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. p. 125, ed. G. A. Aitken.

15. _Give an echo._ _Twelfth Night_, II. 4.

_Our poesy._ _Timon of Athens_, I. 1. [‘Which oozes.’]

16. _All plumed like ostriches._ Adapted from the First Part of _King Henry IV._, IV. 1. [‘As full of spirit as the month of May.’]

_If we fly into the uttermost parts of the earth._ Cf. _Psalms_, cxxxix. 9–11.

18. _Pope Anastasius the Sixth._ _Inferno_, XI.

_Count Ugolino._ _Inferno_, XXXIII. Neither was Lamb satisfied with the conception. See his paper on ‘The Reynolds Gallery’ in _The Examiner_, June 6, 1813.

_The lamentation of Selma._ Colma’s lament in the _Songs of Selma_.

II. ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER.

The Chaucer and Spenser references throughout are to Skeat’s _Student’s Chaucer_, and to the _Globe_ Edition of _Spenser_ (Morris and Hales).

19. _Chaucer._ Modern authorities date Chaucer’s birth from 1340. It is no longer held as true that he had an university education. The story of his plot against the king, his flight and his imprisonment, is also legendary.

20. _Close pent up_, and the next quotation. _King Lear_, III. 2.

_Flowery tenderness._ _Measure for Measure_, III. 1.

_And as the new abashed nightingale._ _Troilus and Criseyde_, III. 177.

_Thus passeth yere by yere._ ll. 1033–9 [‘fairer of hem two’].

21. _That stondeth at a gap._ ‘The Knightes Tale,’ 1639–42.

_Have ye not seen._ ‘The Tale of the Man of Law,’ 645–51.

_Swiche sorrow he maketh._ ‘The Knightes Tale,’ 1277–80.

22. _Babbling gossip of the air._ _Twelfth Night_, I. 5.

_There was also a nonne._ ‘The Prologue,’ 118–129 [‘Entuned in hir nose ful semely’]; 137–155 [‘And held after the newe world the space’]; 165–178; 189–207.

24. _Lawyer Dowling._