Part 43 (1/2)

P. 246. _a chartered libertine_. ”Henry V,” i, 1, 48.

P. 247. _Like proud seas_. ”Two n.o.ble Kinsmen,” ii, 2, 23.

_Did the latter ever acknowledge the obligation?_ Scott wrote to Byron's publisher, John Murray, December 17, 1821: ”I accept with feelings of great obligation, the flattering proposal of Lord Byron to prefix my name to the very grand and tremendous drama of 'Cain.' I may be partial to it, and you will allow I have cause; but I do not think that his Muse has ever taken so lofty a flight amid her former soarings.”

_Farthest from them_. ”Paradise Lost,” I, 247.

P. 248. _the first Vision of Judgment_, the one composed by Southey on the occasion of the death of George III, celebrating that monarch's entry into heaven and provoking a spirited travesty from Byron.

_None but itself_. This line is quoted by Burke in the ”Letters on a Regicide Peace,” from a play written or adapted by Lewis Theobald, ”The Double Falsehood” (1727). Waller-Glover.

_the tenth transmitter_. Richard Savage's ”The b.a.s.t.a.r.d.”

P. 250. _Nothing can cover_. Beaumont and Fletcher's ”The False One,” ii, 1.

ON POETRY IN GENERAL

This is the first of the ”Lectures on the English Poets.”

P. 251. _spreads its sweet leaves_. ”Romeo and Juliet,” i, 1, 158.

P. 252. _the stuff_. ”Tempest,” iv, 1, 156.

_mere oblivion_. ”As You Like It,” ii, 7, 166.

_man's life_. ”King Lear,” ii, 4, 270.

P. 253. _There is warrant_. ”Richard III,” i, 4, 112.

_such seething brains_. ”Midsummer Night's Dream,” v, 1, 4.

_Angelica and Medoro_. Characters in ”Orlando Furioso.”

P. 254. _which ecstacy is very cunning in_. ”Hamlet,” iii, 4, 138.

_Poetry, according to Lord Bacon_. Cf. Bacon's ”Advancement of Learning,”

Book II: ”Because _true Historie_ representeth Actions and Euents more ordinarie and lesse interchanged, therefore _Poesie_ endueth them with more Rarenesse and more vnexpected and alternatiue Variations: So as it appeareth that _Poesie_ serueth and conferreth to Magnanimitie, Moralitie, and to delectation. And therefore it was euer thought to haue some partic.i.p.ation of diuinesse, because it doth raise and erect the Minde, by submitting the shewes of things to the desires of the Mind, whereas reason doth buckle and bowe the Mind unto the Nature of things.”

P. 255. _Our eyes are made the fools_. ”Macbeth,” ii, 1, 44.

_That if it would_. ”Midsummer Night's Dream,” v, 1, 19.

_The flame o' th' taper_. ”Cymbeline,” ii, 2, 19.

P. 256. _for they are old_. Cf. ”Lear,” ii, 4, 194.

_Nothing but his unkind daughters_. Cf. ”King Lear,” iii, 4, 72:

”Nothing could have subdued nature To such a lowness but his unkind daughters.”