FOOTNOTES:

[562] Dyce shows that Samuel Daniel is meant by Dacus (who has already been ridiculed in Ep. xxx.). In Daniel's Complaint of Rosamond (1592) are the lines:—

"Ah, beauty, syren, faire enchanting good,

Sweet silent rhetorique of perswading eyes,

Dumb eloquence, whose power doth move the blood

More than the words or wisedome of the wise," &c.

Perhaps there is an allusion to this epigram in Marston's fourth satire:—

"What, shall not Rosamond or Gaveston

Ope their sweet lips without detraction?

But must our modern critticks envious eye