"For if the sun's bright beams do _blear_ the sight Of such as fix'dly gaze against his light." Sylvester's _Du Bartas_. Week i. Day 1. On l. 162. (G.):-- "Such reasons seeming plausible." Warners _Albion's England_, p. 155. ed. 1612. On l. 166. (G.):-- "We are a few of those collected here That ruder tongues distinguish _villager_." Beaumont and Fletcher's _Two Noble Kinsmen_, iii. 5. On l. 215. (G.) "Unblemished" was originally (_Trin. Coll. Cam. MSS._) written "unspotted," perhaps from Drayton:-- "Whose form unspotted chastity may take," On l. 254. (G.) Add to Mr. Warton's note, that after the creation of Sir Robert Dudley to be Earl of Leicester by Queen Elizabeth in 1564, "He sat at dinner in his _kirtle_." So says Stow in _Annals_, p. 658. edit. 1633. On l. 290. (G.):-- "My wrinckl'd face, Grown _smooth as Hebe's_." Randolph's _Aristippus_, p. 18. 4to. ed. 1630. On l. 297. (G.):-- "Of frame more than celestial." Fletcher's _Purple Island_, C. 6. S. 28. p. 71. ed. 1633. On l. 331. (G.):-- "Night begins to _muffle up_ the day." Wither's _Mistresse of Philarete_. On l. 335. (G.):-- "That whiles thick _darkness_ blots the light, My thoughts may cast another _night_: In which _double shade_," &c. Cartwright's _Poems_, p. 220. ed. 1651. On l. 345. (G.):-- "Singing to the sounds of _oaten reed_." _Drummond_, p. 128. On l. 373. (G.):-- "Virtue gives herself light thro' darkness for to wade." Spenser's _F. Queene_. {149} (D.) For what is here finely said, and again beautifully expressed (v. 381.), we may perhaps refer to Ariosto's description of the gems which form the walls of the castle of Logistilla, or Reason:-- "Che chi l'ha, ovunque sia, sempre che vuole, Febo (mal grado tuo) si può far giorno." _Orl. Fur_. x. 60. On l. 404. (G.):-- "Whiles a puft and _rechlesse_ libertine, Himselfe the primrose path of dalliance treads, And _reakes_ not his owne reed." _Hamlet>_ i. 3. On l. 405. (G.):-- "Where death and danger _dog_ the heels of worth." _All's Well that ends Well_, iii. 4. On l. 421. (M.):-- "Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just: And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted." 2 _Henry IV._, iii. 2. On l. 424. (G.):-- "And now he treads th' _infamous_ woods and downs." Ph. Fletcher's _Eclog._, i. p. 4. ed. 1633. On l. 494. (G.) The same sort of compliment occurs in Wither's _Sheperd's Hunting_. (See _Gentleman's Mag._ for December 1800, p. 1151.) "Thou wert wont to charm thy flocks; And among the massy rocks Hast so cheered me with thy song, That I have forgot my wrong." He adds:-- "Hath some churle done thee a spight? Dost thou miss a lamb to-night?" _Juvenilia_, p. 417. ed. 12mo. 1633. On l. 535. (M.):-- "Not powerful Circe with her _Hecate rites_." Ph. Fletcher's _Poetical Miscellanies_, p. 65. ed. 1633. On l. 544. (D.):--