Heywood goes downe saith Dauis, sikerly,
And downe he goes, I can it not deny:
But were I happy did not fortune frowne
Were I in heart I would sing Dauy downe.
Cf. also lib. iii. Ep. 3. Mr. Dyce also quotes from Freeman's Rubbe and a great Cast, 1614. G.]
[83] Breeches. D.
[84] This is not Decius of Epig. 25, who was Drayton, but (eheu!) Samuel Daniel. Cf. Epig. 45, and relative note. On the elephant (l. 5) see note on Epig. 6. G.
[85] Isham badly 'a goe.' G.
[86] Id est, horse's [the word means properly—a docked horse.] So much may be found in various books concerning Banks and his wonderful horse, that any account of them is unnecessary here. D. [The 'wonderful horse' is referred to by Shakespeare. G.]
[87] Lien, lain. D.
[88] Col. Cunningham emends 'himself' for 'myself'; but the 'whipping of' (l. 4) is = by: and Davies' wish is that he wielded the rods on Francus. G.
[89] Mr. Dyce reads 'Helen's' and confirms from Milton's Comus (1675)—
Not that Nepenthes, which the wife of Thone
In Egypt gave to Jove-born Helena, &c.