'd so ghastly black. 490
O hapless Hero! that most hapless cloud
Thy soon-succeeding tragedy foreshow'd.
Thus all the nuptial crew to joys depart;
But much-wronged[112] Hero stood Hell's blackest dart:
Whose wound because I grieve so to display,
I use digressions thus t' increase the day.

FOOTNOTES:

[92] Some modern editors read "sat."

[93] Singer suggested "Alcmaeon."

[94] "Chapman has a passage very similar to this in his _Widow's Tears_,
Act iv.:--

'Wine is ordained to raise such hearts as sink:
Whom woful stars distemper let him drink.'"

--_Broughton._

[95] "Old eds. 'prayes,' 'praies,' 'preies,' and 'pryes.'"--_Dyce._

[96] Dyce reads "enthrill'd" (a word that I do not remember to have
seen).

[97] Did make to spring. Cf. Fourth Sestiad, l. 169.

[98] So the Isham copy. All other editions omit the words "the blood."

[99] "Valure" is frequently found as a form of "value;" but I suspect,
with Dyce, that it is here put (_metri causa_) for "valour."

[100] Plot.

[101] Gr. [Greek: adolesches].

[102] Some eds. "price."

[103] Gr. [Greek: hagneia]

[104] Singer gives a reference to Pausan, x. 5.--Old eds. "Phemonor" and
"Phemoner."

[105] Comfits.

[106] "Other some" is a not uncommon form of expression. See Halliwell's
_Dict. of Archaic and Provincial Words_.

[107] Old eds. "their."

[108] Old eds. "his."

[109] A sudden pettishness or freak of fancy. Cf. _Two Noble Kinsmen_:--

"The hot horse hot as fire
_Took toy_ at this."

[110] Former editors have not noticed that Chapman is here closely
imitating Catullus' _Carmen Nuptiale_--

"Virginitas non tota tua est: ex parte parentum est:
Tertia pars patri data, pars data tertia matri,
Tertia sola tua est: noli pugnare duobus,
Qui genero sua jura simul cum dote dederunt."

[111] Some eds. "starting." Cf. _Julius Caesar_, iv. 3, ll. 278-9--

"Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil,
That makest my blood cold and my hair to _stare_?"

[112] "Old eds. 'much-rong,' 'much rongd,' and 'much-wrong'd.'"--_Dyce_
(who reads "much-wrung").

THE SIXTH SESTIAD.

_The Argument of the Sixth Sestiad._

Leucote flies to all the Winds,
And from the Fates their outrage blinds,[113]
That Hero and her love may meet.
Leander, with Love's complete fleet
Manned in himself, puts forth to seas;
When st