Page 31, l. 6. “_The Shiere whose surface seems most brute._” --George Eliot, like Drayton a native of fertile Warwickshire, entitles the neighbouring county _Stonyshire_. Page 33, l. 17 [Stz. 80]. “_The Fleet then full,_” _etc._ --Compare this fine stanza, which might have been written by one who had never been on shipboard, with the still more poetical and at the same time intensely realistic one of Shakespeare (“Henry V.,” act iii., prologue), which proves that he must have been at sea on some occasion: “Play with your fancies, and in them behold Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing; Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give To sounds confused; behold the threaden sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrowed sea.” Page 34, ll. 9, 10 [Stz. 83]. “_Long Boates with Scouts are put to land before, Vpon light Naggs the Countrey to discry._” --“Before day-break the next morning, Wednesday the 14th of August, John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon, Sir Gilbert Umfreville, and Sir John Cornwall, were sent with a party of cavalry to reconnoitre Harfleur and its vicinity, with the view of selecting a proper situation for the encampment of the army” (Sir Harris Nicolas). Page 35, l. 1 [Stz. 86]. “_To the high’st earth whilst awfull Henry gets._” --_Whilst_ must here be taken as = _meanwhile_. Page 35, l. 3. “_With sprightly words_” _etc._ --The confusion in this line is evidently due to the printer. Drayton must have written: “And thus with sprightly words,” etc. Page 35, l. 9 [Stz. 87]. “_He first of all proclaim’d._” --“A proclamation was issued forbidding under pain of death a repetition of some excesses which had been committed, and commanding that henceforth the houses should not be set on fire, or the churches or other sacred places violated, and that the persons of women and priests should be held sacred” (Sir Harris Nicolas). Holinshed adds, “or to any suche as should be founde withoute weapon or armor, and not ready to make resistance.” Page 36, l. 30 [Stz. 93]. “_Shee so instructed is by Natures Lawes._” --A characteristic instance of this excellent poet’s frequent and unaccountable lapses into bathos. Page 38, l. 7 [Stz. 98]. “_Whose Mynes to the besieg’d more mischiefe doe._” --Holinshed, however, admits that the French “with their countermining somewhat disappointed the Englishmen, and came to fight with them hand to hand within the mynes, so that they went no further forward with that worke.”