[117.] "Speed, relating an audience given by Queen Elizabeth to Paul Dzialinski, ambassador of Poland, says: 'And thus she, lion-like rising, daunted the malapert orator no less with her stately port and majestical deporture, than with the tartnesse of her princelie checkes'" (Gray). The MS. reads "A lion-port, an awe-commanding face."
[121.] "Taliessin, chief of the bards, flourished in the sixth century. His works are still preserved, and his memory held in high veneration among his countrymen" (Gray).
As Hales remarks, there is no authority for connecting him with Arthur, as Tennyson does in his Holy Grail.
[123.] Cf. Congreve, Ode to Lord Godolphin: "And soars with rapture while she sings."
[124.] The eye of heaven. Wakefield quotes Spenser, F. Q. 1. 3. 4,
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"Her angel's face As the great eye of heaven shined bright." |
Cf. Shakes. Rich. II. iii. 2: "the searching eye of heaven."
Many-colour'd wings. Cf. Shakes. Temp. iv. 1: "Hail, many-colour'd messenger;" and Milton, P. L. iii. 642: