in Spanish Tragedy:—
"The two first the nuptial torches bore,
As brightly burning as the mid-day's sun:
But after them doth Hymen hie as fast,
Clothed in sable and a saffron robe."
On l. 187. (G.):—
"Marrying their sweet tunes to the angels' lays."
Sylvester's Du Bartas.
On l. 144. (D.):—
"Those precious mysteries that dwell
In Music's ravished soul."
Crashaw's Music's Duet.
J. F. M.