Ireland when the rebellion broke out under Tyrone, 1598, but that being plundered of his fortune, he was obliged to return into England, where he died, that fame, or the next year*. Camden adds, that he was buried in the a bey of Weftminster, with due folemnities, at the expence of the earl of Effex. If Drummond's account be true, it is moft probable, that the earl, whofe benefaction came too late to be of any use, ordered his body to be conveyed into England, where it was interred as Camden relates. It must be owned that Jonson's account, in Drummond, is very circumftantial; and that it is probable, Jonson was curious enough to collect authentic information, on fo interesting a subject. At least his profeffion and connections better qualified him to come at the truth. Perhaps he was one of the poets who held up Spenfer's pallt.

B. vi. c. vi. f. xx.

To whom the prince, HIм faining to embase.

HIM for HIMSELF is the language of poetry at prefent. The elder poets took greater liberties in this

Jonfon conceived fo high an opinion of Drummond's genius, that he took a journey into Scotland, on purpose to converse with him, and remained fome time with him, at his house at Hawthornden.

*Camden. Annales Eliz. p. 4. pag. 729. Lugd. Batav. See also Sir J. Ware's pref. to Spenfer's View of Ireland, Dublin. fol. 1633. edit. 1. Poetis funus ducentibus. Camden ubi fupr.

point, fo that fometimes it is difficult to determine whether HIM is used for fe or illum. Of this the verse Thus again,

before us is an inftance.

Scudamore coming to CARE's house

Doth fleep from HIм expell.

4. 5. Arg.

That is, "expells fleep from HIMSELF." Thus in
Raleigh's elegant VISION upon the conceipt of the FAERIE
QUEENE.

At whofe approache the foule of Petrarcke wept,
And from thenceforth thofe graces were not seen,
For they this queene attended; in whose stead
OBLIVION laid HIм down on Laura's herse.

We are apt, at first, to refer HIM down, &c. to Petrarcke, "OBLIVION laid PETRARCKE down;" while the meaning is, "OBLIVION LAID himself DOWNE."

The initial line of this fonnet feems to have been thought of by Milton, viz.

Methought I fawe the grave where Laura lay.

Thus Milton on his Deceafed Wife*.

Methought I faw my late-espoused faint.

And he probably took the hint of writing a visionary fonnet on that occafion, from this of Raleigh.

There is a particular beauty in the allegorical turn of this little compofition in praise of the FAFRIE QUEENE, as it imitates the manner of the author whom it compliments.

PRETENDED, "ftretched or held over her." This latinifm is to be found in Milton, but in a sense fomewhat different.

Left that too heavenly form PRETENDED

To hellish falfhood, snare them *.

B. iii. c. ii. f. xxxii.

The time that mortall men their weary cares
Do lay away, and all wilde beasts do rest,

And

every river eke his courfe forbeares, Then doth this wicked evill thee infeft.

These verses, which, at first fight, seem to be drawn from Dido's + night in the fourth Eneid, are tranflated from the Ceiris attributed to Virgil, as it has been before in general hinted, Sect. 3.

Tempore quo feffas mortalia pectora curas,
Quo rapidos etiam requiefcunt flumina curfus †.

B. iv. c. vi. f. xliv. ·

With that the wicked Carle, the master smith,
A paire of red-hot iron tongs did take,
Out of the burning cinders, and therewith
Under the fide him nipt.

In these verses the allegory is worked up to an amazing height. What he fays of Erinnys in the RUINS of ROME, is fomewhat in this strain,

What fell Erinnys with hot-burning tongs,
Did gripe your hearts?

ft. 24.

From the fame ftanza Milton probably drew the expreffion BLIND FURY, in Lycidas; as it was not taken from the authority of antient mythology.

Comes the BLIND FURY, with th' abhorred fhears,
And flits the thin-fpun life.

Spenfer,

If the BLIND furie, which warres breedeth oft,
Wonts not, &c.

So Sackville, in Gordobucke.

O Jove, how are these peoples hearts abus'd;
And what blind fury headlong carries them *.

* A&. 5. 3.

B. v. c. vii. f. xxi.

Magnificke virgin, that in QUEINT DISGUISE

Of British armes.

That is, in ftrange difguife." In this fenfe the word QUEINT is ufed in Comus.

Left the place,

And this QUEINT habit breed astonishment.

Somewhat in this fignification it is likewise applied by the fhepherd Cuddy, in our author's OCTOBER.

With QUEINT Bellona.

Where E. K. in explaining it, has difcovered more learning than penetration.

Skinner feems to have wrongly interpreted QUAINT, elegans. If it ever fignifies elegant or beautifull, it implies a fantastic kind of beauty arising from an odd variety. Thus Milton, in Lycidas, of flowers.

Throw hither all your QUEINT enamel'd eyes.

And in Arcades; where it expreffes an elegance refulting from affectation rather than nature.

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And CURL the grove

In ringlets QUEINT.

Where