_ and a saffron robe."

_Old Plays_, vol. iii. p. 214. ed. 1780.

On l. 734. (G.):--

"Saw you not a lady come this way on a sable horse
_studded with stars_ of white?"

Beaumont and Fletcher's _Philaster_, Act iv.

On l. 752. (G.):--

"A sweet _vermilian tincture_ stained
The bride's fair cheek."

Quarles' _Argalus and Parthenia_, p. 118. ed. 1647.

On l. 812. (G.):--

"_Bathed_ in worldly _bliss_."

_Drayton_, p. 586. ed. 1753.

"The fortunate who bathe in floods of joys."

E. of Sterline's _Works_, p. 251. ed. 1637.

On l. 834. (D.):--

"The lily-wristed morn."

The Country Life, Herrick's _Hesperides_, p. 269.

(G.):--

"Reacht him her ivory hand."

Ph. Fletcher's _Purple Island_, p. 117.

On l. 853. (G.) Compare this line of Drayton in his _Baron's Warrs_:--

"Of gloomy magicks and benumbing charms."

Vol. i. p. 110. ed. 1753.

On l. 861. (G.):--

"Through whose _translucent_ sides much light is born."

Ph. Fletcher's _Pur. Island_, C. 5. St. 31. p. 54.

On l. 862. (M.):--

"All hundred nymphs, that in his rivers dwell,
About him flock, with water-lilies crowned."

Ph. Fletcher's _Poet. Miscell._, p 67. ed. 1633.

On l. 863. (G.) The use of Ambergris, mentioned in Warton's note,
appears from Drayton, v. ii. p. 483.:--

"Eat capons cooked at fifteen crowns apiece,
With their fat bellies stuft with ambergrise."

On l. 886. (G.):--

"The wealth of Tarsus nor the _rocks of pearl_,
_That pave the court of Neptune_, can weigh down
That virtue."

Beaumont and Fletcher's _Philaster_, Act iv.

On l. 894. (G.):--

"Beset at th' end with emeralds and turches."

Lingua iv. 4. _Old Plays_, v. 5. p. 202. ed. 1780.

On l. 924. (M.) Mr. Warton says this votive address was suggested by
that of Amoret in the _Faithful Shepherdess_; but observes that "the
form and subject, rather than the imagery, is copied." In the following
maledictory address from Ph. Fletcher's 2nd eclogue, st. 23., the
imagery is precisely similar to Milton's, the good and evil being made
to consist in the fulness or decrease of the water, the clearness or
muddiness of the stream, and the nature of the plants flowing on its
banks:--

"But thou, proud Chame, which thus hast wrought me spite,
Some greater river drown thy hatefull name;
Let never myrtle on thy banks delight;
But willows pale, the leads of spite and blame,
Crown thy ungratefull shores with scorn and