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the thirtythird year of his life

in Galing.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON THE VERSES

CHAP.

 

III. The Funeral dirge on King Gorice XI—William Dunbar (late 15th

century) “Lament for the Makris: quhen he was seik.”

 

Lampoon on Gro—Epigram in memory of William Parrie, “a capital

traitor,” executed for treason in 1584: quoted by Holinshed.

 

IV. Prophecy concerning the last three Kings of the house of Gorice in

Carce.

 

VII. Song in praise of Prezmyra Thomas Carew (1598-1639).

 

Corund’s Song of the Chine—“An Antidote against Melancholy”

 

Corsus’s “Whene’er I bib the wine down”—Anacreonta xxv.; transl. from

the Greek, E. R. E.

 

Corsus’s other ditties …—From the “Roxburgh Ballads”—(collected

1774).

 

IX. Mivarsh’s slaves on Salapanta—Herrick (1591-1674), “Hesperides.”

 

XV. Prezmyra’s song of Lovers—Donne (1573-1631)

 

Corinius’s love ditty: “What an Ass is he”—“Merry Drollerie”

 

Corinius’s song on his Mis tress—Ibid.

 

Laxus’s Serenade Anacreota ii.; trans. from the Greek, E. R. E.

 

XVII. March of Corsus’s veterans—

 

XXII. Mevrian’s ballad of the Ra vens—Old Ballad: “The Three Ravens.”

 

XXIV. Mevrian’s quotation on the asbeston stone—Robert Greene

(1560-92), “Alphonsus, King of Arragon.”

 

XXX. Gro’s serenade to Prezmyra—Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639), verses

to Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia.

 

XXXI. Prophecy concerning conjuring

 

XXXIII. Lines quoted by Queen Sophonisba on the fall of Witchland—

Webster (beginning of 17th century); “The Duchess of Malfi,” Act V. V.

 

Queen Sophonisba’s Sonnet—Shakespeare, Sonnet XVIII.

 

The text here printed of Wotton’s poem is that of “Reliquiae

Wottonianae,” 1st ed., 1651, edited by Izaak Walton; except that I

read (with the earlier texts) 1. 5 Moone, 1. 8 Passions, 1. 16

Princess, instead of Sun, Voyces, Mistris of the 1651 edition.

Shakespeare’s Sonnet is from the Quarto of 1609.

 

The passage from Njal’s Saga in the Induction is quoted from Sir

George Dasent’s classic translation.

 

E.R.E

THE END