[7] The poem is headed "Cartwright's Song of Dalliance. Never printed before." It was printed in the same year, without the author's name, in Parnassus Biceps, where it is headed, "Love's Courtship." Unquestionably the finest of Cartwright's poems.
[8] Parnassus Biceps reads,—
"Softer lists are nowhere found,
And the strife itself's the prize."
[9] Parnassus Biceps,—
"Say thou ne'er shalt joy again."
[10] This is the reading in Parnassus Biceps—Sportive Wit, "restless."
[11] Parnassus Biceps, "when we twine."
[12] Compare Morley's song, "Thyrsis and Milla," in More Lyrics, pp. 116-7.
[13] Old ed. "brales."
[14] Old ed. "Gods."