[9] A. i. _Sc._ i[i]. [Warton was evidently quoting from the edition prepared by Thomas Hawkins and sold by his own printer, Prince--_The Origin of the English Drama_ (Oxford, 1773), III, 213.] [10] _Sonn._ 50. [To show how "One of Spenser's cotemporary poets has ridiculed the obsolete language of _The Fairy Queen_" Warton had already quoted the first two lines of this sonnet in the second edition of his _Observations on the Faerie Queene_ (London, 1762), I, 122, n.] [11] From a manuscript note by bishop Tanner inserted in Wood's _Athen. Oxon._ i. 379. Bibl. Bodl. ["Aug. 9. Jac. 1. The Dean and Chapter of Cht. Ch. by grant under their Common Seal out of regard for the learning wit and good conversation of Sam. Daniel gent. gave him leave to eat and drink at the Canons Table whenever he thought fit to come."--Tanner's marginal note (I, col. 447) in his copy (Bodleian MS. Top. Oxon. b. 8) of the second, 1721, edition of Wood. Although Philip Bliss in his edition of _Athenae Oxonienses_ (London, 1813) incorporated many of the marginalia inserted by Tanner in his copy of Wood, Bliss evidently overlooked this particular note. The editor is grateful to the Bodleian Library for a photostat and for permission to quote. According to Mr. W. G. Hiscock, Deputy Librarian at Christ Church, no mention of the "act" concerning Daniel is now to be found in the records under his care.] [12] See supr. iii. [433]. [Warton used Greek capitals in his title.] [13] At London in quarto [1582]. There is a fine manuscript copy, at present, in the British Museum. Watson has many pieces in _Englands Helicon_, 1600. [14] In quarto. [15] [Above the word "conformation" Warton added "constraint." It is not clear whether he intended both to stand.] [16] I have discovered, says Mr Steevens, in a Letter to me, that Watson's Sonnets, which were printed without date, were entered on the books of the Stationer's Company, in 1581: under the Title of, "Watsons Passions, manifesting the true frenzy of Love". The Entry is to Gabriel Cawood, who afterwards published them. [See _A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London_, ed. Edward Arber (London, 1875-1894), II, 409.] Ad Lectorem Hexasticon is prefixed "Green's Tullie's Love", & subscribed "Tho. Watson. Oxon."--[Robert Greene, _Ciceronis Amor. Tullies Love_ (London, 1601), Sig. A3 verso.] I find in [Joseph] _Ames' Typographical Antiquities_. [London, 1749] page 423. Amintae Gaudia. Authore Tho. Watsono. Londinensi. Juris studiosi [sic]. 4.'to. 1592 [This unique pencilled annotation seems to be in Joseph Warton's hand.]