And in their foolish fancy feigne thee

blinde,

That with thy charmes the fharpeft fight doeft binde,

And to thy will abufe? Thou walkeft free, And feeft every fecret of the minde;

Thou feeft all, yet none at all fees thee: All that is by the working of thy deitee.

V.

eye

So perfect in that art was Paridell,
That he Malbeccoes halfen did wyle;
His halfen eye he wiled wondrous well,
And Hellenors both eyes did eke beguyle,
Both eyes and hart attonce, during the whyle
That he there foiourned his woundes to

heale;

That Cupid felfe, it feeing, close did fmyle To weet how he her love away did steale, And bad that none their ioyous treason should ' reveale.

VI.

The learned Lover loft no time nor tyde
That least avantage mote to him afford,
Yet bore fo faire a fayle, that none espyde
His fecret drift till he her layd abord.
Whenfo in open place and commune bord
He fortun'd her to meet, with commune
fpeach

He courted her; yet bayted every word,

That his ungentle hofte n'ote him appeach Of vile ungentleneffe or hofpitages breach.

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VII.

But when apart (if ever her apart

He found) then his falfe engins faft he plyde, And all the fleights unbosomd in his hart; He figh'd, he fobd, he fwownd, he perdy dyde, And caft himselfe on ground her faft befyde: Tho, when againe he him bethought to live, He wept, and wayld, and false laments belyde, Saying, but if the mercie would him give, That he mote algates dye, yet did his death forgive.

VIII.

And otherwhyles with amorous delights
And pleafing toyes he would her entertaine
Now finging fweetly to furprize her sprights,
Now making layes of love and lovers painc,
Branfles, ballads, virelayes, and verfes vaine;

1.

VI. 9.

or hofpitages breach.] Or breach of hofpitality. I believe hofpitage to be a word coined by Spenfer. TODD.

: VIII. 5. Branfles,] Brawls, a French dance, fo pronounced and fpelt by Gray, in his LONG STORY, where he defcribes the faltatory abilities of Elizabeth's favourite, Hatton:

"The grave lord-keeper led the brawls."

It was a very fashionable exhibition in that queen's time. Shakspeare feems to allude to this paffage in Spenfer, confidering the brawl as of fingular efficacy to win a fair maid's heart. Moth accordingly fays to Armado, in Love's Labour Loft, "Mafter, will you win your love with a French BRAWL? Arm. How mean'ft thou? brawling in French? Moth. No, my complete mafter; but to jig off a tune at the tongue's end,

Oft purposes, oft riddles, he devyfd,
And thousands like which flowed in his braine,

canary it with your feet, humour it with turning up your eyelids, &c." We fee therefore the gallantry of Paridell; he Jums the air of the most fashionable brawls before his mistress, and to his melody adds an irrefiftible caper! The beaux of modern times might derive advantage from the knowledge of the brawl! The following account of it, which has been noticed by Mr. Steevens in Marfton's Malcontent, must be highly congenial to their ferious ftudies! The brawl! why 'tis but two fingles to the left, two on the right, three doubles forwards, a traverfe of fix rounds: do this twice, three fingles fide galliard trick of twenty coranto pace; a figure of eight, three fingles broken down, come up, meet two doubles, fall back, and then honour!!" The nightingal is thus quaintly described in Partheneia Sacra, 1633, p. 139. "His vfual fongs are certain catches and roundelayes he hath, much after the manner of the · French BRAULES; you would take him verily to be a Monfieur of Paris ftreight, if you heard but his preludiums, &c."

VIII, 5. virelayes,] Virelays are often mentioned by Chaucer, and our old poets, G. Gascoigne, in his Defence of Rhime, gives this account of them. "There is an old kinde of rhyme called verlayes, derived, as I have redde, of the word verde which betokeneth greene, and laye which betokeneth a fong; as if you would fay GREENE SONGES. But I inuft tell you by the way, that I never redde any verfe, which I faw by authoritie called verlay, but one; and that was a long difcourfe in verfes of tenne fyllables, whereof the first four did rhyme across; and the fyfth did anfwere to the fyrst and thyrde, breaking off there, and fo going on to another termination. Of this I could hew example of imitation, in myne owne verses written to the right honourable the lorde Grey of Wilton; A ftrange conceit, a vaine of new delight.

Twixt weale and woe, twixt weale and bitter griefe,
Hath pricked foorth my hastie pen to write
This worthleffe verfe, in hazard of reproofe,
And to mine alder-lieveft lord 1 muft indite."

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T. WARTON,

VIII. 6. Oft purposes, oft riddles, he devyfd,] He fome, times devifed purposes, that is cross-purposes, questions and anfwers; an amusement of our ancestors, mentioned by Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy: "The ordinary recreations which

With which he fed her fancy, and enty fd To take to his new love, and leave her old

defpyfd.

IX. 1.

And every where he might and everie while
He did her fervice dewtifull, and fewd
At hand with humble pride and pleafing guile;
So clofely yet, that none but she it vewd,
Who well perceived all, and all indewd.

we haue in winter, and in moft folitary times bufy our mindes with, are cardes, &c. catches, purposes, queftions, merry tales of errant knights, &c." And fometimes he devifed riddles: a knowledge of which feems to have been an accomplishment fo neceffary to the character of a lover, that Slender, in the Merry Wives of Windfor, is greatly diftreffed on finding, when he is introduced to Anne Page, that his man had not The Book of Riddles about him; and that therefore his treacherous memory would not enable him to attack the lady with this accustomed mode of wit. Slender indeed forgot that he had lent his Riddles to Alice Shortcake. The Book of Riddles seems to have been in high eftimation about this period. It contained alfo the paftime of questions, alluded to in the former part of this note The book rarely occurs. The following edition of it belongs to the Earl Gower. "The Booke of Meery Riddles. Together with proper Queftions,' and witty Prouerbs to make pleafant paftime. No leffe vfefull then behoouefull for any yong man or child, to know if he be quick-witted or no, Lond. 1629." 12mo, bl. 1. TODD.

VIII. 9. To take to his new love,] This is the reading of the fecond edition, which every fubfequent edition rightly follows. The first reads, "To take with &c." TODD.

IX. 5. Who well perceived all, and all indewd.] She perceiv'd it all and indewed it all. What is the meaning of indewd all? Is it from the Latin induere, to put on? And the put it all on her, and made it fit eafy on her mind. Or is it a metaphor from Falconry? The hawk is faid not well to indue, when the does not digeft her food well: from in, an intentive particle, and dawen to concoct. So Hellenore faw it all, indewed it all, swallowed it and digefted it all. I leave the reader these two

Thus finely did he his falfe nets difpred,

With which he many weake harts had fubdewd

Of yore, and many had ylike mifled:

What wonder then if fhe were likewife carried?
X.

No fort fo fenfible, no wals fo ftrong,
But that continuall battery will rive,

Or daily fiege, through dispurvayaunce long
And lacke of refkewes, will to parley drive;
And peece, that unto parley eare will give,
Will fhortly yield itfelfe, and will be made
The vaffall of the victors will bylive:

That ftratageme had oftentimes affayd This crafty paramoure, and now it plaine dif

play'd:

XI.

For through his traines he her intrapped hath,
That she her love and hart hath wholy fold
To him without regard of gaine, or fcath,
Or care of credite, or of hufband old,

explanations, or any other he fhall think fit, from these hints given, to make for himself. UPTON.

X. 1.

fenfible,] So Spenfer's own editions and the two first folios read. The folio of 1679, Hughes, and the edition of 1751, read fenfible. CHURCH.

Mr. Upton, and Tonfon's edition in 1758, give the original and genuine reading alfo, fenfible. TODD.

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X. 5. peece,] Castle, as in F. Q. ii. xi. 14. See alfo Speed's Hift. of Gr. Brit. fol. p. 1169. "The Fleete thus encreased, they landed in Portugall, euen vnder fhot of the Castle of Peniche-Of this Towne, and Peece, Conde de Fuentes had the command." Some editions corruptly read peace.

TODD..