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"Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850"

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The Country Life, Herrick's _Hesperides_, p. 269.
(G.):--
"Reacht him her ivory hand."
Ph. Fletcher's _Purple Island_, p. 117.
On l. 853. (G.) Compare this line of Drayton in his _Baron's Warrs_:--
"Of gloomy magicks and benumbing charms."
Vol. i. p. 110. ed. 1753.
On l. 861. (G.):--
"Through whose _translucent_ sides much light is born."
Ph. Fletcher's _Pur. Island_, C. 5. St. 31. p. 54.
On l. 862. (M.):--
"All hundred nymphs, that in his rivers dwell,
About him flock, with water-lilies crowned."
Ph. Fletcher's _Poet. Miscell._, p 67. ed. 1633.
On l. 863. (G.) The use of Ambergris, mentioned in Warton's note,
appears from Drayton, v. ii. p. 483.:--
"Eat capons cooked at fifteen crowns apiece,
With their fat bellies stuft with ambergrise."
On l. 886. (G.):--
"The wealth of Tarsus nor the _rocks of pearl_,
_That pave the court of Neptune_, can weigh down
That virtue."
Beaumont and Fletcher's _Philaster_, Act iv.
On l. 894. (G.):--
"Beset at th' end with emeralds and turches.


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