Book II

. Canto IX.

_An ably written paper._ ‘A View of the Present State of Ireland,’ registered 1598, printed 1633.

_An obscure inn._ In King Street, Westminster, Jan. 13, 1599.

_The treatment he received from Burleigh._ It has been suggested that the disfavour with which Spenser was regarded by Burleigh—a disfavour that stood in the way of his preferment—was because of Spenser’s friendship with Essex, and Leicester’s patronage of him.

35. _Clap on high._ _The Faerie Queene_, III. XII. 23.

_In green vine leaves._ I. IV. 22.

_Upon the top of all his lofty crest._ I. VII. 32.

_In reading the Faery Queen._ The incidents mentioned will be found in Books III. 9, I. 7, II. 6, and III. 12, respectively.

36. _And mask, and antique pageantry._ _L’Allegro_, 128.

_And more to lull him._ I. I. 41.

_The honey-heavy dew of slumber._ _Julius Caesar_, II. 1.

_Eftsoones they heard._ II. XII. 70–1. [‘To read what manner.’]

_The whiles some one did chaunt._ _Ibid._ 74–8. [‘Bare to ready spoyl.’]

38. _The House of Pride._ I. IV.

_The Cave of Mammon._ II. VII. 28–50.

_The Cave of Despair._ I. IX. 33–35.

_The wars he well remember’d._ II. IX. 56.

_The description of Belphœbe._ II. III. 21.

_Florimel and the Witch’s son._ III. VII. 12.

_The gardens of Adonis._ III. VI. 29.

_The Bower of Bliss._ II. XII. 42.

_Poussin’s pictures._ Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665). See Hazlitt’s _Table Talk_, vol. VI. p. 168, _et seq._

_And eke that stranger knight._ III. IX. 20.

_Her hair was sprinkled with flowers._ II. III. 30.

_The cold icicles._ III. VIII. 35. [‘Ivory breast.’].

_That was Arion crowned._ IV. XI. line 3, stanza 23, and line 1, stanza 24.

39. _And by his side rode loathsome Gluttony._ I. IV. 21–2. [‘In shape and life.’]

_And next to him rode lustfull Lechery._ _Ibid._ 24–6.

40. _Yet not more sweet._ Carmen Nuptiale, _The Lay of the Laureate_ (1816), xviii. 4–6.

_The first was Fancy._ III. XII. 7–13, 22–3. [‘Next after her.’]

42. _The account of Satyrane._ I. VI. 24.

_Go seek some other play-fellows._ Stanza 28. [‘Go find.’]

42. _By the help of his fayre horns._ III. X. 47.

_The change of Malbecco into Jealousy._ III. X. 56–60.

_That house’s form._ II. VII. 28–9, 23.

_That all with one consent._ _Troilus and Cressida_, III. 3.

43. _High over hill._ III. X. 55.

_Pope, who used to ask._ In view of this remark, it may be of interest to quote the following passage from Spence’s _Anecdotes_ (pp. 296–7, 1820; Section viii., 1743–4): ‘There is something in Spenser that pleases one as strongly in one’s old age, as it did in one’s youth. I read the _Faerie Queene_, when I was about twelve, with infinite delight, and I think it gave me as much, when I read it over about a year or two ago.’

_The account of Talus, the Iron Man._ V. I. 12.

_The ... Episode of Pastorella._ VI. IX. 12.

44. _In many a winding bout._ _L’Allegro_, 139–140.

III. ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON

The references are to the _Globe_ Edition of Shakespeare, and Masson’s three-volume edition of Milton’s _Poetical Works_. See _The Round Table_, ‘On Milton’s Versification,’ vol. i. pp. 36 _et seq._, for passages used again for the purposes of this lecture. See also _ibid._ ‘Why the Arts are not Progressive?’ pp. 160 _et seq._, and notes to those two Essays.

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46. _The human face divine._ _Paradise Lost_, III. 44.

_And made a sunshine in the shady place._ _Faerie Queene_, I. III. 4.

_The fault has been more in their_ [is not in our] _stars._ Cf. _Julius Caesar_, I. 2.

47. _A mind reflecting ages past._ See vol. IV. notes to p. 213.

_All corners of the earth._ _Cymbeline_, III. iv.

_Nodded to him._ _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_, III. 1.

_His so potent art._ _Tempest_, V. 1.

48. _Subject_ [servile] _to the same_ [all] _skyey influences_. _Measure for Measure_, III. 1.

_His frequent haunts_ [‘my daily walks’]. _Comus_, 314.

_Coheres semblably together._. Cf. _2 Henry IV._, V. 1.

_Me and thy crying self._ _The Tempest_, I. 2.

_What, man! ne’er pull your hat._ _Macbeth_, IV. 3.

_Man delights not me_, and the following quotation. Adapted from _Hamlet_, II. 2. Rosencraus should be Rosencrantz.

_A combination and a form._ _Hamlet_, III. 4.

49. _My lord, as I was reading_ [sewing], _Hamlet_, II. 1. [‘His stockings foul’d ... so piteous in purport ... loosed out of hell.’]

_There is a willow_ [‘grows aslant’]. _Hamlet_, IV. 7.

50. _He’s speaking now._ _Antony and Cleopatra_, I. 5.

_It is my birth-day._ _Antony and Cleopatra_, III. 13.

51. _Nigh sphered in Heaven._ Collins’s _Ode on the Poetical Character_, 66.

_To make society the sweeter welcome._ _Macbeth_, III. 1.

52. _With a little act upon the blood_ [burn] _like the mines of sulphur._ _Othello_, III. 3. [‘Syrups of the world.’].

_While rage with rage._ _Troilus and Cressida_, I. 3.

_In their untroubled element._

‘That glorious star In its untroubled element will shine, As now it shines, when we are laid in earth And safe from all our sorrows.’

Wordsworth, _The Excursion_, VI. 763–66.

52. _Satan’s address to the sun._ _Paradise Lost_, IV. 31 _et seq._

53. _O that I were a mockery king of snow_ [standing before] _the sun of Bolingbroke._ _Richard II._, IV. 1.

_His form had not yet lost._ _Paradise Lost_, I. 591–4.

_A modern school of poetry._ The Lake School.

_With what measure they mete._ _St. Mark_, iv. 24; _St. Luke_, vi. 38.

_It glances from heaven to earth._ _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_, V. 1.

_Puts a girdle._ _Ibid._ II. 1.

54. _I ask that I might waken reverence_ [‘and bid the cheek’]. _Troilus and Cressida_, I. 3.

_No man is the lord of anything_, and the following quotation. _Ibid._ III. 3.

55. _In Shakespeare._ Cf. ‘On application to study,’ _The Plain Speaker_.

_Light thickens._ _Macbeth_, III. 2.

_His whole course of love._ _Othello_, I. 3.

_The business of the State._ _Ibid._ IV. 2.

_Of ditties highly penned._ _1 King Henry IV._, III. 1.

_And so by many winding nooks._ _Two Gentlemen of Verona_, II. 7.

56. _Great vulgar and the small._ Cowley’s _Translation of Horace’s Ode_, III. 1.

_His delights_ [were] _dolphin-like._ _Antony and Cleopatra_, V. 2.

57. _Blind Thamyris._ _Paradise Lost_, III. 35–6.

_With darkness._ _Ibid._ VII. 27.

_Piling up every stone._ _Ibid._ XI. 324–5.

_For after ... I had from my first years._ _The Reason of Church Government_,