[615] From Royal MSS. 18A xxxi. (British Museum).
[616] MS. “juvenibusque”—an unmetrical reading.
[617] MS. “Hi.”
[618] MS. “Tridentifere.”
[619] MS. “pleno fraterna.”
[620] “In MS. legitur, Neptunus, Eolus, Jupiter; Monosyllaba hæc duo interposita metrum ad iambicos Marstonianos (non Horatianos, fatemur) restituunt.”—Halliwell.
VERSES BY MARSTON.
From Sir Robert Chester’s Love’s Martyr,[621] 1601.
A Narration and Description of a most exact wondrous Creature, arising out of the Phœnix and Turtle-Dove’s ashes.