XXXIX. fanguine; labia quatiuntur,-And. L. ii. C. 35. Renowmed Marti', and redoubted Emmilen. Sanguineum quatiens dextrâ Bellona flagellum. Tis impoffible for the reader, I fhould think, Now awaketh Wrath with two white eien. And Chaucer in the Romaunt of the Rofe, v. 147. Amiddis faw I Hate yftonde, That for her wrath and ire and onde, Of proud Lucifer', as one of the traine.] So the 1ft But the elfin knight which ought that warlike wage-] i. e. which owed; which was the proper owner, or poffeffor of. For thus to owe, is ufed. Sydney's Arcadia, p. 37. If it be by the death of him that owed it, &c. i. e. was the pof feffor or owner of the armour. Which he from pagan lords, that did them owe, Shakespeare thus ufes it in a hundred paffages. What a full fortune does this thick-lips owe i. e. what a full fortune does the Moor Othello Therewith they gan to hurtlen greedily, And clafh their fields, and shake their fwords on hy.] Twas a cuftom of the old warriours to strike their fwords or fpears against their fhields: Cùm haftis clypei feriuntur irae documentum eft et doloris: But Ammian. Marcell. L. xv. C. 8. So Turnus in Virgil, viii. 3. Of proud Lucifera as one of the traine. Utque acres concuffit equos, útque IMPULIT ARMA. i. e. clafhed his arms. Xenophon in the 4th that the Greeks, before they charged their eneBook of the Expedition of Cyrus, informs us, my, ftruck their fhields with their fpears; and then finging the Paean began the general attack. Many more inftances may be collected. But I would add likewife, that when they applauded their General's fpeech, they clash'd -St. 15. their fhields with their arms. Conclamat omnis multitudo et fuo more armis concrepat; quod facere in eo confueverunt cujus orationem approbant. Caef. de Bell. Gall. L. vII. S. 21. To this Milton alludes, i. 667. C. 6. St. 2. B. i. C. 4. St. 2. C. 12. St. 21. And fierce with grafped arms Clafb'd on their founding fhields the din of war. XLII. Who reapes the harvest fowen by his foe.] 'ANNOTgion B. iii. C. 3. St. 54. áμã dégos, alienam demetens meffem. Ariftophanes. Alii fementem faciunt, alii metent. There is fre Which verse we muft plainly read, quent quent allufion to this proverb in the Scriptures. See Galat. vi. 7. 2 Corinth. ix. 6. Ibid. That brothers hand fhall dearely well requight.] Spenfer's omiffion of particles (fo contrary to the genius of our language) frequently occafions no fmall embarraffment of conftruction.-That fball a brothers hand dearly well requite. Ibid. Him little anfwerd th' angry elfin knight] the angry elfin knight is an expreffion, applied to the redcrofs knight, in this place contrary to poetical decorum, and entirely inconfiftent, with the character of a truly courageous chriftian hero: nor indeed is he angry at all; 'tis the Sarazin is angry, St. 41. pardon the errour of enraged wight. and St. 38. he is enflamed with fury. Tis very ufual for words to get out of their proper places in printing, and with this fuppofition the alteration offers itself so very easy, that I can hardly doubt, but Spenser wrote, Him angry, little anfwerd th' elfin knight, [right. He never meant with words, but fwords to plead bis XLIV. Now whenas darkfome night had all difplaid Her coleblack curtein-] Night here is a perfon: the poets describe her covering the face of Nature with a black mantle or veil: So our poet above, C. 1. St. 39. Ibid. But whenas Morpheus had with leaden mace Layft thou thy leaden mace upon my boy? Caufe of my new griefe, caufe of new joy,] So the By this falfe faytor, who unworthie ware Δαής αὖτ ̓ ΕΜΟΣ ἔσκε ΚΥΝΏΠΙΔΟΣ, levir item meus erat inverecundae. i. e. iμě nvváridos. Hom. II. y' 180. -cum mea nemo Scripta legat, vulgo recitare timentis. i. e. of me fearing. That from THY juft obedience could revolt, Hor, Whiles fad Night over him her mantle black doth fpred. WHOM to obey is happiness entire. Milt. vi. 740. Again below, C. 5. St. 20. And in a foule black pitchy mantle clad. Who with her fable mantle gan to fhade Coeperat humenti Phoebum fubtexere pallâ Statius Theb. ii. 527. Jamque dies prono decedens lumine pontum Juvencus, Lib. ii. [rude, Night with his [read hir] mantill, that is derk and Gan for to fprede the hemisphere about. Chauc. Merch. Tale. 1314. i. e. From the juft obedience of thee, whom, &c. XLVIII. That calls to you above From wandring Stygian fhores, where it doth endlesse MOVE.] That calls to you here above, from the Stygian fhores where it wanders endleffe: viz. a hundred years; Centum ERRANT annos. Virg. vi. 329. See above C. 3. St. 36.-He applies that to the thing, which is proper to the perfon; wandring fhores. See note on B. 2. C. II. St. 42. So below C. 5. St. 11. long-wandring woe, with the fame allufion. But methinks our poet gave it ROVE and not MOVE; the word is more proper and expreffive, From wandring Stygian Shores, where it doth endlesse ROVE. Centum ERRANT annos. CANTO CANTO I. AND is with child of glorious great intent.] This is expreffed after Plato's manner: in allufion to the innate and intellectual powers in the foul, full of entity and of fubftantial forms; which by proper inftitution knows how to unfold itself, and, as it were, conceives, and brings forth out of its intellectual womb. Hence Socrates from a notion of mind thus being potentially replete with all things, [IIANTA NOEPSE. AYNAMEI ПANTA.] avoided the dogmatical, and ufed the obftreticious method of inftruction, [μαιευτική τεχνή ] The reader may confult Plato in Theaet. Plutarch in Quaeft. Platon. But Spenfer feems particularly to have the following paflage in view, ΚΥΟΥΣΙ πάντες ἄνθρωποι, καὶ κατὰ τὸ σῶμα καὶ κατὰ τὴν ψυχὴν, καὶ ἐπειδὰν ἐν τιν ἡλικία γένωνται ΤΙΚΤΕΙΝ ἐπιθυμεῖ ἡμῶν ἡ φύσις. Plat. in Sympos. p. 206. II. At laft the golden orientall gate And Phoebus fresh, as brydegrome to his mete, V. tabernacle for the Sun, which cometh forth as a bride- Teixo aμpárov ws' nλixтwę ißeßnxs. II. . 513. He has the fame epithet below, C. II. St. 4. Fairfax ufes it in his tranflation of Tafo, iii. 9. and Milton, vi. 100. Th' apoftat in his Sun-bright chariot fat. III. And many bardes, that to the trembling chord Can tune their timely voices cunningly] Can tune, i. e. did tune; or knew how to tune: timely, according to proper time and measure: cunningly, as artifts. Let the reader here obferve the difpofition, and order of things; the proceffion, the ratification of the oath, the combat, the breaking off of the combat by fupernatural interpofition then the scene changes to the infernal regions, where Dueffa goes for the cure of the wounded Sarazin. IV. They bring them wines of Greece and Araby, And daintie fpices fetcht from furthest Ynd, To kindle beat of courage privily: And in the wine a folemn oth they bind T obferve the faired lawes of armes that are affynd.] Spencer mentions fpiced wines, as agreeable to the eastern manners: I would cause thee to drink of fpiced wine. Sol. Song. viii. 2. We read in Greek authors of what they call δινος ἀνθοσμίας, vinum odoratum. See Spanh. ad Arift. Plut. v. 809. and Longus, Paftor. L. iv. pag. 121. This wine in Acts ii. 13. is called yλuxos, not new wine as we tranflate it: but fpiced wine rather. The ratification of the oath by wine is agreeable to the custom mentioned in Homer, II. iii. v. 270. 295. And this whole ceremony 18 is according to the laws of arms, and established K. Rich. Marshall, demand of yonder champion Sydney alludes to it, pag. 278. in the mock Their fhining fhieldes about their wrefts they tye; And many-folded fhield he bound about his wrest. The knights began to encounter at the third Piglia la lancia, e'l forte fcudo imbraccia. founding of the trumpet. E al terzo fuon mette la lancia in refta. Ariofto. v. 88. In imitation of this cuftom of thrice Sounding, before they engaged in their lifts; the playhoufes introduced their three feveral Soundings, before the actors entered the Stage: which cuftom is now changed into playing of pieces of mufick thrice, before the curtain draws up. Those who like to trace cuftoms from their originals might not be displeased to read this, otherwife, trifling remark. V. -Unto a paled green] a green field or plain paled On th' other fide in all mens open vew Sanfoy his field is hang'd with bloody hew: Both those the lawrell girlands to the victor dew. Both thofe i. e. Dueffa and the fhield, were the lawrell girlands dew to the victor.-Tis very hard; fcarce any tortured figure of rhetorick can allow this, to call Duefla, and the fhield of Sansfoy, lawrell girlands: but let us add the connective particle (which might be easily omitted, especially if written with the Anglo-S. character as they often did write it) and then how eafy all will appear? Orl. innam. L. i. C. 17. St. 63. La fpada tira fuora, e'l feudo imbraccia. Ibid. L. ii. C. 7. St. 68. Lo feudo imbraccia, ed affronta il ladrone. "Ibid. L. ii. C. 20. St. 49. Goe, Caytive Elfe XI. And foone redeeme from his long-wandring woe: Alone he wandring, thee too long doth want. Goe, guiltie ghoft, to him my message make Seems taken from what Pyrrhus faid to old XIII. Alone he wandring, thee too long doth want.) -When loe! a darkfome clowd Observe here that Virgilian mixture of tenfes, Próque viro nebulam & ventos obtendere inanes. XV. Not all fo fatisfide-] He not altogether fo well fatisfyed fought all around, greedy and eager after his prey: -Solum denfà in caligine Turnum So Menelaus miffing his prey, XVI. -And yes to heaven bright.] Authgarov XEL. The voyce of the pepil touched heven. XVII. In wine and oyle they wash his woundes wide.] So In wine and oyle they wafhen his wounds wide. The remedy here mentioned is according to XIX. XX. Virg. ii. 250. NIGHT] Let us ftay a little and contemplate Sat fable-vefted Night, eldest of things, She rides in a chariot drawn by cole-black steeds : Silius Ital. xv. 284. For Nights fwift dragons cut the clouds full faft. Ρεοικώς. Fam |