Note. I was all ear. Comus, 560.
[301]. The fly that sips treacle. Gay’s Beggar’s Opera, II. 2.
Sugar’d sonnetting. Cf. Francis Meres’ Palladis Tamia, 1598, concerning Shakespeare’s ‘sugred Sonnets,’ and Judicio in The Return from Parnassus (see p. 281 ante), ‘sugar’d sonnetting.’
[302]. The gentle craft. The sub-title of a play of T. Dekker’s: The Shoemaker’s Holiday, or the Gentle Craft (1600). The phrase has long been associated with that handicraft.
A Phœnix gazed by all. Paradise Lost, V. 272.
Give a reason for the faith that was in me. Cf. Sydney Smith’s—‘It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.’
[303]. Oh, how despised. Act I. 1.
[304]. The Triumph of his Mistress. The Triumph of Charis.
Nest of spicery. Richard III., IV. 4.
Oh, I could still. Cynthia’s Revels, I. 1.