Gone to salute the rising morn. Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes ; Var. V. 70. Morn] Day. Ms. V. 71. Fair laughs, &c.] 70 "Mirrors of Saxon truth and loyalty "Mirror of ancient faith, in early youth Undaunted worth, inviolable truth." Dryd. S. vi. Rogers. In Peacham's 'Period of Mourning,' 1613, a similar epithet is given, but from a different reason: 66 Appeared then in armes a goodly prince Of swarthy hew, by whom there hung a launce And this, No night, and yet my day is done.'” V. 69. So in Agrippina: 66 around thee call The gilded swarm, that wantons in the sunshine V. 71. Magnificence of Richard the Second's reign. See Froissard and other contemporary writers. Gray. See M of Venice, act ii. s. 6. "How like a younker," &c. Spenser. Vision of the World's Vanity, "Looking far forth," &c. And Vision of Petrarch, c. ii. "After at sea a tall ship did appear," &c., which passages are too long for transcription. V. 72. Cœruleo pollens conjunx Neptunia regno." Virg. Cir. 483. Luke. V. 73. So Pope, Donne. Sat. iv. 230, who has used the same words on the same subject: "Top-gallant he, and she in all her trim." Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, 75 That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his ev'ning prey. II. 3. "Fill high the sparkling bowl, The rich repast prepare, Reft of a crown, he yet may share the feast: Close by the regal chair And on her shadow rides in floating gold." V. 74. "" 80 Dryden. An. Mirab. 151. Ipse gubernabit residens in puppe Cupido," Ov. Heroid. Ep. xv. 215. And so Petrarch: "E al governo, siede 'l Signor, anzi 'l nimico mio," Son. clvi. V. 75. So in his Fragment on Education and Government, v. 48: "And where the deluge burst with sweepy sway." The expression is from Dryden. See Virg. Georg. i. 483 : And rolling onwards with a sweepy sway.' And in Granada, act v. sc. 1: "That whirls along with an impetuous sway, And like chain-shot sweeps all things in the way." And Ov. Met. "Rushing onwards with a sweepy sway." And Æn. vii. "The branches bend before their sweepy sway." V. 76. "So like a lion that unheeded lay, Dissembling sleep and watchful to betray, With inward rage he meditates his prey." Dryden, Sig. and Guisc. "Fermenting tempest brew'd in the grim evening sky.” Thomson. V. 77. Richard the Second, as we are told by Archbishop Scroop and the confederate Lords in their manifesto, by Thomas of Walsingham, and all the older writers, was starved to death. The story of his assassination by Sir Piers of Exon is of much later date. Gray. For the profusion of Richard II. see Harding. Chron. quoted in the Preface to Mason's Hoccleve, p. 5; Daniel. Civil Wars, iii. 87; and Pennant. London, p. 89, 4to. Fell Thirst and Famine scowl A baleful smile upon their baffled guest. Heard ye the din of battle bray, Lance to lance, and horse to horse? 84 Long years of havock urge their destined course, And thro' the kindred squadrons mow their way. Var. V. 82. A baleful smile] A smile of horror. мs. Dr. Berdmore compares this passage to the following lines of Virgil, Æn. vi. 603: "Lucent genialibus altis Mallet. Will. and Marg. st. 3. رو W. V. 80. "Regales inter mensas.' Virg. Æn. i. 686. "Sate Matilda in the regal chair." Davenport. K. John and Matilda, p. 25, 4to. V. 82. "He ceas'd: for both seem'd highly pleas'd; and Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile." Par. L. ii. 845. W. 3ο Hom. Il. E. 212: Μειδιόων βλοσυροῖσι προσώπασι. And other examples cited in the note of Newton to the Par. Lost. V. 83. Ruinous wars of York and Lancaster. Gray. V. 83. "Arms on armour clashing brayed." Milt. Par. L. vi. 209. Luke. V. 84. "Harry to Harry shall, not horse to horse." Shakes. Hen. IV. pt. i. act iv. sc. i. "Man to man, and horse to horse." Massing. M. of Honor. Rogers. V. 86. " Cognatasque acies," Lucan. i. 4. W.-And so in Sidon. Apollin. xv. 28: "Cognatam portans aciem." In Dryden. All for Love, act i. we find an expression similar to the text, "Mow them out a passage, And entering where the foremost squadrons yield.” Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed, Revere his consort's faith, his father's fame, And spare the meek usurper's holy head. Above, below, the rose of snow, Twin'd with her blushing foe, we spread : 90 Var. V. 87. Ye] Grim. Ms. V. 90. Holy] Hallow'd. мs. V. 87. Henry the Sixth, George Duke of Clarence, Edward the Fifth, Richard Duke of York, &c., believed to be murdered secretly in the Tower of London. The oldest part of that structure is vulgarly attributed to Julius Cæsar. Gray. V. 89. Margaret of Anjou, a woman of heroic spirit, who struggled hard to save her husband and her crown. Gray. Gray. Ibid. Henry the Fifth. V. 90. Henry the Sixth, very near being canonized. The line of Lancaster had no right of inheritance to the crown. Gray. V. 91. The white and red roses, devices of York and Lancaster. Gray. no, Plantagenet, 'Tis not for fear, but anger-that thy cheeks Henry VI. pt. i. act ii. sc 4. V. 93. The silver boar' was the badge of Richard the Third; whence he was usually known in his own time by the name of the Boar. Gray. "Nor easier fate the bristled boar is lent." The crest, or bearing of a warrior (says Scott in his notes to the Lay of the Last Minstrel, p. 300), was often used as a "nom de guerre." Thus Richard III. acquired his well-known epithet," the Boar of York." In the violent satire on Cardinal Wolsey, commonly but erroneously imputed to Dr. Bull, the Duke of Buckingham is called the Beautiful Swan; and the Duke of Norfolk, or Earl of Surrey, the White Lion. See Dr. Nott. Surrey. i. p. 302, 304. The bristled boar in infant-gore Now, brothers, bending o'er the accursed loom, 95 Stamp we our vengeance deep, and ratify his doom. 66 III. 1. Edward, lo! to sudden fate (Weave we the woof. The thread is spun.) Half of thy heart we consecrate. See Mirror for Magis. p. 417. Anon. 62, 69, 80. Again, "At Stonie Stratford being upon my way, The bloodie bore my uncle that did aime." "Oh! noble Edward, from whose royal blood Thy roses both are cropt e'en in the bud." 66 Why didst thou leave that bore in time t' ensue To spoil those plants that in thy garden grew." See also the Battle of Flodden Field, st. 255; and Ford. Perkin Warbeck, act i. sc. 1. p. 12. ed. Weber. V. 96. If Fate weave common thread, I'll change the doom, And with new purple weave a nobler loom." Dryd. Seb. V. 98. "Yet rather let him live, and twine His woof of dayes with some thread stolen from mine." Cartwright. Poems, p 239. 'Αγαμέμνονι πότμον ὑφαίνει. Tryphiod. v. 409. Nonni. Dion. iv. 244. V. 99. Eleanor of Castile died a few years after the conquest of Wales. The heroic proof she gave of her affection And see the Lay of the Last Minstrel, cant. iv. st. xxx : Saw the Blanche Lion e'er fall back?" ; And so in Henry VI. part ii. act v. sc. 2. Warwick is called the Bear, from his father's badge, old Neville's crest: "The rampant Bear chained to the ragged staff." |