FOOTNOTES:
[1] This song; is found in "The Bloody Brother, or Rollo, Duke of Normandy," by Beaumont and Fletcher, Act 5, Sc. 2, with the following additional stanza:
"Hide, O hide those hills of snow,
Which thy frozen bosom bears,
On whose tops the fruits that grow
Are of those that April wears;
But first set my poor heart free.
Bound in those icy chains for thee."
There has been much controversy about the authorship, but the more probable opinion seems to be that the second stanza was added by Fletcher.
[2] These lines occur also in "The Witch" of Thomas Middleton, Act 5, Sc. 2, and it is uncertain to which the priority should be ascribed.
[3] Sylvester is now generally regarded as the author of "The Soul's Errand," long attributed to Raleigh.
[4] This song, often attributed to Shakespeare, is now confidently assigned to Barnfield, and it is found in his collection of Poems, published between 1594 and 1598.
[5] Lympha pudica Deum vidit et erubuit.—Latin Poems
[6] "The moon is made of a green cheese" Jack Jugler, p. 46.
[7] "Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare; Hoc tautum possum dicere, non amo te." Martial, Ep. I. xxxiii.
[8] See Hudibras, Part ii. Canto ii. line 698. Mr. Macaulay thinks that this proverb originated in the preference generally given to the gray mares of Flanders over the finest coach-horses of England.—History of England, Vol. I. Ch. 3.
[9] This line has been frequently ascribed to Pope, as it is found in the Dunciad, Book iii., line 261.
[10] Malone states that this was the first time the phrase classic ground, since so common, was ever used.
[11] From Charron (de la Sagesse):—"La vraye science et le vray etude de l'homme c'est l'homme."
[12] See the Odyssey, Book xv. line 83.
[13] "Nourse asked me if I had seen the verses upon Handel and Bononcini, not knowing that they were mine." Byrom's Remains (Cheltenham Soc), Vol. I. p 173. The last two lines have been attributed to Switt and Pope. Vide Scott's edition of Swift, and Dyce's edition of Pope.
[14] "Ils n'emploient les paroles que pour deguiser leurs pensées "—Voltaire.
[15] Imitated by Crabbe in the Parish Register, Part I., Introduction, and taken originally from Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Part III. Sec. 2. Mem. 1. Subs 2. "But to enlarge or illustrate this power or effects of love is to set a candle in the sun."
[16] The authorship both of the words and music of "God save the King" has long been a matter of dispute, and is still unsettled, though the weight of the evidence is in favor of Carey's claim.
[17] The following lines are copied from the pillar erected on the mount in the Dane John Field, Canterbury: "Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will? For if she will, she will, you may depend on 't; And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't."
[18] This line was altered, after the second edition, to "O Sophonisba! I am wholly thine."
[19] The Universal Love of Pleasure, line 1: "All human race, from China to Peru, Pleasure, however disguised by art, pursue." Rev. Thos. Warton.
[20] "God the first garden made, and the first city Cain."—Cowley
[21] "Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six, Four spend in prayer, the rest on nature fix."—Sir Edward Coke.
[22] The exclamation of the pilgrims in the eighth century is recorded by the Venerable Bede
[23] "Solitudinem fociunt—pacem appellant." —Tacitus, Agricola, cap. 30.
[24] See Butler—Hudibras, ante, p. 125.
[25] This line is quoted by Pope, in the 1st Epistle of Horace, Book ii,—"Praise undeserved is Scandal in disguise."
[26] This expression is of much Creator antiquity, it appears in the Chronicle of Battel Abbey, from 1066 to 1176, page 27, Lower's Translation, and also in Piers Ploughman's Vision, line 13994.
[27] "Good witts will jumpe."—Dr. Couqham, Camden Soc. Pub., p.20
[28] "Dieu mesure le vent a la brebis tondue."—Henri Estienne. Premices. etc., p. 47, a collection of proverbs, published in 1594.
[29] Probably the original of Napoleon's celebrated mot, "Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas."