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180. _Less than smallest dwarfs._ _Paradise Lost_, I. 779.

_Desiring this man’s art._ Shakspeare’s _Sonnets_, XXIV. 7.

_In shape and gesture proudly eminent._ _Paradise Lost_, I. 590.

_His soul was like a star._ Wordsworth’s _London_, 1802.

181. _Drew after him._ _Paradise Lost_, II. 692.

_Otway ... Venice Preserved._ Thomas Otway’s (1651–85) play was published in 1682.

_Jonson’s learned sock._ Milton’s _L’Allegro_.

183. _To run and read._ _Habakkuk_, ii. 2.

_Penetrable stuff._ _Hamlet_, III. 4.

_My peace I give unto you_ [‘not as the world giveth.’] _St. John_, xiv. 27.

_That they should love one another._ _Ibid._ XV. 12.

184. _Woman behold thy son._ _Ibid._ XIX. 26–7.

_To the Jews._ _1 Cor._ I. 23.

185. _Soft as sinews of the new-born babe._ _Hamlet_, III. 3.

_The best of men._ Dekker’s _The Honest Whore_.