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

-'—NOTES.-t / -+ Pour faire gluz a prendre oyseaulx ramaiges STous differens de chantz et de plumaiges ;Ou me souloys ^, pour les prendre, entremettreA faire brics ^ ou caiges pour les mettre.Ou transnouoys * les rivieres profondes,Ou r*enfor9oys ^ sur le genoil les fondes ^Puis d'en tirer droict et loing j'apprenoisPour chasser loups et abbatre des noix.O quantes foys aux arbres grimpe j'ayPour desnicher ou la pie, ou la geay,Ou pour gecter des fruictz ja meurs et beaulxA mes compaings, qui tendoient leurs chappeaulx.'38. This line is again like ISIarot's :'Ou la nature aux Muses inclinee.'63. UTfe(ber, whither.76. Reason. So in all the old editions. Hughes proposed to readseason.84. (Glosse,) I know of no reason for the word ' alwayes.'87. Soothe of byrds, soothsaying by observing the flights of birds.The words augury and auspice are both derived from the Lat. auis, abird.88. (Glosse.)'Quos hominum ex facie Dea saeua potentibus herbisInduerat Circe in uultus ac terga ferarum.'—Virg. ^-En. vii. 19.91. Compare'Inuentum medicina meum est ; opiferque per orbemDicor ; et herbarum est subiecta potentia nobis.Hei mihi, quod nuUis amor est medicabilis herbis.Nee prosunt domino, quae prosunt omnibus, artes.'98. All to rathe, all too soon,0\-id, Met. i. 521.105. At erst,\\i.:x.i first. But it is here made to express somethingelse, viz. either too soon or at last. It is an instance of misuse of words.1 13. Rosalind, whom he in the Eclogue for April terms the widdowes'daughter of the glenne,' was some Northern beauty of unknown name,with whom Spenser fell deeply in love. She did not, however, returnhis love; and, after cherishing an affection for her for some years, heat length, in 1592, met nn Elizabeth, whom, about a year and a halfafterwards, he married.^ Wild. ^ Was accustomed. ^ Traps.'Swam across. ^ Tied up. * Slings.