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

^44—NOTES.——1 08. Vertve. 'These Platonic doctrines are closed with a beautifulpplication of Virtue personified, and introduced in her irresistiblecharms of visible beauty.'—Warton. ' Compare••Uirtutem uideant, intabescantque relicta."Persius, Sat. iii.If Surrey copies but little, Wyat doth plentifully.'—Ashby's note, inWarton. Cf. Dryden's translation of the Third Satire of Persius, 1. 69.1 1 2. Freate inward, fret inwardly, grieve. See last note.(B) Of the Courtier's life.3. Prease, press, crowd. So in Chaucer's ' Good Counseil ''Fie fro the pres, and duell with sothfastnesse.'6. ' Learning to set a limit to will and pleasure.'9. Of rygbt, with justice, legally.15. Me list not, it is not my pleasure.To report blame by honour, to speak disparagingly concerninghonour. Warton explains it by ' to speak favourably of what is bad,'which is ob\-iously quite wrong.19. Tune; Warton suggests the reading /o/zo-z^e, but, in my opinion.unnecessarily.In one of Wiat's songs, he says'24. Cf them, concerning them.Blame not my lute, for he must soundOf this or that, as liheth me.'32. Pleasure ; a very bad rime to cq^^r and off'er.37. Aloxve, applaud.3S. Damne, condemn; see note to Sect. XVI. 210, p. 429.39. Out of the gate, out of the way,40. Liuye. I do not know why he refers us to Li\y ; since, of the114th book of Livy, which spoke of Cato's death, only an epitome, ortable of contents, has come dowTi to us, the book itself being lost.He should rather have referred us to Plutarch. The stoiy of Catostabbing himself at Utica (whence his surname Uticensis) is well known ;see e.g. North's translation of Plutarch, ed. 1612, p. 797. In Addison'splay of ' Cato ' may be foimded the once famous soliloquy which commences' It must be so ; Plato, thou reasonest well.'After spending the greater part of a night in reading Plato's Phgedo,Cato stabbed himself in the breast, and soon after expired, atforty-nine, b.c. 46,the'age of42. Apply, apply itself to, devote itself to,45. The most, i. e. tire most cowardly.47. For bonger, through avarice.