"Of such a goddess no time leaves record, Who burnt the temple where she was adored."--Vol. xi. Yet Dryden, in the preface, declaims against the "_inopem me copia fecit_," and similar jingles of Ovid. [15] [Transcriber's note: "See p. 258" in original. This is to be found in Section VI.] [16] "The longest tyranny that ever swayed, Was that wherein our ancestors betrayed Their free-born reason to the Stagyrite, And made his torch their universal light. So truth, while only one supplied the state, Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate. Still it was bought, like emp'ric wares, or charms, Hard words sealed up with Aristotle's arms." [17] These I found quaintly summed up in an old rhyme: "With a red man read thy rede, With a brown man break thy bread, On a pale man draw thy knife, From a black man keep thy wife." [18] See the introduction to Britannia Rediviva, vol. x. [19] Vol. x. [20] It is twice stated in these volumes (p. 246, and vol. x.), on the authority of the "Life of Southerne," that Dryden had originally five guineas for each prologue, and raised the sum to ten guineas on occasion of Southerne's requiring such a favour for his first play. But I am convinced the sum is exaggerated; and incline now to believe, with Dr. Johnson, that the advance was from _two_ to _three_ guineas only. [See note _supra_, l.c.--ED.] [21] Life of Lucian, vol. xviii. [22] [Is it possible that in this famous passage "Veer" is a clerical error or a misprint for "Ware"? This would at once make sense and a literal version.--ED.] [23] Poems from the Bannatyne Manuscript, p. 228. [24] Shakespeare has _capricious, conversation_, fatigate (if not _fatigue_), _figure, gallant, good graces; incendiary_ is in Minshew's "Guide to the Tongues," ed. 1627. _Tender_ often occurs in Shakespeare both as a substantive and verb. And many other of the above words may be detected by those who have time and inclination to search for them, in authors prior to Dryden's time. [See, for a discussion of Dryden's Gallicisms, vol. xviii. of the present edition.--ED.] [24] The remarkable phrase, "to possess the soul in patience," occurs in "The Hind and Panther;" and in the Essay on Satire, vol. xiii., we have nearly the same expression. The image of a bird's wing flagging in a damp atmosphere occurs in Don Sebastian, and in prose elsewhere, though I have lost the reference. The same thought is found in "The Hind and Panther," but is not there used metaphorically:-- "Nor need they fear the dampness of the sky Should flag their wings, and hinder them to fly."