For for, as piece, read for, as a piece.
[82]. The best character of Shakespeare. Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy, ed. Ker, I. 79–80.
Tancred and Sigismunda. i.e. Sigismonda and Guiscardo.
Thou gladder of the mount. Palamon and Arcite, III. 145.
[83]. Donne. John Donne (1573–1631), whose life was written by Izaak Walton, and whom Ben Jonson described as ‘the first poet in the world in some things,’ but who would not live ‘for not being understood.’
Waller. Edmund Waller’s (1605–1687) Saccharissa was Lady Dorothy Sidney, daughter of the Earl of Leicester.
Marvel. Andrew Marvell (1621–1678), ‘poet, patriot, and friend of Milton.’
Harsh, as the words of Mercury. [‘The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.’] Love’s Labour’s Lost, V. 2.
Rochester. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647–1680).
Denham. Sir John Denham (1615–1669). His Cooper’s Hill was published in 1642.