NOTES.

Page 16. "His golden locks time hath to silver turned," &c.-Thackeray quoted the opening lines of this beautiful song in The Newcomes.

66 His helmet now shall make a hive for bees."--In Alciati's Emblems there is an engraving of bees swarming in a helmet. Cf. Geoffrey Whitney's Choice of Emblems, 1586:

"The helmet strong that did the head defend,
Behold, for hive the bees in quiet served;
And when that wars with bloody blows had end,
They honey wrought where soldier was preserved :
Which doth declare the blessed fruits of peace,
How sweet she is when mortal wars do cease.

Page 18. "What thing is love?"-The first six lines are found in an old play, The Wisdom of Dr. Dodypol, 1600. Page 20. "And you shall have some cockellbread."-Aubrey says that "young wenches have a wanton sport which they call moulding of cockle bread ;" and he describes the curious custom.

Page 24. "Autumn hath all the summer's fruitful treasure."-Nashe's play was acted in the autumn of 1593, when the plague was raging. "This low-built

house" is Archbishop Whitgift's palace at Croydon. See Dr. Grosart's edition of Nashe's Works, vol. vi. pp. xxvi-xxxix.

Page 48. "Take, O, take those lips away."-In Fletcher's The Bloody Brother, first printed in 1639, we have this song with the following additional

stanza :-

"Hide, oh, hide those hills of snow,

Which thy frozen bosom bears,
On whose tops the pinks that grow
Are of those that April wears!
But first set my poor heart free,

Bound in those icy chains by thee."

The second stanza is distinctly inferior to the first. I take the first to be by Shakespeare and the second by Fletcher.

Page 53. "Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne," i.e. with small winking eyes.

Page 61. "Ev'n his face begetteth laughter.”— Laughter rhymes awkwardly with slaughter. Marston alludes to this passage in The Fawn, iv. 1 :—“ another has vow'd to get the consumption of the lungs or to leave to posterity the true orthography and pronunciation of laughing."

Page 66. "Still to be neat, still to be drest.”—This song is modelled on some Latin verses of Jean Bonnefons, "Semper munditias, semper, Basilissa, decores," &c.

Page 69.

"Have you seen but a bright lily grow?" -This stanza is imitated by Suckling in his little song beginning :

"

Hast thou seen the down in the air,

When wanton blasts have tossed it?

Page 94. "Hey for our town!' cried."—On Mayday it was the custom for one village to contend with another in dancing-matches. Hey for our town! was the cry raised on such occasions. Cf. Lyrics from Elizabethan Song-books, ed. 1887, p. 68 :–

"Then all at once for our town cries!
Pipe on, for we will have the prize."

"To Hogsdon or to Newington."-Hogsdon and Newington were favourite resorts of pleasure-seekers, particularly 'prentices and their sweethearts. They were noted for cakes and cream :

For Hogsdon, Islington, and Tot'nam Court

For cakes and cream had then no small resort." (Wither.)

Page 133. "Hence, all you vain delights."-This beautiful song undoubtedly gave Milton some hints for Il Penseroso. Dr. William Strode, a canon of Christ Church, wrote a reply to Fletcher's verses. It is printed in Wit Restored, 1658:

"Return, my joys, and hither bring
A tongue not made to speak but sing,
A jolly spleen, an inward feast,

A causeless laugh without a jest ;

A face which gladness doth anoint,

An arm for joy flung out of joint," &c.

Strode died in 1644; his poems are scattered about the MS. commonplace books and printed miscellanies of the time.

Page 163. "O for a bowl of fat canary."―This song is found (with some variations) in Lyly's Alexander and Campaspe, ed. 1632.

We are reminded of Shakespeare's :

"When blood is nipped and ways be foul,

Then nightly sings the staring owl."

Page 205. "And leave these uncouth woods."Uncouth has the meaning unfrequented, solitary.

Page 220. "Still-born Silence, thou that art.”— Richard Flecknoe, the author of this beautiful invocation, was immortalized by Dryden. Langbaine writes with mischievous pleasantry :-"He has published sundry works (as he styles them) to continue his name to posterity; tho' possibly an enemy has done that for him which his own endeavours would never have perfected for whatever become of his own pieces his name will continue whilst Mr. Dryden's satire called Mac Flecknoe shall remain in vogue." There is not much to be said in favour of Flecknoe's plays, but some of his poems have real merit. He had been a traveller in Spain, Brazil, and other countries. Southey has a kindly notice of him in Omniana, i. 105-10.

Page 221.

Run to love's lottery."-This song and the next are not found in the early editions but first appeared in the folio of 1673.

Page 230. "Love's Duel."-This is a free rendering

of the fourteenth ode of Anacreon.

LIST OF AUTHORS.

BEAUMONT, FRANCIS (1586–1616). Pages 89

90.

BEAUMONT, FRANCIS, and FLETCHER, JOHN (1579-1625). 90-100.

BELCHIER, DABRIDGECOURT (d. 1621). 170-1.
BERKLEY, SIR WILLIAM (d. 1677). 228.
BROME, RICHARD (d. 1652?). 210-11.
BROWNE, WILLIAM (1590-1650?). 172.
CAMPION, DR. THOMAS (d. 1620). 88.
CARTWRIGHT, WILLIAM (d. 1643).

194-5.

Corona Minerva, 1635 (Anonymous). 203.

DANIEL, SAMUEL (1562—1619). 75-6._

DAVENANT, SIR WILLIAM (1605-1668). 221-7.

DAVENPORT, ROBERT (fl. 1639). 212.

Dekker, THOMAS (1570?—1641?). 77-86.-8

FIELD, NATHANIEL (d. 1633). 175.

FLECKNOE, RICHARD (fl. 1654). 220.

FLETCHER, JOHN. 101-138. See also BEAUMONT,

FRANCIS.

FLETCHER, JOHN, and ROWLEY, WILLIAM (?—?).

139.

FLETCHER, JOHN, and SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616). 140-1.

FLETCHER, PHINEAS (d. 1649). 173-4.

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