Page 217. The fubject of this ballad may poffibly receive illuftration From what CHAPMAN Jays in the dedicat. to his verfion of Homer's Frogs and Mice, concerning the brave and memorable Retreat of Sir John Norris, with only 1000, thro the whole Spanish army, under the duke of Parma, for three miles together. After the note addp. 204.” Page 249. "Vide Rym. Fad. tom xii. Page 251. "Men ufe if they have an evill turne, to write it in marble; and whofo doth us a good tourne, we write it in duft." Thefe words of Sir Thomas More probably fuggefted to Shakespeare that proverbial reflection, in Hen. viij. Act. 4. fc. 1.1. "Men's evill manners live in brafs: their virtues Shakefp. in his play of Rich. III. follows More's Hift. of that reign, and therefore could not but fee this passage. Page 262. -See Vol. III. page 25. where Addition to note (*). Paffus feems to fignify Pause. Page 301. The reader will remember at ver. 21. that it is the cuftom in many parts of England, to carry a fine garland before the corps of a woman, who dies unmarried: and that ver. 33. &c. alludes to the painted effigies of alabafter, anciently erected upon tombs and monuments. Page Page 324. Ver. 22. JOHN DE WERT was a German general of great reputation, and the terror of the French in the reign of Louis XIII. Hence his name became proverbial in France, where he was called De Vert. See Bayle's dict. Page 327. Whitlocke fays, "May 3. 1643. Cheapfide cross and other "croffes were voted doron," Sc. When this vote was put in execution does not appear, probably not till many months after Tomkins and Chaloner had fuffered. See ver. 18. Page 340. A different reading has been received of ver. 46. &c. viz. Here's a glyfter-pipe well try'd, Which was made of a butcher's ftump, And has been fafely apply'd, To cure the colds of the rump. Alluding probably to major general Harrison a butcher's fon, who affified Cromwell in turning out the long parliament, Ap. 20. 1653. Page 343. In Walton's "Compleat Angler" chap. 3. is a fong in praife of angling, which the author fays was made at his request" by Mr. WILLIAM BASSE, one that has made the "choice fongs of the HUNTER IN HIS CARRERE, and of TOM OF BEDLAM, and many others of note." p. 84. VOLUME THE THIRD. Page 26. Nftead of Largez, Largez, it should be Largefse, Largefse, as it is in other copies. The heralds refounded these words as as oft as they received of the bounty of the knights. See Page 28. This fragment being very incorrect and imperfect in the original MS. bath received fome conjectural emendations, and even a fupplement of 3 or 4 ftanzas compofed from the romance of MORTE ARTHUR. Page 66. A copy of this fonnet, containing some variations, is reprinted in the MUSES LIBRARY p. 295. from an ancient miscellany, intitled ENGLAND'S HELICON 1600. 4to. The author was NICHOLAS BRETON, a writer of fome fame in the reign of Elizabeth; who also published an interlude intitled An old man's leffon and a young man's love." 1605. 4to. and many other little pieces in profe and verfe, the titles of which may be feen in Winstanley, Ames' Typog. and Ofborne's Harl. catalog. &c.-He is mentioned with great refpect by MERES, in his 2d pt of Wit's Common-wealth. 1598. f. 283. and is alluded to in Beaumont and Fletcher's SCORNFUL LADY, Act. 2. and again in WIT WITHOUT MONEY, A. 3.-See Whalley's Ben. Johnson, vol. 3. p. 103. Page 75. This ballad was popular in the time of 2. Elizabeth, being ufually printed with her picture before it, as HEARNE informs us in his preface to "Gul. Neubrig. Hift. Oxon. 1719. 8vo. vol. 1. p. lxx." It is quoted in Fletcher's comedy of the Pilgrim, A&t. 4. fc. 1. Page 77. Ver. 50. His bodye Ile give to thee.] This was agreeable 4 to the feudal customs: The Lord had a right to give a wife to his vaffals. See Shakespeare's," All's well, that ends well." Page 111. The poem on GUY AND AMARANT has been discovered to be a fragment of, "The famous hiftorie of Guy earl of "Warwick, by SAMUEL ROWLANDS. London, printed by "J. Bell. 1649. 4to." in xii cantos, beginning thus "When dreadful Mars in armour every day." Whether the edition in 1649, was the firft, does not appear, but the author SAM. ROWLANDS was one of the minor poets, who lived in the reigns of Q. Elizabeth, and James I. and perhaps later. His other poems are chiefly of the religious "kind, which makes it probable that the hift. of Guy was one of his earliest performances. There are extant of his (1.) "The betraying of Chrift, Judas in difpaire, the ferven "words of our Saviour on the croffe, with other poems on "the paffion, &c. 1598. 4to. [Ames Typ. p. 428.]— (2.) A "Theatre of delightful Recreation. Lond. printed for A. JohnJon. 1605." 4to. (Penes editor.) This is a book of poems on fubjects chiefly taken from the old Teftament. (3.) Me"mory of Chrift's miracles, in verfe. Lond. 1618. 4to." (4.) Heaven's glory, earth's vanity, and hell's borror. Lond. 1638. 8vo. [Thefe 2 in Bod. Cat.] 66 Page 132. In ver. 10. 12. Dyand, and Lyand, ought to be tranfpofed. The taunt Young man I think ye're lyand." is very characteristical. Page 133. ISLINGTON in Norfolk is probably the place here meant. Page Page 138. To the tune of " In pefcod time," &c.]- -The ballad here referred to is preferved in the MUSES LIBRARY 8vo. p. 281. It is an allegory or vifion, intitled "THE SHEPHERDS SLUMBER," and opens with some pretty rural images, viz. "In pefcod time when bound to horn "I avent to gather ftrawberries 66 By woods and groves full fair," &c. Page 144. St. Anthony's well is also in the neighbourhood of Edingburgh. Page 147. The reading at the bottom "Now, gip," is unnecessarily difcarded. Gip, gep, or guep, is a common interjection of contempt in our old poets. See Gray's Hudibras, pt. x. canto 3. V. 202. note. Page 159. This poem of Ben Jonson's is imitated from the firft Idyllium of Mofchus. Page 170. This little madrigal is in imitation of a Latin poem printed at the end of the Variorum Edit. of Petronius, beginning Semper munditias, femper Bafiliffa, decoras, &c." See Whalley's Ben Jonson, vol. 2. p. 420. 66 Page |