apathy.

26 44 _grame_: sorrow. Renaissance influences long impeded the return
of English poets to the charming realism of this and a few other poems
by Wyat.

28 45 Pandion in the ancient fable was father to Philomela.

29 47 In the old legend it is now Philomela, now Procne (the swallow)
who suffers violence from Tereus. This song has a fascination in its
calm intensity of passion; that 'sad earnestness and vivid exactness'
which Cardinal Newman ascribes to the master-pieces of ancient poetry.

31 50 _proved_: approved.

-- 51 _censures_: judges.

-- 52 Exquisite in its equably-balanced metrical flow.

32 53 Judging by its style, this beautiful example of old simplicity
and feeling may, perhaps, be referred to the earlier years of
Elizabeth. _Late_ forgot: lately.

35 57 Printed in a little Anthology by Nicholas Breton, 1597. It is,
however, a stronger and finer piece of work than any known to be
his.--St. 1 _silly_: simple; _dole_: grief; _chief_: chiefly. St. 3
_If there be_ ...: obscure: Perhaps, if there be any who speak harshly
of thee, thy pain may plead for pity from Fate.

This poem, with 60 and 143, are each graceful variations of a long
popular theme.

36 58 _That busy archer:_ Cupid. _Descries_: used actively; _points
out_.--'The last line of this poem is a little obscured by
transposition. He means, _Do they call ungratefulness there a
virtue?_' (C. Lamb).

37 59 _White Iope_: suggested, Mr. Bullen notes, by a passage in
Propertius (iii, 20) describing Spirits in the lower world:

Vobiscum est Iope, vobiscum candida Tyro.

38 62 _cypres_ or cyprus,--used by the old writers for _crape_:
whether from the French _crespe_ or from the Island whence it was
imported. Its accidental similarity in spelling to _cypress_ has, here
and in Milton's Penseroso, probably confused readers.

39 63 _ramage_: confused noise.

41 66 'I never saw anything like this funeral dirge,' says Charles
Lamb, 'except the ditty which reminds Ferdinand of his drowned father
in the Tempest. As that is of the water, watery; so this is of the
earth, earthy. Both have that intenseness of feeling, which seems to
resolve itself into the element which it contemplates.'

43 70 Paraphrased from an Italian madrigal

... Non so conoscer poi
Se voi le rose, o sian le rose in voi.

44 72 _crystal_: fairness.

45 73 _stare_: starling.

-- 74 This 'Spousal Verse' was written in honour of the Ladies
Elizabeth and Ka