_There doth she shine above,_ _Clear as great Delia's horned bow,_ _Bright as the queen of love,_ _To shoot down gentle beams below._ _Sabrina, dare_ _Not to compare_ _With her most splendent rays:_ _A ring the sky_ _A gem her eye._ _O, sound Landora's praise._ FOOTNOTES: [325] [A sort of rural dance. See a long note in Nares' "Glossary," 1859, and Halliwell's Dictionary, _v._ Haydigee.] [326] [This is the Scottish song which has led to the unfortunate conjecture that the author was a native of Scotland.] [327] _i.e._, Octaves, a musical term. [328] _i.e._, Low as a cow does. The word frequently occurs in Roman poetry. So in Virgil's third Georgic-- "Et vox assensu nemorum ingeminata remugit." --_Steevens._ [329] _Mandubratius_, Mr Camden observes, is by Eutropius, Bede, and the more modern writers called _Androgeus_, which in the British language signifies _vir malus_, a bad man; a name of infamy fixed on him for having been the first who betrayed his country.--Camden's "Britannia," ii. 327, edit. 1772; Baxter's "Glossary" in _voce_. [330] _i.e._, Spoiled, rendered unserviceable. See Cotgrave in _voce_ Desbaucher.--_Steevens._ [331] Hercules and Alexander.--_Steevens._ [332] Hannibal.--_Steevens._ [333] Cacus stole the oxen of Hercules, and, that which way they went might not be discovered, drew them backwards into his den.--_Steevens._ [334] See Cæsar's "Commentaries," bk. v. s. 20, 21. The _Trinobantes_ were those who inhabited Middlesex and Essex. The _Cenimagnians_, says Camden, were the same with the Iceni, whose province contained Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and Huntingdonshire. _Segontiaks_, he thinks, were originally the Belgæ, and places them in the hundred of Holshot, in Hampshire; the _Ancalites_ he calls those who inhabit the hundred of Henley, in Oxfordshire; the _Bybrocks_, that of Bray, in Berkshire; and the _Cassians_ the people of Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, and Herefordshire, where the name is still preserved in the hundred of Casbow. [335] "_Versis_ lugeret Græcia _fatis_." --_Steevens._ [336] Terms of heraldry, signifying _green_ and _red_. [337] [Dominion.] [338] A tyrant who lost his life in encountering a monster that destroyed great numbers of people on the Irish coast. See Geoffrey of Monmouth, bk. iii. c. 15. The 4o reads _Morindus_. ACT V., SCENE I. CÆSAR, ANDROGEUS, MANDUBRATIUS, &c. _Soldiers_. CÆS. Thus gain we ground; yet still our foes will fight, Whether they win or lose. With bloody drops Our path is printed: Thames his maiden cheeks Blush with vermillion. Nations crave our league On every side; yet still Cassibelane braves us, Nor will submit.