Sylvester's Du Bartas.
Cælia, in Beaumont and Fletcher's Humorous Lieutenant, says,—
"My maidenhead to a mote in the sun, he's jealous."
Act iv. Sc. 8.
On l. 35. (G.) Mr. Warton might have found a happier illustration of his argument in Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humour, Act i. Sc. 3.:—
"Too conceal such real ornaments as these, and shadow
their glory, as a milliner's wife does her wrought
stomacher, with a smoaky lawn, or a black cyprus."
—Whalley's edit. vol. i. p. 33.
On l. 39. (G.) The origin of this uncommon use of the word "commerce" is from Donne:—