Part II

., l. 378. Cf. _The Spirit of the Age_, vol. III. p. 346.

_Nec Deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus._ Horace, _De Arte Poetica_, 191.

151. _So work the honey-bees._ _Henry V._, I. 2.

_Around him the bees._ From the Sixth Song in _The Beggar’s Opera_.

_Perilous stuff._ _Macbeth_, V. 3.

152. _Nest of spicery._ _King Richard III._, IV. 4.

_Therefore to be possessed with double pomp._ _King John_, IV. 2.

153. _Nook monastic._ _As You Like It_, III. 2.

_He hath a demon._ Cf. ‘He hath a devil,’ _St. John_ X. 20.

_House on the wild sea._ Coleridge’s _The Piccolomini_, I. iv. 117.

154. _Looks on tempests._ _Shakespeare’s Sonnets_, CXVI.

_Great princes’ favourites._ Shakespeare’s _Sonnets_, XXV.

155. _Their mortal consequences._ _Macbeth_, V. 3.

_The warriors in the Lady of the Lake._ Canto V. 9.

_The Goblin Page._ Canto II. 31.

_Mr. Westall’s pictures._ Richard Westall (1765–1836). He designed numerous drawings to illustrate Milton, Shakespeare, Scott, etc.

156. _Robinson Crusoe’s boat._ _The Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe_, p. 138, ed. G. A. Aitken.

_I did what little I could._ Hazlitt reviewed _The Excursion_ in _The Examiner_ (see _The Round Table_, vol. I. pp. 111–125).

162. _Coryate’s Crudites._ _Hastily gobled up in Five Moneths’ Travells in France, etc._ (1611), by Thomas Coryate (? 1577–1617).

_The present poet-laureate._ Southey.

_Neither butress nor coign of vantage._ _Macbeth_, I. 6.

162. _Born so high._ _King Richard III._, I. 3.

_In their train_ [‘his livery’] _walked crowns_. _Antony and Cleopatra_, V. 2.

163. _Meek daughters._ Coleridge’s _The Eolian Harp_.

_Owls and night-ravens flew._ Cf. _Titus Andronicus_, II. 3. ‘The nightly owl or fatal raven.’

_Degrees, priority, and place._ _Troilus and Cressida_, I. 3.

_No figures nor no fantasies._ _Julius Caesar_, II. 1.

[No] _trivial fond records_. Hamlet, I. v.

_The marshal’s truncheon_, and the next quotation. _Measure for Measure_, II. 2.

_Metre ballad-mongering._ _1 King Henry IV._, III. 1.

_The bare trees and mountains bare._ Wordsworth, ‘To my Sister.’

_He hates conchology._ See _The Spirit of the Age_, vol. IV. p. 277.

164. _The Anti-Jacobin Review._ Not _The Anti-Jacobin Review_ (1798–1821) but _The Anti-Jacobin_, wherein will be found Canning and Frere’s parodies, the best-known of which is the one on Southey’s _The Widow_, entitled ‘The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder.’

_When Adam delved._ See _Political Essays_, ‘Wat Tyler,’ Vol. III. pp. 192 _et seq._, and notes thereto.

_The Rejected Addresses._ By Horace and James Smith (1812).

_Sir Richard Blackmore._ See p. 108 and note thereto _ante_.

166. _Is there here any dear friend of Caesar?_ _Julius Caesar_, III. 2.

_Conceive of poetry._ ‘Apprehends death no more dreadfully but as a drunken sleep; careless, reckless, and fearless of what’s past, present, or to come,’ _Measure for Measure_, IV. 2.

_It might seem insidious._ Probably a misprint for ‘invidious.’

167. _Schiller! that hour._

[‘Lest in some after moment aught more mean ... Diminished shrunk from the more withering scene.’]

_His Conciones ad Populum._ Two addresses against Pitt, 1795, republished in ‘Essays on his Own Times.’

_The Watchman._ A Weekly Miscellany lasted from March 1, 1796, to May 13, 1796.

_His Friend._ Coleridge’s weekly paper lived from June 1, 1809, to March 15, 1810.

_What though the radiance._ _Intimations of Immortality._

[‘Of splendour in the grass; of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find.’]

NOTES ON LECTURES ON THE AGE OF ELIZABETH

I. GENERAL VIEW OF THE SUBJECT

170. Add, to the Bibliographical Note: ‘The volume was printed by B. M’Millan, Bow Street, Covent Garden.’

175. _Coke._ Sir Edward Coke (1552–1634), the jurist.

176. _Mere oblivion._ _As You Like It_, II. 7.

_Poor, poor dumb names_ [mouths.] _Julius Caesar_, III. 2.

_Webster._ John Webster (? d. 1625).

_Deckar._ Thomas Dekker (_c._ 1570–_c._ 1637).

_Marston._ John Marston (? 1575–1634).

_Marlow._ Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593).

_Chapman._ George Chapman (? 1559–1634).

_Heywood._ Thomas Heywood (c. 1575–c. 1641).

_Middleton._ Thomas Middleton (c. 1570–1627).

_Jonson._ Ben Jonson (1572/3–1637).

_Beaumont._ Francis Beaumont (1584–1616).

_Fletcher._ John Fletcher (1579–1625).

_Rowley._ William Rowley (c. 1585–c. 1642) is chiefly remembered as a collaborator with the better-known Elizabethan Dramatists.

_How lov’d, how honour’d once._ Pope’s _Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady._

_Draw the curtain of time._ Cf. _Twelfth Night_, I. 5. ‘Draw the curtain and shew you the picture.’

_Of poring pedantry._ ‘Of painful pedantry the poring child.’ Warton: _Sonnet written in a blank leaf of Dugdale’s Monasticon_.

177. _The sacred influence of light._ _Paradise Lost_, II. 1034.

_Pomp of elder days._ Warton’s sonnet referred to above.

_Nor can we think what thoughts._ Dryden’s _The Hind and the Panther_, I. 315.

178. _Think ... there’s livers out of Britain._ _Cymbeline_, III. 4.

_By nature’s own sweet and cunning hand._ _Twelfth Night_, I. 5.

_Where Pan, knit with the Graces_ [‘while universal Pan.’] _Paradise Lost_, IV. 266.

_There are more things between_ [in] _heaven and earth_. _Hamlet_, I. 5.

179. _Matchless, divine, what we will._ Pope, _Imitations of Horace_, Epis. I.,