Douglas. Farmer has used the 1710 Folio of Gavin Douglas's Aeneid.
[189]. Till the foul crimes. Hamlet, i. 5. 12.
“Shakespeare himself in the Tempest.” Quoted from the Critical Review, xxiii., p. 50; cf. also xix., p. 165.
Most sure, the Goddess. Tempest, i. 2. 421.
Epitaphed, the inventor of the English hexameter. Gabriel Harvey's Four Letters (Third Letter). See Elizabethan Critical Essays, ed. Gregory Smith, ii. 230.
halting on Roman feet. Pope, Epistle to Augustus, 98: “And Sidney's verse halts ill on Roman feet.”
Hall. Satire i. 6.
[190]. Daniel's Defence of Rhyme, in answer to Campion's Observations on the Art of English Poesie, appeared in 1602.
in his eye. Cf. Theobald, Preface to Richard II., p. 5, and Whalley, Enquiry, p. 54.
Ye elves of hills. Tempest, v. 1. 33.