P. [18], l. 3.—As white as whale.]
"This is the flower that smiles on every one,
That show his teeth as white as whales bone."
Love's Labour's Lost, v. ii.
P. [20], l. 12.—My lovely faire.] Compare the Midsummer Night's Dream, i. 1.—
——"O, happy fair!
Your eyes are lode-stars."
P. [22], l. 3.—Fautors.] Abetters, supporters.
P. [25], l. 1.—When huntsmen, &c.]
——"imitatus castora, qui se
Eunuchum ipse facit, cupiens evadere damno
Testiculorum."
Juvenal, xii. 84.
P. [27], l. 1.—White is the colour.] This stanza seems to have been imitated in "Greenes Funeralls," 4to. London, 1594. See the "First Sketches of Henry VI," Introduction, p. xxiii.