begins to _muffle up_ the day."

Wither's _Mistresse of Philarete_.

On l. 335. (G.):--

"That whiles thick _darkness_ blots the light,
My thoughts may cast another _night_:
In which _double shade_," &c.

Cartwright's _Poems_, p. 220. ed. 1651.

On l. 345. (G.):--

"Singing to the sounds of _oaten reed_."

_Drummond_, p. 128.

On l. 373. (G.):--

"Virtue gives herself light thro' darkness for to wade."

Spenser's _F. Queene_. {149}

(D.) For what is here finely said, and again beautifully expressed (v.
381.), we may perhaps refer to Ariosto's description of the gems which
form the walls of the castle of Logistilla, or Reason:--

"Che chi l'ha, ovunque sia, sempre che vuole,
Febo (mal grado tuo) si puo far giorno."

_Orl. Fur_. x. 60.

On l. 404. (G.):--

"Whiles a puft and _rechlesse_ libertine,
Himselfe the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And _reakes_ not his owne reed."

_Hamlet>_ i. 3.

On l. 405. (G.):--

"Where death and danger _dog_ the heels of worth."

_All's Well that ends Well_, iii. 4.

On l. 421. (M.):--

"Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just:
And he but naked, though locked up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted."

2 _Henry IV._, iii. 2.

On l. 424. (G.):--

"And now he treads th' _infamous_ woods and downs."

Ph. Fletcher's _Eclog._, i. p. 4. ed. 1633.

On l. 494. (G.) The same sort of compliment occurs in Wither's
_Sheperd's Hunting_. (See _Gentleman's Mag._ for December 1800, p.
1151.)

"Thou wert wont to charm thy flocks;
And among the massy rocks
Hast so cheered me with thy song,
That I have forgot my wrong."

He adds:--

"Hath some churle done thee a spight?
Dost thou miss a lamb to-night?"

_Juvenilia_, p. 417. ed. 12mo. 1633.

On l. 535. (M.):--

"Not powerful Circe with her _Hecate rites_."

Ph. Fletcher's _Poetical Miscellanies_, p. 65. ed. 1633.

On l. 544. (D.):--

"The soft sweet moss shall be thy bed
With crawling woodbine overspread."

Herrick's _Hesperides_, p. 223.

On l. 554 (G.):--

"And flattery to his sinne _close curtain_ draws."

Ph. Fletcher's _Purple Island_, p. 112. ed. 1633.

On l. 635. (G.):--

"_His clouted shoon_ were nailed for fear of wasting."

Ph. Fletcher's _Purple Island_, p. 113.

On l. 707. (G.) A passage in the Spanish Tragedy confirms Mr. Warton's
reasoning--

"After them doth Hymen hie as fast,
_Clothed in sable