syr Arthur depraued and euyl sayd of." Morte d'Arthur, B. xxi. c. i. vol. ii. 433. ed. Southey.

Page 105. v. 1289. estate] i. e. high rank, dignity. v. 1291. Hercules that hell dyd harow]-harow, i. e. lay waste, plunder, spoil,-overpower, subdue,-Hercules having carried away from it his friends Theseus and Pirithous, as well as the dog Cerberus. The harrowing of hell was an expression properly and constantly applied to our Lord's descent into hell, as related in the Gospel of Nicodemus. There were several early miracle-plays on this favourite subject; and Lydgate strangely enough says that Christ

"Took out of helle soulys many a peyre,
Mawgre Cerberus and al his cruelte.”

Testamentum,-MS. Harl. 2255. fol. 49. I may add, that Warner, speaking of Hercules, uses the words "harrowed hell." Albion's England, p. 23. ed. 1612.

v. 1293. Slew of the Epidaures, &c.] Qy. is not the text corrupted here?

v. 1295. Onocentaures] i. e. Centaurs, half human, half asses. See Elian De Nat. Anim. lib. xvii. c. 9. ed. Gron., and Phile De Anim. Prop. c. 44. ed. Pauw. Both these writers describe the onocentaur as having the bosom of a woman. R. Holme says it "is a Monster, being the Head and Breasts of a Woman set upon the Shoulders of a Bull.” Ac. of Armory, 1688. B. ii. p. 208.

v. 1296. Hipocentaures] i. e. Centaurs, half human, half horses.

v. 1302. Of Hesperides withhold] i. e. Withheld by the Hesperides.

Page 106, v. 1314. rounses] i. e. common hackney

horses (though the word is frequently used for horses in general).

Page 106. v. 1318.

He plucked the bull

By the horned skull,

And offred to Cornucopia]

The "bull" means Achelous, who, during his combat with Hercules, assumed that shape:

"rigidum fera dextera cornu Dum tenet, infregit; truncaque a fronte revellit. Näides hoc, pomis et odoro flore repletum, Sacrarunt; divesque meo bona Copia cornu est."

v. 1322. Ecates] i. e. Hecate's.

v. 1326.

Ovid. Met. ix. 85.

the venemous serpent, That in hell is neuer brent]

-brent, i. e. burned. A somewhat profane allusion to the scriptural expression "the worm dieth not; (worm and serpent were formerly synonymous). v. 1332. infernall posty]—posty, i. e. power. So Lydgate;

"Of heuene and erthe and infernal pooste."

Testamentum,-MS. Harl. 2255. fol. 47.

v. 1333. rosty] i. e. roast.

v. 1335. wood] i. e. mad, wild.

Page 107. v. 1340. frounsid] i. e. wrinkled.

v. 1344. Primo Regum] i. e. The First Book of Kings, or, as it is now called, The First Book of Samuel, chap. xxviii.

"Primo regum as ye may playnly reade."
Lydgate's Fall of Prynces, B. ii. leaf xxxix
ed. Wayland.

-Phitonesse, i. e. Pythoness, witch,-the witch of Endor.

“And speke as renably, and faire, and wel,
As to the Phitonesse did Samuel:

And yet wol som men say it was not he," &c.
Chaucer's Freres Tale, v. 7091. ed. Tyr.

"And secretelye this Saule is forth gone

To a woman that should him rede and wisse,
In Israell called a phytonesse.

To diuines this matter I commit,

Whether it was the soule of Samuell," &c.

Lydgate's Fall of Prynces, B. ii. leaf xl.

ed. Wayland.

See also Gower's Conf. Am. B. iv. fol. lxxiii. ed. 1554; Barbour's Bruce, B. iii. v. 982. ed. Jam.; G. Douglas's Preface to his Virgil's Æneados, p. 6, l. 51. ed. Rudd.; and Sir D. Lyndsay's Monarchie, B. iv Works, iii. 151. ed. Chalmers.

v. 1346. dresse] i. e. address, apply.

v. 1351. condityons] i. e. qualities. But in our author's Garlande of Laurell, where this "adicyon" is given, the passage according to Fake's ed., and rightly perhaps (compare the preceding lines), stands thrs;

And by her supersticiou
Or wonderfull condiciou

v. 13

227. v. 1852. stede] i. e. place. 158 asery] i. e. to assail (with Chronicle we find,

→Frard was hardie, the Londres ga

p. 217. "-cry

why Goss renders "ascrie "

French has,

S Eduuard fiz le rays, les loundra

MS. Cott. Jul

quere gives "Escrier: Faire ent Farmes dans une bataille . . . marche san" de. Gloss. de la Lang. Rom. * poursuivre avec des cris. Du *. 1980 my selfe dyscharge] i. e. u sat open my mind.

* 1868 steve] i. e. shine.

Page 108. v. 1871. Scroupe pulchra

ELYNOUR RUMMYNGE.

On the titlepage, and also on the last 1 on of this poem, 1624, 4to, (reprint Art Aucy, in the Harleian Miscell eta od Park,) is an imaginary portra And is a facsimile:

George Steevens having heard that a copy of Rand's edition was in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral, prevailed on the Dean to bring it to London; and having made a drawing of the title-page, gave it to Richardson the printseller, who engraved and published it. Steevens, soon after, contributed to the European Magazine for May, 1794, vol. xxv. 334,

"Verses meant to have been subjoined (with the following Motto) to a Copy from a scarce Portrait of Elinour Rumming, lately published by Mr. Richardson, of Castle-street, Leicester-square.