Count Ugolino. Inferno, XXXIII. Neither was Lamb satisfied with the conception. See his paper on ‘The Reynolds Gallery’ in The Examiner, June 6, 1813.
The lamentation of Selma. Colma’s lament in the Songs of Selma.
II. ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER.
The Chaucer and Spenser references throughout are to Skeat’s Student’s Chaucer, and to the Globe Edition of Spenser (Morris and Hales).
[19]. Chaucer. Modern authorities date Chaucer’s birth from 1340. It is no longer held as true that he had an university education. The story of his plot against the king, his flight and his imprisonment, is also legendary.
[20]. Close pent up, and the next quotation. King Lear, III. 2.
Flowery tenderness. Measure for Measure, III. 1.
And as the new abashed nightingale. Troilus and Criseyde, III. 177.
Thus passeth yere by yere. ll. 1033–9 [‘fairer of hem two’].
[21]. That stondeth at a gap. ‘The Knightes Tale,’ 1639–42.