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So for to quench his fire, he did it more aug<6 ment.

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"Ne ever had fuch knightly service seen, "(But being bred under bafe 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, fhe did them "all defpife.

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"Which Calidore perceiving, thought it best "To change the manner of his lofty look; "And doffing his bright arms, himself addreft "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 be66 thought A bud

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On Phrygian Paris by Plexippus brook, "When he the love of fair Oenone fought, What time the golden apple was to him "brought.

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So being clad, unto the fields he went "With the fair Paftorella every day,

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Thus Calidore continued there long time "To win the love of the fair Paftorel,

"Which having got, he ufed without crime, "Or blameful blot; but menaged fo well, "That he of all the reft which there did dwell "Was favoured, and to her grace commend"ed, &c."

fioSc. 5. p. 339

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opinion was Paftorella, with regard to the fhepherd Melibee.

"He was to weet by common voice esteem'd "The father of the faireft 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,

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Fairy Queen, Book 6. Canto 9. 14.

Act 4. fc. 5. P. 340.

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Perdita. O Proferpina, For the flowers now, that frighted, thou let it fa Fall from Dis's waggon, deffadils, &c.] See Tempest, Act 4. fc. 3. p. 64. Appian of Alexandria, fpeaking of the river Strymon, and of thofe fine countries of Macedonia, and Thrace, that were water'd by it; fays, it was from thence that Preferpine was stolen, whilst she was gathering of flowers. Ubi raptam dicunt Proferpinam cum flores legeret.

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Dis was the God of Riches, allo call'd Pluto. "Dan. Pluto, that is the King of Fayrie," And many a ladie in his companie,

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"How in his grifly cart he did her fet."
Chaucer's Squire's Tale, 1744, &c. 3

See Milton's Paradife Loft, Book 4. 268, &c.
Id. ib. P. 340.

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“ The swallows and fwifts have very short "legs, (fays Dr. Derham, Phyfico-Theology, book

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7. chap. 1. note) and their toes grafping any "thing very strongly. All which is useful to “them in building their nefts, and other fuch “occasions, as neceffitate them to hang frequently by their heels: But there is far greater use of this fttucture of their legs and "feet, if the reports be true of their hanging together in great clufters, (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 story at the University, [Oxford] and "confirm'd it to me fince, viz, That an an"cient fisherman, accounted an honeft man, being near fome rocks on the coaft of Corn

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wall, faw, at a very low ebb, a black lift 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 (C 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 fiberman himself affured the Doctor " of."

See more chap. 3. note 4.

4. fc. 6. p. 345

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Thus ufed in his play, intitled, Much ado about nothing, 5. fc. 7. Vol. 2. p. 861ómine Benedick. If a man"Do not erect in this age his own tombe're **** he dies, Rugar is rhivihni sát a SH *** He fhall live no longer in monument than the Bells ring, and the widow weeps vom Beatrice." And how long is that think you?" Benedick Queftion? Why an hour in claen duodi and eru god

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But I fhould rather imagine, he wrote charm your tongues, as Sir Tho. Hanmer has alter'd it, as he ufes the expreffion.

Third part of King Henry the Sixth, A5, ft. 6.

K. Edw. "Peace, wilful boy, or I will charm on your tongue 21 of fit, bio "And in Othello, Moor of Venice, A&t 5. sc, 8. 6 has bad sa sin ti o`lis P. 397.

Jago. Miftrefs, go to, charm your tongue. Æmilia. “I will not rbarm \my tongue, I > am bound to speak guolinoo

My miftrefs lies here murthered in her bed.” We meet with the like expreffion, and in the fame fenfe, in Ben Johnson, Cynthia's "Revels, Act 1. fc. T.

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