Part 8

FOOTNOTES:

Some modern editors read "sat."

Singer suggested "Alcmaeon."

"Chapman has a passage very similar to this in his Widow's Tears, Act iv.:--

'Wine is ordained to raise such hearts as sink: Whom woful stars distemper let him drink.'"

--Broughton.

"Old eds. 'prayes,' 'praies,' 'preies,' and 'pryes.'"--Dyce.

Dyce reads "enthrill'd" (a word that I do not remember to have seen).

Did make to spring. Cf. Fourth Sestiad, l. 169.

So the Isham copy. All other editions omit the words "the blood."

"Valure" is frequently found as a form of "value;" but I suspect, with Dyce, that it is here put (metri causa) for "valour."

Plot.

Gr. [Greek: adoleschÍs].

Some eds. "price."

Gr. [Greek: hagneia]

Singer gives a reference to Pausan, x. 5.--Old eds. "Phemonor" and "Phemoner."

Comfits.

"Other some" is a not uncommon form of expression. See Halliwell's Dict. of Archaic and Provincial Words.

Old eds. "their."

Old eds. "his."

A sudden pettishness or freak of fancy. Cf. Two Noble Kinsmen:--

"The hot horse hot as fire Took toy at this."

Former editors have not noticed that Chapman is here closely imitating Catullus' Carmen Nuptiale--

"Virginitas non tota tua est: ex parte parentum est: Tertia pars patri data, pars data tertia matri, Tertia sola tua est: noli pugnare duobus, Qui genero sua jura simul cum dote dederunt."

Some eds. "starting." Cf. Julius CÊsar, iv. 3, ll. 278-9--

"Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil, That makest my blood cold and my hair to stare?"

"Old eds. 'much-rong,' 'much rongd,' and 'much-wrong'd.'"--Dyce (who reads "much-wrung").

THE SIXTH SESTIAD.