icks, mummers, mimicks." Shakes. makes it a verb in
_A. and C._ ii. 7: "the wild disguise hath almost Antick'd us all."

31. Cf. Thomson, _Spring_, 835: "In friskful glee Their frolics
play."

32, 33. Cf. Virgil, _Aen._ v. 580 foll.

35. Gray quotes Homer, _Od._ ix. 265: [Greek: marmarugas theeito
podon thaumaze de thumoi]. Cf. Catullus's "fulgentem plantam." See
also Thomson, _Spring_, 158: "the many-twinkling leaves Of aspin
tall."

36. _Slow-melting strains_, etc. Cf. a poem by Barton Booth,
published in 1733:

"Now to a slow and melting air she moves,
So like in air, in shape, in mien,
She passes for the Paphian queen;
The Graces all around her play,
The wondering gazers die away;
Whether her easy body bend,
Or her fair bosom heave with sighs;
Whether her graceful arms extend,
Or gently fall, or slowly rise;
Or returning or advancing,
Swimming round, or sidelong glancing,
Strange force of motion that subdues the soul."

37. Cf. Dryden, _Flower and Leaf_, 191: "For wheresoe'er she turn'd
her face, they bow'd."

39. Cf. Virgil, _Aen._ i. 405: "Incessu patuit dea." The gods were
represented as gliding or sailing along without moving their feet.

41. _Purple light of love_. Cf. Virgil, _Aen._ i. 590: "lumenque
juventae Purpureum." Gray quotes Phrynichus, _apud_ Athenaeum:

[Greek: lampei d' epi porphureeisi
pareieisi phos erotos.]

See also Dryden, _Brit. Red._ 133: "and her own purple light."

42. "To compensate the real and imaginary ills of life, the Muse was
given to mankind by the same Providence that sends the day by its
cheerful presence to dispel the gloom and terrors of the night"
(Gray).

43 foll. See on _Eton Coll._ 83. Cf. Horace, _Od._ i. 3, 29-33.

46. _Fond complaint_. Foolish complaint. Cf. Shakes. _M. of V._ iii.
3:

"I do wonder,
Thou naughty gaoler, that thou art so fond
To come abroad with him at his request;"

Milton, _S. A._ 812: "fond and reasonless," etc. This appears to be
the original meaning of the word. In Wiclif's Bible. 1 _Cor._ i. 27,
we have "the thingis that ben _fonnyd_ of the world." In _Twelfth
Night_, ii. 2, the word is used as a verb=dote:

"And I, poor monster, fond as much on him,
As she, mistaken, seems to dote on me."

49. Hurd quotes Cowley:

"Night and her ugly subjects thou dost fright,
And Sleep, the lazy owl of night;
Asham'd and fearful to appear,
They sc