is kindled"; Wyclif, Luke, iii. 7, “Kyndlyngis of eddris” = generation of vipers." See No. XXVIII., 1. 10, note.

3. lawn, see Il Pens. 35, note.

4. fine distraction, pleasing confusion: pron. dis-trac-ti-on. See Abbott, § 479.

5. erring, stray.

7. neglectful, neglected, worn carelessly. Here the word is used passively, as in awful (full of awe), thankful, etc.; not actively as in awful (exciting awe, see No. LXVII. 3), thankful (thankworthy, P. of T. v. 1. 285): see Abbott, § 3.

thereby, beside it (by-there): here used strictly as an adverb

of place.

8. Ribbands: a corruption of ribbon due to a wrongly-supposed connection with band; the M. E. form is riban (Piers Plow. ii. 16, "ribanes of gold" = golden threads). Comp. other corruptions due to the same endeavour to find some etymological connection for a word, e.g. horehound, crayfish, causeway, penthouse, etc.

12. wild civility, careless grace: an instance of oxymoron or joining together of apparent contrarieties. Comp. Hor. Odes, i. 5. 5, "simplex munditiis"; and on 'civil' see Il Pens. 122, note. 13. Do: plural in agreement with lawn, lace, cuff, etc., taken collectively. Comp. the sentiment of Goldsmith's Deserted Village, 253:

"To me more dear, congenial to my heart.

One native charm, than all the gloss of art."
The last stanza of Jonson's Sweet Neglect runs thus:
"Give me a look, give me a face,
That makes simplicity a grace;
Robes loosely flowing, hair as free:
Such sweet neglect more taketh me,
Than all th' adulteries of art,

That strike mine eyes, but not my heart."

No. XXXVI.

1. Whenas: see note, No. XXIX., 1. 7; also No. xxxiv., 1. 13. 2. flows... liquefaction, in allusion to the graceful flowing appearance of her silk dress. Comp. Spenser, F. Q. i. 1, "tinsel trappings woven like a wave.'

5. brave vibration, the fine shimmering of the glossy silk. 'Brave,' fine, showy; so 'bravery' = finery (comp. S. 4. 717); Fr. brave, gay, fine, and Scotch braw; see Nares' Glossary.

6. taketh me, captivates my heart; comp. Prov. vi. 25, "Neither let her take thee with her eyelids"; Par. Lost, ii. 554, "Took with ravishment the thronging audience"; also, Hymn Nat. 1. 98, note.

No. XXXVII,

1. attire; see Lyc. 146, and No. xIx., l. 18, notes.

wit, intelligence, good taste; the radical sense of the word still appears in such words as half-wit, unwitting (A.S. witan, to know). See L'Alleg. 123, note.

5. miss, lack.

7. Beauty's self: see note on Orpheus' self, L'Alleg. 145.

No. XXXVIII.

ON A GIRDLE.

WITH this piece we may compare Herrick's Upon Julia's Ribbon. On Waller, see notes, No. XXXI.

5. extremest, outermost an emphatic superlative common enough in Shakespeare (As You Like It, ii. Î), Bacon, Dryden, Addison, and others; such usages as 'most extreme,' 'the greatest extremes,' are not uncommon.

6. pale, enclosure; see note, Il Pens. 156.

8. Did... move. Johnson notes as a defect of Waller's versification his frequent use of the expletive do, saying that “though he lived to see it almost universally ejected, he was not more careful to avoid it in his last compositions than in his first." 9. compass: comp. Tr. and Cress. i. 3. 276, "Than ever Greek did compass in his arms.'

No. XXXIX.

A MYSTICAL ECSTASY.

WITH better taste and less diffuseness, Quarles might (one would think) have retained more of that high place which he held in popular estimate among his contemporaries (Palgrave's note). He wrote abundantly in prose and verse, and his books were extremely popular in his own day. His chief poetical work is

the collection known is Jenae Embiens 1530. chien dı”. bet often feletions: bis prose essays and meitadins fem what be called the Eucharidan be contacting cocasional the passages

8. became entre: weording to the Platonic view of love, the one being the complement of the older; they “-did more than turine 11, for they became me.

10, fax: comp. 2 Em TL v. 2, “To my daning wrath be oil and far."

16. I would not change, etc., La exchange : comp. No. XXXVIII., IL 11, 12.

17. Their wealth in proportion to mine is but as a counter (an imitation coin to a real coin.”

To, in comparison with: comp. Spenser, Prothal. 48, “even the gentle stream seemed foul to them"; Ham i 2, 140, "Hyperion to a satyr"; and the use of the Greek pes.

No. XL

TO ANTHEA WHO MAY COMMAND HIM ANY THING.

In current use

1. Bid me to live: Comp. Hor. Odes, iii. 9. the infinitive without to follows the verb bid, but compare lines 3, 9, etc.; to is probably inserted to meet the demands of rhythm. On this inconsistency in the use of to see Abbott, § 349.

2. Protestant, champion, witness, confessor.

12. And 't: see note on bended, No. xxxIII., 1. 14.

22. very eyes: see note, No. XLII., 1. 5.

No. XLI.

THESE lines are from John Wilbye's Second Set of Madrigals, 1609. 6. So, so that.

9. So, in this way, on this condition.

10. doat upon. The usual spelling is dote. Comp. Il Pens. 6, on changes of meaning in such words as 'fond,' 'dote,' etc. The word is here used in its later sense, not in the sense of M. E. doten, to be foolish; in Shakespeare we find both meanings: "Unless the fear of death doth make me dote" (Com. of Err. v. 1); “All their prayers and love Were set on Hereford whom they doted on (2 Hen. IV. ii. 1). An intermediate stage of meaning is found in 44 Should ravish doters (i.e. foolish lovers) with a false aspect" (L. L. L. iv. 3. 260).

No. XLII.

ON Sir Charles Sedley see notes to No. XXII.

1. Not, Celia, that. The construction with not that is elliptical, and that has the force of because (see Abbott's Shak. Gram.), = (I remain true to you) not because I juster am, etc.

5. very thee, thy very self: the use of very as an emphatic adjective is common enough, though not with a pronoun, very being from Lat. verus, true or real, in which sense we find it in Two Gent. iii. 2, very friend"; Wint. Tale, i. 2, "verier wag"; Comus, 428, " very desolation."

66

7, 8. only, i.e. the face of thee alone, the heart of thee alone; Abbott, § 420.

11. can but afford, can supply no more than. This use of afford is rare with reference to individuals: comp. Greene's Pandosto, 36, "He wondered how a country maid could a foord such courtly behaviour."

13. store: see note, L'Alleg. 121.

15. change. The spirit of the last two lines is finely expressed in Suckling's poem on Constancy.

No. XLIII.

TO ALTHEA FROM PRISON.

SEE notes on No. xxv. Lovelace was twice imprisoned, in April, 1642, and again in 1648: on the former occasion he wrote this song. Althea cannot be identified, but she is said to have become the poet's wife.

1. unconfinéd. Perhaps here in the wider sense of 'unconfinable': see note, L'Alleg. 40. Shakespeare has the word 'unconfinable' in M. W. of W. ii. 2.

3. brings the subject is 'Love,' object' Althea.'

4. grates, grated windows of the prison: Shakespeare has "to look through the grate" (M. W. of W. ii. 2), in the sense of 'to be in prison.'

5. tangled, etc. Comp. Lycidas, 69, and Herrick's lines (No. xcv. G. T. edit.):

"It chanced a ringlet of her hair

Caught my poor soul as in a snare ;
Which ever since has been in thrall."

7. Gods. Palgrave notes: "Thus in the original; Lovelace in his fanciful way making here a mythological allusion. Birds, commonly substituted, is without authority.'

wanton, revel: comp. Par. Lost, v. 294, "Nature here wantoned as in her prime."

10. With no allaying Thames, i.e. undiluted with water. For this special use of allay (really a doublet of alleviate) compare Elyot, Governour, 36, "Galen will not permit that pure wine without alaye of water should be given to children." Ben Jonson, Magnetic Lady, iii. 1. 496, has, "He only takes it in French wine, With an allay of water." There was a M. E. verb aleggen, to put down or mitigate, and this was confused in form and sense with the old French aleger, to alleviate. "Amidst the overlapping of meanings that thus arose, there was developed a perplexing network of uses of allay and allege, that belong entirely to no one of the original verbs, but combine the senses of two or more of them" (see New Eng. Dict.).

11. careless, undisturbed, free from care; as in Pope's line, "wisely careless, innocently gay," and in the older use of the unrelated word secure (comp. L'Alleg. 91, and Abbott, § 3).

with roses. There is a zeugma in 'crowned' as applied both to 'heads' and 'hearts': comp. Alex. Feast, 7. These two lines are in the absolute construction.

13. thirsty grief. As Burton (Anat. of Mel. ii., § 5. 1) says, "For which cause the ancients called Bacchus Liber pater a liberando.... Therefore Solomon, Prov. xxxi. 6, bids wine be given to him that is ready to perish and to him that hath grief of heart": comp. Hor. ii. 11. 17, "Dissipat Evius Curas edaces"; i. 7. 31, "Nunc vino pellite curas.'

14. healths: comp. Macb. iii. 4, "Come, love and health to all, I drink to the general joy of the whole table."

15. tipple, drink freely. This less restricted use of the word was never common, nor is it the original sense. Tipple is frequentative of tip, i.e. to tilt the wine-glass.

17. like committed linnets, like caged linnets: comp. 2 Hen. IV. i. 2, "the nobleman that committed the prince." Another reading is "linnet-like confined," probably suggested by the thought that the plural linnets' does not accord with the singular pronoun 'I.'

18. sing: comp. Il Pens. 117.

23. Enlarged, at large, unconfined: comp. Hen. V. ii. 2, "Enlarge the man committed yesterday."

30. in my soul am free. Comp. Far. Lost, i. 254, "The mind is its own place"; Comus, 383, "He that hides a dark soul and