STANZ. XV. XVI.

Thefe are plainly from Scripture, which Thomfon also has imitated, in his Caftle of Indolence, St. x. They neither plough, nor fow, nor fit for flail, E'er to the barn the nodding fheaves they drove, &c.

STANZ. XXXII.

Jupiter ut Celtum, [vel Chalybwv] omne genus pereat ! Et qui principio fub terræ quærere venas

Inftitit, ac ferri frangere duritiem.

COMA BERENICES. V. 48.

Horace, Lib. II. Sat. I. 43.

Jupiter, ut pereat pofitum rubigine telum!

See alfo Fairy Queen, B. I. C. vII. St. 13.

STANZ. XXXIV.

"Another war, &c.".

So Mufæus, Hero et Leand. 197.
Φραζείο πῶς κεν Ἔρω]©· αεθλεύσειεν ἀγῶνα,
Ανδρα γὰρ αιολόμητις Ερως βελέεσσι δαμάζει,
Καὶ πάλιν ανέρος ἕλκῷ ακέσσεται· οἶσι δ' ανάσσει,
Αὐτὸς ὁ πανδαμάτωρ βυληφόρον ἐπὶ βροτοῖσιν.

Horace, Lib. I. Od. vi. 17.

Nos convivia, nos prælia virginum, &c.

STANZ. XLVI.

This feems to allude to the ftory of Hero and Leander, which Atin's leaping into the lake might

poffibly

poffibly recall to the Poet's mind. Leander tells

Hero, 1. 205.

Ου τρομέω βαρὺ χεῦμα, τεὴν με ανεύμενος ἐυνήν.

And the Poet fays, 1. 300.

Αλλ' ἐ χειμερίης σε φόβος κατέρυκε θαλάσσης.
Καρτερόθυμε Λέανδρε.

CAN Tо VII. 2.

Omnis enim res,

Virtus, fama, decus, divina humanaque, pulchris
Divitiis parent: quas qui conftruxerit, ille

Clarus erit, fortis, juftus etiam, et Rex,

Nempe dat id cuicunque libet Fortuna, rapitque';
Irus et eft fubito, qui modo Crafus erat. Ovid.

For the following Stanzas, See Horace's firft

fatire.

STANZ.

XXXV I.

The last line of Callimachus, Hymn to Diana, is

quite fimilar;

που έπει μεγα μοχθήσειαν. Ver. 59.

STANZ.

Aut tu mihi terram

Injice

aut

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

At tu, nauta, vaga ne parce, malignus, arenæ.

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;
Collecumque premens volvit fub naribus ignem.

Callimachus, Hymn. in Lav. Pallados.

Εταθη δ' αφθονίας, εκολλασαν γάρ ανιαι
Γωναία, και φωναν εχεν 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."

STANZ. 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,·

Καλει μονον Ειλειθυίαν. CALLIM.

STANZ. IV.

Afflicted ftyle." Quære, whether it should not be affected? Spenfer, in his letter to Sir Walter Raleigh, calls his "a continued allegory, or

dark conceit."

pocm

BOOK I.

CANTO I. 14.

The light thrown into the dark cave by the armour of the knight, is not unlike what we read in Milton:

A dungeon, horrible on all fides round,

As one great furnace flam'd; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness vifible

Serv'd only to difcover fights of woe.

Par. Loft, I. 61.

'Tis well known all rivers are reprefented by old See Grævius on Callim. H. to Delos, v. 71.

men.

The poet has a fimile, B. 11. C. 1x. 16. from gnats, with an expreffion or two fimilar to this.