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

XXI. HUGH LATIMER. 447(H) Comparison of hue to a streame, &c.* It was from the capricious and overstrained invention of the Italianpoets, that Wyat was taught to torture the passion of love by prolix andintricate comparisons and unnatural allusions. At one time his love isa galley steered by cruelty through stormy seas and desperate rocks; thesails torn by the blast of tempestuous sighs, and the cordage consumedby incessant showers of tears: a cloud of griefs envelops the stars, reasonis drowned, and the haven is at a distance. At another [viz. in thisextract], it is a spring trickling from the summit of the Alps, which,gathering force in its fall, at length overflows all the plain beneath.'Warton ; Hist Eng. Poetry, ed. 1840; vol. iii. p. 45.8. ' To avoid it in the first instance is the only remedy.'XXI.HUGH LATIMER.Line 2. The place ; i. e. the text. He has, in the former part of thesermon, quoted the text, 'Maledictus qui facit opus dei fraudulenter ''Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully.' He immediatelyafterwards quotes (1. 6) the rest of the verse, ' and cursed behe that keepeth back his sword from blood.'9. Amalech, Amalek ; i Sam. xv.14. Nebo. Latimer reverts to the chapter he has already quoted,Jer. xlviii., which begins—' Against Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts,the God of Israel, Woe unto Nebo, for it is spoiled,' &c.58. Betwene stocke and stocke, between one post and another ; like theproverbial saying of being driven from pillar to post.85. Lordyng, acting like a 'laesy loord,' as Spenser has it (F. Q. iii.7. 12). The O. E. loord answers to It. lordo, impudent, dirty, which iscertainly derived from Lat. luridus.There is also an O. E. form lordeinor lourdayn, a lout, stupid fellow, from the same. See the odd explanationin the Glosse to December, Extract XXVIII. p. 354,1. 8.143. Singtdare commoditie, iprv/zie advantage; alluding to enclosuresmade by wealthy people for their own use.278. Beinge a maried man; i.e. although he was a married man;a palpable hit at the enforced celibacy of the clergy in the RomishChurch.