...yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James ! But stay ; I see thee in the hemisphere Advanc'd, and made a constellation there : Shine forth, thou Star of poets ! and with rage Or influence chide or cheer the drooping stage ; Which, since thy flight...

...constellation there ! Shine forth, thou star of poets, and with rage, Or influence, chide or cheer the drooping stage, Which, since thy flight from hence, hath mourn'd like night, And despairs day, but for thy volume's light. Who, in later life, would be unwise enough to trust in even...

...the last line of Ben Jonson's commendatory verses prefixed to F, of Sh. ' Shine forth, thou Star re of Poets, and with rage. Or influence, chide, or cheere...mourn'd like night. And despaires day, but for thy volumes light/ ABBOTT (\ 200). Perhaps a Latinism. 14. angel] CLARENDON. Of course used here in a bad...

...used thus for 'despair of in the list line of Ben Jonson's commendatory verses prefixed to F, of Sh. . Shine forth, thou Starre of Poets, and with rage,...drooping stage : Which, since thy flight from hence, hath mourn' d like night, And despaires day, but for thy volumes light.' ABBOTT (J 200). Perhaps a Latihism....

...take Eliza, and our James! But ftay, I fee thee in the Hemifphere Advanc'd, and made a Conflellation there ! Shine forth, thou Starre of Poets, and with...influence, chide or cheere the drooping Stage; Which, fmce thy flight fro hence, hath mourn'd like night, And defpaires day, but for thy Volumes light. Prefixed...

...eulogy, ending thus:— Shine forth thou star of poets; and with rage, Or influence, chide, or cheer, the drooping stage ; Which, since thy flight from hence, hath mourn'd like night, And despairs day, but for thy volume's light." I believe it to be the genuine welling-up of Jonson's overcharged...

...Cleopatra, ii. 3. 21, where 'thy angel' or • demon* is explained as ' thy spirit which keeps thee.' ' Shine forth, thou Starre of Poets, and with rage,...mourn'd like night, And despaires day, but for thy volumes light. ' Tb. still, constantly. See note on The Merchant of Venice, i. I. 136. 20. palter,...

...perhaps a Latinism. The verb is similarly used in Ben Jonson's verses prefixed to the folio of 1623 : " Shine forth, thou Starre of Poets, and with rage....cheere the drooping Stage ; Which, since thy flight fro hence, hath mourn'd like night, And despaires day, but for thy Volumes light." 18. My better part...

...take Eliza, and our lames ! But ftay, I fee thee in the Hemifphere Aduanc'd, and made a Conftellation there! Shine forth, thou Starre of Poets, and with...influence, chide, or cheere the drooping Stage; Which, fmce thy flight fr5 hence, hath mourn'd like night, And defpaires day, but for thy Volumes light. URBAN...

...of Ben Jonson's commendatory verses prefixed to the first folio edition of Shakespeare's plays : ' Shine forth, thou Starre of Poets, and with rage,...mourn'd like night, And despaires day, but for thy volumes light." 14. angel, of course used here in a bad sense. Compare 2 Henry IV. ii 186, where the...