uplet in Burton's _Anatomy of
Melancholy_:--
"And ever and anon she thinks upon the man,
That was so fine, so fair, _so blith, so debonaire_."
P. 3. Sc. 2. p. 603. ed. 1621. 4to.
And in Randolph's _Aristippus_,--
"A bowle of wine is wondrous boone chere
To make one _blith, buxome, and deboneere_."
P. 13. ed. 1630. 4to.
On l. 27. (G.):--
"_Manes._ Didst thou not find I did _quip_ thee?
"_Psyllus._ No, verily; why, what's a _quip_?
"_Manes._ We great girders call it a short saying of a sharp wit, with a
bitter sense in a sweet word."
_Alexander and Campaspe, Old Plays_,
vol. ii. p. 113. ed. 1780.
"Then for your Lordship's _Quippes_ and quick jestes,
Why Gesta Romanorum were nothing to them."
_Sir Gyles Goosecappe_, a Com., Sig. G. 2. 4to. 1606.
_Crank_ is used in a different sense by Drayton:--
"Like Chanticleare he crowed _crank_,
And piped full merily."
Vol. iv. p. 1402. ed. 1753.
On l. 31. (M.):--
"There dainty Joys laugh at white-headed Caring."
_Fletcher's Purple Island_, C. vi. St. 35.
On l. 42. (G.):--
"The cheerful lark, mounting from early bed,
With sweet salutes awakes the drowsy Light;
The earth shee left, and up to Heaven is fled:
There chants her Maker's praises out of sight."
_Purple Island_, C. ix. St. 2.
"From heaven high to chase the cheareless darke,
With mery note her lowd salutes the morning larke."
_Faery Queene_, B. i. c. 11.
On l. 45. (G.):--
"The chearful birds, chirping him sweet good-morrow,
With nature's music do beguile his sorrow."
_Sylvester's Du Bartas._
On l. 67. (G.) See note already inserted in "NOTES AND QUERIES," p. 316.
On l. 75. (G.):--
"In May the meads are not so _pied with flowers_."
_Sylvester's Du Bartas._
On l. 78. (G.) So in _Comus_:--
"And casts a gleam over the _tufted grove_."
v. 225.
On l. 80. (G.):--
"Loadstar of Love and Loadstone of all hearts."
_Drummond._
On l. 117. (Anon.) See extracts from the _Diary of a Lover of Literature_.
To me this line seems to allude to the imagination in sleep:--
"Such sights as youthful poets dream."
On l. 121. (G.):--
"Yet served I, gentles, seeing _store_
_Of dainty girls_ beside."
_Albion's England_, p. 218. 4to. 1602.
On l. 125. (G.):--
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