Chapter 14

[184]Misprinted 'Tethis.' G.

[185]In 1st edition 'dim darke shades.' G.

[186]Phemius, a great singer at the court of Ulysses: Odys. i. 154, 337: the latter contains the allusionsupra, where Penelope stands at the door of the hall and listens to the song. G.

[187]Misprinted 'brigher.' G.

[188]Misprinted in 1612 edition 'danching.' G.

[189]Margin-Note here 'The antiquitie of dancing.' G.

[190]In first edition reads: 'And which is far more ancient then the sun.' G.

[191]Herald. G.

[192]Pedigree. G.

[193]Margin-Note here 'The original of dancing.' G.

[194]'Painstaking.' G.

[195]In 1st edition 'shining.' G.

[196]Margin-Note here 'The speech of Love, perswading men to learn Dancing.' G.

[197]Margin-Note here 'By the orderly motion of the fixed stars.' G.

[198]Cf. 'Paradise Regained' iii. 310, as in Astrœa, Hymne xxi. G.

[199]In 1st edition 'are mov'd.' G.

[200]Margin-Note here 'Of the planets.' G.

[201]A French 'dance': the name meaning gay or brisk, and so a quick liuely dance, introduced into England about 1541. Thomas Wright's 'Dictionary's.v.G.

[202]In 1st edition 'gallant.' G.

[203]Black. G.

[204]Spanishpavana: a solemn Spanish dance. G.

[205]Spelled in first edition, 'heire.' G.

[206]Margin-Note here 'Of the Fire.' G.

[207]Cf. 'Nosce Teipsum' page 103,ante: st. fourth, line second. G.

[208]Margin-Note here, 'Of the Ayre.' G.

[209]In first edition 'ye' = the, and so elsewhere. G.

[210]A round country dance. G.

[211]Translucent. Cf. Milton, Samson Agonistes 548, and Comus, 861. G.

[212]In first edition spelled 'fier.' G.

[213]Margin-Note here 'Of the sea.' G.

[214]Margin-Note here 'Of the riuers.' G.

[215]Ovid (HeroidesVII.1, 2)'Sic ubi fata vocant, udis abjectus in herbis,Ad vada Maeandri concinit albus olor.'Cf. Sir Thomas Browne 'Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors' BookIII.c.xxvii: Works by Wilkin, Vol.II.pp. 517, 518 (edition Pickering 1835.) G.

[215]Ovid (HeroidesVII.1, 2)

'Sic ubi fata vocant, udis abjectus in herbis,Ad vada Maeandri concinit albus olor.'

Cf. Sir Thomas Browne 'Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors' BookIII.c.xxvii: Works by Wilkin, Vol.II.pp. 517, 518 (edition Pickering 1835.) G.

[216]A round country dance, as before.

[217]Margin-Note here 'Of other things upon the earth.' G.

[218]'Exact': this illustrates Hamlet i., I, and Othello ii., 3. G.

[219]In first edition a probable misprint is, 'Chaunce.' G.

[220]In first edition 'impetuous.' G.

[221]In first and 1622 editions there is a probable misprint of 'crowne' here. G.

[222]Bass. G.

[223]Margin-Note here: 'How Loue taught men to dance.' G.

[224]Margin-Note here 'Rounds or Country Dances.' G.

[225]This interprets 'Nosce Teipsum,' Reason II, st. 1, page 86ante.

[226]Margin-Note here 'Measures.' G.

[227]In 1st edition spelled 'trew,' G.

[228]In 1st edition 'old': 'young' in 1622 must be a misprint, unless used in the grand meaning ofSir Thomas Browne. In 1622 it is mis-spelled 'youg.' G.

[229]Margin-Note here 'Galliards.' G.

[230]In 1st edition spelled 'flyne': A.S. 'to fly.' G.

[231]A 'capriole' is a 'lady's head-dress' (Wright): but here seems to mean 'springings and turnings': degenerated into 'capers' at this later day. G.

[232]Margin-Note here, 'Courantoes.' G.

[233]Margin-Note here, 'Lavoltaes.' G.

[234]There is a misprint of 'employ' in Thomas Davies' edition, as before. G.

[235]Margin-Note here 'Grace in dauncing.' G.

[236]In the errata of 1622 edition 'doo' is substituted for 'did,' itself a misprint, perhaps, for 'does.' G.

[237]'Rites.' G.

[238]Margin-Note here, 'The use and formes of dauncing in sundry affaires of man's life.' G.

[239]Made stellæ=stars or constellations. G.

[240]Virgil, ÆneidVI., 448, calls him Cænis:.... 'et juvenis quondam, nunc femina, Cænis,Rursus et in veterem fato revoluta figuram.'He is mentioned again in Homer, IliadI.264. G.

[240]Virgil, ÆneidVI., 448, calls him Cænis:

.... 'et juvenis quondam, nunc femina, Cænis,Rursus et in veterem fato revoluta figuram.'

He is mentioned again in Homer, IliadI.264. G.

[241]Met.III., 320, &c., &c. G.

[242]Cf. L'Allegro 'Lap me in soft Lydian airs.' (l 136.) G.

[243]Qu: couch? G.

[244]Incremation. G.

[245]Pursue or succeed. G.

[246]The Cenci of Shelley has 'married' this tragical crime to 'immortal verse.' G.

[247]In first edition, 'murthering.' G.

[248]In first edition also spelled 'dilphins' = dolphins. G.

[249]In first edition, 'they.' G.

[250]Note here, 'True Loue inventor of dauncing.' G

[251]Spelled 'Liues.' G.

[252]Thomas Davies and Southey, as before, misprint egregiously 'that.' G.

[253]Margin-Note here, 'Concord.' G.

[254]'Back,' same as 'blake,' page 176,ante, for 'black.' G.

[255]= on. G.

[256]In first edition, spelled 'pinnesse' also, = pinnace. G.

[257]Margin-Note here, 'A passage to the description of dauncing in this age.' G.

[258]Thomas Davies, as before, drops 'such.' G.

[259]Thomas Davies and Southey misread 'when.' G.

[260]Virgil. G.

[261]Chaucer. G.

[262]Spenser. G.

[263]Daniel: The allusion being to his 'Sonnets to Delia.' G.

[264]Edward Guilpin calls his volume 'Skialetheia, or aShadoweof Truth in certain Epigrams and Satyres,' 1598. G.

[265]I hazard a guess, that this may refer toCharles Best, an associate ofDaviesin the 'Rhapsody,' and author of certain vivid lines called 'A Sonnet of the Sun: a jewell, being a sun shining upon theMarigoldclosed in a heart of gold, sent to his mistress, named Mary, among others. SeeNicolas'sedition of the 'Rhapsody,' Vol. I., pp. 183, 184. G.

[266]Perhaps a play on his 'then' friend's name of Martin. G.

[267]Collier givessuprain his 'Bibliographical Account of Early English Literature,'s.n.

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