[Footnote 121: Daniel, I believe: [Malone's Manuscript note in Bodlean copy. See Epigram 30. G.] Mr. Dyce adds here, "I am sorry to believe that by Dacus (who is spoken of with great contempt in Epigram xxx.) our author means Samuel Daniel: but the following lines in that very pleasing writer's _Complaint of Rosamond_ (which was first printed in 1592) certainly would seem to be alluded to here, "Ah beauty syren, faire enchanting good, Sweet, silent rhetorique of perswading eyes, _Dumb eloquence_, whose power doth moue the blood More then the words or wisdom of the wise, &c. 1611, p. 39,--Daniel's _Certaine Small Works_, &c. 1611.") G.] Dacus with some good colour and pretence, Tearmes his love's beauty "silent eloquence:" For she doth lay more colour on her face Than ever Tully us'd his speech to grace. IN MARCUM. 46. Why dost thou, Marcus, in thy misery, Raile and blaspheame, and call the heauens unkind? The heauens doe owe no kindnesse unto thee, Thou hast the heauens so little in thy minde; For in thy life thou neuer usest prayer But at primero, to encounter faire. MEDITATIONS OF A GULL. 47. See, yonder melancholy gentleman, Which, hood-wink'd with his hat, alone doth sit! Thinke what he thinks, and tell me if you can, What great affaires troubles his little wit. He thinks not of the warre 'twixt France and Spaine, Whether it be for Europe's good or ill, Nor whether the Empire can itselfe maintaine Against the Turkish power encroaching still; Nor what great towne in all the Netherlands, The States determine to beseige this Spring; Nor how the Scottish policy now stands, Nor what becomes of the Irish mutining. But he doth seriously bethinke him whether Of the gull'd people he be more esteem'd For his long cloake or for his great black feather, By which each gull is now a gallant deem'd; Or of a journey he deliberates, To Paris-garden,[122] Cock-pit or the Play; Or how to steale a dog he meditates, Or what he shall unto his mistriss say: Yet with these thoughts he thinks himself most fit To be of counsell with a king for wit. [Footnote 122: See note on this under Epigram 43. G.] AD MUSAM. 48.