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Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

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^^SNOTES.originally decorated <strong>the</strong> baths <strong>of</strong> Titus, among <strong>the</strong> mins <strong>of</strong> which it wasfound in <strong>the</strong> year 1506. It is now preserved in <strong>the</strong> museum <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>Vatican at Rome. See <strong>the</strong> account in <strong>the</strong> <strong>English</strong> Cyclopaedia (Div.Arts and Sciences, s. v. Laocoon).258. Tenedon, Tenedos ; an island <strong>of</strong>f <strong>the</strong> coast <strong>of</strong> Troas.259. F/e/yno', floating ; Lat. ' incumbunt pelago.'265. Gate <strong>the</strong> strand, attained <strong>the</strong> shore ; Lat. ' arua tenebant.'2^7. IVahring, rolling; Lat. 'Unguis uibrantibus.'269. Gate direct, direct path ;Lat. ' agmine cer<strong>to</strong>.*2S2. Fourth loowes, lows forth, bellows out.285. Twaine, misprinted twine in <strong>the</strong> old copy ; Lat. ' gemani.'287. Which, whom ; Lat. sub pedibusque Deae.''291. Hainous dede, odious act, viz. his piercing <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Avooden horse;Lat. 'scelus.'295. Tappease, <strong>to</strong> appease ; see o<strong>the</strong>r instances in <strong>the</strong> Glossary.2 28. /?o//^5, i. e. rollers.301. Children and maides, boys and girls. See War<strong>to</strong>n's note.Holly, holy, Lat. sacra canunt.''304. To and ward are here separated ; <strong>to</strong>ward is meant. This separationor tmesis is common in Early <strong>English</strong>. See Chaucer, ClerkesProl. 51. Cf. ' <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> mercy-seatward,' Exod. xxxvii. 9.306. Thentrie, <strong>the</strong> entry.307. Harnesse, armour.310. Perseuer. So in Shakespeare, Mids. Night's Dr. iii. 2. 237; &c.313. * Unclosed again her lips, that were those <strong>of</strong> a prophet, yet neverbelieved by us.'Insert a comma after lippes.317. Lat. ' Uertitur interea caelum.'329. F«/»/«rf, unpinned, loosened ; Lat. ' laxat.'333. Thesander, Tisandrus. Surrey omits <strong>the</strong> name <strong>of</strong> Neop<strong>to</strong>lemus,and writes Menolae and Opeas for Menelaus and Epeos.347. Be, been. This is by no means a solitary instance <strong>of</strong> be, as aSo also broke, spoke, for broken, spoken.past participle.350. What one, what a being ! Lat. ' qualis erat !'359. Thine, i. e. thy nation.'Olux Dardaniae ! spes O fidissima Teucrum !'364. Alweried, utterly wearied, with reference <strong>to</strong> we ; Lat. • defessi.'372. Troye : pronounced as a disyllabic, as in 1.374.576. Engines, contrivances ; accented on <strong>the</strong> last syllable.58 1 .Thembatel, for <strong>the</strong> embatel, i. e. <strong>the</strong> battlement ; Lat. ' fastigia.'593. Trade, thoroughfare ; lit. a trodden path; see Rich. II, iii. 3. 156.640. The closures ne kepers, nei<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> bars nor <strong>the</strong> guards.642. Rernoued, started ; used intransitively, as <strong>of</strong>ten elsewhere.

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