Scaliger saw one that performed the dance of the Savoyards, at the same
time that it repeated their song.

P.T.W.

[3] Pot or kitchen love.

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RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS.

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DITTY BY QUEEN ELIZABETH.

(_For the Mirror._)


"I find, (says Puttenham,) none example in English metre so well
mayntayning this figure (_Exargasia_, or the Gorgeous) as that
dittie of her Majestie Queen Elizabeth's own making, passing sweete and
harmonical; which figure being, as his very original name purporteth,
the most beautiful and gorgeous of all others, it asketh in reason to be
reserved for a last compliment, and disciphered by the arte of a ladies
penne (herself being the most beautifull or rather beautie of Queens.)
And this was the occasion: Our Sovereign lady perceiving how the Queen