[283] A metaphor, from engines by which weights are raised or winched up. Harpocrates was the god of silence.
[284] [Old copy, slipt].
[285] I suppose this word is compounded from denizen, i.e., one made free, and here very licentiously employed.—Steevens.
[286] So in Milton's "Paradise Lost," bk. ii. l. 706—
"Incens'd with indignation Satan stood
Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd,
That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge
In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair
Shakes pestilence and war."
[287] See the letter printed in Geoffrey of Monmouth's History, bk. iv. c. 2.
[288] Pearls. In 1596 Tho. Lodge published a pamphlet, entitled, "A Margarite of America."
[289] Mars.
"Gradivumque patrem Geticis qui præsidet arvis."
—Virgil, Æneid, iii. 35.