FOOTNOTES:
[809] Concerning him see Wood's Athen. Oxon. and Tanner's Biblioth. also Sir John Hawkins's Hist. of Music, &c.
[810] [sorrowful gloom.]
[811] [distracted.]
[812] [what beast is he, will thee.]
VI.
KING COPHETUA AND THE BEGGAR-MAID
Is a story often alluded to by our old Dramatic Writers. Shakespeare, in his Romeo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 1, makes Mercutio say,
----"Her (Venus's) purblind son and heir,
Young Adam[813] Cupid, he that shot so true,
When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid."