B. ii. c. x. s. XV.

Did head against them make, and strong munificence.

By munificence our author signifies defence, or fortification; from munio and facio. This is a word injudiciously coined by Spenser, as the same word in our language signifies quite another thing. Milton, perhaps, is more blameable for a fault of this

kind.

Now had they brought the work, by wondrous art
Pontifical*.

As the ambiguous term pontifical may be so
easily construed into a pun, and may be in-
terpreted popish as well as bridge-making.
Besides the quaintness of the expression.

B. iii. c. i. s. xxxvi.

And whilst he bathd with her two crafty spyes
She secretly would search each dainty lim.

*Paradise Lost. x. 313.

Crafty spyes is here a periphrasis for eyes, but a very inartificial one; as it may so easily be mistaken for two persons whom she employed, with herself, to search, &c.

END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

VOL. I.

A A

INDEX

TO THE

FIRST VOLUME.

A.

ABBE du Bos, his censure of Ariosto's Orlando Fu-

rioso, 20.

Academicians, della Crusca, prefer Ariosto to Tasso, 4.
Adonis, his gardens, Spenser founds his fiction concern-
ing them on ancient mythology, 123.

Agave, her story, 140.

Agdistes, a Genius, 114.

Amber-grease, a seasoning in cookery, 168.

Ambiguous expression, instances of, in Spenser, 352. In
Milton, 96.

Anachronism, instances of, in Spenser, 334.

Ancients, imitate every thing, 310.

Antoninus Liberalis, a valuable compiler, 130.

Apollonius, Rhodius, illustrated, 145. Copied by Mil-
ton, 144, 152.

Archimago, instance of, his hypocrisy, copied from
Ariosto, 272. Of his illusion, 273.

Ariosto, imitates Boyardo, 2. Account of the plan of his poem, 17. His genius comic, 306. Defended, 308.

Ardenne, water of, Ariosto's mention of it alluded to by Spenser, 288.

Arte of English poesie, author of, condemns Spenser's obsolete stile in his Pastorals, 163. Commends his Pastorals, 170. His account of singing to the harp in Queen Elizabeth's time, 72. Censures Skelton, 73.

Arthur, Prince, cannot properly be called the hero of the Faerie Queene, 8.

Arthur, King, his round table, 62, 90, 255. Popularity of his story, 58.

Astræus, a sea-god, account of him, 141.
Avarice, Ariosto's, why so represented, 301.

B.

Beaumont and Fletcher, illustrated, 58.

Bellona, Spenser misrepresents her birth, 154.

Beni, compares Ariosto with Homer, 2.

Bevis, Sir, of Southampton, imitated by Spenser, 69.
Bite, 230.

Blandamour, a name, drawn from Chaucer, or from a

romance so called, 259.

Blatant Beast, the hint of it taken from Morte Arthur,

a romance, 32. Partly occasioned by Ariosto's description of Jealousy and Avarice, 301.

Britaine's Ida, not written by Spenser, 170. Criticism and conjectures concerning it, 171.^.