STANZ, XV.

Until a nation ftrange

Did themselves through all the North display: Until that Locrine, for his realms defence, Did head against them make, and ftrong munificence.

Quare, Whether by making ftrong munificence he means, he fortified himself against them?

The second Brute (the fecond both in name, And eke in femblance of his puiffance great)

Virgil, Æn. VI. 768.

Et qui te nomine reddet

Silvius Eneas, pariter pietate vel armis

Egregius,

STANZ. XXV.

And with sweet science mollify'd their stubborn hearts.

Ovid, de Ponto. II. Ix. 47.

Adde, quod ingenuas didiciffe fideliter artes,

Emollit mores, nec finit effe feros.

STANZ. XXXIV.

In whofe fad time blood did from heaven rain.

A prodigy not unfrequent, if you will believe ancient poets and hiftorians.

Then all the fons of these five brethren reign'd By due fuccefs, and all their nephews late. Nephews are nepotes, grandfons. Comp. Æn. III.97. So before, II. VIII. 29.

Indeed, then faid the Prince, the evil done Dies not, when breath the body first doth leave; But from the grandfire to the nephew's son, And all his feed the curfe doth often cleave.

from the grandfire to the nephew's fon, to the third and fourth generation. So in many other places.

STANZ. *LVI.

Or to Hyfiphil' or to Thomiris.

Tomyris it should be, though it is likely enough that Spenfer might write it as it is printed. But he furely never intended Hyfiphil'. It should be Hypfiphy. Hypfiphyle.

STANZ.

S TAN Z. LXX.

It told, how firft Prometheus did create A man, of many parts from beafts deriv'd; And then stole fire from heav'n, to animate His work, for which he was by Jove depriv'd Of life himself, and heart-ftrings of an eagle riv'd.

That Jupiter flew Prometheus is a fiction of our poet. However, Horace places him in the fhades below.

Then Elfinor, who was in magick skill'd;
He built by art upon the glaffy fea

A bridge of brafs, whofe found heaven's thunder feem'd to be.

Virgil, Æn. VI. 585.

Vidi et crudeles dantem Salmonea pœnas,

Dum flammas Jovis et fonitus imitatur Olympi.
Quatuor hic invectus equis, et lampada quaffans,
Per Graium populos, mediæque per Elidis urbem
Ibat ovans, divúmque fibi pofcebat honorem:
Demens! qui nimbos, et non imitabile fulmen
Are et cornipedum pulfu fimulárat equorum.

CANTO XL. 4.

Ere long, they rowed were quite out of fight,
And fast the land behind them fled away.

Virgil, Æn. III. 72.

Provehimur portu: terræque urbefque recedunt.

STANZ. XI.

Likewife that fame third Fort, that is the Smell, Of that third troop was cruelly affay'd:

Whofe hideous fhapes were like to fiends of hell; Some like to hounds, fome like to apes difmay'd, Some like to puttocks, all in plumes array'd:

difmay'd is frightened. But I can hardly think that Spenfer uses it here in that fenfe. Poffibly, by difmay'd or difmade he means ugly, ill-shaped. In French malfait. Quare, Whether it should be, mifmade?

STANZ. XVIII.

Speaking of a flood:

And the fad husbandman's long hope doth throw Adown the stream, and all his vows make vain. Ovid, Met. I. 272.

Sternuntur fegetes, et deplorata coloni

Vota jacent; longique perit labor irritus anni.

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Virgil.

Virgil, Georg. I. 224.

anni fpem credere terra.

STANZ. XIX.

The fierce Spumador, born of heavenly feed," Such as Laomedon of Phoebus' race did breed.

Jupiter gave immortal horfes to Tros, which were afterwards poffefs'd by Laomedon.

STANZ. XXXV, XXXVI.

Thereby there lay

An huge great ftone, which stood upon one end, And had not been removed many a day; Some land-mark feem'd to be, or fign of fundry way.

The fame he fnatch'd, and with exceeding fway Threw at his foe.

Virgil, Æn. XII. 896, 901.

Saxum circumfpicit ingens:

Saxum antiquum, ingens, campo quod forte jacebat,
Limes agro pofitus, litem ut difcerneret arvis.
Ille manu raptum trepida torquebat in hoftem.

Φ.

Comp. Homer, Il. P. 403.

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