"Tell me, have ye seene her angelick face, Like Phoebe fayre? Her heavenly haveour, her princely grace, Can you well compare? The Redde rose medled with the White yfere, In either cheeke depeincten lively chere; Her modest eye, Her Majestie, Where have you seene the like but there?" 117. "Speed, relating an audience given by Queen Elizabeth to Paul Dzialinski, ambassador of Poland, says: 'And thus she, lion-like rising, daunted the malapert orator no less with her stately port and majestical deporture, than with the tartnesse of her princelie checkes'" (Gray). The MS. reads "A lion-port, an awe-commanding face." 121. "Taliessin, chief of the bards, flourished in the sixth century. His works are still preserved, and his memory held in high veneration among his countrymen" (Gray). As Hales remarks, there is no authority for connecting him with Arthur, as Tennyson does in his _Holy Grail_. 123. Cf. Congreve, _Ode to Lord Godolphin_: "And soars with rapture while she sings." 124. _The eye of heaven_. Wakefield quotes Spenser, _F. Q._ 1. 3. 4, "Her angel's face As the great eye of heaven shined bright." Cf. Shakes. _Rich. II._ iii. 2: "the searching eye of heaven." _Many-colour'd wings_. Cf. Shakes. _Temp._ iv. 1: "Hail, many-colour'd messenger;" and Milton, _P. L._ iii. 642: "Wings he wore Of many a colour'd plume sprinkled with gold." 126. Gray quotes Spenser, _F. Q._ Proeme, 9: "Fierce warres and faithful loves shall moralize my song." 128. "Shakespeare" (Gray). Cf. _Il Penseroso_, 102: "the buskin'd stage;" that is, the tragic stage. 129. _Pleasing pain_. Cf. Spenser, _F. Q._ vi. 9, 10: "sweet pleasing payne;" and Dryden, _Virg. Ecl._ iii. 171: "Pleasing pains of love." 131. "Milton" (Gray). 133. "The succession of poets after Milton's time" (Gray). 135. _Fond_. Foolish. See on _Prog. of Poesy_, 46. On the couplet, cf. Dekker, _If this be not a good play_, etc.: "Thinkest thou, base lord, Because the glorious Sun behind black clouds Has awhile hid his beams, he's darken'd forever, Eclips'd never more to shine?" 137. Cf. _Lycidas_, 169: "And yet anon repairs his drooping head;" and Fletcher, _Purple Island_, vi. 64: "So soon repairs her light, trebling her new-born raies." 141. Mitford remarks that there is a passage (which he misquotes, as usual) in the _Thebaid_ of Statius (iii. 81) similar to this, describing a bard who had survived his companions: "Sed jam nudaverat ensem Magnanimus vates, et nunc trucis ora tyranni, Nunc ferrum adspectans: 'Nunquam tibi sanguinis hujus Jus erit, aut magno feries imperdita Tydeo Pectora; _vado equidem exsultans_ et _ereptaque fata_ Insequor, et comites feror expectatus ad umbras; _Te_ Superis, fratrique.' Et jam media orsa loquentis Abstulerat plenum capulo latus."