Built rank-and-file like beadsmen's rooms, And what they bleed but tart and sour Matched with my Danae's golden shower, Live-honey all,--the envious elf Stung her, 'cause sweeter than himself. 80 Sweetness and she are so allied The bee committed parricide. [_Fuscara._ (_1651_.) Cleveland's most famous poem of the amatory, as _The Rebel Scot_ is of the political, kind. In _1677_ and since it has been set in the forefront of his _Poems_, and Johnson draws specially on it for his famous diatribe against the metaphysicals in the 'Life of Cowley'. It seems to me inferior both to _The Muses' Festival_ and to _The Antiplatonic_, and, as was said in the Introduction, it betrays, to me, something of an intention to fool the lovers of a fashionable style to the top of their bent. But it has extremely pretty things in it; and Mr. Addison, who denounced and scorned 'false wit', never 'fair-sexed it' in half so poetical a manner.] [Line: 2 'Suckets' or 'succades' should need interpretation to no reader of _Robinson Crusoe_: and no one who has not read _Robinson Crusoe_ deserves to be taken into consideration.] [Line: 13 tincture] Said to be used here in an alchemical sense for 'gold'. But the plain meaning is much better.] [Line: 18 Although the sense is not quite the same as, it is much akin to, that of Browning's question-- 'Who knows but the world may end to night?' ] [Line: 20 Cleveland of course uses the correct and not the modern and blundering sense of 'transpire'.] [Line: 22 This 'jelly gloved' is _not_ like 'mobled queen' or 'calcining flame'.] [Lines: 25-6 _1653_ and its group have a queer misprint (carried out so as to rhyme, but hardly possible as a true reading) of 'dives' and 'lives'. If they had had 'In' instead of 'On' it would have been on the (metaphysical) cards, especially with 'bathes' following.] [Line: 28 _1653_, less well, '_the_ nectar'.] [Line: 30 Neat, i' faith!] [Line: 33 'a lovely _brown_' as being _Fuscara_.] [Line: 35 Here Cleveland dares his 'ill armoury again'; _v. sup._, p. 25. 'He' _1651_, _1653_: 'Her' _1677_.] [Line: 48 as] _1677_, unnecessarily, 'like'. Some (baddish) editions '_on_ a bracelet'.] [Line: 52 Hardly necessary to notice as another of Cleveland's Shakespearian touches.] [Line: 62 The correcter form is 'lancep_e_sade'.] [Line: 70 '_Ratillias_' _1651_: '_Ratilias_' _1653_: corrected in _1677_.] [Line: 71 _1677_, dropping the verb from 'now's', improves the sense very much.] *An Elegy upon Doctor Chad[d]erton, the first Master of Emanuel College in Cambridge, being above an hundred years old when he died. (_Occasioned by his long-deferred funeral._)