[15.] Lydian measures. The people of Lydia were noted for the effeminacy of their manners. And Lydian music was peculiarly soft and voluptuous.
"And ever against eating cares,
Lap me in soft Lydian airs."
—Milton's L'Allegro, 135.
"And all the while sweet Musicke did divide
Her looser notes with Lydian harmony."
—Spenser's Faerie Queene, III, 1.
Observe the change in metre in the ten lines beginning "Softly sweet." What does the word sweet modify?
[16.] Honor, but an empty bubble. So Shakespeare:
"Honor is a mere scutcheon."
—1 Henry IV., Act v, sc. 1.
[17.] The many. The multitude.