The Works of John Marston. Volume 1

by John Marston

[315] “Io”—the joyful cry with which Hymen was invoked by the ancients. Cf. Catullus:—

“Ite, concinite in modum:
Io Hymen Hymenæe io,
Io Hymen Hymenæe!”

[316] Old eds. “Ful.”

[317] A sort of waltz, described in Sir John Davies’ Orchestra, st. 70.—Cf. Chapman’s May Day (1611), iv. 1:—

“Fill red-cheek’d Bacchus, let the Burdeux grape
Skip like [sic] lavoltas in their swelling veins”

—lines made up from the present passage.

[318] “Measure”—a grave solemn dance.

[319] See Collier’s Hist. of Engl. Dram. Poetry, iii. 251-2 (ed. 2).

[320] So Marston uses “knurl’d” (p. 166) for “gnarl’d.”

[321] Cf. Richard II., i. 1:—“Sluiced out his innocent soul through streams of blood.”