Like a Janus with a double-face—Taylor's Motto, Spenser Soc. Reprint, p. 206.
Sewel. Apparently a mistake for “Gildon,” whose Essay on the Stage is preceded immediately, in the edition of 1725, by Sewell's preface. “His motto to Venus and Adonis is another proof,” says Gildon, p. iv.
Taylor ... a whole Poem,—Taylor's Motto, “Et habeo, et careo, et curo,” Spenser Soc. Reprint, pp. 204, etc.
sweet Swan of Thames. Pope, Dunciad, iii. 20:
Taylor, their better Charon, lends an oar
(Once Swan of Thames, tho' now he sings no more).
Dodd. Beauties of Shakespeare, iii., p. 18 (ed. 1780).
[185]. Pastime of Pleasure. “Cap. i., 4to, 1555” (Farmer).
Pageants. “Amongst ‘the things which Mayster More wrote in his youth for his pastime’ prefixed to his Workes, 1557, Fol.” (Farmer).
a very liberal Writer. See Daniel Webb's Remarks on the Beauties of Poetry, 1762, pp. 120, 121.