Part II

., 1630.

_The red-leaved tables._ Heywood’s _A Woman killed with Kindness_, Act II. 3.

_The pangs._ Wordsworth’s _Excursion_, VI. 554.

_The Honest Whore._ In two Parts, 1604 and 1630.

_Signior Friscobaldo._ The Second Part, Act I. 2.

237. _You’ll forgive me._ The Second Part, Act II. 1.

_It is my father._ The Second Part, Act IV. 1.

_Oh! who can paint._

238. _Tough senior._ _Love’s Labour’s Lost_, Act I. 2.

_And she has felt them knowingly._ _Cymbeline_, III. 3.

_I cannot._ _The Honest Whore_, Second Part, Act IV. 1.

239. _The manner too._ The Second Part, Act III. 1.

_I’m well._ The First Part, Act I. 3 [‘midst of feasting’].

_Turns them._ _II. Henry IV._, I. 2.

_Patient Grizzel._ Griselda in Chaucer’s _Clerke’s Tale_. Dekker collaborated in a play entitled _The Pleasant Comedy of Patient Grissill_ (1603).

_The high-flying._ _The Honest Whore_, Second Part, Act II. 1. etc.

240. _White Devil._ 1612.

_Duchess of Malfy._ 1623.

_By which they lose some colour._ Cf. _Othello_, I. 1. ‘As it may lose some colour.’

241. _All fire and air._ _Henry V._, III. 7, ‘he is pure air and fire,’ and _Antony and Cleopatra_, V. 2, ‘I am fire and air.’

_Like the female dove._ _Hamlet_, V. 1, ‘As patient as the female dove, when that her golden couplets are disclosed.’

_The trial scene_ and the two following quotations, _The White Devil._

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243. _Your hand I’ll kiss._ Act II. 1.

_The lamentation of Cornelia._ Act V. 2.

_The parting scene of Brachiano._ Act V. 3.

245. _The scenes of the madhouse._ Act IV. 2.

_The interview._ Act IV. 1.

_I prythee_, and the three following quotations and note on p. 246. _The Duchess of Malfy_, Act IV. 2.

246. _The Revenger’s Tragedy._ 1607.

_The dazzling fence._ Cf. the ‘dazzling fence’ of rhetoric, _Comus_, 790–91.

_The appeals of Castiza._ Act II. 1., and Act IV. 4.

247. _Mrs. Siddons has left the stage._ Mrs. Siddons left the stage in June 1819. See _The Round Table_, vol. I., Note to p. 156.

_On Salisbury-plain._ At Winterslow Hut. See _Memoirs of W. Hazlitt_. 1867, vol. I. p. 259.

_Stern good-night._ _Macbeth_, Act II. 2. ‘The fatal bellman which gives the stern’st good night.’

_Take mine ease._ _1 Henry IV._ III. 3.

_Cibber’s manager’s coat._ Colley Cibber (1671–1757), actor, dramatist, and manager. See the _Apology for his Life_ (1740).

_Books, dreams._ _Personal Talk._ [‘Dreams, books, are each a world.... Two shall be named pre-eminently dear ... by heavenly lays....’]

IV. ON BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, ETC.

249. _Misuse_ [praise] _the bounteous Pan_. _Comus_, 176–7.

_Like eagles newly baited._ Cf.

‘All plumed like estridges that with the wind Baited like eagles having lately bathed.’ _1 King Henry IV._, IV. 1.

250. _Cast the diseases of the mind._ Cf.

‘Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ... cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health?’ _Macbeth_, V. 3.

_Wonder-wounded._ _Hamlet_, V. 1.

_Wanton poets._ Cf. Marlowe’s _Edward II._, Act I. 1., and Beaumont and Fletcher’s _The Maid’s Tragedy_, II. 2.

251. _The Maid’s Tragedy._ Acted 1609–10, printed 1619.

252. _Do not mock me._ Act IV. 1.

_King and No King._ Licensed 1611, printed 1619.

_When he meets with Panthea._ Act III. 1.

253. _The False One._ 1619.

_Youth that opens._ Act III. 2.

_Like_ [‘I should imagine’] _some celestial sweetness_. Act II. 3.

‘_Tis here_, and the next quotation. Act II. 1. [‘Egyptians, dare ye think.’]

254. _The Faithful Shepherdess._ Acted 1610.

_A perpetual feast._ _Comus_, 479–80.

_He takes most ease._ _The Faithful Shepherdess_, Act V. 3.

_Her virgin fancies wild._ _Paradise Lost_, V. 296–7.

_Here he woods._ _The Faithful Shepherdess_, Act I. 3.

255. _For her dear sake._ Act V. 3.

_Brightest._ Act IV. 2.

_If you yield._ Act II. 2.

256. _And all my fears._ Act I. 1.

_Sad Shepherd._ 1637.

257. _Tumbled him_ [He tumbled] _down_, and the two following quotations. _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, Act I. 1.

_We have been soldiers._ Act I. 3.

258. _Tearing our pleasures._ _To his Coy Mistress_, 43 and 44.

_How do you._ _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, Act II. 2. [‘lastly, children of grief and ignorance.’]

261. _Sing their bondage._ _Cymbeline_, III. 3.

_The Bloody Brother_, 1624; _A Wife for a Month_, 1623; _Bonduca_, acted _c._ 1619; _Thierry and Theodoret_, 1621; _The Night Walker_, 1625; _The Little French Lawyer_, _c._ 1618; _Monsieur Thomas_, _c._ 1619; _The Chances_, _c._ 1620; _The Wild Goose Chase_, acted 1621; _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, 1624.

262. _Philaster._ Acted _c._ 1608.

_Sitting in my window._ Act V. 5.

_Into a lower world._ _Paradise Lost_, XI. 283–5.

_His plays were works._ Suckling’s _The Session of the Poets_, ver. 5.

Note, _Euphrasia_. _Philaster_, Act V. 2.

263. _Miraturque._ Virgil, _Georgics_, II. 82.

_The New Inn._ Acted 1630.

_The Fall of Sejanus._ Acted 1603.

_Two of Sejanus’ bloodhounds._ Act III. 1.

_To be a spy._ Act IV. 3.

264. _What are thy arts._ Act IV. 5.

_If this man._ Act I. 2 [‘blood and tyranny.’]

265. _The conversations between Livia._ Act II. 1.

_Catiline’s Conspiracy._ Acted 1611.

_David’s canvas._ Jacques Louis David (1748–1825), historical painter.

_The description of Echo._ Act I. 1. _Cynthia’s Revels_ was acted in 1600 and printed the year after.

_The fine comparison ... the New Inn._ Cf. Act III. 2.

_Massinger and Ford._ Philip Massinger (1583–1640) and John Ford (1586–? 1656).

_Musical as is Apollo’s lute._ _Comus_, 478.

266. _Reason panders will._ Hamlet, III. 4.

_The true pathos._ Burns, _Epistle to Dr. Blacklock_.

_The Unnatural Combat_, 1639; _The Picture_, licensed 1629; _The Duke of Milan_, 1623; _A New Way to Pay Old Debts_, 1633; _The Bondman_, 1624; _The Virgin Martyr_, 1622.

267. _Felt a stain like a wound._ Burke, _Reflections on the French Revolution_, ed. Payne, II. 89.

Note. See _A View of the English Stage_, and notes thereto.

268. _Rowe’s Fair Penitent._ 1703. Nicholas Rowe (1673–1718).

_Fatal Dowry._ 1632.

_’Tis Pity She’s a Whore._ 1633.

269. _Annabella and her husband._ Act IV. 3.

_The Broken Heart._ 1633.

270. _Miss Baillie._ See p. 147 and notes thereto.

_Perkin Warbeck._ 1634.

_The Lover’s Melancholy._ 1628.

_Love’s Sacrifice._ 1633.

Note. _Soft peace._ Act IV. 4.

_The concluding one._ Act V. 2 and 3 [‘court new pleasures’.]

272. _Already alluded to._ See p. 230.

273. _Mr. Lamb in his impressive eulogy._ _Specimens_, vol. II. p. 199.

274. _Armida’s enchanted palace._ The sorceress who seduces the Crusaders. Tasso’s _Jerusalem Delivered_.

_Fairy elves._ _Paradise Lost_, I. 781 _et seq._

‘Like that Pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount; or faery elves.’

_Deaf the praised ear._ Pope’s _Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady_.

V. ON SINGLE PLAYS, POEMS, ETC.

_The Four P’s._ ? 1530–3.

_John Heywood._ (_c._ 1497–_c._ 1575). He was responsible for various collections of Epigrams, containing six hundred proverbs.

276. _False knaves._ _Much Ado about Nothing_, IV. 2.

277. _Count Fathom._ Chap. XXI.

_Friar John._ Rabelais’ _Gargantua_, I. 27.

278. L. 5 from foot. _Take_ [taste].

279. _Which I was born to introduce._ Swift’s lines _On the Death of Dr. Swift_.

_As a liar of the first magnitude._ Congreve’s _Love for Love_, Act II. 5.

280. _Mighty stream of Tendency._ _The Excursion_, IX. 87.

_Full of wise saws._ _As You Like It_, Act II. 7.

_The Return from Parnassus._ 1606.

_Like the Edinburgh Review._ Only two numbers were published, which were reprinted (8vo) 1818.

_Read the names._ _The Return from Parnassus_, Act I. 2.

282. _Kempe the actor._ William Kempe, fl. _c._ 1600.

_Burbage._ Richard Burbage (_c._ 1567–1618), the builder of the Globe Theatre, and a great actor therein.

_Few_ (_of the University_). Act IV. 3.

283. _Felt them knowingly._ _Cymbeline_, III. 3.

_Philomusus and Studioso._ Act II. 1, Act III. 5.

_Out of our proof we speak._ _Cymbeline_, III. 3.

_I was not train’d._ Charles Lamb’s Sonnet, written at Cambridge, August 15, 1819.

284. _Made desperate._ _The Excursion_, VI. 532–3, quoted from Jeremy Taylor’s _Holy Dying_, Chap. 1, § V.

_A mere scholar._ _Return from Parnassus_, II. 6.

_The examination of Signor Immerito._ Act III. 1.

286. _Gammer Gurton’s Needle._ Printed 1575. John Still (1543–1607), afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells, is supposed to be its author.

287. _Gog’s crosse_, and the following quotations. Act I. 5.

289. _Such very poor spelling._ Cf. Lamb’s story of Randal Norris, who once remarked after trying to read a black-letter Chaucer, ‘in those old books, Charley, there is sometimes a deal of very indifferent spelling.’ See

Lamb’s Letter to H. Crabb Robinson, Jan. 20, 1827; Hone’s _Table Book_, Feb. 10, 1827; and the first edition of the Last Essays of Elia, 1833. _A Death-Bed_.

_The Yorkshire Tragedy._ 1604 (attributed to Shakespeare); _Sir John Oldcastle_, 1600, (? by Munday and Drayton); _The Widow of Watling Street_, [_The Puritan, or The Widow, etc._], 1607 (? by Wentworth Smith). See _The Round Table_, vol. I. p. 353, _et seq._, for Schlegel and Hazlitt on these.

_Green’s Tu Quoque, by George Cook._ Greene’s ‘Tu Quoque,’ 1614, by Joseph Cooke (fl. _c._ 1600). Greene, the comedian, after whom the play is called, died 1612.

290. _Suckling’s melancholy hat._ Cf. p. 270 _ante_.

_Microcosmus, by Thomas Nabbes._ 1637. Thomas Nabbes flourished in the time of Charles I.

291. _What do I see?_ Act IV.

292. _Antony Brewer’s Lingua._ 1607. This play is now said to be by John Tomkins, Scholar of Trinity, Cambridge (1594–8).

_Mr. Lamb has quoted two passages._ _Specimens_, vol. I. pp. 99–100.

292. _Why, good father._ Act II. 4.

293. _Thou, boy._ Act II. 1.

_The Merry Devil of Edmonton._ 1608. The author is unknown.

_Sound silver sweet._ _Romeo and Juliet_, II. 2.

_The deer-stealing scenes._ _The Merry Devil of Edmonton_, Act V. 1, etc.

294. _Very honest knaveries._ _Merry Wives of Windsor_, IV. 4.

_The way lies right._ _The Merry Devil of Edmonton_, Act IV. 1.

_The Pinner of Wakefield._ By Robert Greene (1560–1592). His works have been edited by Dr. Grosart, and by Mr. Churton Collins.

_Hail-fellow well met._ Cf. Swift’s _My Lady’s Lamentation_.

_Jeronymo._ 1588. _The Spanish Tragedy_ (? 1583–5), licensed and performed 1592. See Prof. Schick’s edition in ‘The Temple Dramatists.’ Thomas Kyd, baptised November 6, 1558, died before 1601.

_Which have all the melancholy madness of poetry._ Junius: Letter No 7. to Sir W. Draper.

VI. ON MISCELLANEOUS POEMS, Etc.

295. _The False One._ 1619.

_Valentinian._ Produced before 1619. ‘Now the lusty spring is seen,’

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_The Nice Valour, or Passionate Madman._ Published 1647.

_Most musical._ _Il Penseroso_, 62.

296. _The silver foam._ Cowper’s _Winter’s Walk at Noon_, ll. 155–6—

‘Her silver globes, light as the foamy surf That the wind severs from the broken wave.’

_Grim-visaged, comfortless despair._ Cf. ‘grim visag’d war.’ _Richard III._, I. 1; and ‘grim and comfortless despair.’ _Comedy of Errors_, V. 1.

_Beaumont died._ His years were thirty-two (1584–1616).

_’Tis not a life._ _Philaster_, Act V. 2. See p. 262.

_The lily on its stalk green._ Chaucer, _The Knighte’s Tale_, 1036.

_Lapt in Elysium._ _Comus_, 257.

_Raphael._ Raphael’s years were thirty-seven (1483–1520).

297. _Now that his task._ _Comus_, 1012.

_Rymer’s abuse._ See Thomas Rymer’s (1641–1713) _The Tragedies of the Last Age Considered_ (1678). He was called by Pope ‘the best’ and by Macaulay ‘the worst’ English critic.

_The sons of memory._ Milton’s _Sonnet on Shakespeare_, 1630.

_Sir John Beaumont_ (1582–1628), the author of _Bosworth Field_.

_Fleeted the time carelessly._ _As You Like It_, I. 1. [‘golden world.’]

298. _Walton’s Complete Angler._ Third Day, chap. iv.

Note. Rochester’s _Epigram_. Sternhold and Hopkins were the joint authors of the greater number of the metrical versions of the Psalms (1547–62) which used to form part of the _Book of Common Prayer_.

299–300. _Drummond of Hawthornden._ William Drummond (1585–1649). His _Conversations with Ben Jonson_ were written of a visit paid him by Jonson in 1618. Mention might be made of Mr. W. C. Ware’s edition of his Poems (1894), wherein many variations from Hazlitt’s text of the sonnets may be noted, too numerous to detail here.

Note. _I was all ear._ _Comus_, 560.

301. _The fly that sips treacle._ Gay’s _Beggar’s Opera_, II. 2.

_Sugar’d sonnetting._ Cf. Francis Meres’ _Palladis Tamia_, 1598, concerning Shakespeare’s ‘sugred Sonnets,’ and Judicio in _The Return from Parnassus_ (see p. 281 _ante_), ‘sugar’d sonnetting.’

302. _The gentle craft._ The sub-title of a play of T. Dekker’s: _The Shoemaker’s Holiday, or the Gentle Craft_ (1600). The phrase has long been associated with that handicraft.

_A Phœnix gazed by all._ _Paradise Lost_, V. 272.

_Give a reason for the faith that was in me._ Cf. Sydney Smith’s—‘It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.’

303. _Oh, how despised._ Act I. 1.

304. _The Triumph of his Mistress._ _The Triumph of Charis._

_Nest of spicery._ _Richard III._, IV. 4.

_Oh, I could still._ _Cynthia’s Revels_, I. 1.

306. _A celebrated line._ See Coleridge’s Tragedy _Osorio_, Act iv., Sc. 1., written 1797, but not published in its original form until 1873. Coleridge’s _Poetical Works_, ed. Dykes Campbell, p. 498.

‘Drip! drip! drip! drip! in such a place as this It has nothing else to do but drip! drip! drip!’

Recast and entitled _Remorse_, the tragedy was performed at Drury Lane, Jan. 23, 1813, and published in pamphlet form. In the Preface Coleridge relates the story of Sheridan reading the play to a large company, and turning it into ridicule by saying—

‘Drip! drip! drip! there’s nothing here but dripping.’

Hazlitt’s quotation is taken, of course, from this Preface to _Remorse_.

307. _The milk of human kindness._ Macbeth, I. 5.

309. _Daniel._ Samuel Daniel, 1562–1619.

311. _Michael Drayton_ (1563–1631). His Polyolbion, or ‘chorographicall’ description of England in thirty books was issued in 1612–22. See the Spenser Society’s editions of Drayton’s works.

_P. Fletcher’s Purple Island._ Phineas Fletcher (1582–1650). _The Purple Island_, 1633. The poem has been topographically catalogued under ‘Man, Isle of’!

_Brown._ William Browne (1591–_c._ 1643). _Britannia’s Pastorals_, 1613–16; a third book (in MSS.) was printed in 1852.

_Carew._ Thomas Carew (_c._ 1594–_c._ 1639).

_Herrick._ Robert Herrick (1591–1674). His poems were edited by Dr. Grosart in 1876.

_Crashaw._ Richard Crashaw (? 1612–1649), the English Mystic. See Dr. Grosart’s edition, 1872.

_Marvell._ Andrew Marvell (1621–1678). See Dr. Grosart’s edition, 1872–74.

312. _Like the motes._ ‘The gay motes that people the sunbeams.’ Milton’s _Il Penseroso_, 8.

313. _On another occasion._ See _ante_ p. 83.

315. _Clamour grew dumb._ _Pastorals_, Book II . Song 1.

_The squirrel._ Book I . Song 5.

_The hues of the rainbow._