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Six Centuries of English Poetry

Part 1 — INDEX TO NOTES.

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accloyes, 234.

afoir, 282.

aft, 106.

Age of Gold, 79, 192.

Ajax, 147.

Akenside, Mark, 96.

amaist, 106.

ance, 106.

"Annus Mirabilis," 173.

antickes, 234.

Aonian, 208.

Apollo, 74.

apparelled, 46.

Arnold, Matthew, 16.

Arthur's Seat, 254.

Arvon, 136.

Ashtaroth, 194.

assay, 275.

assuasive, 154.

awfull, 189.

axle-tree, 189.

ay, 282.

Aytoun, William Edmondstoune, 16.

Baalim, 194.

Bacchus, 87, 166.

bairns, 105.

baldric, 25.

Ballads, 265.

Beattie, James, 96.

bede, 275.

bedight, 233.

beets, 105.

belyve, 106.

ben, 105.

bield, 109.

birkie, 110.

Blair, Robert, 96.

Blake, William, 96.

blate, 106.

blinkin, 106.

Boadicea, 114.

boding, 127.

bonnet, 105.

bracer, 299.

brae, 254.

braw, 106.

bray, 137.

Browne, William, 158.

Browning, Robert, 16.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 16.

brutish, 194.

Bulwer-Lytton, Robert, 16.

burn-side, 254.

Burns, Robert, 111.

busk, 254.

buskin, 139.

Butler, Samuel, 158.

Byron, Lord, 16.

ca', 105.

Cambria, 135.

Camelot, 24.

Camilla, 147.

Campbell, Thomas, 16.

cannie, 106.

Carew, Thomas, 158.

carking, 106.

castamergia, 271.

cataracts, 46.

Chapman, George, 216.

Chatterton, Thomas, 96.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 301.

Chepe, 275.

Christabel, 64.

Churchill, Charles, 96.

chyvalrye, 298.

claes, 106.

Clarius, 208.

close, 190.

Clough, Arthur Hugh, 16.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 65.

Collins, William, 96.

conceit, 145.

concern, 119.

consort, 192.

convoy, 106.

coof, 110.

coot, 27.

coronal, 47.

cotter, 104.

Cowley, Abraham, 158.

Cowper, William, 122.

Crabbe, George, 96.

cracks, 106.

Crashaw, Richard, 158.

craws, 106.

crew, 168.

Cristofre, 299.

crynis, 282.

Cynthia, 190.

dædal, 74.

Daniel, Samuel, 216.

Darius, 166.

darkling, 87.

Davenant, Sir William, 158.

Davies, Sir John, 216.

deid, 282.

Delphos, 193.

demi-gods, 154.

Denham, Sir John, 158.

denty, 281.

deposit, 105.

dicht, 282.

docht, 282.

Donne, John, 216.

Douglas, Gawain, 284.

dragon, 193.

Drayton, Michael, 216.

Drummond, William, 158.

dryad, 86.

Dryden, John, 175.

Dunbar, William, 283.

dusk, 24.

Dyer, John, 96.

dyght, 275.

effeires, 281.

Elysian, 79.

ene, 281.

Epipsychidion, 79.

ere, 189.

esperance, 278.

eydent, 106.

eyn, 195.

fallow, 281.

fassoun, 278.

Fates, 137.

Fauns, 73.

feid, 282.

fell, 106.

Fergusson, Robert, 96.

fit, 145.

Flamins, 194.

Fletcher, Giles, 158.

flichterin, 106.

floytynge, 299.

fois, 282.

fond, 139.

foreland, 27.

forgit, 281.

forgoes, 194.

frankeleyns, 300.

Fungoso, 146.

Furies, 167.

galaxy, 25.

garmond, 278.

gars, 106.

Garth, Samuel, 120.

Gascoigne, George, 216.

gauge, 127.

Gay, John, 96.

genius, 193.

gere, 275.

Gernadé, 299.

gife, 281.

glaiding, 282.

glinted, 109.

gloir, 282.

Gloster, 136.

Glover, Richard, 96.

Goldsmith, Oliver, 128.

governance, 278.

gowd, 110.

Gower, John, 286.

grant, 282.

Gray, Thomas, 139.

gree, 110, 282.

Green, Matthew, 96.

Greene, Robert, 216.

greete, 275.

griesly, 137.

grisly, 194.

gross, 174.

guerdoun, 282.

ha'-bible, 105.

haffets, 106.

hafflins, 106.

halcyons, 79.

Hall, Joseph, 216.

hals-ribbane, 278.

halsit, 281.

Hammon, 194.

harbinger, 188.

hauberk, 135.

haut-boys, 166.

Hawes, Stephen, 268.

hawkie, 105.

Henryson, Robert, 283.

Herbert, George, 158.

Herbert, Lord, of Cherbury, 158.

hern, 27.

Herrick, Robert, 202.

Hesperus, 80.

hethenesse, 298.

hinges, 191.

Hippocrene, 86.

histie, 109.

Hoel, 136.

hoiss, 278.

Hood, Thomas, 16.

Howard, Henry, 252.

hud, 278.

Hunt, Leigh, 16.

hyed, 275.

hymeneal, 71.

ilk, 282.

influence, 189.

ingle, 106.

Ionian, 79.

ipocras, 271.

i-ronne, 298.

Isis, 194.

its, 190.

Ixion, 154.

Japhet, 209.

Johnson, Samuel, 96.

jollity, 46.

Jonson, Ben, 213.

Keats, John, 93.

kebbuck, 106.

key, 174.

Kingsley, Charles, 16.

kirtill, 278.

kye, 105.

laif, 281.

Lamb, Charles, 16.

Landor, Walter Savage, 16.

Langland, William, 286.

lasit, 278.

lathefu', 106.

lave, 106.

lawn, 189.

lays, 104.

lemys, 281.

lesum, 278.

Lethe, 86.

letted, 173.

licentiate, 300.

lichtlie, 254.

Lodge, Thomas, 216.

love-days, 300.

Lovelace, Richard, 158.

Lucifer, 80, 189.

lufe, 278.

lukit, 281.

lyart, 106.

Lydgate, John, 283.

Lydian, 167.

Lyly, John, 216.

lymytour, 300.

lyst, 275.

Macaulay, Thomas B., 16.

Mænalus, 74.

maiden (adj.), 188.

mailyheis, 278.

mansuetude, 281.

Marlowe, Christopher, 216.

martir, 298.

Marvell, Andrew, 158.

May, 47.

mede, 275.

mekill, 282.

mend, 146.

"Meredith, Owen," 16.

Milnes, Richard Monckton, 16.

Milton, John, 195.

moil, 106.

Moore, Thomas, 16.

morrow, 281.

Mortimer, 136.

mould, 192.

muddir, 281.

Mulciber, 234.

Muses, 153.

neibor, 105.

noise, 190.

numbers, 147.

Occleve, Thomas, 268.

or, 189, 298.

oracles, 193.

organs, 168.

Orpheus, 154.

Orus, 194.

Oxenford, 300.

Osiris, 195.

pad, 24.

Palatye, 299.

Pan, 190.

pansy, 47.

pansing, 278.

paramour, 80, 188.

pards, 87.

Parnassus, 146.

Parnell, Thomas, 96.

passing, 126.

patelet, 278.

peir, 282.

Peneus, 73, 243.

penny-fee, 105.

Peor, 194.

pescodes, 275.

philargyria, 271.

Phlegethon, 154.

pies, 208.

pine (v.), 71.

Plinlimmon, 136.

plum, 120.

Pope, Alexander, 155.

pourall, 282.

prevent, 188.

Procter, Adelaide, 16.

Procter, Bryan Waller, 16.

profuse, 71.

Prothalamion, 241.

Provençal, 86.

Pruce, 299.

puissance, 282.

quality, 147.

quhen, 281.

quhois, 281.

quhome, 282.

quhyll, 281.

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 216.

Ramsay, Allan, 96.

reedes (v.), 233.

reid, 282.

requiem, 87.

rewth, 278.

Rhodope, 155.

Robin Hood, 265.

rois, 281, 282.

rutty, 242.

ryshes, 275.

sacerdotal, 106.

Sackville, Thomas, 216.

Saint Agnes, 93.

Saint Cecilia, 168.

salvage, 233.

sanct, 282.

Sandys, George, 158.

sark, 278.

sawtrye, 300.

scho, 278.

schone, 278.

Scott, Sir Walter, 16.

seeke, 298.

seeken, 298.

seeliest, 212.

seill, 278.

seraphim, 191.

session, 193.

set, 278.

Shakespeare, William, 221.

Shelley, Percy B., 81.

shend, 244.

Shenstone, William, 96.

sic, 281.

sickerness, 278.

Sidney, Philip, 216.

Sileni, 73.

silly, 190.

Simoïs, 174.

simonia, 271.

Sisyphus, 154.

site, 282.

Skelton, John, 272.

skylark, 71.

Snowdon, 135.

socks, 213.

sort, 146.

Southey, Robert, 16.

sovran, 189.

sowninge, 300.

sowpe, 106.

sparks, 146.

spede, 275.

speiris, 281.

Spenser, Edmund, 245.

sphear, 188.

spiers, 106.

splene, 281.

spread, 193.

sprite, 71.

stables, 298.

stacher, 106.

stage, 48.

Star Chamber, 271.

steep, 119.

store, 243.

stoure, 109.

strook, 190.

Styx, 154.

Suckling, Sir John, 158.

sugh, 104.

Surrey, Earl of, 252.

Swan of Avon, 213.

swindges, 193.

Sylvans, 73.

Syrinx, 74.

Tabard, 298.

tabor, 46.

Taliessin, 138.

Tennyson, Alfred, 35.

tentie, 106.

tepat, 278.

terms, 127.

Thais, 166.

Thammuz, 194.

tholl, 278.

Thomson, James, 96.

thorps, 27.

thrissil, 281.

till, 282.

Timotheus, 147, 166.

"tirra lirra," 25.

Titans, 241.

Tmolus, 73.

toil, 104.

trailed, 24.

train, 104.

trump, 192.

turtle, 188.

tynis, 282.

Typhon, 195.

udir, 281.

uncos, 106.

undersong, 244.

unexpressive, 191.

Vaughan, Henry, 158.

vermeil, 243.

wales, 106.

Waller, Edmund, 205.

Warner, William, 216.

warp, 137.

Warton, Thomas, 96.

Watson, Thomas, 216.

weet, 109.

weid, 281.

weiris, 281.

weit, 278.

weltering, 191.

which, 245.

whilome, 234.

whist, 189.

wicht, 282.

wight, 233.

wilding, 51.

wiles, 106.

wisards, 188.

wit, 145.

Wither, George, 158.

wold, 24.

wonne, 234.

wont, 187.

wood, 300.

Wordsworth, William, 52.

wrought, 71.

Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 252.

ychain'd, 192.

yede, 275.

yode, 233.

Young, Edward, 96.

youngling, 106.

'yont, 106.

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