NOTES
33 All excerpt from part of Philarete's (=Witlier's) speech, in the Fourth Eclogue of 'The Shepherd's Hunting'; p. 427 of Wither's Poems, 1633. (In Browne's Shepherd's Pipe Roget is the name given to Wither, and Philarete denotes Thomas Manwood.) Wither is not included in Anderson's collection (1795) often used by W. In 1802 Wordsworth quotes thirteen lines from this piece (p. 34, 1. 28, to p. 35, 1. 38—including the couplet here dropped out, and 'wiser man') before his poem ' To the Daisy ' (' In youth from rock to rock I went').
1. 8 those sweets
34 1. 13 of all those
1. 21 to,
1. 23 Makes
After 1. 30 this couplet has dropped out,—by accident seemingly, for the thought is essentially Wordsworthian;
And raise pleasure to her height.
Through the meanest objects sight,
35 1. 38 wiser man. [as the rhyme requires.]
1. 47 imbosse
36 1. 64 are borne
37 1. 69 mad' St
1. 76 The speech is thus broken off, by the other shepherd, Willy, interrupting Philarete.
38 From 'Fair Virtue, the Mistress of Phil'areté. Written by George Wither,' 1622: reprinted in Arber's Garner, vol. iv, with which (p. 412) the extract has been collated. The 1633 edition is not paged, but the passage is on p. 63.
1. 1 And sometimes [1633 : sometime].
39 1. 14 thoughts
1. 24 excellencies (1633): excellences (Arber, and C Lamb).
This passage is the first quoted by Lamb in his Essay 'On the Poetical Works of George Wither.'
40 Also from Withers ' Fair V^irtue, the Mistress of Phil'areté; collated with Arber's text (Garner, iv, 416), and with ed. 1633.
1. 1 But what
After 1. 12, the extractor (Charles Lamb certainly) cuts out thirty-four lines, probably on account of their ingenuities. Lamb does not indicate this excision, and W. follows him in ignoring it.
1. 13 of any eye (Arber and ed. 1633).
