Id. ib. The chiding autumn.] Childing autumn. Folio 1632.

Id. ib. p. 112.

Ob. I do but beg a little changeling boy 'te be my Henchman] A Henchman was a page of bonour. 'Twas an ancient office which was diffolv'd by queen Elizabeth in the year 1565. [See Strype's Annals. Vol. 1. 1ft Edit. p. 471.] Mr. Abmole (order of the garter p. 575) I think, gives an account of the ancient habit. worn by them.

Id. ib.

Queen. Set your heart at rest,

The fairy land buys not the child of me.]

Mr. Tho. Randolph, in his Paftoral, intitled, Amyntas: or The Impoffible Dowry, p. 36. gives the following humorous defcription of fairy land. "A curious park paled round about with pick-teeth A houfe made all with mo"ther of pearle -An ivory tennis court → A faphyre dairy room Chambers of agate

"A nutmeg parlour

A ginger hall,

"Kitchins all of chryftal,

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The jacks are gold The fpits are all Spanish needles. Dr. King's defcription of Orpheus's fairy entertainment [Orpheus and Euridice Mifcellanies, p. 382.] seems to anfwer the fairy jack, and spit.

"Quo' Nab, we here have ftrangers feldom, "But Sir, to what we have you're welcome. "Madam, they feem of light digestion, "Is it not rude to afk a question?

"What

"What they may be, fish, flesh, or fruit? "For I ne'er faw things fo minute.

Sir,

"A roasted ant that's nicely done,

"By one small atom of the fun.

"These are flies eggs in moon fhine poach'd, "This a fleas thigh in collops fcotch'd, "'Twas (a) hunted yesterday i'th' park "And like t'have fcap'd us in the dark. "This is a difh entirely new,

Butterflies brains diffolv'd in dew;

"Thefe lover's vows, thefe courtier's hopes, Things to be eat by microfcopes :

"Thefe fucking mites, a glow-worms heart, "This a delicious rainbow-tart.

"Madam, I find they're very nice,
"And will digeft within a trice;
"I fee there's nothing you efteem,
"That's half fo grofs as our whipt-cream,
"And I infer from all these meats,

"That fuch light fuppers keep clean fheets.
"But Sir, faid fhe, perhaps you'r dry,
"Then speaking to a fairy by,

E 2

"You've

(a) Mr. Tho. Randolph, in his Amyntas, or The Impossible Dowry, defcribes fairy-bunting in a more magnificent

manner.

Dor. I hope king Oberon, and his royal Mab are well? Joc. They are, I never faw their graces eat fuch a meal before.

Jo. They are rid a hunting,

Dor. Hare, or deer, my lord?

for. Neither, a brace of fnails of the first head,

"You've taken care, my dear Endia, "All's ready for my Ratafia.

Sir,

"A drop of water newly torn
"Fresh from the rofie-finger'd morn.
"A pearl of milk that's gently preft
"From blooming Hebe's carly breast;
"With half a one of Cupid's fears;
"When he in embrio first appears :
"And honey from an infant bee
"Makes liquor for the gods and me.

"Madam, faid he, an't please your grace "I'm going to a droughty place; "And if I an't too bold, pray charge her, "The draught I have, be fomewhat larger. "Fetch me, faid fhe, a mighty bowl,

"Like Oberon's capacious foul,

"And then fill up the burnifht gold
"With juice that makes the Britains bold.
"This from feven barley corns I drew,
"It's years are feven, and to the view
"It's clear, and fparkles nt for you.

Sc. 2. p. 115.

Cupid all arm'd] Thus it ftands in all the old editions, and notwithstanding the late alteration to alarm'd.

The old reading ought by all means to be retained. Nor does all-arm'd mean any thing more, than being arm'd with bow and quiver, the proper, and claffical arms of Cupid, which yet he is fometimes feign'd to lay afide. The

image then is not unclaffical, and our author"
feems to have copied it from Taffo Canto 1, 47.
"O Meraviglia amor ch à pena è nato
"Gia grande vola e giâ trion fa armato." Anon.
Chaucer, Spenfer, and Ben Jorfen speaking of
Cupid's arms, mention no other.

"The God of love, with bow y bent,

That al daie fet had his talent

"To purfue, and spy in me,

"Was ftonding by a figgè tre,
"And when he fawe how that I,
"Had chofen fo ententifely

"The bothum more nnto my pay
"Than any other that I fay,
"He toke an arrow sharpely whet

And in his bowe when it was fette,
"He ftreight up to his ere ydrough
"The ftrongè bowe, that was fo tough,
"And fhotte at me fo wondir smerte,
"That through mine eye unto mine herte
"The takil fmote, and depe it wente
"And therewithal fuch colde me hente,
That undir clothis warm and fofte
"Sin that day I have chivered ofte.”

"The Romaunt of the Rofe, 1715, &c. And Spenfer fpeaking of Cupid's laying aside his arms, mentions no other.

"Like as Cupido on Idean hill

"When having laid his cruel bow away
"And mortal arrows, wherewith he doth fill
"The world with murd'rous fpoils and bloody.

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"With

With his fair mother he him dights to play, "And with his goodly fifters, Graces three, "The goddefs pleafed with his wanton play "Suffers herself through fleep beguil'd to be "The whiles the other ladis mind their merry glee.

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Fairy Queen. Book 2. Canto 8. 6.1

And Ben Johnson [in his Entertainments] fpeaks of Cupid's arms in the following manner. 3d Grace." He doth bear a golden bow, "And a quiver hanging low,

"Full of arrows, that out brave
"Dian's fhafts, where if he have

"Any head more sharp than other,
"With that firft he ftrikes his mother.
Sc. 3. Helena to Demetrius.

Hel. I am your fpaniel, and Demetrius The more you beat me, I will fawn on you] A proverbial observation. "A fpaniel, a woman, and a wallnut-tree, "The more they're beaten, the better ftill

they be.

Ray's Proverbs 2d Edit. p. 59. See the fame image. Two gentlemen of Ve rona, A&t 4. fc. 2. p. 227.

Pro.

"Yet fpaniel like, the more fhe fpurns my

“love,

"The more it grows, and fawneth on her ftill. Alluding probably to the ungenteel, and unbecoming ufage of the women in Muscovy, of which Mr. Purchafe obferves, [Pilgrims 3d Part. lib. 2. cap. 1. p. 230.] 66 That,