Looking to heaven; for earth she did dif dayne: And fitting high; for lowly fhe did hate : For fhe was wondrous faire, as any living wight. XI. Of griefly Pluto fhe the daughter was, And wield the world, the claymed for her fyre; Or if that any elfe did love excell; For to the highest she did ftill afpyre; Or, if ought higher were then that, did it defyre. "Love, sweetness, goodness, in her perfon fhined," " is an harmonious line, but not exactly correct; for shined fhould be shone." Various Thoughts &c. by W. Burdon, M. A. formerly fellow of Eman. Coll. Camb. 1800, p. 65. I take this opportunity therefore of defending Milton by the authority of Spenfer. See alfo a pleafing ballad in Greene's Arcadia, 1589. "Her face and browes shinde, I weene." TODD. XII. And proud Lucifera men did her call, That made her felfe a Queene, and crownd to be; Yet rightfull kingdome she had none at all, Ne heritage of native foveraintie ; But did ufurpe with wrong and tyrannie Upon the fcepter, which the now did hold: Ne ruld her realme with lawes, but pollicie, And ftrong advizement of fix Wifards old, That with their counfels bad her kingdome did uphold. XIII. Soone as the Elfin Knight in presence came, Making obeyfaunce, did the caufe declare, Why they were come, her roiall state to see, the wide report of her great maieftee. To prove XIV. With loftie eyes, halfe loth to looke fo lowe, She thancked them in her difdainefull wife; Ne other grace vouchfafed them to fhowe Of princeffe worthy; fcarfe them bad arise. XIV. 1. With loftie eyes,] See Prov. xxx. 13. TODD. Her Lordes and Ladies all this while devife Some prancke their ruffes; and others trimly Their gay attyre: each others greater pride does fpight, XIV. 7. Some frounce their curled heare in courtly guife; Some prancke their ruffes, and others trimly dight Their gay attyre:] The poet evidently points at the fashions of his own times. Frouncing feems to have been adopted from the Fr. froncer, to plait, fold, &c. The Dutch word fronfen alfo fignifies a plait. It appears, however, from Drayton, to have had a further meaning. See his Muf. Elys. Nymph. ii. "With dreffing, braiding, FROWNCING, flowring, "All your jewels on me pouring." Indeed a variety of "frizzles and furls in curls and rings apart, was the fashion both of ladies and gentlemen about this period. See Sylvefter's Du Bart. ed. 1621, p. 456, and Lyllie's Midas, 1592, A. iii. S. ii. The pranking the enormous ruff, generally worn at the fame time alfo, was common to both fexes. Thus Sylvefter, p. 311. "To ftarch muftachoes, and to prank in print, "And curl the lock with favours braided in't." And thus we may fuppofe Perdita decorated in the fashion of the day, when, on having changed her theperdefs's garb for unufual weeds," fhe tells Florizel,--" yourself 66 66 you have obfcur'd "With a fwain's wearing; and me, poor lowly maid, "Moft goddess-like prank'd up." Winter's Tale. The gay attyre of the age is minutely noticed by Spenfer's con temporary, Warner, in his Albion's England, edit. 1596. p. 220, where the female fashions are termed newfangles; where we are told that, formerly," they wore fhooes of eale; now, of an inch-broad, corked hye;" formerly, "black karfie ftockings; now, filk of youthful'ft dye;" formerly, "garters of lyftes; but now of filke, fome edged deepe with gold;" and he adds, XV. Goodly they all that Knight doe entertayne, Right glad with him to have increaft their crew; But to Duefs' each one himselfe did payne All kindneffe and faire courtefie to fhew; For in that court whylome her well they knew: Yet the ftout Faery mongst the middeft crowd Thought all their glorie vaine in knightly vew, And that great Princeffe too exceeding prowd, That to ftrange Knight no better countenance allowd. XVI. Suddein upriseth from her stately place "but heard you nam'd, "Till now of late, Busks, Perrewigs, Mafkes, Plumes of Feathers fram'd, "Supporters, Pooters, Fardingales aboue the loynes to waire, "That be the near so bombe-thin, yet she crosse-like feems foure-fquaire ?" Then, defcribing the attiring their heads, he concludes, "Some, (groffer pride than which, think I, no paffed age might thame,) "By art abufing nature, heads of antick't hayre doe frame." See alfo Barnabie Rich's Faults, and Nothing but Faults, 4to. Lond. 1606, p. 23. Of the ladies: "What newfangled attires for the heades, what flaring fashions in their garments, what alteration in their ruffes-Their frizled haire, their wanton eie, &c. are all the vaunt errours of adulterie." TODD. All hurtlen forth; and fhe, with princely pace, Out of the east the dawning day doth call, XVI. 3. All hurtlen forth;] All rush forth, push forward. The word hurtle, in the fenfe of encountering with violence, often occurs, as Mr. Upton has observed, in the Hift. of Prince Arthur; as in P. i. ch. 28. " They drew out their fwords, and hurtled together with violence." So Chaucer, defcribing a tournament, Kn. Tale, v. 1759. "And he him hurtlyth with his horse adoun." Skinner confiders hurtle as derived from hurl; or perhaps from the old French heurteler for heurler, to push, or hit violently againft. But the tranflators of our old romances probably adopted the word from the Italian urtare; as it is a common phrafe, in that language, for rushing on the enemy, "urtare contro i nemici." Wickliffe, in his translation of A&ts xxvii. 41, writes thus: They hurtliden the fcip;" which later tranflators render, "they thrust in ;" and the laft," they ran aground." See urgere in Latin, and Dante, Infern. C. xxvi. 45. "Caduto farei giù sanza effer' urto.” Hurtling is ufed in its legitimate fenfe of encountering, by Shakspeare, in As you like it; but he has also applied to it the fignification of found, refulting, as we muft fuppofe, from the clashing of arms, in Jul. Cæfar: "The noife of battle hurtled in the air;" which Gray has transferred to the noife, made by a fhower of arrows in the air, Od. vii. 4. This word hurtlen is converted, by the folio of 1609, into hurlen, and is followed by all fubfequent edd. till that of 1751 in quarto. The corruption is rectified alfo by Church, Upton, and in Tonfon's edit. of 1758. TODD. XVI. 6. So forth fhe comes;] There is a dignity in the expreffion, as well as in the pause of the verfe. So prodire is a word of pomp: Hor. L. ii. Od. viii. "Juvenumque prodis "Publica cura." Propertius, L. ii. El. xix. 79. "Vidiftis quondam Argiva prodire figura. Ovid, Faft. iv. 309. "Cultus, et ornatis variè prodisse capillis, "Obfuit." UPTON. |