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| next poem, ll. 29-35; the lines upon A. M., pp. 61, 62 below; Cowley, Against Fruition, ll. 9, 10. | ||
| 25. | l. 5. | Made my approaches] W. W. quotes (inaccurately) Byron, To Thyrza, st. 8: 'Ours too the glance none saw beside,' etc., as an apparent imitation of this stanza. There is a general likeness of thought; but the imitation is not obvious. |
| 26. | l. 19. | Praising] Praying 1658. |
| l. 35. | That giant] 'The giant, Honour,' is personified by Carew, The Rapture, ll. 3-9: see note in Mr. Vincent's ed., p. 246. Honour is reproached again by Suckling, Upon the Black Spots worn by my Lady D. E., ll. 7, 8. | |
| Upon my Lord Brohall's Wedding. | ||
| Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill, younger son of the first Earl of Cork, married in 1641 Lady Margaret Howard, third daughter of the second Earl of Suffolk. Lord Broghill was created Earl of Orrery in 1650. Aubrey, loc. cit., i., 118, prints a funeral sermon on his sister, Lady Warwick, in which Lord Orrery is described as 'that great poet, great statesman, great soldier, and great everything which merits the name of great and good.' Cowley (Poems, ed. Waller, 1905, pp. 406-409) wrote an Ode, 'Upon Occasion of a Copy of Verses of my Lord Broghills.' For Broghill's heroic romance, Parthenissa (first six vols., 1654; complete ed., 1665), see the able summary in Raleigh, English Novel, pp. 93-96, and Dorothy Osborne's Letters, ed. Parry, pp. 230-232. For his rimed tragedies, all probably composed after the Restoration, see A. W. Ward, English Dram. Lit., new ed., 1899, iii. 340-345, and notices in Pepys' Diary, 13 Aug., 1664, 19 Oct., 1667, 8 Dec., 1668, and Evelyn's Diary, 18 Oct., 1668. Dryden dedicated to Lord Orrery The Rival Ladies, 1664 (Works, ed. Scott and Saintsbury, 1882, iii. 129-139). Jack Bond, Suckling's interlocutor in this dialogue, is mentioned again below in the verses to John Hales, l. 10. | ||
| 27. | l. 9. | differ but] 1658, a better reading than the simple differ of 1646. |
| l. 17. | A sprig of willow] 'The Willow, worne of forlorne paramours' (Spenser, Faerie Queene, I., i. 9). | |
