vol. i. p. 17. edit. 1750.
On l. 936. (G.):--
"And here and there were pleasant arbors pight,
And shadie seats and sundry flowring banks."
Spenser's _F. Queen_, vol. ii. p. 146. ed. 1596.
On l. 958. (G.):--
"How now! back friends! shepherd, go off a little."
_As You Like It_, iii. 2.
On l. 989. (D.) See Bethsabe's address to Zephyr in tire opening of
Peele's _David and Bethsabe_:--
"And on thy wings bring delicate perfumes."
On l. 995. (D.):--
"Her gown should be goodliness
Well ribbon'd with renown,
_Purfil'd_ with pleasure in ilk place
Furr'd with fine fashioun."
Robert Henryson's _Garment of Good Ladies_. See Ellis' _Spec. of Early
Eng. Poets_, i. 362.
J.F.M.
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FOLK LORE.
_High Spirits considered a Sign of impending Calamity or Death_ (Vol.
ii., p. 84.).--
"_Westmoreland_. Health to my lord, and gentile cousin, Mowbray.
_Mowbray_. You wish me health in very happy season;
For I am, on the sudden, something ill.
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