"Fantastic swarms of dreams there hover'd,
Green, red, and yellow, tawney, black, and blue;
They make no noise, but right resemble may
Th' unnumber'd moats that in the sun-beams play."

_Sylvester's Du Bartas._

Caelia, in Beaumont and Fletcher's _Humorous Lieutenant_, says,--

"My maidenhead to a mote in the sun, he's jealous."

Act iv. Sc. 8.

On l. 35. (G.) Mr. Warton might have found a happier illustration of his
argument in Ben Jonson's _Every Man in his Humour_, Act i. Sc. 3.:--

"Too conceal such real ornaments as these, and shadow
their glory, as a milliner's wife does her wrought
stomacher, with a smoaky lawn, or a _black cyprus_."

--Whalley's edit. vol. i. p. 33.

On l. 39. (G.) The origin of this uncommon use of the word "commerce" is
from Donne:--

"If this commerce 'twixt heaven and earth were not
embarred."

--_Poems_, p. 249. Ed. 4to. 1633.

On l. 43. (G.):--

"That sallow-faced, sad, stooping nymph, whose eye
Still on the ground is fixed steadfastly."

_Sylvester's Du Bartas_

On l. 52. (G.):--

"Mounted aloft on Contemplation's wings."

_G. Wither_, P. 1. vol. i. Ed. 1633.

Drummond has given "golden wings" to Fame.

On l. 88. (G.):--

Hermes Trismegistus.

On l. 100. (G.):--

"Tyrants' bloody gests
Of Thebes, Mycenae, or proud Ilion."

_Sylvester's Du Bartas._

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_Arcades._

On l. 23. (G.):--

"And without respect of odds,
Vye renown with Demy-gods."

_Wither's Mistresse of Philarete_, Sig. E. 5. Ed. 1633.

On l. 27. (G.):--

"But yet, whate'er he do or can devise,
Disguised glory shineth in his eyes."

_Sylvester's Du Bartas._

On l. 46. (G.):--

"An eastern wind commix'd with _noisome airs_,
Shall _blast the plants_ and the _young sapplings_."

_Span. Trag. Old Plays_, vol. iii. p. 222.

On l. 65. (G.) Compare Drunmond--speech of Endymion before Charles:--

"To tell by me, their herald, coming things,
And what each Fate to her stern distaff sings," &c.

On l. 84. (M.):--

"And with his beams enamel'd every greene."

_Fairfax's Tasso_, b. i. st. 35.

On l. 97. (G.):--

"Those brooks with lilies bravely deck't."

_Drayton_, 1447.

On l. 106. (G.):--

"Pan entertains, this coming night,
His paramour, the Syrinx bright."

_Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdess_, Act i.

J.F.M.

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DERIVATION OF EASTER.