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Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850 by Various
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Fletcher's _Purple Island_, C. 6. S. 28. p. 71. ed. 1633.

On l. 331. (G.):--

"Night begins to _muffle up_ the day."

Wither's _Mistresse of Philarete_.

On l. 335. (G.):--

"That whiles thick _darkness_ blots the light,
My thoughts may cast another _night_:
In which _double shade_," &c.

Cartwright's _Poems_, p. 220. ed. 1651.

On l. 345. (G.):--

"Singing to the sounds of _oaten reed_."

_Drummond_, p. 128.

On l. 373. (G.):--

"Virtue gives herself light thro' darkness for to wade."

Spenser's _F. Queene_. {149}

(D.) For what is here finely said, and again beautifully expressed (v.
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