CANTO II, 7.

The epithet of rofy-finger'd is Homer's pododaxlunes, and of fingular beauty.

STANZ. XIX.

His grudging ghoft, &c. is well explained by Virgil's,

Vitáque cum gemitu fugit indignata fub umbras.

Quem femper acerbum,

Semper honoratum (fic Dii voluiftis) habebo.

STANZ. XXIV.

All Servius's Remarks are of as cold a fort, as that here quoted by Dr. Jortin, from Æn. IV.

STANZ. XXX. XXXI.

This is taken from the ftory of Polydorus in the

third neid, v. 27, &c.

Nam, quæ prima folo ruptis radicibus: arbos
Vellitur, huic atro liquuntur fanguine guttæ,

Et terram tabo maculant. Mihi frigidus horror
Membra quatit, gelidufque coit formidine fanguis..

Gemitus

-Gemitus lacrymabilis imo

Auditur tumulo, et vox reddita fertur ad aures,

Quid miferum, Enea, laceras ?"

See alfo Book H. Cant. 1. ft. 42.

CANTO III. 5.

Spenfer's Lion does much more than Horace's Wolf: indeed he had nothing but innocence: the fair lady's beauty might well do more, when joined with that:

Namque me fylva lupus in Sabina,
Dum meam canto Lalagen-
Fugit inermem:

Quale portentum neque militaris

Daunia in latis alit efculetis,

Nec Juba tellus generat, leonum

Arida nutrix.

Lib. I. Od. 22.

In fome ancient remains Cupid is reprefented as riding on a lion.

The ancients imagined that the ghost of a man unburied could not pafs over the Lethé. The Sarazin requires Revenge to fake the anger of the furies: Palinurus defires Æneas only to bury him. Æn. VI. 365, &c.

Aut tu mihi terram

Injice

aut

Da dextram mifero, et tecum me tolle per undas,
Sedibus ut faltem placidis in morte quiefcam.
So Horace, Lib. I. Od. 28.

At tu, nauta, vage ne parce, malignus, arena.

In the thirty-fecond ftanza, the poet fays that the merchant," oft doth blefs Neptune:" fo in the Ode whence the above is taken,

Multaque merces,

Unde poteft, tibi defluet æquo

Ab Fove, Neptunoque facri cuftode Tarenti.

BOOK II.

CANTO I. 27.

Virgil's defcription of the horse, Georg. III. 83. "Did cruel battle breathe."

Tum, fi qua fonum procul arma dedere,

Stare loco nefcit; micat auribus; et tremit artus;
Collectumque premens volvit fub naribus ignem.

Callimachus, Hymn. in Lav. Pallados.

Επαθη δ' αφθογίος, εκολλασαν γάρ ανιαι

Γωναία, και φωναν εχει αμηχανία.

Virgil,

Virgil, Æn. II. 12.

Obftupuêre animi, gelidufque per ima cucurrit
Offa tremor.

III. 48.

Obftupui, fteteruntque come, et vox faucibus hæfit.

And Shakespeare has plainly taken from hence his, "Freeze thy young blood.”

STAN Z. ead.

"As lion grudging, &c." See Telemachus, B. 18. at the beginning,

STANZ. LIII.

Cynthia, filling her horns, and calling Lucina, is truly claffical. See Virg. Æn. III. 645.

Tertia jam Luna fe cornua lumine complent,·

STANZ. XXXIX. XL.

These are plainly imitated from the latter end of the first, and beginning of the second book of the Eneid; particularly,

"Drawing to him the eyes of all around, From lofty fiege began these words aloud to found." Conticûere omnes intentique ora tenebant :

Inde toro Pater Æneas fic orfus ab alto:
“Infandum, regina, jubes renovare dolorem.”

STANZ. XLVI.

Virgil, Æn. III. v. 716.

Sic Pater Eneas intentis omnibus unus,
Fata renarrabat Divom, curfufque docebat:
Conticuit tandem, factoque hic fine quievit.

Qu. Divom curfus? vel Divorum Teucrorum ? feu
Curfus quos a divis ducebatur?

Et jam nox humida cælo

Præcipitat, fuadentque cadentia fidera fomnos.

CAN Tо III. 10.

Horace, Lib. I. Epist. XVI. 42.

Falfus honor juvat, et mendax infamia terret,
Quem,nifi mendofum et mendacem?