With ruftie horrour and fowle fashion; A Iudge, that after death doth punish fore 445 "But valiant fortune made Dan Orpheus bolde: For the fwift running rivers ftill did stand, 450, And the wilde beasts their furie did withhold, To follow Orpheus muficke through the land: And th' okes, deep grounded in the earthly molde, Did move, as if they could him understand ; And the fhrill woods, which were of fense be reav'd, 455 Through their hard barke his filver found receav'd. "And eke the Moone her haftie fteedes did stay, note on this expreffion, Shep. Cal. June, ver. 61. TODD. The fame was able with like lovely lay “She, (Ladie) having well before approoved 465 The feends to be too cruell and fevere, Obferv'd th' appointed way, as her behooved, Ne ever did her eyfight turne arere, Ne ever spake, ne cause of speaking mooved; But, cruell Orpheus, thou much crueller, 470 Seeking to kiffe her, brok'ft the gods decree, And thereby mad'ft her ever damn'd to be. "Ah! but sweete love of pardon worthie is, And to the seates of happie foules admitted: "There be the two ftout fonnes of Eacus, Fierce Peleus, and the hardie Telamon, Ver. 468.. 475 480 arere,] Backward. Fr. arriere. Ufed by Chaucer. See Gloff. edit. Urr. " Arere fopor, after fupper." See alfo F. Q. iii. x. 23. “And would bave fled arere.' And in other places. TODD. Both feeming now full glad and ioyeous 485 "For th' one was ravifht of his owne bondmaide, The faire Ixione captiv'd from Troy : 490 But th' other was with Thetis love affaid, 496 "O! who would not recount the ftrong divorces Of that great warre, which Troianes oft behelde, And oft beheld the warlike Greekifh forces, When Teucrian foyle with bloodie rivers fwelde, 500 And wide Sigæan fhores were fpred with corfes, And Simois and Xanthus blood outwelde; Whilft Hector raged, with outragious minde, Flames, weapons, wounds, in Greeks fleete to have tynde. Ver. 490. The fair Ixione] Inftead of Hefione. But it is doubtful whether this be the true fenfe of the place. See Scaliger. JORTIN. "For Ida felfe, in ayde of that fierce fight, 505 510 And all the Rhétæan fhore to ashes turne, Where lay the fhips, which they did feeke to burne. "Gainft which the noble fonne of Telamon "So th' one with fire and weapons did contend To cut the fhips from turning home againe To Argos; th' other ftrove for to defend The force of Vulcane with his might and maine. Ver. 511. Rhétæan] So fpelt and accented on the first fyllable, in the original edition; as Némaan alfo is in F. Q. vii. vii. 36. Ver. 523. TODD. defend] Repell. This is a Latinifm, and an elegant boldness. See alfo F. Q. ii. xii. 63. JORTIN. See alfo Upton's note, F. Q. ii. xii. 63. TODD. acide did his fame extend: 525 Thus th' one 66 530 Againe great dole on either partie grewe, That him to death unfaithfull Paris fent; And alfo him that falfe Ulyffes flewe, Drawne into danger through clofe ambushment; Therefore from him Laërtes fonne his vewe Doth turne afide, and boafts his good event In working of Strymonian Rhæfus fall,, And efte in Dolons fubtile fúrpryfall. 535 "Againe the dreadfull Cycones him difmay, Ver. 528. He compaft Troy thrice] Thrice is not in the original. Virgil affirms it indeed, Æn. i. 487, contrary to Homer's account of it. JORTIN. Ver. 540. Ver. 536. fubtile] The folio of 1611 judiciously altered the original word flye to fubtile, which is of fimilar import, and completes the measure of the verfe. TODD. bandogs,] The mastiff was formerly called a bandog. See Cotgrave in V." Maftin, a maftive or ban-dog, a great (countrey) curre." See Johnfon for the various etymologies of the word. See alfo Serenius's Dict. Anglo-Sueth. Lat. where the word is rendered band-hund. TODD. |