[Footnote 61: Written by Duffet, a low author, employed by the players of the King's-house to compose parodies on the operas, by which the Duke's company at one time attracted large audiences. Accordingly he wrote a "Mock Tempest," "Psyche Debauched," and other pieces of the same kind. The first was so indecent, that in Dublin the ladies and people of rank left the house to the rabble when it was acted. See LANGBAINE, p. 177. Duffet was a milliner in the New Exchange.] [Footnote 62: _Des mourans et des morts cent montagnes plaintives._ A line from Brebeuf's translation of Lucan.] [Footnote 63: This passage occurs in the following notable account of the wardrobe of our ancestor Adam after the fall, translated by Sylvester from Du Bartas. It has the honour to be elsewhere alluded to by Dryden: But when the winter's keener breath began, To crystallize the Baltic Ocean; To glaze the lakes, and bridle up the floods, And periwig with wool the baldpate woods, Our grandsire shrinking, 'gan to shake and shiver, His teeth to chatter, and his beard to shiver: Spying therefore a flock of muttons coming, (Whose freeze-clad bodies feel not winter's mumming,) He takes the fairest, and he knocks it down, Then by good hap, finding upon the down, A sharp great fish-bone, which long time before The roaring flood had cast upon the shore; He cuts the throat, flays it, and spreads the fell; Then dries it, pares it, and he scrapes it well; Then clothes his wife therewith; and of such hides, Slops, hats, and doublets, for himself provides. _Fourth Part of the first day of the second week. The Handy-crafts._ ] [Footnote 64: Edward Fairfax, natural son of Sir Thomas Fairfax, of Denton, in Yorkshire, who executed a most beautiful translation of the "Jerusalem Delivered," which was published in 1600. Collins, in apostrophizing Tasso, does not forget his congenial translator: How have I sate while piped the pensive wind, To hear thy harp by British Fairfax strung; Prevailing poet, whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders that he sung. _Ode on Scottish Superstitions._ Fairfax also wrote the History of Edward the Black Prince, which has never been published.] [Footnote 65: This is a hasty conclusion; Spenser's pastorals, at least the greater number of them, have little claim to the title. It seems, however, to have been a favourite idea of this poet; for, at the beginning of the Essay, he assigns heroic poetry as the sphere of Waller, and pastoral as that of Spenser.] [Footnote 66: D'Avenant's "Gondibert," which contains many highly poetical passages, was ridiculed when published, and has been neglected ever since. See Vol. III. p. 97.] [Footnote 67: A pedantic translation of the Latin phrase _festina lente_.]