IV. The Palmer lent his eare unto the поусе, Which to that fhady delve him brought at laft, Where Mammon earft did funne his threa fury: There the good Guyon he found flumbring faft In fenceles dreame; which fight at first him fore aghaft. V. Befide his head there fatt a faire young man, Of wondrous beauty and of freshest yeares, think, must be pleased with the hafty repetition of the words, Come hether. CHURCH. V. 1. Befide his head there fatt a faire young man, Of wondrous beauty &c.] Milton, in his defcription of Satan under the form of a ftripling-cherub, has highly improved upon Spenfer's angel, and Taflo's Gabriel, C. i. ft. 13; both which he feems to have had in his eye, as well as in his Raphael, Par. L. B. v. 276. T. WARTON. Decked with diverfe plumes, like painted jayes, Were fixed at his backe to cut his ayery wayes. VI. Like as Cupido on Idæan hill, When having laid his cruell bow away And mortall arrowes, wherewith he doth fill The world with murdrous fpoiles and bloody pray, With his faire mother he him dights to play, And with his goodly fifters, Graces three ; The goddeffe, pleased with his wanton play, Suffers herselfe through fleepe beguild to bee, The whiles the other ladies mind theyr mery glee, V. 9. vias, Ovid, Art. Am. ii, 44. to cut his ayery ways.] Aerias "Quis crederet unquam "Aërias hominem carpere poffe vias." UPTON. VI. 1. Like as Cupido &c.] Compare F. Q. i. Introduct. ft. 3, F. Q. ii. ix. 34, iii. vi. 49. T. WARTON. VI. 6. And with his goodly fifters, Graces three:] I have often obferved how Spenfer varies his mythological tales, and makes them always fubfervient to his poem. Another genealogy of the Graces is mentioned in F. Q. vi. x. 22, according to Hefiod. Concerning this genealogy, the reader may at his leifure confult Falkenburg. Ad Nonnum, p. 539. And Boccace, L. iii. C. 22.“ Dicunt Venerem Gratias peperiffe: nec mirum; quis unquam amor abfque gratia fuit?" So Milton: "But come, thou Goddess fair and free, "And by men heart-eafing Mirth, "Whom lovely Venus at a birth, "With two fifter-Gruces more, "To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore." UPTON. VII. Whom when the Palmer faw, abafht he was Through fear and wonder, that he nought could fay, t Till him the Childe befpoke; " Long lackt, alas, Hath bene thy faithfull aide in hard affay! Whiles deadly fitt thy Pupill doth dismay, Behold this heavy fight, thou reverend Sire! But dread of death and dolor doe away; For life ere long shall to her home retire, And he, that breathleffe seems, fhal refpire. VIII. corage bold "The charge, which God doth unto me arrett, VII. 3. Long lackt, alas, &c.] The fenfe, I think, is this. "Alas! your faithful aid has been much wanted in Guyon's late adventures. But contemplate this melancholy fight! And yet, be not apprehenfive that he is dead; he is only in a fwoon, and fhall foon come to himfelf." All the editions place a comma only after affay; Spenfer's own editions, a femicolon after difmay; the first folio, Hughes, and the edition of 1751, a colon; and the fubfequent folios, a full ftop. All place a comma only after Sire. But the lines fhould be pointed as we have given them. CHURCH. VIII. 1. arrett] Appoint, allot. Fr. arrefter, arreter. See alfo F. Q. ii. xi. 7, iii. viii. 7. UPTON. Against his foe and mine: Watch thou, I pray; For evill is at hand him to offend." So having faid, eftfoones he gan display His painted nimble wings, and vanifht quite away. IX. The Palmer feeing his lefte empty place, Where finding life not yet diflodged quight, VIII. 6. Watch thou, I pray; Confidering the dignity of the angelical fpeaker, this reading I would alter; and either read, "Watch thou and pray;" because these words are joined in fcripture, Mark xiii. 33. “Take ye heed, watch and pray,” and again xiv. 38. "Watch ye and pray?" or rather thus, "Watch thou, I fay: And this emendation is becoming the dignity of the angel, and is likewife fcriptural. Mark ii. 11. "Ifay unto thee, arife." "Tis in feveral other places, but one occurs much to our purpose, Mark xiii. 37. "And what I say unto you, I fay unto all, watch." UPTON. IX. 1. The Palmer feeing his lefte empty place, And his flow eies beguiled &c.] That is, the Palmer feeing his place left empty, and his eyes being beguiled of their fight, woxe fore afraid. And his flow eyes &c. is put abfolute. We have the fame construction, F. Q. i. v. 45, ii. iii. 36. UPTON. IX. 5. to his charge behight,] To the charge entrusted to him. See the note on hight, F. Q. i. iv. 6. TODD. He much reioyft, and courd it tenderly, As chicken newly hatcht, from dreaded destiny. X. At last he spide where towards him did pace Two Paynim Knights al armd as bright as fkie, And then befide an aged Sire did trace, And far before a light-foote Page did flie That breathed ftrife and troublous enmitie, - Those were the two fonnes of Acrates old, Who, meeting earft with Archimago flie Foreby that Idle Strond, of him were told That he, which earft them combatted, was Guyon bold, IX. 8. and courd it tenderly, As chicken newly hatcht,] And protected it, as a hen fits couring over her young chicken. Skinner, • To coure, ab Ital. covare, Fr. couver, incubare; metaphora fumpta a gallinis ovis incubantibus." See Menage in v. Couver. But Junius brings it from the old British word, currian, Milton applies this expreflion to the beasts bending or cowring down, Par. Loft, B. viii. 530, But I believe Spenfer ufes it in the former fenfe, as Skinner and Menage explain it. In the Gloffary, usually printed with Spenfer's Works, it is faid to be put for covered, as if corrupted from it. Spenfer plainly had in view the affecting fimile of our Lord, Matt. xxiii. 37. UPTON, In the first edition of Gammer Gurton's Needle, we find "They coure fo over the coles;" which in all the subsequent ones is very improperly altered to cover, To coure, is to bend, ftoop, hang or lean over, See Beaumont and Fletcher's Monfieur Thomas, A. iv. S. vi. and Nath's Pierce Pennileffe's Supplication to the Devil, 1592, p. 8. (Old Pl. edit. 1780, vol. ii. p. 9.) REED, X. 7. Who meeting earft &c.] See before, C. iv. ft. 41, and C. vi, ft, 47. UPTON, |