NOTES.

Page 16. "His golden locks time hath to silver turned," &c.—Thackeray quoted the opening lines of this beautiful song in The Newcomes.

"His helmet now shall make a hive for bees."-In Alciati's Emblems there is an engraving of bees swarming in a helmet. Cf. Geoffrey Whitney's Choice of Emblems, 1586:

The helmet strong that did the head defend,
Behold, for hive the bees in quiet served;
And when that wars with bloody blows had end,
They honey wrought where soldier was preserved :
Which doth declare the blessed fruits of peace,
How sweet she is when mortal wars do cease.

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"What thing is love?"-The first six lines are found in an old play, The Wisdom of Dr. Dodypol, 1600.

Page 20. "And you shall have some cockellbread."-Aubrey says that "young wenches have a wanton sport which they call moulding of cockle bread ;" and he describes the curious custom.

Page 24. Autumn hath all the summer's fruitful treasure.”—Nashe's play was acted in the autumn of 1593, when the plague was raging. "This low-built

house" is Archbishop Whitgift's palace at Croydon. See Dr. Grosart's edition of Nashe's Works, vol. vi. pp. xxvi-xxxix.

Page 48. "Take, O, take those lips away."-In Fletcher's The Bloody Brother, first printed in 1639, we have this song with the following additional

stanza :

"Hide, oh, hide those hills of snow,

Which thy frozen bosom bears,
On whose tops the pinks that grow
Are of those that April wears!
But first set my poor heart free,

Bound in those icy chains by thee."

The second stanza is distinctly inferior to the first. I take the first to be by Shakespeare and the second by Fletcher.

Page 53. "Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne," i.e. with small winking eyes.

Page 61. "Ev'n his face begetteth laughter."Laughter rhymes awkwardly with slaughter. Marston alludes to this passage in The Fawn, iv. 1 :-" another has vow'd to get the consumption of the lungs or to leave to posterity the true orthography and pronunciation of laughing."

Page 66. "Still to be neat, still to be drest."-This song is modelled on some Latin verses of Jean Bonnefons, Semper munditias, semper, Basilissa, decores," &c.

Page 69. "Have you seen but a bright lily grow?" -This stanza is imitated by Suckling in his little song beginning:

"Hast thou seen the down in the air,

When wanton blasts have tossed it?"

Page 94. "Hey for our town!' cried."-On Mayday it was the custom for one village to contend with another in dancing-matches. Hey for our town! was the cry raised on such occasions. Cf. Lyrics from Elizabethan Song-books, ed. 1887, p. 68 :—

"Then all at once for our town cries!
Pipe on, for we will have the prize."

"To Hogsdon or to Newington."-Hogsdon and Newington were favourite resorts of pleasure-seekers, particularly 'prentices and their sweethearts. They were noted for cakes and cream :

"For Hogsdon, Islington, and Tot'nam Court

For cakes and cream had then no small resort." (Wither.)

Page 133. "Hence, all you vain delights."-This beautiful song undoubtedly gave Milton some hints for Il Penseroso. Dr. William Strode, a canon of Christ Church, wrote a reply to Fletcher's verses. It is printed in Wit Restored, 1658 :—

'Return, my joys, and hither bring A tongue not made to speak but sing, A jolly spleen, an inward feast,

A causeless laugh without a jest ;

A face which gladness doth anoint,

An arm for joy flung out of joint," &c.

Strode died in 1644; his poems are scattered about the MS. commonplace books and printed miscellanies of the time.

Page 163. "O for a bowl of fat canary."-This song is found (with some variations) in Lyly's Alexander and Campaspe, ed. 1632.

Page 166. "Come away, come away."-In my Introduction to Middleton's Works, vol. i. p. liv., &c., I have said my say about the relationship between The Witch and Macbeth.

Page 169. "The hour of sweety night," &c.-Marston's claim to The Mountebank's Masque is very shadowy. I have a strong suspicion that this song is by Campion.

Page 174. "Oh, sorrow, sorrow," &c.—The Noble Spanish Soldier bears Samuel Rowley's initials on the title-page of the old edition; but there are good reasons for ascribing it-in whole or part-to Dekker. It was entered on the Stationers' Register as a work of Dekker in May 1631, and again in December 1633. Page 176. "Swetnam, the Woman-Hater, arraigned by Women."—A certain Joseph Swetnam (Phoebus, what a name !) published in 1615 a work entitled The arraignment of lewd, idle, froward and unconstant women, &c., which passed through several editions. In the play he is held up to well-merited execration.

Page 186. "Heigh-ho, what shall a shepherd do?" -These verses are found (with some variations) in Thomas Goffe's play The Careless Shepherdess, 1656; but they doubtless belong to Shirley.

Page 195. "How blest are they."-This little song of Quarles found its way into Richard Brome's play The Queen and the Concubine, printed in 1659.

Page 196. "The Rival Friends."-This play was acted before the King and Queen at Cambridge in March 1631. According to the title-page, it was "cried down by Boys, Faction, Envy, and confident Ignorance, approved by the judicious." Peter Hausted,