102. Luke quotes Spenser, _Ruines of Rome_, st. 28:
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Shewing her wreathed rootes and naked armes." 103. _His listless length_. Hales compares _King Lear_, i. 4: "If youwill measure your lubber's length again, tarry." Cf. also _Brittain'sIda_ (formerly ascribed to Spenser, but rejected by the besteditors), iii. 2: "Her goodly length stretcht on a lilly-bed." 104. Cf. Thomson, _Spring_, 644: "divided by a babbling brook;" andHorace, _Od._ iii. 13, 15: "unde loquacesLymphae desiliunt tuae." Wakefield quotes _As You Like It_, ii. 1: "As he lay alongUnder an oak whose antique root peeps outUpon the brook that brawls along this road." 105. _Smiling as in scorn_. Cf. Shakes. _Pass. Pilgrim_, 14: "Yet at my parting sweetly did she smile,In scorn or friendship, nill I construe whether." and Skelton, _Prol. to B. of C._: "Smylynge half in scorneAt our foly." 107. _Woeful-wan_. Mitford says: "_Woeful-wan_ is not a legitimatecompound, and must be divided into two separate words, for such theyare, when released from the _handcuffs_ of the hyphen." The hyphen isnot in the edition of 1768, and we should omit it if it were notfound in the Pembroke MS. Wakefield quotes Spenser, _Shep. Kal._ Jan.: "For pale and wanne he was (alas the while!)May seeme he lovd, or els some care he tooke." 108. "_Hopeless_ is here used in a proleptic or anticipatory way"(Hales). 109. _Custom'd_ is Gray's word, not _'custom'd_, as usually printed.See either Wb. or Worc. s. v. Cf. Milton, _Ep. Damonis_: "Simulassueta seditque sub ulmo." 114. _Churchway path_. Cf. Shakes. _M. N. D._ v. 2: "Now it is the time of night,That the graves all gaping wide,Every one lets forth his spriteIn the churchway paths to glide." 115. _For thou canst read_. The "hoary-headed swain" of course could_not_ read. 116. _Grav'd_. The old form of the participle is _graven_, but_graved_ is also in good use. The old preterite _grove_ is obsolete. 117. _The lap of earth_. Cf. Spenser, _F. Q._ v. 7, 9: "For other beds the Priests there used none,But on their mother Earths deare lap did lie;" and Milton, _P. L._ x. 777: "How glad would lay me down,As in my mother's lap!" Lucretius (i. 291) has "gremium matris terrai." Mitford adds thepathetic sentence of Pliny, _Hist. Nat._ ii. 63: "Nam terra novissimecomplexa gremio jam a reliqua natura abnegatos, tum maxime, ut mater,operit." 123. _He gave to misery all he had, a tear_. This is the pointing ofthe line in the MSS. and in all the early editions except that ofMathias, who seems to be responsible for the change (adopted by therecent editors, almost without exception) to, "He gave to Misery (all he had) a tear." This alters the meaning, mars the rhythm, and spoils the sentiment.If one does not see the difference at once, it would be useless totry to make him see it. Mitford, who ought to have known better, notonly thrusts in the parenthesis, but quotes this from Pope's Homer asan illustration of it: "His fame ('tis all the dead can have) shall live." 126. Mitford says that _Or_ in this line should be _Nor_. Yes, if"draw" is an imperative, like "seek;" no, if it is an infinitive, inthe same construction as "to disclose." That the latter was theconstruction the poet had in mind is evident from the form of thestanza in the Wrightson MS., where "seek" is repeated: "No farther seek his merits to disclose,Nor seek to draw them from their dread abode." 127. _In trembling hope_. Gray quotes Petrarch, _Sonnet_ 104:"paventosa speme." Cf. Lucan, _Pharsalia_, vii. 297: "Spe trepido;"Mallet, _Funeral Hymn_, 473: "With trembling tenderness of hope and fear;" and Beaumont, _Psyche_, xv. 314: "Divided here twixt trembling hope and fear." Hooker (_Eccl. Pol._ i.) defines hope as "a trembling expectation ofthings far removed." [Illustration]
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