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Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850 by Various
page 22 of 69 (31%)

On l. 853. (G.) Compare this line of Drayton in his _Baron's Warrs_:--

"Of gloomy magicks and benumbing charms."

Vol. i. p. 110. ed. 1753.

On l. 861. (G.):--

"Through whose _translucent_ sides much light is born."

Ph. Fletcher's _Pur. Island_, C. 5. St. 31. p. 54.

On l. 862. (M.):--

"All hundred nymphs, that in his rivers dwell,
About him flock, with water-lilies crowned."

Ph. Fletcher's _Poet. Miscell._, p 67. ed. 1633.

On l. 863. (G.) The use of Ambergris, mentioned in Warton's note,
appears from Drayton, v. ii. p. 483.:--

"Eat capons cooked at fifteen crowns apiece,
With their fat bellies stuft with ambergrise."

On l. 886. (G.):--

"The wealth of Tarsus nor the _rocks of pearl_,
_That pave the court of Neptune_, can weigh down
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