[40] Charact. Vol. iii. Dis. iii.
Ἃ δ’ ἂν μάθοι τις, ταῦτα σώζεσθαι φιλεῖ
Πρὸς γῆρας. οὕτω παῖδας εὗ παιδεύετε.
Eurip. ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ.
[42] Of Ryswick, in 1697.
[43] Advice to an Author, P. II. S. III.
[44] See a discourse at the end of Love’s Labour Lost in Warb. Ed. of Shakespear; in which the origin, subject, and character of these books of Chivalry (or Romances, properly so called) are explained with an exactness of learning, and penetration, peculiar to that writer—
In tenui labor, at tenuis non gloria—
[45] The late right honourable Charles Yorke; who to all the learning of his own profession had joined an exact taste, and very extensive knowledge, of polite literature. What follows is an extract from a long letter which this excellent person did me the honour to write to me on the subject of these letters, when he had read them in the first edition.
[46] See the Memoir, just quoted.
[47] Mr. Warton’s Observations on Spenser, vol. i. p. 175.