donis_ hied him to the chace."

[7] So _Hamlet_ i. 1--

"The _moist star_,
Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands."

[8] "_Thrilling_--tremulously moving."--_Dyce._ Perhaps the meaning
rather is _penetrating_--drilling its way through--"the gloomy sky."

[9] Variegated (Lat. _discolor_).

[10] Dyce quotes a passage of Harington's _Orlando Furioso_ where
"flowre" (floor) rhymes with "towre."

[11] Ed. 1600 and later 4tos. "Tail'd." For the coupling of "Vailed"
with "veiling," cf. 2. _Tamb._ v. iii. 6. "pitch their pitchy tents."

[12] This line is quoted in _As you like it_, iii. 5:--

"Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might,--
_Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight._"

[13] "A periphrasis of Night." Marginal note in ed. 1598.

[14] Lines 199-204, 221-222, are quoted, not quite accurately, by
Matthew in _Every Man in his Humour_, iv. 1.

[15] Some eds. give "between."

[16] Cf. Shakespeare, _Sonnet_ cxxxvi.--

"Among a number one is reckoned none."

[17] Some eds. read "sweet."

[18] Cf. Second Sestiad, l. 73--

"She with a kind of granting _put_ him _by_ it."

[19] This line is quoted in _England's Parnassus_ with the reading
"ripest."

[20] Hushed.

[21] "To the 'beldam nurse' there occurs the following allusion in
Drayton's _Heroical Epistle from Queen Mary to Charles Brandon_:--

'There is no beldam nurse to powt nor lower
When wantoning we revell in my tower,
Nor need I top my turret with a light,
To guide thee to me as thou swim'st by night.'"--_Broughton._

[22] So the old eds.--Dyce reads "about."

[23] We are reminded of _Lycidas_:--

"Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears
And slits the thin-spun life."

[24] Omitted in ed. 1600 and later 4tos.

[25] This word cannot be right. Query, "high-aspiring?"

THE SECOND SESTIAD.

_The Argument of the Second Sestiad._

Hero of love takes deeper sense,
And doth her love more recompense:
Their first night's meeting, where sweet kisses
Are th' only crowns of both their blisses
He swims t' Abydos, and returns:
Cold Neptune with his beauty burns;
Whose suit he shuns, and doth aspire
Hero's fair tower and his desire.

By this, sad Hero, with love unacquainted,
Viewing Leander's face, fell down and fainted.
He kiss'd her, and breath'd life[26] into her lips;
Wherewith, as one