And made the vaffall of his pleasures vilde. Yet firft he caft by treatie, and by traynes, Her to perfuade that stubborne fort to yilde: For greater conqueft of hard love he gaynes, That workes it to his will, then he that it conftraines. IV. With fawning wordes he courted her a while; And, looking lovely and oft fighing fore, Her conftant hart did tempt with diverfe guile : But wordes, and lookes, and fighes fhe did abhore ; : As rock of diamond ftedfaft evermore. 66 III. 6. Yet firft he caft] Contrived. Repeatedly used in this fenfe by Spenfer. See F. Q. i. ii. 37, i. ix. 15, and many other places. Thus alfo Chaucer, Tale of Melib. p. 131. edit. Tyrwhitt. I pray you, that in this neceffitee and in this nede ye cafte you to overcome your heart." Milton employs this verb, Par. Loft, B. iii. 634, B. xii. 43. Caft is alfo ufed as a substantive for contrivance by Chaucer, Kn. Tale, 2470. · ed. fupr. "The derke tresons, and the caftes old." And thus, in The Abridgement of Goddes Statutes in myter, by Wm. Samuel, &c. 12mo. 1551. Sign. B. iii.. "Then Jofeph wrought a prety cafte It may not be improper to obferve that, to the theological verfifiers, enumerated by Mr. Warton, this rhymer may be added, if indeed he shall be thought worthy of mention in a future Hiftory of English poetry. W. Samuel ftyles himself "feruaunt to the Duke of Somerset hys grace.' TODD. IV. 5. As rock of diamond &c.] In like manner Milton has reprefented Chrift, Par. Reg. B. iv. 533. "Proof againft all temptation, as a rock "Of adamant "TODD. 1 eye, Yet, for to feed his fyrie luftfull Then gan her beautie fhyne as brightest skye, And burnt his beastly hart t'enforce her chastitye. V. So when he faw his flatt'ring artes to fayle, bold? VI. The pitteous Mayden, carefull, comfortleffe, Does throw out thrilling fhriekes, and shrieking cryes; (The last vaine helpe of wemens greate diftreffe,) And with loud plaintes impórtuneth the skyes; V. 5. And win rich Spoile &c.] Mr. Warton, by not having attended to the first edition which here reads win, has unjuftly charged the poet with inaccuracy. It is true, the fecond edition reads with, which many editions have followed; but which may be fuppofed to have been, in the first instance, an errour of the prefs. Of which he weend foon to be possessed, is not improper," fays Mr. Warton; "but, to be poffeffed WITH rich Spoile &c. is very inaccurate." TODD. 66 That molten ftarres doe drop like weeping eyes; And Phoebus, flying fo moft fhameful fight, And hydes for shame. What witt of mortall Can now devise to quitt a thrall from such a plight? VII. Eternall Providence, exceeding thought, Where none appeares can make her felfe a way! VI. 5. That molten ftarres doe drop like weeping eyes; His blushing face in foggy cloud implyes, And hydes for Shame.] Poetry often deferibes the fympathy of the fun, the ftars &c. on extraordinary occafions. Thus, when Marino's Jealousy is painted fallying out into the world, the following circumftances occur in the heavens, L'Adone, C. xii. ft. 29. "Poria col ciglio inftupidir Natura, "Intorbidar le ftelle, e gli elementi, &c." Thus alfo Milton, Par. Loft, B. x. 687. "At that tafted fruit "The fun, as from Thyeftean banquet, turn'd "His courfe inttended —” Milton, when a youth, appears to have been ftruck with the paffage in Spenfer before us; for, in his beautiful Ode on the Nativity, he has thus described the fun : The stars, with deep amaze, "Stand fix'd in ftedfaft gaze "The fun himself witheld his wonted speed, "And hid his head for fhame." TODD. VI. 7. C. iv. ft. 31. VII. 1. CHURCH. implyes,] Invelopes, hides. See Eternall Providence, exceeding thought, Where none appeares can make her felfe a way!] Ex A wondrous way it for this Lady wrought, From lyons clawes to pluck the gryped pray. Her fhrill outcryes and fhrieks fo loud did bray, That all the woodes and foreftes did refownd: A troupe of Faunes and Satyres far away Within the wood were dauncing in a rownd, Whiles old Sylvanus slept in shady arber fownd: VIII. Who, when they heard that pitteous ftrained voice, In hafte forfooke their rurall meriment, ceeding thought, i. e. which paffeth all understanding. Philip. iv. 7. He has the fame fentiment, F. Q. iii. v. 27. "Providence heavenly paffeth human thought, "And doth for wretched mens reliefe make way." Can make-i. e. knows how to make herself a way: "Fata viam invenient, aderitque vocatus Apollo." Soon after he says, From lyons clawes, &c.-This too is agreeable to Scriptural expreffions, "I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion." II Tim. iv. 17. And fee Pf. xxii. 21, Xxxv. 17. UPTON. VII. 8. dauncing in a rownd,] The name of a dance. So Comus's crew "beat the ground in a light fantaftick round." The fhaggy Sylvans are always reprefented as fond of dancing. See again, F. Q. iii. x. 44, 45. In A briefe Difcourfe of the true, but neglected, ofe of charact'ring the Degrees &c. in Muficke, by Thomas Rauenfcroft, Bachelar of Muficke, 4to. 1614, are given, both in poetry and musick, the Fayries Daunce, the Satyres Daunce, the Vrchins Daunce, the Elues Daunce: From The Satyres Daunce an extract may here perhaps be thought not inapposite: "Round a, round a, keep your ring; "To the glorious Sunne we fing, "Hoe! hoe! "He that weares the flaming rayes, "And the imperiall crowne of bayes; "Him with fhoutes and fongs we praife." TODD. And ran towardes the far rebownded noyce, IX. The wyld woodgods, arrived in the place, As her outrageous foe had left her late; VIII. 5. they come incontinent:] Inftantly. Ufed as an adverb for incontinently. The French so use incontinent. See alfo F. Q. i. ix. 19, ii. ix. 1, iv. iii. 18, vii. vii. 17. The word is common in our old poetry. Hift. of Graunde Amoure, 1554. Sign. T. iii. CHURCH. "And at our comming, then, incontinent 66 Again, Sign. X. iii. "And did me fende to you incontinent VIII. 7. See monstrous rablement,] Rablement, a crowd, was commonly used in a contemptuous manner. F. Q. i. xii. 9. Thus, in A Commemoration or Dirige of Baftarde Edmonde Boner, &c. vfurped Bifshope of London, 12mo. 1569. - bl. 1. "About this goofte flocked a rablement "Of Friers fatte and foule." See alfo A Retentive to stay good .Chriftians, &c. by W. Fulke, |