Darts should reach me, to wound still an assailable head:

Barren now I see that labour of any requital, 5
Gellius; here all prayers fall to the ground, nor avail.
No; but a robe I carry, the barbs, thy folly, to muffle;
Mine strike sure; thy deep injury _they_ shall atone.

FRAGMENTS.

II.

Here I give to be thine a fair grove, an holy, Priapus,
Where thy Lampsacus holds thee in chamber seemly, Priapus;
God, in every city, thou, most ador'd on a sea-shore
Hellespontian, eminent most of oystery sea-shores.

IV.

Rapidly the spirit in an agony fled away.

V.

Where yon lucent mast-top, a cup of silver, arises.

NOTES.

VIII. 2.

_Lost is the lost, thou know'st it, and the past is past._

I am indebted for this expression to a translation of this poem by Dr.
J.A. Symonds, the whole of which I should have quoted here, had it not
been unfortunately mislaid.

XIV. 20.

_Plague-prodigy._

Proves a plague-prodigy to God and man.

BROWNING, _Ring and Book_, v. 664.

XVII. 26.

_Rondel._

The round plate of iron which, according to Rich, Companion to the Latin
Dictionary, p. 609, formed the lower part of the sock worn by horses,
mules, &c., when on a journey, and, unlike our horse-shoes, was
removable at the end of it.

XXII. 11.

_Looby_

a clown.

Let me now the vices trace,
From his father's scoundrel race.
What could give the looby such airs?
Were they masons? were they butchers?

TICKELL, _Theristes or the Lordling_, 23-26.

XXIII.

For a spirited, though coarse, version of this poem, see Cotton's Poems,
p. 608, ed. 1689.

6 _Lathy._

On a lathy horse, all legs and length.

BROWNING, _Flight of the Duchess_, v. 21.

XXIX. 8.

The connexion between Adonis and the dove is specially referred to by
Diogenianus (_Praef._ p. 180 in Leutsch and Schneidewin's
_Paroemiographi Graeci_). It formed part of the legends of Cyprus, and
was alluded to by the lyric poet Timocreon (_Bergk. Poetae Lyrici
Graeci_, p. 1203). Compare Browning:--

Pompilia was no pigeon, Venus' Pet.

_Ring and Book_, v. 701.

XXXV. 7.

_So he'll quickly devour the way,_

move quickly over the road. So Shakespeare:

Starting so
He seem'd in running to devour the way,
Staying no longer question.

_2nd Part of Henry IV