[316] Daphnaida, 407, 408.
[317] Faery Queen, B. I. c. x. 9.
[318] Strictly taken, perhaps his world is not _much_ more imaginary
than that of other epic poets, Homer (in the Iliad) included. He who
is familiar with mediaeval epics will be extremely cautious in
drawing inferences as to contemporary manners from Homer. He
evidently _archaizes_ like the rest.
[319] Faery Queen, B. VI. c. x. 10-16.
[320] Purgatorio, XXIX., XXX.
[321] I find a goodly number of Yankeeisms in him, such as _idee_
(not as a rhyme); but the oddest is his twice spelling _dew deow_,
which is just as one would spell it who wished to phonetize its sound
in rural New England.
[322] This song recalls that in Dante's Purgatorio (XIX. 19--24), in
which the Italian tongue puts forth all its siren allurements.
Browne's beautiful verses ("Turn, hither turn your winged pines")
were suggested by these of Spenser. It might almost seem as if
Spenser had here, in his usual way, expanded the sweet old verses:--
"Merry sungen the monks binnen Ely
When Knut king rew thereby;
'Roweth knightes near the loud,
That I may hear these monkes song.'"
WORDSWORTH.
A generation has now passed away since Wordsworth was laid with the
family in the churchyard at Grasmere.
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