1 During which time he did her entertain, "With all kind courtefies he could invent; "And every day her company to gain, "When to the field fhe went, with her he 66 went: "So for to quench his fire, he did it more aug66 ment. XXXV. "But fhe that never had acquainted been "With fuch queint ufage, fit for queens and 'kings, "Ne ever had fuch knightly service feen, (But being bred under base fhepherds wings, "Had ever learn'd to love the lowly things) “Did little whit regard his courteous guife, "But cared more for Colin's carolings, "Than all that he could do, or e'er devize; "His lays, his loves, his looks, she did them "all defpife. XXXVI. "Which Calidore perceiving, thought it best "To change the manner of his lofty look; "And doffing his bright arms, himself addrest "In fhepherds weed, and in his hand he took, "Instead of steel-head fpear, a fhepherd's hook; "That who had feen him then, would have bethought 66 "On Phrygian Paris by Plexippus' brook, "When he the love of fair Oenone fought, What time the golden apple was to him brought. XXXVII. XXXVII "So being clad, unto the fields he went "With the fair Paftorella every day, "And kept her sheep with diligent attent, "Watching to drive the ravenous wolf away, "The whileft at pleasure fhe mote sport and "play; "And every evening helping them to fold: "And other whiles for need, he did affay "In his strong hand their rugged teats to hold, "And out of them to prefs the milk; love fo "much could." XLVI. "Thus Calidore continued there long time "To win the love of the fair Paftorel, "Which having got, he used without crime, "Or blameful blot; but menaged fo well, "That he of all the rest which there did dwell "Was favoured, and to her grace commend"ed, &c." Sc. 5. p. 339. Per. Sirs, welcome. [To Pol. and Cam.] It is my father's will I should take on me The hoftefsship o'th' day.] Perdita imagined that the fhepherd was her real father. Of the fame opinion was Paftorella, with regard to the shepherd Melibee. "He was to weet by common voice esteem'd "The father of the fairest Paftorel, "And of herself in very deed fo deem'd; "Yet was not fo, but as old ftories tell, "Found her by fortune, which to him befell, "In th' open fields, an infant left alone, "And taking up brought home, and nurfed "well "As his own child; for other he had none, "That fhe in tract of time accounted was his "own. 39 Fairy Queen, Book 6. Canto 9. 14. Act 4. fc. 5. p. 340. Perdita. O Proferpina, For the flowers now, that frighted, thou let ft fall from Dis's waggon, daffadils, &c.] See Tempest, Act 4. fc. 3. p. 64. Appian of Alexandria, fpeaking of the river Strymon, and of those fine countries of Macedonia, and Thrace, that were water'd by it; fays, it was from thence that Proferpine was ftolen, whilft fhe was gathering of flowers. Ubi raptam dicunt Proferpinam cum flores legeret. Dis was the God of Riches, alfo call'd Pluto, "Dan. Pluto, that is the King of Fayrie, "And many a ladie in his companie, Following his wife, the Quene Proferpina. "Which he ravifhed out of Sicilia, "Eche after right as on a line, "While that fhe gadrid flouris in a mede; See Milton's Paradife Loft, Book 4. 268, &c. Id. ib. p. 340. That comes before the swallow dares, and take the winds of March with beauty.] The fwallows appear about the vernal equinox. The ઃઃ "The fwallows and fwifts have very short legs, (fays Dr. Derham, Phyfico-Theology, book 7. chap. 1. note) and their toes grafping any thing very ftrongly. All which is ufeful to "them in building their nefts, and other fuch "occafions, as neceffitate them to hang fre"quently by their heels: But there is far greater ufe of this structure of their legs and "feet, if the reports be true of their hanging "together in great clusters, (after the manner "of bees) in mines and grotto's, and on the "rocks by the fea, all the winter. Of which " latter, I remember the late learned Dr. Fry "told this ftory at the Univerfity, [Oxford] and "confirm'd it to me fince, viz, That an an"cient fisherman, accounted an honeft man, "being near fome rocks on the coast of Corn"wall, faw, at a very low ebb, a black list of "fomething adhering to the rock, which when "he came to examine, he found it was a great "number of swallows, and, if I mifremember << not, of fwifts alfo, hanging by the feet to ་་ one another, as bees do; which were cover'd "commonly by the fea water, but revived "in his warm hand, and by the fire. All "this the fisherman himself affured the Doctor " of." See more chap. 3. note 4. A& Clo. 4. fc. 6. p. 345. Clamour your tongues, And not a word more.] The word clamour, when applied to bells, does not fignify, in S 4 Shake i Shakespeare, a ceafing, but a continued ringing. Thus ufed in his play, intitled, Much ado about nothing, A&t 5. sc. 7. Vol. 2. p. 86. "If a man Benedick. "Do not erect in this age his own tomb e're " he dies, "He fhall live no longer in monument than the "Bells ring, and the widow weeps. Beatrice. "And how long is that think you? Benedick. " Question? Why an hour in cla66 mour, "And a quarter in rheum." But I fhould rather imagine, he wrote charm your tongues, as Sir Tho. Hanmer has alter'd it, as he uses the expreffion. Third part fc. 6. of King Henry the Sixth, A& 5. K. Edw. "Peace, wilful boy, or I will charm 66 your tongue." And in Othello, Moor of Venice, A& 5, sc. 8. P. 397. Iago. "Mistress, go to, charm your tongue. Emilia. "I will not charm my tongue, I "am bound to speak; "My mistress lies here murthered in her bed." We meet with the like expreffion, and in the fame fenfe, in Ben Johnson, Cynthia's Revels, Act I. fc. I. Mercurio. How now my dancing braggart, in decimo fexto, charm your skipping tongue, or I'le A& |