Lapt in Elysium. Comus, 257.
Raphael. Raphael’s years were thirty-seven (1483–1520).
[297]. Now that his task. Comus, 1012.
Rymer’s abuse. See Thomas Rymer’s (1641–1713) The Tragedies of the Last Age Considered (1678). He was called by Pope ‘the best’ and by Macaulay ‘the worst’ English critic.
The sons of memory. Milton’s Sonnet on Shakespeare, 1630.
Sir John Beaumont (1582–1628), the author of Bosworth Field.
Fleeted the time carelessly. As You Like It, I. 1. [‘golden world.’]
[298]. Walton’s Complete Angler. Third Day, chap. iv.
Note. Rochester’s Epigram. Sternhold and Hopkins were the joint authors of the greater number of the metrical versions of the Psalms (1547–62) which used to form part of the Book of Common Prayer.
299–300. Drummond of Hawthornden. William Drummond (1585–1649). His Conversations with Ben Jonson were written of a visit paid him by Jonson in 1618. Mention might be made of Mr. W. C. Ware’s edition of his Poems (1894), wherein many variations from Hazlitt’s text of the sonnets may be noted, too numerous to detail here.