The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies. Volume 1 of 2.

by Sir John Davies

[256] In first edition, spelled 'pinnesse' also, = pinnace. G.

[257] Margin-Note here, 'A passage to the description of dauncing in this age.' G.

[258] Thomas Davies, as before, drops 'such.' G.

[259] Thomas Davies and Southey misread 'when.' G.

[260] Virgil. G.

[261] Chaucer. G.

[262] Spenser. G.

[263] Daniel: The allusion being to his 'Sonnets to Delia.' G.

[264] Edward Guilpin calls his volume 'Skialetheia, or a Shadowe of Truth in certain Epigrams and Satyres,' 1598. G.

[265] I hazard a guess, that this may refer to Charles Best, an associate of Davies in the 'Rhapsody,' and author of certain vivid lines called 'A Sonnet of the Sun: a jewell, being a sun shining upon the Marigold closed in a heart of gold, sent to his mistress, named Mary, among others. See Nicolas's edition of the 'Rhapsody,' Vol. I., pp. 183, 184. G.