favourably referred to by Edmund Gayton in his _Festivous Notes upon Don Quixote_ (1654), p. 25 and his previous rôle of "Richard" (l. 23) may have been that of Ricardo in Massinger's _Picture_, which he had played in 1629 (cf. Phelps, _Geo. Chap._ p. 125). The earlier editors thought that Charles Hart was here alluded to, but Wright in his _Historia Histrionica_ states it was the part of the Duchess in Shirley's _Cardinal_, licensed 1641, that first gave him any reputation. Hence he cannot at this date have performed Bussy; his fame in the part was made after the Restoration (cf. Introduction, p. xxv). =5-6=, 1-33. =Fortune . . . port.= This opening speech of Bussy illustrates the difficult compression of Chapman's style and the diversion of his thought from strictly logical sequence by his excessive use of simile. He begins (ll. 1-4) by emphasising the paradoxical character of human affairs, in which only those escape poverty who are abnormal, while it is among the necessitous that worthily typical representatives of the race must be sought. The former class, under the designation of "great men," are then (after a parenthetical comparison with cedars waxing amidst tempests) likened to statuaries who are satisfied if the exterior of the Colossus they are creating is sufficiently imposing; they are then (by an awkward transition of the imagery) likened to the statues themselves (l. 15) "heroique" in form but "morter, flint, and lead" within. Chapman's meaning is here obvious enough, but it is a singular canon of æsthetics that estimates the worth of a statue by the materials out of which it is made. In l. 18 a new thought is started, that of the transitoriness of life, and the perishable nature of its gifts, and as the ocean-voyager needs a stay-at-home pilot to steer him safely into port, so the adventurer in "the waves of glassie glory" (ll. 29-30) is bidden look to "vertue" for guidance to his desired haven--not exactly the conclusion to be expected from the opening lines of the speech. =6=, 23. =To put a girdle . . . world.= The editors all compare _Mid. Night's Dream_, I, 1, 175, which Chapman probably had in mind. =7=, 34. =in numerous state.= A play of words, apparently, on two senses of the phrase: (1) the series of numbers, (2) a populous kingdom. =8=, 59. =gurmundist.= The _N. E. D._ quotes no other example of the form "gurmundist" for "gurmond" = "gourmand." =9=, 86-87. =set my looks In an eternall brake:= keep my countenance perpetually immoveable. A "brake" is a piece of framework for holding something steady. =15=, 187. =I am a poet.= This is historically true. A poem of some length, _Stances faictes par M. de Bussy_, is quoted by Joubert in his _Bussy D'Amboise_, pp. 205-09. =15=, 194-95. =chaine And velvet jacket:= the symbols of a steward's office.