[58:1] Dr. Dee’s “Petty Navy Royal.” Social England Illustrated, p. 46.
[58:2] “England’s Way to Win Wealth.” Social England Illustrated, p. 268.
[59:1] Ranke’s History of England during the Seventeenth Century, vol. iii. p. 68.
[61:1] See Leigh Hunt’s Wit and Humour (1846), pp. 38, 237.
[62:1] Butler’s lines, A Description of Holland, are very like Marvell’s:—
“A Country that draws fifty foot of water
In which men live as in a hold of nature.
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...
They dwell in ships, like swarms of rats, and prey
Upon the goods all nations’ fleets convey;
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That feed like cannibals on other fishes,
And serve their cousin-germans up in dishes:
A land that rides at anchor and is moor’d,
In which they do not live but go aboard.”
Marvell and Butler were rival wits, but Holland was a common butt; so powerful a motive is trade jealousy.
[67:1] “To one unacquainted with Horace, this Ode, not perhaps so perfect as his are in form, and with occasional obscurities of expression, which Horace would not have left, will give a truer notion of the kind of greatness which he achieved than could, so far as I know, be obtained from any other poem in our language.”—Dean Trench.
[70:1] “In the last war, when France was disgraced and overpowered in every quarter of the globe, when Spain coming to her assistance only shared her calamities, and the name of an Englishman was reverenced through Europe, no poet was heard amidst the general acclamation; the fame of our counsellors and heroes was entrusted to the gazetteer.”—Dr. Johnson’s Life of Prior.