And to the tell-tale fun descry, Our conceal'd folemnity. Come, knit hands, and beat the ground "bound fuch an admirable echo or answering voice, &c. The firft "or mother of this wood, is hard to be known from the children, "&c." In the margin is a representation of the vegetable arcade. Milton has alfo availed himself of Gerard's reference to Pliny. But it is neceffary to give Milton's defcription intire. -Spreads her arms Branching fo broad and long, that in the ground High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between; At loop-holes cut through thickest shade: thofe leaves The Amazonian targe is from Pliny, as quoted by Gerard. Jonfon, however, had been before-hand with Milton, in introducing this tree into English poetry. NEPTUNE'S TRIUMPH, first acted 1624. Vol. vi. 159. -The goodly bole being got To certaine cubits hight, from every fide The bough's decline, which taking root afresh Spring up new boles, and these spring new, and newer ; Or arched arbour, able to receive A numerous troop, &c. Gerard's work was first published in 1597. Of the morning peeping from the eaft, doctor Newton brings a parellel from Fletcher's FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS. Mr. Bowle adds another, unnoticed, from Drayton, Mus. ELYZ. [edit. 1630. p. 22.] vol. iv. p. 1465. The funne out of the eaft doth PEEPE, And now the day begins to creepe, Upon the world at leasure. 144 Come, knit bands, amd beat the ground In a light fantaftic round.] In the manufcript," in a light " and frolick round." In L'ALLEGRO, V. 34. COM U S. 145 Break off, break off, I feel the different pace Benighted in these woods. Now, to my charms, 159 Be well-stock'd with as fair a herd as graz'd Compare Fletcher, FAITHF. SHEP. A. i. S. i. vol. iii. p. 110. ARM in ARM, Tread we foftly in a ROUND, While the hollow neighbouring ground, &c, And Jonfon, in his MASQUES. In motions fwift and meet The happy GROUND to BEAT. A paffage which reminds his commentator, Mr. Whalley, of Shakefpeare, MIDS. N. DR. A. iv. S. i. Sound mufic, Come my queen take hand with me, He proposes to read knock; because " the dancing of these dapper "elves could not shake or rock the ground." Vol. v. p. 275. But there is an ambiguity in rock: and Shakespeare means, that the dance, by fhaking the ground, would have the effect of rocking them still fafter afleep. Knock has more propriety, but it destroys the fancifulness of the poet's imagery. 144. A dance is here begun, called, The Meafure; which the magician almost as foon breaks off, on perceiving the approach of Jome chafte footing, from a fagacity appropriated to his character. 147. Run to your fbrouds within thefe brakes and trees.] To your receffes, harbours, hiding-places, &c. So, HYMN. NATIV. V. 218. "Nought but profoundest hell can be his SHROUD." And in PARAD, L. B. x. 1068. While the winds Blow moist and keen, fhattering the graceful locks Of these fair-spreading trees, which bid us seek Some better SHROUD. We have the verb, PARAD, REG. B. iv. 419. Of our Saviour in the foreft, My dazzling spells into the spungy air, -Ill waft thou SHROUDED then, O patient fon of God! And below, in CoмUS, V. 316. And if your ftray attendance be yet lodg'd, Or SHROUD within these limits. 155 Where, the last line is written in the manufcript, "Within these SHROUDIE limits." Whence we are led to fufpect, that our author, in fome of these inftances has an equivocal reference to SHROUDS in the sense of the branches of a tree, now often used. And a tree, when lopped, is faid to be SHROUDED. Compare Chaucer, Roм. R. v. 54. For there is neither bush nor hay In May that it nill SHROUDED bene, And it with new leves wrene. See alfo COMPL. BL. KN. v. 148. 153. Thus I hurl My dazzling Spells into the fpungy air.] B. Fletcher, FAITH. SHEP. A. iii. S. i. vol. iii. p. 150. I ftrew thefe herbs to purge the air: Let your odour drive from hence All mifts that DAZZLE fenfe, &c. Again, in the fame play, if I remember right. There is another CHARM, whofe power will free Adam fays, that in his conversation with the angel, his earthly nature was overpower'd by the heavenly, and, as with an object that excels the sense, " DAZZLED, and spent," PARAD. L. viii. 457. 155. To cheat the eye with blear illufion.] In our author's REFORMATION, &c. "If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be BLEAR with gazing on other false glisterings. &c." PR. W. i. 12. But blear-eyed is a common and well-known phrase. 157. And my quaint habits breed aftonishment.] QUAINT is here ftrange, odd, unusual. So in SAMS. AGON. V. 1303. In his hand A scepter or QUAINT staff he bears. Compare Note on ARCADES, V. 47. And And put the damfel to fufpicious flight, Which must not be, for that's against my course: I, under fair pretence of friendly ends, And well-plac'd words of glozing courtesy 160 And hug him into fnares. When once her eye 165 I shall appear fome harmless villager, Whom thrift keeps up about his country gear. "So 161. Words of glozing courtesy.] Flattering, deceitful. As in PARAD. LOST. B. iii. 95. "GLOZING lies." B. iv. 549. "GLOz'd the tempter." Perhaps from Spenfer, F. Q. iii. viii. 14. "Could well his GLOZING fpeeches frame." See Marlow's EDWARD SECOND. "The GLOZING head of thy base minion "thrown." Reed's OLD PL. ii. 317. And Lilly's ALEXANDER AND CAMPASPE. "Not to GLOSE with your tongue." A. iii. S. i. Compare APOL. SMECTYMN. §. viii. Immediately he falls to GLOZING, &c." PR. W. i. 121. And Shakespeare's RICH. SEC. A. ii. S. i. 1 Than they whom youth and ease have taught to GLOSE. 164. -When once her eye Hath met the virtue of this magic duft.] This refers to a previous line, " my POWDER'D fpells," v. 154. But POWDER'D was afterwards altered into the prefent reading DAZZLING. When a poet corrects, he is apt to forget and destroy his original train of thought. 166. I shall appear fome harmless villager, &c.] So ftands the context, in editions 1637, and 1645. But thus in the edition 1673, and in thofe of Tonfon. I fhall appear fome harmles villager, And hearken, if I may, her bufines here. Where, befide the tranfpofition, the line, Whom thrift, is omitted. Tickell, however, has followed the two first editions, with the emendation of "her business HEAR, and no comma after may, according to the table of ERRATA in 1673. Fenton copies Tickell. VILLAGER, an uncommon word, occurs in JULIUS CESAR, A. i. S. ii. Brutus had rather be a VILLAGER, And But here fhe comes, I fairly step afide, The Lady enters. This way the noise was, if mine ear be true, My best guide now; methought it was the found 170 Such as the jocund flute, or gamefome pipe And below, "Gentle VILLAGER," v. 304. And, " fome neigh“bour VILLAGER," V. ·576. 168. Fairly.] That is, foftly., H. "FAIR and foftly," were two words which went together, fignifying gently. The corpfe of Richard the fecond was conveyed in a litter through London, FAIRE and foftly." Froiffart, P. ii. ch. 249. 170. If mine ear be true. e.] "Lift mortals if your ears be true," v. 997. infr. In another and less literal sense. 175. -Gamefome pipe.] "GAMESOME mood." PARAD. L. vi. 620. Drayton, "a GAMESOME boy," ECL. ii. vol. iv. p. 1389. "A fly GAMESOME with the flame," ECL. vii. p. 1419. 178. To meet the rudeness, and fwill'd infolence, Of fuch late waffailers.] In fome parts of England, especially in the weft, it is still cuftomary for a company of mummers, in the evening of the christmas-holidays, to go about caroufing from house to house, who are called the WASSAILERS. To much the fame purpose fays Fletcher, FAITHF. SHEP. A. v. S.i. vol. iii. p. 177. The woods, or some near town That is a neighbour to the bordering down, Hath drawn them thither, 'bout fome lufty sport, All |