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

XIX, (f) lord surrey. 44 [also Gaelic dun, a hill, a fortress, Welsh din, a hill-fort. Nares, however,explains the maideji-tower as one that has never been taken, andshevi^s that French writers call such a fort La Pucelle.II.Coidde but rewe, could only pity (and not scorn).13. Palme-play, hand-ball, the modern fives.14.Dispoyled, stripped ;imitated from the Italian spogUato.' We, with eyes often dazed by loving glances;' a curiously involvedline. We, throughout this poem, means himself and Richmond.16. 'To allure the eyes of her who stood upon the leads above us.'The ladies used to watch the players from the leads above.1 7. Grauell-grounde, the area or arena, strewn with gravel, where theyoung knights practised tilting.Sleues ; this tying of a lady's sleeve upon the helmet was a commonpractice. See Tennyson's Elaine, where Elaine gives Lancelot a redsleeve broidered with pearls, and Lancelot binds it on his helmet.21. Having mentioned the palm-play and the gravel-ground, the poetnow mentions the meadow where he joined in athletic sports ; and hespeaks of it as sprinkled with dew-drops, that looked like tears shed inpity. This stanza (11. 21-24) W'arton omits to quote.29. Clothed holtes with grene, groves clad in green. This inversionof the order of words is common where the preposition with is concerned.In his sonnet entitled ' Descripcion of the restlesse state of a louer,'Surrey has the line'My specled chekes with Cupides hewe,'i. e. my cheeks speckled, &c. See Tottell's Miscellany, reprinted byArber, p. 5.30. .4 j/ai/eJ, lowered, let drop, loosened; used by Spenser ; also speltnailed or ualed.33. Walles is surely the true reading, as in 1. 47. See Park's note onWarton.44. Vpsnpped. Ashby remarks, ' how can sighs sup up tears ? 'Theword is not well chosen.46. Accompt, account. Fere, companion; i. e. Richmond.47. For doest, says Warton, we must read didst. This seems nearlycertain, for Richmond was now dead. Yet, after all, there may be anallusion to his seeing him every night in his dreams.48. Dear ' to others, but dearest of all to me.'54. He ' closes his complaint with an affecting and pathetic sentiment,much in the style of Petrarch :—To banish the miseries of myof rememberingpresent distress, I am forced on the wretched expedienta greater. This is the consolation of a ^\ arm fancy. It is the philosophyof poetry.'—Warton. Cf. Faerie Queene, i. 6. 37.