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But we are nob done yet with the description of Musidorus, for Webster has again used it as material for the description of Prince Henry. It will be seen that the imitation is closer in the poem than in the play, and that 'The Duchess of Malfi' and 'A Monumental Column' have a line almost identically the same as each other, which is not in Sidney, although in his style. The line in question is the first in the following quotation:—
His form and virtue both deserv'd his fortune;
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His mind quite void of ostentation,
His high-erected thoughts look'd down upon
The smiling valley of his fruitful heart, &c.
(To be continued.)
BURTON'S 'ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY.'
(See 9ᵗʰ S. xi. 181, 222, 263, 322, 441; xii. 2, 62, 162, 301, 362, 442; 10ᵗʰ S. i. 42, 163, 203, 282; ii. 124.)
Vol. I. (Shilleto), p. 13, 1. 6; p. 2, 1. 31, ed. 6, "he travelled to Egypt." See Diog. Laert., ix. vii. 3, 35.
P. 19, 28, and n. 14; 6, 25, and n. o. A. R. S. gives the Ep. of Synesius as 142. It is 143 (Hercher, 'Epistologr. Græci').
P. 35, 19; 15, 38, "Ne sutor ultra crepidam." A. R. S., while referring to Plin., 35, 10, 36, §85, might have pointed out that Burton uses the perverted form of the saying with ultra instead of supra. See Büchmann's 'Geflügelte Worte' and Otto's 'Sprichwörter der Römer.'
P. 38, 4; 17, 16, "as that great captain Zisca would have a drum made of his skin when he was dead, because he thought the very noise of it would put his enemies to flight." See Æneas Sylvius, 'Hist. Bohemica,' cap. 46, p. 114 e. f. ('Op.,' Bas., 1571), "Ferunt ilium cum ægrotaret interrogatum, quonam loco mortuus sepeliri vellet, iussisse cadaveri suo pellem adimi, carnes volucribus ac feris obiectari, ex pelle tympanum fieri, eoque duce bella geri, arrepturos fugam hostes, quum primum eius tympani sonitum audierint."
P. 42, 1; 19, 41, "accommodare se ad eum locum ubi nati sunt …… patronis inservire," &c. J. V. Andreä, 'Vitæ Humanæ Querela XI.,' p. 228 of 1617 ed. of his 'Menippus.'
P. 42, n. 3; 19, n. 1 (to "hand and take bribes, &c."), "Quis nisi mentis inops," &c. A. R. S. refers to Ovid, 'A. A.,' i. 465 ("Quis, nisi mentis inops, tenerte declamat amicæ?"), but the reference is obviously to the proverbial "Quis nisi mentis inops oblatum respuat aurum?" Cf. 10ᵗʰ S. i. 188, where it is mentioned that the line is to be found in Lily's Grammar.
P. 43, n. 4; 20, n. q, "sol scientiarum." Cf. "unum te sæculo nostro adfulsisse literarum solem," quoted (from "Suspect. lect. lib. i. epist. i.") among the "Iudicia de Iosepho Scaligero Gasperis Scioppii nondum parasiti," at the beginning of D. Heinsius's 'Hercules Tuam Fidem sive Munsterus Hypobolimseus' (ed. 1617).
P. 47, n. 5; 22, n. o, "nemo …… invidiæ." From Erasmus, 'Adagia,' "Insania non omnibus eadem," p. 310, col. 2, l. 27, ed. 1629.
P. 55, 1; 27, 38,
ubique invenies
Stultos avaros, sycophantas prodigos.
See Heinsius, 'Cras Credo, Hodie Nihil' (p. 300 in 1629 ed. of his 'Laus Asini'), "neque quicquam interesse, quin ubique invenias,
Stultos, auaros, sycophantas, prodigos."
The punctuation given by Burton (ed. 4 and ed. 6) and the meaning assigned to the words by A. R. S. are not the meaning and punctuation of Heinsius.
P. 56, n. 5; 28, n. g, "Father Angelo, the Duke of Joyeux going bare-foot over the Alps to Rome." Henri, Comte du Bouchage, afterwards Duc de Joyeuse (1567-1608), entered the Order of the Capuchins in 1587 ("Henricus Jousa qui postquam in Capucinorum cœnobium transierat Frater Angelus vocabatur."—De Thou, 'Hist.,' lib. xc. cap. xviii.), became a soldier again after his brother's death, and re-entered the Capuchin Order in 1600. According to the 'Nouvelle Biographic Générale,' he caught the fever of which he died by trying to make the journey to Rome barefoot.
P. 58, n. 4; 29, n. * (2ⁿᵈ), "Ob inanes ditionum titulos …… mulierculam." See Erasmus, 'Adagia,' "Dulce bellum inexpertis," p. 296, col. 2, l. 55 (1629).—"Vel quod …… malitia." Ib. p. 301, col. 2, l. 54.—"Quod cupido dominandi, libido nocendi," &c. See Aug. 'Contra Faustum Manichæum,' lib. xxii. cap. 74, "quid enim culpatur in bello? ……Nocendi cupiditas, ulciscendi crudelitas, ……feritas rebellandi, libido dominandi."
P. 58, 19; 29, 43, "goodly causes all, obquas universus orbis bellis & cœdibus misceatur" See Erasmus, 'Adagia,' p. 300, col. 2, 1. 45.
P. 59, 14; 30, 18, "Sicinius Dentatus," &c. See Val. Max., iii. 2, 24; Plin., vii. 101; Gell., II. xi.
P. 59, 17; 30, 21, "M. Sergius." See Pliny, vii. 104 (where the number of wounds is given as 23).
P. 59, 18; 30, 21, "Scæva." See Cæsar,
