To the Jews. 1 Cor. I. 23.
[185]. Soft as sinews of the new-born babe. Hamlet, III. 3.
The best of men. Dekker’s The Honest Whore. Part I. Act V. 2.
[186]. Tasso by Fairfax. Edward Fairfax’s translation of Jerusalem Delivered was published in 1600.
Ariosto by Harrington. Sir John Harington’s translation of Orlando Furioso was published in 1591.
Homer and Hesiod by Chapman. A part of George Chapman’s translation of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey appeared in 1598 and the rest at various dates to 1615; Hesiod in 1618.
Virgil long before. Possibly Gawin Douglas’s version of the Æneid (1512–53) is in mind.
Ovid soon after. (?) Arthur Golding’s Ovid (1565–75).
North’s translation of Plutarch. In 1579, by Sir Thomas North.
Catiline and Sejanus. Acted in 1611 and 1603 respectively.