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

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XXIV. THOMAS SACKVILLE. 46367. Spercled, scattered ; <strong>from</strong> Virgil's ' passis crinibus' ; ^n. ii. 403,Bayfie, bath. For <strong>the</strong> death <strong>of</strong> Priam, see <strong>the</strong> Extracts <strong>from</strong> Cax<strong>to</strong>nand Surrey.69. ' From this scene Sorrow, who is well known <strong>to</strong> Charon, and <strong>to</strong>Cerberus <strong>the</strong> hideous hound <strong>of</strong> hell, leads <strong>the</strong> poet over <strong>the</strong> loathsomelake <strong>of</strong> rude Acheron, <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> dominions <strong>of</strong> Plu<strong>to</strong>, which are described innumbers <strong>to</strong>o beautiful <strong>to</strong> have been relished by his contemporaries, orequalled by his successors.'—War<strong>to</strong>n.71. From Virgil, ^neid vi. 413'Gemuit sub pondere cymbaSutilis,et multam accepit rimosa paludem.'Hoyse vpy hoist up. Cf. Acts xxvii. 40. Shakespeare has hoised sail,Richard III, iv. 4. 529.Set, make.vi. 417.Thre-sotmd, triple-sounding ; <strong>from</strong> Virgil's72. See Virgil; also Dante, Inferno, vi. 22.' latratu trifauci,' rEn.Foredinning, dinning greatly ; it should be fordinning. This line isharsh, probably by intention.Peaste, became quiet.74. Pewled; Cotgrave's French Dictionary gives ' Pimder, <strong>to</strong> peep orcheep as a young bird, <strong>to</strong> ptde or howl as a young whelp.'Yfere, <strong>to</strong>ge<strong>the</strong>r.75. Tooke on with playtit, <strong>to</strong>ok up her complaint.Can, began.76. Fortunes wheele ; see <strong>the</strong> description <strong>of</strong> it in <strong>the</strong> Extract <strong>from</strong>James I ; p. 44.Recompt, recount.Kesar, Ccesar, emperor.77. Henry. This is <strong>the</strong> subject <strong>of</strong> Sackville's own contribution <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong>'Mirror.' The original ' Induction' probably ended at stanza 76, as wenow have it ;loynes, clasps.<strong>the</strong> rest, if any, was altered.78. Molte, melted ; we still use molten in <strong>the</strong> past participle.A large portion <strong>of</strong> Sackville's poem, in a modernized form, is quotedby War<strong>to</strong>n. This is followed by a short analysis <strong>of</strong> Dante's great work,in which, by <strong>the</strong> way, <strong>the</strong> Italian is very oddly spelt.

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